Re: [SLUG] Linux friendly DSL providers

From: Patrick Grantham \(at work\) (pwgrant@cssi-fl.com)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 11:42:23 EDT


Did you check out Direct-Way sat. form Direct-TV?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Glidden" <dglidden@illusionary.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux friendly DSL providers

> On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 03:52, David Meyer wrote:
> > Rapid Systems in Tampa is a Linux friendly DSL Provider.
> >
>
> Except that if you read their "Terms of Service" on their webpage, they
> basically say that running *any* kind of server on your system
> automagically makes you require their "business class" service which is
> more than twice the cost of their "home user" service.
>
> We just moved into our new home (yay!) in Pasco, off of 54 by I-75 and
> Verizon does not have DSL service in our area yet, and Shaw Cable does
> not have cable internet in our area yet, so I'm stuck with dialup until
> I can find something better and unfortunately, I haven't found much that
> either has a good reputation or doesn't have silly terms of service as
> above. I'll have to check out IJ that someone else mentioned in this
> thread though.
>
> Dialup sucks a lot.
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.anti-dmca.org/
>



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