Do a search before asking questions on/. There are billions of places on the net that sell rackmount hardware inexepensively. It would take about five minutes of looking on Yahoo/AltaVista/Deja.
Here are some that I know off the top of my head:
http://www.rackmount.com http://www.brite-ideas.com/cabinets.html - good deal http://www.isp-equipment.com/ http://www.jinco.com
I code on Jack Daniels all the time. Maybe sometime I'll learn to write a program that works. Gee, if I use their software I'd learn faster that my method sucks.
I want to visit their website and get the smell of freshly opened Magic cards.
(I haven't actually played in several years, but I hear from my friends that the smell isn't what it used to be -- they've changed inks or something on the cards. On a related note, has anyone opened a Red Hat 6.1 box? That's the same as the "Magic Card Smell.")
They've been arguing about this for over a year now. I'm a technical director for WHSR, the student radio station at Johns Hopkins University. We've been broadcasting over carrier current for about five years now (ever since the school gave their real broadcast license to NPR and company), and have been investigating the low power FM options since they were initially introduced for public analysis and comment. This was supposed to be approved by the FCC sometime last summer, but never quite happened. We're glad because it means we can broadcast to the entire community instead of just the dorms, and we can't wait.
Now we just need a tower to mount an antenna on. Anyone got a few thousand bucks so we can rent space?:)
I betcha all the people who you're complaining about (who I've personally about had enough of) are also the ones who evangelize everyone clocking their celeron to 1500GHz and insult anyone who runs a chip at clock speed.
It's gotten to the point where Geek has become the latest trendy elitist social group. I don't know about you, but it's a label I'm increasingly less interested in being associated with.
Who are you kidding? These may not be as intuitive, but it's like morse code -- the letters you USE are the easiest to write. (How many people figured out "k" in graffiti the first time they used a palm? The fifth time?)
Xerox's letters are composed of simpler strokes than Palm's (so you can write faster) and the more common letters are easier than the rarer ones (think Wheel of Fortune: rstlne, and then look at the vowels while you're there).
I saw a recent interview where you were asked whether you envisioned yourself as Rockefeller or Edison (since Gates was described as more like Rockefeller in an earlier interview). You chose Edison. While I'm a big fan of VA, it would seem to me that you are more a business man than an innovator, employing the Edisons of programming. Would you care to support your interpretation of the response?
I've been going to regional computer shows for years (thank you Market Pro!). Before non-geeks started going in the past two years, it was always the place to get online prices without dealing with shady vendors. Nowadays, the "onsale phenomenon" has happened, where enough people who don't know a "good price" for hardware has caused vendors to up their prices to the same as retail (and sometimes over). Us geeks get shafted.
BUT, the big advantage is that they have stuff on display nowadays that is the kind of thing you buy based on appearance and can't really mail order. Cases like these have been at the front door of the shows for months and months. They're neat to look at, but they have a cheap feel and construction that doesn't put them on par with beige boxes. (I'm VERY fond of my Supermicro 750 and my Inwin minitower cases; solid, they fit together, and no sharp edges.) These cute cases wouldn't stand being moved in a car from college to home; they'd fall to pieces.
I don't know about you, but I sure don't want my hard drive skidding across the floor of my car and crashing into my power supply.:)
But seriously folks, if we want a REAL profile of "J. Random Hacker" (Programmer), we should look at the Jargon file, Appendix B. It's got about the best description there is.
Unfortunately,/. is a business (and has been for longer than Andover acquired them). In a business, you have one goal: make the cash register ring. If there's no money coming into Slashdot (through advertising), there is no Slashdot. They need money to run the thing. If you want access to just the content, write some perl scripts that dump the comments into your reader of choice. It shouldn't be too hard. The rest of us will stick with a method that may not be convenient for YOU but is fine for US and also is an adequate balance of convenience and utility.
Unfortunately,/. is a business (and has been for longer than Andover acquired them). In a business, you have one goal: make the cash register ring. If there's no money coming into Slashdot (through advertising), there is no Slashdot. They need money to run the thing. If you want access to just the content, write some perl scripts that dump the comments into your reader of choice. It shouldn't be too hard. The rest of us will stick with a method that may not be convenient for YOU but is fine for US and also is an adequate balance of convenience and utility.
And how do they get ads (i.e. their only source of revenue) into newsgroup posts? It's certainly not like having a BigAss(tm) banner ad at the top of each page.
Mmm.. Z-80, man. That's where it's at. Zilog's 8080 clone has recently been beefed up with an all-in-one flavor that includes ram and rom on-chip so you don't even need to solder the way one used to in order to get a working z-80 system (with a memory controller and so on and so forth).
Real easy assembly to learn (and good stepping stone to x86 assembly). You probably can even build a machine that takes your old 8-bit ISA cards with a little effort.
I've been arguing for a while that one of the biggest problem dates is last Jan 1. (I'd say midnight GMT on that day, just for silly's sake) That's when any software that looks ahead and schedules things would have died (or did die?)
Slashdot Mirror
Now I'll finally have a half decent office suite to run on my SGI. :)
Maybe.
-Chris
How do you think Josh found that one? Be afraid. -Chris
Do a search before asking questions on /. There are billions of places on the net that sell rackmount hardware inexepensively. It would take about five minutes of looking on Yahoo/AltaVista/Deja.
Here are some that I know off the top of my head:
http://www.rackmount.com
http://www.brite-ideas.com/cabinets.html - good deal
http://www.isp-equipment.com/
http://www.jinco.com
-Chris
I code on Jack Daniels all the time. Maybe sometime I'll learn to write a program that works. Gee, if I use their software I'd learn faster that my method sucks.
-Chris
Is it just me, or are virtual ISPs starting to seem even scarier than the ``monopolistic'' media companies?
-Chris
www.wizards.com: Wizards of the Coast.
I want to visit their website and get the smell of freshly opened Magic cards.
(I haven't actually played in several years, but I hear from my friends that the smell isn't what it used to be -- they've changed inks or something on the cards. On a related note, has anyone opened a Red Hat 6.1 box? That's the same as the "Magic Card Smell.")
-Chris
They've been arguing about this for over a year now. I'm a technical director for WHSR, the student radio station at Johns Hopkins University. We've been broadcasting over carrier current for about five years now (ever since the school gave their real broadcast license to NPR and company), and have been investigating the low power FM options since they were initially introduced for public analysis and comment. This was supposed to be approved by the FCC sometime last summer, but never quite happened. We're glad because it means we can broadcast to the entire community instead of just the dorms, and we can't wait.
:)
Now we just need a tower to mount an antenna on. Anyone got a few thousand bucks so we can rent space?
-Chris
I thought the second sillicon valley was Boston? That's what the jargon file would make one believe. :)
-Chris
I betcha all the people who you're complaining about (who I've personally about had enough of) are also the ones who evangelize everyone clocking their celeron to 1500GHz and insult anyone who runs a chip at clock speed.
It's gotten to the point where Geek has become the latest trendy elitist social group. I don't know about you, but it's a label I'm increasingly less interested in being associated with.
-Chris
All together now...
"Xerox creates dinosaurs.
Xerox destroys dinosaurs.
Xerox creates man.
Man destroys Xerox, creates dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs destroy man."
"...Palm Computing inherits the Earth."
-Chris
Who are you kidding? These may not be as intuitive, but it's like morse code -- the letters you USE are the easiest to write. (How many people figured out "k" in graffiti the first time they used a palm? The fifth time?)
Xerox's letters are composed of simpler strokes than Palm's (so you can write faster) and the more common letters are easier than the rarer ones (think Wheel of Fortune: rstlne, and then look at the vowels while you're there).
-Chris
I saw a recent interview where you were asked whether you envisioned yourself as Rockefeller or Edison (since Gates was described as more like Rockefeller in an earlier interview). You chose Edison. While I'm a big fan of VA, it would seem to me that you are more a business man than an innovator, employing the Edisons of programming. Would you care to support your interpretation of the response?
-Chris
I've been going to regional computer shows for years (thank you Market Pro!). Before non-geeks started going in the past two years, it was always the place to get online prices without dealing with shady vendors. Nowadays, the "onsale phenomenon" has happened, where enough people who don't know a "good price" for hardware has caused vendors to up their prices to the same as retail (and sometimes over). Us geeks get shafted.
:)
BUT, the big advantage is that they have stuff on display nowadays that is the kind of thing you buy based on appearance and can't really mail order. Cases like these have been at the front door of the shows for months and months. They're neat to look at, but they have a cheap feel and construction that doesn't put them on par with beige boxes. (I'm VERY fond of my Supermicro 750 and my Inwin minitower cases; solid, they fit together, and no sharp edges.) These cute cases wouldn't stand being moved in a car from college to home; they'd fall to pieces.
I don't know about you, but I sure don't want my hard drive skidding across the floor of my car and crashing into my power supply.
-Chris
Sounds a lot like the premeds at my college.
But seriously folks, if we want a REAL profile of "J. Random Hacker" (Programmer), we should look at the Jargon file, Appendix B. It's got about the best description there is.
-Chris
Oh, come on. ATI has been the most difficult company to work with since the beginning. Why would they change now? :)
-Chris
(proud owner of a Mach32 that was fried by X)
I'm not the one who "suggested" rob and jeff give up their only source of income to the site.
-Chris
Unfortunately, /. is a business (and has been for longer than Andover acquired them). In a business, you have one goal: make the cash register ring. If there's no money coming into Slashdot (through advertising), there is no Slashdot. They need money to run the thing. If you want access to just the content, write some perl scripts that dump the comments into your reader of choice. It shouldn't be too hard. The rest of us will stick with a method that may not be convenient for YOU but is fine for US and also is an adequate balance of convenience and utility.
-Chris
Unfortunately, /. is a business (and has been for longer than Andover acquired them). In a business, you have one goal: make the cash register ring. If there's no money coming into Slashdot (through advertising), there is no Slashdot. They need money to run the thing. If you want access to just the content, write some perl scripts that dump the comments into your reader of choice. It shouldn't be too hard. The rest of us will stick with a method that may not be convenient for YOU but is fine for US and also is an adequate balance of convenience and utility.
-Chris
And how do they get ads (i.e. their only source of revenue) into newsgroup posts? It's certainly not like having a BigAss(tm) banner ad at the top of each page.
-Chris
Mmm.. Z-80, man. That's where it's at. Zilog's 8080 clone has recently been beefed up with an all-in-one flavor that includes ram and rom on-chip so you don't even need to solder the way one used to in order to get a working z-80 system (with a memory controller and so on and so forth).
Real easy assembly to learn (and good stepping stone to x86 assembly). You probably can even build a machine that takes your old 8-bit ISA cards with a little effort.
-Chris
I've been arguing for a while that one of the biggest problem dates is last Jan 1. (I'd say midnight GMT on that day, just for silly's sake) That's when any software that looks ahead and schedules things would have died (or did die?)
-Chris
LOL. ROFLMAO. ROFLPIMP.
:)
I had to think about that one for about five minutes. Must be time for bed.
-Chris
I use netwizards... $50 for two years.
-Chris
I'm completely jealous. Everyone on the 'net has been talking about my domain lately and it didn't get mentioned in a slashdot article.
linuxwon.com.
(And in the immortal words of Dr. Evil, "...it's called a homonym.")
-Chris
Quirky links regarding linuxone? I'd imagine that's what LinuxWon.com is for.
:)
So. Who wants to post?
-Chris