uhm. i just listed it 'cause i'm thinking about getting one to play on. but i'm in the market for a powerful laptop with a big screen that i can run high-res on, not a dinky 12.1" screen on a 700mhz celeron... plus, the gateway has 2 drive bays, which is always a bonus... hate swapping drives out.
as far as travel, i don't think the original poster was talking about that. he's thinking about getting a pretty bigass dell. so i mentioned an alternative to *that*. not the lightweight mac models. i don't know what i'd recommend as an alternative to the ibook - i was swooning over the whole "sexy gui on unix" thing, and that's why i bought it. it's cool that it's light and all, but it just sits in my desk all day. occasionally someone pulls it down on to the bed to browse while i play q3. once i get off my ass and buy an airport setup, i might use it to browse el web while i watch tv upstairs or look up unblockable moves while i play soul calibur, but it's not a travel book for me. i'd recommend a slim vaio for that. those are pretty nice.
I'm in the same boat as you. I'm a Linux guy, but I really wanted to play with MacOS X without dropping $2000. So... I bought one of the new iBooks.
I got the basic CD-ROM model - $1300 at the Apple Store in Tyson's Corner, VA. I ordered a 256MB SODIMM from Crucial. That was $150 at the time, but they're down to $49 now (Yeah, I feel like an idiot, but 64MB doesn't cut it these days). So for $1350 + shipping on the notebook, you could have a 500MHz G3 with 320 megs of RAM, 10 gig hard drive (small-ish, but definitely enough to play around on) and built in network, etc. It should come with MacOS X installed. Mine didn't, so I bugged the Apple Store until they gave me a copy. I installed it in a car ride up to Maryland - the install got done in the hour it took me to get up there (I forget exactly how long it took, I wasn't paying great attention).
MacOS X is *awesome*. I use that little laptop as much as I can. It's small, light, seems pretty tough (although I ripped off one of the feet on the bottom when it got caught on the edge of the desk and I pulled - I could have put it back in but I didn't realize it until later, after I had picked up the piece, thought "what the hell's this?" and then thrown it away). I love it. Funny thing is, I used to hate macs. *Hated* them. Now I'm about to get a Dual 800MHz G4 with a GeForce3 for graphics/audio.
I'd say that it's really worth it to drop the money on the iBook if you can afford it. If not, get the low end iMac - $300 cheaper, bigger hard drive, more stuff... It's not as portable, obviously, but it's still a Mac that you can play with. And it's running on a 100MHz bus instead of 66, like the iBook (my only complaint...)
My mistake - the RT314 looks okay, it's the FR314 that only does 8. But there's no Stateful Packet Inspection on the RT314... still might want to consider taking it back and getting a different one... but you might not too:) If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Heh. If Netgear support sucks, Linksys support sucks more than the entire fluffer girl union. I like their products (use a Linksys switch on a couple computers as well as some Linksys NIC's, and they work great), but their support is awful. It's basically the same deal you describe with Netgear, but imagine stretching it out over a few months. God.
RE: RT314 - As I recall, you can only do 8 computers on this one (to do more, you have to buy an upgrade license and then upgrade the firmware) - that's why I didn't get it. My friend has this one, and he liked it a lot (got it to fix the same Quake III Arena problem), but you can't put more than 8 computers on it (I have 16 in the house right now and 3 more on their way), and that's a problem with me. The RO318 goes up to 253, which is plenty. So... just as a thought, you may want to return the RT314 and grab an RO318 if you plan on having more computers around. I also try and not support the whole scheme of licensing hardware - I bought the shit, it's mine to use as I see fit.
Also, one thing I didn't note to people interested - the firmware on the Netgear RO318 is upgradeable by ftp or by the web browser, so you don't need to be running Windows to do it (unlike some products, which come with a Windows.exe). Another bonus, since I use Linux and MacOS X pretty much exclusively.
I personally recommend the Netgear RO318. I used to have the Linksys BEFSR41, but I dumped it because it was causing problems playing Quake III Arena online. I did a lot of research, and found the the RO318 best suited my needs. Here's why:
Price: In the $150 range, it's not cheap, but not expensive. However, its other features quickly make it worth every penny.
8 port switch: more than I've seen for this price. This is good, seeing as I have an obscene number of computers in my house.
Web-based setup: I really didn't want to telnet into the router and set it up, so I made sure this one has web-based setup. It does, and it's easy to configure. It took me about 5 minutes to get it set up with my DSL (Verizon).
Stateful Packet Inspection: The RO318 is a real firewall, not just NAT (although it does do NAT).
Web-access policies: You can block certain computers from going to websites containing keywords, etc. This is useful if you don't want your kids to be visiting teenieporn.com
Email reports: The router will email you and let you know if a) you are being attacked (automatically detects portscans, etc) and b) if sites are being visited that shouldn't be (of course, you set this all up).
Design: It's flat and sturdy, which means I can put my other switches on top of it. Couldn't do this with the Linksys due to its design.
Overall, I love it. No problems with Quake III Arena, easy to set up, works flawlessly. The reasons the above poster listed are also true: with 8 ports, you can always plug in a laptop; port forwarding works well, and Netgear also has a great reputation.
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The pieces are identical, but the layout is somewhat different. If you're white, the queen is on the left side of the king. If you're black, the queen is on the right side of your king. So the queens are opposite each other, the kings are opposite each other... the layout isn't symmetrical. Given that white moves first as well, white is generally the preferred side of the board to be on.
GAIM had a changing of the guard a while ago and was picked up by another. Development still continues on GAIM. It's not a large project by any means, and it doesn't have a great number of developers. But it has survived a switch of maintainers.
I don't know that there's any machanism to qualify the critical mass of an OSS project... I guess it would just be "how many people are using it?" and "if it went away, how would this affect the computing world?"
Am I the only one that thinks it's worth mentioning that there is no Netscape any more? There's only the Netscape Division of America Online. AOL laid her off. Not Netscape.
i generally grab something every morning either from the aramark folks downstairs or the little asian woman and her store across the way. breakfast. then i usually skip lunch.
jta = joint technical architecture. and probably a trillion other things. department of defense shit for a side project i'm working on. about as much fun as watching paint dry.
you ever eat downstairs man? the croissant with egg, bacon and cheese was great this morning...
5123. i'm home now. left an hour early (got in at 7)... i'm reading some shit on the jta now, so i was taking breaks because it's FUCKING BORING. hehe.
guess i'll post without the karma bonus so that wanker can stop bitching.
i'm not right now, but yes, that's what i do. little bit of sysadmin-ing, etc. yes, segmentation does suck. that's why i'm asking the ol' division manager to put me on something else...
that segmentation lab isn't so bad... we have a lot of neat machines in there...
what div you in? heh, i won't tell the manager you're slashdotting - i do this nearly every day when i gotta get away from a big fuggen shell script or something...
you may have seen me around... long blond pony tail (generally), never wear my badge...
heh. 20. never done drugs. don't drink alcohol. biggest pain in the ass is listing people i knew at every place i've lived.
one thing you definitely don't want to do is lie. had a friend, wanted to join the marines... filled out that he had a clean record, even though he'd been marked as an accomplice in stealing a car (he didn't steal it - rode in it and knew it was stolen, though) - i was like "they're the fucking U.S. government - they're gonna know!" - needless to say, they did:) definitely need to tell the truth. they need people they can trust more than anything...
i don't know how long i could do stuff like reformatting data. i just got done a big project that included a lot of patches to solaris 2.5.1, and they needed to have the special installation instructions for relevant patches formatted a special way... that was a damn boring day:)
i personally do a lot of work on a contract for disa. saic has done so much stuff in the past... i myself am not aware of any work we've done for the cia or nsa, but it wouldn't surprise me either.
people seem to think that defense contractors are doing all this evil, secret stuff. man, i wish it was that exciting:) if we were doing stuff for nsa or cia, it was probably the boring shit that they didn't want to do themselves.
yes, the clearance is very very handy. and at only 20 years old, i didn't have to fill out nearly as much paperwork...
now, you *do* need a security clearance for a lot of shit we do... but i'd venture to say that we're actually much cleaner than most other defense contractors out there (and we're not all defense anymore! only like 40% of our business comes from the government).
amen brotha. i have both cox roadrunner and verizon dsl in fairfax. while my cable was wigging out, i bought a second router, hooked it up to the dsl and it worked fine the entire time. i think cable's working again but i dunno. agreed, we were lied to on the phone by roadrunner reps. i had my cable modem unplugged from everything while she was telling me "it must be your computer, i can ping your modem just fine..." - "are you sure it's mine and not someone else's?" - "oh yes, i'm definitely pinging yours and it's working fine..." uhhhh... riiiiiiiiight.
anyway, where you at in fairfax? i'm right near the high school. mmmm, china gourmet. did you know that think geek is situated in fairfax too?
Faked video tapes, lying executives, and now this. Perhaps I'm overreacting (and it's 7 a.m. for me, so maybe I am), but can this company's actions get any worse? If the government itself were caught doing something like this, people would be in an uproar.
Edited tapes... lying executives... Watergate.
We did have this before. It ended the career of a man that, had he handled Watergate in a sensible manner, would be considered a great president.
Maybe it's because we know Microsoft has blood on their hands already. We expect this from them. I agree though - something should definitely be done.
ReiserFS didn't even make 2.4. So it's not a *long* time. It's been there for "a little while." Ext3 is not in the official kernel yet, you're correct. But it is in Alan Cox's kernel, and should be in the official kernel soon.
I like ReiserFS, but I have had it fuck up on a machine before. I'm not bitter against it, and I'm not saying that it's not good - but there is still work to be done on it. Ext3 has a lot working for it, and that's why Red Hat is using it in 7.2. Read the article for more details.
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as far as travel, i don't think the original poster was talking about that. he's thinking about getting a pretty bigass dell. so i mentioned an alternative to *that*. not the lightweight mac models. i don't know what i'd recommend as an alternative to the ibook - i was swooning over the whole "sexy gui on unix" thing, and that's why i bought it. it's cool that it's light and all, but it just sits in my desk all day. occasionally someone pulls it down on to the bed to browse while i play q3. once i get off my ass and buy an airport setup, i might use it to browse el web while i watch tv upstairs or look up unblockable moves while i play soul calibur, but it's not a travel book for me. i'd recommend a slim vaio for that. those are pretty nice.
you might want to look at the gateway solo 9550. 15.7" screen, geforce2go, faster bus speed... cheaper than lowest model powerbook too :)
I got the basic CD-ROM model - $1300 at the Apple Store in Tyson's Corner, VA. I ordered a 256MB SODIMM from Crucial. That was $150 at the time, but they're down to $49 now (Yeah, I feel like an idiot, but 64MB doesn't cut it these days). So for $1350 + shipping on the notebook, you could have a 500MHz G3 with 320 megs of RAM, 10 gig hard drive (small-ish, but definitely enough to play around on) and built in network, etc. It should come with MacOS X installed. Mine didn't, so I bugged the Apple Store until they gave me a copy. I installed it in a car ride up to Maryland - the install got done in the hour it took me to get up there (I forget exactly how long it took, I wasn't paying great attention).
MacOS X is *awesome*. I use that little laptop as much as I can. It's small, light, seems pretty tough (although I ripped off one of the feet on the bottom when it got caught on the edge of the desk and I pulled - I could have put it back in but I didn't realize it until later, after I had picked up the piece, thought "what the hell's this?" and then thrown it away). I love it. Funny thing is, I used to hate macs. *Hated* them. Now I'm about to get a Dual 800MHz G4 with a GeForce3 for graphics/audio.
I'd say that it's really worth it to drop the money on the iBook if you can afford it. If not, get the low end iMac - $300 cheaper, bigger hard drive, more stuff... It's not as portable, obviously, but it's still a Mac that you can play with. And it's running on a 100MHz bus instead of 66, like the iBook (my only complaint...)
My mistake - the RT314 looks okay, it's the FR314 that only does 8. But there's no Stateful Packet Inspection on the RT314... still might want to consider taking it back and getting a different one... but you might not too :) If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
RE: RT314 - As I recall, you can only do 8 computers on this one (to do more, you have to buy an upgrade license and then upgrade the firmware) - that's why I didn't get it. My friend has this one, and he liked it a lot (got it to fix the same Quake III Arena problem), but you can't put more than 8 computers on it (I have 16 in the house right now and 3 more on their way), and that's a problem with me. The RO318 goes up to 253, which is plenty. So... just as a thought, you may want to return the RT314 and grab an RO318 if you plan on having more computers around. I also try and not support the whole scheme of licensing hardware - I bought the shit, it's mine to use as I see fit.
Also, one thing I didn't note to people interested - the firmware on the Netgear RO318 is upgradeable by ftp or by the web browser, so you don't need to be running Windows to do it (unlike some products, which come with a Windows
Overall, I love it. No problems with Quake III Arena, easy to set up, works flawlessly. The reasons the above poster listed are also true: with 8 ports, you can always plug in a laptop; port forwarding works well, and Netgear also has a great reputation.
Here is the product information page at Netgear. It can be had from buy.com for $155.
The pieces are identical, but the layout is somewhat different. If you're white, the queen is on the left side of the king. If you're black, the queen is on the right side of your king. So the queens are opposite each other, the kings are opposite each other... the layout isn't symmetrical. Given that white moves first as well, white is generally the preferred side of the board to be on.
I don't know that there's any machanism to qualify the critical mass of an OSS project... I guess it would just be "how many people are using it?" and "if it went away, how would this affect the computing world?"
I'm starting to sound like JWZ...
http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/fe atures.html
Evolution supports Palm devices. I would imagine that it supports Handspring Visor as well, but I don't have one to test it with...
i generally grab something every morning either from the aramark folks downstairs or the little asian woman and her store across the way. breakfast. then i usually skip lunch.
jta = joint technical architecture. and probably a trillion other things. department of defense shit for a side project i'm working on. about as much fun as watching paint dry.
you ever eat downstairs man? the croissant with egg, bacon and cheese was great this morning...
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5123. i'm home now. left an hour early (got in at 7)... i'm reading some shit on the jta now, so i was taking breaks because it's FUCKING BORING. hehe.
guess i'll post without the karma bonus so that wanker can stop bitching.
i'm not right now, but yes, that's what i do. little bit of sysadmin-ing, etc. yes, segmentation does suck. that's why i'm asking the ol' division manager to put me on something else...
that segmentation lab isn't so bad... we have a lot of neat machines in there...
what div you in? heh, i won't tell the manager you're slashdotting - i do this nearly every day when i gotta get away from a big fuggen shell script or something...
you may have seen me around... long blond pony tail (generally), never wear my badge...
No shit. Cool deal. What floor?
Enterprise or Tower?
so where you at? you obviously work for/close/with us...
i made pizzas at pizza hut. doesn't get much worse than that :)
one thing you definitely don't want to do is lie. had a friend, wanted to join the marines... filled out that he had a clean record, even though he'd been marked as an accomplice in stealing a car (he didn't steal it - rode in it and knew it was stolen, though) - i was like "they're the fucking U.S. government - they're gonna know!" - needless to say, they did
i don't know how long i could do stuff like reformatting data. i just got done a big project that included a lot of patches to solaris 2.5.1, and they needed to have the special installation instructions for relevant patches formatted a special way... that was a damn boring day
people seem to think that defense contractors are doing all this evil, secret stuff. man, i wish it was that exciting
yes, the clearance is very very handy. and at only 20 years old, i didn't have to fill out nearly as much paperwork...
now, you *do* need a security clearance for a lot of shit we do... but i'd venture to say that we're actually much cleaner than most other defense contractors out there (and we're not all defense anymore! only like 40% of our business comes from the government).
anyway, where you at in fairfax? i'm right near the high school. mmmm, china gourmet. did you know that think geek is situated in fairfax too?
Edited tapes... lying executives... Watergate.
We did have this before. It ended the career of a man that, had he handled Watergate in a sensible manner, would be considered a great president.
Maybe it's because we know Microsoft has blood on their hands already. We expect this from them. I agree though - something should definitely be done.
I like ReiserFS, but I have had it fuck up on a machine before. I'm not bitter against it, and I'm not saying that it's not good - but there is still work to be done on it. Ext3 has a lot working for it, and that's why Red Hat is using it in 7.2. Read the article for more details.