Personally, I've used Astaro Security Linux for a long time since moving from Smoothwall, and I find it far superior.
It's of course free for home use, runs on anything down to a P100, and all the up2date is handled by Astaro themselves.
Hell, they even have FREE evaluation webinar-live-workshops for people to get acquainted with Astaro if they are new (and presumeably to help with a purchasing decision for business) You can signup for the Eval Workshop for free here.
When they release their version 5, I hope it gets the same kind of publicity, they are hands down the coolest internet firewall and don't seem to get much press.
Lets look at this in 2 ways why it is NOT stealing from Ati, or the consumer. For years, people with Nvidia cards have been using coolbits or some other software hack to enable overclocking on their Geforce and Tnt Cards. With the GF4 series, it's easily possible to make a Ti4200 run as fast as a Ti4600, depending on who makes the card. Now people that argue that these people are buying this card instead of the $399 Ti4600, dont you realize that the people that perform these kinds of "hacks" probably don't have the money to buy a $399 video card, so as such they buy a cheaper on and overclock it. Thus nvidia sells a cheaper card, instead of no card at all.
Also, the same applies to this ati hack. While many people can afford the 9500, far less are willing to spring for the 9700. As such, ATI is STILL selling cards. Bottom line, if it is moving product out the door, it's a good business deal. Add this to the fact that ATI may entice former nvidia-only people to try their products, and this software hack (the hardware hack is no longer necessary with Wizzards and Rivatuner software hacks out) becomes a means for ATI to get a load of free press/publicity/interest, and sell some cards.
You might want to try out Shacknews's new parts store, Shackstore They have really really cheap prices, and you can order every part separately, with good descriptions and such.
I work at an ISP, and build tons of systems. I get all my parts from Netlink and they have by far the biggest, most detailed database of parts for order (us and Canadian pricing) on the web. Give them a shot for wicked pricing as well.
There is an article here:
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15616.html
That talks about apples possible announcement that they will move to Intel chips, dumping motorola. Might be vaporware, but if not, well, you heard it here first folks. Worth a read, and it makes sense anyways.
Very cool. Ever notice how it's getting farther and farther apart when REAL cool stuff happens? I remember just a little while ago when "things" happened all the time.:)
It would be very interested to see a mindstorms project that can open a combination lock (or a bank vault! LOL)
Great work on the cube. I can't imagine the time that one took. Like I said before...
Yes, lego was absolutely the best toy I had, even GI Joe and the vast armies of He-Man didn't give as much joy.:) (But it was close)
Here's why.
It was durable. ONLY lego could take the stress of being hit with billard balls, trampled on by feet, and being swallowed by the rubber godzillas repeatedly.
It was reusable. I STILL have my lego today, my uncle's and aunt's have their buckets. and still my little nephews build cities, starships, and moon bases, tear them all down, and do it all over again.
It was limitless. Didn't like the guys face? Change it, even the damn tiny HOOKS for the arms were tough to break. You could snap weapons in and out all day long, and it wouldn't let you down. Try that with a batman figure from today, see how long it lasts....
I know that while lego may not be able to compete on a technical level with some of the newer toys, I still smile when I see my little relatives running around the basment with my LEGO, when just around the corner is the Playstation. I guess some things just don't die.
Notice how the official "press release" doesn't state the resolution it was rendered at? What's the movie resolution? Several thousand by Several thousand I imagine. Does doing it a 640x480 or LOWER mean the same thing? I have a hard time believing that a Quadro Setup can render something in.4 of a sec that their SGI setup takes 90mins to do. If Nvidia WAS INDEED 100,000 times faster at this using a Quadro setup, we might have heard of this before?
Something's missing from this methinks.
I am unsure as to whether this is a reason to celebrate. Although humans are not needed in the same capacity as before, how many miners already have been put out of work by operations such as these. Granted this type of plant requires DIFFERENT kind of help, in the form of techs and operators of the equipment, but their number is far less than the amount of people usually employed by a mine. Although Kudos must be given in a situation where ingenuity can completely automate a process and remove risk from the work environment, I shudder to think what could be next.... and who will be looking for a new career tomorrow...
I'm sure most ppl may (or may not) know that Handspring is comprised at the core of ex-Palm guru's. Ever since it's release, I have not heard one person speak bad about Handspring, I even see them being used on Junkyard Wars by all the guys with Phd's and such. It is about time Palm came forward and announced a new OS with support for all the latest features, however I am sitting here holding my breath that it will not be a fiasco like the 3.5 OS that was only available to a select few, or those that chose to purchase it. Palm's strength has always been an easy, straightforward way to upgrade the OS to take advantage of new developments, and I honestly hope this does not change as the company searches for ways to bring in more capital.
just my 2 cents
But the pentagon must be loving this, they way things are today around there, the money men see "$8000.00 for a hammer, $25000.00 for a toilet seat, $300 for a computer mouse..., hmm, business as usual"
LOL
(Yes I did see Independance day)
See if only I worked for a company like this. Think of the fun ad's we could do for a product with this sort of angle.
Try:
"Our Mouse has balls that clank"
or
"Have you polished your mouse today?"
it's products like these that make computers fun and, I still remember those cool wooden keyboards and monitors that cost like $4000.00. Although any knucklehead spending $4000.00 on a wooden keyboard must be from Canada.:)
Touche!
HAHAHA all microsoft has to do now is market it's X-Box with the slogan.
"X-Box, because we made enough"
It amazes me how many dollars a company will spend on advertising, and how LITTLE damn money they spend on production, if sony had spent the billion or so dollars it spend on pushing the PS2 on actually making the damn thing, perhaps everyone would be raving about how good it is in real life, instead of how good the reviews all are.
It has been confirmed that Ping's brother Pong, is fine and well.
Pong, an inventor of a popular video game, is well respected in all circles for his contributions in programming and entertainment. With the untimely departure of his brother, he is now the sole holder of another popular table-based game co-developed with his brother loosely titled "Ping Pong." Our condolences go out to Pong, and we hope he rebounds shortly.
I remember an old movie called Innerspace where they shrunk a guy in a pod and stuck it into Martin Short, so now they wanna do that in real life? It would take a hell of a lot of proof before little robotic minisubs get dispatched into my bloodstream. One day someone is going to make them "web ready" so they can broadcast live to the doctors, and then someone is going to hack them. Wouldn't that make great office cooler talk! Yeah I hacked this GUY last night. LOL
Maybe I'm the only one that thought of this, but I can't see how. With more than 20 shuttle missions scheduled for next year, why not have the shuttles (which were full on the way up with International Space Station parts) simply bring down MIR in pieces in their empty cargo bays when they return to earth? That would let scientists study the thing and maybe have it end up in a museum where it could be remembered. Sure it would involve some costs, but the shuttles are already UP there and it can't be that big of an expense to boost over to Mir and grab some or all of it for re-entry.... but I guess if it was easy, somebody would have considered that right?
I patent the Spinning browser logos, however, since they are already implemented, my legal team has designed a fair pricing structure based on the odometer. Each time the browser logo makes one full rotation, 1 penny is charged. This should clear up this issue. Thankyou.
SBL (spinning browser logo) Inc. 2000
All rights reserved
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Personally, I've used Astaro Security Linux for a long time since moving from Smoothwall, and I find it far superior.
It's of course free for home use, runs on anything down to a P100, and all the up2date is handled by Astaro themselves.
Hell, they even have FREE evaluation webinar-live-workshops for people to get acquainted with Astaro if they are new (and presumeably to help with a purchasing decision for business) You can signup for the Eval Workshop for free here.
When they release their version 5, I hope it gets the same kind of publicity, they are hands down the coolest internet firewall and don't seem to get much press.
So the game is afoot. I love it. Necessity breeds innovation, so it'll be fun to watch how Pirateden responds. Lets get it on!
LOL u KNOW one of those hackers was just sitting there at his computer summoning squads and uttering with glee:
"Get me Everyone"
"EVVVVEEERRRRYYYYOOOONNNNNEEEEE!!!!!"
Lets look at this in 2 ways why it is NOT stealing from Ati, or the consumer. For years, people with Nvidia cards have been using coolbits or some other software hack to enable overclocking on their Geforce and Tnt Cards. With the GF4 series, it's easily possible to make a Ti4200 run as fast as a Ti4600, depending on who makes the card. Now people that argue that these people are buying this card instead of the $399 Ti4600, dont you realize that the people that perform these kinds of "hacks" probably don't have the money to buy a $399 video card, so as such they buy a cheaper on and overclock it. Thus nvidia sells a cheaper card, instead of no card at all.
Also, the same applies to this ati hack. While many people can afford the 9500, far less are willing to spring for the 9700. As such, ATI is STILL selling cards. Bottom line, if it is moving product out the door, it's a good business deal. Add this to the fact that ATI may entice former nvidia-only people to try their products, and this software hack (the hardware hack is no longer necessary with Wizzards and Rivatuner software hacks out) becomes a means for ATI to get a load of free press/publicity/interest, and sell some cards.
You might want to try out Shacknews's new parts store, Shackstore
They have really really cheap prices, and you can order every part separately, with good descriptions and such.
I work at an ISP, and build tons of systems. I get all my parts from Netlink and they have by far the biggest, most detailed database of parts for order (us and Canadian pricing) on the web. Give them a shot for wicked pricing as well.
Hope that helps someone out.
There is an article here: http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15616.html That talks about apples possible announcement that they will move to Intel chips, dumping motorola. Might be vaporware, but if not, well, you heard it here first folks. Worth a read, and it makes sense anyways.
Just what we need, more people who know little about technology trying to rein in technology.
Next thing you know, I'll be needed to license my palm pilot.
Can't they just keep up instead of trying to hold everyone else back?
Very cool. Ever notice how it's getting farther and farther apart when REAL cool stuff happens? I remember just a little while ago when "things" happened all the time. :)
It would be very interested to see a mindstorms project that can open a combination lock (or a bank vault! LOL)
Great work on the cube. I can't imagine the time that one took. Like I said before...
very cool.
Yes, lego was absolutely the best toy I had, even GI Joe and the vast armies of He-Man didn't give as much joy. :) (But it was close)
:)
Here's why.
It was durable. ONLY lego could take the stress of being hit with billard balls, trampled on by feet, and being swallowed by the rubber godzillas repeatedly.
It was reusable. I STILL have my lego today, my uncle's and aunt's have their buckets. and still my little nephews build cities, starships, and moon bases, tear them all down, and do it all over again.
It was limitless. Didn't like the guys face? Change it, even the damn tiny HOOKS for the arms were tough to break. You could snap weapons in and out all day long, and it wouldn't let you down. Try that with a batman figure from today, see how long it lasts....
I know that while lego may not be able to compete on a technical level with some of the newer toys, I still smile when I see my little relatives running around the basment with my LEGO, when just around the corner is the Playstation. I guess some things just don't die.
Lego, you GO!
Notice how the official "press release" doesn't state the resolution it was rendered at? What's the movie resolution? Several thousand by Several thousand I imagine. Does doing it a 640x480 or LOWER mean the same thing? I have a hard time believing that a Quadro Setup can render something in .4 of a sec that their SGI setup takes 90mins to do. If Nvidia WAS INDEED 100,000 times faster at this using a Quadro setup, we might have heard of this before?
Something's missing from this methinks.
Now if I could just go to wallmart and buy the thing for a weekend trip to the space station. :)
I am unsure as to whether this is a reason to celebrate. Although humans are not needed in the same capacity as before, how many miners already have been put out of work by operations such as these. Granted this type of plant requires DIFFERENT kind of help, in the form of techs and operators of the equipment, but their number is far less than the amount of people usually employed by a mine. Although Kudos must be given in a situation where ingenuity can completely automate a process and remove risk from the work environment, I shudder to think what could be next.... and who will be looking for a new career tomorrow...
I'm sure most ppl may (or may not) know that Handspring is comprised at the core of ex-Palm guru's. Ever since it's release, I have not heard one person speak bad about Handspring, I even see them being used on Junkyard Wars by all the guys with Phd's and such. It is about time Palm came forward and announced a new OS with support for all the latest features, however I am sitting here holding my breath that it will not be a fiasco like the 3.5 OS that was only available to a select few, or those that chose to purchase it. Palm's strength has always been an easy, straightforward way to upgrade the OS to take advantage of new developments, and I honestly hope this does not change as the company searches for ways to bring in more capital. just my 2 cents
But the pentagon must be loving this, they way things are today around there, the money men see "$8000.00 for a hammer, $25000.00 for a toilet seat, $300 for a computer mouse..., hmm, business as usual" LOL (Yes I did see Independance day)
See if only I worked for a company like this. Think of the fun ad's we could do for a product with this sort of angle. Try: "Our Mouse has balls that clank" or "Have you polished your mouse today?" it's products like these that make computers fun and, I still remember those cool wooden keyboards and monitors that cost like $4000.00. Although any knucklehead spending $4000.00 on a wooden keyboard must be from Canada. :)
Touche!
HAHAHA all microsoft has to do now is market it's X-Box with the slogan. "X-Box, because we made enough" It amazes me how many dollars a company will spend on advertising, and how LITTLE damn money they spend on production, if sony had spent the billion or so dollars it spend on pushing the PS2 on actually making the damn thing, perhaps everyone would be raving about how good it is in real life, instead of how good the reviews all are.
It has been confirmed that Ping's brother Pong, is fine and well. Pong, an inventor of a popular video game, is well respected in all circles for his contributions in programming and entertainment. With the untimely departure of his brother, he is now the sole holder of another popular table-based game co-developed with his brother loosely titled "Ping Pong." Our condolences go out to Pong, and we hope he rebounds shortly.
I remember an old movie called Innerspace where they shrunk a guy in a pod and stuck it into Martin Short, so now they wanna do that in real life? It would take a hell of a lot of proof before little robotic minisubs get dispatched into my bloodstream. One day someone is going to make them "web ready" so they can broadcast live to the doctors, and then someone is going to hack them. Wouldn't that make great office cooler talk! Yeah I hacked this GUY last night. LOL
I disagree, everyone knows that CAD $50.00 is like $2.00 in US Funds. :)
Maybe I'm the only one that thought of this, but I can't see how. With more than 20 shuttle missions scheduled for next year, why not have the shuttles (which were full on the way up with International Space Station parts) simply bring down MIR in pieces in their empty cargo bays when they return to earth? That would let scientists study the thing and maybe have it end up in a museum where it could be remembered. Sure it would involve some costs, but the shuttles are already UP there and it can't be that big of an expense to boost over to Mir and grab some or all of it for re-entry.... but I guess if it was easy, somebody would have considered that right?
I patent the Spinning browser logos, however, since they are already implemented, my legal team has designed a fair pricing structure based on the odometer. Each time the browser logo makes one full rotation, 1 penny is charged. This should clear up this issue. Thankyou. SBL (spinning browser logo) Inc. 2000 All rights reserved
Give this guy a point for actually figuring out what ten billion gig's is called. Heres to the Petabyte. :)