Keep in mind two large northern and southern land borders, and two large coasts.
Yeah, sure.... the Canadians and Mexicans were just waiting for you to lower your defenses in order to conquer, plunder and rape defenseless Americans... Americans who are unarmed by definition, after all they don't have right to bear arms to form militia.
The two large coasts? You need an industrialized nation in order to attack those (airplanes/warships). China could *perhaps* do that. Europe is out of the question: we barely have enough military to defend ourself if anyone would like to invade us.
Besides, the US under attack would immediately recall all troups in Iraq. Be damned civil war in Iraq if you've got bigger problems at home.
For running a small site (like yours and mine), even a smaller box would amply do. My "site" (meaning, there is nothing to see) runs on a P-I 166Mhz with 256Meg RAM. It runs Apache under OpenBSD (it also runs other services like sendmail, dhcpd, ntpd, NAT/firewall). Even with X running (got a coulple tail -f on some logfiles) it never uses more than 45Meg RAM (load averages: 0.16, 0.12, 0.09).
So you see, even with a smaller machine you can easily host a website. I have also webmail on it, though the perl running that is kinda slow, but still acceptable for me an my family.
If you have time and are not scared of change, try it out someday. It was actually fun to setup.
Hey, last PC I got was for 25$ (actually 25Euro, but I won't be splitting hairs), with a working PSU. Guess, you have been ripped off;-) Where do you get free PSU's? I'd really like to know that.
The PC in question is a P-II 350, with 64Meg RAM, but I had another 64 lying around so.... Makes a fine office machine. I'm typing on it right now, from Mozilla and running W2k. Not too shabby for this machine.
For cheap PC's just look at friends/relatives that have a very slow PC (due to Windows installation gone bad). Tell them that they should buy a new one and that you'll take their "piece of crap" away for some spare change. Most accept, you would be surprised.
Just wanted to help. I like my Classic 101, it doesn't feel cheaper, not to me at least. Let's just say it's the best tradeoff after killing my Model M. (I once had a real one, came with a real IBM PC)
Since when is 50$ much for a keyboard? Well, okay, I know you can get one for 12$, but those *really* feel cheap.
if we continue to support a system where we import goods made far more cheaply than local manufacturers can compete with and export jobs by firing local workers and hiring/training workers in countries where the wages and benefits cost far less
Isn't this Capitalism at work, just as it should be? After all that is what made your country so great... Or so I have been told.
Hey, that's actually a pretty cool poem. Had to read it a couple of times till the words got through to me.
Let me guess. Your girlfriend is an english graduate or something.
And you won't regret it. I switched my main desktop 18 months ago. Haven't looked back. Oh, I still have a kickass x86 machine, but that one isn't used as much as my iBook.
Oh, and the iBook is pretty damned cheap nowadays (back when I bought it, it was 2000Euro with a 256Meg memory upgrade). An eMac can be had for as less as 1600Euro including a memory upgrade to 1Gig RAM. Pretty sweet having a G4 with 1Gig of RAM.
Why did I buy a Mac? Simple for the OS. So, music lovers might want to buy a Mac for iTunes and the incorporated store.
There are Mac Gnutella clients. However they never seem to work very well. I used Phex, but downloading something always fails.
With Gnucleus on my Windows machine, I rarely have that problem.
The recording industry went along because I have this vague impression that they know that Mac users aren't cheap bastards that want everything for free.
I can't use the Apple Store either. It's US only. I hope they will fix that "bug" soon.
I mean, at 20Euro per CD with 10 songs, their offering is very competitive. DRM? Don't care too much: I can burn it on CD and it's usually from a CD that I listen to music. I also have a MiniDisc player/recorder and the DRM has only slapped me in the face once, when a musician friend of mine gave me a CD-R-Audio.
Good idea recommeniding the indy bands... I think I'm going to do that.
Modding me "Troll" is always fair, considering my slashdot username. I had the strange idea of useing the username "Corporate Troll" without actually being a real troll.
The price I pay for that is the occasional "Troll" mod when I try to be funny. I don't mind, and take it with dignity.
I mean, it is well known that Australia is a haven for Spammers. My mailbox is full of "enlarge your crocodile" and "hot young koala's" and of course the classic "kangooroo's herbal viagra".
I mean I'm glad that the internet (AOL is the internet, right?), finally did something against these annoying aussies!
The french call SARS "Pneumonie Atypique". Seems a very accurate description of the medical condition.
But, of course the french are always wrong, right?;-)
Wait a second... you assume that the lusers that use Outlook, are running a virrusscanner and on top of that keep it up to date?
Boy, are you living in a happy world!
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Yeah, sure.... the Canadians and Mexicans were just waiting for you to lower your defenses in order to conquer, plunder and rape defenseless Americans... Americans who are unarmed by definition, after all they don't have right to bear arms to form militia.
The two large coasts? You need an industrialized nation in order to attack those (airplanes/warships). China could *perhaps* do that. Europe is out of the question: we barely have enough military to defend ourself if anyone would like to invade us.
Besides, the US under attack would immediately recall all troups in Iraq. Be damned civil war in Iraq if you've got bigger problems at home.
I don't care what the military shares, but I surely want to see more of her... Redheads.... *drool* ;-)
So you see, even with a smaller machine you can easily host a website. I have also webmail on it, though the perl running that is kinda slow, but still acceptable for me an my family.
If you have time and are not scared of change, try it out someday. It was actually fun to setup.
The PC in question is a P-II 350, with 64Meg RAM, but I had another 64 lying around so.... Makes a fine office machine. I'm typing on it right now, from Mozilla and running W2k. Not too shabby for this machine.
For cheap PC's just look at friends/relatives that have a very slow PC (due to Windows installation gone bad). Tell them that they should buy a new one and that you'll take their "piece of crap" away for some spare change. Most accept, you would be surprised.
Just wanted to help. I like my Classic 101, it doesn't feel cheaper, not to me at least. Let's just say it's the best tradeoff after killing my Model M. (I once had a real one, came with a real IBM PC)
Since when is 50$ much for a keyboard? Well, okay, I know you can get one for 12$, but those *really* feel cheap.
Not sure if the "Model M" is the same as the "Classic 101", but I think it is.
Great keyboard indeed.
Isn't this Capitalism at work, just as it should be? After all that is what made your country so great... Or so I have been told.
Apple: New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World"
Yeah, and that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Uhm... As a European... isn't the capital or Canada "Ottawa" or am I mistaken somehow?
Wait a second... Isn't "Freedom" what the United States is so proud of. And now suddenly it is "a bad thing". Where did I miss something?
Hey, that's actually a pretty cool poem. Had to read it a couple of times till the words got through to me.
Let me guess. Your girlfriend is an english graduate or something.
You *must* be kidding? Right? Tell me I'm right...
Anyways, it doesn't work. Later in the thread I saw something called "Acquisition". I might want to check that one out.
Oh, and the iBook is pretty damned cheap nowadays (back when I bought it, it was 2000Euro with a 256Meg memory upgrade). An eMac can be had for as less as 1600Euro including a memory upgrade to 1Gig RAM. Pretty sweet having a G4 with 1Gig of RAM.
Why did I buy a Mac? Simple for the OS. So, music lovers might want to buy a Mac for iTunes and the incorporated store.
There are Mac Gnutella clients. However they never seem to work very well. I used Phex, but downloading something always fails.
With Gnucleus on my Windows machine, I rarely have that problem.
The recording industry went along because I have this vague impression that they know that Mac users aren't cheap bastards that want everything for free.
I mean, at 20Euro per CD with 10 songs, their offering is very competitive. DRM? Don't care too much: I can burn it on CD and it's usually from a CD that I listen to music. I also have a MiniDisc player/recorder and the DRM has only slapped me in the face once, when a musician friend of mine gave me a CD-R-Audio.
Good idea recommeniding the indy bands... I think I'm going to do that.
Here's an Australian Dollar and go and buy yourself some humour.
Modding me "Troll" is always fair, considering my slashdot username. I had the strange idea of useing the username "Corporate Troll" without actually being a real troll.
The price I pay for that is the occasional "Troll" mod when I try to be funny. I don't mind, and take it with dignity.
So what about the animal stuff. If some people like that, let them watch it. It's not as if I like all the pr0n you have on your site.
I mean I'm glad that the internet (AOL is the internet, right?), finally did something against these annoying aussies!
Since I am a subscriber (not on this account though), I wouldn't have said a thing and just clicked a "Dupe" button... If only they would provide it.
The french call SARS "Pneumonie Atypique". Seems a very accurate description of the medical condition. ;-)
But, of course the french are always wrong, right?
Wait a second... you assume that the lusers that use Outlook, are running a virrusscanner and on top of that keep it up to date?
Boy, are you living in a happy world!