Like hell my "grandchildren won't know of a gasoline powered car without net acess". As soon as those little shits can use thier opposable thumbs they're learning to change fluids in cars from the glory days of the 40's - 70's. The time when cars were simple and your neighbor had a copy of the shop manual so if one wanted to do it themselves they could but mechanics weren't over priced and over worked like now so they could do it.
The gas/electric hybrid is great, but it's not for me and many other people in all nations. These cars are very complicated. In fact most new cars (built after 1980) are so full of electronics and "proprietary" equipment that it has become increasingly difficult to work on one's own car. I like the older classics, they have more power, more style, and are much easier to work on. Body panels can be fixed with a hammer and some time, where as today body panels are usually replaced which take more time. A major repair can be done without any knowledge or special tools for the #%^&^ computer components.
Now on to the internet within a car. I find it bad enough dealing with drivers who use their cell phones while driving. Cars are becoming filled with more distractions and drivers are not being taught to deal with them in a responsible manner. Even something ass innocuops as an mp3 player could be dangerous. Think, you're driving along and know you have a song in your playlist that you really want to hear, but you dont know where it is. As you scan through the 100 or so titles (that take 1/2 sec to display)in the list your eyes are off the road for even more time than if you were just dialing a fone. Adding technology to cars should be given serious thought before its done.
I apologize for my ramblinig, but i think it got the message out.
I recently graduated from a high school where i took 3 years of computer science. my 1st and 3rd year were C++ (3rd year was AP). The second year was a semester of Java, and one quarter each of c++ and VisualBasic (VisualBaSUCK). I think that java was a much easier language to learn on. It combines the rapid development and graphica advantage of VB and the power of C++. The java language seems much simpler to follow and understand than C++ or VB. Many of the skills and concepts that i learned that seemed specific to java or C++ actually carried over well between the two. Classes, functions, and formats were almost the same between the two. Java is also a household name beacuse of the internet, the average student will be more likely to take an interest in java because they have heard of it while looking for porn. hehe.
What it comes down to is that Java will be the langauge de force in about 5 to 10 years. Switching entirely to java now would be a bad step for students wanting a carrer in computer science because C++ will remain prevalent for years. On the other hand students who are now in junior high or elementray school should be taught java because by the time they hit the job market java will be more common.
I hope this helped, I know the original question was for the college level but college students have to make it thru high school first.
keep the fan attached to the motor assembly. this could help in one of two ways, the second being considerably more useful. first, if the fan is still attached to the motor perhaps it could be turned on to help boost the water flow under high load/heat situations. the more useful reason is for speed monitoring. all but the cheapest fnas now have a 3 wire connector with the yellow wire being used to monitor RPM. with a little fiddling (perhaps cutting one of the other wires) the RPM monitoring ability could be retained allowing you speed junkies to use it with standard fan speed monitoring software. i may sacrifice one of my fans tonight to test this.
well wait no. unless youre using a nonconductive fluid. netiher of these will work with a standard fan. oops.
hopefully somone will expand my ideas with a waterproofed motor.
call me old fashioned. maybe its my years in scouts. or the influences of my relatives and friends out in the boondocks. but why the hell not just have a $5 battery power AM radio turned on to a news/sports/weather station and when the sky gets dark turn it on and find otu how much shit youre in. hell i got my grandparents a clock radio with the weater alret thing on it for less than $35. this seems to be a much safer and easier to set up method (just put batteries in it and flip out the antenna). but aside from that, this would be a nice goodie for anoyonestuck in a data center, cubicle, basement, or other such locatuion with bad radio reception, no windows, and a high availabitly net connection.
I extend my condolonces to the victims friends, family, and assiociates.
Why don't the parents knmow exactly what he did? I've been suspended before (not for ahcking) but its standard to tell teh parents and all involved parties exactly what happened and what damages were incurred, if any. From the tone of the article it sounds like Shinjan was threatend with jail. I remeber in junior high, what were really incidents that wouldnt matter in a year or two seemed like major events. That was just getting picked on and dating. Waht would the effects of beign threatened with jail time do to someone in
junior high? Especially a young adult who does several things that most adults cant do one of.
Blame doesn't need to be pointed here. Suing the schools would only put a huge hole in the budget for years affecting the education of thousands of children. Especially the musical and gifted children like Shinjan.
sitting around in a hotel room at about 2 AM on class trip, me and my rommates got bored and started dismantling these. they were pretty much the only camera everyone was using so we had plenty.
kodaks are the easiest to take apart. when you're done taking pictures wind the wheel for a while to get the film wound all the way into the canister. pop the tabs on the sides of the camera and take outthe film and AA. now pop the tabs on top and bottom. as mentioned earlier the flash circut can zap you. for the saftey concious (being people who wont work on a power supply turned on and plugged in) take a metal object with an isluated handle (screwdriver, needlenose, hammer) and touch both terminals on the big capacitor. as soon as the afterimage of the sparks goes away, pop that circut board out. you now have a flash or a low end tazer. simlpy put the battery back in and press the button. when we were fiddling with these we got zapped about 20 times before we got smart enough to cover the board circut board with tape.
the other posters are correct in that the camera is reloadable and reusable. practice first with old film. take the case off, and remove the flash if you dont want/need it. wind it around the spindle on the left using a screwdriver to wind the film out of the canister. you will need to recalibrate the dial that tells how many pics are left. that done place the cover back on. when you use good film load it inside a very dark room or a box with holes for your hands (available at photo stores, but if youre ganna reuse a disposable camera.....).
i can see these cameras used about 3 or 4 times, after that the tabs probly wont hold the case together, and hey you never can have too many flash boards.
sorry i rambled but im heavily caffinated right now.
you can make a very compact system using parts designed for rackmount servers. getting some of the connectors that allow pci/isa cards to be mounted sideways will make youre system thinner. if youve got the cash, or some sticky fingers get a case from a rackmount computer. hell buy a rackmount computer if you got the cash.
using a baby AT mainboard will reduce your space.
dont forget when you cram more heat generating components into a smaller space youre going to need more cooling power. dont skimp on fans.
if you have opposable thumbs you can also build yourself a custom case using sheet metal and a pop-riveter (ask at the hardware store, they are lovely tools)
if i were doing this id look into some small speakers. either some very small ones to tape into the case, or some of the ones that fit into a 5 1/2 drivebay.
when it somes down to it you end up with the big 3 of computers. you can have it fast/powerful, cheap, or small. pick 2 of those.
This intended as (bad) humor and not as infringment on those fine assholes at MasterCard.
"...Here's what my system consisted of:
$72 Motherboard (Intel D810EMO SB 128 Sound, AGP)
$42 CPU (Celeron 500)
$18 RAM (64MB SDRAM DIMM)
$100 HDD (IBM 40GB)
$34 FlexATX Case
$9 CD-ROM (12x Generic)..."
A truly free Linux-based OS, Priceless.
Have you considered using a drawing tablet or touch pad for this? Hell the things are sold as being good to use with a touch pen for drawing. They're for standard mouse interfaces, ps/2 and serial, so integrating in to winblows should be easy.
First off, great ideas from the other people, ESPECIALLY the one about teaching the kids to test systems.
What i'd do first is get yourself a working system from the same era as the ones you're salvaging (preferably from one of those systems). Clean the dust off it and install your OS of choice. Then test the components you can hotswap, such as fans, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, speakers, microphones, those nifty little LED speed displays, and so on.
Next find yourself a good base system consisting of a main board, processor, vid card, keyboard, RAM, and power supply, monitor, and case. Note no HD or floppy. Now power it up. If it powers up ok then the power supply is good. If you can see it do this then your vid card is good. Watch the BIOS tell you that it's elves have checked the RAM. Your RAM is good. Turn it off(or just pull out the power supply connector). Put the good RAM, vid cards, and power supplys in thier respective piles. Repeat this until all those components have been checked.
Now take your known good parts except drives and attach them to main boards. Boot those up. If they dont boot, the board or processor is gone. Swap processors with a know good one. If it works the first processor is hosed. File it appropriately (load some into a potato gun and aim toward silicon valley, heh).
Alright now stick as many drives as you can into each good system. Prepare a few hard drive format disks (like ones sent with new drives such as MaxBlast, SeaTools, etc). There should be 1 or 2 floppies and 1 to 4 hard disks in each box. Boot as many boxes as you can with the HD format disks. They'll scan and format the drives while you go sleep or whatever.
Ok I know this is a really long drawn out process, but my salvaging skills (instincts?) come from my grandfather. He grew up in the depression so they HAD to salvage all they could, but they had plenty of time to tinker with it.
a family member of mine recently got canned along with 1000 others from marchFirst (whose stock comes in dead last) recently. one of his competent coworkers went out formed his own new company doing the same buisness and hired all the good former employees from march first. i imagine this would wrok for you
its entirely possible, it's similar to the inverters that let you run 120 volt devices off of a car battery. the problem is that its designed as a data transfer where the power is varying in intensity and duration. you'd first have to find some way to get even power, then find a way to store/magnify it to produce enough juice. i can't see powering a laptop but maybe a personal organizer or palmtop/handheld device.
we must also consider the more important question: if theres an R rated movie on and your computer isnt 17 would it still be allowed to plug the headphones in?
nevarmore (my slashdot login doesnt always work from this computer)
I read "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier last summer and it does a damn good job of explaing the underlying theories of what you want to do. Off the top of my head I can tell you for certain that theres an entire chapter on PGP and Kerberos. Best of all it should help you decide what you wnat kind/level of security you need. The book doesn't go into specific implementations but most of that information comes from whatever software packages you choose to use.
Check pet and garden stores for these. I work at a feed/garden/lawn store (http://thefeedbarn.com/) and we sell daylight bulbs for 48" flourescent sockets, at about $15 each. A buddy of mine raises lizards and gets his daylights in all shapes and size from his local pet store. They're nice but a bit expensive.
We don't know that anyone went looking for a microsoft employee. With the current boom of trojans and thier users it is more likely that someone happened to find a microsoft employee who couldnt get Noroton Anti-Virus installed correctly and downloaded BackOriface or SubSeven looking at porno. The issue is not who was the leak or what caused the leak (espionage, virus, a large angry penguin) but who ended up getting the source code.
If it was someone who knew what to do with it then m$ is going open-source wether they want to or not. It's alos likely that it may just be a script kidde that was able to recognize that it was code, but couldnt figure out how to use it and deleted it to make room for an Irc bot.
If you have acess to microsoft code and are reading this please distribute it, OPEN SOURCE NOW!
so are you going to report for jury duty? you shouldnt have to. if they come looking for you hold up the letter and show that it says 1901. you werent alive then (im making a biig assumption there ) so there was no way you could report.
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Like hell my "grandchildren won't know of a gasoline powered car without net acess". As soon as those little shits can use thier opposable thumbs they're learning to change fluids in cars from the glory days of the 40's - 70's. The time when cars were simple and your neighbor had a copy of the shop manual so if one wanted to do it themselves they could but mechanics weren't over priced and over worked like now so they could do it.
The gas/electric hybrid is great, but it's not for me and many other people in all nations. These cars are very complicated. In fact most new cars (built after 1980) are so full of electronics and "proprietary" equipment that it has become increasingly difficult to work on one's own car. I like the older classics, they have more power, more style, and are much easier to work on. Body panels can be fixed with a hammer and some time, where as today body panels are usually replaced which take more time. A major repair can be done without any knowledge or special tools for the #%^&^ computer components.
Now on to the internet within a car. I find it bad enough dealing with drivers who use their cell phones while driving. Cars are becoming filled with more distractions and drivers are not being taught to deal with them in a responsible manner. Even something ass innocuops as an mp3 player could be dangerous. Think, you're driving along and know you have a song in your playlist that you really want to hear, but you dont know where it is. As you scan through the 100 or so titles (that take 1/2 sec to display)in the list your eyes are off the road for even more time than if you were just dialing a fone. Adding technology to cars should be given serious thought before its done.
I apologize for my ramblinig, but i think it got the message out.
I recently graduated from a high school where i took 3 years of computer science. my 1st and 3rd year were C++ (3rd year was AP). The second year was a semester of Java, and one quarter each of c++ and VisualBasic (VisualBaSUCK). I think that java was a much easier language to learn on. It combines the rapid development and graphica advantage of VB and the power of C++. The java language seems much simpler to follow and understand than C++ or VB. Many of the skills and concepts that i learned that seemed specific to java or C++ actually carried over well between the two. Classes, functions, and formats were almost the same between the two. Java is also a household name beacuse of the internet, the average student will be more likely to take an interest in java because they have heard of it while looking for porn. hehe.
What it comes down to is that Java will be the langauge de force in about 5 to 10 years. Switching entirely to java now would be a bad step for students wanting a carrer in computer science because C++ will remain prevalent for years. On the other hand students who are now in junior high or elementray school should be taught java because by the time they hit the job market java will be more common.
I hope this helped, I know the original question was for the college level but college students have to make it thru high school first.
keep the fan attached to the motor assembly. this could help in one of two ways, the second being considerably more useful. first, if the fan is still attached to the motor perhaps it could be turned on to help boost the water flow under high load/heat situations. the more useful reason is for speed monitoring. all but the cheapest fnas now have a 3 wire connector with the yellow wire being used to monitor RPM. with a little fiddling (perhaps cutting one of the other wires) the RPM monitoring ability could be retained allowing you speed junkies to use it with standard fan speed monitoring software. i may sacrifice one of my fans tonight to test this. well wait no. unless youre using a nonconductive fluid. netiher of these will work with a standard fan. oops. hopefully somone will expand my ideas with a waterproofed motor.
call me old fashioned. maybe its my years in scouts. or the influences of my relatives and friends out in the boondocks. but why the hell not just have a $5 battery power AM radio turned on to a news/sports/weather station and when the sky gets dark turn it on and find otu how much shit youre in. hell i got my grandparents a clock radio with the weater alret thing on it for less than $35. this seems to be a much safer and easier to set up method (just put batteries in it and flip out the antenna). but aside from that, this would be a nice goodie for anoyonestuck in a data center, cubicle, basement, or other such locatuion with bad radio reception, no windows, and a high availabitly net connection.
I extend my condolonces to the victims friends, family, and assiociates.
Why don't the parents knmow exactly what he did? I've been suspended before (not for ahcking) but its standard to tell teh parents and all involved parties exactly what happened and what damages were incurred, if any. From the tone of the article it sounds like Shinjan was threatend with jail. I remeber in junior high, what were really incidents that wouldnt matter in a year or two seemed like major events. That was just getting picked on and dating. Waht would the effects of beign threatened with jail time do to someone in
junior high? Especially a young adult who does several things that most adults cant do one of.
Blame doesn't need to be pointed here. Suing the schools would only put a huge hole in the budget for years affecting the education of thousands of children. Especially the musical and gifted children like Shinjan.
sitting around in a hotel room at about 2 AM on class trip, me and my rommates got bored and started dismantling these. they were pretty much the only camera everyone was using so we had plenty.
kodaks are the easiest to take apart. when you're done taking pictures wind the wheel for a while to get the film wound all the way into the canister. pop the tabs on the sides of the camera and take outthe film and AA. now pop the tabs on top and bottom. as mentioned earlier the flash circut can zap you. for the saftey concious (being people who wont work on a power supply turned on and plugged in) take a metal object with an isluated handle (screwdriver, needlenose, hammer) and touch both terminals on the big capacitor. as soon as the afterimage of the sparks goes away, pop that circut board out. you now have a flash or a low end tazer. simlpy put the battery back in and press the button. when we were fiddling with these we got zapped about 20 times before we got smart enough to cover the board circut board with tape.
the other posters are correct in that the camera is reloadable and reusable. practice first with old film. take the case off, and remove the flash if you dont want/need it. wind it around the spindle on the left using a screwdriver to wind the film out of the canister. you will need to recalibrate the dial that tells how many pics are left. that done place the cover back on. when you use good film load it inside a very dark room or a box with holes for your hands (available at photo stores, but if youre ganna reuse a disposable camera.....).
i can see these cameras used about 3 or 4 times, after that the tabs probly wont hold the case together, and hey you never can have too many flash boards.
sorry i rambled but im heavily caffinated right now.
you can make a very compact system using parts designed for rackmount servers. getting some of the connectors that allow pci/isa cards to be mounted sideways will make youre system thinner. if youve got the cash, or some sticky fingers get a case from a rackmount computer. hell buy a rackmount computer if you got the cash.
using a baby AT mainboard will reduce your space.
dont forget when you cram more heat generating components into a smaller space youre going to need more cooling power. dont skimp on fans.
if you have opposable thumbs you can also build yourself a custom case using sheet metal and a pop-riveter (ask at the hardware store, they are lovely tools)
if i were doing this id look into some small speakers. either some very small ones to tape into the case, or some of the ones that fit into a 5 1/2 drivebay.
when it somes down to it you end up with the big 3 of computers. you can have it fast/powerful, cheap, or small. pick 2 of those.
This intended as (bad) humor and not as infringment on those fine assholes at MasterCard. "...Here's what my system consisted of: $72 Motherboard (Intel D810EMO SB 128 Sound, AGP) $42 CPU (Celeron 500) $18 RAM (64MB SDRAM DIMM) $100 HDD (IBM 40GB) $34 FlexATX Case $9 CD-ROM (12x Generic)..." A truly free Linux-based OS, Priceless.
Have you considered using a drawing tablet or touch pad for this? Hell the things are sold as being good to use with a touch pen for drawing. They're for standard mouse interfaces, ps/2 and serial, so integrating in to winblows should be easy.
First off, great ideas from the other people, ESPECIALLY the one about teaching the kids to test systems.
What i'd do first is get yourself a working system from the same era as the ones you're salvaging (preferably from one of those systems). Clean the dust off it and install your OS of choice. Then test the components you can hotswap, such as fans, monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, speakers, microphones, those nifty little LED speed displays, and so on.
Next find yourself a good base system consisting of a main board, processor, vid card, keyboard, RAM, and power supply, monitor, and case. Note no HD or floppy. Now power it up. If it powers up ok then the power supply is good. If you can see it do this then your vid card is good. Watch the BIOS tell you that it's elves have checked the RAM. Your RAM is good. Turn it off(or just pull out the power supply connector). Put the good RAM, vid cards, and power supplys in thier respective piles. Repeat this until all those components have been checked.
Now take your known good parts except drives and attach them to main boards. Boot those up. If they dont boot, the board or processor is gone. Swap processors with a know good one. If it works the first processor is hosed. File it appropriately (load some into a potato gun and aim toward silicon valley, heh).
Alright now stick as many drives as you can into each good system. Prepare a few hard drive format disks (like ones sent with new drives such as MaxBlast, SeaTools, etc). There should be 1 or 2 floppies and 1 to 4 hard disks in each box. Boot as many boxes as you can with the HD format disks. They'll scan and format the drives while you go sleep or whatever.
Ok I know this is a really long drawn out process, but my salvaging skills (instincts?) come from my grandfather. He grew up in the depression so they HAD to salvage all they could, but they had plenty of time to tinker with it.
a family member of mine recently got canned along with 1000 others from marchFirst (whose stock comes in dead last) recently. one of his competent coworkers went out formed his own new company doing the same buisness and hired all the good former employees from march first. i imagine this would wrok for you
its entirely possible, it's similar to the inverters that let you run 120 volt devices off of a car battery. the problem is that its designed as a data transfer where the power is varying in intensity and duration. you'd first have to find some way to get even power, then find a way to store/magnify it to produce enough juice. i can't see powering a laptop but maybe a personal organizer or palmtop/handheld device. we must also consider the more important question: if theres an R rated movie on and your computer isnt 17 would it still be allowed to plug the headphones in? nevarmore (my slashdot login doesnt always work from this computer)
I read "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier last summer and it does a damn good job of explaing the underlying theories of what you want to do. Off the top of my head I can tell you for certain that theres an entire chapter on PGP and Kerberos. Best of all it should help you decide what you wnat kind/level of security you need. The book doesn't go into specific implementations but most of that information comes from whatever software packages you choose to use.
Check pet and garden stores for these. I work at a feed/garden/lawn store (http://thefeedbarn.com/) and we sell daylight bulbs for 48" flourescent sockets, at about $15 each. A buddy of mine raises lizards and gets his daylights in all shapes and size from his local pet store. They're nice but a bit expensive.
We don't know that anyone went looking for a microsoft employee. With the current boom of trojans and thier users it is more likely that someone happened to find a microsoft employee who couldnt get Noroton Anti-Virus installed correctly and downloaded BackOriface or SubSeven looking at porno. The issue is not who was the leak or what caused the leak (espionage, virus, a large angry penguin) but who ended up getting the source code.
If it was someone who knew what to do with it then m$ is going open-source wether they want to or not. It's alos likely that it may just be a script kidde that was able to recognize that it was code, but couldnt figure out how to use it and deleted it to make room for an Irc bot.
If you have acess to microsoft code and are reading this please distribute it, OPEN SOURCE NOW!
so are you going to report for jury duty? you shouldnt have to. if they come looking for you hold up the letter and show that it says 1901. you werent alive then (im making a biig assumption there ) so there was no way you could report.