I have been in the computer game for a long time and have been threw every component and its manufacturer under the sun.
ATI gets a bad rap because it sold a buncha crappy cards with crappy drivers a while back. But they hired the Apple PR team to pimp them and a lotta people bought these cards and got screwed. The ads were better than the actual performance.
NVIDIA came along with a couple of nice 16 meg cards that worked well with Open GL and Direct X, and were fairly cheap.
ATI retaliates and does the Original Radeon. Pretty much junk except for the 3d performance. But ATI had been a traditionally OEM supplier anyway. Not a lot of experience for the high end commercial product. Remember the day of 3d cards? You would see STB and VooDoo, and that was about it.
The Geforce is a great product, sold a helluva lot, did the job become popular. But ATI revamped and started with the 8500, cleaned its driver act up and their cards kick ass.
I have an 8500 64 meg I grabbed from NewEGg and am perfectly happy with it, all 3d games in windows and it works well in Linux. My other box has a geforce 3 and it works well two. Though for web stuff, 2d, the ATI hands it its ass.
Problem with most people is they buy the bargain basement, OEM, close out, and it doesn't work to expectations. Well, GEE, musta been a reason for the closeout sale for all that white box shit. Oh yeah, paid 74 bucks 2 months ago for the 8500, tv out and all.
AS for those drivers from ATI, there are for ATI cards. In the day there were many problems with NVIDIAs reference drivers not working with third party manufacturers.
I understand we are all cheap computer people, and we conserve where we can. Between pricewatch and EBAY. But I learned a long time ago. Spend that extra 20 dollars for the retail CPU, get the 3 year warranty. Get that name brand motherboard. Cause it never fails, you buy something cheap and it burns out and you gotta buy again.
I think ATI and NVIDIA are par with each other and I am glad. Good competition. I understand the loyalty to NVIDIA, they were the reigning champions. ATI is kicking ass too. IT is better for all of us. And as for you guys who bought that 64 meg 20 dollar Radeon 7000(cause it said 64 meg) sorry dudes, shoulda ponied up some more cash/
So they optimized a few apps on the Transmeta, and pit it against a machine that has some unoptimized apps. To quote toms "DVD playback, Office Applications".
Ok were the even the same office and dvd playing apps? I can show you two different aps that do the same thing. One dog slow, one lightning quick. Put them each on machines with the same specs, and one will open faster than the other.
So give us name of the apps used. Start up times, were they optimized especially for the meta?
I would like to see this succeed, but I hate to see the hype.
4. Dont trust computers to keep vaulabe stuff you need for exams, copies should have been made at least 3 weeks before exam.
5. If you know the material, what difference if its a new exam? Unless you have one from a testbank and have only studied that instead of the answers. Besides if the exam burned, it is your teachers problem.
And last but not least you can leave your dorm/apartment and walk your lazy ass over to wherever your information might be, or to the campus and see who knows what is up.
This is the problem these days, too much reliance on the computer. All of the items you mentioned could have been solved with a quick walk. Or using something as archaic as a telepone.
I for one would have been watching the action, walked around campus, looked at chicks, talked to my teachers, got involved in the mix.
Do you think in those two says there were more people getting laid? Riding bikes? Doing something other than vegging out?
I was an CS major and I was encouraged to only have email communication. But I went around, talked to my professors, did other stuff. No one ever beleived I was a CS geek.
I do something similar on my home lan. And am actually implementing it at a clients site next month.
I have 2 80 gig external USB/FIRE drives. They are connected to my home lan via a USB 2.0 port(i got the firewirewire addy as well so I could zap on with the old ladies ibook, she thinks i married her for her looks).
Anyway on a 2000 box it hits my linux box, a 2000 server box, pro box, and an xp box. Using the built in backup. Backups up my data at 400 kbps.
Every morning I unmount one drivc, and plug in the either. The drives are identical(cloned directory structure).
So I have a full back up daily without too much trouble. I will probably go to a Mon/Wed/Fri thing. And I always leave one at the office over the weekend.
I still burn stuff but this makes it easy and is an added sleep well measurement for me.
The drives are from www.zeehoo.com three year warranty and dirty cheap. I paid 141 dollars each. They come in a cool case with its own cooling, and it looks neat as well.
Hey man, you didn;t hear it from me. But if you go to this link http://www.tombstones.org.uk you will find the info you need. It is a group of people who have a project to keep the roms alive. You can get all the mame roms on 10 cds for like 10-15 bucks, all verified and working. You have to find mame on your on. But you can get it off the site as well.
I actuall ordered two sets. Paypaled money to two different people. Thinking that one would rip me off. And you know what? 7 days later they both came in the mail. It has been mame hell in my house since. 3200 working games.
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While I look at most things that the government does as some veiled attempt of hiding the true motive I actually kinda agree with this.
Kids are running rampant on the internet and can come across some truly disturbing shite. I myself was on this technical-nerd-/. site one day and clicked on a link and was presented with largest bloody rectum I have ever seen. Wait the only large bloody rectum I have ever seen. And it is more ubitiqous than the Bonzai buddy pop up.
Anyway, I dont have kids, soon, and I plan on treating them like adults. But not turning them into little Ron Jeremys.(That is my job for the time being).
So a restricted domain where it is all about kidstuff is cool with me. Might even fun for our jades asses to look at. Of course when I strip off the emerald spectacles it is gonna be a marketing haven for toy companies, candy companies, and anything that sells kiddy products, a market with a demographic that is always renewing itself.
So lets see how it works. Could be a good thing. And we can always have a good guffaw when the script kiddies hijack a couple of sites and plaster them with the goat.cx guy, nude shots of ana nicole, and John Holmes memorials.
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The big vendors always pay for the booths. But I always seem to get tickets for free. By knowing someone. Buying something and they throw in tickets. Has not been to hard to scare up a couple for me.
This is too funny. IBM doing something good for the community and for themselves at the same time? Nothing wrong with at. Altruism and capitlism can go hand and hand. And I am not one to look a gift server in the mouth.
First we have people talking about IBM doing this to control kernel developlemt. This is nuts. IBM understands that Linux is big in the cards for them and they also understand the Free As in Beer Developmental community needs to really have a central repository for this sorta thing.
So IBM cuts loose the space and the DB for it. Throws in an admin or two. Why? Cause they got big money on Linux, they want to move the big corps over to it. So they need the assurance that bugfixes, patches, what have you, is on a reliable server somewhere that will always be around.
Yeah it does benefit them and benefit us. More power to em. OR what we are gonna round robin the server costs every month? We are gonna set up a Paypal Account and each chip in our own unlimited funds in this street paved of gold IT industry we have now?
IBM is a business and it sees that helping the community can help itself. QUID PRO QUO my friends.
IBM was a monopoly, but they also make damn good equipment. Always have. You can go on about a failed run of hard drives, or some bad workstations. But hey happends to all of them...
And this busines that IBM needs to know the kernel inside and out. Ahhh, I do not think anyone needs to be talking out there ass about us teaching IBM anything about operating systems. Much less one ending in *NIX.
IBM is one of the best things to happen to our community. They are making the inroads in the corporate road for us.
Hmmm, I have been all over the world and no one has 'uniquely' hated me anywhere. I am a pretty likable fella and get along with just about anyone I come across. And while there are places that hate "Yankees" most countries dig North Americans. Wait, most places take people for who they are, not where they are from. There is no 'default' treatment if you are a US citizen.
I am jealous of Canadians? Why? I am just pointing out a something I have come across more than once. I have taught in three universities and one high school in other countries. And while my American brethern have on many occasions been an embarassment I never make excuses for them.
However, all of the Canadians are always quick to point out that they are Canadian. Without prompting. I think this is funny. Maybe it is only the expatriate Canadians I have known. Never got them any better treatment.
"Hi I am Norman, nice to meet you" or "Hi, I am Norman, I am from Canada"
It is great to be proud of your heritage, who you are and where you are from. No problem with that.
And as for accents, many North Americans can identify the 'subtle' different between accents from other countries. Though Aussie, Scot, New Zealand, and Irish aren't subtle as you say, they are very different. You cannot tell someone who is a Scott right away?
And North Americans can pick up on the Canadian one quite easily. But not by territory. I mean I generally can do the regional thing in the US. But if you get someone from New Orleans you would most likely think they are from Jersey, we tend to have the same accent. Common fallacy to think people in New Orleans have really southern accents, we do not. And those are not our chicks tits doing mardi gras. Those are the northern tourists. We leave during da parades.
As for myself, I am good with accents. Time spent abroad, and also a set of grandparents from Spain. I can almost 90% of the time tell you what country a spanish speaker is from. And there are more spanish speaking countries than english ones.
So I am sorry if I offended you in pointing out something I have found in my travels.
But I do not think we are uniquely hated around the world as Americans.
And I do not think Canadians get much better treatment than US citizens. Maybe in some places, but usually it is the same.
Or maybe people treat me differently cause I am slightly brown, speak three languages, and do not give a shit.
All North Americans including Canadians are Yanks in the eyes of our brothers south of the border. Well, Yanquis.
And a good bit of my European pals consider Canadians yanks(spend some time in youth hostels around the world and the first thing a Canadian will do is enter the room and announce they are Canadian and not American, i have seen this happen in three different hostels in three different countries, you guys got membership cards) North American is Canada too.
And let me say as a proud loud mouthed american(not really too loud mouthed, but american all the same, with a dash of spanish and french thrown in for good measure, new orleans born and raised) that most of us are proud and loudmouthed, as any loyal citizen of any country is. And Canadians are a bit pompous of the fact that they are Canadian(not American).
Though the dictionary defines Yankees as:
1. A native or inhabitant of New England. 2. A native or inhabitant of a northern U.S. state, especially a Union soldier during the Civil War. 3. A native or inhabitant of the United States.
Oh yeah, and it is some guys name too. German I think. One of those superior races.
As for the gun, I can hack one up for it. Not a problem. Free country and all that, well free enough so I can have a gun.
Rollins would be intellectualizing his moves blow by blow. He would enter the ring babbling in low tones about the state of human relationships and work himself up into a screaming rage while inflating his neck like some iguana on steroids.
Danzig would be continually wiping the runny makeup out of his eyes as he started to sweat. Singing about how his mother could bang better heads than Hank.
I know where you are coming from and if you look through my past posts you will note they are rife with grammatical and spelling errors. Sometimes I multitask and the least amount of attention is focused on what I am posting on slashdot. More content that checking my punctuation.
You are right though. It is embarassing to have our community display such glaring errors in a a public format.
I think the problem is that all the kiddies are just trying to get an article posted that they gleaned off of some other venue, and in their haste to submit before anyone, they type whatever they can, and submit without proofing. Did I mentions couples with the fact they have Slashdot open in a window at work that they keep minimizing when a supervisor walks by.
At least the editors should proof the articles for basic spelling and grammar, typos, especially when they are that small like the current topic. And if they are reading the comments they can go in and change it, fix it.
However, what is worse are the 1000 posts pointing it out. Like we do not all see it, like once was not enough.
I would rather see a reduction of the "hey your stupid comments" as well as some editorial proofing as well.
However, Slashdot is not run by language scholars.
We need to clean up the submissions and the comments.
Disregarding all of the comments on the 3.06 typo. Geez, I remember the day when we use to comment on processors, peripherals, parts. Now the community is stuck on whining about typos. Read it, chuckle to self,move on.
Anyway they have ramped up the speed, and added something that could have always been, hyperthreading. Xeon has always had it. This is not progress, this is almost not worthy reporting.
Just wondering one thing. What is the 'hard set" ip thing you did? If you are on a network and you are under a DHCP scope(range) then you can't assign yourself a permanent IP. Unless you have access and control to the actual equipment of your ISP.
Now if your isp sets its leases to change IP's ONLY when your broadband connection drops or your pc powers down, then you can have the appearance of having a static ip. But your ip was not static because when you rebooted you were assigned another one.
So what you have done is used DHCP to get a DHCP assigned IP address. Then changed YOUR configuration to see it as static. This is still DHCP. It was assigned from a lease. You didn't assign it to yourself, and anyway as long as that box is on it would have used that IP until you shut down or they decided to yank it. Changing your nic config to show a fixed ip that you got from a DHCP server is not setting a fixed IP. Cause even you said it changed when the machine went down.
Most broadband ISPS change leases when the connection drops. Just like dial up. OR assign it five days. Depends on who is running the shop. My Cox cable will keep the same ip for months unless I shut the box off, then it changes.
For arguments sake" I am not the worlds best computer guy". I do not claim to be, but I have been in the networking/hardware end for a long time, and can consistently make good money at it while using quality equipment.
Let me breakdown a few of the responses concerns:
Pricewatch: The best thing since sliced bread for the tech world. Price watch might be fine for the home user, a buddy, but you actually have no idea what you are getting, and why is it so cheap. RMA stuff, returns, "Fell off the Truck". So while all this transfers into savings for you and your customer, you have this problem. TechData or any of the biggies will cross ship, or ship ASAP an RMA, and you put the old one in the box. No questions asked 99.9 % of Pricewatch suppliers will not do this. Plus most of the stuff is OEM, 1 year, 90 day, 30 day warranty. I do not know about you guys but with hardware reliability being what it is these days compared to what it was years ago. I would rather pay the extra 12 bucks for the retail item and get the 3 year warranty. That way when something burns out in 91 days, I do not have an angry customer bitching at me. In the 'real'world you know part of your profit will be eaten up by service over the next two three years. So you need quality from a reputable company. Not a 20 dollar motherboard with everything built in and 1 pci slot, something burns out. You gotta replace it outta pocket because the company that has sold it to you has disappeared three days later.
I do trust NewEgg. But I can wangle better prices with some of the larger places. My new box is entirely new egg. But there is nothing generic in it either. The only el cheapo thing I buy are nics and those are lend out spares for my customers until I grab them something decent. I picked up 100 nics at 2 bucks a piece. 10/100 realtek. Sell em for six bucks, everyone is happy, and they work well.
TechData - I only mentioned Tech Data, because it is one of the largest and well knownones out there. I also use other companies. Sometimes Tech Data has really good deals on somethings and others no. Also Tech Data has different prices for different customers, all about how much you buy from them. Different prices for different people. And you can always get your rep and get them to cut you a break.
Yeah, maybe my margin was way up there, and too high. But if you are making 6%,. 1. Do not have accounts with the right companies. 2. Shouldn't be on the hardware end ( I make my money on the service end, hardware is a pain in the ass, and I do not trust anyone under 28 to build a box for my company. I trust someone who has had his hands in an XT. Computers have gotten way to easy to build in the past few, so hardware skills have dropped dramatically. I have noticed in the shops I have run that the techs 25 and under tend to RMA more burned out stuff.... Maybe cause they weren't working on them in the day when a pc cost 4 grand and take the same amount of care. 3. Do not know how to market your product to justify the price.
I honestly make all my money networking this days. I only build my personal pcs. I assess the site and order Dells, and I again I call someone at Dell. I always see on Slashdot "Yeah well on Pricewatch,Dell,HP, site here is the price" Price for who? You can call and cut deals, and if you have been in this business for any amount of time you have a nice little Rolodex with all sorts of contacts. I can usually get 12 percent knocked off Dells web price by calling. Do a little research, pick up the phone, get these dusty people skills out. My customers will buy for me on bids even if I am a few dollars higher. Why? Personality, reliability, and quality.
And the reported earning for Compaq, or whatever computer company. You thing this are actually the truth? Especially what we are seeing in business today? Enron, AOL, Anderseen? Come on! HP/Compaq employees went public with how management doctored the sheets so the merger would go through. And Compaq has been losing its ass for a long time. You actually believe all of what you read? Then give me about five minutes to throw a web page together. And for the paltry sum of 1000 dollars I will sell you a product that will make you ejaculate %5000 more, get you hot chicks, triple your earnings, and let you reliably predict the time of Cher's next facelift.
And as for people saying then why can't I build (insert company name here) server for 50%, or the company %50 less. Cause the market is price controlled, get that through your heads. Easy analogy. The GeForce Ultra Mega 10000 comes out. It costs $500. The GeForce Ultra Mega 90000 from last month drops to $99.99.
You think dell can carry all that baggage with 6 percent margins. They can with 6 percent reported margins.
I understand business and markets very well. Because I do beleive in facts and figures reported by companies. They report what they want us to hear.
I was unclear, when I meant coming straight out, I meant right out of the factory. No distributors costs, but dell or compaqs actual costs. Which they would never publish, only allude to 6% margin.
I certainly didnt mean pc shop.
But if ia pc shop has an account with Tech data and other biggies then it is not unusal for 20-20 point markup on a pc. A pc that can be built with 2 gig processor, 256 meg, 19 inch monitor, getforce, nic, sound, yadda, for about 700 bucks. Will easily sell for 1200 bucks and people will think they are getting a deal, well lets subtract 100 bucks for xp home. And lets also remember that with a corporate account there are places cheaper than Pricewatch. so we say profit is 400 dollars. That is a little more than 6 percent on the homefront.
Now I am not saying all PC shops do this, but most still have a healthy margin on the hardware. Because Johnny Six Pack still thinks you buy cheap you get cheap.
The actual manufactures of the the seperate parts run on fairly slim margins, but the retailers control the prices. That is why we see such a disparity of prices on the web.
I was a buyer for a fairly large shop up until recently, and we sold good boxes, good prices, and made at least 200 a box on a bad day. The only time we lost out was when we went up agains some of HP's all in one deals from Walmart or circut city. And we could still match them with better equipment and make 50 bucks on the hardware, but we didnt, of course we gave three year warranties, and people usually shelled out the extra 200 bucks, cause they had someone to throw the thing at if it didnt work.
I also was a buyer in South America and bought things right off the boat. And you would not beleive some things I was able to get at very low prices.
The hardware market is all price controlled. The margins are higher than they make out. But the larger the company the more staff, etc you gotta support, more perks, got to make shareholders happy. So you gotta to fudge margins, it is what we Americans or good at.
So to end this rant. If I know I can call Tech data, get quality brand parts, sell a pc at a good price, comparable with dell. and I am going low here, make 150 bucks on top of my built in build cost. And knowing I have nowhere near the buld discounting on hardware parts as they do. Dell is making mucho bucks.
Well, I am sure free advertising has a lot do with the Google roll out.
The <insert powered by DELL,COMPAQ/YOMAMA) tags will start appearing all over google.
I also reckon they were free or at pretty much close to cost. Companies know what there doing. Cost on that kinda margin is probably at 200 bucks a pop straight outta the factory when you consider markup is about 500 percent on computer parts. Remember buying in bulk is power.
Example, you can get a pc on pricewatch with a 20 gig drive, 256 megs of ram, and a giga or more processor for, 250, so think about it.
I picked up WOPR at a government auction sale a few years ago. I did on a lot of 286's and airplane parts and he was in the bottom of the bag.
I took him home and cleaned all of his terminals and he fired right up.
He is a bit repetitive at times always wanting to play a game, but I patched him into a pc( imagaine the nightmare of vampire taps and serial connections) and he is happy with UT2003 and Minesweeper.
Later this month I am going to install a Plexiglass window and a disco ball in him to give him a 2002 look.
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I aint arguing but the X-Box would make a pretty good arguement that MS has some real strong ties to NVIDIA.
Puto
That said.
I have been in the computer game for a long time and have been threw every component and its manufacturer under the sun.
ATI gets a bad rap because it sold a buncha crappy cards with crappy drivers a while back. But they hired the Apple PR team to pimp them and a lotta people bought these cards and got screwed. The ads were better than the actual performance.
NVIDIA came along with a couple of nice 16 meg cards that worked well with Open GL and Direct X, and were fairly cheap.
ATI retaliates and does the Original Radeon. Pretty much junk except for the 3d performance. But ATI had been a traditionally OEM supplier anyway. Not a lot of experience for the high end commercial product. Remember the day of 3d cards? You would see STB and VooDoo, and that was about it.
The Geforce is a great product, sold a helluva lot, did the job become popular. But ATI revamped and started with the 8500, cleaned its driver act up and their cards kick ass.
I have an 8500 64 meg I grabbed from NewEGg and am perfectly happy with it, all 3d games in windows and it works well in Linux. My other box has a geforce 3 and it works well two. Though for web stuff, 2d, the ATI hands it its ass.
Problem with most people is they buy the bargain basement, OEM, close out, and it doesn't work to expectations. Well, GEE, musta been a reason for the closeout sale for all that white box shit. Oh yeah, paid 74 bucks 2 months ago for the 8500, tv out and all.
AS for those drivers from ATI, there are for ATI cards. In the day there were many problems with NVIDIAs reference drivers not working with third party manufacturers.
I understand we are all cheap computer people, and we conserve where we can. Between pricewatch and EBAY. But I learned a long time ago. Spend that extra 20 dollars for the retail CPU, get the 3 year warranty. Get that name brand motherboard. Cause it never fails, you buy something cheap and it burns out and you gotta buy again.
I think ATI and NVIDIA are par with each other and I am glad. Good competition. I understand the loyalty to NVIDIA, they were the reigning champions. ATI is kicking ass too. IT is better for all of us. And as for you guys who bought that 64 meg 20 dollar Radeon 7000(cause it said 64 meg) sorry dudes, shoulda ponied up some more cash/
Puto
Actually Australia is way ahead of you.
They have introduced genetically engineered fish to produce sterile offspring to kill off a non native species.
They are also introducing a genetically engineered fox to kill the fox off, another non native species that is eating all kinds stuff there.
Too lazy to google.
Puto
No real facts. Even when you read Toms.
So they optimized a few apps on the Transmeta, and pit it against a machine that has some unoptimized apps. To quote toms "DVD playback, Office Applications".
Ok were the even the same office and dvd playing apps? I can show you two different aps that do the same thing. One dog slow, one lightning quick. Put them each on machines with the same specs, and one will open faster than the other.
So give us name of the apps used. Start up times, were they optimized especially for the meta?
I would like to see this succeed, but I hate to see the hype.
Puto
Not to be a jerk, more like devils advocate.
My univerity had all those resources in the early 90's as well.
But:
1. Usually all teachers give out contact info besides email and ICQ. Telephones and such.
2.University Telephone Directory? Call information?
3.Good old fashioned book learning?
4. Dont trust computers to keep vaulabe stuff you need for exams, copies should have been made at least 3 weeks before exam.
5. If you know the material, what difference if its a new exam? Unless you have one from a testbank and have only studied that instead of the answers. Besides if the exam burned, it is your teachers problem.
And last but not least you can leave your dorm/apartment and walk your lazy ass over to wherever your information might be, or to the campus and see who knows what is up.
This is the problem these days, too much reliance on the computer. All of the items you mentioned could have been solved with a quick walk. Or using something as archaic as a telepone.
I for one would have been watching the action, walked around campus, looked at chicks, talked to my teachers, got involved in the mix.
Do you think in those two says there were more people getting laid? Riding bikes? Doing something other than vegging out?
I was an CS major and I was encouraged to only have email communication. But I went around, talked to my professors, did other stuff. No one ever beleived I was a CS geek.
Just a few thoughts.
Puto
Hey Phantom,
I do something similar on my home lan. And am actually implementing it at a clients site next month.
I have 2 80 gig external USB/FIRE drives. They are connected to my home lan via a USB 2.0 port(i got the firewirewire addy as well so I could zap on with the old ladies ibook, she thinks i married her for her looks).
Anyway on a 2000 box it hits my linux box, a 2000 server box, pro box, and an xp box. Using the built in backup. Backups up my data at 400 kbps.
Every morning I unmount one drivc, and plug in the either. The drives are identical(cloned directory structure).
So I have a full back up daily without too much trouble. I will probably go to a Mon/Wed/Fri thing. And I always leave one at the office over the weekend.
I still burn stuff but this makes it easy and is an added sleep well measurement for me.
The drives are from www.zeehoo.com three year warranty and dirty cheap. I paid 141 dollars each. They come in a cool case with its own cooling, and it looks neat as well.
PUTO
http://www.tombstones.org.uk
They sell rom sets for the cost of media and shipping. You click on the area of the world you are on and they show you who is availible.
I got all the games for 10 bucks. 3200. But you have to find mame on your own.
Theflatline
Hey man, you didn;t hear it from me. But if you go to this link http://www.tombstones.org.uk you will find the info you need. It is a group of people who have a project to keep the roms alive. You can get all the mame roms on 10 cds for like 10-15 bucks, all verified and working. You have to find mame on your on. But you can get it off the site as well.
I actuall ordered two sets. Paypaled money to two different people. Thinking that one would rip me off. And you know what? 7 days later they both came in the mail. It has been mame hell in my house since. 3200 working games.
TheFlatline
And if you could get Wil Wheaton to explain these
t on .1860922&zoom=yes#zoom
tshirts he sells.
http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=wilwhea
What happened between he and the Shat?
I own one and everyone loves it.
TheFlatline
Does this mean we are going to an
"OReilly Defininive Guid Guide to the Red Hat Tour, From the Mini Fridge to the Chemical Toilet"
Theflatline
While I look at most things that the government does as some veiled attempt of hiding the true motive I actually kinda agree with this.
Kids are running rampant on the internet and can come across some truly disturbing shite. I myself was on this technical-nerd-/. site one day and clicked on a link and was presented with largest bloody rectum I have ever seen. Wait the only large bloody rectum I have ever seen. And it is more ubitiqous than the Bonzai buddy pop up.
Anyway, I dont have kids, soon, and I plan on treating them like adults. But not turning them into little Ron Jeremys.(That is my job for the time being).
So a restricted domain where it is all about kidstuff is cool with me. Might even fun for our jades asses to look at. Of course when I strip off the emerald spectacles it is gonna be a marketing haven for toy companies, candy companies, and anything that sells kiddy products, a market with a demographic that is always renewing itself.
So lets see how it works. Could be a good thing. And we can always have a good guffaw when the script kiddies hijack a couple of sites and plaster them with the goat.cx guy, nude shots of ana nicole, and John Holmes memorials.
The Flatline
The big vendors always pay for the booths. But I always seem to get tickets for free. By knowing someone. Buying something and they throw in tickets. Has not been to hard to scare up a couple for me.
I just think the show got to big to handle.
Theflatline
This is too funny. IBM doing something good for the community and for themselves at the same time? Nothing wrong with at. Altruism and capitlism can go hand and hand. And I am not one to look a gift server in the mouth.
First we have people talking about IBM doing this to control kernel developlemt. This is nuts. IBM understands that Linux is big in the cards for them and they also understand the Free As in Beer Developmental community needs to really have a central repository for this sorta thing.
So IBM cuts loose the space and the DB for it. Throws in an admin or two. Why? Cause they got big money on Linux, they want to move the big corps over to it. So they need the assurance that bugfixes, patches, what have you, is on a reliable server somewhere that will always be around.
Yeah it does benefit them and benefit us. More power to em. OR what we are gonna round robin the server costs every month? We are gonna set up a Paypal Account and each chip in our own unlimited funds in this street paved of gold IT industry we have now?
IBM is a business and it sees that helping the community can help itself. QUID PRO QUO my friends.
IBM was a monopoly, but they also make damn good equipment. Always have. You can go on about a failed run of hard drives, or some bad workstations. But hey happends to all of them...
And this busines that IBM needs to know the kernel inside and out. Ahhh, I do not think anyone needs to be talking out there ass about us teaching IBM anything about operating systems. Much less one ending in *NIX.
IBM is one of the best things to happen to our community. They are making the inroads in the corporate road for us.
JEEZ. Get off the high horse people.
TheFlatline
Jaysus H Christ on a digital crutch.
// case melted and all and it was working!
Talk about dredge up a memory! There was a pic of the Apple
Damn I feeling pretty young and chipper til you reminded of that.
We used to use that as evidence that the Apple was superior.
That was before Apple Users claimed that Apple *invented* Unix, windowing, and the mouse.
Puto
"Yankees are uniquely hated worldwide"
Hmmm, I have been all over the world and no one has 'uniquely' hated me anywhere. I am a pretty likable fella and get along with just about anyone I come across. And while there are places that hate "Yankees" most countries dig North Americans. Wait, most places take people for who they are, not where they are from. There is no 'default' treatment if you are a US citizen.
I am jealous of Canadians? Why? I am just pointing out a something I have come across more than once. I have taught in three universities and one high school in other countries. And while my American brethern have on many occasions been an embarassment I never make excuses for them.
However, all of the Canadians are always quick to point out that they are Canadian. Without prompting. I think this is funny. Maybe it is only the expatriate Canadians I have known. Never got them any better treatment.
"Hi I am Norman, nice to meet you"
or
"Hi, I am Norman, I am from Canada"
It is great to be proud of your heritage, who you are and where you are from. No problem with that.
And as for accents, many North Americans can identify the 'subtle' different between accents from other countries. Though Aussie, Scot, New Zealand, and Irish aren't subtle as you say, they are very different. You cannot tell someone who is a Scott right away?
And North Americans can pick up on the Canadian one quite easily. But not by territory. I mean I generally can do the regional thing in the US. But if you get someone from New Orleans you would most likely think they are from Jersey, we tend to have the same accent. Common fallacy to think people in New Orleans have really southern accents, we do not. And those are not our chicks tits doing mardi gras. Those are the northern tourists. We leave during da parades.
As for myself, I am good with accents. Time spent abroad, and also a set of grandparents from Spain. I can almost 90% of the time tell you what country a spanish speaker is from. And there are more spanish speaking countries than english ones.
So I am sorry if I offended you in pointing out something I have found in my travels.
But I do not think we are uniquely hated around the world as Americans.
And I do not think Canadians get much better treatment than US citizens. Maybe in some places, but usually it is the same.
Or maybe people treat me differently cause I am slightly brown, speak three languages, and do not give a shit.
Puto
All North Americans including Canadians are Yanks in the eyes of our brothers south of the border. Well, Yanquis.
And a good bit of my European pals consider Canadians yanks(spend some time in youth hostels around the world and the first thing a Canadian will do is enter the room and announce they are Canadian and not American, i have seen this happen in three different hostels in three different countries, you guys got membership cards) North American is Canada too.
And let me say as a proud loud mouthed american(not really too loud mouthed, but american all the same, with a dash of spanish and french thrown in for good measure, new orleans born and raised) that most of us are proud and loudmouthed, as any loyal citizen of any country is. And Canadians are a bit pompous of the fact that they are Canadian(not American).
Though the dictionary defines Yankees as:
1. A native or inhabitant of New England.
2. A native or inhabitant of a northern U.S. state, especially a Union soldier during the Civil War.
3. A native or inhabitant of the United States.
Oh yeah, and it is some guys name too. German I think. One of those superior races.
As for the gun, I can hack one up for it. Not a problem. Free country and all that, well free enough so I can have a gun.
Puto
I want real world cage matches.
I want to see Henry Rollins and Danzig get it on.
Rollins would be intellectualizing his moves blow by blow. He would enter the ring babbling in low tones about the state of human relationships and work himself up into a screaming rage while inflating his neck like some iguana on steroids.
Danzig would be continually wiping the runny makeup out of his eyes as he started to sweat. Singing about how his mother could bang better heads than Hank.
That would be entertainment.
Puto
Man,
I know where you are coming from and if you look through my past posts you will note they are rife with grammatical and spelling errors. Sometimes I multitask and the least amount of attention is focused on what I am posting on slashdot. More content that checking my punctuation.
You are right though. It is embarassing to have our community display such glaring errors in a a public format.
I think the problem is that all the kiddies are just trying to get an article posted that they gleaned off of some other venue, and in their haste to submit before anyone, they type whatever they can, and submit without proofing. Did I mentions couples with the fact they have Slashdot open in a window at work that they keep minimizing when a supervisor walks by.
At least the editors should proof the articles for basic spelling and grammar, typos, especially when they are that small like the current topic. And if they are reading the comments they can go in and change it, fix it.
However, what is worse are the 1000 posts pointing it out. Like we do not all see it, like once was not enough.
I would rather see a reduction of the "hey your stupid comments" as well as some editorial proofing as well.
However, Slashdot is not run by language scholars.
We need to clean up the submissions and the comments.
Puto
Disregarding all of the comments on the 3.06 typo. Geez, I remember the day when we use to comment on processors, peripherals, parts. Now the community is stuck on whining about typos. Read it, chuckle to self,move on.
Anyway they have ramped up the speed, and added something that could have always been, hyperthreading. Xeon has always had it. This is not progress, this is almost not worthy reporting.
Puto
Because they would have to license the x86 architecture from the respective owners. AMD and INTEL have licensing agreements.
Puto
Just wondering one thing. What is the 'hard set" ip thing you did? If you are on a network and you are under a DHCP scope(range) then you can't assign yourself a permanent IP. Unless you have access and control to the actual equipment of your ISP.
Now if your isp sets its leases to change IP's ONLY when your broadband connection drops or your pc powers down, then you can have the appearance of having a static ip. But your ip was not static because when you rebooted you were assigned another one.
So what you have done is used DHCP to get a DHCP assigned IP address. Then changed YOUR configuration to see it as static. This is still DHCP. It was assigned from a lease. You didn't assign it to yourself, and anyway as long as that box is on it would have used that IP until you shut down or they decided to yank it. Changing your nic config to show a fixed ip that you got from a DHCP server is not setting a fixed IP. Cause even you said it changed when the machine went down.
Most broadband ISPS change leases when the connection drops. Just like dial up. OR assign it five days. Depends on who is running the shop. My Cox cable will keep the same ip for months unless I shut the box off, then it changes.
Just my 2 cents.
Puto
For arguments sake" I am not the worlds best computer guy". I do not claim to be, but I have been in the networking/hardware end for a long time, and can consistently make good money at it while using quality equipment.
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Let me breakdown a few of the responses concerns:
Pricewatch: The best thing since sliced bread for the tech world. Price watch might be fine for the home user, a buddy, but you actually have no idea what you are getting, and why is it so cheap. RMA stuff, returns, "Fell off the Truck". So while all this transfers into savings for you and your customer, you have this problem. TechData or any of the biggies will cross ship, or ship ASAP an RMA, and you put the old one in the box. No questions asked 99.9 % of Pricewatch suppliers will not do this. Plus most of the stuff is OEM, 1 year, 90 day, 30 day warranty. I do not know about you guys but with hardware reliability being what it is these days compared to what it was years ago. I would rather pay the extra 12 bucks for the retail item and get the 3 year warranty. That way when something burns out in 91 days, I do not have an angry customer bitching at me. In the 'real'world you know part of your profit will be eaten up by service over the next two three years. So you need quality from a reputable company. Not a 20 dollar motherboard with everything built in and 1 pci slot, something burns out. You gotta replace it outta pocket because the company that has sold it to you has disappeared three days later.
I do trust NewEgg. But I can wangle better prices with some of the larger places. My new box is entirely new egg. But there is nothing generic in it either. The only el cheapo thing I buy are nics and those are lend out spares for my customers until I grab them something decent. I picked up 100 nics at 2 bucks a piece. 10/100 realtek. Sell em for six bucks, everyone is happy, and they work well.
TechData - I only mentioned Tech Data, because it is one of the largest and well knownones out there. I also use other companies. Sometimes Tech Data has really good deals on somethings and others no. Also Tech Data has different prices for different customers, all about how much you buy from them. Different prices for different people. And you can always get your rep and get them to cut you a break.
Yeah, maybe my margin was way up there, and too high. But if you are making 6%,
1. Do not have accounts with the right companies.
2. Shouldn't be on the hardware end ( I make my money on the service end, hardware is a pain in the ass, and I do not trust anyone under 28 to build a box for my company. I trust someone who has had his hands in an XT. Computers have gotten way to easy to build in the past few, so hardware skills have dropped dramatically. I have noticed in the shops I have run that the techs 25 and under tend to RMA more burned out stuff.... Maybe cause they weren't working on them in the day when a pc cost 4 grand and take the same amount of care.
3. Do not know how to market your product to justify the price.
I honestly make all my money networking this days. I only build my personal pcs. I assess the site and order Dells, and I again I call someone at Dell. I always see on Slashdot "Yeah well on Pricewatch,Dell,HP, site here is the price" Price for who? You can call and cut deals, and if you have been in this business for any amount of time you have a nice little Rolodex with all sorts of contacts. I can usually get 12 percent knocked off Dells web price by calling. Do a little research, pick up the phone, get these dusty people skills out. My customers will buy for me on bids even if I am a few dollars higher. Why? Personality, reliability, and quality.
And the reported earning for Compaq, or whatever computer company. You thing this are actually the truth? Especially what we are seeing in business today? Enron, AOL, Anderseen? Come on! HP/Compaq employees went public with how management doctored the sheets so the merger would go through. And Compaq has been losing its ass for a long time. You actually believe all of what you read? Then give me about five minutes to throw a web page together. And for the paltry sum of 1000 dollars I will sell you a product that will make you ejaculate %5000 more, get you hot chicks, triple your earnings, and let you reliably predict the time of Cher's next facelift.
And as for people saying then why can't I build (insert company name here) server for 50%, or the company %50 less. Cause the market is price controlled, get that through your heads. Easy analogy. The GeForce Ultra Mega 10000 comes out. It costs $500. The GeForce Ultra Mega 90000 from last month drops to $99.99.
You think dell can carry all that baggage with 6 percent margins. They can with 6 percent reported margins.
I understand business and markets very well. Because I do beleive in facts and figures reported by companies. They report what they want us to hear.
Jeez it is rant Sunday for me.
Puto
I was unclear, when I meant coming straight out, I meant right out of the factory. No distributors costs, but dell or compaqs actual costs. Which they would never publish, only allude to 6% margin.
I certainly didnt mean pc shop.
But if ia pc shop has an account with Tech data and other biggies then it is not unusal for 20-20 point markup on a pc. A pc that can be built with 2 gig processor, 256 meg, 19 inch monitor, getforce, nic, sound, yadda, for about 700 bucks. Will easily sell for 1200 bucks and people will think they are getting a deal, well lets subtract 100 bucks for xp home. And lets also remember that with a corporate account there are places cheaper than Pricewatch. so we say profit is 400 dollars. That is a little more than 6 percent on the homefront.
Now I am not saying all PC shops do this, but most still have a healthy margin on the hardware. Because Johnny Six Pack still thinks you buy cheap you get cheap.
The actual manufactures of the the seperate parts run on fairly slim margins, but the retailers control the prices. That is why we see such a disparity of prices on the web.
I was a buyer for a fairly large shop up until recently, and we sold good boxes, good prices, and made at least 200 a box on a bad day. The only time we lost out was when we went up agains some of HP's all in one deals from Walmart or circut city. And we could still match them with better equipment and make 50 bucks on the hardware, but we didnt, of course we gave three year warranties, and people usually shelled out the extra 200 bucks, cause they had someone to throw the thing at if it didnt work.
I also was a buyer in South America and bought things right off the boat. And you would not beleive some things I was able to get at very low prices.
The hardware market is all price controlled. The margins are higher than they make out. But the larger the company the more staff, etc you gotta support, more perks, got to make shareholders happy. So you gotta to fudge margins, it is what we Americans or good at.
So to end this rant. If I know I can call Tech data, get quality brand parts, sell a pc at a good price, comparable with dell. and I am going low here, make 150 bucks on top of my built in build cost. And knowing I have nowhere near the buld discounting on hardware parts as they do. Dell is making mucho bucks.
Puto
Well, I am sure free advertising has a lot do with the Google roll out.
The <insert powered by DELL,COMPAQ/YOMAMA) tags will start appearing all over google.
I also reckon they were free or at pretty much close to cost. Companies know what there doing. Cost on that kinda margin is probably at 200 bucks a pop straight outta the factory when you consider markup is about 500 percent on computer parts. Remember buying in bulk is power.
Example, you can get a pc on pricewatch with a 20 gig drive, 256 megs of ram, and a giga or more processor for, 250, so think about it.
Puto
I picked up WOPR at a government auction sale a few years ago. I did on a lot of 286's and airplane parts and he was in the bottom of the bag.
I took him home and cleaned all of his terminals and he fired right up.
He is a bit repetitive at times always wanting to play a game, but I patched him into a pc( imagaine the nightmare of vampire taps and serial connections) and he is happy with UT2003 and Minesweeper.
Later this month I am going to install a Plexiglass window and a disco ball in him to give him a 2002 look.
Puto