My ThinkPad has a few points I complain about, but the placement of the USB ports isn't one of them. Assuming that I have two ports right next to one another is wrong, especially for devices like a PDA or Tablet.
Using two cables kind of defeats the purpose. The whole point of the exercise is to only have one cable, transferring data and power. I have a twin-cable too, but it is unusable on my laptop that only has one usb-port on the side and one on the back.
Bzzzt! Wrong. There's no guarantee that 2.5" drives do not require more than 0.5A @ 5V. I've got four drives in front of me, and three of them require 0.7A.
Not only that, but the 2.5" drives are more expensive, slower, and has way less storage capacity.
Port 25 can't require authentication, but if bots can't connect to port 25 because it's firewalled on their end, then we're making some progress.
WTF? So how the heck does my mailserver figure out if I'm authenticated or not? SMTP authentication can be done whether or not it's on port 25, 587 or any other port.
If anything, the software manufacturers should be held responsible. Stop blaming the users already, please.
Sure, the software manufacturers have some fault in this. But ignorance from the user doesn't help. I would propose the following to an ISP:
1. Firewall the infestation from the internet 2. Give the user access to the mailserver to *download mail only* 3. Redirect all browsing attempts to a local server that serves step-by-step guides and ready-packaged tools to remove any virus infections/malware. Put up a helpful "send us a mail if these instructions doesn't help" form and leave any phone no. clearly visible.
Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert are anachronistic old key combinations that are deprecated. Stop using them. The fact that they still work is mostly luck on your part.
Why? When did they become deprecated, and why? I haven't seen a newscast that announced that they are now unusable. Now, how do you propose I cut and paste in the terminal? ctrl-[cv]? That won't work, idiot.
I use gnome (never liked KDE) and I simply do not see the issues you see. I can copy and paste to and from Gnome-Terminal just fine. I have to right-click to get access to the standard clipboard, but that's expected. X11 copy and paste just works also. I can cut and paste between KDE and Gnome apps, as well as firefox and openoffice
Why should I have to use the FUCKING MOUSE TO COPY AND PASTE? That is seriously counter-productive.
Yes, for almost all compliant apps (almost all gnome apps these days), it indeed just works from what I and others can see. But do open a bug report on your issues (without the expletives). They can be fixed if they are reproduce-able. Gnome is far from perfect (still a steaming pile; it just smells better to me than KDE).
They can be fixed, no doubt about that since they work in KDE, OSX and Windows.
They do not take kindly to being unable to do the simplest task like locate the CD drive, format a disk, play some music etc. Often they become angry and frustrated and blame Linux as it is "hard to learn".
Locating the CD-drive usually isn't the hardest of tasks, considering recent distros put it on the desktop. They also pop up a window when a CD is inserted. Formatting a disk isn't among the problems I think a switcher should be worrying too much about. Now, playing some music? *That* is a pain. Getting non-free codecs requires going online and googling. When that no longer requires strong google-fu (because you get a lot of irrelevant hits otherwise), I'll say it's good. Or getting access to your shiny NAS, that includes all your music, from your PC? Not easy. I can't access my samba NAS from Kubuntu, and I haven't figured out why. I know how to mount it from the commandline, and how to mount if on boot through fstab. But that is NOT something one should assume is "easy" for a new user. I've been using Linux since pre 2.0 kernels (Good old ygg, and thanks to Patrick for making slack).
Look. It's simple. Windows is inflexible and has a bunch of problems. But it is easier to use on many fields, and it's way more coherent in the way you access eg. shares. Ever tried saving stuff from firefox to a share? thunderbird? Or what about opening mp3's from a share you have opened in nautilus? right-click, open with xmms.... xmms opens, but it can't find the file... How do you expect users to understand that that doesn't work? Browsing to a share in windows, right-clicking, and you can basically open a file in *ANY* application.
I agree with most of your points, but I have to call you out on point 2: Make you point out that learning Linux isn't as easy as windows [sic].
In my (considerable) experience, that's simply not true. You take someone who finds computers and mechanical things in general difficult and is confused by even the most basic computer tasks (my mother, for instance), and put her in front of a Windows machine and a Linux machine (I'll use Kubuntu in these examples, because it's my distro of choice). She doesn't find either of them easy, but doesn't find one to be harder than the other.
My wife primarily uses Windows because it's what she learned on and it's the only platform where Yahoo Messenger supports voice (that's the biggie for her) but on those occasions where she has to use Linux (our kids both have Linux machines, for example), she doesn't find it harder the Windows. They're both point/click.
My kids (not yet kindergarteners) both have Edubuntu on their computers and they don't think it's hard, even though they'd been using Windows on my wife's computer before that.
Now, if you'd made a comment on the learning curve/transitional difficulties for people who are used to Windows, I wouldn't complain. There's going to be a transitional period. I'm primarily a Linux user and recently got my first Mac. I still prefer Linux overall, but the Mac is wonderful in many ways. One of the big ones is one you touch on in point 4: coherent user experience. Things hang together on a Mac much better than on any other platform I've used. However, since I'm now talking about coherence, I don't think Windows has much (if any) advantage there compared to any one distro or desktop environment (the great diversity of those things is another matter, but since most people use only one distro everywhere, I don't think that's as important as some might think it). KDE, especially as implemented on Kubuntu, obviously borrows from the Mac approach, something which I hope only accelerates with KDE.
Overall, is Linux still a little harder than Windows? Yes, in some areas. In other areas, it's way ahead of Windows, and ahead of Mac in some areas too (installing software through things like Adept, Synaptic, or Linspire's Click-n-Run Warehouse is way ahead of either Win or Mac, for instance). Most administration tasks are now quite easy and pretty coherently handled in a GUI (speaking of Kubuntu and Edubuntu, at least). Installing Linux (depends on your distro, of course; but this is true of (K)ubuntu, at least) is a piece of cake. Easier than Windows, hands down. Installing XP and getting it up to date is really painful compared to installing Kubuntu.
I agree that it's way ahead of Windows in several areas. Installing packages is really, really nice. Administration is imho so-so. Take eg. now that I'm running Kubuntu, I can't access my other linux-boxes that runs samba. Granted, in windows, finding them takes forever but atleast it works. I still haven't figured out how to make Kubuntu find them.
There's one coherency issue that bugs me a LOT. In windows, almost *all* apps (There are a *very* few special cases), allows you to access a samba share using UNC paths. There's no way I can do that from eg. firefox without mounting the share in some convenient place first. Or thunderbird. Or xmms. Where's that coherency? Things like that "just work" on OSX and Windows.
Is Linux, then ready for the desktop? Depends which desktop. For the power user, it's been ready for years. Linux has been my primary (and exclusive, at home), desktop OS for nearly 10 years. For business desktops? Yes, in most cases. For Multimedia?, No, it's still behind there, but regular progress is being made. For a light-use home user who just needs web, email, and occasional light word processing? Yes, it's been ready for that for quite a while.
Oh, about Outlook: yes, Outlook is a decent PIM, except for the mail part. It's a heinous email client in most respects, worst I've ever used. Thunderbird is much better at m
One, have you ever sat two people who have never used a computer before (or never since "good" old DOS days anyway) and tried to teach them whichever MS Windows and GNOME & KDE on GNU/Linux? No? Why do you make such stupid comments then?
Honestly, the inconsistencies in Windows means that it is harder to learn to use then GNOME. Sure, for people who have only ever had experience with Windows, GNOME (and MacOS come to think of it, speaking from personal experience of helping people here) isn't that easy to use. But it is, once you are used to it.
Oh, and talking of copy and paste, the only problem I have (and it isn't that big a deal) is that you have to keep the window open that you want to copy from. I don't think you have to do that in KDE, but other things make GNOME more preferable for me.
No, I haven't set two "blank" users infront of linux. The mythological "blank" users are few and far between. Infact, I haven't met a single person (that I know of) that hasn't atleast *some* knowledge of how to use a computer. No matter how you see it, the windows desktop interface is more coherent that the gnome/kde ones. I'm sorry to say it, but there is no fucking consistency. I was an avid gnome user, until I tired of the fucking copy/paste game that gnome had me playing for hours a day. I switched to KDE, and it works much better. I still have to work around "issues". (I'm hoping that feisty fawn might actually make much of my grievances with linux go away).
I am a linux fan, and I won't stop being a linux fan. I run linux on two PC's and a large number of embedded devices. Linux is great for some purposes, and sucks for others. Being a good desktop is in the "others" category here.
I keep hearing that the clipboard is broken but I have yet to see evidence of that. First of all, Terminal is a special case, and always is. That's because the standard cut/copy/paste shortcuts cannot be used directly as they are control keys meant to be received by whatever program you are running in the terminal. So of course you have to right-click and select "copy." For heaven's sake Mac OS X does the same thing.
Then why does it work perfectly well under KDE's terminal? I understand that ctrl-c doesn't work well on a terminal, but shift-insert usually works. It works in KDE's terminal, it works in putty on windows, it sometime works in the gnome terminal. Why the fuck does it just "sometimes" work when I'm pasting stuff to the bash prompt?
Apparently you are confused by the traditional copy/paste X11 method, which still exists. But it is largely independent of the Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V shortcuts. I use X11-style copy and paste all the time and it works great. The thing you're mistakenly suggesting is that X11-style copy should automatically fill the Ctrl-X,Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V -style clipboard buffer. This is wrong. It would lead to mass confusion among people migrating from windows if it did this. So we either need to keep X11-style copy and paste separate from the other, standard copy and paste (separate clipboards and everything), or eliminate X11-style altogether.
No, I'm not confused. I use three ways to copy/paste stuff. When not in a terminal, I use ctrl-[cxv], when in the terminal, I use shift-insert. Sometimes I use the mouse. Ctrl-[xcv] works perfectly well on windows, (wtfthemackeynameis)-[xcv] works equally well on OS X, ctrl-xcv works perfectly well under KDE.
Joe sixpack typically isn't going to mess with the X11-style copy and paste because he won't know it's there. Instead he'll use the standard Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V shortcuts and everything will work fairly well. And what is this "shift-insert" thing? Any windows user can tell you such a shortcut hasn't been used (officially) since Windows 95. Everyone long ago settled on the Apple-style keys.
WTF do I care whether or not it's "officially used since windows '95"? ctrl-insert/shift-insert works as well as it always has under windows. I can't fucking use ctrl-c on the commandline. I'm using the "apple-style" keys too, but they don't always work because they mean other things in the terminal. Then the insert-keys work. And WTF is wrong with using "shift-insert" to ACTUALLY INSERT SHIT SOMEWHERE? I thought that "insert" meant "insert", not "don't do shit".
Thanks to freedesktop standards, standard cut, copy, and paste now "just works." The only flaw remaining is that when an app closes, the contents of the clipboard it was using are lost. Clipboard managers solve that one though.
With beryl, good drivers, and built in FOSS apps that beat MS at every turn (Firefox > IE, Beryl > Aero, Thunderbird > Outlook, and VLC > WMP), it seems like the win would be fast and clear. Nobody wants Vista, especially when you have to pay. Ubuntu comes preconfigured in a way that is over all superior to every Windows that has ever existed. It's more solid and reliable, it has four desktops (though they moronically all have the same wallpaper by default, and it happens to be shit brown), it has a very nice user interface (though *i* and many others feel it could take some design cues from Windows 98 with regards to menu structure and some other minor details), and it's free. Oh yeah, and it's open source, so anybody who doesn't like part of it can fix it themselves.
rant: Thunderbird > Outlook? Seriously? Outlook is one of the very, very few apps that Microsoft got somewhat right. As opposed to Thunderbird, it can be used to share calendards, contacts and stuff easily. Thunderbird is just an E-Mail app. Outlook isn't. VLC > WMP? For some values of VLC, that is correct. But the userinterface is better on WMP. How on earth do you get a slider in fullscreen mode on VLC?
And your statemend about open source is just plain wrong. I can't see my mom "fixing" the freaking lameness that is "cut and paste" in gnome. It's simply broken, it doesn't work. When it does work, you have to try pasting in three different ways! Open Source doesn't mean anybody can fix. It means that the knowledgeable *may* fix stuff that they find annoying. Even then, it might not go upstream so other users can benefit from it.
I'm an ubuntu-only user, so I think I am semi-qualified to know what I'm talking about. I dig linux. I've been digging linux since '93. I've had windows too periodically, but linux usage far outweighs windows usage. Linux sucks, unless you're somewhat skilled. Take the Gnome copy-paste dysfunction for example. When copying in the terminal, *sometimes* it picks up what I've marked with my cursor, so that I can just press shift-insert. Sometimes it doesn't. WTF? WHY NOT?. Oh well, then I have to right-click to make it put the text on the clipboard. So... now I've got the text on the clipboard, everything should be fine and dandy, right? NO! I still can't use shift-insert in a sane way. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I have to rightclick *again* to paste! WTFISTHAT? I've switched to Kubuntu not long ago, and thank god... The copy and paste functionality appears to actually WORK AT ALL. It works pretty good. The even better part is that you can predict if it works or not. With gnome you just can't.
How do you suppose I fix that? It's open source isn't it? Then I should be able to fix that easily!
To all the proponents of Linux On The Desktop:
1. Please stop flounting linux as totally superior. Be realistic. It sucks in many ways, but it sucks in other ways than Windows 2. Make sure that you point out that learning linux isn't as easy as windows. Really. Do it. Please. 3. Make sure you've pointed out 2. 4. Accept that Linux is a Tool, just like Windows. Every tool has its good and bad sides. Windows has a (mostly) coherent user experience, linux has not. Windows has (inflexible) wizards, Linux has extreme flexibility (at the cost of complexity). You can't have it all. EVER./rant
You can mod me down now. Just had to get that out. Should be incoherent enough to make it hard to read:-P
I was going to build a plane not unlike yours. I've been looking at a lot of stuff over at sparkfun, adding together weight and such. I haven't had the cash to do it though. My biggest problem is getting a remote control system with enough range, that I can integrate properly with the rest of the system.
In routers it's very common to have binary modules for eg. wireless interfaces, switch/network interfaces, led/buzzer interface etc. This unfortunately often prevents you from upgrading the kernel to a recent one:-(
"However, in this paper, we do not show a breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage due to the proprietary nature of these data." (From TFA)
Not to mention that the whole article doesn't make sense. Either the source IP addresses are in China or they aren't. If they are, why haven't they simply dropped all packets from China, and why are they so convinced that a Chinese IP means a Chinese attacker? If the IP addresses aren't from China, what is their reason for believing it's a Chinese-0wned set of machines?
Blocking all Chinese IP's just gives you a false sense of security. It's no problem at all to bounce off an american zombie host, appearing to be from within the US. For that matter, geolocating hacking attacks is just plain silly. With the amount of botnets available now, there shouldn't be any problem whatsoever hiding your origins completely from the target.
OMG, this is gonna be *SO* *MUCH* *FUN*! I'll just bounce off of 7 random zombiefied boxes in China, and keep on attacking US.gov stuff. I can start a freaking war. How cool isn't that!
Yes, am was infact wrong. I'm running 1600x1200@90Hz. I seem to remember one of my Syncmasters had a 250Mhz pixel-clock though. Syncmaster 997MB. These are obviously both CRT's though.
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My ThinkPad has a few points I complain about, but the placement of the USB ports isn't one of them. Assuming that I have two ports right next to one another is wrong, especially for devices like a PDA or Tablet.
Using two cables kind of defeats the purpose. The whole point of the exercise is to only have one cable, transferring data and power. I have a twin-cable too, but it is unusable on my laptop that only has one usb-port on the side and one on the back.
Bzzzt! Wrong. There's no guarantee that 2.5" drives do not require more than 0.5A @ 5V. I've got four drives in front of me, and three of them require 0.7A.
Not only that, but the 2.5" drives are more expensive, slower, and has way less storage capacity.
Well, I guess your CPU fan, PSU fan, CD-ROM and possibly floppy drive is broken since they're not moving?
WTF? So how the heck does my mailserver figure out if I'm authenticated or not? SMTP authentication can be done whether or not it's on port 25, 587 or any other port.
Sure, the software manufacturers have some fault in this. But ignorance from the user doesn't help.
I would propose the following to an ISP:
1. Firewall the infestation from the internet
2. Give the user access to the mailserver to *download mail only*
3. Redirect all browsing attempts to a local server that serves step-by-step guides and ready-packaged tools to remove any virus infections/malware. Put up a helpful "send us a mail if these instructions doesn't help" form and leave any phone no. clearly visible.
"common sense" doesn't mean what you think it does. There's nothing "common" about common sense.
Indeed. But it prevents a full-fledged fire which has CO + blazing flames to boot.
Why? When did they become deprecated, and why? I haven't seen a newscast that announced that they are now unusable. Now, how do you propose I cut and paste in the terminal? ctrl-[cv]? That won't work, idiot.
Why should I have to use the FUCKING MOUSE TO COPY AND PASTE? That is seriously counter-productive.
They can be fixed, no doubt about that since they work in KDE, OSX and Windows.
Locating the CD-drive usually isn't the hardest of tasks, considering recent distros put it on the desktop. They also pop up a window when a CD is inserted. Formatting a disk isn't among the problems I think a switcher should be worrying too much about. Now, playing some music? *That* is a pain. Getting non-free codecs requires going online and googling. When that no longer requires strong google-fu (because you get a lot of irrelevant hits otherwise), I'll say it's good. Or getting access to your shiny NAS, that includes all your music, from your PC? Not easy. I can't access my samba NAS from Kubuntu, and I haven't figured out why. I know how to mount it from the commandline, and how to mount if on boot through fstab. But that is NOT something one should assume is "easy" for a new user. I've been using Linux since pre 2.0 kernels (Good old ygg, and thanks to Patrick for making slack).
Look. It's simple. Windows is inflexible and has a bunch of problems. But it is easier to use on many fields, and it's way more coherent in the way you access eg. shares. Ever tried saving stuff from firefox to a share? thunderbird? Or what about opening mp3's from a share you have opened in nautilus? right-click, open with xmms.... xmms opens, but it can't find the file... How do you expect users to understand that that doesn't work? Browsing to a share in windows, right-clicking, and you can basically open a file in *ANY* application.
In my (considerable) experience, that's simply not true. You take someone who finds computers and mechanical things in general difficult and is confused by even the most basic computer tasks (my mother, for instance), and put her in front of a Windows machine and a Linux machine (I'll use Kubuntu in these examples, because it's my distro of choice). She doesn't find either of them easy, but doesn't find one to be harder than the other.
My wife primarily uses Windows because it's what she learned on and it's the only platform where Yahoo Messenger supports voice (that's the biggie for her) but on those occasions where she has to use Linux (our kids both have Linux machines, for example), she doesn't find it harder the Windows. They're both point/click.
My kids (not yet kindergarteners) both have Edubuntu on their computers and they don't think it's hard, even though they'd been using Windows on my wife's computer before that.
Now, if you'd made a comment on the learning curve/transitional difficulties for people who are used to Windows, I wouldn't complain. There's going to be a transitional period. I'm primarily a Linux user and recently got my first Mac. I still prefer Linux overall, but the Mac is wonderful in many ways. One of the big ones is one you touch on in point 4: coherent user experience. Things hang together on a Mac much better than on any other platform I've used. However, since I'm now talking about coherence, I don't think Windows has much (if any) advantage there compared to any one distro or desktop environment (the great diversity of those things is another matter, but since most people use only one distro everywhere, I don't think that's as important as some might think it). KDE, especially as implemented on Kubuntu, obviously borrows from the Mac approach, something which I hope only accelerates with KDE.
Overall, is Linux still a little harder than Windows? Yes, in some areas. In other areas, it's way ahead of Windows, and ahead of Mac in some areas too (installing software through things like Adept, Synaptic, or Linspire's Click-n-Run Warehouse is way ahead of either Win or Mac, for instance). Most administration tasks are now quite easy and pretty coherently handled in a GUI (speaking of Kubuntu and Edubuntu, at least). Installing Linux (depends on your distro, of course; but this is true of (K)ubuntu, at least) is a piece of cake. Easier than Windows, hands down. Installing XP and getting it up to date is really painful compared to installing Kubuntu.
I agree that it's way ahead of Windows in several areas. Installing packages is really, really nice. Administration is imho so-so. Take eg. now that I'm running Kubuntu, I can't access my other linux-boxes that runs samba. Granted, in windows, finding them takes forever but atleast it works. I still haven't figured out how to make Kubuntu find them.
There's one coherency issue that bugs me a LOT. In windows, almost *all* apps (There are a *very* few special cases), allows you to access a samba share using UNC paths. There's no way I can do that from eg. firefox without mounting the share in some convenient place first. Or thunderbird. Or xmms. Where's that coherency? Things like that "just work" on OSX and Windows.
Then why does it work perfectly well under KDE's terminal? I understand that ctrl-c doesn't work well on a terminal, but shift-insert usually works. It works in KDE's terminal, it works in putty on windows, it sometime works in the gnome terminal. Why the fuck does it just "sometimes" work when I'm pasting stuff to the bash prompt?
No, I'm not confused. I use three ways to copy/paste stuff. When not in a terminal, I use ctrl-[cxv], when in the terminal, I use shift-insert. Sometimes I use the mouse. Ctrl-[xcv] works perfectly well on windows, (wtfthemackeynameis)-[xcv] works equally well on OS X, ctrl-xcv works perfectly well under KDE.
WTF do I care whether or not it's "officially used since windows '95"? ctrl-insert/shift-insert works as well as it always has under windows. I can't fucking use ctrl-c on the commandline. I'm using the "apple-style" keys too, but they don't always work because they mean other things in the terminal. Then the insert-keys work. And WTF is wrong with using "shift-insert" to ACTUALLY INSERT SHIT SOMEWHERE? I thought that "insert" meant "insert", not "don't do shit".
Works? In KDE, sure. In gnome, nope.
rant:
Thunderbird > Outlook? Seriously? Outlook is one of the very, very few apps that Microsoft got somewhat right. As opposed to Thunderbird, it can be used to share calendards, contacts and stuff easily. Thunderbird is just an E-Mail app. Outlook isn't.
VLC > WMP? For some values of VLC, that is correct. But the userinterface is better on WMP. How on earth do you get a slider in fullscreen mode on VLC?
And your statemend about open source is just plain wrong. I can't see my mom "fixing" the freaking lameness that is "cut and paste" in gnome. It's simply broken, it doesn't work. When it does work, you have to try pasting in three different ways! Open Source doesn't mean anybody can fix. It means that the knowledgeable *may* fix stuff that they find annoying. Even then, it might not go upstream so other users can benefit from it.
I'm an ubuntu-only user, so I think I am semi-qualified to know what I'm talking about. I dig linux. I've been digging linux since '93. I've had windows too periodically, but linux usage far outweighs windows usage.
Linux sucks, unless you're somewhat skilled. Take the Gnome copy-paste dysfunction for example. When copying in the terminal, *sometimes* it picks up what I've marked with my cursor, so that I can just press shift-insert. Sometimes it doesn't. WTF? WHY NOT?. Oh well, then I have to right-click to make it put the text on the clipboard. So... now I've got the text on the clipboard, everything should be fine and dandy, right? NO! I still can't use shift-insert in a sane way. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I have to rightclick *again* to paste! WTFISTHAT? I've switched to Kubuntu not long ago, and thank god... The copy and paste functionality appears to actually WORK AT ALL. It works pretty good. The even better part is that you can predict if it works or not. With gnome you just can't.
How do you suppose I fix that? It's open source isn't it? Then I should be able to fix that easily!
To all the proponents of Linux On The Desktop:
1. Please stop flounting linux as totally superior. Be realistic. It sucks in many ways, but it sucks in other ways than Windows
2. Make sure that you point out that learning linux isn't as easy as windows. Really. Do it. Please.
3. Make sure you've pointed out 2.
4. Accept that Linux is a Tool, just like Windows. Every tool has its good and bad sides. Windows has a (mostly) coherent user experience, linux has not. Windows has (inflexible) wizards, Linux has extreme flexibility (at the cost of complexity). You can't have it all. EVER.
You can mod me down now. Just had to get that out. Should be incoherent enough to make it hard to read
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I was going to build a plane not unlike yours. I've been looking at a lot of stuff over at sparkfun, adding together weight and such. I haven't had the cash to do it though. My biggest problem is getting a remote control system with enough range, that I can integrate properly with the rest of the system.
You use a device with 125ft l-o-s range to control an airplane? You're not flying much, are you?
In routers it's very common to have binary modules for eg. wireless interfaces, switch/network interfaces, led/buzzer interface etc. This unfortunately often prevents you from upgrading the kernel to a recent one :-(
Oooooh! I want a couple of these lasers. And one of them disco-ball-thingys!
"However, in this paper, we do not show a breakdown of drives per manufacturer, model, or vintage due to the proprietary nature of these data." (From TFA)
Blocking all Chinese IP's just gives you a false sense of security. It's no problem at all to bounce off an american zombie host, appearing to be from within the US.
For that matter, geolocating hacking attacks is just plain silly. With the amount of botnets available now, there shouldn't be any problem whatsoever hiding your origins completely from the target.
OMG, this is gonna be *SO* *MUCH* *FUN*! I'll just bounce off of 7 random zombiefied boxes in China, and keep on attacking US .gov stuff. I can start a freaking war. How cool isn't that!
Choke the internet? Nope. Choke *all* the news sites (Not counting slashdot.. Real news) I knew? Check.
Greed
Yes, am was infact wrong. I'm running 1600x1200@90Hz. I seem to remember one of my Syncmasters had a 250Mhz pixel-clock though. Syncmaster 997MB. These are obviously both CRT's though.