I ordered a laptop from dell a year ago. I waited and waited as parts were coming in.
I never recieved a shipping notice.
Unfortunately, this was all very close to finals and I was busting my ass writing a compiler. I didn't exactly have to time to screw with these guys and occassionally I checked the website. Still, every single time I checked it was in waiting.
Finally, finals were over and I decided I had better get this going. My order is still in limbo and the service rep says it got lost in the system. However, all my rebates and deals had passed now. The rep said I could build a whole new laptop, but there weren't any great specials now.
Immediately, I threated to get a toshiba. I already owned a toshiba, but at the time the Dell was cheaper then an equally stacked Toshiba. So, I chatted a bit about the toshiba model I wanted and went over the reasons I liked the Dell.
The rep finally started discouting everything and tossed in special after special. I couldn't get the model of cdrw I wanted, so they split the cost difference of the faster one. (Hell the original combo drive was free.... so I only paid 50$ more.
All in all, I don't recall paying anymore and I got a better laptop.
Sure, I had to wait a while, but I wasnt really in a hurry.
For me, I saw the trailor a while ago linked from some strange place on the web. First thing I did was download this and save it to my usb flash drive.
I was happy with it and I want to see the movie. I like the premise and I don't care if its cheesy. It made me want to dig out crimson skies and pretend to be an ace pilot for 20 minutes.
However, I showed it to a few co-workers and my family. I didn't get quite the same reaction that I had experienced. Actually, it was a bit of a negative reaction. I think my mother asked if it was the sequel to Iron Giant....
This has been brought up a couple times before and the answer is always the same.
Essentially, you can make a copy of a song from deck to deck and hand it off to anyone. It's a perfectly legal copy.
That is why you pay your tax on cd's and other audio recording medium.
I don't know the particulars on the limits and whats classified as a recording device. Certainly, distributing mp3's via your favorite network transmission does not fall under this act.
wave guide is very generally very clean and occassionally throughout has some pvc cross hatches. Wave guide for bends and flexibility is a slightly different construction.
If you have any obstruction or not properly bending the radio waves you will get reflection back the tube. (VSWR) This is bad and too high of a reflection will cause your equipment to shut down.
We are primarily a windows desktop environment. (Believe it or not management has considered a linux change over a time or two.... progress!)
You are running in mostly the right direction it seems.
We have two methods for the print-to-fax gateway. The first, available for any systems, involes an smb print share. This print share via cups uses sambafax. http://www.purpel3.com/sambafax/sambafax_6B.html Essentially, it just parses the postscript file and takes out the send number. It's fairly basic and relies on users authing to the print share for identification and return notification via email of job status. I'm going to rewrite this and include some extended information parsed out of the cover letter. It works for now.
The second method for print to fax, uses a windows printer driver for hylafax. This unfortunately only works on windows 2000 and I'm presuming XP. Upon printing to fax, this driver prompts for a phone number to send to.
The drawback is of course you have to include your cover letter when printing to fax. You could optionally configure a default generic cover letter with hylafax, but our staff generally likes custom covers.
The windows driver is open source and available on sourceforge. It's a good place to start if you are looking at extending its functionality. I don't think a talk back is the right way to go in this instance as all the things you need done can be submitted directly to hylafax.
For job status monitoring, resubmission and cancelation we use PylaFax. PylaFax is a stand alone client written in python. It connects directly to the hylafax server. You can send with it as well, but it requires creating a TIFF image to fax. (I think?) In any event, its perfect for job monitoring for all of our users.
Since everything is setup correctly, all jobs are ID'd by username as well.
So far, web management of incoming faxs is rather paultry at the moment. There are several little applications, but nothing I'm happy with either. SO yes, a couple more areas where things need polishing. Personally, I was thinking of a moregroupware module as this would fit in perfectly for our needs.
It looks like we have some common goals though and maybe some collaboration could be fruitful.
hylafax can be configured to do alot of things, including setting up a fax to email gateway.
Add in a filter to regex your favorite keywords or by caller id and instant sorting.
We use hylafax quite extensively at the office. We are not into phase 2 yet which aims at removing all incoming hard copy. Pretty much when I get time to finish the roll out we should move to this.
This sounds just like a modern wave guide... only using horrible amounts of distance in between.
Wave guide may be a great deal more durable then fiber optics, but as far as pounds per diameter in terms of bandwidth... I think fiber may have the victory here.
I could see a myriad of potential problems upgrading any large infrastructure.
Still, its interesting stuff to play around with when you get the chance.
So, now everyone will be afraid to launch an attack on another machine because the remote machine could possibly fire off a barage of assaults back at the offending host. Descimating both sides in the encounter. Now, script kiddies and unfriendly nations will be quite frightened when it comes to launching attacks against.
It's the new cold war and everyone is going to be in a mad dash against time to ensure their artillerly will be enough to handle such a gestalt.
In the mean time, I'm going to purchase lots of stock in companies dealing in these "new arms." Yep, anyone who sells large fat pipes of deathly destruction will be on my list of companies to buy into.
Gosh, I don't have a distributed denial of service system in place, I feel so naked and unable to defend myself in the wake of digital terrorism! I had better see if I can outsource this project quickly.... side note...
I couldn't imagine how much 2 hours will cover in a 200 mile automoton race.
I was thinking of punching in the feed and then editing together a decent flick., but it looks like we will have to wait for someone else to release the video.
Oh well, saves me time on having to punch in amc 9.
I've been over the kernel configs a thousand times as well.
I simply can't get the damn thing to enable udma.
Trust me, I was good enough to get the sucker to a command prompt. Everyone else whines and complains as it crashes into oblivion/seemingly/ random on boot.
I'm going to go another round with the box here in a few days... wish me luck;)
I had the same gut reaction to.net. Didn't need it for anything else, so why should I be forced to install it now. I'm sure they could do it some other way, but whatever their reasoning... it is what they used.
I'm old at heart and I just got used to VB;)
The feeling wears off after a few days. Don't worry, it will pass.
Pretty soon, you will crave.net... you needs it... you wants the precious.
In addition, files that have been compressed into divx or some other supported compression screen can be viewed from any pc via a web interface. Yes, you could share the folders out.
The divx compression is nice, as you can/cron/ recorded files to be automatically compressed over night. There are many options for quality of encode as well.
I've been using snapstream trial for a few weeks now. If I manage to get my ide transfer rates up on this godforsaken nforce board I can start working with mythtv.
So, yes due to a lock in currently, I've been happy with snapstream.
Well, either that or true dumb terminals dumping into a linux server. Whatever the setup, they use alot of linux at autozone.
It's always interesting to see someone roll out a linux box. Incidently, does anyone know what Lowe's is using? (Its IBM hardware... and I can't tell if thats CDE or something goofy)
Your ISP has every business sense to control your hardware, depending on what kind of customer you are.
Road Runner, during the whole fiasco with some horrid worm I can't remember the name of. Started filtering at customer leased line routers, their own and their upstream provider to hold down the bandwidth consumption. They had red lined their bandwidth and it was effecting their entire customer base.
I'm not saying filtering everything at any point is a good idea, but when it comes to critical situations they have every right to slow the progression of an attack.
I used to get annoyed at Port 25 blocking, but after recent spam/virus hoopla has hit I'm rather glad some people are taking steps to curb the issue.
This came up once before, but it was shot down in mid run. My area had 14 allowances for low power fm stations and I was waiting for the day to put in my application.
Unless things have significanly changed, the previous rules were not for a "Music" based radio station. Think solely talk radio. So, before you could not pay your ASCAP, BMI and any other fees to fire up a low cost low power neighborhood radio station.
It was justa more powerful version of the existing rules for amateur fm.
Anyone can grab a very low power fm transmitter and broadcast what you please.... well not really what you please. However, the power rules are less then a watt of output.
I wish I could recall specifics... I'll read up shortly and find out if this is a bit different.
Oh I did this with coke contests a long time back.
I sifted through the gas stations 1:6 winners til I bought all my friends a free coke. we were kids and half the fun was just biking to the gas station. As long as you get some minimumwage employee... no one seems to mind.
Then I discovered the real fun in contests. At the time you could call in an 800 number and punch in your numbers to see if you won a real prize. So, I read the rules and nothing said I oculdn't enter as many times as I liked.
At that point I setup all my little memory dial buttons to enter the sequences for entering. I even played around with it and found certain numbers gave a spanish version.
After school I would sit down and enter a few hundred times a day and even my brother got in on the fun. This went on for a month or so.
In the end we only won a game gear... which was quite expensive and only 500 game gears were available nation wide.
Since then I have never seen coke do such a contest or at least allow the kind of entry I was performing.
Gamespy Arcade does many of the features you are referencing. Who is online, what game they are playing as well as instant messenges. It also supports a vast number of games and makes finding a server quite easy.
As far as voice chat... everyone I know uses speak freely. I do believe a registered version of gamespy arcade comes with Roger wilco. However, most of my friends use speak freely as oppossed to any in game communication. As for depenability, these are free services and a dedicated service simply has a cost associated with it.
I've never cared for player matching based on rank. It usually ends up with several people with new accounts faking their rank to get easy matches.
Additionally, Gamespy Arcade includes a xbux tunneling service. It works and it wasn't difficult to setup. (All I had to do was click next and select my ethernet adapter).
A little difficulty is generally going to be expected with something that is free though.
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I ordered a laptop from dell a year ago. I waited and waited as parts were coming in.
I never recieved a shipping notice.
Unfortunately, this was all very close to finals and I was busting my ass writing a compiler. I didn't exactly have to time to screw with these guys and occassionally I checked the website. Still, every single time I checked it was in waiting.
Finally, finals were over and I decided I had better get this going. My order is still in limbo and the service rep says it got lost in the system. However, all my rebates and deals had passed now. The rep said I could build a whole new laptop, but there weren't any great specials now.
Immediately, I threated to get a toshiba. I already owned a toshiba, but at the time the Dell was cheaper then an equally stacked Toshiba. So, I chatted a bit about the toshiba model I wanted and went over the reasons I liked the Dell.
The rep finally started discouting everything and tossed in special after special. I couldn't get the model of cdrw I wanted, so they split the cost difference of the faster one. (Hell the original combo drive was free.... so I only paid 50$ more.
All in all, I don't recall paying anymore and I got a better laptop.
Sure, I had to wait a while, but I wasnt really in a hurry.
But it's all relevant to how much time it takes mozilla to load on your system.
If your system is a bit slow a 7% decrease could be a welcomed change.
My friend's new centrino based laptop loads mozilla incredibly fast. It gave me a bit of realization on how much faster his laptop was then mine.
In any event, it's probably safe to assume this isn't the last of the performance increases coming down the road.
True, true...
For me, I saw the trailor a while ago linked from some strange place on the web. First thing I did was download this and save it to my usb flash drive.
I was happy with it and I want to see the movie. I like the premise and I don't care if its cheesy. It made me want to dig out crimson skies and pretend to be an ace pilot for 20 minutes.
However, I showed it to a few co-workers and my family. I didn't get quite the same reaction that I had experienced. Actually, it was a bit of a negative reaction. I think my mother asked if it was the sequel to Iron Giant....
O well
This has been brought up a couple times before and the answer is always the same.
Essentially, you can make a copy of a song from deck to deck and hand it off to anyone. It's a perfectly legal copy.
That is why you pay your tax on cd's and other audio recording medium.
I don't know the particulars on the limits and whats classified as a recording device. Certainly, distributing mp3's via your favorite network transmission does not fall under this act.
wave guide is very generally very clean and occassionally throughout has some pvc cross hatches. Wave guide for bends and flexibility is a slightly different construction.
If you have any obstruction or not properly bending the radio waves you will get reflection back the tube. (VSWR) This is bad and too high of a reflection will cause your equipment to shut down.
We are primarily a windows desktop environment. (Believe it or not management has considered a linux change over a time or two.... progress!)
You are running in mostly the right direction it seems.
We have two methods for the print-to-fax gateway.
The first, available for any systems, involes an smb print share. This print share via cups uses sambafax. http://www.purpel3.com/sambafax/sambafax_6B.html Essentially, it just parses the postscript file and takes out the send number. It's fairly basic and relies on users authing to the print share for identification and return notification via email of job status. I'm going to rewrite this and include some extended information parsed out of the cover letter. It works for now.
The second method for print to fax, uses a windows printer driver for hylafax. This unfortunately only works on windows 2000 and I'm presuming XP. Upon printing to fax, this driver prompts for a phone number to send to.
The drawback is of course you have to include your cover letter when printing to fax. You could optionally configure a default generic cover letter with hylafax, but our staff generally likes custom covers.
The windows driver is open source and available on sourceforge. It's a good place to start if you are looking at extending its functionality. I don't think a talk back is the right way to go in this instance as all the things you need done can be submitted directly to hylafax.
For job status monitoring, resubmission and cancelation we use PylaFax. PylaFax is a stand alone client written in python. It connects directly to the hylafax server. You can send with it as well, but it requires creating a TIFF image to fax. (I think?) In any event, its perfect for job monitoring for all of our users.
Since everything is setup correctly, all jobs are ID'd by username as well.
So far, web management of incoming faxs is rather paultry at the moment. There are several little applications, but nothing I'm happy with either. SO yes, a couple more areas where things need polishing. Personally, I was thinking of a moregroupware module as this would fit in perfectly for our needs.
It looks like we have some common goals though and maybe some collaboration could be fruitful.
hylafax can be configured to do alot of things, including setting up a fax to email gateway.
Add in a filter to regex your favorite keywords or by caller id and instant sorting.
We use hylafax quite extensively at the office. We are not into phase 2 yet which aims at removing all incoming hard copy. Pretty much when I get time to finish the roll out we should move to this.
This sounds just like a modern wave guide... only using horrible amounts of distance in between.
Wave guide may be a great deal more durable then fiber optics, but as far as pounds per diameter in terms of bandwidth... I think fiber may have the victory here.
I could see a myriad of potential problems upgrading any large infrastructure.
Still, its interesting stuff to play around with when you get the chance.
It's called, Mutually Assurred Destruction...
... side note...
It's been working quite well for nuclear arms...
So, now everyone will be afraid to launch an attack on another machine because the remote machine could possibly fire off a barage of assaults back at the offending host. Descimating both sides in the encounter. Now, script kiddies and unfriendly nations will be quite frightened when it comes to launching attacks against.
It's the new cold war and everyone is going to be in a mad dash against time to ensure their artillerly will be enough to handle such a gestalt.
In the mean time, I'm going to purchase lots of stock in companies dealing in these "new arms." Yep, anyone who sells large fat pipes of deathly destruction will be on my list of companies to buy into.
Gosh, I don't have a distributed denial of service system in place, I feel so naked and unable to defend myself in the wake of digital terrorism! I had better see if I can outsource this project quickly.
I do hope everyone understands I'm joking.
Looks like the sat feed will be mostly useless...
I couldn't imagine how much 2 hours will cover in a 200 mile automoton race.
I was thinking of punching in the feed and then editing together a decent flick., but it looks like we will have to wait for someone else to release the video.
Oh well, saves me time on having to punch in amc 9.
I've been over the kernel configs a thousand times as well.
/seemingly/ random on boot.
;)
I simply can't get the damn thing to enable udma.
Trust me, I was good enough to get the sucker to a command prompt. Everyone else whines and complains as it crashes into oblivion
I'm going to go another round with the box here in a few days... wish me luck
Shhhhhh...
I want to watch what everyone else is watching...
I had the same gut reaction to .net. Didn't need it for anything else, so why should I be forced to install it now. I'm sure they could do it some other way, but whatever their reasoning... it is what they used.
;)
.net... you needs it... you wants the precious.
I'm old at heart and I just got used to VB
The feeling wears off after a few days. Don't worry, it will pass.
Pretty soon, you will crave
In addition, files that have been compressed into divx or some other supported compression screen can be viewed from any pc via a web interface. Yes, you could share the folders out.
/cron/ recorded files to be automatically compressed over night. There are many options for quality of encode as well.
The divx compression is nice, as you can
I've been using snapstream trial for a few weeks now. If I manage to get my ide transfer rates up on this godforsaken nforce board I can start working with mythtv.
So, yes due to a lock in currently, I've been happy with snapstream.
Man o Man...
They are going to get flamed to death for not using "GNU/Linux"....
Poor litigious bastards!
Their terminals are Linux terminals...
Well, either that or true dumb terminals dumping into a linux server. Whatever the setup, they use alot of linux at autozone.
It's always interesting to see someone roll out a linux box. Incidently, does anyone know what Lowe's is using? (Its IBM hardware... and I can't tell if thats CDE or something goofy)
The ref will simply state, "I am thinking of a number between 1 and 10, please guess a number."
This will eliminate all potential unfairness of the coin toss.
In other news, I'm thinking of becoming a coin toss referee... I believe I stand to make a good deal of money with the new legislation.
I know...
It's a joke...
Gator's name being tainted and all...
Gator.... bad choice in names...
Makes my skin crawl.
Alf?
The charisma of Han with the fur of Chewbacca...
It makes sense...
I knew he wasn't from melmack!
Not true...
Your ISP has every business sense to control your hardware, depending on what kind of customer you are.
Road Runner, during the whole fiasco with some horrid worm I can't remember the name of. Started filtering at customer leased line routers, their own and their upstream provider to hold down the bandwidth consumption. They had red lined their bandwidth and it was effecting their entire customer base.
I'm not saying filtering everything at any point is a good idea, but when it comes to critical situations they have every right to slow the progression of an attack.
I used to get annoyed at Port 25 blocking, but after recent spam/virus hoopla has hit I'm rather glad some people are taking steps to curb the issue.
This came up once before, but it was shot down in mid run. My area had 14 allowances for low power fm stations and I was waiting for the day to put in my application.
Unless things have significanly changed, the previous rules were not for a "Music" based radio station. Think solely talk radio. So, before you could not pay your ASCAP, BMI and any other fees to fire up a low cost low power neighborhood radio station.
It was justa more powerful version of the existing rules for amateur fm.
Anyone can grab a very low power fm transmitter and broadcast what you please.... well not really what you please. However, the power rules are less then a watt of output.
I wish I could recall specifics... I'll read up shortly and find out if this is a bit different.
Oh I did this with coke contests a long time back.
I sifted through the gas stations 1:6 winners til I bought all my friends a free coke. we were kids and half the fun was just biking to the gas station. As long as you get some minimumwage employee... no one seems to mind.
Then I discovered the real fun in contests. At the time you could call in an 800 number and punch in your numbers to see if you won a real prize. So, I read the rules and nothing said I oculdn't enter as many times as I liked.
At that point I setup all my little memory dial buttons to enter the sequences for entering. I even played around with it and found certain numbers gave a spanish version.
After school I would sit down and enter a few hundred times a day and even my brother got in on the fun. This went on for a month or so.
In the end we only won a game gear... which was quite expensive and only 500 game gears were available nation wide.
Since then I have never seen coke do such a contest or at least allow the kind of entry I was performing.
You can find clippy for xvim though.
Well, evil clippy, someone made it based pitr's work when he created clippy for vi. (pitr from userfriendly.org).
It was neat, useless, funny, but I have no idea where to find it now.
Gamespy Arcade does many of the features you are referencing. Who is online, what game they are playing as well as instant messenges. It also supports a vast number of games and makes finding a server quite easy.
As far as voice chat... everyone I know uses speak freely. I do believe a registered version of gamespy arcade comes with Roger wilco. However, most of my friends use speak freely as oppossed to any in game communication. As for depenability, these are free services and a dedicated service simply has a cost associated with it.
I've never cared for player matching based on rank. It usually ends up with several people with new accounts faking their rank to get easy matches.
Additionally, Gamespy Arcade includes a xbux tunneling service. It works and it wasn't difficult to setup. (All I had to do was click next and select my ethernet adapter).
A little difficulty is generally going to be expected with something that is free though.