>The lady who spilled coffee on her actually had 3rd degree burns on her legs and private area. The coffee was actually too hot for consumers to drink.
I see. Maybe she needed a course in anatomy, then? You don't drink coffee with that part of your body, you see...
>It is meant to be used with the top on it to reduce spilling and keep the cup in the proper form.
You know, I've been waiting a _long_ time for a good reason to support the lady rather than McDonald's. I think this clinches it.
Everything else was just too obviously her misusing the product (it being too hot, it spilling and causing her severe buns to her nether regions -- those are all stupidity problems, not McDonald's problems). But a coffee cup should be safe with the lid off, and if this wasn't, then it makes a lot more sense...
[BTW: I don't drink coffee or hot tea, so I've never actually used a McDs coffee cup.]
>The 800 Mhz Via CPU is roughly equivalent to a 400 Mhz Celeron.
After using one of these, I think you're underrating the CPU by a lot.
You forgot that when you're talking Cyrix, you're talking a big difference between application performance, and number crunching performance.
Number crunching on a C3 is pathetic. Application performance on a C3 800 is about equivalent to a PIII 550, IMHO. The C3 666 plays DVDs handsomely, and there's no way they'd play well on a Celeron 300...
And while you're saving on the computer, you also save on electricity. I'm very disappointed that so few laptop manufacturers have considered this chip. IIRC, it uses about 1/4 the power the power of an Athlon, and produces so little heat it can be relatively easily passively cooled.
In other words, a silent, cheap, laptop that doesn't burn your legs or your wallent, and lasts an entire trip from anywhere on the world to anywhere, all at the expense of some CPU power. Sounds cool to me.
>I'd disagree - I'm on a long term contract in the US from the UK and have found that the number of extra charges etc which get included raise the US prices to about the same in Europe. The prices quoted in the UK are the total cost, the ones in the US don't take into account taxes etc.
Could be. All I know is what toyota tells me, and they quoted me a price with all special taxes included (which I did note for comparison). It was still many thousands of dollars less than the UK price.
>Cars are a special case - old cars cost more to run than new cars, new cars tend to be more fuel efficient (which with gas prices in Europe is a good thing). And if you're from the UK the level of rain and salty rain especially means cars just don't last as long as ones in places like California.
Well, I'm talking about Canada. Our cars rust faster than those in the UK due to salt being applied directly to the roads 4 months a year (more in many places). Still, more used cars here.
>Taxes aren't necessarily higher in Europe than the US but the level of labour rights is far higher and for most places even minimum wage provides a high enough income to live. Contrast this with the US where minimum wage is a joke.
Yes, but because money goes so much further in America, minimum wage can be lower. You should check the UK minimum wage. I think you'll find it's actually only a few pennies higher than the US one (or at least it was a few years ago, IIRC).
>Why the things here are so much expensive than in the US?
Because, for whatever reason it is, people in europe have traditionally let companies, big and small, walk all over them. Or so it seems to a Canadian who has made various trips to the UK.
If you just quit buying anything that's more expensive than it is in North America, you'd get your prices down.
But, for some reason, I see amazing amounts of people in England driving cars that cost nearly twice as much as they do in America, or at least they are including taxes in the UK. Example: Base Corolla in Canada: $15 290 CDN or $18 645 CDN with taxes. Base Corolla in UK: 10 795 GBP [with or without taxes, I'm not sure what your laws are there] ($26 514 CDN). This applies to almost all other vehicles I've seen over there.
It's simple: Buy used until the retailers get their prices back down to earth. Buying smaller doesn't help because it doesn't send the right message. Just don't buy new. That will send the message.
Oh well... I know that won't happen. I remember how most of the cars in the UK were shiny new compared to the ones in Canada, and especially the US.
Avoid that many buttons while driving. The wireless keybaord is a great idea for passengers to mess with. You need nothing more complicated than an external keypad (actually, less complicated is better... a 10 digit phone pad should do wonders). The best device? Try to interface a trackball. You would be able to adjust speed that you scroll through items with by simply moving the ball less or more, while only needing to grope about on it for a second, keeping your concentration where it belongs -- on the road.
I know you don't want to hear this, but your ad is the equivalent of making a 3-foot orange steel rectange, painting a black border on it, putting the word "Detour" with and arrow, and placing that sign on the road 50 ft. in front of the entrance to your store.
Does the cancel button function? It doesn't appear to. Does the fake dialog do what it said it would? Nope. Are you selling something? Yes.
This all comes under misrepresentation, and, AFAIK, that's not legal, especially if you're trying to hawk your goods.
Just my 2 cents. I really don't care too much about these popups, or yours... they benefit my business (I get paid to remove all this spyware...)
I think so. Imagine this board with this board's colours. It's a spitting image!:-)
Actually, the K7S5A has turned out to be far more durable than any other PC Chips board I've ever met. I would actually say it's a fair board, but I just can't knowing PC Chips past.
So don't worry too much, just count yourself lucky!:-)
>Fine, so go and find a patch for a 2.0 kernel. The point remains the same.
No, it doesn't. 2.0 is still supported. Sorry to burst your bubble. It's up to 2.0.40 now, IIRC. Last time I used it was about 2.0.35, many, many moons ago.
Sorry man, didn't mean to get personal. Just stating my opinion on ECS trash, not you (I'm sure you've got a clue... not a lot of slashdotters don't).
>PC-Chips, afaik, is not ECS
Here's the truth table of who PC-Chips is. They like to use new names every few months because they get tarnished so fast. FYI: Amptron (a known PC-Chips company) makes the identical board, in brown rather than purple (or is blue ECS's colour now? I don't know -- PC-Chips is pathetic at naming their products). I know. I inspected them side-by-side very closely. Trace for trace, component for component, identical in every way but where the FCC logo was/wasn't silkscreened (probably fake, too).
You can find out more about the quality of PC-Chips products here.
BTW: I know the K7S5A is actually labelled K7S5A, but to help other slashdotters, if you come across the 95% of other PC-Chips products that don't have a brand name listed, or simply have a removeable sticker indicating whatever was the popular chipset at the moment, you can find your board here (maybe). PC-Chips is the only company I know of too embarassed to label their products.
I'll find the Amptron part number for your board if you'd like (they have big ugly pictures on their site you can use for comparison)...
>Liteon was reviewed by Linuxhardware.org, and it beat out several Plextor drives.Their products are solid and fast.
Let's ask them again in 6 months... Rest assured, you can ask any retailer, there's no way a Liteon will beat a Plextor. That's like a Kia beating a Lexus. Maybe in MPG...
>And the PS was by Foxconn, if you bothered to look.AMD approved.Where did you get 430 watts from?
Sorry, since you didn't provide a link, I clicked on the first case that came up. This one. Which meets your stated requirements. You get the 430 watts by adding up the stated maximum supply power for each important rail (ignore the -ve voltages and the VSB voltages -- these really won't contriubute to the usable power amount supplied by the power supply). This is what came up when I searched for your terms. The picture clearly shows it includes an "Austin" power supply with the usual labelling issues that show up on cheap Asian imports. At least it isn't likely to explode like an L&C/Deer power supply (I made a good few bucks during the last big storm!)...:-)
>So I don't know quite what you are talking about.
Sorry, if you'd like to be more clear as to what I should search for, perhaps I'll take a look for you. Newegg's site is a PITA to link to.
>I've built 2 systems essentially like the one above.
I've built 20 or 30 PC-Chips based systems. Only about 10 got returned, for various issues (about 5 related to me, although I don't consider them my fault, since the boss asked for it... the store was a sweatshop and we went to extremes like bashing in the power supplies to fit parts in because we catered to cheapasses).
>You say 5400 RPMs is slow...ok, but where did you get any idea that I was talking about 5400 RPM? the one i listed was 7200 RPM.
You didn't specify the speed so I had to guess.
>One thing you missed, while you were bashing me - I forgot a video card. Buy a nice GeForce 2 or 3, they are nice...don't get an MX.
I forgot the K7S5A is one of the _extremely_ few PC-Chips boards that doesn't have some trash Trident or SiS video built in. Whoops on my part!
>So, you can do it, you can build a nice, sweet system for about $600, if you do it yourself. It's much easier (and educational!) to do it that way. AMD's price/performance ration is quite nice, and I don't mind taking advantage of it.
Except I'd never buy it... and no one else would after their first experience with PC Chips.
I can honestly back up the fact that PC Chips hacks their Pirated BIOSes to show fake CPU speeds and fake amounts of cache. And that's just the start...
The question is: What are the requirements of the user?
My last PC-Chips board corrupted my HDD. If you don't care to much about your data, and don't need long uptimes, PC-Chips is a fine product, and the price can't be beat! Another one only boots up with the video disconnected. At least it boots up (I must stop being so masochistic, but I just seem to end up with so much PC-Chips stuff for next to free).
The best are the older PC-Chips VIA C3 boards that refuse to work with WD 2.0 Gig HDDs (when you work with cheap stuff, you get old parts. That's the law of the land). BIOS locks up at some point. Didn't bother looking for an update, I'm used to most PC-Chips boards not having any.
(And yeah, Tom's Hardware gave the thumbs up to the K7S5A. Which is why I don't trust anything he says anymore. He's clearly not been "in the business" for very long at all).
Ok, that's my last PC-Chips rant for the year. I'll just write a journal entry and let all the system builders weep in their beers over the woe that is PC-Chips.
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ECS == PC-Chips == Illegal, Remarked, Fake, Pirated Crap. 5400 RPM == Low end crap. Liteon == SHIT. Yes, I used capitals and swore for a good reason. Chieftec == ??? I've no clue who they are, but if they are using a "450 Watt" power supply that may supply up to 430 Watts of usable power if you trust the labelling (which, in and of itself is wrong -- since when does 12 * 15 = 380, and since when does 92.4 + 150 = 220?), they're a joke. Either that or this is their cheap-ass line of cases.
I've built a lot of systems, and yup, some of them have a similar configuration to yours. I build these for the customers who want to spend nothing on a system, and while they work, they are _always_ the worst PITA to make work. And they usually break. Often. K7S5A wasn't too bad, but why rely on a brand with such a pathetic reputation (don't believe me? Talk to a local retailer, or just lookup PCChips on deja or google)?
>So, exactly what software or hardware did Nesticle modify to complete the Nesticle project?
The NES ROMs themselves, perhaps? The games were never sold on diskettes outside Japan, IIRC. And even so, few games made it onto disks in the first place.
>Note: the C64 floppies had varying number of sectors/track depending how close the track was to the hub... these floppies can't be read on a DOS machine
Wanna Bet? DOS is actually one of the few OSes that can handle the real-time work well enough...
(Yes, it works. Very well. Just don't burn out your 1541 in turbo mode!)
Works for me (although I've not gotten encryption running yet), works for linux, works for Win 95 and higher without installing extra tools. Full authentication and encryption support. This should get you going. It's similar to PPPoE, except I suspect it's a little less hated by sysadmins.
>Credit cards are also a huge liability for college students.
This can be true, but to be honest (and please don't take this personally) part of growing up is managing debt. College is part of growing up (should you choose it) and working through your debt is part of that.
I know, I've been there, done that. But I worked through it. It's all part of those important lessons you gotta learn the hard way. Although there's much harder ways of learning to deal with debt than taking on an extra job (like quitting college... bummer).:-/
>Almost all VISAs are however debet cards instead of credit cards. Is there nothing like this in the US?
You could ask VISA for a zero limit and simply put money _on_ your VISA and they will use the credit to automatically pay for your purchase. However, due to the ubiquity of debit from "real" banks here (or at least in Canada) there's no point in doing this, especially since it's normally cheaper to use a bank debit card to pay, rather than a VISA (price of a candy bar vs. 3-5% service charge).
>I don't...I'm a college student. I don't see the need for one now. When I want money, I get in my car, head over to my locak banking facility, and cash a check. It's simple, the car gets used, and I have real cash to spend
But, unfortunately, you build zero credit rating this way.
A gently used credit card is a great start to your next loan (and loans are the only way money gets into the system).
>If you wear earplugs in the server room, how the hell do I hear the phone ring? >No it didn't have a light on it.
Did you try writing a letter to management that the ear protection you are required to wear renders you temporarialy disabled and that by law they need to put a flasher on the phone?
It isn't hard, you know. Although I wouldn't start off saying you're disabled, or that it's by law. Just ask for it, and unless it's a government job (speaking from experience) if it's under $50 you'll get it as long as you can say with a straight face "it's for work". Ask for some spider poison too. Guaranteed this will raise some heads and get that place professionally exterminated.
Or at least you would at my company, once it gets some employees.
Why is it in this 'free' land I'm assumed guilty until proved innocent if I forget the key to my encrypted documents? Not to mention the ever growing panopticon which is the streets of England.
Me-thinks you need to read up a lot more on the state of freedom in these countries...
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>The lady who spilled coffee on her actually had 3rd degree burns on her legs and private area. The coffee was actually too hot for consumers to drink.
I see. Maybe she needed a course in anatomy, then? You don't drink coffee with that part of your body, you see...
>also, my cable box comes with the ability to recieve all of the channels too, whats the legal implication there?
The premium channels aren't pre-recorded on the box.
>my car comes with the ability to do 150mph, but the chips lets me go to 120... whats the legal wrinkle there?
The car company doesn't want to see you dead, perhaps?
>It is meant to be used with the top on it to reduce spilling and keep the cup in the proper form.
You know, I've been waiting a _long_ time for a good reason to support the lady rather than McDonald's. I think this clinches it.
Everything else was just too obviously her misusing the product (it being too hot, it spilling and causing her severe buns to her nether regions -- those are all stupidity problems, not McDonald's problems). But a coffee cup should be safe with the lid off, and if this wasn't, then it makes a lot more sense...
[BTW: I don't drink coffee or hot tea, so I've never actually used a McDs coffee cup.]
>The 800 Mhz Via CPU is roughly equivalent to a 400 Mhz Celeron.
After using one of these, I think you're underrating the CPU by a lot.
You forgot that when you're talking Cyrix, you're talking a big difference between application performance, and number crunching performance.
Number crunching on a C3 is pathetic. Application performance on a C3 800 is about equivalent to a PIII 550, IMHO. The C3 666 plays DVDs handsomely, and there's no way they'd play well on a Celeron 300...
And while you're saving on the computer, you also save on electricity. I'm very disappointed that so few laptop manufacturers have considered this chip. IIRC, it uses about 1/4 the power the power of an Athlon, and produces so little heat it can be relatively easily passively cooled.
In other words, a silent, cheap, laptop that doesn't burn your legs or your wallent, and lasts an entire trip from anywhere on the world to anywhere, all at the expense of some CPU power. Sounds cool to me.
>I'd disagree - I'm on a long term contract in the US from the UK and have found that the number of extra charges etc which get included raise the US prices to about the same in Europe. The prices quoted in the UK are the total cost, the ones in the US don't take into account taxes etc.
Could be. All I know is what toyota tells me, and they quoted me a price with all special taxes included (which I did note for comparison). It was still many thousands of dollars less than the UK price.
>Cars are a special case - old cars cost more to run than new cars, new cars tend to be more fuel efficient (which with gas prices in Europe is a good thing). And if you're from the UK the level of rain and salty rain especially means cars just don't last as long as ones in places like California.
Well, I'm talking about Canada. Our cars rust faster than those in the UK due to salt being applied directly to the roads 4 months a year (more in many places). Still, more used cars here.
>Taxes aren't necessarily higher in Europe than the US but the level of labour rights is far higher and for most places even minimum wage provides a high enough income to live. Contrast this with the US where minimum wage is a joke.
Yes, but because money goes so much further in America, minimum wage can be lower. You should check the UK minimum wage. I think you'll find it's actually only a few pennies higher than the US one (or at least it was a few years ago, IIRC).
>Why the things here are so much expensive than in the US?
Because, for whatever reason it is, people in europe have traditionally let companies, big and small, walk all over them. Or so it seems to a Canadian who has made various trips to the UK.
If you just quit buying anything that's more expensive than it is in North America, you'd get your prices down.
But, for some reason, I see amazing amounts of people in England driving cars that cost nearly twice as much as they do in America, or at least they are including taxes in the UK. Example: Base Corolla in Canada: $15 290 CDN or $18 645 CDN with taxes. Base Corolla in UK: 10 795 GBP [with or without taxes, I'm not sure what your laws are there] ($26 514 CDN). This applies to almost all other vehicles I've seen over there.
It's simple: Buy used until the retailers get their prices back down to earth. Buying smaller doesn't help because it doesn't send the right message. Just don't buy new. That will send the message.
Oh well... I know that won't happen. I remember how most of the cars in the UK were shiny new compared to the ones in Canada, and especially the US.
Avoid that many buttons while driving. The wireless keybaord is a great idea for passengers to mess with. You need nothing more complicated than an external keypad (actually, less complicated is better... a 10 digit phone pad should do wonders). The best device? Try to interface a trackball. You would be able to adjust speed that you scroll through items with by simply moving the ball less or more, while only needing to grope about on it for a second, keeping your concentration where it belongs -- on the road.
I know you don't want to hear this, but your ad is the equivalent of making a 3-foot orange steel rectange, painting a black border on it, putting the word "Detour" with and arrow, and placing that sign on the road 50 ft. in front of the entrance to your store.
Does the cancel button function? It doesn't appear to. Does the fake dialog do what it said it would? Nope. Are you selling something? Yes.
This all comes under misrepresentation, and, AFAIK, that's not legal, especially if you're trying to hawk your goods.
Just my 2 cents. I really don't care too much about these popups, or yours... they benefit my business (I get paid to remove all this spyware...)
>So... ECS is PC-chips? huh. something new...
:-)
:-)
I think so. Imagine this board with this board's colours. It's a spitting image!
Actually, the K7S5A has turned out to be far more durable than any other PC Chips board I've ever met. I would actually say it's a fair board, but I just can't knowing PC Chips past.
So don't worry too much, just count yourself lucky!
>Fine, so go and find a patch for a 2.0 kernel. The point remains the same.
No, it doesn't. 2.0 is still supported. Sorry to burst your bubble. It's up to 2.0.40 now, IIRC. Last time I used it was about 2.0.35, many, many moons ago.
Linux has a longer lifecycle than windows.
(Or at least it was a few months ago)
>Well, while you're bashing me
:-)
Sorry man, didn't mean to get personal. Just stating my opinion on ECS trash, not you (I'm sure you've got a clue... not a lot of slashdotters don't).
>PC-Chips, afaik, is not ECS
Here's the truth table of who PC-Chips is. They like to use new names every few months because they get tarnished so fast. FYI: Amptron (a known PC-Chips company) makes the identical board, in brown rather than purple (or is blue ECS's colour now? I don't know -- PC-Chips is pathetic at naming their products). I know. I inspected them side-by-side very closely. Trace for trace, component for component, identical in every way but where the FCC logo was/wasn't silkscreened (probably fake, too).
You can find out more about the quality of PC-Chips products here.
BTW: I know the K7S5A is actually labelled K7S5A, but to help other slashdotters, if you come across the 95% of other PC-Chips products that don't have a brand name listed, or simply have a removeable sticker indicating whatever was the popular chipset at the moment, you can find your board here (maybe). PC-Chips is the only company I know of too embarassed to label their products.
This is the list of PC-Chips names:
PCChips = Ability = Alton = Amptron = Aristo = Asia Gate = Asiatech = Assa = Atrend = ECS = Elpina = Eurone = Fugu = Fugutech = Hi Sing = Houston = Hsing Tech = H Tech = Matsonic = Minstaple = PCWare = Pine = Protac = QDI = Warpspeed.
I'll find the Amptron part number for your board if you'd like (they have big ugly pictures on their site you can use for comparison)...
>Liteon was reviewed by Linuxhardware.org, and it beat out several Plextor drives.Their products are solid and fast.
Let's ask them again in 6 months... Rest assured, you can ask any retailer, there's no way a Liteon will beat a Plextor. That's like a Kia beating a Lexus. Maybe in MPG...
>And the PS was by Foxconn, if you bothered to look.AMD approved.Where did you get 430 watts from?
Sorry, since you didn't provide a link, I clicked on the first case that came up. This one. Which meets your stated requirements. You get the 430 watts by adding up the stated maximum supply power for each important rail (ignore the -ve voltages and the VSB voltages -- these really won't contriubute to the usable power amount supplied by the power supply). This is what came up when I searched for your terms. The picture clearly shows it includes an "Austin" power supply with the usual labelling issues that show up on cheap Asian imports. At least it isn't likely to explode like an L&C/Deer power supply (I made a good few bucks during the last big storm!)...
>So I don't know quite what you are talking about.
Sorry, if you'd like to be more clear as to what I should search for, perhaps I'll take a look for you. Newegg's site is a PITA to link to.
>I've built 2 systems essentially like the one above.
I've built 20 or 30 PC-Chips based systems. Only about 10 got returned, for various issues (about 5 related to me, although I don't consider them my fault, since the boss asked for it... the store was a sweatshop and we went to extremes like bashing in the power supplies to fit parts in because we catered to cheapasses).
>You say 5400 RPMs is slow...ok, but where did you get any idea that I was talking about 5400 RPM? the one i listed was 7200 RPM.
You didn't specify the speed so I had to guess.
>One thing you missed, while you were bashing me - I forgot a video card. Buy a nice GeForce 2 or 3, they are nice...don't get an MX.
I forgot the K7S5A is one of the _extremely_ few PC-Chips boards that doesn't have some trash Trident or SiS video built in. Whoops on my part!
>So, you can do it, you can build a nice, sweet system for about $600, if you do it yourself. It's much easier (and educational!) to do it that way. AMD's price/performance ration is quite nice, and I don't mind taking advantage of it.
Except I'd never buy it... and no one else would after their first experience with PC Chips.
I can honestly back up the fact that PC Chips hacks their Pirated BIOSes to show fake CPU speeds and fake amounts of cache. And that's just the start...
The question is: What are the requirements of the user?
My last PC-Chips board corrupted my HDD. If you don't care to much about your data, and don't need long uptimes, PC-Chips is a fine product, and the price can't be beat! Another one only boots up with the video disconnected. At least it boots up (I must stop being so masochistic, but I just seem to end up with so much PC-Chips stuff for next to free).
The best are the older PC-Chips VIA C3 boards that refuse to work with WD 2.0 Gig HDDs (when you work with cheap stuff, you get old parts. That's the law of the land). BIOS locks up at some point. Didn't bother looking for an update, I'm used to most PC-Chips boards not having any.
(And yeah, Tom's Hardware gave the thumbs up to the K7S5A. Which is why I don't trust anything he says anymore. He's clearly not been "in the business" for very long at all).
Ok, that's my last PC-Chips rant for the year. I'll just write a journal entry and let all the system builders weep in their beers over the woe that is PC-Chips.
Bingo!
ECS == PC-Chips == Illegal, Remarked, Fake, Pirated Crap.
5400 RPM == Low end crap.
Liteon == SHIT. Yes, I used capitals and swore for a good reason.
Chieftec == ??? I've no clue who they are, but if they are using a "450 Watt" power supply that may supply up to 430 Watts of usable power if you trust the labelling (which, in and of itself is wrong -- since when does 12 * 15 = 380, and since when does 92.4 + 150 = 220?), they're a joke. Either that or this is their cheap-ass line of cases.
I've built a lot of systems, and yup, some of them have a similar configuration to yours. I build these for the customers who want to spend nothing on a system, and while they work, they are _always_ the worst PITA to make work. And they usually break. Often. K7S5A wasn't too bad, but why rely on a brand with such a pathetic reputation (don't believe me? Talk to a local retailer, or just lookup PCChips on deja or google)?
Either way, where's the monitor?
>It modifies the way linux behaves, allowing it to run executables it isn't designed for, from a wholly different system.
Oh, I see! So it's just like the "MISC/JAVA" option in the kernel setup...
>So, exactly what software or hardware did Nesticle modify to complete the Nesticle project?
The NES ROMs themselves, perhaps? The games were never sold on diskettes outside Japan, IIRC. And even so, few games made it onto disks in the first place.
>You mean linux natively supports DLL (Dynamic Linking Library) and PE (Portable Executable) binary formats?
That still doesn't satisfy the requirement of emulation that software or hardware be modified.
I don't think the DLLs/PEs get modified when they are executed. Maybe I am wrong. Feel free to correct me.
>...as by modifications to hardware or software...
So, exactly what software or hardware did WINE modify to complete the WINE project?
>Note: the C64 floppies had varying number of sectors/track depending how close the track was to the hub ... these floppies can't be read on a DOS machine
Wanna Bet? DOS is actually one of the few OSes that can handle the real-time work well enough...
(Yes, it works. Very well. Just don't burn out your 1541 in turbo mode!)
Thanks a million!
:)
I'll try that... I think it'll solve my encryption problems.
Works for me (although I've not gotten encryption running yet), works for linux, works for Win 95 and higher without installing extra tools. Full authentication and encryption support. This should get you going. It's similar to PPPoE, except I suspect it's a little less hated by sysadmins.
>Credit cards are also a huge liability for college students.
:-/
This can be true, but to be honest (and please don't take this personally) part of growing up is managing debt. College is part of growing up (should you choose it) and working through your debt is part of that.
I know, I've been there, done that. But I worked through it. It's all part of those important lessons you gotta learn the hard way. Although there's much harder ways of learning to deal with debt than taking on an extra job (like quitting college... bummer).
>Almost all VISAs are however debet cards instead of credit cards. Is there nothing like this in the US?
You could ask VISA for a zero limit and simply put money _on_ your VISA and they will use the credit to automatically pay for your purchase. However, due to the ubiquity of debit from "real" banks here (or at least in Canada) there's no point in doing this, especially since it's normally cheaper to use a bank debit card to pay, rather than a VISA (price of a candy bar vs. 3-5% service charge).
>I don't...I'm a college student. I don't see the need for one now. When I want money, I get in my car, head over to my locak banking facility, and cash a check. It's simple, the car gets used, and I have real cash to spend
But, unfortunately, you build zero credit rating this way.
A gently used credit card is a great start to your next loan (and loans are the only way money gets into the system).
>If you wear earplugs in the server room, how the hell do I hear the phone ring?
>No it didn't have a light on it.
Did you try writing a letter to management that the ear protection you are required to wear renders you temporarialy disabled and that by law they need to put a flasher on the phone?
It isn't hard, you know. Although I wouldn't start off saying you're disabled, or that it's by law. Just ask for it, and unless it's a government job (speaking from experience) if it's under $50 you'll get it as long as you can say with a straight face "it's for work". Ask for some spider poison too. Guaranteed this will raise some heads and get that place professionally exterminated.
Or at least you would at my company, once it gets some employees.
What are the major differences in functionality between this and Oracle 8i?
Why is it in this 'free' land I'm assumed guilty until proved innocent if I forget the key to my encrypted documents? Not to mention the ever growing panopticon which is the streets of England.
Me-thinks you need to read up a lot more on the state of freedom in these countries...