Trust me not to proof read. It was 20% methane. The danger level is considered 4% from memory and a highly impressive explosion can occur not long after that. 5% maybe? Been a while since I got the run down, but be that as it may, the margin of error in a coal mine for methane levels is quite small, so I'll take your word for it.
Some of the work they did in this gallery in the years later was the testing of flash suppessors and water baffling to stop the flame fronts that accomany a mine explosion. Also, a flash unit for a camera that could be used in highly explosive enviroments, that would also survive huge explosions.
Even tho it seems obvious, they discovered that the most damage is not caused by the initial explosion, but the shockwave and air being shoved down the tunnels, as well as the debris being licked up and hurled. Enough to turn a 50 ton mine truck to scrap (source - Appin mine disaster, 1978 - now the photos from inside that mine have to be seen to be believed. Machinery in the tens of tons range just thrown up shafts like toys) The explosion gallery advanced the work in explosive knowledge to quite a degree and also to Fuel Air Explosives.
Unfortunantly, I dont think it's in operation at present Residents of the area kept complaining. Sadly. This is one impressive example of destructive testing that has helped save people's lives.
It's called fact finding. Just like politicians have to go on fact finding tours of Ansterdam to find out how the sex and drug industries work first hand.
Cheer for the guy getting his property back, well done. I doubt he will see a cent of the damages bill tho. Didnt the artcile (or was it The Register?) mention the theif had declared bankrupcy / had offshore accounts / done a bolter / or something like that? No matter, I bet sex.com is a highly tradable asset. Porn is basically the only model of Internet business that makes good dollars, so I would imagine that such a higly visible web name is worth the odd buck. And be the first place young innocent kiddy would go looking in most cases. I'm not exactly a fan of how easy porn is availible on the net, but such is the way it works - I actually agree with some of the religious POV's. I'm also a realist and know Porn is impossible to stop and what people place on websites is their own business, not mine. If you can have yer porn, I can have my quasi insane ramblings on various subjects elsewhere - works for me.
Still,..... sticky portal? Oh man, that was lame as. It sounds like a fruit dish or the toilet bowl after a partularly bad case of the runs.
The Londonerry Occupational Health and Testing Centre, Richond NSW, Australia. It's a seriously cool place. The best place is what is called the Explosion gallery, where they simulate mine explosions. It is a 50 meter tunnel, which on it's forst test firing in 1979, was filled with a mix of air / methane to a ratio of 320% methane. This was before they knew exactly the power of mine explosions. They worked out they would need a ventilation fan for clearing the noxious gasses after the test firing, so they placed a 3 ton fan at the gallery entrance.
The video of the event went a bit like this.... show the bushland at the tunnekl entrance, a rumble and then a flash and then... BANG!.... and pieces of fan ripped the trees to shreds for 50 meters. Decorated other trees with metal bits for 100's of meters. Oh man, it's an awesome video. Also is a real eye opener to see the sheer power of an uncontrolled explosion.
Other interesting items are a full sized mine gallery to test fire fighting inside a mine, a cable destruction tester (up to 50 million newtons - a 5 inch steel cable breaking can punch holes thro 3 inch steel), an electrical destruction test lab, an engine dyno rated to 5000 hp and some serious computing grunt.
Great place... especially when you know the guy who runs the place.
You can place meaningful data inside the pixels of a printed page? Is that what this story is about? That's quite a logical and cool way of data distribution. I would imagine that the technology would be fairly quick to find uses, one being as mention previously, anti forgery measures. I would imagine such technology however would be regulated fiarly quickly, especially devices capable of decoding, by governemts wanting to keep the technology for themselves, or cripple it so it's not really of huge use to us. Got to keep those terrorists from sending encoded messages now, dont we?
Now if we were to go scan existing pictures or print for code, what type of meaningful information would there be in... say a typical picture in Playboy?
I can appreciate the scientific accuracy they tried to use, I can appreciate the story telling and the music and how nice it looked... but it really, after reading the book, was so boring. I couldnt believe just how slow and tedious it was in the end. The book itsefl was excellent and thought provoking... but the movie was the best way to go to be sent to sleep.
I'd thought about why. I think Kubrick (whose movies I dont like as a rule) was to pedantic about being real and all these long held, slow moving shots and not even cuts.... it just didnt keep my attention. I kept on reading the book instead.
Lesson : When watching a movie made to real life as possible, you realise how boring real life really can be.
The point is, under the Workers Anti-Discrimination act, that type of email is illegal and can result in criminal charges being bought agains the company in question. As this is the Australian Public Service, before you get in, your work terms explicitly prohibit sending this type of stuff. In fact, if I remember correctly, 16 workers at Telstra (Australian Telco) were sacked ofr having porn.
What we have here is a double standard. On one hand, yuo have a governmet frothing at the mouth to get rid of all Evil On The Internet In The Name Of A Good Cause (Dunno what that is they cry, we will work that out later) and the people paid to enforce such laws, well, they are the worst offenders.
Usually, if I get a emial from a co-worker with something I dont like, I send back a fairly ppinted reply, requesting not to get similar again. That tends to work. Why cant we just have that and just move along as there is nothing to see here?
I cant decide if a) I'm livid or b) I just want to move out. This is one of the most absurd articles about IT down under. So the proles cant have webiste flashing a few wobbly bits and yet some jerk can send bestiality crap and get away with it. Whats wrong with that picture? What next, legalised child porn?
I totally agree we have twat as a IT minister. The Howard goverment knows NOTHING about how IT works and it sure as hell knows nothing about the Internet. Is it any wonder that most of the gob smacking WTF? arctiles about rights online are coming from here?
Dont expect it to get any better. The other bunch we could elect in are just as bad and the other choices dont even bear thinking about. Cant we have politicians with a clue for a change?
Oh wait. If that ever happened, the world would end.
When it comes to corporations, your privacy went out the window a long time ago. The fact is, our personal information is but a commodity to buy and sell to them and buy and sell they will if they can get away with it.
From I think 20 years ago. It wasnt an April Fools joke either, it was proposed but dimissed.
OTOH, what you really should do is to harness the power of flatulance. It's closer to the ground and if you use the right people, just as violent and as powerful. I even saw the project listed... the Facility for Abnormal Renal Turbulance Gastronomic Analysis Station (FARTGAS). It was a study to investigate the applications for one of the most unutilised resoureces we have. No one has seriously looked at, until now, the advantages of a simple gaseous extrusion on powering the globe. Lets face it, everyone farts dont they? Think of the power being wasted as thighs around the world vibrate with the potential energy being released. I envisage a whole network of FART reclaimation centres, where you could flatulate and know that you are powering the globe.
No no no, you have it wrong. Toothbrushes are easy, you just use the first bit o' truck retread you find on the side of the road. Doubles as dental floss and a comb too. Soap? Boil the road kill. Works bonza.
And dingoes? Nah, that aint the problem. It's them politcians in the big smoke. I hear they eat them babies by the truckful. I also hear they go well in Ewok soup. National Poo eating day is of course something introduced and when we find the jokers, we'll string em up and feed them to the tourists.
Oh god. Not another reason to avoid.NET like a dose of the clap. Shhhh, dont be saying that. Some of the PHB that have been trained to think M$ only might actually start thinking for thiemselves and see just why.NET is such a bad idea. The thought of the systems first owned by MS then by some script kiddie aint conjucive to good sleep by any self respecting sys admin
Enlightened and Netscape are not two words I would associate with each other. Spectaclar crash and Netscape.... well there we are on more agreeable ground.
It's a worry, aint it? On one hand you have fairly common security holes, on the other you have usability issues. Browsers suck, no doubts about that.
But to be honest, a system is only as secure as the user or the admin sitting at it. Uneducated users are the most dangerous security hole there is. You can have the best security, the lest buggy code, but if you have a tool using the system you may as well go flush your hard worked over secuirty systems down the drain. Okay, that is expanding on the truth, but it's a frustration I feel every day.
I know we will see dozens of anti M$ bites, but really, who are we kidding? Security is not an easy thing and everyone gets it wrong at some point. I had a supposably secure Sun OS 0wnd by a script kiddie all because the damn admin wanted telnet open. What can you do if people wont take security seriously? I run a IIS webserver due to an app needing it and it has been attacked - it has stood up because I keep up with the lastest problems. You just have to do it.
You also have to realise security is tradeoff. I can guarenttee I could build you a Linux server so tight only the true elite would root it.... but how usuble will it be? Not very. The problem demonstrated here is that very tradeoff, MS wants usabliity, so do the unwashed masses. Makes it easy to exploit. Tighten it up and the unwashed wonder why they cant download their porn without some popup telling them that this download or link could be malicious and to proceed after the seven other warning they would get.
What's the solution in the end? Geeks like us educate the Great Unwashed maybe, I dont know. Certainly a different security paradigm than what Microsoft has.
In good ol' Australia, we dont even have that option in a lot of places. Our major telco is not rolling out boradband in a big hurry, they make too much of existing ISDN to stop that particular moneytree. It really sucks that the only service I have is 56k and no more. Satellite is hideously expensive, and I dont have access to cable. Yes, and this is in Sydney. That sucks something fierce.
The only thing I am envious of the USA is the access to broadband that Australians can only dream of mainly. Well, me anyway. The lack of boradband is frustrating and I do feel for the people who will be affected.
ADSL is promised in my area for 2002. I'm not holding out much hope
Your bonfire wont be hot enough. What woud suggest is you do the following to create an authentic piece of MIR junk....
1) Strap one frying pan to a acetelene (sp) bottle. Preferable off a oxy welding unit. Place in enclosed space.
2) Initiate a leak in bottle.
3) Remotely light spark. The resultant explosion, should you not be in the blast radius (and it will be quite considerable blast) shoud accelerate the pan to near sonic levels and bend it into new and exciting shapes.
4) Find what remains of pan, convey to another gas-axe, heat until white hot. As the junk fell into the sea, quench in brine.
5) Allow to cool.
6) Sell on EBAY for $100,000 dollars. You'll need every penny to fend of the lawsuits and repair the damage to the neigbourhood.
But I have a question. Why is it that writing an SMS message often takes longer than just simply calling the person.... and in some cases, the call is cheaper?
So, given that, why is SMS messaging such a big deal? If I want to say something to someone, I would rather SAY it to them than by wrtg sme dum msg that they may not understand in the first place. Either that or I just throw away my phone, sit back with a cold beer and relax without some damn mobile beeping atme every ten seconds with a message I didnt want in the first place.
I'll restate myself.
Why should any maker of proprietry software do something that they dont wish to do with THEIR software, or their service? Is that not what is being required?
Yes, this does indeed go against the mantra of freedom that I read so often here, but I will ask again - if they own it, why cant they be the ones to control what is done with it?
Yes AOL is on of the great Satans out there and they do indeed suck, so why are people getting up in arms about what they do? Is that not one of the points of Open Source, to not be beholden to anyone in what is written and distributed?
Probably a bit offtopic, but I do wish to ask.... for what reason, should AOL make any part of their AIM service, which they are the sole proprietors of, open to anyone else? As it is their IP, dont they have the right to guard it, change it as they see fit?
Okay, it's not exactly helping competition and open statndards, but if AOL dont want that, it's their software to do it with. I guess us as the great unwashed can go ahead and find something open and better to use.
The only thing I can think of is that M$ wants to have a LOT of games ready for the platform when it is launched. It is after all games that make or break a console, not the hardware or OS.
I f there is one thing that tends to buck the all M$ stuff is crap, is the hardware they put their name too. It tends to be quite good. This does have a lot of potential but it will depend on the support it gets from games. After all, that were the real money in consoles are - not the hardware, but the games. Now as for crashing problems.... maybe not. The biggest problem Windoze has is supporting so much different hardware. I'd imagine they would set up (is it CE in this box? W2K cut down?) quite well to suit the hardware and that games that were able to be used on this box tested for compatibility. I dont think this will take over the market, but it will certanly broaden the market console games have. And it's certainly got some appeal with the inbuilt DVD.
Okay, a few reason Software RIAD and IDE RIAD is a bad idea.... 1) Software is slower and not as reliable. 2) Hardware RAID usually has excellent caching techniques 3) Ever seen a hotswap IDE disk? I haven't 4) No serious sys admin is going to use a software solution. It would almost certainly be a lesser quality hardware. 5) If your going to RAID 5, you need at least three disks. Bit of a worry when you have only two disks per IDE chain. And just for empasis - what is the point of RAID fi you cant hotswap. If there is a hotswap IDE, then I apologise in advance for my knowledge gap, but SCSI RAID more often than not allows hotswap.
I think you have the idea. My reading is that it will be registry based and will only affect the system portected files - which you cant change anyway. I think most/.'s unfortunatly dont understand the concept of system protected files, thence it could well be a good idea to store protected, never changing files in one place only. Remember, the portected dll's cant be changed I also bet there is a heavy touch of Active Directory here - also note that AD becomes the file system IF you go to the full AD setup. Sys protected files also have the self repair with them, so there is some logic in basing the files in one place - plus of course there is the 300 meg in.inf files that could be centrally located too But God help you if the network collapsed. THEN, this would be a very bad idea and the sys admin would be looking for a new job.
Because they are blind to the deeper meanings inside Star Wars. It has never been some kiddie fluff, but asks difficult questions about the higher meanings we struggle with on our day to day existance.
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That is not a mental image I will treasure for my dotage.
Trust me not to proof read. It was 20% methane. The danger level is considered 4% from memory and a highly impressive explosion can occur not long after that. 5% maybe? Been a while since I got the run down, but be that as it may, the margin of error in a coal mine for methane levels is quite small, so I'll take your word for it. Some of the work they did in this gallery in the years later was the testing of flash suppessors and water baffling to stop the flame fronts that accomany a mine explosion. Also, a flash unit for a camera that could be used in highly explosive enviroments, that would also survive huge explosions. Even tho it seems obvious, they discovered that the most damage is not caused by the initial explosion, but the shockwave and air being shoved down the tunnels, as well as the debris being licked up and hurled. Enough to turn a 50 ton mine truck to scrap (source - Appin mine disaster, 1978 - now the photos from inside that mine have to be seen to be believed. Machinery in the tens of tons range just thrown up shafts like toys) The explosion gallery advanced the work in explosive knowledge to quite a degree and also to Fuel Air Explosives. Unfortunantly, I dont think it's in operation at present Residents of the area kept complaining. Sadly. This is one impressive example of destructive testing that has helped save people's lives.
It's called fact finding. Just like politicians have to go on fact finding tours of Ansterdam to find out how the sex and drug industries work first hand. Cheer for the guy getting his property back, well done. I doubt he will see a cent of the damages bill tho. Didnt the artcile (or was it The Register?) mention the theif had declared bankrupcy / had offshore accounts / done a bolter / or something like that? No matter, I bet sex.com is a highly tradable asset. Porn is basically the only model of Internet business that makes good dollars, so I would imagine that such a higly visible web name is worth the odd buck. And be the first place young innocent kiddy would go looking in most cases. I'm not exactly a fan of how easy porn is availible on the net, but such is the way it works - I actually agree with some of the religious POV's. I'm also a realist and know Porn is impossible to stop and what people place on websites is their own business, not mine. If you can have yer porn, I can have my quasi insane ramblings on various subjects elsewhere - works for me. Still,..... sticky portal? Oh man, that was lame as. It sounds like a fruit dish or the toilet bowl after a partularly bad case of the runs.
The Londonerry Occupational Health and Testing Centre, Richond NSW, Australia. It's a seriously cool place. The best place is what is called the Explosion gallery, where they simulate mine explosions. It is a 50 meter tunnel, which on it's forst test firing in 1979, was filled with a mix of air / methane to a ratio of 320% methane. This was before they knew exactly the power of mine explosions. They worked out they would need a ventilation fan for clearing the noxious gasses after the test firing, so they placed a 3 ton fan at the gallery entrance.
The video of the event went a bit like this.... show the bushland at the tunnekl entrance, a rumble and then a flash and then... BANG!.... and pieces of fan ripped the trees to shreds for 50 meters. Decorated other trees with metal bits for 100's of meters. Oh man, it's an awesome video. Also is a real eye opener to see the sheer power of an uncontrolled explosion.
Other interesting items are a full sized mine gallery to test fire fighting inside a mine, a cable destruction tester (up to 50 million newtons - a 5 inch steel cable breaking can punch holes thro 3 inch steel), an electrical destruction test lab, an engine dyno rated to 5000 hp and some serious computing grunt.
Great place... especially when you know the guy who runs the place.
You can place meaningful data inside the pixels of a printed page? Is that what this story is about? That's quite a logical and cool way of data distribution. I would imagine that the technology would be fairly quick to find uses, one being as mention previously, anti forgery measures. I would imagine such technology however would be regulated fiarly quickly, especially devices capable of decoding, by governemts wanting to keep the technology for themselves, or cripple it so it's not really of huge use to us. Got to keep those terrorists from sending encoded messages now, dont we?
Now if we were to go scan existing pictures or print for code, what type of meaningful information would there be in... say a typical picture in Playboy?
:: Insert boring ME TOO!! post::
I can appreciate the scientific accuracy they tried to use, I can appreciate the story telling and the music and how nice it looked... but it really, after reading the book, was so boring. I couldnt believe just how slow and tedious it was in the end. The book itsefl was excellent and thought provoking... but the movie was the best way to go to be sent to sleep.
I'd thought about why. I think Kubrick (whose movies I dont like as a rule) was to pedantic about being real and all these long held, slow moving shots and not even cuts.... it just didnt keep my attention. I kept on reading the book instead.
Lesson : When watching a movie made to real life as possible, you realise how boring real life really can be.
The point is, under the Workers Anti-Discrimination act, that type of email is illegal and can result in criminal charges being bought agains the company in question. As this is the Australian Public Service, before you get in, your work terms explicitly prohibit sending this type of stuff. In fact, if I remember correctly, 16 workers at Telstra (Australian Telco) were sacked ofr having porn.
What we have here is a double standard. On one hand, yuo have a governmet frothing at the mouth to get rid of all Evil On The Internet In The Name Of A Good Cause (Dunno what that is they cry, we will work that out later) and the people paid to enforce such laws, well, they are the worst offenders.
Usually, if I get a emial from a co-worker with something I dont like, I send back a fairly ppinted reply, requesting not to get similar again. That tends to work. Why cant we just have that and just move along as there is nothing to see here?
I cant decide if a) I'm livid or b) I just want to move out. This is one of the most absurd articles about IT down under. So the proles cant have webiste flashing a few wobbly bits and yet some jerk can send bestiality crap and get away with it. Whats wrong with that picture? What next, legalised child porn?
I totally agree we have twat as a IT minister. The Howard goverment knows NOTHING about how IT works and it sure as hell knows nothing about the Internet. Is it any wonder that most of the gob smacking WTF? arctiles about rights online are coming from here?
Dont expect it to get any better. The other bunch we could elect in are just as bad and the other choices dont even bear thinking about. Cant we have politicians with a clue for a change?
Oh wait. If that ever happened, the world would end.
When it comes to corporations, your privacy went out the window a long time ago. The fact is, our personal information is but a commodity to buy and sell to them and buy and sell they will if they can get away with it.
I thought the idea of mixing a Blender and a iPAQ was to turn iPAQ into a tasty cocktail.
From I think 20 years ago. It wasnt an April Fools joke either, it was proposed but dimissed.
OTOH, what you really should do is to harness the power of flatulance. It's closer to the ground and if you use the right people, just as violent and as powerful. I even saw the project listed... the Facility for Abnormal Renal Turbulance Gastronomic Analysis Station (FARTGAS). It was a study to investigate the applications for one of the most unutilised resoureces we have. No one has seriously looked at, until now, the advantages of a simple gaseous extrusion on powering the globe. Lets face it, everyone farts dont they? Think of the power being wasted as thighs around the world vibrate with the potential energy being released. I envisage a whole network of FART reclaimation centres, where you could flatulate and know that you are powering the globe.
No no no, you have it wrong. Toothbrushes are easy, you just use the first bit o' truck retread you find on the side of the road. Doubles as dental floss and a comb too. Soap? Boil the road kill. Works bonza.
And dingoes? Nah, that aint the problem. It's them politcians in the big smoke. I hear they eat them babies by the truckful. I also hear they go well in Ewok soup. National Poo eating day is of course something introduced and when we find the jokers, we'll string em up and feed them to the tourists.
Quote - I can only imagine .NET
.NET like a dose of the clap. Shhhh, dont be saying that. Some of the PHB that have been trained to think M$ only might actually start thinking for thiemselves and see just why .NET is such a bad idea. The thought of the systems first owned by MS then by some script kiddie aint conjucive to good sleep by any self respecting sys admin
Oh god. Not another reason to avoid
Enlightened and Netscape are not two words I would associate with each other. Spectaclar crash and Netscape.... well there we are on more agreeable ground.
It's a worry, aint it? On one hand you have fairly common security holes, on the other you have usability issues. Browsers suck, no doubts about that.
But to be honest, a system is only as secure as the user or the admin sitting at it. Uneducated users are the most dangerous security hole there is. You can have the best security, the lest buggy code, but if you have a tool using the system you may as well go flush your hard worked over secuirty systems down the drain. Okay, that is expanding on the truth, but it's a frustration I feel every day.
I know we will see dozens of anti M$ bites, but really, who are we kidding? Security is not an easy thing and everyone gets it wrong at some point. I had a supposably secure Sun OS 0wnd by a script kiddie all because the damn admin wanted telnet open. What can you do if people wont take security seriously? I run a IIS webserver due to an app needing it and it has been attacked - it has stood up because I keep up with the lastest problems. You just have to do it.
You also have to realise security is tradeoff. I can guarenttee I could build you a Linux server so tight only the true elite would root it.... but how usuble will it be? Not very. The problem demonstrated here is that very tradeoff, MS wants usabliity, so do the unwashed masses. Makes it easy to exploit. Tighten it up and the unwashed wonder why they cant download their porn without some popup telling them that this download or link could be malicious and to proceed after the seven other warning they would get.
What's the solution in the end? Geeks like us educate the Great Unwashed maybe, I dont know. Certainly a different security paradigm than what Microsoft has.
In good ol' Australia, we dont even have that option in a lot of places. Our major telco is not rolling out boradband in a big hurry, they make too much of existing ISDN to stop that particular moneytree. It really sucks that the only service I have is 56k and no more. Satellite is hideously expensive, and I dont have access to cable. Yes, and this is in Sydney. That sucks something fierce.
The only thing I am envious of the USA is the access to broadband that Australians can only dream of mainly. Well, me anyway. The lack of boradband is frustrating and I do feel for the people who will be affected.
ADSL is promised in my area for 2002. I'm not holding out much hope
Your bonfire wont be hot enough. What woud suggest is you do the following to create an authentic piece of MIR junk....
1) Strap one frying pan to a acetelene (sp) bottle. Preferable off a oxy welding unit. Place in enclosed space.
2) Initiate a leak in bottle.
3) Remotely light spark. The resultant explosion, should you not be in the blast radius (and it will be quite considerable blast) shoud accelerate the pan to near sonic levels and bend it into new and exciting shapes.
4) Find what remains of pan, convey to another gas-axe, heat until white hot. As the junk fell into the sea, quench in brine.
5) Allow to cool.
6) Sell on EBAY for $100,000 dollars. You'll need every penny to fend of the lawsuits and repair the damage to the neigbourhood.
But I have a question. Why is it that writing an SMS message often takes longer than just simply calling the person.... and in some cases, the call is cheaper?
So, given that, why is SMS messaging such a big deal? If I want to say something to someone, I would rather SAY it to them than by wrtg sme dum msg that they may not understand in the first place. Either that or I just throw away my phone, sit back with a cold beer and relax without some damn mobile beeping atme every ten seconds with a message I didnt want in the first place.
I'll restate myself. Why should any maker of proprietry software do something that they dont wish to do with THEIR software, or their service? Is that not what is being required? Yes, this does indeed go against the mantra of freedom that I read so often here, but I will ask again - if they own it, why cant they be the ones to control what is done with it? Yes AOL is on of the great Satans out there and they do indeed suck, so why are people getting up in arms about what they do? Is that not one of the points of Open Source, to not be beholden to anyone in what is written and distributed?
Probably a bit offtopic, but I do wish to ask.... for what reason, should AOL make any part of their AIM service, which they are the sole proprietors of, open to anyone else? As it is their IP, dont they have the right to guard it, change it as they see fit? Okay, it's not exactly helping competition and open statndards, but if AOL dont want that, it's their software to do it with. I guess us as the great unwashed can go ahead and find something open and better to use.
The only thing I can think of is that M$ wants to have a LOT of games ready for the platform when it is launched. It is after all games that make or break a console, not the hardware or OS.
I f there is one thing that tends to buck the all M$ stuff is crap, is the hardware they put their name too. It tends to be quite good. This does have a lot of potential but it will depend on the support it gets from games. After all, that were the real money in consoles are - not the hardware, but the games. Now as for crashing problems.... maybe not. The biggest problem Windoze has is supporting so much different hardware. I'd imagine they would set up (is it CE in this box? W2K cut down?) quite well to suit the hardware and that games that were able to be used on this box tested for compatibility. I dont think this will take over the market, but it will certanly broaden the market console games have. And it's certainly got some appeal with the inbuilt DVD.
Okay, a few reason Software RIAD and IDE RIAD is a bad idea.... 1) Software is slower and not as reliable. 2) Hardware RAID usually has excellent caching techniques 3) Ever seen a hotswap IDE disk? I haven't 4) No serious sys admin is going to use a software solution. It would almost certainly be a lesser quality hardware. 5) If your going to RAID 5, you need at least three disks. Bit of a worry when you have only two disks per IDE chain. And just for empasis - what is the point of RAID fi you cant hotswap. If there is a hotswap IDE, then I apologise in advance for my knowledge gap, but SCSI RAID more often than not allows hotswap.
I think you have the idea. My reading is that it will be registry based and will only affect the system portected files - which you cant change anyway. I think most /.'s unfortunatly dont understand the concept of system protected files, thence it could well be a good idea to store protected, never changing files in one place only. Remember, the portected dll's cant be changed I also bet there is a heavy touch of Active Directory here - also note that AD becomes the file system IF you go to the full AD setup. Sys protected files also have the self repair with them, so there is some logic in basing the files in one place - plus of course there is the 300 meg in .inf files that could be centrally located too But God help you if the network collapsed. THEN, this would be a very bad idea and the sys admin would be looking for a new job.
Because they are blind to the deeper meanings inside Star Wars. It has never been some kiddie fluff, but asks difficult questions about the higher meanings we struggle with on our day to day existance.
I guess they dont like to be confronted
/kevlar armour on