I am not trying to start a battle of computer preferences, but alot of people ask me which computer to buy. When a design an IT infrastructure for a company, I usually try to specify the systems. I have never recommended Gateway's to businesses (Gateway just doesn't seem to have a focus on business systems). But I always recommend to regular Joes who ask. They have decent support, and I have personally had bad luck with Dell systems. Now that gateway has supported the geek community with this action maybe we start pushing them for the business community we serve. Programmers, demand as Gateway as your next workstation, they will build it however you want. Get them on corporate desktops, maybe they don't have all the management tools and network administrator control tools IBM Dell, or HP have(a case can be made for open source altenatives), but they are cheap and saving $500 per machine, pays for a lot of support and spares. Besides utimately if you are storing data and app settings on the local machine, you have a pretty amateur setup. Frankly it is getting the image of the stupid Cow out the way, that is really hurting GW, businesses don't like cute. Gateway also doesn't really make many servers, so an end to end single supplier hardward solution isn't possible.
Good Luck Gateway, lets all try to throw some money to you.
Actually you can run PC-anywhere thru a linux firewall. In factyou can set it to run on whatever port you like. Assuming you forward it using IPChains. However I find VNC far more useful, for instance, it has a java webinterface is multi-platform low overhead etc. The only thing it lacks is a built encryption scheme, and file transfer utility. Do to the open-source nature of the program I am suprised nobody has integrated these features using a small ftp server and ssh integrated into a commom shell.
Interesting, AS220 made Slashdot. Great place to drop by if you are ever in Providence, Rhode Island. Kind of an artist commune, bar, coffeeshop, gallery, and place to see shows rolled into one.
I used to live near there thought it deserved the plug. especially since they have some oggs.
AS220
I'm impressed. I just spent the week modding my system to be silent. I replaced my fans with Panaflows, and run the three case fans at 5 volts, put an 80mm on the processor and replaced the PS fan with a panaflow. Everything stays cool and now all I hear is the drives spinning.
By the way you can get good fans cheap.. here
BGmicro
Fuck you Jack... You'll have to pry my un copy-molested Linux running Athlon from my dead fingers. I just worried that in three years I'll be buying my next motherboard and HD on the Russian black market.
Sometimes sacrifising some Karma for a worthy cause just makes me feel good.
That is a fair point. But in reality these reasources are measurable using econometrics. Unfortunately, I have never been able to explain clearly how it works. But Statistically they can extract the numbers through polling. Transactions are only a net gain marginal social benefit outweighs the marginal social cost. You don't know what you are talking about.
I don't sprout the service I just explain it. The alternative is Nationalized phone service. Regulation is not a problem for an industry whose very existence is mandated by the government.
Economics 101 is just an intro course, to apply your most basic "survival of the fittest" approach to this grossly oversimplifies this. Telephone service is what is called a "public good" or a good provided using public land to run wires built with a huge government subsidy. The government (FCC) has responsibility to ensure that these companies provide greater benefit than the sum of the public resources they use. This is the social contract between the companies and society. Hence these companies don't operate under the normal competitive model. Rather than maximize profits, telephone companies should (in an idealized world if they abide by the contract) provide the most service they can for the most people.
Hence, these companies need to be carefully watched to see that they don't unreasonably profit at society's expense.
I don't mean to take sides, but I'm an economics grad student and I hate to see economics misrepresented.
After the movie, and season three and five, I expected a great shift in the series. I expected a great war between aliens and humans and human collaborators. Maybe an invasion. Instead DD leaves. I stopped watching the show after season six started suckin. Too bad, it seemed to completely lose direction.
I wonder what a stripped down Windows would consist of. No IE, Media Player, Movie Maker, etc. Why not dump the explorer shell entirely, and just leave the Kernel. It would open up the market for third-party distributions of Windows, perhaps with something like Litestep on top. In the Server market the already allow OEM's to build a stripped version of W2K server for appliances, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/sak/defa ult.asp They were definately responding to the prevalence of headless Linux boxes that rule the market. So it is possible. Not that I would run a windows based appliance.
"Call the CDC, there is white powder all over my new cell-phone...." People are scared of baby powder, I don't think anyone wants find out a product contains "Magic Powder" The Anthrax scared has made this unfeasable. Thankfully..
"The American Chamber of Commerce recently said it feared the proposal would be complex to administer."
I could just imagine having to send server logs to accoutants to figure out the taxes we owe to the European Union... "I think that IP is Denmark, are they part of Union? Wait was 29.24.56,,, or 27.23..?"
Well maybe the massive bureacracy, will create some jobs for layed off Arthur Anderson accountants, who move to Europe to avoid charges.
They probably won't succeed in this.. Europe and the US don't want to start a trade war with the Asian countries that make these things, especially China. The movies companies love the way the waves of cheap DVD players that have sped the adoption of the format. Likewise, the big discount stores such as Walmart sell tons of them and don't want the price to go up. Finally the licensing costs are unrealistic, as high as $28, NYT
Now that Enron is gone, does Microsoft's ownership share of President Bush increase?
I worked a consulting job that sent me to a big toy company's offices in NYC. We once spent the day destroying a room full of toy centipedes, hammer to plastic. They just didn't want them resold through unofficial outlets. Evidently the government holds them responsible for them even if they get thrown out. Ie. if someone chokes on a piece of a toy they picked out the garbage, they are can still be sued. Destroying them saves them that liability.
By and by a fun gig, they had an unlimited IT budget, so they had things like $12,000 plasma video screens thoughtout the office, and IBM Intellistations as office computers.
The coolest thing was building Half Pipe, full size, to do a presentation on the X-games toys.
Interesting... the only PC older than me is the one that IBM released in August 1981. =)
Hehe , I have one of them. Got it new, in September 81, when I was five. Everytime I look at it, I wonder how cool it would be to drop an Athlon in it.
It would look cool as hell, but I would have to butcher it....
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I am not trying to start a battle of computer preferences, but alot of people ask me which computer to buy. When a design an IT infrastructure for a company, I usually try to specify the systems. I have never recommended Gateway's to businesses (Gateway just doesn't seem to have a focus on business systems). But I always recommend to regular Joes who ask. They have decent support, and I have personally had bad luck with Dell systems. Now that gateway has supported the geek community with this action maybe we start pushing them for the business community we serve. Programmers, demand as Gateway as your next workstation, they will build it however you want. Get them on corporate desktops, maybe they don't have all the management tools and network administrator control tools IBM Dell, or HP have(a case can be made for open source altenatives), but they are cheap and saving $500 per machine, pays for a lot of support and spares. Besides utimately if you are storing data and app settings on the local machine, you have a pretty amateur setup. Frankly it is getting the image of the stupid Cow out the way, that is really hurting GW, businesses don't like cute. Gateway also doesn't really make many servers, so an end to end single supplier hardward solution isn't possible.
Good Luck Gateway, lets all try to throw some money to you.
God you relly are trolling, Gnome is a quite a bit older than Aqua. It was released a couple of years before "Aqua" was a twinkle in Steve Jobs's eye.
mod parent to (funny) just because it is the easy joke, doesn't make it not funny.
Codeweavers rocks. Seriously this is a killer app for wine. If this works, than maybe Lindows won't be vapor.
Think they will let me run WinMX on it. With a petabyte of storage I could share a whole look of Divx.
Actually you can run PC-anywhere thru a linux firewall. In factyou can set it to run on whatever port you like. Assuming you forward it using IPChains. However I find VNC far more useful, for instance, it has a java webinterface is multi-platform low overhead etc. The only thing it lacks is a built encryption scheme, and file transfer utility. Do to the open-source nature of the program I am suprised nobody has integrated these features using a small ftp server and ssh integrated into a commom shell.
Interesting, AS220 made Slashdot. Great place to drop by if you are ever in Providence, Rhode Island. Kind of an artist commune, bar, coffeeshop, gallery, and place to see shows rolled into one. I used to live near there thought it deserved the plug. especially since they have some oggs. AS220
I'm impressed. I just spent the week modding my system to be silent. I replaced my fans with Panaflows, and run the three case fans at 5 volts, put an 80mm on the processor and replaced the PS fan with a panaflow. Everything stays cool and now all I hear is the drives spinning.
By the way you can get good fans cheap.. here BGmicro
Fuck you Jack... You'll have to pry my un copy-molested Linux running Athlon from my dead fingers. I just worried that in three years I'll be buying my next motherboard and HD on the Russian black market.
Sometimes sacrifising some Karma for a worthy cause just makes me feel good.
That is a fair point. But in reality these reasources are measurable using econometrics. Unfortunately, I have never been able to explain clearly how it works. But Statistically they can extract the numbers through polling. Transactions are only a net gain marginal social benefit outweighs the marginal social cost. You don't know what you are talking about.
I don't sprout the service I just explain it. The alternative is Nationalized phone service. Regulation is not a problem for an industry whose very existence is mandated by the government.
Economics 101 is just an intro course, to apply your most basic "survival of the fittest" approach to this grossly oversimplifies this. Telephone service is what is called a "public good" or a good provided using public land to run wires built with a huge government subsidy. The government (FCC) has responsibility to ensure that these companies provide greater benefit than the sum of the public resources they use. This is the social contract between the companies and society. Hence these companies don't operate under the normal competitive model. Rather than maximize profits, telephone companies should (in an idealized world if they abide by the contract) provide the most service they can for the most people. Hence, these companies need to be carefully watched to see that they don't unreasonably profit at society's expense. I don't mean to take sides, but I'm an economics grad student and I hate to see economics misrepresented.
Just when I got it working under Wine...
After the movie, and season three and five, I expected a great shift in the series. I expected a great war between aliens and humans and human collaborators. Maybe an invasion. Instead DD leaves. I stopped watching the show after season six started suckin. Too bad, it seemed to completely lose direction.
I wonder what a stripped down Windows would consist of. No IE, Media Player, Movie Maker, etc. Why not dump the explorer shell entirely, and just leave the Kernel. It would open up the market for third-party distributions of Windows, perhaps with something like Litestep on top. In the Server market the already allow OEM's to build a stripped version of W2K server for appliances, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/sak/defa ult.asp They were definately responding to the prevalence of headless Linux boxes that rule the market. So it is possible. Not that I would run a windows based appliance.
Now I have to careful not to pick my nose, when I think nobody is looking.. I might be caught on camera...
Congrats, your even more cynical than I am..
"Call the CDC, there is white powder all over my new cell-phone...." People are scared of baby powder, I don't think anyone wants find out a product contains "Magic Powder" The Anthrax scared has made this unfeasable. Thankfully..
"The American Chamber of Commerce recently said it feared the proposal would be complex to administer." I could just imagine having to send server logs to accoutants to figure out the taxes we owe to the European Union... "I think that IP is Denmark, are they part of Union? Wait was 29.24.56,,, or 27.23..?" Well maybe the massive bureacracy, will create some jobs for layed off Arthur Anderson accountants, who move to Europe to avoid charges.
Support your local congressman... He needs some cash before campaign finance reform kicks in.
Now that Enron is gone, does Microsoft's ownership share of President Bush increase?
Sounds like the same accounting nightmare than governs licensing between the record companies and radio stations.
I worked a consulting job that sent me to a big toy company's offices in NYC. We once spent the day destroying a room full of toy centipedes, hammer to plastic. They just didn't want them resold through unofficial outlets. Evidently the government holds them responsible for them even if they get thrown out. Ie. if someone chokes on a piece of a toy they picked out the garbage, they are can still be sued. Destroying them saves them that liability.
By and by a fun gig, they had an unlimited IT budget, so they had things like $12,000 plasma video screens thoughtout the office, and IBM Intellistations as office computers.
The coolest thing was building Half Pipe, full size, to do a presentation on the X-games toys.
Interesting... the only PC older than me is the one that IBM released in August 1981. =)
Hehe , I have one of them. Got it new, in September 81, when I was five. Everytime I look at it, I wonder how cool it would be to drop an Athlon in it.
It would look cool as hell, but I would have to butcher it....
I have 300 or 400 divx... I'm going to need a couple.
I even live in the target zone...