I feel your pain. I live in an apartment building and, due to Comcast's greed during the last contract cost negotiations, the landlord's in the building had them pulled. So, if I want the internet, I have to go DSL. The TV is provided via DirectTV.
Also, it's not just Adblock installed any more. I run a Pi-hole (ad blackhole DNS forwarder) instance on a Debian lappy on my LAN and I am seeing more and more anti-adblocking notifications every day. I just wish I had a crappier connection at some point, so I could point and say "Look, man, no adblocking! My connection can't REACH your advertiser!"
Stupid multimedia ads and code optimized poorly, so I have to sit there and watch a throbber, well, throb while the site goes off to load something for somewhere else, instead of loading the main page and loading the other goodies as they come. I am on a 5Mbit connection (all I can get), and even/. takes several seconds before I actually see anything.
Fine. Now can you explain to me why is Firefox 45 so laggy, a RAM and a CPU hog that you need a very expensive 8 core with 16GB of RAM to run it *reasonably well* with these days? Why wouldn't it run smoothly on an ARM CPU with 2GB of RAM? I remember Firefox 3 and 4 running smoothly on this AMD Phenom II 965 with 8GB of RAM but with version 45 it just works like it's been programmed in Spectrum basic or something. If that's the future it looks very, very bleak.
Posting this from 51.0.1 on an 8-year-old Core 2 Duo with 8 Gb of RAM and around 20-30 tabs and it seems to work fine to me (even with a fat load of extensions).
Plus, the whole whitelisting argument is predicated on the fact the whitelisting app is stable and unassailable. Speaking of PC-Matic, don't know if you have checked, but the VirusBTN tests have frequently cited stability issues for it. So, how's your whitelister going to whitelist if it has crashed or locked up?
Of course. Just why in the living shit are you worried about it Coward? If you are someone that has a bone to pick with me, use your real pseudonym.
Then again, you think ultrasound will generate harmonics in a linear medium... quite a trick in itself...
There's a thing though. There will be people in the room. And unless ultrasonic imaging doesn't work, there will be lots of interesting reflections and harmonics as watts of power are bouncing into and out of people, and other objects.
http://www.physicsclassroom.co...
And, therein lies my problem with any real wireless charging. Watts of power flooding an area. Not a Luddite, but I am reasonably sure that can't be good.
What it needs is a really efficient indexing system, client code written by someone with experience using moby datasets and a decent UI to navigate the hierarchy. All the packages I've used so far are miserable, caching nothing and constantly rescanning the server. Understandable for low RAM devices, but nothing is really 'low RAM' these days.
I've considered writing it myself, but figure it has to be a common enough problem. It's worth asking if anybody found a good solution.
Where are you? I'm in N Cal, Sacramento area. It's a good day to copy it at USB3 portable drive speeds. I can just make the copy and swap you for a blank drive.
But I really don't like Moby. I only have a couple of his songs...
I loved my early Apples (and even my Basis 108 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=92)), but I rather enjoy the increased abilities modern computing now offer.
Well, I can NOT see a single reason why any application should be allowed to delete ANY user files without it saying "HEY! GOING TO DELETE YOUR FILES NOW!" "ARE YOU SURE?" "ARE YOU REALLY REALLY SURE?" (excepting file managers, of course, but they usually warn you quite well, and you are in a file manager and not, say, a cloud music service)
So, yeah, I am going to believe a conflicting article from ANY site that starts their name with a lower case i and prominently features Apple online store affiliate links.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, well, they can't block me using my Pi-hole though.
I am 49 and finally had the kit to do dual monitors last year. Won't go back if I had a choice.
Or the TabCenter center plugin, which is part of Mozilla's TestPilot program.
I really have nothing on that. Mine works a treat and never gives me a hassle. Have you checked to make sure DNSMasq is running well?
I feel your pain. I live in an apartment building and, due to Comcast's greed during the last contract cost negotiations, the landlord's in the building had them pulled. So, if I want the internet, I have to go DSL. The TV is provided via DirectTV.
It is pretty useful. I like to use it for testing purposes as it gives much better errors than the handicapped error messages most GUI browsers use.
Love my Pi-hole to death, but both a friend and I are seeing anti-adblocker scripts hollering at us again.
Also, it's not just Adblock installed any more. I run a Pi-hole (ad blackhole DNS forwarder) instance on a Debian lappy on my LAN and I am seeing more and more anti-adblocking notifications every day. I just wish I had a crappier connection at some point, so I could point and say "Look, man, no adblocking! My connection can't REACH your advertiser!"
Stupid multimedia ads and code optimized poorly, so I have to sit there and watch a throbber, well, throb while the site goes off to load something for somewhere else, instead of loading the main page and loading the other goodies as they come. I am on a 5Mbit connection (all I can get), and even /. takes several seconds before I actually see anything.
Sure as hell wasn't me. I cringed as soon as I saw the first news, as I was aware of his previous record. Sigh. Not much we can do now.
Fine. Now can you explain to me why is Firefox 45 so laggy, a RAM and a CPU hog that you need a very expensive 8 core with 16GB of RAM to run it *reasonably well* with these days? Why wouldn't it run smoothly on an ARM CPU with 2GB of RAM? I remember Firefox 3 and 4 running smoothly on this AMD Phenom II 965 with 8GB of RAM but with version 45 it just works like it's been programmed in Spectrum basic or something. If that's the future it looks very, very bleak.
Posting this from 51.0.1 on an 8-year-old Core 2 Duo with 8 Gb of RAM and around 20-30 tabs and it seems to work fine to me (even with a fat load of extensions).
Or, you know, set up an old lappy with Debian and set up piHole, like I did.
And this is why I run a piHole instance on one of the machines I use for World Community Grid. Take the load off the client.
I am still seeing issues accessing certain sites today.
Plus, the whole whitelisting argument is predicated on the fact the whitelisting app is stable and unassailable. Speaking of PC-Matic, don't know if you have checked, but the VirusBTN tests have frequently cited stability issues for it. So, how's your whitelister going to whitelist if it has crashed or locked up?
Of course, I was kidding. Maybe Freenet then?
Sadly, no. I checked.
What about those of us who are communicating with oppressed people?
Don't. You are only aiding and abetting terrorism!
Why can't they just stop passing unreasonable laws? Then they wouldn't have to surveil everyone.
Because terrorists will kill our children!
Being in any energy field of any real strength is generally bad. When's the last time you had a sunburn?
Are you an idiot?
Of course. Just why in the living shit are you worried about it Coward? If you are someone that has a bone to pick with me, use your real pseudonym. Then again, you think ultrasound will generate harmonics in a linear medium... quite a trick in itself...
There's a thing though. There will be people in the room. And unless ultrasonic imaging doesn't work, there will be lots of interesting reflections and harmonics as watts of power are bouncing into and out of people, and other objects. http://www.physicsclassroom.co...
http://www.asecho.org/files/EF...
And, therein lies my problem with any real wireless charging. Watts of power flooding an area. Not a Luddite, but I am reasonably sure that can't be good.
What it needs is a really efficient indexing system, client code written by someone with experience using moby datasets and a decent UI to navigate the hierarchy. All the packages I've used so far are miserable, caching nothing and constantly rescanning the server. Understandable for low RAM devices, but nothing is really 'low RAM' these days.
I've considered writing it myself, but figure it has to be a common enough problem. It's worth asking if anybody found a good solution.
Where are you? I'm in N Cal, Sacramento area. It's a good day to copy it at USB3 portable drive speeds. I can just make the copy and swap you for a blank drive.
But I really don't like Moby. I only have a couple of his songs...
I loved my early Apples (and even my Basis 108 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=92)), but I rather enjoy the increased abilities modern computing now offer.
Well, I can NOT see a single reason why any application should be allowed to delete ANY user files without it saying "HEY! GOING TO DELETE YOUR FILES NOW!" "ARE YOU SURE?" "ARE YOU REALLY REALLY SURE?" (excepting file managers, of course, but they usually warn you quite well, and you are in a file manager and not, say, a cloud music service)
So, yeah, I am going to believe a conflicting article from ANY site that starts their name with a lower case i and prominently features Apple online store affiliate links.