I don't know what kind of p2-400 you have that can play dvd or even divx at full fps, well anyway your forgetting these are small and relatively slow via mb for those, micro-atx (is that the right name??) these things only have cpus in the 500-1000mhz range and having a hardware mpg decoder will help things out a lot when it comes to multitasking when video is involved
the 2 main reasons windows crashes more then mac os or free bsd is the number of cheap hardware and software for windows. the only times ive had windows crash to the point ware it bsod and rebooted was when I try useing cheap hardware such as 50$ digicams/scaners/printers or running some crapy software that leaks mem all over the place, and yes bad software can bring linux down or even mac os maybe it will just crash the gui, but I dont run a server and if the gui locks up, the system is unusable to me. as for hardware its rather easy to write drivers that work when you own both the hardware and the os and most cheap hardware companies that are not going to write good drivers for an os that has ~90+% of the market are not going to mess with mac or anything else. I've had uptimes on my winxp box around the 4 month mark and then I only rebooted couse I added hardware or software that requires a reboot such as norton (90% of software for windows that say they require a reboot don't need one at all)
don't worry mandrake will, they have an annoying habit of taking beta versions of linux software such has xfree 4.2.9 and calling it 4.3, they do it with the kernel too the'll take a pre version of 2.4.x add more drivers and and put them in the distro makes it a pain in the ass to install drivers that require the unaltered src
A non-techie doesn't care if the apple IIgs now has a TCP socket, also this is slashdot 99% of the people here know what the acronyms are and my guess would be the 1% who doesn't are just random people who ran across a link to slashdot and wondering what its about and most likly will never come back
I used to be a tarible typist, a typical "hunt and peck" aproch to typing then I got a ms natural, and couse of how they keyboard is split, it forced me to type corectly and thus I became faster at typeing couse hunt and peck becomes more of a chore and you learn ware the keys are faster. of course now when I use a normal style kb it trips me up;).
yes I know my post is filled with realy bad spelling errors but i've been up all nite and too lazy to load up dictionary.com to look up words;)
whats realy nice about urpmi that I wish would be added to apt is that with urpmi if you download a rpm thats not on the urpmi server you can type urpmi file.rpm and it will try and get the dependacys off the urpmi servers. saves a bit of rpm hell. I havn't used used mandrake in a wile couse for some reason it doesn't like my mb and for some reason wont connect to the net with my network card, I've tried 3 diffrent cards and it will install the drivers but wont connect, same things happen with knoppix and suse, ok im done ranting time for me to goto bed
computer clocks suck for the most part couse windows and even a few linux distros will just take the time from the clock then keep track of it with software (why? I dont know maybe couse they can keep track of mili and micro seconds better with software Im just guessing) then when you goto shut down the os (or the os decides its time to save the clock)it saves the time back to the system clock, of course when something happens such a system lockup for a few seconds the software time will become off by that much so the next time the os saves the clock its off by a bit, ms is aware of this little problem so they started that silly clock time server that will reset the time to what ms thinks it should be, which is oftin wrong sometimes by hours even if you set timezone right
the watch has docking station from what i understand so you can keep track of apointments and such, when you subscribe the watch will just turn on the recever or posibly have the radio station broadcast in encription that can only be unlocked by a serial number uploaded by the docking station. but im sure just like direct tv someone will comeup with a way to crack it
well while it is true that ms could decide to kill the activation system to force people to upgrade to windows 2008 ( I forget how long ms stops supporting software that are no longer sold I think its 5 years) but all it would takes for windows activation is a small script, but even a realy evil company like MS will want to avoid the P.R. mess from killing it, to avoid people from switching to mac or linux knowing that ms could kill activation at any time, so im sure the'll keep a small server running the script at least till 2010 ( well maybe) the reason why they could easly kill the subscription to the stop service is it cost them money to keep radio stations broadcasting the signal and if only 1,000 or so people stay subscribed its not worth the cost to keep it running
but I see 2 problems cost and text input, If they could sell them for under 200$ I may get one but chances are they will easly be over 300, as for input, one of the best things about a pda is that you can enter data without having to write it down first, if I have to cary an adressbook to write stuff down whats the point of having a pda. hell you can get a casio with basic phone, adress and calculator functions for around 50, and you have a keypad to use, sure they look geekish but they are usefull
i'ts always a good idea to uninstall any app before upgradeing it, sure 90% of the time just installing over will work, but many times it will couse problems of somesort, normaly coused by the installer deciding not to overwrite some lib or config files that are not compatible with the new version.
you could take say quake3 bend the screen a bit and up the fov that way when you look to the left you see guys that are to the left of you, without so much distortion from just uping the fov on a flat screen
very few people will upgrade from a 3ghz to a 3.2ghz, many people will upgrade a 2ghz to a 3 or 3.2, and will notice a speed increase depending on what they do, I do a lot of video encoding and would love to upgrade from my 2 ghz to save 30 min when I do a vcd (too bad I don't have any f'ing money).
Everyone complains when they up the clock speed up by.2 like intel is forcing them to upgrade by that much, its not about that, its about getting people to upgrade older computers who want to have the latest and greatest even if it is for a few days
Why do people hate drive letters so much, I like the idea that separate drives and partitions have thier own letter, I see the flaws with win9x in that if you want a bigger C drive you have to replace the drive and not just add on to it, but with win2k/xp you can mount them like unix, you can even mount them in more then one place and keep the drive letter, also the only drive letter you need is C: you can easly remove the other drive letters and mount the drive someware with the diskmgmt.msc tool found in the system32 directory.
a few truck companies already have a basic wireless internet setup, its a small blackberry like device that only communicates with the head office, lets truckers email friends and famly, and basic text based web. It can be used about everyware from truck stops to rest sites
5 seconds per frame is a big deal thats about 120 seconds per seconds of video a min is 7200 seconds , I dont know how many fps they reder at but even saving.1 sec a frame is a big deal esp if they mess up and have to rerender
The idea is to use something like hydrogen that when exposed to the reactor will couse great amounts of energy to be expeled useing a minimum amount of fuel
about 7 years ago I was playing some real audio streems while downloading netscape 4 and chatting at the same time,on a 33.6 modem, about a year ago before (I got cable) on 56k I was lucky to download and chat at the same time and then I was getting download rates in the 28k range, so many people have internet now compared to 5 years ago that most of the dial-up isps cant handle it, when I got broadband it spoiled me so much downloading 700 meg files in hours insted of days. as time goes on and people relise that they could video chat and download programs at the same time the demand for broadband come to the point that people will refuse a 56k connection even in the middle of noware
It only takes.25 Amps to kill you, iirc I=E/R ware I=current E=voltage and R=resistance, the resistance of the human body varies between 10k-1M depending on the humidity and other factors so in order to get.25 amps you need a resistance less then 80K @20kV AA batteries can get upto 1 amp @ 1.5 V, now when you use a system that tazers use you can get them upto 20k volts, as far as the amps go in order to get 20k volts the amps are going to go up as well even if its just for half a second the amps can easly get over.25,if someone was stupid enough to put a contact in each hand it could easly do some damage to your heart, what the article doesnt say is that thoes shockers take time to recharge to get 20 kV the first time the thing vibrates it will give you the whole 20k but after that your only looking at a few K
Run two wires (ground/voltage) from the pest shocker into the Xbox controller. I ran mine through one of the front memory sockets. Drill two holes through the controller to the desired location of the shocker.
Make sure to keep the shocker in one hand! You never want to split the ground/voltage between two hands. If you do, the voltage runs through your heart, which is bad.
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I don't know what kind of p2-400 you have that can play dvd or even divx at full fps, well anyway your forgetting these are small and relatively slow via mb for those, micro-atx (is that the right name??) these things only have cpus in the 500-1000mhz range and having a hardware mpg decoder will help things out a lot when it comes to multitasking when video is involved
the 2 main reasons windows crashes more then mac os or free bsd is the number of cheap hardware and software for windows. the only times ive had windows crash to the point ware it bsod and rebooted was when I try useing cheap hardware such as 50$ digicams/scaners/printers or running some crapy software that leaks mem all over the place, and yes bad software can bring linux down or even mac os maybe it will just crash the gui, but I dont run a server and if the gui locks up, the system is unusable to me. as for hardware its rather easy to write drivers that work when you own both the hardware and the os and most cheap hardware companies that are not going to write good drivers for an os that has ~90+% of the market are not going to mess with mac or anything else. I've had uptimes on my winxp box around the 4 month mark and then I only rebooted couse I added hardware or software that requires a reboot such as norton (90% of software for windows that say they require a reboot don't need one at all)
don't worry mandrake will, they have an annoying habit of taking beta versions of linux software such has xfree 4.2.9 and calling it 4.3, they do it with the kernel too the'll take a pre version of 2.4.x add more drivers and and put them in the distro makes it a pain in the ass to install drivers that require the unaltered src
A non-techie doesn't care if the apple IIgs now has a TCP socket, also this is slashdot 99% of the people here know what the acronyms are and my guess would be the 1% who doesn't are just random people who ran across a link to slashdot and wondering what its about and most likly will never come back
I used to be a tarible typist, a typical "hunt and peck" aproch to typing then I got a ms natural, and couse of how they keyboard is split, it forced me to type corectly and thus I became faster at typeing couse hunt and peck becomes more of a chore and you learn ware the keys are faster. of course now when I use a normal style kb it trips me up ;).
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yes I know my post is filled with realy bad spelling errors but i've been up all nite and too lazy to load up dictionary.com to look up words
whats realy nice about urpmi that I wish would be added to apt is that with urpmi if you download a rpm thats not on the urpmi server you can type urpmi file.rpm and it will try and get the dependacys off the urpmi servers. saves a bit of rpm hell. I havn't used used mandrake in a wile couse for some reason it doesn't like my mb and for some reason wont connect to the net with my network card, I've tried 3 diffrent cards and it will install the drivers but wont connect, same things happen with knoppix and suse, ok im done ranting time for me to goto bed
depends on the thickness of the wire and the power of the amp, I wouldn't expect more then 20 ft out of cheap wire with no amp
computer clocks suck for the most part couse windows and even a few linux distros will just take the time from the clock then keep track of it with software (why? I dont know maybe couse they can keep track of mili and micro seconds better with software Im just guessing) then when you goto shut down the os (or the os decides its time to save the clock)it saves the time back to the system clock, of course when something happens such a system lockup for a few seconds the software time will become off by that much so the next time the os saves the clock its off by a bit, ms is aware of this little problem so they started that silly clock time server that will reset the time to what ms thinks it should be, which is oftin wrong sometimes by hours even if you set timezone right
the watch has docking station from what i understand so you can keep track of apointments and such, when you subscribe the watch will just turn on the recever or posibly have the radio station broadcast in encription that can only be unlocked by a serial number uploaded by the docking station. but im sure just like direct tv someone will comeup with a way to crack it
well while it is true that ms could decide to kill the activation system to force people to upgrade to windows 2008 ( I forget how long ms stops supporting software that are no longer sold I think its 5 years) but all it would takes for windows activation is a small script, but even a realy evil company like MS will want to avoid the P.R. mess from killing it, to avoid people from switching to mac or linux knowing that ms could kill activation at any time, so im sure the'll keep a small server running the script at least till 2010 ( well maybe) the reason why they could easly kill the subscription to the stop service is it cost them money to keep radio stations broadcasting the signal and if only 1,000 or so people stay subscribed its not worth the cost to keep it running
but I see 2 problems cost and text input, If they could sell them for under 200$ I may get one but chances are they will easly be over 300, as for input, one of the best things about a pda is that you can enter data without having to write it down first, if I have to cary an adressbook to write stuff down whats the point of having a pda. hell you can get a casio with basic phone, adress and calculator functions for around 50, and you have a keypad to use, sure they look geekish but they are usefull
i'ts always a good idea to uninstall any app before upgradeing it, sure 90% of the time just installing over will work, but many times it will couse problems of somesort, normaly coused by the installer deciding not to overwrite some lib or config files that are not compatible with the new version.
you could take say quake3 bend the screen a bit and up the fov that way when you look to the left you see guys that are to the left of you, without so much distortion from just uping the fov on a flat screen
very few people will upgrade from a 3ghz to a 3.2ghz, many people will upgrade a 2ghz to a 3 or 3.2, and will notice a speed increase depending on what they do, I do a lot of video encoding and would love to upgrade from my 2 ghz to save 30 min when I do a vcd (too bad I don't have any f'ing money).
.2 like intel is forcing them to upgrade by that much, its not about that, its about getting people to upgrade older computers who want to have the latest and greatest even if it is for a few days
Everyone complains when they up the clock speed up by
Why do people hate drive letters so much, I like the idea that separate drives and partitions have thier own letter, I see the flaws with win9x in that if you want a bigger C drive you have to replace the drive and not just add on to it, but with win2k/xp you can mount them like unix, you can even mount them in more then one place and keep the drive letter, also the only drive letter you need is C: you can easly remove the other drive letters and mount the drive someware with the diskmgmt.msc tool found in the system32 directory.
a few truck companies already have a basic wireless internet setup, its a small blackberry like device that only communicates with the head office, lets truckers email friends and famly, and basic text based web. It can be used about everyware from truck stops to rest sites
what year is this again 1998?? so after the OS that leaves what 1.5 gigs, I guess they would make good dumb X terminals. good luck doing anything else
looks like a hoax to me for a few reasons like this page
I know your joking but most likely who ever ordered them had a set amout to spend and 588 was the most they could get
5 seconds per frame is a big deal thats about 120 seconds per seconds of video a min is 7200 seconds , I dont know how many fps they reder at but even saving .1 sec a frame is a big deal esp if they mess up and have to rerender
Something like this
The idea is to use something like hydrogen that when exposed to the reactor will couse great amounts of energy to be expeled useing a minimum amount of fuel
What they din't tell you is they also found remains of a time machine, indicating that they are from people from the 31st century
Now ware did I put my tin-foil hat
about 7 years ago I was playing some real audio streems while downloading netscape 4 and chatting at the same time,on a 33.6 modem, about a year ago before (I got cable) on 56k I was lucky to download and chat at the same time and then I was getting download rates in the 28k range, so many people have internet now compared to 5 years ago that most of the dial-up isps cant handle it, when I got broadband it spoiled me so much downloading 700 meg files in hours insted of days. as time goes on and people relise that they could video chat and download programs at the same time the demand for broadband come to the point that people will refuse a 56k connection even in the middle of noware
It only takes .25 Amps to kill you, iirc I=E/R ware I=current E=voltage and R=resistance, the resistance of the human body varies between 10k-1M depending on the humidity and other factors so in order to get .25 amps you need a resistance less then 80K @20kV AA batteries can get upto 1 amp @ 1.5 V, now when you use a system that tazers use you can get them upto 20k volts, as far as the amps go in order to get 20k volts the amps are going to go up as well even if its just for half a second the amps can easly get over .25,if someone was stupid enough to put a contact in each hand it could easly do some damage to your heart, what the article doesnt say is that thoes shockers take time to recharge to get 20 kV the first time the thing vibrates it will give you the whole 20k but after that your only looking at a few K
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Run two wires (ground/voltage) from the pest shocker into the Xbox controller. I ran mine through one of the front memory sockets. Drill two holes through the controller to the desired location of the shocker.
Make sure to keep the shocker in one hand! You never want to split the ground/voltage between two hands. If you do, the voltage runs through your heart, which is bad.