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Introduction:
It all started as a way to clean my network room up. In that room I currently have three computers (one is out of commission for a while), a mess of routers, hubs, switches, and wireless APs and antennas. The space in between all these parts is filled with ethernet cable strewn everywhere. I'm currently hosting a network for my entire neighborhood, including remote file hosting, FTP, intranet, and other assorted goodies that we won't discuss here (my ISPs might get upset... ).
I thought to myself that it would be nice to have a server cabinet to stack all of my machines in, freeing valuable floor space, and by hooking the majority of my networking gear up on a shelf on the top it would free myself from the spaghetti mess of the CAT5. The only problem was that one of my machines was watercooled in an especially bizarre way (including a "football" [reservoir/air trap] trailing behind it), making it difficult to fit the system into a 4U rackmount case.
After rolling this idea around in my head for a while, I came across a thread on Pro/Forums that asked what we would change if we could redesign our WC system from scratch. Immediately I pictured a centralized cooling system for a rackmount unit with a giant vertical reservoir running up one side, also serving as a gravity based return feeding the radiators, and eventually the pump. I pictured the pump pumping up through multiple parallel channels, one feeding each computer system, with the 4U cases uncluttered, only containing a hose coming in one side, a water block on the CPU, and a hose going out to the drain on the other side. My initial idea was like this:
Using very little floor space, I could keep all of my hardware together, and watercool all of my machines from one well-built loop.
Very quickly I discovered that rack mount equipment was very expensive, and since I was looking to put money into quality components rather than good looks, I decided to change the idea a little. I decided that it would be just as effective to use stacked desktop cases as it would 4U cases, and I could do it for a fraction the cost. I also decided that it would be better to use one huge radiator than multiple smaller ones, just for ease of assembly. I also decided that it would be better to use an inline pump and only one reservoir, necessitating only one drain valve. By constructing PVC manifolds similar to what feed and exhaust the cylinders in a car, I could easily unplug extra channels to quickly add extra computers in. Overall, the required components are as follows, with X meaning one for each added PC:
15 ft 1/2" tubing - To string from the manifolds to the computer internals 10 ft 3/8" tubing - to attach to the water blocks and run outside to the manifold lines 1 large radiator - To cool the heated water 1 powerful pump - To keep a highly restrictive loop flowing A homemade box - To contain all of the major cooling components PVC - Lots of it... you'll see! X desktop cases - To stack the PCs in on the cooling box 1 large fan - To turn the cooling box into a big wind tunnel, allowing the radiator to breath Gallons of water - To fill the cooling loop with Hyperlube - To keep the coolant from "rotting" X water blocks - To cool the CPUs
Needless to say, this is going to be a very expensive project. I suspect that the it will run over $1000 to finish this project once I get started (since one machine needs upgraded before I put it on the loop), so I will be doing this in phases stretched over a few months. First I will acquire the hardware and start assembling the system. Once my proof of concept run (before the PVC is assembled) is done, I will finish building the infrastructure (using my old 350 GPH pump, if it can take the work), and begin Phase 1, which is putting the first PC on the cooling loop. Phase
Today was a big day for Microsoft's mobile devices software strategy. The company: (1) rolled out Pocket PC 2003 (and renamed it -- more on that later); (2) unveiled a new "Windows Mobile" branding strategy; and (3) launched a collaboration with three leading high-speed wireless service providers to provide easier access to more than 3,500 Wi-Fi wireless "hot spots" by Windows-powered PDAs throughout the US.
The following three WindowsForDevices.com news items detail today's three announcements by Microsoft's mobile group . ..
* Microsoft unveils Pocket PC 2003 (but with a new name) -- according to Microsoft, the 2003 version of its Pocket PC software provides enhancements in the areas of increased ease of wireless network access, improved digital media experience, and support for developers building Microsoft.NET services and applications for Pocket PC devices. Story
* Microsoft announces new brand: "Windows Mobile" -- the new brand is intended to "extend the familiarity of the Windows brand, while reflecting the uniqueness of software for mobile devices," Microsoft said. Story
* Microsoft launches Wi-Fi "hot spot" collaboration, 30-day free service -- Microsoft announced a collaboration with three leading high-speed wireless service providers -- T-Mobile HotSpot, Boingo Wireless and Wayport. The arrangement is intended to make it easier for its US customers to locate, access, and use Wi-Fi wireless services with their mobile devices, through access to more than 3,500 Wi-Fi "hot spot" locations in the US. Story
Additionally, a detailed list of key enhancements and new features in Pocket PC 2003 appears here.
What was the pocket equivalent of Windows is now "Windows Mobile", a wonderful new concept of interoperability between devices. [excuse me while I throw up]
It sounds a bit like smoke and mirrors (isn't it always?) - Micro$oft deciding to change their name because they are yet again having bad publicity about their previous versions.
After realising that its customers didn't know what bending function went with what computer function, Sony has decided to include a tutorial. Instead of the cheap, easy method of displaying pictures on the screen, they have used artifical muscles to bend the necessary bits of the computer.
In order to provide a more useful function, the mini computers have a screen-saver mode that can optionally bend the computer when it is not busy. Sony innovators figured that strange movements in people's pockets have either become accepted, or been ignored completely in the past.
all tools and software that allow circumventing copy protection mechanisms
Just wondering, how many programmers use compilers, tools that can be used by a programmer to circumvent copy protection mechanisms. I would hope that the law isn't this generic.
I have been trying to keep up with Mozilla developments, and have noticed here that there are still bugs to be resolved that are apparently blockers (or go straight to the bug list). The strange thing is, there was mentioned a possibility of rebranding RC2 as final, according to the recent staff meeting minutes (*1.4*, Point 3).
I find it strange that the Mozilla team is prepared to release 1.4 (which will replace the 1.0.x branch) with previously-declared blocker bugs still floating around.
the line numbers the Inquirer published are for the linux files
FWIW, Here's a section from the article mentioned:
"On the left is the file in the Linux tree, on the right is the file in the 4.4BSD tree. Also the range of matching lines in Linux is given on the left. It is unlikely that I missed any other large matching fragments.["]
The numbers on the left are for the Linux files, as you had assumed.
The 7E7, whose main selling point would be 10% or greater fuel efficiency
[Argh... my point has already been observed]
Okay, so maybe this is true for the people buying the planes themselves, but I would think being able to get bums on seats would be a better selling point.
With a name like Dreamliner, I would expect, maybe, a good sleep on my next trip. Then again, I may also expect "dreamlike" services, being able to browse the Internet for no extra cost, or maybe even being able to use a cellphone on takeoff.
Then again, we have 12.5% GST in New Zealand, so I guess I am used to it.
Perhaps the members of the EU will now want to buy less of the cheap, American products. It seems strange, as I have learnt to accept cheap products as coming from other places. "Made in America" still has a better ring to it than "Made in China".
A multinational currency... I wonder when USA will cave in and join the European Union.
Something I have a vague recollection of from my lectures in Psychology can be applied to gambling machines.
Apparently, the most effective way to get someone to keep doing something is to provide a reward at random intervals [of button pressing, lever pulling etc.], centered around some average. It doesn't matter how large the reward is, just as long as it is something. Most studies were carried out on rats, but humans are so similar to rats that you might as well generalise.
For "Fruit Machines", you can encourage people to play by rewarding them randomly, but on average, say, about every 20 button pushes. The amount returned from the machine doesn't really matter in terms of how addictive the machine will be, so a 99% payout would work as well as a 80% payout.
But then again, who ever listened to a psychologist and believed what they were saying?
This is the first stage of the Galileo system reported earlier
The next stage is to integrate components of the Eienstein system to take into account the distortion of space between signal tranmittance and reception.
Slashdot Mirror
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... ).
... you'll see!
Introduction:
It all started as a way to clean my network room up. In that room I currently have three computers (one is out of commission for a while), a mess of routers, hubs, switches, and wireless APs and antennas. The space in between all these parts is filled with ethernet cable strewn everywhere. I'm currently hosting a network for my entire neighborhood, including remote file hosting, FTP, intranet, and other assorted goodies that we won't discuss here (my ISPs might get upset
I thought to myself that it would be nice to have a server cabinet to stack all of my machines in, freeing valuable floor space, and by hooking the majority of my networking gear up on a shelf on the top it would free myself from the spaghetti mess of the CAT5. The only problem was that one of my machines was watercooled in an especially bizarre way (including a "football" [reservoir/air trap] trailing behind it), making it difficult to fit the system into a 4U rackmount case.
After rolling this idea around in my head for a while, I came across a thread on Pro/Forums that asked what we would change if we could redesign our WC system from scratch. Immediately I pictured a centralized cooling system for a rackmount unit with a giant vertical reservoir running up one side, also serving as a gravity based return feeding the radiators, and eventually the pump. I pictured the pump pumping up through multiple parallel channels, one feeding each computer system, with the 4U cases uncluttered, only containing a hose coming in one side, a water block on the CPU, and a hose going out to the drain on the other side. My initial idea was like this:
Using very little floor space, I could keep all of my hardware together, and watercool all of my machines from one well-built loop.
Very quickly I discovered that rack mount equipment was very expensive, and since I was looking to put money into quality components rather than good looks, I decided to change the idea a little. I decided that it would be just as effective to use stacked desktop cases as it would 4U cases, and I could do it for a fraction the cost. I also decided that it would be better to use one huge radiator than multiple smaller ones, just for ease of assembly. I also decided that it would be better to use an inline pump and only one reservoir, necessitating only one drain valve. By constructing PVC manifolds similar to what feed and exhaust the cylinders in a car, I could easily unplug extra channels to quickly add extra computers in. Overall, the required components are as follows, with X meaning one for each added PC:
15 ft 1/2" tubing - To string from the manifolds to the computer internals
10 ft 3/8" tubing - to attach to the water blocks and run outside to the manifold lines
1 large radiator - To cool the heated water
1 powerful pump - To keep a highly restrictive loop flowing
A homemade box - To contain all of the major cooling components
PVC - Lots of it
X desktop cases - To stack the PCs in on the cooling box
1 large fan - To turn the cooling box into a big wind tunnel, allowing the radiator to breath
Gallons of water - To fill the cooling loop with
Hyperlube - To keep the coolant from "rotting"
X water blocks - To cool the CPUs
Needless to say, this is going to be a very expensive project. I suspect that the it will run over $1000 to finish this project once I get started (since one machine needs upgraded before I put it on the loop), so I will be doing this in phases stretched over a few months. First I will acquire the hardware and start assembling the system. Once my proof of concept run (before the PVC is assembled) is done, I will finish building the infrastructure (using my old 350 GPH pump, if it can take the work), and begin Phase 1, which is putting the first PC on the cooling loop. Phase
Jun. 23, 2003
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.NET services and applications for Pocket PC devices. Story
Today was a big day for Microsoft's mobile devices software strategy. The company: (1) rolled out Pocket PC 2003 (and renamed it -- more on that later); (2) unveiled a new "Windows Mobile" branding strategy; and (3) launched a collaboration with three leading high-speed wireless service providers to provide easier access to more than 3,500 Wi-Fi wireless "hot spots" by Windows-powered PDAs throughout the US.
The following three WindowsForDevices.com news items detail today's three announcements by Microsoft's mobile group . .
* Microsoft unveils Pocket PC 2003 (but with a new name) -- according to Microsoft, the 2003 version of its Pocket PC software provides enhancements in the areas of increased ease of wireless network access, improved digital media experience, and support for developers building Microsoft
* Microsoft announces new brand: "Windows Mobile" -- the new brand is intended to "extend the familiarity of the Windows brand, while reflecting the uniqueness of software for mobile devices," Microsoft said. Story
* Microsoft launches Wi-Fi "hot spot" collaboration, 30-day free service -- Microsoft announced a collaboration with three leading high-speed wireless service providers -- T-Mobile HotSpot, Boingo Wireless and Wayport. The arrangement is intended to make it easier for its US customers to locate, access, and use Wi-Fi wireless services with their mobile devices, through access to more than 3,500 Wi-Fi "hot spot" locations in the US. Story
Additionally, a detailed list of key enhancements and new features in Pocket PC 2003 appears here.
You could think of novel ways to combine the two words to create a negative connotation.
I like the sound of WinBile.
What was the pocket equivalent of Windows is now "Windows Mobile", a wonderful new concept of interoperability between devices.
[excuse me while I throw up]
It sounds a bit like smoke and mirrors (isn't it always?) - Micro$oft deciding to change their name because they are yet again having bad publicity about their previous versions.
Don't cross the streams
After realising that its customers didn't know what bending function went with what computer function, Sony has decided to include a tutorial. Instead of the cheap, easy method of displaying pictures on the screen, they have used artifical muscles to bend the necessary bits of the computer.
In order to provide a more useful function, the mini computers have a screen-saver mode that can optionally bend the computer when it is not busy. Sony innovators figured that strange movements in people's pockets have either become accepted, or been ignored completely in the past.
all tools and software that allow circumventing copy protection mechanisms
Just wondering, how many programmers use compilers, tools that can be used by a programmer to circumvent copy protection mechanisms. I would hope that the law isn't this generic.
Freedom is the freedom to say that USB1.1 + USB1.1 is not USB2.
If that is granted, all else follows
If you go against the USB Forum's wishes, their thought police will get you. Big brother is watching you.
Ah, yes. GUADEC. Where you can find out 101 different uses for your regular garden GNOME.
I wonder if the GNOME Foundation will be designing new platforms for their Network Object Model Environment.
I have been trying to keep up with Mozilla developments, and have noticed here that there are still bugs to be resolved that are apparently blockers (or go straight to the bug list). The strange thing is, there was mentioned a possibility of rebranding RC2 as final, according to the recent staff meeting minutes (*1.4*, Point 3).
I find it strange that the Mozilla team is prepared to release 1.4 (which will replace the 1.0.x branch) with previously-declared blocker bugs still floating around.
FWIW, Here's a section from the article mentioned:
The numbers on the left are for the Linux files, as you had assumed.
From The Dreamliner site:
Program Milestones:
Authority to offer: Late 2003/Early 2004
Launch: 1st Half 2004
Assembly start: 2005
First flight: 2007
Certification/Entry into service: 2008
The 7E7, whose main selling point would be 10% or greater fuel efficiency
[Argh... my point has already been observed]
Okay, so maybe this is true for the people buying the planes themselves, but I would think being able to get bums on seats would be a better selling point.
With a name like Dreamliner, I would expect, maybe, a good sleep on my next trip. Then again, I may also expect "dreamlike" services, being able to browse the Internet for no extra cost, or maybe even being able to use a cellphone on takeoff.
What are you saying? When I use SPE-C, I can catch bullets?
What I'm saying, is that when you're ready, you won't have to.
Then again, we have 12.5% GST in New Zealand, so I guess I am used to it.
Perhaps the members of the EU will now want to buy less of the cheap, American products. It seems strange, as I have learnt to accept cheap products as coming from other places. "Made in America" still has a better ring to it than "Made in China".
A multinational currency... I wonder when USA will cave in and join the European Union.
Something I have a vague recollection of from my lectures in Psychology can be applied to gambling machines.
Apparently, the most effective way to get someone to keep doing something is to provide a reward at random intervals [of button pressing, lever pulling etc.], centered around some average. It doesn't matter how large the reward is, just as long as it is something. Most studies were carried out on rats, but humans are so similar to rats that you might as well generalise.
For "Fruit Machines", you can encourage people to play by rewarding them randomly, but on average, say, about every 20 button pushes. The amount returned from the machine doesn't really matter in terms of how addictive the machine will be, so a 99% payout would work as well as a 80% payout.
But then again, who ever listened to a psychologist and believed what they were saying?
The next stage is to integrate components of the Eienstein system to take into account the distortion of space between signal tranmittance and reception.