Well, I suppose someone who can afford to use a new PC every 12 minutes, would not want to waste time removing spyware, but he can probably afford to hire someone to install proper protection on the damn thing...
I ran Win XP on a Pentium 90MHz with 384MB RAM. It dual booted Linux with KDE and both worked OK, using a SCSI disk drive at 7200rpm. The problem was getting it to install - that took about 4 hours...
The P90 was actually a P75 overclocked at 90MHz, which allowed me to up the PCI bus speed from 33 to 66MHz. Even though the processor was slow, the machine was still mainly I/O bound.
Since the machine refused to break, I eventually chucked in the dumpster...
Well actually, the 8 year old hardware likely won't run anything at all anymore, since most of the capacitors would have popped, the PSU would be clogged up with cat hair, the cooling fan frozen and the processor fried...
The cost is huge - so huge that Novel claims they saved $900,000 the first year alone. That translates into a cost of minus $150 per desktop...
'Nuff sed.
In Singapore the hotels have signs telling people that the tap water is in fact safe to drink.
In China, it depends on where you are. I happen to know that there are safe drinking water projects going on in many places. However, it is not just a matter of filtering and chlorinating the water - you also need to establish test labs for quality control. In most places, the water is actually generally safe, but untested.
Doom and gloom... relax d00d, not gonna happen. China is probably the one country that never had a war with the USA. China is a quite peaceful dragon - far more peaceful minded than the USA.
Actually, some laws are in conflict and when that happens, the question is up in the air. I don't think it is illegal to use DeCSS for example, since property rights and how you are allowed to enjoy your property is ancient law going back thousands of years to Roman times.
Well, before reality sunk in, the US economy was running on fraud. IMHO the US economy has been in the dumps since about 1995. It should shake off the dead wood and slime balls any time now...
Part of the stated mission of the RCMP is to promote tourism. Some police in red dress uniform are always present at popular tourist spots and you can walk up, chat and pet the horse.
Car parts are actually a good analogy to FOSS. Lots of car parts are interchangeable. I have even used some Toyota car parts on Honda motorcycle engine...
Well, I would think that anybody playing would already have a month pass, so it isn't going to cost them anything extra. I doubt that anyone from say NY would fly up to Teranna, to play this retarded game. I know that US beer is bad, but not That bad...
It is very easy to write doom and gloom stories, but it is difficult to come up with good advice.
Young people should look at the hot technologies and pursue those - that will give them a start in life. Biotech is one. Microwave is another. Of course there is also the old favourite: Military products.
It is the mature and sweatshop technologies that gets outsourced. Software development is one of them.
Linux is not dependent on traditional market forces to survive. It gets wide support because it is good, not because it is cheap, or flashy, or easy to use, or whatever the reason is why the masses buy computers.
Consequently Linux market share is an indication of the health of the project, but world domination is neither a goal, nor necessary.
However, Linux allows knowledgeable people to get a big leg-up on the competition. The old Army Maxim applies to MS users: If you are shit, then you shall suffer...
Well, it is a significant trend. I used to work with a company that managed about 1000 hotel internet access servers. Firefox came out of nowhere in November last year and after 3 months about 20% of business travellers were using Firefox. That is a significant trend, showing large corporate IT support for this browser.
Never encountered a site like that, but there are many sites that are Flash only and I specifically haven't got Flash installed on FF, since it is just a bloody nuisance.
I figure that if someone has a site that is Flash only, then they don't want my business...
Dude, maybe you should not check your own site so often.;-)
Now that it was mentioned on Sloshdat, the stats will get horribly skewed, so it would be interesting to see next month's stats.
On my own site, which is highly technical, MSIE is around 40%, but on the Legal sites that I am hosting a few of, FF doesn't even register - 98% MS users and 2% Apple.
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Well, I suppose someone who can afford to use a new PC every 12 minutes, would not want to waste time removing spyware, but he can probably afford to hire someone to install proper protection on the damn thing...
I ran Win XP on a Pentium 90MHz with 384MB RAM. It dual booted Linux with KDE and both worked OK, using a SCSI disk drive at 7200rpm. The problem was getting it to install - that took about 4 hours...
The P90 was actually a P75 overclocked at 90MHz, which allowed me to up the PCI bus speed from 33 to 66MHz. Even though the processor was slow, the machine was still mainly I/O bound.
Since the machine refused to break, I eventually chucked in the dumpster...
Well actually, the 8 year old hardware likely won't run anything at all anymore, since most of the capacitors would have popped, the PSU would be clogged up with cat hair, the cooling fan frozen and the processor fried...
There are many variations of chain letters and Ponzi schemes. Multi-level marketing is also a borderline legitimate version of this.
...and that is exactly why cancelling African debt won't help either. They'll just go and create more debt immediately.
Well, it is interesting that this is not the first age of democracy - it isn't even the second either. Go and read Plato's The Republic...
The cost is huge - so huge that Novel claims they saved $900,000 the first year alone. That translates into a cost of minus $150 per desktop... 'Nuff sed.
Woah man, what year are you from? This was fixed so long ago, I can't even remember when...
In Singapore the hotels have signs telling people that the tap water is in fact safe to drink. In China, it depends on where you are. I happen to know that there are safe drinking water projects going on in many places. However, it is not just a matter of filtering and chlorinating the water - you also need to establish test labs for quality control. In most places, the water is actually generally safe, but untested.
Doom and gloom... relax d00d, not gonna happen. China is probably the one country that never had a war with the USA. China is a quite peaceful dragon - far more peaceful minded than the USA.
Actually, some laws are in conflict and when that happens, the question is up in the air. I don't think it is illegal to use DeCSS for example, since property rights and how you are allowed to enjoy your property is ancient law going back thousands of years to Roman times.
You mean like DeCSS? As if that is going to stop anyone.
Well, before reality sunk in, the US economy was running on fraud. IMHO the US economy has been in the dumps since about 1995. It should shake off the dead wood and slime balls any time now...
does it run Linux? ;-)
Linux is the veritable Rosetta Stone of computer systems. Someone is bound to port it.
Part of the stated mission of the RCMP is to promote tourism. Some police in red dress uniform are always present at popular tourist spots and you can walk up, chat and pet the horse.
Car parts are actually a good analogy to FOSS. Lots of car parts are interchangeable. I have even used some Toyota car parts on Honda motorcycle engine...
It looks to me like a Blackberry Wannabe. This is not a notebook PC by any stretch of the imagination.
Well, I would think that anybody playing would already have a month pass, so it isn't going to cost them anything extra. I doubt that anyone from say NY would fly up to Teranna, to play this retarded game. I know that US beer is bad, but not That bad...
Relax d00d - this is Canada. There are a few places left in the world where people are reasonably sane and the police are friendly and helpful...
It is very easy to write doom and gloom stories, but it is difficult to come up with good advice.
Young people should look at the hot technologies and pursue those - that will give them a start in life. Biotech is one. Microwave is another. Of course there is also the old favourite: Military products.
It is the mature and sweatshop technologies that gets outsourced. Software development is one of them.
Linux is not dependent on traditional market forces to survive. It gets wide support because it is good, not because it is cheap, or flashy, or easy to use, or whatever the reason is why the masses buy computers. Consequently Linux market share is an indication of the health of the project, but world domination is neither a goal, nor necessary. However, Linux allows knowledgeable people to get a big leg-up on the competition. The old Army Maxim applies to MS users: If you are shit, then you shall suffer...
You can use this method to limit login attempts. It will allow a burst of 5 new connection attempts, then limit at a rate of 1 per second.
# Protect against DOS attacks - rate limit various ICMP messages
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -m limit --limit 1/s -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -m limit --limit 1/s -j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,ACK,FIN,RST -m limit --limit 1/s -j ACCEPT
Well, it is a significant trend. I used to work with a company that managed about 1000 hotel internet access servers. Firefox came out of nowhere in November last year and after 3 months about 20% of business travellers were using Firefox. That is a significant trend, showing large corporate IT support for this browser.
Never encountered a site like that, but there are many sites that are Flash only and I specifically haven't got Flash installed on FF, since it is just a bloody nuisance.
I figure that if someone has a site that is Flash only, then they don't want my business...
Dude, maybe you should not check your own site so often. ;-)
Now that it was mentioned on Sloshdat, the stats will get horribly skewed, so it would be interesting to see next month's stats.
On my own site, which is highly technical, MSIE is around 40%, but on the Legal sites that I am hosting a few of, FF doesn't even register - 98% MS users and 2% Apple.