In a year or two, laptops will come in blister packs at the drugstore, in the section with the calculators, electronic dictionaries, and other office supplies.
This is pretty much already happening now that Target is selling EEEPC systems.
XM and Sirius have significantly less bandwidth to use per channel compared to digital radio. The sound quality of digital radio is much better as a result.
I wouldn't mind recording digital radio, because it sounds as good as or better than a lot of MP3s you find on the 'net.
I will never subscribe to a paid radio service (like Sirius or XM), and I'm currently looking to the the hell away from cable. I hate paying for commercials.
That's for the OS. We know nothing about the security mechanisms in place at the application layer.
Backups may be the key to unlocking the admin functions, but now you're talking about bringing up a second instance of the entire core system. You certainly don't want to restore over the existing/current data.
It was way ahead of anything available for Linux at the time ReiserFS v3 was released. It still performs better than other filesystems by leaps and bounds depending on your application.
ReiserFS was very good stuff, and still is. It's unfortunate that it has to be associated to a psychopath killer.
Hans can rot in prison for all I care. I'll still use the filesystem.
Well, I agreed with a lot of what you said, but not the part about the internet being for entertainment. At least, it's not for everyone on a residential connection.
Some business plans are horribly overpriced, so I don't blame people working from home over a residential connection.
Internet for me is as essential as food... I use my internet connection to earn income.
That being said, I do pay for a business account through Comcast. I've never had problems with BT (downloading and seeding recent Linux distro releases), although I do rate limit my BT client so my connection remains responsive.
ISPs do need to enforce their policies, and people need to start reading and understanding those policies. I used to work for a wireless internet company, and it always amused me what people would try to get away with.
Oh, also... Speaking from experience at the same ISP (and this may not apply to all ISPs), but it didn't matter how much bandwidth we used, we got charged the same every month for our connection (several DS3s).
Now, if we managed to saturate that connection, we'd see performance drops on our network, and you'd have people calling in complaining about latency on WoW or speeds in general.
I think the argument that BT costs more money doesn't hold up in most cases. When you are getting DS3 or better connections, you get charged the same amount for the line whether you have a router connected and pushing traffic or not. At least, that's how it works around here (midwest USA).
I used to work for a wireless ISP, and BT doesn't even come close to the amount of bandwidth I saw for HTTP. Think YouTube and streaming porn.
Anyways, some of our wireless equipment didn't like the number of connections that BT ended up using from time to time. This is probably common to at least some equipment at most ISPs.
I'm on Comcast now, and I haven't seen too many issues with BT downloads or uploads. I only allow 20 or less connections, and throttle my client's upload and download bandwidth settings. No fancy tricks outside of the client rate limiting.
I was wondering when someone would say something about digital switching.
No way to detect that someone is listening in on your conversation if they're just duplicating 0s and 1s.
I used to work for a company that basically made huge wiretap systems for digital telephone switches for call centers. Perfect recordings every time, zero call quality issues.
So, what would you propose, then? Stage a rally in D.C.? Boycott the elections? Convince everyone to vote for Ron Paul?
We don't need to go around and destroy property like the Bostonians of centuries past. Everyone would get thrown in jail, they'd be labeled as terrorists, and the current administration would just carry on.
This sort of thing needs to happen from the ground up, meaning we need to clean up our local governments, then move up to the state level. From there we can get some good honest people in the House and Senate, and finally the Presidency.
Personally, I think boycotting the junk on TV is a good start. Get people doing something productive, and paying attention more to the government and what goes on in the world around them. The problem isn't the politicians as much as it is the ignorance and apathy of the general public.
I'm not complaining about SPAM. I'm complaining about people like you who apparently know so much, you can't be bothered to do anything. Just fork it of to some other company, no problem!
If you've been doing email for so long, why quit now? It's certainly not getting harder!
I'll stand by the statement I made, because it's 100% true. The benefits of running your own email system far outweigh the inconvenience of being responsible for your company's data.
Sorry, but I've been dealing with email for over 10 years, both paid professionally for SysAdmin work, and through personal business I conduct outside of my normal job. Email is not difficult. SPAM is not difficult. People pay me money specifically because places like Google and people like you can't or won't support their email needs.
Nothing is for free, have fun learning that one on your own.:-)
He asked a question, I replied with an answer that was intended to put a humorous spin on his wording. Others found it funny, and those with mod points obviously understood what was going on.
Actually, the tea was an important part of colonial life, and was subject to a duty which would go back to the British homeland. Boston's Tea Party was not the only place the colonists revolted, just the more famous (they simply stored tea in a warehouse in Charleston instead of tossing it in the harbor). This would eventually spark a war, and overthrow a government.
So, yeah, the issue with tea really was a direct action at the British government and the taxes they tried to levy against the folks in the New World.
That's why going to Boston to do something about our current administration is pointless, and the way hanshotfirst wrote his post allowed me to inject a little humor into the threads here on Slashdot.
Some people around here couldn't find humor even if it was stapled to their forehead and lit on fire.
I think most people in IT who have half a clue and can manage to run a company email server are considering the prospect of outsourcing to GMail unprofessional, not the idea of having GMail host a domain in general.
When set up properly, an email server pretty much sits in the data center and "just works". Having total control over the email server is also important, depending on what your company does, and whether you are subject to any type of audits from an outside source.
I take pride in the work I do, not what I can outsource.
I recently purchased both an Everex gBook VA1500 laptop and an Everex gPC2, both of which use VIA processors and motherboard chipsets with integrated video.
Wow. I can't believe how bad the OS (gOS) is on either system. The gPC2 isn't as bad as the laptop, but it's still pretty darn bad. I ended up using a PCI video card just so I wouldn't have to deal with the crappy drivers for the integrated graphics for the gPC2.
The gBook is simply a joke with regards to driver support. I ended using the OpenChrome drivers to get the video to actually display the 1440x900 resolution (VIA binary blobs couldn't even do this!), and now I have to battle the WIFI chipset.
I have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS running on the gPC2, and put Slackware 12.1 on the gBook because I knew I was going to have to hack the crap out of that kernel and X to get things going.
I was disappointed in the performance of both systems, and the issues with drivers really made my purchasing experience a poor one. VIA is probably the worst thing that could have happened to Linux from a hardware standpoint, and Everex is not doing their brand name any justice by selling products with such poor software engineering.
This is just one of the first steps towards more control out of the hands of content creators and into the government, leading to censorship and corporate control over everything fed to us over digital media.
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This is pretty much already happening now that Target is selling EEEPC systems.
XM and Sirius have significantly less bandwidth to use per channel compared to digital radio. The sound quality of digital radio is much better as a result.
I wouldn't mind recording digital radio, because it sounds as good as or better than a lot of MP3s you find on the 'net.
I will never subscribe to a paid radio service (like Sirius or XM), and I'm currently looking to the the hell away from cable. I hate paying for commercials.
I am one of the people who care about this.
That's for the OS. We know nothing about the security mechanisms in place at the application layer.
Backups may be the key to unlocking the admin functions, but now you're talking about bringing up a second instance of the entire core system. You certainly don't want to restore over the existing/current data.
So you get root, great. What about all the security built into the application, totally independent of the OS?
It was way ahead of anything available for Linux at the time ReiserFS v3 was released. It still performs better than other filesystems by leaps and bounds depending on your application.
ReiserFS was very good stuff, and still is. It's unfortunate that it has to be associated to a psychopath killer.
Hans can rot in prison for all I care. I'll still use the filesystem.
Well, I agreed with a lot of what you said, but not the part about the internet being for entertainment. At least, it's not for everyone on a residential connection.
Some business plans are horribly overpriced, so I don't blame people working from home over a residential connection.
Internet for me is as essential as food... I use my internet connection to earn income.
That being said, I do pay for a business account through Comcast. I've never had problems with BT (downloading and seeding recent Linux distro releases), although I do rate limit my BT client so my connection remains responsive.
ISPs do need to enforce their policies, and people need to start reading and understanding those policies. I used to work for a wireless internet company, and it always amused me what people would try to get away with.
Oh, also... Speaking from experience at the same ISP (and this may not apply to all ISPs), but it didn't matter how much bandwidth we used, we got charged the same every month for our connection (several DS3s).
Now, if we managed to saturate that connection, we'd see performance drops on our network, and you'd have people calling in complaining about latency on WoW or speeds in general.
I think the argument that BT costs more money doesn't hold up in most cases. When you are getting DS3 or better connections, you get charged the same amount for the line whether you have a router connected and pushing traffic or not. At least, that's how it works around here (midwest USA).
I used to work for a wireless ISP, and BT doesn't even come close to the amount of bandwidth I saw for HTTP. Think YouTube and streaming porn.
Anyways, some of our wireless equipment didn't like the number of connections that BT ended up using from time to time. This is probably common to at least some equipment at most ISPs.
I'm on Comcast now, and I haven't seen too many issues with BT downloads or uploads. I only allow 20 or less connections, and throttle my client's upload and download bandwidth settings. No fancy tricks outside of the client rate limiting.
I was wondering when someone would say something about digital switching.
No way to detect that someone is listening in on your conversation if they're just duplicating 0s and 1s.
I used to work for a company that basically made huge wiretap systems for digital telephone switches for call centers. Perfect recordings every time, zero call quality issues.
You have control over the device, 100%. After purchasing the Wii, you never ever have to put a game in, or connect it to the internet.
If someone wanted to hack on the Wii, but also play games, I think it would make sense to purchase two units.
Nintendo is going to do updates to a Wii to add functionality or fix issues when new games are released, there's no way around that.
So, what would you propose, then? Stage a rally in D.C.? Boycott the elections? Convince everyone to vote for Ron Paul?
We don't need to go around and destroy property like the Bostonians of centuries past. Everyone would get thrown in jail, they'd be labeled as terrorists, and the current administration would just carry on.
This sort of thing needs to happen from the ground up, meaning we need to clean up our local governments, then move up to the state level. From there we can get some good honest people in the House and Senate, and finally the Presidency.
Personally, I think boycotting the junk on TV is a good start. Get people doing something productive, and paying attention more to the government and what goes on in the world around them. The problem isn't the politicians as much as it is the ignorance and apathy of the general public.
Wow, a competent sysadmin telling it like it is gets modded as a "Troll"?
I suppose some of you think Google should wipe your ass and mow your lawn as well?
I'm not complaining about SPAM. I'm complaining about people like you who apparently know so much, you can't be bothered to do anything. Just fork it of to some other company, no problem!
If you've been doing email for so long, why quit now? It's certainly not getting harder!
I'll stand by the statement I made, because it's 100% true. The benefits of running your own email system far outweigh the inconvenience of being responsible for your company's data.
Oh, wait, that's a benefit too.
Yeah, yeah, bla bla bla
:-)
Sorry, but I've been dealing with email for over 10 years, both paid professionally for SysAdmin work, and through personal business I conduct outside of my normal job. Email is not difficult. SPAM is not difficult. People pay me money specifically because places like Google and people like you can't or won't support their email needs.
Nothing is for free, have fun learning that one on your own.
He asked a question, I replied with an answer that was intended to put a humorous spin on his wording. Others found it funny, and those with mod points obviously understood what was going on.
Your forehead is on fire, BTW.
Actually, the tea was an important part of colonial life, and was subject to a duty which would go back to the British homeland. Boston's Tea Party was not the only place the colonists revolted, just the more famous (they simply stored tea in a warehouse in Charleston instead of tossing it in the harbor). This would eventually spark a war, and overthrow a government.
So, yeah, the issue with tea really was a direct action at the British government and the taxes they tried to levy against the folks in the New World.
That's why going to Boston to do something about our current administration is pointless, and the way hanshotfirst wrote his post allowed me to inject a little humor into the threads here on Slashdot.
Some people around here couldn't find humor even if it was stapled to their forehead and lit on fire.
I think most people in IT who have half a clue and can manage to run a company email server are considering the prospect of outsourcing to GMail unprofessional, not the idea of having GMail host a domain in general.
When set up properly, an email server pretty much sits in the data center and "just works". Having total control over the email server is also important, depending on what your company does, and whether you are subject to any type of audits from an outside source.
I take pride in the work I do, not what I can outsource.
I'll second that! Anyone in IT who folds like a lawn-chair at the prospect of running an email server needs to seriously reconsider their career path.
Stuff like Zimbra makes managing email incredibly easy these days. There's no excuse to outsource something like email.
I recently purchased both an Everex gBook VA1500 laptop and an Everex gPC2, both of which use VIA processors and motherboard chipsets with integrated video.
Wow. I can't believe how bad the OS (gOS) is on either system. The gPC2 isn't as bad as the laptop, but it's still pretty darn bad. I ended up using a PCI video card just so I wouldn't have to deal with the crappy drivers for the integrated graphics for the gPC2.
The gBook is simply a joke with regards to driver support. I ended using the OpenChrome drivers to get the video to actually display the 1440x900 resolution (VIA binary blobs couldn't even do this!), and now I have to battle the WIFI chipset.
I have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS running on the gPC2, and put Slackware 12.1 on the gBook because I knew I was going to have to hack the crap out of that kernel and X to get things going.
I was disappointed in the performance of both systems, and the issues with drivers really made my purchasing experience a poor one. VIA is probably the worst thing that could have happened to Linux from a hardware standpoint, and Everex is not doing their brand name any justice by selling products with such poor software engineering.
This is just one of the first steps towards more control out of the hands of content creators and into the government, leading to censorship and corporate control over everything fed to us over digital media.
This is an attack on free speech, absolutely.
They sure are!
Unfortunately the government isn't in Boston. Hence, humor.
Yeah, I'm quite familiar with the term and the event.
If you look a little closer at my reply to the original post, you might find the humor in there. Other people apparently did.
Right after you head to Washington D.C. and find them in the right town. ;-)