In all seriousness, go with Red Hat, you won't regret it. They have the best support I've ever had to deal with and their enterprise line is the most consistent, stable, and feature filled distro that I've seen for the enterprise. I use Debian on personal servers, and while it's a great distro, and Debian stable is *extremely* stable, it is not anymore stable then Red Hat. Also, most enterprise applications are geared towards Red Hat. Alien is a nice utility, but sometimes craps out on me. You'll have no trouble finding RPMs of any major application on linux. Also, I love apt-get as much as you do, but yum is great, up2date is nice(although I rarely use it), and apt for rpm is awesome, although I'm not sure what its like on RH's servers, i've only used it on Fedora. Apt-get should not be a major point in your decision considering that once a server is up and running, you should rarely ever have to install or modify many things (other then security update, which RH handles nicely). IBM can't support Debian's repositories anyway because they have no clue what is in them and they have no jurisdiction over their distribution. Just spend the money on a good corporate server and I assure you that you won't regret it. It will also keep the higher ups happy, and if the shit ever hits the fan you can just toss the problem to Red Hat, who are btw very good and very quick at solving damn near any problem in the world. Regards, Steve
Just out of curiosity, how much did it cost the company? Last time I called about an Exchange issue, it was $250 for them to even hear me out. Not sure if they then charged by the hour or something(dont think they did). But still, thats a bit ridiculous for a product under 1 year old that crashed due to a flaw in their system. And personally, I didn't find the support all that good, although much better then their consumer division. Good tech support really depends on what time of day you call and what country your forwarded to. I've never called MS Support again. One company worth mentioning for amazing support is Dell. One of the harddrives in my RAID array failed last week, they flew me a new drive through SonicAir, I had it in an hour and a half, they also had a guy call me and ask if I wanted him to install it. I happened to be busy so I definitly said yes. The whole issue was cleared up in under 4 hours, I was floored at how well Dell handled it. Regards, Steve
Fair enough... although the 21 with a 16 year old thing is disgusting. There are many laws in every country that seem wierd but aren't enforced simply because they are so old. I'm sure there are some laws still in the books in the UK about hanging and burning(maybe not that extreme, but you get the idea), essentially none of the age restricted laws mentioned are enforced, they are just in the books so lets not take ourselves, so serious, on either side of the pond:) Regards, Steve
Umm go live in the US a bit and find out what the laws really are. It isn't illegal to have sex if your under 18, especially if both are under 18 and close in age. Hell, there are many organizations trying to teach 12 year olds to *stop* having sex. Regardless, sex/marriage/and many other related things are covered under state law, not federal, so Washington has nothing to say about it. For example, in certain states its okay to marry a relative, while in many other states it is against the law. That is also why this whole gay issue varies greatly throughout the country. Bush is trying to ban gay marriage in the nation, but really is powerless against it because its the State's job. Many more powers lay in the hands of the State then most people realize, although typically most states have generally the same legislation. Regards, Steve
That is the worst notation for a number i've ever seen. Suppose I said, "Here is a list of the 5 largest numbers ever to be added by a human: 3 006 004 345 234 123 623 453 543." How the hel could you get anything out of that, the answer is you couldn't . Either use the comma or the period, anything else and its just dumb. Regards, Steve
I must give credit where credit is due. That desktop rocks. Are you ever releasing the applet thingy? It'd be cool if you could give/. some tips for getting something so awesome looking. Oh and how stable is the latest X.org server? I might upgrade if it has translucency and shadows:) Regards, Steve
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Yea I mean I'm an American and I can't stand our foreign policy, but hell I love our culture:) Although you have to give us some credit, when the world needs us we are there, unfortunately we are there sometimes when we aren't needed either:/ Regards, Steve
Wow you are definitly a/.er who never meets girls. I'm am a guy and I know damn well that women should regularly visit the gynaecologist on a regular basis once a certain age is reached, regardless of what your social life entails. Regards, Steve
Ugh... ACs are soo annoying. Java doesn't suck, your obviously not a programmer, or at least not a serious one. "Oh look I can write C++ and I know a scripting language, I'm 1337." Any serious programmer knows the value of Java and of all the other languages. Java is very good at at many things. Writing cell phone games in J2ME is extremely easy and extremely flexible. Java is a very powerful language and thats why so many support and use it. Things such as the IBM funded Eclipse IDE put everyother IDE to shame. Netbeans is also a first class IDE and I use it along with Eclpise very often. The Java VM is very fast now a days, mainly due to the JIT. It often runs as fast as C++, if not faster. This is also why most of the Apach Software Foundation's projects are focused on Java, these include Ant, Tomcat, Jakarta, Maven, Struts, and a few others. I can't stand people like you who claim, or act like, they are programmers, and in reality they can code a few "Hello World" apps. Get over yourself. I code mainly in C++, Java, and Python, but I know the value of all the other languages and where they fit and how to use them. Oh and Brew is far more susceptible to buffer overflows (hasn't there already been an issue or two with that?) where as Java is generally safe from many types of C++ targeted attacks. Regards, Steve
Check it out here: BeOS Max Edition. It's freeware now and has a pretty good selection of apps. It has BeFS which is everything WinFS wants to be but never will be, and BeFS has been around since 1996. There are some really great things about the OS, but the lack of supported hardware, and afew other things are reasons why I don't currently run it anymore (although that may change). Linux is great and if tuned right, performs really well. If you want fast boot times, there are a few articles about making linux boot faster, or you can try FreeBSD which has always booted extremely fast for me. There is a whole world of operating systems out there, if I were you I'd try each one because each one seems to excel where no others do. Lots of different interesting ideas implemented. SkyOS is another good example of an interesting OS, its damn near all written in Assembly, and it was all pretty much written by one man. The major flaw with SkyOS is that it is closed source. ReactOS is really cool too. I could go on, but you'd probably be better off just hopping on google and trying out a few. Regards, Steve P.S. If you don't feel like installing each OS on your computer, use qemu, it runs every OS I listed just fine.
There aren't many ways to show a calendar. I've been using electronic calendars long before Outlook was ever out and they've always had similarities. The real test is the functionality behind them, which for Outlook and Sunbird is completely different, and both have their advantages/disadvantages. I personally don't think they look too similar, but regardless look at any groupware type application from the early 90's on and they all look not too different. How else would you propose to lay it out? Regards, Steve
200MB? wow, that times however many people update monthly leads to a ton of bandwidth. Hmm... that leads me to wonder if anyone has tried implementing a bit torrent style update system for a distro, seems like it'd speed up updates and save the project tons of cash on bandwidth. Regards, Steve
Heh... while we are comparing Fedora and Windows XP, I was on Secunia today looking up some information for my employer. What I found was interesting. Fedora (both cores) according to Secunia are both "secured" and have nothing that is known about that isn't patched. Windows XP on the other hand has 25% of its vulnerabilities unpatched and secunia considers at least one of these unpatched things to be "highly critical". Also to put it in more perspective, the Windows alerts are only in regards to core windows components, whereas the Fedora Cores have the alerts for pretty much every product that comes with it, these include rsync, CVS, and squirrelmail. Many of these applications are 3rd party software and the Fedora crew isn't directly responsible for their securty, yet they are included in the Fedora evaluation. That'd be like saying Microsoft is responsible for Adobe's software. Despite the fact that Fedora has this going against it, Secunia still considers it more secure. One final thing, while it says Firefox has some moderately critical problems ( its two things, and both are related to spoofing), it says that Internet Explorer has many "Extrememly Critical" problems and then goes on to list too many to note here. Here are the links: Fedora WinXP Firefox IE
I'm sure glad I run Fedora:) I also run Debian on some servers and was a bit disappointed to see that they were marked as having some moderately critical vulnerabilities, one being released in 2002. It sure is stable as hell, but it's one more reason to keep me thinkign about migrating the servers and the only other real choices I'd consider are Red Hat, Suse (although past experiences with them haven't been the best), and maybe Gentoo on a non-production server.Debian.
Regards,
Steve
As in Britain, all, if not most, murders in the U.S. are crime on crime related. Its Newtonism at its best:) I've never feared getting shot, its not something that crosses my mind ever. Guns aren't as popular as folks make them out to be. They are mostly concentrated in ghettos and I beleive out in the west, not where your average person lives, and performs daily tasks. As far as premeditated murder goes, if someone wants you dead, its gonna happen with a gun or without a gun. This whole gun issue is way over hyped. I've never publicly seen a gun other then on a Police Officer or Military personnel. People are making it seem like 1 in 3 people have them, when in reality its much less. Regardless, a gun ban wouldn't be effective in the States simply because of Mexico to the south and Canada to the north. Drugs come through those borders very easily, and guns would just be added to the list. Also, the U.S. has about 5 times the population, and IIRC crime rates in general are not linear, but rather exponential, in regards to the population. Let the UK's population multiply by 5 and I'd bet the rates are pretty consistent with the U.S. Regards, Steve
Red Hat and Novell have both taken action to protect their customers too. I'm not sure exactly what Novell has done (but I know its something), but being a Red Hat customer, Red Hat has taken great care of such matters. Regards, Steve
Linksys APs are sweet too, no WEP by default, no firewall, and if you can root a wired computer on the network,the passwords on all the routers are "admin" (IIRC) and the username is blank. I'm pulling that from memory, it may be slightly off. The Metasploit project along with ettercap is really great too for such cases. Using those tools you can be a white hat and enable WEP for them, leave them a message explaining what you did and how to set their laptops up to use it, and then sleep well at night:) Regards, Steve
All major development is done on firefox now. I believe the end goal is to still have an internet suite, but of all separate apps. Mozilla, as far as I know, will still continue to be released but it will be composed of its new counterparts. It also appears the Nvu has completely taken over devleopment of the web page designer. Regards, Steve
Even if you could quickly be given a message and generate a separate message which has the same hash but is the same size of the original message, it still won't really matter simply because you have no control over what the second message is. For example, in the article they use "I, Bob, agree to pay Charlie $ 5000.00 on 4/12/2005.", well a 2nd message that has the same hash and is the same length as the first message would probably look like this "bhedjfgd70gdgr6rhg2rkjhgvrek342rgkhverghvgkhkfgrr e2wd". What I'm getting at is that since you have no control over the new message, and because it is decided by an algorithm, it will probably be a bunch of random characters, even if a word or two were formed, it would be a non-sensical statement. The article is making appear like you can take any two messages and modify the second one to have the same hash. Its bullshit. The best you could do is add a bunch of random characters at the end of your 2nd message until it has the same hash as the real message, but then its easy to point out, "Hey I didn't sign a paper with a bunch of random shit all over it." Oh yea, and it would also take many millenia. Regards, Steve
Ignore all of the previous responses (although they did have some neat ideas). I live in philly and we already have wifi at Love Park, the Reading Terminal, and some other popular areas. Its all free and its an ever expanding project, but only recently have they thought about going city wide. Anyway, there is no encryption, no authentication, no anything, you turn your computer/pda/{wireless device} and do what you have to. The bandwidth is really good, even with many people using it. And its convenient as hell, I mean you literally just sit down browse the web,or play enemy-territory:), and leave when your done. No registration/free registration/ or anything. I guess you could say thats a bad thing but if you ever did anything really illegal I guess they could kind of track you with your MAC address. Personally, I prefer how they have it set up, its keeping costs at the lowest, while maximizing accessibility. There is little administration costs, they set up the access point and let it go. It only ever needs to be looked at again if it malfunctions. You don't have to pay someone to look at logs all day, or block sites and make sure people don't get around it, or explain to people why they can't connect to certain things, or why a service they want won't work because some port is blocked. The wireless access is "just there" to use at your will like many public services payed for by taxes(although, I guess you could say at your own risk). Nothing is blocked (as far as I know) So far its been a major success, I could only see them requiring authentication if illegal activity got out of hand. Regards, Steve
I have lived in Philadelphia my whole life. We already have free wifi at Love Park, The Reading Terminal, and a few other major places. If you ever visit just look for the big "Wireless Philly" signs at some areas, they are like 3' x 3' in size and also have instructions for the non-/. crowd. The bandwidth is excellent even with a bunch of other folks on at the same area as you. Its good enough to play Enemy-Territory:) Having free wi-fi is awesome and makes lunch even better. I read about this city wide plan and I really hope they go through with it. It'd be so great. And all the other cities should hope we do this too, cause if we do and it turns out successful, you can bet many others will follow. Regards, Steve
I use NX nearly daily. Its just like VNC, just a million times faster and its more clear, so stop whining. NX isn't useless, I've used every desktop program that you can name with it, nothing special needs to be done. I installed the deb with dpkg, added a user, went to work the next day and connected home. Literally nothing else had to be done, it is such an easy setup, I was very impressed. Oh and did I mention, its fast, really fast. I could hardly tell I wasn't sitting at home. Some other cool things you can do with it are printer fowarding and I think something with file transfers, although I haven't used either because I haven't needed to. Regards, Steve
Wait a second... You can't watch any TV at all for free? Like you don't have standard channels for free and then have to pay if you want something else like cable or satellite? I must have misread one of the parent posts, or is what I said accurate? I'm not trolling, I'm just curious. And if it is true that you must buy a license to watch TV, then does the BBC have commercials or advertisements? Or do they get all of their funding from the licenses? Regards, Steve
I probably shouldn't respond to a troll, but I'll bite on this one.
We have a sidebar that has significant more functionality than what MS intends to have two years from now. And our sidebar isn't vaporware: Dashboard
Lonhorn is going to have multiple desktops, tell MS not to copy Linux.
.Net is Java reincarnated, tell MS to give it back to Sun.
BeOS had BeFS in 1996, its everything that WinFS was going to be and then some, tell MS to not use WinFS.
While we are at it, The new windows versions are a bit like VMS, make sure you tell MS to scrap it all and start from scratch. Oh and this time also make sure you tell them not to include any BSD code again. I'll stop now, I wouldn't want to embarass you anymore. Regards, Steve
I'm not interested but thanks for the offer. I do have a question though. I was browsing their website because I want one of these gmini 400 devices. But then I saw the av340 and it has a larger screen and is around the same price range. What does the gmini do that the av340 doesn't? They appear to be the same except the av340 has a larger screen. Anyone know? I must be missing something. Regards, Steve
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In all seriousness, go with Red Hat, you won't regret it. They have the best support I've ever had to deal with and their enterprise line is the most consistent, stable, and feature filled distro that I've seen for the enterprise. I use Debian on personal servers, and while it's a great distro, and Debian stable is *extremely* stable, it is not anymore stable then Red Hat. Also, most enterprise applications are geared towards Red Hat. Alien is a nice utility, but sometimes craps out on me. You'll have no trouble finding RPMs of any major application on linux. Also, I love apt-get as much as you do, but yum is great, up2date is nice(although I rarely use it), and apt for rpm is awesome, although I'm not sure what its like on RH's servers, i've only used it on Fedora. Apt-get should not be a major point in your decision considering that once a server is up and running, you should rarely ever have to install or modify many things (other then security update, which RH handles nicely). IBM can't support Debian's repositories anyway because they have no clue what is in them and they have no jurisdiction over their distribution. Just spend the money on a good corporate server and I assure you that you won't regret it. It will also keep the higher ups happy, and if the shit ever hits the fan you can just toss the problem to Red Hat, who are btw very good and very quick at solving damn near any problem in the world.
Regards,
Steve
Read this, the beginning tells you how cool the device it, but the ending is rather startling Here.
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Steve
Just out of curiosity, how much did it cost the company? Last time I called about an Exchange issue, it was $250 for them to even hear me out. Not sure if they then charged by the hour or something(dont think they did). But still, thats a bit ridiculous for a product under 1 year old that crashed due to a flaw in their system. And personally, I didn't find the support all that good, although much better then their consumer division. Good tech support really depends on what time of day you call and what country your forwarded to. I've never called MS Support again. One company worth mentioning for amazing support is Dell. One of the harddrives in my RAID array failed last week, they flew me a new drive through SonicAir, I had it in an hour and a half, they also had a guy call me and ask if I wanted him to install it. I happened to be busy so I definitly said yes. The whole issue was cleared up in under 4 hours, I was floored at how well Dell handled it.
Regards,
Steve
Fair enough... although the 21 with a 16 year old thing is disgusting. There are many laws in every country that seem wierd but aren't enforced simply because they are so old. I'm sure there are some laws still in the books in the UK about hanging and burning(maybe not that extreme, but you get the idea), essentially none of the age restricted laws mentioned are enforced, they are just in the books so lets not take ourselves, so serious, on either side of the pond:)
Regards,
Steve
Umm go live in the US a bit and find out what the laws really are. It isn't illegal to have sex if your under 18, especially if both are under 18 and close in age. Hell, there are many organizations trying to teach 12 year olds to *stop* having sex. Regardless, sex/marriage/and many other related things are covered under state law, not federal, so Washington has nothing to say about it. For example, in certain states its okay to marry a relative, while in many other states it is against the law. That is also why this whole gay issue varies greatly throughout the country. Bush is trying to ban gay marriage in the nation, but really is powerless against it because its the State's job. Many more powers lay in the hands of the State then most people realize, although typically most states have generally the same legislation.
Regards,
Steve
That is the worst notation for a number i've ever seen. Suppose I said, "Here is a list of the 5 largest numbers ever to be added by a human: 3 006 004 345 234 123 623 453 543." How the hel could you get anything out of that, the answer is you couldn't . Either use the comma or the period, anything else and its just dumb.
Regards,
Steve
I must give credit where credit is due. That desktop rocks. Are you ever releasing the applet thingy? It'd be cool if you could give /. some tips for getting something so awesome looking. Oh and how stable is the latest X.org server? I might upgrade if it has translucency and shadows:)
Regards,
Steve
Yea I mean I'm an American and I can't stand our foreign policy, but hell I love our culture:) Although you have to give us some credit, when the world needs us we are there, unfortunately we are there sometimes when we aren't needed either :/
Regards,
Steve
Wow you are definitly a /.er who never meets girls. I'm am a guy and I know damn well that women should regularly visit the gynaecologist on a regular basis once a certain age is reached, regardless of what your social life entails.
Regards,
Steve
Ugh... ACs are soo annoying. Java doesn't suck, your obviously not a programmer, or at least not a serious one. "Oh look I can write C++ and I know a scripting language, I'm 1337." Any serious programmer knows the value of Java and of all the other languages. Java is very good at at many things. Writing cell phone games in J2ME is extremely easy and extremely flexible. Java is a very powerful language and thats why so many support and use it. Things such as the IBM funded Eclipse IDE put everyother IDE to shame. Netbeans is also a first class IDE and I use it along with Eclpise very often. The Java VM is very fast now a days, mainly due to the JIT. It often runs as fast as C++, if not faster. This is also why most of the Apach Software Foundation's projects are focused on Java, these include Ant, Tomcat, Jakarta, Maven, Struts, and a few others. I can't stand people like you who claim, or act like, they are programmers, and in reality they can code a few "Hello World" apps. Get over yourself. I code mainly in C++, Java, and Python, but I know the value of all the other languages and where they fit and how to use them. Oh and Brew is far more susceptible to buffer overflows (hasn't there already been an issue or two with that?) where as Java is generally safe from many types of C++ targeted attacks.
Regards,
Steve
Check it out here: BeOS Max Edition. It's freeware now and has a pretty good selection of apps. It has BeFS which is everything WinFS wants to be but never will be, and BeFS has been around since 1996. There are some really great things about the OS, but the lack of supported hardware, and afew other things are reasons why I don't currently run it anymore (although that may change). Linux is great and if tuned right, performs really well. If you want fast boot times, there are a few articles about making linux boot faster, or you can try FreeBSD which has always booted extremely fast for me. There is a whole world of operating systems out there, if I were you I'd try each one because each one seems to excel where no others do. Lots of different interesting ideas implemented. SkyOS is another good example of an interesting OS, its damn near all written in Assembly, and it was all pretty much written by one man. The major flaw with SkyOS is that it is closed source. ReactOS is really cool too. I could go on, but you'd probably be better off just hopping on google and trying out a few.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. If you don't feel like installing each OS on your computer, use qemu, it runs every OS I listed just fine.
There aren't many ways to show a calendar. I've been using electronic calendars long before Outlook was ever out and they've always had similarities. The real test is the functionality behind them, which for Outlook and Sunbird is completely different, and both have their advantages/disadvantages. I personally don't think they look too similar, but regardless look at any groupware type application from the early 90's on and they all look not too different. How else would you propose to lay it out?
Regards,
Steve
200MB? wow, that times however many people update monthly leads to a ton of bandwidth. Hmm... that leads me to wonder if anyone has tried implementing a bit torrent style update system for a distro, seems like it'd speed up updates and save the project tons of cash on bandwidth.
Regards,
Steve
Heh... while we are comparing Fedora and Windows XP, I was on Secunia today looking up some information for my employer. What I found was interesting. Fedora (both cores) according to Secunia are both "secured" and have nothing that is known about that isn't patched. Windows XP on the other hand has 25% of its vulnerabilities unpatched and secunia considers at least one of these unpatched things to be "highly critical". Also to put it in more perspective, the Windows alerts are only in regards to core windows components, whereas the Fedora Cores have the alerts for pretty much every product that comes with it, these include rsync, CVS, and squirrelmail. Many of these applications are 3rd party software and the Fedora crew isn't directly responsible for their securty, yet they are included in the Fedora evaluation. That'd be like saying Microsoft is responsible for Adobe's software. Despite the fact that Fedora has this going against it, Secunia still considers it more secure. One final thing, while it says Firefox has some moderately critical problems ( its two things, and both are related to spoofing), it says that Internet Explorer has many "Extrememly Critical" problems and then goes on to list too many to note here. Here are the links:
Fedora
WinXP
Firefox
IE
I'm sure glad I run Fedora:) I also run Debian on some servers and was a bit disappointed to see that they were marked as having some moderately critical vulnerabilities, one being released in 2002. It sure is stable as hell, but it's one more reason to keep me thinkign about migrating the servers and the only other real choices I'd consider are Red Hat, Suse (although past experiences with them haven't been the best), and maybe Gentoo on a non-production server.Debian.
Regards,
Steve
As in Britain, all, if not most, murders in the U.S. are crime on crime related. Its Newtonism at its best:) I've never feared getting shot, its not something that crosses my mind ever. Guns aren't as popular as folks make them out to be. They are mostly concentrated in ghettos and I beleive out in the west, not where your average person lives, and performs daily tasks. As far as premeditated murder goes, if someone wants you dead, its gonna happen with a gun or without a gun. This whole gun issue is way over hyped. I've never publicly seen a gun other then on a Police Officer or Military personnel. People are making it seem like 1 in 3 people have them, when in reality its much less. Regardless, a gun ban wouldn't be effective in the States simply because of Mexico to the south and Canada to the north. Drugs come through those borders very easily, and guns would just be added to the list. Also, the U.S. has about 5 times the population, and IIRC crime rates in general are not linear, but rather exponential, in regards to the population. Let the UK's population multiply by 5 and I'd bet the rates are pretty consistent with the U.S.
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat and Novell have both taken action to protect their customers too. I'm not sure exactly what Novell has done (but I know its something), but being a Red Hat customer, Red Hat has taken great care of such matters.
Regards,
Steve
Linksys APs are sweet too, no WEP by default, no firewall, and if you can root a wired computer on the network,the passwords on all the routers are "admin" (IIRC) and the username is blank. I'm pulling that from memory, it may be slightly off. The Metasploit project along with ettercap is really great too for such cases. Using those tools you can be a white hat and enable WEP for them, leave them a message explaining what you did and how to set their laptops up to use it, and then sleep well at night :)
Regards,
Steve
All major development is done on firefox now. I believe the end goal is to still have an internet suite, but of all separate apps. Mozilla, as far as I know, will still continue to be released but it will be composed of its new counterparts. It also appears the Nvu has completely taken over devleopment of the web page designer.
Regards,
Steve
Even if you could quickly be given a message and generate a separate message which has the same hash but is the same size of the original message, it still won't really matter simply because you have no control over what the second message is. For example, in the article they use "I, Bob, agree to pay Charlie $ 5000.00 on 4/12/2005.", well a 2nd message that has the same hash and is the same length as the first message would probably look like this "bhedjfgd70gdgr6rhg2rkjhgvrek342rgkhverghvgkhkfgrr e2wd". What I'm getting at is that since you have no control over the new message, and because it is decided by an algorithm, it will probably be a bunch of random characters, even if a word or two were formed, it would be a non-sensical statement. The article is making appear like you can take any two messages and modify the second one to have the same hash. Its bullshit. The best you could do is add a bunch of random characters at the end of your 2nd message until it has the same hash as the real message, but then its easy to point out, "Hey I didn't sign a paper with a bunch of random shit all over it." Oh yea, and it would also take many millenia.
Regards,
Steve
Ignore all of the previous responses (although they did have some neat ideas). I live in philly and we already have wifi at Love Park, the Reading Terminal, and some other popular areas. Its all free and its an ever expanding project, but only recently have they thought about going city wide. Anyway, there is no encryption, no authentication, no anything, you turn your computer/pda/{wireless device} and do what you have to. The bandwidth is really good, even with many people using it. And its convenient as hell, I mean you literally just sit down browse the web,or play enemy-territory :), and leave when your done. No registration/free registration/ or anything. I guess you could say thats a bad thing but if you ever did anything really illegal I guess they could kind of track you with your MAC address. Personally, I prefer how they have it set up, its keeping costs at the lowest, while maximizing accessibility. There is little administration costs, they set up the access point and let it go. It only ever needs to be looked at again if it malfunctions. You don't have to pay someone to look at logs all day, or block sites and make sure people don't get around it, or explain to people why they can't connect to certain things, or why a service they want won't work because some port is blocked. The wireless access is "just there" to use at your will like many public services payed for by taxes(although, I guess you could say at your own risk). Nothing is blocked (as far as I know) So far its been a major success, I could only see them requiring authentication if illegal activity got out of hand.
Regards,
Steve
I have lived in Philadelphia my whole life. We already have free wifi at Love Park, The Reading Terminal, and a few other major places. If you ever visit just look for the big "Wireless Philly" signs at some areas, they are like 3' x 3' in size and also have instructions for the non-/. crowd. The bandwidth is excellent even with a bunch of other folks on at the same area as you. Its good enough to play Enemy-Territory:) Having free wi-fi is awesome and makes lunch even better. I read about this city wide plan and I really hope they go through with it. It'd be so great. And all the other cities should hope we do this too, cause if we do and it turns out successful, you can bet many others will follow.
Regards,
Steve
I use NX nearly daily. Its just like VNC, just a million times faster and its more clear, so stop whining. NX isn't useless, I've used every desktop program that you can name with it, nothing special needs to be done. I installed the deb with dpkg, added a user, went to work the next day and connected home. Literally nothing else had to be done, it is such an easy setup, I was very impressed. Oh and did I mention, its fast, really fast. I could hardly tell I wasn't sitting at home. Some other cool things you can do with it are printer fowarding and I think something with file transfers, although I haven't used either because I haven't needed to.
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Steve
Wait a second... You can't watch any TV at all for free? Like you don't have standard channels for free and then have to pay if you want something else like cable or satellite? I must have misread one of the parent posts, or is what I said accurate? I'm not trolling, I'm just curious. And if it is true that you must buy a license to watch TV, then does the BBC have commercials or advertisements? Or do they get all of their funding from the licenses?
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Steve
I probably shouldn't respond to a troll, but I'll bite on this one.
We have a sidebar that has significant more functionality than what MS intends to have two years from now. And our sidebar isn't vaporware: Dashboard
Lonhorn is going to have multiple desktops, tell MS not to copy Linux.
.Net is Java reincarnated, tell MS to give it back to Sun.
BeOS had BeFS in 1996, its everything that WinFS was going to be and then some, tell MS to not use WinFS.
While we are at it, The new windows versions are a bit like VMS, make sure you tell MS to scrap it all and start from scratch. Oh and this time also make sure you tell them not to include any BSD code again. I'll stop now, I wouldn't want to embarass you anymore.
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Steve
I'm not interested but thanks for the offer. I do have a question though. I was browsing their website because I want one of these gmini 400 devices. But then I saw the av340 and it has a larger screen and is around the same price range. What does the gmini do that the av340 doesn't? They appear to be the same except the av340 has a larger screen. Anyone know? I must be missing something.
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Steve