I always build my own, stopping by Pricewatch to find the best prices.
But everywhere I look, places are building custom PCs now. BestBuy was even building pcs to order. They had many vendors, Alienware, hp, compaq, etc.... You could order a custom PC, or build your own with off the shelf items. CompUSA started to carry OEM products awhile back, funny to see those white boxed oem products on sale at a retail store.
We currently use 3 headed Solaris Boxes, and for windows we use citrix. We use NIS and NFS to mount a shared binary directory. We have a program we run from a command prompt that will give us the username/password. You can only see the command from the shared directory, and its not shared with non-noc people. It reads a file thats encrypted and not readable by the user. You cant copy the encrypted password file to your local workstation.
We do regular updates to passwords on routers/servers/etc. So we just update the file. Our NOC doesnt have root on the servers, they log into with a program that controls the permissions, kinda like sudo with server based auth. I dont want to mention the name of the program on slashdot...
For our engineers, we use a program for windows called "WinSafe" that loads a shared.dat file (encrypted) on a windows share. The share is only available to the engineers. Like any program, if you use weak passwords, you can do a dictionary attack on it. Winsafe is freeware.
Basically, a client program that reads an encrypted password file on an authenticated non-shared resource over an encrypted channel. - I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan
Monitors Pros: Cost Picture Quality is Better DVD & Movie playback (No ghosting) Ajustable Refresh (its not a con, when its selectable!) Ajustable resolutions
Cons: Size
Humm, Ill stick with my 22 inch flat screen monitor which is perfect. Ill use a LCD for when space is tight, thats it.
I personally use the Nvidia chipset. If I want to use video in, I use a mpeg2 capture card that does a better resolution and doesnt skip frames. For output, I do get nvidia cards (Asus) with video out, but I perfer ATIs video out. ATI displays a better picture on tv out, I can display 1024x768 (about 500 lines on svhs out) and its clear. Its visible that ATI has better compression and output to TV/SVHS. ATI also polish's their driver tools, they look better and have more functions. Nvidia is lean and mean with their tools.
I picked up a PNY GF4 4600 128 Megs, VIVO, (video in/video out). Not impressed with it over a GF3 Ti500. Check the benchmarks out and see what I mean. I cant tell the difference between 80 and 90FPS. The big part of GF4 was it running at 1600x1200 in 4x AA which the GF3 cant. 2X looks good enough for now.
If anyone cares about some Benchmarks on GF and CPUs. I tested 3 video cards and 2 cpus. GF2MX, GF3Ti500,GF4 4600 (128 meg), P3-800 and a AMD 1800. I could swear I had GF3 benchmarks on the P800, Guess Ill need to do that when I get home. I wanted to show how a slower CPU can play newer games with just an updated GPU.
First off, "will not play on a PC or a Mac" doesnt say DVD, Advanced CD players, or MP3/CD combo units.
My DVD player uses PC cdrom unit in it, it plays cds/vcds/svcds/mp3s also. I play my CDs on it all the time. It is not a PC. If a CD ruined my DVD player, Id take the company to small claims court, and talk to the local District Attorney.
Look at the episode guide. After the Temporal Cold War, Silik will bring the war to the Enterprise in S1E26. Its clearly the perfect setup for Wil to come back, as a time travler. Next season hasnt been filmed yet, Wil was just offered the role.
S1E11, Cold Front gs: John Fleck (Silik) Matt Winston (Daniels) Michael O'Hagan (Captian Fraddock) Joseph Hindy (Prah Mantoos) Leonard Kelly-Young (Sonsorra) James Horan (Humanoid Figure ("Future Guy")) rc: Silik
When the Enterprise comes in contact with an alien vessel transporting stargazers to observe a spectacular stellar event, Archer invites them aboard the ship not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them. Archer quickly realizes that Silik is engaged in a nefarious time-travelling mission and must stop him before he can tamper with the course of history.
b: 28-Nov-01 pc: ENT 111 w: Steve Beck & Tim Finch d: Robert Duncan McNeill
NOTE: The Suliban and the "Temporal Cold War" return in this episode.
S1E26 : Shockwave gs: John Fleck (Silik)
Synopsis Unknown.
b: 22-May-02 d: Allan Kroeker NOTE: Season Finale.
If I buy a CD, I can do whatever I want with it. Within Fair Use.
If I download a CD, I have to agree to an EULA. The EULA could have clauses about When/Where I can play the music. What Hardware/Software I can use. The duration I can keep the music. The amount of music I can keep. I cant even figure out the music format if its encrypted, due to the DMCA. Wheres the fair use?
Dont trust the record companies attempt at downloadable music. They are not anyones friends but the share holders.
Amen, I found a bug yesterday, the reply was upgrade from 1.3.1_02 to 1.4 JRE. I didnt even know 1.4 JRE was out! Fixed the bug.
Ive been using Mozilla and the nightly for months, after tricking sites that I use mozilla, mozilla works. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; Stupid Webmaster, support Mozilla)
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And if you where married with children, and you walked out, you would be "WinWhatWhere"ed by the child support enforcement agency. They track you all the time.
But anyways...
I run a squid proxy server for the family, it makes it easy to filter stuff from the kids, and speed up browsing. I ran a statistic program on it to see what stats would pop up. Little johnny likes to surf disney, Little Suzie likes warner brothers, etc.. But just looking I noticed there was alot of "Apartment" pages in cache. Not wanting to be paraniod I asked why she was surfing all the apartment websites. She could of gotten mad, but she understood I was working on the proxy. (Love them geek-chicks)
Also, I dont feel bad about monitoring my kids use on the Internet. They are all young, and I dont want them seeing goatse.cx....
What I mean, is TDMA 2G (TDMA) to 2.5G(GPRS) its a major network upgrade. From 2.5G(GPRS) to 3G(GSM) its a small hardware upgrad CDMA 2G (CDMA) to 2.5G?(CDMA2000) is a hardware upgrade. 2.5G?(CMDA) to 3G(GSM) is a larger network/hardware upgrade. (I'm not sure about the CDMA world)
Its hard to get all the phone vendors to offer their color 3G phones in cdma/tdma models. With 80% of the world being GSM, they only have to make small modifications to make the phones work on GPRS networks. Thats why those GSM phones are starting to show up on the ATTWS stores.
GPRS itself is a 3G style of network, but it is for data only (at least so far in the USA). GPRS is voice & data. CDPD was the data only model.
BTW, Smitty, check your journal for a private message.
Funny thing, Nortel and Lucent supply both every Wireless Telco. So thats a good thing if someone ponys up the bill for testing, then the other telcos can reap the rewards.
Really strange that Nortel/Lucent/Ericson/Nokia dont get more hype, they own the phone networks.
The 2.5G hardware is fully upgradeable to 3G. You don't have to deploy any more networks. Just a switch of hardware on a given night, and your market is fully 3G deployed. The first step for 3G is to deploy the networks and initial hardware. That's the biggest cost, the basic infrastructure, after thats its switching out hardware. Thats why ATTWS will be at 3G before sprint/verizon.
Your choice, upgrade now or upgrade later. With upgrading now, people with tri-mode phones are using thier british 3G phones here in the usa, NOW. So its GPRS, the end user doesnt know its GPRS, its thier GSM phone.
Really, isnt that the coolest thing? Color displays, high speed internet, I-mode, etc.. ATTWS has it out NOW due to GPRS. Sim cards are an awesome feature, you provision your sim card, and you can buy any phone, use any GPRS/GSM phone. Just drop in the SIM and go. It even holds your Addressbook.
So, ATTWS has it now, Verizon/Sprint will have it later. If you want the cool color displays, high bandwidth, GSM type phones, I-Mode offers, ATTWS has it now. Verizon/Sprint will have it later after they break CDMA. - I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
ATTWS, Cingular, Voicestream are building GPRS networks now, they only have to upgrade via hardware to full GSM. They are spending the money NOW to build the networks and hardware.
Sprint,Verizon have to do 2 steps to get to full GSM, This is a more expensive, and slower option.
I-Mode and WAP etc is all support by standard webservices, so all you need is an apache webserver to roll out the services. (Ok, some back end software but not the cost)
Really thou, how can you bang the hardware using java? Normally 3-4 years after the hardware is out, people start pushing the hardware to its extreme. Thats when the games truely shine. Will java be able to take in account all the extra features and use them? Then doesnt it break the "run anywhere" model?
Cool idea, I'd sure like to be playing Halo on my PC right about now.:)
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I always build my own, stopping by Pricewatch to find the best prices.
But everywhere I look, places are building custom PCs now. BestBuy was even building pcs to order. They had many vendors, Alienware, hp, compaq, etc.... You could order a custom PC, or build your own with off the shelf items. CompUSA started to carry OEM products awhile back, funny to see those white boxed oem products on sale at a retail store.
We currently use 3 headed Solaris Boxes, and for windows we use citrix. We use NIS and NFS to mount a shared binary directory. We have a program we run from a command prompt that will give us the username/password. You can only see the command from the shared directory, and its not shared with non-noc people. It reads a file thats encrypted and not readable by the user. You cant copy the encrypted password file to your local workstation.
.dat file (encrypted) on a windows share. The share is only available to the engineers. Like any program, if you use weak passwords, you can do a dictionary attack on it. Winsafe is freeware.
We do regular updates to passwords on routers/servers/etc. So we just update the file. Our NOC doesnt have root on the servers, they log into with a program that controls the permissions, kinda like sudo with server based auth. I dont want to mention the name of the program on slashdot...
For our engineers, we use a program for windows called "WinSafe" that loads a shared
Basically, a client program that reads an encrypted password file on an authenticated non-shared resource over an encrypted channel.
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan
LCDS
Pros:
weight
Cons:
Pixel Burnouts
Ghosting
Price
Viewable Angles
Native resolutions
Monitors
Pros:
Cost
Picture Quality is Better
DVD & Movie playback (No ghosting)
Ajustable Refresh (its not a con, when its selectable!)
Ajustable resolutions
Cons:
Size
Humm, Ill stick with my 22 inch flat screen monitor which is perfect. Ill use a LCD for when space is tight, thats it.
I personally use the Nvidia chipset. If I want to use video in, I use a mpeg2 capture card that does a better resolution and doesnt skip frames. For output, I do get nvidia cards (Asus) with video out, but I perfer ATIs video out. ATI displays a better picture on tv out, I can display 1024x768 (about 500 lines on svhs out) and its clear. Its visible that ATI has better compression and output to TV/SVHS. ATI also polish's their driver tools, they look better and have more functions. Nvidia is lean and mean with their tools.
I picked up a PNY GF4 4600 128 Megs, VIVO, (video in/video out). Not impressed with it over a GF3 Ti500. Check the benchmarks out and see what I mean. I cant tell the difference between 80 and 90FPS. The big part of GF4 was it running at 1600x1200 in 4x AA which the GF3 cant. 2X looks good enough for now.
If anyone cares about some Benchmarks on GF and CPUs. I tested 3 video cards and 2 cpus. GF2MX, GF3Ti500,GF4 4600 (128 meg), P3-800 and a AMD 1800. I could swear I had GF3 benchmarks on the P800, Guess Ill need to do that when I get home. I wanted to show how a slower CPU can play newer games with just an updated GPU.
AMD 1800 + GF4 4600 - 9697 3D marks - http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3157957
AMD 1800 + GF3 Ti500 - 8204 3D marks - http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=2777031
P3 800 + GF4 4600 - 6170 3D marks http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3167224
P3-800 + GF2 MX - 2368 3D marks http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=2929648
There is no overclocking done on these tests, but I did hit over 12000 3Dmark with minor overclocking.
First off, "will not play on a PC or a Mac" doesnt say DVD, Advanced CD players, or MP3/CD combo units.
My DVD player uses PC cdrom unit in it, it plays cds/vcds/svcds/mp3s also. I play my CDs on it all the time. It is not a PC. If a CD ruined my DVD player, Id take the company to small claims court, and talk to the local District Attorney.
To get more customers your going to annoy the hell out of them by altering thier browser.
/etc/hosts
humm..
cat >
127.0.0.1 www.unitedvirtualities.com
links is better.
Ya, nothing like sellion a gazillion records and owing the record companies money for advertising.
Ive bought games just for being banned in germany. :)
Hey, forgot to mention...
Vulcans have declared time travel to be impossible, according to T'Pol. Nothing like proving them vulcans wrong!
Look at the episode guide. After the Temporal Cold War, Silik will bring the war to the Enterprise in S1E26. Its clearly the perfect setup for Wil to come back, as a time travler. Next season hasnt been filmed yet, Wil was just offered the role.
S1E11, Cold Front
gs: John Fleck (Silik) Matt Winston (Daniels) Michael O'Hagan (Captian Fraddock) Joseph Hindy (Prah Mantoos) Leonard Kelly-Young (Sonsorra) James Horan (Humanoid Figure ("Future Guy"))
rc: Silik
When the Enterprise comes in contact with an alien vessel transporting stargazers to observe a spectacular stellar event, Archer invites them aboard the ship not realizing that Silik, a Suliban enemy, is among them. Archer quickly realizes that Silik is engaged in a nefarious time-travelling mission and must stop him before he can tamper with the course of history.
b: 28-Nov-01 pc: ENT 111 w: Steve Beck & Tim Finch d: Robert Duncan McNeill
NOTE: The Suliban and the "Temporal Cold War" return in this episode.
S1E26 : Shockwave
gs: John Fleck (Silik)
Synopsis Unknown.
b: 22-May-02 d: Allan Kroeker
NOTE: Season Finale.
If I buy a CD, I can do whatever I want with it. Within Fair Use.
If I download a CD, I have to agree to an EULA. The EULA could have clauses about When/Where I can play the music. What Hardware/Software I can use. The duration I can keep the music. The amount of music I can keep. I cant even figure out the music format if its encrypted, due to the DMCA. Wheres the fair use?
Dont trust the record companies attempt at downloadable music. They are not anyones friends but the share holders.
Amen, I found a bug yesterday, the reply was upgrade from 1.3.1_02 to 1.4 JRE. I didnt even know 1.4 JRE was out! Fixed the bug.
Ive been using Mozilla and the nightly for months, after tricking sites that I use mozilla, mozilla works. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; Stupid Webmaster, support Mozilla)
Why whould they change their EULA? Office is an additional sale. Since most PC's already have a version of Windows, M$ already made a double profit.
Also, tying their product to the OS would look like bundling. The dont need any more DOJ lawsuits.
Im really tired of the old saying
Linux = piracy
If someone was badmouthing M$, M$ Would step up with lawyers and lawsuits. Where is the people defending Linux?
I have to use exchange, its our standard groupware at work. Looks like I can run outlook at full speed now, not vmware. (My laptop is slow)
But heres the Rub, I would of migrated before XP, but after Cleartype, this great anti-aliasing is just too pleasing on the eyes all day.
Anyone know if Anti-aliasing is supported with the cross-over plugin?
I replied to someone about this the other day on the "Apple wants your input" article. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29971&cid=3219 401
And if you where married with children, and you walked out, you would be "WinWhatWhere"ed by the child support enforcement agency. They track you all the time.
But anyways...
I run a squid proxy server for the family, it makes it easy to filter stuff from the kids, and speed up browsing. I ran a statistic program on it to see what stats would pop up. Little johnny likes to surf disney, Little Suzie likes warner brothers, etc.. But just looking I noticed there was alot of "Apartment" pages in cache. Not wanting to be paraniod I asked why she was surfing all the apartment websites. She could of gotten mad, but she understood I was working on the proxy. (Love them geek-chicks)
Also, I dont feel bad about monitoring my kids use on the Internet. They are all young, and I dont want them seeing goatse.cx....
Check my journal for my email address.
What I mean, is
TDMA
2G (TDMA) to 2.5G(GPRS) its a major network upgrade. From 2.5G(GPRS) to 3G(GSM) its a small hardware upgrad
CDMA
2G (CDMA) to 2.5G?(CDMA2000) is a hardware upgrade.
2.5G?(CMDA) to 3G(GSM) is a larger network/hardware upgrade. (I'm not sure about the CDMA world)
Its hard to get all the phone vendors to offer their color 3G phones in cdma/tdma models. With 80% of the world being GSM, they only have to make small modifications to make the phones work on GPRS networks. Thats why those GSM phones are starting to show up on the ATTWS stores.
GPRS itself is a 3G style of network, but it is for data only (at least so far in the USA).
GPRS is voice & data. CDPD was the data only model.
BTW, Smitty, check your journal for a private message.
Funny thing, Nortel and Lucent supply both every Wireless Telco. So thats a good thing if someone ponys up the bill for testing, then the other telcos can reap the rewards.
Really strange that Nortel/Lucent/Ericson/Nokia dont get more hype, they own the phone networks.
No, GPRS is not 2G.
The 2.5G hardware is fully upgradeable to 3G. You don't have to deploy any more networks. Just a switch of hardware on a given night, and your market is fully 3G deployed. The first step for 3G is to deploy the networks and initial hardware. That's the biggest cost, the basic infrastructure, after thats its switching out hardware. Thats why ATTWS will be at 3G before sprint/verizon.
Your choice, upgrade now or upgrade later. With upgrading now, people with tri-mode phones are using thier british 3G phones here in the usa, NOW. So its GPRS, the end user doesnt know its GPRS, its thier GSM phone.
Really, isnt that the coolest thing? Color displays, high speed internet, I-mode, etc.. ATTWS has it out NOW due to GPRS. Sim cards are an awesome feature, you provision your sim card, and you can buy any phone, use any GPRS/GSM phone. Just drop in the SIM and go. It even holds your Addressbook.
So, ATTWS has it now, Verizon/Sprint will have it later. If you want the cool color displays, high bandwidth, GSM type phones, I-Mode offers, ATTWS has it now. Verizon/Sprint will have it later after they break CDMA.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
ATTWS, Cingular, Voicestream are building GPRS networks now, they only have to upgrade via hardware to full GSM. They are spending the money NOW to build the networks and hardware.
Sprint,Verizon have to do 2 steps to get to full GSM, This is a more expensive, and slower option.
I-Mode and WAP etc is all support by standard webservices, so all you need is an apache webserver to roll out the services. (Ok, some back end software but not the cost)
Will be interesting to see what happens.
I bet pong looks great on each.
:)
Really thou, how can you bang the hardware using java? Normally 3-4 years after the hardware is out, people start pushing the hardware to its extreme. Thats when the games truely shine. Will java be able to take in account all the extra features and use them? Then doesnt it break the "run anywhere" model?
Cool idea, I'd sure like to be playing Halo on my PC right about now.