the processor can only dissapate so much heat through the silicon/whatever and the heat sink. it seems that that is the weakest link, is the connection between the core and the sink itself. would the processor run cooler w/o the heatsink (as it is disapating heat into the liq nitrogen too, that is in turn cooling the core), or does it really need a heatsink at such absurdly low temps? i understand the need for higher surface area to heat ratio concept, but it seems like with temps as low as -250* F or so, that one wouldn't need that 2" square tubing of copper as a heatsink: just stir the liq nitrogen really well:)
as a side note, that site is entirely in japanese. when is babelfish gonna support japanese? all i got out of that was a picture of the boot screen saying 2250 that was undelined in red. i'd mirror it, but i don't see what you would get out of looking at a bunch of pictures that don't seem to support their claim.
my dad worked on a bunch of fun government stuff back when he worked at boeing/we lived there all through the late 80's-mid 90's. he even had a "5 year pin", and was working twords his 10 year when they laid him off. apparently, (i was about 10 at the time) working for even 3 years there continiously is quite a feat, knowing their lay off habits. anyways, he told me once about having to get a "secret" clearance. it mostly involved in sitting in a chair in a room with about 5 other guys, and not supposed to be talking to them, for about 5 months while they did background checks. they got paid for this, i don't kow why, but he managed to get alot of reading done durring this period. having a secret clearance helped alot with getting jobs involving fiber routing in seatte's downtown district (which got him a front page article in networking world), and working at frank russell. whee. i'm not sure how one goes about getting a security clearance, or even a top secret one, but my guess is that if you know people who know people who know about the good jobs, a decent security clearance is as helpful as the degree you own.
somthing I hadn't noticed before, in this review, was that the apple ipod has firewire charger that can be used, sans a computer. very handy. i have a powerbook g4 and am looking at getting an ipod...would i be able to power/charge my powerbook g4 via a firewire cable? if apple had enough foresight to have an autosensing eithernet port for regular and crossover connections, i would assume they'd have the foresight to be able to charge via firewire....it'd also let me charge/power the powerbook via another computer should i lose the power connector in a couple years
i'm not sure what would happen exactly, but i've plugged in cooling fans to my power supply before, and had then spin up with (seemingly)no ill-effects. once you had all your HD's installed (assuming this is a linux box, or OS box of the low-crash/need for upgrade variety), boot with one or two HD's, then continue to plug them in as needed, letting them spin up. Soft reboot, and presto, you're ready to go. Hopefully you won't blow a drive ; ) Also, you could turn on the computer with one HD, let it spin up, turn off momentarily, plug in second, let it spin up, turn off, plug in and turn on, ect ect....just make sure the drives don't have a chance to spin down completely, so you don't have to overcome the inertia of spinning up all those platters at once.
make sure the hard drives won't power down, if the computer came back from sleep mode, you'd probably blow the power supply after the third time ; )
i've searched the web over, but haven't been able to find anything on this particular tid bit of information. how is pc gaming on macs via virtual pc 5 (or 4)? specifically, how is counterstrike in software mode? i doubt 3d acceration would work, but if i could get 25-30 fps software mode in 800x600, that would be the main convincing factor in buying that Ti powerbook g4 i've been eyeing since just before christmas for college. so i guess the questions are as follows:
1) does it run directXapps (halflife) 2)how many frames per second will I be seeing if it does work?
that makes sense though. most games (to date) aren't going to approach more than about 700 megs. given, finaly fantasy 9 is 4 cd's, but a good portion of that is FMV's and audio tracks. 3d uses more space, but it's not signifigant.
the main advantage of propriatry is that you get to do whatever you want. by burning from the outside in, you start out with higher data-transfer rates, instead of only getting those by having the majority of the data on the inside tracks. this is why you see much faster load rates on the gamecube.
burning a gamecube dvd wouldn't be difficult, just tell the program to invert the ROM file, and add 1.2 gigs of 000's infront of it, or skip the first 3 hrs of play time.
what i'm waiting for is a PSX emulator for the xbox or gameQube.
i'm doing kinda the same thing...on 8 year newer equipment...circa 1992....has 10 megs of ram (upgraded from 4), sys 7.6.1 (upgraded from 6.5 or so), and a 1.2 gig scsi hd (upgraded from 40 MB)....i got it off ebay with the OS and ram upgrades already in there, plus it came with a rj-45 connection type eithernet card (10 base t)...i've seen as high as 700bps burst, and constants at about 450bps (streaming an mp3). i took out the fan, so it runs silently, puts out only 10 btu's more than the new powerbooks when they sleep (175 btus/hr), and it's rock steady (for my purposes)...1 month up and counting...even has aim, but i don't leave it on due to possible stability issues. makes an excellent http/telnet/ftp server, all with free software (mac has released up to os 8 i think for free on their site).
Of course if you don't have an i386 machine then you'll have to change "i386" to whatever your architecture is (but I'm not sure it will even compile on anything else).
with almost zero graphics (text) req's, would i be able to run this on a 69k processor (w/32 megs of ram, os 8)? veeeeeeeeery slowly?
or somthing like that. some people claim everything about you is genetically hardcoded...you're bound to be an axe murderer, or bound to be a grand chess-master, maybe even a famous player of go. others claim it's all about your environment and where you grew up.
if your dad (or mom) always changed the oil, headlights, rebuilt the caberator, or even changed out the cam shaft on an 86 caddy (of the small variety, not an easy feat), you're probably going to have a much lesser fear of getting black and greasy. who knows, your parents (like mine) might have gotten you a set of 'grease clothes' from goodwill for when you did maitinence on the vehicle.
at the age of 18, i've dabbled in linux and taken all the avalible comp sci classes at my highschool, set up a home theater system in my room, and all the various stories of "taking apart all my toys as a kid" that you slashdotters out there keep bragging about : ) now for my own bragging...
my dad passed away about 2 months ago, leaving me with his truck, boat, and 83 caddilac...with 63k miles on it. the cam shaft is shot, but the leather interior, power everything works like brand new. i'm in the process of (basically) disassembling the entire engine and radiator assembly to replace said camshaft, so that I can have my 4 door convertable (once i wield in a subframe and chop the top off).
most 'geeks' wouldn't be up to the task before them, if they hadn't been brought up in a mechanical-friendly environment. several other posts have mentioned that most people leave 'complicated things' to the pros. you probably aren't going to be 'mr. mechanic' if you wern't introduced to car mechanics before highschool somehow.
i had a pent celeron 400, and my friend who works at a commecrcial computer cupplier got an old pII 400 w/a dell heatsink, it was blue annodixed metal, measuring 7x2x4" about....with no fan. heatsink size isn't a real problem in a big case...bigger the heatsink, the bigger the surface area, the less need for a fan. i'd be more than happy to have an overpriced fannless heatsink on both my processor & power supply.
smaller mp3 players, more powerful cell phones? you can buy a minimalist mp3 player @ comp usa for 20$ now. uses that crazy expensive propraitary memory media flash or somthing, but hell, change it to compact flash, and build the player into the phone, in one of the larger open spots inside the case. oh yeah, and IR in/out on it. I want to be able to train my cell phone to all the remotes in my house, AND my girlfriends. if you're gonna carry somthing around, it might as well be useful.
...requires 4 AA batteries though. these aren't the tiny (size of a deck of cards0 solarbotics you've seen before, they're closer in footprint size comparable to that of a sheet of paper.
would it be possible to get a solar panel from radio-shack (~6$) to trickle charge the bug while it's active, thus increasing battery life? 2 solar cells?
i don't belive it is, but you don't generally see mac enthusiast sites runing news blurbs about the latest motorola processor for the palm, or intel pentium V/itanium/merced, either.
on amdzone? that almost seems like a conflict of interest...or does transmeta farm out the manufacturing to amd?
as a side note, i'd like to point out that this puppy also runs "windows CE 3.0", somthing not mentioned in the post....i think some of the other crusoe-based books/pads run linux....but it's only an extremely stripped down version for quickboot-MP3 playing.
it's neat to see webpads finally making it to market
By contrats, today women and men meet, date, then marry, and most of the people they meet work in similar professions and therefore have similar interests and if those interests are determined genetically, similar genes. It's like a mild, remote form of inbreeding.
i've read in multiple books that you can have as low as 30 individuals and retain little chance of having inbreeding....most tech cities are at _least_ 20,000. i can see your theroy being true in less than 1% of all cases
there's been alot of progress in LED's as of late, when are we going to see low heat, high light emitting diodes that rival incandecent or florecent lightbulbs? they'd last a lifetime (well, 3 years), and can be of nearly any wavelength...
many of you are complaining of the cost of a fuel canister (~415$ per). what you have to realize is that consumer demand for hydrogen fuel is very _LOW_. that most likely means consumer supply is very _HIGH_. high school economics class tells us that the cost is also going to be very _HIGH_ as a result. when demand becomes _HIGH_, the price becomes _LOW_. hydrogen will probably never become as cheap as propane (2-3$/quart, ~10$ gal), but in the future, your 1Kw generator's fuel costs will decline sharply. there's always a price for being an early adopter.
feature(s) of the zapstation: Audio Playback
MP3, Windows® Media Format(TM) V7, Dolby Digital* (AC-3) 5.1 Channel Surround, Dolby Surround (AC-3), DTS Digital Out**
Video Playback MPEG, Windows Media Format V7, DVD-Video, VCD
my 130$ (in june) apex dvd player already has multiple format surround sound out, plays DVDs, VCD's, CD-r/rw mp3 cd's. it plays almost any media i need it to. i doubt most home stereo component customers have the technical experience to rip their own cd's, instead of easily downloading them offline.
if i want computer functionality, i use a computer, not a crippled highend of the middle of the pack PC. if i want sound, i use my dvd player/30$ goodwill reciever. the 14" tv i have is sufficent for the occasional ps1 game, i don't even watch tv anymore, the ps1 is the only thing i plug into it; the last time i plugged the tv into a walljack/antenna was sept. 11.
i think that although the average american watches 2-3 hours a day more tv than i do, using the tv as your computer/'media station' in the livingroom dosn't give the user the same feeling of using his or her time wisely/well. when you use the computer in the office or study, you're not in the public domain of your livingroom, and are more at peace of mind that nobody;s looking over your shoulder as you send a private email or the likes. i think people would prefer to buy several cheap products that do their job very well, instead of an all-in-one device like this. There's a reason why most people don't own one of the printer/scanner/copier/fax/phone devices found at compusa and office max in someone's study or next to their quake III box.
lol. in 'each article they post like this', there is always 3 or 4 posts saying "why do we post this crap? we'll never see it and it'll never make it to production".
yeah, about 5% of things make it to production on this site...but otherwise there'd be like 3 or 4 posts a day on slashdot...now that wouldn't be very interesting, would it? besides, if you don't like posts about AMD and the like, just turn them off in the user settings. : )
is there any way to get an ip/have a browser redirected twords your computer on the other end of a cable modem? at&t just did the switch 2 days ago here in the dallas area, and i'd just retired my main machine to be a game/web server and need some idea of how to do that, or does DHCP not even deal with ip's as i know them?
in his 'review', he mentions: Since I always keep my main computer on and logged in, it's not a big deal to me, however, the audio manager will not start until you log into windows (i.e. enter your username password, if you get prompted for one). I'd like to see this made into a Windows NT/2000 service for the next release.
isn't there a way to set up things like tight VNC, VNC or any number of variants as services under that name as Win2K under the registry?
also, does anyone know of a good VNC server for the 68K mac? I bought one off of ebay forgetting the specialized adapter required so i'm gonna have to VNC it unless my NEC MultiSync 5FGp will do it...
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the processor can only dissapate so much heat through the silicon/whatever and the heat sink. it seems that that is the weakest link, is the connection between the core and the sink itself. would the processor run cooler w/o the heatsink (as it is disapating heat into the liq nitrogen too, that is in turn cooling the core), or does it really need a heatsink at such absurdly low temps? i understand the need for higher surface area to heat ratio concept, but it seems like with temps as low as -250* F or so, that one wouldn't need that 2" square tubing of copper as a heatsink: just stir the liq nitrogen really well :)
as a side note, that site is entirely in japanese. when is babelfish gonna support japanese? all i got out of that was a picture of the boot screen saying 2250 that was undelined in red. i'd mirror it, but i don't see what you would get out of looking at a bunch of pictures that don't seem to support their claim.
my dad worked on a bunch of fun government stuff back when he worked at boeing/we lived there all through the late 80's-mid 90's. he even had a "5 year pin", and was working twords his 10 year when they laid him off. apparently, (i was about 10 at the time) working for even 3 years there continiously is quite a feat, knowing their lay off habits. anyways, he told me once about having to get a "secret" clearance. it mostly involved in sitting in a chair in a room with about 5 other guys, and not supposed to be talking to them, for about 5 months while they did background checks. they got paid for this, i don't kow why, but he managed to get alot of reading done durring this period. having a secret clearance helped alot with getting jobs involving fiber routing in seatte's downtown district (which got him a front page article in networking world), and working at frank russell. whee. i'm not sure how one goes about getting a security clearance, or even a top secret one, but my guess is that if you know people who know people who know about the good jobs, a decent security clearance is as helpful as the degree you own.
somthing I hadn't noticed before, in this review, was that the apple ipod has firewire charger that can be used, sans a computer. very handy. i have a powerbook g4 and am looking at getting an ipod...would i be able to power/charge my powerbook g4 via a firewire cable? if apple had enough foresight to have an autosensing eithernet port for regular and crossover connections, i would assume they'd have the foresight to be able to charge via firewire....it'd also let me charge/power the powerbook via another computer should i lose the power connector in a couple years
i'm not sure what would happen exactly, but i've plugged in cooling fans to my power supply before, and had then spin up with (seemingly)no ill-effects. once you had all your HD's installed (assuming this is a linux box, or OS box of the low-crash/need for upgrade variety), boot with one or two HD's, then continue to plug them in as needed, letting them spin up. Soft reboot, and presto, you're ready to go. Hopefully you won't blow a drive ; )
Also, you could turn on the computer with one HD, let it spin up, turn off momentarily, plug in second, let it spin up, turn off, plug in and turn on, ect ect....just make sure the drives don't have a chance to spin down completely, so you don't have to overcome the inertia of spinning up all those platters at once.
make sure the hard drives won't power down, if the computer came back from sleep mode, you'd probably blow the power supply after the third time ; )
would the powerbook g4 have a similar ability?
i've searched the web over, but haven't been able to find anything on this particular tid bit of information. how is pc gaming on macs via virtual pc 5 (or 4)? specifically, how is counterstrike in software mode? i doubt 3d acceration would work, but if i could get 25-30 fps software mode in 800x600, that would be the main convincing factor in buying that Ti powerbook g4 i've been eyeing since just before christmas for college. so i guess the questions are as follows:
1) does it run directXapps (halflife)
2)how many frames per second will I be seeing if it does work?
that makes sense though. most games (to date) aren't going to approach more than about 700 megs. given, finaly fantasy 9 is 4 cd's, but a good portion of that is FMV's and audio tracks. 3d uses more space, but it's not signifigant.
the main advantage of propriatry is that you get to do whatever you want. by burning from the outside in, you start out with higher data-transfer rates, instead of only getting those by having the majority of the data on the inside tracks. this is why you see much faster load rates on the gamecube.
burning a gamecube dvd wouldn't be difficult, just tell the program to invert the ROM file, and add 1.2 gigs of 000's infront of it, or skip the first 3 hrs of play time.
what i'm waiting for is a PSX emulator for the xbox or gameQube.
i'm doing kinda the same thing...on 8 year newer equipment...circa 1992....has 10 megs of ram (upgraded from 4), sys 7.6.1 (upgraded from 6.5 or so), and a 1.2 gig scsi hd (upgraded from 40 MB)....i got it off ebay with the OS and ram upgrades already in there, plus it came with a rj-45 connection type eithernet card (10 base t)...i've seen as high as 700bps burst, and constants at about 450bps (streaming an mp3). i took out the fan, so it runs silently, puts out only 10 btu's more than the new powerbooks when they sleep (175 btus/hr), and it's rock steady (for my purposes)...1 month up and counting...even has aim, but i don't leave it on due to possible stability issues. makes an excellent http/telnet/ftp server, all with free software (mac has released up to os 8 i think for free on their site).
the server address is http://12.237.66.223/ by the way.
Of course if you don't have an i386 machine then you'll have to change "i386" to whatever your architecture is (but I'm not sure it will even compile on anything else).
with almost zero graphics (text) req's, would i be able to run this on a 69k processor (w/32 megs of ram, os 8)? veeeeeeeeery slowly?
has anyone tested this on the ppc linux yet?
or somthing like that. some people claim everything about you is genetically hardcoded...you're bound to be an axe murderer, or bound to be a grand chess-master, maybe even a famous player of go. others claim it's all about your environment and where you grew up.
if your dad (or mom) always changed the oil, headlights, rebuilt the caberator, or even changed out the cam shaft on an 86 caddy (of the small variety, not an easy feat), you're probably going to have a much lesser fear of getting black and greasy. who knows, your parents (like mine) might have gotten you a set of 'grease clothes' from goodwill for when you did maitinence on the vehicle.
at the age of 18, i've dabbled in linux and taken all the avalible comp sci classes at my highschool, set up a home theater system in my room, and all the various stories of "taking apart all my toys as a kid" that you slashdotters out there keep bragging about : ) now for my own bragging...
my dad passed away about 2 months ago, leaving me with his truck, boat, and 83 caddilac...with 63k miles on it. the cam shaft is shot, but the leather interior, power everything works like brand new. i'm in the process of (basically) disassembling the entire engine and radiator assembly to replace said camshaft, so that I can have my 4 door convertable (once i wield in a subframe and chop the top off).
most 'geeks' wouldn't be up to the task before them, if they hadn't been brought up in a mechanical-friendly environment. several other posts have mentioned that most people leave 'complicated things' to the pros. you probably aren't going to be 'mr. mechanic' if you wern't introduced to car mechanics before highschool somehow.
i had a pent celeron 400, and my friend who works at a commecrcial computer cupplier got an old pII 400 w/a dell heatsink, it was blue annodixed metal, measuring 7x2x4" about....with no fan. heatsink size isn't a real problem in a big case...bigger the heatsink, the bigger the surface area, the less need for a fan. i'd be more than happy to have an overpriced fannless heatsink on both my processor & power supply.
smaller mp3 players, more powerful cell phones? you can buy a minimalist mp3 player @ comp usa for 20$ now. uses that crazy expensive propraitary memory media flash or somthing, but hell, change it to compact flash, and build the player into the phone, in one of the larger open spots inside the case. oh yeah, and IR in/out on it. I want to be able to train my cell phone to all the remotes in my house, AND my girlfriends. if you're gonna carry somthing around, it might as well be useful.
...requires 4 AA batteries though. these aren't the tiny (size of a deck of cards0 solarbotics you've seen before, they're closer in footprint size comparable to that of a sheet of paper.
would it be possible to get a solar panel from radio-shack (~6$) to trickle charge the bug while it's active, thus increasing battery life? 2 solar cells?
a nice vivisection of the BIO Bugs:
http://www.solarbotics.net/biobugs/default.htm
i don't belive it is, but you don't generally see mac enthusiast sites runing news blurbs about the latest motorola processor for the palm, or intel pentium V/itanium/merced, either.
on amdzone? that almost seems like a conflict of interest...or does transmeta farm out the manufacturing to amd?
as a side note, i'd like to point out that this puppy also runs "windows CE 3.0", somthing not mentioned in the post....i think some of the other crusoe-based books/pads run linux....but it's only an extremely stripped down version for quickboot-MP3 playing.
it's neat to see webpads finally making it to market
By contrats, today women and men meet, date, then marry, and most of the people they meet work in similar professions and therefore have similar interests and if those interests are determined genetically, similar genes. It's like a mild, remote form of inbreeding.
i've read in multiple books that you can have as low as 30 individuals and retain little chance of having inbreeding....most tech cities are at _least_ 20,000. i can see your theroy being true in less than 1% of all cases
there's been alot of progress in LED's as of late, when are we going to see low heat, high light emitting diodes that rival incandecent or florecent lightbulbs? they'd last a lifetime (well, 3 years), and can be of nearly any wavelength...
many of you are complaining of the cost of a fuel canister (~415$ per). what you have to realize is that consumer demand for hydrogen fuel is very _LOW_. that most likely means consumer supply is very _HIGH_. high school economics class tells us that the cost is also going to be very _HIGH_ as a result. when demand becomes _HIGH_, the price becomes _LOW_. hydrogen will probably never become as cheap as propane (2-3$/quart, ~10$ gal), but in the future, your 1Kw generator's fuel costs will decline sharply. there's always a price for being an early adopter.
feature(s) of the zapstation:
Audio Playback
MP3, Windows® Media Format(TM) V7, Dolby Digital* (AC-3) 5.1 Channel Surround, Dolby Surround (AC-3), DTS Digital Out**
Video Playback MPEG, Windows Media Format V7, DVD-Video, VCD
my 130$ (in june) apex dvd player already has multiple format surround sound out, plays DVDs, VCD's, CD-r/rw mp3 cd's. it plays almost any media i need it to. i doubt most home stereo component customers have the technical experience to rip their own cd's, instead of easily downloading them offline.
if i want computer functionality, i use a computer, not a crippled highend of the middle of the pack PC. if i want sound, i use my dvd player/30$ goodwill reciever. the 14" tv i have is sufficent for the occasional ps1 game, i don't even watch tv anymore, the ps1 is the only thing i plug into it; the last time i plugged the tv into a walljack/antenna was sept. 11.
i think that although the average american watches 2-3 hours a day more tv than i do, using the tv as your computer/'media station' in the livingroom dosn't give the user the same feeling of using his or her time wisely/well. when you use the computer in the office or study, you're not in the public domain of your livingroom, and are more at peace of mind that nobody;s looking over your shoulder as you send a private email or the likes. i think people would prefer to buy several cheap products that do their job very well, instead of an all-in-one device like this. There's a reason why most people don't own one of the printer/scanner/copier/fax/phone devices found at compusa and office max in someone's study or next to their quake III box.
just a thought.
lol. in 'each article they post like this', there is always 3 or 4 posts saying "why do we post this crap? we'll never see it and it'll never make it to production".
yeah, about 5% of things make it to production on this site...but otherwise there'd be like 3 or 4 posts a day on slashdot...now that wouldn't be very interesting, would it? besides, if you don't like posts about AMD and the like, just turn them off in the user settings. : )
is there any way to get an ip/have a browser redirected twords your computer on the other end of a cable modem? at&t just did the switch 2 days ago here in the dallas area, and i'd just retired my main machine to be a game/web server and need some idea of how to do that, or does DHCP not even deal with ip's as i know them?
imagine a beowulf cluster of these!....for..uh, cheating on tests?
especially alaska. i can see it now:
WARNING: DO NOT OPERATE INSIDE IGLOO. EXHAUST TEMP > 250*.
IGLOO MAY MELT.
you tell 'em, Charlie!
in his 'review', he mentions:
Since I always keep my main computer on and logged in, it's not a big deal to me, however, the audio manager will not start until you log into windows (i.e. enter your username password, if you get prompted for one). I'd like to see this made into a Windows NT/2000 service for the next release.
isn't there a way to set up things like tight VNC, VNC or any number of variants as services under that name as Win2K under the registry?
also, does anyone know of a good VNC server for the 68K mac? I bought one off of ebay forgetting the specialized adapter required so i'm gonna have to VNC it unless my NEC MultiSync 5FGp will do it...