I haven't tried DSL or Knoppix lately, but Puppy was terrible. It felt like I was running XP on a machine with the minimum specs and running bloated software. Even the mouse was jerky.
Have you checked if Speakeasy DSL is available in your area? Their Terms of Service seem somewhat sane:
If you utilize any of your Speakeasy services in a manner which consumes excessive bandwidth or affects Speakeasy's core equipment, overall network performance, or other users' services, Speakeasy may require that you cease or alter these activities. So there is the possibility that they will ask you to throttle your own speed during the day or something. Not likely, I know, but another paragraph gives some hope:
Speakeasy believes in the right of the individual to publish information they feel is important to the world via the Internet. Unlike many ISP's, Speakeasy allows customers to run servers (web, mail, etc.) over their Internet connections, use hubs, and share networks in multiple locations. Any service that causes a disruption in the network integrity of Speakeasy or its vendors, whether directly or indirectly, is strictly prohibited and could result in termination of service. This may include but is not limited to: IRC servers, adult-content servers, bots, webpages hosted on any Speakeasy servers, servers connected to a Speakeasy provided Internet connection, or shared networks. Speakeasy reserves the right to modify or terminate services at our sole discretion. There is one other restriction:
Speakeasy respects the intellectual property rights granted under the US copyright laws and the interests of subscribers and content providers on the Internet. You may not store material on, or transmit material over, Speakeasy, Inc.'s information systems or servers in any manner that infringes the intellectual property rights of any entity or individual. All notices received by Speakeasy indicating any activity suspected to infringe upon third party intellectual property rights will be re-routed to the primary account holder on file, accompanied by a request to verify and possibly cease and desist. Speakeasy Inc.'s policy of service suspension or termination of members deemed to infringing the intellectual property rights of a third party is in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") as well as US copyright law. So no seeding illegal content. But legal content (Vuze, for example) would seem to be acceptable.
...ninjas, pirates, insensitive clods, Gore, the new guys, Ted Stevens (the 'series of tubes' Senator), our ____________ overlords, the MAFIAA, Vista's UAC, Ballmer, Gates, Netraft, old people in Korea, CATS, sharks w/fricken' lasers, BSD, Ars Technica, EA Games, WoW fans, AMD, Intel, NVidia, ATI, Dell & friends, OLPC...
Misread the title I thought we were past having to do that.
We're supposed to be a perfect representation of a million monkeys pounding on a million keyboards by now.
Bah. We would just assemble somewhere else (Chips 'N Dip reborn?). Or; we could be scattered to the wind, advocating FOSS anywhere even slightly resembling a tech site.
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't tried DSL or Knoppix lately, but Puppy was terrible. It felt like I was running XP on a machine with the minimum specs and running bloated software. Even the mouse was jerky.
What makes you think a Democrat will change things?
You mean codecs and drivers?
The downside to option 4 is that the problem keeps coming back every 10 years or so.
No. They prefer us to be in the pre-Youtube era of data usage.
This isn't high school. It's CS students.
Insert worthy projects below here.
I personally hope Blender gets work.
I love haw Ficus came in third.
...ninjas, pirates, insensitive clods, Gore, the new guys, Ted Stevens (the 'series of tubes' Senator), our ____________ overlords, the MAFIAA, Vista's UAC, Ballmer, Gates, Netraft, old people in Korea, CATS, sharks w/fricken' lasers, BSD, Ars Technica, EA Games, WoW fans, AMD, Intel, NVidia, ATI, Dell & friends, OLPC...
...Clinton, Obama, Ron Paul, the FCC, FISA, Comcast and freinds, ISA, ECMA, China...
Taco, the trolls, IBM, script kiddies, Bush, Cheney, Adobe...
I think of more later.
I think juries are mostly for criminal cases. When corporations are involved, want to bribe as few people as possible.
+3 Insightful.
Scary
We're supposed to be a perfect representation of a million monkeys pounding on a million keyboards by now.
Move on to the people at the Megan's Law site.
How's this for an answer:
I do have stuff to hide. It's just not illegal stuff.
Bah. We would just assemble somewhere else (Chips 'N Dip reborn?). Or; we could be scattered to the wind, advocating FOSS anywhere even slightly resembling a tech site.
Better yet: at USPTO headquarters.
Na. They would just refund you $1 an hour or some other small number.
'cause time is money and all that...
Don't worry: Jack Thomson has a solution!
So that's why it crashed!
BSOD ain't much of a view.
Did it run Linux?