Unless you just like the look of the G5, I think you'd be better off trying to get a little money for it on craigslist, and then buying/building a cheap x86 machine if you need a server. G5 power consumption is pretty crazy for the performance you get - best case, at idle, you're looking at 140w, but in reality it's much higher.
The real problem with these drives, or the scary problem, is the folks using these in RAID arrays, or things like the Drobo. The drive freaks out, so the array marks it bad. You pop the drive out and put in a new one, or even the same one again, to start a rebuild. But another drive freaks out during that process, array says "oh crap, another bad drive!" and your data goes to/dev/null. Even though no data was ever actually lost... just bad drives.
I just loaded sourceforge.net from Beijing. Admittedly I'm in a hotel, but my connection appears to otherwise be filtered like all the others I've used in China, so I don't imagine there's anything special about this case.
So, perhaps I'm just lucky, or perhaps it's not really blocked...
The first time I visited Beijing, I was frankly shocked that life can exist in this environment. I'm in Beijing again right now, and have just gotten used to the idea that you need to budget some time each morning to hack up gunk from your lungs. I'm less than 1 kilometer from the forbidden city at the moment, but can't see it. I know it's there, because a rainstorm earlier this week cleared the air enough to see that far.
Even if every/.'er did this, it still would be a drop in a bucket compared to the number of folks who happily pay the fee.
For example, many pay wifi points can be circumvented just by connecting to a VPN over UDP (since they're only filtering TCP requests). I doubt they're going broke due to that issue though..
While I'm not a pro-comcast person or anything, what you're seeing is disclosed - it's the 'powerBoost' feature which gives you a bucket of really fast bits up/down stream, after which you throttle down to the speed you've purchased (8/1 or 6/384k or whatever).
So, I can get like 3mbit upstream for a bit, but then it scales back to 1mbit/sec. If I stop the transfer and wait a bit, then start again, I'll get the fast speed again for a little bit. Same is true on downstream - I'll get ~24mbit/sec down for a bit, then it'll throttle back to the 8mbit I pay for.
Seems like you might have some issues - I plug firewire drives into Tiger systems multiple times per day and have never had a crash. And even if it did, you'd get the multi-lingual "please restart" screen - I haven't seen OSX do a black screen panic since 10.1...
Also, if applications are "just vanishing" on launch, you may have disabled the little popup that tells you the 'application quit, wrote a crash log, and would you like to reopen it?'...
Mine had a dead motherboard battery, so you had to manually set the boot params every time you had to power it off. I seem to recall you had to manually enter the harddisk sector info and whatnot too. It was hooked up to a double height 5.25" scsi drive that sat on top of the case, with the scsi ribbon cable coming out of the alpha through the back, with a big sign saying "NOBODY TOUCH THIS"... good times...
presidents generally pardon people that have already served their sentence, to clear their name, rather than people that haven't served a single day...
I know I'm ancient, but does anyone else remember when Carmack used to post on slashdot with some degree of regularity? And not just on id-related topics. Good times...
As best as I've been able to gather from what I've read today, the very clever fellow just implemented that publicly available decryption routine, and also discovered an (as of yet unreleased) method for obtaining decryption keys. It seems very likely from everything I've read that he is pulling the keys from the PowerDVD program - perhaps they're left unencrypted similar to the original DeCSS obtained a key from the Xing player?
In any case, it will be interesting to see how this is dealt with, and whether key revocation can/can't break this. The author thinks it can't - the cat is out of the bag and is staying that way.
We'll see. I think it's good news for us though, no matter what.
The 17" powerbook G4 and all the macbooks and macbook pros use LiPoly batteries. So does the iPod. (Notice that the Sony recall was only for 15" and 12" powerbook g4s)
My laptop requires a password to wake from sleep or decrypt the contents of my home directory. Since this is seemingly not a search-warrant situation, am I in any way legally required to type / provide my password? What are they (legally at least) able to do if I refuse?
It's not widescreen. It's the exact same resolution as the iPod with video - 4:3, QVGA (320x240). They've just turned the screen sideways and made it 3" diag instead of 2.5".
I know it's going totally off topic, but come now. Do you have to recite that to yourself each night, to make sure you keep believing it?
So, all along in the run up to the war, you thought we'd find 500 discarded (in quantities of one or two) pre-first-Gulf-War weapons that couldn't have been fired even if someone wanted to? You were really hoping that we could launch a war resulting in the deaths of more than 2500 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis, in order to find what our own defense officials say no longer qualified as weapons of mass destruction? That's really what you were expecting? Man, I wish someone had clued me in...
In my studio, we'll often use a stack of blue gels to calibrate monitors that don't have a blue only mode. If you can get a gel (they actually sell filters just for this) that has very low transmission anywhere except blue, you can hold it up to your eyes to do the calibration. Rough, but not too bad...
Don't forget about doing your brightness and contrast too (see: Pluge Pattern)
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First Solar only does photovoltaics, so no birds will be incinerated.
Unless you just like the look of the G5, I think you'd be better off trying to get a little money for it on craigslist, and then buying/building a cheap x86 machine if you need a server. G5 power consumption is pretty crazy for the performance you get - best case, at idle, you're looking at 140w, but in reality it's much higher.
worst piece of widely-used network software ever made
uhh, sendmail?
Dunno about where this factory is, but everywhere I've been in China, 41 cents (3 yuan) doesn't buy you much...
Almost sounds like a DVD that wasn't finalized in a direct-to-dvd camcorder.
Wow. That's ... wrong.
The RED has a CMOS sensor, as do a number of other fancy-pants video cameras these days.
The real problem with these drives, or the scary problem, is the folks using these in RAID arrays, or things like the Drobo. The drive freaks out, so the array marks it bad. You pop the drive out and put in a new one, or even the same one again, to start a rebuild. But another drive freaks out during that process, array says "oh crap, another bad drive!" and your data goes to /dev/null. Even though no data was ever actually lost... just bad drives.
I just loaded sourceforge.net from Beijing. Admittedly I'm in a hotel, but my connection appears to otherwise be filtered like all the others I've used in China, so I don't imagine there's anything special about this case.
So, perhaps I'm just lucky, or perhaps it's not really blocked...
The first time I visited Beijing, I was frankly shocked that life can exist in this environment. I'm in Beijing again right now, and have just gotten used to the idea that you need to budget some time each morning to hack up gunk from your lungs. I'm less than 1 kilometer from the forbidden city at the moment, but can't see it. I know it's there, because a rainstorm earlier this week cleared the air enough to see that far.
Great city once you get past the air though...
Even if every /.'er did this, it still would be a drop in a bucket compared to the number of folks who happily pay the fee.
For example, many pay wifi points can be circumvented just by connecting to a VPN over UDP (since they're only filtering TCP requests). I doubt they're going broke due to that issue though..
While I'm not a pro-comcast person or anything, what you're seeing is disclosed - it's the 'powerBoost' feature which gives you a bucket of really fast bits up/down stream, after which you throttle down to the speed you've purchased (8/1 or 6/384k or whatever).
So, I can get like 3mbit upstream for a bit, but then it scales back to 1mbit/sec. If I stop the transfer and wait a bit, then start again, I'll get the fast speed again for a little bit. Same is true on downstream - I'll get ~24mbit/sec down for a bit, then it'll throttle back to the 8mbit I pay for.
Seems like you might have some issues - I plug firewire drives into Tiger systems multiple times per day and have never had a crash. And even if it did, you'd get the multi-lingual "please restart" screen - I haven't seen OSX do a black screen panic since 10.1 ...
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Also, if applications are "just vanishing" on launch, you may have disabled the little popup that tells you the 'application quit, wrote a crash log, and would you like to reopen it?'
Mine had a dead motherboard battery, so you had to manually set the boot params every time you had to power it off. I seem to recall you had to manually enter the harddisk sector info and whatnot too. It was hooked up to a double height 5.25" scsi drive that sat on top of the case, with the scsi ribbon cable coming out of the alpha through the back, with a big sign saying "NOBODY TOUCH THIS" ... good times...
presidents generally pardon people that have already served their sentence, to clear their name, rather than people that haven't served a single day...
I know I'm ancient, but does anyone else remember when Carmack used to post on slashdot with some degree of regularity? And not just on id-related topics. Good times...
I think this kid should have been paying more attention to the content of this English class, and less attention to making fun of the teacher.
"Your about to see"
"Imagine the worse smell"
Grammer and spelling kids, grammer and spelling.
As best as I've been able to gather from what I've read today, the very clever fellow just implemented that publicly available decryption routine, and also discovered an (as of yet unreleased) method for obtaining decryption keys. It seems very likely from everything I've read that he is pulling the keys from the PowerDVD program - perhaps they're left unencrypted similar to the original DeCSS obtained a key from the Xing player?
In any case, it will be interesting to see how this is dealt with, and whether key revocation can/can't break this. The author thinks it can't - the cat is out of the bag and is staying that way.
We'll see. I think it's good news for us though, no matter what.
The 17" powerbook G4 and all the macbooks and macbook pros use LiPoly batteries. So does the iPod. (Notice that the Sony recall was only for 15" and 12" powerbook g4s)
My laptop requires a password to wake from sleep or decrypt the contents of my home directory. Since this is seemingly not a search-warrant situation, am I in any way legally required to type / provide my password? What are they (legally at least) able to do if I refuse?
It's not widescreen. It's the exact same resolution as the iPod with video - 4:3, QVGA (320x240). They've just turned the screen sideways and made it 3" diag instead of 2.5".
Luckily these aren't Pan & Scan - I guess Apple was listening to you!
I know it's going totally off topic, but come now. Do you have to recite that to yourself each night, to make sure you keep believing it?
So, all along in the run up to the war, you thought we'd find 500 discarded (in quantities of one or two) pre-first-Gulf-War weapons that couldn't have been fired even if someone wanted to? You were really hoping that we could launch a war resulting in the deaths of more than 2500 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis, in order to find what our own defense officials say no longer qualified as weapons of mass destruction? That's really what you were expecting? Man, I wish someone had clued me in...
In my studio, we'll often use a stack of blue gels to calibrate monitors that don't have a blue only mode. If you can get a gel (they actually sell filters just for this) that has very low transmission anywhere except blue, you can hold it up to your eyes to do the calibration. Rough, but not too bad...
Don't forget about doing your brightness and contrast too (see: Pluge Pattern)
I saw that at MCP a few years ago. Was pretty nifty, but it was during an opening so the space was too loud for the pictures to come through clearly.
In the Twin Cities, RadioK is where it's at. 770 AM, 106.5 FM in the west metro.