I'm not one to yell at noobs but I really can't imagine timothy did more than a Bing search because I see that pfSense comes up on the first page of results on Google when you query "multi wan".
PfSense is probably the go for this, but you are free to choose any other BSD or Linux based distro which gives you a nice pretty point and click web interface out of the box and good online documentation on how to use the features.
Hell, you don't even actually need physical hardware for this provided that you have two NICs available and a virtualization capable server.
No, the US system is still crap nonetheless. And it isn't like private healthcare is not around when there is a socialized system anyway. You get a choice.
In Australia there is the same situation. The NEHTA is spending many millions.
Full Disclosure: I work in NEHTA as a contractor.
It is fair enough for a whole lot of Slashdot code cowboys to say "we could code the whole thing in a few months for the price of rent, pizza, internet and beer." but it really isn't as simple as whipping up some sort of web based app that talks to a central repository.
There is a whole lot of clinical systems that need to hooked together at various levels of government and private healthcare and medical records organizations. All these need to have extremely secure and have fine grained access control and to have flexible information formatting so that existing records can be imported, exported and exchanged between different systems. The platform needs to be easily scalable, easily usable, have crystal clear terminology etc. and a lot of those things require expensive consultants from their respective areas, and over the course of the project there might be a need to totally reworked because X organization was not happy with the system. Consultants cost money, and that is on top of normal costs for equipment for the organization and rental of offices in each state.
Developing an eHealth system costs money. End of story. At the end of the day it is better to roll out a eHealth system that is secure, reliable and well integrated than a system that is unreliable, unsecure and convoluted.
I also want to add that you Americans have the weirdest ideals about healthcare. ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY!!!
Get rid of the XBox whatever way (the hardware is crap and barely lasts a year anyway) and use cash you get from it (if any) to build a Myth TV box.
A myth TV box seems to be what you want. This will cost you about $600USD (or AUD, we are pretty close now) and here is some basic steps:
1. Contemplate exactly what you want, just to be sure.
2. Go to $RESALER website (I hear theres this thing called New Egg in the USA) and look at some parts probably the $100 USD/piece range is fine.
3. Research the parts to make sure they play well with Ubuntu Linux (I'm no 'buntu fanboi, I use Fedora, but I digress)
4. Compare compatibility and reliability with others in the price range.
5. Order, and wait for parts to come.
6. Assemble.
7. Load Mythbuntu (I heard it is the best MythTV distro, but there is Mythdora as well)
8. Set up the box as best you can.
9. Use $YOUR-FAVOURITE-IMAGING-SOFTWARE to make an image of the Mythtv box. I really can't stress this enough.
10. Try not to fiddle with the settings as you will almost certainly break your setup.
"And the 5% you don't get is the spying and monitoring part." While I agree with you for the most part there you are totally wrong about one thing. You most certainly get the BEST spying and monitoring available through Linux.
I have been watching the FreeIPA project closely because I think that it is a great Open Source setup - it puts everything in one package ala Active Directory. It is still missing a few plugins but V2 will be pretty awesome all the same.
V1 has some Mac OSX support as detailed here - http://freeipa.org/page/ConfiguringMacintoshClients
I am surprised that not many people have heard of FreeIPA in general.
Wrong! Novell Zenworks is on Linux too - so why can't you have a heterogeneous large scale Linux and Windows rollout?
There is Zenworks for Mac but none of our customers (though there is quite a few Macs) use it. If you are going to roll out Novell stuff you may as well do Novell Groupwise while you are at it.
The code is not for the Hyper V hypervisor to run in Linux - it is for Linux to run properly in Hyper V on Windows. The code is just extensions like VMware Tools or VIrtualbox Guest Additions. There is probably some links for better I/O and stuff like that.
How the bloody hell is this meant to work. I have seen the videos but I still cannot believe it. How can they make it work across the Internet where we cannot even make it work at home on a Gbit LAN. Anybody have an idea of how all of this works? Special graphics driver?
You could just ask a friend if he knows anybody with a "computer problem" and if they have the internet and sure enough you will find a system bursting with every piece of malware known to man.
The artist never receives a penny of that extra fee! Damn those pot smoking hippies! Sarcasm aside I really do doubt that any artist on a major label gets half the money that they should. This Milman guy is clearly a douche (put simply) for trying to even suggest that the fee is for the greater good.
Actually yes there Samsung fanbois, I know people that swear by Samsung HDDs. I have heard so much about them that I am willing to pay a few dollars extra to give them a go.
I'm not trying to defend Vista/Win7 or trying to pay out KDE - but it is likely that it would integrate reasonably well into a KDE4 environment - but the problem is that Firefox is GTK and not Qt and so it would be very hard to make it look Windows-ish compared to Qt.
Businesses do not use the web browser - they have special programs. These programs allow for multiple authorized people to sign off on a payment before it can be processed and it allows for quick and easy access to statements relating to hundreds of different accounts. One such software is NAB Online.
Unfortunately in the case of NAB online, you have to connect to the bank by using a Dial-up modem. Kaspersky Antivirus (and Norton from what I heard) both refuse to play nice with the dial-up executable for NAB Online.
The hardest part of locking down a business is actually trying to stop the biological mass between the keyboard and the chair from doing stupid things.
I am a Linux server admin, and I spend 90% of my time trying to troubleshoot and lock down all this Windows related junk!
That does not change the fact that if the "cool kids" had Android based phones the rest would follow suit even if they are easy to use and powerful or if you had to use assembly code to make a call.
Apple stuff is what the cool kids have so that is what the majority of people want. The majority of people are marketing whores.
TFA does make a good point that manufacturers having too much control over Android usage and divided the mindshare is probably the reason that it is not selling as well as it can/should.
App market size is only a tiny problem that the minority of consumers even notice. This is all quite simple.
There is a few WMs (KDE 4 works well I think) that play nice with fingers. Linux's shells are quite touch friendly and even if something is not made for fingers, it is quite easy to make buttons (and fonts) bigger without things going crazy (like in Win XP). If the touch screen craze takes off it would not be long until 75% of FOSS projects have adjusted interfaces to allow finger interaction and you could bet that companies such as Novell and particularly Canonical will put the hard work into it.
As for the actual hardware, I am not sure but from what I hear the situation isn't bad. Multi-pointer X will be in most mainstream distributions within the next release or two.
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It's all Irish to me.
I'm not one to yell at noobs but I really can't imagine timothy did more than a Bing search because I see that pfSense comes up on the first page of results on Google when you query "multi wan".
PfSense is probably the go for this, but you are free to choose any other BSD or Linux based distro which gives you a nice pretty point and click web interface out of the box and good online documentation on how to use the features.
Hell, you don't even actually need physical hardware for this provided that you have two NICs available and a virtualization capable server.
The cloud is just a fad.
No, the US system is still crap nonetheless. And it isn't like private healthcare is not around when there is a socialized system anyway. You get a choice.
Full Disclosure: I work in NEHTA as a contractor.
It is fair enough for a whole lot of Slashdot code cowboys to say "we could code the whole thing in a few months for the price of rent, pizza, internet and beer." but it really isn't as simple as whipping up some sort of web based app that talks to a central repository.
There is a whole lot of clinical systems that need to hooked together at various levels of government and private healthcare and medical records organizations. All these need to have extremely secure and have fine grained access control and to have flexible information formatting so that existing records can be imported, exported and exchanged between different systems. The platform needs to be easily scalable, easily usable, have crystal clear terminology etc. and a lot of those things require expensive consultants from their respective areas, and over the course of the project there might be a need to totally reworked because X organization was not happy with the system. Consultants cost money, and that is on top of normal costs for equipment for the organization and rental of offices in each state.
Developing an eHealth system costs money. End of story. At the end of the day it is better to roll out a eHealth system that is secure, reliable and well integrated than a system that is unreliable, unsecure and convoluted.
I also want to add that you Americans have the weirdest ideals about healthcare. ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY!!!
Get rid of the XBox whatever way (the hardware is crap and barely lasts a year anyway) and use cash you get from it (if any) to build a Myth TV box.
A myth TV box seems to be what you want. This will cost you about $600USD (or AUD, we are pretty close now) and here is some basic steps:
1. Contemplate exactly what you want, just to be sure.
2. Go to $RESALER website (I hear theres this thing called New Egg in the USA) and look at some parts probably the $100 USD/piece range is fine.
3. Research the parts to make sure they play well with Ubuntu Linux (I'm no 'buntu fanboi, I use Fedora, but I digress)
4. Compare compatibility and reliability with others in the price range.
5. Order, and wait for parts to come.
6. Assemble.
7. Load Mythbuntu (I heard it is the best MythTV distro, but there is Mythdora as well)
8. Set up the box as best you can.
9. Use $YOUR-FAVOURITE-IMAGING-SOFTWARE to make an image of the Mythtv box. I really can't stress this enough.
10. Try not to fiddle with the settings as you will almost certainly break your setup.
"And the 5% you don't get is the spying and monitoring part."
While I agree with you for the most part there you are totally wrong about one thing. You most certainly get the BEST spying and monitoring available through Linux.
I have been watching the FreeIPA project closely because I think that it is a great Open Source setup - it puts everything in one package ala Active Directory. It is still missing a few plugins but V2 will be pretty awesome all the same.
V1 has some Mac OSX support as detailed here - http://freeipa.org/page/ConfiguringMacintoshClients
I am surprised that not many people have heard of FreeIPA in general.
Wrong! Novell Zenworks is on Linux too - so why can't you have a heterogeneous large scale Linux and Windows rollout? There is Zenworks for Mac but none of our customers (though there is quite a few Macs) use it. If you are going to roll out Novell stuff you may as well do Novell Groupwise while you are at it.
Novell solutions pwn Microsoft, sorry to say.
We can't all sign with an 'X'
The code is not for the Hyper V hypervisor to run in Linux - it is for Linux to run properly in Hyper V on Windows.
The code is just extensions like VMware Tools or VIrtualbox Guest Additions. There is probably some links for better I/O and stuff like that.
How the bloody hell is this meant to work. I have seen the videos but I still cannot believe it. How can they make it work across the Internet where we cannot even make it work at home on a Gbit LAN. Anybody have an idea of how all of this works? Special graphics driver?
You could just ask a friend if he knows anybody with a "computer problem" and if they have the internet and sure enough you will find a system bursting with every piece of malware known to man.
Does it run Linux?
Is there raptors in there? They are good for skinning and grinding on.
Ah... fun times in Un'goro crater...
The artist never receives a penny of that extra fee! Damn those pot smoking hippies!
Sarcasm aside I really do doubt that any artist on a major label gets half the money that they should. This Milman guy is clearly a douche (put simply) for trying to even suggest that the fee is for the greater good.
Actually yes there Samsung fanbois, I know people that swear by Samsung HDDs. I have heard so much about them that I am willing to pay a few dollars extra to give them a go.
Right you are, oops. I mega-failed.
QT is probably horrible
No, Qt is not horrible and there is no reason at all to say so.
How about you spend a few minutes researching before you make such idiotic and baseless comments
I'm not trying to defend Vista/Win7 or trying to pay out KDE - but it is likely that it would integrate reasonably well into a KDE4 environment - but the problem is that Firefox is GTK and not Qt and so it would be very hard to make it look Windows-ish compared to Qt.
...And if I ever browse the net on a Wii my ePeen would deflate by 200%.
Businesses do not use the web browser - they have special programs. These programs allow for multiple authorized people to sign off on a payment before it can be processed and it allows for quick and easy access to statements relating to hundreds of different accounts. One such software is NAB Online.
Unfortunately in the case of NAB online, you have to connect to the bank by using a Dial-up modem. Kaspersky Antivirus (and Norton from what I heard) both refuse to play nice with the dial-up executable for NAB Online.
The hardest part of locking down a business is actually trying to stop the biological mass between the keyboard and the chair from doing stupid things.
I am a Linux server admin, and I spend 90% of my time trying to troubleshoot and lock down all this Windows related junk!
That does not change the fact that if the "cool kids" had Android based phones the rest would follow suit even if they are easy to use and powerful or if you had to use assembly code to make a call.
Apple stuff is what the cool kids have so that is what the majority of people want. The majority of people are marketing whores.
TFA does make a good point that manufacturers having too much control over Android usage and divided the mindshare is probably the reason that it is not selling as well as it can/should.
App market size is only a tiny problem that the minority of consumers even notice. This is all quite simple.
There is a few WMs (KDE 4 works well I think) that play nice with fingers. Linux's shells are quite touch friendly and even if something is not made for fingers, it is quite easy to make buttons (and fonts) bigger without things going crazy (like in Win XP). If the touch screen craze takes off it would not be long until 75% of FOSS projects have adjusted interfaces to allow finger interaction and you could bet that companies such as Novell and particularly Canonical will put the hard work into it.
As for the actual hardware, I am not sure but from what I hear the situation isn't bad. Multi-pointer X will be in most mainstream distributions within the next release or two.