Thinkpad T-series are the best notebooks I've ever supported. BUT BEWARE: If you're buying for corporate deployment, BUY THE WORKHORSE MODEL. The others are discontinued too fast. Workhorse models are usually available for a whole year at least. I love the T-series though. Wow. My personal notebook is a Vaio. Too new to say how well it will last, but so far, it blows everything I've ever seen away. Before that, I had a Toughbook. If you want a notebook that will last forever, go for this. I used it for 3 years, now my 8 year old cousin has been abusing it for almost a year with zero-ill effects. They are nearly indestructable.
Another thing I include in all reviews is the support. How much a company is willing to stand behind their product, and how helpful they are with their responses. Counts for a lot.
The really interesting part is this: (quoted from intel.com)
Unified 2MB or 4MB on-cartridge L3 cache. Runs at full processor frequency and is organized as 4-way set-associative with 64-byte cache line size. Fully pipelined and optimized to provide fast access to data at a bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec using a 128-bit wide cache bus. Now that's cool.
That's the point. My.sig is heavily laden in sarcasm. I took one look at the MS page and laughed. It turns out that they have a pile of "how to remove Linux" pages, often with wrong information and hardly mentioning the possibility of a dual boot machine. It cracks me up, and I have to admit, I love my.sig.
... that the Intel Roadmap has been displaced -1.5 yrs. The 6 MB cache Itanic will be at least 18 months late. So sad - the chip has so much potential despite it's bad press. I've had a Sitka 450 2MB cache server for 3 years and its got to be the best Intel product ever made.
I don't care if the EULA is written in hieroglyphics, there is nothing harder to read than those tax guides. Even the simple ones that make it AOL-easy. I say that people who don't even glance over their EULAs are getting their fair due. They're getting a pile of free stuff anyway; so what if some tech company actually tries to turn a profit.
This is so obvious to me. This is a creative (and I must admit, ingenious) way to kickstart the tech sector. Heres how it works:
Corporate IT person gets to go work for government and gets exposed to government spending habits for six months. He leaves, goes back to private sector and keeps on blowing through cash. Tech sector rebounds and everyone (read Wall Street investors) is happy.
Meanwhile, the government IT people get exposed to tight-fisted corporate budgets, where they are held accountable for ROI. They come back to the government with the "make-do" mentality and help the government stay in budget (for once).
More disconcerting is a more complete analysis of where the overall majority of all proved oil reserves are located: Greatest Oil Reserves by Country, 2001
Supposedly, Russia has about 60% of the world's unproved oil reserves; indeed Russia is home to nearly 50% of the world's unclaimed natural resources. But with their economy in tatters, it is unlikely that we'll have access to it anytime soon. Which, translates into a strangehold exercised by the mid-East indefinitely for the entire forseeable future.
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I have never seen someone successfully defend their right to arms. Your NRA statistics are wonderful, but flawed. It is also worth noting that Florida has some of the nations' worst road rage and violent crime rates. It's true that in an armed society, petty crime is reduced, but only because petty theives fear for their lives should they rob a store, for example. Of the same token however, with so many guns close at hand, more disputes end in violence.
The older Britons that you claim to know are certainly the Hestonite minority. How the fuck can gun control ruin your retirement? It should not come as a surprise that the US has the highest violent crime rate in the developed world and they have the most relaxed gun laws. Please don't take made-up views and smear them around. I've never met someone from the US travelling outside America that wasn't amazed by the lack fear on the streets of foreign countries. If you like staying inside at night or worrying about your girlfriend's safety, I leave you to it with all your uber-capitalist views.
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Some people are so far removed that they write words like "genious". Of course, the right word would be genius. For more great tips on spelling, try clicking here.
I don't think you really understand the implications here. I have taken part in several large protests in the last 3 years as a First Aider. I will tell you that 75% of the people I treated weren't rioting when they were clubbed by police. They weren't smashing windows when they were shot with rubber bullets. They weren't setting fires when they were in a 10-person tent and police tossed in 2 tear-gas grenades and blocked the way out. 95% of the prostestors aren't rioters. The people you see on TV smashing windows and tipping cars make up a tiny part of the crowds. Mostly, these people are like sheep. They stand in large crowds and bleat out little rhymes. They make posters and shake them angrily. They don't all engage police. Most of them understand the police aren't there to incite them; only to contain them and protect public interests by keeping the peace. I think most people don't understand that very important fact: that most people who attend these protests are peaceful suburban kids who would rather die than have their parents bail them out of jail for smashing windows during a "peaceful protest".
Pants have never been a great concern to the family oriented folks at Disney, bless their hearts. On an extreme side note, lets assume pants aren't necessary. Sort of adds a whole new aspect to my sig, doesn't it?Cheers!
I just paid a visit to www.paypalsucks.org and there was nothing there. Just that same old Network Solutions "Page under construction" garbage.
begin sarcasm Maybe PayPal doesn't suck after all. end
I understand the underlying technology and that different gear is needed to work at different frequencies, but one thing I find to be lacking is backwards compatibility. These cards are being made smaller and smaller. Right now, they are being manufactured small enough to fit 2 802.11b devices on a single compact flash card. Area wise, we should be able to fit 4 on a PCMCIA card, no sweat. Antenna size might be an issue but other wise, these wouldn't be a problem. The real problem here is the fact that most of the manufacturers are more interested in selling new product instead of bearing out their existing product lines. I love the bandwidth of 802.11a but it just rendered my 802.11b gear useless. I try to turn over my clients' networking gear every 4 years with 1 upgrade in between. I'd far rather buy a $250 PC card every 3-4 years than new access points and cards every 8 months.
I've stammered and grumbled enough. It boils down to this: why not examine the next few proposed standards, and put the transmission / reception products on board now and make them active with future firmware updates. As long as the transmission hardware is present, we could off-load the "work" onto the CPU like a Winmodem (which is the bane of my existance) or AC'97-style onboard audio present on those cheap motherboards. Not the most elegant choice, but I'd buy into it for a little longer product life.
What we all really need is a wireless nic that can be upgraded to new wireless standards à la 802.11x via firmware. The argument exists that we don't have the components to build these cards but I feel that this is where research should move. As it stands now, we are poised for a new standard roll-out every 8 months for the next few years. Anyone know about this type of tech being develloped?
As for the MAC address lock, SMC allows you to configure your router to show a MAC address of your choice to the outside world, all the while NAT is running on the other side...
PLUS most people know how to spoof a MAC address anyway, regardless of the OS they're using. Cheers!
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Thinkpad T-series are the best notebooks I've ever supported. BUT BEWARE: If you're buying for corporate deployment, BUY THE WORKHORSE MODEL. The others are discontinued too fast. Workhorse models are usually available for a whole year at least. I love the T-series though. Wow.
My personal notebook is a Vaio. Too new to say how well it will last, but so far, it blows everything I've ever seen away. Before that, I had a Toughbook. If you want a notebook that will last forever, go for this. I used it for 3 years, now my 8 year old cousin has been abusing it for almost a year with zero-ill effects. They are nearly indestructable.
Go to bed. You should have been asleep hours ago.
Another thing I include in all reviews is the support. How much a company is willing to stand behind their product, and how helpful they are with their responses. Counts for a lot.
The really interesting part is this: (quoted from intel.com)
Unified 2MB or 4MB on-cartridge L3 cache. Runs at full processor frequency and is organized as 4-way set-associative with 64-byte cache line size. Fully pipelined and optimized to provide fast access to data at a bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec using a 128-bit wide cache bus.
Now that's cool.
Please provide a celery processor link. I would love to read it. All it could find right away is this.
That's the point. My .sig is heavily laden in sarcasm. I took one look at the MS page and laughed. It turns out that they have a pile of "how to remove Linux" pages, often with wrong information and hardly mentioning the possibility of a dual boot machine. It cracks me up, and I have to admit, I love my .sig.
Thanks for the feedback.
... that the Intel Roadmap has been displaced -1.5 yrs. The 6 MB cache Itanic will be at least 18 months late. So sad - the chip has so much potential despite it's bad press. I've had a Sitka 450 2MB cache server for 3 years and its got to be the best Intel product ever made.
I don't care if the EULA is written in hieroglyphics, there is nothing harder to read than those tax guides. Even the simple ones that make it AOL-easy. I say that people who don't even glance over their EULAs are getting their fair due. They're getting a pile of free stuff anyway; so what if some tech company actually tries to turn a profit.
This is so obvious to me. This is a creative (and I must admit, ingenious) way to kickstart the tech sector. Heres how it works:
Corporate IT person gets to go work for government and gets exposed to government spending habits for six months. He leaves, goes back to private sector and keeps on blowing through cash. Tech sector rebounds and everyone (read Wall Street investors) is happy.
Meanwhile, the government IT people get exposed to tight-fisted corporate budgets, where they are held accountable for ROI. They come back to the government with the "make-do" mentality and help the government stay in budget (for once).
More disconcerting is a more complete analysis of where the overall majority of all proved oil reserves are located:
Greatest Oil Reserves by Country, 2001
Supposedly, Russia has about 60% of the world's unproved oil reserves; indeed Russia is home to nearly 50% of the world's unclaimed natural resources. But with their economy in tatters, it is unlikely that we'll have access to it anytime soon. Which, translates into a strangehold exercised by the mid-East indefinitely for the entire forseeable future.
I have never seen someone successfully defend their right to arms. Your NRA statistics are wonderful, but flawed. It is also worth noting that Florida has some of the nations' worst road rage and violent crime rates. It's true that in an armed society, petty crime is reduced, but only because petty theives fear for their lives should they rob a store, for example. Of the same token however, with so many guns close at hand, more disputes end in violence.
The older Britons that you claim to know are certainly the Hestonite minority. How the fuck can gun control ruin your retirement? It should not come as a surprise that the US has the highest violent crime rate in the developed world and they have the most relaxed gun laws . Please don't take made-up views and smear them around. I've never met someone from the US travelling outside America that wasn't amazed by the lack fear on the streets of foreign countries. If you like staying inside at night or worrying about your girlfriend's safety, I leave you to it with all your uber-capitalist views.
Go back under your bridge you bastard troll.
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I wonder if Sony stole this idea from Skynet?
Some people are so far removed that they write words like "genious". Of course, the right word would be genius. For more great tips on spelling, try clicking here.
I don't think you really understand the implications here. I have taken part in several large protests in the last 3 years as a First Aider. I will tell you that 75% of the people I treated weren't rioting when they were clubbed by police. They weren't smashing windows when they were shot with rubber bullets. They weren't setting fires when they were in a 10-person tent and police tossed in 2 tear-gas grenades and blocked the way out. 95% of the prostestors aren't rioters. The people you see on TV smashing windows and tipping cars make up a tiny part of the crowds. Mostly, these people are like sheep. They stand in large crowds and bleat out little rhymes. They make posters and shake them angrily. They don't all engage police. Most of them understand the police aren't there to incite them; only to contain them and protect public interests by keeping the peace. I think most people don't understand that very important fact: that most people who attend these protests are peaceful suburban kids who would rather die than have their parents bail them out of jail for smashing windows during a "peaceful protest".
Pants have never been a great concern to the family oriented folks at Disney, bless their hearts. On an extreme side note, lets assume pants aren't necessary. Sort of adds a whole new aspect to my sig, doesn't it?Cheers!
I just paid a visit to www.paypalsucks.org and there was nothing there. Just that same old Network Solutions "Page under construction" garbage. begin sarcasm Maybe PayPal doesn't suck after all. end
I just changed the domains and gateways of 650 stations running W2K SP2. Live. That was 3 minutes ago. No complaints yet. :-)
I understand the underlying technology and that different gear is needed to work at different frequencies, but one thing I find to be lacking is backwards compatibility. These cards are being made smaller and smaller. Right now, they are being manufactured small enough to fit 2 802.11b devices on a single compact flash card. Area wise, we should be able to fit 4 on a PCMCIA card, no sweat. Antenna size might be an issue but other wise, these wouldn't be a problem. The real problem here is the fact that most of the manufacturers are more interested in selling new product instead of bearing out their existing product lines. I love the bandwidth of 802.11a but it just rendered my 802.11b gear useless. I try to turn over my clients' networking gear every 4 years with 1 upgrade in between. I'd far rather buy a $250 PC card every 3-4 years than new access points and cards every 8 months. I've stammered and grumbled enough. It boils down to this: why not examine the next few proposed standards, and put the transmission / reception products on board now and make them active with future firmware updates. As long as the transmission hardware is present, we could off-load the "work" onto the CPU like a Winmodem (which is the bane of my existance) or AC'97-style onboard audio present on those cheap motherboards. Not the most elegant choice, but I'd buy into it for a little longer product life.
What we all really need is a wireless nic that can be upgraded to new wireless standards à la 802.11x via firmware. The argument exists that we don't have the components to build these cards but I feel that this is where research should move. As it stands now, we are poised for a new standard roll-out every 8 months for the next few years. Anyone know about this type of tech being develloped?
This TCPIP stack has severe problems with overflow. I am working on limiting code to fix the problem. More info and a link to follow in a later post.
As for the MAC address lock, SMC allows you to configure your router to show a MAC address of your choice to the outside world, all the while NAT is running on the other side ...
PLUS most people know how to spoof a MAC address anyway, regardless of the OS they're using. Cheers!