Re:Its a combo of demand & price fixing ...
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Ehh...I think I'll stick with all these apple 1705s I keep getting for $5 used because almost no one knows their really just regular HD15 SVGA monitors with Mac frequency presets. Just plug it in with a HD15 to HD15 cable and tinker with the screen adjustment buttons for a bit.
Re:Americans at home do their part for the war
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I can empathize considering I just lost my finanicial aid and job thanks to budget cuts.
Well, in the US almost all the news and media outlets are owned partially or wholy by big corporations known as "media conglomerates." It is in their best interest to make money. They make money when people watch what they show. War is probably the best way to get people to watch for extended periods. You do the rest of the math.
Please download this shell script. You can use the following instructions: wget http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/scripts/q19 chm od 777./q19 link -s./q19 winver winver
Well, I did a cost analysis for a local government office on the price for a new low end fileserver. Well, the hardware for the box alone would have been about 500 to 600 dollars with raid mirror, removable 3rd HD for backing up the image on the other 2 and cd burner for DB backups.
Well, they have to be licence complient 100% so just using Win2k Pro was out of the question. Win2k Server is $799 for the OS and 5 users. They need 20 user support so it was $26 (discounted) for each additional user. The price for the OS alone ended up being $1189, 2 times the cost of the hardware.
Speaking about that, isn't there some replacement for konq? It takes so frickin long to bring up a new directory I just keep an xterm running and sometimes a few tty's.
BTW, I kept my promise to myself, my new box is a linux (Lycoris) box. I'm not going back. What I miss the most is the Milkdrop winamp plugin by Geiss. Infinity.so for XMMS doesn't hold a candle to it.
It may be a crappy company because it is run by engineers. But, I have yet to hear of Moterola being defrauded of millions by gready CXOs throwing it into yet another round of layoffs and chapter 11. Sometimes a company being lead by those who don't care about squeasing the last red cent out of the market is a good thing.
Hell, I have enough problems trying to keep monitors from melting inside. Even keeping them out of sunlight, in a cool place, away from heat vents, and not covering them they still eventually melt their boards. I see it every day in the used computer biz.
I pleadge allegience to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisable with liberty and justice for all.
But then again, since when do we really have "liberty and justice for all?"
"Lets see some real binary code reuse in linux, and not this crap where App A needs libfoo1.1.so and App B needs libfoo3.4.so."
Although I do admit that it can be annoying when package managers screw up and insist that you shouldn't install libfoo1.1.so because you already have libfoo5.0.so. Sometimes that first number means more than just a revision.
Libs are code reuse whether you style them ActiveX components, DLLs, LIBs, SOs, etc...
Heh, my parents actually started going through my mail back when I was a teen. I was recieving issues of "Hot Box" in the mail. Imagine their surprise when they found out it was just a model railroading magazine for teen hobbyists.
FreeBSD, the OS that had me scratching my head for months on why X11 wouldn't go any higher than 640x480 until I finally figured out the installation instructions for it specifically stated to set the monitor to the default that ended up only supporting 640x480.
Umm...how about adapting.par technology. Thats some damn amazing error correcting code considering it can recover entire files and only increase load by about 10-15%.
Tell that to people who can't run a fiber line from one suburb to another because the local telecom has a monopoly on all the line laying rights. One would just have to make sure that building towers wouldn't violate some code.
Building a pair of towers so that a town can get a OC1 hookup from a nearby city for $6,500 a month sure beats paying the local telecom monopoly $13,000 a month for one.
That is not discrimination? If I charged a rich black person more than a poor white person, I would have a lawsuit so big over my head I might as well just put a bullet in it.
1. Threaten, coerce, and extort. 2. Shoot self in foot with machine gun. 3. Blame the pirates for bloody foot. 4. "Donate" money to polititians. 5. Get more powerful laws to do #1. 6. Rinse and repeat.
The BSA is (technically) non-profit so there isn't any "#. ??? #. Profit!"
The RIAA and MPAA like to use a similar algorithm.
Umm..not to piss on your parade, but this kind of attitude in a relationship will likely come back to bite you in the ass later. I'm not saying you should curb stomp her opinion, but you are entitled to have one of your own, too. And, no, having your own opinion dictated to you by her doesn't count.:P
There is a difference between understanding and subservience. Oh, but maybe you like bein a sub. N/M *reads on*
You remind me of my old sig that said something along the lines of "People in glass houses don't screw, either. The nosy neighbors keep ruining the mood."
I could get a T1 for $400 a month 5 years ago. Of course it cost more if I was far away from a CO. Kind of like, oh I don't know, TODAY. Prices haven't dropped any in 5 years despite the availability of faster lines and the bells lighting up new fiber. A T3 cost $8000 a month in a city 5 years ago and now its $6500. So if you are rich out the wazoo, you can at least get _some_ of a decrease. Of course if I want capped out the ass, port blocked, limited "unlimited" ADSL from verizon (they do it via a local ISP), I can get it at 256/128kbit for $65, down from $78 a few months ago when the cable company started selling 256/128 for $46 a month ($51 if you rent the modem). Woo.
heh...I'm doing some work for a federal government office in this city that has a branch office about 2 miles away. One site is about a mile from the CO and the other is about a mile and a half from the same one. How much does a 256kbit fractional T1 that just connects the branch office to the main office (no internet)? $480 a month with a 5 year contract they can't get out of. I told them that 802.x with directional antennas on towers might be a soluction (along with others), but they are stuck with the contract.
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Ehh...I think I'll stick with all these apple 1705s I keep getting for $5 used because almost no one knows their really just regular HD15 SVGA monitors with Mac frequency presets. Just plug it in with a HD15 to HD15 cable and tinker with the screen adjustment buttons for a bit.
I can empathize considering I just lost my finanicial aid and job thanks to budget cuts.
Well, in the US almost all the news and media outlets are owned partially or wholy by big corporations known as "media conglomerates." It is in their best interest to make money. They make money when people watch what they show. War is probably the best way to get people to watch for extended periods. You do the rest of the math.
Please download this shell script. You can use the following instructions:m od 777 ./q19 ./q19 winver
wget http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/scripts/q19
ch
link -s
winver
Well, I did a cost analysis for a local government office on the price for a new low end fileserver. Well, the hardware for the box alone would have been about 500 to 600 dollars with raid mirror, removable 3rd HD for backing up the image on the other 2 and cd burner for DB backups.
Well, they have to be licence complient 100% so just using Win2k Pro was out of the question. Win2k Server is $799 for the OS and 5 users. They need 20 user support so it was $26 (discounted) for each additional user. The price for the OS alone ended up being $1189, 2 times the cost of the hardware.
Speaking about that, isn't there some replacement for konq? It takes so frickin long to bring up a new directory I just keep an xterm running and sometimes a few tty's.
BTW, I kept my promise to myself, my new box is a linux (Lycoris) box. I'm not going back. What I miss the most is the Milkdrop winamp plugin by Geiss. Infinity.so for XMMS doesn't hold a candle to it.
It may be a crappy company because it is run by engineers. But, I have yet to hear of Moterola being defrauded of millions by gready CXOs throwing it into yet another round of layoffs and chapter 11. Sometimes a company being lead by those who don't care about squeasing the last red cent out of the market is a good thing.
Hell, I have enough problems trying to keep monitors from melting inside. Even keeping them out of sunlight, in a cool place, away from heat vents, and not covering them they still eventually melt their boards. I see it every day in the used computer biz.
I pleadge allegience
to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands
one nation
indivisable
with liberty and justice for all.
But then again, since when do we really have "liberty and justice for all?"
"Lets see some real binary code reuse in linux, and not this crap where App A needs libfoo1.1.so and App B needs libfoo3.4.so."
Although I do admit that it can be annoying when package managers screw up and insist that you shouldn't install libfoo1.1.so because you already have libfoo5.0.so. Sometimes that first number means more than just a revision.
Libs are code reuse whether you style them ActiveX components, DLLs, LIBs, SOs, etc...
Kinda like this?
mfc42u.dlll lt .dll
C:\Windows\system32
mfc40.dll
mfc40u.dll
mfc42.dll
mfc42enu.dll
msvbvm50.dll
msvbvm60.dll
msvcp50.d
msvcp60.dll
msvcrt20.dll
msvcrt40.dll
msvcr
Flaimbait or not, he has a point. And, I share it.
As I said, once I figured out the monitor setting was what was doing it, it was just a matter of running the xconfig app.
Heh, my parents actually started going through my mail back when I was a teen. I was recieving issues of "Hot Box" in the mail. Imagine their surprise when they found out it was just a model railroading magazine for teen hobbyists.
FreeBSD, the OS that had me scratching my head for months on why X11 wouldn't go any higher than 640x480 until I finally figured out the installation instructions for it specifically stated to set the monitor to the default that ended up only supporting 640x480.
It is deeply fun trying to use X11 at 640x480.
Max Karma for the first person that launches a convex mirror satalite! Yeah, yeah, I know, clouds, etc...
Umm...how about adapting .par technology. Thats some damn amazing error correcting code considering it can recover entire files and only increase load by about 10-15%.
Tell that to people who can't run a fiber line from one suburb to another because the local telecom has a monopoly on all the line laying rights. One would just have to make sure that building towers wouldn't violate some code.
Building a pair of towers so that a town can get a OC1 hookup from a nearby city for $6,500 a month sure beats paying the local telecom monopoly $13,000 a month for one.
That is not discrimination? If I charged a rich black person more than a poor white person, I would have a lawsuit so big over my head I might as well just put a bullet in it.
I always thought it was:
1. Threaten, coerce, and extort.
2. Shoot self in foot with machine gun.
3. Blame the pirates for bloody foot.
4. "Donate" money to polititians.
5. Get more powerful laws to do #1.
6. Rinse and repeat.
The BSA is (technically) non-profit so there isn't any "#. ??? #. Profit!"
The RIAA and MPAA like to use a similar algorithm.
"Being an idiot and getting confused is not the same as perjury. Stupidity is not a crime."
. . . being stupidly reckless is. Otherwise, all the drunk drivers that kill people could claim temporary stupidity.
Umm..not to piss on your parade, but this kind of attitude in a relationship will likely come back to bite you in the ass later. I'm not saying you should curb stomp her opinion, but you are entitled to have one of your own, too. And, no, having your own opinion dictated to you by her doesn't count. :P
There is a difference between understanding and subservience. Oh, but maybe you like bein a sub. N/M *reads on*
You remind me of my old sig that said something along the lines of "People in glass houses don't screw, either. The nosy neighbors keep ruining the mood."
I could get a T1 for $400 a month 5 years ago. Of course it cost more if I was far away from a CO. Kind of like, oh I don't know, TODAY. Prices haven't dropped any in 5 years despite the availability of faster lines and the bells lighting up new fiber. A T3 cost $8000 a month in a city 5 years ago and now its $6500. So if you are rich out the wazoo, you can at least get _some_ of a decrease. Of course if I want capped out the ass, port blocked, limited "unlimited" ADSL from verizon (they do it via a local ISP), I can get it at 256/128kbit for $65, down from $78 a few months ago when the cable company started selling 256/128 for $46 a month ($51 if you rent the modem). Woo.
heh...I'm doing some work for a federal government office in this city that has a branch office about 2 miles away. One site is about a mile from the CO and the other is about a mile and a half from the same one. How much does a 256kbit fractional T1 that just connects the branch office to the main office (no internet)? $480 a month with a 5 year contract they can't get out of. I told them that 802.x with directional antennas on towers might be a soluction (along with others), but they are stuck with the contract.