And there is nothing more progressive and radical than the conservative young man whose eyes are opened.
And there is nothing more conservative than a older man who was liberal in his youth, and learns thru life's lessons what a crock of sewage modern liberalism is..
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
I've done that.. Instead of using Mozy/Carbonite/AmazonS3, I signed up for two Linux virtual private servers. Both of which come with a 60GB disk allocation. Since my critical data backup needs are well below that (less than 30GB and not growing very fast), I simply created an encrypted 50GB container on both servers, set them up to rsync/mirror the contents of the master container, and then set up a daily rsync from my home server via an OpenVPN link to the master server. Even though I don't *own* the vps, its gonna be a cold day in hell before the actual owners of the vps can have my data (in a usable form). Since both vps are geographically separate (one's in Dallas, and the other in the UK) the odds of both being hit by whatever is pretty small..This costs me a whole whopping $25/mo..
Awww.. geez.. I drive right by them everyday to/from work.. Perhaps I'll stop by on the way home today, and do a Simpsons Nelson "HA HA" on their sorry asses... And an aside to their webguy: What a crappy website...
For others in Las Vegas, its: Righthaven LLC Conquistador Business Park 9960 West Cheyenne Ave, Suite 210 Las Vegas, NV 89129 (702) 527-5900
Mr. Shuttleworth, in your first few years with Ubuntu you did some fantastic work, but you've really gone off the deep end in the last few releases. You don't HAVE to change everything every six months. And if you think you're going to beat Android (with a 3-year headstart and the backing of Google) with Ubuntu on handheld devices, I'm sorry but you're fucking high.
It's what's called "Jumping The Shark". A tv show (or a Linux distro) starts out fantastic, then as time goes on, it gets weirder and more off-the-wall, until finally it has its Jumping the Shark moment. Like the tv show that coined this term, Happy Days, a tv show or Linux distro may go on for years after, but it loses what made it memorable, in the case of Happy Days, it went on for 7 more agonizing years, having lost what made it "Happy Days". I've looked at the newer versions of Ubuntu with Unity, and as far as I'm concerned, I'll never use Unity on any of my machines. I'm currently on 10.04, and I expect I'll stay on it until I find another suitable distro that doesn't have a rich kid telling me whats good for me.
When people get as rich as somebody who can plop down $20 million US to take a ride on a Soyuz up to the ISS, they seem to lose their touch with reality. I guess its partially due to everybody who works for him telling him what he wants to hear. *Someone* more in touch with reality might reason that "Hey.. If we jam this half-baked new UI down everyones throat, it may just piss off the geeks who recommend Ubuntu to others, and someday we may be looking at less market-share than we have right now"... Instead, Shuttleworth, who fits into this catagory like a glove, decides to call the geeks names for not liking his new turd of a UI, vs looking it objectively and asking "WHY don't they like it" and then FIXING those things... Nah, too much to ask from a multi-megabuck hack.... Unless future Ubuntu versions allow you to easily use a "classic" mode with Gnome 2 vs Unity, I'm off Ubuntu.. (currently on 10.04, been with Ubuntu since 7.04, a Linux power-user since 1994 on Slackware)...
I've been a Linux user since 1994 (Slackware), then on to Redhat/Fedora in 1997, and on to Ubuntu in 2007. My machines stay strictly on LTS releases, currently 10.04. I've run the newer releases in a Virtualbox VM and I gotta say one word: YUCK.. If Unity is the road Ubuntu is starting down, and there is no choice between that abortion and current Gnome/KDE, I'm hopping off the Ubuntu bus right now. I've been looking at the new Mint/Debian version and it looks mah-vel-ous (to quote an old SNL skit). Shuttleworth just has his wires crossed. It isn't that we "power-users" don't like eyecandy, we just don't like crap.. and as far as I'm concerned, Unity is crap.. Sorry Mark, hate to shit on your baby...
I must say, I have not. I'd be too tempted to give the TSA a snappy Seig Heil.
And you'd be well within your rights under the Constitution to do that very thing.. However in our current bat-shit insane world, you'd be hassled, likely arrested, and prevented from boarding your flight, and put on a "list".. Those of us who see clearly how insanely UNamerican the whole DHS/TSA thing is, seem to be the minority anymore. I hear endless cries of "if you don't want to be inspected, just don't fly".. ummm... no... The Constitution does not say "4th Amendment only applies to non-flying citizens".. Unless those of us who understand clearly whats happening to this country stand up against this b.s, we're gonna get a brandnew name in the very new future.. United Socialist States Of America or perhaps "People's Republic of Amerka".. Anybody thinking I'm being dramatic, get your flippin' head out of the sand and see what's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES!!!
The Boss's Thinkpad can't update Ubuntu anymore unless great care is taken to ensiure Xorg doesn't update lest the second DVI port stop working and of course a distro update is out of the question because of the GNOME problem, so she will be stuck on 11.04 until that situation improves.
This RIGHT here is why I stay strictly to LTS releases on Ubuntu. The LTS releases *seem* to be a bit more polished and they don't introduce new CRAP (Unity, I'm looking at YOU). I've playing with Linux since 1994, Slackware, then Redhat/Fedora, then in 2007, discovered Ubuntu, and with all the new "shark-jumping" going on with Canonical/Ubuntu, I'm seriously considering moving to the new Mint on Debian. From what I've seen, running it in a VirtualBox VM, its excellent, plus its a rolling release.. Excellent!!!
Individuals affiliated with the Teaparty HAVE solutions to the problems.. VERY good solutions, IF you're not one of the criminal group that CAUSED this mess. The people who were instrumental in causing this mess, (I'm looking at YOU, Frank and Dodd) SHOULD be behind bars at Leavenworth. Of course, the current inhabitant of the WH, would not go for these solutions, nor many of the left-leaning "Republicans".. If EVERYone who contributed to this mess was tried and if convicted, put into federal PMITA prison, this would teach a powerful lesson to ANYONE who contemplated repeating this fiasco.. Perhaps "Bahney Fwank" might even enjoy the PMITA part of his sentence..
Simple Answer: Both the Teaparty and OWS are showing that the "little man" is FED UP with the multitude of faults/criminality of the government/banking/you name it... The only difference is the OWS, being predominately brainwashed liberal kids who are throwbacks to the 60s hippy movement, and are behaving like animals. Of course, since this is typically how modern liberals behave anyway, the establishment cuts them slack, like todays mayor bloomberg backing down on evicting the crowds from the park. The Teaparty, on the other hand, protests in a peaceable manner, and despite all the claims by the MSM that Teapartyers are racist, I'd challenge anybody to point to one documented case of a Teapartier doing ANYthing as reprehensible as some of the OWS crowds have done. Bottom line: as much as it pains me to say both groups are protesting the same thing, only one group, OWS, acting like spoiled little brats with a "gimme" attitude given to them by their liberal university indoctrination. The Teaparty protests the same criminality, but does so with civility and MUCH better grooming than the OWS bunch.
I too am a "crazed far-right" Conservative, and a Republican up till about half way thru BushJr's second term. I become ill with what he was doing to this country. I didn't realize then how much WORSE it could get, but now I see clearly with Mr Obama. Bush simply tore up the Constitution, but Obama has turned it into toilet paper, passed it out to his cronies, and all are wiping their asses on it. Back to topic: Even people who are primarily known for their evil often have done good things for the countries they otherwise subjugated. A good example: Adolph Hitler, obviously our poster child for evil, he also orchestrated the building of the autobahn road network in Germany prior to WW2. Similarly, there are some democrats who have not availed themselves of Mr Obama's new toilet paper, and actually seem to still "get" the Constitution. This Senator appears to be one of those rare individuals.. Those who are wondering if I am equating Democrat Senators or Mr Obama with Adoph Hitler.. Keep wondering.. I'm not gonna get "HankWilliamsJr-ed".....
Such as it is.. Do ya ever wonder why so many of your Canadian compadres come down to the good ole USA for their medical care? Geez.. I Can't WAIT till Oblowme-Care comes to Amerika and we get to experience what you poor schlubs in Canada and the UK have been afflicted with for so long....
I NEVER thought I'd cheer at something Chiuckie Schumer was proposing, but here it is.. OnStar has jumped the shark on b.s. corporate policies with this one.. They need to be slapped silly for this kind of crap. I'd never be directly affected by OnStar as they seem to only be on Government Motors vehicles, and I'd NEVER buy a GM vehicle. In fact, I just did buy a new car, and it was from the one US automaker who *didn't* have its hand out to BigBrother for a bailout, namely Ford... Go Ford!!!
Of my 5 computers, of which 2 are desktops (mine and wifes), 2 servers and 1 laptop, I gave up the "dual-boot' several years ago. All of the systems run Ubuntu 8.04 (the two servers), or 10.04 on the desktops/laptop. For the ever-decreasing need for Windows, I have a Virtualbox VM on each, with a Windows 2003 server install, which as far as most apps are concerned, *is* WinXP.. Never had a need for a "bare-metal" Windows install in the last several years. One of the servers, a Dell PowerEdge 750 runs a headless Virtualbox Windows 2003 server instance for putzing around with... I forsee the day when I won't even need the Windows VM's....
I have one of the Dell laptops with Nvidia video that gave Nvidia/Dell/HP and others a black eye a few years ago. My system worked fine up until towards the end of this February, when it coughed up the scrambled video that indicated that it had succomed to the failure that Nvidia was succesfully class-action-suited over. I lucked out as the deadline for filing for the repair/replacement (Dell=repair/HP=replace of the whole laptop) was the middle of March. I filed and got my system (that I'm writing this on) fixed and alls well.. A friend whose Dell/Nvidia laptop was working fine up until a month ago, died with the same squirrely video. Of course, since the arbitrary deadline had passed, Nvidia/Dell magically gets to avoid the cost of fixing this (and I bet a LOT of additional) failures. Since the problem is essentially some cold solder joints on the Nvidia graphics chip, we read some discussion online about reflowing the solder on these cold joints, and with the help of a heatgun got the system working again normally. Of course there's no way to tell how long this will last, but he was planning on replacing the laptop in the next year or so..
Just after 2001, I flew quite a bit for work, but the last time was in 2004, as the travel requirement on that job ended. After seeing/hearing all of the horror stories about TSA and their peversions, I absolutely refuse to fly anymore. To put it in context, I was out of work, I applied for a position which on the job description said nothing about any travel involved. During the interview it became clear that this position involved about 50% travel. I told the interviewer "thanks but no thanks". He in turn told me as I was leaving that they were having an extremely hard time filling this position due to exactly my reasons. He said they'd interviewed some 20 otherwise qualified applicants who balked at the air travel requirement. Actually, I LOVE to fly/travel, and were it not for the TSA's antics, I probably would have continued the interview. I wished them good luck in finding someone willing to commit to that much airtravel with today's TSA-infestation. I really hated to end the interview, as it was going well, and it looked as though they might offer me the position. In any event, I found a much better position about a week later that was strictly local, even with significantly better pay.. Back to the topic at hand: Hats off to people like Ms Alkon.. THIS is part of what it is going to take to begin to kill that abortion called the TSA.
This whole SCO drama reminds me of that Monty Python skit where these two guys are fighting and one keeps whacking off limbs of the other guy and the limbless guy just keeps on taunting the other guy with the sword... Best entertainment around...
Finally, a judge who isnt off in la-de-da-liberal-land.. Of course since this isn't the SCOTUS, it only applies to the 1st Circuit area. This would need to be ruled by SCOTUS or all of the circuit/appeals courts to apply nationwide.. Now we ALL KNOW thats not gonna happen.
Thats why the Good Lord made "Hibernate".. In the case of my Ubuntu laptop, I tried hiberating it, and it worked ok, but it takes nearly a minute to resume from hibernate, and the system will cold-boot in less than 30 seconds... WHY would I hibernate there? In the case of my wife's Win7 laptop, I set it up to hibernate, and the min or so that it takes to hibernate or resume is WAY less than the two+ mins it takes to cold boot the damn thing..
No shit! The entire population of the Earth could die off tommorrow and the flora/fauna of the Earth would continue to "have a carbon footprint".. of course it would be simply the co2/oxygen and oxygen/co2 exchanges that have been going on for aeons... These environmental wackos are getting crazier and crazier...
Hey, lead the way. Is there a wireless company that *doesn't* pull this kind of shit regularly?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I didn't think so.
Simple: Dump the flippin' contracts.. Once a carrier has you in its clutches with a 2 year contract, they could care less how they treat you, because if you leave, they empty your wallet. Interesting note: I mistakenly bought a Sprint-branded Samsung Intercept, thinking I could squeeze it onto VM, since they share the same radios, alas, I learned a lot about how stupid/crooked cell carriers are.. Just for fun, I went into a Sprint store with my Sprint android phone, and asked about any non-contract plans since I HAVE MY OWN PHONE.. 1st Droid: No way!! you gotta have a contract.. His Manager: There ARE NO no-contract plans.. My reply: Gee I thought the contract was to cover the carrier's subsidizing of a phone if I leave before that subsidy is paid back... Silly me.. I HAVE MY OWN PHONE!! Can you tell me what the benefit to me would be to signing a contract with you for two years in this case??? Droid+Manager: Blank_Look..... Bottom line: Go with VirginMobile/MetroPCS/Boost.. Prepaid wireless all the way.. I can't speak to Boost or MetroPCS as I've never done biz with them. However, I've been with VM on a dumb-phone since 2003, on their PAYG 20cents/min plan. Recently I realized I was getting really tired of needing to do *something* to one of the home/work servers I maintain while chugging around town. In the old days that meant finding a McDonalds or Starbucks and firing the laptop up... This became REALLY tiresome.. So I decided to look into getting an Android smartphone.. I never once even considered an iPhone, though several friends have/recommend them. When you put AT&T together with Apple, you get a gooshy mess that I have NO desire to step in... Since I DO NOT do phone contracts EVER, my only options were the above prepaid carriers. Both MetroPCS and Boost have Android support, but their monthly charges are WAAAY higher than VM. So I bought a VM-branded Samsung Intercept on eBay and went with the $25/mo 300 min/"unlimited" data/text. Couldn't be happier.. Though I hear that $25/mo is going to $35 next month, but sources say that if you're on the plan now, you'll be grandfathered... we'll see...
Just ONE more reason to stay the hell away from Steve's locked-down crap.... Not just Droids, but even bottom-of-line Samsung Intercepts will tether without rooting with a fantastic little free app called PDANet....
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Europe is too remote to make an effective demonstration - but don't worry; we will deal with your rebel friends soon
Europe is too remote to make an effective demonstration - but don't worry; we will deal with your rebel friends soon ENOUGH..
FTFY
Turn in *your* nerd badge.. You gotta be ACCURATE when you quote Starwars...
And there is nothing more progressive and radical than the conservative young man whose eyes are opened.
And there is nothing more conservative than a older man who was liberal in his youth, and learns thru life's lessons what a crock of sewage modern liberalism is..
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
FTFY
I've done that.. Instead of using Mozy/Carbonite/AmazonS3, I signed up for two Linux virtual private servers. Both of which come with a 60GB disk allocation. Since my critical data backup needs are well below that (less than 30GB and not growing very fast), I simply created an encrypted 50GB container on both servers, set them up to rsync/mirror the contents of the master container, and then set up a daily rsync from my home server via an OpenVPN link to the master server. Even though I don't *own* the vps, its gonna be a cold day in hell before the actual owners of the vps can have my data (in a usable form). Since both vps are geographically separate (one's in Dallas, and the other in the UK) the odds of both being hit by whatever is pretty small..This costs me a whole whopping $25/mo..
Awww.. geez.. I drive right by them everyday to/from work.. Perhaps I'll stop by on the way home today, and do a Simpsons Nelson "HA HA" on their sorry asses... And an aside to their webguy: What a crappy website...
For others in Las Vegas, its:
Righthaven LLC
Conquistador Business Park
9960 West Cheyenne Ave, Suite 210
Las Vegas, NV 89129
(702) 527-5900
Mr. Shuttleworth, in your first few years with Ubuntu you did some fantastic work, but you've really gone off the deep end in the last few releases. You don't HAVE to change everything every six months. And if you think you're going to beat Android (with a 3-year headstart and the backing of Google) with Ubuntu on handheld devices, I'm sorry but you're fucking high.
It's what's called "Jumping The Shark". A tv show (or a Linux distro) starts out fantastic, then as time goes on, it gets weirder and more off-the-wall, until finally it has its Jumping the Shark moment. Like the tv show that coined this term, Happy Days, a tv show or Linux distro may go on for years after, but it loses what made it memorable, in the case of Happy Days, it went on for 7 more agonizing years, having lost what made it "Happy Days". I've looked at the newer versions of Ubuntu with Unity, and as far as I'm concerned, I'll never use Unity on any of my machines. I'm currently on 10.04, and I expect I'll stay on it until I find another suitable distro that doesn't have a rich kid telling me whats good for me.
When people get as rich as somebody who can plop down $20 million US to take a ride on a Soyuz up to the ISS, they seem to lose their touch with reality. I guess its partially due to everybody who works for him telling him what he wants to hear. *Someone* more in touch with reality might reason that "Hey.. If we jam this half-baked new UI down everyones throat, it may just piss off the geeks who recommend Ubuntu to others, and someday we may be looking at less market-share than we have right now"... Instead, Shuttleworth, who fits into this catagory like a glove, decides to call the geeks names for not liking his new turd of a UI, vs looking it objectively and asking "WHY don't they like it" and then FIXING those things... Nah, too much to ask from a multi-megabuck hack.... Unless future Ubuntu versions allow you to easily use a "classic" mode with Gnome 2 vs Unity, I'm off Ubuntu.. (currently on 10.04, been with Ubuntu since 7.04, a Linux power-user since 1994 on Slackware)...
I've been a Linux user since 1994 (Slackware), then on to Redhat/Fedora in 1997, and on to Ubuntu in 2007. My machines stay strictly on LTS releases, currently 10.04. I've run the newer releases in a Virtualbox VM and I gotta say one word: YUCK.. If Unity is the road Ubuntu is starting down, and there is no choice between that abortion and current Gnome/KDE, I'm hopping off the Ubuntu bus right now. I've been looking at the new Mint/Debian version and it looks mah-vel-ous (to quote an old SNL skit). Shuttleworth just has his wires crossed. It isn't that we "power-users" don't like eyecandy, we just don't like crap.. and as far as I'm concerned, Unity is crap.. Sorry Mark, hate to shit on your baby...
I must say, I have not. I'd be too tempted to give the TSA a snappy Seig Heil.
And you'd be well within your rights under the Constitution to do that very thing.. However in our current bat-shit insane world, you'd be hassled, likely arrested, and prevented from boarding your flight, and put on a "list".. Those of us who see clearly how insanely UNamerican the whole DHS/TSA thing is, seem to be the minority anymore. I hear endless cries of "if you don't want to be inspected, just don't fly".. ummm... no... The Constitution does not say "4th Amendment only applies to non-flying citizens".. Unless those of us who understand clearly whats happening to this country stand up against this b.s, we're gonna get a brandnew name in the very new future.. United Socialist States Of America or perhaps "People's Republic of Amerka".. Anybody thinking I'm being dramatic, get your flippin' head out of the sand and see what's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES!!!
The Boss's Thinkpad can't update Ubuntu anymore unless great care is taken to ensiure Xorg doesn't update lest the second DVI port stop working and of course a distro update is out of the question because of the GNOME problem, so she will be stuck on 11.04 until that situation improves.
This RIGHT here is why I stay strictly to LTS releases on Ubuntu. The LTS releases *seem* to be a bit more polished and they don't introduce new CRAP (Unity, I'm looking at YOU). I've playing with Linux since 1994, Slackware, then Redhat/Fedora, then in 2007, discovered Ubuntu, and with all the new "shark-jumping" going on with Canonical/Ubuntu, I'm seriously considering moving to the new Mint on Debian. From what I've seen, running it in a VirtualBox VM, its excellent, plus its a rolling release.. Excellent!!!
Individuals affiliated with the Teaparty HAVE solutions to the problems.. VERY good solutions, IF you're not one of the criminal group that CAUSED this mess. The people who were instrumental in causing this mess, (I'm looking at YOU, Frank and Dodd) SHOULD be behind bars at Leavenworth. Of course, the current inhabitant of the WH, would not go for these solutions, nor many of the left-leaning "Republicans".. If EVERYone who contributed to this mess was tried and if convicted, put into federal PMITA prison, this would teach a powerful lesson to ANYONE who contemplated repeating this fiasco.. Perhaps "Bahney Fwank" might even enjoy the PMITA part of his sentence..
Simple Answer:
Both the Teaparty and OWS are showing that the "little man" is FED UP with the multitude of faults/criminality of the government/banking/you name it... The only difference is the OWS, being predominately brainwashed liberal kids who are throwbacks to the 60s hippy movement, and are behaving like animals. Of course, since this is typically how modern liberals behave anyway, the establishment cuts them slack, like todays mayor bloomberg backing down on evicting the crowds from the park. The Teaparty, on the other hand, protests in a peaceable manner, and despite all the claims by the MSM that Teapartyers are racist, I'd challenge anybody to point to one documented case of a Teapartier doing ANYthing as reprehensible as some of the OWS crowds have done. Bottom line: as much as it pains me to say both groups are protesting the same thing, only one group, OWS, acting like spoiled little brats with a "gimme" attitude given to them by their liberal university indoctrination. The Teaparty protests the same criminality, but does so with civility and MUCH better grooming than the OWS bunch.
I too am a "crazed far-right" Conservative, and a Republican up till about half way thru BushJr's second term. I become ill with what he was doing to this country. I didn't realize then how much WORSE it could get, but now I see clearly with Mr Obama. Bush simply tore up the Constitution, but Obama has turned it into toilet paper, passed it out to his cronies, and all are wiping their asses on it. Back to topic: Even people who are primarily known for their evil often have done good things for the countries they otherwise subjugated. A good example: Adolph Hitler, obviously our poster child for evil, he also orchestrated the building of the autobahn road network in Germany prior to WW2. Similarly, there are some democrats who have not availed themselves of Mr Obama's new toilet paper, and actually seem to still "get" the Constitution. This Senator appears to be one of those rare individuals.. Those who are wondering if I am equating Democrat Senators or Mr Obama with Adoph Hitler.. Keep wondering.. I'm not gonna get "HankWilliamsJr-ed" .....
.... but our health care at least is free!
Such as it is.. Do ya ever wonder why so many of your Canadian compadres come down to the good ole USA for their medical care?
Geez.. I Can't WAIT till Oblowme-Care comes to Amerika and we get to experience what you poor schlubs in Canada and the UK have
been afflicted with for so long....
Perhaps when the "airbag-deploy" alert also gets sent? perhaps they would rather not know that if you're not a paying customer??
Just a guess...
I NEVER thought I'd cheer at something Chiuckie Schumer was proposing, but here it is.. OnStar has jumped the shark on b.s. corporate policies with this one.. They need to be slapped silly for this kind of crap. I'd never be directly affected by OnStar as they seem to only be on Government Motors vehicles, and I'd NEVER buy a GM vehicle. In fact, I just did buy a new car, and it was from the one US automaker who *didn't* have its hand out to BigBrother for a bailout, namely Ford... Go Ford!!!
Of my 5 computers, of which 2 are desktops (mine and wifes), 2 servers and 1 laptop, I gave up the "dual-boot' several years ago. All of the systems run Ubuntu 8.04 (the two servers), or 10.04 on the desktops/laptop. For the ever-decreasing need for Windows, I have a Virtualbox VM on each, with a Windows 2003 server install, which as far as most apps are concerned, *is* WinXP.. Never had a need for a "bare-metal" Windows install in the last
several years. One of the servers, a Dell PowerEdge 750 runs a headless Virtualbox Windows 2003 server instance for putzing around with... I forsee the day when I won't even need the Windows VM's....
I have one of the Dell laptops with Nvidia video that gave Nvidia/Dell/HP and others a black eye a few years ago. My system worked fine up until towards the end of this February, when it coughed up the scrambled video that indicated that it had succomed to the failure that Nvidia was succesfully class-action-suited over. I lucked out as the deadline for filing for the repair/replacement (Dell=repair/HP=replace of the whole laptop) was the middle of March. I filed and got my system (that I'm writing this on) fixed and alls well.. A friend whose Dell/Nvidia laptop was working fine up until a month ago, died with the same squirrely video. Of course, since the
arbitrary deadline had passed, Nvidia/Dell magically gets to avoid the cost of fixing this (and I bet a LOT of additional) failures. Since the problem is essentially some cold solder joints on the Nvidia graphics chip, we read some discussion online about reflowing the solder on these cold joints, and with the help of a heatgun got the
system working again normally. Of course there's no way to tell how long this will last, but he was planning on replacing the laptop in the next year or so..
Just after 2001, I flew quite a bit for work, but the last time was in 2004, as the travel requirement on that job ended. After seeing/hearing all of the horror stories about TSA and their peversions, I absolutely refuse to fly anymore. To put it in context, I was out of work, I applied for a position which on the job description said nothing about any travel involved. During the interview it became clear that this position involved about 50% travel. I told the interviewer "thanks but no thanks". He in turn told me as I was leaving that they were having an extremely hard time filling this position due to exactly my reasons. He said they'd interviewed some 20 otherwise qualified applicants who balked at the air travel requirement. Actually, I LOVE to fly/travel, and were it not for the TSA's antics, I probably would have continued the interview. I wished them good luck in finding someone willing to commit to that much airtravel with today's TSA-infestation. I really hated to end the interview, as it was going well, and it looked as though they might offer me the position. In any event, I found a much better position about a week later that was strictly local, even with significantly better pay.. Back to the topic at hand: Hats off to people like Ms Alkon.. THIS is part of what it is going to take to begin to kill that abortion called the TSA.
Got it!! Thanks for the pointer... Dear CBS.. BLOW ME!!
This whole SCO drama reminds me of that Monty Python skit where these two guys are fighting and one keeps whacking off limbs of the other guy and the limbless guy just keeps on taunting the other guy with the sword... Best entertainment around...
Finally, a judge who isnt off in la-de-da-liberal-land.. Of course since this isn't the SCOTUS, it only applies to the 1st Circuit area. This would need to be ruled by SCOTUS or all of the circuit/appeals courts to apply nationwide.. Now we ALL KNOW thats not gonna happen.
Thats why the Good Lord made "Hibernate".. In the case of my Ubuntu laptop, I tried hiberating it, and it worked ok, but it takes nearly a minute to resume from hibernate, and the system will cold-boot in less than 30 seconds... WHY would I hibernate there? In the case of my wife's Win7 laptop, I set it up to hibernate, and the min or so that it takes to hibernate or resume is WAY less than the two+ mins it takes to cold boot the damn thing..
No shit! The entire population of the Earth could die off tommorrow and the flora/fauna of the Earth would continue to "have a carbon footprint".. of course it would be simply the co2/oxygen and oxygen/co2 exchanges that have been going on for aeons... These environmental wackos are getting crazier and crazier...
Hey, lead the way. Is there a wireless company that *doesn't* pull this kind of shit regularly?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I didn't think so.
Simple: Dump the flippin' contracts.. Once a carrier has you in its clutches with a 2 year contract, they could care less how they treat you, because if you leave, they empty your wallet. Interesting note: I mistakenly bought a Sprint-branded Samsung Intercept, thinking I could squeeze it onto VM, since they share the same radios, alas, I learned a lot about how stupid/crooked cell carriers are.. Just for fun, I went into a Sprint store with my Sprint android phone, and asked about any non-contract plans since I HAVE MY OWN PHONE.. 1st Droid: No way!! you gotta have a contract.. His Manager: There ARE NO no-contract plans.. My reply: Gee I thought the contract was to cover the carrier's subsidizing of a phone if I leave before that subsidy is paid back... Silly me.. I HAVE MY OWN PHONE!! Can you tell me what the benefit to me would be to signing a contract with you for two years in this case??? Droid+Manager: Blank_Look..... Bottom line: Go with VirginMobile/MetroPCS/Boost.. Prepaid wireless all the way.. I can't speak to Boost or MetroPCS as I've never done biz with them. However, I've been with VM on a dumb-phone since 2003, on their PAYG 20cents/min plan. Recently I realized I was getting really tired of needing to do *something* to one of the home/work servers I maintain while chugging around town. In the old days that meant finding a McDonalds or Starbucks and firing the laptop up... This became REALLY tiresome.. So I decided to look into getting an Android smartphone.. I never once even considered an iPhone, though several friends have/recommend them. When you put AT&T together with Apple, you get a gooshy mess that I have NO desire to step in... Since I DO NOT do phone contracts EVER, my only options were the above prepaid carriers. Both MetroPCS and Boost have Android support, but their monthly charges are WAAAY higher than VM. So I bought a VM-branded Samsung Intercept on eBay and went with the $25/mo 300 min/"unlimited" data/text. Couldn't be happier.. Though I hear that $25/mo is going to $35 next month, but sources say that if you're on the plan now, you'll be grandfathered... we'll see...
Just ONE more reason to stay the hell away from Steve's locked-down crap.... Not just Droids, but even bottom-of-line Samsung Intercepts will tether without rooting with a fantastic little free app called PDANet....