Here is a link to someone working on drivers for the Intersil chipset. Supposedly they are very stable and full featured now. I just picked up some LinkSys cards using this chipset myself, and am just waiting for the access point. If you don't want an access point, this driver should also work in adhoc mode, or it seems to have a mode that makes a workstation with a wireless NIC an access point.
I saw one of these at LinuxWorld and wasn't that impressed. The Palm has a much nicer interface and app selection. If someone didn't tell you, you wouldn't know it ran Linux.
Use a good wrist rest and switch to a trackball. That's what I did a couple of years ago after my wrists started acheing. My wife did the same thing. My wrists never hurt now.
They are much nicer than the other gel filled rests that others have. Last longer, and aren't too soft. I now use a Logitech Marble+ trackball at home and work. The new Microsoft trackballs are good too..but either way go optical. It takes a little while to get used to a trackball but now I'm just as fast and accurate with it as I was with a mouse, even in games.
I emailed the guy that makes the legos about the Tux and BSD daemons. They go for about $650, which includes bricks and shipping in the US. Expensive, but not THAT bad for a hand built piece of art.
With the problem that Intel has had, do you really trust them too? I have no problems rolling out AMD machines. I know how stable the Athlons are. They don't have compatibility problems.... Look at the number of machines being sold by Compaq and Gateway with Athlons in them.
The real question about high availability situations are the rest of the system. Motherboards...power supplies... disk subsystems...etc. I don't think anyone is building real Athlon servers yet. I know Dell, Gateway, and Compaq don't yet. I wouldn't even consider putting in a clone in a situation like you describe.
Go to a store and compare the ReplayTV and the TiVo side by side. Use the interface..mess with the remotes. I think you'll see why TiVo is winning. Sure, there is a service fee but if you get the lifetime the TiVo box costs the same or less than the ReplayTV.
The only feature the TiVo is missing over ReplayTV is 30 second skip... but after using the fast forward on TiVo a few times you know when to stop and hit play...it even adjusts back a little for your reaction time. The reason TiVo didn't want the 30 second skip is that they are working deals with advertisers and they didn't want to make them mad. On some commercials you will get a small TiVo icon (called a TiVomatic) where you can hit one button to tell the TiVo to record the show currently being advertised.
Whenver one of these stories comes up, a number of people always say you can build a PC to do it just as well. Try it. The great thing about the TiVo is the integration in to the audio/video setup. I can't imagine watching TV without one now. Sure, a PC can record shows in to mpeg...but they don't record things I might like (which get overwritten by things I want recorded when out of space). The PC doesn't have the great interface... It doesn't have a lot of things, and the TiVo costs less than a new high speed video card.
Your TiVo shouldn't crash. Usually a crashing TiVo is the first sign of a failing drive. Ours has gone for months without a problem, as has 3 or 4 other people's I know. My friend's TiVo would crash every so often...and then the drive just died.
Office is expensive, I think everyone agrees with that. Office also works well, even though it is Microsoft.
I use Office for a number of things that I just can't get done with Abiword or StarOffice right now. My publisher uses templates that only work in MS Word, even when I'm doing something on Linux which is a whole other discussion.:)
When a project comes up that requires MS Office something like this subscription model may work well. It may also help others that could use it, but don't want to drop $500 at one time on it. I'm not so sure how well this will be adopted to businesses. When our Internet connection goes down I hear enough complaining about no web and email, I don't want to have to worry about no Office apps for the marketing and sales department too.
The "problem" with going to a 169.x.x.x address is a new way to automatically set up a home network, without DHCP being needed. It's an RFC and is standard. So if you have 3 PCs at home, you can boot them all up and they'll talk over IP without using a DHCP server. They figure out which addresses are taken.
It's a disk you put in your system and it kind of inventories to see which software you run for statistical and marketing tracking. They offer $50 to return it.
I declined...No way I'm putting some unknown disk in one of our PCs like that.
At Wang Global we had 20K users on 7 Exchange servers. They worked just fine. I've also done 500 on Dual servers with 512MB of RAM and they were fine as well. This was v5.5, which I know was much better behaved than 5.0.
As for backup... Most packages can now backup and restore single mailboxes easily. It takes longer, but it works fine. To totally rebuild a failed server you do have to restore the entire database. If they already have WinNT they already have a backup solution. Just get the Exchange add-on which usually costs $1K-$2K.
Exchange works well, when designed well. I've done Exchange deployments in companies many times this size, I've admin'd companies larger than this too. If you set it up and do your sites and organization layout correctly, you'll have few problems. 1000 users is NOTHING to Exchange. You can easily do that on one server in a single site, and it'll run itself.
OutLook has security problems. But step 1 is to put in a GOOD anti-virus app at your entry point to Exchange, and all other mailbox servers if you really want to cover yourself. Make sure and get a backup software with a good Exchange interface. I've used both ArcServe and Backup Exec, and prefer Backup Exec. An option is to do a brick by brick backup where you can restore an individual mailbox, but be careful as this is much slower than a database backup. Microsoft has a number of whitepapers on their site about the care and feeding of the Exchange database. With v5.5 most of that is no longer needed. You don't need to repack the database every few months like you used to.
They also offer some excellent whitepapers on optimizing the server. This mainly has to do with memory and how to set up the drives for performance and fault tolerance.
The appeal of Exchange over things such as pine and sendmail is integration of the calender and task scheduling. That is a HUGE feature for the management types.
The real question is to look at the reason to change. It will be effort to move mailbox info over to Exchange so make sure it's worth it. I do mostly Unix work now, but still use Exchange/Outlook for email. I just think it's one thing that Microsoft really got right. There are a number of companies with over 100K users on Exchange.
I don't see it as getting shut down due to file sharing. I see it as getting shut down due to lack of funding. They weren't making money....they couldn't get another round of funding. There are plenty of these stories around right now.
I'd just like to thank the guys working on Bastille. I've used it on several PCs and recommended it to many people as a good primer on securing their box.
I hope they do make good progress on their next version. I've switched a number of our boxes to Debian, and will most likely be deploying some Debian servers soon.
Saying that... I love my TiVo, and I don't see something like this replacing it. The reason the TiVo is so popular is the full integration it has. There is no real seperation for me from my TV, as would be required by having my PC do the work.
With the price of a 20 hour TiVo $199 after rebate, I don't see anything beating it. Sure, you have to pay a monthly fee but it's only $99 for a year, or $199 for lifetime of the unit. If 20 hours isn't enough you can always add a big HD to it later.
The interface is great, the features are great....
No. I'm talking about TiVo owners. Most of the TiVo owners I know are just home consumer users, with zero need for an Ethernet port. By putting an Ethernet interface on a device they have to support it. Not something they want to do for the minority of users that use it.
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Here is a link to someone working on drivers for the Intersil chipset. Supposedly they are very stable and full featured now. I just picked up some LinkSys cards using this chipset myself, and am just waiting for the access point. If you don't want an access point, this driver should also work in adhoc mode, or it seems to have a mode that makes a workstation with a wireless NIC an access point.
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
I saw one of these at LinuxWorld and wasn't that impressed. The Palm has a much nicer interface and app selection. If someone didn't tell you, you wouldn't know it ran Linux.
Anand has been doing a better job lately.
Use a good wrist rest and switch to a trackball. That's what I did a couple of years ago after my wrists started acheing. My wife did the same thing. My wrists never hurt now.
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They are much nicer than the other gel filled rests that others have. Last longer, and aren't too soft. I now use a Logitech Marble+ trackball at home and work. The new Microsoft trackballs are good too..but either way go optical. It takes a little while to get used to a trackball but now I'm just as fast and accurate with it as I was with a mouse, even in games.
The .org booths rarely give away anything this "nifty". This is why..it costs a lot to do.
The DirecTiVo has 2.0. It's not out for the normal units yet.
I emailed the guy that makes the legos about the Tux and BSD daemons. They go for about $650, which includes bricks and shipping in the US. Expensive, but not THAT bad for a hand built piece of art.
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We're thinking of getting one.
This was added to the v2.0 TiVo software, plus a lot more.
With the problem that Intel has had, do you really trust them too? I have no problems rolling out AMD machines. I know how stable the Athlons are. They don't have compatibility problems.... Look at the number of machines being sold by Compaq and Gateway with Athlons in them.
The real question about high availability situations are the rest of the system. Motherboards...power supplies... disk subsystems...etc. I don't think anyone is building real Athlon servers yet. I know Dell, Gateway, and Compaq don't yet. I wouldn't even consider putting in a clone in a situation like you describe.
Go to a store and compare the ReplayTV and the TiVo side by side. Use the interface..mess with the remotes. I think you'll see why TiVo is winning. Sure, there is a service fee but if you get the lifetime the TiVo box costs the same or less than the ReplayTV.
The only feature the TiVo is missing over ReplayTV is 30 second skip... but after using the fast forward on TiVo a few times you know when to stop and hit play...it even adjusts back a little for your reaction time. The reason TiVo didn't want the 30 second skip is that they are working deals with advertisers and they didn't want to make them mad. On some commercials you will get a small TiVo icon (called a TiVomatic) where you can hit one button to tell the TiVo to record the show currently being advertised.
Whenver one of these stories comes up, a number of people always say you can build a PC to do it just as well. Try it. The great thing about the TiVo is the integration in to the audio/video setup. I can't imagine watching TV without one now. Sure, a PC can record shows in to mpeg...but they don't record things I might like (which get overwritten by things I want recorded when out of space). The PC doesn't have the great interface... It doesn't have a lot of things, and the TiVo costs less than a new high speed video card.
Your TiVo shouldn't crash. Usually a crashing TiVo is the first sign of a failing drive. Ours has gone for months without a problem, as has 3 or 4 other people's I know. My friend's TiVo would crash every so often...and then the drive just died.
The PS2 can use a standard USB keyboard and mouse, today. Just try it with Unreal...and other games support it too.
Office is expensive, I think everyone agrees with that. Office also works well, even though it is Microsoft.
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I use Office for a number of things that I just can't get done with Abiword or StarOffice right now. My publisher uses templates that only work in MS Word, even when I'm doing something on Linux which is a whole other discussion.
When a project comes up that requires MS Office something like this subscription model may work well. It may also help others that could use it, but don't want to drop $500 at one time on it. I'm not so sure how well this will be adopted to businesses. When our Internet connection goes down I hear enough complaining about no web and email, I don't want to have to worry about no Office apps for the marketing and sales department too.
The "problem" with going to a 169.x.x.x address is a new way to automatically set up a home network, without DHCP being needed. It's an RFC and is standard. So if you have 3 PCs at home, you can boot them all up and they'll talk over IP without using a DHCP server. They figure out which addresses are taken.
It's a disk you put in your system and it kind of inventories to see which software you run for statistical and marketing tracking. They offer $50 to return it.
I declined...No way I'm putting some unknown disk in one of our PCs like that.
At Wang Global we had 20K users on 7 Exchange servers. They worked just fine. I've also done 500 on Dual servers with 512MB of RAM and they were fine as well. This was v5.5, which I know was much better behaved than 5.0.
As for backup... Most packages can now backup and restore single mailboxes easily. It takes longer, but it works fine. To totally rebuild a failed server you do have to restore the entire database. If they already have WinNT they already have a backup solution. Just get the Exchange add-on which usually costs $1K-$2K.
Exchange works well, when designed well. I've done Exchange deployments in companies many times this size, I've admin'd companies larger than this too. If you set it up and do your sites and organization layout correctly, you'll have few problems. 1000 users is NOTHING to Exchange. You can easily do that on one server in a single site, and it'll run itself.
OutLook has security problems. But step 1 is to put in a GOOD anti-virus app at your entry point to Exchange, and all other mailbox servers if you really want to cover yourself. Make sure and get a backup software with a good Exchange interface. I've used both ArcServe and Backup Exec, and prefer Backup Exec. An option is to do a brick by brick backup where you can restore an individual mailbox, but be careful as this is much slower than a database backup. Microsoft has a number of whitepapers on their site about the care and feeding of the Exchange database. With v5.5 most of that is no longer needed. You don't need to repack the database every few months like you used to.
They also offer some excellent whitepapers on optimizing the server. This mainly has to do with memory and how to set up the drives for performance and fault tolerance.
The appeal of Exchange over things such as pine and sendmail is integration of the calender and task scheduling. That is a HUGE feature for the management types.
The real question is to look at the reason to change. It will be effort to move mailbox info over to Exchange so make sure it's worth it. I do mostly Unix work now, but still use Exchange/Outlook for email. I just think it's one thing that Microsoft really got right. There are a number of companies with over 100K users on Exchange.
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I don't see it as getting shut down due to file sharing. I see it as getting shut down due to lack of funding. They weren't making money....they couldn't get another round of funding. There are plenty of these stories around right now.
If they cheated on this test, they need to find new cheaters.
I'd just like to thank the guys working on Bastille. I've used it on several PCs and recommended it to many people as a good primer on securing their box.
I hope they do make good progress on their next version. I've switched a number of our boxes to Debian, and will most likely be deploying some Debian servers soon.
Good work guys!
That service is only free during the Beta.
Saying that... I love my TiVo, and I don't see something like this replacing it. The reason the TiVo is so popular is the full integration it has. There is no real seperation for me from my TV, as would be required by having my PC do the work.
With the price of a 20 hour TiVo $199 after rebate, I don't see anything beating it. Sure, you have to pay a monthly fee but it's only $99 for a year, or $199 for lifetime of the unit. If 20 hours isn't enough you can always add a big HD to it later.
The interface is great, the features are great....
He loves his. The only problem is that they are longer than a normal car stereo, so not all cars will work. You may have to do some rearranging.
He's using his with a normal desktop drive, and so far it's been fine. I think he's had it a few months.
No. I'm talking about TiVo owners. Most of the TiVo owners I know are just home consumer users, with zero need for an Ethernet port. By putting an Ethernet interface on a device they have to support it. Not something they want to do for the minority of users that use it.
The TiVo stores two weeks of data...and not just show times but Title, Description, Actors, Genre...etc, etc...
Plus dialing up they can get software updates and lineup changes.