I believe he's talking about the GE Reveal bulbs. And I'd have to agree. A few months both bulbs in my office went out, so I ran down to the store and picked up a four pack of the 100 watt Reveal bulbs (only 2.99$). Brought em home, pulled one out - saw the weird pinkish coloring (could be pink, i dunno - im colorblind), decided to give em a try anway... And I was amazed.
The colors now are crisp and clear, and the price is just pennies or so above the normal cost of a 4 pack of regular bulbs. I went out and switched most of my house over, and will never go back! I used to think the headaches I got from staring at my PC all day was eyestrain, after I put these bulbs in they went away.
Amazing what a 30 cent change in lighting does, eh?
I agree to. Up until I quit awhile I go, we almost always worked holidays. My ex company dealt with the buying and reselling of real-time stock data, and as such are regulated by the SEC.
Heck, back in May of 2000 we worked the entire month because they were trying to fix one of our UPS'es. Come in Saturday at 2am, shutdown all 2500 servers. Come back Sunday at 6am, and start em back up.
Thats a month I never wish to relivev again, unless I'm hourly then!
I'm curious as if he has to tell the software the receiver's MAC address or if its hardcoded into the software. I'm assuming it comes with a "CD-KEY" of sorts that has the MAC addy embedded in it, or else your in for fun if you ever decided to get 2. (Like me, I have a nice system in my living room, and a really nice system in the basement with the big screen)
At work I use a Pioneer DVR-A03 IDE DVD-R. Currently the fast spec DVD-R can write is 2x. That's roughly 16x CD-ROM speed-wise (2.76mb/s write). I have no problems with it, and I write a lot of files to each DVD. In the range of 40-60,000 small files. Occasionally I've burned large multi-gig files to it to, without a problem. I've had it 4 months and only had 1 disk not burn properly. I also use my pc while its burning, and that hasnt caused a buffer under-run for me yet
Before that I had a SCSI 1x DVD-R, and it was hell to configure it, what with ASPI and what not. It would easily take me a week to set it up right, but with the A03 it was literally plug it in, install the software, start burning.
Don't dismiss IDE, it has it's advantages and with such a low data transfer, it doesnt make much sense to go SCSI for this.
That's the biggest myth out there. The faster the hard drive spins, the quicker the access time. Well, that is (for the most part) true with SCSI, it isn't with IDE. Let's take a look at 2 ATA/100 40gb drives by Seagate, shall we?
U Series (ST340823A) 5400 RPM seek time: 8.9ms
Barracuda (ST340824A) 7200 RPM seek time: 8.9ms
Wow, they are the same - so why should I go 7200 then? Simple. That 5400 RPM drive has a transfer rate of 376mbits/sec while the 7200RPM guy does 500mbits/sec. A good deal faster.
If your going to be moving a lot of big files, then the Barracuda is obviously the better choice. For a lot of small files, either one is fine. Or opt for a Cheetah 15k rpm SCSI drive, with a seek time of 3.9ms and 690mbits trans. rate.
But overall, the price between the 2 IDE drives is so slim as to be a no brainer, you can't go wrong with the 7200 rpm drive - whereas you could cripple yourself some with that 5400. So get the 7200.
Same here, a bunch of us from work all bought units the same day (about 10 of us) out of that, 4 have serious crashing problems while the other 6 (including me) dont have any problems. 50% of the machines seem to have problems, not good.
I work in the financial industry, so pretty much everything for us needs redundancy. We have our share of Compaq SmartArray 3200's and up. HP NetRAID xM's, and MegaRAID controllers. All are nice. But for our "desktop" servers, which is basically what you are describing to me, we use the Adaptec AAA-131U2 RAID controller.
It's fairly inexpensive, it does RAID0, 1, 0/1 and 5. It's single channel (all you need with 3 drives). It will take almost any EDO SIMM up to 64MB for it's cache. The only real downside is it only supports NetWare 4.11, 4.2, 5.0 SCO Unixware 7.0, and it's not hot-swappable. And the OS req. that's mainly for it's CIO Manager software, which only really alerts you when there is a failed drive. If you going to build a Win box, it's really the simplest choice.
Honestly, we have several years of use of these array controllers, never had one fail, never had one quit. In fact I've never had a problem with any of our Adaptec controllers.
I second that motion. We've used several diffrent DVD burners and by all means the Pioneer DVR-A03 has to be the best of em.
We where using one of their older drives that required the "DVD Media for Authoring". Those are 4-5 times more expenisve then the "DVD media for general use" the A03 supports. A 4.7GB DVD-RW sells for only 11$ over at CDW versus 25$ for the other, 4.7Gb DVD for Authoring.
IMHO at least, these services are superior to Napster in any way. I used the Morpheus client mainly, and loved it. Being able to preview mp3s/wavs in the client (like napster) and movies too (not like napster). Plus, in these guys your not limited to just.mp3s. You could search for mpeg, jpg, exe, wma, avi, you name it.
Plus, they tell you who has the biggest pipe according to them, not what the users says he has. I love it!
Speaking of sex.biz - as of 3:58am CST it's reported as not being taken by register.com. It'll say it is, but do a whois and is listed as "Not taken". Now how do you register a domain with a registar if all of the domains come back as "taken" even though they really arent?
On a side note, since I was looking up sex.biz, register.com gave me these alternative, untaken domains.
sleep-with.net
bedded.org
lie-with.net
liewith.net
adult-material.org
sex-activity.org
explicit-material.net
nude-gif.org
nudegif.org
be-intimate.net
beintimate.net
nudejpg.org
jazzing.org
naked-gif.net
effing.net
jazzes.net
gotosex.org
sexconnect.org
Gotta hand it to register.com for trying to make a few bucks on adult domains:)
I especially love it's "Thumb Board" keyboard. You don't see it unless you need it, real nice. More PDA maker's should think of this idea. I may get one simply because it would be a lot more useful then my IPAQ. Having an actual keyboard to type on is nice, even if its not full size you can still type on it faster then a virtual keyboard. Good job Sharp!
Heres a training class from Liberate.
It states: This course provides the basics for developing Java applications for the Motorola DCT-2000 set-top box running Liberate's Compact client software.
Now I don't know if thats what your looking for, but it sounds like it may be a new lead to chase down at the very least.
Even if your box doesn't use the Liberate software, they may be able to give you some helpful info. Call em a few times if you need to. It's been my exp. that if guy A doesn't know/can't help/won't help you usually need to call back no more then 4 more times before someone out there will give you a new lead to chase. Check it out.
Odd, I've never had that problem on my HP OmniBook 6000. It to uses an ATI Rage Mobility M1 8MB on a 15" SXGA+ TFT. The only game that is hell to play on it is Quake 3, other then that Tribes, UT, and most others work fine. Granted, I don't play a lot of FPS on the laptop, most of my gaming is done on the 2 hour train ride home, so a lot of RTS is done - no problems with it at all.
Maybe its the maker of the laptop that's the problem. My exp. has been great with these HP's, they really need to market them better. I feel bad for the other suckers on the train with their small screens and short battery times when I lug this 15" beast with 4.5hours of battery time.
For having a 1Ghz (700Mhz with SpeedStep), 30Gb HDD. 15" SXGA screen running at 1400 x 1050 I still manage to get almost 4 hours out of 1 battery. Add the other in and I can get over 7 hours. Mine may be a tad pricey, as I got every single feature out there, but it starts at around 1100$. Check it out
Agreed, HFNetchk essentially looks for Registry keys that state which patches are installed. If you use it, always use the '-z' switch, which tells it to not look for the registry entries. This makes it take a little longer, because it searches for actual files, but it's ALOT more accurate.
Also, eEye has a neat little NIMDA Scanner which will do up to a Class B net looking for exploitable machines. Sometimes finding a machine that COULD be infected is harder then finding the actual infected ones.
URLScan is nice, but you really need to know what your doing to run it, as it's easy to mess up a webserver thats running fine. But the most important thing to do is to get on those security lists, NTBugtraq, MS security lists, etc. As well as hitting the big security related sites out there before your morning cup of coffee to make sure nothing new has come up.
It's all basically common sense, but every now and then you need a nice reminder.
Does anyone have any real good studies of the productivity of working at home? I can do my entire job via VPN, and do it quicker. But since Im not a programmer, they dont feel inclined to do it, so I need to come up with a proposal. ANy help?
I did read the article. I saw this as a boom for Intel, seeing as there was already a chipset out there now that supports DDR SDRAM (Did misinterpet what Intel was releasing, didnt realize they were just support SDRAM). I say just let VIA sell the chipset. More P4 motherboards that can use DDR SDRAM, the more Pentium 4's out the door. Both companies win, and we win as consumers for having a P4 that will run the sub-1000 barrier. I guess I'm more the "Can't we all get along" kind of guy. *shrug*
Intel plans on releasing a chipset that supports DDR DRAM within a month or so ANYWAY, so whats the point of this fight? Does Intel make MORE money licensing the chipsets that use their processors then the processors themselves?
To me, at least, I think it's just that Intel got a little egg on their face and is now trying to use their muscle to halt it.
Thats why I like working in Chicago - theres an excellant public transportation system. You can live anywhere from Milwaukee, WI to Gary,IN and get downtown in no more then 90 minutes. I take the 90 minute route, so 3 hours of commute sounds bad. But most places around here let you count it as work. So I get to work at 9 and leve at 3 - not bad at all
And to think for me it all started with an AMstrad PC6400. 8088cpu, dual disk drives, and the kicker 640k of ram. (There was a 5200 model, but it only had 512k of ram). The first PC i took apart was that AMstrad, to put in the coprocessor (250$~). Everything was proprietary, from the monitor cable, to the mouse, to the keyboard. Then again, almost every vendor made its own little system. Nothing fit into anything else. Im so glad its the 21st century and theres so many agreed on standards that yu can take the same video card and put it in you PC, MAC, RISC etc and run it with virtually any os (at least in VGA mode)
Actually wasn't MS's TCP/IP stack not true to the full open standard set? From what I heard and seen around the net this they arent fully compliant with the standards until XP is released. And dont forget the Kerberos tickets in Win2k.. How they took a standard protocol, played with it, tack on "Microsoft" to the front of it and now they have "Microsoft Kerberos". Sure, you can authenticate to a *NIX box, but the *NIX box cant authenticate to your Win2k box.
I've used and worked for several cable modem ISP's. RoadRunner, @Home, Adelphia Powerlink, and I find that on the slowest days, they are still faster then 56k. Maybe not by much, but faster none the less. The main problems I had was frequent disconnects. With Powerlink, I used to lose synch regularly, for sometimes hours at a time. Thats the frustrating part. With a dialup, if your connection slows or drops all together, you just dial back in and hope to connect to a diffrent modem. With Cable, if you lose connection, you cant do much besides unplug your modem and plug it back it. If you dont get synch badck, oh well, wait. Same goes for DSL, but I've noticed that DSL is a lot more stable then cable overall. And I think it has a lot to do with the fact that you KNOW the bandwidth of your DSL, and it's harder to overload then with cable. From what I've seen, cable companies basically add on customers till the lines drop, then get more lines. Rinse, repeat.
Ok, so I talked to him and he said he didn't have time to fool around with it yet. But now I'm wondering... We have a drive duplicator that can do sector by sector copies, and even expand volumes to fill it. I'm wondering if I hooked the snap hdd up to it and try to expand it to a 40gb drive if it would work. Think it's worth a try?
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I believe he's talking about the GE Reveal bulbs. And I'd have to agree. A few months both bulbs in my office went out, so I ran down to the store and picked up a four pack of the 100 watt Reveal bulbs (only 2.99$). Brought em home, pulled one out - saw the weird pinkish coloring (could be pink, i dunno - im colorblind), decided to give em a try anway... And I was amazed.
The colors now are crisp and clear, and the price is just pennies or so above the normal cost of a 4 pack of regular bulbs. I went out and switched most of my house over, and will never go back! I used to think the headaches I got from staring at my PC all day was eyestrain, after I put these bulbs in they went away.
Amazing what a 30 cent change in lighting does, eh?
I agree to. Up until I quit awhile I go, we almost always worked holidays. My ex company dealt with the buying and reselling of real-time stock data, and as such are regulated by the SEC.
Heck, back in May of 2000 we worked the entire month because they were trying to fix one of our UPS'es. Come in Saturday at 2am, shutdown all 2500 servers. Come back Sunday at 6am, and start em back up.
Thats a month I never wish to relivev again, unless I'm hourly then!
24. is Reindeer Lake
25. is Chicago
26. is Colorado
I'm not really authorized to tell you how I know. Let's just say I'm Santa's travel agent..
DOH!
I'm curious as if he has to tell the software the receiver's MAC address or if its hardcoded into the software. I'm assuming it comes with a "CD-KEY" of sorts that has the MAC addy embedded in it, or else your in for fun if you ever decided to get 2. (Like me, I have a nice system in my living room, and a really nice system in the basement with the big screen)
At work I use a Pioneer DVR-A03 IDE DVD-R. Currently the fast spec DVD-R can write is 2x. That's roughly 16x CD-ROM speed-wise (2.76mb/s write). I have no problems with it, and I write a lot of files to each DVD. In the range of 40-60,000 small files. Occasionally I've burned large multi-gig files to it to, without a problem. I've had it 4 months and only had 1 disk not burn properly. I also use my pc while its burning, and that hasnt caused a buffer under-run for me yet
Before that I had a SCSI 1x DVD-R, and it was hell to configure it, what with ASPI and what not. It would easily take me a week to set it up right, but with the A03 it was literally plug it in, install the software, start burning.
Don't dismiss IDE, it has it's advantages and with such a low data transfer, it doesnt make much sense to go SCSI for this.
That's the biggest myth out there. The faster the hard drive spins, the quicker the access time. Well, that is (for the most part) true with SCSI, it isn't with IDE. Let's take a look at 2 ATA/100 40gb drives by Seagate, shall we?
U Series (ST340823A) 5400 RPM seek time: 8.9ms
Barracuda (ST340824A) 7200 RPM seek time: 8.9ms
Wow, they are the same - so why should I go 7200 then? Simple. That 5400 RPM drive has a transfer rate of 376mbits/sec while the 7200RPM guy does 500mbits/sec. A good deal faster.
If your going to be moving a lot of big files, then the Barracuda is obviously the better choice. For a lot of small files, either one is fine. Or opt for a Cheetah 15k rpm SCSI drive, with a seek time of 3.9ms and 690mbits trans. rate.
But overall, the price between the 2 IDE drives is so slim as to be a no brainer, you can't go wrong with the 7200 rpm drive - whereas you could cripple yourself some with that 5400. So get the 7200.
Same here, a bunch of us from work all bought units the same day (about 10 of us) out of that, 4 have serious crashing problems while the other 6 (including me) dont have any problems. 50% of the machines seem to have problems, not good.
I work in the financial industry, so pretty much everything for us needs redundancy. We have our share of Compaq SmartArray 3200's and up. HP NetRAID xM's, and MegaRAID controllers. All are nice. But for our "desktop" servers, which is basically what you are describing to me, we use the Adaptec AAA-131U2 RAID controller.
It's fairly inexpensive, it does RAID0, 1, 0/1 and 5. It's single channel (all you need with 3 drives). It will take almost any EDO SIMM up to 64MB for it's cache. The only real downside is it only supports NetWare 4.11, 4.2, 5.0 SCO Unixware 7.0, and it's not hot-swappable. And the OS req. that's mainly for it's CIO Manager software, which only really alerts you when there is a failed drive. If you going to build a Win box, it's really the simplest choice.
Honestly, we have several years of use of these array controllers, never had one fail, never had one quit. In fact I've never had a problem with any of our Adaptec controllers.
Just my 2 cents though
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I second that motion. We've used several diffrent DVD burners and by all means the Pioneer DVR-A03 has to be the best of em.
We where using one of their older drives that required the "DVD Media for Authoring". Those are 4-5 times more expenisve then the "DVD media for general use" the A03 supports. A 4.7GB DVD-RW sells for only 11$ over at CDW versus 25$ for the other, 4.7Gb DVD for Authoring.
IMHO at least, these services are superior to Napster in any way. I used the Morpheus client mainly, and loved it. Being able to preview mp3s/wavs in the client (like napster) and movies too (not like napster). Plus, in these guys your not limited to just .mp3s. You could search for mpeg, jpg, exe, wma, avi, you name it.
Plus, they tell you who has the biggest pipe according to them, not what the users says he has. I love it!
Speaking of sex.biz - as of 3:58am CST it's reported as not being taken by register.com. It'll say it is, but do a whois and is listed as "Not taken". Now how do you register a domain with a registar if all of the domains come back as "taken" even though they really arent?
:)
On a side note, since I was looking up sex.biz, register.com gave me these alternative, untaken domains.
sleep-with.net
bedded.org
lie-with.net
liewith.net
adult-material.org
sex-activity.org
explicit-material.net
nude-gif.org
nudegif.org
be-intimate.net
beintimate.net
nudejpg.org
jazzing.org
naked-gif.net
effing.net
jazzes.net
gotosex.org
sexconnect.org
Gotta hand it to register.com for trying to make a few bucks on adult domains
I especially love it's "Thumb Board" keyboard. You don't see it unless you need it, real nice. More PDA maker's should think of this idea. I may get one simply because it would be a lot more useful then my IPAQ. Having an actual keyboard to type on is nice, even if its not full size you can still type on it faster then a virtual keyboard. Good job Sharp!
Heres a training class from Liberate.
It states: This course provides the basics for developing Java applications for the Motorola DCT-2000 set-top box running Liberate's Compact client software.
Now I don't know if thats what your looking for, but it sounds like it may be a new lead to chase down at the very least.
Even if your box doesn't use the Liberate software, they may be able to give you some helpful info. Call em a few times if you need to. It's been my exp. that if guy A doesn't know/can't help/won't help you usually need to call back no more then 4 more times before someone out there will give you a new lead to chase. Check it out.
/me Kisses his DirectTiVo
Odd, I've never had that problem on my HP OmniBook 6000. It to uses an ATI Rage Mobility M1 8MB on a 15" SXGA+ TFT. The only game that is hell to play on it is Quake 3, other then that Tribes, UT, and most others work fine. Granted, I don't play a lot of FPS on the laptop, most of my gaming is done on the 2 hour train ride home, so a lot of RTS is done - no problems with it at all.
Maybe its the maker of the laptop that's the problem. My exp. has been great with these HP's, they really need to market them better. I feel bad for the other suckers on the train with their small screens and short battery times when I lug this 15" beast with 4.5hours of battery time.
is what I have, the specs are here.
For having a 1Ghz (700Mhz with SpeedStep), 30Gb HDD. 15" SXGA screen running at 1400 x 1050 I still manage to get almost 4 hours out of 1 battery. Add the other in and I can get over 7 hours. Mine may be a tad pricey, as I got every single feature out there, but it starts at around 1100$. Check it out
Agreed, HFNetchk essentially looks for Registry keys that state which patches are installed. If you use it, always use the '-z' switch, which tells it to not look for the registry entries. This makes it take a little longer, because it searches for actual files, but it's ALOT more accurate.
Also, eEye has a neat little NIMDA Scanner which will do up to a Class B net looking for exploitable machines. Sometimes finding a machine that COULD be infected is harder then finding the actual infected ones.
URLScan is nice, but you really need to know what your doing to run it, as it's easy to mess up a webserver thats running fine.
But the most important thing to do is to get on those security lists, NTBugtraq, MS security lists, etc. As well as hitting the big security related sites out there before your morning cup of coffee to make sure nothing new has come up.
It's all basically common sense, but every now and then you need a nice reminder.
Does anyone have any real good studies of the productivity of working at home? I can do my entire job via VPN, and do it quicker. But since Im not a programmer, they dont feel inclined to do it, so I need to come up with a proposal. ANy help?
I did read the article. I saw this as a boom for Intel, seeing as there was already a chipset out there now that supports DDR SDRAM (Did misinterpet what Intel was releasing, didnt realize they were just support SDRAM). I say just let VIA sell the chipset. More P4 motherboards that can use DDR SDRAM, the more Pentium 4's out the door. Both companies win, and we win as consumers for having a P4 that will run the sub-1000 barrier. I guess I'm more the "Can't we all get along" kind of guy. *shrug*
Intel plans on releasing a chipset that supports DDR DRAM within a month or so ANYWAY, so whats the point of this fight? Does Intel make MORE money licensing the chipsets that use their processors then the processors themselves?
To me, at least, I think it's just that Intel got a little egg on their face and is now trying to use their muscle to halt it.
Thats why I like working in Chicago - theres an excellant public transportation system. You can live anywhere from Milwaukee, WI to Gary,IN and get downtown in no more then 90 minutes. I take the 90 minute route, so 3 hours of commute sounds bad. But most places around here let you count it as work. So I get to work at 9 and leve at 3 - not bad at all
And to think for me it all started with an AMstrad PC6400. 8088cpu, dual disk drives, and the kicker 640k of ram. (There was a 5200 model, but it only had 512k of ram). The first PC i took apart was that AMstrad, to put in the coprocessor (250$~). Everything was proprietary, from the monitor cable, to the mouse, to the keyboard. Then again, almost every vendor made its own little system. Nothing fit into anything else. Im so glad its the 21st century and theres so many agreed on standards that yu can take the same video card and put it in you PC, MAC, RISC etc and run it with virtually any os (at least in VGA mode)
Actually wasn't MS's TCP/IP stack not true to the full open standard set? From what I heard and seen around the net this they arent fully compliant with the standards until XP is released. And dont forget the Kerberos tickets in Win2k.. How they took a standard protocol, played with it, tack on "Microsoft" to the front of it and now they have "Microsoft Kerberos". Sure, you can authenticate to a *NIX box, but the *NIX box cant authenticate to your Win2k box.
It seems banjo got /.'ed.
I've used and worked for several cable modem ISP's. RoadRunner, @Home, Adelphia Powerlink, and I find that on the slowest days, they are still faster then 56k. Maybe not by much, but faster none the less. The main problems I had was frequent disconnects. With Powerlink, I used to lose synch regularly, for sometimes hours at a time. Thats the frustrating part. With a dialup, if your connection slows or drops all together, you just dial back in and hope to connect to a diffrent modem. With Cable, if you lose connection, you cant do much besides unplug your modem and plug it back it. If you dont get synch badck, oh well, wait. Same goes for DSL, but I've noticed that DSL is a lot more stable then cable overall. And I think it has a lot to do with the fact that you KNOW the bandwidth of your DSL, and it's harder to overload then with cable. From what I've seen, cable companies basically add on customers till the lines drop, then get more lines. Rinse, repeat.
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Ok, so I talked to him and he said he didn't have time to fool around with it yet. But now I'm wondering... We have a drive duplicator that can do sector by sector copies, and even expand volumes to fill it. I'm wondering if I hooked the snap hdd up to it and try to expand it to a 40gb drive if it would work. Think it's worth a try?
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