To receive service again, they needed to contact the student judicial affairs, which involved only signing an agreement not to be naughty again, with the threat of being kicked out of the dorms.
OK, not to be subversive here, but isn't kicking someone out of the dorms for 'netting too much kind of like kicking someone out of college for drinking too much?
The excesses of students who are "free from mommy and daddy" for the first time is well-documented, and Internet access abuse it at LEAST as old as 1996, when I was hooking up dorm Ethernet connections for the University of Wyoming. Back then, each dorm had a 100mbs connection to the campus WAN via fiber, and the students were still complaining about local performance slowdowns to the campus VAX, and webservers.
Let alone being unable to get all the porn newsgroups on Usenet. "And why are articles rolled off after 3 days???":)
I must also chime in as a fan of this board. I run it in my gaming rig with an Athlon XP 1600, and 512 megs of DDR. It whomps ass! Onboard 100baseT and ATA100, 4x AGP, and the SIS 735 chipset requires no fan. I got mine for $57 at newegg.com, whom I highly recommend for parts (this is an unsolicited testimonial for an independent party:).
Also, if you look at chipset reviews, the SIS735 comes in JUST behind the high-end Via chipsets, at many $$ less.
Yes, I put an Audigy in and disabled the onboard sound, but the AC97 is very workable if you're running a single pair of speakers or headphones.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but someone else brought up a great suggestion-- flash media.
CompactFlash USB readers (though not yet easily bootable) are around $30, and a 128-meg card can be had for less than $50. Stick it in the little plastic container (less than a quarter the size of a 3.5" floppy disk), and throw it in your pocket.
Bite your tongue. Floppies are still one of the fastest, cheapest, most convienient ways to transfer files between two non-networked computers. I know a lot of people who bring work home with them on a floppy. A lot easier than emailing it to themselves no to mention more secure. It's also nice to have that boot floppy when your hard drive fails.
Check this. 20x IDE CD-RW drives cost $80. Burning 10 megs worth of data on a rewritable disc takes approximately a minute and a half including index, probably a lot faster than putting the same data on 6 or 7 floppies. So taking a Powerpoint presentation home from work now takes 10 minutes to facilitate, instead of half an hour to break the presentation up on floppies, on a medium that has thus far proven to be more resilient than magnetic disk. I know of nobody at my place of employment who can fit documents they use at work (MS Office docs, etc.) on a single floppy disk. We all have backed up network storage that we access through a VPN connection anyways!
Besides the fact that 700 meg CD-Rs cost less than 1 meg floppy disks, and CD-RWs are not much more.
Next, the boot question. Boot CDs are now nearly as easy to master as boot floppies, and all PCs that I've seen since 1996 support CD boot.
Thanks, troll... I was quite proud of myself when I not only managed to keep my job through a massive reduction in staff, but actually got a promotion that year. And without a college degree.
It's all about what you know and how you present yourself.
If I may be so bold as to contribute, I think you could be doing better, as long as your count "real companies" only as your experience, in lieu of "freelance consultant" as your 4 years' experience.
I do Widnows NT and in-house application support for a large company, which categorizes me as a "Senior Application Systems Programmer." For me, it's 26 yo, 7 years exp (3 years as tech support/PC maintenance at University, 4 years at my current corporation), Clue, no certs = 49,000 + 100% Matching 401K, Pension, 4 weeks vacation, Full Medical and Dental for benefits.
After three years at minimum wage at the University, I applied for two full-time positions paying $16,500 and $18,000 US and was denied for both for having insufficient education and experience. The corporation (which required me to move out of state, but back home for me) offered me $35,000 to start, and I've gotten two good raises, one cost of living increase, and one promotion in four years. Without any college to speak of, or any certifications.
Just my experience. On the other hand, you may just have to prove yourself with a couple of years corporate experience before someone else will pay you "market value."
let me guess, you also think that Democrats are Socialists and the Gummint is robbing you with mandatory taxation... please. What kind of McCarthite are you? Just a simple puritan-work-ethic-republican or a full out free-market-enslavment-republican?
Whoa, I just got blindsided. Where did THIS come from??
Read my other posts to find out that I find all extremists at best annoying, at worst a hinderance to society. I am an unabashed moderate.:)
Actually, I guess you could say that I successfully trolled you, since I just fired off the parent comment to test to see if I had enough Karma to get the +1 Bonus yet. (I was at 25.)
But then, you just trolled me, and I fed you, since I replied to your calling me a right-wing nutjob. (In not so many words.)
Are these people youngsters living with their parents still? Or "oldsters" living with said mommy and daddy?
They don't appear to have jobs, but yet are tracking everything with "cameras and journals." Is this some sort of government-sponsored "art" project?
Seriously, where does the part about making a living and contibuting to society come in?
Or do they each have to take an hour a week to run down to the unemployment office for their checks, and let the lady know that they applied for work at "Vandelay Industries..." (They make rubber; I'm going to be a rubber salesman.)
Also, the article says they can expand capacity 300%. Frankly, that sounds like pretty short-term planning to me. In my experience, it's a rare data store that doesn't double in size every year or two.
Right you are, but of the giant space they've already allocated for racks, how much is currently used, like 5%? Your comment seems to assume that 100% of their racks are already full.
I'd imagine they set up a giant space for 24 months worth of business growth to fit in, and put in a contingency for 300% above *that*. That way they can see how the demand acts over the next year or two, and react accordingly by adding more physical space.
That's not what he's saying. He's not saying Microsoft spams him, he's saying that the spam messages appear with his email address (at hotmail) as the sender.
I have had the same experience. The email says it is from me in the "From:" header, but it is clearly not.
Who is unsophisticated enough to think that any spammer can deliver what they promise?
Well, let's see, 13 million people (at last count) on AOL, including my mother...
Yes, true-- any of us who come to Slashdot and participate in commenting on the articles are not duped. But you forget, there are people much less technologically advanced than you or I.
Why are there still TeleMarketers if all of us hang up on them? Some group of lonely and/or stupid people are still buying products and services from these people, enough to give them a valid cost/benefit business case to keep the wardialers going...
I'll be honest with you, I have never seen DBZ on TV. I got a couple of action figures at Burger King for ordering a "Big Kids' Meal," which is a cheap price for a smallish adult meal.
This kid is four years old though, and all he wants to do in life in blow stuff up and hit and kick.
We're not talking about 13-15 years old teenagers, or really even "tweens" 9-12.
The fact is that this crazy bimbo my wife works wife brings over her 4 year old, who promptly runs around the house, grabs the Dragonball Z figures off the shelf, and spends the next 10 minutes smashing them into eachother and making screams and death noises.
The problem is not really that the toys are out there, the problem is that the damned parents don't moderate anything that that their children consume (toys, televisions, etc), and never EVER provide "parental guidance" to set realistic boundaries for the child. Too many passive-parenting breeders.
So a site like this one, likely only heeded by those intellectual enough to read up on the web about toys they are considering puchasing for their kids (and neices, nephews, etc.), will likely have no real effect in stoppid the idiots who let their kids do whatever they want because they can't be bothered to "watch them all the time."
Face it, not all kids are gifts from God. Some of them are just the byproduct of two stupid horny people who don't have any business breeding. Most of you here are probably responsible parents, but take a 20 minute stroll through the toy section of your local WalMart. You'll hear some of the most incredible and unbelievable exchanges between parents and children.
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Wow, that Dean Kane guy sure has been busy since the young Superman series ended. Who would have though a handsome actor could also be such a brilliant scientist and inventor??
So given that it's the same chip underneath, why ASUS put a HS on top of it while the three others only put a heat spreader?
Oh! Well that's easy. These are tradeshow boards, meant to showcase the specs. The other manufacturers are showing the board without the heatsink to show off the chipset info.
Any of these boards you would be in retail format would have a heatsink on it.
The ASUS is the only one with a full-blown heat-sink (w/o fan) on the North bridge, the other ones only have a heat spreader. For the look only or more stable operation?
Depends entirely on the chipset. My ECS Athlon board sporting a nice SIS735 (combined North and Southbridge chip with DDR support, $57 for the board!) doesn't even require a heatsink according to spec, but I got one anyways. Just another place to put the corporate logo!;)
The VIA 266 series seem to want a fan. The AMD 760MP series and Intel i850 (Rambus) both need big honkin' HSF units on them.
My understanding is that stability only comes into play if you're trying to overclock the FSB. Once you get a couple of MHz over spec, you may want to upgrade to a bigger heatsink and/or fan to compensate for the extra strain on the Northbridge.
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...plus $100 for the 1384 card.
Just so you know, my new favorite parts place newegg.com, has a very nice SoundBlaster Audigy OEM edition for $70. This will get you not only a very nice sound card, but a Firewire port as well.
If you're more in the mood for just a standard 1394 controller, they sell those for $55: "SIIG IEEE 1394 3-PORT PCI CARD - RETAIL" under the Controllers category.
I've ordered once every month or so from these guys for the past 8 months. They rock, especially on shipping time and cost!
Boy, I wonder if one of the projects they're planning to emaulate is "wide scale hardware failure." Look at their node configuration (hard drive boldfaced):
128 new nodes:
850Mhz P3
512M ECC memoryold reliable BX chipset
40G 7200rpm IDE disk (IBM Deskstar 60gxp) 5 Intel Pro/100+ network interfaces
2 on board
1 on a single Intel card
2 on a dual Intel card
No video at all
serial console
This is the very same hard drive drive we drew and quartered here, and has gotten IBM a big fat lawsuit for rampant failures.
So, I guess their error recovery is going to be tested to the limits very shortly, especially with the space/heat issues inherent in the installation exacerbating the engineering flaws in the 60GXPs.:)
Cheerio, I say... pip pip! Want to take the lift down from the flat and share a fag with me?
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Gosh, at $400/room, I could have had that addition built for under $4,000! I'm such a sucker!
Thanks, smartass. I think I was pretty explicit in that my buying PATTERNS had changed, away from buying premium toys at premium prices, so that I can better afford "necessities."
If you want to buy a $400 MP3 player, good for you. I'll look at it over your shoulder, envy you for obivously being better off than me, and then smile to myself because I have a device that does the same thing for $120.
I'm voting with my dollars and buying reasonable quality parts at very good prices. You get a nicer product at (what I consider) insane prices. Nobody's wrong here, that's just how the system works.
And considering my home search involves 3-bedroom/1-baths in the $105K range, and 4-bedrooms/2-baths in the $120K range... in my context, you got ripped off for paying $60,000 for the addition. On the other hand, my parents just paid 80 grand to remodel the kitchen in their 30-room, 80-year old home.
So again... YMMV.
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He said he wants portable firewire storage. And have an MP3 unit. I was answering those wants.
See my other posts for multiple other options for MP3/storage... e.g. computergeeks.com portable unit.
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To receive service again, they needed to contact the student judicial affairs, which involved only signing an agreement not to be naughty again, with the threat of being kicked out of the dorms.
:)
OK, not to be subversive here, but isn't kicking someone out of the dorms for 'netting too much kind of like kicking someone out of college for drinking too much?
The excesses of students who are "free from mommy and daddy" for the first time is well-documented, and Internet access abuse it at LEAST as old as 1996, when I was hooking up dorm Ethernet connections for the University of Wyoming. Back then, each dorm had a 100mbs connection to the campus WAN via fiber, and the students were still complaining about local performance slowdowns to the campus VAX, and webservers.
Let alone being unable to get all the porn newsgroups on Usenet. "And why are articles rolled off after 3 days???"
The ECS K75SA motherboard is only $64
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I must also chime in as a fan of this board. I run it in my gaming rig with an Athlon XP 1600, and 512 megs of DDR. It whomps ass! Onboard 100baseT and ATA100, 4x AGP, and the SIS 735 chipset requires no fan. I got mine for $57 at newegg.com, whom I highly recommend for parts (this is an unsolicited testimonial for an independent party
Also, if you look at chipset reviews, the SIS735 comes in JUST behind the high-end Via chipsets, at many $$ less.
Yes, I put an Audigy in and disabled the onboard sound, but the AC97 is very workable if you're running a single pair of speakers or headphones.
Just my $0.02. (Note the leading zero.)
Sorry to reply to my own post, but someone else brought up a great suggestion-- flash media.
CompactFlash USB readers (though not yet easily bootable) are around $30, and a 128-meg card can be had for less than $50. Stick it in the little plastic container (less than a quarter the size of a 3.5" floppy disk), and throw it in your pocket.
Bite your tongue. Floppies are still one of the fastest, cheapest, most convienient ways to transfer files between two non-networked computers. I know a lot of people who bring work home with them on a floppy. A lot easier than emailing it to themselves no to mention more secure. It's also nice to have that boot floppy when your hard drive fails.
Check this. 20x IDE CD-RW drives cost $80. Burning 10 megs worth of data on a rewritable disc takes approximately a minute and a half including index, probably a lot faster than putting the same data on 6 or 7 floppies. So taking a Powerpoint presentation home from work now takes 10 minutes to facilitate, instead of half an hour to break the presentation up on floppies, on a medium that has thus far proven to be more resilient than magnetic disk. I know of nobody at my place of employment who can fit documents they use at work (MS Office docs, etc.) on a single floppy disk. We all have backed up network storage that we access through a VPN connection anyways!
Besides the fact that 700 meg CD-Rs cost less than 1 meg floppy disks, and CD-RWs are not much more.
Next, the boot question. Boot CDs are now nearly as easy to master as boot floppies, and all PCs that I've seen since 1996 support CD boot.
Remind me again why we need floppy drives?
I have to say, as the owner of a Duel 800 MHz G4 Tower
So, when your processors duel, which one wins?
*Rimshot*
Thank you, I'll be with you all week. Tip your server. (But pick it up when it falls over.)
You're 26 and you're only making $49k? Wow.
Thanks, troll... I was quite proud of myself when I not only managed to keep my job through a massive reduction in staff, but actually got a promotion that year. And without a college degree.
It's all about what you know and how you present yourself.
Systems Administrator (21yo, 4YR exp, Clue, MCP, SCNA, SCSA) = $39,500 + Shitty bene's.
If I may be so bold as to contribute, I think you could be doing better, as long as your count "real companies" only as your experience, in lieu of "freelance consultant" as your 4 years' experience.
I do Widnows NT and in-house application support for a large company, which categorizes me as a "Senior Application Systems Programmer." For me, it's 26 yo, 7 years exp (3 years as tech support/PC maintenance at University, 4 years at my current corporation), Clue, no certs = 49,000 + 100% Matching 401K, Pension, 4 weeks vacation, Full Medical and Dental for benefits.
After three years at minimum wage at the University, I applied for two full-time positions paying $16,500 and $18,000 US and was denied for both for having insufficient education and experience. The corporation (which required me to move out of state, but back home for me) offered me $35,000 to start, and I've gotten two good raises, one cost of living increase, and one promotion in four years. Without any college to speak of, or any certifications.
Just my experience. On the other hand, you may just have to prove yourself with a couple of years corporate experience before someone else will pay you "market value."
Why is the Parent Comment modded to -1? I see absolutely nothing wrong with this comment and he's right.
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Check the moderation on that comment-- there is none.
The poster has been moderated down so much that he's posting at -1 to start, probably because he's been a bad boy.
let me guess, you also think that Democrats are Socialists and the Gummint is robbing you with mandatory taxation... please. What kind of McCarthite are you? Just a simple puritan-work-ethic-republican or a full out free-market-enslavment-republican?
:)
:)
Whoa, I just got blindsided. Where did THIS come from??
Read my other posts to find out that I find all extremists at best annoying, at worst a hinderance to society. I am an unabashed moderate.
Actually, I guess you could say that I successfully trolled you, since I just fired off the parent comment to test to see if I had enough Karma to get the +1 Bonus yet. (I was at 25.)
But then, you just trolled me, and I fed you, since I replied to your calling me a right-wing nutjob. (In not so many words.)
So... we're even? But you're still wrong!
Are these people youngsters living with their parents still? Or "oldsters" living with said mommy and daddy?
They don't appear to have jobs, but yet are tracking everything with "cameras and journals." Is this some sort of government-sponsored "art" project?
Seriously, where does the part about making a living and contibuting to society come in?
Or do they each have to take an hour a week to run down to the unemployment office for their checks, and let the lady know that they applied for work at "Vandelay Industries..." (They make rubber; I'm going to be a rubber salesman.)
Also, the article says they can expand capacity 300%. Frankly, that sounds like pretty short-term planning to me. In my experience, it's a rare data store that doesn't double in size every year or two.
Right you are, but of the giant space they've already allocated for racks, how much is currently used, like 5%? Your comment seems to assume that 100% of their racks are already full.
I'd imagine they set up a giant space for 24 months worth of business growth to fit in, and put in a contingency for 300% above *that*. That way they can see how the demand acts over the next year or two, and react accordingly by adding more physical space.
That's just my SWAG*, though.
*For newbies, that's "Scientific, Wild-Assed Guess."
I can't imagine a film adaptation of perhaps the best book ever written being done better.
Haven't you been watching your 700 Club? The best book ever written is the Wholey BYE-bul!
I'd say a prayer for you in hopes of your saving your immortal sould from damnation, but I'm late for the coven's outing to the LOTR movie...
:D
That's not what he's saying. He's not saying Microsoft spams him, he's saying that the spam messages appear with his email address (at hotmail) as the sender.
I have had the same experience. The email says it is from me in the "From:" header, but it is clearly not.
Who is unsophisticated enough to think that any spammer can deliver what they promise?
Well, let's see, 13 million people (at last count) on AOL, including my mother...
Yes, true-- any of us who come to Slashdot and participate in commenting on the articles are not duped. But you forget, there are people much less technologically advanced than you or I.
Why are there still TeleMarketers if all of us hang up on them? Some group of lonely and/or stupid people are still buying products and services from these people, enough to give them a valid cost/benefit business case to keep the wardialers going...
I'll be honest with you, I have never seen DBZ on TV. I got a couple of action figures at Burger King for ordering a "Big Kids' Meal," which is a cheap price for a smallish adult meal.
This kid is four years old though, and all he wants to do in life in blow stuff up and hit and kick.
:(
We're not talking about 13-15 years old teenagers, or really even "tweens" 9-12.
The fact is that this crazy bimbo my wife works wife brings over her 4 year old, who promptly runs around the house, grabs the Dragonball Z figures off the shelf, and spends the next 10 minutes smashing them into eachother and making screams and death noises.
The problem is not really that the toys are out there, the problem is that the damned parents don't moderate anything that that their children consume (toys, televisions, etc), and never EVER provide "parental guidance" to set realistic boundaries for the child. Too many passive-parenting breeders.
So a site like this one, likely only heeded by those intellectual enough to read up on the web about toys they are considering puchasing for their kids (and neices, nephews, etc.), will likely have no real effect in stoppid the idiots who let their kids do whatever they want because they can't be bothered to "watch them all the time."
Face it, not all kids are gifts from God. Some of them are just the byproduct of two stupid horny people who don't have any business breeding. Most of you here are probably responsible parents, but take a 20 minute stroll through the toy section of your local WalMart. You'll hear some of the most incredible and unbelievable exchanges between parents and children.
Wow, that Dean Kane guy sure has been busy since the young Superman series ended. Who would have though a handsome actor could also be such a brilliant scientist and inventor??
What that's you say? Dean KAMEN?
Oh.
Nevermind!
So given that it's the same chip underneath, why ASUS put a HS on top of it while the three others only put a heat spreader?
Oh! Well that's easy. These are tradeshow boards, meant to showcase the specs. The other manufacturers are showing the board without the heatsink to show off the chipset info.
Any of these boards you would be in retail format would have a heatsink on it.
Depends entirely on the chipset. My ECS Athlon board sporting a nice SIS735 (combined North and Southbridge chip with DDR support, $57 for the board!) doesn't even require a heatsink according to spec, but I got one anyways. Just another place to put the corporate logo!
The VIA 266 series seem to want a fan. The AMD 760MP series and Intel i850 (Rambus) both need big honkin' HSF units on them.
My understanding is that stability only comes into play if you're trying to overclock the FSB. Once you get a couple of MHz over spec, you may want to upgrade to a bigger heatsink and/or fan to compensate for the extra strain on the Northbridge.
Just so you know, my new favorite parts place newegg.com, has a very nice SoundBlaster Audigy OEM edition for $70. This will get you not only a very nice sound card, but a Firewire port as well.
If you're more in the mood for just a standard 1394 controller, they sell those for $55: "SIIG IEEE 1394 3-PORT PCI CARD - RETAIL" under the Controllers category.
I've ordered once every month or so from these guys for the past 8 months. They rock, especially on shipping time and cost!
With even the slightest effort, at least the games will look better than a GameBoy Advance!
(Thank God for active backlighting!)
Boy, I wonder if one of the projects they're planning to emaulate is "wide scale hardware failure." Look at their node configuration (hard drive boldfaced):
:)
128 new nodes:
850Mhz P3
512M ECC memoryold reliable BX chipset
40G 7200rpm IDE disk (IBM Deskstar 60gxp)
5 Intel Pro/100+ network interfaces
2 on board
1 on a single Intel card
2 on a dual Intel card
No video at all
serial console
This is the very same hard drive drive we drew and quartered here, and has gotten IBM a big fat lawsuit for rampant failures.
So, I guess their error recovery is going to be tested to the limits very shortly, especially with the space/heat issues inherent in the installation exacerbating the engineering flaws in the 60GXPs.
Cheerio, I say... pip pip! Want to take the lift down from the flat and share a fag with me?
Gosh, at $400/room, I could have had that addition built for under $4,000! I'm such a sucker!
Thanks, smartass. I think I was pretty explicit in that my buying PATTERNS had changed, away from buying premium toys at premium prices, so that I can better afford "necessities."
If you want to buy a $400 MP3 player, good for you. I'll look at it over your shoulder, envy you for obivously being better off than me, and then smile to myself because I have a device that does the same thing for $120.
I'm voting with my dollars and buying reasonable quality parts at very good prices. You get a nicer product at (what I consider) insane prices. Nobody's wrong here, that's just how the system works.
And considering my home search involves 3-bedroom/1-baths in the $105K range, and 4-bedrooms/2-baths in the $120K range... in my context, you got ripped off for paying $60,000 for the addition. On the other hand, my parents just paid 80 grand to remodel the kitchen in their 30-room, 80-year old home.
So again... YMMV.
He said he wants portable firewire storage. And have an MP3 unit. I was answering those wants.
See my other posts for multiple other options for MP3/storage... e.g. computergeeks.com portable unit.