How about $30 (or $16)... Tmobile prepaid ZTE Zinger, 1.3Ghz dualcore, bought new from Walmart, or the one I bought on eBay for $16..... Perfect for what wife and I need a phone for...
I flat refuse to do phone contracts, and don't need/want the latest/greatest in Android phones, so I buy phones on eBay or Glyde and use Ting as my carrier. I'd been using an old HTC G2, but found it was real pain to root, just to get a newer version of Android, being that the G2 was still on 2.3.5, and several apps I wanted to use had been updated to require 4.X or better. I'd bought my wife one of the tmobile prepaid phones, since our carrier was Ting, who had recently implemented GSM support via tmobile, whereas they'd previously been only CDMA on Sprint. The phone cost a whole $30 brand new from Walmart, and turned out it was a ZTE Zinger and had a dualcore 1.3ghz processor, and best of all 4.X Android. It worked fine for the wife, so I decided to buy one off eBay and got one for $16!! to replace my old G2
In my neighborhood, I am said "local nerd", and my advice to ANYone who asks, is "If you're on XP, we need to see if your system's use case allows you to use this thing called Linux.. If you're on Windows 7 or 8, STAY where you are... If you bought a new machine with 10, may God bless your soul.. We need to see if your machine's use case allows wiping that nightmare and installing Linux..." These words (or ones like them) have been spoken several times lately.. Especially regarding the poor sap who just bought a new system at WorstBuy and it came with 10... I castrated it as best as I could, but told the user to pray..
yes.. I am discovering that now, in the future, I'll be warning everybody about 7 AND 8... Of course, I'll also be using one or more of these lists of "updates" to REMOVE this crap from Win7/8 when we do our "Windows Janitorial Service"..... Jesus Christ, I'm beside myself with glee that I moved my families computers off MS products in 2011.....
My "last straw" occurred around 2011. I'd just retired friom supporting Windows (and some Linux) for 24 years (1991-2010). After I retired, I used Windows 7 on my home machines for a bit, and finally I decided that there was nothing I do on the computer that requires Windows, so I killed the dualboot, and switched permanently to Linux, specifically Ubuntu.. Since I'm sort of the local neighborhood "tech support", I tried out Windows 10 in Virtualbox, just to familiarize myself with it for when I'm asked to help out a neighbor.. To put it bluntly, I'd NEVER run Windows10 on any of my machines, PERIOD.. And I'll recommend to anybody who asks, that IF they MUST use Windows 10, they need to, AT A BARE MINIMUM, turn off all the privacy-removal stuff and use a local account... Yeah, I know.. keeps you from using that over-rated Cortana crap... Whupteedoo... TL:DR: People who value what little privacy they have left should stay AWAY from Windows 10, Just one man's opinion........
I currently run Ubuntu 14.04, and see where part of systemd has already begun its encroachment on what *had* been a great Linux distro. My only actual full-on experience so far with systemd is trying to get Virtualbox guest additions installed on a CentOS7 vm... I've installed those additions countless times since I started using VBox, and I think I could almost do the install in my sleep.. Not so with CentOS7.. systemd bitches loudly with strange "errors" and when it tells me to use journalctl to see what the error was, there *is* no error.. But still the additions don't install... I'm soooooo NOT looking forward to the next LTS out of Ubuntu, which I'm told will be infested with this systemd crap... Guess its time to dust off the old Slackware DVD and get acquainted with Pat again... GO FUCK YOURSELF, POETTERING.....
Your story kinda sounds like mine.. 1995, at a small government contractor. I, being one of hte network techs, got tasked to "get this company on the internet"... Since we were a Novell Netware shop, the other techs suggested doing the webserver/ftp via a Novell server and a proprietary (read lotsa $$$$) NLM (Netware Loadable Module). I, on the other hand, had been learning Linux/Slackware and convinced the PTB that we could do the deed for basically the cost of the T1 and router that we'd need in either case, and skip the lotsabucks needed for the NLM httpd.. They gave me the goahead and about 2 weeks later we were on the internet with a website and an ftp server.. Soon thereafter, my wife and I decided to move to Las Vegas, and I handed support for the server over to one of the other guys who had begun using Linux...
I've been using Linux since about 1995, and am seriously impressed with how far its come since thern.. I started with Slackware and its bazillions of floppy disks and pulling my hair out getting XFree86 working, nowadays its easier to install something like Mint or Ubuntu than Windows, and in most cases the machine will be 100% operational after the install, nowhere NEAR always the case with Windows... I strongly suspect, with what a spyware-fest Windows 10 has turned out to be, Linux is gonna get a BIG boost in users in the not-too-distant future, once joe-six-pack figures out all of *his* data is now Microsofts... I for one will do everything I can to hurry it along..
Sure is interesting that all of the people posting about how bad Linux is are posting AC... Wonder why? Wonder if they're just trolls.. nah, couldn't be...
heh.. Such problems with Linux.. Funny how theres a bunch of us out there that have been using it since FOREVER (Slackware/1995 here..) and have ZERO problems with it... If this AC is *actually* having these kinda problems, either he's got seriously crap hardware or more likely he's just trolling... And with what a spyware-fest Windows 10 is, I suspect a LOT more people are gonna say "FUCK MS" and come over to the Linux side...
So do like I do..Buy said Dell system, wipe Windows off it, put your distro of choice on, and if you feel the need for Windows, like a program that Wine doesn't do, make a Virtualbox VM and use the Windows key that came on your machine. You'll likely have to call the automated phone thing to get it working, but I've done it multiple times on multiple machines... Only done on Windows 7 tho... Dunno/Don't care about whether it works on 8/8.1 or 10. Yeah.. I know its against MS's precious EULA.. Don't care.. Said Vbox VM gets fired up maybe once a month just to get patches... Other than keeping the VM for *emergency* use, Windows is dead to me... AND with Windows 10 being a spy-ware nightmare, I suspect a LOT more people are gonna investigate Linux...
I have a sneaking hunch that my small business I have upgrading systems still running XP, mostly older retired folks (like me) to Linux may get a BIG shot in the arm soon, once joe-six-pack finds out just how pervasive the spying is on Microsoft's new OS.. Expert opinion is that not only keylogging, but streaming both any microphone or webcam data goes out to Microsoft servers.. I guess they figure its all good because they couch it in oh-so-mealy terms in their massive EULA, but once Joe-six-pack catches on and has this blatant spying thrown in his face, I predict you're gonna see a MASSIVE increase in Linux's adoption rate... Just sayin..
An armed society is a polite society- Robert Anson Heinlein
"An armed society is a polite society" A character from fiction
Seriously, when the only support for your insanity is fiction, shouldn't that give you a hint of reality?
Umm.. Robert A Heinlein is NOT a ficticious character.. He's one of the most famous science-fiction authors of all time... And he is ABSOLUTELY right about an armed society being a polite society.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The article wasn't clear that the only 747 being retired is the -400, the oldest model still flying. Boeing is now producing the -800 with newer engines, and its NOT being retired...
During my time in the US Army, circa 1972, I was stationed in Texas, and went home to San Diego on a short leave. Back then, airlines had very cheap fares for active duty military, however they were standby.. I drove to Dallas Love Field, bought a ticket on Delta to San Diego for a whole $97/round trip, and proceeded to *try* to catch a flight. I arrived in the afternoon, but since this was a holiday weekend, all of the available flights were packed. Finally, around 10pm, after missing the last non-stop to San Diego, I went to the ticket counter and asked if there was ANY other flights going that way tonight.. The agent said they had one more at 1am and he'd guarantee I'd be able to get on. I asked him why and he said it was their Atlanta-Dallas-LA "redeye" and it was a 747.. Come 1am, said 747 arrives, and sure enough, myself and several other standby travelers were able to get on.. In fact, the flight, believe it or not, had a total of 20 passengers, with a cabin crew of 10... One thing is for sure, NO airline today would operate ANY aircraft with THAT small a load, let alone a "gas-hog" like a 747... Today, they'd simply cancel the flight, courtesy of deregulation.. Back then, prior to deregulation, they were prohibited from cancelling flights except under strict rules, as I recall.. I made it to LA by about 5am, and caught a connecting flight to San Diego.. My one and only 747 flight...
The 747-400, that has been flying for world airlines since around 1989, is being retired.. The new 747-800, only on the market, in the last couple of years is not being retired... Wish these writers could get their information straight....
Marriot Hotels got hit the same way a year or so ago by blocking other wifi than theirs at their convention centers.. It was fun to hear them try to justify why they did it.. Things like "we were protecting our guests from rouge wifi access points, you should thanking us...".... Riiiiight.. Tell that to someone who believes you weren't just doing it to force people to use your grossly overpriced wifi...
Which is why my current desktop machine is a Dell Precision Workstation, its an older model, still on DDR2 ram, but takes up to 24GB, and supports ECC.. It came with a Quadcore Xeon, and an Nvidia Quadro workstation-grade graphics card and does Linux perfectly. Does everything I need on 12GB of ram, but have the room to take it up to 24GB should I need more "room"... Nice part was the machine was $300, about 2 years ago... Can't beat the offlease refurb'ed Dells for good value....
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, with a Dell Precision workstation and hibernate does not work here either, but fortuantly suspend does. I'll be damned if I'm gonna completely shut the system down when I'm through with it for the day.. And the Steam client works just fine on Ubuntu, so I can't see ever needing (or caring about) SteamOS.. If Ubuntu has no trouble suspending, WHY THE HELL does SteamOS???? Lazy programmers, I'd wager...
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How about $30 (or $16)... Tmobile prepaid ZTE Zinger, 1.3Ghz dualcore, bought new from Walmart, or the one I bought on eBay for $16..... Perfect for what wife and I need a phone for...
I flat refuse to do phone contracts, and don't need/want the latest/greatest in Android phones, so I buy phones on eBay or Glyde and use Ting as my carrier. I'd been using an old HTC G2, but found it was real pain to root, just to get a newer version of Android, being that the G2 was still on 2.3.5, and several apps I wanted to use had been updated to require 4.X or better. I'd bought my wife one of the tmobile prepaid phones, since our carrier was Ting, who had recently implemented GSM support via tmobile, whereas they'd previously been only CDMA on Sprint. The phone cost a whole $30 brand new from Walmart, and turned out it was a ZTE Zinger and had a dualcore 1.3ghz processor, and best of all 4.X Android. It worked fine for the wife, so I decided to buy one off eBay and got one for $16!! to replace my old G2
With a product like that (bless their hearts!!) I wonder just how long they'll continue to be a "Microsoft Partner".......
In my neighborhood, I am said "local nerd", and my advice to ANYone who asks, is "If you're on XP, we need to see if your system's use case allows you to use this thing called Linux.. If you're on Windows 7 or 8, STAY where you are... If you bought a new machine with 10, may God bless your soul.. We need to see if your machine's use case allows wiping that nightmare and installing Linux..." These words (or ones like them) have been spoken several times lately.. Especially regarding the poor sap who just bought a new system at WorstBuy and it came with 10... I castrated it as best as I could, but told the user to pray..
yes.. I am discovering that now, in the future, I'll be warning everybody about 7 AND 8... Of course, I'll also be using one or more of these lists of "updates" to REMOVE this crap from Win7/8 when we do our "Windows Janitorial Service"..... Jesus Christ, I'm beside myself with glee that I moved my families computers off MS products in 2011.....
My "last straw" occurred around 2011. I'd just retired friom supporting Windows (and some Linux) for 24 years (1991-2010). After I retired, I used Windows 7 on my home machines for a bit, and finally I decided that there was nothing I do on the computer that requires Windows, so I killed the dualboot, and switched permanently to Linux, specifically Ubuntu.. Since I'm sort of the local neighborhood "tech support", I tried out Windows 10 in Virtualbox, just to familiarize myself with it for when I'm asked to help out a neighbor.. To put it bluntly, I'd NEVER run Windows10 on any of my machines, PERIOD.. And I'll recommend to anybody who asks, that IF they MUST use Windows 10, they need to, AT A BARE MINIMUM, turn off all the privacy-removal stuff and use a local account... Yeah, I know.. keeps you from using that over-rated Cortana crap... Whupteedoo... TL:DR: People who value what little privacy they have left should stay AWAY from Windows 10, Just one man's opinion........
I currently run Ubuntu 14.04, and see where part of systemd has already begun its encroachment on what *had* been a great Linux distro. My only actual full-on experience so far with systemd is trying to get Virtualbox guest additions installed on a CentOS7 vm... I've installed those additions countless times since I started using VBox, and I think I could almost do the install in my sleep.. Not so with CentOS7.. systemd bitches loudly with strange "errors" and when it tells me to use journalctl to see what the error was, there *is* no error.. But still the additions don't install... I'm soooooo NOT looking forward to the next LTS out of Ubuntu, which I'm told will be infested with this systemd crap... Guess its time to dust off the old Slackware DVD and get acquainted with Pat again... GO FUCK YOURSELF, POETTERING.....
Your story kinda sounds like mine.. 1995, at a small government contractor. I, being one of hte network techs, got tasked to "get this company on the internet"... Since we were a Novell Netware shop, the other techs suggested doing the webserver/ftp via a Novell server and a proprietary (read lotsa $$$$) NLM (Netware Loadable Module). I, on the other hand, had been learning Linux/Slackware and convinced the PTB that we could do the deed for basically the cost of the T1 and router that we'd need in either case, and skip the lotsabucks needed for the NLM httpd.. They gave me the goahead and about 2 weeks later we were on the internet with a website and an ftp server.. Soon thereafter, my wife and I decided to move to Las Vegas, and I handed support for the server over to one of the other guys who had begun using Linux...
Wow!! VERY Funny and sooooo true.....
Wish I could mod it up, but already posted... sigh
I've been using Linux since about 1995, and am seriously impressed with how far its come since thern.. I started with Slackware and its bazillions of floppy disks and pulling my hair out getting XFree86 working, nowadays its easier to install something like Mint or Ubuntu than Windows, and in most cases the machine will be 100% operational after the install, nowhere NEAR always the case with Windows... I strongly suspect, with what a spyware-fest Windows 10 has turned out to be, Linux is gonna get a BIG boost in users in the not-too-distant future, once joe-six-pack figures out all of *his* data is now Microsofts... I for one will do everything I can to hurry it along..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LINUX!!!!!
Sure is interesting that all of the people posting about how bad Linux is are posting AC... Wonder why? Wonder if they're just trolls.. nah, couldn't be...
heh .. Such problems with Linux.. Funny how theres a bunch of us out there that have been using it since FOREVER (Slackware/1995 here..) and have ZERO problems with it... If this AC is *actually* having these kinda problems, either he's got seriously crap hardware or more likely he's just trolling... And with what a spyware-fest Windows 10 is, I suspect a LOT more people are gonna say "FUCK MS" and come over to the Linux side...
I'm betting that the "Enterprise" version of 10, the one that you and I, of the unwashed multitudes CANNOT get, doesn't have these "features"....
So do like I do..Buy said Dell system, wipe Windows off it, put your distro of choice on, and if you feel the need for Windows, like a program that Wine doesn't do, make a Virtualbox VM and use the Windows key that came on your machine. You'll likely have to call the automated phone thing to get it working, but I've done it multiple times on multiple machines... Only done on Windows 7 tho... Dunno/Don't care about whether it works on 8/8.1 or 10. Yeah.. I know its against MS's precious EULA.. Don't care.. Said Vbox VM gets fired up maybe once a month just to get patches... Other than keeping the VM for *emergency* use, Windows is dead to me... AND with Windows 10 being a spy-ware nightmare, I suspect a LOT more people are gonna investigate Linux...
I have a sneaking hunch that my small business I have upgrading systems still running XP, mostly older retired folks (like me) to Linux may get a BIG shot in the arm soon, once joe-six-pack finds out just how pervasive the spying is on Microsoft's new OS.. Expert opinion is that not only keylogging, but streaming both any microphone or webcam data goes out to Microsoft servers.. I guess they figure its all good because they couch it in oh-so-mealy terms in their massive EULA, but once Joe-six-pack catches on and has this blatant spying thrown in his face, I predict you're gonna see a MASSIVE increase in Linux's adoption rate... Just sayin..
An armed society is a polite society- Robert Anson Heinlein
"An armed society is a polite society" A character from fiction
Seriously, when the only support for your insanity is fiction, shouldn't that give you a hint of reality?
Umm.. Robert A Heinlein is NOT a ficticious character.. He's one of the most famous science-fiction authors of all time... And he is ABSOLUTELY
right about an armed society being a polite society.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
because.
BECAUSE this is /. and THATS what /. does.......
The article wasn't clear that the only 747 being retired is the -400, the oldest model still flying. Boeing is now producing the -800 with newer engines, and its NOT being retired...
During my time in the US Army, circa 1972, I was stationed in Texas, and went home to San Diego on a short leave. Back then, airlines had very cheap fares for active duty military, however they were standby.. I drove to Dallas Love Field, bought a ticket on Delta to San Diego for a whole $97/round trip, and proceeded to *try* to catch a flight. I arrived in the afternoon, but since this was a holiday weekend, all of the available flights were packed. Finally, around 10pm, after missing the last non-stop to San Diego, I went to the ticket counter and asked if there was ANY other flights going that way tonight.. The agent said they had one more at 1am and he'd guarantee I'd be able to get on. I asked him why and he said it was their Atlanta-Dallas-LA "redeye" and it was a 747.. Come 1am, said 747 arrives, and sure enough, myself and several other standby travelers were able to get on.. In fact, the flight, believe it or not, had a total of 20 passengers, with a cabin crew of 10... One thing is for sure, NO airline today would operate ANY aircraft with THAT small a load, let alone a "gas-hog" like a 747... Today, they'd simply cancel the flight, courtesy of deregulation.. Back then, prior to deregulation, they were prohibited from cancelling flights except under strict rules, as I recall.. I made it to LA by about 5am, and caught a connecting flight to San Diego.. My one and only 747 flight...
The 747-400, that has been flying for world airlines since around 1989, is being retired.. The new 747-800, only on the market, in the last couple of years is not being retired... Wish these writers could get their information straight....
Something to do with deauth packets on any other ap in range.. so nobody could connect to ANY ap other than theirs.... diabolical...
Marriot Hotels got hit the same way a year or so ago by blocking other wifi than theirs at their convention centers.. It was fun to hear them try to justify why they did it.. Things like "we were protecting our guests from rouge wifi access points, you should thanking us...".... Riiiiight.. Tell that to someone who believes you weren't just doing it to force people to use your grossly overpriced wifi...
Which is why my current desktop machine is a Dell Precision Workstation, its an older model, still on DDR2 ram, but takes up to 24GB, and supports ECC.. It came with a Quadcore Xeon, and an Nvidia Quadro workstation-grade graphics card and does Linux perfectly. Does everything I need on 12GB of ram, but have the room to take it up to 24GB should I need more "room"... Nice part was the machine was $300, about 2 years ago... Can't beat the offlease refurb'ed Dells for good value....
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, with a Dell Precision workstation and hibernate does not work here either, but fortuantly suspend does. I'll be damned if I'm gonna completely shut the system down when I'm through with it for the day.. And the Steam client works just fine on Ubuntu, so I can't see ever needing (or caring about) SteamOS.. If Ubuntu has no trouble suspending, WHY THE HELL does SteamOS???? Lazy programmers, I'd wager...
THIS is the kind of story /. was designed for..... VERY cool!!