Unfortunately just having drivers for one chipset wouldn't help for long. I would pay to have an entire company commit to making new, leading edge graphics cards with device drivers always and forever open sourced.
All I can say is me too. I got first initial, last name @ gmail when gmail was in Beta and one needed an invite. I get crap daily, but what's really annoying is when it's from a site I may wish to use at some time in the future, like instagram or snapchat, or some other site that I don't presently use. It ain't spam, but it ain't welcome, the big G needs another button for us to click. Now when I register at sites, especially banks, I use strong password generators `tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9'/dev/urandom | fold -w 8|head -1` to generate a meaningless username as well as password. No more fnamelname usernames for me.
It's the advertisers that destroyed the relationship. Their dancing snakes and popups, popunders have necessitated adblocking. Ads quickly became obnoxious and were easily blocked. Then they became sneaky and required a bit of effort to block, but they were blocked. Now that we block ads, it's a war. Since the advertisers continue to go over the top, I now look at pages with 50% white space because their divs are whited out
I posted a request on Google Groups, years ago that Google implement a blacklist of sites, sites that I don't want to see in search results. I despise results from other search engines, such as ask.com, scribd.com, and a dozen others that harvest other's answers and barrage me with a second layer of ads. Google did implement "blocked sites" but eventually it removed it. Personally I would think the blocked sites list would be invaluable on a server side "page rank" algorithm. The more users blocking a given site, the lower the sites rank.
Other than the obvious features you've mentioned in your article, simply stop returning other search engines and rank original content higher than harvested content.
I thought the point of a GNU/Linux system in the first place was to offer an affordable, configurable, "free", Unix-like system for those of us that "wanted" a choice. Since when did the goal become to replace Windows with Linux for the average schmuck?
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Unfortunately just having drivers for one chipset wouldn't help for long.
I would pay to have an entire company commit to making new, leading edge graphics cards with device drivers always and forever open sourced.
All I can say is me too. /dev/urandom | fold -w 8|head -1`
I got first initial, last name @ gmail when gmail was in Beta and one needed an invite.
I get crap daily, but what's really annoying is when it's from a site I may wish to use at some time in the future, like instagram or snapchat, or some other site that I don't presently use. It ain't spam, but it ain't welcome, the big G needs another button for us to click.
Now when I register at sites, especially banks, I use strong password generators
`tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9'
to generate a meaningless username as well as password. No more fnamelname usernames for me.
Out of the pan and into the fire, I've quit Skype for good.
I frankly trust the big G more than M$.
Guess we have to pick our poison
It's the advertisers that destroyed the relationship. Their dancing snakes and popups, popunders have necessitated adblocking.
Ads quickly became obnoxious and were easily blocked. Then they became sneaky and required a bit of effort to block, but they were blocked.
Now that we block ads, it's a war. Since the advertisers continue to go over the top, I now look at pages with 50% white space because their divs are whited out
EMACS of course!
GNUS reads mail
When I was a hiring manager the joke was "I'll hire anybody that spell computer"
Do you know what jquery is? Do you know what DOM means? You're hired!
I posted a request on Google Groups, years ago that Google implement a blacklist of sites, sites that I don't want to see in search results.
I despise results from other search engines, such as ask.com, scribd.com, and a dozen others that harvest other's answers and barrage me with a second layer of ads.
Google did implement "blocked sites" but eventually it removed it. Personally I would think the blocked sites list would be invaluable on a server side "page rank" algorithm. The more users blocking a given site, the lower the sites rank.
Other than the obvious features you've mentioned in your article, simply stop returning other search engines and rank original content higher than harvested content.
Waze is an annoying app and only use it for that feature. Not better than Navigator or G maps, except for avoiding the revenue generating radar traps.
Home built rack
Supermicro CSE-SC825TQ 2U case with 8 horizontal hot swap cages, triple NIC (one IPMI dedicated), dual 700w PSU
Supermicro MBD-X9SCM-F-O motherboard, with Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge, E31230 @ 3.20GHz 16GB Kingston DDR3 ECC RAM
Single 30GB SSD for OS, Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
LSI 9260-8i RAID controller, 8 Seagate Barracuda XT (ST32000641AS)
RAID-6, 10TB single xfs filesystem
Samba shared to house, wired with CAT6 to most rooms
pfSense firewall, Arch desktop, laptop, etc
I've been using emacs to read mail for 18 years.
:)
from rmail to vm to gnus, no conversion problems.
(what's an AOL mailbox?)
The National Weather Service at noaa.gov is excellent. Detailed local forecasts with NO ads.
I don't use Java now and I wouldn't use it if it were Open Sourced.
No pointers? What, do you really think were that stupid?
Sun can keep it and take it to their grave, which is imminent
I can't remember the last time I used Yahoo.
They're the single largest hero to zero story of the internet.
I thought the point of a GNU/Linux system in the first place was to offer an affordable, configurable, "free", Unix-like system for those of us that "wanted" a choice. Since when did the goal become to replace Windows with Linux for the average schmuck?
Brainbench is crap! What a bunch of spam queens, I'd avoid using them at all costs.