This isn't really a new program. They rolled this program out in the fall of '04. I signed up for the 100% plan. The extra money gives the farmers an incentive to install the manure capture system which in addition to providing methane for electricity generation, also prevents manure run-off into streams, etc and further reduces pollution. It really is a win-win situation.
As someone else pointed out, there really isn't enough supply for everyone to sign up for this. However, the plan agreement states that if they cannot buy enough 'Cow Power', they will use the additional money to buy electricity from other alternative energy sources.
I recently got a Motorola E815 from Verizon and got a one-month free subscription to their VCast service which lets you watch streaming videos. Right now it is mainly news, sports, weather, stuff like that. But let me tell you, it is very addictive. If they could expand it to more 'live' type broadcasts of say sporting events or tv shows in general, I would be very interested. Would be quite nice to pull up the highlights of a baseball or football game from anywhere. Oh and with the bluetooth dial-up networking profile you can get almost DSL speeds on the road (360kbps as rated by the CNET bandwidth site).
Ubuntu is mainly targetted at the average desktop user, who does not have much use for a compiler. And the apt repositories are huge. I have been running Ubuntu for about a year now and have yet to compile anything. For instance mod_perl can be found with a simple 'apt-cache search mod_perl', giving you (among other things):
libapache-mod-perl - integration of perl with the Apache web server
libapache2-mod-perl2 - Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server install the one appropriate to you, and voila, mod_perl for apache. You just need to tweak the.conf files as necessary.
I recently switched to easydns.org. They have a great DNS service including SPF records and dynamic DNS. You can use them as your primary or backup MX with all kinds of mail forwarding options. I am not sure how the prices compare, but it seemed very reasonable to me and I have been very happy with the service.
I have been using apt4rpm for the past few months now and found that I cannot live without it. It takes care of all the dependancy checking, updating, etc, etc. I rarely find something that is not listed in a repository. There is even a very nice gui called Synaptic if you prefer that sort of thing. A good place to start is ATrpms.
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This isn't really a new program. They rolled this program out in the fall of '04. I signed up for the 100% plan. The extra money gives the farmers an incentive to install the manure capture system which in addition to providing methane for electricity generation, also prevents manure run-off into streams, etc and further reduces pollution. It really is a win-win situation.
As someone else pointed out, there really isn't enough supply for everyone to sign up for this. However, the plan agreement states that if they cannot buy enough 'Cow Power', they will use the additional money to buy electricity from other alternative energy sources.
--Glenn
I recently got a Motorola E815 from Verizon and got a one-month free subscription to their VCast service which lets you watch streaming videos. Right now it is mainly news, sports, weather, stuff like that. But let me tell you, it is very addictive. If they could expand it to more 'live' type broadcasts of say sporting events or tv shows in general, I would be very interested. Would be quite nice to pull up the highlights of a baseball or football game from anywhere.
Oh and with the bluetooth dial-up networking profile you can get almost DSL speeds on the road (360kbps as rated by the CNET bandwidth site).
Ubuntu is mainly targetted at the average desktop user, who does not have much use for a compiler. And the apt repositories are huge. I have been running Ubuntu for about a year now and have yet to compile anything. For instance mod_perl can be found with a simple 'apt-cache search mod_perl', giving you (among other things): .conf files as necessary.
libapache-mod-perl - integration of perl with the Apache web server
libapache2-mod-perl2 - Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server
install the one appropriate to you, and voila, mod_perl for apache. You just need to tweak the
--Glenn
I recently switched to easydns.org. They have a great DNS service including SPF records and dynamic DNS. You can use them as your primary or backup MX with all kinds of mail forwarding options.
I am not sure how the prices compare, but it seemed very reasonable to me and I have been very happy with the service.
--Glenn
I have been using apt4rpm for the past few months now and found that I cannot live without it. It takes care of all the dependancy checking, updating, etc, etc. I rarely find something that is not listed in a repository. There is even a very nice gui called Synaptic if you prefer that sort of thing.
A good place to start is ATrpms.
--Glenn