Great summary but please don't forget to mention that the "unlimited" plan contains 5GB per month at 3G speed. After that it's limited to GPRS. Same situation with the 1GB data plan. A common measure on many networks.
Voice call minutes are deducted separately from the prepaid credits but blau actually has fairly good rates.
Seems like 5GB have become pretty much the standard for phones. Not sure about US providers but over here after the 5GB the speed is capped to GPRS speed.
But so far I haven't exceeded 2GB per month. The higher data plan mainly is a safety measure in case I need a modem for my notebook when I'm on a business trip.
The 5GB per month for my N900 set me back €20 and by the end of every month I can change the data plan to 1GB at €10 (in case there's not much 3G traffic to be expected) and back to 5GB by the end of another month or even completely cancel it.
But then again I bought the device separately and it runs a lot more than just glorified Java applets and certainly more than one application at the same time. I'll never understand why people even put up with those limitations.
1.) Install updates 2.) Add additional repositories 3.) Run stored custom list of additional applications through aptitude (startupmanager, putty, openssh, git, chromium, opera,...) 4.) Repeat "1.)" in case there are some weird dependencies (happened to me more than once) 5.) Visit gnome-look.org to give the new install its own personality 6.) Apply UI preferences (Compiz productivity options, terminal window colors,...)
Since most of that stuff can be scripted anyway the default theme is merely a placeholder until that procedure is done. So why should I even worry about something I won't see again until I set up another machine?
Sorry, Canonical but if I wanted my system to look and/or behave like OSX I'd simply "hackintosh" it. I prefer your distribution simply because I like how it's set up under the hood and because Google usually spits out helpful results if a problem with an application or driver has to be solved.
If you're a lazy bastard like me a good motivation is usually to develop little applications to make your life easier and then to continually improve those.
In my case I once wrote a podcatcher for my cell phone because I was pissed at how the existing ones handled the task.
Later I extended that one to connect to a simple Java EE application on one of my home servers to store which podcasts have been subscribed to, at which time codes I've stopped listening to which files and which files I have deleted again and which ones are still meant to be kept. Makes it extremely easy to switch from one device to another and have it sync to a common state again.
By now the whole thing has grown GKT-based clients for my Nokia N900 and my Linux PCs which all use the Java EE application to stay current. Who needs iTunes anyway?
The certificates are actually fun since they force you to read up on details which will come in handy during complex projects and it never hurts to have some in your pocket to prove that you're genuinely interested in improving your knowledge.
There already a freeware tool out there which does most of this task. "Offline Update" (http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/offlineupdate/download_uk.shtml) was created by Heise, a German publisher of several serious IT magazines. You simply choose a MS product and it will then download all updates and patches and generate an ISO image for a bootable CD/DVD. Once finished, simply put that disk into the destination computer's drive and the the rest will be done via autostart. Reboots and related stuff will be handled by creating a temporary local admin account automatically, which will be deleted again once the program finishes its run. A nice solution for smaller companies who don't want to set up their own WSUS node.
>>2. WTF was my original post moderated Funny for? Probably because NOD32 (at least the Windows branch) tends to be so resource-friendly and yet efficient that it's barely noticeable at all.
... you could still use brute force. Our university had the same problem. In the end they configured the machines to load a fresh image from the server during the boot process. Rebooting the same copy was only possible if the user who shut down the PC was identical to the user booting it again. If the check failed, the new image was loaded as well. It puts quite a load on the network and the servers HDDs but its an effective last resort.
The description kinda contradicts itself. Its either the huge one that was used from the beginning or the smaller, more detailed model that was built later when TNG was already a couple of seasons old.
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Reminds me of Apple having people actually pay them for taking part in a beta test or for a SDK.
Still don't see the necessary Cowboy Neal connection to have it carry the /. brand.
Did you recently take a look at the legal system? Any connection to common sense went out of the window ages ago.
Smells like partyvan.
I don't even want to think about what a revamped /b/ would look like.
Not sure what you mean. The 2003 kernel in 64bit XP worked just fine for me.
One of the best Windows versions I ever used (only second to 2000).
We all know the Pi is a lie. ;)
Great summary but please don't forget to mention that the "unlimited" plan contains 5GB per month at 3G speed.
After that it's limited to GPRS. Same situation with the 1GB data plan. A common measure on many networks.
Voice call minutes are deducted separately from the prepaid credits but blau actually has fairly good rates.
Seems like 5GB have become pretty much the standard for phones. Not sure about US providers but over here after the 5GB the speed is capped to GPRS speed.
But so far I haven't exceeded 2GB per month. The higher data plan mainly is a safety measure in case I need a modem for my notebook when I'm on a business trip.
The 5GB per month for my N900 set me back €20 and by the end of every month I can change the data plan to 1GB at €10 (in case there's not much 3G traffic to be expected) and back to 5GB by the end of another month or even completely cancel it.
But then again I bought the device separately and it runs a lot more than just glorified Java applets and certainly more than one application at the same time. I'll never understand why people even put up with those limitations.
Concerning the "... between a man and a woman ..." part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw&feature=fvw
My usual routine:
1.) Install updates ...) ...)
2.) Add additional repositories
3.) Run stored custom list of additional applications through aptitude (startupmanager, putty, openssh, git, chromium, opera,
4.) Repeat "1.)" in case there are some weird dependencies (happened to me more than once)
5.) Visit gnome-look.org to give the new install its own personality
6.) Apply UI preferences (Compiz productivity options, terminal window colors,
Since most of that stuff can be scripted anyway the default theme is merely a placeholder until that procedure is done.
So why should I even worry about something I won't see again until I set up another machine?
Sorry, Canonical but if I wanted my system to look and/or behave like OSX I'd simply "hackintosh" it.
I prefer your distribution simply because I like how it's set up under the hood and because Google usually spits out helpful results if a problem with an application or driver has to be solved.
Can't help it but that name always makes me think of the Ubuntu installer instead of a Browser module.
If you're a lazy bastard like me a good motivation is usually to develop little applications to make your life easier and then to continually improve those.
In my case I once wrote a podcatcher for my cell phone because I was pissed at how the existing ones handled the task.
Later I extended that one to connect to a simple Java EE application on one of my home servers to store which podcasts have been subscribed to, at which time codes I've stopped listening to which files and which files I have deleted again and which ones are still meant to be kept.
Makes it extremely easy to switch from one device to another and have it sync to a common state again.
By now the whole thing has grown GKT-based clients for my Nokia N900 and my Linux PCs which all use the Java EE application to stay current.
Who needs iTunes anyway?
"Additional"? More like essential basic knowledge along with collections and multithreading.
Especially when to use SQL instead of HQL can pay off big time when you're working on complex J2EE projects.
The certificates are actually fun since they force you to read up on details which will come in handy during complex projects and it never hurts to have some in your pocket to prove that you're genuinely interested in improving your knowledge.
There already a freeware tool out there which does most of this task.
"Offline Update" (http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/offlineupdate/download_uk.shtml) was created by Heise, a German publisher of several serious IT magazines.
You simply choose a MS product and it will then download all updates and patches and generate an ISO image for a bootable CD/DVD. Once finished, simply put that disk into the destination computer's drive and the the rest will be done via autostart. Reboots and related stuff will be handled by creating a temporary local admin account automatically, which will be deleted again once the program finishes its run.
A nice solution for smaller companies who don't want to set up their own WSUS node.
Dont forget "Universal Soldier".
Apples and oranges. The official logo uses lower-case (http://www.esa.int/).
>>2. WTF was my original post moderated Funny for?
Probably because NOD32 (at least the Windows branch) tends to be so resource-friendly and yet efficient that it's barely noticeable at all.
So theyre afraid municipalities could do to Telcos what Telcos are planning to do once net neutrality is history?
Does anyone still remember when the same thing happened with eGroups and Yahoo! Groups?
... you could still use brute force. Our university had the same problem. In the end they configured the machines to load a fresh image from the server during the boot process. Rebooting the same copy was only possible if the user who shut down the PC was identical to the user booting it again. If the check failed, the new image was loaded as well.
It puts quite a load on the network and the servers HDDs but its an effective last resort.
The description kinda contradicts itself. Its either the huge one that was used from the beginning or the smaller, more detailed model that was built later when TNG was already a couple of seasons old.