I used the Hard|OCP guide myself and wound up with a bunch of ruined, but fortunately, old cables. I learned that it is nearly impossible to make a cut along the cable's entire length with the kind of precision necessary to avoid breaking the cable.
Then I thought about it. The smaller the cut, the smaller chance for error. Objects follow the path of least resistance. If you just make a small cut into one of those grooves, then peel the cable apart, it is almost impossible to screw it up -- you are less likely to make a bad cut, and the thinner shielding in the grooves will ensure that the ribbon will split right down the middle.
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I think the rule of thumb on this one is that you shouldn't try rounding out cables that have stiff wires.
Floppy cables can be rounded (you can even remove the middle connector), the older IDE cables can be rounded, and 50 pin SCSI wires can also be rounded. Bind everything together at the end with zip ties and then wrap it up with spiral wrap from Radio Shack and similar (e.g. Ax Man in the Twin Cities).
ATA/66 and 68 pin SCSI cables are a different story. The wires are stiff, and if you don't do the cable exactly right, you have either trashed an expensive cable, corrupted the data on your hard drive. People seem to have mixed success with those.
If you want to mess with your cables, try some old junky ones, first. If you must use a knife or razor, make the incision as small as possible, then peel the cable apart in opposite directions -- those grooves are the path of least resistance, so it should be more reliable than making a long, perfectly straight cut with a small sharp object.
If you want rounded cables and don't want to take any risks, I know that Plycon has all sorts of high quality machine made cables of all types, albeit for a very steep price (just like everything else they sell).
I'm still not sure why this isn't the standard. Some PC manufacturers have been doing this in their servers and micro towers to improve airflow through the chassis. I'll bet that these kinds of cables eventually become the standard, especially if the cooling requirements for x86 hardware is going to start requiring 1lb. heatsinks like the upcoming P4...
WARNING: the above comment does not link to goatse.cx
Offtopic=1, Flamebait=2, Informative=1, Underrated=1, Total=5 (it looks like I've done a good job:)
It does kind of suck when you get moderated with some bullshit label like "flamebait" or "offtopic" when it really means "I disagree". The loss of karma isn't a really big deal to me though. It's all just a game. I will be sad should it ever vary more than five points from zero, because it will definitely mean that I'm either completely wrong about everything, or that I've become as much of a slashbot as everyone else.
Of course, the real M$ wh0r3s would switch to NT4 or W2K and not worry about stabilty or system resource problems in Windows... I should know -- I'm one of them.
The VP of my department defines a PHB, so lemme give you some insight:
It doesn't matter what you think. If the PHB wants XYZ feature, he is going to get it, no matter what you or a thousand Slashdot hackers and/or zealots and/or evangelists and/or regular people have to say about it. If your boss thinks C++ is necessary for a project when Perl will do, guess what language you'll be coding in? If your boss thinks that Flash will do the job when you really need a custom Java applet, you'll do it in Flash. It's the way business "works"...
The beauty of this system is that you can make it do whatever you want.
Don't contradict yourself. You wrote: X servers are can only run at the number of colors supported by the host X server... If the X server could change color depths on the fly, VMware could presumable support that feature.
You have to admit that the concept of client/server in X at least SEEMS backwards.
How often do you really remote? Is the occasional 1000% improvement in performance worth losing ~10% for everything else? I don't think so, but someone seems to disagree and think that notion is flamebait. Perhaps I crossed the line by implying that X should be thrown away. Maybe I was a bit off on that. Perhaps it is better to say that I don't think it should be the primary graphical system for an OS.
I know this is an old debate, and by no means am I much of a Linux user, but...
Here is further proof that X sucks. It seems to me that it is frequently the impossible obstacle hindering the capabilities of almost every UN*X OS. I'd (conservatively) wager that its back asswards client/server model is actually useful 5% of the time, if that much.
For those that need remote displays, LET THEM USE VNC. Let the rest of us move forward. I despise configuring X to do anything reasonable, and if it doesn't work at all, it's saner to simply break out the installation CD and try the install again than it is to try putting in monitor/video configuration by hand.
Are these guys ON MDMA or what? No, they couldn't be, because I've never done anything this stupid under the influence of any drug (well, maybe alcohol). For the most part, these TLD's really suck ass.
What is.biz that.com isn't?.info is kind of implied since the Internet is the "Information Superhighway",.pro just doesn't seem to make any sense at all,.museum seems just a little bit too granular (why not.theatre or.lib?),.aero seems even more narrow, and how does.coop satisfy anything that isn't covered by.org? Of course, I would be interested in chicken.coop, but there's not chance that I'll be able to get a dictionary word unless I register in the first five seconds. What a bunch of crap.
Did he then proceed to suggest a bloodletting to offset the imbalance it creates with the other three humors (phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile)? Sounds like a quack, or at least the paranoid type to me.
I haven't seen any conclusive proof, so I'll remain a skeptic. Let's be realistic, too -- Iridium is/was cost prohibitive enough that one couldn't justify having fairly lengthy or frequent contact with it anyway, and when you DO need it, brain cancer is probably the least of your concerns...
This is coming from a very Windows specific POV, but bear with me...
Netscape kind of started the trend by setting its homepage to home.netscape.com, and hardcoding those "What's Cool?" buttons into the interface. Of course, "what's cool" never was very...
RealPlayer took it to the next level and started the "application as a portal" trend, back when "portals" were the thing, and it has gotten to the point where almost every button or menu item is a link to some Real.com content, an advertisement for some other website, or a nag to upgrade to the "Plus" version. It will litter shortcuts and file associations for itself and other seemingly unrelated apps into corners of Windows that even it developers haven't seen.
I guess they never figured out that people would be more apt to pay for the no nag "plus" version if it was just the RealPlayer, but offered compelling improvements in usability or featureset. They also never stopped releasing new versions that obsoleted the old ones every nine months -- in ~6 years, there have been 8 versions. If you upgraded Plus at each version level starting at 2.0, you would have spent at least $210. In the same timeframe, and for less money, you could upgrade from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to Windows 98.
I'll use the free beer version, but only if I have to. It's hell.
As much as the Internet is touted as being global, what percentage of your packets ever go to Asia or Africa, would you say? Most of them stay within your own country simply because that is where you will find the most content in your native language and culture, and I only say culture because Spanish content in South America probably isn't all that interesting to Spaniards.
At laptop resolutions, the MX holds its own against its bigger, badder DDR brothers, so anyone wont to complain that they can't have a mobile GTS or Ultra can just STFU.
OTOH, Even the biggest, baddest, hottest overclocked laptop on the planet would suck for gaming. Fast moving objects look a lot blurrier than they're supposed to on LCD screens, so a CRT output monitor would be an absolute necessity.
I can't disagree with this at all. It isn't about putting pr0n in some sort of Internet ghetto, it's about breaking sites into genre, like the original TLD's were intended to be.
It may not be perfect, but it goes a long way toward solving perceived problems with content filtering, and I'm all for it.
Some ISP's (like my own - Twin Cities) are pretty decent about rates for static IP's, and just about every DSL account has one. For $20/mo. over their $22 272k/640k service, you can have up to eight IP addresses, 5 usable because it is not bridged.
The required equipment (a Cisco 675 DSL router) cost $50 when I signed up with the former U S West, plus the $75 setup fee. However, thanks to the suggestion of my ISP, I was able to get an Intel 10/100 NIC for free by saying that I didn't have one, and I got a $100 rebate a few months later. $25 for a DSL router with firewalling and a $40 NIC is a GOOD deal.
My net cost per month is ~$65 -- $30 to Qwest, and the amortized cost of ISP service is something like $35 after a subscription discount. Sure, it might be a little spendy, but with the quality of service I get, I most definitely would say that I am FAR from being sodomized.
Oh, but it's sooo tempting to get a hookup from these guys. It's only one static IP, but ooohhh... 1.5Mbit for $90/mo. doesn't seem too outrageous, and their backbone is every bit as good as the one I use right now.
To point out that the worlds biggest GNU/Linux zealot's personal website uses FreeBSD. I personally prefer FreeBSD over linux but that makes RMS seem even more the hypocrite
I don't see how your OS preference makes RMS even more of a hypocrite, but I think I get the point. It just makes me laugh.
You might remember my other old sig, Andover seems to use solaris for its main page. Andovers motto says "Leading the linux revolution" oh really?
Yes, and by using Solaris (a BSD Unix) they are headed in the right direction, wouldn't you say? I agree, that is funny.
I just enjoy pointing out little facts that people would rather not talk about.
You're a strange duck -- you're not a "BSD bigot", you're a bigot that uses BSD. That's kinda different...
Nobody seems to listen -- do you get second hand smoke outdoors or in my home? I NEVER claimed that I have the right to smoke anywhere I please. See the parent posts. I'm talking about breathing, as in clean air, not smoky. When you ban smoking on the grounds, that's a different story. That's just being an ass. My father is a hypertensive diabetic who has smoked for the majority of his (coincidentally) 57 year life. I think that your mother could have lived at least that long, with or without exposure to second hand smoke. Not to sound unsympathetic, I'm just thinking you misphrased that somehow.
Do you think corporate lawyers work on contingency? They're on retainer, buddy.
I expected one of you Californians to pipe in with that drivel.
Only a small fraction of the cost of a pack of cigarettes actually goes toward the production. In fact, the biggest victims in the "defeat of big tobacco" are the small family farmers that grow it for a living. I'm in favor of letting them grow hemp instead, but that's a different story.
Yes, I have a right to use "your" tax money to pay for my heart-lung machine. I've paid taxes on tobacco for years. You have the right to spend "my" tax money to wear down and congest the transit system (and contribute significantly more air pollution) with your SUV, if you so choose. We all pay taxes to cover expenses down the road. Why don't you complain about the billions of dollars that get spent every year on building defense systems that don't work? You'd get more tax money back if you did.
Did I ever say I was going to smoke in your home/car/restaurant? If you can breathe, e.g. when I am outdoors or in my own home, STFU and quit complaining about smokers.
You think cigarette smoke stinks, and I would agree that tobacco spit is nasty, you think my habits are taking away from your income and your quality of life. Guess what -- none of these facets are nearly as ugly as this: LAWYERS ARE MAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to argue these cases, win or lose.
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Then I thought about it. The smaller the cut, the smaller chance for error. Objects follow the path of least resistance. If you just make a small cut into one of those grooves, then peel the cable apart, it is almost impossible to screw it up -- you are less likely to make a bad cut, and the thinner shielding in the grooves will ensure that the ribbon will split right down the middle.
WARNING: the above comment does not link to goatse.cx
Floppy cables can be rounded (you can even remove the middle connector), the older IDE cables can be rounded, and 50 pin SCSI wires can also be rounded. Bind everything together at the end with zip ties and then wrap it up with spiral wrap from Radio Shack and similar (e.g. Ax Man in the Twin Cities).
ATA/66 and 68 pin SCSI cables are a different story. The wires are stiff, and if you don't do the cable exactly right, you have either trashed an expensive cable, corrupted the data on your hard drive. People seem to have mixed success with those.
If you want to mess with your cables, try some old junky ones, first. If you must use a knife or razor, make the incision as small as possible, then peel the cable apart in opposite directions -- those grooves are the path of least resistance, so it should be more reliable than making a long, perfectly straight cut with a small sharp object.
If you want rounded cables and don't want to take any risks, I know that Plycon has all sorts of high quality machine made cables of all types, albeit for a very steep price (just like everything else they sell).
I'm still not sure why this isn't the standard. Some PC manufacturers have been doing this in their servers and micro towers to improve airflow through the chassis. I'll bet that these kinds of cables eventually become the standard, especially if the cooling requirements for x86 hardware is going to start requiring 1lb. heatsinks like the upcoming P4...
WARNING: the above comment does not link to goatse.cx
(it looks like I've done a good job
It does kind of suck when you get moderated with some bullshit label like "flamebait" or "offtopic" when it really means "I disagree". The loss of karma isn't a really big deal to me though. It's all just a game. I will be sad should it ever vary more than five points from zero, because it will definitely mean that I'm either completely wrong about everything, or that I've become as much of a slashbot as everyone else.
Thanks for sticking up for me...
Of course, the real M$ wh0r3s would switch to NT4 or W2K and not worry about stabilty or system resource problems in Windows... I should know -- I'm one of them.
The VP of my department defines a PHB, so lemme give you some insight:
It doesn't matter what you think. If the PHB wants XYZ feature, he is going to get it, no matter what you or a thousand Slashdot hackers and/or zealots and/or evangelists and/or regular people have to say about it. If your boss thinks C++ is necessary for a project when Perl will do, guess what language you'll be coding in? If your boss thinks that Flash will do the job when you really need a custom Java applet, you'll do it in Flash. It's the way business "works"...
The beauty of this system is that you can make it do whatever you want.
Don't contradict yourself. You wrote:
X servers are can only run at the number of colors supported by the host X server... If the X server could change color depths on the fly, VMware could presumable support that feature.
You have to admit that the concept of client/server in X at least SEEMS backwards.
How often do you really remote? Is the occasional 1000% improvement in performance worth losing ~10% for everything else? I don't think so, but someone seems to disagree and think that notion is flamebait. Perhaps I crossed the line by implying that X should be thrown away. Maybe I was a bit off on that. Perhaps it is better to say that I don't think it should be the primary graphical system for an OS.
I know this is an old debate, and by no means am I much of a Linux user, but...
Here is further proof that X sucks. It seems to me that it is frequently the impossible obstacle hindering the capabilities of almost every UN*X OS. I'd (conservatively) wager that its back asswards client/server model is actually useful 5% of the time, if that much.
For those that need remote displays, LET THEM USE VNC. Let the rest of us move forward. I despise configuring X to do anything reasonable, and if it doesn't work at all, it's saner to simply break out the installation CD and try the install again than it is to try putting in monitor/video configuration by hand.
My $0.02.
There are already well over 100 TLD's -- at least one for every country, whether the Internet is available there or not.
monkey = new Newbie;
Are these guys ON MDMA or what? No, they couldn't be, because I've never done anything this stupid under the influence of any drug (well, maybe alcohol). For the most part, these TLD's really suck ass. What is .biz that .com isn't? .info is kind of implied since the Internet is the "Information Superhighway", .pro just doesn't seem to make any sense at all, .museum seems just a little bit too granular (why not .theatre or .lib?), .aero seems even more narrow, and how does .coop satisfy anything that isn't covered by .org? Of course, I would be interested in chicken.coop, but there's not chance that I'll be able to get a dictionary word unless I register in the first five seconds. What a bunch of crap.
ICANN == "I can't!";
Yeah, monkeys are newbies :)
I was thinking something more along the lines a remote X session. Do monkeys prefer KDE or GNOME?
Did he then proceed to suggest a bloodletting to offset the imbalance it creates with the other three humors (phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile)? Sounds like a quack, or at least the paranoid type to me.
I haven't seen any conclusive proof, so I'll remain a skeptic. Let's be realistic, too -- Iridium is/was cost prohibitive enough that one couldn't justify having fairly lengthy or frequent contact with it anyway, and when you DO need it, brain cancer is probably the least of your concerns...
This is coming from a very Windows specific POV, but bear with me...
Netscape kind of started the trend by setting its homepage to home.netscape.com, and hardcoding those "What's Cool?" buttons into the interface. Of course, "what's cool" never was very...
RealPlayer took it to the next level and started the "application as a portal" trend, back when "portals" were the thing, and it has gotten to the point where almost every button or menu item is a link to some Real.com content, an advertisement for some other website, or a nag to upgrade to the "Plus" version. It will litter shortcuts and file associations for itself and other seemingly unrelated apps into corners of Windows that even it developers haven't seen.
I guess they never figured out that people would be more apt to pay for the no nag "plus" version if it was just the RealPlayer, but offered compelling improvements in usability or featureset. They also never stopped releasing new versions that obsoleted the old ones every nine months -- in ~6 years, there have been 8 versions. If you upgraded Plus at each version level starting at 2.0, you would have spent at least $210. In the same timeframe, and for less money, you could upgrade from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to Windows 98.
I'll use the free beer version, but only if I have to. It's hell.
actually, I don't find it very funny at all.
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As much as the Internet is touted as being global, what percentage of your packets ever go to Asia or Africa, would you say? Most of them stay within your own country simply because that is where you will find the most content in your native language and culture, and I only say culture because Spanish content in South America probably isn't all that interesting to Spaniards.
Then again, I could be wrong...
Overkill? Macabre? Help me out...
At laptop resolutions, the MX holds its own against its bigger, badder DDR brothers, so anyone wont to complain that they can't have a mobile GTS or Ultra can just STFU.
OTOH, Even the biggest, baddest, hottest overclocked laptop on the planet would suck for gaming. Fast moving objects look a lot blurrier than they're supposed to on LCD screens, so a CRT output monitor would be an absolute necessity.
Are they intending to make money on the Object Pascal compiler alone?
I can't disagree with this at all. It isn't about putting pr0n in some sort of Internet ghetto, it's about breaking sites into genre, like the original TLD's were intended to be.
It may not be perfect, but it goes a long way toward solving perceived problems with content filtering, and I'm all for it.
The required equipment (a Cisco 675 DSL router) cost $50 when I signed up with the former U S West, plus the $75 setup fee. However, thanks to the suggestion of my ISP, I was able to get an Intel 10/100 NIC for free by saying that I didn't have one, and I got a $100 rebate a few months later. $25 for a DSL router with firewalling and a $40 NIC is a GOOD deal.
My net cost per month is ~$65 -- $30 to Qwest, and the amortized cost of ISP service is something like $35 after a subscription discount. Sure, it might be a little spendy, but with the quality of service I get, I most definitely would say that I am FAR from being sodomized.
Oh, but it's sooo tempting to get a hookup from these guys. It's only one static IP, but ooohhh... 1.5Mbit for $90/mo. doesn't seem too outrageous, and their backbone is every bit as good as the one I use right now.
Excuse me, I need to go clean myself off...
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I don't see how your OS preference makes RMS even more of a hypocrite, but I think I get the point. It just makes me laugh.
You might remember my other old sig, Andover seems to use solaris for its main page. Andovers motto says "Leading the linux revolution" oh really?
Yes, and by using Solaris (a BSD Unix) they are headed in the right direction, wouldn't you say? I agree, that is funny.
I just enjoy pointing out little facts that people would rather not talk about.
You're a strange duck -- you're not a "BSD bigot", you're a bigot that uses BSD. That's kinda different...
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Nobody seems to listen -- do you get second hand smoke outdoors or in my home? I NEVER claimed that I have the right to smoke anywhere I please. See the parent posts. I'm talking about breathing, as in clean air, not smoky. When you ban smoking on the grounds, that's a different story. That's just being an ass. My father is a hypertensive diabetic who has smoked for the majority of his (coincidentally) 57 year life. I think that your mother could have lived at least that long, with or without exposure to second hand smoke. Not to sound unsympathetic, I'm just thinking you misphrased that somehow.
Do you think corporate lawyers work on contingency? They're on retainer, buddy.
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Only a small fraction of the cost of a pack of cigarettes actually goes toward the production. In fact, the biggest victims in the "defeat of big tobacco" are the small family farmers that grow it for a living. I'm in favor of letting them grow hemp instead, but that's a different story.
Yes, I have a right to use "your" tax money to pay for my heart-lung machine. I've paid taxes on tobacco for years. You have the right to spend "my" tax money to wear down and congest the transit system (and contribute significantly more air pollution) with your SUV, if you so choose. We all pay taxes to cover expenses down the road. Why don't you complain about the billions of dollars that get spent every year on building defense systems that don't work? You'd get more tax money back if you did.
Did I ever say I was going to smoke in your home/car/restaurant? If you can breathe, e.g. when I am outdoors or in my own home, STFU and quit complaining about smokers.
You think cigarette smoke stinks, and I would agree that tobacco spit is nasty, you think my habits are taking away from your income and your quality of life. Guess what -- none of these facets are nearly as ugly as this: LAWYERS ARE MAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to argue these cases, win or lose.
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