I don't mean to come across as a wiseguy, but HP does not provide drivers for a lot of the older deskjets for Win2k, but they arer incuded with win2k. I just checked under NEC for new printer installs and saw a driver for SuperScript 1260 and 860 at the bottom of the list. I know that Win2k's HP drivers are all the same for similar models if you compair test pages with diffrent drivers, maybe one of these would work in your case. Worse case senario, your printer starts prining one character per page, or little smiley faces, heart, cloves, and spades. Then just remove the printer, or change the driver.
there was an artical at CNET if I recall correctly back in October saying that Sony was releasing the Linux kit in the US in time for Christmas. It was on/. and little has been said since then anywhere. I'm still wating to see if they go for the $209 that CNET estimated them to go for.
I'm still wating for the US release of the Sony PS2 Linux kit. I am also looking at cameras, both video and still, but Santa would never buy what I want (Nikon F100 for film and Nikon D1x for digital.) Any hackable hardware would be nice, and also lots of electronic componets on the lists of parts needed for my prodjects I am working on for hobbies. Tools would also be nice like a 110 punchdown tool or a cable tester.
my bad.... I forgot to preview. The filter must have scrubbed the text in the carrots. I was trying to say "do a (alt) + (print screen) and then open paint and paste it there"
When you say 16-bit, I'm imagining win 3.x or some variant. Cound you not just bring up the image in the software's window and do a + and then open up paint and paste it there to save it as a bmp file? You would need to trim off the edges, but it should work. I just don't know if if MS Paint in win 3.x and wfw do more than 256 colors. I would think so though...
I dropped my Palm V several times and had no trouble with it surviving, but once I dropped it on cement at a ski lodge getting my lift ticket. The whole screen shatered and I had to pay $100 to get it repaired/exchanged. (I have one of the wallet things for my palm.) I was supprised to find out that Palm does use real, normal glass, and not a shatter resistant, ie pastic or plexiglass, for the screens. Take that for what it's worth, and consider modifying a Palm for your needs.
Also, Panasonic had some rugged p75 laptops a while back that were housed in Titanium I think. I knew a guy who worked for Lucent and said he has dropped the thing close to 20 feet, and no problems. Also, he left it out in the rain overnight with no problems.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I highly recogmend Black Box equipment. It's a little pricy as well, ($700+ for a 8 port KMV switch, no cables included) but very reliable. THey also have KMV extenders which can go ontop of the KMV switches, which have menus on them for selecting and cascading them. Also, there have a PC that they built that acts as a dialin/remote control unit that can plug into the KMV switches as well, or directly to a PC and be used as a software driven KMV extender. Kida cool if you ask me.
At my old job, we had Proxy by Funk Software on all the PCs in the two locations, and all of the NT/2000 servers. Worked well, but was a little pricy when dealing with 350 desktops. You can get a 30 day trial of the software to see if you like it, and it supports modem, IP, and IPX. It's a little slow over a modem, and I recogmend disabling the translation effects on 2k machines, like fadeing. It hates PC anywhere though, they don't play well together. It was decent over a t1 connection that had traffic all day, and we could use it on dial-in users as well.
As for PC Anywhere, we had some service providers who used it, and it worked well, and some times better than Proxy. VNC was something I used as a band-aid for a few rare things like I hinted at above, but works well on a no cash budget.
Also, Win2k server has a single user license included for remote administration purposes, and both NT and 2k support workstation administration though the tool kits they have. For 2k, you only need the server cd in a 2k workstation to install the package. It is a.asp file I believe, but I forget the name, but then you can admin the entire Active Directory thing and possibly some other things.
It is interesting to me to read some of the comments being posted that almost flat out say ex-druggies should say in the allies and not return to a more socaly acceptable life. I was raised in suburbia USA, and I saw kids I went to school with hooked on drugs, (no not prozack,) and alcohaulics starting in 7th grade. I also new of people who were damn near death from overdosing on whatever they had avalable. Yet when it came time for the parents of these kids to realize what the true situation of their little Billy and Susie, the whole damn PTA, administration, and neighbors of them were all for "saving them from this tradgidy."
Then I read some of the comments here saying ex-druggie scared for life, put them back in the ally, don't lift a finger and piss on thoughs who do.
How many of you have a co-worker that drinks a litte too much when you go out for a beer, or is a social "smoker" of not normal tobacco, or has the sniffels year round? Same problem, diffrent environment, diffrent victoms of the need to feed the addiction.
The main diffrences here are some wear a suit, and some wear a bandana or a baseball hat at a certain angle. Some have the money from their job and can fit into the sociaity that will willingly put on blinders and some need to mug someone for $50 in a sociaty that is willing to tollerate it becaue they feel helpless to change it.
I can laugh at some of the joke put here about ebonic translation and whatnot, but I am not in favor of "they're trying to get out of the gutter, where's the firehose?" comments. Look coser to home and realise that there are a lot of posers in the IT field already. I know that you probably know someone who doen't pull their own weight, but can smooth over the boss like a mirror polisher at NASA. I've seen consultants who pull more out of their ass in a one hour meeting then a sheep farm will produce in a year.
Give them a chance before you condem them to the hell they may have been born into or so close to they addopted their ways to survive. Have you even seen what they can do as far as coding or have you labled them before they have a chance reach for the "any key?"
Human Resoures is the department that does the hiring for a reason - they look for the skills and weed out web developers from the financial guru, but the IT manager needs to feel that the canadate is capable and adaptable to the enviroment. If they can telecommte, they enviroment may not be a factor.
Think before you speak, and look closer before you judge.
Please forgive my spelling as there is no spell cheker in the posing box.
The company that makes Game Shark (most likely Game Shark Inc. or something) has a kit with a USB cable and some software for windows. It will let you backup portions of the memory cards for the PS2 and restore the original back at any time, or I think even rename it. It allows you to copy another profile from another card too.
On a pair of side notes, most HDTV's have a plug that looks like a VGA connector to feed from the HDTV reciever/decoder(s). In a few years, you could plug the PS2 into that and use your HDTV as a monitor as so many are already able to do (at a limited resoution.)
Also, if the kit comes with the 10/100BT ethernet on them like in Japan, the user could always use a networked printer.
Sun has a firewire camer for VC that they are selling for the Sun Blade workstations. It comes with Sun's version of netmeeting, which is compatable. I don't know if the app is freely downloadable or not, but the camera cost about $250 with the app on a CD. If it is freely avalable, they may have a x86 version as well in the works. It's been a while since I looked into it but you should be able to find the specs under the Blade 100 or 1000 pages. If I find a link to the kit, I'll post again as a resonce to this.
I agree on the T1 sudjestion. My old employer had a point to point T1 for about $3000 U.S. a month spanning about 600 miles. They also had a frame relay running at 128k with bursts of a full T1 for about $2100 U.S. which was at full T1 speed more than 90% of the time. One was for voice, and the frame was for data, but the ptp voice line also was split off for a backup to data at a fixed 448k, even though it was never needed. It instead was used for Video conf. to save on the cost of the three ISDN lines billing rate of about $1.50 a minute, but it was there for a backup none the less.
Prices may varry with vendor, as well as contract legnth, and how much you use them for other services, such as Local or long distace voice. We ran everything through AT&T. Pain to change anything, and dates got pushed back for new installs, but never went down once the lines were in place.
FYI - the trem "expadite" will light a few fires under people, and the more phone calls you make, the better responce time you get. Hey, you gota get paid for something...
The whole point is the sun powers the engine, but you get a lot more instant energy than a batery would. Besides the Honda Insights use batteries that need to be relpaces every 3 years or so. That gets costly. Using hydrogen to "store" the energy elimiates the battery replacement, and keeps the design simple.
Also, batteries heavy....
New engine a fraction of piston engin weight...
Honda has a "gas station" in testing right now in the US for their hydrogen powered cars that would use the same design as the Garage with solar pannels, only this is one on the side of the road. Oxygen is dumped into the air and hydrogen is stored up, and fed by a hose to the car.
Besides, who says you can only have solar pannels on your garage roof. If you have a garage, you probably have a house, condo, or townhouse which also has a roof. Right?
As for the water suppply, look at what is occuring.... Water + sun via solar pannels with electrodes = hydrogen and oxygen. Ignight hydogen in presence of oxygen, heat as fireball causes preasure change, hence BANG, causes force, and redirect to move car. Collect water, and return to "magic dishwasher" to repeat process. Or just feed a hose into the car and refill cup to drink.
The night vision they are using is probably where the grainy-ness first comes in. It's not to say that the News Corps. arround the world cannot afford some highend night vision equipment, it's that the US and NATO will not allow anything above a certain level to be exported to non-NATO approved country, such as Afganistan. They want to keep the nice equipment out of the terrorist hands. Ever look for Night vision online? A lot of dealers will say "cannot be exported outside the US" for this exact reason. They are selling everything from Gen 1 to what some are calling Gen 3+, but only Gen 1 and maybe some Gen 2 can cross the boarder.
I have an old Ukranian Gen 1 scope that looks similar to the footage you see on TV, but when I use my newer Gen 3 scope from ITT, it's like daylight. Hell, I've even used it to read stuff in the dark, and navagate boats with it. Gen 1 scope... uggg.... New boat anchor. Gen 3 scope... I'm hunt'n wabits... on the other side of the lake... at 3 AM... with no moon light.
I aplaud the idea of enhansing the video, but realise, when the daytime footage come through, it's fine, night vision feed from an exportable scope, looks like crap.
you may try to point out the military's footage looks just as bad, but you think they are going to let the enemy know they can spot an untied shoelace at a mile and a half?
I know that the wahser and dryers for laudry mats, dorms, and Apt. complexes by Maytage, use an infared reciever for diagnotstics. These are the ones that have three or four buttons on them and that's it, you know, Bright colors, colors, whites, and delicates... But I once saw a Maytage repair man with a 5"x12"x2" 'remote' that had a LCD screen. When he was all done, he went through the line of driers, and gave a free load to each machine to verify they were working. Now, I'm just wondering how to find the codes needed and put them in my palm pilot with a little program to avoid the $2 per small load my Apt. complex is taking from me.
When I was a student at the U of M Twin Cities, I stopped by one of the post offices on campus to pick up a single stamp for something on two diffrent occasions, and the guy(s) behind the counter handed me an envelope with a 1"x1" hole in it that was filled in with a hologram of a little rocket, some stars, a moon or something, and the postage value, I think it was 29 cents at the time. Kinda cool, buy a stamp, get a free envelope.
I agree with DrPascal comment. I for the most part have come to the conclusion that Slashdot has become useful for two things to me.
1. listing of new technology that I would otherwise not see or hear of, (not everything makes it here first,) 2. a place for people to bitch about someone else's spelling/grammer erors, and a place for people to post random crap to fill in the pages forcing interested people to scan it all to look for a valid point or a serious opinion.
I'm tired of all the shit that fills the pages in dicussions with goatsex, old war stories, ghost stories, "Taco can't read!," and general "I got past a Slashdot anti crap filter, so I will now drop my pants:P"
Please don't waits my time or anyone elses'! Grow up, do something useful with you life, and God's sake, stop all the racial bashing! We are all Human.
What you experienced was UPN feeding it down to the local affiliates via satellite, but with the solar flair with an X rating on Monday, it reflected off the northern lights causing it to shift to a frequency that was able to be received by your TV while decoding the digital signal as well.
Either that or a reverse Tachion pulse caused the signal to travel back in time by 24 earth hours.
The only concern I cound see is if a PC/Server had a soft power switch instead of a hard switch. Not all PC's will power-on when plugged in to an outlet, while others would requior a setting in the BIOS to be changed if the option exits.
I only bring this up because I am not a fan of Wake on LAN support in a PC's NIC. I've seen to many PC's powerup at users' desks just because it recieved a false signal. We were not even using the Wake feature with any PC on the network.
It would be a neat thing to see in use though, but I cannot see a valid reason unless there was a central command post for several remote networks, and no remote admins, or trained monkeys at the other end of a phone. (No offence ment by this, but I've been the monkey.) This however can be delt with by use of PC Anywhere, Telnet, Proxy (a PC Anywhere competitor,) VNC or the use of a remote management card that many manufatures are now offering for servers, if they are not built in to the mainboard, with a modem.
If you want a strong as hell desk system that is modular, look into Steelcase office products here. My old employer used these desks for everyone and they were wonderful in my opinion. Working as helpdesk, network admin, and telcom admin, I was just about everywhere in the building. I'm only about 155 lbs., but I could climb on top of the desks to do anything I needed and not half to worry about my weight being supported. I've also seen 200-300 lbs. people (sometimes more than one at a time) ontop of these desks with out a single wobble.
I personaly had several computers each with their own 17" monitors, spare PC's, spare parts, boxes of backup tapes from my predicessors, and paper files like you would not beleave all stacked on these desks, or cabnets. The legal dept. and the finnace dept. put me to shame with documentation stored on a desk, but never a concern on these desks. There usualy is a Steelcase dealer in most areas from what I've seen, but you will pay more to a lot.
You could if you wanted to park a large car on these desks surfaces, as they are that strong with some of their series they have. I'm use to the series that is all steel, painted, and modular, and has removeable side pannels to hide the cables you use. There are also the options of having power hardwired directly into the desks, and cubical walls if you want to go nuts and have a true office like environment.
They also came out with a lot of newer, sharp looking furnature as well.
The laws vary somewhat from what I know about them, but they usualy say, "you can listen to cordless phones with a scanner/reciever all you want, but if you do anything with the information you recieve, usualy this is for info like credit card numbers, you can be arested and charged for one or more reasons." Essentually, you can laugh at your neighbors on their cordless phones all you want, but don't use their PIN number for anything, or show up at the place where they were planning to meet someone else. This becomes stalking in most cases, no matter how cute they are.
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I don't mean to come across as a wiseguy, but HP does not provide drivers for a lot of the older deskjets for Win2k, but they arer incuded with win2k. I just checked under NEC for new printer installs and saw a driver for SuperScript 1260 and 860 at the bottom of the list. I know that Win2k's HP drivers are all the same for similar models if you compair test pages with diffrent drivers, maybe one of these would work in your case. Worse case senario, your printer starts prining one character per page, or little smiley faces, heart, cloves, and spades. Then just remove the printer, or change the driver.
there was an artical at CNET if I recall correctly back in October saying that Sony was releasing the Linux kit in the US in time for Christmas. It was on /. and little has been said since then anywhere. I'm still wating to see if they go for the $209 that CNET estimated them to go for.
I'm still wating for the US release of the Sony PS2 Linux kit. I am also looking at cameras, both video and still, but Santa would never buy what I want (Nikon F100 for film and Nikon D1x for digital.) Any hackable hardware would be nice, and also lots of electronic componets on the lists of parts needed for my prodjects I am working on for hobbies. Tools would also be nice like a 110 punchdown tool or a cable tester.
my bad.... I forgot to preview. The filter must have scrubbed the text in the carrots. I was trying to say "do a (alt) + (print screen) and then open paint and paste it there"
When you say 16-bit, I'm imagining win 3.x or some variant. Cound you not just bring up the image in the software's window and do a + and then open up paint and paste it there to save it as a bmp file? You would need to trim off the edges, but it should work. I just don't know if if MS Paint in win 3.x and wfw do more than 256 colors. I would think so though...
I dropped my Palm V several times and had no trouble with it surviving, but once I dropped it on cement at a ski lodge getting my lift ticket. The whole screen shatered and I had to pay $100 to get it repaired/exchanged. (I have one of the wallet things for my palm.) I was supprised to find out that Palm does use real, normal glass, and not a shatter resistant, ie pastic or plexiglass, for the screens. Take that for what it's worth, and consider modifying a Palm for your needs.
Also, Panasonic had some rugged p75 laptops a while back that were housed in Titanium I think. I knew a guy who worked for Lucent and said he has dropped the thing close to 20 feet, and no problems. Also, he left it out in the rain overnight with no problems.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I highly recogmend Black Box equipment. It's a little pricy as well, ($700+ for a 8 port KMV switch, no cables included) but very reliable. THey also have KMV extenders which can go ontop of the KMV switches, which have menus on them for selecting and cascading them. Also, there have a PC that they built that acts as a dialin/remote control unit that can plug into the KMV switches as well, or directly to a PC and be used as a software driven KMV extender. Kida cool if you ask me.
At my old job, we had Proxy by Funk Software on all the PCs in the two locations, and all of the NT/2000 servers. Worked well, but was a little pricy when dealing with 350 desktops. You can get a 30 day trial of the software to see if you like it, and it supports modem, IP, and IPX. It's a little slow over a modem, and I recogmend disabling the translation effects on 2k machines, like fadeing. It hates PC anywhere though, they don't play well together. It was decent over a t1 connection that had traffic all day, and we could use it on dial-in users as well.
.asp file I believe, but I forget the name, but then you can admin the entire Active Directory thing and possibly some other things.
As for PC Anywhere, we had some service providers who used it, and it worked well, and some times better than Proxy. VNC was something I used as a band-aid for a few rare things like I hinted at above, but works well on a no cash budget.
Also, Win2k server has a single user license included for remote administration purposes, and both NT and 2k support workstation administration though the tool kits they have. For 2k, you only need the server cd in a 2k workstation to install the package. It is a
It is interesting to me to read some of the comments being posted that almost flat out say ex-druggies should say in the allies and not return to a more socaly acceptable life. I was raised in suburbia USA, and I saw kids I went to school with hooked on drugs, (no not prozack,) and alcohaulics starting in 7th grade. I also new of people who were damn near death from overdosing on whatever they had avalable. Yet when it came time for the parents of these kids to realize what the true situation of their little Billy and Susie, the whole damn PTA, administration, and neighbors of them were all for "saving them from this tradgidy."
Then I read some of the comments here saying ex-druggie scared for life, put them back in the ally, don't lift a finger and piss on thoughs who do.
How many of you have a co-worker that drinks a litte too much when you go out for a beer, or is a social "smoker" of not normal tobacco, or has the sniffels year round? Same problem, diffrent environment, diffrent victoms of the need to feed the addiction.
The main diffrences here are some wear a suit, and some wear a bandana or a baseball hat at a certain angle. Some have the money from their job and can fit into the sociaity that will willingly put on blinders and some need to mug someone for $50 in a sociaty that is willing to tollerate it becaue they feel helpless to change it.
I can laugh at some of the joke put here about ebonic translation and whatnot, but I am not in favor of "they're trying to get out of the gutter, where's the firehose?" comments. Look coser to home and realise that there are a lot of posers in the IT field already. I know that you probably know someone who doen't pull their own weight, but can smooth over the boss like a mirror polisher at NASA. I've seen consultants who pull more out of their ass in a one hour meeting then a sheep farm will produce in a year.
Give them a chance before you condem them to the hell they may have been born into or so close to they addopted their ways to survive. Have you even seen what they can do as far as coding or have you labled them before they have a chance reach for the "any key?"
Human Resoures is the department that does the hiring for a reason - they look for the skills and weed out web developers from the financial guru, but the IT manager needs to feel that the canadate is capable and adaptable to the enviroment. If they can telecommte, they enviroment may not be a factor.
Think before you speak, and look closer before you judge.
Please forgive my spelling as there is no spell cheker in the posing box.
The company that makes Game Shark (most likely Game Shark Inc. or something) has a kit with a USB cable and some software for windows. It will let you backup portions of the memory cards for the PS2 and restore the original back at any time, or I think even rename it. It allows you to copy another profile from another card too.
On a pair of side notes, most HDTV's have a plug that looks like a VGA connector to feed from the HDTV reciever/decoder(s). In a few years, you could plug the PS2 into that and use your HDTV as a monitor as so many are already able to do (at a limited resoution.)
Also, if the kit comes with the 10/100BT ethernet on them like in Japan, the user could always use a networked printer.
Sun has a firewire camer for VC that they are selling for the Sun Blade workstations. It comes with Sun's version of netmeeting, which is compatable. I don't know if the app is freely downloadable or not, but the camera cost about $250 with the app on a CD. If it is freely avalable, they may have a x86 version as well in the works. It's been a while since I looked into it but you should be able to find the specs under the Blade 100 or 1000 pages. If I find a link to the kit, I'll post again as a resonce to this.
I agree on the T1 sudjestion. My old employer had a point to point T1 for about $3000 U.S. a month spanning about 600 miles. They also had a frame relay running at 128k with bursts of a full T1 for about $2100 U.S. which was at full T1 speed more than 90% of the time. One was for voice, and the frame was for data, but the ptp voice line also was split off for a backup to data at a fixed 448k, even though it was never needed. It instead was used for Video conf. to save on the cost of the three ISDN lines billing rate of about $1.50 a minute, but it was there for a backup none the less.
Prices may varry with vendor, as well as contract legnth, and how much you use them for other services, such as Local or long distace voice. We ran everything through AT&T. Pain to change anything, and dates got pushed back for new installs, but never went down once the lines were in place.
FYI - the trem "expadite" will light a few fires under people, and the more phone calls you make, the better responce time you get. Hey, you gota get paid for something...
Mmmmm.... Perpetual motion machine....
What? no friction you say?
The whole point is the sun powers the engine, but you get a lot more instant energy than a batery would. Besides the Honda Insights use batteries that need to be relpaces every 3 years or so. That gets costly. Using hydrogen to "store" the energy elimiates the battery replacement, and keeps the design simple.
Also, batteries heavy....
New engine a fraction of piston engin weight...
Don't mean to sound like an ass, but oh, well...
Honda has a "gas station" in testing right now in the US for their hydrogen powered cars that would use the same design as the Garage with solar pannels, only this is one on the side of the road. Oxygen is dumped into the air and hydrogen is stored up, and fed by a hose to the car.
Besides, who says you can only have solar pannels on your garage roof. If you have a garage, you probably have a house, condo, or townhouse which also has a roof. Right?
As for the water suppply, look at what is occuring.... Water + sun via solar pannels with electrodes = hydrogen and oxygen. Ignight hydogen in presence of oxygen, heat as fireball causes preasure change, hence BANG, causes force, and redirect to move car. Collect water, and return to "magic dishwasher" to repeat process. Or just feed a hose into the car and refill cup to drink.
My bad, 468 not 486. Damn numerical dislexia.
The night vision they are using is probably where the grainy-ness first comes in. It's not to say that the News Corps. arround the world cannot afford some highend night vision equipment, it's that the US and NATO will not allow anything above a certain level to be exported to non-NATO approved country, such as Afganistan. They want to keep the nice equipment out of the terrorist hands. Ever look for Night vision online? A lot of dealers will say "cannot be exported outside the US" for this exact reason. They are selling everything from Gen 1 to what some are calling Gen 3+, but only Gen 1 and maybe some Gen 2 can cross the boarder.
I have an old Ukranian Gen 1 scope that looks similar to the footage you see on TV, but when I use my newer Gen 3 scope from ITT, it's like daylight. Hell, I've even used it to read stuff in the dark, and navagate boats with it. Gen 1 scope... uggg.... New boat anchor. Gen 3 scope... I'm hunt'n wabits... on the other side of the lake... at 3 AM... with no moon light.
I aplaud the idea of enhansing the video, but realise, when the daytime footage come through, it's fine, night vision feed from an exportable scope, looks like crap.
you may try to point out the military's footage looks just as bad, but you think they are going to let the enemy know they can spot an untied shoelace at a mile and a half?
I know that the wahser and dryers for laudry mats, dorms, and Apt. complexes by Maytage, use an infared reciever for diagnotstics. These are the ones that have three or four buttons on them and that's it, you know, Bright colors, colors, whites, and delicates... But I once saw a Maytage repair man with a 5"x12"x2" 'remote' that had a LCD screen. When he was all done, he went through the line of driers, and gave a free load to each machine to verify they were working. Now, I'm just wondering how to find the codes needed and put them in my palm pilot with a little program to avoid the $2 per small load my Apt. complex is taking from me.
When I was a student at the U of M Twin Cities, I stopped by one of the post offices on campus to pick up a single stamp for something on two diffrent occasions, and the guy(s) behind the counter handed me an envelope with a 1"x1" hole in it that was filled in with a hologram of a little rocket, some stars, a moon or something, and the postage value, I think it was 29 cents at the time. Kinda cool, buy a stamp, get a free envelope.
I agree with DrPascal comment. I for the most part have come to the conclusion that Slashdot has become useful for two things to me.
:P"
1. listing of new technology that I would otherwise not see or hear of, (not everything makes it here first,)
2. a place for people to bitch about someone else's spelling/grammer erors, and a place for people to post random crap to fill in the pages forcing interested people to scan it all to look for a valid point or a serious opinion.
I'm tired of all the shit that fills the pages in dicussions with goatsex, old war stories, ghost stories, "Taco can't read!," and general "I got past a Slashdot anti crap filter, so I will now drop my pants
Please don't waits my time or anyone elses'! Grow up, do something useful with you life, and God's sake, stop all the racial bashing! We are all Human.
What you experienced was UPN feeding it down to the local affiliates via satellite, but with the solar flair with an X rating on Monday, it reflected off the northern lights causing it to shift to a frequency that was able to be received by your TV while decoding the digital signal as well. Either that or a reverse Tachion pulse caused the signal to travel back in time by 24 earth hours.
The only concern I cound see is if a PC/Server had a soft power switch instead of a hard switch. Not all PC's will power-on when plugged in to an outlet, while others would requior a setting in the BIOS to be changed if the option exits. I only bring this up because I am not a fan of Wake on LAN support in a PC's NIC. I've seen to many PC's powerup at users' desks just because it recieved a false signal. We were not even using the Wake feature with any PC on the network. It would be a neat thing to see in use though, but I cannot see a valid reason unless there was a central command post for several remote networks, and no remote admins, or trained monkeys at the other end of a phone. (No offence ment by this, but I've been the monkey.) This however can be delt with by use of PC Anywhere, Telnet, Proxy (a PC Anywhere competitor,) VNC or the use of a remote management card that many manufatures are now offering for servers, if they are not built in to the mainboard, with a modem.
Side Show Mel: Ahh, my eyes! It burns Krusty, it BURNS!!!!
If you want a strong as hell desk system that is modular, look into Steelcase office products here. My old employer used these desks for everyone and they were wonderful in my opinion. Working as helpdesk, network admin, and telcom admin, I was just about everywhere in the building. I'm only about 155 lbs., but I could climb on top of the desks to do anything I needed and not half to worry about my weight being supported. I've also seen 200-300 lbs. people (sometimes more than one at a time) ontop of these desks with out a single wobble.
I personaly had several computers each with their own 17" monitors, spare PC's, spare parts, boxes of backup tapes from my predicessors, and paper files like you would not beleave all stacked on these desks, or cabnets. The legal dept. and the finnace dept. put me to shame with documentation stored on a desk, but never a concern on these desks. There usualy is a Steelcase dealer in most areas from what I've seen, but you will pay more to a lot.
You could if you wanted to park a large car on these desks surfaces, as they are that strong with some of their series they have. I'm use to the series that is all steel, painted, and modular, and has removeable side pannels to hide the cables you use. There are also the options of having power hardwired directly into the desks, and cubical walls if you want to go nuts and have a true office like environment.
They also came out with a lot of newer, sharp looking furnature as well.
Just my advice for the people with the cash...
The laws vary somewhat from what I know about them, but they usualy say, "you can listen to cordless phones with a scanner/reciever all you want, but if you do anything with the information you recieve, usualy this is for info like credit card numbers, you can be arested and charged for one or more reasons." Essentually, you can laugh at your neighbors on their cordless phones all you want, but don't use their PIN number for anything, or show up at the place where they were planning to meet someone else. This becomes stalking in most cases, no matter how cute they are.