Modems often have line transformers, and these have coils. Coils can increase the voltage quite a lot - that's likely to be what happened.
If you 'charge' a large coil even with a low-voltage battery, and then remove the battery, the coil will try to discharge. Since there is no longer any connection to discharge through, the voltage will increase until it can discharge with a spark (or through leakage currents, whatever comes first).
As you can read in this article on Tom's hardware, they are both VERY quiet and able to dissipate all the heat the Athlon generates. A bit expensive though.
it freaked out quite a lot when I tried it with my non-modem connection. It did calculate a at least quite likely speed (like 1/8 of my maximum, might be true), but the bar is exactly as long as the 56K-modem bar. Lame.
AND the GUI-version should have a good keyboard interface! Why oh why do people so often forget/don't bother about this? Especially in the unix-inherited world. You should be able to do just about everything without the mouse, except for the few mouse-only tasks, such as painting. THIS is what makes a lot of the current KDE/gnome apps feel lame. Ironically, in windows most commercial apps have at least tried to make it possible to live without mouse.
Really! Starcraft is one game that has always worked very well with wine. Even several years old wintages worked amazingly well. I have no doubt it will be possible to get warcraft 3 running in wine - there will be quite a lot of people working on it. Like Counterstrike. The 3d-part might be cumbersome but not impossible.
Or better do exactly the same thing as that suggested for linux & co users; make sure their browser runs as another user than the one they are logged in as.
Yes, the public key. But to decrypt data encrypted with the public key, an attacker would also need the private key, which is stored on the server. Some introduction to public key cryptography can be found here. The basics of this attack is also described there.
Things like Melissa/ILOVEYOU are simply impossible on Linux.
They are theoretically just exactly as possible as in windows!!
IF an application such as outlook that allows such silly script execution became popular, and linux users were stupid enough to execute unknown attachments, nothing in the linux security model would prevent it from doing just the same things as in windows.
Linux as well as Windows has a lame security model that gives all programs all rights the user that launched the program had. Sure, the program can't wipe out your system files since you're not logged on as root/admin, but nothing stops it from deleting your personal files in/home/user, or reading your address book and sending mails, or doing something a lot more evil or damaging. More fine-grained security is needed. As it is now, the windows and linux security models are very equal in this sense.
NONPAGED_AREA means pages allocated from the non-paged pool, that is, memory that may not be swapped to disk. Read it as 'nonpagable' instead, if you want. If you reference memory in such an adress range, and there is no page allocated, you get that BSOD...
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I think it somewhat extracts the good things from GPL and BSD mhile leaving the bad ones out; it is really free, allowing all kinds of applications (commercial or freeware / closed source) to be built from it, but should require you to give credit so you don't risk anybody using your code in their closed-source product without you being told.
Would this be the best of both worlds?
Yeah, MDI isn't a good thing. BUT you don't have to live with it in mIRC - simply go to options->Display->Windows and select the ones you want to have as top windows.
Unfortunately, quite often CDs are damaged enough for the error correcting code not being capable of fixing it (you know, there is way less error correction code in audio mode). When in audio mode, most readers handle this kind of error not by returning READ_ERROR, but by returning generated sound data that hides the error (ie does not sound like a scratch). This might make the md5 database of each song quite populated.
If in windows, you might want to try this program on a few scratched CDs to see your reader fail... http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
...if you divided each square meter of the earth into as many pieces as there are square meters on the earth, each of these pieces would get something like one billion IP addresses. Overhead caused by routers and politics might be an issue, though.
Microsoft does have some reasonably complete experimental stuff (ip stack and some basic utils, such as ping and ftp client) for nt4 and w2k. http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/
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and finally, that chess paint santa is using might be reality!
Modems often have line transformers, and these have coils.
Coils can increase the voltage quite a lot - that's likely to be what happened.
If you 'charge' a large coil even with a low-voltage battery, and then remove the battery, the coil will try to discharge. Since there is no longer any connection to discharge through, the voltage will increase until it can discharge with a spark (or through leakage currents, whatever comes first).
Perhaps the reason you managed that is that your family name is Binks?
An alternative would be to get yourself a really quiet fan.
Like the Silverado, which you can buy from this german company.
As you can read in this article on Tom's hardware, they are both VERY quiet and able to dissipate all the heat the Athlon generates. A bit expensive though.
it freaked out quite a lot when I tried it with my non-modem connection. It did calculate a at least quite likely speed (like 1/8 of my maximum, might be true), but the bar is exactly as long as the 56K-modem bar. Lame.
Of course, the best would be both worlds.
AND the GUI-version should have a good keyboard interface! Why oh why do people so often forget/don't bother about this? Especially in the unix-inherited world. You should be able to do just about everything without the mouse, except for the few mouse-only tasks, such as painting. THIS is what makes a lot of the current KDE/gnome apps feel lame. Ironically, in windows most commercial apps have at least tried to make it possible to live without mouse.
Really! Starcraft is one game that has always worked very well with wine. Even several years old wintages worked amazingly well. I have no doubt it will be possible to get warcraft 3 running in wine - there will be quite a lot of people working on it. Like Counterstrike. The 3d-part might be cumbersome but not impossible.
Could you please elaborate on the details of that putpixel problem? Sounds like it could possibly be a somewhat interesting story?
Or better do exactly the same thing as that suggested for linux & co users; make sure their browser runs as another user than the one they are logged in as.
Yes, the public key. But to decrypt data encrypted with the public key, an attacker would also need the private key, which is stored on the server. Some introduction to public key cryptography can be found here. The basics of this attack is also described there.
Things like Melissa/ILOVEYOU are simply impossible on Linux.
/home/user, or reading your address book and sending mails, or doing something a lot more evil or damaging. More fine-grained security is needed. As it is now, the windows and linux security models are very equal in this sense.
They are theoretically just exactly as possible as in windows!!
IF an application such as outlook that allows such silly script execution became popular, and linux users were stupid enough to execute unknown attachments, nothing in the linux security model would prevent it from doing just the same things as in windows.
Linux as well as Windows has a lame security model that gives all programs all rights the user that launched the program had. Sure, the program can't wipe out your system files since you're not logged on as root/admin, but nothing stops it from deleting your personal files in
And the 'Search current site' button certainly deserves an honorable mention. I already can't live without that one!
NONPAGED_AREA means pages allocated from the non-paged pool, that is, memory that may not be swapped to disk. Read it as 'nonpagable' instead, if you want. If you reference memory in such an adress range, and there is no page allocated, you get that BSOD...
I think it somewhat extracts the good things from GPL and BSD mhile leaving the bad ones out; it is really free, allowing all kinds of applications (commercial or freeware / closed source) to be built from it, but should require you to give credit so you don't risk anybody using your code in their closed-source product without you being told.
Would this be the best of both worlds?
Yeah, MDI isn't a good thing. BUT you don't have to live with it in mIRC - simply go to options->Display->Windows and select the ones you want to have as top windows.
If in windows, you might want to try this program on a few scratched CDs to see your reader fail...
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
...if you divided each square meter of the earth into as many pieces as there are square meters on the earth, each of these pieces would get something like one billion IP addresses. Overhead caused by routers and politics might be an issue, though.
Microsoft does have some reasonably complete experimental stuff (ip stack and some basic utils, such as ping and ftp client) for nt4 and w2k. http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6/