Thats what I did back in september 06 when I joined the company I manage IT for now, they had an aging win2k exchange server which I threw down the stairs - set them up with google apps for small biz and let gmail content filter for them.
They get all the benefits of gmail, with their own domain.
Since I am running OSX 10.5.1 on my common intel hardware.. just a standard gigabyte board and its solid like a rock.
its probably quality control over in shenzen thats causing the issues.
The best thing you can do is get affiliated with Igames.org, you get a wealth of information and ideas + support from hundreds of exhisting owners. I ran my centre, Capture The Frag here in a small town ~80,000 with 2 other pc and 1 xbox center and we did alright, surviving about 15 months.
What ends up killing you is the price of the games, the stupid licensing from companies like valve and the cost of supporting your hardware/upgrading and making sure the machines are maintained.
Get a license for Deep Freeze, it'll be your best friend.
We made a good deal of $ but it mostly went to advertising and paying for the property lease plus games, remember you're not buying 1, you're buying however many games for however many comps you have.
In the end, after about 15 months, i got sick of working 100 hours a week for no pay, its SO much more than just hooking some comps into a hub and going.
Thats what I do, I build a machine from parts, boot up a slax / knoppix / whatever they want linux cd / let the machine run for the night to test the hardware and send it on its way. If the customer likes the live cd they can install it, after they get the hardware from me with the OS i provide, is there any reason I have to believe they're going to automatically pirate windows?
First they have to get it, then they have to decide whether they actually want it.
Always build systems that are supported by linux, then you have no issue.
Regarding:
"By the way, no American artist has EVER gotten a cent form allofmp3.com "
How much do you really think the artists are getting from iTunes..
The grand majority of the money still goes to the label and the high priced execs.
Then of course you have ' artists ' who actually do make money, but should'nt. Check out Missy Elliot in MTV CRIBS - driveway has a lambo murcilago, ferarri 355 spider and a big 'ol Hummer, and she's just a ' poor black woman trying to make it in this world. '
ug.
www.allofmp3.com
300,000 songs, no drm, any format you like / live encoded to any file type, wav, ogg, mp3, whatever.
Also, its about 5c/song, making the average cd @ 128kbitj/stereo about 80 cents.
Sure its russian, I use paypal to get XROST cards to use there, no spyware at all.
I dropped out rediculously early, got into the internet when it was a crazy new thing when gopher, archie and text irc were the cool new things. When a busy night on effnet meant there were 800 people on. My college had a 9600 baud gateway to a university 400 km away and it only had 6 1200 baud dialup access lines.
I got a job as a sysadmin in the big city when the internet boom was starting, got moved overseas and into the caribbean for nearly 3 years as an admin, took my knowlege i learned from the job and got work for internal affairs in new zealand, spent 10 months on vacation, and then came back to my home city to run a couple business's and now i'm doing level 2 tech support for a large isp. All in all its been a good run, and for anything other than boredom in school its been blind luck beyond that.
" common denominator, conventional and predictable thinking " it may work for some, but it sure didn't work for me.
You got away with this on only 1 GB of ram? usually you should allow 128 meg/station so just under 4 gig for 30 desktops.
I agree anyways, LTSP works so insanely well you won't even need a helpdesk.
"The onboard NVIDIA GeForceFX Go 5200 Mobile GPU with 64 MB of frame buffer memory delivers industry-leading image quality and graphics performance."
Right.
I'm sure someone is bilking the military way, way waaaaaay too much for this industry leading, 2 year old video card.
Over on the west coast.. i didn't say i watched on tv, i watched it on MY tv;).. heck i don't even have cable.
All I can say is, the dude who's got the tivo and sky one digital in the uk rox.
Not only you Brits, but over here in Canada I just finished watching episode 12, and it is fantastic sci-fi. Well written, great effects, the acting from all sides. Deep character development, its a believable universe. Everyone is worn out, they know the fight is over and its just fleeingThere are 2 episodes so far which kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, but they had cliff hangers to die for.
All in all its refreshing from the last 20 years of preachy, boring star trek, and yeah - Olmos plays a grizzled old war hero captain to a t.
I think Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down was done for comedic levity, It shouldn't have been, but there are some unanswered questions. Colonial Day was a little strange, it was a good episode (the second with a certain guest star) but it seems out of place. especially since the episodes before and after it were jaw droppingly great.
crap.. i think i'm a fanboi now.
Absolutely.. go with slax.. its got the latest kernal, is small and light, boots up on nearly anything, and you can get a stack of 3.5cm mini-blanks in different ' christmas colours ' from your local staples.
I always carry one around with me.. can't boot your winbox.. here.. you're back online.
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http://lifehacker.com/5299994/rain-gutters-as-cable-management-tools A simple, elegant, cheap solution - hang a couple rain gutters on the wall and just let the cables fall into them...
Well the Atom platform is pretty proven for OSX - here it is running on my MSI Wind sub-note. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CNIO4ZLYE
Thats what I did back in september 06 when I joined the company I manage IT for now, they had an aging win2k exchange server which I threw down the stairs - set them up with google apps for small biz and let gmail content filter for them.
They get all the benefits of gmail, with their own domain.
Very simple. Rediculously so.
They didn't do ANYTHING. All they did was download a prepatched install dvd like anyone else can do.
Just make your own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2BNq1pdmp0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7mziP0Jdk Its really easy.
Since I am running OSX 10.5.1 on my common intel hardware.. just a standard gigabyte board and its solid like a rock. its probably quality control over in shenzen thats causing the issues.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=72493 and watch the video i made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7mziP0Jdk
The best thing you can do is get affiliated with Igames.org, you get a wealth of information and ideas + support from hundreds of exhisting owners.
I ran my centre, Capture The Frag here in a small town ~80,000 with 2 other pc and 1 xbox center and we did alright, surviving about 15 months.
What ends up killing you is the price of the games, the stupid licensing from companies like valve and the cost of supporting your hardware/upgrading and making sure the machines are maintained.
Get a license for Deep Freeze, it'll be your best friend.
We made a good deal of $ but it mostly went to advertising and paying for the property lease plus games, remember you're not buying 1, you're buying however many games for however many comps you have.
In the end, after about 15 months, i got sick of working 100 hours a week for no pay, its SO much more than just hooking some comps into a hub and going.
Thats what I do, I build a machine from parts, boot up a slax / knoppix / whatever they want linux cd / let the machine run for the night to test the hardware and send it on its way. If the customer likes the live cd they can install it, after they get the hardware from me with the OS i provide, is there any reason I have to believe they're going to automatically pirate windows?
First they have to get it, then they have to decide whether they actually want it.
Always build systems that are supported by linux, then you have no issue.
Regarding: "By the way, no American artist has EVER gotten a cent form allofmp3.com " How much do you really think the artists are getting from iTunes.. The grand majority of the money still goes to the label and the high priced execs. Then of course you have ' artists ' who actually do make money, but should'nt. Check out Missy Elliot in MTV CRIBS - driveway has a lambo murcilago, ferarri 355 spider and a big 'ol Hummer, and she's just a ' poor black woman trying to make it in this world. ' ug.
www.allofmp3.com 300,000 songs, no drm, any format you like / live encoded to any file type, wav, ogg, mp3, whatever. Also, its about 5c/song, making the average cd @ 128kbitj/stereo about 80 cents. Sure its russian, I use paypal to get XROST cards to use there, no spyware at all.
Low power g5 in a ws ibook, that would be so nice.
Yeah it does. I can agree with you there.
I dropped out rediculously early, got into the internet when it was a crazy new thing when gopher, archie and text irc were the cool new things. When a busy night on effnet meant there were 800 people on.
My college had a 9600 baud gateway to a university 400 km away and it only had 6 1200 baud dialup access lines.
I got a job as a sysadmin in the big city when the internet boom was starting, got moved overseas and into the caribbean for nearly 3 years as an admin, took my knowlege i learned from the job and got work for internal affairs in new zealand, spent 10 months on vacation, and then came back to my home city to run a couple business's and now i'm doing level 2 tech support for a large isp. All in all its been a good run, and for anything other than boredom in school its been blind luck beyond that.
" common denominator, conventional and predictable thinking " it may work for some, but it sure didn't work for me.
-One
You got away with this on only 1 GB of ram? usually you should allow 128 meg/station so just under 4 gig for 30 desktops. I agree anyways, LTSP works so insanely well you won't even need a helpdesk.
Try googling for psp keyboard.
Theres a pretty nice one about to be released in may which is a flip up / qwerty, 40 key screen protector kind of unit, looks sweet.
"The onboard NVIDIA GeForceFX Go 5200 Mobile GPU with 64 MB of frame buffer memory delivers industry-leading image quality and graphics performance." Right. I'm sure someone is bilking the military way, way waaaaaay too much for this industry leading, 2 year old video card.
Over on the west coast.. i didn't say i watched on tv, i watched it on MY tv ;).. heck i don't even have cable.
All I can say is, the dude who's got the tivo and sky one digital in the uk rox.
Not only you Brits, but over here in Canada I just finished watching episode 12, and it is fantastic sci-fi. Well written, great effects, the acting from all sides. Deep character development, its a believable universe. Everyone is worn out, they know the fight is over and its just fleeingThere are 2 episodes so far which kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, but they had cliff hangers to die for. All in all its refreshing from the last 20 years of preachy, boring star trek, and yeah - Olmos plays a grizzled old war hero captain to a t. I think Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down was done for comedic levity, It shouldn't have been, but there are some unanswered questions. Colonial Day was a little strange, it was a good episode (the second with a certain guest star) but it seems out of place. especially since the episodes before and after it were jaw droppingly great. crap.. i think i'm a fanboi now.
Absolutely.. go with slax.. its got the latest kernal, is small and light, boots up on nearly anything, and you can get a stack of 3.5cm mini-blanks in different ' christmas colours ' from your local staples.
I always carry one around with me.. can't boot your winbox.. here.. you're back online.