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1) A Standard emerges that most if not all DVD Writers Adopt.
So get one of the multi-format drives from Sony (the DRU50x series) , Pioneer (the new A06 just released) or LiteOn (haven't seen it but I've heard it's just a rebadged Sony). I have a Sony and it works great.
2) Price Drops Below $100 to get more mainstream.
They're not there yet, but the prices are dropping like a rock. I paid $350 for a Sony DRU500AX just a few months ago (compared to $500 for my first CD burner lo these *mumble* years ago). You can now buy a Pioneer A06 for $209 at Newegg. Also, per MB DVD media is rather cheaper than CD.
3) Write speed gets faster. Particually the Write Speed of CD-R's.
The Sony will burn CD's at 24X. I know it's not 52X but come on, how fast does it really need to be? For me it was a step up anyway as I was upgrading from a Plextor 12X burner, but 24X is pretty speedy.
I've heard people gripe at how long it takes to burn DVD's as well. It takes me 30 minutes to burn a DVD-R at 2X, and when generic 4X media is cheap enough it'll only be 15 minutes. Considering how much data is being burned that's pretty darned fast.
Are getting cheaper every day. They read & write to all formats so you don't have to worry about it. I paid $350 for a Sony DRU500AX just after they hit the street a few months back. That's $150 cheaper than my first CD burner lo these not-so-many years ago. However, the equivalent Pioneer A06 can now be had for $230, and Liteon has one out as well. At this rate they'll be under $200 by Christmas.
The worst complaint I hear about them is that as CD burners they're relatively slow. True, the Sony burns CD-R's at 24X, but my old CD-R drive was a 12X Plextor so it was a step-up for me anyway.
The phrase "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;" give the Federal government huge powers over anything that can be said to affect interstate commerce. You'd be surprised how the most innocuous things can be tied to interstate commerce.
Was it working under 7.02? That's what I run on my work machine and my home machine (Win2KPro works quite nicely as a desktop OS, thanks) and I have no problems with popup blocking. The only time I ever see popups is on those rare occasions I need to fire up IE.
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... is the official term. The standard joke at my place of employment is "Yeah, it means you're exempt from having a life."
Well, yes. Blackmail is illegal. As an example, If I call you and say "I know you've been cheating on your spouse, and I want you to do X or I'll tell your spouse." that is blackmail. It wouldn't be illegal to just call her up and say "Joe is cheating on you.", but once I make demands of you in exchange for my silence then it becomes blackmail.
It may or may not be illegal for them to release a no-mod-chip exploit for the X-Box, it is definitely illegal for them to threaten to release one in exchange for concessions.
And how is this different from how employees treated employers during the economic boom? Employees demanded unheard benifits and jumped ship as soon as they found another job that pays more. Now that the table has turned, they whine.
Not all employees, thank you. Back in the 90's everyone told me I was nuts back in the 90's to stay in my "comfortable" cog-in-IT job with BigBadCo. "You should come out west and get in on one of the startups!" Now those people are saying "Man, are you guys hiring?" (no)
Local crime bosses go after him for protection money. "Hey, nice server you got dere. Be a shame if sumtin' happened to it."
His employee suggests they raise the protection money by breaking in to American sites, steal CC #'s etc.. and offer to return the stolen data (?) and tell them how they did it. Raise protection money with protection money.
"Hey, the FBI can't get us here. We're in Russia, not Wisconsin."
FBI proves them wrong.
No, I don't feel sorry for them. They're criminals. Send them to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass Prison.
I was picking up a new skiffy novel the other day and they had a stack of Computer Shopper's up by the register. I picked up this anemically thin thing and commented to my wife "I remember when CS was this thin the first time, about 20 years ago." The Geekboy behind the counter was actually awed. Kids these days...
So...um...this would be called LANs Across America?/me ducks and runs for cover.
Nostalgia Alert -
When the company I work for first started building their LAN/WAN infrastructure back in the early 90's the documentation for the project was titled "LANS Across America." Mind you, this was IBM PS/2 9595 servers (486DX2/66 with 24MB RAM Wooh!) running Netware 3.11 in a token ring environment (PS/2 76 desktops running Win3.1).
... linked in the intro. I saw that at my local Best Buy. I wanted it. I considered it. I realized that if I bought it I'd better be prepared to move in to the box when my wife finds out how expensive it is. And the box on that thing is way too small for my big fat arse.
The hard part is buying new hardware in an organization which doesn't keep up with Microsoft's OS schedule. For instance, I dare you to try to buy a new machine now from a Dell or a HP which runs NT4; so that your employee N+1 will have the same environment as employee N.
You mean like the IBM NetVista's I was buying last year or the Dell GX240's and GX260's I've been buying since, all of which are running NT4? Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to some of the new features of XP (I run Win2KPro and Mandrake at home), but you'd be surprised what you can do with NT4. If it supported USB and a few other niceties I'd be happy to keep it even longer. For the vast majority of my users who live in Office 97 (yes) and custom applications, NT4 does the job quite nicely.
While I completely understand not wanting to upgrade unless you have to, the tone of your post makes it sound as if you're suggesting that W3.11 and token ring were better than current solutions.
I didn't mean to come across that way. I think token ring has advantages and disadvantages, as does ethernet, but I'm happy with 100Mb ethernet instead of my old 16Mb token ring. I wouldn't go back to the W3.1 days for anything. NT4 actually makes a fairly nice desktop OS. I'm looking forward to some of the advantages XP will bring (and no, I'm not a pure MS guy, my servers run Netware, we have various *nix boxes too), I'm just not looking forward to finding out what applications we currently depend on will break.
Things like simply being able to take a machine down without taking down the whole network (since it's place in the ring would be broken) would make it worth it to me, even if upgrading wasn't 100% necessary.
Again, no. I was not running a physical ring in the sense you are thinking. Not any more than I'm running ethernet with thinnet and BNC connectors. We werent that far behind.:) You can disconnect machines from a token ring without taking the ring down. I did it all the time. Still do at my one location that still runs it (they're moving to a new facility and I wasn't going to spend a bunch of $ to recable them and then have to write it off a few months later).
The only thing I can think of that might force your hand any sooner is if MS is extremely successful with its Palladium initiative, but then again, that'd suck for a lot more people than just you.
Sounds like a retail/POS (er, point-of-sale) network or a private application network (e.g., tax accounting).
BZZZT. Sorry. Manufacturing and distribution of a very well-known product. Production plants plus lots of distribution warehouses. I have sites with 5 desktops and sites with 200. You probably see trucks with our logo driving around your city quite regularly. But since I'm IT, not marketing, sales or legal I'll leave it at that.
Make sure you read (and understand) the EULAs shipping with Windows XP. Just so you know where everything stands. Watch out for EULAs that come with automatic updates, too. Microsoft patches them too, sometimes!
Believe me, I'm well aware of that. Not my decision. I'm staff, not management. I'll tell you the same thing I tell the users when we do something boneheaded: "You don't honestly think they asked my opinion about this, do you?"
Lots of companies (including my employer) don't set their upgrade watch by Microsoft. We (a PrettyBigCompany I won't name) stayed with Windows 3.1 until 1998 when we transitioned to NT4 on the desktop. We will most likely switch to XP sometime this fall. I can pretty much guarantee you that we won't be moving away from XP until 2008 or so.
Of course we're just now finishing switching from Token Ring to Ethernet and from Netware 4.11 on Pentium Pro 200's to Netware 5.1 on dual Xeon's across the company (over 300 facilities nationwide). Yeah, if you're a tech company staying up to date is a cool thing. When your company makes and sells Stuff then you don't upgrade just for the heck of it.
(oh, and if anyone knows someone at Cisco in charge of their 3500 series ethernet switches, do me a favor and smack them around - they fail regularly whereas my old token ring concentrators Just Worked)
I doubt you could appease Kim Chong-il, Timothy McVeigh, Bin Laden, and the Unibomber all at the same time, even if you tried.
We don't have to appease them.
Timothy McVeigh - Dead Bin Laden - Probably dead, power structure destroyed. Unabomber - In a cell for the rest of his life. Kin Chong-il - Looking pretty nervous.
I don't have time to go look it up and point you to a link, but I can assure you that length of cable is part of the Category 5 specification. In the past year my company had over 300 facilities recabled to Cat5 (Cat5e, actually, but it makes no difference in this case). My boss insisted that we could not exceed the Cat5 spec for any reason, so I have sites with fiber runs where a straight Cat5 run would have exceeded the distance limit by only 30 or 40 feet.
If you hook up a pair of testers that will certify a run as Cat5 you will see it test the length of the cable. If it's over a certain distance (approx. 100m) it will FAIL the test, even if every other test (crosstalk, etc...) passes perfectly.
With 10/100 Ethernet, the max cable length is around 100m. I seem to remember that restricting the speed to 10 Mbit triples the max cable length, but that bit of data is suspect.
The 100 meter limit has nothing to do with ethernet. That's the limit for the Category 5 specification. If your cable run happens to be 10 meters longer than the spec allows then when you hook up a tester it could very well pass every single test except for cable length. It might very well be quite capable of running 100Mb ethernet with no problems whatsoever. It just can't be certified as Cat5.
The troth is that the only CPU mesure that matters is how long dose it take to rip and encode a DVD to DivX (One of the few tasks that still taks hours.) or whatever application YOU run which YOU feal is too slow on whatever system you have now.
With enough processing power and memory maybe more people would run spell checkers.
(yes, I'm an evil bastard who can't ignore the chance to take a cheap shot)
This makes the whole name debate seem kind of moot.
This suddenly puts me in mind of the controversy several years back about one of the Mac OS releases. The internal codename for the release was "Carl Sagan." Mr. Sagan objected (for what reason I don't know) and they changed the name of the project to "BHA." Then Sagan found out that BHA was short for "Butt Head Astronomer" and sued for defamation or some such BS.
(He lost.)
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With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
Time to go off-topic. Yes, I can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3. Assuming you're talking about a 192kbps or less mp3 on a decent sound setup. Also, I'm not one of the people who has damaged his hearing by blasting rap-metal in my car so loud that people 3 cars over being vibrated in time with the bass.
If you are someone who has blasted his music at high volume, you *have* damaged your hearing and that does explain why an MP3 sounds "just as good" as a CD to you. It's as if you were color blind and trying to critique monitors for their suitability in color correction work.
Another factor is what use for playback. If you listen to a CD and an MP3 on your cheap computer speakers or your average car stereo and say "they sound the same" that's because of your cheap speakers. A crappy divx rip and a DVD look the same with your eyes closed, too.:)
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1) A Standard emerges that most if not all DVD Writers Adopt.
So get one of the multi-format drives from Sony (the DRU50x series) , Pioneer (the new A06 just released) or LiteOn (haven't seen it but I've heard it's just a rebadged Sony). I have a Sony and it works great.
2) Price Drops Below $100 to get more mainstream.
They're not there yet, but the prices are dropping like a rock. I paid $350 for a Sony DRU500AX just a few months ago (compared to $500 for my first CD burner lo these *mumble* years ago). You can now buy a Pioneer A06 for $209 at Newegg. Also, per MB DVD media is rather cheaper than CD.
3) Write speed gets faster. Particually the Write Speed of CD-R's.
The Sony will burn CD's at 24X. I know it's not 52X but come on, how fast does it really need to be? For me it was a step up anyway as I was upgrading from a Plextor 12X burner, but 24X is pretty speedy.
I've heard people gripe at how long it takes to burn DVD's as well. It takes me 30 minutes to burn a DVD-R at 2X, and when generic 4X media is cheap enough it'll only be 15 minutes. Considering how much data is being burned that's pretty darned fast.
Are getting cheaper every day. They read & write to all formats so you don't have to worry about it. I paid $350 for a Sony DRU500AX just after they hit the street a few months back. That's $150 cheaper than my first CD burner lo these not-so-many years ago. However, the equivalent Pioneer A06 can now be had for $230, and Liteon has one out as well. At this rate they'll be under $200 by Christmas.
The worst complaint I hear about them is that as CD burners they're relatively slow. True, the Sony burns CD-R's at 24X, but my old CD-R drive was a 12X Plextor so it was a step-up for me anyway.
The 10th Amendment has been all but emasculated by a rather liberal interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
The phrase "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;" give the Federal government huge powers over anything that can be said to affect interstate commerce. You'd be surprised how the most innocuous things can be tied to interstate commerce.
Was it working under 7.02? That's what I run on my work machine and my home machine (Win2KPro works quite nicely as a desktop OS, thanks) and I have no problems with popup blocking. The only time I ever see popups is on those rare occasions I need to fire up IE.
... is the official term. The standard joke at my place of employment is "Yeah, it means you're exempt from having a life."
Err, did they do anything actually illegal?
Well, yes. Blackmail is illegal. As an example, If I call you and say "I know you've been cheating on your spouse, and I want you to do X or I'll tell your spouse." that is blackmail. It wouldn't be illegal to just call her up and say "Joe is cheating on you.", but once I make demands of you in exchange for my silence then it becomes blackmail.
It may or may not be illegal for them to release a no-mod-chip exploit for the X-Box, it is definitely illegal for them to threaten to release one in exchange for concessions.
(standard disclaimer, IANAL, yada yada yada)
And how is this different from how employees treated employers during the economic boom? Employees demanded unheard benifits and jumped ship as soon as they found another job that pays more. Now that the table has turned, they whine.
Not all employees, thank you. Back in the 90's everyone told me I was nuts back in the 90's to stay in my "comfortable" cog-in-IT job with BigBadCo. "You should come out west and get in on one of the startups!" Now those people are saying "Man, are you guys hiring?" (no)
He starts a business with the Best of Intentions.
Local crime bosses go after him for protection money. "Hey, nice server you got dere. Be a shame if sumtin' happened to it."
His employee suggests they raise the protection money by breaking in to American sites, steal CC #'s etc.. and offer to return the stolen data (?) and tell them how they did it. Raise protection money with protection money.
"Hey, the FBI can't get us here. We're in Russia, not Wisconsin."
FBI proves them wrong.
No, I don't feel sorry for them. They're criminals. Send them to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass Prison.
... you have time to collect unemployment while I hire somebody else who wants a job.
Let's make a deal: you game on your time, I won't call you during dinner and ask you about your TPS reports, ok?
I was picking up a new skiffy novel the other day and they had a stack of Computer Shopper's up by the register. I picked up this anemically thin thing and commented to my wife "I remember when CS was this thin the first time, about 20 years ago." The Geekboy behind the counter was actually awed. Kids these days ...
So...um...this would be called LANs Across America? /me ducks and runs for cover.
Nostalgia Alert -
When the company I work for first started building their LAN/WAN infrastructure back in the early 90's the documentation for the project was titled "LANS Across America." Mind you, this was IBM PS/2 9595 servers (486DX2/66 with 24MB RAM Wooh!) running Netware 3.11 in a token ring environment (PS/2 76 desktops running Win3.1).
Oh, well hey. If it's only $6000... "Honey, I had to buy it, it was on sale!"
... linked in the intro. I saw that at my local Best Buy. I wanted it. I considered it. I realized that if I bought it I'd better be prepared to move in to the box when my wife finds out how expensive it is. And the box on that thing is way too small for my big fat arse.
"You spent how much on a tv?!?!"
The hard part is buying new hardware in an organization which doesn't keep up with Microsoft's OS schedule. For instance, I dare you to try to buy a new machine now from a Dell or a HP which runs NT4; so that your employee N+1 will have the same environment as employee N.
You mean like the IBM NetVista's I was buying last year or the Dell GX240's and GX260's I've been buying since, all of which are running NT4? Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to some of the new features of XP (I run Win2KPro and Mandrake at home), but you'd be surprised what you can do with NT4. If it supported USB and a few other niceties I'd be happy to keep it even longer. For the vast majority of my users who live in Office 97 (yes) and custom applications, NT4 does the job quite nicely.
While I completely understand not wanting to upgrade unless you have to, the tone of your post makes it sound as if you're suggesting that W3.11 and token ring were better than current solutions.
:) You can disconnect machines from a token ring without taking the ring down. I did it all the time. Still do at my one location that still runs it (they're moving to a new facility and I wasn't going to spend a bunch of $ to recable them and then have to write it off a few months later).
I didn't mean to come across that way. I think token ring has advantages and disadvantages, as does ethernet, but I'm happy with 100Mb ethernet instead of my old 16Mb token ring. I wouldn't go back to the W3.1 days for anything. NT4 actually makes a fairly nice desktop OS. I'm looking forward to some of the advantages XP will bring (and no, I'm not a pure MS guy, my servers run Netware, we have various *nix boxes too), I'm just not looking forward to finding out what applications we currently depend on will break.
Things like simply being able to take a machine down without taking down the whole network (since it's place in the ring would be broken) would make it worth it to me, even if upgrading wasn't 100% necessary.
Again, no. I was not running a physical ring in the sense you are thinking. Not any more than I'm running ethernet with thinnet and BNC connectors. We werent that far behind.
The only thing I can think of that might force your hand any sooner is if MS is extremely successful with its Palladium initiative, but then again, that'd suck for a lot more people than just you.
Agreed. Brrrrr.
Sounds like a retail/POS (er, point-of-sale) network or a private application network (e.g., tax accounting).
BZZZT. Sorry. Manufacturing and distribution of a very well-known product. Production plants plus lots of distribution warehouses. I have sites with 5 desktops and sites with 200. You probably see trucks with our logo driving around your city quite regularly. But since I'm IT, not marketing, sales or legal I'll leave it at that.
Make sure you read (and understand) the EULAs shipping with Windows XP. Just so you know where everything stands. Watch out for EULAs that come with automatic updates, too. Microsoft patches them too, sometimes!
Believe me, I'm well aware of that. Not my decision. I'm staff, not management. I'll tell you the same thing I tell the users when we do something boneheaded: "You don't honestly think they asked my opinion about this, do you?"
Lots of companies (including my employer) don't set their upgrade watch by Microsoft. We (a PrettyBigCompany I won't name) stayed with Windows 3.1 until 1998 when we transitioned to NT4 on the desktop. We will most likely switch to XP sometime this fall. I can pretty much guarantee you that we won't be moving away from XP until 2008 or so.
Of course we're just now finishing switching from Token Ring to Ethernet and from Netware 4.11 on Pentium Pro 200's to Netware 5.1 on dual Xeon's across the company (over 300 facilities nationwide). Yeah, if you're a tech company staying up to date is a cool thing. When your company makes and sells Stuff then you don't upgrade just for the heck of it.
(oh, and if anyone knows someone at Cisco in charge of their 3500 series ethernet switches, do me a favor and smack them around - they fail regularly whereas my old token ring concentrators Just Worked)
I doubt you could appease Kim Chong-il, Timothy McVeigh, Bin Laden, and the Unibomber all at the same time, even if you tried.
We don't have to appease them.
Timothy McVeigh - Dead
Bin Laden - Probably dead, power structure destroyed.
Unabomber - In a cell for the rest of his life.
Kin Chong-il - Looking pretty nervous.
I don't have time to go look it up and point you to a link, but I can assure you that length of cable is part of the Category 5 specification. In the past year my company had over 300 facilities recabled to Cat5 (Cat5e, actually, but it makes no difference in this case). My boss insisted that we could not exceed the Cat5 spec for any reason, so I have sites with fiber runs where a straight Cat5 run would have exceeded the distance limit by only 30 or 40 feet.
If you hook up a pair of testers that will certify a run as Cat5 you will see it test the length of the cable. If it's over a certain distance (approx. 100m) it will FAIL the test, even if every other test (crosstalk, etc...) passes perfectly.
With 10/100 Ethernet, the max cable length is around 100m. I seem to remember that restricting the speed to 10 Mbit triples the max cable length, but that bit of data is suspect.
The 100 meter limit has nothing to do with ethernet. That's the limit for the Category 5 specification. If your cable run happens to be 10 meters longer than the spec allows then when you hook up a tester it could very well pass every single test except for cable length. It might very well be quite capable of running 100Mb ethernet with no problems whatsoever. It just can't be certified as Cat5.
The troth is that the only CPU mesure that matters is how long dose it take to rip and encode a DVD to DivX (One of the few tasks that still taks hours.) or whatever application YOU run which YOU feal is too slow on whatever system you have now.
With enough processing power and memory maybe more people would run spell checkers.
(yes, I'm an evil bastard who can't ignore the chance to take a cheap shot)
Help me Obi-Wan Mozilla, you're my only hope!
This makes the whole name debate seem kind of moot.
This suddenly puts me in mind of the controversy several years back about one of the Mac OS releases. The internal codename for the release was "Carl Sagan." Mr. Sagan objected (for what reason I don't know) and they changed the name of the project to "BHA." Then Sagan found out that BHA was short for "Butt Head Astronomer" and sued for defamation or some such BS.
(He lost.)
With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
:)
Time to go off-topic. Yes, I can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3. Assuming you're talking about a 192kbps or less mp3 on a decent sound setup. Also, I'm not one of the people who has damaged his hearing by blasting rap-metal in my car so loud that people 3 cars over being vibrated in time with the bass.
If you are someone who has blasted his music at high volume, you *have* damaged your hearing and that does explain why an MP3 sounds "just as good" as a CD to you. It's as if you were color blind and trying to critique monitors for their suitability in color correction work.
Another factor is what use for playback. If you listen to a CD and an MP3 on your cheap computer speakers or your average car stereo and say "they sound the same" that's because of your cheap speakers. A crappy divx rip and a DVD look the same with your eyes closed, too.