19KB is an "I-wish" number. To actually get that size, the web server has to be gzipping output, a feature that isn't always on or available. Minified alone, the base jQuery library is 56KB. That's probably where the majority of your size was coming from.
But the sex bot didn't recognize Mal - just recognized a presence. Why else did “she” relay the same message to the Agent when he came through a few minutes later?
Mostly just privacy, although you're also gaining a certain degree of reliability: as it sounds like you might know, public proxies can be anywhere from terrible to OK, slower than frozen molasses to fairly speedy.
In a case like yours, though, it sounds like privacy must be foregone for convenience. I hope your ISP smartens up soon for you!
Why not a variant of #2 or #3? Squid on your home server (my preferred option), or the VPN edition of DD-WRT. If you've got a home server, #2 is essentially free (although running a home server just for a proxy isn't cost-effective in terms of power consumption), and if you've got a DD-WRT-compatible with 4MB or more space for the firmware, #3 is free.
Neither of these are really options for dummies, though.
Oh, just thought of one circumnavigatory method that is - HTTPS! Many filters blindly let HTTPS connections through no matter where they're headed, opening up access to many sites.
It's a mailing list of web proxies. Browser-based proxies are popular with clueless people who don't know better ways of circumnavigating web filtering.
Every game ever made in Flash uses the Javascript language.
...What?! Every game made in Flash uses the ActionScript language, which is, as the Wikipedia page states, based on ECMAScript, but has a few key differences, one of the big ones being that it's object-oriented (whereas modern JavaScript just pretends to be).
By this and your previous remark, it looks like you've never done tech support. If so, then you've no idea how broken Automatic Updates can be (and make things).
I have one, but it's 28.8. Actually, I have a 56k one too, but at the time I set up the Linux "gateway" (late summer 2008), it was in use elsewhere. It's a good suggestion, though.
Pft, 5 years? 12 months? Just over two months here. I'm far enough away from any sort of digital lines that I've got to use a wireless line of sight service, and due to geography, they couldn't get a receiver installed for me until late October. By the end, I was desperate enough to have a second phone line and a Linux box running 24/7 to keep a connection established and fed into my router, which the other computers in the house connected to.
You're right about modems being cheap in the wrong way these days. All the modems I have hanging around here are several years old. Unfortunately, I only have so-called "winmodems", but it's been awfully nice of Dell to ship Linuxant drivers for their Linux laptops, the binary modules of which can be used to replace the pared-down, feature limited ones included in the so-called "open" Linuxant packages.
Yes. Old video games for one. Old music for two. Old movies for three. (Remember, you specified readily available - copies of virtually anything are available if you look hard enough, but if you've got to look very hard at all, then the item isn't readily available).
It's regional, too - I live just outside of a town of ~10k people, and we have no CD store (beyond Walmart - yes, a Walmart in a town of 10k; that was my reaction too). To get anything beyond the "top 40" stuff Walmart caries, I've got to drive almost an hour. Thus, for me, almost anything other than what Walmart caries isn't readily available.
How do you figure that's a netbook? Acer used the Aspire name for its notebook line for years before terms "netbook" and "Aspire One" were even notions in a marketing drone's tiny mind.
Try VLC. It magically makes all the opening trailers and ads go away by jumping you straight to the main menu. (I honestly can't tell if this is intentional or just a technical limitation... probably intentional, though.)
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19KB is an "I-wish" number. To actually get that size, the web server has to be gzipping output, a feature that isn't always on or available. Minified alone, the base jQuery library is 56KB. That's probably where the majority of your size was coming from.
--- Mr. DOS
D'oh, Operative, not Agent. And I can't even plead that it's been a while since I watched it, too.
Still. I think it might've been a little creepier had she been able to recognize Mal...
--- Mr. DOS
But the sex bot didn't recognize Mal - just recognized a presence. Why else did “she” relay the same message to the Agent when he came through a few minutes later?
--- Mr. DOS
Ah, so now we run into difficulties.
Mostly just privacy, although you're also gaining a certain degree of reliability: as it sounds like you might know, public proxies can be anywhere from terrible to OK, slower than frozen molasses to fairly speedy.
In a case like yours, though, it sounds like privacy must be foregone for convenience. I hope your ISP smartens up soon for you!
--- Mr. DOS
Why not a variant of #2 or #3? Squid on your home server (my preferred option), or the VPN edition of DD-WRT. If you've got a home server, #2 is essentially free (although running a home server just for a proxy isn't cost-effective in terms of power consumption), and if you've got a DD-WRT-compatible with 4MB or more space for the firmware, #3 is free.
Neither of these are really options for dummies, though.
Oh, just thought of one circumnavigatory method that is - HTTPS! Many filters blindly let HTTPS connections through no matter where they're headed, opening up access to many sites.
--- Mr. DOS
It's a mailing list of web proxies. Browser-based proxies are popular with clueless people who don't know better ways of circumnavigating web filtering.
--- Mr. DOS
It sounds like the software assumes incorrect start and end dates for double-digit years; i.e., it interprets 09 as 2009 and 10 as 1910.
--- Mr. DOS
99.9% of people don't know how to do the simple URL-based thing we're doing here, either.
--- Mr. DOS
--- Mr. DOS
VirtualBox can set up a "shared folder" that appears as a network share in the VM, but is just a normal folder on the host.
--- Mr. DOS
Would you guys get back to the xkcdb already? ;)
--- Mr. DOS
God help me, then :P I haven't seen a deleted system32 directory yet, but you're right, what I'm talking about can't be entirely blamed on the OS.
--- Mr. DOS
By this and your previous remark, it looks like you've never done tech support. If so, then you've no idea how broken Automatic Updates can be (and make things).
--- Mr. DOS
I have one, but it's 28.8. Actually, I have a 56k one too, but at the time I set up the Linux "gateway" (late summer 2008), it was in use elsewhere. It's a good suggestion, though.
--- Mr. DOS
Pft, 5 years? 12 months? Just over two months here. I'm far enough away from any sort of digital lines that I've got to use a wireless line of sight service, and due to geography, they couldn't get a receiver installed for me until late October. By the end, I was desperate enough to have a second phone line and a Linux box running 24/7 to keep a connection established and fed into my router, which the other computers in the house connected to.
You're right about modems being cheap in the wrong way these days. All the modems I have hanging around here are several years old. Unfortunately, I only have so-called "winmodems", but it's been awfully nice of Dell to ship Linuxant drivers for their Linux laptops, the binary modules of which can be used to replace the pared-down, feature limited ones included in the so-called "open" Linuxant packages.
--- Mr. DOS
Yes. Old video games for one. Old music for two. Old movies for three. (Remember, you specified readily available - copies of virtually anything are available if you look hard enough, but if you've got to look very hard at all, then the item isn't readily available).
It's regional, too - I live just outside of a town of ~10k people, and we have no CD store (beyond Walmart - yes, a Walmart in a town of 10k; that was my reaction too). To get anything beyond the "top 40" stuff Walmart caries, I've got to drive almost an hour. Thus, for me, almost anything other than what Walmart caries isn't readily available.
--- Mr. DOS
Normally, I would use example.com; in this case, I was imitating the parent. I do understand what you're saying, though.
--- Mr. DOS
Use Avira AntiVir Rescue System to get the system into a state where it can boot into Safe Mode, then finish off with MBAM and possibly SmitFraudFix.
--- Mr. DOS
Sounds like it's time for the Avira AntiVir Rescue System.
--- Mr. DOS
Offtopic, but I'd much rather you typed in whatever.com.
--- Mr. DOS
I believe the ruling only affects Word 2007, not previous versions. Even for Word 2007, though, 610,000 is an awfully small number.
--- Mr. DOS
I was with you until the Alaska bit. Can you come up with some clever way for China to pay for it but for us to get it? :D
--- Mr. DOS
How do you figure that's a netbook? Acer used the Aspire name for its notebook line for years before terms "netbook" and "Aspire One" were even notions in a marketing drone's tiny mind.
--- Mr. DOS
Try VLC. It magically makes all the opening trailers and ads go away by jumping you straight to the main menu. (I honestly can't tell if this is intentional or just a technical limitation... probably intentional, though.)
--- Mr. DOS
Over hundreds of requests, that 422KB less saves them possibly hundreds of megabytes of bandwidth.
--- Mr. DOS