deviceb - Slashdot User

Comment Welcome to 1997 (Score 2, Informative) 254

by deviceb on Thursday June 04, 2009 @07:06AM (#28207355) Attached to: Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads

Long before nubs found napster..
We have a laptop hooked right into the mixer
The club hooked up DSL for 2 nights
Were uploading the stream to our Shoutcast server
Parties in Toronto & Chicago are picking up the stream

by the way... there is a nice little open source app called streamripper that allows you to record the music should it be good enough.
So yeah... good idea recording industry stay ahead of the curve..

Comment Re:Sorry Cisco (Score 1) 93

by deviceb on Thursday June 04, 2009 @06:55AM (#28207291) Attached to: Cisco Introduces Rackmount Servers

With Cisco building modules that can handle normal server tasks right on the gateway... why not build your own servers. I hope they do well, i respect Cisco... the other main players I only deal with because i have to. HP, Dell... phaa
Can Cisco enter the market with some competitive pricing is the big question..

Comment new southpark... (Score 1) 319

by deviceb on Saturday April 25, 2009 @10:39PM (#27718033) Attached to: The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict

the only way to right these wrongs is to pirate physical objects... like ships off of Somalia. -Hold them ransom until our pirate heros are freed. right?
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/220764
in the name of repressed .torrents everywhere!

"Good Enough" Computers Are the Future 515

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @04:18PM from the adequate-for-light-word-processing-and-small-sums dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over on the PC World blog, Keir Thomas engages in some speculative thinking. Pretending to be writing from the year 2025, he describes a world of 'Good Enough computing,' wherein ultra-cheap PCs and notebooks (created to help end-users weather the 'Great Recession' of the early 21st century) are coupled to open source operating systems. This is possible because even the cheapest chips have all the power most people need nowadays. In what is effectively the present situation with netbooks writ large, he sees a future where Microsoft is priced out of the entire desktop operating system market and can't compete. It's a fun read that raises some interesting points."

Comment Gaming Laptop for the win. (Score 1) 236

by deviceb on Sunday April 19, 2009 @05:38PM (#27639611) Attached to: Rugged Linux Server For Rural, Tropical Environment?

A couple quality gaming notebooks along w/ NAS style of storage. (BlacX w/ your Hitachi TB drives.) Using Solar along side deep cycle batteries + inverter might help you juggle your power losses.
Each notebook should have be able to host at least 3 moderate guest machines.
Setting up a scenario like this is not cheap if your talking under 10G.

*grab a small Honda generator also.

Comment Re:Video (Score 1) 252

by deviceb on Thursday March 19, 2009 @06:34PM (#27262641) Attached to: Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN

wtf! just when you thought it was really dead & gone..
-a .RM file fresh from our government, still stuck in 1990

Comment Thats what i want to see.. (Score 1) 280

by deviceb on Sunday January 25, 2009 @06:05PM (#26601523) Attached to: $6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants

Just as any network designer would! Lets beef up our infrastructure while we can.

Yes this money needs deep accountability though. Force the ISPs to spend it quickly, & on upgrades.
-screw the roads, lets get more telecommuting going on.

Comment Re:Dupe, (Score 1) 417

by deviceb on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @10:28AM (#26222839) Attached to: Is the Gaming PC Dead?

I run one GPU at $300. I run Age of Conan at highest res..
Perhaps an HP/Dell needs that much GPU power to stand up...

Comment HP NEVER MADE GAMING RIGS (Score 1) 417

by deviceb on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @10:25AM (#26222815) Attached to: Is the Gaming PC Dead?

I Feel like i'm taking Crazy Pills! HP was never, nor will they ever be in the gaming pc market.
No remotely-serious gamer would use one of those machines.
Because of this, any opinions from HP are null, -or so abstract they require a post like this...

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