I'm running XP MCE 2005, which has had extenders available from Linksys among others, however all those non x-box extenders weren't avaailable outside the US.
iirc, no 3rd party is currently making extenders, and outside the US the ONLY extender that was ever available was the X-Box 360. MS has missed a trick with the media center and it's extender functionality could have been fantastic. As it is, it's a1/2 solution. Should Apple pick this up, and build a complete solution that 'works', I reckon it could pound MS MCE into the dust.
I've been using Windows MediaCenter for a couple of years, and it is, for the most part, a great piece of kit.
I've configured mine with a 5.1 surround system, two digital TV tuners that are HD compatible and 500Gb storage. It runs off a pretty complete remote, as well as having a wireless keyboard and gyroscopic mouse. It acts like a Tivo, or SKY + box, allowing me to watch, record, pause TV and record live TV using Keywords as well as based on time or series. I've got 13,000 music tracks, and several sets of holiday photos and some mpg/avis all stored on there. It also plays DVDs. It can be 'extended' to offer all this functionality using an X-box 360, but this is the only way.
being windows, it DOES, from time to time, lose the TV guide listings, it DOES need rebooting every couple of weeks and there are other minor annoyances. Having bought my first mac this summer (a macbook) I very quickly could see why so many people were switching to macs. I truly believe if Apple could produce a machine as slick as the macbook with all the functionality as I have above , they'd be onto a winner, especially if they could offer a more elegant 'extender' solution.
How can there be more to go wrong with a front loader that has a direct drive DC motor onto a single drum, with no gravity pressure water seals to deal with? as opposed to a paddle/drum, belt drive and water seal that needs to deal with several inches of pressure head of water.
I beg to differ.. front loaders are less complex unless you can tell me otherwise.
don't really have top loaders in the UK, and anyway, since (in the UK at least) washers are often in the kitchen or a utility room, a top loader also robs you of worktop space.
the Kansas City Hyatt walkways weren't a negligent desgin iirc, the problem was in the interpretation of the design. The walkways were suspended by steel rods, which had a nut which supported the Walkway
the design specified that a for each support, a single rod would run vertically down, and each walkway sat on a nut on the rod. The rod was strong enough, each Nut could support a single walkway.
The incorrect interpretation meant that the rod terminated at the first walkway, and a new rod went down to the next level which then terminated, and a third rod then ran to the next walkway down and so on. With 3 walkways suspensed from a nut that was designed to handle the load for 1 walkway it's no surprise it collapsed.
I REALLY wish Offline Files would replicate the folder structure rather than just displaying the files (or am I being a real muppet and missing something?)
You're still mising the point.. the Nuclear power option is only a "stopgap" until something better is developed.
I'm not suggesting that Nuclear power is an answer to all out problems.
We need to reduce power consumption, and develop more environmenatlly friendly ways of generating power, but until thatg happens, we need something to get us by...
a "band-aid" as someone else in this article said.
This Article shows the temperature and CO2 concentration changes for the last 400,000 years taken from the Ice core in Antartica...
Anyone else see a pattern?
Anyone else think that the rise in temp in the last 20,000 years is actually less than previous changes?
If you look at the length of time mankind has been having an effect on the planet, it's a tiny blip on and otherwise large and spiky graph.
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I think the point being made is that Nuclear power Isn't a geniune long-term solution, but more the only PRACTICAL alternative at present
It's true, we do not have an unlimited supply of nuclear materials, but we DO have a longer term supply, which would enable mankind to maintain power generation from Nuclear sources, while alternatives are sought.
The other option is to ignore nuclear power because we all know "all things nuclear are bad", then turn out the lights for a few hundred years when the oil runs out and we're left searching for alternatives.
You're using Fedora, a bleeding edge release, and don't expect bugs and glitches?
The whole Point of the Fedora project is to alert the development team to issues and problems to allow redhat to produce tidier and more robust end-user products.
It's not simply the inherent security (or lack of) in a system that is the problem. If there was a mass migration of users over to Linux or any other OS, there would still be the problem of the average (l)user not maintaining an up-to-date system, and leaving things wide open.
There is an element of security by obscurity with Linux etc purely because it's not as widely used as Windows. I reckon you can be pretty confident that, as it's popularity grows, so will the attention it receives from the virus writing community.
There are some things in the way Linux etc is built that makes it more immune to viruses, but in my mind that would probably mean that IF a relatively succesful virus could be written for the Linux OS, it would be more likely to have a much more devastating effect than the average guff pumped out by script-kiddies, since it's more liekly to have been written by an accomplished black-hat type.
I have a compaq presario 2111EA I got at a bargain price...
since then I've put in a bigger HD and added more memory, so technically I've screwed the warranty..
I cracked the display, and thought it was going to cost a fortune..
not so.. I contacted a few private suppliers who were quoting silly, then tried Compaq directly, who said it would cost about 300, and they would process the shipping as if it was in warranty, to save me the costs (wayhey says I, since the repairs center it was going to is in the Netherlands and I'm in the UK)..
a nice UPS box arrives the next day, and there the saga pauses for a bit, as work and other commitments mean I NEED the laptop, and so I'm using it with an attached monitor...
3 months later, I finally get a break, put the lappie in a box and call UPS for a collection. 3 weeks later UPS drop off the lappie, all fixed and I'm very happy.. as for the 300 bill? still waiting.. looks like it was processed as a warranty repair, even tho A: I'd be inside the case and invalidadted the warranty, and B: cracked displays aren't even covered under warranty.
I'm very happy with Compaq's service, but I put this down to the inefficiencies of a large company, and not deliberate "good treatment". maybe I'm just a sceptic, after the last compaq I had (and evo 110) kept dying due to overheating. just my 1/5 of 6p's worth.
for most of my work, I use a laptop. I've got a linux box under my desk at home, amnd use that for backups and file storage for all but important/critical files that I might be working on.
Can anyone tell me what a desktop/tower configured PC can offer over a laptop for 95% of regular computer usage?
My laptop can do everything I need of it, and it's smaller, lighter and quieter than a tower. and it's mobile...
the only REAL benefit a tower configuration has for me, is that it allows upgrades more easily, rather than having to be completely replaced when it becomes obsolete.
Cable might well outdo *DSL, but here in the UK, the basic DSL packages and Cable (Blueyonder) packages are similar in price And in Download speed. The advantage DSL has over Cable here, is that IIRC, Cable tends to have only a 33kbps upload speed, against DSL's 256. Only the the 1meg cable packages have 256kbps upload speeds, but they are almost twice as expensive as the 512/256 DSL packages. TBH, 512/256 dsl does all I need of it.
I serve webpagaes (in a dev environment so not monod traffic) do a bit of p2p, play counterstrike, and sometimes run a private shoutcast server and it does more than enough. The added advantage that ADSL here, runs on the back of my BT telephone line is a bonus.. no second lines needing installed.. I reckon ADSL is more flexible for serious home/geek use.
Oh, and although it's DHCP, I've had the same IP address for almost a year, despite the occasional router crash, dropped connection and just plain power-offs.
at the end of the day, a few kbps here or their is largely immaterial. Does it do what you want, when you want it.. that's what is important in my book.
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no.. it is you who are mistaken.
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Noone mentioned anything about Vista.
I'm running XP MCE 2005, which has had extenders available from Linksys among others, however all those non x-box extenders weren't avaailable outside the US.
http://www.laptopmag.com/Review/Linksys-Media-Ext
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iirc, no 3rd party is currently making extenders, and outside the US the ONLY extender that was ever available was the X-Box 360. MS has missed a trick with the media center and it's extender functionality could have been fantastic. As it is, it's a1/2 solution. Should Apple pick this up, and build a complete solution that 'works', I reckon it could pound MS MCE into the dust.
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I've been using Windows MediaCenter for a couple of years, and it is, for the most part, a great piece of kit.
I've configured mine with a 5.1 surround system, two digital TV tuners that are HD compatible and 500Gb storage. It runs off a pretty complete remote, as well as having a wireless keyboard and gyroscopic mouse. It acts like a Tivo, or SKY + box, allowing me to watch, record, pause TV and record live TV using Keywords as well as based on time or series. I've got 13,000 music tracks, and several sets of holiday photos and some mpg/avis all stored on there. It also plays DVDs. It can be 'extended' to offer all this functionality using an X-box 360, but this is the only way.
being windows, it DOES, from time to time, lose the TV guide listings, it DOES need rebooting every couple of weeks and there are other minor annoyances. Having bought my first mac this summer (a macbook) I very quickly could see why so many people were switching to macs. I truly believe if Apple could produce a machine as slick as the macbook with all the functionality as I have above , they'd be onto a winner, especially if they could offer a more elegant 'extender' solution.
I'd pre-order mine now, if I could.
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How can there be more to go wrong with a front loader that has a direct drive DC motor onto a single drum, with no gravity pressure water seals to deal with? as opposed to a paddle/drum, belt drive and water seal that needs to deal with several inches of pressure head of water.
I beg to differ.. front loaders are less complex unless you can tell me otherwise.
don't really have top loaders in the UK, and anyway, since (in the UK at least) washers are often in the kitchen or a utility room, a top loader also robs you of worktop space.
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the Kansas City Hyatt walkways weren't a negligent desgin iirc, the problem was in the interpretation of the design. The walkways were suspended by steel rods, which had a nut which supported the Walkway
the design specified that a for each support, a single rod would run vertically down, and each walkway sat on a nut on the rod. The rod was strong enough, each Nut could support a single walkway.
The incorrect interpretation meant that the rod terminated at the first walkway, and a new rod went down to the next level which then terminated, and a third rod then ran to the next walkway down and so on. With 3 walkways suspensed from a nut that was designed to handle the load for 1 walkway it's no surprise it collapsed.
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I always thought a floater was caused by inadequate flushing?
I do recognise that it takes something special to make a film that's anywhere as good as the book.
Other "cyberpunk" genre book-film conversions haven't gone as well.. Johnny Nmemonic springs to mind.
I do think, tho, that Snowcrash has a wide enough spread plot, that it coud be done with something for everyone.
Since so many others have commented along similar lines, here's my tuppenceworth.
Neal Stephenson's SnowCrash would be an Awesome film.
andanotherthing.......
I REALLY wish Offline Files would replicate the folder structure rather than just displaying the files (or am I being a real muppet and missing something?)
it's not a defect.. it's a "feature"
I actually prefer my grandfather's 1950's mechanical self winder to any current fancy "geekery"...
there's a simple elegance about a mechanical timepiece that a digital system can never quite match
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"In fact, they're now finding that most Women have large quantities of PBDEs in their breast milk"
Just as well.. can you imagine.. flame-thrower jubblies..
btw wrong thread???
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Didn't you have to hold down a button for a few seconds on your old Casio watches to enable the "time edit", "alarm edit" or "date edit" function?
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You're still mising the point.. the Nuclear power option is only a "stopgap" until something better is developed.
I'm not suggesting that Nuclear power is an answer to all out problems.
We need to reduce power consumption, and develop more environmenatlly friendly ways of generating power, but until thatg happens, we need something to get us by...
a "band-aid" as someone else in this article said.
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This Article shows the temperature and CO2 concentration changes for the last 400,000 years taken from the Ice core in Antartica... Anyone else see a pattern? Anyone else think that the rise in temp in the last 20,000 years is actually less than previous changes? If you look at the length of time mankind has been having an effect on the planet, it's a tiny blip on and otherwise large and spiky graph. a
I think the point being made is that Nuclear power Isn't a geniune long-term solution, but more the only PRACTICAL alternative at present
It's true, we do not have an unlimited supply of nuclear materials, but we DO have a longer term supply, which would enable mankind to maintain power generation from Nuclear sources, while alternatives are sought.
The other option is to ignore nuclear power because we all know "all things nuclear are bad", then turn out the lights for a few hundred years when the oil runs out and we're left searching for alternatives.
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What if.. ...it could take some collaboration (Sharp intake of breath) between Linux developers and MS?
someone wake me up.. I must be dreaming
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You're using Fedora, a bleeding edge release, and don't expect bugs and glitches?
The whole Point of the Fedora project is to alert the development team to issues and problems to allow redhat to produce tidier and more robust end-user products.
It's not simply the inherent security (or lack of) in a system that is the problem. If there was a mass migration of users over to Linux or any other OS, there would still be the problem of the average (l)user not maintaining an up-to-date system, and leaving things wide open.
There is an element of security by obscurity with Linux etc purely because it's not as widely used as Windows. I reckon you can be pretty confident that, as it's popularity grows, so will the attention it receives from the virus writing community.
There are some things in the way Linux etc is built that makes it more immune to viruses, but in my mind that would probably mean that IF a relatively succesful virus could be written for the Linux OS, it would be more likely to have a much more devastating effect than the average guff pumped out by script-kiddies, since it's more liekly to have been written by an accomplished black-hat type.
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You mean there is porn out there that doesn't involve the lovely Ms Portman?
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Pointing out the impracticalities of a something they tout as a solution for a vulnerability in their software is hardly MS bashing.
I have a compaq presario 2111EA I got at a bargain price...
since then I've put in a bigger HD and added more memory, so technically I've screwed the warranty..
I cracked the display, and thought it was going to cost a fortune..
not so.. I contacted a few private suppliers who were quoting silly, then tried Compaq directly, who said it would cost about 300, and they would process the shipping as if it was in warranty, to save me the costs (wayhey says I, since the repairs center it was going to is in the Netherlands and I'm in the UK)..
a nice UPS box arrives the next day, and there the saga pauses for a bit, as work and other commitments mean I NEED the laptop, and so I'm using it with an attached monitor...
3 months later, I finally get a break, put the lappie in a box and call UPS for a collection. 3 weeks later UPS drop off the lappie, all fixed and I'm very happy.. as for the 300 bill? still waiting.. looks like it was processed as a warranty repair, even tho A: I'd be inside the case and invalidadted the warranty, and B: cracked displays aren't even covered under warranty.
I'm very happy with Compaq's service, but I put this down to the inefficiencies of a large company, and not deliberate "good treatment". maybe I'm just a sceptic, after the last compaq I had (and evo 110) kept dying due to overheating.
just my 1/5 of 6p's worth.
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Two wheels, man.. two wheels... more fun than an Xbox anyday...
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for most of my work, I use a laptop. I've got a linux box under my desk at home, amnd use that for backups and file storage for all but important/critical files that I might be working on.
Can anyone tell me what a desktop/tower configured PC can offer over a laptop for 95% of regular computer usage?
My laptop can do everything I need of it, and it's smaller, lighter and quieter than a tower. and it's mobile...
the only REAL benefit a tower configuration has for me, is that it allows upgrades more easily, rather than having to be completely replaced when it becomes obsolete.
just my tuppeny's worth
Cable might well outdo *DSL, but here in the UK, the basic DSL packages and Cable (Blueyonder) packages are similar in price And in Download speed. The advantage DSL has over Cable here, is that IIRC, Cable tends to have only a 33kbps upload speed, against DSL's 256. Only the the 1meg cable packages have 256kbps upload speeds, but they are almost twice as expensive as the 512/256 DSL packages. TBH, 512/256 dsl does all I need of it.
I serve webpagaes (in a dev environment so not monod traffic) do a bit of p2p, play counterstrike, and sometimes run a private shoutcast server and it does more than enough. The added advantage that ADSL here, runs on the back of my BT telephone line is a bonus.. no second lines needing installed.. I reckon ADSL is more flexible for serious home/geek use.
Oh, and although it's DHCP, I've had the same IP address for almost a year, despite the occasional router crash, dropped connection and just plain power-offs.
at the end of the day, a few kbps here or their is largely immaterial. Does it do what you want, when you want it.. that's what is important in my book.
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