Standardizing on Dell has show me one thing. Buying 40 of the same machine meands they all die inexplicably a year later of the same problem. (In our case, Hard drives die like lightbulbs 12 month after installation.)
BTW, what do you mean standardizing. Damned if I can by the same rack mount today that I bought last year. I can't even get them to ship the same rack mount rails that I have ordered from them time and time again...
Come on people. If I bust into the block on my car
and file off the VIN number, and put another VIN
number on that is FRAUD. If I break into my car,
and for the kick of it roll the odometer back, THAT IS FRAUD.
Changing your GSM telephone's ID number has no
realisting positive use, and a myriad bad uses.
I'm tired of these constant bickers about how we
can't roll up and mod everything under the sun.
Grow up, we live in a world made of rules. We
don't get to hack them very often, do we. Like
Gravity...
I read the link on the Gaming FAQ page and noted the game play would be 40' by 60'. We have projected some non-Imax films a couple times. They showed a live 76ers game (last year) through a video projector for the staff which was probably 20-30' tall. The problem there was not grains but revolution.
They used basically a standard portable high end video projector. A $20,000 unit or higher, for example a Barco, would give a very nice resolution on the Imax dome.
You really can't compare digital video to 35mm the technologies are pretty different. In our planatarium we would often use our ~10 year old Barco projector for surfing the internet. {It had some alignment problems with the colors (due to its age) but the resolution was pretty good. The 12 point font at about 35' tall was blury but readable.
We are in the process on a full rebuild including 120 degree wrap around video using 3 modern day barco like projectors. From what I understand, the resolution could be used to have video stars on a 40' x 60' dome. Much better than before.
For those of you in the Philadelphia area, the science museum's new plantarium will open at the end of October. More Info
This message was posted by lily2skippy the "better half" of EvilTwinSkippy
Check out the Linux Terminal Server Project. (http://www.ltsp.org)
We have been field testing it as a cheap way
to support linux machines. You set up one Uber
server and Joe workstation acts like a remote
keyboard and screen. One boot floppy and the computer phones home.
How is that for install time? If the boot floppy
is asking too much, you can burn the bootstrap
to your network card.
Doesn't hurt to have some big iron in the basement
and a 100base fiber network. No wait, I'm bragging.
I just tried out a few files on my new Athlon 1.7Ghz.
Old render files that took 18 hours on a P90, or 16 hours on a 66Mhz PPC, took 30 seconds. I can now
skip the rough-out and render anti-aliased stuff
at full size in almost real-time (for simple stuff.)
Wow. The one application for fast RAM and CPU. And
here I thought the extra clock cycles were going
to waste.
After I finish up some work with a few volunteer
organizations I'll finally get started on the
Tcl/Tk based CAD package that shits out POV files
that's been rolling around in the back of my head
for 3 years now.
ETA: 2010
Does it use the CPU as a heat source?
on
Coffepot Computer
·
· Score: 1
Now that would be innovative.
Finally get to use the 500 BTU's or so my new 1.7Ghz
AMD is tossing out. I was actually thinking of
laying the case flat on a few of the dells at work
and gap the heating to the roof of the case as a
coffee warmer.
I can see the special glue now. Artic Blue becomes
Sumatra Brown.
What does that have to do with the price of rice in china?
A packet sniffer will pick up a packet whether you pull it out of the aether over a wireless link, or by connecting to an insecure switch downstream. What the signal is carried on does not matter. If it routes on the internet it, by definition, can be sniffed, dissected, and disseminated.
Weather may be their problem, a profound misunderstanding of technology is yours. At least the weather will clear up on its own.
Remenber: All EM radation moves at the speed of light (9.8e6m/s). Satellite links are bouncing off of geostationary satellites, which orbit at about 35,000Km (22,000 miles) above the Earth's surface.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams:
Space is big, really big. It's mind bogglingly huge. You may thing the walk down to the chemist is a long way, but that's just peanuts to space...
I have been using an 802.11 from my office to my apartment about 2 city blocks away. (Philadelphia city blocks, probably half a NY city block.)
The hookup is deliberately crude. I have a pair of off-the-shelf access point using an aftermarket antenna to boost the range. Both antennas are mounted in windows.
Even through some trees, I get a good signal. The slowest part of the link is the T1 line in the office! I have a few problems on extremely rainy, windy day.
All of these problems would be solved by mounting the antennas on the roof. The trees are the limiting factor.
I've been using wireless for broadband for a few months now. In downtown Philadelphia the local cable company is not very serious about taking on new customers. We were told that someone would be there to set us up next week for about 4 months. We offered to pick up a box and install it, but they kept giving us the runaround.
The last time I had DSL the company went out of business a year into my 2 year contract. We also had problems with the local phone company using our DSL wire to string up new phones. (I'll never forget the Covad service guy: "Sir, your DSL line has a dialtone.")
My 802.11 wireless rig is going through a few trees and doesn't seem to mind. Hills are easy, it's called a rooftop mount.
I run a sizeable network, and my logs are clogged with the Code Red virus trying to break into my Linux boxes. (Go figure.) I traceroute them, and wouldn't you know, 90% of the traffic is from local Cable modem subscribers.
I also expressly forbid extraneous servers on our network because of my experiences as a College administrator. Most people do not patch their boxes, and they don't even know more often than not that it has been rooted. If I had a nickle for every DOS...
It's kind of come full circle. Back on an NT network I was the rogue linux server guy. Now I'm the Linux guy clamping down on NT server (2000/XP/ETC).
Are you paying for a T1 line? Then what did your cheap asses expect! It's $40 a month. You want consistency, get a DSL line. If you want really brass nuckles reliability, get a T1 line. You bought the lowest price option and now you complain about quality?
Hey, have one person get a T1 line and split it with the neighbors through WiFi. $800 / 20 users = what you are paying for Cable. Wifi boxes are $140 a pop, that's 1/2 the price of a cable modem. If the signal is crappy, about $200 in antennas are all that are required to service 2 city blocks.
I personally am leaching off of the office, with their blessing, because getting any kind of broadband in Center City Philadelphia requires a letter to your congressman. I'm the admin, and they are supposed to be paying for my link into the building anyway. (Living 2 blocks away from the office is nice for more than just commuting, let me tell you.)
I want to hear less bitching and more hacking people! We aren't consumers. We are customers. If you aren't being serve, don't bitch. Cancel the service and take some positive steps.
I realized this ex post acto, but aren't a lot of the cyber attacks they keep talking about on "Infrastracture Targets" based around someone taking a microcontroller program and putting it on the internet?
Man, there is a whole circle of life thing going on here...
It was for an educational simulator to teach microcontroller programming. I knew we were in trouble when our advisors said Say, you guys would go further if you did something with the internet. Does it have a website?
Slashdot Mirror
In my case I found it more fun to program than to play.
Okay, okay, using an 802.11 link to the office from my apartment. (Brag Brag.)
BTW, what do you mean standardizing. Damned if I can by the same rack mount today that I bought last year. I can't even get them to ship the same rack mount rails that I have ordered from them time and time again...
Changing your GSM telephone's ID number has no realisting positive use, and a myriad bad uses. I'm tired of these constant bickers about how we can't roll up and mod everything under the sun.
Grow up, we live in a world made of rules. We don't get to hack them very often, do we. Like Gravity...
I read the link on the Gaming FAQ page and noted the game play would be 40' by 60'. We have projected some non-Imax films a couple times. They showed a live 76ers game (last year) through a video projector for the staff which was probably 20-30' tall. The problem there was not grains but revolution.
They used basically a standard portable high end video projector. A $20,000 unit or higher, for example a Barco, would give a very nice resolution on the Imax dome.
You really can't compare digital video to 35mm the technologies are pretty different. In our planatarium we would often use our ~10 year old Barco projector for surfing the internet. {It had some alignment problems with the colors (due to its age) but the resolution was pretty good. The 12 point font at about 35' tall was blury but readable.
We are in the process on a full rebuild including 120 degree wrap around video using 3 modern day barco like projectors. From what I understand, the resolution could be used to have video stars on a 40' x 60' dome. Much better than before.
For those of you in the Philadelphia area, the science museum's new plantarium will open at the end of October. More Info
This message was posted by lily2skippy the "better half" of EvilTwinSkippy
My sword is glowing blue. Must be Trolls nearby.
You may have figured out my devious plot bat duo.
wah wah wah wah.
But I will those Linux users back for making me into a cute and cuddly little icon.
Wah wah wah wah
We have been field testing it as a cheap way to support linux machines. You set up one Uber server and Joe workstation acts like a remote keyboard and screen. One boot floppy and the computer phones home. How is that for install time? If the boot floppy is asking too much, you can burn the bootstrap to your network card.
Doesn't hurt to have some big iron in the basement and a 100base fiber network. No wait, I'm bragging.
Old render files that took 18 hours on a P90, or 16 hours on a 66Mhz PPC, took 30 seconds. I can now skip the rough-out and render anti-aliased stuff at full size in almost real-time (for simple stuff.)
Wow. The one application for fast RAM and CPU. And here I thought the extra clock cycles were going to waste.
ETA: 2010
Finally get to use the 500 BTU's or so my new 1.7Ghz AMD is tossing out. I was actually thinking of laying the case flat on a few of the dells at work and gap the heating to the roof of the case as a coffee warmer.
I can see the special glue now. Artic Blue becomes Sumatra Brown.
My Precious.
A packet sniffer will pick up a packet whether you pull it out of the aether over a wireless link, or by connecting to an insecure switch downstream. What the signal is carried on does not matter. If it routes on the internet it, by definition, can be sniffed, dissected, and disseminated.
Weather may be their problem, a profound misunderstanding of technology is yours. At least the weather will clear up on its own.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams:
Space is big, really big. It's mind bogglingly huge. You may thing the walk down to the chemist is a long way, but that's just peanuts to space...
The hookup is deliberately crude. I have a pair of off-the-shelf access point using an aftermarket antenna to boost the range. Both antennas are mounted in windows.
Even through some trees, I get a good signal. The slowest part of the link is the T1 line in the office! I have a few problems on extremely rainy, windy day. All of these problems would be solved by mounting the antennas on the roof. The trees are the limiting factor.
I've been using wireless for broadband for a few months now. In downtown Philadelphia the local cable company is not very serious about taking on new customers. We were told that someone would be there to set us up next week for about 4 months. We offered to pick up a box and install it, but they kept giving us the runaround.
The last time I had DSL the company went out of business a year into my 2 year contract. We also had problems with the local phone company using our DSL wire to string up new phones. (I'll never forget the Covad service guy: "Sir, your DSL line has a dialtone.")
My 802.11 wireless rig is going through a few trees and doesn't seem to mind. Hills are easy, it's called a rooftop mount.
I also expressly forbid extraneous servers on our network because of my experiences as a College administrator. Most people do not patch their boxes, and they don't even know more often than not that it has been rooted. If I had a nickle for every DOS...
It's kind of come full circle. Back on an NT network I was the rogue linux server guy. Now I'm the Linux guy clamping down on NT server (2000/XP/ETC).
Hey, have one person get a T1 line and split it with the neighbors through WiFi. $800 / 20 users = what you are paying for Cable. Wifi boxes are $140 a pop, that's 1/2 the price of a cable modem. If the signal is crappy, about $200 in antennas are all that are required to service 2 city blocks.
I personally am leaching off of the office, with their blessing, because getting any kind of broadband in Center City Philadelphia requires a letter to your congressman. I'm the admin, and they are supposed to be paying for my link into the building anyway. (Living 2 blocks away from the office is nice for more than just commuting, let me tell you.)
I want to hear less bitching and more hacking people! We aren't consumers. We are customers. If you aren't being serve, don't bitch. Cancel the service and take some positive steps.
- Buy QDOS from Larry Ellison
- Sell it to Large Computer Maker
- Sell it at the same time to generic PC makers
- Continually piggyback new products by
- Screwing competitors out of new technology.
- Buy, Steal, or Copy any software too small to screw.
- Dominate the market
- Once market share is 100%, force people to pay twice
Though I think it needs a little work.That's OK. Every year or so we used to get Suits in who wanted to rifle through the Senior Design projects at Drexel.
Man, there is a whole circle of life thing going on here...
And no, I'm not kidding.
Er, yes, A and B
War! Sex! Cookies!
(Cripes, where is that purple dragon...)