hmmm, It'd ONLY $14,900! Hmmm, that comes out to $1862.50 per node.
Not too bad I suppose. I like the fact that you can split the nodes up for different services. This could potentially be a nice little all-in-one setup for someone who needs http, mail, quake, mp3 ripping, etc.
When I was photography student, our school was required to save certian chemicals because of the silver content. Photographic films/papers function because of the light sensitivity of silver. Thus the chemical that fixes the image on the film or paper contains a fair amount of unused silver. So the fixer is saved so that it can be sent off and the silver can be reclaimed.
I'd imagine that with all the older electronics out there a fair amount of gold could be reclaimed from the parts.
anything is better than just dumping the stuff in the ground to be forgotten about.
How many people out there don't buy computers but build them? I work in an office full of folks who wouldn't own anything but their own custom built machines.
I guess I better warn all my friends about this, we wouldn't want to accidently install an illegal copy of windows on one of our machines, I know I have to watch myself so I don't accidently put that CD in and format my drive and put windows on.
My other big beef is this: How many people know at least one person with a CD writer? Enough said...
I used to think this DSL stuff was cool till I started working here. I'm not 100% clear on all the ins and outs of the lines and circuts but I agree, it's all screwed up. What makes it even better is that we are a Data-Centric company run by Phone-Centric people. I'd imagine this is the case in more than one company.
One of our biggest problems however is Bell South. Things like bridge taps and load coils just suddenly show up on an otherwise functional ADSL loop. Sometimes Bell will just decide to disconnect a line we are using, and then when we submit a ticket for reconnection, they give us a due date of 24-48 hours. Guess which side of that range we normally see...
Bell is required evil here. We can't do our business without them, but then on the other hand they do cause a fair number of headaches. Customers don't care that Bell screwed up their internet connection, they just care that their business is affected because their DSL is down
Honestly, I don't blame them. Recently we made a move to get away from ADSL/IDSL and move towards T1 provision. It's been a great move for us troublewise, but DSL is certianly much cheaper for the end user.
Hey, fight technology with technology. Why would anybody get pissed about this? Because your attempt at doing something illegal was thwarted?
There will always be black markets. If it's not napster it's a guy in New York selling copies of a CD that he made in his apartment for $3. I'm just glad they don't have a stick up their butt about the whole thing.
watermark or no watermark, i have a possible answer.
there are quite a few new sounds cards comming out with digital (S/PDIF for example) outputs as well as digital inputs. if i play this music and my output is digital then i can also RECORD it digitally through a similar input. digital to digital will have no generation loss and the watermark has nothing to do with it. basicly it's just piping digital output to a digital recording device.
hey, i think that everyone should attemt to hack this thing, but instead of telling the industry people, we'll just share the process on our top secret, hacker-internet-underground.
I was a terrible student... since I was very young I struggled in school and no matter how hard I tried to focus on my education, I just couldn't make it work. Who did well instead? Folks who could play the system. You see, modern education is a system just like everything else. If you can play the game, you can do well. If you're not good at the game, well you get labeled as ADD or lazy of just stupid.
Truth be told, I'm not any of those. When I was in school I tried to learn things rather than just spit information back out on a test. I got lost in learning and in turn lost track of class. So finally i graduate high school and go to college. I have high hopes that things will be different since it's "Higher Education" and classes might be geared more towards people like me.
Can I say that I was wrong? I get my MCSE (only because it was easy and looks good on a resume) and went job hunting after flunking out of college. I found a job with a great ISP and am now making more money that most of my college grad buddies will make for quite a few years. Funny thing is, nobody ever asked my why I quit school when I came to work here. Later on I find out that almost nobody working here has finished school. In fact the smartest, most productive guys I know are college drop outs like me. They said that they wanted good hackers rather than some guy with a degree who knows how to install windows (and then about crapped his pants when i formatted my windows box to use linux).
Not everyone sees it this way, but the truth of the matter is that people truly learn out of the classroom. The class is a formality and for some it's enough. That's why we have grads going into the work place for the first time and being totally clueless even though they are "educated" people.
I have no problems with education, I think it's great, very important. But one cannot substitute the classroom for good solid life experience and intrest.
It's also the whole idea of the operating system market today!
I come from a windows world. I grew up around MS-DOS and then MS Windows and for a long time that's all i knew...
A couple of years ago i read more and more about this linux thing and decide to get in on the action. I have some extra hardware around the house so I buy a book and load up the distro of redhat 5.2 included with the book. Long story short, i banged my head against the wall, read how-tos and bought a couple more books before I finally got this linux thing down well enough that I could do what I wanted do with it.
What did I want to do with it? Well, pretty much everything I do with windows, check mail, surf the web, blah blah blah. I got sick of microsoft dictating the way I use my computer. I have never purchased a prebuilt computer. The idea kinda makes me sick actually. I choose parts based on preformance and reliability to make my systems kick. If I have to use an OS that doesn't allow me to do that, then what's the point really? Linux is still new ground for me, but one has to start somewhere.
This debate has gone on for a long time...
SCSI has many more benefits than just speed over IDE. Processor overhead is a big issue of course, and i can see a tremendous difference in an IDE and SCSI system because of this. Another HUGE issuse is bus width. One reason SCSI outpreforms IDE is the fact that all the wide SCSI flavors are working on a 16bit wide bus. (hence the 68 pin cable) ATA/33/66/100 is all a burst mode thing. Sure you can get the high speed, but it's really a joke because you only get that high speed for a very short time. Wide SCSI can sustain much higher speeds for much longer times. How often do you see IDE servers? There's a reason for that, you can't have your disk access bog down when more than a couple of users hitting it.
My personal favorite part of SCSI is the ability of devices to work independently. On an IDE controler the bus is dominated by the slowest device on the chain. On a SCSI system, you can have SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3 all running at their own speeds happy together.
Over all, as IDE gets faster, so will SCSI. They are two technologies and one is really not going to bury the other. IDE will have it's market with budget minded customers and SCSI will be there for the preformance applications and power users. Both these technologies will eventually reach their peak and fade out, but for now it's what we have.
In other words, we've brought the speed and bandwidth of optical communications inside the computer itself. This mix is called optoelectronics, another buzzword we encourage you to start using immediately.
Am I the only one scared by this? Yeah, I know all about optoelectronics now! I read about it in an article in Forbes!
use VMWARE!!!
i don't want this at all to sound like a plug, but i have to.My company has the Exchange/Outlook blah blah standard too as well as all this MS office crap. Well my boss discovered VMWare and shortly after that three linux boxes showed up with VMWare on them and the bill was sent to our IT department. However, you need a pretty decent machine to run this (remember, you ARE running TWO operating systems at once) but it's a great alternative to the win98 box in all the other cubes...
I work with "normal people" and computers all day. If someone is familiar with windows servers for SOHO they aren't just going to up and go get a friggin MAC! NT has enjoyed sucess because it is a windows OS and people who use windows on the desktop understand it. People familiar with MAC OS on the desktop don't fool with servers (except for my brother in law...) as a general rule. The Motorola RISC processor is impressive, but what about ALPHA, or SPARC, or even an RS/6000 with that same Motorola! I seriously doubt that OS X is going to be taking admins of linux, sun, windows, whatever systems over to MAC OS, that's more or less a joke...
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hmmm, It'd ONLY $14,900! Hmmm, that comes out to $1862.50 per node.
Not too bad I suppose. I like the fact that you can split the nodes up for different services. This could potentially be a nice little all-in-one setup for someone who needs http, mail, quake, mp3 ripping, etc.
On top of that it's yellow! How can one resist?
DUN?
Dialup Networking?
Or how about linux NT and RAS?
When I was photography student, our school was required to save certian chemicals because of the silver content. Photographic films/papers function because of the light sensitivity of silver. Thus the chemical that fixes the image on the film or paper contains a fair amount of unused silver. So the fixer is saved so that it can be sent off and the silver can be reclaimed.
I'd imagine that with all the older electronics out there a fair amount of gold could be reclaimed from the parts.
anything is better than just dumping the stuff in the ground to be forgotten about.
As obvious as it is, there is no substitute for physical security.
I don't know many MCSEs who understand ports...
I'm sure this has been said already...
How many people out there don't buy computers but build them? I work in an office full of folks who wouldn't own anything but their own custom built machines.
I guess I better warn all my friends about this, we wouldn't want to accidently install an illegal copy of windows on one of our machines, I know I have to watch myself so I don't accidently put that CD in and format my drive and put windows on.
My other big beef is this: How many people know at least one person with a CD writer? Enough said...
I work for a CLEC / ISP / DSL provider.
I used to think this DSL stuff was cool till I started working here. I'm not 100% clear on all the ins and outs of the lines and circuts but I agree, it's all screwed up. What makes it even better is that we are a Data-Centric company run by Phone-Centric people. I'd imagine this is the case in more than one company.
One of our biggest problems however is Bell South. Things like bridge taps and load coils just suddenly show up on an otherwise functional ADSL loop. Sometimes Bell will just decide to disconnect a line we are using, and then when we submit a ticket for reconnection, they give us a due date of 24-48 hours. Guess which side of that range we normally see...
Bell is required evil here. We can't do our business without them, but then on the other hand they do cause a fair number of headaches. Customers don't care that Bell screwed up their internet connection, they just care that their business is affected because their DSL is down
Honestly, I don't blame them. Recently we made a move to get away from ADSL/IDSL and move towards T1 provision. It's been a great move for us troublewise, but DSL is certianly much cheaper for the end user.
Hey, fight technology with technology. Why would anybody get pissed about this? Because your attempt at doing something illegal was thwarted?
There will always be black markets. If it's not napster it's a guy in New York selling copies of a CD that he made in his apartment for $3. I'm just glad they don't have a stick up their butt about the whole thing.
it's not a perfect digital copy of the file, its copying the output. you don't understand recording do you?
watermark or no watermark, i have a possible answer.
there are quite a few new sounds cards comming out with digital (S/PDIF for example) outputs as well as digital inputs. if i play this music and my output is digital then i can also RECORD it digitally through a similar input. digital to digital will have no generation loss and the watermark has nothing to do with it. basicly it's just piping digital output to a digital recording device.
hey, i think that everyone should attemt to hack this thing, but instead of telling the industry people, we'll just share the process on our top secret, hacker-internet-underground.
you all know about that right?
does this mean the PDA has a phone # of its own? or do you have to leave it plugged in somewhere?
geez, did only two people notice it's a company he used to work for?
I was a terrible student... since I was very young I struggled in school and no matter how hard I tried to focus on my education, I just couldn't make it work. Who did well instead? Folks who could play the system. You see, modern education is a system just like everything else. If you can play the game, you can do well. If you're not good at the game, well you get labeled as ADD or lazy of just stupid.
Truth be told, I'm not any of those. When I was in school I tried to learn things rather than just spit information back out on a test. I got lost in learning and in turn lost track of class. So finally i graduate high school and go to college. I have high hopes that things will be different since it's "Higher Education" and classes might be geared more towards people like me.
Can I say that I was wrong? I get my MCSE (only because it was easy and looks good on a resume) and went job hunting after flunking out of college. I found a job with a great ISP and am now making more money that most of my college grad buddies will make for quite a few years. Funny thing is, nobody ever asked my why I quit school when I came to work here. Later on I find out that almost nobody working here has finished school. In fact the smartest, most productive guys I know are college drop outs like me. They said that they wanted good hackers rather than some guy with a degree who knows how to install windows (and then about crapped his pants when i formatted my windows box to use linux).
Not everyone sees it this way, but the truth of the matter is that people truly learn out of the classroom. The class is a formality and for some it's enough. That's why we have grads going into the work place for the first time and being totally clueless even though they are "educated" people.
I have no problems with education, I think it's great, very important. But one cannot substitute the classroom for good solid life experience and intrest.
It's also the whole idea of the operating system market today!
I come from a windows world. I grew up around MS-DOS and then MS Windows and for a long time that's all i knew...
A couple of years ago i read more and more about this linux thing and decide to get in on the action. I have some extra hardware around the house so I buy a book and load up the distro of redhat 5.2 included with the book. Long story short, i banged my head against the wall, read how-tos and bought a couple more books before I finally got this linux thing down well enough that I could do what I wanted do with it.
What did I want to do with it? Well, pretty much everything I do with windows, check mail, surf the web, blah blah blah. I got sick of microsoft dictating the way I use my computer. I have never purchased a prebuilt computer. The idea kinda makes me sick actually. I choose parts based on preformance and reliability to make my systems kick. If I have to use an OS that doesn't allow me to do that, then what's the point really? Linux is still new ground for me, but one has to start somewhere.
This debate has gone on for a long time... SCSI has many more benefits than just speed over IDE. Processor overhead is a big issue of course, and i can see a tremendous difference in an IDE and SCSI system because of this. Another HUGE issuse is bus width. One reason SCSI outpreforms IDE is the fact that all the wide SCSI flavors are working on a 16bit wide bus. (hence the 68 pin cable) ATA/33/66/100 is all a burst mode thing. Sure you can get the high speed, but it's really a joke because you only get that high speed for a very short time. Wide SCSI can sustain much higher speeds for much longer times. How often do you see IDE servers? There's a reason for that, you can't have your disk access bog down when more than a couple of users hitting it.
My personal favorite part of SCSI is the ability of devices to work independently. On an IDE controler the bus is dominated by the slowest device on the chain. On a SCSI system, you can have SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3 all running at their own speeds happy together.
Over all, as IDE gets faster, so will SCSI. They are two technologies and one is really not going to bury the other. IDE will have it's market with budget minded customers and SCSI will be there for the preformance applications and power users. Both these technologies will eventually reach their peak and fade out, but for now it's what we have.
In other words, we've brought the speed and bandwidth of optical communications inside the computer itself. This mix is called optoelectronics, another buzzword we encourage you to start using immediately.
Am I the only one scared by this? Yeah, I know all about optoelectronics now! I read about it in an article in Forbes!
use VMWARE!!! i don't want this at all to sound like a plug, but i have to.My company has the Exchange/Outlook blah blah standard too as well as all this MS office crap. Well my boss discovered VMWare and shortly after that three linux boxes showed up with VMWare on them and the bill was sent to our IT department. However, you need a pretty decent machine to run this (remember, you ARE running TWO operating systems at once) but it's a great alternative to the win98 box in all the other cubes...
I work with "normal people" and computers all day. If someone is familiar with windows servers for SOHO they aren't just going to up and go get a friggin MAC! NT has enjoyed sucess because it is a windows OS and people who use windows on the desktop understand it. People familiar with MAC OS on the desktop don't fool with servers (except for my brother in law...) as a general rule. The Motorola RISC processor is impressive, but what about ALPHA, or SPARC, or even an RS/6000 with that same Motorola! I seriously doubt that OS X is going to be taking admins of linux, sun, windows, whatever systems over to MAC OS, that's more or less a joke...