I forgot to check which system the USA uses, In quite a lot of other countries its 230V, and 415V for industrial uses, so it doesn't surprise me that USA has had to enable 240V mainly for heavy-use applications.
I always find it odd to find that some Americans think their way of life will stay around for ever (Power, Units of measurment, etc)
However, To make this comment useful, Take a look at the graphics here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_power_systems As you can see, most of the world uses 230V.. (Here in Aus, Its refered to as 240V, but has been 230V for a long time.. but the +- 10% rule tends to make it higher anyway)
110V will most likely not last forever in the states, but it'll probably be still there in 10-20 years..
Of course.. Things will change when wireless power comes into being;)
The reason they're not suing the 17 year old, is because iiNet has refused to pass on the infrindgement notices.
Its a civil law matter in australia, Its not up to AFAICT(our version of the MPAA/RIAA) or the ISP to determine that someone is downloading copyrighted material, The studio's need to goto the police, File a court case against the individual, Only once they're actually considered to be doing something illegal by the court can the ISP hand over personal details about the individual.
The ISP is *not* required to do anything by law, they're not a content provider, mearly a tunnel, Regardless of if they were to filter the material, under australian law that doesnt make them a content provider.
The law clearly states that the ISP is exempt from lawsuits over copyright infrindgement by customers under the safe-harbour clauses.
The ISP in question (iiNet) has passed all copyright infrindgement notices to the Authorities(WA Police in this case), AFAICT has chosen to not deal with the legal authorities.
So, Its not the ISP's choice to legally say that someone has commited a crime, Nor can the studio's.
As soon as they take people to court(As anonymous internet users) and present their evidence, have it checked out, and determined that the users belonging to those IP addresses at the time were indeed commiting a crime, THAT is when the ISP needs to pass on the courts decision, and give the court the names assoc. with the internet accounts, Not before.
The larger ISP's in austrlia ignore the notices too, Telstra(#1) activly ignores them, they've got something like 50% broadband hold right now. Optus(#2) doesnt pass them onto customers, But has in the past used multiple complains as a reason for terminating someones account. Exetel is the only isp *I* know of who activly passes on the notices, with a client base of 160,000 people IIRC, the user only needs to acknoledge they received the notice and they continue to download whatever they want.. (after 6 months some peoples contracts will be terminated if they get too many notices - ie. waste the isp's time in dealing with the notices, they're a minimal-margins isp, if a user doesnt make them a profit, you're out the door once your contract is up)
> I certainly noticed no non-coding projects last year during my participation... Maybe you're thinking of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest?
AFAIK, There were a few with WordPress (I was a student with WP last year), However, This year they're mainly focusing on the C in SoC, so no non-code projects there this year.
However, I may be mis-remembering things:)
At a minimum, I'd suggest a good understanding of the language, And preferably, also knowing how the organisations code works.
Just because you know PHP, It doesnt mean you're going to know the ins and outs of how NextGen Gallery works, You need to know PHP & you need to know how Gallery code is structured(and the functions, and how to interface them, etc).
Thats not to say that you wouldnt pick up the way Gallerys code works easily(Just a note here, I've never looked at Galleries code, it cant be that complicated, i'm just using it as a example), but knowing how the code works beforehand is a great bonus.
I know basic C++, Java, VB/C.Net, so much that i can do simple stuff in them, and might even manage to write a decent small program, But i've got nowhere near enough experience with the languages to work with a organisation who has such code.
Take WordPress as another example, Knowing the way it works, how posts are published, how to use actions and filters, is a great bonus. If you only know basic PHP, and dont understand actions and filters and whatnot, it could be harder to complete the project than what its worth.
However, Keep in mind, that not all summer of code projects require programming, Documentation, Usability studies, Social bug tracking(whatever that is), could be equally as good projects, they dont require programming skills, just other types of skills.
Well the thing is here, that the ISP legally HAS to take the website down following the complaint, whether it is a legit complaint or not.
I could theoretically ask for anyones website to be pulled, and then once its offline, attempt to find some infrindgement and hope they dont sue me for the false claim..
From a press release from Rising Tide:
http://www.risingtide.org.au/node/401"The hosts of the RTN website were contacted by NSWMC lawyers within 24 hours of the launch of the site. The NSWMC lawyers abused a clause of the Commonwealth Copyright Regulations to forced the website hosts to remove the site. RTN created the original website as a satirical imitation of the NSWMC site, with rewritten commentary. While this was most probably legal under the Copyright Act's Fair Dealing clause as a parody, the hosts were legally required to remove the site pending a response to the Minerals Council's claim of copyright infringement, which did not specify the articles of alleged copyright."...
"While the site had not contravened any copyright laws, as the lawyers for the NSWMC may well have known, the host was again legally obliged to remove the site"
As you can see, The host had no option.. It was just the NSWMC being a PITA
another work around is open up notepad and save a cmd.bat file with the text cmd.exe and presto you have command prompt
True, But it wont have Root SYSTEM priv. the System account has more control than the administrator account.
D
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Ok, So you're already making the change then?
I forgot to check which system the USA uses, In quite a lot of other countries its 230V, and 415V for industrial uses, so it doesn't surprise me that USA has had to enable 240V mainly for heavy-use applications.
I always find it odd to find that some Americans think their way of life will stay around for ever (Power, Units of measurment, etc)
However, To make this comment useful, Take a look at the graphics here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_power_systems As you can see, most of the world uses 230V.. (Here in Aus, Its refered to as 240V, but has been 230V for a long time.. but the +- 10% rule tends to make it higher anyway)
110V will most likely not last forever in the states, but it'll probably be still there in 10-20 years..
Of course.. Things will change when wireless power comes into being ;)
Eugh, s/AFAICT/AFACT/g
The reason they're not suing the 17 year old, is because iiNet has refused to pass on the infrindgement notices.
Its a civil law matter in australia, Its not up to AFAICT(our version of the MPAA/RIAA) or the ISP to determine that someone is downloading copyrighted material, The studio's need to goto the police, File a court case against the individual, Only once they're actually considered to be doing something illegal by the court can the ISP hand over personal details about the individual.
The ISP is *not* required to do anything by law, they're not a content provider, mearly a tunnel, Regardless of if they were to filter the material, under australian law that doesnt make them a content provider.
The law clearly states that the ISP is exempt from lawsuits over copyright infrindgement by customers under the safe-harbour clauses.
The ISP in question (iiNet) has passed all copyright infrindgement notices to the Authorities(WA Police in this case), AFAICT has chosen to not deal with the legal authorities.
So, Its not the ISP's choice to legally say that someone has commited a crime, Nor can the studio's. As soon as they take people to court(As anonymous internet users) and present their evidence, have it checked out, and determined that the users belonging to those IP addresses at the time were indeed commiting a crime, THAT is when the ISP needs to pass on the courts decision, and give the court the names assoc. with the internet accounts, Not before.
The larger ISP's in austrlia ignore the notices too, Telstra(#1) activly ignores them, they've got something like 50% broadband hold right now. Optus(#2) doesnt pass them onto customers, But has in the past used multiple complains as a reason for terminating someones account. Exetel is the only isp *I* know of who activly passes on the notices, with a client base of 160,000 people IIRC, the user only needs to acknoledge they received the notice and they continue to download whatever they want.. (after 6 months some peoples contracts will be terminated if they get too many notices - ie. waste the isp's time in dealing with the notices, they're a minimal-margins isp, if a user doesnt make them a profit, you're out the door once your contract is up)
> I certainly noticed no non-coding projects last year during my participation... Maybe you're thinking of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest? AFAIK, There were a few with WordPress (I was a student with WP last year), However, This year they're mainly focusing on the C in SoC, so no non-code projects there this year. However, I may be mis-remembering things :)
At a minimum, I'd suggest a good understanding of the language, And preferably, also knowing how the organisations code works.
Just because you know PHP, It doesnt mean you're going to know the ins and outs of how NextGen Gallery works, You need to know PHP & you need to know how Gallery code is structured(and the functions, and how to interface them, etc).
Thats not to say that you wouldnt pick up the way Gallerys code works easily(Just a note here, I've never looked at Galleries code, it cant be that complicated, i'm just using it as a example), but knowing how the code works beforehand is a great bonus.
I know basic C++, Java, VB/C.Net, so much that i can do simple stuff in them, and might even manage to write a decent small program, But i've got nowhere near enough experience with the languages to work with a organisation who has such code.
Take WordPress as another example, Knowing the way it works, how posts are published, how to use actions and filters, is a great bonus. If you only know basic PHP, and dont understand actions and filters and whatnot, it could be harder to complete the project than what its worth.
However, Keep in mind, that not all summer of code projects require programming, Documentation, Usability studies, Social bug tracking(whatever that is), could be equally as good projects, they dont require programming skills, just other types of skills.
Well the thing is here, that the ISP legally HAS to take the website down following the complaint, whether it is a legit complaint or not. I could theoretically ask for anyones website to be pulled, and then once its offline, attempt to find some infrindgement and hope they dont sue me for the false claim.. From a press release from Rising Tide: http://www.risingtide.org.au/node/401 "The hosts of the RTN website were contacted by NSWMC lawyers within 24 hours of the launch of the site. The NSWMC lawyers abused a clause of the Commonwealth Copyright Regulations to forced the website hosts to remove the site. RTN created the original website as a satirical imitation of the NSWMC site, with rewritten commentary. While this was most probably legal under the Copyright Act's Fair Dealing clause as a parody, the hosts were legally required to remove the site pending a response to the Minerals Council's claim of copyright infringement, which did not specify the articles of alleged copyright." ...
"While the site had not contravened any copyright laws, as the lawyers for the NSWMC may well have known, the host was again legally obliged to remove the site"
As you can see, The host had no option.. It was just the NSWMC being a PITA
I only deal with CLI installs of slackware, its been damn stable throughout -current.
:: The Essential SlackWARE Tool
I use Swaret for my package manager, Its cli-only, does dependancies, etc..
swaret
swaret.sourceforge.net/index.php
another work around is open up notepad and save a cmd.bat file with the text cmd.exe and presto you have command prompt True, But it wont have Root SYSTEM priv. the System account has more control than the administrator account. D
http://geeklimit.com.nyud.net:8080/2006/06/13/geek limit-vs-toms-hardware-800-gaming-machine/
http://geeklimit.com/2006/06/13/geeklimit-vs-toms- hardware-800-gaming-machine/