I'm not an NT fan (run all UNIX stuff myself) but in general I've learned from bitter experience not to trust any sort of outsourcing solution. Learn to do it yourself, or hire someone who knows their stuff. But make sure you have direct control over your systems or they will spiral into ickiness.
At my previous employer I had one of these to switch between my laptop (Sony Vaio Z505, mmm) and my tower (HP Kayak, bleh). I'm almost positive it was the GCS124U, but it didn't have the OSD stuff they mentioned in the review. I remember that the one thing which annoyed me about the KVM was that there was no way to jump past the 2 empty slots, and there wasn't any way to switch via a keystroke or anything but the Big Button. Then again, I was running Slackware, so maybe it required some sort of special software. Other than that, it was a really solid unit, and I highly recommend it.
You can see my setup right before they laid us all off. And of course they kept the KVM and the shiny laptop...:(
I really hate to say this, and it's not a flame, but I think most of the problems *nix users have with IE is they expect it to work by default. Perfectly. And if they dont, they try hacking at it like they do in *nix, and cause problems (kill off the stability)...
Yeah, the nerve. Imagine sitting down to use a piece of software and actually expecting it to work. Perfectly, no less! And if it doesn't, I have the unmitigated gall, the chutzpah, the social insensitivity to attempt to make it work. I am truly ashamed of myself.
No, it doesn't take a regular ATX mobo. It's a mATX.
From the parent post (strong emphasis mine):
It'll fit a normal
micro ATX MB
I fail to see how your 2 sentences added anything to the discussion.
The rest of your post was interesting, but while I'm here, what on earth is wrong with USB? I love USB. Finally I have a relatively fast (for low to medium bandwidth peripherals; if you're going to use a USB hard drive you deserve what you get) integrated bus for all kinds of neat devices. And the really great part is that if said devices follow the appropriate standards, which is actually happening more as time goes on, they work seamlessly in Linux, or whatever else has USB drivers.
Same with EsounD. When I'm in the mood, I run a really elegant setup where I run software across my 3 different (currently running; I've got a few more dormant ones:P) machines (running different OSen... do that with XP) all simultaneously piping their audio through my server box to connect to my speakers. Right now I'm just plugged straight from my laptop into the speakers, mainly because the only apps I've been running on my other machines of late have been CLI stuff with no audio. But where was I? Oh yeah. EsounD is cool.
I just bought a HipZip[beware the popups], and it's a very neat little device. It uses those little 40MB Clik! disks, so it can't store a whole ton of music on 1 disk, but they're cheap enough that I don't mind having a few around to change in and out. As soon as I get my car (should be in the next few days) I'm buying the $99 accessory pack, which includes various car adapters and 4 more blank disks.
Anyway, the main reason I moved to this device instead of my Rio500 (which I'm now looking to sell, along with the 64MB SmartMedia card I bought for it) is because it's going to play Ogg Vorbis as soon as the format reaches 1.0. Jack Moffit actually sent me a ROM which is supposed to play them now, but it won't play rc2 encoded tracks, so I don't know if I'll bother installing it.
Anyway, especially with the latest firmware, the HipZip is a solidly put together device for a good price. I strongly recommend it.
I work at Office Depot, and we just clearanced out our last Kyoceras, and our Sprint PCS rep tells us there aren't any more coming. However, there is a similar phone on the way from Sanyo, which will feature a color screen and lack the Kyocera's flip-cover.
And later in that same movie Moff Tarkin told Vader: "The Jedi are extinct; their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion."
Well, I work at Office Depot, and we're pulling all copies of "Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2" from the shelves and sending them back to Westwood, due to the depiction of a New York battle on the inside front cover. I tried to gently prompt a discussion on this, but all I got was "How can you not agree with this?" and "He wants to play the game where we bomb New York.". *sigh*
Keyring for PalmOS. This thing is perfect. Set up an account, generate a new random password. Then I look up the password the first few times I need to access the account (it helps that my Visor is always either on the desk or clipped to my belt). After that, it's burned into my brain.
The funny thing is, I don't know if it uses some kind of mnemonic algorithm like VMS's password generator does, but I find the generated passwords to be very rhythmic and easy to remember. I'd give an example of my favorite, but then I'd have to change my credit card password:P. Of course, it may just be something peculiar about how my mind works; I've always found it very easy to remember arbitrary number sequences when they are used frequently in my daily life (phone numbers, IBM PC color codes, &c)
If the trial is in Frisco, then there's a good chance that there will be some geeks on the jury (especially since there are so many out of work geeks there these days)
Actually there will probably be no geeks at all. The lawyers will ask everyone if they have any computer experience and dismiss those people as "prejudiced". Additionally, lawyers tend to dislike people with technical and/or logical experience, because they can't use emotional manipulation which would be easily seen through. The idea of "a jury of your peers" is a sad joke.
I am writing in regard to your upcoming eXpanium 8cm MP3-CD player.
I have already signed up for your beta test, and am quite interested
in this product.
I would strongly consider buying it, but the killer feature for me
would be Ogg Vorbis support. Ogg Vorbis is patent-free, and so I tend
to support it on philosophical grounds; in addition, I have found in
my own testing that it provides much higher quality at a much lower
bitrate than MP3. This would allow me to store much more music on
a CD.
I currently own a Diamond Rio 500 and am pleased with it, but use it
less and less due to more and more of my music collection being incompatible
with it (whenever I buy a CD, I rip it and encode it as 160kbps Ogg
Vorbis). Additionally, I like the idea of an CD-based player because
I would be able to keep music collections around permanently without
having to reflash the memory all the time, but until now the size of
such devices put me off.
Um, why do you have to ask permission? Just remap your keyboard, dude. In X11 use xmodmap; in Windows use the Keyboard Control Panel (you'll likely need your Windows CD); in MacOS just select "Dvorak" in the Keyboard configuring thingy (no need for a CD). Take some charge of your own life.
And I use nothing but qwerty keyboards mapped to Dvorak, and did so at my last job for months (until I got laid off:P)...
You need to take out the "ahVwga1Oq1o" stuff; whenever you do anything on Google involving a URL, they prepend it with a hash string to (I presume) speed up lookups in their database. If you change just the URL, Google will still bring up the original page if you leave that hash in.
Once (!) you've got that schema, subsequent messages can be very terse. (Without the schema you can still figure out the structure of the data, but you don't know what its for).
Heh. How is this different from XML?
I'm always amused by people that assume XML will be the magic lingua franca of the Internet and everyone will be able to parse every last bit of meaning out of your document just because it's encased in <handwaving><readable by="human"><tags/></readable></handwaving> without ever agreeing on any of those nasty "standards" things. Guess what, people: until we have a solution to the strong AI problem, human readable don't mean squat.
This is seriously old news. I remember seeing this months ago.
I imagine my assessment at the time still stands: Using a plugin as the deployment technology could be useful to get a critical mass of developers and libraries, until it becomes semi-standard. However, since I can't recall seeing anything at all related to Curl in these months since the last story, I'd say critical mass is not forthcoming.:(
The Internet does't reduce your TCO because we want to TALK to you on the phone, not have some total shit web-help-crap.
Not even that. Why can't I ever get live chat support from a company? I don't want to wait on hold; I just want an answer to my problem, and text is generally better anyway. It's unambiguous wrt punctuation and spelling (I recently had the joy of listening to the Qwest tech tell me "Type 'set', s-e-t, space, 'vci', victor charlie indigo, space, 32, 3-2. Then press 'enter'.").
Companies whine about how much phone support costs. Fine. Junk your phone center, get 3 guys and an IRC server. You will be able to respond to many many more people at one time (I routinely carry on 3-5 chat sessions simultaneously), your customers will be happier, and you will save money.
And speaking of word-of-mouth: Never ever ever purchase DSL from Qwest. They are incompetent, broken, and take forever to call me back.
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I'm not an NT fan (run all UNIX stuff myself) but in general I've learned from bitter experience not to trust any sort of outsourcing solution. Learn to do it yourself, or hire someone who knows their stuff. But make sure you have direct control over your systems or they will spiral into ickiness.
You can see my setup right before they laid us all off. And of course they kept the KVM and the shiny laptop... :(
Yeah, the nerve. Imagine sitting down to use a piece of software and actually expecting it to work. Perfectly, no less! And if it doesn't, I have the unmitigated gall, the chutzpah, the social insensitivity to attempt to make it work. I am truly ashamed of myself.
From the parent post (strong emphasis mine):
I fail to see how your 2 sentences added anything to the discussion.
The rest of your post was interesting, but while I'm here, what on earth is wrong with USB? I love USB. Finally I have a relatively fast (for low to medium bandwidth peripherals; if you're going to use a USB hard drive you deserve what you get) integrated bus for all kinds of neat devices. And the really great part is that if said devices follow the appropriate standards, which is actually happening more as time goes on, they work seamlessly in Linux, or whatever else has USB drivers.
Same with EsounD. When I'm in the mood, I run a really elegant setup where I run software across my 3 different (currently running; I've got a few more dormant ones :P) machines (running different OSen... do that with XP) all simultaneously piping their audio through my server box to connect to my speakers. Right now I'm just plugged straight from my laptop into the speakers, mainly because the only apps I've been running on my other machines of late have been CLI stuff with no audio. But where was I? Oh yeah. EsounD is cool.
SHN, perhaps?
Excuse me?!
Anyway, the main reason I moved to this device instead of my Rio500 (which I'm now looking to sell, along with the 64MB SmartMedia card I bought for it) is because it's going to play Ogg Vorbis as soon as the format reaches 1.0. Jack Moffit actually sent me a ROM which is supposed to play them now, but it won't play rc2 encoded tracks, so I don't know if I'll bother installing it.
Anyway, especially with the latest firmware, the HipZip is a solidly put together device for a good price. I strongly recommend it.
I work at Office Depot, and we just clearanced out our last Kyoceras, and our Sprint PCS rep tells us there aren't any more coming. However, there is a similar phone on the way from Sanyo, which will feature a color screen and lack the Kyocera's flip-cover.
And later in that same movie Moff Tarkin told Vader: "The Jedi are extinct; their fire has gone out of the universe. You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion."
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Well, I work at Office Depot, and we're pulling all copies of "Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2" from the shelves and sending them back to Westwood, due to the depiction of a New York battle on the inside front cover. I tried to gently prompt a discussion on this, but all I got was "How can you not agree with this?" and "He wants to play the game where we bomb New York.". *sigh*
You must work for Sun Microsystems.
Yes, hydraulic or pneumatic, most likely.
The funny thing is, I don't know if it uses some kind of mnemonic algorithm like VMS's password generator does, but I find the generated passwords to be very rhythmic and easy to remember. I'd give an example of my favorite, but then I'd have to change my credit card password :P. Of course, it may just be something peculiar about how my mind works; I've always found it very easy to remember arbitrary number sequences when they are used frequently in my daily life (phone numbers, IBM PC color codes, &c)
And I use nothing but qwerty keyboards mapped to Dvorak, and did so at my last job for months (until I got laid off :P)...
You need to take out the "ahVwga1Oq1o" stuff; whenever you do anything on Google involving a URL, they prepend it with a hash string to (I presume) speed up lookups in their database. If you change just the URL, Google will still bring up the original page if you leave that hash in.
Heh. How is this different from XML?
I'm always amused by people that assume XML will be the magic lingua franca of the Internet and everyone will be able to parse every last bit of meaning out of your document just because it's encased in <handwaving><readable by="human"><tags /></readable></handwaving> without ever agreeing on any of those nasty "standards" things. Guess what, people: until we have a solution to the strong AI problem, human readable don't mean squat.
I imagine my assessment at the time still stands: Using a plugin as the deployment technology could be useful to get a critical mass of developers and libraries, until it becomes semi-standard. However, since I can't recall seeing anything at all related to Curl in these months since the last story, I'd say critical mass is not forthcoming. :(
LOL! Anyone else out there read this in a Darth Vader voice? "THERE IS NO CONFLICT."
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Not even that. Why can't I ever get live chat support from a company? I don't want to wait on hold; I just want an answer to my problem, and text is generally better anyway. It's unambiguous wrt punctuation and spelling (I recently had the joy of listening to the Qwest tech tell me "Type 'set', s-e-t, space, 'vci', victor charlie indigo, space, 32, 3-2. Then press 'enter'.").
Companies whine about how much phone support costs. Fine. Junk your phone center, get 3 guys and an IRC server. You will be able to respond to many many more people at one time (I routinely carry on 3-5 chat sessions simultaneously), your customers will be happier, and you will save money.
And speaking of word-of-mouth: Never ever ever purchase DSL from Qwest. They are incompetent, broken, and take forever to call me back.
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