Gawd I just got a DVD player that can play Xvid and anything else I can throw at it. I torrent, I burn, I watch. What in the hell do I need and thing else for?
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we'd choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way......
Props & shoutz to: THG, INC, PE, TDT, TRSI, Razor 1911, PTG, Genesis, Legend, Swat, and the granddaddy of them all; FAIRLIGHT
We use an OmniClone
HDD Duplicator from Logicube. Never fails. Just make sure you buy the NTFS option if you use Winblowz. We can burn 5 drives at once loaded with the OS and all user apps in under 7 mins. Our staff delivered 40 new PC to the end users in under one week. With software products it would take you that amount of time to get a call back from the tech support ppl as to why the copies are continually corrupt.
The majority of modern transfer protocols, HTTP, FTP, RSTP, will allow the systems administrator to limit the bandwidth available to the client. Yea, this doesnâ(TM)t make the client very happy that he/she can't have that new version of xyx.exe in seconds, but at least they can get it.
As the first local court system in the US that streamed their own court proceedings via the Internet, we were inundated with hits to our media server. By using the bandwidth throttling in Real Server we were able to maximize the amount of clients until our bandwidth was completely exhausted. Granted we only had a T1 at the time, but we did not expect the world wide, traditional. media exposure that we received. At the peak we were getting over one thousand hits per minute.
What have we done since? Currently we have added an additional T1, and have a 20Mb Ethernet connection on order.
With the costs of dedicated "high-speed" 'net connections at very reasonable rates (less than $2500 per month for 20Mb) and the intelligent use of client bandwidth throttling it would be very easy to do what you are wanting to accomplish.
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MSDOS was the bastardization of Digital Research's CPM
The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.
Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products.
I have to agree, these rock! I've been using one to dump all the 8mm tapes from my old camcorder. It's so easy my wife has taken over the project. Next I'll have her dub all of my Zeppelin bootleg videos:-)
I've also noticed that some DVD-R media craps out at the higher bitrates. I've had excellent luck with the Taiyo Yuden 2x and for about $2 each in bulk you can't beat them.
By suing IBM over IP rights what do you hope to accomplish? Monetary rewards? Admission of guilt? The source code rights to the alleged IP infringement?
At the time, there was a gadget called "Game Blaster", which you could pick up at places like Egghead for about $150 (???). It seems to convert VGA to NTSC video. That's just what our system needs.
Sound is important. Even the Atari 2600 had very basic sound... those are the cheesy "bleep bloop" sounds you probably remember so well.
From Google newsgroups, the earliest mention of the SoundBlaster card was Sep 25 1990, and in 1992 the SB was sold for $75. So in 1991, you should have been able to get a sound card for a reasonable price.
Humm..... I have a Game Blaster. I bought it in the early '90's for about $60US. It's a sound card from Creative Labs. It was the precursor to the SoundBlaster. This dude can't even keep the simple stuff straight.
I guess the/. crew pushed this one on through for laughs. HaHa!
I saw this stuff when it was on the drawing board. Nothing new. Call me when it can fly sideways at mach+ while doing an 80-degree vert w/o making the pilot go blind I'd be impressed. Otherwise show it on Junkyard wars on Discovery.
SmoothWall is nice and easy way to isolate my home network from the Internet. It took me about 20 minutes to install and configure it. It does exactly what I need it to do.
When had to use dongles to run programs? Why couldn't the game developers use the same technology to provide an encryption "processor"? Yeah, you might have to switch it out to play one game or another, and a crack would eventually come out. But if it was an EEPROM that could be programmed via a download/atch that was verified from a PGP/Gpg key.... I personally don't know the feasibility, but it sounds good.
There is no way to stop cheating, look at the casinos that have been trying for ever, but there is a way to make it unenjoyable.
If I was going to teach a group of seniors to use the Internet, I would first make sure they had the proper foundation. Efficient mouse and keyboard skills are a must. Also a basic understanding for the OS that they will be using/learning on will help allot.
For example, my dad, who's 77, called me over to his house to show me "something weird" that was happening when he was exiting out of Internet Exploder on Winblowz 98. Seems that he was double clicking, instead of single clicking the X to exit IE and bringing up the Winblowz start menu. Even something as simple as this can be very frustrating for older persons with little computer experience.
You have to also remember that some people in the later years tend to forget things easily. Something that was taught yesterday may need to be refreshed at the next session.
Another issue is that allot of these folks are just plain afraid of this "new fangled" technology. They don't understand the inner workings of a PC and are afraid that if the click on the wrong area, or hit the wrong key that the PC will go south.
I must admit, I've had the same password for the majority of my accounts for a few years, although, I do have different password levels. I have one for general access, one for "personal access", and one for "su" access. I presume these passwords are not easy to guess, as I use non-English words, with a splattering of numbers, characters and caps.
I do like what we used to do to our VMS users that refused to use "good" passwords. We would set the system to issue auto-generated 32 character passwords with an expire time of 23 hours. Being god was good:)
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Gawd I just got a DVD player that can play Xvid and anything else I can throw at it. I torrent, I burn, I watch. What in the hell do I need and thing else for?
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way......
Props & shoutz to: THG, INC, PE, TDT, TRSI, Razor 1911, PTG, Genesis, Legend, Swat, and the
granddaddy of them all; FAIRLIGHT
I would have to say that this story meets none of the above slogans.
/. has somthing interesting.
What's next? The Martha Stewart section on how to bake brownies in your PC case? Jezzzzz!
Wake me when
You can still do that, for the most part. Just save your documents in Rich Text Format.
We use an OmniClone HDD Duplicator from Logicube. Never fails. Just make sure you buy the NTFS option if you use Winblowz. We can burn 5 drives at once loaded with the OS and all user apps in under 7 mins. Our staff delivered 40 new PC to the end users in under one week. With software products it would take you that amount of time to get a call back from the tech support ppl as to why the copies are continually corrupt.
We got one not to long ago and it rocks. It's a bit pricey (around $3k USD), but it's paid for it's self already.
As the first local court system in the US that streamed their own court proceedings via the Internet, we were inundated with hits to our media server. By using the bandwidth throttling in Real Server we were able to maximize the amount of clients until our bandwidth was completely exhausted. Granted we only had a T1 at the time, but we did not expect the world wide, traditional. media exposure that we received. At the peak we were getting over one thousand hits per minute.
What have we done since? Currently we have added an additional T1, and have a 20Mb Ethernet connection on order.
With the costs of dedicated "high-speed" 'net connections at very reasonable rates (less than $2500 per month for 20Mb) and the intelligent use of client bandwidth throttling it would be very easy to do what you are wanting to accomplish.
More correctly:
Excerpted from The Unusual History of MS-DOS
The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.
Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products.
I've also noticed that some DVD-R media craps out at the higher bitrates. I've had excellent luck with the Taiyo Yuden 2x and for about $2 each in bulk you can't beat them.
Plastic punch cards would solve that problem. But then again, don't leave them in your car on a hot summer day....
By suing IBM over IP rights what do you hope to accomplish?
Monetary rewards?
Admission of guilt?
The source code rights to the alleged IP infringement?
Sound is important. Even the Atari 2600 had very basic sound ... those are the cheesy "bleep bloop" sounds you probably remember so well.
From Google newsgroups, the earliest mention of the SoundBlaster card was Sep 25 1990, and in 1992 the SB was sold for $75. So in 1991, you should have been able to get a sound card for a reasonable price.
Humm..... I have a Game Blaster. I bought it in the early '90's for about $60US. It's a sound card from Creative Labs. It was the precursor to the SoundBlaster. This dude can't even keep the simple stuff straight.
I guess the /. crew pushed this one on through for laughs. HaHa!
I mean really why? I Like anyone would want multiple lines of telemarketers.....
Humm lets write Slashdot and have the populous write out project plan...
I saw this stuff when it was on the drawing board. Nothing new. Call me when it can fly sideways at mach+ while doing an 80-degree vert w/o making the pilot go blind I'd be impressed. Otherwise show it on Junkyard wars on Discovery.
SCSI hard drives have longer life expectancies than ATA drives.
For example, the Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP has MTBF of 1.2 million hours, whereas the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV has an MTBF of 0.6 million hours.
Longer life = better ROI
But I wouldn't use it for my business network.
SmoothWall is nice and easy way to isolate my home network from the Internet. It took me about 20 minutes to install and configure it. It does exactly what I need it to do.
When had to use dongles to run programs? Why couldn't the game developers use the same technology to provide an encryption "processor"? Yeah, you might have to switch it out to play one game or another, and a crack would eventually come out. But if it was an EEPROM that could be programmed via a download/atch that was verified from a PGP/Gpg key.... I personally don't know the feasibility, but it sounds good.
There is no way to stop cheating, look at the casinos that have been trying for ever, but there is a way to make it unenjoyable.
If I was going to teach a group of seniors to use the Internet, I would first make sure they had the proper foundation. Efficient mouse and keyboard skills are a must. Also a basic understanding for the OS that they will be using/learning on will help allot.
For example, my dad, who's 77, called me over to his house to show me "something weird" that was happening when he was exiting out of Internet Exploder on Winblowz 98. Seems that he was double clicking, instead of single clicking the X to exit IE and bringing up the Winblowz start menu. Even something as simple as this can be very frustrating for older persons with little computer experience.
You have to also remember that some people in the later years tend to forget things easily. Something that was taught yesterday may need to be refreshed at the next session.
Another issue is that allot of these folks are just plain afraid of this "new fangled" technology. They don't understand the inner workings of a PC and are afraid that if the click on the wrong area, or hit the wrong key that the PC will go south.
There is HP WebJetAdmin for Linux here.
And of course the old standby telnet is very useable under Linux.
As for drivers, the LJ 5/6 drivers that come with the last few RedHat releases work fine for me.
Here are a few local government sites that I like.
Ninja-Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida
Orange County Florida
I may be biased because I started Orange County's and now work for the Ninth Circuit (not in web design).
Both sites have won a variety of awards, and they offer quite a bit of information that is useful to the public.
I must admit, I've had the same password for the majority of my accounts for a few years, although, I do have different password levels. I have one for general access, one for "personal access", and one for "su" access. I presume these passwords are not easy to guess, as I use non-English words, with a splattering of numbers, characters and caps.
:)
I do like what we used to do to our VMS users that refused to use "good" passwords. We would set the system to issue auto-generated 32 character passwords with an expire time of 23 hours. Being god was good