I think that you've missed the point here... This isn't about price or performance... The vendor has identified and patched an vulnerability, and have made the patch available in a free update that is easy to install, yet a large number of users haven't installed the update yet. How would this be improved by using an open source solution, which is generally more complicated to administer than an appliance with an embedded OS?
Exactly! I still use business cards, but I print a QR code on the back that can be scanned by a smartphone. The Droid will read it and add it to contacts, including name, address, email, phone, etc. I think a QR code can contain up to 4K of text?
Why not just get something like the Logitech DiNovo Mini? Its a bluetooth keyboard/trackpad combo that fits in the palm of your hand. Logitech only supports it on Windows, but its recognized on the Mac and should work as a keyboard/mouse on Linux as well. I've not tried it with Linux as none of my boxes have bluetooth...
Not only do they redirect mistyped URLs to their own site, THEY ARE REDIRECTING GOOGLE!
dig @208.67.220.220 www.google.com
; > DiG 9.2.2 > @208.67.220.220 www.google.com;; global options: printcmd;; Got answer:;; ->>HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27571;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0;; QUESTION SECTION:;www.google.com. IN A;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 30 IN CNAME google.navigation.opendns.com.
google.navigation.opendns.com. 30 IN A 208.67.219.230
google.navigation.opendns.com. 30 IN A 208.67.219.231;; Query time: 75 msec;; SERVER: 208.67.220.220#53(208.67.220.220);; WHEN: Thu May 24 07:31:11 2007;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104
They are probably upset because someone else is harvesting Google's search data before they can get to it!;-)
Why wait? The updated 17" PowerBooks introduced last week already have that resolution...
With over 1.7 million pixels, this 1680-by-1050-pixel display is 36% more spacious and 46% brighter than its predecessor.
If you are going to "benchmark" the drive performance, why not use a filesystem benchmarking tool like IOzone? From http://www.iozone.org:
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor's computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations: Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read, pread,mmap, aio_read, aio_write.
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I think that you've missed the point here... This isn't about price or performance... The vendor has identified and patched an vulnerability, and have made the patch available in a free update that is easy to install, yet a large number of users haven't installed the update yet. How would this be improved by using an open source solution, which is generally more complicated to administer than an appliance with an embedded OS?
Exactly! I still use business cards, but I print a QR code on the back that can be scanned by a smartphone. The Droid will read it and add it to contacts, including name, address, email, phone, etc. I think a QR code can contain up to 4K of text?
Why not just get something like the Logitech DiNovo Mini? Its a bluetooth keyboard/trackpad combo that fits in the palm of your hand. Logitech only supports it on Windows, but its recognized on the Mac and should work as a keyboard/mouse on Linux as well. I've not tried it with Linux as none of my boxes have bluetooth...
Sounds to me like what you want is a modern-day Newton priced like the iPod Touch!
You might look at Snake Wrangling for Kids or perhaps at How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.
I'm not sure that it will make NetFlix change their mind, but an online petition has been started at http://www.savenetflixprofiles.com/
Not only do they redirect mistyped URLs to their own site, THEY ARE REDIRECTING GOOGLE! dig @208.67.220.220 www.google.com ; > DiG 9.2.2 > @208.67.220.220 www.google.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27571 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 30 IN CNAME google.navigation.opendns.com.
google.navigation.opendns.com. 30 IN A 208.67.219.230
google.navigation.opendns.com. 30 IN A 208.67.219.231 ;; Query time: 75 msec ;; SERVER: 208.67.220.220#53(208.67.220.220) ;; WHEN: Thu May 24 07:31:11 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104
They are probably upset because someone else is harvesting Google's search data before they can get to it! ;-)
Why wait? The updated 17" PowerBooks introduced last week already have that resolution... With over 1.7 million pixels, this 1680-by-1050-pixel display is 36% more spacious and 46% brighter than its predecessor.
If you are going to "benchmark" the drive performance, why not use a filesystem benchmarking tool like IOzone? From http://www.iozone.org:
,mmap, aio_read, aio_write.
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
Iozone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor's computer platform. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations: Read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read, pread