You can still try. A lot of times stuff will break down cause of really stupid shit like a little broken wire. I always open stuff up and try to fix it.
The only thing I won't mess with are TVs/Monitors, cause I've heard too many horror stories about dastardly amounts of electricity seeking escape through the unfortunate amateur repairman.
The state computer technology mean that the factory equipment to do the equivalent of "soldering your own system together" is generally not within the cost range of any amateur. You can still solder together your own computer, if you feel like digging up some ancient technology. Otherwiser, you need to get the multiple layer motherboards and the CPUs that require a billion dollar fab plant from someone else.
Because everyone can afford the billion dollar CPU factories like AMD and Intel have, and we all can make a complicated circuit board (motherboard type) using simple chemicals and our kitchen sink.
You could actually set a budget per day, so you could get a little exposure on the "important" words, until too many people clicked and the cash you budgetted ran out.
Download their button and click F on every website you go to. Maybe someone could write a program that automatically does this everytime you go to a site.
Someone needs to learn the difference between a gigabit and a gigabyte....
Doing Math we can calculate that a full gigabit of transfer is 125 Megabytes a second. I think this is possible with high end hard drive technologies like SCSI RAID and speeds like this will probably show up in the desktop in a few years.
And, of course, not all data has to be written on Hard Drives. You could have a router or switch that will pass along a gigabit of packets a seconds but it certainly doesn't write them to the hard drive. You could for example but in a Gigabit Ethernet connection between two nearby buildings.
Can you hot-swap IDE? Without voiding your warranty?
I have read of people hot swapping the IDE drive of an X-Box in order to have the X-Box unlock the drive and then swap it to their computer so they can hack it.
I also personally once had a CD-ROM drive that was so old (before there were good standards) if it was plugged in it would totally freeze my motherboard. Now I can't say if the drive was harmed or not but I had a bit of fun pluggin in the drive, freezing my computer, and then unplugging it and my computer unfroze, and the IDE controller on the motherboard wasn't hurt...
I don't know about warranties though... Who needs 'em?
The upload caps are the answer to people running P2P and FTPs. My Verizon DSL is limited to 90 kbps uploads which means that when people are lucky they can pull stuff off me at 9 or 10 KB/s. Not that much bandwidth, and if I am using the internet myself at the same time I put my own limits at about 3 KB/s because I start getting unacceptable pings if too much of my upload is used. So generally I might fileshare at 3 KB/s during the day and at night when I'm not using it I let people pull the whole 10 KB/s.
Also, P2P would fall apart if people couldn't run it on their $40/month line.
They could have reverse engineered as far as having Bug for Bug compatibility. That is to say they looked at the packets generated in a certain situation and made sure their software would generate the same packets, even if was an "unusual" packet, in order to assure full compatibility.
It might even be that the "unusual" packet is not a bug or not easily recognized as one, and the BnetD team just thought that is what the server should reply with.
Tim
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He pretty much built the computer from scratch as much as you can without having a billion dollar CPU factory...
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When they are fighting for basic survival they really need those Nextels and internet...
Tim
You can still try. A lot of times stuff will break down cause of really stupid shit like a little broken wire. I always open stuff up and try to fix it.
The only thing I won't mess with are TVs/Monitors, cause I've heard too many horror stories about dastardly amounts of electricity seeking escape through the unfortunate amateur repairman.
Tim
The state computer technology mean that the factory equipment to do the equivalent of "soldering your own system together" is generally not within the cost range of any amateur. You can still solder together your own computer, if you feel like digging up some ancient technology. Otherwiser, you need to get the multiple layer motherboards and the CPUs that require a billion dollar fab plant from someone else.
Tim
They're certainly geniuses about cars... I don't know jack shit about what goes on other the hood, aside from the basic principles....
Tim
Because everyone can afford the billion dollar CPU factories like AMD and Intel have, and we all can make a complicated circuit board (motherboard type) using simple chemicals and our kitchen sink.
Tim
You could actually set a budget per day, so you could get a little exposure on the "important" words, until too many people clicked and the cash you budgetted ran out.
Tim
Nope.
When you click on the ad someone pays $0.05 or so.
The $10,000 and $3,000 figures are for EVERYONE they expect will click that ad in one day.
Tim
Download their button and click F on every website you go to. Maybe someone could write a program that automatically does this everytime you go to a site.
Tim
Someone needs to learn the difference between a gigabit and a gigabyte....
Doing Math we can calculate that a full gigabit of transfer is 125 Megabytes a second. I think this is possible with high end hard drive technologies like SCSI RAID and speeds like this will probably show up in the desktop in a few years.
And, of course, not all data has to be written on Hard Drives. You could have a router or switch that will pass along a gigabit of packets a seconds but it certainly doesn't write them to the hard drive. You could for example but in a Gigabit Ethernet connection between two nearby buildings.
Tim
I did that on purpose just to be sure i didnt put a valid address :P
Tim
Amazon.com, Riaa.org, Blizzard.com - These can handle a slashdotting.
o s. html, 123.34.56.256/shinything.html, ServerrunningonaC64.net - these cannot.
geocities.com/someguy123/manganatalieportmanleg
Tim
By the Big Power Switch do you mean the one on your case or the one on your Power Supply?
Only because, I don't care how Borg it is, there's no way it should be able to stay on when you turn the power supply off.
Tim
Hey, if you can make your PII 250 work as good as my Athlon 1.4, THEN maybe I have some learning to do.
Tim
I have read of people hot swapping the IDE drive of an X-Box in order to have the X-Box unlock the drive and then swap it to their computer so they can hack it.
I also personally once had a CD-ROM drive that was so old (before there were good standards) if it was plugged in it would totally freeze my motherboard. Now I can't say if the drive was harmed or not but I had a bit of fun pluggin in the drive, freezing my computer, and then unplugging it and my computer unfroze, and the IDE controller on the motherboard wasn't hurt...
I don't know about warranties though... Who needs 'em?
Tim
Sounds like a feature for LEGO^H^H^H^H Block Structure Porn
Tim
He bet he did, and he enjoyed it!
/server foo.net
/nick l33td00d
/join #hackerz
Activate Logging.
No one will notice another idler....
Tim
When someone's on for several hours or whole days at a time I don't thinky you need to worry that much about the accuracy of the server's clock.
Tim
So, you should download Serious Sam off someone else in New Zealand!
Tim
The upload caps are the answer to people running P2P and FTPs. My Verizon DSL is limited to 90 kbps uploads which means that when people are lucky they can pull stuff off me at 9 or 10 KB/s. Not that much bandwidth, and if I am using the internet myself at the same time I put my own limits at about 3 KB/s because I start getting unacceptable pings if too much of my upload is used. So generally I might fileshare at 3 KB/s during the day and at night when I'm not using it I let people pull the whole 10 KB/s.
Also, P2P would fall apart if people couldn't run it on their $40/month line.
Tim
Are you "the" Archangel? If you are you'll know what I'm talking about :).
Tim
They could have reverse engineered as far as having Bug for Bug compatibility. That is to say they looked at the packets generated in a certain situation and made sure their software would generate the same packets, even if was an "unusual" packet, in order to assure full compatibility.
It might even be that the "unusual" packet is not a bug or not easily recognized as one, and the BnetD team just thought that is what the server should reply with.
Tim
He pretty much built the computer from scratch as much as you can without having a billion dollar CPU factory...
What more do you want?
Tim
What, if anything, is it measuring?
Tim
I certainly don't have a virus scanner running, and I'm even on Windows.
You just have to be careful about what executables you run and don't do stupid shit like use outlook express, and you don't get Viruses / Adware.
Tim