Another company that uses a very similar if not nearly identical solution is Secureworks. They've been around longer than Guardnet, though obviously their marketing isn't great as I've only seen them a few places...
Where are the days when you could just hook the cable to your TV and VCR without problems? Without the special convertor boxes that limit you and force you to pay "per device". I want to be able to tape one show and watch another, but now according to the way the equipment functions I can't do that without paying for two cable boxes, oh and BTW they also montior what I'm watching (which I don't want either) though they call it a "reward" program which I can't cancel out of. Gotta love the new and improved cable systems.
It is a lot harder to stand up against the MPAA and CSS when all the products include it. If you want to participate in popular culture it's hard to buy products that aren't dictated by the monopolies. I can typically buy open hardware (to some degree, eg. multi-region hacked DVD players) that is more open then what MPAA and RIAA want. I can also buy and return products like copy-protected CDs. So the closest you can do is vote with your money by buying DVD players that don't support WM, HDTVs that don't support HDCP, etc.
What solutions do you see to Congress's current trend of accepting legislation written by the industries that they are trying to control? (Ex: Copyright legislation written or heavily contributed to by MPAA and RIAA)
I never actually said he was right. I just said that they were interesting, and despite his lack of scientific rigor and the fact that he generally writes like a creationist (mentions something obscurely at the beginning and then presents stuff and then re-mentions the point as if it is correct), the star correlation theory is pretty much accepted for Giza. Some of the other stuff is still on seriously shaky ground too. It's a good read and opens your mind to an alternative viewpoint, which makes you think. Which is the whole point really.
I wouldn't call it total crap. It raises interesting questions and as always if you don't do your own research on a given subject you deserve to be called a fool if what you read was crap and you didn't check it out. There is still a lot of academic confusion on the whole thing and like physics right now, stuff keeps getting found that disproves past theories. Ballard and cities in the Black Sea, this city off the coast of Cuba. Hell they thought that Troy was a myth until it was found. Just because his theories do seem a bit bizarre doesn't mean that they're crap. I will admit that I do take them with a grain of salt, but it does make for a starting point for a lot of other interesting reading.
This is interesting and in part vindicates what Graham Hancock has been saying about lost civilizations. He has written some interesting books "The Sign and The Seal" and "Fingerprints of the Gods", which present some interesting theories about a civlization that predates our own. His website http://www.grahamhancock.com/ has more. Gives lots of links to more information about our potentially lost civilizations.
Note that most acceptable use policies specifically disallow you from using more than one computer without paying for each additional device. Thus achieveing the same effect.
Most people don't read their AUP or don't care. I made certain that I found an ISP that had a good AUP before I signed up (Telocity), but they've now been bought and sold enough times that I'm not certain if it still holds true. Guess I'll have to go wade through legalese again.
Given how so much of programming of any sort operates in the US, I find it amusing that they expect something like this to work.
Most things have a low entry fee, usually free (broadcast tv, radio, free internet access [netzero, juno], free local newspapers, etc.). Then you can upgrade to better service (cable tv, satelite radio, normal dial-up (ad free), broadband, newspapers, magazines). The content is paid for by advertising or by the fees that you pay to gain access. Rarely do you get asked to pay additional money, except on the Internet. I think advertisers have become too fixed on click-throughs etc. I look at ads on pages, and for the most part I ignore them until I'm in the market for that kind of product. This applies to TV as well. I don't pay attention until I want to buy something.
They should count the number of hits to their pages and sell those to the advertisers vs click throughs on ads. Click throughs are useful for gauging if your content is being sent to the right crowd though. So ultimately I think that trying to get me to pay more for content that I only really care about if its free is foolish. The sites that really matter to me are ones that I can and will fork out my hard earned money to, however that is limited to my budget and I can't always afford everything I want. The system is good at disseminating information to everyone freely or cheaply and that is the value of the Internet (for me at least). Take that away and you have something that more and more people are willing to ignore because they can't afford it or choose not to pay for it.
I find it amusing that Tom's Hardware went through "
several dead processors" before they figured this out. Especially since other hardware sites had posted this a week or two ago. Guess they had to read the articles and find out how to do it.
It's almost depressing how much/.ers seem to buy into the pre-conceptions of sysadmins... Not every sysadmin is a smelly hippie wearing suspenders with a beard and a bad attitude.
The main thing you need to be a sysadmin is curiousity and a passion for technology. Part tech geek, "Oooohhh new processors are out tomorrow", and part "Hey that's busted, how do I fix it?"
I actually have an East Asian Studies degree and two CS minors (wierd story). I found for my first job search that it was a pain to get around the degree and lack of experience. What most people have been saying is correct. Find a small shop, government agency, law office, or someplace where you can start small. The experience flows from use and checking things out. I remember the finding ssh for the first time and really realizing how insecure telnet, rsh, and most protocols were. I think I changed all my passwords that day.
Anyways honesty helps to. If you don't know an answer, admit it. But get back to them with something ASAP. Knowing where to look for answers helps a lot. Google is amazingly useful, especially if you can copy and paste snippets of error messages. I've been amazed at how many solutions to bizarre and obscure problems have been easily found through Google (or your favorite search service).
Being a sysadmin takes a certain mindset. If you like technology and are excited by setting up infrastructure and maintaining, you're good. Expect periods of boredom (depends on if you run out of tech news to keep up on), offset by problems that have to absolutely positively be solved tonight. It's a job I love, but wouldn't recommend it to everyone.
From AMD's technical documents you can find that the current Athlons are specced to run up to a max die temperature of 90C. I wouldn't recommend anything near that for long term use, but you can do it.
I'm quite frankly shocked that you didn't look into Seagate drives. They have "Softsonic" technology, but ultimately gives you good quiet performance.
Storage Review has a review of the most recent drive the Baracuda IV.
K-PAX was an exceptionally mellow movie. It was about (for me) the wonder of the world and sitting back and appreciating the here and now, and not stressing out so much. I walked out of the movie in a very pleasant and tranquil mood.
Ultimately it was a good movie, the fact that everything was not answered and it was also not a excrutiating Hollywood ending where it was overly sappy. I give it a very favorable rating.
From their links on the bottom of the "Your browser doesn't work page...", Terms of Use doesn't function, but the advertise link, privacy, and Get Netwise links do work, despite the fact that they all are *.msn domains.
Someone should send this to the DOJ. I'm sure another blatant attempt to introduce incompatibility would peak someone's interest.
This is answered by things like Microsoft cancelling service pack 7 for nt, which is a needed roll-up. It's vendors forcing you to upgrade to a new product rather than fixing the bugs in the old one. This relates back to previous/. posts. Software is an interesting industry and bad software makes money and sells. If software makers could charge thousands for the software we might actually see a single product that only went to 1.2 or whatever version was necessary to iron out all the bugs.
We're in a disposable society and often products are released cheaply and engineered poorly, because when it breaks... you'll just go buy the newest model rather than fix the old one. So hardware and software, and other goods are going the way of cheap stuff.
Because using highly explosive fuel is a much better idea. If stored properly (gelled) it is possible that hydorgen could be used safely, however the quantities that are needed would most likely be needed preclude that. Besides... Anyone remember the Hindenburg? Or rather I should say that compressed hydrogen would be bad....
Case
Power Supply
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
Floppy or LS-120
DVD/DVD-R/CD-RW, Pick your optical poison
Hard Drives
Sound Card
Modem
Network Card
Zip Drive/Other Removable Rewriteable Media
Don't forget to use wonderful tools like http://pricewatch.com or http://computershopper.com. Watch out for the deals that are too good to be true... though many of the places on either of those sites are obviously operating on razor thin margins, they do make PC building really really cheap.
Now given that list I would purchase a KT266A system or maybe wait for the nForce with a Palmino based Athlon. I would purchase a DVD/CD-RW combo and also another DVD drive, as I always support being able to make disk to disk copies. The Audigy would be a good card if you don't get the nForce based motherboard. DDR RAM is the way to go, it's also probably best to purchase that directly from http://crucial.com. Get yourself the Seagate Barracuda IV's for a quiet and relatively high performing IDE drives with big capacity... For video cards get either the Radeon 8500 or GeForce3 depending on how much you care. Don't forget to get a cool aluminum case like the Lian-Li PC-60 for show value...
That should be everything you need unless you want to go dual processor, which is always a good option.
Somehow I'm not surprised. Gateway has been consistently using AMD as a bargaining chip with Intel. They have now twice adopted AMD lines and dropped them when they thought they could get a better deal from Intel.
I suspect that AMD will pull through this, and most likely will re-activate the foundries when they need more capacity, though that might take some time as they still haven't reached 100% at Dresden yet and they're already transitioning to 0.13 micron process.
What does confuse me is why AMD consistently adopts such low selling prices. I think that people would still buy their processors even if they tacked on a minimum of $50 on the high end, if not even $100. A full base system based on AMD costs $400 these days and for that you can't even get a high end P4.
Sometimes the market economy and technology adoption just confuses me. I mean we've had Firewire (IEEE 1394) for almost a decade and it's only just now catching on, and even now with great resistance... go figure.
You could purchase 10 APPRO AMD MP servers. These machines are based off of the Tyan boards so have all the built-in high end features you could wish for, while still being relatively cheap and easily networkable given the builtin NICs. Plus SCSI and potential for RAID if you feel you need it. and all in 1U.
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Another company that uses a very similar if not nearly identical solution is Secureworks. They've been around longer than Guardnet, though obviously their marketing isn't great as I've only seen them a few places...
Where are the days when you could just hook the cable to your TV and VCR without problems? Without the special convertor boxes that limit you and force you to pay "per device". I want to be able to tape one show and watch another, but now according to the way the equipment functions I can't do that without paying for two cable boxes, oh and BTW they also montior what I'm watching (which I don't want either) though they call it a "reward" program which I can't cancel out of. Gotta love the new and improved cable systems.
It is a lot harder to stand up against the MPAA and CSS when all the products include it. If you want to participate in popular culture it's hard to buy products that aren't dictated by the monopolies. I can typically buy open hardware (to some degree, eg. multi-region hacked DVD players) that is more open then what MPAA and RIAA want. I can also buy and return products like copy-protected CDs. So the closest you can do is vote with your money by buying DVD players that don't support WM, HDTVs that don't support HDCP, etc.
What solutions do you see to Congress's current trend of accepting legislation written by the industries that they are trying to control? (Ex: Copyright legislation written or heavily contributed to by MPAA and RIAA)
I never actually said he was right. I just said that they were interesting, and despite his lack of scientific rigor and the fact that he generally writes like a creationist (mentions something obscurely at the beginning and then presents stuff and then re-mentions the point as if it is correct), the star correlation theory is pretty much accepted for Giza. Some of the other stuff is still on seriously shaky ground too. It's a good read and opens your mind to an alternative viewpoint, which makes you think. Which is the whole point really.
Oh and ultimately the Horizons piece was edited and reissued see http://www.grahamhancock.com/horizon/bsc-press_rel ease.htm.
This is interesting and in part vindicates what Graham Hancock has been saying about lost civilizations. He has written some interesting books "The Sign and The Seal" and "Fingerprints of the Gods", which present some interesting theories about a civlization that predates our own. His website http://www.grahamhancock.com/ has more. Gives lots of links to more information about our potentially lost civilizations.
Note that most acceptable use policies specifically disallow you from using more than one computer without paying for each additional device. Thus achieveing the same effect.
Most people don't read their AUP or don't care. I made certain that I found an ISP that had a good AUP before I signed up (Telocity), but they've now been bought and sold enough times that I'm not certain if it still holds true. Guess I'll have to go wade through legalese again.
Of course we're supposed to pay for the same music in different formats, why do you think they keep changing them?
Given how so much of programming of any sort operates in the US, I find it amusing that they expect something like this to work.
Most things have a low entry fee, usually free (broadcast tv, radio, free internet access [netzero, juno], free local newspapers, etc.). Then you can upgrade to better service (cable tv, satelite radio, normal dial-up (ad free), broadband, newspapers, magazines). The content is paid for by advertising or by the fees that you pay to gain access. Rarely do you get asked to pay additional money, except on the Internet. I think advertisers have become too fixed on click-throughs etc. I look at ads on pages, and for the most part I ignore them until I'm in the market for that kind of product. This applies to TV as well. I don't pay attention until I want to buy something.
They should count the number of hits to their pages and sell those to the advertisers vs click throughs on ads. Click throughs are useful for gauging if your content is being sent to the right crowd though. So ultimately I think that trying to get me to pay more for content that I only really care about if its free is foolish. The sites that really matter to me are ones that I can and will fork out my hard earned money to, however that is limited to my budget and I can't always afford everything I want. The system is good at disseminating information to everyone freely or cheaply and that is the value of the Internet (for me at least). Take that away and you have something that more and more people are willing to ignore because they can't afford it or choose not to pay for it.
I find it amusing that Tom's Hardware went through "
several dead processors" before they figured this out. Especially since other hardware sites had posted this a week or two ago. Guess they had to read the articles and find out how to do it.
Check out VR Zone's method. Much better and reversible.
http://www.vr-zone.com/guides/AMD/AthlonXPUnlock/
Tech Stats
http://www.oc-athlonxp.com/bridges/
It's almost depressing how much /.ers seem to buy into the pre-conceptions of sysadmins... Not every sysadmin is a smelly hippie wearing suspenders with a beard and a bad attitude.
The main thing you need to be a sysadmin is curiousity and a passion for technology. Part tech geek, "Oooohhh new processors are out tomorrow", and part "Hey that's busted, how do I fix it?"
I actually have an East Asian Studies degree and two CS minors (wierd story). I found for my first job search that it was a pain to get around the degree and lack of experience. What most people have been saying is correct. Find a small shop, government agency, law office, or someplace where you can start small. The experience flows from use and checking things out. I remember the finding ssh for the first time and really realizing how insecure telnet, rsh, and most protocols were. I think I changed all my passwords that day.
Anyways honesty helps to. If you don't know an answer, admit it. But get back to them with something ASAP. Knowing where to look for answers helps a lot. Google is amazingly useful, especially if you can copy and paste snippets of error messages. I've been amazed at how many solutions to bizarre and obscure problems have been easily found through Google (or your favorite search service).
Being a sysadmin takes a certain mindset. If you like technology and are excited by setting up infrastructure and maintaining, you're good. Expect periods of boredom (depends on if you run out of tech news to keep up on), offset by problems that have to absolutely positively be solved tonight. It's a job I love, but wouldn't recommend it to everyone.
Have the passwords for accounts been moved to a secure format yet? And along similar lines, what about password resets?
I remember that these were pending problems from a while ago.
Actually Civ 3 has four level, you usually don't start with the lowest one. You can have conscript, regular, veteran, and elite.
The Persian immortals are a much better unit. 4.2.1 stats and all you need are a temple and some iron. Good all the way up to gunpowder.
From AMD's technical documents you can find that the current Athlons are specced to run up to a max die temperature of 90C. I wouldn't recommend anything near that for long term use, but you can do it.
I'm quite frankly shocked that you didn't look into Seagate drives. They have "Softsonic" technology, but ultimately gives you good quiet performance. Storage Review has a review of the most recent drive the Baracuda IV.
K-PAX was an exceptionally mellow movie. It was about (for me) the wonder of the world and sitting back and appreciating the here and now, and not stressing out so much. I walked out of the movie in a very pleasant and tranquil mood.
Ultimately it was a good movie, the fact that everything was not answered and it was also not a excrutiating Hollywood ending where it was overly sappy. I give it a very favorable rating.
Mozilla does in fact render it properly. In fact better than IE in some cases... Depends on what version of IE you are running.
Obviously they're just full of it.
From their links on the bottom of the "Your browser doesn't work page...", Terms of Use doesn't function, but the advertise link, privacy, and Get Netwise links do work, despite the fact that they all are *.msn domains.
Someone should send this to the DOJ. I'm sure another blatant attempt to introduce incompatibility would peak someone's interest.
This is answered by things like Microsoft cancelling service pack 7 for nt, which is a needed roll-up. It's vendors forcing you to upgrade to a new product rather than fixing the bugs in the old one. This relates back to previous /. posts. Software is an interesting industry and bad software makes money and sells. If software makers could charge thousands for the software we might actually see a single product that only went to 1.2 or whatever version was necessary to iron out all the bugs.
We're in a disposable society and often products are released cheaply and engineered poorly, because when it breaks... you'll just go buy the newest model rather than fix the old one. So hardware and software, and other goods are going the way of cheap stuff.
Besides they don't necessarily need to switch to hydrogen, see the following http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/CID/HTML/in dex.html, where they talk about using fire suppresants in the fuel to stop the fires after crashes...
See NASA for alternative fuels, for gelled hydrogen http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/TU/launch/GELLED.htm. t m
Other alternative fuels are at http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/TU/launch/foctopsb.h
List of needed components
Case
Power Supply
CPU
Motherboard
RAM
Floppy or LS-120
DVD/DVD-R/CD-RW, Pick your optical poison
Hard Drives
Sound Card
Modem
Network Card
Zip Drive/Other Removable Rewriteable Media
Don't forget to use wonderful tools like http://pricewatch.com or http://computershopper.com. Watch out for the deals that are too good to be true... though many of the places on either of those sites are obviously operating on razor thin margins, they do make PC building really really cheap.
Now given that list I would purchase a KT266A system or maybe wait for the nForce with a Palmino based Athlon. I would purchase a DVD/CD-RW combo and also another DVD drive, as I always support being able to make disk to disk copies. The Audigy would be a good card if you don't get the nForce based motherboard. DDR RAM is the way to go, it's also probably best to purchase that directly from http://crucial.com. Get yourself the Seagate Barracuda IV's for a quiet and relatively high performing IDE drives with big capacity... For video cards get either the Radeon 8500 or GeForce3 depending on how much you care. Don't forget to get a cool aluminum case like the Lian-Li PC-60 for show value...
That should be everything you need unless you want to go dual processor, which is always a good option.
Somehow I'm not surprised. Gateway has been consistently using AMD as a bargaining chip with Intel. They have now twice adopted AMD lines and dropped them when they thought they could get a better deal from Intel.
I suspect that AMD will pull through this, and most likely will re-activate the foundries when they need more capacity, though that might take some time as they still haven't reached 100% at Dresden yet and they're already transitioning to 0.13 micron process.
What does confuse me is why AMD consistently adopts such low selling prices. I think that people would still buy their processors even if they tacked on a minimum of $50 on the high end, if not even $100. A full base system based on AMD costs $400 these days and for that you can't even get a high end P4.
Sometimes the market economy and technology adoption just confuses me. I mean we've had Firewire (IEEE 1394) for almost a decade and it's only just now catching on, and even now with great resistance... go figure.
You could purchase 10 APPRO AMD MP servers. These machines are based off of the Tyan boards so have all the built-in high end features you could wish for, while still being relatively cheap and easily networkable given the builtin NICs. Plus SCSI and potential for RAID if you feel you need it. and all in 1U.
http://www.appro.com/
or for the AMD systems specifically http://www.appro.com/1124.html
Should give you enough information to put together a 10U Beowulf cluster...