However, whether most people will actually be willing to recycle old computers for $15 when they could dispose of them nearly as easily for free, remains to be seen.
Some will, some won't. To me, the really big question is; how long until it's a realistic option for we computer users who live in the boonies (eg: alaska)?
I did another minimal FreeBSD install and started looking for things I could remove in order to save space. After much tinkering, my "miniBSD" only weighed 22 MB (all binaries linked dynamically) and still had all the functionality I wanted (including ssh, FTP, perl and all the basic commands one expects on a reasonable UNIX system). Without perl, it fits in about 12 MB.
What if you live in an area where your only options for broadband internet are the local cable monopoly or the local phone monopoly. You know, places like most of the U.S. outside of major cities.
I live in a city of 31,000 people, approximately. (Moving is not an option, btw). Our choices for *dialup* are as follows: AOL Walmart MSN (through the local teleco) Local ISP who is too shitty to mention.
The last one is the one that I am going through. I'm ditching them, however, as they only offer *Web-Based* email. (I know: "wtf"). This would be fine...if it hadn't been broken since December.
So, here in The Sticks, even if you were willing to go back to dial up to access freenet; it still may not be an option (esp if AOL, etc get rid of ShitIspCo)
That may be bad taste but I'm tired of all those stories about how brave Christopher Reeve is for being crippled. As far as I know he doesnt have any choice in the matter.
Reeve doesn't get publicity for being handi-capable. He gets publicity for doing something, instead of sitting in the corner whinging.
If an ISP uses an "deny everything except what we allow" (ports for mail, web and chat, probably); then randomly selected port numbers wouldn't do much good, AFAIK.
The way that I see it, ISP's are heading the way of cable companies. In the future you will have one state covered by, say, AOL and a local teleco ISP; another state covered by MSN and a local teleco.
Once matters reach that point, it will be fairly trivial for them to block whatever ports are being used by freenet, etc (or maybe block all ports but port 80), and users who don't like it are SOL.
The last two that I can remember visiting are yahoo (which is google with a layer of yahoo on top) and dogpile, which I wasn't satisfied with.
What I find odd is that I am the only person I know who does use google, and has for some time. My family uses whatever comes with aol, and my ex-gf used to use altavista.
Well, if they are going to have bugs, it is not that bad of a thing as long as they are patched promptly. Then again, many admins do have a tendancy to run unpatched machines.
Many of these unpatched boxes are even windows machines.;) (No, I'm not slamming windows, or *n?x; but bad admin practices.)
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Some will, some won't. To me, the really big question is; how long until it's a realistic option for we computer users who live in the boonies (eg: alaska)?
I can't say for anyone else, but in my case by the time I'm done with it charity wouldn't want it.
They get enough utter trash dumped off on them without throwing them my old MFM hard drives and burned-in VGA monitors.
If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
and Clippy for another?
Look up trivia and then flame each other on /.?
In otherwords: SOP?
emphasis mine.
I live in a city of 31,000 people, approximately. (Moving is not an option, btw). Our choices for *dialup* are as follows:
AOL
Walmart
MSN (through the local teleco)
Local ISP who is too shitty to mention.
The last one is the one that I am going through. I'm ditching them, however, as they only offer *Web-Based* email. (I know: "wtf"). This would be fine...if it hadn't been broken since December.
So, here in The Sticks, even if you were willing to go back to dial up to access freenet; it still may not be an option (esp if AOL, etc get rid of ShitIspCo)
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Personally, I'm hoping for "Beasty Racer"...
(/me runs for the hills, laughing maniacally)
Reeve doesn't get publicity for being handi-capable. He gets publicity for doing something, instead of sitting in the corner whinging.
And that he does have a choice in.
If an ISP uses an "deny everything except what we allow" (ports for mail, web and chat, probably); then randomly selected port numbers wouldn't do much good, AFAIK.
Let me adjust my tinfoil hat before I answer. ;)
The way that I see it, ISP's are heading the way of cable companies. In the future you will have one state covered by, say, AOL and a local teleco ISP; another state covered by MSN and a local teleco.
Once matters reach that point, it will be fairly trivial for them to block whatever ports are being used by freenet, etc (or maybe block all ports but port 80), and users who don't like it are SOL.
I assume you're aware of http://news.google.com ?
Personally speaking, I haven't trusted yahoo's news coverage in 2 or 3 years.
The last two that I can remember visiting are yahoo (which is google with a layer of yahoo on top) and dogpile, which I wasn't satisfied with.
What I find odd is that I am the only person I know who does use google, and has for some time. My family uses whatever comes with aol, and my ex-gf used to use altavista.
First you have to start with a good movie. Hollywood finds coming up with one of those hard enough as it is!
Many of these unpatched boxes are even windows machines.
(No, I'm not slamming windows, or *n?x; but bad admin practices.)
Strictly IMHO, but I believe that it's probably aged a lot better than other 'classic' comics (doonesbury comes to mind).
It's more dated than, say, 'peanuts'; but the quality is also better too. (again, IMHO).
I completely agree, however, that Calvin and Hobbes would be an even better choice.
OS fingerprinting is dying!
(sorry. someone had to...)
Without having to pay $300 for vmware to boot! Sweeet!
If you smoke, or live in some place dusty (such as arizona) and use your laptop for any extended period of time, that's a problem already.
I don't think this would make that much of a difference?
Or were you going for +1 funny?
s/RIAA/TicketMaster/g ???
Not only do I see this being passed in a crippled form, but when it is; I fully expect to see the media we're currently using crippled even more.
I'd imagine anyone who was using vynil when they made the push to CDs knows what I'm talking about.
...that if you think these look cool; you needn't fear being 'popular'. ;)
(damn, did I forget my humor tags?)
I have a weird gateway astro that freebsd wouldn't do x in, I wonder if this version of FreeBSD will fix that.
;)
Oh well, if not, there's still [b]vmware[/b].