Both 3M (Scotchflex) & Thomas&Betts sell round IDC cable by the roll, all the way from about 10 core to about 80 core.. However its not as simple as that, with round IDC cable, the cores have to be split from each other otherwise the round cable would buckle & also spring back too much, of course the more expensive twisted pair variety has to be split for the cores to twist too. However one also has to have a unsplit patch every 3 inches or so, of at least one inch in length, along the length of the core, underneath the outer insulation - otherwise it'd be a bugger of a job attaching IDC end clamp connectors to them. Consequently if you purchase a roll of the stuff, & you plan to make IDE or SCSI cables you have to cut them an extra 3 inches or so, because you might have to backtrack a bit to unraval a flat unsplit length to attach the IDC connector to each end. Twisted pair round IDC cable rolls are expensive. So if you see SCSI IDC round cables going cheap, they are either handmade jobs made from ordinary ribbon cable or its made from a roll of ordinary round IDC cable.
The simple fact is, if you were to open up many brand name computers (such as the latest Compaqs), they actually have round IDE cable in them & many profesional workstations (such as some IBMs) now have round SCSI cable in them to. The reason is it aids ventilation in those cramped Compaq PCs & in those hot workstations.
I agree with you on the proper art of folding & routing IDC cables, though.
both 3M (Scotchflex) & Thomas&Betts manufacture twisted pair round cable rolls (all the way from about 10 core to 70 core).
However its not as simple as that, with round IDC cable, the cores have to be split from each other otherwise the round cable would buckle & also spring back too much, of course the more expensive twisted pair variety has to be split for the cores to twist too. However one also has to have a unsplit patch every 3 inches or so, of at least one inch in length, along the length of the core, underneath the outer insulation - otherwise it'd be a bugger of a job attaching IDC end clamp connectors to them.
Consequently if you purchase a roll of the stuff, & you plan to make IDE or SCSI cables you have to cut them an extra 3 inches or so, because you might have to backtrack a bit to unraval a flat unsplit length to attach the IDC connector to each end.
Twisted pair round IDC cable rolls are expensive. So if you see SCSI IDC round cables going cheap, they are either handmade jobs made from ordinary ribbon cable or its made from a roll of ordinary round IDC cable.
....where there might not be enough room for both a telly & computer monitor. This is particully pertinent if your sharing a flat with someone & your the one with the 2nd smaller bedroom. Or take the case of kids, its a way of saving money -as you know kids like to have both the telly & the computer on at once, this way way only one CRT is running in their room/s which helps keep the power bills lower.
that's why.
There are 3 alternatives - watching HDTV on a HDTV (which is too expensive); watching HDTV on a normal telly, using a set-top box (thereby losing the high definition, so what's the point); & finally using a HDTV card equiped computer (which give you the benefit of utilising the computer monitor's High definition screen at the price of a set-top box). Remember 17" monitors are dirt cheap these days & 19" monitors are pretty cheap too, you just have to sit a little closer than you would with a 23" telly & you get the same effect, but in high definition. Which is the whole point of the exercise.
it seems that Chinese proverb about the 3 generations is pretty accurate.
You know know the one where the 1st generation makes the fortune, the 2nd generation establishs it & the 3rd generation wastes it.
You don't have to look far to find examples of it, look at me I was forced to go on welfare to help pay for my last European holiday last year. Yet I have a grandfather who was a Danish Duke & a Grandmother who 'networked' with the Czars mum.
Actually those 2 countries trade with each other just as much if not more than anyone else.
Actually half the time you buy Taiwanese computer hardware its either assembled in Taiwan with parts made in China, or its the other way arround.
Your a fucken idiot & I beleive that all idiots should be jailed, so I don't have to deal with them.
Same logic as yours really.
Anyway the fact remains that your a fucking idiot.
Well people in Northern Europe seem to do ok, even the dole (welfare for the unemployed) in most of Northern Europe is higher than the US minimum wage, yet they can still find people to work in fast food joints.
Plus there's a lot less poverty in Europe, plus everyone get at least 3 times as much holidays & leave as what Americans do. Oh they all get virtually free Cradle to grave healthcare & virtually free cradle to grave education.
Maybe its the US system that doesn't work & its socialism euro style that work.
Afterall what does it matter what economists say about how good or bad an economy is spose to be doing if everyone is doing ok.
Yes that's right, really good quality workstations have huge heatsinks without a fan on purpose as it's much quieter & you don't have to worry about a fatal crash if the fan stops working. They are designed that way with the heatsink directly below the powersupply. But its not an ordinary powersupply its one of those ones with a 92mm fan underneath, instead of an 80mm fan at the back, also the flow is reversed with the fan drawing air from the back via the powersupply & blowing it directly over the CPU heatsink (if the powersupply is not overly stressed the air does not end up more than a couple of degrees above ambient). The CPU heatsink is designed with the fins oriented so the air blows through from one side to the otherside (which is much more efficient than having a fan on top blowing down). Also the speed of the fan is dictated by both a thermister in the powersupply & the internal thermister diode in the CPU (or a thermister under the CPU), so the fan only speeds up when either the powersupply or the CPU needs extra cooling.You'll find all QUALITY workstations have cooling setups similar to the one I've outlined above.
It's a simple fact.
You can stick a ATI graphics card in one & it will work, you can also stick a Vibra16 Soundblaster in one & it will work too. The Alpha 21264 system was designed from the outset to be compatible with X86 peripherals.
If AMD had just bothered to sell Athlons in Slot B form (rather just make a couple of slotB engineering samples), you could have had an SMP Athlon system a year ago. Same again if Asus had bought out a slotA/SlotB converter unit (like their slot1/Slot2 converter unit).
I've seen SocketA/SlotA slockets for sale on a German website, so it is probably theoretically possible for a SocketA/SlotB slocket to exist too.
However all these solutions are pie in the sky, because of the expense of Alpha 21264 motherboards, so you're best off just waiting till the AMD 760 chipset (which could in theory be used to make a 1000 processor system you just need an extra northbridge chip for every extra CPU), or the new VIA Athlon chipset that will be dual SMP compatible.
Up comes a menu of everything that boots up at startup, including tabs for Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, system.ini, win.ini & the starup folder (plus system tray). This last tabs even shows the hidden apps, that don't appear in the system tray &/or the startup folder, yet are there any way.
It give you the option of unticking all of them, including the windows system startup apps. There are 28 bloody apps in my system tray but I've unticked 18 of them using the msconfig app. So all I use now are the 5 system apps that windows, its GUI & filesystem need (taskbar, scanreg, taskmon, systray & powerprofile) , plus 3dfx tools, the Aopen system monitor, TweakUI & Norton System works, but I've disabled all the ones that inside the Systemworks tray icon, but cleansweep.
Did you know that Cuba is the only third world country that has first world life expectancie (actually the same as the US, only that women live 1 year less in Cuba & men 1 year longer). They also get free cradle to grave education & healthcare. Consequently Cuba has the most highly educated citizens in the whole of the Americas.
Fact is the average Cuban is infinitly better of than some Javanese Nike worker on a subsinstance wage - really the only people doing ok in Indonesia are the Soeharto cronies & the Chinese businessmen.
Virtually all the third world gets from opening their countries up to foreign corporations is debt. There are many countries in Africa where the average person was heaps better off in the subsistance era, when the vllages grew what they needed, than they are now, where everyone is in debt & on poverty wages because the world bank & IMF, etc, conned them into growing coffee for the likes of us.
I can get a phone number that spells out my company name or someone elses company name.
I can get a personal number plate that spells out my company or someone elses company
I can get a URL that spells out my company.
In all 3 cases you don't own the 'product', you just have the right to use that 'product', or sell or lease that 'right' to someone else.
All these URL legal problems would be solved if they just made URL registraltion, first in first served , just like personal number plates on cars & 'personalised phone numbers. If no one else has already got it I could get a phone number that spells out COCACOLA, or a personalised number plate for my car that spells out COCA-COLA, Coco Cola either had the choice of getting them before me, or buying them off me, if I beat them to it.
Now why should URLs be treated any differently than personalised number plates or personalised phone numbers?
It would keep things simple & keeps the lawyers away.
The license fee that goes to Apple everytime one buys a Firewire product is on average about US17c, even on really expensive products the Gross fee paid to Apple is still less than US50c.
Aparently when Firewire first came out Apple wanted a net return of US$1 in license fees for every Firewire product made. But Just about every Electronics company kicked up a stink, so Apple backed down.
I read all this in an article in my morning paper's IT section, so it must be right:).
That's why when I'm on Napster & someone downloads songs from me, I check to see if their sharing any files. If they arn't I cancel the upload when it gets to about 94%. So every time they listen to that file they have the anoyence of not getting the end of the song.
If everone did that, those people with empty share folders would eventually get the point.
Another way this can be solved is by the writers of apps like Scour & Imesh, to set up the app, so there's no alternative than having one's 'download' folder the same as one's 'share' folder. Eventually the non-sharers will get so sick of moving their downloads to another folder, they'l just leave them there. Actually I think one of those filesharing utilities already work that way.
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Both 3M (Scotchflex) & Thomas&Betts sell round IDC cable by the roll, all the way from about 10 core to about 80 core.. However its not as simple as that, with round IDC cable, the cores have to be split from each other otherwise the round cable would buckle & also spring back too much, of course the more expensive twisted pair variety has to be split for the cores to twist too. However one also has to have a unsplit patch every 3 inches or so, of at least one inch in length, along the length of the core, underneath the outer insulation - otherwise it'd be a bugger of a job attaching IDC end clamp connectors to them. Consequently if you purchase a roll of the stuff, & you plan to make IDE or SCSI cables you have to cut them an extra 3 inches or so, because you might have to backtrack a bit to unraval a flat unsplit length to attach the IDC connector to each end. Twisted pair round IDC cable rolls are expensive. So if you see SCSI IDC round cables going cheap, they are either handmade jobs made from ordinary ribbon cable or its made from a roll of ordinary round IDC cable. The simple fact is, if you were to open up many brand name computers (such as the latest Compaqs), they actually have round IDE cable in them & many profesional workstations (such as some IBMs) now have round SCSI cable in them to. The reason is it aids ventilation in those cramped Compaq PCs & in those hot workstations. I agree with you on the proper art of folding & routing IDC cables, though.
both 3M (Scotchflex) & Thomas&Betts manufacture twisted pair round cable rolls (all the way from about 10 core to 70 core). However its not as simple as that, with round IDC cable, the cores have to be split from each other otherwise the round cable would buckle & also spring back too much, of course the more expensive twisted pair variety has to be split for the cores to twist too. However one also has to have a unsplit patch every 3 inches or so, of at least one inch in length, along the length of the core, underneath the outer insulation - otherwise it'd be a bugger of a job attaching IDC end clamp connectors to them. Consequently if you purchase a roll of the stuff, & you plan to make IDE or SCSI cables you have to cut them an extra 3 inches or so, because you might have to backtrack a bit to unraval a flat unsplit length to attach the IDC connector to each end. Twisted pair round IDC cable rolls are expensive. So if you see SCSI IDC round cables going cheap, they are either handmade jobs made from ordinary ribbon cable or its made from a roll of ordinary round IDC cable.
....where there might not be enough room for both a telly & computer monitor. This is particully pertinent if your sharing a flat with someone & your the one with the 2nd smaller bedroom. Or take the case of kids, its a way of saving money -as you know kids like to have both the telly & the computer on at once, this way way only one CRT is running in their room/s which helps keep the power bills lower.
that's why. There are 3 alternatives - watching HDTV on a HDTV (which is too expensive); watching HDTV on a normal telly, using a set-top box (thereby losing the high definition, so what's the point); & finally using a HDTV card equiped computer (which give you the benefit of utilising the computer monitor's High definition screen at the price of a set-top box). Remember 17" monitors are dirt cheap these days & 19" monitors are pretty cheap too, you just have to sit a little closer than you would with a 23" telly & you get the same effect, but in high definition. Which is the whole point of the exercise.
it seems that Chinese proverb about the 3 generations is pretty accurate. You know know the one where the 1st generation makes the fortune, the 2nd generation establishs it & the 3rd generation wastes it. You don't have to look far to find examples of it, look at me I was forced to go on welfare to help pay for my last European holiday last year. Yet I have a grandfather who was a Danish Duke & a Grandmother who 'networked' with the Czars mum.
Actually those 2 countries trade with each other just as much if not more than anyone else. Actually half the time you buy Taiwanese computer hardware its either assembled in Taiwan with parts made in China, or its the other way arround.
Your a fucken idiot & I beleive that all idiots should be jailed, so I don't have to deal with them. Same logic as yours really. Anyway the fact remains that your a fucking idiot.
That's why. That's the only reason they gave in.
the govt uses to soak up the billions in tax-payers dollars they spend on the 'Drug War'. Check Here http://www.drcnet.org/DARE/
Well people in Northern Europe seem to do ok, even the dole (welfare for the unemployed) in most of Northern Europe is higher than the US minimum wage, yet they can still find people to work in fast food joints. Plus there's a lot less poverty in Europe, plus everyone get at least 3 times as much holidays & leave as what Americans do. Oh they all get virtually free Cradle to grave healthcare & virtually free cradle to grave education. Maybe its the US system that doesn't work & its socialism euro style that work. Afterall what does it matter what economists say about how good or bad an economy is spose to be doing if everyone is doing ok.
nuf said
Those ISPs could start their own cable network if they don't want to pay what Time-Warner are charging.
Yes that's right, really good quality workstations have huge heatsinks without a fan on purpose as it's much quieter & you don't have to worry about a fatal crash if the fan stops working. They are designed that way with the heatsink directly below the powersupply. But its not an ordinary powersupply its one of those ones with a 92mm fan underneath, instead of an 80mm fan at the back, also the flow is reversed with the fan drawing air from the back via the powersupply & blowing it directly over the CPU heatsink (if the powersupply is not overly stressed the air does not end up more than a couple of degrees above ambient). The CPU heatsink is designed with the fins oriented so the air blows through from one side to the otherside (which is much more efficient than having a fan on top blowing down). Also the speed of the fan is dictated by both a thermister in the powersupply & the internal thermister diode in the CPU (or a thermister under the CPU), so the fan only speeds up when either the powersupply or the CPU needs extra cooling.You'll find all QUALITY workstations have cooling setups similar to the one I've outlined above.
It's a simple fact. You can stick a ATI graphics card in one & it will work, you can also stick a Vibra16 Soundblaster in one & it will work too. The Alpha 21264 system was designed from the outset to be compatible with X86 peripherals.
If AMD had just bothered to sell Athlons in Slot B form (rather just make a couple of slotB engineering samples), you could have had an SMP Athlon system a year ago. Same again if Asus had bought out a slotA/SlotB converter unit (like their slot1/Slot2 converter unit). I've seen SocketA/SlotA slockets for sale on a German website, so it is probably theoretically possible for a SocketA/SlotB slocket to exist too. However all these solutions are pie in the sky, because of the expense of Alpha 21264 motherboards, so you're best off just waiting till the AMD 760 chipset (which could in theory be used to make a 1000 processor system you just need an extra northbridge chip for every extra CPU), or the new VIA Athlon chipset that will be dual SMP compatible.
Up comes a menu of everything that boots up at startup, including tabs for Config.sys, Autoexec.bat, system.ini, win.ini & the starup folder (plus system tray). This last tabs even shows the hidden apps, that don't appear in the system tray &/or the startup folder, yet are there any way. It give you the option of unticking all of them, including the windows system startup apps. There are 28 bloody apps in my system tray but I've unticked 18 of them using the msconfig app. So all I use now are the 5 system apps that windows, its GUI & filesystem need (taskbar, scanreg, taskmon, systray & powerprofile) , plus 3dfx tools, the Aopen system monitor, TweakUI & Norton System works, but I've disabled all the ones that inside the Systemworks tray icon, but cleansweep.
Did you know that Cuba is the only third world country that has first world life expectancie (actually the same as the US, only that women live 1 year less in Cuba & men 1 year longer). They also get free cradle to grave education & healthcare. Consequently Cuba has the most highly educated citizens in the whole of the Americas. Fact is the average Cuban is infinitly better of than some Javanese Nike worker on a subsinstance wage - really the only people doing ok in Indonesia are the Soeharto cronies & the Chinese businessmen. Virtually all the third world gets from opening their countries up to foreign corporations is debt. There are many countries in Africa where the average person was heaps better off in the subsistance era, when the vllages grew what they needed, than they are now, where everyone is in debt & on poverty wages because the world bank & IMF, etc, conned them into growing coffee for the likes of us.
Company being shut down & all its accets liquidated
Will they be happy about the wasted enviroment they'l inherit from the likes of you
Invented by a Brit in Switzerland
You'l notice that quite a percentage of MS URLs come up as BSD/Apache
I can get a phone number that spells out my company name or someone elses company name. I can get a personal number plate that spells out my company or someone elses company I can get a URL that spells out my company. In all 3 cases you don't own the 'product', you just have the right to use that 'product', or sell or lease that 'right' to someone else. All these URL legal problems would be solved if they just made URL registraltion, first in first served , just like personal number plates on cars & 'personalised phone numbers. If no one else has already got it I could get a phone number that spells out COCACOLA, or a personalised number plate for my car that spells out COCA-COLA, Coco Cola either had the choice of getting them before me, or buying them off me, if I beat them to it. Now why should URLs be treated any differently than personalised number plates or personalised phone numbers? It would keep things simple & keeps the lawyers away.
The license fee that goes to Apple everytime one buys a Firewire product is on average about US17c, even on really expensive products the Gross fee paid to Apple is still less than US50c. Aparently when Firewire first came out Apple wanted a net return of US$1 in license fees for every Firewire product made. But Just about every Electronics company kicked up a stink, so Apple backed down. I read all this in an article in my morning paper's IT section, so it must be right:).
That's why when I'm on Napster & someone downloads songs from me, I check to see if their sharing any files. If they arn't I cancel the upload when it gets to about 94%. So every time they listen to that file they have the anoyence of not getting the end of the song. If everone did that, those people with empty share folders would eventually get the point. Another way this can be solved is by the writers of apps like Scour & Imesh, to set up the app, so there's no alternative than having one's 'download' folder the same as one's 'share' folder. Eventually the non-sharers will get so sick of moving their downloads to another folder, they'l just leave them there. Actually I think one of those filesharing utilities already work that way.
Apple are buying IBM licensed built G4's with Motorola's Alti-vec instructions