D-Link Makes one that'll play XVid (and divx) files. Unsure if they support an AC3 audio codec, but still really cool, and feature rich.
I built a media center PC once. They rock because they can always have the codecs upgraded to the current fad, and play whatever you can throw at it. I tried XP MCE, and MythTV and Freevo. MythTV by far has the most features, and XP MCE is the easiest to setup and config.
The bad is that they tie up a computer that could be doing something more productive. A wireless appliance is cheap as hell, and accomplish much of the same tasks, and frees up your computers to do real stuff.
There's some nice cases for $500 that can make your living room media pc look like a stereo component, or for $120 on ebay you can get the d-link that also fits in, and does much of the same stuff.
Awesome! Thanks for the info -> I'll give it a shot again... That's the only caveat I have with Linux on the desktop right now is the sketchy implementation of wireless support, including WEP -> I don't run my wireless network without it...
Anyone care to comment on the wireless support out of the box? Not too big of a fan of farting around with linux-wlan -> if I get good wireless support, I'll make the plunge and switch... I'd tried before, and that was my big road block. I had a lot of issues installing linux-wlan.
Anyway, I'd like to hear some info on wireless spport... Thanks!
I'm not a fan either, and I see its usefulness, but I believe they need to warn you up front that it's a final sale, not force you to find out in retrospect. They can't have their cake and eat it too...
lol I knew this guy who every year wore a new ski jacket every month, taking advantage of store's return policies. Furthermore, he'd go camping and purchase a tv, vcr, and power inverter for the weekend, and we'd get TV for the trip, and make the refunds on monday when he got back. that was just too cool...
In Canda there's no such thing as a no-return policy even if the store says there is. You have 10 days to return regardless, or the consumer affairs branch of govt steps in and gets you your return anyway.
You know, I've become increasingly frustrated with Google. If it any of the other major search engines indexed usenet and images, I'd switch in a heartbeet.
Google has really gone downhill. Google spam is so commonplace it's made searching for web content useless. Try looking for any programming help, and you'll find usenet posts dumped into a web site.
Try looking for product reviews and google will get first index pages that link to other product reviews.
Both are equally annoying and equally useless.
I'm actually finding much better results on alltheweb than I am on google now. Sure there's some useful features, and google is shorter to type than alltheweb.
If Alltheweb indexed usenet like google did, I'd switch fully and never look back.
IMHO, Google's hanging onto a thread. The more times we find results using alternative search engines to find what we need, the more likely we'll be to switch to them permanently.
ummm although it would have been nice to see a new installer;)
FWIW, of the three, FreeBSD is the easiest to install... Throw in a floppy disk and do a base ftp install including source code and ports tree.
CVSup the ports tree and then install from there so you don't need to update any ports afterwards.
I find fdisk to be a real pain if you've not used it much, so I find OpenBSD and NetBSD a bit more of a pain than FreeBSD...
So, apart from Dell, and Compaq(HP), who is there for x86/amd64 servers?
IBM is the first one that comes to my mind. Their x86 servers are top notch. Still, thanks to M&A, the amount of choices seems to be less and less... Used to be HP, DEC, and Compaq competed with each other on price... If it wasn't for Dell, I could only imagine how bad it would be...
And the judges that create precedence. The judges are there to interpret the law, and prevent this kind of abuse from occurring. They need to start dealing out heavy punitive damages for these frivilous cases so that there's a strong disincentive.
I worked for a company in Canada called Velocity a number of years ago. There's a large telco in Canada called Telus that wanted the Velocity trademark for their DSL packages, and forced this company's hand out of their name. They had spend many thousands marketing their trade mark, and lost it by the sheer power of the telco. You have a choice -> bankruptcy through litigation, or change your name. Of course they changed their name to Voyus, and their brand recognition was obliterated.
A simple cost/benefit analysis indicates that big business wins every time. Either change your name or be litigated into oblivion. Really, Telus had a net worth more than 10,000 times Volocity. Telus should have funded Velocity's defence as well.
Personally I'd love to see balancing laws for the courts -> if you are paying $100,000 for lawyers, you should be able to pay that for the other side as well so that personal / corporate wealth isn't a legal factor any more.
And if the lawsuit is frivalous, judges should be afraid to ram punitive damages down the throat of the litigious bastard, and the lawyer for bringing such a frivilous case to the courts in the first place.
Yeah, it's that IN statement at the bottom -> you take a bad performance hit. Many optimizers will rewrite your code properly, but still... Joins, not IN clauses:)
Dunno the ORACLE syntax - I'm working with Sybase which would be SET ROWCOUNT 10 SELECT...
Good, let's hire you for an sql job. That has got to be one of the most poorly written queries ever. Rewrite:
SELECT TOP 10 count(c.order_id) as ordercount,
c.prod_num FROM completed_orders c
INNER JOIN temp_order on t.prod_num = c.prod_num GROUP BY c.prod_num ORDER BY count(c.order_id) desc
Ever driven through Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Utah? Idaho? What about Texas?
There's a lot of flatlands and grasslands in America viable for Solar and Wind power.
Hydro - I live in BC - you're argument is stupid. We have many, many dams, and our salmon survive. You build channels around the dam. The salmon adapt. Pacific salmon are more at risk because of our stupid salmon farming programs than our dams.
Speaking of Nevada, I drove accross from Salt Lake City to Reno, and I must say the area where there's a power plant disgusted me. An entire valley covered with black smoke. How much does THAT destroy the environment?
Nukular is the way to go. Definately the right now, but there are viable alternatives too.
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D-Link Makes one that'll play XVid (and divx) files. Unsure if they support an AC3 audio codec, but still really cool, and feature rich.
I built a media center PC once. They rock because they can always have the codecs upgraded to the current fad, and play whatever you can throw at it. I tried XP MCE, and MythTV and Freevo. MythTV by far has the most features, and XP MCE is the easiest to setup and config.
The bad is that they tie up a computer that could be doing something more productive. A wireless appliance is cheap as hell, and accomplish much of the same tasks, and frees up your computers to do real stuff.
There's some nice cases for $500 that can make your living room media pc look like a stereo component, or for $120 on ebay you can get the d-link that also fits in, and does much of the same stuff.
lol sounds like it's worthy... Rad... Might be able to switch to FC3 when it's RTM... W00t! How's the WEP? Any trouble?
lol last time I had a look at logo was in the 1980's lol... I had no idea it evolved after that :) (pretty dense on my part)...
Why not?
It is an excellent tool for learning programming.
Sort of... Good tool for teaching linear BASIC programming.
Actually, logo is good for teaching geometry -> angles and relationships and stuff.
The next step should be to move into PASCAL with turtle graphics. I found it to be a natural progression. Gets you out of that BASIC mindset.
The thing about LOGO that sux arse nowadays is it's still Linear. At least PASCAL adds procedural programming.
Awesome! Thanks for the info -> I'll give it a shot again... That's the only caveat I have with Linux on the desktop right now is the sketchy implementation of wireless support, including WEP -> I don't run my wireless network without it...
Anyone care to comment on the wireless support out of the box? Not too big of a fan of farting around with linux-wlan -> if I get good wireless support, I'll make the plunge and switch... I'd tried before, and that was my big road block. I had a lot of issues installing linux-wlan.
Anyway, I'd like to hear some info on wireless spport... Thanks!
I'm not a fan either, and I see its usefulness, but I believe they need to warn you up front that it's a final sale, not force you to find out in retrospect. They can't have their cake and eat it too...
...but Radio Shack policy was to take it back, no questions asked.
There was questions asked... Name, address, phone number...
Wait, that was for the sale...
lol I knew this guy who every year wore a new ski jacket every month, taking advantage of store's return policies. Furthermore, he'd go camping and purchase a tv, vcr, and power inverter for the weekend, and we'd get TV for the trip, and make the refunds on monday when he got back. that was just too cool...
In Canda there's no such thing as a no-return policy even if the store says there is. You have 10 days to return regardless, or the consumer affairs branch of govt steps in and gets you your return anyway.
You know, I've become increasingly frustrated with Google. If it any of the other major search engines indexed usenet and images, I'd switch in a heartbeet.
Google has really gone downhill. Google spam is so commonplace it's made searching for web content useless. Try looking for any programming help, and you'll find usenet posts dumped into a web site.
Try looking for product reviews and google will get first index pages that link to other product reviews.
Both are equally annoying and equally useless.
I'm actually finding much better results on alltheweb than I am on google now. Sure there's some useful features, and google is shorter to type than alltheweb.
If Alltheweb indexed usenet like google did, I'd switch fully and never look back.
IMHO, Google's hanging onto a thread. The more times we find results using alternative search engines to find what we need, the more likely we'll be to switch to them permanently.
ummm although it would have been nice to see a new installer ;)
FWIW, of the three, FreeBSD is the easiest to install... Throw in a floppy disk and do a base ftp install including source code and ports tree. CVSup the ports tree and then install from there so you don't need to update any ports afterwards. I find fdisk to be a real pain if you've not used it much, so I find OpenBSD and NetBSD a bit more of a pain than FreeBSD...
So, apart from Dell, and Compaq(HP), who is there for x86/amd64 servers?
IBM is the first one that comes to my mind. Their x86 servers are top notch. Still, thanks to M&A, the amount of choices seems to be less and less... Used to be HP, DEC, and Compaq competed with each other on price... If it wasn't for Dell, I could only imagine how bad it would be...
Nope, just a correction to the GP... The original one used an IN statement which was terrible...
And which database servers are fully SQL99 compatible?
:)
Hell find me one that's fully ANSI-92 compatible
And the judges that create precedence. The judges are there to interpret the law, and prevent this kind of abuse from occurring. They need to start dealing out heavy punitive damages for these frivilous cases so that there's a strong disincentive.
I worked for a company in Canada called Velocity a number of years ago. There's a large telco in Canada called Telus that wanted the Velocity trademark for their DSL packages, and forced this company's hand out of their name. They had spend many thousands marketing their trade mark, and lost it by the sheer power of the telco. You have a choice -> bankruptcy through litigation, or change your name. Of course they changed their name to Voyus, and their brand recognition was obliterated.
A simple cost/benefit analysis indicates that big business wins every time. Either change your name or be litigated into oblivion. Really, Telus had a net worth more than 10,000 times Volocity. Telus should have funded Velocity's defence as well.
It will only repeat until a lawmaker is offended.
Personally I'd love to see balancing laws for the courts -> if you are paying $100,000 for lawyers, you should be able to pay that for the other side as well so that personal / corporate wealth isn't a legal factor any more.
And if the lawsuit is frivalous, judges should be afraid to ram punitive damages down the throat of the litigious bastard, and the lawyer for bringing such a frivilous case to the courts in the first place.
Yeah, it's that IN statement at the bottom -> you take a bad performance hit. Many optimizers will rewrite your code properly, but still... Joins, not IN clauses :)
Dunno the ORACLE syntax - I'm working with Sybase which would be SET ROWCOUNT 10 SELECT...
In SQL Server you use the TOP keyword.
Good, let's hire you for an sql job. That has got to be one of the most poorly written queries ever. Rewrite:
SELECT TOP 10 count(c.order_id) as ordercount,
c.prod_num
FROM completed_orders c
INNER JOIN temp_order on t.prod_num = c.prod_num
GROUP BY c.prod_num
ORDER BY count(c.order_id) desc
Okay that was pretty ironic eh :)
After the BS around one-click shopping, Amazon gets exactly what they deserve.
If it was anyone else being sued, I'd think this is getting really stupid. I mean, why not patent line-ups? Where does this crap end?
Ever driven through Nevada? Eastern Oregon? Utah? Idaho? What about Texas?
There's a lot of flatlands and grasslands in America viable for Solar and Wind power.
Hydro - I live in BC - you're argument is stupid. We have many, many dams, and our salmon survive. You build channels around the dam. The salmon adapt. Pacific salmon are more at risk because of our stupid salmon farming programs than our dams.
Speaking of Nevada, I drove accross from Salt Lake City to Reno, and I must say the area where there's a power plant disgusted me. An entire valley covered with black smoke. How much does THAT destroy the environment?
Nukular is the way to go. Definately the right now, but there are viable alternatives too.
Oh crap, she's the daughter of the ketchup company? I never knew...
Damn - way to marry up in the world eh...
Woops - wrong one :) was thinking of Edwards...
:) Made me laugh. lol that's pretty funny... Honers graduate.
Watch it - he might throw some nuculer weapons at you...
=D