One belkin ADSL modem actually did this. Every couple of days or couple of thousand port 80 request it displayed their ad instead.
They later issued a new firmware that disabled this. But not before I had issued them a "fuck off" feedback. I have never bought another belkin product since and I strongly urge no-one else to do so either. Fuck them.
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It was Commodore, not Apple, who released the first true home computer.
It was Commodore, not Apple, who "brought computing to homes" by making their machines affordable.
Lastly, it was the success of Commodore, not Apple's, that made computing mainstream.
Apparently people don't read the rules of Linux hardware: 1. No ATI 2. Check the hardware compatibility list 3. "Partially supported" means "barely functional if you can get it to install." 4. No ATI 5. No, really, don't use ATI. 6. Really, I don't care if you're a fanboy, don't use ATI!!!
F-Secure is a FUD Factory that creates terrible anti-whatever placebo products (along with some really working proxy products).
Instead of fixing their consumer and workstation level products they just buy more search engines and slow the process down even more and eat even more winblowz system resources.
Avoid.
VMware is a matured product, Parallels still feels like a hack.
Snapshot manager?
USB 2.0?
Alas, I have not tried the very latest Parallels since I don't have a Mac (I use other ppls macs at the office) but from the little experience I have:
-The only OS X crashes have been Parallels related
-The only CD burning problems have been Parallels related
-It really does not have good snapshotting. You can suspend, then make copy of the VM directory, but that's cumbersome...
Parallels about equals the free 'VMware Server 1.02' product. It is in no way comparable to either the ESX lineage or (an exaggeration) VMware Workstation.
I bet that figure is far too low.
Everyone uses virtualization now.
Half the servers are virtualized.
Where I work some laptops are fitted with virtualized DOS/Win98 environments for very old software (to control old EPROM burners etc). Much easier to roll out a working VM environment and just copy it around than fiddling with constantly changing hardware.
Linux will "support gaming" once games are supported for Linux. Linux has OpenGL, OpenAL, all the illusionary walls are market-made.
Linux is a platform to build on without the fear of being obsolete in 2 years. DOS games nowadays run on DosBox, as do early Windows games. Even XP needs tweaks to run Win9X games. How is targeting a moving sucky platform preferable to one that is open?
Easy. Games sell for 6 months tops. You get the initial sales, you get the money. After that it's tough shit if it won't work after next Windows Update(tm).
I have used Linux since 1994, but work in the IT industry. I am constantly amazed by the amount of BULLSHIT the windows folks put up with. For weird quirks "shit happens" is the most common reply.
If you join a school, you go by their rules, no matter how retarded they may be.
If you don't want to be treated as one of the windoze-using herd in a winblows-only school with winshit-only obligatory security measures, choose another school.
If you join a school, break their rules, and get penalized - tough shit.
No sympathy points here.
As a centrist, I would prefer neither end of the spectrum in the congress - we don't need a few more far-lefts to outweight the far-rights, we need less of both!
To me, as a finn, it seems more like you have two middle parties. There are differences in nuances and rhetoric, that is all.
XP vs W2K:
Using removable media is much smoother under W2k.
Much faster loading time for the system to get into login screen.
More reliable power saving modes.
Less NTFS corruption on certain models of laptops.
W2K is lighter than XP, but when you turn off all the extra bloat, now in 2007 XP SP2 is better than W2K for most tasks and the memory usage is about the same.
The PDF viewer is good. I have read 400-page PDF's full of images on this thing, as well as warezed scanned Tintin/Asterix/Whatnot cartoons. For proper e-book formats fbreader rules, you can rotate the text 90 degrees and keep the tablet in one hand and scroll pages using zoom buttons.
After a month of use:
The 770 has better form factor and looks better, but the N800 has:
- much better power savings thanks to the new OS
- practically never crashes. I have had zero crashes after installing the updated OS. Installing was a breeze, it even located my backup and restored settings from old OS.
- has MUCH improved packet management
- works flawlessly with a Nokia bluetooth keyboard
- has enough CPU power to watch those 350M TV series episodes (it's not 30fps but it's smooth enough using mplayer)
- Opera never crashes, loads very fast, and renders very fast
- It's "always online" thanks to very sane hassle-free WLAN configuration system and good power saving modes
Its' a great platform for Lucasarts games, remote configuration (X Terminal, SSH). And with the LCARS Trek-theme the OS is very very futuristic. Some software ports like X-Chat (for IRC) and X-Terminal are excellent.
770 was a nice prototype (I used it for a year). N800 is a solid product. With 2 x 4G SD cards it can easily carry a weekend's worth of videos of music. Looking forward to the Navicore navigation set (released last week).
We already have java for real stuff and flash for multimedia whatnot. They are ubiquitous and well understood, tested technologies. Silverwind is already dead.
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The stupid web form always complained about illegal characters in a field without specifying which one.
Yes I know their hardware sucks for other reasons also.
They later issued a new firmware that disabled this. But not before I had issued them a "fuck off" feedback. I have never bought another belkin product since and I strongly urge no-one else to do so either. Fuck them.
That's a joke right? I hear nothing but moaning and frustrated cursing from the 2 Vista users out there.
ok that's old.
It was Commodore, not Apple, who released the first true home computer.
It was Commodore, not Apple, who "brought computing to homes" by making their machines affordable.
Lastly, it was the success of Commodore, not Apple's, that made computing mainstream.
No wonder the male sharks are all pissed off.
Fuck you, fuck your products and fuck your tactics you fucks.
F-Secure is a FUD Factory that creates terrible anti-whatever placebo products (along with some really working proxy products). Instead of fixing their consumer and workstation level products they just buy more search engines and slow the process down even more and eat even more winblowz system resources. Avoid.
that would show google.
My dream coffee: I rub the beans I stole from now-dead pirates in Salma Hayeks cleavage. Then add saliva and drink the results.
easier to remember and easier to pronounce.
It will not be a portable run-anywhere-on-x86-liveUSB like Knoppix or DSL. It will be another useless piece of shit.
This is exactly why PS3 does not appeal to me at all. Better gfx? Whoopidoo. I still play Tetris Attack.
Snapshot manager?
USB 2.0?
Alas, I have not tried the very latest Parallels since I don't have a Mac (I use other ppls macs at the office) but from the little experience I have:
Parallels about equals the free 'VMware Server 1.02' product. It is in no way comparable to either the ESX lineage or (an exaggeration) VMware Workstation.
Everyone uses virtualization now.
Half the servers are virtualized.
Where I work some laptops are fitted with virtualized DOS/Win98 environments for very old software (to control old EPROM burners etc). Much easier to roll out a working VM environment and just copy it around than fiddling with constantly changing hardware.
Linux will "support gaming" once games are supported for Linux. Linux has OpenGL, OpenAL, all the illusionary walls are market-made. Linux is a platform to build on without the fear of being obsolete in 2 years. DOS games nowadays run on DosBox, as do early Windows games. Even XP needs tweaks to run Win9X games. How is targeting a moving sucky platform preferable to one that is open? Easy. Games sell for 6 months tops. You get the initial sales, you get the money. After that it's tough shit if it won't work after next Windows Update(tm). I have used Linux since 1994, but work in the IT industry. I am constantly amazed by the amount of BULLSHIT the windows folks put up with. For weird quirks "shit happens" is the most common reply.
If you join a school, you go by their rules, no matter how retarded they may be. If you don't want to be treated as one of the windoze-using herd in a winblows-only school with winshit-only obligatory security measures, choose another school. If you join a school, break their rules, and get penalized - tough shit. No sympathy points here.
To me, as a finn, it seems more like you have two middle parties. There are differences in nuances and rhetoric, that is all.
Using removable media is much smoother under W2k.
Much faster loading time for the system to get into login screen.
More reliable power saving modes.
Less NTFS corruption on certain models of laptops.
W2K is lighter than XP, but when you turn off all the extra bloat, now in 2007 XP SP2 is better than W2K for most tasks and the memory usage is about the same.
The PDF viewer is good. I have read 400-page PDF's full of images on this thing, as well as warezed scanned Tintin/Asterix/Whatnot cartoons. For proper e-book formats fbreader rules, you can rotate the text 90 degrees and keep the tablet in one hand and scroll pages using zoom buttons.
After a month of use: The 770 has better form factor and looks better, but the N800 has: - much better power savings thanks to the new OS - practically never crashes. I have had zero crashes after installing the updated OS. Installing was a breeze, it even located my backup and restored settings from old OS. - has MUCH improved packet management - works flawlessly with a Nokia bluetooth keyboard - has enough CPU power to watch those 350M TV series episodes (it's not 30fps but it's smooth enough using mplayer) - Opera never crashes, loads very fast, and renders very fast - It's "always online" thanks to very sane hassle-free WLAN configuration system and good power saving modes Its' a great platform for Lucasarts games, remote configuration (X Terminal, SSH). And with the LCARS Trek-theme the OS is very very futuristic. Some software ports like X-Chat (for IRC) and X-Terminal are excellent. 770 was a nice prototype (I used it for a year). N800 is a solid product. With 2 x 4G SD cards it can easily carry a weekend's worth of videos of music. Looking forward to the Navicore navigation set (released last week).
We already have java for real stuff and flash for multimedia whatnot. They are ubiquitous and well understood, tested technologies. Silverwind is already dead.
Totally useless. Cannot use it on any of my portable devices or my work PC. Microsoft's "cross platform" is XP _or_ Vista.