I have...while working on a Dell that needed a replacement MB. It took forever to get, and they actually sent us an upgraded model MB. I called MS, three times. They eventually told me to call Dell. Dell would not issue a new number either. Instead they wanted me to return the lousy MB and wait 6wks for an identical replacement. HORSESHIT!
The Dell was just one example....this has now happened at my PC repair shop three separate times, and this IS HORSESHIT!
Yes, I've heard people have gotten replacement numbers from MS, but never this person, so all things must not be equal.
I believe the high end broadcast Canopus ADVC1000 is supported under Linux. This is a firewire video converter, and can even run standalone if needed. The only drawback (if you can call it that), it is DV format only....no MPEG2/4. DV will look better than MPEG in most instances, but you end up with a substantually larger file. The video quality that exits the box is outstanding!
I tried for some 3 months to come up with a viable Linux playback server for live news video playback. I never came up with something I was 100% sure would be 99% error free, so we ended up going with a pair of Apple XServes and the Canopus box. We use a JLCooper shuttle box to run the transports. The software is commercial (and expensive, $5k per license) by a company called Bug.TV. http://www.bug.tv./
Another commercial software option would be VirtualVTR http://www.virtualvtr.com/. It's for OS-X, but the guy might very well do a custom Linux version (if he hasn't already) for some extra $$.
It seems to me that Apple has not in recent history announced product long before its actual release (Two years in this case). This announcement about Intel is just so out of charactor for Apple. Unless Intel is going to have a really new 64 bit "x86" processor, Apple is actually planning to revert from 64 bit to 32 bit, because Intel has no x86 compatible 64 bit CPU. At least not that I know of.
Add on top of that, Apple has had problems with promised CPU speed upgrades and delivery issues with their CPU makers. Honestly, I think Apple is pulling a stunt to worry their CPU makers into quicker R&D and better delivery.
Why not? Essentually, Apple has given IBM two years (well, 14 mos probably) to get it right. Apple has to realize they are shooting themselves in the foot by announcing this so early. So, how do you rebound from that? You have to follow that announcemnt with something big! They introduce in late summer a 3.5ghz PM that could be released by Christmas. That's how. Followed by an announcment that Apple and IBM have reconciled. Come February, 4.0ghz PM announced and 2.5ghz PowerBook. Then, follow that up with OS-X on standard x86 hardware. It's gonna run slower, of course, but that is incentive to actully buy Apple hardware. Once hooked on the OS, you WILL upgrade to Apple hardware.
Actually, all these fund raising folks should donate their money to the Star Trek-New Voyages project. If they don't end up getting sued, they are onto something really good!
This is not rocket science people. The sugar would make it really REALLY bad! At some point, maybe even months down the road, it WILL start to corrode the copper. I've seen it happen with soft drinks, wine and sweet coffee.
Water, on the other hand, would usually not harm anything as long as your are QUICK to the switch. If the boards are easily removable, bake them in a oven for a few hours to dry them (low heat).
The biggest issue I see here is that the bottom line is this: Whoever can raise the most cash! The Libertarians simply do not have enough cash, and they refuse to use money from the election fund, as a matter of principal.
Sure, everyone is provided equal time (uh, yea right), but I have yet to see a single television ad for Badnarik. The advertising regulations by the FCC really do restrict many candidates from equal advertising. In fact, many ad time slots are sold on a bid basis. Kerry will bid on lets say a 10:28:55 time slot for a 60 second ad, but if Bush's agency outbids him, guess who gets the slot?
I think one of two things should occur:
1. Outlaw political advertising altogether, which would never happen, as stations rely on political advertising dollars to survive slow years, a govn't cable/sat station could be used to give equal opportunity.
2. Require political ads to be ran as PSAs (Public Service Announcements), with stations only being required to fill the already alotted PSA requirments.
Actually, you may find pgadmin2 a better choice for now. It has a migration plugin that works wonderfully. ASAIK, this plugin is not yet available for pgadmin3, and doesn't appear to yet be a priority, as it should IMO.
PGAdmin2 is not available for Linux. I can only assume you use Linux since you mentioned pgaccess. I've not heard of a Win port of it, but since it is written in TCL/TK, it would probably be fairly easy to port. PGAdmin2 may even run fine under WINE (not tested)
However, with that said, the former poster was correct, MS Access DOES work very well with postgresql. There are a few problems, but I've always managed to work past them.
It would seem that many people reading this would make it a forum of right Trek and wrong Trek. There really is no such thing as a right Trek or visa-versa. Every Trek series has had its moments, as every Trek fan would agree. The whole basis of Trek was indeed the vision of Roddenberry, but since Roddenberry's death, the vision has stopped. It is now up to others to decide the direction of the Final Frontier.
The direction chosen seems to be bad at times, but still, they manage to come up with a great story every few episodes, regardless of the series.
I was really disappointed with Enterprise, especially during the second seaon, but the writers have really turned the bad to the better.
Voyager had some really GREAT episodes...."The Year of Hell" was awesome, but in contrast, meaningless, as the whole year was erased, ala Dallas. It was still a gripping pair of episodes, regardless.
Janeway was not a bad caption. If fact, she was so modeled after Picard it was obvious. Did you not notice? Look closer!
DS9 had the episode (to mention just one) that had O'Brien serve many years in a prison cell only to find out later he had only been subjected to a few hours of mental "treatment". Scarey stuff, and a real look at our future.
Capt. Picard always had great moments, but none like the episode "The Inner Light" (also the title of a great indian influenced Beatles song). I remember tears coming to my eyes the first time I saw that episode. The soundtrack is amazing!
"Dear Doctor", an Enterprise episode, was perhaps the best so far. They have come a long way since the second season, but "Dear Doctor" stands out in good story telling.
I cannot believe it has not been brought up, but actually, I think, the Amiga had double-clicking before Microsoft. Sure, the Apple GUI and the Amiga GUI were very close in releases (Apple was a bit earlier), but the Apple was only single-click at that time. The Amiga was always double click from the get-go.
Not sure when the Atari 800 came out, but if memory serves me correct, the same guy (Jay Minor) who built the Amiga designed the Atari 800 as well. Amiga History
Active X is perhaps one of the worst things ever invented. I work on computers for extra money, and I can tell you for a fact.....80% of ALL home computers are infested with Spyware simply because of ActiveX (Show me ONE linux box with spyware and I will kiss your bare ass on the courthouse steps at high-noon). When I work on a Windows PC, I always install Mozilla and make it the default browser, hoping to prevent this from happening again, and saving my customers money.
Get RID of ActiveX and a LOT of computer problems will go away.
I still have an A2000/040 running at the TV station where I work. At one time, we had five Amigas running doing various tasks, including a 1200 doing a constant "glass" logo in the bottom right corner of the screen.
The aforementioned A2000's only job these days is to reach into the Associated Press (AP NewsDesk, running WinNT4_SP6) server via Samba, parse the individual scripts for the latest news program, order them, comma delimit them, and send them to a Linux PostgreSQL server where it is automatically imported, and available via our web page (wdtv.com). All done using AREXX (Amiga REXX) and EZCron
(a gui cron written by myself, with a little help from our past Chief Engineer.
Ah, the beauty of it all! It runs 24/7, has not been rebooted since I can remember, and even processes ScreamerNet frames with Lightwave 3D in its spare time (OK, it's slow at that task, but helps about 5%).
Really! Playing chess is just like anything else. There are experts everywhere, but MOST are not famous.
I think a much more fair competition would be to allow play against this super chess playing computer available registered users via the Internet.
Registration should require some sort of mini-test to evaluate the basic chess skills of the user (this would prevent non-chess players from wasting precious CPU time.
Basically, my point is, there are probably high school kids in the chess club that could beat any computer chess game that would otherwise never get the chance. Let's see it!
True, he may be guessing, but when you watch ANY american news channel, you get the feeling that if you're any bit anti-war, you might as well be a communist. I am so sick and tired of american media giving only one sided coverage of this issue. It makes me want to puke!
LeX
Well, for one thing, Minidisc is 16/44.1 using a very old psyco-acoustic model. The sound quality of MD actually sucks IMO, and can not hold a candle to ogg compression. Just because you have this neat new gadget, doesn't mean you HAVE to use 24/192. It also supports 16/44 which would sound drastically better than MD.
LeX
Bill Gates seems extremely out of touch with Windows users. Bugs are acceptable?!! By whom? Bill needs to get of his fscking high horse and get with the real world. One would have to assume that security bugs are looked at the same way: not important. Well....that much is pretty obvious now, isn't it.
As mentioned on./
a month or so ago, poorly manufactured capactors seem to the the primary cause of modern failures. There have also been several other articles regarding this problem on several techie sites ie. NASA Tech Briefs.
Working for a tv station, we have seen this on damn near every DVCPro component we purchased 3 or 4 years ago.
Every machine has had hundreds of these small caps replaced, but the manufacturer will not admit the caps have an unusually high failure rate.
These same caps were/are also used in hundreds of consumer products, although I have heard the "bad batch" of these caps have since
passed.....we'll see.
This seems to be a desperate act on behalf of a desparate company. AOL is already losing subscribers. Why would TW in their right mind want to limit their audience to a dwendling subscriber base? They may do this eventually, but I promise you it won't last long. They simply can't afford it, in this present economy.
If they insist on doing this, I think the material should be pro-rated on the encoding quality. If you d/l mp3s that are encoded at 128k, this is not equal in value to the uncompressed CD by no means. How can 'they' expect to sue for full price of the CD for an inferior product?
The media companies seem to forget the quality standard. They seem to forget that most downloadable media files are inferior to the store bought product, which further proves that the downloaders will eventually BUY this stuff if they like it.
I'm not a regular downloader of copyright materials, but when I do.....if I like it, I buy it. If I don't, why keep the shit laying around taking up my HD space. Besides, there's a ton of stuff out there that's not for sale by the media companies at any price, like recording outtakes and unreleased bootlegs. These items are only valuable to hard core fans anyway and by no means would the media companies ever consider releasing them....well, then again, there was the Beatles Anthology series. That was worth buying simply because the quality was so much better than the boots.
How often do we have to learn this lesson? Small proprietary OSs are doomed propositions, especially when tied to a hardware architecture. Every few years we go through this again. Lisp machines, Amiga, OS/2, BeOS, etc. and on and on.
You have these choices in PC operating systems: Windows, Mac and the free OSs. And there's no guarantees on the Mac either.
Ok, granted you admit the Mac may be doomed, but look what you just said. This is no different than the Mac. In fact, the Mac is a perfect example of an OS being tied to the hardware.
Please show me the difference(s) here between what Apple is doing and what this company is doing.
What would really help them out here to make MorphOS run on multiple hardware designs, like x86 for example
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I have...while working on a Dell that needed a replacement MB. It took forever to get, and they actually sent us an upgraded model MB. I called MS, three times. They eventually told me to call Dell. Dell would not issue a new number either. Instead they wanted me to return the lousy MB and wait 6wks for an identical replacement. HORSESHIT!
The Dell was just one example....this has now happened at my PC repair shop three separate times, and this IS HORSESHIT!
Yes, I've heard people have gotten replacement numbers from MS, but never this person, so all things must not be equal.
I believe the high end broadcast Canopus ADVC1000 is supported under Linux. This is a firewire video converter, and can even run standalone if needed. The only drawback (if you can call it that), it is DV format only....no MPEG2/4. DV will look better than MPEG in most instances, but you end up with a substantually larger file. The video quality that exits the box is outstanding!
I tried for some 3 months to come up with a viable Linux playback server for live news video playback. I never came up with something I was 100% sure would be 99% error free, so we ended up going with a pair of Apple XServes and the Canopus box. We use a JLCooper shuttle box to run the transports. The software is commercial (and expensive, $5k per license) by a company called Bug.TV. http://www.bug.tv./
Another commercial software option would be VirtualVTR http://www.virtualvtr.com/. It's for OS-X, but the guy might very well do a custom Linux version (if he hasn't already) for some extra $$.
Good luck, and let us know how it turns out.
See this link:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/IMO, second year students are already so tired of keeping their systems spyware and virus clean, they get burnt out on it. No more!!! arrrrrhhhhhhh!!
It seems to me that Apple has not in recent history announced product long before its actual release (Two years in this case). This announcement about Intel is just so out of charactor for Apple. Unless Intel is going to have a really new 64 bit "x86" processor, Apple is actually planning to revert from 64 bit to 32 bit, because Intel has no x86 compatible 64 bit CPU. At least not that I know of.
Add on top of that, Apple has had problems with promised CPU speed upgrades and delivery issues with their CPU makers. Honestly, I think Apple is pulling a stunt to worry their CPU makers into quicker R&D and better delivery.
Why not? Essentually, Apple has given IBM two years (well, 14 mos probably) to get it right. Apple has to realize they are shooting themselves in the foot by announcing this so early. So, how do you rebound from that? You have to follow that announcemnt with something big! They introduce in late summer a 3.5ghz PM that could be released by Christmas. That's how. Followed by an announcment that Apple and IBM have reconciled. Come February, 4.0ghz PM announced and 2.5ghz PowerBook. Then, follow that up with OS-X on standard x86 hardware. It's gonna run slower, of course, but that is incentive to actully buy Apple hardware. Once hooked on the OS, you WILL upgrade to Apple hardware.
Nuff said,
I hate opinions....especially my own..LeX
Actually, all these fund raising folks should donate their money to the Star Trek-New Voyages project. If they don't end up getting sued, they are onto something really good!
Lex
This is not rocket science people. The sugar would make it really REALLY bad! At some point, maybe even months down the road, it WILL start to corrode the copper. I've seen it happen with soft drinks, wine and sweet coffee.
Water, on the other hand, would usually not harm anything as long as your are QUICK to the switch. If the boards are easily removable, bake them in a oven for a few hours to dry them (low heat).
Another possibility: It would allow possible terrorists to use cell phones to coordinate their attacks! LeX
The biggest issue I see here is that the bottom line is this: Whoever can raise the most cash! The Libertarians simply do not have enough cash, and they refuse to use money from the election fund, as a matter of principal.
Sure, everyone is provided equal time (uh, yea right), but I have yet to see a single television ad for Badnarik. The advertising regulations by the FCC really do restrict many candidates from equal advertising. In fact, many ad time slots are sold on a bid basis. Kerry will bid on lets say a 10:28:55 time slot for a 60 second ad, but if Bush's agency outbids him, guess who gets the slot?
I think one of two things should occur:
1. Outlaw political advertising altogether, which would never happen, as stations rely on political advertising dollars to survive slow years, a govn't cable/sat station could be used to give equal opportunity.
2. Require political ads to be ran as PSAs (Public Service Announcements), with stations only being required to fill the already alotted PSA requirments.
Actually, you may find pgadmin2 a better choice for now. It has a migration plugin that works wonderfully. ASAIK, this plugin is not yet available for pgadmin3, and doesn't appear to yet be a priority, as it should IMO.
PGAdmin2 is not available for Linux. I can only assume you use Linux since you mentioned pgaccess. I've not heard of a Win port of it, but since it is written in TCL/TK, it would probably be fairly easy to port. PGAdmin2 may even run fine under WINE (not tested)
However, with that said, the former poster was correct, MS Access DOES work very well with postgresql. There are a few problems, but I've always managed to work past them.
LeXThere was a Y2K bug? Jeeze, I musta missed it! LeX
It would seem that many people reading this would make it a forum of right Trek and wrong Trek. There really is no such thing as a right Trek or visa-versa. Every Trek series has had its moments, as every Trek fan would agree. The whole basis of Trek was indeed the vision of Roddenberry, but since Roddenberry's death, the vision has stopped. It is now up to others to decide the direction of the Final Frontier.
The direction chosen seems to be bad at times, but still, they manage to come up with a great story every few episodes, regardless of the series.
I was really disappointed with Enterprise, especially during the second seaon, but the writers have really turned the bad to the better.Voyager had some really GREAT episodes...."The Year of Hell" was awesome, but in contrast, meaningless, as the whole year was erased, ala Dallas. It was still a gripping pair of episodes, regardless.
Janeway was not a bad caption. If fact, she was so modeled after Picard it was obvious. Did you not notice? Look closer!
DS9 had the episode (to mention just one) that had O'Brien serve many years in a prison cell only to find out later he had only been subjected to a few hours of mental "treatment". Scarey stuff, and a real look at our future.
Capt. Picard always had great moments, but none like the episode "The Inner Light" (also the title of a great indian influenced Beatles song). I remember tears coming to my eyes the first time I saw that episode. The soundtrack is amazing!
"Dear Doctor", an Enterprise episode, was perhaps the best so far. They have come a long way since the second season, but "Dear Doctor" stands out in good story telling.That's all........
I cannot believe it has not been brought up, but actually, I think, the Amiga had double-clicking before Microsoft. Sure, the Apple GUI and the Amiga GUI were very close in releases (Apple was a bit earlier), but the Apple was only single-click at that time. The Amiga was always double click from the get-go.
Not sure when the Atari 800 came out, but if memory serves me correct, the same guy (Jay Minor) who built the Amiga designed the Atari 800 as well. Amiga History
I heard there were crazy Arabs on the mountain with Ozzies that would kill you if you tried to go up there.
I always heard there were Ozzies and Harriets! Now that's scary stuff!!
LeX
Active X is perhaps one of the worst things ever invented. I work on computers for extra money, and I can tell you for a fact.....80% of ALL home computers are infested with Spyware simply because of ActiveX (Show me ONE linux box with spyware and I will kiss your bare ass on the courthouse steps at high-noon). When I work on a Windows PC, I always install Mozilla and make it the default browser, hoping to prevent this from happening again, and saving my customers money.
Get RID of ActiveX and a LOT of computer problems will go away.
LeXDoubtful. None of the machines are Internet connected.
I still have an A2000/040 running at the TV station where I work. At one time, we had five Amigas running doing various tasks, including a 1200 doing a constant "glass" logo in the bottom right corner of the screen.
The aforementioned A2000's only job these days is to reach into the Associated Press (AP NewsDesk, running WinNT4_SP6) server via Samba, parse the individual scripts for the latest news program, order them, comma delimit them, and send them to a Linux PostgreSQL server where it is automatically imported, and available via our web page (wdtv.com). All done using AREXX (Amiga REXX) and EZCron (a gui cron written by myself, with a little help from our past Chief Engineer.
Ah, the beauty of it all! It runs 24/7, has not been rebooted since I can remember, and even processes ScreamerNet frames with Lightwave 3D in its spare time (OK, it's slow at that task, but helps about 5%).
Really! Playing chess is just like anything else. There are experts everywhere, but MOST are not famous.
I think a much more fair competition would be to allow play against this super chess playing computer available registered users via the Internet.
Registration should require some sort of mini-test to evaluate the basic chess skills of the user (this would prevent non-chess players from wasting precious CPU time.
Basically, my point is, there are probably high school kids in the chess club that could beat any computer chess game that would otherwise never get the chance. Let's see it!
This is funny, as we all know that MSN's new competitive search engine will likely only work with IE with Active X controls enable. AHAHAHA.
LeX
True, he may be guessing, but when you watch ANY american news channel, you get the feeling that if you're any bit anti-war, you might as well be a communist. I am so sick and tired of american media giving only one sided coverage of this issue. It makes me want to puke! LeX
Well, for one thing, Minidisc is 16/44.1 using a very old psyco-acoustic model. The sound quality of MD actually sucks IMO, and can not hold a candle to ogg compression. Just because you have this neat new gadget, doesn't mean you HAVE to use 24/192. It also supports 16/44 which would sound drastically better than MD. LeX
Bill Gates seems extremely out of touch with Windows users. Bugs are acceptable?!! By whom? Bill needs to get of his fscking high horse and get with the real world. One would have to assume that security bugs are looked at the same way: not important. Well....that much is pretty obvious now, isn't it.
As mentioned on ./
a month or so ago, poorly manufactured capactors seem to the the primary cause of modern failures. There have also been several other articles regarding this problem on several techie sites ie. NASA Tech Briefs.
Working for a tv station, we have seen this on damn near every DVCPro component we purchased 3 or 4 years ago.
Every machine has had hundreds of these small caps replaced, but the manufacturer will not admit the caps have an unusually high failure rate.
These same caps were/are also used in hundreds of consumer products, although I have heard the "bad batch" of these caps have since passed.....we'll see.
This seems to be a desperate act on behalf of a desparate company. AOL is already losing subscribers. Why would TW in their right mind want to limit their audience to a dwendling subscriber base? They may do this eventually, but I promise you it won't last long. They simply can't afford it, in this present economy.
If they insist on doing this, I think the material should be pro-rated on the encoding quality. If you d/l mp3s that are encoded at 128k, this is not equal in value to the uncompressed CD by no means. How can 'they' expect to sue for full price of the CD for an inferior product?
The media companies seem to forget the quality standard. They seem to forget that most downloadable media files are inferior to the store bought product, which further proves that the downloaders will eventually BUY this stuff if they like it.
I'm not a regular downloader of copyright materials, but when I do.....if I like it, I buy it. If I don't, why keep the shit laying around taking up my HD space. Besides, there's a ton of stuff out there that's not for sale by the media companies at any price, like recording outtakes and unreleased bootlegs. These items are only valuable to hard core fans anyway and by no means would the media companies ever consider releasing them....well, then again, there was the Beatles Anthology series. That was worth buying simply because the quality was so much better than the boots.
How often do we have to learn this lesson? Small proprietary OSs are doomed propositions, especially when tied to a hardware architecture. Every few years we go through this again. Lisp machines, Amiga, OS/2, BeOS, etc. and on and on.
You have these choices in PC operating systems: Windows, Mac and the free OSs. And there's no guarantees on the Mac either.
Ok, granted you admit the Mac may be doomed, but look what you just said. This is no different than the Mac. In fact, the Mac is a perfect example of an OS being tied to the hardware.
Please show me the difference(s) here between what Apple is doing and what this company is doing.
What would really help them out here to make MorphOS run on multiple hardware designs, like x86 for example