My wife and I figured out that we were paying almost $100 a month to watch about 4 shows on Cable, and we already had a few streaming services like Netflix/Hulu, so this is the change we made:
Got rid of Cable: Savings $100 a month. Kept Netflix (with bluray) $15 a month, Hulu: $7 a month, Easynews: $14 a month.
We bought two Apple TV's and I installed Sickbeard + SABnzbd (to use with NewsGroups) for the few shows that we wouldn't get with OTA. Added a DLNA server on my linux box to stream to the PS3's The first two months of no Cable paid for the two Apple TV's, the third month paid for a PS3 (for the second TV) with a broken Blu-ray drive since I only needed it for Steaming from the DLNA server.
Since I already had a PS3, X-Box and two Tivo's, I can stream from Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and MLB, if I choose too, I could also stream from YouTube, Blockbuster, and a few others. With the odd question of "what service has my show", from my wife, it's the only issue we ever run into. We would never go back, and on top of not paying for Cable, my wife and I still get every show we used to watch, just not over the air. I also ended up ripping all of my Blu-Ray's to the DLNA server so I could have any of my movies on any TV I wanted with out ever having to go and get the disk.
[1]: A lot of employers view arrest records as more meaningful than convictions because, "a thug can buy themselves an acquittal, while if a cop considers someone guilty enough to pull out the handcuffs and do the paperwork, they are guilty in this company's book."
Need a citation on this....personally I would rather be arrested 10 times then convicted once.
Drobo is not a bad idea, but I can tell you how I manage the photos in our house. My wife is an amateur photographer, has two DLSR's and can rack up 5Gb in a afternoon of shooting.
She uses a Mac to do her processing, so when we import, it stores on the mac and on the time machine drive. (2 copies). During the import it also copies to a file share on our home Linux server (3rd Copy), and the moment they hit the Linux box, they trigger our online backup service, (4th copy). On Sunday and Thursday the photography directory copies over to our two external USB drives should the server crap itself (5th & 6th copy). Additionally every night a cron runs on her Mac that copies the actual Lightroom database to the server too, that way all her edits are kept (then Crashplan & USB drives). The nice this is, once she imports, everything else is handled automatically, no work required on my part. I get the emails from Crashplan and can tell by that, how many photographs she took.
Some people think I am nuts, but I'm not even close to the level of some professions.
LUXURY! We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, recite all of Monty Python word for word with mimic like inflection and pay John Cleese and company tuppence a month for the privilege. Upon coming home, Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
I have to hop in on this one. You ran into a another major issue in Linux based systems. You said "Under Gnome", well I use KDE, and the guy next to me used nothing but a CLI, the guy down two cubes uses something else. If Linux really wants to take off (i.e More then like 15% desktop space), they will cut the distro down to 2-3 Major distros (and one really customizable desktop). Everytime a new "kwl" distro comes out, the linux crowd splinters more and more.
Well if NN passes and companies like Google are forced to start paying up I hope there is a commercial like this.
*Sergey Brin walks into a overhead spotlight from a darken area*
Hello, I'm Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google.
"Since Net Neutrality was passed we are now required to pay ISP's like Bellsouth money if we our site to reach you at the same speed as our competitor. Since you pay an ISP like Bellsouth to receive Internet access, and we pay a company to receive Internet access, you may be wondering why we have to also pay Bellsouth. Well so where we, so starting on the 15th we will be blocking all Bellsouth customers from gaining access to any site owned by Google, including Gmail because we really wouldn't want to incur a charge we are not going to pay, because we already pay for Internet access. If you have a problem with that and would like to continue visiting Google, you can either change ISP's or you can simply call Bellsouth at the number below.(insert Bellsouth's customer service number)
Thank you"
Let see how Bellsouth responds to that, since they are the jackasses who came up with this idea.
Even if Zune doesn't use Playforsure, how do we not know that the software included with Zune will allow the DRM to be modified to run on Zune. And before someone pops off about changing the DRM violates the DMCA, that is not true if you have the proper permissions from copyright holders/distributors.
Well, first off I am in my 30's, no not much of a kid here.
Additionally, where ever I work, I also have to live, so dealing with the issue if being an outsider is there if you work at the site or not,
I lived Idaho Falls for three years and I know what you mean. What they left out of the article is that Idaho Falls is a huge Mormon community, and if you are not Mormon will not be treated faily. I am not being a bigot, I have many Mormon friends who felt sorry for us, didn't know how many of the non-Mormons dealt with it, as some of them have to deal with not being "Mormon enough"
Also in general, if you are not from the area, you are considered an outsider to everyone.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a Mac fan, so much so that I work for Apple (though I am not involved in any way with the notebooks)
The whole notion of Mac overpriced-ness used to be a real issue, and at the higher-ends of Apple's products still is. Performance-wise the MacBook Pro still offers precious little for what some el-cheapo notebook mfg's are doing for the same price. But have yhou taken a look at the MacBook lately?
Yes I have, and you are Wrong - Take from Apple and Dells websites as of 7/21/06 *Note NO coupons codes were entered MacBook Pro = 1,999.00
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo 512MB 667 DDR2 - 1 SO-DIMM 80GB Serial ATA drive @ 5400 rpm MacBook Pro 15-inch Glossy Widescreen Display SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW) AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth
Dell E1505 = 1,658.00
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo 2 GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ 100GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive 15.4 inch UltraSharp(TM) Wide Screen SXGA+ 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Internal Wireless and Bluetooth
Quadruple the Ram and larger hard drive for about 350 less, Mac's are STILL overpriced. As for your camera comment, I can buy 6-7 laptop cams with the money I saved, or drop the ram down to 512 and buy a even more cameras.
Neither Charter nor any of its affiliates, suppliers, or agents have any obligation to monitor transmissions or postings (including, but not limited to, e-mail, newsgroup, and instant message transmission as well as materials available on the personal web pages and online storage features) made on the Service. However, Charter and its affiliates, suppliers, and agents have the right to monitor these transmissions and postings from time to time for violations of this Policy and to disclose, block, or remove them in accordance with the Subscriber Agreement and any other applicable agreements and policies.
Charter laid this out about 15 months ago, basically stating that they have the right to watch and record anything you are doing under the guise of "protecting" itself
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity
Why don't we stamp it into something a bit tougher like tungsten or titanum....or the back of Dubya's head
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The second word should help you out....""The independent school"
My wife and I figured out that we were paying almost $100 a month to watch about 4 shows on Cable, and we already had a few streaming services like Netflix/Hulu, so this is the change we made:
Got rid of Cable: Savings $100 a month.
Kept Netflix (with bluray) $15 a month, Hulu: $7 a month, Easynews: $14 a month.
We bought two Apple TV's and I installed Sickbeard + SABnzbd (to use with NewsGroups) for the few shows that we wouldn't get with OTA. Added a DLNA server on my linux box to stream to the PS3's The first two months of no Cable paid for the two Apple TV's, the third month paid for a PS3 (for the second TV) with a broken Blu-ray drive since I only needed it for Steaming from the DLNA server.
Since I already had a PS3, X-Box and two Tivo's, I can stream from Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and MLB, if I choose too, I could also stream from YouTube, Blockbuster, and a few others. With the odd question of "what service has my show", from my wife, it's the only issue we ever run into. We would never go back, and on top of not paying for Cable, my wife and I still get every show we used to watch, just not over the air. I also ended up ripping all of my Blu-Ray's to the DLNA server so I could have any of my movies on any TV I wanted with out ever having to go and get the disk.
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[1]: A lot of employers view arrest records as more meaningful than convictions because, "a thug can buy themselves an acquittal, while if a cop considers someone guilty enough to pull out the handcuffs and do the paperwork, they are guilty in this company's book."
Need a citation on this....personally I would rather be arrested 10 times then convicted once.
Drobo is not a bad idea, but I can tell you how I manage the photos in our house. My wife is an amateur photographer, has two DLSR's and can rack up 5Gb in a afternoon of shooting. She uses a Mac to do her processing, so when we import, it stores on the mac and on the time machine drive. (2 copies). During the import it also copies to a file share on our home Linux server (3rd Copy), and the moment they hit the Linux box, they trigger our online backup service, (4th copy). On Sunday and Thursday the photography directory copies over to our two external USB drives should the server crap itself (5th & 6th copy). Additionally every night a cron runs on her Mac that copies the actual Lightroom database to the server too, that way all her edits are kept (then Crashplan & USB drives). The nice this is, once she imports, everything else is handled automatically, no work required on my part. I get the emails from Crashplan and can tell by that, how many photographs she took. Some people think I am nuts, but I'm not even close to the level of some professions.
Print every email you get, I'm sure it won't effect your bonus.
Last I heard, the waiting list was 9 months.
LUXURY! We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, recite all of Monty Python word for word with mimic like inflection and pay John Cleese and company tuppence a month for the privilege. Upon coming home, Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
Does that apply to the package if it's made for Edgy?? Or all packages??
I have to hop in on this one. You ran into a another major issue in Linux based systems. You said "Under Gnome", well I use KDE, and the guy next to me used nothing but a CLI, the guy down two cubes uses something else. If Linux really wants to take off (i.e More then like 15% desktop space), they will cut the distro down to 2-3 Major distros (and one really customizable desktop). Everytime a new "kwl" distro comes out, the linux crowd splinters more and more.
Again, I don't think you are getting it. What has Microsoft done to keep Winzip from building an their app for other OS's...or WinApp or Adobe...
The answer is nothing. These companies have CHOOSEN to build apps for Windows and tend to ignore all other OS's
Hey, that's the combination to my luggage
Well if NN passes and companies like Google are forced to start paying up I hope there is a commercial like this.
*Sergey Brin walks into a overhead spotlight from a darken area*
Hello, I'm Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google.
"Since Net Neutrality was passed we are now required to pay ISP's like Bellsouth money if we our site to reach you at the same speed as our competitor. Since you pay an ISP like Bellsouth to receive Internet access, and we pay a company to receive Internet access, you may be wondering why we have to also pay Bellsouth. Well so where we, so starting on the 15th we will be blocking all Bellsouth customers from gaining access to any site owned by Google, including Gmail because we really wouldn't want to incur a charge we are not going to pay, because we already pay for Internet access. If you have a problem with that and would like to continue visiting Google, you can either change ISP's or you can simply call Bellsouth at the number below.(insert Bellsouth's customer service number)
Thank you"
Let see how Bellsouth responds to that, since they are the jackasses who came up with this idea.
Pure EFF FUD!!
Even if Zune doesn't use Playforsure, how do we not know that the software included with Zune will allow the DRM to be modified to run on Zune. And before someone pops off about changing the DRM violates the DMCA, that is not true if you have the proper permissions from copyright holders/distributors.
Well, first off I am in my 30's, no not much of a kid here. Additionally, where ever I work, I also have to live, so dealing with the issue if being an outsider is there if you work at the site or not,
I lived Idaho Falls for three years and I know what you mean. What they left out of the article is that Idaho Falls is a huge Mormon community, and if you are not Mormon will not be treated faily. I am not being a bigot, I have many Mormon friends who felt sorry for us, didn't know how many of the non-Mormons dealt with it, as some of them have to deal with not being "Mormon enough" Also in general, if you are not from the area, you are considered an outsider to everyone.
Compairing Reporters to Drug Dealers...you know Drug Dealers have feeling too.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a Mac fan, so much so that I work for Apple (though I am not involved in any way with the notebooks)
The whole notion of Mac overpriced-ness used to be a real issue, and at the higher-ends of Apple's products still is. Performance-wise the MacBook Pro still offers precious little for what some el-cheapo notebook mfg's are doing for the same price. But have yhou taken a look at the MacBook lately?
Yes I have, and you are Wrong - Take from Apple and Dells websites as of 7/21/06 *Note NO coupons codes were entered
MacBook Pro = 1,999.00
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB 667 DDR2 - 1 SO-DIMM
80GB Serial ATA drive @ 5400 rpm
MacBook Pro 15-inch Glossy Widescreen Display
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
AirPort Extreme Card & Bluetooth
Dell E1505 = 1,658.00
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
2 GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ
100GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
15.4 inch UltraSharp(TM) Wide Screen SXGA+
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Internal Wireless and Bluetooth
Quadruple the Ram and larger hard drive for about 350 less, Mac's are STILL overpriced. As for your camera comment, I can buy 6-7 laptop cams with the money I saved, or drop the ram down to 512 and buy a even more cameras.
15. RIGHT TO MONITOR
Neither Charter nor any of its affiliates, suppliers, or agents have any obligation to monitor transmissions or postings (including, but not limited to, e-mail, newsgroup, and instant message transmission as well as materials available on the personal web pages and online storage features) made on the Service. However, Charter and its affiliates, suppliers, and agents have the right to monitor these transmissions and postings from time to time for violations of this Policy and to disclose, block, or remove them in accordance with the Subscriber Agreement and any other applicable agreements and policies.
Charter laid this out about 15 months ago, basically stating that they have the right to watch and record anything you are doing under the guise of "protecting" itself
If Google is the Borg, What is Microsoft? Certainly not the Federation. That would be Linux.
Microsoft would be the Ferengi Alliance
It's smells like a mix of Dorito's and Mom's basement
"The fact this article got accepted... Words fail me."
I think he has a bit of pull with one of the Editor's...
I could care less about running XP on a Mactel. To do that, I have to spend $2000 on a new laptop/deskop, then $300 for an extra copy of XP.
OR
I could pick up an copy of MacOSX for x86 for what, $150 and install it on my current machines...
Saves a lot of money
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity
Why don't we stamp it into something a bit tougher like tungsten or titanum....or the back of Dubya's head
Wow..."loser M$ zealot" huh...
Anyway I had to run these services when I wanted to include my Gentoo box in my domain....
It works great. plus snychs the windows usernames and passwords to the linux servers and workstations.
/ unix/sfu/sfu35wp.mspx
something that is 100% impossible with a Windows PDC BDC combination.
That is simply not true...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration