I hope it turns out better than the old "Project Monterrey" thing...

SYSTEM SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE PLAYSTATION®3 SYSTEM

PLEASE READ THIS SYSTEM SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

Version 1.0 (November 11, 2006)

yadayadayada

3. SERVICES AND UPDATES

From time to time, SCE may provide certain updates, upgrades or services to your PS3 system to ensure it is functioning properly in accordance with SCE guidelines.

Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you sign onto SCE's online network, and others may be available to you through SCE's website or authorized channels. Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, and new or revised settings and features which may prevent access to pirated games, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3 system.

Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.

From TFA:

From time to time, SCE may provide updates, upgrades or services to your PS3 system to ensure it is functioning properly in accordance with SCE guidelines or provide you with new offerings.

Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you are online, and others may be available to you through SCE's online network or authorized channels. Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, new technology or revised settings and features which may prevent access to unauthorized or pirated content, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3 system.

Additionally, you may not be able to view your own content if it includes or displays content that is protected by authentication technology. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.

DIFF:

"or provide you with new offerings."

"Additionally, you may not be able to view your own content if it includes or displays content that is protected by authentication technology" Don't know if I'm missing anything else.

Well, then maybe we all already agreed to it. That was in EULA v1.0. Check it out http://web.archive.org/web/20061206023303/http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html

Hey, just in case no one wants to follow the link:

SYSTEM SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE PLAYSTATION®3 SYSTEM

PLEASE READ THIS SYSTEM SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

Version 1.0 (November 11, 2006)

yadayadayada

3. SERVICES AND UPDATES

From time to time, SCE may provide certain updates, upgrades or services to your PS3 system to ensure it is functioning properly in accordance with SCE guidelines. Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you sign onto SCE's online network, and others may be available to you through SCE's website or authorized channels. Without limitation, services may include the provision of the latest update or download of new release that may include security patches, and new or revised settings and features which may prevent access to pirated games, or use of unauthorized hardware or software in connection with the PS3 system. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.

That's nothing. It could take months if you have your PS3 in your boat and you are traveling near the cost of Africa while testing your new satellite Internet link. While you might think that a short trip to the coast to take some pictures, meet some people, sightseeing and buying that new BluRay you heard about in some store could be interesting, you can also get kidnapped by one of those pirates gangs and spend months while someone put (a lot of) money on the table to take you back. This could specially apply also if you ship oil for a work on a large boat, or move large amounts of people around, or you do some high level fishing.

Of course we always take this sort of scenario into account when deciding whether to download or buy from the store at the shore.

if you can manage the set of users of your server, you can use OpenVPN and then SSH. OpenVPN has a "feature" that if each packet of the VPN is not digitally signed by a previously arranged (and distribuyed) key, then the packet is "ignored". After the VPN session is established/authenticated, your users can log in using ssh. There are even some virtual appliances and special distros (untangle.com) that have a "openvpn appliance" built in for this purpose. The how-to for openvpn is also easy to follow.

Well, I have a Passport from a Latin American country. I have a B1/B2 visa to enter de US, and I do not need a visa to enter Europe. Having said that, I have had the less problems entering the US, or northern EU states (Germany, Sweeden), than entering southern states in the EU (Spain, Italy, France). They make you show money, your ticket back to your contry (back in the day when they were not electronic), where are you going to stay, what do you do, whatever. If Customs controlls play a role in taking Chicago down, then the same (or worse) can be said for Madrid.

Ethyl alcohol? you mean the kind of alcohol found in Alcoholic beverages? Now we are talking!! This will surely spark a new race to the moon!

Why not try to get out of here and see what else is around?

Well, if he said it, certainly he R2-45'ed his cult in the foot with that one.

After reading about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-45 in wikipedia, I can't think how can this be part of the modern, civilized world if that turns out to be a true fact.

FYI: R2-45 is a Scientology auditing process created by L. Ron Hubbard. The process of R2-45 specifically pertains to shooting the target with a Colt .45 pistol, causing the victim's "thetan" to leave the body (exteriorization). In 1952 during a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Hubbard demonstrated the process of R2-45 by firing a shot at the floor.[1][2] In a lecture of 1958, Hubbard comments that "Death is not the same as clearing but there is, remember, R2-45. It's a very valid technique. A lot of people have used it before now." [3]

Don't treat yourself badly. IBM does things Oracle still doesn't do, even after buying Sun:

IBM will admin your whole servers *ix servers for you (HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Solaris). Sun/Oracle, afaik, don't do that.

IBM will admin your whole databases for you( Oracle, Informix, MS SQL, MySQL). Sun/Oracle, afaik, they don't do that.

IBM will admin your applications (SAP, Oracle Financials or whatever it is called these days, Webpshere, Tomcat, BEA, I guess even Axapta)

IBM will admin your Windows boxes.

I guess that Oracle/Sun won't be able to deliver a "whole" solution the way IBM/Accenture/EDS do these days. Of course IBM is also in the business of selling you the hardware plus database business, but they have services that reach well beyond that. Maybe Oracle is in the right path, but there's a long way ahead.

Maybe HP-EDS should think on a merge with Oracle if they want to compete in the future with a IBM-PWC-Notes-DB2-Informix-Sun kind of company.

>>Your rep sucks, our orders both directly from Cisco and from CDW arrive in a normal timeframe of several days.

Well, I guess the thing is that CDW has its own stock of things they think are selling well, in order to have "happy customers" (c).

I worked in replying RFP's from IT customers, and when replying those, we usually had to add the usual 60-day delivery time by Cisco in our repliess. We are not us-based, tough, YMMV, yadayadayada, but at least here and now, that's the way it works.

Look at this at the Wikipedia. This guy was really something. May he rest in peace, wherever he is. And thank you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_DeBakey

Honors

* Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Academy of Medical Films

* American Heart Association (AHA)

* Children Uniting Nations

* Encyclopaedia Britannica

* Foundation for Biomedical Research

* International College of Angiology

* International Health and Medical Film Festival

* Research! America

* Tulane Medical Alumni Association

* U.S. Army Legion of Merit (1945)

* American Medical Association Hektoen Gold Medal (1954 and 1970)

* Rudolph Matas Award in Vascular Surgery (1954)

* International Society of Surgery Distinguished Service Award (1958)

* Leriche Award (1959)

* American Medical Association Distinguished Service Award (1959)

* Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research (1963)

* American Medical Association Billings Gold Medal Exhibit Award (1967)

* American Heart Association Gold Heart Award (1968)

* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences 50th Anniversary Jubilee Medal (1973)

* Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Foreign Member (1974)

* Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander-in-Chiefâ(TM)s Medal and Citation (1980)

* American Surgical Association Distinguished Service Award (1981)

* Academy of Surgical Research Markowitz Award (1988)

* Association of American Medical Colleges Special Recognition Award (1988)

* American Legion Distinguished Service Award (1990)

* Premio Giuseppe Corradi Award for Surgery and Scientific Research (1997)

* Russian Military Medical Academy, Boris Petrovsky International Surgeons Award and First Laureate of the Boris Petrovsky Gold Medal (1997)

* John P. McGovern Compleat Physician Award (1999)

* Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member (1999)

* Texas Senate and House of Representatives, Adoption of resolutions honoring Dr. DeBakey for 50 years of medical practice in Texas (1999)

* American Medical Association Virtual Mentor Award (2000)

* American Philosophical Society Jonathan Rhoads Medal (2000)

* Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend Award (2000)

* Villanova University Mendel Medal Award (2001)

* Houston Hall of Fame (2001)

* NASA Invention of the Year Award (2001)

* MUSC[1] "Lindbergh-Carrel Prize"[2](2002)

* Congressional Gold Medal (April 23, 2008)