...but I'm horrified that I would scratch the face of my new $300 watch in about 2 hours.
This is probably the primary reason why I would really love to have the upcoming Motorola watch, but probably won't get one.
10. No need to use the crappy Verizon connection software on the laptop (or worse, Dell's bastard stepchild version)
Less Good / Room to Improve
As far as the VZ software goes, I learned from a board a long while ago that you can setup a dial up connection (dialing *777) through the WWAN modem, and it will connect over a standard DUN. Thankfully, I was able to do this and avoid installing the VZ/Smith Micro abomination they have.
and you won't be stuck with an outdated, but perfectly functioning, computer. Welcome to the world of durable machines. I wish I could really, really, really prove to my CFO that the server from 5 years ago was worth getting rid of, but truth to be told, the damned thing still functions. And the maintenance cost isn't high enough to justify getting a new machine.
...bright idea. It's good to admit that there's a team in the industry that has already gone through all the effort to present a nearly perfect product, and to acknowledge them for it, instead of attempting to re-invent the wheel.
That being said, I'm really, really sick of the amount of server I can buy being limited by the number of Oracle licenses I can afford. My four engine p570 runs me about $110k. My Oracle licenses run me about $160k for that machine. That's also with our 5% "super deep discount" that we get for having well over 200 licenses in just this division of the company alone.
If we were to head out to DB2 land, IBM is ecstatic to be a loss-leader and sell us that perfectly reliable and enterprise-class DB for half the cost.
Dear Oracle,
If you don't start making this DB more affordable, we're going to have no choice but to find an alternative. And it won't give any dollars to you if we go that route.
I have this exact same monitor, I'm using it right now, and the most fantastic thing about this particular monitor (the 2001fp) is its lack of delay in the screen output. I'm using an optical mouse, granted, but I don't understand your issue...
Yup, it is, in fact, the business class email, and the way we've gotten around it is by having our site (connected to XO) relay the mail for him.
And while we're on the subject of Comcast email...
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Comcast Gets Tough on Spam
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Here's a question that I have contacted Comcast support for previously, and of course, I haven't been able to replicate the problem for them.
Has anyone noticed that email which passes through Comcast's servers is delayed for an amazing amount of time? I had a customer that I consult for miss deadlines (and consequently sales) because of mail that was sent at 0800 and got recieved at 2200 the next day. I'm not exaggerating.
Hearing this and playing around with it a bit, it became obvious that the mail was simply lounging around on Comcast's servers.
Now, of course, I can talk to their tech support until I'm blue in the face and ask them what's going on, but I'd like to take this chance to appeal to the Slashdot community, who usually have a much better understanding of these matters than the droids at the Comcast call center.
If you do a couple quick searches around dslreports and newsgroups and so on, you'll see that there are in fact many people who have the precise same issue, and have recieved no significant reply.
Are there any Comcast insiders who know why these emails float around in limbo for 24 hour periods?
People tell me they can't see spending more on cellular service, and to go with Cingular instead of Verizon. Though I might pay a couple of dollars more per month, Verizon will do acrobatics to keep me content. There's a definite premium to be paid for adequate customer service.
No, I mean an LVM that allows me to extend FS's on the fly, add in disks dynamically, and allow me to create partitions without having to remember how many cylinders I have remaining on the disk.
Solaris may be many things, but in this area, it is still older than old by comparision to HP, AIX and even RedHat AS3, which now DOES have an LVM included. Get with the program.
You know...I'd almost be interested in pursuing this if it could be proven there was a market for it...
On this note, but something completely different..
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Perfect Weather on the Net
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Since I was real little, I'd always been interested in the weather and forecasting and all that stuff. Now that toasters and other such standalone devices are becoming so prevalent, I'm looking for the simplest thing that apparently doesn't exist:
How about an 802.11 weather station?
I'm just looking for something that sits outside my house, collects weather data and other such simple stuff, and relays that data back to a server to build a web page with or whatever.
True, there are some devices like this available, but they all require a dedicated machine to log the data, and some really hard work to make them operate properly over a network (why would I possibly want a 1-wire data transmission solution, or even phone-line communication when I've got 802.11 right here?)
Have I simply missed the magic google search that has the toaster I'm looking for?
Slashdot Mirror
...but I'm horrified that I would scratch the face of my new $300 watch in about 2 hours. This is probably the primary reason why I would really love to have the upcoming Motorola watch, but probably won't get one.
10. No need to use the crappy Verizon connection software on the laptop (or worse, Dell's bastard stepchild version)
Less Good / Room to Improve
As far as the VZ software goes, I learned from a board a long while ago that you can setup a dial up connection (dialing *777) through the WWAN modem, and it will connect over a standard DUN. Thankfully, I was able to do this and avoid installing the VZ/Smith Micro abomination they have.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/ 05/1710228
...bright idea. It's good to admit that there's a team in the industry that has already gone through all the effort to present a nearly perfect product, and to acknowledge them for it, instead of attempting to re-invent the wheel.
If we were to head out to DB2 land, IBM is ecstatic to be a loss-leader and sell us that perfectly reliable and enterprise-class DB for half the cost.
Dear Oracle,
If you don't start making this DB more affordable, we're going to have no choice but to find an alternative. And it won't give any dollars to you if we go that route.
If I was interested in starting a fire, I'd get some gas from Exxon and apply a lighter to it.
I have this exact same monitor, I'm using it right now, and the most fantastic thing about this particular monitor (the 2001fp) is its lack of delay in the screen output. I'm using an optical mouse, granted, but I don't understand your issue...
Thanks! Just what I needed!
Thank you!!! Mod this up, hardcore...
Yup, it is, in fact, the business class email, and the way we've gotten around it is by having our site (connected to XO) relay the mail for him.
Has anyone noticed that email which passes through Comcast's servers is delayed for an amazing amount of time? I had a customer that I consult for miss deadlines (and consequently sales) because of mail that was sent at 0800 and got recieved at 2200 the next day. I'm not exaggerating.
Hearing this and playing around with it a bit, it became obvious that the mail was simply lounging around on Comcast's servers.
Now, of course, I can talk to their tech support until I'm blue in the face and ask them what's going on, but I'd like to take this chance to appeal to the Slashdot community, who usually have a much better understanding of these matters than the droids at the Comcast call center.
If you do a couple quick searches around dslreports and newsgroups and so on, you'll see that there are in fact many people who have the precise same issue, and have recieved no significant reply.
Are there any Comcast insiders who know why these emails float around in limbo for 24 hour periods?
Excellent site; I've obtain gigs and gigs from this site, and everything's available in my AR 320k VBR format that all my MP3's are in.
In AIX, we call it the ODM, a centralized DB for all configuration items, from networking to VG's to kernel configuration paramaters.
People tell me they can't see spending more on cellular service, and to go with Cingular instead of Verizon. Though I might pay a couple of dollars more per month, Verizon will do acrobatics to keep me content. There's a definite premium to be paid for adequate customer service.
Effective, but not even remotely elegant. Use AIX's design for 1 week, and I guarantee your life will never be the same.
Solaris may be many things, but in this area, it is still older than old by comparision to HP, AIX and even RedHat AS3, which now DOES have an LVM included. Get with the program.
...without an included LVM. I'll stick with AIX, I think.
You know...I'd almost be interested in pursuing this if it could be proven there was a market for it...
How about an 802.11 weather station?
I'm just looking for something that sits outside my house, collects weather data and other such simple stuff, and relays that data back to a server to build a web page with or whatever.
True, there are some devices like this available, but they all require a dedicated machine to log the data, and some really hard work to make them operate properly over a network (why would I possibly want a 1-wire data transmission solution, or even phone-line communication when I've got 802.11 right here?)
Have I simply missed the magic google search that has the toaster I'm looking for?
I can't believe no one noticed this yet...
Please buy Sun.
Thank you!
mE
And Solaris does what exactly that AIX cannot do...?
We don't have this problem-- 4 petabyte maximum file size 1 terabyte tested at present http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/51spec.html
My cousin and I were talking about a mortal kombat with heavy metal leads years ago, like James Hetfield of Metallica vs. Vinnie Paul of Pantera.