I use it for entertainment mostly. I've seen flame wars going on for days. Some of it is funny... some sad. There's no way I'd ever give out any info in there. I can discuss and answer questions and no-one really needs to know me past my pseudonym. It's not like they're my best friends or anything. I've always viewed it as very casual relationships.
I think usenet is marginally above irc in the web heirarchy. Both can be very nasty places, and yes I have a lot of posters kill filtered.
This is freaking ridiculous. And there is a simple solution.
The ONLY machines that need actual IP addresses are servers and gateways.
EXACTLY!
Sorry I don't have mod points. This is the best post in the thread.
This whole issue sounds like the y2k scam all over again. (yes I know it was real but not the way it was adver-terrorized) In 6 years I saw 2 (TWO) home computers that weren't y2k compatible. Yet people were all told they needed new computers. That crap totally blew the crdibility of the computer industry. I doubt home users will be fooled again.
We fixed this "problem" in Alberta. Anybody heard of http://www.albertasupernet.ca/SuperNet? One awesome giant fibre network connecting 422 communities throughout the province. (it's a big province)
We had contractors (Bell, Axia) build the fibre network. They own the 27 largest cities. The gov't owns the rest and sells the bandwidth dirt cheap. This brings tons of us wireless guys into the game and we can give remote users high speed (1.5 meg + ) for 34.95 a month canadian.
This network cost our gov't 193 million. (ya, we got a smoking deal). We finally have it all running after four years and now the task of getting the smaller communities connected.
Wireless is not an issue now. We can shoot 25kms with current technology. It's pretty easy and fairly cost effective to cover small towns and rural areas. Considering that we have 422 communities with a Point of Presence, we hope to have high speed available to 95% of the province within a year.
It can be done. It can be cheaper. We used taxpayer money for the base and open competition to drive the prices down.
AMEN! Pc chips are the WORST boards out there followed closely by ecs. Very cheap hardware. I personally use nothing but Asus now.. and magically.. all my hardware problems have disappeared.
In 5 years, I have taken 1 asus board in for warranty. I can't say that about these two companies. It's kinda like when HP bought comtrash.. GREAT! Now one company has all the worst systems in one place.
This all in one idea is really bad.. for the reasons some of the previous posters have said.
Remember boys and girls.. Networking is just one letter away from nOt working.
(it's always been who you know and those contacts come in very handy when you start doing contract/self employed work)
I've been self employed for about 6 years now. I've made more money at day jobs, but never had the freedom I have now. I'm currently doing some contract type work for an isp that looks very promising. I couldn't do this work if I had a full time day job.
Grateful Dead & Pearl Jam. Their philosophy was, record our shows, give them to your friends.. don't try and make money off them.
Both these bands make their living by playing gigs. I was reading last week how Pearl Jam, without much new material, was packing in shows wherever they went. The reviews of the show weren't that great either.. but they have a huge following.
More like he fools the religious right... the ones too lazy to pick up their Bible and read.
You'll know a tree by it's fruit.. that's one bad apple.
I think the expression was What Would Jesus Do... not Who Would Jesus Bomb.
Bush may play the religious right like a cheap fiddle... but he's no Christian by his actions. (Yes I am a Christian and I do read the Bible and am sick of how popular this wolf in sheeps clothing is).
/prepares for the inevitable troll mod from the firefox fanboys..
From my personal experience.. and it is only mine.. Firefox sucks. I have not seen anything crash and burn like that thing did for me. I've tried it on 3 different machines and it sucked shit every time.
I put Netscape 7.2 on all my clients machines and it works. They have their integrated email client, pop-up blocking, and better security.
Why does firefox die so horribly for me? Is it because I won't use Xtra Problems as an os? Netscape 7.2 is the best browser I've ever used from them.. 6.0 was horrible and 8 looks the same as 6.
I doubt things are going to change any time soon here in the great white north. The liberals (who are presently in power) don't really like america or care about american artists. We already pay tariffs on blank cds to support Canadian artisits. Changing copyright laws here would not endear them to the general public and with an election coming soon, I doubt that they would risk pissing off any more canadians than they already have.
I've found windows to be incredibly stable since win2k. You have to have quality harware though. 95% of windows problems (in my experience) are lousy ram or board.
My only remaining complaint with linux is the speed. I've used things like Slax that are very fast, but don't have the features of Gnome or KDE. I would like a linux that looks and acts like windows, but outperforms it. (since i can't program, i keep searching distro watch looking for one).
My users are so familiar with Windows, it's damn near impossible to get them off it.
If yer comin, come to Alberta. It's the only province worth livin in. We have tons of jobs here. Incase you haven't heard, we have oil... lots of it.. and we're makin a killing on it this year. So much that we're all getting $400 each around Christmas. Family of five will get 2 grand. Sure beats Ontari-OWE.
It's kinda like what america used to be when you guys had rights, though we still have to put up with the easterners for a while before we separate.
That's why we home school. Our 6 year old can read already and is learning to write. He is also pretty good on a computer too. Now if I could just get him to stop fubaring the windoze boxes..;-).. Think I'll try Mac next.
It's worse than that. People have assumed Linux is all open source where Xandros may have been at one time, it certainly isn't now. I think it's now the same as windows from a lock in standpoint.
They have so many proprietary programs in there, if you try now to go to debian and install kpackage, it installs over 100 megs and breaks the distro.
I did this until version 2. I used to install kpackage, then anything I wanted from the debian site. Version 1 was very compatible with debian but by the second time around, the only place you can install from is the Xandros update site. I used to be a distributor until they started pulling the microsoft lock in bs, then I dumped em and went to Ubuntu.
I'd do it if it would actually allow me to play online games again. I hate anything from Linksys but my latency is so horrible I can't play anything online anymore;-(
Friend of mine actually phoned his mp to find this out. He was told $71 million had been collected and about half had been paid out in the first 3 years or so. I bet it only goes to Canuck artists though.
Still, because of this tarrif, which is peanuts, downloading songs is still basically legal in Canada until they change the copyright laws. (which they will try to do when parliment reconvenes in the fall)
I was... should've mentioned that. Cams and ts suck for quality. they're especially nice when you see some guy walking across the theatre in front of the screen:-).
I don't agree. Divx and xvid are amazing codecs. There are rips out there where you honestly can't tell the quality from a dvd on a 27" 7 year old tv. (trick is to use a very good video card)
I've been screaming about this for years.. let me download a movie, in divx or xvid, without the damned drm for $5 and I'll be the first in line. btw, I'm in Canada. I'd really like to be able to do that here. I can't afford $100 to take my wife to a movie anymore, (sitters, food, gas etc) and I absolutley HATE taking the damn movie BACK./rant
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I felt kinda like this back in 97 when I first got on the internet. Downloading and printing crap every spare moment... probably took me a year or so to realize that "THE INTERNET WILL STILL BE THERE IN THE MORNING!!" ha ha ha.
I still have tons of old programs and games I'll never use. I must have about 5 or 6 gigs of windows 95 drivers still too.
The love of money is the root of all evil. I have seen many "wealthy" people, not very many were happy or at peace.
Sucess does not necessarily mean you have two of everything. Success in my opinion, is having a good, stable, loving family, doing what you love to do for a living and living where you want to live.
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I use it for entertainment mostly. I've seen flame wars going on for days. Some of it is funny... some sad. There's no way I'd ever give out any info in there. I can discuss and answer questions and no-one really needs to know me past my pseudonym. It's not like they're my best friends or anything. I've always viewed it as very casual relationships.
I think usenet is marginally above irc in the web heirarchy. Both can be very nasty places, and yes I have a lot of posters kill filtered.
Usenet is the underbelly of the web... lots of shady characters in there.
This whole issue sounds like the y2k scam all over again. (yes I know it was real but not the way it was adver-terrorized) In 6 years I saw 2 (TWO) home computers that weren't y2k compatible. Yet people were all told they needed new computers. That crap totally blew the crdibility of the computer industry. I doubt home users will be fooled again.
We had contractors (Bell, Axia) build the fibre network. They own the 27 largest cities. The gov't owns the rest and sells the bandwidth dirt cheap. This brings tons of us wireless guys into the game and we can give remote users high speed (1.5 meg + ) for 34.95 a month canadian.
This network cost our gov't 193 million. (ya, we got a smoking deal). We finally have it all running after four years and now the task of getting the smaller communities connected.
Wireless is not an issue now. We can shoot 25kms with current technology. It's pretty easy and fairly cost effective to cover small towns and rural areas. Considering that we have 422 communities with a Point of Presence, we hope to have high speed available to 95% of the province within a year.
It can be done. It can be cheaper. We used taxpayer money for the base and open competition to drive the prices down.
I love Alberta!
P.S. Alberta needs techs.
In 5 years, I have taken 1 asus board in for warranty. I can't say that about these two companies. It's kinda like when HP bought comtrash.. GREAT! Now one company has all the worst systems in one place.
This all in one idea is really bad.. for the reasons some of the previous posters have said.
(it's always been who you know and those contacts come in very handy when you start doing contract/self employed work)
I've been self employed for about 6 years now. I've made more money at day jobs, but never had the freedom I have now. I'm currently doing some contract type work for an isp that looks very promising. I couldn't do this work if I had a full time day job.
What self respecting slashdot geek calls Dell tech support?
Both these bands make their living by playing gigs. I was reading last week how Pearl Jam, without much new material, was packing in shows wherever they went. The reviews of the show weren't that great either.. but they have a huge following.
You'll know a tree by it's fruit.. that's one bad apple. I think the expression was What Would Jesus Do... not Who Would Jesus Bomb.
Bush may play the religious right like a cheap fiddle... but he's no Christian by his actions. (Yes I am a Christian and I do read the Bible and am sick of how popular this wolf in sheeps clothing is).
From my personal experience.. and it is only mine.. Firefox sucks. I have not seen anything crash and burn like that thing did for me. I've tried it on 3 different machines and it sucked shit every time.
I put Netscape 7.2 on all my clients machines and it works. They have their integrated email client, pop-up blocking, and better security.
Why does firefox die so horribly for me? Is it because I won't use Xtra Problems as an os? Netscape 7.2 is the best browser I've ever used from them.. 6.0 was horrible and 8 looks the same as 6.
Excuse my french... but Jack Layton is a fucking idiot.
I doubt things are going to change any time soon here in the great white north. The liberals (who are presently in power) don't really like america or care about american artists. We already pay tariffs on blank cds to support Canadian artisits. Changing copyright laws here would not endear them to the general public and with an election coming soon, I doubt that they would risk pissing off any more canadians than they already have.
My only remaining complaint with linux is the speed. I've used things like Slax that are very fast, but don't have the features of Gnome or KDE. I would like a linux that looks and acts like windows, but outperforms it. (since i can't program, i keep searching distro watch looking for one).
My users are so familiar with Windows, it's damn near impossible to get them off it.
It's kinda like what america used to be when you guys had rights, though we still have to put up with the easterners for a while before we separate.
Would they stoop that low?
Enquiring minds want to know!!
That's why we home school. Our 6 year old can read already and is learning to write. He is also pretty good on a computer too. Now if I could just get him to stop fubaring the windoze boxes.. ;-).. Think I'll try Mac next.
They have so many proprietary programs in there, if you try now to go to debian and install kpackage, it installs over 100 megs and breaks the distro.
I did this until version 2. I used to install kpackage, then anything I wanted from the debian site. Version 1 was very compatible with debian but by the second time around, the only place you can install from is the Xandros update site. I used to be a distributor until they started pulling the microsoft lock in bs, then I dumped em and went to Ubuntu.
I'd do it if it would actually allow me to play online games again. I hate anything from Linksys but my latency is so horrible I can't play anything online anymore ;-(
Still, because of this tarrif, which is peanuts, downloading songs is still basically legal in Canada until they change the copyright laws. (which they will try to do when parliment reconvenes in the fall)
So it should really be called Windows FCK-ME?
I was... should've mentioned that. Cams and ts suck for quality. they're especially nice when you see some guy walking across the theatre in front of the screen :-).
I've been screaming about this for years.. let me download a movie, in divx or xvid, without the damned drm for $5 and I'll be the first in line. btw, I'm in Canada. I'd really like to be able to do that here. I can't afford $100 to take my wife to a movie anymore, (sitters, food, gas etc) and I absolutley HATE taking the damn movie BACK. /rant
I felt kinda like this back in 97 when I first got on the internet. Downloading and printing crap every spare moment... probably took me a year or so to realize that "THE INTERNET WILL STILL BE THERE IN THE MORNING!!" ha ha ha.
I still have tons of old programs and games I'll never use. I must have about 5 or 6 gigs of windows 95 drivers still too.
The love of money is the root of all evil. I have seen many "wealthy" people, not very many were happy or at peace.
Sucess does not necessarily mean you have two of everything. Success in my opinion, is having a good, stable, loving family, doing what you love to do for a living and living where you want to live.
Great abandonware site. If it's true abandonware, you can download it. If it's not, they tell you where you can still buy it.