I'm curious why you recommended using the pcmcia card for the internal interface, and the on-board ethernet for the WAN interface.
Several months ago my area was struck by lightning. I lost my cable modem (adelphia replaced it free after much haggling), the network card it was attached to, a SCSI hardware raid card (AMI Megaraid 428, not very expensive and I had a backup), a shitty little 10mbit hub. Also damaged, but still usable, was a dual P2 motherboard (it boots and runs fine, but any network cards plugged into the system do not work. other cards do. strange).
Also, that NIC that is broken was a nice card from an alpha box, it has dual scsi ports on it as well. The scsi part of the card still works, just the NIC part doesn't work anymore.
Ideally, I would say put the PCMCIA ethernet to your WAN interface (cable, DSL, etc), because that is cheaper and easier to replace should your wan interface die and try to take something with it.
So you are admitting that it isn't ready, right? Because that's what windows is, easy to use. Not stable, not secure, but not terribly diffcult to use.
Unix is DEFINATELY not ready for the desktop, and you are saying that Linux's use is as a *NIX box.
You need to look deeper than that. Yes, they may make more at retail, or they may not. There is some extra packaging involved for retail, and perhaps they only send Dell one CD that allows them to do a thousand PC's. Who knows. Regardless, I'm sure they are VERY concerned where the money comes from. Not many people are smart and capable enough to do an install from scratch, and even the upgrades are a little difficult. When I say not many people, I mean in the grand scheme of things, as far as percentage of total windows users. Most people just end up with a new computer. They are so cheap nowadays.
I had a friend who got in a car accident on I-95. His PC was in the back of his van, and the back door of the van was bent inwards. The mobo survived, the case didn't. An external parallel port Zip drive flew out the window and seperated. It is missing the front panel, but after bending the disk rails back into shape and plugging the chassis back together, it has worked like a champ for the last few years. It is gathering dust in my closet. No use for it since CD's are so damn cheap and my whole house is networked.
More recently my house got hit by lightning and/or a spike. I lost a hub and an AMI Megaraid card. The megaraid card still detects when I use LSPCI, but you don't see the SCSI Bios on boot anymore, and it doesn't recognize the drives. I may try to re-flash the Bios one day, but I have so many SCSI cards and so little use for dated hardware raid it almost isn't worth the effort.
A Dual P2-333 motherboard I was priming to be my linux server was partially fried (Gotta love the 666 machine). The serial ports were destroyed, and while all the PCI slots work, network cards no longer work plugged into any of them. I had 2 NIC's in it, and neither card worked anymore IN THAT MOTHERBOARD. Switched them to a new PC and they both work. The Video card works in any PCI slot in the server. Very strange. I think perhaps there is some PCI-slot pin that only the NIC's are using and that is what was destroyed. Needless to say, I can't use that as my server anymore. I only paid $7 for that motherboard anyway, I think $8 for the APIC chip.
The best part of that article is how they say Den Kamen wants to see soldiers riding them into battle. That is hilarious. I think Dean is just trying to dip into the huge well-o-defense-funds, regardless of wether his product actually provides a benefit.
Personally, I think it's a very geeky, cool, and useless toy that is vastly overpriced, and while the prices WILL come down, I still don't see it replacing a bike. I'd rather spend $1000 for an awesome bike than $5000 for a mediocre segway that maxes at 12-15 mph and has to be recharged all the time.
If you are dumb enough to chose someone@somewhere.com as your email address, or noone@nowhere.com, you deserve the spam.
A previous poster mentioned it, and I fall in the same category. I use a@b.com.
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I don't get it. What is the importance of this surrender dorothy thing? Googling yields a band and a movie. I just saw an episode of Tripping the Rift where that was the name of the shuttle that the androids stole to get away. Why would they put that on the ship?
The film received the longest standing ovation in the history of the Cannes festival!
I'm not picking on you by any means, because you are NOT the first one to do this, but have you noticed how whenever something happens they have to pick out why it was "first" or really damn important? But then they fail miserably?
You'll be listening to the news, "this was the FIRST blah blah blah in 2 years! Isn't that amazing?!". Where blah blah is something that happens every year anyway, it just happened to be better than the year before, but not the year before that. It's like a hook, to try to get you interested in the story. I'm sure there's a word for it in reporting/writing circles, but since they do it on EVERY damn story, it just gets drowned out.
Perform an experiment next time you listen/read the news. See how many times they do that. Once you start to notice it, it gets really annoying.
It was a typo thank you. I tried to stop the page load, but I was too late. I did notice it, and I know the difference. It was a case of the hands wanting to type one thing, and the brain wanting another.
What is RAID 0+1 on 2 drives? Isn't that just a RAID 1 or a RAID 0 array? That doesn't make any sense. Yes, you could partition the drives into halves, THEN do a raid 10 or raid 0+1, but that defeats the purpose of reliability across multiple devices. If you have a hardware failure, you could lose both partitions.
I didn't read the article, but I was under the impression they actually had to launch it with those 3 people on board, not just the one pilot. And then they have to do it again 2 weeks later, or at least have it ready too. Check the xprize rules
$15? That's kind of skewed. Dreamcasts and N64's don't even sell that low used. I think within a year you'll be seeing them for $50, probably not new though.
in regards to #3, I think they stopped after the atari crash, and then declred Nintendo the rebirth, which has been going on since then, considering nintendo is still in the console business.
People keep complaining how great the XBox is compared the the PS2 in terms of the system/grafx whatever, but having played similar games on each system, I can't really see much difference.
My girlfriend bough Max Payne for PC. One of the few games we finally were willing and had money to buy. The copy protection wouldn't let it install on either of her drivers, CDRW or DVD. Took it back, no money for them. We'd be better off just pirating it.
This isn't turning things off at random. This is scientific method. Hypothesis, experiment, etc. Global warming melts ice caps. Ice caps raise sea level, affect the weather, etc. This isn't guessing. You are basically saying
"lets blow up a big nuclear bomb somewhere. If it's close to us, we are fucked, if it's far away from us, maybe some asshole will die and we are better off for it"
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I'm curious why you recommended using the pcmcia card for the internal interface, and the on-board ethernet for the WAN interface.
Several months ago my area was struck by lightning. I lost my cable modem (adelphia replaced it free after much haggling), the network card it was attached to, a SCSI hardware raid card (AMI Megaraid 428, not very expensive and I had a backup), a shitty little 10mbit hub. Also damaged, but still usable, was a dual P2 motherboard (it boots and runs fine, but any network cards plugged into the system do not work. other cards do. strange).
Also, that NIC that is broken was a nice card from an alpha box, it has dual scsi ports on it as well. The scsi part of the card still works, just the NIC part doesn't work anymore.
Ideally, I would say put the PCMCIA ethernet to your WAN interface (cable, DSL, etc), because that is cheaper and easier to replace should your wan interface die and try to take something with it.
I would have liked to see a scroll wheel on it as well.
So you are admitting that it isn't ready, right? Because that's what windows is, easy to use. Not stable, not secure, but not terribly diffcult to use.
Unix is DEFINATELY not ready for the desktop, and you are saying that Linux's use is as a *NIX box.
Not only that, but the only place I have seen Lycos recently is in the crappy search bar/sidebar spyware they have floating around.
You need to look deeper than that. Yes, they may make more at retail, or they may not. There is some extra packaging involved for retail, and perhaps they only send Dell one CD that allows them to do a thousand PC's. Who knows. Regardless, I'm sure they are VERY concerned where the money comes from. Not many people are smart and capable enough to do an install from scratch, and even the upgrades are a little difficult. When I say not many people, I mean in the grand scheme of things, as far as percentage of total windows users. Most people just end up with a new computer. They are so cheap nowadays.
I've seen 2 positive reviews on this WHOLE thread, and both are by AC. They've invaded slashdot.
No, but they make a crapload on selling windows liscenses to OEMs that make new computers.
GNU's not Unix. It can NEVER be Unix. Duh!
I had a friend who got in a car accident on I-95. His PC was in the back of his van, and the back door of the van was bent inwards. The mobo survived, the case didn't. An external parallel port Zip drive flew out the window and seperated. It is missing the front panel, but after bending the disk rails back into shape and plugging the chassis back together, it has worked like a champ for the last few years. It is gathering dust in my closet. No use for it since CD's are so damn cheap and my whole house is networked.
More recently my house got hit by lightning and/or a spike. I lost a hub and an AMI Megaraid card. The megaraid card still detects when I use LSPCI, but you don't see the SCSI Bios on boot anymore, and it doesn't recognize the drives. I may try to re-flash the Bios one day, but I have so many SCSI cards and so little use for dated hardware raid it almost isn't worth the effort.
A Dual P2-333 motherboard I was priming to be my linux server was partially fried (Gotta love the 666 machine). The serial ports were destroyed, and while all the PCI slots work, network cards no longer work plugged into any of them. I had 2 NIC's in it, and neither card worked anymore IN THAT MOTHERBOARD. Switched them to a new PC and they both work. The Video card works in any PCI slot in the server. Very strange. I think perhaps there is some PCI-slot pin that only the NIC's are using and that is what was destroyed. Needless to say, I can't use that as my server anymore. I only paid $7 for that motherboard anyway, I think $8 for the APIC chip.
The best part of that article is how they say Den Kamen wants to see soldiers riding them into battle. That is hilarious. I think Dean is just trying to dip into the huge well-o-defense-funds, regardless of wether his product actually provides a benefit.
Personally, I think it's a very geeky, cool, and useless toy that is vastly overpriced, and while the prices WILL come down, I still don't see it replacing a bike. I'd rather spend $1000 for an awesome bike than $5000 for a mediocre segway that maxes at 12-15 mph and has to be recharged all the time.
If you are dumb enough to chose someone@somewhere.com as your email address, or noone@nowhere.com, you deserve the spam.
A previous poster mentioned it, and I fall in the same category. I use a@b.com.
I don't get it. What is the importance of this surrender dorothy thing? Googling yields a band and a movie. I just saw an episode of Tripping the Rift where that was the name of the shuttle that the androids stole to get away. Why would they put that on the ship?
I'm not picking on you by any means, because you are NOT the first one to do this, but have you noticed how whenever something happens they have to pick out why it was "first" or really damn important? But then they fail miserably?
You'll be listening to the news, "this was the FIRST blah blah blah in 2 years! Isn't that amazing?!". Where blah blah is something that happens every year anyway, it just happened to be better than the year before, but not the year before that. It's like a hook, to try to get you interested in the story. I'm sure there's a word for it in reporting/writing circles, but since they do it on EVERY damn story, it just gets drowned out.
Perform an experiment next time you listen/read the news. See how many times they do that. Once you start to notice it, it gets really annoying.
It was a typo thank you. I tried to stop the page load, but I was too late. I did notice it, and I know the difference. It was a case of the hands wanting to type one thing, and the brain wanting another.
When did /. turn into business knews? Why do we care about this?
I like mine round, long, thin, and to the curb.
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Yeah? Well I went war-pub crawling last week, and one time I was lost at sea after a plane crash, so I went war-shipwrecking with my trusty pda!
Next week, I plan to have myself buried alive to go war-graving.
What is RAID 0+1 on 2 drives? Isn't that just a RAID 1 or a RAID 0 array? That doesn't make any sense. Yes, you could partition the drives into halves, THEN do a raid 10 or raid 0+1, but that defeats the purpose of reliability across multiple devices. If you have a hardware failure, you could lose both partitions.
I didn't read the article, but I was under the impression they actually had to launch it with those 3 people on board, not just the one pilot. And then they have to do it again 2 weeks later, or at least have it ready too. Check the xprize rules
$15? That's kind of skewed. Dreamcasts and N64's don't even sell that low used. I think within a year you'll be seeing them for $50, probably not new though.
in regards to #3, I think they stopped after the atari crash, and then declred Nintendo the rebirth, which has been going on since then, considering nintendo is still in the console business.
People keep complaining how great the XBox is compared the the PS2 in terms of the system/grafx whatever, but having played similar games on each system, I can't really see much difference.
My girlfriend bough Max Payne for PC. One of the few games we finally were willing and had money to buy. The copy protection wouldn't let it install on either of her drivers, CDRW or DVD. Took it back, no money for them. We'd be better off just pirating it.
This isn't turning things off at random. This is scientific method. Hypothesis, experiment, etc. Global warming melts ice caps. Ice caps raise sea level, affect the weather, etc. This isn't guessing. You are basically saying
"lets blow up a big nuclear bomb somewhere. If it's close to us, we are fucked, if it's far away from us, maybe some asshole will die and we are better off for it"
Because it is convenient to speak of things in their global impact. Not becuase you want to pick on liberals. You're digging kind of deep.