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  1. I have an eeepc 901 and I love it. I got the SSD version and my main deciding factor was battery life. This thing is rated for 8 hours and that was the longest I could find at the time of my purchase. I am running ubuntu on it with the eee kernal and everything works perfectly with it.
  2. That is a very undesirable laptop. 12lbs is out of control, and desktop components in a laptop form factor usually end up with very bad heat issues and extremely poor battery performance. Even if the battery was brand new I doubt it could even make it threw a feature length movie. To give you some sort of comparison a local off-lease seller in my town sells IBM T41's and T42's that have PM CPU's, usually a slower clock around 1.7 or so but they have 2MB l2 caches to make up for it, 1GB ram 40GB Hdd, etc etc - performance wise they would be fairly similar yet they have good batteries and half the weight, and he sell's them for $200 each. I think $150 sounds more like it for this laptop, but no matter what the price this could be very hard to sell.
  3. HTC build quality is cheap - compare any one of their phones to a Samsung i760 and the difference is night and day. Slide the keyboards, do some typing, you will see what I mean. I switched from an i760 on verizon to an HTC mogul on sprint and its like switching from an IBM model M to some modern HP keyboard. I pay 50/less per month for the sprint service so that makes it worth it, but the phone selection is crap. I had to swap my mogul in for a new one twice due to them breaking so I decided hell with it and bought a Q on ebay to tie me over until the Pre is released.
  4. That must be a TV... it's not the size of the screen its the vertical resolution that counts. That menu would fit on a 17" non-wide screen monitor running 1280x1024 or a 19" widescreen running 1440x900, the later appears to be the resolution of the op.
  5. decoding the words was easy - the unx5.bet part made it obvious. You knew that was hak5.org and the rest just followed. I did that step right away after I watched ep 11 and went and entered the code however there was no obvious instructions on where to go next so I just stopped at that point.
  6. I have an eee 901 with ubuntu 8.04 running the 2.6.24-21-eeepc kernal. Why? Because it is a snap to setup and all of the hardware works seamlessly with it. I didn't do the remix release because I don't like the menu based desktop.
  7. You can install from a usb stick https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
  8. What are the problems with h.264? I have been running the original win7 beta on my media center since it was released and the bulk of the content I watch on it is h.264 and I have not had any problems. I use media center with the ffdshow codec installed.
  9. Here is my eee 901 - I just installed ubuntu 8.10 on it yesterday:
  10. I have a eee pc 901 and I decided to throw ubuntu 8.10 on there yesterday. It works just fine - after the vanilla install the wifi and sound were not working however they were both resolved after I switched to the custom eeepc ubuntu kernel located here: http://www.array.org/ubuntu/index.html The whole process was very straight forward. Everything is working including bluetooth, VGA output, webcam, etc. I'm really not a fan of that remix interface that all of the netbook distro's use. I am sure it makes more sense, but even with a tiny keyboard I prefer to launch stuff from the terminal. For a lot of programs I make short bash scripts, that launch the program with specific options and I name them with just two characters and keep them in bin. This way I can launch my most commonly used programs with 3 keystrokes. Works for me...
  11. A router can be used as a switch - just turn of DHCP and don't plug anything into the WAN port. No need for a crossover cable.
  12. I think crash should give up the English and post everything in dutch (or whatever his native language is).
  13. I first started using linux in the mid 90's - back then someone told me, "if you want to learn redhat then install redhat, but if you want to learn linux install slackware" So naturally I installed slackware - from a handful of floppy disks and everything was CLI. It took me quite a while before I could successfully launch xwindows, and eventually I got enlightenment working and I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Back then every program you downloaded was source code and needed to be compiled, all dependencies needed to be installed manually, and then once you got a program working typically the only way to change the settings where to manually edit a conf file of some sort. It took a lot of work just to get your system setup but that was almost the whole point of it. It allowed for a never ending project, there was always tinkering to be done. After a while though it just becomes inefficient and you no longer want to spend so much time configuring and setting up a system. I have a linux desktop and a linux laptop, I switched both to ubuntu a couple weeks ago (switching over from opensuse 11.1) and I was floored at how quick and easy the installs where. What really blew me away was the laptop svideo output and the sprint evdo card working right out of the box. Ubuntu could not be any quicker to up and running... If you really want to learn though, I'm not sure if ubuntu will do you much good. For anyone who played final fantasy as a kid (I only played nes and snes ff, no idea if this applies to PS versions), running ubuntu is like running away from all of the enemy's instead of fighting them. Sure you might be able to move on quicker, but you won't gain any experience and if you keep playing sooner or later you will run into a battle that you won't be able to escape from - and you will be to weak to fight it.
  14. I have no idea how much I have spent on my network It's all a business expense though, I need to be as familiar as possible with what I install and support for my customers.
  15. Here is my personal network rack, not very clean...
  16. I have never diagrammed my personal network but I might do it later just for kicks. Here are the diagrams for a high end home automation job I am currently working on - this project is still in the planning stage so these diagrams are work-in-progress. Our final bid will actually contain several more diagrams. This about a 200-250K job all together, it also includes a fully automated lighting system, high end AV equipment and some other goodies that are not in these diagrams. What is unique about this project is that its a retrofit in a poured cement house from the 80's. This means we can not run very many new cables. We are going to implement centralized HD media distribution using commercial grade HD QAM modulators. In other words, we will have 3 media centers running in the central rack, and they will broadcast locally as if its a private cable network. This way we can distribute the media centers in HD to all 15 of the customers TV's using only the existing coaxial cable and the tuners built into the TV sets. We will be using a zwave based RTI system for remotes.
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  19. You can use it anywhere in the world however you can only get USA phone numbers and proxy's from them. I checked the site and calling Canada is also covered, all US/Canada calls are covered in the 20/year - every other country costs extra to call. So you could get it but anyone in Canada who wants to call you has to call a USA phone number...
  20. All I know is that it is an authentication problem.
  21. It works for incoming as well. Yes it is unlimited calling in/out for 20/year per number, (usa only, international has per min rates posted on magic jacks website) each number can have 1 simultaneous call. I am using 3 magic jack accounts, so for 60/year I have 3 phone numbers and can have 3 simultaneous calls. The reason magic jack is so cheap is because it's an advertisement supported platform (think juno/netzero dial up back in the day) You are suppose to be tied down to their softphone software, by design you are not suppose to be able to send or receive any calls without having this software running and it displays a bunch of annoying advertisements. This is why it is against the TOS to do this. However they are using a standard SIP voip protocol and you can sniff out the authentication user/pw along with the proxy they are using with the software utility I linked to, otherwise you could also probably figure it out with something like wireshark. Then you can take that information and use the 3CX PBX software in place of the magic jack software. So you not only dodge the annoying software and all of the advertisements, but you are also able to bypass their voicemail (another thing they don't want you to do) and get all of the PBX features that come with using 3CX. Also note that this completely eliminates the need for the USB device, which is basically just a USB stick that stores the software, and acts as an FXO card if you want to plug an analog phone in. This means that you can use as many magic jack accounts as you want with a single PBX server, where as with the software tied to the physical device, it limits you to one magic jack line per computer. Also once you have it working with 3CX you can then use any phones or other hardware that you want, as long as its supported by 3CX.
  22. After a lot of tinkering and googling I managed to get 3 magic jacks working as a SIP trunks with 3CX. If any of you have played around with a magic jack you have seen all of the limitations. You can only use one per computer, you can't use it without the jack plugged in 24/7, you have to deal with annoying adds on the softphone software, you can't bypass their crappy VM etc etc. Well this solves all of those issues, I am now using 3 magic jack accounts without a single magic jack plugged in and better yet I am running them all inside of a single windows XP VM. Keep in mind that doing this is against the magic jack TOS. What you need: Utility for ripping your SIP credentials from the Magic Jack device: http://rapidshare.com/files/181629789/Magi...lities_v1.6.zip 3CX v6.x (it does not work with the most current v7.x from the 3cx website! Thankfully download.com is still hosting the older version) http://download.cnet.com/3CX-Phone-System/....html?tag=mncol Install 3CX and setup your extensions, if you don't have any IP phones you can use the 3CX softphone or x-lite. I am not going to go over this as it was shown on hak5's podcast, or you can find this information anywhere. (I am using 3 used Cisco 7940's that I found on ebay for 65 each) Now, plug the magic jack into a windows computer and run the utility you downloaded. Hit Get Current SIP Information, if it does not work right away, don't sweat it mine didn't either. Play with the StartDelay field and keep trying. Apparently there is a very small window in which it can capture the information, and the correct timing varies depending on the speed of your computer. Also make sure the MJFlashDreiveLetter field is set correctly. Once you get a successful capture, it will generate a text file called "MySIPInfo.txt" You will need the information from this file in the next step. Run the 3CX manager and select Add VOIP, choose Generic VOIP Provider Registar/Proxy Hostname = the proxy IP address from the file, (digits not hostname) Registar Proxy Port = 5060 Outbound Proxy Hostname or IP = proxy hostname from file (ie proxy01.xxxxx.talk4free.com) Outbound Proxy Port = 5070 Click Next External Number = MJ phone # Authentication ID = E##########01 (########## = your MJ phone #) Authentication Password = 20 character password, its called ProxyUserPassword in the generated file Use the default stun server settings Add your outbound rule, under "calls to number starting with" pick a number, when you dial out, you will have to hit this number first. Most people use 9. Hit ok, your done! You now have a 20/year unlimited minute SIP trunk for your PBX!
  23. Some of these quotes on the news article comments are pricless.
  24. Check it out: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2ow...-hack,2254.html
  25. My 6 head desktop would be a bit much to try and screen shot so I'll throw my laptop ss on here - it's an Acer travelmate 6292 running ubuntu.
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