Actually, I haven't seen a disk in YEARS that won't do this.
Of course, it may have something to do with the equipment I'm buying; I was kind of surprised to see that there are still 7200 RPM disks out there when I read the OP's post. Most of my disks are 15,000 RPM with the older ones being 10,000 RPM.
> we went back to the stack of 12 32gig scsi > drives and kept the SATA drives for a storage > server use only.
If you want to ditch the cable nest, think about switching to FC_AL. I'll bet you could talk a Sun A5000 into talking with a windows or linux box without too much grief. These enclosures are going for pretty cheap on eBay these days because they only hold 14 disks and are getting near EOL (FWIW, A5200 holds 22). Then populate with FC_AL disks as you see fit. These are basically SCSI disks in terms of everything but drivers, HBAs, and connectors.
> SCSI can have multiple hosts on the chain.
Which is a damned useful feature when setting up redundant (HA) servers. FWIW, you can do the same thing with FC_AL, and the A5x00 arrays can actually have four separate GBICs on each enclosure. Two GBICs per IB gives you a theoretical max of two loops at 100 MBytes/sec (each FC_AL disk has two interfaces as well). Then you can run two hosts (or more if you want) off each loop.
> CD burning works with OS X without any problems right out of the box.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this is so incredibly *COMPLICATED* on Windows. (Note: yes, I've heard it's easy in XP, but I've never used XP).
I tried for about 3 hours one day to burn a freakin' ISO on a Win2K box. Nothing but headaches. Gave up. Booted Knoppix. It took less than 5 minutes to go from "man -k record" to ejecting the burnt CD.
I've never bothered trying to do this, but I'd hazard a pretty safe guess that gcc has some kind of "soft FPU" compilation options, which you could then use to rebuild your kernel, C library, and whatever else is going to flip out due to the lack of FPU support.
Thought about using a bike rad instead of an oil cooler? They often come with fan attached, almost always come with a coolant temperature sensor, which can be used to turn the fan on. (Although they probably kick in at ~220 degrees F, which might be a little high for you).
I have one here with an 8" fan, fan plus rad is about 5" deep; the rad itself is about 10x12x2".
And instead of running coolant, I'd just run soft water in it. It will cool a little better, but not kill your dog.
> You do realize that is exactly what the Canadian content laws are about, right?
Yes and no.
Yes, that's part of it -- and that part is reasonable: forcing providers to allow citizens to choose. (Free market does not work for this, and heritage has been deemed to be worth dollars).
What is unreasonable -- and why the US sat providers won't play ball -- is that idiotic provision when Canadian commercials have to be popped on top of US commercials for parallel broadcasts. This REALLY becomes annoying when the Canadian broadcast gets pre-empted and the cable company doesn't notice.
Come to think of it, though, either that only applies to cable, OR BEV is doing a very good job of show/commercial substitution.
The solution to the satellite conundrum is fairly simple.
Legalize the reception of any satellite signal which carries a certain minimum number of Canadian-content channels.
So, say, DTV might have to pick up a couple of CBC feeds, ATV, CTV, NTV, CITY, CHRO, a few local markets (one per province?). If they sell to Canadians, they have to sell them those channels as well.
Problem solved. This commercial-mashing stuff they currently make the cable providers do is ludicrous.
> I feign to ask what they would say about cygwin users.
We are UNIX geeks who quite frankly, suck at using Windows, so when we're using our wives' machines, install Cygwin so that we can actually get things done (e.g. find files, use an editor, compile programs, run scripts, ssh/sftp). When we need to get a LOT of work done, we fire up Knoppix and X over our desktops from work.
> So, again, where's the improvement over just a plain old answering machine?
CallerID gets added at 50% opacity to the picture currently displaying on my television, until I hit "cancel" on the remote or 10 seconds passes.
Screening with an answering machine requires that the answering machine be turned up loud enough to be audible over the television. And then if the caller is drowing out the TV, you have to get up and turn the volume down on the blasted thing.
You're a CS student in college, you don't really need to know. What you need to spend all your time doing is learning how to PROGRAM and do it well.
Worry about the specific tools later. You could do just as well with just about any language of the right paradigm. C++ is actually a mixed-paradigm language, not all that great for teaching.
Hey, I still have eVc++ 3.0 installed on my desktop at work. Maybe, MAYBE one of the other developers still has platform builder, too. We were doing iPAQ (ARM) about 3-4 years ago. I really don't remember if the stuff from MS was a platform-at-a-time or a big-whack-with-everything install. But knowing MS, probably the latter.
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> some newer [LVD] drives will autoset their id.
Actually, I haven't seen a disk in YEARS that won't do this.
Of course, it may have something to do with the equipment I'm buying; I was kind of surprised to see that there are still 7200 RPM disks out there when I read the OP's post. Most of my disks are 15,000 RPM with the older ones being 10,000 RPM.
> we went back to the stack of 12 32gig scsi
> drives and kept the SATA drives for a storage
> server use only.
If you want to ditch the cable nest, think about switching to FC_AL. I'll bet you could talk a Sun A5000 into talking with a windows or linux box without too much grief. These enclosures are going for pretty cheap on eBay these days because they only hold 14 disks and are getting near EOL (FWIW, A5200 holds 22). Then populate with FC_AL disks as you see fit. These are basically SCSI disks in terms of everything but drivers, HBAs, and connectors.
> SCSI can have multiple hosts on the chain.
Which is a damned useful feature when setting up redundant (HA) servers. FWIW, you can do the same thing with FC_AL, and the A5x00 arrays can actually have four separate GBICs on each enclosure. Two GBICs per IB gives you a theoretical max of two loops at 100 MBytes/sec (each FC_AL disk has two interfaces as well). Then you can run two hosts (or more if you want) off each loop.
Don't forget to turn on the radio to cover up the smell.
> CD burning works with OS X without any problems right out of the box.
I can't for the life of me figure out why this is so incredibly *COMPLICATED* on Windows. (Note: yes, I've heard it's easy in XP, but I've never used XP).
I tried for about 3 hours one day to burn a freakin' ISO on a Win2K box. Nothing but headaches. Gave up. Booted Knoppix. It took less than 5 minutes to go from "man -k record" to ejecting the burnt CD.
I've never bothered trying to do this, but I'd hazard a pretty safe guess that gcc has some kind of "soft FPU" compilation options, which you could then use to rebuild your kernel, C library, and whatever else is going to flip out due to the lack of FPU support.
Cecil covered this years ago.
For what it's worth, the spices in question are salt and sugar.
> But I dont expect this to be a problem for "normal" PCs
It was a huge problem for "normal" PC's in 5150 cases with more than one MFM disk.
Oddly enough, the fix was to fold the cables nicely *and* block some of the air vents with duct tape.
Thought about using a bike rad instead of an oil cooler? They often come with fan attached, almost always come with a coolant temperature sensor, which can be used to turn the fan on. (Although they probably kick in at ~220 degrees F, which might be a little high for you).
I have one here with an 8" fan, fan plus rad is about 5" deep; the rad itself is about 10x12x2".
And instead of running coolant, I'd just run soft water in it. It will cool a little better, but not kill your dog.
You forgot:
-type=R
> You do realize that is exactly what the Canadian content laws are about, right?
Yes and no.
Yes, that's part of it -- and that part is reasonable: forcing providers to allow citizens to choose. (Free market does not work for this, and heritage has been deemed to be worth dollars).
What is unreasonable -- and why the US sat providers won't play ball -- is that idiotic provision when Canadian commercials have to be popped on top of US commercials for parallel broadcasts. This REALLY becomes annoying when the Canadian broadcast gets pre-empted and the cable company doesn't notice.
Come to think of it, though, either that only applies to cable, OR BEV is doing a very good job of show/commercial substitution.
The solution to the satellite conundrum is fairly simple.
Legalize the reception of any satellite signal which carries a certain minimum number of Canadian-content channels.
So, say, DTV might have to pick up a couple of CBC feeds, ATV, CTV, NTV, CITY, CHRO, a few local markets (one per province?). If they sell to Canadians, they have to sell them those channels as well.
Problem solved. This commercial-mashing stuff they currently make the cable providers do is ludicrous.
> I feign to ask what they would say about cygwin users.
We are UNIX geeks who quite frankly, suck at using Windows, so when we're using our wives' machines, install Cygwin so that we can actually get things done (e.g. find files, use an editor, compile programs, run scripts, ssh/sftp). When we need to get a LOT of work done, we fire up Knoppix and X over our desktops from work.
> So, again, where's the improvement over just a plain old answering machine?
CallerID gets added at 50% opacity to the picture currently displaying on my television, until I hit "cancel" on the remote or 10 seconds passes.
Screening with an answering machine requires that the answering machine be turned up loud enough to be audible over the television. And then if the caller is drowing out the TV, you have to get up and turn the volume down on the blasted thing.
I don't know about you, but I'd *way* rather give a potentially crooked company five bucks via PayPal, instead of my credit card number.
Wow, that's quite the entertaining fix.
/. editors care anymore. ;)
You know, it probably wouldn't take much work to detect the problem and drop that puppy into slashcode.
But I doubt the
> It could be embarassing seeing him saying how great Canada's
> burritos and Corona are after he conquers Mexico.
Would that be more or less embarrassing than when Dan Quayle was heading for Latin America and mentioned that he needed to brush up on his Latin?
Different strokes for different folks.
You're a CS student in college, you don't really need to know. What you need to spend all your time doing is learning how to PROGRAM and do it well.
Worry about the specific tools later. You could do just as well with just about any language of the right paradigm. C++ is actually a mixed-paradigm language, not all that great for teaching.
> So why can't openfile() simply return NULL?
> Obviously an unsuccessful operation.
Well, you want to communicate back to the higher level code *why* the call failed.
Oh, wait, no problem!
Well set a global variable called errno.
Oh yes, and scratch our heads for a seeming eternity while we figure out exactly how to virtualize different errnos for each thread.
And hope to hell that no failing system calls get called between when we failed and when the user checks errno.
Rock on!
Try a 0.025" tungsten carbide drill bit at 10,000 RPM.
Those eggs won't know what hit 'em, and if you make an extra hole by accident it, you can plug it with a pin from any DIP chip.
I almost used the drywall bit this year, but it somehow vanished in my basement. I have the one you describe, but figured it would be a waste of time.
So I used a paring knife instead and it took and hour. Next year...
1. Is there sufficient DNA material at any of the dig sites to allow us to clone a hobbit?
2. Would they make good slaves?
You know, you should really have that extra testicle removed.
> H*Psi = E*Psi
I could've sworn that equation had a Devil's fork in it somewhere.
Incidentally, I'll buy you a glass of whatever alcohol beverage you'd like, assuming you can solve it for all of the molecules in that beverage.
> Euler's Formula is breast milk??
No, it's
99 + 20 + 9 + 6 + 15 + 31 + 21 + 23 + 22 + 26 + 17 + 19 + 4 + 14 + 24 + 33 + 11 + 28 + 18 + 5 + 10 + 32 = 1 * (Stanley Cup)
You're welcome.
*cue Twilight Zone music*
Hey, I still have eVc++ 3.0 installed on my desktop at work. Maybe, MAYBE one of the other developers still has platform builder, too. We were doing iPAQ (ARM) about 3-4 years ago. I really don't remember if the stuff from MS was a platform-at-a-time or a big-whack-with-everything install. But knowing MS, probably the latter.
Want to me to look for something?