I can pay more to get a faster connection to my house too. Google pays much more to get even faster connections than I have. It is just like postal stamps. You pay for what gets sent to you, and it doesn't depend on who sends it.
These are that reasons that I subscribe to an independent ISP right _now_. Because big ISPs already limit people's choices. For example, some block incoming or outgoing ports or services. Forget that crap!
Subscribe to an independent ISP now. Prevent consolidation and maintain competition.
The grandparent post contains the information that I wanted when I first saw the article. I still purchase Radeon 8500's when I build a desktop machine, because they are the fastest cards that just work with my open source distros.
If there were another company that offered cards that were faster and just worked, I would buy those exclusively. The same would be true, I'm sure, of Linux vendors. But as the poster said, look elsewhere.
People on/. have been complaining about the EFF filing lawsuits that they don't win. They may not win this one either, but it proves a point: The gov't is spying on a lot of us and doesn't want us to know it.
This will great for the value of Sourcefire. Image if the Feds said that your company was too valuable to them to sell to a foreign country. Woot! That will be several hundred million extra, please.
Being monopoly doesn't have to do with just being goverment created or required. A monopoly is a business that controls such a large part of a market that its actions are capable of significantly harming other businesses-- that's bad for free enterprise. Any business need that I have I should be available from several sources, all with competitive pricing. That is economically optimal.
My son uses Linux and loves the scores of games that come with SUSE. And not only games, but other great and free programs like Inkscape for making art and posters or editing postscript and pdf files, or Blender for making 3d models.
Every M$ program that I want him to run now works well with wine (though that may take a little setting up on your part when you install for the kids so it works automatically).
The parent post is very right. Give kids a new toy to play with and they will take to it. When my son was 7 he could handle Linux better than my parents handled Windows. Go with Linux.
You have to buy it. Buy a pad for home, where she can play without people watching. Females are very self conscious, unfortunately. You can get cheap pads ($20) for starters and Stepmania is free. Start with the simpler sequences. She'll want to do it then. Remind her to step by listening to the beat, not by watching the arrows. Tell her that you think chicks who do DDR are "hot".
This service has a lot of use, but from a backup standpoint I do NOT think it's at all a good option. Too expensive and too much hassle transferring that much data to make it worth it.
3 words: Off-site backup.
The hassle isn't too great when your place burns down, or lightning strikes your box (and don't think a "surge suppressor" is going to save you), or the cops come and grab all your computer stuff. Some stuff you don't want to lose.
This makes 2 stories in one day about "iPod accessories". Who gives a crap?! I long for the day when/. posted the latest kernel releases and useful, cool nerd stuff rather than this.
You can have wiring from the tower into the house, just not metal wiring. Run some fiber optic cable underground into the house. Ethernet media converters are not too expensive.
Also back then cheap power transistors useful for converting DC-DC voltages were not available. In fact transistors hadn't even been invented yet. Changing AC voltages was relatively trivial, involving just coiling of wire.
We run Linux at home, w/ Suse on the desktop machine. Suse comes w/ a LOAD of games: arcade,puzzle, educational, and otherwise. My 7 year old son loves browsing through them and trying them out. He hasn't even gotten to all of them yet.
On top of that there are great emulators like mame, GBA, etc, etc, etc.
On top of that WINE is mature. All my son's M$ PC programs now run under WINE. Linux is more convenient for him than M$ windows: I rip the CD to an ISO file on disk, mount that, and have wine use it. No more insert the stupid CD to do language lessons. He just clicks a button and goes.
Can't RIM just leave their machines at the NOC and have them forward the email requests to the central server rather than storing the email? That should require no change in the user devices either, which would be the big pain for the consumers under any fix.
Because the only thing that Linux can't do that Windows can is run my son's kiddie video games. Wine has become very stable and adept at that in the last year. Yeah! Soon I will blow away that infested piece of crap. Windows, you're fired!
The things that stress average people out are not platform specific.
I have to disagree. The article specifically said "crashing computer". That is an MS specific feature. Other OSes don't do that nearly as often, which is one more reason I don't use MS products.
This whole M$ Windows paradigm of depending upon the lusers as a basis for security is just plain stupid. No matter how many or how much you educate, someone will always do something stupid. Security must be designed into the system so that regular users cannot compromise it.
Most programs can be compiled & run without doing a system-wide installation. Users can put their own binaries in ~/bin and set appropriate paths for required directories. I remember I had to do this 15 years ago with 'screen' on a system (I had a terminal), because the sysadmin didn't want to install it. I do it today with my custom compiled version of R.
The rt2x00 web site said that the drivers would soon be integrated into every kernel release, so it may be in Suse 10 already. Check subdirectories of/lib/modules for the existence of rt2570.ko. If it's in there, then you shouldn't have to download/compile anything -- the usb dongle will just work.
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I can pay more to get a faster connection to my house too.
Google pays much more to get even faster connections than I have.
It is just like postal stamps.
You pay for what gets sent to you, and it doesn't depend on who sends it.
I was bugged by the absence of the "Install Everything" option.
These are that reasons that I subscribe to an independent ISP right _now_. Because big ISPs already limit people's choices. For example, some block incoming or outgoing ports or services. Forget that crap!
Subscribe to an independent ISP now. Prevent consolidation and maintain competition.
The grandparent post contains the information that I wanted when I first saw the article. I still purchase Radeon 8500's when I build a desktop machine, because they are the fastest cards that just work with my open source distros.
If there were another company that offered cards that were faster and just worked, I would buy those exclusively. The same would be true, I'm sure, of Linux vendors.
But as the poster said, look elsewhere.
People on /. have been complaining about the EFF filing lawsuits that they don't win. They may not win this one either, but it proves a point: The gov't is spying on a lot of us and doesn't want us to know it.
It's also considerably simpler to support.
Well, yes, it is easier to support a product that doesn't do anything.
I'm still skeptical of the actual technique.
Good idea
How are they going to deal with people who gain or loose a lot of weight since the biometrics were taken
Or grow a beard, or get cosmetic surgery, or have a face that swells due to medication, etc, etc.
As someone who works on validation of computer target recognition, I recommend being very skeptical. Error rates will be very high.
This will great for the value of Sourcefire. Image if the Feds said that your company was too valuable to them to sell to a foreign country. Woot! That will be several hundred million extra, please.
Being monopoly doesn't have to do with just being goverment created or required. A monopoly is a business that controls such a large part of a market that its actions are capable of significantly harming other businesses-- that's bad for free enterprise. Any business need that I have I should be available from several sources, all with competitive pricing. That is economically optimal.
My son uses Linux and loves the scores of games that come with SUSE. And not only games, but other great and free programs like Inkscape for making art and posters or editing postscript and pdf files, or Blender for making 3d models.
Every M$ program that I want him to run now works well with wine (though that may take a little setting up on your part when you install for the kids so it works automatically).
The parent post is very right. Give kids a new toy to play with and they will take to it. When my son was 7 he could handle Linux better than my parents handled Windows.
Go with Linux.
You have to buy it. Buy a pad for home, where she can play without people watching. Females are very self conscious, unfortunately. You can get cheap pads ($20) for starters and Stepmania is free. Start with the simpler sequences. She'll want to do it then. Remind her to step by listening to the beat, not by watching the arrows. Tell her that you think chicks who do DDR are "hot".
This service has a lot of use, but from a backup standpoint I do NOT think it's at all a good option. Too expensive and too much hassle transferring that much data to make it worth it.
3 words: Off-site backup.
The hassle isn't too great when your place burns down, or lightning strikes your box (and don't think a "surge suppressor" is going to save you), or the cops come and grab all your computer stuff. Some stuff you don't want to lose.
This makes 2 stories in one day about "iPod accessories". Who gives a crap?! I long for the day when /. posted the latest kernel releases and useful, cool nerd stuff rather than this.
You can have wiring from the tower into the house, just not metal wiring. Run some fiber optic cable underground into the house. Ethernet media converters are not too expensive.
Also back then cheap power transistors useful for converting DC-DC voltages were not available. In fact transistors hadn't even been invented yet. Changing AC voltages was relatively trivial, involving just coiling of wire.
We run Linux at home, w/ Suse on the desktop machine. Suse comes w/ a LOAD of games: arcade,puzzle, educational, and otherwise. My 7 year old son loves browsing through them and trying them out. He hasn't even gotten to all of them yet.
On top of that there are great emulators like mame, GBA, etc, etc, etc.
On top of that WINE is mature. All my son's M$ PC programs now run under WINE. Linux is more convenient for him than M$ windows: I rip the CD to an ISO file on disk, mount that, and have wine use it. No more insert the stupid CD to do language lessons. He just clicks a button and goes.
What's an operator?
Can't RIM just leave their machines at the NOC and have them forward the email requests to the central server rather than storing the email? That should require no change in the user devices either, which would be the big pain for the consumers under any fix.
Because the only thing that Linux can't do that Windows can is run my son's kiddie video games. Wine has become very stable and adept at that in the last year. Yeah! Soon I will blow away that infested piece of crap. Windows, you're fired!
The things that stress average people out are not platform specific.
I have to disagree. The article specifically said "crashing computer". That is an MS specific feature. Other OSes don't do that nearly as often, which is one more reason I don't use MS products.
This whole M$ Windows paradigm of depending upon the lusers as a basis for security is just plain stupid. No matter how many or how much you educate, someone will always do something stupid. Security must be designed into the system so that regular users cannot compromise it.
Most programs can be compiled & run without doing a system-wide installation. Users can put their own binaries in ~/bin and set appropriate paths for required directories. I remember I had to do this 15 years ago with 'screen' on a system (I had a terminal), because the sysadmin didn't want to install it. I do it today with my custom compiled version of R.
Wah! Wah! Wah!
My free software won't work with every piece of bleeding edge and extremely proprietary piece of hardware I buy on a whim.
Wah Wah wah.
did you notice that Firefox 1.5 is crashing as well on this exploit?
Oh no! We certainly wouldn't want our web browser crashing on a web page that was trying to take over our computer, would we.
To get wireless usb running with Linux, buy a wireless dongle with a Ralink chipset in it and use the drivers at http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main _Page
c essoriesx.asp?catalog_name=Unclassified&category_n ame=32g32c302s1287&product_id=624257 , grabbed, compiled (very easy), and installed the rt2570 sources, and the thing worked perfectly as a network device under both Suse 9.3 and Fedora 4.
/lib/modules for the existence of rt2570.ko. If it's in there, then you shouldn't have to download/compile anything -- the usb dongle will just work.
For example, I bought one of these,
http://newsite.pagecomputers.com/store/Product_ac
The rt2x00 web site said that the drivers would soon be integrated into every kernel release, so it may be in Suse 10 already. Check subdirectories of
It Looks like my 9.3, with which I am quite happy.