My Microsoft Natural keyboard puts 6 on the left side, so left seems to be pretty standard here in the U.S. as I've had other split keyboards in the past and when I got this one I didn't notice anything weird....
Okay... I just have to ask, arthurpaliden, because we have a bet going here at the office: do you actually believe this explanation, or are you just saying it to be funny?
Runs fine to do what?!? I am fairly disappointed with the performance of my Mac Mini...I bought it on the day they came out since it was finally hardware I could afford that would let me switch to Mac OS X (I sprung for the faster processor and 512MB of RAM). And yes, it works, but it isn't nearly as zippy at doing anything as any of my older boxes running Linux or Windows XP. I upgraded it to 1GB of RAM, which helped a little, and I still use it as my primary machine to check email and browse the web at home because I like the whole OS X user experience, but come on, runs fine on anything less powerful than a Mac Mini? Maybe you just haven't seen how other operating systems perform on various hardware so you have no point of reference to appreciate just how slow Mac OS X is?
Make no mistake, I'm not fan of Windows. But I'm also being completely realistic when I say that its hardware requirements, when the rubber meets the road, are more forgiving than Mac OS X.
This problem, among with many, many others, was described in a CAIDA paper, "DNS Measurements at a Root Server." They basically ran TCPDump on root server F, and analyzed the traffic. An amazing number of invalid requests are sent all the time. It really shows how important it is for network admins to correctly set up their name services, but it also identifies problems caused by bugs in software. Very interesting read: http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2001/DNSMeasR oot/
You're right, we're not going to destroy the earth in a little over two centuries. However, we are making great strides toward making the earth very, very hard to inhabit for humans (and a number of other critters). If we just let things keep on going as they are and use up all of our fossil fuels and spew pollution into the air, land, and sea, the earth won't be a great place to live for us. But you better believe Mother Nature wouldn't care one bit if humans disappeared forever. Earth itself would keep on living, with other species remaining and probably a lot happier that we're gone.
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My Microsoft Natural keyboard puts 6 on the left side, so left seems to be pretty standard here in the U.S. as I've had other split keyboards in the past and when I got this one I didn't notice anything weird....
I use Ubiquiti gear at home: their UniFi Pro access point and their EdgeRouter Lite (based on Vyatta) as my router. You can't go wrong.
Okay... I just have to ask, arthurpaliden, because we have a bet going here at the office: do you actually believe this explanation, or are you just saying it to be funny?
Runs fine to do what?!? I am fairly disappointed with the performance of my Mac Mini...I bought it on the day they came out since it was finally hardware I could afford that would let me switch to Mac OS X (I sprung for the faster processor and 512MB of RAM). And yes, it works, but it isn't nearly as zippy at doing anything as any of my older boxes running Linux or Windows XP. I upgraded it to 1GB of RAM, which helped a little, and I still use it as my primary machine to check email and browse the web at home because I like the whole OS X user experience, but come on, runs fine on anything less powerful than a Mac Mini? Maybe you just haven't seen how other operating systems perform on various hardware so you have no point of reference to appreciate just how slow Mac OS X is?
Make no mistake, I'm not fan of Windows. But I'm also being completely realistic when I say that its hardware requirements, when the rubber meets the road, are more forgiving than Mac OS X.
This problem, among with many, many others, was described in a CAIDA paper, "DNS Measurements at a Root Server." They basically ran TCPDump on root server F, and analyzed the traffic. An amazing number of invalid requests are sent all the time. It really shows how important it is for network admins to correctly set up their name services, but it also identifies problems caused by bugs in software. Very interesting read: http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2001/DNSMeasR oot/
You're right, we're not going to destroy the earth in a little over two centuries. However, we are making great strides toward making the earth very, very hard to inhabit for humans (and a number of other critters). If we just let things keep on going as they are and use up all of our fossil fuels and spew pollution into the air, land, and sea, the earth won't be a great place to live for us. But you better believe Mother Nature wouldn't care one bit if humans disappeared forever. Earth itself would keep on living, with other species remaining and probably a lot happier that we're gone.