extremely unlikely to be capable of reaching a sustained rate above 15MB/sec,...
Am I reading this correctly? I bought a 160GB drive from compusa a few weeks ago that included a ata133 card for my old P120 throwaway Compaq. I'm getting a sustained 20MB/sec copying/dev/zero into a file. Is this the kind of transfer rate you are talking about? My 6 month old toshiba laptop has exactly the same performance. Both are running an untuned gentoo install, but both redhat and mandrake with a simple hdparm tweek did the 20MB/sec too.
A college that has an e-book that is only for one year is one that I would avoid. Its been 10 years since I got my degree and find my old engineering books as a great reference. Yes, even they were pricey and they always would increase the edition version each semester so we couldn't trade. But at least I still have these dead trees and they are still valuable.
Nice breakdown of power usage. I checked my electrical usage at my electrical company's account webpage and it showed me a graph of my consumption, hour by hour, compared to the heat outside. They can do this, because my electrical meter has a cellular module inside.
My average consumption was 900 watts for my 3 floor house. I use all flourescent lighting and since my basement is encased in concrete like a bomb shelter, I need little air conditioning. Most of my consumption is the refrigerator (1000 watts when on,) lights I always keep on (150 watts,) and the computers (60 watts, laptop and headless server) In fact, I run the whole house off my 600 watt inverter (sans appliances) during power outages by flipping two breakers and use my motorcycle as the generator for the marine battery. An ammeter lets me know how much I'm using around the house. I use an average of 300 watts during power outages.
Voicestream has a few clueless support people in their bunch. It took me many months to find out why everyone who called me would be charged long distance. The number they gave me for my phone was in a different city. Thanks a lot.
But I keep their service, because the voice quality can be mistaken for the house phone. There are several large Sprint office buildings across from my house, but anyone who has their service over at my house often would say the classic, "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?" My voicestream phone, while unusable in part of my state, works flawlessly even in my bomb shelter where other providers fail.
I'm on Time Warner Cable, and they prohibit servers
What TWC are you on? This is what they say about servers. They say keep it secure and don't behave like an idiot. They also do basic scanning for things like open relays.
If you ever get the chance to meet him at an event, watch him debate with others who challenge his ideas. RMS often appears calm, even if the other guy raises his voice and uses strong body language. RMS awkward in person? Not from what I have seen.
Using a honeypot for an access point by a casual user might be safer than other people's motives for setting up an open system. You don't know who is providing you with that signal and if they are sniffing for cookies and passwords. Is it just a clueless person who owns an access port? Or is it someone who is looking for interesting user habits that he hasn't learned to sniff directly from the cable?
Common sense would dictate never to use an untrusted network for personal information, but I can see it now: people in the park with a laptop will connect to an unknown system and start chatting their personal problems on irc. The Senator's son doing this? Never happen!;)
I wouldn't call it losing money. Its a virtual investment for them. They released the seeds of a product and hope to plant it. Microsoft hopes for maximum distribution across ALL firtile fields. When it takes root and blossoms, THEN they milk it. When its use reaches saturation, they milk it for all its worth while they release a new product.
They repeat this cycle, changing its previous already basterdized standards, only to market something more innovative(tm).
When you get every college graduate looking for a job, each one is going to promise the interviewer that THEY will increase their profits 200% compared to the people they already employ. And so these young nubile collegues lower the bar with a few underhanded strategies until the whole deck of cards collapses.
Also, there has been a great push in the plastics manufacturing industry to prevent scrap and recycle. There are a few reasons why they do this, one being environmental concerns, but that is nothing compared to inventory accountability. Its insane how companies are trying to get 100% usage from raw materials. The molds and bleedoff from the extruder is reground, fed back into the system at up to a 25% ratio. Many times the operators have problems getting things to mold properly and have a stack of junk that the machine botched or QA sent back. It either goes into the dumpster, or its fed back into the system for "free." If you are a plant manager trying to increase profits, why not? It won't come back to haunt you for a long time.
The other problem is lead content in the plastics. Lead is a wonderful metal that does magic to the plastic's heat resistance and durability. It makes it softer and more resistant to the environment. You can make fireproof plastics with a 40% lead content. Chances are, the wires in your house have a small percentage of lead in the plastic's formula. This makes it withstand MUCH higher temperatures before it breaks down and burns your house to the ground. The problem is that its hazardous to work with and leaded plastics do not recycle well. They have to go to the dump when botched. If they are reground and recycled, they do not remelt like other plastics as they have cured permently.
Fucking does not deal with scatology. Shit is a potty mouthed word. But the word fuck can convey an unmistakable domineering attitude as that poster has illustrated. This often abused word is often used to describe arrogance to pinpoint a tyrannical view. Unfortunately, some cultures and religions especially feel there should be a subset of words that have offensive qualities in themselves. You are taught to feel repressed when you hear this word. George Carlin once described this and six other words in a famous amusing skit that got him in trouble with the FCC.
VCR heads might be a good example to look for something like this. The active guts in the spinning head are magnetically coupled to the base. One could impliment a counterbalanced lens assembly, complete with amplifier circuit on the spinning head.
Also, we could use another trick VCR's use: they scan the media at a high rate, while it actually passes through very slowly. While we already have high speeds from the CD, we could use multiple heads and borrow a technique from the VCR that it uses to reassemble the two signals it gets.
For the VCR, two heads take turns during each half of a revolution scanning the tape at a high speed near sideways motion to get the high frequencies required from the heads. The VCR has the problem that each half revolution, one head leaves and one head starts passing the media, leaving a gap in playtime. A clever means of injecting the signal into a quartz delay line for reassembling the signal is used.
To double the CD's bandwidth (or any multiple speed increase,) we could place more IR pickups in parallel next to each other. This would read multiple groves during each pass. You can reassemble digitally, or just use the cheap quartz delay line hack like the VCR's use.
Dremels can spin much faster than 30,000rpm. Those motors have a field winding and an armature winding. If you decrease the field current, it causes the armature current to go through the roof. This is called "field weakening" and is a common method to get motors to spin faster. The motor's speed can be expressed as a ratio of armature/field current. The motor's speed is that ratio.
AC motors are tricky to do that with, but one sure way to overclock a dremel motor is by "overclocking" one of those 120VAC inverters. Look for an opamp that generates the clock frequency and the resistor for that RC circuit can be replaced with a potentiometer. You can vary the frequency from 0 to about 400Hz. Higher the frequency, the higher AC motors will sync. Don't go to high on the frequency or the inverter's mosfets will exceed their slew rate. That means most of the energy they are trying to switch will be disapated inside themselves, because they can only switch between the voltage rails so fast. Another resistor on the opamps will adjust the voltage for charging the storage capacitor. This one will have the greatest effect. You can get most inverters to pump out over 200 volts. Use an oscilloscope to track down the inverter's signal generator.
I found a non-overclocked dremel will easily cause the cd's outer tracks to skew. Extreme vibration will be the result as the cd warps quickly. Speed will drop quickly due to this imbalance. Solution: turn up the power!
Unfortunately, only 10% of that population has jobs. The rest go to school. And they wonder *why* they aren't buying their music, but listening to it for free on the radio? Pirates! Stop them!
Actually, this would be a good idea. The keyboard's LED, if it is red, might be close enough to the infrared spectrum to be noticed by the irda ports many notebooks have. Well, patch the keyboard panic patch with the tcp stack, write a decoder that will receive the slow tcp serial stream, and cross your fingers that portion of the kernel is not b0rked, and you can be sending packets over the keyboard link.
Well, it wouldn't be a fast link. But the possibilies could include telneting... oh I'll stop there...
I doubt it. Back when Enlightenment came out, there was nothing like it. If there was, please enlighten me. Up until he released it, I had never seen desktop windows that were anything but square. It blew my mind to see the GUI in many different shapes and sizes through the window manager. It was amazing. I don't know how someone can be bitter by being the first to publicly release something so cool. If he is bitter, he has tremendous energy and drive once again and has something in waiting for us.
For those who want to know what this phone number is, it has quite a push button menu to choose from. Much of it is FAQ and investor relations. I'm sure we will want to know what's going on, so be sure to call and get as much information as you can from your call. Know thy enemy.
Take detailed notes. Write it down. Photocopy it. Burn it. Its a great symbolic gesture.
thanks, and don't hesitate to comment on something you feel is important. We'll stick up for anyone and defend your right to post and link to what speaks your mind.
This guy may have a -1 karma, but what he says seems to be important when considering one's career. I have been fortunate to work for managers before that have been hired within that have more than enough common sense to bring everyone together and work as a team to fight dumb ideas.
Unfortunately, I now stand at a place where there are adventures of great magnitude. Every time I mention the wisdom of a decision, I know the person who is listening may use me as a reference. Slowly, I find the steps on the ladder weakening...
Is it really about suing someone? Those of us who have worked in large companies see large contracted project fiascos all the time. No one gets sued, but its interesting that those responsible for the decisions seem to defend the mistakes.
Kickbacks? Were they wined and dined? Did they have a girlfriend involved that happened to have close ties to the contractors? I don't know. Marketing and managers have strange relationships and are often disjoint with the rest of the company. I'm sure stories of bad relationships between vendors would make for great movie material.
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extremely unlikely to be capable of reaching a sustained rate above 15MB/sec,...
/dev/zero into a file. Is this the kind of transfer rate you are talking about? My 6 month old toshiba laptop has exactly the same performance. Both are running an untuned gentoo install, but both redhat and mandrake with a simple hdparm tweek did the 20MB/sec too.
Am I reading this correctly? I bought a 160GB drive from compusa a few weeks ago that included a ata133 card for my old P120 throwaway Compaq. I'm getting a sustained 20MB/sec copying
A college that has an e-book that is only for one year is one that I would avoid. Its been 10 years since I got my degree and find my old engineering books as a great reference. Yes, even they were pricey and they always would increase the edition version each semester so we couldn't trade. But at least I still have these dead trees and they are still valuable.
Nice breakdown of power usage. I checked my electrical usage at my electrical company's account webpage and it showed me a graph of my consumption, hour by hour, compared to the heat outside. They can do this, because my electrical meter has a cellular module inside.
My average consumption was 900 watts for my 3 floor house. I use all flourescent lighting and since my basement is encased in concrete like a bomb shelter, I need little air conditioning. Most of my consumption is the refrigerator (1000 watts when on,) lights I always keep on (150 watts,) and the computers (60 watts, laptop and headless server) In fact, I run the whole house off my 600 watt inverter (sans appliances) during power outages by flipping two breakers and use my motorcycle as the generator for the marine battery. An ammeter lets me know how much I'm using around the house. I use an average of 300 watts during power outages.
Voicestream has a few clueless support people in their bunch. It took me many months to find out why everyone who called me would be charged long distance. The number they gave me for my phone was in a different city. Thanks a lot.
But I keep their service, because the voice quality can be mistaken for the house phone. There are several large Sprint office buildings across from my house, but anyone who has their service over at my house often would say the classic, "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?" My voicestream phone, while unusable in part of my state, works flawlessly even in my bomb shelter where other providers fail.
I'm on Time Warner Cable, and they prohibit servers
What TWC are you on? This is what they say about servers. They say keep it secure and don't behave like an idiot. They also do basic scanning for things like open relays.
This is like Ford suing the Insurance Institute of America for rating a car low in side collision performance and publishing that fact.
Its much worse than that. Its like Ford suing the mechanices for fixing the defective bumper on your Pinto that makes it blow up.
HP is the King and you shalt not degrade His reputation.
If you ever get the chance to meet him at an event, watch him debate with others who challenge his ideas. RMS often appears calm, even if the other guy raises his voice and uses strong body language. RMS awkward in person? Not from what I have seen.
Using a honeypot for an access point by a casual user might be safer than other people's motives for setting up an open system. You don't know who is providing you with that signal and if they are sniffing for cookies and passwords. Is it just a clueless person who owns an access port? Or is it someone who is looking for interesting user habits that he hasn't learned to sniff directly from the cable?
;)
Common sense would dictate never to use an untrusted network for personal information, but I can see it now: people in the park with a laptop will connect to an unknown system and start chatting their personal problems on irc. The Senator's son doing this? Never happen!
I have seen a pattern for the last 15 years.
I wouldn't call it losing money. Its a virtual investment for them. They released the seeds of a product and hope to plant it. Microsoft hopes for maximum distribution across ALL firtile fields. When it takes root and blossoms, THEN they milk it. When its use reaches saturation, they milk it for all its worth while they release a new product.
They repeat this cycle, changing its previous already basterdized standards, only to market something more innovative(tm).
When you get every college graduate looking for a job, each one is going to promise the interviewer that THEY will increase their profits 200% compared to the people they already employ. And so these young nubile collegues lower the bar with a few underhanded strategies until the whole deck of cards collapses.
Also, there has been a great push in the plastics manufacturing industry to prevent scrap and recycle. There are a few reasons why they do this, one being environmental concerns, but that is nothing compared to inventory accountability. Its insane how companies are trying to get 100% usage from raw materials. The molds and bleedoff from the extruder is reground, fed back into the system at up to a 25% ratio. Many times the operators have problems getting things to mold properly and have a stack of junk that the machine botched or QA sent back. It either goes into the dumpster, or its fed back into the system for "free." If you are a plant manager trying to increase profits, why not? It won't come back to haunt you for a long time.
The other problem is lead content in the plastics. Lead is a wonderful metal that does magic to the plastic's heat resistance and durability. It makes it softer and more resistant to the environment. You can make fireproof plastics with a 40% lead content. Chances are, the wires in your house have a small percentage of lead in the plastic's formula. This makes it withstand MUCH higher temperatures before it breaks down and burns your house to the ground. The problem is that its hazardous to work with and leaded plastics do not recycle well. They have to go to the dump when botched. If they are reground and recycled, they do not remelt like other plastics as they have cured permently.
Fucking does not deal with scatology. Shit is a potty mouthed word. But the word fuck can convey an unmistakable domineering attitude as that poster has illustrated. This often abused word is often used to describe arrogance to pinpoint a tyrannical view. Unfortunately, some cultures and religions especially feel there should be a subset of words that have offensive qualities in themselves. You are taught to feel repressed when you hear this word. George Carlin once described this and six other words in a famous amusing skit that got him in trouble with the FCC.
(craws back underneath bridge)
I hope you are joking about airlines banning nail clippers. Have they gone THAT FAR?
I've known a few women who have nails more dangerous than the clippers. Will they make them wear gloves and a gag?
Be sure to cook your new ISO pizza properly by placing it in the microwave.
VCR heads might be a good example to look for something like this. The active guts in the spinning head are magnetically coupled to the base. One could impliment a counterbalanced lens assembly, complete with amplifier circuit on the spinning head.
Also, we could use another trick VCR's use: they scan the media at a high rate, while it actually passes through very slowly. While we already have high speeds from the CD, we could use multiple heads and borrow a technique from the VCR that it uses to reassemble the two signals it gets.
For the VCR, two heads take turns during each half of a revolution scanning the tape at a high speed near sideways motion to get the high frequencies required from the heads. The VCR has the problem that each half revolution, one head leaves and one head starts passing the media, leaving a gap in playtime. A clever means of injecting the signal into a quartz delay line for reassembling the signal is used.
To double the CD's bandwidth (or any multiple speed increase,) we could place more IR pickups in parallel next to each other. This would read multiple groves during each pass. You can reassemble digitally, or just use the cheap quartz delay line hack like the VCR's use.
Dremels can spin much faster than 30,000rpm. Those motors have a field winding and an armature winding. If you decrease the field current, it causes the armature current to go through the roof. This is called "field weakening" and is a common method to get motors to spin faster. The motor's speed can be expressed as a ratio of armature/field current. The motor's speed is that ratio.
AC motors are tricky to do that with, but one sure way to overclock a dremel motor is by "overclocking" one of those 120VAC inverters. Look for an opamp that generates the clock frequency and the resistor for that RC circuit can be replaced with a potentiometer. You can vary the frequency from 0 to about 400Hz. Higher the frequency, the higher AC motors will sync. Don't go to high on the frequency or the inverter's mosfets will exceed their slew rate. That means most of the energy they are trying to switch will be disapated inside themselves, because they can only switch between the voltage rails so fast. Another resistor on the opamps will adjust the voltage for charging the storage capacitor. This one will have the greatest effect. You can get most inverters to pump out over 200 volts. Use an oscilloscope to track down the inverter's signal generator.
I found a non-overclocked dremel will easily cause the cd's outer tracks to skew. Extreme vibration will be the result as the cd warps quickly. Speed will drop quickly due to this imbalance. Solution: turn up the power!
Unfortunately, only 10% of that population has jobs. The rest go to school. And they wonder *why* they aren't buying their music, but listening to it for free on the radio? Pirates! Stop them!
Actually, this would be a good idea. The keyboard's LED, if it is red, might be close enough to the infrared spectrum to be noticed by the irda ports many notebooks have. Well, patch the keyboard panic patch with the tcp stack, write a decoder that will receive the slow tcp serial stream, and cross your fingers that portion of the kernel is not b0rked, and you can be sending packets over the keyboard link.
Well, it wouldn't be a fast link. But the possibilies could include telneting... oh I'll stop there...
I doubt it. Back when Enlightenment came out, there was nothing like it. If there was, please enlighten me. Up until he released it, I had never seen desktop windows that were anything but square. It blew my mind to see the GUI in many different shapes and sizes through the window manager. It was amazing. I don't know how someone can be bitter by being the first to publicly release something so cool. If he is bitter, he has tremendous energy and drive once again and has something in waiting for us.
I'm thinking about using png exclusively. If the content is good enough, I'm sure many IE users would make the effort to swtich.
For those who want to know what this phone number is, it has quite a push button menu to choose from. Much of it is FAQ and investor relations. I'm sure we will want to know what's going on, so be sure to call and get as much information as you can from your call. Know thy enemy.
Take detailed notes. Write it down. Photocopy it. Burn it. Its a great symbolic gesture.
thanks, and don't hesitate to comment on something you feel is important. We'll stick up for anyone and defend your right to post and link to what speaks your mind.
This guy may have a -1 karma, but what he says seems to be important when considering one's career. I have been fortunate to work for managers before that have been hired within that have more than enough common sense to bring everyone together and work as a team to fight dumb ideas.
Unfortunately, I now stand at a place where there are adventures of great magnitude. Every time I mention the wisdom of a decision, I know the person who is listening may use me as a reference. Slowly, I find the steps on the ladder weakening...
Is it really about suing someone? Those of us who have worked in large companies see large contracted project fiascos all the time. No one gets sued, but its interesting that those responsible for the decisions seem to defend the mistakes.
Kickbacks? Were they wined and dined? Did they have a girlfriend involved that happened to have close ties to the contractors? I don't know. Marketing and managers have strange relationships and are often disjoint with the rest of the company. I'm sure stories of bad relationships between vendors would make for great movie material.
No, Microsoft will just overthrow your government and have you executed.