None of this "Funds will be available by 12pm next business day" crap. I'm sure we've all had at least one NSF charge at the bank because of the funds available thing.
Dell Poweredge 400sc $249 after rebate
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Celeron 2.4, 128mb ram, 40gb HD, no OS. Get it from their small business site. It has an i875 motherboard, onboard gigabit ethernet, 24x CD. For an addional 100$ you can upgrade to a P4 2.8 HT cpu.
Allow me to toot my own horn for a sec. Gentoo portage on Solaris project It has slowed down a bit but now that OSX has portage I've been contacted by a gentoo developer that is interested in persuing this further.
My great-great-great-grandfather patented Hyperlinking, Rambus memory, and Unix back in the 1800's. I'll be setting up a paypal account shortly so you can pay.
It looks quite similar to this but is bronze colored. It was fairly inexpensive and it was purchased at Lowes. It was initially bought for my house by someone who knew nothing about computers and I gasped when I saw the 2.4ghz logo on the box. Amazingly, it has not affected my wireless setup one bit. I can sit 1 inch away from the phone with my laptop and my connectivity never drops nor does my speed. If I am on the phone and move near my WAP or laptop occasionally I'll hear a click every once in a while but the person on the other end never hears it.
It's a nice feature for fixing another computer. You can install a hard drive and try to boot it in VMware or even run disk utilities on it. Also if you need to look up stuff on the internet while you're working on it, you don't have to keep switching between drives.
Ok mine's slightly different, I've used the previous version of Virtual PC and VMware 3.1. I found Linux easier to install on Virtual PC. First of all since Virtual PC emulates a real video card (s3 Trio64 iirc) the Vesa framebuffer works. You can use the bootsplash kernel patch or just have a high resolution console. The network card was a DEC Tulip as well which is well supported. For whatever reason the fake video card in VMware always seems to have some issues working in my experience. The network card is an AMD PCnet32 card which seems equally well supported (even solaris picks it up). The feature that is in VMware that I really missed in Virtual PC was the ability to boot from real hard drives. If you dual boot windows and linux, you could boot into windows and then boot up your linux partition as well. Both offerred excelent performance provided you had enough ram. VMware 3.1 though seems to crash with 2.6 series kernels but I suspect that has been fixed in newer versions. So if I were VMware, I'd offer VESA compatable video card rather than their made up one.
My laptop hack site Thats for the Dell C series systems mainly because I've not been hanging out in the dell forums as much lately. If you google for 400sc there is a forum that comes up at the top that has pics of the 400sc that shows its the same as the dimension.
True the dual processor precisions are using their own motherboard design but i suspect it is the same as a dual processor poweredge. And yes they qualify them. But in 99% of the cases if you can just drop the quadro in your 400sc everything will be fine.
The poweredge 400sc is the same as their top of the line Dimension model bit in a less flashy case. The Poweredge in a minimum configuration costs about 349$ The Dimension you can't get for cheaper than about $1000. They do the same (or at least did) with their laptops. My Inspiron 4100 has been reflashed (by me) with the Latituce C610 bios so I can use the docking stations (with pci slots). Dells precision line is the same as well. Their precision notebooks are latitudes and inspirons but with a FireGL or Quadro card (which you can order separately from dell and stick in your laptop yourself) The desktop precision systems are the same as well. Just a Optiplex or Dimension with a good video card.
The big difference is my microwave is something around 1.5 kilowatts. The technology was found by radar operators in the military (WWII). They noticed that objects near radar stations tended to get very warm. I've even heard of radar operators putting their dinner next to the dish to warm it up. If I could only mate my WAP with the microwave, I could heat my dinner AND have WAP association to my laptop while I go to the store to buy beer. (Well at least my laptop could head the WAP, the WAP just wouldn't be able to hear it back).
Standardizing a bios on something such as Open Firmware will fix a lot of platform issues. Such as having to make video cards for macs and video cards for PCs. (or scsi or ide or anything that requires its own firmware)
Just something I've toyed around with. The major stumbling block is that the developers need to add the ability for portage to recognize other oses. Mine isn't really a complete project, more of a log of stuff I've done. Others have followed and managed to get things like KDE to fully install in solaris using portage.
1. P-Pro wasn't just 256/512 there were 1mb and 2mb versions.
2. P-3 was initially off-chip L2 but later went to on-chip L2.
3. P-2 was available up to 333MHz on the desktop end and 400MHz on the laptop end.
4. It was implied that the SECC cartridge was just on the P-2, the P-3 also used a SECC cartridge and continued even after Socket 370 was standardized.
5. The author said that the P-3 brought the Bunny Suits, no that was the P-2. The P-3 brought us the sock monkey, robot, and even the blue man group.
Especially considering that Microsoft now owns that product. I'm sure most of the assembly can easily be migrated to the XBox2. Also since Microsoft understands their own hardware they should easily add a HAL to it.
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None of this "Funds will be available by 12pm next business day" crap. I'm sure we've all had at least one NSF charge at the bank because of the funds available thing.
Celeron 2.4, 128mb ram, 40gb HD, no OS. Get it from their small business site. It has an i875 motherboard, onboard gigabit ethernet, 24x CD. For an addional 100$ you can upgrade to a P4 2.8 HT cpu.
You think kids read comic books today? Get with the times. BSA sponsored Ferret-Legging would be more appropriate.
Allow me to toot my own horn for a sec. Gentoo portage on Solaris project It has slowed down a bit but now that OSX has portage I've been contacted by a gentoo developer that is interested in persuing this further.
My great-great-great-grandfather patented Hyperlinking, Rambus memory, and Unix back in the 1800's. I'll be setting up a paypal account shortly so you can pay.
Actually your quote should be attributed to Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, not Michael Dell of Dell Computer.
It looks quite similar to this but is bronze colored. It was fairly inexpensive and it was purchased at Lowes. It was initially bought for my house by someone who knew nothing about computers and I gasped when I saw the 2.4ghz logo on the box. Amazingly, it has not affected my wireless setup one bit. I can sit 1 inch away from the phone with my laptop and my connectivity never drops nor does my speed. If I am on the phone and move near my WAP or laptop occasionally I'll hear a click every once in a while but the person on the other end never hears it.
Enjoy it when he gets reelected.
chmod a+x /bin/laden && exec /bin/laden
But I use Gentoo you insensitive clod!
It's a nice feature for fixing another computer. You can install a hard drive and try to boot it in VMware or even run disk utilities on it. Also if you need to look up stuff on the internet while you're working on it, you don't have to keep switching between drives.
Oh as well I agree with the Ars review, the USB and SCSI passthrough are really nice.
Ok mine's slightly different, I've used the previous version of Virtual PC and VMware 3.1. I found Linux easier to install on Virtual PC. First of all since Virtual PC emulates a real video card (s3 Trio64 iirc) the Vesa framebuffer works. You can use the bootsplash kernel patch or just have a high resolution console. The network card was a DEC Tulip as well which is well supported. For whatever reason the fake video card in VMware always seems to have some issues working in my experience. The network card is an AMD PCnet32 card which seems equally well supported (even solaris picks it up). The feature that is in VMware that I really missed in Virtual PC was the ability to boot from real hard drives. If you dual boot windows and linux, you could boot into windows and then boot up your linux partition as well. Both offerred excelent performance provided you had enough ram. VMware 3.1 though seems to crash with 2.6 series kernels but I suspect that has been fixed in newer versions. So if I were VMware, I'd offer VESA compatable video card rather than their made up one.
My laptop hack site Thats for the Dell C series systems mainly because I've not been hanging out in the dell forums as much lately. If you google for 400sc there is a forum that comes up at the top that has pics of the 400sc that shows its the same as the dimension.
True the dual processor precisions are using their own motherboard design but i suspect it is the same as a dual processor poweredge. And yes they qualify them. But in 99% of the cases if you can just drop the quadro in your 400sc everything will be fine.
Well I plan on eventually buying a 400SC and upgrading it with my FX 5200 card. I've also got an Audigy that I'll be using as well.
The poweredge 400sc is the same as their top of the line Dimension model bit in a less flashy case. The Poweredge in a minimum configuration costs about 349$ The Dimension you can't get for cheaper than about $1000. They do the same (or at least did) with their laptops. My Inspiron 4100 has been reflashed (by me) with the Latituce C610 bios so I can use the docking stations (with pci slots). Dells precision line is the same as well. Their precision notebooks are latitudes and inspirons but with a FireGL or Quadro card (which you can order separately from dell and stick in your laptop yourself) The desktop precision systems are the same as well. Just a Optiplex or Dimension with a good video card.
Google won against googlegear.com which has since changed its name to zipzoomfly.com
The big difference is my microwave is something around 1.5 kilowatts. The technology was found by radar operators in the military (WWII). They noticed that objects near radar stations tended to get very warm. I've even heard of radar operators putting their dinner next to the dish to warm it up. If I could only mate my WAP with the microwave, I could heat my dinner AND have WAP association to my laptop while I go to the store to buy beer. (Well at least my laptop could head the WAP, the WAP just wouldn't be able to hear it back).
Standardizing a bios on something such as Open Firmware will fix a lot of platform issues. Such as having to make video cards for macs and video cards for PCs. (or scsi or ide or anything that requires its own firmware)
Sun resells Mac Radeon 7000 cards as Sun XVR-100 cards (for about 300$) because OF allows it to work. Sun even admits they are Mac Radeon cards
Portaris, Portage on Solaris
Just something I've toyed around with. The major stumbling block is that the developers need to add the ability for portage to recognize other oses. Mine isn't really a complete project, more of a log of stuff I've done. Others have followed and managed to get things like KDE to fully install in solaris using portage.
edit: 3. P-2 was available up to 450 on the desktop and 400 on the laptop.
1. P-Pro wasn't just 256/512 there were 1mb and 2mb versions.
2. P-3 was initially off-chip L2 but later went to on-chip L2.
3. P-2 was available up to 333MHz on the desktop end and 400MHz on the laptop end.
4. It was implied that the SECC cartridge was just on the P-2, the P-3 also used a SECC cartridge and continued even after Socket 370 was standardized.
5. The author said that the P-3 brought the Bunny Suits, no that was the P-2. The P-3 brought us the sock monkey, robot, and even the blue man group.
MS has been sending programming jobs overseas since the 80's before open source software was readily available to the masses.
Microsoft gets to play the poor cousin and is left out completely.
Especially considering that Microsoft now owns that product. I'm sure most of the assembly can easily be migrated to the XBox2. Also since Microsoft understands their own hardware they should easily add a HAL to it.