When I first read the article, it sounded like it would be incredibly convenient and make many tedious tasks very easy...
Then, what if someone hijacks your account... they now have your credit card numbers, your home phone, your wife's phone, your kids school info, your bosses office number and his birthday, your automobile information, etc...
Imagine the possabilities...
Maybe it's called HailStorm because, as they say, "When it rains, it pours" implying that if someone gets your password, they get your life.
I can only speak from personal experience, but in the 1.5 years that I have had DSL with PacBell/PBI I have only been without service for about 72 hours. This includes all maintenance windows and unscheduled outages.
I've got friends with Speakeasy (crap), DSL.net (worse crap), and one who just lost Flashcom (surprised they lasted this long with such poor service).
By FAR I have had significantly better service and performance than any of the 'alternative' or lesser DSL services...
Plus, my throughput is nearly static. Anytime day or night I get a consistant 100Kbps - 120Kbps.
Ping to game servers is in the 20 - 35 range.
This isn't some bush league home grown Internet service run out of someones closet, or run on some 'built from spare parts in my garage' linux box.
I know that they are probably not the most popular in the minds of most consumers, but their corporate infrastructure and commitment to consumers give great strength and credability to their DSL operations.
I thought a requirement for any real-world based linux product was a 4 year trip into 'vapor world', so they would be released into a state of planned obsolecense.
This is the exact reason that I use PacBell as my carrier, and PacBell Internet as my provider.
They might not have the best customer service, but their actual product is beyond compare.
I have several friends with speakeasy and other 'alternative' providers using COVAD, and I truly feel sorry for their angst. In the 1.5 years of having PacBell, I have lost service for a grand total of 96 hours.
I am satisfied with my 99.9927% uptime with PacBell.
Warning: we have found that our blue LED actually worsened responsiveness on reflexive surfaces.
I think that blue vs. red led is the least of our worries.
Beware of tables that speak of themselves.
reflexive (r-flksv)
adj. Abbr. refl.
1.) Directed back on itself.
2.) Grammar.
a) Of, relating to, or being a verb having an identical subject and direct object, as dressed in the sentence She dressed herself.
b) Of, relating to, or being the pronoun used as the direct object of a reflexive verb, as herself in She dressed herself.
3.) Of or relating to a reflex.
4.) Elicited automatically; spontaneous: "a bid for . . . reflexive left-wing approval" (Marshall Delaney).
reflective (r-flktv)
adj. Abbr. refl.
1.) Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
2.) Capable of or producing reflection: a reflective surface.
Characterized by or given to meditation or contemplation; thoughtful. See Synonyms at pensive.
I can't speak for their current hardware, but at my Place Of Work, we had several VA boxes in during the summer of 1999.
They were complete junk.
The assembly of the machine was done with the combined skillset of a paper bag and manhole cover. You would open the box to see cables & wires, a complete mess. The cards in the motherboard were not, nor would seat properly.
The VA guys are nice guys, they just had a 'novelty' product. The novelty has worn off.
I'd rather have a Compaq DL380/1850R than one of those 2x2 or whatever POSs.
Insted of getting a PS/2, I bought a Dell 386DX/33 with 120Meg HD, 4MB ram, 512k SVGA card, monitor included. It was only $2199, and at the time, even the 'cheap' PS/2s were $3k. Then again, it was 1990 or 1991... I had a Nintendo for my Personal Gaming Needs...
Note: PS2 == IBM, PSX2 == Sony.
IMHO, both are overpriced.
except sony is the smarter ones. they created this artificial demand, convincing people that they 'need' the PSX2, they will be incomplete without it... Remember Fight Club Ikea? That's what I thought.
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Funnier than anything I've read here in quite a while.
If I had some mod points, i'd be sending them all your way.
When I first read the article, it sounded like it would be incredibly convenient and make many tedious tasks very easy...
Then, what if someone hijacks your account... they now have your credit card numbers, your home phone, your wife's phone, your kids school info, your bosses office number and his birthday, your automobile information, etc...
Imagine the possabilities...
Maybe it's called HailStorm because, as they say, "When it rains, it pours" implying that if someone gets your password, they get your life.
Think about it, it can be scary as hell.
I can only speak from personal experience, but in the 1.5 years that I have had DSL with PacBell/PBI I have only been without service for about 72 hours. This includes all maintenance windows and unscheduled outages.
I've got friends with Speakeasy (crap), DSL.net (worse crap), and one who just lost Flashcom (surprised they lasted this long with such poor service).
By FAR I have had significantly better service and performance than any of the 'alternative' or lesser DSL services...
Plus, my throughput is nearly static. Anytime day or night I get a consistant 100Kbps - 120Kbps.
Ping to game servers is in the 20 - 35 range.
This isn't some bush league home grown Internet service run out of someones closet, or run on some 'built from spare parts in my garage' linux box.
Pacific Bell.
I know that they are probably not the most popular in the minds of most consumers, but their corporate infrastructure and commitment to consumers give great strength and credability to their DSL operations.
What does your Agenda do that a PalmOS or WinCE can not do?
Can I hook my GPS unit to it via serial and plot courses & such?
if so, i might, if it doeesn't support expansions such as that, then why waste money on something that has been done better already?
I thought a requirement for any real-world based linux product was a 4 year trip into 'vapor world', so they would be released into a state of planned obsolecense.
Remember, the investors were throwing money at any company that could do anything 'linux'.
the bubble bursted, now you have some palm clone running linux.
I see the benefits of Palm / WinCE.
the slogan for this product should be,
"Why linux? Becasue we can"
or some such other garbage.
This was clearly the case of 'use linux because we have to pay for the others'
It offers NO benefits other beyond the more tested and proven PDA OSes.
This is the exact reason that I use PacBell as my carrier, and PacBell Internet as my provider.
They might not have the best customer service, but their actual product is beyond compare.
I have several friends with speakeasy and other 'alternative' providers using COVAD, and I truly feel sorry for their angst. In the 1.5 years of having PacBell, I have lost service for a grand total of 96 hours.
I am satisfied with my 99.9927% uptime with PacBell.
In your own bizarre tone, I think you have struck a chord.
The linux bubble has popped.
Don't expect to get your open-source-powered Fridge anytime soon.
but KDE is heavy, sluggish, and horribly ugly.
Warning: we have found that our blue LED actually worsened responsiveness on reflexive surfaces.
I think that blue vs. red led is the least of our worries.
Beware of tables that speak of themselves.
reflexive (r-flksv)
adj. Abbr. refl.
1.) Directed back on itself.
2.) Grammar.
a) Of, relating to, or being a verb having an identical subject and direct object, as dressed in the sentence She dressed herself.
b) Of, relating to, or being the pronoun used as the direct object of a reflexive verb, as herself in She dressed herself.
3.) Of or relating to a reflex.
4.) Elicited automatically; spontaneous: "a bid for . . . reflexive left-wing approval" (Marshall Delaney).
reflective (r-flktv)
adj. Abbr. refl.
1.) Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
2.) Capable of or producing reflection: a reflective surface.
Characterized by or given to meditation or contemplation; thoughtful. See Synonyms at pensive.
or for more fun, on a Sun box, try this /bin/clear
$ cat
...for those of you without access, this is part of what you get...
# This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
# Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.
I chuckle a bit, every time I type clear.
go there tonight and post your review.
I also heard of a good gyro place on Lafayette, north of 101, south of 237.
There are a lot of 'hole in the wall' type places there, but unfortunatly I do not know the name.
I can't speak for their current hardware, but at my Place Of Work, we had several VA boxes in during the summer of 1999.
They were complete junk.
The assembly of the machine was done with the combined skillset of a paper bag and manhole cover. You would open the box to see cables & wires, a complete mess. The cards in the motherboard were not, nor would seat properly.
The VA guys are nice guys, they just had a 'novelty' product. The novelty has worn off.
I'd rather have a Compaq DL380/1850R than one of those 2x2 or whatever POSs.
anti-aliased?
Is it crackable?
of course.
How?
try a 6 foot drop onto concrete.
um, oh you probably didn't mean like that.
sorry.
What school do you go to that uses Punch Cards?
University of Stuckinthestoneage?
What about CDR/CD-ROM.
Most modern BIOS' will boot from CDROM, the ISO9660 FS is open, it seems pretty safe.
but then again, I still use my 1.44MB floppy.
they should try airnet.
i hear that rocks.
Your characters are not like 'documents' created in word.
You do not own them.
get over it.
get a life.
Golden handcuffs usually require something of value to be held above your head.
Have you checked the price of VA Linux stock recently?
The quality is not diminishing, you nerf-bunny.
The stories have always been this pointless.
Wake up and smell the troll.
Note to self, NEVER take movie advice from somebody who actually admits to going to see BOTH Battlefield Earth AND Waterworld...
NO.
Note:
PSX2 == Sony
PS/2 == IBM
PS2 != ( Sony && IBM )
Insted of getting a PS/2, I bought a Dell 386DX/33 with 120Meg HD, 4MB ram, 512k SVGA card, monitor included. It was only $2199, and at the time, even the 'cheap' PS/2s were $3k. Then again, it was 1990 or 1991... I had a Nintendo for my Personal Gaming Needs...
Note: PS2 == IBM, PSX2 == Sony.
IMHO, both are overpriced.
except sony is the smarter ones. they created this artificial demand, convincing people that they 'need' the PSX2, they will be incomplete without it... Remember Fight Club Ikea? That's what I thought.