I have built my own router in the past, and I ran pfSense.
I used a Jetway dual gig-nic VIA-based board. I can't recall the exact model. This was back in 2007/2008 or so.
I had one NIC for the WAN, the other for the LAN where I used an 8-port gigabit switch.
It worked well. At the time driver support for wireless cards (for a wireless accesspoint) was basically non-existant so that was one limitation. When we started getting wireless devices in our home (blackberries at the time) we decided we should upgrade the network.
Another problem is power consumption. The whole setup used aroud 100W.
There are the Alix boards with multiple NICs built in, still x86 based and easy to procure that use way less power these days. If I had to do it again, this is the route I would go.
The new higher end routers these days do offer a great value. Just do your research as to which can be flashed to Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT/etc. and at least you have some control over them.
I certainly did find plenty of 15-inch laptops without the numeric keypad.
I actually almost bought an Asus Zenbook. But it lacked the numeric keypad and did not have a backlit keyboard. At least, none of the models I could find had it.
Some people like the numeric keypad, some people don't. I'm primarily a desktop user, and found myself annoyed consistently whenever I was on my laptop (traveling, ususally) and the numeric keypad was not present, so I made a point to hunt down a new laptop that met all of my criteria. I finally found out and happened to catch it on sale during Black Friday, so I bought it. $899 CAD was certainly worth it to me.
I just bought an HP Envy x360 15-series this past week.
Basic specs: Intel 7th Gen i5-7200u 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB NVMe SSD drive 15 inch 1920x1080 screen Backlit Keyboard with number pad No CD drive Nice and light and thin.
I run Funtoo Linux on it. Install was the same as usual, except I forgot to include the NVMe drivers when I built the kernel, so I had to load up System Rescue CD, chroot in and build it again.
I have no use for the touch screen, or the fact I can fold it in half, it just met all of my requirements (no cd drive, backlit keyboard, 15-inch 1080p screen). Could certainly use more RAM, but that SSD certainly helps.
Many of the creators of popular shows sign exclusive multi-year contracts to specific networks in specific geographical regions, thus shutting Netflix out from even trying in many regions.
It's the major cable network owners that see Netflix as the enemy, and have even deeper pockets to keep content away from Netflix by buying up the rights of popular shows in the regions they operate.
Netflix Original content is purchased from the creators in a similar manner. They sign exclusive contracts with Netflix to become a "Netflix Original" show. But, as stated, the big cable networks have deeper pockets and can afford to buy the rights to many more shows.
The problem is signing up with all of these payment providers is a hassle to small businesses.
I build websites for a living. Some even ecommerce. I'm my own sites I only accept payments via Credit Card (through Stripe), because it's mostly universal by supporting most of the credit card providers out there, and Stripes custom integration while still being PCI-DSS compliant is very straight forward.
They've recently rolled out support for Apple Pay, but the documentation was confusing if you use a custom integration, so I simply haven't done that yet.
Paypal can be useful, and it's on my list of things to do. I use it myself sometimes, so I should make it available to those who prefer it.
Other than that, I'm not going to seek out a dozen other services that take time and money to set up and integrate because it's too hard to type in credit card details.
1) having to scroll past the products to get to the filters. There needs to be a small button at the top of the product list to display the filters immediately.
2) trying to get to your account, or tracking page requires scrolling to the very bottom of the page. If you're on the home page, it autoloads more content as scroll and it can get frustrating.
Not sure if all of their regional sites are exactly the same, but this is my experience with the Canadian mobile site.
Do you understand the amount of work it would be to trace and catalog EVERY company on the internet that offers VPN services? What about third party resellers? What about companies who's primary products are not VPN services? Are all of their customers suddenly lumped into the same pile as the VPS users?
Seriously, its a really complex mess that would be difficult to track. Using a Credit Card is fine, and if you would like to be a little more cautious, choose a smaller, less known provider. They'll appreciate your business more, and possibly handle your personal information a little better than the bigger guys.
In my house we hang mostly everything. Only stuff we do not hang is underwear, socks, and pajamas.
For my kids I installed a second hanger bar in their closets, so they get twice the hanging space in one closet. Shirts on top, pants on the bottom, dresses wherever they prefer.
No point wasting time folding, stuffing them in drawers, and getting all ruffled up anyway the next time they go digging for something. Hanging makes it easier to find what you're looking for at a glance.
I suspect this robot is aimed at commercial applications.
Dyn grew by buying up small time DNS providers... a lot of them!
If I recall correctly, Slashdot had a few discussions about how large they were getting buying out other providers, and how bad it was to place so much trust in a single company.
I am a customer of Softlayer, and their free (for customers) Anycast DNS service is absolutely fantastic. I piggyback my clients onto their DNS (~100 domains including my own) and we've never seen an issue.
Another company I've had experience with is ClouDNS.net. I moved to softlayer simply because they offered Anycast and it was free with a server I'm renting from them. ClouDND.net now offers Anycast. I'm planning to use them as a secondary DNS in conjunction with Softlayer, because, well, redundancy.
I buy phone parts (screens, batteries, etc) from AliExpress on a regular basis.
Many sellers offer an express shipping option to have it here in 4-5 business days. In many cases it's still cheaper to get what I need from AliExpress even with paying extra for express shipping.
Most recently I bought 2 replacement screen/lcd/digitizer for my phone. Cost $70 with shipping and was here in a week. For the record I have a Motorola X Play (not available in the US).
Also, you can post your real estate listings here since you ARE actually going to man up (ooh wait.. too cisgendered a term there) and move to Canada right?
Immigrating to Canada is just as complicated and stringent as trying to move to the US. What makes you think you can just "move to Canada". It's not as easy as you think. I suspect that is what holds many Americans back.
The law only states the ISP must forward the notices. The ISP are not to hand over customer details or any personal information unless an actual lawsuit is filed and the information is subpoenaed.
Many Canadians do not understand they have zero obligation to respond, and that by responding is how they get your contact information. All they have is a timestamp and an IP address, and that's all they'll ever have if you never respond.
The Federal Government already tightened up the rules once about what the copyright holders can send in their notices. It seems it needs to be looked into again.
I signed up simply for being able to order basically anything I need and get it quick. No "standard" shipping. Everything comes in 2 days or less. That I find valuable, others may not. Our shipping options in this Country suck for the most part.
I used to deal pretty extensively with NCIX.com for computer parts and peripherals, and would always pay extra per order for 2 day delivery. With Amazon, I can usually find what I need via Prime Eligible products, and have it shipped at all around lower cost, even if I factor in the yearly fee.
Canada had a $2 bill up until we came out with the $2 coin (known as the "twoonie"). My mother has a stash of crisp $2 bills she put away in the early 90's. Might be worth something in 100 years.
I've noticed even in the non-apple world, laptops capable of handling 64GB of RAM are pretty rare.
My desktop has 32GB. Most days I don't need it, but I certainly enjoy having it when I/do/ need it. I run Funtoo Linux, highly optimized, and in my quiet days I usually stay in under 1GB. The second I boot up Windows in a VM that quickly jumps to over 8GB, then if I fire up Photoshop or Illustrator, that jumps over 10GB easily. I don't do much for graphics these days, but its certainly nice to be able to when I need.
I have my/tmp directory mapped to a tmpfs and portage (the gentoo/funtoo package manager) to do its compiling in there to keep my SSD from degrading faster.
Slashdot Mirror
I have built my own router in the past, and I ran pfSense.
I used a Jetway dual gig-nic VIA-based board. I can't recall the exact model. This was back in 2007/2008 or so.
I had one NIC for the WAN, the other for the LAN where I used an 8-port gigabit switch.
It worked well. At the time driver support for wireless cards (for a wireless accesspoint) was basically non-existant so that was one limitation. When we started getting wireless devices in our home (blackberries at the time) we decided we should upgrade the network.
Another problem is power consumption. The whole setup used aroud 100W.
There are the Alix boards with multiple NICs built in, still x86 based and easy to procure that use way less power these days. If I had to do it again, this is the route I would go.
The new higher end routers these days do offer a great value. Just do your research as to which can be flashed to Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT/etc. and at least you have some control over them.
Get your ISP to put your modem/gateway into bridge mode, and put your own router between your equipment and their equipment.
I certainly did find plenty of 15-inch laptops without the numeric keypad.
I actually almost bought an Asus Zenbook. But it lacked the numeric keypad and did not have a backlit keyboard. At least, none of the models I could find had it.
Some people like the numeric keypad, some people don't. I'm primarily a desktop user, and found myself annoyed consistently whenever I was on my laptop (traveling, ususally) and the numeric keypad was not present, so I made a point to hunt down a new laptop that met all of my criteria. I finally found out and happened to catch it on sale during Black Friday, so I bought it. $899 CAD was certainly worth it to me.
I just bought an HP Envy x360 15-series this past week.
Basic specs:
Intel 7th Gen i5-7200u
8GB DDR4 RAM
256GB NVMe SSD drive
15 inch 1920x1080 screen
Backlit Keyboard with number pad
No CD drive
Nice and light and thin.
I run Funtoo Linux on it. Install was the same as usual, except I forgot to include the NVMe drivers when I built the kernel, so I had to load up System Rescue CD, chroot in and build it again.
I have no use for the touch screen, or the fact I can fold it in half, it just met all of my requirements (no cd drive, backlit keyboard, 15-inch 1080p screen). Could certainly use more RAM, but that SSD certainly helps.
It goes even deeper than that.
Many of the creators of popular shows sign exclusive multi-year contracts to specific networks in specific geographical regions, thus shutting Netflix out from even trying in many regions.
It's the major cable network owners that see Netflix as the enemy, and have even deeper pockets to keep content away from Netflix by buying up the rights of popular shows in the regions they operate.
Netflix Original content is purchased from the creators in a similar manner. They sign exclusive contracts with Netflix to become a "Netflix Original" show. But, as stated, the big cable networks have deeper pockets and can afford to buy the rights to many more shows.
This is probably an even better idea than having it in the hands of one specific place. Mass replication is the best route.
The problem is signing up with all of these payment providers is a hassle to small businesses.
I build websites for a living. Some even ecommerce. I'm my own sites I only accept payments via Credit Card (through Stripe), because it's mostly universal by supporting most of the credit card providers out there, and Stripes custom integration while still being PCI-DSS compliant is very straight forward.
They've recently rolled out support for Apple Pay, but the documentation was confusing if you use a custom integration, so I simply haven't done that yet.
Paypal can be useful, and it's on my list of things to do. I use it myself sometimes, so I should make it available to those who prefer it.
Other than that, I'm not going to seek out a dozen other services that take time and money to set up and integrate because it's too hard to type in credit card details.
Amazon still has some faults.
1) having to scroll past the products to get to the filters. There needs to be a small button at the top of the product list to display the filters immediately.
2) trying to get to your account, or tracking page requires scrolling to the very bottom of the page. If you're on the home page, it autoloads more content as scroll and it can get frustrating.
Not sure if all of their regional sites are exactly the same, but this is my experience with the Canadian mobile site.
Sounds like a waste of time, to be honest.
The OS could use a lot more effort put into various places, instead of all of this effort on making Windows "beautiful".
Just my opinion.
How will they know what you're spending money on?
Do you understand the amount of work it would be to trace and catalog EVERY company on the internet that offers VPN services? What about third party resellers? What about companies who's primary products are not VPN services? Are all of their customers suddenly lumped into the same pile as the VPS users?
Seriously, its a really complex mess that would be difficult to track. Using a Credit Card is fine, and if you would like to be a little more cautious, choose a smaller, less known provider. They'll appreciate your business more, and possibly handle your personal information a little better than the bigger guys.
And on mobile there is no preview at all, which is what I usually use to browse and comment on Slashdot.
In my house we hang mostly everything. Only stuff we do not hang is underwear, socks, and pajamas.
For my kids I installed a second hanger bar in their closets, so they get twice the hanging space in one closet. Shirts on top, pants on the bottom, dresses wherever they prefer.
No point wasting time folding, stuffing them in drawers, and getting all ruffled up anyway the next time they go digging for something. Hanging makes it easier to find what you're looking for at a glance.
I suspect this robot is aimed at commercial applications.
Dyn grew by buying up small time DNS providers... a lot of them!
If I recall correctly, Slashdot had a few discussions about how large they were getting buying out other providers, and how bad it was to place so much trust in a single company.
s/ClouDND.net/ClouDNS.net/g
How many domains?
I am a customer of Softlayer, and their free (for customers) Anycast DNS service is absolutely fantastic. I piggyback my clients onto their DNS (~100 domains including my own) and we've never seen an issue.
Another company I've had experience with is ClouDNS.net. I moved to softlayer simply because they offered Anycast and it was free with a server I'm renting from them. ClouDND.net now offers Anycast. I'm planning to use them as a secondary DNS in conjunction with Softlayer, because, well, redundancy.
I buy phone parts (screens, batteries, etc) from AliExpress on a regular basis.
Many sellers offer an express shipping option to have it here in 4-5 business days. In many cases it's still cheaper to get what I need from AliExpress even with paying extra for express shipping.
Most recently I bought 2 replacement screen/lcd/digitizer for my phone. Cost $70 with shipping and was here in a week. For the record I have a Motorola X Play (not available in the US).
Also, you can post your real estate listings here since you ARE actually going to man up (ooh wait.. too cisgendered a term there) and move to Canada right?
Immigrating to Canada is just as complicated and stringent as trying to move to the US. What makes you think you can just "move to Canada". It's not as easy as you think. I suspect that is what holds many Americans back.
Oh look! I've spot an Ontarian in the wild.
Yes. And that's why they also include a vinyl/fabric shade that you can slide to cover the sun from coming in if you would like.
At least, that's how my Kia Sorento is. Full glass roof with separate shades for the front and the back sets of seats.
While I agree, and do wish we had Prime Video here, it doesn't bother me. I place value in the expedited shipping and cam justify the yearly cost.
Others may not. Everyone's situation is different.
The law only states the ISP must forward the notices. The ISP are not to hand over customer details or any personal information unless an actual lawsuit is filed and the information is subpoenaed.
Many Canadians do not understand they have zero obligation to respond, and that by responding is how they get your contact information. All they have is a timestamp and an IP address, and that's all they'll ever have if you never respond.
The Federal Government already tightened up the rules once about what the copyright holders can send in their notices. It seems it needs to be looked into again.
I am Canadian and am a Prime Subscriber.
I signed up simply for being able to order basically anything I need and get it quick. No "standard" shipping. Everything comes in 2 days or less. That I find valuable, others may not. Our shipping options in this Country suck for the most part.
I used to deal pretty extensively with NCIX.com for computer parts and peripherals, and would always pay extra per order for 2 day delivery. With Amazon, I can usually find what I need via Prime Eligible products, and have it shipped at all around lower cost, even if I factor in the yearly fee.
Canada had a $2 bill up until we came out with the $2 coin (known as the "twoonie"). My mother has a stash of crisp $2 bills she put away in the early 90's. Might be worth something in 100 years.
I meant to say laptops capable of handling 32GB are rare, not 64GB.
I've noticed even in the non-apple world, laptops capable of handling 64GB of RAM are pretty rare.
My desktop has 32GB. Most days I don't need it, but I certainly enjoy having it when I /do/ need it. I run Funtoo Linux, highly optimized, and in my quiet days I usually stay in under 1GB. The second I boot up Windows in a VM that quickly jumps to over 8GB, then if I fire up Photoshop or Illustrator, that jumps over 10GB easily. I don't do much for graphics these days, but its certainly nice to be able to when I need.
I have my /tmp directory mapped to a tmpfs and portage (the gentoo/funtoo package manager) to do its compiling in there to keep my SSD from degrading faster.