There is unrest in the Galactic Senate
Several hundred solar systems under
the leadership of the rebel leader, Count
Dooku, have decalred their intentions to
secede from the Republic.
This separatist movement has made it
difficult for the limited number of
Jedi Kights to maintain peace and
order in the galaxy.
Senator Amidala, the former Queen of
Naboo, is returning to Coruscant
to vote on the critical issue
of creating an army to assist the
overwhelmed Jedi.
One thing I really REALLY need in a laptop that I am buying is no friggen OS pre-installed. I have only had self built PCs and even when I used windows... well, I got it the cheap way. Now, my copy of XP is a student license and I don't even use it - and I sure as heck don't want to pay for it twice when the price of the laptop is already pretty damn expensive. This is not a pro-linux troll - its a statement that I am a cheap bastard!
After that - price is my major litigating factor. I am just not in the money. The current laptop I am looking at can (humerously enoug) be found @ www.walmart.com. Since my girl works @ wal-mart I am hoping to get the 10% off it so its only a $900 laptop (p3 1ghz, dvd - not a bad little laptop for the price).
Built in 802.11b is important, bluetooth not so much - but I can live w/o tho since I can get the adapter
Quite often when we see things like this, the general consensous is "If it sucks this bad and is this stupid, people will not buy it." Well, I do not have that much faith in the masses. All it takes is one exclusive block-buster album to come out on this format for all the sheep to buy and VOILA, TNBT. So, this will be a good test so see if the public can withstand the crap...
Other then just clicking on the MS link, is there a site devoted just to the fuckups of MS? From calling the GPL cancer to dumb ass bugs like this, I would love a good site so that every time I see a post on shacknews that says "People just hate MS because everyone hates them, Windows 98 was fine and worked great for me"
"What is the hardest part of working in such a hard-core, community driven work sector?"
The idea for this question came with that article about Lindows and not releasing their source. I ask this here because of the hard core community that seems to side so staunchly on this KDE vs Gnome idea.
I have been doing work in a lot of Insurance Agency offices and a lot of them have war-dialers. THey start @ 9am CST and stop @ 5pm CST and start @ XXX-0000 and dial to XXX-9999. They generate reports and call back those that get machines at a different time of the day.
I HATE FUCKERS THAT CALL ME WITH THAT SHIT. It fucking drives me NUTS. Everyone I know hates that automated calling shit.
One office set it up 2 weeks ago and last week they had 4 appointments based off the calls and 2 new accounts created.
The other office I know that uses it averages 5 new accounts per month from that machine
We hate them - yet they are suprisingly effective and cheap to own/use
Quite simply Ive had RR here for 4 years now - and for those 4 years I have heard nothing but comercial after comercial telling me road runner is always on, unlimited speed. They tell me in comercials I can watch sports and instant replays, video email, and all that other jive bullshit.
When the company tells me shit (even via the marketing voice), is it insane for me to expect that? My cable modem is not "always on" due peak usage lag - and if this is implemented, its not unlimited.
$30/mo (now $35) over the course of 4 years is $1440 (and ive paid more then that). Also add two years where my mom has had road runner (720). We could also factor in all my friends and relatives I go on road runner but lets just leave me and my immidiate family. Thats over $2000. In 4 years I have transfered approx 545,000.00 MBs (Du Meter tells me that - and its approx because of my different OSes etc. but some of that does count local network traffic but its a pretty close approx).
Between my two households in that time, 545,000 MB is not a whole hell of a lot to pay $2000 for. Then, factor in all those households that I hooked up four years ago, telling them to get road runner. I checked one's router logs (had a 3 year uptime - thats pretty pimp imho) and they had transfered only 1 gig of traffic in a 4 year period. ONE. How many households are that or LESS?
In the grand scheme of things, they have to still be making money - or they would have stopped offering it a long time ago
I was in the middle of that comment when the server we were working on that took 9 hours to boot (or IPL if you are an IBM dork) changed so I had to run so I just hit post instead of waiting for it :
I love roadtrips. Damn, I love roadtrips. I have always thought it would be really cool to drive from Tierra del Fuego to South Africa. (Stopping throughout Asia, Russia, Europe, etc.) However, other then the sheer amount of time it would take, this crossing area was another big obstical. Quite frankly, I think a bridge that was passable over the pacific would just be damn cool. DAMN cool!
Anyways - they are not designed for office work - they are designed for "The Web" crap. ALU is the P4 weak point and ALU is what regular office work is all about
I have been using this AIW Radeon as well as the old AIW Radeon for a long time now and it is no where near the TIVO status. Why? I hate to say it / point out the obvious -- ATI's Drivers and Software suck. They are the major suck. Until 7.6 came out, when you fast forwarded you had no idea how many seconds / frames you skipped and it was never consistant. Also, pausing (the greatest TIVO feature imho) often causes crashes, as does pausing then playing then FF over comercials or slow parts. (This comes on a win98, win2k, and winxp boxes all that w/o TV card get months of up time, and the crashes are clearly TV card related). Their guide software, although free, is worth what you paid for it. Its total poo - and it takes forever to upload it. Also, recording on your PC from VCR (home movies anyone?) can be a real bitch if you dont read the rage3d faqs. The controls are also still very icky. The program scheduling and recording leaves much to be desired (if its going, thats all you get from your TV card - no way to record one show and watch another -- even if your machine has the horse power, this card does not). Then, to find out what show you have scheduled and whatnot, you have to find the tab in the options and thats a shitty interface to begin with. Also, when you install the MMC7.x which is required to give you the drivers for TV overlay and the program to watch TV, you get all kinds of other shit and program association take over (you can say not to install the shit but then when you play back recorded shows, they dont show right a lot of times w/o the ATI File Player)
Simply said - the card may be good - but the software leaves much to be desired - and it is far FAR from Tivo quality atm
(Please in the replies, if you know of good alternative software let me know - same if you know how to more or less make something of a decent tivo clone using an AIW + Linux)
I used a very expensive alluminum case and w/o the radiator and fans it was very VERY light. Adding the radiator, fan, and water did not add enough weight to it where it FELT heavier then your average case. My main rig however is a meter tall full tower w/ wheels. I thought about making it water cooled since I have more then enough space in here
However, there are a lot of the $40 newegg.com specials that if your two HDDs and CDRW + DVD are mounted in the 5.25" slots then you can removed the 3.5" hard drive bay (or dremel it out if you have to hold it there for a floppy drive) that give you pleny oh room for a radiator and fan. With proper securing mechanisms, that water rig will stay very tight during movement to LANs. Also, you can mount the Hard Drives in one of those silent holders that cushins the HDD so you wont have movement HDD issues to keep the case more protabale and even quieter.
I am a PC consultant / PC Builder / Small time business OEM provider / AMD Fanboy
Anyhoo, a company I do a lot of work for recently gave all agents brand spankin new Dells. While they are the shities P4s available and they are paired up with SDR mem - they are REALLY REALLY quiet. My trick of the trade is to get 1.2 GHz Durons and take the voltage down and underclock them, then they run nice and cool and there are some quiet fans out there and I use a nice sparkle psu that has a quiet fan on it, but I can still hear them in a small office. This P4 however is damn near silent. They have not been in dusty office environment long enough for me to tell you if the fans go over time, etc.
I know the computer lab @ my school (in the chem library at least) has a bunch of the almost same Dells (same hardware, different case) and its whisper quiet in there
You can do quiet cases with full clocked AMD AXPs - look for the screw mountable Zalman HSF @ www.2cooltek.com - it comes with resistors to slow / quiet the fan down. Good airflow / tied down wires help a lot to keep the case quiet. Also, check out the sparkle PSUs -- lots of power, little noise.
PPS - Silent water rigs are popular since only one fan is needed for the radiator and you can get pretty big fans that run nice and quiet
I said to her, sweety - I feel like im less of a man. I do not understand programing. I can not write Perl even. She told me it was okay... she still loved me anyways
These are OLD OLD OLD OLD Mofos. 9402-400 running V3R7M0. First snap off the front and back panels. Next, take off the top cover which has 2 7mm head screws. Then, take off the side cover which has two more screws. Now, take off the metal side cover which has 8-14 screws (cant remember but its a lot, all 7mm heads). Now, to add an ethernet card and expansion gate take off the back access pannel which is another 12 screws. The ethernet card is NOT some little PCI thing. It is a big mofo that slides into an expansion gate that you also have to plug in. This gate plugs into the mainboard via a ribbon cable and the ethernet plugs into the gate by snapping into place with the clips on the back.
IBM CEs will NOT come install this hardware for free - I specifically asked. They said it would have to be under billable time. There are no locks are stickers on the machines I worked with. There are not machines sitting at a place like Boeing, etc. Each independent agent I go to has his own AS400. The agents lease these machines. Manuals for checking and repairing are provided, I know because I used them.
The CPU card we pulled was not in any casing but it did hold the memmory and the CPU. It was handled VERY poorly by IBM techs and since it is not protected (the ethernet card was not exposed PCB. It had ESD protection all around it. The CPU card however was.
It is under warrenty but how the hell could we do that if we couldnt even get the thing to IPL? Also, just logging in as QSECOFR doesnt boom present you a menu that tells you what to do to get warrenty info.
But the main point of you arent suposed to open these things. Maybe the ones you have worked on but there are no such signs on these big bad boys.
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One key missing point that I noticed
Customers also called the 1800 best buy # and were told by persons that the price was correct
Also, IIRC - and it can be found on the hypothermia website - there were also a few stores that had IN-STORE wrong prices around the same time
There is unrest in the Galactic Senate
Several hundred solar systems under
the leadership of the rebel leader, Count
Dooku, have decalred their intentions to
secede from the Republic.
This separatist movement has made it
difficult for the limited number of
Jedi Kights to maintain peace and
order in the galaxy.
Senator Amidala, the former Queen of
Naboo, is returning to Coruscant
to vote on the critical issue
of creating an army to assist the
overwhelmed Jedi.
Lawyers will destroy the world before nukes could ever get launched and well before my 15mpg suburban assault vehical destroys the ozone layer!
Nip it in the BUD
You sir have watched too many episodes of Andy in Mayberry
One thing I really REALLY need in a laptop that I am buying is no friggen OS pre-installed. I have only had self built PCs and even when I used windows ... well, I got it the cheap way. Now, my copy of XP is a student license and I don't even use it - and I sure as heck don't want to pay for it twice when the price of the laptop is already pretty damn expensive. This is not a pro-linux troll - its a statement that I am a cheap bastard!
After that - price is my major litigating factor. I am just not in the money. The current laptop I am looking at can (humerously enoug) be found @ www.walmart.com. Since my girl works @ wal-mart I am hoping to get the 10% off it so its only a $900 laptop (p3 1ghz, dvd - not a bad little laptop for the price).
Built in 802.11b is important, bluetooth not so much - but I can live w/o tho since I can get the adapter
Revised as of April 16, 2002
Quite often when we see things like this, the general consensous is "If it sucks this bad and is this stupid, people will not buy it." Well, I do not have that much faith in the masses. All it takes is one exclusive block-buster album to come out on this format for all the sheep to buy and VOILA, TNBT. So, this will be a good test so see if the public can withstand the crap...
PS- Are there any plus sides??
Other then just clicking on the MS link, is there a site devoted just to the fuckups of MS? From calling the GPL cancer to dumb ass bugs like this, I would love a good site so that every time I see a post on shacknews that says "People just hate MS because everyone hates them, Windows 98 was fine and worked great for me"
"What is the hardest part of working in such a hard-core, community driven work sector?"
The idea for this question came with that article about Lindows and not releasing their source. I ask this here because of the hard core community that seems to side so staunchly on this KDE vs Gnome idea.
Not neccessarily
If my Rep was taking a big crap when the vote took place, he may have missed it and thus never voted for it
I have been doing work in a lot of Insurance Agency offices and a lot of them have war-dialers. THey start @ 9am CST and stop @ 5pm CST and start @ XXX-0000 and dial to XXX-9999. They generate reports and call back those that get machines at a different time of the day.
I HATE FUCKERS THAT CALL ME WITH THAT SHIT. It fucking drives me NUTS. Everyone I know hates that automated calling shit.
One office set it up 2 weeks ago and last week they had 4 appointments based off the calls and 2 new accounts created.
The other office I know that uses it averages 5 new accounts per month from that machine
We hate them - yet they are suprisingly effective and cheap to own/use
I dont feel bad because I am paying for it
People here keep saying stuff like oh they hog it and are stealing it
wth?
I am paying for my broadband
these issues didnt seem so important when there was all that talk of 802.11b'ing your neighborhood
Quite simply Ive had RR here for 4 years now - and for those 4 years I have heard nothing but comercial after comercial telling me road runner is always on, unlimited speed. They tell me in comercials I can watch sports and instant replays, video email, and all that other jive bullshit.
When the company tells me shit (even via the marketing voice), is it insane for me to expect that? My cable modem is not "always on" due peak usage lag - and if this is implemented, its not unlimited.
$30/mo (now $35) over the course of 4 years is $1440 (and ive paid more then that). Also add two years where my mom has had road runner (720). We could also factor in all my friends and relatives I go on road runner but lets just leave me and my immidiate family. Thats over $2000. In 4 years I have transfered approx 545,000.00 MBs (Du Meter tells me that - and its approx because of my different OSes etc. but some of that does count local network traffic but its a pretty close approx).
Between my two households in that time, 545,000 MB is not a whole hell of a lot to pay $2000 for. Then, factor in all those households that I hooked up four years ago, telling them to get road runner. I checked one's router logs (had a 3 year uptime - thats pretty pimp imho) and they had transfered only 1 gig of traffic in a 4 year period. ONE. How many households are that or LESS?
In the grand scheme of things, they have to still be making money - or they would have stopped offering it a long time ago
Thank you for continuing this
I was in the middle of that comment when the server we were working on that took 9 hours to boot (or IPL if you are an IBM dork) changed so I had to run so I just hit post instead of waiting for it :
Reading his rant you would know that yes, any auto-updater has these potential risks but why Kazaa?
1: Shitload of users (lots more then RHN and WinUpdate, etc.)
2: Likelyhood that there is no security authentication (dig sigs, etc).
I am truely sorry I am banned from moderating and I wish I had some mod points
This made me giggle like a girl
I love roadtrips. Damn, I love roadtrips. I have always thought it would be really cool to drive from Tierra del Fuego to South Africa. (Stopping throughout Asia, Russia, Europe, etc.) However, other then the sheer amount of time it would take, this crossing area was another big obstical. Quite frankly, I think a bridge that was passable over the pacific would just be damn cool. DAMN cool!
That heat thing has not been debunked yet?
Anyways - they are not designed for office work - they are designed for "The Web" crap. ALU is the P4 weak point and ALU is what regular office work is all about
I have been using this AIW Radeon as well as the old AIW Radeon for a long time now and it is no where near the TIVO status. Why? I hate to say it / point out the obvious -- ATI's Drivers and Software suck. They are the major suck. Until 7.6 came out, when you fast forwarded you had no idea how many seconds / frames you skipped and it was never consistant. Also, pausing (the greatest TIVO feature imho) often causes crashes, as does pausing then playing then FF over comercials or slow parts. (This comes on a win98, win2k, and winxp boxes all that w/o TV card get months of up time, and the crashes are clearly TV card related). Their guide software, although free, is worth what you paid for it. Its total poo - and it takes forever to upload it.
Also, recording on your PC from VCR (home movies anyone?) can be a real bitch if you dont read the rage3d faqs.
The controls are also still very icky. The program scheduling and recording leaves much to be desired (if its going, thats all you get from your TV card - no way to record one show and watch another -- even if your machine has the horse power, this card does not). Then, to find out what show you have scheduled and whatnot, you have to find the tab in the options and thats a shitty interface to begin with.
Also, when you install the MMC7.x which is required to give you the drivers for TV overlay and the program to watch TV, you get all kinds of other shit and program association take over (you can say not to install the shit but then when you play back recorded shows, they dont show right a lot of times w/o the ATI File Player)
Simply said - the card may be good - but the software leaves much to be desired - and it is far FAR from Tivo quality atm
(Please in the replies, if you know of good alternative software let me know - same if you know how to more or less make something of a decent tivo clone using an AIW + Linux)
Well, I have built me one water rig
I used a very expensive alluminum case and w/o the radiator and fans it was very VERY light. Adding the radiator, fan, and water did not add enough weight to it where it FELT heavier then your average case. My main rig however is a meter tall full tower w/ wheels. I thought about making it water cooled since I have more then enough space in here
However, there are a lot of the $40 newegg.com specials that if your two HDDs and CDRW + DVD are mounted in the 5.25" slots then you can removed the 3.5" hard drive bay (or dremel it out if you have to hold it there for a floppy drive) that give you pleny oh room for a radiator and fan. With proper securing mechanisms, that water rig will stay very tight during movement to LANs. Also, you can mount the Hard Drives in one of those silent holders that cushins the HDD so you wont have movement HDD issues to keep the case more protabale and even quieter.
I am a PC consultant / PC Builder / Small time business OEM provider / AMD Fanboy
Anyhoo, a company I do a lot of work for recently gave all agents brand spankin new Dells. While they are the shities P4s available and they are paired up with SDR mem - they are REALLY REALLY quiet. My trick of the trade is to get 1.2 GHz Durons and take the voltage down and underclock them, then they run nice and cool and there are some quiet fans out there and I use a nice sparkle psu that has a quiet fan on it, but I can still hear them in a small office. This P4 however is damn near silent. They have not been in dusty office environment long enough for me to tell you if the fans go over time, etc.
I know the computer lab @ my school (in the chem library at least) has a bunch of the almost same Dells (same hardware, different case) and its whisper quiet in there
You can do quiet cases with full clocked AMD AXPs - look for the screw mountable Zalman HSF @ www.2cooltek.com - it comes with resistors to slow / quiet the fan down. Good airflow / tied down wires help a lot to keep the case quiet. Also, check out the sparkle PSUs -- lots of power, little noise.
PPS - Silent water rigs are popular since only one fan is needed for the radiator and you can get pretty big fans that run nice and quiet
r7 had this and a few other security issues
... but so is FTP and about a billion other things
you can still brute force passwords tho in r9 (windows) and even the latest Nix servers
Of course VNC is a security issue
How long till this comment is removed (as it should be) by the secret service
Making threats against the US president in the sig...
I said to her, sweety - I feel like im less of a man. I do not understand programing. I can not write Perl even. She told me it was okay... she still loved me anyways
No - I opened the machines and I am sure.
These are OLD OLD OLD OLD Mofos. 9402-400 running V3R7M0. First snap off the front and back panels. Next, take off the top cover which has 2 7mm head screws. Then, take off the side cover which has two more screws. Now, take off the metal side cover which has 8-14 screws (cant remember but its a lot, all 7mm heads). Now, to add an ethernet card and expansion gate take off the back access pannel which is another 12 screws. The ethernet card is NOT some little PCI thing. It is a big mofo that slides into an expansion gate that you also have to plug in. This gate plugs into the mainboard via a ribbon cable and the ethernet plugs into the gate by snapping into place with the clips on the back.
IBM CEs will NOT come install this hardware for free - I specifically asked. They said it would have to be under billable time. There are no locks are stickers on the machines I worked with. There are not machines sitting at a place like Boeing, etc. Each independent agent I go to has his own AS400. The agents lease these machines. Manuals for checking and repairing are provided, I know because I used them.
The CPU card we pulled was not in any casing but it did hold the memmory and the CPU. It was handled VERY poorly by IBM techs and since it is not protected (the ethernet card was not exposed PCB. It had ESD protection all around it. The CPU card however was.
It is under warrenty but how the hell could we do that if we couldnt even get the thing to IPL? Also, just logging in as QSECOFR doesnt boom present you a menu that tells you what to do to get warrenty info.
But the main point of you arent suposed to open these things. Maybe the ones you have worked on but there are no such signs on these big bad boys.