The only problem here is that as I identify ad servers, I add them to my hosts file and block all connections with them. This is due to many of them being hacked and serving malware and viruses. All that is happening is that I'll soon have no reason to use any of the services I've been paying for - Cable TV ( already don't use due to ads), Internet (becoming less useful due to ad/malware servers), Phone (scammers and robo-callers: Political Parties are the worst offenders).
On the utility front, I'm already planning a solar powered home with a well so I don't have to contribute to the inefficient distribution of energy. For transportation, I'll use a bike or what little public transport we have.
if you're going to that trouble, then don't make the god damn mistake of not showing reasonable sized thumbnails of the duplicate images. Hell I'd love someone to clone the functionality of Dpeg 5 (not the god damn shit they call Dpeg 6) with the UI of VisiPics but showing thumbnails larger then 20x20px as I have a 1080 monitor and they're damn near useless. Hell auto detect the display resolution and size em accordingly.
If Musk had did what you suggested, the issue would have died a quick death and be out of the public eye. Instead, by pushing the issue that the reporter lied/falsified the test drive, he's keeping the issue in the public eye and forcing people to think instead of just accepting that the car is just an overpriced piece of shit. If this was a review of a Mercedes, BMW or other luxury car that has millions of reviews/articles, your suggested course would be correct but the product is to new for that and must be defended vigurously by Tesla and Musk.
and until I find a usable replacement for the features it has, I'm stuck with Office 2007. Sure it works but I'd like something that's open source instead and using a Wiki setup just doesn't cut it for me as it means installing to much additional software.
Now if I can find something that gives me 90 percent of the features (individual notebooks, insert media, text and such), I'd be able to move back to open source as my only online game now has a link to setting things up in Wine along with links to doing so in RH/Deb/Suse and others.
and this is why I'm quite happy with noscript. It does a damn good job of blocking flash/silverlight and crap I don't want while not totally destroying the functionality of the web.
There are very few sites that I need flash on and I'm quite happy about not needing it to surf the web on general principals. Funny thing is, I tend to use IE9-64 in high security mode and don't have flash installed in it. I do have it in Palemoon (firefox port) with Noscript and only allow flash from one site. Otherwise Flash/Silverlight and others are all blocked by default in noscript. Now if I could get the same functionality in IE, I'd be a very happy camper instead of needing to have 5 stinking browsers for the net.
From what I'm seeing, the problem is that Most Android and iOS devices do not have expandable memory (USB/SD/HCSD/MHCSD) ports and yes I have a Nexus 7 (32gb Nvidia Tegra) and w/o access to external media or the ability to boot the damn things from external you're not going to be able to put anything except what the OS allows on them.
This is one of the biggest reasons I'm seriously looking at a Win Pro tablet. Yes it's a stupid problem but if the only way I can get something that allows me to install an alternative OS (Linux/BSD/BeoS) then I'll have to vote with my wallet. The alternative is a locked down ecosystem as we're already seeing from Apple and Google has now decided to go the same route with their Nexus Tablet.
The Gubbermint wants these companies to get a handle on private data? Hell I thought they already had figured out how in hell to invade our privacy. Just look at Google and Android. Always communicating with the mothership. Microsoft does the same god damn thing and Apple? If it's IOS or iTunes then they're also getting all of your personal information. Hell these folks are more invasive then the Credit card companies though with the tech they've developed, they now have a profile on what and where you buy stuff and guess what, each and everyone of these companies hands that information over to the gubbermint for a small fee. No court orders or search warrants needed.
If we're lucky, it'll force the rock stupid ISP's to roll out IPv6 world wide. That would fix the god damn problem the fastest and solve the problem if address exhaustion we're already facing. Get all of us home users off IPv4 and onto IPv6 with the damn modems actually supporting multiple IPv6 addresses.
If you have Win7-SP1+ then you can run the Win8 drivers w/o modifcation as both are using the WDF (win driver foundation) 1.2+. That's you're compatibility right there. The big thing is that the damn drivers will not install in Win7 because they're checking to see what version. Artificial Obsolescence to the Rescue, which is the catch phrase of all the Win8 Vendors.
You mean my temp today is only 48 pounds or is that 48 miles? Those are the two principal measurement systems I use each and everyday.
Buzz, turn in your diploma as you just failed basic language. There are multiple measurement systems (Kelvin/Newton/Joule/Imperial(UK/JP/USA)/Metric) Each of which constitutes a major measurement system. We have developed corelations/conversion factors between them but each one is independent of the other and yes I know I'm being both pedantic and an Ass.
Simply put, if you're updating things every 1-2 months you're doing it wrong as a proper Gentoo install shouldn't need updating more then 2-3 times in a year for critical security issues. What I mean by critical security is an issue that affect not only Gentoo but Debian/RH and any others built off them.
Proper planning of the install includes deciding what packages are needed, the various flags for those packages to be placed in package.use and such before you even begin. In my last installation, my make.conf file included only the flags needed for the CPU and that was it. Everything else was in package.use - The result was a much cleaning install w/o pulling in many extraneous dependencies because I'd already decided how the system was to be used. Anyother method and you may as well use Debian/RH or one of the other packaged distros and be done with it.
One thing that many non Gentoo users realize is that a Gentoo installation is completely customized from the beginning. This customization includes decisions made about the many dependencies and features that are pulled in during the build process. A good example of this is the ability to prevent "Gnome" from being pulled in or to include a feature that Debian/RH and others don't include by default but unlike a packaged Distro, the user has to examine each and every package along with the optional flags to ensure they get what they want.
What I'm now seeing in the Gentoo forums is that many of the new users are simply accepting the blasted default flags while installing instead of investing any time at all deciding more then what package they want. Hell if you're going to do that, then install Mint, Debian or any of the other packaged distros and be done with it as I'm tired of seeing the same question with the same settings as thousands of others. Use the search function of the forum or even google the forums to find the answers. There are enough of the same type of posts to be annoying when you're actually trying to do something like build a system without Hotplug.
This ability is why I'm still using Gentoo even though I'm having to learn Python well enough to flowchart Portage so I can rewrite it in "C" for use on an LFS build. Gentoo is supposed to be a Meta Distro that many can use as the base for various purposes but the only one that's taken the challenge so far is Sabyon.
Screw Linux Mint. if you want a true traditional system then go with Linux from Scratch and roll your own. Alternatively, go with Gentoo and have more control then any of the other distro's offer.
My personal reasons for using Gentoo was the fact that it was actually the closest to what the Floss/Oss standard actually said while ensuring that you the user had the needed control to roll your own kernel when Debian had already made it damn difficult and the attitude on the forums/lists was RTFA NOOBIE. Sorry but if I understood the fine manual, I wouldn't be asking someone to clairify things would I and from the beginning the Gentoo Community was far more responsive and willing to help folks learn instead of $rm-f / as some idiots thought was funny to tell a new debian user to do.
I'm a piss poor programmer but I've started learning what I can of python just to revamp portage in "C" as I feel that a python dependency in the base build is stupid to say the least and if I'm successful, I'll be moving to LFS (linux from scratch) to roll my own. Something like Slackware but with emphasis on "what I want" from my system. That's the real beauty of Linux. I can do that and I can share my toys with anyone who wants to play with them.
Sorry Bubba but I do use IE by choice. The 64bit on Win7-64 due to improved security and because the FF Devs gave out the excuse that there wasn't any 64bit plug-ins that mattered. WTF are they smoking as I want some of it. Seriously, Flash has be 64bit for 18+ months, thus their argument is bogus. Then they decided to completely stop work on the 64bit version of Firefox until we screamed load enough at them to get back to work. No, I use IE because Firefox stinks. For those area's where I need the add-on feature, I now use Palemoon64. It supports noscript, ghostery and my favorite down-them-all.
One of the main reasons I actually use IE for most of my browsing is the few sites I actually visit. IE works fine and I don't have to worry about the devs breaking something so badly that the site no longer works as has happened with Firefox. Another reason is that MS has actually tightened things up enough that w/o flash/Adobe Reader and Java, it's pretty damn secure along with stable while working quite well with MS websites.
Buzz:: Turn in your Geek Card and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Wrong as it's the employer who gets to decide as it's their systems. The employee must bear the burden of proof to convince the employer to allow them to bring in their own devices, not the otherway around. I tend to agree with the employer in this instance due to the ever increasing burden of regalatory requirements on both a State (United States) and National (EU/U.S.A) level in regards to both privacy and financial (SOX/HIPPA) compliance. Businesses are Risk Adverse for a damn good reason when there is no profit in it as there isn't in these cases.
Look at the HP DMZ1. Nice size with decent screen and good performance for reasonable price. I've been looking at one as the newest model uses the AMD Fusion chip (APU) to gain some pretty effective graphics capabilities while staying within the Netbook power specs
All my WiFi gear still uses the 802.11b range as I get better speeds from it then the.11g mode and don't even try N mode as I don't have any adapters that offer/use it. Simply aint worth the money due to to many routers on the same damn frequency. Hell I'm even looking to switch back to the old 900Mhz band for cordless phones due to everyone having moved to the 5Ghz models. Better range and no interference from others. All of this crap in the same band simply chokes 802.11n speeds to less then what I see on the 11b settings, which pushes damn close to the full 10M advertised wired speed for 10M ethernet. Not bad and for the house, it's good enough for all of us to use at the same time.
and it's got absolutely nothing to do with spending. Instead the problem is with our educational system preferring to not teach our kids how to think for themselves. The continual dumbing down of America is happening each and every day in our schools when they refuse to teach Civics, Geography, Math - when so called high school grads working at McDonalds can't even count back change w/o the damn computer telling them how much of what type of change to give back. Hell I've watched the same kids getting their change and they don't even know how to count it anymore.
you're right that few computing tasks need the power of an I core until you start looking into the performance and do what I'm planning. My next build revolves around an E3-1245v2 Xeon that will be underclocked to around 10 percent. Should meet my current performance (x2-240) for less then 15 watts. Right now, I'm projecting a total of 60w for the CPU/GPU/SSD/3x 2TB Drives. This system will be run off a solar power system (off-grid home) and used as the Gaming/Media Center
flash has been full 64bit on Win7 for at least a year. As to Java, Don't need it, don't care, don't use it. It's that simple. I keep trying to tell my idiot nephew that JavaScript is NOT Java but he doesn't listen. The worst of it is, he doesn't even have any java apps that depend on the crap but thinks he needs it for some stinking websites. Oh well, he doesn't give a damn if his sytem gets infected and someone wipes his entire pron collection until it happens. Then he'll listen but that's closing the damn barn door after the critters already escaped.
Have to disagree with you on the fault. It was the damn devs fault in the fact that they didn't listen to the users and used the Beta QT 4 to build the project.
For example, the removal of the multiple desktops setting for the same single desktop paradign that MS has used since Win3. That was just one of the many features I used regularly - each desktop was devoted to specific work flows but they decided to duplicate Vista not only in looks but fucking performance. Hell I found that Konqureor worked better as a browser then Firefox for many of the sites I frequented since I could simply download directly into the right sub folders. Hell I even used the FTP feature that allowed me to treat that as simply a shared drive/network share. Then they introduced Dophin as the damn browser. PoS that is/was. Haven't looked back since switching to Fluxbox and dropping most of the KDE apps I used. Hell sylpheed works as well for email as kmail did.
because other laws require them to do this to protect children from online predators COPA is just one of them.
Simply put, in the United States, if they're under 18 They are not legally able to sign any contract unless they've been emancipated by the courts as being competent. So long as they can't vote, anything they do is not binding upon them unless it's murder or other criminal action where they can try them as an adult.
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The only problem here is that as I identify ad servers, I add them to my hosts file and block all connections with them. This is due to many of them being hacked and serving malware and viruses. All that is happening is that I'll soon have no reason to use any of the services I've been paying for - Cable TV ( already don't use due to ads), Internet (becoming less useful due to ad/malware servers), Phone (scammers and robo-callers: Political Parties are the worst offenders).
On the utility front, I'm already planning a solar powered home with a well so I don't have to contribute to the inefficient distribution of energy. For transportation, I'll use a bike or what little public transport we have.
if you're going to that trouble, then don't make the god damn mistake of not showing reasonable sized thumbnails of the duplicate images. Hell I'd love someone to clone the functionality of Dpeg 5 (not the god damn shit they call Dpeg 6) with the UI of VisiPics but showing thumbnails larger then 20x20px as I have a 1080 monitor and they're damn near useless. Hell auto detect the display resolution and size em accordingly.
If Musk had did what you suggested, the issue would have died a quick death and be out of the public eye. Instead, by pushing the issue that the reporter lied/falsified the test drive, he's keeping the issue in the public eye and forcing people to think instead of just accepting that the car is just an overpriced piece of shit. If this was a review of a Mercedes, BMW or other luxury car that has millions of reviews/articles, your suggested course would be correct but the product is to new for that and must be defended vigurously by Tesla and Musk.
and until I find a usable replacement for the features it has, I'm stuck with Office 2007. Sure it works but I'd like something that's open source instead and using a Wiki setup just doesn't cut it for me as it means installing to much additional software.
Now if I can find something that gives me 90 percent of the features (individual notebooks, insert media, text and such), I'd be able to move back to open source as my only online game now has a link to setting things up in Wine along with links to doing so in RH/Deb/Suse and others.
and that's exactly the reason I don't send docs in Office format, instead I use PDF.
and this is why I'm quite happy with noscript. It does a damn good job of blocking flash/silverlight and crap I don't want while not totally destroying the functionality of the web.
There are very few sites that I need flash on and I'm quite happy about not needing it to surf the web on general principals. Funny thing is, I tend to use IE9-64 in high security mode and don't have flash installed in it. I do have it in Palemoon (firefox port) with Noscript and only allow flash from one site. Otherwise Flash/Silverlight and others are all blocked by default in noscript. Now if I could get the same functionality in IE, I'd be a very happy camper instead of needing to have 5 stinking browsers for the net.
From what I'm seeing, the problem is that Most Android and iOS devices do not have expandable memory (USB/SD/HCSD/MHCSD) ports and yes I have a Nexus 7 (32gb Nvidia Tegra) and w/o access to external media or the ability to boot the damn things from external you're not going to be able to put anything except what the OS allows on them.
This is one of the biggest reasons I'm seriously looking at a Win Pro tablet. Yes it's a stupid problem but if the only way I can get something that allows me to install an alternative OS (Linux/BSD/BeoS) then I'll have to vote with my wallet. The alternative is a locked down ecosystem as we're already seeing from Apple and Google has now decided to go the same route with their Nexus Tablet.
The Gubbermint wants these companies to get a handle on private data? Hell I thought they already had figured out how in hell to invade our privacy. Just look at Google and Android. Always communicating with the mothership. Microsoft does the same god damn thing and Apple? If it's IOS or iTunes then they're also getting all of your personal information. Hell these folks are more invasive then the Credit card companies though with the tech they've developed, they now have a profile on what and where you buy stuff and guess what, each and everyone of these companies hands that information over to the gubbermint for a small fee. No court orders or search warrants needed.
If we're lucky, it'll force the rock stupid ISP's to roll out IPv6 world wide. That would fix the god damn problem the fastest and solve the problem if address exhaustion we're already facing. Get all of us home users off IPv4 and onto IPv6 with the damn modems actually supporting multiple IPv6 addresses.
If you have Win7-SP1+ then you can run the Win8 drivers w/o modifcation as both are using the WDF (win driver foundation) 1.2+. That's you're compatibility right there. The big thing is that the damn drivers will not install in Win7 because they're checking to see what version. Artificial Obsolescence to the Rescue, which is the catch phrase of all the Win8 Vendors.
You mean my temp today is only 48 pounds or is that 48 miles? Those are the two principal measurement systems I use each and everyday.
Buzz, turn in your diploma as you just failed basic language. There are multiple measurement systems (Kelvin/Newton/Joule/Imperial(UK/JP/USA)/Metric) Each of which constitutes a major measurement system. We have developed corelations/conversion factors between them but each one is independent of the other and yes I know I'm being both pedantic and an Ass.
Simply put, if you're updating things every 1-2 months you're doing it wrong as a proper Gentoo install shouldn't need updating more then 2-3 times in a year for critical security issues. What I mean by critical security is an issue that affect not only Gentoo but Debian/RH and any others built off them.
Proper planning of the install includes deciding what packages are needed, the various flags for those packages to be placed in package.use and such before you even begin. In my last installation, my make.conf file included only the flags needed for the CPU and that was it. Everything else was in package.use - The result was a much cleaning install w/o pulling in many extraneous dependencies because I'd already decided how the system was to be used. Anyother method and you may as well use Debian/RH or one of the other packaged distros and be done with it.
One thing that many non Gentoo users realize is that a Gentoo installation is completely customized from the beginning. This customization includes decisions made about the many dependencies and features that are pulled in during the build process. A good example of this is the ability to prevent "Gnome" from being pulled in or to include a feature that Debian/RH and others don't include by default but unlike a packaged Distro, the user has to examine each and every package along with the optional flags to ensure they get what they want.
What I'm now seeing in the Gentoo forums is that many of the new users are simply accepting the blasted default flags while installing instead of investing any time at all deciding more then what package they want. Hell if you're going to do that, then install Mint, Debian or any of the other packaged distros and be done with it as I'm tired of seeing the same question with the same settings as thousands of others. Use the search function of the forum or even google the forums to find the answers. There are enough of the same type of posts to be annoying when you're actually trying to do something like build a system without Hotplug.
This ability is why I'm still using Gentoo even though I'm having to learn Python well enough to flowchart Portage so I can rewrite it in "C" for use on an LFS build. Gentoo is supposed to be a Meta Distro that many can use as the base for various purposes but the only one that's taken the challenge so far is Sabyon.
Screw Linux Mint. if you want a true traditional system then go with Linux from Scratch and roll your own. Alternatively, go with Gentoo and have more control then any of the other distro's offer.
My personal reasons for using Gentoo was the fact that it was actually the closest to what the Floss/Oss standard actually said while ensuring that you the user had the needed control to roll your own kernel when Debian had already made it damn difficult and the attitude on the forums/lists was RTFA NOOBIE. Sorry but if I understood the fine manual, I wouldn't be asking someone to clairify things would I and from the beginning the Gentoo Community was far more responsive and willing to help folks learn instead of $rm-f / as some idiots thought was funny to tell a new debian user to do.
I'm a piss poor programmer but I've started learning what I can of python just to revamp portage in "C" as I feel that a python dependency in the base build is stupid to say the least and if I'm successful, I'll be moving to LFS (linux from scratch) to roll my own. Something like Slackware but with emphasis on "what I want" from my system. That's the real beauty of Linux. I can do that and I can share my toys with anyone who wants to play with them.
Sorry Bubba but I do use IE by choice. The 64bit on Win7-64 due to improved security and because the FF Devs gave out the excuse that there wasn't any 64bit plug-ins that mattered. WTF are they smoking as I want some of it. Seriously, Flash has be 64bit for 18+ months, thus their argument is bogus. Then they decided to completely stop work on the 64bit version of Firefox until we screamed load enough at them to get back to work. No, I use IE because Firefox stinks. For those area's where I need the add-on feature, I now use Palemoon64. It supports noscript, ghostery and my favorite down-them-all.
One of the main reasons I actually use IE for most of my browsing is the few sites I actually visit. IE works fine and I don't have to worry about the devs breaking something so badly that the site no longer works as has happened with Firefox. Another reason is that MS has actually tightened things up enough that w/o flash/Adobe Reader and Java, it's pretty damn secure along with stable while working quite well with MS websites.
Buzz:: Turn in your Geek Card and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Wrong as it's the employer who gets to decide as it's their systems. The employee must bear the burden of proof to convince the employer to allow them to bring in their own devices, not the otherway around. I tend to agree with the employer in this instance due to the ever increasing burden of regalatory requirements on both a State (United States) and National (EU/U.S.A) level in regards to both privacy and financial (SOX/HIPPA) compliance. Businesses are Risk Adverse for a damn good reason when there is no profit in it as there isn't in these cases.
Look at the HP DMZ1. Nice size with decent screen and good performance for reasonable price. I've been looking at one as the newest model uses the AMD Fusion chip (APU) to gain some pretty effective graphics capabilities while staying within the Netbook power specs
All my WiFi gear still uses the 802.11b range as I get better speeds from it then the .11g mode and don't even try N mode as I don't have any adapters that offer/use it. Simply aint worth the money due to to many routers on the same damn frequency. Hell I'm even looking to switch back to the old 900Mhz band for cordless phones due to everyone having moved to the 5Ghz models. Better range and no interference from others. All of this crap in the same band simply chokes 802.11n speeds to less then what I see on the 11b settings, which pushes damn close to the full 10M advertised wired speed for 10M ethernet. Not bad and for the house, it's good enough for all of us to use at the same time.
and it's got absolutely nothing to do with spending. Instead the problem is with our educational system preferring to not teach our kids how to think for themselves. The continual dumbing down of America is happening each and every day in our schools when they refuse to teach Civics, Geography, Math - when so called high school grads working at McDonalds can't even count back change w/o the damn computer telling them how much of what type of change to give back. Hell I've watched the same kids getting their change and they don't even know how to count it anymore.
you're right that few computing tasks need the power of an I core until you start looking into the performance and do what I'm planning. My next build revolves around an E3-1245v2 Xeon that will be underclocked to around 10 percent. Should meet my current performance (x2-240) for less then 15 watts. Right now, I'm projecting a total of 60w for the CPU/GPU/SSD/3x 2TB Drives. This system will be run off a solar power system (off-grid home) and used as the Gaming/Media Center
flash has been full 64bit on Win7 for at least a year. As to Java, Don't need it, don't care, don't use it. It's that simple. I keep trying to tell my idiot nephew that JavaScript is NOT Java but he doesn't listen. The worst of it is, he doesn't even have any java apps that depend on the crap but thinks he needs it for some stinking websites. Oh well, he doesn't give a damn if his sytem gets infected and someone wipes his entire pron collection until it happens. Then he'll listen but that's closing the damn barn door after the critters already escaped.
Have to disagree with you on the fault. It was the damn devs fault in the fact that they didn't listen to the users and used the Beta QT 4 to build the project.
For example, the removal of the multiple desktops setting for the same single desktop paradign that MS has used since Win3. That was just one of the many features I used regularly - each desktop was devoted to specific work flows but they decided to duplicate Vista not only in looks but fucking performance. Hell I found that Konqureor worked better as a browser then Firefox for many of the sites I frequented since I could simply download directly into the right sub folders. Hell I even used the FTP feature that allowed me to treat that as simply a shared drive/network share. Then they introduced Dophin as the damn browser. PoS that is/was. Haven't looked back since switching to Fluxbox and dropping most of the KDE apps I used. Hell sylpheed works as well for email as kmail did.
because other laws require them to do this to protect children from online predators COPA is just one of them.
Simply put, in the United States, if they're under 18 They are not legally able to sign any contract unless they've been emancipated by the courts as being competent. So long as they can't vote, anything they do is not binding upon them unless it's murder or other criminal action where they can try them as an adult.
hide known extensions is the shits isn't it? Great feature. Now I know who to blame for the trim url feature in Firefox. A God damn Windows Programmer
Palemoon is already configured that way.