There used to be a site out there that was like geektours.com or
engineeringvacations.com or something like that. It had computer
history and science museums, civil engineering projects, factory tours
and all kinds of great stuff listed on it. Does anyone else remember
this thing and know where it
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Jim McGinness jim.mcginn...@att.net wrote:
Tell me about it. I've been running a ddrescue for over a month now trying
to recover what can
be recovered from a failing 1TB disk. It averages under 200KB/s when it's not
getting stuck
because the disk is failing.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:
If the disk is failing, perhaps what it needs in SpinRight to recover the
iffy blocks. Not Free, not Open, but good stuff and not expensive.
Oh boy. This is going to get into religious territory.
I am of the opinion
With some now ranking the US down near 30th worldwide (and
falling) in terms of fastest/cheapest Internet availability, and
with our monopolist carriers like Verizon/ComCast/Cox pretending
like it's the Natural Order for things to be the way they are as
they inflict vertical integration on their
It's amazing that they can offer that level of service for that price. Hmm,
50x + faster for the same price I pay for fiber in Nashua. What does it take
to become an independent ISP these days?
Sent from Samsung tabletMichael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
With some now
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:34:56 -0400, bruce.labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
It's amazing that they can offer that level of service for that
price. Hmm, 50x + faster for the same price I pay for fiber in
Nashua. What does it take to become an independent ISP these days?
I can't even
Hi,
I am contemplating either dual-booting Linux or running Linux exclusively
on my netbook. I've long been partial to Debian, although I have used a
number of different flavors in the past (started out around RH 5.0, also
ran CentOS on a couple DEC Alpha's, etc.)
I'll give some specifics on
The fiber that I'm connected to was strung by Verizon. Even though I
talked to the lineworker about it, it was several years and a telco later
before we could subscribe. We waited a long time for the cost to drop to
reasonable levels.
On Apr 28, 2013 2:44 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org
I have an Acer Aspire One 1GB memory. Currently running Linux Mint, but
previously Fedora 17. Both work fine on the netbook. I run installfests
and use the netbook for burning USB sticks and also from making
presentations. I also have Virtualbox running with 2 VMs, Windows XP and
Ubuntu 12.10.
