Well, a 486 with Linux and IPtables has better throughput than the little ARM processor in a Linksys / Dlink and you can run a proxy filter, since you have a hard disk for the cache. There is just no comparison really.
The temperature trigger is required to prevent an attacker from freezing the device in liquid nitrogen to disable the protection system and then disassembling it.
It has nothing to do with system temperature - it is a rather extreme thing done in some military black equipment.
Yeah, it is amazing that the only drives that ever died on me were Maxtor and Fujitsu (bad chip) devices. As for all the other brands - eventually I just wished they would die.
I have never been able to make those things play in Linux - well, I haven't tried very hard either, but before I cause myself a lot of pain, are there any guides to get it going on Linux?
No, we are talking of a company donating a large in-house developed product to a charity. That is hundreds of millions of dollars in tax reduction.
Just see who is in on the game: MIT, U Berkeley, U Columbia, Sun, IBM, AOL. The list goes on and on. There is a good reason for that!
If you don't believe me, go talk to an accountant.
The main reason companies go to free software is for tax reasons. It allows them to write off bazillions of software development dollars as a charitable gift.
How much tax do think IBM wrote off by donating Apache to the Apache foundation? Hundred million dollars? At least...
Hmmm, the problem is that the US system is the perfect example of freedom held up to the rest of the world. Any change to the status quo would be an admission that it isn't perfect after all and that they were wrong enforcing it on everyone that disagrees with them...
The bottom line being that they can't change their system, too much depends on it.
Well, my family lived in Africa for more than 300 years, myself 35 years, while your "granddaddy caught a ship to the USA" as Cassius Clay put it. So, my family lived in Africa (and most are still there) about three times longer than your family have lived in America.
People tend to confuse Black Africa - the middle part of the continent, with Africa the whole continent. In reality, Africa is an extremely diverse continent, same as Asia is an extremely diverse continent.
Nevertheless, you are first and foremost an American. Culturally, you are probably far more British than African, same as I am culturally more British than African and if someone would compare the two of us we would be quite the same, except for some minor melanin difference.
Anyhoo, there is way too much misery in Africa, most of it is self inflicted and no amount of foreign aid is going to make a dent in it. Not with the birth rate as it is. Providing aid to Africa simply means that more people will be dying worse later.
Instead of combating the birth rate, African governments are tackling the problem at the other end, by reducing the people's life span. Some are doing it intentionally at gunpoint, some unintentionally by not combating disease and not providing clean water...
It is well known that civilization started in Africa. The pyramids are silent proof to that. Four thousand years ago, parts of Africa were already in the bronze age.
Unfortunately things went down hill over the past 2000 years and you certainly can't blame everything on colonization. That is a really lame excuse.
It is very easy to destroy things, while it is very difficult to build things...
I was born in Africa. So I am more African than most African-American-Blacks. There are at least 100 million people in Africa that are not black. That is quite a number.
No, not racist. Ebola is not a race specific disease.
Africa has too many people - it is not sustainable. Africans have to get up from sitting under the shade of their thorn trees and get the population growth under control first, then figure out how to feed everyone. Development starts with agriculture.
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Well, a 486 with Linux and IPtables has better throughput than the little ARM processor in a Linksys / Dlink and you can run a proxy filter, since you have a hard disk for the cache. There is just no comparison really.
The temperature trigger is required to prevent an attacker from freezing the device in liquid nitrogen to disable the protection system and then disassembling it. It has nothing to do with system temperature - it is a rather extreme thing done in some military black equipment.
Yeah, it is amazing that the only drives that ever died on me were Maxtor and Fujitsu (bad chip) devices. As for all the other brands - eventually I just wished they would die.
Put Damn Small Linux on a CD or USB stick and then you don't have to hack the shitty software on the laptop - just run your own.
Ooooh, those eeeevul hackers...
teh police state, teh great Satan, full of evul, 12 year old hackers out to destroy teh werld. A country generally has the government it deserves...
No, no, you are being very unfair towards other fucking hypocritical bastards, by grouping them indiscriminately with SCO...
the annoying marketers came after. The free internet doesn't need the annoying marketers.
Cool, thanks!
I have never been able to make those things play in Linux - well, I haven't tried very hard either, but before I cause myself a lot of pain, are there any guides to get it going on Linux?
Why? Because you are a MSCE and only know how to point and click and don't know about INSTALL and README files...
Well, first of all, there is no shortage of companies that are not in their right mind...
Secondly, this may be very useful for uhm, uhh, well, I dunno...
in comics, but they do in real life. That is the real secret of Batman's success.
If your average doughnut fattened geek would try it, he would be in for a rude awakening and would come down to earth rather quickly at 9.8m/s/s...
No, we are talking of a company donating a large in-house developed product to a charity. That is hundreds of millions of dollars in tax reduction. Just see who is in on the game: MIT, U Berkeley, U Columbia, Sun, IBM, AOL. The list goes on and on. There is a good reason for that! If you don't believe me, go talk to an accountant.
The main reason companies go to free software is for tax reasons. It allows them to write off bazillions of software development dollars as a charitable gift.
How much tax do think IBM wrote off by donating Apache to the Apache foundation? Hundred million dollars? At least...
Never heard of 'driveby downloads' have you?
Dell probably sells more Linux servers than either IBM or HP.
Hmmm, the problem is that the US system is the perfect example of freedom held up to the rest of the world. Any change to the status quo would be an admission that it isn't perfect after all and that they were wrong enforcing it on everyone that disagrees with them...
The bottom line being that they can't change their system, too much depends on it.
Well, my family lived in Africa for more than 300 years, myself 35 years, while your "granddaddy caught a ship to the USA" as Cassius Clay put it. So, my family lived in Africa (and most are still there) about three times longer than your family have lived in America. People tend to confuse Black Africa - the middle part of the continent, with Africa the whole continent. In reality, Africa is an extremely diverse continent, same as Asia is an extremely diverse continent. Nevertheless, you are first and foremost an American. Culturally, you are probably far more British than African, same as I am culturally more British than African and if someone would compare the two of us we would be quite the same, except for some minor melanin difference. Anyhoo, there is way too much misery in Africa, most of it is self inflicted and no amount of foreign aid is going to make a dent in it. Not with the birth rate as it is. Providing aid to Africa simply means that more people will be dying worse later. Instead of combating the birth rate, African governments are tackling the problem at the other end, by reducing the people's life span. Some are doing it intentionally at gunpoint, some unintentionally by not combating disease and not providing clean water...
is the sincerest form of flattery...
It is well known that civilization started in Africa. The pyramids are silent proof to that. Four thousand years ago, parts of Africa were already in the bronze age. Unfortunately things went down hill over the past 2000 years and you certainly can't blame everything on colonization. That is a really lame excuse. It is very easy to destroy things, while it is very difficult to build things...
So, is a Black born in the USA more of an African than someone born and raised in Egypt, because the Egyptian isn't black?
According to your logic an Egyptian isn't African...
There is more to Africa than Liberia.
I lived in Africa for 35 years - and you?
I was born in Africa. So I am more African than most African-American-Blacks. There are at least 100 million people in Africa that are not black. That is quite a number.
No, not racist. Ebola is not a race specific disease.
Africa has too many people - it is not sustainable. Africans have to get up from sitting under the shade of their thorn trees and get the population growth under control first, then figure out how to feed everyone. Development starts with agriculture.
Ugh - bad troll dude.
I am an African-American-White. Most of Africa is bad news and the better parts are swamped by millions of people streaming in from the worse parts.
The trouble with Africa is that the people breed like rabbits and even Aids can't fix the problem, since the incubation period is too long.
The only thing that can save Africa is a continent-wide outbreak of Ebola...
Well, yeah - you only need one Access Point to cover the whole island...