oh yeah, and here's some compatibility info on various head units that are supported. not suprisingly, the kenwood unit only supports kenwood heads. i can however highly recommend kenwood's in-dash mp3 players. just burn a cdr with your mp3s and hit the road. you're still left juggling cds, but with roughly 10-12 albums on each disc it's at least a little easier. the top of the line model (KDC-X959) even allows you to upload your own mpgs and jpgs to the unit for display on the road. i like it so much i run a site for 959 movies to download and info on hacking the movie format for optimal playback (and even a handy perl script to do it for ya!).
although it probably won't connect to your factory head unit (the radio itself), the the phatnoise music box is an mp3 player that runs linux, supports mp3 and ogg, and connects to many makes of head units through their cd changer controls presenting cd text information to the head unit from id3 tags or filenames. they've since sold the rights to the product to kenwood, who now sell it as the music keg in 10 and 20gb version. the hard drive comes in a removable cartidge, and the system includes a usb docking cradle. the thing looks like a typical car amp, so you just grab the hd from the unit and slap it into the cradle to transfer your songs back and forth.
show me another computer with 64mb ram, 8/10/20gb hard drive (depending on when you bought it), decent 3d video, dolby digital 5.1 sound, dvd-rom, and 10/100 ethernet that you can buy for $200 and i won't call your post a troll.
howabout any ports you want? frontx lets you "roll your own" front panel ports with a reconfigurable system for adding usb, 1394, key/mouse, audio, and just about whatever else into the front of your pc by way of a 5.25" drive bay face plate.
sorry to shoot down the trollish anti-ms nature of this post, but this has been available on microsoft platforms as far back as NT 3.51. the first terminal server/citrix platform utilized this technology (multi video/key/mouse, not terminal sessions over ipx/ip). it's now called "ultra thin client" technology.
perhaps you should open your google before you troll next time... there's plenty of nics out there with prom, and he even mentioned this one tried to pxe boot (which only happens with an onboard rom).
this technology has been available for decades, it's called free space optical datacom. As the link points out, there's even a google directory listing for providers of this technology.
there are significant limitations on this tech however. cheif among them is reliability in various weather conditions. rain, fog, snow, and passing birds tend to cause havok with a laser beam. setting a laser up to point to a target 1 or 2 kilometers away is no small feat, and even harder is making sure it stays on target months and years later.
there's a reason why most wireless shorthaul links use microwaves, as the laser technology really doesn't work very well.
I remember installing every single Win 98 beta that came out -- what a buggy headache (especially the early Active Desktops) -- when I could have spent my time being productive, and waiting and watching.
if you could have spent your time being productive, why were you pissing around installing microsoft betas of win9x operating systems?
i manage around a hundred remote compaq servers, and every single one of them has a remote insight board installed.
it gives you remote key/mouse/video through any java enabled browser. it has it's own network interface and power supply, so it works even when the host system is powered off or completely broken. you wouldn't want to play quake through the thing, but slapping one of these in your boxes means you'll probably never have to physically touch that system again except for hardware replacements.
actually, i think it's very consistent: given that a) he's asking "ask slashdot" instead of somebody like EMC, it's probably not for a major data center. and b) there aren't a hell of a lot of datacenters out there hosting large scale mac server installs (yet).
which is why iscsi would actually be nice on a mac, as a software implementation would probably be cheap and would utilize commodity hardware and would be totally accessible for the home user. i manage a number of intel systems attached to an emc SAN at work, and i'd love to be able to implement something similar at home myself, which has me watching the emerging iscsi standard very closely for these same reasons - i just don't have the quid to drop a symmetrix in at home...
first, their rating on resellerratings.com is pretty abysmal. basically, the product you get may or may not what's been advertised.
be doubly cautious of buying anything from them that isn't the $500 model. like any other chip the gpu on the radeon has some variations in their yields. as every overclocker knows, some just run faster than others out of the box. what these guys are doing is to try overclocking each card they get from ati, and sell those that will clock higher for significantly more money. throw a fancy heatpipe on it, and charge lots of cash. if you just buy the plain vanilla 9700 pro from them, you can be absolutely certain that it's the "bottom of the overclocking barrel". but don't take my word for it, check the user reviews from people that actually purchased it as opposed to models shipped for free to overclocking websites for promotional purposes.
1) firewire - no managment, just loose drives attached to single machines. might as well suggest a usb memory stick. firewire drives don't make a san.
2) fibre channel - cost of entry approaching $50k. that adds up to about 50k reasons not to use it on a home machine or small network.
3) network storage - not really a block level disk access technology, is it?
i think the real reason is that very few people are using macs in a data center serving up real applications to lots of clients - the sorta place where a well managed SAN makes sense. now that the draft standard has been finalized (but not ratified), i imagine that you'll see iSCSI becoming more commoditized and more software being made available for more OSs.
note that the windows and linux software packages are only iSCSI initiators - i haven't seen any software based iSCSI targets. this means that even if you did port the code to Darwin you'd still have to have some storage device out there speaking iSCSI to point your mac at.
actually, booting off iscsi is only available from ibm using a proprietary protocol. there is now a spec for remote booting via iscsi but nobody has any hardware out that supports it.
there's a really easy solution to that: buy that latest shit hot processor (which has been designed to run as cool as possible), and clock it at 1/10 it's normal speed. viola', a cool cpu that's not too fast for ya...
how did your users laptops bring SQL slammer in the building? first off, it only infects MS SQL servers, which isn't very typical for an average laptop install. secondly, the virus is memory resident only, which means that when they turned off their laptops to bring them into work, they also removed the worm from their systems. and did you try patching your companies sql servers, or did you just reboot them all at once to get rid of the worm for a few minutes?
not that i don't like arstechnica - but you're getting a bit spammy. anyway, try a different news source, like this.
i know you're too busy being productive to play games on your mac, but according to these results using real world productivity apps (photoshop and after effects), you're going to be waiting twice as long for your mac to finish the job (and paying $600 more to boot).
apple makes some great software and some great looking machines, but they're hamstrung by motorola's inability to compete with intel and amd on research, development, and manufacturing. until they find themselves a new core cpu architecture or motorola somehow figures out how to build a cpu that can clock into the stratosphere apple will never be able to produce a machine that can run as fast as a wintel (or lintel:) system.
and apple was right, megahertz don't matter - but gigahertz do...
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oh yeah, and here's some compatibility info on various head units that are supported. not suprisingly, the kenwood unit only supports kenwood heads. i can however highly recommend kenwood's in-dash mp3 players. just burn a cdr with your mp3s and hit the road. you're still left juggling cds, but with roughly 10-12 albums on each disc it's at least a little easier. the top of the line model (KDC-X959) even allows you to upload your own mpgs and jpgs to the unit for display on the road. i like it so much i run a site for 959 movies to download and info on hacking the movie format for optimal playback (and even a handy perl script to do it for ya!).
although it probably won't connect to your factory head unit (the radio itself), the the phatnoise music box is an mp3 player that runs linux, supports mp3 and ogg, and connects to many makes of head units through their cd changer controls presenting cd text information to the head unit from id3 tags or filenames. they've since sold the rights to the product to kenwood, who now sell it as the music keg in 10 and 20gb version. the hard drive comes in a removable cartidge, and the system includes a usb docking cradle. the thing looks like a typical car amp, so you just grab the hd from the unit and slap it into the cradle to transfer your songs back and forth.
huh? you mean "second star to the right, straight on till morning"? that's from peter pan dude...
as soon as m$ open-sources windows, i'm sure somebody will compile it to run on xbox.
just don't hold your breath...
show me another computer with 64mb ram, 8/10/20gb hard drive (depending on when you bought it), decent 3d video, dolby digital 5.1 sound, dvd-rom, and 10/100 ethernet that you can buy for $200 and i won't call your post a troll.
howabout any ports you want? frontx lets you "roll your own" front panel ports with a reconfigurable system for adding usb, 1394, key/mouse, audio, and just about whatever else into the front of your pc by way of a 5.25" drive bay face plate.
sorry to shoot down the trollish anti-ms nature of this post, but this has been available on microsoft platforms as far back as NT 3.51. the first terminal server/citrix platform utilized this technology (multi video/key/mouse, not terminal sessions over ipx/ip). it's now called "ultra thin client" technology.
check here, here, or here.
i had an mca bus SCSI controller that had the same problem, and the same body count (3 motherboards).
:P
fortunately, they were all mca bus motherboards (ps/2 systems), so no big loss
perhaps you should open your google before you troll next time... there's plenty of nics out there with prom, and he even mentioned this one tried to pxe boot (which only happens with an onboard rom).
yeah, i just bought the "top of the line" 9700 pro from tyan 2 weeks ago.
so much for being top of the heap...
this technology has been available for decades, it's called free space optical datacom. As the link points out, there's even a google directory listing for providers of this technology.
there are significant limitations on this tech however. cheif among them is reliability in various weather conditions. rain, fog, snow, and passing birds tend to cause havok with a laser beam. setting a laser up to point to a target 1 or 2 kilometers away is no small feat, and even harder is making sure it stays on target months and years later.
there's a reason why most wireless shorthaul links use microwaves, as the laser technology really doesn't work very well.
astroturf=fake grass
in this sense, it's somebody trying to stir up product awareness by creating a bogus "grassroots" movement of some sort.
if you could have spent your time being productive, why were you pissing around installing microsoft betas of win9x operating systems?
i manage around a hundred remote compaq servers, and every single one of them has a remote insight board installed. it gives you remote key/mouse/video through any java enabled browser. it has it's own network interface and power supply, so it works even when the host system is powered off or completely broken. you wouldn't want to play quake through the thing, but slapping one of these in your boxes means you'll probably never have to physically touch that system again except for hardware replacements.
according the michigan.gov's official website:0 -15481_208 26_20829-54118--,00.html
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-16
and the slashdot editors are from michigan...
actually, i think it's very consistent: given that a) he's asking "ask slashdot" instead of somebody like EMC, it's probably not for a major data center. and b) there aren't a hell of a lot of datacenters out there hosting large scale mac server installs (yet).
which is why iscsi would actually be nice on a mac, as a software implementation would probably be cheap and would utilize commodity hardware and would be totally accessible for the home user. i manage a number of intel systems attached to an emc SAN at work, and i'd love to be able to implement something similar at home myself, which has me watching the emerging iscsi standard very closely for these same reasons - i just don't have the quid to drop a symmetrix in at home...
from the link you've provided, i find one SAN machine - the sancube, which actually makes a SAN on firewire.
except the max capacity is 720GB and it only supports a maximum of 4 hosts.
hardly a SAN...
first, their rating on resellerratings.com is pretty abysmal. basically, the product you get may or may not what's been advertised.
be doubly cautious of buying anything from them that isn't the $500 model. like any other chip the gpu on the radeon has some variations in their yields. as every overclocker knows, some just run faster than others out of the box. what these guys are doing is to try overclocking each card they get from ati, and sell those that will clock higher for significantly more money. throw a fancy heatpipe on it, and charge lots of cash. if you just buy the plain vanilla 9700 pro from them, you can be absolutely certain that it's the "bottom of the overclocking barrel". but don't take my word for it, check the user reviews from people that actually purchased it as opposed to models shipped for free to overclocking websites for promotional purposes.
from the link:
Note: This application is intended for test environments only. It has no warranty or support.
this doesn't engender much confidence in a $1000 adapter.
1) firewire - no managment, just loose drives attached to single machines. might as well suggest a usb memory stick. firewire drives don't make a san.
2) fibre channel - cost of entry approaching $50k. that adds up to about 50k reasons not to use it on a home machine or small network.
3) network storage - not really a block level disk access technology, is it?
i think the real reason is that very few people are using macs in a data center serving up real applications to lots of clients - the sorta place where a well managed SAN makes sense. now that the draft standard has been finalized (but not ratified), i imagine that you'll see iSCSI becoming more commoditized and more software being made available for more OSs.
note that the windows and linux software packages are only iSCSI initiators - i haven't seen any software based iSCSI targets. this means that even if you did port the code to Darwin you'd still have to have some storage device out there speaking iSCSI to point your mac at.
actually, booting off iscsi is only available from ibm using a proprietary protocol. there is now a spec for remote booting via iscsi but nobody has any hardware out that supports it.
there's a really easy solution to that: buy that latest shit hot processor (which has been designed to run as cool as possible), and clock it at 1/10 it's normal speed. viola', a cool cpu that's not too fast for ya...
nitpicking point here, but nt4 doesn't support fat32, just fat (and vfat w/ long filenames), hpfs, and ntfs.
how did your users laptops bring SQL slammer in the building? first off, it only infects MS SQL servers, which isn't very typical for an average laptop install. secondly, the virus is memory resident only, which means that when they turned off their laptops to bring them into work, they also removed the worm from their systems. and did you try patching your companies sql servers, or did you just reboot them all at once to get rid of the worm for a few minutes?
not that i don't like arstechnica - but you're getting a bit spammy. anyway, try a different news source, like this.
:) system.
i know you're too busy being productive to play games on your mac, but according to these results using real world productivity apps (photoshop and after effects), you're going to be waiting twice as long for your mac to finish the job (and paying $600 more to boot).
apple makes some great software and some great looking machines, but they're hamstrung by motorola's inability to compete with intel and amd on research, development, and manufacturing. until they find themselves a new core cpu architecture or motorola somehow figures out how to build a cpu that can clock into the stratosphere apple will never be able to produce a machine that can run as fast as a wintel (or lintel
and apple was right, megahertz don't matter - but gigahertz do...