With a 40 meg HD and 4megs of RAM. My college advisor (chair of the education dept.-I was studying to be a teacher) said a "40 meg hard drive will be plenty"
Which actually is true if all you're doing is creating documents in MacWrite.
Prettymuch if a game has an 85+ rating on here it's not going to be a total lemon.
Just last week I was talking with our facilities manager who was lamenting he hadn't played any games on the Xbox lately, but was wanting to get some more FPS and didn't know which games were any good.
We went to metacritic, used the advanced search, and printed off a list of the top 25 FPS for Xbox, stopped by Gamestop at lunch and he picked up 3 highly rated games.
Yes, it does. I just connected to the web interface of my home box (another nifty feature) and when you click a show (either at the TV or via web) you get the option to record that episode or all episodes/the season.
I doubt, though, it will be able to adjust the time of recording for, say, Sunday night programs coming on after late-running football games. It seems to just remember a time slot. Tivo, I think, adjusts its schedule.
Oh yeah, it's working well too. I recorded OSU-Texas last Saturday (and then watched the whole game in like 45 min), and have a "season ticket" set up for Zoboomafoo and General Hospital... LOL
My Geforce was overscanning on live TV, so I got the 53.03 drivers of their site which fixed that. (read about that on some htpc forum somewhere)
I'm also using the Flat Blue High Vis. skin since my TV is only 25".
The WinTV card I got at CompUSA for $80 (they had a rebate last week, but I think it's over now). It also came with a remote which GBPVR works great with.
For performance sake, I dont' have timeshifting turned on by default (the box is a little underpowered in that sense), but if I hit the "Pause" button on the remote, GBPVR switches to timeshift mode and starts recording.
And when I say JUST built it, I started it last Tuesday. All I had to buy was the WinTV card as I had the other stuff lying around.
I tried mythtv, knoppmyth, and Meedio (windows HTPC software), but got the most bang for my time with GBPVR. In two hours I was up and running and within three days or so had it tweaked how I wanted.
I'm no noob to linux either (I run a few servers at work doing spam filtering/firewalling and have a web server at home for my wife's business, and run it on my laptop) but I did not want to put my wife/kids through TV "downtime" while I troubleshot linux stuff I'm not that familiar with.
Just enter your city, st and/or zip... best weather there is...
If you really want to get technical and see what the meterologists were thinking when the posted your weather, click "Forecast Discussion" down on the bottom right...
Same exact thing happened to me. One of my web site customers had mail forwarded from their domain/business to their AOL account. Well, they just clicked away on the "spam" button and AOL almost banned the whole server and dozens of other sites. My hosting provider was kind enough to step in and let me know before that happened, but it was lame anyway...
then saving the money and going to OOo is a smart move.
If they had already been using Office XP or 2003 I would imagine there'd be some resistance from the users.
As good as OOo is, MS is still one or two steps ahead. (I use both, all the way back to the StarOffice 5.x days, and Microsoft Office is just more polished IMO all the way around...)
Every now and then I toy with rolling out OOo at the school where I work, but until I can install it via GPO and it is more "network/user" aware I'm going to wait. I hear the 2.0 version will have this.
Does anyone know if it is possible to make Firefox know/report you're autheticated in active directory? (I don't want the "remember password" feature)
I use this "auto-login" in IE on our intranet but surf in Firefox all the time. I'd consider moving our 80 desktops over to Firefox if I could get this working.
I briefly Googled it but didn't find out anything for certain...
This won't help you with a Mac, but I bought a Streamzap for my home theater PC to control Winamp and myHTPC, and plan to get one here at the office to control PowerPoint for those folks who want to walk around when they do their presentations.
It supports a lot of apps, and they're updating it all the time to improve existing supported apps and add new ones.
This may not help you with your powerbook, but it is an easy $39 solution for PowerPoint remote control.
Last upgrade I did for my computer as a video card for DAOC and that like two years ago... and that pc is totally fine for all I do with it. If I were to get a new PC (Cel1.1/512ram/40gigs) likely I'd have to upgrade something on it and I tired of that.
Xbox, OTOH, I can go rent games and see if I like them, buy used games cheaper, and just pop it in a play.
Consoles more family Friendly Also, I've got a 3 yo and 1.7yo and gaming on the Xbox is/can be a family activity in the living room, vs. having to crowd around "The Computer" to play games... Disney Extreme Skate Adventure and Tiger Woods 2003 are all games my 3yo can actually sorta play (he and his sister are hilarious on DDR, they just spaz on the dance pad); i got Star Wars Clone Wars used for 10bucks and we play that together, he fires, I steer... pretty fun.
One night I was playing Splinter Cell and I looked up and he had gotten out of bed and snuck in the LR and was watching me headshot dudes and sneak around for I don't know, like 15 minutes or so. (I hadn't played it in from of him before or since... his 3yo brain doesn't need that stuff IMO.) I made him get back in bed and didn't think anything of it until a few days later my wife tells me he got down from his chair at Jason's Deli and was crouched/stalking around inbetween the tables/chairs, much to the puzzlement of his mother, grandmother and aunt. Mom: "Jack, what are you doing?" Jack: "I'm being that scary man from daddy's game!" LOL
But every day I come home from work it's "DADDY! Lets play Xbox!" because my wife has him believing she doesn't know how to work it... "that's a daddy thing" she tells him. He'll be bitter someday when he finds out he missed all those daytime gaming hours 'cause of mom lying.
All this to say, Xbox (or any other console) has been a great change for me from PC gaming: 1) I'm off the hardware merry-go-round, and 2) Consoles work better when you got a family: easier to play/share, don't have to change chairs, just hand the controller...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal&r=6 7 steal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stl) v.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
How can the source code be stolen, when Cisco still has it?
Do you have a better term to describe the act that was committed against Cisco?
If I break into your computer and digitally copy important/valuable information off of it, what's the first term to come to mind about what I did? That I "stole" your stuff, or since you still have a copy of it, did I not steal it?
Stealing is a violation of property rights (intellectual or otherwise). Copying is a way to steal IP. Whether IP/Copyright laws need to be revisited in a digital age is a topic talked about elsewhere...
(This post is prettymuch a dupe of my post below (#9167231))
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal&r=6 7 steal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stl) v.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft&r =6 7 theft ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thft) n.
1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
Just pisses me off how the world 'theft' is perversed when it comes to digital content.
They COPIED it people. It wasnt STOLEN. ( yes, still illegal, but much different of a concept )
Care to explain to me how copying vs. stealing/theft is a much different concept? How does this perverse the definition of theft?
If I break into your computer and digitally copy important/valuable information off of it, what's the first term to come to mind about what I did? That I "copied" your stuff or that I "stole" your stuff?
COPYING is the method that they used to STEAL Cisco's stuff. Stealing is a violation of property rights (intellectual or otherwise). Copying is a way to steal IP. Whether IP/Copyright laws need to be revisited in a digital age is a topic talked about elsewhere...
I'm looking for something that would cover such topics as basic desktop do's and don'ts, like...'don't blindly drop to root and install an unverified/unauthenticated RPM that you receive via email,' etc.
When you say non-technical and 'basic dos and don'ts,' that example seems pretty technical. You might just as easily say "don't double-click unverified email attachments."
IMO you will probably be in the best position to write this documentation because you know your typical user and probably know what they are and aren't allowed to do already on their new desktop. I'd be interested in seeing what something like this looks like if it does exist...
My wife and I used to do our taxes ourselves, with either the latest tax software or pencil/paper.
In 2001 we had our friendly neighborhood CPA do it and we got back way more money than if we'd done it ourselves.
I have a tiny side biz doing web sites/programming etc. and she's a counselor (independent contractor in a private group/practice) and our acct. was able to help us get a lot of breaks on business expenses (computer stuff for me), etc. that we NEVER would have thought of ourselves.
You are exactly right: most of us profressionals here on/. would be better served by simply having a professional do their taxes for them.
Right tool for the job I always say.
I pay you for your expertise, just like others (and my employer) pay me for my expertise. I want my mechanic to know cars, my doctor to know medicine, my builder/remodeler to know construction, etc. I happen to know computers, and am the "computer guy" for prettymuch my whole family. Not that I won't ever tackle some of those other things on my own, but there comes a point when it's better to just pay for someone else's know-how, and taxes for me is definitly one of those things.
My "free" HTPC went from Freevo, to mythTV, to Knoppmyth, to the (gasp!) Windows-based (free for personal use, not open source) myHTPC front end.
The author has not released anything for it since August because he's coming out with a new and improved version sometime real soon.
Despite that, there's an active community writing/tweaking modules for it, and I've got it to do what I want so far (show the TV listings and weather) since I've not got a Hauppauge card yet.
I decided to go with myHTPC because for me the learning curve was not quite as steep re: $distro vs. W2K pro.
I've got a wireless nic in it for the TV/weather updating, use TightVNC to admin it, use it with my StreamZAP remote to control Winamp, etc.
I almost went with a Linux solution, but just getting this box set up (in an Antec Overture case, btw) has tickled my hardware/fiddling bone enough and I'm able to use it now. YMMV
This one's not mine, and I called my buddy about it but he said no way he was posting it! heh
Back several years ago we were both middle school teachers and our school had just got a T1 so I was downloading a lot of mp3s there (pre-napster...all FTP and binary groups) and then taking them home (unplugging the drive). Soon I was running out of space. Our IT director asked me to do some training and I said yeah, if i could get a bigger drive.
So I got a 10 gig installed and moved all my mp3s over to it. By then end of this school year I had on that drive like 1000-some mp3s, all gotten with blood/sweat/tears through FTP sites or ripping them from my students' CDs.
I got a job the next year in our district IT dept and my fellow teacher buddy got my computer, with my extra drive with all the mp3s. Anyway, he wants a fresh install of 98 and calls me up and asks which drive are the mp3s/system on and I'm like the "mp3s on the big one and system on the small one". Well, he took my word for it and didn't check or whatever and formatted the drive with the mp3s. Had something to do with I told him the mp3s were on the "bigfoot" drive (he was kindof a noob then).
Napster showed up that fall though so no big deal...
Yap, my 128 USB has been through the washer twice... it has a little clear window and I could see moisture in there amongst the circuitry. I let it dry thoroughly and it's working like a charm also...
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AWw7t5zj0
NSFW language
With a 40 meg HD and 4megs of RAM. My college advisor (chair of the education dept.-I was studying to be a teacher) said a "40 meg hard drive will be plenty"
Which actually is true if all you're doing is creating documents in MacWrite.
Metacritic games is where I visit first.
Prettymuch if a game has an 85+ rating on here it's not going to be a total lemon.
Just last week I was talking with our facilities manager who was lamenting he hadn't played any games on the Xbox lately, but was wanting to get some more FPS and didn't know which games were any good.
We went to metacritic, used the advanced search, and printed off a list of the top 25 FPS for Xbox, stopped by Gamestop at lunch and he picked up 3 highly rated games.
Yes, it does. I just connected to the web interface of my home box (another nifty feature) and when you click a show (either at the TV or via web) you get the option to record that episode or all episodes/the season.
I doubt, though, it will be able to adjust the time of recording for, say, Sunday night programs coming on after late-running football games. It seems to just remember a time slot. Tivo, I think, adjusts its schedule.
Oh yeah, it's working well too. I recorded OSU-Texas last Saturday (and then watched the whole game in like 45 min), and have a "season ticket" set up for Zoboomafoo and General Hospital... LOL
My Geforce was overscanning on live TV, so I got the 53.03 drivers of their site which fixed that. (read about that on some htpc forum somewhere)
I'm also using the Flat Blue High Vis. skin since my TV is only 25".
The WinTV card I got at CompUSA for $80 (they had a rebate last week, but I think it's over now). It also came with a remote which GBPVR works great with.
For performance sake, I dont' have timeshifting turned on by default (the box is a little underpowered in that sense), but if I hit the "Pause" button on the remote, GBPVR switches to timeshift mode and starts recording.
I JUST built my own Windows-based HTPC using the free (as in beer) software GBPVR (http://www.gbpvr.com/
1 50.html), and a Geforce MX4000 for TV out.
I am running it with XP Pro on an old P3/866, gig of ram, 1 10 gig HD for OS, 1 40 gig HD for recordings, a WinTV-PVR-150 (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr
And when I say JUST built it, I started it last Tuesday. All I had to buy was the WinTV card as I had the other stuff lying around.
I tried mythtv, knoppmyth, and Meedio (windows HTPC software), but got the most bang for my time with GBPVR. In two hours I was up and running and within three days or so had it tweaked how I wanted.
I'm no noob to linux either (I run a few servers at work doing spam filtering/firewalling and have a web server at home for my wife's business, and run it on my laptop) but I did not want to put my wife/kids through TV "downtime" while I troubleshot linux stuff I'm not that familiar with.
Todd
I like even better than WU the NWS page... it's not as easy to get to url-wise, but they do have a new WML/WAP page:
h p? warncounty=TXC201&city=Houston
www.srh.noaa.gov/wml
here's my normal web weather page... no ads, no pops, no muss... ('course we're paying for it with our taxes...)
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/TXZ213.p
Just enter your city, st and/or zip... best weather there is...
If you really want to get technical and see what the meterologists were thinking when the posted your weather, click "Forecast Discussion" down on the bottom right...
Google is going to become the next Microsoft.
One of these days (if they haven't already) they'll roll out "GOffice" and "GMoney" and "GOS"
All you'll need is a 'puter, get a GOS CD and broadband connection... good to go.
Same exact thing happened to me. One of my web site customers had mail forwarded from their domain/business to their AOL account. Well, they just clicked away on the "spam" button and AOL almost banned the whole server and dozens of other sites. My hosting provider was kind enough to step in and let me know before that happened, but it was lame anyway...
then saving the money and going to OOo is a smart move.
If they had already been using Office XP or 2003 I would imagine there'd be some resistance from the users.
As good as OOo is, MS is still one or two steps ahead. (I use both, all the way back to the StarOffice 5.x days, and Microsoft Office is just more polished IMO all the way around...)
Every now and then I toy with rolling out OOo at the school where I work, but until I can install it via GPO and it is more "network/user" aware I'm going to wait. I hear the 2.0 version will have this.
Todd
Does anyone know if it is possible to make Firefox know/report you're autheticated in active directory? (I don't want the "remember password" feature)
I use this "auto-login" in IE on our intranet but surf in Firefox all the time. I'd consider moving our 80 desktops over to Firefox if I could get this working.
I briefly Googled it but didn't find out anything for certain...
This won't help you with a Mac, but I bought a Streamzap for my home theater PC to control Winamp and myHTPC, and plan to get one here at the office to control PowerPoint for those folks who want to walk around when they do their presentations.
It supports a lot of apps, and they're updating it all the time to improve existing supported apps and add new ones.
This may not help you with your powerbook, but it is an easy $39 solution for PowerPoint remote control.
Todd
Right on bro...
Last upgrade I did for my computer as a video card for DAOC and that like two years ago... and that pc is totally fine for all I do with it. If I were to get a new PC (Cel1.1/512ram/40gigs) likely I'd have to upgrade something on it and I tired of that.
Xbox, OTOH, I can go rent games and see if I like them, buy used games cheaper, and just pop it in a play.
Consoles more family Friendly
Also, I've got a 3 yo and 1.7yo and gaming on the Xbox is/can be a family activity in the living room, vs. having to crowd around "The Computer" to play games...
Disney Extreme Skate Adventure and Tiger Woods 2003 are all games my 3yo can actually sorta play (he and his sister are hilarious on DDR, they just spaz on the dance pad); i got Star Wars Clone Wars used for 10bucks and we play that together, he fires, I steer... pretty fun.
One night I was playing Splinter Cell and I looked up and he had gotten out of bed and snuck in the LR and was watching me headshot dudes and sneak around for I don't know, like 15 minutes or so. (I hadn't played it in from of him before or since... his 3yo brain doesn't need that stuff IMO.) I made him get back in bed and didn't think anything of it until a few days later my wife tells me he got down from his chair at Jason's Deli and was crouched/stalking around inbetween the tables/chairs, much to the puzzlement of his mother, grandmother and aunt. Mom: "Jack, what are you doing?" Jack: "I'm being that scary man from daddy's game!" LOL
But every day I come home from work it's "DADDY! Lets play Xbox!" because my wife has him believing she doesn't know how to work it... "that's a daddy thing" she tells him. He'll be bitter someday when he finds out he missed all those daytime gaming hours 'cause of mom lying.
All this to say, Xbox (or any other console) has been a great change for me from PC gaming: 1) I'm off the hardware merry-go-round, and 2) Consoles work better when you got a family: easier to play/share, don't have to change chairs, just hand the controller...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal&r=6 7
steal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stl)
v.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
How can the source code be stolen, when Cisco still has it?
Do you have a better term to describe the act that was committed against Cisco?
If I break into your computer and digitally copy important/valuable information off of it, what's the first term to come to mind about what I did? That I "stole" your stuff, or since you still have a copy of it, did I not steal it?
Stealing is a violation of property rights (intellectual or otherwise). Copying is a way to steal IP. Whether IP/Copyright laws need to be revisited in a digital age is a topic talked about elsewhere...
(This post is prettymuch a dupe of my post below (#9167231))
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=steal&r=6 7
r =6 7
steal ( P ) Pronunciation Key (stl)
v.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=theft&
theft ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thft)
n.
1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
Just pisses me off how the world 'theft' is perversed when it comes to digital content.
They COPIED it people. It wasnt STOLEN. ( yes, still illegal, but much different of a concept )
Care to explain to me how copying vs. stealing/theft is a much different concept? How does this perverse the definition of theft?
If I break into your computer and digitally copy important/valuable information off of it, what's the first term to come to mind about what I did? That I "copied" your stuff or that I "stole" your stuff?
COPYING is the method that they used to STEAL Cisco's stuff. Stealing is a violation of property rights (intellectual or otherwise). Copying is a way to steal IP. Whether IP/Copyright laws need to be revisited in a digital age is a topic talked about elsewhere...
I'm looking for something that would cover such topics as basic desktop do's and don'ts, like...'don't blindly drop to root and install an unverified/unauthenticated RPM that you receive via email,' etc.
When you say non-technical and 'basic dos and don'ts,' that example seems pretty technical. You might just as easily say "don't double-click unverified email attachments."
IMO you will probably be in the best position to write this documentation because you know your typical user and probably know what they are and aren't allowed to do already on their new desktop. I'd be interested in seeing what something like this looks like if it does exist...
Todd
Right-on bro.
/. would be better served by simply having a professional do their taxes for them.
My wife and I used to do our taxes ourselves, with either the latest tax software or pencil/paper.
In 2001 we had our friendly neighborhood CPA do it and we got back way more money than if we'd done it ourselves.
I have a tiny side biz doing web sites/programming etc. and she's a counselor (independent contractor in a private group/practice) and our acct. was able to help us get a lot of breaks on business expenses (computer stuff for me), etc. that we NEVER would have thought of ourselves.
You are exactly right: most of us profressionals here on
Right tool for the job I always say.
I pay you for your expertise, just like others (and my employer) pay me for my expertise. I want my mechanic to know cars, my doctor to know medicine, my builder/remodeler to know construction, etc. I happen to know computers, and am the "computer guy" for prettymuch my whole family. Not that I won't ever tackle some of those other things on my own, but there comes a point when it's better to just pay for someone else's know-how, and taxes for me is definitly one of those things.
www.drudgereport.com
followed by
Slashdot
myYahoo with RSS beta &
Fark
and that will usually waste 1-2 hours for me each morning...
Bump!
Snapfiles (aka Webattack) is the only site you'll need I'm guessing...
My "free" HTPC went from Freevo, to mythTV, to Knoppmyth, to the (gasp!) Windows-based (free for personal use, not open source) myHTPC front end.
The author has not released anything for it since August because he's coming out with a new and improved version sometime real soon.
Despite that, there's an active community writing/tweaking modules for it, and I've got it to do what I want so far (show the TV listings and weather) since I've not got a Hauppauge card yet.
I decided to go with myHTPC because for me the learning curve was not quite as steep re: $distro vs. W2K pro.
I've got a wireless nic in it for the TV/weather updating, use TightVNC to admin it, use it with my StreamZAP remote to control Winamp, etc.
I almost went with a Linux solution, but just getting this box set up (in an Antec Overture case, btw) has tickled my hardware/fiddling bone enough and I'm able to use it now. YMMV
Yeah, I was hoping Nvu didn't add that automatically... Front Page Express would always do crazy stuff like that...
What's with all the white space at the bottom of most pages on their site?
http://nvu.com/features.html
This one's not mine, and I called my buddy about it but he said no way he was posting it! heh
Back several years ago we were both middle school teachers and our school had just got a T1 so I was downloading a lot of mp3s there (pre-napster...all FTP and binary groups) and then taking them home (unplugging the drive). Soon I was running out of space. Our IT director asked me to do some training and I said yeah, if i could get a bigger drive.
So I got a 10 gig installed and moved all my mp3s over to it. By then end of this school year I had on that drive like 1000-some mp3s, all gotten with blood/sweat/tears through FTP sites or ripping them from my students' CDs.
I got a job the next year in our district IT dept and my fellow teacher buddy got my computer, with my extra drive with all the mp3s. Anyway, he wants a fresh install of 98 and calls me up and asks which drive are the mp3s/system on and I'm like the "mp3s on the big one and system on the small one". Well, he took my word for it and didn't check or whatever and formatted the drive with the mp3s. Had something to do with I told him the mp3s were on the "bigfoot" drive (he was kindof a noob then).
Napster showed up that fall though so no big deal...
Yap, my 128 USB has been through the washer twice... it has a little clear window and I could see moisture in there amongst the circuitry. I let it dry thoroughly and it's working like a charm also...
OpenOffice.org
That's how I've seen it referred to before...