What's wrong with IDE? You can pick up crates of 500gb drives for dirt cheap these days, about half the cost of what a SATA will cost.....
Not necessarily so, at least in the case of laptop IDE vs laptop SATA.. I have a sideline "business" buying up broken Dell laptops, fixing/cleaning them up, installing Linux, and reselling. Since 99% of these systems come with no drive, I have to factor in a new drive for the system, and for the older IDE models, I'm having trouble finding 80-120GB IDE drives at a competitive price, while the equivalent SATA drives are dirt cheap.
I swear.. you JUST CANNOT make this stuff up...... *Some* cops/departments are absolutely bat-shit crazy... However, I had a interesting encounter with our local police here in Las Vegas the other morning at 6am. There was a loud knock at the door and I went and looked thru the peephole and two LV Metro PD officers were standing there.. They asked me if I and my wife were ok.. Turns out our landline phone had been showing off-hook for several days, and my sister-in-law got worried when she couldn't reach us, so she called the local police.. I didn't realize they still did the old-style checks that ALL police depts used to do in the good old days...
I don't care for the new Linksys formfactor either.. I have a WRT54GL running Tomato 1.27vpn and the matching CM10 cable modem. They nest together like two peas in a pod and fit perfectly in the tiny space I have for them.. Having said that, for the last year or so, I get, every so often, a "wave" of cable modem disconnects. When a disconnect occurs, the modem lights are normal, and.. here's the kicker: from the Tomato config page, I can release/renew the wan ip address. To get back up and running, I have to release ip, powercycle the modem, renew ip, release ip, powercycle the modem, and renew ip. I'm then back online for at least a few minutes. That doesn't sound to me like a cable modem problem.. I've had up to 45 days w/o these disconnects, and I've also had periods of time where I get less than 10 min between drops. I've had Cox people out to check signal levels, they say they are fine.. One strange thing is that several times during the most recent wave of these disconnects, several have occurred EXACTLY on the hour, which makes me strongly suspect these all are caused by *something* Cox is doing on the local node. Cox suggested last time I called them that it must be my modem.. Don't care to replace it with something that wont fit in with the router....
As I type this in a Starbucks on an AT&T wifi node, DHCP issues both a v4 AND a v6 address.. I've tried to connect to some of the test places via v6, but as of this moment, no joy.. Now if I could just get my home isp to make the jump (Cox)....
The year was 1987, and the company I worked for at the time got hired to set up a fileserver for a client. The system was a Compaq desktop with 1 megabyte of RAM, a 300 megabyte ESDI drive, with Arcnet connectivity. I recall starting the Novell 2.1 "Compsurf" utility just before leaving on Friday night and having it just finishing up when I came in on Monday morning... Those were the days..
I sure wish I had modpoints!! You have summed up the condition of this government more eloquently than I've heard in a LONG time! Since you mention Irwin Schiff, I was at his trial here in Las Vegas several times, and heard the judge tell the jury that they were REQUIRED by law to find Irwin guilty, and if they didnt, they would be guilty of a crime THEMSELVES!!. Jury instructions like that I would have expected to hear in some of the old Soviet Union's "kangaroo court" trials, NOT in America!! If there EVER was a time for Jury Nullification, that WAS it...
Weird thing is I am in my mid 30's and I've never been called for jury duty, ever.
Thats nothing.. I'm 60 and have only been called ONCE in my life, and that was about 2 years ago... Never got on a jury, just spent 2 days staring at the walls, got called to two cases, got excused on both of them... Both were criminal trials, and I guess they didn't like my answers to their questions....
I used to be the "IT guy" for our local Red Cross chapter. We got licenses for WinXP and Office thru TechSoup (techsoup.org). They are the "Technology Place for Non-profits/Charities". I don't know what the signup procedure for an NGO/Charity is, as being an RC chapter, we piggy-backed with the national office. As I recall, both the XP and Office licenses were $13. Of course, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure they've gone up..
I've gotten to where I do the same thing. The thing is, if you are patient, the model you want will go on sale. It took me about 3 months to get the configuration I wanted on sale, but it saved me about $500, and I ended up with quite a nice system for around $1500 (year ago, Q9550/8gb/750gb/24"/etc). Add a drive or two and go for 4+ more years. Usually Dell is way overpriced on their video cards, although I got the 'upgrade' for about the same price as street this time. I do the same at work when I can. If you don't buy their low end boxes, Dell are, well, somewhere between "decent" and "pretty good", and the sales make them a good value. Their low end stuff is, well, junk.
They key is patience, as they rotate some pretty good deals, depending on their current demand.
You can save even more by going thru the Dell Outlet for a refurb'ed Optiplex desktop or Latitude laptop.. At the time I bought my current system, a Dell Optiplex GX620, we were buying the same model/specs at work and paying nearly a grand each for them. My outlet system cost me $419+shipping, with the same ram/processor/drive. The low price being that it was a 3rd tier refurb (what Dell calls a "scratch & dent")..It was bought in 2006, and still runs fantastic. To this day, I have no idea why the system was sold as "scratch & dent"..
I'm starting a side business buying up broken/as-is/parts Dell laptops, repair/refurbing them, putting Ubuntu on them and reselling them. So far, the four Dell systems (D400,D600,D620,Insp 2200) I've picked up from Craigslist/eBay have had Intel wifi, but with this news, I'll not be so upset if future systems come with the normal Dell/Broadcomm card...
I've also been on Ubuntu since 2006 with the 6.06 release, which was their first LTS.. I only upgrade when the following LTS comes out, so I was on 8.04 until very recently. Just went out and bought a new 160GB system drive (and a new 1TB drive data drive to replace the old 500GB) for the main desktop and a 500GB for the laptop and did clean installs of 10.04 on both systems. I *tried* to upgrade 6.06 to 8.04... was not pretty... Now I do clean installs.
I pray to God that I'm wrong about this.. But I am to the point where I am VERY afraid sometime between now and November Comrade Obama and his ilk will orchestrate some incident that will cause martial law to be declared, the elections "postponed".. Of course, since the only media other than "Pravda", that doesn't carry the "party-line" being the Internet, It will have to be shut down or severely curtailed.. If this happens, America as we've known it is dead...
This sliding a "kill-switch" into an unrelated bill that both sides want is just the kind of slimy underhanded tricks these CONgresscritters like to pull..
yep.. gotta agree there.. I'm a recently unemployed network tech, and I spend quite a bit of time at my local Starbucks.. Since I have an OpenVPN and a Squid proxy set up on my home network, I figure I'm pretty secure from the "sniffers".. As for local storage, I use Ubuntu 10.04 with a Truecrypt volume on an SDCard...
>This is why places like Starbucks charge for there internet..
Umm.. Don't know where you've been but since July 1, I believe, Starbucks wifi has become free/unlimited, and before that, it was free for 2 hrs if you had a Starbucks card...
The company I used to work for bought Dell exclusively (Optiplex GX-series towers). Since we had our own Acronis SnapDeploy image we apply to each machine during acceptance, we always ordered the machines specifically withOUT the recovery media. There is a checkbox in the online order form for that very choice.. Guess what? every flippin' machine on every order since I started working there over 5 years ago, came with an XP-Pro "green" recovery disk or recently, a brown Vista/Win7 DVD. Before I left the company I had a stack of those disks about a foot high.... Go figure...
>Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained.
What a crock! If you are detained from going about your business, you are ARRESTED!! This kind of crap really makes me embarrassed to be an American...
The progressive media has already started the "smear-campaign" against the Teaparty movement. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a funny feeling, come November, if it appears that a lot of the democrat incumbants who are up for re-election are getting trounced in the polls, that Comrade Obama, as CinC, will rustle up a nice little staged "incident", and declare Martial law.. There goes the elections, and there goes the USA down the shithole... It wouldn't take much, something on the order of Waco or the like... Then the good old USA then becomes the USSA........
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What's wrong with IDE? You can pick up crates of 500gb drives for dirt cheap these days, about half the cost of what a SATA will cost .....
Not necessarily so, at least in the case of laptop IDE vs laptop SATA.. I have a sideline "business" buying up broken Dell laptops, fixing/cleaning them up, installing Linux, and reselling. Since 99% of these systems come with no drive, I have to factor in a new drive for the system, and for the older IDE models, I'm having trouble finding 80-120GB IDE drives at a competitive price, while the equivalent SATA drives are dirt cheap.
I swear.. you JUST CANNOT make this stuff up...... *Some* cops/departments are absolutely bat-shit crazy... However, I had a interesting encounter with our local police here in Las Vegas the other morning at 6am. There was a loud knock at the door and I went and looked thru the peephole and two LV Metro PD officers were standing there.. They asked me if I and my wife were ok.. Turns out our landline phone had been showing off-hook for several days, and my sister-in-law got worried when she couldn't reach us, so she called the local police.. I didn't realize they still did the old-style checks that ALL police depts used to do in the good old days...
I use DNSExit for mail also, and they allow use of tcp/2525 as an alternate to tcp/25.
I don't care for the new Linksys formfactor either.. I have a WRT54GL running Tomato 1.27vpn and the matching CM10 cable modem. They nest together like two peas in a pod and fit perfectly in the tiny space I have for them.. Having said that, for the last year or so, I get, every so often, a "wave" of cable modem disconnects. When a disconnect occurs, the modem lights are normal, and.. here's the kicker: from the Tomato config page, I can release/renew the wan ip address. To get back up and running, I have to release ip, powercycle the modem, renew ip, release ip, powercycle the modem, and renew ip. I'm then back online for at least a few minutes. That doesn't sound to me like a cable modem problem..
I've had up to 45 days w/o these disconnects, and I've also had periods of time where I get less than 10 min between drops. I've had Cox people out to check signal levels, they say they are fine.. One strange thing is that several times during the most recent wave of these disconnects, several have occurred EXACTLY on the hour, which makes me strongly suspect these all are caused by *something* Cox is doing on the local node. Cox suggested last time I called them that it must be my modem.. Don't care to replace it with something that wont fit in with the router....
As I type this in a Starbucks on an AT&T wifi node, DHCP issues both a v4 AND a v6 address.. I've tried to connect to some of the test places via v6, but as of this moment, no joy.. Now if I could just get my home isp to make the jump (Cox)....
I'm sitting in a Starbucks on ATT wifi and guess what? ifconfig tells me I have a ipv6 address... Guess ATT does *something* right....
The year was 1987, and the company I worked for at the time got hired to set up a fileserver for a client. The system was a Compaq desktop with 1 megabyte of RAM, a 300 megabyte ESDI drive, with Arcnet connectivity. I recall starting the Novell 2.1 "Compsurf" utility just before leaving on Friday night and having it just finishing up when I came in on Monday morning... Those were the days..
I sure wish I had modpoints!! You have summed up the condition of this government more eloquently than I've heard in a LONG time! Since you mention Irwin Schiff, I was at his trial here in Las Vegas several times, and heard the judge tell the jury that they were REQUIRED by law to find Irwin guilty, and if they didnt, they would be guilty of a crime THEMSELVES!!. Jury instructions like that I would have expected to hear in some of the old Soviet Union's "kangaroo court" trials, NOT in America!! If there EVER was a time for Jury Nullification, that WAS it...
Weird thing is I am in my mid 30's and I've never been called for jury duty, ever.
Thats nothing.. I'm 60 and have only been called ONCE in my life, and that was about 2 years ago... Never got on a jury, just spent 2 days staring at the walls, got called to two cases, got excused on both of them... Both were criminal trials, and I guess they didn't like my answers to their questions....
I used to be the "IT guy" for our local Red Cross chapter. We got licenses for WinXP and Office thru TechSoup (techsoup.org). They are the "Technology Place for Non-profits/Charities". I don't know what the signup procedure for an NGO/Charity is, as being an RC chapter, we piggy-backed with the national office. As I recall, both the XP and Office licenses were $13. Of course, this was a few years ago, so I'm sure they've gone up..
Whenever I have to run Acrobat reader on Windows, I use Sandboxie to sandbox it. If I understand what Adobe is doing, this would be the same thing...
Or more likely: "We refuse.. AND we're going to foreclose on all the billions of dollars we've been lending you....."
What's going on there, I don't know. But I'm not entirely convinced that all of our government is exactly on our side. Not anymore.
Where have you been?? Ever since Comrade Obama took over, I've been convinced that NONE of our government is on our side anymore...
I've gotten to where I do the same thing. The thing is, if you are patient, the model you want will go on sale. It took me about 3 months to get the configuration I wanted on sale, but it saved me about $500, and I ended up with quite a nice system for around $1500 (year ago, Q9550/8gb/750gb/24"/etc). Add a drive or two and go for 4+ more years. Usually Dell is way overpriced on their video cards, although I got the 'upgrade' for about the same price as street this time. I do the same at work when I can. If you don't buy their low end boxes, Dell are, well, somewhere between "decent" and "pretty good", and the sales make them a good value. Their low end stuff is, well, junk.
They key is patience, as they rotate some pretty good deals, depending on their current demand.
You can save even more by going thru the Dell Outlet for a refurb'ed Optiplex desktop or Latitude laptop.. At the time I bought my current system, a Dell Optiplex GX620, we were buying the same model/specs at work and paying nearly a grand each for them. My outlet system cost me $419+shipping, with the same ram/processor/drive. The low price being that it was a 3rd tier refurb (what Dell calls a "scratch & dent")..It was bought in 2006, and still runs fantastic. To this day, I have no idea why the system was sold as "scratch & dent"..
What do you want to bet, in the next month or so, Wikileaks gets a copy of *that* 1st edition PDF...
I'm starting a side business buying up broken/as-is/parts Dell laptops, repair/refurbing them, putting Ubuntu on them and reselling them. So far, the four Dell systems (D400,D600,D620,Insp 2200) I've picked up from Craigslist/eBay have had Intel wifi, but with this news, I'll not be so upset if future systems come with the normal Dell/Broadcomm card...
I've also been on Ubuntu since 2006 with the 6.06 release, which was their first LTS .. I only upgrade when the following LTS comes out, so I was on 8.04 until very recently. Just went out and bought a new 160GB system drive (and a new 1TB drive data drive to replace the old 500GB) for the main desktop and a 500GB for the laptop and did clean installs of 10.04 on both systems. I *tried* to upgrade 6.06 to 8.04... was not pretty... Now I do clean installs.
> Please hurry up, November...
I pray to God that I'm wrong about this.. But I am to the point where I am VERY afraid sometime between now and November Comrade Obama and his ilk will orchestrate some incident that will cause martial law to be declared, the elections "postponed".. Of course, since the only media other than "Pravda", that doesn't carry the "party-line" being the Internet, It will have to be shut down or severely curtailed.. If this happens, America as we've known it is dead...
This sliding a "kill-switch" into an unrelated bill that both sides want is just the kind of slimy underhanded tricks these CONgresscritters like to pull..
1950... Get Off My.... what was I thinking about???
Just when you think you've heard the most sickening thing, somebody comes along and shows you graphically ...you were wrong...
yep.. gotta agree there.. I'm a recently unemployed network tech, and I spend quite a bit of time at my local Starbucks.. Since I have an OpenVPN and a Squid proxy set up on my home network, I figure I'm pretty secure from the "sniffers".. As for local storage, I use Ubuntu 10.04 with a Truecrypt volume on an SDCard...
>This is why places like Starbucks charge for there internet..
Umm.. Don't know where you've been but since July 1, I believe, Starbucks wifi has become free/unlimited, and before that, it was
free for 2 hrs if you had a Starbucks card...
The company I used to work for bought Dell exclusively (Optiplex GX-series towers). Since we had our own Acronis SnapDeploy image we apply to each machine during acceptance, we always ordered the machines specifically withOUT the recovery media. There is a checkbox in the online order form for that very choice.. Guess what? every flippin' machine on every order since I started working there over 5 years ago, came with an XP-Pro "green" recovery disk or recently, a brown Vista/Win7 DVD. Before I left the company I had a stack of those disks about a foot high.... Go figure...
>Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained.
What a crock! If you are detained from going about your business, you are ARRESTED!! This kind of crap really makes me embarrassed to be an American...
The progressive media has already started the "smear-campaign" against the Teaparty movement. I hope I'm wrong, but I have a funny feeling, come November, if it appears that a lot of the democrat incumbants who are up for re-election are getting trounced in the polls, that Comrade Obama, as CinC, will rustle up a nice little staged "incident", and declare Martial law.. There goes the elections, and there goes the USA down the shithole... It wouldn't take much, something on the order of Waco or the like... Then the good old USA then becomes the USSA........