Guess I didn't try hard enough.. I just bought parts for 2+ computers (Had most of the parts for a third) I ended up buying from several vendors (In part because newegg didn't seem to be giving a break on shipping. I must have not gone over the threshold - whatever that is.
www.directron.com
- Fair.. wide selection of case badges.
www.spartantech.com
- You spec. They build. There are several companies working in this category, that 'build' fee also means they warranty the whole deal.
www.mushkin.com
- Memory. Good memory, reasonable prices.
Hmm... That never gets me out of a speeding ticket. Nope. 'I vote' is only likly to make things worse, much worse. The inspector *is* the local code, and local code trumps all other codes.
I disagree. From a pure geek perspective I never bought off on the idea of RISC. It's a damn stupid idea. CISC is by far the best performing architecture. With RISC you push the complexity into software, which means that your programs are larger, and therefore put a larger stress on IO. This is the opposite of what you want. You want to limit the number of and the redundancy of your instruction set. Use IO to move data, not instructions. This is what vector computing is all about. MMX/SSE/3D-Now et. al are a limited implimentation of vector instructions.
Re:Homer Simpsons puts it best:
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You are wrong. You can just 'pump the energy' back. There are common methods for this - single meter and dual meter. For the single meter if you supply more electricity that you use the meter runs backwards. The Utility will then purchase that energy at retail or wholesale depending on the rules which govern your Utility.
In MN they are required to:
Use the single meter system.
Buy your generated electric at retail.
AFAIK there are 33 states which have mandated use of the single meter system.
More here and here.
As some other posters already noted for their cable companies...
It seems to be typical to offer cable modem service at a discount ($10) for existing cable customers. It also is common for a 'basic' cable service to be around $10 to $14 (It's a regulated requirement around here that a 'basic' service be available for minimal cost). In the final analysis it costs about $4 for me to have basic cable and a cable modem. For some other providers it's *cheaper* to get basic cable w/cable modem that cable modem alone. YMMV.
The NSA has a vested interest making un-true statements with regard their current level of technology. It is, in fact, their job to do so.
The CIA is notorious for having rogue agents, and agents on the take. Just because they have a VC firm 'in the open' doesn't mean there are agents involved with the venture that are on the take. Combined with the fact that the are duplicating existing government give-aways, with the added benefit of a black (classified) budget, I see no reason to believe that even 50% of their investments are for legit tech.
http://www.mediasnap.com/html/mercury.html BENS did not examine In-Q-Tel's financial controls, instead relying on an in-house CIA audit and another one done by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Any profits would be shared by In-Q-Tel and the CIA.
Build EVD/AVD player that is DVD 'compatable' but is missing a chip for CSS/MPEG. Just build [ea]VD around ogg voribis/tarkin. Since the 'base' player doesn't do CSS/MPEG2 there isn't any reason to license the patents for it. If the 'missing chip' is a ZIF-socket pay license fees just on that chip. If the 'missing chip' is a firmware upgrade then we all know how easily software is to keep sekrit. This will allow the Eastern market to save a bundle while pushing a replacement for DVDs. It's still an up-hill battle for adoption by EU/US/Japan, unless it is significanly better. But how to get the movie studios to support the newer format?
Of course the main idea is to create some Eastern IP to compete with the Western IP.. shooting for HD-xVD around the 2008 Olympics in Bejing.
Funny, A couple of years ago a coworker was telling the tale of picking up a small UPS.. and plugging in a laser printer -- I interrupted him to say that wasn't a good idea, unless you happened to get one hellava UPS -- to which he agreed because it blew the UPS as soon as he turned the printer on. 'course he just returned the UPS, said it was DOA and got a replacement -- which he did not try to plug a laster printer into.
Of course -- why in the hell would you *want* your printer plugged into a UPS for? So you can print while the power is out?
On day one I said they knew that it was going to happen and let it happen. I feel even more stronly now. I believe that the ppl who let this happen:
- Did not expect as much damage as actually occured. Recall that WTC was designed to handle the impact of a 727 w/o incident. It's been required for tall buildings since the Empire State building was hit by a plane... 1945 Plane Crash Rocked NYC Empire State Building Hit by Military Plane, 14 Killed Sept...
- Wanted it to happen so as to forward their own agendas.
I hope that you are intending this to be humour. The memo in question is very revealing. It in fact details the massive amount of effort that MPLS office spent trying to get FBIHQ to allow MPLS FBI field agents to get a warrant to question/search Moussaoui and his laptop.
- MPLS FBI initiated the INS for immediate custody (due to existing VISA overstay).
- MPLS FBI suspect terrorist activty.
- MPLS FBI got French Inteligence confirmation of terrorist/extremist ties to Al Queda etc.
- MPLS FBI believe they have probable cause to get warrant from Minnesota AG.
(The time frame here seems to be about 3 to 4 weeks prior to 9/11)
- MPLS FBI must get permission from FBIHQ to contact MN AG (or FBIHQ must contanct MN AG)? I'm not clear on the exact protocol for this.
- MPLS FBI are being activly thwarted by FBIHQ, reports are being editited/re-charactierized, French Inteligence is not added to requests, etc.
Some quotes:
... the French Intelligence Service confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama Bin Laden...agents' initial thought was to obtain a criminal search warrant, but in order to do so, they needed to get FBI Headquarters' (FBIHQ's) approval in order to ask for DOJ OIPR's approval to contact the United States Attorney's Office in Minnesota. Prior to and even after receipt of information provided by the French, FBIHQ personnel disputed with the Minneapolis agents the existence of probable cause to believe that a criminal violation had occurred/was occurring. As such, FBIHQ personnel refused to contact OIPR to attempt to get the authority.... ...It's quite conceivable that many of the HQ personnel who so vigorously disputed Moussaoui's ability/predisposition to fly a plane into a building were simply unaware of all the various incidents and reports worldwide of Al Qaeda terrorists attempting or plotting to do so....I believe that Minneapolis agents actually brought this point to FBIHQ's attention on August 22, 2001, but HQ personnel apparently ignored the directive...
NSA has their own fucking chip fab. They've purchased the most and largest supercomputers ever built. And their 'out dated'? What? That array of 4TB RAM cray's are starting feel sluggish? BTW my info is about 4 years old. Bottom line: NSA is ahead of the private sector.
If the CIA starts a VC firm you can be sure there are agents on the take.
# Only one entry per household, please.
Must be sentient to enter. Sorry, no Ginsu Knives come with this offer!
Guess I need not waste my time;->
Re:VoIP - POTS gateway first RULES
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I think you mean that they could and to or repurpose their existing POTS infrustructure the replace parts with dial-in/dial-out lines. Likly the ISP (if they are smart) has certain minimal feature sets on the hunt-group which hits the modem pool. This feature set is not likly compatable with a dial-in/dial-out post connection.
There are a number of schemes where the small ISP can become a VoIP gateway...perhaps usage of the modem pool is not what it used to be with large numbers moving to DSL/Cable? Being a VoIP gateway *may* be a low cost investment into a new business for somebody who already has most of the infrustructure in place.
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Now all we need are communities of VoIP - POTS gateways until everybody has been leveraged off the telco's:-). j/k. But you can have communties pool their resources such that they share the cost of the POTS lines (just a WAG that you may only need about 1 POTS for every 4 members... so you cound cut your telco bill to 1/4 of current. BTW.. these communities can then provide cooperative LD (into/out-of area) to other like minded communities...
And what is you IN state long distance? What is you minimum use fee for $.05? VoIP is good *now* with IPv6 (QoS) it will be ever better. Do you know why you can get rates as low as $.03 today? Because VoIP has been providing much need competition to the LD carriers.
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While I am not interested in running a business over (open network) VoIP... I would love to ditch my 4 POTS phone calls a month. They are NOT worth $10 a piece! My cable modem is dirt cheap, the phone company is a debt-loaded shambles... can you say dba Global Crossings... which is in some ways a bigger mess than Enron. My cable/cable modem bill is less that my phone bill, and I use my IP data network constantly. Just look at what you can gain by VoIP:
- network of free calling (VoIP to VoIP)
- network of cheap LD (VoIP to VoIP/POTS gateway to POTS).
The ideal here is to have the terminating VoIP/POTS bridge local
to the final POTS phone.
One way to think of this phone is a cheap 'fully metered' POTS line. And LD within the state (here) is always $.13 while the current rates for LD is around $.03 (about 2x cost). That's in-state LD for less than half the current rates.
So what is the down side for the home user who doesn't get much utilization out of that POTS line?
My experience with Java on Sun (SunOS 5.6) and Java with a Sun 3500 (2 CPU) 2.1GB RAM vs Linux 2.4.16 Dual celeron (400Mhz) 256MB RAM was that a 2 hour java program ran in two hours regardless of platform (CPUs maxed). For additional comparison the same program on a Dual Athlon 1.4 512MB RAM ran in 15 minutes. I don't know why your Java is faster on SPARC but my guess is because it does some floating-point.. I don't do any floating intensive work so cheap intel boxen rule for what I do. (Ripping CDs isn't work per-se:-).
I never used Solaris on x86 but I find it hard to believe that Solaris x86 SMP is a match for Linux on the less that 8 processor set. Which is to say anything over 2 processor is *not* low-cost hardware.
I didn't know there were 'third-party' vendors for Solaris x86! Hardware support for Solaris x86 was notoriously bad in the Solaris 2.x series from what I was told.
Alienware (I saw a case at Best Buy of all places). is OEMing through Chieftec dragon series which is a 'clone' of Antec 1000 series (there is atleast 1 asian maker of this case series as well).
Nice for keeping the dual AMD machines cool (w/just fans) very nice venting. I bought mine via newegg.com and directron.com, my cube neighbor bought his at CompUSA IIRC. Most places sell chieftec as a house brand (directron). Newegg was out-of-stock last I checked.
My Sony 17se finally died (color fading) and I just bought some new monitors (Home, Work, SO,...) I bought 2 NEC FE950+ and 2 ViewSonic G90f from www.pagecomputer.com (The black NECs to match my black cases:-). I have to say that the G90f is quite impressive for a Shadow Mask CRT - very flat. The FE950s are just for me though:-). The NEC is a very nice monitor and it didn't cost me much more at all. (280 white/292 black) + shipping.
It you are looking to run this card under Linux it is not a known good card via GATOS. The 8500DV is (which is why I bought that over the cheaper 7500). I have not seen any known good reports for the 7500 AIW. Though you can use it as just a video card... the whole point is that it's a cheap capture card though, right?
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.php
You do need the very latest 4.2.0 XFree et. al.
I personally am most excited about the abilty to control the house via the nifty remote:-).
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Just off the top of my head MP3 compression is around 11:1 So:
1 hour of music == 600MB CD == ~60MB/hour.
40GB = 40000MB
40000/60 = ~667 CDs.
So you can completly fill a 60GB HDD with between 650 and 750 CDs depending on numerious factors, including quality, album contents, etc.
Don't know *how* you can get 3640 albums in that space, but if they are listenable I suggest you do something fast.. that's fucking amazing.
Huh,
.. I just bought parts for 2+ computers (Had most of the parts for a third) I ended up buying from several vendors (In part because newegg didn't seem to be giving a break on shipping. I must have not gone over the threshold - whatever that is.
Guess I didn't try hard enough
www.pagecomputer.com
.. wide selection of case badges.
- Esp. good for monitors. Shipping is by weight and very fair.
www.bestbyte.net
- wholesale prices on cooling (fans, heatsinks, etc). flat-fee shipping $5.00.
www.directron.com
- Fair
www.spartantech.com
- You spec. They build. There are several companies working in this category, that 'build' fee also means they warranty the whole deal.
www.mushkin.com
- Memory. Good memory, reasonable prices.
www.consumerdepot.com
- Odd stuff dirt cheap.
But newegg does not ship by weight. -- Their shipping cost is good on a per-item basis, but when buying multiple items it's pretty bad IMO.
Hmm... That never gets me out of a speeding ticket. Nope. 'I vote' is only likly to make things worse, much worse. The inspector *is* the local code, and local code trumps all other codes.
I disagree. From a pure geek perspective I never bought off on the idea of RISC. It's a damn stupid idea. CISC is by far the best performing architecture. With RISC you push the complexity into software, which means that your programs are larger, and therefore put a larger stress on IO. This is the opposite of what you want. You want to limit the number of and the redundancy of your instruction set. Use IO to move data, not instructions. This is what vector computing is all about. MMX/SSE/3D-Now et. al are a limited implimentation of vector instructions.
You are wrong. You can just 'pump the energy' back. There are common methods for this - single meter and dual meter. For the single meter if you supply more electricity that you use the meter runs backwards. The Utility will then purchase that energy at retail or wholesale depending on the rules which govern your Utility. In MN they are required to: Use the single meter system. Buy your generated electric at retail. AFAIK there are 33 states which have mandated use of the single meter system. More here and here.
As some other posters already noted for their cable companies ...
It seems to be typical to offer cable modem service at a discount ($10) for existing cable customers. It also is common for a 'basic' cable service to be around $10 to $14 (It's a regulated requirement around here that a 'basic' service be available for minimal cost). In the final analysis it costs about $4 for me to have basic cable and a cable modem. For some other providers it's *cheaper* to get basic cable w/cable modem that cable modem alone. YMMV.
The universe is the *surface* of the balloon in that analogy.
The NSA has a vested interest making un-true statements with regard their current level of technology. It is, in fact, their job to do so.
S did not examine In-Q-Tel's financial controls, instead relying on an in-house CIA audit and another one done by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Any profits would be shared by In-Q-Tel and the CIA.
The CIA is notorious for having rogue agents, and agents on the take. Just because they have a VC firm 'in the open' doesn't mean there are agents involved with the venture that are on the take. Combined with the fact that the are duplicating existing government give-aways, with the added benefit of a black (classified) budget, I see no reason to believe that even 50% of their investments are for legit tech.
http://www.mediasnap.com/html/mercury.html
BEN
Build EVD/AVD player that is DVD 'compatable' but is missing a chip for CSS/MPEG. Just build [ea]VD around ogg voribis/tarkin. Since the 'base' player doesn't do CSS/MPEG2 there isn't any reason to license the patents for it. If the 'missing chip' is a ZIF-socket pay license fees just on that chip. If the 'missing chip' is a firmware upgrade then we all know how easily software is to keep sekrit. This will allow the Eastern market to save a bundle while pushing a replacement for DVDs. It's still an up-hill battle for adoption by EU/US/Japan, unless it is significanly better. But how to get the movie studios to support the newer format?
.. shooting for HD-xVD around the 2008 Olympics in Bejing.
Of course the main idea is to create some Eastern IP to compete with the Western IP
Good luck.
Funny, .. and plugging in a laser printer -- I interrupted him to say that wasn't a good idea, unless you happened to get one hellava UPS -- to which he agreed because it blew the UPS as soon as he turned the printer on. 'course he just returned the UPS, said it was DOA and got a replacement -- which he did not try to plug a laster printer into.
A couple of years ago a coworker was telling the tale of picking up a small UPS
Of course -- why in the hell would you *want* your printer plugged into a UPS for? So you can print while the power is out?
On day one I said they knew that it was going to happen and let it happen. I feel even more stronly now. I believe that the ppl who let this happen: ... 1945 Plane Crash ...
- Did not expect as much damage as actually occured. Recall that WTC was designed to handle the impact of a 727 w/o incident. It's been required for tall buildings since the Empire State building was hit by a plane
Rocked NYC Empire State Building Hit by Military Plane, 14 Killed Sept
- Wanted it to happen so as to forward their own agendas.
I hope that you are intending this to be humour. The memo in question is very revealing. It in fact details the massive amount of effort that MPLS office spent trying to get FBIHQ to allow MPLS FBI field agents to get a warrant to question/search Moussaoui and his laptop.
...agents' initial thought was to obtain a criminal search warrant, but in order to do so, they needed to get FBI Headquarters' (FBIHQ's) approval in order to ask for DOJ OIPR's approval to contact the United States Attorney's Office in Minnesota. Prior to and even after receipt of information provided by the French, FBIHQ personnel disputed with the Minneapolis agents the existence of probable cause to believe that a criminal violation had occurred/was occurring. As such, FBIHQ personnel refused to contact OIPR to attempt to get the authority.... ...
- MPLS FBI initiated the INS for immediate custody (due to existing VISA overstay).
- MPLS FBI suspect terrorist activty.
- MPLS FBI got French Inteligence confirmation of terrorist/extremist ties to Al Queda etc.
- MPLS FBI believe they have probable cause to get warrant from Minnesota AG.
(The time frame here seems to be about 3 to 4 weeks prior to 9/11)
- MPLS FBI must get permission from FBIHQ to contact MN AG (or FBIHQ must contanct MN AG)? I'm not clear on the exact protocol for this.
- MPLS FBI are being activly thwarted by FBIHQ, reports are being editited/re-charactierized, French Inteligence is not added to requests, etc.
Some quotes:
... the French Intelligence Service confirmed his affiliations with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama Bin Laden
...It's quite conceivable that many of the HQ personnel who so vigorously disputed Moussaoui's ability/predisposition to fly a plane into a building were simply unaware of all the various incidents and reports worldwide of Al Qaeda terrorists attempting or plotting to do so....I believe that Minneapolis agents actually brought this point to FBIHQ's attention on August 22, 2001, but HQ personnel apparently ignored the directive
NSA has their own fucking chip fab. They've purchased the most and largest supercomputers ever built. And their 'out dated'? What? That array of 4TB RAM cray's are starting feel sluggish? BTW my info is about 4 years old.
Bottom line: NSA is ahead of the private sector.
If the CIA starts a VC firm you can be sure there are agents on the take.
Guess I need not waste my time ;->
I think you mean that they could and to or repurpose their existing POTS infrustructure the replace parts with dial-in/dial-out lines.
Likly the ISP (if they are smart) has certain minimal feature sets on the hunt-group which hits the modem pool. This feature set is not likly compatable with a dial-in/dial-out post connection.
There are a number of schemes where the small ISP can become a VoIP gateway...perhaps usage of the modem pool is not what it used to be with large numbers moving to DSL/Cable? Being a VoIP gateway *may* be a low cost investment into a new business for somebody who already has most of the infrustructure in place.
Now all we need are communities of VoIP - POTS gateways until everybody has been leveraged off the telco's :-). j/k. But you can have communties pool their resources such that they share the cost of the POTS lines (just a WAG that you may only need about 1 POTS for every 4 members ... so you cound cut your telco bill to 1/4 of current. .. these communities can then provide cooperative LD (into/out-of area) to other like minded communities ...
BTW
And what is you IN state long distance? What is you minimum use fee for $.05? VoIP is good *now* with IPv6 (QoS) it will be ever better. Do you know why you can get rates as low as $.03 today? Because VoIP has been providing much need competition to the LD carriers.
While I am not interested in running a business over (open network) VoIP ... I would love to ditch my 4 POTS phone calls a month. They are NOT worth $10 a piece! ... can you say dba Global Crossings ... which is in some ways a bigger mess than Enron.
My cable modem is dirt cheap, the phone company is a debt-loaded shambles
My cable/cable modem bill is less that my phone bill, and I use my IP data network constantly.
Just look at what you can gain by VoIP:
- network of free calling (VoIP to VoIP)
- network of cheap LD (VoIP to VoIP/POTS gateway to POTS).
The ideal here is to have the terminating VoIP/POTS bridge local
to the final POTS phone.
One way to think of this phone is a cheap 'fully metered' POTS line. And LD within the state (here) is always $.13 while the current rates for LD is around $.03 (about 2x cost). That's in-state LD for less than half the current rates.
So what is the down side for the home user who doesn't get much utilization out of that POTS line?
My experience with Java on Sun (SunOS 5.6) and Java with a Sun 3500 (2 CPU) 2.1GB RAM vs Linux 2.4.16 Dual celeron (400Mhz) 256MB RAM was that a 2 hour java program ran in two hours regardless of platform (CPUs maxed). For additional comparison the same program on a Dual Athlon 1.4 512MB RAM ran in 15 minutes. I don't know why your Java is faster on SPARC but my guess is because it does some floating-point .. I don't do any floating intensive work so cheap intel boxen rule for what I do. (Ripping CDs isn't work per-se :-).
I never used Solaris on x86 but I find it hard to believe that Solaris x86 SMP is a match for Linux on the less that 8 processor set. Which is to say anything over 2 processor is *not* low-cost hardware.
I didn't know there were 'third-party' vendors for Solaris x86! Hardware support for Solaris x86 was notoriously bad in the Solaris 2.x series from what I was told.
Alienware (I saw a case at Best Buy of all places). is OEMing through Chieftec dragon series which is a 'clone' of Antec 1000 series (there is atleast 1 asian maker of this case series as well).
Chieftec cases
I have 3 Dragon series DX-01 and 1 Scorpio TX-10
Nice for keeping the dual AMD machines cool (w/just fans) very nice venting. I bought mine via newegg.com and directron.com, my cube neighbor bought his at CompUSA IIRC. Most places sell chieftec as a house brand (directron). Newegg was out-of-stock last I checked.
Heh,
...) I bought 2 NEC FE950+ and 2 ViewSonic G90f from www.pagecomputer.com (The black NECs to match my black cases :-). :-). The NEC is a very nice monitor and it didn't cost me much more at all. (280 white/292 black) + shipping.
My Sony 17se finally died (color fading) and I just bought some new monitors (Home, Work, SO,
I have to say that the G90f is quite impressive for a Shadow Mask CRT - very flat. The FE950s are just for me though
It you are looking to run this card under Linux it is not a known good card via GATOS. The 8500DV is (which is why I bought that over the cheaper 7500). I have not seen any known good reports for the 7500 AIW. Though you can use it as just a video card ... the whole point is that it's a cheap capture card though, right?
p
:-).
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/supported_cards.ph
You do need the very latest 4.2.0 XFree et. al.
I personally am most excited about the abilty to control the house via the nifty remote