I have a buddy at work that says he did it, email me and I'll see if A.) He's telling the truth and B.) How to do it.
No promises, but he's a smart kid.
You could do what I did, I have an Ipaq with the dual PC Card (PCMCIA) jacket. It's 3 batteries all together basically. Battery life is like an hour or so, so its still not hot. Not for the 150$ the jacket costs.
You forgot one of the best file trading platforms out there. ClubPIE (Practically Illegal Entertainment). Yeah, it charges a few bucks ($3.95/month USD) but it offers everything, movies, pictures, mp3s, what have you. I'm logged on right now and it says "430564 Users online, sharing 201872.6 GB". Over 201,000 gigs! It's the best 3.95/month I've ever spent. So far in the past week there hasnt been anything I searched for that I couldnt get.
Not only that the UI is great, it automatically lumps your mp3s in groups, by artist name or genre, and it seems to be really intelligent in how it organizes the names. Add to that the fact that you can view movies or mp3s inside the software itself in a much more intelligent way then Nap* it's beautiful. I recommend you check it out.
No, I don't work for them either. I just ran into it the other week.
Don't knock Compaq to bad until you use their servers. We have a couple thousand of them in our DC and I can tell you, out of all the vendors we test (and tested) the Compaq servers are some of the finest designed ones in the market.
The way I got into it was a local arcade was going out of business, I picked up an upright Top Gun machine for 300$, not to shabby. I found 2 really helpful sites out there. One is Namco Game Search and there is also US Amusement which not only auctions of arcade games, but Pinball machine, pool tables, and other misc stuff. (Pachinko anyone?) The beauty of collecting arcade games is literally the low cost. There are *ALOT* of games out there for under 1000$ USD. I ran out of space (and Im single in a 3 bedroom house) so I seem to land incredible deals now all the time =\. Have fun.
I don't know how you have it set up, but at the datacenter I work at, NAV gets installed automatically on all new machines. Norton has to be the worst enterprise virus protection scheme out there. Many a day a machine will crap out and we go up to it to see Norton running a scan in the middle of the day, even though it was told to do it at night. Oh, and then there was the time Norton updated itself and happened to install a DLL file that wasnt compatible with NT's virtual DOS machine. Wanna talk fun? Imagine 550 machine ground to a halt with a never ending array of "16 bit subsystem" error windows. I seriously research other solutions, from what I've seen these days, most companies are pretty hurt for sales and we get to try all the newest stuff for free. Maybe you can setup NAV to work right, we couldnt. Like I said, shop around. Don't get screwed like we did.
Yes, RadioShack. I just ordered a 3650 from them last week. They use a diffrent ordering system, and tend to have them available ALOT of the time. This link is to the 3635, but they do have the 3650 in stock. Call them up and ask them. I've had to order several, and each time I called the Rat Shack it was there.
I mean seriously, what in the hell is WRONG with everyone? Slashdot during a war? Geek Sex Tips?
Computers, Aliens, and frickin OPERATING SYSTEMS?
This is really starting to piss me off. I mean, is this Slashdot.org or SeventeenMagazine.com?
Sorry to rant, but this is downright disturbing, isnt there any GOOD news out there? Anything at all?
here in the boondocks of Kenosha, WI. Equi-distant (almost) between Chicago and Milwaukee I can get max DSL speeds of 7mbps down, 1mbps up. The technical "limit" on the lines right now. The cost? 300$/month from a wonderful company called DSLi.
I personally think that alot of the reasons you cant get more then 768kbps or what have you is that A. DSL companies don't want to have to support speeds above that because 2. There's a TOS in most cases which states that they have to keep those speeds as their part of the bargain C. They dont have the infrastructure necessary to support high speeds, especially if 10,000 people ordered 7mb connections. And D. There isnt a large enough demand. There really isnt.
The majority of John Q. Public is MORE then happy with a 768kb connection, or a 1.5mb connection, and cant justify having anymore. So you end up with few companies offering that speed in the US and offering it for a high price. Mind you, 300$/month for a 7mb/1mb DSL connect is a hell of a lot less then my friend who pays 800$/month for a frac t1, its still alot of cash for Inet service. And if they dont have a specific reason for it (I.E. Web server, FTP Server, Porn site, etc, etc) Then they dont want to pay that much.
Not to mention that althoug theres alot of fiber lying around, there isnt enough to support a massive infrastructure of 7mb connections without ferrying in major backbones and what not. I just got lucky as we have alot of fiber running through the Michigan/Indiana/Illinois/Wisconsin lake area, so they CAN offer these speeds here.
Opps, I read that and realized your right, and I didnt clarify myself, sorry.
The XP perfmon does dual graphs instead of multiple values in the same graph.. Say you can have Graph #1 show the proc time of your IIS services on one machine and graph #2 for the same on a diffrent machine.
So very similar, yet diffrent, get it?
Oh, and from what I've seen you can play them back. We use it with Crystal Reports though to graph certain values of our software across all machines, trying to find a bottleneck..
The one thing I really love about XP is the monitoring/administration aspect.
Take Performance Monitor.. In NT/2000 it cant do to much, sure it can save a set of stats to a csv or binary file, you can look at a machine live, but thats about it.
One of the best parts of XP is it's PerfMon.. It can write counter values to a SQL server, monitor 2 machines side by side..
I'm actually starting to enjoy monitoring and administrating Windows systems now.. And when you have over 2000, thats an amazing thing to say. Hell, the admin portion of Windows just keeps getting better and better. I love it.
Ok, I think this would be somewhat easy to do in the US.
Anywhere you can have a 2way cable modem it means there is "Fiber to the Curb", perhaps not literally the curb, but it is close to your home.
Now we know that DSL limits (now) are 7mbps down, 1mbps up. But did you know that cable theoretical limits are 50Gbps, full duplex?
Now why dont they have that kind of access? Noone needs it.. Really. Noone needs a 100mbps home connection. Especially with what the other/. users have said, the limitations of the internet itself. Plus, to attempt to bring every home user to a true 100mbps connection would require vast resources and investments in backbone technology.
I'm more then happy with my 2mb DSL, and in fact doubt I truly even need it anyway, so even if I was offered a 100mbps solution I doubt I'd take it.
(From the NTBUGTRAQ) Despite the fact that its a Microsoft Certificate (for all intents and purposes it appears as such), it WILL NOT automatically be trusted by
anyone's system. Even if you have previously stated that you want to trust all signed software from Microsoft, the fact that this one is a *different* Microsoft Certificate means you will still be prompted to trust it.
So it's still a big deal, but if you keep that little bit of knowledge in hand, you wont have to worry (to much)
I've got a few friends that work over at Fermi, they've been cutting back the work force to increase spending on their colliders. In fact they are working on one right now that will send a proton through the earth and collide in Minneapolis. Can't wait to see the results of that.
Just loaded up BearShare and GNUtella and went searching for these files, haven't found any yet.. Even connectiong to 100 hosts. Seems pretty localized, which is good. Let's hope it doesn't start going insane and end up on most people's computers. But then again, arent the majority of GNUtella users *nix anyway?
I don't think this will really catch on. THere would be such a huge out cry against, at least I know I will be crying. Besides, GPS is nice, but not 100% accurate all the time. What happens if you buy a new TV at the local Best Buy, theres a sun flare, and all of a sudden your TV dies because it thinks it is 14,000 miles away? I do think its a good idea in the military respect, especially weapons. Program it so that missle A can only be launched within 15 miles of XXXX. That would work nice to stop (or at least curb) arms trafficking.
Looks to me like it ships right away, at least it doesnt say anything about NOT shipping right away at the Shopping Cart check out. Pick all the top of the line options and its a tad over 2500$, including 1150$ for a 17" LCD. Not bad at all, in fact I consider it real good for the size. Even then docking unit that contains the CD/DVD ROM and the floppy looks tiny. To me it looks like a fully functional portable DVD player to boot. Love the S-VIDEO out. I was waiting for something to blow the xmas bonus on, this may be it
I'm sure a large part of it has to do with R&D. And dont forget the performance increase. Access times of >0.1 ms vs SCSI's lowest access time of ~8ms. And then theres the MTBF, whicah can reach upwards of 3-400% the MTBF of HDD's. Not only that, but theres diffrent types of ram they can us, and alot use non-volatile memory so the machine can be turned off, and still retain data. As for the uses of an SSD, well theres an SSD FAQ right here. And an even more in depth one (with design pictures and what not) over here.
Sort of. Its a SSD, but it connects to the SCSI2 interface on the Proliant 8500. 4GB of storage, but it isnt seen as a hard drive. What it does is as you boot and the OS loads it automatically starts caching everything to the SSD, when it gets full the controller uses the SSD as much as possible, while relying on the regular scsi drives when the info wasnt located in the SSD. Made SQL server scream though, real nice. 35,000$ though, so I doubt we will be getting alot of em.
Even better, if it does come out will it be worth it? Look at DVD-R's. My company owns one, as I have to run the backups on our Document Imaging server (Yay, OnBase... Yay, Hyland) and we use DVD. 4.7Gb of data, pretty nice. EXCEPT the damn 1x recorder cost us 5500$ a year ago, still goes for 5500$ and seems like it will always cost that. Not to mention there are no spec 1.9 discs out anymore because spec 2.0 is out, yet noone started making the 2.0 dvd-r's yet. So we had to hoard 2000$ worth of media and hope that someone starts making 2.0 spec discs before we run out of media. Yay, Us.
Outages every week? What a good IT department heheh. The company I work for has approx 1500 users accessing mail via Exchange. The only outage we had is when we built a new server with 8 Xeon 700's, 2.2GB ram and a half TB of storage. Thats it. I personally love exchange, especially with the advent of Outlook Web Access, allowing me to get my mail,contacts, whatnot via the web anywhere. I found it really slick and smooth so far. Yeah, we are an NT shop, but with due cause as it is. But I must admit, exchange is NOT as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Have it setup right by the right people. Now I know Ill prolly get modded down or something else, but sending a *nux guru to setup an Exchange server is like having an IIS God try to setup Apache. Sure, it can get done, but probably not the best way.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a buddy at work that says he did it, email me and I'll see if A.) He's telling the truth and B.) How to do it.
No promises, but he's a smart kid.
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You could do what I did, I have an Ipaq with the dual PC Card (PCMCIA) jacket. It's 3 batteries all together basically. Battery life is like an hour or so, so its still not hot. Not for the 150$ the jacket costs.
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You forgot one of the best file trading platforms out there. ClubPIE (Practically Illegal Entertainment). Yeah, it charges a few bucks ($3.95/month USD) but it offers everything, movies, pictures, mp3s, what have you. I'm logged on right now and it says "430564 Users online, sharing 201872.6 GB". Over 201,000 gigs! It's the best 3.95/month I've ever spent. So far in the past week there hasnt been anything I searched for that I couldnt get. Not only that the UI is great, it automatically lumps your mp3s in groups, by artist name or genre, and it seems to be really intelligent in how it organizes the names. Add to that the fact that you can view movies or mp3s inside the software itself in a much more intelligent way then Nap* it's beautiful. I recommend you check it out.
No, I don't work for them either. I just ran into it the other week.
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Don't knock Compaq to bad until you use their servers. We have a couple thousand of them in our DC and I can tell you, out of all the vendors we test (and tested) the Compaq servers are some of the finest designed ones in the market.
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The way I got into it was a local arcade was going out of business, I picked up an upright Top Gun machine for 300$, not to shabby. I found 2 really helpful sites out there. One is Namco Game Search and there is also US Amusement which not only auctions of arcade games, but Pinball machine, pool tables, and other misc stuff. (Pachinko anyone?) The beauty of collecting arcade games is literally the low cost. There are *ALOT* of games out there for under 1000$ USD. I ran out of space (and Im single in a 3 bedroom house) so I seem to land incredible deals now all the time =\. Have fun.
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I don't know how you have it set up, but at the datacenter I work at, NAV gets installed automatically on all new machines. Norton has to be the worst enterprise virus protection scheme out there. Many a day a machine will crap out and we go up to it to see Norton running a scan in the middle of the day, even though it was told to do it at night. Oh, and then there was the time Norton updated itself and happened to install a DLL file that wasnt compatible with NT's virtual DOS machine. Wanna talk fun? Imagine 550 machine ground to a halt with a never ending array of "16 bit subsystem" error windows. I seriously research other solutions, from what I've seen these days, most companies are pretty hurt for sales and we get to try all the newest stuff for free. Maybe you can setup NAV to work right, we couldnt. Like I said, shop around. Don't get screwed like we did.
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Yes, RadioShack. I just ordered a 3650 from them last week. They use a diffrent ordering system, and tend to have them available ALOT of the time. This link is to the 3635, but they do have the 3650 in stock. Call them up and ask them. I've had to order several, and each time I called the Rat Shack it was there.
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What's MS's new OS have anything to do with this? Is this part of .NOT? err.NET ;-)
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I mean seriously, what in the hell is WRONG with everyone? Slashdot during a war? Geek Sex Tips? Computers, Aliens, and frickin OPERATING SYSTEMS?
This is really starting to piss me off. I mean, is this Slashdot.org or SeventeenMagazine.com?
Sorry to rant, but this is downright disturbing, isnt there any GOOD news out there? Anything at all?
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here in the boondocks of Kenosha, WI. Equi-distant (almost) between Chicago and Milwaukee I can get max DSL speeds of 7mbps down, 1mbps up. The technical "limit" on the lines right now. The cost? 300$/month from a wonderful company called DSLi.
I personally think that alot of the reasons you cant get more then 768kbps or what have you is that
A. DSL companies don't want to have to support speeds above that because
2. There's a TOS in most cases which states that they have to keep those speeds as their part of the bargain
C. They dont have the infrastructure necessary to support high speeds, especially if 10,000 people ordered 7mb connections.
And
D. There isnt a large enough demand. There really isnt.
The majority of John Q. Public is MORE then happy with a 768kb connection, or a 1.5mb connection, and cant justify having anymore. So you end up with few companies offering that speed in the US and offering it for a high price. Mind you, 300$/month for a 7mb/1mb DSL connect is a hell of a lot less then my friend who pays 800$/month for a frac t1, its still alot of cash for Inet service. And if they dont have a specific reason for it (I.E. Web server, FTP Server, Porn site, etc, etc) Then they dont want to pay that much.
Not to mention that althoug theres alot of fiber lying around, there isnt enough to support a massive infrastructure of 7mb connections without ferrying in major backbones and what not. I just got lucky as we have alot of fiber running through the Michigan/Indiana/Illinois/Wisconsin lake area, so they CAN offer these speeds here.
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Opps, I read that and realized your right, and I didnt clarify myself, sorry.
The XP perfmon does dual graphs instead of multiple values in the same graph.. Say you can have Graph #1 show the proc time of your IIS services on one machine and graph #2 for the same on a diffrent machine.
So very similar, yet diffrent, get it?
Oh, and from what I've seen you can play them back. We use it with Crystal Reports though to graph certain values of our software across all machines, trying to find a bottleneck..
----------------------------------
The one thing I really love about XP is the monitoring/administration aspect.
Take Performance Monitor.. In NT/2000 it cant do to much, sure it can save a set of stats to a csv or binary file, you can look at a machine live, but thats about it.
One of the best parts of XP is it's PerfMon.. It can write counter values to a SQL server, monitor 2 machines side by side..
I'm actually starting to enjoy monitoring and administrating Windows systems now.. And when you have over 2000, thats an amazing thing to say. Hell, the admin portion of Windows just keeps getting better and better. I love it.
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Ok, I think this would be somewhat easy to do in the US. /. users have said, the limitations of the internet itself. Plus, to attempt to bring every home user to a true 100mbps connection would require vast resources and investments in backbone technology.
Anywhere you can have a 2way cable modem it means there is "Fiber to the Curb", perhaps not literally the curb, but it is close to your home. Now we know that DSL limits (now) are 7mbps down, 1mbps up. But did you know that cable theoretical limits are 50Gbps, full duplex?
Now why dont they have that kind of access? Noone needs it.. Really. Noone needs a 100mbps home connection. Especially with what the other
I'm more then happy with my 2mb DSL, and in fact doubt I truly even need it anyway, so even if I was offered a 100mbps solution I doubt I'd take it.
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(From the NTBUGTRAQ) Despite the fact that its a Microsoft Certificate (for all intents and purposes it appears as such), it WILL NOT automatically be trusted by anyone's system. Even if you have previously stated that you want to trust all signed software from Microsoft, the fact that this one is a *different* Microsoft Certificate means you will still be prompted to trust it.
So it's still a big deal, but if you keep that little bit of knowledge in hand, you wont have to worry (to much)
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I've got a few friends that work over at Fermi, they've been cutting back the work force to increase spending on their colliders. In fact they are working on one right now that will send a proton through the earth and collide in Minneapolis. Can't wait to see the results of that.
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Was that you? heheh
Yeah, he said it in her pants first.
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WOW!
Is this the first pair of pants to be Slashdotted?
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Just loaded up BearShare and GNUtella and went searching for these files, haven't found any yet.. Even connectiong to 100 hosts. Seems pretty localized, which is good. Let's hope it doesn't start going insane and end up on most people's computers. But then again, arent the majority of GNUtella users *nix anyway?
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I don't think this will really catch on. THere would be such a huge out cry against, at least I know I will be crying. Besides, GPS is nice, but not 100% accurate all the time. What happens if you buy a new TV at the local Best Buy, theres a sun flare, and all of a sudden your TV dies because it thinks it is 14,000 miles away? I do think its a good idea in the military respect, especially weapons. Program it so that missle A can only be launched within 15 miles of XXXX. That would work nice to stop (or at least curb) arms trafficking.
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Looks to me like it ships right away, at least it doesnt say anything about NOT shipping right away at the Shopping Cart check out. Pick all the top of the line options and its a tad over 2500$, including 1150$ for a 17" LCD. Not bad at all, in fact I consider it real good for the size. Even then docking unit that contains the CD/DVD ROM and the floppy looks tiny. To me it looks like a fully functional portable DVD player to boot. Love the S-VIDEO out. I was waiting for something to blow the xmas bonus on, this may be it
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I'm sure a large part of it has to do with R&D. And dont forget the performance increase. Access times of >0.1 ms vs SCSI's lowest access time of ~8ms. And then theres the MTBF, whicah can reach upwards of 3-400% the MTBF of HDD's. Not only that, but theres diffrent types of ram they can us, and alot use non-volatile memory so the machine can be turned off, and still retain data. As for the uses of an SSD, well theres an SSD FAQ right here. And an even more in depth one (with design pictures and what not) over here .
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Sort of. Its a SSD, but it connects to the SCSI2 interface on the Proliant 8500. 4GB of storage, but it isnt seen as a hard drive. What it does is as you boot and the OS loads it automatically starts caching everything to the SSD, when it gets full the controller uses the SSD as much as possible, while relying on the regular scsi drives when the info wasnt located in the SSD. Made SQL server scream though, real nice. 35,000$ though, so I doubt we will be getting alot of em.
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Even better, if it does come out will it be worth it? Look at DVD-R's. My company owns one, as I have to run the backups on our Document Imaging server (Yay, OnBase... Yay, Hyland) and we use DVD. 4.7Gb of data, pretty nice. EXCEPT the damn 1x recorder cost us 5500$ a year ago, still goes for 5500$ and seems like it will always cost that. Not to mention there are no spec 1.9 discs out anymore because spec 2.0 is out, yet noone started making the 2.0 dvd-r's yet. So we had to hoard 2000$ worth of media and hope that someone starts making 2.0 spec discs before we run out of media. Yay, Us.
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Outages every week? What a good IT department heheh. The company I work for has approx 1500 users accessing mail via Exchange. The only outage we had is when we built a new server with 8 Xeon 700's, 2.2GB ram and a half TB of storage. Thats it. I personally love exchange, especially with the advent of Outlook Web Access, allowing me to get my mail,contacts, whatnot via the web anywhere. I found it really slick and smooth so far. Yeah, we are an NT shop, but with due cause as it is. But I must admit, exchange is NOT as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Have it setup right by the right people. Now I know Ill prolly get modded down or something else, but sending a *nux guru to setup an Exchange server is like having an IIS God try to setup Apache. Sure, it can get done, but probably not the best way.
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Ok smartass, maybe it was a bad example hehe.
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