Umm well you could set the drives up in a RAID 0 or 5 configuration. Granted with RAID 1 you would need two of these or lose half of the space. With RAID 5 you would either have to give up some of the space or buy three of these.
I don't know about Windows or Linux, but like the MacOS I would imagine that the whole 32 bit address space is not available for use as RAM. In the MacOS Apple reserves the upper 3GB for devices like PCI, NuBus, PDS and AGP hardware. (Not all of these are in one chipset.) At any rate with a 32 bit address space you can't use all of this space for RAM, you need some of it for devices.
>>Now the ComSci and Engineering dept. are trying to create a way to use quicktime VR to simutate a walk around campus for new/prospective students. I'm trying to convince them to use something like this instead, and this article should help.
I think that for this instance (walking around campus) Quicktime VR (QTVR) would be better. While Quicktime VR would probably require an expensive camera mount you would have a photo realistic image. You would also be able to mark locations easier. The college could also guide people around the campus easier, you would just click on a part of the image and you would be at the site where the next panaorama was taken. That and a QTVR tour would be much smaller than a Half Life tour. Additionally there would be some people who would wander aimlessly around a huge map in Half Life.
Seriously don't be stupid. All of these suppositions are so far out there they are something you shouldn't even be worrying about. If you feel compelled to spend time being worried and living in fear about things like genetically engineered foods, 250 Million year old bacteria and other sorts of weird biological experiments. There are many more common events that almost certainly have levels of probability several orders of magnitude higher than this sort of a disaster. Like say for instance heavy metal pollution, PCBs, lightning, air plane crashes, car crashes, or a power pole breaking apart and a power line landing on you. Come on I mean be concerned about something that has a higher probability of occuring. Wouldn't it be great if riot police were issued cluesticks and use them to beat a clue into protesters at biology conferences? Maybe then we could get these protesters to be protesting someone useful like the car manufacturers.
Yes, but there is also a large ocean/lake shore on Mars, that is evidence for water. It is in a large low lying area on Mars, I can't remember where exactly though. By ocean/lake shore I mean that a line of constant elevation can be drawn that forms a circle around a depression. This shore would show evidence of erosion from wave action like a gently rising slope near the shoreline. If we were really lucky we would see ripples on the lake/ocean floor showing evidence of waves.
>No one is seriously contemplating storing Hydrogen in an automobile, remember the Hindenburg? Most car companies are opting for a technology similar if not the same as Ballard Power's solution
No, the Hindenburg exploded because of an unfortunate application of Aluminum metal on the outside and Iron Oxide on the inside of the skin of the zepplin. These are the components of Thermite. A static charge built up and when it was released it caused the ballon to start on fire and its eventual crash landing. The hydrogen was only a small part of the problem. The Hindenburg disaster would have happened even if helium had been used.
Well if you want to get technical about it Aluminum makes up 8.2% of the crust. Titanium makes up.56% of the crust. On top of this all Aluminum is mined from highly leached clay deposits near the surface. These deposits are formed in areas with a tropical climate and were only formed in the last 60 Million years. The Soviets tried getting Aluminium out of igneous rocks earlier this century. They even couldn't make Aluminum in an economical manner.
At any rate Titanium is obtained from rutile or Ilmenite that are from ocean beach sands or titianium bearing igneous rocks. In the late 80's and early 90's the US produced 25,000 metric tons per year of Titanium metal. The other major use of Titanium is white piment for paints and for the same period, 1 million metric tons of Titianium pigment was produced per year. By contrast the US used 6 million metric tons of Aluminum in the mid 1990s. At any rate due to the rarity of Titanium deposits I doubt that Titanium will ever be as cheap as Aluminum. For that matter Titanium is a much harder metal than Aluminum and wears out tools that manufacture Titanium much faster. It is possible though that Titanium will be used in place of Aluminum in many cases. Don't count on Titanium replacing Aluminium cans though.
That's nothing new. Drug companies have been doing this for a long time. When the patent is up for a drug put a new coating on, for example to make it sustained release. Then a user only needs to take the medication twice a day from three times a day before. *Boom* new patent and another 20 years of high costs for the drug. Eli Lily's patent on Prozac is about to run out and they are trying to get a new patent for Prozac based on a new coating that will make Prozac "safer". This is yet another reason to change the patent laws.
Yeah I remember hearing about this. I also remember hearing that the IOC was forcing companies with "olympics" to change their names this time around too.
Hey wait a minute I think that the PB 1400s were a pretty good model. I haven't had any problems with mine. Granted the 1400 uses batteries and expansion bay devices that are totally different from other Powerbooks. However though the 1400 has a power socket that is the same that is used on the Powerbook Duos and every PowerBook since the 1400. However the 62XX, 63XX, 52XX, and the 53XX, except the 6360 models are true garbage, these models along with the Portable, the MacTV, and the 5300 should all be collected, grounded up, and used as filler for roads. I also wish Apple bothered to design the SCSI hardware on the 6400s and the 6500s so that they were properly terminated if you had no external devices connected. It really gets annoying when your computer is actually more stable with more devices connected.
Yes I find my eyes are just about as strained either way. Kidding aside, 60Hz is flickery and causes eyestrain for me and 80Hz+ also wears my eyes out, I can't see it, but I can feel it aferwards. Personally, I like refresh rates at something between 67Hz and 80Hz. That for me is easiest on the eyes. Of course this all goes out the window when using an active matrix LCD because LCDs work differently and for me they never cause eyestrain. Nevermind the fact that many older color active matrix LCDs, and maybe even some newer ones too, use a vertical refresh rate of a bit less than 60Hz.
Personally I like the old Apple Extended keyboards, which has mechanical key switches and has a good feel and seems to be very durable. You can remove the rubber wedges from the key switches if you want the keyboard to make noise. In addition if you don't have a computer that has an ADB port Griffin Technology, http://www.griffintechnology.com/ sells something called the iMate, which is basically a USB to ADB adaptor that works with both Macs and PC's.
Hey now I have a 20% coupon from bungie because my serial number for Marathon Infinity was bad. So does this mean I can get 20% off Windows 2000 server?
Well lets see first of all the lamprey probably wasn't much more intelligent or as conscious than the computer sitting beside you. Are you going to tell me that since it is bad to kill a lamprey it is cruel to turn off a computer? The lamprey isn't intelligent, sure it can feel pain, but your computer would feel a version of pain if you yanked out a DIMM or hooked a flyback transformer from a monitor to the back of your motherboard. In any case it is a lamprey, which is an exotic species, a pest that plagues many rivers in the Midwest.
There is an unpopulated CF slot on the MB of my v1 I-opener. Of course the case would have to be redesigned and an internal HD would not be possible without adding another IDE controller. I don't know if the unpopulated CF slot is on its own IDE bus or if the CF slot would be the Master device on the same chain the Sandisk is on.
I have also heard that trackpads are cheaper. Consider that trackballs extend into the case and can make it impossible to put PCB under the trackball. The designer then has to make the laptop thicker, not a good solution. Or the designer has to use more layers on the PCB and more layers are more expensive. Or maybe the more room a trackpad porvides makes it possible to put an expansion bay for a CD-ROM drive or a battery. Keep in mind though that I am not an Electrical Engineer and may be talking entirely out of my posterior.
Yeah well Xenon is one column away from Cesium. If you put Xenon in water nothing will happen. Put Cesium in water and you will get a very exothermic reaction.
Hmm so is there any support for any ethernet cards in Xenix? For instance the 3c501? I figure one braindead ethernet card for one braindead OS. Read the 3c501.c file in the linux kernel if you don't believe me.
Huh, I thought the highest bus multiplier the Revision 3.0, the newest revision, of the 750 was 10x and 10 times 33.3MHz is a 333MHz. Of course I may be wrong, you could be using something else.
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Some systems have a PCI slot it depends on if the Multia came with an internal SCSI 3.5" hard drive from the factory. If it had a hard drive the riser card doesn't have a PCI slot. If it didn't come with a hard drive it has a PCI slot. This is at least how I understand it.
* The sound and video are integrated on the motherboard
The line out sound is okay,it's not great though. Watch out for the air raid siren like internal speaker. Yes the internal speaker is really that annoying. It may be a good idea to take the speaker out. Of course the speaker wires are part of the power connector. The video for all intents and purposes is crap. It is an 8 plane TGA controller. It only supports 8-bit color, at up to 1280x1024 though. It may be up to 1600x1200 too I can't remember what I managed to push that poor old 15" Dell monitor up to. The Multia does support some standard intel PC video cards, if a bit poorly. As of two years ago, which isn't _that_ long ago for Multias the only card that works in above 8 bits and doesn't lock the machine up is the S3 968 chipset. Good luck finding it.
* There is room for only a 2.5" laptop hard drive This is an IDE hard drive mind you and the connector is a 44-pin laptop connector. The Multia comes with a 44-pin cable from the factory, However, finding a cable is actually not as hard as it once was because the I-opener uses the same connector, but I believe the multia's connector is not mirrored like the I-opener's connector.
* The power supply is insanely under-powered I can't argue there make sure the Multia gets properly ventilated or else you can end up with corrosion on the power connector, which will cause the Multia to not boot up. Unfortunately the Multia uses AT style connectors, but the voltages are different from an AT power supply. Some or all of the 5V pins on an AT power supply were replaced be 3.3V pins on the Multia.
* The CPU is sometimes soldered onto the motherboard There are two or three different versions of the multia. The low end 166MHz model's processor is soldered on. However higher end models have a ZIF socket. Of course I'm almost certain that you can't put a 533MHz processor in.
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Umm well you could set the drives up in a RAID 0 or 5 configuration. Granted with RAID 1 you would need two of these or lose half of the space. With RAID 5 you would either have to give up some of the space or buy three of these.
So I guess what I want to know is, do any of these browsers have the features and/or speed of Mac IE 5?
I don't know about Windows or Linux, but like the MacOS I would imagine that the whole 32 bit address space is not available for use as RAM. In the MacOS Apple reserves the upper 3GB for devices like PCI, NuBus, PDS and AGP hardware. (Not all of these are in one chipset.) At any rate with a 32 bit address space you can't use all of this space for RAM, you need some of it for devices.
>>Now the ComSci and Engineering dept. are trying to create a way to use quicktime VR to simutate a walk around campus for new/prospective students. I'm trying to convince them to use something like this instead, and this article should help.
I think that for this instance (walking around campus) Quicktime VR (QTVR) would be better. While Quicktime VR would probably require an expensive camera mount you would have a photo realistic image. You would also be able to mark locations easier. The college could also guide people around the campus easier, you would just click on a part of the image and you would be at the site where the next panaorama was taken. That and a QTVR tour would be much smaller than a Half Life tour. Additionally there would be some people who would wander aimlessly around a huge map in Half Life.
Seriously don't be stupid. All of these suppositions are so far out there they are something you shouldn't even be worrying about. If you feel compelled to spend time being worried and living in fear about things like genetically engineered foods, 250 Million year old bacteria and other sorts of weird biological experiments. There are many more common events that almost certainly have levels of probability several orders of magnitude higher than this sort of a disaster. Like say for instance heavy metal pollution, PCBs, lightning, air plane crashes, car crashes, or a power pole breaking apart and a power line landing on you. Come on I mean be concerned about something that has a higher probability of occuring. Wouldn't it be great if riot police were issued cluesticks and use them to beat a clue into protesters at biology conferences? Maybe then we could get these protesters to be protesting someone useful like the car manufacturers.
Yes, but there is also a large ocean/lake shore on Mars, that is evidence for water. It is in a large low lying area on Mars, I can't remember where exactly though. By ocean/lake shore I mean that a line of constant elevation can be drawn that forms a circle around a depression. This shore would show evidence of erosion from wave action like a gently rising slope near the shoreline. If we were really lucky we would see ripples on the lake/ocean floor showing evidence of waves.
>No one is seriously contemplating storing Hydrogen in an automobile, remember the Hindenburg? Most car companies are opting for a technology similar if not the same as Ballard Power's solution
No, the Hindenburg exploded because of an unfortunate application of Aluminum metal on the outside and Iron Oxide on the inside of the skin of the zepplin. These are the components of Thermite. A static charge built up and when it was released it caused the ballon to start on fire and its eventual crash landing. The hydrogen was only a small part of the problem. The Hindenburg disaster would have happened even if helium had been used.
Well if you want to get technical about it Aluminum makes up 8.2% of the crust. Titanium makes up .56% of the crust. On top of this all Aluminum is mined from highly leached clay deposits near the surface. These deposits are formed in areas with a tropical climate and were only formed in the last 60 Million years. The Soviets tried getting Aluminium out of igneous rocks earlier this century. They even couldn't make Aluminum in an economical manner.
At any rate Titanium is obtained from rutile or Ilmenite that are from ocean beach sands or titianium bearing igneous rocks. In the late 80's and early 90's the US produced 25,000 metric tons per year of Titanium metal. The other major use of Titanium is white piment for paints and for the same period, 1 million metric tons of Titianium pigment was produced per year. By contrast the US used 6 million metric tons of Aluminum in the mid 1990s. At any rate due to the rarity of Titanium deposits I doubt that Titanium will ever be as cheap as Aluminum. For that matter Titanium is a much harder metal than Aluminum and wears out tools that manufacture Titanium much faster. It is possible though that Titanium will be used in place of Aluminum in many cases. Don't count on Titanium replacing Aluminium cans though.
That is a beautiful link. Please, before you mod me down look at where the link points to.
That's nothing new. Drug companies have been doing this for a long time. When the patent is up for a drug put a new coating on, for example to make it sustained release. Then a user only needs to take the medication twice a day from three times a day before. *Boom* new patent and another 20 years of high costs for the drug. Eli Lily's patent on Prozac is about to run out and they are trying to get a new patent for Prozac based on a new coating that will make Prozac "safer". This is yet another reason to change the patent laws.
Yeah I remember hearing about this. I also remember hearing that the IOC was forcing companies with "olympics" to change their names this time around too.
Hey wait a minute I think that the PB 1400s were a pretty good model. I haven't had any problems with mine. Granted the 1400 uses batteries and expansion bay devices that are totally different from other Powerbooks. However though the 1400 has a power socket that is the same that is used on the Powerbook Duos and every PowerBook since the 1400. However the 62XX, 63XX, 52XX, and the 53XX, except the 6360 models are true garbage, these models along with the Portable, the MacTV, and the 5300 should all be collected, grounded up, and used as filler for roads. I also wish Apple bothered to design the SCSI hardware on the 6400s and the 6500s so that they were properly terminated if you had no external devices connected. It really gets annoying when your computer is actually more stable with more devices connected.
Yes I find my eyes are just about as strained either way. Kidding aside, 60Hz is flickery and causes eyestrain for me and 80Hz+ also wears my eyes out, I can't see it, but I can feel it aferwards. Personally, I like refresh rates at something between 67Hz and 80Hz. That for me is easiest on the eyes. Of course this all goes out the window when using an active matrix LCD because LCDs work differently and for me they never cause eyestrain. Nevermind the fact that many older color active matrix LCDs, and maybe even some newer ones too, use a vertical refresh rate of a bit less than 60Hz.
Personally I like the old Apple Extended keyboards, which has mechanical key switches and has a good feel and seems to be very durable. You can remove the rubber wedges from the key switches if you want the keyboard to make noise. In addition if you don't have a computer that has an ADB port Griffin Technology, http://www.griffintechnology.com/ sells something called the iMate, which is basically a USB to ADB adaptor that works with both Macs and PC's.
Hey now I have a 20% coupon from bungie because my serial number for Marathon Infinity was bad. So does this mean I can get 20% off Windows 2000 server?
Remember the first revisions of Mac AGP G4s had Intel ethernet controller chips. For that matter my Mac IIci has ROMs burned by Intel.
Well I have the entire 1988 World Book Encyclopedia and guess what there are pictures of MICR characters at the beginning of each volume.
Well lets see first of all the lamprey probably wasn't much more intelligent or as conscious than the computer sitting beside you. Are you going to tell me that since it is bad to kill a lamprey it is cruel to turn off a computer? The lamprey isn't intelligent, sure it can feel pain, but your computer would feel a version of pain if you yanked out a DIMM or hooked a flyback transformer from a monitor to the back of your motherboard.
In any case it is a lamprey, which is an exotic species, a pest that plagues many rivers in the Midwest.
There is an unpopulated CF slot on the MB of my v1 I-opener. Of course the case would have to be redesigned and an internal HD would not be possible without adding another IDE controller. I don't know if the unpopulated CF slot is on its own IDE bus or if the CF slot would be the Master device on the same chain the Sandisk is on.
I have also heard that trackpads are cheaper. Consider that trackballs extend into the case and can make it impossible to put PCB under the trackball. The designer then has to make the laptop thicker, not a good solution. Or the designer has to use more layers on the PCB and more layers are more expensive. Or maybe the more room a trackpad porvides makes it possible to put an expansion bay for a CD-ROM drive or a battery. Keep in mind though that I am not an Electrical Engineer and may be talking entirely out of my posterior.
Yeah well Xenon is one column away from Cesium. If you put Xenon in water nothing will happen. Put Cesium in water and you will get a very exothermic reaction.
Hmm so is there any support for any ethernet cards in Xenix? For instance the 3c501? I figure one braindead ethernet card for one braindead OS. Read the 3c501.c file in the linux kernel if you don't believe me.
Huh, I thought the highest bus multiplier the Revision 3.0, the newest revision, of the 750 was 10x and 10 times 33.3MHz is a 333MHz. Of course I may be wrong, you could be using something else.
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Just a few comments of my own:
* It has one PCI slot, used by a SCSI controller
Some systems have a PCI slot it depends on if the Multia came with an internal SCSI 3.5" hard drive from the factory. If it had a hard drive the riser card doesn't have a PCI slot. If it didn't come with a hard drive it has a PCI slot. This is at least how I understand it.
* The sound and video are integrated on the motherboard
The line out sound is okay,it's not great though. Watch out for the air raid siren like internal speaker. Yes the internal speaker is really that annoying. It may be a good idea to take the speaker out. Of course the speaker wires are part of the power connector. The video for all intents and purposes is crap. It is an 8 plane TGA controller. It only supports 8-bit color, at up to 1280x1024 though. It may be up to 1600x1200 too I can't remember what I managed to push that poor old 15" Dell monitor up to. The Multia does support some standard intel PC video cards, if a bit poorly. As of two years ago, which isn't _that_ long ago for Multias the only card that works in above 8 bits and doesn't lock the machine up is the S3 968 chipset. Good luck finding it.
* There is room for only a 2.5" laptop hard drive
This is an IDE hard drive mind you and the connector is a 44-pin laptop connector. The Multia comes with a 44-pin cable from the factory, However, finding a cable is actually not as hard as it once was because the I-opener uses the same connector, but I believe the multia's connector is not mirrored like the I-opener's connector.
* The power supply is insanely under-powered
I can't argue there make sure the Multia gets properly ventilated or else you can end up with corrosion on the power connector, which will cause the Multia to not boot up. Unfortunately the Multia uses AT style connectors, but the voltages are different from an AT power supply. Some or all of the 5V pins on an AT power supply were replaced be 3.3V pins on the Multia.
* The CPU is sometimes soldered onto the motherboard
There are two or three different versions of the multia. The low end 166MHz model's processor is soldered on. However higher end models have a ZIF socket. Of course I'm almost certain that you can't put a 533MHz processor in.