Just to clarify- the U-Bend is what prevents bathrooms and drains from smelling horrible. Inside the drain, shower water, sink water and toilet waste all mix together. As you can imagine this smells horrible. So, where every toilet, sink, shower, etc connects to the drain system there is a 'u-bend'- a downward dip in the pipe which stays full of water. This prevents air from flowing out of the empty drain. Most sinks have their u-bend visible under the sink and look like this: http://twenteenthcentury.com/uologos/ubend_shaded. png Water flows in the top, and out the back. Because the back is higher than the bottom of the bend, the bottom stays full of water at all times, preventing air from passing.
Problem is, if you leave a drain long enough without water passing through it, the water in the u-bend can evaporate, leaving an empty pipe and allowign the nasty sewer smell to escape. Thus, leave a faucet dripping to keep the U-Bend full!
1. Microsoft has had this policy in the past, at least for consumer systems. I think they might have dropped it but I know it existed. Even if they didn't- many manufacturers (by their own choice) provide a quick restore CD with few options. He has a valid point that the CD was possibly poorly built, however if it was this way that suggests he was trying to install a server on a desktop/workstation box rather on a box designed as a server. HP makes the (often correct but quite inflexible) assumption that people who buy a desktop won't use it as a server, and plan accordingly.
As for Promise, i dunno, i generally use 3ware/AMCC stuff myself. It's a bit pricier but all the controllers I've gotten from them have at least some dead-tree documentation, a CD (which DOES have a driver) and the windows install floppy.
I keep a USB floppy drive around for this purpose- when installing Windoze on odd hardware, often you NEED a floppy to give it the driver. And most BIOSes or win setup will figure out that a usb floppy drive is drive A: when there is no other floppy.
You're right about the OEM key but that doesn't stop it from being a royal PITA. I carry a windows OEM install cd around with me for exactly this purpose. Remember, piracy is when you steal something that isn't yours. One shouldn't have to do pirate-like cracking to get ones own software to work the way one wants it to.
So to sum it up, yes there are solutions to all this guy's problems and maybe if he was more experienced he coulda found them all. I could probably have made it work given a few hours. **BUT** the fact remains that many of these problems (crappy restore CDs, driver disks without drivers, OEM keys) exist because of poor choices by HP, MS and Promise. They all made the (incorrect) assumption that the system would be used only as shipped, in only that configuration, nothing more; and because of that assumption made it difficult or impossible for the user/customer to do so without extra expense.
(the important bit) AS A RESULT, the customer decided that his life was being made unnecessarily difficult and went with a competing product (Ubuntu Linux) that solved his problems more easily.
To say that again- the customer decided that his problems, however fixable, were a waste of his time and he decided to use a competing product that had fewer problems. That is the essence of a free market, you know the whole build a better mouse trap bit?
If I had hired this guy I would pat him on the back and pay him- he decided that banging his head on the problem was counter-productive and he installed something else that he knew would work and I save money and time, because my solution is deployed faster and I don't have to pay for his time trying to make something work. As long as it doesn't miss some capability I will need later, I would be thrilled.
its already starting to happen, look at services like cdbaby.com...
and i don't think it's sad, I think it's frackin awesome. Anything that puts the artist closer to the consumer is a good thing IMHO. Especially if it gets rid of the record labels (who for the record I would have no problem with if they weren't trying to screw everybody).
As for the death of CDs- worse things have happened. A lot of people now don't use CDs except as a purchase medium- they buy a CD, rip it to iTunes and throw the CD in a box to never be seen again.
Besides for the moment optical media still has a use (albeit a small one)- very high definition, multichannel audio for audiophiles. Currently that stuff is too large to easily download (although that too will change) but the people that use such things generally dislike lossy compression...
no, why would they? they have been blissfully disconnected from reality for years, chances are they will be too busy declaring victory to notice any change in sales or lack thereof.
It's a sad fact of human nature- we naturally see things from our own POV and don't look at it from any other perspective. That's why the music industry sucks so much- they (the ones in charge) see things from their own POV. From their POV things are nice and cozy, they are ass raping the artists, and the consumers, and just about everybody else; and congress is on their side. They don't think of it like this though, they see business as usual, and the internet threatens that. For better or worse they (collectively) are a monopoly. People NEED music. And most people don't invest the energy to go looking for music they like- they absorb it via exposure, which comes from friends CDs, radio, etc. So most of the time, nobody with a clue can get big enough to actively change anything. As long as teens will buy ten million copies of "Grind That Ass Bitch" by 'D. Gangsta and da Thugz', they are all set. Their only threats come from two sources- 1. that people will stop buying major label music (unlikely and if it happens they will just buy all the smaller labels), and 2. that the music scene as a whole will change into something they cannot control or profit from. It's that which scares them- change. But the fact is people still like their music. So they react with the only weapon they have- their music. They increase their ownership of it to the point that artists are getting ripped off way worse than consumers, and then use this as a weapon, demanding that people stop 'pirating' and 'stealing' 'their music'.
Looking at the future- in 10-20 years none of this will matter. It's already cheap enough to record your own music at decent enough quality that anybody can do it, and there are a gazillion companies that will happily press CDs for a few hundred bucks. Suddenly the total cost of making a CD is down to under a grand and anybody can afford it. The only things that the labels can add to this are sorting (only backing artists that don't suck), branding (creating a promotable brand for the artist) and marketing (pouring tons of $$ into getting ppl to buy the thing). Currently we often see this applied as wholesale creation- label or producer will take somebody with *some* talent, give them a few catchy songs to sing, market them to death and reap the reward when ten million 14 year olds buy the album because the dude is good looking.
However many of these things can be done by other groups- websites and music store sites already provide ratings and let people discuss music to an extent that the separation may not be required. Promoting online is dirt cheap and Internet radio has already exposed a ton of new artists.
Where this leaves the concept of a record label is where it should be- helping an artist deal with the business end of music when they don't have to.
So I expect that over the next 10 or 20 years, this whole argument will become moot. Megacorp record labels will continue to produce trash but people will stop listening to it. Don't get me wrong, things will get worse before they get better. But as everybody gets more informed people will start to see what is actually going on and it will be routed around. Satellite radio will help with this, because they cater to their listeners (who cancel their account if it sucks) not advertisers. Also, useful 3.5-4g wireless broadband will help with this... you will be able to listen to online radio in the car or from a cell phone, further opening up artist discovery.
And besides, there is (today) already a growing backlash against DRM and the labels lawsuits. I expect the MS Zune will move this along when everybody that bought music from walmart / napster / etc realizes they have to buy it AGAIN to make it work with the zune. This will educate a lot of people to what DRM actually is, and if they get pissed off enough to act then DRM will very shortly be a thing of the past.
I don't think people are grasping the INsignificance of this. Copying textures and geometry is certainly possible with any 3d application, all you need is a hacked driver. Sure if we get physical replicators that will be interesting but this is certainly not the huge deal it has been made out to be.
A fridge is just an insulated box. It has a heat pump (coils/fans/compressor/etc) that removes heat from the box. It doesn't do this very fast, but it doesn't have to as when the door is closed, the insulation prevents much heat from coming in. So when you close the door, the heat pump removes enough heat to get it to its set temperature then shuts off, coming back on as needed. However when on, this heat pump can only pump heat at a certain rate.
A computer is an inefficient device. When operating it generates waste energy in the form of heat, which must be expelled to the surrounding environment. This is usually done with heatsinks fans etc.
Now the problem is when you put the computer in the fridge- the computer is probably going to generate more heat than the heat pump can pump. Thus the computer will heat up the inside of the fridge until the computer overheats. Even though the fridge is working correctly, and is removing heat, the computer is creating more heat than it is designed to deal with.
A good way to think about it- say you have a big tub. You turn on the faucet and it pours water in at 2 Liters/minute. You open the drain but it is clogged so it only lets water out at 1 Liter/minute. The result is that more water is going in than is going out, so the tub will fill up and eventually spill over.
This is true except it is not a good analogy- it would be true if the power plant required the same quantity of fuel and released the same by-products as a car engine to generate the same amount of power. This is not the case. Power plants are FAR more efficient, as I recall it uses about 10% the fuel if not less to generate the same amount of power.
Remember, power companies have a (somewhat) vested interest in making their plants efficient, because they pay for fuel and get political flak for polluting. They are also willing to spend far more $/KW of output than a car buyer is. Car companies don't buy the fuel, so as long as it's decently efficient and not too bad on the air they sell it.
If you flip that around, and make people willing to spend $$ on hyper efficient cars, all the cars would have gas turbine engines, perhaps in some sort of electric hybrid mode. They'd cost $80k for a Honda, but they'd get awesome gas mileage.
AAstra intercom has been available for a while, as I recall it was added in 1.3 and they recently released 1.4. It also now supports ringtone by sip header (also in 1.3).
Buy a two port ATA. If you can't find one, I can't help you.
Connect port one to a Viking Electronics Paging Controller. When you dial the ATA port one, it will answer. Connect it's output to the paging amp. Viking also makes other models, some with built in paging amp.
When you need to page, have * dial ATA port one.
When you want a call to flash the light, dial ATA port two along with the other phones. Remember you only want it to ring, not answer.
For paging you can also use a hacked up Grandstream phone, I have heard good results with these. Or use the server's sound card.
Not a bad study, and having gone through the system I tend to agree with it, but for other reasons. Kids who are assigned a heavy homework load will more often than not procrastinate and put it off until late at night, at which point they will have to stay awake to finish it and won't get enough sleep. This makes the kid tired in class the next day, so (s)he won't learn as well. Studies DO show that getting a good night's sleep has a large effect on what you learn- sleep helps you lock in what you learned during the day. Think of it like flushing a RAM buffer to disk. Not a step to be skipped. Lastly- most of the teachers I had (granted this was a while ago) who assigned heavy homework also were not particularly good at their jobs. They did not encourage or develop interesting class discussions, the lesson was a series of objectives on a paper which must be completed. BORING. Better teachers can engage students and make them want to learn, sadly the system as we have it does not attract or keep such teachers...
If you want kids to do better- get better teachers, not more work.
Asterisk is an open sourced Linux-based Soft-PBX system. It will interface with just about any type of telephone or telephone network, including POTS, cell phones, VoIP phones, etc. Dump your answering machine for something REALLY cool!
this by no means requires any computers at all. I saw an article a while ago about a golf course that did this- they had a shelf of 8 $89.95 Cisco DSL modems (all set in 'server' mode) at their datacenter, linking to offsite signs around the course. Each sign had another dsl modem, operating normally. The only wiring they did was to run each sign a dry pair, and plug the modem to the sign's Ethernet controller.
very true. However some modems can be operated in reverse- buy two modems, plug one into each other and set one to be the server. Using this method you can create fairly long distance (up to 10000 feet or so) links with decent bandwidth (up to 3-5 megabits) for very little money (two DSL modems). That was the point of my submission- its cheap and easy.
Some golf courses and other large areas use remote-DSL for such links. Maybe that would apply to him? Many cisco DSL modems can be operated in server mode, only downside is you must run RJ12 separately to each location.
Otherwise, run ethernet?
if you are going to go wireless, get some good APs and sector antennas, or alternately setup a bunch of repeater stations that use different channels to avoid interference.
I recommend the canon multipass series... I have a MP730, its a combo printer/scanner (w/ feeder)/fax/copier, very nice machine. A bit expensive ($300) but IMHO well worth it. The Canon ink tanks are clear so you can see the ink inside them, and there are no chips on them. The printer measures the ink level by shining a light through the tank. They are quite easy to refill, and LaserMonks has replacement tanks for IIRC about $5 each. Replacement official tanks are about $7 each. Four colors, CMYK.
Maybe i'm missing something but from what I can tell...
1. Guy goes to tradeshow 2. Tradeshow offers shitty WiFi that goes down alot 3. Guy tries to use VoIP/WiFi at tradeshow 4. Shitty WiFi makes VoIP not work / go down alot 5. Guy concludes that VoIP/WiFi as a technology sucks and is unreliable.
Am I missing something here? This dude's problem was not his hardware or his SIP provider, the problem was his shitty connection, so he shouldnt be blaming VoIP when his internet link is the problem.
The thing is that sharing isnt hurting profits. There have been several studies (that arent funded by RIAA groups) that say people who download actually buy MORE music. And it makes sense... if your friend recommends a CD you're not going to spend money unless you know you'll like it, so you download it and test it. Not everyone, but some people do. Profits are down because fewer albums are released each year. not cuz of file sharing.
File sharing isnt going to kill the music industry, but it might save it.
You might want a Intermec 6651. Good luck buying it tho, the only place I found it was MobilePlanet, and they ripped me off so I advise against shopping there. (When I bought my 6651 it said it had HPC2000, it arrives and it has the older version. Website's changed, the SKU I ordered now says the older veersion and theres another SKU for the new one So I call them and they wont accept a return cuz its opened, even tho its their fault. So I have to spend another few hundred on the HPC2000 upgrade when it comes out, and of course theyre the only ones that sell it. I highly recommend against shoppign there.)
Its large (full clamshell form factor) but it has a usb master port. However AFAIK the handheld pc 2000 software that comes with it doesnt support usb mass storage. (If anyone has a usb mass storage driver for HPC2000 I could really use it thx)
Also a previous poster mentioned the Terapin Mine, that might work for you but forget about the built in display (it sucks, only 4 lines). It does have a composite video out port tho, so you could hook it up with a HUD or something.
This is not necessarily a problem... I'm not a Linux expert but I know there are Windows API emulators that will let Windows software run under Linux. Also if Sun donates machines to you, they probably wont be trying to audit you so you can leave Solaris alone. The point is to get rid of the BSA, not closed source.
Also I dont think the BSA or the University would have the authority to audit personal machines, if you bought it and paid for it you could simply refuse to be audited.
What we need is a company or university facing an impendint BSA audit to just say 'fsck you BSA + Microsoft, if you won't respect me than I wont use your products.'
Being a geek is a state of mind. It often manifests itself with geeky behavior.
Personally I'm proud and secure with my geekyness. I make no effort to hide the handful of little electronic gadgets I carry around everywhere. I consider being called a geek to be a compliment and would probably be insulted if someone said I wasn't one.
You're thinking of 'geek' as a stereotype (skinny kid with taped glasses and no fashion sense who walks around talking in computerese), not a state of mind (someone who embraces technology in everyday life further than usual). Nowhere does it say that geeks can't participate in non-geeky activities, simply most geeks choose not to. And I've been up for about 30 hours so if this post makes little sense please ignore it.
ok this is pretty easy... get a chip that doesnt put out alot of heat like a low end Athlon XP or a Duron. Throw in some WC gear from Danger Den, a 120mm 60cfm fan (they're almost silent), and you're set. If you worry about the chipset and GPU, put waterblocks on those too. Also remove any other case fans you have, the 120mm fan as a blowhole will work nicely unless you have a really hot system.
As for the HDD, I'd suggest a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, they are almost completely silent.
Now get a PSU with a speed-controllable fan (enermax has a few) or a temperature controlled fan (Antec SmartPower) and you're set, almost complete silence.
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Just to clarify- the U-Bend is what prevents bathrooms and drains from smelling horrible. Inside the drain, shower water, sink water and toilet waste all mix together. As you can imagine this smells horrible. So, where every toilet, sink, shower, etc connects to the drain system there is a 'u-bend'- a downward dip in the pipe which stays full of water. This prevents air from flowing out of the empty drain.. png
Most sinks have their u-bend visible under the sink and look like this:
http://twenteenthcentury.com/uologos/ubend_shaded
Water flows in the top, and out the back. Because the back is higher than the bottom of the bend, the bottom stays full of water at all times, preventing air from passing.
Problem is, if you leave a drain long enough without water passing through it, the water in the u-bend can evaporate, leaving an empty pipe and allowign the nasty sewer smell to escape. Thus, leave a faucet dripping to keep the U-Bend full!
1. Microsoft has had this policy in the past, at least for consumer systems. I think they might have dropped it but I know it existed. Even if they didn't- many manufacturers (by their own choice) provide a quick restore CD with few options. He has a valid point that the CD was possibly poorly built, however if it was this way that suggests he was trying to install a server on a desktop/workstation box rather on a box designed as a server. HP makes the (often correct but quite inflexible) assumption that people who buy a desktop won't use it as a server, and plan accordingly.
As for Promise, i dunno, i generally use 3ware/AMCC stuff myself. It's a bit pricier but all the controllers I've gotten from them have at least some dead-tree documentation, a CD (which DOES have a driver) and the windows install floppy.
I keep a USB floppy drive around for this purpose- when installing Windoze on odd hardware, often you NEED a floppy to give it the driver. And most BIOSes or win setup will figure out that a usb floppy drive is drive A: when there is no other floppy.
You're right about the OEM key but that doesn't stop it from being a royal PITA. I carry a windows OEM install cd around with me for exactly this purpose. Remember, piracy is when you steal something that isn't yours. One shouldn't have to do pirate-like cracking to get ones own software to work the way one wants it to.
So to sum it up, yes there are solutions to all this guy's problems and maybe if he was more experienced he coulda found them all. I could probably have made it work given a few hours.
**BUT**
the fact remains that many of these problems (crappy restore CDs, driver disks without drivers, OEM keys) exist because of poor choices by HP, MS and Promise. They all made the (incorrect) assumption that the system would be used only as shipped, in only that configuration, nothing more; and because of that assumption made it difficult or impossible for the user/customer to do so without extra expense.
(the important bit)
AS A RESULT, the customer decided that his life was being made unnecessarily difficult and went with a competing product (Ubuntu Linux) that solved his problems more easily.
To say that again- the customer decided that his problems, however fixable, were a waste of his time and he decided to use a competing product that had fewer problems. That is the essence of a free market, you know the whole build a better mouse trap bit?
If I had hired this guy I would pat him on the back and pay him- he decided that banging his head on the problem was counter-productive and he installed something else that he knew would work and I save money and time, because my solution is deployed faster and I don't have to pay for his time trying to make something work. As long as it doesn't miss some capability I will need later, I would be thrilled.
its already starting to happen, look at services like cdbaby.com...
and i don't think it's sad, I think it's frackin awesome. Anything that puts the artist closer to the consumer is a good thing IMHO. Especially if it gets rid of the record labels (who for the record I would have no problem with if they weren't trying to screw everybody).
As for the death of CDs- worse things have happened. A lot of people now don't use CDs except as a purchase medium- they buy a CD, rip it to iTunes and throw the CD in a box to never be seen again.
Besides for the moment optical media still has a use (albeit a small one)- very high definition, multichannel audio for audiophiles. Currently that stuff is too large to easily download (although that too will change) but the people that use such things generally dislike lossy compression...
no, why would they? they have been blissfully disconnected from reality for years, chances are they will be too busy declaring victory to notice any change in sales or lack thereof.
It's a sad fact of human nature- we naturally see things from our own POV and don't look at it from any other perspective. That's why the music industry sucks so much- they (the ones in charge) see things from their own POV. From their POV things are nice and cozy, they are ass raping the artists, and the consumers, and just about everybody else; and congress is on their side.
They don't think of it like this though, they see business as usual, and the internet threatens that.
For better or worse they (collectively) are a monopoly. People NEED music. And most people don't invest the energy to go looking for music they like- they absorb it via exposure, which comes from friends CDs, radio, etc. So most of the time, nobody with a clue can get big enough to actively change anything. As long as teens will buy ten million copies of "Grind That Ass Bitch" by 'D. Gangsta and da Thugz', they are all set.
Their only threats come from two sources- 1. that people will stop buying major label music (unlikely and if it happens they will just buy all the smaller labels), and 2. that the music scene as a whole will change into something they cannot control or profit from.
It's that which scares them- change. But the fact is people still like their music. So they react with the only weapon they have- their music. They increase their ownership of it to the point that artists are getting ripped off way worse than consumers, and then use this as a weapon, demanding that people stop 'pirating' and 'stealing' 'their music'.
Looking at the future- in 10-20 years none of this will matter. It's already cheap enough to record your own music at decent enough quality that anybody can do it, and there are a gazillion companies that will happily press CDs for a few hundred bucks. Suddenly the total cost of making a CD is down to under a grand and anybody can afford it.
The only things that the labels can add to this are sorting (only backing artists that don't suck), branding (creating a promotable brand for the artist) and marketing (pouring tons of $$ into getting ppl to buy the thing).
Currently we often see this applied as wholesale creation- label or producer will take somebody with *some* talent, give them a few catchy songs to sing, market them to death and reap the reward when ten million 14 year olds buy the album because the dude is good looking.
However many of these things can be done by other groups- websites and music store sites already provide ratings and let people discuss music to an extent that the separation may not be required. Promoting online is dirt cheap and Internet radio has already exposed a ton of new artists.
Where this leaves the concept of a record label is where it should be- helping an artist deal with the business end of music when they don't have to.
So I expect that over the next 10 or 20 years, this whole argument will become moot. Megacorp record labels will continue to produce trash but people will stop listening to it. Don't get me wrong, things will get worse before they get better. But as everybody gets more informed people will start to see what is actually going on and it will be routed around.
Satellite radio will help with this, because they cater to their listeners (who cancel their account if it sucks) not advertisers. Also, useful 3.5-4g wireless broadband will help with this... you will be able to listen to online radio in the car or from a cell phone, further opening up artist discovery.
And besides, there is (today) already a growing backlash against DRM and the labels lawsuits. I expect the MS Zune will move this along when everybody that bought music from walmart / napster / etc realizes they have to buy it AGAIN to make it work with the zune. This will educate a lot of people to what DRM actually is, and if they get pissed off enough to act then DRM will very shortly be a thing of the past.
I don't think people are grasping the INsignificance of this. Copying textures and geometry is certainly possible with any 3d application, all you need is a hacked driver. Sure if we get physical replicators that will be interesting but this is certainly not the huge deal it has been made out to be.
The sky is NOT falling.
another vote for the above linked product. It's a great device and can be used with home automation software for even more useful functionality.
this is actually a pretty bad idea. Heres why-
A fridge is just an insulated box. It has a heat pump (coils/fans/compressor/etc) that removes heat from the box. It doesn't do this very fast, but it doesn't have to as when the door is closed, the insulation prevents much heat from coming in. So when you close the door, the heat pump removes enough heat to get it to its set temperature then shuts off, coming back on as needed. However when on, this heat pump can only pump heat at a certain rate.
A computer is an inefficient device. When operating it generates waste energy in the form of heat, which must be expelled to the surrounding environment. This is usually done with heatsinks fans etc.
Now the problem is when you put the computer in the fridge- the computer is probably going to generate more heat than the heat pump can pump. Thus the computer will heat up the inside of the fridge until the computer overheats. Even though the fridge is working correctly, and is removing heat, the computer is creating more heat than it is designed to deal with.
A good way to think about it- say you have a big tub. You turn on the faucet and it pours water in at 2 Liters/minute. You open the drain but it is clogged so it only lets water out at 1 Liter/minute. The result is that more water is going in than is going out, so the tub will fill up and eventually spill over.
This is true except it is not a good analogy- it would be true if the power plant required the same quantity of fuel and released the same by-products as a car engine to generate the same amount of power. This is not the case. Power plants are FAR more efficient, as I recall it uses about 10% the fuel if not less to generate the same amount of power.
Remember, power companies have a (somewhat) vested interest in making their plants efficient, because they pay for fuel and get political flak for polluting. They are also willing to spend far more $/KW of output than a car buyer is. Car companies don't buy the fuel, so as long as it's decently efficient and not too bad on the air they sell it.
If you flip that around, and make people willing to spend $$ on hyper efficient cars, all the cars would have gas turbine engines, perhaps in some sort of electric hybrid mode. They'd cost $80k for a Honda, but they'd get awesome gas mileage.
AAstra intercom has been available for a while, as I recall it was added in 1.3 and they recently released 1.4. It also now supports ringtone by sip header (also in 1.3).
Buy a two port ATA. If you can't find one, I can't help you.
Connect port one to a Viking Electronics Paging Controller. When you dial the ATA port one, it will answer. Connect it's output to the paging amp. Viking also makes other models, some with built in paging amp.
Connect port two to a Radio Shack Phone Flasher.
When you need to page, have * dial ATA port one.
When you want a call to flash the light, dial ATA port two along with the other phones. Remember you only want it to ring, not answer.
For paging you can also use a hacked up Grandstream phone, I have heard good results with these.
Or use the server's sound card.
Hope that helps!
Not a bad study, and having gone through the system I tend to agree with it, but for other reasons.
Kids who are assigned a heavy homework load will more often than not procrastinate and put it off until late at night, at which point they will have to stay awake to finish it and won't get enough sleep. This makes the kid tired in class the next day, so (s)he won't learn as well. Studies DO show that getting a good night's sleep has a large effect on what you learn- sleep helps you lock in what you learned during the day. Think of it like flushing a RAM buffer to disk. Not a step to be skipped.
Lastly- most of the teachers I had (granted this was a while ago) who assigned heavy homework also were not particularly good at their jobs. They did not encourage or develop interesting class discussions, the lesson was a series of objectives on a paper which must be completed. BORING. Better teachers can engage students and make them want to learn, sadly the system as we have it does not attract or keep such teachers...
If you want kids to do better- get better teachers, not more work.
Asterisk is an open sourced Linux-based Soft-PBX system. It will interface with just about any type of telephone or telephone network, including POTS, cell phones, VoIP phones, etc. Dump your answering machine for something REALLY cool!
you're welcome!
this by no means requires any computers at all. I saw an article a while ago about a golf course that did this- they had a shelf of 8 $89.95 Cisco DSL modems (all set in 'server' mode) at their datacenter, linking to offsite signs around the course. Each sign had another dsl modem, operating normally. The only wiring they did was to run each sign a dry pair, and plug the modem to the sign's Ethernet controller.
very true. However some modems can be operated in reverse- buy two modems, plug one into each other and set one to be the server. Using this method you can create fairly long distance (up to 10000 feet or so) links with decent bandwidth (up to 3-5 megabits) for very little money (two DSL modems). That was the point of my submission- its cheap and easy.
Some golf courses and other large areas use remote-DSL for such links. Maybe that would apply to him? Many cisco DSL modems can be operated in server mode, only downside is you must run RJ12 separately to each location.
Otherwise, run ethernet?
if you are going to go wireless, get some good APs and sector antennas, or alternately setup a bunch of repeater stations that use different channels to avoid interference.
I recommend the canon multipass series... I have a MP730, its a combo printer/scanner (w/ feeder)/fax/copier, very nice machine. A bit expensive ($300) but IMHO well worth it. The Canon ink tanks are clear so you can see the ink inside them, and there are no chips on them. The printer measures the ink level by shining a light through the tank. They are quite easy to refill, and LaserMonks has replacement tanks for IIRC about $5 each. Replacement official tanks are about $7 each. Four colors, CMYK.
Maybe i'm missing something but from what I can tell...
1. Guy goes to tradeshow
2. Tradeshow offers shitty WiFi that goes down alot
3. Guy tries to use VoIP/WiFi at tradeshow
4. Shitty WiFi makes VoIP not work / go down alot
5. Guy concludes that VoIP/WiFi as a technology sucks and is unreliable.
Am I missing something here? This dude's problem was not his hardware or his SIP provider, the problem was his shitty connection, so he shouldnt be blaming VoIP when his internet link is the problem.
always check Reseller Ratings before buying...
no hes not. It is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey.
The thing is that sharing isnt hurting profits. There have been several studies (that arent funded by RIAA groups) that say people who download actually buy MORE music. And it makes sense... if your friend recommends a CD you're not going to spend money unless you know you'll like it, so you download it and test it. Not everyone, but some people do. Profits are down because fewer albums are released each year. not cuz of file sharing.
File sharing isnt going to kill the music industry, but it might save it.
You might want a Intermec 6651. Good luck buying it tho, the only place I found it was MobilePlanet, and they ripped me off so I advise against shopping there.
(When I bought my 6651 it said it had HPC2000, it arrives and it has the older version. Website's changed, the SKU I ordered now says the older veersion and theres another SKU for the new one So I call them and they wont accept a return cuz its opened, even tho its their fault. So I have to spend another few hundred on the HPC2000 upgrade when it comes out, and of course theyre the only ones that sell it. I highly recommend against shoppign there.)
Its large (full clamshell form factor) but it has a usb master port. However AFAIK the handheld pc 2000 software that comes with it doesnt support usb mass storage. (If anyone has a usb mass storage driver for HPC2000 I could really use it thx)
Also a previous poster mentioned the Terapin Mine, that might work for you but forget about the built in display (it sucks, only 4 lines). It does have a composite video out port tho, so you could hook it up with a HUD or something.
yeah I think that's about right
good idea, I call dibs on his TiBook
This is not necessarily a problem... I'm not a Linux expert but I know there are Windows API emulators that will let Windows software run under Linux. Also if Sun donates machines to you, they probably wont be trying to audit you so you can leave Solaris alone. The point is to get rid of the BSA, not closed source.
Also I dont think the BSA or the University would have the authority to audit personal machines, if you bought it and paid for it you could simply refuse to be audited.
What we need is a company or university facing an impendint BSA audit to just say 'fsck you BSA + Microsoft, if you won't respect me than I wont use your products.'
Being a geek is a state of mind. It often manifests itself with geeky behavior.
Personally I'm proud and secure with my geekyness. I make no effort to hide the handful of little electronic gadgets I carry around everywhere. I consider being called a geek to be a compliment and would probably be insulted if someone said I wasn't one.
You're thinking of 'geek' as a stereotype (skinny kid with taped glasses and no fashion sense who walks around talking in computerese), not a state of mind (someone who embraces technology in everyday life further than usual). Nowhere does it say that geeks can't participate in non-geeky activities, simply most geeks choose not to. And I've been up for about 30 hours so if this post makes little sense please ignore it.
ok this is pretty easy... get a chip that doesnt put out alot of heat like a low end Athlon XP or a Duron. Throw in some WC gear from Danger Den, a 120mm 60cfm fan (they're almost silent), and you're set. If you worry about the chipset and GPU, put waterblocks on those too. Also remove any other case fans you have, the 120mm fan as a blowhole will work nicely unless you have a really hot system.
As for the HDD, I'd suggest a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, they are almost completely silent.
Now get a PSU with a speed-controllable fan (enermax has a few) or a temperature controlled fan (Antec SmartPower) and you're set, almost complete silence.