Another excellent power supply, especially for Mini-ITX systems, is this: http://www.mini-box.com/pw-60.htm Small, inexpensive, and enough to power the board and a hard drive.
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Happy? What are you talking about? I'm going to have to replace my *entire* wardrobe! Must find second job to finance darker clothing...;)
I've got a Belkin ErgoBoard, which has worked very well for me. The hand positioning it encourages is much more comfortable for me than the MS Natural keyboards, and the keys have good feedback to them. Belkin lists it for about $40, I found mine for $25.
The one thing I don't like about it are the power and suspend buttons on the upper right. Disabled them by opening up the keyboard and sticking a piece of paper between the membranes.
http://www.chroniclogic.com produces a game called Pontifex, in which you construct bridges in full 3D glory. In order to progress to the next bridge, a train must be able to successfully pass over the bridge. Very entertaining and addicting game, at least for me. Once you finish it, go back and try to make your bridges cheaper.
A few other good ones on the same puzzle theme are The Incredible Machine series of games...if you like Rube Goldberg contraptions, you'll love these games.
Grab a box of latex gloves from your local drugstore. Oil will degrade the latex, but you don't need protection against infectious diseases, just dirt and grime.
Rather than have annoying ad banners that take up valuable screen real estate, why not have billboards in the game, ala real life?
Not sure how well that would fit in to Everquest, but in something like Anarchy Online where a good amount of time is spent in bustling futuristic cities, advertising billboards would probably fit right in.
I'm personally quite fond of the Klipsch ProMedia speakers. They have 2.1, 4.1 and 5.1 sets. Plus the speakers and amplifier are THX-certified. Which, in most peoples' opinions, is complete overkill for PC audio, but who says overkill is a bad thing?:)
http://www.klipsch.com/products/promedia/ for the ProMedia product line.
Regardless of what the industry uses, they probably like there to be a very large user base with one operating system, so that they can easier get copy control schemes into that OS, forcing people to use that OS or be unable to view the new protected content.
Try the Linux Router Project. Designed to fit on a floppy and then expand to a RAMdisk. It should work with just about any PC you've got sitting around.
Taking a look at their specs, they say the system works best with 3 or fewer cooling hookups. So, if you have two CPUs and want to cool your video card too, you can't use the HD cooler, motherboard chipset cooler, or the liquid-cooled power supply.
They also say they have no plans for slotted processors (Slot 1 and Slot A), so if you don't have a socketed CPU, you're SOL (though putting a socketed CPU on a slot converter card would work, though those cards typically aren't supported in SMP systems)
The digitizing those products do appears to be after the signal has already been converted to analog by the set-top box.
Digital->analog->digital is going to lose some quality, rather than the digital->digital that the question was asking for.
> 3dfx learned a very difficult and expensive lesson with its purchase of STB
Now that they're not planning on making their own cards anymore (which is the reason they purchased STB in the first place), does anyone know what is to become of the division that was STB?
That 144k DSL connection is IDSL, which is basically ISDN using the D channel for bandwidth as well (two 64k B channels + 16k D channel = 144k) It can go much farther than ADSL/SDSL, but is only a tad bit faster than ISDN. However, if you plan on having your connection nailed up all the time, it's probably going to be much cheaper than ISDN.
If you're really worried about 900MHz/1800MHz signals bouncing around your head, keep the phone on your belt and use an earpiece. Not only does it free up a hand, but there's a LOT more tissue in your torso to disperse heat through than your head.
Got a chance to look these things over recently, and for a datacenter where you lease dedicated machines to customers or just need a high-density server farm, they look pretty cool, though the amount of heat they put out may be a problem (the larger has 16 CPU blades in a 9U case, each with a P2-400 or so, check the page for better details)
http://www.ziatech.com/ketris/main.htm
Runs a variant of RedHat called HardHat, has specific package components designed for small embedded systems.
> After all - this would be just like the 'free cell phone' business model: not buying the service contract means you pay $300 for the phone. I think there are a lot of people that would pay $400-$500 for an iOpener.
I know for me, and for everyone else that I personally know that bought one of these, the $99 price was the main factor involved. There's no way in hell I'd have plunked down that much cash for a device that ran about the speed of a Pentium 150 and had no hard drive included...
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I reccomend one of these fine products: http://www.onzin.nl/fufme/index.shtml.htm
Another excellent power supply, especially for Mini-ITX systems, is this:
http://www.mini-box.com/pw-60.htm
Small, inexpensive, and enough to power the board and a hard drive.
Happy? What are you talking about? I'm going to have to replace my *entire* wardrobe! ;)
Must find second job to finance darker clothing...
How about six months with Raytheon Polar Services?
Also take a look at Ethereal, which is free, and quite nifty.
I've got a Belkin ErgoBoard, which has worked very well for me. The hand positioning it encourages is much more comfortable for me than the MS Natural keyboards, and the keys have good feedback to them. Belkin lists it for about $40, I found mine for $25.
The one thing I don't like about it are the power and suspend buttons on the upper right. Disabled them by opening up the keyboard and sticking a piece of paper between the membranes.
http://www.chroniclogic.com produces a game called Pontifex, in which you construct bridges in full 3D glory. In order to progress to the next bridge, a train must be able to successfully pass over the bridge. Very entertaining and addicting game, at least for me. Once you finish it, go back and try to make your bridges cheaper.
A few other good ones on the same puzzle theme are The Incredible Machine series of games...if you like Rube Goldberg contraptions, you'll love these games.
I know them as "god handles"...so that god can reach down, grab them, and go "Vroom, Vroom!" ;)
Grab a box of latex gloves from your local drugstore. Oil will degrade the latex, but you don't need protection against infectious diseases, just dirt and grime.
Try http://www.epanorama.net/
Enough electronics projects to choke a camel, and then some.
Take a look at http://obs.freeamp.org/ Network-based jukebox software, and it supports multicast too :)
Rather than have annoying ad banners that take up valuable screen real estate, why not have billboards in the game, ala real life?
Not sure how well that would fit in to Everquest, but in something like Anarchy Online where a good amount of time is spent in bustling futuristic cities, advertising billboards would probably fit right in.
I'm personally quite fond of the Klipsch ProMedia speakers. They have 2.1, 4.1 and 5.1 sets. Plus the speakers and amplifier are THX-certified. Which, in most peoples' opinions, is complete overkill for PC audio, but who says overkill is a bad thing? :)
http://www.klipsch.com/products/promedia/ for the ProMedia product line.
Regardless of what the industry uses, they probably like there to be a very large user base with one operating system, so that they can easier get copy control schemes into that OS, forcing people to use that OS or be unable to view the new protected content.
Try the Linux Router Project. Designed to fit on a floppy and then expand to a RAMdisk. It should work with just about any PC you've got sitting around.
Taking a look at their specs, they say the system works best with 3 or fewer cooling hookups. So, if you have two CPUs and want to cool your video card too, you can't use the HD cooler, motherboard chipset cooler, or the liquid-cooled power supply.
They also say they have no plans for slotted processors (Slot 1 and Slot A), so if you don't have a socketed CPU, you're SOL (though putting a socketed CPU on a slot converter card would work, though those cards typically aren't supported in SMP systems)
> assuming anyone ever bought one of those things. I mean, the question is: WHY would you want one?
To modify and return to the store, of course. The proper messages in the proper community would be most entertaining...
> It looks like it will do what you want.
The digitizing those products do appears to be after the signal has already been converted to analog by the set-top box.
Digital->analog->digital is going to lose some quality, rather than the digital->digital that the question was asking for.
> 3dfx learned a very difficult and expensive lesson with its purchase of STB
Now that they're not planning on making their own cards anymore (which is the reason they purchased STB in the first place), does anyone know what is to become of the division that was STB?
That 144k DSL connection is IDSL, which is basically ISDN using the D channel for bandwidth as well (two 64k B channels + 16k D channel = 144k) It can go much farther than ADSL/SDSL, but is only a tad bit faster than ISDN. However, if you plan on having your connection nailed up all the time, it's probably going to be much cheaper than ISDN.
Behold, my new watch/PDA/cell phone/cordless phone/radio/TV/screwdriver/socket set/kitchen sink/patio chair/oven/refrigerator/bed/pager/email terminal/toothbrush solar-recharging fusion-powered sock!
If you're really worried about 900MHz/1800MHz signals bouncing around your head, keep the phone on your belt and use an earpiece. Not only does it free up a hand, but there's a LOT more tissue in your torso to disperse heat through than your head.
> Well, a report from MSNBC suggest the missing data is more likely related to the wildfire that took place recently than espionage.
Dear god...Microsoft is just covering it up! BILL GATES HAS THE BOMB!
Got a chance to look these things over recently, and for a datacenter where you lease dedicated machines to customers or just need a high-density server farm, they look pretty cool, though the amount of heat they put out may be a problem (the larger has 16 CPU blades in a 9U case, each with a P2-400 or so, check the page for better details)
http://www.ziatech.com/ketris/main.htm
Runs a variant of RedHat called HardHat, has specific package components designed for small embedded systems.
> After all - this would be just like the 'free cell phone' business model: not buying the service contract means you pay $300 for the phone. I think there are a lot of people that would pay $400-$500 for an iOpener.
I know for me, and for everyone else that I personally know that bought one of these, the $99 price was the main factor involved. There's no way in hell I'd have plunked down that much cash for a device that ran about the speed of a Pentium 150 and had no hard drive included...