Right Pinkey? Hmmm... My left pinkey was always the one that hurt. I guess it was from my CoCo keyboard and old Sun's that put control to the left of 'a', combined with using bash since the late '80s.
My solution? A Kinesis keyboard. Who says you need two thumbs to hit one key (space)? Baby, I got control,alt,backspace,space, and enter under my thumbs. I love this keyboard!
- dave f.
BTW, I also have a IBM Model M to throw on other machines as needed, and into the closet when not needed (Bang! - oops, there goes some more drywall).
Yeah, why don't they compare some good formats. Flac (on sourceforge) sounds just as good as the CD to my ears (and everyone elses). Of course, it doesn't compress as much as mp3, etc. but that's the price you pay for quality.
I got a 430W Enermax PS for under $100. I didn't think that was bad. Of course, I'm not sure if it's good enough for dual Athlons... it's mostly more power to the 12V line.
Hell, all someone needs to do is go to Bonneville with one of these, and drive through the traps. You don't even have to go fast. Turbine motorcycle is an open record.
But the question is 'what do you get when you multiply six by nine', or something like that.
So where in the hell are you getting 7 from?
Maybe you should try 6=Sun, and 9=Moon, obviously the two largest sources of input into the computer, Earth. Then we take base 13 (the dog) as guidence for the autonomous agents (Man (2)) and then... Oh, forget it.
But it is just like Windows...
Some stuff can be done with a GUI interface, then you get to sysedit, regedit, etc.
Even MSFT can't GUI everything.
- dave f.
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I've got a motherboard with a fan connector that died too. Yes, it is a POS motherboard. Anyone else here remember the disaster that vas the ABIT BP6?
I got one of those god-awful boards with the intent of overclocking a couple of celerons. I got a couple of Alpha heatsink and fans for the CPUs, a fan for the chipset, and an Addtronics 7986 case. What happened when I tried to use both CPUs? Lockups, lots of lockups. I shoved more fans in the case to get the power regulating circuitry temperature down to around 104F (the CPUs were already running well under a hundred). Still locked up. Even when I dropped the speed down. Turns out, ABIT used the wrong caps. Of course, it took a while to find out.
And then a fan connector died.
Learned my lesson, I did. Never again will I get a MB from some second tier manufacturer that places stability second to performance.
- dave f.
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5 fans? Let's see...
28db *3 + 31db + 33db = 37db.
No, that's probably less than 80db.
Sorry if you got the impression that I was saying Linux was behind the internet back then. I certainly didn't mean it. Heck, I was using OS9 and XENIX to access back then. What made the difference was allowing commercial use (Yeah! No more begging for a UUCP feed when I move! Awesome! now *companies* can actually *sell* me access!)
As for the reason you give in the first paragraph for Linux's popularity, I agree completely. That's the reason I got it, and upgraded to more recent hardware, I finally could get a UNIX work-alike for far under $1000.
What hardware limitations? And what comprimise solutions did that require?
My 8bit, 1MHz MC68B09E powered CoCo w/ 64K of ram ran a multi-user, multi-tasking OS just fine. No, it wasn't UNIX, but it was a hell of a lot better than DOS. And yes, by the early 90's, I started to pine for a *real* OS, but had to wait for Linux (couldn't afford the $1K on top of a computer).
Oh sorry, we aren't talking about the distant past, you're talking about Windows 9x (x386 and up, x586 were out) and MacOS (MC680xx) - heh, wait, doesn't Linux and the *BSD's run on that kind of heavy iron? Didn't Sun 2's and 3's use 680x0's (SunOS)? What did Next (sp?) use? Didn't BSD UNIX and solaris run on 486's at least?
No, sorry, it was just developer fuckups, try again. (OK, design desisions for 9x and MacOS, but the shit they were peddling in the 80's, that was fuckups. God, how I hated DOS).
Do you even understand why the net "used be a bunch of universities and the military"? (Hint: non-commercial). And MS was still sleeping when the net started to explode in usage.
Where was Linux? When the hell did you get net access?
As for ease of installation, the "average user" won't be able to install Windows on a new machine either. No, an easier install won't help, Linux is very easy to install already - sometimes much easier to install than Windows, sometimes not.
Most times I've installed to a machine in the past couple of years, Linux has been easier. The last install I did at home, though, both sucked big time:
Linux: doesn't support my SCSI card out of the box, so put an IDE drive in, install, patch kernel, move to real drives.
Windows: doesn't support my SCSI card properly, for some reason only sees one controller, bitch and moan for hours while going to Linux to download driver X and put it on a hard drive (no CDROM according to Windows), finally manage to get the CDROM and such recognized, give up on the fast drives - hell, Windows can't use them properly anyhow.
Yeah, unfortunately, my vortex card wouldn't work with 2 CPU's (W2K), or an Athlon chipset, company gone, no chance of getting them to work. Oh, well, another $280 sitting in a drawer.
And let's not try to claim "every new windows", W2K needs new drivers for many things. And an upgrade in the 3.1/95/98/ME never broke anything. I'm not saying Microsoft is to blame, but even if you have well documented API's that never get obsoleted, that doesn't mean the driver programmers will always go by the book.
- dave f.
Haven't we known this was coming for quite a while? Yeah, it pisses me off a little bit, but as many other people have mentioned, there is a free alternative. When I entered the names for all my albums the first time (only about 1 in 4 was on the list back then), I thought I was helping other people like me, and I was upset when CDDB changed. But at least 95% were already in the freedb list, so I didn't have to enter many again.
What *really* upsets me though, is MathWorld. My blood still boils everytime I think of that. Has anyone started over on it?
Well, there is definitely no proof that you can't trisect an angle. At Carnegie Mellon the math studies professors used to give the freshmen the problem as a homework assignment. They stopped giving it as one when some guy outside of CMU figured it out and got published.
Yeah, right. I don't know about his vote, but my vote probably didn't count. I seem to recall "crapola" about people writing in "Gore" and it not getting counted for Gore. So what are the odds that my write in vote (not for Gore or Bush) even got reported to the county, let alone the state? Probably very low. I know my choice had little choice of winning, but just once, I'd like to turn on the TV, and actually see counts that were complete.
Nice looking system. I'd say definitely check out DIY systems. I was looking at ESL's (Real Men don't buy drivers!) but I don't really have the room for those, and mistakes are expensive. Check out the Ariel's - but they are a major bitch to build.
BTW, anyone have any experience with Shiva's in a transmission line. I'm thinking of building a TL into the bottom of my waterbed (it's just wasted space right now, and would be easy to put a 10-12 foot TL into) for listening to techno music.
Yeah, check out those Bose. The bass module goes from around 46Hz All the way up to 202Hz (+/-2.3dB), and the satallites kick in only 80Hz later (280Hz). Don't really want to hear anything inbetween there anyway. They go up to an ultrasonic earsplitting 13.3kHz! That's almost METAL tape quality! And never vary by more than 10.5dB on the way! (Only about 5dB if you ignore a deep notch in the treble).
They aren't too sensitive (85dB), but just put a big amp on them. Let's see... Some Ariels (91dB) work good with a 15W amp, so I'd say get at least 60W per channel. More if you like it loud.
Your.sig is a hint that you were being sarcastic, but sarcasm doesn't translate to text very well so you need to be carefull. Someone might actually buy these monsters.
Don't people usually buy 5.1 systems to get imaging? I don't know, I found it hard enough to get good imaging from a stereo, but all specs. aside, my real objection to Bose is that they have really poor imaging.
Well, that and the store I work at sells them, and the reps. are assholes. They won't give us any info on the systems:
ME: Can you get me anything telling about these speakers.
REP: What do you want to know?
ME: Well, for starters, what's the difference between these speakers and those.
REP: Hah, you can hear that.
And then he left. Never mind that the two setups are hooked to different amps, hardwired to make the more expensive ones much louder.
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Right Pinkey? Hmmm... My left pinkey was always the one that hurt. I guess it was from my CoCo keyboard and old Sun's that put control to the left of 'a', combined with using bash since the late '80s.
My solution? A Kinesis keyboard. Who says you need two thumbs to hit one key (space)? Baby, I got control,alt,backspace,space, and enter under my thumbs. I love this keyboard!
- dave f.
BTW, I also have a IBM Model M to throw on other machines as needed, and into the closet when not needed (Bang! - oops, there goes some more drywall).
Yeah, why don't they compare some good formats. Flac (on sourceforge) sounds just as good as the CD to my ears (and everyone elses). Of course, it doesn't compress as much as mp3, etc. but that's the price you pay for quality.
- dave f.
I got a 430W Enermax PS for under $100. I didn't think that was bad. Of course, I'm not sure if it's good enough for dual Athlons... it's mostly more power to the 12V line.
- dave f.
Hell, all someone needs to do is go to Bonneville with one of these, and drive through the traps. You don't even have to go fast. Turbine motorcycle is an open record.
- dave f.
But the question is 'what do you get when you multiply six by nine', or something like that.
So where in the hell are you getting 7 from?
Maybe you should try 6=Sun, and 9=Moon, obviously the two largest sources of input into the computer, Earth. Then we take base 13 (the dog) as guidence for the autonomous agents (Man (2)) and then... Oh, forget it.
- dave f.
Since an elevator needs to go past the geo-sync point, I don't think one on the Moon would be very small or cheap. Definitely less useful... - dave f.
I have a couple of Addtronics 7896A cases, and I really like them. No sharp edges, pop off front, both sides on hinges, removable MB tray, etc.
- dave f.
But it is just like Windows...
Some stuff can be done with a GUI interface, then you get to sysedit, regedit, etc.
Even MSFT can't GUI everything.
- dave f.
I've got a motherboard with a fan connector that died too. Yes, it is a POS motherboard. Anyone else here remember the disaster that vas the ABIT BP6?
I got one of those god-awful boards with the intent of overclocking a couple of celerons. I got a couple of Alpha heatsink and fans for the CPUs, a fan for the chipset, and an Addtronics 7986 case. What happened when I tried to use both CPUs? Lockups, lots of lockups. I shoved more fans in the case to get the power regulating circuitry temperature down to around 104F (the CPUs were already running well under a hundred). Still locked up. Even when I dropped the speed down. Turns out, ABIT used the wrong caps. Of course, it took a while to find out.
And then a fan connector died.
Learned my lesson, I did. Never again will I get a MB from some second tier manufacturer that places stability second to performance.
- dave f.
5 fans? Let's see...
28db *3 + 31db + 33db = 37db.
No, that's probably less than 80db.
- dave f.
I could of sworn the 1.3 came out *after* the initial release of 1.4 and 1.5GHz chips.
- dave f.
So, what is going to happen "near Oct 24th 2001"?
Please tell me now, since NASA is going to cover it up.
- dave f.
Sorry if you got the impression that I was saying Linux was behind the internet back then. I certainly didn't mean it. Heck, I was using OS9 and XENIX to access back then. What made the difference was allowing commercial use (Yeah! No more begging for a UUCP feed when I move! Awesome! now *companies* can actually *sell* me access!)
As for the reason you give in the first paragraph for Linux's popularity, I agree completely. That's the reason I got it, and upgraded to more recent hardware, I finally could get a UNIX work-alike for far under $1000.
- dave f.
What hardware limitations? And what comprimise solutions did that require?
My 8bit, 1MHz MC68B09E powered CoCo w/ 64K of ram ran a multi-user, multi-tasking OS just fine. No, it wasn't UNIX, but it was a hell of a lot better than DOS. And yes, by the early 90's, I started to pine for a *real* OS, but had to wait for Linux (couldn't afford the $1K on top of a computer).
Oh sorry, we aren't talking about the distant past, you're talking about Windows 9x (x386 and up, x586 were out) and MacOS (MC680xx) - heh, wait, doesn't Linux and the *BSD's run on that kind of heavy iron? Didn't Sun 2's and 3's use 680x0's (SunOS)? What did Next (sp?) use? Didn't BSD UNIX and solaris run on 486's at least?
No, sorry, it was just developer fuckups, try again. (OK, design desisions for 9x and MacOS, but the shit they were peddling in the 80's, that was fuckups. God, how I hated DOS).
- dave f.
Yeah, whatever. He does have a fat pipe, I already downloaded it from him.
Thanx Diclophis.
- dave f.
Do you even understand why the net "used be a bunch of universities and the military"? (Hint: non-commercial). And MS was still sleeping when the net started to explode in usage.
Where was Linux? When the hell did you get net access?
As for ease of installation, the "average user" won't be able to install Windows on a new machine either. No, an easier install won't help, Linux is very easy to install already - sometimes much easier to install than Windows, sometimes not.
Most times I've installed to a machine in the past couple of years, Linux has been easier. The last install I did at home, though, both sucked big time:
Linux: doesn't support my SCSI card out of the box, so put an IDE drive in, install, patch kernel, move to real drives.
Windows: doesn't support my SCSI card properly, for some reason only sees one controller, bitch and moan for hours while going to Linux to download driver X and put it on a hard drive (no CDROM according to Windows), finally manage to get the CDROM and such recognized, give up on the fast drives - hell, Windows can't use them properly anyhow.
Yes and no. It is a weird acronym like 'grep', not a slang term like 'ping'.
You asked.
- dave f
Yeah, unfortunately, my vortex card wouldn't work with 2 CPU's (W2K), or an Athlon chipset, company gone, no chance of getting them to work. Oh, well, another $280 sitting in a drawer. And let's not try to claim "every new windows", W2K needs new drivers for many things. And an upgrade in the 3.1/95/98/ME never broke anything. I'm not saying Microsoft is to blame, but even if you have well documented API's that never get obsoleted, that doesn't mean the driver programmers will always go by the book. - dave f.
No, it's not a railgun. Neither is what your talking about. That is a coilgun.
- dave f.
Haven't we known this was coming for quite a while? Yeah, it pisses me off a little bit, but as many other people have mentioned, there is a free alternative. When I entered the names for all my albums the first time (only about 1 in 4 was on the list back then), I thought I was helping other people like me, and I was upset when CDDB changed. But at least 95% were already in the freedb list, so I didn't have to enter many again.
What *really* upsets me though, is MathWorld. My blood still boils everytime I think of that. Has anyone started over on it?
They don't say the transistor runs at 10GHz, they say it is very small, and will allow the creation of chips that run at 10GHz.
- dave f.
Well, there is definitely no proof that you can't trisect an angle. At Carnegie Mellon the math studies professors used to give the freshmen the problem as a homework assignment. They stopped giving it as one when some guy outside of CMU figured it out and got published.
Yeah, right. I don't know about his vote, but my vote probably didn't count. I seem to recall "crapola" about people writing in "Gore" and it not getting counted for Gore. So what are the odds that my write in vote (not for Gore or Bush) even got reported to the county, let alone the state? Probably very low. I know my choice had little choice of winning, but just once, I'd like to turn on the TV, and actually see counts that were complete.
- dave f.
Nice looking system. I'd say definitely check out DIY systems. I was looking at ESL's (Real Men don't buy drivers!) but I don't really have the room for those, and mistakes are expensive. Check out the Ariel's - but they are a major bitch to build.
BTW, anyone have any experience with Shiva's in a transmission line. I'm thinking of building a TL into the bottom of my waterbed (it's just wasted space right now, and would be easy to put a 10-12 foot TL into) for listening to techno music.
- dave f.
Yeah, check out those Bose. The bass module goes from around 46Hz All the way up to 202Hz (+/-2.3dB), and the satallites kick in only 80Hz later (280Hz). Don't really want to hear anything inbetween there anyway. They go up to an ultrasonic earsplitting 13.3kHz! That's almost METAL tape quality! And never vary by more than 10.5dB on the way! (Only about 5dB if you ignore a deep notch in the treble). .sig is a hint that you were being sarcastic, but sarcasm doesn't translate to text very well so you need to be carefull. Someone might actually buy these monsters.
They aren't too sensitive (85dB), but just put a big amp on them. Let's see... Some Ariels (91dB) work good with a 15W amp, so I'd say get at least 60W per channel. More if you like it loud.
Your
Don't people usually buy 5.1 systems to get imaging? I don't know, I found it hard enough to get good imaging from a stereo, but all specs. aside, my real objection to Bose is that they have really poor imaging.
Well, that and the store I work at sells them, and the reps. are assholes. They won't give us any info on the systems:
ME: Can you get me anything telling about these speakers.
REP: What do you want to know?
ME: Well, for starters, what's the difference between these speakers and those.
REP: Hah, you can hear that.
And then he left. Never mind that the two setups are hooked to different amps, hardwired to make the more expensive ones much louder.
- dave f.