Freesco.org has a very cool, one floppy router that works great on a 486 with 2 3 com net cards. I used that thing for everything before the price of routers came down.
P.S. I hate linksys too. Best router I ever bought was an old smc 7004. It just works and has for years now. I had a linksys that only lasted 6 months and was flaky as all get out for that 6 months.
Asus. Period. I sell nothing else. I've had one returned on warranty due to customer screw up in 5 years. Ecs are cheap and often fail after a couple years.
From my experience, Dell are the best used machines. They seem to last quite a long time. I have sold tons of old p2's and have yet to replace a power supply on them. HP, compaq and IBM systems were crap IMHO.
I like IBM thinkpads the best though as far as laptops go.
Agreed. I own a small computer shop. Cleaning spyware and viruses off computers became the number 1 job about a year ago. Lousy work, but at least it's work. I did have some loyal customers too. Just not enough for my expenses... so I moved 2000 miles away and reduced my operating expenses by 2/3. Now I can afford to live and the area that I moved to really needs a geek out here. There hasn't been any profit in hardware for about 2 years now. That used to be the gravy.
Agreed. I still use Netscape 7.2 on a win98 box because firefox seems to crash on me quite a bit. Gonna try updating the os to something a little more current and try again.
I tried the mistake called Netscape 8 the other day. It didn't last an hour. Back in the old days.. I used netscape 4.08 for years because it was the only one that was stable for me. I actually still use it a bit now and again, but it has tons of problems now.
I'm IN Canada... we don't have any "extra" cash.. we're taxed to death so the government can funnel it all back to themselves.:-) Gotta buy off the sepratists again y'know?
But it's fast. I have the 64 bit 3000+ running windows 98. Screaming fast. The best though had to be ubuntu 64 bit. That freaked me out how fast it was.. almost as much as thinking I lost my windows partition:-). (Thought it would dual boot like the other 25 distros I've tried)
I'm gonna try the latest when it comes out nest week but I'll be sure to have a sepa
I needed Photoshop to use some web page templates. The company I worked for said I needed ImageReady. I had used paintshop for a couple years because it was cheaper. After using Photoshop for about 4 years now, there's no way I'd switch. Got my copy off Ebay for $300 canadian and have billed out thousands of dollars in work over those 4 years.
To any movie execs hanging out here:
Make your catalog available WITHOUT DRM, preferably in divx format for less money than a movie rental. Why is this so hard to figure out? Are you guys that bloody greedy? The movie industry said rentals were going to kill the industry. Now they make more off rentals than the theatres. Somebody get a clue.
I have bandwidth and computers. They're connected to my entertainment centre. I rip or encode my movies to divx and put them on a server. That way I can que a few up for my kids and not have to worry about them breaking the cd's or tapes. I also have the added bonus of removing the previews that I don't think are suitable for my little kids. (at least I can still do this for a while in Canada)
I don't want to DRIVE BACK to the video store. I'm sick of it. Let me pay a couple bucks and download a movie without restrictions. Somebody please have the balls to try this. All the download options now are for america only. It may be only the geeks that are doing this now but all it would take is for our freinds to see how easy it can be and they'd be sold.
I still say good riddance. They've done nothing but screw this country up since day one. They were a conquered nation. They should have been assimilated or sent back to france. We've (the rest of Canada)been paying for that ever since.
Quebec votes for a sepratist provincial gov't, which is right wing, then votes for a left wing federal government that promises them the most cash. They love to screw the country that way. Ontario is just stuipid. (I live there) Bunch of dumb-ass people believing lies, then crying when the liberals they vote in break 250 some odd promises in the first year. (provincially) Then the dummies give them a 52% approval rating? This whole country is brain dead.
Quebec is the pox on Canada. They are probably the largest have-not province in the country. They take more than they give then always complain that they don't have enough power. The next time they talk about separating we should all vote em off the country. Take yer bat and ball and piss off. They'd be begging to be back in Canada in a week like a spoiled teeneager.
Good Riddance.
You obviously don't live here. We're so disgusted with the crooked politicians and Quebec always voting in francophone Prime ministers, that we've given up all hope of anything changing.
We used to just hope to be assimilated into America but lately the Americans are scaring the shit out of us. Patriot Act, DMCA, etc..
This current minority Government probably won't make the summer so this issue may die with an election call.
No bozo. Who do you think buys all the shit we make up here? Over 85% goes to America. We all depend on america or we'd be a glorified 3rd world country.
The Canadian Gov't say that they protect our privacy, yet allow american companies to find out anything about us. Who do you think owns 90% of this country? Yes, America. Try and get a canadian credit card. If any company that you deal with is a subsidiary of an american company the americans can view all those records. Some privacy laws.
Troll somewhere else AC.
Same email addy for 5 years. .ca domain.
100 messages a day.
5 real ones. 95 spam.
P.S. Canadian privacy laws are a freakin joke. You can't find out the balance of my chequing account, but the Americans can find out anything they want if any of the companies I deal with are an American subsidiary. HA! Privacy... sure.
I've seen sp2 kill sygate personal firewall. I see from the links in the article, that a few more firewalls won't run.
/screws on tinfoil hat
I wonder if this has anything to do with the 7 or so Microsoft services that are running and trying to connect to Microsoft on boot up? Why DOES the kernel have to connect to home base? I have used sygate prior to sp2 and stopped all the services and the computers worked fine.
I had about 4 computers running in my basement. The best one (for heat) was a p-pro quad 200 with 12 9 gig scsi drives and 3 power supplies;-)
After I took it out, I actually needed my gas fireplace. It also seems that power is cheaper than gas. I saved 25 bucks a month on my power bill... but my last gas bill was really high.. though it was very cold last month.
Not many people need the latest and greatest computers. I still have 98 running on an AMD 64 bit 3000+. (I like fast but I don't really NEED it) I still use office 97. I can't see this computer industry ever reaching previous heights.
We don't NEED a new bug ridden Microsoft OS or Office suite. Microsoft is starting to see what the rest of the computing world has been dealing with for the last couple years.
The industry is stagnant and there are now tons of 1 ghz machines out there that will run any old os and suit most people just fine. Business is starting to smarten up. I pity those guys that bought into the Microsoft subscription service. How much longer for Longhorn? I don't think they're getting their monies worth and I doubt they would continue the subcription the next time.
The sooner Microsoft dies a horrible death, the happier I'll be!
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P.S. I hate linksys too. Best router I ever bought was an old smc 7004. It just works and has for years now. I had a linksys that only lasted 6 months and was flaky as all get out for that 6 months.
Asus. Period. I sell nothing else. I've had one returned on warranty due to customer screw up in 5 years. Ecs are cheap and often fail after a couple years.
I like IBM thinkpads the best though as far as laptops go.
Agreed. I own a small computer shop. Cleaning spyware and viruses off computers became the number 1 job about a year ago. Lousy work, but at least it's work. I did have some loyal customers too. Just not enough for my expenses... so I moved 2000 miles away and reduced my operating expenses by 2/3. Now I can afford to live and the area that I moved to really needs a geek out here. There hasn't been any profit in hardware for about 2 years now. That used to be the gravy.
I tried the mistake called Netscape 8 the other day. It didn't last an hour. Back in the old days.. I used netscape 4.08 for years because it was the only one that was stable for me. I actually still use it a bit now and again, but it has tons of problems now.
I'm IN Canada... we don't have any "extra" cash.. we're taxed to death so the government can funnel it all back to themselves. :-) Gotta buy off the sepratists again y'know?
Started using my gas fireplace. Now costs me $50 a month MORE than using the server and laser printer. :-(
Thanks. Me too.
I'm gonna try the latest when it comes out nest week but I'll be sure to have a sepa
ate drive for it.
Sorry, not that DIVX, the codec. And you could even use Xvid to go one better.
I needed Photoshop to use some web page templates. The company I worked for said I needed ImageReady. I had used paintshop for a couple years because it was cheaper. After using Photoshop for about 4 years now, there's no way I'd switch. Got my copy off Ebay for $300 canadian and have billed out thousands of dollars in work over those 4 years.
I have bandwidth and computers. They're connected to my entertainment centre. I rip or encode my movies to divx and put them on a server. That way I can que a few up for my kids and not have to worry about them breaking the cd's or tapes. I also have the added bonus of removing the previews that I don't think are suitable for my little kids. (at least I can still do this for a while in Canada)
I don't want to DRIVE BACK to the video store. I'm sick of it. Let me pay a couple bucks and download a movie without restrictions. Somebody please have the balls to try this. All the download options now are for america only. It may be only the geeks that are doing this now but all it would take is for our freinds to see how easy it can be and they'd be sold.
I still say good riddance. They've done nothing but screw this country up since day one. They were a conquered nation. They should have been assimilated or sent back to france. We've (the rest of Canada)been paying for that ever since.
Quebec is the pox on Canada. They are probably the largest have-not province in the country. They take more than they give then always complain that they don't have enough power. The next time they talk about separating we should all vote em off the country. Take yer bat and ball and piss off. They'd be begging to be back in Canada in a week like a spoiled teeneager. Good Riddance.
How I wish I had mod points. Very True.
This newfie is talking to an american. The American asks, "Where is Newfoundland anyway?" "Is it close to Africa?".
Newfie goes, yes bye, I works with a Black feller and he goes home for lunch!"
We used to just hope to be assimilated into America but lately the Americans are scaring the shit out of us. Patriot Act, DMCA, etc..
This current minority Government probably won't make the summer so this issue may die with an election call.
Who do you think buys all the shit we make up here? Over 85% goes to America. We all depend on america or we'd be a glorified 3rd world country.
The Canadian Gov't say that they protect our privacy, yet allow american companies to find out anything about us. Who do you think owns 90% of this country? Yes, America. Try and get a canadian credit card. If any company that you deal with is a subsidiary of an american company the americans can view all those records. Some privacy laws.
Troll somewhere else AC.
100 messages a day.
5 real ones. 95 spam.
P.S. Canadian privacy laws are a freakin joke. You can't find out the balance of my chequing account, but the Americans can find out anything they want if any of the companies I deal with are an American subsidiary. HA! Privacy... sure.
I'm comin home next month... Don't put the wall up yet!!!!
nuthin but 12:00 flashers.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the 7 or so Microsoft services that are running and trying to connect to Microsoft on boot up? Why DOES the kernel have to connect to home base? I have used sygate prior to sp2 and stopped all the services and the computers worked fine.
/removes tinfoil hat.
After I took it out, I actually needed my gas fireplace. It also seems that power is cheaper than gas. I saved 25 bucks a month on my power bill... but my last gas bill was really high.. though it was very cold last month.
We don't NEED a new bug ridden Microsoft OS or Office suite. Microsoft is starting to see what the rest of the computing world has been dealing with for the last couple years.
The industry is stagnant and there are now tons of 1 ghz machines out there that will run any old os and suit most people just fine. Business is starting to smarten up. I pity those guys that bought into the Microsoft subscription service. How much longer for Longhorn? I don't think they're getting their monies worth and I doubt they would continue the subcription the next time.
The sooner Microsoft dies a horrible death, the happier I'll be!
used p2-350's go for about $30 canadian here. 15" monitors are $20. Lots of room for a mouse and keyboard. ;-)