I'd also reccomend the Asus Eee Box.. It's a brilliant little PC for general server roles. Its small, and uses an atom CPU so idles around 10 watts at most. I've got one set up for home automation, power monitoring, weather station, and many more things.
http://www.asus.com.au/Product.aspx?P_ID=QUObl5lSRQQ3lSqJ
No CD drive, but can easily plug in an external USB drive, or just install from a usb thumbstick. I wouldn't know why you'd get anything else, this thing is feature packed and cheap!
got for $300AU, would be less in USD.
I thought I'd point out a few things that were mentioned on the article from a few days ago:
- This ultimate edition thats available through this offer is limited to installation on one PC, vs installation on three PCs available to those who buy the student edition (around $249AU) - You don't get the CDs with the offer, but can download it, or get a disc from a participating university (I didn't check if it was just a burnt copy or a nicely labeled pressed disc). I'd pay $75 if OpenOffice came in such a fancy box!
I was one button away from purchasing it, until I realized how unnecessary it is for me. I use OpenOffice for my university studies, it opens every word document and PowerPoint presentation thats given to us from the Lecturers. I'm not sure how it is for other things. But for those of you who think this is a good deal, please consider, or atleast try OpenOffice first!
Where I am in North Queensland, Australia, ADSL is the broadband service provided, still with a minimum of 256k, and a maximum of 1.5mbit. Although, a new ISP started here recently offering plans for ADSL2+ up to 20mbit, the coverage is still quite minimal at the moment. Ofcourse in major cities in Australia, there is the option of cable aswell, which has a much higher downstream rate. Although the ADSL2+ is a major improvement, I don't think we will be getting anything faster anytime soon!
Try and think about the damage a script kiddie could do if he got ahold of a list of people's passwords and phone numbers.
Just a thought, what if some script kiddie disabled a someones mobile phone, the phone of which was needed to call 911, resulting in someone dying due to being unable to get help? would that kid be put up for murder?
Has anyone seen the MythBusters episode where they train some goldfish to follow a path from one end of the tank to another? Just thought I'd mention, kindof disproves their "3 second memory". Supprised no-one has mentioned yet.
For those of you who are having problems starting Source based games after installing HL2DM (eg.. start game, hear CD spin [if retail] and nothing happens), a possible fix I found somewhere is to load the following URL in a browser:
steam://validate/320
it will get Steam to validate your HL2DM files, it fixed the problem on mine.. may take a little while though!
Slashdot Mirror
I'd also reccomend the Asus Eee Box.. It's a brilliant little PC for general server roles. Its small, and uses an atom CPU so idles around 10 watts at most. I've got one set up for home automation, power monitoring, weather station, and many more things. http://www.asus.com.au/Product.aspx?P_ID=QUObl5lSRQQ3lSqJ No CD drive, but can easily plug in an external USB drive, or just install from a usb thumbstick. I wouldn't know why you'd get anything else, this thing is feature packed and cheap! got for $300AU, would be less in USD.
I thought I'd point out a few things that were mentioned on the article from a few days ago:
- This ultimate edition thats available through this offer is limited to installation on one PC, vs installation on three PCs available to those who buy the student edition (around $249AU)
- You don't get the CDs with the offer, but can download it, or get a disc from a participating university (I didn't check if it was just a burnt copy or a nicely labeled pressed disc). I'd pay $75 if OpenOffice came in such a fancy box!
I was one button away from purchasing it, until I realized how unnecessary it is for me. I use OpenOffice for my university studies, it opens every word document and PowerPoint presentation thats given to us from the Lecturers. I'm not sure how it is for other things. But for those of you who think this is a good deal, please consider, or atleast try OpenOffice first!
You're right, it is very, very wrong.
Where I am in North Queensland, Australia, ADSL is the broadband service provided, still with a minimum of 256k, and a maximum of 1.5mbit. Although, a new ISP started here recently offering plans for ADSL2+ up to 20mbit, the coverage is still quite minimal at the moment. Ofcourse in major cities in Australia, there is the option of cable aswell, which has a much higher downstream rate. Although the ADSL2+ is a major improvement, I don't think we will be getting anything faster anytime soon!
Has anyone seen the MythBusters episode where they train some goldfish to follow a path from one end of the tank to another? Just thought I'd mention, kindof disproves their "3 second memory". Supprised no-one has mentioned yet.
Imagine being that technician, how would you react to realizing you've just deleted the wrong partitions?
I think the department thats been ordering all those chairs has wanted to do that for a while...
Only takes one image to be slashdotted.. 5342? poor server!
No, you just see it up in flames 10 miles away.
Im sure the Anarchy online players know what im talking about...
In that order?
and there's some moon screenshots available too
So much for actually looking out the window to see what the moon looks like!
All we need now is BTEfnet hosted on a cluster of these things.. lets see the MPAA catch em now... Program the things to fly off when under attack!
Although when the next Lost or Dr Who episode comes out... Expect a few of these things to fall from the sky.
just wait until the site hosted on one of these things gets slashdotted.. it'll be raining fire, literally!
Tried ebay? I've got two seasons so far from there.. keep an eye out and you may get all 8 seasons for $$$ cheaper!
For those of you who are having problems starting Source based games after installing HL2DM (eg.. start game, hear CD spin [if retail] and nothing happens), a possible fix I found somewhere is to load the following URL in a browser:
steam://validate/320
it will get Steam to validate your HL2DM files, it fixed the problem on mine.. may take a little while though!
Mine's wireless via RF radio! Would listening on the radio frequency of the wireless keyboard count?
Hah, come to Australia.. then you'll know what bad broadband pricing is. I pay $59/m for a 256/64k adsl connection.. Damn this country is slow.