Are you serious? There is no frigging way we could tolerate such lousy working conditions. None of us would settle for anything less than 46-inch LCD monitors, or in a pinch if asked nicely and our inconvenience offset by compensation, possibly 42" displays.
There is nothing wrong with making a router's installation modular; if you don't need VPN, why install it? If you don't care for bandwidth usage tracking, why install it? If alll you want is a WAP, not a router/firewall, why install port forwarding, intrusion detection, and so forth? People here complain about bloat all the time, and then complain when you have to actually choose what you want installed. Which do you want; modularity, or "bloat?"
If you have to go "digging" for the documentation, the project developers and maintainers have failed. The documentation should be clearly laid out, and if it is a project intended for any level of user, not just experience sysadmins, the documentation needs to cover the most rudimentary basics as well as the more advanced stuff.
Furthermore, if you have to go and install tftp to push a firmware update via a router's recovery mode, you need to provide the utilities to do so, and wrap them with a basic GUI so your small office secretary/janitor/"system administrator" can manage to set it up. Until then, OpenWRT, DD-WRT and various other forks are condemned to be available only to sysadmin types who want a more advanced router for home, with only one IP address.
Oh, and another thing; multihoming. If you need multiple IPs, there is NO way to set it up in the GUI. You need to go to the shell prompt to do that, and create your forwarding rules in iptables. If you need to do that, you may as well set up a full-blown PC and forget about WRT altogether.
RTFM is a rally cry shouted by crunchy non-showering geeks who have aspergers, and expect users to download the source and read cryptic, sarcastic code comments, and refer to such lousy code comments as "documentation." Almost invariably any time developers say "RTFM, n00b!" on a mailing list, support forum, etc. there is no documentation, or at best, the documentation is written for someone who already knows the basics of the product in question and is too advanced for new users (be those users novices or power users) to follow.
They are the reason Open Source has taken so long to gain any kind of critical mass.
What if you need multiple IP support? What if you want a STABLE router? DD-WRT claims to replace $500+ business-class routers, where in reality they're good only at replacing ~$150 hasbro-class small business routers. Until they were discontinued, SnapGear (now a McAfee brand - they bought them to kill it) were the best choice for under $1,000. Multihoming, named address and service definitions, easy management, SNMP, and unlike dd-wrt they are STABLE.
For a replacement I'm going to be testing M0n0wall, but I don't expect m0n0wall to be anywhere near as polished as SnapGear. DD-WRT is nice for home use but for business use it falls way short and isn't stable enough to depend on - mostly because it's running on Hasbro-quality hardware.
and the personal computer in the background of that banner maxed out at 320x200, but in sixteen-color mode (iirc four colors per character block) was only 160x200.
If they don't want people repurposing the hardware they sell, they should quit selling them and offer leases instead. Then, they can do what they want without consequence. Right now Sony is just furthering their long string of evil, illegal deeds.
. . . and I'll scold them each time and ask them why they're too lazy to look at the watermark, the security ribbon, the color-shifting ink, the microprint, and eighteen gadzillion other security measures. Why deface the currency when by doing so you are breaking the law by covering up the anti-counterfeiting measures with ink, leading to the currency being unusable?
As usual, the voids working registers at discount stores and fast food "restaurants" will refuse the new "counterfeit" bills because they don't follow the news and the months of notice leading up to the release of redesigned currency.
1. They release a "widget" for my Samsung televisions and blu-ray player 2. They release an iPhone client 3. The shows and movies are ad-free. Don't charge me AND expect me to watch ads!
Note; for #1, in the case where users (potential customers) have $OTHER_BRAND television or blu-ray player, substitute $OTHER_BRAND in place of Samsung, while ignoring their stupidity of choosing a non-Samsung television. Yes, I will be mocking them along with you.;)
How many Afghans owned tanks when they held their own against the Soviet Union for how many years, and now against the USA for how long? Fierce determination and knowing the local area goes a long way toward fending off an attacking force.
a lord: "Your majesty, the peasants are revolting." king: "Yes, they certainly are."
Seriously though, the British cannot revolt against the government, considering they have no right to bear arms as we have here. All too often, people fall for registering and even giving up arms "for the children" or "for safety," having not thought about their grammar-school history lessons regarding past administrations and kingdoms, where they willingly (or sometimes begrudgingly but nevertheless didn't refuse) turned in their firearms under the guise of "security" but invariably eventually led to tyranny.
Littering hurts everybody who lives in the environment (in other words, just everybody).
Kicking a stuck door to open it and getting charged with a felony for it helps taxpayers by showing that their tax dollars are going to waste on administration and personal grudges rather than maintaining infrastructure - in this case failing to maintain the door, and wasting the time of the police officer who took the complaint, the court clerks who have to process it and finally the magistrate's or judge's time.
I hope the young woman turns around and sues based on defamation of character, harassment, hostile workplace, not to mention heavy punitive damages well into seven figures for undue stress and suffering, and that the town council takes those fines out of the asshole administrator's budget rather than assraping the taxpayers. Why? Town officials need to be taught a lesson and learn that simply being on the doll is not carte blanche for harassing citizens.
Hmm, I think you should have picked something better than a Commodore VIC-20 to plan your tasks on. I don't see how those tasks could possibly be executed in a multithteaded manner!;)
If they have any doubt, they should just spin off MySQL, Java, and OpenSolaris. I'm sure no one here would object if IBM, RedHat, or Novell were to scoop them up!
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*sigh*
Interoperability clause. Basis: interoperability with a PC which does not have an active network connection.
Legal, even under the draconian DMCA.
ISP bandwidth caps and the lack of network neutrality will prevent that from being successful.
Are you serious? There is no frigging way we could tolerate such lousy working conditions. None of us would settle for anything less than 46-inch LCD monitors, or in a pinch if asked nicely and our inconvenience offset by compensation, possibly 42" displays.
40" LCD screens. Feh. I spit on your proposal.
There is nothing wrong with making a router's installation modular; if you don't need VPN, why install it? If you don't care for bandwidth usage tracking, why install it? If alll you want is a WAP, not a router/firewall, why install port forwarding, intrusion detection, and so forth? People here complain about bloat all the time, and then complain when you have to actually choose what you want installed. Which do you want; modularity, or "bloat?"
If you have to go "digging" for the documentation, the project developers and maintainers have failed. The documentation should be clearly laid out, and if it is a project intended for any level of user, not just experience sysadmins, the documentation needs to cover the most rudimentary basics as well as the more advanced stuff.
Furthermore, if you have to go and install tftp to push a firmware update via a router's recovery mode, you need to provide the utilities to do so, and wrap them with a basic GUI so your small office secretary/janitor/"system administrator" can manage to set it up. Until then, OpenWRT, DD-WRT and various other forks are condemned to be available only to sysadmin types who want a more advanced router for home, with only one IP address.
Oh, and another thing; multihoming. If you need multiple IPs, there is NO way to set it up in the GUI. You need to go to the shell prompt to do that, and create your forwarding rules in iptables. If you need to do that, you may as well set up a full-blown PC and forget about WRT altogether.
RTFM is a rally cry shouted by crunchy non-showering geeks who have aspergers, and expect users to download the source and read cryptic, sarcastic code comments, and refer to such lousy code comments as "documentation." Almost invariably any time developers say "RTFM, n00b!" on a mailing list, support forum, etc. there is no documentation, or at best, the documentation is written for someone who already knows the basics of the product in question and is too advanced for new users (be those users novices or power users) to follow.
They are the reason Open Source has taken so long to gain any kind of critical mass.
Why no warranty? I would call Buffalo anyhow, since they actively support DD-WRT financially and make sure their routers are fully compatible.
What if you need multiple IP support? What if you want a STABLE router? DD-WRT claims to replace $500+ business-class routers, where in reality they're good only at replacing ~$150 hasbro-class small business routers. Until they were discontinued, SnapGear (now a McAfee brand - they bought them to kill it) were the best choice for under $1,000. Multihoming, named address and service definitions, easy management, SNMP, and unlike dd-wrt they are STABLE.
For a replacement I'm going to be testing M0n0wall, but I don't expect m0n0wall to be anywhere near as polished as SnapGear. DD-WRT is nice for home use but for business use it falls way short and isn't stable enough to depend on - mostly because it's running on Hasbro-quality hardware.
What I want to know is this: how many of these spherical maps will it take to completely fill a volkswagon bug?
/s/owners/lessees/
No, because I watch Futurama on DVD.
and the personal computer in the background of that banner maxed out at 320x200, but in sixteen-color mode (iirc four colors per character block) was only 160x200.
Except, you've opened it and the store/distributor/etc. will not accept a return on an open "copyrighted" product
How many levels deep does it take to break slashdot's interface?
If they don't want people repurposing the hardware they sell, they should quit selling them and offer leases instead. Then, they can do what they want without consequence. Right now Sony is just furthering their long string of evil, illegal deeds.
What makes you ask that?
. . . and I'll scold them each time and ask them why they're too lazy to look at the watermark, the security ribbon, the color-shifting ink, the microprint, and eighteen gadzillion other security measures. Why deface the currency when by doing so you are breaking the law by covering up the anti-counterfeiting measures with ink, leading to the currency being unusable?
As usual, the voids working registers at discount stores and fast food "restaurants" will refuse the new "counterfeit" bills because they don't follow the news and the months of notice leading up to the release of redesigned currency.
1. They release a "widget" for my Samsung televisions and blu-ray player
2. They release an iPhone client
3. The shows and movies are ad-free. Don't charge me AND expect me to watch ads!
Note; for #1, in the case where users (potential customers) have $OTHER_BRAND television or blu-ray player, substitute $OTHER_BRAND in place of Samsung, while ignoring their stupidity of choosing a non-Samsung television. Yes, I will be mocking them along with you. ;)
How many Afghans owned tanks when they held their own against the Soviet Union for how many years, and now against the USA for how long? Fierce determination and knowing the local area goes a long way toward fending off an attacking force.
a lord: "Your majesty, the peasants are revolting."
king: "Yes, they certainly are."
Seriously though, the British cannot revolt against the government, considering they have no right to bear arms as we have here. All too often, people fall for registering and even giving up arms "for the children" or "for safety," having not thought about their grammar-school history lessons regarding past administrations and kingdoms, where they willingly (or sometimes begrudgingly but nevertheless didn't refuse) turned in their firearms under the guise of "security" but invariably eventually led to tyranny.
I don't know about you, but I can get into a sealed envelope in under a second. That hardly seems secure to me.
Littering hurts everybody who lives in the environment (in other words, just everybody).
Kicking a stuck door to open it and getting charged with a felony for it helps taxpayers by showing that their tax dollars are going to waste on administration and personal grudges rather than maintaining infrastructure - in this case failing to maintain the door, and wasting the time of the police officer who took the complaint, the court clerks who have to process it and finally the magistrate's or judge's time.
I hope the young woman turns around and sues based on defamation of character, harassment, hostile workplace, not to mention heavy punitive damages well into seven figures for undue stress and suffering, and that the town council takes those fines out of the asshole administrator's budget rather than assraping the taxpayers. Why? Town officials need to be taught a lesson and learn that simply being on the doll is not carte blanche for harassing citizens.
Hmm, I think you should have picked something better than a Commodore VIC-20 to plan your tasks on. I don't see how those tasks could possibly be executed in a multithteaded manner! ;)
If they have any doubt, they should just spin off MySQL, Java, and OpenSolaris. I'm sure no one here would object if IBM, RedHat, or Novell were to scoop them up!