It is located in western Canada. Does anybody know of a place that would want something like this or should we just sell it for metal recycling?
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It just so happens that TFA gives you a list of places to contact. Seriously, I know it's something of a Slashdot tradition to not read TFA, but this takes the cake.
I checked them out and a few even have wishlists so I know what they're looking for. I will be contacting the ones that don't. But maybe there is some other group that would like this hardware in particular. Did you even think of that? That there may be more than just the 9 places in the article that might want this? Oh look at that, someone replied with a lead that wasn't part of TFA!
My in-laws have a Control Data Cyber 180 system that has been sitting in a barn for probably almost 10 years. They would really love to get rid of it but we have no idea where to send it. It includes a bunch of other heavy manufacturing equipment. Also what appears to be a CO2 laser head by GTE Sylvania. Klischograph K181. Magnetic tape stuff. I can't remember what else.
It has been in a barn so at least kept out of rain and snow but not so much the -40C weather and the few pigeons that like to sit in the rafters above it.
It is located in western Canada. Does anybody know of a place that would want something like this or should we just sell it for metal recycling?
I bought Vista, I use Vista, and once I turned off UAC I've had no problems with Vista. I think the hatred for it is overstated, and largely perpetuated by people who don't use it I agree.
I picked up the retail edition of Vista Ultimate just a short time ago and installed the 64-bit version for the increased RAM support. The only problem I've had is with Sony not making a 64-bit driver for a voice recorder I have. Even the UAC stuff doesn't bother me. My machine is rock solid, runs games great and feels faster than it did with XP. Everyone else I know who is running Vista feels the same way, too.
People keep pointing out articles & reviews about Vista that are almost a year old if not older that slam Vista. I think things have changed a lot in the last year and the driver support has really jumped up a few levels. Was XP not the same way when it first came out? I remember installing XP and having nothing but BSODs and little support for any of my games. Installing Vista for the first time has been heaven compared to the first time I installed XP.
As far as I know, you need a dialup modem for your upstream so that won't help.
Perhaps for more Civilian/off-the-shelf solutions, but for big-ish commercial grade stuff you can receive and transmit through the dish. I work for a Canadian oilfield service company that has just gotten a whack of dishes on most of our Fracturing datavans that support both transmit and receive. Its pretty cool, actually, being way out in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no cell phone service and still having high speed internet. The cost is a little prohibitive, however. The estimates I've heard (no one will tell me specifics) is around $20,000-$40,000 (CDN) per truck at about $10,000 per month for the service. The per month fee is for a total of 1M/sec bandwidth (somewhere around there, combined, up & down) that is shared out with each of our trucks. So if we have each truck up on the network the speed can drop quite rapidly. I can't remember what the latency was like, though. The service we're using is provided through a Canadian company called Telesat.
I don't know if there are any low-end stuff that is cheaper but from what I can tell this is not a solution anywhere near the reach of a person with no money and still living with their parents;). A better option would be wireless internet, if it is available, otherwise I'd look at setting up my own point to point wireless link with somone close who does have high speed internet.
Not enough room, unfortunately. These trucks cost $1 million each so you'd think that they would have put enough thought into how to mount a computer in it. Its basically a cabinet on the floor beside the desk that is just big enough for a tower to be strapped in standing upright and still have enough room for us to work around it. I thought about getting some mini-pc action going on top of the desk but there really isn't enough room up there.
Thanks for the tip, however we're limited by the type of computer case we use - it only allows horizontal mounting. If anyone can point me toward a good solidly built steel case that allows the vertical mounting I'd be very grateful.
Perhaps I should have explained it better. Where we are located (and because of the local supplier we use) we can't get a 2.5" hard drive over 100GB - they come in 30, 40, 60, 80, and 100GB. Compared to the 3.5" drives the minimum size we can get is 80GB and it just seems to keep going up every few months. Its kind of a side benefit but at least the 30GB helps keeps data loss to a minimum. Hell if we could get 15GB or even 10GB 2.5" drives we would. Eventually I'd like to move to a live windows DVD with all of our required apps on it and only use USB Memory Sticks for data storage - but thats a little further down the road.
We could limit the partition size to whatever we need but then we'd be wasting space on the disk - something which we would like to avoid (I can honestly not provide a good enough reason why).
I work for an oilfield service company that has normal desktop computers strapped down inside some of our units. Sometimes the guys would leave the computers running while they drove to the next location. The lease roads are almost always in very very bad condition - its just the way things are - and those cheap 3.5" desktop drives just cannot handle the vibration and bumps. We've started to use the little 2.5" laptop hard drives because they are rated to handle a lot more Gs and vibration than their big brothers. They may be slower and not have as much capacity but we're talking about computers who are used (for the most part) data aquisition (pressures, rates, depths, etc.) and Microsoft Word/Excel - not trying to load up the next BF2 level as fast as possible. A smaller hard drive also means less data lost when it goes down.
Every machine we get from Dell is pre-loaded with an image *we* created and handed over to Dell. So all our desktops & notebooks come preloaded with our own software and nothing of Dell's (except for maybe the Dell Quickset software on the notebooks).
Would it be easier using an infrared camera instead of a normal web cam? Then you just aim in on the moving heat source instead of trying to analyze whole screenfuls of data. I'm just imagining a blue-ish background with a bright red shape moving around on the screen...then it wouldn't really matter if the person is wearing bright clothing or dark clothing.
I've been waiting for ads to be printed in the middle of books for quite some time. Soon you'll be in the middle of a good fantasy book, someone is about to die and you'll turn the page and BAM! A full two page full color advertisement for Pepsi. You won't be able to rip it out because the text will be printed on at least one side of each page.
But, alas, people will still buy this stuff. People will spend $15 (cdn) to go see a movie at a theatre to watch 30 minutes of commercials and previews before the actual movie starts; and people will still buy games that have real-life video advertisements in them. If people really did vote with their wallet then the big corps might listen.
I'm no longer pissed off at the companies that do this, I'm pissed off at the people that can't control themselves and don't fight back.
Perhaps the high price tag will make parents realize that the $600-ish (CDN) would be better spent perhaps getting their kids sport equipment or even just getting them outside.
Parent 1: "Oh yeah? Well, my $600 bought my kid an extra 100Kg! Can you beat that?" Parent 2: "Aww hell, I could only afford a $20 NES system that he doesn't even play. He's lost 60Kg just by playing outside! Its awful!"
Alberta (Canada) came out with a new driver's licence a few years ago. It was quite a step forward from the traditional print-it-off-on-paper-then-laminate-it licence. Check it out:
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/driverslicence/ "An original. Just like you." Glad my taxes went towards picking that. Probably had a committee set up and daily meetings for 3 months to come up with it.
Security features used on the card: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/driverslicence/sec urity.h tml
Picture of the card: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/driverslicence/fea tures_f lash.html
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I'll check them out. Thanks!
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It just so happens that TFA gives you a list of places to contact. Seriously, I know it's something of a Slashdot tradition to not read TFA, but this takes the cake.
I checked them out and a few even have wishlists so I know what they're looking for. I will be contacting the ones that don't. But maybe there is some other group that would like this hardware in particular. Did you even think of that? That there may be more than just the 9 places in the article that might want this? Oh look at that, someone replied with a lead that wasn't part of TFA!
You can have your cake back.
My in-laws have a Control Data Cyber 180 system that has been sitting in a barn for probably almost 10 years. They would really love to get rid of it but we have no idea where to send it. It includes a bunch of other heavy manufacturing equipment. Also what appears to be a CO2 laser head by GTE Sylvania. Klischograph K181. Magnetic tape stuff. I can't remember what else.
It has been in a barn so at least kept out of rain and snow but not so much the -40C weather and the few pigeons that like to sit in the rafters above it.
It is located in western Canada. Does anybody know of a place that would want something like this or should we just sell it for metal recycling?
I picked up the retail edition of Vista Ultimate just a short time ago and installed the 64-bit version for the increased RAM support. The only problem I've had is with Sony not making a 64-bit driver for a voice recorder I have. Even the UAC stuff doesn't bother me. My machine is rock solid, runs games great and feels faster than it did with XP. Everyone else I know who is running Vista feels the same way, too.
People keep pointing out articles & reviews about Vista that are almost a year old if not older that slam Vista. I think things have changed a lot in the last year and the driver support has really jumped up a few levels. Was XP not the same way when it first came out? I remember installing XP and having nothing but BSODs and little support for any of my games. Installing Vista for the first time has been heaven compared to the first time I installed XP.
As far as I know, you need a dialup modem for your upstream so that won't help.
;). A better option would be wireless internet, if it is available, otherwise I'd look at setting up my own point to point wireless link with somone close who does have high speed internet.
Perhaps for more Civilian/off-the-shelf solutions, but for big-ish commercial grade stuff you can receive and transmit through the dish. I work for a Canadian oilfield service company that has just gotten a whack of dishes on most of our Fracturing datavans that support both transmit and receive. Its pretty cool, actually, being way out in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no cell phone service and still having high speed internet. The cost is a little prohibitive, however. The estimates I've heard (no one will tell me specifics) is around $20,000-$40,000 (CDN) per truck at about $10,000 per month for the service. The per month fee is for a total of 1M/sec bandwidth (somewhere around there, combined, up & down) that is shared out with each of our trucks. So if we have each truck up on the network the speed can drop quite rapidly. I can't remember what the latency was like, though. The service we're using is provided through a Canadian company called Telesat.
I don't know if there are any low-end stuff that is cheaper but from what I can tell this is not a solution anywhere near the reach of a person with no money and still living with their parents
Not enough room, unfortunately. These trucks cost $1 million each so you'd think that they would have put enough thought into how to mount a computer in it. Its basically a cabinet on the floor beside the desk that is just big enough for a tower to be strapped in standing upright and still have enough room for us to work around it. I thought about getting some mini-pc action going on top of the desk but there really isn't enough room up there.
Thanks for the tip, however we're limited by the type of computer case we use - it only allows horizontal mounting. If anyone can point me toward a good solidly built steel case that allows the vertical mounting I'd be very grateful.
Perhaps I should have explained it better. Where we are located (and because of the local supplier we use) we can't get a 2.5" hard drive over 100GB - they come in 30, 40, 60, 80, and 100GB. Compared to the 3.5" drives the minimum size we can get is 80GB and it just seems to keep going up every few months. Its kind of a side benefit but at least the 30GB helps keeps data loss to a minimum. Hell if we could get 15GB or even 10GB 2.5" drives we would. Eventually I'd like to move to a live windows DVD with all of our required apps on it and only use USB Memory Sticks for data storage - but thats a little further down the road.
We could limit the partition size to whatever we need but then we'd be wasting space on the disk - something which we would like to avoid (I can honestly not provide a good enough reason why).
I work for an oilfield service company that has normal desktop computers strapped down inside some of our units. Sometimes the guys would leave the computers running while they drove to the next location. The lease roads are almost always in very very bad condition - its just the way things are - and those cheap 3.5" desktop drives just cannot handle the vibration and bumps. We've started to use the little 2.5" laptop hard drives because they are rated to handle a lot more Gs and vibration than their big brothers. They may be slower and not have as much capacity but we're talking about computers who are used (for the most part) data aquisition (pressures, rates, depths, etc.) and Microsoft Word/Excel - not trying to load up the next BF2 level as fast as possible. A smaller hard drive also means less data lost when it goes down.
I have a permamently-on red pixel at the lower right of the bottom screen. Annoying as hell. Need to see if EB (here in Canada) will replace it.
Every machine we get from Dell is pre-loaded with an image *we* created and handed over to Dell. So all our desktops & notebooks come preloaded with our own software and nothing of Dell's (except for maybe the Dell Quickset software on the notebooks).
Would it be easier using an infrared camera instead of a normal web cam? Then you just aim in on the moving heat source instead of trying to analyze whole screenfuls of data. I'm just imagining a blue-ish background with a bright red shape moving around on the screen...then it wouldn't really matter if the person is wearing bright clothing or dark clothing.
Or am I way off base here?
I've been waiting for ads to be printed in the middle of books for quite some time. Soon you'll be in the middle of a good fantasy book, someone is about to die and you'll turn the page and BAM! A full two page full color advertisement for Pepsi. You won't be able to rip it out because the text will be printed on at least one side of each page.
But, alas, people will still buy this stuff. People will spend $15 (cdn) to go see a movie at a theatre to watch 30 minutes of commercials and previews before the actual movie starts; and people will still buy games that have real-life video advertisements in them. If people really did vote with their wallet then the big corps might listen.
I'm no longer pissed off at the companies that do this, I'm pissed off at the people that can't control themselves and don't fight back.
Perhaps the high price tag will make parents realize that the $600-ish (CDN) would be better spent perhaps getting their kids sport equipment or even just getting them outside.
Parent 1: "Oh yeah? Well, my $600 bought my kid an extra 100Kg! Can you beat that?"
Parent 2: "Aww hell, I could only afford a $20 NES system that he doesn't even play. He's lost 60Kg just by playing outside! Its awful!"
Alberta (Canada) came out with a new driver's licence a few years ago. It was quite a step forward from the traditional print-it-off-on-paper-then-laminate-it licence. Check it out:
c urity.h tml
a tures_f lash.html
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/driverslicence/
"An original. Just like you." Glad my taxes went towards picking that. Probably had a committee set up and daily meetings for 3 months to come up with it.
Security features used on the card:
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/driverslicence/se
Picture of the card:
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/driverslicence/fe