I use an MVNO, costs $30/month. Unlimited calls, texts, and 500MB of data. Their website and payment plan are wonky, but I hate AT&T and Verizon, and am wiling to put up with a little. To be fair, I've been screwed far worse by both AT&T and Verizon than by my MVNO.
As the owner of a local store, here is my perspective...
Some local stores compete solely on price. Avoid them, they order from the crappiest places to save a couple bucks.
Some local stores compete on quality. Look for one that hasn't grown too much. They are still run by the owners. They know what they are doing, they have built thousands of systems, and had to stand behind them personally. They can design a system specifically for YOU. They may not be the cheapest in the short run, but I'll bet they are in the long run.
Exactly. Vote for Linux support with your money. The problem is, there aren't nearly enough Linux users to make a dent they will notice. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a (crappy) Foxconn board once and won't be buying one again.
I've got about a dozen Linux boxes, and three Windows boxes. But what really matters is I run/own a store that sells computers. Nearly all of the computers I sell are for Windows, but they are all Linux capable.:-)
A few innocuous, well-placed lines of code and suddenly you'd be in a position to shut down half the internet.
Yeah righhht. Innocuous [def: not causing or capable of causing harm]. A few lines of really malicious code will not bring down half the internet, never mind innocuous.
There could be ANYTHING in there, and no one would know it...
Maybe you won't know it, but SOMEBODY will know it, and they will let others know. And if anyone/someone gets a idea that something is in there, they will have the opportunity to look for it.
Multicast and increase bandwidth. VOIP has been fine as of late. And if it starts breaking again, let the deployers fix thier apps wtihin the parameters of TCP and/or UDP. If we let ISPs throttle, mangle, and sort packets, it will not be to anyone's advantage other than their own.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny, I looked at the link too, and saw an F.
But most worrisome was the bottom of the page, showing:
Microsoft-IIS/7.5
It's bad enough to use web based mail, but to run it on IIS?
I followed your link, it says B.
I use an MVNO, costs $30/month. Unlimited calls, texts, and 500MB of data. Their website and payment plan are wonky, but I hate AT&T and Verizon, and am wiling to put up with a little. To be fair, I've been screwed far worse by both AT&T and Verizon than by my MVNO.
I'm no happier about this than you, but I have bought a large number of Lenovo laptops, and they have come with OS installation media.
Is the 90 minutes required to make a round trip related to the minimum orbit time of about 90 minutes? They're both free fall journeys.
Chinese isn't a single spoken language. There is a single written language, but the spoken variations have drifted apart.
As the owner of a local store, here is my perspective...
Some local stores compete solely on price. Avoid them, they order from the crappiest places to save a couple bucks.
Some local stores compete on quality. Look for one that hasn't grown too much. They are still run by the owners. They know what they are doing, they have built thousands of systems, and had to stand behind them personally. They can design a system specifically for YOU. They may not be the cheapest in the short run, but I'll bet they are in the long run.
except intel has always been the number one chipset manufacturer. and guess what, if you put linux on the same box it doesn't "suck and always crash".
Exactly. Vote for Linux support with your money. The problem is, there aren't nearly enough Linux users to make a dent they will notice. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a (crappy) Foxconn board once and won't be buying one again.
I've got about a dozen Linux boxes, and three Windows boxes. But what really matters is I run/own a store that sells computers. Nearly all of the computers I sell are for Windows, but they are all Linux capable. :-)
A few innocuous, well-placed lines of code and suddenly you'd be in a position to shut down half the internet.
Yeah righhht. Innocuous [def: not causing or capable of causing harm]. A few lines of really malicious code will not bring down half the internet, never mind innocuous.
There could be ANYTHING in there, and no one would know it...
Maybe you won't know it, but SOMEBODY will know it, and they will let others know. And if anyone/someone gets a idea that something is in there, they will have the opportunity to look for it.
...I'd love to have a beowulf cluster of those.
Multicast and increase bandwidth. VOIP has been fine as of late. And if it starts breaking again, let the deployers fix thier apps wtihin the parameters of TCP and/or UDP. If we let ISPs throttle, mangle, and sort packets, it will not be to anyone's advantage other than their own.
You do see contractors with seven or seventy different tools. Do you see programmers with seven different languages from a single company? No.