Of course you'll never be able to by the EEE 1000 in Australia. According to ASUS there isn't enough demand for it so you'll only get the Windows XP EEE 1000H and 1000HD.
1. The patch did not replace boot.ini it simply deleted it. 2. The only systems that would not boot are those with a custom install location, ie not installed to first partition or using the windows boot loader to boot multiple OS. Systems where windows was installed to c:\windows would get a simple error saying invalid boot.ini then continue booting just fine (i really must get around to replacing the boot.ini sometime on mine). 3. If it does affect someone system all you need is the windows install cd (you do have a legal copy right?) and about 5mins time, no data lose just an inconvenience.
This is a common misconception. Modern consumer hard drives are designed for lots of starting and stopping. Where you will actually wear them out is leaving them spun up all the time. You'll normally wear a drive out in (a very rough as it depends on manufacturer) two thirds the time using it in a permenatly spun up server type pattern as apposed to the standard start/stop desktop pattern.
There is a reason server rated hard drives cost more and it's not just because they spin faster.
Actually being one of the folks who have seen this and the production tools demoed and played with them (in the meeting room at work no less). I have to say its pretty cool.
And that is supports only ogg theora is a misnamona. The output video is an ogg container with xml packets and theora video interleaved in a format suitable for streaming. The source input video can be anything your system can play back and feed into the encoding/interleaving tools
considering it doesnt have a lithium ion battery you might want to read up before bagging it. it comes with a lithium polymer battery, which are considerably safer (you cant over charge them and cause em to explode) and they dont have the memory problems of an ion battery
if you have an opening for a PHP dude, you are going to get a trickling of resumes, but an ASP/ASP.net dude, you're gonna get a boatful.
actually this is a load of bull. In my experience when we advertise a PHP position we normally have the position filled within a week or two. Yet numerous positions for ASP/ASP.Net programmers are left sitting unfilled with the agency we advirtise through for weeks often months.
we had the same problem about 2yrs ago. we ended up rolling our own, i strongly suggest you dont do that. its pretty much dead now and only used for generating time sheets. TUTOS is one that we've looked at several times, unfortunatly it too isnt complete yet, but it is progressing. Another one we are looking at is the project management modules being built into the latest CVS version of Horde. While the CVS versions of the framework, email client, filtering system and to a lesser extent the calendar are pretty stable the other stuff is a quite quickly moving target.
at work we are in the process of changing over to a new mail server and going with Cyrus IMAP. We used to run WU-IMAP but on a dual P2-350 with half a gig it couldnt keep up with the load from 6 user accounts and everything was insanely slow.
our new mail server with cyrus is much faster, combined with the latest horde cvs (the best webmail client out there) its definatly the best combination we found, oh this is running on an identical spec server to the old one.
the latest horde cvs stuff is a major improvement on the old one, specially nice is ingo, the mail filter module, that has full support for editing the sieve scripts within a the cyrus imap server.
and before anyone comments about use squirrelmail its better, I have used squirrelmail on one of my other servers, still do in fact, simply because i havent had time to remove it and put horde/imp in.
I've recently had to do something very similar, well okay almost identical. Interactive graphs of various types and of various data sets from a Web Based interface.
We have larges amounts of data which is very hard to interperate by a human in something like a spreadsheet. The only really feasable way to do it was graphs. Of course with the amount of data we had transmitting it to the client to do client side rendering (ie Java) is also out of the question.
In the end we settled on JPGraph with an interactive interface built using PHP. So a wizard style interface to choose the type of graph, what data to graph, how to group the data, and finally the outputted graph with the option to change all the settings.
With good indexed data making PHP generated graphs with JPGraph interactive is quite painless and very powerful.
Just one suggestion, make sure you have a way for people to save the settings of the graphs they make so they can pull em later, keeps the PHBs happy:)
my boss is all for Open Source so we are free to donate patches and fixes back to OSS projects, as long as we dont reveal company IP to the world, so personally ive contributed some stuff to phpMyAdmin and PEAR, and another guy in the office is working with the NTLM authentication support in libcurl
http://rackshack.net/ by far the best hosts i've found, $99 a month for a celeron 1.3ghz with 512mb ram, and 60gig hard drive ($109 if you want the one gig ram). excellent connectivity, supports a bit lacking, but who needs it, its just an extra charge which i dont need, dont want anyone else stuffing with my server
All you people complaining about minor updates requiring the removal of great swathes of your systems, did you even read the press release and the posts on news.gnome.org from the developers, and the red carpet web site.
This is a known problem, not with Red Carpet but with your package databases (specially the RPM one), thats why they tell you to verify installed dependacies before you do anything else.
once I got rid of the problems in my rpm db (double installs of auth_ldap and kdesupport, which RC detected and told me there were problems with), RC worked perfectly, cept for some issues of crashing when installing the RPMS but that was a gal issue.
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I mean how can you fuck up sharepoint?
By installing it?
Of course the Windows version is going to outsell the Linux version when you refuse to ship the Linux version to a good percentage of markets.
Of course you'll never be able to by the EEE 1000 in Australia. According to ASUS there isn't enough demand for it so you'll only get the Windows XP EEE 1000H and 1000HD.
God this story is over blown
1. The patch did not replace boot.ini it simply deleted it.
2. The only systems that would not boot are those with a custom install location, ie not installed to first partition or using the windows boot loader to boot multiple OS. Systems where windows was installed to c:\windows would get a simple error saying invalid boot.ini then continue booting just fine (i really must get around to replacing the boot.ini sometime on mine).
3. If it does affect someone system all you need is the windows install cd (you do have a legal copy right?) and about 5mins time, no data lose just an inconvenience.
This is a common misconception. Modern consumer hard drives are designed for lots of starting and stopping. Where you will actually wear them out is leaving them spun up all the time. You'll normally wear a drive out in (a very rough as it depends on manufacturer) two thirds the time using it in a permenatly spun up server type pattern as apposed to the standard start/stop desktop pattern.
There is a reason server rated hard drives cost more and it's not just because they spin faster.
A shovel, a bag of lime and some carpet.
Actually being one of the folks who have seen this and the production tools demoed and played with them (in the meeting room at work no less). I have to say its pretty cool.
And that is supports only ogg theora is a misnamona. The output video is an ogg container with xml packets and theora video interleaved in a format suitable for streaming. The source input video can be anything your system can play back and feed into the encoding/interleaving tools
thats cause no one cares about the arse end of australia, victoria.
iiNet have deployed their hardware to where their customers are.
I've played everyday for at least an hour for the last month, even when the huricane went thru still managed to get on that day.
considering it doesnt have a lithium ion battery you might want to read up before bagging it. it comes with a lithium polymer battery, which are considerably safer (you cant over charge them and cause em to explode) and they dont have the memory problems of an ion battery
if you have an opening for a PHP dude, you are going to get a trickling of resumes, but an ASP/ASP.net dude, you're gonna get a boatful.
actually this is a load of bull. In my experience when we advertise a PHP position we normally have the position filled within a week or two. Yet numerous positions for ASP/ASP.Net programmers are left sitting unfilled with the agency we advirtise through for weeks often months.
since when, the iriver i picked up a couple of months ago has all those features
I run my own copy of rawdog with lots of custom scripts that pulls together all the blogs, news and comics i regularly read into a single page
Event Telstra over here in oz managed to figure it out so it cant be that hard
we had the same problem about 2yrs ago. we ended up rolling our own, i strongly suggest you dont do that. its pretty much dead now and only used for generating time sheets. TUTOS is one that we've looked at several times, unfortunatly it too isnt complete yet, but it is progressing. Another one we are looking at is the project management modules being built into the latest CVS version of Horde. While the CVS versions of the framework, email client, filtering system and to a lesser extent the calendar are pretty stable the other stuff is a quite quickly moving target.
at work we are in the process of changing over to a new mail server and going with Cyrus IMAP. We used to run WU-IMAP but on a dual P2-350 with half a gig it couldnt keep up with the load from 6 user accounts and everything was insanely slow.
our new mail server with cyrus is much faster, combined with the latest horde cvs (the best webmail client out there) its definatly the best combination we found, oh this is running on an identical spec server to the old one.
the latest horde cvs stuff is a major improvement on the old one, specially nice is ingo, the mail filter module, that has full support for editing the sieve scripts within a the cyrus imap server.
and before anyone comments about use squirrelmail its better, I have used squirrelmail on one of my other servers, still do in fact, simply because i havent had time to remove it and put horde/imp in.
I've recently had to do something very similar, well okay almost identical. Interactive graphs of various types and of various data sets from a Web Based interface.
:)
We have larges amounts of data which is very hard to interperate by a human in something like a spreadsheet. The only really feasable way to do it was graphs. Of course with the amount of data we had transmitting it to the client to do client side rendering (ie Java) is also out of the question.
In the end we settled on JPGraph with an interactive interface built using PHP. So a wizard style interface to choose the type of graph, what data to graph, how to group the data, and finally the outputted graph with the option to change all the settings.
With good indexed data making PHP generated graphs with JPGraph interactive is quite painless and very powerful.
Just one suggestion, make sure you have a way for people to save the settings of the graphs they make so they can pull em later, keeps the PHBs happy
my boss is all for Open Source so we are free to donate patches and fixes back to OSS projects, as long as we dont reveal company IP to the world, so personally ive contributed some stuff to phpMyAdmin and PEAR, and another guy in the office is working with the NTLM authentication support in libcurl
I went, and loved it. Best week I've ever spent at a Uni :)
http://rackshack.net/ by far the best hosts i've found, $99 a month for a celeron 1.3ghz with 512mb ram, and 60gig hard drive ($109 if you want the one gig ram). excellent connectivity, supports a bit lacking, but who needs it, its just an extra charge which i dont need, dont want anyone else stuffing with my server
i finally can afford to get this game, and you bastards go and post it on /. and kill the server :)
I just got 4.02 working yesterday :(
All you people complaining about minor updates requiring the removal of great swathes of your systems, did you even read the press release and the posts on news.gnome.org from the developers, and the red carpet web site.
This is a known problem, not with Red Carpet but with your package databases (specially the RPM one), thats why they tell you to verify installed dependacies before you do anything else.
once I got rid of the problems in my rpm db (double installs of auth_ldap and kdesupport, which RC detected and told me there were problems with), RC worked perfectly, cept for some issues of crashing when installing the RPMS but that was a gal issue.
Read the press release and the web page moron.
It specifically mentions this, you have an inconsistent RPM database, so some dependancies could be stuffed.
Actually it wouldnt be in the code, cause that sort of thing is set in the conf file and their code distribution only includes a generic one.
and its not that hard to do, i know another network that has it