Looks to me like when you're finished adding the PC Card/PC Card Add-on accessory, you've got about a 12oz. handheld. Pain in the Arm (no pun intended). I'll be like carrying around a small can of tomato sauce.
Besides, looking at the design, CompactFlash and PC Card are mutually exclusive options on the H3650. Let's face it, with only 32MB SDRAM, using one of them IBM MicroDrives is a necessity, eliminating the possibility of PC Card connectivity.
Thanks for gently stating the correct facts. I stand corrected. To answer your question, 75 * 1,073,741,824 = 80,530,636,800. My mistake using the traditional definition of GB, 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. I suppose that could be referred to as 75dGB or dinosaur GigaBytes =)
Too bad nothing is sacred, not even a Megabyte. Looking at the Historical Context* on the page http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/bina ry.html the other guy put in his flame^H^H^H^H^Hpost, we used (until less than 2 years ago, I might add) to think of MB as 2^20 bytes. I suppose my age is showing a bit here. I am inclined to think that the IEC saw the error of their ways too, choosing Mebibytes as the spelling for the new prefix (I pronounce it maybe-bytes, as in depends on whom you ask what MB means:)
I would like to point out that Maxtor was one of the first to break ranks, and start using the tin-filled MB in 1995 (3 years before the IEC document quoted above). As shown here, the 245MB 7245AT specs. If you look near the bottom, the engineers even say "Yields: 245.6 Million Bytes (Approx. 234 MegaBytes)".
The 75GXP is only marginally smaller than the Maxtor 80GB. Maxtor Megabtyes are actually smaller than real Megabytes - No kidding! (read small print on the 1 page owners manual included with each Maxtor) Maxtor considers 1,000,000 bytes to be a megabyte, whereas most propellor heads like myself consider 1,048,576 to be a megabyte.
Not that big a difference. My money is on the deskstar, I've not had a single Deskstar or Travelstar fail on me, while I've tossed plenty of WDs and Maxtors. I would be willing to bet that ATA-66@7200rpm beats ATA-100@5400rpm in the trenches...Increase rotational latency by about 25%.
Agreed, but what is really at stake here is my right to say that I don't have to allow email from address@evilspammer.com to burn up my bandwidth and other resources.
If RBL is restraint on trade, then so is "Anonymous Caller Blocking", a service provided by the phone company that enables a phone user to block calls from anyone that has failed to send their number via caller ID.
I use an HP-FX70 LCD and it is pretty nice. It will run at 85Hz, although I run mine at 75Hz. It has an auto setup that nearly eliminates all of the phase variation (analog clock lining up with the LCD stripes) inherent with analog LCD panel. A little manual tweaking gives me a 1024x768 display that is every bit as crisp at the 14.1" on my VAIO. It also has a digital interface, but I am yet to find a reasonable card that has that connector for an Intel box. After using my VAIO on the road for a month, it was too painful to use a regular old CRT.
Perhaps this is true, I dunno cuz I've not seen the DVD. What I can say is these cases of people actually observing the "compression artifacts" are cases of super-human perception, a result of prolonged exposure to Quake at 60+fps.
My experience with MySQL is that anytime the box goes down unexpectedly (the coloc'd box I have gets mokeyed with by coloc personnel about once every 60 days), I get corrupted indices. I may be incorrect about this, but it seems part of the performance gains in MySQL are the result of not calling close/open to force the disk cache to flush to disk, something that could easily be done as part of an idle task.
My suggestion, mr. or ms. iritant: re-read message and grok the part about how the internet remains free even if your local net chuy (aka sysadmin) starts stepping on the product.
I agree Cliff seems to be trolling here. (why don't we get mod points for front page? i digress) I would however like to point out a couple of facts that are standard operating procedure for the 'net:
a) It's their hardware and their data connection. They are entitled to do whatever they please with it. If they choose to block traffic I want, too bad. I can choose to vote with my dollars. Anyway, before you cry heresy and mark this flamebait, I would like to point out that this is _exactly_ the argument a sysadmin makes when blocking spam. The H/W is theirs and they don't have to relay for you.
b) They ain't made no router big enough to pass multi-gigabit backbone traffic and filter packets at the same time. Therefore, They ain't no fucking way they can cut off napster and your other favorite apps at the backbone (but please, if you are one of those "pseudointellectius" types, do continue to say draconian, I understand it is a necessary part of your diet:).
I believe point b) entirely mitigates further discussion on this topic. Go home...there's nothing to see here.
IMHO design specs cannot encompass what is required of a system to be "secure". There are too many clever and devious hackers that will find the hole in the design. Besides, as we have seen, they never adhere to any "test plans" when illustrating a vulnerability.
OTOH, if your design specs are broad, such as "Can survive many weeks on the Internet, while being subjected to review and/or attack by anybody, friendly or hostile without causing a loss of service or revealing sensitive data", I believe Linux and other free or open source software has the best chance of satisfying this requirement.
What I see here in the Author's question and Dr. Spafford's opinions is really a philocophical choice. In two dimensions, it's Darwinism vs. Creationism and Full Disclosure vs. Obscurity. I choose Darwinism + Full Disclosure.
I have a box coloc'd at Interland. It has been pretty good, but once upon a time, had a real multi-day problem. The "free" techs will only reboot the computer for you...nothing else. Seems fair enough, but I suggest you find a coloc that will do just a bit more for your for "free". Here's an anecdote of my experience there:
Seems someone had been monkeying around my rack, or it had a bad patch cable or something, because my server was offline. After 5 reboot requests, and confirmation that reboot occurred, still didn't come back up.
I asked them if they had checked the obvious stuff, loose cables, power connection, etc. and then what happened was this: they said it was my software and I had to hire them (or visit myself, highly impractical) to figure out how I misconfigured the box. It was pretty much the same thing I run on all the other machines I maintain - RedHat 6.1 with current patches installed, so I was pretty confident the problem was not on my end.
Anyway, I got referred to sales to hire a tech. After peeing on the salespersons' desk for a while, we agreed that if it was their thing, they would fix it, and if it was my thing, I would pay them. Turns out it was their thing, they didn't explain the nature of the problem, just apologized for the 48+ hours down time. My "main" client located on the box wasn't very happy about that.
Nope. not at all. Go watch Triumph of the Nerds and discover that Apple's whole focus on GUI was based upon a visit to PARC, which was followed up by another visit to PARC by a cadre of Apple engineers.
It is not simply the hardware-based revenue stream that is important to Apple. Hardware has always been a vehicle of expression and innovation for Apple engineers. I think this, among some other key points, will keep OS X on Apple H/W only.
About a month or so ago, when I first heard one of Darwin's maintainers reporting that it compiled & ran on an Intel, I jumped to the same, totally obvious conclusion that Peter jumps to in his article. Then I stepped back for a minute, and considered some other thoughts. Starting with Steve Jobs' de facto nickname The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley, I wondered why Apple would subtly suggest such the existence of such a "secret weapon" if they were really intent upon deploying it. I could think of absolutely no reason. Another point is why would Apple want to package their software for sale on inferior hardware? (yes - try it yourself, my iMac 350Mhz 64MB ram runs linuxppc faster than my p-III 550Mhz 128MB ram running redhat)
Clearly, Apple's win in the future is to go head-to-head against Wintel with their own hardware and software. iMac is in the right price range for entry level already. G4 would be a good price/performance value, if it didn't have OS9 sucking the life out of it. So, this whole "darwin runs on intel" thing became obvious to me after all this consideration: it is a smoke screen to buy Apple some more time to innovate and move in for the kill. When thinking about Apple I would like to suggest that everyon remember this: George Lucas invented the Jedi Mind Trick [tm], Steve Jobs has clearly mastered it.
Now, before you flamethrower-touting, namecalling pipsqueaks start labelling me a Mac Zealot, take this under advisement: out of 10 (yes 10) computers I own, 9 are Pentium[I][II][III].
I can add my story to the list of these all too familiar stories about DSL install at my moms in NYC.
Same dorks insist on checking my Win98 stack prior to escalating the issue. I found it funny that they are so concerned about having DHCP turned on when using PPPoE. (Read the RFC to find out PPPoE transmits IP encapsulated inside raw ether frames between two MAC addresses, in fact when the line was working I turned of DHCP just to find out it worked)
Four or maybe five times now, since installation in early January, we have experienced week long outages that were always the result of a "profile loss" at the router in the central office.
Reviewing the logs in the box I setup as a firewall (of course, Linux) there was an outage on a daily basis of at least 4 hours, and sometimes up to 10 or 12 hours. The line "magically" returns to service in these cases.
The line has been down now for more than 1 month! Started out as a loss of sync (still had dial tone), now probably a "profile loss".
Running their setup on a dialup 3Com LanModem via erols.com because BA has no dialup in NYC.
Moms made her own call to switch to an alternate DSL provider. I was not too hopeful about this to begin with, and after reading some of the posts here, I am convinced it is a waste of time because they will in turn get copper, etc. from BellAtlantic.
As an aside, I was quoted about $2000/Month for a T1 line from BellAtlantic. Whatup wit dat? T1's can be had for about $950 here in LA.
I live in Southern California. I must say I found NYC to be like a trip to a one horse town in the middle of nowhere, in terms of Internet service. Anybody out there have success stories with high speed access in Manhattan? I certainly appreciate any help you may offer.
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Am I the only one who thinks the word arsdigita is latin for "thumb up your arse"? Please be kind, this is intended as HUMOR.
Looks to me like when you're finished adding the PC Card/PC Card Add-on accessory, you've got about a 12oz. handheld. Pain in the Arm (no pun intended). I'll be like carrying around a small can of tomato sauce. Besides, looking at the design, CompactFlash and PC Card are mutually exclusive options on the H3650. Let's face it, with only 32MB SDRAM, using one of them IBM MicroDrives is a necessity, eliminating the possibility of PC Card connectivity.
Obviously you haven't tried Kool Aid[tm] Brand Refreshing Microchips. Now in 5 flavors!
I've come up with what I think are some good hoax ideas. What stops me is I don't want to squander my 15 minutes of fame on an online hoax.
Too bad nothing is sacred, not even a Megabyte. Looking at the Historical Context* on the page http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/bina ry.html the other guy put in his flame^H^H^H^H^Hpost, we used (until less than 2 years ago, I might add) to think of MB as 2^20 bytes. I suppose my age is showing a bit here. I am inclined to think that the IEC saw the error of their ways too, choosing Mebibytes as the spelling for the new prefix (I pronounce it maybe-bytes, as in depends on whom you ask what MB means :)
I would like to point out that Maxtor was one of the first to break ranks, and start using the tin-filled MB in 1995 (3 years before the IEC document quoted above). As shown here, the 245MB 7245AT specs. If you look near the bottom, the engineers even say "Yields: 245.6 Million Bytes (Approx. 234 MegaBytes)".
Deskstar: 80,530,636,800 bytes
Maxtor: 81,964,000,000 bytes
Not that big a difference. My money is on the deskstar, I've not had a single Deskstar or Travelstar fail on me, while I've tossed plenty of WDs and Maxtors. I would be willing to bet that ATA-66@7200rpm beats ATA-100@5400rpm in the trenches...Increase rotational latency by about 25%.
I dunno about all you guys but I want a SUV so I can feel safer when authoring my /. posts while carpooling the kids.
Make mine a Ricky Racer[tm]
Agreed, but what is really at stake here is my right to say that I don't have to allow email from address@evilspammer.com to burn up my bandwidth and other resources.
If RBL is restraint on trade, then so is "Anonymous Caller Blocking", a service provided by the phone company that enables a phone user to block calls from anyone that has failed to send their number via caller ID.
I use an HP-FX70 LCD and it is pretty nice. It will run at 85Hz, although I run mine at 75Hz. It has an auto setup that nearly eliminates all of the phase variation (analog clock lining up with the LCD stripes) inherent with analog LCD panel. A little manual tweaking gives me a 1024x768 display that is every bit as crisp at the 14.1" on my VAIO. It also has a digital interface, but I am yet to find a reasonable card that has that connector for an Intel box. After using my VAIO on the road for a month, it was too painful to use a regular old CRT.
So you can have URL's that map to video memory.
Did I say http://slashdot.org/articles/99/02/16/0852230_F.sh tml? Well, I meant to say http://slashdot.org/articles/ 99/02/16/0852230_F.shtml
More than a year old... Had it out here in Feb 99 http://slashdot.org/articles/99/02/16/0852230_F.sh tml
Perhaps this is true, I dunno cuz I've not seen the DVD. What I can say is these cases of people actually observing the "compression artifacts" are cases of super-human perception, a result of prolonged exposure to Quake at 60+fps.
My experience with MySQL is that anytime the box goes down unexpectedly (the coloc'd box I have gets mokeyed with by coloc personnel about once every 60 days), I get corrupted indices. I may be incorrect about this, but it seems part of the performance gains in MySQL are the result of not calling close/open to force the disk cache to flush to disk, something that could easily be done as part of an idle task.
No flames here...it just occurred to me that in your /. user prefs you can omit any authors you choose. Think I'll go zap Cliff right now.
My suggestion, mr. or ms. iritant: re-read message and grok the part about how the internet remains free even if your local net chuy (aka sysadmin) starts stepping on the product.
a) It's their hardware and their data connection. They are entitled to do whatever they please with it. If they choose to block traffic I want, too bad. I can choose to vote with my dollars. Anyway, before you cry heresy and mark this flamebait, I would like to point out that this is _exactly_ the argument a sysadmin makes when blocking spam. The H/W is theirs and they don't have to relay for you.
b) They ain't made no router big enough to pass multi-gigabit backbone traffic and filter packets at the same time. Therefore, They ain't no fucking way they can cut off napster and your other favorite apps at the backbone (but please, if you are one of those "pseudointellectius" types, do continue to say draconian, I understand it is a necessary part of your diet :).
I believe point b) entirely mitigates further discussion on this topic. Go home...there's nothing to see here.
OTOH, if your design specs are broad, such as "Can survive many weeks on the Internet, while being subjected to review and/or attack by anybody, friendly or hostile without causing a loss of service or revealing sensitive data", I believe Linux and other free or open source software has the best chance of satisfying this requirement.
What I see here in the Author's question and Dr. Spafford's opinions is really a philocophical choice. In two dimensions, it's Darwinism vs. Creationism and Full Disclosure vs. Obscurity. I choose Darwinism + Full Disclosure.
Seems someone had been monkeying around my rack, or it had a bad patch cable or something, because my server was offline. After 5 reboot requests, and confirmation that reboot occurred, still didn't come back up.
I asked them if they had checked the obvious stuff, loose cables, power connection, etc. and then what happened was this: they said it was my software and I had to hire them (or visit myself, highly impractical) to figure out how I misconfigured the box. It was pretty much the same thing I run on all the other machines I maintain - RedHat 6.1 with current patches installed, so I was pretty confident the problem was not on my end.
Anyway, I got referred to sales to hire a tech. After peeing on the salespersons' desk for a while, we agreed that if it was their thing, they would fix it, and if it was my thing, I would pay them. Turns out it was their thing, they didn't explain the nature of the problem, just apologized for the 48+ hours down time. My "main" client located on the box wasn't very happy about that.
Nope. not at all. Go watch Triumph of the Nerds and discover that Apple's whole focus on GUI was based upon a visit to PARC, which was followed up by another visit to PARC by a cadre of Apple engineers.
About a month or so ago, when I first heard one of Darwin's maintainers reporting that it compiled & ran on an Intel, I jumped to the same, totally obvious conclusion that Peter jumps to in his article. Then I stepped back for a minute, and considered some other thoughts. Starting with Steve Jobs' de facto nickname The most dangerous man in Silicon Valley, I wondered why Apple would subtly suggest such the existence of such a "secret weapon" if they were really intent upon deploying it. I could think of absolutely no reason. Another point is why would Apple want to package their software for sale on inferior hardware? (yes - try it yourself, my iMac 350Mhz 64MB ram runs linuxppc faster than my p-III 550Mhz 128MB ram running redhat)
Clearly, Apple's win in the future is to go head-to-head against Wintel with their own hardware and software. iMac is in the right price range for entry level already. G4 would be a good price/performance value, if it didn't have OS9 sucking the life out of it. So, this whole "darwin runs on intel" thing became obvious to me after all this consideration: it is a smoke screen to buy Apple some more time to innovate and move in for the kill. When thinking about Apple I would like to suggest that everyon remember this: George Lucas invented the Jedi Mind Trick [tm], Steve Jobs has clearly mastered it.
Now, before you flamethrower-touting, namecalling pipsqueaks start labelling me a Mac Zealot, take this under advisement: out of 10 (yes 10) computers I own, 9 are Pentium[I][II][III].
You are trolling, right?
- Same dorks insist on checking my Win98 stack prior to escalating the issue. I found it funny that they are so concerned about having DHCP turned on when using PPPoE. (Read the RFC to find out PPPoE transmits IP encapsulated inside raw ether frames between two MAC addresses, in fact when the line was working I turned of DHCP just to find out it worked)
- Four or maybe five times now, since installation in early January, we have experienced week long outages that were always the result of a "profile loss" at the router in the central office.
- Reviewing the logs in the box I setup as a firewall (of course, Linux) there was an outage on a daily basis of at least 4 hours, and sometimes up to 10 or 12 hours. The line "magically" returns to service in these cases.
- The line has been down now for more than 1 month! Started out as a loss of sync (still had dial tone), now probably a "profile loss".
- Running their setup on a dialup 3Com LanModem via erols.com because BA has no dialup in NYC.
- Moms made her own call to switch to an alternate DSL provider. I was not too hopeful about this to begin with, and after reading some of the posts here, I am convinced it is a waste of time because they will in turn get copper, etc. from BellAtlantic.
- As an aside, I was quoted about $2000/Month for a T1 line from BellAtlantic. Whatup wit dat? T1's can be had for about $950 here in LA.
I live in Southern California. I must say I found NYC to be like a trip to a one horse town in the middle of nowhere, in terms of Internet service. Anybody out there have success stories with high speed access in Manhattan? I certainly appreciate any help you may offer.