unfortunately I do understand those economics and it really saddens me. its an absolute shame that a major corporation could do something like this and yet there is no real way that they are going to get proper retribution. all because of money. I do intend to do my part by dropping their internet and tv the day fios is available in my neighborhood, but I know that the profit they make on one person is not even as big as a rounding error in their books. and I seriously doubt there is a huge fanbase of comcast fans on/. that I could be converting with my comments.
canonical and or the people who run traditional mirrors of ubuntu have real losses because their bittorrent seeds are being dropped when one end is on comcast. this forces people to either forgo ubuntu where each download is potential future support revenue, or to use one of the mirrors which costs someone bandwith money. remember that those bigger connections often get charged based on bandwith usage to some level even if it is only on overages.
I think this is a better way to attack this, someone who is hosting legal bittorrent files needs to step up and sue comcast for forgery. there is no reason why creating a fake packet with my mac and ip and sending it to someone to cause them to drop my connection should be legally treated any differently than making a fake check with my banks watermark and my signature and using it to get a teller to give you my money. this cognitive disconnect between how the internet and everything else are treated absolutely astounds me.
actually my dad did play video games with me and my siblings pretty frequently, and still does play with my my younger brother who still lives at home. he enjoyed it as much as we did and often plays by himself. so I am not surprised to hear this at all. I think if more parents would get over the media stereotypes they'd find themselves a great way to unwind and take their mind off work while connecting with their kids.
I am thinking some of the optimizations to pf and the network stack are pretty cool but I think I will be waiting for sp1 when they have worked out all the bugs and security holes before I upgrade my machine.
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it seems they are outdated by the time they hit the shelfs unless you are running the LTS version of the operating system. The massive resources on the internet are probably more useful and thorough than this book. but my real point is that I feel bad for anyone who buys the book, realizes you can't log in as root, and decides to never use ubuntu again.
our support team has attempted to replicate this issue in both arch and xubuntu with no success. our support team requires more information before we will be able to resolve your problem.
X11 isn't monolithic anymore, it was modularized starting with version 7.0. my personal memory usage for an idle X desktop dropped by almost 100 meg with either xfce or gnome when I switched, almost a year ago now as I recall.
I know its slightly off topic, but I still don't have IE7 installed on my only windows computer and won't until I hear from a reliable source that the bug mentioned here http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1719236 has been fixed. I use firefox and am not even going to consider upgrading software I don't use to a more secure version if it introduces a security hole in software I do use.
I think BS articles like this that continue to use salary numbers from right before the tech bust are a large part of the dissatisfaction with salaries you see now for those of us who have joined the industry since then. I think the memory of the good old days when those numbers were a lot closer to reality is the killer for those who've been in the industry all that time. Personally my biggest consideration is HR deciding that the people I've managed while performing all of the same duties they do deserve more money than me for 3 years running. I haven't had a REAL raise[higher take home pay] in that entire time either. It gets frustrating to be in that sort of environment for 3 years. especially when I am afraid to leave because I feel like I have more job security because I know about how long it will be till they lay me off, not looking forward to picking between job offers trying to guess who will keep me on board the longest.
I think the only person with any potential fault is the photographer for not getting permission to post the picture with that license from the girl and her family. Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons are the ones being sued because they have money to pay and may find it cheaper to settle instead of fight it. personally I think they should fight it on principle these greedy pigs deserve to lose money, their legal fees, for such sleaziness. I also think that if it can be proven that the motive I put forward is true, the lawyer should be disbarred for agreeing to bring the case. its a pointless burden on the courts to pick through this shite.
there is no battery in my media server, its a desktop. the same is true for my dedicated firewall. both of these system are on 24/7 which means they could save a lot more to be saved by keeping the processor off during idle cycles than a laptop that gets turned off when its not being actively used. speaking in a overall greenness or power bill and heat reduction sense of course. power saving in computers isn't just about the battery life of laptops any more.
am I mistaken or are they saying the program will tell me how much power it saved me? I think I would like to get a physical monitor that I can plug my computer into to record my power usage and determine like that before I trust what it tells me its done. I have 2 always on servers at my house that I would be very interested in using this on but I'll be testing it on another computer first.
I am also wondering... isn't the tickless idle a standard thing on the newest kernels? so then aside from cutting down on random programs polling to see if there is work to do, temporarily disabling hardware is all thats left for someone to do to save power?
haha, I remember it was only a few short years ago I was hot shit because my personal file server had 500 gig of storage in it. most storage in a single computer of anyone I knew. I had a gig of ram and one of the fancy p4 processors with twice the cache of all the wussy ones. man was I cool. of course now I am older and don't have nearly the discretionary computer money I used to, and I am still running that exact same hardware having wet dreams about joining the 64bit real dual core revolution.
I wonder if this is what my mom thought I could have been doing with my time when she kept yelling at me for wasting all my time touching myself when I was 12?
it would seem. but keep in mind the collusion charges against gas companies had equally little reason for suspicion when they started and it seems to have fizzled into being less newsworthy than the latest no panties starlet picture class news. but the difference now is oil at $80 a barrel if I just heard the news in the background correctly and I am paying what I paid for gas when oil was at $60 a barrel. I don't much care if they manage to prove their case if it scares them into dropping prices enough for me to be able to move my OS onto flash media to improve boot and app loading times.
I think they absolutely love us. the kind of money they are making on those of us who play their games is more than enough to get us past the "no kissing on the lips" rule. I am by no means a nintendo fanboy, I haven't even played video games consistently for almost 7 years. I am speaking their praises because they built a system that is cool enough to play to get me back in to gaming. I know there are some crazy nintendo is always right people but don't discredit everyone who sings the wii's praises. and yeah I know you weren't speaking directly to me.
it would seem this way on the surface. but the potential for online games on the wii[see mario strikers charged or big brain academy wii degree for early efforts] means cheats for extra gold coins or whatever could have a negative affect on me. personally I am not interested in hacking my saves and would like to know people I am playing against online are not cheating, so this is something I would request. in my mind as a regular player [I own a wii console four full controllers 2 classic controllers and about 13 games, that makes me a big buyer for them compared to most] I feel that they have done me a service by trying to keep online gaming fair and I've not had anything I wanted to do on my wii hindered by this. just something to keep in mind.
for reference I am a linux user and took time out of writing a shell script for a solaris machine at work to write this response. normally your mentality is how I think but this time it doesn't stand up to a little critical thinking from the perspective of a fairly heavily vested party. [I don't know anyone who has spent more towards wii, games, and controllers than I have. though I am sure some/.er will outrank me here]
yeah, I was under 5 when I was watching MacGyver. so I wasn't exactly up on the politics or geography of eastern europe. it sparked an interest but I learned more from jules verne when I read journey to the center of the earth and 20,000 leagues under the sea around when I turned 10.
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unfortunately I do understand those economics and it really saddens me. its an absolute shame that a major corporation could do something like this and yet there is no real way that they are going to get proper retribution. all because of money. I do intend to do my part by dropping their internet and tv the day fios is available in my neighborhood, but I know that the profit they make on one person is not even as big as a rounding error in their books. and I seriously doubt there is a huge fanbase of comcast fans on /. that I could be converting with my comments.
canonical and or the people who run traditional mirrors of ubuntu have real losses because their bittorrent seeds are being dropped when one end is on comcast. this forces people to either forgo ubuntu where each download is potential future support revenue, or to use one of the mirrors which costs someone bandwith money. remember that those bigger connections often get charged based on bandwith usage to some level even if it is only on overages.
I think this is a better way to attack this, someone who is hosting legal bittorrent files needs to step up and sue comcast for forgery. there is no reason why creating a fake packet with my mac and ip and sending it to someone to cause them to drop my connection should be legally treated any differently than making a fake check with my banks watermark and my signature and using it to get a teller to give you my money. this cognitive disconnect between how the internet and everything else are treated absolutely astounds me.
actually my dad did play video games with me and my siblings pretty frequently, and still does play with my my younger brother who still lives at home. he enjoyed it as much as we did and often plays by himself. so I am not surprised to hear this at all. I think if more parents would get over the media stereotypes they'd find themselves a great way to unwind and take their mind off work while connecting with their kids.
http://www.actsofgord.com/ excellent reading. all the horrible things he did to customers in a undisclosed video game store.
I am thinking some of the optimizations to pf and the network stack are pretty cool but I think I will be waiting for sp1 when they have worked out all the bugs and security holes before I upgrade my machine.
it seems they are outdated by the time they hit the shelfs unless you are running the LTS version of the operating system. The massive resources on the internet are probably more useful and thorough than this book. but my real point is that I feel bad for anyone who buys the book, realizes you can't log in as root, and decides to never use ubuntu again.
pgp is open and secure, they aren't mutually exclusive ideas.
our support team has attempted to replicate this issue in both arch and xubuntu with no success. our support team requires more information before we will be able to resolve your problem.
X11 isn't monolithic anymore, it was modularized starting with version 7.0. my personal memory usage for an idle X desktop dropped by almost 100 meg with either xfce or gnome when I switched, almost a year ago now as I recall.
I know its slightly off topic, but I still don't have IE7 installed on my only windows computer and won't until I hear from a reliable source that the bug mentioned here http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1719236 has been fixed. I use firefox and am not even going to consider upgrading software I don't use to a more secure version if it introduces a security hole in software I do use.
a lot more people will get shot.
I am all for freedom and a well armed public but a sudden change like that might get more people killed than deserve it.
I think BS articles like this that continue to use salary numbers from right before the tech bust are a large part of the dissatisfaction with salaries you see now for those of us who have joined the industry since then. I think the memory of the good old days when those numbers were a lot closer to reality is the killer for those who've been in the industry all that time. Personally my biggest consideration is HR deciding that the people I've managed while performing all of the same duties they do deserve more money than me for 3 years running. I haven't had a REAL raise[higher take home pay] in that entire time either. It gets frustrating to be in that sort of environment for 3 years. especially when I am afraid to leave because I feel like I have more job security because I know about how long it will be till they lay me off, not looking forward to picking between job offers trying to guess who will keep me on board the longest.
I think the only person with any potential fault is the photographer for not getting permission to post the picture with that license from the girl and her family. Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons are the ones being sued because they have money to pay and may find it cheaper to settle instead of fight it. personally I think they should fight it on principle these greedy pigs deserve to lose money, their legal fees, for such sleaziness. I also think that if it can be proven that the motive I put forward is true, the lawyer should be disbarred for agreeing to bring the case. its a pointless burden on the courts to pick through this shite.
there is no battery in my media server, its a desktop. the same is true for my dedicated firewall. both of these system are on 24/7 which means they could save a lot more to be saved by keeping the processor off during idle cycles than a laptop that gets turned off when its not being actively used. speaking in a overall greenness or power bill and heat reduction sense of course. power saving in computers isn't just about the battery life of laptops any more.
am I mistaken or are they saying the program will tell me how much power it saved me? I think I would like to get a physical monitor that I can plug my computer into to record my power usage and determine like that before I trust what it tells me its done. I have 2 always on servers at my house that I would be very interested in using this on but I'll be testing it on another computer first.
I am also wondering... isn't the tickless idle a standard thing on the newest kernels? so then aside from cutting down on random programs polling to see if there is work to do, temporarily disabling hardware is all thats left for someone to do to save power?
haha, I remember it was only a few short years ago I was hot shit because my personal file server had 500 gig of storage in it. most storage in a single computer of anyone I knew. I had a gig of ram and one of the fancy p4 processors with twice the cache of all the wussy ones. man was I cool. of course now I am older and don't have nearly the discretionary computer money I used to, and I am still running that exact same hardware having wet dreams about joining the 64bit real dual core revolution.
Jupiter in a year is great but how long does it take to get to Uranus?
I wonder if this is what my mom thought I could have been doing with my time when she kept yelling at me for wasting all my time touching myself when I was 12?
I'll have to ask her sometime.
I thought I noticed some unusual people about lately...
it would seem. but keep in mind the collusion charges against gas companies had equally little reason for suspicion when they started and it seems to have fizzled into being less newsworthy than the latest no panties starlet picture class news. but the difference now is oil at $80 a barrel if I just heard the news in the background correctly and I am paying what I paid for gas when oil was at $60 a barrel. I don't much care if they manage to prove their case if it scares them into dropping prices enough for me to be able to move my OS onto flash media to improve boot and app loading times.
no its not, why the fuck haven't you bought the fourth nunchuck yet?
I think they absolutely love us. the kind of money they are making on those of us who play their games is more than enough to get us past the "no kissing on the lips" rule. I am by no means a nintendo fanboy, I haven't even played video games consistently for almost 7 years. I am speaking their praises because they built a system that is cool enough to play to get me back in to gaming. I know there are some crazy nintendo is always right people but don't discredit everyone who sings the wii's praises. and yeah I know you weren't speaking directly to me.
it would seem this way on the surface. but the potential for online games on the wii[see mario strikers charged or big brain academy wii degree for early efforts] means cheats for extra gold coins or whatever could have a negative affect on me. personally I am not interested in hacking my saves and would like to know people I am playing against online are not cheating, so this is something I would request. in my mind as a regular player [I own a wii console four full controllers 2 classic controllers and about 13 games, that makes me a big buyer for them compared to most] I feel that they have done me a service by trying to keep online gaming fair and I've not had anything I wanted to do on my wii hindered by this. just something to keep in mind.
/.er will outrank me here]
for reference I am a linux user and took time out of writing a shell script for a solaris machine at work to write this response. normally your mentality is how I think but this time it doesn't stand up to a little critical thinking from the perspective of a fairly heavily vested party. [I don't know anyone who has spent more towards wii, games, and controllers than I have. though I am sure some
yeah, I was under 5 when I was watching MacGyver. so I wasn't exactly up on the politics or geography of eastern europe. it sparked an interest but I learned more from jules verne when I read journey to the center of the earth and 20,000 leagues under the sea around when I turned 10.