Oooh! I LIKE that!! A sacrificial open relay! I know guys who have spam honeypots, but it's just to see who connects and block 'em, not to trap 'em! (Rubbing hands and chortling with glee)
Heh, you're right, that isn't the best one to try first off. I'd try "Number of the Beast", "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Time Enough for Love", in approximately that order.
Heinlein always was a dirty old man, a male chauvinist pig and a bit of a bigot, with somewhat humorous/pitiful attempts to (over)compensate for these shortcomings in his books.
However, he was a hell of a talented writer with a much broader vision than most sci-fi authors of his day and he also had to write for a society which (believe it or not) was a heck of a lot narrower minded then than it is now. If you can look past the shadows his own flaws cast on his writing you can discover some real works of art.
Hmm, I suppose that is an idea. Only problem is I have no pictures (this was years ago) and it'd be hard to explain it all clearly enough to understand.
I did run across a tiny piece of it long after I scrapped it though which I saved as a memento.
It's a gripper made out of an RC servo, and floppy/printer/typewriter parts. It was a design which worked in theory but became unreliable after a few hours of continuous duty and got tossed in a box of junk thereby missing getting pitched with the rest when I moved a few years later.
Think I should post a picture of it somewhere with a general explanation of the whole project?
I built an entire circuit-board assembly line out of old PC's/printers/drives and a Burroughs tape cabinet. Of course the junk I had left over filled a 7-yard container and some of it was pretty funky.
(Y'know the cool little spritzers that real assembly lines have to coat boards with flux? Mine was a corner-roller from the paint-department of the local hardware store, tilted at 45 degrees so one face dipped into the flux - held in the shell of an old full-height 5.25" hard-drive - and carried it up to the underside of the board passing over it:)
But yeah, floppy drives and printers (esp. old inkjets) can give you positioning accuracy down to a 1000th of an inch and you'd be amazed how strong the steppers can be in some of those old line printers. Plus most of your interfacing and sensing work's done for you, it's just a matter of getting it to all fit together physically.
Much as I hate to reply to a troll, there are a few people who might read this and believe it!
While there was a harmonic device which Tesla built which could indeed shake a building apart, this was not his intent with the Tesla coil.
His plan was actually distributing energy on a large scale without wires. Take a look at his Pike's Peak project.
The farthest I had to walk on any given day was about 2 miles. I'd rather do that and hitch-hike than ride for 20.
(Having a bicycle is a severe handicap when hitchhiking. You can pretty much forget about cars stopping and even a lot of trucks don't want to bother.)
I grew up in a 12v DC household.
We had a bank of half a dozen (or more, it varied) old automotive batteries in parallel which were charged by an old (1919) DelcoLite generator whose original 36v coil had been rewired to produce 18v. We ran it below optimal RPM's to get about 14v. It had sat in a field for 30 years used for target practice before we got it and rebuilt it with an air-compressor piston (connecting rod cut and extended with a pair of bolts welded onto it), an aluminum pot with the bottom bashed out of it as an air duct for the head, a Land Rover instrument panel, and an old motorcycle carburetor. We primed it with gas but it actually ran off kerosene.
We could run for about a week between charges until we got solar and then we only cranked up the generator about every 6 months or so when the cloud-cover had been too heavy.
All lights were ordinary 60w bulbs but anything with a motor was either designed for RV's or rewired. (Fridge was kerosene then butane).
All computer equipment was laptops and portable printers (12v or less).
I made a few bucks on the side for quite some time designing 12v adaptors for laptops that took more or less than 12v and making them fit inside in whatever space the manufacturer had left over!
The soldering iron I used for this was a piece of broomstick and a twist of coat-hanger wire holding a real soldering-iron tip which was wrapped in a heating element salvaged from an incubator.
And I really did have to walk/hitch-hike 20 miles to school every day in the pouring rain (or boiling sun)!
But that's another story...
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should read a few of these just to keep in the back of their mind as something the human race should be careful of.
But, having a handful of these already, I see this as a list of books to avoid!
Next Ask Slashdot, (submitted by yours truly) - "Utopic Novels?"
I might have missed something here but I don't see where anybody is being forced to do anything.
I.e. if you have to be able to boot to OS9 then don't buy a new machine! (Or if you do then keep your old one around as well). QED
I worked on code for a satellite ground-control system for a few years. It was all Fortran-5/77 and handled a couple-dozen satellites and ground stations in real-time. The problem was that it was written back in the 60's and the programmers who implemented it had really old slow MV-8000's. There weren't enough spare clock cycles to have decent synchronization between modules so they just depended on different subroutines taking an exact number of cycles to execute so they'd match up with whatever they were talking to. Change a single line in anything and you had to recompile it and time every possible way it could execute. Horrible stuff...
1 - Search Google for your complete mbd model# (in quotes if there's any dashes in it) 2 - Somewhere in the search results there will be a link or reference to an appropriate file. 3 - Try to download the file; if you can't then do another search using just that filename (in quotes again).
This has always worked for me.
(Aaack! I just replied to an "Ask Slashdot" and told them to use Google!
And here I swore I'd never reply to another troll...)
Or, as the busy-body reading over my shoulder reminded me, you could have screwed up BIOS settings and or be OC'ing more than you should be.
But it's still a hardware issue no matter which way you slice it...
What? These posts are offtopic?!? Okay, okay, here you go:
1. Put little chunks of brie on crackers, nuke until melted. Mmmmm!!!!
2. Fast grilled cheese - make toast the normal way, spread butter and add slices of cheese, nuke until melted. Mmmmm!!!!
The reason Windows lasted longest is lousy memory management.
You've got one or more bad memory modules (or a bad socket on the mbd). Replace the RAM and/or mbd and try again...
I've had to measure loads for battery calculations on systems which run off solar. A monitor typically draws 100-120 watts but even a fully loaded PC with a RAID only draws about 30 watts continuously (~50 startup surge). A PC which is already designed to be low-power and which only has one drive is going to be closer to 20w.
But yes, even with the PC off a heater will still drain the battery...
I've registered various domains with Register.Com over the years and always given them unique contact emails. I have NEVER gotten spam on any of them. Are you sure you're not talking about some other registrar?
FYI, it took me three months and a total of 7 faxes, 12 phone calls and an ungodly number of emails to get Verisign to turn loose of a domain awhile back. By the end of it I was ready to sic our legal eagle on them. God those bastards pissed me off!
(But I never got spam from them either... Maybe I just lead a charmed life.:)
The upper left and lower right screws actually do NOT quite match. And what about the fan power connector? That looks pretty durn real. The silk-screening around it looks pretty clean too. -shrug- I'm no photoshop guru (I prefer Gimp:).
If you have that many machines you should have some sort of asset management software in place already. (If you don't then maybe that's why the last few admins have left!)
Unless, of course, you do have some but it's Microsoft's SMS (which is worse than nothing at all).
But even if you don't have anything that fancy, hasn't anyone in your company ever heard of a login script?!?
Seriously.
Half the value in sending people out for training on new hardware/software is that they have an environment in which they can beat the crap out of it and learn from their mistakes.
And whatever it is, if it's not too expensive, it's also well worth keeping a spare in-house for the same reason. Not to mention you then have an emergency replacement available and a functional test bed for new software/scripts/ideas.
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Oooh! I LIKE that!! A sacrificial open relay! I know guys who have spam honeypots, but it's just to see who connects and block 'em, not to trap 'em!
(Rubbing hands and chortling with glee)
Heh, you're right, that isn't the best one to try first off. I'd try "Number of the Beast", "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Time Enough for Love", in approximately that order.
Heinlein always was a dirty old man, a male chauvinist pig and a bit of a bigot, with somewhat humorous/pitiful attempts to (over)compensate for these shortcomings in his books.
However, he was a hell of a talented writer with a much broader vision than most sci-fi authors of his day and he also had to write for a society which (believe it or not) was a heck of a lot narrower minded then than it is now. If you can look past the shadows his own flaws cast on his writing you can discover some real works of art.
Hmm, I suppose that is an idea. Only problem is I have no pictures (this was years ago) and it'd be hard to explain it all clearly enough to understand.
I did run across a tiny piece of it long after I scrapped it though which I saved as a memento.
It's a gripper made out of an RC servo, and floppy/printer/typewriter parts. It was a design which worked in theory but became unreliable after a few hours of continuous duty and got tossed in a box of junk thereby missing getting pitched with the rest when I moved a few years later.
Think I should post a picture of it somewhere with a general explanation of the whole project?
I built an entire circuit-board assembly line out of old PC's/printers/drives and a Burroughs tape cabinet. Of course the junk I had left over filled a 7-yard container and some of it was pretty funky. :)
(Y'know the cool little spritzers that real assembly lines have to coat boards with flux? Mine was a corner-roller from the paint-department of the local hardware store, tilted at 45 degrees so one face dipped into the flux - held in the shell of an old full-height 5.25" hard-drive - and carried it up to the underside of the board passing over it
But yeah, floppy drives and printers (esp. old inkjets) can give you positioning accuracy down to a 1000th of an inch and you'd be amazed how strong the steppers can be in some of those old line printers. Plus most of your interfacing and sensing work's done for you, it's just a matter of getting it to all fit together physically.
If you know how to lip-read then you've already got the real-world equivalent of sub-titles. Work backwards...
Much as I hate to reply to a troll, there are a few people who might read this and believe it!
While there was a harmonic device which Tesla built which could indeed shake a building apart, this was not his intent with the Tesla coil.
His plan was actually distributing energy on a large scale without wires. Take a look at his Pike's Peak project.
What you're describing sounds about right, actually.
Be sure you're keeping Mega-Bytes and Mega-Bits straight!
Was this before bicycles?
The farthest I had to walk on any given day was about 2 miles. I'd rather do that and hitch-hike than ride for 20.
(Having a bicycle is a severe handicap when hitchhiking. You can pretty much forget about cars stopping and even a lot of trucks don't want to bother.)
I grew up in a 12v DC household.
We had a bank of half a dozen (or more, it varied) old automotive batteries in parallel which were charged by an old (1919) DelcoLite generator whose original 36v coil had been rewired to produce 18v. We ran it below optimal RPM's to get about 14v. It had sat in a field for 30 years used for target practice before we got it and rebuilt it with an air-compressor piston (connecting rod cut and extended with a pair of bolts welded onto it), an aluminum pot with the bottom bashed out of it as an air duct for the head, a Land Rover instrument panel, and an old motorcycle carburetor. We primed it with gas but it actually ran off kerosene.
We could run for about a week between charges until we got solar and then we only cranked up the generator about every 6 months or so when the cloud-cover had been too heavy.
All lights were ordinary 60w bulbs but anything with a motor was either designed for RV's or rewired. (Fridge was kerosene then butane).
All computer equipment was laptops and portable printers (12v or less).
I made a few bucks on the side for quite some time designing 12v adaptors for laptops that took more or less than 12v and making them fit inside in whatever space the manufacturer had left over!
The soldering iron I used for this was a piece of broomstick and a twist of coat-hanger wire holding a real soldering-iron tip which was wrapped in a heating element salvaged from an incubator.
And I really did have to walk/hitch-hike 20 miles to school every day in the pouring rain (or boiling sun)!
But that's another story...
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should read a few of these just to keep in the back of their mind as something the human race should be careful of.
But, having a handful of these already, I see this as a list of books to avoid!
Next Ask Slashdot, (submitted by yours truly) - "Utopic Novels?"
That's an amazing story! Thanks for posting the link, very cool.
Exactly! :)
Thanks for stepping in there rhedin, you just saved TheBolt911 a whack upside the head with a clue-by-4...
I might have missed something here but I don't see where anybody is being forced to do anything.
I.e. if you have to be able to boot to OS9 then don't buy a new machine! (Or if you do then keep your old one around as well).
QED
Hehhehheh. Good one! :) Wonder if any of the moderators will get it...?
(Hint to moderators, read the last line of code and consider the topic we're discussing.)
I worked on code for a satellite ground-control system for a few years. It was all Fortran-5/77 and handled a couple-dozen satellites and ground stations in real-time. The problem was that it was written back in the 60's and the programmers who implemented it had really old slow MV-8000's. There weren't enough spare clock cycles to have decent synchronization between modules so they just depended on different subroutines taking an exact number of cycles to execute so they'd match up with whatever they were talking to. Change a single line in anything and you had to recompile it and time every possible way it could execute. Horrible stuff...
1 - Search Google for your complete mbd model# (in quotes if there's any dashes in it)
2 - Somewhere in the search results there will be a link or reference to an appropriate file.
3 - Try to download the file; if you can't then do another search using just that filename (in quotes again).
This has always worked for me.
(Aaack! I just replied to an "Ask Slashdot" and told them to use Google!
And here I swore I'd never reply to another troll...)
Or, as the busy-body reading over my shoulder reminded me, you could have screwed up BIOS settings and or be OC'ing more than you should be.
But it's still a hardware issue no matter which way you slice it...
What? These posts are offtopic?!? Okay, okay, here you go:
1. Put little chunks of brie on crackers, nuke until melted. Mmmmm!!!!
2. Fast grilled cheese - make toast the normal way, spread butter and add slices of cheese, nuke until melted. Mmmmm!!!!
The reason Windows lasted longest is lousy memory management.
You've got one or more bad memory modules (or a bad socket on the mbd). Replace the RAM and/or mbd and try again...
How 'bout habaneros? :).
(Roughly 100x hotter than jalapenos, the juice from the seeds can cause nasty chemical burns
Why is the parent moderated as off-topic?!?
Hope meta-mod catches it...
I've had to measure loads for battery calculations on systems which run off solar. A monitor typically draws 100-120 watts but even a fully loaded PC with a RAID only draws about 30 watts continuously (~50 startup surge). A PC which is already designed to be low-power and which only has one drive is going to be closer to 20w.
But yes, even with the PC off a heater will still drain the battery...
I've registered various domains with Register.Com over the years and always given them unique contact emails. I have NEVER gotten spam on any of them. Are you sure you're not talking about some other registrar?
:)
FYI, it took me three months and a total of 7 faxes, 12 phone calls and an ungodly number of emails to get Verisign to turn loose of a domain awhile back. By the end of it I was ready to sic our legal eagle on them. God those bastards pissed me off!
(But I never got spam from them either... Maybe I just lead a charmed life.
The upper left and lower right screws actually do NOT quite match. And what about the fan power connector? That looks pretty durn real. The silk-screening around it looks pretty clean too. :).
-shrug-
I'm no photoshop guru (I prefer Gimp
If you have that many machines you should have some sort of asset management software in place already. (If you don't then maybe that's why the last few admins have left!)
Unless, of course, you do have some but it's Microsoft's SMS (which is worse than nothing at all).
But even if you don't have anything that fancy, hasn't anyone in your company ever heard of a login script?!?
Seriously.
Half the value in sending people out for training on new hardware/software is that they have an environment in which they can beat the crap out of it and learn from their mistakes.
And whatever it is, if it's not too expensive, it's also well worth keeping a spare in-house for the same reason. Not to mention you then have an emergency replacement available and a functional test bed for new software/scripts/ideas.