Here's the thing.. if you've tested your web app against FF 3.x and are in process of testing against 4. Now you have 5 to contend with. Suddenly, your 3.x testing is 2 releases behind. If you are planning for an enterprise release that will be in a few months, you need to know what releases to test against. I understand the technical issues and that FF4 and 5 aren't that different, but for compatability testing this is a huge pain in the ass. There's enterprise documentation, support, customer support, test labs, etc. And the fact that it was pretty much a surprise didn't help things.
I've been looking through some of the docs, and I haven't really found anything all that bad yet. There's lots of comments on here about racial profiling, etc. But so far I haven't found anything to support that.
What I have found is that lulzsec didn't do any kind of filtering on what they released. I was sad to read about a murder investigation. I kind of wish that would have been culled out - there should be some kind of decency out of respect for those families involved. I saw some memos about a new motorcycle gang allowed to ride in AZ, and it was more 'matter of fact' informational than anything. And hey, the Hell's Angel's had a Cinco de Mayo party - make sure you use caution when approaching any of their members. oooh, scandalous. Along with officers addresses (WTF?) there's a bit of banal info like shift schedules and whatnot. I just kind of don't see the point. From looking through this, it's clear to me that police officers, no matter how "bad" they seem in the grand scheme of things, are just doing a job. It looks like they have to deal with a lot of various things and coordinating on it and doing their jobs requires a lot of discipline. And they are never allowed to make any kind of mistake apparently. Sounds like a fun job, now a bunch of internet douchebags are posting their personal info. How many people do you think will retaliate just for the 'lulz', without actually needing a reason?
I live in AZ, I'm well aware of the effects of illegal immigration. I'm also aware of the contributions of the Mexican culture to the US. There seems to be a general disgust for "border jumpers" around here, but it's directed at all brown-looking people. I get pretty sick of the jokes and comments - and I'm about as white as you can get. It just reeks of ignorance and blanket hate. It never seems to be based on real information, it's on Fox headlines, forwarded emails, or facebook posts. I think that the news of these released documents is just fuel when in reality it's not needed. If they really wanted to target injustice, they would actually read through the stuff they stole and make a more pointed release of information. This "hey, we found a bunch of evil stuff, check it out" and then releasing it to the wind could have detrimental side effects. Come on, I know you're the lowest of the low hackers, but show some initiative! All you're doing is making the machine want to clamp down tighter. If you want to make a difference, then use your heads. Sheesh.
From a testing perspective, this is a real PITA. If you are testing web applications and need to define what browsers you are compatible with (and do testing on) for a future release, this can cause lots of headache. Let's say I have a release scheduled to go out in September. What release do I test against? 4 - it's not supported. 5 - it may not be supported by Sep.
This movie is so hyped up, it's everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the marketing/advertising exceeded the cost of the actual film. Go have a look at the website for the film. The lenths they go to in order to try and establish something as legitimate before it even comes out is astounding.
Seriously. How many games have you bought in the last 12 months? This is a problem where an industry eats itself.
Gamers have gone nuts. One of my neighbors lent us their Wii. Yeah, I know, I'm probably one of the only people in the country that doesn't have one. They asked, and I said OK. So they brought over this huge basket of stuff. Controllers, guitar, skateboard, and a slew of at least a dozen games. There were like 5 variations of "rock band". We had fun with it, mainly playing the sports games. I had to wonder what they spent on it, and how much time they wasted playing it. My 3 kids loved it (all under 7), but quickly became much more annoying. They wanted to play all the time. So we returned it.
I just think that we participate in this MORE MORE mentality. We have to have more all the time. Get a new game, play it 24/7 for a few weeks, then buy another new game. So ask yourself if you're supporting this system. How many game systems do you have? I know some guys who have 4.
Look, I'm not saying gaming is bad, I've played games since I rode my bike to the arcade with a pocket sagging with quarters. I even bought/restored/collected arcade games for several years. I still play a few games on my computer (liking Red Eclipse and Super Tux Kart at the moment) but you have to throttle yourself. If you feed the gaming industry machine, it will do nothing but grow and get lazy.
Kids home-schooled into the high school level that don't already have competence with word processors and spreadsheets? A guy with a MS in CS who talks about word processing in the same sentence as computer science? If he wanted to push more buttons he'd have explained that his mom thought Linux was for commies. Seriously, don't feed the troll.
He's also asking for a HIGH SCHOOL computer science cirriculum. Showing my age, when I was in high school it was just called "computers" and was on a TRS-80. So I don't know what kind of learning programs they now have in high school. At first when I saw "computer science" and "spreadsheets" in the same sentence I winced, but then I read what was asked and it's not that far off. Yeah, I did programming in HS (BASIC) but am not sure what they call "computer classes" today... alongside spreadsheets he does mention intro to programmeing and OSes. AND he mentions that it's for his two younger siblings, so they could be 12 and 14 for all we know. So it's not that far off that they wouldn't know anythign about spreadsheets, word processing, and databases.
I know I know, home-schooling is supposed to be a big joke. You know what's also a joke? Public school. My kids are just entering school, and being part of that broken system has made my wife and I question whether or not it's the best place for our kids. Watch the documentary Waiting For Superman. Home-schooling definitely has downsides, but there are upsides too. My daughter is 6 and just finished kindergarten. She's tiny, yet came home and was saying that someone at school said she looked fat. Many of the kids in her class of 32 (!) are mean little punks. Sometimes NOT being around the "public" isn't such a bad thing.
Open source projects will have nothing to copy. I kid, I kid.
But really - Microsoft doesn't need to go out of business.. they just need to accept the fact that they aren't the only game in town. They do a lot of research nowadays, which may or may not always pan out. But it helps to push technology. I'm not really into gaming, but Kinect seems to be a pretty interesting product. Sure, the Wii took the world by storm and was true innovation, and that likely is what led to the development of Kinect. Or maybe it was already in the works, who knows. But let them throw their piles and piles of money at research, and find out interesting things. Let them keep trying to improve their OS, and cramming their software down our throats... as a Linux user, I'm pretty immune to that. Except at work, and there it's business-use only, so it's Outlook/Communicator/GroupChat/Excel/Powerpoint/IE.. and I'm generally OK with that.
And yes, Gates has done a lot of great things with all his money. He didn't have to, so good for him and the rest of the world. But he hasn't really *sacrificed* anything. He has more money than he could ever hope to use. Percentage-wise, he can give away 99% of his net worth and still live quite comfortably. He's building his legacy, so his name carries on. I just don't think that makes him a great man. It just makes him a man so wealthy that he can give away more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetime. And the act of giving it away, or setting up a foundation in his own name to spend it, makes him great.
A paper book last forever. An e-book lasts until an electronic reader fails, and readers that use that format are no longer available. A paper book can be read by anyone. An e-book can be read only by people who have the kind of reader for which the book is meant.
OK, my wife and I own a lot of books, and I only have a few electronic versions but not e-books per se, they're PDF. As far as I know, paper does NOT last forever. Now it can last a long time of course, but it's definitley not permanent. (does this even need to be stated?) In fact, the electronic versions of books I do have (Truck/motorcycle repair manuals, etc) I got because I can have backup versions, and print out pages I need when in the garage. I think this story is more about e-book formats... but digital SHOULD last longer than paper. But either way, proper care must be taken to preserve it.
I bought my wife a first edition of "I know why the caged bird sings" when we were dating... I wonder what "first editions" of e-books will go for in 30 years.
Agreed. I tried to use Ekiga when I was on business trips to talk to my family. I'd boot up on a livecd (couldn't install on company hardware), install it, and try calling home.... video wouldn't work.. or audio wouldn't work... or both. I never once got it to work right. I gave up. I bit the bullet, and installed Skype. It works.
My parents and family across the country installed it... it works. We can video chat with them. They love it, the kids love it.
And if I may... how about we come up with some decent frickin' names? I know how to pronounce Skype by looking at it, and hear people saying "I'll Skype you later". Try saying "I'll Ekiga you later" It may seem like a small thing - but it's really kind of a big deal. Pidgin, gkrellm, Ekiga, K3b, Kdenlive, Geeqie, LibreOffice, and the list goes on and on. It's kind of ok when it's in the Linux world (like some of my examples), but once it's outside of that, it seems kind of lame. And lame doesn't sell, even if it's free.
I can certainly see why there would be the need to disclose personal information about some of the recipients/senders of these email exchanges. Of course, knowing that Bin Laden is no dummy, you have to wonder if any of them are faked. You know he had plenty of time to plan all kinds of things out.. so why not fake a few of them to stick it to his enemies after he's gone? He had to know that he'd eventually be caught and misinformation can be just as powerful as information.
I've been managing a testing team for the last couple of years and we've been doing Agile. We had a core team of people attend an Agile Boot Camp for a week, and it was one of the best things I've done in the last 18 years in the industry. For the first year Agiles was great, then the "real world" of doing software in a very large company started to creep in. It is still functioning much better than Waterfall, but here are my thoughts:
1. The first rule of process improvement is that in order for a process to work, it has to be useful. Because we were trained on Agile, we made it useful. The trainers were able to quickly shut up those few project managers who thought they were already experts in Agile and wanted to "improve" it.
2. As a career tester, it was nice to hear testing portrayed as a positive thing instead of what always happens - people blame the existence of bugs on the testing team. It was really great to see developers, project managers, and product development people to think like testers. It was also great for me and my team to see into those worlds as well.
3. Communication! It was really great for the first year. We really collaborated with Product Development, Testing, and Development teams. We worked really well together. Everyone was focused on this project. Then people's attention started to get diverted and shared between the many things that come up outside our project. The general quality of things deteriorated.
4. We had to tweak things. Simply because of the environment we are in, and the project particulars where we aren't a stand-alone application and had to interface with other apps/groups who follow Waterfall, we had to modify how we do things. It hurt us, but was unavoidable. I think Agile would be awesome if you could do it in a bubble.
5. Transparency. This goes with communication, but initially everyone was open. If something didn't get done, people would just say that. There was no blame, let's just address why it didn't get done and move on. But I honestly think that developers have that "god complex" where at the same time they want to be told what is wanted (removing any creative control) and not letting anyone else know what is really going on (controlling the reins of things). I really liked not having to play any politics or that other BS that always happens - finger pointing. We're still doing OK, but it's crept in from time to time.
Agile as a process works - provided that it's applied to projects that can effectively use it. Agile isn't the right process for every project. And I think that is ultimately what "process" needs to be seen as, an effective means to an end. The process is just there in order to get things done, if it doesn't work then it needs to change. Too often, people don't want that (or they want it too much). People like to blame the process - and rightly so. For a process to work, it needs to be usable, and there is no panacea when it comes to process. You just have to find the right one for what you're trying to do.
Does this soil the name of Anonymous or help it? Does it matter either way? No.
Kind of sounds like a good way to try to clear your name, blame some kind of rogue inside group... take 'swift action' on them (which can't be verified of course), then assure everyone that Anonymous is back to its moral, just ways.
I was looking for a cheap, low-power server to use as my iptables firewall. I've been running a fanless P166 for 10 years now, but it's kind of bulky and noisy. I replaced it with a broken-screen Pentium M laptop I got off of craigslist for $40. Not quite as low-power or low-profile as I had hoped, but better than what I had. I installed Lubuntu on it. Obviously I needed a 2 NIC solution, so this was my best bet (built-in NIC and PCMCIA card)
I looked around for one of these micro-PCs, but anything usable was going to be $100 minimum. I don't think this one would be sufficient because I'd rather have 2 ethernet ports. But I like the direction this is going.
Really? Are we going to stick with this "change the source yourself" argument? *sigh*
I tried using Ekiga... couldn't get it to work between a Windows and a Linux client. I wanted to video-chat with my wife and kids while on business trips. Then tried several video chats with no consistent success. Grudgingly tried Skype, and it works great. I now can video chat with my parents across the country as well. Sorry, but Skype even on Linux just worked.
I have a CS degree (from way back) but I am no longer a programmer. I'm not about to pick it up just to get video chat to work.
If Facebook buys it, it will make me sad because I abhor Facebook.
Except now you don't even have to blame Al Qaeda. The US government got away with lying to the world about Iraq, so there's no need to blame anyone anymore. It's just assumed they can do whatever they're doing it to protect us. Say you're protecting people's freedom and you can get away with anything. It doesn't matter what the facts show.
Look at Lubuntu, I just installed it on a laptop (with broken screen) to run as my firewall to replace an old P166. I had tried Xubuntu (also good) but it had some weird problem where it kept locking up after running with both interfaces up. Installed Lubuntu and haven't had any issues. There's also Damn Small linux if you're looking for something super light and fast.
I wouldn't even think on hardware that old you'd want Gnome, Unity (which I know nothing about), or KDE. Maybe one of the more lightweight desktops would work better for you? ( XFCE , LXDE )
I do get that people are very particular about their interface, I am one of them. Maybe I am misinformed, but I thought I read that you can use "classic" Ubuntu interface of Gnome and set it at login. I'm using Kubuntu 11.04, and have been very happy with it thus far. There are other variants of *buntu as well. Just because something comes a certain way out of the box, it doesn't mean you can't configure it. Surely Linux users understand this.
I can't wait to read this ABOUT Facebook. At least MySpace was short-lived and only appeared to be populated by people with the attention span of a hummingbird, and who were of the age where being annoying just came natural. Facebook has taken annoying to a whole new level, and generation. I spend maybe 5 minutes a month on there... I cannot fathom how people can spend hours on it every day.
Your provider might prohibit this, and you could be violating the terms of something you agreed to. Not commenting on the morality of it, but you should know the possible reprocussions of doing something.
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Here's the thing.. if you've tested your web app against FF 3.x and are in process of testing against 4. Now you have 5 to contend with. Suddenly, your 3.x testing is 2 releases behind. If you are planning for an enterprise release that will be in a few months, you need to know what releases to test against. I understand the technical issues and that FF4 and 5 aren't that different, but for compatability testing this is a huge pain in the ass. There's enterprise documentation, support, customer support, test labs, etc. And the fact that it was pretty much a surprise didn't help things.
I've been looking through some of the docs, and I haven't really found anything all that bad yet. There's lots of comments on here about racial profiling, etc. But so far I haven't found anything to support that.
What I have found is that lulzsec didn't do any kind of filtering on what they released. I was sad to read about a murder investigation. I kind of wish that would have been culled out - there should be some kind of decency out of respect for those families involved. I saw some memos about a new motorcycle gang allowed to ride in AZ, and it was more 'matter of fact' informational than anything. And hey, the Hell's Angel's had a Cinco de Mayo party - make sure you use caution when approaching any of their members. oooh, scandalous. Along with officers addresses (WTF?) there's a bit of banal info like shift schedules and whatnot. I just kind of don't see the point. From looking through this, it's clear to me that police officers, no matter how "bad" they seem in the grand scheme of things, are just doing a job. It looks like they have to deal with a lot of various things and coordinating on it and doing their jobs requires a lot of discipline. And they are never allowed to make any kind of mistake apparently. Sounds like a fun job, now a bunch of internet douchebags are posting their personal info. How many people do you think will retaliate just for the 'lulz', without actually needing a reason?
I live in AZ, I'm well aware of the effects of illegal immigration. I'm also aware of the contributions of the Mexican culture to the US. There seems to be a general disgust for "border jumpers" around here, but it's directed at all brown-looking people. I get pretty sick of the jokes and comments - and I'm about as white as you can get. It just reeks of ignorance and blanket hate. It never seems to be based on real information, it's on Fox headlines, forwarded emails, or facebook posts. I think that the news of these released documents is just fuel when in reality it's not needed. If they really wanted to target injustice, they would actually read through the stuff they stole and make a more pointed release of information. This "hey, we found a bunch of evil stuff, check it out" and then releasing it to the wind could have detrimental side effects. Come on, I know you're the lowest of the low hackers, but show some initiative! All you're doing is making the machine want to clamp down tighter. If you want to make a difference, then use your heads. Sheesh.
From a testing perspective, this is a real PITA. If you are testing web applications and need to define what browsers you are compatible with (and do testing on) for a future release, this can cause lots of headache. Let's say I have a release scheduled to go out in September. What release do I test against? 4 - it's not supported. 5 - it may not be supported by Sep.
or did we get rid of the "news for nerds, stuff that matters" part?
This movie is so hyped up, it's everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the marketing/advertising exceeded the cost of the actual film. Go have a look at the website for the film. The lenths they go to in order to try and establish something as legitimate before it even comes out is astounding.
Seriously. How many games have you bought in the last 12 months?
This is a problem where an industry eats itself.
Gamers have gone nuts. One of my neighbors lent us their Wii. Yeah, I know, I'm probably one of the only people in the country that doesn't have one. They asked, and I said OK. So they brought over this huge basket of stuff. Controllers, guitar, skateboard, and a slew of at least a dozen games. There were like 5 variations of "rock band". We had fun with it, mainly playing the sports games. I had to wonder what they spent on it, and how much time they wasted playing it. My 3 kids loved it (all under 7), but quickly became much more annoying. They wanted to play all the time. So we returned it.
I just think that we participate in this MORE MORE mentality. We have to have more all the time. Get a new game, play it 24/7 for a few weeks, then buy another new game. So ask yourself if you're supporting this system. How many game systems do you have? I know some guys who have 4.
Look, I'm not saying gaming is bad, I've played games since I rode my bike to the arcade with a pocket sagging with quarters. I even bought/restored/collected arcade games for several years. I still play a few games on my computer (liking Red Eclipse and Super Tux Kart at the moment) but you have to throttle yourself. If you feed the gaming industry machine, it will do nothing but grow and get lazy.
Kids home-schooled into the high school level that don't already have competence with word processors and spreadsheets? A guy with a MS in CS who talks about word processing in the same sentence as computer science? If he wanted to push more buttons he'd have explained that his mom thought Linux was for commies. Seriously, don't feed the troll.
He's also asking for a HIGH SCHOOL computer science cirriculum. Showing my age, when I was in high school it was just called "computers" and was on a TRS-80. So I don't know what kind of learning programs they now have in high school. At first when I saw "computer science" and "spreadsheets" in the same sentence I winced, but then I read what was asked and it's not that far off. Yeah, I did programming in HS (BASIC) but am not sure what they call "computer classes" today... alongside spreadsheets he does mention intro to programmeing and OSes. AND he mentions that it's for his two younger siblings, so they could be 12 and 14 for all we know. So it's not that far off that they wouldn't know anythign about spreadsheets, word processing, and databases.
I know I know, home-schooling is supposed to be a big joke. You know what's also a joke? Public school. My kids are just entering school, and being part of that broken system has made my wife and I question whether or not it's the best place for our kids. Watch the documentary Waiting For Superman. Home-schooling definitely has downsides, but there are upsides too. My daughter is 6 and just finished kindergarten. She's tiny, yet came home and was saying that someone at school said she looked fat. Many of the kids in her class of 32 (!) are mean little punks. Sometimes NOT being around the "public" isn't such a bad thing.
Open source projects will have nothing to copy.
I kid, I kid.
But really - Microsoft doesn't need to go out of business.. they just need to accept the fact that they aren't the only game in town. They do a lot of research nowadays, which may or may not always pan out. But it helps to push technology. I'm not really into gaming, but Kinect seems to be a pretty interesting product. Sure, the Wii took the world by storm and was true innovation, and that likely is what led to the development of Kinect. Or maybe it was already in the works, who knows. But let them throw their piles and piles of money at research, and find out interesting things. Let them keep trying to improve their OS, and cramming their software down our throats... as a Linux user, I'm pretty immune to that. Except at work, and there it's business-use only, so it's Outlook/Communicator/GroupChat/Excel/Powerpoint/IE.. and I'm generally OK with that.
And yes, Gates has done a lot of great things with all his money. He didn't have to, so good for him and the rest of the world. But he hasn't really *sacrificed* anything. He has more money than he could ever hope to use. Percentage-wise, he can give away 99% of his net worth and still live quite comfortably. He's building his legacy, so his name carries on. I just don't think that makes him a great man. It just makes him a man so wealthy that he can give away more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetime. And the act of giving it away, or setting up a foundation in his own name to spend it, makes him great.
A paper book last forever. An e-book lasts until an electronic reader fails, and readers that use that format are no longer available. A paper book can be read by anyone. An e-book can be read only by people who have the kind of reader for which the book is meant.
OK, my wife and I own a lot of books, and I only have a few electronic versions but not e-books per se, they're PDF. As far as I know, paper does NOT last forever. Now it can last a long time of course, but it's definitley not permanent. (does this even need to be stated?) In fact, the electronic versions of books I do have (Truck/motorcycle repair manuals, etc) I got because I can have backup versions, and print out pages I need when in the garage. I think this story is more about e-book formats... but digital SHOULD last longer than paper. But either way, proper care must be taken to preserve it.
I bought my wife a first edition of "I know why the caged bird sings" when we were dating... I wonder what "first editions" of e-books will go for in 30 years.
Agreed. I tried to use Ekiga when I was on business trips to talk to my family. I'd boot up on a livecd (couldn't install on company hardware), install it, and try calling home.... video wouldn't work.. or audio wouldn't work... or both. I never once got it to work right. I gave up. I bit the bullet, and installed Skype. It works.
My parents and family across the country installed it... it works. We can video chat with them. They love it, the kids love it.
And if I may... how about we come up with some decent frickin' names? I know how to pronounce Skype by looking at it, and hear people saying "I'll Skype you later". Try saying "I'll Ekiga you later" It may seem like a small thing - but it's really kind of a big deal. Pidgin, gkrellm, Ekiga, K3b, Kdenlive, Geeqie, LibreOffice, and the list goes on and on. It's kind of ok when it's in the Linux world (like some of my examples), but once it's outside of that, it seems kind of lame. And lame doesn't sell, even if it's free.
it's called puberty.
I can certainly see why there would be the need to disclose personal information about some of the recipients/senders of these email exchanges.
Of course, knowing that Bin Laden is no dummy, you have to wonder if any of them are faked. You know he had plenty of time to plan all kinds of things out.. so why not fake a few of them to stick it to his enemies after he's gone? He had to know that he'd eventually be caught and misinformation can be just as powerful as information.
And since when does being famous mean "better"? It just means.. famous. People are famous for lots of reasons, good and bad.
I think maybe we need to stop trying to prove "Geeks aren't all bad" and just live our lives. It's less like "Revenge of the Nerds" nowadays.
I've been managing a testing team for the last couple of years and we've been doing Agile. We had a core team of people attend an Agile Boot Camp for a week, and it was one of the best things I've done in the last 18 years in the industry. For the first year Agiles was great, then the "real world" of doing software in a very large company started to creep in. It is still functioning much better than Waterfall, but here are my thoughts:
1. The first rule of process improvement is that in order for a process to work, it has to be useful. Because we were trained on Agile, we made it useful. The trainers were able to quickly shut up those few project managers who thought they were already experts in Agile and wanted to "improve" it.
2. As a career tester, it was nice to hear testing portrayed as a positive thing instead of what always happens - people blame the existence of bugs on the testing team. It was really great to see developers, project managers, and product development people to think like testers. It was also great for me and my team to see into those worlds as well.
3. Communication! It was really great for the first year. We really collaborated with Product Development, Testing, and Development teams. We worked really well together. Everyone was focused on this project. Then people's attention started to get diverted and shared between the many things that come up outside our project. The general quality of things deteriorated.
4. We had to tweak things. Simply because of the environment we are in, and the project particulars where we aren't a stand-alone application and had to interface with other apps/groups who follow Waterfall, we had to modify how we do things. It hurt us, but was unavoidable. I think Agile would be awesome if you could do it in a bubble.
5. Transparency. This goes with communication, but initially everyone was open. If something didn't get done, people would just say that. There was no blame, let's just address why it didn't get done and move on. But I honestly think that developers have that "god complex" where at the same time they want to be told what is wanted (removing any creative control) and not letting anyone else know what is really going on (controlling the reins of things). I really liked not having to play any politics or that other BS that always happens - finger pointing. We're still doing OK, but it's crept in from time to time.
Agile as a process works - provided that it's applied to projects that can effectively use it. Agile isn't the right process for every project. And I think that is ultimately what "process" needs to be seen as, an effective means to an end. The process is just there in order to get things done, if it doesn't work then it needs to change. Too often, people don't want that (or they want it too much). People like to blame the process - and rightly so. For a process to work, it needs to be usable, and there is no panacea when it comes to process. You just have to find the right one for what you're trying to do.
Does this soil the name of Anonymous or help it?
Does it matter either way?
No.
Kind of sounds like a good way to try to clear your name, blame some kind of rogue inside group... take 'swift action' on them (which can't be verified of course), then assure everyone that Anonymous is back to its moral, just ways.
the lulz just keep on coming
I was looking for a cheap, low-power server to use as my iptables firewall. I've been running a fanless P166 for 10 years now, but it's kind of bulky and noisy. I replaced it with a broken-screen Pentium M laptop I got off of craigslist for $40. Not quite as low-power or low-profile as I had hoped, but better than what I had. I installed Lubuntu on it. Obviously I needed a 2 NIC solution, so this was my best bet (built-in NIC and PCMCIA card)
I looked around for one of these micro-PCs, but anything usable was going to be $100 minimum. I don't think this one would be sufficient because I'd rather have 2 ethernet ports. But I like the direction this is going.
Really? Are we going to stick with this "change the source yourself" argument?
*sigh*
I tried using Ekiga... couldn't get it to work between a Windows and a Linux client. I wanted to video-chat with my wife and kids while on business trips. Then tried several video chats with no consistent success. Grudgingly tried Skype, and it works great. I now can video chat with my parents across the country as well.
Sorry, but Skype even on Linux just worked.
I have a CS degree (from way back) but I am no longer a programmer. I'm not about to pick it up just to get video chat to work.
If Facebook buys it, it will make me sad because I abhor Facebook.
Does anyone have a podcast or ebook version of this article, I'm very interested in this topic.
Except now you don't even have to blame Al Qaeda. The US government got away with lying to the world about Iraq, so there's no need to blame anyone anymore. It's just assumed they can do whatever they're doing it to protect us. Say you're protecting people's freedom and you can get away with anything. It doesn't matter what the facts show.
Look at Lubuntu, I just installed it on a laptop (with broken screen) to run as my firewall to replace an old P166. I had tried Xubuntu (also good) but it had some weird problem where it kept locking up after running with both interfaces up. Installed Lubuntu and haven't had any issues. There's also Damn Small linux if you're looking for something super light and fast.
I wouldn't even think on hardware that old you'd want Gnome, Unity (which I know nothing about), or KDE. Maybe one of the more lightweight desktops would work better for you? ( XFCE , LXDE )
I do get that people are very particular about their interface, I am one of them. Maybe I am misinformed, but I thought I read that you can use "classic" Ubuntu interface of Gnome and set it at login. I'm using Kubuntu 11.04, and have been very happy with it thus far. There are other variants of *buntu as well. Just because something comes a certain way out of the box, it doesn't mean you can't configure it. Surely Linux users understand this.
Why else? Money.
Joe Rogan talks about the military industrial complex
I can't wait to read this ABOUT Facebook. At least MySpace was short-lived and only appeared to be populated by people with the attention span of a hummingbird, and who were of the age where being annoying just came natural. Facebook has taken annoying to a whole new level, and generation. I spend maybe 5 minutes a month on there... I cannot fathom how people can spend hours on it every day.
Your provider might prohibit this, and you could be violating the terms of something you agreed to. Not commenting on the morality of it, but you should know the possible reprocussions of doing something.