For handhelds there really isnt much they can do for "bigger and better" unless its adding a backlight like this into the model. 3D games wont be viable because of the limited screen size and controls, so making a faster processor would be kind of silly. A handheld SNES is as good as it gets, IMO. And this is it
Oh I wouldn't be so sure. If nothing else they could through in a head mounted display and integrate the game system into a more ergonomic controller. There're plenty of room for improvements. Luckily they have more imaginative staff than myself.
Yes, but if it was an organized effort directed at the site for the express purpose of bringing it down, the guys at OSDN could be held liable for a DDoS.
They can't do that because of copyright issues. It would be a good idea to give them and their ISP some advance warning though and offer to cache. Of course then the bean counters might complain about unncessary bandwidth usage.
Good point. Also remember though that hard drives have many more moving parts than tapes. HDDs may be more reliable than tapes sitting on a rack, but not while being carried/driven off site and back frequently.
If the laptop has a healthy ammount of RAM, it shouldn't hit the HDD that often for a firewall should it? Get a decent laptop, pull out the hard drive, beef up the RAM, and boot from a CD-RW or something. Run the OS from a RAMdisk. I wouldn't think a laptop would have any trouble running 24/7 in such a situation.
I know that was supposed to be funny, but it is a good idea. Take a laptop, add a larger monitor (LCD?), external keyboard and mouse, and a cooling plate or something to sit it on, and you're good to go.
If you're intent on a real desktop, remember to just get rid of components you don't really need. Even idle components use power. Consider a fan bus also to throttle fans back when they're not needed. If this will be a firewall or something rather than a normal desktop, consider one of those LCD displays that fit in a 5 1/4" bay to display statistics rather than a monitor. If you're desparate (or like many of us and already do) leave the case open to save on cooling power. There's plenty of room to cut corners. Just remember that that's what you are doing; cutting corners. You need to ballance your power use with the function you need, but you already know that.
An open, non-proprietary system would change nothing. No matter how open the protocol, someone has to host the servers that handle authentication and monitor who's online. The only way to avoid company-owned IM networks is to create an open peer-to-peer messaging protocol which would not be simple. It would be very difficult actually, if not impossible.
This isn't necesarily total hogwash. Let's think about this.
- 4 100W light bulbs/4500W draw on batteries Don't assume the light bulbs are the only thing drawing power from the batteries. That's a large box and can hold plenty of other electronic apperatus.
- Surplus Energy I certainly don't believe this energy is coming out of nowhere, but that doesn't mean it's not there. The machine could be drawing power from ambient heat, various radiation, or even chemical reactions with air/water/gasses.
This probably is a hoax, but let's give it a little more consideration before totally dismissing it. I'm curious to know what really is going on in that box. Even if(though) it's not creating power from nothing, it could still be a viable power source.
I never said I was in favor of slavery. I said there isn't anything inherently wrong with it. Not all slavery is involutary, and people of all races have been slaves. I guess this is one of those opinions you're not allowed to have anymore.
I've dealt with compgeeks several times and have never had any trouble. I've gotten some really good deals there. Can you be more specific about what trouble you've had?
considering there are no moving parts in solid state memory, I'd say it'd use considerably less power and be more reliable. Anyone know how many times nvram can be written to compared to conventional hard drives? I think we had a story not too long ago about ram-based hard drives.
Microsoft is sure to test their boundaries and see how far the overseers will let them go. How much would Microsoft have to stray from the new regulations before you make some noise? Would you be tough and bring to attention the most minor of infractions? Or would you be more lenient and use your judgement to make sure the intent of the regulations are observed?
One third? I'd say a whole lot more than that won't care. The vast majority of people don't care what Microsoft is doing right now. Most don't realize Microsoft has done anything wrong. They sure won't care about one man babysitting Microsoft.
Check their full channel listing and take a look at channel 52. Nothing but unsigned bands. XM seems to have a little of everything. If I here from someone with realworld experience that reception is pretty good in most places, I intend to get one.
An honest cost accounting is very difficult to do though. The costs are so varied and spread over a long period of time that an acurate costing is mere guesswork. The top guys want to know what it costs NOW. It's your job to make it just work automagically.
I watched a good bit of this thread on bugtraq (check the archives). Several people on the list attempted to reproduce the exloit as detailed by the original poster and failed. Whether that was their mistake or not is anyone's guess. I didn't try it myself. It only seamed to affect certain builds. I'm certainly not saying IE users aren't vulnerable, I'm just saying get details before making too much noise. MS won't release a fix until they're good and ready, so let's just sit on the flames a bit and try to find out what is going on in reality.
Hard drives was of course my first thought. They're cheap and widely supported. The problem though is that there are so many moving parts that can break. With something like a tape drive or DVD-Rs or something, the media is separate from the drive. If the drive goes bad, the media/data are still intact. Just remember redundancy is important whatever you choose to use.
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For handhelds there really isnt much they can do for "bigger and better" unless its adding a backlight like this into the model. 3D games wont be viable because of the limited screen size and controls, so making a faster processor would be kind of silly. A handheld SNES is as good as it gets, IMO. And this is it
Oh I wouldn't be so sure. If nothing else they could through in a head mounted display and integrate the game system into a more ergonomic controller. There're plenty of room for improvements. Luckily they have more imaginative staff than myself.
Yes, but if it was an organized effort directed at the site for the express purpose of bringing it down, the guys at OSDN could be held liable for a DDoS.
Didn't Google IPO a while back on one of the foreign exchanges? Somewhere in Europe I thought.
They can't do that because of copyright issues. It would be a good idea to give them and their ISP some advance warning though and offer to cache. Of course then the bean counters might complain about unncessary bandwidth usage.
Good point. Also remember though that hard drives have many more moving parts than tapes. HDDs may be more reliable than tapes sitting on a rack, but not while being carried/driven off site and back frequently.
If the laptop has a healthy ammount of RAM, it shouldn't hit the HDD that often for a firewall should it? Get a decent laptop, pull out the hard drive, beef up the RAM, and boot from a CD-RW or something. Run the OS from a RAMdisk. I wouldn't think a laptop would have any trouble running 24/7 in such a situation.
I know that was supposed to be funny, but it is a good idea. Take a laptop, add a larger monitor (LCD?), external keyboard and mouse, and a cooling plate or something to sit it on, and you're good to go.
If you're intent on a real desktop, remember to just get rid of components you don't really need. Even idle components use power. Consider a fan bus also to throttle fans back when they're not needed. If this will be a firewall or something rather than a normal desktop, consider one of those LCD displays that fit in a 5 1/4" bay to display statistics rather than a monitor. If you're desparate (or like many of us and already do) leave the case open to save on cooling power. There's plenty of room to cut corners. Just remember that that's what you are doing; cutting corners. You need to ballance your power use with the function you need, but you already know that.
Well it worked for Cartmanland. Maybe someone should tell NASA to stop getting financial advice from cartoons.
An open, non-proprietary system would change nothing. No matter how open the protocol, someone has to host the servers that handle authentication and monitor who's online. The only way to avoid company-owned IM networks is to create an open peer-to-peer messaging protocol which would not be simple. It would be very difficult actually, if not impossible.
This isn't necesarily total hogwash. Let's think about this.
- 4 100W light bulbs/4500W draw on batteries
Don't assume the light bulbs are the only thing drawing power from the batteries. That's a large box and can hold plenty of other electronic apperatus.
- Surplus Energy
I certainly don't believe this energy is coming out of nowhere, but that doesn't mean it's not there. The machine could be drawing power from ambient heat, various radiation, or even chemical reactions with air/water/gasses.
This probably is a hoax, but let's give it a little more consideration before totally dismissing it. I'm curious to know what really is going on in that box. Even if(though) it's not creating power from nothing, it could still be a viable power source.
I never said I was in favor of slavery. I said there isn't anything inherently wrong with it. Not all slavery is involutary, and people of all races have been slaves. I guess this is one of those opinions you're not allowed to have anymore.
Check out http://replaypc.sourceforge.net/ I wish I had a ReplayTV to try it out on. Anyone tried this?
There's nothing wrong with slavery in and of itself. It's the mistreatment of slaves that is wrong.
I've dealt with compgeeks several times and have never had any trouble. I've gotten some really good deals there. Can you be more specific about what trouble you've had?
The foil lining on the walls will take care of that. What? Why are you all looking at me like that?
considering there are no moving parts in solid state memory, I'd say it'd use considerably less power and be more reliable. Anyone know how many times nvram can be written to compared to conventional hard drives? I think we had a story not too long ago about ram-based hard drives.
Microsoft is sure to test their boundaries and see how far the overseers will let them go. How much would Microsoft have to stray from the new regulations before you make some noise? Would you be tough and bring to attention the most minor of infractions? Or would you be more lenient and use your judgement to make sure the intent of the regulations are observed?
One third? I'd say a whole lot more than that won't care. The vast majority of people don't care what Microsoft is doing right now. Most don't realize Microsoft has done anything wrong. They sure won't care about one man babysitting Microsoft.
Check their full channel listing and take a look at channel 52. Nothing but unsigned bands. XM seems to have a little of everything. If I here from someone with realworld experience that reception is pretty good in most places, I intend to get one.
Perhaps I should have read the archive myself before posting. I didn't watch the entire discussion. You appear to be right though.
An honest cost accounting is very difficult to do though. The costs are so varied and spread over a long period of time that an acurate costing is mere guesswork. The top guys want to know what it costs NOW. It's your job to make it just work automagically.
But the file is identified as file.txt or whatever. There's no indication that it's an executable file. Done properly, this could fool any IE user.
I watched a good bit of this thread on bugtraq (check the archives). Several people on the list attempted to reproduce the exloit as detailed by the original poster and failed. Whether that was their mistake or not is anyone's guess. I didn't try it myself. It only seamed to affect certain builds. I'm certainly not saying IE users aren't vulnerable, I'm just saying get details before making too much noise. MS won't release a fix until they're good and ready, so let's just sit on the flames a bit and try to find out what is going on in reality.
Hard drives was of course my first thought. They're cheap and widely supported. The problem though is that there are so many moving parts that can break. With something like a tape drive or DVD-Rs or something, the media is separate from the drive. If the drive goes bad, the media/data are still intact. Just remember redundancy is important whatever you choose to use.