sleep substitute
it's a lost cause. i appear to be in the process of pulling an all-nighter for no concievable reason.2 interesting things from tonight, though:
ipv6 - quit holding your breath for it. will and i spent the evening taking bets on how long it would take to hit mainstream...then we priced some hardware for it. turns out that the major problem (far from being the spec, for once) is that no one is making reasonably priced equipment. cheapest we immediately spotted for sale was a 48-port switch for $1.8k. Cisco is being pretty good about supporting it; 3com isn't. major chicken/egg problem. i made a liberal guess of it actually being in use by 2010, but will was more conservative, going with 2015. someone check back here and post a comment whenever one of us turns out to be right (or wrong, for that matter...).
dsl freaking rocks. i know, this isn't news...but it rocks for a reason previously not listed - download, burn, boot...once it's up and running, right-click on the desktop, go to apps, to tools, to ``install to usb drive'', and it happily will create a bootable usb drive for you (assuming you plugged one in, at some point). i recently purchased a decent usb drive (the 1 gig version), and have been looking forward to making better use of it than the previous (smaller) flash drives i've had. i'm planning on statically compiling some nice tools to run with it, for a short term fix (for my need to have about 500 security tools with me at all times)...but will and i have been discussing rolling our own livecd for ages now, and liveusb distro sounds that much more enticing. something might come of this in the near future.
posted by toasty @ 2/20/2006 04:08:00 AM
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DSL is amazing, even on systems with VERY little memory. I'm still not sure how it gives a reasonable firefox experience on a system with only 64MB of ram, but i'm loving it on my older laptop.
Compare this to the rediculous bloat of XP. I'm currently fixing a 128MB Dell witn a Celeron 900, and it runs like crap. Not responsive at ALL.
I cant lay all the blame at MS's feet, but the OS sure lends itself to hosting lots of really really crappy and badly programmed software. Maybe I should just swear off fixing windows machines forever, and add a few years to my lifespan.
I might be a little behind, but have you heard of www.u3.com? A guy I work with has a friend that is VP of the company. This friend of his gave him a 256 mb one and it is awesome. I talked my father into getting a 1 gig at best buy for a decent price.
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