Try being a business. If you want to have a single disk image with a single license key, that'll cost you $180-200 per seat ABOVE the Microsoft tax you already paid. And they force your hand by making some Windows install CD's work with some license keys, so you can't even build a single image that works on multiple models.
Right, but Microsoft will force the issue in a year or two by putting XP on the "critical fixes only" list. Personally, I'd rather pay $10 a year for fixes to XP than $200 (plus equipment upgrades) to go to Vista.
I use a Dell Latitude D800 (P-M 1GHz) with a broken screen and 128MB of RAM to record some live Internet streams and act as my podcatcher. With an 18GB 4200 RPM drive spinning and the screen closed, it draws a mere 14 watts at idle and lasts at least 3 hours on a 2 year old battery. (I also have a UPS hooked up for when the battery dies.) The 1GHz processor means it can get up and go when it needs to, without burning 48 watts just sitting there like a desktop.
Running FC4 in runlevel 3, I can run sox, lame or mplayer without dipping into the swap. The fan comes on occasionally when the room gets hot during an encoding session, but otherwise the fan never runs.
My last laptop, a Toshiba Tecra (PIII/650, same idle power consumption), was in service almost 2 years in this application. It was still working fine when I replaced it with the faster Dell. It's great for personal use, to keep the power bill down, but I don't think I'd trust a mission-critical application to it.
NiCD "wet cells" can provide over 2000 charge/discharge cycles before capacity drops to 80% of new, and that may best even NiMH. The problem is that they contain an electrolyte, so they have to be "watered" occasionally. That coupled with NiMH's higher current capability and cadmium's toxicity make NiMH the choice for today's hybrids.
Yeah. Never works that way. If that were the case, you could leave early or not come in at all, and they couldn't say anything, as long as you were meeting your targets.
Instead, "salary" workers are often required to work a minimum number of hours (often 45 or more per week) and fill out time cards, are given a limited number of sick days, and are not allowed to work from home.
I use a Kill-A-Watt meter. It displays volts, amps and watts in realtime, and has a kilowatt counter built-in.
I used it to replace a server in my house (old server: HP Vectra VLi8 PIII-650, 46 watts idle, new server: Toshiba Tecra 8100 PIII-650 laptop, 15 watts idle), and find some surprising waste, such as a set of Boston Acoustics speakers that drew a continuous 40 watts, even when "turned off", and my HP Laserjet 2100, which draws 13-16 watts in powersave mode. (The speakers are now on a power strip, and the printer gets switched off when I'm done with it.)
My Powerbook G4/867 runs at 14 watts at idle with the hard drive spinning and the screen at its dimmest setting. It can go up to 32 watts at 66% CPU with the optical drive running. At that speed, it can finish any task in a tiny fraction of the time needed for an LCIII, and can quickly return to idle.
Old equipment without power-saving features doesn't necessarily save anything over modern equipment.
I'm looking for a recycler in Southern California. Currently I have a huge pile of good working hard drives (mostly Wide SCSI, 1 to 8 GB, and some IDE), and occasionally have other equipment (PIII-550 or better complete systems) to give away. I'd rather give to a charity like Freegeek than just some guy on Freecycle who will eBay them. Any suggestions?
Let's let people KEEP their money, so they don't have to go begging to the government for a portion of what they've paid in taxes. But that would deprive the bureaucracy, beloved of the Left, of their power, now wouldn't it?
Yeah, I hate those bastard leftists in the White House, spending a quarter trillion dollars on some war in Iraq I didn't want. Oh, wait.
Don't forget also that some of the larger stations use their own feed and commentators rather than going with the NPR feed. The occasional "bias" I've heard on NPR stations (both liberal and conservative) comes from the local station staff and not NPR.
Check out this site and read some of the online journals. A keyword search might help, as I've read about the devices that some people brought with them and how well the devices worked.
I would recommend a Pocketmail device. You can compose email and upload it to a toll-free service from practically any phone with the built-in acoustical modem. (Just hold the device up to the handset.) Also, bring a good phone card; payphones can be a bitch, and collect calls are risky.
The stupid thing about it is that "most expensive" is so fleeting. All someone would have to do is craft a device that uses more gold or more diamond, and ta da.
Or just put a ridiculous price on an ordinary MP3 player. Just because nobody is stupid enough to buy it, it doesn't mean that it's not the most expensive.
If I were a prof, I would probably start collecting old (486/early Pentium) laptops from eBay and donations to hand out specifically for exams. Keep just FreeDOS and a text editor on there to minimize support issues and prevent cheating. I agree it sucks having to preorganize and prewrite just to get a final draft out in the allotted time.
On the other hand, my profs were very generous with allowing me to cross out and rewrite whole paragraphs, and a couple even encouraged drawing arrows if an entire paragraph should be relocated.
Remember, that visa debit card is attached to your checking account. If someone takes money they're not supposed to, you can end up bouncing checks and getting into all kinds of other trouble.
Exactly. Some credit card agreements and other loan contracts allow the issuer to raise your interest rate if your payment check to them bounces. Good luck getting that changed.
Right, but in Google's case, that means they have to go through every one of their tapes for the past 3 years to catch all purged email from that user.
This is false. All you have to do is route a copy of all mail that passes the mail server into a storage area. This can be backed up regardless of what the user does to her mailbox.
Slight problem in this case though. Even if you route all mail into a storage area and back it up, you still have to purge old data continuously, or spend every corporate dollar on disks and tapes.
So for Google to comply with this request, they not only have to retrieve messages from the storage area, but go through every single tape to retrieve messages that were in the storage area from January 1, 2003 to present.
The folks that the RIAA targets should be grateful that the RIAA isn't pressing criminal charges.
They aren't pressing criminal charges because they would never win. Their evidence is always circumstantial at best, and they could never convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime took place.
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Try being a business. If you want to have a single disk image with a single license key, that'll cost you $180-200 per seat ABOVE the Microsoft tax you already paid. And they force your hand by making some Windows install CD's work with some license keys, so you can't even build a single image that works on multiple models.
Right, but Microsoft will force the issue in a year or two by putting XP on the "critical fixes only" list. Personally, I'd rather pay $10 a year for fixes to XP than $200 (plus equipment upgrades) to go to Vista.
Exactly. When most of your brain has turned to spinal fluid, no drug is going to fix things.
Running FC4 in runlevel 3, I can run sox, lame or mplayer without dipping into the swap. The fan comes on occasionally when the room gets hot during an encoding session, but otherwise the fan never runs.
My last laptop, a Toshiba Tecra (PIII/650, same idle power consumption), was in service almost 2 years in this application. It was still working fine when I replaced it with the faster Dell. It's great for personal use, to keep the power bill down, but I don't think I'd trust a mission-critical application to it.
The least they could do is let you edit the comment until it gets modded.
NiCD "wet cells" can provide over 2000 charge/discharge cycles before capacity drops to 80% of new, and that may best even NiMH. The problem is that they contain an electrolyte, so they have to be "watered" occasionally. That coupled with NiMH's higher current capability and cadmium's toxicity make NiMH the choice for today's hybrids.
Instead, "salary" workers are often required to work a minimum number of hours (often 45 or more per week) and fill out time cards, are given a limited number of sick days, and are not allowed to work from home.
I've never seen one personally, but this seems to have what you're looking for.
I used it to replace a server in my house (old server: HP Vectra VLi8 PIII-650, 46 watts idle, new server: Toshiba Tecra 8100 PIII-650 laptop, 15 watts idle), and find some surprising waste, such as a set of Boston Acoustics speakers that drew a continuous 40 watts, even when "turned off", and my HP Laserjet 2100, which draws 13-16 watts in powersave mode. (The speakers are now on a power strip, and the printer gets switched off when I'm done with it.)
Old equipment without power-saving features doesn't necessarily save anything over modern equipment.
Excellent. How much is Microsoft Office for Mepis? How about Photoshop? Indesign? Quark? Pitstop? How's the font management?
I think Plato sounds better in the original Klingon.
Thanks. I have the same in Orange County; I was just hoping that these could be put to charitable use instead of scrapped.
I'm looking for a recycler in Southern California. Currently I have a huge pile of good working hard drives (mostly Wide SCSI, 1 to 8 GB, and some IDE), and occasionally have other equipment (PIII-550 or better complete systems) to give away. I'd rather give to a charity like Freegeek than just some guy on Freecycle who will eBay them. Any suggestions?
Sure, no problem. I'll just keep a mouthful of Coke for several hours, since just taking a drink doesn't significantly affect the overall pH of your mouth.
Yeah, I hate those bastard leftists in the White House, spending a quarter trillion dollars on some war in Iraq I didn't want. Oh, wait.
Don't forget also that some of the larger stations use their own feed and commentators rather than going with the NPR feed. The occasional "bias" I've heard on NPR stations (both liberal and conservative) comes from the local station staff and not NPR.
I would recommend a Pocketmail device. You can compose email and upload it to a toll-free service from practically any phone with the built-in acoustical modem. (Just hold the device up to the handset.) Also, bring a good phone card; payphones can be a bitch, and collect calls are risky.
Or just put a ridiculous price on an ordinary MP3 player. Just because nobody is stupid enough to buy it, it doesn't mean that it's not the most expensive.
On the other hand, my profs were very generous with allowing me to cross out and rewrite whole paragraphs, and a couple even encouraged drawing arrows if an entire paragraph should be relocated.
Exactly. Some credit card agreements and other loan contracts allow the issuer to raise your interest rate if your payment check to them bounces. Good luck getting that changed.
Right, but in Google's case, that means they have to go through every one of their tapes for the past 3 years to catch all purged email from that user.
Slight problem in this case though. Even if you route all mail into a storage area and back it up, you still have to purge old data continuously, or spend every corporate dollar on disks and tapes.
So for Google to comply with this request, they not only have to retrieve messages from the storage area, but go through every single tape to retrieve messages that were in the storage area from January 1, 2003 to present.
They aren't pressing criminal charges because they would never win. Their evidence is always circumstantial at best, and they could never convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime took place.
I would suggest that users write down their passwords and store them in the most secure place under their control: their wallet.