This looks to be a really strong, likely to be long-supported, kernel. Providing that the Googleification of the TCP stack doesn't hurt local 1-10Gbps performance, that is. Have a care if you do your own kernel compiles... the whole Ethernet driver subsystem has been merged together.

How's that been working for you lately? Before answering, you should probably consult your Homeland Security Potential Terrorist Interaction Manual for the proper response, Citizen. Remember, the threats are amongst us.

Wow. Some deluded posts here. Believe me, I can easily demonstrate taking down ANY SIZED Solaris server with a bad app. When I say EASY, I mean to say EASY. The OS may not actually crash but the machine will be useless.

This is why we can't have nice things: people who think that their favourite OS cannot be fooled or can do no wrong.

This is a crap post, sorry. There is no modern OS that can mitigate an application that is bad. The only thing that can do that is a good operator (which re-nices the forking process or better yet, fixes the bug that is causing it or adds new capacity).

Solaris won't ride its golden winged horse down out of the heavens to save you from this kind of problem, trust me.

Do you know how to tell a french Canadian from a distance?

I don't know either, but you can't tell one fuck-all from up close.

Yes, they are. Demonstrably. They would have long ago forced ISPs to filter if they weren't.

Windows 7 easily has the most confusing, difficult to configure network properties of any Windows. Granted, I like how it differentiates between "new" network connections as far as work, public, home for the purposes of firewall config, but it's BRUTAL to actually configure the network properties otherwise. All the obfuscation gets in your way and makes your teeth grind.

FYI, while they "own" the infrastructure, they didn't pay for it. Your tax dollars did.

And they use up BILLIONS of dollars per year worth of free right-of-way that only they have access to.

If I had upvotes, I'd upvote this to the moon. This is exactly correct.

You can't get thousands of users on a single base station. 200 is really, really stretching it. If you have 25Mhz of bandwidth with your license, that typically means a top of four base stations per tower, and you have to be very careful how you place your towers and aim your antennas so that you don't self-interfere with your other towers.

Redline claims 500 users per base station and Solectek claims 1024. Both total crap. 500 users @ 64Kbps or 1024 users at 28.8Kbps really is useless in any real-world application except perhaps SCADA. But given that the range is 10 miles, that would be a hell of a lot of municipal equipment to monitor.