I was the fourth person in Boca Raton to get ADSL through bellsouth.net. The service call was on-time as promised and installation was a breeze (Win9x only - I had to setup the Linux stuff myself). Bandwidth was sweet (140KB/s downstream from a good source) and reliability was pretty good -- for the first few months.
Then they started having some issues and didn't seem to have a clue what was wrong. The technical "support" helpdesk was useless, if you got through. I waited over an hour on hold once and so did a friend of mine. And it was expensive. I paid $300 for the initial install and $60 per month.
After moving, I have cable modem and am totally happy with it. Bandwidth is not quite as high on average (50-90 KB/s), but I have seen over 200KB/s once. They just upgraded the infrastructure with Cisco equipment and reliability is excellent after the 6 weeks or so of yo-yo-like downtime. It is also less expensive.
Bottom line, the DSL provider had little experience and when real problems occurred they were in over their heads. The cable company had problems with their upgrade and brought in techs from Cisco to help. I'll put up with a lot to have high-speed access, but I won't use Bellsouth after so many problems.
I did not say hardware manufacturers and software manufacturers are the same. IBM's refusal to support the T20 in that case is an analogous situation.
Windows is not a shitty OS because of lack of accountability. Windows is a shitty OS because it is rushed into release and then SP'd to death. Windows is a shitty OS because it is written to make as many user decisions as possible, often frustrating those who actually know what they want to do but have more difficulty doing it because the OS tries to do it for them.
I agree that Microsoft needs to support its product, but it gets around it by letting OEM's add their own banner page and then claiming that the OEM has "altered the code" and users must seek help from those manufacturers before Microsoft will lift a finger.
I can actually understand why Microsoft fails to support reimaged PC's. I recently had this problem with IBM when one of their new T20's would not stay "awake" despite the fact that all hibernation features were disabled. IBM would not support the laptop because the original OS was not installed (I had wiped out 98 and installed NT4 SP4 with all of IBM's current drivers). This makes sense because the manufacturer, or OS developer, cannot possibly troubleshoot the gazillion potential configurations that Joe Random tech makes to suit his/her taste.
This is not to say that I think much of Microsoft support. Frankly, it sucks. Have you searched their knowledge base lately? I don't even bother anymore.
Holy bloody cow. I read the statute and you are quite right. Apparently, if I try to take your property in Texas and am hell-bent on doing so, you may legally kill me to prevent it. Talk about "law of the land!"
In Florida, this is NOT allowed:
776.012 Use of force in defense of person.--A person is justified in the use of
force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against such other's imminent use of unlawful force. However, the person is justified in the use of deadly force only if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.
Screw 'em. If I had my way, I'd be allowed to shoot anyone I caught breaking into my cable modem connected PC at home. The ones banging on my firewall at work would be another story altogether; I'd keep them alive in extreme pain for a long time.
I really hope you are kidding. First of all, you are not allowed to use deadly force to protect your property. You are allowed to use deadly force to protect your life. Bur you want to use deadly force to protect your *data*?
I agree that it is absurd to deny that recording mp3's is recording audio. I would like to add that the brief's claim that a computer is not designed or marketed for the primary purpose of... making a digital audio copied recording for private use holds true for some people, but not all.
Some people buy computers to practice their profession (as most of/. probably does). Some people buy them to play games. And some people buy them to make music. I have a friend at work who just asked me to advise him on purchasing a computer so he could digitally produce music tracks as a side business. He plans to pay royalties for using clips of artist's songs and then add background effects, etc. to make background music for bodybuilding shows. For this guy, a computer is mainly a digital audio recording device. So there:P
No doubt - 2.4 test4 gave me problems (wouldn't make bzImage) but 2.4 test7 runs just peachy. Lots of great stuff in there too. I just wish DRI support for my Matrox G400 was in there. It is "grayed out" so it will be there soon, but not as yet...
Bristol, based in Danbury, Conn., makes software that helps developers rewrite Windows programs for the rival Unix software. The company was left weakened by the dispute with Microsoft and was forced to cancel an initial public offering of its stock.
The lengthening of attention span and calming effect of playing the game persists long after the treatment is finished
They obviously aren't talking about Quake III, which leaves me as wired as a couple of 20 oz. Mountain Dews. In the words of Arlo Guthrie, "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
I wonder if ADD afflicted children are more susceptible to the siezures sometimes caused by video games?
This is getting away from the original point, but is entertaining so...
"unrestricted liberty" simply must include definition 1: the quality or state of being free
Explain how the power to do as one pleases and freedom from restraint are "not compatible" with Libertarianism (in essay form, no excuses for late work:)
Thanks for that clarification; I know nada about Libertarians, just going by the M-W definition:
Main Entry: libertarian
Pronunciation: "li-b&r-'ter-E-&n
Function: noun
Date: 1789
1 : an advocate of the doctrine of free will
2 a : a person who upholds the principles of absolute and unrestricted liberty especially of thought and action b capitalized : a member of a
political party advocating libertarian principles - libertarian adjective - libertarianism/-E-&-"ni-z&m/ noun
Exacly right. We have no control over the length of songs downloaded as it is. You have to check the length of songs and compare bit rate to see that you are not getting an incomplete file.
I like another poster's suggestion that the RIAA populate the files and they should guarantee the whole song.
Try NetXray or Sniffer Pro from Network Associates International. They are almost the same and are available for d/l for filling out registration info (last I checked). www.nai.com
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Then they started having some issues and didn't seem to have a clue what was wrong. The technical "support" helpdesk was useless, if you got through. I waited over an hour on hold once and so did a friend of mine. And it was expensive. I paid $300 for the initial install and $60 per month.
After moving, I have cable modem and am totally happy with it. Bandwidth is not quite as high on average (50-90 KB/s), but I have seen over 200KB/s once. They just upgraded the infrastructure with Cisco equipment and reliability is excellent after the 6 weeks or so of yo-yo-like downtime. It is also less expensive.
Bottom line, the DSL provider had little experience and when real problems occurred they were in over their heads. The cable company had problems with their upgrade and brought in techs from Cisco to help. I'll put up with a lot to have high-speed access, but I won't use Bellsouth after so many problems.
Oh, and their billing - don't get me started ...
Windows is not a shitty OS because of lack of accountability. Windows is a shitty OS because it is rushed into release and then SP'd to death. Windows is a shitty OS because it is written to make as many user decisions as possible, often frustrating those who actually know what they want to do but have more difficulty doing it because the OS tries to do it for them.
I agree that Microsoft needs to support its product, but it gets around it by letting OEM's add their own banner page and then claiming that the OEM has "altered the code" and users must seek help from those manufacturers before Microsoft will lift a finger.
This is not to say that I think much of Microsoft support. Frankly, it sucks. Have you searched their knowledge base lately? I don't even bother anymore.
In Florida, this is NOT allowed:
I really hope you are kidding. First of all, you are not allowed to use deadly force to protect your property. You are allowed to use deadly force to protect your life. Bur you want to use deadly force to protect your *data*?
Build a firewall and take a stresstab.
Some people buy computers to practice their profession (as most of /. probably does). Some people buy them to play games. And some people buy them to make music. I have a friend at work who just asked me to advise him on purchasing a computer so he could digitally produce music tracks as a side business. He plans to pay royalties for using clips of artist's songs and then add background effects, etc. to make background music for bodybuilding shows. For this guy, a computer is mainly a digital audio recording device. So there :P
Here is how
Yeah, this is really common. As a friend of mine once said, "Everyone thinks they are a computer God, when in reality, only I am."
;)
Read /Documentation/Changes. I had to upgrade modutils and rename conf.modules to modules.conf.
No doubt - 2.4 test4 gave me problems (wouldn't make bzImage) but 2.4 test7 runs just peachy. Lots of great stuff in there too. I just wish DRI support for my Matrox G400 was in there. It is "grayed out" so it will be there soon, but not as yet...
The linux kernel can be customized to optimize the OS for your particular hardware/needs.
Oh yeah - there is a big cost difference too.
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Requested Information
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hobbes.resnet.tamu.edu (80)
reason: connect: Connection refused
The $1 Million was for punitive damages. That is, the big award was to punish M$ although the original judgment was for $1.
$1 Million ought to get the ball rolling again ...
and thank God for that, too -- I can't stand HP print software that displays an animated sheet of paper coming out of the printer.
give me a plain print driver: lean and functional, that is enough
Reasons people skip /. articles and go right for the comments:
to get furst
to be the first to pay homage to NP
to look like an idiot in front of one's peers
They obviously aren't talking about Quake III, which leaves me as wired as a couple of 20 oz. Mountain Dews. In the words of Arlo Guthrie, "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
I wonder if ADD afflicted children are more susceptible to the siezures sometimes caused by video games?
My favorite part: any man may hunt, enslave, kill, and/or eat them with impunity -- I prefer a side salad to impunity, but to each their own ...
btw: Fat chicks. Party Hats ....!???
"unrestricted liberty" simply must include definition 1: the quality or state of being free
Explain how the power to do as one pleases and freedom from restraint are "not compatible" with Libertarianism (in essay form, no excuses for late work :)
If libertarians believe in unrestricted liberty, then no, they would not support criminalization of anything, ideologically.
Features!
I like another poster's suggestion that the RIAA populate the files and they should guarantee the whole song.
I wish I could split the network into VLANs, but I don't have the equipment or authority. Alas ...
Try NetXray or Sniffer Pro from Network Associates International. They are almost the same and are available for d/l for filling out registration info (last I checked). www.nai.com