...people do that?

people do that?

then i think you and i are going to end up arguing over how far back to look in what we consider relevant historical context. you did fail to address china, though if 2 decades is too old, then i see why. also, have a look at this. it's easy to see, it's impossible for russia to be considered anything but second world, as the classification was come up with in the cold war to differentiate between us/allies and russia/allies and everyone else. if you look at the differentiater being the IMF's classification, then i would likely disagree with you, but that's likely a whole different little debate. anyway, i'm sure that you have the typical slashdot belief that i'm a naive, asleep american, since i won't jump immediately on board the america-is-the-worst bandwagon, which is too bad.

first, i'm very disappointed, angry, saddened, and frustrated by what has happened and what is now happening. i'd very much like to help, but besides setting up rogue dns servers, or distributing pre-filled hosts.txt files (both of which could easily be stopped, if they're not already), i have no clue what sort of advice to offer besides don't trust anyone, encrypt everything, and speak in whispers (online and off) until you're ready to pay for what you have to say.

second, should we really be offering advice in such a public place? if an iranian national can get to slashdot, so can iranian intelligence, or whoever it is that's actually imposing this oppression. there's not even any way to verify this person's identity, it could be some young iranian, supportive of the police state, trying to do his part to silence the dissenters.

no, i'm sorry, i think i'd have to say that we shouldn't be saying anything of any real value, besides "i'm sorry". i hope you are able to figure this out on your own. my only advice is to move slowly, quietly, and deliberately. and good luck.

sorry, while i don't disagree with most of what you said, comparing america's psuedo- (support-lacking, factually-questionable, extremist-spouting, media-driven) imperialist agenda with recent cultures like russia/ussr, britain any time in the 19th and 20th centuries (until possibly around the 50s), and a few others (china, many nations in western and central africa) won't cut it without any proof.

i too am an american, and i think our nation has done some horrible things (which includes you, me, and every individual like us). but to compare the united states to countries (or even actual empires) that will massacre for the crown/motherland seems ludicrous.

get a grip and try again.

so whether they knew it or not, they chose "Your question is already too long."

don't worry about it. when you're on v2.2, and everyone knows about netalyzr, the original submission will be accepted and posted to the front page :)

RIAA: "Fix what?"

yeah, the subject's too complex for simple.wikipedia.org, unfortunately :(

some things may not be a good candidate for virtualization. ESPECIALLY in a virtualization client that loads ON TOP OF AN OS.

i'm wondering where they got their performance expectations from. FTFA, they didn't buy the vmware tools that would give them the performance and capabilities they desired.

so, to sum it up, they virtualized an application or applications they possibly shouldn't have. they didn't pay for the set of tools that would have given them the best shot of acheiving their virtualization goals, and instead used what was quite possibly the worst tool for the job. now they're complaining about it, and pointing out how (apparently) just running a single OS on the servers, with multiple application instances.

what a waste of time. this is not news. don't use wireload or yippiemove. they, according to their own words in TFA, don't have a clue what they're doing.

condor, is that you?

they do that for a reason. i think you got there early?

true, but asus.co.uk redirects to uk.asus.com, which is asustech. while i initially agreed that something seemed fishy (as in underhanded), i don't know if i think that anymore. while the quality of the itsbetterwithwindows.com site is horrible, it seems unlikely that it's an illegitimate site. instead, they're probably being heavily courted by MS (with promises of cash, marketing funds, and the usual bit), and wish to please them, at the expense of their loyal fan/customer base.