At my last job, we needed a basic RAID device that was under $500. We found this:
http://www.accusys.com.tw/7500.htm
It was about $200, and is OS and system independent. You simply put in two IDE drives, and you magically have RAID-1. You can hot-swap the IDE drives if necessary. We had one drive go bad and it worked perfectly. I recommend it to anybody on a budget. It takes up 2 drive bays, so it's a pretty easy fit in any standard PC.
I know I'm stupid for actually reading the article, but this isn't much more than a combination of ADSL and VDSL technologies that will allow ISP's to only buy one set of equipment on their end. You will still expect the same ADSL speeds you get now unless you live next door to the phone company. Most CO's aren't even equipped with VDSL hardware in the first place, so don't expect much unless you live in Hong Kong. This will not magically make your 1.5Mbps ADSL line any faster. The only ones benefitting here are the ISP's and possibly the VDSL users closest to the CO's.
As mentioned earlier, they will try to get some sexy chick to play Samus, when the REAL reason the first metroid game for Nintendo was so BADASS was because you didn't find out she was a girl until the end. I think they should do the same thing here, but unfortunately, I expect some boring actress that has never seen a Nintendo to be yelling out stupid catch phrases during multiple explosions resulting in another bullshit Woo movie that *could* have been cool. He's like the shitty pop-star director equivalent of a Britney Spears when it comes to quality.
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This reminds me of the USB Foreman Grill April Fool's Joke. However, this seems equally useful/useless depending on how you look at it. So, I guess my real question is, how do we know this is for real?
In case others didn't know, DTV (aka Dave) recently shutdown 63 dealer sites in a huge bust. You can check out their own enforcement page at hackhu.com (a former info site). They are also suing end-users at an alarming rate based ONLY on shipping records for standard ISO smartcard devices. It has actually gotten pretty out of control with intimidation letters and complaints in the amount of $10,000. Lots of people don't even know they've been sued (many people have moved in the 2 years it's taken DTV to sue them). People are getting default judgements against them for the full amount request by DTV. Florida has been particularly hit hard with THOUSANDS of cases. I urge everyone to stay informed about this, because once again, they use the veil of the DMCA as justification for their efforts. Some of these people are being sued for buying a completely legitamate ISO7816 device that can be used for millions of other things than just DTV hacking. Check out http://www.legal-rights.org/ for more info on DTV legal info. I also have a forum section dedicated to the DTV legal battles with up to date lists of who has been sued and in what state. There is no discussion of hacking there.
I have felt the exact same way about DC and PS2. When the DC came out, it seemed that every week, some completely original game would be released. Remember Seaman? Where you spoke to the artificial fish through a special microphone? Or the way Space Channel 5 gave a new spin on the memory type games (no, it was very different than Parappa). Or Soul Calibur, the best fighting game ever released (yes, it pwns Tekken). The list goes on and on - the mentioned Shenmue and Jet Set Radio... some memorable RPG's, great multiplayer games, sports games that quickly rivaled anything that the lame EA franchises have come up with, Crazy Taxi, the innovative Samba de Amigo with REAL maracas (yes I have a pair, and it's fun)... Virtual Tennis, the best tennis game EVER made, Phantasy Star Online, one of my favorite online RPG's (not massively-multiplayer), which had FULL support for ethernet connections, including a great port of Quake 3 Arena, with an easy to use DC mouse and keyboard to go with it! The accessories were also as innovative as the games.
Hopefully that covered almost everything. I own GC, PS2, and X-Box, and they mostly gather dust, except for using my X-Box as a media player. Since the demise of the DC, there have been nothing but sequels, and it seems that even Sega has lost its flair for video game perfection. Hopefully there will be another era in video games that isn't driven by profit margins, movie licenses, and sequels. This hasn't just been related to Sega, even Nintendo's proven franchises are becoming more and more lackluster. Please people, stop buying Wrestlemania games and try something new for once. The DC proved that innovation is still possible in a crowded market.
What I don't understand is why this page on Broadcom's site specifies that there are available embedded Linux drivers, yet they are nowhere to be found.
Seriously - an X-Box with X-Box Media Player installed is all you need. You can also add a wireless bridge to it if you can't run CAT5 there.
It always has the latest codec's and can stream all types of video, music, and now supports shoutcast servers for streaming Internet audio. All with full support for the X-Box remote. It will do everything you need it to do for $200 plus the cost of the modchip.
I'm trying not to be too big of a fan boy, but I use my X-Box for the XBMP almost exclusively now, and it has been PERFECT for my multimedia needs. And this is coming from someone who used to have a living room computer with video-out and all that nonsense. Trust me, the XBMP is much slicker and should really do the trick.
FF7 was definitely good, but Xenogears was also released by Square around that time, and it was without a doubt the best storyline of any RPG I've ever played. It had the guts to discuss real issues like the existence of god, creationism, the morality of genetic experimentation, and all sorts of other good stuff. It presented it in a way that was thoughtful and mature - more than I can say for the last handful of FF games. It made the annoyances of the game completely ignorable with it's perfect storyline. If only people would realize that the story is everything!
I switched to Vonage a few months ago and I don't pay any fees except a little over a dollar for Federal tax.
Of course, I don't expect this to last too long, but in the meantime, it's been well worth it! My old phone bill had over $35 of bullshit fees a month from the subscriber line charge, to the universal service fee. It's all a giant scam.
I can't believe the responses coming from these slashdotters! I have been a STRONG advocate for online voting for years and see it as the ONLY way to save our unbalanced voting system.
In college, we successfully used an online voting system where the GREAT majority of votes were taken online. Not only had the percentage of votes been much higher than in years without online voting, but there was plenty of supplemental material to educate yourself on the votes beforehand.
It seems like many of you are worried about stupid people making stupid votes - I disagree. I still think that the lazy voter who doesn't care won't even bother to do an online vote. I think that many people who either can't make it, are too busy, or just intimidated by the process of our current voting scheme are perfect candidates.
So few in the US vote, it's rather sickening. I'm inclined to believe that if the percentage of eligible voters raised to even 60%, we would most likely never see a conservative in office again.
Of course, solid DSL service is more reliable than cable, but it all depends on the provider and your location. For instance, a friend of mine and I live less than a mile apart. However, I am in one city, he is in another county. We both have Comcast Pro service (3.5Mbps/384kbps). My connection is much more consistent, since the infrastructure is different for each jurisdiction, even though we have the same service so close to each other.
Oh well, I miss the days when I got to test Sprint's 3Mbps/512kbps business DSL connection for free (I was a "consumer tester"). That was the BEST connection I have ever had since college.
The Comcast Pro service has been OK, except for when they disconnected my service because I don't subscribe to their overpriced crappy TV service. I wish cable providers were a bit more sensitive to people that prefer satellite over their monopolistic offerings. Luckily the Pro service has no difference in price like the standard service, which costs at least $10 more if you don't subscribe to TV.
In the end, though, 1.5 or even 3.5Mbps is simply not fast enough - somebody please put 100Mbps (BIDIRECTIONAL) in my house.
You will find that most local laws will allow a dual-use for a residence as long as you aren't putting huge neon signs in your yard. There is usually a limitation on the amount of space and employees that can use the dwelling, as well. Of course, these are rarely enforced, so good luck!
I've spoken with some upper-level engineers at Vonage. They sell more of Cisco's ATA 186's than ANYONE else. Because of this, they dictate a lot of the hardware and software design/changes in the product to Cisco. You'd be surprised how responsive their upper-level techs are. They are definitely looking for new ideas and ways to improve their service.
More specifically, the tech said that the current hardware in the ATA's is insufficient for doing hardware encryption and that they are looking at a new modification on the ATA CPU to enable just the features you're looking for.
Just wait a bit - they finally got the 911 working, and I expect to see a lot of new things from this company.
AREN'T, not ARE, damn preview button...
I mentioned earlier that regular DVD-R's work fine. The point was concerning the compatibility issues with dual-layered media and vertical positioning.
That's strange - I wonder why they would want to support more formats that are currently be used for piracy, especially when most DVD-R's work fine.
What they should really focus on is the quality of the lasers they use in their drives. They are already on the 7th or 8th revision of the PS2 board, and they STILL haven't gotten a decent laser that doesn't crap out after a few months of heavy use.
When I bought Xenosaga (their first dual-layered DVD game), I had to swap my PS2 with a friend's whose was only a month old. It would skip on my PS2 and two others I tried the game on. I even returned it for another disc with the same results.
Get your laser to work with existing media properly before opening the door to even more piracy!
I don't know about you guys, but even 1.5Mbps isn't fast enough for me. Of course, if I actually had a 1.5Mbps uplink, it might be a different story. I like to be able to run my own servers from my house, rather than a colo spot. So eventually, I had to ditch my DSL and get 3.5Mbps/384kbps cable instead. Why can't I please just have a standard 10Mbps line like I did in college? I'm paying $95/month now!
Al-Jazeera hasn't released their English version of the site yet. This could explain the lack of security on the site, since it hasn't gone live. Therefore, I'm not particularly impressed. However, as someone posted in an earlier slashdot comment, there is a good arab language translator that lets you read the real site in arabic. It's too bad people are defacing one of the only news sources that run stories contrary to the popular US media. Don't kill the messenger!
For the record, I don't work on any databases or surveillance schemes. There are legitimate combinations of government and technology that don't involve trespassing on people's personal rights.
Government contractor people have had pretty good luck in finding and maintaining IT jobs in the DC area. It also helps if you have a security clearance, but isn't totally necessary. The local economy here failed somewhat with the new.com's along the Dulles corridor, but most government contracting IT shops have flourished (for reasons quite obvious considering recent events) throughout the economic problems. Plus there are actual government contracting jobs that aren't necessarily related to the war machine. Of course, housing prices and the cost of living here are astronomical. People also tend to rent their homes to military personnel for thousands of $ a month rather than sell them since the market is so ridiculous. It all evens out though, I'll take job security over high cost of living anyday.
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At my last job, we needed a basic RAID device that was under $500. We found this: http://www.accusys.com.tw/7500.htm It was about $200, and is OS and system independent. You simply put in two IDE drives, and you magically have RAID-1. You can hot-swap the IDE drives if necessary. We had one drive go bad and it worked perfectly. I recommend it to anybody on a budget. It takes up 2 drive bays, so it's a pretty easy fit in any standard PC.
I know I'm stupid for actually reading the article, but this isn't much more than a combination of ADSL and VDSL technologies that will allow ISP's to only buy one set of equipment on their end. You will still expect the same ADSL speeds you get now unless you live next door to the phone company. Most CO's aren't even equipped with VDSL hardware in the first place, so don't expect much unless you live in Hong Kong. This will not magically make your 1.5Mbps ADSL line any faster. The only ones benefitting here are the ISP's and possibly the VDSL users closest to the CO's.
Other than the fact that John Woo movies suck.
As mentioned earlier, they will try to get some sexy chick to play Samus, when the REAL reason the first metroid game for Nintendo was so BADASS was because you didn't find out she was a girl until the end. I think they should do the same thing here, but unfortunately, I expect some boring actress that has never seen a Nintendo to be yelling out stupid catch phrases during multiple explosions resulting in another bullshit Woo movie that *could* have been cool. He's like the shitty pop-star director equivalent of a Britney Spears when it comes to quality.
This reminds me of the USB Foreman Grill April Fool's Joke. However, this seems equally useful/useless depending on how you look at it. So, I guess my real question is, how do we know this is for real?
Does this mean I might actually get new firmware for my WAP54G? It hasn't been updated since February!
I vote we go back to LZH, ARJ, or ARC
I miss the BBS days where you needed about 10 compression programs.
In case others didn't know, DTV (aka Dave) recently shutdown 63 dealer sites in a huge bust. You can check out their own enforcement page at hackhu.com (a former info site). They are also suing end-users at an alarming rate based ONLY on shipping records for standard ISO smartcard devices. It has actually gotten pretty out of control with intimidation letters and complaints in the amount of $10,000. Lots of people don't even know they've been sued (many people have moved in the 2 years it's taken DTV to sue them). People are getting default judgements against them for the full amount request by DTV. Florida has been particularly hit hard with THOUSANDS of cases. I urge everyone to stay informed about this, because once again, they use the veil of the DMCA as justification for their efforts. Some of these people are being sued for buying a completely legitamate ISO7816 device that can be used for millions of other things than just DTV hacking. Check out http://www.legal-rights.org/ for more info on DTV legal info. I also have a forum section dedicated to the DTV legal battles with up to date lists of who has been sued and in what state. There is no discussion of hacking there.
forums.wumarkus.com
To anyone who has received an intimidation letter or summons, GOOD LUCK!
I have felt the exact same way about DC and PS2. When the DC came out, it seemed that every week, some completely original game would be released. Remember Seaman? Where you spoke to the artificial fish through a special microphone? Or the way Space Channel 5 gave a new spin on the memory type games (no, it was very different than Parappa). Or Soul Calibur, the best fighting game ever released (yes, it pwns Tekken). The list goes on and on - the mentioned Shenmue and Jet Set Radio... some memorable RPG's, great multiplayer games, sports games that quickly rivaled anything that the lame EA franchises have come up with, Crazy Taxi, the innovative Samba de Amigo with REAL maracas (yes I have a pair, and it's fun)... Virtual Tennis, the best tennis game EVER made, Phantasy Star Online, one of my favorite online RPG's (not massively-multiplayer), which had FULL support for ethernet connections, including a great port of Quake 3 Arena, with an easy to use DC mouse and keyboard to go with it! The accessories were also as innovative as the games.
Hopefully that covered almost everything. I own GC, PS2, and X-Box, and they mostly gather dust, except for using my X-Box as a media player. Since the demise of the DC, there have been nothing but sequels, and it seems that even Sega has lost its flair for video game perfection. Hopefully there will be another era in video games that isn't driven by profit margins, movie licenses, and sequels. This hasn't just been related to Sega, even Nintendo's proven franchises are becoming more and more lackluster. Please people, stop buying Wrestlemania games and try something new for once. The DC proved that innovation is still possible in a crowded market.
What I don't understand is why this page on Broadcom's site specifies that there are available embedded Linux drivers, yet they are nowhere to be found.
Seriously - an X-Box with X-Box Media Player installed is all you need. You can also add a wireless bridge to it if you can't run CAT5 there.
It always has the latest codec's and can stream all types of video, music, and now supports shoutcast servers for streaming Internet audio. All with full support for the X-Box remote. It will do everything you need it to do for $200 plus the cost of the modchip.
I'm trying not to be too big of a fan boy, but I use my X-Box for the XBMP almost exclusively now, and it has been PERFECT for my multimedia needs. And this is coming from someone who used to have a living room computer with video-out and all that nonsense. Trust me, the XBMP is much slicker and should really do the trick.
FF7 was definitely good, but Xenogears was also released by Square around that time, and it was without a doubt the best storyline of any RPG I've ever played. It had the guts to discuss real issues like the existence of god, creationism, the morality of genetic experimentation, and all sorts of other good stuff. It presented it in a way that was thoughtful and mature - more than I can say for the last handful of FF games. It made the annoyances of the game completely ignorable with it's perfect storyline. If only people would realize that the story is everything!
I switched to Vonage a few months ago and I don't pay any fees except a little over a dollar for Federal tax.
Of course, I don't expect this to last too long, but in the meantime, it's been well worth it! My old phone bill had over $35 of bullshit fees a month from the subscriber line charge, to the universal service fee. It's all a giant scam.
I can't believe the responses coming from these slashdotters! I have been a STRONG advocate for online voting for years and see it as the ONLY way to save our unbalanced voting system.
In college, we successfully used an online voting system where the GREAT majority of votes were taken online. Not only had the percentage of votes been much higher than in years without online voting, but there was plenty of supplemental material to educate yourself on the votes beforehand.
It seems like many of you are worried about stupid people making stupid votes - I disagree. I still think that the lazy voter who doesn't care won't even bother to do an online vote. I think that many people who either can't make it, are too busy, or just intimidated by the process of our current voting scheme are perfect candidates.
So few in the US vote, it's rather sickening. I'm inclined to believe that if the percentage of eligible voters raised to even 60%, we would most likely never see a conservative in office again.
Where did my MSNBC link go? Oh well, here it is again:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/903748.asp?0dm=C26BT
Same story at MSNBC, as well.
Of course, solid DSL service is more reliable than cable, but it all depends on the provider and your location. For instance, a friend of mine and I live less than a mile apart. However, I am in one city, he is in another county. We both have Comcast Pro service (3.5Mbps/384kbps). My connection is much more consistent, since the infrastructure is different for each jurisdiction, even though we have the same service so close to each other.
Oh well, I miss the days when I got to test Sprint's 3Mbps/512kbps business DSL connection for free (I was a "consumer tester"). That was the BEST connection I have ever had since college.
The Comcast Pro service has been OK, except for when they disconnected my service because I don't subscribe to their overpriced crappy TV service. I wish cable providers were a bit more sensitive to people that prefer satellite over their monopolistic offerings. Luckily the Pro service has no difference in price like the standard service, which costs at least $10 more if you don't subscribe to TV.
In the end, though, 1.5 or even 3.5Mbps is simply not fast enough - somebody please put 100Mbps (BIDIRECTIONAL) in my house.
You will find that most local laws will allow a dual-use for a residence as long as you aren't putting huge neon signs in your yard. There is usually a limitation on the amount of space and employees that can use the dwelling, as well. Of course, these are rarely enforced, so good luck!
I've spoken with some upper-level engineers at Vonage. They sell more of Cisco's ATA 186's than ANYONE else. Because of this, they dictate a lot of the hardware and software design/changes in the product to Cisco. You'd be surprised how responsive their upper-level techs are. They are definitely looking for new ideas and ways to improve their service.
More specifically, the tech said that the current hardware in the ATA's is insufficient for doing hardware encryption and that they are looking at a new modification on the ATA CPU to enable just the features you're looking for.
Just wait a bit - they finally got the 911 working, and I expect to see a lot of new things from this company.
AREN'T, not ARE, damn preview button... I mentioned earlier that regular DVD-R's work fine. The point was concerning the compatibility issues with dual-layered media and vertical positioning.
Your home movies are dual-layered. Try a bunch of dual-layered movies and see how well they work on the second layer.
That's strange - I wonder why they would want to support more formats that are currently be used for piracy, especially when most DVD-R's work fine. What they should really focus on is the quality of the lasers they use in their drives. They are already on the 7th or 8th revision of the PS2 board, and they STILL haven't gotten a decent laser that doesn't crap out after a few months of heavy use. When I bought Xenosaga (their first dual-layered DVD game), I had to swap my PS2 with a friend's whose was only a month old. It would skip on my PS2 and two others I tried the game on. I even returned it for another disc with the same results. Get your laser to work with existing media properly before opening the door to even more piracy!
I don't know about you guys, but even 1.5Mbps isn't fast enough for me. Of course, if I actually had a 1.5Mbps uplink, it might be a different story. I like to be able to run my own servers from my house, rather than a colo spot. So eventually, I had to ditch my DSL and get 3.5Mbps/384kbps cable instead. Why can't I please just have a standard 10Mbps line like I did in college? I'm paying $95/month now!
You should never have port 135 open on a windows system, anyways. Get over it and either upgrade to Win2K server or put together a decent firewall.
Al-Jazeera hasn't released their English version of the site yet. This could explain the lack of security on the site, since it hasn't gone live. Therefore, I'm not particularly impressed. However, as someone posted in an earlier slashdot comment, there is a good arab language translator that lets you read the real site in arabic. It's too bad people are defacing one of the only news sources that run stories contrary to the popular US media. Don't kill the messenger!
For the record, I don't work on any databases or surveillance schemes. There are legitimate combinations of government and technology that don't involve trespassing on people's personal rights.
Government contractor people have had pretty good luck in finding and maintaining IT jobs in the DC area. It also helps if you have a security clearance, but isn't totally necessary. The local economy here failed somewhat with the new .com's along the Dulles corridor, but most government contracting IT shops have flourished (for reasons quite obvious considering recent events) throughout the economic problems. Plus there are actual government contracting jobs that aren't necessarily related to the war machine. Of course, housing prices and the cost of living here are astronomical. People also tend to rent their homes to military personnel for thousands of $ a month rather than sell them since the market is so ridiculous. It all evens out though, I'll take job security over high cost of living anyday.