Keep in mind that this list was in Mobile PC magazine.
Which still doesn't explain the Powerbook 100 beat out Grid Compass and by a large margin. Grid defined the laptop computer. How much more important to "Mobile PC's" can you get?
While the 2-wheeled scooter is easy to ride (I've let maybe 100 people ride it with few problems) the Eunicycle takes a good deal of practice. You don't want to be learning how to control such a vehicle at the same time as debugging it, so you really need to learn to ride a regular unicycle first.
Once you've learned to ride a unicyle competently, why not just ride it. It's are a lot cheaper and lighter than the Eunicycle.
This dosen't sound compable to a Segway at all. I thought the point of the Segway was that the lack of a learning curve. Eliminate that and you may as well use simpler machines like skates and unicycle.
Oh, and your feet should not hurt from skating. If they do, either your skates don't fit or your are doing it wrong.
No, it isn't. SunOS =5 is SVR4 and always distributed in bundle called "Solaris". Sun did distribute a late release of SunOS 4.x with Openwindows and called it Solaris 1.0 but most people confine the term "Solaris" to versions 2 and higher.
The version reported in SunOS 4. That means that, at best, they running on 9 year old hardware. I don't beleive that.
How cold do you expect it to get? If it is below freezing, the hard disk could be a problem. (Frozen or too thick lubricant can prevent the disk from spinning up) You may want to use the shop machine as a diskless X-terminal. You can either network boot a PC or see if you scavange a real X-terminal cheap.
That's what Verizon charges me. I haven't checked at plans in about a year, but back then there were bundles. Unfortunately, they still weren't unlimited and for what I use it for (receive only), pay as you go is cheaper.
It won't require a new motherboard, because hardware was upgraded to allow lba48 at the ATA-7 (lba28) level. There is definately old hardware that won't support big drives but it is old enough to uncommon.
It won't require a new OS, becuase lba48 finally has adequate headroom and most OS's have already crossed that hurdle. (Notable exception seems to be Solaris on Sparc).
Of course, this were a SCSI disk, the question wouldn't even come up. SCSI doesn't have this "upgrade every a couple of years just to use new disks" problem. Old harware and old operating systems work just fine with new big disks at full capacity. Limit seems to be 2TB (lba32), newer hardware does lba64.
What'd I'd like to know is what IBM's solution to the software problem is. Software has always been the achilles heel of multiprocessor systems. Most existing programs and even most existing programmers can't use the resources efficiently. That's why we have gargantuan superscaler, out of order processors. Expensive in terms of hardware but it suits the software better.
So, why is Cell going to be easy to program, when other parallel systems aren't? The bits of that i've seen about the architecure suggests that programming might be an absolute bear.
never turn off fans. (might freeze if they stop, and not start again)
Is this really a problem? It would seem that if it became warm enough that the fans would need to come back on, it would be warm enough that they would.
1) Mobile user sets up notebook at new location and sends mail via the local mail relay. 2) FairUCE on recipient end bounces the mail because it can't find a relationship between the sender and the mail relay.
If the ISP blocks outbound port 25 access, you get a real catch 22. Can't use remote relay becuase of the port block. Can't use local relay because FireUCE will see that there is no relationship to the sender and block the mail.
This is an old idea. It can be implimented with procmail and a little perl. Few people do this, not for lack of tools, but simply because it is a bad idea.
USB drives are cheaper per gig than low end tape media. (the media alone!). High end tape backup is more economical with the media but the drives are very expensive. For example, you need to use 15 SDLT tapes in a single SDLT drive to break even with USB drives. That's *manual* tape loading. I scanned Pricewatch. The best I could come up with for a stuffed SDLT autoloader was $3/gigabyte. The drive itself was near $10k.
I used to be an advocate of tape backup, but I just can't justify it anymore.
Last I checked, the presense of He3 on the moon was only hypothetical. Did I miss something? Did any recent probe data indicate significant quantities of He3 in lunar soil?
Then there is the other problem. We don't have practical fusion power yet. Even questionably break-even research projects are focused on Deutrium/Tritium fusion. Is anyone doing He3 for real? My understanding is that it is harder to start than DT.
While I'm at it, I might as well throw a little more salt in the wound. He3 is not neutron-free. Oh, the main reaction is and that's cool. But there are inevitable side reactions that produces neutrons. Hense, the reactor vessel is still going to end up radioactive.
Make sure links to where they say they do
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Gone Phishing?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I received a very well done paypal phish recently. It was sent to my paypal email address (different from my ebay address and never used for anything else).
There was a link that claimed to go to:
https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?Regi st erEnterInfo
But mousing over revealed that it actually went to:
http://signin.ebay.com-ogi-bin.tk/_eBaydll.php Note the com-ogi-bin.tk rather than com/cgi-bin
It occurs to me that a luner elevator might be a better deal for landing things on the moon than takeing them off.
For lunar launches, the Moon's lack of an atmosphere makes mass drivers practical. No fuel required, just energy. And isn't that the prime selling point for a space elevator?
On the other hand, coming down, the lack of an atmosphere is a problem. No free aerobraking like on Earth. You have to expel propellent. A lunar elevator would fix that. But is it enough to justify building and maintaining the structure?
I often use my old phone number from 2 moves and 3 years ago. When I first started doing this, I was being completely honest. That was the phone number I had when I got the card. Then I noticed the name on the receipt was not my own.
For a ubiquitous chain like Safeway, you could probably get away with using numbers from the phone book. Most residential numbers are going in their database.
Seriously, the most important part of a camera is the lens. A phone camera would be obvious. The lens will be relatively large. It's location will be optimal for taking pictures. The phone functions will be squeezed around it. This is still a camera phone. Despite the megapixels, the lens is tiny. The camera functionality is squeezed around the phone functions.
It is closer then earlier versions though. It looks like one should be able to hold the unit properly when taking pictures. You will have have to becuase with so many pixels and such a small lens, they are not going to get much light.
Why do so many programs screw this up? With Mutt, I can type in a new address in the From: line. That means I don't have to configure every single one of the 100+ mail addresses I use to keep the spammers away.
A simple, highly useful feature. Instead we get auto-generated smiley's.
For me is easier to read the newsgrups at the same time that i read my email
You may not know this, but you can run multiple applications at this same time in pretty much all modern operating systems. Integrated applications, for the purpose of doing two tasks at the same time, went out with DOS.
Authentication is a pretty standard feature for news readers these days. Which ones were you having trouble with?
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http://www.steverd.com/whatpong/tvtennis.jpg
I actually own a similar model. Green, somewhat simpler styling but the same mechanicals. It's still somewhere in my old bedroom at my parents place. If I were the stereotypical nerd still living at home, I would have a photo of it by now.
Seems to me the best thing given the argument that outsourcing is good is to lay off everybody in Country A and let Country B produce both Excess Wine and Excess Cheese to sell to the people in Country A who are now on unemployment.
The key is to realize that country A and country B have no common exchange medium. In order for Country A to buy from Country B, they must sell something to country B of equal value. The trouble is, country A makes nothing that country B wants.
If there is common exchange medium, say, gold, then country A will buy all their wine and cheese from country B until they run out of gold. Then we are back to the start. Country A has nothing to exchange for country B's wine and cheese. Country A has to go back to making it's own wine and cheese even if it is less efficient.
In the real world the US can not keep buying more goods and services from China and India than we sell to them. It drains our reserves. Eventually, the reserves will be gone and we will no longer have the means to pay for those "cheap" foreign goods. We will have go go back to makeing our own. This will be hard becuase we previously dismantled our industry.
If you very sensitive, get a friend to open up all the shrink wrap and let it air out and his/her place. New plastics do outgas but it doesn't last very long.
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Keep in mind that this list was in Mobile PC magazine.
Which still doesn't explain the Powerbook 100 beat out Grid Compass and by a large margin. Grid defined the laptop computer. How much more important to "Mobile PC's" can you get?
All remaining eMail is useless no more than one year after the moment it arrives in your inbox.
That is actually not true. One year is a local minimum.
As email ages it loses currency and it becomes increasingly difficult to act on the information contained. However, that's not all the value in email.
Older email is valuable as historical record. It contains details no longer stored in your head. It's value increases with age.
These curves cross at about 1 year.
Thus, the one year mark isn't the time to throw email away. It's the time to archive. Put it all aside and come back to it much much later.
While the 2-wheeled scooter is easy to ride (I've let maybe 100 people ride it with few problems) the Eunicycle takes a good deal of practice. You don't want to be learning how to control such a vehicle at the same time as debugging it, so you really need to learn to ride a regular unicycle first.
Once you've learned to ride a unicyle competently, why not just ride it. It's are a lot cheaper and lighter than the Eunicycle.
This dosen't sound compable to a Segway at all. I thought the point of the Segway was that the lack of a learning curve. Eliminate that and you may as well use simpler machines like skates and unicycle.
Oh, and your feet should not hurt from skating. If they do, either your skates don't fit or your are doing it wrong.
Ahem. Looks like Slashdot't HTML detection code ate part of my post.
SunOS 4.x is BSD based. SunOS 5.x is SVR4.
Erm, SunOS is Solaris.
No, it isn't. SunOS =5 is SVR4 and always distributed in bundle called "Solaris". Sun did distribute a late release of SunOS 4.x with Openwindows and called it Solaris 1.0 but most people confine the term "Solaris" to versions 2 and higher.
The version reported in SunOS 4. That means that, at best, they running on 9 year old hardware. I don't beleive that.
How cold do you expect it to get? If it is below freezing, the hard disk could be a problem. (Frozen or too thick lubricant can prevent the disk from spinning up) You may want to use the shop machine as a diskless X-terminal. You can either network boot a PC or see if you scavange a real X-terminal cheap.
That's what Verizon charges me. I haven't checked at plans in about a year, but back then there were bundles. Unfortunately, they still weren't unlimited and for what I use it for (receive only), pay as you go is cheaper.
It won't require a new motherboard, because hardware was upgraded to allow lba48 at the ATA-7 (lba28) level. There is definately old hardware that won't support big drives but it is old enough to uncommon.
It won't require a new OS, becuase lba48 finally has adequate headroom and most OS's have already crossed that hurdle. (Notable exception seems to be Solaris on Sparc).
Of course, this were a SCSI disk, the question wouldn't even come up. SCSI doesn't have this "upgrade every a couple of years just to use new disks" problem. Old harware and old operating systems work just fine with new big disks at full capacity. Limit seems to be 2TB (lba32), newer hardware does lba64.
What'd I'd like to know is what IBM's solution to the software problem is. Software has always been the achilles heel of multiprocessor systems. Most existing programs and even most existing programmers can't use the resources efficiently. That's why we have gargantuan superscaler, out of order processors. Expensive in terms of hardware but it suits the software better.
So, why is Cell going to be easy to program, when other parallel systems aren't? The bits of that i've seen about the architecure suggests that programming might be an absolute bear.
never turn off fans. (might freeze if they stop, and not start again)
Is this really a problem? It would seem that if it became warm enough that the fans would need to come back on, it would be warm enough that they would.
1) Mobile user sets up notebook at new location and sends mail via the local mail relay.
2) FairUCE on recipient end bounces the mail because it can't find a relationship between the sender and the mail relay.
If the ISP blocks outbound port 25 access, you get a real catch 22. Can't use remote relay becuase of the port block. Can't use local relay because FireUCE will see that there is no relationship to the sender and block the mail.
This is an old idea. It can be implimented with procmail and a little perl. Few people do this, not for lack of tools, but simply because it is a bad idea.
USB drives are cheaper per gig than low end tape media. (the media alone!). High end tape backup is more economical with the media but the drives are very expensive. For example, you need to use 15 SDLT tapes in a single SDLT drive to break even with USB drives. That's *manual* tape loading. I scanned Pricewatch. The best I could come up with for a stuffed SDLT autoloader was $3/gigabyte. The drive itself was near $10k.
I used to be an advocate of tape backup, but I just can't justify it anymore.
Last I checked, the presense of He3 on the moon was only hypothetical. Did I miss something? Did any recent probe data indicate significant quantities of He3 in lunar soil?
Then there is the other problem. We don't have practical fusion power yet. Even questionably break-even research projects are focused on Deutrium/Tritium fusion. Is anyone doing He3 for real? My understanding is that it is harder to start than DT.
While I'm at it, I might as well throw a little more salt in the wound. He3 is not neutron-free. Oh, the main reaction is and that's cool. But there are inevitable side reactions that produces neutrons. Hense, the reactor vessel is still going to end up radioactive.
I received a very well done paypal phish recently. It was sent to my paypal email address (different from my ebay address and never used for anything else).
i st erEnterInfo
There was a link that claimed to go to:
https://scgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?Reg
But mousing over revealed that it actually went to:
http://signin.ebay.com-ogi-bin.tk/_eBaydll.php
Note the com-ogi-bin.tk rather than com/cgi-bin
It occurs to me that a luner elevator might be a better deal for landing things on the moon than takeing them off.
For lunar launches, the Moon's lack of an atmosphere makes mass drivers practical. No fuel required, just energy. And isn't that the prime selling point for a space elevator?
On the other hand, coming down, the lack of an atmosphere is a problem. No free aerobraking like on Earth. You have to expel propellent. A lunar elevator would fix that. But is it enough to justify building and maintaining the structure?
I often use my old phone number from 2 moves and 3 years ago. When I first started doing this, I was being completely honest. That was the phone number I had when I got the card. Then I noticed the name on the receipt was not my own.
For a ubiquitous chain like Safeway, you could probably get away with using numbers from the phone book. Most residential numbers are going in their database.
Seriously, the most important part of a camera is the lens. A phone camera would be obvious. The lens will be relatively large. It's location will be optimal for taking pictures. The phone functions will be squeezed around it. This is still a camera phone. Despite the megapixels, the lens is tiny. The camera functionality is squeezed around the phone functions.
It is closer then earlier versions though. It looks like one should be able to hold the unit properly when taking pictures. You will have have to becuase with so many pixels and such a small lens, they are not going to get much light.
Why do so many programs screw this up? With Mutt, I can type in a new address in the From: line. That means I don't have to configure every single one of the 100+ mail addresses I use to keep the spammers away.
A simple, highly useful feature. Instead we get auto-generated smiley's.
For me is easier to read the newsgrups at the same time that i read my email
You may not know this, but you can run multiple applications at this same time in pretty much all modern operating systems. Integrated applications, for the purpose of doing two tasks at the same time, went out with DOS.
Authentication is a pretty standard feature for news readers these days. Which ones were you having trouble with?
http://www.steverd.com/whatpong/tvtennis.jpg
I actually own a similar model. Green, somewhat simpler styling but the same mechanicals. It's still somewhere in my old bedroom at my parents place. If I were the stereotypical nerd still living at home, I would have a photo of it by now.
It seems the same problem and it's hard to imagine that people don't drop their Ipods nearly as often as their cell phones.
I'm unemployed and, therefore, too poor to buy an Ipod. Else I would be able to answer the question from first hand experience. ( I drop everything )
Seems to me the best thing given the argument that outsourcing is good is to lay off everybody in Country A and let Country B produce both Excess Wine and Excess Cheese to sell to the people in Country A who are now on unemployment.
The key is to realize that country A and country B have no common exchange medium. In order for Country A to buy from Country B, they must sell something to country B of equal value. The trouble is, country A makes nothing that country B wants.
If there is common exchange medium, say, gold, then country A will buy all their wine and cheese from country B until they run out of gold. Then we are back to the start. Country A has nothing to exchange for country B's wine and cheese. Country A has to go back to making it's own wine and cheese even if it is less efficient.
In the real world the US can not keep buying more goods and services from China and India than we sell to them. It drains our reserves. Eventually, the reserves will be gone and we will no longer have the means to pay for those "cheap" foreign goods. We will have go go back to makeing our own. This will be hard becuase we previously dismantled our industry.
If access speed is not important, you considdred just storing your stuff on the net?
There are lots of options here of widely varying complexity, including:
1) Get a gmail account and store files as attachments.
2) Scp to your broadband connected home server.
3) VPN to your broadband connected server, mounting your disks over the internet.
The upside is unlimited storage and perfect data synchronization.
The downsides are complexity (either in setup or operation) and, of course, speed.
Another upside is that, you may already have the broadband connected server and/or a Gmail account, so the cost is nil.
I've already wagered too much and, besides, I have a good hand.
Oh wait, that's not what you meant.
I mean I can't because I'm out of Spice.
No? Just forget it. I need to go check on my laundry.
If you very sensitive, get a friend to open up all the shrink wrap and let it air out and his/her place. New plastics do outgas but it doesn't last very long.