I take offense to the "garbage pickers" comment, we prefer to be called "dumpster divers." I would say that when I pulled stuff out of PC repair shop dumpsters, over half worked or could be cobbled together. My main 17 inch monitor needed a flyback adjustment, it works ok but is start to flake out (2 to 3 years later) My file server for the LAN with a dumpsterdived board, CPU, cooler, PSU case and tape drive(s) has over 120 days uptime on it. Hell, in 2001-2002 I pulled a P3 700 with PSU, board and chip out of a dumpster, took it home and powered it up. I stopped buying new hardware for the most part except drives and RAM, as these are hardest to get for obvious reasons. Only prob is when the.coms seemed to become.noms the supply dried up.
But back to the main branch, Has anyone ever tried to destroy a modern mainboard? Is it just me or is their resistance against blades just astronomical?
as far as it goes, 2.4 ghz wireless is on an "unlicensed" band as is the car radar probably. It's probably all under 100 mW, so it's not exactly high power. The 902-928 mhz range is used by a lot of people, it's "unlicensed" as well. Cordless phones, certain hospital equipment, garage door openers etc. etc. are used here. Amateur radio is a secondary user. From a legal standpoint, the weather people should have lobbied for exclusive use on this band if they needed it that damn badly. Then again, with the power company pushing broadband over power lines, it'll trash anything below 100 mhz and is a similar sitiuation EXCEPT one thing; The bands are all alocated to specific uses, therefore any interfereance to them is illegal. Anything in the unlicensed segment gets a "shit happens" attitude in the eyes of the law.
heh, Intel finally got it's head out of it's rear end in my opinion and saw the virtues of the P-3 cores. The Tulatin benches that were out there when AMD was hammering Intel on the P-4 were incredible, beating out the AMD chips of the same clock speed and violating P-4s with a clock %25 higher. Intel chose marketing though, a 3.8 ghz chip is a victory to them I guess. The P-4 was *not* a popular chip originally, even though that was partly due to the whole rambus debocal. I'll believe that when I see it though, I don't think Intel would do it if only for the reason it's not as marketable.
I'm not anti-gentoo or linux from scratch. I get a huge kick out of the kiddies though. I'm particularly fond of the type that bounce from distribution to distribution until they find one that configures some application for them.
I think you're half ways on the point here. I personally "bounced" between half a dozen different distros before I decided on Slackware. Why did I do this? Because whenever I was playing around with Linux, I would end up changing it to be more like Slackware anyways. If you're gonna end up running something other then a bone stock install you may as well run something that is closest to suiting your needs, be it RH, SuSE, Gentoo etc. Afterall, why take an X-oriented RPM based distro like RH and then reconfigure it to be more console dominant and recompile everything from.tgz files? It's a waste of time and effort.
probably, but most pneumatic potato guns are fired with a rain bird solenoid valve used in sprinkler systems. Very easy to use remotely, heck wrig you computer up to set em off =)
This one has probably been said, but there's the story of a GRiD laptop in Gulf War mark I. Some guy in a chopper was taking off and the thing fell out from 60 feet up. Well, the guy lands, him and his buddy take it to their tech. They go "this laptop's broken, we need another one." The tech asked him if he'd tried to power it up, he said no. Turns out it powered up and booted into DOS just fine. Oh yeah, it was a magnesium cased laptop btw. (got one in the garage, need to light it up)
it may be the truth, but it's just the idea of someone who's got a %100+ markup above what people could buy something on the internet for complaining that there are people out there who are trying to save $1.25 worth of tax like it's a big deal. The other thing is this:just because they're not located in your state, does this make them not need employees or space? Just something to dwell on, afterall I doubt these packages with $5 worth of shipping were packed for free by the owner's kids at their home.
pardon me if I'm acting as a troll, that is far from my intention. I guess I need a few narratives to make my point. Take for instance last time I went to buy a computer. I went to a "brick and moarter store, and wanted to buy a 1200 mhz Athlon (yes, I know older then dirt now but plenty fast in it's day and to this day) The price quoted me was well over $250 and on the edge of $300. I went online and got the chip for $115 shipped.
I know that a brick and moarter shop has to have the markups for their expenses, but quite frankly the %200+ markups some of these places have is just flat out on the virge of extortion. (I'll make the assumption that they were getting their chips at the same price I was due to the folley in keeping excessive stock of tech goods like that on hand in a rapidly changing enviroment, but if they didn't buy 20 of them and get an even better deal I'd be surprised) All the same if $145 is "pennies" then I I'm guilty of being a cheapskate. If cheapskae=smart consumer, then I'm doubly guilty.
This brings me to the next part of my story. I know a guy that wanted a computer built for him, and he didn't want to wait. You know what he did, he went into a similar shop and other local brick and mortar retailers, and spent $1400 even though his brother (who is very computer literate I may add) advised him he could get the same parts at the time for about half the cost via the interent. By my assayment of what he got it was a VERY accurate guestimate as well. The point being is that you DO NOT go to a brick and moarter retailer to get a good deal, you go to one because they're there. If they know they're the only game in town, they can have a high markup. If not, they have to at least keep prices sane or have only the people who don't know better go to their establishment.
I understand where you're coming from as a businessman and everything, but it's competition, and there are tradeoffs made. The truth being is that I will pay extra to go to places as long as their prices are decent and the people who will assist my purchase choices know their stuff and are helpful (I've got a %#&@ list of places I try to avoid shopping at even if they are cheap because they treat their customers like garbage.
Sorry bout the length of this rant, suffering from IRC withdrawl)
that's easy, you just don't sign your return and have a note attached to it that says you won't incriminate yourself. There's already precedence for this, too lazy to google it hoever =0
The traditional ECMs on most vehicles are based on motorola ICs, and a lot of GM stuff isn't even epoxy encased. far as these boxes go, I'm not sure if they are or not. From the way it's described, the way these work is that whenever a sensor goes off it changes the state on something like a 24CLX chip (where X=capacity) to where it's write protected. wouldn't it be easy to either A)make the chip always write protected or B)make the chip never write protect even if an "event" occured. Unlike back in the "good ol days" where companies like Uniden produced propriatary ICs that tend to be a pain in the ass to reverse engineer all the ICs used in such boxes are probably industry standard and therefore their purpose is very easily to figure out. However, I take no liability for these thoughts being used in an airbag computer disarmorment attempt. (I can see some poor schmuch cracking some ribs by tripping his airbag)
It's not really the integration that I object to, some things are nice to have. But on the other side, Word being integrated? Why do you need Word on a server, for a server you need one text editor; NOTEPAD.
"several generations" the IBM PC (5150) had a minimal of 16k RAM up to 64K memory. On the other hand the 5160 (PC/XT) had a minimum of 64K increasing the bottom end. Early batches had a max of 256K memory, and by 1986 (the end of the XT's production) they had boards that maxed out at 640K. There must have been some need for 640K, otherwise it wouldn't have been avalible. For the "256K" boards they made things such as the AST "6 pack plus" to allow expansion to 640K. The AT series machines had boards such as the "Orchid Blossom II" that allowed expansion to 24 megs in theory, in reality 16 was usually all you'd max out at, with the release in 1987. I'm not even gonna get into I386, I've NEVER seeen one with less then a meg of memory. from the PC to the XT to the AT to 386 there's maybe 4 generations and that's stretching it, even within 3 there was obviously some need for more RAM otherwise products such as the "6 pack plus" would have never come into existance, as well as the fact that they wouldn't have bothered adding the expanded capabilities to the 2 and 386 machines, and nowhere near "several generations." not debating wether or not he said the quote in debate, if he did he said "ever" not "for several generations" now didn't he?
Err, slack will probably be the last to go to DVD media, in fact the philosophy of Patrick is to fit the entire set of install binaries on one CD. I'm real surprised that they even needed a second SRC CD. Slack has been a 3 CD collection since I can remember (7.0) While this doesn't lend to having everything, slackware isn't that kind of a Linux distro. I've run Linux since god knows when (~Jan-1999) and Slackware is quite honestly the distro that has changed the least, I've run most everything too; OpenLinux, SuSE (4.4.1 I may add, 2.0 days) RH, and so on and so forth. None are even cloes to Slackware's style, Slack isn't about getting everything you need out of the box, it's about not getting all the crap you don't. I will end this rant by saying that Slack proves there is a difference between using Linux and Running Linux, and as they say have a lot of fun =)
everyone forgets the fact that liabel and slander are expressly forbidden in the first ammendment as well, consider that if what SCO says isn't true (they havn't proven it yet) Redhat may be owed damages by SCO for the "defacment of their valuable name" or some BS like that. At the very least, it'll force SCO to break out the code. After this suit RH needs to sue SCO for slander, own them and end this whole affair with the death of SCO. That is, after devaluing their stock hopefully before the execs can dump it.
count on the power co. having to come and pull the meter if your main line is b0rked, you're not going to be able just to use the main breaker. my advice is do the main first, then start alternating downwards. You're going to have to do a lot of legwork in the attic/crawl space, do not remove the lines untill you can use them to fish new ones, it's a lot easier. If you do, get a small piece of the flat chain with a 1 ounce lead weight or the likes on the end, and you drop it down the wall and fish it out through the hole. from what it sounds like you hit a leg of the main line on the pipe or whatever, I'd replace it for sure then only replace lines that have dry rot and/or severe cracking. Far as it goes, replace with the same gauge wire, or maybe bigger. One thing electricians like to do is slack off and run #12 if they can do it at all, instead of running a piece of #10 which they should be doing. Even if they use aluminum, use copper wire, don't even touch the aluminum. It's got nasty oxidation issues, and unless you apply the anti oxidiser stuff to the wire where it's stripped you have to worry about fires. Don't count on everything being the same gauge wire either, that can get you into trouble. seriously, get an electrician to at least help you out if you have any doubts about your competence in this project. Label all your lines well at the box whenver you get them redone too, that way you don't have to worry about the next time you crack your box. Just a few thoughts from someone who has been playing with 110 way too long (since I was 8);)
My writing was so bad they gave me a frickin computer to use in the third grade (coincidence?). I have my suspicions it was for a few different reasons, one of which was the fact I'm a lefty and the techniques they use to teach cursive to children was for right handed people, which would more then likely cause issues. They're essentially asking you to do all your stuff backwards, and don't think about it. Then again, my writing has as of yet to straighten out, and probably never will. My mom's a lefty, and she's got the same problem too btw.
It changed me all right, I could have been doing something else with the 6 years I spent playing that game;) But seriously, I loved that game. Never beat it though, still trying. Drat!
they're probably accurate for historical context, raw designs, conceptual stuff etc. It's good for their PR, and I'd compare it more to Abandonware software rather then books due to the limited useful life of the publications.
I must say that hooking on an admin is a very good thought. I had one that helped me keep my sanity in HS, best way to get yer foot in the door is probably to offer to fix machines for em now and then. (always worked for me) I also got lotsa free hardware out of the deal, even to the point I got called over the summer several times before to rummage. All right, back on topic. After you get in cool with the fellow, I'd ask about his support for the club. On the topic of the warez/mp3s I've known some HS admin that would trade with the students, so don't assume that warez are automaticly forbidden, just make them something that people look the other way at provided the fellow's cool. Besides a room and some approved advertising, probably the best contribution would be old hardware though. It's not like back when I started HS, you were lucky to get 12 mhz boxes back then, the old HS I went to just put out dozens on dozens of P-1s (stole the PSUs for the caps inside, makin a big bank) Oh well, enough of these tired rants. math calls. Oh yeah, don't put a tesla coil inside the computer lab, that's bad.
Yeah, no kidding. Admin thought I was crazy after I was in a D&D group back when, or perhaps a devil worshipper. (assistant principal probably made Buchannon look leftist) funny though, we were the quietest during lunch, unlike the basketball people rioting every other week. Oh well, back to math and the 4-250A based tesla coil design;)
My friend started an anime club with the school in Alabama, he just asked the prinicpal. Just be honest, state why you want to start the club, how you're going to do it and what you'll need if anything besides approval. Oh yeah, don't be surprised/be prepared for by a big turnout. My friend who started the anime club got about 50 people joining up, he was originally thinking a dozen to be good. All in the middle of Alabama. who'd have guessed? I'm not saying that it'll happen automaticly, just not a good idea to get caught off gaurd.
I hate to say it, but I agree with the fellow. IBM is big, remember how they trashed the people who cloned microchannel? SCO won't stand on their own, Microsoft will have to probably move hundreds of millions if not billions into the coffers of SCO to get victory. The IRS gets info on any transaction over 10 grand, so if it's not leaked internally, the IRS is sure to leak it on one level or another. I'll wager that IBM will find something to countersue on after this, and will either run SCO into the ground or end up owning them, as well as start harassing Caldera, which I believe is their parent corp. (They've got that "openunix" now instead of a Gnu/Linux style OS)
We have a couple labs I used to take care of in part, we had a pile of IBM monitors and a lot of Viewsonics. The Veiwsonics are still crisp as ever, the IBMs however have had lots of em cracked to take care of blurriness issues, and a few have died entirely. The Viewsonics however have remained entirely stable, with little sign of wear in a high use enviroment. Wish I hadn't traded off mine:/
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I take offense to the "garbage pickers" comment, we prefer to be called "dumpster divers." I would say that when I pulled stuff out of PC repair shop dumpsters, over half worked or could be cobbled together. My main 17 inch monitor needed a flyback adjustment, it works ok but is start to flake out (2 to 3 years later) My file server for the LAN with a dumpsterdived board, CPU, cooler, PSU case and tape drive(s) has over 120 days uptime on it. Hell, in 2001-2002 I pulled a P3 700 with PSU, board and chip out of a dumpster, took it home and powered it up. I stopped buying new hardware for the most part except drives and RAM, as these are hardest to get for obvious reasons. Only prob is when the .coms seemed to become .noms the supply dried up.
But back to the main branch, Has anyone ever tried to destroy a modern mainboard? Is it just me or is their resistance against blades just astronomical?
as far as it goes, 2.4 ghz wireless is on an "unlicensed" band as is the car radar probably. It's probably all under 100 mW, so it's not exactly high power. The 902-928 mhz range is used by a lot of people, it's "unlicensed" as well. Cordless phones, certain hospital equipment, garage door openers etc. etc. are used here. Amateur radio is a secondary user. From a legal standpoint, the weather people should have lobbied for exclusive use on this band if they needed it that damn badly. Then again, with the power company pushing broadband over power lines, it'll trash anything below 100 mhz and is a similar sitiuation EXCEPT one thing; The bands are all alocated to specific uses, therefore any interfereance to them is illegal. Anything in the unlicensed segment gets a "shit happens" attitude in the eyes of the law.
heh, Intel finally got it's head out of it's rear end in my opinion and saw the virtues of the P-3 cores. The Tulatin benches that were out there when AMD was hammering Intel on the P-4 were incredible, beating out the AMD chips of the same clock speed and violating P-4s with a clock %25 higher. Intel chose marketing though, a 3.8 ghz chip is a victory to them I guess. The P-4 was *not* a popular chip originally, even though that was partly due to the whole rambus debocal. I'll believe that when I see it though, I don't think Intel would do it if only for the reason it's not as marketable.
I'm not anti-gentoo or linux from scratch. I get a huge kick out of the kiddies though. I'm particularly fond of the type that bounce from distribution to distribution until they find one that configures some application for them.
.tgz files? It's a waste of time and effort.
I think you're half ways on the point here. I personally "bounced" between half a dozen different distros before I decided on Slackware. Why did I do this? Because whenever I was playing around with Linux, I would end up changing it to be more like Slackware anyways. If you're gonna end up running something other then a bone stock install you may as well run something that is closest to suiting your needs, be it RH, SuSE, Gentoo etc. Afterall, why take an X-oriented RPM based distro like RH and then reconfigure it to be more console dominant and recompile everything from
probably, but most pneumatic potato guns are fired with a rain bird solenoid valve used in sprinkler systems. Very easy to use remotely, heck wrig you computer up to set em off =)
it's called pneumatic potato guns, a hillbilly's delight if you will. www.xinventions.com
This one has probably been said, but there's the story of a GRiD laptop in Gulf War mark I. Some guy in a chopper was taking off and the thing fell out from 60 feet up. Well, the guy lands, him and his buddy take it to their tech. They go "this laptop's broken, we need another one." The tech asked him if he'd tried to power it up, he said no. Turns out it powered up and booted into DOS just fine. Oh yeah, it was a magnesium cased laptop btw. (got one in the garage, need to light it up)
it may be the truth, but it's just the idea of someone who's got a %100+ markup above what people could buy something on the internet for complaining that there are people out there who are trying to save $1.25 worth of tax like it's a big deal. The other thing is this:just because they're not located in your state, does this make them not need employees or space? Just something to dwell on, afterall I doubt these packages with $5 worth of shipping were packed for free by the owner's kids at their home.
pardon me if I'm acting as a troll, that is far from my intention. I guess I need a few narratives to make my point. Take for instance last time I went to buy a computer. I went to a "brick and moarter store, and wanted to buy a 1200 mhz Athlon (yes, I know older then dirt now but plenty fast in it's day and to this day) The price quoted me was well over $250 and on the edge of $300. I went online and got the chip for $115 shipped.
I know that a brick and moarter shop has to have the markups for their expenses, but quite frankly the %200+ markups some of these places have is just flat out on the virge of extortion. (I'll make the assumption that they were getting their chips at the same price I was due to the folley in keeping excessive stock of tech goods like that on hand in a rapidly changing enviroment, but if they didn't buy 20 of them and get an even better deal I'd be surprised) All the same if $145 is "pennies" then I I'm guilty of being a cheapskate. If cheapskae=smart consumer, then I'm doubly guilty.
This brings me to the next part of my story. I know a guy that wanted a computer built for him, and he didn't want to wait. You know what he did, he went into a similar shop and other local brick and mortar retailers, and spent $1400 even though his brother (who is very computer literate I may add) advised him he could get the same parts at the time for about half the cost via the interent. By my assayment of what he got it was a VERY accurate guestimate as well. The point being is that you DO NOT go to a brick and moarter retailer to get a good deal, you go to one because they're there. If they know they're the only game in town, they can have a high markup. If not, they have to at least keep prices sane or have only the people who don't know better go to their establishment.
I understand where you're coming from as a businessman and everything, but it's competition, and there are tradeoffs made. The truth being is that I will pay extra to go to places as long as their prices are decent and the people who will assist my purchase choices know their stuff and are helpful (I've got a %#&@ list of places I try to avoid shopping at even if they are cheap because they treat their customers like garbage.
Sorry bout the length of this rant, suffering from IRC withdrawl)
that's easy, you just don't sign your return and have a note attached to it that says you won't incriminate yourself. There's already precedence for this, too lazy to google it hoever =0
The traditional ECMs on most vehicles are based on motorola ICs, and a lot of GM stuff isn't even epoxy encased. far as these boxes go, I'm not sure if they are or not. From the way it's described, the way these work is that whenever a sensor goes off it changes the state on something like a 24CLX chip (where X=capacity) to where it's write protected. wouldn't it be easy to either A)make the chip always write protected or B)make the chip never write protect even if an "event" occured. Unlike back in the "good ol days" where companies like Uniden produced propriatary ICs that tend to be a pain in the ass to reverse engineer all the ICs used in such boxes are probably industry standard and therefore their purpose is very easily to figure out. However, I take no liability for these thoughts being used in an airbag computer disarmorment attempt. (I can see some poor schmuch cracking some ribs by tripping his airbag)
It's not really the integration that I object to, some things are nice to have. But on the other side, Word being integrated? Why do you need Word on a server, for a server you need one text editor; NOTEPAD.
"several generations" the IBM PC (5150) had a minimal of 16k RAM up to 64K memory. On the other hand the 5160 (PC/XT) had a minimum of 64K increasing the bottom end. Early batches had a max of 256K memory, and by 1986 (the end of the XT's production) they had boards that maxed out at 640K. There must have been some need for 640K, otherwise it wouldn't have been avalible. For the "256K" boards they made things such as the AST "6 pack plus" to allow expansion to 640K. The AT series machines had boards such as the "Orchid Blossom II" that allowed expansion to 24 megs in theory, in reality 16 was usually all you'd max out at, with the release in 1987. I'm not even gonna get into I386, I've NEVER seeen one with less then a meg of memory. from the PC to the XT to the AT to 386 there's maybe 4 generations and that's stretching it, even within 3 there was obviously some need for more RAM otherwise products such as the "6 pack plus" would have never come into existance, as well as the fact that they wouldn't have bothered adding the expanded capabilities to the 2 and 386 machines, and nowhere near "several generations." not debating wether or not he said the quote in debate, if he did he said "ever" not "for several generations" now didn't he?
Err, slack will probably be the last to go to DVD media, in fact the philosophy of Patrick is to fit the entire set of install binaries on one CD. I'm real surprised that they even needed a second SRC CD. Slack has been a 3 CD collection since I can remember (7.0) While this doesn't lend to having everything, slackware isn't that kind of a Linux distro. I've run Linux since god knows when (~Jan-1999) and Slackware is quite honestly the distro that has changed the least, I've run most everything too; OpenLinux, SuSE (4.4.1 I may add, 2.0 days) RH, and so on and so forth. None are even cloes to Slackware's style, Slack isn't about getting everything you need out of the box, it's about not getting all the crap you don't. I will end this rant by saying that Slack proves there is a difference between using Linux and Running Linux, and as they say have a lot of fun =)
everyone forgets the fact that liabel and slander are expressly forbidden in the first ammendment as well, consider that if what SCO says isn't true (they havn't proven it yet) Redhat may be owed damages by SCO for the "defacment of their valuable name" or some BS like that. At the very least, it'll force SCO to break out the code. After this suit RH needs to sue SCO for slander, own them and end this whole affair with the death of SCO. That is, after devaluing their stock hopefully before the execs can dump it.
count on the power co. having to come and pull the meter if your main line is b0rked, you're not going to be able just to use the main breaker. my advice is do the main first, then start alternating downwards. You're going to have to do a lot of legwork in the attic/crawl space, do not remove the lines untill you can use them to fish new ones, it's a lot easier. If you do, get a small piece of the flat chain with a 1 ounce lead weight or the likes on the end, and you drop it down the wall and fish it out through the hole. from what it sounds like you hit a leg of the main line on the pipe or whatever, I'd replace it for sure then only replace lines that have dry rot and/or severe cracking. Far as it goes, replace with the same gauge wire, or maybe bigger. One thing electricians like to do is slack off and run #12 if they can do it at all, instead of running a piece of #10 which they should be doing. Even if they use aluminum, use copper wire, don't even touch the aluminum. It's got nasty oxidation issues, and unless you apply the anti oxidiser stuff to the wire where it's stripped you have to worry about fires. Don't count on everything being the same gauge wire either, that can get you into trouble. seriously, get an electrician to at least help you out if you have any doubts about your competence in this project. Label all your lines well at the box whenver you get them redone too, that way you don't have to worry about the next time you crack your box. Just a few thoughts from someone who has been playing with 110 way too long (since I was 8) ;)
My writing was so bad they gave me a frickin computer to use in the third grade (coincidence?). I have my suspicions it was for a few different reasons, one of which was the fact I'm a lefty and the techniques they use to teach cursive to children was for right handed people, which would more then likely cause issues. They're essentially asking you to do all your stuff backwards, and don't think about it. Then again, my writing has as of yet to straighten out, and probably never will. My mom's a lefty, and she's got the same problem too btw.
Radio Shack has some ham radio books on clearance, get a license before I beat you to it! ;) They're under a buck each before tax, just a thought.
It changed me all right, I could have been doing something else with the 6 years I spent playing that game ;) But seriously, I loved that game. Never beat it though, still trying. Drat!
they're probably accurate for historical context, raw designs, conceptual stuff etc. It's good for their PR, and I'd compare it more to Abandonware software rather then books due to the limited useful life of the publications.
I must say that hooking on an admin is a very good thought. I had one that helped me keep my sanity in HS, best way to get yer foot in the door is probably to offer to fix machines for em now and then. (always worked for me) I also got lotsa free hardware out of the deal, even to the point I got called over the summer several times before to rummage. All right, back on topic. After you get in cool with the fellow, I'd ask about his support for the club. On the topic of the warez/mp3s I've known some HS admin that would trade with the students, so don't assume that warez are automaticly forbidden, just make them something that people look the other way at provided the fellow's cool. Besides a room and some approved advertising, probably the best contribution would be old hardware though. It's not like back when I started HS, you were lucky to get 12 mhz boxes back then, the old HS I went to just put out dozens on dozens of P-1s (stole the PSUs for the caps inside, makin a big bank) Oh well, enough of these tired rants. math calls. Oh yeah, don't put a tesla coil inside the computer lab, that's bad.
Yeah, no kidding. Admin thought I was crazy after I was in a D&D group back when, or perhaps a devil worshipper. (assistant principal probably made Buchannon look leftist) funny though, we were the quietest during lunch, unlike the basketball people rioting every other week. Oh well, back to math and the 4-250A based tesla coil design ;)
My friend started an anime club with the school in Alabama, he just asked the prinicpal. Just be honest, state why you want to start the club, how you're going to do it and what you'll need if anything besides approval. Oh yeah, don't be surprised/be prepared for by a big turnout. My friend who started the anime club got about 50 people joining up, he was originally thinking a dozen to be good. All in the middle of Alabama. who'd have guessed? I'm not saying that it'll happen automaticly, just not a good idea to get caught off gaurd.
I hate to say it, but I agree with the fellow. IBM is big, remember how they trashed the people who cloned microchannel? SCO won't stand on their own, Microsoft will have to probably move hundreds of millions if not billions into the coffers of SCO to get victory. The IRS gets info on any transaction over 10 grand, so if it's not leaked internally, the IRS is sure to leak it on one level or another. I'll wager that IBM will find something to countersue on after this, and will either run SCO into the ground or end up owning them, as well as start harassing Caldera, which I believe is their parent corp. (They've got that "openunix" now instead of a Gnu/Linux style OS)
We have a couple labs I used to take care of in part, we had a pile of IBM monitors and a lot of Viewsonics. The Veiwsonics are still crisp as ever, the IBMs however have had lots of em cracked to take care of blurriness issues, and a few have died entirely. The Viewsonics however have remained entirely stable, with little sign of wear in a high use enviroment. Wish I hadn't traded off mine :/