Having helped many people replace a faulty DVD drive on the XBOX, I can say with confidence that anyone with $32 and a couple of torx screwdrivers can easily get their Xbox going again.
Step one: Purchase a new replacement drive on eBay from this guy. (He always has an auction running, even though this one is about to end). Cost: $24 + $8 S+H
Step two: Open up your xbox (many tutorials available on xbox-scene.com)
Step three: Replace the drive. You'll also need to remove the front bezel of the old drive and put it on the new one.
Step four: put it back together again.
This story caught my attention since as a kid, I remember an old widow from down the street who would tell stories about her husband (Alfred W. Stevens) who set a balloon altitude record which stood for 2 decades. I did some digging and found
a page about him and the manhigh project that you mentioned.
Steven's 1935 record of 72,395 feet (22,066 meters) was broken again and again in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the US Navy and Air Force with their stratolab and manhigh projects vied for the top dog slot.
While the Air Force gets top honors for parachuting back, their record setting 102,000 feet (31,090 meters) flight in 1960 was surpassed less than 8 months later by the Navy's current record holding 113,740 foot (34,668 meter) flight. (1961)
So thanks to the space program, the high altitude ballooning thing isn't the big research attraction it used to be. The Navy record has stood for over 40 years, and now it just remains to be seen if they can break it.
I wish Mozilla Mail had some setting for this too. It's statistical filtering is great after it's been trained, but it did me no good this morning. By the time I got to work, my inbox had over 5000 new messages. Sure, it's trained now, but I spent over an hour this morning deleting them since I didn't want to delete legit mail too.
So how did I get 5000 new messages? I know I'm not in the address books of that many people who got infected, so this one must be doing dictionary addressing as well as address book addressing. Since my email address is of the format [first initial][lastname]@[a large company].com, and my last name is very common, I got pummelled. Maybe I should switch to a more obscure address.:)
Qtopia is just a GUI/Toolkit for embedded devices. It runs on Linux without a problem. For example, Lineo (now owned by Motorola/MetroWerks) used Qtopia for the Sharp Zaurus which is quite hapily running Linux.
Have you ever set up an SSH tunnel? It's just a regular SSH connection. In other words, they really can't tell the difference between a tunnel and a normal connection. The SSH client just listens to the loopback interface on a port that the user chooses, then sends it through to the other side. In other words, your point is without merit unless he works somewhere where *using* SSH would set off bells.
I work for a company that has done some contract research for the Office of Naval Research on the subject of automation. We recently did a study on the feasability of using wireless networks for automation and control as a backup, redundant path to wired control networks. As part of our earlier research, we designed and helped install a control network based on the LonTalk control network protocol using a partial mesh of rings for the ship's network topology. The ship could take all kinds of hits before the network would go down. We built custom routers that would heal the network when a link was severed to send traffic over other paths.
Adding a wireless network would only increase reliability as it provides an alternate path for the control network traffic to use. Each compartment would need a base station to communicate with critical nodes in its vicinity linked by a short wire to a base station in the adjacent compartment, as radio doesn't go through bulkheads or metal walls very well, but a microwave or other such noise source would do little to disrupt traffic flow. Trust me, the Navy is not going to let this technology on their ships unless it can be proven reliable, survivable (can work after the ship sustains significant damage) and scalable.
What they don't want is a repeat of the USS Cole bombing, where a blast in one part of the ship effectively took out the entire ship's systems. They had to send some guys in a small boat to shore so they could go call from the US Embassy because all their radios (in a different part of the ship) were down.
I will preface this by saying I am a mild trekkie and as such, I immensely enjoyed the 1999 film Galaxy Quest.
I think everyone who has seen Galaxy Quest will agree that the show that it is based upon is, in essence, "Star Trek". It follows that Tim Allen's Character was essentially meant to be you.
So my two part question is this: Did you enjoy the show, and, how accurate was their portrayal of life after Trek?
Unless someone with a copy of VMWare and QuickTime Pro converts it to MPEG, like this:
ftp://jk1.net/pub/antitrust.mpg
Unfortunately, the MPEG version is 26 megs. Doh!
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Obviously the mods haven't seen this parody of the Mac "Switch" ads. It's hillarious.
Step one: Purchase a new replacement drive on eBay from this guy. (He always has an auction running, even though this one is about to end). Cost: $24 + $8 S+H
Step two: Open up your xbox (many tutorials available on xbox-scene.com)
Step three: Replace the drive. You'll also need to remove the front bezel of the old drive and put it on the new one.
Step four: put it back together again.
Time for repair: 15 minutes.
What's more impressive is Berkeley *working together* with Stanford. Incredible! I thought it would never happen in my lifetime. :)
Steven's 1935 record of 72,395 feet (22,066 meters) was broken again and again in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the US Navy and Air Force with their stratolab and manhigh projects vied for the top dog slot.
While the Air Force gets top honors for parachuting back, their record setting 102,000 feet (31,090 meters) flight in 1960 was surpassed less than 8 months later by the Navy's current record holding 113,740 foot (34,668 meter) flight. (1961)
So thanks to the space program, the high altitude ballooning thing isn't the big research attraction it used to be. The Navy record has stood for over 40 years, and now it just remains to be seen if they can break it.
Did I say I was running Windows anywhere?
I wish Mozilla Mail had some setting for this too. It's statistical filtering is great after it's been trained, but it did me no good this morning. By the time I got to work, my inbox had over 5000 new messages. Sure, it's trained now, but I spent over an hour this morning deleting them since I didn't want to delete legit mail too.
:)
So how did I get 5000 new messages? I know I'm not in the address books of that many people who got infected, so this one must be doing dictionary addressing as well as address book addressing. Since my email address is of the format [first initial][lastname]@[a large company].com, and my last name is very common, I got pummelled. Maybe I should switch to a more obscure address.
Qtopia is just a GUI/Toolkit for embedded devices. It runs on Linux without a problem. For example, Lineo (now owned by Motorola/MetroWerks) used Qtopia for the Sharp Zaurus which is quite hapily running Linux.
Have you ever set up an SSH tunnel? It's just a regular SSH connection. In other words, they really can't tell the difference between a tunnel and a normal connection. The SSH client just listens to the loopback interface on a port that the user chooses, then sends it through to the other side. In other words, your point is without merit unless he works somewhere where *using* SSH would set off bells.
Adding a wireless network would only increase reliability as it provides an alternate path for the control network traffic to use. Each compartment would need a base station to communicate with critical nodes in its vicinity linked by a short wire to a base station in the adjacent compartment, as radio doesn't go through bulkheads or metal walls very well, but a microwave or other such noise source would do little to disrupt traffic flow. Trust me, the Navy is not going to let this technology on their ships unless it can be proven reliable, survivable (can work after the ship sustains significant damage) and scalable.
What they don't want is a repeat of the USS Cole bombing, where a blast in one part of the ship effectively took out the entire ship's systems. They had to send some guys in a small boat to shore so they could go call from the US Embassy because all their radios (in a different part of the ship) were down.
I will preface this by saying I am a mild trekkie and as such, I immensely enjoyed the 1999 film Galaxy Quest.
I think everyone who has seen Galaxy Quest will agree that the show that it is based upon is, in essence, "Star Trek". It follows that Tim Allen's Character was essentially meant to be you.
So my two part question is this:
Did you enjoy the show, and, how accurate was their portrayal of life after Trek?
Unless someone with a copy of VMWare and QuickTime Pro converts it to MPEG, like this:
ftp://jk1.net/pub/antitrust.mpg
Unfortunately, the MPEG version is 26 megs. Doh!
...found elsewhere....
like here:
ftp://jk1.net/pub/antitrust.mpg
Here's a link to an MPEG trailer:
ftp://jk1.net/pub/antitrust.mpg