Also, gotta wonder how/if it effects a properly patched windows xp machine and/or vista. I do not update or patch WindowsXP SP2. I do shut down unneeded services, I use SpybotSD to immunize Internet Explorer and I do tweak windows not to do this or that. I use the firewall to control programs, and have no resident virus scanning programs. I never use the Internet Explorer or Outlook.
I use skype every day. Yesterday I have been spammed on pure geek English from my non English speaking friend to open some links like www.fakeit.org/somethig/~blahblah/funny.jpg while he was DND. I know that he would never speak / type to me in English, so it was clearly a virus.
I have fair collection of so called "viruses". I wanted damn copy of it without getting infected. I did try following:
1. download it with flashget. Failed. FlashGet reported that connection has been refused or terminated at the other side or something like that.
2. download the link using the Netscape 8.1.3 ( the last Netscape ). Failed again. Netscape reported that link/site is known malware.
I did not try to shutdown the firewall, or to disable the proxy, but something prevented the safe download of the file.
A lame and quick fix would be to update the Skype not to show any links containing the.exe at the end. I guess that M$ could do something about activating the.exe links, but it might not be their top priority ATM and it obviously was not for the last 12+ years.
Naah...
They just forgot to grease the valve bearing. It is no big deal at all, the power plant has been running with 120% capacity for years. It is completely safe.
Imagine what could happened if they accidentally forgot to grease the safety shutdown mechanism.
We must not underestimate the bounds and abilities of the terrorists, they may have infiltrated any and all parts of our government, and it our responsibility. . nay, our duty, as freedom-loving Americans to find them and bring them to justice. These background checks are only a preventative measure, to ensure that government employees have the utmost integrity and loyalty. So long as nothing suspicious shows up on these reports government employees have nothing to fear, we must all sacrifice something in the battle against terrorism.
(I pray that I never hear anything like this. ..)
Ftom what I have read in the article most of the scientists have already woked on many projests. How come that they are suspicious now, and haven't they been when they have started working ?
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This is probably 100% off topic.
Sure there is a way to setup WiFi network with routers spread more than 500 meters away. Just use high output WiFi PCI cards ( or access point devices with high power output chips ) and high gain directional antennas ( 15+ dB ) and you are on track to success. There are a lot of commercially available high gain antennas, however most of them working little bit lower than the specified ( usually bad SWR at the band ends ). Hint: chose antenna by radiation angle both horizontal and vertical, not only by gain. Care for polarisation.
You can google for DIY antenna projects, however, 95% of them are crap or working far worse than specified. ( paperclip antenna anyone ? )
If You like the DIY stuff visit
http://www.yu1aw.ba-karlsruhe.de/vhf_ant.htm ( sorry no English files, but diagrams are readable ). I have made several antennas described on this site for the local wireless community
Our routers are salvaged PC-s usually more than 7 years old. Most of them are standard PC-s at 200-533 MHz stripped out of unnecessary hardware. They use roughly 25 to 100 watt depending on CPU frequency, number of wireless PCI cards onboard and workload. At that power rate relaying only on solar power can be quite expensive and bulky. For the outdoor routers, far away from the wall outlet, PV solar + wind power + back-up battery might be more suitable and cheaper.
I guess some people just can't add 2 and 2.
It might be that U-235 lobby and The Thorium Brotherhood are on the crusade again.
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Doesn't this seem like a much more efficient way to use the already-present light, rather than trying to convert it into electricity and convert it back in a form that wastes most of said energy as heat?
True, but as far as I can remember, installation cost was too high compared to the second best, and it would work only during the sunny day ( light concentrators and optic fibers ).
On the other hand, there is solution for the PV excess heat. It could be converted into the electric energy using the liquid to gas phase transition ( an article on slashdot ) or stored as thermal energy for seasonal use. Both approach to the PV inefficiency solution have their own drawbacks, however do two things, cool down the PV cell, and convert portion of heat into the usable work ( energy ).
Put simply, it is slow and inefficient, broken in a number of ways and seriously crash-prone. I booted it up; ran the first-time wizard; started Vista up and watched Explorer crash (and come up with the "Report to Microsoft" dialog). That reminds me of windows ME.
I eventually get the networking going good (though Vista still refuses to see the SMB shares on my Powerbook G4, even though it sees my PC's shares just fine, and my PC [running XP] sees my Powerbook's shares just fine). ... just like mixed Windows 98SE / Windows XP network I had years ago.
So, I go on the Internet and obtain Firefox (what, you think I was going to use IE7? You must be joking.), which installs smoothly and works flawlessly on Vista. I'm quite happy about this. Watch out for SP1. ( netscape is dead, so firefox is next one to get molested by M$ )
Later, I'm playing Warcraft over LAN with some friends over, and, in the middle of a game, Vista's firewall decides that it should start blocking Warcraft's communication. Warcraft is the Blizzard's game. It is an rival company that sells software. Some measures must be taken.
Keep in mind that I've been playing for, oh, 4 hours at this point, and Vista has given me no trouble. Suddenly, the firewall dialog appears in the middle of my screen, and requests that I block/unblock the program. Well, Vista is hog, and it needed 4 hours to hook up with M$ software monopoly central to get the command to pop up the requester.
Frustrated, I go to edit the settings for the firewall, but Warcraft is already listed as unblocked. We play some more, for maybe 2 hours, and it happens again. Annoying, sure, but I can't do anything about it anymore. Did You try to kill the firewall service. Oh wait, it's Vista...
Well, OK, that might be the fault of Warcraft (III) not being updated for Vista or something. Umm... one taught comes to me. No, it can't be... But there is no other explanation! Maybe Warcraft III is blacklisted ?
Well, OK, that might be the fault of Warcraft (III) not being updated for Vista or something. What happened with backward OS compatibility ?
Oh wait, it must be Blizzard's fault.
There are other problems: Vista will not go to sleep when I close the lid (probably Toshiba's fault, but XP, which I recently installed, seems to handle that just fine); Vista randomly loses an Internet connection sometimes on a wired Ethernet link; Microsoft has nasty habit to change programing policies, giving software / hardware driver developers hard time.
Vista's window manager takes up a lot of RAM (300+MB private bytes) and a constant 3% CPU usage on both cores (on a 2.0GHz Core Duo processor); etc. etc. Vista is hog. Even if You try to switch off the window manager, it will probably just suspend part of it to swap file.
I switched from 98 to XP in late 2003. I had never updated it. Never liked it really. I took years for software developers to find workaround for bugs in Windows XP. It works fine NOW.
Windows 95 beta was Microsoft's peak of creativity, and their OS matured with Windows 98. Downhill started with Windows 98 Second Edition.
Downgrade Your laptop to XP SP2 if possible, until proper liter / tweaker for Vista becomes available, or switch to the next best ( Linux ).
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No disrespect man. I am serious now. Most of the wikipedia articles are written by Zealots.
You do not believe me?
Try this. Make an article named MCN Wireless as I did many times (there is no article with such name at this moment). Return to wikipedia in two days. See what I mean.
Another example. Edit article named B92 (an corporate article). Search for B92 in 20 minutes and check the article. (... article unedited, IP banned, etc )
It is hopeless. One with enough influence, power ( political, bandwidth, etc ) can do whatever he wants on wikipedia.
Nice idea. However 12V is way to low to provide efficient transportation of electric energy trough the house. 48 volt supply line may do the trick for low power application. This will require major industry standardisation which is unlikely to come any time soon.
You can object as much as you want. This is 21 century, people are greedy. It is like the conquest of America, the only difference is that there are no natives to exterminate. The first one to get there the first one to profit from it. Space is up for grabs, and the private business got their money on it.
So your 95% efficient electric engine times a 40% efficient coal plant is better than your 35% efficient ICE with much better emissions controls to boot. And that's using coal, which I'm certainly not a fan of. Check your math. Eelctric energy needs to be transported. The overall efficiency in transportation of electic energy is less than 50%. So your total efficiency is 95% ( electric motor ) times 40% ( coal power plant ) times 50% ( electric distribution system ). That is way lower than 35% of the ICE.
If the ICE uses Hydrogen from the fuel cells efficiency is even worse ( calculate in conversion and storage of the hydrogen ).
On the other hand noone calculates fuel transportation energy waste in ICE energy efficiency.
MMOG developers don't hate on thieves, they just need a way to keep players playing the content, and the best way is to grind for the resources, reputation, honor, like everyone else does. Thieves don't need to grind as much as others since they can pickpocket the enemy, lock pick the resources, and they can hide, back stab and garrote, no one needs honor for that. Grinding MMOGs are preventing players from trying to play any other game as they will fall behind their guild mates. Grinding concept is the most effective way of preventing the competition between the MMOG developers in fact it is killing the competition.
Compare this to 99% of online games where thieves are universally hated on. .. by the enemy players for their sinister playing style. .. by the friendly players for ninjaing / deserting the party in the middle of the instance ( my experience ) .. by the game developers for shortcutting the game content, avoiding the grinding concept, and various mischief related to NCP AI.
The sneak skills don't work. Many MMOGs are level based. High level NCPs / bosses just can "see" the stealthy players. It is an easy, dirty and quick fix for the poor AI that fails to perform adequately.
Lock picking is virtually non-existent. Yet it can make an thief / rogue important party member. A thief could sneak into the dungeon, explore it, open the treasure chests to see the content and organize the party for the looting.
Can a thief sneak around with the heavy backpack full of rattling loot without being detected? I guess he can in 99% of the games - poor AI and bad game engines is killing the team play, and draws anger and jealousy on the thieves. I say games need better engines.
Using the thief skills you can finish every mission in Oblivion almost without killing a single monster. Fine for a single player game, but how do you balance such awesome skills in a competitive online world? By making the equipment attributes more than AC/DR/level/class/weight. Many games do not restrict equipment on class base, yet use arcane failure attribute to prevent arcane spell casters to wear anything better than cloth or leather armor. And You are talking about hatred towards thieves... If the equipment had an "rattle & noise" attribute, choosing the equipment would be an essential for the thief, and a great concern for the tactics and team play. That is IF the developers make the NCPs aware of the noise.
ZeniMax Online Studios have to enhance their game engine to make game more playable for the spell casters, and enhance NCPs AI to avoid WoW type instance looting. If their game becomes another grinding MMOG then it will not be worth much more than the graphics.
Totally BS.
If you compare the energy consumption of CRTs and LCDs in everyday use, you'll find astounding results. Or perhaps not so astounding, as the CRT is sucking 150W or more, while your LCD consumes less than 40W - or 60W if you've got a larger screen. Have You ever measured the power consumption on CRT or LCD/TFT? An average 19" CRT uses less than 100W even with bright white screen. LCD/TFT are better as they use generally 40% less power that the CRT of the same size. CCFL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-cathode_fluoresc ent_lamp back-lighted LCDs / TFTs cant last more than 3 years yet I have two CRTs one from 1998 and one from 2001 in perfect working order.
Now you know wh....but they eat into your wallet through 2-3 years. I'd radder care about my eyes as there is only one pair left that I have. Those LCD/TFT crap are no-good-view-angle no-black-at-all high-brightness crappy-color eye-scorchers. I do not care for the 30-40W extra if I will start wearing glasses 10 years later than with LCD power save.
Most dec....while older desktops routinely have PSUs that eat 30W in the *off*-state (computer powered down, but cable plugged in). Anything more than 10W in the PSU without a fan spinning to cool it down will overheat the it killing the electronics in the PSU and probably the rest of the computer. So there are no 30W in the * off * state PSUs, at least not the working ones. An average PSU is 2-4W in power off mode.
- the fridge. There are mod.... - the freezer....than front-opening models Choose combo model ( the fridge and the freezer in one, saves a lot of the energy ) that have thick high quality insulation, the separate door for the fridge / freezer and drawers that seal the cold air behind them in freezer section. Front-opening are more energy efficient than the top-opening because of their shape. Use air tight boxes and bags for the food. De-ice and remove the dust from the heat exchanger regularly.
- lighting: use CFLs wherever convenient and LED replacements where there's not enough room for CFLs or switching cycles are important I agree. Use the CFLs everywhere, avoid choke ballasts with fluorescent lamps because choke ballasts are inefficient. The best way is to try to find electronic ballast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_ballasts#E lectronic_.27ballasts.27 for the fluorescent lamps because that is the most efficient. Use the OLEDs for the frequent switching applications. Some DIY saves a lot of energy, much more than black background on google or CRT would do. ..E-meter.. I am going to call this a typo error.
Dont know about Apple/PC viruses but I had two of them on Amiga.
One was the Lamer Exterminator that formatted 3 of my favorite floppies one of them with programs I have made myself. Fucker filled every byte on the floppy with LAMERLAMERLAMERLAMER...
The other one was Byte Bandit a variety that clones self after soft reset. So each time one press CTRL+leftAMIGA+rightAMIGA on the keyboard, mofo clones every instance of itself, eating away the RAM, and considerably slowing the Amiga. After just a few resets Workbench starts to run slow because it has to multitask hundreds of virus instances. After few more resets it is impossible to run the workbench since there are no free RAM at all. Just one or two resets away is Guru Meditation ( Amigas internal debugger ) with an error code that shows insufficient ram to initialize and kick-start form ROM. If one wanted to cleanse the RAM of that pest powering off the Amiga longer than usual was needed, as it could survive in DRAM for longer than 30 seconds. More info on http://www.totse.com/en/viruses/virus_information/ amigvir1.html including tips on how to disable some of them without using the anti viral tools.
I guess Amiga viruses were written for two purposes, to kill runaway Xcopy disks owned by the users (more profit for the pirates), and to harm the users just by erasing their software (even more profit)...
I cant imagine the similar scheme on modern computers... oh wait
I just wanted to point out that quality is not Intel only. The motherboard FTA is not the first one to use solid-core electrolytic capacitors. The KT-7 motherboard that waved hello to geekoid dude is more than six years old now and it still works. The aluminium electrolytic capacitors are the only limiting factor for the motherboard life time, and the KT-7 motherboard I have mentioned had several electrolytic capacitors replaced over last six years. If it had solid-core tantalum capacitors like the motherboard FTA it would never require service.
That means that we could use reliable computers for years, and throw them away when they are obsolete, not when they fail because of some low life time aluminium electrolytic capacitor. We could if the manufacturers switch to solid-core tantalum capacitors.
Electrolytic capacitors have short life when exposed to heat. They dry out or leak, swell, short-circuit and explode. The PSU sends high voltage pulse to the capacitor to take the energy load, but since there is no capacitor anymore voltage pulse just passes down the wires frying anything that is connected to it.
As a rule, I do replace my PSU every year and half, and I suggest every year for the game machines or the render stations.
True. I have replaced one faulty aluminium electrolytic capacitors on the GeForce FX 5200 4 hours ago. The old AGP card works like brand new again. I have been replacing aluminium electrolytic capacitors on the motherboards for last seven years. It is cheep and easy way to repair the motherboards. While repaired motherboard might not be the best gaming solution, it is usually useful for internet / routing / multimedia.
There is no hope that manufacturers will ditch using aluminium electrolytic capacitors any time soon. The reason is that modern high performance / low performance per watt CPU like AMD or Intel uses 100 Amps at 1.5 Volts, so high capacitors are needed in motherboard power supply just to keep ripple voltage low enough. Aluminium electrolytic capacitors have life time 1000 to 5000 hours depending on load, (high load gives short life time). Solid-core tantalum and vanadium capacitors are too expensive and bulky for motherboards and they are not available in large capacitance's / voltages. They do have an advantage of much longer lifetime compared to aluminium electrolytic capacitors, so I guess manufacturers will use solid-core electrolytic capacitors in high class motherboards only.
For the server / router / video montage / game machine. Nop. Unless one can use all of that crap they are just going to use power / CPU power. Superior performance motherboards usually have no on board controllers at all and do have a lot of PCI slots that can be used with optimal mix of superior controller add on cards.
It is some journalist mambo-jumbo. The motherboard uses some non-electrolytic capacitors ( the brown boxes near CPU socket ) I believe that those are multilayer ceramic capacitors. The rest just look like regular SMD aluminium electrolytic capacitors ( shiny gauges with blue / green title on the top ). I have never heard of motherboard that uses non solid-state capacitors like adjustable one. Non solid-state components should be the component that have moving parts.
BTW I hate SMD aluminium electrolytic capacitors. The reason is that soldering alloy becomes brittle after some (years) time, so they just fall off.
Just want everyone to know, it is impossible to make any aircraft "stealth" to all frequency ranges. Mind you that an aircraft must use some metal parts (conductors) as parts of the engine. The bigger the metal part the lower the frequency it reflects. The lower the frequency, the harder is to hide it from the radar beam.
The "facts" I know ( and You will have to believe me on that )
1. The radar was "hacked". It was an vintage radar working on VHF or UHF range.
2. The F-117A was flying low.
3. The F-177A was hit by an manually guided missile. There was no direct hit.
4. The aircraft crashed down and burned down almost completely because the Serbian soldiers that came to the site did not want / did not have an order to put the fire out.
The guy that hacked the radar was my high school friend. He said to me that the main issue with the hacked radar was slow scan time. That made guiding the missile tricky.
The other friend of mine that was in the vicinity of the F-117A crash site and came to it said that aircraft was damaged by gunfire ( AK-47 for sure ) but the main damage was due to blast and large shrapnel's. The soldiers had an order to guard the crash site and they just let the wrecked plane burn down. Shit happens when one lives in Serbia.
The point of this story is that the primitive tools can bring down high tech systems if they are unexpected.
Back to topic:
1. The article mentions the egg-shaped alien craft. This is quite odd. I taught aliens have the saucer shaped crafts. Or saucer-shaped was Nazis craft.
2. What kept this guy silent for years ?
3. The mentioned craft was rather small. Could it be an escape pod from the larger craft ? If it is where is the big one ?
4. The whole Roswell story looked like an US military cover up for the spying program. Aliens fit in there like a perfect decoy. Now some old pa says it was the aliens.
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The Roses are red, the Violets are blue, in Serbian aerospace hacked radar brings down F-117@You!!!
Worse than that. I could be anything. Core power management, cache adjustment, performance altering. It could affect the CPU in major way. I do not like patching of the OS for the same reason, and I feel very bad about CPU patching.
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I use skype every day. Yesterday I have been spammed on pure geek English from my non English speaking friend to open some links like www.fakeit.org/somethig/~blahblah/funny.jpg while he was DND. I know that he would never speak / type to me in English, so it was clearly a virus.
I have fair collection of so called "viruses". I wanted damn copy of it without getting infected. I did try following:
1. download it with flashget. Failed. FlashGet reported that connection has been refused or terminated at the other side or something like that.
2. download the link using the Netscape 8.1.3 ( the last Netscape ). Failed again. Netscape reported that link/site is known malware.
I did not try to shutdown the firewall, or to disable the proxy, but something prevented the safe download of the file.
A lame and quick fix would be to update the Skype not to show any links containing the
Naah...
They just forgot to grease the valve bearing. It is no big deal at all, the power plant has been running with 120% capacity for years. It is completely safe.
Imagine what could happened if they accidentally forgot to grease the safety shutdown mechanism.
Mr. Burns.
(I pray that I never hear anything like this. .
Ftom what I have read in the article most of the scientists have already woked on many projests. How come that they are suspicious now, and haven't they been when they have started working ?
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Sure there is a way to setup WiFi network with routers spread more than 500 meters away. Just use high output WiFi PCI cards ( or access point devices with high power output chips ) and high gain directional antennas ( 15+ dB ) and you are on track to success. There are a lot of commercially available high gain antennas, however most of them working little bit lower than the specified ( usually bad SWR at the band ends ). Hint: chose antenna by radiation angle both horizontal and vertical, not only by gain. Care for polarisation.
You can google for DIY antenna projects, however, 95% of them are crap or working far worse than specified. ( paperclip antenna anyone ? )
If You like the DIY stuff visit
http://www.yu1aw.ba-karlsruhe.de/vhf_ant.htm ( sorry no English files, but diagrams are readable ). I have made several antennas described on this site for the local wireless community
http://www.kvwireless.org/gallery/main.php?g2_item Id=168&g2_enterAlbum=1 and they performed very well.
We are switching links for hotspots to 5.6 GHz band for the following benefits: better throughput, more free channels, less noise.
Our routers are salvaged PC-s usually more than 7 years old. Most of them are standard PC-s at 200-533 MHz stripped out of unnecessary hardware. They use roughly 25 to 100 watt depending on CPU frequency, number of wireless PCI cards onboard and workload. At that power rate relaying only on solar power can be quite expensive and bulky. For the outdoor routers, far away from the wall outlet, PV solar + wind power + back-up battery might be more suitable and cheaper.
I guess some people just can't add 2 and 2.
It might be that U-235 lobby and The Thorium Brotherhood are on the crusade again.
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Doesn't this seem like a much more efficient way to use the already-present light, rather than trying to convert it into electricity and convert it back in a form that wastes most of said energy as heat?
True, but as far as I can remember, installation cost was too high compared to the second best, and it would work only during the sunny day ( light concentrators and optic fibers ).
On the other hand, there is solution for the PV excess heat. It could be converted into the electric energy using the liquid to gas phase transition ( an article on slashdot ) or stored as thermal energy for seasonal use. Both approach to the PV inefficiency solution have their own drawbacks, however do two things, cool down the PV cell, and convert portion of heat into the usable work ( energy ).
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OT: I did wtc. Keep the jews out of it!
I eventually get the networking going good (though Vista still refuses to see the SMB shares on my Powerbook G4, even though it sees my PC's shares just fine, and my PC [running XP] sees my Powerbook's shares just fine). ... just like mixed Windows 98SE / Windows XP network I had years ago.
So, I go on the Internet and obtain Firefox (what, you think I was going to use IE7? You must be joking.), which installs smoothly and works flawlessly on Vista. I'm quite happy about this. Watch out for SP1. ( netscape is dead, so firefox is next one to get molested by M$ )
Later, I'm playing Warcraft over LAN with some friends over, and, in the middle of a game, Vista's firewall decides that it should start blocking Warcraft's communication. Warcraft is the Blizzard's game. It is an rival company that sells software. Some measures must be taken. Keep in mind that I've been playing for, oh, 4 hours at this point, and Vista has given me no trouble. Suddenly, the firewall dialog appears in the middle of my screen, and requests that I block/unblock the program. Well, Vista is hog, and it needed 4 hours to hook up with M$ software monopoly central to get the command to pop up the requester.
Frustrated, I go to edit the settings for the firewall, but Warcraft is already listed as unblocked. We play some more, for maybe 2 hours, and it happens again. Annoying, sure, but I can't do anything about it anymore. Did You try to kill the firewall service.
Oh wait, it's Vista
Well, OK, that might be the fault of Warcraft (III) not being updated for Vista or something. Umm... one taught comes to me. No, it can't be... But there is no other explanation!
Maybe Warcraft III is blacklisted ?
Well, OK, that might be the fault of Warcraft (III) not being updated for Vista or something. What happened with backward OS compatibility ?
Oh wait, it must be Blizzard's fault.
There are other problems: Vista will not go to sleep when I close the lid (probably Toshiba's fault, but XP, which I recently installed, seems to handle that just fine); Vista randomly loses an Internet connection sometimes on a wired Ethernet link; Microsoft has nasty habit to change programing policies, giving software / hardware driver developers hard time.
Vista's window manager takes up a lot of RAM (300+MB private bytes) and a constant 3% CPU usage on both cores (on a 2.0GHz Core Duo processor); etc. etc. Vista is hog. Even if You try to switch off the window manager, it will probably just suspend part of it to swap file.
I switched from 98 to XP in late 2003. I had never updated it. Never liked it really. I took years for software developers to find workaround for bugs in Windows XP. It works fine NOW.
Windows 95 beta was Microsoft's peak of creativity, and their OS matured with Windows 98. Downhill started with Windows 98 Second Edition.
Downgrade Your laptop to XP SP2 if possible, until proper liter / tweaker for Vista becomes available, or switch to the next best ( Linux ).
ROFL ... article unedited, IP banned, etc )
No disrespect man. I am serious now. Most of the wikipedia articles are written by Zealots.
You do not believe me?
Try this. Make an article named MCN Wireless as I did many times (there is no article with such name at this moment). Return to wikipedia in two days. See what I mean.
Another example. Edit article named B92 (an corporate article). Search for B92 in 20 minutes and check the article. (
It is hopeless. One with enough influence, power ( political, bandwidth, etc ) can do whatever he wants on wikipedia.
Nice idea. However 12V is way to low to provide efficient transportation of electric energy trough the house. 48 volt supply line may do the trick for low power application. This will require major industry standardisation which is unlikely to come any time soon.
You can object as much as you want. This is 21 century, people are greedy. It is like the conquest of America, the only difference is that there are no natives to exterminate. The first one to get there the first one to profit from it. Space is up for grabs, and the private business got their money on it.
If the ICE uses Hydrogen from the fuel cells efficiency is even worse ( calculate in conversion and storage of the hydrogen ).
On the other hand noone calculates fuel transportation energy waste in ICE energy efficiency.
Only one more.
The one that is not all about grinding.
MMOG developers don't hate on thieves, they just need a way to keep players playing the content, and the best way is to grind for the resources, reputation, honor, like everyone else does. Thieves don't need to grind as much as others since they can pickpocket the enemy, lock pick the resources, and they can hide, back stab and garrote, no one needs honor for that. Grinding MMOGs are preventing players from trying to play any other game as they will fall behind their guild mates. Grinding concept is the most effective way of preventing the competition between the MMOG developers in fact it is killing the competition.
Compare this to 99% of online games where thieves are universally hated on. .. by the enemy players for their sinister playing style.
The sneak skills don't work. Many MMOGs are level based. High level NCPs / bosses just can "see" the stealthy players. It is an easy, dirty and quick fix for the poor AI that fails to perform adequately. Lock picking is virtually non-existent. Yet it can make an thief / rogue important party member. A thief could sneak into the dungeon, explore it, open the treasure chests to see the content and organize the party for the looting.
Can a thief sneak around with the heavy backpack full of rattling loot without being detected? I guess he can in 99% of the games - poor AI and bad game engines is killing the team play, and draws anger and jealousy on the thieves. I say games need better engines.
Using the thief skills you can finish every mission in Oblivion almost without killing a single monster. Fine for a single player game, but how do you balance such awesome skills in a competitive online world? By making the equipment attributes more than AC/DR/level/class/weight. Many games do not restrict equipment on class base, yet use arcane failure attribute to prevent arcane spell casters to wear anything better than cloth or leather armor. And You are talking about hatred towards thieves
If the equipment had an "rattle & noise" attribute, choosing the equipment would be an essential for the thief, and a great concern for the tactics and team play. That is IF the developers make the NCPs aware of the noise.
ZeniMax Online Studios have to enhance their game engine to make game more playable for the spell casters, and enhance NCPs AI to avoid WoW type instance looting. If their game becomes another grinding MMOG then it will not be worth much more than the graphics.
If you compare the energy consumption of CRTs and LCDs in everyday use, you'll find astounding results. Or perhaps not so astounding, as the CRT is sucking 150W or more, while your LCD consumes less than 40W - or 60W if you've got a larger screen. Have You ever measured the power consumption on CRT or LCD/TFT? An average 19" CRT uses less than 100W even with bright white screen. LCD/TFT are better as they use generally 40% less power that the CRT of the same size. CCFL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-cathode_fluores
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- the fridge. There are mod..
- lighting: use CFLs wherever convenient and LED replacements where there's not enough room for CFLs or switching cycles are important I agree.
Use the CFLs everywhere, avoid choke ballasts with fluorescent lamps because choke ballasts are inefficient. The best way is to try to find electronic ballast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_ballasts#
Nothing personal man. This is
Why don't You try the new suck it command ...
It will give you mouthful as fast as it can.
Dont know about Apple/PC viruses but I had two of them on Amiga./ amigvir1.html including tips on how to disable some of them without using the anti viral tools.
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One was the Lamer Exterminator that formatted 3 of my favorite floppies one of them with programs I have made myself. Fucker filled every byte on the floppy with LAMERLAMERLAMERLAMER...
The other one was Byte Bandit a variety that clones self after soft reset. So each time one press CTRL+leftAMIGA+rightAMIGA on the keyboard, mofo clones every instance of itself, eating away the RAM, and considerably slowing the Amiga. After just a few resets Workbench starts to run slow because it has to multitask hundreds of virus instances. After few more resets it is impossible to run the workbench since there are no free RAM at all. Just one or two resets away is Guru Meditation ( Amigas internal debugger ) with an error code that shows insufficient ram to initialize and kick-start form ROM.
If one wanted to cleanse the RAM of that pest powering off the Amiga longer than usual was needed, as it could survive in DRAM for longer than 30 seconds.
More info on http://www.totse.com/en/viruses/virus_information
I guess Amiga viruses were written for two purposes, to kill runaway Xcopy disks owned by the users (more profit for the pirates), and to harm the users just by erasing their software (even more profit)...
I cant imagine the similar scheme on modern computers
lol dude ...
I just wanted to point out that quality is not Intel only. The motherboard FTA is not the first one to use solid-core electrolytic capacitors.
The KT-7 motherboard that waved hello to geekoid dude is more than six years old now and it still works. The aluminium electrolytic capacitors are the only limiting factor for the motherboard life time, and the KT-7 motherboard I have mentioned had several electrolytic capacitors replaced over last six years. If it had solid-core tantalum capacitors like the motherboard FTA it would never require service.
That means that we could use reliable computers for years, and throw them away when they are obsolete, not when they fail because of some low life time aluminium electrolytic capacitor. We could if the manufacturers switch to solid-core tantalum capacitors.
Electrolytic capacitors have short life when exposed to heat. They dry out or leak, swell, short-circuit and explode. The PSU sends high voltage pulse to the capacitor to take the energy load, but since there is no capacitor anymore voltage pulse just passes down the wires frying anything that is connected to it.
As a rule, I do replace my PSU every year and half, and I suggest every year for the game machines or the render stations.
True. I have replaced one faulty aluminium electrolytic capacitors on the GeForce FX 5200 4 hours ago. The old AGP card works like brand new again. I have been replacing aluminium electrolytic capacitors on the motherboards for last seven years. It is cheep and easy way to repair the motherboards. While repaired motherboard might not be the best gaming solution, it is usually useful for internet / routing / multimedia.
There is no hope that manufacturers will ditch using aluminium electrolytic capacitors any time soon. The reason is that modern high performance / low performance per watt CPU like AMD or Intel uses 100 Amps at 1.5 Volts, so high capacitors are needed in motherboard power supply just to keep ripple voltage low enough. Aluminium electrolytic capacitors have life time 1000 to 5000 hours depending on load, (high load gives short life time).
Solid-core tantalum and vanadium capacitors are too expensive and bulky for motherboards and they are not available in large capacitance's / voltages. They do have an advantage of much longer lifetime compared to aluminium electrolytic capacitors, so I guess manufacturers will use solid-core electrolytic capacitors in high class motherboards only.
For the server / router / video montage / game machine.
Nop. Unless one can use all of that crap they are just going to use power / CPU power. Superior performance motherboards usually have no on board controllers at all and do have a lot of PCI slots that can be used with optimal mix of superior controller add on cards.
The ABIT KT-7 motherboard says hello to You.
Someone correct me if I am wrong...
It is some journalist mambo-jumbo. The motherboard uses some non-electrolytic capacitors ( the brown boxes near CPU socket ) I believe that those are multilayer ceramic capacitors. The rest just look like regular SMD aluminium electrolytic capacitors ( shiny gauges with blue / green title on the top ). I have never heard of motherboard that uses non solid-state capacitors like adjustable one. Non solid-state components should be the component that have moving parts.
BTW I hate SMD aluminium electrolytic capacitors. The reason is that soldering alloy becomes brittle after some (years) time, so they just fall off.
Just want everyone to know, it is impossible to make any aircraft "stealth" to all frequency ranges. Mind you that an aircraft must use some metal parts (conductors) as parts of the engine. The bigger the metal part the lower the frequency it reflects. The lower the frequency, the harder is to hide it from the radar beam.
The "facts" I know ( and You will have to believe me on that )
1. The radar was "hacked". It was an vintage radar working on VHF or UHF range.
2. The F-117A was flying low.
3. The F-177A was hit by an manually guided missile. There was no direct hit.
4. The aircraft crashed down and burned down almost completely because the Serbian soldiers that came to the site did not want / did not have an order to put the fire out.
The guy that hacked the radar was my high school friend. He said to me that the main issue with the hacked radar was slow scan time. That made guiding the missile tricky.
The other friend of mine that was in the vicinity of the F-117A crash site and came to it said that aircraft was damaged by gunfire ( AK-47 for sure ) but the main damage was due to blast and large shrapnel's. The soldiers had an order to guard the crash site and they just let the wrecked plane burn down. Shit happens when one lives in Serbia.
The point of this story is that the primitive tools can bring down high tech systems if they are unexpected.
Back to topic:
1. The article mentions the egg-shaped alien craft. This is quite odd. I taught aliens have the saucer shaped crafts. Or saucer-shaped was Nazis craft.
2. What kept this guy silent for years ?
3. The mentioned craft was rather small. Could it be an escape pod from the larger craft ? If it is where is the big one ?
4. The whole Roswell story looked like an US military cover up for the spying program. Aliens fit in there like a perfect decoy. Now some old pa says it was the aliens.
PS
The Roses are red, the Violets are blue, in Serbian aerospace hacked radar brings down F-117@You!!!
Worse than that. I could be anything. Core power management, cache adjustment, performance altering. It could affect the CPU in major way. I do not like patching of the OS for the same reason, and I feel very bad about CPU patching.