Prevent drag racing? Why? An abandoned airport is probably one of the safest places to drag, since there's no traffic to worry about.
It's funny how the government insists on preventing people from having fun. Sure, drag racing can be dangerous, but drag racers know that, and the safest place is on an abandoned runway. This will only force them to drag on the streets, where it's actually dangerous!
Starting multiple TCP connections for a single file download can be advantageous, because of congested network paths.
If there are 500 TCP downloads ocurring, each download will theoretically get 1/500th the bandwidth.
Therefore, by opening multiple TCP connections, you will increase the amount of bandwidth for your transfer, at a cost to everyone else using the connection. This is because you've effectively doubled the size of your receive window (one for each connection), causing the host you are downloading from to stuff that many more packets down the pipe.
The problem is, when everyone does it, it completely negates any advantage to using this method. It also leads to packet loss, since you have that many more TCP connections (each with its own receive window) fighting for pieces of the pie.
Funny, I've hot plugged keyboards and mice on PC's for years without a problem. I think not being able to hot plug them is a myth that's been perpetrated ever since the original IBM PC had a flakey keyboard controller that could fry if you hot-plugged it. Modern hardware doesn't have this problem.
In any case, SCSI failed simply because of price. Hard drive manufacturers decided to bilk people on SCSI, even back when many IDE and SCSI drives shared drive mechanisms. Remember the Quantum Fireballs? The IDE and SCSI drives were exactly the same, except for the controllerboard. Yes SCSI cost 3x as much.
Drive manufacturers killed SCSI. They are solely to blame.
Residences aren't generally penalized for poor power factor like commercial operations are. Normal residential meters measure true wattage. Even if your power factor is lousy, you'll only get billed for actual watt-hours used.
No, cooling (AKA air conditioning) just moves heat from one location to another. This takes a lot less energy than the actual heat load being moved.
This is why heat pumps are a lot more efficient than resistance heating. Heat pumps move ambient heat outside (yes, there's ambient heat; even on a cold day) into the building, which requires less energy than producing the heat energy directly.
10 years ago.. 1993... MUDs were already out of infancy by then.
Lambdamoo had already been around for a few years, and so had FurryMUCK. Both of them started in 1989-1990 or so, and quickly became popular. There were many other systems around too, and some people consider this to be the "good old days" of MUDs, IE, before everyone and their mother could get on the Internet.
Heck, when I first read the headline I thought a new version of MOO had come out.
I have a serious problem with this philosophy, because it throws a wrench into the concept of ownership.
When you own something, you should have the right to do whatever you want to it. If we start making laws that can restrict what you can do to what you own (with the exception of sensible things like removing catalytic converters, which creates pollution that hurts us all), we end up on a very slippery slope where the government and corporations can govern that much more of what we do.
If manufacturers don't want people modifying the cards to make them faster, just make them more difficult to modify. Remember the iOpener? Later versions were made almost impossible to modify by sealing the components in epoxy. ATI can do the same thing, rather than making stupid laws to restrict what we can do with what we own.
>No it doesn't have an LCD. LCDs can not compare to >a Trinitron CRT monitor. The quality of his monitor >is infinitely better than an LCD of the same >display (20" or better) and a fraction of the >price. I would call a 21" flat CRT Trinitron at >$700 and higher output a better buy than the >leading Sony 20" LCD for $2,000 - wouldn't you?
I have owned both Trinitron monitors and LCD panels and I must disagree here. Modern LCD panels have absolutely perfect geometry, convergence, and have a much brighter, stable image than any CRT I've ever used.
LCD's also do not have an inherent refresh rate in the display, so the image does not flicker at all. I find LCD's to be a lot easier on my eyes than CRT's.
The only downsides to LCD's are the fact that they are fixed resolution, and that they don't refresh as quickly as CRT's due, making them inadequate for some games.
This is my opinion of course, and it may differ from yours, but I felt I must make my point about CRT's.
I don't think anyone should be able to limit what I can do with my own equipment. If someone chooses to break the law by copying and distributing copyrighted material, they should be the ones to receive punishment, not the rest of us who just want to archive our favorite television show.
I'm tired of seeing all this "Rights Management" bullshit on consumer electronics. Why are the recording industry's rights more important than the consumers'? The people who REALLY hurt the entertainment industry by pirating are the ones that mass-produce bootleg DVD's and sell them on the black market, and those people aren't affected by any of these restrictions on consumer equipment anyway.
Actually, the chip was in the head. In the special edition director's cut of the movie, there is a scene where they remove the chip from the Terminator's head to switch it from read-only to read-write.
It's a great scene, and it was annoying that it never made the theatrical cut. But, alas...
>What do you do if the controller card itself dies?
Simple... You purchase a different controller, put the drives on it, build the RAID, and restore the data onto it from your backups.
RAID is meant to increase overall reliability; it is not meant as a substitute for backups.
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I hope you keep an off-machine backup. It only takes one violent power supply failure to make all your data suddenly vanish as multiple drives meet their maker in a blinding flash of light.
Back up to an off-machine disk or tape. NOW. You will thank me later.
When it comes to handling mail, I've found Pine to be the fastest, slickest mail program around. I don't like GUI mail clients as I don't feel I should have to click a mouse to read my mail. I can also run Pine over an ssh connection.
For me at least, it's the only mailreader in existence. Maybe someday I'll try mutt.
>Given that 1 gallon of gasoline results in 20 pounds of pollution (mostly CO2 and H2O), that's 1 million tons of pollution.
Wow, I didn't know burning gasoline violated the law of conservation of mass. If we keep burning as much gasoline as we do, soon the mass of the Earth will increase so much that our orbit will be disrupted and we'll go hurtling into the sun!
I read at 0, because I don't want to miss anything. I'd rather read everything and do the filtering in my brain than to have other Slashdot readers do it.
The whole moderation/karma system is silly anyway. }:)
I didn't hate DIVX because it let you "rent" discs and throw them away. I hated it because it was potentially affecting the library of movies available on regular DVD. When DIVX came out, DVD was just starting to become popular. It really had the potential to totally make or break the success of DVD as a format.
Disney, for instance, was one company planning DIVX-exclusive releases. Even if you bought the "DIVX-gold" releases, which theoretically you could play forever, they still had the right to revoke your ability to view that disc at any time.
I don't want studios to have that much control over something after I buy it. This is the same reason why DRM is evil and should not be supported in any way. DVD's region coding and copy protection are nothing when compared to the evils of DRM. Period. EOF.
Do what I do; set your answering machine to pick up on the second ring and screen all calls. I get several calls a day where people don't leave a message. Trust me; if it's an important call, people will leave a message, and tell your friends to just shout out "Hey! It's , pick up the phone!" and do that.
What's nifty is the newer digital answering machines can detect when someone hangs up even if it's during the outgoing message. The machine will then hang up before it sends the whole message and no incoming message will be recorded.
Look at it this way... If they refuse to repair their product while it's under warranty, and want to charge you $100 for a replacement part, what good is the warranty?
I don't know if I'm thinking old fashioned here, but a warranty generally means that if anything goes wrong with the product during the warranty period, the manufacturer will fix it for free. Yeah, you might have to pay shipping to get it to them, but that I can understand. I've had things repaired under warranty numerous time and have never had to pay the company to do it.
Since the warranty appears to be useless on the PS2, you might as well repair it yourself if you can. I'm not sure why they bother offering a warranty if they can't live up to it.
Yup, these rock. You can either buy a package which includes the enclosure and the disk, or just buy the enclosure and buy the disk seperately.
Not only can you back your data up to it and carry ridiculous amounts of data around, but you can lock it in your desk at work and have an instant off-site backup.
At FIU, VMS was in use until around 1997. Back in 1995 they still had text terminals in some of the computer labs. They were connected to DECServers and could only directly connect to the VMS machines. They had a HUGE (physically) VAX 8800 (SERVAX) and also a DEC Alpha box of some sort (SERVMS). I never really gave VMS the time of day, though, other than to log into other systems. My typical VMS session looked like this:
Local> C SERVAX
Username: JFLYNN02 Password: *******
SERVAX $ TELNET SOLIX.FIU.EDU
SunOS UNIX 4.1.4
Login:...so essentially the VMS system was just used to hop over to the UNIX ones...
I sometimes wish I had given VMS the time of day back then. I guess this free server is a chance to really play with it some...
It sure brings back memories, though... VMS looks simply bizarre to a UNIX user.
If you are at a University, use a mirror located at another University. Chances are the traffic will travel over Internet2 at ridiculous speeds, and not strain your University's (usually) clogged commodity Internet link.
I got 1.42Mbytes/sec from U of Wisconsin to FIU, myself.
Try grabbing 1.1beta, or a recent build. They recently implemented an "Almost Standards Mode" that fixes a lot of those misrendering pages. This mode is bug for bug compatible with MSIE/Netscape.
Mozilla has also gotten much more stable. Try a recent build and be amazed...
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Prevent drag racing? Why? An abandoned airport is probably one of the safest places to drag, since there's no traffic to worry about.
It's funny how the government insists on preventing people from having fun. Sure, drag racing can be dangerous, but drag racers know that, and the safest place is on an abandoned runway. This will only force them to drag on the streets, where it's actually dangerous!
Starting multiple TCP connections for a single file download can be advantageous, because of congested network paths.
If there are 500 TCP downloads ocurring, each download will theoretically get 1/500th the bandwidth.
Therefore, by opening multiple TCP connections, you will increase the amount of bandwidth for your transfer, at a cost to everyone else using the connection. This is because you've effectively doubled the size of your receive window (one for each connection), causing the host you are downloading from to stuff that many more packets down the pipe.
The problem is, when everyone does it, it completely negates any advantage to using this method. It also leads to packet loss, since you have that many more TCP connections (each with its own receive window) fighting for pieces of the pie.
Funny, I've hot plugged keyboards and mice on PC's for years without a problem. I think not being able to hot plug them is a myth that's been perpetrated ever since the original IBM PC had a flakey keyboard controller that could fry if you hot-plugged it. Modern hardware doesn't have this problem.
In any case, SCSI failed simply because of price. Hard drive manufacturers decided to bilk people on SCSI, even back when many IDE and SCSI drives shared drive mechanisms. Remember the Quantum Fireballs? The IDE and SCSI drives were exactly the same, except for the controllerboard. Yes SCSI cost 3x as much.
Drive manufacturers killed SCSI. They are solely to blame.
-Z
Residences aren't generally penalized for poor power factor like commercial operations are. Normal residential meters measure true wattage. Even if your power factor is lousy, you'll only get billed for actual watt-hours used.
No, cooling (AKA air conditioning) just moves heat from one location to another. This takes a lot less energy than the actual heat load being moved.
This is why heat pumps are a lot more efficient than resistance heating. Heat pumps move ambient heat outside (yes, there's ambient heat; even on a cold day) into the building, which requires less energy than producing the heat energy directly.
What about 480p? I don't think my TV can do that European 576p format.
Plus, in the US we don't use SCART connectors. Will the US version have normal YPbPr outputs?
Too many questions left unanswered...
-Z
10 years ago.. 1993... MUDs were already out of infancy by then.
Lambdamoo had already been around for a few years, and so had FurryMUCK. Both of them started in 1989-1990 or so, and quickly became popular. There were many other systems around too, and some people consider this to be the "good old days" of MUDs, IE, before everyone and their mother could get on the Internet.
Heck, when I first read the headline I thought a new version of MOO had come out.
I have a serious problem with this philosophy, because it throws a wrench into the concept of ownership.
When you own something, you should have the right to do whatever you want to it. If we start making laws that can restrict what you can do to what you own (with the exception of sensible things like removing catalytic converters, which creates pollution that hurts us all), we end up on a very slippery slope where the government and corporations can govern that much more of what we do.
If manufacturers don't want people modifying the cards to make them faster, just make them more difficult to modify. Remember the iOpener? Later versions were made almost impossible to modify by sealing the components in epoxy. ATI can do the same thing, rather than making stupid laws to restrict what we can do with what we own.
>No it doesn't have an LCD. LCDs can not compare to >a Trinitron CRT monitor. The quality of his monitor >is infinitely better than an LCD of the same >display (20" or better) and a fraction of the >price. I would call a 21" flat CRT Trinitron at >$700 and higher output a better buy than the >leading Sony 20" LCD for $2,000 - wouldn't you?
I have owned both Trinitron monitors and LCD panels and I must disagree here. Modern LCD panels have absolutely perfect geometry, convergence, and have a much brighter, stable image than any CRT I've ever used.
LCD's also do not have an inherent refresh rate in the display, so the image does not flicker at all. I find LCD's to be a lot easier on my eyes than CRT's.
The only downsides to LCD's are the fact that they are fixed resolution, and that they don't refresh as quickly as CRT's due, making them inadequate for some games.
This is my opinion of course, and it may differ from yours, but I felt I must make my point about CRT's.
Sorry, but I must disagree here.
I don't think anyone should be able to limit what I can do with my own equipment. If someone chooses to break the law by copying and distributing copyrighted material, they should be the ones to receive punishment, not the rest of us who just want to archive our favorite television show.
I'm tired of seeing all this "Rights Management" bullshit on consumer electronics. Why are the recording industry's rights more important than the consumers'? The people who REALLY hurt the entertainment industry by pirating are the ones that mass-produce bootleg DVD's and sell them on the black market, and those people aren't affected by any of these restrictions on consumer equipment anyway.
Not to mention the hordes of toys made over the last decades that change color with temperature... Who is Apple trying to fool?
Actually, the chip was in the head. In the special edition director's cut of the movie, there is a scene where they remove the chip from the Terminator's head to switch it from read-only to read-write.
It's a great scene, and it was annoying that it never made the theatrical cut. But, alas...
>What do you do if the controller card itself dies?
Simple... You purchase a different controller, put the drives on it, build the RAID, and restore the data onto it from your backups.
RAID is meant to increase overall reliability; it is not meant as a substitute for backups.
I hope you keep an off-machine backup. It only takes one violent power supply failure to make all your data suddenly vanish as multiple drives meet their maker in a blinding flash of light.
Back up to an off-machine disk or tape. NOW. You will thank me later.
When it comes to handling mail, I've found Pine to be the fastest, slickest mail program around. I don't like GUI mail clients as I don't feel I should have to click a mouse to read my mail. I can also run Pine over an ssh connection.
For me at least, it's the only mailreader in existence. Maybe someday I'll try mutt.
>Given that 1 gallon of gasoline results in 20 pounds of pollution (mostly CO2 and H2O), that's 1 million tons of pollution.
Wow, I didn't know burning gasoline violated the law of conservation of mass. If we keep burning as much gasoline as we do, soon the mass of the Earth will increase so much that our orbit will be disrupted and we'll go hurtling into the sun!
Or.. maybe not. }:)
I read at 0, because I don't want to miss anything. I'd rather read everything and do the filtering in my brain than to have other Slashdot readers do it.
The whole moderation/karma system is silly anyway. }:)
I didn't hate DIVX because it let you "rent" discs and throw them away. I hated it because it was potentially affecting the library of movies available on regular DVD. When DIVX came out, DVD was just starting to become popular. It really had the potential to totally make or break the success of DVD as a format.
Disney, for instance, was one company planning DIVX-exclusive releases. Even if you bought the "DIVX-gold" releases, which theoretically you could play forever, they still had the right to revoke your ability to view that disc at any time.
I don't want studios to have that much control over something after I buy it. This is the same reason why DRM is evil and should not be supported in any way. DVD's region coding and copy protection are nothing when compared to the evils of DRM. Period. EOF.
Do what I do; set your answering machine to pick up on the second ring and screen all calls. I get several calls a day where people don't leave a message. Trust me; if it's an important call, people will leave a message, and tell your friends to just shout out "Hey! It's , pick up the phone!" and do that.
What's nifty is the newer digital answering machines can detect when someone hangs up even if it's during the outgoing message. The machine will then hang up before it sends the whole message and no incoming message will be recorded.
Look at it this way... If they refuse to repair their product while it's under warranty, and want to charge you $100 for a replacement part, what good is the warranty?
I don't know if I'm thinking old fashioned here, but a warranty generally means that if anything goes wrong with the product during the warranty period, the manufacturer will fix it for free. Yeah, you might have to pay shipping to get it to them, but that I can understand. I've had things repaired under warranty numerous time and have never had to pay the company to do it.
Since the warranty appears to be useless on the PS2, you might as well repair it yourself if you can. I'm not sure why they bother offering a warranty if they can't live up to it.
I won't say Mozilla was always fast, but lately it's gotten a lot faster.
I use Mozilla on a Pentium III 600 and it's quite snappy; about as snappy as XP is on a similar machine.
Please try to actually download and use a recent build before making uninformed statements, thank you.
External firewire disk.
Yup, these rock. You can either buy a package which includes the enclosure and the disk, or just buy the enclosure and buy the disk seperately.
Not only can you back your data up to it and carry ridiculous amounts of data around, but you can lock it in your desk at work and have an instant off-site backup.
I couldn't live without mine.
At FIU, VMS was in use until around 1997. Back in 1995 they still had text terminals in some of the computer labs. They were connected to DECServers and could only directly connect to the VMS machines. They had a HUGE (physically) VAX 8800 (SERVAX) and also a DEC Alpha box of some sort (SERVMS). I never really gave VMS the time of day, though, other than to log into other systems. My typical VMS session looked like this:
...so essentially the VMS system was just used to hop over to the UNIX ones...
Local> C SERVAX
Username: JFLYNN02
Password: *******
SERVAX $ TELNET SOLIX.FIU.EDU
SunOS UNIX 4.1.4
Login:
I sometimes wish I had given VMS the time of day back then. I guess this free server is a chance to really play with it some...
It sure brings back memories, though... VMS looks simply bizarre to a UNIX user.
If you are at a University, use a mirror located at another University. Chances are the traffic will travel over Internet2 at ridiculous speeds, and not strain your University's (usually) clogged commodity Internet link.
I got 1.42Mbytes/sec from U of Wisconsin to FIU, myself.
Try grabbing 1.1beta, or a recent build. They recently implemented an "Almost Standards Mode" that fixes a lot of those misrendering pages. This mode is bug for bug compatible with MSIE/Netscape.
Mozilla has also gotten much more stable. Try a recent build and be amazed...