And why is that, I ask? Because you americans are a bunch of useless idiots. You IMPORT people to do things for you, like Von Braun to help you in the space. Hell, the pride of the US (?), the space race, was because of a German.
Don't you get it dude? Your whole country is made of immigrants, they are the ones that get things done there. If it is so bad for your own people, why do your own companies import workers? Because they are cheap. Sure, you could hire an american to do the job. But he'll work only from 9 to 5, and will live in a 2 story house in a suburb, 40 miles from work. So he'll need a car to get to work. And money every 2 or 3 years to change it, with all the fuel it needs. He'll also have a wife and kids, and so, he'll need an SUV. And some time to spend with their kids, so you gotta give him vacations every year. Also, he won't work weekends, or do things that are not his job. And of course, he will need money for the computers, routers, dsl service, directv, tivo, plasma HDTV screen, cell phones for all in the family, playstations, and of course the food.
Fuck. Dont you see that the american dream itself is what's getting americans unemployed?
Of course i'm not saying no one should have all those things, considered to be a luxury in many places around the world. But thats it, if money is not enough, the solution is not to ask for more and more, just do what you can with what you have.
In a previous comment I read that 80% of the houses are mortgaged. What? So most americans dont even own the houses they are living in?
I live in a "third world" country, Argentina. And I like it here. My dad owns our house. He works as a tv repair guy. We do very well. He's got a Yamaha DragStar 1100, I go to college and also do CCNA. I have DSL, Cable, and 5 computers at home. I have an MP3 player and all of us have cell phones. I have mine since 2000, and I'm waiting to change it when GSM arrives to my town, which will be before this year ends. I can walk on the street without worrying about some crazy shooter. My brother goes to high school and doesn't have to go through a metal detector. I can say bomb in an airport and not get arrested.
And this is not only me. Most argentines have the same luck. Others do better, others do worse. But thats it. In fact, Argentina is still where most immigrants go in south america.
I know that has nothing to do with the comment, but I know just too many americans who think theirs is the only developed country, and thats the reason why immigrants go to the US
I really hope India won't start giving out visas to americans. It would be nice that for once you americans feel what it's like to be told "you're not welcome in this country, you illegal alien".
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Actually sometimes you cant even find the drivers for windows 2000/XP.
So if you have a PC Chips and want to use all of its features, you have to use win98SE, the white trash OS.
I remember a couple of years ago, in my country (Argentina), before the devaluation, you could get a PC with printer, scanner and all for like $600. Of course, i'm talking of all-onboard celeron/duron k-mart computers but anyway, thats what most people buy.
Now, after devaluation all PCs cost like $400, and only include monitor and a copy of fucking Corel Linux or Conectiva, both almost obsolete distros. "BUT THEY ARE IN SPANISH".
That's because they try to cut down the price in any way, even if that involves using less screws for the covers.
Now lots of people go around asking "Why cant I install Word on my machine?" and you have to explain to them that office doesnt run on Linux (FUCK OFF WINERS, I CAN'T TEACH A FUCKING NEWBIE HOW TO RUN OFFICE ON WINE).
Yes. I know lasers are really expensive, at least compared to inkjets, and color lasers arent as good as their inkjet counterparts, they have one really good point: the consumables prices.
A black cartridge of ink, costs somewhere between 30 to 60 US dollars here in Argentina, and it yields about 300 pages.
My HP 1100 uses a C4092A cartidge, which costs about US$ 100. How many pages do you get? According to the page counter, last time I changed it, after three years of use, it gave 3000 pages. Yeah. And i didnt replace it actually. I refilled it for US $10.
I print mostly black, so it's the same thing for me. But it also has other advantages:
1) SPEED! Lasers are FAST. If your printer says it prints at 11PPM, it does! It doesnt matter if you printed just a line or a whole page of black, the speed is the same. Inkjets are rated at 10 - 20 ppm... and in the small letters it says "printing a 5% coverage of the page". WTF do I do in real life with 5%?
2) QUALITY: you cannot beat laser text with any inkjet. And dont get me started with line art.
3) LIGHT AND WATER PROOF. I dont know about light proofing on black, but if you leave an inkjet color print in the sun for a couple of weeks, you end up with a cyan stain on the paper. I wonder why cyan is the color that stays in the paper?
Also, waterproofing is not usual on inkjet, except for those lexmark cartridges. If a water drop gets in your inkjet print, you are screwed. On laser, you can get away with it.
4) Ink penetration: Toner stays in the surface. You can even print on news paper and it will look great. You can't do that with inkjet.
5) Drying speed: Toner is dry before entering the printer and stays dry while printing. Ink is liquid, and if you are in a hurry, you have to be very careful of not touching the printed area.
6) Consumables price: You can replace the cartridge for $100 or refill it for $10. And you can keep refilling it forever, as long as the drum is OK. When the drum goes bad, you replace it and it still costs less than an new cartidge. Also toner is mostly generic so you dont need 20 different kinds of ink for every printer out there.
7) Consumables shelf life and useful life: Toner is forever. You dont find an expiration date on toner boxes, as with you do with ink jet catridges. And you dont need to print something every week to keep your nozzles from blocking! My toner catridge lasted THREE YEARS. One time i left it in storage for 2 months: i unplugged it, and packed it. Try to do that with an Inkjet and see if it prints afterwards.
8) and the most important feature about toner cartridges is that THEY ARE HUGE ASS CATRIDGES. You pull the lid and the whole printer is for you to see and then you take the cartridge which is almost as big as a kitchen paper roll. Unlike those wussy ink jets that fit in your pocket. REAL MEN CARRY TONER CARTIDGES. Inkjets are for the ladies' purses.
Now seriously, laser printers are heavy, and they look and ARE very solid. They dont move around or rock your desk. They make a soft, continuous whine when printing.
The only bad thing about lasers is that they draw LOTS of power. About 1000 watts when cold and 300 watts printing. Some more. So you can't plug them into your UPS.
The other thing is that sometimes you get clearer bands on the printer. If the bands are vertical, you shake the cartridge around to spread the toner evenly. If the bands are horizontal, or if there is "regular noise" around the paper, the drum is screwed and needs to be replaced. It happens if you put a paper that is dirty or too thick.
Oh and also the price. But it pays for itself in a couple of years, even if you don't use it often.
If you buy a good laser printer it will last for life. They are designed with that in mind, unlike inkjets.
I think that laser printer was my best investment ever.
I've seen like 3 reviews in 2003 about digital camcorders. I'm starting to get tired of them.
Yes. I read PC Magazine. I don't have a laptop in my bathroom.
vhs head drums have had this system for a long time. the stator is mounted on a fixed axle and the rotor magnets surround it, and are mounted on the same axle with a ball bearing.
then the drum is attached to the magnet assembly (the rotor) in a direct-drive fashion.
speed is pwm-controlled
well, that should teach her.
how did we all learn not to put our fingers into AC outlets, or touch the stove, or the hot iron. or drink bleach, or keep your eyes open while you are shampooing?
we learn by mistake. i'm not saying children should learn the hard way, but sometimes they will have to, either because you forgot to tell them, or because they didn't believe it when you told them.
my point was that, you can try to monitor or block them but they'll find a way to defeat your measures. you are welcome to spend 4 hours securing the proxies and firewalls, if you want to.
besides, you can't monitor their e-mails, and that's where they could get porn (forwards and stuff). don't try to either, because your 10yr old will create a hotmail account that you'd never ever know existed and that would be worse.
although i'm 20 years old and still haven't learn to keep hands off the electricity. and my country has 230V power, so it's really nasty.
wow. that was like, a revelation. totally right.
the problem is there's a difference between fantasizing about a 15 year old and actually watching one on the net. the problem is that, they'll grow up thinking that it's right, when it's not. and if they watch kids on the net, you go to jail cos the internet account is paid with your credit card.
i can tell you one thing, do not try to block them. do not try to log them.
children are smarter than you, they will find a way around all of your measures. thats why you should treat them as your children and not as your enemy.
your enemies are crackers and stuff, trying to get into your network. they are kids too, and they will find a way around but you have a big advantage with your children: you can talk to them, and they will listen. and dont worry if they are looking for porn or something. what if they do? even if you block those sites, they can look at these from somewehere else. or they can watch TV, magazines. they are kids, they have friends and can get porn so dont try to block that, it's useless. but, if it helps you sleep at night, you can try and do it. just install some proxy and set it up to do transparent proxying on a nat box (otherwise they'd just reconfigure their browsers to go around the nat box). don't do what is done in schools and stuff: proxy-or-nothing (proxying all, deny nat traffic) because you'll bust their IRC, FTP, IM and all that stuff.
and about e-mails and IMs, just the normal "don't talk to strangers" applies.
I'm seeing a lot of answers about having a RAID filesystem, and then backup that. But what about the opposite?
I mean, have a backup and then RAID it. How, you ask? Well, just make a disk image on a file, or whatever you call it on your OS, and then upload it to a safe computer which has RAID (1 or 5, not just 0) with enough space to backup all of the other computers (or the files on a special directory of each that keeps the important files), and have it all stored there. Then, at regular intervals you rsync and only the changes are transmitted. That way, you get protection over hardware failures (not disasters or other stuff), and the big advantage of having a disk image, which you dump as-is in a drive and have all your data as it was. Pretty cool.
To get protection against disasters, you can share this drive with a neighbor, or other remote system, and, as usual, just rsync the data.
This may sound stupid, because you can just mount a directory over the network and work there, but, as I pointed out previously, with this method you have a snapshot of your filesystems, and works almost OS-independently. And you get hard-drive speed and not network speed while you work on your files, which tends to suck on a busy network (see note at the end).
The downside of this is, that every computer has a lot of gigabytes that are repeated (OS files, programs), and these are the troublemakers, because every computer needs them. Audio files are another problem because they are big (compared to user documents and stuff), so you can work with these remotely, straight off the server (these get backed up because the server has RAID-1, remember?)
Note: This set up may work for a small home network, but of course it's no good for a 100-computer site. The idea of HD backup is that nowadays HD is the cheapest media.
I'd go with something like that if I had a dedicate machine with about 160Gb of disk space, and it doesnt sound that expensive. At least not as tape backup.
Oh, and of course, because the data isn't instantly reflected, you WILL lose data when you are finishing a long document or something. Murphy's law!.
I use a uni Signo, made by Mitsubishi, medium size. Fine size tends to scratch the paper even if you dont push it too hard. Medium size works fine. Large size is real sweet and smooth but it's no good for body text because is too thick. Looks good on titles or for making small anotations.
Be careful to use a good paper. Many cheap notebooks are too porous. Decent ones feel sort of like "waxed" and they are very good, almost like writing on your Converse All-Stars (aka Chucks) rubber soles with a Bic pen. As good as warm clothes off the dryer, or bursting bubble-wrap.
I didnt literally mean that it was a myth, it was just a way of saying it.
I dont know whats wrong with moist weather. Right, you shouldn't run some hardware on high humidity, but that has nothing to do with static. Moisture reduces the chance of generating static, that is true. We've been having a week of really dry days and static was terrible, sparks jumping off your fingers whenever you touched something metallic. That does not happen on a humid day.
Antistatic coating does nothing about the static already present on the device, or on you. The only thing it does is not letting static form on top of the plastic bag if you rub it (you can try that).
The metalic stuff is not supposed to act as a faraday cage, but to short most of the pins on the board, so static doesn't fry the chips. BUT it also does what you say, in the case of EMP (yay). As in, if a lightning strikes nearby, the air charges with static, and it induces itself in grounded things. Thats why cheap modems fry even if the lightning didn't affect anything else on the house: Static->induction->modem->bang!)
Sometimes I pack processors or DIMMS in tinfoil, but only for transport. Thats my advice, if you are paranoid, use standard aluminium wrapping and you are done.
I've always stored my computer stuff in a box, cardboard or plastic. I'm starting to think static electricity damage is a myth;) because everything I store, comes out just fine (and working, obviously).
so, I recommend you cardboard boxes (cant make static on a cardboard --at least not easily) and for really delicate stuff, stick it on a anti-static bag (supposed to be conductive. old ones, transparent with black stripes are, but have high resistance. newer ones (pink stuff, or blue) are non conductive, at least thats what I can test.
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Right. So? Let me explain it this way:
american != immigrant
or in vb:
american <> immigrant
And why is that, I ask? Because you americans are a bunch of useless idiots. You IMPORT people to do things for you, like Von Braun to help you in the space. Hell, the pride of the US (?), the space race, was because of a German.
Don't you get it dude? Your whole country is made of immigrants, they are the ones that get things done there. If it is so bad for your own people, why do your own companies import workers? Because they are cheap. Sure, you could hire an american to do the job. But he'll work only from 9 to 5, and will live in a 2 story house in a suburb, 40 miles from work. So he'll need a car to get to work. And money every 2 or 3 years to change it, with all the fuel it needs. He'll also have a wife and kids, and so, he'll need an SUV. And some time to spend with their kids, so you gotta give him vacations every year. Also, he won't work weekends, or do things that are not his job. And of course, he will need money for the computers, routers, dsl service, directv, tivo, plasma HDTV screen, cell phones for all in the family, playstations, and of course the food.
Fuck. Dont you see that the american dream itself is what's getting americans unemployed?
Of course i'm not saying no one should have all those things, considered to be a luxury in many places around the world. But thats it, if money is not enough, the solution is not to ask for more and more, just do what you can with what you have.
In a previous comment I read that 80% of the houses are mortgaged. What? So most americans dont even own the houses they are living in?
I live in a "third world" country, Argentina. And I like it here. My dad owns our house. He works as a tv repair guy. We do very well. He's got a Yamaha DragStar 1100, I go to college and also do CCNA. I have DSL, Cable, and 5 computers at home. I have an MP3 player and all of us have cell phones. I have mine since 2000, and I'm waiting to change it when GSM arrives to my town, which will be before this year ends. I can walk on the street without worrying about some crazy shooter. My brother goes to high school and doesn't have to go through a metal detector. I can say bomb in an airport and not get arrested.
And this is not only me. Most argentines have the same luck. Others do better, others do worse. But thats it. In fact, Argentina is still where most immigrants go in south america.
I know that has nothing to do with the comment, but I know just too many americans who think theirs is the only developed country, and thats the reason why immigrants go to the US
I really hope India won't start giving out visas to americans. It would be nice that for once you americans feel what it's like to be told "you're not welcome in this country, you illegal alien".
Yeah.
Man, this people really get me.
Actually sometimes you cant even find the drivers for windows 2000/XP.
So if you have a PC Chips and want to use all of its features, you have to use win98SE, the white trash OS.
I remember a couple of years ago, in my country (Argentina), before the devaluation, you could get a PC with printer, scanner and all for like $600. Of course, i'm talking of all-onboard celeron/duron k-mart computers but anyway, thats what most people buy.
Now, after devaluation all PCs cost like $400, and only include monitor and a copy of fucking Corel Linux or Conectiva, both almost obsolete distros. "BUT THEY ARE IN SPANISH".
That's because they try to cut down the price in any way, even if that involves using less screws for the covers.
Now lots of people go around asking "Why cant I install Word on my machine?" and you have to explain to them that office doesnt run on Linux (FUCK OFF WINERS, I CAN'T TEACH A FUCKING NEWBIE HOW TO RUN OFFICE ON WINE).
Yes. I know lasers are really expensive, at least compared to inkjets, and color lasers arent as good as their inkjet counterparts, they have one really good point: the consumables prices.
A black cartridge of ink, costs somewhere between 30 to 60 US dollars here in Argentina, and it yields about 300 pages.
My HP 1100 uses a C4092A cartidge, which costs about US$ 100. How many pages do you get? According to the page counter, last time I changed it, after three years of use, it gave 3000 pages. Yeah. And i didnt replace it actually. I refilled it for US $10.
I print mostly black, so it's the same thing for me. But it also has other advantages:
1) SPEED! Lasers are FAST. If your printer says it prints at 11PPM, it does! It doesnt matter if you printed just a line or a whole page of black, the speed is the same. Inkjets are rated at 10 - 20 ppm... and in the small letters it says "printing a 5% coverage of the page". WTF do I do in real life with 5%?
2) QUALITY: you cannot beat laser text with any inkjet. And dont get me started with line art.
3) LIGHT AND WATER PROOF. I dont know about light proofing on black, but if you leave an inkjet color print in the sun for a couple of weeks, you end up with a cyan stain on the paper. I wonder why cyan is the color that stays in the paper? Also, waterproofing is not usual on inkjet, except for those lexmark cartridges. If a water drop gets in your inkjet print, you are screwed. On laser, you can get away with it.
4) Ink penetration: Toner stays in the surface. You can even print on news paper and it will look great. You can't do that with inkjet.
5) Drying speed: Toner is dry before entering the printer and stays dry while printing. Ink is liquid, and if you are in a hurry, you have to be very careful of not touching the printed area.
6) Consumables price: You can replace the cartridge for $100 or refill it for $10. And you can keep refilling it forever, as long as the drum is OK. When the drum goes bad, you replace it and it still costs less than an new cartidge. Also toner is mostly generic so you dont need 20 different kinds of ink for every printer out there.
7) Consumables shelf life and useful life: Toner is forever. You dont find an expiration date on toner boxes, as with you do with ink jet catridges. And you dont need to print something every week to keep your nozzles from blocking! My toner catridge lasted THREE YEARS. One time i left it in storage for 2 months: i unplugged it, and packed it. Try to do that with an Inkjet and see if it prints afterwards.
8) and the most important feature about toner cartridges is that THEY ARE HUGE ASS CATRIDGES. You pull the lid and the whole printer is for you to see and then you take the cartridge which is almost as big as a kitchen paper roll. Unlike those wussy ink jets that fit in your pocket. REAL MEN CARRY TONER CARTIDGES. Inkjets are for the ladies' purses.
Now seriously, laser printers are heavy, and they look and ARE very solid. They dont move around or rock your desk. They make a soft, continuous whine when printing.
The only bad thing about lasers is that they draw LOTS of power. About 1000 watts when cold and 300 watts printing. Some more. So you can't plug them into your UPS.
The other thing is that sometimes you get clearer bands on the printer. If the bands are vertical, you shake the cartridge around to spread the toner evenly. If the bands are horizontal, or if there is "regular noise" around the paper, the drum is screwed and needs to be replaced. It happens if you put a paper that is dirty or too thick.
Oh and also the price. But it pays for itself in a couple of years, even if you don't use it often. If you buy a good laser printer it will last for life. They are designed with that in mind, unlike inkjets.
I think that laser printer was my best investment ever.
I've seen like 3 reviews in 2003 about digital camcorders. I'm starting to get tired of them. Yes. I read PC Magazine. I don't have a laptop in my bathroom.
vhs head drums have had this system for a long time. the stator is mounted on a fixed axle and the rotor magnets surround it, and are mounted on the same axle with a ball bearing. then the drum is attached to the magnet assembly (the rotor) in a direct-drive fashion. speed is pwm-controlled
well, that should teach her.
how did we all learn not to put our fingers into AC outlets, or touch the stove, or the hot iron. or drink bleach, or keep your eyes open while you are shampooing?
we learn by mistake. i'm not saying children should learn the hard way, but sometimes they will have to, either because you forgot to tell them, or because they didn't believe it when you told them.
my point was that, you can try to monitor or block them but they'll find a way to defeat your measures. you are welcome to spend 4 hours securing the proxies and firewalls, if you want to.
besides, you can't monitor their e-mails, and that's where they could get porn (forwards and stuff). don't try to either, because your 10yr old will create a hotmail account that you'd never ever know existed and that would be worse.
although i'm 20 years old and still haven't learn to keep hands off the electricity. and my country has 230V power, so it's really nasty.
No, I wasn't being sarcastic, I actually meant it.
wow. that was like, a revelation. totally right. the problem is there's a difference between fantasizing about a 15 year old and actually watching one on the net. the problem is that, they'll grow up thinking that it's right, when it's not. and if they watch kids on the net, you go to jail cos the internet account is paid with your credit card.
too bad most of the kids don't think like you.
i can tell you one thing, do not try to block them. do not try to log them. children are smarter than you, they will find a way around all of your measures. thats why you should treat them as your children and not as your enemy. your enemies are crackers and stuff, trying to get into your network. they are kids too, and they will find a way around but you have a big advantage with your children: you can talk to them, and they will listen. and dont worry if they are looking for porn or something. what if they do? even if you block those sites, they can look at these from somewehere else. or they can watch TV, magazines. they are kids, they have friends and can get porn so dont try to block that, it's useless. but, if it helps you sleep at night, you can try and do it. just install some proxy and set it up to do transparent proxying on a nat box (otherwise they'd just reconfigure their browsers to go around the nat box). don't do what is done in schools and stuff: proxy-or-nothing (proxying all, deny nat traffic) because you'll bust their IRC, FTP, IM and all that stuff. and about e-mails and IMs, just the normal "don't talk to strangers" applies.
I'm seeing a lot of answers about having a RAID filesystem, and then backup that. But what about the opposite?
I mean, have a backup and then RAID it. How, you ask? Well, just make a disk image on a file, or whatever you call it on your OS, and then upload it to a safe computer which has RAID (1 or 5, not just 0) with enough space to backup all of the other computers (or the files on a special directory of each that keeps the important files), and have it all stored there. Then, at regular intervals you rsync and only the changes are transmitted. That way, you get protection over hardware failures (not disasters or other stuff), and the big advantage of having a disk image, which you dump as-is in a drive and have all your data as it was. Pretty cool.
To get protection against disasters, you can share this drive with a neighbor, or other remote system, and, as usual, just rsync the data. This may sound stupid, because you can just mount a directory over the network and work there, but, as I pointed out previously, with this method you have a snapshot of your filesystems, and works almost OS-independently. And you get hard-drive speed and not network speed while you work on your files, which tends to suck on a busy network (see note at the end).
The downside of this is, that every computer has a lot of gigabytes that are repeated (OS files, programs), and these are the troublemakers, because every computer needs them. Audio files are another problem because they are big (compared to user documents and stuff), so you can work with these remotely, straight off the server (these get backed up because the server has RAID-1, remember?)
Note: This set up may work for a small home network, but of course it's no good for a 100-computer site. The idea of HD backup is that nowadays HD is the cheapest media.
I'd go with something like that if I had a dedicate machine with about 160Gb of disk space, and it doesnt sound that expensive. At least not as tape backup.
Oh, and of course, because the data isn't instantly reflected, you WILL lose data when you are finishing a long document or something. Murphy's law!.
I use a uni Signo, made by Mitsubishi, medium size. Fine size tends to scratch the paper even if you dont push it too hard. Medium size works fine. Large size is real sweet and smooth but it's no good for body text because is too thick. Looks good on titles or for making small anotations. Be careful to use a good paper. Many cheap notebooks are too porous. Decent ones feel sort of like "waxed" and they are very good, almost like writing on your Converse All-Stars (aka Chucks) rubber soles with a Bic pen. As good as warm clothes off the dryer, or bursting bubble-wrap.
I didnt literally mean that it was a myth, it was just a way of saying it. I dont know whats wrong with moist weather. Right, you shouldn't run some hardware on high humidity, but that has nothing to do with static. Moisture reduces the chance of generating static, that is true. We've been having a week of really dry days and static was terrible, sparks jumping off your fingers whenever you touched something metallic. That does not happen on a humid day. Antistatic coating does nothing about the static already present on the device, or on you. The only thing it does is not letting static form on top of the plastic bag if you rub it (you can try that). The metalic stuff is not supposed to act as a faraday cage, but to short most of the pins on the board, so static doesn't fry the chips. BUT it also does what you say, in the case of EMP (yay). As in, if a lightning strikes nearby, the air charges with static, and it induces itself in grounded things. Thats why cheap modems fry even if the lightning didn't affect anything else on the house: Static->induction->modem->bang!) Sometimes I pack processors or DIMMS in tinfoil, but only for transport. Thats my advice, if you are paranoid, use standard aluminium wrapping and you are done.
I've always stored my computer stuff in a box, cardboard or plastic. I'm starting to think static electricity damage is a myth ;) because everything I store, comes out just fine (and working, obviously).
so, I recommend you cardboard boxes (cant make static on a cardboard --at least not easily) and for really delicate stuff, stick it on a anti-static bag (supposed to be conductive. old ones, transparent with black stripes are, but have high resistance. newer ones (pink stuff, or blue) are non conductive, at least thats what I can test.