Because like anything else the government does, they'll do a half-assed job of it.
I'd love to be able to pay for private garbage pickup. Then maybe they won't leave a big pile of trash on my front lawn because one of the morons split open a kitchen bag, and then tell me it's "not their job" to clean stuff like that up. Or leave a big pile of wet cardboard on the road during recycle day because it wasn't folded "just so", or leave my trash cans in the MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMNED STREET EVERY TIME. Who do I have to complain to? I guess I could move to another city.
Anyways, back on topic, the government will provide a half-assed service, but it will be very cheap. Since most people buy on price, not quality, it will drive out private broadband carriers. People will be left with only one choice. It happened in Altoona, PA, it's happening in Tempe, AZ..
This is the reason why Texas and other states are trying to bar local governments from doing stuff like this.
I'm all for cheap or even free access to WiFi, I just don't think the government should be involved in it whatsoever.
Version number? 10.4. You'd think Apple could at least update the major version number to make people think they're getting something new.
XP SP2 added a lot of new security related aspects to the OS, a new firewall, a new virus scanner, a new adware scanner, a new malware removal tool, yet it was free.
I'm sick of apple zealots, and the constant Appleturfing of slashdot.
Oh well, have fun writing checks to Jobs.
Me, I'll just type "emerge -u world" and get on with my life.
The OS version is 10.4, not 11.0. It's not a new OS, it's an update to the existing one. If you were to find out that Windows XP SP3 is going to cost 100 bucks, slashbots would pitch a fit.
I'd think when you plunk down the kind of cash required for a G5, or hell, even for the gutless MiniMac, you should be entitled to free updates for the OS it ships with.
Instead, slashbots are supposed to go "ooh" and "aah" because they rerendered a few icons.
They have some good stuff, sure. But why is it OK that you can't replace the battery in a $350 iPod, or it's perfectly fine that it can't properly reproduce low tones? Why is it OK for them to charge for an update to the OS? Why is it OK for them to sue people for talking about their products? Why is it OK for Apple to use DRM, and to slowly keep tightening it up?
Why the special treatment for Apple? Why is Apple forgiven the shitty things they do?
Frankly, Steve Jobs' shit stinks too, every bit as much as Gates' or Ballmer's.
Zonk is one of those "Xtreme gamer d00ds" who probably has one of those vinyl devil may cry skins on his PS2, so he can post pics to various modder forums.
More appropriate would have been D, DF, F+high punch or high kick for a "Tiger!" energy wave.
The other day my kid brother and I both fired up XBConnect and Halo 2, he joined my game, and we each had our XBox controller cords streched across our respective rooms - just so we could talk on the headsets, since neither of us have a dedicated USB adaptor to plug the headsets right into the PC.
All so we could talk while we played Super Mario Kart via ZSNES netplay feature.
Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist from the turn of the century, famous for drawing really fancy complex ridiculous machines to do something simple.
When you see a cartoon where a bowling ball runs down a ramp, knocks a peg into a cup, which spins around a loop, and then pops a balloon, which makes a hamster run in a wheel, which in turn releases a latch which makes an anvil fall on Daffy Duck, that's a direct homage to Rube Goldberg.
No, I'm saying that linux is linux is linux. There isn't that much difference between distros, especially when you're like me and just install the base and wind up compiling everything you use by hand, because none of the packaged stuff ever has the features I want, for instance, links2 with svgalib support.
Even so, you can use.rpms on debian or.debs on fedora.
It's not so with BSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD are, for what I can tell, completely different OS's with limited compatibility between the two.
No, I've never installed any of the *BSD's to play with myself, but I know all about linux, have used Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, so I'm not intimidated.
Everyone seems to be advocating OpenBSD or FreeBSD, and I'm not sure if it's a "free as in beer" vs "free as in free" philosophical thing, since noone has really said anything technical to back their arguments up.
If I wanted to install a BSD on my little home router/gateway, just for the sake of playing around with BSD, which BSD is the one to cut your teeth on?
With linux, the choice of distro is pretty much irrelevant - to me at least - because I wind up with virtually the same system, the only differences being the layout of some rc scripts.
The world of BSD isn't the same though, so which is the most prolific, or newbie-friendly, or has the widest support for common hardware, etc?
About the only thing keeping me from playing with BSD is the lack of a single "entry point".
Animal Planet recently did that show on "dragons", and the whole show depicted a team of scientists who'd uncovered a preserved dragon corpse in a glacier, and was all about the biology of dragons.
They should have had disclaimers after every commercial break: "what you are watching is 100% bullshit". The special belonged on Sci Fi, not Animal Planet.
I had to spend hours trying to convince my 10 year old that it was all completely made up, and there's no such thing as a fire breathing dragon. He was convinced that since it was on AP, it was for real.
Yeah, yellowstone could be a supervolcano, and if so, it could erupt violently.
The very respected geologist who was my prof at university told us it's much more likely that if Yellowstone were to experience some sort of volcanic event, it would basically just boil over and bubble out lava very slowly, since the "mouth" of the caldera is so wide, there's not much chance of a lot of pressure building beneath it. Think of a balloon leaking air out of the inflation hole, vs exploding because of a tiny little pinprick.
But, then again, it COULD be full of vampires and killer robots. Do a special on that!
Every week they have a new pseudo-scientific special on the latest thing that's going to wipe out all life on earth.
Either it's an asteroid, or a super volcano, or the made-up global instant ice-age scenario of "the day after tomorrow", or some sort of supermegavirus.
People see it and think it's 100% inevitable science fact, when it's pretty much just based conjecture and what-if's.
It's just an older PC with two NICSs, Shorewall, squid, tc, etc, and then some time spent monkeying around with a traffic shaping script.
Nothing magical. Just google around for traffic control, find a good script (wondershaper sucks, IMO) and modify it to your needs.
One point, it's easiest (and fastest) to mark packets based on IP or port rather than content (stuff like the l7 or p2p filters are slooooow on my older machine). Ie; Xbox (say 192.168.1.99) gets marked with a 1, everything else defaults to 2.
It's not about port forwarding, it's about prioritizing packets, which I doubt this router does.
My simple linux based router/firewall prioritizes stuff basically in this order: VoIP, Xbox live/xbconnect/whatever PC game-of-the-week I'm playing, web surfing, ssh, openvpn, everything else..
You're probably right though. This is like the 40 dollar "XBox link cable" at EB games, which is just a simple crossover cable. Or the $100 dollar 4 port hub being sold as the "XBox lan party kit"
That is, just paying more money for something with a decal on it?
I could see them preloading it to know about and priortize some traffic (XBox Live, and a handful of the top PC titles), but I bet it's just the same old router with an X-Treme GamAr sticker and a 100 dollar higher price tag.
If you go to EB you'll see "XBox Lan Party" kits, with a simple 4 port 100mbit hub (not a switch) and a few patchcords, and they sell for upwards of 100 bucks.
Or an "XBox link cable" (read crossover cable) sells in the gamerz section of Best Buy for 40 bucks, whereas a regular x-over cable in the comp section will be about 10.
Go Go Gamer Rip-off!!
(I have an actual gaming router, linux based, that does prioritize xbox live, xbconnect, etc, and works great even when I'm bittorrenting the hell out of the connection).
You can watch a movie or play a game full screen on that PC too.
Why can't OSX display anything fullscreen? Really, I want to know. What's the reason for this?
Please, zealots, don't reply telling me what an amazing "feature" this is. It's absolutely fucking retarded to pay 2 grand for one of those cinerama displays, and not be able to use it to watch a movie.
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Because like anything else the government does, they'll do a half-assed job of it.
I'd love to be able to pay for private garbage pickup. Then maybe they won't leave a big pile of trash on my front lawn because one of the morons split open a kitchen bag, and then tell me it's "not their job" to clean stuff like that up. Or leave a big pile of wet cardboard on the road during recycle day because it wasn't folded "just so", or leave my trash cans in the MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMNED STREET EVERY TIME. Who do I have to complain to? I guess I could move to another city.
Anyways, back on topic, the government will provide a half-assed service, but it will be very cheap. Since most people buy on price, not quality, it will drive out private broadband carriers. People will be left with only one choice. It happened in Altoona, PA, it's happening in Tempe, AZ..
This is the reason why Texas and other states are trying to bar local governments from doing stuff like this.
I'm all for cheap or even free access to WiFi, I just don't think the government should be involved in it whatsoever.
Version number? 10.4. You'd think Apple could at least update the major version number to make people think they're getting something new.
XP SP2 added a lot of new security related aspects to the OS, a new firewall, a new virus scanner, a new adware scanner, a new malware removal tool, yet it was free.
I'm sick of apple zealots, and the constant Appleturfing of slashdot.
Oh well, have fun writing checks to Jobs.
Me, I'll just type "emerge -u world" and get on with my life.
It's not a troll, it's a fact.
The OS version is 10.4, not 11.0. It's not a new OS, it's an update to the existing one. If you were to find out that Windows XP SP3 is going to cost 100 bucks, slashbots would pitch a fit.
I'd think when you plunk down the kind of cash required for a G5, or hell, even for the gutless MiniMac, you should be entitled to free updates for the OS it ships with.
Instead, slashbots are supposed to go "ooh" and "aah" because they rerendered a few icons.
They have some good stuff, sure. But why is it OK that you can't replace the battery in a $350 iPod, or it's perfectly fine that it can't properly reproduce low tones? Why is it OK for them to charge for an update to the OS? Why is it OK for them to sue people for talking about their products? Why is it OK for Apple to use DRM, and to slowly keep tightening it up?
Why the special treatment for Apple? Why is Apple forgiven the shitty things they do?
Frankly, Steve Jobs' shit stinks too, every bit as much as Gates' or Ballmer's.
Zonk is one of those "Xtreme gamer d00ds" who probably has one of those vinyl devil may cry skins on his PS2, so he can post pics to various modder forums.
More appropriate would have been D, DF, F+high punch or high kick for a "Tiger!" energy wave.
I wish I had a Mac so that I could pay 100 bucks for a service pack!
The other day my kid brother and I both fired up XBConnect and Halo 2, he joined my game, and we each had our XBox controller cords streched across our respective rooms - just so we could talk on the headsets, since neither of us have a dedicated USB adaptor to plug the headsets right into the PC.
All so we could talk while we played Super Mario Kart via ZSNES netplay feature.
That's exactly the point of the contest.
Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist from the turn of the century, famous for drawing really fancy complex ridiculous machines to do something simple.
When you see a cartoon where a bowling ball runs down a ramp, knocks a peg into a cup, which spins around a loop, and then pops a balloon, which makes a hamster run in a wheel, which in turn releases a latch which makes an anvil fall on Daffy Duck, that's a direct homage to Rube Goldberg.
No, I'm saying that linux is linux is linux. There isn't that much difference between distros, especially when you're like me and just install the base and wind up compiling everything you use by hand, because none of the packaged stuff ever has the features I want, for instance, links2 with svgalib support.
.rpms on debian or .debs on fedora.
Even so, you can use
It's not so with BSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD are, for what I can tell, completely different OS's with limited compatibility between the two.
No, I've never installed any of the *BSD's to play with myself, but I know all about linux, have used Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, so I'm not intimidated.
Everyone seems to be advocating OpenBSD or FreeBSD, and I'm not sure if it's a "free as in beer" vs "free as in free" philosophical thing, since noone has really said anything technical to back their arguments up.
I think I'll just go with Windows ME.
If I wanted to install a BSD on my little home router/gateway, just for the sake of playing around with BSD, which BSD is the one to cut your teeth on?
With linux, the choice of distro is pretty much irrelevant - to me at least - because I wind up with virtually the same system, the only differences being the layout of some rc scripts.
The world of BSD isn't the same though, so which is the most prolific, or newbie-friendly, or has the widest support for common hardware, etc?
About the only thing keeping me from playing with BSD is the lack of a single "entry point".
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3) Google
Google google, google google!
Animal Planet recently did that show on "dragons", and the whole show depicted a team of scientists who'd uncovered a preserved dragon corpse in a glacier, and was all about the biology of dragons.
They should have had disclaimers after every commercial break: "what you are watching is 100% bullshit". The special belonged on Sci Fi, not Animal Planet.
I had to spend hours trying to convince my 10 year old that it was all completely made up, and there's no such thing as a fire breathing dragon. He was convinced that since it was on AP, it was for real.
They had enough evidence to take to the grand jury for an indictment... You'll just have to wait and see what happens at trial.
Chances are, they found someone who bought one of the items in question, and had him roll over on the guy.
Or maybe he was stupid enough to open an eBay store, who knows.
I'm sure not calling this guy guilty without seeing a lot more evidence.
Good, because that's how our justice system works.
Yeah, yellowstone could be a supervolcano, and if so, it could erupt violently.
The very respected geologist who was my prof at university told us it's much more likely that if Yellowstone were to experience some sort of volcanic event, it would basically just boil over and bubble out lava very slowly, since the "mouth" of the caldera is so wide, there's not much chance of a lot of pressure building beneath it. Think of a balloon leaking air out of the inflation hole, vs exploding because of a tiny little pinprick.
But, then again, it COULD be full of vampires and killer robots. Do a special on that!
Every week they have a new pseudo-scientific special on the latest thing that's going to wipe out all life on earth.
Either it's an asteroid, or a super volcano, or the made-up global instant ice-age scenario of "the day after tomorrow", or some sort of supermegavirus.
People see it and think it's 100% inevitable science fact, when it's pretty much just based conjecture and what-if's.
Why does Debian's dirt-ass text based installer require 22 megs of RAM to run?
Send that shit into space.
He's outranked by General Protection Fault.
It's just an older PC with two NICSs, Shorewall, squid, tc, etc, and then some time spent monkeying around with a traffic shaping script.
Nothing magical. Just google around for traffic control, find a good script (wondershaper sucks, IMO) and modify it to your needs.
One point, it's easiest (and fastest) to mark packets based on IP or port rather than content (stuff like the l7 or p2p filters are slooooow on my older machine). Ie; Xbox (say 192.168.1.99) gets marked with a 1, everything else defaults to 2.
Heh..
Hate on Windows all you want kids, all you're doing is supporting the mighty american military machine.
At least I know that longhorn won't be killing babies. Maybe those security holes are a good thing.
Its an interesting fact that Mac OSX was considered, but was passed over for violating the military's "dont ask, dont tell" policy.
It's not about port forwarding, it's about prioritizing packets, which I doubt this router does.
My simple linux based router/firewall prioritizes stuff basically in this order: VoIP, Xbox live/xbconnect/whatever PC game-of-the-week I'm playing, web surfing, ssh, openvpn, everything else..
You're probably right though. This is like the 40 dollar "XBox link cable" at EB games, which is just a simple crossover cable. Or the $100 dollar 4 port hub being sold as the "XBox lan party kit"
That is, just paying more money for something with a decal on it?
I could see them preloading it to know about and priortize some traffic (XBox Live, and a handful of the top PC titles), but I bet it's just the same old router with an X-Treme GamAr sticker and a 100 dollar higher price tag.
If you go to EB you'll see "XBox Lan Party" kits, with a simple 4 port 100mbit hub (not a switch) and a few patchcords, and they sell for upwards of 100 bucks.
Or an "XBox link cable" (read crossover cable) sells in the gamerz section of Best Buy for 40 bucks, whereas a regular x-over cable in the comp section will be about 10.
Go Go Gamer Rip-off!!
(I have an actual gaming router, linux based, that does prioritize xbox live, xbconnect, etc, and works great even when I'm bittorrenting the hell out of the connection).
It was here and then it was gone. That was a great flamebait article to bring out all the racists and illegals.
Due to excessive bad posting blah blah... shove it Taco. Your mods dont seem to agree with you.
I was thinking of his eating all the eggs and then puking, I guess what we have here is a failure to communicate.
Some men you just cant reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it.
Well, he gets it.
I don't like it any more than you men.
That's happening all the time on the sea floor, where the plates are slowly separating.
A bunch of lava will squish out, immediatly cool, and plug the hole, and they'll have to start all over again.
Kind of like Cool Hand Luke.
You can watch a movie or play a game full screen on that PC too.
Why can't OSX display anything fullscreen? Really, I want to know. What's the reason for this?
Please, zealots, don't reply telling me what an amazing "feature" this is. It's absolutely fucking retarded to pay 2 grand for one of those cinerama displays, and not be able to use it to watch a movie.