"I'm glad to see Griffin had the balls to release this product."
I don't see how releasing this required any balls. FM broadcasts are horrible when compared to the AAC streams from XM.
The RIAA have written off FM copyright lawsuits because any kid with a boombox can swipe a low quality song.
I've been doing this for two years using a TV/FM tuner that costs about the same as the Radioshark - and the bonus is I can record cable TV so now I can have low quality video too!
My hat's off to you OW. I aspire to do the same, but used to work in a sterile soulless cube where fun was a four letter word.
My collection of toys and entertainment is growing with every UPS delivery in my new job. My fridge showed up yesterday - saving people a trip down three flights of stairs to a soda machine for $.50/can on your honor. My Bender action figure is very popular... my Matrix Sentinal gives the willy's to the old lady that works next to me (whoo hoo - no more "grandkids" storys....)
I think my environment shall bring happiness and joy to those I deem worthy... now if people would just stop giving my work to do I could really make the office productive.
Sales team was given Treos for "increased effectiveness"
The team is technically inept and couldn't figure out the optical mice installed on their new workstations.
They leave the ringers on high and on their desks when in meetings. So the IT department started changing the ringers to different tones, just to watch them tilt their heads when the phones ring. Like when you talk to a dog...
Then we changed them to other sounds - like farts, people talking, or other wacky things.
It's fun... so I guess we have the wacky habits of messing with the sales team. Fun!
The device is external and cools the blood externally. This simply gets more blood to the surface by lowering the air pressure around your hand, then cooling the blood.
Spybot does not require manual operation - I have startup scripts to update itself, scan, remove, and close the app without ever showing itself to the user.
AdAware requires commercial licenses when used on non-residential computers. Spybot does not.
I agree AdAware is polished and more refined, but spybot does a great job and has lots of Admin friendly programming.
I too suffered through a couple of Epson Stylus color 740's... horrible print head storage. My in-laws had the same worthless printer and same problems.
I was glad it stopped printing so I could replace it with a $60 Canon S400 that has run like a trooper for the last 3 years!
I purchased a printer dock for my camera that uses thermaldye transfer and never looked back. If I need larger prints - the photo mart takes care of me.
The "star" bits are really called Torx. And are sold by sizes from T-xx the larger the number, the smaller the bit.
Most laptops range from T-5 to T-8. If you don't already have a set - go to sears and pick up a set. They are handy to have around because the screws are often used on electronics because they have very good resistance to stripping out and can be tourqed down very accurately.
This would add another $5 to the price tag, and when it's sitting on a WalMart shelf next to cheap Linksuc and Netsmear gear - what's the lady with the pack of bebe kids going to buy?
Two hours later she's going to be laying into some poor outsourced tech support person overseas because she can't understand his accent and the "damn lights keep ah' blinkin when ah' mash the mouse down"
I thought sierra really screwed the pooch on Tribes 2 when they canned all the original devs right after they released the game in (what I felt was)Beta for everyone to buy then fixed all the horrible bugs after the next year. The forums were a nightmare for the people left after seirra cleaned house. I felt truely sorry for them.
The game wasn't even playable out of the box and the auto update feature needed to be updated manually.
But after all that, T2 kicked ass and took names. There is NOTHING like a 32v32 CTF game with a bunch of experienced specialized players who do their jobs. It's freakin' great!
Now, if T.V. can hold up to that... I'll be impressed.
Leave the commercial grade garbage for the I.T. departmentless masses who think setting up and maintaining a fully functional and secure network is an "out of the box" solution and doesn't require any of those "geeky expensive" people.
You sound smart - act like it. Stick with opensource, and just upgrade your hardware. For $100 you can have a nice Pentium 2 with 64MB of ram and a tiny harddrive running smoothwall - it can easily handle anything your four computers would ever be able to throw at it.
My celeron 333 with 64MB of ram and a 6GB HD was given to me - because it was "worthless" to the previous owner (it wouldn't run XP). Added two nics and now handles a network of ten PCs, one server, and a webserver in a DMZ over a 1MB/1MB dsl line. With constant traffic for email, web, and P2P it only goes down when the power does... I don't have a UPS yet.
Please, please - don't buy the 3com. It's a linksys, netgear, dlink, belkin cookiecutter router with no advantages over any thing else.
Small businesses have no excuse NOT to be hooked up to a UPS. But I guess it depends on your small business.
If it's a dot com based small business, and your customers expect your site to be there and accessable 24/7, that $14,000 generator and $4,000 UPS array isn't such a bad investment - it can easily be justified in loss of customers while down due to power failure or funky spike that just took out your SAN server's dual power supplies.:(
Why not just install a DynDNS client on your server? I have one that checks my public IP every 5 minutes and updates DynDNS automagically.
It just works.
And don't use the client built into your cheap resi grade broadband routers - they force too many updates and will automatically close your account. Netgear is horrible about that... well, that and many other things.
After the first six, you hire a guy named Chuck who's got 24" biceps and have him wait for your exboyfriend in a parking ramp you just happened to park in.
After the third or fouth ass whoopin' he may just back off.
The most offensive LED equipped product I own is a logitech 5.1 channel speaker system... the center channel speaker has a fricking blue laser beam aimed at my left eye.
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The Packers have been playing like sh!t with a quaterback on his last leg who is under the crosshairs of anyone who can get past the offensive line...
:(
Mike Sherman's playbook was posted online somewhere in PDF format - because no team has been surprised at anything they've been doing.
I'm a nerd, but I support my team - I just wish they didn't suck ass this year...
It may give better reception - but that'll be hard to do in my basement datacenter... ;-)
"I'm glad to see Griffin had the balls to release this product."
I don't see how releasing this required any balls. FM broadcasts are horrible when compared to the AAC streams from XM.
The RIAA have written off FM copyright lawsuits because any kid with a boombox can swipe a low quality song.
I've been doing this for two years using a TV/FM tuner that costs about the same as the Radioshark - and the bonus is I can record cable TV so now I can have low quality video too!
I would have to agree with your statement. If I had admin points I'd give you one.
Really that's the whole story - he installed something he wasn't supposed to.
This guy did something he shouldn't have and should have been punished. Now the way it was handled is another argument that I won't get into.
My hat's off to you OW. I aspire to do the same, but used to work in a sterile soulless cube where fun was a four letter word.
My collection of toys and entertainment is growing with every UPS delivery in my new job. My fridge showed up yesterday - saving people a trip down three flights of stairs to a soda machine for $.50/can on your honor. My Bender action figure is very popular... my Matrix Sentinal gives the willy's to the old lady that works next to me (whoo hoo - no more "grandkids" storys....)
I think my environment shall bring happiness and joy to those I deem worthy... now if people would just stop giving my work to do I could really make the office productive.
Simply brilliant!
;)
Where do I download this Foosoft you speak of? Do they offer a trial download? Does it work with Windows ME?
AH, I stand corrected, thank you for pointing it out. Now I check my tool kit, I see that I apparently have a shitty memory.
Sales team was given Treos for "increased effectiveness"
The team is technically inept and couldn't figure out the optical mice installed on their new workstations.
They leave the ringers on high and on their desks when in meetings. So the IT department started changing the ringers to different tones, just to watch them tilt their heads when the phones ring. Like when you talk to a dog...
Then we changed them to other sounds - like farts, people talking, or other wacky things.
It's fun... so I guess we have the wacky habits of messing with the sales team. Fun!
The device is external and cools the blood externally. This simply gets more blood to the surface by lowering the air pressure around your hand, then cooling the blood.
Neat, but not revolutionary.
Spybot does not require manual operation - I have startup scripts to update itself, scan, remove, and close the app without ever showing itself to the user.
AdAware requires commercial licenses when used on non-residential computers. Spybot does not.
I agree AdAware is polished and more refined, but spybot does a great job and has lots of Admin friendly programming.
I too suffered through a couple of Epson Stylus color 740's... horrible print head storage. My in-laws had the same worthless printer and same problems.
I was glad it stopped printing so I could replace it with a $60 Canon S400 that has run like a trooper for the last 3 years!
I purchased a printer dock for my camera that uses thermaldye transfer and never looked back. If I need larger prints - the photo mart takes care of me.
The "star" bits are really called Torx. And are sold by sizes from T-xx the larger the number, the smaller the bit.
Most laptops range from T-5 to T-8. If you don't already have a set - go to sears and pick up a set. They are handy to have around because the screws are often used on electronics because they have very good resistance to stripping out and can be tourqed down very accurately.
Some will with a square drive, but thats rare.
This would add another $5 to the price tag, and when it's sitting on a WalMart shelf next to cheap Linksuc and Netsmear gear - what's the lady with the pack of bebe kids going to buy?
Two hours later she's going to be laying into some poor outsourced tech support person overseas because she can't understand his accent and the "damn lights keep ah' blinkin when ah' mash the mouse down"
I thought sierra really screwed the pooch on Tribes 2 when they canned all the original devs right after they released the game in (what I felt was)Beta for everyone to buy then fixed all the horrible bugs after the next year. The forums were a nightmare for the people left after seirra cleaned house. I felt truely sorry for them.
The game wasn't even playable out of the box and the auto update feature needed to be updated manually.
But after all that, T2 kicked ass and took names. There is NOTHING like a 32v32 CTF game with a bunch of experienced specialized players who do their jobs. It's freakin' great!
Now, if T.V. can hold up to that... I'll be impressed.
Ash stains are hard to get out of underware.
Quick... all tree huggers meet at the summit and wait for further instruction.
I second the nomination for dyndns.org - top notch.
I would call them the defacto-standard in dynamic dns because they are so widely supported by clients built into most residential broadband routers.
Also, smoothwall knows DynDns - so that works peachy for me.
Leave the commercial grade garbage for the I.T. departmentless masses who think setting up and maintaining a fully functional and secure network is an "out of the box" solution and doesn't require any of those "geeky expensive" people.
You sound smart - act like it. Stick with opensource, and just upgrade your hardware. For $100 you can have a nice Pentium 2 with 64MB of ram and a tiny harddrive running smoothwall - it can easily handle anything your four computers would ever be able to throw at it.
My celeron 333 with 64MB of ram and a 6GB HD was given to me - because it was "worthless" to the previous owner (it wouldn't run XP). Added two nics and now handles a network of ten PCs, one server, and a webserver in a DMZ over a 1MB/1MB dsl line. With constant traffic for email, web, and P2P it only goes down when the power does... I don't have a UPS yet.
Please, please - don't buy the 3com. It's a linksys, netgear, dlink, belkin cookiecutter router with no advantages over any thing else.
Small businesses have no excuse NOT to be hooked up to a UPS. But I guess it depends on your small business.
:(
If it's a dot com based small business, and your customers expect your site to be there and accessable 24/7, that $14,000 generator and $4,000 UPS array isn't such a bad investment - it can easily be justified in loss of customers while down due to power failure or funky spike that just took out your SAN server's dual power supplies.
Why not just install a DynDNS client on your server? I have one that checks my public IP every 5 minutes and updates DynDNS automagically.
It just works.
And don't use the client built into your cheap resi grade broadband routers - they force too many updates and will automatically close your account. Netgear is horrible about that... well, that and many other things.
South Africa, where car-jacking is about as common as spitting on the sidewalk (from what I read).
It was a natural gas ignition system, not napalm based like military weapons.
IT would still leave you breathless, hairless, and probably with 1st degree burns.
Lojack, OnStar, Hertz...
I think even Ford and Lexus are getting on the cell/gps/remote access bandwagon.
After the first six, you hire a guy named Chuck who's got 24" biceps and have him wait for your exboyfriend in a parking ramp you just happened to park in.
After the third or fouth ass whoopin' he may just back off.
hahaha
I just used electrical tape like everyone else does.
The most offensive LED equipped product I own is a logitech 5.1 channel speaker system... the center channel speaker has a fricking blue laser beam aimed at my left eye.
Gah! My EYE!