I am proud to say i am luckier than most high school students. The school i go to is a Science Acadamy, the main thing i have noticed that makes it different from most schools is there is no popular group, and best of all the computer nerds are respected and running Linux is actually seen as a sign of inteligence by many.
The school was placed in a poor neighborhood so half of the students are in the Science Acadamy and half are regular students form the neighborhood, the best result of this is there is no group of rich kids pushing people around (unlike the High School i was suposed to goto)
One of the main reasons people like me are respected so much is because of how our network and computers are run, it is done almost entirely by students, we are in charge of it and the teachers and students know this.
I am now a junior and i have not had one person make fun of me for being a nerd or anything similar, and i have had no reason to be ashamed of anything, i carry a laptop to school and have recently started a ham radio club, things which at most schools would result in me automaticaly being labeled an outcast, but it has been just as acepted as if i had joined the football team.
And before anyone asks, I do have a girlfriend, And so do many of the "nerds" and "geeks" that i know.
The Iomega Buz cards do have some problems which is part of the reason i would asume they stoped making them, the cards have a PCI Bridge on them to allow the use of both the scsi card and the capture card which some motherboards dont like.
I recently got one of these cards and have been having some trouble geting it to work in Linux, the driver you mentioned caused it to simply freeze my system, the good news is there is a newer driver that works beter but when i first tried it didnt work right with NTSC, i believe this is fixed now but have not been able to test the new driver yet.
the bottom line is that if you can get it to work it is a great deal (under $100 on ebay and comparable to the LML33)
now for something having a little more to do with DVD's (so i can stay semi on topic) i have seen the Dxr3 DVD decoder cards as low as $45 and they look like they would be a great solution for a low-cost PC based DVD player.
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I am proud to say i am luckier than most high school students. The school i go to is a Science Acadamy, the main thing i have noticed that makes it different from most schools is there is no popular group, and best of all the computer nerds are respected and running Linux is actually seen as a sign of inteligence by many.
The school was placed in a poor neighborhood so half of the students are in the Science Acadamy and half are regular students form the neighborhood, the best result of this is there is no group of rich kids pushing people around (unlike the High School i was suposed to goto)
One of the main reasons people like me are respected so much is because of how our network and computers are run, it is done almost entirely by students, we are in charge of it and the teachers and students know this.
I am now a junior and i have not had one person make fun of me for being a nerd or anything similar, and i have had no reason to be ashamed of anything, i carry a laptop to school and have recently started a ham radio club, things which at most schools would result in me automaticaly being labeled an outcast, but it has been just as acepted as if i had joined the football team.
And before anyone asks, I do have a girlfriend, And so do many of the "nerds" and "geeks" that i know.
Jess
The Iomega Buz cards do have some problems which is part of the reason i would asume they stoped making them, the cards have a PCI Bridge on them to allow the use of both the scsi card and the capture card which some motherboards dont like.
I recently got one of these cards and have been having some trouble geting it to work in Linux, the driver you mentioned caused it to simply freeze my system, the good news is there is a newer driver that works beter but when i first tried it didnt work right with NTSC, i believe this is fixed now but have not been able to test the new driver yet.
the bottom line is that if you can get it to work it is a great deal (under $100 on ebay and comparable to the LML33)
now for something having a little more to do with DVD's (so i can stay semi on topic) i have seen the Dxr3 DVD decoder cards as low as $45 and they look like they would be a great solution for a low-cost PC based DVD player.
Jess