I had lots of dropouts with my WRT54G also, until I switched *away* from the shit Linksys firmware to Tomato (currently running 1.07). It's been rock-solid ever since.
My computer stays on, in the living room. My bedroom contains exactly three things that use electricity. The alarm clock, the waterbed heater, and the ceiling fan/light fixture.
Some people power down their computers at night.
How can they sleep without the soothing fan noise?
I use Astraweb. I took advantage of their 100gb "pay as you go" plan for $25. As of this moment, the amount of time you have to use the 100gb does not expire, which is one of the reasons I went with it.
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Actually, it was Stargate SG1 that was canceled. Stargate Atlantis is still on the air (new episodes air on Friday nights on SciFi). The quote that was used, I'm pretty sure, is from Stargate Atlantis.
My experiences with AoC in beta and release confirmed beyond a doubt that Funcom is a second rate company obsessed with misleading the public about their product and delivering broken goods to the marketplace.
In other words, they're the Microsoft of the MMO market?
Since KDE 4.0 was never meant for users (I've read multiple articles about how it was only supposed to be for developers to get their KDE software ported) and 4.1 was supposed to be for "general use", I'd say this *did* warrant mention on slashdot.
Probably the same stuff NASA does. I personally believe budgets *should* be kept small, even if artificially. This *forces* innovation. If they knew they had whatever amount of money they desired, I don't think the science would advance as far, or as fast.
In short, I think it's the lack of resources that forces people to come up with workable solutions to whatever problems they face with what resources they have at hand.
The server I setup was an Athlon X2 (I don't recall what speed -- probably a 3200+) with about 1GB DDR2 ram and a couple SATA HDD's. They had about 150 users (give or take a few) who were receiving a *TON* of junk mail a day (thousands of messages daily -- I don't recall any specific numbers now). This server also acted as their firewall, squidguard, web server, and samba. It's been in place for two years now (in its current configuration) and there hasn't been one peep out of them, other than several "Thank You!" cards I've received in the mail for making their server work far better than the previous server (Novell) did.
The sites you've been looking at are either FAR busier than mine, or were configured wrong. Dunno. *shrug*
Yeah, it works *great* on low volume mail servers with lots of RAM and fast CPUs. With high volume e-mail, or where you don't have a boatload of RAM and CPU power, it does more damage than good. To the point that when I troubleshoot e-mail server problems, my first question is now "do you run clamav?". A typical example is a medium-to-high volume mail server that has been running for years, without any problems whatsoever, and a load never even hitting 0.2 or above. Then someone installs clamav, and the memory usage goes through the roof, the latency on mail increases, and the load is high.
Yeah, clamav is a good product, but it is cthulhuware that you need to dimension, anoint and bless your servers for before you install it.
...until one of his kids started sending videos of his grandchildren to him, along with the high MP pictures. Add in the gallery (Menalto's Gallery) that I run that hosts lots of family pictures. He also likes to view videos from humoron and other sites of that nature, and dialup just wasn't working for him.
I tried to convince him for at least a couple years that he should get cable or DSL, but he refused to because he either didn't want to pay the up-front costs, or he hated the company (or a combination). He finally got a taste of higher-than-dialup speed at a friends house, bit the bullet, and finally signed up for himself.
Many of these people are probably in the same boat. They just simply don't know what they are missing out on, and that's fine. That means they're either out in their community, or watching TV, etc. I just have a feeling that many of these folks would actually put a higher speed connection to use if they were introduced to all the stuff they could be using it for.
I know for a fact that one of the driving features for my father getting his DSL was that he was able to talk to my deployed brother via the internet far more cheaply than phone calls were. I wonder how many of that 62% have deployed children/family members that they'd like to be able to talk to more often?
Oh YEAH?! Well 105.3% of all statistics are completely wrong!;)
Yes, there are some horrible skins available for the software that supports it, but not *all* of the skins are bad!
I happen not to mind the default skin for Avast!, though some will obviously disagree. Still, Avast! is still a very good virus scanner (losing out only to NOD32 and one or two other for-pay scanners (that weren't McAfee or Symantec)), from what I've been reading...
Spoken like someone used to McAfee or Symantec, OR, you do such specific work that the few milliseconds it takes to scan executables as they, well, execute, that you indeed need to disable on-access scanning.
Between having Avast! on my machine, and not, the only way I can tell something is happening is when I see the blue A spinning. It really is a very good product; unless, of course, you are dong something so I/O intensive that you NEED every millisecond of I/O time, that is.
Remember, what may be great for you, and your situation, isn't what is great for "the majority". Nearly every person I personally interact with *needs* on-access scanning because they couldn't be bothered to pay attention to what the hell they're doing. If they lose a few milliseconds here or there, it won't be the end of their lives...
The main problem with most anti-virus software is that they do on-access or real-time scanning, thus wasting a vast amount of time scanning things that have no need to be scanned at precisely the most inconvenient time possible.
The main problem with clamwin is that it does not do on-access or real-time scanning. *All* virus scanning is done manually, or via schedules.
It works *great* on mail servers (I set clamAV up for a school on their courier-imap/postfix mail server and it cut down the amount of crap they received *greatly*).
I don't use windows on the desktop so I cannot really comment, however I do administer some Linux mail relays that use ClamAV with extremely good results.
I mention this because there is a windows client that uses the same FOSS engine -- ClamWin.
The interface could use some work (it's skinable, at least!), however, I have converted countless people (MOSTLY McAfee/Symantec users) to Avast! Antivirus. It has a free-for-home version, just like AVG, but doesn't have annoying pop-ups (the only popups I see are when it updates its database, when it's telling you a new version exists, or when it finds a virus/malware).
When the AVG Free forced upgrade came out, I went in search of another antivirus software product and picked Avira too, but it also seems to enjoy popping up useless dialog boxes, more so than even AVG ever did.
Is there a good AV software package that is free and up to date and doesn't suck ass?
US Cellular has free incoming text messages *and* incoming calls. The base plan starts with 700 minutes for $39.99 and the plans go up from there.
www.uscc.com
The problem is that every carrier does this, so you can't just switch to a different one because your current one is screwing you. Your alternative is to either put up with it or forget the idea of owning a cell phone entirely. The logical extreme of the latter is to end up living like a hermit in some shack in the backwoods because all of society has terms and conditions you don't agree with.
Pointing out what *you* believe is "the" way to "post" is, in no way, going to make me change my mind. I've been "posting" this way since the early '90's (when I first started using BBS's and usenet) and I'll continue to "post" in this manner.
If you don't like it? Tough shit. If you need the attention, seek it elsewhere. This is the last reply you'll see from me.
Top posting is evil, you are evil for doing it deliberately.
You can post in an incorrect, unfriendly and antisocial manner if you wish, but you must accept the kind of criticism you will deservedly receive as a result.
A threaded environment is no excuse for top posting. If you prefer to omit the quote, which you admit serves no purpose, then this is acceptable. I will note, though, that on a web-based forum even when in a thread it is advisable to quote properly as the post directly "above" you may be an unrelated reply and it may be difficult to scroll to and identify the post to which you are replying.
I am no more obliged to fuck off than you are obliged to listen to me. We are in this way--and this way only--equal.
Is it OK if I register sucks.sucks? With how people complain about *everything*, I'm sure SOME of your customers will hate you for one stupid reason or another, and I'd like to cash in on this wave of.sucks domains too!:)
If you had read even the summary, you'd see that he has already tried contacting the company and has received no reply.
"I've personally emailed Minerva and left voicemails with no reply."
Wouldn't contacting the company be a better place to start? They are not required to put the source code on the website. Also if they don't modify the source do they have to make it available? Does Dell offer Ubuntu for download?
I'll post the way I wish to post. If you don't like it, don't read my posts. I'm posting in a threaded environment. The quote doesn't need to be above what I typed -- the original post should be there. I quote for convenience. If you don't like it, tough shit.
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I had lots of dropouts with my WRT54G also, until I switched *away* from the shit Linksys firmware to Tomato (currently running 1.07). It's been rock-solid ever since.
Just my two cents.. ;)
HUSH, you! We have kids to feed and a mortgage/car payment to pay!
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Butbutbut...we want to use technology to make simple things complicated!!
There is no wife/girlfriend, thankyouverymuch.
My computer stays on, in the living room. My bedroom contains exactly three things that use electricity. The alarm clock, the waterbed heater, and the ceiling fan/light fixture.
Some people power down their computers at night.
How can they sleep without the soothing fan noise?
I use Astraweb. I took advantage of their 100gb "pay as you go" plan for $25. As of this moment, the amount of time you have to use the 100gb does not expire, which is one of the reasons I went with it.
Actually, it was Stargate SG1 that was canceled. Stargate Atlantis is still on the air (new episodes air on Friday nights on SciFi). The quote that was used, I'm pretty sure, is from Stargate Atlantis.
This probe goes in your mouth.. This one goes in your ear. This one goes in your butt..."
Perhaps it went something like this:
Clicky!
Perhaps Biden should look at implants.
He already has. The open question is where they got them from. :-)
Try telling that to my MSI Wind desktop, you insensitive clod!
That's not really relevant now is it...
You can replace a defective CPU, ever tried removing a GPU from a videocard and replacing it?
My experiences with AoC in beta and release confirmed beyond a doubt that Funcom is a second rate company obsessed with misleading the public about their product and delivering broken goods to the marketplace.
In other words, they're the Microsoft of the MMO market?
*ducks*
You can actually turn that off when you log in (creating an account is free).
Just log in, click the "settings" tab, and the settings you are looking for are in there.
Since KDE 4.0 was never meant for users (I've read multiple articles about how it was only supposed to be for developers to get their KDE software ported) and 4.1 was supposed to be for "general use", I'd say this *did* warrant mention on slashdot.
Probably the same stuff NASA does. I personally believe budgets *should* be kept small, even if artificially. This *forces* innovation. If they knew they had whatever amount of money they desired, I don't think the science would advance as far, or as fast.
In short, I think it's the lack of resources that forces people to come up with workable solutions to whatever problems they face with what resources they have at hand.
The server I setup was an Athlon X2 (I don't recall what speed -- probably a 3200+) with about 1GB DDR2 ram and a couple SATA HDD's. They had about 150 users (give or take a few) who were receiving a *TON* of junk mail a day (thousands of messages daily -- I don't recall any specific numbers now). This server also acted as their firewall, squidguard, web server, and samba. It's been in place for two years now (in its current configuration) and there hasn't been one peep out of them, other than several "Thank You!" cards I've received in the mail for making their server work far better than the previous server (Novell) did.
The sites you've been looking at are either FAR busier than mine, or were configured wrong. Dunno. *shrug*
Yeah, it works *great* on low volume mail servers with lots of RAM and fast CPUs. With high volume e-mail, or where you don't have a boatload of RAM and CPU power, it does more damage than good. To the point that when I troubleshoot e-mail server problems, my first question is now "do you run clamav?".
A typical example is a medium-to-high volume mail server that has been running for years, without any problems whatsoever, and a load never even hitting 0.2 or above. Then someone installs clamav, and the memory usage goes through the roof, the latency on mail increases, and the load is high.
Yeah, clamav is a good product, but it is cthulhuware that you need to dimension, anoint and bless your servers for before you install it.
You didn't comprehend properly. :)
Of the people on dialup, the majority of *those* people (62%) don't have any interest. :)
Majority my ass, when did 1/5th become a majority.
Quite the misleading headline.
...until one of his kids started sending videos of his grandchildren to him, along with the high MP pictures. Add in the gallery (Menalto's Gallery) that I run that hosts lots of family pictures. He also likes to view videos from humoron and other sites of that nature, and dialup just wasn't working for him.
I tried to convince him for at least a couple years that he should get cable or DSL, but he refused to because he either didn't want to pay the up-front costs, or he hated the company (or a combination). He finally got a taste of higher-than-dialup speed at a friends house, bit the bullet, and finally signed up for himself.
Many of these people are probably in the same boat. They just simply don't know what they are missing out on, and that's fine. That means they're either out in their community, or watching TV, etc. I just have a feeling that many of these folks would actually put a higher speed connection to use if they were introduced to all the stuff they could be using it for.
I know for a fact that one of the driving features for my father getting his DSL was that he was able to talk to my deployed brother via the internet far more cheaply than phone calls were. I wonder how many of that 62% have deployed children/family members that they'd like to be able to talk to more often?
Oh YEAH?! Well 105.3% of all statistics are completely wrong! ;)
Yes, there are some horrible skins available for the software that supports it, but not *all* of the skins are bad!
I happen not to mind the default skin for Avast!, though some will obviously disagree. Still, Avast! is still a very good virus scanner (losing out only to NOD32 and one or two other for-pay scanners (that weren't McAfee or Symantec)), from what I've been reading...
Spoken like someone used to McAfee or Symantec, OR, you do such specific work that the few milliseconds it takes to scan executables as they, well, execute, that you indeed need to disable on-access scanning.
Between having Avast! on my machine, and not, the only way I can tell something is happening is when I see the blue A spinning. It really is a very good product; unless, of course, you are dong something so I/O intensive that you NEED every millisecond of I/O time, that is.
Remember, what may be great for you, and your situation, isn't what is great for "the majority". Nearly every person I personally interact with *needs* on-access scanning because they couldn't be bothered to pay attention to what the hell they're doing. If they lose a few milliseconds here or there, it won't be the end of their lives...
The main problem with most anti-virus software is that they do on-access or real-time scanning, thus wasting a vast amount of time scanning things that have no need to be scanned at precisely the most inconvenient time possible.
The main problem with clamwin is that it does not do on-access or real-time scanning. *All* virus scanning is done manually, or via schedules.
It works *great* on mail servers (I set clamAV up for a school on their courier-imap/postfix mail server and it cut down the amount of crap they received *greatly*).
I don't use windows on the desktop so I cannot really comment, however I do administer some Linux mail relays that use ClamAV with extremely good results.
I mention this because there is a windows client that uses the same FOSS engine -- ClamWin.
The interface could use some work (it's skinable, at least!), however, I have converted countless people (MOSTLY McAfee/Symantec users) to Avast! Antivirus. It has a free-for-home version, just like AVG, but doesn't have annoying pop-ups (the only popups I see are when it updates its database, when it's telling you a new version exists, or when it finds a virus/malware).
Clicky
When the AVG Free forced upgrade came out, I went in search of another antivirus software product and picked Avira too, but it also seems to enjoy popping up useless dialog boxes, more so than even AVG ever did.
Is there a good AV software package that is free and up to date and doesn't suck ass?
Every carrier does *not* do this.
US Cellular has free incoming text messages *and* incoming calls. The base plan starts with 700 minutes for $39.99 and the plans go up from there.
www.uscc.com
The problem is that every carrier does this, so you can't just switch to a different one because your current one is screwing you. Your alternative is to either put up with it or forget the idea of owning a cell phone entirely. The logical extreme of the latter is to end up living like a hermit in some shack in the backwoods because all of society has terms and conditions you don't agree with.
OK. Then how about you fuck off, and then die?
Pointing out what *you* believe is "the" way to "post" is, in no way, going to make me change my mind. I've been "posting" this way since the early '90's (when I first started using BBS's and usenet) and I'll continue to "post" in this manner.
If you don't like it? Tough shit. If you need the attention, seek it elsewhere. This is the last reply you'll see from me.
Top posting is evil, you are evil for doing it deliberately.
You can post in an incorrect, unfriendly and antisocial manner if you wish, but you must accept the kind of criticism you will deservedly receive as a result.
A threaded environment is no excuse for top posting. If you prefer to omit the quote, which you admit serves no purpose, then this is acceptable. I will note, though, that on a web-based forum even when in a thread it is advisable to quote properly as the post directly "above" you may be an unrelated reply and it may be difficult to scroll to and identify the post to which you are replying.
I am no more obliged to fuck off than you are obliged to listen to me. We are in this way--and this way only--equal.
Is it OK if I register sucks.sucks? With how people complain about *everything*, I'm sure SOME of your customers will hate you for one stupid reason or another, and I'd like to cash in on this wave of .sucks domains too! :)
If you had read even the summary, you'd see that he has already tried contacting the company and has received no reply.
"I've personally emailed Minerva and left voicemails with no reply."
Wouldn't contacting the company be a better place to start? They are not required to put the source code on the website.
Also if they don't modify the source do they have to make it available? Does Dell offer Ubuntu for download?
You are evil.
I'll post the way I wish to post. If you don't like it, don't read my posts. I'm posting in a threaded environment. The quote doesn't need to be above what I typed -- the original post should be there. I quote for convenience. If you don't like it, tough shit.
Fuck off.
Top posting is evil. Knock it off.