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Terms of service
(copied from a different shell provider site and modified)
Preface
In order to use the MTVeurope shells you have to agree to the following terms of usage. NOTE: By logging in you are agreeing to these terms. Doing anything which is against these rules will have consequences such as the deletion of your account or even the ban of your IP (-range).
Prohibitions
The usage of our computing systems for military purposes (especially the research of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons or their rocket carrier systems) is also prohibited. It is also prohibited to use this system for planing terrorist acts in any land. Other abusive methods which are prohibited include: Sending massive spam e-mails, Running abusive programs (scanners...), Compiling and running exploits (rootkits...).
Security
You are not allowed to give away your password to any third party - it's no problem to get an account, so better obtain an own one. Furthermore, we advice the logon via SSH (encrypted connection) but telnet login is still possible. There is a SSH client for almost every operating system - see http://www.freessh.org. For more information about logging in, see how to access the systems.
Take care of other users
You are not the only user of the systems, so please take care. Do not cause heavy traffic such as uploading/downloading huge files etc. as we only have a limited bandwidth of 4 MBit down and 512 kBit up for FREE shells, if you would like to get a faster shell, there is a 100 Mbit connection available on donation shells, which can be also used for commercial purposes. Do not run prewritten CPU-intensive procesess such as Seti@Home - other users want some time, too. This rule doesn't include selfwritten programs - if you have a project you want to be computed on one of our computers, feel free to start it.
Limits
You should keep in mind that you are not the only person who uses the server. Please monitor your processes Memory usage, as you may only use the maximum allowed allocated memory, that is 10 Mb for bronze, 25 Mb for silver, 50 Mb for golden and 100 Mb for Platinum level shells. Try to avoid CPU intensive tasks.
Warnings
Every user will receive warnings, which can also lead to the termination of the shell account.
- first warning - shell user exceeds the allowed memory with his program (action: just a warning from the admin).
- second warning - shell user exceeds the allowed memory with his program (action: a warning from the admin and a 2 weeks ban from the server).
- third and final warning - shell user exceeds the allowed memory with his program (action: the user looses his access to the server - permanently)
All warnings reset after a year, from the first warning.
Take care about the operators
Remember that it's our time we are spending in order to give you the opportunety to play with this old computers. So please always provide your real information if you're asked to do so (especially guest logins). If you try to do something bad to a machine, or try to gain more privileges than you were given, or try to abuse the privileges you were given, your account will be deleted instantly and if you continue, your IP(-range) will be banned (think about other users of the same network - they won't like it ;)) Don't use these machines as a free storage - disk space at these times was expansive, and we only have a limited number of HDDs available. If you request an account, make sure you use it from time to time, too - nothing is more annoying than creating an account which is never being used. Old accounts will be deleted if there will pass more than 1 year since your last login.
Obligations
You should log into your shell account regulary. Change the password once every few months. Shell account expires if it hasn't been used in the last 6 months !
Generally
Think before you act!!!. The administrators preserve the right to ban a user from the network without a certain reason (they normally won't do so, but you know yourself what's stupid and what is not). These machines are originally intended to preserve the old culture and machines and make them available for everyone who just wants to play around, do software developing or whatever. Everyone is welcome, have a great time and do not hestitate to contact us if you have questions.
These terms are subject to change at any time without further notice.