Leave it to InfoWeek to be both completely confused and 5 years behind the times.
To wit, this article with the same premise from Lifehacker in 2006. And that was before DD-WRT sucked.
First, the author's router is not "an old router". In fact, it ships with DD-WRT. Take an old WRT-54G 1.0 and stick DD-WRT and that would be breathing life into an old router. All you're doing here is using a Buffalo-preconfigured (and encrypted, closed-source) version of DD-WRT.
But more to the point...DD-WRT? Ick. If you want QoS (as the author seems to), you need pay for the commercial version. The QoS in the free version is known broken and has been for quite a while, and there is little motivation to fix it. Also, old routers cannot use the QoS, because you need 4MB or bigger flash. Maybe it works in newer routers but who cares - there are plenty of better alternatives to DD-WRT.
Finally, for Slashdotters, let me say two words that will have you running screaming from DD-WRT: software activation.
Tomato is a fine, free (in all senses) alternative, and I personally love the Tomato-USB version.
From what I've read, Whitman is a placeholder. She's a director and is going to step in and run things until they find a permanent CEO.
If they consider making her permanent...Whitman is the wrong person for the job. She spent 30 years in consumer tech and HP is trying to focus on enterprise IT. Unless they plan to ditch that and do a 180-degree change and go back to PCs, tablets, and phones, she's a bad fit.
She is also an idiot. eBay buying Skype was one of the dumbest moves of all time.
BIOS is ALWAYS hooked into 8086 mode (real mode) so at boot time you are limited by it's calls (such as 13h for disks) and that's hard and
expensive to emulate on a non-x86 system (such as most Intel/AMD processors).
I ask in ignorance...why are 8086 real mode calls "hard and expensive" to emulate on, say, current Intel processors?
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
But what if I get on a jury and then there's an election? Do I not vote because we've already passed that step? Or do I say I can't serve on the jury because there's an election? I have to use them "in order"...
If they were making money hand over fist, they would not be exiting nuclear power. Because they decided to exit nuclear power, they take the opportunity to make it look like they're concerned about society.
This is not much different than companies saying "we're going green" and getting rid of postal-mail bills. They're "going green" because it saves them money. If it it was more expensive to send email than paper, you can be certain they would still be sending paper.
I can't speak for the EU, but at least in the US, the legal thinking is that you can't make it indefinite due to the U.S. Constitution ("To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"). Unfortunately, the Supremes seem to think that any number is fine...so yes, 90 years or 100,000 years would theoretically be fine, as long as it is not "infinity".
In other news, the legal system is completely retarded.
metric is a totally superior system in every way but people don't want to recognize it because they are simply too lazy to change.
Not every way - most ways. Fahrenheit is more accurate than Celsius and one degree Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change humans can sense. Celsius just takes two arbitrary points for water and divides by 100.
At this point, you couldn't convince me to click on a banner ad, period.
Find a site you dislike. Click on its Google Ads 500 times. Enjoy watching said site be booted from Adsense due to anomalous patterns of clicking and suspicion the owner is clicking his own ads to boost his revenue.
Before the Republican party allied itself with the bible-thumpers, the Republican party was considered the Liberal side while the Democrats were the conservatives. The democrats didn't change. The Republicans simply swung even further to the extreme than the Democrats... enough to make them look "liberal" by comparison. It wasn't always the way we see it today you know.
I'm sorry, but your grad student teaching assistant is wrong. The democrats did radically change - you may wish to read up on the elections of 1968 and 1972. George McGovern could not have been the Democrat nominee in the 1950s.
What has happened is that the liberal wing of the Republican party (and there were many - Nixon is prime example, while Goldwater was the conservative standard bearer) has disappeared.
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The funniest part of this whole thing is that Microsoft is making more money off of Android than Google is.
I just realized you're right and that is absolutely hilarious.
It will, and it will do so with value-added synergy.
Leave it to InfoWeek to be both completely confused and 5 years behind the times.
To wit, this article with the same premise from Lifehacker in 2006. And that was before DD-WRT sucked.
First, the author's router is not "an old router". In fact, it ships with DD-WRT. Take an old WRT-54G 1.0 and stick DD-WRT and that would be breathing life into an old router. All you're doing here is using a Buffalo-preconfigured (and encrypted, closed-source) version of DD-WRT.
But more to the point...DD-WRT? Ick. If you want QoS (as the author seems to), you need pay for the commercial version. The QoS in the free version is known broken and has been for quite a while, and there is little motivation to fix it. Also, old routers cannot use the QoS, because you need 4MB or bigger flash. Maybe it works in newer routers but who cares - there are plenty of better alternatives to DD-WRT.
Finally, for Slashdotters, let me say two words that will have you running screaming from DD-WRT: software activation.
Tomato is a fine, free (in all senses) alternative, and I personally love the Tomato-USB version.
Tomato-USB (which, not surprisingly, adds USB support) is also a fine package.
...seriously, we get it that you don't like CVS.
All three members of the FSF appreciate the correction.
I'm surprised that no one here has suggested Suse/OpenSUSE yet.
SuSE is still around?
From what I've read, Whitman is a placeholder. She's a director and is going to step in and run things until they find a permanent CEO.
If they consider making her permanent...Whitman is the wrong person for the job. She spent 30 years in consumer tech and HP is trying to focus on enterprise IT. Unless they plan to ditch that and do a 180-degree change and go back to PCs, tablets, and phones, she's a bad fit.
She is also an idiot. eBay buying Skype was one of the dumbest moves of all time.
BIOS is ALWAYS hooked into 8086 mode (real mode) so at boot time you are limited by it's calls (such as 13h for disks) and that's hard and expensive to emulate on a non-x86 system (such as most Intel/AMD processors).
I ask in ignorance...why are 8086 real mode calls "hard and expensive" to emulate on, say, current Intel processors?
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
But what if I get on a jury and then there's an election? Do I not vote because we've already passed that step? Or do I say I can't serve on the jury because there's an election? I have to use them "in order"...
HTML 5 isn't finished yet.
Only three more years to go!
Does this (concern|scare|disgust) any of you?
Why am I limited to these choices? Groupthink much?
Do you have the full picture? Do you know what conversations have been going on for the past year (since they reserved the domain name)?
Yeah, you tell 'em! They reserved the domain name and the Twitter name and...oh.
Qwikster: Home of the Pot-Smoking Elmo.
If they were making money hand over fist, they would not be exiting nuclear power. Because they decided to exit nuclear power, they take the opportunity to make it look like they're concerned about society.
This is not much different than companies saying "we're going green" and getting rid of postal-mail bills. They're "going green" because it saves them money. If it it was more expensive to send email than paper, you can be certain they would still be sending paper.
(It's not really a library, btw.)
No, but parsing that as "lib re-office" is awesome.
Can anyone recommend a decent competitor to Google Apps?
I haven't really examined it, but Zoho is the service I usually hear in the context of Google Apps Competitor.
I guess the idea of trying to make a BETTER product never occurred to him.
I can't speak for the EU, but at least in the US, the legal thinking is that you can't make it indefinite due to the U.S. Constitution ("To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"). Unfortunately, the Supremes seem to think that any number is fine...so yes, 90 years or 100,000 years would theoretically be fine, as long as it is not "infinity".
In other news, the legal system is completely retarded.
with one tiny difference, he actually wrote it.
Well, we are taking his word that he wrote it. His track record for plagiarism is pretty awful. Like his doctoral dissertation for instance.
I like AM & PM.
It makes it fairly simple to tell 'morning' from 'afternoon'. To me 18 means diddly squat. 6 pm means something.
Well, then, clearly we can't change because what numbers mean to you is the most important thing for the rest of us.
metric is a totally superior system in every way but people don't want to recognize it because they are simply too lazy to change.
Not every way - most ways. Fahrenheit is more accurate than Celsius and one degree Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change humans can sense. Celsius just takes two arbitrary points for water and divides by 100.
I don't see anything about the Drupal chapter. Does this book contain information on configuring Drupal? Plz advise.
Best. Packt. Joke. Ever.
Entirely besides the point. They could, therefore it can be abused, therefore there must be EXTREME oversight. Period.
Yeah, we should setup a government board or require government courts to monitor and oversee the government...er wait...
At this point, you couldn't convince me to click on a banner ad, period.
Find a site you dislike. Click on its Google Ads 500 times. Enjoy watching said site be booted from Adsense due to anomalous patterns of clicking and suspicion the owner is clicking his own ads to boost his revenue.
Consider this:
Before the Republican party allied itself with the bible-thumpers, the Republican party was considered the Liberal side while the Democrats were the conservatives. The democrats didn't change. The Republicans simply swung even further to the extreme than the Democrats... enough to make them look "liberal" by comparison. It wasn't always the way we see it today you know.
I'm sorry, but your grad student teaching assistant is wrong. The democrats did radically change - you may wish to read up on the elections of 1968 and 1972. George McGovern could not have been the Democrat nominee in the 1950s.
What has happened is that the liberal wing of the Republican party (and there were many - Nixon is prime example, while Goldwater was the conservative standard bearer) has disappeared.