These online vigilantes need to go... What makes them a governing body on the Internet? What is even more pathetic is the people who subscribe to these lists.
I know we all hate spam however shouldn't we be more concerned with the paper spam that fills up our normal mailboxes?
i rid myself of all WinTel PC's in my home (still need them for my job)... but since going to the Apple side i have to say i have had pretty painless computing. My Apple iMac just works and the apps that go with it. People argue that it is a single vendor platform but there is something to be said for that. The tight integration between the hardware and software makes things work smoothly. No mucking around with silly patches or resource settings. Personally i feel that Apple will be gaining a lot of ground in the 'market share' department in the next 3 years.
I have some users in Coca (Francisco de Orellana), Ecuador. Coca is in eastern Ecuador right in the middle of the jungle (check it out on the map). We have a satellite setup for about 10 users, the bandwidth we are allocated is 128x64kbps. For all that bandwidth we paid $3000 for dish, receiver and setup; we pay $400 a month for this access. The latency is painfully slow however I have found a way to speed things up a bit. I installed a Mini-PC (like those Shuttle XPC's) with Windows 2000. I setup DNS caching along with ISA to do web caching. The experiences amongst the users has improved greatly. Downloads are reasonable and I do some bandwidth access-control/throttling using an old Netscreen-5 firewall (thank you e-bay!), so the big-boss-man always has priority with his access.
This is just my experience in this part of the world.
Here in Quito, Ecuador I pay $330 (US Dollars) a month for a DSL line of 256x64. The only way I can afford that is to divide it up amongst my neighbors wirelessly. My friend in Bogota, Colombia pays $80 (US Dollars) a month for cable modem which is equivalent to the speeds I have seen in the US.
Being a user of the Apple Music Store...Here is what you can do to circumvent the Apple DRM file type.
- Buy the song or album from the Apple Music Store (.99 or $9.99) - Buy yourself a CD-RW (so you can erase it later) - Burn the song or album to the CD-RW in CD-Audio format. - Rip the song back into your iTunes library in MP3 format. - Now share with your friends.
Somewhere along the way someone paid for the MP3's you are downloading from Kazaa and the other P2P applications. Might as well give back to the community. Buy an album that you truly like and share it. So many people either forgot or are too new to the MP3 community to remember the days before P2P entered the scene. Give me back the days of setting up an FTP server and giving my friends access to it, and where they did the same.
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These online vigilantes need to go... What makes them a governing body on the Internet? What is even more pathetic is the people who subscribe to these lists. I know we all hate spam however shouldn't we be more concerned with the paper spam that fills up our normal mailboxes?
Please dont complain there are options for mac users... I personally use Proteus and it works extremely well.
is there an netscape archive of all the netscape versions released? it would be interesting to run the old version for memory sakes...
i rid myself of all WinTel PC's in my home (still need them for my job)... but since going to the Apple side i have to say i have had pretty painless computing. My Apple iMac just works and the apps that go with it. People argue that it is a single vendor platform but there is something to be said for that. The tight integration between the hardware and software makes things work smoothly. No mucking around with silly patches or resource settings. Personally i feel that Apple will be gaining a lot of ground in the 'market share' department in the next 3 years.
I can just imagine a war movie (your network) with bullets (bad packets) ping'n off of armor (firewall).
I have some users in Coca (Francisco de Orellana), Ecuador. Coca is in eastern Ecuador right in the middle of the jungle (check it out on the map). We have a satellite setup for about 10 users, the bandwidth we are allocated is 128x64kbps. For all that bandwidth we paid $3000 for dish, receiver and setup; we pay $400 a month for this access. The latency is painfully slow however I have found a way to speed things up a bit. I installed a Mini-PC (like those Shuttle XPC's) with Windows 2000. I setup DNS caching along with ISA to do web caching. The experiences amongst the users has improved greatly. Downloads are reasonable and I do some bandwidth access-control/throttling using an old Netscreen-5 firewall (thank you e-bay!), so the big-boss-man always has priority with his access. This is just my experience in this part of the world.
Here in Quito, Ecuador I pay $330 (US Dollars) a month for a DSL line of 256x64. The only way I can afford that is to divide it up amongst my neighbors wirelessly. My friend in Bogota, Colombia pays $80 (US Dollars) a month for cable modem which is equivalent to the speeds I have seen in the US.
But I am no where as successful as them... but anywho... nice to share a great day with Linus!
Netscreen makes an excellent firewall/router product. You can SSH, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS and SNMP the box.
Just curious which brand uses flash for their administrative frontend?
Being a user of the Apple Music Store...Here is what you can do to circumvent the Apple DRM file type.
- Buy the song or album from the Apple Music Store (.99 or $9.99)
- Buy yourself a CD-RW (so you can erase it later)
- Burn the song or album to the CD-RW in CD-Audio format.
- Rip the song back into your iTunes library in MP3 format.
- Now share with your friends.
Somewhere along the way someone paid for the MP3's you are downloading from Kazaa and the other P2P applications. Might as well give back to the community. Buy an album that you truly like and share it. So many people either forgot or are too new to the MP3 community to remember the days before P2P entered the scene. Give me back the days of setting up an FTP server and giving my friends access to it, and where they did the same.