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      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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      @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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      @dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/21/e_waste_lundgren_windows_dell/

      Guy sentenced to jail after pleady to making 28000 copies of Windows install disks as backups for secondary device sale.

      Wow. Copying free disks of zero value and go to jail. Only in America.

      Lesson... avoid Windows!!

      Does seem pretty mad, he wasn't using cracked copies or using dodgy keys, seems completely waste of court time and waste of money, especially when there a lot more things to worry about in the U.S....

      Yup, he did zero damage and just did something that the vendor was supposed to do instead. It's not that the act wasn't allowed, but there is some grey area as to whether he was allowed to do it or not. Basically, the court screwed the pooch here and clearly the judge doesn't understand the case.

      The guy used recovery media that is licensed to the individual NEW pc only. If you lose the disc that was shipped with the PC you need to go back to the original retailer and ask for a replacement.

      It's a weird case for sure but the licensing for the media is pretty straight forward. Provided with sale of new pc only

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        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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        @dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        @dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/21/e_waste_lundgren_windows_dell/

        Guy sentenced to jail after pleady to making 28000 copies of Windows install disks as backups for secondary device sale.

        Wow. Copying free disks of zero value and go to jail. Only in America.

        Lesson... avoid Windows!!

        Does seem pretty mad, he wasn't using cracked copies or using dodgy keys, seems completely waste of court time and waste of money, especially when there a lot more things to worry about in the U.S....

        Yup, he did zero damage and just did something that the vendor was supposed to do instead. It's not that the act wasn't allowed, but there is some grey area as to whether he was allowed to do it or not. Basically, the court screwed the pooch here and clearly the judge doesn't understand the case.

        The guy used recovery media that is licensed to the individual NEW pc only. If you lose the disc that was shipped with the PC you need to go back to the original retailer and ask for a replacement.

        It's a weird case for sure but the licensing for the media is pretty straight forward. Provided with sale of new pc only

        Yes, it's not that he's in the wrong or not, he was wrong. It's that he did something of zero damage. There is no victim, no loss.

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          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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          @dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/21/e_waste_lundgren_windows_dell/

          Guy sentenced to jail after pleady to making 28000 copies of Windows install disks as backups for secondary device sale.

          Wow. Copying free disks of zero value and go to jail. Only in America.

          Lesson... avoid Windows!!

          Does seem pretty mad, he wasn't using cracked copies or using dodgy keys, seems completely waste of court time and waste of money, especially when there a lot more things to worry about in the U.S....

          Yup, he did zero damage and just did something that the vendor was supposed to do instead. It's not that the act wasn't allowed, but there is some grey area as to whether he was allowed to do it or not. Basically, the court screwed the pooch here and clearly the judge doesn't understand the case.

          The guy used recovery media that is licensed to the individual NEW pc only. If you lose the disc that was shipped with the PC you need to go back to the original retailer and ask for a replacement.

          It's a weird case for sure but the licensing for the media is pretty straight forward. Provided with sale of new pc only

          Had he downloaded the file and made the disks for each person as they got the PCs, it would have been fine. It's because he was wearing his refurb hat instead of his IT hat that it was a problem. IT does this exact task every day without a problem. It's a crime only of perspective.

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            dbeato
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            Zimbra 8.8.6 Hotfix
            https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.6_HotFix

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              dbeato
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              Grafana with Zimbra
              https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

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                stacksofplates @dbeato
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                @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                Grafana with Zimbra
                https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

                I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.

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                  dbeato @stacksofplates
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                  @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                  Grafana with Zimbra
                  https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

                  I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.

                  You are smart, maybe not enough time to do it :)?

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                    scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                    @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                    @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                    Grafana with Zimbra
                    https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

                    I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.

                    I can’t make dashboards either 😞

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                      coliver @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      @stacksofplates said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                      Grafana with Zimbra
                      https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

                      I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.

                      I can’t make dashboards either 😞

                      Design isn't my strong suit. I've been thinking about a decent dashboard to show the health of our infrastructure for our CIO (and maybe put it in the public somewhere?) but just can't really get the look right. May try and do Grafana for that but it's a very low priority.

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                        hobbit666
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                        BT told to share poles for ultrafast fibre internet
                        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43168564

                        This could be big in the UK, this will allow providers to supply direct like Virgin Cable stuff. Or FTTP by other ISP's

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                          coliver @hobbit666
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                          @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                          BT told to share poles for ultrafast fibre internet
                          http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43168564

                          This could be big in the UK, this will allow providers to supply direct like Virgin Cable stuff. Or FTTP by other ISP's

                          Nice! Congrats UK.

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                            coliver @hobbit666
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                            @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                            BT told to share poles for ultrafast fibre internet
                            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43168564

                            This could be big in the UK, this will allow providers to supply direct like Virgin Cable stuff. Or FTTP by other ISP's

                            500 pounds to connect a house to fiber? That's so inexpensive.

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                              hobbit666 @coliver
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                              @coliver Yeah but hopefully if others start installing cables everywhere and people sign up the prices will go down πŸ™‚ well at least i hope they will.

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                                CloudKnight
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                                They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....

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                                  coliver @hobbit666
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                                  @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                  @coliver Yeah but hopefully if others start installing cables everywhere and people sign up the prices will go down πŸ™‚ well at least i hope they will.

                                  At the last place I worked they wanted 30,000$ plus a 10 year contract to run fiber ~1,000ft.

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                                    DustinB3403 @CloudKnight
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                                    @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                    They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....

                                    The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.

                                    I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.

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                                      DustinB3403 @coliver
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                                      @coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                      @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                      @coliver Yeah but hopefully if others start installing cables everywhere and people sign up the prices will go down πŸ™‚ well at least i hope they will.

                                      At the last place I worked they wanted 30,000$ plus a 10 year contract to run fiber ~1,000ft.

                                      I'm assuming your employer at the time passed on that "deal"?

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                                        coliver @DustinB3403
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                                        @dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        @coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        @hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                        @coliver Yeah but hopefully if others start installing cables everywhere and people sign up the prices will go down πŸ™‚ well at least i hope they will.

                                        At the last place I worked they wanted 30,000$ plus a 10 year contract to run fiber ~1,000ft.

                                        I'm assuming your employer at the time passed on that "deal"?

                                        It was for a redundant connection. We didn't need it but we were hosting... everything... in house.

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                                          CloudKnight @DustinB3403
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                                          @dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                          They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....

                                          The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.

                                          I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.

                                          Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?

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                                            coliver @CloudKnight
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                                            @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            @dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            @stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            They should of bit the bullet and dug up the uk streets years ago and just laid the fibre, instead BT have only put fibre to the cabinet at the end of the street....people want full fibre to the home now...not half copper and fibre....

                                            The subsidies provided obviously weren't enough.

                                            I have fibre to my house and it's great. . . and stupidly cheap as well.

                                            Don't most US based homes have fibre direct to the premises? or do you have a mix of vdsl/adsl/fibre depending on state?

                                            Hahah.

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