I had two 75GXP's in my main desktop machine. A 45GB for win2k, and a 30GB for linux. The windows drive died about 6 months ago, so I pulled it out and went merrily on my way with gentoo only. Then the other night gentoo hung up on me. I power cycled, and the root FS was crapped out (ext3). So that machine is now a paperweight until I get off my lazy ass and go buy another drive and sit through the painfully long gentoo installation/build process. Oh well, no harm done, all my important data lives on an old PII-300MHz in my basement with two 160GB Maxtors in RAID1.
Still pisses me off though, I bought those drives because of IBM's supposed reliability.
from yahoo article at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5 78&e=2&cid=578&u=/nm/20020805/ts_nm/microsoft_code _dc_16
"Microsoft said it plans to disclose 385 bits of computer code and internal operating rules, previously kept secret, that outside software developers can use to write programs to run on Windows."
385 bits huh.... couldn't even let us have the rest of the 49th byte.
I've been contemplating putting a computer and touchscreen lcd in my car for a while now, for both MP3 and GPS-NAV. (And any other things I decide to do with it, such as security system, remote start, etc...
My main concern is how well standard components, mobo, cpu, ram, and mostly the hard drive will hold up against temperature swings in the vehicle. I live in NJ which doesn't have the wildest climate in the world but your still looking at temp variations between subzero to 100+. And that's outside the car. Inside can reach 120 or so parked in the sun, and then be cranked down into the 70's within minutes when I hop in and fire up the A/C. Same goes for winter, car is sitting parked overnight at about 20 degrees, and I turn on the heat, and again, within minutes it's 70 degrees.
I know with alot of electronics such as PIC microcontrolers you can get automotive rated parts that are designed to withstand that kind of abuse. I wonder how well standard equipment will fare though.
Maybe you can call it lazyness, but I don't want to spend the time and money to design the hardware and user interface, install it in the car and then have it die on me.
Even if the electronics hold up, I'd be most worried about the hard drive. I thought about compact flash, but it's just not large enough. My end goal is to have it 802.11 enabled, so when parked in the driveway the in car system can sync up with any new mp3's I've ripped and placed on my server. 20+ gig's of compact flash just ain't that easy to come by:-)
Any suggestions or related information would be appreciated...
I have 2 drives from them:
Sep 30 11:55:29 dave kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
Sep 30 11:55:29 dave kernel: hdf: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
The 45 gig drive I had purchaced first, and has never even hiccuped at me. I had purchaced the second drive a few months later when an of 4.3gig western digital finally passed on after many years of faithful service. The 30 gig drive started making horrible grinding noises during my initial partitioning (DiskDrake under Linux 8.0 Beta3 I believe). I ran some diagnostic program from IBM's website, it gave me some cryptic error message in hex, I called up the place I purchaced the drive from (www.mwave.com) and they cross shipped me a new drive (same model), which seems to be working fine for a bit less than a year now.
I have also heard from a friend that had similar problems. The first thing IBM tech support asked him (drive was purchaced during winter months) was if he let the drive reach room temperature after delivery before power up. Apparently there are some condensation issues. This was not my problem as I lived in an appartment at the time and it was happily sitting in the lobby all day before I got home, my friend on the other hand, I suspect his drive was sitting on his front porch untill he got home from work.
And lets face it, no one I know can stare at a shiny new HDD for that long before chucking it in and firing it up.
Update: 09/22/01 8:14:39 AM, ET -- The FAA has released a notam permitting the resumption of most flight training activities. The notam, which became effective at 0000Z (8 p.m. ET) Friday night, allows VFR flight training in non-turbojet aircraft and gliders (weighing less than 12,500 pounds) outside of enhanced Class B airspace. Within enhanced Class B airspace, with the exception of the Boston enhanced Class B and the Washington and New York exclusion areas (see TFR), VFR flight training in single- and multi-engine piston-powered aircraft under 6,000 pounds is permitted. (Almost all single-engine and light twin piston powered aircraft are less than 6,000).
hmmm... acrylic... does this sound like a static nightmare waiting to happen? I can see it now... I finish assembling my clear computer, marveling at it's aestetic beauty, slide it along the carpeted floor back into its position next to my desk turn it on and....
NOTHING - time to go shopping for more parts, and a nice GROUNDED steel case...
Figures, I just downloaded and burned 7.2-beta3 2 nights ago.... mabye I should go compile the latest 2.4-test kernel to hasten along the release of the stable 2.4...:-)
Some friends of mine did some work for the New York City MTA a few years ago... They did some models of subway stations using the Quake II engine... you can find some screenshots here....
Now if only I could do this for my windoze games...
Just think about it, I could keep Unreal Tournament and Half Life and free up a whole 'nother harddrive being monopolized (excuse the pun) by some other OS....
Trinity college sponsors a large robotics competition up in CT. I've never been there, but am entering the Senior Division (they have 4 classes: Junior, High School, Senior, and Expert) for my senior project for school... Judging from videos of past events everyone seems to have a good time participating... I know Mississippi is a long way from connecticut, but it might be worth a look, even if you just do something similar at your own school rather than entering the actual contest...
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Damn, wireless television... I can't beleive that this hasn't been done before...
I had two 75GXP's in my main desktop machine. A 45GB for win2k, and a 30GB for linux. The windows drive died about 6 months ago, so I pulled it out and went merrily on my way with gentoo only. Then the other night gentoo hung up on me. I power cycled, and the root FS was crapped out (ext3). So that machine is now a paperweight until I get off my lazy ass and go buy another drive and sit through the painfully long gentoo installation/build process. Oh well, no harm done, all my important data lives on an old PII-300MHz in my basement with two 160GB Maxtors in RAID1.
Still pisses me off though, I bought those drives because of IBM's supposed reliability.
from yahoo article at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=5 78&e=2&cid=578&u=/nm/20020805/ts_nm/microsoft_code _dc_16
"Microsoft said it plans to disclose 385 bits of computer code and internal operating rules, previously kept secret, that outside software developers can use to write programs to run on Windows."
385 bits huh.... couldn't even let us have the rest of the 49th byte.
I've been contemplating putting a computer and touchscreen lcd in my car for a while now, for both MP3 and GPS-NAV. (And any other things I decide to do with it, such as security system, remote start, etc...
:-)
My main concern is how well standard components, mobo, cpu, ram, and mostly the hard drive will hold up against temperature swings in the vehicle. I live in NJ which doesn't have the wildest climate in the world but your still looking at temp variations between subzero to 100+. And that's outside the car. Inside can reach 120 or so parked in the sun, and then be cranked down into the 70's within minutes when I hop in and fire up the A/C. Same goes for winter, car is sitting parked overnight at about 20 degrees, and I turn on the heat, and again, within minutes it's 70 degrees.
I know with alot of electronics such as PIC microcontrolers you can get automotive rated parts that are designed to withstand that kind of abuse. I wonder how well standard equipment will fare though.
Maybe you can call it lazyness, but I don't want to spend the time and money to design the hardware and user interface, install it in the car and then have it die on me.
Even if the electronics hold up, I'd be most worried about the hard drive. I thought about compact flash, but it's just not large enough. My end goal is to have it 802.11 enabled, so when parked in the driveway the in car system can sync up with any new mp3's I've ripped and placed on my server. 20+ gig's of compact flash just ain't that easy to come by
Any suggestions or related information would be appreciated...
I have 2 drives from them:
Sep 30 11:55:29 dave kernel: hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
Sep 30 11:55:29 dave kernel: hdf: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
The 45 gig drive I had purchaced first, and has never even hiccuped at me. I had purchaced the second drive a few months later when an of 4.3gig western digital finally passed on after many years of faithful service. The 30 gig drive started making horrible grinding noises during my initial partitioning (DiskDrake under Linux 8.0 Beta3 I believe). I ran some diagnostic program from IBM's website, it gave me some cryptic error message in hex, I called up the place I purchaced the drive from (www.mwave.com) and they cross shipped me a new drive (same model), which seems to be working fine for a bit less than a year now.
I have also heard from a friend that had similar problems. The first thing IBM tech support asked him (drive was purchaced during winter months) was if he let the drive reach room temperature after delivery before power up. Apparently there are some condensation issues. This was not my problem as I lived in an appartment at the time and it was happily sitting in the lobby all day before I got home, my friend on the other hand, I suspect his drive was sitting on his front porch untill he got home from work.
And lets face it, no one I know can stare at a shiny new HDD for that long before chucking it in and firing it up.
Flight instruction is back, from www.aopa.org
Update: 09/22/01 8:14:39 AM, ET -- The FAA has released a notam permitting the resumption of most flight training activities. The notam, which became effective at 0000Z (8 p.m. ET) Friday night, allows VFR flight training in non-turbojet aircraft and gliders (weighing less than 12,500 pounds) outside of enhanced Class B airspace. Within enhanced Class B airspace, with the exception of the Boston enhanced Class B and the Washington and New York exclusion areas (see TFR), VFR flight training in single- and multi-engine piston-powered aircraft under 6,000 pounds is permitted. (Almost all single-engine and light twin piston powered aircraft are less than 6,000).
hmmm... acrylic... does this sound like a static nightmare waiting to happen? I can see it now... I finish assembling my clear computer, marveling at it's aestetic beauty, slide it along the carpeted floor back into its position next to my desk turn it on and.... NOTHING - time to go shopping for more parts, and a nice GROUNDED steel case...
I had 7.2 beta-1 working on my asus 7700dlx geforce II gts... I'm would imagine they havnen't broken anything between the beta and now.... good luck
Figures, I just downloaded and burned 7.2-beta3 2 nights ago.... mabye I should go compile the latest 2.4-test kernel to hasten along the release of the stable 2.4... :-)
Some friends of mine did some work for the New York City MTA a few years ago... They did some models of subway stations using the Quake II engine... you can find some screenshots here....
Now if only I could do this for my windoze games... Just think about it, I could keep Unreal Tournament and Half Life and free up a whole 'nother harddrive being monopolized (excuse the pun) by some other OS....
Check out the link on tom's hardware, /. linked to this a few days (weeks maybe, time is a blurred concept to me lately) the link is HERE
Trinity college sponsors a large robotics competition up in CT. I've never been there, but am entering the Senior Division (they have 4 classes: Junior, High School, Senior, and Expert) for my senior project for school... Judging from videos of past events everyone seems to have a good time participating... I know Mississippi is a long way from connecticut, but it might be worth a look, even if you just do something similar at your own school rather than entering the actual contest...