Following the same line of thought - and a topic that I've been discussing with a few friends and colleagues lately - why is it that the ultimate responsibility, that of creating life... concretely reproducing oneself... is not also regulated. With all the potential for abuse, improper raising, dangers and challenges....
I like your comment... actually happends with sooo many open source software: instead of having a quick description of 2-3 lines on the main page that explains the project, we usually find some news/revision history/CVS update or some general blurb saying something about free, hosting, etc.
Somehow in science we learn to convey the key message of an article in its abstract... but apparently in OSS sometimes this is not the case. And without clear description of what is the stuff about, well... unless you've time to loose...
Of course having the news or revision history on the front page is certainly interesting for those guys who know what is the project about, but in this case we might also argue that they could link to whateverproject.org/news and leave the general description on the main page for the casual visitors.
Back in the days of CRTs.... and 5.25" MFM and RLL hard drives, there was a virus making the hard disk heads slam against the casing of the drive: you could set the track number of the head to some track number larger than the maximum number of tracks on the hard disk.... and that's it! If you repeat this operation many times, moving the head inside and slamming it on the casing, you've some good chances of causing the disk to die.
Note that I never had this virus in my virus collection... too bad! Now i guess it's too late to enjoy the nice noise it surely makes!!
Not true about the small number of rewrite cycles: large FPGAs (e.g. Virtex, Apex) are SRAM-based: their configuration is stored in a memory and you can reprogram it as many times as you want. Smaller devices (e.g. CPLDs) or configuration controllers do have flash, and them have limited reprogramming capabilities.
Yes... we did it first with the HP and in particular the HP48GX. Still have this HP with the overclock switch. Works fine with and without overclocking, however don't use the overclocking mode because it fucks up the clock (same oscillator for CPU and timer).
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boring, we can't make a movie out of a "standard search pattern".
but I feel you're close to something....
Good old days...
g=c800:5
and my RLL controller getting me 30MB instead of the MFM-specd 20MB....
Following the same line of thought - and a topic that I've been discussing with a few friends and colleagues lately - why is it that the ultimate responsibility, that of creating life... concretely reproducing oneself... is not also regulated. With all the potential for abuse, improper raising, dangers and challenges....
I like your comment... actually happends with sooo many open source software: instead of having a quick description of 2-3 lines on the main page that explains the project, we usually find some news/revision history/CVS update or some general blurb saying something about free, hosting, etc.
Somehow in science we learn to convey the key message of an article in its abstract... but apparently in OSS sometimes this is not the case. And without clear description of what is the stuff about, well... unless you've time to loose...
Of course having the news or revision history on the front page is certainly interesting for those guys who know what is the project about, but in this case we might also argue that they could link to whateverproject.org/news and leave the general description on the main page for the casual visitors.
Back in the days of CRTs.... and 5.25" MFM and RLL hard drives, there was a virus making the hard disk heads slam against the casing of the drive: you could set the track number of the head to some track number larger than the maximum number of tracks on the hard disk.... and that's it! If you repeat this operation many times, moving the head inside and slamming it on the casing, you've some good chances of causing the disk to die.
Note that I never had this virus in my virus collection... too bad! Now i guess it's too late to enjoy the nice noise it surely makes!!
I guess now I can stop checking /. hourly!!
Yes! Still have this beautiful HP48GX on my desk.... with my custom made memory expansion cards, digital I/O, and temperature sensors!
That was fun! And it's still fun, but not really having the time to do it anymore!
Not true about the small number of rewrite cycles: large FPGAs (e.g. Virtex, Apex) are SRAM-based: their configuration is stored in a memory and you can reprogram it as many times as you want. Smaller devices (e.g. CPLDs) or configuration controllers do have flash, and them have limited reprogramming capabilities.
Yes... we did it first with the HP and in particular the HP48GX. Still have this HP with the overclock switch. Works fine with and without overclocking, however don't use the overclocking mode because it fucks up the clock (same oscillator for CPU and timer). Google group