Hell, just water-cool the suckers. Last time I saw a "bare" Sparc chip, it was topped with a metal plate and 2 cylinders (like pins, kinda fat though). Onto those pins you attached a pair of round heatsinks (stacked discs). Replace the heatsinks with some kind of water "jacket" and away you go. Fewer problems than with refidgeration. Might want to use a non-conductive liquid rather than water, now that I think about it, unless it's pure H2O.
Beavis & Butthead Do America was the beginning of the end for B&B. Sure, it was at least in part due to Mike Judge starting up King of the Hill (how many B&B characters, or at least voices do you hear in there? I see a lot), but I think the movie was too much. Had it been done earlier in the lifetime of the show, maybe it would have been better. But by the time the movie came out, the show had already been "toned down" from the good ol' days and the movie never played to the sick (but damn funny) level the older episodes did.
When people ask that, they really mean "is it Windows compatible?" There could be a Dragonball processor inside PCs, the average person doesn't know, doesn't care, and doesn't want to know/care. If Windows ran on it and all their apps looked and worked the same, it would still be a "PC" to them and they'd be oblivious to it.
Ah, dammit, now I gotta pull out my script that I used to run OGR-23 12 hours/day and then switch to RC5-64 for 12 hours so I can toggle between OGR-24 and Gamma Flux. Looks pretty cool.
I've been getting sick of RC5-64 (over 2 years now, and no end in sight) and SETI just doesn't interest me. Finally, a contest I can sink my teeth into AND has real, usable results.
All the "deals" I've seen were for computers at street price or worse. I went to Clarkson University, one of the first schools in the country to give a computer to each incoming freshman. In 1995, I was handed a 486DX2/66 with 4MB of RAM. We were given assignments in Calc I and II (among other classes) in Maple V which needed more power than they could provide. Wanna get something done? Try to get into a PC lab (486s with 16MB) or jump right into one of the (now non-existent) AIX labs and try to figure out UNIX.
THe year after my freshman year, they discontinued that program, and offered packages students could buy with a few options. Zeniths and NECs were the 2 brands. You paid for the computer in June, and got it in August. Yeah, that's nice. They realized that was a failure and dropped it altogether - now they "very strongly recommend" that you come with your own PC, and if you can get a NIC installed before you arrive, they're even happier.
Liverpool, NY's high school proposed last week that all incoming 10th graders be required to own and bring a laptop. 10th graders!. And last I heard, no subsidies from the gummint or the school. Those machines would get destroyed in a matter of days. Or stolen. Or you'd have kids sitting in the library/class playing games instead of doing what they're supposed to be doing.
They don't need to figure out lilo; if you're like most Linux users I know, Linux is your default. So they won't have to figure that part out. When you get to the login prompt, though, they'll be stymied. So create another, "dummy" account for just such an occasion. And make your real account's home directory hidden (or buried AND hidden). They probably won't find it then. And if you think they might, there's always GnuPG.
Sure, we've got Dell Linux laptops now, but how good are they? Nearly everyone I know who owns a laptop has had to return theirs at least twice to get fixed. Of the 2 who come to mind, one is a PC "novice" (but on the high end of that specturm) and the issues might be software, might be hardware, but I couldn't tell from his description. The other is fairly software-literate and has built a number of desktop systems - the problems were hardware.
I'd love to have a laptop so I can hang out on the couch instead of at the desk, but it's not worth that kind of trouble.
I think petitions are needed right now. It's the only way we can really make a "show of force" in asking for software/hardware. The more software we get ported in the present, the less need we'll have for petitions in the future. As petitions succeed, more people will see software for Linux, thus driving the market for more apps toward Linux.
IIRC, the kernel is Mach but the UI will still be decidedly Mac. The kernel doesn't care how many buttons you have (nor should the user care that the kernel doesn't care), it's all about the UI.
The US isn't the only country that has a timezone labeled "Eastern" - there's an EST in Australia as well.
Use UTC. It's a common reference point that everyone *should* be able to convert to their local time. Otherwise, you have to say "well, I'm 11 hours ahead of UTC, USEST is 5 hours behind" and go through more crap.
If the terms of his parole only dictate that he can't interact with "a computer" then that can be abused by someone to say that his using a microwave oven violates his parole. Ambiguity in law is a very, very bad thing.
If the term used by the judge is "computer," that is sufficiently vague for someone to claim Mitnick has violated it by driving a car. Vague laws (or judgements or decisions) are very easy to abuse. I see things twisted every week to say what the person WANTS it to say because there's just a tiny ambiguity.
In the press conference yesterday TransMeta said they have had customers lined up and ready to introduce products for quite some time. My guess is, they've been working with them for at least a year, under a VERY tight NDA, so that TransMeta could pop up at the conference with plenty of goodies to show off - and in the afterglow, those partners could say "here we are! we're on the trolley!"
How much load does USB put on the CPU compared to SCSI? Will it bog down when you start burning CDs, making coasters? Has anyone actually succeeded in chaining 127 USB devices? I think the record is 112, and that took a lot of voodoo dancing. Where are you going to put these 127 devices?
I'm still gonna go SCSI on my next box. Configuration? You do it once, what's the big deal? 127 devices? I won't have more than 15, you can hang 15 off just about any SCSI card these days. And it'll leave my CPU to do more important things.
Get a Crusoe-driven device, fit it with a quality sound card, power it off this fuel cell, and start putting DJs out of business. You can carry the same amount of music a lot easier in MP3 than on CDs, and get more "useful" space (weed out unwanted tracks).
I have a feeling it's considerably more flammable. Seeing as how they use it to fuel race cars, whereas I've seen people have a LOT of trouble trying to get whiskey and vodka to ignite and stay lit for an extended period of time (more than 5 seconds). When it is burning though, there's almost no visible flame. Baccardi 151 is pretty volatile though. But how many people carry that in large quantities?
Word95 was almost identical to Word 6.0, except it was recompiled to support all the shiny new Win32 stuff and supported long filenames. Yippee. Probably the absolute worst version number change possible.
New Line has optioned the book. That basically means they called "we got dibs" on the rights to make a movie out of the book for the next X years (for a price, of course). It doesn't mean they will make a movie, it doesn't even mean they've given thought thought about script/director/whatever. It just means they think the book has enough value that they don't want to risk losing the chance to make the movie to another studio - or, more importantly, risk another studio making the movie and thus making money they may have had a chance at.
Remember DOOM was optioned for a movie at least 3, 4 years ago. the options have been bought and sold around Hollywood, and we're still not even close to seeing a feature film.
Because then the people in the arena would see nothing. And I'd say it's a safe bet that there are more events in any arena than are televised. The arena managers make the deals for ads in the arena, NOT the TV people. Blue screen ads have no value for them, it would cost them too much money.
What I CAN see happening is CBS putting an ad over a billboard during their broadcast.
RoadRunner in Central NY blocks port 25 inbound. We can bounce all the mail we want around inside the TWCNY network (and send mail out), but no one from outside can send mail direct to my box.
Fortunately, they haven't blocked ports 21, 23, 23 and 80 (to name a few important ones). Not yet anyway. Now, if @Home blocked a port or 2 on their systems, could this be avoided altogether? Some RR folks are really upset that 25 is blocked for us, I'm dealing with it; the service is still better than dial-up. And it does give me some peace of mind that people can't try to abuse my box via sendmail. I'm just wondering if @Home is posturing with this "we're going on a hunt" thing because they don't understand that it may be as simple as flipping a virtual switch on the routers, and KNOW that they don't understand how to run things well.
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Hell, just water-cool the suckers. Last time I saw a "bare" Sparc chip, it was topped with a metal plate and 2 cylinders (like pins, kinda fat though). Onto those pins you attached a pair of round heatsinks (stacked discs). Replace the heatsinks with some kind of water "jacket" and away you go. Fewer problems than with refidgeration. Might want to use a non-conductive liquid rather than water, now that I think about it, unless it's pure H2O.
Have they finally fixed the bug where turning off JS disabled CSS even if you have CSS enabled?
My P2-266 has been taking just under 24 hours to complete a stub.
Beavis & Butthead Do America was the beginning of the end for B&B. Sure, it was at least in part due to Mike Judge starting up King of the Hill (how many B&B characters, or at least voices do you hear in there? I see a lot), but I think the movie was too much. Had it been done earlier in the lifetime of the show, maybe it would have been better. But by the time the movie came out, the show had already been "toned down" from the good ol' days and the movie never played to the sick (but damn funny) level the older episodes did.
When people ask that, they really mean "is it Windows compatible?" There could be a Dragonball processor inside PCs, the average person doesn't know, doesn't care, and doesn't want to know/care. If Windows ran on it and all their apps looked and worked the same, it would still be a "PC" to them and they'd be oblivious to it.
Ah, dammit, now I gotta pull out my script that I used to run OGR-23 12 hours/day and then switch to RC5-64 for 12 hours so I can toggle between OGR-24 and Gamma Flux. Looks pretty cool.
I've been getting sick of RC5-64 (over 2 years now, and no end in sight) and SETI just doesn't interest me. Finally, a contest I can sink my teeth into AND has real, usable results.
That program was discontinued in '97. Students were bringing better computers than Clarkson could offer at the same price.
THe year after my freshman year, they discontinued that program, and offered packages students could buy with a few options. Zeniths and NECs were the 2 brands. You paid for the computer in June, and got it in August. Yeah, that's nice. They realized that was a failure and dropped it altogether - now they "very strongly recommend" that you come with your own PC, and if you can get a NIC installed before you arrive, they're even happier.
Liverpool, NY's high school proposed last week that all incoming 10th graders be required to own and bring a laptop. 10th graders!. And last I heard, no subsidies from the gummint or the school. Those machines would get destroyed in a matter of days. Or stolen. Or you'd have kids sitting in the library/class playing games instead of doing what they're supposed to be doing.
They don't need to figure out lilo; if you're like most Linux users I know, Linux is your default. So they won't have to figure that part out. When you get to the login prompt, though, they'll be stymied. So create another, "dummy" account for just such an occasion. And make your real account's home directory hidden (or buried AND hidden). They probably won't find it then. And if you think they might, there's always GnuPG.
I'd love to have a laptop so I can hang out on the couch instead of at the desk, but it's not worth that kind of trouble.
The battle is, who's weaker, the admin or the software? Yes, the software comes from anywhere and everywhere, but there are more eyes looking at it.
I think petitions are needed right now. It's the only way we can really make a "show of force" in asking for software/hardware. The more software we get ported in the present, the less need we'll have for petitions in the future. As petitions succeed, more people will see software for Linux, thus driving the market for more apps toward Linux.
IIRC, the kernel is Mach but the UI will still be decidedly Mac. The kernel doesn't care how many buttons you have (nor should the user care that the kernel doesn't care), it's all about the UI.
Use UTC. It's a common reference point that everyone *should* be able to convert to their local time. Otherwise, you have to say "well, I'm 11 hours ahead of UTC, USEST is 5 hours behind" and go through more crap.
If the terms of his parole only dictate that he can't interact with "a computer" then that can be abused by someone to say that his using a microwave oven violates his parole. Ambiguity in law is a very, very bad thing.
If the term used by the judge is "computer," that is sufficiently vague for someone to claim Mitnick has violated it by driving a car. Vague laws (or judgements or decisions) are very easy to abuse. I see things twisted every week to say what the person WANTS it to say because there's just a tiny ambiguity.
In the press conference yesterday TransMeta said they have had customers lined up and ready to introduce products for quite some time. My guess is, they've been working with them for at least a year, under a VERY tight NDA, so that TransMeta could pop up at the conference with plenty of goodies to show off - and in the afterglow, those partners could say "here we are! we're on the trolley!"
I'm still gonna go SCSI on my next box. Configuration? You do it once, what's the big deal? 127 devices? I won't have more than 15, you can hang 15 off just about any SCSI card these days. And it'll leave my CPU to do more important things.
Get a Crusoe-driven device, fit it with a quality sound card, power it off this fuel cell, and start putting DJs out of business. You can carry the same amount of music a lot easier in MP3 than on CDs, and get more "useful" space (weed out unwanted tracks).
I have a feeling it's considerably more flammable. Seeing as how they use it to fuel race cars, whereas I've seen people have a LOT of trouble trying to get whiskey and vodka to ignite and stay lit for an extended period of time (more than 5 seconds). When it is burning though, there's almost no visible flame. Baccardi 151 is pretty volatile though. But how many people carry that in large quantities?
Word95 was almost identical to Word 6.0, except it was recompiled to support all the shiny new Win32 stuff and supported long filenames. Yippee. Probably the absolute worst version number change possible.
Remember DOOM was optioned for a movie at least 3, 4 years ago. the options have been bought and sold around Hollywood, and we're still not even close to seeing a feature film.
What I CAN see happening is CBS putting an ad over a billboard during their broadcast.
Fortunately, they haven't blocked ports 21, 23, 23 and 80 (to name a few important ones). Not yet anyway. Now, if @Home blocked a port or 2 on their systems, could this be avoided altogether? Some RR folks are really upset that 25 is blocked for us, I'm dealing with it; the service is still better than dial-up. And it does give me some peace of mind that people can't try to abuse my box via sendmail. I'm just wondering if @Home is posturing with this "we're going on a hunt" thing because they don't understand that it may be as simple as flipping a virtual switch on the routers, and KNOW that they don't understand how to run things well.