another solution is to require anyone bringing a computer from home to have it inspected by your techs, block access based on mac address and only give them access once they passed the test. it does require more ressources tho, and ideally you'd still need the first option (in case where someone reinstall windows)
You do realize how ineffective it is to block based on mac addresses, right? You do know that windows is happy to let you spoof them, and most drivers for 2k/xp even have an easy way to do it (rather than a registry entry)
That doesn't even consider the different insurances that we are required to have by law or by contract. Get pulled over by the police without liability insurance and see what happens.
You need not have liability insurance, you only need to prove fiscal responsibility to some limit. Most people do this by having insurance that will cover at least that amount, but there are otherways (such as certifying to your state DMV/DOT that you have that much money)
Since nobody else has asked this question, why do you need to store all these parts?
I've found that for most of the parts I have left over after working on computers, I'll either reuse them quickly, or not at all. For the ones I do reuse quickly, leaving them wherever seems to work ok, and the ones that I don't use don't seem to care either.
Likely the reason Fry's employees say ECS has bad quality control is that they ecs motherboards are common in their mboard + cpu bundles. My experience with the k7s5a was initially bad, but a bios update fixed it. I imagine a large portion of the rest of the k7s5a's in the local Fry's with the stickers indicating returns could have been fixed with a bios update as well.
If you had been using thick coax (10base5) instead of thin coax (10base2), you wouldn't need a terminator. Of course you'ld need an external tranceiver and a vampire tap, and somebody who knows how to install the tap.
ntbackup provides for an 'automated system recovery'... where you hit a button near the beginning of the windows install, and put in a floppy, and it supposedly makes everything happy...
it requires a floppy drive, which i don't have so i haven't tried it.
Given that gcc is gpl'ed, it's not possible to revoke SCO's license to use it. Given that authors of gcc had sufficient copyright control to license it to other via the GPL, it can't be unlicensed. Newer versions could (potentially) be released under a new license which excludes SCO's use, but this would be rather petty, and SCO could probably just use the current version of GCC until the petty license stuff got worked out.
i imagine the vm is swapping out stuff that hasn't been used in a while (15 minutes apparently), so you can more of your ram to use as disk cache. after all, don't you want a larger disk cache?
a lot of hardware manufacturers like to release binary drivers... binary drivers tend to be specific to a certain kernel version... win32 has no more than 20 released kernels on i386 since 1995
linux has at least 60 on i386, just from stock kernels alone (stable branch)
if the vendors will play nice and be willing to have their driver be open source, they can often get it added to the mainline kernel, and then they don't have to do a whole lot to keep it up to date (unless they want to)
I think win2k and XP will sometimes blow the MBR away, and sometimes not... I know I've had both of them blow away my MBR, and both of them not blow it away. I have no idea why they'd do that, but whatever.
My solution is to install lilo to the partition boot record, and then use an mbr that allows selecting which partition to boot from... (i use debian-mbr)... then when windows eats my mbr, i just need to go into a partition editor and set the linux partition as the active partition, and reboot.... and fix the mbr in there
i generally try to put my operating system loaders on the partition of the relevent os. XP gets ntloader on its partition, linux gets lilo on its... then i put debian mbr on the mbr so i can pick which partition to boot from.
if something (most likely windows) fucks w/ my mbr, i just have to set the linux partition active, reboot and do install-mbr/dev/hda and i'm able to pick and choose my os easily again
windows installs have overwritten my mbr way too many times for me to put stuff the system depends on in there
You neglected to include the first paragraph of section 6...
Use, reproduction, modification, and other intellectual property rights to data stored in CVS or as a file release and posted by any user on SourceForge.net ("Source Code") shall be subject to the OSI-approved license applicable to such Source Code, or to such other licensing arrangements that may be approved by SourceForge.net as applicable to such Source Code.
This paragraph says that the use of the code is subject to the license chosen to apply to the code.
The paragraph you quoted says stuff that people write in message boards and bug reports is subject to whatever SourceForge wants to do with it. I would argue that putting files into cvs is not part of the 'publicly accessible site features' since the public can't put whatever into my project.
i would recommend using all 6 solutions at once.:)
that'll definately put her off, unless she's into really scary people (in which case, watch out/. as she pays attention to his browsing habits and starts flirting with random people on here:)
$200 a week is > $800 a month, but we'll go with $800/month cause that makes my calculations easier
Rent for an efficiency in downtown milwaukee $400 Electricity for a month in downtown milwaukee $25 Telephone bill for a month (only local service) $20 Water and heat included with rent
That takes care of rent and utilities (assuming electric stove) and leaves you with $355 for the rest of your needs.
Lets say your company sucks, and you can't get a discount bus pass, so you have to buy the weekly bus pass at $12/week... so that's $60 if its one of the months with 5 sundays (or whatever day the weekly pass starts on)
That pretty much gets you everything you need except food. For $295, you should be able to feed yourself for a month. You could probably get a breakfast and dinner value meal at a fast food joint for that, or *gasp* get stuff from the grocery store and eat real food.
I had no significant trouble running Linux on my evo n800c. I installed debian (using vmware to avoid making a boot cd), upgraded to unstable, compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer support, and went from there. Yes, ACPI is broken, that's what you get from Compaq... there are fairly simple ways to fix that. You can also choose to use the radeon drivers for X, but there are some issues with closing the lid then (i think those are fixable too, i just didn't care).
I have an Evo n800c. It came with a rubber dohickey jammed in the expansion bay, i find this effectively bars paper clips from causing problems. This is an improvement over previous Compaq laptops where the expansion bay was on the back, with no possibility of covering it.
The lack of serial ports is not necessarily a design flaw. There is only so much room on the back of the device, so compaq dropped the serial port. If you need a serial terminal, you should be able to find a large number of _really_ old laptops with serial ports that are capable of running miniterm (or whatever suits your fancy), for instance, I've got two laptops with 386s that make great serial terminals.
from my experience the vhs/dvd devices will power on as either a vhs device (if there is a tape in it), or a dvd device (if there is no tape in it). I think if you want to go from watching a tape to watching a dvd you have to power cycle the thing.
i understand putting dual-boot setups for CS students, but bigger hard disks doesn't seem like a good idea, unless CS students pay more tuition or something.
at my school, they've started putting dual boot setups for computer and software engineers... but still the same hard drive. not that it matters, the default system image is close enough to non-functional that i'd rather waste the 3 to 4 hours reinstalling upfront than waste my time dealing with it.
if the problem is parsing, why the hell go through the trouble of making it an audio clue, unless you want to discriminate against those with hearing imparement?
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another solution is to require anyone bringing a computer from home to have it inspected by your techs, block access based on mac address and only give them access once they passed the test. it does require more ressources tho, and ideally you'd still need the first option (in case where someone reinstall windows)
You do realize how ineffective it is to block based on mac addresses, right? You do know that windows is happy to let you spoof them, and most drivers for 2k/xp even have an easy way to do it (rather than a registry entry)
sure....
i'd also have no problem telling them i reinstalled my machine, and they can reconnect me now....
and if they don't, i'd have no problem leeching off my room/floormates by running ipmasq, and additional network cables
That doesn't even consider the different insurances that we are required to have by law or by contract. Get pulled over by the police without liability insurance and see what happens.
You need not have liability insurance, you only need to prove fiscal responsibility to some limit. Most people do this by having insurance that will cover at least that amount, but there are otherways (such as certifying to your state DMV/DOT that you have that much money)
Since nobody else has asked this question, why do you need to store all these parts?
I've found that for most of the parts I have left over after working on computers, I'll either reuse them quickly, or not at all. For the ones I do reuse quickly, leaving them wherever seems to work ok, and the ones that I don't use don't seem to care either.
at one of my jobs, we actually had a site license of PKZip, and we mostly used that.
nowadays, since zip is built into winXP, it seems likely that use of winzip past the shareware period will decrease
Likely the reason Fry's employees say ECS has bad quality control is that they ecs motherboards are common in their mboard + cpu bundles. My experience with the k7s5a was initially bad, but a bios update fixed it. I imagine a large portion of the rest of the k7s5a's in the local Fry's with the stickers indicating returns could have been fixed with a bios update as well.
If you had been using thick coax (10base5) instead of thin coax (10base2), you wouldn't need a terminator. Of course you'ld need an external tranceiver and a vampire tap, and somebody who knows how to install the tap.
ntbackup provides for an 'automated system recovery' ... where you hit a button near the beginning of the windows install, and put in a floppy, and it supposedly makes everything happy...
it requires a floppy drive, which i don't have so i haven't tried it.
Given that gcc is gpl'ed, it's not possible to revoke SCO's license to use it. Given that authors of gcc had sufficient copyright control to license it to other via the GPL, it can't be unlicensed. Newer versions could (potentially) be released under a new license which excludes SCO's use, but this would be rather petty, and SCO could probably just use the current version of GCC until the petty license stuff got worked out.
i imagine the vm is swapping out stuff that hasn't been used in a while (15 minutes apparently), so you can more of your ram to use as disk cache. after all, don't you want a larger disk cache?
(not that anybody will read this)
a lot of hardware manufacturers like to release binary drivers... binary drivers tend to be specific to a certain kernel version...
win32 has no more than 20 released kernels on i386 since 1995
linux has at least 60 on i386, just from stock kernels alone (stable branch)
if the vendors will play nice and be willing to have their driver be open source, they can often get it added to the mainline kernel, and then they don't have to do a whole lot to keep it up to date (unless they want to)
I think win2k and XP will sometimes blow the MBR away, and sometimes not... I know I've had both of them blow away my MBR, and both of them not blow it away. I have no idea why they'd do that, but whatever.
My solution is to install lilo to the partition boot record, and then use an mbr that allows selecting which partition to boot from... (i use debian-mbr)... then when windows eats my mbr, i just need to go into a partition editor and set the linux partition as the active partition, and reboot.... and fix the mbr in there
i generally try to put my operating system loaders on the partition of the relevent os. XP gets ntloader on its partition, linux gets lilo on its... then i put debian mbr on the mbr so i can pick which partition to boot from.
/dev/hda and i'm able to pick and choose my os easily again
if something (most likely windows) fucks w/ my mbr, i just have to set the linux partition active, reboot and do install-mbr
windows installs have overwritten my mbr way too many times for me to put stuff the system depends on in there
You neglected to include the first paragraph of section 6...
.
Use, reproduction, modification, and other intellectual property rights to data stored in CVS or as a file release and posted by any user on SourceForge.net ("Source Code") shall be subject to the OSI-approved license applicable to such Source Code, or to such other licensing arrangements that may be approved by SourceForge.net as applicable to such Source Code.
This paragraph says that the use of the code is subject to the license chosen to apply to the code
The paragraph you quoted says stuff that people write in message boards and bug reports is subject to whatever SourceForge wants to do with it. I would argue that putting files into cvs is not part of the 'publicly accessible site features' since the public can't put whatever into my project.
If you buy good movies, instead of these new crappy ones, the dvd plays when you stick it in, and puts the FBI warnings at the end.
References: Dune, Logan's Run
If you need secure transfers, use SFTP protocol. It's trivial.
Actually TFTP is trivial, I believe.
(yes, this is a dumb joke)
i would recommend using all 6 solutions at once. :)
/. as she pays attention to his browsing habits and starts flirting with random people on here :)
that'll definately put her off, unless she's into really scary people (in which case, watch out
$200 a week is > $800 a month, but we'll go with $800/month cause that makes my calculations easier
Rent for an efficiency in downtown milwaukee $400
Electricity for a month in downtown milwaukee $25
Telephone bill for a month (only local service) $20
Water and heat included with rent
That takes care of rent and utilities (assuming electric stove) and leaves you with $355 for the rest of your needs.
Lets say your company sucks, and you can't get a discount bus pass, so you have to buy the weekly bus pass at $12/week... so that's $60 if its one of the months with 5 sundays (or whatever day the weekly pass starts on)
That pretty much gets you everything you need except food. For $295, you should be able to feed yourself for a month. You could probably get a breakfast and dinner value meal at a fast food joint for that, or *gasp* get stuff from the grocery store and eat real food.
oops, forgot to comment on running linux on them.
I had no significant trouble running Linux on my evo n800c. I installed debian (using vmware to avoid making a boot cd), upgraded to unstable, compiled the kernel with vesa framebuffer support, and went from there. Yes, ACPI is broken, that's what you get from Compaq... there are fairly simple ways to fix that. You can also choose to use the radeon drivers for X, but there are some issues with closing the lid then (i think those are fixable too, i just didn't care).
I have an Evo n800c. It came with a rubber dohickey jammed in the expansion bay, i find this effectively bars paper clips from causing problems. This is an improvement over previous Compaq laptops where the expansion bay was on the back, with no possibility of covering it.
The lack of serial ports is not necessarily a design flaw. There is only so much room on the back of the device, so compaq dropped the serial port. If you need a serial terminal, you should be able to find a large number of _really_ old laptops with serial ports that are capable of running miniterm (or whatever suits your fancy), for instance, I've got two laptops with 386s that make great serial terminals.
from my experience the vhs/dvd devices will power on as either a vhs device (if there is a tape in it), or a dvd device (if there is no tape in it). I think if you want to go from watching a tape to watching a dvd you have to power cycle the thing.
i understand putting dual-boot setups for CS students, but bigger hard disks doesn't seem like a good idea, unless CS students pay more tuition or something.
at my school, they've started putting dual boot setups for computer and software engineers... but still the same hard drive. not that it matters, the default system image is close enough to non-functional that i'd rather waste the 3 to 4 hours reinstalling upfront than waste my time dealing with it.
according to the Software-RAID howto RAID 5 in software is just peachy.
what's wrong with that sentance?
If I was a girl, and I wanted to buy a giraffe, I'd go to the mall, find the stuffed animal store, and buy a giraffe.
if the problem is parsing, why the hell go through the trouble of making it an audio clue, unless you want to discriminate against those with hearing imparement?