A few friends of mine and I started a similar club at my school. Basically we were sitting at a LAN party, having a great time, when one of my friends wondered what it would be like to have even more people. Things started rolling from there, and we ended up forming a LAN club. No computer talks or anything like that, we just hosted LAN parties. Here's basically how it worked:
- Officially got sponsored as a school club (all it took was a teacher to sign a form for us) - Started talking with friends, gaging interest - Found a location to host the party (friend's church - nice and cheap) - I as the technical guy, I designed the network and power layouts for a LAN - Used school for publicity (signs and stuff) and for meetings to gather registration money - Gathered enough money from registrations (well, I kinda loaned the club a bit of money) to buy some nice switches and pay the church - Ran 2 kick-ass parties (40 and 72 (!) people)
Honestly I think we broke quite a few school rules by hosting the LAN party off-campus without our sponsor present, collecting and spending the money (on switches, etc) ourself, and generally only using the school as a means to draw a crowd. But hell, it worked and was great fun. Well, then we got lazy this year, never got re-registered and it basically fell through. But on the up-side I had $600 of networking equiptment (club-bought) lying around that I ended up selling off. Oh, and free sponsor stuff is great!
For more info (including pics of the parties) check my website here: http://rufus.d2g.com/~lan/
And in case anyone is really worried, I have *never* heard of AMD refusing an RMA because of something like this. I just sent one back a month ago that died. It was almost certainly due to my mobo shorting itself out (but then comming back to life with a dead CPU), and I used both Arctic Silver III and a custom copper HSF. Just wiped off the CPU, packaged it up and sent it back, got my replacement in about 2 weeks, no problem whatsoever.
But a warning to anyone with a retail XP: KEEP THE ORIGINAL HSF. It doesn't matter if you don't use it, keep it on a shelf as the RMA process *requires* you to send the CPU back with the HSF, and the HSF has your serial # on it, *not* the CPU itself.
NO grease for you; you MUST use grease!!
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Kinda interesting how these kinds of decisions are based on nothing technical. The basic reason everyone's been able to figure out for no grease on XPs is that:
1) using grease means you are DIY with 3rd party stuff, which means it's easier for you (or the 3rd party suff you have) to screw up and
2) using grease *improves* thermal contact, making it easier to overclock, which of course voids your warranty anyway.
The heat sink makes contact with the top surface of the processor package utilizing the thermal interface material between the processor lid and the heat sink.
AMD recommends using a high-performance grease such as those listed in Table 6. AMD does not recommend using phase-change materials between the heat sink and the processor. Phase-change materials develop high adhesion forces between the heat sink and processor when the material is in the solid phase. This strong adhesive force may cause the processor to stick to the heat sink. During heat sink removal, this strong adhesive force may cause the processor to be removed from the socket while it is locked, and this action can result in damage to the socket or to the processor pins.
For those that don't know, the gum-paste stuff that comes on all XP heatsinks is "phase-change material." Seems the 64 is the *exact* opposite of the XP.
Erm, read the FAQ. As a previous person said, why would network access to DMA be any worse than local DMA? I mean you could open it strait up and have no memory checks or anything (*cough* win98 *cough*), but why on earth would you do that? Here's what their FAQ says:
Some Objections to RDMA Security concerns about opening memory on the network - Hardware enforces application buffer boundaries Makes it no worse than existing security problem with a 3rd party inserting data into the TCP data stream - Buffer ID for one connection must not be usable by another connection
This really isn't new. When I set-up a mail server on my RoadRunner cable modem about a year ago, I noticed that any e-mail sent to AOL was just silently dropped. No bounce or anything, just send and no recieve. Simple workaround, set your mailserver to use whatever your ISP's smtp server is as a smarthost. That way instead of sending directly to smtp.aol.com, you send to smtp.rr.com (or whatever), which then forwards it for you to smtp.aol.com, and AOL does *not* block those. Here's my exim.conf for the related part (make this the only thing listed under ROUTERS CONFIGURATION:
Damn it...I had signed up a while ago for a similar beta test, so about a week ago I got an e-mail for this one. I figured I'd sign up as I probably would have a descent chance at getting some free hardware to play with. Lets see what the chances are a after a good slashdotting. >:(
ok, for those of us that like pretty pictures but then try to figure them out, could someone please explain for us WTF that Z-machine thing is? All I can tell is that it looks like some massive electrical arcs that are somehow confined to a single plain. Anyone?
Except RatherGood is most certainly not American. Watch any of the animations, particularly the Blode series and they're full of odd little things us Americans would never say/do. Don't believe me?
Who are you?
I'm Joel Veitch. Hello.
Where do you live?
London.
And while government's idea of training open-source developers is admirable, it will not create new jobs but will simply replace thousands of existing jobs for people who now work with proprietary software, he argues.
I do believe that is the entire point of their excersize. How may proprietary software companies are there is South America. If overal not one single job is created, they really could care less. What matters is that the new open-source developers will be local in SA instead of in Redmond or Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the US. That 3billion could create a significant tech sector if all of it was diverted from overseas to local.
I'd expect more governments, especially those of somewhat poorer countries going this route as a way to not only free themselves from ties to the US, but also improve their economy at the same time.
here's a mirror of the thread, as of course any messsage board will die under a good/.
http://rufus.d2g.com:8080/lotr.html
Someone else, please mirror this as it's only on my cable's upstream.
For those of you like me that are on linux and want to see this, here are some tips:
1) The latest version of mplayer does play all QT, including this one. The needed codecs are here along with a short how to.
2) The standard view-source and play whatever it lists doesn't work. All trailer's on apples website are now redirects. Add an "m" before the size for the real movie (t3_tlr_480.mov becomes t3_tlr_m480.mov).
3) mplayer http://... usually doesn't work (sits there at 0% cache). Just wget it.
we were violating federal trespassing laws by visiting this installation, and we were risking our health/lives in the process.
we also were caught... this was second degree criminal trespass.
don't say much more though, wonder if the cops were just waiting for them when they came out or something
"people want a good single-player experience to practice before they go on-line because they feel stupid when they get their butt kicked by a 12-year-old in Ohio," laughs Michael Zarozinski.
here's a respons from the creator of the reactor to some web board back in '99 when they did it:
Alright, I just want to set a couple things straight, so here are some responses to oft heard comments the last few days:
1. "I assume they used U-238 to get to Pu-239..." we did not start with any uranium or plutonium, that would have ruined the fun, and the point was to make fissionable materials. Our starting material was thorium, which can be found at any hardware store. we happened to have some in our dorm room... The final products were Uranium 233 and Plutonium 238. I'm not going to spoon feed the decay chains to anyone, you can figure it out yourself if you really need to.
2. "You endangered the life of my son!" We created a neutron source using some shit we pulled out of a trash can. This source was safer and less radioactive than the radioisotope Americium 241 found in the smoke detector in each of your rooms.
3. "Someone said your roommate lost his job because he built a nuclear reactor" Neither I nor my rommmate have lost our jobs since doing this.
4. "I hear you paid another group to steal Plutonium for you" We did not steal Uranium or Plutonium from anywhere. Nor did we have anyone else steal some for us.
5. "but to qualify as a true breeder, doesn't the reaction have to be self-sustaining?" No. A breeder reactor just means taking advantage of all those tasty neutrons flying off from whatever source you have, be it a sustained fission reaction or a naturally radioactive source. The best neutron source on campus would be the Physics Dept's neutron howitzer. But since the howitzer produces neutrons from the decay of Plutonium, you have to agree it would be silly to use it to try and make plutonium.
6. "(I'll be really impressed if the two come up with a micro-fusion reactor.)" We'd fly back next year just for that one...
- Juniper Tasks
Just some clarification for the readers who've forgotten their nuclear physics:
U-235 is the fissionable used in the Hiroshima bomb and Pu-239 in the Nagasaki bomb. U-238 is used in fast breeder reactors to make weapons grade Pu-239. (U-238 is also used in fission-fusion-fission bombs, so technically it is fissionable with a net gain of energy but you need really fast neutrons).
Thorium was to have been used in slow breeder reactor technology which turns out U-233 as its fissionable. (Is Pu-238 fissionable at low neutron energies with a net gain? The even Z makes me think not...)
I thought you had started with depleted uranium to make a fast breeder; didn't know the thorium isotope available from hardware stores was the one used in slow breeders. Well, with a small sample of thorium and a neutron source, you can make the U-233. But with a fully functioning breeder don't you need some of the U-233 created to fission and transform the rest of the thorium without running away and slagging the reactor or damping out so you never end up with more thorium than whatever's directly exposed to your neutron source? I suppose the nuclear engineering definition of a breeder has to be more pragmatic.
Fred and Justin didn't begin with any uranium. (Uranium, after all, ain't a commonly available thing.) They began with some thorium and an alpha source, which they just happened to have lying around. They used the alpha source to make a neutron source, and bombarded the thorium. This induced a chain of reactions, the final products of which were fissionable uranium and plutonium.
[Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.
I cannot imagine anyone using a Windows machine without the magnificent PuTTY ssh, telnet, and rlogin client.
I can, it's called the 95% of people that don't do any programming/sys admin/general geek stuff. When was the last time your mom ssh'd into her co-located linux box and rsynced her database? When for that matter did 90% of computer users do anything other than play games, surf, chat, and use word?
not to knock your site, I love it cuz it usually has the best links, but I've found that http://pichunter.com/ usually has a *lot* more links. True they're not quite as good, but the quantity balances out. Or just have the best of both worlds and check both =)
Fairly simple solution for the RIAA, et al: Don't use that software. I don't have links, but I remember reading a few articles about a company that wrote their own program that connected to gnutella, looked for particular files, and then automatically sent nasty-grams to whoever the IP owner was. You can put whatever restrictions you want on a particular piece of software, but gnutella protocol is way to well known and can't exactly have an EULA tacked to it (unless you're microsoft...but that's a different story)
Slashdot Mirror
A few friends of mine and I started a similar club at my school. Basically we were sitting at a LAN party, having a great time, when one of my friends wondered what it would be like to have even more people. Things started rolling from there, and we ended up forming a LAN club. No computer talks or anything like that, we just hosted LAN parties. Here's basically how it worked:
- Officially got sponsored as a school club (all it took was a teacher to sign a form for us)
- Started talking with friends, gaging interest
- Found a location to host the party (friend's church - nice and cheap)
- I as the technical guy, I designed the network and power layouts for a LAN
- Used school for publicity (signs and stuff) and for meetings to gather registration money
- Gathered enough money from registrations (well, I kinda loaned the club a bit of money) to buy some nice switches and pay the church
- Ran 2 kick-ass parties (40 and 72 (!) people)
Honestly I think we broke quite a few school rules by hosting the LAN party off-campus without our sponsor present, collecting and spending the money (on switches, etc) ourself, and generally only using the school as a means to draw a crowd. But hell, it worked and was great fun. Well, then we got lazy this year, never got re-registered and it basically fell through. But on the up-side I had $600 of networking equiptment (club-bought) lying around that I ended up selling off. Oh, and free sponsor stuff is great!
For more info (including pics of the parties) check my website here:
http://rufus.d2g.com/~lan/
And in case anyone is really worried, I have *never* heard of AMD refusing an RMA because of something like this. I just sent one back a month ago that died. It was almost certainly due to my mobo shorting itself out (but then comming back to life with a dead CPU), and I used both Arctic Silver III and a custom copper HSF. Just wiped off the CPU, packaged it up and sent it back, got my replacement in about 2 weeks, no problem whatsoever.
But a warning to anyone with a retail XP: KEEP THE ORIGINAL HSF. It doesn't matter if you don't use it, keep it on a shelf as the RMA process *requires* you to send the CPU back with the HSF, and the HSF has your serial # on it, *not* the CPU itself.
1) using grease means you are DIY with 3rd party stuff, which means it's easier for you (or the 3rd party suff you have) to screw up and
2) using grease *improves* thermal contact, making it easier to overclock, which of course voids your warranty anyway.
Now compare the XP's "no grease" tag like to this from the AMD Athlon(TM) 64 Processor Thermal Design Guide (from page 22, secion 2.6.6):
For those that don't know, the gum-paste stuff that comes on all XP heatsinks is "phase-change material." Seems the 64 is the *exact* opposite of the XP.
Erm, read the FAQ. As a previous person said, why would network access to DMA be any worse than local DMA? I mean you could open it strait up and have no memory checks or anything (*cough* win98 *cough*), but why on earth would you do that? Here's what their FAQ says:
Some Objections to RDMA
Security concerns about opening
memory on the network
- Hardware enforces application buffer
boundaries
Makes it no worse than existing security
problem with a 3rd party inserting data into the
TCP data stream
- Buffer ID for one connection must not be
usable by another connection
Damn it...I had signed up a while ago for a similar beta test, so about a week ago I got an e-mail for this one. I figured I'd sign up as I probably would have a descent chance at getting some free hardware to play with. Lets see what the chances are a after a good slashdotting. >:(
ok, for those of us that like pretty pictures but then try to figure them out, could someone please explain for us WTF that Z-machine thing is? All I can tell is that it looks like some massive electrical arcs that are somehow confined to a single plain. Anyone?
First, here's a link directly to the actual bear part of his site: http://www.m-fey.de/brauen/.
Now for the benefit of those of us that don't speak german, anyone want to tell wtf he's talking about?
I do believe that is the entire point of their excersize. How may proprietary software companies are there is South America. If overal not one single job is created, they really could care less. What matters is that the new open-source developers will be local in SA instead of in Redmond or Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the US. That 3billion could create a significant tech sector if all of it was diverted from overseas to local.
I'd expect more governments, especially those of somewhat poorer countries going this route as a way to not only free themselves from ties to the US, but also improve their economy at the same time.
here's a mirror of the thread, as of course any messsage board will die under a good /.
http://rufus.d2g.com:8080/lotr.html
Someone else, please mirror this as it's only on my cable's upstream.
For those of you like me that are on linux and want to see this, here are some tips:
1) The latest version of mplayer does play all QT, including this one. The needed codecs are here along with a short how to.
2) The standard view-source and play whatever it lists doesn't work. All trailer's on apples website are now redirects. Add an "m" before the size for the real movie (t3_tlr_480.mov becomes t3_tlr_m480.mov).
3) mplayer http://... usually doesn't work (sits there at 0% cache). Just wget it.
4) Here's a direct link to the large trailer.
5) While I'm at it, here's a link to the large X2 (X-Men 2) trailer.
don't say much more though, wonder if the cops were just waiting for them when they came out or something
"people want a good single-player experience to practice before they go on-line because they feel stupid when they get their butt kicked by a 12-year-old in Ohio," laughs Michael Zarozinski.
care to post a link, as I've been searching and can't find it :(
here's a respons from the creator of the reactor to some web board back in '99 when they did it:
Alright, I just want to set a couple things straight, so here are some
responses to oft heard comments the last few days:
1. "I assume they used U-238 to get to Pu-239..." we did not start
with any uranium or plutonium, that would have ruined the fun, and the
point was to make fissionable materials. Our starting material was
thorium, which can be found at any hardware store. we happened to have
some in our dorm room... The final products were Uranium 233 and
Plutonium 238. I'm not going to spoon feed the decay chains to anyone,
you can figure it out yourself if you really need to.
2. "You endangered the life of my son!" We created a neutron source
using some shit we pulled out of a trash can. This source was safer and
less radioactive than the radioisotope Americium 241 found in the smoke
detector in each of your rooms.
3. "Someone said your roommate lost his job because he built a nuclear
reactor" Neither I nor my rommmate have lost our jobs since doing this.
4. "I hear you paid another group to steal Plutonium for you" We did
not steal Uranium or Plutonium from anywhere. Nor did we have anyone
else steal some for us.
5. "but to qualify as a true breeder, doesn't the reaction have to be
self-sustaining?" No. A breeder reactor just means taking advantage of
all those tasty neutrons flying off from whatever source you have, be it
a sustained fission reaction or a naturally radioactive source. The
best neutron source on campus would be the Physics Dept's neutron
howitzer. But since the howitzer produces neutrons from the decay of
Plutonium, you have to agree it would be silly to use it to try and make
plutonium.
6. "(I'll be really impressed if the two come up with a micro-fusion
reactor.)" We'd fly back next year just for that one...
- Juniper Tasks
Just some clarification for the readers who've forgotten their nuclear
physics:
U-235 is the fissionable used in the Hiroshima bomb and Pu-239
in the Nagasaki bomb. U-238 is used in fast breeder reactors
to make weapons grade Pu-239. (U-238 is also used in fission-fusion-fission
bombs, so technically it is fissionable with a net gain of energy
but you need really fast neutrons).
Thorium was to have been used in slow breeder reactor technology which
turns out U-233 as its fissionable. (Is Pu-238 fissionable at low neutron
energies with a net gain? The even Z makes me think not...)
I thought you had started with depleted uranium to make a fast breeder;
didn't know the thorium isotope available from hardware stores was the
one used in slow breeders.
Well, with a small sample of thorium and a neutron source, you can make
the U-233. But with a fully functioning breeder don't you need some of the
U-233 created to fission and transform the rest of the thorium without
running away and slagging the reactor or damping out so you never
end up with more thorium than whatever's directly exposed to your
neutron source? I suppose the nuclear engineering definition of a
breeder has to be more pragmatic.
Fred and Justin didn't begin with any uranium.
(Uranium, after all, ain't a commonly available thing.) They began with some
thorium and an alpha source, which they just happened to have lying
around. They used the alpha source to make a neutron source, and bombarded
the thorium. This induced a chain of reactions, the final products of
which were fissionable uranium and plutonium.
In case anyone wants more info about that reactor everyone's talking about, Slashdot actually covered it back in '99. Here's the link: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/05/20/1320256.shtm l
From jargon file:
/seks/
SEX
[Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.
I cannot imagine anyone using a Windows machine without the magnificent PuTTY ssh, telnet, and rlogin client.
I can, it's called the 95% of people that don't do any programming/sys admin/general geek stuff. When was the last time your mom ssh'd into her co-located linux box and rsynced her database? When for that matter did 90% of computer users do anything other than play games, surf, chat, and use word?
Please wait. We are busy translating your messages to understand what you are saying. Thank you.
link I guess it makes it a slight bit harder to implement a codec when you don't even know what the people asking for it are saying =)
not to knock your site, I love it cuz it usually has the best links, but I've found that http://pichunter.com/ usually has a *lot* more links. True they're not quite as good, but the quantity balances out. Or just have the best of both worlds and check both =)
Fairly simple solution for the RIAA, et al: Don't use that software. I don't have links, but I remember reading a few articles about a company that wrote their own program that connected to gnutella, looked for particular files, and then automatically sent nasty-grams to whoever the IP owner was. You can put whatever restrictions you want on a particular piece of software, but gnutella protocol is way to well known and can't exactly have an EULA tacked to it (unless you're microsoft...but that's a different story)
bleh...ok, you're right...and I'm always the one to bitch at my friends about stuff like this >:-(
Since the host already seems to be down, I'm feeling a bit sadistic and have thrown up my own mirror (running of my home cable modem!):
http://rufus.d2g.com:8080/~rufus/googleascii.html