If you like this article and you also like the NFL (American Football) then you may like his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column on nfl.com that he contributes during the regular season. His articles are NFL related but have a touch of science and math to them. They are also generally fun to read.
I suggest looking for independent theaters where you live. Here in Pittsburgh, we have The Oaks Theater. This weekend they're showing Back to the Future for $5 and their snacks are reasonably priced!
A friend of mine went to the Microsoft job fair booth with a hand-scribbled resume on notebook paper. In the "objectives" section he wrote "to get free stuff." As a joke, he gave it to them and took the available booth swag.
He says that he used two wires for each power connection to ensure that it could carry enough current. Does this actually work? Doesn't electricity take the shortest path thus overloading the wire with the least resistance?
I'm surprised that more comics don't do this where the author of Sam and Fuzzy states that he has a buffer of about 22 comics so he never misses an update.
Of course, he only updates MWF so he's not eligible for the pool.
Maybe this one won't require a new motherboard to use. I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.
An alternative to buying a new motherboard is to just buy a PCI IDE controller. The only reason for the upgrade is so that enough bits are used to address all of the sectors on the disk; the interface otherwise doesn't change. In fact, new hard disks sometimes come with controller cards in a bundle if you're too cheap to pay the $20. I'm currently running a pair of 40 GB drives on a Pentium 90 system.
My first real exposure to technology was in the form of a Radio Shack 200 in 1 kit. These are those kits where electronic components' terminals are attached to springs to allow for the experimenter to rewire them as per the instruction booklet. My friend encouraged me to try connecting parts randomly to see if I could make something happen. Of course I couldn't get it to do anything, but the experience piqued my interest in tinkering with things. As my upbringing was not conductive to.. let's say.. education, I turned to computer programming since the Internet had tutorials that I could read.
No mention is made of what happens when a brick in the middle of the cube needs to be replaced and the whole thing needs to be disassembled
IIRC, their idea is that when a brick dies, you just leave it there. Imagine a big room as a circle. You build bricks around the circle starting in one corner of the room. As you "upgrade", you stick new bricks on to one end. If a brick dies, screw it, just stick another one on at the end if you need it. When you run out of space at the end of the circle, you start dismantling the old obsolete (and possibly dead) bricks from the starting end and add the new snazzy bricks onto the end.
It's pretty sweet, and that ignores the watercooling channels that require special plumbing:)
I have some experience with watercooling. With proper care, it's safe and a quiet way to cool your machine. For those of you who move your computers around though, becareful what materials you use. I built my computer in a warm dorm room which meant that my copper block to plastic piping worked fine. Then I took it home to my freezing basement and water went everywhere. I think the metal shrank while the plastic didn't, and water came out of the connections.
Other than that I never had any problems. I don't use it anymore because it's too heavy to carry around all of the time.
Here's a half-baked log analyzer that I wrote in a weekend. It works with GAIM log files for the AIM protocol format up to about version.72 (I run it on.59.9, the last GTK 1 version).
Here is an example of its output on my primary username.
Re:One of the saddest things I'v ever read.
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My professor stated this only works for small height values (less than 20 ft), otherwise, the acceleration due to gravity might result in an unpleasant aftermath.
Your professor has obviously never seen the NINJA KITTY!!! http://www.potgut.com/videos/flyingcat.m peg
Here are some other cool CPU reference sites: www.sandpile.org Sandpile lists electrical specs for lots of CPUs and has links to lots of CPU documents.
http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm Lots of info here about pinouts and electrical specs. I like this one because it lists the initial selling price for the CPUs as well.
I accidentally spilled a drink onto my laptop's keyboard where it drained into the laptop's innards, ruining the motherboard, CD-ROM, and hard drive.
I spilled Sprite on my Thinkpad X30, down the left side of the keyboard. It stopped booting, and I started to panic but then I washed it in the sink and it worked again (completely true.. washes the crap off of the motherboard. AFIK this works for mechanical things too. You should use distilled water so that minerals don't get deposited)
Having 2 GPUs on one card doesn't do anything. Remember 3DFX's Voodoo 5 and 6? How about the ATI Rage Fury MAXX? Multiple GPUs are starved by lack of memory bandwidth
How weird is it to go to the site, read the text, then watch the movie, only to see some very familiar backgrounds. I then looked at the url and realized that it is from the same school I go to. No wonder the download was so fast:)
About a month ago, all of the National City ATMs in Pittsburgh (where CMU is) got switched from ancient working machines to snazzy new Diebold touch screens. Aside from the one playing Beethoven, there has been at least another one that BSOD'd.
The one on this article was funny and everything until that night when I remembered that I have my life savings in National City.
I stopped at some competing banks in the area on Thursday to get some pamphlets and I will be switching banks on Monday.
When I was in middle school I came across an old cheapo 9.6v R/C truck. I took the wires off of the motor and wired it to a homebuilt relay that I made out of a small motor and some aluminum foil (motor comes on, foil on the arm spins and makes contact to more foil, completing the circut. Reverse to stop). Through the relay I connected 2 more 9.6v batteries directly to the motor.
Holy shit that thing was fast. It didn't last very long, was not wired to go backwards, and couldn't turn without flipping over, and took 3 battery packs, but it was fast!
Furthermore, you can visit their forum. No replies yet as of this posting. Somebody should write a well thought retort.
"Think Russell is dead wrong? How does the open source community prevent against the issues raised in this opinion? Tell us in the Talk to the Editors discussion forum."
Using a flash card would be worse than a disk. Sure it has access times an order of magnitude faster than a hard disk (200ns according to the first google hit for "compact flash access time") but bandwidth sucks at less than 20MB/s while cheap desktop drives are getting between 30-60 sustained (tom's hardware review of Seagate Baracudda 7200.7)
Furthermore since flash has limited flash cycles that is much less than that of a hard drive, your/tmp directory will have you buying a new card in no time.
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I made some contemporary art out of my old hard drives:
http://polynomial.org/disc_wall2.jpg
If you like this article and you also like the NFL (American Football) then you may like his "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column on nfl.com that he contributes during the regular season. His articles are NFL related but have a touch of science and math to them. They are also generally fun to read.
I suggest looking for independent theaters where you live. Here in Pittsburgh, we have The Oaks Theater. This weekend they're showing Back to the Future for $5 and their snacks are reasonably priced!
A friend of mine went to the Microsoft job fair booth with a hand-scribbled resume on notebook paper. In the "objectives" section he wrote "to get free stuff." As a joke, he gave it to them and took the available booth swag.
He got an email asking for an interview.
Why not just refil your cartridges with deoderant? The cartridge isn't empty, it's just dried out.
(Link not entirely SFW)
He says that he used two wires for each power connection to ensure that it could carry enough current. Does this actually work? Doesn't electricity take the shortest path thus overloading the wire with the least resistance?
I'm surprised that more comics don't do this where the author of Sam and Fuzzy states that he has a buffer of about 22 comics so he never misses an update.
Of course, he only updates MWF so he's not eligible for the pool.
Maybe this one won't require a new motherboard to use. I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.
An alternative to buying a new motherboard is to just buy a PCI IDE controller. The only reason for the upgrade is so that enough bits are used to address all of the sectors on the disk; the interface otherwise doesn't change. In fact, new hard disks sometimes come with controller cards in a bundle if you're too cheap to pay the $20. I'm currently running a pair of 40 GB drives on a Pentium 90 system.
My first real exposure to technology was in the form of a Radio Shack 200 in 1 kit. These are those kits where electronic components' terminals are attached to springs to allow for the experimenter to rewire them as per the instruction booklet. My friend encouraged me to try connecting parts randomly to see if I could make something happen. Of course I couldn't get it to do anything, but the experience piqued my interest in tinkering with things. As my upbringing was not conductive to.. let's say.. education, I turned to computer programming since the Internet had tutorials that I could read.
No mention is made of what happens when a brick in the middle of the cube needs to be replaced and the whole thing needs to be disassembled
:)
IIRC, their idea is that when a brick dies, you just leave it there. Imagine a big room as a circle. You build bricks around the circle starting in one corner of the room. As you "upgrade", you stick new bricks on to one end. If a brick dies, screw it, just stick another one on at the end if you need it. When you run out of space at the end of the circle, you start dismantling the old obsolete (and possibly dead) bricks from the starting end and add the new snazzy bricks onto the end.
It's pretty sweet, and that ignores the watercooling channels that require special plumbing
A .5cm 40GB drive is going to cost more than a .8cm sized 40GB drive, so your argument against the cost of moving to the 80GB drive is not very fair.
I have some experience with watercooling. With proper care, it's safe and a quiet way to cool your machine. For those of you who move your computers around though, becareful what materials you use. I built my computer in a warm dorm room which meant that my copper block to plastic piping worked fine. Then I took it home to my freezing basement and water went everywhere. I think the metal shrank while the plastic didn't, and water came out of the connections.
Other than that I never had any problems. I don't use it anymore because it's too heavy to carry around all of the time.
Here's a half-baked log analyzer that I wrote in a weekend. It works with GAIM log files for the AIM protocol format up to about version .72 (I run it on .59.9, the last GTK 1 version).
Here is an example of its output on my primary username.
Here's a pic of the boyfriend arm pillow
I listen to Nintendo remixes. The songs are memorable and catchy, and most of them don't have lyrics so I can concentrate on my work.
My professor stated this only works for small height values (less than 20 ft), otherwise, the acceleration due to gravity might result in an unpleasant aftermath.
m peg
Your professor has obviously never seen the NINJA KITTY!!!
http://www.potgut.com/videos/flyingcat.
Here are some other cool CPU reference sites:
www.sandpile.org
Sandpile lists electrical specs for lots of CPUs and has links to lots of CPU documents.
http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm
Lots of info here about pinouts and electrical specs. I like this one because it lists the initial selling price for the CPUs as well.
I accidentally spilled a drink onto my laptop's keyboard where it drained into the laptop's innards, ruining the motherboard, CD-ROM, and hard drive.
I spilled Sprite on my Thinkpad X30, down the left side of the keyboard. It stopped booting, and I started to panic but then I washed it in the sink and it worked again (completely true.. washes the crap off of the motherboard. AFIK this works for mechanical things too. You should use distilled water so that minerals don't get deposited)
picture
Having 2 GPUs on one card doesn't do anything. Remember 3DFX's Voodoo 5 and 6? How about the ATI Rage Fury MAXX? Multiple GPUs are starved by lack of memory bandwidth
How weird is it to go to the site, read the text, then watch the movie, only to see some very familiar backgrounds. I then looked at the url and realized that it is from the same school I go to. No wonder the download was so fast :)
That's ok though. amyhughes says we spend over half of our free time watching TV, but I troll Slashdot from work :)
About a month ago, all of the National City ATMs in Pittsburgh (where CMU is) got switched from ancient working machines to snazzy new Diebold touch screens. Aside from the one playing Beethoven, there has been at least another one that BSOD'd.
The one on this article was funny and everything until that night when I remembered that I have my life savings in National City.
I stopped at some competing banks in the area on Thursday to get some pamphlets and I will be switching banks on Monday.
When I was in middle school I came across an old cheapo 9.6v R/C truck. I took the wires off of the motor and wired it to a homebuilt relay that I made out of a small motor and some aluminum foil (motor comes on, foil on the arm spins and makes contact to more foil, completing the circut. Reverse to stop). Through the relay I connected 2 more 9.6v batteries directly to the motor.
Holy shit that thing was fast. It didn't last very long, was not wired to go backwards, and couldn't turn without flipping over, and took 3 battery packs, but it was fast!
Furthermore, you can visit their
forum. No replies yet as of this posting. Somebody should write a well thought retort.
"Think Russell is dead wrong? How does the open source community prevent against the issues raised in this opinion? Tell us in the Talk to the Editors discussion forum."
Using a flash card would be worse than a disk. Sure it has access times an order of magnitude faster than a hard disk (200ns according to the first google hit for "compact flash access time") but bandwidth sucks at less than 20MB/s while cheap desktop drives are getting between 30-60 sustained (tom's hardware review of Seagate Baracudda 7200.7)
/tmp directory will have you buying a new card in no time.
Furthermore since flash has limited flash cycles that is much less than that of a hard drive, your