That blooms into the demon flower.

[reddragdiva]

• You know, I'm thinking 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.

Comments

[juliann.livejournal.com]

Actually, depending on their hosting, they may not be liable to DMCA challenges (but that means they are fully on the hook for court challenges) and their upstram provider may not have any liability at all.

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.

[reddragdiva]

It's hosted in LA by level3. The site owner is in Nevada.

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.

[juliann.livejournal.com]

No, the DMCA (which came into force late 1998) removes upstream provider liability. However ISPs are still liable for their customer's content -- but they do not have to opt into the DMCA. Most do, as it's the easiest and least expensive way to handle it, but they don't HAVE to.

[reddragdiva]

Oh yes, that's correct.

Still, I would be amazed if Level3 didn't opt into it.

[juliann.livejournal.com]

If they do opt in they will have their official agent posted somewhere on their website -- it's part of the rules for opting in. So it should be easy enough to find out :)