Welcome to the slashdot-burnt-out-geek-swicher's club.
You will be more then happy.
I find I'm not fucking with the machines in the house nearly as much. Not because I have to (got enough of that at work). Now it's because I want to. I didn't buy a mini, it didn't exist back then. We bought a refurb iBook for the family (I got a 15" Powerbook).
Neither [techweb.com] (except if you're dumb enough to not have installed Windows XP SP2)
And that's what percentage of home Windows users out there? 80-90%? (in my experience, it could be higher then that)
And that's *if* they're running XP. 95, 98, ME... sp2's for them as well?
While I applaud MS for what they're trying to do with XPsp2, I think you are barking on the wrong tree. The parent author didn't mention one thing about spending time (ie a special step) installing updates and service packs.
You are assuming that people would do that. And that's an added step, not along the lines of what the parent author proposed.
I am getting sick of applications that have no reason to need administrator privileges not running correctly.
Same here. We get bit by this all the time at work. Old Pagemaker, DB clients, services... bah it can be quite agrevating.
Once the search engines become polluted, people are going to start looking for valuable _content_
But isn't that the dilemma. As the search engines become more polluted, it's more difficult for people to use the SE, and the results the SE returns just aren't what they used to be. So finding the sites with the good _content_ becomes more difficult to do.
I'll second that. We picked ours up for $99 direct from them last summer. Everyone in the family easily uses it. It's got ethernet (I wish GB) that I can suck shows off of easily to my Powerbook.
I can also load it w/ photos from the Digital Rebel 300D so everyone can view them easily in the family room off the tv set.
I wish it had multiple tuners, and a bigger hd. But it has commercial skip which kicks ass.
I pay for the public school system through property taxes and Federal income taxes and I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS. Why exactly should you be exempted from paying taxes for public schools, or get vouchers, so you can defray the cost of sending your kid to a plush private school while I still have to help pay for public schools, probably even more so if you people opt out, and I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS.
Interesting that you bring this up. Our school district last year claimed soon-near-bankruptcy, and put a funding measure on the books. When it wasn't doing too well in the local gossip, they announced that they would cut have to cut all extra curicular activities, or do a pay-as-you-go deal.
That caused a bit of an uproar, but not much.
Then they announced if it didn't go through, they would be forced to cut all the bussing.
That got everyone riled up, and then the vote swung for them.
People didn't realize that in Ohio, under current law, there are certain age groups of children that the school district MUST bus.
During all that, we were contemplating funding et all. And I asked a similar question. Right now I have one kid in the district. I pay for 2.5 kids worth of extra curicular funding in my taxes.
The guy down the street from me has 5 kids. One or two have just entered the district. The others are too young.
In Ohio, schools are paid by property taxes. So - I'm paying more then my share for his kids to goto school. By him choosing to have multiple children, the rest of the city's taxpayers are funding his kids. He chose to have >1 kid. But he doesn't have to pay to educate each child, accordingly.
I don't know if Ohio's funding situation is unusual, or not. Though the Ohio Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional about 5 years ago, and declared that it should be changed. It's not been... yet.
Don't do this. The pump draws too much. Get a natural-gas generator. You can hook the generator into your electric panel so it'll kick off when the power goes out.
UPS all your hardware to cover the few seconds between the outtage and the delay before the generator kicks on. The UPS's will also help the power spike, if any, and the noise on the line from the generator.
1) no live expansion 2) haven't had much luck running 3dm/2 with Fedora Core 3 and my 8500-8 card.
Other then that, it's been great. The entire family uses the server for various needs. And knowing that all of our digital pictures are that much safer is nice.
The easiest solution against theft/fire/physical problems is a few larger capacity sata/eide drives in scsi/firewire enclosures.
You can rsync/backup/incremental backup to those, and make a weekly drop at your bank's safety deposit box.
Depending on the # of drives/enclosures and your directory structure in your raid setup you may be able to put your/pictures on one drive and/music on another drive, etc etc.
This gives you offsite backups. Sure a tape system that could backup everything each nite would be even better, but the cost of such a beast is prohibitive.
3. As I said, the differentiating factor is the ability to grow a setup by adding a disk, without the need to back up the data to another location. Can 3Ware do this? Last I checked (about 2 months ago) they could not.
Yeah, that's the bitch with the 3ware cards. My 8500 can't expand. I heard the newest cards, with their still-beta 3dmd2, can do expansion, but I can't verify that on my own.
You want to be able to pause your mp3 player to answer your phone without losing your place
I would think this is a software issue. And unless the phone did this automatically for you, there's no chance in hell I'd buy it. There are enough issues with people being able to answer the phones they already have before the call goes to voicemail, there's no need to complicate it further.
you want to be able to run your mp3 player all night without your phone battery being dead in the morning
Yeah, this is key. For as small as cell phones are becoming, I fail to see where something's going to have the battery power to drive a phone w/ a tiny hd in it for much longer then a day of light use w/o going dead. And that's *if* you could get it to last that long.
That would just suck. I like being able to listen to the iPod at will, and it's power just lasts and lasts for most tasks If it happens to go dead, fine, but I won't miss a call.
I know this is going to sound lame - but you're not factoring in the 'time' factor.
Order it all online, wait for it to get here, unpack, take home, install.
Not much time/effort there. And there won't be *IF* things work correctly as they should. Got the right driver? Free PCI slot? Extra slide-railes for the open bay in the case? Where's the screw driver set's heads (the kids took them again...). Hope that f/w card's chipset doesn't have issues with any other h/w I've got.... etc etc.
While I grant you that the $132 is far cheaper then a new Mac Mini, if thing's don't go too well with the homebrew system, one can easily spend enough hours tinkering with it to justify plunking ~$500 down and having it 'just work'.
Yep. That's the same conclusion we all recently came to.
We're giving them exactly what they want, for free. And by doing that, they have no incentive to buy better hardware (oh, they guys will make it work some how, we don't need to buy new equipment) and they absolutely have no incentive to hire more help (oh they'll get it done somehow).
So we've all started the campaign to try and stop staying late, and stop coming early, and stop working at home, and on weekends.
Since we've begun this, things have *slowed* down drastically there.
And you know what, it's not our problem. We're all looking for new jobs. They can hire college newbies who don't know was much, have less experience, cost less, but are willing to work 12 hours a day. I wish them luck. I won't be their bitch for much longer.
That still depends on many, many things. Your debt being the biggest thing. Ours (mine and my wife's) is her student loan debt. Combined, we're over 100k. However, you add in 2 cars, a house, student loans, and 2 kids (one gearing up for college), health problems (health insurance doesn't cover much these days anymore) and the $ doesn't go that far.
And no - no big screen tv, no HD, no xbox, no PS2, no porche, no jag... ok, a slew of computers, I'll admit to that;)
You're correct that cost of living would have a huge part of it, but there can be many more issues.
We've got a guy at work who recently quit smoking. He's been having pain all over - not from having quit smoking (he didn't smoke that much anyway). It's coming from him not getting up every once in a while for a smoke break.
Instead, he's sitting there for 4++ hours straight w/o getting up and moving. Not good.
But sometimes when you get on a roll, a few hours can go buy, hell, even most of a day, and the code's just flowin and... next thing you know your arms, back, hands, wrists and eyes are just fried.
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Oh c'mon. They're not. If they were, Apple would be publicising the shit out of that fact.
Besides, don't the dual core G5's lack the Altivec code? I'd think that's a major stumbling block for Apple to use 'em.
The city's been shrinking over the past umpteen years because of loss of jobs.
:(
If you've been to Downtown Dayton, there's really not much left. One square mile is covered so far? There's not much more then that
I never thought I would be this way
Welcome to the slashdot-burnt-out-geek-swicher's club.
You will be more then happy.
I find I'm not fucking with the machines in the house nearly as much. Not because I have to (got enough of that at work). Now it's because I want to. I didn't buy a mini, it didn't exist back then. We bought a refurb iBook for the family (I got a 15" Powerbook).
Been very happy with it ever since.
But you still can't do a fulltext index on a myISAM :(
Neither [techweb.com] (except if you're dumb enough to not have installed Windows XP SP2)
And that's what percentage of home Windows users out there? 80-90%? (in my experience, it could be higher then that)
And that's *if* they're running XP. 95, 98, ME... sp2's for them as well?
While I applaud MS for what they're trying to do with XPsp2, I think you are barking on the wrong tree. The parent author didn't mention one thing about spending time (ie a special step) installing updates and service packs.
You are assuming that people would do that. And that's an added step, not along the lines of what the parent author proposed.
I am getting sick of applications that have no reason to need administrator privileges not running correctly.
Same here. We get bit by this all the time at work. Old Pagemaker, DB clients, services... bah it can be quite agrevating.
Once the search engines become polluted, people are going to start looking for valuable _content_
But isn't that the dilemma. As the search engines become more polluted, it's more difficult for people to use the SE, and the results the SE returns just aren't what they used to be. So finding the sites with the good _content_ becomes more difficult to do.
Women tend to take those 3 far more seriously then men do. Consequently, WTF would they bother with I.T.?
Does no one like ReplayTV anymore?
;)
Maybe they're too busy watching what's recorded on 'em instead of reading Slashdot?
Our family loves our ReplayTV. Got it for $99. Time/$ wise at the time it beat building a MythTV, for me atleast.
The replay is PERFECT
I'll second that. We picked ours up for $99 direct from them last summer. Everyone in the family easily uses it. It's got ethernet (I wish GB) that I can suck shows off of easily to my Powerbook.
I can also load it w/ photos from the Digital Rebel 300D so everyone can view them easily in the family room off the tv set.
I wish it had multiple tuners, and a bigger hd. But it has commercial skip which kicks ass.
I pay for the public school system through property taxes and Federal income taxes and I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS. Why exactly should you be exempted from paying taxes for public schools, or get vouchers, so you can defray the cost of sending your kid to a plush private school while I still have to help pay for public schools, probably even more so if you people opt out, and I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS.
Interesting that you bring this up. Our school district last year claimed soon-near-bankruptcy, and put a funding measure on the books. When it wasn't doing too well in the local gossip, they announced that they would cut have to cut all extra curicular activities, or do a pay-as-you-go deal.
That caused a bit of an uproar, but not much.
Then they announced if it didn't go through, they would be forced to cut all the bussing.
That got everyone riled up, and then the vote swung for them.
People didn't realize that in Ohio, under current law, there are certain age groups of children that the school district MUST bus.
During all that, we were contemplating funding et all. And I asked a similar question. Right now I have one kid in the district. I pay for 2.5 kids worth of extra curicular funding in my taxes.
The guy down the street from me has 5 kids. One or two have just entered the district. The others are too young.
In Ohio, schools are paid by property taxes. So - I'm paying more then my share for his kids to goto school. By him choosing to have multiple children, the rest of the city's taxpayers are funding his kids. He chose to have >1 kid. But he doesn't have to pay to educate each child, accordingly.
I don't know if Ohio's funding situation is unusual, or not. Though the Ohio Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional about 5 years ago, and declared that it should be changed. It's not been... yet.
Don't do this. The pump draws too much. Get a natural-gas generator. You can hook the generator into your electric panel so it'll kick off when the power goes out.
UPS all your hardware to cover the few seconds between the outtage and the delay before the generator kicks on. The UPS's will also help the power spike, if any, and the noise on the line from the generator.
I did this - see So I'm buildin a fileserver.
My only complaints with my 3ware card:
1) no live expansion
2) haven't had much luck running 3dm/2 with Fedora Core 3 and my 8500-8 card.
Other then that, it's been great. The entire family uses the server for various needs. And knowing that all of our digital pictures are that much safer is nice.
The easiest solution against theft/fire/physical problems is a few larger capacity sata/eide drives in scsi/firewire enclosures.
/pictures on one drive and /music on another drive, etc etc.
You can rsync/backup/incremental backup to those, and make a weekly drop at your bank's safety deposit box.
Depending on the # of drives/enclosures and your directory structure in your raid setup you may be able to put your
This gives you offsite backups. Sure a tape system that could backup everything each nite would be even better, but the cost of such a beast is prohibitive.
3. As I said, the differentiating factor is the ability to grow a setup by adding a disk, without the need to back up the data to another location. Can 3Ware do this? Last I checked (about 2 months ago) they could not.
Yeah, that's the bitch with the 3ware cards. My 8500 can't expand. I heard the newest cards, with their still-beta 3dmd2, can do expansion, but I can't verify that on my own.
You want to be able to pause your mp3 player to answer your phone without losing your place
I would think this is a software issue. And unless the phone did this automatically for you, there's no chance in hell I'd buy it. There are enough issues with people being able to answer the phones they already have before the call goes to voicemail, there's no need to complicate it further.
you want to be able to run your mp3 player all night without your phone battery being dead in the morning
Yeah, this is key. For as small as cell phones are becoming, I fail to see where something's going to have the battery power to drive a phone w/ a tiny hd in it for much longer then a day of light use w/o going dead. And that's *if* you could get it to last that long.
That would just suck. I like being able to listen to the iPod at will, and it's power just lasts and lasts for most tasks If it happens to go dead, fine, but I won't miss a call.
I had a puffer fish that would recognize people. It's amazing to see a fish like that go into a frenzy when you walk in the door.
heh, reminds me of this chick we nicknamed snaggletooth...
I know this is going to sound lame - but you're not factoring in the 'time' factor.
Order it all online, wait for it to get here, unpack, take home, install.
Not much time/effort there. And there won't be *IF* things work correctly as they should. Got the right driver? Free PCI slot? Extra slide-railes for the open bay in the case? Where's the screw driver set's heads (the kids took them again...). Hope that f/w card's chipset doesn't have issues with any other h/w I've got.... etc etc.
While I grant you that the $132 is far cheaper then a new Mac Mini, if thing's don't go too well with the homebrew system, one can easily spend enough hours tinkering with it to justify plunking ~$500 down and having it 'just work'.
For software, Cinelerra is the best editing suite out there. I haven't used Final Cut Pro
Just curious - if you haven't used an application, how can you declare that another app is better then it?
When the feds finally apprehended Mitnick, they never got the data off his drive
So the question becomes how did he encrypt the data?
Just be patient. With global warming, it's coming to you soon enough...
Yep. That's the same conclusion we all recently came to.
We're giving them exactly what they want, for free. And by doing that, they have no incentive to buy better hardware (oh, they guys will make it work some how, we don't need to buy new equipment) and they absolutely have no incentive to hire more help (oh they'll get it done somehow).
So we've all started the campaign to try and stop staying late, and stop coming early, and stop working at home, and on weekends.
Since we've begun this, things have *slowed* down drastically there.
And you know what, it's not our problem. We're all looking for new jobs. They can hire college newbies who don't know was much, have less experience, cost less, but are willing to work 12 hours a day. I wish them luck. I won't be their bitch for much longer.
Programming jobs, however, are by their very nature, rushed
Yeah, our manager keeps telling us that too.
Personally, I see it as being caused from improper planning, poor management, and lack of willingness to devote proper resources to the cause.
That still depends on many, many things. Your debt being the biggest thing. Ours (mine and my wife's) is her student loan debt. Combined, we're over 100k. However, you add in 2 cars, a house, student loans, and 2 kids (one gearing up for college), health problems (health insurance doesn't cover much these days anymore) and the $ doesn't go that far.
;)
And no - no big screen tv, no HD, no xbox, no PS2, no porche, no jag... ok, a slew of computers, I'll admit to that
You're correct that cost of living would have a huge part of it, but there can be many more issues.
Yep, it sure can be. I've seen it.
We've got a guy at work who recently quit smoking. He's been having pain all over - not from having quit smoking (he didn't smoke that much anyway). It's coming from him not getting up every once in a while for a smoke break.
Instead, he's sitting there for 4++ hours straight w/o getting up and moving. Not good.
But sometimes when you get on a roll, a few hours can go buy, hell, even most of a day, and the code's just flowin and... next thing you know your arms, back, hands, wrists and eyes are just fried.