stingwray
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I've seen smaller and better.
There's a thin client available which is a wall-socket, plug your monitor, keyboard and mouse into the wall and your away.
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Anyone know of any GOOD FREE shell accounts. There are a ton of "list" sites that have shell servers, but they all come with "strings" attached. ie: login to our IRC channel or forums every 32 hours or contribute before getting access, etc, etc.
I have an SSH server running on my box @ home but the upload speed on my DSL is crap !! I just need a faster connection for tunneling my HTTP traffic.
thanks
So your quite happy to run all your HTTP traffic through a server that you have very little control over, which your asking to be free with no strings attached. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
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Whats the reasoning behind bypassing saving to cvs?
Its that or having something convert the xls files into cvs at some point before loading, which adds another step and tool in the chain.
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Out of that list, VB.NET is the only one of dubious use.
C++ is obviously still used extensively, Java and C# probably just as much, I've often seen them used together in systems as well.
To extend your abilities, you might want to learn a more scripting language, maybe something from the 3 P's (Perl, PHP, Python).
To go even further, there's then functional programming languages such as Haskell and F#, moving in further forward you then have logic languages like Prolog.
Learning a language from each of the 4 paradigms definitely helps improve programming abilities.
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I was building software to be used with this up until recently.
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Specification looks ok, but you can make some improvements.
Firstly decide whether you'll user a embedded style hypervisor or whether you want to run an operating system running the hypervisor. You'll get better performance from the former, but hardware support is more limited.
On the actually hardware specification. I wouldn't bother with the PC8500 RAM, servers aren't for overclocking, you want it stable and dependable, especially if you are running multiple services from it.
Also RAID 5 isn't the best solution as you'll receive pretty poor performance from it, especially with running lots of servers on it. Look at RAID 10, its better for redundancy and performance, so you'll want either 4 or 6 hard drives with that. If you go with hardware raid (which you should only consider) then you'll have no problems with Linux and RAID, its all in the hardware, if you didn't guess already.
Finally, consider AMD, the Phenom II is a really good processor and very cheap compared to the Intel offerings, it also does well with these types of applications.
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Thanks for the feedback.
I've tried my friends Shures which are In-ear Noise Isolating and they are pretty good. I know that if you want the best then you have to go for outer-ear headphones, but they are just not my style and don't like wearing them for long periods of time.
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So my standard iPod headphones have seen better days, people have been telling me to upgrade for as long as I've had them and I'm finally getting sick of the amount of noise they let in on the daily commute, making me have my volume up at 95% and so killing my already slightly worse hearing.
I'm looking for a pair of In-ear Noise Isolating Headphones and ideally I don't want to be spending more than £50 on them although if someone can suggest something radically better for a bit more money then I'll consider them, but lets not get silly here.
The short list at the moment consists of:
I can get any of them for under £50 and most reviews seem to be giving them all >7/10 but obviously I want the best. The Shures seem to come out best from some review houses and the rest of the time the Philips do, with the JAYS coming consistently third and the Apple fourth.
I really only included the Apple for completeness, I don't need the microphone (its an iPod Clasic 80GB I'm using) and I don't think I can even make use of the volume clicker.
So does anybody have any experience, ideas, suggestions on how to choose, what to choose or what to even consider?
In short, I'm looking for good noise isolation (so I can get run over crossing the road), good sound reproduction and comfort given that I'll probably be wearing them for ~2 hours most days.
Ta.
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I've been an OpenBSD user for many years, its really not that hard for older people, maybe for the people that grow up with GUI's and the mouse but not for the people that grow up with computers when it took some thinking to use.
I haven't tried it for a little bit, because I've been doing other things than setting up server. But when was last playing with it, it seemed like they had renamed all the standard commands and function that are generally common across unix based system. Meaning that to progress I had to look up everything all the time.
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OpenBSD has a stick up its arse about security, while this is good for somethings its not everything.
To further on from this, when using OpenBSD, you require a large, heavy and strong object which can be placed by your workstation. This is for hitting your head against repeatedly while trying to interact with that system.
Its well worth doing as an exercise though, the implementing the system that is, not hitting your head repeatedly against something. Just expect yourself to take an age to get up to speed with it.
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in my opinion, the mac mini failed because it offered next to nothing for a steep price, it was also harder to service and apple didn't support it as well as their other systems
netbooks are good for basic usage, the screens are just too small, they should make one with a 15 inch screen (a 15 inch screen on ebay cost about $40, and i know that these companies can get their hardware cheaper, it wont add too much to the cost of the netbook, if they do this then you will finally see people making the switch to using a netbook as a primary pc as there many users who only use their computers to chat with friends and surf the web
Nothing wrong with the price of the Mac Mini, the current problem with it is that it hasn't been updated for too long.
Its no harder to service than a laptop and its as upgradable as laptop so you can't complain their and I don't know what you mean by Apple not supporting it as well, its got just as much support from Apple for everything. The problem with it was that it wasn't desirable, it was that different and they marketed it wrong. If in the new version apple gave it the video connectivity of the aTV and a TV tuner then they would fly, but I can't see that happening.
A 15" defies the point of it being a netbook, if you read my post and looked online, you would know that you can pick up a 15" laptop for near enough the same money as a netbook.
Its not so much that people have stopped buying laptops, its more that a lot of people have started to buy netbooks in addition to a laptop or desktop. You see a lot of them given away with mobile broadband subscriptions for instance. This doesn't mean people have stopped buying Apple kit, just that the numbers of windows machines have increased because rightly or wrongly Apple are not compeating in this area of the market.(I know, lies, damn lies and statistics...)
What I really want from Apple is a 10" tablet Macbook, i think thats something that only Apple could pull off.
If anything netbooks have done more for Linux's market share than windows, and microsoft are having to keep XP around even longer than they had wanted because they can't run Vista well enough. So I'd say that Microsoft is not liking it more than anyone else at the moment, they still have all the markets wrapped up that they don't have to worry about anything yet.
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Actually netbooks are killing Apples market share, since apple aren't going to make a sub £200-300 machine its only going to get worse.
I don't think they are killing anyones market share in standard laptops.
I've yet to see anyone buy a netbook as their main computer and thats the way its going to stay as they are unusable for extended periods of time (the main reason because of this is the 1024x600 resolution is two small to be generally productive on it).
Its up to apple whether they want to compete it that area which is very volatile at the moment and netbooks shouldn't really be seen as part of the laptop market in my opinion, like desktops are different and MIDs are different.
Apple tried to cater for the lower cost user with the Mac Mini and unfortunately it didn't work as well as they would have liked, so I don't think they are going to rush into this area until they feel they can bring something substantially different from what is currently available, which is basically a set of clones.
Given that you can get a 15" laptop for less than £400 which has a decent spec and Apple is still doing well with its market share, I would say Apple is fairing pretty well. Its because of these prices that we are now seeing more laptops shipping than desktops for the first time.
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I would try and figure out where the packets are coming from and then block them.
Also, being good sport helps too.
No good.
Any half decent DoS attack will spoof their source address of the attack traffic.
At best it is random addresses, at worst they could be claiming to be coming from high-profile targets, which would then limit your use of those legitimate services if you started blocking them.
You also have a bloody difficult job of decided what is attack traffic and what is legitimate traffic.
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Yeah lot of camping sites have hookups for power and free internet now which is nice. London is also good as anyone can get there, I really don't mind. Best to do this stuff when its warmer, so there is more than enough time for working out things, anyway we will see if there is enough call for a meet up.
Warmer? UK? So we'll be waiting another couple of years for global warming to settle in then?
I thought being in the summer was going to be a given.
Why not dundee, we have 60% 100mbit coverage now :DThink I might have to buy a house in dundee and start up a homebrew data center!
If we are going to suggest slightly difficult places to get to, we could just jump of the end and ask if Sealand would put us up. Wouldn't have any problems with the rozzers then.
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Better specs $2423.91 (you also get 2 free games, a better motherboard that allows you to overclock, it supports SLI and crossfire if you like wasting money by spending twice the cost for 2 videocards only to get a 20% performance boost) ($375.09 cheaper for better specs)
the 9600gt is much better than a radeon 2600xt (i couldn't find a pce version of the 2600xt but the 2600xt is about half the price of a geforce 9600gt)
better specs for less money
(you can use your current OS install cd or buy a copy of windows (which happens to be more expensive than the mac os and it will still be cheaper )
PS many of the parts listed in the shopping cart would have been cheaper if I picked parts from newegg and amazon )
while you cant build a mac pro for half the price, you can build a imac for almost half the price
and keep in mind companies like apple get their hardware much cheaper than any normal user, they get volume savings and have deals with many companies, your building a system for less money, using parts that are much more expensive than what apple would spend on them
also unlike companies like dell and hp, apple doesn't need a license or to buy a large volume of OS for their computers since apple makes the OS and have nothing to gain from charging them self for their own product
also building your own system will allow you to upgrade it more easily, overclock, install any OS including the mac os, and many other things that you cant do with locked down DRM filled mac pro
Try again, you have the wrong CPUs, 1600MHz FSB you need, the E5462, I don't know many US component shops but cheapest I found it was $878.04. Also your motherboard is worse than the Mac Pros, it can only support 8GB of memory across 4 DIMM slots, so no thanks.
You should check your license on your copy of Windows, most of the license's are not portable. This adds an extra $100 for the Microsoft Tax in the form of Vista Home Premium, god help you if you want all the features of the OS, you have to pay $180 for that.
Finally if you are lucky enough to get student discount you can get 15% of the Mac Pro straight way. Making it a bargin, can't do that from dell or a scratch build.
It might be easier in the US to build something nearly equivalent to the Mac Pro for the same money, but your not there.
I'd like you to find an all in one screen and computer you can build for less than the iMac, the iMac fits a very nice market, one of not having a bulky computer box and lots of cables to deal with.
You can upgrade anything you want in the Mac Pro, Processors, RAM, HDDs, GFX cards etc.
You don't overclock workstations, you want something stable and dependable which will give you the correct result.
You can install any OS on the Mac Pro, you can run OS X legally on it without the need to break the law.
Also OS X really doesn't have any DRM in it, not like Windows, I don't have to activate my OS, I don't have to install crap from the vendor like WGA to get all the features of the OS. I don't have to worry about a serial number or how many times I reinstall the OS. Not even to get into the horrible mess of windows and media with DRM.
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Definitely interested in this as I missed previous years gone by.
My vote would be for London, but then I'm biased on that, as its my current location. Although that probably wouldn't work so well with camping. Camping sounds good!
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Windows 7 seems to manage drives through windows updates.
Does that actually work? Whenever I've played with that in XP and Vista it's just been completely useless.
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I have also used the mac os, I found it to be slower than windows and none of the apps I wanted were available for it (while you can dual boot it with windows, why spend twice as much forslower hardware just to run windows when you can build a faster system for like half the price
Look for equivalent OS X applications and you'll find plenty, they also run very fast.
You firstly don't spend twice as much for the hardware.
Secondly its certainly not slower hardware, slowest MacBook available is 2.0GHz dual core. Majority of PC laptops use slower processors which is why they cost less.
Also look at my post earlier about the Mac Pro, you can't build a system faster for less than the Mac Pro, let alone half the price. If you want to try please do and post your results.
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I just never understood why apple bases everying on glam and glitz first and price second. They could put mac hardware in a standard pc case. It would be way cheaper, and just think about it. How much do you thing the G-series all aluminum tower costs to produce/buy? Hell I would think at least $200 just for them baseline. So I mean they should try to shave off the price for what they can.
Here is an issue though.
The reason why Windows and Linux are so fumbled in one way or another is their broad support and flexibility on systems across the board. As Mac get's more popular, people are going to demand the same type of flexibility sooner or later (even if it is out of mac hardware). So how will Apple handle the issue? It has always had 100% control over everything that goes into Mac's from hardware to software. My issue with apple is that it has always been a monarchy on what THEY want you to have, and being more grown up, I understand their side a lot more, but do not understand how they keep it at bay. They have just recently been giving greenlights for open source, and etc (or more people have been doing open source on it)
But my issue has also always been this:
Mac is a hardware company. OS X is an Apple made custom gui built on top of bsd, which is really unix (no I did NOT say linux, I specified Unix for all you about to start flaming) which is a-kin to linux, and also bsd is freeware, so my question has always been why do people pay for hardware that comes with free software with a pretty gui? I mean dont get me wrong it looks great, and technicly the company basis must work (same goes for the eeepc's success but in the opposite direction.) I mean I am not trying to act like an ass when I say that, I really don't and I think Apple IS a successful company after all these years, but I never understood, after the IBM compatible breakout of the 80's and a platform everyone can agree on building on/for that this company never came around at that time. If they did, hell we could all be using OS X on our amd and intel pc's and probably have left Microsoft in the dust 5 to 10 years ago.
If we are going to talk about the Mac Pro then let's provide some figures. It's the best value Mac around and for a reason, Apple can negotiate prices with manufacturers.
Now the base Mac Pro (which is what will consider, upgrading RAM, HDDs etc. can be at the users own cost afterward) is £1,712.00 here in the UK. That gets you 2x 2.8GHz Xeons with 1600Mhz FSB, 2GB of DDRII 800Mhz ECC FB-DIMMs, 320GB SATA HDD and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB. Not to mention the motherboard which uses Intels 5400 Chipset, case, PSU and DVD-RW.
Going for a scratch built machine, first start with the CPUs, they are going to set me back £673.31 each, £68.99 for the 2GB of RAM, £326.16 for an equivalent motherboard with i5400 chipset and another DIMM slots to match or be greater than the Mac Pro and £41.60 for a good 320GB hard drive. Thats totalling £1783.37 already, and I haven't bought a good PSU, CASE, Graphics Card or optical drive. So the Mac Pro is looking pretty tasty at the moment.
So I think, perhaps Dell might be able to beat Apple, given that they go direct to the manufacturer of parts. The Precision T5400 looks the part, starting at £976.35 and has options for dual processors. So lets spec it up to that of a base Mac Pro. Well the first problem is they don't offer the 1600MHz FSB processors, so and I'll even select processors slower than that in the Mac, the 2.66GHz Xeons, before changing anything else, the machine is already now costing me £1921.65.
So I can't find the Apple Tax on the Mac Pro, I'm interested if anyone else can find a base machine the same as the Mac Pro cheaper because I'm looking for something in that area.
People aren't going to want 100% control over the hardware in the Apple computer, Apple already use good, quality and well performing parts, there's not much more to ask for. Apple are regularly trimming the "fat" of their machines, like the lack of Firewire on the new MacBook, I don't see it stopping people buying it, more people are buying it because Apple did it at the right time with a major update, that people wanted. Everything is about timing.
OS X is a lot more than a custom made GUI on top of BSD, it is very different, but shares its parents with UNIX, like Linux does. In fact OS X is fully posix compliant, where as the likes of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD aren't.
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dont own a mac personally, but i have tried the hackintosh route... maybe someday they will hack an iso that works with my system......
I know that since OSX has became more popular, more stuff is coming out for it. Yes it is mucho simpler than windows and linux, but if you think about it, thats the beauty and the beast about osx. you can only (supposed to) run it on mac hardware. How many different specs are there for the average later model mac? so everything that you use on it is spec. built for those types of systems, so yes you are going to get a hell of a lot more stability and speed running stuff on a mac, but on the down side, is either A. you spend a boatload of money on a mac, or B. you go southbound with a hacked ver. of osx.
But that is also a benefit, Mac's are made from quality parts and are generally superior from PC equivalents in my opinion. My MacBook Pro is by far better than any PC laptop that I have seen, yes I had to pay a bit more money for it, but I think that is generally worth it. Also the fact that OS X supports limited amounts of hardware allows Apple the ensure that it runs brilliantly on their hardware, which is my concern over using Linux for a workstation, in know my Mac will always be there and always be working.
BTO from Apple is always overpriced and it helps if your willing to upgrade your system to get the stuff you want, but putting memory in a computer is pretty trivial. Apple are seeing at least there is a market for smaller cheaper computers, they are keeping the white macbook which if I'm not mistaken is the cheapest laptop they have ever produced and hopefully the mac mini will be getting its much needed update soon.
The Mac Pro is incredibly good value for money if you want that type of computer and I think generally its a good thing with Apple trying to differentiate themselves, even if it is without popular opinion to begin with.
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yah true, but I just wanted it to be what people primarily use. besides, 99% would be dual booting linux
I don't think 99%, yes the majority, but nearly all Mac users that dual boot will be dual booting Windows with Boot Camp.
Yeah that is true. In any case windows will win hands down due to simplicity and gaming factor.Not that I have anything against windows other than the sheer price of the O.S.
I would argue that OS X is far simpler than Windows, there is very little system maintenance that you have to do, and many operation are far simpler. For instance the majority of small application you want to run, you simply drag and drop into your applications folder to keep them, once your done, just delete and that's it. Nearly all windows applications require being installed and add crap to the system which can't be removed without a fresh install.
Another example would be UAC on windows is horrible, its slow, its annoying and just generally get in the way, where on Linux and OS X is done right and generally doesn't cause problems.
To say that Windows is a better for the gaming factor is just wrong as well, Mac OS X and Linux run just as many games, with a lot of popular titles being released for those platforms, them you also have projects like CrossOver helping out. The problem with OS X dedicated ports is that they cost a lot of money and they never seem to drop in price. Have a look at the games section on the Apple store, you'll see what I mean.
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Best UMPC for Security?!!
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Get any netbook which runs well with backtrack and something like a 500w usb wireless if your doing wireless pentesting.
A large battery also certainly helps.
UMPCs are generally too expensive for the limited gains you can make, where the netbook is small enough to be used and very cheap. Also offers far more power and flexability.
If you really have your heart set on doing things slowly but in a small form factor, then the nokia n810 is probably your best bet, its runs linux which makes it easier to set up to go.