Then perhaps you should actually take a look at the sites linked. Both sites sell cases that match 3 of your four requirements.
1. Rarely will you find a premium case that comes with a power supply. Power users tend to want to add their own. The sites sell PS's from 331-530 watts. Happy?
2. 3-4 5.25 and 3 3.5's good enough? Standard on all of the cases listed.
3. Of course all cases are ATX. Why in the WORLD would anyone purchase a high end AT case these days? Crack.
4. The cases on PCMods have 3 fans (2 intake, 1 exhaust) and the CoolerMaster ATC (sold out, unfortunately) on Plycon has 2 of each type.
It sounds like the real problem here isn't your high standards, but your low bankroll.:)
Gosh, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that "On present evidence I believe that God does not exist, but I can't prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. If new evidence on the matter comes to light, I will re-evaluate my position" equates roughly to "(D) I don't know, but it's conceivable that it could be proven one way or the other."
Close enough for ya?
Sheesh, some people will use any excuse to pick a fight. I bet jesus wouldn't act like that.:)
-iscariot
I think that the authors of this article are
overlooking a very important possibillty.
Carrying around a portable nuke is bad, mkay?
However, carrying around a laptop with
comparable power to something of today's
pedigree,
with a highspeed wireless link to the small God living
in your concrete reinforced basement is a whole
other story. The concept of using a webpad or
PDA that's connected to multi-petaflop server
in your basement is a much more attainable,
and likely less dangerous one.
In any case, people might want to stop trying to
pack as much crap as humanly possible into the
tiniest package, and start finding a way for
small, relatively simple handheld appliances to
harness to power of supercomputing in real time.
There's no reason why you couldn't.
VPN's are fairly easy to set up, and provide
fairly strong encryption for all data that passes
over the wire. If you were for some reason concerned
about someone placing a sniffer on your local network
setting up a virtual network over the lan would not,
in fact, be a bad way to go. At this point it's
actually a little simpler than just deploying
IPSec on all the boxes (Especially if some of them
are Win9x/Nt4
As far as I'm concerned this is a MUCH more serious issue. ISP's have a right to charge for
IP's. It's a basic tenet of their business.
They hold the class C and above allocations, and
they dole it out to Joe End User so he can get on
the net. This service comes at a price.
I currently have 3 IP's from @home, for 4 computers
(one of which is a thin client that just gets X
sessions off another box).
This causes me substantially less headache, as
all computers can be on irc at the same time
as well as using any and all services that NAT
may or may not break.
Don't get me wrong. I think IPmasq and the various
win32 NAT's are great, and I've set them up for
several companies in the past. But to be quite
honest, one of the major reasons I chose to
purchase all my IP's was so that I _COULD_ make
use of a VPN. Prohibiting NAT forces users to shell
out a few more bucks a month. Big deal. Prohibiting
VPN's is going to piss off a lot of users who
simply want a secure way to do their work from
home.
This, IMO, is a much bigger issue.
I'm not sure I'm clear on this. People tend to bandy about the term "VPN" a lot, referring both to NAT, and to any flavor of encrypted
I can see the logic in @home outlawing NATs. More
IP sales == more revenue for them. IP's are one
of an ISPs major assets, and for a long time have
been a crucial part of the business model.
But VPN's? What do they have to gain from this?
It's not going to help them sell more IP's.
Having a NAT'ed network is the quickest way to
turn a fairly simple pptp connection into a
routing nightmare.
I'm a current @home user, and I telecommute at
least once a week. I do this through a conventional
VPN, as well as a public tunnel to the 6bone.
Which brings up another question: This connection
is not a "VPN" per se, but it _is_ an encrypted
tunnel to another network. Are they planning on
prohibiting this, as well?
Ah well, @home seemed to actually have their
act together lately, guess I was mistaken.
Might want to try actually typing those
examples in before you post. "cd \progra*"
works swimmingly under 2k. I've got an ME box
at home, too, (gaming machine) but I haven't
endeavoured to try it on there.
Actually, we just need to start supporting other CA's. They're out there, but Verisign has managed to make its name synonymous with Certification. A fairly large competitor is Id Certify. In addition to providing ssl certificates, they're doing a lot of cool stuff with other types of personal authentication, like a PGP- enabled keychain fob that plugs in to your USB port and certifies that you are, in fact, you.
In any case, while neither company is truly a monopoly, NSI does suck quite mightily, and Verisign is FAR from the last word on certs. Hopefully, the anti-conglomerate consensus will result in people making wider use of the alternative sources for name registration and certificate issuance.
Seek and ye shall find... The best portal out there for wearables right now (IMNSHO) is Wearables Central which links off to MIT's page, various independent pages, and a rather comprehensive list of hardware and software vendors.
Yummy stuff. I'm still waiting for my M1 to arrive, although I've been seeing more and more about Retinal Painting displays, like the one Thad Starner is sporting in this picture
Now _that_ is a HUD.
-Justin
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Use your head, man! Do you obviously think that the ancient romans actually dated things as "Such and Such BC"? Like they knew that there was going to be a messiah born in a few years? The establishment of BC and AD happened _after_ the fact... Some time into what we consider 'AD' if memory serves, too. And it did in fact start with 1 ad... If it was 0 years Before Christ, then it was obviously the first Year of Our Lord. (Not preaching, not religious, just using the terminology)
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There's no reason they couldn't be owned by Root/Wheel with 775 permissions, neh?
I agree with tomem, there aren't any logistical problems here, and it'll just be a matter of time before it's implemented.
-judas
Then perhaps you should actually take a look at the sites linked. Both sites sell cases that match 3 of your four requirements.
:)
1. Rarely will you find a premium case that comes with a power supply. Power users tend to want to add their own. The sites sell PS's from 331-530 watts. Happy?
2. 3-4 5.25 and 3 3.5's good enough? Standard on all of the cases listed.
3. Of course all cases are ATX. Why in the WORLD would anyone purchase a high end AT case these days? Crack.
4. The cases on PCMods have 3 fans (2 intake, 1 exhaust) and the CoolerMaster ATC (sold out, unfortunately) on Plycon has 2 of each type.
It sounds like the real problem here isn't your high standards, but your low bankroll.
-Judas
Gosh, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that "On present evidence I believe that God does not exist, but I can't prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. If new evidence on the matter comes to light, I will re-evaluate my position" equates roughly to "(D) I don't know, but it's conceivable that it could be proven one way or the other." Close enough for ya? Sheesh, some people will use any excuse to pick a fight. I bet jesus wouldn't act like that. :)
-iscariot
I think that the authors of this article are
overlooking a very important possibillty.
Carrying around a portable nuke is bad, mkay?
However, carrying around a laptop with
comparable power to something of today's
pedigree,
with a highspeed wireless link to the small God living
in your concrete reinforced basement is a whole
other story. The concept of using a webpad or
PDA that's connected to multi-petaflop server
in your basement is a much more attainable,
and likely less dangerous one.
In any case, people might want to stop trying to
pack as much crap as humanly possible into the
tiniest package, and start finding a way for
small, relatively simple handheld appliances to
harness to power of supercomputing in real time.
-judas
There's no reason why you couldn't.
VPN's are fairly easy to set up, and provide
fairly strong encryption for all data that passes
over the wire. If you were for some reason concerned
about someone placing a sniffer on your local network
setting up a virtual network over the lan would not,
in fact, be a bad way to go. At this point it's
actually a little simpler than just deploying
IPSec on all the boxes (Especially if some of them
are Win9x/Nt4
-judas
As far as I'm concerned this is a MUCH more
serious issue. ISP's have a right to charge for
IP's. It's a basic tenet of their business.
They hold the class C and above allocations, and
they dole it out to Joe End User so he can get on
the net. This service comes at a price.
I currently have 3 IP's from @home, for 4 computers
(one of which is a thin client that just gets X sessions off another box).
This causes me substantially less headache, as
all computers can be on irc at the same time
as well as using any and all services that NAT
may or may not break.
Don't get me wrong. I think IPmasq and the various
win32 NAT's are great, and I've set them up for
several companies in the past. But to be quite
honest, one of the major reasons I chose to
purchase all my IP's was so that I _COULD_ make
use of a VPN. Prohibiting NAT forces users to shell
out a few more bucks a month. Big deal. Prohibiting
VPN's is going to piss off a lot of users who
simply want a secure way to do their work from
home.
This, IMO, is a much bigger issue.
-judas
I'm not sure I'm clear on this. People tend to
bandy about the term "VPN" a lot, referring both
to NAT, and to any flavor of encrypted
I can see the logic in @home outlawing NATs. More
IP sales == more revenue for them. IP's are one
of an ISPs major assets, and for a long time have
been a crucial part of the business model.
But VPN's? What do they have to gain from this?
It's not going to help them sell more IP's.
Having a NAT'ed network is the quickest way to
turn a fairly simple pptp connection into a
routing nightmare.
I'm a current @home user, and I telecommute at
least once a week. I do this through a conventional
VPN, as well as a public tunnel to the 6bone.
Which brings up another question: This connection
is not a "VPN" per se, but it _is_ an encrypted
tunnel to another network. Are they planning on
prohibiting this, as well?
Ah well, @home seemed to actually have their
act together lately, guess I was mistaken.
(Off to reread the "roll your own dsl" articles)
-judas
Might want to try actually typing those
examples in before you post. "cd \progra*"
works swimmingly under 2k. I've got an ME box
at home, too, (gaming machine) but I haven't
endeavoured to try it on there.
-judas
Actually, we just need to start supporting other
CA's. They're out there, but Verisign has managed
to make its name synonymous with Certification.
A fairly large competitor is Id Certify.
In addition to providing ssl certificates,
they're doing a lot of cool stuff with other
types of personal authentication, like a PGP-
enabled keychain fob that plugs in to your USB
port and certifies that you are, in fact, you.
In any case, while neither company is truly a
monopoly, NSI does suck quite mightily, and
Verisign is FAR from the last word on certs.
Hopefully, the anti-conglomerate consensus will
result in people making wider use of the
alternative sources for name registration and
certificate issuance.
-justin
"Carrot Juice is Murder", sometimes the most :)
obvious answer is the right one.
-Judas
IBM's fabbing for 'em. What do you think their
nifty new wearables are gonna be running?
Motorola has no excuse though, I have to concur.
Don't know if it comes with matching trunks
or not, but you can always check out the WetPC
from AIMS, the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
-Justin
Seek and ye shall find... The best portal out there for wearables right now (IMNSHO) is Wearables Central
which links off to MIT's page, various independent pages, and a rather comprehensive list of hardware and
software vendors.
Yummy stuff. I'm still waiting for my M1 to arrive, although I've been seeing more and more about Retinal
Painting displays, like the one Thad Starner is sporting in this picture
Now _that_ is a HUD.
-Justin
Use your head, man! Do you obviously think that the ancient romans actually dated things as "Such and Such BC"? Like they knew that there was going to be a messiah born in a few years? The establishment of BC and AD happened _after_ the fact... Some time into what we consider 'AD' if memory serves, too. And it did in fact start with 1 ad... If it was 0 years Before Christ, then it was obviously the first Year of Our Lord. (Not preaching, not religious, just using the terminology)