My old amiga could do this. My A1200 had 2 megs of vram and when its 8 megs of fast ram was used up the system would often start moving into that memory. Thing is it slowed down the computer considerably.
Even my A3000 can do this with Cybervision (RTG software) once fast ram was used up it could use the memory on the video card as zorro expansion memory (ie memory attached to the system expansion bus).
Neat thing was it did this all dynamically and automatically - without you having to specify space or anything.
Well I was a sysadmin at this place - although they probably could have done something without me knowing - I was the one who built all the system images for all the different os's run onsite.
Hah hah funny. Most parents should be doing all this, but a lot expect their school/teachers to do all this for them. Seriously - ask any teacher who has survived a parent teacher conference.
I remember my password at work was an obscure anime character - but I padded it with and _ and some numbers.
When a security audit came around I was one of the *few* people who didn't get a phone call or an e-mail telling me to change my password. I use the same password on my firewall at home too and so far it hasn't been guessed.
The same thing goes for ripping people off: you're able to reach a wider audience. Slap together a slick web page, and you give yourself an air of legitimacy -- all the better to draw in the stupid and gullible.
Sounds like amazon.com - I ordered a book from them took a month to arrive. Even if I waited all day at the counter at a book store it wouldn't have taken that long to get what I want.
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Ironically the only thing a RPG or a LAW is really effective against are APC's (like BMP or M2A2) - which usually have relatively weak armor - probably to maximize space.
I'd honestly like to see a RPG take out a modern battletank like a M1A1 or even a T80 (which has explosive reative armor).
Yeah in high school we had a few cam machines (a router and a lathe). The software - cadkey, had a dongle which plugged into the parellel port. The cam machines also plugged into the same port and it had an adapter to plug into this wierd plug - probably meant for some sort of cnc interface for a factory - what you ended up with was a mess of plugs probably 5" long - and I'm not kidding in the slightest.
I remember some kid moved the machine once and ripped the serial port out of the computer - I believe they were able to resolder it in, but I was thinking this was too much.
Someone once said - why don't you just use a parallel cable - as I recall if you attached the dongle to one, it didn't work.
I had a program for my A1200 that also worked on the A3000 I later aquired that would allow you to set a undocumented option in the mode prefs that basically allowed you to change the desktop res into ham mode. Granted - the artifacts would pop up any time you moved a window:) - but it worked.
And on the A1200 with Ham-8 (262,144 colours) it looked beautiful:).
I used to work for a content filtering company (they were featured here on slashdot in association with aol - but now going slowly away) and we used to do all our crawling over purchased qwest.net dsl lines - some of them were 7 megabits.
That way whenever someone complained about someone downloading all their web pages at 700KB a second and got our line shut down we just called qwest.net - and even if it was our third strike we could usually get the line turned back on.
Although a grass roots effort to slowly deny the riaa all access to the internet is a good idea.
Yeah, but truespace isn't optimized for AMD Athlon either.
Another thing I have found - after working in the biz (working with everything from amiga's to what you guys are talking about) is that the more complex the scene the more the application relies on high speed i/o (meaning memory to cpu performance).
We used to benchmark the amiga based on the lightwave texture scene. Back then it was a complex scene - these days computers could render that in real time - on the video card.
I don't know - but I'd be willing to bet that when you scale the scene in polygons that the AMD cpu might close in on the P4 (in the caligari case twice as quick as the dual xeon). But if all your doing is flying logo's (again the kind of thing almost any 3d video card could do in real time these days) from the benchmarks I've seen the P4 is faster.
You know Scott Adams the author of dilbert took this topic up. He apparently gets all kinds of letters complaining about stereotypical women.
So one day he made the opposite woman - it lasted for about a week (I only ever saw it in the book where he made the commentary). This was a woman who was big and brawny, and enjoying doing "male" things like taking apart stuff to see how it works.
The letters kept poring in. He found that no matter what you do there's no pleasing anyone.
What a bunch of crap. I've been a ham for 12 years and I've done things more diffucult then talking on a cell phone while driving down the road (like tuning up a hf transciever). The key is to know how to balance your attention. It also helps to have equipment that you can use while driving down the road - like headsets and external speakers.
I've never even come close to having an accident - and I drive a manual shift car.
Then again I've seen blonde haired suv driving maniacs who I think are more of a threat to road safety then any cell phone. Maybe doing your makeup while driving down the road should be banned? (oh wait - I think it is most everywhere, just no one enforces it).
I'm not saying it doesn't happen - all I'm saying is that in some cities cars work as well as they do because people are using alternative forms of transport.
I used to take the bus to work all the time too (I haven't had a steady job for a while) - it has advantages:) - for instance about a year ago my car was parked downtown in a garage and someone broke into it (broke out the rear quater glass). Not to mention downtown parking is expensive.
I'm sure they do, but I'd bet a lot of people ride the bus to work too. Traffic is rarely bad here, but like I said - I think traffic works here pretty well because a lot of people ride bikes, ride the bus and ride the train to work. You might investigate how many rides your local bus company does per day in Columbus - you might be suprised. Seriously though - I've never studied a major city (I had to for a survey of urban planning classes at PSU) that is set up so that everyone who wants to can drive their car to work. Even in Columbus I'm sure the highway system would fail if everyone woke up one morning and decided to drive the car into work.
And we have a bus system that is pretty efficent - most anywhere the most you'll have to walk is two-three blocks to catch one. And the train system is set up that at most stations there are busses and taxi's that can take you wherever.
In Portland they seem to have a very hard time building rail systems. The opposition say its no good, under-used, and they have the right to drive their car anyhow - without paying the high taxes (doesn't anyone think about how these roads were built or maintained?).
Anyhoo - every time I've been on their local (and short) train lines they have around here its always very crowded - especially when I had a job and commuted to work in it. Usually standing room only. I've found in my travels all over this world that there's one constant - in the bigger cities cars are a major problem. I've never seen any big city where everyone can drive downtown, park their car, go to work and drive home. In Tokyo for instance if you buy a car you need to have a note from a police officer that says you have a place to park it overnight (I wish they'd do that here too). I'm not talking about people who have to drive - but I'd be willing to bet well over 75% of everyone who does could use an alternative, simply because they had the opportunity to reduce highway load if they did use some alternative form of transport - but its just easier (sometimes) to drive.
For the most part the only reason you could drive (in the case of convience) is because someone else did take the bus or ride the train.
I don't like the way this Florida referendum was handled (I mean the only reason they wrote it into the constitution was because its much harder to recall), but sooner or later most cities in the US are going to have to take transit seriously.
I rather just not vote for him next time re-election comes up again. Seriously - I've written like 5 letters to my representative and senator (from oregon - David Wu and Gordon Smith) - not once have they ever written back - not even a form letter - not only that, but they keep voting in all these wacko soon to be laws! I don't think they are even reading the letters I have sent them.
All these letters were written professionally - on letterhead. I even passed them by my old poli-sci teacher (I've long since graduated) to ask him if they looked okay - yup!
Key word here being the gov is talking about a Windows program. On linux source is pretty well audited, but on Windows even if they provide the source how many users at home are going to read it - and understand it?
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My old amiga could do this. My A1200 had 2 megs of vram and when its 8 megs of fast ram was used up the system would often start moving into that memory. Thing is it slowed down the computer considerably.
Even my A3000 can do this with Cybervision (RTG software) once fast ram was used up it could use the memory on the video card as zorro expansion memory (ie memory attached to the system expansion bus).
Neat thing was it did this all dynamically and automatically - without you having to specify space or anything.
Well I was a sysadmin at this place - although they probably could have done something without me knowing - I was the one who built all the system images for all the different os's run onsite.
Hah hah funny. Most parents should be doing all this, but a lot expect their school/teachers to do all this for them. Seriously - ask any teacher who has survived a parent teacher conference.
I remember my password at work was an obscure anime character - but I padded it with and _ and some numbers.
When a security audit came around I was one of the *few* people who didn't get a phone call or an e-mail telling me to change my password. I use the same password on my firewall at home too and so far it hasn't been guessed.
Yeah its called LTO
My IBM keyboard I bought at a thrift store actually came with a word perfect template glued to the top (says copyright Wordperfect Corp 1989).
:).
I've used WP a long time ago - but I can tell you right now f7 exits the program
The same thing goes for ripping people off: you're able to reach a wider audience. Slap together a slick web page, and you give yourself an air of legitimacy -- all the better to draw in the stupid and gullible.
Sounds like amazon.com - I ordered a book from them took a month to arrive. Even if I waited all day at the counter at a book store it wouldn't have taken that long to get what I want.
Ironically the only thing a RPG or a LAW is really effective against are APC's (like BMP or M2A2) - which usually have relatively weak armor - probably to maximize space.
I'd honestly like to see a RPG take out a modern battletank like a M1A1 or even a T80 (which has explosive reative armor).
What do you do when your unemployed, money is hard to come by and the local recycling center charges 10 dollars to dump the thing?
Frankly when your in my position its just easier to dump the thing in the trash bin outside the apartment.
Money talks doesn't it? Its so easy to say everyone should do things the proper way, but seriously when you don't have the cash its hard to do.
Yeah in high school we had a few cam machines (a router and a lathe). The software - cadkey, had a dongle which plugged into the parellel port. The cam machines also plugged into the same port and it had an adapter to plug into this wierd plug - probably meant for some sort of cnc interface for a factory - what you ended up with was a mess of plugs probably 5" long - and I'm not kidding in the slightest.
I remember some kid moved the machine once and ripped the serial port out of the computer - I believe they were able to resolder it in, but I was thinking this was too much.
Someone once said - why don't you just use a parallel cable - as I recall if you attached the dongle to one, it didn't work.
I had a program for my A1200 that also worked on the A3000 I later aquired that would allow you to set a undocumented option in the mode prefs that basically allowed you to change the desktop res into ham mode. Granted - the artifacts would pop up any time you moved a window :) - but it worked.
:).
And on the A1200 with Ham-8 (262,144 colours) it looked beautiful
I used to work for a content filtering company (they were featured here on slashdot in association with aol - but now going slowly away) and we used to do all our crawling over purchased qwest.net dsl lines - some of them were 7 megabits.
That way whenever someone complained about someone downloading all their web pages at 700KB a second and got our line shut down we just called qwest.net - and even if it was our third strike we could usually get the line turned back on.
Although a grass roots effort to slowly deny the riaa all access to the internet is a good idea.
Yeah, but truespace isn't optimized for AMD Athlon either.
Another thing I have found - after working in the biz (working with everything from amiga's to what you guys are talking about) is that the more complex the scene the more the application relies on high speed i/o (meaning memory to cpu performance).
We used to benchmark the amiga based on the lightwave texture scene. Back then it was a complex scene - these days computers could render that in real time - on the video card.
I don't know - but I'd be willing to bet that when you scale the scene in polygons that the AMD cpu might close in on the P4 (in the caligari case twice as quick as the dual xeon). But if all your doing is flying logo's (again the kind of thing almost any 3d video card could do in real time these days) from the benchmarks I've seen the P4 is faster.
You know Scott Adams the author of dilbert took this topic up. He apparently gets all kinds of letters complaining about stereotypical women.
So one day he made the opposite woman - it lasted for about a week (I only ever saw it in the book where he made the commentary). This was a woman who was big and brawny, and enjoying doing "male" things like taking apart stuff to see how it works.
The letters kept poring in. He found that no matter what you do there's no pleasing anyone.
What a bunch of crap. I've been a ham for 12 years and I've done things more diffucult then talking on a cell phone while driving down the road (like tuning up a hf transciever). The key is to know how to balance your attention. It also helps to have equipment that you can use while driving down the road - like headsets and external speakers.
I've never even come close to having an accident - and I drive a manual shift car.
Then again I've seen blonde haired suv driving maniacs who I think are more of a threat to road safety then any cell phone. Maybe doing your makeup while driving down the road should be banned? (oh wait - I think it is most everywhere, just no one enforces it).
ATA-133 really isn't about the speed either - its about how much storage can be addressed.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen - all I'm saying is that in some cities cars work as well as they do because people are using alternative forms of transport.
:) - for instance about a year ago my car was parked downtown in a garage and someone broke into it (broke out the rear quater glass). Not to mention downtown parking is expensive.
I used to take the bus to work all the time too (I haven't had a steady job for a while) - it has advantages
I'm sure they do, but I'd bet a lot of people ride the bus to work too. Traffic is rarely bad here, but like I said - I think traffic works here pretty well because a lot of people ride bikes, ride the bus and ride the train to work. You might investigate how many rides your local bus company does per day in Columbus - you might be suprised. Seriously though - I've never studied a major city (I had to for a survey of urban planning classes at PSU) that is set up so that everyone who wants to can drive their car to work. Even in Columbus I'm sure the highway system would fail if everyone woke up one morning and decided to drive the car into work.
And we have a bus system that is pretty efficent - most anywhere the most you'll have to walk is two-three blocks to catch one. And the train system is set up that at most stations there are busses and taxi's that can take you wherever.
In Portland they seem to have a very hard time building rail systems. The opposition say its no good, under-used, and they have the right to drive their car anyhow - without paying the high taxes (doesn't anyone think about how these roads were built or maintained?).
Anyhoo - every time I've been on their local (and short) train lines they have around here its always very crowded - especially when I had a job and commuted to work in it. Usually standing room only. I've found in my travels all over this world that there's one constant - in the bigger cities cars are a major problem. I've never seen any big city where everyone can drive downtown, park their car, go to work and drive home. In Tokyo for instance if you buy a car you need to have a note from a police officer that says you have a place to park it overnight (I wish they'd do that here too). I'm not talking about people who have to drive - but I'd be willing to bet well over 75% of everyone who does could use an alternative, simply because they had the opportunity to reduce highway load if they did use some alternative form of transport - but its just easier (sometimes) to drive.
For the most part the only reason you could drive (in the case of convience) is because someone else did take the bus or ride the train.
I don't like the way this Florida referendum was handled (I mean the only reason they wrote it into the constitution was because its much harder to recall), but sooner or later most cities in the US are going to have to take transit seriously.
this is useful stuff!
I rather just not vote for him next time re-election comes up again. Seriously - I've written like 5 letters to my representative and senator (from oregon - David Wu and Gordon Smith) - not once have they ever written back - not even a form letter - not only that, but they keep voting in all these wacko soon to be laws! I don't think they are even reading the letters I have sent them.
All these letters were written professionally - on letterhead. I even passed them by my old poli-sci teacher (I've long since graduated) to ask him if they looked okay - yup!
I took stats about 6 months ago. I found that on average zombied MS Windows machines waste about 100-120 megabytes a day on my cable connection.
/var/log/apache/error.log and get
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To this day I can still type tail -f
[Thu Jul 18 22:27:35 2002] [error] [client 12.231.80.38] File does not exist:
ar/www/scripts/..%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe
almost steadily. I've always wondered collectively if this would affect network performance world wide.
Anybody have any other ideas?
MC68K!
I'm just saying you can probably be rest assured that no code has made it into the linux kernel that would say - monitor what you do on your computer.
Bugs are one thing - trojan horses are another.
Key word here being the gov is talking about a Windows program. On linux source is pretty well audited, but on Windows even if they provide the source how many users at home are going to read it - and understand it?