another good place to get countertops are at rv manufacturing plants
my mother got a contractor to re-do her kitchen a few years ago. in the end, she had all of her old cabinets just sitting in the backyard, doing nothing. for $20 or so, I got about 35 feet of 28" inch deep countertop. bolted the old cabinets to the garage walls, threw the countertop on that, and presto... my mom's garage has the nicest looking cabinets on the block
keep a browser window open to check on the coffee, and keep the thing in your kitchen. when you don't hear the jet engine blaring anymore, you know your beer is good and cold. stick a few brats behind the exhaust, and pitch your bbq
as for the monitors... have you considered a monitor arm? get a good one that lets you move it around if need be. i keep my kvm'd monitor on one of those, and it can be quite useful, especially when i'm working on some boxen and need the monitor to follow me
Not sure about in private environments, but in academia-land, we (previous position) setup a tiered support level.
Tier 1: only we (comp supp group) have the root pw. for nt, we would also be the only ones with the local admin password
Tier 2: root password is shared. on nt, local admin password is shared, or they (customer) has the local admin password and we still have domain admin rights; all 9x machines and macs
Tier 3: we have no root/admin access at all.
Depending on the tier determined when we would get to them. If a grad student installs some software and hoses the machine, but it's tier 3, it may be a few weeks until we get to it. tier 1 machines we'd get to that day, or the next. tier 2 was generally in a few days.
Like I said... that's in academia-land, where customers aren't paying (at least here). Tell your client, "if he fubars the machine, don't look at me"... whether they go with that or not, who knows. doesn't hurt to ask
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Well, first off, we don't have Novell, so that's going to be a little different... secondly, I work in a department, so I don't configure how the scheme is setup... I just configure the machines afterwards
... however, as far as getting TCP/IP going, we procured a 2nd class B. In each subnet (255 ips per segment is how the network people configured it), the first 30 are 'temporary', the next 200 or so are 'permanent', and the remaining are reserved for static IPs in that range...
The routers on campus know to only let those first 30 ips (the 'temporary' ones) go to one machine (it's a beefed up to hell linux machine) on campus. On that machine, users can register their mac address and tie it to an ip. A simple ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew (or equiv based on os) gives them an ip in that block of 200 or so 'permanent' ips.
We tell people to use DHCP aka 'Obtain an IP address automatically' and give them a small printout on how to do it, based on their OS. I say 'permanent' because so long as they are in the same subnet as they registered originally, they'll get the same ip. if they move to a different building (eg, switch dorms, or even go to a class with ether jacks in the room), they'll have to register a new ip using the same process
The last 20 or so ips, like I said, are reserved for static addys, but its not like we can really prevent anyone from tapping into them. However, when we find out someone is using them, fire up some SNMP tools, figure out which port on the switch that IP is using, pull their mac addy, find out who registered the IP, and give them a ring (a visit or turn off their port on the switch if we're pissed enough ).
That's basically how we do the TCP/IP part, but you'd have to have another scheme to do the Novell stuff.
Someone else suggested having a demonstration or something and passing out printed info sheets there...
It works rather well for us. W9x through XP work fine, as do the nixens... macs are a little different, because the machine has to be powered off for a few minutes before getting a more 'permanent' ip
we also have some wireless access points around campus, that are *supposed* to work the same was as with cables, but it's not looking so hot lately
heh. he lives in my apartment complex, and i know exactly where his apartment is (i have a friend over there on that side of the complex). i'll go tell him his box got 0wN3d then hand him my 4.3R CD =)
now all my bids for rack mounted systems are outbid.
you know, with as many of these 'build your own home nuclear reactor' type stories, ebay needs to start give/. a cut of the action for as much bidders/. sends their way
I remember reading on/. (wasn't a story, but a reply to one) that some guy registered this, AOL caught wind of it like 2 days later, and it was gone, off the root servers.
live at the South Pole, and not the North Pole. If they did, maybe Tux and his crew could have been on that iceberg that sank Titanic, to laugh and piss on diCaprio as he was freezing in the water...or maybe to save him. Please, someone tell me Tux isn't like that.
A lot of digital editing for Titanic (the one with diCaprio) was done on linux.
It would have been funny to see the post-production people for Titanic throw a couple of Tux's on that iceberg though. Just imagine... ice falling all over the deck, and Tux is there kicking diCaprio's ass, and getting some tail for himself from Winslett.
I tried many a modem for hosting a BBS, but that USR Courier was the only one that ALWAYS worked.
Hell yea! I had good luck with Sportsters too, but the Courier is what was my bread and butter. People with Cardinals, Bocas, and even sometimes some Hayes would have problems connecting to the Sportster line, so I told them to use the Courier line. Worked like a charm. =)
He also seems upset that people can use these devices to record content onto a hard drive without paying royalties to the content companies.... This guy seems to never have heard of the Betamax court case which legitimized time-shifting.
I don't think he has ever heard of a VCR, let alone a Betamax.
When will the TV industry come upon the fact that Dvorak doesn't know his shit, and that the man and woman that used to be on PBS know more than he does?
is called NLX. Dell (and probably others) use them a lot (Dell uses them namely in their OptiPlex line).
NLX rocks. You'll have to get a riser card, but you'll never go back to ATX. =)
I have an NLX machine with integrated video sitting under my couch, which is about 8 feet in front of my tv. I have a video card in the machine that can use a TV for output. I put the TV in front of the couch, run all the cabling underneath the carpet, and my 'cable box' stays under the couch. Footstamp is about 14"d x 12"w 3.5"h (i'm guessing. i'm at work, the machine is at home, and it has been under the couch for a few months).
Thanks to a good internet connection, I can stream stuff and watch it on the TV, through the boxen.
A few weeks ago, there was a discussion on that douche-bag giving out free-ads for his own company...I mean, about using ethernet to hook up fibre channel drives. I have a few of those drives and the QLA2100 hooked up to the same machine (the NLX slot riser gives me 2 PCI slots in this case) and I keep all my MP3s on there, except I don't use that pussy ethernet to do it...I use HSSDC as it's intended [thanks Sandin!] (sorry, but 100Mbit is too slow for me ). Since those drives are so damn cheap though, I may get some more and figure out a way to rip DVDs onto a drive and watch them from there. =)
I use W2k Pro on it, just because I didn't want to spend much time mucking with the DVD business with nixen and the video card. I'm sure that someone could get it to work though.
Where I work, at a major state university, we have a campus agreement with MS. Basically, any Windows OS (except the server family) we can upgrade to the latest version (eg, 95 to 2k) without any licensing problems.
A professor got a laptop from our manufacturer (large computer company..we have another agreement with them as well) and it came with 98 on it because it wouldn't cost us extra...in other words, if we wanted ME, NT4, or 2k on it, we'd have to pay a little extra. Because of our MCA with MS, we didn't, and now it's biting us in the ass.
Anyways, I upgraded the laptop to 2k, and everything works *peachy* except for undocking from the APR. I've gone through everything...shutting down excess software (eg, 3Com said HotSync could cause laptops difficulty when undocking), disconnecting hardware (eg, the PCMCIA burner, keyboard into the APR, etc etc). Still no dice, so I think it is a hardware problem with the APR because I find out the APR isn't for that model of the laptop.
After about 10 calls to the computer manufacturer, I find out that they use the same APR for 4 series of laptops. I'm back at nothing at this point.
I call up tech support to see what they think of, and find out about this new 'policy' they have with MS about support.
Apparently, MS has an agreement with the computer manufacturer that says the manuf. can't support a MS OS other than the one that comes on the machine from the factory. If I want support, I have to call MS, which, of course, is pay-per-hour.
Our MCA with MS costs a pretty penny every year. Our contract with the manuf. also isn't cheap. With about 15000 machines on campus, of which about 12000 are MS, it's almost cheaper for us to ditch the MCA and just pay the extra $100 to go from 98 to 2k with the manuf. Talk about being fuct up.
To add insult to injury, one research group has paid the fee to get the source to do additional development (focus is on encrypted file systems w/2k).
check out the 'net folders' in outlook. i haven't used them myself, but i've heard that they have rudimentary support for something along these lines (without an exchange server)
In the UK, BT is holding back ADSL because of marketing reasons -- ie. it can make more money from dial-up.
I have a friend in UK and I was talking to him about this the other day. My suggestion was to start a petition, and get the entire community to sign it.
I speak from quasi-experience. A friend of mine had a friend who lived in a new housing sub-division, 90%+ of which were families with ages sub-40 (you gotta love my science, but stereotypically, this is probably the largest demographic that wants high speed internet). The sub-division has about 900-1000 homes in it, and they got about 1600 signatures. The petition said something along the lines of 'give us DSL, or we go elsewhere' (they had the benefit of being able to get local telco service by another company, unlike what it sounds like in the UK w/BT). They sent in the petition, and about a month later, their CO was wired for DSL.
I told my friend in the UK to try this petition deal, because it's better than not doing anything at all. He said everyone and their dog has a cell phone, so ditch BT and your local wired-line and get a cell through some other company.
a little of everything; programming, integration, software evaluation, hardware issues (including electrical power and air conditioning planning), as well as many great human relations skills
when's the last time you read BOFH? what about rigging e-mail systems, elevators, video cameras, the NOC, and most importantly, giving users 4 megs of space?
EEE - strange people...smart as hell, but strange in that 'no shower for 3 days' type of way (been there, done that, btw)
CSE - not as book smart as EEE, but smart enough to know to not do EEE
CS - wants to be CSE, wants the 'coolness' associated w/CSE, can't cut it at math, or doesn't like the math
CIS - business people...thanks for the COBOL!
BIS - like the BetaMax...they still make these?
Personally, I'm a CSE and CIS double major, as highly conflicting as that is, I've gotta cover both fronts. =)
I spoke to Sandin concerning this not too long ago. The specs were there, but then he took them down for good reason...I would have done the same thing.
As for the FCA-3000...I am aware of that component. I went to Sandin's page about 2 minutes after it was posted on bp6.com and memorized it. =)
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another good place to get countertops are at rv manufacturing plants
... my mom's garage has the nicest looking cabinets on the block
my mother got a contractor to re-do her kitchen a few years ago. in the end, she had all of her old cabinets just sitting in the backyard, doing nothing. for $20 or so, I got about 35 feet of 28" inch deep countertop. bolted the old cabinets to the garage walls, threw the countertop on that, and presto
why bother with a beer fridge and a coffee maker? don't reinvent the wheel
... have you considered a monitor arm? get a good one that lets you move it around if need be. i keep my kvm'd monitor on one of those, and it can be quite useful, especially when i'm working on some boxen and need the monitor to follow me
jet powered beer cooler
that famous coffee machine
keep a browser window open to check on the coffee, and keep the thing in your kitchen. when you don't hear the jet engine blaring anymore, you know your beer is good and cold. stick a few brats behind the exhaust, and pitch your bbq
as for the monitors
Not sure about in private environments, but in academia-land, we (previous position) setup a tiered support level.
... that's in academia-land, where customers aren't paying (at least here). Tell your client, "if he fubars the machine, don't look at me" ... whether they go with that or not, who knows. doesn't hurt to ask
Tier 1: only we (comp supp group) have the root pw. for nt, we would also be the only ones with the local admin password
Tier 2: root password is shared. on nt, local admin password is shared, or they (customer) has the local admin password and we still have domain admin rights; all 9x machines and macs
Tier 3: we have no root/admin access at all.
Depending on the tier determined when we would get to them. If a grad student installs some software and hoses the machine, but it's tier 3, it may be a few weeks until we get to it. tier 1 machines we'd get to that day, or the next. tier 2 was generally in a few days.
Like I said
here:
https://author1.asu.edu/DHCP-doc/dhcp-help.html
hmm ... you work there too? =)
i'd post the url to describe it, but you know that machine would just get /.ed
Well, first off, we don't have Novell, so that's going to be a little different ... secondly, I work in a department, so I don't configure how the scheme is setup ... I just configure the machines afterwards
... however, as far as getting TCP/IP going, we procured a 2nd class B. In each subnet (255 ips per segment is how the network people configured it), the first 30 are 'temporary', the next 200 or so are 'permanent', and the remaining are reserved for static IPs in that range ...
/release and ipconfig /renew (or equiv based on os) gives them an ip in that block of 200 or so 'permanent' ips.
...
... macs are a little different, because the machine has to be powered off for a few minutes before getting a more 'permanent' ip
The routers on campus know to only let those first 30 ips (the 'temporary' ones) go to one machine (it's a beefed up to hell linux machine) on campus. On that machine, users can register their mac address and tie it to an ip. A simple ipconfig
We tell people to use DHCP aka 'Obtain an IP address automatically' and give them a small printout on how to do it, based on their OS. I say 'permanent' because so long as they are in the same subnet as they registered originally, they'll get the same ip. if they move to a different building (eg, switch dorms, or even go to a class with ether jacks in the room), they'll have to register a new ip using the same process
The last 20 or so ips, like I said, are reserved for static addys, but its not like we can really prevent anyone from tapping into them. However, when we find out someone is using them, fire up some SNMP tools, figure out which port on the switch that IP is using, pull their mac addy, find out who registered the IP, and give them a ring (a visit or turn off their port on the switch if we're pissed enough ).
That's basically how we do the TCP/IP part, but you'd have to have another scheme to do the Novell stuff.
Someone else suggested having a demonstration or something and passing out printed info sheets there
It works rather well for us. W9x through XP work fine, as do the nixens
we also have some wireless access points around campus, that are *supposed* to work the same was as with cables, but it's not looking so hot lately
heh. he lives in my apartment complex, and i know exactly where his apartment is (i have a friend over there on that side of the complex). i'll go tell him his box got 0wN3d then hand him my 4.3R CD =)
Seriously. I'll give him shit if you want. =)
now all my bids for rack mounted systems are outbid.
/. a cut of the action for as much bidders /. sends their way
you know, with as many of these 'build your own home nuclear reactor' type stories, ebay needs to start give
What ever happened to this?
/. (wasn't a story, but a reply to one) that some guy registered this, AOL caught wind of it like 2 days later, and it was gone, off the root servers.
I remember reading on
I wonder what would happen if I got f-aol.com ?
live at the South Pole, and not the North Pole. If they did, maybe Tux and his crew could have been on that iceberg that sank Titanic, to laugh and piss on diCaprio as he was freezing in the water...or maybe to save him. Please, someone tell me Tux isn't like that.
... ice falling all over the deck, and Tux is there kicking diCaprio's ass, and getting some tail for himself from Winslett.
A lot of digital editing for Titanic (the one with diCaprio) was done on linux.
It would have been funny to see the post-production people for Titanic throw a couple of Tux's on that iceberg though. Just imagine
I tried many a modem for hosting a BBS, but that USR Courier was the only one that ALWAYS worked.
Hell yea! I had good luck with Sportsters too, but the Courier is what was my bread and butter. People with Cardinals, Bocas, and even sometimes some Hayes would have problems connecting to the Sportster line, so I told them to use the Courier line. Worked like a charm. =)
damn skippy.
... the good ole days. renegade, intermail, os/2, and vmodem.
phone number is still valid, but now it's for my mom's internet =)
ahhh
and i still have my $300 'SysOp Deal' USR Courier v.Everything. works like a charm when i need it, after 6 years
He also seems upset that people can use these devices to record content onto a hard drive without paying royalties to the content companies. ... This guy seems to never have heard of the Betamax court case which legitimized time-shifting.
I don't think he has ever heard of a VCR, let alone a Betamax.
When will the TV industry come upon the fact that Dvorak doesn't know his shit, and that the man and woman that used to be on PBS know more than he does?
is called NLX. Dell (and probably others) use them a lot (Dell uses them namely in their OptiPlex line).
NLX rocks. You'll have to get a riser card, but you'll never go back to ATX. =)
I have an NLX machine with integrated video sitting under my couch, which is about 8 feet in front of my tv. I have a video card in the machine that can use a TV for output. I put the TV in front of the couch, run all the cabling underneath the carpet, and my 'cable box' stays under the couch. Footstamp is about 14"d x 12"w 3.5"h (i'm guessing. i'm at work, the machine is at home, and it has been under the couch for a few months).
Thanks to a good internet connection, I can stream stuff and watch it on the TV, through the boxen.
A few weeks ago, there was a discussion on that douche-bag giving out free-ads for his own company...I mean, about using ethernet to hook up fibre channel drives. I have a few of those drives and the QLA2100 hooked up to the same machine (the NLX slot riser gives me 2 PCI slots in this case) and I keep all my MP3s on there, except I don't use that pussy ethernet to do it...I use HSSDC as it's intended [thanks Sandin!] (sorry, but 100Mbit is too slow for me ). Since those drives are so damn cheap though, I may get some more and figure out a way to rip DVDs onto a drive and watch them from there. =)
I use W2k Pro on it, just because I didn't want to spend much time mucking with the DVD business with nixen and the video card. I'm sure that someone could get it to work though.
[venting hat on]
Where I work, at a major state university, we have a campus agreement with MS. Basically, any Windows OS (except the server family) we can upgrade to the latest version (eg, 95 to 2k) without any licensing problems.
A professor got a laptop from our manufacturer (large computer company..we have another agreement with them as well) and it came with 98 on it because it wouldn't cost us extra...in other words, if we wanted ME, NT4, or 2k on it, we'd have to pay a little extra. Because of our MCA with MS, we didn't, and now it's biting us in the ass.
Anyways, I upgraded the laptop to 2k, and everything works *peachy* except for undocking from the APR. I've gone through everything...shutting down excess software (eg, 3Com said HotSync could cause laptops difficulty when undocking), disconnecting hardware (eg, the PCMCIA burner, keyboard into the APR, etc etc). Still no dice, so I think it is a hardware problem with the APR because I find out the APR isn't for that model of the laptop.
After about 10 calls to the computer manufacturer, I find out that they use the same APR for 4 series of laptops. I'm back at nothing at this point.
I call up tech support to see what they think of, and find out about this new 'policy' they have with MS about support.
Apparently, MS has an agreement with the computer manufacturer that says the manuf. can't support a MS OS other than the one that comes on the machine from the factory. If I want support, I have to call MS, which, of course, is pay-per-hour.
Our MCA with MS costs a pretty penny every year. Our contract with the manuf. also isn't cheap. With about 15000 machines on campus, of which about 12000 are MS, it's almost cheaper for us to ditch the MCA and just pay the extra $100 to go from 98 to 2k with the manuf. Talk about being fuct up.
To add insult to injury, one research group has paid the fee to get the source to do additional development (focus is on encrypted file systems w/2k).
[venting hat off]
Metallica -> Meta11ica
... shit, nevermind, the hax0r script kiddies will come out through the woodwork
L's to 1's, O's to 0's, E's to 3's
check out the 'net folders' in outlook. i haven't used them myself, but i've heard that they have rudimentary support for something along these lines (without an exchange server)
In the UK, BT is holding back ADSL because of marketing reasons -- ie. it can make more money from dial-up.
I have a friend in UK and I was talking to him about this the other day. My suggestion was to start a petition, and get the entire community to sign it.
I speak from quasi-experience. A friend of mine had a friend who lived in a new housing sub-division, 90%+ of which were families with ages sub-40 (you gotta love my science, but stereotypically, this is probably the largest demographic that wants high speed internet). The sub-division has about 900-1000 homes in it, and they got about 1600 signatures. The petition said something along the lines of 'give us DSL, or we go elsewhere' (they had the benefit of being able to get local telco service by another company, unlike what it sounds like in the UK w/BT). They sent in the petition, and about a month later, their CO was wired for DSL.
I told my friend in the UK to try this petition deal, because it's better than not doing anything at all. He said everyone and their dog has a cell phone, so ditch BT and your local wired-line and get a cell through some other company.
what?
a little of everything; programming, integration, software evaluation, hardware issues (including electrical power and air conditioning planning), as well as many great human relations skills
when's the last time you read BOFH? what about rigging e-mail systems, elevators, video cameras, the NOC, and most importantly, giving users 4 megs of space?
Here's how I've always seen it...
EEE - strange people...smart as hell, but strange in that 'no shower for 3 days' type of way (been there, done that, btw)
CSE - not as book smart as EEE, but smart enough to know to not do EEE
CS - wants to be CSE, wants the 'coolness' associated w/CSE, can't cut it at math, or doesn't like the math
CIS - business people...thanks for the COBOL!
BIS - like the BetaMax...they still make these?
Personally, I'm a CSE and CIS double major, as highly conflicting as that is, I've gotta cover both fronts. =)
I spoke to Sandin concerning this not too long ago. The specs were there, but then he took them down for good reason...I would have done the same thing.
As for the FCA-3000...I am aware of that component. I went to Sandin's page about 2 minutes after it was posted on bp6.com and memorized it. =)
check this or this out...has some info you might find useful =)
i got two more drives from there just a few hours ago =)
:
brings a grand total of 27G for $51 (not including the shipping, which is where you get screwed...$12.50/drive)
ebay has 'em though:
here
pricewatch has 'em too:
here
or, one more place
here
The guy is obviously a fiend... cjsnell said it best here =)
Why buy it when it's easy enough to build if you have fairly decent skills at soldering? The core components you need are:
QLogic QLA2100 FC card
FC hdd (ST19171FC - 9G or ST318304FC - 18G) just two examples
'T-Cards' (which you can manufacture quite easily)
More info available from the links in my above post "Looks like they ripped someone off"