The first thing I did when Blaster started doing the rounds was put DCOMbobulator in the login script -- bought me more than enough time to get patches in place.
At work we're NATed, at home I've got XP's Internet connection sharing plus an ADSL NAT router WiFi access point four port switch just waiting for the time I can finally find a decent ADSL service. I'd never give an unpatched PC a live IP address, Windows or Linux.
The loading times issue is actually quite interesting. In order to save money on the MMC card, some games are compressed. Sonic N loads straight away, it's not compressed. Tomb Raider and Pandemonium have loading times, they are compressed -- to just below 8MB if memory serves. If you compare the loading times of, say, TR to Crazy Taxi on the GBA (which is quite a technical marvel), they are roughly the same.
I'll get around to upgrading the receiver eventually. I almost did just to be able to use the Audigy's optical line out because I was running out of ins and outs.
Second, what exactly do you mean that sound quality drops?
I mean that when I go from the SD stream to the HD stream using the same hardware the sound appears to drop to mono, or at least loses a lot of definition.
My rig is: PC with PCI DTV tuner card and Soundblaster Audigy 2 connected to Yamaha Dolby Pro Logic surround sound receiver (center, left, right, surround). It's not the latest and greatest, but I think I can use it to determine that the sound quality of the HD stream is much worse than the SD stream.
I find myself watching any random crap so long as it's in HD
While HD does look significantly better than SD (I can compare this on my Sony Trinitron 21" VGA monitor) , the cost of a big screen isn't worth it. Also, the sound quality drops.
Is Tivo available in AU
Nope. Just out of interest, how do you record something for someone else with TiVo? Give me my Sony SLV-EZ2000S in long play with a BASF 5 hour tape doubled to 10 hours any day.
Power supplies are rarely the main source of noise in a PC
I guess I'm special. Anyway, I wasn't comparing my PC to other PCs, it's much quieter, I was comparing it to my VCR, running at night, in my bedroom.
For the record I also purchased a Zalman 6000-series heatsink, but the CPU socket is too close to the power supply and the damn thing doesn't fit. If anyone can point me to a hifi component-style black case that has room for 4 5.25" drives and has the power supply a decent distance away from the CPU, please post a URL.
I've got one of those old USB1.1 WinTV-USB devices kicking around somewhere. What's particularly surprising is that despite the low bitrate of the old USB standard, if you throw a lot of CPU time at it, the picture is quite smooth. Given that I bought a DTV-only PCI card, I should get the old Hauppauge up and running again.
Is "VisionPlus" or "VisionDTV" Leadtek? The software for my card is flakey as hell. Luckily the point wasn't to turn my TV into a TiVo, but to keep an eye on digital TV in Australia to see when it gets to a point worth buying something decent to watch it with.
I bought a fairly cheap digital TV tuner/capture card not for the TiVo thing, but simply because at ~A$150 it was the cheapest and easiest way to sample digital TV here in Australia. I got two bits of info out of the purchase:
Digital TV in Australia isn't worth bothering about.
A VCR is still easier to tape Angel with than some sort of digital system.
My PC, while it has a Zalman NR power supply is still much noisier than a VCR, and the software that came with my cheap digital card isn't the world's most stable -- playback is okay, recording typically causes it to crash.
Scrolling up and down a page using a scroll wheel is hardly a chore, but an example of why I don't have things maximised would be that if I had when I made my last post I wouldn't have been able to read the window width off the photoshop pallet while I wrote the post. How do you reference one window while you work on another?
At home I have 1280x960, at work I have everything from 800x600 to 1400x1050. However, I rarely have my browser window wider than 900 pixels. This browser window I'm using right now is 875 pixels wide. When I'm web surfing it is rarely the only thing I'm doing, don't make me use up the whole screen.
Damn straight. I forwarded all my old email (minus most attachments) up to GMail and "You are currently using 139 MB (14%) of your 1000 MB". 100MB is nothing.
I use a filtering proxy, so I can even do it with IE. (Though I don't, I power up an unfiltered IE whenever a trustworthy site that I have to use is doing something stupid with javascript or whatever and my Proxomitron/Mozilla combo breaks it.)
While it's already been pointed out that your power consumption numbers are way off, you're headed in the right direction if you think of the number of available drive bays in a PC. Now, much as I'd like to build a terrabyte firewire enclosure, when it comes to cost effectiveness, I'm going to want to fill the inside of my PC with drives first, before I go to the expense of external boxes and the inconvenience of the extra power points they need. I have two HDDs in my main PC, a 40 Gig and an 80Gig. They're a waste of space. I've got physical room for two more drives, but probably only the heat dissipation capacity for one more. Buggered if that's going to be some pissy little sub-100Gig drive. My spare PC is even less impressive when you look at it's existing drives, but at least it has room for three or four more. If I can get hold of a nice firewire-2-IDE adapter I should be able to get a terrabyte of storage on my home network by the end of the year, but not if I do it with tiny little drives, no matter how cheap per GB they are.
The nytimes is easy, just use a filter so that your referrer URL isn't the automatic registration site (mine is always the page I'm trying to view) and automatic registration works great.
I put "krishaven@dodgeit.com" on my tiny personal website in my little corner of the world. The first spam arrived in a week. The next half dozen arrived over the next month. I have since removed the address from the website and it looks like spam is arriving at the rate of roughly one a day, on average. After this post it will probably get 30-40 a day.
Good point about the problem of abandoned accounts, which won't bring Google any ad revenue. Wouldn't be surprised if they start euthanizing inactive accounts
Why?
CPU time is just as cheap and decent compression will make short work of inactive accounts. You'd have to fill your Gig with compressed attachments to prevent a nice archival system from making you inconsequential.
They're the only ones I would think would consider a job lot like this. Few collectors have the money or the space and there's too many duplicate things for a museum to be interested. This will have to go to a funky, slightly retro, video game store to be broken up and sold.
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I don't like contact sports, but I don't see the people that run football thinking of recruiting managers that don't like it in order to attract me.
The first thing I did when Blaster started doing the rounds was put DCOMbobulator in the login script -- bought me more than enough time to get patches in place.
At work we're NATed, at home I've got XP's Internet connection sharing plus an ADSL NAT router WiFi access point four port switch just waiting for the time I can finally find a decent ADSL service. I'd never give an unpatched PC a live IP address, Windows or Linux.
What's really odd is that the OS can support losing access to the MMC while running because that's what happens when you plug in the USB cable.
The loading times issue is actually quite interesting. In order to save money on the MMC card, some games are compressed. Sonic N loads straight away, it's not compressed. Tomb Raider and Pandemonium have loading times, they are compressed -- to just below 8MB if memory serves. If you compare the loading times of, say, TR to Crazy Taxi on the GBA (which is quite a technical marvel), they are roughly the same.
(...unless their DVD player is a PS2, but that's not the fault of this device...)
I'll try screwing with the settings this evening.
My rig is: PC with PCI DTV tuner card and Soundblaster Audigy 2 connected to Yamaha Dolby Pro Logic surround sound receiver (center, left, right, surround). It's not the latest and greatest, but I think I can use it to determine that the sound quality of the HD stream is much worse than the SD stream.
For the record I also purchased a Zalman 6000-series heatsink, but the CPU socket is too close to the power supply and the damn thing doesn't fit. If anyone can point me to a hifi component-style black case that has room for 4 5.25" drives and has the power supply a decent distance away from the CPU, please post a URL.
Digital TV Australia: Still nothing on, but it looks so much better.
I've got one of those old USB1.1 WinTV-USB devices kicking around somewhere. What's particularly surprising is that despite the low bitrate of the old USB standard, if you throw a lot of CPU time at it, the picture is quite smooth. Given that I bought a DTV-only PCI card, I should get the old Hauppauge up and running again.
Is "VisionPlus" or "VisionDTV" Leadtek? The software for my card is flakey as hell. Luckily the point wasn't to turn my TV into a TiVo, but to keep an eye on digital TV in Australia to see when it gets to a point worth buying something decent to watch it with.
- Digital TV in Australia isn't worth bothering about.
- A VCR is still easier to tape Angel with than some sort of digital system.
My PC, while it has a Zalman NR power supply is still much noisier than a VCR, and the software that came with my cheap digital card isn't the world's most stable -- playback is okay, recording typically causes it to crash.Yeah, at least setup a spamgourmet alias account to try and earn some street cred again.
Scrolling up and down a page using a scroll wheel is hardly a chore, but an example of why I don't have things maximised would be that if I had when I made my last post I wouldn't have been able to read the window width off the photoshop pallet while I wrote the post. How do you reference one window while you work on another?
At home I have 1280x960, at work I have everything from 800x600 to 1400x1050. However, I rarely have my browser window wider than 900 pixels. This browser window I'm using right now is 875 pixels wide. When I'm web surfing it is rarely the only thing I'm doing, don't make me use up the whole screen.
Damn straight. I forwarded all my old email (minus most attachments) up to GMail and "You are currently using 139 MB (14%) of your 1000 MB". 100MB is nothing.
Looks like someone needs their ass put on everyone's ignore list. Penalty box, 5 weeks.
I use a filtering proxy, so I can even do it with IE. (Though I don't, I power up an unfiltered IE whenever a trustworthy site that I have to use is doing something stupid with javascript or whatever and my Proxomitron/Mozilla combo breaks it.)
While it's already been pointed out that your power consumption numbers are way off, you're headed in the right direction if you think of the number of available drive bays in a PC. Now, much as I'd like to build a terrabyte firewire enclosure, when it comes to cost effectiveness, I'm going to want to fill the inside of my PC with drives first, before I go to the expense of external boxes and the inconvenience of the extra power points they need. I have two HDDs in my main PC, a 40 Gig and an 80Gig. They're a waste of space. I've got physical room for two more drives, but probably only the heat dissipation capacity for one more. Buggered if that's going to be some pissy little sub-100Gig drive. My spare PC is even less impressive when you look at it's existing drives, but at least it has room for three or four more. If I can get hold of a nice firewire-2-IDE adapter I should be able to get a terrabyte of storage on my home network by the end of the year, but not if I do it with tiny little drives, no matter how cheap per GB they are.
The nytimes is easy, just use a filter so that your referrer URL isn't the automatic registration site (mine is always the page I'm trying to view) and automatic registration works great.
I put "krishaven@dodgeit.com" on my tiny personal website in my little corner of the world. The first spam arrived in a week. The next half dozen arrived over the next month. I have since removed the address from the website and it looks like spam is arriving at the rate of roughly one a day, on average. After this post it will probably get 30-40 a day.
I recommend the phpBB software, particularly if you're already thinking BBS.
CPU time is just as cheap and decent compression will make short work of inactive accounts. You'd have to fill your Gig with compressed attachments to prevent a nice archival system from making you inconsequential.
They're the only ones I would think would consider a job lot like this. Few collectors have the money or the space and there's too many duplicate things for a museum to be interested. This will have to go to a funky, slightly retro, video game store to be broken up and sold.