This new ThinkPad with a classic style keyboard was released last month, it is the 25 Anniversary Edition. Availability is limited and so far there's no indication if they plan to ever use the newly engineered keyboard with backlight and the classic layout in any other models in the future. I got an Anniversary Edition as soon as it was available and yes, I do like the keyboard a lot.
There is a short explanation in English on the Finnish police force's web site which makes an effort to explain their organizational structure and the role of National Police Board.
Has anyone tried using a heatpipe to move heat to the case?
Yeah, a fanless desktop PC has been done. Check out
Signum Data FutureClient. I have had one (1.8 Ghz P4) for about a month now, no problems so far. My biggest gripe is the lack of room for expansion, and of course the price is higher than with regular desktops. But my ears love the machine..;-)
I've had a totally fanless 1.8 Ghz P4 as my primary desktop machine for about a month now. I didn't believe how much of a difference it really makes. I spent a bunch of cash and countless hours trying to quiet my homebuilt AMD machine down with quiet Papst fans, huge heatsinks, acoustic mats etc, but even after all this the hum was rather irritating.
And now, it's just like after getting a TFT display; there's no going back, really... =8-)
However, I suspect that their use will be more general, extending to desktops: imagine completely passive CPU cooling - no fan, no pump, just a heat pipe the case.
I'll be interested to see if this idea makes it into general use, or whether our pc manufacturers are too hide bound to change.
I received my
Signum Data FutureClient earlier this week. It's a desktop PC with no fans at all, yet still havin a 1.8 GHz P4 processor (up to 2.2 GHz available). The custom case, which takes standard Micro-ATX mobos, has big cooling fins on the sides and there is a heatpipe to keep the CPU cool.
While torturing the machine with cpuburn I measured temps of up to 55 deg C on the outside of the case near the point into which the heatpipe from the CPU is fixed. I asked about the max. ambient temperature, and Signum Data told me it should be safe to run the computer at up to 32 deg C.
The downside of this machine is that it only takes 2.5" hard drives inside the case. For bigger HD's they recommend using external FireWire units. Currently I'm running a Seagate Barracuda ATA V with the ribbon cable coming out in the back of the case from a PCI slot opening... not the most reliable solution there is, and a bit of a shame to run such a hack on a machine this cool..;-)
2.2 Ghz P4, no fans at all - not even in the power supply. It's not ultra small, but still it looks very sweet...
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..what you are describing applies only to TV. You don't need a license for radio receivers.
The authority that's responsible for the TV-fees in Finland actually does surprise visits to people's homes. Of course you are under no obligation to let the inspector in, but if it happens that you have your TV turned up loud in the background when you go to answer the door, you might have a hard time convincing him that you don't have a TV set... =)
We have compact flash cards in the capacity range of several hundred megabytes. Microdrives up to a gigabyte. What we need is uncompressed image data, since lossy compression always loses detail. While this might not be obvious to the naked eye (for the very reason of being engineered not to be), it will always affect the editability of the image in post processing.
Things like level/color balance/gamma adjustment (wanna bring out that shadow detail in an underexposed pic? whoops, jpeg destroyed all of it already, shit happens), sharpening and numerous other image editing techniques really make the compression artifacts visible where they originally were not...
Someone please add an optical digital output to this thing... I don't want any analog signals entering my amplifier. No ground loops or any of that shit with fiber either.
It doesn't matter if you gain 200 pounds and go bald between photographs. Short of plastic surgery, the camera will recognize you.
Is there really enough difference in the "basic facial structure" for a computer to reliably identify people from each other? Based on some 2-dimensional raster image? Huh...
Well, if you install the kdeaddons package (this is with KDE 2.2, currently in beta), you get a drop down menu which lets you select the state of various features instantly. This includes cookies, Java, Javascript, image loading. That's generally good enough.
This is definitely very sweet... =8-) One more thing I'd love to see in this menu would be the "Use proxy" option, sometimes my junkbuster config is a tad too aggressive...
What newer drives are both quiet on access and idle ? (Western Digital, Quantum/Maxtor, IBM, Fujitsu ?)
I recently got a 30GB Fujitsu Silent MPG3307AT-EF to replace an IBM drive, and I'm very pleased with it's low noise level. You might want to check that one out, it's the quietest 3.5" drive I've ever had.
do you know if all versions of this machine are similarly quiet? I took a quick look at their site, and only the minitower case has enough expansion room for my tastes...
...services much more usable and hopefully will increase the use of services and bring prices down.
Heehee, a bit of positive thinking there.. =)
Sometimes it seems like economies of the scale do not apply to finnish telcos at all.
Anyway, we'll send over 1 billion SMS messages this year, I'm sure... The fact that the philippinos do send a lot more of them per user kinda surprises me tho, since it looks like all anyone ever does around here is tap messages on his/her phone... =)
Actually, for Windows there are tons of programs that extract this "EXIF" info from digicam JPEG files. It's great when learning how photograpy and cameras work.
I did lots of modifications to Amiga 1200's, which originally had a connector for an 2.5" IDE HD. At least with that machine 3.5" drives worked flawlessly with proper cabling. The 44-pin 2.5" IDE cable has power running in those extra 4 pins, the first 40 match the connector found in 3.5" drives 1:1.
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This new ThinkPad with a classic style keyboard was released last month, it is the 25 Anniversary Edition. Availability is limited and so far there's no indication if they plan to ever use the newly engineered keyboard with backlight and the classic layout in any other models in the future. I got an Anniversary Edition as soon as it was available and yes, I do like the keyboard a lot.
It seems there was a total of 11 machines, and only one of them was buried. One of them was even sold on eBay:
http://slashdot.org/story/04/0...
There is a short explanation in English on the Finnish police force's web site which makes an effort to explain their organizational structure and the role of National Police Board.
Here's a fanless ATX PSU from Germany. Probably very quiet. ;-)
Yeah, a fanless desktop PC has been done. Check out Signum Data FutureClient. I have had one (1.8 Ghz P4) for about a month now, no problems so far. My biggest gripe is the lack of room for expansion, and of course the price is higher than with regular desktops. But my ears love the machine.. ;-)
I've had a totally fanless 1.8 Ghz P4 as my primary desktop machine for about a month now. I didn't believe how much of a difference it really makes. I spent a bunch of cash and countless hours trying to quiet my homebuilt AMD machine down with quiet Papst fans, huge heatsinks, acoustic mats etc, but even after all this the hum was rather irritating.
And now, it's just like after getting a TFT display; there's no going back, really... =8-)
However, I suspect that their use will be more general, extending to desktops: imagine completely passive CPU cooling - no fan, no pump, just a heat pipe the case. I'll be interested to see if this idea makes it into general use, or whether our pc manufacturers are too hide bound to change.
I received my Signum Data FutureClient earlier this week. It's a desktop PC with no fans at all, yet still havin a 1.8 GHz P4 processor (up to 2.2 GHz available). The custom case, which takes standard Micro-ATX mobos, has big cooling fins on the sides and there is a heatpipe to keep the CPU cool.
While torturing the machine with cpuburn I measured temps of up to 55 deg C on the outside of the case near the point into which the heatpipe from the CPU is fixed. I asked about the max. ambient temperature, and Signum Data told me it should be safe to run the computer at up to 32 deg C.
The downside of this machine is that it only takes 2.5" hard drives inside the case. For bigger HD's they recommend using external FireWire units. Currently I'm running a Seagate Barracuda ATA V with the ribbon cable coming out in the back of the case from a PCI slot opening... not the most reliable solution there is, and a bit of a shame to run such a hack on a machine this cool.. ;-)
anyone interested in a desktop workstation with no fans might want to check out this german machine: http://www.signumdata.de/english/futureclient.htm
2.2 Ghz P4, no fans at all - not even in the power supply. It's not ultra small, but still it looks very sweet...
The authority that's responsible for the TV-fees in Finland actually does surprise visits to people's homes. Of course you are under no obligation to let the inspector in, but if it happens that you have your TV turned up loud in the background when you go to answer the door, you might have a hard time convincing him that you don't have a TV set... =)
Things like level/color balance/gamma adjustment (wanna bring out that shadow detail in an underexposed pic? whoops, jpeg destroyed all of it already, shit happens), sharpening and numerous other image editing techniques really make the compression artifacts visible where they originally were not...
Hmm. This looks really scary:
http://info.net.uni-c.dk/newsstat/newsfeed/www/
Or is there some unknown magic to interpreting these numbers?
Someone please add an optical digital output to this thing... I don't want any analog signals entering my amplifier. No ground loops or any of that shit with fiber either.
Is there really enough difference in the "basic facial structure" for a computer to reliably identify people from each other? Based on some 2-dimensional raster image? Huh...
This is definitely very sweet... =8-) One more thing I'd love to see in this menu would be the "Use proxy" option, sometimes my junkbuster config is a tad too aggressive...
I recently got a 30GB Fujitsu Silent MPG3307AT-EF to replace an IBM drive, and I'm very pleased with it's low noise level. You might want to check that one out, it's the quietest 3.5" drive I've ever had.
do you know if all versions of this machine are similarly quiet? I took a quick look at their site, and only the minitower case has enough expansion room for my tastes...
Heehee, a bit of positive thinking there.. =)
Sometimes it seems like economies of the scale do not apply to finnish telcos at all.
Anyway, we'll send over 1 billion SMS messages this year, I'm sure... The fact that the philippinos do send a lot more of them per user kinda surprises me tho, since it looks like all anyone ever does around here is tap messages on his/her phone... =)
Sure. Check out http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/.
Actually, for Windows there are tons of programs that extract this "EXIF" info from digicam JPEG files. It's great when learning how photograpy and cameras work.
There are 3 different cameras, one lucky SOB even has a Nikon D1... drool... =)
details below:
[foo@bar wedding]$ jhead DCP00307.JPG
File name : DCP00307.JPG
File size : 201878 bytes
File date : 2000:06:25 01:24:30
Camera make : Eastman Kodak Company
Camera model : DC210 Zoom (V03.10)
Date/Time : 1997:01:31 00:00:35
Resolution : 1152 x 864
Flash used : Yes
Focal length : 4.4mm
Exposure time: 0.033 s (1/30)
Aperture : f/ 4.0
[foo@bar wedding]$ jhead DSCN0518.JPG
File name : DSCN0518.JPG
File size : 413716 bytes
File date : 2000:06:24 23:25:58
Camera make : NIKON
Camera model : E950
Date/Time : 2000:06:24 12:37:56
Resolution : 1600 x 1200
Flash used : No
Focal length : 9.8mm
Exposure time: 0.071 s (1/14)
Aperture : f/ 2.9
[foo@bar wedding]$ jhead DSC_0265.JPG
File name : DSC_0265.JPG
File size : 639714 bytes
File date : 2000:06:25 01:21:14
Camera make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model : NIKON D1
Date/Time : 2000:06:25 06:05:36
Resolution : 2000 x 1312
Flash used : No
Focal length : 24.0mm
Exposure time: 0.004 s (1/250)
Aperture : f/ 8.0
Okay, so where can I download .mpgs? =) Gotta get some practise on that R-rr-rr-rr...!
I did lots of modifications to Amiga 1200's, which originally had a connector for an 2.5" IDE HD. At least with that machine 3.5" drives worked flawlessly with proper cabling. The 44-pin 2.5" IDE cable has power running in those extra 4 pins, the first 40 match the connector found in 3.5" drives 1:1.