Using the PC Engines ALIX platform - http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
an Atheros based AR5413 802.11abg 500mW mini-PCI card
External omni-directional antenna
8GB CF card
rugged case
Sprint USB card
External cellular antenna
Ubuntu 8.10
Picture here (opened) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougnaka/3921609717/ I think costs were about $500, but would probably be under $300
I've had one in my car for the past couple months, and it's been constant, roving Wifi.
Don't take the Sprint cards to Canada though, $5k in one month roaming fees isn't fun;)
I have upgraded my machines to Snow Leopard, excited to use the Exchange support.
Only to find out it only works for Exchange 2007!
So, to move my clients off Windows/Outlook|Mac/Entourage I have to upgrade my Microsoft Exchange server to 2007?
That's not really helping *me*, Apple...
OTOH; I love getting disk space back from an upgrade - Mac Air 64GB SSD users rejoice.
AND I love Apple's family pack pricing for my home Mac's.
Also, WTF dropping Power PC support this soon?
I thought MMORPG's failed due to Darwinian evolution of their players and (lack of) offspring?
Oh, maybe I'm a few years early.
Sounds awesome, I pre-ordered like 50 copies and will play them all at once until I win and stuff. Plus I'll get the super platinum monthly and farm out some, but not most!, of the play to India.
The MMORPG is dead, Long live the MMORPG!
PS, GFYS
I just bought a batch of 10 750GB Seagate's from NewEgg and have RMA'd 6 of them, and 1 of the RMA'd drives was DOA and RMA'd. There was almost a silver lining when they shipped us a 1TB replacement, but these are all for RAID 1 mirrors:(
Before this I had only had Deathstars, Maxtors and WD's die.
Vista has brought me *back* into the Windows using fold.
Vista's security is a huge step up. It's a *good* thing that it asks you before changing things, don't disable it.
Vista's improved memory management and added features (using extra RAM to cache disk -stolen straight outta Linux), being able to use a flash drive as swap.
Improved stability.
Start menu search rocks.
My absolute favorite, copy->merge. I no longer have to connect my usb disks to my linux box and rsync them, I can just drag the entire folder over on Vista and answer 2 dialogs (one for the folder and one for the files) and I can merge/update my 195GB photo archives, Vista will do this on 2 USB drives in about 15 minutes, my rsync to the USB drives is at least 45 minutes.
Scheduled backups go into zip files in directories, not some custom archival format.
Folder layout and display is neater.
My older laptop (Lenovo T43/1.5gb ram) runs it flawlessly.
Fixing the start menu so it doesn't scroll all over the desktop
Uptime with Hibernate and sleep. I close my laptop and it hibernates. I don't have to reboot with Vista like I did every other day with XP.
Now if I could get all my key bindings working and have my Vista on one facet of my cube, a VMware OS X on another, and 6 more for terminals and Linux programs I think I'd be happy.
Oh, and I guess I won't be buying that cute lil 120GB version of the drive, or any more external Seagates.
I just went to their support site and filled out an email support request asking what is wrong with their hard drive, I recommend you all do the same!
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/
Give my 500GB chocolate turd to the wife to use on her macbook, get a Hitachi 1TB external:)
You can never have too many backup devices rsyncin' to each other.
I had noticed this problem, but the most annoying thing to me though is when you unmount it it automatically remounts... (I'm running Ubuntu 7.0.4 32-bit)
I got it for my kids about 6 months ago. We all played it a bit at first, and we've bought about 10 games for it, but nobody really plays it anymore. I have 2 ps2's, a gamecube, and 2 360's (second 360 came out of the ps3 budget), and 3 DS's, and 3 gamboy advance SPs. I love video games, my kids love video games. They can play just about any game they want whenever they want. Just last week my 5 year old asked me "How come we never play the Wii anymore?"
It made me pause and think. The Wii *is* cool. Everyone wants one, lots of people buy one, but beyond those plusses is the horrible truth the games just aren't any good. The Zelda game is the one that's been completed farthest, and the mario one where they spray water out of the hose, and I think we're not even half way. We've all played the various iterations of bowling. When we get a new Wii game it gets played for about 2-3 hours, and then again a week later for another 1-2 hours. This is absolutely nothing compared to how much they play Viva Pinata on the 360. They have mulitple gardens, and I was surprised to see my gamertag had the 100 hours + Viva Pinata award. Not only Viva Pinata, but Lego Star wars. The 5 year old has 100% completed Lego Star wars I & II (one is ps2/one is 360), and he still loves it enough we got the new ultimate Lego Star wars for 360 and he's busy playing that.
I'm not trying to be negative about the Wii, or say one platform is better than another. I am very happy with my 360 purchases, and very happy with my ps2 purchases, and the DS and Gameboys. But the Wii was very much a waste of money. I won't be getting rid of it, but if I could get my money back for the Wii + accessories + games I would be very tempted.
Am I the only person who types fast (140+wpm) and can ONLY use a natural keyboard?
What good are flat keyboard, they trash my wrists. I can feel the burn within 5 minutes typing on one.. and I can, and do, type all day on a natural keyboard and NEVER get any wrist/carpal tunnel pains...
Noam Chomsky had an interesting theory about how mass media auto censors..
read more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Mass_med ia_analysis
SUMMARY (cut & pasted from wikipedia)
The model attempts to explain this perceived systemic bias of the mass media in terms of structural economic causes rather than a conspiracy of people. It argues the bias derives from five "filters" that all published news must "pass through" which combine to systematically distort news coverage.
1. The first filter, ownership, notes that most major media outlets are owned by large corporations.
2. The second, funding, notes that the outlets derive the majority of their funding from advertising, not readers. Thus, since they are profit-oriented businesses selling a product -- readers and audiences -- to other businesses (advertisers), the model would expect them to publish news which would reflect the desires and values of those businesses.
3. In addition, the news media are dependent on government institutions and major businesses with strong biases as sources (the third filter) for much of their information.
4. Flak, the fourth filter, refers to the various pressure groups which go after the media for supposed bias and so on when they go out of line.
5. Norms, the fifth filter, refer to the common conceptions shared by those in the profession of journalism. (Note: in the original text, published in 1988, the fifth filter was "anticommunism". However, with the fall of the Soviet Union, it has been broadened to allow for accounting of shifts in public opinion.)
I own 2 ps2's, and have mostly quit gaming on my computer and game almost exclusively on the ps2 or xbox. I think that you have a point that X makes sense logically for a "cancel" action, but we've (the millions of ps/ps2 owners) already all been programmed to think of X as accept and triangle as exit.
I just ran into this on a new game, Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater. Fun game, but the X is go back, and the circle is accept. I spent at least 5 minutes thinking I had a bad version of the game since every time I tried to start playing it just went back to the start screen. I was almost ready to return the game for a new one that "worked" when I decided (against my male tendencies) to RTFM and whaddya know.. circle is select...
We have people all over the country and most swear only Verizon works (East coast mostly) in their area, so we are stuck paying the outrageous rates. However, where I live, SLC, I get poor service and if I'm on a call more than 3 minutes I have about a 50% chance of the call randomly dropping. T-Mobile in the same areas did NOT have this problem.
I pay a little over $150/month (total) for 1200 minutes, and unlimited data. I used to have a T-Mobile sidekick (I miss it) for about $60/month for 1000 minutes + unlimited data, or $70/month for 3000 minutes + unlimited data. Both data services are useless for web browsing (way too slow). The Blackberry gets email about as fast as the Sidekick did. I downloaded a chat client for the blackberry ($35/year) which lost almost 30% of the IMs I sent.. I had been an IM junkie on my sidekick with being able to easily keep track of 5+ simultaneous chats, and never having lost a message. On the BB chat was horrible, the keyboard was too small, and managing more than 1 chat was almost impossible. The Blackberry has some nice corporate features like end to end encryption, but for email? who thinks email is secure to begin with? The only feature I actually LOVE about the Blackberry is the fact that if you enter the password 10 times wrong it deletes ALL of your data. Honestly, I think this is an amazing feature and should be on any mobile phone capable of storing personal data. It does have you type in the word blackberry after every other failed password to make sure you're 4 year old isn't just running off with your phone, so it's not like it'll happen by accident. But if someone swipes your phone they don't get all your secret corporate data.
I'm way off topic now, but I'm thinkin about getting the Motorola A630 w/T-Mobile from Amazon.com.. But no unlimited text messaging and 1000 txt's/month for a chat junkie just doesn't cut it.. So I may just get the sidekick II.. But I want bluetooth! I'd even go for one of the newer Blackberries w/bluetooth.. Since this one is ONLY good for email, and barely good for phone..
Anyone have a good chat client for the BB? Recommendation for chat/email/phone cellphone? I couldn't care less about a camera phone or "games"..
Course we were running VMware, initially with their very insecure RedHat 5.2 I think it was..
Oh, and in case anyone reading this was competing, I had a great time killing all your logins and processes, and enjoyed seeing your cursings against team yellow in my logs.. but the perl thing, along with a very small team, took us out completely..
Kind of a coincidence that this gets posted today on/., as I've spent most of the morning setting up geom on a new 5.3 box, had used Vinum in the past on 4.x, and have loved FreeBSD for servers since 2.2.5
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.goog le.com
Notice no BSD, a couple Linux, mostly unknown. But I think it's common geek knowledge that Google runs Linux.
I dismiss the results becuase they compare apples to oranges. They compare reported vulnerabilities. Redhat releases vulnerabilities for things you won't even be running. If you had a php plugin for both Linux and Windows and there was a vulnerability in it, Redhat would release an update, and Microsoft wouldn't even consider it.
Second, as many other posters have said, things that directly contradict our technical experience, need real proof. I've run IIS webservers AND Apache/linux servers and have experienced the difference. Also, I have a bit of security experience, including a nifty CISSP certification from the ISC^2. Now, I would trust my experience, my technical knowledge, and my security experience over the guy who "runs an open-source server at home" any day.
Once upon a time I had to run IIS on a webserver on a Windows box. I had to spend about 2-10 hours/month patching/fixing/de-worming/etc on it.
Once upon another time I had to run another webserver, Apache, on a different operating system, Linux. Once I set it up I did have to spend some time on the security of it, let's see, I had to upgrade PHP once for a serious vulnerability, in, oh what was it now, 13 months? That did take about 2 hours to upgrade....
So, do you really mean to ask if his time is worthless, or do you mean to ask if he has the requisite skills?
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Using the PC Engines ALIX platform - http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm an Atheros based AR5413 802.11abg 500mW mini-PCI card
External omni-directional antenna
8GB CF card
rugged case
Sprint USB card
External cellular antenna
Ubuntu 8.10
Picture here (opened) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougnaka/3921609717/
I think costs were about $500, but would probably be under $300
I've had one in my car for the past couple months, and it's been constant, roving Wifi.
Don't take the Sprint cards to Canada though, $5k in one month roaming fees isn't fun
I have upgraded my machines to Snow Leopard, excited to use the Exchange support.
Only to find out it only works for Exchange 2007!
So, to move my clients off Windows/Outlook|Mac/Entourage I have to upgrade my Microsoft Exchange server to 2007?
That's not really helping *me*, Apple...
OTOH; I love getting disk space back from an upgrade - Mac Air 64GB SSD users rejoice. AND I love Apple's family pack pricing for my home Mac's. Also, WTF dropping Power PC support this soon?
I thought MMORPG's failed due to Darwinian evolution of their players and (lack of) offspring? Oh, maybe I'm a few years early. Sounds awesome, I pre-ordered like 50 copies and will play them all at once until I win and stuff. Plus I'll get the super platinum monthly and farm out some, but not most!, of the play to India. The MMORPG is dead, Long live the MMORPG! PS, GFYS
I just bought a batch of 10 750GB Seagate's from NewEgg and have RMA'd 6 of them, and 1 of the RMA'd drives was DOA and RMA'd. There was almost a silver lining when they shipped us a 1TB replacement, but these are all for RAID 1 mirrors :(
Before this I had only had Deathstars, Maxtors and WD's die.
Now if I could get all my key bindings working and have my Vista on one facet of my cube, a VMware OS X on another, and 6 more for terminals and Linux programs I think I'd be happy.
Oh, and I guess I won't be buying that cute lil 120GB version of the drive, or any more external Seagates. I just went to their support site and filled out an email support request asking what is wrong with their hard drive, I recommend you all do the same! http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/
Give my 500GB chocolate turd to the wife to use on her macbook, get a Hitachi 1TB external :)
You can never have too many backup devices rsyncin' to each other.
I had noticed this problem, but the most annoying thing to me though is when you unmount it it automatically remounts... (I'm running Ubuntu 7.0.4 32-bit)
I got it for my kids about 6 months ago. We all played it a bit at first, and we've bought about 10 games for it, but nobody really plays it anymore. I have 2 ps2's, a gamecube, and 2 360's (second 360 came out of the ps3 budget), and 3 DS's, and 3 gamboy advance SPs. I love video games, my kids love video games. They can play just about any game they want whenever they want. Just last week my 5 year old asked me "How come we never play the Wii anymore?" It made me pause and think. The Wii *is* cool. Everyone wants one, lots of people buy one, but beyond those plusses is the horrible truth the games just aren't any good. The Zelda game is the one that's been completed farthest, and the mario one where they spray water out of the hose, and I think we're not even half way. We've all played the various iterations of bowling. When we get a new Wii game it gets played for about 2-3 hours, and then again a week later for another 1-2 hours. This is absolutely nothing compared to how much they play Viva Pinata on the 360. They have mulitple gardens, and I was surprised to see my gamertag had the 100 hours + Viva Pinata award. Not only Viva Pinata, but Lego Star wars. The 5 year old has 100% completed Lego Star wars I & II (one is ps2/one is 360), and he still loves it enough we got the new ultimate Lego Star wars for 360 and he's busy playing that. I'm not trying to be negative about the Wii, or say one platform is better than another. I am very happy with my 360 purchases, and very happy with my ps2 purchases, and the DS and Gameboys. But the Wii was very much a waste of money. I won't be getting rid of it, but if I could get my money back for the Wii + accessories + games I would be very tempted.
Plus I don't have to deal with that annoying looking straight at the monitor addiction I've been unable to shake on my own..
What good are flat keyboard, they trash my wrists. I can feel the burn within 5 minutes typing on one.. and I can, and do, type all day on a natural keyboard and NEVER get any wrist/carpal tunnel pains...
Flat keyboards are depricated.
walk away... I've had almost a dozen people who rebooted and then came to me (I was the IT guy) with holy crap I think my computer's dead..
I just ran into this on a new game, Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater. Fun game, but the X is go back, and the circle is accept. I spent at least 5 minutes thinking I had a bad version of the game since every time I tried to start playing it just went back to the start screen. I was almost ready to return the game for a new one that "worked" when I decided (against my male tendencies) to RTFM and whaddya know.. circle is select...
*weird* was all I could think..
How many people is that? I'd wager 90% of their target audience.. how many playstation 1's and 2's has Sony sold???
I pay a little over $150/month (total) for 1200 minutes, and unlimited data. I used to have a T-Mobile sidekick (I miss it) for about $60/month for 1000 minutes + unlimited data, or $70/month for 3000 minutes + unlimited data. Both data services are useless for web browsing (way too slow). The Blackberry gets email about as fast as the Sidekick did. I downloaded a chat client for the blackberry ($35/year) which lost almost 30% of the IMs I sent.. I had been an IM junkie on my sidekick with being able to easily keep track of 5+ simultaneous chats, and never having lost a message. On the BB chat was horrible, the keyboard was too small, and managing more than 1 chat was almost impossible. The Blackberry has some nice corporate features like end to end encryption, but for email? who thinks email is secure to begin with? The only feature I actually LOVE about the Blackberry is the fact that if you enter the password 10 times wrong it deletes ALL of your data. Honestly, I think this is an amazing feature and should be on any mobile phone capable of storing personal data. It does have you type in the word blackberry after every other failed password to make sure you're 4 year old isn't just running off with your phone, so it's not like it'll happen by accident. But if someone swipes your phone they don't get all your secret corporate data.
I'm way off topic now, but I'm thinkin about getting the Motorola A630 w/T-Mobile from Amazon.com.. But no unlimited text messaging and 1000 txt's/month for a chat junkie just doesn't cut it.. So I may just get the sidekick II.. But I want bluetooth! I'd even go for one of the newer Blackberries w/bluetooth.. Since this one is ONLY good for email, and barely good for phone..
Anyone have a good chat client for the BB? Recommendation for chat/email/phone cellphone? I couldn't care less about a camera phone or "games"..
perl -e 'while(1){fork();}'
Course we were running VMware, initially with their very insecure RedHat 5.2 I think it was..
Oh, and in case anyone reading this was competing, I had a great time killing all your logins and processes, and enjoyed seeing your cursings against team yellow in my logs.. but the perl thing, along with a very small team, took us out completely..
And the short version of the same thing, but using a recovery CD instead of a live system http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howt o-gmirror-system/
Kind of a coincidence that this gets posted today on /., as I've spent most of the morning setting up geom on a new 5.3 box, had used Vinum in the past on 4.x, and have loved FreeBSD for servers since 2.2.5
pstools
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.goog le.com
Notice no BSD, a couple Linux, mostly unknown. But I think it's common geek knowledge that Google runs Linux.
Second, as many other posters have said, things that directly contradict our technical experience, need real proof. I've run IIS webservers AND Apache/linux servers and have experienced the difference. Also, I have a bit of security experience, including a nifty CISSP certification from the ISC^2. Now, I would trust my experience, my technical knowledge, and my security experience over the guy who "runs an open-source server at home" any day.
Once upon another time I had to run another webserver, Apache, on a different operating system, Linux. Once I set it up I did have to spend some time on the security of it, let's see, I had to upgrade PHP once for a serious vulnerability, in, oh what was it now, 13 months? That did take about 2 hours to upgrade....
So, do you really mean to ask if his time is worthless, or do you mean to ask if he has the requisite skills?