EZ Pass is dying. Many Apple and BSD users have an EZ Pass, and this is asphixiating the system. We recommend moving to a more difficult (not so EZ) transportation means immediately.
In East LA, a pilot is "warflying" when averting the numerous bullets flying into the air, shot by drunk cholos on July 4th. Talk about bombs bursting in air.
And I can hear it already - hey ese, you forgot to encrypt your airport station, homes!
Apple sells refurbs on their "special deals" section of the store.apple.com site. They are discounted, but come in plain packaging, not the cool box you get on a new one. Didn't matter to me.
I bought a 10gb iPod refurbed for 249 a while ago. The unit was not cosmetically refurbished. There were scratches and dings on it. I had to return it once for further repair. Still, I saved a few bucks and now the unit is OK.
Just know that a refurb may not be a walk in the park, and if it's a gift for someone else, they may get a very used-looking one.
Looks like you didn't look very hard either. There's not a single unit available in the apple refurb/special deals section. Just because you can see the price doesn't mean you can pick one up. Best thing to do is check that page every morning. You might get lucky.
Wait... any parent that actually considers a doll named "Fondle Me Herbert" needs to have their head examined, and it's time for the kids to move in with Grandma and Grandpa.
My last comment was marked -1 Troll, so here's my second take on this:
I don't think this distro offers anything special over a downloadable one. OK, Java is obviously going to work easier. StarOffice? It's basically Open Office with a DB app.
Ok it's for the support. When's the last time your sysadmin called Microsoft with a question about XP or Office?
Sun is known for high powered Solaris servers. They're diluting their brand by putting out a rebranded distro you can roll yourself.
An IBM distro would make more sense. We already buy IBM servers and workstations. Sun's servers won't be running the "Java Desktop System".
Pardon my French, here's a reason Linux fucking sucks. I should know, I work with it all the time. From the article:
I installed it on/dev/hdd3 as / (a single partition for / and/boot) and used a 512 MB/swap on/dev/hdd2. I told the boot manager to get installed on/dev/hdd3 as I don't want my existing bootmanager to get nuked. Upon rebooting to go to the second part of the JDS installation, Grub will load itself and then it will give me the grub command line and it would NOT load JDS to continue with the second part of the installation. I had to reboot, go to my Mandrake 9.1 installation, mount the ReiserFS JDS hdd3 partition, create a custom LILO file and then chroot to hdd3 and use LILO as my boot manager instead of grub. I did check the/boot/grub files on JDS, everything was in order, it's just that Grub can't read that menu.lst file when it is not installed on MBR. Sun told me that this seemed like a very specific case, and it seems that it was, as I later installed JDS on my AthlonXP PC and chose the same boot manager and partition setup and indeed worked flawlessly this time.
I would really dig a live CD for my powerbook. Anyone know one? I tried one once, it booted into the commandline. I was hoping for a KDE or Gnome session.
How big is the USB Drive they include? Can I use my own?
I noticed in the first screenshot : "Multimedia Player for CDs / DVDs". How do they play DVDs legally?
If I have 2 CD / DVD drives on the system, can I use both and not have to swap disks? (I assume yes, but you know what happens when you assume...)
Well, I'd take an electric motorcycle if they had them for around the same price as a used Honda, and I didn't look like I came out of Minority Report.
The previous article on/. was a tease showing a single picture and some PR. Now it's getting covered in other news sources, and that interests me, I'm glad it's here.
I just bought a motorcycle yesterday, because I wanted cheaper transportation than a car. It just makes more sense when I don't need to carry anything around. I am interested in these vehicles.
I know the iPod's other dirty little secret. Sometimes people do things with their hands, then touch the iPod without washing themselves. I guess you could call those people "Palm Pilots".
What's your point? The TV Wonder VE is not an obsolete product, its in their active supported (and sold) lineup. There might very well be a great reason why the latest software doesn't work with my card, but I don't care.
The software is crappy, even if they fix the bugs. The interface sucks, the TV Tuner info overlay sucks. I told it to record a show for me, it put the show on my desktop. I try to open it with their player, it crashes. I try to play it in Quicktime (its a MOV file), Quicktime doesn't know what the hell it is.
The program grid is horrible. although they did get one part right - the TV is visible in the upper LHC of the screen while you browse listings. Other than that Snapstream is on a whole other level of greatness.
I had high expectations for ATI's software and for Snapstream. Both let me down. I hope MythTV changes my mind about PC Tuner software. That would be a hoot, since its free and open source.
I have the TV Wonder VE, which is essentially the TV tuner part of this card (well it turns out to be more complicated than that, but for argument's sake).
The applications for watching and recording TV shows suck. Real bad. I have the latest version from their website too.
The best program I encountered was Snapstream, and it works with the card reviewed in this article. But it uses ACCESS and Jet to store tv shows, and can you guess what happened 3x before my trial period was over? That's right, corrupt database.
One further note, these cards will NOT work with Myth TV, the linux option. The TV Wonder series does work with Myth, though.
No they never billed my CC. My Purchase was immediately put into pending, then was cancelled with an email saying the price was much too low and they would not honor it, They offered 10% off my next purchase. if you know Dell, you know that 10% off a purchase is commonplace. End of story was I got nothing.
About a month ago this player came up on Dell.com for 70 dollars PLUS a 20 dollar rebate. I bought it and 3 days later got an email saying it was a mistake. I figured it was but I took a chance. Apparently it happened to lots of other people too...
I was actually thinking about this subject the other day. The music we see on TV and hear on the radio is essentially synthesized already. The Neptunes and a few others write a huge amount of hits for all types of artists.
I keep hoping for the next N.W.A. or Nirvana and I start thinking we might never get fresh, exciting music again.
You can buy a generic battery and install it yourself (YES, you can). They are available on the internet. You void your warranty. Basically they're charging you for shipping both ways, labor and parts. At a hundred bucks, I think it's pretty reasonable.
If you think it's just a box that plays music, its much more: It's a firewire hard drive, it's a calendar, it's a contact viewer, it's even got games. On top of that its the best walkman ever.
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This morning Netcraft issued this alert:
EZ Pass is dying. Many Apple and BSD users have an EZ Pass, and this is asphixiating the system. We recommend moving to a more difficult (not so EZ) transportation means immediately.
In East LA, a pilot is "warflying" when averting the numerous bullets flying into the air, shot by drunk cholos on July 4th. Talk about bombs bursting in air.
And I can hear it already - hey ese, you forgot to encrypt your airport station, homes!
..Should be ported to Windows if Winamp goes down. Shoot, I don't know if I'd tell the difference.
Half the stuff at Fry's Electronics is returned, re-shrinkwrapped with a sticker identifying it. No discount, and the stuff almost never works.
Apple sells refurbs on their "special deals" section of the store.apple.com site. They are discounted, but come in plain packaging, not the cool box you get on a new one. Didn't matter to me.
I bought a 10gb iPod refurbed for 249 a while ago. The unit was not cosmetically refurbished. There were scratches and dings on it. I had to return it once for further repair. Still, I saved a few bucks and now the unit is OK.
Just know that a refurb may not be a walk in the park, and if it's a gift for someone else, they may get a very used-looking one.
Looks like you didn't look very hard either. There's not a single unit available in the apple refurb/special deals section. Just because you can see the price doesn't mean you can pick one up. Best thing to do is check that page every morning. You might get lucky.
Wait... any parent that actually considers a doll named "Fondle Me Herbert" needs to have their head examined, and it's time for the kids to move in with Grandma and Grandpa.
You, my friend, obviously don't remember your Jurassic Park.
You might want to check out the $579 refurb eMacs on sale today at the Apple Store . Click on the special deals section.
Sorry I couldn't help it and have Karma to burn. I just think new distros should make things easier, I read the article and just got annoyed.
Back to my regular intelligent posts I go.
My last comment was marked -1 Troll, so here's my second take on this:
I don't think this distro offers anything special over a downloadable one. OK, Java is obviously going to work easier. StarOffice? It's basically Open Office with a DB app.
Ok it's for the support. When's the last time your sysadmin called Microsoft with a question about XP or Office?
Sun is known for high powered Solaris servers. They're diluting their brand by putting out a rebranded distro you can roll yourself.
An IBM distro would make more sense. We already buy IBM servers and workstations. Sun's servers won't be running the "Java Desktop System".
Pardon my French, here's a reason Linux fucking sucks. I should know, I work with it all the time. From the article:
/dev/hdd3 as / (a single partition for / and /boot) and used a 512 MB /swap on /dev/hdd2. I told the boot manager to get installed on /dev/hdd3 as I don't want my existing bootmanager to get nuked. Upon rebooting to go to the second part of the JDS installation, Grub will load itself and then it will give me the grub command line and it would NOT load JDS to continue with the second part of the installation. I had to reboot, go to my Mandrake 9.1 installation, mount the ReiserFS JDS hdd3 partition, create a custom LILO file and then chroot to hdd3 and use LILO as my boot manager instead of grub. I did check the /boot/grub files on JDS, everything was in order, it's just that Grub can't read that menu.lst file when it is not installed on MBR. Sun told me that this seemed like a very specific case, and it seems that it was, as I later installed JDS on my AthlonXP PC and chose the same boot manager and partition setup and indeed worked flawlessly this time.
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Just give me OS X any day instead.
I would really dig a live CD for my powerbook. Anyone know one? I tried one once, it booted into the commandline. I was hoping for a KDE or Gnome session.
How big is the USB Drive they include? Can I use my own?
I noticed in the first screenshot : "Multimedia Player for CDs / DVDs". How do they play DVDs legally?
If I have 2 CD / DVD drives on the system, can I use both and not have to swap disks? (I assume yes, but you know what happens when you assume...)
Well, I'd take an electric motorcycle if they had them for around the same price as a used Honda, and I didn't look like I came out of Minority Report.
The previous article on /. was a tease showing a single picture and some PR. Now it's getting covered in other news sources, and that interests me, I'm glad it's here.
I just bought a motorcycle yesterday, because I wanted cheaper transportation than a car. It just makes more sense when I don't need to carry anything around. I am interested in these vehicles.
Those who can do: Do.
Those that can't do: Spam.
I know the iPod's other dirty little secret. Sometimes people do things with their hands, then touch the iPod without washing themselves. I guess you could call those people "Palm Pilots".
What's your point? The TV Wonder VE is not an obsolete product, its in their active supported (and sold) lineup. There might very well be a great reason why the latest software doesn't work with my card, but I don't care.
The software is crappy, even if they fix the bugs. The interface sucks, the TV Tuner info overlay sucks. I told it to record a show for me, it put the show on my desktop. I try to open it with their player, it crashes. I try to play it in Quicktime (its a MOV file), Quicktime doesn't know what the hell it is.
The program grid is horrible. although they did get one part right - the TV is visible in the upper LHC of the screen while you browse listings. Other than that Snapstream is on a whole other level of greatness.
I had high expectations for ATI's software and for Snapstream. Both let me down. I hope MythTV changes my mind about PC Tuner software. That would be a hoot, since its free and open source.
Perhaps they should hire some Slashdotters to replace the Indians.
We:
Need Jobs...Check
Know the job...Check
Communicate effectively...Hmm
Have great grammar skills...D'oh!
I have the TV Wonder VE, which is essentially the TV tuner part of this card (well it turns out to be more complicated than that, but for argument's sake).
The applications for watching and recording TV shows suck. Real bad. I have the latest version from their website too.
The best program I encountered was Snapstream, and it works with the card reviewed in this article. But it uses ACCESS and Jet to store tv shows, and can you guess what happened 3x before my trial period was over? That's right, corrupt database.
One further note, these cards will NOT work with Myth TV, the linux option. The TV Wonder series does work with Myth, though.
No they never billed my CC. My Purchase was immediately put into pending, then was cancelled with an email saying the price was much too low and they would not honor it, They offered 10% off my next purchase. if you know Dell, you know that 10% off a purchase is commonplace. End of story was I got nothing.
About a month ago this player came up on Dell.com for 70 dollars PLUS a 20 dollar rebate. I bought it and 3 days later got an email saying it was a mistake. I figured it was but I took a chance. Apparently it happened to lots of other people too...
I was actually thinking about this subject the other day. The music we see on TV and hear on the radio is essentially synthesized already. The Neptunes and a few others write a huge amount of hits for all types of artists.
I keep hoping for the next N.W.A. or Nirvana and I start thinking we might never get fresh, exciting music again.
You can buy a generic battery and install it yourself (YES, you can). They are available on the internet. You void your warranty. Basically they're charging you for shipping both ways, labor and parts. At a hundred bucks, I think it's pretty reasonable.
If you think it's just a box that plays music, its much more: It's a firewire hard drive, it's a calendar, it's a contact viewer, it's even got games. On top of that its the best walkman ever.