I don't know about Linux in general but Ubuntu (15.10) does exactly this. It even remembers different monitors plugged into the VGA port. I usually have two monitors attached to my laptop with the laptop screen disabled, and if I want to move over to the sofa I just yank all cables and the laptop screen comes back to life.
This is the case in many parts of the world. Capping data is not even heard of in Finland, and I really mean it. There is not a single provider (no matter how big or small) that will cap your data. It doesn't matter if you transfer terabytes per month, no one cares about it. The data scarcity myth perpetuated by American ISPs and we regularly laugh about it over here. Even mobile data is unlimited in Finland, even LTE. I have a friend who pushes hundreds of gigabytes per month over his LTE subscription. I myself have a multi-SIM unlimited 3G subscription that I got years ago, and another friend of mine uses the other SIM card as his only internet connection (it's connected to his PC). He's not a heavy user, the usual monthly total is between 50 and 100 GB.
I am neither kidding or exaggerating, this is how it is, and how it should be for that matter.
Does the electric company get to decide which devices will be shut down first?
When one of the nuclear reactors in Finland had to be powered down unexpectedly about a year ago the grid operators call the biggest electricity consumers and tell them that they have to power down some of their machinery ("You'll have to cut your consumption by 40 MW, right now") so that the rest of the country can keep functioning.
In Finland it's the other way around - it's much cheaper to call mobile phones than landlines. The fact that almost no one has a landline anymore makes it moot though.
That's terrible. A friend of mine did a run on speedtest.net using his phone yesterday and got 60/30 Mbit/s (up/down). Unlimited, naturally. Just because you're able to stream a Youtube video doesn't mean it works like it should. It's like saying "well, at least it's faster than biking" when you buy a broken car.
I do something similir to this to access my work computer from anywhere. The company doesn't provide VPN access so I've connected my work PC to my home network via VPN. In turn I can access my home network via the same VPN (just different credentials). The only downside is that if my work computer is rebooted I have to be there to initiate the VPN connection.
Not sure if trolling or stupid. It has been possible to configure multiple SMTP servers and choose which one to use per account at least since Thunderbird 2.0.
I'm pretty sure he's using DNA (an ISP). 200/10 Mbit/s costs 54,90 € / month. The also offer 350/20 Mbit/s (yes, the uplink sucks) for 69,90 € / month. That is probably the most expensive consumer Internet connection in Finland right now.
While I'm in no way surprised, I'm sorry to hear about the state of over-saturation in your area. I Just wanted to share a recent experience regarding these things.
I'm currently on a 200/10 Mbit/s cable connection. Previously it would max out at around 10.5Mbit/s pretty constantly, so I had set my QoS settings to regard that as the maximum upstream bitrate. Suddenly a few weeks ago I noticed the packet queue grew way out of size and started dropping packets. I kept raising the max bitrate until I reached 12500 kbit/s. Apparently my ISP had upgraded their pipes. Wouldn't you know, a few weeks later they announced a new 350/20 Mbit/s connection type.
What American operators fail to realize is that if a wired Internet connection is fast, uncapped and unthrottled (like they are in Finland), there won't be much incentive to rape a cheap unlimited wireless data connection. I have a similar 3G contract as the GP (7.2Mbit/s unlimited dual-SIM for 13,90 per month) and I would never even think of using that connection for something data-intensive because I know it'll just be faster to do it on the wired computers. On the other hand, if I had a 60GB per month cap on a 3Mbit/s DSL line, I'd try to use 3G for data transfer until I hit the cap (assuming 3G is faster than 3Mbit/s, which it usually is).
This (seeding forever on public trackers, sometimes reaching a ratio of over 100) is exactly what gets people busted by the MAFIAA. Whenever I use public trackers (which is not very often) I immediately stop the torrent once finished. I hate to be the fagget that quits seeding immediately but this is just the way it is.
I have seen this behavior once on a blog. After loading the page it redirected to another page (aka. not just a pop-over) telling me I need to disable Adblock Plus if I want to read the blog post. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it at the moment.
In most places, what one would do in a situation like this is to simply buy the phone of choice, either straight up or on a two year contract, but simply choose not to get a data plan.
Seems like you really have to go through hoops to get a decent deal in the U.S.
When I bought by Samsung Galaxy S in 2010, I got it on a contract from one provider, which meant I had to take a subscription too. Luckily the cheapest one is only 69 cents a month (just minute-by-minute voice calls). Wanna guess what I did then? I went to another provider, bought the plan I liked and popped in the SIM card in my phone. This is how it's supposed to work. This is the reason the SIM card is a SIM *card*, so that you can actually take it out and put it into other phones.
Talking about buying a phone without a subscription. Over here it's of course possible (every phone is sold without a subscription, and no the prices aren't completely ridiculous), but it's much smarter to get a contract and pay it off all at once. I got a ZTE Blade for my girlfriend last year, it cost 4,90€ / month on a two year plan (plus the aforementioned 69c / month mandatory subscription), which is a bit under 120 euros. You can pay it all at once and the phone is yours. Meanwhile the retail price is 189 euros.
I have a friend who uses my additional USB 3G dongle as his primary connection, hence the high data usage. Something makes me think that "the 1% is ruining it for everybody" is just bullshit.
By the way, this connection costs me 13,90 € / month.
I have a HSPA plan which includes a data-enabled SIM card for my phone as well as an extra SIM card + USB modem, all for 13,90€ per month. One of my friends doesn't have an own Internet connection so he uses my USB modem as his main connection. Last month my data transfer totalled about 64GB, although usually it averages around 15GB. Guess who cares? No one. And guess what? Speeds are still good, and there is no congestion on the network.
This is a mostly artificial limit brought on by a monopolistic market, and anyone who thinks differently has probably never been outside of the states.
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I don't know about Linux in general but Ubuntu (15.10) does exactly this. It even remembers different monitors plugged into the VGA port. I usually have two monitors attached to my laptop with the laptop screen disabled, and if I want to move over to the sofa I just yank all cables and the laptop screen comes back to life.
This is the case in many parts of the world. Capping data is not even heard of in Finland, and I really mean it. There is not a single provider (no matter how big or small) that will cap your data. It doesn't matter if you transfer terabytes per month, no one cares about it. The data scarcity myth perpetuated by American ISPs and we regularly laugh about it over here. Even mobile data is unlimited in Finland, even LTE. I have a friend who pushes hundreds of gigabytes per month over his LTE subscription. I myself have a multi-SIM unlimited 3G subscription that I got years ago, and another friend of mine uses the other SIM card as his only internet connection (it's connected to his PC). He's not a heavy user, the usual monthly total is between 50 and 100 GB.
I am neither kidding or exaggerating, this is how it is, and how it should be for that matter.
Does the electric company get to decide which devices will be shut down first?
When one of the nuclear reactors in Finland had to be powered down unexpectedly about a year ago the grid operators call the biggest electricity consumers and tell them that they have to power down some of their machinery ("You'll have to cut your consumption by 40 MW, right now") so that the rest of the country can keep functioning.
In Finland it's the other way around - it's much cheaper to call mobile phones than landlines. The fact that almost no one has a landline anymore makes it moot though.
That's terrible. A friend of mine did a run on speedtest.net using his phone yesterday and got 60/30 Mbit/s (up/down). Unlimited, naturally. Just because you're able to stream a Youtube video doesn't mean it works like it should. It's like saying "well, at least it's faster than biking" when you buy a broken car.
I don't think we have such a law over here.
I do something similir to this to access my work computer from anywhere. The company doesn't provide VPN access so I've connected my work PC to my home network via VPN. In turn I can access my home network via the same VPN (just different credentials). The only downside is that if my work computer is rebooted I have to be there to initiate the VPN connection.
Which town is this? I have 200/15 from DNA but I have to pay 55 euros for it!
Not sure if trolling or stupid. It has been possible to configure multiple SMTP servers and choose which one to use per account at least since Thunderbird 2.0.
There's a website called 10monkeys which is aimed at exactly that age group. The website is designed to work well on an iPad as well.
It's seems I misread your post, I thought you were saying middle-clicking bookmarks didn't work at all. Perhaps you should file a bug report.
Middle-clicking a bookmarked item works just fine, thank you!
The latest nightly builds support Hi10P playback, although like someone already mentioned, all decoding takes place in CPU.
You took the time to post here but didn't take the time to RTFA, which by the way would have provided answers to all your questions?
I'm pretty sure he's using DNA (an ISP). 200/10 Mbit/s costs 54,90 € / month. The also offer 350/20 Mbit/s (yes, the uplink sucks) for 69,90 € / month. That is probably the most expensive consumer Internet connection in Finland right now.
While I'm in no way surprised, I'm sorry to hear about the state of over-saturation in your area. I Just wanted to share a recent experience regarding these things.
I'm currently on a 200/10 Mbit/s cable connection. Previously it would max out at around 10.5Mbit/s pretty constantly, so I had set my QoS settings to regard that as the maximum upstream bitrate. Suddenly a few weeks ago I noticed the packet queue grew way out of size and started dropping packets. I kept raising the max bitrate until I reached 12500 kbit/s. Apparently my ISP had upgraded their pipes. Wouldn't you know, a few weeks later they announced a new 350/20 Mbit/s connection type.
What American operators fail to realize is that if a wired Internet connection is fast, uncapped and unthrottled (like they are in Finland), there won't be much incentive to rape a cheap unlimited wireless data connection. I have a similar 3G contract as the GP (7.2Mbit/s unlimited dual-SIM for 13,90 per month) and I would never even think of using that connection for something data-intensive because I know it'll just be faster to do it on the wired computers. On the other hand, if I had a 60GB per month cap on a 3Mbit/s DSL line, I'd try to use 3G for data transfer until I hit the cap (assuming 3G is faster than 3Mbit/s, which it usually is).
This (seeding forever on public trackers, sometimes reaching a ratio of over 100) is exactly what gets people busted by the MAFIAA. Whenever I use public trackers (which is not very often) I immediately stop the torrent once finished. I hate to be the fagget that quits seeding immediately but this is just the way it is.
I have seen this behavior once on a blog. After loading the page it redirected to another page (aka. not just a pop-over) telling me I need to disable Adblock Plus if I want to read the blog post. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it at the moment.
In most places, what one would do in a situation like this is to simply buy the phone of choice, either straight up or on a two year contract, but simply choose not to get a data plan.
Seems like you really have to go through hoops to get a decent deal in the U.S.
When I bought by Samsung Galaxy S in 2010, I got it on a contract from one provider, which meant I had to take a subscription too. Luckily the cheapest one is only 69 cents a month (just minute-by-minute voice calls). Wanna guess what I did then? I went to another provider, bought the plan I liked and popped in the SIM card in my phone. This is how it's supposed to work. This is the reason the SIM card is a SIM *card*, so that you can actually take it out and put it into other phones.
Talking about buying a phone without a subscription. Over here it's of course possible (every phone is sold without a subscription, and no the prices aren't completely ridiculous), but it's much smarter to get a contract and pay it off all at once. I got a ZTE Blade for my girlfriend last year, it cost 4,90€ / month on a two year plan (plus the aforementioned 69c / month mandatory subscription), which is a bit under 120 euros. You can pay it all at once and the phone is yours. Meanwhile the retail price is 189 euros.
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Alkaen: 1.1.2012
Saakka: 31.1.2012
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I have a friend who uses my additional USB 3G dongle as his primary connection, hence the high data usage. Something makes me think that "the 1% is ruining it for everybody" is just bullshit.
By the way, this connection costs me 13,90 € / month.
A good example of a high profile site that stores your password in plain text is MSDNAA.
According to a Swedish news article (can't find a link to it right now) every participant gets a 100 Mbit link.
I have a HSPA plan which includes a data-enabled SIM card for my phone as well as an extra SIM card + USB modem, all for 13,90€ per month. One of my friends doesn't have an own Internet connection so he uses my USB modem as his main connection. Last month my data transfer totalled about 64GB, although usually it averages around 15GB. Guess who cares? No one. And guess what? Speeds are still good, and there is no congestion on the network.
This is a mostly artificial limit brought on by a monopolistic market, and anyone who thinks differently has probably never been outside of the states.