Unlikely. If the engines had been off, his dad could have heard the pilot screaming for help. Shutting off all engines in mid-air is NOT something you want to do because they will fuck up your wings' balance when you start them up again (and no two engines are perfectly synched).
Yes, I can attest to the fact that Dell desktops are whisper-quiet. They're using Pentium-4 processors that slow down automagically during heat emergencies. Try doing some heavy processing, like playing RTCW while encoding DivX video. It'll be fine at first, but after about a minute it will start getting really choppy as the CPU struggles to stay cool.
Still, for regular office work they're excellent, and that's what they're built for in the first place. But anyone using them for intensive graphics/audio is absolutely nuts!
While it may be true that 56'C won't kill a cpu (they're rated safe up to 85'C), keep in mind that temperature is sensed in the small gap beneath the processor. On the other side, you have to deal with heat from everything else, which includes hard drives, video cards and the motherboard itself. If it's 56'C on the bottom, it's at least 60-65'C on top. That's where it can get real scary real fast.
I've damaged an Athlon not too long ago because of this phenomenon. The moral of the story ? If you're paranoid, buy a cheap themistor kit and wedge it on top of the CPU in the small depression around the raised core. That's the temperature you have to keep an eye on, especially if you're overclocking.
Some cluebit figured out he could just create an autorun.exe out of random bytes and crash windows. Now he's sold the idea to Sony and they're going to make a big scene out of it.
I know why I'm broke, it's cuz I'm too smart for the rest of the world. Stupid ideas sell much better.
Well, if I were selling a 10k$ wheel, I'd reinvent it A-to-Z to make it perfectly suited to its task. In this case, I'd probably build something around a StrongARM core (or many), tailored to do precisely one thing : serve files. Port samba and NFS over, that's fine. Design your own direct ethernet circuitry, hooked into a simplified, high-throughput bus. Yes it's alot of work on the drawing board, but the money you invest in R&D will be saved tenfold on implementation costs and your profits will soar.
This guy was a 21 year old weirdo to begin with. The psych eval cited on that page is pure spin... all the 'symptoms' they mention aren't really symptoms, the guy was just a fat introverted nerd with a flaky upbringing. Everquest might have accelerated his descent into madness, but it didn't create the problem in the first place. According to his headshrinker, we're all epileptic schizos.
It's just common sense folks. Everquest is a game, and some people can't tell the difference between fiction and RL, so they end up doing crazy shit like this. You've got millions of other players who are doing just fine, giving it an hour or two per evening and going on with their normal lives. Not all minds are created equal, the weak ones should watch out, that's all.
What does it matter whether the NAS runs Linux or Windows ? I've never used NAS devices, but I'm just assuming it's a big networked hard drive, right ? Why would it need a user-oriented operating system ? All it needs to do is read and write bits from network to disk and vice-versa, with a little management on the side. It doesn't need a full blown operating system to do that.
Check out PC Weasel. It's a VGA/MDA emulator board that adds a remote-control serial port, just like Alphaservers and other serious server boxen. You just throw this thing into a spare ISA or PCI slot and use your favorite terminal software to talk to it on the serial port. I've worked with them in the past and they work great, no quirks whatsoever.
Actually, we just have an FBI agent sitting at a desk looking for kiddie pr0n 10 hours a day. It turns out the coffee and donuts cost less than a bunch of hard drives changed weekly. Who would have guessed?!
True, but most of the time these smaller vhosts all share one IP. Heck, up here in Ottawa the main corporate ISP runs about 300 sites off one IP. Routable addresses are valuable, so the try to keep it on the cheap.
I've installed Debian dozens of times on many PCs. What's wrong with the installer ? Ok, the only tricky part I'd say, is the package installer. That DSelect thing can be painful at times, but the rest of the installation process is pretty straightforward and I actually enjoy how they present all the actions on the menu so you can jump ahead/back anything you like.
There were tons of Microsoft keyboards that looked simply wonderful, but I couldn't bring myself to allow even a dime of mine slip into Microsoft pockets.
Diskcopy.com allowed me to duplicate all my buddies' games (back in the day). A few years later, Subst.exe allowed me to run cd-based games off my hard drive, fooling the primitive cd protection schemes of the day.
Does that mean that MS-Dos was illegal software because it allowed me to pirate games ?
It's frightening to think that these lawyers have gone through university, yet are so incredibly short-sighted.
One thing that might work would be to run separate instances of Apache for each client, and use port mangling to route the requests to the appropriate instance.
Say you have clients XX, YY and ZZ. XX runs on port 81, YY:82, ZZ:83. You would then need to code up an IPTables module that would peek at incoming HTTP requests and alter their destination port on-the-fly (this tool might already exist, try Google).
Thirty percent ? Maybe I'm living in a small, radically different world, but Intel owns more like 98% of the business market, and 2% of the home market (yes, I pulled that out of my ass). Everyone I know runs Athlons and Durons. Nobody's crazy enough to pay 3x the price for an Intel chip that ultimately does the same job, plus or minus 5% in terms of performance. The only people who have Intel cpus, have Celerons, and they bought them at Future Shop or WalMart or some other twit store.
How ? Was the LCD screen encased in 2-inch thick translucent aluminum ? Or is it a 64x48 LED array with a 12lb steel alloy aperture grille ? I just have a hard time believing that such a laptop could withstand voluntary abuse. It might survive the occasional 5 foot drop, but kids ? I wish I had seen that report.
How's about we ask Al Gore to shut down the Internet while we watch these DMCA/SSSCA/etc vanish into nothingness. Meanwhile, we'd be running loose on our own Wifi-based supernet, streaming mp3's to hell and back, like the good old days back when we all used WinPlay3 and mpg123 was just a slow flaky bastardized caffeine residue on someone's hard drive.
Or we could just butt heads together and figure out an effective way to fight back (that excludes petitions, they never do shit).
"Would you like to play a game of Global Anti-fascist war ?"
As a fellow Canadian, I would love to know out of whose ass they pulled those numbers. 60% of cd-r used for music ? bull$hit. There isn't that much music worth burning anyway!
Try a different PCMCIA card and see if it does the same thing. My guess is that the power delivery isn't stable, else Belkin would surely have spotted the issue and fixed it, rather than lose a truckload of money on replacement NICs. Have the laptop checked out by someone competent (which excludes that screwdriver-tech at the local shop who proudly displays his mail-order diploma).
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The day they invent a device that can cancel out my girlfriend's voice, is the day I'll gladly give them all my money.
Unlikely. If the engines had been off, his dad could have heard the pilot screaming for help. Shutting off all engines in mid-air is NOT something you want to do because they will fuck up your wings' balance when you start them up again (and no two engines are perfectly synched).
Yes, I can attest to the fact that Dell desktops are whisper-quiet. They're using Pentium-4 processors that slow down automagically during heat emergencies. Try doing some heavy processing, like playing RTCW while encoding DivX video. It'll be fine at first, but after about a minute it will start getting really choppy as the CPU struggles to stay cool.
Still, for regular office work they're excellent, and that's what they're built for in the first place. But anyone using them for intensive graphics/audio is absolutely nuts!
While it may be true that 56'C won't kill a cpu (they're rated safe up to 85'C), keep in mind that temperature is sensed in the small gap beneath the processor. On the other side, you have to deal with heat from everything else, which includes hard drives, video cards and the motherboard itself. If it's 56'C on the bottom, it's at least 60-65'C on top. That's where it can get real scary real fast.
I've damaged an Athlon not too long ago because of this phenomenon. The moral of the story ? If you're paranoid, buy a cheap themistor kit and wedge it on top of the CPU in the small depression around the raised core. That's the temperature you have to keep an eye on, especially if you're overclocking.
Some cluebit figured out he could just create an autorun.exe out of random bytes and crash windows. Now he's sold the idea to Sony and they're going to make a big scene out of it.
I know why I'm broke, it's cuz I'm too smart for the rest of the world. Stupid ideas sell much better.
Muwahahahah! Now that Celine is no longer confined to the province of Quebec, the whole world will suffer for their sins!
Well, if I were selling a 10k$ wheel, I'd reinvent it A-to-Z to make it perfectly suited to its task. In this case, I'd probably build something around a StrongARM core (or many), tailored to do precisely one thing : serve files. Port samba and NFS over, that's fine. Design your own direct ethernet circuitry, hooked into a simplified, high-throughput bus. Yes it's alot of work on the drawing board, but the money you invest in R&D will be saved tenfold on implementation costs and your profits will soar.
This guy was a 21 year old weirdo to begin with. The psych eval cited on that page is pure spin... all the 'symptoms' they mention aren't really symptoms, the guy was just a fat introverted nerd with a flaky upbringing. Everquest might have accelerated his descent into madness, but it didn't create the problem in the first place. According to his headshrinker, we're all epileptic schizos.
It's just common sense folks. Everquest is a game, and some people can't tell the difference between fiction and RL, so they end up doing crazy shit like this. You've got millions of other players who are doing just fine, giving it an hour or two per evening and going on with their normal lives. Not all minds are created equal, the weak ones should watch out, that's all.
What does it matter whether the NAS runs Linux or Windows ? I've never used NAS devices, but I'm just assuming it's a big networked hard drive, right ? Why would it need a user-oriented operating system ? All it needs to do is read and write bits from network to disk and vice-versa, with a little management on the side. It doesn't need a full blown operating system to do that.
Check out PC Weasel. It's a VGA/MDA emulator board that adds a remote-control serial port, just like Alphaservers and other serious server boxen. You just throw this thing into a spare ISA or PCI slot and use your favorite terminal software to talk to it on the serial port. I've worked with them in the past and they work great, no quirks whatsoever.
FUCK OFF KATZ!
Thank you, that felt good.
"Carnivore is not deployed on our network,"
Actually, we just have an FBI agent sitting at a desk looking for kiddie pr0n 10 hours a day. It turns out the coffee and donuts cost less than a bunch of hard drives changed weekly. Who would have guessed?!
True, but most of the time these smaller vhosts all share one IP. Heck, up here in Ottawa the main corporate ISP runs about 300 sites off one IP. Routable addresses are valuable, so the try to keep it on the cheap.
I've installed Debian dozens of times on many PCs. What's wrong with the installer ? Ok, the only tricky part I'd say, is the package installer. That DSelect thing can be painful at times, but the rest of the installation process is pretty straightforward and I actually enjoy how they present all the actions on the menu so you can jump ahead/back anything you like.
What about those "Asus Inside" stickers that come with mobos ?
Sue everything!
Well then, just don't pay for it
Diskcopy.com allowed me to duplicate all my buddies' games (back in the day). A few years later, Subst.exe allowed me to run cd-based games off my hard drive, fooling the primitive cd protection schemes of the day.
Does that mean that MS-Dos was illegal software because it allowed me to pirate games ?
It's frightening to think that these lawyers have gone through university, yet are so incredibly short-sighted.
One thing that might work would be to run separate instances of Apache for each client, and use port mangling to route the requests to the appropriate instance.
Say you have clients XX, YY and ZZ. XX runs on port 81, YY:82, ZZ:83. You would then need to code up an IPTables module that would peek at incoming HTTP requests and alter their destination port on-the-fly (this tool might already exist, try Google).
Thirty percent ? Maybe I'm living in a small, radically different world, but Intel owns more like 98% of the business market, and 2% of the home market (yes, I pulled that out of my ass). Everyone I know runs Athlons and Durons. Nobody's crazy enough to pay 3x the price for an Intel chip that ultimately does the same job, plus or minus 5% in terms of performance. The only people who have Intel cpus, have Celerons, and they bought them at Future Shop or WalMart or some other twit store.
Bah, just cut above the wrist! :)
How ? Was the LCD screen encased in 2-inch thick translucent aluminum ? Or is it a 64x48 LED array with a 12lb steel alloy aperture grille ?
I just have a hard time believing that such a laptop could withstand voluntary abuse. It might survive the occasional 5 foot drop, but kids ? I wish I had seen that report.
I just hope those spasms aren't focused around the jaw area
How's about we ask Al Gore to shut down the Internet while we watch these DMCA/SSSCA/etc vanish into nothingness. Meanwhile, we'd be running loose on our own Wifi-based supernet, streaming mp3's to hell and back, like the good old days back when we all used WinPlay3 and mpg123 was just a slow flaky bastardized caffeine residue on someone's hard drive.
Or we could just butt heads together and figure out an effective way to fight back (that excludes petitions, they never do shit).
"Would you like to play a game of Global Anti-fascist war ?"
As a fellow Canadian, I would love to know out of whose ass they pulled those numbers. 60% of cd-r used for music ? bull$hit. There isn't that much music worth burning anyway!
Try a different PCMCIA card and see if it does the same thing. My guess is that the power delivery isn't stable, else Belkin would surely have spotted the issue and fixed it, rather than lose a truckload of money on replacement NICs. Have the laptop checked out by someone competent (which excludes that screwdriver-tech at the local shop who proudly displays his mail-order diploma).