I'll be doing a new GRX in a few days. Everything should work fine, the only thing I'm worried about is the modem. I've heard the USB floppy drives work fine.
I hear that. I'm on my 1st replacement I8000 after my first one had about 6 service calls in a years time each time with more than 1 problem. This one was sent to me with an odd spot on the display and it's going back, I'm getting a refund. And my Sony should be here tomorrow.
Sony claims linux compatability, at least the tech I talked to said so, and with having an ATI GFX card I should be able to suspend/resume again as you cannot do that with a NVIDIA card.
Bandwidth isn't free to get from the backbone provider, it can't be free to the user, there's no such thing as free. Maybe the access should be free but the bandwidth isn't, so what they should be doing is limiting the speeds or amount one can use.
Because you can't sell $800 worth of bandwidth for $40 and make money.
And instead of bankrolling some money they spent all their money on growing the liabilities faster than the income.
Don't think so when you have to compile a kernel or some other large source file. I rather like having 512MB Ram and a fast processor in my laptop so I can spend more time coding and less time waiting.
My ISP offers shared bandwidth up to full T1 speeds, with minimal 128k for $49.95/mo. We meter how much you use, you get 10GB of xfer for the 49.95 base price.
So far replaced:
MB
Display
CDR
Keyboard
less than 6 months old
It was all on site repair but I just dread the day something fails and I'm left without a machine because they sold me a lemon.
They shouldn't be whining about what terrorism is, they should be taking proactive steps to combat it. If MS was an airliner they are leaving cockpit doors wide open then blaming everyone but themselves when they get hijacked. If they did their damn job right they'd be spending more time re-enforcing their OS and not bitching about who's visiting the cockpit. The key to stopping viruses is not letting them on the fscking plane in the first place, but if they do get on the plane don't let them in the cockpit. Sure it's nice to lay blame to the govt for not stopping them, but if you walk around with your pants down sooner or later someones going to have you by the balls, laws against it or not.
Any attempt by those bastards on my machine will constitute me to enter a "self defense mode", in which I will return the attacks to them 10 fold. This is just bullshit. I'll file charges in michigan (my home state) against them where any hacking is considered a felony.
Your biggest problem will be overcoming the fresnel zone. Most wireless requires radio line of site, which means there can be no obstructions. The fresnel zone is actually the eliptical path that a radio wave takes from one point to the next - for a 45 mile link you would need ungodly clearance between the 2 points. To calculate the fresnel zone and other requirements try going to www.ydi.com and use their online calculators.
The secret is to stop trying to sell something for nothing - with the average cost of a good T1 in the US being about $1300 including local loop charges these arrogant companies cannot afford to sell T1 speeds for $30/mo. It would be the same way if I opened a car sales lot and sold corvettes for $5,000/ea. I'm only going to last as long as my credit. Bandwidth isn't cheap, why is everyone trying so hard to convince people that running an ISP doesn't cost $$?
My company offeres wireless locally at speeds up to T1, we have bandwidth control in place via QoS under linux to ensure customers don't use all our bandwidth for hosting and dial-up. We have IP accounting data from iptables and allow our customers to xfer up to 10GB for their initial $49/mo. They get all the speed they need but if they use the bandwidth then they'll have to pay for it. Every company that undersells bandwidth is going under, we are going strong.
Configure an IP alias on your mailserver and add a route to your table that routes mail to thier servers thru the aliases that are hopefully IP#'s they aren't filtering.
@home sucks anyway. It's really the price their subscribers have to pay for being their customers. Kind of like MS sucks, so why do you keep using their crap?
Snort alerts me to all the scans done on my network (2 class C's) and every night is at least 2 from @home. And it's not like I ask for it, it's got to be just spanning networks, I don't even allow ping or traceroute to my network.
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Just reveal it - let the public be the judge.
My grx-570 is 2 months old. I canned my 2 shitty dells and got this beast and loving every minute of it.
The display is unbelievable; crisp as all hell.
Oh - and it's all working with linux. Modem, eth, pcmcia, radeon ati, sound, etc...
Dell can't even make a laptop that lasts more than a month, how can they make anything unbreakable - I doubt they know the definition of the word.
I'll be doing a new GRX in a few days. Everything should work fine, the only thing I'm worried about is the modem. I've heard the USB floppy drives work fine.
I hear that. I'm on my 1st replacement I8000 after my first one had about 6 service calls in a years time each time with more than 1 problem. This one was sent to me with an odd spot on the display and it's going back, I'm getting a refund. And my Sony should be here tomorrow.
Sony claims linux compatability, at least the tech I talked to said so, and with having an ATI GFX card I should be able to suspend/resume again as you cannot do that with a NVIDIA card.
Bandwidth isn't free to get from the backbone provider, it can't be free to the user, there's no such thing as free. Maybe the access should be free but the bandwidth isn't, so what they should be doing is limiting the speeds or amount one can use.
Not only will they expect to have more bandwidth, but they will expect to get it for free.
Yeah, or like I said on my site - you can send ICQ messages to your friends at home that the guy in the next isle is trying to light his shoes ;)
I hope it's more reliable than the wireless AP's that practically every feature on the advanced page is broken.
Because you can't sell $800 worth of bandwidth for $40 and make money.
And instead of bankrolling some money they spent all their money on growing the liabilities faster than the income.
sir
Don't think so when you have to compile a kernel or some other large source file. I rather like having 512MB Ram and a fast processor in my laptop so I can spend more time coding and less time waiting.
My ISP offers shared bandwidth up to full T1 speeds, with minimal 128k for $49.95/mo. We meter how much you use, you get 10GB of xfer for the 49.95 base price.
Reminds me of a joke about unarmed cops in England: "Stop or I'll yell STOP again!"
That will accomplish a lot.
So far replaced:
MB
Display
CDR
Keyboard
less than 6 months old
It was all on site repair but I just dread the day something fails and I'm left without a machine because they sold me a lemon.
Sangoma.com - nice T1 cards that add a DSU to your linux box so you don't need a cisco ;)
They shouldn't be whining about what terrorism is, they should be taking proactive steps to combat it. If MS was an airliner they are leaving cockpit doors wide open then blaming everyone but themselves when they get hijacked. If they did their damn job right they'd be spending more time re-enforcing their OS and not bitching about who's visiting the cockpit. The key to stopping viruses is not letting them on the fscking plane in the first place, but if they do get on the plane don't let them in the cockpit. Sure it's nice to lay blame to the govt for not stopping them, but if you walk around with your pants down sooner or later someones going to have you by the balls, laws against it or not.
Any attempt by those bastards on my machine will constitute me to enter a "self defense mode", in which I will return the attacks to them 10 fold. This is just bullshit. I'll file charges in michigan (my home state) against them where any hacking is considered a felony.
yeah, but generally the lower the frequency the worse the bandwidth.
Satellite internet is shit - the latency makes it virtually impossible.
Your biggest problem will be overcoming the fresnel zone. Most wireless requires radio line of site, which means there can be no obstructions. The fresnel zone is actually the eliptical path that a radio wave takes from one point to the next - for a 45 mile link you would need ungodly clearance between the 2 points. To calculate the fresnel zone and other requirements try going to www.ydi.com and use their online calculators.
My company offeres wireless locally at speeds up to T1, we have bandwidth control in place via QoS under linux to ensure customers don't use all our bandwidth for hosting and dial-up. We have IP accounting data from iptables and allow our customers to xfer up to 10GB for their initial $49/mo. They get all the speed they need but if they use the bandwidth then they'll have to pay for it. Every company that undersells bandwidth is going under, we are going strong.
Oh, and I forgot to mention I get up to 400K Bytes per second thru them.
Configure an IP alias on your mailserver and add a route to your table that routes mail to thier servers thru the aliases that are hopefully IP#'s they aren't filtering.
@home sucks anyway. It's really the price their subscribers have to pay for being their customers. Kind of like MS sucks, so why do you keep using their crap?
Snort alerts me to all the scans done on my network (2 class C's) and every night is at least 2 from @home. And it's not like I ask for it, it's got to be just spanning networks, I don't even allow ping or traceroute to my network.
There are tons of zombie machines on @home