A paper insert said older 2.4X drives (like my HP dvd200i +R/+RW drive) would be incompatible with the 4X media (at 2.4X speed) unless the drive were upgraded to latest firmware.
I did the update and was able to write 4X media just fine.
Perhaps the -R/-RW camp will come up with drive firmware upgrades for the older drives?
The standards for media writing apparently changed a bit from 2.4X days to 4X. Unflashed older drives aren't compatible. The firmware upgrade makes them compatible with new standards, but they still write at 2.4X maximum spee.
The article and its predecessor (part I and II) do not provide any solutions. Both articles simply run down a laundry list of currently proposed solutions, explaining along the way why none of them will work.
Spam sucks, but this article doesn't help provide a solution. It does help frame the discussion, and provides coherent analysis of problems with currently proposed ideas.
OK, I haven't read the article so flame me if you must...
This concept doesn't make sense. Most DoS's are DDoS's right? So if a million zombie machines attack one central machine, how can it fight back given the Many vs. One (attackee) scenario? Won't the central machine simply be consuming its own (already saturated) bandwidth?
Or does the central machine maintain its own army of zombies with which to fight back? Even if you conducted this (likely illegal) scenario, whom would you attack with your zombie army? Which one or few of the zombie foes would you try to attack?
He was merely posing for the press. He barely altered NASA's budget (adding $1B to existing $87B budget, a 1% increase). The science is bad. Unless the moon already has sufficient resources to provide most of the mass of the project, using the moon as a stepping stone is bad physics.
Why loft materials out of Earth's gravity well and into another sizable gravity well (the moon). You end up doing the heavy lifting twice.
If they wanted to stage from an earth orbiting station, that might make a little more sense. All told you expend the same/similar energy getting out of Earth's well if you pause part of the way out. If there is benefit of assembly in zero-G (free fall), then you could utilize a space station.
(Existing space station orbit is too far out of the solar plane to be useful in its current location, BTW.)
Seriously. There are more than 100 distros. Probly lots more. Someone will inform me.
Why do we need so many?
Consider the consumer OS: there are already too many windozen (NT4, 95, 95sr2, 98, 98se, ME, W2K, XP) -- that that's a handful compared to Linux distros.
How is my grandma (OK, my ma, grandma writes letters long hand and has no PC) supposed to choose a Linux version?
I hacked the cheapo wall-mount DSL filter (for wall mounted phones) that they sent me.
It only filtered pair#2 of the two pairs available on 4-conductor RJ-11 sockets. My phone line with DSL is on pair#2, so that filter let all the noise through and both phones and DSL failed to work.
So I cross soldered inside, and routed pair#2 thru the single available filter (there's space for another filter, but is empty). Pair#1 now remains unfiltered.
Then I put it back on the wall, and everyone is happy.
Bad scary naming (TIA, Total Information Awareness!? come on) and bad marketing aren't going to stop them. They'll rename it to sound beneficials and be much more covert about implementing it. But they still will.
Too much at once (Patriot II) is also scary. So they implement all the little bits of Patriot II over time, until it is eventually all done. Once it's done it'll be much harder to roll it back.
The story of boiling a frog once again comes to mind: stick the frog in boiling water and he jumps out; you lose your dinner. Put the frog in warm water and gradually heat it to boiling -- he stays in and eventually gets cooked.
... and has been running so long the uptime counter (limited to about 500days) has rolled over twice.
It's rock solid, running on an older 2.2 series kernel.
Where can I get a chip?
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The article (also the currently attached/. comments) do not say where one might obtain a mod chip.
If I have a Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Dodge, where can I go to get a chip?
I _know_ Hondas and Acuras are very much catered to for aftermarket mod businesses. (Just because you put Altezza taillights on your Civic [or a GoFastParticleGenerator trunk-top "wing"], it doesn't mean yer gonna go any faster!)
Just because Honda mod kits are prevalent, it does not mean this platform is superior to other platforms. Honda engines require high RPMs before useable [go faster now] torque becomes available. It is very hard to keep your RPMS in the 6000+ range, because the engine increases its RPMs much more rapidly in the high end of the range than it does in the lower end of the range.
Torque is what makes you go faster NOW. I want torque in low RPM ranges where the engine is SLOWLY advancing its rate of rotation (and less susceptible to governance when approaching "high" RPMs).
What's the risk of Microsoft's intellectual property "contaminating" other IP?
Or, put another way, would MS have an argument for acting SCO-like against other OSs? MS could say "your code looks like ours, we think you stole it from the leak."
I enjoyed Galactica as a kid (yeah, I'm old now), and am looking forward to this new series.
Where, however, is the "buzz" over cool new ideas yet unseen? Many people buzz over remakes of old ideas, but are they done any better?
Star Wars lumbers on with dialogue-ridden prequels (and yet unseen postquels), Gilligan's Island is probably in production for the silver screen by now, I-Spy has been dubiously remade.
Firefly was/is a cool idea and at least got an airing. Star Trek is still a cool franchise, but has been pretty commodotized.
Where's the new, cool stuff.
I'm not a huge Anime fan, but Cowboy Bepop seems pretty cool to me. If there aren't new ideas, why not bring this one from one format to another?
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I just bought Memorex DVD+R media.
A paper insert said older 2.4X drives (like my HP dvd200i +R/+RW drive) would be incompatible with the 4X media (at 2.4X speed) unless the drive were upgraded to latest firmware.
I did the update and was able to write 4X media just fine.
Perhaps the -R/-RW camp will come up with drive firmware upgrades for the older drives?
The standards for media writing apparently changed a bit from 2.4X days to 4X. Unflashed older drives aren't compatible. The firmware upgrade makes them compatible with new standards, but they still write at 2.4X maximum spee.
The article and its predecessor (part I and II) do not provide any solutions. Both articles simply run down a laundry list of currently proposed solutions, explaining along the way why none of them will work.
Spam sucks, but this article doesn't help provide a solution. It does help frame the discussion, and provides coherent analysis of problems with currently proposed ideas.
Damn. I was hoping for a fix.
one sucks, the other doesn't
So all those popups will have to pay the U.S. to have their "billboards on our land."
OK, I haven't read the article so flame me if you must...
This concept doesn't make sense. Most DoS's are DDoS's right? So if a million zombie machines attack one central machine, how can it fight back given the Many vs. One (attackee) scenario? Won't the central machine simply be consuming its own (already saturated) bandwidth?
Or does the central machine maintain its own army of zombies with which to fight back? Even if you conducted this (likely illegal) scenario, whom would you attack with your zombie army? Which one or few of the zombie foes would you try to attack?
...I should have said:
All your CCD are belong to us
We set them up the patent
...we set them up the patent
Well they must be innovating at an incredible rate! Look at how fast the size of their software grows.
Every extra Gigabyte consumed on disk and megabyte allocated in memory holds useful new stuff as the OSs grow from release to release, right?
He was merely posing for the press. He barely altered NASA's budget (adding $1B to existing $87B budget, a 1% increase). The science is bad. Unless the moon already has sufficient resources to provide most of the mass of the project, using the moon as a stepping stone is bad physics.
Why loft materials out of Earth's gravity well and into another sizable gravity well (the moon). You end up doing the heavy lifting twice.
If they wanted to stage from an earth orbiting station, that might make a little more sense. All told you expend the same/similar energy getting out of Earth's well if you pause part of the way out. If there is benefit of assembly in zero-G (free fall), then you could utilize a space station.
(Existing space station orbit is too far out of the solar plane to be useful in its current location, BTW.)
uptime: 1s
Press key on console to reboot...
This on my dual Athlon system. Is there a problem with multi-CPU support?
Or perhaps an Athlon-ism has bitten me?
I guess I wasn't really that interested in trying BSD anyway...
Are you just _asking_ for trouble?
Yesterday's close: 13.42
Today's close: 11.59
Percentage decline today: 13.64.
So maybe the call didn't go so well?
Seriously. There are more than 100 distros. Probly lots more. Someone will inform me.
Why do we need so many?
Consider the consumer OS: there are already too many windozen (NT4, 95, 95sr2, 98, 98se, ME, W2K, XP) -- that that's a handful compared to Linux distros.
How is my grandma (OK, my ma, grandma writes letters long hand and has no PC) supposed to choose a Linux version?
Troll bait, I know, but I couldn't resist:
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Utahians don't want retailers to know how many of their wives are buying jeans at the Gap at the same time
I say watch out for the MPAA coming over to your place with search warrant in hand, FBI to enforce it, and taking away all your equipment...
I hacked the cheapo wall-mount DSL filter (for wall mounted phones) that they sent me.
It only filtered pair#2 of the two pairs available on 4-conductor RJ-11 sockets. My phone line with DSL is on pair#2, so that filter let all the noise through and both phones and DSL failed to work.
So I cross soldered inside, and routed pair#2 thru the single available filter (there's space for another filter, but is empty). Pair#1 now remains unfiltered.
Then I put it back on the wall, and everyone is happy.
... just happens to be in software instead of construction / oil.
Bad scary naming (TIA, Total Information Awareness!? come on) and bad marketing aren't going to stop them. They'll rename it to sound beneficials and be much more covert about implementing it. But they still will.
Too much at once (Patriot II) is also scary. So they implement all the little bits of Patriot II over time, until it is eventually all done. Once it's done it'll be much harder to roll it back.
The story of boiling a frog once again comes to mind: stick the frog in boiling water and he jumps out; you lose your dinner. Put the frog in warm water and gradually heat it to boiling -- he stays in and eventually gets cooked.
We are the frogs.
Clearly, this was a beta test of a new, long distance, selectively sized and targeted (Las Vegas metro this time around) EMP weapon.
Ooops! Now that I revealed this info, I expect a knock at my door any moment.
Hmm. Let's do the math, ignoring inflation.
I have 500 CDs, most bought at $16-18 price. Let's say $16 to be conservative.
Total investment is thus about: $8,000.
Reimbursement from price fixers: $13.86.
100 * ( 13.86 / 8000) == 0.17%
Boy do I feel "reimbursed."
... is to use his reality distortion field to bend all reality to his will until everything looks, acts, smells and otherwise behaves...
THE WAY HE WANTS IT TO.
Then he doesn't have to make real changes. They're all implemented virtually.
... and has been running so long the uptime counter (limited to about 500days) has rolled over twice.
It's rock solid, running on an older 2.2 series kernel.
If I have a Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Dodge, where can I go to get a chip?
I _know_ Hondas and Acuras are very much catered to for aftermarket mod businesses. (Just because you put Altezza taillights on your Civic [or a GoFastParticleGenerator trunk-top "wing"], it doesn't mean yer gonna go any faster!)
Just because Honda mod kits are prevalent, it does not mean this platform is superior to other platforms. Honda engines require high RPMs before useable [go faster now] torque becomes available. It is very hard to keep your RPMS in the 6000+ range, because the engine increases its RPMs much more rapidly in the high end of the range than it does in the lower end of the range.
Torque is what makes you go faster NOW. I want torque in low RPM ranges where the engine is SLOWLY advancing its rate of rotation (and less susceptible to governance when approaching "high" RPMs).
What's the risk of Microsoft's intellectual property "contaminating" other IP?
Or, put another way, would MS have an argument for acting SCO-like against other OSs? MS could say "your code looks like ours, we think you stole it from the leak."
I enjoyed Galactica as a kid (yeah, I'm old now), and am looking forward to this new series.
Where, however, is the "buzz" over cool new ideas yet unseen? Many people buzz over remakes of old ideas, but are they done any better?
Star Wars lumbers on with dialogue-ridden prequels (and yet unseen postquels), Gilligan's Island is probably in production for the silver screen by now, I-Spy has been dubiously remade.
Firefly was/is a cool idea and at least got an airing. Star Trek is still a cool franchise, but has been pretty commodotized.
Where's the new, cool stuff.
I'm not a huge Anime fan, but Cowboy Bepop seems pretty cool to me. If there aren't new ideas, why not bring this one from one format to another?
Still; Where's the cool, new stuff?