I thought the placement of the reflector was odd. They intentionally tell you to place the antenna as close as possible to the back of the dish (since the antenna goes through the "drink hole"). The focus point is definitely nowhere near there, they should have cut it so that the drink hole would be as far as possible from the back of the dish.
At least the GTA games exhibit the same behavior on computers that are ridiculously overpowered for those games (2x+ recommended processing power), and I'd bet the same will prove true of NFS:Uc - that slowdown happened on an i7 940. So it's not something you can take care of by throwing more processing power at the problem.
The L4D games all run silky smooth on my i7 940 system, so I don't think it's the same kind of problem.
I notice Crysis is a game that suffers strongly from the problem the article talks about. It runs smoothly most of the time and then occasionally, it'll bog down for a small fraction of a second, apparently skipping a few frames.
Also some games seem to slow down no matter what computer you run them on. GTA3, GTA:SA and NFS: Undercover all do this if there are too many cars nearby. You can fiddle with the graphics settings all you want, same behavior.
Benefits: More money transferred to the very wealthiest individuals as traders who can't afford HFT servers (physically as close to the trading floor as possible - at these speeds, light is too damn slow) are at a severe disadvantage.
Severe risks: Potential for total economic collapse to take place in the blink of an eye.
I punch those numbers into my calculator and it makes a frownie face.
Oh I agree with you, I wasn't talking about this article in particular. In your original post you correctly pointed out heavy bias, so your use of the word was justified.
Prompt for confirmation before sending HTTPS requests (recommended as HTTPS requests sent through Smozzy are not secure)
Wait wut? Unless Smozzy has gone out of their way to install some SSL MITM mechanism there should be no problem with sending HTTPS requests through this service.
Oh wait, just read the post below, this is nothing like a normal proxy, an SSL MITM would be necessary:
This experiment sounds like it should be easy for a DIYer to reproduce. I can rig up an electromagnet helmet to prevent any placebo effect (no changing headgear) and make it double-blind.
Agreed. Actually it's a good thing that Google went out of their way to run their operations on clean energy, not-polluting costs money. They're paying extra for good PR and they deserve it.
What temp does this usually kick in at? I have a desktop widget that shows the current frequency setting, and at least up to 75-80C it will stay pegged at max. frequency.
Maybe I've missed some recent news but last I heard, the Comodo hacker was ichsun AKA "skill of 1000 hackers," who is an Iranian and is an at least decently skilled black hat.
I had a similar error on Ubuntu when I switched to using the Ubuntu PPA equivalent of that repo (mozillateam/firefox-stable). IIRC I had to manually uninstall xulrunner then reinstall the latest Firefox. As long as you don't "apt-get uninstall --purge" it won't mess with any of your settings.
Certain big 'ole desk or table-fans can run slowly enough to be silent, yet move a hell of a lot of air. You get a lot more mileage than you should by pointing a 2' wide desk fan at the back of a computer.
No need, you can get 140mm or even 200mm PC fans these days.
Unless that's a software feature the CPU won't step down its power use to prevent an overheat. I wrote a script for my server to do just that (I wrote about it here)
You mean a 40mm fan? Wow that's small. I've only seen them in 1U rackmount servers and some HDD coolers, never on a CPU.
A few years ago I was running my home server on ancient hardware - a 700Mhz P3. It had two 60mm fans stock but they were worn out, I just screwed a scrap 80mm fan right into the aluminum heatsink (that's how the stock fans went in as well - just screws dug into the heatsink fins). Worked great and even though the fan was running flat out all the time, it wasn't that loud as long as I kept it clean.
PS1 and N64 emulation are easily doable, those will even run half-decently on an N900. Some PS2 games will slow to a crawl on a system that can run Crysis smoothly with max setttings. You really can't have enough processing power for that, and more cores don't really help.
I've been looking into Wii emulation recently, I can't imagine it will be any less resource-intensive than PS2 emulation.
My home server/HTPC only has a fan in the PSU - and the only reason I haven't gone fanless is because I can't justify the cost for such a tiny noise savings, especially with so many spare PSUs lying around.
It has an Intel E5500 (2.8 dual core) with a Xigmatek Loki cooler with no fan, using onboard video (good enough for non-gaming stuff, and it's energy-efficient).
Now if I pegged both CPUs it would eventually overheat - in the BIOS I set it to hard-shutdown at 75C. To keep the temps under control I have a minutely cron script that checks the temps. Above 64C it limits the SpeedStep setting to 1.6Ghz (it can run pegged at 1.6 all day and never get too hot). Once the temps drop it opens the limits back up so it can run at 2.8Ghz.
If both cores are pegged for an extended period (the only thing that ever caused this apart from 2 CPUburn threads is when I was slow-formatting 2 encrypted disks at once) it will cycle between 1.6 and 2.8Ghz and the temps will stay under 65C or so. It normally idles around 38-40C, but that's in a hot climate. Last time I put a Kill-A-Watt on it, it was drawing 40W with the two disks that are usually active spinning.
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I thought the placement of the reflector was odd. They intentionally tell you to place the antenna as close as possible to the back of the dish (since the antenna goes through the "drink hole"). The focus point is definitely nowhere near there, they should have cut it so that the drink hole would be as far as possible from the back of the dish.
If you're using a distro with RPM package management at home I'd assume you're a masochist, and I wouldn't want to ruin the fun :-P
But, SPOILERS:
Unofficial Firefox Stable yum repo:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-6-on-fedora/
Tagged article Idiocracy, that's most of what I have to say on the matter.
At least the GTA games exhibit the same behavior on computers that are ridiculously overpowered for those games (2x+ recommended processing power), and I'd bet the same will prove true of NFS:Uc - that slowdown happened on an i7 940. So it's not something you can take care of by throwing more processing power at the problem.
The L4D games all run silky smooth on my i7 940 system, so I don't think it's the same kind of problem.
I can tell you've replaced a few vacuum tubes in your time.
Doesn't matter either way, this Do Not Track system is just an attempt to enter a gentleman's agreement with scumbags.
I notice Crysis is a game that suffers strongly from the problem the article talks about. It runs smoothly most of the time and then occasionally, it'll bog down for a small fraction of a second, apparently skipping a few frames.
Also some games seem to slow down no matter what computer you run them on. GTA3, GTA:SA and NFS: Undercover all do this if there are too many cars nearby. You can fiddle with the graphics settings all you want, same behavior.
Benefits: More money transferred to the very wealthiest individuals as traders who can't afford HFT servers (physically as close to the trading floor as possible - at these speeds, light is too damn slow) are at a severe disadvantage.
Severe risks: Potential for total economic collapse to take place in the blink of an eye.
I punch those numbers into my calculator and it makes a frownie face.
There is entirely too little mental illness in this thread so far.
I dunno, I see a fair bit...
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2419552&cid=37347080
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2419552&cid=37347732
Oh I agree with you, I wasn't talking about this article in particular. In your original post you correctly pointed out heavy bias, so your use of the word was justified.
Update: Check out this post, this service works nothing like a normal proxy, and requires a voluntary SSL MITM to work:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2420650&cid=37351652
Prompt for confirmation before sending HTTPS requests (recommended as HTTPS requests sent through Smozzy are not secure)
Wait wut? Unless Smozzy has gone out of their way to install some SSL MITM mechanism there should be no problem with sending HTTPS requests through this service.
Oh wait, just read the post below, this is nothing like a normal proxy, an SSL MITM would be necessary:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2420650&cid=37351652
Sounds right. No different than SSL browsing through a proxy.
This experiment sounds like it should be easy for a DIYer to reproduce. I can rig up an electromagnet helmet to prevent any placebo effect (no changing headgear) and make it double-blind.
Agreed. Actually it's a good thing that Google went out of their way to run their operations on clean energy, not-polluting costs money. They're paying extra for good PR and they deserve it.
What temp does this usually kick in at? I have a desktop widget that shows the current frequency setting, and at least up to 75-80C it will stay pegged at max. frequency.
Maybe I've missed some recent news but last I heard, the Comodo hacker was ichsun AKA "skill of 1000 hackers," who is an Iranian and is an at least decently skilled black hat.
I had a similar error on Ubuntu when I switched to using the Ubuntu PPA equivalent of that repo (mozillateam/firefox-stable). IIRC I had to manually uninstall xulrunner then reinstall the latest Firefox. As long as you don't "apt-get uninstall --purge" it won't mess with any of your settings.
I've found that the best way to manage Firefox updates on Linux now is using the Mozillateam stable release repo.
for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable
for Debian:
http://mozilla.debian.net/
That's how Debian works with Stable vs. Unstable repos and distros.
Fedora is sort of like CentOS/RedHat Unstable.
Certain big 'ole desk or table-fans can run slowly enough to be silent, yet move a hell of a lot of air. You get a lot more mileage than you should by pointing a 2' wide desk fan at the back of a computer.
No need, you can get 140mm or even 200mm PC fans these days.
Unless that's a software feature the CPU won't step down its power use to prevent an overheat. I wrote a script for my server to do just that (I wrote about it here)
You mean a 40mm fan? Wow that's small. I've only seen them in 1U rackmount servers and some HDD coolers, never on a CPU.
A few years ago I was running my home server on ancient hardware - a 700Mhz P3. It had two 60mm fans stock but they were worn out, I just screwed a scrap 80mm fan right into the aluminum heatsink (that's how the stock fans went in as well - just screws dug into the heatsink fins). Worked great and even though the fan was running flat out all the time, it wasn't that loud as long as I kept it clean.
PS1 and N64 emulation are easily doable, those will even run half-decently on an N900. Some PS2 games will slow to a crawl on a system that can run Crysis smoothly with max setttings. You really can't have enough processing power for that, and more cores don't really help.
I've been looking into Wii emulation recently, I can't imagine it will be any less resource-intensive than PS2 emulation.
My home server/HTPC only has a fan in the PSU - and the only reason I haven't gone fanless is because I can't justify the cost for such a tiny noise savings, especially with so many spare PSUs lying around.
It has an Intel E5500 (2.8 dual core) with a Xigmatek Loki cooler with no fan, using onboard video (good enough for non-gaming stuff, and it's energy-efficient).
Now if I pegged both CPUs it would eventually overheat - in the BIOS I set it to hard-shutdown at 75C. To keep the temps under control I have a minutely cron script that checks the temps. Above 64C it limits the SpeedStep setting to 1.6Ghz (it can run pegged at 1.6 all day and never get too hot). Once the temps drop it opens the limits back up so it can run at 2.8Ghz.
If both cores are pegged for an extended period (the only thing that ever caused this apart from 2 CPUburn threads is when I was slow-formatting 2 encrypted disks at once) it will cycle between 1.6 and 2.8Ghz and the temps will stay under 65C or so. It normally idles around 38-40C, but that's in a hot climate. Last time I put a Kill-A-Watt on it, it was drawing 40W with the two disks that are usually active spinning.