I've moved over 10 users from XP to Ubuntu 10.04, mostly people whose XP install was beyond repair with malware, and who never made or had lost their system recovery disks. I've had zero complaints and of the users converted, I get far less calls for assistance than I do from the others I support who are still on XP or Vista. I'm currently trying out 12.04 on my personal machines, and as far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu has jumped the shark with Unity. I see both Windows and Ubuntu going down this insane "everybody gets a play-skool tablet interface, even on a desktop" road. I'm seriously looking at Mint for future migrations from XP vs Ubuntu, once 10.04LTS gets close to End Of Support...
Follow the money. Selling replacement chargers is an income source. Just look at Dell laptops: they use an industry standard connector with an additional pin inside. The extra pin serves only one purpose: the laptop can tell whether or not the charger is made by Dell. You can buy chargers from other companies, and they will plug into your Dell. The laptop will use the power to run, but will not charge the battery. This behavior serves only one purpose: to guarantee that you buy your replacement from Dell.
ummm... No? I have several Dell D-series Latitudes, that originally came with Dell chargers that have the nasty habit of the DC output cable finally bending enough times that first the shield shows up then a bit later the cable finally breaks. I have a bunch.. of these chargers lying around. I decided to buy a 3rd party unit off eBay, and guess what? it both charges AND runs the laptop at the same time.. Its definitely NOT a Dell-branded one but a "compaitble" one. Was only $9.00 and works just fine, although it has the same problem when you coil the ac cord and dc cord around the brick and then use the rubber strap to secure it.,..
Lemme 'splain it to ya... We're cheering for him simply because he has more class than the US Government.. No matter WHAT kinds of "crimes" he's allegedly committed, he's a damn sight better than the bunch of liars/theves that comprise the US Government nowadays. I'm saying that as a person who served in the US military, and love America, despite the despicable garbage that runs the country now.. And for you (and theres ALWAYS at least one of you) who say "You don't like America? then GTFO..".. I say to you, I love the country, but hate/fear the government.. I'm not a Democrat, not a Republican, I'm a flippin' AMERICAN....
Alright, I'll bite you Anonymous Coward. Would you rather have had McCain / Palin?
I'll answer for the AC... you bet your ASS I would... ANYbody BUT OBLOWME.. Since./ is a liberal cesspool, please feel free to downmod me.... You KNOW you want to.....
I used to think people who talked about "conspiracy theories" needed an adjustment on their tinfoil hat.. Now, not so much.. I'm gonna connect the dots on this.. Though I've seen very little anywhere about it, there was a recent DHS "whistleblower" who reported that there was a concocted plan by the administration to "crank up the heat" as it were, to incite rioting, thus making it easier for Mr Soetero to declare martial law. Think about this.. DHS "asks" NYPD to "turn up the heat" with the black community in NYC, such that some kind of "Rodney King" like incident happens, lighting the match.. With careful tending by the media, with its lies and DHS, they cause it to spread to other cities.. Enter Mr Soetero, who says "oooh to protect the american public, I'm reluctantly gonna declare martial law"... of course, that means ANYbody who disagrees with Mr Soetero in a public way (ie: talk radio) will be "disappeared" under the EO's/laws that have convieniently appeared recently... And of course, Mr Soetero and other members of his party no longer have to worry about a repeat of the 2010 elections, as the 2012 elections have been "postponed" (read: cancelled)... Then America is well and truly FUCKED...
Yeah I know.. Those who think *my* tinfoil hat is too tight, well, gimme a better explanation.. otherwise STFU...
"Samsung, with the help of Google, has been pushing out an over-the-air software update to make its phones worse."
The connotation of "worse" is that it was already bad to begin with.
So, say I have one of the affected Samsung phones, and I don't accept OTA updates on the stock Samsung rom, rooted or not.. Is an Apple lawyer gonna come knocking on my door since I still have a feature on MY phone that Apple asserts Google/Android/Samsung cannot use?? OOh pleeze.. BLOW ME APPLE.. I've never owned anything you have made, and never will....
The last part will bite you. My and most large mail servers will not accept e-mails from a server running on a dynamic IP block. A VPS at a decent provider starts at $10-15 per month for all the web and e-mail hosting you will ever need.
umm.. a bit of searching will find 512MB OpenVZ "slices" available for well under $10/mo. I currently have 3 of these, two running Debian, for a OpenSim/OSGrid region host and a Wordpress host. The third one runs Fedora and is a catch-all "play" slice.. I pay the princely sum of $5.95/mo each for these, and have been using them for well over a year, and have had zero problems with them. As as I get a bit of $$$ ahead, I'm planning on paying by the year for them. They charge $59.95/yr each for them. I'm not gonna link to the vendor as I have zero financial ties to them, just a happy customer... Google is your friend with a search for "ThrustVPS"....
I'm really curious if my fellow senior slashdotters haven't owned "myname.com" for their own value of myname. I thought that was expected. Maybe that's a good Ask Slashdot.
I've had my own family domain for over 10 years now, with email addresses being firstname@lastname.org.. I've got a bunch of cousins elsewhere and I'm kinda running my own tiny gmail.com, with now over 50 close (and distant relatives) email addresses on the domain. I do like gmail's spam filtering, and I'm too lazy to jump thru all the hoops needed to get filtering that good myself on the email server, so I just forward my personal domain email address to gmail, let google do its majik on the spam, then connect to gmail via IMAP on Thunderbird..
I set up networks for home/small business locally and have always recommended Linksys routers, along with Tomato firmware. I also come from a 20+ year background of network support, where I ALWAYS used/recommended Cisco. I was pretty happy when Cisco acquired Linksys, and until NOW, had been reasonably pleased with where Cisco was taking Linksys. THIS Orwellian crap by Cisco terminates ANY recommendation by me for ANYTHING from Cisco. Yeah.. I realize I'm but one, but from what I'm seeing here on Slashdot and elsewhere, this move by Cisco is gonna stop ANYONE with any brains from using/recommending Cisco in the future.. Hope it was worth it, you morons in the Cisco executive suite...
Anybody got a source for used WRT54GL's?? (besides eBay, that is)
Wonder how many of my addins are gonna magically break on THIS update? I used to LOVE FF, now I just use FF because Chrome doesn't have a lot of the addins I like, and IE... well.. WE ALL know why we don't use IE...
ahh.. Cognitive dissonance.. The most common manifestation of the insanity that is modern liberalism.. Given an indisputable fact, most liberals do the old "lalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you..." or better yet calls the person expressing the FACT that is contrary to the liberal's world view a racist, hateful, or any number of nasty labels.. This gets really annoying to those of us who live in "real-ville"....
Good God!! If MS (or the h/w mfgrs) *think* they can get away with something like this, they must be smoking the same waky-tabaky that Comrade Obama is smoking, that has him asserting that he's spent less than any president in modern history, or somesuch bat-s**t insane claim like that.. Since all of the machines I've bought in the last 10 years or so have come with some kind of MS Windows on them, I've always, until just recently, made them dual-boot with whatever flavor of Linux I was into at the time. Now, they aren't even dual-boot'ed, they get wiped, and they get either Debian, if for my own use, or Ubuntu if for the wife's use. For the one or two Windows apps I can't do without, and won't run under Wine, I have a WindowsXP Virtualbox VM for these holdouts. The day I go to buy a machine and find that I'm locked out of putting MY CHOICE of OS on it, is the day I get PISSED!!!
Which means you're stuck with Windows... I won't buy a laptop unless it can run Linux without major heartache... THIS is why I stick with Dell Latitudes, they run Linux flawlessly and EVERYTHING works fine under Linux...
Speaking for Dell, if you stay with the Latitude/Precision line, they don't have "shovelware", simply the drivers for everything on the system, and any management utilities for fingerprint reader etc.. Having said that, in my last day-job, we still wiped new Latitude systems, and installed our image via Acronis Snapdeploy.
A civics lesson for you: the Whitehouse does not have the power to make laws. That is the exclusive domain of the Congress. You see, we have this little thing called "separation of powers"...
Yeah.. you're right.. *somebody* needs to tell Comrade Obama that.. He's going apeshit getting his b.s. unconstitutional stuff done via executive order.. He also should be advised that he's the POTUS NOT King Barack the First... Oh who AM I kidding.. Both parties in CONgress could care less if he runs the country into the ground...
Kinda curious on how they intend to apply this "law" to somebody OUTSIDE Malaysia "cyber-bullying" someone inside Malaysia.. The denizens of/. know how well laws like this work when applied to a world-wide medium like the internet, namely THEY DON'T!! I guess the old wisdom that you have to have 75% of your brain removed, 100% of your honesty to become a politician is true..
Am in Las Vegas, and was going to drive up to the center of the path to get the full effect. I decided not to waste the gas (a 240 mile round trip), and just discovered that I'm not going to miss all that much.. The NASA page with percentages of totality showed that where I was going (Zion National Park) was 96% coverage and simply staying here in Las Vegas, I get 92%.... Don't have any welders goggles, so I'm using the old "two cardboard pieces with a pinhole in one".. Went out about 15 min ago and sure enough, theres a little munch out of the sun.. Its 6pm now and our max is reached at about 6:35 per the chart..
Paul sucked up a majority of delegates here in Nevada, I forget the exact numbers, but Romney may have the vote, but Paul has the delegates.. This should be VERRRRY interesting.. That is, assuming we actually *have* a November election.. A whistleblower from DHS recently reported that there is a plan afoot by the Obama regime to pull a "Reichstag Event", which would allow him to declare martial law, postponing (or cancelling) the election.. Funny that.. I've been expecting to hear reports of this ever since he took office... Believe it or don't.. Either way, America is swirling down the drain.. Not a whole heck of a lot we can do to prevent it...
It is a dying hobby. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but with the constant shrinking of non-user servicability of nearly all of the modern electronics that youth might be interested in, it is only going to drop more.
I've been licensed since 1976, Tech from 1976 to 1989, Extra since then. I went kinda inactive for the last few years, due to work, and getting my fill of tech-y stuff playing with Linux. But now since I'm retired, I've become very interested in SDR and the Gnomeradio aspects of the hobby. Just before I went inactive, I got involved with IRLP (Internet Repeater Linking Project) and Echolink. You may be right about the decreasing numbers of new ops, but from what I'm seeing locally, the ones who ARE discovering ham radio seem to be more interested in aspects of the hobby like SDR rather than the old school stuff, like contesting, prefix chasing.. I'll just say I disagree with you on the "dying hobby" claim you make...
yup.. Just like the IRS bullies the American sheeple into paying a tax that 1) BY THEIR OWN admission, is VOLUNTARY, and 2) NO LAW makes an American citizen liable for that "tax". IRS and its "parents", the Treasury Dept and In-Justice Dept use smoke and mirrors to make USC Title 27 (Alcohol Taxes) *appear* to apply to USC Title 26 (The "Income Tax" code, all umpteen thousand pages of it...).. Just another 3-letter agency that has NO business in a country that follows the Constitution, but would have been right at home in the old USSR.. And yes, I AM a "tax protester"... Learn the Truth and perhaps, if cognitive dissonance hasn't screwed your brain up too bad, you may understand the Truth..
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I've moved over 10 users from XP to Ubuntu 10.04, mostly people whose XP install was beyond repair with malware, and who never made or had lost their system recovery disks. I've had zero complaints and of the users converted, I get far less calls for assistance than I do from the others I support who are still on XP or Vista. I'm currently trying out 12.04 on my personal machines, and as far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu has jumped the shark with Unity. I see both Windows and Ubuntu going down this insane "everybody gets a play-skool tablet interface, even on a desktop" road. I'm seriously looking at Mint for future migrations from XP vs Ubuntu, once 10.04LTS gets close to End Of Support...
Follow the money. Selling replacement chargers is an income source. Just look at Dell laptops: they use an industry standard connector with an additional pin inside. The extra pin serves only one purpose: the laptop can tell whether or not the charger is made by Dell. You can buy chargers from other companies, and they will plug into your Dell. The laptop will use the power to run, but will not charge the battery. This behavior serves only one purpose: to guarantee that you buy your replacement from Dell.
ummm... No? I have several Dell D-series Latitudes, that originally came with Dell chargers that have the nasty habit of the DC output cable finally bending enough times that first the shield shows up then a bit later the cable finally breaks. I have a bunch.. of these chargers lying around. I decided to buy a 3rd party unit off eBay, and guess what? it both charges AND runs the laptop at the same time.. Its definitely NOT a Dell-branded one but a "compaitble" one. Was only $9.00 and works just fine, although it has the same problem when you coil the ac cord and dc cord around the brick and then use the rubber strap to secure it.,..
In fact, why is it right for them to confiscate all his assets, even the money that he needs to pay his lawyers to defend him against these charges?
I guess you're from out of town... THAT my friend, is how law enforcement works in the US now..
Lemme 'splain it to ya... We're cheering for him simply because he has more class than the US Government.. No matter WHAT kinds of "crimes" he's allegedly committed, he's a damn sight better than the bunch of liars/theves that comprise the US Government nowadays. I'm saying that as a person who served in the US military, and love America, despite the despicable garbage that runs the country now.. And for you (and theres ALWAYS at least one of you) who say "You don't like America? then GTFO.." .. I say to you, I love the country, but hate/fear the government.. I'm not a Democrat, not a Republican, I'm a flippin' AMERICAN....
This, of course, is how Obama got elected.
Alright, I'll bite you Anonymous Coward. Would you rather have had McCain / Palin?
I'll answer for the AC... you bet your ASS I would... ANYbody BUT OBLOWME.. Since ./ is a liberal cesspool, please feel free to downmod me.... You KNOW you want to.....
I used to think people who talked about "conspiracy theories" needed an adjustment on their tinfoil hat.. Now, not so much.. I'm gonna connect the dots on this.. Though I've seen very little anywhere about it, there was a recent DHS "whistleblower" who reported that there was a concocted plan by the administration to "crank up the heat" as it were, to incite rioting, thus making it easier for Mr Soetero to declare martial law. Think about this.. DHS "asks" NYPD to "turn up the heat" with the black community in NYC, such that some kind of "Rodney King" like incident happens, lighting the match.. With careful tending by the media, with its lies and DHS, they cause it to spread to other cities.. Enter Mr Soetero, who says "oooh to protect the american public, I'm reluctantly gonna declare martial law"... of course, that means ANYbody who disagrees with Mr Soetero in a public way (ie: talk radio) will be "disappeared" under the EO's/laws that have convieniently appeared recently... And of course, Mr Soetero and other members of his party no longer have to worry about a repeat of the 2010 elections, as the 2012 elections have been "postponed" (read: cancelled) ... Then America is well and truly FUCKED...
Yeah I know.. Those who think *my* tinfoil hat is too tight, well, gimme a better explanation.. otherwise STFU...
I normally don't reply to AC's, but on rare occasions, they have flashes of lucidity.. Like now..
The rule of law is dead in the United States. I say this as a 30-year citizen with a functioning memory
I'd mod this to as follows:
The rule of law is dead in the United States. I say this as a 62-year citizen with a functioning memory
"Samsung, with the help of Google, has been pushing out an over-the-air software update to make its phones worse."
The connotation of "worse" is that it was already bad to begin with.
So, say I have one of the affected Samsung phones, and I don't accept OTA updates on the stock Samsung rom, rooted or not.. Is an Apple lawyer gonna come knocking on my door since I still have a feature on MY phone that Apple asserts Google/Android/Samsung cannot use?? OOh pleeze.. BLOW ME APPLE.. I've never owned anything you have made, and never will....
The last part will bite you. My and most large mail servers will not accept e-mails from a server running on a dynamic IP block.
A VPS at a decent provider starts at $10-15 per month for all the web and e-mail hosting you will ever need.
umm.. a bit of searching will find 512MB OpenVZ "slices" available for well under $10/mo. I currently have 3 of these, two running Debian, for a OpenSim/OSGrid region host and a Wordpress host. The third one runs Fedora and is a catch-all "play" slice.. I pay the princely sum of $5.95/mo each for these, and have been using them for well over a year, and have had zero problems with them. As as I get a bit of $$$ ahead, I'm planning on paying by the year for them. They charge $59.95/yr each for them. I'm not gonna link to the vendor as I have zero financial ties to them, just a happy customer... Google is your friend with a search for "ThrustVPS"....
I'm really curious if my fellow senior slashdotters haven't owned "myname.com" for their own value of myname. I thought that was expected. Maybe that's a good Ask Slashdot.
I've had my own family domain for over 10 years now, with email addresses being firstname@lastname.org.. I've got a bunch of cousins elsewhere and I'm kinda running my own tiny gmail.com, with now over 50 close (and distant relatives) email addresses on the domain. I do like gmail's spam filtering, and I'm too lazy to jump thru all the hoops needed to get filtering that good myself on the email server, so I just forward my personal domain email address to gmail, let google do its majik on the spam, then connect to gmail via IMAP on Thunderbird..
I set up networks for home/small business locally and have always recommended Linksys routers, along with Tomato firmware. I also come from a 20+ year background of network support, where I ALWAYS used/recommended Cisco. I was pretty happy when Cisco acquired Linksys, and until NOW, had been reasonably pleased with where Cisco was taking Linksys. THIS Orwellian crap by Cisco terminates ANY recommendation by me for ANYTHING from Cisco. Yeah.. I realize I'm but one, but from what I'm seeing here on Slashdot and elsewhere, this move by Cisco is gonna stop ANYONE with any brains from using/recommending Cisco in the future.. Hope it was worth it, you morons in the Cisco executive suite...
Anybody got a source for used WRT54GL's?? (besides eBay, that is)
ooooh Death by snu-snu....
Wonder how many of my addins are gonna magically break on THIS update? I used to LOVE FF, now I just use FF because Chrome doesn't have a lot of the addins I like, and IE... well.. WE ALL know why we don't use IE...
ahh.. Cognitive dissonance.. The most common manifestation of the insanity that is modern liberalism.. Given an indisputable fact, most liberals do the old "lalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you..." or better yet calls the person expressing the FACT that is contrary to the liberal's world view a racist, hateful, or any number of nasty labels.. This gets really annoying to those of us who live in "real-ville"....
Good God!! If MS (or the h/w mfgrs) *think* they can get away with something like this, they must be smoking the same waky-tabaky that Comrade Obama is smoking, that has him asserting that he's spent less than any president in modern history, or somesuch bat-s**t insane claim like that.. Since all of the machines I've bought in the last 10 years or so have come with some kind of MS Windows on them, I've always, until just recently, made them dual-boot with whatever flavor of Linux I was into at the time. Now, they aren't even dual-boot'ed, they get wiped, and they get either Debian, if for my own use, or Ubuntu if for the wife's use. For the one or two Windows apps I can't do without, and won't run under Wine, I have a WindowsXP Virtualbox VM for these holdouts. The day I go to buy a machine and find that I'm locked out of putting MY CHOICE of OS on it, is the day I get PISSED!!!
Which means you're stuck with Windows... I won't buy a laptop unless it can run Linux without major heartache... THIS is why I stick with Dell Latitudes, they run Linux flawlessly and EVERYTHING works fine under Linux...
Speaking for Dell, if you stay with the Latitude/Precision line, they don't have "shovelware", simply the drivers for everything on the system, and any management utilities for fingerprint reader etc.. Having said that, in my last day-job, we still wiped new Latitude systems, and installed our image via Acronis Snapdeploy.
A civics lesson for you: the Whitehouse does not have the power to make laws. That is the exclusive domain of the Congress. You see, we have this little thing called "separation of powers"...
Yeah.. you're right.. *somebody* needs to tell Comrade Obama that.. He's going apeshit getting his b.s. unconstitutional stuff done via executive order.. He also should be advised that he's the POTUS NOT King Barack the First... Oh who AM I kidding.. Both parties in CONgress could care less if he runs the country into the ground...
Kinda curious on how they intend to apply this "law" to somebody OUTSIDE Malaysia "cyber-bullying" someone inside Malaysia.. The denizens of /. know how well laws like this work when applied to a world-wide medium like the internet, namely THEY DON'T!! I guess the old wisdom that you have to have 75% of your brain removed, 100% of your honesty to become a politician is true..
America is supposed to be unique in being a country where that is not how things work.
America is broken... May God Bless whats left of it...
Am in Las Vegas, and was going to drive up to the center of the path to get the full effect. I decided not to waste the gas (a 240 mile round trip), and just discovered that I'm not going to miss all that much.. The NASA page with percentages of totality showed that where I was going (Zion National Park) was 96% coverage and simply staying here in Las Vegas, I get 92%.... Don't have any welders goggles, so I'm using the old "two cardboard pieces with a pinhole in one".. Went out about 15 min ago and sure enough, theres a little munch out of the sun.. Its 6pm now and our max is reached at about 6:35 per the chart..
Paul sucked up a majority of delegates here in Nevada, I forget the exact numbers, but Romney may have the vote, but Paul has the delegates.. This should be VERRRRY interesting.. That is, assuming we actually *have* a November election.. A whistleblower from DHS recently reported that there is a plan afoot by the Obama regime to pull a "Reichstag Event", which would allow him to declare martial law, postponing (or cancelling) the election.. Funny that.. I've been expecting to hear reports of this ever since he took office... Believe it or don't.. Either way, America is swirling down the drain.. Not a whole heck of a lot we can do to prevent it...
It is a dying hobby. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but with the constant shrinking of non-user servicability of nearly all of the modern electronics that youth might be interested in, it is only going to drop more.
I've been licensed since 1976, Tech from 1976 to 1989, Extra since then. I went kinda inactive for the last few years, due to work, and getting my fill of tech-y stuff playing with Linux. But now since I'm retired, I've become very interested in SDR and the Gnomeradio aspects of the hobby. Just before I went inactive, I got involved with IRLP (Internet Repeater Linking Project) and Echolink. You may be right about the decreasing numbers of new ops, but from what I'm seeing locally, the ones who ARE discovering ham radio seem to be more interested in aspects of the hobby like SDR rather than the old school stuff, like contesting, prefix chasing.. I'll just say I disagree with you on the "dying hobby" claim you make...
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yup.. Just like the IRS bullies the American sheeple into paying a tax that 1) BY THEIR OWN admission, is VOLUNTARY, and 2) NO LAW makes an American citizen liable for that "tax". IRS and its "parents", the Treasury Dept and In-Justice Dept use smoke and mirrors to make USC Title 27 (Alcohol Taxes) *appear* to apply to USC Title 26 (The "Income Tax" code, all umpteen thousand pages of it...).. Just another 3-letter agency that has NO business in a country that follows the Constitution, but would have been right at home in the old USSR.. And yes, I AM a "tax protester"... Learn the Truth and perhaps, if cognitive dissonance hasn't screwed your brain up too bad, you may understand the Truth..
Yeah.. I'm gonna listen to a flippin' AC on whether I should use PHP or not... I laugh...