Out here in Ohio, *if* they'd be willing to do that, they'd charge you *thousands* for it. Heck, they wanted $50 for each cat-5 run, and that's w/o conduit or anything special.
1) Put one or two strands of CAT 5 and 1 COAX cable to each room for phones, TV, etc.
We've found that's overkill. We have rooms where none of the cable's been used. However, we ran 2 cat5e and one coax line to, minimally, all upstairs rooms. The upstairs are the hardest (IMHO) to do after the drywall's up. The first floor is easy because there's a basement under everything.
If you're going to use the cat5 for your normal phones, be sure you have a seperate run of cat5 for your computer, after all you'll want 100mbs or gigabit, right? It works better with all pairs of the wire available to it:)
Like they say, if you're going to pull one cord, you can nearly just as easily pull two cords to the same location:)
2) Run CONDUIT everywhere.
YES!!
5) Think about running your empty conduit to locations near power, so you don't have to run a bunch of extension cords.
In my experience, you want to *not* do this. You want your conduit away from your power sources. Generally, there will be wall outlets for power every 6 feet (standard code for most of the country now-a-days).
7) Run string in the conduits and tie it off on both ends
If you do this, don't let the string hang out. Tape the string to the inside of the conduit. Most places the builders will rip the string out, if they see it, to make sure that it doesn't catch the inspector's eye and cause an inspection to fail.
Also, buy caps for both ends of every piece of conduit. Some places won't pass a house w/ conduit if the ends aren't capped, because it's a direct pipeline for fire to shoot up, so the inspector's baulk.
8) Run all your conduit to a central location (probably in the basement)
Be ready to be able to *hide* it. Most builders have contractors who like to do this stuff. When they see all the cable that you've run, that they didn't, and weren't paid to do, you can run into problems.
Also, pickup a cable tester. Get a good one. I'll make youre life easier after you've run the cables and your drywall is up and your jacks are in place, you can find out which cables were tweaked, ripped, snipped.
And, since this is a new build, I'd put the conduit in, but leave it empty. Run the wiring through the studs like any normal wiring. Leave the conduit for future expansion/use. There's no need to use the conduit immediately on a new build when a hole through the 2x4's will suffice for threading your cables through. And that doesn't look conspicuous to contractors like a piece of PVC in the wall does.
That would mean they'd have to come unlock the shackel and chains that bind me to this desk 10 hours a day.
C'mon, there's no way management's going to walk down the hallway, unlock it, wait for me to get back from my break, lock me back up, then go on with their 'business' - then rinse and repeat each hour... yeah right.
Now, I'm not defending the Neistat's in any way, but...
The Neistat brothers were told of these things, they knew about them but they still went ahead and badmouthed Apple for not having these programs.
*IF* the Neistat's knew about the upcoming programs from Apple, they would have been under NDA and *couldn't* have said anything about them w/o the Apple legal hourds coming down from on high unleashing hell upon them.
Your claim that they knew ahead-of-time seems absurd.
If only it (and ical) could hook up with Exchange as well as Outlook can, I'd be a happy camper. (Please note: Entourage doesn't count, it's nearly as bad as trying to use Mail.app w/ Exchange. More functionality, but interface bugs galore).
I thought we were all agreed that these people who widely distribute copyrighted materials for a profit are the bad guys
Yeah, I'd venture to guess that you're correct there.
and the regular folks who might make a copy here and there are the good guys. What happened?
That wasn't the point I was trying to make in my post. The parent post was talking about the RIAA goons walking up to someone, and that someone pulls out a piece and shoots, and that they shouldn't be allowed to shoot unless they feel threatened.
My point was that who's to judge whether s/he felt threatened, odds are, if a bunch of goons come walking up to 99% of the population they're going to feel threatened, regardless of whether they're involved in any illegal or legal activity.
First off, you can easily kill someone with the swing of a bat.
Secondly, IMHO, that's a bunch of bullshit. If someone's trying to steal *my* car, then they are infringing on my rights. Whatever happens to them, whether I knock them over their head, my neighbor sees it and knocks the person over the head, or I pop a round in the person, it doesn't matter. The person chose to do something wrong. They should have to live (or not) with all consequences of their actions, regardless of what those may be.
I could just see a bunch of thugs in RIAA jackets walking up to a street vendor
Willfully killing someone when they are not endangering your life is murder.
So if you saw a bunch of guys all dressed in black coming down the street, and they stop and start harassing you, you're not scared? You don't feel threatened? You make me wonder if there is any argument to endangering - meaning your "feeling of endangerment" isn't quite what mine is, hence my actions could be judged differently then yours, given the same situation.
And yes, I'm using the word harass there, because that's how I view what the RIAA is doing. They don't enforce law, yet they are making their henchmen appear as though they can.
Trust me, you can sweat your ass off riding a bike. Just use a camelback so you don't keel over from dehydration:)
20gb may seem like overkill, but once you start using it, it may not be.
Atleast I'm guessing I'll be upgrading to something larger then my current 10GB w/in the next year and a half.
Why? Well, the last time I checked I had 6.xgb of tunes on it. Each week, that continues to go up, because I'm finding I want more variety in my playlists (shuffle is a blessing). So the next thing I know I'm ripping another cd to it, or copying from my mp3 collection over to the ipod, putting tunes in this playlist or that... and it's slowly filling up.
My workouts average a little less then 2 hours a day. So inorder to have variety over the course of the 5 day week (I lift before work each day) it requires a lot of music on the ipod.
I just bought my first ipod (10gb, in December). Primary use is for going to the gym (lift weights,ride the bike/stairmaster) and for mountainbiking.
It's worked fantastically, though I did pickup a case for it that has a belt clip (which I've been using the past week) and an armband (haven't tried working out with that yet). I bought this new case because keeping the ipod in my shorts pockets made me nervous when squatting and riding the bike.
So far, the thing's been great. I didn't consider it's size when I bought it, I was more concerned with it skipping then anything.
So far, it hasn't skipped, ever.
I have yet to take it mountainbiking with me, but that's because the weather at this time of year in Ohio isn't quite condusive to it w/o ripping up the trails that aren't 100% frozen yet.
Why not recommend gforge rather then sf? Sourceforge's code is untouched for a few years now, right? While gforge is opensource and being currently developed.
My favorite is when someone says "Oh just install XyZ, It'll 'just work'". Yeah, right.
Like when we went from an NT4 domain structure to Active Directory... all the upgrade tools "just worked" like they were supposed to the first time.... bah!
It's extremely easy to take a front page from slashdot and/or slashcode and css-iffie it.
Infact, that's what 95% of the modified slash site are, imho.
However, to do a full conversion to one of the upper modes of CSS/xhtml/etc etc, its a shitton of work. I know. I started doing it. Keeping up with the template changes, working the changes back into the new templates, testing, committing it... its a lot work.
These people did _not_ do that. I'm not really impressed with what they're showing everyone.
I am impressed with the attention it's seemingly received. There's been two people who've started doing this and both are publically available. There have been many many requests for it over the past 2 years on slashcode and the slashcode list serves... and now it seems ALA comes in and OSDN's calling for help?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the situation or how it's come about. I don't know.
It always seems like we've got many people wanting, but few step up to signup for a portion of work.:(
Use a proxy server (we use squid) and stick in ACL-deny lists for porn or other 'adult' sites/topics.
If they're using Windows, and you don't want them to chat, disable it. Make sure they're not a power-user.
Setup a server for inbound/outbound email. Have it pickup their email, and point their email app (in our case Eudora) to pickup from it. A cronjob every 10 minutes works here. (It will also alleviate the time when your kids try to use Email as a chat, checking email every 20 seconds... yes, we went through that).
That's about all we did. Oh, one of the servers I had setup to save their outbound email, too.
These other posts about trusting them, about privacy... not! These are kids. They are to be taught, and watched over.
Before we did this, we caught our 14 year old daughter on a chat site. From the squid logs, I was able to point out, from the information she gave out, how to find her. It was really simple, putting 2 + 2 together. Needless to say, she was shocked, and embarrased. But that put an end to our letting her on chat networks.
Luckily neither of the kids knows how to disable the proxy server settings in their browsers:) I found that difficult to lock-down under Windows.
I think, for Linux, I'll be looking at Suse or Debian. However, that's now only for my secondary/devel boxes, since I went Mac:)
I don't want to start a religious war or anything, but I'd been using Redhat since it's incarnation. It was the only OS on my laptop, which was my primary/daily-use machine.
This Mac that I've had for a week or two now, I'm using all the apps I used on my Redhat boxen (plus some now) no problems so far.
So if you're looking for a replacement, you might want to consider taking a look at Apple while you're checking out all the other distro's.
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Have extra *circuits* done. Our 4th bedroom is on it's own circuit, and it's heavy duty too.
That way I can have a number of computers on in here and not worry about blowing a fuse.
Out here in Ohio, *if* they'd be willing to do that, they'd charge you *thousands* for it. Heck, they wanted $50 for each cat-5 run, and that's w/o conduit or anything special.
A few comments on your advise...
:)
:)
1) Put one or two strands of CAT 5 and 1 COAX cable to each room for phones, TV, etc.
We've found that's overkill. We have rooms where none of the cable's been used. However, we ran 2 cat5e and one coax line to, minimally, all upstairs rooms. The upstairs are the hardest (IMHO) to do after the drywall's up. The first floor is easy because there's a basement under everything.
If you're going to use the cat5 for your normal phones, be sure you have a seperate run of cat5 for your computer, after all you'll want 100mbs or gigabit, right? It works better with all pairs of the wire available to it
Like they say, if you're going to pull one cord, you can nearly just as easily pull two cords to the same location
2) Run CONDUIT everywhere.
YES!!
5) Think about running your empty conduit to locations near power, so you don't have to run a bunch of extension cords.
In my experience, you want to *not* do this. You want your conduit away from your power sources. Generally, there will be wall outlets for power every 6 feet (standard code for most of the country now-a-days).
7) Run string in the conduits and tie it off on both ends
If you do this, don't let the string hang out. Tape the string to the inside of the conduit. Most places the builders will rip the string out, if they see it, to make sure that it doesn't catch the inspector's eye and cause an inspection to fail.
Also, buy caps for both ends of every piece of conduit. Some places won't pass a house w/ conduit if the ends aren't capped, because it's a direct pipeline for fire to shoot up, so the inspector's baulk.
8) Run all your conduit to a central location (probably in the basement)
Be ready to be able to *hide* it. Most builders have contractors who like to do this stuff. When they see all the cable that you've run, that they didn't, and weren't paid to do, you can run into problems.
Also, pickup a cable tester. Get a good one. I'll make youre life easier after you've run the cables and your drywall is up and your jacks are in place, you can find out which cables were tweaked, ripped, snipped.
And, since this is a new build, I'd put the conduit in, but leave it empty. Run the wiring through the studs like any normal wiring. Leave the conduit for future expansion/use. There's no need to use the conduit immediately on a new build when a hole through the 2x4's will suffice for threading your cables through. And that doesn't look conspicuous to contractors like a piece of PVC in the wall does.
That would mean they'd have to come unlock the shackel and chains that bind me to this desk 10 hours a day.
C'mon, there's no way management's going to walk down the hallway, unlock it, wait for me to get back from my break, lock me back up, then go on with their 'business' - then rinse and repeat each hour... yeah right.
Now, I'm not defending the Neistat's in any way, but...
The Neistat brothers were told of these things, they knew about them but they still went ahead and badmouthed Apple for not having these programs.
*IF* the Neistat's knew about the upcoming programs from Apple, they would have been under NDA and *couldn't* have said anything about them w/o the Apple legal hourds coming down from on high unleashing hell upon them.
Your claim that they knew ahead-of-time seems absurd.
The only two games that get much coverage on /. seem to be Quake, Doom3, and Unreal(x).
;) get my point?
Ya know, you *can* help change that. Submit articles about other games. I looked at your submissions and the list is so vast...
If only it (and ical) could hook up with Exchange as well as Outlook can, I'd be a happy camper. (Please note: Entourage doesn't count, it's nearly as bad as trying to use Mail.app w/ Exchange. More functionality, but interface bugs galore).
That's your tax dollars hard at work!!
Why not use slashcode?
We all know it obviously does discussions, handles user logins, can do SSL too. And user ACL's for permissions if you want it to.
I will have to watch out for them at my next garage sale!! ;)
I thought we were all agreed that these people who widely distribute copyrighted materials for a profit are the bad guys
Yeah, I'd venture to guess that you're correct there.
and the regular folks who might make a copy here and there are the good guys. What happened?
That wasn't the point I was trying to make in my post. The parent post was talking about the RIAA goons walking up to someone, and that someone pulls out a piece and shoots, and that they shouldn't be allowed to shoot unless they feel threatened.
My point was that who's to judge whether s/he felt threatened, odds are, if a bunch of goons come walking up to 99% of the population they're going to feel threatened, regardless of whether they're involved in any illegal or legal activity.
First off, you can easily kill someone with the swing of a bat.
Secondly, IMHO, that's a bunch of bullshit. If someone's trying to steal *my* car, then they are infringing on my rights. Whatever happens to them, whether I knock them over their head, my neighbor sees it and knocks the person over the head, or I pop a round in the person, it doesn't matter. The person chose to do something wrong. They should have to live (or not) with all consequences of their actions, regardless of what those may be.
How can you know the goods are illegal?
Really, in principle, how is this any different from me selling a bunch of cd's and dvd's at a garage sale?
I could just see a bunch of thugs in RIAA jackets walking up to a street vendor
Willfully killing someone when they are not endangering your life is murder.
So if you saw a bunch of guys all dressed in black coming down the street, and they stop and start harassing you, you're not scared? You don't feel threatened? You make me wonder if there is any argument to endangering - meaning your "feeling of endangerment" isn't quite what mine is, hence my actions could be judged differently then yours, given the same situation.
And yes, I'm using the word harass there, because that's how I view what the RIAA is doing. They don't enforce law, yet they are making their henchmen appear as though they can.
Trust me, you can sweat your ass off riding a bike. Just use a camelback so you don't keel over from dehydration :)
20gb may seem like overkill, but once you start using it, it may not be.
Atleast I'm guessing I'll be upgrading to something larger then my current 10GB w/in the next year and a half.
Why? Well, the last time I checked I had 6.xgb of tunes on it. Each week, that continues to go up, because I'm finding I want more variety in my playlists (shuffle is a blessing). So the next thing I know I'm ripping another cd to it, or copying from my mp3 collection over to the ipod, putting tunes in this playlist or that... and it's slowly filling up.
My workouts average a little less then 2 hours a day. So inorder to have variety over the course of the 5 day week (I lift before work each day) it requires a lot of music on the ipod.
I just posted about this, see this post.
Summary: it's worked perfectly for it, so far.
I just bought my first ipod (10gb, in December). Primary use is for going to the gym (lift weights,ride the bike/stairmaster) and for mountainbiking.
It's worked fantastically, though I did pickup a case for it that has a belt clip (which I've been using the past week) and an armband (haven't tried working out with that yet).
I bought this new case because keeping the ipod in my shorts pockets made me nervous when squatting and riding the bike.
So far, the thing's been great. I didn't consider it's size when I bought it, I was more concerned with it skipping then anything.
So far, it hasn't skipped, ever.
I have yet to take it mountainbiking with me, but that's because the weather at this time of year in Ohio isn't quite condusive to it w/o ripping up the trails that aren't 100% frozen yet.
Why not recommend gforge rather then sf? Sourceforge's code is untouched for a few years now, right? While gforge is opensource and being currently developed.
My favorite is when someone says "Oh just install XyZ, It'll 'just work'". Yeah, right.
Like when we went from an NT4 domain structure to Active Directory... all the upgrade tools "just worked" like they were supposed to the first time.... bah!
Lifetime? Nah, it's the Oxygen channel and "WE" :)
Also, all those damned for-sale channels, those tick me off that I'm being forced to pay for QVC.
This reminds me of an episode of Southpark that was on a week or two ago (ie w/ the Mormons)
It's extremely easy to take a front page from slashdot and/or slashcode and css-iffie it.
:(
:)
Infact, that's what 95% of the modified slash site are, imho.
However, to do a full conversion to one of the upper modes of CSS/xhtml/etc etc, its a shitton of work. I know. I started doing it. Keeping up with the template changes, working the changes back into the new templates, testing, committing it... its a lot work.
These people did _not_ do that. I'm not really impressed with what they're showing everyone.
I am impressed with the attention it's seemingly received. There's been two people who've started doing this and both are publically available. There have been many many requests for it over the past 2 years on slashcode and the slashcode list serves... and now it seems ALA comes in and OSDN's calling for help?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the situation or how it's come about. I don't know.
It always seems like we've got many people wanting, but few step up to signup for a portion of work.
Opensource, ya gotta love it
Use a proxy server (we use squid) and stick in ACL-deny lists for porn or other 'adult' sites/topics.
:) I found that difficult to lock-down under Windows.
If they're using Windows, and you don't want them to chat, disable it. Make sure they're not a power-user.
Setup a server for inbound/outbound email. Have it pickup their email, and point their email app (in our case Eudora) to pickup from it. A cronjob every 10 minutes works here. (It will also alleviate the time when your kids try to use Email as a chat, checking email every 20 seconds... yes, we went through that).
That's about all we did. Oh, one of the servers I had setup to save their outbound email, too.
These other posts about trusting them, about privacy... not! These are kids. They are to be taught, and watched over.
Before we did this, we caught our 14 year old daughter on a chat site. From the squid logs, I was able to point out, from the information she gave out, how to find her. It was really simple, putting 2 + 2 together. Needless to say, she was shocked, and embarrased. But that put an end to our letting her on chat networks.
Luckily neither of the kids knows how to disable the proxy server settings in their browsers
Isn't that the idea though? To add new newer features, yet leave the older behavior in there to keep the legions of older MacOS users happy?
I think, for Linux, I'll be looking at Suse or Debian. However, that's now only for my secondary/devel boxes, since I went Mac :)
I don't want to start a religious war or anything, but I'd been using Redhat since it's incarnation. It was the only OS on my laptop, which was my primary/daily-use machine.
This Mac that I've had for a week or two now, I'm using all the apps I used on my Redhat boxen (plus some now) no problems so far.
So if you're looking for a replacement, you might want to consider taking a look at Apple while you're checking out all the other distro's.