I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Dwolla yet. They've just gotten the ball rolling, but it's quite an innovative payment system, and they've already got phone-based payments set up.
The infobunker - http://www.infobunker.com/ I've actually visited the facility, and it's pretty impressive. Those cold-war guys really took things an extra step. Overall, a little more than what I need for my hosting needs, but if someone needed security, those facilities definately provide the needed protection.
I would say I'm above the average computer user. I've configured FreeBSD to act as a back-end spam filtering and anti-virus filtering system. It works great, I can set up a box in about an hour or two, depending on how fast it compiles SpamAssassin and ClamAV.
My laptop's Windows XP installation bombed out about a month ago. I said to myself, this is your chance to install Linux, use it as your browsing platform, and get really familiar with it in your spare time. I tried 5 (count them 5!) different distro's. I wanted to get one of them to load simply onto my laptop, give me an x-windows environment where I could check on web crap, and learn the rest of it at my own pace. I tried Fedora Core first. Graphics issue. Tried Ubuntu. Graphics issue. Tried Debian, graphics issue (granted, this one was the best of all of them - I could actually get a graphics display, it was just a double image - totally unusable). Tried FreeBSD. Graphics issue. Tried Slack. Graphics issue.
None of these so-called mainstream distro's would allow me to pop in a disk, and get my laptop working without serious headaches. I finally (after two days of downloading ISO's, burning them, trying them) gave up, and installed XP again. 1 hour later and 8-10 mouse clicks, and my system was working without any sort of real input from me other than my name, company, and cd key.
I like Linux for it's ability to be tailored exactly to your use. I like that I can configure it to do SPAM filtering, and only SPAM filtering. I don't like that I have to jump through 8 burning hoops to get a simple desktop with a browser. Maybe this will give me the tools I need to finally be able to have a linux system that I can actually use daily, and then figure out the guts of when I'm not trying to put out fires at work. I can only imagine how intimidating it would be to someone who has a hard time using Windows.
The "Daylight" CFL's that I've bought have been a blessing for my wife's SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). Every winter she gets upset, cranky, and annoyed because the day is only 7 hours of sunlight... We've replaced all but two bulbs (the bathroom light, and the upstairs bathroom light) with "Daylight" CFL's. From what I can tell, these are the best things to come along since sliced bread......
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The AMD vs Intel war has been going on since the 386 days. When you bought a 386 or 486, you probably had an equal chance of getting AMD or Intel, and you didn't even know it. AMD won the war in the 486 market, remember the DX4120 or DX4133? Those were AMD chips. Intel just has a better marketing machine. Intel Inside(r) came around in the late 486 and Pentium days. AMD nor Intel will win or lose in this battle. The only people that will come out ahead will be the consumer. I just can't wait till the price cuts come around.
I had a friend that 5 or 6 years ago used the "white noise" from his SB 16 to generate random numbers. Wouldn't this be much more portable than a lava lamp?
-Matt
The CNC system here http://www.cocopuff.net/cnc is hopefully going to be an inexpensive cnc system aimed at enthusiasts, hobbyists, and educational institutes. The photo's located at the above URL are a prototype of our cnc machine, with the final version being slightly smaller (12"x12"x5" working area). We're planning on offering it at sub 2k prices, including all motors, controllers, and software. Should begin production sometime early this summer. Questions and comments can be directed to mbreitba@shanje.com
-Flash
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Dwolla yet. They've just gotten the ball rolling, but it's quite an innovative payment system, and they've already got phone-based payments set up.
Static pages FTW.
I have found a non-intrusive test that is 100% accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2264802&CAWELAID=107512504
The infobunker - http://www.infobunker.com/ I've actually visited the facility, and it's pretty impressive. Those cold-war guys really took things an extra step. Overall, a little more than what I need for my hosting needs, but if someone needed security, those facilities definately provide the needed protection.
I would say I'm above the average computer user. I've configured FreeBSD to act as a back-end spam filtering and anti-virus filtering system. It works great, I can set up a box in about an hour or two, depending on how fast it compiles SpamAssassin and ClamAV. My laptop's Windows XP installation bombed out about a month ago. I said to myself, this is your chance to install Linux, use it as your browsing platform, and get really familiar with it in your spare time. I tried 5 (count them 5!) different distro's. I wanted to get one of them to load simply onto my laptop, give me an x-windows environment where I could check on web crap, and learn the rest of it at my own pace. I tried Fedora Core first. Graphics issue. Tried Ubuntu. Graphics issue. Tried Debian, graphics issue (granted, this one was the best of all of them - I could actually get a graphics display, it was just a double image - totally unusable). Tried FreeBSD. Graphics issue. Tried Slack. Graphics issue. None of these so-called mainstream distro's would allow me to pop in a disk, and get my laptop working without serious headaches. I finally (after two days of downloading ISO's, burning them, trying them) gave up, and installed XP again. 1 hour later and 8-10 mouse clicks, and my system was working without any sort of real input from me other than my name, company, and cd key. I like Linux for it's ability to be tailored exactly to your use. I like that I can configure it to do SPAM filtering, and only SPAM filtering. I don't like that I have to jump through 8 burning hoops to get a simple desktop with a browser. Maybe this will give me the tools I need to finally be able to have a linux system that I can actually use daily, and then figure out the guts of when I'm not trying to put out fires at work. I can only imagine how intimidating it would be to someone who has a hard time using Windows.
The "Daylight" CFL's that I've bought have been a blessing for my wife's SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). Every winter she gets upset, cranky, and annoyed because the day is only 7 hours of sunlight... We've replaced all but two bulbs (the bathroom light, and the upstairs bathroom light) with "Daylight" CFL's. From what I can tell, these are the best things to come along since sliced bread......
The AMD vs Intel war has been going on since the 386 days. When you bought a 386 or 486, you probably had an equal chance of getting AMD or Intel, and you didn't even know it. AMD won the war in the 486 market, remember the DX4120 or DX4133? Those were AMD chips. Intel just has a better marketing machine. Intel Inside(r) came around in the late 486 and Pentium days. AMD nor Intel will win or lose in this battle. The only people that will come out ahead will be the consumer. I just can't wait till the price cuts come around.
I had a friend that 5 or 6 years ago used the "white noise" from his SB 16 to generate random numbers. Wouldn't this be much more portable than a lava lamp? -Matt
The CNC system here http://www.cocopuff.net/cnc is hopefully going to be an inexpensive cnc system aimed at enthusiasts, hobbyists, and educational institutes. The photo's located at the above URL are a prototype of our cnc machine, with the final version being slightly smaller (12"x12"x5" working area). We're planning on offering it at sub 2k prices, including all motors, controllers, and software. Should begin production sometime early this summer. Questions and comments can be directed to mbreitba@shanje.com -Flash