The whole thing has to be a joke! "Safe power levels?" You need a few megawatts to power a small manufacturing plant. A whole city requires thousands of times that. How is billions or trillions of watts going to be safe? Will it ionize the air on the way down? Safe power levels should be less than the intensity of our sun, otherwise imagine bugs under a magnifying glass. So, why not use solar cells? They are proven, yet still costly at about $20,000 to really do a house good.
The thing would make a wonderful weapon to control the population that is so naughty with that internet porn, encryption, and terrorism. We can't have citizens get out of hand...
Any laptop with a broken screen makes a great headless low power box with a built in UPS. In my experience, the screens are very easy to remove. I wish there were broken laptops at garage sales more often.
The possibilities of stacking low profile computers . . . and they consume so little power! I'm sure you can cluster a bunch of them for small jobs through the parallel port and a ethernet jack on one...
A cheap stand alone DAC? The DAC integrated circuits are easy to use and can be liberated from old equipment. They are easy to interface with just a data bus with a latch for the input and an output. With a few logic chips or a PAL, you could hook one up to the parallel port. We used to do these kind of experiments in lab and can be done from scratch in a few hours.
I'm happy with NE2000 clones as they seem to meet my needs. Between the PCI Realtek NE2000 clone on my workstation and the PCMCIA NE2000 clone on my laptop, they ftp about 1MBs between eachother when transferring ISO images. All that between 75 feet of cheap 8 conductor telephone cable too.
The only problem I have had was an ISA NE2000 clone had a problem with my P2B motherboard that is seriously overclocked. It would for some reason not load the address into the card causing the kernel to report the transmitter was busy. It migh have been something to do with the wait states on the bus, but I did not mess with them that much...
In other news today, the Version Inflation Index hit 666% as a large software giant released its rewritten office suite onto the market in every distributor channel. Critics call the dumping crminial. The software giant calls it marketing. What gives?
Portable digital music players are not novel, the idea has been around for a long time. The reason they are possible now is the introduction of cheap, small, and efficient integrated circuits in the market place. These players are guilty of taking advantage of the cheap prices and assembling the parts. That's the whole purpose of having commodoty IC's: reuse in different applications. I would think this guy who applied and awarded this patent is guilty of a criminal offense of extortion. Lock him up for stupidity too. Why are people not vigilant anymore these days?
What would be not tolerated when it comes to domain names? If one had www.fucktheskullofmicrosoft.com, should it be allowed? I'm sure the burden of the legal dogs that are sure to follow such a popular site would be on the new owner, but should the registrars be responsible for screening, censoring, and being liable? Anyhow, a person always can add offensive subdomains quickly that include every profanity and hate message. Why bother screening domain names?
I remember TC++ as a quick way to learn and produce useful programs. It was lean and did the job quite well. There was something about the environment that just made it great to start with. It had everything there within reach of menus, from examples, help, debugging, watching variables, compiling, editing, etc.
My mistake was sometime after that I wanted to write something with a graphical interface and fell for the Visual C++ from Microsoft. Having purchased Microsoft C since the 5.0 verson, I thought it would be just as productive. Wrong. Somehow VC++ 1.0 caused my brain to rot. A few years of this torment and fustration of being unproductive and then I discovered Linux. It was with great joy that this free software encouraged me to think of my computer as hardware that can be programmed to my desire. I now have control over my computer once again...
If Borland came out with a design environment that was even half as good as Turbo C++, I'd certainly check it out. TC++ was inspiring and worked for me. It would be great if the can extend that legend to Linux.
Your company, if large enough, will be able to afford such a setup. Any of your collegues use pirated or unregistered shareware and screensavers? Remember the Microsoft/SPA raids? After one of those, there might be a settlement to bring your company into compliance. They can make you an offer that can't be refused.
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NT 1.0? I think it all started with version 3.5. Then the version numbers got more interesting with service packs and hot fixes, but it was always 3.5 and then the infestation of 4.0 in the workforce. Confusing?
It may not have much to do with age, but physical ability. At five, I had teeth to take toys and little electric motors apart. The same teeth could strip wires. I found these wires fit electric wall sockets and discovered electricity was pure energy. Luckly, I conducted these experiments very early in the morning before the parents would wake and the loud pops would go unnoticed. I would draw pictures of wires, batteries, motors, powering cars, etc. I knew too much... I was dangerous...
My mom took me shopping for my fith birthday so I could choose my present. Radio Shack was popular at the time and I found the box for an electronic project kit bigger and more colorful than the box of a flashlight. It went over, because my dad had an interest in electronics. They helped me build a single transistor radio. I remember picking up my first country radio station (that was back when country music was real!) For xmas of that year, I asked Santa for nuts, bolts, and wires. Twenty five years later, I work at a wire and cable specialty manufacturing plant as the sole senior technicican on my shift. My dream came true in the grandest sense.
Techweb used to be nothing but good reading, but marketing seems to have wiped any common sense from their face.
I agree. Linux is a toy, just like a deisel truck. Throw anything on it and Linux will haul your load to the destination safely and keep on truckin'. Unlike NT, which requires "competent" administrators to configure it from crashing (where are these mythical people?) Linux seems to be configured out of the box for any task and will perform. NT often crashes at the turns and often burns, leaving one with property damage to deal with.
Yes, that's pocket change for Microsoft. I feel sorry for those living North of our border. The company that milked us good now invades our Northern neighbor and gives them a proprietary standard they can't refuse. All your news, information, and the world around you will sure to be innovative by today's standards. Everyone will soon have the One True Service from One Microsoft Way.
Extracting energy from keyboards may not be too far fetched. I have a keyboard from an old 1975 (Xerox?) terminal that uses HAL effect sensors solderd to the kefboard for each key that had a small magnet glued inside. The resulting feel was a very smooth and quiet keystroke. Quite pleasant for the fingers. I would imagine a coil may not have made enough finger friction to notice. It is a fine keyboard and had something like 140 keys and powerd by an Intel 8080 processor with gold connections on everything.
Consider the x.0 releases new that contains many changes and issues to be ironed out. I could say the same about Redhat 5.0. The rock solid releases were 4.2 and 5.2. If a person values stability, old is good and should stick with what has been fixed and proven, not the latest out the door.
I disagree. Errata is good. It shows someone is paying attention to problems and willing to fix errors. In this case, it is timely and thorough. More bugfixes, the merrier.
I did it! My lone Celeron 300A is now 504MHz. Doesn't seem any faster, but RC5 might be able to crunch a few more keys... I had to change the core voltage to 2.4volts and set the BIOS to ignore the "error" of this higher voltage. The CPU did not like 2.0volts and scrambled the eggs on the hard drive with 2.2volts while compiling the kernel. The CPU does not seem to put out any heat, so 504/113MHz it is!
Silver is the light sensitive element used in black and white film, while color film uses organic compounds.
Its messy with all these caustic chemicals and I prefer the recycling electrons with a a digital camera. Well, there is the problem of very nasty chemicals required to make the silicon chips at first...
Its not a SMP with my P2B motherboard, but I have tried my Celeron at 503MHz with the bus speed at 113MHz and it will run for about ten minutes before the kernel oops with a memory page error. Its been running at 463/103MHz since October without a glitch. Has anyone had success with a 113MHz bus speed?
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Bill might be fitting as the evil emperor, not Darth. A bearded kernel hacker "dressed up" does not look very fitting. RMS might be the Chewie animal that would rip the heads off software hoarders... This design needs a little work...
Its a trojan waiting to be installed through some email document/application attatchment. Attatching word documents seems to be very popular with people who are trapped in the Windows environment.
If you don't believe this program should be so public, then you must be one of the people that put trust in security through obscurity. This is what got Windows in the trap that it is. The problem is that NT is too popular and dominates the workforce already. That means massive security holes waiting to be breached. Would you like to have a position with lots of information waiting to be cracked and have your trust in a company that produces products that leak and crash? Its a terrible problem. What kind of secure encryption does NT enjoy? If you shared a network with disgruntled employees, would you be safe? Think about your job security...
Microsoft interested in security issues? Somehow I feel it is more macho they are more interested in offensive measures than defensive.
I'd like to see the neighborhood traffic on your street. How many are dark vans and limos with dark tinted windows and stay parked close to your house? Have you ever walked up to one of them to say "Hi!" to the occupants? I'm sure there is a vested interest in knowing who you are and watching your residence, friends, and place of work.
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The whole thing has to be a joke! "Safe power levels?" You need a few megawatts to power a small manufacturing plant. A whole city requires thousands of times that. How is billions or trillions of watts going to be safe? Will it ionize the air on the way down? Safe power levels should be less than the intensity of our sun, otherwise imagine bugs under a magnifying glass. So, why not use solar cells? They are proven, yet still costly at about $20,000 to really do a house good.
The thing would make a wonderful weapon to control the population that is so naughty with that internet porn, encryption, and terrorism. We can't have citizens get out of hand...
Any laptop with a broken screen makes a great headless low power box with a built in UPS. In my experience, the screens are very easy to remove. I wish there were broken laptops at garage sales more often.
The possibilities of stacking low profile computers . . . and they consume so little power! I'm sure you can cluster a bunch of them for small jobs through the parallel port and a ethernet jack on one...
A cheap stand alone DAC? The DAC integrated circuits are easy to use and can be liberated from old equipment. They are easy to interface with just a data bus with a latch for the input and an output. With a few logic chips or a PAL, you could hook one up to the parallel port. We used to do these kind of experiments in lab and can be done from scratch in a few hours.
I'm happy with NE2000 clones as they seem to meet my needs. Between the PCI Realtek NE2000 clone on my workstation and the PCMCIA NE2000 clone on my laptop, they ftp about 1MBs between eachother when transferring ISO images. All that between 75 feet of cheap 8 conductor telephone cable too.
The only problem I have had was an ISA NE2000 clone had a problem with my P2B motherboard that is seriously overclocked. It would for some reason not load the address into the card causing the kernel to report the transmitter was busy. It migh have been something to do with the wait states on the bus, but I did not mess with them that much...
In other news today, the Version Inflation Index hit 666% as a large software giant released its rewritten office suite onto the market in every distributor channel. Critics call the dumping crminial. The software giant calls it marketing. What gives?
I'd like to challenge your patent on ass-whuppin. Say, nice tie... *pow!!!@#$%*
Portable digital music players are not novel, the idea has been around for a long time. The reason they are possible now is the introduction of cheap, small, and efficient integrated circuits in the market place. These players are guilty of taking advantage of the cheap prices and assembling the parts. That's the whole purpose of having commodoty IC's: reuse in different applications. I would think this guy who applied and awarded this patent is guilty of a criminal offense of extortion. Lock him up for stupidity too. Why are people not vigilant anymore these days?
What would be not tolerated when it comes to domain names? If one had www.fucktheskullofmicrosoft.com, should it be allowed? I'm sure the burden of the legal dogs that are sure to follow such a popular site would be on the new owner, but should the registrars be responsible for screening, censoring, and being liable? Anyhow, a person always can add offensive subdomains quickly that include every profanity and hate message. Why bother screening domain names?
I remember TC++ as a quick way to learn and produce useful programs. It was lean and did the job quite well. There was something about the environment that just made it great to start with. It had everything there within reach of menus, from examples, help, debugging, watching variables, compiling, editing, etc.
My mistake was sometime after that I wanted to write something with a graphical interface and fell for the Visual C++ from Microsoft. Having purchased Microsoft C since the 5.0 verson, I thought it would be just as productive. Wrong. Somehow VC++ 1.0 caused my brain to rot. A few years of this torment and fustration of being unproductive and then I discovered Linux. It was with great joy that this free software encouraged me to think of my computer as hardware that can be programmed to my desire. I now have control over my computer once again...
If Borland came out with a design environment that was even half as good as Turbo C++, I'd certainly check it out. TC++ was inspiring and worked for me. It would be great if the can extend that legend to Linux.
Your company, if large enough, will be able to afford such a setup. Any of your collegues use pirated or unregistered shareware and screensavers? Remember the Microsoft/SPA raids? After one of those, there might be a settlement to bring your company into compliance. They can make you an offer that can't be refused.
NT 1.0? I think it all started with version 3.5. Then the version numbers got more interesting with service packs and hot fixes, but it was always 3.5 and then the infestation of 4.0 in the workforce. Confusing?
It may not have much to do with age, but physical ability. At five, I had teeth to take toys and little electric motors apart. The same teeth could strip wires. I found these wires fit electric wall sockets and discovered electricity was pure energy. Luckly, I conducted these experiments very early in the morning before the parents would wake and the loud pops would go unnoticed. I would draw pictures of wires, batteries, motors, powering cars, etc. I knew too much... I was dangerous...
My mom took me shopping for my fith birthday so I could choose my present. Radio Shack was popular at the time and I found the box for an electronic project kit bigger and more colorful than the box of a flashlight. It went over, because my dad had an interest in electronics. They helped me build a single transistor radio. I remember picking up my first country radio station (that was back when country music was real!) For xmas of that year, I asked Santa for nuts, bolts, and wires. Twenty five years later, I work at a wire and cable specialty manufacturing plant as the sole senior technicican on my shift. My dream came true in the grandest sense.
Techweb used to be nothing but good reading, but marketing seems to have wiped any common sense from their face.
I agree. Linux is a toy, just like a deisel truck. Throw anything on it and Linux will haul your load to the destination safely and keep on truckin'. Unlike NT, which requires "competent" administrators to configure it from crashing (where are these mythical people?) Linux seems to be configured out of the box for any task and will perform. NT often crashes at the turns and often burns, leaving one with property damage to deal with.
Yes, that's pocket change for Microsoft. I feel sorry for those living North of our border. The company that milked us good now invades our Northern neighbor and gives them a proprietary standard they can't refuse. All your news, information, and the world around you will sure to be innovative by today's standards. Everyone will soon have the One True Service from One Microsoft Way.
Extracting energy from keyboards may not be too far fetched. I have a keyboard from an old 1975 (Xerox?) terminal that uses HAL effect sensors solderd to the kefboard for each key that had a small magnet glued inside. The resulting feel was a very smooth and quiet keystroke. Quite pleasant for the fingers. I would imagine a coil may not have made enough finger friction to notice. It is a fine keyboard and had something like 140 keys and powerd by an Intel 8080 processor with gold connections on everything.
Consider the x.0 releases new that contains many changes and issues to be ironed out. I could say the same about Redhat 5.0. The rock solid releases were 4.2 and 5.2. If a person values stability, old is good and should stick with what has been fixed and proven, not the latest out the door.
I disagree. Errata is good. It shows someone is paying attention to problems and willing to fix errors. In this case, it is timely and thorough. More bugfixes, the merrier.
I did it! My lone Celeron 300A is now 504MHz. Doesn't seem any faster, but RC5 might be able to crunch a few more keys... I had to change the core voltage to 2.4volts and set the BIOS to ignore the "error" of this higher voltage. The CPU did not like 2.0volts and scrambled the eggs on the hard drive with 2.2volts while compiling the kernel. The CPU does not seem to put out any heat, so 504/113MHz it is!
Silver is the light sensitive element used in black and white film, while color film uses organic compounds.
Its messy with all these caustic chemicals and I prefer the recycling electrons with a a digital camera. Well, there is the problem of very nasty chemicals required to make the silicon chips at first...
Its not a SMP with my P2B motherboard, but I have tried my Celeron at 503MHz with the bus speed at 113MHz and it will run for about ten minutes before the kernel oops with a memory page error. Its been running at 463/103MHz since October without a glitch. Has anyone had success with a 113MHz bus speed?
Bill might be fitting as the evil emperor, not Darth. A bearded kernel hacker "dressed up" does not look very fitting. RMS might be the Chewie animal that would rip the heads off software hoarders... This design needs a little work...
Its a trojan waiting to be installed through some email document/application attatchment. Attatching word documents seems to be very popular with people who are trapped in the Windows environment.
If you don't believe this program should be so public, then you must be one of the people that put trust in security through obscurity. This is what got Windows in the trap that it is. The problem is that NT is too popular and dominates the workforce already. That means massive security holes waiting to be breached. Would you like to have a position with lots of information waiting to be cracked and have your trust in a company that produces products that leak and crash? Its a terrible problem. What kind of secure encryption does NT enjoy? If you shared a network with disgruntled employees, would you be safe? Think about your job security...
you don't hunt for food with a handgun..
I have.
Microsoft interested in security issues? Somehow I feel it is more macho they are more interested in offensive measures than defensive.
I'd like to see the neighborhood traffic on your street. How many are dark vans and limos with dark tinted windows and stay parked close to your house? Have you ever walked up to one of them to say "Hi!" to the occupants? I'm sure there is a vested interest in knowing who you are and watching your residence, friends, and place of work.