A good little computer, but a slight issue arose when the owner/user purchased a usb hub. This was one of those cheap things from target. Flat, kind of like a stacked credit card. Powered only, I believe. (At least on the older imacs.)
Anyway, plugged it in, and try and use it and all is well. shut down the computer and WHAMO! (or let it sleep.)
Wont power up. Unplug everything and shake the crt arount and there's something rattling inside. Take it ALL apart (to find out later it's just one panel that I needed to tear off) and I find a power final laying on the ground. Soldering iorn from my truck, a few minutes and it's in. Powers up. Plug in USB, leav. All is well.
He shuts off the mac a few days later and WHAMO. NO booty. Pop the lower panel and, suprise, my wonderous soildering job is undone. FInal is rattling around again. Resoilder two more times before noting that the USB hub was NEW the DAY it first died. I hadn't known before then.
PLug in the power adapter to the USB hub, check it with my multimeter, and viola! 12 V raw on the input line. Yeah, the one you plug into the computer. Then I remember early macs usb ports had poor shielding/buffering.
Anyway, It's like a year later and the g3 is still working fine, after blowing a final off the freaking mobo like 5 times.
I gave him a belkin powered/unpowered 4 port and have the culprit 4pt set aside for a practilce joke one day.
Really... Come on over. I've got a PS that'll knock you dead in nothing flat at about 10-20 miilivolts. Of course, it's about 300 amps. But then agian, it's the volts right...
The main difference is you wont be as quickly dead with lower voltage. Or you wont be jolted quite as much.
I've been bitten by low ampreage 220, 80 (don't ask) 24, 12, and 460. Just a jolt.
1 amp would kill ya in the wrong place. IE, if you grabbed the connectors with both hands and send the amps through your trunk.
Mention the patriot act next time. You'll go straight to the top. Works wonders.
Well, maybe don't. As you'll get some severe background checks done.
I'm just trying to get my users off a box with shifty passwords. (A campus mail server.) It's horid when the security people "may-or-may-not-have" lost the entire clear text password file for several thousand email accounts. So they had everyone reset them. To, guess what... variations of simple stupid letters.
pass-gw, for george bush... etc.
I almost hung up the phone right then and called the DNS guys to reMX our domain.:(
It will be 2047. The'll come fleeing another race. We'll build lots of stuff with them. And then the other race will come to hunt us both down. 300 years later, the earth is destroyed and we're homeless. But we also take back most of the known space about 10 years after that.
So do you. If your not towing much, or lightly, autommatics get in the way.
Also, automatics break. I can change a clutch, and all the other wear points out on any good stick in a matter of hours. Rebuilds are cheap for rear wheel drivers.
So: 1. Stick== less annoyance for every day driving. 2. Less cost for repairs/time for repairs. 3. More chance of repairs being practicable. 4. Overall more durable. 5. Less reliant on electronic mumbo jumbo.
And why the heck are we having a transmission debate in the middle of a hybrid article? I don't even remember what the uberparent was about.
The main difference used to be, Autos junked out too quick, sticks were more robust. You'd just fry the clutch.
Most modern trucks are the reverse. (sort of), you can *safetly* tow more with the auto, but there's still the loss associated with the mechanical (and servo-mechanical) gear changes.
You can still probably tow more with a stick, it's just at the cost of a clutch if you're stupid.
Autos work to eliminate the stupid factor. I just prefer to row my own gears. And with a hybrid D/E, I'd really want to have that option..
Most 18 wheelers are sticks still... I think it's like 10k less moving parts or something similar.
Passenger cars should just go to CVT or stick. Trucks, like tundras and z71's should probably be split auto/manual for a while.
Considering some new cars have a bluetooth integration with the car audio system and cell phones. You sit in yo car, drive arround, say "call billy bob" and the thing rings, through the cell phone in your pocket.
Now I can bring my laptop, set it in the back seat, and say, "email billy bob file Process-Flow-Diagram-02.pdf " and it will work.
Cool.
But aren't we suppsoed to be driving the car. At least for a few more years?:)
"Linux may not support nearly as many devices as Windows does, but at least YOU can decide who's tools you want to use to control them!"
Notice how little this has realy changed in the last 6 years?
I have the same problem though: 3com AP; All the macs work fin. The P90 with the wifi card and linux or free BSD works a-ok. The win2k machine with the linksys weps out. I can setup the wep using the one from laptop, and then the macs don't work (the linksys refuses to use the 128 bit keys, but will work with the 3com on 64 biters...)
It's a mess. Oh, and all the dlink cards I've tried work in the same darn computer.
So, I'm using the physical wep. My boxen are underground. I'm planning on installing usb cams in the areas where people could get signals from outside (jk). (there's only one of them and it's right at the point where the building inhabatants smoke cigs, so I'm about half covered.)
We already have more data coming from mars than we can deal with: http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/
Excuse the god-aweful MSFP Orsted subpage. But LOTS of cool mars magnetic field data.
Lets hold off for a few years and get the rest of this stuff processed first. I have to add though, we've found some amazing stuff about the mars magnetic fields.
I believe there are also some major environmental displosal issues to contend with, besides the actually technical issues. Something about the inking process (for the inkjet like system.) is relatively bad at the moment.
Give that part about three more years. Physics guys upstairs are actually working on a similar problem now with some deposition machines.
As you mention, the main selling point will be for integration with other circuits. This is really the next step to making wearable advertising.
Brightness contrast ratios of above 200 here we go...
Oh, wait...
Nevermind.
I actually have had to do a lot of LCD'ing in sunlight with laptops. It's not so bad at times. Apples do pretty well. And there was a fair number of old dells which worked fine as long as you were in about 15% shadded area.
There's no point in doing SSTV if you have to lug a CRT with you.
And I'll not even get started with doing DAQ at surface sites without a GOES transmitter. It's laptops and bug repelant for us for at least another 3 months. I'm just glad it's not my job.
1. Mozilla. 2. Manuals. 3. Slashdot archives. 4. Linux/Unix howtos 5. Freshmeat archived snapshots. 6. Gnu utils. 7. All the distros...
I'm going to actually be checking into this soon at our local lib. My whole compter experience started off at a freenet helpdesk in the library back in like 95...Man.. I can give bacl.
Yep. I'm wrong. Completely. There's no standing wave propagation in water, is there. Nope. Not a bit:)
Oh... Oops. Ever seen Star Trek 4?
It takes *matter* to allow for propagation. It just so happens that there is *matter* in space. So it is possible for sound waves to propagate. Just not as we are used to them in air.
Sorry I'm feeling rather combative today. Just spent 2 hours trying to get a big empty box from canada to the US without paying 10 times the price of the box new to get it here.
(Mod up pse) But, it wouldn't be that high. I mean, I can produce something in that range on without much of a problem. We're talking a lot of Light Centureies as a wavelength. Maybe 1x10^-42 perhapse...
Am I the only one who read this as "More Balls THAN Windows" ?
Anyway, I have to admit, the article was a slightly fresh recapitulation. I'm ashamed to have looked at it. Since I only did due to my misreading of the title.:)
(currently compiling a new 2.6.5 kernel for a DESKTOP hehe) (Well, it's a backup server too, but it's mostly just a desktop.)
Maybe that's why music soothes the soul. I mean, if the whole universe has the shape of a sound producing "horn".. (I know, the subject said "funnel" but the body says "horn" and I'm a brass player)
My only next question is has anyone determined the resonant frequency set fot it? It's have to be almost imperceptable in the low end. Jeeze. We're talking about pico Hz here.
Wasn't discovered a few years ago that there was a prevailing low Bb (lots of octaves below the tuba range) sounding through the universe?
The most effective tool is literally command line knowledge and tab completion. Pine is one of the simpliest programs to teach someone to use, and it's fast. And doesn't use much resources.
Like, compare easy star to any modern MS Word... I mean, there's liks no comparison.
I can teach someone who is handicapped and impatient how to use wordstar or pine in minutes. After months, I'd still have to answer questions about word.
Actually, I sitll have to answer my own questions about word and I've been using it for like a decade now (so it seems)... There's just something wrong with that.
Cause if it's like the early nforce boards, I was much better off with Via's stuff.
Nvidia's great suff, but I just haven't been impressed with their provided drivers yet. Comparing several build ATI+VIA systems to Nvidia core systems, I have far less problems, hassles, and overall better performace out of the ATI+VIa ones.
Like take the Asus offerings. The A7NX's rocked, but the nforce eqivalent.. sure it had like extra nic's, and other goodies, just didn't hold pace with a clean linux kernel and 3 gig's of ram.
I switched the $150 nforce chipset board with a $60 Via, and ended up with a MUCH better high end workstation.
Of course, I guess not everyone needs 3 gigs of ram.:) I could actually have 8-12 in this machine and it be justified.
I'd love to get out there with a kick start motorcycle, a good multimete and freq counter with an antenna analyzer and: 1. G5RV 2. Ringo Ranger II (these are evil, electrically, so may be a good thing to use) 3. A decent handheld dual bander for 2m and 440 cm. 4. A trombone commercial antenna with different length elements. 5. A sling shot and a bunch of wire. 6. Some good shielded coax. 7. An v-500 or something to scan _c and some tape recorders 8. A gun.
On the other hand.. this is probably a delayed april fools joke.:)
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A good little computer, but a slight issue arose when the owner/user purchased a usb hub. This was one of those cheap things from target. Flat, kind of like a stacked credit card. Powered only, I believe. (At least on the older imacs.)
Anyway, plugged it in, and try and use it and all is well. shut down the computer and WHAMO! (or let it sleep.)
Wont power up. Unplug everything and shake the crt arount and there's something rattling inside. Take it ALL apart (to find out later it's just one panel that I needed to tear off) and I find a power final laying on the ground. Soldering iorn from my truck, a few minutes and it's in. Powers up. Plug in USB, leav. All is well.
He shuts off the mac a few days later and WHAMO. NO booty. Pop the lower panel and, suprise, my wonderous soildering job is undone. FInal is rattling around again. Resoilder two more times before noting that the USB hub was NEW the DAY it first died. I hadn't known before then.
PLug in the power adapter to the USB hub, check it with my multimeter, and viola! 12 V raw on the input line. Yeah, the one you plug into the computer. Then I remember early macs usb ports had poor shielding/buffering.
Anyway, It's like a year later and the g3 is still working fine, after blowing a final off the freaking mobo like 5 times.
I gave him a belkin powered/unpowered 4 port and have the culprit 4pt set aside for a practilce joke one day.
Really... Come on over. I've got a PS that'll knock you dead in nothing flat at about 10-20 miilivolts. Of course, it's about 300 amps. But then agian, it's the volts right...
The main difference is you wont be as quickly dead with lower voltage. Or you wont be jolted quite as much.
I've been bitten by low ampreage 220, 80 (don't ask) 24, 12, and 460. Just a jolt.
1 amp would kill ya in the wrong place. IE, if you grabbed the connectors with both hands and send the amps through your trunk.
Mention the patriot act next time. You'll go straight to the top. Works wonders.
:(
Well, maybe don't. As you'll get some severe background checks done.
I'm just trying to get my users off a box with shifty passwords. (A campus mail server.) It's horid when the security people "may-or-may-not-have" lost the entire clear text password file for several thousand email accounts. So they had everyone reset them. To, guess what... variations of simple stupid letters.
pass-gw, for george bush... etc.
I almost hung up the phone right then and called the DNS guys to reMX our domain.
It will be 2047. The'll come fleeing another race. We'll build lots of stuff with them. And then the other race will come to hunt us both down. 300 years later, the earth is destroyed and we're homeless. But we also take back most of the known space about 10 years after that.
:)
I know this becasue I wrote it.
So do you.
/. :)
If your not towing much, or lightly, autommatics get in the way.
Also, automatics break. I can change a clutch, and all the other wear points out on any good stick in a matter of hours. Rebuilds are cheap for rear wheel drivers.
So:
1. Stick== less annoyance for every day driving.
2. Less cost for repairs/time for repairs.
3. More chance of repairs being practicable.
4. Overall more durable.
5. Less reliant on electronic mumbo jumbo.
And why the heck are we having a transmission debate in the middle of a hybrid article? I don't even remember what the uberparent was about.
Gotta love
Honda's first hybrid from a few years ago had a manual.
See further posts, they mention other things.
No, an electric dyno doesn't *need* a tranny. But think of a moped. (most have one gear). Gears give you options. Just like with an ice.
The main difference used to be, Autos junked out too quick, sticks were more robust. You'd just fry the clutch.
Most modern trucks are the reverse. (sort of), you can *safetly* tow more with the auto, but there's still the loss associated with the mechanical (and servo-mechanical) gear changes.
You can still probably tow more with a stick, it's just at the cost of a clutch if you're stupid.
Autos work to eliminate the stupid factor. I just prefer to row my own gears. And with a hybrid D/E, I'd really want to have that option..
Most 18 wheelers are sticks still... I think it's like 10k less moving parts or something similar.
Passenger cars should just go to CVT or stick. Trucks, like tundras and z71's should probably be split auto/manual for a while.
Considering some new cars have a bluetooth integration with the car audio system and cell phones. You sit in yo car, drive arround, say "call billy bob" and the thing rings, through the cell phone in your pocket.
:)
Now I can bring my laptop, set it in the back seat, and say, "email billy bob file Process-Flow-Diagram-02.pdf " and it will work.
Cool.
But aren't we suppsoed to be driving the car. At least for a few more years?
Then you need an:
a.) Filtering system.
b.) Luck.
It would be interesting to test the effectiveness of conventional diesl car/truck filters.
Also, note:
2007 Toyota will be releasing a full sized 200+ HP hybrid diesel electric Tundra.
Sounds like a shoein for the biodeisel market:) I just hope it comes with a stick shift.
"Linux may not support nearly as many devices as Windows does, but at least YOU can decide who's tools you want to use to control them!"
Notice how little this has realy changed in the last 6 years?
I have the same problem though:
3com AP;
All the macs work fin.
The P90 with the wifi card and linux or free BSD works a-ok.
The win2k machine with the linksys weps out. I can setup the wep using the one from laptop, and then the macs don't work (the linksys refuses to use the 128 bit keys, but will work with the 3com on 64 biters...)
It's a mess. Oh, and all the dlink cards I've tried work in the same darn computer.
So, I'm using the physical wep. My boxen are underground. I'm planning on installing usb cams in the areas where people could get signals from outside (jk). (there's only one of them and it's right at the point where the building inhabatants smoke cigs, so I'm about half covered.)
Why?
We already have more data coming from mars than we can deal with:
http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/
Excuse the god-aweful MSFP Orsted subpage. But LOTS of cool mars magnetic field data.
Lets hold off for a few years and get the rest of this stuff processed first. I have to add though, we've found some amazing stuff about the mars magnetic fields.
I believe there are also some major environmental displosal issues to contend with, besides the actually technical issues. Something about the inking process (for the inkjet like system.) is relatively bad at the moment.
Give that part about three more years. Physics guys upstairs are actually working on a similar problem now with some deposition machines.
As you mention, the main selling point will be for integration with other circuits. This is really the next step to making wearable advertising.
Brightness contrast ratios of above 200 here we go...
Oh, wait...
Nevermind.
I actually have had to do a lot of LCD'ing in sunlight with laptops. It's not so bad at times. Apples do pretty well. And there was a fair number of old dells which worked fine as long as you were in about 15% shadded area.
There's no point in doing SSTV if you have to lug a CRT with you.
And I'll not even get started with doing DAQ at surface sites without a GOES transmitter. It's laptops and bug repelant for us for at least another 3 months. I'm just glad it's not my job.
I haven't been on any IRC stuff since like 1994/5. I'll have to go back and see what all the fuss is about.
:)
It'll be interesting to see, since according to the article and my conceptions of the time, it hasn't changed much in a decade.
1. Mozilla.
2. Manuals.
3. Slashdot archives.
4. Linux/Unix howtos
5. Freshmeat archived snapshots.
6. Gnu utils.
7. All the distros...
I'm going to actually be checking into this soon at our local lib. My whole compter experience started off at a freenet helpdesk in the library back in like 95...Man.. I can give bacl.
It's a whole cranial density thing... Wood floats. Flute players...get it
(PSE mod parent up...)
Lets rumble...
Ah well, they probably saw the "gnu" prefix and discounted it as bunk. Then again, "New"-cash may be a little tough for them to handle.
Yep. I'm wrong. Completely. There's no standing wave propagation in water, is there. Nope. Not a bit :)
Oh... Oops. Ever seen Star Trek 4?
It takes *matter* to allow for propagation. It just so happens that there is *matter* in space. So it is possible for sound waves to propagate. Just not as we are used to them in air.
Sorry I'm feeling rather combative today. Just spent 2 hours trying to get a big empty box from canada to the US without paying 10 times the price of the box new to get it here.
(Mod up pse) But, it wouldn't be that high. I mean, I can produce something in that range on without much of a problem. We're talking a lot of Light Centureies as a wavelength. Maybe 1x10^-42 perhapse...
Trust a sax player to come up with something like this. I laughed my *ss off.
:) [reed for those non savvy]
At least I don't stick a piece of wood in my mouth that I had to suck on first
Then again, I should be careful here, since Tuba roots and Saxes are actually very close to each other.
Am I the only one who read this as "More Balls THAN Windows" ?
:)
Anyway, I have to admit, the article was a slightly fresh recapitulation. I'm ashamed to have looked at it. Since I only did due to my misreading of the title.
(currently compiling a new 2.6.5 kernel for a DESKTOP hehe) (Well, it's a backup server too, but it's mostly just a desktop.)
Maybe that's why music soothes the soul. I mean, if the whole universe has the shape of a sound producing "horn".. (I know, the subject said "funnel" but the body says "horn" and I'm a brass player)
My only next question is has anyone determined the resonant frequency set fot it? It's have to be almost imperceptable in the low end. Jeeze. We're talking about pico Hz here.
Wasn't discovered a few years ago that there was a prevailing low Bb (lots of octaves below the tuba range) sounding through the universe?
"Good Night..." dingdingdingdingding
Solution: TUI. Text user interface.
The most effective tool is literally command line knowledge and tab completion. Pine is one of the simpliest programs to teach someone to use, and it's fast. And doesn't use much resources.
Like, compare easy star to any modern MS Word... I mean, there's liks no comparison.
I can teach someone who is handicapped and impatient how to use wordstar or pine in minutes. After months, I'd still have to answer questions about word.
Actually, I sitll have to answer my own questions about word and I've been using it for like a decade now (so it seems)... There's just something wrong with that.
But... Does it run linux?
:) I could actually have 8-12 in this machine and it be justified.
Cause if it's like the early nforce boards, I was much better off with Via's stuff.
Nvidia's great suff, but I just haven't been impressed with their provided drivers yet. Comparing several build ATI+VIA systems to Nvidia core systems, I have far less problems, hassles, and overall better performace out of the ATI+VIa ones.
Like take the Asus offerings. The A7NX's rocked, but the nforce eqivalent.. sure it had like extra nic's, and other goodies, just didn't hold pace with a clean linux kernel and 3 gig's of ram.
I switched the $150 nforce chipset board with a $60 Via, and ended up with a MUCH better high end workstation.
Of course, I guess not everyone needs 3 gigs of ram.
I'd love to get out there with a kick start motorcycle, a good multimete and freq counter with an antenna analyzer and:
:)
1. G5RV
2. Ringo Ranger II (these are evil, electrically, so may be a good thing to use)
3. A decent handheld dual bander for 2m and 440 cm.
4. A trombone commercial antenna with different length elements.
5. A sling shot and a bunch of wire.
6. Some good shielded coax.
7. An v-500 or something to scan _c and some tape recorders
8. A gun.
On the other hand.. this is probably a delayed april fools joke.