I used a no-name ps/2 two port switch for years. It worked flawlessly; it did not need outside power or anything. It came with a couple of short molded cables. I only switched when I needed more ports.
Then I picked up an older Belkin 4 port ps/2 model on ebay. I had trouble getting it working-- it needed outside power not just keyboard power. Another poster mentioned it needed to be switched to the booting computer. This has only happened to me on first boot-- if no computers are booted then the first computer up needs to be "on".
But... three months later, my ebay Belkin special died. But hey-- it was cheap and well-used. My last job bought me a brand new Belkin professional four-port model and it was great. No problems, even keyboard hot-keys for switching.
I think that generally you get what you pay for (especially with ebay items)-- and Belkin are fine. There is no way I'd pay as much as you say you are willing. No way. That would buy a heck of a gaming card or a nice raid system... or even a Nice Sun SPARC to play with.
Since OSX is kinda sorta based on nix technology, shouldn't it be pretty easy to make an OSX emulation or interpretter?
Not sure that I care, but I'm sure there is someone out there who cares enough to work on that endeavor. Try searching on that-- and maybe that will be the road to solving your dilemma. Or, like previous posters, just buy a Mac and be free of the evil empire and have a pretty decent box.
Since I have no idea what Reindeer games are.... how about Taliban games?
Have a big Osama cake so everyone can have a piece of his head to eat.
Get a big map of Afghanistan and play a game of "pin the bomb on Osama." Put down friendly forces with negative points and Taliban and Al Qaida forces in caves and villages with variing points. Play blind folded like pin the tail on the donkey.
Or use darts on said map (w/ or w/out blindfold).
Have the boss swap paychecks with the winner.
Or put Osama on said dartboard.
Have a white elephant gift exchange. Arrange for one person to wrap up a cheap can of mexican beer. That happened last year and it was hilarious. I'm thinking about a toilet seat this year.... maybe a CD of all the computer virusses you can find. Or stock in Enron.
Play poker with AOL CD's.
Play Risk with an empty hole where Afghanistan used to be...
OK, some of those ideas suck... but some might work.
With both Office 97 and 2k upgrades you simply have to select the source CD to tell it where to find the existing product and proceed with the install.
That's pretty easy too. Just a down arrow or two...
ok, granted my car is pretty unique (check the nick) compared to most. But I downloaded all the parts and workshop manuals in PDF form and burned them to a CD for my glovebox. Now if I'm stuck somewhere away from my own tools and stuff, or in over my head and need a real mechanic, I've got all the stuff right there.
I also through on there a look-alike font, and some other cool stuff about the car, like original sales information comparing it to corvettes and porshes in its day. Fun stuff.
I have thought about recording birthday greetings and making a mini videoCD... you know, the kids singing Happy Birthday to Nanna or whatever.
just don't have the time and energy to pursue my digital video interests yet. I've got the ATI AIWP128 that does some pretty decent capturing though!
.. also started out in English. Actually, I wanted to start out in English because I _love_ writing and reading (SF, natch, and historical). But I was chicken to just get my BA in English-Creative Writing, so I switched to journalism. That was enough credentials to get me started working at a radio/TV station. I was DJing, cleaning tape heads (Yes, it does seem like a long time ago, but it really wasn't), and pretty soon I was Studio Engineer because I knew every piece of equipment and it's operation.
This takes us up to about '94 when the 'net was breaking into regular speech. By now I BBS'ed a little, had gone back to school and switched majors to strictly English-CW (I could see the JPC degree was unnecessary) and was in charge of all the computers around, except the old Novell server. That old PC of trash....
Out pops Windows 95 with easy peer-to-peer, and pretty soon that novel server was only authenticating users and information was stored in pockets on certain pc's depending on their function. That was a bear to back-up... but it was working really well.
Then old Nick Petreley writes some little article in InfoWorld about using a PC with something called Linux to share his ISP dial-up with other computers in his home office.
And-- well darn-- there went a year of time hacking with linux to make it replace that novell server, share internet, and run Apache.
Somehow, somewhere in here it becomes '98 (just the year, not the Windows)
About that time a friend of my wife's quit his State job where he administered Solaris servers and started an ISP. He had little capital, big dreams, and he offered me a job to handle all tech support and develop web solutions and all those things I yearned for. I left my nice job at broadcasting and went for the uncertainty of doing what I wanted for someone who didn't have a whole lot of capital and dreams too big for that capital.
nine months later I'm out of a job, lost a month of pay even, but I am a certifiable PERL hacker, know Solaris pretty darn good; as well as Macs, NT, (just from association), and of course, my Linux...
The only job I could get that payed something worth looking at promised to be more Windows NT than unix, but it did promise some HP-YUX, and promised to be very educational as we designed and built a new network for a new company from the ground up.
Did I mention that I always sold myself short and worked for far less than I was worth? Yes it's true, but I got the experience and education that I wanted out of it.
I think that is the crucial point. Your resume has to stress your current knowledge and show your learning ability and desire. If you don't have the past employment experience you have to have a combination of the hobbies in the field, a STRONG desire for learning, and certification. And willing and able to work for far less than your worth. Now that I'm older and have have all this baggage, I'm not willing to work for beans. Oh, no, I have my car habit to support (check the nick), and life just gets more expensive and weighed down.
These would be the same people who think that gun laws will keep guns out of the criminals hands.
Let me think... I'm a crook. I need a gun to pull off my crimes-- but guns are illegal-- dang, time for plan b! is just as likely as I'm a terrorist. I don't want any governments or secret agents reading my message so I need to encrypt it-- but doh! crypto is illegal-- dang, time for plan b!
So the screenshot shows windowsupdate.microsoft.com in the address line. I might believe that, though I am a strongly cynical and suspicious of it. It's not hard to fake that. Still, I want to believe you... but then....
... but then you've got all these STUPID AC's backing up your story-- "I saw it too"
So have to say "Yeah, right. Grow up moron."
Let's see some logged in users backing up your story, ok? And all you Anonymous Cowards, get a login for crying out loud.
whazzzzzup is just some stupid Big Beer company commercial that sucked form the begginning.
it was worse than the lizards, which at least were computer created and could be admired for that.
But AYBBTU is still funny, especially if you picture those old politicos sitting and sweating out the worm, and then an old chinese fart going "hahahahahahaha".
Allthough..... it kind of funny to picture GWB sitting back with a beer and his daughters sitting back with a beer nearby.....:)
Good lord, I'll say you're a east-coast lower 48er. I'll also say you are an ass, to quote from Shakespeare.
The whole "preserve the wildlife refuge" is such a piece of !@#@#!!! Do you even realize HOW big Alaska is? It's not a little bitty speck off of California, dude. It is gargantuan! You could cut it in half and make Texas the third largest state instead of second.:) I lived in AK for 25 years, and we Alaskans are quite proud of that statement. Of course, now I live in Texas... but it's the truth and I can't deny it.
Did you know that the amount of State and Federal parklands and refuges already exceeds the a good deal of your east coast? I don't remember the exact figures but it is million of millions of acres of land-- already set aside. You can't even ride a bicycle through Denali National Park without a super-special impossible to obtain permit. A BICYCLE?! GIMME A BREAK! That is ridiculous.
And ANWR.... don't be stupid. The tundra has hardly been effected by the drilling and pumping of oil and the building of the pipeline. That stuff grows like mad and reclaims it's territory so fast. The wildlife don't care about the pipeline. If anything they have been known to use the shadow to cool themselves in the summer.
Geez louise, I like hiking and having natural areas just like the next person. But you really need to charter a flight and try to see all of the natural area of Alaska before start spouting off something you don't understand.
You know why I left Alaska? Jobs. There just weren't enough Sys Admin jobs to go around-- I had to work 50% on NT boxes for two years because I didn't know the right people to do sole unix work. Ugh! So here I am in warm Texas, and I'll be dreaming of those cool Alaska summers all to soon.
I don't think the idea is feasible, but if they want to spend money in Alaska I'll let 'em; those that can stay there sure you could some more. It is not an easy place to live, even in the "metropolis" of Anchorage...
So go blow off, you East-coaster. Go pick hypodermic needles off your shore and hike your little bitty Apalachians and leave regional politics to those who know their region.
And yes-- dammit-- you should be paid for your time spent close to shop on call
We take turns carrying a 24hr pager for seven days and get a little $250 check for those seven days. Which is pittance. It should be double and we're working on a plan to do that... heh heh
Otherwise-- hey, you're two hours way at a car show? "Whatdya want me to do about it right now?"
Once I got past my guffaws at the cardboard box pictures (right on top of the page) i like those cases... but they do remind me of Linda Carter (aka Wonder Woman)'s Invisible Jet. You can just barely see the outline of the case in the pictures.
Interesting. Applicable. I donno. Why? I have to ask.
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That and all the other greedy joker's over there.
To me, that is just too funny.
Prolly' not to any Yale w/men in the audience, though.
or, 2) that I'll remember to water my plants?
I just don't know.
Then I picked up an older Belkin 4 port ps/2 model on ebay. I had trouble getting it working-- it needed outside power not just keyboard power. Another poster mentioned it needed to be switched to the booting computer. This has only happened to me on first boot-- if no computers are booted then the first computer up needs to be "on".
But... three months later, my ebay Belkin special died. But hey-- it was cheap and well-used. My last job bought me a brand new Belkin professional four-port model and it was great. No problems, even keyboard hot-keys for switching.
I think that generally you get what you pay for (especially with ebay items)-- and Belkin are fine. There is no way I'd pay as much as you say you are willing. No way. That would buy a heck of a gaming card or a nice raid system... or even a Nice Sun SPARC to play with.
Shouldn't that be:
$chown -R us base
Or, better yet....
find / -name base -exec chown -R us {} \;
That would truly be the All Your Base...
A real rivalry exists in the mind of Alaskans, though Texans are totally unaware of it.
Texan: Y'all know Texas is the biggest state, right?
Alaska: Only if you cut Alaska into three states, moron!
Texan: ok... whatever....
Not sure that I care, but I'm sure there is someone out there who cares enough to work on that endeavor. Try searching on that-- and maybe that will be the road to solving your dilemma. Or, like previous posters, just buy a Mac and be free of the evil empire and have a pretty decent box.
OK, some of those ideas suck... but some might work.
That's pretty easy too. Just a down arrow or two...
hacksaw
hatchet
cough (hack up a lung)
did you mean "the headphones they ship [with the device]" or did you mean "the headphones, they shit" ?
I also through on there a look-alike font, and some other cool stuff about the car, like original sales information comparing it to corvettes and porshes in its day. Fun stuff.
I have thought about recording birthday greetings and making a mini videoCD... you know, the kids singing Happy Birthday to Nanna or whatever.
just don't have the time and energy to pursue my digital video interests yet. I've got the ATI AIWP128 that does some pretty decent capturing though!
This takes us up to about '94 when the 'net was breaking into regular speech. By now I BBS'ed a little, had gone back to school and switched majors to strictly English-CW (I could see the JPC degree was unnecessary) and was in charge of all the computers around, except the old Novell server. That old PC of trash....
Out pops Windows 95 with easy peer-to-peer, and pretty soon that novel server was only authenticating users and information was stored in pockets on certain pc's depending on their function. That was a bear to back-up... but it was working really well.
Then old Nick Petreley writes some little article in InfoWorld about using a PC with something called Linux to share his ISP dial-up with other computers in his home office.
And-- well darn-- there went a year of time hacking with linux to make it replace that novell server, share internet, and run Apache.
Somehow, somewhere in here it becomes '98 (just the year, not the Windows)
About that time a friend of my wife's quit his State job where he administered Solaris servers and started an ISP. He had little capital, big dreams, and he offered me a job to handle all tech support and develop web solutions and all those things I yearned for. I left my nice job at broadcasting and went for the uncertainty of doing what I wanted for someone who didn't have a whole lot of capital and dreams too big for that capital.
nine months later I'm out of a job, lost a month of pay even, but I am a certifiable PERL hacker, know Solaris pretty darn good; as well as Macs, NT, (just from association), and of course, my Linux...
The only job I could get that payed something worth looking at promised to be more Windows NT than unix, but it did promise some HP-YUX, and promised to be very educational as we designed and built a new network for a new company from the ground up.
Did I mention that I always sold myself short and worked for far less than I was worth? Yes it's true, but I got the experience and education that I wanted out of it.
I think that is the crucial point. Your resume has to stress your current knowledge and show your learning ability and desire. If you don't have the past employment experience you have to have a combination of the hobbies in the field, a STRONG desire for learning, and certification. And willing and able to work for far less than your worth. Now that I'm older and have have all this baggage, I'm not willing to work for beans. Oh, no, I have my car habit to support (check the nick), and life just gets more expensive and weighed down.
If you are going to have to make some sacrifices.
Now... where did I pack that Flux Capacitor when I moved?
Let me think... I'm a crook. I need a gun to pull off my crimes-- but guns are illegal-- dang, time for plan b!
is just as likely as
I'm a terrorist. I don't want any governments or secret agents reading my message so I need to encrypt it-- but doh! crypto is illegal-- dang, time for plan b!
You know the IIIc, the first color palm. LIon battery and all.
My mobo is a quality Asus, her's is a cheapo Fry's special.
Am I (er, either on of us) in danger?
Being intelligent does not preclude athletic prowess or competitiveness; and athletic prowess and competitiveness does not preclude intelligence.
grow up-- it's not us vs. them; it's not Bill Gates vs. Michael Jordan (like that insipid email about 'nerds rule'
I oughta register that site and make webpage with a big bald guy to do just this.
So have to say "Yeah, right. Grow up moron."
Let's see some logged in users backing up your story, ok? And all you Anonymous Cowards, get a login for crying out loud.
it was worse than the lizards, which at least were computer created and could be admired for that.
But AYBBTU is still funny, especially if you picture those old politicos sitting and sweating out the worm, and then an old chinese fart going "hahahahahahaha".
Allthough..... it kind of funny to picture GWB sitting back with a beer and his daughters sitting back with a beer nearby..... :)
Get it for the palm Pilot and other mediums here! Meetings will never be boring again with that and Colossal Cave adventure, et al.
The whole "preserve the wildlife refuge" is such a piece of !@#@#!!! Do you even realize HOW big Alaska is? It's not a little bitty speck off of California, dude. It is gargantuan! You could cut it in half and make Texas the third largest state instead of second. :) I lived in AK for 25 years, and we Alaskans are quite proud of that statement. Of course, now I live in Texas... but it's the truth and I can't deny it.
Did you know that the amount of State and Federal parklands and refuges already exceeds the a good deal of your east coast? I don't remember the exact figures but it is million of millions of acres of land-- already set aside. You can't even ride a bicycle through Denali National Park without a super-special impossible to obtain permit. A BICYCLE?! GIMME A BREAK! That is ridiculous.
And ANWR.... don't be stupid. The tundra has hardly been effected by the drilling and pumping of oil and the building of the pipeline. That stuff grows like mad and reclaims it's territory so fast. The wildlife don't care about the pipeline. If anything they have been known to use the shadow to cool themselves in the summer.
Geez louise, I like hiking and having natural areas just like the next person. But you really need to charter a flight and try to see all of the natural area of Alaska before start spouting off something you don't understand.
You know why I left Alaska? Jobs. There just weren't enough Sys Admin jobs to go around-- I had to work 50% on NT boxes for two years because I didn't know the right people to do sole unix work. Ugh! So here I am in warm Texas, and I'll be dreaming of those cool Alaska summers all to soon.
I don't think the idea is feasible, but if they want to spend money in Alaska I'll let 'em; those that can stay there sure you could some more. It is not an easy place to live, even in the "metropolis" of Anchorage...
So go blow off, you East-coaster. Go pick hypodermic needles off your shore and hike your little bitty Apalachians and leave regional politics to those who know their region.
And yes-- dammit-- you should be paid for your time spent close to shop on call
We take turns carrying a 24hr pager for seven days and get a little $250 check for those seven days. Which is pittance. It should be double and we're working on a plan to do that... heh heh
Otherwise-- hey, you're two hours way at a car show? "Whatdya want me to do about it right now?"
Interesting. Applicable. I donno. Why? I have to ask.
ooooh, those dreamy eyes of hers. Grrr--owwwww.