I have a 5M cable and have found that Bittorrent is not always the fastest. In general, I find http download to be much faster. The advantage of bittorrent is that the link is more reliable than other p2p sharing programs where you can easily get disconnected. Of course this is assuming that the file in question is popular. If not then it is no better.
Yup. love the show. Bunch of us here at work are watching it. If anything we are building hype for others in the office who will watch it in January. For me, I would love if the local Cable provider (Rogers) would set up on their Rogers on Demand the ability to watch shows from the previous day even with the commercials intact. Hell give you the option of watching them all first before the show starts.
But couldn't you say that it wouldn't install so it must be faulty:)
Personally, I like Steam. It is a glimpse into the future of Software distribution. I bought HL2 Silver yesterday using Steam. Right now I am making a backup as I type
Note they said on their servers not their workstation/home computers. They have seen the writing on the wall with regards to the Itaniam series not being supported by MS and their 2k3 cluster edition. Chances are they told Intel to suck it and that they would only allow inroads with the AMD in their server line. When you are the number one computer seller you have to have some perks
It might also be the lack of a support for a third party software. The Canadian government had decided that the approved software for encrypting and signing was Entrust's suite. When it came to picking an OS, Linux fell short.
Personally, I think that is putting the cart before the horse but I voted for Kodos.
I think the reason that the there has not been a successor to the SR-71 is due to the quality of optics on satellites. Plus the fact that something in orbit is more difficult to shoot down. Course this is an unedu-ma-cated observation and may be completely inaccurate.
I found that shortly after posting. I checked and I had a Thompson drive. I ended up buying a used game yesterday from Electronics Boutique and renting one from Blockbuster. Neither would play on it. I ended up going to where I bought it and told them about the class action lawsuit and they were nice enough to replace the one I bought with a new one. As it was after the typical 30 day return policy I was supposed to contact Microsoft but they took it instead and labeled it as a defect and gave me a new one.
For the first time I have got an 2 year extended warranty (bought it today) and I think it may actually have been a good idea
Is there any way of finding out which DVD drive your XBox has without voiding the warranty? I too have been getting "The disk may be dirty" errors every once in a while. I only bought it about a month ago.
You could always set up IPSec and telnet on a 2003 box. Using NetSh and vbscript you can do a buttload of admin work. MS has recognized that not everyone wants to use a gui or may want some automated method of managing multiple boxes.
It does come with music manager software but that still on the CD. Perhaps it stores music on the device in this MPY format.
Exactly. They created a plugin that converted the MP3 to MPY but the only application that supported it was Music Manager. Which I absolutely hate. I was happy as a pig in sh!t when the belt clip broke and took the mp3 player with it when it hit the ground. I ended up buying a Rio Cali and love it.
For me there is no interest in getting an iPod. They are pretty looking and have a whizbang interface but I only use my mp3 player for running and find them too heavy. Plus I have about 260M on my Rio Cali and have about 30M free. There is only certain songs I can run to and I have not found enough to fill it yet. I maybe add and remove songs maybe once a month so the copying up doesn't bother me. One of the things the Lyra annoyed me with was that if I had an SD card in, I could only see the SD Card content. With the Cali I get two drives one for internal and one for SD.
The whole MPY thing was the most annoying thing. I would only use MusicManager when I needed to convert songs to MPY and then I would copy them back onto my computer.
But how many people have a gigabit internet connection for their SOHO? Sooner or later there is a bottleneck and even if you have a gigabit switch in a SOHO there is no reason to have to put in a firewall when the I/O for your Internet is probably 10M at most. Granted if you have a decent sized business a $50 linksys router may be a tad underpowered.:)
Busy? Most of the time I walk by there is maybe 3 or 4 people in there. (Course there are 2 stores in Ottawa Rideau Centre and Bayshore) Bayshore is never busy.
Can't see saving money on it. I can get a Linksys firewall/WAP for $39CDN. For a SOHO this would be way more than adequate plus allowing for expansion. Last thing I would want is to have to set up a computer to run as a router when there are perfectly turnkey solutions that minimize on maintenance and space costs.
I agree that MCSE was a bad name during the NT4 days where you read the books, get a copy of Transcenders and download braindumps and you could go and get your cert without ever installing the OS.
But right now I am updating mine for 2003 and they have really done a lot to cutting down on the above. It seems that they have gone through and made the questions hard enough that you really need to know how it works. Which is quite refreshing.
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I have a 5M cable and have found that Bittorrent is not always the fastest. In general, I find http download to be much faster. The advantage of bittorrent is that the link is more reliable than other p2p sharing programs where you can easily get disconnected. Of course this is assuming that the file in question is popular. If not then it is no better.
Yup. love the show. Bunch of us here at work are watching it. If anything we are building hype for others in the office who will watch it in January.
For me, I would love if the local Cable provider (Rogers) would set up on their Rogers on Demand the ability to watch shows from the previous day even with the commercials intact. Hell give you the option of watching them all first before the show starts.
But couldn't you say that it wouldn't install so it must be faulty :)
Personally, I like Steam. It is a glimpse into the future of Software distribution. I bought HL2 Silver yesterday using Steam. Right now I am making a backup as I type
Note they said on their servers not their workstation/home computers. They have seen the writing on the wall with regards to the Itaniam series not being supported by MS and their 2k3 cluster edition. Chances are they told Intel to suck it and that they would only allow inroads with the AMD in their server line. When you are the number one computer seller you have to have some perks
I would say that it would be easier (and better) for the 3rd party app maker should fix their application.
I don't. I found it much easier to play Halo with a mouse and keyboard.
No what really sucks is when you are using a Sidewinder ff joystick and get your ass handed to you by someone flying with a keyboard
Sorry it does work. The heart surgeon could give two shits about What OS is running as long as they can easily get their email. The app IS the tool.
Problem is that it isn't the computer that is the tool. It is the application within that is.
It might also be the lack of a support for a third party software. The Canadian government had decided that the approved software for encrypting and signing was Entrust's suite. When it came to picking an OS, Linux fell short.
Personally, I think that is putting the cart before the horse but I voted for Kodos.
Sorry sounds like Kerry is going to concede. We welcome our openminded brothers from the South!
I think the reason that the there has not been a successor to the SR-71 is due to the quality of optics on satellites. Plus the fact that something in orbit is more difficult to shoot down. Course this is an unedu-ma-cated observation and may be completely inaccurate.
Oh and the new one is a Philips and can read the new games that my old one wouldn't
I found that shortly after posting. I checked and I had a Thompson drive. I ended up buying a used game yesterday from Electronics Boutique and renting one from Blockbuster. Neither would play on it. I ended up going to where I bought it and told them about the class action lawsuit and they were nice enough to replace the one I bought with a new one. As it was after the typical 30 day return policy I was supposed to contact Microsoft but they took it instead and labeled it as a defect and gave me a new one.
For the first time I have got an 2 year extended warranty (bought it today) and I think it may actually have been a good idea
Thanks for the help!
Is there any way of finding out which DVD drive your XBox has without voiding the warranty? I too have been getting "The disk may be dirty" errors every once in a while. I only bought it about a month ago.
You could always set up IPSec and telnet on a 2003 box. Using NetSh and vbscript you can do a buttload of admin work. MS has recognized that not everyone wants to use a gui or may want some automated method of managing multiple boxes.
It does come with music manager software but that still on the CD. Perhaps it stores music on the device in this MPY format.
Exactly. They created a plugin that converted the MP3 to MPY but the only application that supported it was Music Manager. Which I absolutely hate. I was happy as a pig in sh!t when the belt clip broke and took the mp3 player with it when it hit the ground. I ended up buying a Rio Cali and love it.
For me there is no interest in getting an iPod. They are pretty looking and have a whizbang interface but I only use my mp3 player for running and find them too heavy. Plus I have about 260M on my Rio Cali and have about 30M free. There is only certain songs I can run to and I have not found enough to fill it yet. I maybe add and remove songs maybe once a month so the copying up doesn't bother me.
One of the things the Lyra annoyed me with was that if I had an SD card in, I could only see the SD Card content. With the Cali I get two drives one for internal and one for SD.
The whole MPY thing was the most annoying thing. I would only use MusicManager when I needed to convert songs to MPY and then I would copy them back onto my computer.
In other words, there is no plot, and the movie is set in several hallways and rooms that look identical to the one in the last scene.
So you are saying that they are doing a movie based on Halo?
The thumbnail means you have one of the Power toys installed. Normally all you get is the icon from a default install.
But how many people have a gigabit internet connection for their SOHO? Sooner or later there is a bottleneck and even if you have a gigabit switch in a SOHO there is no reason to have to put in a firewall when the I/O for your Internet is probably 10M at most. :)
Granted if you have a decent sized business a $50 linksys router may be a tad underpowered.
Busy? Most of the time I walk by there is maybe 3 or 4 people in there. (Course there are 2 stores in Ottawa Rideau Centre and Bayshore) Bayshore is never busy.
Can't see saving money on it. I can get a Linksys firewall/WAP for $39CDN. For a SOHO this would be way more than adequate plus allowing for expansion. Last thing I would want is to have to set up a computer to run as a router when there are perfectly turnkey solutions that minimize on maintenance and space costs.
You could probably get rid of the Linux box by using VMWare.
I didn't find PCA 10.5 too bad. Try remote console into a workstation over a 64k satellite link :) Painful but not as bad as I would have expected.
I agree that MCSE was a bad name during the NT4 days where you read the books, get a copy of Transcenders and download braindumps and you could go and get your cert without ever installing the OS.
But right now I am updating mine for 2003 and they have really done a lot to cutting down on the above. It seems that they have gone through and made the questions hard enough that you really need to know how it works. Which is quite refreshing.