Yeah but with routers it's a straight trade off between RAM and ROM size and manufacturing cost. I bet Netgear and Linksys have or had warehouses full of these older G routers or, they had very long job contracts with Solectron and similar spec manufacturing companies. They have to use the inventory or the production runs and it's probably cheaper to tweak the hardware a little bit to accommodate Tomato etc than it is to write off the bulk of it. And, if all goes well they instill a little goodwill with the hobby community and get a peak into some of the requested features they don' deliver.
Hell, if they play their cards right, commodity routers could all be sold w/o any firmware at all and Netgear and Linksys could save dollars (or Yuan) not having to develop it or support it all. I've often wondered why they would even bother creating v1, v2, v3 and so on of what is essentially the same hardware with the same features and performance if they didn't have to worry about hardware requirements versioning.
Years ago Palm split into a hardware and a software company. They've had problems for more than 8 years and they don't seem capable of learning. They screwed up. PalmOS is still not a truly multitasking OS. The Palm Centro (Sprint) phone, was, as everyone saw, the last gasp of a dying company. The Treos and Palm phones are pretty much crap in terms how people actually want to use their phones now - as partner clients to their desktops or to web apps, as browsers and as multimedia players.
Netgear doesn't make money on firmware. They make money selling routers. So if this sells more routers, then fine. But don't look to them to start cannibalizing their sales of Super-G, MiMo or N routers to sell more older on the shelf gear. 614 routers are themselves, fairly old probably as old internally as Linksys open routers. All they did was tweak the gear slightly in light of cheaper hardware now vs 3 years ago.
BTW, I LOVED my 624v3 Super-G Netgear router, for the 12 months it lasted. Then last month the wireless piece of it conked out. I replaced it with an 824v2 with all internal diversity antennas so the fact that Netgear cheaped out and never built replaceable antenna couplings is moot.
It works all over the world and helps to maintain civil and political order. East Germany, Cambodia, China, Soviet Russia all employed vast schemes for children to spy on their parents and report on them ensuring they would be sent to the appropriate 're education' facility.
From "Small Wonder" to "Don't Blink". But for the hundreds of State Troopers on I-95 making up the State's entire budget, you could drive through Delaware in about 6 minutes.
As gas gets too expensive force all the fatties to drag rickshaws around. I get transportation and they get some much needed exercise. Once you get over the smell and wheezing they make, it's not so bad.
I just turned in a 4 year old T40 Thinkpad that had an 80GB drive and 1GB RAM. The RAM is the only thing that wasn't stock. Employer paid for the 512MB stick.
But I also bought my own Bluetooth USB adapter as this machine had none. A Trendnet, about $17.00.
I also disabled the built in 801.11b wireless NIC and bought a PCCard 801.11g NIC from Compusa for net $4.00.
I also bought a USB mulimedia card reader for mini/micro/SD cards as this machine had none. About $10.00.
And last but not least I had to replace the battery recently. Employer paid for the battery.
In my opinion old laptops are only useful as stationary servers for some specific purpose like a router or a home media center or something where you need a small low powered unobtrusive box that runs quiet. If the USB and SVGA ports run you don't even need a keyboard/skidpad or a screen. Take out the battery, chuck it, if the screen doesn't work, chuck that too. Voila you have a 3 lb server.
I read most of the 'progressive' blogs and their general consensus is:
Nuclear is bad, don't do it. Coal is bad, don't do it. Oil is bad, don't do it.
Apparently it takes too long to drill offshore for it to have any measurable effect and yet starting new industrial technologies for renewables, from scratch, building out their infrastructure and making it affordable will NOT take too long.
I'd really like to hear their plan, assuming it doesn't involve some post apocalyptic disaster where first we have to unwind the clock back the 18th century and face mass starvation and epidemics in our new preindustrial world.
Maybe a golden talking unicorn will come down on a rainbow and be Obama's running mate too.
Road rage is caused by me being unable to shoot you in the head for being such an asshole. Attention shitheads here are the things you should avoid:
Driving a white Buick 25mph under the speed limit. Slowing down when I'm behind you and speeding up when I try to pass. Being shorter than the dashboard. Zoning out at a green light. Goosing the throttle on your Harley you fat fuck. A ricer wing bigger than Mexico. Passing me on a one lane highway ramp. Stopping, yes stopping at the end of a merge ramp on to the highway you redneck motherfucker. Waiting for a half mile of no traffic in both directions to make a left turn. Green light, asshole, it's not getting any greener.
If you own one and you're upside down in your loan, then yes. Otherwise if you don't have one now, you have an opportunity to get one cheaper than the increase cost of gas over a several years ownership time. Of course at the end of that break even period you're screwed though. But the key to that is to get biggest one you can, and, if you're self employed, you can get up to $24,000 in tax deductions for 'farm' vehicles over 6000 lbs.
If the Chinese government or the PLA did this kind of thing if would be denounced as industrial espionage or even terrorism.
That's actually the goddamn law as written. So I think everyone is going about this wrong. The way to go after the **AA is to prosecute them under Federal Terrorism Laws.
I am dead serious about this. How do you KNOW it isn't terrorism? Because they say so? I am unconvinced since intellectual property is a huge export industry for the US and some 'private' party inserting themselves into it in the name of 'protection' that often backfires?
Seems that the whole server/complex monitoring aspect was left off. With 100K servers per complex, how do they even know which ones are broken? How do they even find them on the floor and in the racks?
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Yeah but with routers it's a straight trade off between RAM and ROM size and manufacturing cost. I bet Netgear and Linksys have or had warehouses full of these older G routers or, they had very long job contracts with Solectron and similar spec manufacturing companies. They have to use the inventory or the production runs and it's probably cheaper to tweak the hardware a little bit to accommodate Tomato etc than it is to write off the bulk of it. And, if all goes well they instill a little goodwill with the hobby community and get a peak into some of the requested features they don' deliver.
Hell, if they play their cards right, commodity routers could all be sold w/o any firmware at all and Netgear and Linksys could save dollars (or Yuan) not having to develop it or support it all. I've often wondered why they would even bother creating v1, v2, v3 and so on of what is essentially the same hardware with the same features and performance if they didn't have to worry about hardware requirements versioning.
Years ago Palm split into a hardware and a software company. They've had problems for more than 8 years and they don't seem capable of learning. They screwed up. PalmOS is still not a truly multitasking OS. The Palm Centro (Sprint) phone, was, as everyone saw, the last gasp of a dying company. The Treos and Palm phones are pretty much crap in terms how people actually want to use their phones now - as partner clients to their desktops or to web apps, as browsers and as multimedia players.
Netgear doesn't make money on firmware. They make money selling routers. So if this sells more routers, then fine. But don't look to them to start cannibalizing their sales of Super-G, MiMo or N routers to sell more older on the shelf gear. 614 routers are themselves, fairly old probably as old internally as Linksys open routers. All they did was tweak the gear slightly in light of cheaper hardware now vs 3 years ago.
BTW, I LOVED my 624v3 Super-G Netgear router, for the 12 months it lasted. Then last month the wireless piece of it conked out. I replaced it with an 824v2 with all internal diversity antennas so the fact that Netgear cheaped out and never built replaceable antenna couplings is moot.
According to the NASA "analyst" it's "very complicated" and it goes "real fast".
Durr. Me watch Fox. Me go fast.
Asheville has been in the top 10 zipcodes for the past 15 years of people who simply fail/refuse to file Federal tax returns to the IRS.
All the retards of Alabama and none of the charm.
It works all over the world and helps to maintain civil and political order. East Germany, Cambodia, China, Soviet Russia all employed vast schemes for children to spy on their parents and report on them ensuring they would be sent to the appropriate 're education' facility.
From "Small Wonder" to "Don't Blink". But for the hundreds of State Troopers on I-95 making up the State's entire budget, you could drive through Delaware in about 6 minutes.
As gas gets too expensive force all the fatties to drag rickshaws around. I get transportation and they get some much needed exercise. Once you get over the smell and wheezing they make, it's not so bad.
I would rather catheterize my own penis than become a CPA. That's why I didn't go to accounting school.
Yours was broken, you to replace the keyboard.
I just turned in a 4 year old T40 Thinkpad that had an 80GB drive and 1GB RAM. The RAM is the only thing that wasn't stock. Employer paid for the 512MB stick.
But I also bought my own Bluetooth USB adapter as this machine had none. A Trendnet, about $17.00.
I also disabled the built in 801.11b wireless NIC and bought a PCCard 801.11g NIC from Compusa for net $4.00.
I also bought a USB mulimedia card reader for mini/micro/SD cards as this machine had none. About $10.00.
And last but not least I had to replace the battery recently. Employer paid for the battery.
In my opinion old laptops are only useful as stationary servers for some specific purpose like a router or a home media center or something where you need a small low powered unobtrusive box that runs quiet. If the USB and SVGA ports run you don't even need a keyboard/skidpad or a screen. Take out the battery, chuck it, if the screen doesn't work, chuck that too. Voila you have a 3 lb server.
I read most of the 'progressive' blogs and their general consensus is:
Nuclear is bad, don't do it.
Coal is bad, don't do it.
Oil is bad, don't do it.
Apparently it takes too long to drill offshore for it to have any measurable effect and yet starting new industrial technologies for renewables, from scratch, building out their infrastructure and making it affordable will NOT take too long.
I'd really like to hear their plan, assuming it doesn't involve some post apocalyptic disaster where first we have to unwind the clock back the 18th century and face mass starvation and epidemics in our new preindustrial world.
Maybe a golden talking unicorn will come down on a rainbow and be Obama's running mate too.
So you're the asshole at the head of the line of 26 cars at the entrance of my development. What's it like to be that fuckhead?
Road rage is caused by me being unable to shoot you in the head for being such an asshole. Attention shitheads here are the things you should avoid:
Driving a white Buick 25mph under the speed limit.
Slowing down when I'm behind you and speeding up when I try to pass.
Being shorter than the dashboard.
Zoning out at a green light.
Goosing the throttle on your Harley you fat fuck.
A ricer wing bigger than Mexico.
Passing me on a one lane highway ramp.
Stopping, yes stopping at the end of a merge ramp on to the highway you redneck motherfucker.
Waiting for a half mile of no traffic in both directions to make a left turn.
Green light, asshole, it's not getting any greener.
If you own one and you're upside down in your loan, then yes. Otherwise if you don't have one now, you have an opportunity to get one cheaper than the increase cost of gas over a several years ownership time. Of course at the end of that break even period you're screwed though. But the key to that is to get biggest one you can, and, if you're self employed, you can get up to $24,000 in tax deductions for 'farm' vehicles over 6000 lbs.
And is the transdimensional messiah. He has no need of puny human devices like 'technology'.
That the Nordic socialist happy hippy countries were the liberal slacker's friend. How can this be?
A Congressional seat with all graft his two little greedy arms can sweep up, at the least. Perhaps even a governorship.
It must be cuz it sure as shit don't work right. I could reach more people sticking my head out the window and yelling than with AT&T.
If the Chinese government or the PLA did this kind of thing if would be denounced as industrial espionage or even terrorism.
That's actually the goddamn law as written. So I think everyone is going about this wrong. The way to go after the **AA is to prosecute them under Federal Terrorism Laws.
I am dead serious about this. How do you KNOW it isn't terrorism? Because they say so? I am unconvinced since intellectual property is a huge export industry for the US and some 'private' party inserting themselves into it in the name of 'protection' that often backfires?
Seems that the whole server/complex monitoring aspect was left off. With 100K servers per complex, how do they even know which ones are broken? How do they even find them on the floor and in the racks?
The only thing these **AA thugs understand is brutal force. Someone needs to carbomb those fuckers.
I for one want the RIAA/MPAA to be able to blind me and make me deaf.
Ban everything everywhere. Ban it. You WILL have fun goddamnit.
running water, medicine and any food you don't grow yourself.