I just got off the phone with Senator Edward Houck's secretary. She informed me that this was first call they have recieved regarding this matter. This is very disappointing. I also sent an e-mail opposing UCITA.
Wrong. Microsoft sort of forced them into installing it by giving discounts for bundling Windows. The marketing genius of Microsoft. I've seen even OEM companies believing that they HAD to sell Windows with a machine or it couldn't be sold. Alot of companies believed that they HAD to sell Windows with parts orders or almost complete machine orders...I was calling this the Microsoft Tax back in 1993.
It won't make a difference to anyone! The damage has been done. Doesn't matter if its appealed for years or expedited. The ruling does overall allow me and others to justify bitter feelings towards Microsoft...
Man is that a lie! Over a year ago I personally campaigned them to help with WINE project. I, and several email accounts, personally sent them repeated requests for Linux+Quickbooks solutions every day for months.
I was using Quickbooks under WINE with limited success. I couldn't print at all and some reports would cause it to crash. But entering and reviewing invoices was okay. This was with a April'ish version of WINE.
Yes, most PC Chips boards are terrible. Cool idea but extremely low quality. I think its a bad move for Corel to be associated with such a low quality company. Corel should have held out for a better company to do this with... I've got two of the PC Chips 7041LMR boards sitting here that have blown voltage regulators and there only 3 months old. PC Chips is junk...
Hey. I live in Fredericksburg, Virginia (actually Spotsylvania). We are 50 miles from D.C. or 45 miles from MAE EAST. We have DSL and almost Cable modems. Virginia is very net savy! There aren't many people or business I know around here that aren't on the net. Hell even the local laundry mats have web cams...
Watch my computer yard sale this saturday here. eservnet.com/yardsale
This is a way-cool combo. I can't wait to see what this team can accomplish. VA should lock these guys away with some 486/66's to test on and they Xeon's to compile... VA should make them a team and not scatter this awesome collection of talent amongst projects.
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I've been building/selling/tweaking computers for over 15 years. Most of the RETAIL versions of Intel CPUs overclock well and have great track records of longevity in my experience. The RETAIL version is worth spending extra money for if you plan on overclocking. We have many clients running OC'ed Intel PI/II CPUs with absolutely no complaints or failures. We haven't RMA'ed an Intel CPU in over a year.
The only processor I consistently have trouble with is AMD. Many of our economy line computers based on AMD processors have failure rates like 1 out of 5. We have in a month replaced 4 AMD K6-2 266 CPUs ranging from 3-7 months old. They just die, no boot, a variety system configurations, and locations. Last week a K6-2 350 in a hardly ever used Win95/WinFax machine. I don't like SlotKet idea. It reminds of those SIMM savers that broke sockets and got in the way of things. Honestly, I haven't tried them myself but its too much of a kludge. I have ordered a ABIT BP6 with retial 366's, PC-133 128MB(Enhanced). Can't wait to play with it.
I really hope/. is not making from there news posts. The banner ads are annoying enough. Now if they are sellings news space, then I must ask how much? How many hits a day this place get? How many impressions, as web banner people call it, would that be? Jeez, now that I think about it/. ought to be one of the most expensive places to place a banner add at? Guaranteed auidence that has some money to play around with and more likely to be savy enough to do online purchasing... Of course alot of/.'ers are probably filtering the banner ads anyways...At least I did for awhile but turned it off because a friend of mine did win a $3000 PII 400 machine from a banner ad promotion... BTW - Didn't the X10 promotion have almost nothing to do with/. anyways? Wasn't, I as re-read it, soley offered to Freshmeat? AND is Freshmeat a truely seperate entity or a RedHat operation?
I've gone postal before... In my employment transistions I worked for a trucking sub-contractor for US Postal Service delivering mail from a major bub to local postal offices. I actually made really good money, starting out at like $25/hr@38hrs a week. Though schedule sucked, starting work at 3:30am really got old. But there was always, at every office I delivered to, mail laying in loading dock, stuck in the scales, piled/swept into corners, flying out my cages into creavices of the trailer, flying out of cages during windy days, and so on... Only just before or during an postal office inspection would these items possibly resorted or worse trashed. Postal deliveries are 50/50 at best. Lets just say I read lots magazines I never subscribed too... And always someone else's copy of Playboy for few days or carefully examing Columbia Record packages...:) I always blame the post office for my late payments!
- Jeez, I'm rambling, bored on a Saturday night, a crying shame...
I would bet that maintainers of Freshmeat are saying "Cool! I'll put on this machine and that machine..." but hope thier not getting any real monitary kickback. Why would anyone premise need more than one Firecracker, other than cover more physical space? I really want to hear some estimates or accounts of reliability about this. If I set someone up are they going to tell me that it sometimes turn off the porch lights but not all the time like its supposed too? Its there a percentage I could quote, that it works 80-90% of time? I wanna hear some testimonials of accuracey and reliability. I have heard the modules can get confused and stop respond for several seconds. Though he seemed to be pressing the control buttons to fast, trying to find the light we wanted to control on an unmarked remote control.
How reliable is Firecracker? Does it make sure that the device did recieve the command? Or does it just send out a commmand and hope that the device got it? Can you extend the Firecracker device from the serial port, say 25' or so, to maybe get better transmission quality by mounting high on the wall or more centered in covering space? I mean most serial ports are on the back of large metal enclosure that puts out alot of frequencies interference. PC's are well known for limiting FM radio reception. I seriously would like to offer this simple low-cost automation solutions for commerical customers. And most all of my commerical customers have at least one Linux based server. This X10 stuff has really intriuged me, I hope this discussion isn't too old to get some response. How about temperaturing monitor with X10? Many of my Linux servers in the field are legacy equipment with no temperature monitoring at all and those 486DX4-1x0 will completely burnup and die without a fan. Is there OEM or aftermarket X10 hardware? I've seen that IBM and several other companies are reselling as thier own.
How many possible house codes are there? I know of people using these things as burglar alarms. How easy would it be to simply park out front of the home/business(yes, business running X10 as an alarm system) and simply keep turning things off? Is there an X10 dialer/pager? I have read about the "heyu" program which had endless possibilities. A quickie bash script and heyu I am thinking of making customers Linux servers automate the office, as in dimming lights, simple entrance monitoring, or using that XCAM as web CAM?! This X10 stuff seems REALLY REALLY neat but it seems to easy to defeat or messed with by anyone with $ 20.00 remote control. I definitely want, descibed in heyu docs, my workstation to wake-up monitor and greet me when I enter the room. If the heyu program works like is says it does X10 people ought to buy or give the author a great big thank you check.
Many moons ago I used to do high security for Honeywell. We were using, I believe Schlage, prototype hand scanners for SCIF room door access. One the contractors had to remove/fire an employee because he in fire and had litterally no finger prints left. Because his hand were constantly healing we couldn't get a consistent print from him. This was in '91 and thos things horribily unreliable. The scanners had a downloadable database via 1.44MB drive installed in it. I never could get hands on one long enough to think about hack'n it though... And of course we had some Navy security officer standing over me the whole time.
I've been using a machine without swap drive for several months. I have 128MB RAM. I had the swap drive on old Maxtor 170MB drive that finally croaked. Yes, Netscape is the only app I use that seems to take memory and not give it back. Eventually I have to shutdown Netscape (or wait for it to crash) and then re-launch it... When swap space is in need the machine definitely begins to crawl.
VA has name recognition. Machines I build are far faster, compatible, reliable and cheaper. We are currently revamping our company to be more Linux based. Wait to see our service and machines. Should be appearing July 5th.
Every flat panel I seen in person couldn't come close to crispness of my Sony CRT monitor. Does anyone make a flat panel display that can compare with.25dot CRT?
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I just got off the phone with Senator Edward Houck's secretary. She informed me that this was first call they have recieved regarding this matter. This is very disappointing.
I also sent an e-mail opposing UCITA.
Capitol Phone:(804) 698-7517
Ed's E-Mail: ehouck@fls.infi.net
I did my part.
Is there such an animal? A 3D accelerator in laptop would very cool.
With the oncoming Crusoe based notebooks why would anyone buy anything else? I would wait for Crusoe powered machines.
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Wrong. Microsoft sort of forced them into installing it by giving discounts for bundling Windows. The marketing genius of Microsoft.
I've seen even OEM companies believing that they HAD to sell Windows with a machine or it couldn't be sold. Alot of companies believed that they HAD to sell Windows with parts orders or almost complete machine orders...I was calling this the Microsoft Tax back in 1993.
It won't make a difference to anyone! The damage has been done. Doesn't matter if its appealed for years or expedited. The ruling does overall allow me and others to justify bitter feelings towards Microsoft...
Man is that a lie! Over a year ago I personally campaigned them to help with WINE project. I, and several email accounts, personally sent them repeated requests for Linux+Quickbooks solutions every day for months.
I was using Quickbooks under WINE with limited success. I couldn't print at all and some reports would cause it to crash. But entering and reviewing invoices was okay. This was with a April'ish version of WINE.
Yes, most PC Chips boards are terrible. Cool idea but extremely low quality. I think its a bad move for Corel to be associated with such a low quality company. Corel should have held out for a better company to do this with... I've got two of the PC Chips 7041LMR boards sitting here that have blown voltage regulators and there only 3 months old.
PC Chips is junk...
Hey. I live in Fredericksburg, Virginia (actually Spotsylvania). We are 50 miles from D.C. or 45 miles from MAE EAST. We have DSL and almost Cable modems.
Virginia is very net savy! There aren't many people or business I know around here that aren't on the net. Hell even the local laundry mats have web cams...
Watch my computer yard sale this saturday here.
eservnet.com/yardsale
This is a way-cool combo. I can't wait to see what this team can accomplish. VA should lock these guys away with some 486/66's to test on and they Xeon's to compile...
VA should make them a team and not scatter this awesome collection of talent amongst projects.
"ISS cracking abilities are viewed as childs play!"
I've been building/selling/tweaking computers for over 15 years. Most of the RETAIL versions of Intel CPUs overclock well and have great track records of longevity in my experience. The RETAIL version is worth spending extra money for if you plan on overclocking. We have many clients running OC'ed Intel PI/II CPUs with absolutely no complaints or failures. We haven't RMA'ed an Intel CPU in over a year.
The only processor I consistently have trouble with is AMD. Many of our economy line computers based on AMD processors have failure rates like 1 out of 5. We have in a month replaced 4 AMD K6-2 266 CPUs ranging from 3-7 months old. They just die, no boot, a variety system configurations, and locations. Last week a K6-2 350 in a hardly ever used Win95/WinFax machine.
I don't like SlotKet idea. It reminds of those SIMM savers that broke sockets and got in the way of things. Honestly, I haven't tried them myself but its too much of a kludge.
I have ordered a ABIT BP6 with retial 366's, PC-133 128MB(Enhanced). Can't wait to play with it.
I really hope /. is not making from there news posts. The banner ads are annoying enough. Now if they are sellings news space, then I must ask how much? How many hits a day this place get? How many impressions, as web banner people call it, would that be? /. ought to be one of the most expensive places to place a banner add at? Guaranteed auidence that has some money to play around with and more likely to be savy enough to do online purchasing... /.'ers are probably filtering the banner ads anyways...At least I did for awhile but turned it off because a friend of mine did win a $3000 PII 400 machine from a banner ad promotion... /. anyways? Wasn't, I as re-read it, soley offered to Freshmeat?
Jeez, now that I think about it
Of course alot of
BTW - Didn't the X10 promotion have almost nothing to do with
AND is Freshmeat a truely seperate entity or a RedHat operation?
I've gone postal before... In my employment transistions I worked for a trucking sub-contractor for US Postal Service delivering mail from a major bub to local postal offices. I actually made really good money, starting out at like $25/hr@38hrs a week. Though schedule sucked, starting work at 3:30am really got old. But there was always, at every office I delivered to, mail laying in loading dock, stuck in the scales, piled/swept into corners, flying out my cages into creavices of the trailer, flying out of cages during windy days, and so on... Only just before or during an postal office inspection would these items possibly resorted or worse trashed. :) I always blame the post office for my late payments!
Postal deliveries are 50/50 at best. Lets just say I read lots magazines I never subscribed too... And always someone else's copy of Playboy for few days or carefully examing Columbia Record packages...
- Jeez, I'm rambling, bored on a Saturday night, a crying shame...
I would bet that maintainers of Freshmeat are saying "Cool! I'll put on this machine and that machine..." but hope thier not getting any real monitary kickback.
Why would anyone premise need more than one Firecracker, other than cover more physical space?
I really want to hear some estimates or accounts of reliability about this. If I set someone up are they going to tell me that it sometimes turn off the porch lights but not all the time like its supposed too? Its there a percentage I could quote, that it works 80-90% of time?
I wanna hear some testimonials of accuracey and reliability. I have heard the modules can get confused and stop respond for several seconds. Though he seemed to be pressing the control buttons to fast, trying to find the light we wanted to control on an unmarked remote control.
How reliable is Firecracker? Does it make sure that the device did recieve the command? Or does it just send out a commmand and hope that the device got it?
Can you extend the Firecracker device from the serial port, say 25' or so, to maybe get better transmission quality by mounting high on the wall or more centered in covering space? I mean most serial ports are on the back of large metal enclosure that puts out alot of frequencies interference. PC's are well known for limiting FM radio reception.
I seriously would like to offer this simple low-cost automation solutions for commerical customers. And most all of my commerical customers have at least one Linux based server.
This X10 stuff has really intriuged me, I hope this discussion isn't too old to get some response.
How about temperaturing monitor with X10? Many of my Linux servers in the field are legacy equipment with no temperature monitoring at all and those 486DX4-1x0 will completely burnup and die without a fan.
Is there OEM or aftermarket X10 hardware? I've seen that IBM and several other companies are reselling as thier own.
How many possible house codes are there? I know of people using these things as burglar alarms. How easy would it be to simply park out front of the home/business(yes, business running X10 as an alarm system) and simply keep turning things off?
Is there an X10 dialer/pager? I have read about the "heyu" program which had endless possibilities. A quickie bash script and heyu I am thinking of making customers Linux servers automate the office, as in dimming lights, simple entrance monitoring, or using that XCAM as web CAM?!
This X10 stuff seems REALLY REALLY neat but it seems to easy to defeat or messed with by anyone with $ 20.00 remote control.
I definitely want, descibed in heyu docs, my workstation to wake-up monitor and greet me when I enter the room.
If the heyu program works like is says it does X10 people ought to buy or give the author a great big thank you check.
Many moons ago I used to do high security for Honeywell. We were using, I believe Schlage, prototype hand scanners for SCIF room door access. One the contractors had to remove/fire an employee because he in fire and had litterally no finger prints left. Because his hand were constantly healing we couldn't get a consistent print from him.
This was in '91 and thos things horribily unreliable. The scanners had a downloadable database via 1.44MB drive installed in it. I never could get hands on one long enough to think about hack'n it though... And of course we had some Navy security officer standing over me the whole time.
I've been using a machine without swap drive for several months. I have 128MB RAM. I had the swap drive on old Maxtor 170MB drive that finally croaked.
Yes, Netscape is the only app I use that seems to take memory and not give it back. Eventually I have to shutdown Netscape (or wait for it to crash) and then re-launch it...
When swap space is in need the machine definitely begins to crawl.
VA has name recognition. Machines I build are far faster, compatible, reliable and cheaper. We are currently revamping our company to be more Linux based. Wait to see our service and machines. Should be appearing July 5th.
I regularly consume over a 12 pack of Diet Coke per day. I wonder how much caffine is actually in a 12 ounce Diet Coke.
Still down. Any business association with AOL scares me...
I can't see Altavista being even 100 million? How in the world did they come up with that figure? Billion dollars worth of hardware?
Every flat panel I seen in person couldn't come close to crispness of my Sony CRT monitor. Does anyone make a flat panel display that can compare with .25dot CRT?
Me too! I'm only 45 minutes away... Totally lame!
Why are they moving it?
New York City?!
Get a rope!
That's what patches are for.