Astaro is an awesome firewall I use for about 80 users. Forget messing around with building your own on linux like everyone here is suggesting - I don't have that much free time and I'm sure your IT guy doesn't either. It's an excellent linux based appliance OS w/ a cross platform web based interface. You can either buy on astaro hardware or you can put it on an old server you own. When I was evaluating it compared really well with CheckPoint. Check it out at www.astaro.com
The free version of Astaro is much better than IPCop. It's got many, many, more features plus, if you're a home user you can get really cheap upgrades to add IDS, Web filtering, and email antispam/antivirus scanning.
I use their commercial appliance where I work and it's great. Common Criteria and ICSA certification - plus it's Linux based.
I think I read somewhere that Windows XP 64 bit supports booting on a EFI computer. It's not much help for now, but once the PowerMac's come out we may just be in luck. Vista is also supposed to support EFI.
If you've got an extra computer with a couple nic's, heck even a sub-$500 computer would do, check out Astaro Security Linux. You can get a home use license for free and for around $60 you can upgrade it to include web filtering from Cobion, Spam Assassin based anti spam, and Kaspersky AV for Web/Email - all in a nice neat package. I use the full blow version with intrusion protection to protect our company's network and short of Checkpoint it's probably the best out there. You name it, it's got it - Statefull packet inspection, VLAN support, DHCP, VPN, etc.
I hardly see why a 1.25 Ghz G4 with a 64MB or better video card could not handle this game.
It could be the fact that a 1.25 GHz G4 only has a 167 MHz bus. I would think that the video card would starve with Doom 3 on anything less than a G5 machine with its 600 MHz, 900 MHz, 1 GHz, and 1.25 GHz per-processor frontside busses.
Bush is a target for assassination. He was probably wearing a bullet proof vest and what you see is most likely a bulge related to that. I hate GW but I can't see him cheating at a debate.
The article states that the camera tracks the tip of the nose. Presumably you would move your head left or right, up or down, to get cursor movement. Blinking for the mouse buttons.
Still, it might be annoying....
"Now right blink on that file, select properties...."
How about ACL's, and a descent LVM? Port trunking would also be nice since my XServe's got two NIC's. PAC for Safari. A central server for Software Update ala SUS. Printer interfaces are a bit spartan too.
Quite possibly the most original, enthralling, beautiful, and unique game I've ever come accross would have to be ICO. Seriously, you've got to go rent this one. It's one of those games that will suck you in and latch on to you until you beat it. It's a puzzle game, but... it's *much* more than that, you've just got to play it.
Another oldie-but-goodie that will take to to another world would have to be Sony's little heard of but very interesting game "Onyx". It came out many moons ago for Win/Mac but is a trip to play. Google for it, it's a hard one to find and very little known but very fun.
I've always wondered why IEEE 1275 / OpenBIOS / OpenFirmware never caught on. IMO it is a much better and much more powerful alternative to the closed and aging BIOS found in most PC's. People are always complaining about "Closed" operating systems but don't bat an eye that their BIOS is closed...
Sounds likely that your sysadmins have the machines misconfigured - i.e. NetInfo, DNS, OpenDirectory misconfigurations can cause all manner of problems, including slowdowns.
Hrm, there might be some other cause for this. I had the occasion to copy 10GB of data made up of ~30,000 files from one HD to another and it was quite fast - just about maxed out the bus...
...pull the plug on software that every Mac OS X user uses all day every day (IE).
Really? This is a problem how? Somehow I've managed to not need to use, or use MS software for almost 15 years (At Home. My day job has yucky Windows POS's that I'm paid to fix.)
Man, don't I just feel pathetic. That's faster than the 56k modem connection I've got at home - the fastest affordable connectivity I can get in my neck of Qwest land. Too bad it's by the megabyte or I'd just screw Qwest and go all cellular - probably got better voice mail to - doesn't ring 6 times before the system picks up....
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Astaro is an awesome firewall I use for about 80 users. Forget messing around with building your own on linux like everyone here is suggesting - I don't have that much free time and I'm sure your IT guy doesn't either. It's an excellent linux based appliance OS w/ a cross platform web based interface. You can either buy on astaro hardware or you can put it on an old server you own. When I was evaluating it compared really well with CheckPoint. Check it out at www.astaro.com
The free version of Astaro is much better than IPCop. It's got many, many, more features plus, if you're a home user you can get really cheap upgrades to add IDS, Web filtering, and email antispam/antivirus scanning. I use their commercial appliance where I work and it's great. Common Criteria and ICSA certification - plus it's Linux based.
I think I read somewhere that Windows XP 64 bit supports booting on a EFI computer. It's not much help for now, but once the PowerMac's come out we may just be in luck. Vista is also supposed to support EFI.
If you've got an extra computer with a couple nic's, heck even a sub-$500 computer would do, check out Astaro Security Linux. You can get a home use license for free and for around $60 you can upgrade it to include web filtering from Cobion, Spam Assassin based anti spam, and Kaspersky AV for Web/Email - all in a nice neat package. I use the full blow version with intrusion protection to protect our company's network and short of Checkpoint it's probably the best out there. You name it, it's got it - Statefull packet inspection, VLAN support, DHCP, VPN, etc.
Sure reminds me of the Bush regime and the Republican Party.....
APC makes some environmental monitoring units. Here's a list of them from their site:
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http://apc.com/products/category.cfm?id=7&subid=2
They monitor temp and humidity among other things and include customisable relays, threasholds, remote access, and email monitoring.
Really? I'm not sure I would want to use a laptop that small. A 6.5 inch screen would be a bit small for my tastes.
I hardly see why a 1.25 Ghz G4 with a 64MB or better video card could not handle this game.
It could be the fact that a 1.25 GHz G4 only has a 167 MHz bus. I would think that the video card would starve with Doom 3 on anything less than a G5 machine with its 600 MHz, 900 MHz, 1 GHz, and 1.25 GHz per-processor frontside busses.
Bush is a target for assassination. He was probably wearing a bullet proof vest and what you see is most likely a bulge related to that. I hate GW but I can't see him cheating at a debate.
The article states that the camera tracks the tip of the nose. Presumably you would move your head left or right, up or down, to get cursor movement. Blinking for the mouse buttons.
Still, it might be annoying....
"Now right blink on that file, select properties...."
How, exactly, is that a problem?
How about ACL's, and a descent LVM?
Port trunking would also be nice since my XServe's got two NIC's.
PAC for Safari.
A central server for Software Update ala SUS.
Printer interfaces are a bit spartan too.
Just my small list...
Quite possibly the most original, enthralling, beautiful, and unique game I've ever come accross would have to be ICO. Seriously, you've got to go rent this one. It's one of those games that will suck you in and latch on to you until you beat it. It's a puzzle game, but ... it's *much* more than that, you've just got to play it.
Another oldie-but-goodie that will take to to another world would have to be Sony's little heard of but very interesting game "Onyx". It came out many moons ago for Win/Mac but is a trip to play. Google for it, it's a hard one to find and very little known but very fun.
... It crashed at 7 times as fast so I had to slow it down to 6 times as fast.
I've always wondered why IEEE 1275 / OpenBIOS / OpenFirmware never caught on. IMO it is a much better and much more powerful alternative to the closed and aging BIOS found in most PC's. People are always complaining about "Closed" operating systems but don't bat an eye that their BIOS is closed...
Just one question, what happens if they drop it?
Anyone got a match?
Sounds like *somebody's* server was slashdotted in recent history....
Sounds likely that your sysadmins have the machines misconfigured - i.e. NetInfo, DNS, OpenDirectory misconfigurations can cause all manner of problems, including slowdowns.
Hrm, there might be some other cause for this. I had the occasion to copy 10GB of data made up of ~30,000 files from one HD to another and it was quite fast - just about maxed out the bus...
Um, Mac's havn't shipped with SCSI standard for quite some time now, and since when did a server using SCSI become "obscure"?
Really? This is a problem how? Somehow I've managed to not need to use, or use MS software for almost 15 years (At Home. My day job has yucky Windows POS's that I'm paid to fix.)
be-fan's just pissed that Apple rejected buying BE in favor of Unix.
Since when did "Apple" become an acronym?
At least you didn't say something like: "MAC needs to release faster hardware."
Man, don't I just feel pathetic. That's faster than the 56k modem connection I've got at home - the fastest affordable connectivity I can get in my neck of Qwest land. Too bad it's by the megabyte or I'd just screw Qwest and go all cellular - probably got better voice mail to - doesn't ring 6 times before the system picks up....