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It is the first. How much are we going to charge them for installing a tower at one of our facilities. Part of the payment they are offering is an internet connection.

+1 to JTR, Tannin, and LiamC's sig...

Lately I've been doing frozen stuff from the vending machine. Yesterday was an 18-hour day, and today has been 13 so far, with only 5 hours in between (most of it sleep). Does anyone have any frozen favorites?

Absolutely. My Sharp Aquos is nearly as good as my Viewsonic VP2130b in terms of general usability, though the color rendition leaves something to be desired; same issues as other LCDs, but worse. The bigger it is, the more uneven the backlighting, and the greater the viewing angle difference...

There are many assumption here that are wrong. 1. I hadn't spoken to anyone before posting here. 2. I'm currently paying for a T-1 (1.5/1.5), so a 2/2 would be comparable 3. What is a MW? Microwave? This is 5.6Ghz stuff. 4. We aren't doing it for the internet connection, the question was about...

Sorry, I've been talking about houses too much. Disregard the "k".

I did some research, and talked to the installer. It looks like $250k/mo, plus electricity usage, 2mb/s symmetrical internet, and removal of the equipment is what I'll be able to get. Considering I'm currently running a T-1 out there, it should save another $500/mo.

Yup. I'm not looking forward to 7, I just know that support for XP will go away eventually (drivers, apps, etc). When it does, I would love to be OS independent. Web apps, VMs, even terminal servers are all preferable to being pinned down.

I'm investigating what I should charge for someone to install a broadcast tower at one of our sites. Does anyone here have knowledge on this?

I've already told these guys that Vista won't be happening ever, and that I'm going to try and go linux before we are forced to Windows 7.

It is neat; the web UI is cool, and it seems to play nicer with the hosts resources. But it isn't nearly as fast or slim as ESXi. That is just awesome.

I bought Sins of a Solar Empire yesterday, and it won't even install on my PC. Comes up with some error about being out of memory (unlikely with 8GB in the system). Somewhere on a forum I read that this can be fixed by installing the Demo first, then uninstalling it, then installing the game...

Yup, it behaves a lot like ESXi, but it isn't. And isn't compatible with Virtual Center, which is awesome. Looks like I'll be spending some money with them soon; their policy of giving away the low-end stuff is paying off.

We could have just started there, but I thought it would have been mean.

My 42" is a Sharp Aquos, and I love it, but they are not the cheapest. I wouldn't go for anything less than a 1080P screen, there is just no point in locking yourself out of better quality. Westinghouse makes a nice 1080P 37" for $700.

Perhaps not ill-conceived, but targeted at a niche market. Many things targeted at a niche end up being wanted by everyone. Trucks and SUVs come to mind; a few need them, most want them.

This was a really neat place. The Panoche Inn. Truly middle-of-nowhere, and beautiful because of it.

I can understand that. When I traveled a lot on business (alone in lots of unfamiliar cities), I would look for the nearest Cheesecake Factory. The one in Palo Alto is better than SF, but Denver is excellent.

I know of good steakhouses in most of the cities I go to, there is no reason to use a chain.

Lots of Dells, but none with that bracket, sorry.

Over here, keeping our mouth shut until we have a decent counter-argument. ;)

That's a big ten-four.

Indeed ;)

I have a pair of 3Com Baseline 2948-SFP Plus layer2 switches here, I'll poke at them and post the results.

...unless you have FIOS ;)

To test power supplies or to test the amount of power used?

A stereo for the office. Looking for a 2-speaker system with Amp. No need for multiple audio sources, no size restrictions. Specifically looking for something that doesn't need a subwoofer to fill in the low/mid range and sounds good at very low volume. If nothing will work better than a $400...

I wouldn't know, Gmail all the way! ;) I do archive to mbox, but I just save that off to something.

...unless you are squeezing it into a 1U enclosure. I'm looking at one of these for a smoothwall.

It is an executive position, though the company isn't formal about titles. I report directly to the boss and have my own department. He's never fired anyone without ridiculous cause; drug or alcohol issues aren't even enough (unless you fail the company-sponsored rehab). I've worked with him for...

On a more pleasant note, the custom furniture for my office arrived (finally) today. And it took me 30 minutes to move from my temp cube in accounting, I almost didn't wait for the cleaning guy to finish before I was in. Now that I'm here, the place certainly needs something. I plan to be here...

I'd map two of them to a VM and run Smoothwall on that, then bond the other two for more bandwidth to the server.

Not exactly normal desktop user. AutoCAD Civil with the Carlson extensions is pretty hardcore, especially once you start importing topos based on thousands of GPS readings. Each company only has one or two people that are qualified to do this stuff, so they can have a dozen jobs open at once.

There are a couple of power users around here that could use more RAM, but they have a ridiculous amount of apps and special configs on their machines. Is there a way to upgrade without losing all the apps? I assume no, since the programs need to move from "Program Files" to "Program Files...

So nVidia said there wasn't a problem, then that there was a problem but it didn't affect Macs, then Apple said they were affected, then nVidia said that Macs had been affected, but that it was fixed, but that Apple should judge for itself. Right. nVidia is not the most trustworthy company at...

I'm fairly certain that the windows don't open and that the balconies are part of private offices/residences...

Title says it all. I only need managed for basic reporting and 2 VLans, so nothing major. I need Gigabit and at least 48 ports per switch, and I'll be getting 2 or 3 of them. The cheapest non Linksys/Netgear is the 3Com 3CBLSG48. Thoughts?

I was poking at you, I hope you realize...What has happened to an XP OEM licence over there?

Hell, I'd base-jump off that just for fun ;)

I'm still getting XP Pro SP3 OEM licenses for $139.

I relayed the info, thanks.

All good points. She said that tripods aren't allowed in most places.

Not illegal. My sister is a historian, working on her PhD. She has fellowships to do research at various universities and libraries around the country. She will need this permanently, so a loan from me won't work. Something smaller than an SLR would be beneficial.

What are people's thoughts on the Samsung NV24HD?

Don't worry about the compact so much. When she says archive, think a basement under a library full of books. Lighting is poor, and the environment is very quiet and acoustically live. This camera will be used as a copy machine for documents that she can't touch, or at the very least remove from...

I'm helping my sister pick a camera for her needs: She wants to spend less than $200, and was looking at the Canon SD700 ELPH or the Fujifilm Finepix F50fd. Though other options will certainly be entertained. Thanks!

I'm PUI, quoting and AC from /.

So...if you were to build an ideal HD/BR playback HTPC, what components would you recommend?

You should have kept my 16-port 3Ware card ;)

Thanks for the info guys, looks like I'll be switching to these. They say PCL6 and that they support OSX. Should be good, yes?