Though I trust Tom's Hardware with their benchmarks and recommendations, I have to question the details when it comes to their writing.
Unless I'm missing something, what are these DIE devices and cables they talk about here and here? Could they possibly mean IDE cables? Though the article is in English, perhaps IDE is the same as DIE in another language.
They are also confusing Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and I really hope they aren't compiling Linux under Windows 2000, as someone mentioned earlier. All the benchmarks are run under Windows 2000, yet they state that Lame MP3 Encoder under Windows XP was used. When describing the benchmarks, they state that they chose not to use Sysmark 2001 because values can fluctuate under Windows XP. Am I supposed to assume they don't trust it under Windows 2000? They need to state that, not leave us to assume, if they meant to say XP at all.
I'm just picking nits, but I think if you are going to write a technical review, you must be accurate and specific.
You may want to check out an ePods Internet Appliance. The company went out of business, and their product is highly hackable. Coincidence?
It is slow by today's computing standards but should serve as a digital picture frame just fine. You can put a 10Mb/s wireless card in it to pull the pictures off a network server or you can use a CompactFlash card. The CompactFlash card may be necessary because the ePods comes with little memory and runs at 256 colors by default. One of the hacks is to get it using 16-bit color, but it takes up most of the ePods' internal memory. New programs may need to be stored on the CompactFlash card.
Here's the catch: It runs Windows CE, and to hack it, you need another Windows box to transfer the hacked files to it. I took mine to work and hacked it there. I didn't want to attempt getting Linux ported to it.
It seems like there are a lot of downsides to using the ePods, and to overcome those downsides you have to spend some extra money beyond the cost of the ePods itself. I'm just trying to spread some info here. I'm going to give all this a shot, since I already have an ePods.:P
Being a science-fiction fan, what is your opinion of Babylon 5? Did you watch it? If so, how do you compare its writing, originality, and special effects with the Trek-of-the-Day? Did you want to make an appearance on the show?
I know Babylon 5's run was near the time you were driven out of Florida by the "pigs-in-a-blanket-fiasco" so you may not have gotten the chance to see it.:)
I don't have any control of server names at work, but at home, I have named my computers after characters and settings in the book The Neverending Story. My main computer is named Perilin, and my LAN's gateway to the Internet is named Sphynx.
My roommate, however, doesn't want to follow that convention. His computer is named "sexmachine"...
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Though I trust Tom's Hardware with their benchmarks and recommendations, I have to question the details when it comes to their writing.
Unless I'm missing something, what are these DIE devices and cables they talk about here and here? Could they possibly mean IDE cables? Though the article is in English, perhaps IDE is the same as DIE in another language.
They are also confusing Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and I really hope they aren't compiling Linux under Windows 2000, as someone mentioned earlier. All the benchmarks are run under Windows 2000, yet they state that Lame MP3 Encoder under Windows XP was used. When describing the benchmarks, they state that they chose not to use Sysmark 2001 because values can fluctuate under Windows XP. Am I supposed to assume they don't trust it under Windows 2000? They need to state that, not leave us to assume, if they meant to say XP at all.
I'm just picking nits, but I think if you are going to write a technical review, you must be accurate and specific.
I guess those years of Reading Rainbow really paid off...
MRE? The military already has that acronym for Meals Ready to Eat. Kinda the similar though... MREs are virtual food.
You may want to check out an ePods Internet Appliance. The company went out of business, and their product is highly hackable. Coincidence?
:P
It is slow by today's computing standards but should serve as a digital picture frame just fine. You can put a 10Mb/s wireless card in it to pull the pictures off a network server or you can use a CompactFlash card. The CompactFlash card may be necessary because the ePods comes with little memory and runs at 256 colors by default. One of the hacks is to get it using 16-bit color, but it takes up most of the ePods' internal memory. New programs may need to be stored on the CompactFlash card.
Here's the catch: It runs Windows CE, and to hack it, you need another Windows box to transfer the hacked files to it. I took mine to work and hacked it there. I didn't want to attempt getting Linux ported to it.
It seems like there are a lot of downsides to using the ePods, and to overcome those downsides you have to spend some extra money beyond the cost of the ePods itself. I'm just trying to spread some info here. I'm going to give all this a shot, since I already have an ePods.
Being a science-fiction fan, what is your opinion of Babylon 5? Did you watch it? If so, how do you compare its writing, originality, and special effects with the Trek-of-the-Day? Did you want to make an appearance on the show?
:)
I know Babylon 5's run was near the time you were driven out of Florida by the "pigs-in-a-blanket-fiasco" so you may not have gotten the chance to see it.
XBox Tech employees: They are supposed to pay us? D'oh!
I don't have any control of server names at work, but at home, I have named my computers after characters and settings in the book The Neverending Story. My main computer is named Perilin, and my LAN's gateway to the Internet is named Sphynx.
My roommate, however, doesn't want to follow that convention. His computer is named "sexmachine"...
-Darren