Looks cool. If you didn't post AC I would have modded you up.
I don't like Microsofts usual business practices, but this looks cool.
I have a very similar setup already but it wasn't "simple enough for Mom" to set up, and I don't have the server warning me about Antivirus or spyware. I think there will be a market for something like this as long as Microsoft isn't too greedy with their pricing. I highly doubt that home users would even consider using a linux server for this job, but I also think that home users would be interested once they see something like this set up. I know we've been talking "convergance" (sp?) for years, but this might actually help. People are going to want to play media on the tv in the living room and have their songs available to all their computers. I think it's only a matter of time until this becomes the norm. I know that the people that have seen my network in action love it.
Shit, 5 years ago hardly anyone had more than one computer in the house... now networks are common.
Actually socket 939 had the shortest lifespan of any AMD socket to date. I was told by my wholesaler to avoid it like the plague cause it was only going to be around for about a year and a half.
Quite amazing when you realize how long we sold socket A boards. They went from a duron 700 to well over Athlon 2400+ over about 3 years IIRC.
AM2 is supposed to be here for a while now. Just ordered a 4400 today. It's gonna cost me about $138 canadian. Got an Asus board, the chip, Nvidia 256 video card gig of ram and a 200 gig seagate for under $500 canadian. Might buy the 6000 if the price does drop that much in the next little while.
I was hoping for another smack down letter like the one from the other day. You know, the one where the RIAA was suing a dead guy and the defense lawyer chewed em up.
I like the fact that Netscape can remember my logins and passwords if I so choose. I have also almost been fooled once by an ebay phishing scam. They were good. One of the / was replaced with a . Very hard to see right away.
When I clicked on the fake link, my username did NOT show up! That's when I looked more closly at the url.
Since that time, ebay changed the way that they do business and now they don't send emails anymore. Now you have to log in to ebay to see emails from them.
I had a shiny new installation of windows 95 back in the day. I still wasn't used to the file manager so this one time I had windows explorer open and I opened up winfile.exe to move some files to a floppy drive.
I killed the brand new floppy drive immediately. I couldn't believe it. First time I ever saw software kill hardware.
I work for a small ISP and that's exactly what we do. You get two strikes. First is a warning to clean up your machine and put on antivirus software. Next time, we kick you off the network and terminate your account. Problem totally solved. We've had two people get the first warning. None kicked yet.
"In any heirarchy, an individual will rise to his or her own level of incompetence, then remain there."
That was an amazing, enlightening book and I've never looked at anything the same since. You wonder why you're surrounded by idiots? Read that book... And never take that final fatal promotion!
I pay for a fast internet connection and should be allowed to use it within reason.
The problem is that the internet providers NEVER charge what it's actually worth. Their business model works on overselling.
I have a town with 100 customers. They all get at least 1.5 mbps connection. We supply this town with a 10 mbps connection and it works fine. If we had to provide 150mbps for this town, they'd never have service.
Also, if you put 10 guys here that download 24/7.. we're going to have real problems.
Within reason is relative.. 40 gigs a month may be reasonable to you and the provider.. some people think 200 gigs a month is resonable. It's not from the providers perspective.. and bandwidth is expensive.
Rogers cable in Southern Ontario used to routinely punt the top 5% or so of their users because of overuse. My only issue with that is that they would never actually admit it or tell anyone what the soft cap was. This website was basically started because of this issue: http://www.rbua.org/ and to try and keep Rogers fairly honest.. good luck with that...
Look, I tried Vista on an AMD 2400+ with 512 ram and an Nvidia FX5200 and it worked just fine. Installed in less than half an hour and looked real pretty. No it didn't like my creative card or my 3 com net card either. Big friggin deal. It ran fine.
I have tons of other issues why I won't be installing it for real on anything I have, but I wanted to see what all the fuss was and how much of a learning curve would be needed for the network settings. (I work for an isp and get stuck doing tech support sometimes)
Dunno bout you americans. Up here in the frozen north, you have to put the profits somewhere. They have to go through a bank and leave a paper trail. It's a lot safer and smarter to work above board.
All the guys on ebay that I deal with, that are businesses, charge sales tax based on where you live and keep decent books. These guys also have legitimate expenses like their warehouses that they will use as expense write-offs.
The incentive for them is that they can claim expenses against income. All this should do is to make sellers "shit or get off the pot". 100 transactions a year is a couple a week, maybe if you're doing that, you should go legit and keep decent books.
As soon as I changed from an Intel to an Amd, I had to switch to win 98. Win95 would install, but then crash hard on first boot. Wasn't supported on Amd at all. Which really sucked because I'm cheap but I like speed.
I just installed win95 on a Dell pII 233 with 64 meg of ram for one of my kids. Incredible. The whole install took less than 5 minutes. I remember the first time trying to install this on a 386 took me about 3 hours.
Which proves my point that this IS a cash grab in Alberta. They could take points but the backlash would remove the cameras. They like the money. This is a government that is also addicted to gambling revenues, so I'm not surprised.
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I don't like Microsofts usual business practices, but this looks cool.
I have a very similar setup already but it wasn't "simple enough for Mom" to set up, and I don't have the server warning me about Antivirus or spyware. I think there will be a market for something like this as long as Microsoft isn't too greedy with their pricing. I highly doubt that home users would even consider using a linux server for this job, but I also think that home users would be interested once they see something like this set up. I know we've been talking "convergance" (sp?) for years, but this might actually help. People are going to want to play media on the tv in the living room and have their songs available to all their computers. I think it's only a matter of time until this becomes the norm. I know that the people that have seen my network in action love it.
Shit, 5 years ago hardly anyone had more than one computer in the house... now networks are common.
Umm wanna piss on an electric fence to prove that?
Quite amazing when you realize how long we sold socket A boards. They went from a duron 700 to well over Athlon 2400+ over about 3 years IIRC.
AM2 is supposed to be here for a while now. Just ordered a 4400 today. It's gonna cost me about $138 canadian. Got an Asus board, the chip, Nvidia 256 video card gig of ram and a 200 gig seagate for under $500 canadian. Might buy the 6000 if the price does drop that much in the next little while.
Thanks, 45, 3 kids. One more comin!
What? You're saying that I'm creepy and pathetic because my wife is 17 years younger than me?
Like we need more swivel servants in Ottawa..
Regulating the internet is like trying to regulate the weather.
Fools.. (and my tax dollars would have to pay for this crap) /canuck
Yoda?
I was hoping for another smack down letter like the one from the other day. You know, the one where the RIAA was suing a dead guy and the defense lawyer chewed em up.
When I clicked on the fake link, my username did NOT show up! That's when I looked more closly at the url.
Since that time, ebay changed the way that they do business and now they don't send emails anymore. Now you have to log in to ebay to see emails from them.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/10/26/ ombudsman-probe.html
I killed the brand new floppy drive immediately. I couldn't believe it. First time I ever saw software kill hardware.
We have almost 600 customers and yes, smart ass, we block port 25.
Usually the computer runs like shit and the network is transferring traffic like crazy when you haven't done anything.
I work for a small ISP and that's exactly what we do. You get two strikes. First is a warning to clean up your machine and put on antivirus software. Next time, we kick you off the network and terminate your account. Problem totally solved. We've had two people get the first warning. None kicked yet.
Nice to see the MAFIAA taking a beating in three stories today. Maybe the tide can finally turn and this bullshit will all end.
"In any heirarchy, an individual will rise to his or her own level of incompetence, then remain there."
That was an amazing, enlightening book and I've never looked at anything the same since. You wonder why you're surrounded by idiots? Read that book... And never take that final fatal promotion!
The problem is that the internet providers NEVER charge what it's actually worth. Their business model works on overselling. I have a town with 100 customers. They all get at least 1.5 mbps connection. We supply this town with a 10 mbps connection and it works fine. If we had to provide 150mbps for this town, they'd never have service. Also, if you put 10 guys here that download 24/7.. we're going to have real problems.
Within reason is relative.. 40 gigs a month may be reasonable to you and the provider.. some people think 200 gigs a month is resonable. It's not from the providers perspective.. and bandwidth is expensive.
Rogers cable in Southern Ontario used to routinely punt the top 5% or so of their users because of overuse. My only issue with that is that they would never actually admit it or tell anyone what the soft cap was. This website was basically started because of this issue: http://www.rbua.org/ and to try and keep Rogers fairly honest.. good luck with that...
I have tons of other issues why I won't be installing it for real on anything I have, but I wanted to see what all the fuss was and how much of a learning curve would be needed for the network settings. (I work for an isp and get stuck doing tech support sometimes)
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html This views almost anything and is free.
All the guys on ebay that I deal with, that are businesses, charge sales tax based on where you live and keep decent books. These guys also have legitimate expenses like their warehouses that they will use as expense write-offs.
The incentive for them is that they can claim expenses against income. All this should do is to make sellers "shit or get off the pot". 100 transactions a year is a couple a week, maybe if you're doing that, you should go legit and keep decent books.
I just installed win95 on a Dell pII 233 with 64 meg of ram for one of my kids. Incredible. The whole install took less than 5 minutes. I remember the first time trying to install this on a 386 took me about 3 hours.
They don't need to sell cars or computers using MLM cause people want them.
umm So Maxtor drives really aren't that good? /smartass
Which proves my point that this IS a cash grab in Alberta. They could take points but the backlash would remove the cameras. They like the money. This is a government that is also addicted to gambling revenues, so I'm not surprised.
I saw walls of blank dvd's, but had to really hunt for cd's.
I don't think that their levy plan is working out.. Kinda pisses me off cause it's hard to burn a cd iso to a dvd.