AFAIK, 386 chips seldomly where BPGA. They had lines connecting along the lines of the chip, which is a big difference. A modern P4 has 776 pins, in 4x4cm, or 16cm^2.
Thats far more dense than a 386 either was.
And how was you gonna heat the points (which is under a neat layer of delicate electronics)? Especially when resoldering the new one? Infrared oven?
I's possible to upgrade a soldered chip...just takes a soldering iron, a little skill, and a lot of paitence.
(A commercial-grade desoldering tool is also useful.)
No, you can't desolder an BPGA chip, without desoldering all other components on the same PCB. Forget the idea.
It'd be 1/100 of the cost to simply buy a new pc...
But how many uses Firefox' features for RSS, knowing it as a live bookmark, not as RSS? FF comes with RSS feeds preinstalled, so I guess alot use them, if unknowindly.
That's the interesting point, and as I've heard ff has ~10% market share, I'd bet at least 10% of users use it in some way. Granted, it is mainly the more skillfull users, but neverthless.
How is this for slashdot? How many people uses slashdots feeds? How many % of the hits on slashdot.org comes from the feed?
Yeah, it would be great if PHP had some PostgreSQL functions.
Well, as I said... feel free to fork Wordpress, or submit a patch. Noone is denying you that right. And after all, most open source SW is made to fit ones need. Including everything I make. I'm kinda selfish. I make modifications to suit myself, but I share them. Most contributors do open source because it suits them.
PHP has database specific functions, mostly. Whilst it is not too hard, it is some work.
As it is open source, I suggest that you write your own database functions, and make it work. It's your right to fork it.
Really. All web hotels I've came across uses mysql, it is the single most popular db for php-stuff. It's for a reason that LAMP is LAMP, not LAPP;)
Today, it is actually illegal to circumvent "effective" drm measures. But, what is effective when it can be broken? Bah I say.
Stupid argument. It should be legal to break DRM, if you're doing legal actions in the first place. Rather, there should be no need for drm, and as such, no need for legal protection. DRM is snake oil. It solves no problem. One won't have to understand a text to duplicate it; you can perfectly well duplicate a chinese newspaper without understanding a word of it. So can you with a encrypted DVD...
Only thing stopped with drm, is causual copier sharing their music with their friends, or copying it to their PMS. The real pirates, earning money on pirating, just sends a raw copy of the cd to the press, and gets a bit-for-bit copy of the cd.
Power supplies put out a lot of current at relatively low voltage. Typical power supplies use 18AWG copper wire on the pigtails going to the motherboard. At about 6.5ohms/1000' I figure about a.035V drop on a 1' pigtail with 4 +5V wires (5V @ 22A, an old PS I have here, at max load). If you just extended that to 15' you'd have 15x the drop, or about.5V. So your "5V" would be 4.5V, which is probably out of spec. The problem is worse at lower voltages or higher currents (I think the latest motherboards use mostly 12V partly for this reason)
It's no problem to build a PSU that outputs 5.5 volt. Oh, what happends if you suddenly draw 0.5A through it? Voltage'd rise. But that can be solved, with the voltage depending on the current drawn. It is relatively easy to design such a feature, essentially a resistor and a transistor. Yes, more components are needed to stabilize it, and make it work. And it'd add around 1$ to a mass-produced PSU.
Australia was originally a place for criminals. J/K aside, what Australia has , is interesting enough.
But the big question in my eyes is not whatever they make unDRM'd material legal to copy. The interesting thing if is they do as USA (And as Norwegian government tried to do), to make it illegal to circumvent copyright protection measurments. If that's the case, they pretty much ensure it is still illegal to copy media, because most media seems to be DRM'd those days, or at least has potential to be.
So to really make a difference, this has to legalize copying of any media, for non-commercial, private purposes, like listnening to it at your Personal Music Player. If they choose to do, it might stake out a path forward for other nations to follow.
I'm also for a law on media, that discusses your right to the exemplar, or just a general license to use that piece of media as you see fit. I'm for the last option. Let me buy a CD, and thereby rights to MP3s, oggs, and even a new cd for the production-cost of the cd (e.g 1-2$) if I loose the first one. Such a general license would be a nice thing.
What happens if cdgconfig file is lost or damaged?
If you lose the cdgconfig file, is your data irrecoverable?
When it overwrites data, is it truly unreadable?
How taxing is this system, how long does it take to execute?
What happens when you lose your PW?
Are there knowledgable people in the same continent that can provide support for this?
If you loose your config, I guess (I don't know) that you easily can make a new config file. It'd be no problems to store the config on a set of superblocks on the volume, in a unencrypted fashion.
When you overwrite encrypted data with more encrypted data, or unencrypted, it is as unreadable as before I'd guess.
And if you loose your passphrase... Well, you're done. You could have it written down in a secure location, eh? But a good crypto system can't have backdoors, so if pp is lost, goodbye to data.
hi,
we bypassed the mirroring system because the file hasn't spread through sourceforge's mirrors yet.. we never thought he download links would die.. never expected getting almost 1GB downloads a minute... now it's back to using the mirroring system (osdn.dl mirror is down it seems...) but it will take you half an hour just to find a mirror which hold the file (depends on luck...)
about being broken in FF, we spent days and days JUST to get it rendering correctly on all browsers.. could you tell us with more details what problem you get ?
about javascript.. I'll look into that, but I remember we were removing javascript in favor of php... I'll see if all javascript can be removed!
Javascript is not bad by it self, but please, provide a way for those surfin with javascript turned off. I accept that some people enjoy it, but make it possible to get your product without javascript. Add a nice Go-button:)
And for the firefox problems... I have not looked into it, but I provided a screen shot. Feel free to contact me though. Email address is at my userpage.
The mirror system is bypassed because the packages haven't been synced to all servers yet. If we were to use the mirrors, you would be getting mirror failed messages for most.
Ok, but why use javascript to select download then? You could at least provide a go-buttion, for those without javascript.
Besides, tabbing is nice. However, I found no way to switch tabs with keyboard, and stretching for the mouse is painful (yes, I do use ratpoison), it is ugly when running in smal windows (the buttons and such fall outside the border of the window).
So, if I'm gonna consider it instead of gaim:
proper keyboard bindings
better installation system. make install installed a whole lots of files in 700 mode, owned by root. Not executable by user. make rpm also failed. When chmod'd, amsn complained about no read access to a couple of files: I had to install it manually. Polish make install.
Webcam support is very nice. However, I have a v4l device, which amsn did not find. I did not care to research into this, so it is probably my own fault anyway...
In short, some ironing needed before it is ready for mainstream. But it is the msn client for *nix closest to Microsoft's msn client.
Keep up on the good work:)
What really is interesting is the islands of usage in the different IM systems. I use Gaim exclusively, have something like 250 buddies in the aggregate list, of which about a third are active. 90+% of them are AIM. Small number are Yahoo. MSN users countable on the fingers of one mutilated hand.
Yes, I agree. However, if one wants to have some of the nice features of msn (no, not nudge!), like webcam or such, you have to use amsn on anything other thatn windows. I have not used amsn for some time, but their msn support is certainly better than gaim's, but gaim aims at many protocols, not just msn. Thus, I think both has a purpose, but it is really pity that a lot of amsn's features ain't merged into gaim. Combined, it'd be helluva IM platform. Alone, gaim don't offer anything shiny for the msn protocol, and amsn don't offer anything for jabber/aim/yahoo.
The really sad thing is that those nets is so divided. It should be like email. Anyone to anyone, regardless of supplier. Only solution to this right now seems to be jabber, which lets me connect to a single point and let that handle the other protocols.
Luckily, google talk is using jabber:) If they just could offer a default gateway for msn, so more people got caught on google talk...
Really. They've got a nice website. But it requires javascript for downloading, it is broken in my Firefox, bypasses SF's default mirror system (which is bad in my eyes because it makes downloads potentially slower).
So whilst I've not tested amsn itself, the website needs work.
It'd need not be supporting DMR, but simply sending a key carrying the information that this is _not_ DRM'd, and is no restrictions on. Simple as that. You have the key, you can decrypt that information.
How can the DRM software tell the difference between legitimate free software or a pirated work?
This could be done real easy if they wanted. They could give out a key, free for anyone to use, without any drm restrictions, and have the hardware handle that signal. Then, the F/OSS software could have the key proving it was not a pirated copy.
So you want to go from:
gasoline->motion->electricty->motion
instead of
gasoline->motion
I can't really imagine that's any more (and probbably less with all those energy form transformations) efficient than the current hybrids. Engine efficiency comes from small engines running at constant speeds. That's already accomplished with the hybrids.
I thought this was what all hybrid cars did? Gasoline->motion->electricity->motion. And as you points out, the engine can run at constant, optimal speed.
Copper or Silver more likely. I didn't say it would a lot more practical. You would gain smaller cable coming from the chargers for the weight of the transformer in the battery pack.
No, not really. The cost of silver or copper is so much higher that it is cheaper to have more aluminium. But a transformer in the battery pack would absolutely pay off.
But still, the currents involved would be huge, even at the high voltage side. So, for much above 1Ah, it will never be realistic. Physical laws dictate this. Only expection might be gas stations having huge capacitor batteries charged, ready to discharge into your electrical car, so you can drive away a minute later. This _might_ work... Let the capacitors charge while waiting for next customer.
You could use high voltage and the a step down transformer in the battery pack.
But that is the issue. For a car you have to put a lot of energy in fast. Charging a battery can never be as fast as filling up a tank with fuel.
And have to handle both high voltage, and extreme current rectification in the battery pack? Nah, don't think so! I guess the practical usefull area for quick-charge batteries will be hand-held items. Less than 1Ah, and you can generally manage to charge it in a minute or so. But more than that? No, not really. Just think of the interconnects in the battery. 2"x4" solid aluminium perphaps?
Using target="_blank" in your tag limits the new window to be very plain in appearance and gives you no control over its size.
Fine if that's what you want.
Why should someone decide that I want to open a webpage in a new window, and not in a new tab? And why should I want to open it in a specific size, not the size I prefer. I run at 1600x1200 or more at home, and a firefox at full screen is simply ugly.
There's to much of the designers wanting to control the size of things on my screen. Damnit, I want to control that myself!
There is three things that is important with a battery:
charge time
Power Density
Cost
Usually, it is a pick any two, but quick-charge batteries has not been economic or efficient.
I'd be glad to have a battery with a 2-day capacity in my mobile phone, if I could recharge it in a flash. Half a minute is quick enough that I can do it wherever I am. Like at a gas station when I'm out of battery on my mobile...
Though I see one problem for big capacity batteries: The charge current.
To charge a 1Ah battery, you (more or less) have to supply 1A for one hour. Or 3.6kA for 1 second. Or 120A for 30 seconds. And 1Ah ain't far from what you have in your cell phone (usually between 500mAh and 1000mAh). So how the heck are we gonna supply such a current?
This, as I see it, is the main reason, why electrical cars never can be charged in less than a few hours. It'll need insane currents!
There really should be 2-way communication, so that the tuner knows if it is talking with a HDTV. If it is, it should pick a HDTV version of the channel. Of course, this means the tuner has to know that the two channels are the same content...
Whilst this might be a challenge, it is certainly relatively trivial to employ. Also, seller should inform customers that they might have to select the channels manually...
Like most languages (including spoken ones), it's not the language itself which is the problem, but rather it is the inability of people to use it correctly.
This is so true! I saw a good example on novell.com earlier today. A link, to a md5summer for windows. Oh, and they used javascript to open it in a new page! I thought the a-tag had support for opening in new windows? Then, why didn't they use it? By using javascript, middleclicking with firefox did not work, so I was forced to either get it in a new window (not tab), or copy the javascript and edit it to just get the url. Stoopid.
This is not javascript, or HTML's fault. It's the designer of the page.
Slashdot Mirror
AFAIK, 386 chips seldomly where BPGA. They had lines connecting along the lines of the chip, which is a big difference. A modern P4 has 776 pins, in 4x4cm, or 16cm^2. Thats far more dense than a 386 either was. And how was you gonna heat the points (which is under a neat layer of delicate electronics)? Especially when resoldering the new one? Infrared oven?
No, you can't desolder an BPGA chip, without desoldering all other components on the same PCB. Forget the idea.
It'd be 1/100 of the cost to simply buy a new pc...
But how many uses Firefox' features for RSS, knowing it as a live bookmark, not as RSS? FF comes with RSS feeds preinstalled, so I guess alot use them, if unknowindly.
That's the interesting point, and as I've heard ff has ~10% market share, I'd bet at least 10% of users use it in some way. Granted, it is mainly the more skillfull users, but neverthless.
How is this for slashdot? How many people uses slashdots feeds? How many % of the hits on slashdot.org comes from the feed?
Well, as I said... feel free to fork Wordpress, or submit a patch. Noone is denying you that right. And after all, most open source SW is made to fit ones need. Including everything I make. I'm kinda selfish. I make modifications to suit myself, but I share them. Most contributors do open source because it suits them.
PHP has database specific functions, mostly. Whilst it is not too hard, it is some work. As it is open source, I suggest that you write your own database functions, and make it work. It's your right to fork it. Really. All web hotels I've came across uses mysql, it is the single most popular db for php-stuff. It's for a reason that LAMP is LAMP, not LAPP ;)
Stupid argument. It should be legal to break DRM, if you're doing legal actions in the first place. Rather, there should be no need for drm, and as such, no need for legal protection. DRM is snake oil. It solves no problem. One won't have to understand a text to duplicate it; you can perfectly well duplicate a chinese newspaper without understanding a word of it. So can you with a encrypted DVD...
Only thing stopped with drm, is causual copier sharing their music with their friends, or copying it to their PMS. The real pirates, earning money on pirating, just sends a raw copy of the cd to the press, and gets a bit-for-bit copy of the cd.
It's no problem to build a PSU that outputs 5.5 volt. Oh, what happends if you suddenly draw 0.5A through it? Voltage'd rise. But that can be solved, with the voltage depending on the current drawn. It is relatively easy to design such a feature, essentially a resistor and a transistor. Yes, more components are needed to stabilize it, and make it work. And it'd add around 1$ to a mass-produced PSU.
But the big question in my eyes is not whatever they make unDRM'd material legal to copy. The interesting thing if is they do as USA (And as Norwegian government tried to do), to make it illegal to circumvent copyright protection measurments. If that's the case, they pretty much ensure it is still illegal to copy media, because most media seems to be DRM'd those days, or at least has potential to be.
So to really make a difference, this has to legalize copying of any media, for non-commercial, private purposes, like listnening to it at your Personal Music Player. If they choose to do, it might stake out a path forward for other nations to follow.
I'm also for a law on media, that discusses your right to the exemplar, or just a general license to use that piece of media as you see fit. I'm for the last option. Let me buy a CD, and thereby rights to MP3s, oggs, and even a new cd for the production-cost of the cd (e.g 1-2$) if I loose the first one. Such a general license would be a nice thing.
If you loose your config, I guess (I don't know) that you easily can make a new config file. It'd be no problems to store the config on a set of superblocks on the volume, in a unencrypted fashion. When you overwrite encrypted data with more encrypted data, or unencrypted, it is as unreadable as before I'd guess. And if you loose your passphrase... Well, you're done. You could have it written down in a secure location, eh? But a good crypto system can't have backdoors, so if pp is lost, goodbye to data.
Javascript is not bad by it self, but please, provide a way for those surfin with javascript turned off. I accept that some people enjoy it, but make it possible to get your product without javascript. Add a nice Go-button :)
And for the firefox problems... I have not looked into it, but I provided a screen shot. Feel free to contact me though. Email address is at my userpage.
Ok, but why use javascript to select download then? You could at least provide a go-buttion, for those without javascript.
Besides, tabbing is nice. However, I found no way to switch tabs with keyboard, and stretching for the mouse is painful (yes, I do use ratpoison), it is ugly when running in smal windows (the buttons and such fall outside the border of the window). So, if I'm gonna consider it instead of gaim:
In short, some ironing needed before it is ready for mainstream. But it is the msn client for *nix closest to Microsoft's msn client. Keep up on the good work :)
Yes, I agree. However, if one wants to have some of the nice features of msn (no, not nudge!), like webcam or such, you have to use amsn on anything other thatn windows. I have not used amsn for some time, but their msn support is certainly better than gaim's, but gaim aims at many protocols, not just msn. Thus, I think both has a purpose, but it is really pity that a lot of amsn's features ain't merged into gaim. Combined, it'd be helluva IM platform. Alone, gaim don't offer anything shiny for the msn protocol, and amsn don't offer anything for jabber/aim/yahoo.
The really sad thing is that those nets is so divided. It should be like email. Anyone to anyone, regardless of supplier. Only solution to this right now seems to be jabber, which lets me connect to a single point and let that handle the other protocols.
Luckily, google talk is using jabber:) If they just could offer a default gateway for msn, so more people got caught on google talk...
Really. They've got a nice website. But it requires javascript for downloading, it is broken in my Firefox, bypasses SF's default mirror system (which is bad in my eyes because it makes downloads potentially slower). So whilst I've not tested amsn itself, the website needs work.
It'd need not be supporting DMR, but simply sending a key carrying the information that this is _not_ DRM'd, and is no restrictions on. Simple as that. You have the key, you can decrypt that information.
This could be done real easy if they wanted. They could give out a key, free for anyone to use, without any drm restrictions, and have the hardware handle that signal. Then, the F/OSS software could have the key proving it was not a pirated copy.
I did, and thus invoked godwinsons law. :)
But hey, it was bound to come in a discussion about Gates.
Now, according to Godwinsons law, this discussion should be over. Comparing someone to hitler, eh?
I thought this was what all hybrid cars did? Gasoline->motion->electricity->motion. And as you points out, the engine can run at constant, optimal speed.
Yes, but not electrical cars that needs to be charged quickly. Nor any other kind of instrument where this battery really would make a revolution.
No, not really. The cost of silver or copper is so much higher that it is cheaper to have more aluminium. But a transformer in the battery pack would absolutely pay off. But still, the currents involved would be huge, even at the high voltage side. So, for much above 1Ah, it will never be realistic. Physical laws dictate this. Only expection might be gas stations having huge capacitor batteries charged, ready to discharge into your electrical car, so you can drive away a minute later. This _might_ work... Let the capacitors charge while waiting for next customer.
You could use high voltage and the a step down transformer in the battery pack. But that is the issue. For a car you have to put a lot of energy in fast. Charging a battery can never be as fast as filling up a tank with fuel. And have to handle both high voltage, and extreme current rectification in the battery pack? Nah, don't think so! I guess the practical usefull area for quick-charge batteries will be hand-held items. Less than 1Ah, and you can generally manage to charge it in a minute or so. But more than that? No, not really. Just think of the interconnects in the battery. 2"x4" solid aluminium perphaps?
Using target="_blank" in your tag limits the new window to be very plain in appearance and gives you no control over its size. Fine if that's what you want. Why should someone decide that I want to open a webpage in a new window, and not in a new tab? And why should I want to open it in a specific size, not the size I prefer. I run at 1600x1200 or more at home, and a firefox at full screen is simply ugly. There's to much of the designers wanting to control the size of things on my screen. Damnit, I want to control that myself!
There is three things that is important with a battery:
- charge time
- Power Density
- Cost
Usually, it is a pick any two, but quick-charge batteries has not been economic or efficient.I'd be glad to have a battery with a 2-day capacity in my mobile phone, if I could recharge it in a flash. Half a minute is quick enough that I can do it wherever I am. Like at a gas station when I'm out of battery on my mobile...
Though I see one problem for big capacity batteries: The charge current. To charge a 1Ah battery, you (more or less) have to supply 1A for one hour. Or 3.6kA for 1 second. Or 120A for 30 seconds. And 1Ah ain't far from what you have in your cell phone (usually between 500mAh and 1000mAh). So how the heck are we gonna supply such a current?
This, as I see it, is the main reason, why electrical cars never can be charged in less than a few hours. It'll need insane currents!
There really should be 2-way communication, so that the tuner knows if it is talking with a HDTV. If it is, it should pick a HDTV version of the channel. Of course, this means the tuner has to know that the two channels are the same content... Whilst this might be a challenge, it is certainly relatively trivial to employ. Also, seller should inform customers that they might have to select the channels manually...
This is so true! I saw a good example on novell.com earlier today. A link, to a md5summer for windows. Oh, and they used javascript to open it in a new page! I thought the a-tag had support for opening in new windows? Then, why didn't they use it? By using javascript, middleclicking with firefox did not work, so I was forced to either get it in a new window (not tab), or copy the javascript and edit it to just get the url. Stoopid.
This is not javascript, or HTML's fault. It's the designer of the page.