I agree that the movie sucked. It was an insult to history. Bletchley park built an enigma machine without actually seeing a real one. Another machine was taken from a german U-boat, but well after the codebreakers had already cracked the code. In that case a British destroyer forced a U-boat to surface. After the Germans abandoned and scuttled the ship, the Brits boarded it and managed to close the valve. Which they towed to port.
However this review was an obnoxious ramble, that belongs on adequacy.org and not on slashdot. It sounds like it came from the comic book guy on the simpsons.
Back in college, my house threw a "come as you come out of the shower party." Had nothing to do with Douglas Adams., and eveything to do with getting girls to show up wrapped in a towel.
We didn't have a network, or hi-speed connection, but we had a full bar, a nice bong, and a house band which are far more attractive to girls.
I am wondering how this was a problem for them. Comeon how good can WAP porn be. 7 pixels per tit... Sounds sexy to me.
I am amazed that someone would waste company time, finding and banning WAP porn. Then get the wrath of the privacy advocates, and users pissed they can't do what they want.
I usually take some windex or fantastic and spray and clean everything every few weeks. With the keyboard I take the same cleaner and spray it in between the keys and shake it upside down. Most keyboards survive, but it did destroy a Microsoft natural a few weeks ago. I guess Redmond HW is that tough. My mother once dripped Honey all over the keyboard of her HP Vectra. I figure it was toast, I literally put the thing in the sink and ran hot water and soap over it until it was clean. Dried it by shaking, and it still works 2 years later.
I've always liked Matrox cards, ever since the MGA and Millenium. They usaully have rock solid drivers, support for alternate OS's, and the best 2D picture on the market. Although the G450/550 might not be as fast as Nvidia/Ati offering, they only cost $100 or so. The features and quality of these card blows away anything that the the other guys offer at twice the price. Matrox dual monitor and TV out is way ahead, and the "headcasting" is very cool. As for XP driver support, I havent seen a problem with matrox cards yet. But every system is different and I have seen alot of XP driver problems in general. You could always try the WIN2k drivers. The only bummer about this card is the $500 price tag. Oh well.
Of course, a million bucks assumes a total writoff. CPU heatinks and front panels are replaceable. But I am sure the damage was in the tens of thousands, especially after Sun has to send a tech to repair the things. Or did they take them back, nail fedex for the insurance, repair them and sell them as demo's etc.
I have seen shippers do some pretty nasty damage, but most enterprise equipment is overbuilt structurally.
Still why not replace the renderer with gecko. Surely if the OS was decently documented OS html calls ould be rendered with gecko.
Frankly I've wondered why Netscape didnt replace explorer itself as well.
I have two printers, a Laser and an Inkjet. Lasers have a great economics with cost per page. Office depot brand toner cartriges are $58 a piece for my HP laserjet 4L. The inkjet is much more expensive per page, but I have found the my local Costco has inkjet cartridges @ $30 for a 2 pack. I really don't like the idea of buying a cheap printer to throw out, seems like an awful disrespect to the environment. If really want to go on the cheap, find yourself a used laserjet. A local shop near me, has plenty of laserjet 3,4,and 5 series printer at around $100, including toner. I have had mine since 1995 without any problems, doesn't get more cost effective than that.
Too bad HP and Compaq are merging, HP was once a great company that made great products.
Microstar or MSI, are some of the best boards on the market. I ad a Samsung had drive die on me, but I was constantly moving it from computer to computer. Using it as a transfer drive. Samsung replaced the drive within 4 days of mailing it. The drive has been in a Celeron 500 since. Actually the drive seems decently fast, and runs cool and very quiet. It is nice to have a drive that you can't hear.
My suggestion is to go with a local IT shop that specializes in servicing businesses. Spec out your machine along with them. Ie. use parts they can get within a day from thier suppliers, preferrably dropped shipped to you. Also they should have some ie what is reliable and what isn't. A really good shop will even take care of warrantees and such. Don't expect to save money over Dell though. But you will build machines with better parts and an easy upgrade path. My experience with MSI and Gigabyte boards in a business environment has been good. Gigabyte dual-bios is a great redundant feature. Remember your users first though. Building small silent systems with LCD's might be the best for users in tight cubicles.
But I am thinking gateway will fall flat on thier face with this one. I don't think people will run to the the Gateway store to buy MP3's of music they never heard of. The RIAA mafia robly be effective in theatening any big-name artists from doing business with gateway. Finally they will get sued, meaning a whole lot of hassle to only serve a few users. Maybe a few small indy artist will end up getting record contracts as they are stolen from Gateway.
Frankly I would rather see them taking the money spent on this taking the RIAA to the supreme court.
True, point taken. There is always the "hey lookit what I can do" factor. But I would still like to see hardware hacking of stuff I could use. How about someone hack a laptop harddrive on to the back of a IPAQ or that new sharp thingy. I would definately give up some thiness for a few gigs.
Given the relative slowness of the dreamcast, even at less than a $100 buck it still can't compete with a PC. You can easily put together a Duron sytem for around the same cost and have a far more useful Linux box. Being able to run binaries and not recomiling to run on the dreamcast will save a boatload of time in the long run too.
Seriously the way the software companies treat consumers you are more likely to be attacked if you are a valid licensed paying customer than if you are some guy selling bootleg CD's in Hong Kong. In fact it seems like the bigger you are the more you buy from them the more they insist on audits. So you are better off buying on copy and installing it on all your machines then 400 copies and have the BSA down your throat. If you want to feel better about supporting the developers send them a check, bet they cash it.
That's funny I used to work at an outdoor store too. Ramsey Outdoor actually, the one on the Sopranos. Anyway we used to have a problem with people stealing tag-guns and switching pricetags. The way we could catch them rather than a mistake or old tag was to have merchandise and department codes.
Actually it was rather easy to catch crooks because they would do it with multiple items and often drastically change the prices on rather expensive items. IE. They would retag a 200 dollar tent for 50. Whereas our mistake might be a $20 latern marked at $10. If we screwed up an advertised price we would honor it until we ran out of stock as we would a normal sale item.
Treat customers well and they will be customers for life.
Wrong button.. link http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=8hu28 39j46rg615&id=450
Linux with manuals and box is rarely over 60 bucks. Any system builder either images or scripts the install so this is rather high. Seems to me like anyone buying these doodads is rather profiecient and is willing to put it on themselves especially to save a couple hundred bucks. So any installation fee over $50 is too high
I don't agree with you, I bought a Duron 750 and Gigabyte 7IXE4 motherboard two years ago. This was a the cheaper of the Gigabyte boards, I bought because it had two ISA slots. (A couple of old cards) I just popped in a an Athlon 1.4 mhz. Which is the limit of the board with only supports 100mhz. If I had sprung for a better board I might be able to jump up to the latest A-XP. I also had a Via 693/4 chipset board that started as a celeron 400@500mhz and upgraded all the way too PIII 1 ghz, no bios upgrades and running out of spec with a 133mhz bus. That computer served me well as a primary system in early 1999, later became backup and a file server and now got gifted to my sister.
Actually if you are willing to replace motherboards you can go much further down the upgrade path. For instance the Celeron/P3 Started life as a P-166mmx, in 1996 I think, it is an early really really nice ATX case, bought a then huge 6.4 gb WD HD, and 64mb of ram. The case, and amazingly the powersupply, zip drive and floppy disk are all 1996 vintage. This is after a lightning strike that fried a modem, video card, powerstrip, and monitor.
I also have an HP Kayak Dual PII 300 that is a dead end. Despite being far and away the most expensive system I ever bought, $6000 with my options in 1998. It does have an ATX case, but it is strangely arranged with a special(loud as hell even with panaflos) cooling system and special power/reset/speaker modules, likely requiring substantial surgery. This depite the fact that HP promises a good upgrade policy over the life the Kayaks.
Moral: Build it Yourself, and pick out a really nice case and that will be the last thing you ever need to upgrade.
PS. Back on subject with Athlon so close in price to the Durons of the smae clock speed it is hrd to justify buying a Duron for a self builder today. My new Athlon 1.4 was only 100 bucks with shipping.
Somehow I doubt this story. I have seen Netscape 4.X mandated, but Netscape itself had several security issues itself (brown oriface) Back in 1999 Mozilla sucked. It is only in th.9X braches that Mozilla/Netscape 6.X became usable. Whose environment offers a choice between Konq. Lynx Ie. and Mozilla, wondering where he sampled IE/Linux, Lynx and Konq/Win32. Finally, any self respecting company should have had their mail server configured to throw out those messages as junk.
Frankly I love Mozilla, (especially with the Pinball theme). It has a great interface, and has become quite stable. However from a security standpoint it is still up in the air as to how secure it will be.
Mozilla has a bright future. I would like to see it replace explorer as well IE. It would really screw Microsoft to lose the UI along with the browser.
I love the way that they attribute the drop in sales to MP3's. Couldn't be the tanking of the Economy in 2001, or maybe the price hikes they put on cd's. Nope people should buy the same the same amount of cd's when they don't have a job and the price goes up by 2 bucks, most be those damn Mp3's
Just a thought.
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I agree that the movie sucked. It was an insult to history. Bletchley park built an enigma machine without actually seeing a real one. Another machine was taken from a german U-boat, but well after the codebreakers had already cracked the code. In that case a British destroyer forced a U-boat to surface. After the Germans abandoned and scuttled the ship, the Brits boarded it and managed to close the valve. Which they towed to port.
However this review was an obnoxious ramble, that belongs on adequacy.org and not on slashdot. It sounds like it came from the comic book guy on the simpsons.
Of course, only the lame ones would wear robes.
Back in college, my house threw a "come as you come out of the shower party." Had nothing to do with Douglas Adams., and eveything to do with getting girls to show up wrapped in a towel.
We didn't have a network, or hi-speed connection, but we had a full bar, a nice bong, and a house band which are far more attractive to girls.
I am wondering how this was a problem for them. Comeon how good can WAP porn be. 7 pixels per tit... Sounds sexy to me.
I am amazed that someone would waste company time, finding and banning WAP porn. Then get the wrath of the privacy advocates, and users pissed they can't do what they want.
Wrecked my Beowulf cluster, and knocked the blue led out of my VA Linux server.
Gonna fall behind on SETI....
Best idea yet, they look like a terrorist front organization. They certainly are racketeers.
I usually take some windex or fantastic and spray and clean everything every few weeks. With the keyboard I take the same cleaner and spray it in between the keys and shake it upside down. Most keyboards survive, but it did destroy a Microsoft natural a few weeks ago. I guess Redmond HW is that tough. My mother once dripped Honey all over the keyboard of her HP Vectra. I figure it was toast, I literally put the thing in the sink and ran hot water and soap over it until it was clean. Dried it by shaking, and it still works 2 years later.
Don't ask me for help with body fluids though.
I've always liked Matrox cards, ever since the MGA and Millenium. They usaully have rock solid drivers, support for alternate OS's, and the best 2D picture on the market. Although the G450/550 might not be as fast as Nvidia/Ati offering, they only cost $100 or so. The features and quality of these card blows away anything that the the other guys offer at twice the price. Matrox dual monitor and TV out is way ahead, and the "headcasting" is very cool. As for XP driver support, I havent seen a problem with matrox cards yet. But every system is different and I have seen alot of XP driver problems in general. You could always try the WIN2k drivers. The only bummer about this card is the $500 price tag. Oh well.
Of course, a million bucks assumes a total writoff. CPU heatinks and front panels are replaceable. But I am sure the damage was in the tens of thousands, especially after Sun has to send a tech to repair the things. Or did they take them back, nail fedex for the insurance, repair them and sell them as demo's etc.
I have seen shippers do some pretty nasty damage, but most enterprise equipment is overbuilt structurally.
Still why not replace the renderer with gecko. Surely if the OS was decently documented OS html calls ould be rendered with gecko.
Frankly I've wondered why Netscape didnt replace explorer itself as well.
I have two printers, a Laser and an Inkjet. Lasers have a great economics with cost per page. Office depot brand toner cartriges are $58 a piece for my HP laserjet 4L. The inkjet is much more expensive per page, but I have found the my local Costco has inkjet cartridges @ $30 for a 2 pack. I really don't like the idea of buying a cheap printer to throw out, seems like an awful disrespect to the environment. If really want to go on the cheap, find yourself a used laserjet. A local shop near me, has plenty of laserjet 3,4,and 5 series printer at around $100, including toner. I have had mine since 1995 without any problems, doesn't get more cost effective than that. Too bad HP and Compaq are merging, HP was once a great company that made great products.
This thread is getting "stupid" the opposite of "Intelligent"
Microstar or MSI, are some of the best boards on the market. I ad a Samsung had drive die on me, but I was constantly moving it from computer to computer. Using it as a transfer drive. Samsung replaced the drive within 4 days of mailing it. The drive has been in a Celeron 500 since. Actually the drive seems decently fast, and runs cool and very quiet. It is nice to have a drive that you can't hear.
My suggestion is to go with a local IT shop that specializes in servicing businesses. Spec out your machine along with them. Ie. use parts they can get within a day from thier suppliers, preferrably dropped shipped to you. Also they should have some ie what is reliable and what isn't. A really good shop will even take care of warrantees and such. Don't expect to save money over Dell though. But you will build machines with better parts and an easy upgrade path. My experience with MSI and Gigabyte boards in a business environment has been good. Gigabyte dual-bios is a great redundant feature. Remember your users first though. Building small silent systems with LCD's might be the best for users in tight cubicles.
Not true Kinko's won't let you copy more than a few pages out of any book for instance. In fact they have all sorts of strange copyright rules.
The worst part is, they won't even let you copy a $100 bill. 1's and 5's seem OK though.
But I am thinking gateway will fall flat on thier face with this one. I don't think people will run to the the Gateway store to buy MP3's of music they never heard of. The RIAA mafia robly be effective in theatening any big-name artists from doing business with gateway. Finally they will get sued, meaning a whole lot of hassle to only serve a few users. Maybe a few small indy artist will end up getting record contracts as they are stolen from Gateway.
Frankly I would rather see them taking the money spent on this taking the RIAA to the supreme court.
True, point taken. There is always the "hey lookit what I can do" factor. But I would still like to see hardware hacking of stuff I could use. How about someone hack a laptop harddrive on to the back of a IPAQ or that new sharp thingy. I would definately give up some thiness for a few gigs.
Given the relative slowness of the dreamcast, even at less than a $100 buck it still can't compete with a PC. You can easily put together a Duron sytem for around the same cost and have a far more useful Linux box. Being able to run binaries and not recomiling to run on the dreamcast will save a boatload of time in the long run too.
Seriously the way the software companies treat consumers you are more likely to be attacked if you are a valid licensed paying customer than if you are some guy selling bootleg CD's in Hong Kong. In fact it seems like the bigger you are the more you buy from them the more they insist on audits. So you are better off buying on copy and installing it on all your machines then 400 copies and have the BSA down your throat. If you want to feel better about supporting the developers send them a check, bet they cash it.
That's funny I used to work at an outdoor store too. Ramsey Outdoor actually, the one on the Sopranos. Anyway we used to have a problem with people stealing tag-guns and switching pricetags. The way we could catch them rather than a mistake or old tag was to have merchandise and department codes.
Actually it was rather easy to catch crooks because they would do it with multiple items and often drastically change the prices on rather expensive items. IE. They would retag a 200 dollar tent for 50. Whereas our mistake might be a $20 latern marked at $10. If we screwed up an advertised price we would honor it until we ran out of stock as we would a normal sale item.
Treat customers well and they will be customers for life.
Wrong button.. link http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=8hu28 39j46rg615&id=450
Linux with manuals and box is rarely over 60 bucks. Any system builder either images or scripts the install so this is rather high. Seems to me like anyone buying these doodads is rather profiecient and is willing to put it on themselves especially to save a couple hundred bucks. So any installation fee over $50 is too high
It is rather high for an OS install. Microsoft's OEM price is $129 that is for you or I. Pricewatch
I don't agree with you, I bought a Duron 750 and Gigabyte 7IXE4 motherboard two years ago. This was a the cheaper of the Gigabyte boards, I bought because it had two ISA slots. (A couple of old cards) I just popped in a an Athlon 1.4 mhz. Which is the limit of the board with only supports 100mhz. If I had sprung for a better board I might be able to jump up to the latest A-XP. I also had a Via 693/4 chipset board that started as a celeron 400@500mhz and upgraded all the way too PIII 1 ghz, no bios upgrades and running out of spec with a 133mhz bus. That computer served me well as a primary system in early 1999, later became backup and a file server and now got gifted to my sister.
Actually if you are willing to replace motherboards you can go much further down the upgrade path. For instance the Celeron/P3 Started life as a P-166mmx, in 1996 I think, it is an early really really nice ATX case, bought a then huge 6.4 gb WD HD, and 64mb of ram. The case, and amazingly the powersupply, zip drive and floppy disk are all 1996 vintage. This is after a lightning strike that fried a modem, video card, powerstrip, and monitor.
I also have an HP Kayak Dual PII 300 that is a dead end. Despite being far and away the most expensive system I ever bought, $6000 with my options in 1998. It does have an ATX case, but it is strangely arranged with a special(loud as hell even with panaflos) cooling system and special power/reset/speaker modules, likely requiring substantial surgery. This depite the fact that HP promises a good upgrade policy over the life the Kayaks.
Moral: Build it Yourself, and pick out a really nice case and that will be the last thing you ever need to upgrade.
PS. Back on subject with Athlon so close in price to the Durons of the smae clock speed it is hrd to justify buying a Duron for a self builder today. My new Athlon 1.4 was only 100 bucks with shipping.
Somehow I doubt this story. I have seen Netscape 4.X mandated, but Netscape itself had several security issues itself (brown oriface) Back in 1999 Mozilla sucked. It is only in th .9X braches that Mozilla/Netscape 6.X became usable. Whose environment offers a choice between Konq. Lynx Ie. and Mozilla, wondering where he sampled IE/Linux, Lynx and Konq/Win32. Finally, any self respecting company should have had their mail server configured to throw out those messages as junk.
Frankly I love Mozilla, (especially with the Pinball theme). It has a great interface, and has become quite stable. However from a security standpoint it is still up in the air as to how secure it will be.
Mozilla has a bright future. I would like to see it replace explorer as well IE. It would really screw Microsoft to lose the UI along with the browser.
I love the way that they attribute the drop in sales to MP3's. Couldn't be the tanking of the Economy in 2001, or maybe the price hikes they put on cd's. Nope people should buy the same the same amount of cd's when they don't have a job and the price goes up by 2 bucks, most be those damn Mp3's Just a thought.