Back in the day, I used to work w/ Axiom D/A & A/D boards. They have PC104, PCI, & ISA cards. We had our best results with Axiom products. They would go through hell and back, were quite forgiving of bad wiring (after 48 hours straight, wire colors can start to merge together), were alot cheaper then other solutions of the time, and we had quite good luck getting support from them.
A quick glance through their site www.axiomtek.com, I came across a 16 channel board that supports "Red Hat Linux kernel version 2.2.X - AX509SP.
Being one of the first employees in the company (CEO, COO, then little me), I had to fill a lot of roles for a couple of months until we ramped up staff. For that time, my job title was "Grand Poopa"... The biggest problem this caused was the heated debate over how to spell the second word...
Does anyone remember the two competing networks for WWIV? I thought they were named Net and Link.
I was amazed at the ability to have nationwide message boards and send email from one BBS to another.(I got a university account soon afterwards and was introduced to MUDS and usenet...) I can even remember sending an email on vacation from CA and receiving it at home in VA about 6 days later.
If there were old records of the Net and Link, they would provide ALOT of WWIV BBS. I can still remember the name of one in Richmond, VA - Dr. Boo Boo's Purple Palace of Pleasure (and no, it was pr0n - Damn!)
I can remember growing up playing the SSI D&D games on my C64... Man, those were the days... Everytime you go into a new sector or encounter, changing the 5-1/4...
My friends and I used to play together - sitting around the computer taking turns controlling our characters... Man, those were the days...
Even old paper role-playing games aren't nearly as popular as they were... Even during the whole satanic/suicide days of the 80's w/ D&D, you always could find lots of people who played...
Recently, I started playing AD&D again with a bunch of friends; old school geeks... We've noticed we play totally different then when we were younger. We're VERY cautious, and over analyze everything. We're not as gung-ho as we used to be, running into encounters, swords raised, screaming a barbaric YALP! Now we argue for two hours at each door checking for traps, listening, thinking how to best handle what could be on the other side of the door. When we reach a room and the DM describes the contents, we analyze everything about the description, from the order info was given to the tense in which words were used... Man, I'm way too anal...:-p
When I first read this, I thought the first customer would be the military.
When the shit hits the fan, the US can airlift units to just about anywhere in the world with the C-141 Starlifter. You can transport alot of infantry, and some light tanks, but I don't think you can transport much of the big stuff like M1A1 or some of the big artillary. I could be wrong, and you may be able to fit those into a Starlifter, but I'm sure you can't fit that many at a time.
So the US has the capability to rapidly deploy basic military units in a short amount of time, but it's gotta be a bitch to support those units by just air. Food, ammo, and other supplies take up alot of space and weight. Supporting units by just air is mostly impractical. That's why the US stores heavy mechanized units (tanks and artillary) and supplies in many parts of the world, just so half the equipment is already there.
But if they had the capability to deploy massive amounts of equipment and supplies within days notice to anywhere in the world, then the effectiveness of many units such as the Marine Rapid Deployment Force would be greatly enhanced.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US military wasn't one of the first customers, if not a major sponsor of the development of this technology.
On a side note...
An old friend who worked in the engine room on the USS Enterprise (aircraft carrier) said that when they wanted to, they could haul ass in that thing - I mean 50+ knots. They don't do it often, and they don't advertise it, but he's seen them going so fast that the wake from the bow was shooting ABOVE the flight deck (which if you've seen an aircraft carrier in person, is WAY up there). Don't know how true this is, but I believe my friend. To think of that HUGE ship moving that fast IS amazing.
I found a reference to the "It's Great To Be Back" as being a short story published in 47, but I can't find a book anywhere that contains it. Does anyone have any leads on where it may be on the net or book?
I have to say that I felt proud to see my phone (Ericsson T28) was #1 on the list. Wooohooo!!!!! Oh wait, this is a brain-frying list....
Anyways, shouldn't these ratings be based on just wattage, and not wattage per kilo??? My Phone is very lite (only a few ounces), yet puts out good power (I've yet to hit a dead spot in valleys, driving, etc...) So this rating would unfairly bias my phone verses one of the old brick phones that possibly put out alot more harmful radiation, but just weighed alot...
I've considered this problem a bit myself. Here are some of the options I've thought of:
1. Have an external scsi/firewire CDROM and put that on desk. Then you could put your system in other room/closet. Extension cords for keyboard, video, mouse, audio, etc...
2. Run a X Terminal. This box wouldn't have many, if any moving parts/heat generating components, so should be quiet. If you're not running X (mac os, win) use VNC. Don't know how could do sound though...
Almost every article I read about Galileo talks about how it's been exposed to alot of radiation.
The spacecraft has already endured nearly three times the radiation it was designed to withstand, but repeated exposure to Jupiter's radiation has taken its toll.
What I don't understand is - what can radiation really do to the Galileo? I know the radiation we deal with on Earth is a whole different story then open space radiation, or the radiation around Jupiter.
I could see it cause a memory fault, or cause a bad computation with the CPU/chipsets somehow. But I know Galileo has got redundant memory/CPU that would detect errors and recompute. Worse case, it would knock itself into "Safe Mode"; reseting itself to a safe status.
What kind of "real" damage could radiation do that would shorten the life of Galileo?
I dual boot w/ W98 at home, but would like to be able to run Linux all the time. I like the idea of VMWare, but have heard that when you go to the "guest" OS, it can be alittle slow. If I had a dual box, would it run one Linux on one CPU, and the other W98 on the other CPU? Would VMWare automagically do this? Or would a good single processor box be better still?
I applied to get a free domain, but they won't give me one.
I'm trying to start an open source project to relieve some of the stress that many programmers deal with on a day-to-day basis. I think that giving me rights to the domains open-butts.cx and open-sweaty-meat-curtains.cx will further the open source movement (especially the movement of many programmers pants to their ankles....)
The Athlon and it's motherboard are picky about the voltage going to them. The Athlon is a power hungry beast, and when it's load is dropped on most power supplies, the voltage tends to sag. So to save space, money, and everything else, they offloaded alot of the voltage regulation off the motherboard and put that responsibility onto the powersupply. Hold a Athlon-approved powersupply in one hand and a regular in the other. You can feel the difference in the weight. The Athlon approved has got beefier capacitors, and it's pretty rock solid on holding the 5 and 3.3 volt lines within a tight spec while heavily loaded. The power supplies aren't the cheapest things either; they're running around $45 here in San Diego, CA.
I can just see it now... (Pun Intended) It's the press conference of the millenium (have to fit this overused word in there somehow). All of the world is watching as the first blind human to use computer aided sight is getting ready to demo his new found sense. He's walking up to the podium, and !POP!, trips over the cable, yanking all the diodes out of his skull...
But then again, maybe they'll have thought ahead and installed a tension release connector...:-)
Does anybody remember the old WWIV BBS software and it's network?
I used to go to a bunch of the WWIV (At least that's what I remember it being called, since I called it World War Four). But there were two competing networks for email. There was the "Net" where you could email anyone else on another Net system for free (some places charged a few pennies). Then a bunch of peope got fed up with some politics or something and started the "Link". Yeah, it took a couple of days for the email to travel cross country, but there wasn't another option back then. I lived in Virginia, and when one vacation in California, I was able to email back and forth with my friends in VA. Took about a day or two for messages to travel, but it was awesome at the time. No lonf distance, just a local call to BBS. Am I just crazy, or does anybody else remember this?
I've been researching this subject alot the last week in reference to a database.
We're planning on deploying 2 database servers accessing data off of one external disk array. The second would be a failover server, so they shouldn't be concurrently accessing the same data/partition, but could. I know multiple boxes can access a single disk array through one scsi bus, but everybody always talks about them using different partitions. Can you have 2 boxes access one partition on SCSI? Fiber?
What form of RAID would be best? 5? 0+1? I almost wish I could to a 5+1 - Stripe with parity mirrored. I know that's alittle paranoid, but so am I...:-)
We're looking into the Gateway and Dell disk arrays. Has anyone heard good/bad about these? They have max of 8 disks, what would be the bets configuration?
I had Adelphia Powerlink a year ago, and it sucked. I'll admit I had the Hybrid modem (cable downstream, analog upstream), but the service was very shoddy. I would get very regular outages, speed wasn't much better from a dial-up, and they'd disconnect me every so often. My @Home is much better. Yes, I'll get outages everyonce in awhile, the mail server has a tendancy to go down alot. But they have no problems with me running linux; they openly give out all info(Gateway, IP, netmask, etc... on the website). But warning, I think they do require you to have Winblows installed to setup service. I was lucky, I had a nice tech who knew of linux, but he wouldn't even let me hook my hub up to the cable when he was there; he could only plug the cable from the modem to my box. I was on my own from there... But other then that, I'm very happy with my service. And you can't beat the price. When DSL's get alittle more widespread and the prices drop, I'll probably switch. But it just doesn't compare with cable at this point.
From the picture, it's got stereo RCA jacks, and a video RCA jack. On the other unit, I can see a coax connector. But the specs don't mention anything about video. They probably took the picture from their "Big Picture" unit, if it's not the exact same thing, just different name and price. Has anybody seen/used one of those Big Picture units? I'd love to be able to sit in the living room and surf/do whatever. I remember seeing a unit before that had a remote keyboard/mouse and video transmitter. Plugged right into serial/keyboard connector, so no compatability problems. But it was $300; for that price I could just as easily build myself another computer and put it in my stereo rack. Anyone have any experience with any of the remote TV/mouse, etc.... I know building another computer is better, but I don't really want to have to make a lan drop in my living room.
and don't fit into this mold that seems to have been created for us. I also know geeks who are absolute rednecks.
I'm from the south; born and raised in Virginia. I consider myself a geek, though. But in my experience, 'Rednecks' get more crap then geeks. I never had to much stereo-typing in the South when people would find out I worked with electronics. Or I stayed after school to help the teacher set up computers. People didn't really bother me, and I left them alone. And I went to quite a few different schools.
But when I moved out to Southern California 7 months ago, I learned about true stereo-typing. People here are amazed that I am from the south and I have an IQ above 50. I don't drive a big monster truck, chew tobacco, or go cow tipping. I have in my past, enjoyed some 'southern entertainment' (getting to drunk to fish, late night countryside parties), but nothing as out here. In the south, you do get the people who are closed minded about religion, politics, but it's no different in CA. If you're not born and raised CA, then you're an outsider.
The world isn't perfect. People try to group the rest of the world together into stereo-types; it's the only way of trying to describe a loosely conneted group of people, without having to describe each one individually.
Jeremy 'You might be a redneck if, you see a sign that says "Say NO to crack!" and it reminds you to pull your pants up.'
As much as I would like to save the planet, it's just not possible to do it. They died, survival of the fittest, end of story.
And as for getting tissue samples of endangered species so that we can clone them later, that's just not practical. How long would it take for us to take tissue samples of all the M$ users out there, cause it's not gonna be long before they're extinct... And do we really want to clone more? (Hope Bill hasn't thought of that already!):-)
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A quick glance through their site www.axiomtek.com, I came across a 16 channel board that supports "Red Hat Linux kernel version 2.2.X - AX509SP.
Might want to give these guys a look...
I'd have serious concerns about using a central vacuum system as conduits for CAT5. Your network performance is going to suck...
Sorry, I could resist...
Being one of the first employees in the company (CEO, COO, then little me), I had to fill a lot of roles for a couple of months until we ramped up staff. For that time, my job title was "Grand Poopa"... The biggest problem this caused was the heated debate over how to spell the second word...
Glutious
Does anyone remember the two competing networks for WWIV? I thought they were named Net and Link.
I was amazed at the ability to have nationwide message boards and send email from one BBS to another.(I got a university account soon afterwards and was introduced to MUDS and usenet...) I can even remember sending an email on vacation from CA and receiving it at home in VA about 6 days later.
If there were old records of the Net and Link, they would provide ALOT of WWIV BBS. I can still remember the name of one in Richmond, VA - Dr. Boo Boo's Purple Palace of Pleasure (and no, it was pr0n - Damn!)
Glutious
I came across this site a long time ago. Don't know if they still have in stock, but might be worth checking out.
http://www.allelec.com/VGALCD.html
They've got alot of different ones ranging price
640 x 480 Passive Monochrome VGA LCD with ISA controller. 89.00
640 x 480 Passive Matrix Color VGA LCD with 512K Cirrus Logic ISA controller 199.00
640 x 480 TFT Active Matrix Color VGA format Module (SCREEN ONLY) NEC NL6448BC33-31 169.00
Glutious
I can remember growing up playing the SSI D&D games on my C64... Man, those were the days... Everytime you go into a new sector or encounter, changing the 5-1/4...
:-p
My friends and I used to play together - sitting around the computer taking turns controlling our characters... Man, those were the days...
Even old paper role-playing games aren't nearly as popular as they were... Even during the whole satanic/suicide days of the 80's w/ D&D, you always could find lots of people who played...
Recently, I started playing AD&D again with a bunch of friends; old school geeks... We've noticed we play totally different then when we were younger. We're VERY cautious, and over analyze everything. We're not as gung-ho as we used to be, running into encounters, swords raised, screaming a barbaric YALP! Now we argue for two hours at each door checking for traps, listening, thinking how to best handle what could be on the other side of the door. When we reach a room and the DM describes the contents, we analyze everything about the description, from the order info was given to the tense in which words were used... Man, I'm way too anal...
Glutious
When I first read this, I thought the first customer would be the military.
When the shit hits the fan, the US can airlift units to just about anywhere in the world with the C-141 Starlifter. You can transport alot of infantry, and some light tanks, but I don't think you can transport much of the big stuff like M1A1 or some of the big artillary. I could be wrong, and you may be able to fit those into a Starlifter, but I'm sure you can't fit that many at a time.
So the US has the capability to rapidly deploy basic military units in a short amount of time, but it's gotta be a bitch to support those units by just air. Food, ammo, and other supplies take up alot of space and weight. Supporting units by just air is mostly impractical. That's why the US stores heavy mechanized units (tanks and artillary) and supplies in many parts of the world, just so half the equipment is already there.
But if they had the capability to deploy massive amounts of equipment and supplies within days notice to anywhere in the world, then the effectiveness of many units such as the Marine Rapid Deployment Force would be greatly enhanced.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US military wasn't one of the first customers, if not a major sponsor of the development of this technology.
On a side note...
An old friend who worked in the engine room on the USS Enterprise (aircraft carrier) said that when they wanted to, they could haul ass in that thing - I mean 50+ knots. They don't do it often, and they don't advertise it, but he's seen them going so fast that the wake from the bow was shooting ABOVE the flight deck (which if you've seen an aircraft carrier in person, is WAY up there). Don't know how true this is, but I believe my friend. To think of that HUGE ship moving that fast IS amazing.
Glutious
I found a reference to the "It's Great To Be Back" as being a short story published in 47, but I can't find a book anywhere that contains it. Does anyone have any leads on where it may be on the net or book?
Thanks
Glutious
I don't know about you, but I'd be scared with people driving with their eyes.
There's an accident on the side of the road, and all the people slowing down to look at it would cause lots of other accidents....
You go crusing by the beach and cause a fender bender cause you can't keep your eyes off the hot chick in the bikini!
Just my concerns...
Jeremy
Glutious
I have to say that I felt proud to see my phone (Ericsson T28) was #1 on the list. Wooohooo!!!!! Oh wait, this is a brain-frying list....
Anyways, shouldn't these ratings be based on just wattage, and not wattage per kilo??? My Phone is very lite (only a few ounces), yet puts out good power (I've yet to hit a dead spot in valleys, driving, etc...) So this rating would unfairly bias my phone verses one of the old brick phones that possibly put out alot more harmful radiation, but just weighed alot...
Is this logical or do I just have a screw loose?
Jeremy
Glutious
Jeremy
Glutious
I'd like to see anyone try and get between a hacker and their pr0n...
Me - I can't go a day without checking out the news at big-soapy-mystical-boobs.com
I'd consider myself a geek by all means, cause I got what all the sweeties need.
I keep a list of all the honey's in my palm db, so I can quickly generate reports of my most likely opportunities every night.
They like it when I tell them how long I can stay up (33 days so far... Take that ms, err viagra)
I just have to be careful when talking about open source (they keep thinking I'm talking about "open sores"...)
I've considered this problem a bit myself. Here are some of the options I've thought of:
1. Have an external scsi/firewire CDROM and put that on desk. Then you could put your system in other room/closet. Extension cords for keyboard, video, mouse, audio, etc...
2. Run a X Terminal. This box wouldn't have many, if any moving parts/heat generating components, so should be quiet. If you're not running X (mac os, win) use VNC. Don't know how could do sound though...
The spacecraft has already endured nearly three times the radiation it was designed to withstand, but repeated exposure to Jupiter's radiation has taken its toll.
What I don't understand is - what can radiation really do to the Galileo? I know the radiation we deal with on Earth is a whole different story then open space radiation, or the radiation around Jupiter.
I could see it cause a memory fault, or cause a bad computation with the CPU/chipsets somehow. But I know Galileo has got redundant memory/CPU that would detect errors and recompute. Worse case, it would knock itself into "Safe Mode"; reseting itself to a safe status.
What kind of "real" damage could radiation do that would shorten the life of Galileo?
Jeremy
I dual boot w/ W98 at home, but would like to be able to run Linux all the time. I like the idea of VMWare, but have heard that when you go to the "guest" OS, it can be alittle slow. If I had a dual box, would it run one Linux on one CPU, and the other W98 on the other CPU? Would VMWare automagically do this? Or would a good single processor box be better still?
Thanks,
Jeremy
I'm trying to start an open source project to relieve some of the stress that many programmers deal with on a day-to-day basis. I think that giving me rights to the domains open-butts.cx and open-sweaty-meat-curtains.cx will further the open source movement (especially the movement of many programmers pants to their ankles....)
The Athlon and it's motherboard are picky about the voltage going to them. The Athlon is a power hungry beast, and when it's load is dropped on most power supplies, the voltage tends to sag. So to save space, money, and everything else, they offloaded alot of the voltage regulation off the motherboard and put that responsibility onto the powersupply. Hold a Athlon-approved powersupply in one hand and a regular in the other. You can feel the difference in the weight. The Athlon approved has got beefier capacitors, and it's pretty rock solid on holding the 5 and 3.3 volt lines within a tight spec while heavily loaded. The power supplies aren't the cheapest things either; they're running around $45 here in San Diego, CA.
Jeremy
I can just see it now... (Pun Intended) It's the press conference of the millenium (have to fit this overused word in there somehow). All of the world is watching as the first blind human to use computer aided sight is getting ready to demo his new found sense. He's walking up to the podium, and !POP!, trips over the cable, yanking all the diodes out of his skull...
:-)
But then again, maybe they'll have thought ahead and installed a tension release connector...
Jeremy
Does anybody remember the old WWIV BBS software and it's network?
I used to go to a bunch of the WWIV (At least that's what I remember it being called, since I called it World War Four). But there were two competing networks for email. There was the "Net" where you could email anyone else on another Net system for free (some places charged a few pennies). Then a bunch of peope got fed up with some politics or something and started the "Link". Yeah, it took a couple of days for the email to travel cross country, but there wasn't another option back then. I lived in Virginia, and when one vacation in California, I was able to email back and forth with my friends in VA. Took about a day or two for messages to travel, but it was awesome at the time. No lonf distance, just a local call to BBS. Am I just crazy, or does anybody else remember this?
We're planning on deploying 2 database servers accessing data off of one external disk array. The second would be a failover server, so they shouldn't be concurrently accessing the same data/partition, but could. I know multiple boxes can access a single disk array through one scsi bus, but everybody always talks about them using different partitions. Can you have 2 boxes access one partition on SCSI? Fiber?
What form of RAID would be best? 5? 0+1? I almost wish I could to a 5+1 - Stripe with parity mirrored. I know that's alittle paranoid, but so am I... :-)
We're looking into the Gateway and Dell disk arrays. Has anyone heard good/bad about these? They have max of 8 disks, what would be the bets configuration?
Thanks,
Jeremy
I had Adelphia Powerlink a year ago, and it sucked. I'll admit I had the Hybrid modem (cable downstream, analog upstream), but the service was very shoddy. I would get very regular outages, speed wasn't much better from a dial-up, and they'd disconnect me every so often. My @Home is much better. Yes, I'll get outages everyonce in awhile, the mail server has a tendancy to go down alot. But they have no problems with me running linux; they openly give out all info(Gateway, IP, netmask, etc... on the website). But warning, I think they do require you to have Winblows installed to setup service. I was lucky, I had a nice tech who knew of linux, but he wouldn't even let me hook my hub up to the cable when he was there; he could only plug the cable from the modem to my box. I was on my own from there... But other then that, I'm very happy with my service. And you can't beat the price. When DSL's get alittle more widespread and the prices drop, I'll probably switch. But it just doesn't compare with cable at this point.
From the picture, it's got stereo RCA jacks, and a video RCA jack. On the other unit, I can see a coax connector. But the specs don't mention anything about video. They probably took the picture from their "Big Picture" unit, if it's not the exact same thing, just different name and price. Has anybody seen/used one of those Big Picture units? I'd love to be able to sit in the living room and surf/do whatever. I remember seeing a unit before that had a remote keyboard/mouse and video transmitter. Plugged right into serial/keyboard connector, so no compatability problems. But it was $300; for that price I could just as easily build myself another computer and put it in my stereo rack. Anyone have any experience with any of the remote TV/mouse, etc.... I know building another computer is better, but I don't really want to have to make a lan drop in my living room.
I'm from the south; born and raised in Virginia. I consider myself a geek, though. But in my experience, 'Rednecks' get more crap then geeks. I never had to much stereo-typing in the South when people would find out I worked with electronics. Or I stayed after school to help the teacher set up computers. People didn't really bother me, and I left them alone. And I went to quite a few different schools.
But when I moved out to Southern California 7 months ago, I learned about true stereo-typing. People here are amazed that I am from the south and I have an IQ above 50. I don't drive a big monster truck, chew tobacco, or go cow tipping. I have in my past, enjoyed some 'southern entertainment' (getting to drunk to fish, late night countryside parties), but nothing as out here. In the south, you do get the people who are closed minded about religion, politics, but it's no different in CA. If you're not born and raised CA, then you're an outsider.
The world isn't perfect. People try to group the rest of the world together into stereo-types; it's the only way of trying to describe a loosely conneted group of people, without having to describe each one individually.
Jeremy
'You might be a redneck if, you see a sign that says "Say NO to crack!" and it reminds you to pull your pants up.'
And as for getting tissue samples of endangered species so that we can clone them later, that's just not practical. How long would it take for us to take tissue samples of all the M$ users out there, cause it's not gonna be long before they're extinct... And do we really want to clone more? (Hope Bill hasn't thought of that already!) :-)