Are you trying to control QoS between two endpoints over the public Internet? If so, tagging the voice traffic leaving your router isn't going to do much good since once you hit the rest of the Internet the other routers on the trip to your destination will immediately disregard any QoS settings that your router has set. Otherwise we'd have boneheads sitting at home configuring their routers to send all their gaming or P2P download traffic with voice level priority. You currently can't control QoS over the public Internet.
The Internet was never a brand name but the capital I Internet is used to differentiate between the global Internet and other internetworks or internets. There's more than one internet but only one Internet.
Two factor authentication as well as the more common use of passPHRASES rather than passwords will help tide us over in the long run. And once those are no longer useful, we'll have some sort of new method for authentication (biometric? GUI-based - entering a pattern or something?)
Domains aren't arranged the way they are just as a convention of days past. They're arranged in a hierarchical to distribute the load of DNS lookups as well as provide as logical way to diving responsibilities for different domains (zones). Also, the hierarchical structure allows for duplicate names as long as those two names aren't sibling nodes in the DNS tree (I can have google.com and google.noodle.com). With single word domains all of a sudden your available choies would decrease dramatically.
Thanks for the detailed response. Yeah, I figured the difference between a personal inkjet and a personal laser wouldn't be as drastic as everyone makes them out to be but as you said it sounds like the savings are still enough to make laser worthwhile.
I've been wanting to leave inkjet and go to laser soon as well, but I'd like to check out the cost savings first. Anyone have any good data on cost per page for inkjet printers vs. laser? Toner cartridges nicely provide an estimate of the number of pages they're good for but I haven't seen anything like that for inkjet.
Uh, I may be missing something but if you already have the Cisco gear to run your setup why on earth would you want to store it on the shelf and run a Linux PC in its place? Cisco devices are designed for exactly the application you want meaning they're fast and reliable. I haven't priced DS3 pipes in a while but if you're purchasing anything that even has DS3 as part of it's name I'd keep with the Cisco gear since there's obviously *some* decent cash floating around.
I dunno. But what I'm hearing is: "We've got a Formula One car that we'd like to keep in storage while we go to the Japanese Grand Prix in our NASCAR Monte Carlo, `cause the Monte Carlo is cheaper."
Companies do it with cars and software all the time. Why should processors be different? Heck, the Corvette name has been around for 50 years. Each year we get the XXXX (year) Corvette. Microsoft has relased more versions of Windows than I'd care to count. However, both of those products keep the same product name for consumer recognition and simply up the year or whatever other identifier is associated with it with every release. Intel has spent a ton of money marketing the Pentium name. Why whould they want to throw that away?
I just found out about the plugin from/. this morning and haven't read up much on it yet, but it appears to factor in how long each song is played. So if you're like me and have Winamp on random play but skip over (or partway through) songs I don't feel like listening to, the plugin will still do its work.
I'll be doing the same as you. But I think this is designed for people who like the 'one-hit wonder' songs and would have to buy 6-12 CDs to get 12 songs that they like.
I don't think I'd offer a younger me any advice. 1) I doubt I'd even listen to the older me and 2) The person that I am now is a result of all my previous experiences both good and bad. I'm happy with where I'm at and where I'm going so I don't think I'd want to change that.
RTFA. The very first thing the article says is: "Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam."
It's to help stop spambots from being able to create email accounts to send spam from, not to filter spam on the client side.
I think he may have been getting at some of the plugin issues with Mozilla. Sure you can get Flash, Java, etc. for Moz on Linux (and things are improving) but not everything works right out of the box. A standard user isn't likely to know how to fix the problem when he can't play the latest 'Throw pies at Osama' web game or view the embedded 'Dancing Clone Baby' video.
The reason we don't have one type of car, one type of TV or one type of VCR is beacuse I can drive on a road with virtually any car I pick, I can watch television with any TV I pick and watch any video with any VCR I pick.
Now take a look at Linux. Suppose I set a "typical" user up with a non-RPM based distro (take your pick). One day she stumbles across a cool program to download, but it's only available as an RPM. Now you can more than likely install the RPM system on this distro she's using but it's doubtful that it's been installed by default so she doesn't have a clue what to do with an RPM file.
My ficticious user doesn't care if there are 32,000 differnt types of package management. All she wants it to be able to install the software.
TVs would not be very popular today if they only came with a tube. Sure you could purchase VHF, and UHF tuners, remote control addons, various S-VIDEO, RCA, component in/out options and install them yourself but not many folks would. People buy TVs and there *are* choices to be made, but they all have a common set of features that make it easy to own and operate the device.
Linux standardization will offer that same common base of features and predictability while still affording power users the ability to choose how they want to do things.
Notice that the Alienware has Windows XP Pro and the Power Notebooks model comes w/o an operating system. Doesn't account for all the price difference but $300 is a significant amount I'd say.
That's awesome that you can run Linux full time. I'm really happy for you and one day I'd like to be able to do the same.
However, I disagree with you on a couple points. 1) Microsoft may be loosing the browser war but I'd hardly say they've lost it. Until I can visit every site and have it work perfectly with a browser other than IE, MS hasn't lost the war. My credit card company won't let me access their online payment site without IE, a handful of sites have functionality that's only available through ActiveX compoments etc. MS got to the top by some questionable (to say the least) methods and they're slipping (long live Mozilla & gang!) but they're still top of the heap.
Secondly, you say that "The reason you can avoind Windows nowadays is...." Please tell me how to get the games I like (not just any games, but the ones I want to play), Quicken (gnucash isn't there yet), photoshop (gimp is cool but it's not Photoshop), all the latest hardware drivers, application development suites, etc. (I could go on) to work in my browser.
If the hill is steep enough, you're going fast enough, or it's icy enough, just jumping off won't alays work. You'll still run into boulders and trees sometimes. That's what I did when I was a kid.
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Are you trying to control QoS between two endpoints over the public Internet? If so, tagging the voice traffic leaving your router isn't going to do much good since once you hit the rest of the Internet the other routers on the trip to your destination will immediately disregard any QoS settings that your router has set. Otherwise we'd have boneheads sitting at home configuring their routers to send all their gaming or P2P download traffic with voice level priority. You currently can't control QoS over the public Internet.
The Internet was never a brand name but the capital I Internet is used to differentiate between the global Internet and other internetworks or internets. There's more than one internet but only one Internet.
Two factor authentication as well as the more common use of passPHRASES rather than passwords will help tide us over in the long run. And once those are no longer useful, we'll have some sort of new method for authentication (biometric? GUI-based - entering a pattern or something?)
Domains aren't arranged the way they are just as a convention of days past. They're arranged in a hierarchical to distribute the load of DNS lookups as well as provide as logical way to diving responsibilities for different domains (zones). Also, the hierarchical structure allows for duplicate names as long as those two names aren't sibling nodes in the DNS tree (I can have google.com and google.noodle.com). With single word domains all of a sudden your available choies would decrease dramatically.
HP's site has been updated since I last looked and now offers estimated number of pages per ink cartridge to compare against toner cartridges.
Thanks for the detailed response. Yeah, I figured the difference between a personal inkjet and a personal laser wouldn't be as drastic as everyone makes them out to be but as you said it sounds like the savings are still enough to make laser worthwhile.
I've been wanting to leave inkjet and go to laser soon as well, but I'd like to check out the cost savings first. Anyone have any good data on cost per page for inkjet printers vs. laser? Toner cartridges nicely provide an estimate of the number of pages they're good for but I haven't seen anything like that for inkjet.
Show me a linux box that's faster than a Cisco router.
Uh, I may be missing something but if you already have the Cisco gear to run your setup why on earth would you want to store it on the shelf and run a Linux PC in its place? Cisco devices are designed for exactly the application you want meaning they're fast and reliable. I haven't priced DS3 pipes in a while but if you're purchasing anything that even has DS3 as part of it's name I'd keep with the Cisco gear since there's obviously *some* decent cash floating around.
I dunno. But what I'm hearing is: "We've got a Formula One car that we'd like to keep in storage while we go to the Japanese Grand Prix in our NASCAR Monte Carlo, `cause the Monte Carlo is cheaper."
Companies do it with cars and software all the time. Why should processors be different? Heck, the Corvette name has been around for 50 years. Each year we get the XXXX (year) Corvette. Microsoft has relased more versions of Windows than I'd care to count. However, both of those products keep the same product name for consumer recognition and simply up the year or whatever other identifier is associated with it with every release. Intel has spent a ton of money marketing the Pentium name. Why whould they want to throw that away?
How about LanTalk XP: http://www.lantalk.net/lantalk_xp.php ? That should meet your needs unless I've misunderstood the question.
Ars also launched an Linux.Ars column shortly after Mac.Ars -- not too shabby either.
I just found out about the plugin from /. this morning and haven't read up much on it yet, but it appears to factor in how long each song is played. So if you're like me and have Winamp on random play but skip over (or partway through) songs I don't feel like listening to, the plugin will still do its work.
Please read the article. The title is "The Definitive Desktop Environment Comparison", so KDE and GNOME fall within this scope.
I'll be doing the same as you. But I think this is designed for people who like the 'one-hit wonder' songs and would have to buy 6-12 CDs to get 12 songs that they like.
I don't think I'd offer a younger me any advice. 1) I doubt I'd even listen to the older me and 2) The person that I am now is a result of all my previous experiences both good and bad. I'm happy with where I'm at and where I'm going so I don't think I'd want to change that.
Poor Nigel would be upset to see it hit 12.
"Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder."
RTFA. The very first thing the article says is: "Spam fighters have come up with an idea to frustrate the automatic creation of email accounts often used to send spam."
It's to help stop spambots from being able to create email accounts to send spam from, not to filter spam on the client side.
I think he may have been getting at some of the plugin issues with Mozilla. Sure you can get Flash, Java, etc. for Moz on Linux (and things are improving) but not everything works right out of the box. A standard user isn't likely to know how to fix the problem when he can't play the latest 'Throw pies at Osama' web game or view the embedded 'Dancing Clone Baby' video.
The reason we don't have one type of car, one type of TV or one type of VCR is beacuse I can drive on a road with virtually any car I pick, I can watch television with any TV I pick and watch any video with any VCR I pick.
Now take a look at Linux. Suppose I set a "typical" user up with a non-RPM based distro (take your pick). One day she stumbles across a cool program to download, but it's only available as an RPM. Now you can more than likely install the RPM system on this distro she's using but it's doubtful that it's been installed by default so she doesn't have a clue what to do with an RPM file.
My ficticious user doesn't care if there are 32,000 differnt types of package management. All she wants it to be able to install the software.
TVs would not be very popular today if they only came with a tube. Sure you could purchase VHF, and UHF tuners, remote control addons, various S-VIDEO, RCA, component in/out options and install them yourself but not many folks would. People buy TVs and there *are* choices to be made, but they all have a common set of features that make it easy to own and operate the device.
Linux standardization will offer that same common base of features and predictability while still affording power users the ability to choose how they want to do things.
What if he wants to combine 5 23GB hard drives?
Notice that the Alienware has Windows XP Pro and the Power Notebooks model comes w/o an operating system. Doesn't account for all the price difference but $300 is a significant amount I'd say.
That's awesome that you can run Linux full time. I'm really happy for you and one day I'd like to be able to do the same.
However, I disagree with you on a couple points. 1) Microsoft may be loosing the browser war but I'd hardly say they've lost it. Until I can visit every site and have it work perfectly with a browser other than IE, MS hasn't lost the war. My credit card company won't let me access their online payment site without IE, a handful of sites have functionality that's only available through ActiveX compoments etc. MS got to the top by some questionable (to say the least) methods and they're slipping (long live Mozilla & gang!) but they're still top of the heap.
Secondly, you say that "The reason you can avoind Windows nowadays is...." Please tell me how to get the games I like (not just any games, but the ones I want to play), Quicken (gnucash isn't there yet), photoshop (gimp is cool but it's not Photoshop), all the latest hardware drivers, application development suites, etc. (I could go on) to work in my browser.
Sounds like it would be some pretty heavy coursework. groan
If the hill is steep enough, you're going fast enough, or it's icy enough, just jumping off won't alays work. You'll still run into boulders and trees sometimes. That's what I did when I was a kid.