If I were to believe Alibaba's seller, I could get 5 of them for the same price as 1 TV from Costco. Yeah, that sounds legit.
That's a fairly clear scam, unless you were shopping Sony and they were offering J. Random Brand. But there are real things on there, too. And if you were to buy 5 TVs you probably could get them somewhere close to half off, but you'd have to pick them up from the port for that price.
As it turns out, and as I would probably have noticed if I paid more attention to model numbers, all the intel chips on this card are DEC clones. Linux, naturally, just calls them tulips. Huzzah!
Also as it turns out, the PCIE interface is weird. It has an almost-PCIEx1-almost-PCIEx16 video card in it which appears to just provide the DVI output for the onboard intel 960 graphics. I'm sure this is old hat to other people but I haven't messed about with an even vaguely modern corporate PC in a while, just clones and servers. Presumably I could still stick a normal X1 card in it.
Well, somewhere i've got a mystery Quad Tulip with genuine DEC chips, but the NIC I'm planning to use is a Phobox P430TX. It's four totally discrete Intel 21143TD chips with Level One level shifters (whatever you actually call the chips that handle the ethernet line itself) behind an intel 21152AB PCI to PCI bridge. If it doesn't pan out then I've gotta track down that tulip, which is probably deep inside a crate someplace.
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He's a whole damned town!
Put OpenWrt on it and problem over.
A lot of these el cheapo routers won't take an alternate firmware, they don't run Linux and they don't have sufficient hardware resources in a lot of cases, notably ram and flash. Unfortunately, a lot of these sort of devices have the same name as devices which will take Linux. When you're lucky, a revision number which can be used to determine compatibility appears on the device, but is usually not visible through the packaging.
Right. Because either everyone they know is buying TruckNutz, or it is entirely logical to want nuts on your truck. No emotion to it.
I strongly suspect that many of those were purchases as snarky "gifts" for men by women as commentary on their lifestyles. Alas, a google search for "truck nuts buyer gender breakdown" did not result in any useful data. Regardless, such a special case can't prove a point. And anyway, I allowed as how there was an alternate and less generous explanation.
You're better off with the quad ethernet card being pcie and the wlan card pci, especially if the ethernet is 1gb or more.
That's true, but the QE card came from a yard sale for five bucks, so unless it's bad I think I'm pretty well-off with that one. The machine has one GigE port onboard, and I'll feed that into a D-Link 1Gbps unmanaged switch for a storage segment just for my PC and some Pogoplugs. Everything else in the house is either wireless or 100Mbps, so it won't actually matter at all.
I do have an atheros-chipset wlan PCI card which might do master mode, but it's only 802.11g. If it were 802.11a+n then I'd probably go looking for a PCIE QE card to go next to it.
If the biggest problem you have is with cooling, stop being a wimp and just drive a fan off the serial console port connector inside. Pretty much all consumer routers have one.
Well, the one WRT54G I added a fan to still crashed its pathetic little ass off, I never have understood why the community loved those things so well. I tried five of them before I realized that everyone is a fucking idiot, apparently. I don't like to believe that I'm smarter than the masses, both because it looks like an ego trip and because usually that sort of reasoning leads to disappointment, but now I know the WRT54G is garbage across the board. So now I don't trust anyone on this subject.
As it turns out, a whole PC with a case and drives and everything is around fifty bucks, which is dramatically less than a decent home router any more — most of them are well over $100, and many of them over $200! This is completely batshit crazy when I can build a PC with quad-ethernet and Wireless-N for less money brand new if I compromise.
Yes. I have the option to buy a 25BM/s line.
Man, if I have one BM a day, I'm happy. Twenty-five a second? You'd lift off! T minus ten, nine, eight...
Well, what does "get" mean? Has purchased? As in nobody wants to pay for faster service? Or can obtain, as in everybody else is too far from the nearest DSLAM?
People within a bowshot of me have access to both Cable and DSL. I can get neither, but at first glance everyone thinks that my "neighborhood" has both. Then they check and "oh no, we don't serve that address, how odd". Which is why I get my internet access from a semi-local WISP which promises 6Mbps and delivers 5.7. Some of their customers get 20 Mbps, which you will note is still no longer broadband. However, those customers are in areas where there is competition for internet access. AT&T has literally the only fiber run into my entire county, so my ISP brings a signal in via repeaters across four mountaintops, the fourth of which being where my CPE is pointed.
I would expect to see the lowest speeds in the most economically depressed areas simply because people have other priorities.
Well for my part, I expect that it's because Pacific Bell, uh I mean Southwestern Bell, uh I mean AT&T has other priorities, and it has nothing to do with the customer base. If you can't remember that far back, Pacific Bell was notorious for splicing copper until well after you couldn't reasonably splice it any more. And back when we had line sharing, they were notorious for stealing any pair without either POTS or a digital circuit on it to give to one of their subscribers, so if you got your access from someone else across their copper you could expect an interruption any time there was inclement weather or not, because either the weather would get into a splice between the CO and your house, or it would get into some other line and they would steal your pair to use to fix it. But it should go without saying that AT&T didn't come into town and replace all that shitty copper, it's still festering there. And so in some places sure, DSL is great, works even farther than expected... and in other places, DSL is hopeless, and Pacific Bell cut their distance limit from an original 17,500 feet to just 14,000 feet and even some of those customers weren't getting anywhere near their advertised bandwidth.
Eventually the DSL ISPs started getting dinged hard for delivering lower-than-promised bandwidth, which made DSL penetration the absolute last priority for telcos. So now you have what we have now, where DSL penetration is piss-poor, and I have to use a craptacular WISP because there's nothing else available to me.
Keep in mind, that simple electrification of rural America wasn't completed until the 1950s, and was only started due to Depression-era programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Works Progress Administration basically footing the bill to attempt to employ the unemployed.
Well, real unemployment is still at levels not seen since the last great depression, not the published bullshit rate but the inverse of the workforce participation rate. So, where the hell are our public works projects?
have you ever worked in a union? while this is true, most of them make it hard as heck to jump through the hoops needed to jump through to ensure none of your dues are used towards political campaigns.
It's a lot of bullshit anyway because most of what Unions do is political. The part of actually looking out for worker's interests is a minuscule part of what they do.
What I wouldn't give for a quality centrist party that's willing to compromise and work out policy that meets somewhere in the middle rather than having notthing but weird fringe parties who are way off to the edge in one extreme or another.
The Democrats are centrist. We don't have a leftist party, at least, not a credible one.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
