Alot of my friends have modded xboxs which they use for running emulators and playing media.
One of the guys only plays SNES, NES and Turbogfx emlators on his. He dosn't care for all the xbox game, he says they are all pretty much the same while there is more varieity in the 2000+ roms he has on the HD.
I'm planing on buying an xbox just for playing media. My laptop is just too slow to play divx in linux and I don't have the HD space for a dual boot setup. So buying an xbox would give me extra HD space(8 gigs is enough for a few movies at a time, I only watch them once and delete). I was first considering getting a Desktop for watching media but then I would have to buy a monitor or get a TV out card(which usually have crap output). The total cost either way would be two or three times the cost of the xbox and mod chip.
Going to the local computer shops all I see these days are windowed cases, blue led's, transparent fans with blue leds, lighting kits, etc... Stores are filling up their stock with this crap rather than any real hardware. Most of the customers are gamers besides for their business customers. Most home users are gamers, or don't upgrade/buy new comptuers or they have a dell/compaq/hp/etc...
All they are going todo is take business away from the small shops.
Your right its all wannabes! There are atleast 10 wannabes for every geek!
Simple, current takes the path of leasts resistance.
Reducing the resistance of the human bodys is easily done by soaking in ionized water. Thats why you can be killed by a 120V ac falling into a bath tub. (Also the fact the the pipes/tub are a path to ground or 0V).
120V is pretty harmless when you are dry. But it can give you nasty burns if you put your finger accross a circuit. (If the current goes in and comes out on the same hand, short path high current)
The worst case situation is where you are soaken wet(sweaty even) and you have one hand on ground and the other on hot. The current has a short path through your arms and chest to ground.
300W is way high. If they all had 3 HD's, CDROM, video card and fully loaded down then it may be close to 300W. But these machines are just a mb and a hd. I would guess around 100W a machine at peak.
Yea thats exactly the first thing that came to mind when I seen this story.
I have not even rebooted in the past month, little lone reinstall. But I run linux ofcourse.
My little brother and my parents machines back home have not been formatted since last summer and are still running fine. Well I assume so, they have not complained to me about it. No firewall, no virus software, running winXP. Sounds scarry but they haven't had any problems what so ever. My brother even uses p2p alot and IRC. I'm finaly going home tomorrow so I'll likely give their computers a little checkup(Mostly cleaning out the dust). Now I do have winXP stripped down and the patches were up to date as of xmas.
I must admit windows XP is a desent OS. Same goes for win2k. I have no problems with the usablity of either nor any security problems(Other than MS blaster). Also I ban the use of Outlook at home.
Microsoft has turned their products around. I still hate the company and I will never buy any software from them. (I'm pretty tempted to buy an X-Box and mod it)
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CTRL-c to exit without saving CTRL-k, s save CTRL-k, x exit and save CTRL-k, b start block CTRL-k, k end blow CTRL-k, c copy/paste block CTRL-k, f find...
vi has a steep learning curve, no onscreen help, it trapped me too many times for me to give it a chance whe I first started out.
Joe was the only one besides pico with on screen help that I could find in my early slackware days. It stuck and I still use it all the time. In the mean while I've still learned enough vi to use it when I have to.
prosumer comes from pro-consumer, its a market in between the average consumer and the pro stuff. It comes from the video world.
Your average home camcorder cost around $1000, your average pro studio camera is over $50,000, a pro consumer video camera is $5-10,000.
Pro consumer gear has all the manual features of their pro cousins but are no where near the same quality. Real pro gear is much tougher(you won't see much plastic), its built to way higher standards(this stuff dosn't come off an assembly line) Its usually hand built. Real pro gear is also desiged to be fixed and regually serviced. Nothing is glued shut or screwed into plastic. And thus its expected usable life is 20 years or more.
Proconsumer gear is disposible crap that is usable by a pro without the big price tags.
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Broadcast grade equipment is extreamly expensive. The standard studio cameras are upwards of $50k. Home camcorders are childs toys compared to the real stuff. Pro consumer gear in now getting good enought that I often see news people carrying them rather than the $30k+ they once used.
My home town of 8000 people has to be the IRC capital of the world with 100's of people chating on IRC at anyone time. It started way back in 96 and the channel is still going strong today. Best of all its pretty damn stable, its been years since there has been a conflict. Back in the day I must admit to taking the town channel on several occations.
IRC is still being used by chat by isolated groups.
If you have access to all the routers along the way its no problem to trace it back with a few proformace degrading modifications. Once you have solved the problem you could monitor all the interfaces along the way looking for the packets that exploit the flaw. This would take a massive undertaking, every major router on the net would have to be envolved to trace it back interface by interface. It would likely be somewhere in the far east on some rooted irix box or something. And that still dosn't really get you anywhere.
Ofcourse a worm can be written much faster than a patch. A worm's test is its release, you don't have to write any documentation or be slowed by a development team, and you don't care about any side effects it may have(the more the better).
When you order the computer you order linux supported hardware. Simple, you want people to make linux friendly hardware, buy only linux friendly hardware.
Most driver problems Computer problems people have are completely resolved by buying quaility hardware and services in the first place.
On alot of hardware, linux is easier to install than windows XP, just pop in the CD reboot and answer a few simple questions. Same as windows XP except for the tedious entry of the CD key and a few reboots.
Linux has better driver support sometimes, I have a few cardbus network cards that I just pop in and go in linux. In windows I had to supply a driver CD which didn't even work for my wireless card, I had to download with my 100mbit card and there wasn't any driver for my old 10mbit card.
Is linux for everyone, nope. But its perfect for big business with specific needs(word processing, email, web, databases, POS, etc....) At this point I wouldn't suggest it for multimedia applications, thats what OSX is for.
My parents wouldn't even use the internet if it wasn't always there. The hassle of dialing up was enough of a barrier to keep them from going online. I had a computer for years, my parents tried it once in a while but never really used it. Then after having DSL in my room for a few years I setup a computer upstairs for them. It was there for a good 6 months before they started to use it. But now they are on the net all the time. Checking the weather, watching my spending on my joint collage account, reserving plane tickets, etc... They don't use email much, mom gets enough at work and dad hasn't even got an account. They never would of gotten into it if they had to dial up.
Most people don't want broadband because they don't really use the net with their dialup, just email. They have used that web thing once in a while, but its just a toy or an addon to email for them.
If someone asked me how to get on the internet these days. Dial up would be the last thing I tell them.
It isn't a speed thing at all, its all about being always connected without tieing up the phone. Speed is only something us geeks really care about.
The internet just isn't the internet without broadband.
I wouldn't take much to make telerobotics practical.
1) Bigger faster pipes(optical switching) 2) Higher res cameras(like 2Mx2M) with eye tracking software running on the client end. If you keep looking at the same spot the res gets better and better. At the sametime you have a nice big low res view. Software enhancements, etc... 3) other high res sensors(force, tempture, etc..) 4) New electronics manufactuing process. Something simlar to the way microprocessors are built today but for actuators, sensors, etc... Basicly being able to build tiny cell like componets for the robotic arms and tactile control systems. The micro scale should be more than small enough.
All of the above would just take a little money and time(a year or two). But there isn't really any hope of getting any money because the people with the money can't see past stuff that is alittle more profitable.
On a simlar note, one thing people keep forgeting about in the AI department is sensory input. All the processing power in the world isn't going to make a computer inteligent. It needs the ablity to see, touch, move and hear. The ablity to touch and interact with the world is what makes us inteligent. The seeing and hearing is a high level function that we develop later in life. At the moment we are born we can feel and interact.
AI research robots like cog at mit don't nearly have enough sensory input. Humans have skin coving the entire body which allows us to feel everything from the chair we are sitting on to the air moving accross the back of our neck. A robot like cog needs to be able to tell where it hit something, if its hard or soft, warm or cold, fast or slow, moving or not. You basicly have to cover the entire robot in micro scale sensors.
Once you have enough sensor input you program it an objective(pleasure) and self preservation(pain). Then let it learn.... Ofcourse you don't give it access to other computers/the net. Untill its learned right from wrong(Just like a child) and it also has to be easy to punish(inflict pain, or just denied its objective, or shut off)
The cop wouldn't have to look at your income. He would just give you a ticket for the higher of $250 or 2% of your income. Your income would only come into it when you pay the fine.
Yea blue LED's were being used on sound gear before I've seen them anywhere else. I got a great sounding little power amp for my studio montiors and it has the brightest little blue led I've ever seen. It lights up my bedroom at night so bright I can do shadow puppets on the wall. At work we have these mackie subs which also have the bright led's on em, a little gaff tape helps but then you can't tell if its on or not. Alittle dim green or red led is enough.
One would never use windows for a secure system, well it can be secure when its sitting at a blue screen.
Anyway software security I belive is more about keeping it simple, this means fewer lines of code to go wrong, knowing every move the OS makes. The full linux source is hugh but you don't need all of it. But linux isn't the answer for everything but everyone is trying to make it solve another problem which adds to it size and complexity.
I think it would be alot easier starting from scratch which is just what they did with their RT OS.
Personally I think the kernel should be split up. One kernel for multimedia and gaming apps, single user/realtime proformace focus. One for networking, servers, routers, embeded routers, applainces, etc... and so on. Just keep basic binary compatiabity.
Another thing I think high level languages like c and java make for lazy programmers and cover up alot of bugs and security holes. For truly secure and bug free applications I think asm should be used with the help of some sort of IDE/simulator. Yes this makes it hard to port to diffrent arch but its alot more secure when you know whats happening at this level. Also when your setting up systems where lives are at risk there is no need to support every PC device, you just need bare bones text based systems. Just keep it simple.
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Alot of my friends have modded xboxs which they use for running emulators and playing media.
One of the guys only plays SNES, NES and Turbogfx emlators on his. He dosn't care for all the xbox game, he says they are all pretty much the same while there is more varieity in the 2000+ roms he has on the HD.
I'm planing on buying an xbox just for playing media. My laptop is just too slow to play divx in linux and I don't have the HD space for a dual boot setup. So buying an xbox would give me extra HD space(8 gigs is enough for a few movies at a time, I only watch them once and delete). I was first considering getting a Desktop for watching media but then I would have to buy a monitor or get a TV out card(which usually have crap output). The total cost either way would be two or three times the cost of the xbox and mod chip.
Its strong now compared to where is was two years ago. It's around 75 cents US right now, its been down as low as 62 censt in the past few years.
Healthcare greatly varys from province to province. Its not national, its provinical.
Going to the local computer shops all I see these days are windowed cases, blue led's, transparent fans with blue leds, lighting kits, etc... Stores are filling up their stock with this crap rather than any real hardware. Most of the customers are gamers besides for their business customers. Most home users are gamers, or don't upgrade/buy new comptuers or they have a dell/compaq/hp/etc...
All they are going todo is take business away from the small shops.
Your right its all wannabes! There are atleast 10 wannabes for every geek!
Simple, current takes the path of leasts resistance.
Reducing the resistance of the human bodys is easily done by soaking in ionized water. Thats why you can be killed by a 120V ac falling into a bath tub. (Also the fact the the pipes/tub are a path to ground or 0V).
120V is pretty harmless when you are dry. But it can give you nasty burns if you put your finger accross a circuit. (If the current goes in and comes out on the same hand, short path high current)
The worst case situation is where you are soaken wet(sweaty even) and you have one hand on ground and the other on hot. The current has a short path through your arms and chest to ground.
300W is way high. If they all had 3 HD's, CDROM, video card and fully loaded down then it may be close to 300W. But these machines are just a mb and a hd. I would guess around 100W a machine at peak.
Yea thats exactly the first thing that came to mind when I seen this story.
I have not even rebooted in the past month, little lone reinstall. But I run linux ofcourse.
My little brother and my parents machines back home have not been formatted since last summer and are still running fine. Well I assume so, they have not complained to me about it. No firewall, no virus software, running winXP. Sounds scarry but they haven't had any problems what so ever. My brother even uses p2p alot and IRC. I'm finaly going home tomorrow so I'll likely give their computers a little checkup(Mostly cleaning out the dust). Now I do have winXP stripped down and the patches were up to date as of xmas.
I must admit windows XP is a desent OS. Same goes for win2k. I have no problems with the usablity of either nor any security problems(Other than MS blaster). Also I ban the use of Outlook at home.
Microsoft has turned their products around. I still hate the company and I will never buy any software from them. (I'm pretty tempted to buy an X-Box and mod it)
CTRL-c to exit without saving ...
CTRL-k, s save
CTRL-k, x exit and save
CTRL-k, b start block
CTRL-k, k end blow
CTRL-k, c copy/paste block
CTRL-k, f find
vi has a steep learning curve, no onscreen help, it trapped me too many times for me to give it a chance whe I first started out.
Joe was the only one besides pico with on screen help that I could find in my early slackware days. It stuck and I still use it all the time. In the mean while I've still learned enough vi to use it when I have to.
prosumer comes from pro-consumer, its a market in between the average consumer and the pro stuff. It comes from the video world.
Your average home camcorder cost around $1000, your average pro studio camera is over $50,000, a pro consumer video camera is $5-10,000.
Pro consumer gear has all the manual features of their pro cousins but are no where near the same quality. Real pro gear is much tougher(you won't see much plastic), its built to way higher standards(this stuff dosn't come off an assembly line) Its usually hand built. Real pro gear is also desiged to be fixed and regually serviced. Nothing is glued shut or screwed into plastic. And thus its expected usable life is 20 years or more.
Proconsumer gear is disposible crap that is usable by a pro without the big price tags.
Broadcast grade equipment is extreamly expensive. The standard studio cameras are upwards of $50k. Home camcorders are childs toys compared to the real stuff. Pro consumer gear in now getting good enought that I often see news people carrying them rather than the $30k+ they once used.
Its the cross section of the wing that changes, not the angle or length of the wing.
Depends on what town you grew up in....
My home town of 8000 people has to be the IRC capital of the world with 100's of people chating on IRC at anyone time. It started way back in 96 and the channel is still going strong today. Best of all its pretty damn stable, its been years since there has been a conflict. Back in the day I must admit to taking the town channel on several occations.
IRC is still being used by chat by isolated groups.
There is still cash and other people.
If you have access to all the routers along the way its no problem to trace it back with a few proformace degrading modifications. Once you have solved the problem you could monitor all the interfaces along the way looking for the packets that exploit the flaw. This would take a massive undertaking, every major router on the net would have to be envolved to trace it back interface by interface. It would likely be somewhere in the far east on some rooted irix box or something. And that still dosn't really get you anywhere.
Ofcourse a worm can be written much faster than a patch. A worm's test is its release, you don't have to write any documentation or be slowed by a development team, and you don't care about any side effects it may have(the more the better).
Dose that include the water that the employees drink?
Simple don't produce any new CRT's. LCD technology is comming of age.
When you order the computer you order linux supported hardware. Simple, you want people to make linux friendly hardware, buy only linux friendly hardware.
Most driver problems Computer problems people have are completely resolved by buying quaility hardware and services in the first place.
On alot of hardware, linux is easier to install than windows XP, just pop in the CD reboot and answer a few simple questions. Same as windows XP except for the tedious entry of the CD key and a few reboots.
Linux has better driver support sometimes, I have a few cardbus network cards that I just pop in and go in linux. In windows I had to supply a driver CD which didn't even work for my wireless card, I had to download with my 100mbit card and there wasn't any driver for my old 10mbit card.
Is linux for everyone, nope. But its perfect for big business with specific needs(word processing, email, web, databases, POS, etc....) At this point I wouldn't suggest it for multimedia applications, thats what OSX is for.
My parents wouldn't even use the internet if it wasn't always there. The hassle of dialing up was enough of a barrier to keep them from going online. I had a computer for years, my parents tried it once in a while but never really used it. Then after having DSL in my room for a few years I setup a computer upstairs for them. It was there for a good 6 months before they started to use it. But now they are on the net all the time. Checking the weather, watching my spending on my joint collage account, reserving plane tickets, etc... They don't use email much, mom gets enough at work and dad hasn't even got an account. They never would of gotten into it if they had to dial up.
Most people don't want broadband because they don't really use the net with their dialup, just email. They have used that web thing once in a while, but its just a toy or an addon to email for them.
If someone asked me how to get on the internet these days. Dial up would be the last thing I tell them.
It isn't a speed thing at all, its all about being always connected without tieing up the phone. Speed is only something us geeks really care about.
The internet just isn't the internet without broadband.
The keyword there is 'yet'
I wouldn't take much to make telerobotics practical.
1) Bigger faster pipes(optical switching)
2) Higher res cameras(like 2Mx2M) with eye tracking software running on the client end. If you keep looking at the same spot the res gets better and better. At the sametime you have a nice big low res view. Software enhancements, etc...
3) other high res sensors(force, tempture, etc..)
4) New electronics manufactuing process. Something simlar to the way microprocessors are built today but for actuators, sensors, etc... Basicly being able to build tiny cell like componets for the robotic arms and tactile control systems. The micro scale should be more than small enough.
All of the above would just take a little money and time(a year or two). But there isn't really any hope of getting any money because the people with the money can't see past stuff that is alittle more profitable.
On a simlar note, one thing people keep forgeting about in the AI department is sensory input. All the processing power in the world isn't going to make a computer inteligent. It needs the ablity to see, touch, move and hear. The ablity to touch and interact with the world is what makes us inteligent. The seeing and hearing is a high level function that we develop later in life. At the moment we are born we can feel and interact.
AI research robots like cog at mit don't nearly have enough sensory input. Humans have skin coving the entire body which allows us to feel everything from the chair we are sitting on to the air moving accross the back of our neck. A robot like cog needs to be able to tell where it hit something, if its hard or soft, warm or cold, fast or slow, moving or not. You basicly have to cover the entire robot in micro scale sensors.
Once you have enough sensor input you program it an objective(pleasure) and self preservation(pain). Then let it learn.... Ofcourse you don't give it access to other computers/the net. Untill its learned right from wrong(Just like a child) and it also has to be easy to punish(inflict pain, or just denied its objective, or shut off)
The better/shorter code in a game is written the faster it will run. Faster in games usually means smoother which makes for better game play.
Tiny code == fewer instructions == faster
The cop wouldn't have to look at your income. He would just give you a ticket for the higher of $250 or 2% of your income. Your income would only come into it when you pay the fine.
Yea blue LED's were being used on sound gear before I've seen them anywhere else. I got a great sounding little power amp for my studio montiors and it has the brightest little blue led I've ever seen. It lights up my bedroom at night so bright I can do shadow puppets on the wall. At work we have these mackie subs which also have the bright led's on em, a little gaff tape helps but then you can't tell if its on or not. Alittle dim green or red led is enough.
Are you refering to the Linksys client cards or the linksys wireless routers like the wrt54g?
Are the output power the same on both of the cards/AP's you tested?
One would never use windows for a secure system, well it can be secure when its sitting at a blue screen.
Anyway software security I belive is more about keeping it simple, this means fewer lines of code to go wrong, knowing every move the OS makes. The full linux source is hugh but you don't need all of it. But linux isn't the answer for everything but everyone is trying to make it solve another problem which adds to it size and complexity.
I think it would be alot easier starting from scratch which is just what they did with their RT OS.
Personally I think the kernel should be split up. One kernel for multimedia and gaming apps, single user/realtime proformace focus. One for networking, servers, routers, embeded routers, applainces, etc... and so on. Just keep basic binary compatiabity.
Another thing I think high level languages like c and java make for lazy programmers and cover up alot of bugs and security holes. For truly secure and bug free applications I think asm should be used with the help of some sort of IDE/simulator. Yes this makes it hard to port to diffrent arch but its alot more secure when you know whats happening at this level. Also when your setting up systems where lives are at risk there is no need to support every PC device, you just need bare bones text based systems. Just keep it simple.