For the winter Just move the cold air return from a forced air furnace in the room. That way the heat from the servers is sucked throughout the house. Then put a few vents for the air to come into the room and seal up all the cracks like under the door. Then put dust filters on the vents. That should keep most of the dust out of the room.
Then in the summer seal up the cold air return and use AC.
In my old house I kept the computer room closed off from the rest of the house. In the middel of the winter the computers kept the room nice and warm. In the summer the house was always nice and cool without AC but here it dosn't get very hot at all.
The problem is that when ISP's do limit the bandwidth they only give you like 2.5 gigs a month. Thats like 3 days worth for someone like myself.
I wouldn't mind if they have us like 20 gigs a month. But 2.5 gigs is a joke, leaving morphes open for a day or so would kill that and many new internet users don't know you need to close it from the system tray.
I should montior the bandwidth on my firewall to see how much I actually use just broswing the web and reading email in a day.
Anyway it sounds like the company you worked for was paying retail prices for their bandwidth. If you are to make it as an ISP today you need to be a peer.
I think what would get up the public's intrest in space are 100's of little robots on the moon that can be controled by the general public via the internet.
If you can't afford to go into space why not bring space to you.
At the same time some of these robots could be built for mineing and construction on the Moon to build a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon. Also stuff mined on the moon can be sent into orbit of earth for constrution of space stations and ships.
Personaly I don't think there is a need to have people in space unless they are doing reseach on the effects of space on the body. We can just about do everything else via telerobotics.
There are lots of examples of telerobots online right now but most of them are quite basic and are hard to use.
This is a neat little telerobot:
http://www.swampgas.com/robotics/rover.html
Nasa's telerobotics website: (Check out some of the online robots under real robots on the web)
http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/tele ro botics.shtm
I wouldn't buy speakers that are advertised as computer speakers because they usually are just cheep stereo speakers that are sheilded and slapped into an ugly box with a bigger price tag.
Get studio montiors! Great sound and they look great.
Take a look at the yorkville YSM-1p's.
www.yorkville.com
Get 4 balanced to unbalanced transformers. Then use a ground lift on the balanced cable and ground hum is gone. I'm just guessing this will work. I work in proaudio and we simply disconnect the ground to one or more of the cables or on a di to get rid of ground loops. I think this only works on balanced gear so thats why I suggest the transformers. They are also usefull if you want todo any long runs.
The space station shouldn't have to do much to catch the return vehicle. The return vehicle will come to the ISS and not the other way around. The point of going to the ISS is that they save money. They don't have to put all kinds of sheilding on the return vehicle which means less mass, less mass means less fuel and less money. The return vehicle gets a free ride back inside the shuttle from the ISS on a regular mission.
I think the one major problem with this is smelting the metals you find. Smelters are huge plants and I don't think they scale down very well. Also these plants use alot of fuel and require chemicals that will also be hard to find and expensive to send there.
Robots are only 1/2 metals the rest is semicondutors, rubbers, plastics, etc...
It would be cheeper to send a person to mars than send all the equiment and supplies to build robots.
This should be a job for the ISS to collect the samples from mars. Then when the next resupply mission stops by the station it isn't leaving with an empty hold.
Why do they send the space shuttle up say to fix hubble, why don't they move the hubble into the same orbit as the space station and to the eva's from the station.
Maybe the ISS isn't into the right orbit todo this but its something they should have considerd. The ISS should be the center of all low earth orbit activity. Maybe a little unit could be built that could go out and grab satlights and bring them to the ISS's orbit where they can be fixed and upgraded.
IMHO the ISS in its current state is not much good for anything useful.
The point is that the person he was quoting wasn't talking about attacking bots. He was talking about someones IRC botnet that they use to hold IRC channels.
Cable bots can be easly packeted off IRC. T1's are also very easy to take out just like what happend to the guy that made the page. T3(45mbps) and up are pretty hard for most people to take out, but not impossible as we learned a while back.
Most guys use machines they "rooted", machines that are overseas, they telnet in to a dozen T3+ machines and attack from there. The problem with those is that it usually leaves a pretty good trail so most guys are smart enough only to use these verses newbies on their cable modems and dsl.
Oh and BTW, I get 1Mbps up and down on my home DSL all the time.
How many of his bots are cable?
The guy was talking about IRC bots and how many of them are on shitty cable connections and are not on T3+
Not how many hacked boxes he has.
People say that linux can replace windows in the desktop market if there are office apps, games and other software and its easyer to install but I think the problems are much deeper rooted then that.
I have 3 computers on my desk in front of me right now, one windows 98 desktop, one windows 2k laptop and one linux console box(ie. No X). I have these 3 differnt machines in front of me(and use them) because each one fill's its own little niche. The windows 98 desktop machine is my gameing, mutimedia and web machine, I use windows here because there arn't many games out for linux yet, linux can't do full screen playing vcd's and linux web broswers are slow. Also I don't run win2k on it because win2k like linux dosn't support my 3d card(ati AIW rage 128) in 3d mode and none of my ati software tv, vcd, dvd player work in win2k either. I run win2k on my laptop because I keep alot of my school notes and assigments on there and that requires the box to be stable and compatible with our school networks(for printing, file sharing, jumping domain's and ip's, etc...), (and yes, win2k is quite stable, I have had this laptop for 3 months now and not a single crash, only problem is this svchost.exe that keeps poping up using 99% up power once and while killing my battery that I can't kill so I gota reboot). And finaly my beloved linux box, which I do not run X on, I use it for my email, IRC, coding, telnet, etc... Linux belongs in console mode thats where is dose its best work. Linux lets me use crap hardware todo most of my work writing code for websites, robotics projects, or what ever else I happen to be working on that requires alot of unformatted text.
The X window system seems to be the root of all of linux's problems. Its slow and it dosn't feel solid as say qnx or windows. There is something about the way the color's are or the menu's and widgets feel in X that dosn't feel solid or responsive. Also I find the colors are not a strong or sharp as in windows(and no its not my video card or montior, I have noticed this on many machines). Even the speed at which menus come up and the movement of the mouse dosn't seem quite right. Another problem I can see with X is that it dosn't seem to allow games to change to full screen mode with a diffrent resolution.
Alot of people say that linux is too hard to install or some other bs like that. Last time I installed linux on my desktop box I installed mandrake and it was one of the easyest installs I have ever done of an OS.
What linux needs if it is to gain market share in the desktop market is a faster, smoother, better looking gui and to put an end to this kde/gnome battle and come to some standard simple interface like the windows start bar.(there are alot of other things, I just can't think Of them at the moment)
Every one seems to be missing the point.
Qnx is a small and fully functional OS.
It has a super fast gui.
It works good, its clean, neat.
Has good audio video support.(I could play 4 mpeg video's at once, in linux I can't play one and get a good frame rate )
Ok hardware support and very easy configuration.(there is pretty much none, true pnp)
The real time support is just iceing on the cake.
With a little more software(corel wp, a good irc client) QNX could become my desktop or laptop OS.
What they should do is generate a new password for you if you forget your password. No one should every see a plain text version of your password. It should be crypted even before it leaves your computer. And then the only thing in your database dealing with our passwords should be a crypted version of our password which can be compared to the crypted version they recive when we login.
Yeah, passing highschool lit and lang classes is a pain in the ass. I get 90+ in programming, math and physics but in every thing else I'm just about failing.
Bah! Whats there to be whew about, there is still open nap servers. Who needs the company any more? We have lots of napster client software, gnapster, nap, jnap, etc... the list goses on and on. We got lots of servers up and running open nap. And we have napigator which gives us a list of open nap servers on there website for non windows users. And they got a program that lets you pick your server for the windows users. Who needs napster inc any more?
Gnutella has alot of issues and stuff.(more options for limiting downloads and stuff, and more cacheing to slow down this bandwidth sucker)
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All you would need to do is have a database of these ads and then check to see if and part of the mp3 matches any of the ads in the database. Then the parts of the files with the ads can be skiped by the mp3 player.
As new ads come out they would be added to the data base.
The best part about this system is that the ad can be at the end middle or at the begining.
One good thing about them distrubuting these MP3's is that they will be the best quality, no ones going to listen if the sound sucks. Most of what you get on napster sounds bad, levels are too low or too high, over EQed, etc...
You go into an office and what do you see? File cabinets full of infomation and they are all sorted alphabetaly because a secertary spent the time to do it, why because after you have quite a few things the files get hard to find. The computer is like having your own secertary who sorts every thing for you.
I would like to see if you have cd's for every mp3 you have and you had them just thrown on the seat of your car, you would be there all day trying to find the file but if you call on your secertary(computer) to get you that file(search) they will know exactly where to look.
As you said before not every one has there cd's sorted labled and all in one spot, most people arn't as anal as you with there mp3's, I have a few dir's around my computer where I just pile all my mp3's. I don't have them sorted by artist and cd they are just all in one dir just like all my all my cd's are piled on one shelf. The computer just makes it easyer to find the file your looking for.
The thing that I think most people have probems with are menu's and small icons. It takes along time for people to lean what every icon dose and where all the functionality in the menu's is located. Inside apps we need a better way to call up functions and commands to replace the current menus and tool bars. Programs like word perfect have gotten so complex that it takes like an hour sometimes to find what I'm looking for. Also we need a better system for starting programs and switching programs.
Thats why we have accounts on our systems, so that every user can have there own configuration. When you go to use your friends computer he can create you an account and then you can download your config files from home. You can create or pick out a GUI that works best for you then every where you go you bring it with you using the web or even ftp. Thats my favort feature of linux. Every user has there own files and configs files which only they can change and they can easly get there files via ftp.
You call systems that crash every second day easy to use. Windows isn't the easyest to use in the class room enviroment because it lacks true muti user support. I'm not talking about the ablity for a few people to use a computer at the same time I mean the ablity of a user to have there own settings and files that the next person who uses the computer can't mess with. The big thing stoping linux in the class room is the teachers they are not very quick to catch on to new software. My teacher who taught me how to do techincal drawings couldn't use the software because I moved one of the tool bars. He would have to do the compleat course over again if the software changes the slightest. And that is why were still using an old buggy version of auto sketch and windows 95. From a UI point of view linux is the same as windows and is more configureable. In schools you don't need huge menu's of programs like you see under the start button in windows or linux, you only need 10-20 buttons or icons on the screen. A Linux bases system would be alot easyer to adminster than a windows based system. Once the boxes are configured and software installed the box shouldn't need to be touched. Right now at school every other day I see one of the computers geting windows re installed because some student has guessed the password to fortress, a program that keeps students from changeing setting and stuff, or some program has destroyed the system, viruses, or because some program was running really slow. Linux is the best thing for the class room. In the schools the computers threw out the day have 7 or more diffrent people using it and each of them want to have there own settings and stuff.
They can check weather or not your canadian by IP
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They can check if someone is canadian by who the IP has been assigned to if its a canadian ISP, company or org than there canadian. I can't remember the site off hand but there is a site where you can do a whois on a IP and it will tell you who its been asigned to. This will work most of the time because most users in canada are connected to the net by canadian companys.(usually the local telephone company or cable company)
Has anyone figured out how to leave a/tmp/Garak_was_here or something. When you log in as a guest the commands are very limited. Kinda neat tho, maybe I should pop the chip outa my 486 stack up some pcbs and take a picture clameing that its a working box, put the chip back in boot her up and put it online.:)
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Ack maybe I should use that little preview button before I hit submit.
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Lets take slashdot radio to the next step.
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Geeks in space is just one part of the geek community. Maybe the slashdot crew could help in the setting up of a live 24/7 online radio station. Geeks in space would have its 1/2 a day on it, and just about any one who wants to contribute.
Any one could send in a mp3 of around 30 min, people who wish to moderate can go threw them and vote for the ones they like so we don't have trolls on the air.
The last problem is those double a people who don't like us broadcasting there music on the net. I don't think the slashdot crew would like to get mixed up with that stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
For the winter Just move the cold air return from a forced air furnace in the room. That way the heat from the servers is sucked throughout the house. Then put a few vents for the air to come into the room and seal up all the cracks like under the door. Then put dust filters on the vents. That should keep most of the dust out of the room.
Then in the summer seal up the cold air return and use AC.
In my old house I kept the computer room closed off from the rest of the house. In the middel of the winter the computers kept the room nice and warm. In the summer the house was always nice and cool without AC but here it dosn't get very hot at all.
The problem is that when ISP's do limit the bandwidth they only give you like 2.5 gigs a month. Thats like 3 days worth for someone like myself.
I wouldn't mind if they have us like 20 gigs a month. But 2.5 gigs is a joke, leaving morphes open for a day or so would kill that and many new internet users don't know you need to close it from the system tray.
I should montior the bandwidth on my firewall to see how much I actually use just broswing the web and reading email in a day.
Anyway it sounds like the company you worked for was paying retail prices for their bandwidth. If you are to make it as an ISP today you need to be a peer.
I think what would get up the public's intrest in space are 100's of little robots on the moon that can be controled by the general public via the internet.
e ro botics.shtm
If you can't afford to go into space why not bring space to you.
At the same time some of these robots could be built for mineing and construction on the Moon to build a radio telescope on the dark side of the moon. Also stuff mined on the moon can be sent into orbit of earth for constrution of space stations and ships.
Personaly I don't think there is a need to have people in space unless they are doing reseach on the effects of space on the body. We can just about do everything else via telerobotics.
There are lots of examples of telerobots online right now but most of them are quite basic and are hard to use.
This is a neat little telerobot:
http://www.swampgas.com/robotics/rover.html
Nasa's telerobotics website: (Check out some of the online robots under real robots on the web)
http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/tel
I wouldn't buy speakers that are advertised as computer speakers because they usually are just cheep stereo speakers that are sheilded and slapped into an ugly box with a bigger price tag.
Get studio montiors! Great sound and they look great.
Take a look at the yorkville YSM-1p's.
www.yorkville.com
Get 4 balanced to unbalanced transformers. Then use a ground lift on the balanced cable and ground hum is gone. I'm just guessing this will work. I work in proaudio and we simply disconnect the ground to one or more of the cables or on a di to get rid of ground loops. I think this only works on balanced gear so thats why I suggest the transformers. They are also usefull if you want todo any long runs.
The space station shouldn't have to do much to catch the return vehicle. The return vehicle will come to the ISS and not the other way around. The point of going to the ISS is that they save money. They don't have to put all kinds of sheilding on the return vehicle which means less mass, less mass means less fuel and less money. The return vehicle gets a free ride back inside the shuttle from the ISS on a regular mission.
I think the one major problem with this is smelting the metals you find. Smelters are huge plants and I don't think they scale down very well. Also these plants use alot of fuel and require chemicals that will also be hard to find and expensive to send there.
Robots are only 1/2 metals the rest is semicondutors, rubbers, plastics, etc...
It would be cheeper to send a person to mars than send all the equiment and supplies to build robots.
This should be a job for the ISS to collect the samples from mars. Then when the next resupply mission stops by the station it isn't leaving with an empty hold.
Why do they send the space shuttle up say to fix hubble, why don't they move the hubble into the same orbit as the space station and to the eva's from the station.
Maybe the ISS isn't into the right orbit todo this but its something they should have considerd. The ISS should be the center of all low earth orbit activity. Maybe a little unit could be built that could go out and grab satlights and bring them to the ISS's orbit where they can be fixed and upgraded.
IMHO the ISS in its current state is not much good for anything useful.
Thats just the right size for RV's. Lots of power their to run a computer, tv, and a few lights.
The point is that the person he was quoting wasn't talking about attacking bots. He was talking about someones IRC botnet that they use to hold IRC channels.
Cable bots can be easly packeted off IRC. T1's are also very easy to take out just like what happend to the guy that made the page. T3(45mbps) and up are pretty hard for most people to take out, but not impossible as we learned a while back.
Most guys use machines they "rooted", machines that are overseas, they telnet in to a dozen T3+ machines and attack from there. The problem with those is that it usually leaves a pretty good trail so most guys are smart enough only to use these verses newbies on their cable modems and dsl.
Oh and BTW, I get 1Mbps up and down on my home DSL all the time.
How many of his bots are cable? The guy was talking about IRC bots and how many of them are on shitty cable connections and are not on T3+ Not how many hacked boxes he has.
People say that linux can replace windows in the desktop market if there are office apps, games and other software and its easyer to install but I think the problems are much deeper rooted then that.
I have 3 computers on my desk in front of me right now, one windows 98 desktop, one windows 2k laptop and one linux console box(ie. No X). I have these 3 differnt machines in front of me(and use them) because each one fill's its own little niche. The windows 98 desktop machine is my gameing, mutimedia and web machine, I use windows here because there arn't many games out for linux yet, linux can't do full screen playing vcd's and linux web broswers are slow. Also I don't run win2k on it because win2k like linux dosn't support my 3d card(ati AIW rage 128) in 3d mode and none of my ati software tv, vcd, dvd player work in win2k either. I run win2k on my laptop because I keep alot of my school notes and assigments on there and that requires the box to be stable and compatible with our school networks(for printing, file sharing, jumping domain's and ip's, etc...), (and yes, win2k is quite stable, I have had this laptop for 3 months now and not a single crash, only problem is this svchost.exe that keeps poping up using 99% up power once and while killing my battery that I can't kill so I gota reboot). And finaly my beloved linux box, which I do not run X on, I use it for my email, IRC, coding, telnet, etc... Linux belongs in console mode thats where is dose its best work. Linux lets me use crap hardware todo most of my work writing code for websites, robotics projects, or what ever else I happen to be working on that requires alot of unformatted text.
The X window system seems to be the root of all of linux's problems. Its slow and it dosn't feel solid as say qnx or windows. There is something about the way the color's are or the menu's and widgets feel in X that dosn't feel solid or responsive. Also I find the colors are not a strong or sharp as in windows(and no its not my video card or montior, I have noticed this on many machines). Even the speed at which menus come up and the movement of the mouse dosn't seem quite right. Another problem I can see with X is that it dosn't seem to allow games to change to full screen mode with a diffrent resolution.
Alot of people say that linux is too hard to install or some other bs like that. Last time I installed linux on my desktop box I installed mandrake and it was one of the easyest installs I have ever done of an OS.
What linux needs if it is to gain market share in the desktop market is a faster, smoother, better looking gui and to put an end to this kde/gnome battle and come to some standard simple interface like the windows start bar.(there are alot of other things, I just can't think Of them at the moment)
Every one seems to be missing the point.
Qnx is a small and fully functional OS.
It has a super fast gui.
It works good, its clean, neat.
Has good audio video support.(I could play 4 mpeg video's at once, in linux I can't play one and get a good frame rate )
Ok hardware support and very easy configuration.(there is pretty much none, true pnp)
The real time support is just iceing on the cake.
With a little more software(corel wp, a good irc client) QNX could become my desktop or laptop OS.
What they should do is generate a new password for you if you forget your password. No one should every see a plain text version of your password. It should be crypted even before it leaves your computer. And then the only thing in your database dealing with our passwords should be a crypted version of our password which can be compared to the crypted version they recive when we login.
Yeah, passing highschool lit and lang classes is a pain in the ass. I get 90+ in programming, math and physics but in every thing else I'm just about failing.
Sounds like something out of a mircosoft programmer handbook.
Bah!
Whats there to be whew about, there is still open nap servers.
Who needs the company any more?
We have lots of napster client software, gnapster, nap, jnap, etc... the list goses on and on. We got lots of servers up and running open nap.
And we have napigator which gives us a list of open nap servers on there website for non windows users. And they got a program that lets you pick your server for the windows users.
Who needs napster inc any more?
Gnutella has alot of issues and stuff.(more options for limiting downloads and stuff, and more cacheing to slow down this bandwidth sucker)
All you would need to do is have a database of these ads and then check to see if and part of the mp3 matches any of the ads in the database. Then the parts of the files with the ads can be skiped by the mp3 player.
As new ads come out they would be added to the data base.
The best part about this system is that the ad can be at the end middle or at the begining.
One good thing about them distrubuting these MP3's is that they will be the best quality, no ones going to listen if the sound sucks. Most of what you get on napster sounds bad, levels are too low or too high, over EQed, etc...
You go into an office and what do you see?
File cabinets full of infomation and they are all sorted alphabetaly because a secertary spent the time to do it, why because after you have quite a few things the files get hard to find. The computer is like having your own secertary who sorts every thing for you.
I would like to see if you have cd's for every mp3 you have and you had them just thrown on the seat of your car, you would be there all day trying to find the file but if you call on your secertary(computer) to get you that file(search) they will know exactly where to look.
As you said before not every one has there cd's sorted labled and all in one spot, most people arn't as anal as you with there mp3's, I have a few dir's around my computer where I just pile all my mp3's. I don't have them sorted by artist and cd they are just all in one dir just like all my all my cd's are piled on one shelf. The computer just makes it easyer to find the file your looking for.
The thing that I think most people have probems with are menu's and small icons. It takes along time for people to lean what every icon dose and where all the functionality in the menu's is located. Inside apps we need a better way to call up functions and commands to replace the current menus and tool bars. Programs like word perfect have gotten so complex that it takes like an hour sometimes to find what I'm looking for. Also we need a better system for starting programs and switching programs.
Thats why we have accounts on our systems, so that every user can have there own configuration.
When you go to use your friends computer he can create you an account and then you can download your config files from home.
You can create or pick out a GUI that works best for you then every where you go you bring it with you using the web or even ftp.
Thats my favort feature of linux. Every user has there own files and configs files which only they can change and they can easly get there files via ftp.
You call systems that crash every second day easy to use.
Windows isn't the easyest to use in the class room enviroment because it lacks true muti user support. I'm not talking about the ablity for a few people to use a computer at the same time I mean the ablity of a user to have there own settings and files that the next person who uses the computer can't mess with.
The big thing stoping linux in the class room is the teachers they are not very quick to catch on to new software. My teacher who taught me how to do techincal drawings couldn't use the software because I moved one of the tool bars. He would have to do the compleat course over again if the software changes the slightest. And that is why were still using an old buggy version of auto sketch and windows 95.
From a UI point of view linux is the same as windows and is more configureable. In schools you don't need huge menu's of programs like you see under the start button in windows or linux, you only need 10-20 buttons or icons on the screen.
A Linux bases system would be alot easyer to adminster than a windows based system. Once the boxes are configured and software installed the box shouldn't need to be touched. Right now at school every other day I see one of the computers geting windows re installed because some student has guessed the password to fortress, a program that keeps students from changeing setting and stuff, or some program has destroyed the system, viruses, or because some program was running really slow.
Linux is the best thing for the class room. In the schools the computers threw out the day have 7 or more diffrent people using it and each of them want to have there own settings and stuff.
They can check if someone is canadian by who the IP has been assigned to if its a canadian ISP, company or org than there canadian.
I can't remember the site off hand but there is a site where you can do a whois on a IP and it will tell you who its been asigned to.
This will work most of the time because most users in canada are connected to the net by canadian companys.(usually the local telephone company or cable company)
Has anyone figured out how to leave a /tmp/Garak_was_here or something. When you log in as a guest the commands are very limited. :)
Kinda neat tho, maybe I should pop the chip outa my 486 stack up some pcbs and take a picture clameing that its a working box, put the chip back in boot her up and put it online.
Ack maybe I should use that little preview button before I hit submit.
s/2 a day/2 an hour/
Geeks in space is just one part of the geek community. Maybe the slashdot crew could help in the setting up of a live 24/7 online radio station. Geeks in space would have its 1/2 a day on it, and just about any one who wants to contribute.
Any one could send in a mp3 of around 30 min, people who wish to moderate can go threw them and vote for the ones they like so we don't have trolls on the air.
The last problem is those double a people who don't like us broadcasting there music on the net. I don't think the slashdot crew would like to get mixed up with that stuff.