Preaching to the choir...I posted below the specs of mine as well.
KICK ASS MACHINE.
Went back to return the warranty from BB, the manager said 'oh, the warranty covers more than whats listed' I said, write it down.
So now I have it covered including: 1 pixel Battery for 3 years Anything normally covered by eMachines is now covered by BB...(Glad that manager was kinda dumb/really nice)
I had the battery fail 3 days ago, sadly. Called it in, they overnighted a replacement to me. Let's see you beat that for warranty support!
True true about gaming from bed, when I'm done, I just hit the blue-glowing button to have it hibernate, roll over and go to sleep. Doesn't get any better than that.
However, I heard that they've discontinued this model, the next one (supposedly) will have a 9700 and a 3200+ CPU. So if you can find it, the m6805 has DVD/CD-RW, which apparently only BB caries anymore, and Circuit City had the m6807, which was identical except it had a DVD Burner and cost another $100.
Blur? What's this blur you speak of? I don't see any on any of mine, even those that are 1-3 years old and have sold off to upgrade. Plasmas blur like a mofo, plus, how far away were you? When you're at less-than-optimal, I've noticed megablur as well.
High Latency? Nope...we play {Halo,Quake III,HL/Steam} at college, on 802.11b, with pings of 20-50, which is not noticible (except when the slow laptop hosts)
Low Brightness? Not a problem, unless I'm outside with the sun in my face or on the screen.
Low color quality? Good enough for me, I can't see the difference in my games versus a CRT, I've ditched the CRTs altogether, but then again, I'm not addicted to having 350,203,234,234^10 colors either. (Yes, I'm exaggerating)
We seriously game on our laptops because they're mobile, powerful and capable. Sure, we have slightly longer load times, but mine (eMachines 6805) gets ~3 hours normally, 1-1 1/2 gaming. And that's with a Desktop Replacement designed laptop.
I know some of you are going to roll your eyes and go 'eMachines? POS'
However, let me tell you...my m6805 laptop is wonderful.
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (1.8GHz) 512DDR2700 (can upgrade to max of 2x1GB, one of which voids warranty, buried in case) 60GB 4200RPM (Probably upgrade to faster HD soon, this is the only downside) ATI Radeon 9600 Mobile 64MB (9600 standard, same speeds, only 64MB) 15.4" Widescreen DVD/CD-RW 10/100 LAN 802.11b/g
This thing works just as well as my desktop almost, except for load times. That's got an Athlon 2800+ with 512MB and a 9600XT. Halo I just have to turn down like one more setting on the laptop.
I'm honestly contemplating selling my desktop and upgrading my laptop more, it's that powerful.
Plus, the warranty is great. Battery died two days ago (don't know why, totally failed) I called it in shortly after that, and they overnighted it for free to me. So 24 hour turnaround on battery replacement.
On the left side, under the 'Patents' column: 'Status' link: http://pair.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/final/home.pl
and under 'Trademarks': 'Status' link: http://tarr.uspto.gov/ 'Search' link: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang =english&p_d=trmk
So, how long have those been up? Does the USPTO understand what this patent means? It means that even the patent office is in violation of this patent, if it is valid.
I'm in Anoka County of Minnesota...last I heard, we were the 3rd worst county in the US for Meth Labs. (Trust me...they wouldn't be lying...house across the street, heh...)
Little town (St. Francis)...let's see, what's there to do?
-Bowling alley (that has uber-restrictive rules on friends/significant others/etc) -Park -Gas Station
Nearest town with any entertainment: 20 miles
Average minimum age in that town to enjoy said entertainment: 18-21
So what do we do up here?
Well...the city just north of us (Cambridge) has the highest pregnancy rate in the state. Yup...even higher than Minneapolis/St. Paul. So we smoke, drink and have sex. Wonderful. No wonder our school underperforms on everything.
So let's make the thing that keeps some of us busy NOT making babys (drawing on welfare) doing/selling drugs (killing people from abuse,etc) or drinking (DUI/DWI) have worse punishments/effects on society than those things.
Okay Hatch...so you're saying child sex, alchol and drug abuse are better than copyright violations? Okay...you can deal with them, and pay the bills.
I thought that too...it seems like people are *really* starting to go after Google.
*Puts on tinfoil hat*
Maybe Microsoft is covertly sending money to these people, in an attempt to make Google look bad now, since they:
-Didn't give in to SCO's demands for protection money^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing fees. -Is MS's biggest online competitor for search engines -Sees Google as the Linux of search engines (quick, clean, easy, no popups/annoying ads etc)
Maybe I'm just parinoid, but perhaps Bill's throwing money multiple directions at once.
No, that would be offering Google an oppertunity at the product that bests theirs. Whereas this is a case of 'pay me money to shut me up or I'll cause your ad revenue to plummit and your results to be invalid.'
I reinstalled my desktop, Windows XP Pro (I know...*gasp*...it's only til I get a chance to install Debian for the first time, which won't be from home...no broadband availible, working on that)
Installed Mozilla 1.6, still haven't installed Flash.
Get yourself some free modification utilities, and etc.
Also, I don't know what kind of access you guys will have, but this is assuming you're in fair control of your systems:
Some that I use:
ZoneAlarm (Firewall) http://www.zonealarm.com
Get the free version - does enough if you don't want parts of XP phoning home, or have trouble with LAN virii. I also use it when setting up a new machine, especially when directly connected to the 'Net. Stops most viruses from getting in, especially Blaster and the like.
FreshDownload (Download Manager) http://www.freshdevices.com
You have to register - but it's free. Haven't sold my email yet or anything, Resumable downloads etc...only one I've found not to be spy-ware ad-ware riddled.
FreshUi (Tweaking Utility) http://www.freshdevices.com
Same as FreshDownload, useful for changing those buried settings for various things, mostly interface based stuff, but some under-the-hood stuff too.
XP Powertoys (Miscellaneous) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/p owertoys.asp Desktop Manager - Gives you 4 desktops (I know, not as many, but still works) Alt-Tab Replacement - Gives a screenshot of window Alt-Tabbing to...useful when have multiple unsaved docs open, etc... TweakUI - Same as FreshUi, but different options, these two combined give you alot of different options. OpenCommandWindowHere - right-click on folder option to open command prompt window at that folder...useful for deep or complicated folder names.
Azureus - Java BitTorrent client (allows all running in one app, shrink to tray icon)
Other programs abound, including Mozilla and OpenOffice if you need that kind of stuff.
If you're stumped on something, hit up the 'help' section...it oftentimes will actually help.
Anyone who used DOS and liked the command/? option for all info...it's back in XP, full-blast.
General Tips: Tab-completion is an option in TweakUI...ENABLE IT!
That's all I have time for right now...email me if need more tips...
Or something like it? I know BB used to sell RH, Suse and Mandrake instores...RH pulled theirs, but I think I still saw a couple of copies at the local one. Or else get something you think a shelter or someplace could use and donate it.
Or else cords, battery backups, headphones..adapters...some little trinket you've wanted for somethin. My last suggestion would be to just wander the store, you'll probably find something you could use.
They cannot make changes and sell those changes in binary-only form. They have to either provide direct source code (usually an extra CD) or access to the source code. (FTP site for example) Other than those stipulations, you could charge $10,000,000 for it, if you so chose. Most companies that sell GPL products (without extra modifications not so covered by the GPL) give benefit for purchase by offering support, or access to high-speed dedicated servers, etc.
This is on Microsoft's site. Thus, if Bill were *truely* behind supporting these guys in getting them to last the longest against Linux, thenn MoneyCentral would of listed it as a 'buy.'
Any other investment sites that have a 'sell' or 'poor' or 'very high risk' rating on SCO?
I want to know when I can use Clippy in native Linux.
...In other news today...thousands of self-proclaimed 'slashdotters' heads exploded today, when one of their own (or a 'Microshaft' plant, as some call it) asked when the little Microsoft assistant would work under this 'Leeenux' thing.
Hmmm, I need an incoming email filter to load every filtered spam page and spider all links within it 100 times before deleting it.
Hmmm....normally, I don't respond to AC's...but this one's got an idea with it...the only problem is, it would allow them to certify the email address is real...so make it so it will *only* load those that don't have a bunch of random gibberish (all pointing to same page, but each unique to email sent to)
I know I'd install it. Heck, make it so I can have it que up the pages, since I'm on dialup, I'll let the fucker run all night. (Til I get highspeed- then it can just run in the background)
Dotless IP address -"Internet Explorer" (because IE came up too many times for the vulnerability in the first one)
and got: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&l r=lang _en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=Dotless+IP+address+-%22Int ernet+Explorer%22&btnG=Google+Search
(Note- check for the blank space(s)/. added to the above)
The following is taken from:
http://www.beesky.com/newsite/howto_dotless_ip.h tm l
How to make dotless IP URL's to amuse your friends
Web URL's like www.microsoft.com are merely alphanumeric representations of IP octets. What I mean is that for every hostname, like beesky.com, there is a corresponding ip address. In our case it is 198.88.0.2. A dotless IP is a 32-bit number (http://3327655938) that the IP stack resolves into its equivalent dotted IP format (198.88.0.2).
The dotless IP address, also called the "decimal address", can be easily calculated with this formula:
decimal=aaa*16777216+bbb*65536+ccc*256+ddd
If you get a url like http://3327655938/?key=5?index=beesky.rocks.com, just stick it in the first set of numbers, in this case 3327655938, into this form below to find out who it's really from.
Slashdot Mirror
check out the eMachines m6805/m6807. Couple of us already posted about it, see below.
This *is* exactly what you're talking about, and it KICKS ASS.
Preaching to the choir...I posted below the specs of mine as well.
KICK ASS MACHINE.
Went back to return the warranty from BB, the manager said 'oh, the warranty covers more than whats listed' I said, write it down.
So now I have it covered including:
1 pixel
Battery for 3 years
Anything normally covered by eMachines is now covered by BB...(Glad that manager was kinda dumb/really nice)
I had the battery fail 3 days ago, sadly. Called it in, they overnighted a replacement to me. Let's see you beat that for warranty support!
True true about gaming from bed, when I'm done, I just hit the blue-glowing button to have it hibernate, roll over and go to sleep. Doesn't get any better than that.
However, I heard that they've discontinued this model, the next one (supposedly) will have a 9700 and a 3200+ CPU. So if you can find it, the m6805 has DVD/CD-RW, which apparently only BB caries anymore, and Circuit City had the m6807, which was identical except it had a DVD Burner and cost another $100.
Good machine...grab it before it's gone:)
Blur? What's this blur you speak of? I don't see any on any of mine, even those that are 1-3 years old and have sold off to upgrade. Plasmas blur like a mofo, plus, how far away were you? When you're at less-than-optimal, I've noticed megablur as well.
High Latency? Nope...we play {Halo,Quake III,HL/Steam} at college, on 802.11b, with pings of 20-50, which is not noticible (except when the slow laptop hosts)
Low Brightness? Not a problem, unless I'm outside with the sun in my face or on the screen.
Low color quality? Good enough for me, I can't see the difference in my games versus a CRT, I've ditched the CRTs altogether, but then again, I'm not addicted to having 350,203,234,234^10 colors either. (Yes, I'm exaggerating)
We seriously game on our laptops because they're mobile, powerful and capable. Sure, we have slightly longer load times, but mine (eMachines 6805) gets ~3 hours normally, 1-1 1/2 gaming. And that's with a Desktop Replacement designed laptop.
I know some of you are going to roll your eyes and go 'eMachines? POS'
However, let me tell you...my m6805 laptop is wonderful.
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (1.8GHz)
512DDR2700 (can upgrade to max of 2x1GB, one of which voids warranty, buried in case)
60GB 4200RPM (Probably upgrade to faster HD soon, this is the only downside)
ATI Radeon 9600 Mobile 64MB (9600 standard, same speeds, only 64MB)
15.4" Widescreen
DVD/CD-RW
10/100 LAN
802.11b/g
This thing works just as well as my desktop almost, except for load times. That's got an Athlon 2800+ with 512MB and a 9600XT. Halo I just have to turn down like one more setting on the laptop.
I'm honestly contemplating selling my desktop and upgrading my laptop more, it's that powerful.
Plus, the warranty is great. Battery died two days ago (don't know why, totally failed) I called it in shortly after that, and they overnighted it for free to me. So 24 hour turnaround on battery replacement.
http://www.uspto.gov/
g =english&p_d=trmk
On the left side, under the 'Patents' column:
'Status' link: http://pair.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/final/home.pl
and under 'Trademarks':
'Status' link: http://tarr.uspto.gov/
'Search' link: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lan
So, how long have those been up? Does the USPTO understand what this patent means? It means that even the patent office is in violation of this patent, if it is valid.
I'm in Anoka County of Minnesota...last I heard, we were the 3rd worst county in the US for Meth Labs. (Trust me...they wouldn't be lying...house across the street, heh...)
Little town (St. Francis)...let's see, what's there to do?
-Bowling alley (that has uber-restrictive rules on friends/significant others/etc)
-Park
-Gas Station
Nearest town with any entertainment: 20 miles
Average minimum age in that town to enjoy said entertainment: 18-21
So what do we do up here?
Well...the city just north of us (Cambridge) has the highest pregnancy rate in the state. Yup...even higher than Minneapolis/St. Paul. So we smoke, drink and have sex. Wonderful. No wonder our school underperforms on everything.
So let's make the thing that keeps some of us busy NOT making babys (drawing on welfare) doing/selling drugs (killing people from abuse,etc) or drinking (DUI/DWI) have worse punishments/effects on society than those things.
Okay Hatch...so you're saying child sex, alchol and drug abuse are better than copyright violations? Okay...you can deal with them, and pay the bills.
I thought that too...it seems like people are *really* starting to go after Google.
*Puts on tinfoil hat*
Maybe Microsoft is covertly sending money to these people, in an attempt to make Google look bad now, since they:
-Didn't give in to SCO's demands for protection money^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licensing fees.
-Is MS's biggest online competitor for search engines
-Sees Google as the Linux of search engines (quick, clean, easy, no popups/annoying ads etc)
Maybe I'm just parinoid, but perhaps Bill's throwing money multiple directions at once.
No, that would be offering Google an oppertunity at the product that bests theirs. Whereas this is a case of 'pay me money to shut me up or I'll cause your ad revenue to plummit and your results to be invalid.'
The first is legal, whereas the second isn't.
Used to play those...totally forgot about it.
I still have Flash on my laptop, which I use when I need Flash. Plus, it's more often *not* on dialup, like at college.
Unlike this box.
I reinstalled my desktop, Windows XP Pro (I know...*gasp*...it's only til I get a chance to install Debian for the first time, which won't be from home...no broadband availible, working on that)
Installed Mozilla 1.6, still haven't installed Flash.
Man, I'm lovin' it.
Get yourself some free modification utilities, and etc.
p owertoys.asp
/? option for all info...it's back in XP, full-blast.
Also, I don't know what kind of access you guys will have, but this is assuming you're in fair control of your systems:
Some that I use:
ZoneAlarm (Firewall) http://www.zonealarm.com
Get the free version - does enough if you don't want parts of XP phoning home, or have trouble with LAN virii. I also use it when setting up a new machine, especially when directly connected to the 'Net. Stops most viruses from getting in, especially Blaster and the like.
FreshDownload (Download Manager) http://www.freshdevices.com
You have to register - but it's free. Haven't sold my email yet or anything, Resumable downloads etc...only one I've found not to be spy-ware ad-ware riddled.
FreshUi (Tweaking Utility) http://www.freshdevices.com
Same as FreshDownload, useful for changing those buried settings for various things, mostly interface based stuff, but some under-the-hood stuff too.
XP Powertoys (Miscellaneous) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/
Desktop Manager - Gives you 4 desktops (I know, not as many, but still works)
Alt-Tab Replacement - Gives a screenshot of window Alt-Tabbing to...useful when have multiple unsaved docs open, etc...
TweakUI - Same as FreshUi, but different options, these two combined give you alot of different options.
OpenCommandWindowHere - right-click on folder option to open command prompt window at that folder...useful for deep or complicated folder names.
Azureus - Java BitTorrent client (allows all running in one app, shrink to tray icon)
Other programs abound, including Mozilla and OpenOffice if you need that kind of stuff.
If you're stumped on something, hit up the 'help' section...it oftentimes will actually help.
Anyone who used DOS and liked the command
General Tips:
Tab-completion is an option in TweakUI...ENABLE IT!
That's all I have time for right now...email me if need more tips...
The site's menus go funky under Mozilla 1.6 on Windows, yet views JUST FINE under IE 6...
So yes, Microsoft has bought this thing, completely.
Microsoft already paid their 'protection' to SCO, as well as Sun. They both bought their licensing. So neither of their OSes are affected.
Driving While Intoxicated
Or something like it? I know BB used to sell RH, Suse and Mandrake instores...RH pulled theirs, but I think I still saw a couple of copies at the local one. Or else get something you think a shelter or someplace could use and donate it.
Or else cords, battery backups, headphones..adapters...some little trinket you've wanted for somethin. My last suggestion would be to just wander the store, you'll probably find something you could use.
They cannot make changes and sell those changes in binary-only form. They have to either provide direct source code (usually an extra CD) or access to the source code. (FTP site for example) Other than those stipulations, you could charge $10,000,000 for it, if you so chose. Most companies that sell GPL products (without extra modifications not so covered by the GPL) give benefit for purchase by offering support, or access to high-speed dedicated servers, etc.
If I could get a copy as well, or else could you perhaps post the code right here? Email's above. Thanks!
I've got a Compaq (HP Compaq, bought it last year on Black Friday) laptop.
Model: Presario 915US
It's been posted for 45 minutes and the server is *STILL* *UP*? Come on guys...it's friday night. We should all be at home, surfing /.
Don't tell me someones on one of those d...d.....d......things with w....www...w....them.
I just couldn't take it.
Primary/Secondary Controllers. (Controller 1/2 or 0/1 depending on manufacturer)
Why would we want Primary/Secondary used for two things very close to each other? Too much confusion.
Hey!
This is on Microsoft's site. Thus, if Bill were *truely* behind supporting these guys in getting them to last the longest against Linux, thenn MoneyCentral would of listed it as a 'buy.'
Any other investment sites that have a 'sell' or 'poor' or 'very high risk' rating on SCO?
...In other news today...thousands of self-proclaimed 'slashdotters' heads exploded today, when one of their own (or a 'Microshaft' plant, as some call it) asked when the little Microsoft assistant would work under this 'Leeenux' thing.
Hmmm....normally, I don't respond to AC's...but this one's got an idea with it...the only problem is, it would allow them to certify the email address is real...so make it so it will *only* load those that don't have a bunch of random gibberish (all pointing to same page, but each unique to email sent to)
I know I'd install it. Heck, make it so I can have it que up the pages, since I'm on dialup, I'll let the fucker run all night. (Til I get highspeed- then it can just run in the background)
Here's an idea I think someone should run with.
I googled for:
l r=lang _en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=Dotless+IP+address+-%22Int ernet+Explorer%22&btnG=Google+Search
/. added to the above)
h tm l
Dotless IP address -"Internet Explorer" (because IE came up too many times for the vulnerability in the first one)
and got:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&
(Note- check for the blank space(s)
The following is taken from:
http://www.beesky.com/newsite/howto_dotless_ip.
How to make dotless IP URL's to amuse your friends
Web URL's like www.microsoft.com are merely alphanumeric representations of IP octets. What I mean is that for every hostname, like beesky.com, there is a corresponding ip address. In our case it is 198.88.0.2. A dotless IP is a 32-bit number (http://3327655938) that the IP stack resolves into its equivalent dotted IP format (198.88.0.2).
The dotless IP address, also called the "decimal address", can be easily calculated with this formula:
decimal=aaa*16777216+bbb*65536+ccc*256+ddd
If you get a url like http://3327655938/?key=5?index=beesky.rocks.com, just stick it in the first set of numbers, in this case 3327655938, into this form below to find out who it's really from.