FWIW, and I'm not trying to convince you here, but it is very difficult to full-on brick an iPhone. Since it sounds like you have no interest in unlocking the phone for other carriers, jailbreaking is entirely safe. Unlocking the phone messes with the baseband which, on extremely rare occasions, can be corrupted. If you ever want to go back, you can always just restore the firmware, but back up your phone settings/data first.
Why anyone is surprised with Islamic fundamentalism's rise in our wake is beyond me.
Y'know, I was not there for our wake. While many are still indeed alive who caused such strife (and indeed some who were recently in charge) I think the overall point is for us as a country to recognize that we fucked up; since we stuck our noses in to make the mess, shouldn't we bear some responsibility for its repair?
Drat! Foiled again:) Thanks for the correction though; I've been having mad U6 nostalgia since yesterday. Before knowing the cheat, I actually called the Origin line back in the day. I had heard it had something to do with the word spam, and asked the tech. "Sorry, I can't tell you that, that's cheating" was the response:)
As if we (end users) actually need any of this annoying shit, just keep your advertisements elsewhere and let me have my damn money in a convenient and secure fashion! Serves 'em right, greedy advertising whores.
THANK YOU! I remember several years ago, I stopped at my local ATM and noticed the screen was now in color. Hey, that's neat, I thought. Since I had just pulled up, it was displaying a picture of the bank. So I began to use the machine - wait, what the hell? The interface is still the exact same monochrome it has been since 1985! Why would they order a color screen? Then, as I completed my transaction and waited for my receipt, the reason came up -- a full-color ad for buying their shitty mortgage services.
Nevermind the fact that a good 30% of the time said ATM was "Temporarily unable to dispense cash" (read: empty).
Your dog, in her mind, doesn't want to smell "those stinky coyotes" and would rather overwhelm their scent with hers; it is her territory, after all! (At least in her mind)
Me too, but it also made me realize that I've spent way too much money on video cards over the years.
Agreed! That full-page version gave me a long run... 3dfx Voodoo2, 3, 5/5500 nvidia riva 128, TNT, TNT2, GF2, GF4/4600, GF5/5700, GF6/6600, GF7/7900 ati rage pro, radeon 7500, radeon 4850
The article mentioned, I think, an S3 board that took SODIMMs; my ati rage pro also used to take them.
By default it installs a brain-dead bloated skinned second toolbar, so to speak, just in case I'm too stupid to launch its control pannels normally. And so it can get in my way when I accidentally move the mouse to its edge.
They still have that shit in their software? I remember being annoyed by that 10 years ago with my SBLive.
True, you do have to buy the copy via Steam, but they run so many sales -- when I picked up Q3, I got Q3 and TA for about $10(!). At this point, with source code freely available, I look at it as paying $10 for the data files, to do with as you wish. Pretty freakin' good deal, if you ask me.
Back in the day, artsd was usually responsible for behavior you've described. Though I think artsd is long gone now; maybe there's something else locking up sound channels, running as a KDE daemon?
What a very interesting post (as evidenced by the +5). Thank you!
To boil it down, it sounds like the biggest single problem once you actually HAVE a machine is keeping juice to it consistently.
What I'm wondering now is, how do you solve that problem? Capacitance systems? Would there not be a (potentially) larger cost involved in just keeping power to the box(es)?
(FWIW, I've not read through your site yet, so if you've already covered this topic, my apologies... you are bookmarked though)
What would you suggest? Lesser hardware? Surely there must be a solution somewhere in the middle of "I want this" and "I can use this".
To me, this situation screams 'require redundancy'. I understand this was not given as an option originally, but with the environment described I would certainly not want to rely on one single server.
A point I haven't seen made yet is that of the economic impact. If you just shut down these mines and processing facilities, what happens to all the people who have just been forced out of work?
I'm with you on this one; XP x64 *screams* on just about all 64-bit hardware, and happily sits with a 150M (or less!) footprint. I hope they continue to support it, but they're more interested in Win7 by now.
I understand your argument, but couldn't one conversely blame Microsoft? After all, if they didn't expressly prevent these machines from getting updates, this wouldn't be as big of a problem.
Hell yes! BackOrifice ftw. I used to pop the CD drive on a friend's machine (remotely), put up a msgbox saying "Feed me bologna!". Since you could detect the drive being closed, I would just repeat as necessary.
I think to some extent this falls into the "why not?" category. The most common argument I've heard is with multi-GHz processors, why does there still seem to be a boot time floor, that no matter what you do, you cannot breach.
Personally, I think being able to start services in parallel on boot was one of the best things on the boot front re: linux. This goes something with a comment later in this thread -- back in the day, having a number of services starting during boot, with them being serially loaded, used to make linux look terrible to boot.
For those who never played SimCity 4, it has a very strange bug where you would be notified about a "crime den" (implies high crime). However, when you went to the area being described, it was 99% of the time directly next to your police station.
Fortunately, it only lasted as a blip -- no increased crime, but still rather goofy.
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The Exclusive Chip Identifier? Aka the ECID?
That thing was added solely to make it harder to unlock the phone for other carriers!
C99.
Natch.
FWIW, and I'm not trying to convince you here, but it is very difficult to full-on brick an iPhone. Since it sounds like you have no interest in unlocking the phone for other carriers, jailbreaking is entirely safe. Unlocking the phone messes with the baseband which, on extremely rare occasions, can be corrupted. If you ever want to go back, you can always just restore the firmware, but back up your phone settings/data first.
Why anyone is surprised with Islamic fundamentalism's rise in our wake is beyond me.
Y'know, I was not there for our wake. While many are still indeed alive who caused such strife (and indeed some who were recently in charge) I think the overall point is for us as a country to recognize that we fucked up; since we stuck our noses in to make the mess, shouldn't we bear some responsibility for its repair?
I thought most every developer dealing with C or C-like languages will generally use some imports header that has something like:
typedef unsigned int UINT32;
(Adjust UINT32 depending on system).
Drat! Foiled again :) Thanks for the correction though; I've been having mad U6 nostalgia since yesterday. Before knowing the cheat, I actually called the Origin line back in the day. I had heard it had something to do with the word spam, and asked the tech. "Sorry, I can't tell you that, that's cheating" was the response :)
SPAM SPAM SPAM IOLO ... if I remember correctly anyway.
I thought they were 18-bit panels (6-bit each for RGB). 24-bit is what they should be.
As if we (end users) actually need any of this annoying shit, just keep your advertisements elsewhere and let me have my damn money in a convenient and secure fashion! Serves 'em right, greedy advertising whores.
THANK YOU! I remember several years ago, I stopped at my local ATM and noticed the screen was now in color. Hey, that's neat, I thought. Since I had just pulled up, it was displaying a picture of the bank. So I began to use the machine - wait, what the hell? The interface is still the exact same monochrome it has been since 1985! Why would they order a color screen? Then, as I completed my transaction and waited for my receipt, the reason came up -- a full-color ad for buying their shitty mortgage services.
Nevermind the fact that a good 30% of the time said ATM was "Temporarily unable to dispense cash" (read: empty).
Your dog, in her mind, doesn't want to smell "those stinky coyotes" and would rather overwhelm their scent with hers; it is her territory, after all! (At least in her mind)
Me too, but it also made me realize that I've spent way too much money on video cards over the years.
Agreed! That full-page version gave me a long run...
3dfx Voodoo2, 3, 5/5500
nvidia riva 128, TNT, TNT2, GF2, GF4/4600, GF5/5700, GF6/6600, GF7/7900
ati rage pro, radeon 7500, radeon 4850
The article mentioned, I think, an S3 board that took SODIMMs; my ati rage pro also used to take them.
He actually had a big connection to NH, and his ashes are spread there.
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By default it installs a brain-dead bloated skinned second toolbar, so to speak, just in case I'm too stupid to launch its control pannels normally. And so it can get in my way when I accidentally move the mouse to its edge.
They still have that shit in their software? I remember being annoyed by that 10 years ago with my SBLive.
Basin FTW! I spent so much time around that area as a kid; great hiking too.
True, you do have to buy the copy via Steam, but they run so many sales -- when I picked up Q3, I got Q3 and TA for about $10(!). At this point, with source code freely available, I look at it as paying $10 for the data files, to do with as you wish. Pretty freakin' good deal, if you ask me.
Back in the day, artsd was usually responsible for behavior you've described. Though I think artsd is long gone now; maybe there's something else locking up sound channels, running as a KDE daemon?
What a very interesting post (as evidenced by the +5). Thank you!
To boil it down, it sounds like the biggest single problem once you actually HAVE a machine is keeping juice to it consistently.
What I'm wondering now is, how do you solve that problem? Capacitance systems? Would there not be a (potentially) larger cost involved in just keeping power to the box(es)?
(FWIW, I've not read through your site yet, so if you've already covered this topic, my apologies... you are bookmarked though)
What would you suggest? Lesser hardware? Surely there must be a solution somewhere in the middle of "I want this" and "I can use this".
To me, this situation screams 'require redundancy'. I understand this was not given as an option originally, but with the environment described I would certainly not want to rely on one single server.
A point I haven't seen made yet is that of the economic impact. If you just shut down these mines and processing facilities, what happens to all the people who have just been forced out of work?
I'm with you on this one; XP x64 *screams* on just about all 64-bit hardware, and happily sits with a 150M (or less!) footprint. I hope they continue to support it, but they're more interested in Win7 by now.
I understand your argument, but couldn't one conversely blame Microsoft? After all, if they didn't expressly prevent these machines from getting updates, this wouldn't be as big of a problem.
Hell yes! BackOrifice ftw. I used to pop the CD drive on a friend's machine (remotely), put up a msgbox saying "Feed me bologna!". Since you could detect the drive being closed, I would just repeat as necessary.
I think to some extent this falls into the "why not?" category. The most common argument I've heard is with multi-GHz processors, why does there still seem to be a boot time floor, that no matter what you do, you cannot breach.
Personally, I think being able to start services in parallel on boot was one of the best things on the boot front re: linux. This goes something with a comment later in this thread -- back in the day, having a number of services starting during boot, with them being serially loaded, used to make linux look terrible to boot.
For those who never played SimCity 4, it has a very strange bug where you would be notified about a "crime den" (implies high crime). However, when you went to the area being described, it was 99% of the time directly next to your police station.
Fortunately, it only lasted as a blip -- no increased crime, but still rather goofy.
Minor nitpick - no such thing as a 400MHz P3; the P3 series started at 450MHz. Or you've got it underclocked :)