I might add for them to check for a firmware update for their router. It will help eliminate bad software from the equation. Also, IIRC, some routers had firmware that could be exploited for botty purpose, so a flash SHOULD eliminate that too. Should generally be a fast and mostly painless process.
Not sure if it is a common issue, but I have an atheros wifi card in mine, and I always found routerOS to be terrible for Wifi performance (we were getting 2MB/s over Mikrotik in bridge mode on wifi, compared to a cheap TPLink which was giving us 12, and less dropouts). Sorry, I wouldn't recommend the Mikrotik for Wifi. The software is really cool though (and, it might be better for PTP than as an AP).
And, I wouldn't recommend a computer either (its a maintenance nightmare at the end. Its really cool having stuff like Etherape, but, in practice, a router is better). Honestly, unless you really need the management features, you'd be far better off getting a cheap router, and an AP..
My old Smoothwall box was completely hands off, except for upgrades and my inescapable urge to tinker on things.
Nthing. As I said above, I had an old Buffalo that I put Tomato on (as I was on a metered ISP that had no way to check usage). Later I moved over to the Shibby branch since it had some feature I wanted (like DNSCrypt). Nary a regret of any sort.
That's why I recommend Buffalo hardware. Their main market is Japan where symmetrical gigabit connections are quite common, so their hardware is capable of routing that. I find it to be reliable long term (5+ years).
Seconding the Buffalo recommendation, although I am more of a fan of Tomato firmware, specifically the Shibby mod.
As far as a PC based router, I had a Smoothwall based router (this was several years ago) that was a treat to set up and work with. YMMV though, as I mentioned this was several years ago and Smoothwall was a good bit less mature.
My guess is this is mostly about a decline in Ubuntu desktop users? I'm running Ubuntu server without a desktop environment and haven't had any issues or reason to switch. I love apt as a package manager. That is all.
Heh. I still remember RPM hell. Now, if we could just get some way to get delta debs...
Ubuntu ceased being relevant sometime around 2011. The walled garden approach does not work with the open source crowd.
Then, ummmmm, how do you account for the free PPA system? I use them substantially for apps that Canonical doesn't offer, while allowing me the convenience of having semi-automatic (I prefer my method to the canned Software Updater) updates.
People use a gui for app installation? Long live yum -y install . Only ever used ubuntu on a netbook and can not say it was stellar.
Nope, as I mentioned above, I don't like the GUI installers as they only single thread downloads. Although, I must cop to flipping over to GUI tools for source management, as I use a metric fuckton of PPAs.
Between unity, privacy concerns, moving away from intercompatability with a new package manager, having a PAY STORE as the default app manager, and attempting to establish a walled garden with a new package manager I hope they fall hard. Or at the very least I hope they get back to their roots.
I don't even use the standard apt-get, as I have become a serious fan of apt-fast with aria2c handling the actual downloads. Best of all worlds for me. Gives me easy CLI control over upgrading, with the ability to stack a clean at the end, and it actually really utilizes my bandwidth to boot.
"There's always the army!" As any right-thinking, upstanding, hard-working, striving citizen will tell you...
Not so much. High-frequency hearing and orthopedic issues said no to that for me, when I was young enough to be eligible. That was three branches of service, and excellent ASVAB score.
With all the school shooting we've had in the United States, it's just not a very good game to be playing at this time
Yeah, except that the app itself tells the users "not to use real guns in the real world". I think it's actually a pretty good thing to play with at this time, lest the people forget.
I just feel sorry for the dev. They'll make a nice bit of cash as the Streisand effect kicks in, but it shan't be long until the petitions start and Apple pulls the controversial app from the store, so as to keep up their facade. C'MON, PEOPLE, THINK OF THE DEVS!
People pay money to grind in an MMO. People do not pay money to review images and mark their damage level. Foisting such an activity in an MMO will not result in people paying money to do it, but rather it will result in people leaving the MMO.
But you're missing something important. You can get achievements for reviewing images.
Zack Johnson of Asymmetric Publications once commented that many gamers "would rather get eleven points for stabbing themselves in the dick than ten points for [mumble mumble] the prom queen". That eleventh point is the one that McGonigal is talking about.
I think I will settle for second on the leaderboard. Is the prom queen an ex-gymnast?
Also, HBO, Google will have to charge you a non-refundable $50 dollar research fee if the URL you send us is incorrect in any way, based on the takedown notice. Unfortunately, as you were unable to perform due diligence, we cannot bear the fee for researching URLs you submit for free.
This is a chance for someone else to start a blogging platform for these sites to move to. Let's call it Flogger for the BDSM sites and Bangger for the heterosexual sites and so on.
It isn't that hard to do it RIGHT - Floggr, Bangr, and so on.
A few years back I used to do my own email and web hosting. I offered said services gratis to some friends, allowing them to use their own domain if they wished. One of the friends was conducting business via said mail without ever having mentioned it to me. (I only found out while doing some troubleshooting/log analysis to fix an issue). Nicely, when next I saw him, I said "Dude, we have a problem. I offered you no quota email with webmail and spam and AV filtering for free out of my love of the game. This takes me time and effort to provide, and, as such, it doesn't strike me as fair." (not exactly THOSE words, but, you know.) So, he offered to barter me a nice (at the time) server I had been setting up as repayment. I told him he had unlimited business mail as needed. Later all the hosting migrated over to said server.
Well, been using this for a good long while and it seems to work a treat where HTTPS is supported.
I do believe some sort of movement to embrace HTTPS as a mandatory option by everyone is overdue and the time is ripe for it to strike.
I agree. You might want to install HTTPS Finder as well. It works alongside HTTPS Everywhere, detecting HTTPS support and creating rules for sites that aren't already on the list supplied with HTTPS Everywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Again, FWIW, those Amazon addresses could very well be EC2 hosted machines.
I might add for them to check for a firmware update for their router. It will help eliminate bad software from the equation. Also, IIRC, some routers had firmware that could be exploited for botty purpose, so a flash SHOULD eliminate that too. Should generally be a fast and mostly painless process.
The last of the text processors died when Word Perfect lost its plaintext mode and became WYSIMOLWYG just like Word.
As did Nota Bene, FWIW,
And iof COURSE I'll call you back... In fact, I think I love you...
Not sure if it is a common issue, but I have an atheros wifi card in mine, and I always found routerOS to be terrible for Wifi performance (we were getting 2MB/s over Mikrotik in bridge mode on wifi, compared to a cheap TPLink which was giving us 12, and less dropouts). Sorry, I wouldn't recommend the Mikrotik for Wifi. The software is really cool though (and, it might be better for PTP than as an AP).
And, I wouldn't recommend a computer either (its a maintenance nightmare at the end. Its really cool having stuff like Etherape, but, in practice, a router is better). Honestly, unless you really need the management features, you'd be far better off getting a cheap router, and an AP..
My old Smoothwall box was completely hands off, except for upgrades and my inescapable urge to tinker on things.
Nthing. As I said above, I had an old Buffalo that I put Tomato on (as I was on a metered ISP that had no way to check usage). Later I moved over to the Shibby branch since it had some feature I wanted (like DNSCrypt). Nary a regret of any sort.
That's why I recommend Buffalo hardware. Their main market is Japan where symmetrical gigabit connections are quite common, so their hardware is capable of routing that. I find it to be reliable long term (5+ years).
Seconding the Buffalo recommendation, although I am more of a fan of Tomato firmware, specifically the Shibby mod. As far as a PC based router, I had a Smoothwall based router (this was several years ago) that was a treat to set up and work with. YMMV though, as I mentioned this was several years ago and Smoothwall was a good bit less mature.
My guess is this is mostly about a decline in Ubuntu desktop users? I'm running Ubuntu server without a desktop environment and haven't had any issues or reason to switch. I love apt as a package manager. That is all.
Heh. I still remember RPM hell. Now, if we could just get some way to get delta debs...
Ubuntu ceased being relevant sometime around 2011. The walled garden approach does not work with the open source crowd.
Then, ummmmm, how do you account for the free PPA system? I use them substantially for apps that Canonical doesn't offer, while allowing me the convenience of having semi-automatic (I prefer my method to the canned Software Updater) updates.
People use a gui for app installation? Long live yum -y install . Only ever used ubuntu on a netbook and can not say it was stellar.
Nope, as I mentioned above, I don't like the GUI installers as they only single thread downloads. Although, I must cop to flipping over to GUI tools for source management, as I use a metric fuckton of PPAs.
Between unity, privacy concerns, moving away from intercompatability with a new package manager, having a PAY STORE as the default app manager, and attempting to establish a walled garden with a new package manager I hope they fall hard. Or at the very least I hope they get back to their roots.
I don't even use the standard apt-get, as I have become a serious fan of apt-fast with aria2c handling the actual downloads. Best of all worlds for me. Gives me easy CLI control over upgrading, with the ability to stack a clean at the end, and it actually really utilizes my bandwidth to boot.
"There's always the army!" As any right-thinking, upstanding, hard-working, striving citizen will tell you...
Not so much. High-frequency hearing and orthopedic issues said no to that for me, when I was young enough to be eligible. That was three branches of service, and excellent ASVAB score.
Beware the Lectroids of the 8th dimension.
Only the red ones. The black ones are pretty cool, even if they are kind of strict...
An ARMED smartphone....
With all the school shooting we've had in the United States, it's just not a very good game to be playing at this time
Yeah, except that the app itself tells the users "not to use real guns in the real world". I think it's actually a pretty good thing to play with at this time, lest the people forget.
I just feel sorry for the dev. They'll make a nice bit of cash as the Streisand effect kicks in, but it shan't be long until the petitions start and Apple pulls the controversial app from the store, so as to keep up their facade. C'MON, PEOPLE, THINK OF THE DEVS!
And the best part was the spec was submitted by someone from AT&T Labs!
People pay money to grind in an MMO. People do not pay money to review images and mark their damage level. Foisting such an activity in an MMO will not result in people paying money to do it, but rather it will result in people leaving the MMO.
But you're missing something important. You can get achievements for reviewing images.
Zack Johnson of Asymmetric Publications once commented that many gamers "would rather get eleven points for stabbing themselves in the dick than ten points for [mumble mumble] the prom queen". That eleventh point is the one that McGonigal is talking about.
I think I will settle for second on the leaderboard. Is the prom queen an ex-gymnast?
I am still waiting for a SSL-only browser. And no old buggy versions enabled please.
How does that fix things when not every site offers SSL sessions?
Also, HBO, Google will have to charge you a non-refundable $50 dollar research fee if the URL you send us is incorrect in any way, based on the takedown notice. Unfortunately, as you were unable to perform due diligence, we cannot bear the fee for researching URLs you submit for free.
Respectfully,
Google Billing Department
This is a chance for someone else to start a blogging platform for these sites to move to. Let's call it Flogger for the BDSM sites and Bangger for the heterosexual sites and so on.
It isn't that hard to do it RIGHT - Floggr, Bangr, and so on.
A few years back I used to do my own email and web hosting. I offered said services gratis to some friends, allowing them to use their own domain if they wished. One of the friends was conducting business via said mail without ever having mentioned it to me. (I only found out while doing some troubleshooting/log analysis to fix an issue). Nicely, when next I saw him, I said "Dude, we have a problem. I offered you no quota email with webmail and spam and AV filtering for free out of my love of the game. This takes me time and effort to provide, and, as such, it doesn't strike me as fair." (not exactly THOSE words, but, you know.) So, he offered to barter me a nice (at the time) server I had been setting up as repayment. I told him he had unlimited business mail as needed. Later all the hosting migrated over to said server.
Well, been using this for a good long while and it seems to work a treat where HTTPS is supported.
I do believe some sort of movement to embrace HTTPS as a mandatory option by everyone is overdue and the time is ripe for it to strike.
I agree. You might want to install HTTPS Finder as well. It works alongside HTTPS Everywhere, detecting HTTPS support and creating rules for sites that aren't already on the list supplied with HTTPS Everywhere.
Cheers for the pointer. Following up now.
After giving me their wallets. NOT metaphorically speaking.
Aaaaaaaah. EA. Pinball Construction Set. Archon, M.U.L.E., Starflight, Seven Cities of Gold... What an awesome company....
Sorry. Unstuck in time there for a second...
Yeah, what assholes...
Noone watches the watchers, not even them... and Snowden was one of them.
Well, if the watchers were actually doing anything productive...