The 32GB 'limit' is a product of Windows XP. For some reason (insert evil plot here) XP can only format a FAT 32 Partition up to 32GB. Windows 2k and 98 can format up to the drive limit I believe (or at least to 127GB). This 'feature' ensures that you format your XP Drives with NTFS.
For all you slashdoters concerned about calling telemarketing weasels with nothing to sell:
I grant full rights to my Sack-O-Shit innovation.
For $29.99 plus $15 shipping and handeling you can send them a bag of fresh crap.
For an extra $10 you can enclose a book of matches, completing their upgrade to Flaming Sack-O-Shit (some assembly required).
I am releasing the innovation to the P2P manufacturing system to make sure supply will keep up with demand.
Be sure to ask their; Name, Address, Email Address, Cell Phone Number, Credit Card Number, Mother's Maiden Name, Sexual Prefrence, Bank Account Number, Social Security Number, Venerial Disease History, Pet's Names and How Much they got for their soul.
If my right to swing my fist stops where your face begins, why does their right to piss me off extend on to my property?
So the microwave won't work. (I tried and the couch just won't fit).
My new (patent pending) solution is the drive through RFID wash. Take your ordinary car wash, remove the hoses brush and crap. Install lead shielding and an EMP generator. Put your tires, sofa and clothing on the cart and when it emerges from the other end no more peskey RFIDs.
I can see a market for a Home EMP Kit as well. (The warning label reads, "Do not use near TVs, Computers, Pets, or Reproductive Organs".
Someone said thin clients are cheaper because you don't have to buy new hardware every few years. Bullcrap! Not only has my local government employer replace all the servers in the last 3 years, It is replacing the clients themselves as well. The only thing going on is the el cheapo 17" monitors.
Citrix works where it works, in a stable single app environment (think call center). It is more trouble than it's worth (time,effort,$) in an envionment that requires the barest minimum of flexibility.
We have a citrix desktop that loses user files, has monster security hole (browse the servers files any one) and barely changes year to year because our admins don't know how to work it (we use $$$ consultants).
Everyone agrees the audit trail needs to be non rewritable. Why not burn it to CD "on-the-fly". Heck, you could set up a cd burner at each precinct and make a play-by-play disk that could be used for a recount if the master count at HQ is doubted.
And why not give me a pki encrypted receipt. It would not be readable by anyone but the central office (with their key) and if I felt there was election fraud, I could confirm my vote was counted.
The count needs to be recorded on write once media, be it paper, CDR, or routed into a wooden ball. It does not need to be cumbersome (think journal printer on a cash register), but it should be available for scrutiny if I (or anyone else needs to see it).
Most free standing ATMs I've see are plugged into a basic analog phone line (you can even hear some of them dial). How hard would it really be to cut into the line and listen for a while? Once you learn the protocols you could pretend to be the bank (Send to ATM: account balance $1,000,000 dispense as much cash as you've got when you put in a blockbuster card). If traffic is encrypted at all, it likely uses a fixed key that could be broken with time. How's that for scary.
Heck, you could also get the number for the bank server (just listen for the dial tones) and try some of the NT RAS hacks.
Note: I do not reccomend doing any of this, or large men with badges and guns will put you in federal ass-pounding prison.
The web server at 64.94.110.11 is no longer taking requests. I guess we showed them no to screw with Slashdot. Their rig is still returning pings, but not much else.
Cd's are 44,000 16bit samples a second giving 65,536 possible values (0-65,535). As sound is half positive and half negative the range is split in half. Increasing volume involves adding a positive number to the positive half and a negative number to the negative half. Peak limiting destroys information by cutting it off a the limit of the possible range (resulting in it being discarded). More samples are either 0 or 65,535. One positive side effect is that the MP3 rip will soud more like to origional (less info=less info discarded).
I envision that every university could build a giant information repository in the center of their campuses. These massive edifices could act as a storehouse for books, magaizines, music cds and other forms of data. To gain entry the supplicant would need a badge of identification.
I shall call my creations LIBRARIES and students will flock to them.
Seriously folks, Universities have the infrastructure already. Have the library buy the CD. Load the CD on a server and seal the origional in a vault. Stream the cds to the users (athenticated via library card). Set the server to one stream per purchased copy and it is all fair use. How alout them apples RIAA!
Duct tape a RFID tags to the little punks before they leave the house. Set up a read in the door jam and you'll be able to cout the times they enter and exit. Heck, have them surgically implanted. You have total informational awareness!
I have used a Kinkos machine in Columbus Ohio (near Ohio State) and here is what I found:
1. Windows 2000 with the user logged in as poweruser or administrator. 2. Pop up software installed (unknown spyware). 3. I could not find a USB port so I stood up and moved the PC and plugged in in the back. No comment from staff.
The only "security" I saw was protecting the billing app.
There is a quick and dirty solution. Fans! Go to Lowes with the company card and stock up on fans, cords, sheet plastic, and duct tape. Get a couple of the monster "industrial" fans and plenty of box fans.
Lay out an air flow in the room (with an "in" and an "out"). If you only have one door, put the "in" on the bottom and the "out" on the top. Place additional fans to force the air to circulate. Set a box fan blowing air into the bottom of each rack. You want airflow you can feel exhasting from the top of each rack (with the heat). It will feel (and sound) like a wind tunnel, but it should keep you gear cool.
Best of all, the whole rig should run on 15-20 amps (The same power as one window air conditioner or 4 beefy servers).
I have constructed a device that requires no external energy input, has minumal mechanical complexity and is capable of speeds in excess of 500,000 Miles per hour. Want to invest? Of cousre to observe this you need to stop rotating around the Milky Way.
Set all the users limits to 15k an you can keep them all on one floppy. Since you'll spend at most $300 on hardware that leaves $3700 for pizza and beer
I believe that I have experienced prior Art at the Chinese Buffet
1. Start 2. Pay for rights to buffet 3. Move to buffet and select food 4. Return Food to table 5. Still food on the plate (Yes=repeat 5 No=next) 6. Stomach Full? (Yes=next No=goto 4) 7. Visit bathroom and release?(Yes=Take Pepto and goto 4 No=next) 8. Wait until stomach settles (Yes= goto 4 No=End)
I noticed hp actually fixed this problem. All the new consumer inkjets I've seen use this tiny cartridges (good for about 10 pages at first glance). They are cheaper than the 45s and 78s I am currently using but with much less life. Ink dryed out? No problem. You already used half of it printing the alignment page.
1. Cash Based internet access 2. Very anonymous (sit in the parking lot and surf) 3. Everyone from the mob to Alquida will be line up for a value meal 4. The best part is your could hack/extort/terror your way arourd for the rest of your life and never use the same acces point twice
Think about this next time someone in a white van gives you $10 to bring them out a value meal.
daydream on OSDN TV- Welcome to todays episode of Slashdot Trading Spaces. Our crack designers will transform drab computer rooms into works of art....
Cut to homeowners dremeling case window into furnace....
Cut to Macaquarium's big brother PDP8 Aquarium....
Bring in your monitor in a sunglass case. All you need is a NSTC out either native on your motherboard/video card or get an external box and stuff it in you extra bay. Add a roll up keyboard and you are in business.
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The 32GB 'limit' is a product of Windows XP. For some reason (insert evil plot here) XP can only format a FAT 32 Partition up to 32GB. Windows 2k and 98 can format up to the drive limit I believe (or at least to 127GB). This 'feature' ensures that you format your XP Drives with NTFS.
SD
For all you slashdoters concerned about calling telemarketing weasels with nothing to sell:
I grant full rights to my Sack-O-Shit innovation.
For $29.99 plus $15 shipping and handeling you can send them a bag of fresh crap.
For an extra $10 you can enclose a book of matches, completing their upgrade to Flaming Sack-O-Shit (some assembly required).
I am releasing the innovation to the P2P manufacturing system to make sure supply will keep up with demand.
Be sure to ask their; Name, Address, Email Address, Cell Phone Number, Credit Card Number, Mother's Maiden Name, Sexual Prefrence, Bank Account Number, Social Security Number, Venerial Disease History, Pet's Names and How Much they got for their soul.
If my right to swing my fist stops where your face begins, why does their right to piss me off extend on to my property?
SD
I thought Microsoft had already patented Windows activation. Why the duplicate patent?
SD
So the microwave won't work. (I tried and the couch just won't fit).
My new (patent pending) solution is the drive through RFID wash. Take your ordinary car wash, remove the hoses brush and crap. Install lead shielding and an EMP generator. Put your tires, sofa and clothing on the cart and when it emerges from the other end no more peskey RFIDs.
I can see a market for a Home EMP Kit as well. (The warning label reads, "Do not use near TVs, Computers, Pets, or Reproductive Organs".
SD
Someone said thin clients are cheaper because you don't have to buy new hardware every few years. Bullcrap! Not only has my local government employer replace all the servers in the last 3 years, It is replacing the clients themselves as well. The only thing going on is the el cheapo 17" monitors.
Citrix works where it works, in a stable single app environment (think call center). It is more trouble than it's worth (time,effort,$) in an envionment that requires the barest minimum of flexibility.
We have a citrix desktop that loses user files, has monster security hole (browse the servers files any one) and barely changes year to year because our admins don't know how to work it (we use $$$ consultants).
Stay away unless you are braver than I.
SD
Everyone agrees the audit trail needs to be non rewritable. Why not burn it to CD "on-the-fly". Heck, you could set up a cd burner at each precinct and make a play-by-play disk that could be used for a recount if the master count at HQ is doubted.
And why not give me a pki encrypted receipt. It would not be readable by anyone but the central office (with their key) and if I felt there was election fraud, I could confirm my vote was counted.
The count needs to be recorded on write once media, be it paper, CDR, or routed into a wooden ball. It does not need to be cumbersome (think journal printer on a cash register), but it should be available for scrutiny if I (or anyone else needs to see it).
SD
If you post it on your web site, it's available even if you don't directly link to it.
Part 4 early for your viewing pleasure.
SD
Most free standing ATMs I've see are plugged into a basic analog phone line (you can even hear some of them dial). How hard would it really be to cut into the line and listen for a while? Once you learn the protocols you could pretend to be the bank (Send to ATM: account balance $1,000,000 dispense as much cash as you've got when you put in a blockbuster card). If traffic is encrypted at all, it likely uses a fixed key that could be broken with time. How's that for scary.
Heck, you could also get the number for the bank server (just listen for the dial tones) and try some of the NT RAS hacks.
Note: I do not reccomend doing any of this, or large men with badges and guns will put you in federal ass-pounding prison.
SD
The web server at 64.94.110.11 is no longer taking requests. I guess we showed them no to screw with Slashdot. Their rig is still returning pings, but not much else.
SD
The 666 exchange is in Montrose Ohio. I remember dialing BBSs there back in the day. Look, now you got me all misty.
SD
Cd's are 44,000 16bit samples a second giving 65,536 possible values (0-65,535). As sound is half positive and half negative the range is split in half. Increasing volume involves adding a positive number to the positive half and a negative number to the negative half. Peak limiting destroys information by cutting it off a the limit of the possible range (resulting in it being discarded). More samples are either 0 or 65,535. One positive side effect is that the MP3 rip will soud more like to origional (less info=less info discarded).
SD
I envision that every university could build a giant information repository in the center of their campuses. These massive edifices could act as a storehouse for books, magaizines, music cds and other forms of data. To gain entry the supplicant would need a badge of identification.
I shall call my creations LIBRARIES and students will flock to them.
Seriously folks, Universities have the infrastructure already. Have the library buy the CD. Load the CD on a server and seal the origional in a vault. Stream the cds to the users (athenticated via library card). Set the server to one stream per purchased copy and it is all fair use. How alout them apples RIAA!
SD
Duct tape a RFID tags to the little punks before they leave the house. Set up a read in the door jam and you'll be able to cout the times they enter and exit. Heck, have them surgically implanted. You have total informational awareness!
SD
I have used a Kinkos machine in Columbus Ohio (near Ohio State) and here is what I found:
1. Windows 2000 with the user logged in as poweruser or administrator.
2. Pop up software installed (unknown spyware).
3. I could not find a USB port so I stood up and moved the PC and plugged in in the back. No comment from staff.
The only "security" I saw was protecting the billing app.
SD
There is a quick and dirty solution. Fans! Go to Lowes with the company card and stock up on fans, cords, sheet plastic, and duct tape. Get a couple of the monster "industrial" fans and plenty of box fans.
Lay out an air flow in the room (with an "in" and an "out"). If you only have one door, put the "in" on the bottom and the "out" on the top. Place additional fans to force the air to circulate. Set a box fan blowing air into the bottom of each rack. You want airflow you can feel exhasting from the top of each rack (with the heat). It will feel (and sound) like a wind tunnel, but it should keep you gear cool.
Best of all, the whole rig should run on 15-20 amps (The same power as one window air conditioner or 4 beefy servers).
SD
I have constructed a device that requires no external energy input, has minumal mechanical complexity and is capable of speeds in excess of 500,000 Miles per hour. Want to invest? Of cousre to observe this you need to stop rotating around the Milky Way.
In the universe:
"Everythings Relative"
In West Virginia:
"Everyones Relatives"
SD
Reign it in a bit there buddy. * 8-bit hardware has all the horsepower you need.
You need
C64 Computer with diskdrive
Contiki Web Server
C64 Ethernet Card
Set all the users limits to 15k an you can keep them all on one floppy. Since you'll spend at most $300 on hardware that leaves $3700 for pizza and beer
SD
I believe that I have experienced prior Art at the Chinese Buffet
1. Start
2. Pay for rights to buffet
3. Move to buffet and select food
4. Return Food to table
5. Still food on the plate (Yes=repeat 5 No=next)
6. Stomach Full? (Yes=next No=goto 4)
7. Visit bathroom and release?(Yes=Take Pepto and goto 4 No=next)
8. Wait until stomach settles (Yes= goto 4 No=End)
Sorry Neflix
SD
2:50 Am
6 Replies
Server Hurting badly
I guess I'll go back to bed.
SD
I think my next PC will be one of these. I wonder if it will run Linux?
SD
I noticed hp actually fixed this problem. All the new consumer inkjets I've seen use this tiny cartridges (good for about 10 pages at first glance). They are cheaper than the 45s and 78s I am currently using but with much less life. Ink dryed out? No problem. You already used half of it printing the alignment page.
SD
It is the missing step from the Underpants Gnomes bussiness plan!
1. Steal underpants
2. Install vibration recovery device, microwave energy transmitter and Taco Bell gift certificate and return.
3. Profit!?!
Think of it this way:
1. Cash Based internet access
2. Very anonymous (sit in the parking lot and surf)
3. Everyone from the mob to Alquida will be line up for a value meal
4. The best part is your could hack/extort/terror your way arourd for the rest of your life and never use the same acces point twice
Think about this next time someone in a white van gives you $10 to bring them out a value meal.
SD
daydream on ...
...
...
OSDN TV-
Welcome to todays episode of Slashdot Trading Spaces. Our crack designers will transform drab computer rooms into works of art.
Cut to homeowners dremeling case window into furnace.
Cut to Macaquarium's big brother PDP8 Aquarium.
Electrolumescent wire everywhere. Multicolored network cable everywhere. Leds. Neon. Argh....
daydream off
Scary.
SD
Bring in your monitor in a sunglass case. All you need is a NSTC out either native on your motherboard/video card or get an external box and stuff it in you extra bay. Add a roll up keyboard and you are in business.
SD