486 DX4/100 w/ 32M RAM running FreeBSD with ipfw, natd, ssh, thttpd, and a couple of other things on my cablemodem. In general, idle stays above 80% - except when hitting the perl cgi scripts:-) Poor little thing. I'm extatic with it as my firewall, though! I certainly don't notice it slowing me down - how hard is natd and a bunch of comms stuff, anyway:-)
Really we're all spoiled with all this bloatware and GUIs and OO work environments (KDE/GNOME) - which are great - don't get me wrong. But, really, what do you need your firewall to do? Certainly you don't need 100's of MHz...
Uh-huh. Does you aunt remember your current address (cool as it may be)? Probably it's in her address book (if she uses email) and it wouldn't matter what the actual email address was. Just like your regular address.
Consider the current alternative: a scribble on a piece of paper? Yeah, that's secure.
Hopefully they will make this concept legal while not requiring a specific implementation - that way folks who care to can keep the implementation up to date. I trust folks like Visa, etc, to stay on top of this. It is in their best interest (by a long shot) to make this kind of thing work well.
In effect, RedHat is an API. You said yourself that Debian comes with more libraries - which would make "Debian software" incompatible (unless they package additional libraries or don't use them).
Supporting Linux is no harder than supporting Windows. BS. Windows is single source - get a support contract from M$ and you're set (kinda:-). Supporting "Linux" means how many vendors? This week? Next week?
Usually a product for Windows has to be tested on...
Wrong. Turbotax is supported on 3 platforms: 95,98, and NT4.0. It works on more. Pharaoh is only supported on 95/98. The key word here is SUPPORTED - the both work on more. Same goes for "RedHat" software.
Supporting Linux does not make sense - it is a testing nightmare, at least. RedHat is a reasonable API (that's what developers care about, right?) with a large (relative) following - vendors will support it. If you don't wanna run RH (I don't), don't expect support.
Anyone who reads "RedHat supported" and gets upset should know better. If you run some other dist, you'll know if the software will work. Soon other Linux Vendors will claim things like "RedHat compatible". Just deal.
there is a difference between using the source code for ideas, small bits, etc. and making a complete fucking copy.
So, tell me, when you use apache, do you use the source for ideas for your own server, or do you just use it as is without paying 'the author'? Free software is free software. Part of the point (often) is that it's free because the author doesn't want others to have to write it again to do the same thing.
What other communities are there that hold people together for more than a decade? More than 2 decades? More than 3 decades?
Even regular churchgoers in my acquaintance consider their church only one community to which they belong... they do not consider the church to represent the entire community.
'Church' is a community - what is 'an entire community'? In 10 years ask these friends what communities exist that they belonged to 10 years ago. Maybe they will move away and/or leave their church community (I have), but I can't think of any community I was a member of that long ago that even exists now... And anytime I go back to my old church I'm still welcome in that community (though I don't fit in as well with my long hair:-)
Last I checked, Slashdot source was opensourced so that it could be used freely. Free, as in (also) used by anyone because it belongs as much to them as it does the owners.
Lastly, ANY "Christian" who knocks on the door to "convert" you has broken a dozen laws laid down by Christ, not least of which is the commandment to tolerate others and not judge them. Christians are STRICTLY forbidden from judging or condemning others, other views and other ways of life. If those religious sects involved -lived- the life they claim to profess, everyone would be a great deal happier. And the non-Christians would greatly profit from learning that commandment, too.
Maybe ease up a bit? Let's say, hypothetically, that I knock on your door and ask the following questions: "Do you know God? Have you asked Jesus to be your savior?". What's the issue there? Maybe where your from they insist you're going to hell, are damned forever, and you're generally evil, but that's never been my experience, and the former approach seems pretty clean to me...
www.sfnb.com is owned (I believe) by a Canadian bank. I think they offer all the same banking services you're used to from your other bank. (note - they used to be a US bank and were bought out by a canadian bank). I've been a very happy customer of SFNB for several years - 4 or so, I believe.
Come on, you registered one of the best known words in the world. Talk to the Coke dudes, ask them for a small sum of money to transfer the domain to something useful - like cocaine-addiction.ch (translate at will). Hell, make yourself a.org, and a non-profit institution and ask them to make you a tax-deductible donation.
As long as they continue to fill all the classrooms they can staff (I assume they are?), they're gonna charge what they can. Eventually they'll have more teachers and space - then they may have to lower prices to fill classrooms.
Mainstream? I don't think that wireless cards were ever targeted at mainstream users.
That's funny. You're implying that 10/100 cards and cables are targeted at mainstream. I think the opposite is true - wireless is targeted more at mainstream than cables ever were - or it will be soon.
Anyone remember when 10/100's cost > $100? How long do you think this will take - especially with Apple pushing the Airports...
I've been with Security First for several years now. They've always treated me well. I use Etrade for the stock stuff - mostly because they were also our Stock Option solution at a previous job.
Oh, for the 'cash problem' - I just pull some cash whenever I go grocery shopping...
OK, so it's a web front-end that let's you play music through your stereo. Why is that hard? In fact, why is that not easy? Or were you just saying that the previous poster jumped to the conclusion that it's easy before they knew what it is?
I don't get it. It's not easy, it's nearly trivial. It's a $400 computer with apache, perl, a ripper, a player, an ftpd, and a LOT of GLUE. OK, that's some nice glue, but I don't think it's $2000 worth - at least not for me!
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486 DX4/100 w/ 32M RAM running FreeBSD with ipfw, natd, ssh, thttpd, and a couple of other things on my cablemodem. In general, idle stays above 80% - except when hitting the perl cgi scripts :-) Poor little thing. I'm extatic with it as my firewall, though! I certainly don't notice it slowing me down - how hard is natd and a bunch of comms stuff, anyway :-)
Really we're all spoiled with all this bloatware and GUIs and OO work environments (KDE/GNOME) - which are great - don't get me wrong. But, really, what do you need your firewall to do? Certainly you don't need 100's of MHz...
FREEBSD ROCKS!
Uh-huh. Does you aunt remember your current address (cool as it may be)? Probably it's in her address book (if she uses email) and it wouldn't matter what the actual email address was. Just like your regular address.
This ought to be illegal, on the grounds that it's the greatest breach of privacy ever concieved.
WTF? If you give someone your address, you give them your address. Hello! Your choice!
Consider the current alternative: a scribble on a piece of paper? Yeah, that's secure.
Hopefully they will make this concept legal while not requiring a specific implementation - that way folks who care to can keep the implementation up to date. I trust folks like Visa, etc, to stay on top of this. It is in their best interest (by a long shot) to make this kind of thing work well.
Supporting Linux is no harder than supporting Windows. :-). Supporting "Linux" means how many vendors? This week? Next week?
BS. Windows is single source - get a support contract from M$ and you're set (kinda
Usually a product for Windows has to be tested on...
Wrong. Turbotax is supported on 3 platforms: 95,98, and NT4.0. It works on more. Pharaoh is only supported on 95/98. The key word here is SUPPORTED - the both work on more. Same goes for "RedHat" software.
Anyone who reads "RedHat supported" and gets upset should know better. If you run some other dist, you'll know if the software will work. Soon other Linux Vendors will claim things like "RedHat compatible". Just deal.
Nah, they should just pay me. Whether I'm a spam target or not. That way we solve the which government problem!
The link on this page claims to have been updated in 3/99, and the screenshot link is busted. I would not recommend holding your breath.
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, I guess that kinda behavior does fall into the forbidden category.
Yup.
there is a difference between using the source code for ideas, small bits, etc. and making a complete fucking copy.
So, tell me, when you use apache, do you use the source for ideas for your own server, or do you just use it as is without paying 'the author'? Free software is free software. Part of the point (often) is that it's free because the author doesn't want others to have to write it again to do the same thing.
What other communities are there that hold people together for more than a decade? More than 2 decades? More than 3 decades?
Even regular churchgoers in my acquaintance consider their church only one community to which they belong... they do not consider the church to represent the entire community.
'Church' is a community - what is 'an entire community'? In 10 years ask these friends what communities exist that they belonged to 10 years ago. Maybe they will move away and/or leave their church community (I have), but I can't think of any community I was a member of that long ago that even exists now... And anytime I go back to my old church I'm still welcome in that community (though I don't fit in as well with my long hair :-)
Last I checked, Slashdot source was opensourced so that it could be used freely. Free, as in (also) used by anyone because it belongs as much to them as it does the owners.
Maybe ease up a bit? Let's say, hypothetically, that I knock on your door and ask the following questions: "Do you know God? Have you asked Jesus to be your savior?". What's the issue there? Maybe where your from they insist you're going to hell, are damned forever, and you're generally evil, but that's never been my experience, and the former approach seems pretty clean to me...
www.sfnb.com is owned (I believe) by a Canadian bank. I think they offer all the same banking services you're used to from your other bank. (note - they used to be a US bank and were bought out by a canadian bank). I've been a very happy customer of SFNB for several years - 4 or so, I believe.
Come on, you registered one of the best known words in the world. Talk to the Coke dudes, ask them for a small sum of money to transfer the domain to something useful - like cocaine-addiction.ch (translate at will). Hell, make yourself a .org, and a non-profit institution and ask them to make you a tax-deductible donation.
As long as they continue to fill all the classrooms they can staff (I assume they are?), they're gonna charge what they can. Eventually they'll have more teachers and space - then they may have to lower prices to fill classrooms.
Come on. And I want to embed a spreadsheet? And I want to EDIT WYSIWYG? Welcome back to reality, where desktops can handle 2000lb monsters.
Mainstream? I don't think that wireless cards were ever targeted at mainstream users.
That's funny. You're implying that 10/100 cards and cables are targeted at mainstream. I think the opposite is true - wireless is targeted more at mainstream than cables ever were - or it will be soon.
Anyone remember when 10/100's cost > $100? How long do you think this will take - especially with Apple pushing the Airports...
I've been with Security First for several years now. They've always treated me well. I use Etrade for the stock stuff - mostly because they were also our Stock Option solution at a previous job.
Oh, for the 'cash problem' - I just pull some cash whenever I go grocery shopping...
Well you're a double moron!
1977 Soviet Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko makes the first space walk, from the Salyut spaceship
RAPID GUI DEVELOPMENT!!!
Am I just wrong, or is it unusual to have a neurosurgeon operate on your hands?
OK, so it's a web front-end that let's you play music through your stereo. Why is that hard? In fact, why is that not easy? Or were you just saying that the previous poster jumped to the conclusion that it's easy before they knew what it is?
I don't get it. It's not easy, it's nearly trivial. It's a $400 computer with apache, perl, a ripper, a player, an ftpd, and a LOT of GLUE. OK, that's some nice glue, but I don't think it's $2000 worth - at least not for me!
That would be "...more than willing..."; don't skip the English courses :-)
Seriously, I dropped out too and have sometimes wondered what a good solution for the sheepskin might be. Not that I've had it matter since...