Y-Jacks are a good cheap solution. You see, this is because electricity works like water. The signal from two sources will flow into one source. The signal from that one source, if combined with another will flow into another clean, refreshing source. The strength to using a Y-Jack to combine signal, instead of split signal is....like water, when you combine signal, you have more. When you split signal, you have less. More is good.
get four cables with male/male 1/4 inch connectors. plug the mac/pc into one y-jack. plug the linux/nt into another y-jack. then plug each of those into another y-jack. then, get another female/female 1/4 inch connector/cable. plug the y-jack that has two y-jacks connected to the pc/linux/nt/mac into it. plug the 1/4 cable from the powered speakers into the other end. ditch the cd as most computer's already have them. You've got yourself a cheap-professional system now. It's also expandable. You could always add other y-jacks to the already connected y-jacks to have more and more connections made available. I'm not sure, but by my calculations, you could probably have several million audio appliances plugged-in before you notice any degradation of quality.
AOL is the most sorry isp in the business. Email addresses change all of the time. AIM will run on any service. MSN (even though it is sorry as well) allows direct access to the internet without going through their own idiodic program. Anything is better than aol.
Had I realized that all of you linux-only users wanted to be around only like minds, I wouldn't have bothered posting here. I thought these were supposed to be intelligent debates with point-by-point discussions. Either this person has something great to say, but doesn't bother because he thinks he too far above me to stoop to my level, or he is the kid, and insults people who disagree with him because that's just what he knows. I won't bother relating to you the financial benefits that Microsoft has brought to those of us who make a living with computers....Do you think that Apple would have brought the same? I won't bother trying to compare salaries. Microsoft-skilled jobs are everywhere. I won't bother because Microsoft is the dominant player and it seems that you linux people are content to sit here by yourselves...talking to yourselves....while very few seem to be listening. I like linux. I hope it develops a real market share. I think thats great for the other OS's. If it does though, I'm sure that you adamant linux supporters will be left behind looking for something else to throw all of your energy into. Because as sure as Microsoft became a corporate behemoth, if linux goes that way, don't think that the controlling party will be so nice. Oh... but red hat is more loving than microsoft....isn't it.
I will only respond to the first. VBscript in ASP is by far more powerful, better laid out, and useful than any scripting language supported under linux. Maybe if you looked into what you were talking about, you would be better received making such an obnoxious, unfounded comment. The rest is opinion stated in a way to be supported by fact. If this person knew what he was talking about, and administered both unix and NT web-servers daily, I wonder if he would be so biased to either. The truth is, they both have many great features and weaknesses. The problem is, that so many people posting here are so closed to MS having something that is a good product that they rarely get past the MS logo on a package.
I hope some of you linux geeks are at least slightly humbled by this (I'm sure) unexpected article. I read the posts when the first test was run and 99% of the posts (I think) were saying that had the tests been run properly, Linux would have beaten MS hands down. Not true. Oh, but there were thread problems, blah..blah..blah.... Linux is great, I use it too, but I'm not so stuck on it that I can't find it's weaknesses, or MS's strengths. So what if Bill Gates is a Pig. That holds no real meaning when your company is choosing a product. And if thread-handling or whatever needs to be fixed before a linux webserver can beat an MS webserver, then, MS was ready for the test and linux wasn't. This seems to be the case up to this point. I wish that linux users could put the energy that they use to complain to better use, like fixing bugs.
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Y-Jacks are a good cheap solution.
You see, this is because electricity works like water.
The signal from two sources will flow into one source. The signal from that one source, if combined with another will flow into another clean, refreshing source.
The strength to using a Y-Jack to combine signal, instead of split signal is....like water, when you combine signal, you have more. When you split signal, you have less.
More is good.
get four cables with male/male 1/4 inch connectors.
plug the mac/pc into one y-jack.
plug the linux/nt into another y-jack.
then plug each of those into another y-jack.
then, get another female/female 1/4 inch connector/cable.
plug the y-jack that has two y-jacks connected to the pc/linux/nt/mac into it.
plug the 1/4 cable from the powered speakers into the other end.
ditch the cd as most computer's already have them.
You've got yourself a cheap-professional system now.
It's also expandable.
You could always add other y-jacks to the already connected y-jacks to have more and more connections made available.
I'm not sure, but by my calculations, you could probably have several million audio appliances plugged-in before you notice any degradation of quality.
Do you really think that there are a lot of people looking to buy sub-par linux box for 1500 dollars. Especially a sub-par linux server box.
AOL is the most sorry isp in the business. Email addresses change all of the time. AIM will run on any service. MSN (even though it is sorry as well) allows direct access to the internet without going through their own idiodic program. Anything is better than aol.
Had I realized that all of you linux-only users wanted to be around only like minds, I wouldn't have bothered posting here. I thought these were supposed to be intelligent debates with point-by-point discussions. Either this person has something great to say, but doesn't bother because he thinks he too far above me to stoop to my level, or he is the kid, and insults people who disagree with him because that's just what he knows. I won't bother relating to you the financial benefits that Microsoft has brought to those of us who make a living with computers....Do you think that Apple would have brought the same? I won't bother trying to compare salaries. Microsoft-skilled jobs are everywhere. I won't bother because Microsoft is the dominant player and it seems that you linux people are content to sit here by yourselves...talking to yourselves....while very few seem to be listening. I like linux. I hope it develops a real market share. I think thats great for the other OS's. If it does though, I'm sure that you adamant linux supporters will be left behind looking for something else to throw all of your energy into. Because as sure as Microsoft became a corporate behemoth, if linux goes that way, don't think that the controlling party will be so nice. Oh... but red hat is more loving than microsoft....isn't it.
and you obviously don't work with active server pages.
I will only respond to the first. VBscript in ASP is by far more powerful, better laid out, and useful than any scripting language supported under linux. Maybe if you looked into what you were talking about, you would be better received making such an obnoxious, unfounded comment. The rest is opinion stated in a way to be supported by fact. If this person knew what he was talking about, and administered both unix and NT web-servers daily, I wonder if he would be so biased to either. The truth is, they both have many great features and weaknesses. The problem is, that so many people posting here are so closed to MS having something that is a good product that they rarely get past the MS logo on a package.
I hope some of you linux geeks are at least slightly humbled by this (I'm sure) unexpected article. I read the posts when the first test was run and 99% of the posts (I think) were saying that had the tests been run properly, Linux would have beaten MS hands down. Not true. Oh, but there were thread problems, blah..blah..blah.... Linux is great, I use it too, but I'm not so stuck on it that I can't find it's weaknesses, or MS's strengths. So what if Bill Gates is a Pig. That holds no real meaning when your company is choosing a product. And if thread-handling or whatever needs to be fixed before a linux webserver can beat an MS webserver, then, MS was ready for the test and linux wasn't. This seems to be the case up to this point. I wish that linux users could put the energy that they use to complain to better use, like fixing bugs.