Re: [H] Seagate drive died
ZFS has been ported to freebsd? On 5/12/07, Scott Sipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually think I'm going to speed up my plans to use my older computer as a freebsd fileserver (using the new ZFS filesystem which seems very cool!) In the future, I'll stick with WD--that's what I meant. Scott On May 12, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: OK...so you're get it replaced, get a WD drive, and use the replacement seagate to back up the WD, right? Scott Sipe wrote: ignore it? nope, I'm planning on getting it replaced (my comment below about seagate customer service was me reading stories of people having their disks sit at seagate for multiple weeks before getting replaced--we'll see, I'm hopeful!). Scott -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] iPod and the like suggestions/help
My 20gb ipos died a couple months ago - good run though bought it in 9/03. The way I've been using it though - podcasts and audiobooks to replace it I ended up getting an 8gb Sansa - my 1 complaint is that the wheel is clunky - though apparently I lucked out in getting a newer model with an improved wheel - oh well. I picked up the Sansa for $139 from Amazon - they were having a run on all the e200 models. Does mp3, wmv, video - I've run it for about 10 to 12 hours in between battery charging. Using itunes as a podcatcher - I've had to add in an intermediary step to sync up since itunes doesn't see the Sansa - but itunes never correctly synced to my ipod anyways so it's actually less frustrating. On 5/11/07, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had both a nano and a shuffle and love them. My wife has a normal iPod. I personally believe that there is nothing better. If you want to have something small and easy to carry, go with a nano. If you need to keep your whole collection with you at all times and/or like to watch video go with a normal iPod. If you are a runner I highly recommend the iSport kit for the nano. There are people out there who still insist that iPods can't play mp3s. That is complete crap. The only thing they don't play is the Microsoft copy protected wmv. So the music you buy from stores that use the wmv format will not be compatible with your iPod just like the songs you guys from the iTunes music store will not be compatible with players other than the iPod. Also realize that there are many other options for software to manage your library and iPod other than iTunes. The only reason to use iTunes is if you want to buy music from the iTunes music store. Other than that I don't really like it. I personally use MediaMonkey on my PC but there are a ton of other options. Just do some Googling. The downside to not using iTunes on a Mac is that other software won't be as integrated into the whole iLife thing either. Oh, and I would really suggest you get yourself a copy of the Handbrake program. Hands-down the best multiformat ripper and transcoder for getting content off discs and onto your Mac/iPod. And it's free. -- Brian On 5/10/07, Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I want to get an iPod (or something similar). I have an iMac for me and the family and we just love the damn thing. Last night, I imported 100GB / 20K songs in music from my PC to the iTunes software on the iMac. Took awhile. I understand getting music off the iPod is a bitch but aside from that - is there any reason NOT to get one? Is there something better? Last question - The refurbs are 280 and new are 350. Although I can't get my refurb engraved (shucks) - is there any other issues someone knows about? Does anyone have experience with Apple refurbs? I would think a refurb would be best for price and also because it's been gone over and the issues have been addressed (you hope). New or used - they still qualify for the additional year of protection. Again, I don't have to get an iPod, esp. if there is something better. Comments and advice are much appreciated. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] OT: Great free Sci-Fi audiobooks
I just found http://www.welltoldtales.com/ On 5/10/07, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, any of Scott Sigler's audiobooks rock. His stuff is more of a horror/sci-fi in line with Alien than pure sci-fi but still really good. His voice performance on his older stuff was a little rough in the beginning but got really good in the last one, The Rookie. The Rookie is friggin fantastic. Earthcore, Ancestor, Infection, and The Rookie are all available as free podiobooks. Earthcore and Ancestor are also available as free pdfs as well as you can buy a hardcopy from Amazon. http://scottsigler.net/ -- Brian On 5/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh and since we are recommending While not free, very cheap, and I highly recommend. www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com :) Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 18:56:58 To:hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] OT: Great free Sci-Fi audiobooks If you like good Sci-Fi and/or fantasy, check out the Escape Pod podcast. Gives a really good 20-40 min story once a week and has 100+ episodes of back content, all for free. http://escapepod.org -- Brian -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: Re[2]: [H] iPod and the like suggestions/help
iTunes on WinXP, it would sync when it felt like it and the frustration would come from sitting down for my morning hour and a half commute and NOT having anything new to listen to. Funny though the problem got worse the older my ipod got the worse the problem with syncing/recognizing until the hd on the ipod died On 5/11/07, Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello j, Friday, May 11, 2007, 9:05:48 AM, you wrote: podcatcher - I've had to add in an intermediary step to sync up since itunes doesn't see the Sansa - but itunes never correctly synced to my ipod anyways so it's actually less frustrating. Were you running iTunes on Windows or Mac? Do you know why it would not sync? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP
Folks, My NEC-3540 has completely disappeared from WinXP SP2. Shows up in the bios, I can boot to cd/dvd's - I've even reinstalled WinXP to a different directory via cd on the same drive, but on booting to that install - still no DVD drive. I tried flashing the firmware with NEC's official .exe - could not find it in WinXP. Any idea's? Thanks. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP
Thanks folks, - I'll try the reg keys.
Has stopped showing up everywhere - not in device manager at all, since it's
the 1 drive I don't even have a section for CD/DVD's, not in Storage device
under Computer management, doesn't pop when I do add/remove hardware, etc.
And it's a box thats been running fine since the fall with WinXP SP2.
Haven't cracked the case recently, other than XP updates, firefox updates
not a whole lot of software changes either.
If I reinstall XP on the same primary drive and just specify a different
directory do any registry setting get pulled over to the new install?
How/where would I check for those ghost/phantom devices?
Thanks Again.
On 4/19/07, Julian Zottl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've run into this problem before. I use to encrypt my Temp directories.
While applying various M$ patches, the files became corrupted and/or
unreadable. If this is the case for you, you have to find all of the
encrupted files in the $windir and replace them with non-encrypted versions.
Hope that helps!
Julian
-Original Message-
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent 4/19/2007 2:01:16 PM
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: X-SPAM Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP
At 02:26 PM 19/04/2007, j m g wrote:
Folks,
My NEC-3540 has completely disappeared from WinXP SP2. Shows up in
the bios, I can boot to cd/dvd's - I've even reinstalled WinXP to a
different directory via cd on the same drive, but on booting to that
install - still no DVD drive.
It's not these two keys is it?
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
UpperFilters=-
LowerFilters=-
T
--
-jmg
-sapere aude
Re: [H] DynDNS
On the web gui for your router there should be a 'Port Forwarding' section, that's where you would drop in the ip of the internal machine and specify what traffic to forward to it - for example remote desktop works on port 3389 as soon as that internet traffic hit my router it sends it to 1 specific machine on the internal network. In your case, whatever port you have the 1st vnc server listening on would be what you want to have forwarded from your router. As far as not having to drive in :) check the router for functionality - again, mine has never worked - an old wired 4 port dlink nat based firewall, and take a look at a dedicated desktop client. On 4/16/07, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:04 PM 16/04/2007, j m g wrote: actually do you want to access the router or what's behind it? my dlink has an option to dis/enable remote admin of itself I think you would use the wan ip and by default go to port 8080 - I've got this disable though I guess I don't need to access the router, just a computer behind it. I want to be able to VNC into a workstation on my network and from there access other computers on the network via a second VNC connection (I'm using UltraVNC right now, which works better for me than TightVNC - thanks for the tip on VNC, Bobby.) So I just don't want to end up in the situation where the IP address for the work network changes and I have to drive in to find out what it is. T -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] DynDNS
my dlink router has a spot in the firmware setup for dropping in a url of the dynamic dns site/ID password, if it works right it should long onto the site and update the dns record for you, there's also a bunch of desktop clients listed on the site as well - in all honesty I don't know if my dlink's functionality works since being on a cable connection I think my IP has only changed 2 maybe 3 times in the past 7 years and yes dyndns.org would do what you want - I've got ssh running on a freebsd vmware guest that I can hit up remotely and rdp on a winxp vmware guest - works as well actually do you want to access the router or what's behind it? my dlink has an option to dis/enable remote admin of itself I think you would use the wan ip and by default go to port 8080 - I've got this disable though On 4/16/07, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is the service I want, but I'd like to setup a way to access my router at home (which has a dynamic IP) without knowing what the IP currently is. Does the router have to support this? How do I set something like this up? T -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] SATA drive question...
Funny you mention the A7n8x - I have the -E Deluxe model with 4 PATA's used mostly just for the space - I was going to dump the 2 200gb for 1 or 2 large size SATA - are you saying it won't boot at all or won't boot to a sata drive? Thanks, John On 4/9/07, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make sure you instal the sata drivers in windows. not sure about your p4 mb but one of my asus a7n8x's will not boot to sata with any pata drives hooked up no matter what I do in the bios. fp At 05:25 AM 4/9/2007, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with: Hey, I have an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe MB with 4 PATA drives (I rebuilt the system with existing drives). I have a drive that is showing errors and I'd like to replace it. It is not the boot drive. Can I just enable SATA in the BIOS and replace the drive with an SATA one? I can deal with drive letter changes if that happens. Thanks, Bobby -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] bottom of the line
Why not go used? A 1 or 2 year old $1000 pc should easily fit the bill below and can probably be bought around $300. Heck if you're set on Dell, they've got their refurb store on ebay. On 2/16/07, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you had to buy a bottom of the line PC, your basic word processing, email, web browsing box, in the 300 dollar range who would you pick as the manufacturer. Dell, Levono, Gateway, HP... all these have a 300 dollar box, usually a Semperon, 512 GB of RAM, CDROM, floppy 60 to 80GB drive modem. no monitor. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Navigation Systems
a friend was looking for the same thing - he handles field service calls and purchased a couple of NAV units for the traffic alerts and ended up with relying on the ct dot sms alerts to his cell phone :) - small market syndrome? since he's mostly around hartford and new haven he found that the nav units traffic alerts came to sporadically - ended up stuck in traffic by the time he got an alert or he'd never get one to begin with I'll try and find out which units he tried. On 10/20/06, Harry McGregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I have not used the stand alone versions, I have TomTom on my Treo 700P (and 650 before that), and really really love it's setup. Very good directions, not always as good as if you know the area, but still quite good. Harry Steve Tomporowski wrote: We looking into getting a car navigation system for a friend of ours who is a contractor running all over the state of CT. The main use would be to find alternate routes around traffic. Very simply, what's good? Prices range from expensive to ridiculous and I've noted a few models where complaints are made about obsolete data. Can data be upgraded or are you stuck? Any help would be appreciated! ThanksSteve -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] dumb newb linux questions
For grabbing codecs/fonts/players on K/Ed/Ubuntu take a look at EasyUbuntu or Automatix. At this point with the likes of *Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva, they generally have everything you need to get started. If you start getting into the audio/video editing side you have to make sure your hardware is supported, I've gone through 2 albeit older vid capture cards that there was no docs or info on getting setup in Linux. But the for all the naysayers the 80/20 kind of applies - at least 80% of everything you need to do isn't going to take any more effort on a Linux box than a Windows box. And for those proprietary business applications? after being through a couple of large scale desktop migration projects - they're a PITA to get config'd and running on their own specific platform regardless of wether is *nix or Windows On 10/11/06, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question 2 Besides the desire to game, why wouldn't a typical home user want a linux based system? Heck all of the apps seem free, its graphical, even supports my camera out of the box. I mean for just word processing, surfing the internet and looking at pics and playing some mp3's is there a valid reason for them 'wanting' Windows? Multimedia, particular video, TV recording, editing, ...and of course proprietary business software that the vast majority of small business relies on. -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Re: Best Laptop for Under $900
at $900 or under - a used thinkpad T series, out of gateways, tosh, dell, apple, I still like the T's for performance, abuse, ability to find the support pages (drivers), availability of upgrade/replacement parts - they make ton's On 9/20/06, Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W. D. wrote: :: At 12:47 9/19/2006, Anthony Q. Martin, wrote: ::: If you only had $900 to get a laptop, including everything, (taxes, ::: shipping, etc.), what would you get? ::: General purpose usage with WinTel type apps. :: :: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/05/04/building_your_dream_notebook/index.html :: Hmm.after reading that, I get the impression that one's money is best spent buying a laptop, not doing a DIY model. Thanks for the link, though. -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Re: Shuttle XPC SN41G2
I have seen socket A's plus motherboard combo's on newegg, for $100 or so you get a barton3000+ or mobile socket a, might be more reliable than using ebay, i wonder if some of them wouldn't be funky 1 off runs for a major oem but they should still work On 9/10/06, James Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Klein I have an old shuttle XPC SN41G2, and an Athlon XP 2500+ Barton. I'm looking to upgrade the CPU to the fastest Socket A I can find. I haven't used socket A in years. I see newegg has some Durons and Semprons. It's been so long since I've touched this. What's my best bet in terms of a CPU upgrade? This isn't my main PC...i'm looking to make this into a HTPC for use in a second bedroom. Any other recommendations are welcome, but I'd like to keep the shuttle so I don't have to lay out any more money. Thanks! Chris Have you tried to OC the 2500? I don't know if all the 2500 bartons will overclock, but I had no problem changing the FSB from 333 to 400 on a 2500 so that it runs at the same speed as a 3200+, I believe the fastest socket A they produced. I don't think they have produced any 400 FSB chips in quite a while. I had to settle for a 2800+ with 333 FSB last time I built a socket A. I have used the 2500+ oc'ed to 3200+ for 2 years, running 24/7 in a PVR setup. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Re: Best Home Wireless router?
I've had my wrt54gs with first the linksys firmware then sveasoft and will give dd-wrt a try when I get a chance, but I bought it when it first came out - what's that - at least 3 years, apart from updating the firmware it has never been down or off and it pretty cover my whole house front porch, back deck, i would recomend it, i think their current comparable model is the L designation On 9/12/06, JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been using a Linksys WRT-54G, was wondering what the collective thought was best these days for a home router, Linksys? D-Link? Netgear? others? Do any of them have real SPI built-in these days? BTW, by best I mean fast and reliable. I went thru a couple Linksys and a D-Link in a couple years, so reliable is probably number one. But don't know if it's reasonable to expect a 49 dollar consumer-grade router to be super-reliable. :) -- JRS[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... ...Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult... -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order
Bingo, needed the invite to see it.On 8/27/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris keep trying I got in eventually.PIECEOFGARBAGE.From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.comTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.comSubject: Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft OrderDate: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:57:36 -0400What a piece of crap, uninstalled the latest v8, put on the older v7 thatyou have and I get in only to say it's been disconnected and to close the window and restart the session.From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.comTo: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.comSubject: Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft OrderDate: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:49:26 -0600 I'm using Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_07-b03) under Firefox.On 8/27/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you using java5 v8? From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:45:34 -0600 Chat works for me and the other person in there :) On 8/27/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in, the chat is not working on their end. Says I don't have thelatest java (but I do, jre5.08)From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hwg hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] HWG FFL Draft Order Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:35:57 -0600Okay the magic random generator has deeme the following pick order: Browser Bombers Niners Fan Toxic Skullfukrs leet llamas 4th and inches Devin's Bears Hooligans Mona LisaWe will be going 18 rounds, standard serpentine draft order.Youwill have 1 min per pick.After you miss your pick 3 times the auto drafter starts up.To access the draft go to the following page and look under Draft -- Live Draft Room along the top menu. Be there at 9pm EST sharp.I would also suggest that before thedraft you set at least your Top 50 players just in case something goes wrong with your connection.Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any problems getting into the room.On 8/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok we will just stay at eight. Has the draft order been set yet?Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:24:26 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FFL] RE: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules I think we will be alright with 8 if we don't find someone.Tweaking the starters like I did will go a long way towards making it competitive.On 8/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Crap didn't we have one other possibility? Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message-From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:18:26To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [FFL] RE: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules Thane just emailed me and dropped out, which means we are backto 8.If we add Matt we will be at 9 again. On 8/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we are not at ten add matt be0k, [EMAIL PROTECTED] histeam is always jayhawks ;). If we are at ten don't worry bout it :) Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:02:20 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Fantasy Football Leauge 04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [FFL] RE: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules It's going to be 9pm EST. On 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either time works for meSent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:38:50 To:'Fantasy Football Leauge 04' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [FFL] RE: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules Is it going to be 6pm EST or 9pm EST for tomorrow's draft? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:24 PM To: 'Fantasy Football Leauge 04' Subject: RE: [FFL] RE: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules Ok, that's pretty much a lock.He just didn't want to be anodd team.Matt will add on, and I need to get his team name from theiroffice tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:18 PM To: Fantasy Football Leauge 04 Subject: Re: [FFL] RE: [H] 2006 HWG FFL Rules Whoops - I typed in the wrong alias for the address.Good thing I didn't attach a pdf with the rules like I thought aboutdoing :) I just added John and Mona Lisa Overdrive so we now have 9.
Re: [H] NAS and linux
freenas.org - based on freebsd not linux thoughOn 6/22/06, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Some time ago there was some talk on this list about a linux based project that would create a simple NAS solution from a PC.For the lifeof me I cannot remember the name of the project nor can I find it viaGoogle.I have a couple of PC's that I would like to convert into NAS devices.Ideally these could be headless and be configurable via telnetor http. Am I dreaming or does such a thing exist?Thanks-Gary-- -jmg-sapere aude
Re: [H] NAS and linux
might depend on the motherboard bios but i've got an old dell dual xeon workstation that has had both win2k3 and freebsd installed running w/o keyboard, mouse, even pulled the video card to use in an emergency, still haven't put it back in yet I can rdp in no problem On 6/22/06, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone!NasLite was the one I was looking for but FreeNasseems like it might be a better fit for me since it has an httpconsole.I am not sure that NasLite does. Either way they both looklike great solutions.:-) One last thing, I have not run a PC headless for quite some time.Inthe past we had to fit a null video loop and keyboard stuff to get thesystems to boot.Is this still the case or will I be able to remove the keyboard/monitor once these are set up?Thanks again-GaryBen Ruset said the following on 6/22/2006 12:23 PM: http://www.openfiler.com/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/naslite/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenas/ Gary Udstrand wrote: Some time ago there was some talk on this list about a linux based project that would create a simple NAS solution from a PC.For the life of me I cannot remember the name of the project nor can I find it via Google.I have a couple of PC's that I would like to convert into NAS devices.Ideally these could be headless and be configurable via telnet or http. Am I dreaming or does such a thing exist? Thanks -Gary -- -jmg-sapere aude
Re: [H] Podcasting download software
Is it any better than itunes? Is it touting something that itunes doesn't have? Other than memory footprint :)On 6/1/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Someone back a bit asked about good podcast download software and if they didn't mention it, let me.Doppler has solved by d/l woes and unlike Fireant keeps original filenames, creates folders for the feed, tags, and supports external viewersand programs. http://www.dopplerradio.net/-- -jmg-sapere aude
Re: [H] MS Makes VirtualServer 2005 R2 Free
Well for the VMotion to work as described you also need to use SAN, the LUN's need to be visible to all the esx servers in the farm to get the true benefits. But depending on your budget, if you are looking to do esx server farms hopefully you're using SAN. One thing I've seen folks do especially as they start is to have a few medium size servers(2 cpus) plus 1 big(4+ cpus) as overflow. This way you get a feel for what the equipment can handle, (and if what your app folks are telling you is true), if something spikes you can move stuff to the bigger box via VMotion, all this with no downtime to the client. On 4/13/06, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ESX supports clustering VM's, so if a single ESX box goes down, the VM stays up and the host load gets transferred to another ESX server. Also, if you had a bunch of ESX servers you can dynamically distribute VM's across the entire server farm. The only hardware requirement to running ESX is a SCSI disk, and a dedicated management NIC. Mesdaq, Ali wrote: What do you run it on and what are the typical uses? I am working on a virtualization project so I am pretty interested in your experience. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Starforce copy protection
from device manager check off 'show hidden devices' which should open up the plugandplay tree - at the same level as network cards etc, you should see starforce listed alphabetically and then uninstall it, as i understand it though as soon as you fire up a game that uses it, it will reinstall On 3/9/06, Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know anything about this copy protection and how to remove it? http://www.firingsquad.com/features/starforce_interview/ http://www.photogabble.co.uk/2006/01/31/starforce-copy-protection-remove-tool-dont-work/ http://www.glop.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=184 T -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
Had to chime in - not nonsense: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1874471.stm On 3/8/06, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/06, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, so be respectful of religious police in Iran who flog to death 9 year old boys because they eat food while during a government imposed fast during Ramadan - gotcha. It's all relative. But never respect fools who spread inflammatory nonsense like this. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was....
http://www.google.com/search?q=10+dead+iraqstart=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8client=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:official On 3/9/06, Mesdaq, Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turkey is a great example of religious oppression not religious freedom. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayes Elkins Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:11 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was From: G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Failure Cars Standard with Wings was Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:57:51 -0600 On 3/9/06, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What has happened in numerous areas of the world is that religious zealots of all forms - not just islam - take their faith so seriously that they use it as an oppressing hammer to beat the piss out of people. Excellent example: the neo-cons, controlled by the Radical Christian Right, have killed AT LEAST 100,000 CIVILIANS in their war on Iraq. Plenty elsewhere, too. Link? I would say something very offensive, but the reality is, the entire area needs to be modernized in a monumental way in regards to it's treatment of women. The myths about the treatment of women in Islam continue, I doubt I will dissuade anyone here who simply want to believe them. But for those with any interest in the truth, try (again) doing a little homework: Study Indonesia as a positive example - the largest Muslim country in the world. Or are you of those who think Arab and Muslim are synonymous? The reality is that Arabs make up only 12% of Islam today. In other words, forget about the rest of the majority islamic nations and instead just pay attention to Indonesia, ignoring the REALITY (not a myth) that women are treated as property or at best second class citizens elsewhere in the Islamic world. BTW, Indonesia's human rights record does not hold a candle to Turkey's. I'm surprised you do not use Turkey as a shining example of a free Islamic nation. The reality is that Islam brought the idea tha woman could own and/or inherit property to the Arabian peninsula 1400 years ago, at a time when women pretty much WERE property in most of Europe. Islam declared the unthinkable notion that a woman could say no to an arranged marriage! (Anyone wonder that Muhammad had his enemies?) And now muslim women are back to being property again. Funny that. 80 lashes for you! Actually you are close to decribing the reality happening in Iran today; the young are growing up with a taste for free expression, but with a healthy disdain for the excessives of the west. The hard-line Shi'a-extreme old guard is scared to death of this, but so are Bush's puppet-masters. The up-and-coming generation of Iranians have a dangerous combination: the solid ethical principles of Islam, and a clear picture of the modern world. Nukes? Screw nukes. It is this new combination that frightens the neocons. I think what scares any sane person the most about Iran is the newly ELECTED madman president who calls for the destruction of Israel. The moderate youth of Iran need to try harder next time, I know it's tough considering many better canidates were removed from the electoral process. PS: I wonder if any of the European countries with holocaust denial laws have the balls to arrest Ahmadinejad the minute he steps foot into their country. I personally find the laws silly but whatever. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] google search for failure
The funny thing is you have all these american car companies saying it's soo hard to get off gas, do a google on Brazil and Ethanol, you can get a car down there that will switch from deisel or gas to ethanol with the flip of a switch so you can use what's convenient, guess who makes those cars - Ford. And the real kicker, the ethanol they are producing, based off cane not corn packs more of a punch than gas. Yes I realize the whole chicken and the egg, I'm not going to find straight ethanol at the corner gas station. Yes it would take some sort of government mandate, but before you free market wonks ruffle yourself over that, just don't, not with all the govt handouts being given to the current energy industry. Why is it that Citgo is being investigated for setting up a program to give discounted oil/gas to low income folks but exxon/mobil got barely a look for price gouging. On 3/3/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better we work on filtering technology then creating more nuclear waste that can't be gotten rid of, only stored. Then there's the issue that a nuke plant is essentially a dirty bomb ripe to be detonated. Fuel-cell + Battery + Ethanol sound like they could be good tech if that's what the market was buying as a whole for cars. Add to that, Solar could be viable to power homes. Chris Reeves wrote: The reality is, though, the electric type cars, etc. all require you to create energy somewhere.. I'm laughing a bit at places like Montana where you've got a Governor asking to open up strip mining for more coal based solutions. Everyone is so terrified of Nuclear Power, which numerous other places in the world use to great success, that they are willing to do almost anything else with other permanent damage because they find it much easier to sell. -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Coolmax Power Supplies
Do these guys have warranties on their power supplies? I've got 1 of their 400W that doesn't seem to throttle up when I fire up a game - why my system shutdowns I thought were the ati 9800's fault. It's only about a year old and thought I'd RMA it if I could and have another spare, but I can't find any info on their or Newegg's site. Probably cost more to ship it at this point though. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
Before you kill the Thinkpad - how many of them were probably made by Lenovo or even smaller shops before? The thing that made Thinkpads good buys - personal or especially corporate - was the commitment to supporting the models for quite a while after release, and the confidence that model #xyz always had the same spec or chipset for the life of that model #. You could find bios/driver updates for a few years after models were introduced, often spanning Win version releases, very few if any other manuf's did that. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad. I don't know what MCE is vs. home, but I never suggest anything less than Pro since there is no security settings in Home. Bobby Heid wrote: I came across a Dell Inspiron 6000 deal last night and went with it. This is what I got: Pentium M 735 (1.7GHz) 512MB RAM (free upgrade from 256)) XP Media Center Edition 2005 DVD writer - Dual layer (free upgrade) 1 Firewire port 4 USB 2.0 ports An SD (and another type) card reader 15.4 widescreen (1280 X 800) Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal 6-cell battery 1 year mail-in warranty Before tax - $954 - $200MIR = $754. Not too bad a deal, I don't think. Bobby -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
Hmmm, my wife's 600X which predates the T series has XP running on it with no problems, XP picked everything up - built in modem, nic, video and sound, I don't believe I went to IBM's site for anything more than bios though. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well made to IBM spec maybe, now it's Lenovo's baby. So I'd expect quality to drop while they ride on the brand name's success maximize profit w/o putting in new effort/$$$. As to IBM supporting, they certainly did not support at least one case I came across in the T something series(10, 20?) where the customer wanted to go form 95 to 98 or 9x to NT/2K (been ~7 years since) and there were no drivers or support. Laptops are a tough choice these days if you want your monies worth over the long haul. j m g wrote: Before you kill the Thinkpad - how many of them were probably made by Lenovo or even smaller shops before? The thing that made Thinkpads good buys - personal or especially corporate - was the commitment to supporting the models for quite a while after release, and the confidence that model #xyz always had the same spec or chipset for the life of that model #. You could find bios/driver updates for a few years after models were introduced, often spanning Win version releases, very few if any other manuf's did that. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] ok, how about this...
it's the nature of the 'sport compact' - I've got an '04 WRX and nope no creature comforts, but everything is in easy reach :) I've had this arguement ad naseum with friends, many of who have bmw 330xl's - the awd, and while comfortable, feel like a slug to drive :) On 2/12/06, Christopher Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It handles nicelybut I'm talking about the seats, dash, etc. I just get the feeling that I'm riding in a tin can with a powerful engine. There are no creature comforts -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 10:27 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] ok, how about this... I own one ;) I actually like the way it handles/feels. (I have an '05). I guess each to their own though. On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:54:22PM -0500, Christopher Klein wrote: It's fairly quickbut have you been in one? It feels like a plastic bucket. There isn't anything nice about the inside at all. I could see picking one up if money was no object and you were into weekend racing at the trackbut driving that thing for anything more than 20 minutes is just painful. -- Bryan G. Seitz -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] VMware Server...
cnet i think it was reported that VMWare was going to free up GSX server only - sometime this week and they didn't have any details of the licensing gsx ends up being their middle fo the road product, not as flexible/full featured/robust as either their workstation product for flex or esx for stability or 1 to many ratio On 2/6/06, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare is going to be giving away VMware Server. I can't really find out much about it (use wise). Is this something that a developer could use? And what about VMWare Workstation (which is not free, I AFAIK)? Thanks, Bobby -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] VMware Server...
gsx doesn't get support for linux disto's as much as workstation or other os's for that matter - wkstn has support for vista, gsx i don't think does, can't boot off a ghost image, just two off the top of my hat - I am more used to esx and workstation though so a little biased On 2/6/06, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blah. It's just as full featured as Workstation. And no, it's not as full featured as ESX, but unless you're running a datacenter, need virtual VLANs, need failover and HA, ESX is overkill. Plus, GSX supports more OS's than ESX right now. You can't install RHEL4 under ESX yet, for example. j m g wrote: cnet i think it was reported that VMWare was going to free up GSX server only - sometime this week and they didn't have any details of the licensing gsx ends up being their middle fo the road product, not as flexible/full featured/robust as either their workstation product for flex or esx for stability or 1 to many ratio On 2/6/06, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare is going to be giving away VMware Server. I can't really find out much about it (use wise). Is this something that a developer could use? And what about VMWare Workstation (which is not free, I AFAIK)? Thanks, Bobby -- -jmg -sapere aude -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] VMware Server...
yep, though if you're going to dedicate a machine to vmware, gsx is the way to go, if you need to fire up an os once in a while to try something out, wkstn might be easier, though with gsx free I wonder if they'll stop updating it or do something to wkstn to make it attractive enough to buy over a free gsx On 2/6/06, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I could use this instead of MS VPC or VMWorkstation? Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:26 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] VMware Server... Blah. It's just as full featured as Workstation. And no, it's not as full featured as ESX, but unless you're running a datacenter, need virtual VLANs, need failover and HA, ESX is overkill. Plus, GSX supports more OS's than ESX right now. You can't install RHEL4 under ESX yet, for example. j m g wrote: cnet i think it was reported that VMWare was going to free up GSX server only - sometime this week and they didn't have any details of the licensing gsx ends up being their middle fo the road product, not as flexible/full featured/robust as either their workstation product for flex or esx for stability or 1 to many ratio On 2/6/06, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare is going to be giving away VMware Server. I can't really find out much about it (use wise). Is this something that a developer could use? And what about VMWare Workstation (which is not free, I AFAIK)? Thanks, Bobby -- -jmg -sapere aude -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] VMware Server...
looks like you can go give the free vmware server *beta* a try right now On 2/6/06, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep, though if you're going to dedicate a machine to vmware, gsx is the way to go, if you need to fire up an os once in a while to try something out, wkstn might be easier, though with gsx free I wonder if they'll stop updating it or do something to wkstn to make it attractive enough to buy over a free gsx On 2/6/06, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I could use this instead of MS VPC or VMWorkstation? Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:26 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] VMware Server... Blah. It's just as full featured as Workstation. And no, it's not as full featured as ESX, but unless you're running a datacenter, need virtual VLANs, need failover and HA, ESX is overkill. Plus, GSX supports more OS's than ESX right now. You can't install RHEL4 under ESX yet, for example. j m g wrote: cnet i think it was reported that VMWare was going to free up GSX server only - sometime this week and they didn't have any details of the licensing gsx ends up being their middle fo the road product, not as flexible/full featured/robust as either their workstation product for flex or esx for stability or 1 to many ratio On 2/6/06, Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMWare is going to be giving away VMware Server. I can't really find out much about it (use wise). Is this something that a developer could use? And what about VMWare Workstation (which is not free, I AFAIK)? Thanks, Bobby -- -jmg -sapere aude -- -jmg -sapere aude -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Podcast software?
I just dumped juice (and started using itunes for podcatching) a little bit ago but could of sworn there was a setting to set genre to podcast or some such. I just found fireant - rss aggregator for media - and givinig it a try On 1/27/06, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using Juice and while it works fine there are a couple of things I don't like about it. The biggest is that I can't have it retag files as they are coming in. Most of the podcasts that I have seen either don't have their ID3 tags set properly or they don't have them set the way I have my Library setup :) Anyone found software that will do this? Schedule and download RSS feeds and allow you to set/override ID3 tags? -- Brian -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Spontaneous Reboots because of my graphics card?
Thanks, for all the consolations - all my fans are working even on the card itself, upped the agp voltage by .1 to 1.6 via bios, turned off fast write and agp 8X, reinstalled the stock catalyst 6.1 drivers, turned off vpu recover, all that I've got left to do is swap power supplies sometime this week. The kicker is the 9800 is only about 1 and half years old, I just finished COD2 with no problems, now its acting up - sheesh. FWIW - my Matrox Mill 2 is running pretty much 24/7 in my home server in the basement - I used to have that thing paired up with a vodoo2 in what '98? On 1/23/06, Stan Zaske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the card is totally dead as in no video period. It just stopped working during some overclocking experiments. I'm currently watching some FX5200's on eBay and will buy one soon (MythTV experiment) and that should tell me the mobo is fine. I've temporarily installed a PCI Radeon 9200SE and everything seems fine otherwise. I've boosted the voltage on the card before and it still crashed and it did the same in my MSI board as well. My bad, I should have RMA'd it from the beginning. FYI, I was just kidding about ATI sucking and look forward to reading the reviews on their latest: supposedly the Radeon X1900 XTX will be clocked at 650MHz core / 1.5GHz memory and have 48 pixel pipelines. Wow! @:D warpmedia wrote: Sometimes increasing the AGP voltage a notch for stability is called for. My 9800pro is currently dead in mailer here, still awaiting me to ship it back to CW, sooner than later I'll get around to it. At 01:08 AM 1/21/2006, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: I thought I had solved the problem by reducing the AGP bus speed from 66 to 50 MHz ... -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Spontaneous Reboots because of my graphics card?
Folks, I've got an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb in an Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe, everything is almost working fine except that when I go to play a game Brothers In Arms, EE2 within a couple of minutes my machine will just power off, like pull the power cord off, not a gracefull shutdown, no warning, no blue screen, nothing. This is a recent starting event, I've cycled through no ati driver, catalyst, and omega's - no difference. Running WinXP SP2 on hardware that hasn't changed for a while, I've run multiple benchmark stuff, Prime95 for 24 hours and the machine doesn't hiccup. Any Ideas? The Radeon is still within ATI's 3 year warranty if just barely so I might just try and RMA it. TIA -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] jumper the atx power?
Folks, I've got the guts of a complete pc on the bench but no case, can't I just jumper the atx power switch pins on the motherboard to get it running and just use the ps switch for on/off? -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] VirtualPC??
Is anyone doing large scale MS Virtual Server deployments? I might be biased since I'm in the middle of a large scale VMWare ESX build out but VMWare is still quite a bit ahead of MS in the virtualization space. Has anyone tried Xen on the Linux side? On 12/8/05, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone played with virtual PC?, I attended the Microsoft Launch on Dec 6th, and received some trial software that I wanted to try out, including the windows 2003 enterprise w/ the tech preview of biztalk server. (not to menton the vs2005/sql2005 standard ed's from reading the docs on virtual pc, it sounds like the correct platform for me. this way I can try out sql2005 and vs2005 w/o affecting my current sql2000 and vs2003 installs. any advise or warnings? -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Source for Athlon XP cpu's?
Folks, I'm looking to upgrade cpu's 1 final time on my asus a7n8x based desktop. I didn't realize Athlon XP's had become so hard to find. Anyone know of a reputable source for a 2800 XP or so. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Netflix Class Action Lawsuit Settlement
Give it another try, I tried it out when they first started based on a recommend from a friend who had just moved out west and was near one of their firts distribution point - he had his discs within a day I had mine within a week. We tried it again last year and we get new discs every weekend if we drop 'em in the mail on Monday. - I'm in CT. They've been continually opening new hubs over the years. On 11/2/05, joeuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cancelled my sub after a few months. After I did the math of waiting 5 days (sometimes more) and figured in the occasional bad disk, it became apparent that it wasn't worthwhile to me. Never the less, the restitution of this case is nothing more then a joke - almost looks like an advertising push. Disgusting really. Netflix works for those that live close to the hubs. I ain't one of them. Brian Weeden wrote: I just got an email about this today: http://netflixfan.blogspot.com/2005/11/netflix-proposes-settlement-in-chavez.html What the hell is this world coming to? Someone was outraged that they couldn't literally rent unlimited DVDs and they sometimes took longer than 1 day to arrive? Gimme a break. No wonder we can't get any real problems solved. I have been a Netflix customer for 5 years and have never, ever had anything to complain about. In fact, I am happier with their product than many other companies out there. -- Brian -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key) -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Thinkpad T23
I've got a personal T23 and I've been assigned them the past couple of years on contracting gigs. My old G400Max had better 3d than the T23 did. On 10/28/05, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a T23 that I bought used, cheap, about 10 months ago. I like it a lot, particularly the keyboard. It has a P1.13M in it and I souped it up with a GB of Kingston PC133, and I have just ordered a 80GB Hitachi Travelstar 7k100 which sould help a lot. I am not a big gamer but I would like to put a few on for travel. I am stuck with the video card = S3 SuperSavage IXC SDR 104 with 16 megs of RAM. How bad is this game wise. I am sure I can play things like the original Unreal but how does this fit into the scheme of things. As fast as a Matrox G450, and old TNT2 ? what then? thanks -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Case recommendations
Take a look here http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/pName/silverstone-lascala-sstlc18-wtouchscreen-black/cName/htpc-cases?osCsid=5d3899e4be9e7da3722c62fb34e712b6 On 10/23/05, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like that Antec P180 we were talking about would be good suggestion: http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=81800 Other wise I got an old InWin full tower you can have for cost of shipping. =) Brian Weeden wrote: I need a case for my home theater server. It needs to look nice (black perferably) but the catch is that it needs to have room for up to 10 HDs. I have 6 in a RAID array, 2 in a stripe array, and a boot drive. Suggestions? -- Brian -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Case recommendations
sorry, i did grab the most expensive one - they've got cases that run all the way down to about $100 On 10/25/05, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/05, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look here http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/pName/silverstone-lascala-sstlc18-wtouchscreen-black/cName/htpc-cases?osCsid=5d3899e4be9e7da3722c62fb34e712b6 Very sweet, but $650? Lol thats more than I spent on the RAID array :) Here's what I went with: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811163038 $165 and room for 7 HDs. I can always add the 4-to-3 adapter later if I need more. Thanks for all the recommendations. -- Brian -- -jmg -sapere aude
[H] Another nifty VMWare tool
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/ Lets you run prepackaged guests. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] Sticky notes/hyper links ideas
you can use del.icoi.us or another 'social bookmarking' applet, essentially your bookmarks are stored on their servers, Sitebar is another one with a firefox applet that'll let you add bookmarks to a server install of sitebar On 10/14/05, Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, October 13, 2005 1:58 pm, Brian Weeden wrote: Currently I do a lot of surfing away from home (12hr night shifts at work, girlfriends house). I will be reading and come across a story or a link or something to download that I want to save. Maybe it is a how-to article on AJAX or a bunch of free fonts. Right now my solution is to save the link or copied text or whatever in a Gmail draft until I get around to actually bookmarking or downloading or printing whatever it was. Any ideas for a better solution? Something where I can make notes as I am surfing along for things to go back to later and accessible from multiple machines? -- Brian If you have access to a PHP/MySQL server, there's an app called online bookmarks that I use. You can easily create a bookmarklet that will add the current page to its database(click on the link in your links folder and up pops a window asking you in what folder, what title and any description to give it) http://www.frech.ch/online-bookmarks/ Otherwise something like digg.com or del.icio.us may work, though AFAIK they're more social bookmarking sites -- anyone can see your bookmarks. Jamie -- Jamie Furtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits. --unknown -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] motherboard suggestions
Was in the same boat when my servers abit-kt7 raid died in August - if you want to deal with the abit settlement and filing of a claim - I can ship you the board, just let me know. The settlement says repair not replacement so I'm assuming you'd get the same model back. On 10/13/05, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might have one. I'll send it if I do. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:43 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] motherboard suggestions need a socket A for a 1400 tbird, preferably one that takes the older ram ( pc133 ) looking but not getting any hits I like ( or am sure of ) if have to buy ram no big deal but have a lot of the older stuff. another older box in with bad caps ( soyo ) psu and drives OK. only a 300 watt psu so limited what I can do. thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] motherboard suggestions
I ended up buying a soyo dragon plus ver2.0(socket A, serial, eth) for 29.99 off overstock.com - it did not like the elcheapo stick of 512 ddr I first tried but I went back to crucial and all is happy - did have to buy a promise ide/raid controller to accomodate all my drives On 10/13/05, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: appreciate that but wound up with a FOXCONN | 748K7AA - R for $37, had to buy ram. never used this brand b4, hope they work out. looked at a pcchips but had better thoughts. ( had a run of bad luck with them lately ) fp At 05:32 AM 10/13/2005, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with: I might have one. I'll send it if I do. Mark Dodge MD Computers 602-421-0329 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:43 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] motherboard suggestions need a socket A for a 1400 tbird, preferably one that takes the older ram ( pc133 ) looking but not getting any hits I like ( or am sure of ) if have to buy ram no big deal but have a lot of the older stuff. another older box in with bad caps ( soyo ) psu and drives OK. only a 300 watt psu so limited what I can do. thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Caution: Breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [H] LAST QUESTION (for now) a Virtual PC Question
Unless you're using vmware esx.On 10/4/05, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it is anything like VMWare, which Chris says it is, then it is aprogram, like any other program that runs in windows. The installedoperating systems run within the program. It runs inside a Windowjust like any other Window in XP.At 03:36 PM 10/4/2005, you wrote:Ok, I am starting with a blank drive do I install VPC first or WinXP?thanks -- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Recommended hosting site?
Take a look at dreamhost.com ASAP, they're having an 80% off sale since it's their 8 year birthday, I think you need 888 as a promo code? Use me as a reference if you do :) They'll fit your specs for 7.95/mo and then some.On 9/28/05, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking to get a personal website up and running.Adelphiablocks all port 80 traffic so I can't host it at home.Any recommended hosting services out there?Nothing big for now -looking for a domain registration, a few hundred MB of space, and a couple gigs of bandwidth a month.Right now I don't need emailaccounts (but might in the future).I would like server-side cgi andscripts.--Brian -- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina
God help those who try and go back. NO is home to about a dozen superfund sites. There's a lot of heavy industry, petro, plastics all around NO. Who know's what's floating around. And why not blame Bush and the Republicans? They've controlled the the executive for 5 years and legislative since Clintons presidency. I'm getting fed up with the neocons and freepers twisting everything around to suit them.On 9/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- Original Message -From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.comSent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina housing building codes back then like they do now so to say they're doing nothing is false. Most of the buildings in the French Quarter etc have been there for over a century. I went to an elementary school in NO was terrified when I was told that the city was below sea level. I wonder if it wouldn't be cheaper faster safer for everyone to just evacuate the city totally permanently.We had the flood of the century in Albany, GA in 1994 and another big one in1998 and several smaller ones since. I hate to be the bearer of bad news,but how can they not expect another one before they fix up from this one? Let recent statistics be the prophets.Chuck-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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Just because folks protested doesn't mean they've got their way. There was ton's of protesting when the petro companies started setting up the canals to host their infrastructure, part of the reason the southern wetlands have gone from a 200 mile to 30 mile buffer area is directly related to all the heavy industry. Guess what, now that heavy industry is thinking that the gulf coast might be too expensive to operate in.On 9/1/05, Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, You also, however, forget that several people were indicted for embezzlement out of the project and that a congressional budget audit made clear that the books could not be reconciled. Project Impact was always designed at small grants given to communities to develop planning.. example: http://www.fema.gov/regions/vii/1998/98r7n033.shtm Grants were generally smaller then $250,000. As an example of their guidelines: Project Impact is built around 3 basic principles: 1) preventative measures must be decided at the local level; 2) private sector participation is vital; and 3) long term efforts and investments in prevention measures are essential.That was a different segment of the program, which dealt only with the items you just outlined on the state and local level. The idea of project impact was never the government provides the plan rather it was that the government would provide seed money for the community to develop a strategic plan.. Au contraire.'Project Impact' also involved federal planning to mitigate the damage done by large natural disasters by taking measures that would be crucial to a strategy to save lives and cutrecovery costs.FEMA had pre-planned a New Orleans nightmare scenario, in which the federal government figured it would pre-deploy nearby ships with pumps to remove water from thebelow-sea-level city and have hospital ships nearby.Since 2001, the Bushies have been slashing key federal disaster mitigation programs, and FEMA's 'Project Impact', created by the Clinton administration, has been outrightcancelled.The result ?No pre-deployed ships to pump out the water, and only ONE hospital ship has been allocated to the area, but it didn't leave it's port until Friday, AFTER the hurricane struck.http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12528233.htm So, the proposal was to create upstream spillways through a split levee system, to have a break point on the inflow of water or a controlled spilloff to lower the water table. But the problem is, people everywhere protested. Wildlife Defense Fund protested; Conservative Taxpayer Network protested; etc. Also amongst groups that protested: PETA, World Wildlife Fund, National Conservation Society, (Left) Turkey Watch, TaxPayer Network, Government Abuse Hotline (Right) Except those 'protests' were about the REDESIGN and expansion of the levee system and it's spillways and locks.It's a different kettle of fish that because of the Bushies budget cuts, the Corps essentially stopped major work on the now-breached levee system that had protected NewOrleans from flooding. It was the first such stoppage in 37 years, the Times-Picayune reported.http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12528233.htm Vince-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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Part of the criticism levied at bushco right now though hinges around the simple fact that the federal money to simply maintain the levee's vanished with the onset of the war in iraq and afghanistan and all the spending on DHS, oh and the TSA, oh and the ill advised tax cuts...On 9/1/05, CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except those 'protests' were about the REDESIGN and expansion of the levee system and it's spillways and locks. It's a different kettle of fish that because of the Bushies budget cuts, the Corps essentially stopped major work on the now-breached levee system that had protected New Orleans from flooding. It was the first such stoppage in 37 years, the Times-Picayune reported. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12528233.htmI think if you read through the ACE report to the senate in 1997, they argued (and several argued against) that without a complete reconstructure of upstream levees and a redesign of spillways, there was very little with the ground given.. outside of massive imminent domain claims as city projects were built too close to current levees.Many argued this was the wrong way to look at it, but four times this was proposed.I do agree with those who say hey, just because people protested that's right, occassionally the government has to do what is politically unpopular.But let's be honest, with so many groups protesting, and so many in office in the senate / house on both sides living and dying off of the goodwill of the people who support those causes, no one had the testicular fortitude to do the right thing.CW-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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NYC gets ton's of federal aid. Museums, bridges, hospitals, tons of cash go to various projects/causes, both infrastructure and fluff.On 9/1/05, Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, CW wrote: The issue is that the repair, maintenance, and beefing-up of the levees, the very levees that broke through, was STOPPED in 2004, for the first time in 37 years, because of the Bushies massive budget cuts. Why didn't the city of NO pick up where the federal government stopped? I mean hell, it's thier Levees!New York City has it's own tax collection.Send out the collector and getmoney to work the Levees.It's not a state issue, it's a city one.Thatis what I'm saying. Christopher Fisk--A FIRE DRILL DOES NOT DEMAND A FIREA FIRE DRILL DOES NOT DEMAND A FIREBart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 4F16-- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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And I'm sure everyone's overjoyed to know that the Pentagon's Patriot Day festivities are still fully funded...On 9/1/05, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:NYC gets ton's of federal aid. Museums, bridges, hospitals, tons of cash go to various projects/causes, both infrastructure and fluff.On 9/1/05, Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, CW wrote: The issue is that the repair, maintenance, and beefing-up of the levees, the very levees that broke through, was STOPPED in 2004, for the first time in 37 years, because of the Bushies massive budget cuts. Why didn't the city of NO pick up where the federal government stopped? I mean hell, it's thier Levees!New York City has it's own tax collection.Send out the collector and getmoney to work the Levees.It's not a state issue, it's a city one.Thatis what I'm saying. Christopher Fisk--A FIRE DRILL DOES NOT DEMAND A FIREA FIRE DRILL DOES NOT DEMAND A FIREBart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 4F16 -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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You know what, we can go back and forth about why and who should have paid for what, state, local or federal funding. But this is a big, big, disaster, where is the federal response? check out cnn.comOn 9/1/05, Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, WTF do they need 40-50 BILLION to upkeep the current levee's?The Federal Budget was just 70 million for the levees.Sorry, that was a typo. That should be $40-$50 MILLION. That's what the cuts were, annually.Vince-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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from the dailykos - Category 4 Hurricane Determined to Strike U.S. -- Cont. by Hunter Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 10:28:22 PDT George W. Bush was once known as the C.E.O. President, a term his handlers eagerly coined in order to convey that the country would from now on be run like a business. That quickly evolved into the less flattering Enron President... then the War President... now it's looking like we can all finally settle on one. George W. Bush: the Disaster President. I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. He honestly said that. If that brings up more than a passing twinge of familiarity, being a more than remarkable restatement of Condi Rice's now-famous assertion to the Senate panel -- then I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. But it does bring up something that we joke about often, but apparently have never taken quite seriously enough: our President is an idiot. I don't mean an average, run-of-the-mill idiot. I mean an idiot who apparently, for the entire duration of his presidency, literally was paying absolutely no attention to even the most life-threateningly critical tasks of government. The administration specifically cut the funds to fix these specific levees, in order to specifically divert that Corps money to Iraq, despite urgent warnings and predictions of catastrophic disaster if the levees were breeched. The administration specifically cancelled the Clinton-backed flood control program to preserve and restore the wetlands between New Orleans and the gulf, instead specifically opening parts of that buffer zone for development. Nobody anticipated this disaster? It was identified by FEMA as one of the top three likeliest major disasters to strike America. (That link, one of countless stories, was from 2001, by the way.) It has been a major disaster scenario for years. Everybody anticipated it, which makes this single statement by George W. Bush possibly the most dishonest, lying, craptacularly false thing he has ever said in his presidency -- even surpassing his now-infamous State of the Union Address. Truly, this is President Bush's blue-dress moment. And yet, funneling the money into Iraq was more important. You better bet your crapulent, lying, one-track, drink-addled ass that's a political issue. He also said today: I hope people don't play politics at this time of a natural disaster the likes of which this country has never seen. Oh, I'm touched. Utterly touched. After 9/11, the entire Republican Party went en masse to get Twin Towers ass tattoos. The Republican convention was a wholesale tribute to crass exploitation, the sets themselves designed to evoke the aftermath of the attack. Every domestic and international policy this administration -- no, this entire Republican government -- has produced has been heaved up before the public while waving the spectre of 9/11 as the catch-all vindication of every administration whim. Every tax cut, every civil rights issue, every budget cut, every budget expansion, no matter how tortured the logic must be, has some Republican senator standing on the Senate floor and proudly raping the corpses of that day as justification for their particular agenda item. Oh, we've seen politicization of disaster. Every Republican campaign for the last four years has revolved around the politicization of disaster. But Lord help us, George W. Bush is going to get the vapors if anyone asks him to explain his administration's active cuts of the very programs designed to keep New Orleans safe.On 9/1/05, Eli Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recentlyenjoyed a little Broadway entertainment. And Page Six reports that she'salso working on her backhand with Monica Seles. So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying abrief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised.What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue,Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on some nice, new shoes (we've confirmed this, so her new heels will surely get coveragefrom the WaPo's Robin Givhan). A fellow shopper, unable to fathom theabsurdity of Rice's timing, went up to the Secretary and reportedly shouted, How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless! Neverone to have her fashion choices questioned, Rice had security PHYSICALLYREMOVE the woman. http://www.gawker.com/news/condoleezza-rice/index.php#breaking-condi-rice-spends-salary-on-shoes-123467- Original Message -From: j m gTo: The Hardware ListSent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - KatrinaYou know what, we can go back and forth about why and who should have paidfor what, state, local or federal funding.But this is a big, big,disaster, where is the federal response? check out cnn.com-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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What would Glass do?On 9/1/05, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok this is starting to piss me off.Can I get an admin ruling on when to take this thread off the list and to private?Another few days and I will be tempted to just unsubscribe. Back away from the coffee. :)And set your email client to ignore/delete this thread automatically.Gary VanderMolen-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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Ah, republican penis envy. BC had a Rep congress the whole time and new we've got a Rep pres and congress. If stuff is broken now, guess what - it is their fault.On 9/1/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:07 PM 9/1/2005, Christopher Fisk typed:I played online poker last night.How dare I gamble while thousands aredying and homeless!I suppose BC was playing with interns. The reason we don't have an energy policy is because Monica was playing with his cigar.I've got an idea, why don't we wait until we need things before we startplanning for them.In any case it's too late now so lets help pickup the pieces. --+--Wayne D. JohnsonAshland, OH, USA 44805http://www.wavijo.com-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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I've got a 9800 pro and usb2.0, my budget is about $100, I was assuming the pci cards would return a better product. Thanks.On 8/29/05, Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your best bet for that particular job will be one of the ATI or HaupaugeUSB2 external TV tuners, and capture device. They will work just as well as a PCI capture card, without the commitment. Even if you don't have a USB2port you can buy a PCI USB2 card for under $20.Of course if you want something fancy and need a better video card you canalways get a ATI All in Wonder card in AGP or PCI...anything above 7500 would do that kind of capture job just fine.At 12:57 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote:Can anybody recommend a tv capture card, initially I need somethingthat I can hookup to a vcr and rescue all my wife's old disney tapes from, but I've seen a few that have pvr functionality.Hopefullysomething that's not too cpu intensive as I've only got an 1800XP inmy main rig.Just curious of folks opinions...---jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]-- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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My immediate need before my son destroys them is moving our vhs library (what's not available on DVD) onto my pc for backup. And since I'm at it I'd like to use my pc, or one quiet enough to put in the living room as a tivo pc. Found this card, might give it a try - http://www.z-buy.com/product.asp?item=VG-HA00186On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -From: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:46 AMSubject: Re: [H] I've got a 9800 pro and usb2.0, my budget is about $100, I was assuming the pci cards would return a better product. Thanks. Am I correct in assuming that you want to have the capability to send mostany video signal into your computer, not just that from a VCR?One of my customers set up an appointment to have a DVD Burner installed into his computer. He cancelled saying, I decided to go with a stand aloneVCR to DVD unit. Good for him! I feel the same way about owning a faxmachine instead of faxing via computer, especially if you do a large volume. Stand alone units usually do far better than a computer can do. My customerwill most likely still see the need for the DVD Burner to copy other datafrom his hard drive.Chuck -- -jmgChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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Can anybody recommend a tv capture card, initially I need something that I can hookup to a vcr and rescue all my wife's old disney tapes from, but I've seen a few that have pvr functionality. Hopefully something that's not too cpu intensive as I've only got an 1800XP in my main rig. Just curious of folks opinions... -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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On 8/29/05, j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend a tv capture card, initially I need something that I can hookup to a vcr and rescue all my wife's old disney tapes from, but I've seen a few that have pvr functionality. Hopefully something that's not too cpu intensive as I've only got an 1800XP in my main rig. Just curious of folks opinions... -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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There's a difference between getting arrested for smoking something on the front porch versus getting arrested for breaking down a door. On 8/25/05, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many of those in jail for drugs are helpless Grandma's and teenagers? Simple question, do the drug laws deter usage? What else are they supposed to do? I suppose we should eliminate laws against theft too since they would also fail your definition of success. -Gary j m g said the following on 8/25/2005 3:08 PM: I don't think locking up grandma and idiot teenagers is the mark of a successful policy. On 8/25/05, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course it is up to you to define successful? -Gary Thane Sherrington said the following on 8/25/2005 3:07 PM: At 04:56 PM 25/08/2005, Gary Udstrand wrote: Your problem is you have failed to define working. If by working you mean are they acting as a deterrent, then they are working. If you are defining working as the complete eradication of drugs from society then you are creating nothing more than a canard. I think working is pretty easy to define: A free society where people take responsibility for their actions, and tax dollars aren't wasted on things that are completely unsuccessful. T -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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When intel and apple merge will they still be evil? On 8/25/05, Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the evil Intel empire? SCO lawsuit? Something more tech then gas and buds please -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.14/79 - Release Date: 8/22/2005 -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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But how many billions are spent on enforcement that doesn't get anywhere. Why even bother busting kids with a cigarette's worth of pot? Your taxes are already going to the 'war on drugs' and that money isn't being wisely spent. On 8/25/05, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest drug problem these days is ICE or crystal meth made from cold pills and second a bumper crop from our buddies in Afghanistan. Neither should be tolerated and those found using should be helped medically, not jailed. Do you want your taxes raised in order to pay for the repetitive medical treatment of those who abuse themselves willfully? I don't. I don't see any free alcohol abuse treatment centers either. Remember, those in jail for drug abuse are but the tip of the iceberg. People need to take ownership of their own problems and learn self control. Don't expect kid-glove treatment on my dime. Gary VanderMolen -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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If I can walk into walgreens and there sitting right next to the marlboro's...they're not going to have a say in the matter. On 8/25/05, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is one of the most ludicrous arguments being tossed about by the legalizing drugs crowd. What in God's name makes you think that organized crime will walk away from their BILLION dollar empires? Tax the drugs?? LOL. -Gary Eli Allen said the following on 8/25/2005 10:24 AM: A few minor changes I'd make. First, I'm assuming the drugs are actually very cheap to make. So I say tax them very highly and they should still be cheaper then drugs are now and so prevent a black market, These taxes are what should be used to pay for all the regulation and treatment efforts. Second, there needs to be a law that first defines what recreational drugs are and second allowing discrimination against people who use them. This allows for an additional incentive to keep people off the drugs. I do believe the drugs do bad things to you to can cause your medical bills to go up and keep you from being as good of an employee from how it effects your mind so its not fair for the many who don't use the drugs. Third, and probably the measure to enact first, medical research should never be limited arbitrarily because a chemical is considered a recreational drug. A chemical is a chemical and they all have side effects, you just need to balance the good parts and the bad. Eli - Original Message - http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/7/ - Decriminalization arguement. Sounds pretty good to me... On 8/25/05, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freed up space in prisons better suited to real criminals. From: Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Aug 25 09:31:48 CDT 2005 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices What happened in China when they legalized drugs? What about Needle park in Zurich? Can you cite one example where the legalization of drugs solved any social ills? -Gary Stan Zaske said the following on 8/25/2005 3:04 AM: BC Bud! Didn't you see the prime time report? They sell it in shops on the streets using the best seeds from around the globe! Gotta love British Columbia! g What hypocrisy that we still haven't learned Prohibition doesn't work even after all the organized crime that came as a result of criminalization! Try to do the same with tobacco and see what happens! So what if you smoke a bowl in the evening to relax? Who's business is it anyway? Our money would be better spent on public education and rehab rather than interdiction and criminalization! Addictive behavior is associated with self-esteem and that's where our focus should be! So much for wisdom in government! warpmedia wrote: Well there sure is some dynamite hemp floating around somewhere these days! LOL Was just in Vancouver for 8 days and never got over to the little Amsterdam area to see what all the fuss was about. Of course there was the fear of the transaction in the back of my mind since that seems to be the law the get you on rather than possession or use. FORC5 wrote: Over 25,000 products can be manufactured from hemp, from cellophane to dynamite. Popular Mechanics, 1938 At 02:27 AM 8/24/2005, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: Better yet, grow female hemp to ferment into methane and sell the buds to Canada. g gibney wrote: Industrial hemp, digested to methane and powering fuel cells. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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the same places stores get their goods from now, growers, manufacturers, local and international, if it was legal and had a profit margin and some demand it wouldn't be at Walmart? On 8/25/05, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And where is Walgreens supposed to get the drugs? -Gary j m g said the following on 8/25/2005 2:37 PM: If I can walk into walgreens and there sitting right next to the marlboro's...they're not going to have a say in the matter. On 8/25/05, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is one of the most ludicrous arguments being tossed about by the legalizing drugs crowd. What in God's name makes you think that organized crime will walk away from their BILLION dollar empires? Tax the drugs?? LOL. -Gary Eli Allen said the following on 8/25/2005 10:24 AM: A few minor changes I'd make. First, I'm assuming the drugs are actually very cheap to make. So I say tax them very highly and they should still be cheaper then drugs are now and so prevent a black market, These taxes are what should be used to pay for all the regulation and treatment efforts. Second, there needs to be a law that first defines what recreational drugs are and second allowing discrimination against people who use them. This allows for an additional incentive to keep people off the drugs. I do believe the drugs do bad things to you to can cause your medical bills to go up and keep you from being as good of an employee from how it effects your mind so its not fair for the many who don't use the drugs. Third, and probably the measure to enact first, medical research should never be limited arbitrarily because a chemical is considered a recreational drug. A chemical is a chemical and they all have side effects, you just need to balance the good parts and the bad. Eli - Original Message - http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/7/ - Decriminalization arguement. Sounds pretty good to me... On 8/25/05, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freed up space in prisons better suited to real criminals. From: Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu Aug 25 09:31:48 CDT 2005 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices What happened in China when they legalized drugs? What about Needle park in Zurich? Can you cite one example where the legalization of drugs solved any social ills? -Gary Stan Zaske said the following on 8/25/2005 3:04 AM: BC Bud! Didn't you see the prime time report? They sell it in shops on the streets using the best seeds from around the globe! Gotta love British Columbia! g What hypocrisy that we still haven't learned Prohibition doesn't work even after all the organized crime that came as a result of criminalization! Try to do the same with tobacco and see what happens! So what if you smoke a bowl in the evening to relax? Who's business is it anyway? Our money would be better spent on public education and rehab rather than interdiction and criminalization! Addictive behavior is associated with self-esteem and that's where our focus should be! So much for wisdom in government! warpmedia wrote: Well there sure is some dynamite hemp floating around somewhere these days! LOL Was just in Vancouver for 8 days and never got over to the little Amsterdam area to see what all the fuss was about. Of course there was the fear of the transaction in the back of my mind since that seems to be the law the get you on rather than possession or use. FORC5 wrote: Over 25,000 products can be manufactured from hemp, from cellophane to dynamite. Popular Mechanics, 1938 At 02:27 AM 8/24/2005, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: Better yet, grow female hemp to ferment into methane and sell the buds to Canada. g gibney wrote: Industrial hemp, digested to methane and powering fuel cells. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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I don't think locking up grandma and idiot teenagers is the mark of a successful policy. On 8/25/05, Gary Udstrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course it is up to you to define successful? -Gary Thane Sherrington said the following on 8/25/2005 3:07 PM: At 04:56 PM 25/08/2005, Gary Udstrand wrote: Your problem is you have failed to define working. If by working you mean are they acting as a deterrent, then they are working. If you are defining working as the complete eradication of drugs from society then you are creating nothing more than a canard. I think working is pretty easy to define: A free society where people take responsibility for their actions, and tax dollars aren't wasted on things that are completely unsuccessful. T -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
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The 'rest of the world' should make sure their own houses are in order before they start bitching at US. On 8/23/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:03 PM 20/08/2005, Robert Turnbull wrote: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050820.wxnafta20/BNStory/National/ and they whine, Why does the world hate us so? No offense, but anyone who honestly thought that the US was signing a free trade agreement with Canada for the good of Canada, was smoking crack. Free trade is a tool of the powerful that allows them to give a little to the weak while getting far more. I knew this when Mulroney shoved it down our throats, and I think it's funny that these no-minds are finally figuring this out now. Yes, the Americans aren't playing fair. But we wouldn't either if we had the power. We knew this when we signed the agreement, but we decided to pretend that it would never happen. T -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: Re: [H] Gas prices
Foreign Affairs magazine from a couple of years ago theorized that if the fed's had kept up the level of energy conservation RD funding as was spent from the early 70s to the early 80s we wouldn't have to worry about foreign at all by the late 90s, unfortunately by late 80s most of the big federal money go to that type of RD(energy conservation) dried up. Same article I believe dug up some research done by oil companies and even they figured that ANWR production would not be profitable unless prices went up to $50/barrel. Just curious how things work out. On 8/18/05, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoping to get away from high prices for fuel is unrealistic, also, no matter where the energy comes from. Prices are supply and demand driven. Any decrease in price caused by an increase in supply is offset by an increase in demand. In the case of oil, prices have recently been driven NOT by supply and demand, but by the fears of supply and demand. Easily 50% of the cost of oil today is a premium built not on actual supply or demand, but mere speculation and the fear of supply disruptions. Currently, there is plenty of supply to meet demand, but the margin is slim. Economics 101 doesn't (directly) apply here. Greg -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices
You Aussies get nicer cars, I believe the WRX sold in australia has much more aggressive tuning than the one in the US because of the availability of higer octane gas and less onerous polution laws, hardware wise the the US model gets a cat pre turbo other than that the only diff is the tune..and the japan/australian model generates 25 to 35 more hp On 8/18/05, Tony Antoniou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only one problem with ethanol ... crap energy density compared to petroleum. I'm sticking to Shell Optimax premium fuel thanks to its turbo friendly additives. Besides which, our cars here in Australia at least can't handle anything more than 10% ethanol in our petrol as it results in engine and fuel system damage. It has been documented for some time here. I'd like to see how your cars can survive on ethanol yet ours suffer. Must be something in the engineering of the engines and fuel systems that the ethanol otherwise attacks in our systems. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff.lane Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2005 6:44 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices Hell, we can grow ethanol. Read the stars, guys, we are getting screwed! The oil companies have been crying for years that oil prices are way behind inflation. I say, so what! I thought the idea was to keep inflation down in the first place. The Government needs to include fuel and food in the inflation indicators. Of course, if they do prime interest rates would be at 50% or more by now! -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] US not a nice place to travel through
we hold these truths to be self evident...that all men are created equal unless you're just passing through? On 8/11/05, Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty scary stuff. The one thing that strikes me though: If passengers are deemed to be inadmissible, they have no constitutional rights even if later taken to an American prison. Mason says that's because they are deemed to be still outside the U.S., from a legal point of view. Foreign citizens don't have Constitutional rights. Thane Sherrington wrote: http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ot_flyrights_20050811 This is scary. Mason (a senior lawyer for the US government) said the interpretation means travellers can be detained without charge, denied the right to consult a lawyer, and even refused necessities such as food and sleep. Is this for real? Sounds sort of insane to me. I guess it's now Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...unless they're just passing through...then tell 'em to watch out! grin T -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] RE: FFL
I'm in. -John On 7/22/05, Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in. That was fun last year. At 7/21/2005 07:03 AM, Chris Reeves wrote: Yeah, Hayes I just traded email.. once again, we need to get our league together for this year.. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/55 - Release Date: 7/21/2005 -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.
Just so folks don't think I'm a wacko commie here's my perspective again - I believe copyright protection is a privelege granted by the Constitution and regulated by congress to the producers of scientific or artistic works. The founders did this to compensate those producers for their work and to foster innovation in whatever areas that had a need but to also allow original works to at some point be built upon. It is a privilege not a right, by definition, it has been granted by the public to those producers so that both parties would receive something of value. To me, the current copyright and patent laws only benefit the producers, or in the case of movies and music the distributors, leaving the public with an empty shell of a culture that essentially helped bring down the Berlin Wall. The Constitution stated a limited time for copyright, that has been warped the past 20 years by ever increasing lobbying and overly excessive copyright enforcement and penalties, those RIAA victims probably would have rather been arrested for stealing than copyright infringement. Back to where we started - the Grokster ruling was vague and will only cause more lawsuits, tie up the courts and kill innovation. At least, in the US. Now for more coffee... On 7/7/05, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:24 PM 7/6/2005, Winterlight typed: The only way the media industry are going to come out of this, is to change their thinking, and come up with new ways to market old products. There was a little local coffee shop that use to play audio CDs that she had purchased when a RIAA representative counted all the chairs while I was there told the owner that she would have to pay $XXX.00 weekly to continue to playing the cds publicly in her coffee shop. She commented that it wasn't publicly since it was her little coffee shop that the price they commanded would bankrupt her. She immediately stopped playing the cds that she had purchased stopped buying cds entirely. From then on she only played the radio. Many of her clients had heard her cds had gone out to buy their own copies but the RIAA representative didn't care about that when she brought up that fact. She complained that the price they wanted was more expensive than if she had bought each chair a cd. We all know that not every chair was filled from opening to close as well but I doubt the RIAA representative took that into effect either. It's strong arm tactics like these that many people see that give them the feeling that it's ok to steal something from these guys. Believe me the coffee shop owner told everyone why she was no longer playing audio cds any more then she had a sign made up that anyone could read as to why there was nothing the RIAA could do about her putting that sign up in her shop because it was 100% the truth. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.
On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly did the Grokster advertisements state? If it was something so blatantly stupid like download our client to get free pirated movies instead of paying for them then boo hoo, capitalistic darwinism strikes again. At some point people here need to realize that 99.999% of So what, what difference my recording off TV or downloading off the Internet? An injustice? Please, the Constitution (Article 1, Clause 8) states for a LIMITED time. Last I looked, Steamboat Willy is yet to enter the public domain, legislation is also being looked at to extend copyright out past it's current 95 years or life plus 70, the public good and innovation are certainly not being served. Please, the media companies certainly do not need your sympathy for abducting our culture. what is being downloaded on P2P networks is pirated material, and that is an injustice, no matter how evil you percieve the music/movie industries. P2P software will always be around but companies that are dumb enough to instruct you on how to acquire pirated media deserve zero sympathy. Should gun companies be allowed to show how to use a firearm to rob a bank? No, but gun companies aren't being sued for producing the facilitating technology. (The 0-60 comparison post is way off the mark) Not necessarily, downloading, like speeding are both laws that a broken daily by people who don't really think they're doing anything wrong, they do it because they can and, with the advent of p2p and broadband, also do it because it's easy. From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd.,et al. Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:46:01 -0400 They should just sue the internet for making it easy to pirate movies. I wish people would stop going to the movies and stop buying music in response to these stupid lawsuits. Ultimately, fair-use rights are going to be eliminated, and we'll all be forced to live in a safe, happy DRM land, where the thought police kill you if you press the record button when you're not allowed to. j m g wrote: But what it also doesn't do is give clarity to allowing the suits in the first place. They've opened the door to folks to let the courts decide if there was any 'promotion of infringement' by the hardware or software vendors. My Subaru's tv ad had 0-60 times as 5.4 secs - are they promoting reckless driving? Can they be sued for it? What someone does with tools they've purchased should be their own responsibility. A vague ruling like this will kill funding of projects that have market potential simply because of litigation fears. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.
So it IS ok to copy copyright works? On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd.,et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:27:56 -0400 I think what he's getting at is downloading a TV show from the internet that he did *NOT* record himself, but could have. Is that illegal? Yes. You see that warning on every single network broadcast? It states this program may not be publically broadcast without consent of X network. The reason being is this; networks broadcast their content without charging their viewers to watch on the condition that the commercial ad revenue will keep them in business. Sharing commercial-ripped unauthorized reproductions naturally will anger the TV network. I however dont see what is so terrible in sharing network TV programming in its entirety, complete with the commercials in place. Sure, home users have ways to eliminate watching the ads, but as long as the uploader includes them, I dont see how this is unethical in regards to copyrights. This applies to network TV, obviously not HBO or what not. Sharing of broadcast TV is indeed a grey area. If everybody found ways to defeat the viewing of ads (either by Tivo, or downloading ripped content), what will result are ads placed within scenes of your favorite TV show (which I find more annoying). -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.
no no no - it's not stealing, it's copyright infringement justice, in practice, is not simple - it usually depends on which side you're on On 7/6/05, Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd., et al. Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:39:27 -0300 At 02:25 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=injustice in·jus·tice n. Violation of another's rights or of what is right; lack of justice. A specific unjust act; a wrong. Last I checked, stealing is wrong and stealing a pirated work is a violation of another's rights. You're misunderstanding the definition. You're also misunderstanding rights, but I don't want to get into that. :) T Downloading a ISO copy of a DVD movie you have not purchased is stealing. Stealing is universally wrong and punishable the world over. I think it is you that is misunderstanding the incredibly simple definition of injustice. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al.
But what it also doesn't do is give clarity to allowing the suits in the first place. They've opened the door to folks to let the courts decide if there was any 'promotion of infringement' by the hardware or software vendors. My Subaru's tv ad had 0-60 times as 5.4 secs - are they promoting reckless driving? Can they be sued for it? What someone does with tools they've purchased should be their own responsibility. A vague ruling like this will kill funding of projects that have market potential simply because of litigation fears. On 7/5/05, Robert Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From The Washington Post: In http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W6RH04C5C064AD9BC6D7A3C8141400Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al., the Court held that Grokster could be sued by MGM and other entertainment industry firms for its creation of a peer-to-peer file-sharing service. That's not because Grokster's software could be used for downloading movies and music, nor because Grokster's software was being used for that purpose, nor even because the Groksterites intended that use. The difference here, Justice David Souter wrote for a 9-0 majority, was that Grokster advertised itself as a way to get movies and music without paying. To quote http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W6RH04C5C0575D9BC6D7A3C8141400Souter's opinion: one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties. This is a somewhat fine distinction that seems to have gotten lost in some we're-all-gonna-die! analysis. The ruling does not throw people in jail for making hardware or software that could be used to share copyrighted works. It does not require the developers of hardware and software to act as copyright cops. The ruling makes this clear on page 19: Mere knowledge of infringing potential or of actual infringing uses would not be enough here to subject a distributor to liability, and in footnote 12 on page 22: In the absence of other evidence of intent, a court would be unable to find contributory infringement liability merely based on a failure to take affirmative steps to prevent infringement, if the device otherwise was capable of substantial noninfringing uses. Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] It's official - OSX to be running on Pentiums
maybe this answers the why intel instead of amd - DRM - http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050606195856716 On 6/7/05, Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is the only move Apple could make. They were stagnating on the PowerPC architecture and needed to make the switch so they could move ahead. And this move does not mean that you will be able to get OSX and just drop it on any x86 system. What we are looking at is Macs with an Intel processor but everything else Mac hardware. I think the problem is development costs - right now Apple only has to program and create driver libraries for a very narrow set of hardware. I don't think they have the resources to support every random video card or piece of peripheral hardware like M$. The only question I have is why they choose Intel instead of AMD. AMD has been producing better chips for a while now and it is pretty evident that their 64bit and dual core designs are superior to Intel's. Maybe it came down to volume and AMD simply couldn't meet the quantities that Apple demanded. Maybe Apple thinks the Intel brand and name recognition is worth more than the better CPU. -- Brian -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H]Prepaid Cellphone opinions?
Looking at the virgin prepaid plan - as long as you keep it active by putting in at lest $20 every 3 months you don't lose anything. On 4/12/05, Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, they are, over a 90 day period. Still, using at a cost of 25 cents a minute vs. a card of 10 cents a minute is still a bad deal ;) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:54 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H]Prepaid Cellphone opinions? are not pre-paid cards a use it or loose it proposition ? fp At 10:26 AM 4/12/2005, CW Poked the stick with: My wife uses Virgin (I use too much, so I'm on a contract). Virgin is 100% better then Trac. Hell, it's better then some contract services. Phones are cheap, 10 cents a minute is reasonable for the low user; whereas Track is about 25 cents a minute/etc. and sometimes higher. The phone Trac provides also suck in comparison. -Original message- From: j m g [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:20:47 -0500 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H]Prepaid Cellphone opinions? Folks, I'm looking to get a prepaid plan for light cell phone use - it looks like tracfone and virgin are the 2 biggest choices, essentially verizon's and sprint's networks. Anyone familiar with either? Thanks -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918] -- Tallyho ! ]:8) -- Its hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember a thing. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] USB Flash Drive
Just noticed arstechnica.com has an updated flash drive review out On 4/12/05, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this *flaw* in xp is why I leave D and E empty and start drives after C at F. fp At 11:31 PM 4/11/2005, nobozoz Poked the stick with: Rob, Your Cruzer Mini may not be mounting because another device is using the same drive letter as the Cruzer has used in the past - this has happened to me on more than one occasion on WINXP. The tell-tail sign from my experience is that the Cruzer device will be visible in Unplug or Eject Hardware, but its file system will not visible to Explorer. My recollection is that you have to go into Admin Tools under Computer Management and use Storage -- Disk Management to re-assign a drive letter for the Cruzer. This problem can come and go depending on your system config and hardware. Also, you may want to try that Cruzer in a couple of other PCs before giving up on it. Like Fred, I always try to use Unplug or Eject Hardware to gracefully remove the so-called Plug-and-Pray USB Mass Storage Devices. When I was lazy or impatient, I occasionally wound up with corrupted files. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) -- Some men are discovered, others are found out. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] anonymous logon ?
FYI - pookmail.com is out there for those use as a throwaway email addy. On Apr 11, 2005 2:30 PM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. driving myself crazy trying to remember this tia At 09:35 AM 4/11/2005, Emil Juni Poked the stick with: FORC5 wrote: Awhile ago someone posted a web a dress where one could type in a web address and get log in info of ppl that have volunteered that info. This is for dickhead sites that require *free* registration in order to log on ( probably to generate spam ) I have recently went thru a format/clean install and seem to have misplaced the url. thanks fp bugmenot.com Emil -- Tallyho ! ]:8) -- Tabloid: A newspaper with a permanent crime wave. -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Capacitors for motherboards
I've used digikey.com for some robotics stuff - they've got a huge selection. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:28:10 -0400, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea where I can get capacitors for motherboards? When I call my distributors, they act like 6.3V, 105C, 3600uF capacitors are very unusual. I'm thinking that perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
The customer has to activate since he/she has to state where that phone is going to be used since theoretically it can be used anywhere it's got an internet connection. How is Vonage going to know where you are using that phone? Hence it's up to you to do a bit of work. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:38 -0600, G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why not just default it to active and save lives? On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:17:57 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, 007 wrote: Some quirks exist in Voice/IP. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58598-2005Mar22.html The parents, who survived their injuries, didn't specifically request 911 services when they signed up. Abbott, who is seeking $20,000 for each violation, said Vonage's marketing materials don't make it clear that users need to sign up to make 911 calls. Vonage is *MORE* than clear about this, they are downright IN YOUR FACE (Caps required to really understand how specific they are on this issue) that you need to activate your 911 service. In fact, in the feature menu on your account screed (Where you setup voicemail, call waiting, etc the exact verbage is: 911 Dialing is NOT automatic. You must activate 911 Dialing for each number on your account. To activate or change activation information, choose a number below. Oh, and it's in the only non-grey table cell (The cell is red). I was notified 5 or more times during the process that 911 calling had to be activated, and would *NOT* work before activated. Idiots. Christopher Fisk -- I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low. -Calvin -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
How difficult would it be for someone to take responsibility for their own safety and not leave it in someone else's never mind. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:32:26 -0800, Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, the users are told they need to enter this information, they are told multiple times. How is this not the users fault? How difficult would it be for Vonage to modify their setup GUI such that it requires disclosure of the physical location before the customer is allowed to use the device for the first time? It shouldn't be an option. Gary VanderMolen -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
So vonage should default to potentially incorrect information for emergency response - I don't see the point. This makes you safer? On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:01:21 -0500, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:43 PM 3/23/2005, j m g typed: How difficult would it be for someone to take responsibility for their own safety and not leave it in someone else's never mind. I always forget to put in the local police fire dept #s for a few days after getting a phone because I've become spoiled with 911 being there. If it weren't, I'd be ticked off. It's one thing to have people take responsibility but it's another to spoil them then take it away. I agree with Gary, Vonage should've defaulted to some geographic location even if it is one town to the N,S,E or W. I've called 911 from my cell phone have had calls rerouted to the correct municipality. Heck, we have local local 911 calls rerouted to the various police or fire dept. in our small town in the cases that are non life threatening the people at 911 then they tell you the local # is blah blah to please leave these lines open for such. OBTW how would you like to get a call that says they can't call nine eleven because the guy says he doesn't have an eleven on his phone? This is the level of intelligence that the 911 people have to put up with are there to protect even if it's from themselves. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
I'm not arguing that vonage should/shouldn't have 911 calls patched. I'm saying that since their phones/services can be used anywhere the customer should have the onus to set the freakin thing up correctly. If the power's out and your broadband connection is dead who are you going to blame? Comcast, Linksys, Utility Co? The customer chose which tech/service to purchase, no one is forced to go VOIP. Hmm, I bought a car that was cheaper, intentionally foregoing safety devices, I'll just sue when I get hurt in an accident. NOT. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:55:34 -0500, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:41 PM 3/23/2005, G.Waleed Kavalec typed: 911 is not necessarily allways called by coherent adults, in case you were unaware. Great point. How's the kid suppose to know if mommy /or daddy didn't sign up for 911 service ? IMHO if 911 service is available in their location then it should be required to be carried by the various phone companies. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- -jmg Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918]
