I always enjoyed opening old hard drives (under 100 MB) up and mounting them on the wall to display the spin-up results. You can barly see the heads move across the platters when you hear that clicking noise, just keep your fingers back. Better yet, put a clear cover on it, and setup a power system to turn off and back on every minute or so.
I'm wondering how much CPU power is needed to accomplish this at the viewing end. Remember you need a decent CPU for software DVD decoding and for DivX (aka MPEG-4). There is a lot of data to be filled in correctly no matter what the format used once compressed. I have a feeling there may be a new decoder card neeeded or at least a multi-cpu PC, like when DVD first came out.
If this is true, why did Digital have FX!32 for 32 bit software that made new DLL's optimised for the 64 bit chips? Besides, there was always the Alpha version for patches and other stuff from MS with NT 4.0. Try installing any software for NT on an Alpha box running NT 4.0 without having FX!32 on it. It won't let you typically, and if is does, it won't work.
The only way I could see what roca said to be true is if MS made the O/S 32 bit and compiled it for a 64 bit environment the way Linux is done for the Alpha, (compile code with last 32 bits unused to eliminate recoding everything,) but then why is the Alpha software ususaly wup 32 bit versions? My only guess would be, O/S is 64 bit on 64 bit CPU and program is 64 bit as well.
Seems silly to bottelneck the entire system with the O/S, makes sence to let the hardware be the limiting factor. New hardware = better performance, go figgure...
Oh, I forgot, Mobile News vans. So you can see the true panic of the field reporter when they are off the air, you know, like when you see the fools on TV standing in driving rain and lightning telling us, "Yes it is windy and rainy durring a hurricane, and there went my glasses..."
This would be a sweet toy if they could get it in say USB and for under $200. This would replace any type of scanner anyone would want to use, and let you have a lot of fun to. Unfortunatly, this will not happen. Unless someone hacks the unit and gets a nockoff out on the market.
Just think, Private Video broadcasts (like X-10), TV, Satelite broadcasts, Police, Military, aircraft, cell phones, coreless phones, FM radio, Racecar Cams, HDTV, WI-FI, and so on. All from one little box on your PC/laptop.
Where I use to work, I had 70 or so co-workers who one third would get an email, print it, walk to the printer and read it on their way back to their desk only to reply to it. The reason is a lot of people over the age of single digets are set in their ways. Go figgure, they were trying to save money overall as a company, but wanted everything documented and on paper. Some of these people would also print the reply because they apparently did not trust the server to save it.
I'll be 92 in 2070, I'd better go buy some life insurance for my family's safety and make sure I can afford a candy bar that costs $1240.38 due to inflation.
I also agree, but keep in mind that this artical does not show up on the fron page of/. The only reason I saw this is I have a habbit of clicking on "older stuff" so I can see all of the submissions that were approved.
I always liked First Wave with the exception of one thing which is, at the end of a lot of episodes, Cade and his archrival usualy end up sharing a bit of info, and saying "thanks and good luck killing me next time." There are reasons behind this, but I won't get into them.
I also like B5 because in some ways it's series ran much like a SciFi soap opera in someways where they ran from one to another and jumped to a part of one episode three seasons ago. I was one of the guys half asleep on Monday because I would stay up till 2:30 Sunday night to watch that weeks episode as I did not have cable. Thankfully the priest with amnisia was never the father of the Narn female who was in a coma stranded at the bottom of a cliff in a cave wating for her misterious lover to return from collecting pelts to trade for food.
The Sentinel was also a decent show and was unique when it first came out when the UPN network was launched, but now I only watch it when I'm flipping channels looking for something to watch if I have the time.
The Invisible Man is a decent show to watch, but after you see a few episodes you know what to expect, good guys verses criminals, using secret weapon to win and hiding the secret. Cool, but the same special effects and the typical warm and fuzzy sceen at the end with the characters patting eachother on their backs.
I also want to mention the SciFi production of Dune. I loved everything I saw, but I missed two of the four episodes and was totaly lost. I borrowed a friends copy of the original movie with Patrick Stewart and I had a better understanding of the story. I then went out and bought the SciFi series on DVD.
Finnaly I want to mention The Visitor. In a way this show reminds me of The A-Team with a strangly dedicated Military officer chasing after the main character who wants to do nothing but help people in need. Here you have an alien who just has some snazzy power that heals things, and he uses it to help everyone he meets who is in need while trying to save the world from the currious scientists who will kill everyone if they dabble in new materials from space and other races.
Hey, puncturing aerosol cans can be fun if you do it safely. I had a can of Gellett Shaving Gel that was empty from the average users' view point, but take it into the back yard, shoot it with a air rifle, and watch the thing spin and squirt out the remains!!! Just think of what you could do to someone's car if they deserved a practical joke, you had a full canister, and had an open sunroof.
Dell wanted an additional $200 per linux PC. The end result is people are buying win2k on them because they are cheeper, even with the little sticker on the box. They apparently never considered users with a linux CD for any PC they buy. But Dell discuraged their buyers by charging more for a free operating system installed than a $100-200 operating system they are already supporting.
Just remember that China has a history of media censorship by their government, and in Russia, it may take a week or so to find out that he was arrested. His family may think that he mannaged to get a great job her in the US and stayed for all we know. He just hasn't had a chance to phone home yet.
Like I said in another post, NAT may be an issue if he has access to Cable or DSL. A possible trick would be to run Tracert asking it to hit some random site like www.fish.com and pipe the results into an email with a time stamp. Then you see a lot more and possibly even get which hub at the ISP he is using. May even speed up the whole process.
Otherwise there is alwas VNC. If you know the IP, and you know your password, connect in and have some fun first.
If I'm not mistaken, the Emails being sent should have some information as to the originating IP address that the messages were sent from. You could figgure out which ISP owns them, and find out if they would provide law inforcement the phone number that was dialed in and assigned the IP at the time. Otherwise, they may have a record of the account that was used at that time, on that IP. You would need to look at the fun header info on the email and go from there. The only problem I could see is if he/she was using it over a cable/DSL modem and has NAT setup. 10.x.x.x would do you no good to my knowledge, nor the other private class A or clas B range.
Hey if the astronauts get mad or just want to have some fun they could always push it around a little and watch it try to recover. Hey, with the AI software, it just might find a way to fight back, or curse the astronauts.
Forgot to mention, you will need to get the output voltage on the recievers to the same level as the serial port. That I do not know. I have three pairs of these things that I have been wating to use, but I haven't had the time or idea for a use besides a do it yourself remote controll system. This requiors more stuff for a signal encoder and decorer. The serial ports would handel that on their own though, as there is only a ground, a transmit and a recieve on them if I remember correctly.
If you have the knowhow, Tech-America/Radio Shack have 433 Mhz transmitters and recievers in their catalog. They have about a 200m range, and if I remember from the pinout diagrams, they don't need much more than power and a signal feed. They cost about $20 for a pair, and the two will fit in a film canister. The one is as small as two dimes stacked. I think you could easly grab a pair of DB9 connectors, and a pair of each of these, and throw in a battery or two. End result serial port plugs that work with eachother. Only drawbacks might include power draw on the batteries, getting the two tranceivers and two recievers to run on diffrent frequencies, and finding the limit of data speed through them. You might be able to adjust the RF with a standard police scanner and a test tone, and then adjust the reciever using a speaker and a small amp circut. The units can be found here, and there is no FCC licence requiored. Also they support both analog signals and digital signals, but they us AM instead of FM for the signal type.
I'm still looking for a GPS that will have that kind of accuracy. The Military has it, but they also have the access codes that change something like 10,000 times a second and map downfeeds to the units. I also know Farmers found a work arround that includes one stationary unit that ties into a computer to tell the other unit(s) that no you did not just move 10.342841 meters to the north, so don't turn the grain harvister yet. But what about me?
This may be true, but having friends and family members read the analasis at the time, they all concured. It was years later that I saw it myself once I learned to remove my head from the sand. But, hind sight is always 20/20...
I took this a few years back when I was in college, at the U of MN Twin Cities, to see if I was suffering from ADD (Attention Defficite Syndrome - not shure how they get ADD...) and let me tell you, taking this test will give you ADD. 567 True/False Agree/Dissagree Yes/No questions on a bubble sheet. My hand was killing me by the end and I was wondering how many times they were going to ask me if I hear voices and do I love my mother in diffrent formats. But in the end I want to say, it's results were really accurate, only it took me a few more years to realise how dead on they were. And no, I was not brainwashed to support this test.
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I always enjoyed opening old hard drives (under 100 MB) up and mounting them on the wall to display the spin-up results. You can barly see the heads move across the platters when you hear that clicking noise, just keep your fingers back. Better yet, put a clear cover on it, and setup a power system to turn off and back on every minute or so.
I'm wondering how much CPU power is needed to accomplish this at the viewing end. Remember you need a decent CPU for software DVD decoding and for DivX (aka MPEG-4). There is a lot of data to be filled in correctly no matter what the format used once compressed. I have a feeling there may be a new decoder card neeeded or at least a multi-cpu PC, like when DVD first came out.
If this is true, why did Digital have FX!32 for 32 bit software that made new DLL's optimised for the 64 bit chips? Besides, there was always the Alpha version for patches and other stuff from MS with NT 4.0. Try installing any software for NT on an Alpha box running NT 4.0 without having FX!32 on it. It won't let you typically, and if is does, it won't work. The only way I could see what roca said to be true is if MS made the O/S 32 bit and compiled it for a 64 bit environment the way Linux is done for the Alpha, (compile code with last 32 bits unused to eliminate recoding everything,) but then why is the Alpha software ususaly wup 32 bit versions? My only guess would be, O/S is 64 bit on 64 bit CPU and program is 64 bit as well. Seems silly to bottelneck the entire system with the O/S, makes sence to let the hardware be the limiting factor. New hardware = better performance, go figgure...
Oh, I forgot, Mobile News vans. So you can see the true panic of the field reporter when they are off the air, you know, like when you see the fools on TV standing in driving rain and lightning telling us, "Yes it is windy and rainy durring a hurricane, and there went my glasses..."
This would be a sweet toy if they could get it in say USB and for under $200. This would replace any type of scanner anyone would want to use, and let you have a lot of fun to. Unfortunatly, this will not happen. Unless someone hacks the unit and gets a nockoff out on the market.
Just think, Private Video broadcasts (like X-10), TV, Satelite broadcasts, Police, Military, aircraft, cell phones, coreless phones, FM radio, Racecar Cams, HDTV, WI-FI, and so on. All from one little box on your PC/laptop.
Where I use to work, I had 70 or so co-workers who one third would get an email, print it, walk to the printer and read it on their way back to their desk only to reply to it. The reason is a lot of people over the age of single digets are set in their ways. Go figgure, they were trying to save money overall as a company, but wanted everything documented and on paper. Some of these people would also print the reply because they apparently did not trust the server to save it.
I'll be 92 in 2070, I'd better go buy some life insurance for my family's safety and make sure I can afford a candy bar that costs $1240.38 due to inflation.
BTW, First post?
What the hell.... First post
I also agree, but keep in mind that this artical does not show up on the fron page of /. The only reason I saw this is I have a habbit of clicking on "older stuff" so I can see all of the submissions that were approved.
I always liked First Wave with the exception of one thing which is, at the end of a lot of episodes, Cade and his archrival usualy end up sharing a bit of info, and saying "thanks and good luck killing me next time." There are reasons behind this, but I won't get into them.
I also like B5 because in some ways it's series ran much like a SciFi soap opera in someways where they ran from one to another and jumped to a part of one episode three seasons ago. I was one of the guys half asleep on Monday because I would stay up till 2:30 Sunday night to watch that weeks episode as I did not have cable. Thankfully the priest with amnisia was never the father of the Narn female who was in a coma stranded at the bottom of a cliff in a cave wating for her misterious lover to return from collecting pelts to trade for food.
The Sentinel was also a decent show and was unique when it first came out when the UPN network was launched, but now I only watch it when I'm flipping channels looking for something to watch if I have the time.
The Invisible Man is a decent show to watch, but after you see a few episodes you know what to expect, good guys verses criminals, using secret weapon to win and hiding the secret. Cool, but the same special effects and the typical warm and fuzzy sceen at the end with the characters patting eachother on their backs.
I also want to mention the SciFi production of Dune. I loved everything I saw, but I missed two of the four episodes and was totaly lost. I borrowed a friends copy of the original movie with Patrick Stewart and I had a better understanding of the story. I then went out and bought the SciFi series on DVD.
Finnaly I want to mention The Visitor. In a way this show reminds me of The A-Team with a strangly dedicated Military officer chasing after the main character who wants to do nothing but help people in need. Here you have an alien who just has some snazzy power that heals things, and he uses it to help everyone he meets who is in need while trying to save the world from the currious scientists who will kill everyone if they dabble in new materials from space and other races.
Oh, BTW, Lexx scares me.
Hey, puncturing aerosol cans can be fun if you do it safely. I had a can of Gellett Shaving Gel that was empty from the average users' view point, but take it into the back yard, shoot it with a air rifle, and watch the thing spin and squirt out the remains!!! Just think of what you could do to someone's car if they deserved a practical joke, you had a full canister, and had an open sunroof.
Dell wanted an additional $200 per linux PC. The end result is people are buying win2k on them because they are cheeper, even with the little sticker on the box. They apparently never considered users with a linux CD for any PC they buy. But Dell discuraged their buyers by charging more for a free operating system installed than a $100-200 operating system they are already supporting.
Just remember that China has a history of media censorship by their government, and in Russia, it may take a week or so to find out that he was arrested. His family may think that he mannaged to get a great job her in the US and stayed for all we know. He just hasn't had a chance to phone home yet.
Like I said in another post, NAT may be an issue if he has access to Cable or DSL. A possible trick would be to run Tracert asking it to hit some random site like www.fish.com and pipe the results into an email with a time stamp. Then you see a lot more and possibly even get which hub at the ISP he is using. May even speed up the whole process.
Otherwise there is alwas VNC. If you know the IP, and you know your password, connect in and have some fun first.
Have you checked your roomates' room yet?
If I'm not mistaken, the Emails being sent should have some information as to the originating IP address that the messages were sent from. You could figgure out which ISP owns them, and find out if they would provide law inforcement the phone number that was dialed in and assigned the IP at the time. Otherwise, they may have a record of the account that was used at that time, on that IP. You would need to look at the fun header info on the email and go from there. The only problem I could see is if he/she was using it over a cable/DSL modem and has NAT setup. 10.x.x.x would do you no good to my knowledge, nor the other private class A or clas B range.
Hey if the astronauts get mad or just want to have some fun they could always push it around a little and watch it try to recover. Hey, with the AI software, it just might find a way to fight back, or curse the astronauts.
www.pricegrabber.com often has better prices, if you know the part/model number.
Forgot to mention, you will need to get the output voltage on the recievers to the same level as the serial port. That I do not know. I have three pairs of these things that I have been wating to use, but I haven't had the time or idea for a use besides a do it yourself remote controll system. This requiors more stuff for a signal encoder and decorer. The serial ports would handel that on their own though, as there is only a ground, a transmit and a recieve on them if I remember correctly.
If you have the knowhow, Tech-America/Radio Shack have 433 Mhz transmitters and recievers in their catalog. They have about a 200m range, and if I remember from the pinout diagrams, they don't need much more than power and a signal feed. They cost about $20 for a pair, and the two will fit in a film canister. The one is as small as two dimes stacked. I think you could easly grab a pair of DB9 connectors, and a pair of each of these, and throw in a battery or two. End result serial port plugs that work with eachother. Only drawbacks might include power draw on the batteries, getting the two tranceivers and two recievers to run on diffrent frequencies, and finding the limit of data speed through them. You might be able to adjust the RF with a standard police scanner and a test tone, and then adjust the reciever using a speaker and a small amp circut. The units can be found here, and there is no FCC licence requiored. Also they support both analog signals and digital signals, but they us AM instead of FM for the signal type.
For anything that requiors an email address that is not sending me a password to get in, I simply use "a@b.net"
I'm still looking for a GPS that will have that kind of accuracy. The Military has it, but they also have the access codes that change something like 10,000 times a second and map downfeeds to the units. I also know Farmers found a work arround that includes one stationary unit that ties into a computer to tell the other unit(s) that no you did not just move 10.342841 meters to the north, so don't turn the grain harvister yet. But what about me?
This may be true, but having friends and family members read the analasis at the time, they all concured. It was years later that I saw it myself once I learned to remove my head from the sand. But, hind sight is always 20/20...
I took this a few years back when I was in college, at the U of MN Twin Cities, to see if I was suffering from ADD (Attention Defficite Syndrome - not shure how they get ADD...) and let me tell you, taking this test will give you ADD. 567 True/False Agree/Dissagree Yes/No questions on a bubble sheet. My hand was killing me by the end and I was wondering how many times they were going to ask me if I hear voices and do I love my mother in diffrent formats. But in the end I want to say, it's results were really accurate, only it took me a few more years to realise how dead on they were. And no, I was not brainwashed to support this test.
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