At least someone around here was smart enough to figure it out. Posting my real email address to a public forum. Lemme think about that. Thinking... thinking...
After reading that it seems like they're gonna take away my geek credentials if I don't have a gmail account. Could someone please send an invitation to lorcha@hotmail.com?
The US public school system is tremendously wasteful. When I was in school (which takes us back to way before the e-rate program), there were enough kickbacks, cock-ups, and wasteful layers of redundant bureaucracy to keep me writing all morning and not get any work done.
My friends who are teachers confirm that nothing has changed. So this article comes as no surprise.
Increasing performance of CPUs and memories will be squandered if not matched by a similar performance increase in BO. While the capacity of Single Large Expensive Disk (SLED) has grown rapidly, the performance improvements of SLED has been modest. Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), based on the magnetic disk technology developed for personal computers, offers an attractive alternative to SLED, promising improvements of an order of magnitude in performance-reliability, power consumption, and scalability. This paper introduces five levels of RAIDs, giving their relative cost/performance, and compares RAIDs to an IBM 3380 and a Fugitsu Super Eagle.
That box is a VIA MII10000 running Debian sarge, 2.6.6 epia patched kernel.
Yes, you got me to ssh into my home media center.
Hope That Helps. Have A Nice Day.
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Not sure why your cards working in XP is ironic, but whatever. Anyhow, what distro/kernel are you using? I ask, because under Knoppix, my D-Link and Orinoco cards "just work", as you say. I didn't have to compile anything, tinker with anything, or... well.. frankly even do anything except insert the card into the PCMCIA slot.
Since you are into security, perhaps you would be happy getting an STD? Security Tools Distribution, that is. That livecd will likely have any tools on it you need as well as detect your cards without any fuss.
I have cox and they block outgoing only, not incoming port 25. I was annoyed because they blocked without telling anyone they were doing it and my email just sat in the outgoing queue until I figured out what the hell was going on.
But, whatever, it's a one-liner in smtproutes. But I wish I would have known ahead of time.
It pissed me off because they didn't warn people they were doing it and my outgoing email just started getting blocked inexplicably (didn't find out for a while 'cuz qmail doesn't generate bounce messages immediately). I don't mind anymore 'cuz their SMTP servers let me send mail addressed from my domain instead of theirs so it's a one-liner in smtproutes, but I just wish I would have been alerted ahead of time!
I hope they do this and get 100 false positives. Or 1000 false positives. In fact, the more false positives the better.
The problem with DNA testing is that people think if the DNA report says you're guilty, then you're guilty. No one will realize just how falliable DNA testing is when used incorrectly until they try it out and see for themselves that when they try to match someone's "unique" DNA against their database they get 100 "exact matches".
What I want to know is when will Verizon finally get a frickin' bluetooth phone. They are the only service that works in my house, but their phones are state-of-the-art 2001 phones.
If you have to buy all the parts for your homebrew, then tivo is gonna be cheaper. But if you, like many geeks, have a bunch of spare parts lying around, building a myth box is gonna be cheaper.
My myth box cost me $20 for a video capture card off ebay and $80 for a 160GB drive. The rest I built from crap I had lying around my house.
Tell me you can get a TiVo+subscription for $100. But to build a myth box out of store-bought parts would prolly run you around... $450-$700 depending on your configuration. Try $120 for a VIA M10000, $40 for a case, $180 for a Hauppage PVR-350, and $80 for your hard disk and you're in business for $420, and that's a machine that has good quality TV-out, 5.1 sound, yet will be quiet, small, and not look out of place in your entertainment center for $420. Add a slimline DVD drive for like $50. If you're going to use multiple tuners and stuff, you're getting in to the more expensive range that I quoted.
What's tivo cost these days? Like $120 for the box and $300 for the subscription?
one of the major reasons I gave up and abandoned my MythTV box for a replayTV box. It took me 3 days to find a working "subscription code" for the zap2it.com page and finally found one not with mythtv's forums but in the XMLTV user mailing list.
Did you ever consider just looking at the Mythtv installation docs? FYI, the code is "ZIYN-DQZO-SBUT". It was all over the mythtv forums and lists, but the easiest place to get it is in the install docs where it belongs.
I can see enough into the future to know that zap2it will certianly start charging fees by the end of this year.
Think it'll be less than $13/mo? I would wager that they will not be charging by the end of the year or in the forseeable future. They don't want people to write screen scrapers again 'cuz it's murder on their servers.
Even if they did charge, can we not just file it away as a "don't have to screw with it" payment?
Why I hate Windows at the current moment, reason #26:
Windows doesn't give the user enough control. For instance, at work today we tried to restart a Windows "server". The server would not go down. Did the start menu reboot thingie. Sent it a reboot command over the network. The sucker wouldn't go down. So we had to walk all the way down to the server room to hit the big red button. Have you ever had "shutdown -r" refuse to reboot the machine like that? Hell no. When shutdown is called, the system is going down, no ifs, ands, or buts.
When I tell a machine to do something, it damn well better do it.
The VIA board he chose has only a 10/100 ethernet chipset on the mobo. For gigabit, he'd need a PCI NIC card, but he only gets one PCI slot, which is used by his sound card. In the article, he said he wouldn't use the 5.1 sound on the VIA mobo 'cuz he thinks it's flaky (but it seems to work fine for my myth front end... YMMV, I guess)
100Mbps would have to do, or he's gotta choose a new mobo.
They have a 15 day trial period where you can return and/or cancel for any reason. More than enough time to take the phone home and make sure it works.
Ask yourself this: What if you bought a cell with a contract that said it had essential coverage, and it didn't (as often cell companies do)? What if you got crappy reception at your own home even though it clearly says that you are clearly in the footprint? What could you do?
The answer? NOTHING FOR A YEAR. Buy another contract and pray. Smells like bull to me.
Verizon wireless has a 15 day trial period where you can return anything no questions asked. 15 days ought to be enough time to determine whether or not you have adequate service at home, work, etc.
Not sure about other carriers 'cuz I use Vz, but they prolly have something similar.
Child porn hurts children. It's a business with two sides: vendors and subscribers. If only one side is present there is no transaction and children will not be exploited because it won't be profitable.
So...viewing child porn is a part of the problem.
So if Joe pr0n-downloader downloads child porn on kazaa, how exactly does that make exploiting children profitable? I think we're missing a step here or something, because as far as I can tell, when someone downloads something from kazaa, the creator of that "something" is not compensated. Isn't this what the RIAA is so pissed about?
Does that mean Joe is ok because he doesn't pay any money to anyone exploiting children (or exploiting children himself)?
If it's just about employability, you're right: most jobs these days don't require anything beyond basic algebra, and what little tidbits of science are needed can be trained on the job. Why learn all about the radio spectrum when all you need to work at Dish Network's call center is "trees and power lines block our signal?"
Sure, trees and power lines block our signal and all that. But if all I can do is add, subtract, multply and divide, how am I supposed to choose a benefits package? Should I take a health plan with a lower premium but higher deductible? Should I go on my company's plan that has a deductible for presciption durgs or my wife's who just has a copay? How much can I contribute to my 401k to maximize my tax benefit but still be able to live comfortably? How much life insurance do I need? The employer-provided 1X salary or do I need more? How much am I really paying in income taxes? What happens to my salary if I take unpaid leave? Or buy another week of vacation? If I run into money problems, does it make more sense in the long run to take out a HELOC or a loan from my 401k (paying the interest to myself instead of to a bank)?
Answer all those questions for me; and remember, no algebra allowed.
federal TSA baggage screeners were just as incompetent as the private employees
I fly a lot, and I find it funny that 90% of the time, the TSA retard checks my ID against my ticket but does not match my photo to my face. To test this, I've deliberately showed TSA my license while I was holding it with my thumb over the picture! TSA bozo didn't even care.
Makes you wonder what security you're gaining in exchange for standing in line an extra hour.
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Yeah, really bad idea. Much spam would ensue.
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A geek who needs to feel some validation.
My friends who are teachers confirm that nothing has changed. So this article comes as no surprise.
Yes, you got me to ssh into my home media center.
Hope That Helps. Have A Nice Day.
Since you are into security, perhaps you would be happy getting an STD? Security Tools Distribution, that is. That livecd will likely have any tools on it you need as well as detect your cards without any fuss.
Best of luck.
But, whatever, it's a one-liner in smtproutes. But I wish I would have known ahead of time.
It pissed me off because they didn't warn people they were doing it and my outgoing email just started getting blocked inexplicably (didn't find out for a while 'cuz qmail doesn't generate bounce messages immediately). I don't mind anymore 'cuz their SMTP servers let me send mail addressed from my domain instead of theirs so it's a one-liner in smtproutes, but I just wish I would have been alerted ahead of time!
The problem with DNA testing is that people think if the DNA report says you're guilty, then you're guilty. No one will realize just how falliable DNA testing is when used incorrectly until they try it out and see for themselves that when they try to match someone's "unique" DNA against their database they get 100 "exact matches".
What I want to know is when will Verizon finally get a frickin' bluetooth phone. They are the only service that works in my house, but their phones are state-of-the-art 2001 phones.
Best of luck!
My myth box cost me $20 for a video capture card off ebay and $80 for a 160GB drive. The rest I built from crap I had lying around my house.
Tell me you can get a TiVo+subscription for $100. But to build a myth box out of store-bought parts would prolly run you around... $450-$700 depending on your configuration. Try $120 for a VIA M10000, $40 for a case, $180 for a Hauppage PVR-350, and $80 for your hard disk and you're in business for $420, and that's a machine that has good quality TV-out, 5.1 sound, yet will be quiet, small, and not look out of place in your entertainment center for $420. Add a slimline DVD drive for like $50. If you're going to use multiple tuners and stuff, you're getting in to the more expensive range that I quoted.
What's tivo cost these days? Like $120 for the box and $300 for the subscription?
Even if they did charge, can we not just file it away as a "don't have to screw with it" payment?
Windows doesn't give the user enough control. For instance, at work today we tried to restart a Windows "server". The server would not go down. Did the start menu reboot thingie. Sent it a reboot command over the network. The sucker wouldn't go down. So we had to walk all the way down to the server room to hit the big red button. Have you ever had "shutdown -r" refuse to reboot the machine like that? Hell no. When shutdown is called, the system is going down, no ifs, ands, or buts.
When I tell a machine to do something, it damn well better do it.
Just provide a live ethernet port. Let your guests hook up their laptops.
100Mbps would have to do, or he's gotta choose a new mobo.
They have a 15 day trial period where you can return and/or cancel for any reason. More than enough time to take the phone home and make sure it works.
Not sure about other carriers 'cuz I use Vz, but they prolly have something similar.
Does that mean Joe is ok because he doesn't pay any money to anyone exploiting children (or exploiting children himself)?
certainly you must understand irony. Well, if you didn't before, you do now.
Answer all those questions for me; and remember, no algebra allowed.
Makes you wonder what security you're gaining in exchange for standing in line an extra hour.