been something like "When Good Intentions Go Bad". I agree I don't think I've ever thrown a PC out, I've always been able to find someone who would find it useful and pass it along.
Who knows maybe this is Di$ney's way of getting back at everyone -- if they can't get content restricted and locked down then lets see if we can't focus on making the hardware more expensive.....
I looked at PGP a while back and actually installed it. Unfortunately -- and perhaps because of my own carelessness -- it started causing issue(s) with my network connection and I ended up removing it. As the person responsible for the web/email servers where I work I know first hand how unsecure and public email is; yet I've not found a solution that I'm comfortable using. PGP seemed (at least to my knowledge) to be the most widespread, but even at that I couldn't name 3 people who I regularly exchange emails with who use it -- in fact I'm not sure if I could name anyone other than my wife who did. The only way I could ever see something like this widespread were if it were integrated into Outlook/Outlook Express/AOL/etc. and I don't see that happening.:(
The ads really don't bother me one way or the other. However, I went ahead and subscribed anyway. The magazine analogy that was made during the chat about this way back when hit home with me. I subscribe to 2 or 3 magazines at home and spend less time reading those combined than I do here at/. reading news/etc. I figure that a few dollars to help a site that I do spend a lot of time on isn't going to kill me and IMO it was the right thing to do. While/. may not be in any "danger" I've seen far too many websites disappear that I've enjoyed so if my few dollars helps then it was money well spent.
I picked up the card last week and have been fairly happy with it. I actually have a TIVO but I wanted to be able to dump shows from it to save (it's an intergrated DTV model and it only holds 30-35 hours or so) and maybe do some basic video editing from my wife's camcorder (older non-digital one). I did upgrade the Ulead video editing s/w from v5 to v6 (kinda disappointing that the card shipped with v5); but once I played with the capture settings some I've been able to archive my stuff off of the TIVO into an acceptable VCD format. I had looked at the Dazzle capture solution; but I had read some really harsh reviews about it not playing nice with certain hardware. Between that and the fact that I was running a 3dfx Voodoo 4500 card that isn't supported anymore it made the ATI card a good choice for me. I'm sure it wouldn't be as good a choice for someone who likes to do a lot of gaming; but for anyone else it probably would be good to at least consider.
Depends on your line of reasoning. I've got dozens upon dozens of cd's where I've bought them for 1 or 2 songs only. I don't really have a problem with a dollar a song for current music and something like.25-.50 per song for older music. Of course this comes under the assumption that I'm allowed to take the song(s) that I've just purchased and burn them onto a cd or put them in my RIO, etc. If it's more of this proprietary stuff that I've been seeing (songs locked to the PC that d/l's them, etc.) then I'm still not interested.
It worked very well for my BBS under OS/2 (assuming you had the SIO drivers running). It's been a long while, but it seems like it had a two way chat feature, some sort of built in game (Tetris clone?), etc. Nothing like the good old days.
I guess I wasn't clear in my original comment. I'm aware that it's the TS client, I use it to connect to our Win2k servers for administration. However, if I'm stuck out somewhere where I've only got access to a machine that's running Win9x I didn't think there was a client to connect to a XP machine for them (perhaps I'm wrong). In those cases I tend to advocate something more along the lines of VNC.
I've been doing the same type of things with the same success for a good while. Using it via ISDN for a while it was speedy enough to be usable; although more speed improved the experience. Every now and then I get an issue where it will error out connecting and then when I try to reconnect it'll tell me it's in use so I have to wait a few minutes before I can actually connect; but considering it was part of the O/S I can live with it.
However, it takes a fairly beefy machine to be running XP Pro and take advantage of Remote Desktop so I still use VNC or pcAnywhere for other tasks and they work well. I suppose if I had to choose one of these three it would be VNC for it's small footprint and the fact that it'll run on about anything.....
I think that's going a little extreme. The first time I was exposed to perl was from some scripts that were bundled on a Microsoft CD. I don't care for some of their business practices; but I also don't think they're the antichrist that some want to make them out to be either.
Be grateful, here in the St. Louis area we were moved to Charter Pipeline and for the same price we were paying we now get 768up/128down. So I'd be happy with a 1.5 cap right now.:)
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been something like "When Good Intentions Go Bad". I agree I don't think I've ever thrown a PC out, I've always been able to find someone who would find it useful and pass it along.
Who knows maybe this is Di$ney's way of getting back at everyone -- if they can't get content restricted and locked down then lets see if we can't focus on making the hardware more expensive.....
I looked at PGP a while back and actually installed it. Unfortunately -- and perhaps because of my own carelessness -- it started causing issue(s) with my network connection and I ended up removing it. As the person responsible for the web/email servers where I work I know first hand how unsecure and public email is; yet I've not found a solution that I'm comfortable using. PGP seemed (at least to my knowledge) to be the most widespread, but even at that I couldn't name 3 people who I regularly exchange emails with who use it -- in fact I'm not sure if I could name anyone other than my wife who did. The only way I could ever see something like this widespread were if it were integrated into Outlook/Outlook Express/AOL/etc. and I don't see that happening. :(
The ads really don't bother me one way or the other. However, I went ahead and subscribed anyway. The magazine analogy that was made during the chat about this way back when hit home with me. I subscribe to 2 or 3 magazines at home and spend less time reading those combined than I do here at /. reading news/etc. I figure that a few dollars to help a site that I do spend a lot of time on isn't going to kill me and IMO it was the right thing to do. While /. may not be in any "danger" I've seen far too many websites disappear that I've enjoyed so if my few dollars helps then it was money well spent.
I picked up the card last week and have been fairly happy with it. I actually have a TIVO but I wanted to be able to dump shows from it to save (it's an intergrated DTV model and it only holds 30-35 hours or so) and maybe do some basic video editing from my wife's camcorder (older non-digital one). I did upgrade the Ulead video editing s/w from v5 to v6 (kinda disappointing that the card shipped with v5); but once I played with the capture settings some I've been able to archive my stuff off of the TIVO into an acceptable VCD format. I had looked at the Dazzle capture solution; but I had read some really harsh reviews about it not playing nice with certain hardware. Between that and the fact that I was running a 3dfx Voodoo 4500 card that isn't supported anymore it made the ATI card a good choice for me. I'm sure it wouldn't be as good a choice for someone who likes to do a lot of gaming; but for anyone else it probably would be good to at least consider.
Depends on your line of reasoning. I've got dozens upon dozens of cd's where I've bought them for 1 or 2 songs only. I don't really have a problem with a dollar a song for current music and something like .25-.50 per song for older music. Of course this comes under the assumption that I'm allowed to take the song(s) that I've just purchased and burn them onto a cd or put them in my RIO, etc. If it's more of this proprietary stuff that I've been seeing (songs locked to the PC that d/l's them, etc.) then I'm still not interested.
Could've been BiModem; but more likely HS/Link.
It worked very well for my BBS under OS/2 (assuming you had the SIO drivers running). It's been a long while, but it seems like it had a two way chat feature, some sort of built in game (Tetris clone?), etc. Nothing like the good old days.
I guess I wasn't clear in my original comment. I'm aware that it's the TS client, I use it to connect to our Win2k servers for administration. However, if I'm stuck out somewhere where I've only got access to a machine that's running Win9x I didn't think there was a client to connect to a XP machine for them (perhaps I'm wrong). In those cases I tend to advocate something more along the lines of VNC.
I've been doing the same type of things with the same success for a good while. Using it via ISDN for a while it was speedy enough to be usable; although more speed improved the experience. Every now and then I get an issue where it will error out connecting and then when I try to reconnect it'll tell me it's in use so I have to wait a few minutes before I can actually connect; but considering it was part of the O/S I can live with it.
However, it takes a fairly beefy machine to be running XP Pro and take advantage of Remote Desktop so I still use VNC or pcAnywhere for other tasks and they work well. I suppose if I had to choose one of these three it would be VNC for it's small footprint and the fact that it'll run on about anything.....
I think that's going a little extreme. The first time I was exposed to perl was from some scripts that were bundled on a Microsoft CD. I don't care for some of their business practices; but I also don't think they're the antichrist that some want to make them out to be either.
Be grateful, here in the St. Louis area we were moved to Charter Pipeline and for the same price we were paying we now get 768up/128down. So I'd be happy with a 1.5 cap right now. :)