400 HP with a mouse is good but any rs or yenco ( giving my age there way ) chevy would leave that behind.
Yeah, but the camaros wouldn't even start to approach the 25MPG my caprice was getting...:) I didn't build it to be a balls-out racing machine, I built it to be relatively cheap. Besides that, yencos were almost all rats (the chevelles and the camaros). I'll ignore the part about "any RS", 'cause I know darn well that most of them weren't factory rated at 1HP/cid or better... Not that I wouldn't trade my caprice for a first generation camaro (or even better, a '70 LS6 anything) in a heartbeat despite that.;)
It's OK though, the cars I've had and sold through the years tend to get faster and faster as time goes by too.:)
While you will never be able to make your 4-cylider neon even think about touching a stock viper (or any other "real" car), the point is good. The original poster should've said something more along the lines of hopping up a tahoe to get escalade quality - the parts difference to get the upgrade doesn't justify the results. Meanwhile, I'm considering buying a Ford Focus exactly because it's a cheap, upgradeable entry point that can be a lot of fun for a lot less money than other fun cars. That's teh same reason that all of my computers (and cars) are overclocked. It's a cheaper way to enter, and tehn I spend a little time making something that I like and can have fun with. There just isn't the same satisfaction from throwing a pile of money at something.
For the record, I've also got an '80 caprice and a '75 El Camino that both have 400+ HP 350s, and a full-size truck with a moderate 454, so I don't really qualify as a rice boy (they've all got steel wheels and no more than 2-color paint jobs) yet...:)
My linux mp3 player is up and playing mp3s in roughly 15 seconds on a cyrix MX2-300 underclocked to 233 (crappy damned hot cyrix chips), so you don't really need BeOS to do that... When I get some more time I'll finish up the distribution so others can use it. It relies on teh Matrix Orbital 20x4 Vacuum Fluorescent display with teh built-in keypad interface. You might look into that, since you just establish regular old serial communication with the display and either write letters or read keypresses (handles up to 5x5 matrix-format keypads, mine's hooked up to an old AM radio with roller switches on what used to be the big old preset buttons).
Regarding the inverter - I use a 300W Whistler inverter (about $60 or so) so I can run a small monitor off of it too. I'd use a DC-DC converter next time, the inversion/conversion is *really* wasteful.
Drop me an email at cdproject @@ dannysauer.com if you wanna know more, or whatever. I'd love to talk with someone about it.:)
Furthermore, you can't run NFS of a ReiserFS partition yet
I could swear that I was sharing a couple of ReiserFS volumes over NFS last summer... Yeah, I must've, because the whole lab ran exclusively Reiser (installed with SuSE). NFS doesn't care what file system is below it, it's a user-space thing (except when it's a kernel-space thing, in which case it still shouldn't even know what FS is underneath it).
See where is says "editor not installed" or something like that at the bottom of the screen? You need to install a program (the one linked to), restart your browser, then try editing again.
That's the "windows-only" part.:( It does, however, work with NN 4.75 and IE 5.5 on my work machine. It doesn't generate the pretty code that I'd like, though, and isn't flexible enough for my company's needs, but is somewhat cool just the same.
I remember when I was in school, programming my Commodore 64, and the joy was in just how primitive it all was. Just typing in those BASIC commands, waiting while that tape drive chugged away - that was half the fun of it. It's all fast food, fast cars, fast living, and it's not good for us
There were fast cars long before anyone threw their piece of crap Commodore64 in the trash because of its infuriatingly slow tape drive. Overclockers did not invent hot rodding, although the reverse could potentially be true...:) I know that *I* was trying to make my lawnmower go faster before I tried to make my computer faster...
The router machine on my desk has 16MB RAM, and no swap. The filesystem is on/dev/ramfs. It has several MB free.
The PC under my desk has 256MB. With WYSIWYG word processing, web browsing, email reading, text editing, and web servging applications running, it still has 150MB free.
256MB is *not* too "little" for "most applications", just like cars without V10s are not always "underpowered". But then, my personal car and my personal computer certainly don't reflect that minimalist approach.;)
Have you not seen the new G4 Cubes? A well-designed case and a well-designed microprocessor == fans suck.
Yeah, I've got a 486 SX2/25 Overdrive chip insde of a shoebox that doesn't overheat either, but it's got exactly nothing to do with good design.:) Neither that nor the G4 is even 1/2 the clock speed of the newest chips from AMD or Intel, nor is it as popular.
That said, I want a dual G4 system. With fans. Big ol' quiet patented Sunon fans, 'cause sunon fans are really quite good fans.
You would be foolish to use an external, lower bandwidth, more expensive interface that had to go through a swapping algorithm just to add more memory. It would make a lot more sense to just spend the 15 grand on big-ass DIMMs and a motherboard that can take them...
But then again, it prolly would be good for swap, albeit a wasteful kind of good.:)
I agree - Postfix is awesome. It's compatable with programs that do stupid things like running sendmail directly (postfix installs a binary called "sendmail" for that purpose), and is dead easy to configure. I ran sendmail for a couple of years without knowing exactly what lal of the stuff did. Then I needed to change something, and did - I went to postfix. It's running a 12,000 student email system right now with cyrus IMAP (using maildir on a reiserFS RAID) using IMP for web access, and the system just barely knows stuff's there. Try getting sendmail to deliver to maildir boxes while looking up names from LDAP - tain't gonna happen easily...
Only if you erase and reinstall Mathematica. The licensing scheme is asinine, but it's not that asinine.
Actually, it didn't require an erase/reinstall - the reg number was calculated from the PCI devices or something like that (so I heard). I swapped out a couple of cards and had to re-register once (but swapped cards around other times with no ill effects). Shoud've just made friends with someone that worked there or something, after all of the times I had to reregister (and pay a whole $5 less than full retail for an incremental upgrade)... </RANT>)
Wolfram did this with Mathematica, IIRC. You had to send in a new mathId to get a new serial number (or whatever they called them) every time you'd muck with your machine. I don't run Mathematica anymore.
Given that windows feels a need to reinstall the drivers for my network card when I just move it to a different slot (in the same machine), I wonder how effective their machine identification will be...
I couldn't find anything that was "heavily" mac-centric there (which is a fan-run site, BTW). His Real World Multimedia company makes products for Mac 68K, MacPPC, Win 3.1, Win 95, and Win 98 - so it really looks like he at least kinda supports both popular architectures... The petergabriel.com site has some VBscript in it, and I'm pretty sure that's not a Mac friendly thing either.
However, I'd like to be corrected if I'm mistaken.:)
I suppose it *is* a nuiscance to have almost all of the software I'll want conveniently located on a CD and pre-compiled + configured for my system. No, wait, that's a *nice* thing.
I could've sworn that the user had a choice of what to install when they set up a machine, unlike windows - where just installing the OS with none of those options is freaking huge.
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Actually, a similar mistake would be to spell it Cmdr. "Toco", which would be more annoying than the burrito thing, IMHO.
Holy crap, that's neat.
BusyBox rocks. It just rocks.
Because Access spontaneously loses rows. http://odyssey.apana.org.au/~abrowne/BugBookmark.h tml
is one example, I can't find the other one real quickly... Access is an OK front-end, but a poop back end.
Home network + not large home = router on desk instead of in kitchen or behind toilet
At work, it's under my desk so I can work with it without having to get up and walk down to the wiring closet or open an ssh session. :)
Yeah, but the camaros wouldn't even start to approach the 25MPG my caprice was getting... :) I didn't build it to be a balls-out racing machine, I built it to be relatively cheap. Besides that, yencos were almost all rats (the chevelles and the camaros). I'll ignore the part about "any RS", 'cause I know darn well that most of them weren't factory rated at 1HP/cid or better... Not that I wouldn't trade my caprice for a first generation camaro (or even better, a '70 LS6 anything) in a heartbeat despite that. ;)
It's OK though, the cars I've had and sold through the years tend to get faster and faster as time goes by too. :)
For the record, I've also got an '80 caprice and a '75 El Camino that both have 400+ HP 350s, and a full-size truck with a moderate 454, so I don't really qualify as a rice boy (they've all got steel wheels and no more than 2-color paint jobs) yet... :)
Granted this is a bit off-topic, but:
:)
My linux mp3 player is up and playing mp3s in roughly 15 seconds on a cyrix MX2-300 underclocked to 233 (crappy damned hot cyrix chips), so you don't really need BeOS to do that... When I get some more time I'll finish up the distribution so others can use it. It relies on teh Matrix Orbital 20x4 Vacuum Fluorescent display with teh built-in keypad interface. You might look into that, since you just establish regular old serial communication with the display and either write letters or read keypresses (handles up to 5x5 matrix-format keypads, mine's hooked up to an old AM radio with roller switches on what used to be the big old preset buttons).
Regarding the inverter - I use a 300W Whistler inverter (about $60 or so) so I can run a small monitor off of it too. I'd use a DC-DC converter next time, the inversion/conversion is *really* wasteful.
Drop me an email at cdproject @@ dannysauer.com if you wanna know more, or whatever. I'd love to talk with someone about it.
Doh. I seem to have forgotten about ""
/comments.pl in order to allow everyone to have a fair chance to post.
BTW, what's up with this:
Slow down cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait 1 minute between each submission of
It's been 1 minute since your last submission!
Furthermore, you can't run NFS of a ReiserFS partition yet
I could swear that I was sharing a couple of ReiserFS volumes over NFS last summer... Yeah, I must've, because the whole lab ran exclusively Reiser (installed with SuSE). NFS doesn't care what file system is below it, it's a user-space thing (except when it's a kernel-space thing, in which case it still shouldn't even know what FS is underneath it).
See where is says "editor not installed" or something like that at the bottom of the screen? You need to install a program (the one linked to), restart your browser, then try editing again.
:( It does, however, work with NN 4.75 and IE 5.5 on my work machine. It doesn't generate the pretty code that I'd like, though, and isn't flexible enough for my company's needs, but is somewhat cool just the same.
That's the "windows-only" part.
It's all fast food, fast cars, fast living, and it's not good for us
There were fast cars long before anyone threw their piece of crap Commodore64 in the trash because of its infuriatingly slow tape drive. Overclockers did not invent hot rodding, although the reverse could potentially be true... :) I know that *I* was trying to make my lawnmower go faster before I tried to make my computer faster...
The router machine on my desk has 16MB RAM, and no swap. The filesystem is on /dev/ramfs. It has several MB free.
The PC under my desk has 256MB. With WYSIWYG word processing, web browsing, email reading, text editing, and web servging applications running, it still has 150MB free.
256MB is *not* too "little" for "most applications", just like cars without V10s are not always "underpowered". But then, my personal car and my personal computer certainly don't reflect that minimalist approach. ;)
Have you not seen the new G4 Cubes? A well-designed case and a well-designed microprocessor == fans suck.
:) Neither that nor the G4 is even 1/2 the clock speed of the newest chips from AMD or Intel, nor is it as popular.
Yeah, I've got a 486 SX2/25 Overdrive chip insde of a shoebox that doesn't overheat either, but it's got exactly nothing to do with good design.
That said, I want a dual G4 system. With fans. Big ol' quiet patented Sunon fans, 'cause sunon fans are really quite good fans.
You would be foolish to use an external, lower bandwidth, more expensive interface that had to go through a swapping algorithm just to add more memory. It would make a lot more sense to just spend the 15 grand on big-ass DIMMs and a motherboard that can take them...
:)
But then again, it prolly would be good for swap, albeit a wasteful kind of good.
The Security Focus article at http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.htm l?id=143 and slashdot article at http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/25/134321 8&mode=thread tell about what happened fairly well.
I just checked to see if it was still there, but unfortunately, my observation destroyed it.
"924-mm4!" eh? I don't think I have any slots that accomodate a four-dimensional video card.
I agree - Postfix is awesome. It's compatable with programs that do stupid things like running sendmail directly (postfix installs a binary called "sendmail" for that purpose), and is dead easy to configure. I ran sendmail for a couple of years without knowing exactly what lal of the stuff did. Then I needed to change something, and did - I went to postfix. It's running a 12,000 student email system right now with cyrus IMAP (using maildir on a reiserFS RAID) using IMP for web access, and the system just barely knows stuff's there. Try getting sendmail to deliver to maildir boxes while looking up names from LDAP - tain't gonna happen easily...
Yeah, but only if you're reading slashdot from your firewall host (the OUTPUT chain only filters locally generated packets)...
Only if you erase and reinstall Mathematica. The licensing scheme is asinine, but it's not that asinine. ;)
Actually, it didn't require an erase/reinstall - the reg number was calculated from the PCI devices or something like that (so I heard). I swapped out a couple of cards and had to re-register once (but swapped cards around other times with no ill effects). Shoud've just made friends with someone that worked there or something, after all of the times I had to reregister (and pay a whole $5 less than full retail for an incremental upgrade)... </RANT>
Wolfram did this with Mathematica, IIRC. You had to send in a new mathId to get a new serial number (or whatever they called them) every time you'd muck with your machine. I don't run Mathematica anymore.
Given that windows feels a need to reinstall the drivers for my network card when I just move it to a different slot (in the same machine), I wonder how effective their machine identification will be...
However, I'd like to be corrected if I'm mistaken. :)
I suppose it *is* a nuiscance to have almost all of the software I'll want conveniently located on a CD and pre-compiled + configured for my system. No, wait, that's a *nice* thing.
I could've sworn that the user had a choice of what to install when they set up a machine, unlike windows - where just installing the OS with none of those options is freaking huge.
At least one of us.