Yes, it sucks. It's complicated.

Check out the Sangoma S518 card. I was shocked they were still selling it all these years later. Be warned that the drivers are really difficult to get working though. I never did get this card working with my local ADSL provider.

http://wiki.sangoma.com/wanpipe-linux-adsl-support

I think these are mostly for development rather than actual use, but whatever.

Single pair is just so dead.

Years ago, back in 2001, I had a nice Dell laptop with a modular DVDRW drive. However, you could hot swap out the optical drive for a second battery pack. I pretty much ran with this second battery pack in all the time, and it was awesome. It added an extra 60% or so of extra battery time to the laptop and I could go a real-world six to eight hours of use before the power ran out.

My new MacBook pro has a DVDRW drive in it and it's just complete wasted space. The battery life for this MacBook Pro is already pretty good, but it would be very awesome if I could put a modular battery in there. FYI, I have one of the first generation of unibody MacBook Pros, so I can very easily get to the battery and hard drive. I loath the fact that they un-did this feature of the MBP in later models. Jerks!

Show me how these new UIs produce a benefit for the end user. That's it.

I'm a bitter KDE4 user. From everything I can tell, they did it to make the code "neater" and for window candy.

Telling and showing off the truth can rarely be attributed as retaliation to any sane observer.

Abuse survivor here. I'm in my mid 30s now, male. I've not seen or heard from my parents/step-parents since I was fifteen years old. One of the best things I ever did in life.

Blackmail was not involved here, as far as I can tell. I never read anything about that. She never threatened to release the video; she just did it. I would bet sacks full of money that she never let anyone else know about that video, out of fear of being abused further. It doesn't even make sense that she would try to use it as a control mechanism against him. Even if she did,.... uh... good for her.

Note in the articles how the farther took back a car, thus depriving her of the ability to get around. It was never a gift to her. It was a tool to use as control, and when he wanted to control her further, he yanked the chain. This is a twenty year old we are talking about here, not a child. Even in adulthood, he treats his daughter as something that needs to be controlled.

This guy will lose friends, respect, his job, and his entire career. I'd say that's pretty fair. I don't have any sympathy for him and very little for the mother.

As for the feds, they should not be involved in any way, no duh.

As for charges, unfortunately, she sat on this too long. Fear can really paralyze and control you. Again, no duh.

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The fact that the server got overloaded is a testament to how much us KDE4 users hate KDE4 (and how much the KDE developers apparently hate us).

I've been using XFCE too and will probably switch my desktop here on a day where some upgrade breaks everything horribly, as it has several times in the past. However, I'll check out Trinity and see if it's worthy. I like the way XFCE looks, but there are a number of annoyances that I've not gotten past yet.

In order to make the headline question nice and small, you didn't specify why you want to use Red Hat over CentOS.

Was it because you find the support from Red Hat valuable? You've had trouble in the past and really want to be able to get some technical help when problems come up?

Was it because you just want to make sure that Red Hat gets paid for the work they have done, or which the CentOS goons just leach off of?

Personally, if my direct reporting manager made such as requirement of me, I'd just up and quit. Actually, I already did that, and recently. That being said, I'm a Debian guy so I don't really have this particular problem, but when PHBs make demands of saving money now in the name of causing problems later, I'm out of there.

Don't forget about Juniper's new wireless solutions, from their Trapeze acquisition.

I've heard a lot of good things about Aruba and Xirrus.

Having actually done Cisco wireless support and new deployments, I would highly recommend against Cisco. They call it a "Cisco caveat" for a reason. Sure that feature works... you know... under the right conditions which will never be met.

I don't get the argument about lack of coverage. I live in Arizona and there are significant parts of this state that are rural. I get coverage everywhere that I think is reasonable; cities, highways, and dinky little towns, like Youngtown AZ. I do a lot of hiking and camping.

I've heard this over and over from people who are on Verizon or AT&T, but I've had AT&T before and can't say that their network coverage was any better.

Firefux devs and management has always been stupid. That is, the moment that Aza Derpzler decided to break up the suite into Firefux, Thunderfux, and... then just abandon calendar, chat, and the rest.

It wasn't the most horrible idea to drop the non mail and browser components to make them optional, but basically, Aza is one of those guys who keeps the company so busy with acquisitions and spinoffs that nobody can have the attention span to figure out that he's just making busywork while not actually improving the produced product or service. It's just like the KDE and Gnome devs who want to make their product as user-friendly as OpenWRT is.

Try Seamonkey. It's the true progeny of the old Netscape/Mozilla project.

This comment is not to be understated. I was very young, but my first-hand experience comparison of what Apple and Amiga had at the time to what a Windows+DOS system could do makes it clear that half-assed triumphed over quality. People didn't know how to evaluate a computer when making a purchase, so they just bought something cheap that looked like a computer, even if it was inferior in regards to hardware and or software.

I just don't leave reviews on websites that sell goods. The review MUST be completely independent. There is no possibility that your own words will not be twisted and manipulated in any way the website or even the product manufacture sees fit.

I had Newegg remove my truthful and reasonable negative reviews on multiple occasions, so I don't bother doing reviews on Newegg any more at all.

Same goes with ebay. As a seller, I can't leave negative feedback for buyers, so I figure I can't really leave positive feedback either since it's positive or nothing. Their feedback system is now fundamentally broken and any use of it is just furthering their fraudulent assertion of usefulness.

I have to admit that I left a review on Amazon just a couple of days ago... one of the few I've ever done there. I'll have to consider going back to remove it.

I was a KDE 3.5 user... and then KDE4 happened, which was, I guess, an attempt to be as successful and awesome as Windows Vista. I tried out XFCE and was very pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to migrate over.

I still have one desktop that is KDE 4, but I am not really happy with it. They keep screwing with things for eye-candy only that reduce functionality and break stuff. It's just a play thing for them. They don't really care what their users thing.

And if you complain about it on the KDE message boards, they will delete your post or just ban you.

Yea, that's pretty much what he meant.

The reality is that an entire flight scheduling system like the one that US Airways uses could probably be replaced by $50K worth of junk off of dell.com. The software has to be written custom, but this isn't computational proteomics here. A couple of SF bay goons could do this in six months.

For this kind of a small-scale implementation, you should have at least three separate data centers across the world/continent, which duplicate the information with automatic terminal failover to the nearest operating master. You would not just want the array to be RAID, but duplicate arrays, duplicate servers, duplicate network infrastructure, duplicate entire systems three times over... and it would still cost 1/3rd or less of whatever money they are currently pouring into the black hole of incompetency that they have right now.