I use my home brew workstation for CD duplication. It is an Athlon 1.4 w/ 512MB DDR RAM, on board Adaptec U160 SCSI, 7200 RPM IBM Ultrastar drive (U160, 4MB cache), 4 Plextor Plexwriter 8X/20X CD-R drives and a Plextor Ultraplex 40Max CD. I run Red Hat 7.2 and simply use cdrecord to run all four writers at once. Works like a charm!
You don't need nearly that much power to do the same thing, though. Before I upgraded to an Athlon, I ran a P3-500 system feeding the same 4 writers with an Initio UW SCSI card and a much slower UW SCSI hard disk. It was still solid enough to ignore and continue doing whatever other tasks you have to do while it writes 4 CD-Rs. CPU utilization was less than 4% on the 500 and about 1% on the Athlon.
This is a horrible thing for Maine. Get one thing straight: it is not the "State of Maine" that is giving these iBooks to the students - it is the TAXPAYERS OF MAINE. This means that the money to fund this gets sapped right out of the paychecks of everyone that lives and works in Maine - even those low wage laborers.
Perhaps if Maine did not have one of the highest tax burdens in the union, (if not THE highest) these "poor families" could afford to buy their own damned computers.
It is garbage like this that makes me proud to be a Tennessean (and future Floridian.) Imagine what you could do with the thousands of dollars that you would save by NOT having to pay state income taxes (no state income taxes in TN, FL, TX, NH and some others.)
You will have your own money to spend as you see fit for your children, and not as some damned politician does. You might even be able to afford to send your children to a good private school with the savings, where they will be taught by the best teachers, and not by the worst computers.
Since you got your goods, you don't have a case to file a complaint with Ebay, but I would leave negative (or at least neutral) feedback on this transaction explaining what he did (if that is possible in 80 characters.) Maybe leave a link to a page of your own explaining in further detail (?) Unfortunately, if you do, he will probably retaliate by leaving feedback of his own about you, but sometimes you have to just take a hit because you know who's right and who's wrong. You might actually stop him from screwing someone else over in the future.
Not only is an Ebay auction a legal binding contract obligating the high bidder to purchase the item being auctioned, but it also obligates the seller to sell the item listed to the high bidder (which was you.)
If the auction has bids, he can only get out of selling the item if he had stated in the auction description that he reserves the right to terminate the auction early for whatever reason, cancels the bids of all bidders that have placed bids, then ends the auction early. Sellers also have the right to reject bids from whomever they please, but it doesn't sound like he did that to you.
Switch to Dish Network. They carry Fox. I am the happy owner of a Dish Network system, and I get my local Fox station through it. If you live in the sticks, you can get your network TV from somewhere else (including FOX). Dish Network is WAY cheaper, and has pretty good customer service, too. The "Everything Pak" at $69.99 on Dish is almost identical to the "Total Choice Platinum" package on DirecTV, which costs $82.99. I subscribe to Dish's "Top 150", and for $39.99, I get everything in the DirecTV "Total Choice" package ($31.99), plus everything in the DirecTV "Family Pack"($5.00), the "Sports Pack" ($10.00) and even The Movie Channel, Encore, and a couple of other movie channels that you would pay extra for. Just my $0.02.
Find the antenna and wrap a piece of aluminum foil around it, or find any connectors to the antenna and unplug them. Either will prevent it from receiving a signal at all.
I agree, nukes all the way! California woldn't be in the dark if the leftist wackos would have allowed some power plants (specifically NUCLEAR plants) to be built in the past ten years.
There is much truth to the findings, though. One needs only to look at JonKatz, who suffered genetic mutation from protesting outside of power plants - soaking up all that radiation just to make sure some capitalist pig doesn't make a buck by providing a service to consumers.:P
That's great! What is funny is that it really has bids! Did you see his other auctions? I might have to bid on the moist towelette. After all, you never know when you might need one...;)
I recently tried out a PCI DirecPC system. I picked it up for almost nothing years ago, and never bothered using it because the thing only worked on was Windows. I've been happily cruising along with 128Kbps ISDN for years now (since it is really cheap here in Nashville, TN and I have a buddy that owns an ISP, so I get a free dedicated connect.) But, I got the itch for a little more speed, so I figured what the hell - I'd give it a try.
I installed the card and loaded the software on my Win 2000 Pro machine, subscribed through the software, put up the dish, used a BitSurfr Pro ISDN TA @ 128Kbps as the "modem", and fired up ICS to share the connect with my other machines.
Overall, the service was fairly slow to respond, but once things started to move, it could usually top the advertised 400Kbps. (Remember kiddies, I use "B" to denote Bytes and "b" to denote bits.) Latency was usually around 590ms round trip (this would be slower using a real modem for upstream.) I could usually pull single file downloads at anywhere from 40-65KB/sec, and could sometimes get throughput near 1.2 Megabits pulling several files at once. I did try it with a regular modem at 28.8Kbps, and with it, it did not seem to want to break the advertised 400Kbps by much. (I guess that is all the analog noisemaker could handle ??) All of that was the good news...
The bad news comes from a few important things. First, the DirecPC "Fair Access Policy." This is simply a mechanism that they have implemented to keep you from sucking too much bandwidth. I met this head on about 60MB into downloading an ISO image (about 20 minutes into the download.) The policy claimed that the threshold was 169MB / hour (not if it THINKS that you'll pull 169MB / hour!) My download speed (according to wget) started at 48KB... then it fell to 24KB, then to 12KB, then to 6KB. Hell, I can pull 15KB using my Toshiba ISDN router - more than twice as fast as this thing turned out to be under load, and with 30ms latency round trip to my ISP! Also, the fact that the DirecPC software has to dial out on a modem (56K, Bitsurfr, whatever) for upstream service also sucks. I was hoping that it would just use my LAN (with ISDN router already installed) for upstream - nope. I guess the Helius setup would fix that issue for a price.
One other important shortcoming - I could not send files upstream with it. You can connect to a server via FTP, and you can download files, but uploading was impossible. A quick phone call to DirecPC got a tech support rep whose explaination was that "DirecPC doesn't support FTP! Sorry."
'Nuff said. Terminate my service, please. My ISDN router was promptly dusted off and returned to service.
My opinion: Don't bother - even if you can only get v.90. I'm just mad that I wasted a whole hour installing that damned dish in the freezing cold - and now I'll have to take it down!;)
They evidently changed mine without even giving me the courtesy of an email about it. I just checked and found all of my prefs set to "Yes" (at least the spam-related stuff.) I just love the line that popped up after I submitted the changes: "Your preferences have been saved. Please note that changes to your preferences may take approximately 14 days to be reflected in our communication to you." Still, where else can you go? No other auction house has as much stuff for sale or as many potential buyers for whatever you are trying to sell.:|
I know this doesn't help the problems with Iridium, but, maybe in the future, the genuises that design these things could have the foresight to include an explosive device of some sort that could detonate upon reentry so that there are much smaller pieces of deorbiting satellite to deal with. Such a device wouldn't have to be huge - satellites could be designed to fragment in to smaller pieces. The whole thing could burn up without a piece hitting the ground.
For a phone that will work just about anywhere in the US, and service that carries no roaming or long distance charges, Verizon Wireless (formerly GTE) is probably the best bet. $55 will get you 400 minutes, $75 for 600, $100 for 900, and so on.
Whatever you do, I would recommend that you avoid Sprint PCS like the plague. Their service is okay until you have a problem, then they are worse than government to deal with. I had a Motorola Timeport ($300 phone when I bought it) that quit working (it would work intermittently, usually not at all) at about 6 weeks of age. Sprint lied to me and told me that there was nothing wrong with the phone, and that they were having "network problems in my area" and that is why the phone did not work properly. I made calls and went to 2 different Sprint stores and was told the same thing. This went on for over a month. At this point, I bought a new phone and service from another carrier just to have something that worked!
Finally, talked to a friend of mine (who is the manager at a local Radio Shack) and he provided me with the phone number of someone higher up the Sprint food chain. This person finally admitted that there must be a problem with the phone itself, and we made arrangements to get a new phone overnighted to me.
Two weeks later, no phone. My Radio Shack guy called them back and raised hell about it and then they had a story to tell that they sent my new phone to the wrong address, and that they would get another one right out. Well, they did get another one to me the next day, but it was the WRONG PHONE. They shipped a Talkabout (cheapo Motorola phone), and not a Timeport. My Radio Shack guy immediately called them back and told them about this new fiasco. They promised a new Timeport would be shipped right out. They never gave instructions as to what the hell to do with the Talkabout (which they charged my account for.) Over a week later, no phone. Another call by Radio Shack to Sprint to raise hell, and finally the rep agreed to meet me in person with a new Timeport. She took the Talkabout, and we overnighted my busted Timeport back to Sprint. Before meeting to get the new phone, I had already decided to cancel my Sprint service, and sell the brand new Timeport - I just wanted them to replace my damned phone as promised. I was paying $100 per month for 1000 minutes on a $300 phone that did not work. You can see why I was furious!
The final chapter began when I tried to get Sprint to cancel my service. I spent 50 minutes on hold (I timed it), and got some asshole that hassled me for 10 minutes over wanting to disconnect my service (like giving me shit at this point is going to make me change my mind - what part of turn my service off do you not understand ?!? - seesh), and finally said that he would disconnect the phone. Well, he didn't. Eight days later, I called again, spent another 30 minutes on hold and finally got someone that had a brain. She said that she had no record of my previous order to disconnect the phone, but she would take care of it. One hour later, the phone is finally dead, and the Timeport went up for sale on Ebay. End of saga. Have you guys seen the commercials for XO Communications where they make fun of the fictional "MegaTelco"? Sprint IS MegaTelco.
Money lost on unused service: $250.00 (after taxes) Money lost on phone: $120.00 (difference between what the phone cost me new and what I sold the replacement for.) Money spent on another carrier's phone to replace the busted Sprint phone: $100.00. Sprint PCS ended up being a very expensive and frustrating mistake for me. I'm also getting rid of my wife's Sprint phone just out of principle.
If any of you guys live in Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis or Knoxville, TN, you should check out Cricket for local PCS service. (It only works in your local area.) You get a Nokia 5170 (1900 MHz CDMA) and the first month service for only $99.00, with no contract to sign! $29.99 per month gets you UNLIMITED use of the phone for local calls! Talk until you are blue in the face for only $29.99 a month - how can you argue with that? Voice mail, caller ID and call waiting are optional, but you can get everything for another $7.95. It actually works better in Nashville (where I live) than my Sprint phone did. Somebody invest some money in these guys.;)
a lot of macs are single purpose : for fast photoshop. Multitasking not required.
...and that is about all that they are good for! Just keep your fingers off the mouse button, and Photoshop in the foreground so that all of your CPU time isn't given to the mouse click or the Finder.:P
-bzzzzt-!! try again ! mac os x server shipped over a year ago (not to mention the release of macosxbeta)
MacOS X Server has absolutely nothing to do with MacOS X. It is a totally different operating system. MacOS X Server is based on NeXT, not BSD like MacOS X. MacOS X Public Beta is NOT A RELEASE. RELEASE means that it is a FINAL PRODUCT.
on a side note i wonder how old you are ? 15? 16? your post certainly doesnt read like it was written by a grown up.
On the contrary, your post is the one that reads like something written by a 15 year old. If you want to get particular, the only word that you capitalized correctly is multitasking - something that your precious Macs can't even perform!
FYI, I am 29 years old. My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. I got a Color Computer when I was in the 6th grade. Since then, I've personally moved through an Amiga 1000, an Amiga 2000, a Quadra 840av, a 7200/75, a Power Computing PowerCenter Pro and various Intel boxes. I've used Macs almost every day for the last seven years, and I know the operating system inside and out. Believe me when I say that MacOS is shit.
I used to like Macs because at one time, they actually performed better than PCs. Sure, the G4's AltiVec crap is wicked fast, but the OS does not take advantage of it. Advantages are found only in applications written specifically for the use of it. The only thing that it is good for is so that Apple can take benchmarks performed on AltiVec (which have no relevance to 99.9% of the computer's real performance) and use the results in a misleading ad campaign about G4 Macs being "supercomputers." The only thing that I have found that actually uses AltiVec is the Distributed RC5 client. It is fast as hell, but to what gain? When I'm not cracking RC5 keys, my 18 month old PIII/500 Linux box kicks the shit out of the G4/400 that I am writing this on 99% of the time - and for FAR less money.
So, let me say it again: Give me a break!:P
Only on Slashdot can your post be moderated down for stating facts.
Why bother wasting your money on Honda's expensive automotive technology. You can get a new VW Golf or Jetta with an awesome turbo-diesel engine and loaded for well under $20K. They are EPA rated at 42/49 MPG, and have 90HP / 156 lb-ft. torque from the factory. "Chips" are available to soup these up to 115HP / 190 lb-ft. @ 2000 RPM - leave smoldering black tire marks for days. The kits even claim better than 50 MPG! Range on a tank of fuel: 700 miles. My older VW diesel has 200K miles and counting - original engine, original clutch. 'nuff said. Yeah, ok, so I'm a VW freak;) Honda sucks.
In the last two years, I've seen dozens of these things hogging space at hamfests around the U.S.. I still have yet to see one bring $15.00, much less $100.00. You can find Amigas for far less money. Nice try, guys. Now if they have a warehouse full of TRS-80 Model 16 systems, they might really have something (a Z80 plus a MC68000 - killer box for 1979, eh?):)
Well said! I am personally so damned sick of hearing how freakin wonderful Clinton and Algore are from the mainstream media that I am about to gag. I am not about to tune in to Slashdot to read the same damned garbage.
When are you stupid liberals going to realize that in supporting the likes of Clinton and Gore that you are supporting the very people that are undermining things that Slashdot and its readers hold dear like privacy, encryption and FREE SPEECH.
Gore won't even fix a lousy rental house that he owns, how can he be trusted to run the country. (story from our local - Nashville - TV station.) I am from Nashville and I know what I twit Gore is. I just love how he spent his entire life away from Nashville, and then suddenly calls it his home when he figures that he can gain more votes by being seen as a good ole' southern boy. Don't fall for that shit. I also love how he refuses to visit Nashville unless it is in the middle of rush hour, so he can tie up the already horrible traffic for even longer while his motorcade makes its way 15 miles from the airport to his headquarters on the other end of the county. Hey Algore, how much pollution was caused by all that traffic standing still for hours as you drive by? How many hours were wasted that parents (sitting in the traffic jam) could have been spending with their families? Go away - we don't want you here!
I can't believe that people as intelligent as those who read (and operate) Slashdot can be so damned stupid as to fall for the Democratic Party's line of bullshit.
Exactly what the hell has Clinton-Gore done for YOU since 1992? As for me, my taxes have gone up thanks to Clinton's tax increase in 1993 - the largest income tax increase in American history. I work in human resources - I know what happened. And now, Bill Clinton vetoes the repeal of the "marriage penalty". Why the hell should married couples pay higher taxes than people that are not married or couples living together? This same "penalty" cost me an extra $2000 in taxes last year because I got married in November. Even though my wife and I had not lived or worked together before November, we had to cough up $2000 just for being married.
By all means, if you bleeding heart liberal commies think that you are not paying your fair share in taxes already, then get out your checkbooks and write a fucking check to the local, state, or federal entity of your choice.
Also, what the hell do GW Bush or the Republicans have to do with this 2600 guy getting arrested? Need I remind you that Philly's population is almost 5 to 1 DEMOCRATIC. I'll bet that it was a DEMOCRAT that arrested your precious little cracker (or at least there were Democrats involved in the process.) I know it said "This has no relevance, but...", but you are implying that GW or the RNC had something to do with it.
WHEN George W wins in November, I'll be laughing my ass off at all of you.
If I want liberal bias in my news, I'll read the fucking newspaper. I can see that Slashdot is no longer "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." It is now "News for Leftwingpinkobedwettingtreehuggingliberalcommies. Stuff that we hope you'll think matters."
You can take your Karma and your scores and shove 'em up your ass.
"Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will
destroy the United States." - W. E. B. Du Bois
Thanks for the info! I have had a whole lot of opportunity yet to use it. Storing the CC numbers to me isn't necessary evil. I will be using those CC numbers to charge monthly subscription fees to, so that is just fine to me. I understand why it could be bad for others, though!;)
No, the merchant service runs that for you so you. So, you don't have to process transactions through Quickbooks - you just have to own the software to sign up.:)
I just signed up with merchant services through Quickbooks. There is no setup fee or monthly internet service fee. The discount rate is 2.52% (MC/Visa) and the transaction fee is only 20 cents. They take Amex, , Discover, Diner's Club and maybe more, but the discount rate is higher.
You can set up a web interface, or charge through the Quickbooks 2000 accounting package.
A legit, registered installation of Quickbooks 2000 or 2000 Pro is required to use this!
It was easy to set up, and I got approved in less than 24 hours.
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I use my home brew workstation for CD duplication. It is an Athlon 1.4 w/ 512MB DDR RAM, on board Adaptec U160 SCSI, 7200 RPM IBM Ultrastar drive (U160, 4MB cache), 4 Plextor Plexwriter 8X/20X CD-R drives and a Plextor Ultraplex 40Max CD. I run Red Hat 7.2 and simply use cdrecord to run all four writers at once. Works like a charm!
:)
You don't need nearly that much power to do the same thing, though. Before I upgraded to an Athlon, I ran a P3-500 system feeding the same 4 writers with an Initio UW SCSI card and a much slower UW SCSI hard disk. It was still solid enough to ignore and continue doing whatever other tasks you have to do while it writes 4 CD-Rs. CPU utilization was less than 4% on the 500 and about 1% on the Athlon.
Linux, SCSI and lots of RAM are key here.
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Perhaps if Maine did not have one of the highest tax burdens in the union, (if not THE highest) these "poor families" could afford to buy their own damned computers.
It is garbage like this that makes me proud to be a Tennessean (and future Floridian.) Imagine what you could do with the thousands of dollars that you would save by NOT having to pay state income taxes (no state income taxes in TN, FL, TX, NH and some others.)
You will have your own money to spend as you see fit for your children, and not as some damned politician does. You might even be able to afford to send your children to a good private school with the savings, where they will be taught by the best teachers, and not by the worst computers.
Just my $0.02... Sig by Ben Franklin:
Not only is an Ebay auction a legal binding contract obligating the high bidder to purchase the item being auctioned, but it also obligates the seller to sell the item listed to the high bidder (which was you.)
If the auction has bids, he can only get out of selling the item if he had stated in the auction description that he reserves the right to terminate the auction early for whatever reason, cancels the bids of all bidders that have placed bids, then ends the auction early. Sellers also have the right to reject bids from whomever they please, but it doesn't sound like he did that to you.
Yes it would, but Dish Network has their own similar product now called "Dish PVR". Details at:
http://www.dishnetwork.com
You do get Speedvision on Dish Network.
Switch to Dish Network. They carry Fox. I am the happy owner of a Dish Network system, and I get my local Fox station through it. If you live in the sticks, you can get your network TV from somewhere else (including FOX). Dish Network is WAY cheaper, and has pretty good customer service, too. The "Everything Pak" at $69.99 on Dish is almost identical to the "Total Choice Platinum" package on DirecTV, which costs $82.99. I subscribe to Dish's "Top 150", and for $39.99, I get everything in the DirecTV "Total Choice" package ($31.99), plus everything in the DirecTV "Family Pack"($5.00), the "Sports Pack" ($10.00) and even The Movie Channel, Encore, and a couple of other movie channels that you would pay extra for. Just my $0.02.
Find the antenna and wrap a piece of aluminum foil around it, or find any connectors to the antenna and unplug them. Either will prevent it from receiving a signal at all.
I agree, nukes all the way! California woldn't be in the dark if the leftist wackos would have allowed some power plants (specifically NUCLEAR plants) to be built in the past ten years.
:P
There is much truth to the findings, though. One needs only to look at JonKatz, who suffered genetic mutation from protesting outside of power plants - soaking up all that radiation just to make sure some capitalist pig doesn't make a buck by providing a service to consumers.
That's great! What is funny is that it really has bids! Did you see his other auctions? I might have to bid on the moist towelette. After all, you never know when you might need one... ;)
I installed the card and loaded the software on my Win 2000 Pro machine, subscribed through the software, put up the dish, used a BitSurfr Pro ISDN TA @ 128Kbps as the "modem", and fired up ICS to share the connect with my other machines.
Overall, the service was fairly slow to respond, but once things started to move, it could usually top the advertised 400Kbps. (Remember kiddies, I use "B" to denote Bytes and "b" to denote bits.) Latency was usually around 590ms round trip (this would be slower using a real modem for upstream.) I could usually pull single file downloads at anywhere from 40-65KB/sec, and could sometimes get throughput near 1.2 Megabits pulling several files at once. I did try it with a regular modem at 28.8Kbps, and with it, it did not seem to want to break the advertised 400Kbps by much. (I guess that is all the analog noisemaker could handle ??) All of that was the good news...
The bad news comes from a few important things. First, the DirecPC "Fair Access Policy." This is simply a mechanism that they have implemented to keep you from sucking too much bandwidth. I met this head on about 60MB into downloading an ISO image (about 20 minutes into the download.) The policy claimed that the threshold was 169MB / hour (not if it THINKS that you'll pull 169MB / hour!) My download speed (according to wget) started at 48KB... then it fell to 24KB, then to 12KB, then to 6KB. Hell, I can pull 15KB using my Toshiba ISDN router - more than twice as fast as this thing turned out to be under load, and with 30ms latency round trip to my ISP! Also, the fact that the DirecPC software has to dial out on a modem (56K, Bitsurfr, whatever) for upstream service also sucks. I was hoping that it would just use my LAN (with ISDN router already installed) for upstream - nope. I guess the Helius setup would fix that issue for a price.
One other important shortcoming - I could not send files upstream with it. You can connect to a server via FTP, and you can download files, but uploading was impossible. A quick phone call to DirecPC got a tech support rep whose explaination was that "DirecPC doesn't support FTP! Sorry."
'Nuff said. Terminate my service, please. My ISDN router was promptly dusted off and returned to service.
My opinion: Don't bother - even if you can only get v.90. I'm just mad that I wasted a whole hour installing that damned dish in the freezing cold - and now I'll have to take it down! ;)
Today is the day that I erase Slashdot from my bookmarks.
They evidently changed mine without even giving me the courtesy of an email about it. I just checked and found all of my prefs set to "Yes" (at least the spam-related stuff.) I just love the line that popped up after I submitted the changes: "Your preferences have been saved. Please note that changes to your preferences may take approximately 14 days to be reflected in our communication to you." Still, where else can you go? No other auction house has as much stuff for sale or as many potential buyers for whatever you are trying to sell. :|
I know this doesn't help the problems with Iridium, but, maybe in the future, the genuises that design these things could have the foresight to include an explosive device of some sort that could detonate upon reentry so that there are much smaller pieces of deorbiting satellite to deal with. Such a device wouldn't have to be huge - satellites could be designed to fragment in to smaller pieces. The whole thing could burn up without a piece hitting the ground.
Ahhhhhhhh, the atmosphere, ahhhhhhhhh.
Thanks for the support! They are all just jealous because I got first post - hahahahahaha! :P
For a phone that will work just about anywhere in the US, and service that carries no roaming or long distance charges, Verizon Wireless (formerly GTE) is probably the best bet. $55 will get you 400 minutes, $75 for 600, $100 for 900, and so on.
;)
Whatever you do, I would recommend that you avoid Sprint PCS like the plague. Their service is okay until you have a problem, then they are worse than government to deal with. I had a Motorola Timeport ($300 phone when I bought it) that quit working (it would work intermittently, usually not at all) at about 6 weeks of age. Sprint lied to me and told me that there was nothing wrong with the phone, and that they were having "network problems in my area" and that is why the phone did not work properly. I made calls and went to 2 different Sprint stores and was told the same thing. This went on for over a month. At this point, I bought a new phone and service from another carrier just to have something that worked!
Finally, talked to a friend of mine (who is the manager at a local Radio Shack) and he provided me with the phone number of someone higher up the Sprint food chain. This person finally admitted that there must be a problem with the phone itself, and we made arrangements to get a new phone overnighted to me.
Two weeks later, no phone. My Radio Shack guy called them back and raised hell about it and then they had a story to tell that they sent my new phone to the wrong address, and that they would get another one right out. Well, they did get another one to me the next day, but it was the WRONG PHONE. They shipped a Talkabout (cheapo Motorola phone), and not a Timeport. My Radio Shack guy immediately called them back and told them about this new fiasco. They promised a new Timeport would be shipped right out. They never gave instructions as to what the hell to do with the Talkabout (which they charged my account for.) Over a week later, no phone. Another call by Radio Shack to Sprint to raise hell, and finally the rep agreed to meet me in person with a new Timeport. She took the Talkabout, and we overnighted my busted Timeport back to Sprint. Before meeting to get the new phone, I had already decided to cancel my Sprint service, and sell the brand new Timeport - I just wanted them to replace my damned phone as promised. I was paying $100 per month for 1000 minutes on a $300 phone that did not work. You can see why I was furious!
The final chapter began when I tried to get Sprint to cancel my service. I spent 50 minutes on hold (I timed it), and got some asshole that hassled me for 10 minutes over wanting to disconnect my service (like giving me shit at this point is going to make me change my mind - what part of turn my service off do you not understand ?!? - seesh), and finally said that he would disconnect the phone. Well, he didn't. Eight days later, I called again, spent another 30 minutes on hold and finally got someone that had a brain. She said that she had no record of my previous order to disconnect the phone, but she would take care of it. One hour later, the phone is finally dead, and the Timeport went up for sale on Ebay. End of saga. Have you guys seen the commercials for XO Communications where they make fun of the fictional "MegaTelco"? Sprint IS MegaTelco.
Money lost on unused service: $250.00 (after taxes) Money lost on phone: $120.00 (difference between what the phone cost me new and what I sold the replacement for.) Money spent on another carrier's phone to replace the busted Sprint phone: $100.00. Sprint PCS ended up being a very expensive and frustrating mistake for me. I'm also getting rid of my wife's Sprint phone just out of principle.
If any of you guys live in Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis or Knoxville, TN, you should check out Cricket for local PCS service. (It only works in your local area.) You get a Nokia 5170 (1900 MHz CDMA) and the first month service for only $99.00, with no contract to sign! $29.99 per month gets you UNLIMITED use of the phone for local calls! Talk until you are blue in the face for only $29.99 a month - how can you argue with that? Voice mail, caller ID and call waiting are optional, but you can get everything for another $7.95. It actually works better in Nashville (where I live) than my Sprint phone did. Somebody invest some money in these guys.
Monkey boy,
:P
I'll be waiting here with Bill Ruger at my side.
-bzzzzt-!! try again ! mac os x server shipped over a year ago (not to mention the release of macosxbeta)
MacOS X Server has absolutely nothing to do with MacOS X. It is a totally different operating system. MacOS X Server is based on NeXT, not BSD like MacOS X. MacOS X Public Beta is NOT A RELEASE. RELEASE means that it is a FINAL PRODUCT.
on a side note i wonder how old you are ? 15? 16? your post certainly doesnt read like it was written by a grown up.
On the contrary, your post is the one that reads like something written by a 15 year old. If you want to get particular, the only word that you capitalized correctly is multitasking - something that your precious Macs can't even perform!
FYI, I am 29 years old. My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1. I got a Color Computer when I was in the 6th grade. Since then, I've personally moved through an Amiga 1000, an Amiga 2000, a Quadra 840av, a 7200/75, a Power Computing PowerCenter Pro and various Intel boxes. I've used Macs almost every day for the last seven years, and I know the operating system inside and out. Believe me when I say that MacOS is shit.
I used to like Macs because at one time, they actually performed better than PCs. Sure, the G4's AltiVec crap is wicked fast, but the OS does not take advantage of it. Advantages are found only in applications written specifically for the use of it. The only thing that it is good for is so that Apple can take benchmarks performed on AltiVec (which have no relevance to 99.9% of the computer's real performance) and use the results in a misleading ad campaign about G4 Macs being "supercomputers." The only thing that I have found that actually uses AltiVec is the Distributed RC5 client. It is fast as hell, but to what gain? When I'm not cracking RC5 keys, my 18 month old PIII/500 Linux box kicks the shit out of the G4/400 that I am writing this on 99% of the time - and for FAR less money.
So, let me say it again: Give me a break! :P
Only on Slashdot can your post be moderated down for stating facts.
You Mac zealots just can't stand the fact that I'm right! I know, I used to be one of you. There is help available to you all!
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You're right, it does look like shit! Well, at least it beats the hell out of the iBook.
Why bother wasting your money on Honda's expensive automotive technology. You can get a new VW Golf or Jetta with an awesome turbo-diesel engine and loaded for well under $20K. They are EPA rated at 42/49 MPG, and have 90HP / 156 lb-ft. torque from the factory. "Chips" are available to soup these up to 115HP / 190 lb-ft. @ 2000 RPM - leave smoldering black tire marks for days. The kits even claim better than 50 MPG! Range on a tank of fuel: 700 miles. My older VW diesel has 200K miles and counting - original engine, original clutch. 'nuff said. Yeah, ok, so I'm a VW freak ;) Honda sucks.
In the last two years, I've seen dozens of these things hogging space at hamfests around the U.S.. I still have yet to see one bring $15.00, much less $100.00. You can find Amigas for far less money. Nice try, guys. Now if they have a warehouse full of TRS-80 Model 16 systems, they might really have something (a Z80 plus a MC68000 - killer box for 1979, eh?) :)
If the athlete was male, maybe they just handed him a cup and a porno mag. Eh mate, fill 'er up please! hehehehe :)
When are you stupid liberals going to realize that in supporting the likes of Clinton and Gore that you are supporting the very people that are undermining things that Slashdot and its readers hold dear like privacy, encryption and FREE SPEECH.
Gore won't even fix a lousy rental house that he owns, how can he be trusted to run the country. (story from our local - Nashville - TV station.) I am from Nashville and I know what I twit Gore is. I just love how he spent his entire life away from Nashville, and then suddenly calls it his home when he figures that he can gain more votes by being seen as a good ole' southern boy. Don't fall for that shit. I also love how he refuses to visit Nashville unless it is in the middle of rush hour, so he can tie up the already horrible traffic for even longer while his motorcade makes its way 15 miles from the airport to his headquarters on the other end of the county. Hey Algore, how much pollution was caused by all that traffic standing still for hours as you drive by? How many hours were wasted that parents (sitting in the traffic jam) could have been spending with their families? Go away - we don't want you here!
I can't believe that people as intelligent as those who read (and operate) Slashdot can be so damned stupid as to fall for the Democratic Party's line of bullshit.
Exactly what the hell has Clinton-Gore done for YOU since 1992? As for me, my taxes have gone up thanks to Clinton's tax increase in 1993 - the largest income tax increase in American history. I work in human resources - I know what happened. And now, Bill Clinton vetoes the repeal of the "marriage penalty". Why the hell should married couples pay higher taxes than people that are not married or couples living together? This same "penalty" cost me an extra $2000 in taxes last year because I got married in November. Even though my wife and I had not lived or worked together before November, we had to cough up $2000 just for being married.
By all means, if you bleeding heart liberal commies think that you are not paying your fair share in taxes already, then get out your checkbooks and write a fucking check to the local, state, or federal entity of your choice.
Have you morons forgotten how Gore himself has insulted your intelligence with garbage like "I invented the internet" and "Gore goes open source"?? And now you want him as president?? WTF??
Also, what the hell do GW Bush or the Republicans have to do with this 2600 guy getting arrested? Need I remind you that Philly's population is almost 5 to 1 DEMOCRATIC. I'll bet that it was a DEMOCRAT that arrested your precious little cracker (or at least there were Democrats involved in the process.) I know it said "This has no relevance, but...", but you are implying that GW or the RNC had something to do with it.
WHEN George W wins in November, I'll be laughing my ass off at all of you.
If I want liberal bias in my news, I'll read the fucking newspaper. I can see that Slashdot is no longer "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." It is now "News for Leftwingpinkobedwettingtreehuggingliberalcommies. Stuff that we hope you'll think matters."
You can take your Karma and your scores and shove 'em up your ass.
"Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States." - W. E. B. Du Bois
Thanks for the info! I have had a whole lot of opportunity yet to use it. Storing the CC numbers to me isn't necessary evil. I will be using those CC numbers to charge monthly subscription fees to, so that is just fine to me. I understand why it could be bad for others, though! ;)
No, the merchant service runs that for you so you. So, you don't have to process transactions through Quickbooks - you just have to own the software to sign up. :)
You can set up a web interface, or charge through the Quickbooks 2000 accounting package.
A legit, registered installation of Quickbooks 2000 or 2000 Pro is required to use this!
It was easy to set up, and I got approved in less than 24 hours.
Just my 2 cents, check it out here.