I'm a big fan of my Tamrac Expedition 8x. Feels good on, holds my camera, flash, 150-500mm, 6 lenses, with room to spare. Holds a tripod on the outside, and has the M.A.S. and S.A.S. system too so you can add external attachments. I also have a little pack for my camera and lenses from them that fit the M.A.S. system too.
Downsides I have found with it, the camera equipment is against your back, not the laptop like in most packs, no room (without loosing room for camera equipment) for laptop accessories, and I have found it does not fit in all overhead compartments with the laptop in it.
It does however fit my 17" laptop and Xoom in the same pocket without issues.
They need to stop working on getting people with high speed internet faster internet, and work on getting people that only get dialup high speed internet.
I don't know how many times I reported them to the BBB for false advertising. They would say you are buying a 72,000 RPM drive, but the manufactures site said it was a 54,000 RPM (note, this was a long time ago)
At one point, I actually owned f***tigerdirect.com (wish I still had it, lost my job and didn't want to renew it when I had other things to worry about), but the E-Commerce direct told me that it was trademark infringement, and he was planning on sueing me. Nothing ever came of it.
I actually can't believe they are still in business.
I spend 2 1/2 hours last night fixing my sisters Windows laptop. She had all kinds of spyware, adaware, and multiple tojans on her computer that I am sure that shey got from using IE.
I set her up with Mozilla, installed a firewall on her computer, and fully disabled IE from using the network.
Now if the Department of Homeland Security will only come out and tell people to stop running Windows at all!
I have done this before back a few years ago. Works well actually. It was normal radio, and didn't sound to bad. Dont know why it would not work now, if its not the digital signal, should not have the bit set, least I dont think it would.
If any of you have ever had them before they went under you know what I am talking about!
They once told me, after a full day of downtime for my website running on Linux and Apache, that the problem was because the web server needed to be restarted. And they thought it was going to be another 3 to 5 hours before it came back online!
The only problem that I have had so far is that after Grub picks the kernel to load, I loose my keyboard! Have not had a chance to find out if anything else is wrong.
Im running it in VMware before I use it on any system first. I was lucky that I backed up the VMWare setup, so I can copy it back and try the reinstall and see if I can get my keyboard to work by playing around with the upgrade from Core1 to Core2.
The problem is, how many people actually know that there is something out there other than a Mac and Windows? Once that word gets out, and more and more programs run on Linux, BSD, or another platform, people will start to notice that they can get away from the malware and the BSOD.
I have had DirecTV for over 4 years and am verry happy with it. I also have a Tivo DTV receiver. I have not had any problems with either service (unless you have heavy cloud cover). I am able to record anything that I want from the dish (including PPV).
For the price, I think dish is much better. I have 4 receivers in my house, the Tivo, and Direct Plus programming (NASA TV, Local Chans, everything but the movie chans) and I'm paying a tad under $50.
I have a neighbor that has this, and I was not at all impressed. At least once a day they have to shutdown their computer, disconnect the terminals from the dish and the modem, touch the ends to ground it out, put them back in, and turn the computer back on. Their signal strength is only at a 60. They should have much more, just poor installation, and because it is working, DirectWay will not come out to fix it without them paying them to do it.
I do however know someone else down the street that has it, and does not have that problem. Their signal strength is much higher.
Also, keep in mind that they put you behind their firewall and NAT. You get a 10. addy, so you will not be able to host anything or connect to your computer from the outside at all.
You also are limited to your bandwidth for the day! Its not like cable where you have a cap, and you can go all day using as much as the cap allows you to. DirectWay (sorry, don't have the exact numbers) will shutdown your connection for the entire day once you use up your allowed bandwidth. It is set lower during the day than it is at night, but personally for what you are paying, I don't think thats worth it. If you use anything like KaZaA (for legal reasons of course) you will have to pay attention to how much bandwidth you are pulling so they don't shut you off for the rest of the day.
I myself will not be getting DSL or Cable anytime soon, and thanks to wonderfully old Verizon phone lines, I get 26.4 connection speeds with a modem. I will not go with d to use SSH to often, the lag is not the best with that either.
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I'm a big fan of my Tamrac Expedition 8x. Feels good on, holds my camera, flash, 150-500mm, 6 lenses, with room to spare. Holds a tripod on the outside, and has the M.A.S. and S.A.S. system too so you can add external attachments. I also have a little pack for my camera and lenses from them that fit the M.A.S. system too.
Downsides I have found with it, the camera equipment is against your back, not the laptop like in most packs, no room (without loosing room for camera equipment) for laptop accessories, and I have found it does not fit in all overhead compartments with the laptop in it.
It does however fit my 17" laptop and Xoom in the same pocket without issues.
Or worse, you get pissed off at others and just want to start ramming them.
They need to stop working on getting people with high speed internet faster internet, and work on getting people that only get dialup high speed internet.
I don't know how many times I reported them to the BBB for false advertising. They would say you are buying a 72,000 RPM drive, but the manufactures site said it was a 54,000 RPM (note, this was a long time ago)
At one point, I actually owned f***tigerdirect.com (wish I still had it, lost my job and didn't want to renew it when I had other things to worry about), but the E-Commerce direct told me that it was trademark infringement, and he was planning on sueing me. Nothing ever came of it.
I actually can't believe they are still in business.
She got the Trojan from IE, and the Trojan installed all that on her computer, every time I would get rid of it, then reboot, it would reinstall it.
I used Sygate Firewall and when I had IE try and use the ineternet, I told Sygate to block all traffic from IE, and allow Mozilla.
I spend 2 1/2 hours last night fixing my sisters Windows laptop. She had all kinds of spyware, adaware, and multiple tojans on her computer that I am sure that shey got from using IE.
I set her up with Mozilla, installed a firewall on her computer, and fully disabled IE from using the network.
Now if the Department of Homeland Security will only come out and tell people to stop running Windows at all!
Just imagine what the malware for the Windows 'Front Line' could do!
Oh, and the spyware! Wow, you could help the enamy find you with the spyware that you would be sure to get.
I have done this before back a few years ago. Works well actually. It was normal radio, and didn't sound to bad. Dont know why it would not work now, if its not the digital signal, should not have the bit set, least I dont think it would.
If any of you have ever had them before they went under you know what I am talking about!
They once told me, after a full day of downtime for my website running on Linux and Apache, that the problem was because the web server needed to be restarted. And they thought it was going to be another 3 to 5 hours before it came back online!
Thats when I decided to host my own server!
I get these too, but its best when its a free hosting account with no PHP, MySQL, or CGI!
Thanks, will try that. I allready moved the backup over it, so I will just try that when I upgrade it again.
The only problem that I have had so far is that after Grub picks the kernel to load, I loose my keyboard! Have not had a chance to find out if anything else is wrong.
Im running it in VMware before I use it on any system first. I was lucky that I backed up the VMWare setup, so I can copy it back and try the reinstall and see if I can get my keyboard to work by playing around with the upgrade from Core1 to Core2.
The problem is, how many people actually know that there is something out there other than a Mac and Windows? Once that word gets out, and more and more programs run on Linux, BSD, or another platform, people will start to notice that they can get away from the malware and the BSOD.
I have had DirecTV for over 4 years and am verry happy with it. I also have a Tivo DTV receiver. I have not had any problems with either service (unless you have heavy cloud cover). I am able to record anything that I want from the dish (including PPV).
For the price, I think dish is much better. I have 4 receivers in my house, the Tivo, and Direct Plus programming (NASA TV, Local Chans, everything but the movie chans) and I'm paying a tad under $50.
I have a neighbor that has this, and I was not at all impressed. At least once a day they have to shutdown their computer, disconnect the terminals from the dish and the modem, touch the ends to ground it out, put them back in, and turn the computer back on. Their signal strength is only at a 60. They should have much more, just poor installation, and because it is working, DirectWay will not come out to fix it without them paying them to do it.
I do however know someone else down the street that has it, and does not have that problem. Their signal strength is much higher.
Also, keep in mind that they put you behind their firewall and NAT. You get a 10. addy, so you will not be able to host anything or connect to your computer from the outside at all.
You also are limited to your bandwidth for the day! Its not like cable where you have a cap, and you can go all day using as much as the cap allows you to. DirectWay (sorry, don't have the exact numbers) will shutdown your connection for the entire day once you use up your allowed bandwidth. It is set lower during the day than it is at night, but personally for what you are paying, I don't think thats worth it. If you use anything like KaZaA (for legal reasons of course) you will have to pay attention to how much bandwidth you are pulling so they don't shut you off for the rest of the day.
I myself will not be getting DSL or Cable anytime soon, and thanks to wonderfully old Verizon phone lines, I get 26.4 connection speeds with a modem. I will not go with d to use SSH to often, the lag is not the best with that either.