5ive
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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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I think Americas current status as a super power has a lot to do with most of europe being flatterned by 2 world wars in the early 20th centrury, forcing it to rebuild twice while the US was expanding on previous programs. The big infrastructure programs put into place during and after the depression were also helpful as it provided a platform to support further growth, which funded yet more growth. This needs to be maintained however.
A lot of it also comes down to attitude, in the old world we've seen more things and have a lot more history, America is a country which is self made, doesn't have the history and is far more open to people just having a stab at new ideas. However, this doesn't last forever.
I think it really is just a matter of size and GDP. At the end of the day, there is no single European country that has a GDP like America does. However the EU as a whole is larger and is starting to act more and more like a single nation.
Another interesting thing to watch with GDP is China's rapid growth. In the past 5 years they have surpassed France, UK, and Germany and now they are 3rd behind only Japan and US and growing at a much faster clip then either of those nations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...y_GDP_(nominal)
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Yeah, but I wouldn't go for a hackintosh, not for developing code for the OS X platfrom.
Also I recognize the background on the screen in the top right, used to have it myself, looks create in hi-res.
Originally I had a core2 Mini and I triple headed the linux box however the mini was so slow compared to the other boxes that I found myself rarely using it for anything. Also I wanted to dual head the mac and make it an even 2x2x2 for each computer. So I was looking at the mac pro's but the price was really hard to swallow.
I have seen the latest generation quad core xeon mac pro's score just under 200 on xbench, and my hackintosh which is around $900 worth of hardware (including 200 for efix) scores a 211, My core2 mini score is 83.
Ever since I built this thing it has been my go-to machine for most tasks. I really like the OS and I have not had any stability issues.
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DivX > HD?
I think the reason for the smaller file size on the HD torrent is because it's not a full season. I believe HD started near the end of S4, during the CES episodes.
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Episode 5x05
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great episode guys! That intro was hilarious. Really good segment as well - the interceptor is very clever.
As for the power in the monkey - he was probably using the same type of battery pack that he was using in the pineapple.
For those who are saying its over their head, I don't think it is nearly as complicated as it came across to you guys. I bet if you were to read the show notes and try making one for yourself you would be surprised how far you would get.
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Perhaps one day I'll have my Linux, Windows, Mac setup running all at the same time, 3 Mac mini's would be awesome for that.
This is exactly what I am doing. I have a 6 monitor array and 2 monitors dedicated to each system. I use synergy to do the controlling. I really don't think the lack of security is a big deal if you are the only one using your local network. But just to be extra safe I went ahead and utilized the 2nd lan interfaces in my motherboards by plugging all 3 machines into their own switch which is offline from the rest of the network. I then setup static IP's for those interfaces that are on a separate subnet and used those addresses for synergy.
I posted a picture of the setup in this other thread:
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I use AVG Free edition on all of my windows installs - works great.
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I think maybe I missed something, because this is what I get when i run it:
Paste that into the website and it will add your hardware to it's database.
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What are you going to use it for? ... edit I just read your last post. If your simply using it for a file server you might want to consider windows home server. It will allow you to do a "non-raid" array that is very slick. You can have as many hdd's as you want, all different types and sizes, working together to create one large volume.
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I was messing with this about a year ago - I could not get outlook 2003 to connect to exchange under wine however I was able to get it working using crossover instead of wine. I used a win2k bottle and then went into the control panel, mail applet to setup the exchange account.
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Lorex is a solid solution as far as low cost surveillance goes. It is a lot cheaper then most other brands and the image quality is rather impressive. I am not a huge fan of their DVR interface - it will get the job done however it is not very elegant.
As for the appliances, look into LG products. They are making pretty much everything IP controllable these days, not just in the kitchen but also washer/dryer.
As for the server, I typically recommend control4 to most people - you can accomplish everything that can be done with a higher end system such as lifeware, creston, amx, etc, for a fraction of the price. It is an embedded linux based solution and it is rock solid. However this is not much of a DIYer approach as I don't think you can even buy the products directly, its only sold to installers such as myself.
For a DIYer, I would look into using HAI as your base. They have been doing this for a long time and have a solid reputation for making reliable products at reasonable prices. I would stay far away from x10 as most of that stuff is simply garbage.
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home automation is a big part of my business. We do high end AV, computing, and full home automation. It is pretty cool. We sell life-ware and control4 based systems.
As for the locks there are a ton of companies now making controllable locks. I have not seen any token based locks however that is an interesting idea.
We used the Schlage LiNK locks on a recent project and the customer loves it.
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Having heard only of EFiX and not having seen one I can only imagine it's basically a USB stick with EFI emulation software on it (as was suspected around its release time) but as I've no proof I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. However, even if it does do the job, it'll add anything up to £200 to a Hackintosh build depending on where you buy it (the UK supplier wants £170) and really, for a USB stick which makes OSX work a bit better? That's way, way, way over the mark. I'm doing this because I'm cheap, I don't want to drop 200 quid on a USB stick. Nice idea, shame it costs 10x the price it should, I'll just stick with pcefi.
Besides, it still doesn't fix the fact that it isn't now and never will be supported by Apple, and drivers are still a huge problem. Not to mention EFiX only (officially) has limited compatibility when it comes to motherboards and it won't fix any non-motherboard problem you have.
If the efix was simply a usb stick with some software then it would have been cloned a long time ago. Drivers are not a problem as long as your using hardware from the compatibility list. As for the price, it is relative, even with the extra $200 you can still build a machine that will out perform a high end mac pro for half the price. To me, the $200 is a small price to pay to be able to build my own custom mac without having to deal with the boatload of issues that I was having with osx86.
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Regarding the whole value argument, both sides make a valid point. It is really a personal preference for so many reasons. For starters that value of a dollar is not equal for everyone - and that is only partly based on how much they have.
To some people, the extra money is not great enough to even consider, and to everyone else the weight of the consideration is unique - means more or less to one person vs another.
To other people who don't want to mess around with a hackintosh, the ability to run OSX as their OS is worth something.
Then there are the people who want to keep everything in the apple ecosystem, and this connivence to them, holds monetary value.
Finally you have misc emotional reasons, Apple after all is credited for creating what is now known as "Evangelism Marketing"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelism_marketing
People create a strong bond to the brand and it simply feels good when they purchase and use their products.
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OSX86 isn't necessarily unstable, I can run it on my desktop will all hardware fully functioning and I never had it crash once. That said, I did have to put extra effort into making it work in the first place, it may have been broken by updates, it's unsupported by Apple (and thus useless for any business or user who requires absolute certainty their machine won't just decide not to boot tomorrow) and a whole lot of hardware is and will remain unsupported (eg: my X-Fi PCIe). Any drivers that do exist for unsupported hardware might not be available in a week's time and while the guys who spit out these community made drivers do a good job, it's not really good enough if you need guaranteed long term support, updates and hardware compatibility.
In short, OSX86 is fun to play with and all, nice if you just want a taster of what OSX is like and what it can do, but ultimately if you want to run OSX you're still going to buy a Mac, sorry.
As for pricing, well, that's the price you pay. If you think it's worth it for your requirements then do whatever makes you happy and buy whatever does the job. If you don't think it's worth it then live and let live, it's not your bank balance and it isn't your machine and again, do whatever you feel is necessary for your computing experience to be satisfactory and don't worry about someone else disagreeing.
EFIX!!!
None of the problems you are describing happen with an Efix hackintosh. I installed OSX on my efix equipped hardware by booting off the genuine OSX CD that came with my real mac mini. I did not have to do anything special outside of making the efix my primary boot device in the bios - beyond that I did the exact same procedure I would do when installing OSX on my mac mini. I have run every update that Apple has sent down the line and they all went off without a hitch - and my hackintosh has never crashed. The only non-stable thing has been the safari 4 beta locking up or simply closing for no good reason. However that has also happened on my Mini. I love OSX and I have been using it as my goto system for most things since I built it.
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Edit: I misread the question...
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My family had an Apple II GS when I was a little kid. It rocked.
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From what I hear of people that have actually run OS X on a Mac and this, is that OSx86 doesn't run near as good.
Hence the need for the efix... OSx86 is very buggy and worthless, with an efix however you can install OSX untouched from a real retail DVD, run upgrades, and do everything the same as if you had a real mac.
I have both a real mac and an efix hackintosh, and the hackintosh runs better by a long shot simply because the hardware is so much better. I spent just under a grand on my hackintosh hardware and my benchmarks are better then what people get with $3,000 mac pro's.
Before I went the efix route I had put together Kallyway, iDeneb, and iATKOS builds, and they were all crippled and buggy - and took way to much effort just to be able to do a successful boot. The efix however does not have any of these issues, it really does work just like a real mac.
It is a hardware boot device, you plug it directly into a USB header and tell your computer to boot from it. It then does a real EFI boot just like a mac does. Albeit a bit slower because it will still boot your legacy bios first instead of going directly to the EFI like a mac would, but once you get past the bios and onto the EFI, its the same. The only draw back is there is a somewhat limited list of compatible hardware, so unless you just happened to have all the right pieces already you will have to do a special build with the efix in mind.
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An efix review segment would be cool. I used one to build my hakintosh, it works great.
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Opensuse deserves to be on the list - It has one of the largest user bases and its proprietary cousins (sled and sles) are very popular in the corporate world. It is very well supported, you will be able to find pre-compiled binaries for just about everything you need.
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I think I just geek-asmed..... thats AWESOME. quick question, whats the monthly electric bill?
also, the 360, is taht for gaming or for a media server?
hah, honestly I am not 100% sure what the electric bill is here, my admin does the bills/books. I know it more then doubles in the summer for the AC which has to work very hard 24/7 to keep the temp in check. Even during the winter (im in minneapolis) I have to keep the door/window open quite often and I rarely touch the heat.
As for the 360, we use it for gaming and messing with - it has hacked DVD drive firmware. Also the wii has a D2C Wii Key soldered into it. We have the velocity media center we use for media, I have both xbmc installed and of course windows media center - which I use for TV/DVR via the HD cable cards.
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If you don't think your l337 enough then you should refrain from signing up to be a speaker/presenter ;) By all means you should go though! You will learn a ton and meet a bunch of like minded people.
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Yeah, props on the tutorial very nicely explained.
I followed all directions, except one step which i had to do not listed on the tutorial is set up my AP manually.. BT3 did not recognize the Alfa AP so i had to do a "ifconfig wifi0 up"
and pressing the "?" mark in kismet is a life saver lol I still have a question though..
I got to the part airodump-ng ath0 -w NAME YOUR SAVE FILE HERE -c CHAN NUMBER
and it should have been cracking my WEP wifi router which i set up with a simple 8 char num/letter combo PW.. it was on like 2 and a half hours so i exited out.. i seen where it was done in like 5 minutes, for a simple PW that i put on it it should not take that long, I have a pretty fresh laptop.. or does it take that long?
It found something that said BSSID not associated - probes hpsetup - and a station which looks like a MAC address. my wifi router is not a hewlett packard though.. abd why under the ESSID does it have two, one being my routers SSID and another saying "bcc" which reminds me of when you forward an email.. is this normal? what does the bcc man which has a diffrent BSSID?
also how do you track the progress of how much longer it will take? There is no signals being sent across my wifi network right now, except for me trying to hack it, so is that why its not working? thanks
Airodump-ng does not do the cracking, it captures packets and creates a file that you then have to use aircrack-ng to actually crack and get the key with. airodump-ng will run forever, collecting packets until you tell it to stop. You should have a *.cap file that was created by airodump during those 2.5 hours. Run it threw aircrack and see if it comes up with a key. If you had 5K+ IV's you should be good. Chances are though that if you didn't successfully do the fake association and injection that your cap file won't have enough good IV's, even after 2.5 hours. A non-active router can be the hardest to crack since you don't have any real traffic to capture IV's from. This is where the attacks come into play.
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Some of these quotes on the news article comments are pricless.