I have yet to see any router that stands up to heavy loads like the current U.S.Robotics range which sell for half the price (Sureconnect 8054, 9105, 9106) - to the extent that users of heavy-duty filesharing software like eMule recommend them above all else.
D-Link have a pretty good reputation but some niggles such as crashing under extreme load and the tendency of the DSL 5**T series to make a whining noise while running mean I'll still be steering clear of them
I have a Gmail account I use for spammy stuff (posting on websites, joining forums (forae?), signing up for mailing lists) and I read it using Thunderbird and Gmail POP3
Considering what I use it for, I get astonishingly little spam through the gmail filter, and Thunderbird picks out the rest and moves it to my junk mail folder for periodic review. Twin filtering is the way to go...
There are one or two things you can't do on OSX, to be fair:
Any sound app that relies on ALSA (and there are a few) for an example, or running the latest release of OpenOffice. Possibly the expense of buying a PPC Linux distribution can be justified by the free software you can then run on it. Although it may be easier just to wait for ports to OSX of your favourite linux apps...
To my knowledge and confirmed by TFA, no distro of Linux or BSD (well, apaprt from OSX) supports Airport cards (either version)
They lay the blame at Broadcom's door for keeping the spec a secret, but lots of manufacturer's don't publish specs but still end up being supported, either through reverse-engineering or emulation + non-native-driver
Can any informed person comment on why this is taking so long?
I just resent being targeted with stuff, and especially dislike the way they're trying to build MSN Search into the MSN messenger interface and add billable functions to a formerly free product (surely thats monopoly abuse again?)
I use Yahoo messenger for Video chat as historically it's always done it much better than MSN - maybe MSN 7.0 means they've caught up but I'm not willing to tolerate that user interface long enough to find out. I've switched to windows Messenger 4.7 and am evaluating GAIM-win32 and Trillian
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - referring to hunting: Don't lose the animal you may already have captured by hoping for the larger one that is still free
I guess the syndication software market hasn't been fought over as much as the browser, mail client and messaging app (cue resentment after downloading MSN Messenger 7 last night and being shocked by now ad-packed it was)
I suppose what's needed is a newsreader which can selectively block domains or Regular Expressions in the way that adblock for firefox can
Here in Britain we also have a situation where prominent industry figures are increasingly represented on state regulatory boards.
If you can't rely on your politicians to refuse industry funding, and the fox is guarding the henhouse as a result of this, perhaps its time for someone to start protest sites and organise bodies to protest for the consumer instead of allowing legislation for the benefit of the industry
Protest at SBC and Verizon's offices, shops, outlets, as well as at state legislatures and ballot boxes. It might work....
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If you're reading this, anyone at MXS, I have been far more than fair. I have so far only ever asked you to comply with the GPL, and release your source code. But now you've pissed me off. Being that I need now contact a lawyer, I will not stop simply there. Being that I'm full copyright owner of my code, and can do as I please, including providing overriding licenses to those openly available.
Since I view Maui X-Stream as in breach of the GPL under which my code is distributed, let this serve as public notice, that my code is no longer legally available for any reason to Maui X-Stream. Since they refuse to co-operate with the very lenient guidelines of the GPL, and refuse at all ends to comply with it. They can no longer claim any rights under the GPL license concerning my code. As such, my original rights of copyright apply, and I refuse any legal access to Maui X-Stream to my code (my code being specifically the G4/AltiVec emulation in generic, and in specific to x86 scalar, and SSE as implemented as a modification to the PearPC project)"
No, it means you'll see a bunch of AOL-type users flooding tech support forums with help stopping their AP crashing when they try and run kazaa through it without forwarding all the ports
You can be pretty sure it won't be a decent US Robotics or Linksys, but will be a rebranded far-eastern Safecom or similar.
Are we talking ISP-grade hardware here (non-NATted connection with all ports open to every user) or something simpler like a few dozen T1 lines and NAT routers on top of street-lighting posts (giving a connection which is good for surfing but bad for P2P as ports cant be forwarded)?
BeOS is single-user, NeXT was multiuser from the beginning and had a far better POSIX implementation. I say Apple did it right. There would have been no quick ports from linux to BeOS
That's probably not helpful. Posting it as an AC, even less so.
Question to the mature Slashdot community. I'm aware that Piquepaille runs a site called Technology Trends which at a brief examination seems to be a reasonably typical tech site written from an insider's PoV, so he's well qualified to submit at Slashdot.. but how does he do it so often?
This isn't just sour grapes - I had a story accepted once and I rarely submit - but this guy's so prolific it makes me wonder what he's doing right.
Anonymous-Cowarding doubtless in admission that this is a troll.
I run OSX 10.3 on a 366mhz G3 iBook with 192mb of RAM, it's fine for wordprocessing, surfing, and multimedia use and isn't any slower than Windows XP on a Pentium-2 366.. which most people would agree is a workable pairing.
10.1 and 10.2 were slow on G3s. 10.3 is fine. As a Windows-refugee I'm still puzzled by an OS that gets faster on older hardware with every release...
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I have yet to see any router that stands up to heavy loads like the current U.S.Robotics range which sell for half the price (Sureconnect 8054, 9105, 9106) - to the extent that users of heavy-duty filesharing software like eMule recommend them above all else.
D-Link have a pretty good reputation but some niggles such as crashing under extreme load and the tendency of the DSL 5**T series to make a whining noise while running mean I'll still be steering clear of them
Blacklisting certain top-level domains does it quite well...
I have a Gmail account I use for spammy stuff (posting on websites, joining forums (forae?), signing up for mailing lists) and I read it using Thunderbird and Gmail POP3
Considering what I use it for, I get astonishingly little spam through the gmail filter, and Thunderbird picks out the rest and moves it to my junk mail folder for periodic review. Twin filtering is the way to go...
There are one or two things you can't do on OSX, to be fair:
Any sound app that relies on ALSA (and there are a few) for an example, or running the latest release of OpenOffice. Possibly the expense of buying a PPC Linux distribution can be justified by the free software you can then run on it. Although it may be easier just to wait for ports to OSX of your favourite linux apps...
To my knowledge and confirmed by TFA, no distro of Linux or BSD (well, apaprt from OSX) supports Airport cards (either version)
They lay the blame at Broadcom's door for keeping the spec a secret, but lots of manufacturer's don't publish specs but still end up being supported, either through reverse-engineering or emulation + non-native-driver
Can any informed person comment on why this is taking so long?
I just resent being targeted with stuff, and especially dislike the way they're trying to build MSN Search into the MSN messenger interface and add billable functions to a formerly free product (surely thats monopoly abuse again?)
I use Yahoo messenger for Video chat as historically it's always done it much better than MSN - maybe MSN 7.0 means they've caught up but I'm not willing to tolerate that user interface long enough to find out. I've switched to windows Messenger 4.7 and am evaluating GAIM-win32 and Trillian
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - referring to hunting: Don't lose the animal you may already have captured by hoping for the larger one that is still free
I guess the syndication software market hasn't been fought over as much as the browser, mail client and messaging app (cue resentment after downloading MSN Messenger 7 last night and being shocked by now ad-packed it was)
I suppose what's needed is a newsreader which can selectively block domains or Regular Expressions in the way that adblock for firefox can
Here in Britain we also have a situation where prominent industry figures are increasingly represented on state regulatory boards.
If you can't rely on your politicians to refuse industry funding, and the fox is guarding the henhouse as a result of this, perhaps its time for someone to start protest sites and organise bodies to protest for the consumer instead of allowing legislation for the benefit of the industry
Protest at SBC and Verizon's offices, shops, outlets, as well as at state legislatures and ballot boxes. It might work....
" If you're reading this, anyone at MXS, I have been far more than fair. I have so far only ever asked you to comply with the GPL, and release your source code. But now you've pissed me off. Being that I need now contact a lawyer, I will not stop simply there. Being that I'm full copyright owner of my code, and can do as I please, including providing overriding licenses to those openly available.
Since I view Maui X-Stream as in breach of the GPL under which my code is distributed, let this serve as public notice, that my code is no longer legally available for any reason to Maui X-Stream. Since they refuse to co-operate with the very lenient guidelines of the GPL, and refuse at all ends to comply with it. They can no longer claim any rights under the GPL license concerning my code. As such, my original rights of copyright apply, and I refuse any legal access to Maui X-Stream to my code (my code being specifically the G4/AltiVec emulation in generic, and in specific to x86 scalar, and SSE as implemented as a modification to the PearPC project)"
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No, it means you'll see a bunch of AOL-type users flooding tech support forums with help stopping their AP crashing when they try and run kazaa through it without forwarding all the ports
You can be pretty sure it won't be a decent US Robotics or Linksys, but will be a rebranded far-eastern Safecom or similar.
The creators of PearPC have withdrawn MXS' right to use their code (The GPL allows for this, apparently), due to prior illegal use thereof..
Are we talking ISP-grade hardware here (non-NATted connection with all ports open to every user) or something simpler like a few dozen T1 lines and NAT routers on top of street-lighting posts (giving a connection which is good for surfing but bad for P2P as ports cant be forwarded)?
Apparently - refer to comments in recent /. story - a lot of them aren't happy about it!
Who'd pay to be advertised at? (OK apart from sky subscribers.. :-\ )
It may or may not be bad form to prove Einstein wrong, but few have done it credibly.
Did he have a position on Black Holes?
..they'll be shipped with Duke Nukem Forever
BeOS is single-user, NeXT was multiuser from the beginning and had a far better POSIX implementation. I say Apple did it right. There would have been no quick ports from linux to BeOS
Its amusing that you use the 'fish to translate this story: In France, an April fool is referred to as an April Fish
I have no idea why.
If Slashdot editors really can be bribed to take a story, don't you think we'd see a lot more favourable coverage of SCO's lawsuits on here :-p
I may be wrong, but I doubt it's that simple.
That's probably not helpful. Posting it as an AC, even less so.
Question to the mature Slashdot community. I'm aware that Piquepaille runs a site called Technology Trends which at a brief examination seems to be a reasonably typical tech site written from an insider's PoV, so he's well qualified to submit at Slashdot.. but how does he do it so often?
This isn't just sour grapes - I had a story accepted once and I rarely submit - but this guy's so prolific it makes me wonder what he's doing right.
Windows 2000 = Windows NT 5.0
Windows XP = Windows NT 5.1. Can you even get XP Pro for $129?
I see where you're coming from and I'm not criticising your motives, but the possible implications for freedom of such a solution scare me.
Anonymous-Cowarding doubtless in admission that this is a troll.
I run OSX 10.3 on a 366mhz G3 iBook with 192mb of RAM, it's fine for wordprocessing, surfing, and multimedia use and isn't any slower than Windows XP on a Pentium-2 366.. which most people would agree is a workable pairing.
10.1 and 10.2 were slow on G3s. 10.3 is fine. As a Windows-refugee I'm still puzzled by an OS that gets faster on older hardware with every release...
Windows NT4, you mean. (As long as you can live without uPNP, USB, FAT32 and Firewire support...)