I too archive everything I do. Being a student, this gives me ammunition if I ever get wrongfully accused of doing something illegal online (such as viewing porn, etc.), and furthermore, I like being able to refer to past correspondence. There is data that I have that's only in the form of a received email or logged conversation. All of this info is backed up of course, but to do away with logs of everything would be too much. With cheap storage nowadays, It's easy to afford the few hundred megabytes for logs, and again, If you live your life in a way that you don't have anything to hide, then there's no reason not to keep stuff around.
Brian
To truly be statistically accurate, you'd have to find a site that gets hit uniformly by all groups each day (and yes that includes foreign countries, where the natural language of the sites is different). Unfortunately the set of sites that I visit daily and the set of sites that my grandparents visit daily are mutually exclusive. they've probably never in their lives been at theregister,slashdot,k5,salon,theonion,sourceforge,freshmeat yet I visit them every day. On the other hand, I'd never visit msn or msnbc or aol unless on a windows box (to get a copy of aim for someone or see a wma clip on msnbc or patch ie). Making it even worse is that konqueror by default masquerades itself as ie5. I know opera plays similar games if you ask it to. Many many KDE project users are being misrepresented in such polls because of the User-Agent spoofing in their browser. All of these factors make it next to impossible to get a realistic sample.
Brian
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same thing happened to mine. Minor cosmetic damage and "NO DISC." It's of course still under warranty, but I ca't see why it should have broken in that particular way. I haven't contacted SonicBlue about it yet, but I intend to. If they get back to you, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Woah. I just got my DSL pipe put in yesterday. DSL is anything but dead, you just have to know where to look. My DSL is through a firm independent of the major providers such as Covad and Northpoint (which have cease to exist). They have their own network. Their own fiber, and their fiber goes to my CO. The only point in which Verizon is even involved is in connecting the last 10000ft, and guess what. It took two months to get in, but it's wonderful now. fat pipe? no (192/192 sdsl), but it's on all the time and we ahve some notion of guaranteed uptime and bandwith (since it is sdsl). By avoiding the large conglomerates and going with a more local "communications providor" (they also do long distance, local, T1/Fractional, and wireless), we've avoided the companies that are dropping like flies. Broadband is not dead. Covad is dead .
Well, a third may I add major problem is that linux is quite unaccelerated on most graphics hardware...I can not hardly run a little GL demo at more than a few fps on a 4meg S3 TRiO 3D card, yet under Windows I used to run Final Fantasy 7, Baldur's Gate, Descent, Quake II, MS Flight sim and the like at comfortable speeds. The fact that linux doesn't do this (or even come close) without accelerated hardware like the GeForce (nvidia), Matrox G400, or Voodoo 3/5/Banshee (which plays games fine). I would have a multitude of games right now if i had the slightest chance of runnning them playably. In addition, sound is quite primitive (although ALSA is changing this quickly). I don't have a hardware midi sequencer working yet so i am restricted to DSP, making audio soundtracks difficult also.
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I too archive everything I do. Being a student, this gives me ammunition if I ever get wrongfully accused of doing something illegal online (such as viewing porn, etc.), and furthermore, I like being able to refer to past correspondence. There is data that I have that's only in the form of a received email or logged conversation. All of this info is backed up of course, but to do away with logs of everything would be too much. With cheap storage nowadays, It's easy to afford the few hundred megabytes for logs, and again, If you live your life in a way that you don't have anything to hide, then there's no reason not to keep stuff around.
Brian
Brian
same thing happened to mine. Minor cosmetic damage and "NO DISC." It's of course still under warranty, but I ca't see why it should have broken in that particular way. I haven't contacted SonicBlue about it yet, but I intend to. If they get back to you, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Woah. I just got my DSL pipe put in yesterday. DSL is anything but dead, you just have to know where to look. My DSL is through a firm independent of the major providers such as Covad and Northpoint (which have cease to exist). They have their own network. Their own fiber, and their fiber goes to my CO. The only point in which Verizon is even involved is in connecting the last 10000ft, and guess what. It took two months to get in, but it's wonderful now. fat pipe? no (192/192 sdsl), but it's on all the time and we ahve some notion of guaranteed uptime and bandwith (since it is sdsl). By avoiding the large conglomerates and going with a more local "communications providor" (they also do long distance, local, T1/Fractional, and wireless), we've avoided the companies that are dropping like flies. Broadband is not dead. Covad is dead .
Well, a third may I add major problem is that linux is quite unaccelerated on most graphics hardware...I can not hardly run a little GL demo at more than a few fps on a 4meg S3 TRiO 3D card, yet under Windows I used to run Final Fantasy 7, Baldur's Gate, Descent, Quake II, MS Flight sim and the like at comfortable speeds. The fact that linux doesn't do this (or even come close) without accelerated hardware like the GeForce (nvidia), Matrox G400, or Voodoo 3/5/Banshee (which plays games fine). I would have a multitude of games right now if i had the slightest chance of runnning them playably. In addition, sound is quite primitive (although ALSA is changing this quickly). I don't have a hardware midi sequencer working yet so i am restricted to DSP, making audio soundtracks difficult also.