We just installed a T1 at work through Qwest and we tried to do everything we could by ourselves that we could. We were pretty successful. We were just insistent that we didn't want to use their VPN, management, DNS servers, and domain registry. We would have wanted to go with a more major player like UUNET or Genuity, but Qwest offered us the best 1 year contract at about $800/mo for a site pretty far away from their POP downtown. Qwest did handle all the wrangling with the local telco, but this was welcome. Dealing with the telco is voodoo magic sometimes. From our research we found it's just as much to get a T1 from a major bandwidth provider than from a local ISP, so whatever floats your boat..
Something that we used to save a bundle was using a WAN card with an integrated CSU/DSU in our existing Linux router machine. We ended up spending just $250 on a Sangoma S508/FT1 on eBay! The card is just ISA but I doubt we'd be upgrading the current routing machine to something with just PCI anytime soon. Not only was it cheap as hell, it was a piece of cake to set up to boot. I wouldn't do a T1 any other way. Sangoma rocks and has been supporting Linux for years (they also support BSD, Windows 9x, NT, Solaris, etc etc.) Check out their website for their goodies. Of course, I have no affiliation with them other than dealing with their great stuff. There are other WAN cards out there of course.
Ian
Re:Little content, little meaning...
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Now on the other hand, this may be a plus. Microsoft might actually believe that Windows is stable enough that you don't need the DOS prompt anymore.
Microsoft has believed that since 1993, when Windows NT 3.1 came out.
Anyway, this isn't about "not needing a command prompt" as NT (and 2000 and XP) have always had one. It's about finally having a Windows operating system for the home that isn't kludged on top of ye olde DOS. (Instead, ye olde DOS is kludged on top of Windows NT.:)
I've also noticed that the general quality of the Office 2000 thesaurus in general to be absolutely different from 97's. The Office 97 thesaurus is much better in my experience, but for some words, 2000 is better! It's a pain in the neck.
For example, the word "emptiness."
Office 2000 gives the meanings "bareness" and "meaninglessness." Office 97 gives the meaning "void." (Each of these meanings has a list of synonyms associated with them.) There is absolutely no common ground between these two versions. It would make sense if Office 2000 would have all three, but that would make too much sense, wouldn't it?
I don't have Office XP (no new features, bloody licensing, etc) so I can't comment on the quality of the thesaurus in there.
I'm seriously thinking about trying to shoehorn in the 97 thesaurus into 2000 to see what happens.
Funny posts -2? You said half the time they aren't funny (yes subjective..) yet more than 3/4 of the time they are funny. Assigning them -2 isn't much good, just remove them all together if you don't like them -2 is just going to make a 5 post a 3 and most people are still going to see it.
Taco didn't make this too clear, but this was a hypothetical situation. You'll be able to score Funny posts +5 if you wanted to.
The latest VIA C3 (nee Cyrix III) processors dissipate only 8W of power, compared to many times that for both AMD and Intel processors (35-70 watts depending on the model.) Given halfway decent case airflow, C3s only require a passive heatsink (no fan.)
I was flipping through the latest Wired magazine while watching the news reports. I was looking through the record reviews and saw THIS. An album cover of the WTC exploding. I was floored.
Did I mention also that I live less than two miles from the State U. and the local "Technology Corridor"? Blarg.
Simple - see if you have line-of-sight to a dorm building and pay some kid in the dorms (with beer, money, whatever) to piggyback an 802.11b connection on his/her nice and fast ethernet connection.
I think they meant to say that it was the first commercially-available DVD-RW. It also is a bit more affordable than the others.
Ian
The reason behind these "fluff" stories:
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I think Tom even said it himself:
It's just been a S-L-O-W period in hardware news. The excitement of MP Athlons has subsided, the P4 scene is quiet, the GeForce3 has been out for a while... Honestly, is there anything NEW happening in the hardware world? (Aside from future releases...)
Seeing as it's down and I'm not willing to download the code and test it out, I'll just complain here (I don't see it in the CHANGES file):
I hope to GOD that the new version of Slashdot will include the actual YEAR in comments, stories, and everything else. I realize that for stories and comments we can look up in the year for the (non-Y2K compliant) year, but it's just annoying.
I am sick of:
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 16, @11:13AM
by BigBlockMopar (slant6mopar@I.HATE.SPAM.yahoo.com) on Thursday August 16, @11:21AM CST (#5)
(not that I have anything against CmdrTaco and BigBlockMopar)
and
You have moderator access and 5 points. Welcome to the those of you just joining: please read the moderator guidelines for instructions. (updated 9.9!)
After clicking it is revealed that this is September 9th, 1999, almost TWO YEARS AGO.
I should probably be bitching to people who actually do the code (or fix it my own self) but I just have to vent. After a couple years it starts to build up.:)
If only the various users had banded together with the vast Free Chip community, this sort of thing would never happen.
Just imagine patent free, fast embedded processors available Free to all members of the community!
The post I am responding to is a troll, but it brings up a few things.
Believe it or not "Free Chips" do exist: the OpenCores project. They have some serious designs, including an ARM-ish core. The downside to this: you need FPGAs to implement these in relatively small quantities, and they don't come cheap.
This is only in the case of so-called "Audio" CD-Rs, which have a special code that enable them to be used on consumer CD recording devices (workarounds do exist for some of them that let them use cheaper "computer" CD-Rs.) Standard "computer" CD-Rs have no such royalty attached to them.
Or, easier still would be to just use a standard CD player with a digital output (SPDIF with either toslink or coaxial) and record it with a sound card with a digital input.
Yes, it means that you'll be "ripping" at 1x, but 1x is infnitely faster than 0x.:)
I've had a lot of 12V fans that won't work at 5V. Something to do instead is use the difference between the +12V and +5V lines to get 7V. Instead of swapping the red and yellow wires, swap the black ground wire that the fan uses with the red +5V line. 7V should be enough to run the fan and still bring down the RPMs enough to quiet things down a bit.
You can find large JPGs and TIFFs of everything that the LOC has of Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii at this link or here for just the color photographs.
You can also order high-quality prints of these images as well.
The PII was actually slower than the PPro when it first came out in a very real sense (they had to sacrifice the PPro's nice cache to fit in the MMX stuff).
This is demonstrated to a point by the fact that the Pentium II Overdrive (PII that fits in the PPro's Socket 8) at 333 MHz is actually faster than a "Real" Pentium II at 333 MHz.
Growth hormones or not, I've been a milk junkie since I've been a kid. I've slowly weaned myself from 2% to skim, and I still love the stuff. Don't tell me that it can't be good for me.
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We just installed a T1 at work through Qwest and we tried to do everything we could by ourselves that we could. We were pretty successful. We were just insistent that we didn't want to use their VPN, management, DNS servers, and domain registry. We would have wanted to go with a more major player like UUNET or Genuity, but Qwest offered us the best 1 year contract at about $800/mo for a site pretty far away from their POP downtown. Qwest did handle all the wrangling with the local telco, but this was welcome. Dealing with the telco is voodoo magic sometimes. From our research we found it's just as much to get a T1 from a major bandwidth provider than from a local ISP, so whatever floats your boat..
Something that we used to save a bundle was using a WAN card with an integrated CSU/DSU in our existing Linux router machine. We ended up spending just $250 on a Sangoma S508/FT1 on eBay! The card is just ISA but I doubt we'd be upgrading the current routing machine to something with just PCI anytime soon. Not only was it cheap as hell, it was a piece of cake to set up to boot. I wouldn't do a T1 any other way. Sangoma rocks and has been supporting Linux for years (they also support BSD, Windows 9x, NT, Solaris, etc etc.) Check out their website for their goodies. Of course, I have no affiliation with them other than dealing with their great stuff. There are other WAN cards out there of course.
Ian
Now on the other hand, this may be a plus. Microsoft might actually believe that Windows is stable enough that you don't need the DOS prompt anymore.
:)
Microsoft has believed that since 1993, when Windows NT 3.1 came out.
Anyway, this isn't about "not needing a command prompt" as NT (and 2000 and XP) have always had one. It's about finally having a Windows operating system for the home that isn't kludged on top of ye olde DOS. (Instead, ye olde DOS is kludged on top of Windows NT.
Ian
I've also noticed that the general quality of the Office 2000 thesaurus in general to be absolutely different from 97's. The Office 97 thesaurus is much better in my experience, but for some words, 2000 is better! It's a pain in the neck.
For example, the word "emptiness."
Office 2000 gives the meanings "bareness" and "meaninglessness." Office 97 gives the meaning "void." (Each of these meanings has a list of synonyms associated with them.) There is absolutely no common ground between these two versions. It would make sense if Office 2000 would have all three, but that would make too much sense, wouldn't it?
I don't have Office XP (no new features, bloody licensing, etc) so I can't comment on the quality of the thesaurus in there.
I'm seriously thinking about trying to shoehorn in the 97 thesaurus into 2000 to see what happens.
Ian
Funny posts -2? You said half the time they aren't funny (yes subjective..) yet more than 3/4 of the time they are funny. Assigning them -2 isn't much good, just remove them all together if you don't like them -2 is just going to make a 5 post a 3 and most people are still going to see it.
Taco didn't make this too clear, but this was a hypothetical situation. You'll be able to score Funny posts +5 if you wanted to.
The latest VIA C3 (nee Cyrix III) processors dissipate only 8W of power, compared to many times that for both AMD and Intel processors (35-70 watts depending on the model.) Given halfway decent case airflow, C3s only require a passive heatsink (no fan.)
Ian
This is probably him, going by the slashdot user name "CleverNickName."
I was flipping through the latest Wired magazine while watching the news reports. I was looking through the record reviews and saw THIS. An album cover of the WTC exploding. I was floored.
ian @ polpo . org
Did I mention also that I live less than two miles from the State U. and the local "Technology Corridor"? Blarg.
Simple - see if you have line-of-sight to a dorm building and pay some kid in the dorms (with beer, money, whatever) to piggyback an 802.11b connection on his/her nice and fast ethernet connection.
Ian
I think they meant to say that it was the first commercially-available DVD-RW. It also is a bit more affordable than the others.
Ian
I think Tom even said it himself:
It's just been a S-L-O-W period in hardware news. The excitement of MP Athlons has subsided, the P4 scene is quiet, the GeForce3 has been out for a while... Honestly, is there anything NEW happening in the hardware world? (Aside from future releases...)
Ian
Correction:
I realize that for stories and comments we can look up in the URL for the (non-Y2K compliant) year, but it's just annoying.
Ian
Seeing as it's down and I'm not willing to download the code and test it out, I'll just complain here (I don't see it in the CHANGES file):
:)
I hope to GOD that the new version of Slashdot will include the actual YEAR in comments, stories, and everything else. I realize that for stories and comments we can look up in the year for the (non-Y2K compliant) year, but it's just annoying.
I am sick of:
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 16, @11:13AM
by BigBlockMopar (slant6mopar@I.HATE.SPAM.yahoo.com) on Thursday August 16, @11:21AM CST (#5)
(not that I have anything against CmdrTaco and BigBlockMopar)
and
You have moderator access and 5 points. Welcome to the those of you just joining: please read the moderator guidelines for instructions. (updated 9.9!)
After clicking it is revealed that this is September 9th, 1999, almost TWO YEARS AGO.
I should probably be bitching to people who actually do the code (or fix it my own self) but I just have to vent. After a couple years it starts to build up.
Goodbye karma!
If only the various users had banded together with the vast Free Chip community, this sort of thing would never happen.
Just imagine patent free, fast embedded processors available Free to all members of the community!
The post I am responding to is a troll, but it brings up a few things.
Believe it or not "Free Chips" do exist: the OpenCores project. They have some serious designs, including an ARM-ish core. The downside to this: you need FPGAs to implement these in relatively small quantities, and they don't come cheap.
Ian
I'll add Teoma to my bookmarks - if they give me better results than Google, I'll switch in a heartbeat. Even if they run M$ IIS !
Good thing they aren't! According to Netcraft, they are running Apache/1.3.12 on Solaris 8.
Ian
This is only in the case of so-called "Audio" CD-Rs, which have a special code that enable them to be used on consumer CD recording devices (workarounds do exist for some of them that let them use cheaper "computer" CD-Rs.) Standard "computer" CD-Rs have no such royalty attached to them.
Ian
Or, easier still would be to just use a standard CD player with a digital output (SPDIF with either toslink or coaxial) and record it with a sound card with a digital input.
:)
Yes, it means that you'll be "ripping" at 1x, but 1x is infnitely faster than 0x.
Ian
I've had a lot of 12V fans that won't work at 5V. Something to do instead is use the difference between the +12V and +5V lines to get 7V. Instead of swapping the red and yellow wires, swap the black ground wire that the fan uses with the red +5V line. 7V should be enough to run the fan and still bring down the RPMs enough to quiet things down a bit.
Ian
I believe that Nasubi predated "DotComGuy."
Ian
To relive some oldschool low-res porn, checkout "The Girls of '64," as in Commodore 64.
http://girls.c64.org is the link.
zsazsa
You can find large JPGs and TIFFs of everything that the LOC has of Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii at this link or here for just the color photographs.
You can also order high-quality prints of these images as well.
props to Ben for finding this.
zsazsa
When I first saw this post I thought it was about the RSS, as in Relay Spam Stopper. It's responsible for the lack of spam in my inbox.. :)
(go ahead, offtopic, blah blah..)
zsazsa
I would imagine that a ping flood attack would look like something out of Hitchcock's The Birds ...
(don't worry, not a goatse.cx link..)
zsazsa
The PII was actually slower than the PPro when it first came out in a very real sense (they had to sacrifice the PPro's nice cache to fit in the MMX stuff).
This is demonstrated to a point by the fact that the Pentium II Overdrive (PII that fits in the PPro's Socket 8) at 333 MHz is actually faster than a "Real" Pentium II at 333 MHz.
Ian
Yes, it is WELL supported in both 2.2 and 2.4. Check out http://acl.bestbits.at/.
And, yes, it is supported in Samba 2.2.
zsazsa
Growth hormones or not, I've been a milk junkie since I've been a kid. I've slowly weaned myself from 2% to skim, and I still love the stuff. Don't tell me that it can't be good for me.
zsazsa