Good point... even if these can get out to homes at reasonable prices, this is gonna be worse shared bandwidth than cable modem technology; cables are 4mbps average (around here anyway), sharing a couple T3's or maybe an OC3 for larger area isn't that bad - but one of these copper links is the speed of just one of those kinda-expensive OC3's, and i don't think the phone companies are going to be too eager to install huge pipes to fully take advantage of a 155mbps link to each home...
...but too bad it'll probably take longer to roll this out than decent DSL... I want my 15meg/sec downloads!::grin::
It is nice to see the existing infrastructure being reused though, fiber to the home [at any speed] is going to take a LONG time to become as widespread as the copper telco networks, if it ever happens...
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Not sure which scale that is, but on the real one warp 933.4 kinda doesn't exist =]
The warp scale used in TNG and beyond is exponential, where warp "1" is equivalent to light-speed (c), warp "8" is [1,024 x (c)] and warp 10 (which requires infinite energy and makes the traveller occupy all points of space at once, btw) is an infinite speed.
The 75-year timeframe either assumes a cruising-without-engine-damage speed of warp 8.x, or a higher travelling speed above warp 9 but factoring in regular maintenance stops.
Ya know, maybe I should stop those IRC startrek sims and get some real work done, lol...::shuts off the holodeck and returns to helm duty:: BRTB
IBM used to make a "Spacesaver" version of the beloved Model M clicky-keyboards: proof-pictures are here. Just a normal-looking keyboard but the number pad's gone. Keep checking the garage sales and other old-parts places, there are still a few of them out there...
I've found that NT4 (and a few Win98) drivers will (almost halfway kinda) work... sometimes. Win95 drivers don't even try to run, Win2k just spits them out.
Take my miroVideo DC20 MJPEG vid-editing card for example (groan) - the NT4 drivers let it capture and edit the video files fine, but the second I tell it to export that video back to tape Win2K goes absolutely insane. Worked just fine on 95/OSR2/98/se, and just to test I stuck it on an NT4 machine... worked fine. Pinnacle (was Miro)'s solution? "Sorry, can't help you. Buy a $600 DC30 instead..." The DC30 card (please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong), as far as I can tell, is different from the DC20 in two ways: a built-on sound card, and preview overlay capability.
My only consolation: Premiere 6 will do things with a $40 IEEE1394 card and the Digital8 camera I already had, which Win2k seems to support just fine, better than that $$$ DC20...
I've got older than that still in use... my TRS-80 Model III (Z80/2mhz) is currently acting as the serial console of my Linux box =]
Anyway, about those XT-class parts - depending on just how many extra boards you have... [never tried it, but I do believe it's possible] feed that 8086 machine an EMS memory card >= 1mb, an 8-bit network card, at least an EGA monitor, and about 20 megs of HD and you can use it as a (slow? probably) WWW-surfing box with Arachne.
Of course, you're talking to the guy who still plays with the "modulate some frequency in the TRS-80 so it plays tunes in the static of an AM radio" program once in a while... lol =]
[warning: apology in advance - offtopic rant about incorrect moderation , mostly caused by lack of caffeine and sleep deprivation]
1. How is this 'overrated'? Maybe I was wrong about the number of civilians we've sent to space, but that'd warrant a correctionary reply, not an overrated moderation.
2. Why did it just show as (Score:0) and not (Score:0, Overrated)? BRTB
Back when my IBM XT still worked I used to spend 5-hour-long stretches playing the DOS version of Skyshark by Taito, of which that time was mostly going through the first levels again because you didn't have a save-game function (holdover from its arcade beginnings, I suppose). Finally got a 5.25 drive to load the disks (yes, the originals) into a more recent PC a few weeks ago and, surprise - level 3 is corrupted. Anybody seen this anywhere? Tried the NES-port on an emu but it's just not the same...
WINE by itself wouldn't help much on a PPC, since it's only acting as a translator for the Win16/32 API calls, not the x86 machine code. Now if you could graft bochs to it, so you'd emulate both the x86 processor and the Windows API's, it might work.
Of course at this point I'm thinking of the old saying about thing being easy to those who don't actually have to do it... BRTB
I wouldn't try that phone-wire-on-tongue trick if I were you... if there's enough juice in there (even non-ring) to shock your hand while wiring (as i just found out again a few minutes ago), I wouldn't want to give my tongue the same treatment;) BRTB
Make users think you know nothing? Try the other way... make up so much complicated-sounding stuff (i.e. insert perl coding, IP subnetting, and a few octal file permissions for flavor, into why the file menu won't show up) that the users know you have much more important things to do than bother with simple maintenance requests - that's the PFY's job! Stupid part is, 99.8% of them will believe you, and the other.02% might know you're up to something but leave anyway.
(hey wait, i *AM* the PFY... umm... guess the Visual Basic Teacher gets to fix the printers today... =] )
www.MSNBC.com running Windows 2000 with IIS5, greatest server uptime ~60 days. www.CNN.com running Solaris with Netscape/Enterprise-4.1, greatest server uptime ~90 days.
Interpret it however you wish, I'm not starting any OS debates tonight... BRTB
Nah, if it's an isa pnp model just keep the power on, run pnpdump/isapnp and maybe a setserial. Yeah there's probably like a 1-in-3 chance of frying something this way but it worked for me the last time =]
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And while you're at it, plug an extra hard drive into the IDE port on your soundcard. Linux doesn't care... BRTB
Ya know, until I saw this message I thought I was just going crazy... shortly after installing nero and having it complain that a whole new spindle of CD's isn't writable, the FAT table on my hard drive got corrupted... right in the middle of the entries for the Windows directory. And again I got to experience the joy of a win98se install... nice to know it was nero and not something more serious (motherboard, hard drive, etc) BRTB
Uhm... I've got a savings/checking bank account right now, opened it at age 16, and the only name on it is mine... IIRC when I went to the bank (no parents within 3 miles) to open the account they said as long as I was over 15 I didn't need any adult permission or cosign or etc. How that works I don't know (minors can't sign contracts without parental consent, right?) BRTB
well, I hate to say this but he's actually right, if greatly oversimplifying it... 98Lite for example is able to separate Win98v1/v2 from its MSIE baggage by (mostly) replacing IIRC 3 DLLs and explorer.exe with their Win95 counterparts. I would imagine if you set your shell= to something else after doing the DLL-fixing you'd be able to remove your explorer.exe/iexplore.exe without a problem... BRTB
And besides, I'd hope most (if not all) ISPs use switches, which isolate Ethernet transmissions to only the MAC address of the destination and not "dumb" hubs which blindly broadcast everything everywhere - definite security improvements there, besides the speed jump and lack of collisions...
Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop. Weird styling, got a shiny metal 1.5" square 'Dell' nameplate recessed into the top... all plastic outside, grey mostly but the inside's this weird blue color.
Anyway... I trip over the power cable, which drops it, open and running, 3 feet onto a concrete floor. Only damage is a broken-off plug on the power cord which to my surprise the warranty covered! =] BRTB
AFAIK (I'm guessing here - not a java coder - so bear with me) it's probably something related to how the app handles the soundcard access, linux implementations of java might not have the same multimedia controls that the Windowsified ones do...? Of course if I'm way off somebody please correct me =]
Yes offtopic but this annoyed me too. What you have to do is enable portforwarding in your kernel and then route port 51200 on youir Linux box's external-Internet IP to whatever internal-net IP you're using... on my Slack7 setup here the syntax is something like (IPs changed to protect the innocent):
No, I don't know if it needs both UDP and TCP, I was too lazy to test it;) And all these instructions are just generalizations with emphasis on Slackware syntax; as always YMMV but if you're stuck I'd check your local copy of the IP Masquerade HOWTO and/or the Net HOWTO. Happy hacking! BRTB
Why not remove a few devices in there? Nice little boxes (Sandisk and MicroTech make 'em) that plug into USB and have slots for SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards (including IBM Microdrives); they run from $40 to $70; got mine from MicroWarehouse. BRTB
I've got an Amiga 2000 in a closet somewhere... upgrades in the thing are a 68030 processor, some RAM and a hard drive. Although it does have an early Video Toaster card in there... and an old TBC unit... too bad the video software on the HD is corrupted so I can't use the vtoaster and the disks are long gone... =[ BRTB
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Good point... even if these can get out to homes at reasonable prices, this is gonna be worse shared bandwidth than cable modem technology; cables are 4mbps average (around here anyway), sharing a couple T3's or maybe an OC3 for larger area isn't that bad - but one of these copper links is the speed of just one of those kinda-expensive OC3's, and i don't think the phone companies are going to be too eager to install huge pipes to fully take advantage of a 155mbps link to each home...
It is nice to see the existing infrastructure being reused though, fiber to the home [at any speed] is going to take a LONG time to become as widespread as the copper telco networks, if it ever happens...
The warp scale used in TNG and beyond is exponential, where warp "1" is equivalent to light-speed (c), warp "8" is [1,024 x (c)] and warp 10 (which requires infinite energy and makes the traveller occupy all points of space at once, btw) is an infinite speed.
The 75-year timeframe either assumes a cruising-without-engine-damage speed of warp 8.x, or a higher travelling speed above warp 9 but factoring in regular maintenance stops.
Ya know, maybe I should stop those IRC startrek sims and get some real work done, lol... ::shuts off the holodeck and returns to helm duty::
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IBM used to make a "Spacesaver" version of the beloved Model M clicky-keyboards: proof-pictures are here. Just a normal-looking keyboard but the number pad's gone. Keep checking the garage sales and other old-parts places, there are still a few of them out there...
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[warning - anecdotal win2k incompatibility evidence ahead]
Take my miroVideo DC20 MJPEG vid-editing card for example (groan) - the NT4 drivers let it capture and edit the video files fine, but the second I tell it to export that video back to tape Win2K goes absolutely insane. Worked just fine on 95/OSR2/98/se, and just to test I stuck it on an NT4 machine... worked fine. Pinnacle (was Miro)'s solution? "Sorry, can't help you. Buy a $600 DC30 instead..." The DC30 card (please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong), as far as I can tell, is different from the DC20 in two ways: a built-on sound card, and preview overlay capability.
My only consolation: Premiere 6 will do things with a $40 IEEE1394 card and the Digital8 camera I already had, which Win2k seems to support just fine, better than that $$$ DC20...
BRTB
Anyway, about those XT-class parts - depending on just how many extra boards you have... [never tried it, but I do believe it's possible] feed that 8086 machine an EMS memory card >= 1mb, an 8-bit network card, at least an EGA monitor, and about 20 megs of HD and you can use it as a (slow? probably) WWW-surfing box with Arachne.
Of course, you're talking to the guy who still plays with the "modulate some frequency in the TRS-80 so it plays tunes in the static of an AM radio" program once in a while... lol =]
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[warning: apology in advance - offtopic rant about incorrect moderation , mostly caused by lack of caffeine and sleep deprivation]
1. How is this 'overrated'? Maybe I was wrong about the number of civilians we've sent to space, but that'd warrant a correctionary reply, not an overrated moderation.
2. Why did it just show as (Score:0) and not (Score:0, Overrated)?
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Textmode station control in Win2005 Advanced Spaceserver (Service Pack 17):
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C:\IIS_CTRL> ops 101 pro
Read error in \\iis_ctrl\orbital_thrusters
Abort, Retry, Ignore? R
Read error in \\iis_ctrl\lifesupport
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? RRRRRRRRRRRRRR
General failure in \\iis_ctrl
Abort, Ignore, Fail?
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<heard on station voice recorder> AAARRRGRGGHHH!!!
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yes,I've actually gotten a message with A,I,F as the only choices, I don't want to know how/why...
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Back when my IBM XT still worked I used to spend 5-hour-long stretches playing the DOS version of Skyshark by Taito, of which that time was mostly going through the first levels again because you didn't have a save-game function (holdover from its arcade beginnings, I suppose). Finally got a 5.25 drive to load the disks (yes, the originals) into a more recent PC a few weeks ago and, surprise - level 3 is corrupted. Anybody seen this anywhere? Tried the NES-port on an emu but it's just not the same...
BRTB
WINE by itself wouldn't help much on a PPC, since it's only acting as a translator for the Win16/32 API calls, not the x86 machine code. Now if you could graft bochs to it, so you'd emulate both the x86 processor and the Windows API's, it might work.
Of course at this point I'm thinking of the old saying about thing being easy to those who don't actually have to do it...
BRTB
I wouldn't try that phone-wire-on-tongue trick if I were you... if there's enough juice in there (even non-ring) to shock your hand while wiring (as i just found out again a few minutes ago), I wouldn't want to give my tongue the same treatment ;)
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Make users think you know nothing? Try the other way... make up so much complicated-sounding stuff (i.e. insert perl coding, IP subnetting, and a few octal file permissions for flavor, into why the file menu won't show up) that the users know you have much more important things to do than bother with simple maintenance requests - that's the PFY's job! Stupid part is, 99.8% of them will believe you, and the other .02% might know you're up to something but leave anyway.
(hey wait, i *AM* the PFY... umm... guess the Visual Basic Teacher gets to fix the printers today... =] )
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Well, I was bored so I ran some netcraft server lookups and here's what came out:
www.MSNBC.com running Windows 2000 with IIS5, greatest server uptime ~60 days.
www.CNN.com running Solaris with Netscape/Enterprise-4.1, greatest server uptime ~90 days.
Interpret it however you wish, I'm not starting any OS debates tonight...
BRTB
Nah, if it's an isa pnp model just keep the power on, run pnpdump/isapnp and maybe a setserial. Yeah there's probably like a 1-in-3 chance of frying something this way but it worked for me the last time =]
</humor>
And while you're at it, plug an extra hard drive into the IDE port on your soundcard. Linux doesn't care...
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I just had to add this comment... joe is the best! I finally have a good reason to remember all those stupid Wordstar control codes...
</sarcasm> for the humor impaired
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Ya know, until I saw this message I thought I was just going crazy... shortly after installing nero and having it complain that a whole new spindle of CD's isn't writable, the FAT table on my hard drive got corrupted... right in the middle of the entries for the Windows directory. And again I got to experience the joy of a win98se install... nice to know it was nero and not something more serious (motherboard, hard drive, etc)
BRTB
Uhm... I've got a savings/checking bank account right now, opened it at age 16, and the only name on it is mine... IIRC when I went to the bank (no parents within 3 miles) to open the account they said as long as I was over 15 I didn't need any adult permission or cosign or etc. How that works I don't know (minors can't sign contracts without parental consent, right?)
BRTB
well, I hate to say this but he's actually right, if greatly oversimplifying it... 98Lite for example is able to separate Win98v1/v2 from its MSIE baggage by (mostly) replacing IIRC 3 DLLs and explorer.exe with their Win95 counterparts. I would imagine if you set your shell= to something else after doing the DLL-fixing you'd be able to remove your explorer.exe/iexplore.exe without a problem...
BRTB
And besides, I'd hope most (if not all) ISPs use switches, which isolate Ethernet transmissions to only the MAC address of the destination and not "dumb" hubs which blindly broadcast everything everywhere - definite security improvements there, besides the speed jump and lack of collisions...
BRTB
Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop. Weird styling, got a shiny metal 1.5" square 'Dell' nameplate recessed into the top... all plastic outside, grey mostly but the inside's this weird blue color.
Anyway... I trip over the power cable, which drops it, open and running, 3 feet onto a concrete floor. Only damage is a broken-off plug on the power cord which to my surprise the warranty covered! =]
BRTB
AFAIK (I'm guessing here - not a java coder - so bear with me) it's probably something related to how the app handles the soundcard access, linux implementations of java might not have the same multimedia controls that the Windowsified ones do...? Of course if I'm way off somebody please correct me =]
BRTB
Yes offtopic but this annoyed me too. What you have to do is enable portforwarding in your kernel and then route port 51200 on youir Linux box's external-Internet IP to whatever internal-net IP you're using... on my Slack7 setup here the syntax is something like (IPs changed to protect the innocent):
;) And all these instructions are just generalizations with emphasis on Slackware syntax; as always YMMV but if you're stuck I'd check your local copy of the IP Masquerade HOWTO and/or the Net HOWTO. Happy hacking!
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 63.5.241.23 51200 -R 192.168.0.4 51200
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L 63.5.241.23 51200 -R 192.168.0.4 51200
No, I don't know if it needs both UDP and TCP, I was too lazy to test it
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Why not remove a few devices in there? Nice little boxes (Sandisk and MicroTech make 'em) that plug into USB and have slots for SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards (including IBM Microdrives); they run from $40 to $70; got mine from MicroWarehouse.
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I've got an Amiga 2000 in a closet somewhere... upgrades in the thing are a 68030 processor, some RAM and a hard drive. Although it does have an early Video Toaster card in there... and an old TBC unit... too bad the video software on the HD is corrupted so I can't use the vtoaster and the disks are long gone... =[
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