I've got a couple of 386's with that material too. A drill press might do it, but I'd be worried about it breaking - while I've never drilled through one successfully, I have broken one.
On the keychain note, the largest I've had mine was long enough to reach the floor of the car (maybe two and a half feet?) and incorporated a ring from a towel rack (about 8" in diameter). Now it's just a bunch of useless junk on the old ball-chain my dog tags were on.
The only divebombing I'm aware of requires a tremelo - quite a rare object on an acoustic like the one shown here. Actually, with an electric guitar divebombing would be very easy mechanically - just put a solenoid on the whammy bar.
The piano sound is probably easy to fix with a modification of the plucking mechanism. Slides would be a bit harder (have to worry about the slide getting in the way of the "fingers" - tricky logic there in the software, I'd imagine), but pitch bends and temelo (the fingered kind) shouldn't be too difficult to arrange.
Yeah, I've got a celeron on my keychain. In my spare time I pulled the pins out of it. I used to wear a 78-pin SIMM on my dog tags, but that got too scratchy. My old business partner had a 30-pin SIMM on his.
It's not just computer stuff. A good friend of mine wants to drill a hole in a d100 (a 100-sided "die" used in rpg's) to put on his keychain. I know several people that have d20's.
Of course, my keychain is frikkin' huge, but it has to be or I'd lose it:) It's a pity the yen coins I had fell off of it.
Anyone ever notice how hard the ceramic-like material that makes up a 1st generation pentium is? That's stuff's hard to drill through.
What actual BSD's (Free, Open, Net, or BSDI) come with aqua, which that requires to work? Openstep might do it, but it's not quite complete.
Anyway, I don't see any reason why a linux SIP client wouldn't work on any of the BSD's. The sound API's might be different - I dunno - but the networking and GUI side should be the same.
I have a cousin who never watched anything in black and white.
He's never watched the andy griffith show.
The first time I felt old though was when I was 23 - Warrant came to play in Okinawa, and I was all excited until my 18-year-old coworker blurted out, "Who's Warrant?"
WEP and WPA may suck, but they give you one advantage: they eliminate legal ambiguity over authorized access.
If you machine connects to someone's network that's left wide open, is that legal? Who knows, guess we'll find out (at least for florida).
If your machine detects and encrypted network and you break the encryption to access it, is that legal? Hell no. There's a ton of laws against that, as there should be.
Other than that, I agree with you - if a network is left wide open, it's using public spectrum so it's up for grabs.
(Interesting side note - I did a three-month stint in a rubbermaid factory making ice chests. Every now and again, we'd retool the line to add flimsy plastic latches that could support padlocks - these were required to ship to Saudi Arabia. Not sure if it's true, but I was told that in Saudi, if you opened someone's ice chest with no lock on it and took stuff out, it's legal. If there's a lock - no matter how cheap - it's theft, which gets you a much stronger punishment there than in the U.S.)
More pictures of a rocky surface taken from the soviet probe to venus. Perhaps the rocky barren surface with grit-like "soil" is the norm for planets with atmospheres.
Do you really want a world where the internet is defined by a microsoft standard?
I agree that it's a good thing that microsoft used the BSD TCP/IP stack. However, I don't agree with the reasoning that we'd be using a proprietary standard in place of TCP/IP on the internet.
When microsoft finally jumped on the internet bandwagon, the protocols were in place, the routers were there and working, the servers were running, and microsoft was playing catch-up. Remember using trumpet winsock to connect to the 'net on windows 3.1? 3rd party providers were already supporting the standard protocols while microsoft was trying to promote its proprietary MSN network (which failed miserably - it has nothing in common with MSN today). If they couldn't have used the BSD code, they would have written their own.
AOL and Compuserve had to face the same - hell, I think AOL still uses its proprietary protocols internally, but if they didn't support TCP/IP, they'd be out of business now.
Granted, TCP/IP might not have taken off so well if the BSD implementation was not available. There were protocols in existance before TCP/IP that were in place and working on the internet, and the sockets code being freely available was a definite help. But that's really what the BSD license is best at - reference implementations are the ideal target for it.
You don't have to send changes to GPL code to the author. You only have to give the source code to anyone who:
A) You have distributed binaries to
and
B) Requests it
If you don't give a binary version to the author, you are under no compulsion to give him code either. Of course, it's considered common curtesy to do so, but if your company makes changes to a GPL program and only uses that internally, the author has no rights to it.
The new shell isn't UNIX-like, in the sense of being similar to the bourne or C shells. It's object based, for one, which the older UNIX shells most certainly are not. I haven't seen the syntax, but I'm sure it'll be quite different.
A "UNIX-like" OS would be much, much more than just a shell anyway. After all, they didn't get into trouble for the POSIX subsystem in NT, and one could argue that POSIX is UNIX as much as anything else.
NT was based on ideas taken from VMS and early versions of OS/2 (which microsoft was in on), but you couldn't really call it overly similar to either. There are some ideas that originated in UNIX that appear in pretty much every operating system. It does take more than just an interface to make something UNIX-like though - Linux is UNIX-like, OS X is UNIX in all but branding, but Windows will never bear more than a passing resemblance.
Perhaps microsoft just wants to aquire a group of programmers who have proven their capability for evil. People who won't let bad karma get in the way of making a buck.
Next, they'll be buying SCO for its executives and legal team. These are the staff they need to fight open source.
IIRC, they're both based on microsoft agent. Essentially, they're the same thing, except one annoys you about office, and the other annoys you about everything else.
Uptime doesn't matter for home systems, as long as it's reasonable. Windows 2000 and XP (if there's someone who can keep 'em updated and spyware-free) certainly meet those requirements.
However, to someone who has a sporadic workflow, rebooting is a nightmare. I can't reboot now; I've got twelve tabs open in mozilla, wings3d with a half-finished model in it, pan doing some downloading, a set of terminals open with the source code and reference docs to a program I'm working on, and a terminal with the stylesheet for my website open so I can experiment with new designs. I flit from one to the other when I get bored of working on one, but it's very, very rare that I don't have at least three things going on at once. Closing the programs would interrupt my thought process for them (strangely enough, as long as they're open and I visit them once a day, my workflow survives just fine).
Example: the program I'm working on has two terminals - one editing source code, one with an input file for the program. Three of the tabs are open to reference documentation for java. Another terminal is used when I finish a class and need to compile it and test it. This is spread across three desktops. Starting all that over again to reboot for a game would be a hassle, whereas switching to another desktop and starting up freeciv preserves everything for me.
What does multithreading have to do with multiple processes? Especially when talking UNIX derivatives? They're different concepts, and (at least on UNIX) handled differently by the scheduler.
UNIX uses separate processes more then threading. Mozilla and evolution aren't threads (although they are both multithreaded, I'm sure) - they're processes. UNIX boxes were optimized for multiple processes before CP/M was dreamed of, much less its derivatives. That's why most server programs running on UNIX use fork() instead of threads.
Windows wasn't optimized from the get-go for multiple applications at once. It was designed to one thing at a time, and it shows. Sure, multithreading is great for one application, but that doesn't help if you've trying to run a game and have photoshop in the background doing a complex filter or bryce rendering a scene.
Right now I'm posting this in mozilla with applications open on eight other desktops - two of which are currently doing things (I've got a render going and some downloads running in pan). There's no slowdown at all, until processes start fighting over I/O - and if I was doing this on my sparc (can't beat 'em for I/O, especially with solaris), I wouldn't even have that slowdown.
They're the people who maintain the RFC's (Request for Comments) that are the basis for the protocols used on the internet. These include the protocols used for packet transmission, email, telnet, ftp, etc.
Basically, they're similar in purpose to the W3C or the X consortium, except instead of document formats or windowing systems they maintain standards for networking.
Now that you know this, you can google for any other related questions you have.
I'm not disputing anything in your post, although I'm not sure on the specifics on the laptop issue. I'm just saying that POWER and PPC are different, and that the number of POWER-based systems are irrelevant to PPC.
Plus, apple's not a supercomputer vendor. Given, there's a few PPC based systems on there, but why would apple care?
A) I did tech support for two years, then did it on a rotating schedule while in the military, then ran a computer shop where we did it all the time. I still do for a couple of clients.
B) Becoming a teacher is one of my plans for after I get my master's degree. While in Japan, I spent maybe a third of my time training new troops who were new to network administration. I deal with teachers every day at school, and get along great with the vast majority of them.
C) There's a lot of examples of people who, in times of economic downturn, become teachers. There's even more examples of people who teach training classes who barely know the material and have almost no experience in the field. These are the people referred to in my sig.
D) You take this way, way, way too seriously. Get some ex-lax.
The mayor brushed aside possible constitutional concerns about identifying people accused, but not convicted, of crimes and asserted that the public good outweighs objections by people collared by police.
That's B.S. I mean, seriously, complete and utter B.S. I hope daley gets his ass burned for this one.
And how the hell does this help the public good? Maybe prostitutes can more easily recognize repeat customers? If anything, this leads to more domestic crime when the poor guy's wife beans him with a frying pan.
Economic factors, the "war on drugs", racial violence (the equal rights laws were put into place in the 1960's, and some people still haven't accepted it), and a lot of other things.
Around here, mostly what you get in the jails is drug offences, domestic abuse, drunk driving, and robbery. Oh, and the people who write bad checks, who it's rumored get longer sentences than armed robbers do. This is a county with maybe 80,000 people in it in northern oklahoma. Most of the drug offenders are marijuana users/dealers, although there's been a spike in methamphetemine production over the last couple years.
I had a friend go up for 2nd degree murder a while back, and it was a big deal in this town (20k people).
In the big cities, there's gang problems, violent robberies, hard drugs, organized crime, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don't have experience with.
Oh, and I don't see the point in the whole rehabilitation thing. I've got a few friends who have been in prison - some as guards, some as inmates - and they all seem to agree that if anything prison makes the whole situation worse. Then you have laws like one that passed a while back in oklahoma where drug offenders could't get any form of government college tuition assistance and how felons are barred from practicing law or various other professions - gee, let's keep them poor, why don't we? That'll solve the problem.
PowerPC is _based_ on POWER. The G5 is basically a modified and scaled down POWER 4 chip.
Apple's got other concerns rather than just raw computing power, and they don't need the features that allow you to have more than 4 or so processors in one system. POWER itself isn't designed for small applications - engineering workstations is about as low end as it gets.
I've never used them in large quantities, but I bought the first tiger board that supported a dual athlon setup (it was the second tyan board that did, but the thunder model was $650 for the board alone).
It's done well, but there were problems with the BIOS that took them a while to fix. The early revisions had problems with interrupt handling on the PCI bus, causing any ethernet card or the builtin ethernet port to stop functioning, among other issues - upgrading the BIOS fixed that. Also, the onboard USB had a design flaw, and to this day I can't get USB to work reliably on this thing using the card they shipped with the motherboard (they also shipped a backplate with the USB port covered).
Of course, Tyan was the first board to support dual athlons, so that sort of thing is to be expected.
ECS boards are part of the ECS/Amptron/PC Chips group. They're well known for high RMA rates and faulty components. They're cheap for a reason.
In general, unless you're dealing with a large number of builds, it doesn't really matter. If you buy five boards, you'll be just as likely to find a bad PC Chips board as a bad ASUS or AOpen board.
The difference comes in where you're dealing with large numbers of machines, such as if you're an IT shop that builds its own workstations or a computer shop selling white boxes. In those cases, you want to spend a little more on a board with low RMA rates. My old computer shop got burned using Amptron boards - after a little research, we found a nice cheap AOpen board that would suit our needs perfectly and had a much lower RMA rate.
Same with Seagate drives - at the time, a survey I found showed Seagate as having the lowest RMA rate in their drives, so we paid the extra $5-10 for Seagate drives. Nowdays from what I've seen Maxtor's improved as far as reliability goes, but last I saw (which was a while back) their warrantee wasn't as good.
So, unless you're building a lot of machines, don't worry too much about brand and concern yourself more with the feature set. If you're building a lot, then it pays to do a little research beforehand.
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I've got a couple of 386's with that material too. A drill press might do it, but I'd be worried about it breaking - while I've never drilled through one successfully, I have broken one.
On the keychain note, the largest I've had mine was long enough to reach the floor of the car (maybe two and a half feet?) and incorporated a ring from a towel rack (about 8" in diameter). Now it's just a bunch of useless junk on the old ball-chain my dog tags were on.
The only divebombing I'm aware of requires a tremelo - quite a rare object on an acoustic like the one shown here. Actually, with an electric guitar divebombing would be very easy mechanically - just put a solenoid on the whammy bar.
The piano sound is probably easy to fix with a modification of the plucking mechanism. Slides would be a bit harder (have to worry about the slide getting in the way of the "fingers" - tricky logic there in the software, I'd imagine), but pitch bends and temelo (the fingered kind) shouldn't be too difficult to arrange.
Yeah, I've got a celeron on my keychain. In my spare time I pulled the pins out of it. I used to wear a 78-pin SIMM on my dog tags, but that got too scratchy. My old business partner had a 30-pin SIMM on his.
:) It's a pity the yen coins I had fell off of it.
It's not just computer stuff. A good friend of mine wants to drill a hole in a d100 (a 100-sided "die" used in rpg's) to put on his keychain. I know several people that have d20's.
Of course, my keychain is frikkin' huge, but it has to be or I'd lose it
Anyone ever notice how hard the ceramic-like material that makes up a 1st generation pentium is? That's stuff's hard to drill through.
What actual BSD's (Free, Open, Net, or BSDI) come with aqua, which that requires to work? Openstep might do it, but it's not quite complete.
Anyway, I don't see any reason why a linux SIP client wouldn't work on any of the BSD's. The sound API's might be different - I dunno - but the networking and GUI side should be the same.
I have a cousin who never watched anything in black and white.
He's never watched the andy griffith show.
The first time I felt old though was when I was 23 - Warrant came to play in Okinawa, and I was all excited until my 18-year-old coworker blurted out, "Who's Warrant?"
Hand me my cane...
WEP and WPA may suck, but they give you one advantage: they eliminate legal ambiguity over authorized access.
If you machine connects to someone's network that's left wide open, is that legal? Who knows, guess we'll find out (at least for florida).
If your machine detects and encrypted network and you break the encryption to access it, is that legal? Hell no. There's a ton of laws against that, as there should be.
Other than that, I agree with you - if a network is left wide open, it's using public spectrum so it's up for grabs.
(Interesting side note - I did a three-month stint in a rubbermaid factory making ice chests. Every now and again, we'd retool the line to add flimsy plastic latches that could support padlocks - these were required to ship to Saudi Arabia. Not sure if it's true, but I was told that in Saudi, if you opened someone's ice chest with no lock on it and took stuff out, it's legal. If there's a lock - no matter how cheap - it's theft, which gets you a much stronger punishment there than in the U.S.)
More pictures of a rocky surface taken from the soviet probe to venus. Perhaps the rocky barren surface with grit-like "soil" is the norm for planets with atmospheres.
Do you really want a world where the internet is defined by a microsoft standard?
I agree that it's a good thing that microsoft used the BSD TCP/IP stack. However, I don't agree with the reasoning that we'd be using a proprietary standard in place of TCP/IP on the internet.
When microsoft finally jumped on the internet bandwagon, the protocols were in place, the routers were there and working, the servers were running, and microsoft was playing catch-up. Remember using trumpet winsock to connect to the 'net on windows 3.1? 3rd party providers were already supporting the standard protocols while microsoft was trying to promote its proprietary MSN network (which failed miserably - it has nothing in common with MSN today). If they couldn't have used the BSD code, they would have written their own.
AOL and Compuserve had to face the same - hell, I think AOL still uses its proprietary protocols internally, but if they didn't support TCP/IP, they'd be out of business now.
Granted, TCP/IP might not have taken off so well if the BSD implementation was not available. There were protocols in existance before TCP/IP that were in place and working on the internet, and the sockets code being freely available was a definite help. But that's really what the BSD license is best at - reference implementations are the ideal target for it.
You don't have to send changes to GPL code to the author. You only have to give the source code to anyone who:
A) You have distributed binaries to
and
B) Requests it
If you don't give a binary version to the author, you are under no compulsion to give him code either. Of course, it's considered common curtesy to do so, but if your company makes changes to a GPL program and only uses that internally, the author has no rights to it.
The new shell isn't UNIX-like, in the sense of being similar to the bourne or C shells. It's object based, for one, which the older UNIX shells most certainly are not. I haven't seen the syntax, but I'm sure it'll be quite different.
A "UNIX-like" OS would be much, much more than just a shell anyway. After all, they didn't get into trouble for the POSIX subsystem in NT, and one could argue that POSIX is UNIX as much as anything else.
NT was based on ideas taken from VMS and early versions of OS/2 (which microsoft was in on), but you couldn't really call it overly similar to either. There are some ideas that originated in UNIX that appear in pretty much every operating system. It does take more than just an interface to make something UNIX-like though - Linux is UNIX-like, OS X is UNIX in all but branding, but Windows will never bear more than a passing resemblance.
Perhaps microsoft just wants to aquire a group of programmers who have proven their capability for evil. People who won't let bad karma get in the way of making a buck.
Next, they'll be buying SCO for its executives and legal team. These are the staff they need to fight open source.
(it's a joke people, don't take it seriously)
IIRC, they're both based on microsoft agent. Essentially, they're the same thing, except one annoys you about office, and the other annoys you about everything else.
Uptime doesn't matter for home systems, as long as it's reasonable. Windows 2000 and XP (if there's someone who can keep 'em updated and spyware-free) certainly meet those requirements.
However, to someone who has a sporadic workflow, rebooting is a nightmare. I can't reboot now; I've got twelve tabs open in mozilla, wings3d with a half-finished model in it, pan doing some downloading, a set of terminals open with the source code and reference docs to a program I'm working on, and a terminal with the stylesheet for my website open so I can experiment with new designs. I flit from one to the other when I get bored of working on one, but it's very, very rare that I don't have at least three things going on at once. Closing the programs would interrupt my thought process for them (strangely enough, as long as they're open and I visit them once a day, my workflow survives just fine).
Example: the program I'm working on has two terminals - one editing source code, one with an input file for the program. Three of the tabs are open to reference documentation for java. Another terminal is used when I finish a class and need to compile it and test it. This is spread across three desktops. Starting all that over again to reboot for a game would be a hassle, whereas switching to another desktop and starting up freeciv preserves everything for me.
What does multithreading have to do with multiple processes? Especially when talking UNIX derivatives? They're different concepts, and (at least on UNIX) handled differently by the scheduler.
UNIX uses separate processes more then threading. Mozilla and evolution aren't threads (although they are both multithreaded, I'm sure) - they're processes. UNIX boxes were optimized for multiple processes before CP/M was dreamed of, much less its derivatives. That's why most server programs running on UNIX use fork() instead of threads.
Windows wasn't optimized from the get-go for multiple applications at once. It was designed to one thing at a time, and it shows. Sure, multithreading is great for one application, but that doesn't help if you've trying to run a game and have photoshop in the background doing a complex filter or bryce rendering a scene.
Right now I'm posting this in mozilla with applications open on eight other desktops - two of which are currently doing things (I've got a render going and some downloads running in pan). There's no slowdown at all, until processes start fighting over I/O - and if I was doing this on my sparc (can't beat 'em for I/O, especially with solaris), I wouldn't even have that slowdown.
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
They're the people who maintain the RFC's (Request for Comments) that are the basis for the protocols used on the internet. These include the protocols used for packet transmission, email, telnet, ftp, etc.
Basically, they're similar in purpose to the W3C or the X consortium, except instead of document formats or windowing systems they maintain standards for networking.
Now that you know this, you can google for any other related questions you have.
Methinks you pay too much attention to the second friend on sexy losers.
Oh, and don't go there if you're somewhere that a really freakin' weird (but funny) comic about sex would be inappropriate.
I'm not disputing anything in your post, although I'm not sure on the specifics on the laptop issue. I'm just saying that POWER and PPC are different, and that the number of POWER-based systems are irrelevant to PPC.
Plus, apple's not a supercomputer vendor. Given, there's a few PPC based systems on there, but why would apple care?
Four points:
A) I did tech support for two years, then did it on a rotating schedule while in the military, then ran a computer shop where we did it all the time. I still do for a couple of clients.
B) Becoming a teacher is one of my plans for after I get my master's degree. While in Japan, I spent maybe a third of my time training new troops who were new to network administration. I deal with teachers every day at school, and get along great with the vast majority of them.
C) There's a lot of examples of people who, in times of economic downturn, become teachers. There's even more examples of people who teach training classes who barely know the material and have almost no experience in the field. These are the people referred to in my sig.
D) You take this way, way, way too seriously. Get some ex-lax.
I live a block from a used bookstore and have never sold a book in my life.
The mayor brushed aside possible constitutional concerns about identifying people accused, but not convicted, of crimes and asserted that the public good outweighs objections by people collared by police.
That's B.S. I mean, seriously, complete and utter B.S. I hope daley gets his ass burned for this one.
And how the hell does this help the public good? Maybe prostitutes can more easily recognize repeat customers? If anything, this leads to more domestic crime when the poor guy's wife beans him with a frying pan.
Economic factors, the "war on drugs", racial violence (the equal rights laws were put into place in the 1960's, and some people still haven't accepted it), and a lot of other things.
Around here, mostly what you get in the jails is drug offences, domestic abuse, drunk driving, and robbery. Oh, and the people who write bad checks, who it's rumored get longer sentences than armed robbers do. This is a county with maybe 80,000 people in it in northern oklahoma. Most of the drug offenders are marijuana users/dealers, although there's been a spike in methamphetemine production over the last couple years.
I had a friend go up for 2nd degree murder a while back, and it was a big deal in this town (20k people).
In the big cities, there's gang problems, violent robberies, hard drugs, organized crime, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don't have experience with.
Oh, and I don't see the point in the whole rehabilitation thing. I've got a few friends who have been in prison - some as guards, some as inmates - and they all seem to agree that if anything prison makes the whole situation worse. Then you have laws like one that passed a while back in oklahoma where drug offenders could't get any form of government college tuition assistance and how felons are barred from practicing law or various other professions - gee, let's keep them poor, why don't we? That'll solve the problem.
POWER != PowerPC.
PowerPC is _based_ on POWER. The G5 is basically a modified and scaled down POWER 4 chip.
Apple's got other concerns rather than just raw computing power, and they don't need the features that allow you to have more than 4 or so processors in one system. POWER itself isn't designed for small applications - engineering workstations is about as low end as it gets.
It does suck though. PPC's a nice platform.
No, to keep sun hardware properly functioning you have to routinely wave a dead chicken over it.
As long as you do that, it'll never fail.
I've never used them in large quantities, but I bought the first tiger board that supported a dual athlon setup (it was the second tyan board that did, but the thunder model was $650 for the board alone).
It's done well, but there were problems with the BIOS that took them a while to fix. The early revisions had problems with interrupt handling on the PCI bus, causing any ethernet card or the builtin ethernet port to stop functioning, among other issues - upgrading the BIOS fixed that. Also, the onboard USB had a design flaw, and to this day I can't get USB to work reliably on this thing using the card they shipped with the motherboard (they also shipped a backplate with the USB port covered).
Of course, Tyan was the first board to support dual athlons, so that sort of thing is to be expected.
ECS boards are part of the ECS/Amptron/PC Chips group. They're well known for high RMA rates and faulty components. They're cheap for a reason.
In general, unless you're dealing with a large number of builds, it doesn't really matter. If you buy five boards, you'll be just as likely to find a bad PC Chips board as a bad ASUS or AOpen board.
The difference comes in where you're dealing with large numbers of machines, such as if you're an IT shop that builds its own workstations or a computer shop selling white boxes. In those cases, you want to spend a little more on a board with low RMA rates. My old computer shop got burned using Amptron boards - after a little research, we found a nice cheap AOpen board that would suit our needs perfectly and had a much lower RMA rate.
Same with Seagate drives - at the time, a survey I found showed Seagate as having the lowest RMA rate in their drives, so we paid the extra $5-10 for Seagate drives. Nowdays from what I've seen Maxtor's improved as far as reliability goes, but last I saw (which was a while back) their warrantee wasn't as good.
So, unless you're building a lot of machines, don't worry too much about brand and concern yourself more with the feature set. If you're building a lot, then it pays to do a little research beforehand.