With a network connection you can get around needing a phone line...which is handy for some.
For others, it means you can mount storage on a network drive to store shows on. Adding a drive to a TiVo is easy... changing a drive for a larger one is NOT. This way you can just dump stuff on a server somewhere.
Some do now with cable and DSL. But how many know how to NAT more than one box behind their connect? Few..VERY few. The dialup on the TiVo works just fine.... there wasn't a need for Ethernet.
But...hackers want Ethernet so we can do other things, like remotely mount network storage and such. These weren't in the original TiVo design as supported features, so why spend money on the Ethernet hookup?
Intel is about to release new low power chips. If these things are anywhere in the same ballpark as the Crusoe in power use, it isn't worth the change.
With the new Intel chips Compaq doesn't have to reengineer much. Customers already know what a Pentium is. How many know what a Crusoe is? And, there are no chances of an odd incompatibility with the Pentium like there may be for th Crusoe. Just seems to make sense to me.
Compaq sells Athlons by the truckload in their desktops. Just go to any Best Buy and look.
With IBM and Compaq both now not doing Crusoe notebooks, I think there is some problem that we don't know. Either price, or a real performance issue. Maybe the final power savings in a full size notebook just aren't worth the effort required to make a new model like this.
We need to do some things with a *LOT* of very small files. UFS doesn't handle this well and the only option we've found is to buy a copy of Veritas File System for every Ultra 5 box....which is $3K/license.
I can do everything we want with Linux and ReiserFS for much less money.
I go buy a game, pop it in my Playstation 2, sit on the couch with my feet up and play it on my 53" TV.
No video drivers. No sound drivers. No rebooting to Windows. No moving my computer to play it on the TV in some wack res. No playing it on my 19" monitor. No compatibility problems.
None of that. I pop in a CD and play. Plus, I like arcade type games that aren't real involved and there are just more of those on consoles. I still play PC games...mainly stuff that just wouldnt carry over well to a console like strategy games and MechWarrior games. But consoles are a LONG way from obsolete when it takes a video card that costs as much as the whole console to compete.
No doubt, the Aeron from Herman Miller. EXCELLENT chair that comes in several sizes, and is fully adjustable. I love mine. They go for about $700-750 but worth EVERY penny.
It's really worth the time to find one to try out.
This is news for nerds. I'm a/. reader and got my PS2 today. In fact, my/. reading wife waiting out in front of target. It's news to us. Not every story has to be about how some big company is taking some right away.
Digital Convergence had to pay Neomedia. Neomedia owns the patent that lets you print a barcode on a card, and do a reference against a database to return a URL. Yes, this is patented. Had DC not done this they would have been sued, badly.
Someone mentioned gocode.com. They use our backend, and therefore do not infringe on the patent since we don't.
I'm always amazed that people are surprised that an employer is reading their mail. Users need to realize that the computer they use at work belongs to their employer, as does the network, the internet connection, and the service to keep it running.
Given that, I've never been anywhere that just checked everyone's email. The person they check on has been doing other things that make the employer suspect something is up.
But be warned, there are plenty of applications out now that scan email for keywords whether it be naughty words or things that may be confidential to the company.
Well, maybe 5 mins. I just wrote a script that updates my nightly build every night. That way I have a fresh copy of Mozilla waiting for me every morning.
Apache-ssl is just a patch to the source code. You end up with an SSL enabled httpsd binary. You run that for your SSL site, and the normal Apache for your non-SSL site.
mod_ssl is just a module that apache loads and uses when it needs SSL. Seems to be a cleaner design and install for me. I've switched several of our servers over... It also seems to be the "new" way of doing it. I know my O'Reilly book covered apache-ssl, but all the current online info I found referenced mod_ssl.
Their product is named SuSe Linux 7.0. They don't mean "Linux 7.0", they mean "SuSe Linux 7.0". It says that everywhere else in the article but that one spot.
Yes, students do pay. They pay to access the network for their studies. Napster isn't included in that. I think he should just block Napster..there will always be the argument that a student could go over their quota with legit usage. Just block the things that aren't.
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http://www.tivofaq.com/hack tells you how. Put the new drive in a PC, boot off the Linux boot disk and run a command. Put the drive in the TiVo. Easy.
With a network connection you can get around needing a phone line...which is handy for some.
For others, it means you can mount storage on a network drive to store shows on. Adding a drive to a TiVo is easy... changing a drive for a larger one is NOT. This way you can just dump stuff on a server somewhere.
Some do now with cable and DSL. But how many know how to NAT more than one box behind their connect? Few..VERY few. The dialup on the TiVo works just fine.... there wasn't a need for Ethernet.
But...hackers want Ethernet so we can do other things, like remotely mount network storage and such. These weren't in the original TiVo design as supported features, so why spend money on the Ethernet hookup?
abcnews.com is forwarding you to another page. It does that for me in Linux. Just go to abcnews.go.com....that usually fixes it.
Intel is about to release new low power chips. If these things are anywhere in the same ballpark as the Crusoe in power use, it isn't worth the change.
With the new Intel chips Compaq doesn't have to reengineer much. Customers already know what a Pentium is. How many know what a Crusoe is? And, there are no chances of an odd incompatibility with the Pentium like there may be for th Crusoe. Just seems to make sense to me.
Compaq sells Athlons by the truckload in their desktops. Just go to any Best Buy and look.
With IBM and Compaq both now not doing Crusoe notebooks, I think there is some problem that we don't know. Either price, or a real performance issue. Maybe the final power savings in a full size notebook just aren't worth the effort required to make a new model like this.
Go buy the Component cable for $10. It just doesn't come with one since not many people will use it.
Anyone know of a site with plans to build a case out of Legos? Not just to cover another case, but actually make one with Legos.
Hey, you're right. Damn.
I saw those benchmarks at the UltraLinux site but they are very old, and was curious if anyone had done some new ones.
I agree completely with the hardware. We can do so much more with a PC based server than with a Sun box. We aren't exactly using E10Ks here.
We need to do some things with a *LOT* of very small files. UFS doesn't handle this well and the only option we've found is to buy a copy of Veritas File System for every Ultra 5 box....which is $3K/license.
I can do everything we want with Linux and ReiserFS for much less money.
I go buy a game, pop it in my Playstation 2, sit on the couch with my feet up and play it on my 53" TV.
No video drivers. No sound drivers. No rebooting to Windows. No moving my computer to play it on the TV in some wack res. No playing it on my 19" monitor. No compatibility problems.
None of that. I pop in a CD and play. Plus, I like arcade type games that aren't real involved and there are just more of those on consoles. I still play PC games...mainly stuff that just wouldnt carry over well to a console like strategy games and MechWarrior games. But consoles are a LONG way from obsolete when it takes a video card that costs as much as the whole console to compete.
No doubt, the Aeron from Herman Miller. EXCELLENT chair that comes in several sizes, and is fully adjustable. I love mine. They go for about $700-750 but worth EVERY penny.
It's really worth the time to find one to try out.
This is news for nerds. I'm a /. reader and got my PS2 today. In fact, my /. reading wife waiting out in front of target. It's news to us. Not every story has to be about how some big company is taking some right away.
No. Because YOU pay for that service. Your company pays for the service at work. Big difference.
Digital Convergence had to pay Neomedia. Neomedia owns the patent that lets you print a barcode on a card, and do a reference against a database to return a URL. Yes, this is patented. Had DC not done this they would have been sued, badly.
Someone mentioned gocode.com. They use our backend, and therefore do not infringe on the patent since we don't.
Yes, they are odd patents, but there you go.
Have them move you from the Seattle POP to the New York City POP. Latency will go way down. They are also in process of setting up an Atlanta POP.
I'm always amazed that people are surprised that an employer is reading their mail. Users need to realize that the computer they use at work belongs to their employer, as does the network, the internet connection, and the service to keep it running.
Given that, I've never been anywhere that just checked everyone's email. The person they check on has been doing other things that make the employer suspect something is up.
But be warned, there are plenty of applications out now that scan email for keywords whether it be naughty words or things that may be confidential to the company.
Well, maybe 5 mins. I just wrote a script that updates my nightly build every night. That way I have a fresh copy of Mozilla waiting for me every morning.
If anyone knows where I can get a Commodore PC-10 Model III let me know.
Apache-ssl is just a patch to the source code. You end up with an SSL enabled httpsd binary. You run that for your SSL site, and the normal Apache for your non-SSL site.
mod_ssl is just a module that apache loads and uses when it needs SSL. Seems to be a cleaner design and install for me. I've switched several of our servers over... It also seems to be the "new" way of doing it. I know my O'Reilly book covered apache-ssl, but all the current online info I found referenced mod_ssl.
Their product is named SuSe Linux 7.0. They don't mean "Linux 7.0", they mean "SuSe Linux 7.0". It says that everywhere else in the article but that one spot.
SuSe ships their distribution in Germany before anywhere else. It may have been out before 2.2.17. I know sometimes it's a pretty decent lag time.
The SuSe Live Eval lets you run a Linux system off of a CD so you can check it out without doing a full install. Pretty cool.
And as usual, I'm sure you can download the SuSe install disc as well.
Yes, students do pay. They pay to access the network for their studies. Napster isn't included in that. I think he should just block Napster..there will always be the argument that a student could go over their quota with legit usage. Just block the things that aren't.