Actually, it's called Remote Installation Services. It's pretty nifty for win2k, but the guy want's linux/solaris systems, so I'll save the howto if the question is ever asked for those M$ systems.
Oh and you wouldn't have to sit there and press F12 either, thats an option that can be turned on or off.
I'm not trying to be insensitive to your post, but I see some serious security concerns with this device that I think need to be addressed.
GPS is an open standard, non-encrypted ect,ect. Which means anyone out there can intercept these signals and triangulate your kids position. If I were a molester, thief, whatever some rich kid with a $400 watch seems to be the perfect defenseless target. Add in the fact that I can actually track my victims on a video screen would make it more like a game, so I could say to myself, "My actions are not real, this is just a game".
From what I've read on molesters, %99 of them are re-enacting what happened to them as a child, simply because they never figured out that the person that did it to them was 1 sick puppy. They're pretty detached from reality is basically what I'm trying to say.
The best defense is a good offense. If you want to keep your kid safe enroll them in martial arts, TEACH THEM TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. Nothing scares one of these people more than someone that can and does fight back. An added bonus is the confidence your child will have from knowing they can defend themselves if need be.
So basically, this may be a cool toy for geek's. I don't think it has any business on a child of mine. For $400 dollars and 35@mo I can get my kid some serious training in the martial arts that will go a lot farther than this watch.
Since these things are the size of a shirt button, millions of them could probably be dumped from a C130. They're light enough to not smash into a billion pieces when they hit the ground and their sheer numbers would make it impossible for enemies to effectively wipe them out. From the article:
the nodes would monitor variables like temperature variation, light conditions, humidity factors and building occupancy.
What would be neat is if they used natural packaging, such as faux rocks, or seeds. Even thistles that could stick to the enemy.
With paper you don't need, Batteries Network connection Power plug Monitor Keyboard or mouse (pen though)
Paper is about the most reliable form of interoffice communication there is. You can take it with you anywhere, you can read it anytime you want. It's lightweight, and neatly folds up into a smaller space. If you need security, paper can be burned or shredded. If you get really bored, you can make airplanes out of paper.
You want games? Paper has some of the most ancient and popular games ever. Tic tac toe, connect the dots to name a few. Paper even has an intuitive interface for making your own games. In fact it's so easy a toddler can do it!
Paper in volume can be used to prop up a montior to eye level that doesn't have a stand. Have a table with a leg that's a little short? Easy enough, some folded paper under the affected leg will make that table stand on all 4 legs like new again.
Girls love paper! Write a love letter, send a card, these will allways get you more brownie points with your signifigant other than electronic methods.
Paper has been used for thousands of years, without paper, we wouldn't have the great teaching of our forfathers. Our constitution was written on paper!
Finally, did someone appoint you the arbiter of who is a "true artist"? Give me a break.
Actually, I write for a local music magazine. I've watched many talented artist that should have gone somewhere in this industry sit and idle because to the top players in the industry it's all about the Benjamin's.
Music, not money should be the motivation for forming a band. The people that do it for the money will never sit around experimenting with new sounds because they fear it might hurt the sale of a record.
A true artist doesn't care about if they make money or not, they have a song in their heart and they want it to be heard. They won't sit there singing "Oops I did it again" a million times over because it's popular. Sad truth is most of the stuff that comes out of the RIAA camp falls into this category of cookie cutter artists that make sales based on their image or the power of their label to promote them. A good artist does not need these things, they will sell their music on the basis that it is good music that people like to listen to over and over again. Some of the best artists give the listener something to relate to, an emotion, a story, that keeps you captivated till you just want to hear that song over and over..
Used to let their listeners bring recorders into their concerts and "bootleg" them. While JG was alive, the dead had a following you would not belive.
Their reason for allowing this was the band felt that they had "made thier money" Each member had enough to keep their families set for life.
So despite this lesson, why does the RIAA continue to hurt both the artists and listeners that underwrite their business? Lars isn't selling a BILLION copies of your record enough?
A true artist likes money, but that is never their motivation. Most artists starve until they are discovered (if that happens) and are more than happy to let people MP3 their songs just to "get the word out"
Someone somewhere will write some cool little app to circumvent this little bit of copy protection i'm sure. If people are really fed up with the RIAA don't buy any more big label records then. Check out your local hip-hop, grunge, punk scene and buy music from those guys, they ARE starving and are more than happy to let you copy their stuff.
Quantity does not equal quality RIAA, i'm not buying this noise shit crap you try and schleff off as music anymore. Fuck off!
My neighborhood is having a block sale this weekend. In my garage there is 10 pentium PC's with memory ranging from 24-64 megs and the processors from 60mhz to 233mhz. I was going to just toss them in a landfill to make some space.
I thought of trying to sell them, but windows is way overbloated to run effectively on any of these beasts. I happened across a BE cd that I bought last year and thought I would try it. To my amazement these machines run REALLY nice!
I haven't tried AtheO/S yet, but I plan to give it a spin tonight.
Re:What about half-life / counter-strike?
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There's no way you can have a 5 hour game of Sims and call it 'complete'. Its a long-term strategy game, and that kind of thing just doesn't work in an arcade (or PC Bang, or whatever):)
Ok with that logic then why does Starcraft rank as #2 in these places? Starcraft doesn't really fit your mold of a quick fix game.
I was referring to the recent popup of the PCbangs in San Jose, 6 in just the last year. All of these places proudly display thier boxes of counterstrike behind the counter.
What about half-life / counter-strike?
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I don't know the numbers on those two titles, but considering how many PC BANG (bang is korean for room) I.e. game houses that are popping up specializing in CS, it made me wonder if this entire article was just marketing "fluff"
I just don't see many pcbangs renting out stations so people can play SIMS.
It's true, especially with hard drives... --Heat-- I've seen a lot of posts about adequate cooling but sometimes there can be too much cooling.
Heat is accounted for and used in higher speed drives. It's use? Thermal viscocity breakdown.
I don't know what type of lubrication the drives use, but i'm about %100 positive it's made from silicone. Silicone grease doesn't conduct so if it leaks it won't cause any problems with the underlying circutry. We all know this from CPU fans.
What I'm saying is, you have a sealed bearing system on these drives. They use silicone grease. It has to get hot in order for it to *break down*. I am guessing that there is a certain point where chemically this stuff goes from grease to liquid.
When you're spinning at 7200 or 10,000 RPM's I would think that the bearing would need something non grease like, as in more liquidy to maintain those speeds.
Now before I get modded off as troll ask yourself, how many of these top of the line hard drive technologies have I actually worked with? Have high end SCSI drives allways been hot? Yes! It is by design, not by defect and people should really jump to conclusions about it. Your best bet lies in placement which I am about to cover.
--Placement-- I learned this from a ex fujitsu hard drive support person. If you are looking for someone to support you hard drives or other similiar products lemme know I can hook you up.
Placement of the drives is very important. Picture this... You have a small head, about the size of a match and it's floating on a cushion of air no wider than a few humans hairs thick. Think about all the laws of physics to make that trick work. Funny, we just had an article about a spinning disk creating gravimetric distortions. Anyways the drive's are engineered to be reliable at any 90degree angle. Anything other than that and you're asking for it
But this sounds an awful lot like how a hard drive operates. The heads of a hard drive "float" above the platter from a cushion of air, not from antigravity. Maybe this guy is floating on a cushion of air too.
My Sears Kenmore fridge uses fiberglass insulation or foam to keep the cold in. If it used this foam instead they could use a smaller compressor and less freon which is better for the enviroment.
Wrap it around air cooled engines like VW bugs. Or even standard engines to reduce the heat. I don't think oil will disintigrate this foam.
Make a beer keg blanket to keep your kegs cool.
Replace house insulation with this. Draw the heat out of the house into the attict during the summer, reverse the polarity on the foam and draw the heat from the attic into the house in the winter.
Use it as a heat pipe to power a steam turbine to create electricity.
This is as informative as it get's. I didn't read one post about windows roaming profiles.
What if I limit my demand to "accessible from any internet connected Windows machine with Java installed?"
Ok there are several ways of doing this on a windows network or even a non windows network. Samba or a NT server, it doesn't matter. For the most basic way to get your profile across a network, just change your user account's profile to point to some network share. Now anytime you log in, your desktop, screen settings, ect will be accessable as long as your programs are installed on the network too.
Samba does sorta make this easier, with the whole $HOME directory analogy.
It's that easy, none of this VNC crap. If you wanted to switch enviroments from windows to *nix you could telnet into a *nix machine, you could use reflectionX to get a remote X display on your windows machine. Best yet you could use a *nix machine to connect to a *nix machine because that would be so l33t0 kR4d D00D.
It doesn't need to be overengineered, just go to your user manager and set the profile path.
downloading patches from servers full of banner ads and click me's and X-10 camera ads. It's annoying as hell these things, they make me want to reach through the computer screen and get very angry with someone. Lets hope they take an approach similiar to this article.
Uhh, this isn't a troll, it's a true story and it might shed somelight on how spam operators do their dirty deeds.
About 2 months ago I had the chance to take a road trip with one of my best buds to go see his father down in bakersfield. For those that don't know what bakersfield is, it's a shithole of a dirty little town somewhere between Sacramento and LA on the I5.
Now if it's a shithole of a little town, why would I in my right mind want to go there, sleep on a floor for 3 days, and eat crappy food. Well, my friends dad *supposidly* had a T1 line going into his apartment and was running spam operations from that. I told my friend that's bullshit, Ma bell don't run T1's to anything but businesses, i've ordered enough of them to know.
We got down there, I was expecing to walk in, and find a wirespeed DSL modem or something. Upon closer inspection I found a CSU/DSU and a cisco 2500 router. Holy shit this guy really did have a T1 line. I started talking to him about the legal/social ramifications of his business. After about 30 minutes of talking to him I could tell, he got a hair up his butt one day thinking spam was going to be a big money maker for him, paid someone to set him up and that was it. Not only did he not have a clue that hijacking someones SMTP server is bad, but he said SMTP servers that don't run open relays are interferring with his ability to do business and started screaming "ITS MY RIGHT TO SPAM AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO STOP ME IS INTRUDING ON MY AMERICAN RIGHTS TO RUN A BUSINESS"
I stopped talking to him after that. He just would not accept that using someone elses server without their permission is just plain wrong. Anyways...
He started trying to talk me and my friend into getting into the business with him. I told him it would be a conflict of interest for me because I am a sysadmin of course, but I would be more than happy to watch him work to learn for myself.
His network consisted of 6 win98 machines, 1 BSD box that he had no idea what it did. They ran some windows GUI based tool called SMTPscan. Basically it had 2 boxes to input your IP range into, it would scan that range and report back usable servers. I can't remember the actual name of the program he used to send the mail with, but I remember him pasting that list from SMTP scan into it.
Also to note was his lack of a true list management system. His remove e-mails pointed back to a hotmail account so his main server would be isolated from any attacks. He would manually go into his hotmail account. These removes did nothing though, let me explain it from his point of view.
Basically when your remove yourself from a spam list, it's just for that spam. The spammer still has a list for some new product that he hasn't sent out yet, if he hasn't sent it out how can you be removed?
So this guy maintains a list of 4,000,000 e-mails and ALLWAYS spams to all of them. Legally he's found a loophole to cover his ass and can happily spam the same list as long as he's selling something different.
I just wanted to post this so everyone would know, spammers aren't really the most technically minded people. To them it's 1. Spam 2. **** 3. Profit
While to us it's 1.Spam 2.Flood someone elses server, slander some legit company by relaying pr0n spam. Eat Bandwidth 3. Profit
I hope you enjoyed this post, please mod accordingly if you did.
I like PPC, don't get me wrong, but as much as I wanted one, I wouldn't buy it because I was left with only 1 vendor, Apple.
For a while, apple had the right idea. They tried IBM's strategy of making the platform open, then they chicken shitted out and went back to making their own boxes. I can't recall the manufacturers name, but there was PPC boards made by other manufacturers for a while. Why apple did an about face on this issue I will never know.
Thing that has allways kept me next to my trusty PC is I never have had to buy a "Whole new computer" I can get the latest chipset or CPU merely by replacing my motherboard. Mac's never gave me that option, sorry apple.
I think i'll give one of these boards a shot. Word to the manufacturer though, could you drop the price down to the less than 300 dollar range? I know you're going for a niche market but you gotta understand, the only people who are really going to be interested in these things don't really have a lot of money left over to do impulse buying anymore.
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Actually, it's called Remote Installation Services. It's pretty nifty for win2k, but the guy want's linux/solaris systems, so I'll save the howto if the question is ever asked for those M$ systems.
Oh and you wouldn't have to sit there and press F12 either, thats an option that can be turned on or off.
Are those things that should be out there, but isn't.
Thing is they could do it with current photoelectric power cells.
Would work nicely if they used the foam from this
article.
Problem is most speech synthesis still sounds robotic. Imagine if she sounded like WOPR from war games.
MCC would you like to play a game?
Now that would scare me as an adult even!
You should have included a link. Remember most people read at 1 or 2. Not many read at 0 or -1.
I'm not trying to be insensitive to your post, but I see some serious security concerns with this device that I think need to be addressed.
GPS is an open standard, non-encrypted ect,ect. Which means anyone out there can intercept these signals and triangulate your kids position. If I were a molester, thief, whatever some rich kid with a $400 watch seems to be the perfect defenseless target. Add in the fact that I can actually track my
victims on a video screen would make it more like a game, so I could say to myself, "My actions are not real, this is just a game".
From what I've read on molesters, %99 of them are re-enacting what happened to them as a child, simply because they never figured out that the person that did it to them was 1 sick puppy. They're pretty
detached from reality is basically what I'm trying to say.
The best defense is a good offense. If you want to keep your kid safe enroll them in martial arts, TEACH THEM TO DEFEND THEMSELVES. Nothing scares one of these people more than someone that can and does fight back. An added bonus is the confidence your child will have from knowing they can defend themselves if need be.
So basically, this may be a cool toy for geek's. I don't think it has any business on a child of mine.
For $400 dollars and 35@mo I can get my kid some
serious training in the martial arts that will go a lot farther than this watch.
Since these things are the size of a shirt button, millions of them could probably be dumped from a C130. They're light enough to not smash into a billion pieces when they hit the ground and their sheer numbers would make it impossible for enemies to effectively wipe them out.
From the article:
the nodes would monitor variables like temperature variation, light conditions, humidity factors and building occupancy.
What would be neat is if they used natural packaging, such as faux rocks, or seeds. Even thistles that could stick to the enemy.
I thought it was written on hemp, AKA marijuana.
With paper you don't need,
Batteries
Network connection
Power plug
Monitor
Keyboard or mouse (pen though)
Paper is about the most reliable form of interoffice communication there is. You can take it with you anywhere, you can read it anytime you want. It's lightweight, and neatly folds up into a smaller space. If you need security, paper can be burned or shredded. If you get really bored, you can make airplanes out of paper.
You want games? Paper has some of the most ancient and popular games ever. Tic tac toe, connect the dots to name a few. Paper even has an intuitive interface for making your own games. In fact it's so easy a toddler can do it!
Paper in volume can be used to prop up a montior to eye level that doesn't have a stand. Have a table with a leg that's a little short? Easy enough, some folded paper under the affected leg will make that table stand on all 4 legs like new again.
Girls love paper! Write a love letter, send a card, these will allways get you more brownie points with your signifigant other than electronic methods.
Paper has been used for thousands of years, without paper, we wouldn't have the great teaching of our forfathers. Our constitution was written on paper!
Have you hugged your paper today?
Actually, I write for a local music magazine.
I've watched many talented artist that should have gone somewhere in this
industry sit and idle because to the top players in the industry it's all about
the Benjamin's.
Music, not money should be the motivation for forming a band. The people
that do it for the money will never sit around experimenting with new sounds
because they fear it might hurt the sale of a record.
A true artist doesn't care about if they make money or not, they have a song
in their heart and they want it to be heard. They won't sit there singing
"Oops I did it again" a million times over because it's popular.
Sad truth is most of the stuff that comes out of the RIAA camp falls into this
category of cookie cutter artists that make sales based on their image or the
power of their label to promote them. A good artist does not need these things,
they will sell their music on the basis that it is good music that people like
to listen to over and over again. Some of the best artists give the
listener something to relate to, an emotion, a story, that keeps you captivated
till you just want to hear that song over and over..
understand now? Good.
Used to let their listeners bring recorders into their concerts and "bootleg" them. While JG was alive, the dead had a following you would not belive.
Their reason for allowing this was the band felt that they had "made thier money" Each member had enough to keep their families set for life.
So despite this lesson, why does the RIAA continue to hurt both the artists and listeners that underwrite their business? Lars isn't selling a BILLION copies of your record enough?
A true artist likes money, but that is never their motivation. Most artists starve until they are discovered (if that happens) and are more than happy to let people MP3 their songs just to "get the word out"
Someone somewhere will write some cool little app to circumvent this little bit of copy protection i'm sure. If people are really fed up with the RIAA don't buy any more big label records then. Check out your local hip-hop, grunge, punk scene and buy music from those guys, they ARE starving and are more than happy to let you copy their stuff.
Quantity does not equal quality RIAA, i'm not buying this noise shit crap you try and schleff off as music anymore. Fuck off!
My neighborhood is having a block sale this weekend. In my garage there is 10 pentium PC's with memory ranging from 24-64 megs and the processors from 60mhz to 233mhz. I was going to just toss them in a landfill to make some space.
I thought of trying to sell them, but windows is way overbloated to run effectively on any of these beasts. I happened across a BE cd that I bought last year and thought I would try it. To my amazement these machines run REALLY nice!
I haven't tried AtheO/S yet, but I plan to give it a spin tonight.
Ok with that logic then why does Starcraft rank as #2 in these places? Starcraft doesn't really fit your mold of a quick fix game.
actually, both you guys are wrong.
I was referring to the recent popup of the PCbangs in San Jose, 6 in just the last year. All of these places proudly display thier boxes of counterstrike behind the counter.
I don't know the numbers on those two titles, but considering how many PC BANG (bang is korean for room) I.e. game houses that are popping up specializing in CS, it made me wonder if this entire article was just marketing "fluff"
I just don't see many pcbangs renting out stations so people can play SIMS.
Will it help me find a job?
It's true, especially with hard drives...
--Heat--
I've seen a lot of posts about adequate cooling but sometimes there can be too much cooling.
Heat is accounted for and used in higher speed drives. It's use? Thermal viscocity breakdown.
I don't know what type of lubrication the drives use, but i'm about %100 positive it's made from silicone. Silicone grease doesn't conduct so if it leaks it won't cause any problems with the underlying circutry. We all know this from CPU fans.
What I'm saying is, you have a sealed bearing system on these drives. They use silicone grease. It has to get hot in order for it to *break down*. I am guessing that there is a certain point where chemically this stuff goes from grease to liquid.
When you're spinning at 7200 or 10,000 RPM's I would think that the bearing would need something non grease like, as in more liquidy to maintain those speeds.
Now before I get modded off as troll ask yourself, how many of these top of the line hard drive technologies have I actually worked with? Have high end SCSI drives allways been hot? Yes! It is by design, not by defect and people should really jump to conclusions about it. Your best bet lies in placement which I am about to cover.
--Placement--
I learned this from a ex fujitsu hard drive support person. If you are looking for someone to support you hard drives or other similiar products lemme know I can hook you up.
Placement of the drives is very important. Picture this... You have a small head, about the size of a match and it's floating on a cushion of air no wider than a few humans hairs thick. Think about all the laws of physics to make that trick work. Funny, we just had an article about a spinning disk creating gravimetric distortions. Anyways the drive's are engineered to be reliable at any 90degree angle. Anything other than that and you're asking for it
But this sounds an awful lot like how a hard drive operates. The heads of a hard drive "float" above the platter from a cushion of air, not from antigravity. Maybe this guy is floating on a cushion of air too.
Sounds like the perfect heat sink shim to me."
My Sears Kenmore fridge uses fiberglass insulation or foam to keep the cold in. If it used this foam instead they could use a smaller compressor and less freon which is better for the enviroment.
Wrap it around air cooled engines like VW bugs. Or even standard engines to reduce the heat. I don't think oil will disintigrate this foam.
Make a beer keg blanket to keep your kegs cool.
Replace house insulation with this. Draw the heat out of the house into the attict during the summer, reverse the polarity on the foam and draw the heat from the attic into the house in the winter.
Use it as a heat pipe to power a steam turbine to create electricity.
Ok i've gone overboard now.
Oh and one more thing I forgot to add...
You'll need some type of tunneling software if you're not on your lan. MSPPTP is ok, or IPV6 tunneling works good too.
Ok there are several ways of doing this on a windows network or even a non windows network. Samba or a NT server, it doesn't matter.
For the most basic way to get your profile across a network, just change your user account's profile to point to some network share. Now anytime you log in, your desktop, screen settings, ect will be accessable as long as your programs are installed on the network too.
Samba does sorta make this easier, with the whole $HOME directory analogy.
It's that easy, none of this VNC crap. If you wanted to switch enviroments from windows to *nix you could telnet into a *nix machine, you could use reflectionX to get a remote X display on your windows machine. Best yet you could use a *nix machine to connect to a *nix machine because that would be so l33t0 kR4d D00D.
It doesn't need to be overengineered, just go to your user manager and set the profile path.
downloading patches from servers full of banner ads and click me's and X-10 camera ads. It's annoying as hell these things, they make me want to reach through the computer screen and get very angry with someone. Lets hope they take an approach similiar to this article.
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Uhh, this isn't a troll, it's a true story and it might shed somelight on how spam operators do their dirty deeds.
About 2 months ago I had the chance to take a road trip with one of my best buds to go see his father down in bakersfield. For those that don't know what bakersfield is, it's a shithole of a dirty little town somewhere between Sacramento and LA on the I5.
Now if it's a shithole of a little town, why would I in my right mind want to go there, sleep on a floor for 3 days, and eat crappy food. Well, my friends dad *supposidly* had a T1 line going into his apartment and was running spam operations from that. I told my friend that's bullshit, Ma bell don't run T1's to anything but businesses, i've ordered enough of them to know.
We got down there, I was expecing to walk in, and find a wirespeed DSL modem or something. Upon closer inspection I found a CSU/DSU and a cisco 2500 router. Holy shit this guy really did have a T1 line. I started talking to him about the legal/social ramifications of his business. After about 30 minutes of talking to him I could tell, he got a hair up his butt one day thinking spam was going to be a big money maker for him, paid someone to set him up and that was it. Not only did he not have a clue that hijacking someones SMTP server is bad, but he said SMTP servers that don't run open relays are interferring with his ability to do business and started screaming "ITS MY RIGHT TO SPAM AND ANYONE WHO TRIES TO STOP ME IS INTRUDING ON MY AMERICAN RIGHTS TO RUN A BUSINESS"
I stopped talking to him after that. He just would not accept that using someone elses server without their permission is just plain wrong. Anyways...
He started trying to talk me and my friend into getting into the business with him. I told him it would be a conflict of interest for me because I am a sysadmin of course, but I would be more than happy to watch him work to learn for myself.
His network consisted of 6 win98 machines, 1 BSD box that he had no idea what it did. They ran some windows GUI based tool called SMTPscan. Basically it had 2 boxes to input your IP range into, it would scan that range and report back usable servers. I can't remember the actual name of the program he used to send the mail with, but I remember him pasting that list from SMTP scan into it.
Also to note was his lack of a true list management system. His remove e-mails pointed back to a hotmail account so his main server would be isolated from any attacks. He would manually go into his hotmail account. These removes did nothing though, let me explain it from his point of view.
Basically when your remove yourself from a spam list, it's just for that spam. The spammer still has a list for some new product that he hasn't sent out yet, if he hasn't sent it out how can you be removed?
So this guy maintains a list of 4,000,000 e-mails and ALLWAYS spams to all of them. Legally he's found a loophole to cover his ass and can happily spam the same list as long as he's selling something different.
I just wanted to post this so everyone would know, spammers aren't really the most technically minded people. To them it's
1. Spam
2. ****
3. Profit
While to us it's
1.Spam
2.Flood someone elses server, slander some legit company by relaying pr0n spam. Eat Bandwidth
3. Profit
I hope you enjoyed this post, please mod accordingly if you did.
--toq
I like PPC, don't get me wrong, but as much as I wanted one, I wouldn't buy it because I was left with only 1 vendor, Apple.
For a while, apple had the right idea. They tried IBM's strategy of making the platform open, then they chicken shitted out and went back to making their own boxes. I can't recall the manufacturers name, but there was PPC boards made by other manufacturers for a while. Why apple did an about face on this issue I will never know.
Thing that has allways kept me next to my trusty PC is I never have had to buy a "Whole new computer" I can get the latest chipset or CPU merely by replacing my motherboard. Mac's never gave me that option, sorry apple.
I think i'll give one of these boards a shot. Word to the manufacturer though, could you drop the price down to the less than 300 dollar range? I know you're going for a niche market but you gotta understand, the only people who are really going to be interested in these things don't really have a lot of money left over to do impulse buying anymore.
60,000 word vocabulary and doesn't respond to voice command, I married her 6 years ago :P