Wouldn't you rather just own the system outright? Outfit the system with a large bank of deep-cycle batteries like they use in telco offices (20yr lifespan), a good power conditioner, and net metering to feed any excess into the grid. That way, you pay your up front cost, but then your property begins earning you money, perhaps even enough to pay your property taxes. Convert home from a loss to a profit center!
Looking for ANY way to get ahold of Kevin to get him to straighten out this mess. He is holding many, many Registerfly customers' domains hostage, and causing many of us to lose our domains.
That information is largely public information available through phone books and similar media. I tried in vain to get through to Kevin all week, and came across that info posted elsewhere, so I did a copy and paste of that information (verbatim, byte for byte) and posted it here to help the thousands of other RegisterFly customers who are otherwise left powerless over their web presence(s).
Aside from that:
Based on what has gone on publicly, based on the fact that it is John and Glenn who met with ICANN to address the issues, not Kevin, and based on Kevin's total silence on the issue, I tend to believe John and Glenn.
However, more importantly:
Customers (including myself) DO NOT CARE who is right and who is wrong.
We simply want our domains to be secure. To be paid up on domains, see them as current in our Account Control Panel, only to do a whois and spot that two are in pendingDelete status is frustrating, to put it politely.
Kevin or John or Glenn or YOU need to address this issue and reclaim these domains from us. I do not care WHO is at fault; I only care that right now I have a problem caused by YOU (read: RegisterFly, not you personally) and that the problem be resolved immediately, and I think I speak for every RegisterFly customer when I say this.
I managed to get the majority of our domains OUT before it was too late, but some of them are STUCK at RF. My only regret is that six months ago I didn't have more of a backbone, and I let my partners talk me out of moving them out when I wanted to. I admit I'm partial to RF's GUI since it gives us total control with less hunting around than other registrars, but when I saw the writing on the wall back then, I wanted to go back to dotster. My partners asked "what could go wrong? All they do is register domain names for us." Now they know, and now I am sorry I didn't ignore them and move forward with my gut instinct.
Well, now we are where we are, I do not care how we got here, and I have tried every possibly avenue to try to contact Kevin to get this matter resolved. Emails, support tickets, phone calls, and when someone posted info to his mother on RegisterFlies this afternoon, I tried that avenue as well, in a good-faith effort to contact Kevin to try to get him to resolve this issue; to let him know that he is not just spiting Glenn and John, but he is affecting the livelihood of small startups, mom and pop shops, and countless other businesses around the world.
All over egos, greed, and pride.
Thanks Kevin. Thanks John. Thanks, Glenn. Now we have to fight through WIPO at the UN to get our domains back, because you three guys are so busy with your infighting that you are letting we customers flounder, powerless to protect our internet presence. Great job. You have my thanks, really. You're really swell guys.
Some good will come out of this though; RegisterFlies will probably grow into a more general Registrar review and soundboard site. ResellerRatings.com does a lot of good keeping vendors in check and steering consumers away from the crooks and unreliable vendors. A registrar review and customer advocacy site is sorely needed and registerflies will likely be the launching pad for that project.
She's an utter fool. I called in good faith to try to find someone who can contact Kevin. That is NOT harassement, regardless of what she may think.
Oh well. Phone records will show only one call was made.
From: Miriam Medina To: Kimberly Lazarski Subject: Re: Please read this Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:46:45 -0500
This is harrassment since you admitted calling me. Leave me alone. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimberly Lazarski" To: "Miriam Medina" Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Please read this
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:08 -0500, Miriam Medina wrote: > This is harrassment for you to bother an old lady who is ill with > diabetes. > If you don't stop this harrassment I shall report you to the authorities. > I > am not connected to this company!
I tried calling you only ONE time. That is NOT harassment. I merely called in vain effort to contact Mr. Medina in good faith as I have paid for domains and he has stolen my property and is doing nothing to restore it.
if you are being hounded by many other callers, I cannot help that. I merely called one time trying to find SOME way to speak with Kevin to convince him to correct a matter which is harming many, many, many small businesses and disrupting interstate commerce.
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:08 -0500, Miriam Medina wrote: This is harrassment for you to bother an old lady who is ill with diabetes. > If you don't stop this harrassment I shall report you to the authorities. I > am not connected to this company! >
To which I responded:
I tried calling you only ONE time. That is NOT harassment. I merely called in vain effort to contact Mr. Medina in good faith as I have paid for domains and he has stolen my property and is doing nothing to restore it.
if you are being hounded by many other callers, I cannot help that. I merely called one time trying to find SOME way to speak with Kevin to convince him to correct a matter which is harming many, many, many small businesses and disrupting interstate commerce.
Miriam has an alternate email address. It is: ely@iglou.com
Open letter to Ms. Medina:
cc also: slashdot.org readers
registerflies.com readers
Hello Miriam,
PLEASE talk to your son Mr. Medina and convince him to not hold domains hostage at RegisterFly.com
As you are probably aware, the business he founded with John is the lifeblood of the Internet, providing what is essentially street addresses in the electronic world.
He was doing a fantastic job until recently.
See, recently he has apparently decided that certain domain names were worth more than the agreed-upon price, and allegedly has been conducting back-room deals with other registrars to take paying customers' internet addresses (consider it virtual real estate, but vital to many small business owners' livelihoods), has been hijacking these addresses and then allegedly selling them to other registrars for more than the price he contracted to give it to the original owner for.
It is akin to my taking your apartment, keeping your condo which you prepaid condominium association fees a year or more, kicking you out on the street, and then giving that apartment to someone else. Now, you did nothing wrong to lose that condo, and in fact, that condo which you OWNED has now been stolen by a condominium association and sold to someone else.
I tried calling you because I have been trying in vain to get in contact with Mr. Medina because I am losing domain names of which my company is the registered owner. I have proof that we have paid for these domains, I have proof of ownership of these domains, however, your son Mr. Medina has stolen my property.
I know many other people are trying to call you as well. The reason is this: your son has put many thousands of small businesses into jeopardy. Some business owners are stressed to the point of considering suicide, some are angered to the point of violence, and some are so stressed they have become physically ill. I am one of those who is physically ill; I am suffering from a stress-induced migraine, my stomach is upset, and I am praying that Kevin spends an eternity in Hell. Yes, I know that is a decidedly un-Christian thing to say, but I not only have two domains I am in imminent danger of losing, but we have also lost control of domains we manage for many of our clients, all due to your son's grudge and greed.
I beg you to please talk some sense into your son. He is allegedly guilty of the following crimes:
These crimes fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI and the Secret Service of The united States of America. He is going out of his way to hurt small businesses such as mine because of his ego and personal grudge against John Naruszewicz and Glenn Stansbury.
Now, there is well more than sufficient evidence for John Naruszewicz and Glenn Stansbury to put him behind bars for many years.
I am asking you to PLEASE talk some sense into him. I realize you will be losing him to Federal prison for a very long time, however, he does not have to continue his grudge by damaging RegisterFly's database; He is directly affecting tens of thousands of businesses around the world by doing this. I have lost a week's worth of work because of your son's actions, and I ask you to please, please contact him and tell him to KNOCK IT OFF.
Please consider talking to him. I am sick of losing sleep because of the actions of a man I do not even know.
I thank you kindly on behalf of tens of thousands of small business owners because I know you will do the right thing and talk some sense into your son.
Judge Peter Sheridan Civil Action No: 07-703 (Will not issue a restraining order to block Kevin Medina until March 9th)
Kevin's Supposed Lawyer: 52 Upper Montclair Plaza (Upper Montclair) Montclair, New Jersey 07043 Telephone: 973-744-4000 Fax: 973-783-1524 Loading... No message is selected Click any message to view it in the reading pane. Attachments, pictures, and links from unknown senders are blocked to help protect your privacy and safety.
Take screenshots of your Account Control Panel for proof of domain ownership, and run whois on your domain. Kevin has been actively changing the WHOIS info on domains for several months now, but chances are slim he's hit yours.
Rumor has it he has been letting domains expire (I have two high-value domains which I renewed but are being allowed by RF to expire and I am totally unable to transfer them out) and then personally selling the domains to other registrars. So far this is unsubstantiated but there is a lot brewing behind the scenes.
I'm looking forward to his arrest; he's fucking with interstate commerce, breaking numerous computer security laws, and is engaging in credit fraud. Both the FBI and Secret Service will be conducting body cavity searches on that prick soon.
CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY! Written by Administrator Friday, 23 February 2007 Site Hacked and Data Corrupted
Attention everyone. I just received confirmation that the Registerfly site has currently been hacked into and taken over by Kevin Medina in the Florida office. I was asked to put this up here due to the amount of customers that are sending money. At this moment, they are trying to get police in Florida to arrest Kevin immediately.
I'm relaying a message that they have asked me to put up on here. They have lost control of even the site and are locked out of the system. The data has been corrupted but they do have a back up and are scrambling to get this situation resolved.
Your support forms on this site will be held right now and forwarded when we know the proper management team has control of the data.
This is only what I've been told and this is currently the only medium of communication that the current management of Registerfly has. More updates soon.
Do not transfer money, submit transactions through, or do ANYTHING to your RegisterFly account at this time. Kevin Medina hacked his way back in and is fucking the system up right now. He knows he's fucked so he is working to make it as messy as humanly possible.
First: Kevin has hacked back into RegisterFly and has redirected the merchant account and is fucking with the data. Do not, repeat, do NOT put any transactions through to renew, purchase, or transfer domains at this time.
Second: I submitted two stories on this, with much greater detail, literally within minutes of the events taking place. This story is behind and incomplete.
Their original SPL was basically a search and replace of "Mozilla" in the MPL, replacing "Mozilla" with "Sugar"
After another group *gasp* dared exercise their rights provided for in the SPL(MPL), they threatened to sue, pissed and moaned, complained because trademarks were removed (Uh, They HAD to remove trademarks for redistribution of a modifief variant to be compliant with your license!)
Since then SugarCRM has NOT been open source; it has been shared source. Here's why:
You cannot derive a new product from SugarCRM; for all practical purposes, the "license" forbids it.
The license allows you to view and modify the source, and extend to it If you contribute code to the core project, you give all ownership and credits to SugarCRM. OK, fine, I can buy that you give ownership to them, but you should be able to be credited in your code contribution.
If you ever subscribe to the Pro/Enterprise version of Sugar, you agree to waive your rights to use the "Open Source" edition ever again, and are "forbidden" to take your Pro/Enterprise database and import the data into the "Open Source" edition.
I hardly consider that to be open source, or to be in the spirit of open source.
If you need a CRM, I highly recommend vTiger over SugarCRM.
It'll be exactly the same as the cassette and CD era. Those who will buy in the first place will buy. Those who do not will dub from CD to CD or tape to tape or any combination thereof. It seems to me that since the compact cassette came along the music industry has been surviving just fine. It didn't begin to falter until they started treating customers like criminals, creating a backlash with individuals boycotting them or simply turning to alternate sources (allofmp3.com) for their music "needs"
Me? I buy CDs from only a handful of acts now. I choose to avoid exposure to new music so I am not tempted to acquire new material (legitimately or otherwise) and instead spend my entertainment dollars on DVDs. I was going to cut back spending on DVDs this month but so far I've bought 22 DVDs and the month is not over yet.
Fuck you, RIAA/RCIA. By threatening to file suit if I go to P2P networks to try before I buy, I buy DVDs instead. I get more value for my money that way ANYHOW.
You lost all credibility when you described Exchange 5.5 as perfectly good.;)
Seriously though, Exchange 2000 is vastly superior (REAL maintenance utilities) and Exchange 2003 even more so (FAR better data restore options; ability to restore individual mailboxes and selectively bind it to an account, even better maintenance utilities). I still prefer Scalix or Zimbra over either due to superior backup and maintenance options (no having to schedule downtime, er, "maintenance windows" dismount and defrag an info store database, etc.) but to call Exchange 5.5 perfectly good is, well, extremely generous.
I bought an (Intel) E6600, and it is extremely fast, and overclocks extremely well. I have lowly DDR2/667 RAM, not DDR2/800 and I still manage to get 3.05Ghz out of it. I've run it as fast as 3.2Ghz (to go any higher I'd have to go DDR2/800) and it's perfectly stable, but the temperature hits 85*C. I'd only push it higher (with faster ram, obviously) if I had a peltier or water cooling system.
At 3.05Ghz, it normally runs at 51*C (normal tasks like web surfing, word processing, and so forth), and peaks around 73 to 75*C when I stress it with heavy tasks or just test it with Prime95.
The E6600 cost me about $325.00 at the time, and considering it's about twice as fast as a Pentium D at the stock clock speed (2.4Ghz, 4MB cache), it was a steal. That I can overclock it by nearly 30% and hae it run this cool is just an added bonus. If you are willing to settle for the E6300 (1.86Ghz, 2MB cache) you'll still get a processor which is far better than anything from the Netburst Line (Pentium 4 and D) but for less money than the faster Pentium D processors.
Given inflation over the last ten years, it's not a bad deal no matter how you look at it.
Besides, now you get TWO processors even in entry-level system. No more spending $400 to $700 to get a multiprocessor board (I know there are cheaper but you don't want to go cheap), no more being forced to deal with a noisy system for a budget SMP system. Heck, now even SMP laptops are a reality!
Intel and AMD have both had to lay out a ton of cash in R&D in chip design, chip fabrication methods, invent new ways to shrink the mask every chip generation so they can cram MORE transistors into LESS space.
Ever see an 80386? a Pentium? A Pentium III? Compare the sizes of those dies to the latest processors and then come here and claim that you're not getting incredible value for your money. Not only that, while making these strides, CPUs have become much more efficient, delivering far more processing power/watt compared to previous generation processors.
If you want CPUs to come down to say, $10.00, the state of technology would have to stagnate for many years.
Incidentally, I've had Prime95 running for about 30 minutes now (I got distracted for a bit chatting) and the processor is only up to 68*C. Keep in mind this is stock heatsink and fan in an Antec Sonata II chassis, overclocked by about 30%.
I think the CPU was a great value. Altogether I have $2,700 into my PC (distributor pricing) and although hard disks have come down a lot in price since even four months ago, it is still an incredible value in computing power. The core PC components (workstation board, E6600, and RAM) came to about $730 at the time. I'd pay that much again NOW and it would still be a great deal.
But then again, some people are happy with SiS-based boards and Celeron processors in their $299 PCs which are subsidized by preinstalled spyware and nagware.
Read the exclusions; bypassing/cracking DRM for the purpose of interoperability is allowed.
What falls under interoperability?
- viewing/listening on another platform (Linux, BSD)
- cracking for making Fair Use backups (interoperability because standard backup programs cannot read encrypted DVDs)
- transcoding for use on other platforms or devices (again, Fair Use)
It's licensed, you say? No, it's a commodity good which is protected by Copyright. While I cannot take, say, The Wall and legally sell copies, I certainly can rip it to play on my DVD. besides, if you disagree with the license of (DVD|CD|Software) and you've opened it (with software for example you don't see the EULA until it's opened) just try to get a refund. Good luck with that.
It's not licensed. Works for hire are licensed. Corporate logos are licensed. Commodity goods are not licensed, they're SOLD. Even movie producers and music labels acknowledge it in their advertising.
When was the last time you ever saw a DVD advert telling you "license it on DVD today?" No, it is invariably "Own it on DVD today."
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldn't you rather just own the system outright? Outfit the system with a large bank of deep-cycle batteries like they use in telco offices (20yr lifespan), a good power conditioner, and net metering to feed any excess into the grid. That way, you pay your up front cost, but then your property begins earning you money, perhaps even enough to pay your property taxes. Convert home from a loss to a profit center!
Looking for ANY way to get ahold of Kevin to get him to straighten out this mess. He is holding many, many Registerfly customers' domains hostage, and causing many of us to lose our domains.
Look,
That information is largely public information available through phone books and similar media. I tried in vain to get through to Kevin all week, and came across that info posted elsewhere, so I did a copy and paste of that information (verbatim, byte for byte) and posted it here to help the thousands of other RegisterFly customers who are otherwise left powerless over their web presence(s).
Aside from that:
Based on what has gone on publicly, based on the fact that it is John and Glenn who met with ICANN to address the issues, not Kevin, and based on Kevin's total silence on the issue, I tend to believe John and Glenn.
However, more importantly:
Customers (including myself) DO NOT CARE who is right and who is wrong.
We simply want our domains to be secure . To be paid up on domains, see them as current in our Account Control Panel, only to do a whois and spot that two are in pendingDelete status is frustrating, to put it politely.
Kevin or John or Glenn or YOU need to address this issue and reclaim these domains from us. I do not care WHO is at fault; I only care that right now I have a problem caused by YOU (read: RegisterFly, not you personally) and that the problem be resolved immediately, and I think I speak for every RegisterFly customer when I say this.
I managed to get the majority of our domains OUT before it was too late, but some of them are STUCK at RF. My only regret is that six months ago I didn't have more of a backbone, and I let my partners talk me out of moving them out when I wanted to. I admit I'm partial to RF's GUI since it gives us total control with less hunting around than other registrars, but when I saw the writing on the wall back then, I wanted to go back to dotster. My partners asked "what could go wrong? All they do is register domain names for us." Now they know, and now I am sorry I didn't ignore them and move forward with my gut instinct.
Well, now we are where we are, I do not care how we got here, and I have tried every possibly avenue to try to contact Kevin to get this matter resolved. Emails, support tickets, phone calls, and when someone posted info to his mother on RegisterFlies this afternoon, I tried that avenue as well, in a good-faith effort to contact Kevin to try to get him to resolve this issue; to let him know that he is not just spiting Glenn and John, but he is affecting the livelihood of small startups, mom and pop shops, and countless other businesses around the world.
All over egos, greed, and pride.
Thanks Kevin. Thanks John. Thanks, Glenn. Now we have to fight through WIPO at the UN to get our domains back, because you three guys are so busy with your infighting that you are letting we customers flounder, powerless to protect our internet presence. Great job. You have my thanks, really. You're really swell guys.
Some good will come out of this though; RegisterFlies will probably grow into a more general Registrar review and soundboard site. ResellerRatings.com does a lot of good keeping vendors in check and steering consumers away from the crooks and unreliable vendors. A registrar review and customer advocacy site is sorely needed and registerflies will likely be the launching pad for that project.
She's an utter fool. I called in good faith to try to find someone who can contact Kevin. That is NOT harassement, regardless of what she may think.
Oh well. Phone records will show only one call was made.
From: Miriam Medina
To: Kimberly Lazarski
Subject: Re: Please read this
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:46:45 -0500
This is harrassment since you admitted calling me. Leave me alone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimberly Lazarski"
To: "Miriam Medina"
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Please read this
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:08 -0500, Miriam Medina wrote:
> This is harrassment for you to bother an old lady who is ill with
> diabetes.
> If you don't stop this harrassment I shall report you to the authorities.
> I
> am not connected to this company!
I tried calling you only ONE time. That is NOT harassment. I merely
called in vain effort to contact Mr. Medina in good faith as I have paid
for domains and he has stolen my property and is doing nothing to
restore it.
if you are being hounded by many other callers, I cannot help that. I
merely called one time trying to find SOME way to speak with Kevin to
convince him to correct a matter which is harming many, many, many small
businesses and disrupting interstate commerce.
Best regards,
Kimberly Lazarski
Ms. Medina responds!
her reply:
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 20:08 -0500, Miriam Medina wrote:
This is harrassment for you to bother an old lady who is ill with diabetes.
> If you don't stop this harrassment I shall report you to the authorities. I
> am not connected to this company!
>
To which I responded:
I tried calling you only ONE time. That is NOT harassment. I merely
called in vain effort to contact Mr. Medina in good faith as I have paid
for domains and he has stolen my property and is doing nothing to
restore it.
if you are being hounded by many other callers, I cannot help that. I
merely called one time trying to find SOME way to speak with Kevin to
convince him to correct a matter which is harming many, many, many small
businesses and disrupting interstate commerce.
Best regards,
Kimberly Lazarski
http://registerflies.com/official-statement-from-r egisterfly-2.html
Search for "kevinm" which appears to be kevin, and the logged IP traceroutes to southern Florida
Miriam has an alternate email address. It is: ely@iglou.com
Open letter to Ms. Medina:
cc also: slashdot.org readers
registerflies.com readers
Hello Miriam,
PLEASE talk to your son Mr. Medina and convince him to not hold domains hostage at RegisterFly.com
As you are probably aware, the business he founded with John is the lifeblood of the Internet, providing what is essentially street addresses in the electronic world.
He was doing a fantastic job until recently.
See, recently he has apparently decided that certain domain names were worth more than the agreed-upon price, and allegedly has been conducting back-room deals with other registrars to take paying customers' internet addresses (consider it virtual real estate, but vital to many small business owners' livelihoods), has been hijacking these addresses and then allegedly selling them to other registrars for more than the price he contracted to give it to the original owner for.
It is akin to my taking your apartment, keeping your condo which you prepaid condominium association fees a year or more, kicking you out on the street, and then giving that apartment to someone else. Now, you did nothing wrong to lose that condo, and in fact, that condo which you OWNED has now been stolen by a condominium association and sold to someone else.
I tried calling you because I have been trying in vain to get in contact with Mr. Medina because I am losing domain names of which my company is the registered owner. I have proof that we have paid for these domains, I have proof of ownership of these domains, however, your son Mr. Medina has stolen my property.
I know many other people are trying to call you as well. The reason is this: your son has put many thousands of small businesses into jeopardy. Some business owners are stressed to the point of considering suicide, some are angered to the point of violence, and some are so stressed they have become physically ill. I am one of those who is physically ill; I am suffering from a stress-induced migraine, my stomach is upset, and I am praying that Kevin spends an eternity in Hell. Yes, I know that is a decidedly un-Christian thing to say, but I not only have two domains I am in imminent danger of losing, but we have also lost control of domains we manage for many of our clients, all due to your son's grudge and greed.
I beg you to please talk some sense into your son. He is allegedly guilty of the following crimes:
- Illegally accessing computer networks
- Interfering in interstate commerce
- committing credit fraud
These crimes fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI and the Secret Service of The united States of America. He is going out of his way to hurt small businesses such as mine because of his ego and personal grudge against John Naruszewicz and Glenn Stansbury.
Now, there is well more than sufficient evidence for John Naruszewicz and Glenn Stansbury to put him behind bars for many years.
I am asking you to PLEASE talk some sense into him. I realize you will be losing him to Federal prison for a very long time, however, he does not have to continue his grudge by damaging RegisterFly's database; He is directly affecting tens of thousands of businesses around the world by doing this. I have lost a week's worth of work because of your son's actions, and I ask you to please, please contact him and tell him to KNOCK IT OFF.
Please consider talking to him. I am sick of losing sleep because of the actions of a man I do not even know.
I thank you kindly on behalf of tens of thousands of small business owners because I know you will do the right thing and talk some sense into your son.
Respectfully,
Kimberly Lazarski
From http://registerflies.com/component/option,com_joom laboard/Itemid,26/func,view/id,828/catid,2/
KEVIN'S INFO - 2007/02/23 11:32 Kevin's Address:
450 Alton Road
Unit #4002
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Kevin's Bank:
Citibank, N.A. BR. #46
401 Arthur Godfrey Road
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Kevin's Landlord:
Jose Frias
90 ALTON RD #TH-11
MIAMI BEACH, FL 33139
josefrias@mac.com
01158212 234 7003 or cell 01158 416 8213853
Kevin's building:
The ICON: 305-695-6910
Board@iconsouthbeach.com
Kevin's Mother :
Miriam Medina
1-732-679-7984
2D Linden Court
Old Bridge, NJ 08857
miriammedina@earthlink.net
Kevin's 18 year old BOYfriend:
Neil Frias
239-878-4059
http://www.myspace.com/petthemonkey
Neil's Mother: dearmasr@aol.com
James Max Miller (Prostitute):
jmaxmiller@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/jmaxmiller
917-763-2893 (from cell phone records)
Judge Peter Sheridan Civil Action No: 07-703 (Will not issue a restraining order to block Kevin Medina until March 9th)
Kevin's Supposed Lawyer:
52 Upper Montclair Plaza (Upper Montclair)
Montclair, New Jersey 07043
Telephone: 973-744-4000
Fax: 973-783-1524 Loading... No message is selected
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http://kim.biyn.com/RegisterFly_Woes
Take screenshots of your Account Control Panel for proof of domain ownership, and run whois on your domain. Kevin has been actively changing the WHOIS info on domains for several months now, but chances are slim he's hit yours.
Rumor has it he has been letting domains expire (I have two high-value domains which I renewed but are being allowed by RF to expire and I am totally unable to transfer them out) and then personally selling the domains to other registrars. So far this is unsubstantiated but there is a lot brewing behind the scenes.
I'm looking forward to his arrest; he's fucking with interstate commerce, breaking numerous computer security laws, and is engaging in credit fraud. Both the FBI and Secret Service will be conducting body cavity searches on that prick soon.
From Registerflies:
CEASE ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH REGISTERFLY!
Written by Administrator
Friday, 23 February 2007
Site Hacked and Data Corrupted
Attention everyone. I just received confirmation that the Registerfly site has currently been hacked into and taken over by Kevin Medina in the Florida office. I was asked to put this up here due to the amount of customers that are sending money. At this moment, they are trying to get police in Florida to arrest Kevin immediately.
I'm relaying a message that they have asked me to put up on here. They have lost control of even the site and are locked out of the system. The data has been corrupted but they do have a back up and are scrambling to get this situation resolved.
Your support forms on this site will be held right now and forwarded when we know the proper management team has control of the data.
This is only what I've been told and this is currently the only medium of communication that the current management of Registerfly has. More updates soon.
Do not transfer money, submit transactions through, or do ANYTHING to your RegisterFly account at this time. Kevin Medina hacked his way back in and is fucking the system up right now. He knows he's fucked so he is working to make it as messy as humanly possible.
DO NOT SUBMIT TRANSACTIONS TO REGISTERFLY RIGHT NOW!!!
l
Breaking news: Registerfly allegedly hacked by Mr. Medina:
http://registerflies.com/hacked-send-no-money.htm
First: Kevin has hacked back into RegisterFly and has redirected the merchant account and is fucking with the data. Do not, repeat, do NOT put any transactions through to renew, purchase, or transfer domains at this time.
Second: I submitted two stories on this, with much greater detail, literally within minutes of the events taking place. This story is behind and incomplete.
I OWN copies of Microsoft Office 2000.
I experienced rental with Office XP (e.g, Activation), and it sucks.
My solution now? Unless I need a macro, it's OpenOffice for me, otherwise, Office 2000 running under Crossover Office.
Renting software -- are you kidding?
They're counting the four companies listed above, then counting each of the 99,996 Google fanboi users as companies. ;)
http://www.vtiger.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22
Their original SPL was basically a search and replace of "Mozilla" in the MPL, replacing "Mozilla" with "Sugar"
After another group *gasp* dared exercise their rights provided for in the SPL(MPL), they threatened to sue, pissed and moaned, complained because trademarks were removed (Uh, They HAD to remove trademarks for redistribution of a modifief variant to be compliant with your license!)
Since then SugarCRM has NOT been open source; it has been shared source. Here's why:
You cannot derive a new product from SugarCRM; for all practical purposes, the "license" forbids it.
The license allows you to view and modify the source, and extend to it
If you contribute code to the core project, you give all ownership and credits to SugarCRM. OK, fine, I can buy that you give ownership to them, but you should be able to be credited in your code contribution.
If you ever subscribe to the Pro/Enterprise version of Sugar, you agree to waive your rights to use the "Open Source" edition ever again, and are "forbidden" to take your Pro/Enterprise database and import the data into the "Open Source" edition.
I hardly consider that to be open source, or to be in the spirit of open source.
If you need a CRM, I highly recommend vTiger over SugarCRM.
So this means that the SLA will state that an acceptable ping time to the backbone is 40 minutes?
Try two minutes for full brightness:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=1783
It'll be exactly the same as the cassette and CD era. Those who will buy in the first place will buy. Those who do not will dub from CD to CD or tape to tape or any combination thereof. It seems to me that since the compact cassette came along the music industry has been surviving just fine. It didn't begin to falter until they started treating customers like criminals, creating a backlash with individuals boycotting them or simply turning to alternate sources (allofmp3.com) for their music "needs"
Me? I buy CDs from only a handful of acts now. I choose to avoid exposure to new music so I am not tempted to acquire new material (legitimately or otherwise) and instead spend my entertainment dollars on DVDs. I was going to cut back spending on DVDs this month but so far I've bought 22 DVDs and the month is not over yet.
Fuck you, RIAA/RCIA. By threatening to file suit if I go to P2P networks to try before I buy, I buy DVDs instead. I get more value for my money that way ANYHOW.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools
Not exactly point & click but it'll do.
You can do with your computer what we allow you to, Comrade. We're watching your every move with WGA.
Your comrade,
Bill Gates
You lost all credibility when you described Exchange 5.5 as perfectly good.
Seriously though, Exchange 2000 is vastly superior (REAL maintenance utilities) and Exchange 2003 even more so (FAR better data restore options; ability to restore individual mailboxes and selectively bind it to an account, even better maintenance utilities). I still prefer Scalix or Zimbra over either due to superior backup and maintenance options (no having to schedule downtime, er, "maintenance windows" dismount and defrag an info store database, etc.) but to call Exchange 5.5 perfectly good is, well, extremely generous.
I bought an (Intel) E6600, and it is extremely fast, and overclocks extremely well. I have lowly DDR2/667 RAM, not DDR2/800 and I still manage to get 3.05Ghz out of it. I've run it as fast as 3.2Ghz (to go any higher I'd have to go DDR2/800) and it's perfectly stable, but the temperature hits 85*C. I'd only push it higher (with faster ram, obviously) if I had a peltier or water cooling system.
At 3.05Ghz, it normally runs at 51*C (normal tasks like web surfing, word processing, and so forth), and peaks around 73 to 75*C when I stress it with heavy tasks or just test it with Prime95.
The E6600 cost me about $325.00 at the time, and considering it's about twice as fast as a Pentium D at the stock clock speed (2.4Ghz, 4MB cache), it was a steal. That I can overclock it by nearly 30% and hae it run this cool is just an added bonus. If you are willing to settle for the E6300 (1.86Ghz, 2MB cache) you'll still get a processor which is far better than anything from the Netburst Line (Pentium 4 and D) but for less money than the faster Pentium D processors.
Given inflation over the last ten years, it's not a bad deal no matter how you look at it.
Besides, now you get TWO processors even in entry-level system. No more spending $400 to $700 to get a multiprocessor board (I know there are cheaper but you don't want to go cheap), no more being forced to deal with a noisy system for a budget SMP system. Heck, now even SMP laptops are a reality!
Intel and AMD have both had to lay out a ton of cash in R&D in chip design, chip fabrication methods, invent new ways to shrink the mask every chip generation so they can cram MORE transistors into LESS space.
Ever see an 80386? a Pentium? A Pentium III? Compare the sizes of those dies to the latest processors and then come here and claim that you're not getting incredible value for your money. Not only that, while making these strides, CPUs have become much more efficient, delivering far more processing power/watt compared to previous generation processors.
If you want CPUs to come down to say, $10.00, the state of technology would have to stagnate for many years.
Incidentally, I've had Prime95 running for about 30 minutes now (I got distracted for a bit chatting) and the processor is only up to 68*C. Keep in mind this is stock heatsink and fan in an Antec Sonata II chassis, overclocked by about 30%.
I think the CPU was a great value. Altogether I have $2,700 into my PC (distributor pricing) and although hard disks have come down a lot in price since even four months ago, it is still an incredible value in computing power. The core PC components (workstation board, E6600, and RAM) came to about $730 at the time. I'd pay that much again NOW and it would still be a great deal.
But then again, some people are happy with SiS-based boards and Celeron processors in their $299 PCs which are subsidized by preinstalled spyware and nagware.
Read the exclusions; bypassing/cracking DRM for the purpose of interoperability is allowed.
What falls under interoperability?
- viewing/listening on another platform (Linux, BSD)
- cracking for making Fair Use backups (interoperability because standard backup programs cannot read encrypted DVDs)
- transcoding for use on other platforms or devices (again, Fair Use)
It's licensed, you say? No, it's a commodity good which is protected by Copyright. While I cannot take, say, The Wall and legally sell copies, I certainly can rip it to play on my DVD. besides, if you disagree with the license of (DVD|CD|Software) and you've opened it (with software for example you don't see the EULA until it's opened) just try to get a refund. Good luck with that.
It's not licensed. Works for hire are licensed. Corporate logos are licensed. Commodity goods are not licensed, they're SOLD. Even movie producers and music labels acknowledge it in their advertising.
When was the last time you ever saw a DVD advert telling you "license it on DVD today?" No, it is invariably "Own it on DVD today."
ugh.
I meant to say: Is making fun of Bush and Saddam okay but not Gore?
D'oh!