Jesus Christ.. wah wah wah wah wah wah wah. I tried to read two sentences of your post before I lost interest. Do you work for AT&T, Verizon or Comcast? Come clean.
They're trying to boot out the PDF format, which is nice, open and ubiquitous with their own format - and they're using their monopoly on the desktop operating system market to achieve this.
And you find this surprising? Here's another newsflash, try watching videos on the MSNBC website without running Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows. Of course they're trying to hold onto their monopoly, it's what dying companies that fail to innovate do.
Hah! That's what I was thinking when I read that. Build your own nuclear reactor using a band-aid. Strap band-aid to functioning nuclear reactor procured from post-Cold War Russia. Voila, Band-Aid Nuclear Fission Reaction System.
Every see a computer ship with a fiber ethernet interface? Yeah, I haven't either.
Sure I've seen them with fiber ethernet interfaces. Most modern ones will use a GBIC or SPF module these days though so you can use either SX/LX fiber or copper gigabit.
Umm, I imagine it'll just be included in your normal activation and installation costs when you sign up for a new line. When the new homeowner moves in they call and activate their line and someone comes out and splices it together. No big deal.
15MBps = 120mbps, about 12 times faster than your 10mbps connection, and about 20 times faster than AT&T's 6mbps service.;-)
Did you bother to RTA? The author transferred 1700 MB in 12 minutes which is roughly 2.36 MB/sec or about 18 Mb/s. Still pretty damn good compared to my 6Mbps/768Kbps ADSL service of which I realistically see 4 Mbps down and 600 Kbps up. What I want to see is an ISP with a clue start offering high speed connectivity. If I see another god damn cable provider or telco offer some absurdly high download speed with an upload speed less than 10% of the download speed and then have the nerve to give out dynamic IPs and block inbound ports I'm going to puke. Other than widespread piracy of copyrighted material there is absolutely no purpose to such lopsided connectivity (Yes, I'm sure there are those of you out there downloading Fedora DVDs every day.. riiiiight).
What I want is what you can get at most dedicated server providers: a 10 Mbps full duplex port in and out with a 1500 GB monthly bandwidth cap, no blocked ports, and a/29 subnet allocation. If they can offer that for $85-$150 a month including a server rental then surely a telco or cable provider can provide that level of bandwidth too. Give the Internet back to the people with affordable bandwidth and symmetric connectivity.
Or you may need a new driver (previous one stopped working, was only temp)...but you can access the driver page only after you installed a certain DRM-patch...
They already did that with that Microsoft Genuine Windows crap they forced down your throat. How many people here were crying in their beer to find their pirated copy of Windows XP no longer worked after updates?;-) Not me of course, I got it for "free" from the university.
I love Speakeasy. I absolutely LOVE them, but you pay a premium price for premium service. My 6 Mbps/768 Kbps ADSL w/4 static IPs and FileCloud access (Gamer package) comes out to $109.95 a month plus taxes. When I move into my new house I'm going to not be able to get Speakeasy anymore (not a Covad supported CO) so I'm going to be stuck getting ADSL directly from SBC or cable Internet through Cox. Both of these options are still considerably cheaper than Speakeasy, BUT I'm afraid the quality will be far inferior. Ideally I want to ditch SBC altogether and use VOIP when I move so I need a stable Internet connection... it doesn't make sense to get ADSL through SBC since I'd also need to buy their phone service the ADSL line runs over so that leaves me with Cox as my only option. I guess I'll need to cross my fingers and hope they're decent.
Those are for default installs with all the eye candy turned on though! Disable the Fisher Price theme and it'll be a lot more responsive. The same will go for Vista.. disable the MacOS X Aqua clone interface and use the classic interface and it'll run just fine in even 256 megs of RAM I bet. Microsoft can't fuck up an operating system THAT much where Vista is such an enormous memory hog compared to XP... WTF Would they add to it where it would need another 400+ megs of RAM over the XP minimums?
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Wiping with all zeroes is a bad way to scrub a disk. You need to use different patterns each pass through at least, but random data would be much better. As for encryption speed.. I use the FileVault (128-bit AES) built into MacOS X on my Powerbook and I don't notice any performance difference unless that damn Spotlight search engine update is running at the time, but it's slow even if I wasn't running an encrypted filesystem.
Since when do you need a computer "scientist" to program a business application? Computer scientists should stick to low-level stuff and leave the programming to the IS majors and code monkeys.
And what do you think happens when people unload on a stock?
You get LNUX shares going from $320 to $4 a share?:-) God, anybody who held onto that worthless VA Software stock has got to be kicking themselves.
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Wait, you forgot about the need for RAM - you have to get 512MB to even "run" Vista, but the reality is when they say that, they mean "you need to buy at least 1GB of RAM or it will be as slow as a dog".
I disagree on this one. I've consistently heard people complaining about Windows being bloated, but Windows 2000 and Windows XP run just fine with 192 megs of RAM.. sure, more RAM will incur less swapping, but it's certainly very usable. My VMware emulated Windows XP Pro system uses 192 megs of RAM and it runs just fine. There's no reason to believe Vista will be any more bloated than XP is if you shut off the eye candy and just use a regular Windows "classic" skin like you can now with XP. Hell, we run Windows 2003 Server on a VMWare ESX server and allocate it 384 megs of RAM and it runs perfectly fine (actually uses less than 100 megs of "real" memory).
Do you realize how ridiculously complicated such a system would be to maintain from a network engineering point of view? That alone would be a stumbling block any "evil" ISP would have to overcome before they even though about charging individual web sites separate "protection" fees for their traffic to get priority. Don't get me wrong, I am pro-network-neutrality, but I can't see them ever rolling out a two-tiered internet in the first place.
1st of July, although you can download and install breezy now, dist-upgrade to dapper and then dist-upgrade on the day (I think you can even get a flight-5 dapper ISO right now...?)
Or you can just install the enterprise-ready version right from the original source here. Why settle for imitations when you can have the original?
Seriously. Microsoft needs to join with domain squatters. Microsoft could totally dominate the domain squatter portal market by integrating their Live search engine into the domain squatters' Yahoo-like categorized site listings and offers to sell you the domain for $X,XXX.
Yeah. Because competence, attention to detail, and avoiding unintended consequences is precisely what government is good at.
And the alternative is putting our trust in telecommunications companies like AT&T to do the right thing that's best for American citizens and Internet users? Riiiiigggghhhhttt. Let me know when they stop charging me a $5+ federal access charge disguised as a tax and stop giving my personal information to the NSA.
All I want is a simple clarification of the common carrier status. If AT&T wants to continue to be called a common carrier and NOT sued when users download child porn via their network then they need to keep out of the content arena entirely. AT&T should make absolutely no distinction between packets that flow from outside its network to one of its subscribers for the purposes of "quality of service".
The only thing that can be know for sure about the effect of prioritizing IP traffic is that other traffic will slow down. Like VOIP 911 calls, for example.
So buy VoIP services from your ISP instead of Vonage or some other random net entity. Your ISP can guarantee their VOIP services have sufficient QoS so you get excellent quality phone service. Most cable companies are already starting to offer VoIP.
Actually, PP is subject to that same intense regulation and insurance. So no argument there. Essentially, PP is a bank, just one that's on the Internet.
Show me where in PayPal's user agreement it shows that your money is FDIC insured? Their ridiculous "FDIC passthrough protection" doesn't count because it doesn't protect you in the case of PayPal becoming insolvent, only the bank they invested your money in. Believe me, if PayPal declares bankruptcy you'll be the LAST person with a claim on getting your money out of those bank accounts. Don't be a fool.. if you have more than $50 (or some small amount you're willing to lose) in a PayPal account you're asking for trouble. I even unlinked my checking account from them a few days ago because I am simply not comfortable with such a fucked up company being able to drain any of my "real" money. The only thing I allow as a source of funds now is a credit card so I can fight fraud charges through the CC company. Sure, this mean's I'm "unverified", which is ridiculous since they verified my account via my bank account once, it should stay verified no matter what payment method I choose to use.
that's a lot of data... I wonder how many hard drives it would take to keep that much.
I'm sure the NSA will conveniently offer a high bandwidth pipe into all the ISPs to collect the data for them and store it in their datacenter. I can't wait until 2008 so we can vote these clowns out of office and forget about this whole terrorism nonsense. If you ignore those jokers and don't give them the attention they want they'll eventually go away, but if you keep fighting them like Israel does they'll keep attacking to stay in the headlines. For example, where is the IRA these days? I haven't heard them bombing many places lately.
What's probably going to happen is that your phone bill will stay the same (or maybe be a buck or two cheaper) and your long distance phone company will make more profit.
They'll just move it from the tax section of your bill to the surcharges and fees section of your bill and start calling it the "Liberty Surcharge".
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Jesus Christ.. wah wah wah wah wah wah wah. I tried to read two sentences of your post before I lost interest. Do you work for AT&T, Verizon or Comcast? Come clean.
And you find this surprising? Here's another newsflash, try watching videos on the MSNBC website without running Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows. Of course they're trying to hold onto their monopoly, it's what dying companies that fail to innovate do.
Hah! That's what I was thinking when I read that. Build your own nuclear reactor using a band-aid. Strap band-aid to functioning nuclear reactor procured from post-Cold War Russia. Voila, Band-Aid Nuclear Fission Reaction System.
Sure I've seen them with fiber ethernet interfaces. Most modern ones will use a GBIC or SPF module these days though so you can use either SX/LX fiber or copper gigabit.
Umm, I imagine it'll just be included in your normal activation and installation costs when you sign up for a new line. When the new homeowner moves in they call and activate their line and someone comes out and splices it together. No big deal.
Did you bother to RTA? The author transferred 1700 MB in 12 minutes which is roughly 2.36 MB/sec or about 18 Mb/s. Still pretty damn good compared to my 6Mbps/768Kbps ADSL service of which I realistically see 4 Mbps down and 600 Kbps up. What I want to see is an ISP with a clue start offering high speed connectivity. If I see another god damn cable provider or telco offer some absurdly high download speed with an upload speed less than 10% of the download speed and then have the nerve to give out dynamic IPs and block inbound ports I'm going to puke. Other than widespread piracy of copyrighted material there is absolutely no purpose to such lopsided connectivity (Yes, I'm sure there are those of you out there downloading Fedora DVDs every day.. riiiiight).
What I want is what you can get at most dedicated server providers: a 10 Mbps full duplex port in and out with a 1500 GB monthly bandwidth cap, no blocked ports, and a
They already did that with that Microsoft Genuine Windows crap they forced down your throat. How many people here were crying in their beer to find their pirated copy of Windows XP no longer worked after updates? ;-) Not me of course, I got it for "free" from the university.
GSX is being replaced by the VMware Server product.
Exactly! AT&T and Verizon only have YOUR best interests at heart in opposing network neutrality.
I love Speakeasy. I absolutely LOVE them, but you pay a premium price for premium service. My 6 Mbps/768 Kbps ADSL w/4 static IPs and FileCloud access (Gamer package) comes out to $109.95 a month plus taxes. When I move into my new house I'm going to not be able to get Speakeasy anymore (not a Covad supported CO) so I'm going to be stuck getting ADSL directly from SBC or cable Internet through Cox. Both of these options are still considerably cheaper than Speakeasy, BUT I'm afraid the quality will be far inferior. Ideally I want to ditch SBC altogether and use VOIP when I move so I need a stable Internet connection... it doesn't make sense to get ADSL through SBC since I'd also need to buy their phone service the ADSL line runs over so that leaves me with Cox as my only option. I guess I'll need to cross my fingers and hope they're decent.
Those are for default installs with all the eye candy turned on though! Disable the Fisher Price theme and it'll be a lot more responsive. The same will go for Vista.. disable the MacOS X Aqua clone interface and use the classic interface and it'll run just fine in even 256 megs of RAM I bet. Microsoft can't fuck up an operating system THAT much where Vista is such an enormous memory hog compared to XP... WTF Would they add to it where it would need another 400+ megs of RAM over the XP minimums?
Wiping with all zeroes is a bad way to scrub a disk. You need to use different patterns each pass through at least, but random data would be much better. As for encryption speed.. I use the FileVault (128-bit AES) built into MacOS X on my Powerbook and I don't notice any performance difference unless that damn Spotlight search engine update is running at the time, but it's slow even if I wasn't running an encrypted filesystem.
Since when do you need a computer "scientist" to program a business application? Computer scientists should stick to low-level stuff and leave the programming to the IS majors and code monkeys.
You get LNUX shares going from $320 to $4 a share? :-) God, anybody who held onto that worthless VA Software stock has got to be kicking themselves.
I disagree on this one. I've consistently heard people complaining about Windows being bloated, but Windows 2000 and Windows XP run just fine with 192 megs of RAM.. sure, more RAM will incur less swapping, but it's certainly very usable. My VMware emulated Windows XP Pro system uses 192 megs of RAM and it runs just fine. There's no reason to believe Vista will be any more bloated than XP is if you shut off the eye candy and just use a regular Windows "classic" skin like you can now with XP. Hell, we run Windows 2003 Server on a VMWare ESX server and allocate it 384 megs of RAM and it runs perfectly fine (actually uses less than 100 megs of "real" memory).
Do you realize how ridiculously complicated such a system would be to maintain from a network engineering point of view? That alone would be a stumbling block any "evil" ISP would have to overcome before they even though about charging individual web sites separate "protection" fees for their traffic to get priority. Don't get me wrong, I am pro-network-neutrality, but I can't see them ever rolling out a two-tiered internet in the first place.
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Or you can just install the enterprise-ready version right from the original source here. Why settle for imitations when you can have the original?
Seriously. Microsoft needs to join with domain squatters. Microsoft could totally dominate the domain squatter portal market by integrating their Live search engine into the domain squatters' Yahoo-like categorized site listings and offers to sell you the domain for $X,XXX.
And the alternative is putting our trust in telecommunications companies like AT&T to do the right thing that's best for American citizens and Internet users? Riiiiigggghhhhttt. Let me know when they stop charging me a $5+ federal access charge disguised as a tax and stop giving my personal information to the NSA.
All I want is a simple clarification of the common carrier status. If AT&T wants to continue to be called a common carrier and NOT sued when users download child porn via their network then they need to keep out of the content arena entirely. AT&T should make absolutely no distinction between packets that flow from outside its network to one of its subscribers for the purposes of "quality of service".
So buy VoIP services from your ISP instead of Vonage or some other random net entity. Your ISP can guarantee their VOIP services have sufficient QoS so you get excellent quality phone service. Most cable companies are already starting to offer VoIP.
Show me where in PayPal's user agreement it shows that your money is FDIC insured? Their ridiculous "FDIC passthrough protection" doesn't count because it doesn't protect you in the case of PayPal becoming insolvent, only the bank they invested your money in. Believe me, if PayPal declares bankruptcy you'll be the LAST person with a claim on getting your money out of those bank accounts. Don't be a fool.. if you have more than $50 (or some small amount you're willing to lose) in a PayPal account you're asking for trouble. I even unlinked my checking account from them a few days ago because I am simply not comfortable with such a fucked up company being able to drain any of my "real" money. The only thing I allow as a source of funds now is a credit card so I can fight fraud charges through the CC company. Sure, this mean's I'm "unverified", which is ridiculous since they verified my account via my bank account once, it should stay verified no matter what payment method I choose to use.
I'm sure the NSA will conveniently offer a high bandwidth pipe into all the ISPs to collect the data for them and store it in their datacenter. I can't wait until 2008 so we can vote these clowns out of office and forget about this whole terrorism nonsense. If you ignore those jokers and don't give them the attention they want they'll eventually go away, but if you keep fighting them like Israel does they'll keep attacking to stay in the headlines. For example, where is the IRA these days? I haven't heard them bombing many places lately.
They'll just move it from the tax section of your bill to the surcharges and fees section of your bill and start calling it the "Liberty Surcharge".