To each their own, YMMV, and all that. My lil' two year old Hero does 1-4GiB monthly. A little YouTube, a little Pandora, quite a bit off RSS stuff, GPS, Yelp and other social apps, and there you are, a GiB easily. And that is not counting usage on available WAPs.
Every app requires full permissions, for no useful reason. Why a stopwatch wants access to my calls and read/write on the SD card, I don't know, and the choices are to either accept it or don't use the app. This is seriously broken. I don't even look in the Android Market anymore because it's just too much risk to install anything. It's actually worse than Windows, where at least I know where the software is coming from.
Are you serious? Any monkey could write a shareware clock application, that harvests whatever data and then sends it wherever, and your PC OS wouldn't do anything to notify you.
Pandora was recently rejected by me, because it wanted to use my contact list. You do have a choice besides being owned.
Did that once, and once only. The butt of the joke hard booted thinking that his PC was non-responsive, fraking up his HKLU (silly registry, why?). "Last Known Working" was my friend that day....
I often think that this is what most people miss; sci-fi is the setting, not the story. Too many people see something like Bladerunner as "human hunts robots", and not an exploration of what defines human.
Star Trek is what humanity would be like, if we evolved with/due to our technology, while Battlestar Galactica gives us humanity with more technology, and keeping all of its vices. ST is an exploration of the future, BSG explores what we are.
Or maybe it just proves, further, that the poor get screwed.
If you have $1,000, you can buy that laptop you didn't plan for, and so didn't save for, but would be really useful now that you are starting higher education. On the other hand, if your income dictates a 12 month period of saving to get that $1,000, chances are that your window of opportunity for schooling has closed before you have the hardware.
Enter the rent-to-own industry, giving you long term low monthly payments, with what amounts to incredible interest rates. The payday advance places are the same. If you make good money, you'll never fell their sting. If you make really good money, you'll never pay interest period, just handling fees.
And now they have, if the story is true, real spyware. What type of dirtbag, including the school "officials" reported a few months back using the webcams on student laptops, spies on someone in this manner?
Because I am curious, that is why I like the details.
I never got close to even starting troubleshooting the problem I saw with Intel video chips and a couple graphical installers; that whole project was replaced before it really started. Still, I would like to know why, or if your results mirror mine.
There was another problem about two years ago for which I never discovered the true cause. Post installation, with an NVidia card and VIA chipset, X would fail to load. That's right, just spent nearly an hour installing the OS and applications, to get a lockup, keyboard and mouse not responding and a corrupted display. The forums indicated that I was not alone, but there were no solutions, and for some reason runlevel 3 was difficult to obtain, maybe something to do with a script running only on the first boot?
The same hardware ran the previous version of Suse fine, plus XP And 7, so it was not a hardware problem. And I also found that some distributions worked, some did not. I guess I could dig up the DVD's, diff 'em against the ?.1, but there are obviously several other changes between versions.
Which is why I have a fondness for Slackware. It hasn't failed me yet.
Details, please, especially for a computer that will run one distribution and not another.
The one thing that I have found is a failure with some graphical installers and Intel video chips, but that was a few years ago. Otherwise, it is just about the same as Windows; you install or compile and then install the driver if it exists for your OS. My last dedicated flatbed scanner will never work with Windows past XP, because HP will never create a driver for it and the source is closed. Can't really blame HP as the scanner is nine years old.
Sure about that? North and South America are on separate tectonic plates with only a thin strip connecting them and were physically separate in the past. The racist point of your comment obviously fails as Central America is considered part of North America. Then again, defining a continent seems to be like defining a planet, or beauty.
But going with your definition on one continent going circle to circle, are we all Americans, $countryname + "ians", or something else?
Umm, "Southern neighbors" would be in different countries, like Mexico or Argentina?. Or, are you trying to use "Usians" as a subset of Americans, like French is a subset of European? Not sure how the rest of the America's would take that, being called, across two continents, Americans.
The number of devices matters too. Say three PC's, an iPad or two, a Wii + XBox + PS, a few smartphones, BluRay player, and now you got some downloaded data. Heck, with one smartphone during a roadtrip I did 4 GB in a week (Sprint). The curious part is IF AT&T content is really excluded from AT&T caps.
I agree with you, that wiring Sweden is not the same as wiring the lower 48. But, we could do it, like we could do a lot of other cool/grand things, if we wanted them. Instead, we choose "good enough".
If we wanted, we could have each home wired with nice big optic connection. It would actually be a make work project that would stimulate the economy. Advances would be made in cable manufacturing and connection, equipment, then along would come the business uses.
Nothing new, AT&T has always been this way. SNL skits, humorously, give a historic perspective (Ernestine + one ringy dingy or something like http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml). T-Mobile touches upon it in one of their commercials, AT&T charging more for less makes sense, when you don't think about it.
As someone else notes later in this thread, AT&T exempts their services from the cap. Can't cut the throughput to another content provider's site, so they cap the data, and charge $10 per 50 GB.
The best reason for separate partitions is that the file-systems can be different, matching your expected usage (user files may be very different from system files), and ease of re-installs or migrations.
I kept the same/home for a couple versions of Mandrake, through a couple more Suse. Just set up the user the same with each new installation and start over, like nothing ever happened.
Slackware 13 has to be the distribution with the least amount of effort I have used. Yes, you need to think a little to install it and setup users. man/info is your friend. If you're looking for an "install by clicks then forget about administration, let someone else do it", Slackware may not be your distribution. If you want something stable (like that proprietary video driver, hate recompiling every month due to a kernel update, just for one example), and that will show you what other distributions have behind GUIs, then enjoy.
Use Win 98 then; single user, admin all the time, security a total afterthought. To be fair, Win 98 was designed before the always on network connections were common, certainly for home users.
Say an honest developer makes an application poorly, requiring it to have administrator access to run, and since it was made poorly, it gets cracked. By giving that application administrator access, you gave up a PC and everything it has accessible. Its network shares, database access using windows authentication and anything else it has are all available because of laziness. That's why you should care what applications have admin access.
The critical people in the company need to understand why the data they access needs to be kept safe. Someone complaining about UAC is like someone complaining about needing to unlock/lock their doors.
I'm still surprised how many people, that otherwise appear to be intelligent, are unable to separate the OS, the GUI, and the hardware during discussions about their favorite toy. They are able to separate the OS, GUI, and hardware when discussing PC development.
And no, you shouldn't have to be an admin to install a fucking document viewer.
Correct, user applications should install at the user level. Chrome installed on Win 7 for me under a standard user account. Acrord, Flash, Java require admin level, maybe due to where the updated files are placed or registry, and because they are system applications.
My experience has been that those Win98/Win 2000/ Win XP applications that fail on Vista/7 fail due to bad or outdated design. Why are they using HKLM or %systemroot%? Allowing that design was part of what made XP and earlier weak.
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To each their own, YMMV, and all that. My lil' two year old Hero does 1-4GiB monthly. A little YouTube, a little Pandora, quite a bit off RSS stuff, GPS, Yelp and other social apps, and there you are, a GiB easily. And that is not counting usage on available WAPs.
Yep, it all starts at the top, not at the entry level.
Every app requires full permissions, for no useful reason. Why a stopwatch wants access to my calls and read/write on the SD card, I don't know, and the choices are to either accept it or don't use the app. This is seriously broken. I don't even look in the Android Market anymore because it's just too much risk to install anything. It's actually worse than Windows, where at least I know where the software is coming from.
Are you serious? Any monkey could write a shareware clock application, that harvests whatever data and then sends it wherever, and your PC OS wouldn't do anything to notify you.
Pandora was recently rejected by me, because it wanted to use my contact list. You do have a choice besides being owned.
Which stopwatch application anyway?
Did that once, and once only. The butt of the joke hard booted thinking that his PC was non-responsive, fraking up his HKLU (silly registry, why?). "Last Known Working" was my friend that day....
yes
"Starship Troopers" maybe?
I often think that this is what most people miss; sci-fi is the setting, not the story. Too many people see something like Bladerunner as "human hunts robots", and not an exploration of what defines human.
Star Trek is what humanity would be like, if we evolved with/due to our technology, while Battlestar Galactica gives us humanity with more technology, and keeping all of its vices. ST is an exploration of the future, BSG explores what we are.
Or maybe it just proves, further, that the poor get screwed.
If you have $1,000, you can buy that laptop you didn't plan for, and so didn't save for, but would be really useful now that you are starting higher education. On the other hand, if your income dictates a 12 month period of saving to get that $1,000, chances are that your window of opportunity for schooling has closed before you have the hardware.
Enter the rent-to-own industry, giving you long term low monthly payments, with what amounts to incredible interest rates. The payday advance places are the same. If you make good money, you'll never fell their sting. If you make really good money, you'll never pay interest period, just handling fees.
And now they have, if the story is true, real spyware. What type of dirtbag, including the school "officials" reported a few months back using the webcams on student laptops, spies on someone in this manner?
Because I am curious, that is why I like the details.
I never got close to even starting troubleshooting the problem I saw with Intel video chips and a couple graphical installers; that whole project was replaced before it really started. Still, I would like to know why, or if your results mirror mine.
There was another problem about two years ago for which I never discovered the true cause. Post installation, with an NVidia card and VIA chipset, X would fail to load. That's right, just spent nearly an hour installing the OS and applications, to get a lockup, keyboard and mouse not responding and a corrupted display. The forums indicated that I was not alone, but there were no solutions, and for some reason runlevel 3 was difficult to obtain, maybe something to do with a script running only on the first boot?
The same hardware ran the previous version of Suse fine, plus XP And 7, so it was not a hardware problem. And I also found that some distributions worked, some did not. I guess I could dig up the DVD's, diff 'em against the ?.1, but there are obviously several other changes between versions.
Which is why I have a fondness for Slackware. It hasn't failed me yet.
It is deleted regularly on Android, only last four towers on mine. And this is all old new already, something like April 28th.
Here's some info, https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump
It would be unreasonable to expect Grandma & grandpa who barely know how to turn on a computer to learn Linux...
Why, because they are "too old" to learn?
Details, please, especially for a computer that will run one distribution and not another.
The one thing that I have found is a failure with some graphical installers and Intel video chips, but that was a few years ago. Otherwise, it is just about the same as Windows; you install or compile and then install the driver if it exists for your OS. My last dedicated flatbed scanner will never work with Windows past XP, because HP will never create a driver for it and the source is closed. Can't really blame HP as the scanner is nine years old.
Sure about that? North and South America are on separate tectonic plates with only a thin strip connecting them and were physically separate in the past. The racist point of your comment obviously fails as Central America is considered part of North America. Then again, defining a continent seems to be like defining a planet, or beauty.
But going with your definition on one continent going circle to circle, are we all Americans, $countryname + "ians", or something else?
Since AT$T pioneered rollover minutes for their cell phone service,
Rollover was courtesy of Cingular. Cingular was purchased by Bell South, who was purchased by SBC, who bought AT&T, then renamed itself AT&T.
Umm, "Southern neighbors" would be in different countries, like Mexico or Argentina?. Or, are you trying to use "Usians" as a subset of Americans, like French is a subset of European? Not sure how the rest of the America's would take that, being called, across two continents, Americans.
The only reason AT&T is doing this is to try to force you to buy cable TV from them instead of using online streaming services.
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Good point
The number of devices matters too. Say three PC's, an iPad or two, a Wii + XBox + PS, a few smartphones, BluRay player, and now you got some downloaded data. Heck, with one smartphone during a roadtrip I did 4 GB in a week (Sprint). The curious part is IF AT&T content is really excluded from AT&T caps.
I agree with you, that wiring Sweden is not the same as wiring the lower 48. But, we could do it, like we could do a lot of other cool/grand things, if we wanted them. Instead, we choose "good enough".
If we wanted, we could have each home wired with nice big optic connection. It would actually be a make work project that would stimulate the economy. Advances would be made in cable manufacturing and connection, equipment, then along would come the business uses.
Nothing new, AT&T has always been this way. SNL skits, humorously, give a historic perspective (Ernestine + one ringy dingy or something like http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml). T-Mobile touches upon it in one of their commercials, AT&T charging more for less makes sense, when you don't think about it.
As someone else notes later in this thread, AT&T exempts their services from the cap. Can't cut the throughput to another content provider's site, so they cap the data, and charge $10 per 50 GB.
Good points about /boot and /var, never really gave them much thought.
The best reason for separate partitions is that the file-systems can be different, matching your expected usage (user files may be very different from system files), and ease of re-installs or migrations.
I kept the same /home for a couple versions of Mandrake, through a couple more Suse. Just set up the user the same with each new installation and start over, like nothing ever happened.
Slackware 13 has to be the distribution with the least amount of effort I have used. Yes, you need to think a little to install it and setup users. man/info is your friend. If you're looking for an "install by clicks then forget about administration, let someone else do it", Slackware may not be your distribution. If you want something stable (like that proprietary video driver, hate recompiling every month due to a kernel update, just for one example), and that will show you what other distributions have behind GUIs, then enjoy.
Use Win 98 then; single user, admin all the time, security a total afterthought. To be fair, Win 98 was designed before the always on network connections were common, certainly for home users.
Say an honest developer makes an application poorly, requiring it to have administrator access to run, and since it was made poorly, it gets cracked. By giving that application administrator access, you gave up a PC and everything it has accessible. Its network shares, database access using windows authentication and anything else it has are all available because of laziness. That's why you should care what applications have admin access.
The critical people in the company need to understand why the data they access needs to be kept safe. Someone complaining about UAC is like someone complaining about needing to unlock/lock their doors.
I'm still surprised how many people, that otherwise appear to be intelligent, are unable to separate the OS, the GUI, and the hardware during discussions about their favorite toy. They are able to separate the OS, GUI, and hardware when discussing PC development.
Correct, user applications should install at the user level. Chrome installed on Win 7 for me under a standard user account. Acrord, Flash, Java require admin level, maybe due to where the updated files are placed or registry, and because they are system applications.
My experience has been that those Win98/Win 2000/ Win XP applications that fail on Vista/7 fail due to bad or outdated design. Why are they using HKLM or %systemroot%? Allowing that design was part of what made XP and earlier weak.