just about 6 months back I was cleaning the garage and tossed my (still working) Hercules Graphics Station card
I figured it to be worthless because (a) today's graphics cards have it beat by orders of magnitude, (b) TIGA is dead as a graphics standard, and (c) it's about 12 inches long full of discrete components that probably doesn't fit in anyone's PC anymore.
Not to mention that it's just a freakin' old card !
This will be their downfall. In the end, people will remember Charter Schools USA as "difficult to deal with" and not as a good place to send their child to.
I've been using Opera 8 Beta for several months now, no problems. I have 60 tabs open and it's using about 58MB of memory. It's really great.
For Ad-blocking I use Opera Ad Filter which is donationware and works great! However, you have to separately configure the ad sites to block; FireFox's right-click ad-blocking is much easier to use and wins here.
I've never had any CPU issues with Opera 8, and maybe 2-3 crashes in several months of use, but these kinds of interactions can be very dependant on what your system is running, and that's clearly different from mine.
When it crashes, as the parent said, it maintains the tab list and open sites and gives you the choice to resume from the previous saved session, start a new one or recall any old one. I have several saved sessions with pre-configured tabs that I like to recall when I am doing specific work online. This feature is awesome to me.
Opera 8 has always rendered Slashdot perfectly, unlike FireFox. It even feels faster than firefox, but I admit it's all subjective when feelings come into play. I've never scientifically benchmarked these two browsers.
Opera 8 also has a pretty decent mail and news reader built-in, that auto-learns your mailing lists, contacts and subject threads.
I just wanted to point this out because Opera 8 does not have "a long way to go" as the parent says.
My Titanium had the EXACT same problem, as well as many others I found by googling. The number of TiBook owners is much smaller than the iBook owners so we don't count. Apple wouldn't admit the problem also existed in the TiBooks and refused to fix it, I had to pay $600 for a new logic board.
International traffic at Victoria International Airport and Vancouver International Airport, both on the Pacific coast of Canada and boardering with the USA, has increased significantly since the security was tightened in the USA. Many tourists will make Canada a destination now, and many more will use a Canadian hub in transit to another, non-us destination. A quick stop in Canada, then a hop OVER the USA to your final destination.
Bear in mind that I am not in IT, I am a software developer, and I have never leased equipment. So take my advice with a grain of salt. Having said that, I honestly think there is no cut and dried answer to your question.
To lease or not to lease really depends on your situation. I know, that sounds like a lame cop-out, but it's true. In your case, your company has come to see the dark side of leasing, namely high costs associated with the return of the equipment, especially if it has anything beyond normal "wear and tear", whatever that really means.
However, if I ever decide to become an independant software developer, I might seriously consider leasing several pieces of equipment needed to do my job, since I would not have a huge capital outlay up front, I can manage the monthly expenses, and plan for the payments as they come due, even so far as making some of those lease payments with the income stream from my product(s).
So in that situation, leasing would be very beneficial to my cash flow, without seriously damaging my operating capital, which I would need for a long time during my startup phase.
I have to agree with the article's comment on vendor's salesmen being overzealous. I used to work for one of those vendors, I was constantly going into a customer site after the sale to implement what was sold. I was part of the Professional Service team.
I said "our salesman told you our product could do what ??? " way too many times.
It's evidence of the fact that we've become so used to seeing poor quality posts on Slashdot that we are all suddenly amazed when someone posts something so well thought out and detailed. I applaud it! Great job!
No, what's needed is an advancement in the chip at the center of this device. Currently it only has one MAC and PHY for ethernet. The next evolution of this chip should have 2 MAC/PHY. Package it in a metal case with RJ-45 at *both* ends and flash a minimal Linux+FW into it.
Then it truly will be a "bump in the cable" as one person said.
Thanks, I intend to check it out. I'm surprised (at myself!) that I have not tried FreeBSD yet. My first UNIX OS was SYSIII on an AT&T box around 1983 or 84. I moved up to BSD4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 on Vaxen after that... X and GUI's were only just starting out, the shell and ed(1) is my friend.
The "bare bones" aspect of Gentoo is why I decided to use it, for the first time, on my home file and mail server. I've been using and installing Linux since SLS Linux 0.99 (with kernel 0.99!) in 1993(?), which was installed from floppies. Later I moved to Slackware 1.0, then Redhat around 6.0, Mandrake at 9.0 and finally this year I went to Knoppix on my desktop (installed from the Live CD.. what an awesome distribution!)
For my server, however, I saw that all these distributions installed way too much and wanted to hand-hold my server. I decided I'd try Gentoo there and I'm very happy with it's "back to my linux roots" approach, yet much easier to maintain then my Linux roots were.
Now I get to see if emerge sync, change profile, then emerge world work for me as advertised.
"certiorari" ??? geez make my fingers work to google it, why don't ya...
for the benefit of others:
Main Entry: certiorari Pronunciation: "s&r-sh(E-)&-'rar-E, -'rär-E Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, literally, to be informed; from the use of the word in the writ : a writ of superior court to call up the records of an inferior court or a body acting in a quasi-judicial capacity
Middle English??? are the hobbits running the courts??
Re:Open to US residents only
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· Score: 5, Informative
"While some companies permit Quebec entrants, many are scared away by unique rules that are mandated by the province's gaming agency.
Quebec is the lone Canadian jurisdiction that requires security deposits, charges fees and enforces strict rules about draws valued at more than $100. Some American states also enforce rules that prevent their residents from participating in contests.
In addition to requiring that all documents be written in French, Quebec's agency charges three per cent of the value of all national prizes, even if a Quebecer doesn't claim a prize, or 10 per cent of the value of a contest run exclusively in the province. The agency collected nearly $1.7 million in fees last year.
In the rest of Canada, large contests are governed only by the federal Competition Act, a broad framework for promotional contests.
"People often exclude Quebec just because they're afraid of these rules and don't really understand them," said Sharon Groom, a Toronto lawyer who represents many advertisers that run contests as a marketing tool.
"They're not actually that bad but a lot of our clients will say we don't want to be bothered with doing this, so they exclude Quebec."
Ha! At my first job outta school in 1983 I wrote code on an original 640K IBM PC using Lattice C.
I still have the 5-1/4" floppies it came on. However, I have no PC with a 5-1/4" drive to read them (I think it would not be very useful anymore, anyways)
It's no different than my DV cam, with video in, that can store hour long movies on little DV cartridges that I can carry around. My cam is just about as small too.
Sure the Archos stores more, and accesses it faster... but it's still just the same! When will the RIAA and MPAA figure this out?
For the same reason you like Discover, I like to use my MBNA Mastercard. They have something called Shopsafe which lets me generate a one-time, vendor specific credit card number, with expire times and credit limits that I chose.
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How is the parent "Insightful" ?!? More like "Redundant". A "me too" post is not insightful!
Folks, use your mod points well.
just about 6 months back I was cleaning the garage and tossed my (still working) Hercules Graphics Station card
I figured it to be worthless because (a) today's graphics cards have it beat by orders of magnitude, (b) TIGA is dead as a graphics standard, and (c) it's about 12 inches long full of discrete components that probably doesn't fit in anyone's PC anymore.
Not to mention that it's just a freakin' old card !
No, you're confused.. that's the NOBL, Nigerian Open Bank License you are talking about there..
These ads are just NOT funny.. frankly, they suck!
where is the connection to Firefox in any of these ads?
Perhaps I just have no sense of humor. I came away scratching my head and saying "huh?"
It lists about $6000 USD last time I checked.
Soon, not every PowerPC in a desktop will be a Mac. I'd love one of these motherboards. They are a little costly right now.
Here's a dual-970 PPC in an ATX formfactor that fits right into your mid-tower case and even runs Linux and probably Darwin and FreeBSD.
This will be their downfall. In the end, people will remember Charter Schools USA as "difficult to deal with" and not as a good place to send their child to.
Sad.
I've been using Opera 8 Beta for several months now, no problems. I have 60 tabs open and it's using about 58MB of memory. It's really great.
For Ad-blocking I use Opera Ad Filter which is donationware and works great! However, you have to separately configure the ad sites to block; FireFox's right-click ad-blocking is much easier to use and wins here.
I've never had any CPU issues with Opera 8, and maybe 2-3 crashes in several months of use, but these kinds of interactions can be very dependant on what your system is running, and that's clearly different from mine.
When it crashes, as the parent said, it maintains the tab list and open sites and gives you the choice to resume from the previous saved session, start a new one or recall any old one. I have several saved sessions with pre-configured tabs that I like to recall when I am doing specific work online. This feature is awesome to me.
Opera 8 has always rendered Slashdot perfectly, unlike FireFox. It even feels faster than firefox, but I admit it's all subjective when feelings come into play. I've never scientifically benchmarked these two browsers.
Opera 8 also has a pretty decent mail and news reader built-in, that auto-learns your mailing lists, contacts and subject threads.
I just wanted to point this out because Opera 8 does not have "a long way to go" as the parent says.
The /. effect knocked the account out of existence!
"Account Suspended
Your account has been suspended for 1 of 2 reasons.
1. Your bill is over due. In this case please email billing@vizaweb.com
2. You account what causing a problem of some sort. In this case please contact CustomerCare@vizaweb.com"
hmm... Even Slashdotted sites can't spell!
My Titanium had the EXACT same problem, as well as many others I found by googling. The number of TiBook owners is much smaller than the iBook owners so we don't count. Apple wouldn't admit the problem also existed in the TiBooks and refused to fix it, I had to pay $600 for a new logic board.
I liked that TV show... laughed my ass off :)
International traffic at Victoria International Airport and Vancouver International Airport, both on the Pacific coast of Canada and boardering with the USA, has increased significantly since the security was tightened in the USA. Many tourists will make Canada a destination now, and many more will use a Canadian hub in transit to another, non-us destination. A quick stop in Canada, then a hop OVER the USA to your final destination.
Bear in mind that I am not in IT, I am a software developer, and I have never leased equipment. So take my advice with a grain of salt. Having said that, I honestly think there is no cut and dried answer to your question.
To lease or not to lease really depends on your situation. I know, that sounds like a lame cop-out, but it's true. In your case, your company has come to see the dark side of leasing, namely high costs associated with the return of the equipment, especially if it has anything beyond normal "wear and tear", whatever that really means.
However, if I ever decide to become an independant software developer, I might seriously consider leasing several pieces of equipment needed to do my job, since I would not have a huge capital outlay up front, I can manage the monthly expenses, and plan for the payments as they come due, even so far as making some of those lease payments with the income stream from my product(s).
So in that situation, leasing would be very beneficial to my cash flow, without seriously damaging my operating capital, which I would need for a long time during my startup phase.
I have to agree with the article's comment on vendor's salesmen being overzealous. I used to work for one of those vendors, I was constantly going into a customer site after the sale to implement what was sold. I was part of the Professional Service team.
I said "our salesman told you our product could do what ??? " way too many times.
It's evidence of the fact that we've become so used to seeing poor quality posts on Slashdot that we are all suddenly amazed when someone posts something so well thought out and detailed. I applaud it! Great job!
Then it truly will be a "bump in the cable" as one person said.
Thanks, I intend to check it out. I'm surprised (at myself!) that I have not tried FreeBSD yet. My first UNIX OS was SYSIII on an AT&T box around 1983 or 84. I moved up to BSD4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 on Vaxen after that... X and GUI's were only just starting out, the shell and ed(1) is my friend.
For my server, however, I saw that all these distributions installed way too much and wanted to hand-hold my server. I decided I'd try Gentoo there and I'm very happy with it's "back to my linux roots" approach, yet much easier to maintain then my Linux roots were.
Now I get to see if emerge sync, change profile, then emerge world work for me as advertised.
"certiorari" ??? geez make my fingers work to google it, why don't ya...
for the benefit of others:
Main Entry: certiorari
Pronunciation: "s&r-sh(E-)&-'rar-E, -'rär-E
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, literally, to be informed; from the use of the word in the writ
: a writ of superior court to call up the records of an inferior court or a body acting in a quasi-judicial capacity
Middle English??? are the hobbits running the courts??
"While some companies permit Quebec entrants, many are scared away by unique rules that are mandated by the province's gaming agency.
Quebec is the lone Canadian jurisdiction that requires security deposits, charges fees and enforces strict rules about draws valued at more than $100. Some American states also enforce rules that prevent their residents from participating in contests.
In addition to requiring that all documents be written in French, Quebec's agency charges three per cent of the value of all national prizes, even if a Quebecer doesn't claim a prize, or 10 per cent of the value of a contest run exclusively in the province. The agency collected nearly $1.7 million in fees last year.
In the rest of Canada, large contests are governed only by the federal Competition Act, a broad framework for promotional contests.
"People often exclude Quebec just because they're afraid of these rules and don't really understand them," said Sharon Groom, a Toronto lawyer who represents many advertisers that run contests as a marketing tool.
"They're not actually that bad but a lot of our clients will say we don't want to be bothered with doing this, so they exclude Quebec."
Ha! At my first job outta school in 1983 I wrote code on an original 640K IBM PC using Lattice C.
I still have the 5-1/4" floppies it came on. However, I have no PC with a 5-1/4" drive to read them (I think it would not be very useful anymore, anyways)
Click here for the hacker translation.
At least it's funny now...
.. And this one time, at band camp..
:-)
(*whack*)
It's no different than my DV cam, with video in, that can store hour long movies on little DV cartridges that I can carry around. My cam is just about as small too.
Sure the Archos stores more, and accesses it faster... but it's still just the same! When will the RIAA and MPAA figure this out?
For the same reason you like Discover, I like to use my MBNA Mastercard. They have something called Shopsafe which lets me generate a one-time, vendor specific credit card number, with expire times and credit limits that I chose.