I use the Compaq Evo N610c -- Like it a whole lot, runs linux relatively well (ACPI support is a bitch), has the 1400x1050 14.1 inch panel, p4-2GHz, 512/40/combo. I'd have a look at the business notebook line from Hpaq -- not the consumer crap. One of my clients uses Dell laptops and one employee keeps his screen working by using a bulldog clip. Ars just did a review of the evo n620c -- centrino based and it looks pretty good too.
Totally tongue in cheek man -- no worries. And mostly I was taking umbrage with shortforming, improper common usage of punctuation symbols and the general lack of conversational language capabilities on a message board that is (probably|likely) inhabited by relatively bright people.
That's one way to really live up to the SVV moniker that I've given my Caravan.
SVV: acronym for "Sports Virility Vehicle"
I calm my nerves by repeating that over and over when at a stop light with some dude in a sports car. I don't have to prove my manliness, I've got 4 (one more on the way) kids in the back! I know I'm getting it;)
And where the heck do the (older|mature|whipped) slash crowd go when they don't have one of the listed vehicles, but rather the almost horrifying Dodge Caravan?
Please pardon me, I'm having one of those parental moments... sigh.
realize that you can't have nice things when you've got a two year old, they'll get smeared with peanut butter and cheerios and milk
once you've handled that decision, go to ikea
buy STEN - the crappy, unfinished, unsanded and dirt cheap shelving
install as wraparound on all walls of the living space - we used the 6' uprights and the deep/wide shelves
bolt to the walls at both the top and bottom
put one shelf at the very bottom and then the next one about 3 feet off the floor
the space above the middle shelf is yours to use, install extra shelves, whatever, the space below the middle shelf is for the 2 year old's stuff (little tykes, etc)
The TV, one of the computers, all the books, all the other TV related stuff is stored this way. You can set the STEN up to have a good desk height for the computer (use masonite over the shelf for a decent desk) and it'll hold several hundred pounds of books per shelf with no issues.
Our living room is set up this way, and the little hog-jaws hasn't managed to get too much stuff. She's broken one VHS tape and we gave her a sacrafical coaster (malburned cdr) so she'd have one to destroy.
I built dvd/vhs/cd shelves out of 1 by 4 lumber - 6' tall uprights attached perpendicular to the wall (use L brackets) with 4' shelves at dvd case height from top to bottom. That's good for several hundred dvd's. Her dvd's (Shrek, Monsters Inc., Dora the Explorer, Elmo, etc.) are on a shelf that she can reach and she does her own movie selection, but the dvd player is 5.5 feet off the floor so she can't hurt it.
My current challenge is keeping her from stealing the wireless mouse.
Dude, I would regularly get 1100kms (680 miles) in my normally aspirated 1989 diesel jetta. And it's a simple modification (kit is $700USD) to convert that car to run not on biodiesel, but on plain old fryer fat - the stuff McD's throws out by the gallon! How's that for efficient.
You tend not to carry that kind of value on a real (non-internal-to-my-university) stored value card. I was a participant in a Mondex stored value experiment in a large-ish (90,000 people, one university, one college) town. At the most, I had $50 or so on the card -- as every Payphone provided a method to move cash from a bankaccount onto the card. It was useful for little transactions (convenience store, parking meter, etc.) but was the best for paying someone across town. If you both had a mondex enabled phone, you could each insert a card and move cash in either direction.
Mondex missed the boat though -- the real killer app for Mondex is person to person transfers over the internet. Attach a cheap smart card reader to your pc and away you go. (Mondex had a reader that simulated a floppy - you put your card in the carrier and the carrier in the PCs floppy drive). That would cut any paypal-ish goofs from the internet and make it easy to do person to person funds transfers.
Make sure to stop at the Halton County Radial Railway Museum -- this place is rather amazing. They have a private track loop and operate electric rail cars (ex TTC and ex Inter Urban Transit) as well as the restoration shops and the most amazing collection of partially complete cars for parts. You're free to wander around, take a few rides on some vintage technology, and marvel at the fact that Ontario had a commuter rail system that was just as expansive as the current diesel one almost a hundred years ago that ran from clean, renewable hydro electric power from Niagara Falls. Well worth the drive to Rockwood (don't stop in Acton, the leather is cheap and shoddy and the people are creepy). Since you're backpacking, there is decent camping about 5kms from the site (look on the website's map for Rockwood Conservation Area) and there is a commuter bus that runs along Hwy 7 from Toronto to Guelph stopping fairly often at the conservation area entrance.
Don't worry so much about the weight of a "large G5" -- these guys like to carry their Marshall stack heads with real tube amps from gig to gig -- 30-40lbs of G5 is nothing.
Canadian residential broadband is not government subsidized. The currently low price is basically due to a giant pissing match between two companies -- Bell Canada and Rogers Cable (this shows trickle down throughout the rest of canada -- the other Stentor telcos, as well as Shaw cable, the other white meat of the cable industry). They're busy trying to steal customers from each other and they keep dropping the price to attract people up from the $9.95 / $14.95 a month dialup accounts. And the best part is that the government supports this situation by making sure that it is difficult for small market players to maintain themselves. If you want more details on the hardship of being an independent internet provider in canada, email me, I used to be one and I'll be paying off that debt for the rest of my natural born life.
I find this to be a terribly important question. Compaq (and most companies) manufacture a "professional" line as well as a "retail" line. If you shop at (FutureShop|BestBuy|CircuitCity) you will only find the "retail" line. The pro line costs quite a bit more for similar specifications, but is much more durable.
If you get the pro line system, you will be happier. You may not have the fastest GPU or 5.1 audio on the notebook, but honestly, you do have to give up a little on the capability to get the mobility you want. If you NEED insane graphics performance, you're going to have to put up with the weight penalty.
I have a Compaq Evo N610c - it's a P4-2GHz with the 1400x1050 display. I wanted the 15" Powerbook and this is what the company decided would be more appropriate. I've had the machine for about 9 months now and despite my best efforts to abuse it, it continues to operate relatively well. I've had the keyboard replaced once and that's it.
Interesting side note, when I took the notebook to a local store proudly advertised as a Compaq Authorized Repair facility, I discovered that they were staffed primarily by chimps. They claimed that the notebook had to be sent away for a keyboard replacement as they can't work on laptops. I left in disgust (I'm more than qualified to swap a keyboard on a laptop) and called Compaq Canada. Sure enough, the replacement keyboard arrived in the mail the following day. I'll give you a hint -- avoid CompuSmart on Yonge in Toronto, they don't know much.
Ahhh, no. Merely that they are using a 'Centronics' type connector. Just because a connector has a certain physical format, do not presume logical or electrical connectivity. Check the back of those slide out IDE trays for 5.25 bays -- that's a centronics connector too. If they'll do UDMA133, I think they can handle digital video too.
Actually, for pricing a T1 or FracT1 location is terribly important. Telco lines such as these are billed by the mile (kilometre). Keep that in mind when you start complaining about this stuff.
I agree that SourceForge could/should provide this service, but the big guns offer it for cheap/free to have a larger family of ISVs servicing their platform. Maybe the question should be re-phrased.
I've often encountered these issues and never bothered to google -- most of the people I work with are in the quoted layer 8 and 9 -- and I'd pretty much just lumped them all together with the incompetant administrators as a problem layer!
Everyone remembers the 7 layer ISO model for networks right... and what's just above layer 7 -- the human (ie: layer 8) and in my years of IRCing, I have yet to meet a sane IRC layer 8. I'm sure there must be one, or at a stretch, two sane ircadmins, but I've certainly never encountered them.
Think that netsplit is due to some massive connectivity problem on the internet -- nope, it's a netadmin doing layer 8 routing. Having trouble with a jerk and want to have a ban placed -- except *.com gets banned -- that's a layer 8 problem.
rant on These people think that identd will save them from the world... when really, the only solution is getting the hell off of IRC and getting a life rant off.
Sigh Some days, it's just not worth thinking about.
As part of the new Slash party line with regards to Mac OS X (which I use and love) you should note that there is a native RDP client for OSX that fully and properly supports connections to MS TermServers/2kS/XP. Check it out at: Microsoft
The reason for regenerating the signal has to do with what happens to a square wave when you shove it through copper and amplifiers. To wit, the edges get rounded off. If enough rounding occurs, the receiver cannot precisely locate the point in time where the signal went high or low.
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I'm almost getting tired of the depths to which the 'contributions' on slash have fallen.
Without going into too much ~whacky detail~ I'd like it if you could figure out how to regenerate a waveform without the addition of power. If you can get this done for me, I'll pay you a zillion bajillion dollars. There are whole industries that could benefit from your brilliance... just think! You'd be able to save billions of dollars on all those useless 'amplifiers' used by long haul telecommunications providers!
Please go out of your way for an average recent immigre to slash and THINK for a change.
Wow - and yet another slash-tard who can't read the freakin article! The protocol is H.324 - a POTS optimized version of the (much) more popular H.323 conferencing protocol.
It will be nice when you learn how to use that clicky thing in your hand to read the freakin source material before you have to shoot off your mouth.
Your knowledge of conferencing protocols is dwarfed by my cat's knowledge of litter consistency - MPEG4 indeed!
Answer your MPEGphone - the Cluemaster is calling.
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Actually, I was having visions of Snow Crash... the raft comes to life, with spammers instead of cable executives...
Gee... these guys are sure behind the cutting edge, Toronto's had this for a while -- it's called DEXIT. Head on over to DEXIT and have a look.
I use the Compaq Evo N610c -- Like it a whole lot, runs linux relatively well (ACPI support is a bitch), has the 1400x1050 14.1 inch panel, p4-2GHz, 512/40/combo. I'd have a look at the business notebook line from Hpaq -- not the consumer crap. One of my clients uses Dell laptops and one employee keeps his screen working by using a bulldog clip. Ars just did a review of the evo n620c -- centrino based and it looks pretty good too.
Totally tongue in cheek man -- no worries. And mostly I was taking umbrage with shortforming, improper common usage of punctuation symbols and the general lack of conversational language capabilities on a message board that is (probably|likely) inhabited by relatively bright people.
Good $DEITY, please don't breed until you've bought and utilized an elementary school primer on spelling. Please. We're begging you.
DAMN!!
That's one way to really live up to the SVV moniker that I've given my Caravan.
SVV: acronym for "Sports Virility Vehicle"
I calm my nerves by repeating that over and over when at a stop light with some dude in a sports car. I don't have to prove my manliness, I've got 4 (one more on the way) kids in the back! I know I'm getting it ;)
And where the heck do the (older|mature|whipped) slash crowd go when they don't have one of the listed vehicles, but rather the almost horrifying Dodge Caravan?
Please pardon me, I'm having one of those parental moments... sigh.
One of the guys at work is using a SparcStation 1+ for exactly the same purpose.
Of course, at home, I use the much more advanced IPX as a monitor stand.
I have a whole lot of experience with this one!
Here's what I did:
The TV, one of the computers, all the books, all the other TV related stuff is stored this way. You can set the STEN up to have a good desk height for the computer (use masonite over the shelf for a decent desk) and it'll hold several hundred pounds of books per shelf with no issues.
Our living room is set up this way, and the little hog-jaws hasn't managed to get too much stuff. She's broken one VHS tape and we gave her a sacrafical coaster (malburned cdr) so she'd have one to destroy.
I built dvd/vhs/cd shelves out of 1 by 4 lumber - 6' tall uprights attached perpendicular to the wall (use L brackets) with 4' shelves at dvd case height from top to bottom. That's good for several hundred dvd's. Her dvd's (Shrek, Monsters Inc., Dora the Explorer, Elmo, etc.) are on a shelf that she can reach and she does her own movie selection, but the dvd player is 5.5 feet off the floor so she can't hurt it.
My current challenge is keeping her from stealing the wireless mouse.
Dude, I would regularly get 1100kms (680 miles) in my normally aspirated 1989 diesel jetta. And it's a simple modification (kit is $700USD) to convert that car to run not on biodiesel, but on plain old fryer fat - the stuff McD's throws out by the gallon! How's that for efficient.
You tend not to carry that kind of value on a real (non-internal-to-my-university) stored value card. I was a participant in a Mondex stored value experiment in a large-ish (90,000 people, one university, one college) town. At the most, I had $50 or so on the card -- as every Payphone provided a method to move cash from a bankaccount onto the card. It was useful for little transactions (convenience store, parking meter, etc.) but was the best for paying someone across town. If you both had a mondex enabled phone, you could each insert a card and move cash in either direction.
Check the following links for details:
Mondex missed the boat though -- the real killer app for Mondex is person to person transfers over the internet. Attach a cheap smart card reader to your pc and away you go. (Mondex had a reader that simulated a floppy - you put your card in the carrier and the carrier in the PCs floppy drive). That would cut any paypal-ish goofs from the internet and make it easy to do person to person funds transfers.
Just my two cents... Canadian.
Make sure to stop at the Halton County Radial Railway Museum -- this place is rather amazing. They have a private track loop and operate electric rail cars (ex TTC and ex Inter Urban Transit) as well as the restoration shops and the most amazing collection of partially complete cars for parts. You're free to wander around, take a few rides on some vintage technology, and marvel at the fact that Ontario had a commuter rail system that was just as expansive as the current diesel one almost a hundred years ago that ran from clean, renewable hydro electric power from Niagara Falls. Well worth the drive to Rockwood (don't stop in Acton, the leather is cheap and shoddy and the people are creepy). Since you're backpacking, there is decent camping about 5kms from the site (look on the website's map for Rockwood Conservation Area) and there is a commuter bus that runs along Hwy 7 from Toronto to Guelph stopping fairly often at the conservation area entrance.
Don't worry so much about the weight of a "large G5" -- these guys like to carry their Marshall stack heads with real tube amps from gig to gig -- 30-40lbs of G5 is nothing.
Canadian residential broadband is not government subsidized. The currently low price is basically due to a giant pissing match between two companies -- Bell Canada and Rogers Cable (this shows trickle down throughout the rest of canada -- the other Stentor telcos, as well as Shaw cable, the other white meat of the cable industry). They're busy trying to steal customers from each other and they keep dropping the price to attract people up from the $9.95 / $14.95 a month dialup accounts. And the best part is that the government supports this situation by making sure that it is difficult for small market players to maintain themselves. If you want more details on the hardship of being an independent internet provider in canada, email me, I used to be one and I'll be paying off that debt for the rest of my natural born life.
I find this to be a terribly important question. Compaq (and most companies) manufacture a "professional" line as well as a "retail" line. If you shop at (FutureShop|BestBuy|CircuitCity) you will only find the "retail" line. The pro line costs quite a bit more for similar specifications, but is much more durable.
If you get the pro line system, you will be happier. You may not have the fastest GPU or 5.1 audio on the notebook, but honestly, you do have to give up a little on the capability to get the mobility you want. If you NEED insane graphics performance, you're going to have to put up with the weight penalty.
I have a Compaq Evo N610c - it's a P4-2GHz with the 1400x1050 display. I wanted the 15" Powerbook and this is what the company decided would be more appropriate. I've had the machine for about 9 months now and despite my best efforts to abuse it, it continues to operate relatively well. I've had the keyboard replaced once and that's it.
Interesting side note, when I took the notebook to a local store proudly advertised as a Compaq Authorized Repair facility, I discovered that they were staffed primarily by chimps. They claimed that the notebook had to be sent away for a keyboard replacement as they can't work on laptops. I left in disgust (I'm more than qualified to swap a keyboard on a laptop) and called Compaq Canada. Sure enough, the replacement keyboard arrived in the mail the following day. I'll give you a hint -- avoid CompuSmart on Yonge in Toronto, they don't know much.
Ahhh, no. Merely that they are using a 'Centronics' type connector. Just because a connector has a certain physical format, do not presume logical or electrical connectivity. Check the back of those slide out IDE trays for 5.25 bays -- that's a centronics connector too. If they'll do UDMA133, I think they can handle digital video too.
Actually, for pricing a T1 or FracT1 location is terribly important. Telco lines such as these are billed by the mile (kilometre). Keep that in mind when you start complaining about this stuff.
And therefore unsuited to closed source porting.
HP offers a closed source developer platform similar to IBM's Solution Partnership Centres at the Developer and Solution Partner Program.
I agree that SourceForge could/should provide this service, but the big guns offer it for cheap/free to have a larger family of ISVs servicing their platform. Maybe the question should be re-phrased.
Thank you for an intelligent reply!
I've often encountered these issues and never bothered to google -- most of the people I work with are in the quoted layer 8 and 9 -- and I'd pretty much just lumped them all together with the incompetant administrators as a problem layer!
The solution to any problem with IRC is simple:
It's a layer 8 problem.
Everyone remembers the 7 layer ISO model for networks right... and what's just above layer 7 -- the human (ie: layer 8) and in my years of IRCing, I have yet to meet a sane IRC layer 8. I'm sure there must be one, or at a stretch, two sane ircadmins, but I've certainly never encountered them.
Think that netsplit is due to some massive connectivity problem on the internet -- nope, it's a netadmin doing layer 8 routing. Having trouble with a jerk and want to have a ban placed -- except *.com gets banned -- that's a layer 8 problem.
rant on These people think that identd will save them from the world... when really, the only solution is getting the hell off of IRC and getting a life rant off.
Sigh Some days, it's just not worth thinking about.
Fer cryin out loud... choose not to preview even once... Microsoft
As part of the new Slash party line with regards to Mac OS X (which I use and love) you should note that there is a native RDP client for OSX that fully and properly supports connections to MS TermServers/2kS/XP. Check it out at: Microsoft
The reason for regenerating the signal has to do with what happens to a square wave when you shove it through copper and amplifiers. To wit, the edges get rounded off. If enough rounding occurs, the receiver cannot precisely locate the point in time where the signal went high or low.
I'm almost getting tired of the depths to which the 'contributions' on slash have fallen.
Without going into too much ~whacky detail~ I'd like it if you could figure out how to regenerate a waveform without the addition of power. If you can get this done for me, I'll pay you a zillion bajillion dollars. There are whole industries that could benefit from your brilliance... just think! You'd be able to save billions of dollars on all those useless 'amplifiers' used by long haul telecommunications providers!
Please go out of your way for an average recent immigre to slash and THINK for a change.
Wow - and yet another slash-tard who can't read the freakin article! The protocol is H.324 - a POTS optimized version of the (much) more popular H.323 conferencing protocol.
It will be nice when you learn how to use that clicky thing in your hand to read the freakin source material before you have to shoot off your mouth.
Your knowledge of conferencing protocols is dwarfed by my cat's knowledge of litter consistency - MPEG4 indeed!
Answer your MPEGphone - the Cluemaster is calling.