I replied to another post, but I still prefer local methods for backups because there's an upfront cost for tapes or DVDs but no monthly cost, and when backing up and restoring large amounts of data I don't have to do it over the Internet.
When I last priced it out for the amount of data I have it was about 50 USD a month, and being in Canada that cost has been higher and higher recently. Plus, with my current setup of Bacula and DVD-RWs there's no monthly cost whatsoever, and I get much faster recovery times. Recently when my wife's laptop drive crashed she was back up and running a couple hours after I bought a replacement disk. With S3 I'd have to wait while my DSL connection downloaded over 40 gigabytes. Add in two more computers being backed up and that's a very large cost in time when recovering (or even backing up).
Again though I'm talking about an ideal solution for me.
Sadly no. I have a ton of things to back up at home and just use Bacula with a ton of DVD-RWs. It's not really ideal. I keep scouring eBay and Craig's List for an LTO1 or 2 drive but I haven't had any luck getting something under a thousand dollars.
I've looked at S3, rsync.net, and a few others, but they're all way too expensive for me.
Tape can still be pretty decent for off-siting and DR. I managed to get recently at work an LTO4 drive in a 24-slot library; each tape is 800 gigabytes uncompressed (and most are about 1.2 with native compression), plus the drive does native AES encryption so every tape that goes offsite is protected in that way. It wasn't cheap, but it didn't break the bank by any means. Oh, and I can write at about 170mb/s to the drive.
It periodically uses rmmod to unload all unused modules too though, so after the "shotgun method" is used on the next run of rmmod your kernel will be smaller again.
Just go to Movie Spoiler. It's great for when you want to know about the plot of a vaguely interesting looking movie (but you're still sure that it'll suck).
Your distribution should provide wpa_supplicant with the drivers already built. Ideally the drivers would be included in the main kernel source tree too. I still think though that wpa_supplicant should be (and always will be) a user-space tool.
Besides, you're implying that things being in the kernel tree have a higher level of binary compatibility. I suggest you talk to someone who uses the nVidia or ATI binary drivers;-)
I bought a Linksys WRT54G. Out of the box it supports the WPA security scheme. Buying it was not "virutally impossible" - hell, after rebate it was less than a hundred dollars Canadian.
This doesn't solve the problem at Starbucks though (since a pre-shared key wouldn't really work in that setup) but it makes a home wireless network a hell of a lot more secure.
I use wpa_supplicant on my home network. The 30 or so minutes it took to get it up and running was well worth the added security that it provides over WEP.
Hey, that's funny - he asked about a homebrew web browser and you linked to one that's been ripped from a commercial game. Did you have trouble reading his post?
I've been playing through Baldur's Gate 2 (and it's expansion) on my Pentium M 1Ghz laptop for a while using a CVS snapshot and no special configuration. Works well enough for me.
According to this page, they don't deal with ISPs.
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I think it's missing from the auto-update server because 1.0.5 breaks a lot of extensions. They're working on a 1.0.6 (there's already candidate builds out) that don't have that side effect.
Sorry, no restrictions was incorrect, you're right. "Few restrictions" would've been a better description. Including a copyright notice is a fairly easy restriction to comply with. I like both licenses, and I'm glad we have both (and others) to help spell out the authors' intentions concerning their software.
Companies would rather use other peoples BSD licensed code. Companies would not like that license for their own code, because then competitors could use their code with no restrictions.
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Actually, it has 256 megs of RAM and 768 megs of swap on an internal flash device.
Wow, nice! I haven't looked in a couple of months, but I'll definitely keep my eye out. Fortunately I already have a SCSI card.
I replied to another post, but I still prefer local methods for backups because there's an upfront cost for tapes or DVDs but no monthly cost, and when backing up and restoring large amounts of data I don't have to do it over the Internet.
When I last priced it out for the amount of data I have it was about 50 USD a month, and being in Canada that cost has been higher and higher recently. Plus, with my current setup of Bacula and DVD-RWs there's no monthly cost whatsoever, and I get much faster recovery times. Recently when my wife's laptop drive crashed she was back up and running a couple hours after I bought a replacement disk. With S3 I'd have to wait while my DSL connection downloaded over 40 gigabytes. Add in two more computers being backed up and that's a very large cost in time when recovering (or even backing up).
Again though I'm talking about an ideal solution for me.
Sadly no. I have a ton of things to back up at home and just use Bacula with a ton of DVD-RWs. It's not really ideal. I keep scouring eBay and Craig's List for an LTO1 or 2 drive but I haven't had any luck getting something under a thousand dollars. I've looked at S3, rsync.net, and a few others, but they're all way too expensive for me.
Tape can still be pretty decent for off-siting and DR. I managed to get recently at work an LTO4 drive in a 24-slot library; each tape is 800 gigabytes uncompressed (and most are about 1.2 with native compression), plus the drive does native AES encryption so every tape that goes offsite is protected in that way. It wasn't cheap, but it didn't break the bank by any means. Oh, and I can write at about 170mb/s to the drive.
It periodically uses rmmod to unload all unused modules too though, so after the "shotgun method" is used on the next run of rmmod your kernel will be smaller again.
This discussion was prompted because Java is already in Debian.
Dude, the Dark Ages called - they want their "science" back.
Just go to Movie Spoiler. It's great for when you want to know about the plot of a vaguely interesting looking movie (but you're still sure that it'll suck).
It's awful, don't waste your money. I really, really can't stress how fucking terrible it is.
Try making ld-linux.so.2 non-executable. Let me know if that works out for you ;-)
Star Ocean 3 was unbearable regardless of the media it used.
Besides, you're implying that things being in the kernel tree have a higher level of binary compatibility. I suggest you talk to someone who uses the nVidia or ATI binary drivers ;-)
This doesn't solve the problem at Starbucks though (since a pre-shared key wouldn't really work in that setup) but it makes a home wireless network a hell of a lot more secure.
I use wpa_supplicant on my home network. The 30 or so minutes it took to get it up and running was well worth the added security that it provides over WEP.
Is there something wrong with WPA supplicant? It works fine for me. Why shove things in kernel-space when they work just as well in user land?
According to the CRTC site they don't handle this type of complaint in regards to ISPs.
Hey, that's funny - he asked about a homebrew web browser and you linked to one that's been ripped from a commercial game. Did you have trouble reading his post?
I've been playing through Baldur's Gate 2 (and it's expansion) on my Pentium M 1Ghz laptop for a while using a CVS snapshot and no special configuration. Works well enough for me.
According to this page, they don't deal with ISPs.
I think it's missing from the auto-update server because 1.0.5 breaks a lot of extensions. They're working on a 1.0.6 (there's already candidate builds out) that don't have that side effect.
Sorry, no restrictions was incorrect, you're right. "Few restrictions" would've been a better description. Including a copyright notice is a fairly easy restriction to comply with. I like both licenses, and I'm glad we have both (and others) to help spell out the authors' intentions concerning their software.
Companies would rather use other peoples BSD licensed code. Companies would not like that license for their own code, because then competitors could use their code with no restrictions.
Yeah, it's so hard to change the default My Documents location.