Seriously, go to Ting's web site and check out the pricing. You pick how many minutes, texts, and data you want. If you plan on only using data on your smartphone when you're on wifi, you can do that. We joined Ting about a month ago and couldn't be happier. Our monthly phone bill has plummeted even though we upgraded from feature phones to smartphones (dumping Verizon along the way). You can see the pricing options at https://ting.com/plans
I used my iPad to make the treadmill less of a bore during the cold winter months. I was able to watch youtube videos and listen to music easily; it almost made the "dreadmill" bearable. Now that it's getting warmer I'm back to running outside as often as I can. But I don't dread running on the treadmill anymore.
Another shoutout for fluxbox. I've used it for years - even after trying out E17. E17 looked like it could be nice... someday. That was 3 years ago! Honestly, does anyone actually expect E17 to be released?
Fluxbox has an even smaller footprint, is easily customizable, and is simple.
I hope the McCain will win this year because
1) he has a long record of Accomplishments. Obama gives great speeches, but we're not voting for White House Press Secretary. I've asked Obama supporters to name one significant accomplishment that can genuinely be credited to Obama - I'm still waiting.
2) So we're going to replace a bad season of one-party rule with more one-party rule, just a 'D' instead of an 'R'? Yea, that's a great plan.
I would also add firewalls, routing, and packet queueing.
I haven't found anything that compares with the power and ease of OpenBSD's pf firewall ruleset. It provides all of the features that you could possibly need in a firewall including stateful packet filtering, packet normalization, and packet shaping - all with and extremely easy-to-understand interface.
For routing, you can support RIP, OSPF, and BGP. BGP is supported with the new OpenBGP server. I have a few OpenBSD boxes set up in my home lab that are linked with various Cisco routers running OSPF. But which one is actually cheaper . . . ?:)
Finally, the OpenBSD dev team is militant on the security front. All servers are chrooted by default. Stuff just works out of the box securely. I can't tell you how easy and quick it is to set up a secure, chrooted web server with OpenBSD.
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Seriously, go to Ting's web site and check out the pricing. You pick how many minutes, texts, and data you want. If you plan on only using data on your smartphone when you're on wifi, you can do that. We joined Ting about a month ago and couldn't be happier. Our monthly phone bill has plummeted even though we upgraded from feature phones to smartphones (dumping Verizon along the way). You can see the pricing options at https://ting.com/plans
I used my iPad to make the treadmill less of a bore during the cold winter months. I was able to watch youtube videos and listen to music easily; it almost made the "dreadmill" bearable. Now that it's getting warmer I'm back to running outside as often as I can. But I don't dread running on the treadmill anymore.
Another shoutout for fluxbox. I've used it for years - even after trying out E17. E17 looked like it could be nice ... someday. That was 3 years ago! Honestly, does anyone actually expect E17 to be released?
Fluxbox has an even smaller footprint, is easily customizable, and is simple.
I hope the McCain will win this year because 1) he has a long record of Accomplishments. Obama gives great speeches, but we're not voting for White House Press Secretary. I've asked Obama supporters to name one significant accomplishment that can genuinely be credited to Obama - I'm still waiting. 2) So we're going to replace a bad season of one-party rule with more one-party rule, just a 'D' instead of an 'R'? Yea, that's a great plan.
I would also add firewalls, routing, and packet queueing. I haven't found anything that compares with the power and ease of OpenBSD's pf firewall ruleset. It provides all of the features that you could possibly need in a firewall including stateful packet filtering, packet normalization, and packet shaping - all with and extremely easy-to-understand interface. For routing, you can support RIP, OSPF, and BGP. BGP is supported with the new OpenBGP server. I have a few OpenBSD boxes set up in my home lab that are linked with various Cisco routers running OSPF. But which one is actually cheaper . . . ? :)
Finally, the OpenBSD dev team is militant on the security front. All servers are chrooted by default. Stuff just works out of the box securely. I can't tell you how easy and quick it is to set up a secure, chrooted web server with OpenBSD.
I use my Gentoo Linux Install CD for this kind of work.