Err whoa, sorry, something odd happened there. I use Putty on a Nokia 6600 though T-Mobile in the US, and it works without a hitch. I have their unlimited internet plan (which is like $14.99/mo or something). Its free for me because I've been with T-Mobile since they were AirTouch, and was grandfathered into their GPRS unlimited plan. I'd say its a good combo -- typing is a bit arduous, but what are you trying to do over a phone, anyways? Code? Not likely.
If you want a full keyboard, try something more suited like an SE P900/P910a, Moto A1000, or any of the Nokia Communicators.
I get a laugh out of people complaining that their rights are being violated because they can't go to a public library and look at pornography. Are you insane?
A library is a public place. There are also public indecency laws. These are the same laws that prevent you from walking down the sidewalk with your penis hanging out of your pants, or waving your private parts at bus-fulls of old ladies and puppy dogs.
So why should you be allowed to expose pornography (which, by and large, is a VISUAL medium - yes there is written pornography, but you can't look over somebody's sholder and immediately tell they're reading smut quite as easily as you can look over somebody shoulder and see a double-fist-penetration scene.) to those who do not want to see it?
"Turn the computer the other way!"
Horse shit, and you know it. It's still a public venue. It amazes me that people will go to such lengths to support things like being able to go to a library and get their jollies on a computer. Nobody is making pornography ILLEGAL, they're making it more difficult to view in a public place.
Think of it as an open container law for porn. Can you crack open a beer, walk down the street with it? In a few places, sure, but by and large this is a law thats in place to prevent things like drunk driving. You can drink beer in a bar or in your house, sure. So go home if you want to yank your franklin, keep it out of the library.
thanks, chances are I'm getting modded down for making sense.
Several companies like this exist. Check out www.giac-usa.com, they make products for primarily Audi and VW products. Basically it does things like remove the speed governor and let the engine rev for about 1,000 more RPMs before redline.
Not to mention upping the turbo boost pressure from 7 to 14psi, which translates to +50HP and +90ft/lbs of torque at the wheel. And a 2-3mpg gas mileage improvement over stock.
Cathy! Wow, Ne'er I thought to see the day when I'd get to ask a question of the undisputed diva of the Junk.
Ive watched uncountable episodes of Junkyard Wars (in awe, might I add), and one question always came to mind. Did every team always complete the objective in the alloted time frame? It seemed to me like there were a few episodes where one team had an extraordinary time even putting anything together. Were there any times when this didnt happen, and they maybe required some after-hours assistance?:)
Those who back Science's standpoint on this forum are being equally as asinine as those who are backing Creationism.
You say that God is a cop-out by mankind. Immediately, you jump behind your sceince-shield. Science is no more a myth than God may or may not be.
I read an argument a few posts up saying that "a few hundred years ago, any religious man worth his salt knew that witches floated." They sure did. Guess what? Any scientist a few hundred years ago also knew that the universe revolved around the earth.
Get a clue, people. Science fact is only as good as who currently believes it. The earth was flat until conclusive evidence arised saying it wasnt. Who knows whats next?
Step back and examine your argument and your method of conveying it before commenting on something. Immediately hiding behind science is just as equally a cop out.
I'm no physicist by any means, but I'm having problems accepting this.
1) If they've found light from 14 billion years ago from the supposed SOURCE of the universe (or general direction of), how is it just now getting to us?
That would suggest that the universe is expanding at a variable rate, because: a) It would suggest that the universe has expanded faster than the speed of light in the past, and b) the universe has stopped expanding fast enough for the original light to catch up. Sorry, I dont buy it.
2) How are they verifying the source of this light? It seems to me that if the universal expansion theory were true, then the direction of the originating explosion would be dark.
Sorry, just my thoughts. I'm probably going to get rocked by some Physics major here, but I just don't buy alot of the current -theories- (thats all they are!) in acceptance by the scientific community.
The economy and most business models are not a 100% research and development, not-quite-stable environment.
Don't tell a large business "Well, it will get better the more people who use it". They'll spit in your face. They need to know what works, and what works now, and what will continue to work in the future.
Right now, Solaris works. Linux-bigots will sit and say "Well Solaris doesnt provide useful GNU utilities and is a boar when it comes to performance!" Well, yes it is, but it's been around forever, and when Sun says they can make it work, they will MAKE it work. You can't sit around and play with something for awhile in a 100% production environment, and rely on tools which have a sketchy (in a business-model sense) support base. It just cant, and wont, happen.
Beginning with the E10000, servers are able to run multiple "domains". I.e., the E10000 has 16 system boards when fully loaded. You can devote any combination of these boards to running different VM's. 2 boards running one solaris instance, the other 14 running another. 16 seperate instances. 4. 8. 3 and 13. You choose. This isnt quite as "virtual", but it is dynamically reconfigurable.
I believe this carried over to all of Sun's mid to high-range servers (Serengeti, StarFire), and it's definately something they're working towards.
I believe the difference is that it's not so much in the OS software as it's in the firmware on the machine itself.
Most of these systems were purchased by LARGE companies of Sun's (I know, I used to contract for Sun), and chances are that if they phased them out, Sun bought them back out of their contract and and are re-selling them as remanufactured or refurbed. I woudlnt imagine these would be very easy to find, even on eBay.
I saw the title of this post and I just knew what was going to happen: The politically uninformed were going to instantly post "Bush is wrong! Screw Microsoft! I hate republicans!"
Bush is not the problem. When you weigh your options (Gore), you quickly see why. After all, Al Gore -did- invent the internet. I don't see Bush mentioned at all in the article (granted, I skimmed - quote it if I missed it), only the DOJ, which I suppose in indirectly Bush anyways.
It's not being debated that Microsoft has some rather unethical practices. However when you look at the whole issue, why should Microsoft be punished for squashing their competition by creating a product which is the best (for the technically inept)? If you're a Free-OS bigot, you will probably argue until your face is blue against this point, but millions upon millions of people and businesses will tell you otherwise. Personally, I don't use Micros~1's products, either.
It comes down to simple capitalism. Microsoft accelled (not to be confused with Microsoft Excel) themselves to the top, ethical issues aside. After all, having bad ethics is not illegal by any stretch of the imagination. Personally I'd like to see my tax dollars going to other things besides constantly trying to drive a stake into Microsoft's operations. If you hold this as a dominating personal political issue, you need to rethink your issues.
Personally, I don't see how anybody could be for a party that wants to tax you when your relatives die, or happily live on in the legacy of the likes of Clinton or Condit.
Debian installed great on my Sparc4, which has a 110Mhz proc and 128MB ram. It doesnt run that slowly, either. I have it running as a web server (with PHP and MySQL even), and a mail server. It performs wonderfully.
There is a reason that I didnt go with Solaris. I am a Solaris Certified Administrator (I've passed both the tests necessary from Sun), so dont think my opinion is biased, because I'd be going against myself. I find that solaris on a sparc offers alot less functionality than Linux when it comes to things like personal use. IMHO, Linux is alot easier to maintain and use than Solaris is on a daily basis (and I::DO:: work with Solaris regularly). Theres more software for the kinds of applications I want to run, etc. Solaris is great, dont get me wrong, but it has it's niche, much like Linux does. If you're going to be running a large-scale server (and I'm not talking about VA Linux-sized boxen here), Solaris is THE choice to make, hands down. It's robust, very solid, very stable, and it has what is necessary to run in a constant environment on really big hardware. Linux in this area is very lacking, namely because the people who develop for it don't have access to the really expensive (and really big) hardware. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
I've had very little problem with Debian so far, the only issue was that SILO has a problem with a seperate/boot partition. I tried OpenBSD as well, however I discovered that the installer tried unpacking the packages onto the floppy disk itself, rather than onto the created filesystems.
Thusly the floppy disk would fill up and the installer would give an error that the filesystem was full, and quit. I thought that was a bug that needed to be addressed. =)
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
Debian installed great on my Sparc4, which has a 110Mhz proc and 128MB ram. It doesnt run that slowly, either. I have it running as a web server (with PHP and MySQL even), and a mail server. It performs wonderfully.
There is a reason that I didnt go with Solaris. I am a Solaris Certified Administrator (I've passed both the tests necessary from Sun), so dont think my opinion is biased, because I'd be going against myself. I find that solaris on a sparc offers alot less functionality than Linux when it comes to things like personal use. IMHO, Linux is alot easier to maintain and use than Solaris is on a daily basis (and I::DO:: work with Solaris regularly). Theres more software for the kinds of applications I want to run, etc. Solaris is great, dont get me wrong, but it has it's niche, much like Linux does. If you're going to be running a large-scale server (and I'm not talking about VA Linux-sized boxen here), Solaris is THE choice to make, hands down. It's robust, very solid, very stable, and it has what is necessary to run in a constant environment on really big hardware. Linux in this area is very lacking, namely because the people who develop for it don't have access to the really expensive (and really big) hardware. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
I've had very little problem with Debian so far, the only issue was that SILO has a problem with a seperate/boot partition. I tried OpenBSD as well, however I discovered that the installer tried unpacking the packages onto the floppy disk itself, rather than onto the created filesystems.
Thusly the floppy disk would fill up and the installer would give an error that the filesystem was full, and quit. I thought that was a bug that needed to be addressed. =)
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
Jesus, it takes 220lbs of vegetables to power the car for 62 miles? Thats a little inefficient for practical use. 220lbs of roitting cabbage, where is someone going to run up on that much? Thats like an extra passenger and a half. Not a very viable sports car, if you ask me.
But, the future may improve things...
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
You're trying to outlaw free amateur music? How do you suppose music itself was passed down from generation to generation until the 20th century, when some greedy bastard decided everyone who sings a song needs to be handing revenue over to a third party company? Thieving idiots.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
This is -NOT- a SunBlade 1000. This is a SunBlade 100. One less zero. There's a LARGE difference in the 1000 and 100 (essentially, the 1000 kicks a whole lot of ass, the 100 kicks very little).
Sun makes some neat stuff, but its not really worth it unless you want to buy some of the higher-end workstations.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
This IS a problem, regardless of what discrimination laws may say. I'm 19 years old, and currently I work for Sun Microsystems. Its a really hard thing to overcome, and I usually dont tell potential employers my age unless the issue is pressed.
My current employer didnt find out I was 19 until I had to go to Boston for a class and I wasnt old enough to rent a car. I know what you're going through, theonly option is to convince your employers that despite your age, you can compete at a comparible level. Some employers may even be partial to younger people, because that means they can own you for longer.:)
Regardless, best of luck in your employment, feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
I have a Toshiba 6-disc carousel DVD changer which has optical/S-video/component/RCA out. I also bought a middle-quality A/V receiver from Pioneer (model VSX-508 I believe.... there may be a newer product line by now). For the price ($300, got it for $200 open box), its a kickass receiver. 110Wx5 channel output, optical / coaxial audio in which can be mapped to any input source, etc. The only thng that I DONT like about my receiver is that there's no S-video in/out, which the model above mine (VSX-608) has.
I would hook your DVD player up to your receiver via the optical cable for audio, and use component video directly to your TV if your TV has it, otherwise use S-video. This is pretty simple since it's only a 2-cable set up. If you were going to use analog 5.1 Dolby, you'd need at least 6 RCA cables running from your receiver to your DVD player, which can get messy. Obviously, using the method I described above, you'd have to switch video modes on your TV and input mode on your receiver to use the DVD player, whereas if you could run the video through the receiver (as S-video would let you do on a decent receiver that has S-video in/out... there may be some receivers with component in/out as well) you would only have to switch one mode.
Secondly, you will probably still have an analog signal input for things like your VCR and TV. For this, I recommend buying an EQ. I went to Best Buy and bought a $100 AudioSource EQ... let me tell you, after I got it tuned, it was the biggest bang for the buck improvement I've ever done for my theatre system. It's a pretty slick looking model, too... it's got a front 3-color LED display for each frequency range, and a Right and left channel 12-frequency adjust. To hook up the EQ, just run RCA cables from the receiver's Tape 2/Monitor port into the main in port on the EQ, and two more from the main-out port on the EQ back into the Tape2/monitor in port on the receiver, and make sure you turn tape 2 monitoring on. Your EQ should then begin equalizing the signal to your enjoyment. Believe me, when I turn the EQ on and off, the sound difference is amazing.
Also, even though they're expensive, buy monster cables for all your connections. They have a lifetime warranty and are hands down the best audio/video cables out there. If you're going to build a nice stereo, you should do it right. =)
Just my $0.02.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
Slashdot Mirror
Err whoa, sorry, something odd happened there. I use Putty on a Nokia 6600 though T-Mobile in the US, and it works without a hitch. I have their unlimited internet plan (which is like $14.99/mo or something). Its free for me because I've been with T-Mobile since they were AirTouch, and was grandfathered into their GPRS unlimited plan. I'd say its a good combo -- typing is a bit arduous, but what are you trying to do over a phone, anyways? Code? Not likely.
If you want a full keyboard, try something more suited like an SE P900/P910a, Moto A1000, or any of the Nokia Communicators.
I use PuTTY on a
I get a laugh out of people complaining that their rights are being violated because they can't go to a public library and look at pornography. Are you insane?
A library is a public place. There are also public indecency laws. These are the same laws that prevent you from walking down the sidewalk with your penis hanging out of your pants, or waving your private parts at bus-fulls of old ladies and puppy dogs.
So why should you be allowed to expose pornography (which, by and large, is a VISUAL medium - yes there is written pornography, but you can't look over somebody's sholder and immediately tell they're reading smut quite as easily as you can look over somebody shoulder and see a double-fist-penetration scene.) to those who do not want to see it?
"Turn the computer the other way!"
Horse shit, and you know it. It's still a public venue. It amazes me that people will go to such lengths to support things like being able to go to a library and get their jollies on a computer. Nobody is making pornography ILLEGAL, they're making it more difficult to view in a public place.
Think of it as an open container law for porn. Can you crack open a beer, walk down the street with it? In a few places, sure, but by and large this is a law thats in place to prevent things like drunk driving. You can drink beer in a bar or in your house, sure. So go home if you want to yank your franklin, keep it out of the library.
thanks, chances are I'm getting modded down for making sense.
Several companies like this exist. Check out www.giac-usa.com, they make products for primarily Audi and VW products. Basically it does things like remove the speed governor and let the engine rev for about 1,000 more RPMs before redline.
Not to mention upping the turbo boost pressure from 7 to 14psi, which translates to +50HP and +90ft/lbs of torque at the wheel. And a 2-3mpg gas mileage improvement over stock.
Wheeee
Heh... forgot to complete the title, then I was too much of a goof to preview before submitting. Ahh, well.
Cathy! Wow, Ne'er I thought to see the day when I'd get to ask a question of the undisputed diva of the Junk.
:)
Ive watched uncountable episodes of Junkyard Wars (in awe, might I add), and one question always came to mind. Did every team always complete the objective in the alloted time frame? It seemed to me like there were a few episodes where one team had an extraordinary time even putting anything together. Were there any times when this didnt happen, and they maybe required some after-hours assistance?
Thanks!
Those who back Science's standpoint on this forum are being equally as asinine as those who are backing Creationism.
You say that God is a cop-out by mankind. Immediately, you jump behind your sceince-shield. Science is no more a myth than God may or may not be.
I read an argument a few posts up saying that "a few hundred years ago, any religious man worth his salt knew that witches floated." They sure did. Guess what? Any scientist a few hundred years ago also knew that the universe revolved around the earth.
Get a clue, people. Science fact is only as good as who currently believes it. The earth was flat until conclusive evidence arised saying it wasnt. Who knows whats next?
Step back and examine your argument and your method of conveying it before commenting on something. Immediately hiding behind science is just as equally a cop out.
I'm no physicist by any means, but I'm having problems accepting this.
1) If they've found light from 14 billion years ago from the supposed SOURCE of the universe (or general direction of), how is it just now getting to us?
That would suggest that the universe is expanding at a variable rate, because: a) It would suggest that the universe has expanded faster than the speed of light in the past, and b) the universe has stopped expanding fast enough for the original light to catch up. Sorry, I dont buy it.
2) How are they verifying the source of this light? It seems to me that if the universal expansion theory were true, then the direction of the originating explosion would be dark.
Sorry, just my thoughts. I'm probably going to get rocked by some Physics major here, but I just don't buy alot of the current -theories- (thats all they are!) in acceptance by the scientific community.
Cheers!
Dave
Now if we can only get spammers classified as "hackers". =)
...or is Vin Diesel possibly the stupidest human being on earth? :]
DAB
You've got to be kidding me.
The economy and most business models are not a 100% research and development, not-quite-stable environment.
Don't tell a large business "Well, it will get better the more people who use it". They'll spit in your face. They need to know what works, and what works now, and what will continue to work in the future.
Right now, Solaris works. Linux-bigots will sit and say "Well Solaris doesnt provide useful GNU utilities and is a boar when it comes to performance!" Well, yes it is, but it's been around forever, and when Sun says they can make it work, they will MAKE it work. You can't sit around and play with something for awhile in a 100% production environment, and rely on tools which have a sketchy (in a business-model sense) support base. It just cant, and wont, happen.
Just my $0.02.
Beginning with the E10000, servers are able to run multiple "domains". I.e., the E10000 has 16 system boards when fully loaded. You can devote any combination of these boards to running different VM's. 2 boards running one solaris instance, the other 14 running another. 16 seperate instances. 4. 8. 3 and 13. You choose. This isnt quite as "virtual", but it is dynamically reconfigurable.
I believe this carried over to all of Sun's mid to high-range servers (Serengeti, StarFire), and it's definately something they're working towards.
I believe the difference is that it's not so much in the OS software as it's in the firmware on the machine itself.
Dave
Most of these systems were purchased by LARGE companies of Sun's (I know, I used to contract for Sun), and chances are that if they phased them out, Sun bought them back out of their contract and and are re-selling them as remanufactured or refurbed. I woudlnt imagine these would be very easy to find, even on eBay.
Read the DOJ text itself. Not ONCE does it mention Bush, or the Bush Administration. Typical Bush-bias by the slashdot community.
Get your facts straight before you point a finger.
I saw the title of this post and I just knew what was going to happen: The politically uninformed were going to instantly post "Bush is wrong! Screw Microsoft! I hate republicans!"
Bush is not the problem. When you weigh your options (Gore), you quickly see why. After all, Al Gore -did- invent the internet. I don't see Bush mentioned at all in the article (granted, I skimmed - quote it if I missed it), only the DOJ, which I suppose in indirectly Bush anyways.
It's not being debated that Microsoft has some rather unethical practices. However when you look at the whole issue, why should Microsoft be punished for squashing their competition by creating a product which is the best (for the technically inept)? If you're a Free-OS bigot, you will probably argue until your face is blue against this point, but millions upon millions of people and businesses will tell you otherwise. Personally, I don't use Micros~1's products, either.
It comes down to simple capitalism. Microsoft accelled (not to be confused with Microsoft Excel) themselves to the top, ethical issues aside. After all, having bad ethics is not illegal by any stretch of the imagination. Personally I'd like to see my tax dollars going to other things besides constantly trying to drive a stake into Microsoft's operations. If you hold this as a dominating personal political issue, you need to rethink your issues.
Personally, I don't see how anybody could be for a party that wants to tax you when your relatives die, or happily live on in the legacy of the likes of Clinton or Condit.
vi rules.
What? Books have to have an animal on the cover to be good? You're rather open-ended, aren't you?
I guess we ought to figure out a way to halt the facial recognition part of our brains, too. That violates privacy!
Human Rights Activists Extremists can go jump off a bridge.
Debian installed great on my Sparc4, which has a 110Mhz proc and 128MB ram. It doesnt run that slowly, either. I have it running as a web server (with PHP and MySQL even), and a mail server. It performs wonderfully.
::DO:: work with Solaris regularly). Theres more software for the kinds of applications I want to run, etc. Solaris is great, dont get me wrong, but it has it's niche, much like Linux does. If you're going to be running a large-scale server (and I'm not talking about VA Linux-sized boxen here), Solaris is THE choice to make, hands down. It's robust, very solid, very stable, and it has what is necessary to run in a constant environment on really big hardware. Linux in this area is very lacking, namely because the people who develop for it don't have access to the really expensive (and really big) hardware. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
/boot partition. I tried OpenBSD as well, however I discovered that the installer tried unpacking the packages onto the floppy disk itself, rather than onto the created filesystems.
There is a reason that I didnt go with Solaris. I am a Solaris Certified Administrator (I've passed both the tests necessary from Sun), so dont think my opinion is biased, because I'd be going against myself. I find that solaris on a sparc offers alot less functionality than Linux when it comes to things like personal use. IMHO, Linux is alot easier to maintain and use than Solaris is on a daily basis (and I
I've had very little problem with Debian so far, the only issue was that SILO has a problem with a seperate
Thusly the floppy disk would fill up and the installer would give an error that the filesystem was full, and quit. I thought that was a bug that needed to be addressed. =)
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
Debian installed great on my Sparc4, which has a 110Mhz proc and 128MB ram. It doesnt run that slowly, either. I have it running as a web server (with PHP and MySQL even), and a mail server. It performs wonderfully.
::DO:: work with Solaris regularly). Theres more software for the kinds of applications I want to run, etc. Solaris is great, dont get me wrong, but it has it's niche, much like Linux does. If you're going to be running a large-scale server (and I'm not talking about VA Linux-sized boxen here), Solaris is THE choice to make, hands down. It's robust, very solid, very stable, and it has what is necessary to run in a constant environment on really big hardware. Linux in this area is very lacking, namely because the people who develop for it don't have access to the really expensive (and really big) hardware. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
/boot partition. I tried OpenBSD as well, however I discovered that the installer tried unpacking the packages onto the floppy disk itself, rather than onto the created filesystems.
There is a reason that I didnt go with Solaris. I am a Solaris Certified Administrator (I've passed both the tests necessary from Sun), so dont think my opinion is biased, because I'd be going against myself. I find that solaris on a sparc offers alot less functionality than Linux when it comes to things like personal use. IMHO, Linux is alot easier to maintain and use than Solaris is on a daily basis (and I
I've had very little problem with Debian so far, the only issue was that SILO has a problem with a seperate
Thusly the floppy disk would fill up and the installer would give an error that the filesystem was full, and quit. I thought that was a bug that needed to be addressed. =)
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
Jesus, it takes 220lbs of vegetables to power the car for 62 miles? Thats a little inefficient for practical use. 220lbs of roitting cabbage, where is someone going to run up on that much? Thats like an extra passenger and a half. Not a very viable sports car, if you ask me.
But, the future may improve things...
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
FUCK YOU.
You're trying to outlaw free amateur music? How do you suppose music itself was passed down from generation to generation until the 20th century, when some greedy bastard decided everyone who sings a song needs to be handing revenue over to a third party company? Thieving idiots.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
What are you, dislexic?
This is -NOT- a SunBlade 1000. This is a SunBlade 100. One less zero. There's a LARGE difference in the 1000 and 100 (essentially, the 1000 kicks a whole lot of ass, the 100 kicks very little).
Sun makes some neat stuff, but its not really worth it unless you want to buy some of the higher-end workstations.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
This IS a problem, regardless of what discrimination laws may say. I'm 19 years old, and currently I work for Sun Microsystems. Its a really hard thing to overcome, and I usually dont tell potential employers my age unless the issue is pressed.
:)
My current employer didnt find out I was 19 until I had to go to Boston for a class and I wasnt old enough to rent a car. I know what you're going through, theonly option is to convince your employers that despite your age, you can compete at a comparible level. Some employers may even be partial to younger people, because that means they can own you for longer.
Regardless, best of luck in your employment, feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
I have a Toshiba 6-disc carousel DVD changer which has optical/S-video/component/RCA out. I also bought a middle-quality A/V receiver from Pioneer (model VSX-508 I believe.... there may be a newer product line by now). For the price ($300, got it for $200 open box), its a kickass receiver. 110Wx5 channel output, optical / coaxial audio in which can be mapped to any input source, etc. The only thng that I DONT like about my receiver is that there's no S-video in/out, which the model above mine (VSX-608) has. I would hook your DVD player up to your receiver via the optical cable for audio, and use component video directly to your TV if your TV has it, otherwise use S-video. This is pretty simple since it's only a 2-cable set up. If you were going to use analog 5.1 Dolby, you'd need at least 6 RCA cables running from your receiver to your DVD player, which can get messy. Obviously, using the method I described above, you'd have to switch video modes on your TV and input mode on your receiver to use the DVD player, whereas if you could run the video through the receiver (as S-video would let you do on a decent receiver that has S-video in/out... there may be some receivers with component in/out as well) you would only have to switch one mode. Secondly, you will probably still have an analog signal input for things like your VCR and TV. For this, I recommend buying an EQ. I went to Best Buy and bought a $100 AudioSource EQ... let me tell you, after I got it tuned, it was the biggest bang for the buck improvement I've ever done for my theatre system. It's a pretty slick looking model, too... it's got a front 3-color LED display for each frequency range, and a Right and left channel 12-frequency adjust. To hook up the EQ, just run RCA cables from the receiver's Tape 2/Monitor port into the main in port on the EQ, and two more from the main-out port on the EQ back into the Tape2/monitor in port on the receiver, and make sure you turn tape 2 monitoring on. Your EQ should then begin equalizing the signal to your enjoyment. Believe me, when I turn the EQ on and off, the sound difference is amazing. Also, even though they're expensive, buy monster cables for all your connections. They have a lifetime warranty and are hands down the best audio/video cables out there. If you're going to build a nice stereo, you should do it right. =) Just my $0.02.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org
Take a look at some traceroutes.
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Dave Brooks (db@amorphous.org)
http://www.amorphous.org