I had it for quite a few months on my home pipe.. it was *bad*. It was reliable (only went down completely a few times). The speeds would be around 3-6 Mbit down. As soon as you actually use your pipe (xfer more then 8GB) they would knock you down to 0.25 down (which is unusable) Clear might be ok for mobile-only use... but who wants to spend $45 a month for just mobile 4G access?
It's too bad Clear's backend sucks so much... WiMAX is awesome technology,
ehh. people are dumb. Everyone at work doesn't give a shit about IPv6... or learning it.
It's ok.. knowing v6 well will make getting an IT job *much* easier when the regional auths run out of v4 addresses:)
It's odd more soho routers don't support IPv6.. I moved to a mini-itx OpenBSD router to distribute my Hurricane Electric/64 at home.
Anyway! Good luck to all.
The internet is almost *officially* full. Lets just hope ISP's don't get lazy and start NAT'ing their customers.
This is because of routers (mostly soho) offering IPV6 link addresses, but not actually routing IPv6 traffic.
This needs to happen to ensure ISP's are fixing broken router configurations to allow major internet servers to start offering AAAA records.
The first time I ' ssh -X ' and have it not work I will be seeking new desktop choices.
Pretty much all Linux apps are written with X11 or Xorg in mind... since 99% of the apps will be running in *compatibility mode* I tend to wonder if GUI performance will drop like a rock.
Go Go Ubuntu, your beginning to u-turn from my favorite os... Debian anyone?
IPv6, Hard drives, multiple cpu cores... just too many Hz and bits.
Who sees more then 2TB on a drive as a requirement at the moment? Drive manufactures are growing sizes faster then ever, do you REALLY want to trust 2TB of information to a single drive?
Driver makers: Take a pause, catch your breath and work on access times, reliability, and pushing reforming drive technologies like GPT.
Buy a used X-ray tube, hook it up and point it directly at the antenna... some safty is gotta trigger to shut the antenna down, also you irradiate yourself and your neighbors, then just sit back and sue the cell phone company. win-win.. minus the radiation poisoning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ9TYCZXzcE
Komodo edit has a nice VIM emulation feature.. It is a little slow with huge text files but works great for editing source. Too bad there's no Solaris version I can use at work though:(
http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/
The plus to learning OpenSolaris is that Solaris has a massive business market share compared to FreeBSD, working as a tech supporting an "enterprise" monitoring application which supports Solaris, FreeBSD, and others I can say this confidently. The most common use of Solaris right now is NFS file servers and Oracle database servers. Working with OpenSolaris will make it easy to get experience in both.
If your looking for something to replace your Debian box... don't do it, OpenSolaris is not Linux and you will find the learning curve and lack of software too much to handle on your primary box. If you are looking to learn a new non-linux os and have an extra moderately powered system to play with which is not your primary rig.. go for OpenSolaris.
If you find bugs, be sure to report them to Sun.. they will usually respond within 2 days! I recommend using the latest and greatest image from genunix.org.
Weird, I was just talking about this today. Bought a cheapo x10 usb controler for my Linux home server to flip lights on and off.
Maybe everyone is begining to forget those horrible x10 spy camera ad's now that Geocities is closing?
A first good step would be to put it in paper in detail and have a notary public notarize each page with the date and your signature... that way if someone in the US gets a hold of your design you have proof when you designed it and that you did design it.
Not sure if it's valid outside the US but it is cheap.
The solution to this is really easier then everyone makes it out to be... and is super cost effective. DHCP PXE boot all your desktops off of a NFS root filesystem.
I did this at my old job with RedHat Enterprise 4 and 50 clients and it works wonders.. at 50 clients we had no speed problems, any more than that and make sure your investing in Gigabit NIC's... or segment your network into multiple DHCP vlan's with mutltiple PXE servers (one for each department works nicely.)
There is only one filesystem to manage.. and installing software couldn't be easier.
What's neat is when the server needs an emergency reboot and everyones desktops freeze up until the server come back online... then everything returns to normal:) talk about ultimate control.
Apple is really pushing it once they moved to the Intel platform, now that Apple PC's are identical to IBM Clone PC's (minus some smbios work + openfirmware) they no longer have the "Power Architecture excuse" Their hardware is WAY over priced for what it is ($599 for a base macmini which compares to a $200 pc these days.) and Apple rides it's hardware sales on it's great OS. OS X is wonderful compared to Microsoft, and Apple could easily beat out Microsoft on the home desktop environment.
Alternatively, Pystar will never win. Opening up the OS X license to all systems would be a MASSIVE cut to Apple's revenue stream... and Apple will fight tooth and nail to prevent it.
Pystar is tiny compared to Apple.. big money always wins.
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I had it for quite a few months on my home pipe.. it was *bad*. It was reliable (only went down completely a few times). The speeds would be around 3-6 Mbit down. As soon as you actually use your pipe (xfer more then 8GB) they would knock you down to 0.25 down (which is unusable) Clear might be ok for mobile-only use... but who wants to spend $45 a month for just mobile 4G access? It's too bad Clear's backend sucks so much... WiMAX is awesome technology,
ehh. people are dumb. Everyone at work doesn't give a shit about IPv6... or learning it. It's ok.. knowing v6 well will make getting an IT job *much* easier when the regional auths run out of v4 addresses :)
It's odd more soho routers don't support IPv6.. I moved to a mini-itx OpenBSD router to distribute my Hurricane Electric /64 at home.
Anyway! Good luck to all.
The internet is almost *officially* full. Lets just hope ISP's don't get lazy and start NAT'ing their customers.
This is because of routers (mostly soho) offering IPV6 link addresses, but not actually routing IPv6 traffic. This needs to happen to ensure ISP's are fixing broken router configurations to allow major internet servers to start offering AAAA records.
*creak*Screw you guys... i'll start my own internet... with hookers... and booze.
Should of been posted in the "who-gives-a-shit" department. Do we really care what Oracle offers anymore?
The first time I ' ssh -X ' and have it not work I will be seeking new desktop choices. Pretty much all Linux apps are written with X11 or Xorg in mind... since 99% of the apps will be running in *compatibility mode* I tend to wonder if GUI performance will drop like a rock. Go Go Ubuntu, your beginning to u-turn from my favorite os... Debian anyone?
Jerks. Oh well. One less thing to buy :D
ack! you beat me to it :'(
IPv6, Hard drives, multiple cpu cores... just too many Hz and bits. Who sees more then 2TB on a drive as a requirement at the moment? Drive manufactures are growing sizes faster then ever, do you REALLY want to trust 2TB of information to a single drive? Driver makers: Take a pause, catch your breath and work on access times, reliability, and pushing reforming drive technologies like GPT.
Buy a used X-ray tube, hook it up and point it directly at the antenna... some safty is gotta trigger to shut the antenna down, also you irradiate yourself and your neighbors, then just sit back and sue the cell phone company. win-win.. minus the radiation poisoning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ9TYCZXzcE
Komodo edit has a nice VIM emulation feature.. It is a little slow with huge text files but works great for editing source. Too bad there's no Solaris version I can use at work though :(
http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/
I'd say go for OpenSolaris.
The plus to learning OpenSolaris is that Solaris has a massive business market share compared to FreeBSD, working as a tech supporting an "enterprise" monitoring application which supports Solaris, FreeBSD, and others I can say this confidently. The most common use of Solaris right now is NFS file servers and Oracle database servers. Working with OpenSolaris will make it easy to get experience in both.
If your looking for something to replace your Debian box... don't do it, OpenSolaris is not Linux and you will find the learning curve and lack of software too much to handle on your primary box. If you are looking to learn a new non-linux os and have an extra moderately powered system to play with which is not your primary rig.. go for OpenSolaris. If you find bugs, be sure to report them to Sun.. they will usually respond within 2 days! I recommend using the latest and greatest image from genunix.org.
Weird, I was just talking about this today. Bought a cheapo x10 usb controler for my Linux home server to flip lights on and off. Maybe everyone is begining to forget those horrible x10 spy camera ad's now that Geocities is closing?
No browser - reading HTML directly: 14.22% Did you mean: No browser - direct HTTP requests: 14.22% HMTL is a format... not a protocol ;)
Solaris/BSD ZFS w/snapshots and rsync to an external backup location.
"oh look, Internet is at the door" -- Ubuntu mirrors.
silly slashdot, it isn't the 1st of April any more. :3
A first good step would be to put it in paper in detail and have a notary public notarize each page with the date and your signature... that way if someone in the US gets a hold of your design you have proof when you designed it and that you did design it. Not sure if it's valid outside the US but it is cheap.
...Strippers began gyrating for free lap dances due to cornfliker software malfunctions.
The solution to this is really easier then everyone makes it out to be... and is super cost effective. DHCP PXE boot all your desktops off of a NFS root filesystem. I did this at my old job with RedHat Enterprise 4 and 50 clients and it works wonders.. at 50 clients we had no speed problems, any more than that and make sure your investing in Gigabit NIC's... or segment your network into multiple DHCP vlan's with mutltiple PXE servers (one for each department works nicely.) There is only one filesystem to manage.. and installing software couldn't be easier. What's neat is when the server needs an emergency reboot and everyones desktops freeze up until the server come back online... then everything returns to normal :) talk about ultimate control.
hahaha: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1165692953912&pagename=OIT-New%2FOITXLayout "One goal of the OIT is to create an Enterpise Architecture that improves service to citizens while lowering costs." If they were running firefox they would of seen "Enterpise" is not how you spell Enterprise ;)
Firefox works great in Haiku, I have it running as the desktop on one of my machines... your just doing it wrong.
Seagate proved this true.. I has a raid 5 with 10 2TB drives!! Super reliable! *updates firmware* OMG MY DATAS!
hmm, just checked my dd-wrt router stats.. July 2008 incoming: 120,236 Megabytes outgoing: 104,120 Megabytes Guess I am safe for now :)
Apple is really pushing it once they moved to the Intel platform, now that Apple PC's are identical to IBM Clone PC's (minus some smbios work + openfirmware) they no longer have the "Power Architecture excuse" Their hardware is WAY over priced for what it is ($599 for a base macmini which compares to a $200 pc these days.) and Apple rides it's hardware sales on it's great OS. OS X is wonderful compared to Microsoft, and Apple could easily beat out Microsoft on the home desktop environment. Alternatively, Pystar will never win. Opening up the OS X license to all systems would be a MASSIVE cut to Apple's revenue stream... and Apple will fight tooth and nail to prevent it. Pystar is tiny compared to Apple.. big money always wins.