I bought one of these after work today at a nearby RS. I went looking for a 5V AC/DC converter, but had no luck. As I was leaving, two of the guys working there were talking about these. I figured I'd easily get $20 worth of fun out of it.
I've run it for a couple hours already tonight, and it's been a blast. The recharge times are about a minute, and I've got a good 5-10 minutes from each charge.
There's only one thing I don't like, and that's the wide turning radius. (Which is tight when moving in reverse.) Maybe one of their suspension upgrades would fix that?;)
I'm not sure how the batteries will hold up, I'll post again here in a few days and let you know.
I've got a Tyan Tiger MP too. Funny thing is, I get all kinds of lockups, blue screens, and reboots when ECC is disabled. The only way I can keep my machine running is to turn "Both" and "ECC Scrubbing" on in the BIOS. Hope it helps...
Counter-Strike (www.counter-strike.net) has used more hours of my life than any other game. It's about three years old, and is regularly updated. There isn't a game around I've played for three year's time.
It's free (as in beer) and only requires that you own a copy of Half-Life (www.half-life.sierra.com) wich currently runs about $30.
Running a Counter-Strike Guild (www.dohguild.com) doesn't help much either!
This so-called hole only allows access to the folder of files the Morpheus user specifically designated for sharing.
If they're not sharing their "My Documents" folder, hackers can't download the files contained in that folder.
The same goes for a user's Quake 3 directory, Half-Life folder, SAM database, wifey porno pics, etc. If the folders containing these files are not shared through Morpheus, THIS HACK WILL NOT ALLOW ACCESS TO THESE FILES.
Try it on your own machine and you'll see what I mean.
I've been running Counter-Strike servers for a couple years now. One thing I've always done is provide nightly player statistics for the previous 30 days. I've seen people hit over 14 solid days of gameplay in a given 30-day period!
Assuming that these people sleep every once in a while suggests that they're playing CS nearly every waking minute. Currently, the "worst" player on my biggest server has logged seven days in the last thirty.
One guy's longest single session was 9 hours! Wow.
You mean to tell me that Win2K only has 65,000 bugs? What a rip! I won't be buying it now! I've come to expect lots of bugs in Microsoft software, and if they're going to let things slip like this by cheating me out of the bugs I expect, then they just lost a customer!
I still can't believe there's so much hype and hooplah surrounding the mp3 audio format. I'm surprised that the RIAA isn't more worried about lossless compression formats. You'd think that formats with no generational sound quality loss, or any loss of information for that matter, would really get some panties in a bunch.
Mark this offtopic if you want, but here's some info I've never seen on Slashdot about a lossless compression format called Shorten.
SoftSound, the developer of the format, sells a Windows encoder/decoder. There are also FREE versions available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The HOWTO for the format is located here. There's also a great guide located here. Shorten for Mac and Linux is over here.
Anyone interested in the lossless compression of audio should definately give this a look-see.
I don't think everyone is ready for graphical installers yet. I think they need to be improved before they're unleashed upon the masses. Here's some problems I've noticed with the installation of a few distros:
Red Hat 6.1: The graphical installer doesn't list all of the available packages. It also failed to correctly configure X on my computer. The fallback text-installer in 6.1 does configure X properly, but it is missing the F1 package descriptions! Ouch!
Mandrake 6.1: Text install only. Descriptions are there, and everything works as advertised - until you get it running. For some odd reason, that distro doesn't install kdelibs! I always need to install it by hand. This is my favorite distro.
Corel Linux: Just tried to install 1.0 last night on a spare machine. The GUI installer doesn't work with my mouse. I have a Logitech FirstMouse+. That shouldn't be a problem, but it is.
I would love to see an Echelon@home project! I'd run the client on every machine at my disposal: Four very beefy HP boxes, racks of NT machines, several Linux boxes, a Palm Pilot, and my old Apple II GS!
What I want to know is, when's the next "Jam Echelon Day"? As more people find out about this thing, it only means there will be more supporters. Or, how about a concerted effort to jam Echelon every day?
Well, it looks like I'd better get started Echelon-foddering my web pages.
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I bought one of these after work today at a nearby RS. I went looking for a 5V AC/DC converter, but had no luck. As I was leaving, two of the guys working there were talking about these. I figured I'd easily get $20 worth of fun out of it.
I've run it for a couple hours already tonight, and it's been a blast. The recharge times are about a minute, and I've got a good 5-10 minutes from each charge.
There's only one thing I don't like, and that's the wide turning radius. (Which is tight when moving in reverse.) Maybe one of their suspension upgrades would fix that? ;)
I'm not sure how the batteries will hold up, I'll post again here in a few days and let you know.
I've got a Tyan Tiger MP too. Funny thing is, I get all kinds of lockups, blue screens, and reboots when ECC is disabled. The only way I can keep my machine running is to turn "Both" and "ECC Scrubbing" on in the BIOS. Hope it helps...
Counter-Strike (www.counter-strike.net) has used more hours of my life than any other game. It's about three years old, and is regularly updated. There isn't a game around I've played for three year's time. It's free (as in beer) and only requires that you own a copy of Half-Life (www.half-life.sierra.com) wich currently runs about $30. Running a Counter-Strike Guild (www.dohguild.com) doesn't help much either!
This so-called hole only allows access to the folder of files the Morpheus user specifically designated for sharing.
If they're not sharing their "My Documents" folder, hackers can't download the files contained in that folder.
The same goes for a user's Quake 3 directory, Half-Life folder, SAM database, wifey porno pics, etc. If the folders containing these files are not shared through Morpheus, THIS HACK WILL NOT ALLOW ACCESS TO THESE FILES.
Try it on your own machine and you'll see what I mean.
Here's a place that lists all the IA-1s specs along with other thin clients and PDAs.
My favorite anti-popup tool for Windows is PopUpKiller. It works with IE, Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla. Check it out.
I've been running Counter-Strike servers for a couple years now. One thing I've always done is provide nightly player statistics for the previous 30 days. I've seen people hit over 14 solid days of gameplay in a given 30-day period!
Assuming that these people sleep every once in a while suggests that they're playing CS nearly every waking minute. Currently, the "worst" player on my biggest server has logged seven days in the last thirty.
One guy's longest single session was 9 hours! Wow.
I'll pay you to ship 12 of them to me.
Imagine how small a Beowulf cluster of these would be!
I messed up the http://etree.org link in my last post.
Here it is again: http://etree.org.
For more information on a great organization that's involved in trading live, losless concert recordings, check out etree.org.
/. posts could possibly provide.
The GratefulDead, as well as other bands, explicity allow the taping and trading of their live music. They only forbid the sale of said recordings.
Follow the link above, and you'll get more information on this topic than thousands of
You mean to tell me that Win2K only has 65,000 bugs? What a rip! I won't be buying it now! I've come to expect lots of bugs in Microsoft software, and if they're going to let things slip like this by cheating me out of the bugs I expect, then they just lost a customer!
I still can't believe there's so much hype and hooplah surrounding the mp3 audio format. I'm surprised that the RIAA isn't more worried about lossless compression formats. You'd think that formats with no generational sound quality loss, or any loss of information for that matter, would really get some panties in a bunch.
Mark this offtopic if you want, but here's some info I've never seen on Slashdot about a lossless compression format called Shorten.
SoftSound, the developer of the format, sells a Windows encoder/decoder. There are also FREE versions available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The HOWTO for the format is located here. There's also a great guide located here. Shorten for Mac and Linux is over here.
Anyone interested in the lossless compression of audio should definately give this a look-see.
I don't think everyone is ready for graphical installers yet. I think they need to be improved before they're unleashed upon the masses. Here's some problems I've noticed with the installation of a few distros:
Red Hat 6.1:
The graphical installer doesn't list all of the available packages. It also failed to correctly configure X on my computer. The fallback text-installer in 6.1 does configure X properly, but it is missing the F1 package descriptions! Ouch!
Mandrake 6.1:
Text install only. Descriptions are there, and everything works as advertised - until you get it running. For some odd reason, that distro doesn't install kdelibs! I always need to install it by hand. This is my favorite distro.
Corel Linux:
Just tried to install 1.0 last night on a spare machine. The GUI installer doesn't work with my mouse. I have a Logitech FirstMouse+. That shouldn't be a problem, but it is.
Now if there was only a way to get this kind of speed with no wires at all!
I dream of an inexpensive, wireless gigabit/sec connection!
I would love to see an Echelon@home project! I'd run the client on every machine at my disposal: Four very beefy HP boxes, racks of NT machines, several Linux boxes, a Palm Pilot, and my old Apple II GS!
What I want to know is, when's the next "Jam Echelon Day"? As more people find out about this thing, it only means there will be more supporters. Or, how about a concerted effort to jam Echelon every day?
Well, it looks like I'd better get started Echelon-foddering my web pages.