Any network access can be oversold...cable or DSL. I have a friend who had GTE DSL and his ping time was over 500ms to his first hop at his ISP. I've had friends with saturated cable connections.
It all comes down to your ISP and/or telco not overselling the connection. My RoadRunner cable modem is as fast today as when it was installed, and we were one of the first few in our area to get it. So good service is out there!
The part of the article that concerns me is where the Judge said the Rodney King video would have been prohibited in that state. Didn't that take place on a public road? You couldn't record the actions of police in a PUBLIC place?
Be interesting to see if police want to set up video cameras with face matching software in Boston in a few months....
So far so good. Yes, the IDE speed sucks, BUT, it is the drive and not the controller. Many people are putting in nice fast IBM drives and getting much better performance. The Seagate drive they ship is slow.
Memory upgrades are easy. They ship Crucial memory in the unit so you know you're safe adding more. Nice to add 512MB of RAM to a Sun for $100.:)
As someone else said, it is very quiet. Nice compared to my loud PC sitting beside it.
Becuase it lets me, as an admin, standardize on one version. If the "base" Debian was in a constant state of update It would be much harder to build several systems over a span of time to be exactly alike. This way when I say I have Debian 2.2r2 installed, I know what I have.
Sure, I could keep track of every package and make sure all new systems have the exact same version of everything (which most people do anyway), but it makes the install much easier.
Take a look at the NAT routers from http://www.nexland.com/. They have one that will load balance across two connections. Just plug in two Ethernet cables and away you go. Since you have two addresses that are not portable, it will "only" load balance a connection, not by the packet. But it should work!
I have a bad back. The best thing I've done for it is to buy a good chair. Aeron chairs aren't cheap but they have helped my back a LOT. Well worth every penny I paid for it, and you can get them for a deal right now from a failed dotcom.
Second, get out and do something. Walk a few miles every day..bike...something. That'll help strengthen your back.
Every time we have a TiVo article there are many people that say "Big deal, my vid card does TV in!!!". I always feel the need to write this post.
To those people: Go get a TiVo. The great thing about a TiVo isn't the fact it stores video on a hard disk. It's how wonderfully seamless the integration is to the rest of your system. I can't imagine watching TV without one now. My parents and my sister have them now and feel the same way. The interface is great and the featureset is almost everything you could want.
The price is right on target for a pre-built system that looks nice, works well, and isn't a hacked together PC sitting in my AV rack. There has also been a lot of work to hack these systems and make them even better. My main TiVo is an 87.5 hour unit.
And for the/. crowd, it also runs Linux and they have released some of their work back to the community and supported them in their hacking efforts.... except for the video formatting, but that has been broken.
No it isn't. Different internals and different software. All of the TiVos are the same...Sony, Phillips, etc...but the UltimateTV is a different beast.
I had WinXP Beta 2 and Debian Linux on my IBM X20 and they dual-booted just fine with LILO. Beginning to think Microsoft isn't the only one spreading FUD around here....
Thanks for the vote. Vote several times with diff mail addresses. Don't think they check them...never did mine.
Anyway... The most popular cheat tool is punkbuster. http://www.punkbuster.com/
I know it lets server operators decide if they want to make the client mandatory or an option. It supports several games, and I know it was updated for these new drivers.
There are several anti-cheat tools now that have been updated to disable these drivers or warn other players if someone uses them. If you play on a server that requires these tools you won't have to worry.
I sometimes get spammed on ICQ, so one day I started quizing a spammer since I was bored. They don't get it. They just don't understand what they are doing. I tried for an hour to explain the costs involved and they don't care. They think bandwidth and mail storage is free and theirs for the taking.
I pushed to get some kind of answer on the percentage of people that respond to them...they wouldn't say. I assume very close to zero.
The funniest thing was the guy I was messing with didn't think spamming on ICQ was actually spam. He sent one of those fake "Hey, help me out with my homepage. It's at www.makemoneynow.com (or something) messages. No, that isn't spam.:)
(Note: I know the link I mention in my sig asks for email addresses. Use a fake one, they don't check and she'd appreciate the votes.)
So what should not be allowed to be included? Take CD-R/W support. Two years ago that was definately an option that most people added on to their system, but what about today when almost all new systems come with a CD-RW drive? Shouldn't that be in the OS now since almost everyone will want support? If Roxio wants to sell a CD writing app they need to make it better and easier to use than the included support.
Streaming media is now a common thing. Real had their chance to grab that market and failed due to their bloated impelementation. Is that Microsoft's fault? I don't think so.
I don't agree with the whole "bundling IE was a bad thing" argument. If Netscape had been better, we'd still be using it today even though it would be a seperate download. IE2 came with NT at the time and I didn't know ANYONE that used it. Everyone installed Netscape.
My case is too loud. I'm an overclocker and I've got about 8 fans in my case right now. It's just too loud as it is. I didn't really want to build a water cooling rig myself, but now that these guys have one integrated into the case I'm going to do it.
Anyone know what the lead time to get one is right now? I'm sure they are busy with all the press they've been getting lately.
I'm beginning to think a lot of companies like spam, similar to how anti-virus companies like viruses. Makes them money. I just priced some email filtering software for Exchange and it's like $6K! You've got to be kidding me.
So... this is another win for free software. Instead of spending $6K on commercial-ware I'm building a Linux system to act as a mail relay and start using RBL and some simple content filtering. What are people's results with doing similar things? No one here cared about doing such things until the VPs started getting XXX teen hot pr0n spam.:)
I agree. But I can't buy a Dell server with an Athlon today. I can't buy a Compaq Prolient with an Athlon today. People who use them know they work and work very well... I think the real problem is managers. Compaq and Dell know that most managers wouldn't trust AMD in a server so they don't offer them. But, what they need to realize is that usually the technical staff are the one that specs out the servers and we LOVE the AMD chips.
I really wish AMD would get this stuff out the door. I'd love to be able to start buying dual or quad CPU AMD servers. No one takes them seriously in that market yet since you can only do single CPU systems.
I'm also annoyed at the lack of some vendors support for AMD. I just ordered a new desktop for work. We use Compaq Deskpros. Not a single AMD system in all the Deskpro lines. The only way to get an AMD workstation from Compaq is to buy the Presario, which I won't do. I ended up getting a P4.:(
I wonder how long it will be like this in the server market even after AMD starts shipping the SMP chipsets. If Compaq doesn't put them in their good workstations, why would they put them in their servers? Give us our Athlons!
Make sure you have the right drivers installed and AGP functioning correctly. It sounds like you don't. I won't say it's always easy to get it going right either.... Grab something like CPUID and check the AGP settings.
The reason games don't run as well under Linux as Windows isn't the multitasking. Windows 2000 is a true multitasking OS, and it runs most games faster than Win9x.
The problem is maturity. The drivers and libraries for Windows have been tweaked, retweaked, and then tweaked again. Give the drivers and libraries on Linux the same treatment and I'm sure we'll see equally good results!
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Go to http://www.sexiestgeekalive and vote for Angie this month! Yes, she knows they screwed up the link to her homepage.
My wife and I saw this yesterday and we both really liked it. It's a good summer movie. The action was good...most of the special effects were very cool, but a few weren't. The kid in the movie didn't get in the way a lot or make it stupid.
I thought it was definately worth the price, especially the matinee we saw. Since it wasn't a total action movie or anything it's also a good date movie!
Mine is already ordered. Everyone should take some time and check out OpenBSD. Excellent product. Secure and functional, and the default install doesn't install 2GB worth of junk.
You wouldn't get paid much. I used to write reviews and articles for HardwareCentral (part of Internet.com, like LinuxPlanet). If it wasn't for the free hardware I wouldn't have done it. Very, very little money in it.
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Any network access can be oversold...cable or DSL. I have a friend who had GTE DSL and his ping time was over 500ms to his first hop at his ISP. I've had friends with saturated cable connections.
It all comes down to your ISP and/or telco not overselling the connection. My RoadRunner cable modem is as fast today as when it was installed, and we were one of the first few in our area to get it. So good service is out there!
The part of the article that concerns me is where the Judge said the Rodney King video would have been prohibited in that state. Didn't that take place on a public road? You couldn't record the actions of police in a PUBLIC place?
Be interesting to see if police want to set up video cameras with face matching software in Boston in a few months....
So far so good. Yes, the IDE speed sucks, BUT, it is the drive and not the controller. Many people are putting in nice fast IBM drives and getting much better performance. The Seagate drive they ship is slow.
:)
Memory upgrades are easy. They ship Crucial memory in the unit so you know you're safe adding more. Nice to add 512MB of RAM to a Sun for $100.
As someone else said, it is very quiet. Nice compared to my loud PC sitting beside it.
Becuase it lets me, as an admin, standardize on one version. If the "base" Debian was in a constant state of update It would be much harder to build several systems over a span of time to be exactly alike. This way when I say I have Debian 2.2r2 installed, I know what I have. Sure, I could keep track of every package and make sure all new systems have the exact same version of everything (which most people do anyway), but it makes the install much easier.
Take a look at the NAT routers from http://www.nexland.com/. They have one that will load balance across two connections. Just plug in two Ethernet cables and away you go. Since you have two addresses that are not portable, it will "only" load balance a connection, not by the packet. But it should work!
I have a bad back. The best thing I've done for it is to buy a good chair. Aeron chairs aren't cheap but they have helped my back a LOT. Well worth every penny I paid for it, and you can get them for a deal right now from a failed dotcom.
Second, get out and do something. Walk a few miles every day..bike...something. That'll help strengthen your back.
Every time we have a TiVo article there are many people that say "Big deal, my vid card does TV in!!!". I always feel the need to write this post.
/. crowd, it also runs Linux and they have released some of their work back to the community and supported them in their hacking efforts.... except for the video formatting, but that has been broken.
To those people: Go get a TiVo. The great thing about a TiVo isn't the fact it stores video on a hard disk. It's how wonderfully seamless the integration is to the rest of your system. I can't imagine watching TV without one now. My parents and my sister have them now and feel the same way. The interface is great and the featureset is almost everything you could want.
The price is right on target for a pre-built system that looks nice, works well, and isn't a hacked together PC sitting in my AV rack. There has also been a lot of work to hack these systems and make them even better. My main TiVo is an 87.5 hour unit.
And for the
No it isn't. Different internals and different software. All of the TiVos are the same...Sony, Phillips, etc...but the UltimateTV is a different beast.
It's beta hardware...get over it. Did the Indrema ever crash in demos? I guess we'll never know since there weren't any.
I had WinXP Beta 2 and Debian Linux on my IBM X20 and they dual-booted just fine with LILO. Beginning to think Microsoft isn't the only one spreading FUD around here....
Thanks for the vote. Vote several times with diff mail addresses. Don't think they check them...never did mine.
Anyway... The most popular cheat tool is punkbuster. http://www.punkbuster.com/
I know it lets server operators decide if they want to make the client mandatory or an option. It supports several games, and I know it was updated for these new drivers.
There are several anti-cheat tools now that have been updated to disable these drivers or warn other players if someone uses them. If you play on a server that requires these tools you won't have to worry.
I guess it's time to ebay my eazel bags I got at LinuxWorld.
Poor Eazel....
I sometimes get spammed on ICQ, so one day I started quizing a spammer since I was bored. They don't get it. They just don't understand what they are doing. I tried for an hour to explain the costs involved and they don't care. They think bandwidth and mail storage is free and theirs for the taking.
:)
I pushed to get some kind of answer on the percentage of people that respond to them...they wouldn't say. I assume very close to zero.
The funniest thing was the guy I was messing with didn't think spamming on ICQ was actually spam. He sent one of those fake "Hey, help me out with my homepage. It's at www.makemoneynow.com (or something) messages. No, that isn't spam.
(Note: I know the link I mention in my sig asks for email addresses. Use a fake one, they don't check and she'd appreciate the votes.)
So what should not be allowed to be included? Take CD-R/W support. Two years ago that was definately an option that most people added on to their system, but what about today when almost all new systems come with a CD-RW drive? Shouldn't that be in the OS now since almost everyone will want support? If Roxio wants to sell a CD writing app they need to make it better and easier to use than the included support.
Streaming media is now a common thing. Real had their chance to grab that market and failed due to their bloated impelementation. Is that Microsoft's fault? I don't think so.
I don't agree with the whole "bundling IE was a bad thing" argument. If Netscape had been better, we'd still be using it today even though it would be a seperate download. IE2 came with NT at the time and I didn't know ANYONE that used it. Everyone installed Netscape.
My case is too loud. I'm an overclocker and I've got about 8 fans in my case right now. It's just too loud as it is. I didn't really want to build a water cooling rig myself, but now that these guys have one integrated into the case I'm going to do it.
Anyone know what the lead time to get one is right now? I'm sure they are busy with all the press they've been getting lately.
I'm beginning to think a lot of companies like spam, similar to how anti-virus companies like viruses. Makes them money. I just priced some email filtering software for Exchange and it's like $6K! You've got to be kidding me.
:)
So... this is another win for free software. Instead of spending $6K on commercial-ware I'm building a Linux system to act as a mail relay and start using RBL and some simple content filtering. What are people's results with doing similar things? No one here cared about doing such things until the VPs started getting XXX teen hot pr0n spam.
I agree. But I can't buy a Dell server with an Athlon today. I can't buy a Compaq Prolient with an Athlon today. People who use them know they work and work very well... I think the real problem is managers. Compaq and Dell know that most managers wouldn't trust AMD in a server so they don't offer them. But, what they need to realize is that usually the technical staff are the one that specs out the servers and we LOVE the AMD chips.
I really wish AMD would get this stuff out the door. I'd love to be able to start buying dual or quad CPU AMD servers. No one takes them seriously in that market yet since you can only do single CPU systems.
:(
I'm also annoyed at the lack of some vendors support for AMD. I just ordered a new desktop for work. We use Compaq Deskpros. Not a single AMD system in all the Deskpro lines. The only way to get an AMD workstation from Compaq is to buy the Presario, which I won't do. I ended up getting a P4.
I wonder how long it will be like this in the server market even after AMD starts shipping the SMP chipsets. If Compaq doesn't put them in their good workstations, why would they put them in their servers? Give us our Athlons!
Make sure you have the right drivers installed and AGP functioning correctly. It sounds like you don't. I won't say it's always easy to get it going right either.... Grab something like CPUID and check the AGP settings.
The reason games don't run as well under Linux as Windows isn't the multitasking. Windows 2000 is a true multitasking OS, and it runs most games faster than Win9x.
The problem is maturity. The drivers and libraries for Windows have been tweaked, retweaked, and then tweaked again. Give the drivers and libraries on Linux the same treatment and I'm sure we'll see equally good results!
---
Go to http://www.sexiestgeekalive and vote for Angie this month! Yes, she knows they screwed up the link to her homepage.
linuxhelp.net has them. If you like it order one and support the effort, I do.
My wife and I saw this yesterday and we both really liked it. It's a good summer movie. The action was good...most of the special effects were very cool, but a few weren't. The kid in the movie didn't get in the way a lot or make it stupid.
I thought it was definately worth the price, especially the matinee we saw. Since it wasn't a total action movie or anything it's also a good date movie!
Mine is already ordered. Everyone should take some time and check out OpenBSD. Excellent product. Secure and functional, and the default install doesn't install 2GB worth of junk.
You wouldn't get paid much. I used to write reviews and articles for HardwareCentral (part of Internet.com, like LinuxPlanet). If it wasn't for the free hardware I wouldn't have done it. Very, very little money in it.