If I could only slipsteam directx9, an ASPI layer, my more recent nvidia/ati drivers, VIA 4in1's, Windows Media Codecs...
I can't speak for the other stuff, but I added DirectX 8.1 and IE 6 to a Win2K install CD a while back. They can't be slipstreamed as such, but you can create some post-install scripts that will install them for you. For DirectX, I ended up building a runtime installer (the DirectX SDK has info on this) that doesn't insist on rebooting the system when it's done...instead, it sets the errorlevel to something non-zero if a reboot is needed.
I can get the job done with only vi if I must, but joe's much easier to use, probably at least as powerful, and it doesn't take long to get it built on a system that doesn't have it.
is essentially what you are paying for, a reasonably accurate *reliable* way of getting program information and scheduling
It's also worth mentioning that the guide info provided by TiVo is quite a bit more detailed than what you're likely to get for free. I have an upgraded TiVo (a Philips HDR112 with 200 GB of disk (it shipped with 14), 32 MB of RAM (it shipped with 16), and a TurboNet), and I've recently started fooling around with MythTV. While it's much easier to rip video from a MythTV system (export the video files with Samba), I've noticed that the program info it provides isn't nearly as comprehensive as what TiVo provides. TiVo provides a more thorough description of most programs. It also lists the major actors in a show, which is how you can tell it to record everything with your favorite actors (whoever those are) whenever it comes up. A wishlist entry for William Shatner, for instance, would dig up stuff like his Twilight Zone episode(s) and Incubus. (It'd also pull in Rescue 911 and T.J. Hooker...whether that's a Good Thing is an exercise for the reader.)
The TiVo interface is also a fair bit easier to get around. In fairness to MythTV, it's not been around nearly as long, yet it's reasonably useful. It'll get more refined as time moves along.
Just think of what this will mean for breweries when it can be adapted to generate potable ethenol!
Eww...it's bad enough that some of them use corn and rice when they make something they call beer. A beverage made with ethanol derived from straw would probably make even Miller Lite palatable by comparison.
Wrong...s/all/a small handful of/. Unless the owner's manual explicitly states that you can use fuel with higher proportions of ethanol, you should assume it won't take more than the 10% (or less) added for oxygenation purposes.
(It's often just certain engines available for a given model that can tolerate more ethanol. If I had gone with the base 4-banger in my '02 S-10, that would've taken up to 85% ethanol IIRC. I didn't want something that would take all week to accelerate to freeway speed, though, so I went with the 4.3L V6 instead, which only tolerates small amounts. Hell, it's not like there are any gas stations around here that dispense more than 10% ethanol anyway...)
I'll be graduating in May as well and the range Ive seen is 45k to 55k
I started at $40k in January 2002, so the lower end of your range sounds reasonable for today. (It quickly went up from there, to where I was making about 50% more after two years.) As long as your expectations are reasonable (hint: $100k+ for slapping together crappy webpages in FrontPage is not reasonable), you should do OK in today's job market.
That fact can lead to humorous situations when travelling to USA: my co-workers wife went to USA for few weeks and rented a car with a manual transmission.
I'm surprised that she was able to find a place that even had manual-equipped cars for rent, unless it was someplace like the local Rent-a-Vette or some other sort of specialty rental outfit. I've rented everything from import sh*tboxes to SUVs and luxury cars, and they've all been automatics. Even U-Haul doesn't rent out trucks with manual transmissions anymore AFAIK. With nothing but automatics, rental companies don't have to worry about inept drivers toasting clutches and grinding gears, which keeps their operating costs down.
I hate them because they took away Howard Stern in San Diego.
You say that as if it's a Bad Thing. It's too bad the station that carries that blowhard in Vegas is owned by Infinity, which means he's probably not going away any time soon.:-(
Only 20% of the power of a conventional motor? The next glaringly obvious step is to figure out a way to make CPUs out of these motors. Rather than GHz, they would be rated on RPMs. Dell will market them as the "Magnetron".
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Ripoff! Magnetrons are what make microwaves work! What'll they do next--put a "laser" on the moon and call it the "Alan Parsons Project"?
When was the last time you heard of an aethiest terrorist?
There are plenty of those out there in Europe and South America. They usually call themselves "Marxist revolutionaries" of one sort or another. I wouldn't even be surprised if they outnumber al-Qaeda and the other Islamist headcases.
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Might be time to pull some old Mac Classics and SPARCStation 1's out of the closet.
Mac Classics and SPARCstation 1s? An MTA for that Commodore 64 webserver would be more useful here. Even if they try to weasel out of paying by using "CPU hours" instead of real hours, I suspect they're not doing their budgeting on the assumption that someone might want to do this from a ~1-MHz 6502.
I Can't See half of the full sized pics in Mozilla due to wrong MIME types.
I don't think it's that so much as that the files aren't named properly. The pix that don't show are missing the ".jpg" extension. Since the server needs that to know to send it as image/jpeg instead of application/octet-stream (or whatever it's using), a simple "mv foo foo.jpg" would fix it.
I've used the iTrip and the Belkin FM thing, and even in a car and with lossy MP3's the sound is remarkably worse than a direct line to the head unit.
The SoundFeeder SF100 has worked well for me...used an iRock 300W before that, but it transmits on only four frequencies that are all in use in some places I've visited. I have no complaints about the sound quality from either of them.
If you're using an RF modulator, make sure you don't have the input signal turned up too high. If you do, the signal will be overmodulated and it'll sound like ass. (One clue this is happening is if the stereo indicator on your radio goes out during the loud bits and comes back on during the quiet bits.)
I think you're missing some of the benefits though. UDF file system = bootability
USB devices aren't bootable in most systems, so the choice of filesystem is moot. (Yes, I know there's an IDE version planned as well...but if this thing's basically a removable hard drive, why wouldn't you just partition & format it with an appropriate OS-native filesystem (NTFS, ext3, HFS+, or whatever)?)
You aren't going to offsite archive hard drives. It just doesn't make sense. A stack of HDs sititng in a safe? Really?
Why not? They've gotten cheap enough. The last hard drive I bought was a 200GB Western Digital for ~$100 (after rebate). Put it inside a drive-swap cage and it should be no less durable than this new product. It certainly gives you better bang for the buck, with a per-GB cost nearly 75% lower. It's much faster, too, so your backup will take less time to complete.
There's no Mac or Linux support - Iomega (at one point in time) was HUGE in the Mac Owner's hardware regime (especially at ad agencies)
What explicit support do you need? It should show up as just another removable-media drive, or at least as just another hard drive. Iomega has never provided Apple II support for its products AFAIK, but using a SCSI Zip drive with my IIGS involved just plugging it in and partitioning the disk...same as if I had plugged in a hard drive. I would think this drive would be the same way. (I have no clue how you'd ever use 35 GB of online storage on an Apple II...you could probably fit every program ever written for that machine on it and still have space left.:-) )
Even under Windows, I never had much use for their software. All I could see that it did was replace the standard removable-disk icon in "My Computer" with a shiny Zip icon. Whoopee. Dragging and dropping files worked the same either way.
something better would be an external high capacity firewaire/USB 2 hard drive...cheaper and better if you ask me
Put one of those removable-HD tray kits in a FireWire case (or a USB case, if you swing that way) and you've basically duplicated this product, at a much lower cost and with proven reliability.
I don't doubt that Iomega will come up with some sort of buzzword regarding Rev with which they can pitch it to PHBs in a perpetual quest for buzzword compliance, though.
I was able to get the 2.6.4 kernel running on Slackware in less than 4 hours (most of that, compile and configure time). No broken dependancies at all.
However, I wouldn't even try that on RedHat or Mandrake without having the.config file and a list of distribution specific patches.
I have 2.6.x on a couple of Gentoo boxen; it was a fairly painless upgrade for one, while the other was built with it from the start. You'll want to fetch development-sources instead of vanilla-sources (or whatever, but that's what I normally use).
The only snag I've run across was getting ivtv to control a WinTV PVR 350 on a fresh install with a 2.6.3 kernel. It wouldn't control the tuner properly, so all you'd ever get from it was static. Upgrading to the just-released 2.6.5 fixed that...with a few more tweaks, my MythTV box will be in good shape.
Sure they want you to hear the music, but they want to you pay for it, so you should.
I did...how else would I have these.m4p files sitting on my server? (You need the keys saved by iTunes to unscramble the files; you get those keys by authorizing your copy of iTunes to play the music that belongs to your Apple ID. You're not getting any of that unless you paid for it.)
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I can't speak for the other stuff, but I added DirectX 8.1 and IE 6 to a Win2K install CD a while back. They can't be slipstreamed as such, but you can create some post-install scripts that will install them for you. For DirectX, I ended up building a runtime installer (the DirectX SDK has info on this) that doesn't insist on rebooting the system when it's done...instead, it sets the errorlevel to something non-zero if a reboot is needed.
That's easily fixed:
emerge joe
I can get the job done with only vi if I must, but joe's much easier to use, probably at least as powerful, and it doesn't take long to get it built on a system that doesn't have it.
It's also worth mentioning that the guide info provided by TiVo is quite a bit more detailed than what you're likely to get for free. I have an upgraded TiVo (a Philips HDR112 with 200 GB of disk (it shipped with 14), 32 MB of RAM (it shipped with 16), and a TurboNet), and I've recently started fooling around with MythTV. While it's much easier to rip video from a MythTV system (export the video files with Samba), I've noticed that the program info it provides isn't nearly as comprehensive as what TiVo provides. TiVo provides a more thorough description of most programs. It also lists the major actors in a show, which is how you can tell it to record everything with your favorite actors (whoever those are) whenever it comes up. A wishlist entry for William Shatner, for instance, would dig up stuff like his Twilight Zone episode(s) and Incubus. (It'd also pull in Rescue 911 and T.J. Hooker...whether that's a Good Thing is an exercise for the reader.)
The TiVo interface is also a fair bit easier to get around. In fairness to MythTV, it's not been around nearly as long, yet it's reasonably useful. It'll get more refined as time moves along.
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Eww...it's bad enough that some of them use corn and rice when they make something they call beer. A beverage made with ethanol derived from straw would probably make even Miller Lite palatable by comparison.
Wrong...s/all/a small handful of/. Unless the owner's manual explicitly states that you can use fuel with higher proportions of ethanol, you should assume it won't take more than the 10% (or less) added for oxygenation purposes.
(It's often just certain engines available for a given model that can tolerate more ethanol. If I had gone with the base 4-banger in my '02 S-10, that would've taken up to 85% ethanol IIRC. I didn't want something that would take all week to accelerate to freeway speed, though, so I went with the 4.3L V6 instead, which only tolerates small amounts. Hell, it's not like there are any gas stations around here that dispense more than 10% ethanol anyway...)
Refurbished != "brand new."
I started at $40k in January 2002, so the lower end of your range sounds reasonable for today. (It quickly went up from there, to where I was making about 50% more after two years.) As long as your expectations are reasonable (hint: $100k+ for slapping together crappy webpages in FrontPage is not reasonable), you should do OK in today's job market.
I'm surprised that she was able to find a place that even had manual-equipped cars for rent, unless it was someplace like the local Rent-a-Vette or some other sort of specialty rental outfit. I've rented everything from import sh*tboxes to SUVs and luxury cars, and they've all been automatics. Even U-Haul doesn't rent out trucks with manual transmissions anymore AFAIK. With nothing but automatics, rental companies don't have to worry about inept drivers toasting clutches and grinding gears, which keeps their operating costs down.
You say that as if it's a Bad Thing. It's too bad the station that carries that blowhard in Vegas is owned by Infinity, which means he's probably not going away any time soon. :-(
This is proof that the people behind Zero Wing ("Somebody set up us the bomb!") were ahead of their time.
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Ripoff! Magnetrons are what make microwaves work! What'll they do next--put a "laser" on the moon and call it the "Alan Parsons Project"?
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There are plenty of those out there in Europe and South America. They usually call themselves "Marxist revolutionaries" of one sort or another. I wouldn't even be surprised if they outnumber al-Qaeda and the other Islamist headcases.
Mac Classics and SPARCstation 1s? An MTA for that Commodore 64 webserver would be more useful here. Even if they try to weasel out of paying by using "CPU hours" instead of real hours, I suspect they're not doing their budgeting on the assumption that someone might want to do this from a ~1-MHz 6502.
I don't think it's that so much as that the files aren't named properly. The pix that don't show are missing the ".jpg" extension. Since the server needs that to know to send it as image/jpeg instead of application/octet-stream (or whatever it's using), a simple "mv foo foo.jpg" would fix it.
The SoundFeeder SF100 has worked well for me...used an iRock 300W before that, but it transmits on only four frequencies that are all in use in some places I've visited. I have no complaints about the sound quality from either of them.
If you're using an RF modulator, make sure you don't have the input signal turned up too high. If you do, the signal will be overmodulated and it'll sound like ass. (One clue this is happening is if the stereo indicator on your radio goes out during the loud bits and comes back on during the quiet bits.)
USB devices aren't bootable in most systems, so the choice of filesystem is moot. (Yes, I know there's an IDE version planned as well...but if this thing's basically a removable hard drive, why wouldn't you just partition & format it with an appropriate OS-native filesystem (NTFS, ext3, HFS+, or whatever)?)
Why not? They've gotten cheap enough. The last hard drive I bought was a 200GB Western Digital for ~$100 (after rebate). Put it inside a drive-swap cage and it should be no less durable than this new product. It certainly gives you better bang for the buck, with a per-GB cost nearly 75% lower. It's much faster, too, so your backup will take less time to complete.
What explicit support do you need? It should show up as just another removable-media drive, or at least as just another hard drive. Iomega has never provided Apple II support for its products AFAIK, but using a SCSI Zip drive with my IIGS involved just plugging it in and partitioning the disk...same as if I had plugged in a hard drive. I would think this drive would be the same way. (I have no clue how you'd ever use 35 GB of online storage on an Apple II...you could probably fit every program ever written for that machine on it and still have space left. :-) )
Even under Windows, I never had much use for their software. All I could see that it did was replace the standard removable-disk icon in "My Computer" with a shiny Zip icon. Whoopee. Dragging and dropping files worked the same either way.
Put one of those removable-HD tray kits in a FireWire case (or a USB case, if you swing that way) and you've basically duplicated this product, at a much lower cost and with proven reliability.
I don't doubt that Iomega will come up with some sort of buzzword regarding Rev with which they can pitch it to PHBs in a perpetual quest for buzzword compliance, though.
Their legal department is the last thing they'd cut. They'd end up turning into another SCO, or another Rambus.
I have 2.6.x on a couple of Gentoo boxen; it was a fairly painless upgrade for one, while the other was built with it from the start. You'll want to fetch development-sources instead of vanilla-sources (or whatever, but that's what I normally use).
The only snag I've run across was getting ivtv to control a WinTV PVR 350 on a fresh install with a 2.6.3 kernel. It wouldn't control the tuner properly, so all you'd ever get from it was static. Upgrading to the just-released 2.6.5 fixed that...with a few more tweaks, my MythTV box will be in good shape.
You can get an exciter at nearly any radio or TV station...will that do?
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns. Maybe you should work first on getting the Swimmer's license revoked.
I did...how else would I have these .m4p files sitting on my server? (You need the keys saved by iTunes to unscramble the files; you get those keys by authorizing your copy of iTunes to play the music that belongs to your Apple ID. You're not getting any of that unless you paid for it.)