Well no Ogg support:(
but here you go:
X-Drive Pro
and it has flash card reading support so that you can move pictures off your camera while you're on vacation.
Frontier Labs. There's your answer... although there's no support for Ogg.. they claim there will be at some point.
Frontier Labs
And here's a place that sells it pretty cheap...
Inside Computer
If it is owned by the employee and purchased by the company it's taxable (income).
However, if you throw them a party they don't get taxed, they get happy.
If you give them useful things in the office to make their lives easier/happier, they don't get taxed, they get happy.
If you give them useful things that they may take home and use but remind them that it "belongs" to the company, they don't get taxed, they are happy.... and they have yet another incentive to stay with you.
EXPLAIN to them the reasoning of these non-taxed items. Otherwise they WON'T like it.
Use grub!!! I use my laptop to modify my firewall OS installation through a PCMCIA/CF adapter. (8MB card) and then a nice IDE to CF adapter in the firewall itself. Using grub it was *very* easy to get the bootloader installed on the CF card.
I went to college for 2 (out of 4) years in order to receive my BS of CS. I had a great time, met alot of people, learned what "socializing" and "having a life" actually mean.
During my summers I worked as a SysAdmin. I learned alot there too, more that's pertinent to my current job than most anywhere else I worked.
I left school when a number of factors came together, lack of money, the college screwed the entire CompSci curriculum when they went Medical, and a distinct issue with passing "core" curriculum. BTW - "core" courses can be your downfall, try to find out what courses will be required by your institution and whether you'll have any chance of passing them. (For instance my "Environments" class (tree-hugging) required that each student form a non-profit corp whose aim was to "help" the South-Florida environment.)
I've been an IBM mainframe "computer operator" (equates to the monkey that loads tapes and pushes the button), a programmer for the same company, and an ISP tech rep.
You might ask where I am now... Systems Engineer for a VAR, I have more certifications than wall space. 6 figure salary, fully paid bennies (not a penny out of my salary), paid trainings/certs all over the country, and exposure to the IT departments of companies like: Aetna, Fleet, The Hartford, Mass. Mutual, CT State Dept of IT (cringe), Pfizer, and my most fun client yet... the WWF (yes, wrestling).
So here's the bottom line: I am absolutely certain that if it weren't for what college taught me *outside* of the classes, I wouldn't be where I am now. I don't intend on finishing my degree, then again I'm 26 and don't plan working much beyond 32 or so.
College is fun... at least while you're not in class. Oh yeah, and I also learned and did more programming outside of course material than within. Try not to get addicted to caffeine, it is possible to stay up over 70hrs without it.
Good god! The last thing I want is something in MY interest to be run by an organization that has nothing but it's own interest in mind. The government is the last place I want my interests "assisted"
It's bad enough that I can't choose not to participate in government projects that are going to lose my money (Social Security) Now you want me to pay more taxes to a government project that gets to tell lobbyists (and pay them!) what it is I want lobbied for and against. weeeeee!!
Why is it that so many people think the government is the end all be all of "helpful organizations" or my favorite: "for the people by the people"
The government stopped being for and by the people when it started charging us taxes. The government stopped (...) when they made the US postal service a legal monopoly. The government (...) when they snuggled right on up to big business and said... how can we make you more money, so you can make us more money?
Do you REALLY think your government wants to protect your best interests from big business? Think about the alcohol and tobacco industries. Do I think you have the right to choose to smoke? Yes. Do I think you have the right to smoke in any place where a non-smoker has a right to be? NO. (So why is it taking so long for the government to pass laws restricting where/when you can smoke? They did it with alcohol! But then again, prohibition put the burgeoning alcohol companies in there place.) If alcohol had as much money then, as tobacco had when it was found harmful do you think prohibition would have happened?
Tobacco is one of the biggest money makers for the government (and of course the businesses). Do you think the "artist industry" isn't right under tobacco on the list of government moneymakers? And if it's not, you know the government is lookin for ways to put it on that list. And the industry wants to be there (to protect their best interests, of course!)
Just like all things highly profitable and well entrenched, "We the People of the United States" need to get together behind something to get it changed. And by together, I'm talking 85% and more.
Ok, when I was 7 or 8 my father happened to build a computer for his and my enjoyment. Now when I say build I realy* mean it. It was an sbus (I think) machine that ran CP/M and he did all the soldering on the mainboard and it used 8" floppies... The man happened to be an EE.
Now this computer was used ni several ways. He wrote programs to quiz my math skills. Then he let me have the code and enough manuals to hang myself by. I learned mbasic around the age of 10. Love it.
My first PC was a 386/33 when there were 486/100s coming out. My first console was a Sega Mastersystem for which I owned 3 games.
I am currently 25 and a Sun Systems Engineer. I program in my spare time and I build my own computers (no not with a soldering iron!) I have owned many games and have *rarely* gotten more than 25% done with anything quest-like.
I don't know if it was genetics or *how* I was exposed to computers. What I do know is that my exposure to computers at an early age gave me a supreme advantage in my career of choice. I have a basic understanding of computer problems that most of the people around me have called freaky.
Do you want a little boy that has fun playing games and freely choses his own life goals? Then let him do whatever he wants. If you want to open his eyes to the wonders of computers, let him see how it fascinates you. Whatever you do end up doing never force your own views or expectations on him.
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Well no Ogg support :(
but here you go:
X-Drive Pro
and it has flash card reading support so that you can move pictures off your camera while you're on vacation.
Frontier Labs. There's your answer... although there's no support for Ogg.. they claim there will be at some point. Frontier Labs And here's a place that sells it pretty cheap... Inside Computer
If it is owned by the employee and purchased by the company it's taxable (income).
However, if you throw them a party they don't get taxed, they get happy.
If you give them useful things in the office to make their lives easier/happier, they don't get taxed, they get happy.
If you give them useful things that they may take home and use but remind them that it "belongs" to the company, they don't get taxed, they are happy.... and they have yet another incentive to stay with you.
EXPLAIN to them the reasoning of these non-taxed items. Otherwise they WON'T like it.
3: Profit!?!
Use grub!!! I use my laptop to modify my firewall OS installation through a PCMCIA/CF adapter. (8MB card) and then a nice IDE to CF adapter in the firewall itself. Using grub it was *very* easy to get the bootloader installed on the CF card.
I went to college for 2 (out of 4) years in order to receive my BS of CS. I had a great time, met alot of people, learned what "socializing" and "having a life" actually mean.
During my summers I worked as a SysAdmin. I learned alot there too, more that's pertinent to my current job than most anywhere else I worked.
I left school when a number of factors came together, lack of money, the college screwed the entire CompSci curriculum when they went Medical, and a distinct issue with passing "core" curriculum. BTW - "core" courses can be your downfall, try to find out what courses will be required by your institution and whether you'll have any chance of passing them. (For instance my "Environments" class (tree-hugging) required that each student form a non-profit corp whose aim was to "help" the South-Florida environment.)
I've been an IBM mainframe "computer operator" (equates to the monkey that loads tapes and pushes the button), a programmer for the same company, and an ISP tech rep.
You might ask where I am now... Systems Engineer for a VAR, I have more certifications than wall space. 6 figure salary, fully paid bennies (not a penny out of my salary), paid trainings/certs all over the country, and exposure to the IT departments of companies like: Aetna, Fleet, The Hartford, Mass. Mutual, CT State Dept of IT (cringe), Pfizer, and my most fun client yet... the WWF (yes, wrestling).
So here's the bottom line: I am absolutely certain that if it weren't for what college taught me *outside* of the classes, I wouldn't be where I am now. I don't intend on finishing my degree, then again I'm 26 and don't plan working much beyond 32 or so.
College is fun... at least while you're not in class. Oh yeah, and I also learned and did more programming outside of course material than within. Try not to get addicted to caffeine, it is possible to stay up over 70hrs without it.
I don't like my bagels toasted. But set em on the back of a monitor for 10 minutes and they get nice n warm. =)
It's bad enough that I can't choose not to participate in government projects that are going to lose my money (Social Security) Now you want me to pay more taxes to a government project that gets to tell lobbyists (and pay them!) what it is I want lobbied for and against. weeeeee!!
Why is it that so many people think the government is the end all be all of "helpful organizations" or my favorite: "for the people by the people"
The government stopped being for and by the people when it started charging us taxes. The government stopped (...) when they made the US postal service a legal monopoly. The government (...) when they snuggled right on up to big business and said... how can we make you more money, so you can make us more money?
Do you REALLY think your government wants to protect your best interests from big business? Think about the alcohol and tobacco industries. Do I think you have the right to choose to smoke? Yes. Do I think you have the right to smoke in any place where a non-smoker has a right to be? NO. (So why is it taking so long for the government to pass laws restricting where/when you can smoke? They did it with alcohol! But then again, prohibition put the burgeoning alcohol companies in there place.) If alcohol had as much money then, as tobacco had when it was found harmful do you think prohibition would have happened?
Tobacco is one of the biggest money makers for the government (and of course the businesses). Do you think the "artist industry" isn't right under tobacco on the list of government moneymakers? And if it's not, you know the government is lookin for ways to put it on that list. And the industry wants to be there (to protect their best interests, of course!)
Just like all things highly profitable and well entrenched, "We the People of the United States" need to get together behind something to get it changed. And by together, I'm talking 85% and more.
Ok, when I was 7 or 8 my father happened to build a computer for his and my enjoyment. Now when I say build I realy* mean it. It was an sbus (I think) machine that ran CP/M and he did all the soldering on the mainboard and it used 8" floppies... The man happened to be an EE.
Now this computer was used ni several ways. He wrote programs to quiz my math skills. Then he let me have the code and enough manuals to hang myself by. I learned mbasic around the age of 10. Love it.
My first PC was a 386/33 when there were 486/100s coming out. My first console was a Sega Mastersystem for which I owned 3 games.
I am currently 25 and a Sun Systems Engineer. I program in my spare time and I build my own computers (no not with a soldering iron!) I have owned many games and have *rarely* gotten more than 25% done with anything quest-like.
I don't know if it was genetics or *how* I was exposed to computers. What I do know is that my exposure to computers at an early age gave me a supreme advantage in my career of choice. I have a basic understanding of computer problems that most of the people around me have called freaky.
Do you want a little boy that has fun playing games and freely choses his own life goals? Then let him do whatever he wants. If you want to open his eyes to the wonders of computers, let him see how it fascinates you. Whatever you do end up doing never force your own views or expectations on him.
Leeman