Thanks, its amazing what can be done with older high-end gear and radio shack speaker wire.:) All my stereo gear I pick up at garage sales and rummage sales. Yes, even the B&O stuff, which includes three sets of speakers (two Beovox sets and one set of RedLines) two Beocenters (one is broken and I keep for spare parts), and a Beogram CD player. The only stuff I buy new is the wire. Hard to believe that people were dumping this kind of equipment.
I don't tell them how much the retail price was or how much I paid, mainly because its none of their business and I'm not an arrogant prick that says "I SPEND MONEY LOLZ!" to try and impress people. Heck, the speakers are more than 15 years old and I got them used on a fluke for way less than it would have cost to get them new. When people come over and listen to music or watch a movie, they comment about how great everything sounds. Often people will ask who makes the speakers, and most look at me funny because they have never heard of Bang & Olufsen before.
Everyone who listens to my Bang & Olufsen speakers is blown away by their incredible quality. Yes, they are pricy. But everyone who has listened to them has told me they are the best speakers they've ever heard.
I have a server in the DFW1 Datacenter that was knocked out during the first two outages but survived the third. I was down for about two and a half hours during the first outage and fifteen minutes during the second. My Rackers answered every question I had about it with honesty and humility. They admitted that this was their problem and kept me informed as to what was going on.
I'm wondering how many people posting on this thread are actual Rackspace customers. I can't say that I have ever once experienced anything less than top quality service from them. They are friendly, knowledgeable, hard working, and I respect them very much, and that's coming from a sysadmin/one man IT department.
Here's a company that is taking responsibility for its actions right off the bat, apologizing for their shortcomings, and honestly trying to make things right for those who have been affected. Think about this in contrast to the corporate scandals and craptacular customer service that has been plaguing the US lately.
Not sure how you're trying to play video, but the TCPMP benchmark I just ran on my 420MHz HTC Apache running Windows Mobile 5 was running at 60fps playing back a DivX movie. It has never given me a problem dropping frames or keeping sync while playing video.
An aerospace professor told me how aerospace engineers had to do the jobs of all sorts of other engineers. Electrical, computer, chemical, mechanical, and architectural. Why? Because all of those disciplines were involved in building aircraft. One student asked why he didn't include civil engineers.
"Oh, because civil engineers don't have anything to do with building aircraft. Civil engineers build targets."
Maybe if people tried learning from successes rather than failures there would be more organizations that would get this right.
And once again, one of the most successful municipal wifi projects in the midwest goes largely unnoticed. Service covers thousands of people in residential neighborhoods and commercial areas. Speed is just about as fast as a cable modem. And I can take my laptop anywhere there is coverage, authenticate, and have Internet access. Faster than SBC DSL, and I don't have to pay the evil local cable company.
You have an Onyx *somewhere*? Aren't those a little hard to misplace?:) An O2 I could understand, but heck people always manage to spot my Octanes and Iris Indigo and say "ooooh pretty colors..."
In any case, the Octanes still hold their own doing digital video editing, and the whole systems today cost less than a fancy Logitech keyboard.
Unfortunately it probably doesn't. Frankly, nobody I know (including myself) really cares much about the fact that all of my CAD workstations have Quadro cards (and the old ones have Elsa Gloria cards). However, I'm sure that some of those 1337 gam0r types would shit a brick if they knew what those cost.
As I'm sure you know, in Lawrence its fun and easy to have "whose is bigger?" challenges.:)
"While Ubuntu on the desktop is the bee's knees, server leaves me unimpressed."...which is why we have Debian.
It isn't necessarily a good thing to have servers in the hands of people that can't use them without a pretty X interface.
Nope, its continuous. I never had the music stop to buffer as long as I had an EVDO signal. I've consistently been able to pull down close to 1Mbps on Sprint, and peak speeds of 2Mbps. I used the field debugger to verify this. I use an HTC Apache (PPC6700), its by far the best phone I've ever used. Tethering it to my laptop I was able to download files at ~100KB/sec (not kbps). According to the laptop I was connected at 921.6Kbps, but I don't know how much I trust that. The quality of the EVDO service definitely varies by location; I've had the best luck in Chicago and Kansas City (Sprint's home town). Even the 1xRTT speeds on my old PPC6600 in the KC area were respectable (~80-100kpbs).
Mind you, I'm not a Sprint fanboy; as far as businesses go, I hate their practices, but I cannot say anything bad about their technology.
Get an EVDO phone. I can listen to my local collegetown indy radio station anywhere in the US on my phone as a 256Kbps MP3 stream, and I never have any problems with it.
Seriously, PeopleSoft sucks fiercely unless you have an army of people spending thousands of manhours on it to make it work right. At the university I attended, when they rolled out PeopleSoft to do EVERYTHING (including tuition, enrollment, etc.) all kinds of random errors would screw up what you were trying to do, and the university's stance was "oops, sorry." This was their stance even if it meant you couldn't enroll in a class (or couldn't drop a class), or pay your tuition on time.
28 square miles of municipal wireless internet access serving 100,000 customers with almost 600 radio mesh nodes. Sure there's a few glitches here and there, but it works well, and is getting more subscribers every day.
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Thanks, its amazing what can be done with older high-end gear and radio shack speaker wire. :) All my stereo gear I pick up at garage sales and rummage sales. Yes, even the B&O stuff, which includes three sets of speakers (two Beovox sets and one set of RedLines) two Beocenters (one is broken and I keep for spare parts), and a Beogram CD player. The only stuff I buy new is the wire. Hard to believe that people were dumping this kind of equipment.
I don't tell them how much the retail price was or how much I paid, mainly because its none of their business and I'm not an arrogant prick that says "I SPEND MONEY LOLZ!" to try and impress people. Heck, the speakers are more than 15 years old and I got them used on a fluke for way less than it would have cost to get them new. When people come over and listen to music or watch a movie, they comment about how great everything sounds. Often people will ask who makes the speakers, and most look at me funny because they have never heard of Bang & Olufsen before.
"$10,000 speakers"
Everyone who listens to my Bang & Olufsen speakers is blown away by their incredible quality. Yes, they are pricy. But everyone who has listened to them has told me they are the best speakers they've ever heard.
Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for.
I have a server in the DFW1 Datacenter that was knocked out during the first two outages but survived the third. I was down for about two and a half hours during the first outage and fifteen minutes during the second. My Rackers answered every question I had about it with honesty and humility. They admitted that this was their problem and kept me informed as to what was going on.
I'm wondering how many people posting on this thread are actual Rackspace customers. I can't say that I have ever once experienced anything less than top quality service from them. They are friendly, knowledgeable, hard working, and I respect them very much, and that's coming from a sysadmin/one man IT department.
Here's a company that is taking responsibility for its actions right off the bat, apologizing for their shortcomings, and honestly trying to make things right for those who have been affected. Think about this in contrast to the corporate scandals and craptacular customer service that has been plaguing the US lately.
Bob: Hey Alice, I have something to tell you about Eve:
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Not sure how you're trying to play video, but the TCPMP benchmark I just ran on my 420MHz HTC Apache running Windows Mobile 5 was running at 60fps playing back a DivX movie. It has never given me a problem dropping frames or keeping sync while playing video.
An aerospace professor told me how aerospace engineers had to do the jobs of all sorts of other engineers. Electrical, computer, chemical, mechanical, and architectural. Why? Because all of those disciplines were involved in building aircraft. One student asked why he didn't include civil engineers.
"Oh, because civil engineers don't have anything to do with building aircraft. Civil engineers build targets."
And here I was thinking that SES was designed so that if you got in and didn't belong there, you could never find your way out.
Maybe if people tried learning from successes rather than failures there would be more organizations that would get this right.
And once again, one of the most successful municipal wifi projects in the midwest goes largely unnoticed. Service covers thousands of people in residential neighborhoods and commercial areas. Speed is just about as fast as a cable modem. And I can take my laptop anywhere there is coverage, authenticate, and have Internet access. Faster than SBC DSL, and I don't have to pay the evil local cable company.
I thought it was illegal for Germans to do this kind of investigation now. Is it? I mean, it requires "hacking tools."
"Lithium is no longer available on credit"
You have an Onyx *somewhere*? Aren't those a little hard to misplace? :) An O2 I could understand, but heck people always manage to spot my Octanes and Iris Indigo and say "ooooh pretty colors..."
In any case, the Octanes still hold their own doing digital video editing, and the whole systems today cost less than a fancy Logitech keyboard.
Unfortunately it probably doesn't. Frankly, nobody I know (including myself) really cares much about the fact that all of my CAD workstations have Quadro cards (and the old ones have Elsa Gloria cards). However, I'm sure that some of those 1337 gam0r types would shit a brick if they knew what those cost. As I'm sure you know, in Lawrence its fun and easy to have "whose is bigger?" challenges. :)
Not to be a sticker, but Kansas *was* the state with the retarded school board. We voted out those idiots.
Yes, it pretty much is Vista Server. When I was installing Server 2008 Beta 2 it actually said "Windows Vista" at one point in the installation.
It took me about 9 seconds to get the "yfluk" tag, but when I did, I almost fell out of my chair.
"Please keep the government off my internet."
Funny you should say that seeing as how it was *their* internet in the first place.
> You are alone in a dark room and cannot see. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Actually, sounds like what you can't see WILL in fact eat you.
"While Ubuntu on the desktop is the bee's knees, server leaves me unimpressed." ...which is why we have Debian.
It isn't necessarily a good thing to have servers in the hands of people that can't use them without a pretty X interface.
Nope, its continuous. I never had the music stop to buffer as long as I had an EVDO signal. I've consistently been able to pull down close to 1Mbps on Sprint, and peak speeds of 2Mbps. I used the field debugger to verify this. I use an HTC Apache (PPC6700), its by far the best phone I've ever used. Tethering it to my laptop I was able to download files at ~100KB/sec (not kbps). According to the laptop I was connected at 921.6Kbps, but I don't know how much I trust that. The quality of the EVDO service definitely varies by location; I've had the best luck in Chicago and Kansas City (Sprint's home town). Even the 1xRTT speeds on my old PPC6600 in the KC area were respectable (~80-100kpbs).
Mind you, I'm not a Sprint fanboy; as far as businesses go, I hate their practices, but I cannot say anything bad about their technology.
Get an EVDO phone. I can listen to my local collegetown indy radio station anywhere in the US on my phone as a 256Kbps MP3 stream, and I never have any problems with it.
PeopleShaft not working right? Thats unpossible!
Seriously, PeopleSoft sucks fiercely unless you have an army of people spending thousands of manhours on it to make it work right. At the university I attended, when they rolled out PeopleSoft to do EVERYTHING (including tuition, enrollment, etc.) all kinds of random errors would screw up what you were trying to do, and the university's stance was "oops, sorry." This was their stance even if it meant you couldn't enroll in a class (or couldn't drop a class), or pay your tuition on time.
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!!!
"Pogue" is the spelling.
28 square miles of municipal wireless internet access serving 100,000 customers with almost 600 radio mesh nodes. Sure there's a few glitches here and there, but it works well, and is getting more subscribers every day.