Yep, they are in the stores now. I know, because I bought one yesterday at Stay-Pulls.
I cut it open, stopped by the library (to check how some sites that I built look on IE) and tested it on the MS Windoze machines. Worked fine, but there was extra junk on it. I had not yet RTFM.
I took it home and it did not mount on my Linux box. I RTFM, but it didn't say anything spcific about not running on Linux. A quick call (that was promptly answered) to the tech line confirmed IT DOES NOT PLAY NICE WITH LINUX note: I assumed the everything but the funky DRM crap would work fine on Linux, because it says everything but the DRM crap will work on the Mac. Wrong.
I took it back. Exchanged it for a cheapie other brand.
...39 amps hu?
you may want look at your manual again, 39A clocks in at 4485W (assuming 115VAC) and close to half of the power capacity of most homes;-)
you are right sir, I don't know why you were modded down. I meant watts, not amps. The current exact power usage fluxuates slightly with room temp and disk access. right now it's at 30 watts or.41 amps
Second that. If it was not true, you would see more published specs for power consumption. I hate that there aren't more published specs.
power is cheap, my post on a different thread explained how I know my PII is only costing me about $26.53 a year, no problem if it's coming from a wall socket, but very important if you are pulling that from a bank of batteries.
It's also converting electrical power to heat at a 100% efficiency ratio, something else to keep in mind. I have a 30 watt electrical heater in the room 24x7x365.
I'm running a PII right now as my firewall/server. It's running headless and is currently drawing 39 amps according to my Kill-A-Watt.
Stepping over to it right now, I see I've used 14.63 KWH in 483 hours, about 3/10th of a cent per hour if the juice is priced at 10 cents a KWH.
Total cost, bought used was $40 (about the same as the Kill-a-Watt)
my current setup uses a small HDD (4GB) to boot up off of and mount an 80GB drive that the bios can't see
Or you could just make two partitions on your 200 GB drive, a small boot one that the bios can handle and a larger one for storage
under Edit:Preferences:Privacy, select the twisty for cookies and check "allow sites to set cookies" and "for the original site only"
Install extention "CookieCuller" and "Add 'n Edit cookies"
go to google.com and set your prefrences
using "add n edit" zero out the google cookie; change the first 16 hex digits to 0
use "cookieculler" protect this cookie, and any other cookies that you find useful
set "cookieculler" to delete unprotected cookies on startup (you must do it this way, don't upchuck cookies on shutdown)
use extention Flashblock to stop those annoying flash logos and help prevent "flash cookies"
use adblock and a good filterset (google for it)
(this last step is not really necceary, but it assures me that if google ever targets ads to me because I'm tech savvy and I've zeroed out my google cookie, at the very least, I'll never see them!)
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I cut it open, stopped by the library (to check how some sites that I built look on IE) and tested it on the MS Windoze machines. Worked fine, but there was extra junk on it. I had not yet RTFM.
I took it home and it did not mount on my Linux box. I RTFM, but it didn't say anything spcific about not running on Linux. A quick call (that was promptly answered) to the tech line confirmed IT DOES NOT PLAY NICE WITH LINUX note: I assumed the everything but the funky DRM crap would work fine on Linux, because it says everything but the DRM crap will work on the Mac. Wrong.
I took it back. Exchanged it for a cheapie other brand.
Second that. If it was not true, you would see more published specs for power consumption. I hate that there aren't more published specs. power is cheap, my post on a different thread explained how I know my PII is only costing me about $26.53 a year, no problem if it's coming from a wall socket, but very important if you are pulling that from a bank of batteries. It's also converting electrical power to heat at a 100% efficiency ratio, something else to keep in mind. I have a 30 watt electrical heater in the room 24x7x365.
why zero out the google cookie? http://www.imilly.com/google-cookie.htm
This is what I do.
use Firefox
under Edit:Preferences:Privacy, select the twisty for cookies and check "allow sites to set cookies" and "for the original site only"
Install extention "CookieCuller" and "Add 'n Edit cookies"
go to google.com and set your prefrences
using "add n edit" zero out the google cookie; change the first 16 hex digits to 0
use "cookieculler" protect this cookie, and any other cookies that you find useful
set "cookieculler" to delete unprotected cookies on startup (you must do it this way, don't upchuck cookies on shutdown)
use extention Flashblock to stop those annoying flash logos and help prevent "flash cookies"
use adblock and a good filterset (google for it)
(this last step is not really necceary, but it assures me that if google ever targets ads to me because I'm tech savvy and I've zeroed out my google cookie, at the very least, I'll never see them!)