The trouble with Motorola is that they hardly offer updates for their recent devices and prevent the owners from updating themselves by encrypting the bootloader so that it only accepts kernels cryptographically signed by Motorola.
Nobody expects Motorola to offer infinite support for outdated devices, but they should at least acknoledge that not everyone wants to follow their idea of product life cycle and thus might be interested in an open device that allows for 3rd party firmware images to be installed.
I'm about ready to throw in the towel and do my gaming on a console and just use netbooks for my general PC needs.
That's just about what I did a few years back, when the PS3 hit the market. Today, I can't imagine how I ever coped with a handful of PCs needing constant software and hardware updates and problem fixing! Now it's netbooks for "work" and the console for "play".;)
It's by far the fastest, most hassle-free and ecofriendly way of supplying any reasonable amount of storage. It does RAID5 and RAID6, iSCSI, ext4, 2x 1000MBit/s Ethernet, Ajax web-based management interface etc., so all the bases are covered well.
I'd never settle for a lesser system (e.g. retail set-top-box) now that I'm used to the power of MythTV.
Clearly you've been using inferior models to arrive at your conclusion. You might want to use one of these http://www.dreambox4u.com/home/models.php as a benchmark instead. They run Linux, are fairly easy to set up and are very reliable.
Yeah, and hardly any of the BASIC interpreters at the time had a RENUM command to assist in the refactoring... Even my trusty Sharp 1403H had RENUM and I'd have been lost without it after the 2nd refactoring iteration.;)
Hang on, he said he was on a slow network (100 MBit/s), didn't he? Even at full utilisation of the NIC, how can 12 MByte/s bog down any workstation intended to do serious graphics editing or video cutting work on?
Why don't they just all access the boss' son's fileshares, too? Bog his machine down together in a small office-DoS, fill his harddisk with garbage where he won't look for it, garble some of his files by accident, etc. until he sees the wisdom in getting a fileserver with proper backups as well.
Well, money can't be that tight if the company supports slowing down employees because someone has to bog their systems down by using fileshares extensively. Slowed down employees -> reduced productivity (even in creative jobs) -> less bottom line. I guess that for a few hours of lost productivity they could probably get themselves a nice powerful NAS from Qnap, Synology, etc. to host all their files. This even works equally well with Apple's workstations or "normal" PCs.
It's a good thing there's actually a customized version of the Wii just for those girls that don't want their boyfriends to have a proper HD setup... http://bit.ly/7wnVfm
I'd really like to see JMS finish up some of his older stories, preferably Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. If this came out in Hollywood quality, it'd really be a blast.
Greylisting has problems too. Not least, it causes delays, which can run into multiple minutes.
That's why I recommend no-listing. Basically you have the first and last MX record point to nowhere, which gets rid of lots of spammers not doing proper MX traversal and retries. The "real" MX entries are "hidden" in between the no-listing ones, priority-wise.
For proper mail servers it's no slowdown at all, while spammers get shot down right off the bat.
Well, given the documentary, I'm quite sure that it actually was GM, the oil companies and CARB that were at fault. You can read more about it here: http://www.ev1.org/
Why will Ubuntu's version system no longer work in 90 years? It's basically just the current year minus 2000, which will still work fine in the future. It won't work for the past before 2000, unless you like negative version numbers.;)
You certainly don't want to find that patching one item introduces a raft of new dependencies which require you to re-emerge half the software. Debian understands this. Gentoo doesn't.
Indeed, some time ago I got onto Gentoo's IRC channel asking for some help sorting out some serious mess I got myself into with expired profiles and no longer updateable packages. I got all sorts of weird recommendations and all they did was hose my system even more.
My complaints that this *sucked* where not welcome.
Choice is wonderful.;) I went back to Debian, of course. There is something to said for stability.
I can recommend Linksys for routers as well. But don't go for the home stuff, get something serious like their RV082 if you want to see proper performance on a 100 MBit/s uplink.
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The trouble with Motorola is that they hardly offer updates for their recent devices and prevent the owners from updating themselves by encrypting the bootloader so that it only accepts kernels cryptographically signed by Motorola.
Nobody expects Motorola to offer infinite support for outdated devices, but they should at least acknoledge that not everyone wants to follow their idea of product life cycle and thus might be interested in an open device that allows for 3rd party firmware images to be installed.
Then why are they building things like the Pogo (http://bit.ly/gZyTI6)? Looks much like the old idea of Polaroid to me...
I'm about ready to throw in the towel and do my gaming on a console and just use netbooks for my general PC needs.
That's just about what I did a few years back, when the PS3 hit the market. Today, I can't imagine how I ever coped with a handful of PCs needing constant software and hardware updates and problem fixing! Now it's netbooks for "work" and the console for "play". ;)
The only sensible recommendation one can make is getting a NAS like this one: http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=109
It's by far the fastest, most hassle-free and ecofriendly way of supplying any reasonable amount of storage. It does RAID5 and RAID6, iSCSI, ext4, 2x 1000MBit/s Ethernet, Ajax web-based management interface etc., so all the bases are covered well.
I'd never settle for a lesser system (e.g. retail set-top-box) now that I'm used to the power of MythTV.
Clearly you've been using inferior models to arrive at your conclusion. You might want to use one of these http://www.dreambox4u.com/home/models.php as a benchmark instead. They run Linux, are fairly easy to set up and are very reliable.
Why don't they ever delay the long-term releases by a few weeks or months to put together a truly finished product?
I think they did with their 6.06LTS release, didn't they?
Yeah, and hardly any of the BASIC interpreters at the time had a RENUM command to assist in the refactoring... Even my trusty Sharp 1403H had RENUM and I'd have been lost without it after the 2nd refactoring iteration. ;)
Hang on, he said he was on a slow network (100 MBit/s), didn't he? Even at full utilisation of the NIC, how can 12 MByte/s bog down any workstation intended to do serious graphics editing or video cutting work on?
Why don't they just all access the boss' son's fileshares, too? Bog his machine down together in a small office-DoS, fill his harddisk with garbage where he won't look for it, garble some of his files by accident, etc. until he sees the wisdom in getting a fileserver with proper backups as well.
Well, money can't be that tight if the company supports slowing down employees because someone has to bog their systems down by using fileshares extensively. Slowed down employees -> reduced productivity (even in creative jobs) -> less bottom line. I guess that for a few hours of lost productivity they could probably get themselves a nice powerful NAS from Qnap, Synology, etc. to host all their files. This even works equally well with Apple's workstations or "normal" PCs.
just fucking skip the attempted nazi-ing all together. You'd look less like a jack ass, and save both of us some typing.
Although it does look like he could do with the practice... ;)
If you're paying so much for all that gear, you're doing it wrong... ;)
http://bit.ly/8Mjw6x
It's a good thing there's actually a customized version of the Wii just for those girls that don't want their boyfriends to have a proper HD setup...
http://bit.ly/7wnVfm
I'd really like to see JMS finish up some of his older stories, preferably Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. If this came out in Hollywood quality, it'd really be a blast.
Greylisting has problems too. Not least, it causes delays, which can run into multiple minutes.
That's why I recommend no-listing. Basically you have the first and last MX record point to nowhere, which gets rid of lots of spammers not doing proper MX traversal and retries. The "real" MX entries are "hidden" in between the no-listing ones, priority-wise.
For proper mail servers it's no slowdown at all, while spammers get shot down right off the bat.
Time to install Google Gears...
Well, given the documentary, I'm quite sure that it actually was GM, the oil companies and CARB that were at fault. You can read more about it here: http://www.ev1.org/
Why will Ubuntu's version system no longer work in 90 years? It's basically just the current year minus 2000, which will still work fine in the future. It won't work for the past before 2000, unless you like negative version numbers. ;)
Yes, but there's also Truecrypt, which is available for all major platforms: http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads
It's really easy to set up, so nobody should leave their mobile computer unencrypted.
You certainly don't want to find that patching one item introduces a raft of new dependencies which require you to re-emerge half the software. Debian understands this. Gentoo doesn't.
Indeed, some time ago I got onto Gentoo's IRC channel asking for some help sorting out some serious mess I got myself into with expired profiles and no longer updateable packages. I got all sorts of weird recommendations and all they did was hose my system even more.
My complaints that this *sucked* where not welcome.
Choice is wonderful. ;) I went back to Debian, of course. There is something to said for stability.
No wonder it was so fast, it probably wasn't doing any NAT at all. ;) And no firewalling either... :)
That sounds like a swell idea... NOT! Never use your file server as your router.
I can recommend Linksys for routers as well. But don't go for the home stuff, get something serious like their RV082 if you want to see proper performance on a 100 MBit/s uplink.
The parent probably meant to write task instead ask...
Interestingly enough, most retailers say in their terms that they won't let you return the software you bought for your money back.