Re: The end of NTSC analog TV

2007-04-28 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
but there is still a ton of money to be made selling and reselling that spectrum. You can bet the networks aren't doing this just out of a desire to improve the American TV viewer's experience. ;-) Not only that, but think of all the money they will save in electricity costs. The same

LUG discount for TrixBox training in Boston

2007-04-28 Thread Ted Roche
Forwarded on behalf of: Andrew Gillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to extend a special offer to LUG members for our upcoming trixbox training in Boston. Anyone who's a system integrator or IT pro who will be setting up and administering asterisk-based phone systems would get a lot out of the

OLPC nearly doubles in cost, runs Windows, avail in USA

2007-04-28 Thread Ben Scott
(H. List's been quiet lately.) According to a Yahoo News story linked to from Slashdot, the OLPC Laptop (http://www.laptop.org) is going to increase in price from $100 to $175, and will be able to run Microsoft Windows in addition to Linux. While the reason for the 75% price increase

Re: dual-core vs. HyperThreading

2007-04-28 Thread Dave Johnson
Thomas Charron writes: On 4/25/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can definitely confirm that my core 2 quad system has no HT available to turn on in the bios (but does show ht in the cpuflags, which aligns with other comments in the thread). I've heard it suggested

Re: OLPC nearly doubles in cost, runs Windows, avail in USA

2007-04-28 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 28, 2007, at 20:46, Ben Scott wrote: While the reason for the 75% price increase isn't fully explained yet, the popular conspiracy theory is that Windows needed more computrons. There was talk a while back about OLPC being able to shed the shackles of traditional PC design and get