You don't have to worry overly. Find a place that's close to your
home, and grab any old phone. Most places offer 30 day guarantees
now. With my most recent phone, I went returned 3-4 phones before
finding one I liked. They hate you for it, but they're the ones
offering the deal, so they can live with it.
That said, surely you have some friends? Find out what they're
using, and give their equipment a listen. You'll find phones to get or
avoid, and your friends will usually be quite candid about them if
they've had the phone a while.
That said, AVOID AT&T. They outright lie to you about their
network. In Chicago at least, you get crap, no matter which phone you
choose if you're looking at the new 3G (mMode) network. The 3G phones
can be rate throttled to take care of congestion, resulting in
ass-quality calls, which lets AT&T put off getting new towers
forever. And they *do*. They lied to me about "improving the network
shortly" for most of a year before I called the local tower owners to
find out where AT&T was expanding their presence. None of them were,
and when I took this to AT&T, they not only let me avoid the $200
contract termination fee, but bought back the phone and refunded me
for 10 months of service.
Also, avoid the places offering "free" nights and weekends on 3G
phones. They all play the AT&T game. The calls are "free," but only to
the folks willing to put up with sounding as though they're calling
from a reverberating sewer tunnel.
Lastly, get a business plan. These get preferential bandwidth, and
usually for the same price as consumer phones. You don't need to show
a business license or do anything other than requesting the business
unit. You get better phone support and better call quality. I'm
guessing that their thinking is that if they make a business customer
happy, it's likely to mean hundreds more phones, whereas customers
always buy on price alone and will put up with being jerked around.
Also, while I'm at it -- try to deal with a small dealer, the places that specialize in phones and car stereos are the best. You can just about always get the unlock code with the phone from these guys if you make it clear that you're only buying the phone under those conditions. They'd rather break a Sprint/AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile rule than lose a sale.
I was disappointed when I entered my address, then used "beer" as the search term. The first couple places were more than an hour away.
Then I saw that one was a bar that offered FREE BEER WITH EVERY PACKERS TOUCHDOWN and I was like... blisssssss... I'm there. It really *did* put the best results first.
I knew it was server beach before you mentioned it.
You know that you can run the tracker and torrent client on nonstandard ports, right? I had ServerBeach for about six months before moving on to something cheaper. I ran Bittorrent on high ports non-stop and they never knew. I blocked outbound connections to the common Bittorrent ports on my machine and let machines on those ports connect to me instead. No sweat.
Bandwidth is from Above.net, so that's going to mean some outages, but for mail and web stuff where you can afford to try back in a minute or two, that's perfect.
I would like to point out that he is using EV1.NET for hosting. Use traceroute and check for yourself. Thusly and therefore, whether he's a sales troll or merely using Slash to avoid price shopping, he receives my fullest and most complete endorsement.
I have been searching high and low for a way to advertise my hosting service. I'd like somewhere that is visited by many people in the tech community, but is still free to post my adverts.
Too bad the moderators will help reveal the fact that his prices fall down miserably (read:suck) compared to ServerBeach and DreamHost and traceroute says he's running on SCO's own favorite *EV1.NET* machines.
If you want to run a box yourself, you can always go with a dedicated
server or a virtual dedicated server. Then you can install all you
like. You can use a self- signed certificate, or get one from a free
public registry. You'll have to manually accept it the first time in
each browser you use, or you can carry a copy on a USB fob and add it
in for extra security.
For a dedicated server, look
at Server Beach for a cheap (about
$100/mo) server. The only support you get is rebooting and
reinstalling, the ToS are no-nonsense strict, but the box is yours, the price is wonderful, and the bandwidth is mind-blowing.
For a cheap virtual dedicated server, I absolutely cannot speak
highly enough of JVDS.com. They use
User Mode Linux to host whichever Linux distribution you like. Uptime
is excellent, Rus (the guy running it) is very attentive to security,
and you can choose from several locations if you have a geographic
preference for the server. Most of the machines are hosted with Jipes or Cogent-class
bandwidth providers which has sometimes meant brief outages in the past. I haven't had recent problems, but it's been a few minutes every couple of weeks in the past. For $20.00/mo for root, that's easily forgiven.
The down side to both is that neither are paying me for their
goddamned licenses, so I'm going to sue all the customers blind as soon as I figure out how to go after JVDS' FreeBSD users too.
At what level does this model give way to standard mutexes? You can't have four drivers for your network card on a four CPU system or four drivers driving your ATAPI bus.
Do you do anything special in the mutex code to take advantage of the four async top level threads and prevent mutex waits?
It looks like the gist of the threading model for Dragonfly is that threads all stay on one processor. I assume this is for user processes only, and that this isn't pervasive through the kernel?
It looks like the gist of the threading model for Dragonfly is that threads all stay on one processor. I assume this is for user processes only, and that this isn't pervasive through the kernel?
And further, how many lawsuits has Microsoft initiated (except piracy, which is justified IMHO)? There are probably some, but off the top of my head I can't think of a single one. They aren't the multi-headed legal beast attacking all over the place the/. "editors" would portray them to be.
Up until the mid 90s, Microsoft hadn't initiated a single lawsuit against anybody. If memory serves, the first lawsuit involved one of the larger distributors of bogus Microsoft software, so even that was fairly benign. This is not a litigation-happy company.
That said, they have started to wrap some pretty evil licenses around all technical information disseminated about Windows, its SDKs and technical papers. Furthermore, they're starting to layer gratuitous DRM over the new MS Office file formats even where it doesn't make sense, leaving room to invoke the DMCA when people make Office file format importers/exporters.
MS salespeople have started to tell shops migrating to Linux that there would be "legal issues" preventing Linux from interoperating with future versions of Windows. There may well be a sea change in Microsoft's tactics ahead, or the salesmen may be talking through their hats. Either way, MS is starting to build up an arsenal of twisted legal manipulation every bit as formidable as IBM's patent arsenal.
Is there anybody anywhere in North America selling a GSM phone that isn't locked to a provider? You'd think that true road warriors would want to either chip-swap or have multiple chips and enough brains to suggest which network to make a call on, or could be told by the user which one to use in software...
I've had plenty of luck getting my phones from small resellers. They have the lock code there for each phone. If you do your research ahead of time, you'll know what to ask for. Then, given the choice between selling the phone and letting you see the code and not selling a phone to stop you from seeing a code, they offer up the code every single time.
The processor is not very powerful in the iPod. There is custom hardware included that does the mp3 decompression, as the processor is not even fast enough for that.
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I'd sooner believe we awarded Bush the popular vote!
I hate to point it out, but the first kernel-image is in 2794th place.
That said, surely you have some friends? Find out what they're using, and give their equipment a listen. You'll find phones to get or avoid, and your friends will usually be quite candid about them if they've had the phone a while.
That said, AVOID AT&T. They outright lie to you about their network. In Chicago at least, you get crap, no matter which phone you choose if you're looking at the new 3G (mMode) network. The 3G phones can be rate throttled to take care of congestion, resulting in ass-quality calls, which lets AT&T put off getting new towers forever. And they *do*. They lied to me about "improving the network shortly" for most of a year before I called the local tower owners to find out where AT&T was expanding their presence. None of them were, and when I took this to AT&T, they not only let me avoid the $200 contract termination fee, but bought back the phone and refunded me for 10 months of service.
Also, avoid the places offering "free" nights and weekends on 3G phones. They all play the AT&T game. The calls are "free," but only to the folks willing to put up with sounding as though they're calling from a reverberating sewer tunnel.
Lastly, get a business plan. These get preferential bandwidth, and usually for the same price as consumer phones. You don't need to show a business license or do anything other than requesting the business unit. You get better phone support and better call quality. I'm guessing that their thinking is that if they make a business customer happy, it's likely to mean hundreds more phones, whereas customers always buy on price alone and will put up with being jerked around.
Also, while I'm at it -- try to deal with a small dealer, the places that specialize in phones and car stereos are the best. You can just about always get the unlock code with the phone from these guys if you make it clear that you're only buying the phone under those conditions. They'd rather break a Sprint/AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile rule than lose a sale.
Is this the same thing as Xouvert, or something new?
Can someone give a ten second summary of the differences in the goals and developers of XFree86, Xouvert and Xorg?
Then I saw that one was a bar that offered FREE BEER WITH EVERY PACKERS TOUCHDOWN and I was like... blisssssss... I'm there. It really *did* put the best results first.
You know that you can run the tracker and torrent client on nonstandard ports, right? I had ServerBeach for about six months before moving on to something cheaper. I ran Bittorrent on high ports non-stop and they never knew. I blocked outbound connections to the common Bittorrent ports on my machine and let machines on those ports connect to me instead. No sweat.
Bandwidth is from Above.net, so that's going to mean some outages, but for mail and web stuff where you can afford to try back in a minute or two, that's perfect.
Thumbs up for EV1.NET.
~Darl
Too bad the moderators will help reveal the fact that his prices fall down miserably (read:suck) compared to ServerBeach and DreamHost and traceroute says he's running on SCO's own favorite *EV1.NET* machines.
For a dedicated server, look at Server Beach for a cheap (about $100/mo) server. The only support you get is rebooting and reinstalling, the ToS are no-nonsense strict, but the box is yours, the price is wonderful, and the bandwidth is mind-blowing.
For a cheap virtual dedicated server, I absolutely cannot speak highly enough of JVDS.com. They use User Mode Linux to host whichever Linux distribution you like. Uptime is excellent, Rus (the guy running it) is very attentive to security, and you can choose from several locations if you have a geographic preference for the server. Most of the machines are hosted with Jipes or Cogent-class bandwidth providers which has sometimes meant brief outages in the past. I haven't had recent problems, but it's been a few minutes every couple of weeks in the past. For $20.00/mo for root, that's easily forgiven.
The down side to both is that neither are paying me for their goddamned licenses, so I'm going to sue all the customers blind as soon as I figure out how to go after JVDS' FreeBSD users too.
~Darl
(* Hint: It is a 'blog' beneath its surface, and most bloggers are girls aged 13-17.)
I should also ask -- is this thread replication model your own design, or do you know of any papers or previous implementations?
Do you do anything special in the mutex code to take advantage of the four async top level threads and prevent mutex waits?
~Darl
It looks like the gist of the threading model for Dragonfly is that threads all stay on one processor. I assume this is for user processes only, and that this isn't pervasive through the kernel?
Will Debian now remove MySQL or move it to non-free?
~Darl
~Darl
Up until the mid 90s, Microsoft hadn't initiated a single lawsuit against anybody. If memory serves, the first lawsuit involved one of the larger distributors of bogus Microsoft software, so even that was fairly benign. This is not a litigation-happy company.
That said, they have started to wrap some pretty evil licenses around all technical information disseminated about Windows, its SDKs and technical papers. Furthermore, they're starting to layer gratuitous DRM over the new MS Office file formats even where it doesn't make sense, leaving room to invoke the DMCA when people make Office file format importers/exporters.
MS salespeople have started to tell shops migrating to Linux that there would be "legal issues" preventing Linux from interoperating with future versions of Windows. There may well be a sea change in Microsoft's tactics ahead, or the salesmen may be talking through their hats. Either way, MS is starting to build up an arsenal of twisted legal manipulation every bit as formidable as IBM's patent arsenal.
The processor is not very powerful in the iPod. There is custom hardware included that does the mp3 decompression, as the processor is not even fast enough for that.
Yes, and Timothy checks for duplicates. Also, I own Linux.
~Darl