I prefer Debian (stable) on my servers. While Ubuntu may have more up-to-date packages, I generally find the almost guaranteed stability of Debian to be more worth it. With Debian, I can install my server, configure automatic updates, and expect it not to break anything by itself while I get on with life and developing whatever the server's supposed to be running. I don't feel that safe with any other distro.
I would say DD-WRT from the research I've done, although it's the only one I've tried myself. OpenWRT seems to be the least turnkey (but most flexible), with Tomato apparently being decently user-friendly once you get it all set up, but fairly complex to install.
Indeed. In fact, there have been a number of instances where I've bought a Linksys router and installed DD-WRT not because I wanted the extra features but because I needed the extra stability. I've maintained for years (albeit with somewhat shrinking confidence) that Linksys' hardware is perfectly fine; it's just the firmware that makes their products suck.
I think the biggest advantage of more throughput, at least on the AP side, is that Wi-Fi bandwidth is shared. Unlike 100Mb/s wired networking where each port on a switch gives the client 100Mb/s (full-duplex or otherwise), the 54Mb/s of bandwidth 802.11g provides is shared between all clients connected to the AP – that's why having an appropriate number of APs is so crucial for a Wi-Fi network of any size. With 802.11ac, even if clients are connecting at a lower rate of speed, that's still more bandwidth to go around.
Disclaimer: IANANG (I Am Not A Network Guy); who knows, technology may've changed (it seems to do that) and I may just be talking out of my ass.
Depending on your distance from the access point, it may very well push close to 1Gb/s in terms of sheer bandwidth. However, I think we can expect to see the same sort of latency we've had since 802.11b/g that makes Wi-Fi “feel” slower than anything wired.
Sorry, but the 10 mod points is because you've been singled out (check the question “Why do I have 10 moderator points instead of the usual 5?” under Comments and Moderation), not because of the new design.
Strange – I find it faster (Firefox 3.6.13, Core i7-920 with 6GB RAM). Firefox doesn't hang completely for 3-5 seconds after opening a new Slashdot tab now, at least.
Yes, they do, actually; ads are often one of the slowest things to load, and unless they're set up right (which they're often not), the browser will wait to finish loading them before properly rendering the rest of the page.
Tip: Rogers' “business-class” Internet does not, AFAIK, enforce a bandwidth limit (and may not even throttle torrents, depending on your region), and it's not much more expensive. Also, should you ever require it, their business-level support is much better than the consumer-level support.
And what a beautiful case it is. Providing your power supply cables are long enough, it's got all the right routes for extremely clean cable layout, which makes good airflow even easier to achieve, and visually, it's wonderfully subtle. I just wish I could afford one:P
I'm more impressed with the overall quality of things this time around than last. Braid has won a number of indie design awards and Machinarium is a very good-looking adventure game with hard puzzles. Also, while I hadn't heard of it previously, Revenge of the Titans looks to be a fairly well-polished cross between a strategy game and an arcade game – it's an interesting mix that delivers a fairly frantic, but enjoyable style of gameplay.
Seeing as that was announced as a surprise almost six months after the bundle closed, I doubt we'll be hearing about that straight away. Still, several of the games in the pack are already on Steam this time around (Braid, Machinarium, Cortex) which might speed things up a bit – last time, the only game already available on Steam was World of Goo.
Ironically, there's 64-bit Flash for Linux, but not Windows. Theoretically, a 64-bit version for Windows wouldn't take too much work, but look how long Adobe took in producing a proper 64-bit Photoshop.
I've never had a PC laptop that suspended/resumed nicely.
Really? Because I almost never turn off my Windows 7 desktop and Ubuntu 10.04 laptop. Both have been known to have weeks of uptime, and generally only get turned off/rebooted is if some other application mucks up something. I'm sorry, but decent power management is a fairly standard thing these days, and if yours won't work, it's much more likely to be you doing something wrong than the operating system. (I will concede the “better battery life” card to MacBooks, though.)
I can close the lid and leave it sitting there for a whole day then still open it and it is ready to type before I have the lid fully open.
I'll also give you this one for most people, this would be useful. (Not so great for me personally because I've got to type in my password anyway, which I can't do until it's fully open and ready to go anyway, but as I said, that's me personally and not everyone.)
Nobody knows this unless they have had to use it, but if you yank the battery from a suspended mac then replace it and turn it on, it resumes to where you were, magically reverting to a Hibernate you didn't even know you had!
Hate to burst your bubble, but Windows 7 does the same thing.
From what I understand, the speed issues of Minecraft are not so much due to Java but the poor OpenGL bindings available to Java applications. According to Notch (Minecraft's author), the engine computations themselves are only slightly slower than they would have been in C++.
CD's don't last as long, will deteriorate after 10 years or so (the "forever" hype was BS... maybe it's cosmic rays, maybe it's microwaves, idk, the inner foil falls apart often in less than 10 years).
Tell that to my software discs from the 90s.
I have to say, vinyl does sound like it has more punch...
In cases of new albums, data on audio CDs is usually heavily compressed to conscript the albums into the loudness war; due to technical limitations in vinyl, this isn't really possible on that medium, so vinyl sounds like it has more punch because – guess what? – due to having a higher dynamic range, it does.
The other consideration point is that yes, people listening to vinyl have probably invested in higher-quality playback equipment than the teenager with the $30 iPod dock.
The majority of USB turntables come with a lousy needle that produces a signal that negates all the benefits of vinyl and can even damage your record. Also, cheaply built turntables as most USB turntables are can produce vibrations in the turntable surface that disturbs playback, preventing a clean rip even with a good needle and again, possibly damaging the record. If you really want to rip vinyl properly, you probably want a belt-driven turntable made of as little plastic as possible, about as expensive a needle/cartridge as you can find, a decent phono preamp, and a good analog capture device (a M-Audio Audiophile 192 is excellent; an ASUS Xonar DX2 would be fine; a Creative X-Fi would be minimum).
I bought it. I love it. I've been telling everyone who'll listen to me about it.
The reason the site contains so little information about the game is because there isn't much to tell – by and large, the game is the definition of a sandbox. For gameplay examples, you should look at some Let's Play videos; I recommend the ones done by mastatsan.
BTW, the reason it's sold so many copies is because 4chan's/v/ hooked onto it in a major way, and it's spreading quite quickly through Reddit. My point is, although the number of copies sold sounds huge for a game still in alpha, it's somehow clicked with a huge number of people. Also, whatever said this all happened in the last week isn't quite right: while sales have been rising steadily for the last while, the game's been purchasable for over a year now.
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Because Google hasn't properly updated the Google Talk client in years and is trying to phase it out in favour of Gmail's chat client.
Give me free beer and I'll give you free speech.
I prefer Debian (stable) on my servers. While Ubuntu may have more up-to-date packages, I generally find the almost guaranteed stability of Debian to be more worth it. With Debian, I can install my server, configure automatic updates, and expect it not to break anything by itself while I get on with life and developing whatever the server's supposed to be running. I don't feel that safe with any other distro.
They already did. Why else do you think the WRT54GL and WRT160NL exist?
I would say DD-WRT from the research I've done, although it's the only one I've tried myself. OpenWRT seems to be the least turnkey (but most flexible), with Tomato apparently being decently user-friendly once you get it all set up, but fairly complex to install.
Indeed. In fact, there have been a number of instances where I've bought a Linksys router and installed DD-WRT not because I wanted the extra features but because I needed the extra stability. I've maintained for years (albeit with somewhat shrinking confidence) that Linksys' hardware is perfectly fine; it's just the firmware that makes their products suck.
I think the biggest advantage of more throughput, at least on the AP side, is that Wi-Fi bandwidth is shared. Unlike 100Mb/s wired networking where each port on a switch gives the client 100Mb/s (full-duplex or otherwise), the 54Mb/s of bandwidth 802.11g provides is shared between all clients connected to the AP – that's why having an appropriate number of APs is so crucial for a Wi-Fi network of any size. With 802.11ac, even if clients are connecting at a lower rate of speed, that's still more bandwidth to go around.
Disclaimer: IANANG (I Am Not A Network Guy); who knows, technology may've changed (it seems to do that) and I may just be talking out of my ass.
Depending on your distance from the access point, it may very well push close to 1Gb/s in terms of sheer bandwidth. However, I think we can expect to see the same sort of latency we've had since 802.11b/g that makes Wi-Fi “feel” slower than anything wired.
Sorry, but the 10 mod points is because you've been singled out (check the question “Why do I have 10 moderator points instead of the usual 5?” under Comments and Moderation), not because of the new design.
Strange – I find it faster (Firefox 3.6.13, Core i7-920 with 6GB RAM). Firefox doesn't hang completely for 3-5 seconds after opening a new Slashdot tab now, at least.
Yes, they do, actually; ads are often one of the slowest things to load, and unless they're set up right (which they're often not), the browser will wait to finish loading them before properly rendering the rest of the page.
Tip: Rogers' “business-class” Internet does not, AFAIK, enforce a bandwidth limit (and may not even throttle torrents, depending on your region), and it's not much more expensive. Also, should you ever require it, their business-level support is much better than the consumer-level support.
And what a beautiful case it is. Providing your power supply cables are long enough, it's got all the right routes for extremely clean cable layout, which makes good airflow even easier to achieve, and visually, it's wonderfully subtle. I just wish I could afford one :P
I'm more impressed with the overall quality of things this time around than last. Braid has won a number of indie design awards and Machinarium is a very good-looking adventure game with hard puzzles. Also, while I hadn't heard of it previously, Revenge of the Titans looks to be a fairly well-polished cross between a strategy game and an arcade game – it's an interesting mix that delivers a fairly frantic, but enjoyable style of gameplay.
Seeing as that was announced as a surprise almost six months after the bundle closed, I doubt we'll be hearing about that straight away. Still, several of the games in the pack are already on Steam this time around (Braid, Machinarium, Cortex) which might speed things up a bit – last time, the only game already available on Steam was World of Goo.
The sad part is that people do still use Invision...
Ironically, there's 64-bit Flash for Linux, but not Windows. Theoretically, a 64-bit version for Windows wouldn't take too much work, but look how long Adobe took in producing a proper 64-bit Photoshop.
Pretty sure you've got that backwards.
(Yes, I just made a beard pun. Sue me.)
Really? Because I almost never turn off my Windows 7 desktop and Ubuntu 10.04 laptop. Both have been known to have weeks of uptime, and generally only get turned off/rebooted is if some other application mucks up something. I'm sorry, but decent power management is a fairly standard thing these days, and if yours won't work, it's much more likely to be you doing something wrong than the operating system. (I will concede the “better battery life” card to MacBooks, though.)
I'll also give you this one for most people, this would be useful. (Not so great for me personally because I've got to type in my password anyway, which I can't do until it's fully open and ready to go anyway, but as I said, that's me personally and not everyone.)
Hate to burst your bubble, but Windows 7 does the same thing.
From what I understand, the speed issues of Minecraft are not so much due to Java but the poor OpenGL bindings available to Java applications. According to Notch (Minecraft's author), the engine computations themselves are only slightly slower than they would have been in C++.
Tell that to my software discs from the 90s.
In cases of new albums, data on audio CDs is usually heavily compressed to conscript the albums into the loudness war; due to technical limitations in vinyl, this isn't really possible on that medium, so vinyl sounds like it has more punch because – guess what? – due to having a higher dynamic range, it does.
The other consideration point is that yes, people listening to vinyl have probably invested in higher-quality playback equipment than the teenager with the $30 iPod dock.
The majority of USB turntables come with a lousy needle that produces a signal that negates all the benefits of vinyl and can even damage your record. Also, cheaply built turntables as most USB turntables are can produce vibrations in the turntable surface that disturbs playback, preventing a clean rip even with a good needle and again, possibly damaging the record. If you really want to rip vinyl properly, you probably want a belt-driven turntable made of as little plastic as possible, about as expensive a needle/cartridge as you can find, a decent phono preamp, and a good analog capture device (a M-Audio Audiophile 192 is excellent; an ASUS Xonar DX2 would be fine; a Creative X-Fi would be minimum).
My thoughts exactly. Not sure why this has been modded as offtopic.
I bought it. I love it. I've been telling everyone who'll listen to me about it.
The reason the site contains so little information about the game is because there isn't much to tell – by and large, the game is the definition of a sandbox. For gameplay examples, you should look at some Let's Play videos; I recommend the ones done by mastatsan.
BTW, the reason it's sold so many copies is because 4chan's /v/ hooked onto it in a major way, and it's spreading quite quickly through Reddit. My point is, although the number of copies sold sounds huge for a game still in alpha, it's somehow clicked with a huge number of people. Also, whatever said this all happened in the last week isn't quite right: while sales have been rising steadily for the last while, the game's been purchasable for over a year now.
Isn't that what Bell's Fibe service is – renamed ADSL2+?