Don't buy dell. Everyone knows Dell's are crap.. everyone. You get what you pay for (esp with laptops). You don't want that Dell crapping out while you are overseas.
Invest in a good quality laptop (Toshi, Apple, Acer or IBM). All three companies support international travelers and Acer has a 2 _hour_ turnaround on their repairs.
And for godsake buy the extended warrenty, worth it's weight in gold (literally unfortunatly)
I was at a trade show yesterday and was looking at the IBM laptops. I notice that the sales guy was throwing them around quite abit and I questioned him on it. Well he closed it and _stood_ on it for a while, then he opened it up and passed it to me by the _monitor_ and lo and behold still worked fine. I was impressed.
As for battery life, those new Centrino systems are sweet, as are the Transmeta ones. Up to 8 hours battery life on a standard battery.
One last one was the new laptop from Toshiba it was about as thick as a finger and wieghed 1.2kg. PIII, 30GB HDD, 512 ram, wow. Expensive though.
Just a thought, try buying the laptop on the way if possible, they are often cheaper (and higher speced) in Asia.
We've developed a medium sized application in Access with a SQL backend. All you have to do is set up ODBC datasources and have a SQL Server backend by linking the tables to it.
It's a piece of cake, and you can have the Access database on the client as no data is stored in them. Plus you can also consolodate all that data into one big database which would be usefull for backup and maintenance.
Also Access databases have a tendency to corrupt, so never store data in them.
I'm a fan of the Toshi warrenties. They're reasonably well prices, give you 3 years of warrenty. It'll cover you for the life of the product, it's just not worth the risk
Although he knows the history of windows, he doesn't know the release history for it. Does anyone actually believe it will ship on that date? Anyone willing to lay money on that?
The base ball bat. At my work after we beat the first few developers to a pulp after they checked in broken files, we found that the rate of broken files decreased dramatically
Grab a spare video card. Then use it just with the MB and CPU. If it doesn't work you know either the CPU or MB are fucked and it's not worth fixing either, go to the second hand store and grab another set.
The writer of the article is naive to say that the future has not materialized. Only American self-centeredness could ignore that in fact they are the odd ones out (besides England) when it comes to measurements. The rest of the world uses the metric system.
Besides a meter is very well defined it is: the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during the time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Having said that 1 second is more arbitary than the meter, but the author ignores that because no other unit of time exists. (Of course you could say 1 second is the time taken for light to travel 299 792 458 meters)
I just got a similar report of a bug from a Accounting software vendor alerting us to a bug in Windows.
Apparently in W2k SP1 MS broke something that caused data not to be writen from disk cache to the actual disk, which caused data corruption. This was only fixed in SP3.
I just find it interesting that this bug was not common knowledge as it is not really a "security" issue so they can't hide behind that smoke screen.
If your going for handhelds, palm is the way to go cause it's stable and standardized and entrenched. Linux on the handheld is newer and can come in many varieties. The palm OS is the same where ever you go.
We had a customer the other day who dropped her computer in friday morning (after a storm) complaining that the modem was not working. We found that somehow (probably the storm) had fried the COM port.
Now she took the computer back home and we rang Intel on friday lunch time to get an advanced replacement for the 2.5year old motherboard (Basically they send the board first, then you send the broken one back).
Monday lunch time, the courier came and delivered the new board. Now this board had made it all the way from Malaysia or somewhere to Brisbane, Australia.
In other words with intel products we are able to offer the customer a warrenty repair in three days at no cost to us at all. You can't get that kind of service from AMD.
Bridging is the process of connecting two networks to each other transparently. What you are talking avout is teaming. It is taking two NICs and "joining" them together to provide double the bandwidth. This is achieved by having a switch that supports teaming and adapters that support this, usually have to be the same.
Multi-link PPP must be configured on both sides of the connection, you can't have Multi-link PPP to share a connection to two different ISPs.
Would would work is having a multi-homed host with 1 connection to the LAN and two to the internet. The NAT firewall would have to be configured with 2 external IP addresses and be programmed to load ballance.
Remember you will have 2 global IP addresses. This means that if you only have one connection open, only one of the links can be ever used. This is because of the way TCP works, it uses the global IP address to identify a connection. So it would not be possible to download a large file over both connections sumiltaniously.
let's see Liquid Helium is around 4 degrees Kelvin. I would like to see a system where the helium would actually co-exist in the same room as the processor let alone touch the CPU.
There is a very good rationale for bandwidth caps. Telcos are charge by the MB for data, ie the more data the more expensive the customer is to the telco. So why shouldn't high users pay more than the casual user? It's very fair. The only problem I have is the high cost of data in australia.
Secondly networks with Unlimited internet have higher contention ratios (usually 1:30 or 1:50 or even 1:100) leading to a few high-bandwidth users slowing down everyone else. Business users on the other hand pay a lot more (2-3x) than retail, but get better ratios, 1:5. This extends to dail-up as well, the ISP who don't have unlimited accounts have better overall speed.
(A contention ratio is how many people share a pipe. Say on a 1.5mbit ADSL connection, on a 1:50 ration, 50 people with 1.5mbit connection share a 1.5mbit connection to the internet. So if all users were to use their connection at the same time they would only get 1.5/50mb/s = 30kb/s. I should know, I work for an ADSL ISP)
Don't like it? Pay for it. If you want a guaranteed download speed with very low data costs, get a T1 . The top speed is equivilent to a 1.5mb/s ADSL, but costs 3-4 times as much because you will always get 1.5mb/s. It is much cheaper to multiplex several, bursty data lines over the one line. This is because if you look at typical end-user usage it varies wildly.
In Australia we have 2 main broadband providers Telstra and Optus. Telstra caps thier retail broadband at a certain limit, and then starts charging. Optus also caps their retail broadband and then throtles the speed to 40-56k once the customer goes over, but does not charge more.
For retail customers optus's system is better because they know exactly how much they have to pay. I had one customer who paid AU$700 ($400US) for his internet because he did not understand how much 300mb was.
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Don't buy dell. Everyone knows Dell's are crap.. everyone. You get what you pay for (esp with laptops). You don't want that Dell crapping out while you are overseas.
Invest in a good quality laptop (Toshi, Apple, Acer or IBM). All three companies support international travelers and Acer has a 2 _hour_ turnaround on their repairs.
And for godsake buy the extended warrenty, worth it's weight in gold (literally unfortunatly)
I was at a trade show yesterday and was looking at the IBM laptops. I notice that the sales guy was throwing them around quite abit and I questioned him on it. Well he closed it and _stood_ on it for a while, then he opened it up and passed it to me by the _monitor_ and lo and behold still worked fine. I was impressed.
As for battery life, those new Centrino systems are sweet, as are the Transmeta ones. Up to 8 hours battery life on a standard battery.
One last one was the new laptop from Toshiba it was about as thick as a finger and wieghed 1.2kg. PIII, 30GB HDD, 512 ram, wow. Expensive though.
Just a thought, try buying the laptop on the way if possible, they are often cheaper (and higher speced) in Asia.
Robert
We've developed a medium sized application in Access with a SQL backend. All you have to do is set up ODBC datasources and have a SQL Server backend by linking the tables to it.
It's a piece of cake, and you can have the Access database on the client as no data is stored in them. Plus you can also consolodate all that data into one big database which would be usefull for backup and maintenance.
Also Access databases have a tendency to corrupt, so never store data in them.
I'm a fan of the Toshi warrenties. They're reasonably well prices, give you 3 years of warrenty. It'll cover you for the life of the product, it's just not worth the risk
Although he knows the history of windows, he doesn't know the release history for it. Does anyone actually believe it will ship on that date? Anyone willing to lay money on that?
Buy them over the internet from Australia. A court ruled that they were legal! Suck on that corporation!!
The base ball bat. At my work after we beat the first few developers to a pulp after they checked in broken files, we found that the rate of broken files decreased dramatically
Grab a spare video card. Then use it just with the MB and CPU. If it doesn't work you know either the CPU or MB are fucked and it's not worth fixing either, go to the second hand store and grab another set.
after just one treatment tumours were reduced in size by up to 92% . Scientist believe this was due to 92% of the rats dying and being eaten
Sounds like a job for a good Perl script using CGI
And in other news...
Scientists have found the composition of an unknown substance using a technique called "chemistry"
Microsoft has developed the latest version of windows with a technique called "software engineering"
Wouldn't this create a bigger problem with vermin chewing on cables because they already taste good?
The writer of the article is naive to say that the future has not materialized. Only American self-centeredness could ignore that in fact they are the odd ones out (besides England) when it comes to measurements. The rest of the world uses the metric system.
Besides a meter is very well defined it is:
the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during the time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Having said that 1 second is more arbitary than the meter, but the author ignores that because no other unit of time exists. (Of course you could say 1 second is the time taken for light to travel 299 792 458 meters)
I just got a similar report of a bug from a Accounting software vendor alerting us to a bug in Windows.
Apparently in W2k SP1 MS broke something that caused data not to be writen from disk cache to the actual disk, which caused data corruption. This was only fixed in SP3.
I just find it interesting that this bug was not common knowledge as it is not really a "security" issue so they can't hide behind that smoke screen.
Could try filtering the power outlet. I've heard of the powerlines picking up a signal and transfering to the speakers via the AC electricity stream
If your going for handhelds, palm is the way to go cause it's stable and standardized and entrenched. Linux on the handheld is newer and can come in many varieties. The palm OS is the same where ever you go.
Why run from .NET? Pretty soon* you can develop in .NET for the linux plaform
*I am aware that it is already working, but it's not quite there yet
Put them on different subnets and stick 2 NICs into the server. this will expose only the server to the Win XP machines.
For extra paranoia, put the Windows XP on a different switch.
For super paranoia, pull the blue cables out.
The next version of MS Office will have the file format based around XML, this would be good as interpreting would be easy.
We had a customer the other day who dropped her computer in friday morning (after a storm) complaining that the modem was not working. We found that somehow (probably the storm) had fried the COM port.
Now she took the computer back home and we rang Intel on friday lunch time to get an advanced replacement for the 2.5year old motherboard (Basically they send the board first, then you send the broken one back).
Monday lunch time, the courier came and delivered the new board. Now this board had made it all the way from Malaysia or somewhere to Brisbane, Australia.
In other words with intel products we are able to offer the customer a warrenty repair in three days at no cost to us at all. You can't get that kind of service from AMD.
Bridging is the process of connecting two networks to each other transparently. What you are talking avout is teaming. It is taking two NICs and "joining" them together to provide double the bandwidth. This is achieved by having a switch that supports teaming and adapters that support this, usually have to be the same.
Good idea, wrong technology
Multi-link PPP must be configured on both sides of the connection, you can't have Multi-link PPP to share a connection to two different ISPs.
Would would work is having a multi-homed host with 1 connection to the LAN and two to the internet. The NAT firewall would have to be configured with 2 external IP addresses and be programmed to load ballance.
Remember you will have 2 global IP addresses. This means that if you only have one connection open, only one of the links can be ever used. This is because of the way TCP works, it uses the global IP address to identify a connection. So it would not be possible to download a large file over both connections sumiltaniously.
let's see Liquid Helium is around 4 degrees Kelvin. I would like to see a system where the helium would actually co-exist in the same room as the processor let alone touch the CPU.
They still have to send traffic over other providers networks to get to all destinations. Especially overseas.
There is a very good rationale for bandwidth caps.
Telcos are charge by the MB for data, ie the more data the more expensive the customer is to the telco. So why shouldn't high users pay more than the casual user? It's very fair. The only problem I have is the high cost of data in australia.
Secondly networks with Unlimited internet have higher contention ratios (usually 1:30 or 1:50 or even 1:100) leading to a few high-bandwidth users slowing down everyone else. Business users on the other hand pay a lot more (2-3x) than retail, but get better ratios, 1:5. This extends to dail-up as well, the ISP who don't have unlimited accounts have better overall speed.
(A contention ratio is how many people share a pipe. Say on a 1.5mbit ADSL connection, on a 1:50 ration, 50 people with 1.5mbit connection share a 1.5mbit connection to the internet. So if all users were to use their connection at the same time they would only get 1.5/50mb/s = 30kb/s. I should know, I work for an ADSL ISP)
Don't like it? Pay for it. If you want a guaranteed download speed with very low data costs, get a T1 . The top speed is equivilent to a 1.5mb/s ADSL, but costs 3-4 times as much because you will always get 1.5mb/s. It is much cheaper to multiplex several, bursty data lines over the one line. This is because if you look at typical end-user usage it varies wildly.
In Australia we have 2 main broadband providers Telstra and Optus.
Telstra caps thier retail broadband at a certain limit, and then starts charging.
Optus also caps their retail broadband and then throtles the speed to 40-56k once the customer goes over, but does not charge more.
For retail customers optus's system is better because they know exactly how much they have to pay. I had one customer who paid AU$700 ($400US) for his internet because he did not understand how much 300mb was.
Business is another matter all together.