One thing that I'd be wary about is the quality of the TV out signal from the video card. I have never, ever seen a decent quality video output on any card. Including a Voodoo 3 with a bt8x8 chipset on it. It all looks like absolute crap. Flickering, and the screen has black borders around it.
Does anyone know of any high quality video out solutions that they've seen personally? Not professional oriented because those cost some serious $$$. I'm talking about something less than $100.
The thing that really ticks me off about Best Buy, and definately makes me avoid them like the plague is they manner in which they treat their "customers" like criminals.
If you try to walk out of the door, be prepared to be next to strip searched. They post huge bouncer type dudes in front of the door and ransack through people's jackets and clothes before they will let them leave.
They don't do this because they have any probable cause, they simply do it to random people. Even people who just left the cash register 5 feet away from the door with a bag in their hand.
Best Buy's assumption that everyone is a thief and a criminal is so reprehensible that it makes me sick everytime I go in there and see them doing it.
If they charge your credit card, they sure as heck are accepting your offer to buy the product at the listed price. How should they be allowed to back out of a deal after money has already changed hands?
I've written a much better stereo jukebox application. It works best with a touchscreen monitor (can be picked up on eBay for ~50). Basically it allows you to select a bunch of songs that will queue up and play in order like a real jukebox. Great for parties. Run it on a linux machine and mount your windows/samba shares and have at it. Its written in Java so it'll work on any machine with a JVM.
Naturally its open source, but I still have to package it together for a release. You can see screen shots and more descriptions at my website.
Is it just me or does anyone else get extremely annoyed with the stupid fileplanet download system. If I want to look at the video that guy has about his PS I shouldn't have to go make an account with those damn GameSpy/Fileplanet bastards. It annoys me because more and more gaming sites are moving to that crap.
The same thing occurs with my Netgear RT311 and RT314. The deal is it won't do port forwarding and loopback from the inside of the NAT network. It will work only for connections coming from the outside. Apparently it is a non-trivial issue to solve in firmware. Also how does the router know whether to forward that internal port 80 connection rather than accept it using its configuration utility?
I agree that it is a pain, but its not totally broken, since it works for everyone on the outside connection to your network. You just have to connect directly to the private IP.
A good thing to do with your gateway rather than return it is set it up in DHCP mode and hide it on your enemy's network.
Muahahaha.
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You can never go faster than the speed of light, no matter what point of view you have. Imagine two particles of light heading straight towards each other. Each of them sees the other particle moving at only the speed of light. Read Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time for a much better explaination of why this is so.
The impression I got from reading Theo's answers were, "I don't really want to be here, explaining this crap to people with the brains of a 5 year old."
Almost every question was answered in an abrupt tone that doesn't really help anyone.
I've written a touch-screen mp3 jukebox that I have hooked up to my stereo down near the TV. It is now running on an extra linux box. However if I could get my Dreamcast running linux, I could put it on that and get rid of that computer sitting there.
Mmmmmm. I can imagine it already. And I wouldn't have to use the crappy SB16 card in there now that produces some feedback on the stereo.
I've got fiber optic ethernet running right to my townhouse from campus. Its 10 Mbps, and the school is connected via a couple of OC-48s. The max real-world speed I've gotten from the Internet was about 1,000 KB/s.
It costs about $21 a month, divided by 4 roomates is $5 a month. Not bad, eh?
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Ah, thanks for enlightening me a little bit. :/
What exactly did the poster mean by "chinese sense"? Seems a little racist to me. Glad slashdot posted it anyway!
Why is it that the last two stories have both come right off of fark.com?
One thing that I'd be wary about is the quality of the TV out signal from the video card. I have never, ever seen a decent quality video output on any card. Including a Voodoo 3 with a bt8x8 chipset on it. It all looks like absolute crap. Flickering, and the screen has black borders around it.
Does anyone know of any high quality video out solutions that they've seen personally? Not professional oriented because those cost some serious $$$. I'm talking about something less than $100.
The thing that really ticks me off about Best Buy, and definately makes me avoid them like the plague is they manner in which they treat their "customers" like criminals.
If you try to walk out of the door, be prepared to be next to strip searched. They post huge bouncer type dudes in front of the door and ransack through people's jackets and clothes before they will let them leave.
They don't do this because they have any probable cause, they simply do it to random people. Even people who just left the cash register 5 feet away from the door with a bag in their hand.
Best Buy's assumption that everyone is a thief and a criminal is so reprehensible that it makes me sick everytime I go in there and see them doing it.
If they charge your credit card, they sure as heck are accepting your offer to buy the product at the listed price. How should they be allowed to back out of a deal after money has already changed hands?
Opera is much faster than either IE or Mozilla. It just blazes.
Microsoft is already shipping a console with a harddrive built in...it's called the XBox.
Check out the flash bit where it shows the bookmarks. Its got The Onion's website as one of em. I'm sold.
I use System.err since its then much easier to later grep through your source and remove em.
I've written a much better stereo jukebox application. It works best with a touchscreen monitor (can be picked up on eBay for ~50). Basically it allows you to select a bunch of songs that will queue up and play in order like a real jukebox. Great for parties. Run it on a linux machine and mount your windows/samba shares and have at it. Its written in Java so it'll work on any machine with a JVM.
Naturally its open source, but I still have to package it together for a release. You can see screen shots and more descriptions at my website.
-Steve Allen
Is it just me or does anyone else get extremely annoyed with the stupid fileplanet download system. If I want to look at the video that guy has about his PS I shouldn't have to go make an account with those damn GameSpy/Fileplanet bastards. It annoys me because more and more gaming sites are moving to that crap.
The same thing occurs with my Netgear RT311 and RT314. The deal is it won't do port forwarding and loopback from the inside of the NAT network. It will work only for connections coming from the outside. Apparently it is a non-trivial issue to solve in firmware. Also how does the router know whether to forward that internal port 80 connection rather than accept it using its configuration utility?
I agree that it is a pain, but its not totally broken, since it works for everyone on the outside connection to your network. You just have to connect directly to the private IP.
Hope this helps.
-MrBlue
I agree. Rock on.
Is it just me, or do people try and get so clever shoving links into the article that you can't even tell which one goes where?
A good thing to do with your gateway rather than return it is set it up in DHCP mode and hide it on your enemy's network.
Muahahaha.
You can never go faster than the speed of light, no matter what point of view you have. Imagine two particles of light heading straight towards each other. Each of them sees the other particle moving at only the speed of light. Read Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time for a much better explaination of why this is so.
Looks like he accidentally submitted a high school philosophy paper instead of something actually meaningful.
The impression I got from reading Theo's answers were, "I don't really want to be here, explaining this crap to people with the brains of a 5 year old."
Almost every question was answered in an abrupt tone that doesn't really help anyone.
Just my 2.
-MrBlue VT
I've written a touch-screen mp3 jukebox that I have hooked up to my stereo down near the TV. It is now running on an extra linux box. However if I could get my Dreamcast running linux, I could put it on that and get rid of that computer sitting there.
Mmmmmm. I can imagine it already. And I wouldn't have to use the crappy SB16 card in there now that produces some feedback on the stereo.
-Steve
I've got fiber optic ethernet running right to my townhouse from campus. Its 10 Mbps, and the school is connected via a couple of OC-48s. The max real-world speed I've gotten from the Internet was about 1,000 KB/s.
It costs about $21 a month, divided by 4 roomates is $5 a month. Not bad, eh?
-MrBlue