I purchased a Sager laptop, which is really a clevo rebranded. Alienware rebrands these, if you look at some of the models, you can see that it's just a fancy paintjob. It was (6 months ago) about $500 dollars less than the competing voodoo or alienware for the same power.
The same machines are rebranded as prostars also, so check them out if you are in the market.
I've been very happy with my laptop, even though it weighs in at 9.5 lbs. It took some time to find a backpack that the monster fit in, but now I'm really mobile, when I want to haul it.
It is true that I don't leave the house with it often, but all the mobility I was really looking for was around the house and on business trips. I'm rarely away from the power grid, so battery isn't that big of a deal. It's only got an our of life. And no, I will not give you my home address...
Anyone manage to get the captive portal running on one of these things? (Such as http://nocat.net/ 's splashd)
I've got a public location that would be great to dump yet another trashheap box on the network for a captive portal.
Public hotspots generally don't have much room for hardware.
Proxim makes an access point that has a captive portal bundled in (the ap2500), but it is cost prohibitive ($800'ish last time I checked) and if you want to customize it for your location and user policies, you've got to run a webserver that it redirects you to.
Bundling this in would make this (more) useful for many more people.
I used to work for a non-profit community network in Western North Carolina called Mountain Area Information Network (http://www.main.nc.us/). They raise revenue by offering dial up service to 13+ counties in the Appalachian mountain region of North Carolina, many of which have few/no other dial up options. They have been successful for many years starting service in 95. They were originally grant funded, but are now self sufficiant, and are planning on getting a Low Power FM station to further enhance the sence of community.
One of the best things is that they have used Linux since the beginning. They are always looking for volunteers, too!
Gyp
One of the greatest things about PHP is that it is easy for people with little/no programming skills to pick up and create web applications. To push it to a full fledged language defeats the purpose, in my opinion.
We try to push everything (languages, OS's, apps) to try to be everything to everyone. PHP is great for what it is. If you want to create a GUI, use something that was built for it the ground up for it. If you want to create an interactive database driven website (and you don't know perl) use PHP.
I hope this doesn't ever work itself into the main distribution of PHP... More bloat. My webserver doesn't like it already...
Except that Versign (Network Solutions) already has control of.us, which quietly changed hands around November of last year. Supposedly, they are running it for a year, on contract from the Commerce Dept., but I don't believe that they will ever give it up. Rumour has it that they may start charging.
I remember when they sent out the letter to all the admins of the.us. It was over Thanksgiving weekend, and it said something like, "If you don't agree to this contract, notify in 7 days, and we will revoke your.us domain. Otherwise, we take no notice as agreement."
Funny thing is that the mailing list they created to send to all the domains was left open, and all the admins of the.us domains started chatting (Ok, fumming) with eachother. Seems that Verisign/NSI can't even set up a mailing list correctly. We expect them to be able to manage most of the worlds TLD?
So, if you are in the US, and they lock out.com,.org and.net, you can't turn to.us without dealing w/ the same jerks. I suppose you've got to go offshore... (Anyone heard anything about Sealand lately?) This was much more fun when it was the wild west, I tell you...
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IR projection keyboard (http://www.alpern.org/weblog/stories/2003/01/09/p rojectionKeyboards.html)
and a built in projector. That way, you don't have to carry much with you to have a large screen (on the wall) and a keyboard.
Of course, add all the usual suspects, wifi, bt, phone, etc...
I'm sure the projector isn't feasable, but it would be darn cool.
I purchased a Sager laptop, which is really a clevo rebranded. Alienware rebrands these, if you look at some of the models, you can see that it's just a fancy paintjob. It was (6 months ago) about $500 dollars less than the competing voodoo or alienware for the same power.
The same machines are rebranded as prostars also, so check them out if you are in the market.
I've been very happy with my laptop, even though it weighs in at 9.5 lbs. It took some time to find a backpack that the monster fit in, but now I'm really mobile, when I want to haul it.
It is true that I don't leave the house with it often, but all the mobility I was really looking for was around the house and on business trips. I'm rarely away from the power grid, so battery isn't that big of a deal. It's only got an our of life. And no, I will not give you my home address...
You're doing ~WHAT~ over the net?
Anyone manage to get the captive portal running on one of these things? (Such as http://nocat.net/ 's splashd)
I've got a public location that would be great to dump yet another trashheap box on the network for a captive portal.
Public hotspots generally don't have much room for hardware.
Proxim makes an access point that has a captive portal bundled in (the ap2500), but it is cost prohibitive ($800'ish last time I checked) and if you want to customize it for your location and user policies, you've got to run a webserver that it redirects you to.
Bundling this in would make this (more) useful for many more people.
Thanks,
Gyp
The article had 3, yes 3, banner ads for AMD when I viewed it.
Conspiracy mod ~ON~
Whatever you do, don't choose this one. You are supported by the table scraps from both the other sectors...
I used to work for a non-profit community network in Western North Carolina called Mountain Area Information Network (http://www.main.nc.us/). They raise revenue by offering dial up service to 13+ counties in the Appalachian mountain region of North Carolina, many of which have few/no other dial up options. They have been successful for many years starting service in 95. They were originally grant funded, but are now self sufficiant, and are planning on getting a Low Power FM station to further enhance the sence of community. One of the best things is that they have used Linux since the beginning. They are always looking for volunteers, too! Gyp
We try to push everything (languages, OS's, apps) to try to be everything to everyone. PHP is great for what it is. If you want to create a GUI, use something that was built for it the ground up for it. If you want to create an interactive database driven website (and you don't know perl) use PHP.
I hope this doesn't ever work itself into the main distribution of PHP... More bloat. My webserver doesn't like it already...
Gyp.
Except that Versign (Network Solutions) already has control of .us, which quietly changed hands around November of last year. Supposedly, they are running it for a year, on contract from the Commerce Dept., but I don't believe that they will ever give it up. Rumour has it that they may start charging.
I remember when they sent out the letter to all the admins of the .us. It was over Thanksgiving weekend, and it said something like, "If you don't agree to this contract, notify in 7 days, and we will revoke your .us domain. Otherwise, we take no notice as agreement."
Funny thing is that the mailing list they created to send to all the domains was left open, and all the admins of the .us domains started chatting (Ok, fumming) with eachother. Seems that Verisign/NSI can't even set up a mailing list correctly. We expect them to be able to manage most of the worlds TLD?
So, if you are in the US, and they lock out .com, .org and .net, you can't turn to .us without dealing w/ the same jerks. I suppose you've got to go offshore... (Anyone heard anything about Sealand lately?) This was much more fun when it was the wild west, I tell you...
Gyp.