That blooms into the demon flower.
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diffrentcolours has a
point. (courtesy arkady; not work or brainsafe.)
I am appalled that I missed mentioning last Friday's date with Arkady at the Oakdale Arms Beer Festival. By crikey I approve. Also
met timeplease and asked how the hell he went from academic
geek to publican. It's amazing what beer fandom can achieve. Cheers to hairyears for the considerable *pint*age. Or half-*pint*age — it's a beer festival, after all.
Today I got MediaWiki running at home. And we got Samba working on our FreeBSD boxes. I can now play music on tinny laptop speakers anywhere in the house!
redcountess has been going hog wild on the new Mac. First upgrade purchase will
definitely be a new hard drive. A USB 2 card is likely. We don't yet have a shrine to Steve Jobs in the corner, though the stack of Mac stuff is likely to count soon.
One thing we would like geekly advice on is KVM switches. Or VM switches, using the Mac keyboard (USB) on the Mac and the Microsoft Natural keyboard (PS/2) on the PC. Not switching the keyboard, even an old KVM would do if the video quality is good. (As I understand, it's almost entirely down to the video cables, not the switchbox itself.) If anyone has a spare, our zero-budget condition would most welcome it.
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Date: 2005-03-05 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-05 07:38 pm (UTC)They are of course also susceptible to DMCA notices. From anywhere in the world, actually. To them and their upstream provider.
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Date: 2005-03-05 07:49 pm (UTC)Or maybe their ISP yanked it thanks to all the copyvios people were suddenly aware of.
Either way, the site's down, so I don't consider the 16+ hours spent cataloguing compromised LJ posts to have been wasted. I actually enjoyed it, in some grim fashion....
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Date: 2005-03-05 08:31 pm (UTC)Regrettably, there's nothing illegal about being a ghoul.
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Date: 2005-03-05 10:00 pm (UTC)It all depends on how it's set up. But it it's some guy's PC on his DSL line, the DMCA has no effect and people will have to go to court over it. And this is all ASSUMING that the server is in the US at all.
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Date: 2005-03-05 10:07 pm (UTC)Even if it were on DSL, you could still hit the upstream provider with a DMCA notice. I know this one from the Scientology wars. It was RTC vs Netcom (1995, just before the DMCA) that established the need for that provision or something like it.
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Date: 2005-03-05 10:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-05 10:25 pm (UTC)Still, I would be amazed if Level3 didn't opt into it.
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Date: 2005-03-05 11:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-07 10:22 pm (UTC)Er, this is so, or is that just an educated guess?
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Date: 2005-03-07 10:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-07 10:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-05 09:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-05 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-06 02:28 pm (UTC)I think -- it looks like the right one, pretty sure it is but can double-check if needed. Thinking about it, I do have some minor quibbles with it -- it doesn't seem to like being disconnected from one running machine and plugged into another, which might not be a problem for you. I typically use it just as a video switch, since the majority of the boxes I plug the second cable into don't use PS/2 keyboards or mice.
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Date: 2005-03-06 02:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-06 04:52 pm (UTC)Ah, another possible downside is that the cheap units draw their power from the PS/2 ports it's connected to; mine works fine if only one machine is powered up, but I'm not sure how well it would behave otherwise. Oh well, that's a shame; I'd certainly recommend a solid-state device over the mechanical ones otherwise.
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Date: 2005-03-05 09:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-05 10:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-05 10:24 pm (UTC)I'm sure I posted in my journal about being given the G3.
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Date: 2005-03-05 10:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-05 11:40 pm (UTC).Mac rules. Especially when you have more than one Mac - iSync keeping your address books synchronised has to be one of the most useful features ever.
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Date: 2005-03-06 01:07 am (UTC)