The first time there is a group of bored teens with laptops and Q3, there is gonna be an international incedent. While the a massive swat team hides in fear while taunts of "I'm gonna frag you A**" are heard. Would not want to be the mayor of that town.
I just modded my laptop, not only does it have a clear case, a liquid cooled CPU but I put on a 4 barrel micro-holly carb with a supercharger on on the fuel cell and MAN does that baby purr.
With this puppy I can whip any ground based gamerw while in flight. Just kick it into overdrive!
Bigger reason why not transparent
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Have you ever looked at concrete? Its filled with lots of air pockets. It's like the fractal sphere packing problem.
The problem is agravated by the material itself. As concrete cures it generates gas. most of it never reaches the surface to disapate. Therefore; causing voids to apear in the final material. Vibrating the concrete before it's fully cured helps but is never perfect.
Even if you used rosin as the glue and glas beads as the aggregate, you would still have bubbles. As any POVRAY user would tell you you can never get a perfect merge like that in real life.
I can see it now...
Burgler1: Oh man this place has barred doors.
Burgler2: Just brek a window man.
Burgler1: *SMAACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*.. Hey! what the...I bent my crow bar!
Burglur2: Here let me try...moron. *SMAACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*.. Hey! what the...I beusted my fist
Burgler1: HA HA HA HA, Whos the mon now?
Burgler2: It aint worth it lets go next door.
Could be a fire problem thou.
Builder: Um... emergency exits?
Well I tried it. first thing I got was a bunch of warnings, and then it seg-faulted. well back to the drawing board. Maybe they will fix in further releases (oh groan I know)
However there is no good way to 'jukebox' a lot of that media in a usable way. CD's you can MP3 them, but DVD's are space pigs on ANY size drive (hold up your hands anybody who has more than 10 DVD's)
I would love a way to put in my disk to a jukebox affair, and have my dvd player hook to it, my PS2, and my stereo. That way 'mishaps' would happen less.
Realisticly thou, How long will the hardware last, or be backward compatable? Further: CD's have the potential to last 30 years, but how many people will actually want to listen to them? Oh wait.. there is great 50's music:)
After dabbling in p2p for a bit. I found PHEXworked for some large files. However I found all the p2p client/servers had a few things problematic about them.
While they all could search, none could find matching files by hash code(be it rc5 or whatever it uses).
Of the ones that did multi-home download, none ever kept trying to find sources for the files in progress (enhancment/feature?).
My biggest beef with all of them is that none could continue a d/l that had stopped. So every time it re-started it would start at the beginning.
Only a few of them could resume searching/downloading if the client died(or I killed it) (gtk-gnutella could save the d/l requests)
Spammage - you could do a exact title serch, and get hacking info, or porno or... well you know what I mean. Heavans forbid if any commercial company really got serious about it.
'Piggy-backing' would be nice, but reliabe would be better. In the end it has a ways to go. Large files are the biggest problem.
And I am "electricly sensitive" - I use electricity like air. Better than caffine in the morning. To tell you the truth that buzz in the morning gets a whole new meaning when the alarm goes off. I need it, I want it, BWAHAHAHAHA. I have to rub my socks across the carpeting at work when I need a quick fix. It's hell on installing memory chips, but who cares any way - they're cheap!
More power to me, all the better to frag you with!
I live in Denver. They made me switch before Jan 1 2002. I did - to Forethought, there you can have servers, static IP's, be in bridge-mode not PPP, etc. Never been happier.
Qwest.net kept sending me e-mails about how MSN was incompatible with Linux. Eg that it would not work. I'm thinking, how? did the way TCP/IP packets get send over the wire change? The hardware is identical. I had Qwest.net for a year before they did the 'change over'
I think they did this deliberatly to attack any and all Linux users. If it was so 'incompatable' why were MAC users exempt? So IMHO it's all pure bulls**t.
Furthermore; I had to talk to their tech support, twice before they would remove me fron the qwest.net services (e-mail,web etc) All the while charging me for ISP service. They called it a 'error'.
Sorry, but my paranoid levels are way up because of this.
Well of the 2.4 I was hoping to get USB for one and DEVFS for two. Did I get them? - well not really.
Devfs was a bust for now. Until I have the time to rename all my devices and recode/reconfigure all the programs that use them. Futhermore; it did not play well with software raid. So in the end I had to back off of this.
USB: had more luck with this but noticed something very odd. I have a USB mouse hooked up to it now but forget any autodetect. Still too beta for configuration. I also found that you could remove a module that the mouse required to run while GPM was running. I thought you could never remove a modules if a program had it in use.
AMD Athon support: No go. I had to finally step back to PIII because it could not handle my BIOS right. (K166 chipset.) Furthermore; any support for my Raedeon card was a no go. Still not sure if it was related to the MB or not.
But my biggest beef was this. All of the programs I had created and compiled under 2.2.19 would not run with the new 2.4 kernel. They would all fail mysteriously without any errors. I would have to recompile them all before they would work. I thought it was supposed to be binary compatable.
In the end I have a stable 2.4.12 kernel (I hope), but it was was too hard to get it there.I'm still not sure which kernel _is_ stable considering the problems some of the kernel builds had (eg. 2.4.15)
I thought the best way to discover cheaters was to ask them about 'their' code. If they waffle about how they implemented it, they usually did not do the work.
You might use a tool to help find potential cheating, but using a tool to prove it is very wrong and unfair.
I have 4 machines on or around my desk. I was running out of space. I was able to take a large tower case and put it in the same space as my old CRT/minitower. I think it is much better for viewing as well. Now I'll get a KVM switch and use it as way to switch between 2-3 pc's
The other was Price. I have a 21 KDS monitor that I go t for only $400 while the 15" LCD was $320 (sale) A 21" LCD was outrageous at the time ($2000+) OUCH!
Not nesscesarily. Some LCD are analog like my NEC LCD1530V. I've hooked to a Geforce 2. Works fine for games Q3/UT uses the nvidea drivers and get great refresh rates (60-80fps no prob) I'm very happy with it so far.
A Firewall. I wish these were more prevalant 2 months ago. At that time the atx-flex spec was out but nobody had any thing for it. Worse yet nobody near me had any parts/cases etc.
A beowolf cluster system - someone had to say it:) I have been thinking of a four node beowolf for some time now and those MB look perfect for it. Eg built in NIC and video,
One thing to about it though - Why didn't they use the combined CD-RW/floppy in a 5 1/4" bay and save the floppy spot for another HD/PCI slot? Slashdot had a article on them awhile back (slimline CD-rom/RW)
Scotty: You didn't actually tell him how long it would really take,didja lad?
LaForge: Of course
Scotty: You never tell them how long it will really take. Captains are like babies, they want everything right now.
LaForge: But isn't that wrong?
Scotty: How else do we get the reputaion of being miracle workers?
Slashdot Mirror
If seen from above:
I think that dupping a cd is easy - but labeling it after is the time consuming part. You could also handle multiple CD drives at a time.
The first time there is a group of bored teens with laptops and Q3, there is gonna be an international incedent. While the a massive swat team hides in fear while taunts of "I'm gonna frag you A**" are heard. Would not want to be the mayor of that town.
I can see it now at HardOCP:
I just modded my laptop, not only does it have a clear case, a liquid cooled CPU but I put on a 4 barrel micro-holly carb with a supercharger on on the fuel cell and MAN does that baby purr.
With this puppy I can whip any ground based gamerw while in flight. Just kick it into overdrive!
Have you ever looked at concrete? Its filled with lots of air pockets. It's like the fractal sphere packing problem.
The problem is agravated by the material itself. As concrete cures it generates gas. most of it never reaches the surface to disapate. Therefore; causing voids to apear in the final material. Vibrating the concrete before it's fully cured helps but is never perfect.
Even if you used rosin as the glue and glas beads as the aggregate, you would still have bubbles. As any POVRAY user would tell you you can never get a perfect merge like that in real life.
I can see it now...
Burgler1: Oh man this place has barred doors.
Burgler2: Just brek a window man.
Burgler1: *SMAACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*.. Hey! what the...I bent my crow bar!
Burglur2: Here let me try...moron. *SMAACK* *SMACK* *SMACK*.. Hey! what the...I beusted my fist
Burgler1: HA HA HA HA, Whos the mon now?
Burgler2: It aint worth it lets go next door.
Could be a fire problem thou.
Builder: Um... emergency exits?
A cheat code to rule them all
Well I tried it. first thing I got was a bunch of warnings, and then it seg-faulted. well back to the drawing board. Maybe they will fix in further releases (oh groan I know)
And if those mice were so smart how come they didn't think about it? Even I know that hardware fails.
What I have to ask is: what about the other stuff Loki did? I'd hate to see knowledge lost.
I would love a way to put in my disk to a jukebox affair, and have my dvd player hook to it, my PS2, and my stereo. That way 'mishaps' would happen less.
Realisticly thou, How long will the hardware last, or be backward compatable? Further: CD's have the potential to last 30 years, but how many people will actually want to listen to them? Oh wait.. there is great 50's music :)
After dabbling in p2p for a bit. I found PHEXworked for some large files. However I found all the p2p client/servers had a few things problematic about them.
'Piggy-backing' would be nice, but reliabe would be better. In the end it has a ways to go. Large files are the biggest problem.
More power to me, all the better to frag you with!
Qwest.net kept sending me e-mails about how MSN was incompatible with Linux. Eg that it would not work. I'm thinking, how? did the way TCP/IP packets get send over the wire change? The hardware is identical. I had Qwest.net for a year before they did the 'change over'
I think they did this deliberatly to attack any and all Linux users. If it was so 'incompatable' why were MAC users exempt? So IMHO it's all pure bulls**t.
Furthermore; I had to talk to their tech support, twice before they would remove me fron the qwest.net services (e-mail,web etc) All the while charging me for ISP service. They called it a 'error'.
Sorry, but my paranoid levels are way up because of this.
Well of the 2.4 I was hoping to get USB for one and DEVFS for two. Did I get them? - well not really.
Devfs was a bust for now. Until I have the time to rename all my devices and recode/reconfigure all the programs that use them. Futhermore; it did not play well with software raid. So in the end I had to back off of this.
USB: had more luck with this but noticed something very odd. I have a USB mouse hooked up to it now but forget any autodetect. Still too beta for configuration. I also found that you could remove a module that the mouse required to run while GPM was running. I thought you could never remove a modules if a program had it in use.
AMD Athon support: No go. I had to finally step back to PIII because it could not handle my BIOS right. (K166 chipset.) Furthermore; any support for my Raedeon card was a no go. Still not sure if it was related to the MB or not.
But my biggest beef was this. All of the programs I had created and compiled under 2.2.19 would not run with the new 2.4 kernel. They would all fail mysteriously without any errors. I would have to recompile them all before they would work. I thought it was supposed to be binary compatable.
In the end I have a stable 2.4.12 kernel (I hope), but it was was too hard to get it there.I'm still not sure which kernel _is_ stable considering the problems some of the kernel builds had (eg. 2.4.15)
I thought the best way to discover cheaters was to ask them about 'their' code. If they waffle about how they implemented it, they usually did not do the work.
You might use a tool to help find potential cheating, but using a tool to prove it is very wrong and unfair.
I have 4 machines on or around my desk. I was running out of space. I was able to take a large tower case and put it in the same space as my old CRT/minitower. I think it is much better for viewing as well. Now I'll get a KVM switch and use it as way to switch between 2-3 pc's
The other was Price. I have a 21 KDS monitor that I go t for only $400 while the 15" LCD was $320 (sale) A 21" LCD was outrageous at the time ($2000+) OUCH!
Not nesscesarily. Some LCD are analog like my NEC LCD1530V. I've hooked to a Geforce 2. Works fine for games Q3/UT uses the nvidea drivers and get great refresh rates (60-80fps no prob) I'm very happy with it so far.
I have this
NEC LCD1530V 15" LCD Got at circuit city for $320 bucks one day (sale) I use for Q3 and UT and it owrks just fine.
A Firewall. I wish these were more prevalant 2 months ago. At that time the atx-flex spec was out but nobody had any thing for it. Worse yet nobody near me had any parts/cases etc.
:) I have been thinking of a four node beowolf for some time now and those MB look perfect for it. Eg built in NIC and video,
A beowolf cluster system - someone had to say it
One thing to about it though - Why didn't they use the combined CD-RW/floppy in a 5 1/4" bay and save the floppy spot for another HD/PCI slot? Slashdot had a article on them awhile back (slimline CD-rom/RW)
Remember this article?
Then thats something to include as a extra charge on your billing.
That's what porn videos are
You would think they could have at least beowolfed them...
And I thought we were slash.
But, Hemos you should give them fair warning before you post a hardware realted article. You know we're a bunch of OCP junkies
LaForge: Of course
Scotty: You never tell them how long it will really take. Captains are like babies, they want everything right now.
LaForge: But isn't that wrong?
Scotty: How else do we get the reputaion of being miracle workers?
(With apologies to Star Trek)
"I'm sorry but I don't open doc fils because of the potential for viruses"
or even better yet - reformats the bugger to html.