Yeah, it's getting annoying. That's why I've been spending more time on digg.com. Sure you'll get the occasional ad, but it's rare if they make it to the main page.
You do know that VW and Audi are the same company, right? They share many, many parts between VW and Audi models. The VW R32 and the 3.2L TT use the same engine, transmission, brakes, and more. The A4 and the Passat share a lot of components. Even on my VW, many of the parts have the VW logo and the Audi logo stamped into them.
Through my dealings with MBNA, I've decided they're one of the smarmiest credit card companies one can do business with.
It started as a fixed-rate card at an excellent interest rate. (With a one-year 0% balance-transfer rate to boot.) After a year, they switched it to a variable-rate account. The rate was still good, so I decided to keep it.
Every two months after that, they would sneak in a change in terms to the account. They would print this on a small piece of paper and hide it in the multiple pieces of crap along with the statement selling other overpriced junk. Luckily, I've caught it each time. These change of terms documents would explain that they were changing the interest rate to something ridiculous. Each time I would call and complain and they would set things right again, leaving my account at its current APR.
You may be thinking, "oh your credit sucks" or "that's what you get for not paying them on time". If that were the case, I wouldn't be complaining. Not only am I not late paying them, I'm not late paying anyone else. My credit score is fantastic too.
Things changed when I bought my first house a few months back. I got another one of these stating they were raising my APR to prime plus 19.99%. That's mind-bogglingly high! When I called them about this one, they refused to keep it at my low rate. They claim my new mortgage has nothing to do with it, but were unable to provide any reason whatsoever for the increase.
Luckily, these enclosures allow you to reject the change in writing, keeping your old APR. I did that, and have since transferred the balance elsewhere.
I would like to see all of the money raised through this program to be returned to the card members according to how much they each contributed.
I read this story, saw the first post (at +2) and then downloaded your software. In less than five minutes I got my entire mp3 collection to stream from my web site. I've been looking for software like this for a while, and I've finally found it.
Did you try reading the included documentation? Start with INSTALL, then check out README. In there, it tells you exactly "what path it's talking about." This path, in case it isn't obvious, is the folder containing the music files you'd like to stream.
That c|net article says, "He called the site Slashdot, and while it hasn't really taken off yet (maybe that's why you haven't heard of it,) we wish Rob the best of luck with his little project in the future."
This is wrong. The Xecuter 2.2 and the 2.3 both work with 1.0 Xboxes. These modchips bypass the Xbox's built-in BIOS and run a different BIOS from the modchip itself.
Yes you can! I just put an Xecuter 2.3B Lite chip in my XBOX last week. The chip came with a small switch that I affixed to the front of the XBOX under the player 1 and 2 controller ports. What does the switch do? It allows you to shut off the modchip! With the modchip off, you can play on XBOX Live without issue.
Lockable hard drives aren't hard to find. I haven't replaced my XBOX's drive yet, but I have friends who have, and they plan on Live all the time.
You can hack any version of the XBOX with a hardware modchip, regardless of whether Live 2.0 is installed. This applies to all versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and the 1.5.
I will agree that the software exploits won't work with Live 2.0. However, most XBOX hackers chip their boxes anyway.
That's great for Gnome, but if your business requires that you provide Windows systems, the situation changes.
For that, you can also cluster VMware systems. You can't cluster them directly, yet. However, you can cluster the virtual machines themselves to virtual machines on other physical machines.
We did a proof-of-concept using ESX Server 1.5.2, two Dell PowerEdge 2550s, Veritas Cluster server 2.0, and an EMC Clariion CX600. It worked like a champ.
The added benefit was that Veritas licenses their software per physical node, so we only had to buy two VCS licenses. If were were to use MSCS, we'd need to fork out enough for Windows Advanced Server on each of the virtual machines.
This is a topic that hits home for me. I have experience with Highpoint, Promise, and 3ware controllers.
I used to use a Highpoint chip embedded on my motherboard. It performed fairly well, with the exception that it took two IRQs, and didn't allow my soundcard to function properly. I would get all manner of pops and clicks in the sound. It eventually drove me to the point that I bought a new motherboard and a Promise card.
Ah, the Promise TX2 1000, how I hate thee. I will never buy a Promise card again. I spent more time rebuilding my system due to data corruption than I did using it to get work done. (Exaggeration) It caused unrecoverable drive corruption on three occasions in less than nine months. I switched again.
Now I've got a 3ware 7506-4LP. I love it. It's a 64-bit 66MHz card, does RAID-5 and RAID-10, (in addition to RAID-0 and RAID-1) and it's fast. I've had it for a little over a month now without any trouble. Yes, it's more expensive than the cards listed, but I think it's money well spent.
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Yeah, it's getting annoying. That's why I've been spending more time on digg.com. Sure you'll get the occasional ad, but it's rare if they make it to the main page.
You do know that VW and Audi are the same company, right? They share many, many parts between VW and Audi models. The VW R32 and the 3.2L TT use the same engine, transmission, brakes, and more. The A4 and the Passat share a lot of components. Even on my VW, many of the parts have the VW logo and the Audi logo stamped into them.
I have one of these MBNA LinuxFund MasterCards.
Through my dealings with MBNA, I've decided they're one of the smarmiest credit card companies one can do business with.
It started as a fixed-rate card at an excellent interest rate. (With a one-year 0% balance-transfer rate to boot.) After a year, they switched it to a variable-rate account. The rate was still good, so I decided to keep it.
Every two months after that, they would sneak in a change in terms to the account. They would print this on a small piece of paper and hide it in the multiple pieces of crap along with the statement selling other overpriced junk. Luckily, I've caught it each time. These change of terms documents would explain that they were changing the interest rate to something ridiculous. Each time I would call and complain and they would set things right again, leaving my account at its current APR.
You may be thinking, "oh your credit sucks" or "that's what you get for not paying them on time". If that were the case, I wouldn't be complaining. Not only am I not late paying them, I'm not late paying anyone else. My credit score is fantastic too.
Things changed when I bought my first house a few months back. I got another one of these stating they were raising my APR to prime plus 19.99%. That's mind-bogglingly high! When I called them about this one, they refused to keep it at my low rate. They claim my new mortgage has nothing to do with it, but were unable to provide any reason whatsoever for the increase.
Luckily, these enclosures allow you to reject the change in writing, keeping your old APR. I did that, and have since transferred the balance elsewhere.
I would like to see all of the money raised through this program to be returned to the card members according to how much they each contributed.
Movie Gallery is in Ohio too!
Well I work for Purina and I'm only allowed to eat Puppy Chow.
It's not acid. I belive that psilocybin (magic mushroom) is legal in Japan. I think it explains a lot.
It's the same price as the 20GB iPod, it's known for its frequent lockups, and comes with a stingy three-month warranty? What a deal!
'Nuff said.
Yeah there is, it's "the joke is in your hand."
Then check your path to the logfile, errorlog, theme_directory, and any other path listed in the config.
I read this story, saw the first post (at +2) and then downloaded your software. In less than five minutes I got my entire mp3 collection to stream from my web site. I've been looking for software like this for a while, and I've finally found it.
As someone else said, "You sir are a god."
Did you try reading the included documentation? Start with INSTALL, then check out README. In there, it tells you exactly "what path it's talking about." This path, in case it isn't obvious, is the folder containing the music files you'd like to stream.
Lazy.
My post is OT, but I just had to say that I love your .sig.
That c|net article says, "He called the site Slashdot, and while it hasn't really taken off yet (maybe that's why you haven't heard of it,) we wish Rob the best of luck with his little project in the future."
Is that a joke, or is my opinion biased?
With those kinds of comments, I thought he was talking about GNU/RMS.
This is wrong. The Xecuter 2.2 and the 2.3 both work with 1.0 Xboxes. These modchips bypass the Xbox's built-in BIOS and run a different BIOS from the modchip itself.
Yes you can! I just put an Xecuter 2.3B Lite chip in my XBOX last week. The chip came with a small switch that I affixed to the front of the XBOX under the player 1 and 2 controller ports. What does the switch do? It allows you to shut off the modchip! With the modchip off, you can play on XBOX Live without issue.
Lockable hard drives aren't hard to find. I haven't replaced my XBOX's drive yet, but I have friends who have, and they plan on Live all the time.
You can hack any version of the XBOX with a hardware modchip, regardless of whether Live 2.0 is installed. This applies to all versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and the 1.5.
I will agree that the software exploits won't work with Live 2.0. However, most XBOX hackers chip their boxes anyway.
See www.teamxecuter.com for more information.
Real Mindstorms programmers use either Not Quite C (NQC) or lejOS and Java.
Does anyone know if two of the firewire interfaces can be in use at the same time? If so, it would make for a nice little SAN for two machines.
I back up all of my home machines at night to a pair of 250GB drives. I'd love something like this.
It's been said before, but too bad it doesn't seem to implement any kind of on-board RAID.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! Mod parent up.
If the rumours are correct, I guarantee the miniPods will be using these drives.
The link to the product lifetime table is right there in the article! Additionally, the link you provided is for an older series of products.
The current lifetable table can be found at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/productlifetime.p hp. (Again, this was straight out of the article!)
That's great for Gnome, but if your business requires that you provide Windows systems, the situation changes.
For that, you can also cluster VMware systems. You can't cluster them directly, yet. However, you can cluster the virtual machines themselves to virtual machines on other physical machines.
We did a proof-of-concept using ESX Server 1.5.2, two Dell PowerEdge 2550s, Veritas Cluster server 2.0, and an EMC Clariion CX600. It worked like a champ.
The added benefit was that Veritas licenses their software per physical node, so we only had to buy two VCS licenses. If were were to use MSCS, we'd need to fork out enough for Windows Advanced Server on each of the virtual machines.
Spoken like someone that's never run GSX or ESX server.
Where I work, we run ESX Server 2.0.1 on a quad 700MHz Xeon system with 4GB RAM and a 150GB metavolume on an EMC Symmetrix DMX.
We run twelve virtual machines on this system that support dozens of users. It works very very well. If we had more RAM, we could run even more.
This is a topic that hits home for me. I have experience with Highpoint, Promise, and 3ware controllers. I used to use a Highpoint chip embedded on my motherboard. It performed fairly well, with the exception that it took two IRQs, and didn't allow my soundcard to function properly. I would get all manner of pops and clicks in the sound. It eventually drove me to the point that I bought a new motherboard and a Promise card. Ah, the Promise TX2 1000, how I hate thee. I will never buy a Promise card again. I spent more time rebuilding my system due to data corruption than I did using it to get work done. (Exaggeration) It caused unrecoverable drive corruption on three occasions in less than nine months. I switched again. Now I've got a 3ware 7506-4LP. I love it. It's a 64-bit 66MHz card, does RAID-5 and RAID-10, (in addition to RAID-0 and RAID-1) and it's fast. I've had it for a little over a month now without any trouble. Yes, it's more expensive than the cards listed, but I think it's money well spent.