I'd be interested to know what the latency was like. Bandwidth is just one component of performance. Poor latency and/or jitter means it wouldn't be very useful for VoIP or games.
You're forgetting those ever-useful toner reminder programs. You know, the ones that tell you you're getting low on toner (only 90% left!). Click HERE to order more!
Seriously though, printer drivers stink. Most higher-end HP drivers are pretty good, but AIO drivers are terrible. I spent 8 hours today fixing problems with Zebra 2844 drivers. Whatever brain at UPS that loaded their own firmware on those things should be beaten.
Dave,
You might want to take a serious look at your VARs or resellers then, and consider taking legal action against ironkeysales.com for using your name and product when violating US law. Full email follows:
Received: from Redacted by Redacted with ESMTP
(SMTPD-9.00) id A0370278; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:30:15 -0700
X-Barracuda-Connect: chchnhhed01-lo0-pool1-a2.chchnh.tds.net[69.130.7.2 ]
Received: from mail.mtsl.com (chchnhhed01-lo0-pool1-a2.chchnh.tds.net [69.130.7.2])
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
X-ASG-Orig-Subj: IronKey
Subject: IronKey
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:27:31 -0400
Message-ID:
From: "Anthony Napolitan"
To: "Redacted" Redacted
From: Anthony Napolitan [mailto:anthonyn@ironkeysales.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:28 AM
To: Redacted
Subject: IronKey
Dear Redacted,
Sorry I missed you when I called to introduce IronKey and myself to you.
As I stated in my voicemail message to you, IronKey provides the most secure USB flash drive technology available. Our hardware encrypted secure flash drive provides data and password protection, secure surfing and simple backup and restore.
Our solution is really about Secure Portable Computing. IronKey gives you military-grade security in the palm of your hand allowing you to protect your data with hardware-based encryption, store and manage your online passwords, and surf the web safely with your portable version of FireFox and your personal VPN.
IronKeys rugged metal casing makes it tamperproof and waterproof and has ultra-high speed, up to 30MBps Read and up to 20MBps write. The IronKey product was developed partially in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, and is the most secure flash drive available.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I will follow up with you to discuss IronKey and its benefits with you in more detail; I look forward to speaking with you soon. You can also visit us on the web at www.ironkey.com
Best regards,
Anthony Napolitan
anthonyn@ironkeysales.com
(248)347-8890x302
IronKey - enterprise - datasheet.pdf
I wouldn't buy one of these to save my life. Jerks got my email address from our receptionist, added me to their marketing SPAM list, and guess what, their reply address and unsubscribe links are broken. I know where I'd like to stick their ironkey...
A lot of sites use third-party advertisers, you never know what those advertisers will do. I was just infected 2 days ago with a rootkit, Goldun or something like that. This is on a fully pactched XP SP2, IE7 and Symantec 10.0 system. Symantec said it caught it, but apparently didn't. Took a few tools to get that out and I didn't have a lot of reason to suspect something, since Symantec said it blocked it.
I was wondering how that had gotten through the "secure" IE7. My guess is this. Now I'm back to surfing errr... "questionable" sites with Firefox.
That's a common misconception. I just had to deal with this situation, buying Dell PCs with Windows XP OEM licenses, but wanting to install the corporate/volume edition. I talked to my Dell rep and MS allows us to buy 1 corporate edition license and use it on all the systems as long as we continue to buy them with the OEM licenses.
I wanted to make sure so I talked to the MS licensing rep at Dell and they confirmed this is do-able. Actually you have to buy 5 CALs and 1 media CD of volume edition, but only because that's the minimim. You don't have to pay twice for a Windows license.
Now I've heard that Microsoft will eliminate the volume license key with Vista. That won't go over well with me. I don't have time to find and type in a unique key for every damn PC I setup. We're a big company with few IT staff.
I went with Broadvoice because I wanted to be able to use a softclient and the traditional ATA adapter. Broadvoice will let you do both, but not at the same time. So far so good, I've had one or two bad days where the service stopped working for 30 minutes or so, but lately it's been smooth sailing. Sounds good, very cheap, and their plans even include free long distance calls to certain countries. Forget about tech support though, good luck hearing back from them. But plugging in the ATA adapter is a no brainer.
Silly me, I forgot Apple wasn't a monopoly! I'll run right down to the nearest Frys and put together my own MAC. Thank heavens for open hardware like Apple!
I've been trying to get a clear answer on this to no avail. A couple months ago Vonage was offering a $25 a month plan that included the softphone (Xten).
Now all they have is the $29 a month plan and it's another $9 or $10 a month for the softphone and 500 minutes.
Does anyone know, if you sign up for just the $29 unlimited service if you can use your own softphone/SIP phone? I keep hearing maybe, but I'd like to know for sure before I sign up. And their support can't seem to figure out the answer.
Is the person reporting the problem using a wireless mouse and keyboard? I had a similar problem when using one. Seems that the 900 mhz freq on the kbd and mouse was fighting with my cordless telephone. It seemed like lag or some big CPU hog. Moved the mouse close to the transmitter and voila, everything normal.
I've got to disagree. I just applied SP2 to my Dell Latitude 640 and was pleasantly surprised. It seems to respond faster than before. Seems to be a lot less disk thrashing. I've got 512 MB but with all the junk I've got on the system it's pretty heavily loaded.
Not sure if I put the Intel Speedstep software on there though, I don't use the standard Dell install.
Yea the DL380s rock. Compaq servers are simply the best Engineered servers available. I've got Dells and IBMs and they're put together like a homebuilt PC. Just got some new ML570s and they rock too.
Yea WWIV was the bomb. Until everyone started thinking Telegard was great.
Someone else earlier wrote about "doors". I remember games like Tradewars and such used to be called "doors" before WWIV but I can't remember which BBS software used that term.
I saw that 60 minutes segment too. They were playing a very solemn classical song while they were touring the actual reactor. Do you remember what the song was?
What clueless idiots we are in the US! It's obvious we should give up our strange system of measurement and switch to metrics.
I mean, what's not to love about a system based upon a weight who's mass keeps changing, ahhh and that ever accurate meter, you know the one that's defined by two scratches in a platinum bar? Now that's a quality definition!
Who came up with this system, some wierd Frenchman?
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it!" --Grandpa Simpson
Slashdot Mirror
I'd be interested to know what the latency was like. Bandwidth is just one component of performance. Poor latency and/or jitter means it wouldn't be very useful for VoIP or games.
You're forgetting those ever-useful toner reminder programs. You know, the ones that tell you you're getting low on toner (only 90% left!). Click HERE to order more! Seriously though, printer drivers stink. Most higher-end HP drivers are pretty good, but AIO drivers are terrible. I spent 8 hours today fixing problems with Zebra 2844 drivers. Whatever brain at UPS that loaded their own firmware on those things should be beaten.
They're probably worried about getting shot.
Put it where it belongs...with marketing.
I think you just insulted the chimps...
It's not a real party without pr0n. Can we count on Taco to bring some?
Dave,
2 ]
You might want to take a serious look at your VARs or resellers then, and consider taking legal action against ironkeysales.com for using your name and product when violating US law. Full email follows:
Received: from Redacted by Redacted with ESMTP
(SMTPD-9.00) id A0370278; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:30:15 -0700
X-Barracuda-Connect: chchnhhed01-lo0-pool1-a2.chchnh.tds.net[69.130.7.
Received: from mail.mtsl.com (chchnhhed01-lo0-pool1-a2.chchnh.tds.net [69.130.7.2])
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
X-ASG-Orig-Subj: IronKey
Subject: IronKey
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:27:31 -0400
Message-ID:
From: "Anthony Napolitan"
To: "Redacted" Redacted
From: Anthony Napolitan [mailto:anthonyn@ironkeysales.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:28 AM
To: Redacted
Subject: IronKey
Dear Redacted,
Sorry I missed you when I called to introduce IronKey and myself to you.
As I stated in my voicemail message to you, IronKey provides the most secure USB flash drive technology available. Our hardware encrypted secure flash drive provides data and password protection, secure surfing and simple backup and restore.
Our solution is really about Secure Portable Computing. IronKey gives you military-grade security in the palm of your hand allowing you to protect your data with hardware-based encryption, store and manage your online passwords, and surf the web safely with your portable version of FireFox and your personal VPN.
IronKeys rugged metal casing makes it tamperproof and waterproof and has ultra-high speed, up to 30MBps Read and up to 20MBps write. The IronKey product was developed partially in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, and is the most secure flash drive available.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I will follow up with you to discuss IronKey and its benefits with you in more detail; I look forward to speaking with you soon. You can also visit us on the web at www.ironkey.com
Best regards,
Anthony Napolitan
anthonyn@ironkeysales.com
(248)347-8890x302
IronKey - enterprise - datasheet.pdf
I wouldn't buy one of these to save my life. Jerks got my email address from our receptionist, added me to their marketing SPAM list, and guess what, their reply address and unsubscribe links are broken. I know where I'd like to stick their ironkey...
A lot of sites use third-party advertisers, you never know what those advertisers will do. I was just infected 2 days ago with a rootkit, Goldun or something like that. This is on a fully pactched XP SP2, IE7 and Symantec 10.0 system. Symantec said it caught it, but apparently didn't. Took a few tools to get that out and I didn't have a lot of reason to suspect something, since Symantec said it blocked it. I was wondering how that had gotten through the "secure" IE7. My guess is this. Now I'm back to surfing errr... "questionable" sites with Firefox.
That's a common misconception. I just had to deal with this situation, buying Dell PCs with Windows XP OEM licenses, but wanting to install the corporate/volume edition. I talked to my Dell rep and MS allows us to buy 1 corporate edition license and use it on all the systems as long as we continue to buy them with the OEM licenses.
I wanted to make sure so I talked to the MS licensing rep at Dell and they confirmed this is do-able. Actually you have to buy 5 CALs and 1 media CD of volume edition, but only because that's the minimim. You don't have to pay twice for a Windows license.
Now I've heard that Microsoft will eliminate the volume license key with Vista. That won't go over well with me. I don't have time to find and type in a unique key for every damn PC I setup. We're a big company with few IT staff.
No comedy in games? Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!
Don't forget Duke Nukem Forever! Isn't that coming out with HDR lighting? Or was that CGA graphics? I can't remember, it's been so long...
I went with Broadvoice because I wanted to be able to use a softclient and the traditional ATA adapter. Broadvoice will let you do both, but not at the same time. So far so good, I've had one or two bad days where the service stopped working for 30 minutes or so, but lately it's been smooth sailing. Sounds good, very cheap, and their plans even include free long distance calls to certain countries. Forget about tech support though, good luck hearing back from them. But plugging in the ATA adapter is a no brainer.
Grendel was good, but the best of all time? I'm not sure about that. You've got to compare it to Neuromancer, Snowcrash, Snowcrash, and The Belgariad.
Gore - I invented Internet Pr0n.
Silly me, I forgot Apple wasn't a monopoly! I'll run right down to the nearest Frys and put together my own MAC. Thank heavens for open hardware like Apple!
I've been trying to get a clear answer on this to no avail. A couple months ago Vonage was offering a $25 a month plan that included the softphone (Xten).
Now all they have is the $29 a month plan and it's another $9 or $10 a month for the softphone and 500 minutes.
Does anyone know, if you sign up for just the $29 unlimited service if you can use your own softphone/SIP phone? I keep hearing maybe, but I'd like to know for sure before I sign up. And their support can't seem to figure out the answer.
Is the person reporting the problem using a wireless mouse and keyboard? I had a similar problem when using one. Seems that the 900 mhz freq on the kbd and mouse was fighting with my cordless telephone. It seemed like lag or some big CPU hog. Moved the mouse close to the transmitter and voila, everything normal.
I've got to disagree. I just applied SP2 to my Dell Latitude 640 and was pleasantly surprised. It seems to respond faster than before. Seems to be a lot less disk thrashing. I've got 512 MB but with all the junk I've got on the system it's pretty heavily loaded. Not sure if I put the Intel Speedstep software on there though, I don't use the standard Dell install.
Yea the DL380s rock. Compaq servers are simply the best Engineered servers available. I've got Dells and IBMs and they're put together like a homebuilt PC. Just got some new ML570s and they rock too.
Dang, I was just gonna post that!
Yea WWIV was the bomb. Until everyone started thinking Telegard was great. Someone else earlier wrote about "doors". I remember games like Tradewars and such used to be called "doors" before WWIV but I can't remember which BBS software used that term.
I saw that 60 minutes segment too. They were playing a very solemn classical song while they were touring the actual reactor. Do you remember what the song was?
You mean everyone else doesn't surf Slashdot in the nude? They don't know what they are missing. Linux gives me such a stiffy.
What clueless idiots we are in the US! It's obvious we should give up our strange system of measurement and switch to metrics.
I mean, what's not to love about a system based upon a weight who's mass keeps changing, ahhh and that ever accurate meter, you know the one that's defined by two scratches in a platinum bar? Now that's a quality definition!
Who came up with this system, some wierd Frenchman?
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it!" --Grandpa Simpson