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My commute to work takes approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on traffic. I live within walking distance to a bus stop and a bus stops immediately in front of my building. However, the fastest route between those two places by our bus system takes me to the other side of the city for a transfer, involves waiting 25 minutes, twice, for transfers, and takes almost two hours each way! And it costs almost as much as my gasoline. I would love to be able to let someone else drive, but I'm not going to waste three hours every day just sitting on a bus when I could be spending that time with my wife and kids.
I've been a loyal Micro Center customer ever since I bought my first PC, a 386, at the Columbus, OH store in 1986 or 87 (not sure exactly). It was the Micro Center house brand, Laser, and was an excellent computer. (Some of my young family members still use it for playing old games.) Over the last three or four years, however, I've become increasingly dissatisfied with the BestBuy-ization of their stores: the sales people aren't knowledgeable, after-sale service is really a crap shoot, there for a while the store was rearranged considerably every time I went in (I've stopped in at least once a month or so ever since that initial purchase). These days I find that it's only good for if I know exactly what the SKU is that I want before going in, need a decent price, and need it in hand today. And even then I somehow wind up disappointed with the experience.
Does anyone know of a better local store (Columbus, OH) where I can pick up parts when I need them the same day? If I can wait, I order from Newegg, but I can't always wait.
I use a Brother HL-5170DN at home. It's a soho B/W laser with USB, parallel, and ethernet interfaces. I use the ethernet interface with a standard postscript driver via LPR. Works great!
No non-standard drivers here.
I know nothing about other Brother products, however.
I dunno, on my powerbook, I scroll just by moving two fingers over the touchpad. All I do is take my two thumbs that are sitting near the spacebar and move them down a little to the touchpad. It works really well. Sure, it's not right in the middle of the keyboard, but I've never found the eraser heads to be the right sensitivity. They always move way too slow, or they fly around faster than I can keep track of them. Plus, I have a habit of moving them accidentally while I'm just typing.
My one gripe is that the LCD model would be better replaced with a notebook at that kind of pricing.
What is a notebook going to do for you if you have to have an infrastructure to be able to use it? I do agree that the price is getting up there for that, though.
At least a big part of the reason why there isn't more 3D on the linux desktop is exactly because it is so difficult to get a decent setup. In other words, it's very difficult to find appropriate hardware and the appropriate drivers even more so, because the manufacturers don't work nearly as much to that end.
I think that ATi, nVidia, and the others are not seeing a market in linux because they're choosing not to see that market. Some of that is laziness, some of that is because those potential users aren't asking enough, but mostly it's because pretty much no one does that. If someone started that market, then there would be an influx of competition, which, in the end, would be a good thing.
(Speaking of a "Good Thing," why is it that so many people put the trademark symbol next to that when they post?)
The fan is near silent in normal use. I've already upgraded to 1GB RAM and I hardly ever use the optical drive, and I'm in a near silent environment, and I can *barely* hear it, if I hear it at all. It's that quiet.
Now, under heavy use, it does start getting VERY loud. I've had Microsoft RDC crash twice on me, and each time I didn't realize it until I heard the fan spin up to a jet engine pace and volume. When that happened, each time I looked in Activity Monitor and saw that RDC, that I had just closed, was taking up every spare CPU cycle I had. Force quitting the processes brought my CPU use down to normal levels, and within 10 seconds, the fan was silent again.
Leave it to Microsoft to produce the only software that'll crash on my mac. =P
Keep in mind that, unless you tell it to overwrite your linux partitions, the only thing that the Windows install will overwrite is your MBR. That means that you can install linux first, and then Windows, as long as you have a bootable linux CD or floppy that you can use as a rescue disc and get to a shell to run lilo again.
I dual boot Windows and Linux, and while I'm still using a linux install from way back, I've replaced Windows several times. Each time I just toss in a Debian Woody CD (Debian is my preferred distro), type 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda1' at the LILO prompt, and then as soon as I get to a root shell, type 'lilo'. I recreates my MBR just as it used to be, and so I can just reboot, have a LILO menu of whether to boot Windows or one of my various kernel configs, and go on my merry way.
I dunno, my worst day of the year was this past tuesday. My mac died. A quick, painful death.
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And not only that, it's MR. Spock in Star Trek, not Dr.. Dr. Spock is a human child psychiatrist. Mr. Spock is a Vulcan science officer, and a damn good one too.
According to the NEEMO site, NEEMO is the name of the mission, while the aquanauts are on board the NOAA Aquarius Underwater Laboratory. To say that these people are aboard a mission is a bit... well... odd.
I don't bring it up to be a grammar nazi. I bring it up because I was rather confused for a moment, and others might be as well.
There was a/. story (or comment maybe?) the other day that said that the Audiovox PC 5220 offered by Verizon works in a powerbook by just sliding it in. The ensuing conversation revealed that Apple included the drivers in OS X. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the link.
I still don't understand why people use such high powered systems for a personal router. A Pentium 200 with a 2GB HDD and 128MB RAM will generally be more than adequate and, if set up properly, still use very little power. Now if you're doing routing for many many computers, then I can understand such a setup (except for the hard disk. I don't understand why a router would need such a huge hard disk.)
I wish I had mod points because I was thinking the exact same thing and no one else seems to get it. Goodness, all you have to do is say "rackmount" and the beowulf, toaster computer people come out humping.
I'll ask the parent's question again: how does this turn it into a *rackmount* device? Sure, it allows you to add storage, but that has nothing to do with rackmounting it.
On another note, did it say that it allows you to switch between the hard drives?
You can switch between the newly added drives via the buttons at the front.
This implies to me that only one of the drives can be active at any one time. Lame, and practically useless.
Apparently you didn't read the link. I shouldn't be surprised, this is slashdot. =P
Anyway, that was an interesting story posted on slashdot a loooong time ago. THe guy bought off-the-shelf (Internet) components online and used them to cheaply assemble an autonomous cruise missle in his garage to prove that such a thing is a legitimate threat potentially weilded by terrorists. Unfortunately, governments of the world largely ignore this threat, and New Zealand even decided that, although they considered what he was doing legal, it wasn't appropriate and effectively censored it.
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This. My commute to work takes approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on traffic. I live within walking distance to a bus stop and a bus stops immediately in front of my building. However, the fastest route between those two places by our bus system takes me to the other side of the city for a transfer, involves waiting 25 minutes, twice, for transfers, and takes almost two hours each way! And it costs almost as much as my gasoline. I would love to be able to let someone else drive, but I'm not going to waste three hours every day just sitting on a bus when I could be spending that time with my wife and kids.
Correction: that's The Ohio State University to you.
I've been a loyal Micro Center customer ever since I bought my first PC, a 386, at the Columbus, OH store in 1986 or 87 (not sure exactly). It was the Micro Center house brand, Laser, and was an excellent computer. (Some of my young family members still use it for playing old games.) Over the last three or four years, however, I've become increasingly dissatisfied with the BestBuy-ization of their stores: the sales people aren't knowledgeable, after-sale service is really a crap shoot, there for a while the store was rearranged considerably every time I went in (I've stopped in at least once a month or so ever since that initial purchase). These days I find that it's only good for if I know exactly what the SKU is that I want before going in, need a decent price, and need it in hand today. And even then I somehow wind up disappointed with the experience.
Does anyone know of a better local store (Columbus, OH) where I can pick up parts when I need them the same day? If I can wait, I order from Newegg, but I can't always wait.
I use a Brother HL-5170DN at home. It's a soho B/W laser with USB, parallel, and ethernet interfaces. I use the ethernet interface with a standard postscript driver via LPR. Works great! No non-standard drivers here. I know nothing about other Brother products, however.
What about putting advice in your sig advising not to put advice in your sig. Ironic?
Greetings from my Powerbook on the 6th Floor. :-)
I dunno, on my powerbook, I scroll just by moving two fingers over the touchpad. All I do is take my two thumbs that are sitting near the spacebar and move them down a little to the touchpad. It works really well. Sure, it's not right in the middle of the keyboard, but I've never found the eraser heads to be the right sensitivity. They always move way too slow, or they fly around faster than I can keep track of them. Plus, I have a habit of moving them accidentally while I'm just typing.
At least a big part of the reason why there isn't more 3D on the linux desktop is exactly because it is so difficult to get a decent setup. In other words, it's very difficult to find appropriate hardware and the appropriate drivers even more so, because the manufacturers don't work nearly as much to that end. I think that ATi, nVidia, and the others are not seeing a market in linux because they're choosing not to see that market. Some of that is laziness, some of that is because those potential users aren't asking enough, but mostly it's because pretty much no one does that. If someone started that market, then there would be an influx of competition, which, in the end, would be a good thing. (Speaking of a "Good Thing," why is it that so many people put the trademark symbol next to that when they post?)
Now, under heavy use, it does start getting VERY loud. I've had Microsoft RDC crash twice on me, and each time I didn't realize it until I heard the fan spin up to a jet engine pace and volume. When that happened, each time I looked in Activity Monitor and saw that RDC, that I had just closed, was taking up every spare CPU cycle I had. Force quitting the processes brought my CPU use down to normal levels, and within 10 seconds, the fan was silent again.
Leave it to Microsoft to produce the only software that'll crash on my mac. =P
You mean 800 kilobyte, right? =P
Keep in mind that, unless you tell it to overwrite your linux partitions, the only thing that the Windows install will overwrite is your MBR. That means that you can install linux first, and then Windows, as long as you have a bootable linux CD or floppy that you can use as a rescue disc and get to a shell to run lilo again.
I dual boot Windows and Linux, and while I'm still using a linux install from way back, I've replaced Windows several times. Each time I just toss in a Debian Woody CD (Debian is my preferred distro), type 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda1' at the LILO prompt, and then as soon as I get to a root shell, type 'lilo'. I recreates my MBR just as it used to be, and so I can just reboot, have a LILO menu of whether to boot Windows or one of my various kernel configs, and go on my merry way.
I dunno, my worst day of the year was this past tuesday. My mac died. A quick, painful death. Description here. I'm accepting donations, either monetary, hardware, or tech support.
You could use a smoothwall router. Only cost is standard hardware.
Already been done. IIRC, there was a public outcry and they gave the user an option to disable the 'feature.'
It crashes on me in both Firefox and IE. I'm using XP SP2.
No soup for me!
You wouldn't be satisfied with it now.
Wait.
And not only that, it's MR. Spock in Star Trek, not Dr.. Dr. Spock is a human child psychiatrist. Mr. Spock is a Vulcan science officer, and a damn good one too.
Power != PowerPC That is all.
I don't bring it up to be a grammar nazi. I bring it up because I was rather confused for a moment, and others might be as well.
There was a /. story (or comment maybe?) the other day that said that the Audiovox PC 5220 offered by Verizon works in a powerbook by just sliding it in. The ensuing conversation revealed that Apple included the drivers in OS X. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the link.
I still don't understand why people use such high powered systems for a personal router. A Pentium 200 with a 2GB HDD and 128MB RAM will generally be more than adequate and, if set up properly, still use very little power. Now if you're doing routing for many many computers, then I can understand such a setup (except for the hard disk. I don't understand why a router would need such a huge hard disk.)
I wish I had mod points because I was thinking the exact same thing and no one else seems to get it. Goodness, all you have to do is say "rackmount" and the beowulf, toaster computer people come out humping.
I'll ask the parent's question again: how does this turn it into a *rackmount* device? Sure, it allows you to add storage, but that has nothing to do with rackmounting it.
On another note, did it say that it allows you to switch between the hard drives?
This implies to me that only one of the drives can be active at any one time. Lame, and practically useless.Apparently you didn't read the link. I shouldn't be surprised, this is slashdot. =P
Anyway, that was an interesting story posted on slashdot a loooong time ago. THe guy bought off-the-shelf (Internet) components online and used them to cheaply assemble an autonomous cruise missle in his garage to prove that such a thing is a legitimate threat potentially weilded by terrorists. Unfortunately, governments of the world largely ignore this threat, and New Zealand even decided that, although they considered what he was doing legal, it wasn't appropriate and effectively censored it.