It doesn't matter that WinXP does everything that Win2k does. Win2k is already onto service pack 2, and will have SP3 released when XP is on SP1. Windows 2k is a far more mature product than XP. Win2k doesn't carry much of thje overhead that XP does and is far more suited to the business world than windows XP professional. Because all office workers need such uninstallable add-ons such as windows messenger, and my favorite "windows movie maker".
Redflag Linux, not to be redundant, is the ideal candidate. As for weather it is as high quality and feature rich as the "big" distros. Well here is a review of the english redflag distro. It looks impressive. Undoubtably the Chinese version is much better the English one.
Actually I have never had QT make my OS shit the bed. Then again I don't run win98. I run win2k. However it has a terrible UI, doesn't go full screen, likes to screw with file associations and browser settings, and worst of all loves to put up nag screens to upgrade to pro. For the record, I have the pro version too, it is no better.
I wish someone else would license the Sorensen codec, so I could use something than quicktime.
Actually most decent fans have an RPM sensor(third wire) Although most motherboards made withing the last 3 years support RPM (along with CPU and System Temp) monitoring very few power supplies. The only one I know of is Antec But these powersupplies vary fan speed according to temp in order to control noise. I have no idea if the have any safety shutdown features. To be honest, power supplies/fans fail all the time, I mean all the time, I have never seen a fire result. Rarely powersupply take other components with them, but most the time only the PSU fails.
My Kayak has fan monitoring and failsafe settings for all the fans but the PSU
Anonomous donor. Probly just some teenage kid that wants Linux on his X-box. I am thinking that when someone actually does it, they won't be able to find him because he was anononmous.
So far that is true. Active jamming technology could be very dangerous in the wrong hands. Deploy it on a golf course for instance, and doctors won't be able to take emergency calls from patients. I think the FCC will relent on active jamming, people are really tired of cell phones in places they shouldn't be. They probably will only allow very low power configurations. Well under a 100 square feet range is the most I could see them allowing for each jammer. The whole is thing is regulatory nightmare.
Remember they are using Jamming tech as we speak up in Canada.
It seems to me that active jamming would be much easier than having to repanel the entire room in this stuff. I think the real use could be for shielding RF sensitive equipment, acting like a low cost Faraday cage.
Of course having magnetic wall around your sensitive equipment might not be a good idea either.
According the Carp webcasting rules ,encoded in my basement, beneath an overturned copper bathtub, during a torrential downpour. is now the required method for all streaming media broadcasts.
Progeny has made a great graphical installer available for Debian woody. Sorry I can't remember the link. But you need to do the install over the net, AFAIK.
Believe me I am not defending Dell. They make true shit. IMHO. Read my comment below "Dell Junk . If you are deadset to get the best bang for you buck and you aren't building off own, I have had decent luck with Gateway. Just saying white boxes a cut rte boxes usually have cheap-brand micro-atx integrated everything 5400 RPM drives lousy ram, etc. You can get good white box stuff but you will pay for it.
I have seen more Dell systems fail than any other. I once had a new given to me for a job a had, that shipped with a Dud MB. They shipped it, DOA, even after several visits by techs they never got it to be a table system.
When I worked as a consultant, I retired a Dell poweredge dual PIII-450 Xeon a little over a year.
It wasn't because they needed more power, but because the f-ing thing failed weekly. We had to keep 2 extra Backplanes for the thing just so it wouldn't stay down for a week at a time. This was an $8000 server, maintaining a database for an insurance company. Dell support sucks too. In the end after one weekend, that cost them $12,000 of my time restoring their data after the raid failed, they had me build them a new server.
Now the Dell sits in the corner of the server room below a pile of its own spares. the new server hasn't been down in over a year and half (running NT if you can believe it). They love the way I made it very quiet using PC power and cooling fans.
I have an Austin Healey 3000, it is allowed to have good and bad days. PC's are not.
I used to work for a company and we built some machines. To be honest there was absolutely no way to compete with Dells and the like on price. The only reason we built systems was to service our regular consultant business. For the most part we only built systems for business customers. Some just demanded the best most stable systems, others had special needs. For instance high end graphic design workstations, and some servers. Sometimes we would build them for sound studios and such. If someone wanted a regular system we would just sell them a retail HP or IBM, it was cheaper for them and more profitable for us.
Our component cost often exceeded the cost of a whole Dell system, but we cherry picked only the nicest most stable stuff. Even considering that we generally favored. You can buy a $10 power supply, or you can get a $50 Antec. Chances are that $10 supply will fail in a week while the Antec will last 5 years. Ditto for graphics cards, (second most failure prone component.) Frankly the cost of having a productive worker without his computer for a day or more exceeds the cost of getting a good computer to begin with.
If you find a white box system cheaper than a Dell you better be pretty suspect of what is in it.
Thin clients need a computer lab to house them. These could be used n regular classrooms and put away when not needed. I am sure that a big selling point is the durability of these things. Ie. when little Tommy dropped the thing it won't break. Thin clients from companies like IBM, Sun, or Compaq, cost about $500+monitor and require a server. These seem like a very cheap good solution for younger students.
I would like one powered by one of the new strongarm processors, with a nice color screen, PCMCIA and sound capabilites. That would be worth the $400. 802.11b, would make it perfect.
I thought that the Crusue would going to be powering tons of devices like this with Midori linux. What the hell happened.
While I agree with everyone above. I think it would be neat to have a "compile as go" dist. for PDA/embedded systems. This might give better performance with things like the Zaurus, with could use all the extra performance they can get:)
No Sig today. Not feeling very smart.
A poorly secured nix box.. is even more attractive to script-kiddies than a windows boxen. So I fail to see how PS2 Linux as firewall would make you immune.
Every review of nvidia cards pans the tv in/out features of the cards. Nvidea's personal cinema just isn't as good as the AIW. TV output is just blurry and jerky on most nvidia cards. I find that Ati is pretty stable and well sorted, the AIW especially. Unfortunately ATI doesn't release Linux drivers that enable most of the extra features of the AIW. I actually liked the Matrox g-400 etv, but I think it is discontinued.
The best solution might be a dvd decoder a tv tuner and I regular gfx card. Happuage TV card do work with linux.
Very few people upgrade their kernel with each new release. Most security problems are patchable. Custom kernels in embedded applications generally cannot be upgraded. Most often these OS's are burned on a ROM. By nature even if not read-only embedded systems are tough to hack, (they generally lack the common tools that can be exploited) so security much easier than a workstation. Windows has critical security flaws discovered almost daily. The patches and service packs have caused problems in the past.
What you don't like makes Linux. These interim kernels are what maintain Linux's amazing stability, even when massive new feature sets are added in the major kernel releases.
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It doesn't matter that WinXP does everything that Win2k does. Win2k is already onto service pack 2, and will have SP3 released when XP is on SP1. Windows 2k is a far more mature product than XP. Win2k doesn't carry much of thje overhead that XP does and is far more suited to the business world than windows XP professional. Because all office workers need such uninstallable add-ons such as windows messenger, and my favorite "windows movie maker".
What if those measures include attaching alligator clips to your nutsack that become electrified if you go over 55mph?
Budget was amazed when business actually went up, but wondered why so many customers requested shiny black leather seats.
Redflag Linux, not to be redundant, is the ideal candidate. As for weather it is as high quality and feature rich as the "big" distros. Well here is a review of the english redflag distro. It looks impressive. Undoubtably the Chinese version is much better the English one.
Actually I have never had QT make my OS shit the bed. Then again I don't run win98. I run win2k. However it has a terrible UI, doesn't go full screen, likes to screw with file associations and browser settings, and worst of all loves to put up nag screens to upgrade to pro. For the record, I have the pro version too, it is no better.
I wish someone else would license the Sorensen codec, so I could use something than quicktime.
Actually most decent fans have an RPM sensor(third wire) Although most motherboards made withing the last 3 years support RPM (along with CPU and System Temp) monitoring very few power supplies. The only one I know of is Antec But these powersupplies vary fan speed according to temp in order to control noise. I have no idea if the have any safety shutdown features. To be honest, power supplies/fans fail all the time, I mean all the time, I have never seen a fire result. Rarely powersupply take other components with them, but most the time only the PSU fails.
My Kayak has fan monitoring and failsafe settings for all the fans but the PSU
Anonomous donor. Probly just some teenage kid that wants Linux on his X-box. I am thinking that when someone actually does it, they won't be able to find him because he was anononmous.
Then again maybe the AC is Woz, or Paul Allen.
So far that is true. Active jamming technology could be very dangerous in the wrong hands. Deploy it on a golf course for instance, and doctors won't be able to take emergency calls from patients. I think the FCC will relent on active jamming, people are really tired of cell phones in places they shouldn't be. They probably will only allow very low power configurations. Well under a 100 square feet range is the most I could see them allowing for each jammer. The whole is thing is regulatory nightmare.
Remember they are using Jamming tech as we speak up in Canada.
It seems to me that active jamming would be much easier than having to repanel the entire room in this stuff. I think the real use could be for shielding RF sensitive equipment, acting like a low cost Faraday cage.
Of course having magnetic wall around your sensitive equipment might not be a good idea either.
According the Carp webcasting rules ,encoded in my basement, beneath an overturned copper bathtub, during a torrential downpour. is now the required method for all streaming media broadcasts.
"Palladium"=Drug infested Manhattan raver club in the early 90's. It was shut down by Uncle Sam along with Limelite and Tunnel.
Now I feel really old, a new MS OS makes me remember obscure places I was 10 years ago.
Israeli hackers haved atttacked PLO sites for a while.
Progeny has made a great graphical installer available for Debian woody. Sorry I can't remember the link. But you need to do the install over the net, AFAIK.
Never saw a 486 with a PCI slot.
Not quite, but $5 American goes amazingly far in a Canadian strip club.
Believe me I am not defending Dell. They make true shit. IMHO. Read my comment below "Dell Junk . If you are deadset to get the best bang for you buck and you aren't building off own, I have had decent luck with Gateway. Just saying white boxes a cut rte boxes usually have cheap-brand micro-atx integrated everything 5400 RPM drives lousy ram, etc. You can get good white box stuff but you will pay for it.
I have seen more Dell systems fail than any other. I once had a new given to me for a job a had, that shipped with a Dud MB. They shipped it, DOA, even after several visits by techs they never got it to be a table system.
When I worked as a consultant, I retired a Dell poweredge dual PIII-450 Xeon a little over a year. It wasn't because they needed more power, but because the f-ing thing failed weekly. We had to keep 2 extra Backplanes for the thing just so it wouldn't stay down for a week at a time. This was an $8000 server, maintaining a database for an insurance company. Dell support sucks too. In the end after one weekend, that cost them $12,000 of my time restoring their data after the raid failed, they had me build them a new server.
Now the Dell sits in the corner of the server room below a pile of its own spares. the new server hasn't been down in over a year and half (running NT if you can believe it). They love the way I made it very quiet using PC power and cooling fans.
I have an Austin Healey 3000, it is allowed to have good and bad days. PC's are not.
I used to work for a company and we built some machines. To be honest there was absolutely no way to compete with Dells and the like on price. The only reason we built systems was to service our regular consultant business. For the most part we only built systems for business customers. Some just demanded the best most stable systems, others had special needs. For instance high end graphic design workstations, and some servers. Sometimes we would build them for sound studios and such. If someone wanted a regular system we would just sell them a retail HP or IBM, it was cheaper for them and more profitable for us.
Our component cost often exceeded the cost of a whole Dell system, but we cherry picked only the nicest most stable stuff. Even considering that we generally favored. You can buy a $10 power supply, or you can get a $50 Antec. Chances are that $10 supply will fail in a week while the Antec will last 5 years. Ditto for graphics cards, (second most failure prone component.) Frankly the cost of having a productive worker without his computer for a day or more exceeds the cost of getting a good computer to begin with.
If you find a white box system cheaper than a Dell you better be pretty suspect of what is in it.
Wow, you are brave. You actually used your CC in China.
Next Month's CC Bill
Groceries
Dinner
Movies
Stolen Missile plans
Jeep shipped to China
11 new stereos
Thin clients need a computer lab to house them. These could be used n regular classrooms and put away when not needed. I am sure that a big selling point is the durability of these things. Ie. when little Tommy dropped the thing it won't break. Thin clients from companies like IBM, Sun, or Compaq, cost about $500+monitor and require a server. These seem like a very cheap good solution for younger students.
I would like one powered by one of the new strongarm processors, with a nice color screen, PCMCIA and sound capabilites. That would be worth the $400. 802.11b, would make it perfect.
I thought that the Crusue would going to be powering tons of devices like this with Midori linux. What the hell happened.
While I agree with everyone above. I think it would be neat to have a "compile as go" dist. for PDA/embedded systems. This might give better performance with things like the Zaurus, with could use all the extra performance they can get:) No Sig today. Not feeling very smart.
A poorly secured nix box.. is even more attractive to script-kiddies than a windows boxen. So I fail to see how PS2 Linux as firewall would make you immune.
So we can have a bunch of happy well-adjusted enemies. If anything they will have more assertivess, and aggression.
Every review of nvidia cards pans the tv in/out features of the cards. Nvidea's personal cinema just isn't as good as the AIW. TV output is just blurry and jerky on most nvidia cards. I find that Ati is pretty stable and well sorted, the AIW especially. Unfortunately ATI doesn't release Linux drivers that enable most of the extra features of the AIW. I actually liked the Matrox g-400 etv, but I think it is discontinued. The best solution might be a dvd decoder a tv tuner and I regular gfx card. Happuage TV card do work with linux.
Haven't had a problem playing mediaplayer files with mozilla.
Very few people upgrade their kernel with each new release. Most security problems are patchable. Custom kernels in embedded applications generally cannot be upgraded. Most often these OS's are burned on a ROM. By nature even if not read-only embedded systems are tough to hack, (they generally lack the common tools that can be exploited) so security much easier than a workstation. Windows has critical security flaws discovered almost daily. The patches and service packs have caused problems in the past.
What you don't like makes Linux. These interim kernels are what maintain Linux's amazing stability, even when massive new feature sets are added in the major kernel releases.