I am not wanting to start anything. I just want to point out that the poster says he has maxed the mother board out already, and needs more temporary low latency storage. So adding more ram no matter how cheap will not get them anywhere.
Lets look at it in terms of old technology. There once were slow modems. Lets no go to slow, but lets say 2400bps. These were dialup modems. When we used to connect to the old world BBS, we would use download protocols to transfer files. One such protocol was Z-modem. Now the last time I checked Z-modem could compress data over that 2400bps modem resulting in speeds often double that of 2400bps. Move ahead to ethernet. No compression on the network layer. Simple solution add compression protocols to webservers/and other servers that support XML. I know that webservers and clients already zip some stuff up for communications. Why not all of it. Add the compression at the client/server level and be done with it. Hence in the old days, if you wanted to use Z-modem to make things faster it had to be setup on both ends. Same thing today, just with a diffent protocol
I figure you have a perfect free offsite storage if you have a G-mail account. Most data files are unber 10MB for most home users. Just e-mail your self the files. When you change them send them to your self again. Once your g-mail account is full, just go to the oldest e-mails with attachments of the same name and delete them.
Anything over 10MB should be put else where.
Further doesn't everyone have friends that they trust? You just have to all have a server running that can be ftp'd to and then backup your own data to your friends machine, and reverse. Done.
Anything over reasonable sizes, should be stored on DVD or CD anyways. Too much time to send with current home broadband.
I took an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8MB AGP, running on a Windows 98 machine. Setup Netmeeting with a channel I wanted to watch while somewhere else. Then dialed my netmeeting which auto accepted calls. Had good audio and ok video though not perfect, and it worked through many firewalls. I think I even use to connect to my desktop with terminal services as I moved on in life and OSes and used video editing software to tune the station and watch the video and listen. Silly things we come up with, no?!?
I have no guilt at all. I still fully support Linux on my x86 hardware, but I'll tell you I am impressed with the finished desktop environment I get in my Power Mac G3 with OSX Jaguar, and I look forward to using the newer OSX when I finally aquire a G4 or G5 machine.
I do lean towards redhat like linux distros on x86, though the roll your own distros are nice for near total control.
I personally just added a Firewire drive enclosure for both an IDE HDD drive and a 52x IDE CDROM burner. But work mavelously. As a matter of fact on the machine I am using them with, I went from being able to burn CDs at only 4x to burning at 52x, on the same machine. I suggest that firewire is used on older machines, like Pentium and up, or PowerMac G3's where you need a faster IDE bus then the UDMA 2 or ATA3 that was included in the machines.
It is even more frequent on the pc world. Software all to often comes out nowadays with rediculous requirements on the PC. Has been that way for years.
Although I have yet to see the AnyKey on a keyboard, I wish one of the keyboard manufactures would make a keyboard with the key. Also one of my all time favorite keys I found on a electronic hardware device (not necessarily a computer) was the Don't Care key. There was a blue cased device with a built in keyboard that had the Don't Care key. I can't count as high as the number of times I wanted to use that key in real life.
I have a Beige G3 desktop that is freezing with 10.2.8 installed. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, the freeze is actualy the screen going black and no drive activity nothing. At first it showed up only in Safari, then it happened in Disk Copy, and now if I try and use Toast 6. Short of reinstalling OS back to 10.2.6, I don't know what I can try.
I say that if every website changed to only display contact e-mails in a picture form, it would only spawn a new level of pseudo employment. You know how people used to get paid for having a stupid add bar open when browsing. Well someone could possibly call this quarters ($0.25) for e-mail addresses. There will be bozos out there that will have a new bar open that allows them to type in the graphical e-mail address they see and turn it into machine readable format and automatically update some master spam e-mail list. Basically spammers will pay people to provide them e-mail addresses from the graphics that are used to hide those addresses. I never saw the point of getting paid to take up my desktop space, and won't see the point of this either. But if I can think of this I imagine spammers can too. Then again maybe I just gave them the idea. Doh....
Why not an iomega zip drive? I know it is not solid state, but it is quiet most of the time. It only spins up for reads and writes, it is not a constant whirring.
Read the LDAP RFCs and make your own basic server. I do realize you are one person. But I am writing from experience in a slightly different area. I once wrote a mail client for reading and maintaining Fido messages in the BBS days. I also have written a pop3 e-mail checker. Neither of these were very complex for 1 person once I had all the RFCs available.
If any of you others actually read this. The comment about the LCD was for the Bosses machine. The writer himself was using the eMac, there are two different machines being discussed by the poster. So Basically all the fuss about the LCD in the emac can be tossed. Just read and understand, things become clearer that way.
If there were reasonably priced Dvorak keyboards, as compared to the qwerty keyboards, then I would change even if it meant relearning the layout. My previous attempts at keycap switches and keyboard remapping have failed miserably, when it came to actually using Alt-xxx, Ctrl-xxx sequences, they were still mapping to the hardwired key locations. Maybe that has all changed, but now I am in a Mac OS X environment as opposed to Win, and I still haven't found where to map the home/end key to go to the start/end of a line instead of Apple-arrowkeys. Let alone figure out how to remap almost the whole keyboard to Dvorak.
Charge Microsoft for the costs incurred for that bandwidth. Pass the savings on to your customers. Basically lets assume that MS consumes more bandwidth than any other company on the internet. Lets bill them for taking up the bandwidth. Someone really should be paying me for the grief and aggrevation that MS causes me every time they tell me their sw is flawed, and they have figured out a way to fix that flaw and create 4 more flaws.
Get a really large server case, that has a deep (more than a foot) well of none occupied space at the bottom, with no electrics or other servicable items in the area, and then fill with large block of lead. That should pretty much do it.
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I am not wanting to start anything. I just want to point out that the poster says he has maxed the mother board out already, and needs more temporary low latency storage. So adding more ram no matter how cheap will not get them anywhere.
Buy It!!
It's her computer not yours.
Lets look at it in terms of old technology. There once were slow modems. Lets no go to slow, but lets say 2400bps. These were dialup modems. When we used to connect to the old world BBS, we would use download protocols to transfer files. One such protocol was Z-modem. Now the last time I checked Z-modem could compress data over that 2400bps modem resulting in speeds often double that of 2400bps. Move ahead to ethernet. No compression on the network layer. Simple solution add compression protocols to webservers/and other servers that support XML. I know that webservers and clients already zip some stuff up for communications. Why not all of it. Add the compression at the client/server level and be done with it. Hence in the old days, if you wanted to use Z-modem to make things faster it had to be setup on both ends. Same thing today, just with a diffent protocol
> iBook running OS X, let me state that Apple is now
> the single greatest threat to open source
> operating systems
Let me see how is apple a threat to open source? Their base os is open source, last time I checked they are a supporter.
I figure you have a perfect free offsite storage if you have a G-mail account. Most data files are unber 10MB for most home users. Just e-mail your self the files. When you change them send them to your self again. Once your g-mail account is full, just go to the oldest e-mails with attachments of the same name and delete them.
Anything over 10MB should be put else where.
Further doesn't everyone have friends that they trust? You just have to all have a server running that can be ftp'd to and then backup your own data to your friends machine, and reverse. Done.
Anything over reasonable sizes, should be stored on DVD or CD anyways. Too much time to send with current home broadband.
I took an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8MB AGP, running on a Windows 98 machine. Setup Netmeeting with a channel I wanted to watch while somewhere else. Then dialed my netmeeting which auto accepted calls. Had good audio and ok video though not perfect, and it worked through many firewalls.
I think I even use to connect to my desktop with terminal services as I moved on in life and OSes and used video editing software to tune the station and watch the video and listen.
Silly things we come up with, no?!?
MSN returns all sorts of hits, it does not say anything about likely to return adult content.
Correction to the annonymous cowards suggestion.
http://everydevel.com
I have no guilt at all. I still fully support Linux on my x86 hardware, but I'll tell you I am impressed with the finished desktop environment I get in my Power Mac G3 with OSX Jaguar, and I look forward to using the newer OSX when I finally aquire a G4 or G5 machine.
I do lean towards redhat like linux distros on x86, though the roll your own distros are nice for near total control.
I personally just added a Firewire drive enclosure for both an IDE HDD drive and a 52x IDE CDROM burner. But work mavelously. As a matter of fact on the machine I am using them with, I went from being able to burn CDs at only 4x to burning at 52x, on the same machine. I suggest that firewire is used on older machines, like Pentium and up, or PowerMac G3's where you need a faster IDE bus then the UDMA 2 or ATA3 that was included in the machines.
It is even more frequent on the pc world. Software all to often comes out nowadays with rediculous requirements on the PC. Has been that way for years.
Although I have yet to see the AnyKey on a keyboard, I wish one of the keyboard manufactures would make a keyboard with the key.
Also one of my all time favorite keys I found on a electronic hardware device (not necessarily a computer) was the Don't Care key.
There was a blue cased device with a built in keyboard that had the Don't Care key.
I can't count as high as the number of times I wanted to use that key in real life.
I have a Beige G3 desktop that is freezing with 10.2.8 installed. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, the freeze is actualy the screen going black and no drive activity nothing.
At first it showed up only in Safari, then it happened in Disk Copy, and now if I try and use Toast 6. Short of reinstalling OS back to 10.2.6, I don't know what I can try.
I say that if every website changed to only display contact e-mails in a picture form, it would only spawn a new level of pseudo employment. You know how people used to get paid for having a stupid add bar open when browsing. Well someone could possibly call this quarters ($0.25) for e-mail addresses. There will be bozos out there that will have a new bar open that allows them to type in the graphical e-mail address they see and turn it into machine readable format and automatically update some master spam e-mail list. Basically spammers will pay people to provide them e-mail addresses from the graphics that are used to hide those addresses.
I never saw the point of getting paid to take up my desktop space, and won't see the point of this either. But if I can think of this I imagine spammers can too. Then again maybe I just gave them the idea. Doh....
Why not an iomega zip drive? I know it is not solid state, but it is quiet most of the time. It only spins up for reads and writes, it is not a constant whirring.
That type of goofing around with administrator rights should not be tolerated.
This 5 second rule issue was addressed about 1-2 weeks ago on the all mighty /.
Read the LDAP RFCs and make your own basic server. I do realize you are one person. But I am writing from experience in a slightly different area. I once wrote a mail client for reading and maintaining Fido messages in the BBS days. I also have written a pop3 e-mail checker. Neither of these were very complex for 1 person once I had all the RFCs available.
If any of you others actually read this. The comment about the LCD was for the Bosses machine. The writer himself was using the eMac, there are two different machines being discussed by the poster.
So Basically all the fuss about the LCD in the emac can be tossed.
Just read and understand, things become clearer that way.
When I read the FAQ's there was mention of the XGameStation BASIC. So maybe you are not totally out of luck.
If there were reasonably priced Dvorak keyboards, as compared to the qwerty keyboards, then I would change even if it meant relearning the layout. My previous attempts at keycap switches and keyboard remapping have failed miserably, when it came to actually using Alt-xxx, Ctrl-xxx sequences, they were still mapping to the hardwired key locations. Maybe that has all changed, but now I am in a Mac OS X environment as opposed to Win, and I still haven't found where to map the home/end key to go to the start/end of a line instead of Apple-arrowkeys. Let alone figure out how to remap almost the whole keyboard to Dvorak.
Charge Microsoft for the costs incurred for that bandwidth. Pass the savings on to your customers. Basically lets assume that MS consumes more bandwidth than any other company on the internet.
Lets bill them for taking up the bandwidth. Someone really should be paying me for the grief and aggrevation that MS causes me every time they tell me their sw is flawed, and they have figured out a way to fix that flaw and create 4 more flaws.
Does your $30 Cnd include phone service?
The black write protect tab can double as a shuttle pod.
Get a really large server case, that has a deep (more than a foot) well of none occupied space at the bottom, with no electrics or other servicable items in the area, and then fill with large block of lead. That should pretty much do it.