When I was in college, I hit the MSU Salvage Yard (Located here) every couple of weeks.
I've seen everything from (lots of ) lab equipment, to a PDP-11, to the old clock from the campus belltower, to whole pallets of workstations for sale there over the years.
I still try to swing by there a couple of times a year, to see if there is anything really really cool lying around.
While it may be a long trip for many people, check with large schools near you to see if they have public sales of stuff that was lying around.
I wonder what Visa will do when you dispute a $100 charge on your credit card.
After you dispute the charge, MLB sends some "Customer Service Technicians" over to your house to give you a personal "Batting Demonstration" as part of the process to make sure that you are being "Serviced" to the extent that they wish.
The time when I was most productive, was when I had my main workstation in a basement room with a fireplace.
The flickering light of the fire mixing with the glow of the screen was very relaxing, and I was able to work long hours, getting a lot done and still feel relaxed.
Plus, when I got stuck, I could poke the fire, throw another log on it, or go split some wood, taking my mind off of the problem for a while.
Sounds to me like someone decided to save a bit of money by not buying the Online JFS package.
It's under $2k per CPU - not bad when you look at the price of the hardware.
Of course if you have online JFS you probably also want mirrordisk/ux which is another $1k per CPU.
But, if you are using Service Guard, you already have both of these, and probably went for the Mission Critical Operating Enviroment package that has all of the optional packages (online JFS, mirrordisk, service guard, EMS, glance+, etc..) bundled with it for a mere $10k per CPU.
If you're spending a million+ on hardware for one server, a couple of hundred thousand for the OS is not that much more.
There are a few reasons why you might want to use HPUX:
HPUX's LVM subsystem may take a few minutes to figure out, but it is pretty much bulletproof.
ServiceGuard may be a little simplistic, but it does the job quite well, and if something goes wrong, it is easy to fix because it is so simple.
Superdomes kick the ass of just about every other server out there in many different ways (I love the GSP).
IMHO HP's highest level support does a far better job than Sun's or SGI's or IBM's highest levels of support. I'd much rather deal with HP BCS than any other support service.
Also, why do you think a lot of early languages had line numbers? With one line per card, if you dropped the deck you could just sort on the line numbers and get it back.
I used to have a weird faint sound just on the edge of hearing show up, not when I was moving windows around but when I was sending packets over the network.
Whenever there was a lot of network activity, If everything was quiet, I could hear a faint sound.
I assumed it was just a cap vibrating in my cheap ethernet card, and swapped it out for a better one (when I finally switched away from 10b2).
It would be cool if the software for the ogg vorbis portable player(s) would automatically peel files transferred to the player down to n kbps to save space, while the original high quality one stayed on main computer.
That sounds almost exactly like what QDX was designed to accomplish.
I wonder which one maintains a higher quality stream after being pealed down...
Am I the only one that has all of the mailing lists I subscribe to bypass SpamAssassin?
For each mailing list I subscribe to, I use a special address suffix just for that list, that bypasses all of my spam checks (including SpamAssassin ), and just goes right into the mailbox that I use for that mailing list.
No problems with false positives, and it saves me the overhead or running SpamAssassin on every incoming message from a busy list.
it just seems like common sense, no one should have a problem with SpamAssassin misclassifying incoming newsletters if they just think about how they organize their email.
One rules.ini tweak my friends and I used to do is to but rockets on the ore harvesters.
The thing was, once a harvester launched it's rockets once, it would forget how to harvest.
While they kicked butt as offensive weapons, if one unit made it within range of all of your harvesters, and they shot at it, your money supply was gone...
Eat Food - Well, you can't download a hot dog, but you can find things to make eating more pleasant or order food online.
Breathe Air - You could suck down the power supply exhaust, but that doesn't really count. You can however check to see if you can breathe when you go outside.
Sex - Technology has not advanced that far yet, but I've had good luck meeting new people online, then meeting up with them in person.
Ride a bicycle - Buy parts, plan routes, get maps, etc..
Walk through the woods - here you go - it's a QTVR I made a couple of years ago of a walk along a creek to the river it joins up with. All kidding aside, this one probably can have the most computer involvement. After all, you want to get topographic maps somewhere, and maybe check out an overhead view of the area you plan on walking through, not to mention sharing details of where you went with friends.
if there's a new Altivec-like chip feature, it'll take a long time for apps to be updated to take advantage of it.
Not really - most apps that are Altivec enhanced use vDSP from the VecLib framework rather than manually writing Altivec code. Apple would just have to provide a new version of the VecLib framework that uses whatever vector processing is available in the new target CPU.
Why the heck would you want to be running a full GUI plus Aqua...
You do realize that booting OSX in text only mode is easy - just edit/etc/ttys and comment out the line that starts: console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/ Contents/MacOS/loginwindow"
and uncomment the line before it that says: #console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
Or, for one time use, enter >console as the user at the log in prompt and no more GUI overhead...
You just have to mount a projector somewhere above you, and aim it down at the counter.
I've seen similar techniques used at museums in the past - the description of what you are looking at fades in on the surface of one of the objects in the display.
I remember the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump in Alberta used projectors like this for a rather cool effect. After you had looked at a scene for a moment, information on it would gradually fade in on the surface of various rocks.
Holes in files are space that has not been allocated.
Most UNIX filesystems support gaps of unallocated space in a file. They can be handy for dumping out memory used by a process, where there might be a couple of megs at data spread over a gigabyte of address space.
The data is at the correct offset in the file, and it only takes up as much space as is actually used.
To create one under FreeBSD, look at the truncate command.
as an example, this command creates a 5 gig file that does not actually take up any disk space beyond one inode: truncate -s +5G foo
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Once I picked up a couple of really cheap no-brand 10/100 cards that had the same MAC address.
No way to change it either - I guess someone missed the point that MACs are supposed to be unique.
When I was in college, I hit the MSU Salvage Yard (Located here) every couple of weeks.
I've seen everything from (lots of ) lab equipment, to a PDP-11, to the old clock from the campus belltower, to whole pallets of workstations for sale there over the years.
I still try to swing by there a couple of times a year, to see if there is anything really really cool lying around.
While it may be a long trip for many people, check with large schools near you to see if they have public sales of stuff that was lying around.
I wonder what Visa will do when you dispute a $100 charge on your credit card.
After you dispute the charge, MLB sends some "Customer Service Technicians" over to your house to give you a personal "Batting Demonstration" as part of the process to make sure that you are being "Serviced" to the extent that they wish.
They use a different code when that block an entire domain so you can ignore that block if you want to.
I don't block on it anyway, I just use it as part of my spamassassin score.
The time when I was most productive, was when I had my main workstation in a basement room with a fireplace.
The flickering light of the fire mixing with the glow of the screen was very relaxing, and I was able to work long hours, getting a lot done and still feel relaxed.
Plus, when I got stuck, I could poke the fire, throw another log on it, or go split some wood, taking my mind off of the problem for a while.
If only we could also have smtp bans for domains that don't have a valid abuse@ address.
Have you checked rfc-ignorant.org?
Sounds to me like someone decided to save a bit of money by not buying the Online JFS package.
It's under $2k per CPU - not bad when you look at the price of the hardware.
Of course if you have online JFS you probably also want mirrordisk/ux which is another $1k per CPU.
But, if you are using Service Guard, you already have both of these, and probably went for the Mission Critical Operating Enviroment package that has all of the optional packages (online JFS, mirrordisk, service guard, EMS, glance+, etc..) bundled with it for a mere $10k per CPU.
If you're spending a million+ on hardware for one server, a couple of hundred thousand for the OS is not that much more.
That's why you print numbers in the corner.
Also, why do you think a lot of early languages had line numbers?
With one line per card, if you dropped the deck you could just sort on the line numbers and get it back.
Freeplay is not royalty free.
There are no up front fees.
They make their money from the ASCAP/BMI/etc.. royalties.
Take a look at their terms of use.
I used to have a weird faint sound just on the edge of hearing show up, not when I was moving windows around but when I was sending packets over the network.
Whenever there was a lot of network activity, If everything was quiet, I could hear a faint sound.
I assumed it was just a cap vibrating in my cheap ethernet card, and swapped it out for a better one (when I finally switched away from 10b2).
The sound went away after that.
It would be cool if the software for the ogg vorbis portable player(s) would automatically peel files transferred to the player down to n kbps to save space, while the original high quality one stayed on main computer.
That sounds almost exactly like what QDX was designed to accomplish.
I wonder which one maintains a higher quality stream after being pealed down...
Unfortunately, at mound that road is known as Metro Parkway.
it's really only known as Big Beaver for the little stretch in troy by I-75.
this map shows both the Metro/Mound intersection, and exit 69 from I75 south onto Big Beaver.
Am I the only one that has all of the mailing lists I subscribe to bypass SpamAssassin?
For each mailing list I subscribe to, I use a special address suffix just for that list, that bypasses all of my spam checks (including SpamAssassin ), and just goes right into the mailbox that I use for that mailing list.
No problems with false positives, and it saves me the overhead or running SpamAssassin on every incoming message from a busy list.
it just seems like common sense, no one should have a problem with SpamAssassin misclassifying incoming newsletters if they just think about how they organize their email.
One rules.ini tweak my friends and I used to do is to but rockets on the ore harvesters.
The thing was, once a harvester launched it's rockets once, it would forget how to harvest.
While they kicked butt as offensive weapons, if one unit made it within range of all of your harvesters, and they shot at it, your money supply was gone...
Eat Food - Well, you can't download a hot dog, but you can find things to make eating more pleasant or order food online.
Breathe Air - You could suck down the power supply exhaust, but that doesn't really count. You can however check to see if you can breathe when you go outside.
Sex - Technology has not advanced that far yet, but I've had good luck meeting new people online, then meeting up with them in person.
Ride a bicycle - Buy parts, plan routes, get maps, etc..
Walk through the woods - here you go - it's a QTVR I made a couple of years ago of a walk along a creek to the river it joins up with. All kidding aside, this one probably can have the most computer involvement. After all, you want to get topographic maps somewhere, and maybe check out an overhead view of the area you plan on walking through, not to mention sharing details of where you went with friends.
if there's a new Altivec-like chip feature, it'll take a long time for apps to be updated to take advantage of it.
Not really - most apps that are Altivec enhanced use vDSP from the VecLib framework rather than manually writing Altivec code.
Apple would just have to provide a new version of the VecLib framework that uses whatever vector processing is available in the new target CPU.
Why the heck would you want to be running a full GUI plus Aqua...
/etc/ttys and comment out the line that starts:
You do realize that booting OSX in text only mode is easy - just edit
console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/ Contents/MacOS/loginwindow"
and uncomment the line before it that says:
#console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
Or, for one time use, enter >console as the user at the log in prompt and no more GUI overhead...
Actually it's even easier than that.
He says he uses windows, and here is the source code for writing a QuickTime player under windows.
You just have to mount a projector somewhere above you, and aim it down at the counter.
I've seen similar techniques used at museums in the past - the description of what you are looking at fades in on the surface of one of the objects in the display.
I remember the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump in Alberta used projectors like this for a rather cool effect.
After you had looked at a scene for a moment, information on it would gradually fade in on the surface of various rocks.
You can download the standalone installer here.
Or you juse download the reference movie.
if it is in XML, you just pick out the real URL.
If it is binary, you run strings on it and pick out the real URL.
Then, unless it is a RTSP URL, you just use curl or wget to download.
Hmmm - the codec is Photo-Jpeg.
Basically a bunch of normal jpegs in sequence, not even Motion-Jpeg. It's about as simple as you can get for a video codec.
I am amazed that mplayer would have trouble with that...
Holes in files are space that has not been allocated.
Most UNIX filesystems support gaps of unallocated space in a file. They can be handy for dumping out memory used by a process, where there might be a couple of megs at data spread over a gigabyte of address space.
The data is at the correct offset in the file, and it only takes up as much space as is actually used.
To create one under FreeBSD, look at the truncate command.
as an example, this command creates a 5 gig file that does not actually take up any disk space beyond one inode:
truncate -s +5G foo