@John-Nicholson has a lot of info about the red headed stepchild that is SFU.

@Hubtech said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

I hate mlnews

How come? Is it that you dislike getting news here? You dislike having a user account dedicated to news to make it easier to filter? What aspect of MLNews do you not like?

Correct, I do not like to come here for my news that you deem relevant. not sure if you've noticed, but they dont normally get much traction. MLNews seems to post in a swarm pattern, and it's just annoying to me. now, if i could filter MLNews so it wouldn't show up in my feed, and aj, that'd be great!

Swarm pattern was addressed in another thread - it's when the site is slow and creating content for the people looking but not talking.

News gets posted here, getting it mostly posted by a single, obvious user seemed an improvement. The news won't stop, that's just how communities work. MLNews is not the only user posting new, it just makes it easier to filter out (visually.) If you look at SW, for example, they have an equivalent account (called Lee) posting news all day too.

Traction is not expected on news items, so that's no surprise. Sometimes there is a bit of traction, normally very little. But that is the expected pattern. If you look at news sites, they get little conversational traffic too. But that's because you don't tend to "talk about" news since it isn't an opinion, it's just the news.

Most WISPs are heavily using Ubquiti Geard (as well a Tranzeo, and Motorola). Many of the WISPs include the cost of a wireless router in the install price because they generally do double natting internally and they want something they've tested to work with their systems. It's better for them to spend a little more (even if it is billed to the customer) up front a make sure they know it will work/the customer should be happy. I can see this being heavily used for home connections with WISPs espcially since they can just power both the Outdoor AP and the router off the Passive POE. I'm not sure what they were thinking for the indoor AP. I think it would have done better if they put just a cheap 2.4/5ghz N AP into the router for the home users.

Great idea, I wonder how well it will work. Very interesting for sure.

Umm...wow...just wow....

Yeah, it's really quite striking-- just goes to show how important it is to have various layers of protection against different threats.

Relevant - From Joy of Tech.

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@Dashrender said:

I take it you don't game on your desktop then? or do much that wants processing power?

Don't "game" on my work machines and as I work in IT, I can't imagine what would take power on my desktop. Even development tasks are pretty good from a Chromebook. Only issue I've had there is that JetBrains stuff won't install there. But c9.io is a nice replacement.

Actually what gaming I do IS on that desktop. Seven year old desktop plays most of our games just fine. I only play games with the kids.

I had an iPad but sold it. Phones are 5"+ now days. If I need something bigger I likely want a full on OS, otherwise I can do most things on my phone.

Gotta say though I'm still very interested in the company,

I was really hesitant about a year ago and refused to jump on board, now that I'm on I'm happy I'm on.

I'm only excited to see where the company is going and hope they dont pull the lifetime servers (hopefully ever) for a very long time

@scottalanmiller pfffft, why bother considering that? It's not like stuff ever breaks.
 
There may have been sarcasm in there somewhere.

@scottalanmiller said:

Or, far better, that ReactOS and other projects like Wine could stop trying to rewrite the Windows code and could focus on replacing the components that Microsoft can't release. Piece by piece they could leverage the MS code to make the whole thing free. Much like the BSD projects did long ago to free UNIX from AT&T.

Well, I think you're just asking for the moon when it comes to a lot of people interested in Windows.

I'll definitely be upgrading to this new version and checking it out before I try a different flavour of Linux on it though

@thecreativeone91 well it is already April and no release schedule given yet that I have seen so not likely to be anytime super soon.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I agree that the term "unlimited" is often abused though. I don't know if it's the same in the US, but we had a big problem over here with ISPs offering "unlimited" internet usage that was actually capped. I think the term was "Unlimited - subject to fair usage policy" where fair usage was an arbitrary figure set by the ISP.

Is that not protected by the Trades Description Act?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Hubtech said:

@mlnews said:

ZDNet talks about the best bootable HDMI stick products. Anyone using any of these?

i've got one with windows 8 that is kinda awesome

Which one? That's pretty neat.

It was $100 from aliexpress. let's see, this is it