Warranties don't cover 'accidental' damage. I had a warranty from Fry's that I was luckily able to get refunded on to help cover about half of that.
Ironically if I'd gotten a warranty direct from HP, they have an accidental damages warranty for 300 bucks for 3 years I believe that covers replacement of one of every component each year for three years.
Oh yeah, plus Fry's told me it would take 8+ weeks and up to the cost of the laptop to replace.
HP was much better about it:)
Ironic part is I have an iBook.. killed THAT I think by changing an openbios setting entitled: 'little endian mode'
Rebooted a while later and it powered on, but the screen stayed blank.
Still got it sittin in my room waiting to see if I can revive it (pulled the little bugger completely apart because it was my primary Linuxbox for my C++ class.
I did basically the same thing with a brand new HP PAvilion ze5385us, three weeks after I bought it.
Only difference is, it was the CORD from a set of mini-jack headphones I had plugged in that shattered the screen, got caught in the middle right corner of the screen, and shattered the ENTIRE screen.
650 bucks and 11 days later it was chuggin along flawlessly, but it certainly has made sure *I* never rush;p
You sure it was the first? The Rage IIC was a pretty powerful graphics decelerator too, I dunno if it was out before or after the virge though, seeing as the Rage IIC was the first card I'd gotten in a good 3 years at that time ('98)
Hey! I still haven't finished that game! I've got the C64 version.. do you have to fight the predator at the end with your gun/hand to hand, and he like knockes a life off you every time he runs away? Cuz I STILL WANT TO KNOW HOW TO BEAT THAT!
Dunno about the TV, but I've got onna the M10K series chips/mobos and it runs DvDs pretty well if you don't have a lot of other programs running (at least in Linux, dunno about windows). Also, if you hunt around there's a new VIA-UNICHROME video driver out that does the mpeg2 acceleration I believe. Anyways, it seems faster to me using the 'experimental' drivers, and the version I have is relatively stable.
Plus they killed him off in the next episode with a reference to his death getting to that blonde chick.
I too ended up watching most of the series.. missed a season or two after boone got whacked though, dunno if I ever saw all the missing eps before I picked it up.
Ending sucked ass though.
Oh yeah, and WTF was up with Sandoval.. they'd had so much character development and hints that in his own nefarious way he was trying to look out for the earth and then they just turned him into a bad guy to kill at the end.
No kidding, somewhere farther down somebody lists anothher PVR system, with not so pretty of a case, put a pricetag of 749 (can't remember if it was AU or US), with room for expansion.
I got 1300 on a currency calculator.. From the looks of the source for this thing it's a via based motherboard (via-rhine chipset) which means it's prolly either whatever via chipset mobo shuttle has out, or an epia based board. Either way, doing some rough calculations, you can put together this whole damn box for like under a grand... In fact Fry's had a media mini-itx case here from somebody (non-shuttle I believe) for like 400 with the pretty little facepanel and dials and crap) Figure in an AMD or Intel cpu at 50-200 bucks depending on how fast you want this thing to be, plus a hard drive (100 bux since their min is 80 gig, and that's being pushy), plus a capture card (Happauge PVR 250 is like 150$ here), and a DVD drive (30-80 depending on brand), plus maybe 90 bucks for a 512 or 180 for 2 sticks of PC3200 DDR.
So even buying everything off the shelf you could probably put together one of these systems for less than that price. Coupled with the fact that they should be mass producing these bastards they should be selling them for sub 700 bucks, and probably 400-500 if they want to be competitive.
On this same note, plug it into your linuxbox, and run either avplay, or avgrab (to save to disk) and you can watch or record your stream in realtime, complete with audio:)
Hell, if you absolutely must have a GUI, Kino is looking pretty nice for minimalist stuff, and cinelerra is pretty impressive too if you can deal with it's rough edges.
Seriously, having just gotten my Mini-DV Canon yesterday, I can tell you DV firewire cameras have to be the easiest devices to set up in linux, windows, and mac with the exception of maybe USB keyboards (seeing as X isn't very user-friendly to plug'n'play input devices)
-- vranash
C3 Nehemiah Core Epia, and a P4 2.6 ghz laptop, haven't gotten too much of a chance to play with it, beyond some cut and paste of mpegs yet due to lack of a Mini-DV cam, which I've now remedied, get back to ya in a few days when I've been able to thoroughly beat on it.
Actually just FYI Cinelerra installed outofthebox for me just a coupla days ago. Using gcc 3.3.2 with 1.1.9, I believe it had none of the compile issues I've had with previous versions (haven't compiled it for a coupla weeks and I've been rather busy with other stuff since)
Anyways, it's worth at least trying to get compiled again, now I just need to make some video clips, see how well it works, and decide if it warrants getting a Mini-DV camera to use with it:)
Beats me, I just know it happened completely in the Mechwarrior 2 video game Expansion Pack GBL, Mechwarrior 2 had the Battlemaster in it as a 'hidden mech' and I thought a coupla others as well, although I could be wrong. That was about the time they got pulled from the minatures lines and pushed the revised 3050/3055 books, which I believe the only difference in them was the lack of Robotech-based mech updates (Like the Wasp, Stinger, P-Hawk, S-Hawk, Warhammer *sniff*, Locust, and a buncha others)
Given the supposed lack of foresight in their hardware design that most wlan vendors have taken recently (using basically 'soft wlan' cards), it is probably more akin to a 'partially closed driver', in that you probably won't have access to the channel frequencies, adding new network modes (master, monitor, etc). HOWEVER given that, it should allow future patching to the kernel side of the driver to support whatever future interface changes happen to ensure the card won't suddenly become useless.
IMHO, this is what all wlan dealers should be doing... if you can't give direct access to the hardware due to possible legal/FCC constraints, then you should have firmware to handle the interfacing so that you can at least release firmware interface specs, and hopefully be able to cut down on cross development costs by having your firmware patches enhance both linux and windows functionality while stomping out mutual bugs.
Funny I'd heard they'd been required to removed the likenesses, supposedly the reason all the 'revised' technical manuals came out, for 3025, 3026, 3050 and 3055, removing the wasp, stinger, phoenixhawk, warhammer, etc.
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*erases corner from that statement*
:)
A 7 dimensional screen would be handy though, with a 7D video card
Warranties don't cover 'accidental' damage. I had a warranty from Fry's that I was luckily able to get refunded on to help cover about half of that. Ironically if I'd gotten a warranty direct from HP, they have an accidental damages warranty for 300 bucks for 3 years I believe that covers replacement of one of every component each year for three years. Oh yeah, plus Fry's told me it would take 8+ weeks and up to the cost of the laptop to replace. HP was much better about it :)
Ironic part is I have an iBook.. killed THAT I think by changing an openbios setting entitled: 'little endian mode' Rebooted a while later and it powered on, but the screen stayed blank. Still got it sittin in my room waiting to see if I can revive it (pulled the little bugger completely apart because it was my primary Linuxbox for my C++ class.
You want sad?
;p
I did basically the same thing with a brand new HP PAvilion ze5385us, three weeks after I bought it.
Only difference is, it was the CORD from a set of mini-jack headphones I had plugged in that shattered the screen, got caught in the middle right corner of the screen, and shattered the ENTIRE screen.
650 bucks and 11 days later it was chuggin along flawlessly, but it certainly has made sure *I* never rush
-- vranash
You sure it was the first? The Rage IIC was a pretty powerful graphics decelerator too, I dunno if it was out before or after the virge though, seeing as the Rage IIC was the first card I'd gotten in a good 3 years at that time ('98)
The PhD's, or the babies? ;p
-- vranash
Hey! I still haven't finished that game! I've got the C64 version.. do you have to fight the predator at the end with your gun/hand to hand, and he like knockes a life off you every time he runs away? Cuz I STILL WANT TO KNOW HOW TO BEAT THAT!
Put a 1 before the 4 there and you've got the prices I've been seeing ;p
The 'r' was really more of a mistyped 'f' ;p
Nah, blog to the keyboard, cuz the system ain't listenin ;p
-- vranash
Dunno about the TV, but I've got onna the M10K series chips/mobos and it runs DvDs pretty well if you don't have a lot of other programs running (at least in Linux, dunno about windows). Also, if you hunt around there's a new VIA-UNICHROME video driver out that does the mpeg2 acceleration I believe. Anyways, it seems faster to me using the 'experimental' drivers, and the version I have is relatively stable.
Better than me, I can't even get women to reject me, they just say maybe and as soon as I'm looking the other way disappear :-P
Plus they killed him off in the next episode with a reference to his death getting to that blonde chick.
I too ended up watching most of the series.. missed a season or two after boone got whacked though, dunno if I ever saw all the missing eps before I picked it up.
Ending sucked ass though.
Oh yeah, and WTF was up with Sandoval.. they'd had so much character development and hints that in his own nefarious way he was trying to look out for the earth and then they just turned him into a bad guy to kill at the end.
-- vranash
I'm pretty sure it was a bullfrog :)
-- vranash
No kidding, somewhere farther down somebody lists anothher PVR system, with not so pretty of a case, put a pricetag of 749 (can't remember if it was AU or US), with room for expansion.
I got 1300 on a currency calculator.. From the looks of the source for this thing it's a via based motherboard (via-rhine chipset) which means it's prolly either whatever via chipset mobo shuttle has out, or an epia based board. Either way, doing some rough calculations, you can put together this whole damn box for like under a grand... In fact Fry's had a media mini-itx case here from somebody (non-shuttle I believe) for like 400 with the pretty little facepanel and dials and crap) Figure in an AMD or Intel cpu at 50-200 bucks depending on how fast you want this thing to be, plus a hard drive (100 bux since their min is 80 gig, and that's being pushy), plus a capture card (Happauge PVR 250 is like 150$ here), and a DVD drive (30-80 depending on brand), plus maybe 90 bucks for a 512 or 180 for 2 sticks of PC3200 DDR.
8 0=1110$
:)
400+50+100+150+30+90=820$
400+200+100+150+80+1
So even buying everything off the shelf you could probably put together one of these systems for less than that price. Coupled with the fact that they should be mass producing these bastards they should be selling them for sub 700 bucks, and probably 400-500 if they want to be competitive.
Just my many thousand cents
-- vranash
On this same note, plug it into your linuxbox, and run either avplay, or avgrab (to save to disk) and you can watch or record your stream in realtime, complete with audio :)
Hell, if you absolutely must have a GUI, Kino is looking pretty nice for minimalist stuff, and cinelerra is pretty impressive too if you can deal with it's rough edges.
Seriously, having just gotten my Mini-DV Canon yesterday, I can tell you DV firewire cameras have to be the easiest devices to set up in linux, windows, and mac with the exception of maybe USB keyboards (seeing as X isn't very user-friendly to plug'n'play input devices)
-- vranash
C3 Nehemiah Core Epia, and a P4 2.6 ghz laptop, haven't gotten too much of a chance to play with it, beyond some cut and paste of mpegs yet due to lack of a Mini-DV cam, which I've now remedied, get back to ya in a few days when I've been able to thoroughly beat on it.
RMS now has plans to daily enter Bill Gate's through the back door, and occasionally the front as well ;=P
Actually just FYI Cinelerra installed outofthebox for me just a coupla days ago. Using gcc 3.3.2 with 1.1.9, I believe it had none of the compile issues I've had with previous versions (haven't compiled it for a coupla weeks and I've been rather busy with other stuff since)
:)
Anyways, it's worth at least trying to get compiled again, now I just need to make some video clips, see how well it works, and decide if it warrants getting a Mini-DV camera to use with it
Beats me, I just know it happened completely in the Mechwarrior 2 video game Expansion Pack GBL, Mechwarrior 2 had the Battlemaster in it as a 'hidden mech' and I thought a coupla others as well, although I could be wrong. That was about the time they got pulled from the minatures lines and pushed the revised 3050/3055 books, which I believe the only difference in them was the lack of Robotech-based mech updates (Like the Wasp, Stinger, P-Hawk, S-Hawk, Warhammer *sniff*, Locust, and a buncha others)
-- vranash
Given the supposed lack of foresight in their hardware design that most wlan vendors have taken recently (using basically 'soft wlan' cards), it is probably more akin to a 'partially closed driver', in that you probably won't have access to the channel frequencies, adding new network modes (master, monitor, etc). HOWEVER given that, it should allow future patching to the kernel side of the driver to support whatever future interface changes happen to ensure the card won't suddenly become useless.
IMHO, this is what all wlan dealers should be doing... if you can't give direct access to the hardware due to possible legal/FCC constraints, then you should have firmware to handle the interfacing so that you can at least release firmware interface specs, and hopefully be able to cut down on cross development costs by having your firmware patches enhance both linux and windows functionality while stomping out mutual bugs.
Funny I'd heard they'd been required to removed the likenesses, supposedly the reason all the 'revised' technical manuals came out, for 3025, 3026, 3050 and 3055, removing the wasp, stinger, phoenixhawk, warhammer, etc.
anybody else think this thing looks like an ibook sprouted legs and a head, at least in the white version? :)
-- vranash
Is that a female name? Cuz 'special needs' and 'boys college' and 'after hours classes' well... I think they may be learning their 'other' elvish :-P