Ease of install.
I remember installing Debian back then and having to futz around to get my monitor and my TV Tuner card working.
When I first tried Ubuntu it set up everything without any interaction, I was quite impressed.
If you want to clear the rules, go to/etc/udev/rules.d and delete the persistent net rules file. The new mac will then default to eth0 again. Or edit the rules file to your hearts content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
"Security through (or by) obscurity is a pejorative referring to a principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy (of design, implementation, etc.) to provide security."
The typical definition of "security through obscurity" refers to hiding bugs and vulnerabilities by keeping the design and implementation secret via closed source.
Neither the design or implementation is secret in open source software, so by definition the OPS statement is incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
"Software which is deliberately released as open source cannot be said to be relying on security through obscurity (the design being publicly available), but it can nevertheless also experience security debacles (e.g., the Morris worm of 1988 spread through some obscure—though widely visible to those who looked—vulnerabilities)."
Alas I could never afford a genuine Sound Blaster. My OPTi 82C924's "Sound Blaster Emulation" was about as convincing to games as a midget trying to pass as a professional basketball player.
But nothing was as painful as trying to get that thing to work in FreeBSD.
1024 x 768 and 1280 x 960 are still what most users are running by far. At those resolutions, a decent midrange card is more then any average user needs. Their games will run great.
Basicly SLI is great for those who are willing to pay through the nose to run the game at crazy resolutions, AA and AF maxxed to the tits. Because god knows that just improves the game experience so much that its worth shelling out more $$$.
Well, considering it's possible, but not likely, to brick a router when flashing I'd say they really can't support it officially via warranty.
As far as I know, Linksys at some point back was forced to comply with the GPL and release their Linux firmware. Inside the firmware is a binary kernel driver, like Nvidia, that enables support with the wireless aspect of the chipset. No source code is available for this.
All of the open source firmwares for these routers are based on the orignal Linksys source AFAIK.
There is a big point you are missing. The independent dsl internet providers do not rent bandwidth from Bell.
Bell supplies the link between the customer and the internet providers own links to the outside internet, which makes the whole situation even more comical.
Independent providers pay Bell for this link, at a certain set speed, and now bell is pulling the rug out beneath them and asserting what applications can get full speed through this internal link.
From my own anecdotal experience, I just helped a friend repair his 360 3 rings of death issue, and even a buddy with his Wii has had random disc reading errors.
Consoles aren't as sturdy as the old NES days. Hell, I have a C64 that still works till this day. I don't think we are ever going to see that kind of reliability again.
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Ease of install. I remember installing Debian back then and having to futz around to get my monitor and my TV Tuner card working. When I first tried Ubuntu it set up everything without any interaction, I was quite impressed.
You're comparing apples to oranges. Most 5-year-old PCs won't run Windows 7 very well, if at all, and have no chance at Windows 8.
Most 5 year old PC's are running some variant of the Core 2 Duo, and run Windows 7 just fine.
Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a load of bollocks.
If it is indeed for the file system, then it's understandable.
If you want to clear the rules, go to /etc/udev/rules.d and delete the persistent net rules file. The new mac will then default to eth0 again. Or edit the rules file to your hearts content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity "Security through (or by) obscurity is a pejorative referring to a principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy (of design, implementation, etc.) to provide security."
That is an example of code obfuscation not security through obscurity.
The typical definition of "security through obscurity" refers to hiding bugs and vulnerabilities by keeping the design and implementation secret via closed source. Neither the design or implementation is secret in open source software, so by definition the OPS statement is incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity "Software which is deliberately released as open source cannot be said to be relying on security through obscurity (the design being publicly available), but it can nevertheless also experience security debacles (e.g., the Morris worm of 1988 spread through some obscure—though widely visible to those who looked—vulnerabilities)."
You are getting modded down because you claim Linux practices security through obscurity.
By definition, it's impossible for open source software to practice security through obscurity.
PS2 compatibility was dropped from the PS3 a *long* time ago.
Actually, if you are using HDMI, you do.
It's funny that your are modded as "Informative" though!
Points to a thread where 20 people have posted, and not even all of them are complaining. Clearly this is a huge problem of epic proportions.
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You've got.... AIDS.
Hate to sound like a broken record, but yes Privoxy works great blocking ads on chrome. Yes, it does block the ads before the it reaches the browser.
See title.
Alas I could never afford a genuine Sound Blaster. My OPTi 82C924's "Sound Blaster Emulation" was about as convincing to games as a midget trying to pass as a professional basketball player.
But nothing was as painful as trying to get that thing to work in FreeBSD.
I'm beginning to rant.
1920x1200 is becoming a common resolution? Hardly, check out the Half Life 2 survey, a cool 2.29% of users are running it.
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
1024 x 768 and 1280 x 960 are still what most users are running by far. At those resolutions, a decent midrange card is more then any average user needs. Their games will run great.
Basicly SLI is great for those who are willing to pay through the nose to run the game at crazy resolutions, AA and AF maxxed to the tits. Because god knows that just improves the game experience so much that its worth shelling out more $$$.
Get out the way bits, get out the way!
Well, considering it's possible, but not likely, to brick a router when flashing I'd say they really can't support it officially via warranty.
As far as I know, Linksys at some point back was forced to comply with the GPL and release their Linux firmware. Inside the firmware is a binary kernel driver, like Nvidia, that enables support with the wireless aspect of the chipset. No source code is available for this.
All of the open source firmwares for these routers are based on the orignal Linksys source AFAIK.
There is a big point you are missing. The independent dsl internet providers do not rent bandwidth from Bell.
Bell supplies the link between the customer and the internet providers own links to the outside internet, which makes the whole situation even more comical.
Independent providers pay Bell for this link, at a certain set speed, and now bell is pulling the rug out beneath them and asserting what applications can get full speed through this internal link.
Rather then distributing the modified driver, couldn't he have just distributed a patch for a specific driver version?
In this case, client side applications are being suppressed through network traffic policies.
From my own anecdotal experience, I just helped a friend repair his 360 3 rings of death issue, and even a buddy with his Wii has had random disc reading errors.
Consoles aren't as sturdy as the old NES days. Hell, I have a C64 that still works till this day. I don't think we are ever going to see that kind of reliability again.
I like how you reference a random opinion on another discussion site as fact. Nice.