Hmmm. I've always inderstood that you could plug a device that wanted, say 100mA into a 500mA brick - it simply 'sipped' from the firehose. The 500mA just ment that the brick could provide 500mA, but it diden't mean that 500mA were forcably shoved down the wire....
The're really cool - You can plug all of your devices into them and they just work - no configuration, no fuss and aparently it's compatable with allmost 90% of the electronic devices on the market:
I feel a great disturbance in the force.....as if: "All You Step-3-Profit! Are Belong To Us" was suddenly cried out in great pain, and then... silence...
...Now all we need to do is combine this Infinate One Time Pad idea with the Infinate Compression Algoritm and well have an Infinate amount of Libraries Of Congress stored securly in only obe bit!
And if you don't need the CD-RW/DVD - there's the Fujitsu P-1000. $1100 bucks - 2.2 lbs, and a touch screen.
I have one for job costing, and my notes are as follows:
I don't use the touch screen.
Small enough to open in coach class in a airplane and still use the keyboard.
Apps take a bit to start up, due to the Curusoe doing it's code morphing thing.
Hibernate works wonderfully - be up and running in 15 seconds after opening the thing up.
No serial port. USB dongle reqired to telnet into serial boxes.
Cheap keyboard.
$1200 less than the Sony.
Free USB Floppy drive that you can boot off of.
160 min of battery life. (really)
Only one year of warranty.
Only availabe from fujitsupc.com (nobody else stocks them)
Do note: the P-2000 does come with a weight saver - you can skip the CD-RW/DVD and get the P-2000 down to 2.6 lbs. Fujitsu makes a extra battery that will fit where the CD-RW/DVD normally does.
I chose the P-1000 due to cost issues - like I said it's $1100.
Phoenix is going to be the default browser in all Windows boxes that I admin - simply because it doesen't need to "install". Just plunk the directory over the network when a new version comes out and - wham! New broswer!
No "Updating Windows Installer" No rebooting. No IE vunerabilities! No Unnesesary features from Mozilla. No EULA to click through.
I hope my sentiments express fully my displeasure: Microsoft, your unethacal employees, and your astro-turfers here on Slasdot: suck my dick and add me to your Foes. I don't need friends like you.
..a sample of the note: Mouse balls are not usually static sensitive, however, excessive handling can result in sudden discharge. Upon completion of ball replacement, the mouse may be used immediately.
It is recommended that each servicer have a pair of balls for maintaining optimum customer satisfaction,and that any customer missing his balls should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary functional items.
My childhood home was about to be bulldozed, and I realised that I never "could go home again."
In adition to video - I made an effory to preserve sound and smell and texture:
I videotaped the inside of the house, I left the microphone on as I opened closet and doors.
I also saved a bit of the oak flooring that gave a peculular smell and well as a bit of dirt from the back yard - to me, they bring back vivid memories of childhood*
I saved a few well-used door handels - they have a friendly touch.
Those sqeeks and groans and smells are firmly planted in my memory, and I'll be glad to hear them again when I'm feeling nostalgic ten years from now.
The whole package fits into a shoe box - I felt a little weird documenting my old home, as I'm not normally a meterialist person. I'm glad I did.
* there is a throry that because the smell organs are so close to the center of the brain, that smells are uniquely capable of triggering memories.
Have you benchmarked this with a Windows OS, or are you just taking an unfounded cheap shot at Microsoft?
I've benchmarked pleanty of databases in many environments, and it's not just a cheap pot-shot at Microsoft - their Operating systems are simply geared toward graphical interaction with a single local trusted user. I happliy use their OS for my some of my workstations, but just as I woulden't recomend KDE 3.1 to my 5 year old cousin, I don't recommend Microsoft for servers, and especially database servers.
Untill Windows 2000 - Microsoft operating systems diden't use memory well, and Windows XP has a notable problem with SCSII hardware. It's slower than hardened snot. In addition - setting the things up takes much longer than installing any of the free unix varients.
There's a lot of things that Microsoft does well - cheap IDEs, featurefull office tools and video games, but they just don't have their act together as far as servers goes.
Perhaps 10 years ago, when your chouce for inexpensive servers was Windows NT or, well, Novell - Microsoft could be considered. But not faced with FreeBSD for file and database, and OpenBSD for firewalls and Linux for web servers. All of them cheap and good.
Given a finite budget, a FreeBSD database server with will always be faster than a comparable Windows server - simply because with the savings in licencing fees - you can buy more RAM for the FreeBSD box. Even without this advangtage, FreeBSD does a better job under heavy load. Hell - Microsoft still to this day runs the majority of their Hotmail service with FreeBSD, even though they would love to use their own product.
Speed isn't my biggest concern... it is reliability. HD are one of last mechanical parts of the PC left... it would be nice to kiss the mechanical part good bye..
Another thing to consider, and it may be an urban legand, is that apparently cosmic rays have enough enrgy to randomly twiddle a bit in RAM. This problem is agrivated by the lower voltages used in moder memory as well a density. I've heard that you can expect one bit change per month per 128 megs at low altitude.
Good idea, but once you implement it, be sure to benchmark it:
I had a PostreSQL database that was acting a bit slow on a FreeBSD box - and I had the bright idea: Hey! It must be the hard-drive that's holding the things up. So I created a file system in memory and put my PostgreSQL databse in the memory based 'disk.'
My fstab:/dev/ad0s1b/nbt/mfs mfs rw,-s131072 0 0
Imagine my suprise when over a four minute benchmarking session, the memory based disk only shaved off two seconds!
The moral of the story - if you have a good operating system (not Windows), then the added memory is probably better used by the computer itself than by creating a memory based disk. Modern OS do a great job of caching things.
If you have a sucky OS - like Windows, than this doesen't apply.
Make sure that your purchases reflect your values - if you value open specifications then purchase products that do so.
It's for this reason that, although otherwise manufacturers of good product, that NVidia doesen't get any of my business, or any of business that I can influence.
(Nvidia produces accaptable Linux drivers, but due to their closed nature, getting acceptable performance in *BSD is next to impossible)
This twit is trying to bitch-slap you, wrongly. And to give it a fine coating of 'acceptability' he's using 'the law' as his weapon of choice.
I suggest that your weapon be somthing other than 'the law.' - If someone fights unfairly, you are under no obligation to be fight fair yourself, and just because he's in a suit doesen't meen he's fighting fair.
The gravest mistake in encating revenge is the urge to gloat. This give your opponent evidence and can cause him to escelate the battle because he knows who to target. Insead, cary out your revenge some time in the future, be anonymous and untraceable. Refraqin from checking to see if your act of revenge was a sucess. Do not tell *anybody* about the revenge, if you can't keep a scecret then you shouldent expect others to do so.
Not to be a complete twit - but I woulden't replace the Novell server. If it's stable and does what you want then I'd just let it be. Put your enenrgies into adding value rather than replacing somthing that works with something else. Perhaps a Linux based firewall is needed? Or Linux based VPN so people can get into the office network from home?
Office types love VPN from home - though I'd sugjest OpenBSD for the job over Linux, both would work fine and make people *very* happy if done correctly.
Even if someone can get MAME running on a Xbox without a mod-chip, I still won't buy one at retail. That retail sale would give Microsoft more clout with game developers but letting them pimp out even more Xbox "consumers."
And besides the Xbox is UGLY. People might mistake one of the hidious controllers for a sex toy and give me a funny look.
I really don't care is Windows dominated in populatity: Unix dominates in thing I care about - scalability, reliablilty and security.
My choices arn't in line with most consumers: Example
Consumers choose McDonalds - I choose local mom and pop resturaunt. Consumers choose Toyots - I choose GMC trucks. Consumers choose WalMart - I choose REI Consumers choose Microsoft - I choose UNIX Consumers choose surburbia - I choose the city Consumers choose Disnyland - I choose backpacking, climbing, sailing, foreign countries.
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Japan-Direct.com sells cool stuff as well.
JapanDirect.com is a squater.
I appreciate the replies! Thank you both!
Hmmm. I've always inderstood that you could plug a device that wanted, say 100mA into a 500mA brick - it simply 'sipped' from the firehose. The 500mA just ment that the brick could provide 500mA, but it diden't mean that 500mA were forcably shoved down the wire....
Have I been just lucky all these years?
Jesus - you read my mind. I posted almost the exact same coment here .
Posting AC, as this is offtopic. -Zulux.
The're really cool - You can plug all of your devices into them and they just work - no configuration, no fuss and aparently it's compatable with allmost 90% of the electronic devices on the market:
Check it out: here
Not half as old as 1) blah blah 2) ??? 3) profit!
..as if: "All You Step-3-Profit! Are Belong To Us" was suddenly cried out in great pain, and then... silence...
I feel a great disturbance in the force...
...Now all we need to do is combine this Infinate One Time Pad idea with the Infinate Compression Algoritm and well have an Infinate amount of Libraries Of Congress stored securly in only obe bit!
Wow!
Japenese company makes similar-scale r/c helicopters
You not going to beleive this: they already do!
Miniature Japanese R/C Helicopter
www.japan-direct.com can also has them.
And if you don't need the CD-RW/DVD - there's the Fujitsu P-1000. $1100 bucks - 2.2 lbs, and a touch screen.
I have one for job costing, and my notes are as follows:
I don't use the touch screen.
Small enough to open in coach class in a airplane and still use the keyboard.
Apps take a bit to start up, due to the Curusoe doing it's code morphing thing.
Hibernate works wonderfully - be up and running in 15 seconds after opening the thing up.
No serial port. USB dongle reqired to telnet into serial boxes.
Cheap keyboard.
$1200 less than the Sony.
Free USB Floppy drive that you can boot off of.
160 min of battery life. (really)
Only one year of warranty.
Only availabe from fujitsupc.com (nobody else stocks them)
Do note: the P-2000 does come with a weight saver - you can skip the CD-RW/DVD and get the P-2000 down to 2.6 lbs. Fujitsu makes a extra battery that will fit where the CD-RW/DVD normally does.
I chose the P-1000 due to cost issues - like I said it's $1100.
Phoenix is going to be the default browser in all Windows boxes that I admin - simply because it doesen't need to "install". Just plunk the directory over the network when a new version comes out and - wham! New broswer!
No "Updating Windows Installer"
No rebooting.
No IE vunerabilities!
No Unnesesary features from Mozilla.
No EULA to click through.
Oh. No rebooting!
I can add a new cat-back exaust system to my car.
I can add a new hard-drive to my computer.
I can add an aftermarkt remote for my tv.
I can add a network card to my PDA.
I can add headphone to my stereo.
I hope my sentiments express fully my displeasure:
Microsoft, your unethacal employees, and your astro-turfers here on Slasdot: suck my dick and add me to your Foes. I don't need friends like you.
here
Mouse balls are not usually static sensitive, however, excessive handling can result in sudden discharge. Upon completion of ball replacement, the mouse may be used immediately.
It is recommended that each servicer have a pair of balls for maintaining optimum customer satisfaction,and that any customer missing his balls should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary functional items.
My childhood home was about to be bulldozed, and I realised that I never "could go home again."
In adition to video - I made an effory to preserve sound and smell and texture:
I videotaped the inside of the house, I left the microphone on as I opened closet and doors.
I also saved a bit of the oak flooring that gave a peculular smell and well as a bit of dirt from the back yard - to me, they bring back vivid memories of childhood*
I saved a few well-used door handels - they have a friendly touch.
Those sqeeks and groans and smells are firmly planted in my memory, and I'll be glad to hear them again when I'm feeling nostalgic ten years from now.
The whole package fits into a shoe box - I felt a little weird documenting my old home, as I'm not normally a meterialist person. I'm glad I did.
* there is a throry that because the smell organs are so close to the center of the brain, that smells are uniquely capable of triggering memories.
gestures with an IBM Thinkpad's pencil eraser nub
My girfried has benifited from all the training I've gotten with my Thinkpad.
Thanks IBM!
(Now if only I could get her to use the Thrustmaster correctly...)
I give it gesture every day...
Have you benchmarked this with a Windows OS, or are you just taking an unfounded cheap shot at Microsoft?
I've benchmarked pleanty of databases in many environments, and it's not just a cheap pot-shot at Microsoft - their Operating systems are simply geared toward graphical interaction with a single local trusted user. I happliy use their OS for my some of my workstations, but just as I woulden't recomend KDE 3.1 to my 5 year old cousin, I don't recommend Microsoft for servers, and especially database servers.
Untill Windows 2000 - Microsoft operating systems diden't use memory well, and Windows XP has a notable problem with SCSII hardware. It's slower than hardened snot. In addition - setting the things up takes much longer than installing any of the free unix varients.
There's a lot of things that Microsoft does well - cheap IDEs, featurefull office tools and video games, but they just don't have their act together as far as servers goes.
Perhaps 10 years ago, when your chouce for inexpensive servers was Windows NT or, well, Novell - Microsoft could be considered. But not faced with FreeBSD for file and database, and OpenBSD for firewalls and Linux for web servers.
All of them cheap and good.
Given a finite budget, a FreeBSD database server with will always be faster than a comparable Windows server - simply because with the savings in licencing fees - you can buy more RAM for the FreeBSD box. Even without this advangtage, FreeBSD does a better job under heavy load. Hell - Microsoft still to this day runs the majority of their Hotmail service with FreeBSD, even though they would love to use their own product.
Speed isn't my biggest concern... it is reliability. HD are one of last mechanical parts of the PC left... it would be nice to kiss the mechanical part good bye..
Another thing to consider, and it may be an urban legand, is that apparently cosmic rays have enough enrgy to randomly twiddle a bit in RAM. This problem is agrivated by the lower voltages used in moder memory as well a density. I've heard that you can expect one bit change per month per 128 megs at low altitude.
Good idea, but once you implement it, be sure to benchmark it:
/dev/ad0s1b /nbt/mfs mfs rw,-s131072 0 0
I had a PostreSQL database that was acting a bit slow on a FreeBSD box - and I had the bright idea: Hey! It must be the hard-drive that's holding the things up. So I created a file system in memory and put my PostgreSQL databse in the memory based 'disk.'
My fstab:
Imagine my suprise when over a four minute benchmarking session, the memory based disk only shaved off two seconds!
The moral of the story - if you have a good operating system (not Windows), then the added memory is probably better used by the computer itself than by creating a memory based disk. Modern OS do a great job of caching things.
If you have a sucky OS - like Windows, than this doesen't apply.
Make sure that your purchases reflect your values - if you value open specifications then purchase products that do so.
It's for this reason that, although otherwise manufacturers of good product, that NVidia doesen't get any of my business, or any of business that I can influence.
(Nvidia produces accaptable Linux drivers, but due to their closed nature, getting acceptable performance in *BSD is next to impossible)
This twit is trying to bitch-slap you, wrongly. And to give it a fine coating of 'acceptability' he's using 'the law' as his weapon of choice.
I suggest that your weapon be somthing other than 'the law.' - If someone fights unfairly, you are under no obligation to be fight fair yourself, and just because he's in a suit doesen't meen he's fighting fair.
The gravest mistake in encating revenge is the urge to gloat. This give your opponent evidence and can cause him to escelate the battle because he knows who to target. Insead, cary out your revenge some time in the future, be anonymous and untraceable. Refraqin from checking to see if your act of revenge was a sucess. Do not tell *anybody* about the revenge, if you can't keep a scecret then you shouldent expect others to do so.
Good luck and happy trails.
Not to be a complete twit - but I woulden't replace the Novell server. If it's stable and does what you want then I'd just let it be. Put your enenrgies into adding value rather than replacing somthing that works with something else. Perhaps a Linux based firewall is needed? Or Linux based VPN so people can get into the office network from home?
Office types love VPN from home - though I'd sugjest OpenBSD for the job over Linux, both would work fine and make people *very* happy if done correctly.
Cheers and good luck.
But if they can build a $200 Lindows PC, why not make a $200 "additional PC" PCI card?
Sun makes one. It's $200 with $299 added for evem more Sun Large Profit(tm). More info
I'm with you 100%
Even if someone can get MAME running on a Xbox without a mod-chip, I still won't buy one at retail. That retail sale would give Microsoft more clout with game developers but letting them pimp out even more Xbox "consumers."
And besides the Xbox is UGLY. People might mistake one of the hidious controllers for a sex toy and give me a funny look.
Just to say, from here (Paris) I have fast and responsive connection to them, so maybe the bottleneck isn't at theirs ...
Wow! I diden't know Linux could run on a Minitel!
(kidding)
I really don't care is Windows dominated in populatity: Unix dominates in thing I care about - scalability, reliablilty and security.
My choices arn't in line with most consumers: Example
Consumers choose McDonalds - I choose local mom and pop resturaunt.
Consumers choose Toyots - I choose GMC trucks.
Consumers choose WalMart - I choose REI
Consumers choose Microsoft - I choose UNIX
Consumers choose surburbia - I choose the city
Consumers choose Disnyland - I choose backpacking, climbing, sailing, foreign countries.
Your choice. Make it well.