h3%5kr3w
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W00t! Saints are goin' to the Super Bowl!
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@ the Superman- Yes they could technically check to see how many computers are connected through viewing individual frames, but there is a trick you can do to make it seem as though it's all coming from one computer... Just can't remember the order, but I think it's you put a router behind a switch? or is it a firewall in front of a router... crap, can't remember.
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I know why, because you'r on cox, and your testing TO cox. Your never getting off the copper. Hell your probably not even hopping through a router.
I get 6mbps to the same server and I am just across the river. Why am I getting this as opposed to you? Cause I am hopping routers, repeaters, and fiber, and i believe cox clamps the connection to your bandwidth specs at the cable outbound connections, not internals. Especially for cable because of the nature of a cable connection (shared connection to one trunk instead of isolated connections) so I am getting my bandwidth cap as soon as I hit AT&T.
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While I agree that UAC is annoying, it's tough to say you need to just turn it off because it really does add a layer of security, but as always the more secure the o.s. the more annoying it is.
However, I have found with Windows 7, UAC is FAR LESS annoying. Also, I wanted to add that the only issue I have ever had with Vista is it's speed. Windows 7 is definitely the way to go.
Crazy as it is, I have had this compaq for about a year and a half and have not had any issues with it. I know it's cheap. (hell it cost me only $450) But not one problem aside from running hot as hell, but that's because it's a really cheap Athlon x2 chip in it. At the same time I have treated it like a small child, and will continue to do so. But if it were not for the super low budget I had at the time, I would have gone with either Dell or Lenovo. As far as I am concerned, Gateways LCLP (low cost laptops) are crap [poor lcd swivel holders, and horrid power plug issues]
***I wanted to also add, don't get a Dell laptop with a slot-loading dvd drive.***
My sis-in law has one, has a problem with the dvd drive, and you have to take it down to the chassis to get it out of the laptop. This is unacceptable for repair later on down the road...
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lol. awesome
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Funny I saw this thread. I was reading through some smd solder/desolder/repair tutorials earlier.
check this out. Dunno if it will help since you broke multiple layers but hell, who knows. *actually you surely scored the other layers so yah.. most probably borked, but hey it's a learning experiance!*
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_...tutorials_id=36
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FYI, not only will the admin(s) see you immediately if you bandwidth out your telco modem, they will revoke your service, and put you in jail.. Not a good thing.
At the same time though, how much more is it to get the package that has your bandwidth fix?
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Moonlit has the most viable option right there for quick and easy startup. If your looking for something stand alone, the closest you will get to your requirements would be an arduino with custom made shields/camera inputs/gps module/gps breakout card/audio inputs/sdcard/battery pack/and A LOT OF TIME (for custom coding the firmware).
This would also be a lot of money for the option I am throwing out there. I would not personally recommend it but if you wanna peek at what you would be looking for you can find it all at sparkfun.com
*actually one arduino would not cut it unless you wanted to use like 13 -3 to 8 line decoders since the arduino only has 13 outputs (well really less than that)
To make this you would need.. the beast!!! lol The PICAXE 40 Pin x2 Microcontroller. And then you would probably still need a few 3 to 8 line decoders.. And to top it off to make the whole thing it your probably looking at a cool $250+ (gps add in modules are expensive!) :X
Come to find out everything can be bought w/ serial i/o so I calculate you would only need about 22 i/o, but either way the picaxe would be cheaper.
Here's what you would be looking at (not including whatever else you might need to get it up and going) And I forgot until now you wanted wireless cameras... oh well.
FYI** it would be a lot cheaper to just go buy 2 cheap wifi cameras and an ap programmed to send your streams to a server.
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I would say yes, especially if you never had a laptop before. This would be a good option, and gateways seem to be built pretty sturdy *albeit a pita to resolder the charger connector as I had to do for a friend last week*.
You have never lived until you have couch surfed :P
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What are you folks using gps for with wardriving? Is it geotagging? Got me a Garmin One *cheap as hell and good too*
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yah, names have been changed to protect teh innocent :P
There it is :)
As you can tell I am a lazy ass when it comes to cleaning up my desktop these days :X
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Here's my desktop. Awesome site btw kaolin! After some looking I settled on this background :)
*taken off for evidence :P* will repost soon
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To bobdole369 - Thanks.. I always wondered why that would happen...
To the OP - The way I said to do it takes a max of MAYBE $35 extra..
(All figures taken from sparkfun.com)
Arduino Pro 328 - 5V/16MHz -$19.95
Breakout Board for Electret Microphone -$7.95 (comes preassembled with op-amp and mic)
(connect the leds individually to the arduino.. priceless)
You can code it to make them blink to the music, light up for the ammount of sound coming out, or code your own light show with them...
Grand total: for 1x arduino, and 1 mic/opamp your looking at $27.90 and if your feeling a little geekier, you can go way cheaper and just buy the components you need to build your own custom arduino for around ~$10. so that would add up to about $17.90, and then you can wire them up wherever you want, later on add a laser light show if you want! And never touch the sound.
All I am saying is though it's a quick and dirty project, it may cost you more in the long run if something fails. Sorry moonlit but I gotta go with bob on this one. All I am saying is it should be kept a separate circuit whichever way you do it.
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Back when car audio modding first started really getting big, people were doing this with leds (I myself had some setup in my house). Don't run them inline. Trust me. For some reason when (or if, but most probably when) the led burns out, a high resistence spike is made on the line and will burn out either your sub or your amp. This didn't always happen, but about 1/2 the time it did.
Go get an arduino and make it a separate system from the amp and subs themselves!
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Ok, so here it is (not really, moreover just a REALLY unpolished version of what I am going to do!)
stuff used:
Arduino
Tape
3x AA batteries
4x green LEDS
Cardboard
120mm Fan
Wire
BEER!
int ledPin1 = 13; int ledPin2 = 12; int ledPin3 = 11; int ledPin4 = 10; int f = 5; void setup() { // initialize the digital pin as an output: pinMode(ledPin1, OUTPUT); pinMode(ledPin2, OUTPUT); pinMode(ledPin3, OUTPUT); pinMode(ledPin4, OUTPUT); } void loop() { digitalWrite(ledPin1, LOW);//space digitalWrite(ledPin2, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin3, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin4, LOW); delay(207); digitalWrite(ledPin1, HIGH); //H digitalWrite(ledPin2, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin3, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin4, HIGH); delay(f); digitalWrite(ledPin1, LOW);//H digitalWrite(ledPin2, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin3, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin4, LOW); delay(f); digitalWrite(ledPin1, HIGH);//H digitalWrite(ledPin2, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin3, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin4, HIGH); delay(f); digitalWrite(ledPin1, LOW);//space digitalWrite(ledPin2, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin3, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin4, LOW); delay(f); digitalWrite(ledPin1, HIGH);//I digitalWrite(ledPin2, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin3, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin4, HIGH); delay(f); digitalWrite(ledPin1, LOW);//space digitalWrite(ledPin2, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin3, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin4, LOW); delay(f); digitalWrite(ledPin1, HIGH);//! digitalWrite(ledPin2, HIGH); digitalWrite(ledPin3, LOW); digitalWrite(ledPin4, HIGH); } -
It was even talked about (very briefly) on Tekzilla. I will be sitting at the computer waiting for the clock to hit 08:00.
Damn.. And I was watching Tekzilla the other day (while I was cleaning :X)
Oh well... Looks like I am going to have to special order that breadboard (and I still have a $10 radioshack gift card!) Besides a few shift registers and the breadboard (Can't find it in store in ANY damn radioshack down here) that was all I really wanted.
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Well... Doesn't look like it will happen. The site is down completely right now, and free day doesn't start till tomorrow. Some speculate that they are updating their servers at the last minute, however with no forum posts, twitters, etc, from the moderators, I feel that it's most probably from hundred's of thousands of people making their accounts ahead of time. MAYBE if you get on @ around 4am you might be able to get in, but then I still highly doubt it cause all the college kids are doing the same thing constantly, and it makes me very upset to even see a refresh button right about now...
So unfortunately I am not even going to try. I guess I should have thought, but then I didn't think their site was quite THAT popular? Hell who knows, maybe even people trying to get free stuff that they don't even know what it is. Oh well. It was worth a try.
Hope at least one of you get your freeday on.
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How new is the power supply? On my system, all my internal fans except the power supply suck air in and the pwr sup blows air out, but then my power supply has a 120mm fan and it sucks really well, so it keeps up with all the 80mm fans
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There are a lot of tutorials out there for this, a friend of mine did it and you don't even have to touch the on phone o.s. (much) but he never got it fully working, and while it's running it kinda borks your service..
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Good call VaKo, thank you for clearing up a lot of that for me. I really did know or figure about half of what you said before, just the other half I didn't know. And yeah I knew you really were not trying to be a dick, but these are perfectly good questions to ask and I knew he didn't post all the needed info by far.
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I am constantly revising my list right now :X
So far I am hell bent on this stuff:
Digital Multimeter
Breakout board for microSd
8 bit parallel/serial out shift register (x4)
Dual color LED matrix (small)
Basic 16x12 LCD screen
Breadboard
Jumper wires
and still have to figure for $30.55cents :)
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Remember when you would get a Dr. Pepper and chances are 1 to 3 you got a free dp or coke? Now it's like what?... 1 in 20?
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What Xeons are they? Is there any RAID involved? Is it a big brand server or a homebuilt machine? Tell us about the facility it is hosted in, climate controlled or not, how secure is it? Do you have a BCP/DRP, generators, multiple uplinks? How much bandwidth can you offer? And lastly, what is your SLA and how many 9's can you offer?
Get em VaKo, Get em!!!! lolDamn I can't even figure right off hand everything he just said....
Do you support RDP/SSH? What services are you offering for the system (i.e. sql, ssl, https)? Automated site builder support? Do I get an Email Server with it? Can this service be expanded on in the future? Are your rate plans flexible? Is there support for cross site scripting? Does it come with antivirus?
Minus these services I would pay about $14 a mo. for it.
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I was having a hard look at that myself, but I dunno how accurate it really is or even if I could use it. BUT it is really cool, and would be something to have a lot of fun with (but I also wanna use my cart for a good bit of other stuff)
Get em VaKo, Get em!!!! lol
Saints are goin' to the Super Bowl!
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lawl... There were people running out of their houses by the blocks! it was interesting and heartwarming...