I laughed out loud when reading this: Break his ankle on the side of a building, and he'll stagger out of frame on his ruined legs rather than blow a shot.
My thing is this: Why would I want any tech from aliens that seem to have vehicles that come across space, and don't land, but CRASH.....??? Can anyone answer that for me?
The problem ? People who pay taxes can't stand for companies to give away free stuff when someone else has to pay for the same thing that they can't get for free....
No, not really. I completely agree with the OP. Home equipment is complete shit, and tends to fail rather quickly, especially Wireless routers. Switches last long but I've had a few come up with a dead port once in a while. It really sucks, so I too have been looking for better options.
For my home router I use a Debian Squeeze PC that I setup on an Intel Atom 330 board. Routes my 50/50 WAN perfectly well, even after applying firewall and NAT. For switches, I found that Mikrotik makes decent gear. They make routers too but I don't want to depend on a proprietary OS for my routing features. For switches, I like having a hardware switch chip and there's no setup to be done, so Mikrotik isn't bad for that.
Of course, if I could get my hands on a Cisco managed gigabit switch I'd use that instead behind my Linux router, but I'm not shitting money yet.
My home equipment works great and has been doing so unprotected for a couple of years now...
I don't use any type of protection on my two Netgear WNR 3500L's and have been running them nonstop for at least 2 years. I do agree with you as far as the clean power is concerned; I am just wondering what the OP does to go thru 1 consumer grade router per year ?
Right, you should be running on Linux, obviously. Anyone who doubts the security of Linux should just look at Android, and how secure and untouched by malware it is... oh wait. Umm... maybe OpenBSD? I mean, it's gotta be secure, cause Theo says so. So do the other 3 people who use it.
Maybe it's actually more important to just run a modern OS behind a good firewall, use safe computing practices (don't blindly click on stupid stuff from computers or networks with sensitive information), and keep everything well-patched. That will remove > 98% of risk. A properly locked down and patched Windows machine is no less secure than a properly locked down and patched Linux, Apple, BSD, or other machine.
I don't care. Google has all of my information and NOTHING has come of that. Noone is knocking on my door trying to sell me anything. Noone is sending me spam ( outside of the normal amount that ALL gets routed to my spam folder ). Noone seems to actively bug me about ANYTHING.
I feel safe, and that's my opinion and experience.
These scientists call it a "dwarf planet" yet, it has several moons orbiting around it.... I think it is time to move Pluto, give it back the rank of FULL PLANET....
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I laughed out loud when reading this: Break his ankle on the side of a building, and he'll stagger out of frame on his ruined legs rather than blow a shot.
Hah, I can see the one in Illinois right out my window.... and I walk by it every day...
Just wiped out one install for Linux...
And what do you think about many of the other sightings in other areas, across the globe? Air Force projects too ?
My thing is this: Why would I want any tech from aliens that seem to have vehicles that come across space, and don't land, but CRASH.....??? Can anyone answer that for me?
I will never get anything other than a NEXUS !!!!
and I get my jobs or tasks via smartphone ONLY. I still use a laptop to do most of the work......
to update, I update.
But these people are poor.. What can they afford ? Nothing at all...
The problem ? People who pay taxes can't stand for companies to give away free stuff when someone else has to pay for the same thing that they can't get for free....
do you post when you don't know anything ?
To get data from people who can't afford any of these advertisers' goods ?
That was ALL set up by George Bush..
None of you are paying for it.. so I think this is a good thing for the ones that can benefit from this.....
Actually, this is true.. I have gotten 2 updates with the first one on April 7th, which was way before the public started talking about the exploit...
On a 10 year old lappy ?
No, not really. I completely agree with the OP. Home equipment is complete shit, and tends to fail rather quickly, especially Wireless routers. Switches last long but I've had a few come up with a dead port once in a while. It really sucks, so I too have been looking for better options.
For my home router I use a Debian Squeeze PC that I setup on an Intel Atom 330 board. Routes my 50/50 WAN perfectly well, even after applying firewall and NAT. For switches, I found that Mikrotik makes decent gear. They make routers too but I don't want to depend on a proprietary OS for my routing features. For switches, I like having a hardware switch chip and there's no setup to be done, so Mikrotik isn't bad for that.
Of course, if I could get my hands on a Cisco managed gigabit switch I'd use that instead behind my Linux router, but I'm not shitting money yet.
My home equipment works great and has been doing so unprotected for a couple of years now...
I don't use any type of protection on my two Netgear WNR 3500L's and have been running them nonstop for at least 2 years. I do agree with you as far as the clean power is concerned; I am just wondering what the OP does to go thru 1 consumer grade router per year ?
Right, you should be running on Linux, obviously. Anyone who doubts the security of Linux should just look at Android, and how secure and untouched by malware it is... oh wait. Umm... maybe OpenBSD? I mean, it's gotta be secure, cause Theo says so. So do the other 3 people who use it.
Maybe it's actually more important to just run a modern OS behind a good firewall, use safe computing practices (don't blindly click on stupid stuff from computers or networks with sensitive information), and keep everything well-patched. That will remove > 98% of risk. A properly locked down and patched Windows machine is no less secure than a properly locked down and patched Linux, Apple, BSD, or other machine.
ummm... no.
Just woke up, checked my Gmail account, got mail, rolling over to go back to sleep....
I don't care. Google has all of my information and NOTHING has come of that. Noone is knocking on my door trying to sell me anything. Noone is sending me spam ( outside of the normal amount that ALL gets routed to my spam folder ). Noone seems to actively bug me about ANYTHING. I feel safe, and that's my opinion and experience.
have your ass beat if you own or use anything made by Apple.... Hah hah, just joking.....maybe !!!
That's it.
These scientists call it a "dwarf planet" yet, it has several moons orbiting around it.... I think it is time to move Pluto, give it back the rank of FULL PLANET....
And Google will get access to the same tech, if they don't already.... Nothing to see here, move along...