Personally, I've been using grub2 for a long time now. A year or two, probably.
Even Debian has it available -- and that's my measuring stick as to whether things are "old" or not.
I disagree with your statement about city water.
Lots of people living in rural areas have wells and septic system. But when my old telecom provider replaced the party lines in 1998, they ran fibre instead of copper, and so now people have "cheap", reliable internet, but live 10 kilometres from the nearest water pipe.
It might not even be as good as my Teksavvy DSL now that I've moved to a larger place, but it is definitely possible to have.
Hard drives, while they may fail, are still probably your best chance.
Using RAID-1 or -5, you can keep the drives running (possibly intermittently) and can avoid failure.
With the rate of hard drive growth, you can just replace them with bigger drives when the time comes you need more space.
It isn't exactly the same as throwing them in a cold room and forgetting them, but it isn't too expensive either.
If they were connecting to the DSLAM, this wouldn't be a problem.
The problem is the infrastructure used to connect the ISP to the DLSAM -- this is also rented from bell, and what they claim is congested, and what is being shaped.
Bell is mandated to allow access to the DSLAM as part of their monopoly, but not the network which the resellers are currently using, and where all the naughty stuff happens. I don't think any of the resellers are large enough to start laying their own cables either, so there isn't too much that can happen here other than bend over, or encrypt your traffic. Teksavvy at least allows users to use MPPPoE instead of regular PPPoE, which isn't throttled, so you can circumvent Bell that way for now.
I've used one of these too, but for a USB RFID reader that was used in a server room.
I was suspicious at first, because it just seemed a little dodgy, but its worked great.
The first thing that comes to mind when these massive improvements are being made is that the codebase is poor to begin with.
However, all the other browsers seem just as bad.
I realize html renders are very complex pieces of software, but why does it seem like they're all flakey? Is it HTMLs fault?
Why do we even still use html? While proposed jokingly before, why not use something like PDF or flash for a fully graphical web? While it would make writing crawlers and accessibility harder, I think that is something that could be worked on, by providing an open standard for the files that can be parsed easier than html.
They could always have a selective filter so ads are requested through their normal, geolocatable IP. Then they won't have to come and take over Waterloo.
I've found a few. Mostly the teenager loves his CSS stuff. Somebody recently pointed out an internal site for nanotech engineering at a university that went all fonzy in anything that wasn't firefox.
As of linux 2.6.17, there is support for broadcom wifi via reverse engineered drivers. I really don't know what quantity of cards it supports, but it works on mine. That is definately "starting to work without ndiswrapper" at least.
Vice City for PC at least allowed you to put Ogg and MP3 tracks in a folder so you could create a custom radio station.
You could also just make the folder a shortcut to wherever you kept your music collection.
There is already the e-SATA connector, designed for external drives.
Nothing is stopping a manufacturer from making a small flash drive that would connect to it.
SATA folks don't really need to do anything more, from what I can see.
Cromwell is the bootloader.
It starts the linux kernel, either off the hard drive, etherboot, cdrom, or whatever.
It replaced the xbox bootloader that is flashed onto the xbox.
The configuration is somewhat similar to grub.
somehow apple.mus.com and apple.comp.com remind me of usenet newsgroups......
Are we moving forwards or backwards here? Which way should we be moving?
Did usenet have a better idea than the web, in organizational terms?
Even "Regular" users had issues with the new UI of IE7.
I know people who want their menu bar to be in the right place, for example.
People get into UI ruts and don't like radical shifts. This isn't always a good thing though.
In Quebec it was illegal for the longest time for margarine to be yellow, so as to avoid consumer confusion. It led to white margarine being everywhere, and you still see lots of white margarine from quebec compared to yellow ontario stuff.
I think that more accurately what is happening is the OSX developers are focusing on the iPhone port rather than the desktop version -- They're both running the same operating system; more than likely the programmers aren't really being "moved", just refocused.
I found it to be incredibly easy to use WPA supplicant on my home network.
I simply put the key in, and joined my SSID.
30 seconds on something i'd never done before.
I'm sure if I had a desktop env. like KDE running, it would have taken care of things too.
And what happens when my cell phone battery dies from everybody relaying their signal off mine? Or when somebody acts as a malicious relay? Encryption isn't perfect.
However, being able to directly connect to each other isn't such a bad idea.
The best thing I think is the ability to use wifi access point in place of the cell network, as some phones already can.
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Personally, I've been using grub2 for a long time now. A year or two, probably. Even Debian has it available -- and that's my measuring stick as to whether things are "old" or not.
I disagree with your statement about city water. Lots of people living in rural areas have wells and septic system. But when my old telecom provider replaced the party lines in 1998, they ran fibre instead of copper, and so now people have "cheap", reliable internet, but live 10 kilometres from the nearest water pipe. It might not even be as good as my Teksavvy DSL now that I've moved to a larger place, but it is definitely possible to have.
Hard drives, while they may fail, are still probably your best chance. Using RAID-1 or -5, you can keep the drives running (possibly intermittently) and can avoid failure. With the rate of hard drive growth, you can just replace them with bigger drives when the time comes you need more space. It isn't exactly the same as throwing them in a cold room and forgetting them, but it isn't too expensive either.
If they were connecting to the DSLAM, this wouldn't be a problem. The problem is the infrastructure used to connect the ISP to the DLSAM -- this is also rented from bell, and what they claim is congested, and what is being shaped. Bell is mandated to allow access to the DSLAM as part of their monopoly, but not the network which the resellers are currently using, and where all the naughty stuff happens. I don't think any of the resellers are large enough to start laying their own cables either, so there isn't too much that can happen here other than bend over, or encrypt your traffic. Teksavvy at least allows users to use MPPPoE instead of regular PPPoE, which isn't throttled, so you can circumvent Bell that way for now.
I've used one of these too, but for a USB RFID reader that was used in a server room. I was suspicious at first, because it just seemed a little dodgy, but its worked great.
The first thing that comes to mind when these massive improvements are being made is that the codebase is poor to begin with. However, all the other browsers seem just as bad. I realize html renders are very complex pieces of software, but why does it seem like they're all flakey? Is it HTMLs fault? Why do we even still use html? While proposed jokingly before, why not use something like PDF or flash for a fully graphical web? While it would make writing crawlers and accessibility harder, I think that is something that could be worked on, by providing an open standard for the files that can be parsed easier than html.
Google Summer of code. Pretty much sums it up.
They could always have a selective filter so ads are requested through their normal, geolocatable IP. Then they won't have to come and take over Waterloo.
I've found a few. Mostly the teenager loves his CSS stuff. Somebody recently pointed out an internal site for nanotech engineering at a university that went all fonzy in anything that wasn't firefox.
Person puts computer together while boyfriend watches. Why is this on the front page of slashdot?
Look at the title and then look at the word "ofers" again. Notice any similar ones?
As of linux 2.6.17, there is support for broadcom wifi via reverse engineered drivers. I really don't know what quantity of cards it supports, but it works on mine. That is definately "starting to work without ndiswrapper" at least.
Vice City for PC at least allowed you to put Ogg and MP3 tracks in a folder so you could create a custom radio station. You could also just make the folder a shortcut to wherever you kept your music collection.
There is already the e-SATA connector, designed for external drives. Nothing is stopping a manufacturer from making a small flash drive that would connect to it. SATA folks don't really need to do anything more, from what I can see.
Cromwell is the bootloader. It starts the linux kernel, either off the hard drive, etherboot, cdrom, or whatever. It replaced the xbox bootloader that is flashed onto the xbox. The configuration is somewhat similar to grub.
somehow apple.mus.com and apple.comp.com remind me of usenet newsgroups...... Are we moving forwards or backwards here? Which way should we be moving? Did usenet have a better idea than the web, in organizational terms?
Even "Regular" users had issues with the new UI of IE7. I know people who want their menu bar to be in the right place, for example. People get into UI ruts and don't like radical shifts. This isn't always a good thing though.
In Quebec it was illegal for the longest time for margarine to be yellow, so as to avoid consumer confusion. It led to white margarine being everywhere, and you still see lots of white margarine from quebec compared to yellow ontario stuff.
This idea is double-plus-good!
I think that more accurately what is happening is the OSX developers are focusing on the iPhone port rather than the desktop version -- They're both running the same operating system; more than likely the programmers aren't really being "moved", just refocused.
I found it to be incredibly easy to use WPA supplicant on my home network. I simply put the key in, and joined my SSID. 30 seconds on something i'd never done before. I'm sure if I had a desktop env. like KDE running, it would have taken care of things too.
I took their advice and used their filterset, but I find it just doesn't block as much crap as filterset.g, so I went back to that.
Ah, but Firefox does correct spelling errors too ;D
And what happens when my cell phone battery dies from everybody relaying their signal off mine? Or when somebody acts as a malicious relay? Encryption isn't perfect. However, being able to directly connect to each other isn't such a bad idea. The best thing I think is the ability to use wifi access point in place of the cell network, as some phones already can.
If bill gates says "I gave that software to him; he didn't pirate it", he no longer committed a crime.