I just wish the laptop makers instead of splashing their stupid logo at startup made it easy for owner information to be there
My (fujitsu) laptop has that very option.. At POST, instead of your generic mem test, flash logo, etc, it prints my email address or whatever I want (limited to a line or two) on the bottom of the screen. A reformat will not get rid of it as its saved in the bios. Changing it requires knowing the bios password. While its fairly trivial nowdays to reset the bios and wipe away that password, iirc the info is saved such that the reset doesnt reset it, only erasing it or changing it specifically will. Think it also has the capability to encrypt the MBR or something, I havent played with the bios in a while. Granted, it is only a K6-2 450, but this shows they have had the ability to do this for some time now.
Not sure where this "locked out" complaint comes from unless you are talking pre-1996, but since then the OBDII requirement was passed (in the US), and just about every car since the mid 90's has a computer that can be read by a standard code reader. Most codes are also known and published for the vehicles. Your local parts store probably carries a few handheld scanners of varying level of compatability, and you can get versions that will hook up directly to your PC, all for less than $400 (some are even less than $200 new, and less than that on Ebay). The newer CAN interface requires a different, usually more expensive interface, but there are already inexpensive scanners for those as well (aside from being a non-auto specific interface).
X-86 based solaris and Sparc based Linux? While I dont work with any of ther former, I work with many of the latter. While the hardware for sparc costs more than similar X86 hardware, does the TCO for running Linux as opposed to Solaris make up for that extra hardware expense? Does running Solaris on X86 increase the TCO?
But you can easily buy and replace your cellphone battery yourself (for most cellphones I know of atleast). Apple did not sell replacement batteries, and charged almost the cost of the original unit to do the replacement service.
The other issue being they also advertised 10hr playtime, when a few people were lucky to get 8, and most got 6. If your cellphone was advertised as giving 10 hours of talk time per charge, but you could only talk for 5 or 6 before it died, would you not consider that a defect, especially if the phone manufacturer told you that to fix it it would cost the same as a new phone?
I think the problem was that the batteries are built in, and sending your ipod back to apple to get them replaced costabout the same as a new ipod, and their life expectancy was about one year of average use. Most other devices have easily replaceable Lion batteries. They got in trouble by advertising that the ipod is rechargable, but failing to state that it will only be rechargable for about a year without new batteries, and that new batteries cost the same as a new unit and were not (easily) user-replacable.
Too many people probly dont know the reference, so here is a link to all you need to know... Schnappie, das kleine Krokodil
Amusing, even if you dont know german, more so if you do.
Brief descript for the lazy non-clicker types: German kids webpage (tv show too?) with an animated crocodile as the main character that likes to sing/dance/etc. Think of an animated version of Barney the purple dinosaur where barney is a little green croc instead.
Carriers/ISPs get special pricing through deregulation thats basically at-cost for the ILEC (incumbent local-exchange carrier, ie: baby bells). So while they might sell their own service cheaper (and probably at a small loss), its not the same price that Earthlink/Yahoo/Speakeasy/etc get the same line for. That price is determined on how much the re-seller is actually getting from the ilec, if its just the lines themselves, or if they are leasing the entire setup (muxes/dslams/etc). For example, you will be hard presses to find a full T1 service for less than $500/month, but to lease the T1 for resale (if you have your own terminating equipment in the nearest colo rather than leased from the telco as well ie: facility based UNE or EEL rather than resale based) it might cost only $50-100 depending on segment lengths and such (see here, pick a state in the exhibit A pulldown and look at section 9 on the excel file). Of course, that doesnt include the price for the colo space, your originating equipment, interconnects to the providers for actuall internet access (usually charged by the Gb), etc, but thats how re-sellers make their money: by reducing the cost of those variables as opposed to the way the ILECs do it.
What you might be refering to is the industrial production of ethanol rather than fermentation. As from the above website, industrial production uses Ethene and steam, which requires higher temperatures than simple distillation. Also note that distillation of ethanol only gets 95% pure, as that mixture of water+ethanol has a lower boiling point than either component seperately.
T1 does offer guaranteed latency, and indeed you can allocate time slots as needed. If that's how the router works, then you don't have VoIP because there is no IP involved; IP for your Net access runs in free time slots, in parallel to the synchronous virtual circuit that is carrying the voice.
Nope, I work for a company that does almost exactly what the parent said.. Remember, this is VoIP, the voice traffic is all IP data packets going into the router. All 24 timeslots on the T1 are allocated to data. The cisco/adtran router filters out the incomming voice traffic packets (which are addressed to the router itself anyway), processes them via onboard DSPs that connect to FXS/CAS/PRI voice cards to talk directly to the existing office/home phone systems (or passes the SIP stuff on to the lan to connect to IP phone systems), and does it all in reverse for outbound (injects the packets back into the T1 addressed for the central callswitch, or SIP phone). The bandwidth is "dynamically allocated" in the sense that voice packets share all the same channel space/timeslots on the T1 as your internet data, but voice has higher priority via QOS, so the fewer calls you have, the more bandwidth, no rechannelizing T1's necessary.
At least in the sci-fi books. The Mars Trilogy (Red, Green, Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson descibes a ring of mirrors (made from the solar sails of cargo ships sent to Mars) orbiting Mars with a central set of mirrors to concentrate their light and reflect it onto Mars itself to accelerate global warming to aid in terraforming the planet. In Green Mars iirc, they sent it off to venus to do the opposite: reflect light away from the planet to cool it off.
Thats what Coyote is... a derivative of the linux:router project specifically designed for NAT/firewall boxen, and small enough to boot from a single floppy (the entire system, no HD). I used this back when LAN routers with NAT capability were not heard of, or cost $100+. All it took was a 386 or 486 with 8/16Mb ram and a floppy drive. Only issue I had was the floppy going bad durring a reboot, which was fixed by going to my main server and cat cimage.img>/dev/fd0 on a new disk. Newer versions are a bit beefier and might need more ram, but for a cheap and ultra configurable NAT box, it was great.
As was said in another reply, other areas have been available, just not the secret areas of Y-12. I went on a tour of the graphite reactor area many years ago. Was very interesting. I was very young then (still in middle school I think), and found all the information and the tour exciting. It was the first reactor to produce electricity among other amazing things. A very worth-while trip, even though its a long drive through rural Tennessee to get there (about 4hrs from North Ga).
I always found amusement in seeing monitors that were packaged for sale in both the US and Canada. Evidently, living in Canada reduces the size of the screen an inch or so;)
Its all just another way that marketing can get away with exagerating things that make me cringe. Im sure it started as some tech guy telling a marketing baffon the tube size was x, but only y of it made a picture, and marketing guy running with the bigger number.
If you got the right kind of phone. My sprint phone has a USB cable that when connected to a PC can be used as a USB modem. Granted, sprint has been wishy-washy on whether this breaks the user agreement for "unlimited" access (probably does now), its ALOT cheaper than those cell cards. Also, not sure about newer phones/cards, but just "connecting" to their "wireless web" takes me at least three retries in most places (if it ever connects), at about 45secs-1.5muntes or so each, and once connected, it still takes forever to even resolve host names, and I am doing this from downtown Atlanta Ga, and surrounding areas (Marietta, smyrna, etc).
So, yes it works, but faster than DSL? I dunno, seems pretty slow to me, but then again, it could just be my phone.
I have been to shops that give wep keys on the reciept, changing every few hours or daily (never stay long enough to find out, and its different each time I go). Also, I have seen other suggestions on a/. post from a while ago about setting up such a hot-spot including a manditory proxy setup that requires a user login before being allowed through. Have the user type in their reciept number or some code identifying that specific reciept, and have the computer running the proxy tie into the register/POS's database such that the sale activates the code as a valid proxy login that expires a set time after the reciept's timestamp.
Seconded, our offices have several walls that are entirely whiteboard, including the one across from my cube along the hallway. Makes for quick and easy meetings in our area without having to go track down the whiteboard or something to draw on (though making sure the markers dont walk off is another issue). All the meeting rooms have at least one wall that is 100% whiteboard, including the boardroom.
As for the topic, make sure the table has network jacks for the presenter and all attendees that can connect at least to where the presentation files or other relavent materials are kept, more prefferably to the internet as well so vendors and such can VPN back to their company. Power plugs should also be abundant, as meetings can last longer than your laptop's battery. The electronic whiteboard might be overkill, as most teleconferencing software has such functionality built in. Just project it on a screen (you would be dumb not to have at least 1 LCD projector), and it can be drawn on by both ends of the conference (and any attendee if setup that way) without anyone having to leave their seat. Other than that, comfy chairs, a nice big table, and windows with shades/blinds for privacy (and blocking out light for the projectors) are a must.
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My (fujitsu) laptop has that very option.. At POST, instead of your generic mem test, flash logo, etc, it prints my email address or whatever I want (limited to a line or two) on the bottom of the screen. A reformat will not get rid of it as its saved in the bios. Changing it requires knowing the bios password. While its fairly trivial nowdays to reset the bios and wipe away that password, iirc the info is saved such that the reset doesnt reset it, only erasing it or changing it specifically will. Think it also has the capability to encrypt the MBR or something, I havent played with the bios in a while. Granted, it is only a K6-2 450, but this shows they have had the ability to do this for some time now.
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The other issue being they also advertised 10hr playtime, when a few people were lucky to get 8, and most got 6. If your cellphone was advertised as giving 10 hours of talk time per charge, but you could only talk for 5 or 6 before it died, would you not consider that a defect, especially if the phone manufacturer told you that to fix it it would cost the same as a new phone?
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Schnappie, das kleine Krokodil
Amusing, even if you dont know german, more so if you do.
Brief descript for the lazy non-clicker types: German kids webpage (tv show too?) with an animated crocodile as the main character that likes to sing/dance/etc. Think of an animated version of Barney the purple dinosaur where barney is a little green croc instead.
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Specifically, ethanol boils at 78.3C
What you might be refering to is the industrial production of ethanol rather than fermentation. As from the above website, industrial production uses Ethene and steam, which requires higher temperatures than simple distillation. Also note that distillation of ethanol only gets 95% pure, as that mixture of water+ethanol has a lower boiling point than either component seperately.
dual opterons are nice, but quad (with dual core = 8CPUs) with up to 32Gb makes for a (more) nice database server.
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Nope, I work for a company that does almost exactly what the parent said.. Remember, this is VoIP, the voice traffic is all IP data packets going into the router. All 24 timeslots on the T1 are allocated to data. The cisco/adtran router filters out the incomming voice traffic packets (which are addressed to the router itself anyway), processes them via onboard DSPs that connect to FXS/CAS/PRI voice cards to talk directly to the existing office/home phone systems (or passes the SIP stuff on to the lan to connect to IP phone systems), and does it all in reverse for outbound (injects the packets back into the T1 addressed for the central callswitch, or SIP phone). The bandwidth is "dynamically allocated" in the sense that voice packets share all the same channel space/timeslots on the T1 as your internet data, but voice has higher priority via QOS, so the fewer calls you have, the more bandwidth, no rechannelizing T1's necessary.
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startx (or other nifty X based app)
Now your X session/app will display on the x client on your desktop. Export it through an ssh tunnel (ssh -X )too if ya want for security.
OR, if you still want remote desktop on windoze, try this:
Real VNC
Java based, so it will work on both *nix (X) and windoze, and no, the local user doesnt have to log out.
Remote desktop is no reason to base an OS decision on.
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Its all just another way that marketing can get away with exagerating things that make me cringe. Im sure it started as some tech guy telling a marketing baffon the tube size was x, but only y of it made a picture, and marketing guy running with the bigger number.
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The grandparent's main point being there are more than 2 main CPU makers when you stick your head above desktop PC land.
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So, yes it works, but faster than DSL? I dunno, seems pretty slow to me, but then again, it could just be my phone.
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As for the topic, make sure the table has network jacks for the presenter and all attendees that can connect at least to where the presentation files or other relavent materials are kept, more prefferably to the internet as well so vendors and such can VPN back to their company. Power plugs should also be abundant, as meetings can last longer than your laptop's battery. The electronic whiteboard might be overkill, as most teleconferencing software has such functionality built in. Just project it on a screen (you would be dumb not to have at least 1 LCD projector), and it can be drawn on by both ends of the conference (and any attendee if setup that way) without anyone having to leave their seat. Other than that, comfy chairs, a nice big table, and windows with shades/blinds for privacy (and blocking out light for the projectors) are a must.
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