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Re:not killing them - on the contrary
Now, what helps you most in the long run? Market share.
You mean that MS finally read those business books from 1997? If market share is what really helps you in the long run, explain to me what happened to companies like egghead, and bigstar, and DrKoop, and (Insert your favorite failed
The platform that sells software wins. Period.
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Re:Considering Amazon's Financial Heath...Fatbrain: this is a classic relic of the days when you couldn't get the "good dotcoms" anymore, but "building the brand" was still everything. So companies combined unrelated words: fatbrain, fogdog, doughnet, etc. Of course, since they're part of BN now they may not care, but I bet something as simple as "books.com" could be had cheap now.
I suppose Egghead.com might become available...
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Re:Problems with StarOffice
The ability to read the new Word/Excel 2000/XP formats is the only thing that we need to worry about. It would be nice if Star could make MSOffice97 the default file format as that is what it is really competing with. MSOffice 2000 and XP really hasn't penetrated too much yet.
If it bodes well against 97, then I think that we have a winner. The price of MSOfficeXP and 2000 is just too much.
The race is over. Microsoft is standing at the finish line holding their prize money. Their competitors are catching up quickly. This applies with operating systems as well...
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SMP DOA
I had an older SMP box (dual MMX-233's). The procs I found shipped with super cheap-o fans. They both went dead in a few weeks after ordering (only the CPU's themselves were covered by the warrenty...). I hadn't noticed at first. I started wondering why KDE (really, the OS in general) was starting to run VERY slow.
I hit every newsboard I could find looking for suggestions. Every suggestion was a flop. One day, I cracked open the case (I forget why exactly) and had a found esentially a microwave oven inside the box. WTF?!? I thought. I quick scan of everything showed me the 2 fans just sitting there jittering (not spinning). DOH!
(No, I don't don't work for these guys)
3d-cool.com has a great selection of cooling things for just about anything. I've since ordered a ton of stuff from them. Fast and reliable, they are. I ordered a couple of the super-duty fans for the older slot-CPUs and the thing ran great! A bit loud but...
The SMP box is now collecting dust (but I know it's 100% ready for mnore when I need it)since I found a Super-Worth box for real damn cheap at an EggHead Auction. -
Misinformation
Why is that when people post to Slashdot they must be so melodramatic and sensationalistic. If you look at the facts, you'll see that they have taken the time to alert their customers and give them a chance to OPT OUT of the information transfer. Please, folks, if you're going to post a story like this, please take the time to at least get MOST of the facts right, if not all.
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Re:Out of the PC realm
"I challenge someone here to rough up some specs for a US$140,000 general purpose PC rig, running whatever OS is appropriate for its purpose."
Alright, I'm bored, I've got some time to kill...let's see how close I can get.
[A couple hours pass]
Alright, I suppose I could keep adding things onto this, but I won't. I got it up to $10,103.46, though. It's a multimedia workstation designed for graphics and digital video editing, high-performance gaming, DVD playback, and DVD authoring, with all the accessories.
- Case: PC 60 Aluminum w/3 Case Fans and Window Kit, $229.99
- Power supply: Antec PP403X 400W Power Supply $84.10
- Motherboard: ASUS CUV4X-DLS w/SCSI $333.62
- Processors: 2 x Intel Coppermine PIII 933mhz $398.00 ($199.00 ea)
- Processor fans (x2): Antec Heavy Duty CPU Fan $33.54 (16.77 ea)
- RAM: 256mb Kingston PC133 DIMM $156.64
- IDE cable (x2): Rounded $25.98 ($12.99 ea)
- Floppy drive: Compaq LS-120 internal IDE $127.99
- DVD/CD-RW Drive: HP CD-Writer 9900ci 12x10x32x DVD 8x $349.99
- DVD Decoder: Creative Labs Dxr3 $79.99
- CD Drive: Creative Labs CD-ROM Blaster 52x $49.99
- DVD-RAM Drive: Panasonic LF-D201U SCSI-2 $649.00
- SCSI Cable (x3): Rounded $38.97 ($12.99 ea)
- SCSI Hard drive (x2): Seagate Cheetah73 73GB U160 $1576.00 ($788.00 ea)
- RAID Controller: Asus PCI-DA2100 SCSI RAID $609.00
- IEEE 1394 Card: Belkin F5U501 PCI $79.95
- Video: VisionTek GeForce3 64mb AGP $389.99
- Monitor: Samsung 18" Syncmaster TFT LCD $1891.00
- Sound: Creative Labs SBLive X-Gamer $99.99
- Speakers: Creative Labs/Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 Dolby 5.1 Digital $299.99
- Printer: Epson Stylus 2000P Inkjet Printer $869.99
- Scanner: HP ScanJet 6300Cxi 1200dpi $387.36
- Mouse: Razer Boomslang 2000 $82.99
- Mouse Pad: 3m Precise Mousing Service $8.49
- Keyboard: IBM Preferred 104-key Black $59.00
- Joystick: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback 2 $109.00
- Steering Wheel: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel USB $159.00
- Game Pad: Gravis Eliminator GamePad Pro $26.99
- UPS: APC Smart-UPS 1000 XL $577.92
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional $319.00
That's right, Win2K. I know we all love linux in here, Win2K is actually a decent OS, especially for all of the tasks I've specced this out for.
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Re:Receipt of settlement notice in mail>Should I hold a grudge and get the $40
Ohhh, good idea... get your pound of flesh, eh?
Only problem I see is that you have to buy direct from them and they seem to overcharge by about 20%-50% compared to, say egghead or something.
Quick check, $105 for a SCSI* at egghead, $150 at iomega
bleh, not even worth it just to make them follow through with honoring the settlement. I'd say they are walking out of this one with a slap on the wrist. Then again, this is their proposed settlement, do we have to accept this proposal? Do the lawyers representing the class still have to approve this or can they/will they still pursue the litigation?
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Re:Rebates == fraudDid you work for Egghead Software, too? Back when Egghead's business plan involved stealing money from customers in face-to-face transactions, as opposed to the faceless e-commerce they prefer now, we'd do pretty much the same thing. While I was too low on the totem pole (PT Sales Associate) to be told so, it did definitely seem as if we'd hold off mailing flyers so they'd arrive after the sale ended and that we never got the really popular rebate certificates until they were expired.
Of course, while working there I gained a whole new contempt for customers, and pretty much the rest of humanity in general. While screwing "honest" customers was probably a bit of an overreaction, there was a bit of fraud going on. A surprising number of people (one should have been surprising enough) told me to my face that the reason they didn't have the receipt for the product they were returning was because they had sent it in for the rebate. Most people had the common courtesy to lie about why they had lost the receipt, why the rebate form had been torn from the box, why the UPC was missing, etc.
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Any reaction from Egghead.com
"Your credit card and personal information is safe with Egghead.com - we guarantee it! "
I subscribe to the defaced mailing list put out by attrition.org. I find it interesting to see the reactions of the web site owners. I look for any notice about the breach that they may put up after they've restored (and hopefully patched). I checked out Egghead's Privacy Policy page and saw that guarantee. Kinda makes me wonder...I'd think that companies would first react and check out the wording on any of their privacy and security page. The following is an excerpt from Egghead's privacy page:
Guarantee Your browser and Egghead.com's secure server encrypt confidential information during transmission, ensuring that transactions stay private and protected. Egghead.com guarantees the safety of your credit card information in the following manner: if any unauthorized use of your credit card occurs as a result of your credit card purchase from Egghead.com, simply notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures. If, through no fault of your own, your credit card company finds credit card fraud but does not waive your entire liability for unauthorized charges, Egghead.com will reimburse you for the remaining liability, up to a maximum of fifty dollars U.S. ($50.00) per card. This guarantee applies to purchases made using Egghead.com's secure server (https: protocol).
Woah, check out the second to last line...only 50 clams...
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Well, Least Their New Security System Works!
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If you're not in a hurry...you can sometimes find a good deal on late model refurbished pc's (without monitors) on the auction section of egghead.com.
I have picked up a few 400mhz Celeron emachines for about $300 each to use as simple web/email access nodes on my home network. A lot of folks will trash emachines but I haven't had any problems with them and they have suited my purposes just fine. Like you I wanted something fairly recent - mainly cuz I also wanted each node to have USB support. All the emachines I have bought have also had Win98SE so USB support is pretty solid.
egghead.com also usually has some other brands such as Compaq or HP available but they often get bid up to the point where you really aren't saving much/any money.
Again, as long as you're not in any hurry (availability and prices varies from week to week) you may be able to snag a good deal on a fairly recent pc there.
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If you're not in a hurry...you can sometimes find a good deal on late model refurbished pc's (without monitors) on the auction section of egghead.com.
I have picked up a few 400mhz Celeron emachines for about $300 each to use as simple web/email access nodes on my home network. A lot of folks will trash emachines but I haven't had any problems with them and they have suited my purposes just fine. Like you I wanted something fairly recent - mainly cuz I also wanted each node to have USB support. All the emachines I have bought have also had Win98SE so USB support is pretty solid.
egghead.com also usually has some other brands such as Compaq or HP available but they often get bid up to the point where you really aren't saving much/any money.
Again, as long as you're not in any hurry (availability and prices varies from week to week) you may be able to snag a good deal on a fairly recent pc there.
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Re:Price-Performance of "iCubes" and other MacsBack in the days of old Macs had better parts than PCs. The 2x price difference you'd see in CD drives etc. between the two different platforms was mostly due to the fact that Macs were a SCSI only outfit. This price difference is still true today, a 48 spin IDE CD-ROM drive will set you back between $40 and $50 while a 40 spin SCSI CD-ROM will set you back a little over $100. These drives are probably pretty comparable in data rate given the inherent speed advantage of SCSI. At least that's the feeling I get looking at egghead.
This has changed somewhat in the last 3-4 years. Macs are now shipped with IDE hard drives and CD drives. Any external devices are connected with cross platform USB cables rather than SCSI and ADB which were unique to Apple in the consumer market. In addition the PC industry has switched from 70 pin SIMMs to 168 pin DIMMs so memory for Macs is now the same parts as PCs. As a result of these changes it's now a lot easier to buy parts for a Mac and a lot cheaper too.
Apple has chosen to adopt more industry standard parts as an alternative to using only the best parts. This has lead to cheaper Macs at the expense of some of their really great quality that used to be worth paying extra for.
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Multi Port 100MB Firewall w/ DMZ Support
Let me first issue a caveat. Cheap is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, I think the solution is here. Find any old preferable Pentium based box with at least 2 PCI slots, and some Trendnet 4 port 10/100 hub pci card kits w/ a single port 10/100 card and a 15 cable ($79 incl. shipping) and there you have it. Bridge the 2 hub cards and use whatever other nics you want and have room for. Use the Linux Router Project Eiger based version. Here's a link to an image w/ DNS caching, dhcpd, dhcpcd (if you need it), some web based reporting. This guy already did the hard part for you. Just add the rtl8139 module to it and follow the directions to run it headless (easy to do). Yes, tulip based cards have less latency but these work well.
Your total investment should be under $300 for a 16 MB firewall, with 8 port hub, fast ethernet on the DMZ and WAN side, etc. Pick a system like a decent clone or the Dell Optiplex that doesn't need keyboard, mouse and monitor hooked up. I'm using a similar configuration for building infrastructure in office buildings. And it works well.
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Re:No serial port!
Not true! Check out the Scovery. It has serial, parallel, usb, ps/2, vga, and ethernet ports on board.
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There's a cheaper way to do this.
Okay, so it's not as sexy and it's not water-cooled, but Egghead has a Fujitsu-Siemens network terminal called the Scovery.
It comes with an integrated 10/100 NIC, Rage IIC video card, 64 megs of ram, a 200 mHZ processor and a 16meg Sandisk with Linux, Netscape, and terminal emulators already installed. I have two of these. I took the Sandisk out of one and put in a hard drive, floppy, and CDROM, and use it as my portable Linux box that I can take to work in my backpack. (I'm too cheap to just buy a laptop.) The other one will eventually be a router for my network at home.
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There's a cheaper way to do this.
Okay, so it's not as sexy and it's not water-cooled, but Egghead has a Fujitsu-Siemens network terminal called the Scovery.
It comes with an integrated 10/100 NIC, Rage IIC video card, 64 megs of ram, a 200 mHZ processor and a 16meg Sandisk with Linux, Netscape, and terminal emulators already installed. I have two of these. I took the Sandisk out of one and put in a hard drive, floppy, and CDROM, and use it as my portable Linux box that I can take to work in my backpack. (I'm too cheap to just buy a laptop.) The other one will eventually be a router for my network at home.
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Re:Great now it's IPs and AMEXsThis is kind of interesting. egghead.com is now asking for those digits. They have some babble on their site about how it makes your transaction more secure, but I don't understand it. hrm...I've got a link here someplace.... ah here it is.
I don't really see the extra utility of giving them these digits, is it just to help prevent the use of CC# generators? Don't see where that would help since it isn't required. I also wonder when they say on that page that 16 + 3 = 20. I'm muchly confused by that as well. Anyone else have any ideas?
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Re:cheap linux box
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Re:Linux flatscreen for $99-- NOPE!
If you want to give me $75-$100 for a small 2.5" IDE drive, let me know and I'll send you my address.
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MS kbds are not that expensive
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VA vs. Cheapo
Anyone know what the deal is with these cheap Linux boxes at Onsale? Has anyone bought one of these, or know how they compare to the VA systems? I do not want support... just a cheap box.
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Re:AlternativesI have to second the Gorilla rack sentiment. $50 at Costco for a 18"x4'x~8' rack (or you can build two ~4' tall racks).
Benefits:
inexpensive
very very strong
user configurable
can replace the particle board with 18" shelving with minimal cutting
Tonight I will be trying to attach a rack mountable KVM switch, I suspect that the 18" side will be just about right for that purpose.
I got my 8 port KVM here very inexpensively (about 1/7 the price Insight lists):
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Re:Price of media - Hard Drive Storage Price Guide
Western Drive Caviar 30.0GB, 5400 RPM, EIDE Hard Drive: $223.97
http://store.westerndigital.com:80/store/product.a sp?registered=0&dept%5Fid=2&pf%5F id=101
Seagate Barracuda 28.0GB, 7200 RPM, EIDE ULTRA ATA/66: $199.99
http://www.computers4sure
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 27.2GB EIDE UltraDMA/66 5400 rpm internal hard drive: $191.99
http://www.egghead.com/ca tegory/inv/00041912/02351925.htm
Maxtor 40.0GB EIDE, ULTRA-DMA/66, 5400 RPM, 9 ms: $252.95
http://www.buy.com/comp/product.as p?sku=10227545
So, basically, $7.47, $7.14, $7.07, and $6.33 per a gigabyte. A single-sided DVD holds 4.7 GB (which most movies come on). Thus, it will cost about $35, $33.50, $33.20, or $29.75 for the storage space to keep a single DVD on each of the above drives, respectively.
I'm not sure about how effective software data compression programs will work on MPEG-2 encoded video, but that could be a further means to reduce space (thus cost).
Basically, the price per gigabyte of hard drives is not yet where it needs to be to make DVD backup cost effective, but next year it will be.
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Purpose is Mini-Server; Expansion IS the IssueIt is billed as a "mini-server," and it wouldn't be of great benefit to Cobalt to change that much.
I wouldn't mind having one to use as a little network server; the killer questions, from my perspective, are thus:
- Can I add more RAM?
- What software "expansion" options are there?
Can I run something like Debian on it? Or am I basically restricted to hacking on (and making cruftier) what Cobalt provides?
Note that Egghead/On-Sale have been auctioning 'em off for around $500 lately, which is rather more interesting than $1500...
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Re:I wonder...
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Re:Couldn't be much of a threat for Apple (errata)
Maybe not CompUSA, but why not Egghead? If the hardware's cheap enough, this is the route I'd take
Mac OS 8.5:
http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse? prod_id= 0000104561&sesid=^bpi!S15660263^cen!Y^ies!DF01^ces !DF01^
Mac OS X server:
http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse? prod_id= 0000090176&sesid=^bpi!S15660263^cen!Y^ies!DF01^ces !DF01^ -
Re:Couldn't be much of a threat for Apple (errata)
Maybe not CompUSA, but why not Egghead? If the hardware's cheap enough, this is the route I'd take
Mac OS 8.5:
http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse? prod_id= 0000104561&sesid=^bpi!S15660263^cen!Y^ies!DF01^ces !DF01^
Mac OS X server:
http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse? prod_id= 0000090176&sesid=^bpi!S15660263^cen!Y^ies!DF01^ces !DF01^