I had the same issue with my DLink POS WAP... it would lock up and crater about every other day. I rescued a 333Mhz Celeron with 64MB of ram and a 4GB HDD... installed three $10 nics and run Smoothwall as my router/firewall. I've upgraded it over the last year or so with more ram and hdd - just because I had no other use for the parts.
I put the wireless access point in the "Orange" network for wireless access and tweaked a few port fowards to protect my home network much better, but still give me wireless access back into my network at home for printing, RDP, etc. So even if someone were to crack my wireless network - they would get access to the internet, and that's it.
Bittorrent runs smooth for weeks and I don't have to worry about being able to phone home any longer to restart the router.
Other alternatives are Monowall, but I'm really digging SW
I can confirm this is not FUD and yes, you have been somewhat lucky. Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad R5x and T6x both exhibit problems with Vista sleep disorders. Even with the latest patches and bios updates the OS is very unstable after wake up from hibernation or sleep.
Lenovo has hinted that further Microsoft updates will be needed to Vista to make sleep/hibernation fully usable again.
I'm interested to know what kind of hardware are you using?
The "search" function you use on their website is a known weakness because it relies on MySQL to perform the actual search. They didn't spend a lot of time developing it into something more useful than a basic word finder.
Even Wikipedia recommends using an external search provider for speed and customization of search topics.
It was two years ago that this was signed into affect... this shouldn't be the rush that Microsoft, Cisco, and all the rest are making it. Slackers wasted one and a half years doing almost nothing... and now we get this.
That's very true - In the U.S. telephone companies are subsidized by the government to be the Provider of Last Resort (POLR). The government (even before the insanity of spending which was post 9/11) gave millions to phone companies to maintain all their sites with redundancy... power, security, and infrastructure.
That's why that little tiny phone hut out in the middle of a cornfield in ohio has UPS and Generator backup for the ten or so landline signals they provide. The phone company doesn't give a sh*^ about those ten phone lines if they go down - the government waved a bunch of money in their face and told them to.
Your cable company, on the other hand, doesn't need that money - it already has yours. And like the phone company, still doesn't give a sh*^ about you.
When I think of WalMart I don't think of online digital downloads... heck I don't even think of online at all.
I think of China's storefront, minimum wage workers, and minimum wage shoppers.
If they don't want to develop their online content for Firefox, Safari, or any other browser in use - then to hell with them. They're destined to fail again online.
This is why you get a lawyer and let him/her to the leg work... this is going to turn into a legal issue anyway, why screw it up before it starts by giving Dell some words or description of the events that they can use against you.
All it takes is one "maybe" or "possibly" or "it could have been the cat" and your case is gone with your house.
You posted this on/. - you should be safe, nobody reads this.
But will starving people plant the seeds and wait, or eat the seeds right off? If they wait, they might starve in the meantime, and if the eat them immediately they will starve eventually.
Build a McDonald's outside the vault... duh. No worries about them using anything organic to make their food... the seeds will be safe.
The NFL prefers the one service that pays the most.
Just like NASCAR - show them the money, and they'll jump ship the picosecond their contract is up. They don't give a rats dusty arse about their fans...
Ditto... my laptop runs 2.8Ghz P4, 2GB of PC3200, and a relatively mediocre video card (64MB ATI x300).
Fresh Vista install, no apps running - 800MB of ram, and a task manager that shows my CPU never gets a coffee break.
With Windows XP, all of my applications running (six total, one a java based client written to absolutely no regards to memory management)... 700 MB of used ram and very little CPU usage unless an application is actually doing something.
So, Vista... what the hell are you doing in the background?!
Cheesy Induction ploy, if you have to place it on or in the proximity of a device you may as well have wires.
Induction is a good thing, maybe a bit cheesy at its inception - but wait until it matures. I had a watch that was charged using induction, it allowed it to recharge without having a connection or contacts exposed.
If this technology improves, it could become very useful.
For example, power induction systems below road surfaces for hybrid and electric vehicles. Cell phone holders in cars that charge without any contacts to become tarnished or bent.
I don't see it replacing all hardwired or contact based connections, but it would be a welcomed addition to many devices that are designed for severe duty.
For those of you who are getting this pushed to your desktops and hate the ribbon...
CTRL-F1
But when you have a week when you're not under intense deadlines, give it a chance. I've really learned to like it, and think it does add some clarification to UI that was the definition and punchline of "Bloatware"
Cisco VPN software works... I'm not sure where that information is coming from.
I think the fact that Cisco's Call Manager interface is based on a bastardized form of Java and requires IE6 + MS JVM, they deserve to have to rebuild it. So saying Vista doesn't support Cisco, is only half true.
Cisco did it to themselves by going down a proprietary road, and now they're going to make their customers pay for the dev time to redesign it.
No problem for me though, I have access to IE 6 via citrix.
The real solution to make Linux more mainstream is to make users more computer litterate. That sort of plan is a 10 year plan at the very least, and requires educating people at school about basic computer security, and the dangers of being a computer idiot. No amount of tweaking will make a good secure OS an easy one.
Make this part of the No Child Left Behind act... so that it's one more freaking standardized test my kid can take instead of actually learning something.
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I had the same issue with my DLink POS WAP... it would lock up and crater about every other day. I rescued a 333Mhz Celeron with 64MB of ram and a 4GB HDD... installed three $10 nics and run Smoothwall as my router/firewall. I've upgraded it over the last year or so with more ram and hdd - just because I had no other use for the parts.
I put the wireless access point in the "Orange" network for wireless access and tweaked a few port fowards to protect my home network much better, but still give me wireless access back into my network at home for printing, RDP, etc. So even if someone were to crack my wireless network - they would get access to the internet, and that's it.
Bittorrent runs smooth for weeks and I don't have to worry about being able to phone home any longer to restart the router.
Other alternatives are Monowall, but I'm really digging SW
Thanks David, I sit corrected.
And now, I'm a little less dumber.
Vista FUD is already getting old.
I can confirm this is not FUD and yes, you have been somewhat lucky. Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad R5x and T6x both exhibit problems with Vista sleep disorders. Even with the latest patches and bios updates the OS is very unstable after wake up from hibernation or sleep.
Lenovo has hinted that further Microsoft updates will be needed to Vista to make sleep/hibernation fully usable again.
I'm interested to know what kind of hardware are you using?
The "search" function you use on their website is a known weakness because it relies on MySQL to perform the actual search. They didn't spend a lot of time developing it into something more useful than a basic word finder.
Even Wikipedia recommends using an external search provider for speed and customization of search topics.
It was two years ago that this was signed into affect... this shouldn't be the rush that Microsoft, Cisco, and all the rest are making it. Slackers wasted one and a half years doing almost nothing... and now we get this.
Suso... that was way to nice of a graphic to place in their.
So so many nasty internet images, so few myspace morons to mess with.
That's very true - In the U.S. telephone companies are subsidized by the government to be the Provider of Last Resort (POLR). The government (even before the insanity of spending which was post 9/11) gave millions to phone companies to maintain all their sites with redundancy... power, security, and infrastructure.
That's why that little tiny phone hut out in the middle of a cornfield in ohio has UPS and Generator backup for the ten or so landline signals they provide. The phone company doesn't give a sh*^ about those ten phone lines if they go down - the government waved a bunch of money in their face and told them to.
Your cable company, on the other hand, doesn't need that money - it already has yours. And like the phone company, still doesn't give a sh*^ about you.
There are so many educational devices that do their specific job well, that a PC is just a wasteful box in a young class.
Limits on technology aren't so bad either, let them go outside and play games, socialize, and begin building personalities.
When I think of WalMart I don't think of online digital downloads... heck I don't even think of online at all.
I think of China's storefront, minimum wage workers, and minimum wage shoppers.
If they don't want to develop their online content for Firefox, Safari, or any other browser in use - then to hell with them. They're destined to fail again online.
Why do you want to talk to Dell?
/. - you should be safe, nobody reads this.
This is why you get a lawyer and let him/her to the leg work... this is going to turn into a legal issue anyway, why screw it up before it starts by giving Dell some words or description of the events that they can use against you.
All it takes is one "maybe" or "possibly" or "it could have been the cat" and your case is gone with your house.
You posted this on
This reminds me of John Belushi's samurai...
S amurai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_
Unfortunately, someone's going down, and it's not going to be Ted.
But will starving people plant the seeds and wait, or eat the seeds right off? If they wait, they might starve in the meantime, and if the eat them immediately they will starve eventually.
Build a McDonald's outside the vault... duh. No worries about them using anything organic to make their food... the seeds will be safe.
For the sake of the OP... someone mod this up!
1. Call Bar association
2. Get reference for lawyer who know stuff about your case
3. Talk to lawyer.
4. Counter sue
5. Profit!
The NFL prefers the one service that pays the most.
Just like NASCAR - show them the money, and they'll jump ship the picosecond their contract is up. They don't give a rats dusty arse about their fans...
Now the spammers just pushed out an update to their botnets... "Soldiers - try the high MX first."
/.
Okay everyone, switch your primary back - and don't post it on
Oh, wait... doh!
Ditto... my laptop runs 2.8Ghz P4, 2GB of PC3200, and a relatively mediocre video card (64MB ATI x300).
Fresh Vista install, no apps running - 800MB of ram, and a task manager that shows my CPU never gets a coffee break.
With Windows XP, all of my applications running (six total, one a java based client written to absolutely no regards to memory management)... 700 MB of used ram and very little CPU usage unless an application is actually doing something.
So, Vista... what the hell are you doing in the background?!
Why not hold dell responsible for letting me run files I shouldn't?
The **AA figured if you're running a Dell, you've got enough issues already.
I wish I had mod points for you brother... well spoken.
How did this interviewer get his job? And more specifically what job does he do?
He's dumb as a post.
I would guess it's directly related to the size of the induction coils, energy used, and the pickup coils in the brush itself.
If it has a large battery (doubt it) or is designed poorly so that much of the energy is wasted (more likely) it will pickup very little energy.
Depending on the model - it could also be losing energy sitting idle, especially if it has a fancy lcd display or whatnot.
Cheesy Induction ploy, if you have to place it on or in the proximity of a device
you may as well have wires.
Induction is a good thing, maybe a bit cheesy at its inception - but wait until it matures. I had a watch that was charged using induction, it allowed it to recharge without having a connection or contacts exposed.
If this technology improves, it could become very useful.
For example, power induction systems below road surfaces for hybrid and electric vehicles. Cell phone holders in cars that charge without any contacts to become tarnished or bent.
I don't see it replacing all hardwired or contact based connections, but it would be a welcomed addition to many devices that are designed for severe duty.
For those of you who are getting this pushed to your desktops and hate the ribbon...
CTRL-F1
But when you have a week when you're not under intense deadlines, give it a chance. I've really learned to like it, and think it does add some clarification to UI that was the definition and punchline of "Bloatware"
I just recycled that book from a shelf I was cleaning out... ah, life before spam where you could actually post your email address somewhere public.
Cisco VPN software works... I'm not sure where that information is coming from.
I think the fact that Cisco's Call Manager interface is based on a bastardized form of Java and requires IE6 + MS JVM, they deserve to have to rebuild it. So saying Vista doesn't support Cisco, is only half true.
Cisco did it to themselves by going down a proprietary road, and now they're going to make their customers pay for the dev time to redesign it.
No problem for me though, I have access to IE 6 via citrix.
The real solution to make Linux more mainstream is to make users more computer litterate. That sort of plan is a 10 year plan at the very least, and requires educating people at school about basic computer security, and the dangers of being a computer idiot. No amount of tweaking will make a good secure OS an easy one.
Make this part of the No Child Left Behind act... so that it's one more freaking standardized test my kid can take instead of actually learning something.