Too slow for what? My four-year-old Power Mac G4/400 does internet, email, file serving and test web serving perfectly. It's also a print server. And this is running the latest version of Mac OS X.
Granted, it's got three hard drives, a new video card, and 576MB more RAM than it shipped with, but I don't think I'll be putting any more money into it, and I fully expect it to last another three years or more, so long as the power supply or mobo holds out.
five pound bag of rice - $3
Five one-half pound chicken breasts - $7.50
Five small onions (2.5 pounds total) - $2.50
One small container of chili powder - $3
Salt & Pepper - $0.50
1/2 gallon of milk - $2
1 pound shredded taco cheese - $2
That will feed your average geek for a week, assuming they drink only milk and water and the free coffee at the office. Total $20. If you cut out the chicken, it's $12.50.
McDonalds costs about $4 for the same amount of "food." Of course, this also means that you're eating deep fried crap on a crap bun. The cheesy chicken and rice takes 20 minutes to make and is significantly healthier for you.
You don't see people in third world countries living on McDonalds, do you? Of course not, because it's *expensive.*
Sidenote: Whenever I see one of those commercials for Olive Garden's "All you can eat lunch" things, I wish I had $6 to blow on lunch every day.
My food for today? 3 liters of free water and two cups of free coffee, plus a $4 meal at home.
Additionally, how would anyone know what packets are what? By port? What stops someone from port mapping their VoIP box to port 80? Will the states or feds put boxes *inside* your firewall to determine what data you're sending?
If you want the tax to be relevant, let's look at it another way.
The military has been used to secure foreign resources. This benefits the wealthy the most, as the resources they secure belong to companies owned by or invested in by the wealthy.
So, until the American military is used *only* to defend the United States against aggressors, the rich should pay more than the poor for defense.
Of course, you have to deal with a complete lack of anything resembling broadband, which is probably why they have the shortage in the first place; no techie wants to move somewhere 256kbps is considered broadband and worth paying $50/month for.
Blogs, audioblogs and videoblogs aren't revolutionary, they're just outgrowths of technology.
What is revolutionary is the ability of people to communicate globally with such little investment. It would take next-to-nothing for, say, one person to tape what's going on in Fallujah *right now* and web cast it to the world. By the time it gets on the Internet, it's already too late for any government or corporation to stop its spread.
*That's* the revolution. Think of it as open source news. Just like most sourceforge projects are only for a few people, most a/v/t blogs are for a limited audience, but there will always be very popular and widespread video blogs.
And, instead of relying on huge budgets and advertising and feigned political or emotional drama, this distribution method relies on the quality of the media coming out.
Finally, most of the wishes from archaeologists is that they had a better idea of what life was like for ordinary people. By creating a record through blogs, even though most people won't read them, we're helping our progeny to understand the times we lived in and how we reacted to them.
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You run OO.o on Mac OS X? How the hell did you get that to work outside of X11?
Yeah, but Kerry said he'd fight for every vote, and then didn't.
I'm not going to keep rewarding the Democrats for ignoring me or my views. The Greens match my philosophies and views (for the most part), so I'll stick with them.
Five hundred years ago most people didn't make it past two years old, and plagues shut down whole cities. Death was all around them, *that's* why they didn't mind if they never came back from explorations.
I'll trust George Bush and his ilk when they're in lead lined caskets encased in concrete.
Until and unless George Bush supports socialized medicine, ending corporate personhood, and taxing the largest multinationals enough to end the income tax, I won't believe a word he says.
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But then there'd be no more Star Wars Movies!!!
Are there any open source replacements for this for Windows? iTunes, while closed source, is a possible replacement, if a bit bloated.
Heck, throw an older version of Linux on there, without a window manager, and I could see it still being a test server in 2050!
If the Power supply and mobo hold out... /me knocks on wood.
Would it be possible to use your modem port like the RJ-11 port on the Vonage box? Would that even be possible?
Granted, it's got three hard drives, a new video card, and 576MB more RAM than it shipped with, but I don't think I'll be putting any more money into it, and I fully expect it to last another three years or more, so long as the power supply or mobo holds out.
Besides, you can add something like that with a drop down menu.
1) Search string for numbers
If there are numbers, it's not a name.
Ta da!
Five one-half pound chicken breasts - $7.50
Five small onions (2.5 pounds total) - $2.50
One small container of chili powder - $3
Salt & Pepper - $0.50 1/2 gallon of milk - $2 1 pound shredded taco cheese - $2
That will feed your average geek for a week, assuming they drink only milk and water and the free coffee at the office. Total $20. If you cut out the chicken, it's $12.50.
McDonalds costs about $4 for the same amount of "food." Of course, this also means that you're eating deep fried crap on a crap bun. The cheesy chicken and rice takes 20 minutes to make and is significantly healthier for you.
You don't see people in third world countries living on McDonalds, do you? Of course not, because it's *expensive.*
Sidenote: Whenever I see one of those commercials for Olive Garden's "All you can eat lunch" things, I wish I had $6 to blow on lunch every day.
My food for today? 3 liters of free water and two cups of free coffee, plus a $4 meal at home.
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actually, even *that* wouldn't work.
The military has been used to secure foreign resources. This benefits the wealthy the most, as the resources they secure belong to companies owned by or invested in by the wealthy.
So, until the American military is used *only* to defend the United States against aggressors, the rich should pay more than the poor for defense.
Know of any good Canadian job sites? Moving north is looking more and more attractive...
"I'm not an IT worker, I'm a *hacker*."
Oh, and there's no way in hell you'll make me move to a big city. Too many, ugh, *people.* I went into IT to *avoid* human interaction!
Of course, you have to deal with a complete lack of anything resembling broadband, which is probably why they have the shortage in the first place; no techie wants to move somewhere 256kbps is considered broadband and worth paying $50/month for.
I'm in America. I'm the only person I know with a bluetooth phone, and the only person I've encountered in six months of attempted bluejacking.
Text-based browsing? Lynx isn't dead! Woo hoo!
What is revolutionary is the ability of people to communicate globally with such little investment. It would take next-to-nothing for, say, one person to tape what's going on in Fallujah *right now* and web cast it to the world. By the time it gets on the Internet, it's already too late for any government or corporation to stop its spread.
*That's* the revolution. Think of it as open source news. Just like most sourceforge projects are only for a few people, most a/v/t blogs are for a limited audience, but there will always be very popular and widespread video blogs.
And, instead of relying on huge budgets and advertising and feigned political or emotional drama, this distribution method relies on the quality of the media coming out.
Finally, most of the wishes from archaeologists is that they had a better idea of what life was like for ordinary people. By creating a record through blogs, even though most people won't read them, we're helping our progeny to understand the times we lived in and how we reacted to them.
You run OO.o on Mac OS X? How the hell did you get that to work outside of X11?
I'm not going to keep rewarding the Democrats for ignoring me or my views. The Greens match my philosophies and views (for the most part), so I'll stick with them.
Anybody know when phpmyadmin will be XUL based?
Maybe we could make a postgresql front end with it...
You have ruined my productivity for today. Congratulations. Not that it takes much, mind you.
Damn, I just blew his cover.
Cell phones aren't there yet.
Five hundred years ago most people didn't make it past two years old, and plagues shut down whole cities. Death was all around them, *that's* why they didn't mind if they never came back from explorations.
Until and unless George Bush supports socialized medicine, ending corporate personhood, and taxing the largest multinationals enough to end the income tax, I won't believe a word he says.
And even then maybe not.