Given HIPAA standards I'm suprised they are just asking for a user account. An unknown public server at a medical facility is a definite risk, and IT is probably very aware of HIPAA standards. Then again, they probably don't think twice when installing the latest version of whatever commercial software they use that makes outgoing TCP connections from "license compliance".
If the Phoenicians where as scared as the US public is of making a dangerous voyage they would have been forgotten. We can't make the most complicated machine ever built, built by the lowest bidder as safe as a minivan. Then again, if you consider accident risk per mile, the auto industry has a high standard to match. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The A100 and A110 are 90nm, they look to be a Dothan derived CPU rather than a Core2. The Core2 is a new micro architecture designed similarly to the previous P6 architecture which the Dothan is a uses. I would suspect you have a different list of bugs to work off of, given the Dothan was the last P6 CPU rather than the first like the Core2 the list is probably shorter.
To put it simply, I don't want to pay for development time to design a product to prevent me from doing things. Previously software development costs were to add features to empower the user, not limit how the user uses the product..
I'm currently running a Dothan on my desktop (ASUS CT-479 + P4P800-VM), it makes it very clear that Netburst has been dead for some time now. Intel has been milking a dead but very expensive cow, and will continue to do so for as long as they can.
These have been avaliable for a few years now, I found them a while back when looking for drop in upgrades for an SGI Indy. The idea of pocket IRIX is sort neat, would just need a 1280x1024 touchscreen on your PDA.
They've done this before, SGI used RDRAM on their MGRAS graphics systems. Last time I checked a 3MB TRAM (texture memory upgrade) still goes for about $100. Oh, and the hardware was release 10 years ago.
Windows XP includes may common features with spyware: * slow down the systems * phones home to centeral servers * long click though eula the nobody reads * pushed on unwitting consumers * claims to improve system security * only avaliable on PC
"All the cables are sleeved with a tinned copper braid, which act to shield the rest of the PC from EMI."
How cables that transmit DC power going to generate EMI? If if a device's current draw is fluctuation enough to cause RF propagation the device needs to be replaced, not sheild the DC transmition cables.
I see one design issue: It's advertised with 2 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot but I see only one avaliable slot in the back, and it requires a 1U riser.
Also the latest G4 towers no longer have the AppleSystemTool kit in the ROMs (so I'm told) and use OpenFirmware, so I would expect that OS X doesn't require it. Wouldn't it be relativly easy to make a clone Mac now, the Darwin kernel is "open" source so any hardware compatiblity issues could be resolved at the kernel level.
SCSI ID 0 3ware 3W-6410 disk controller
* Array Unit 0 Striped with Parity 64K (RAID 5) 359.99 GB OK
+ Port 0 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 120.0GB OK
+ Port 1 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 120.0GB OK
+ Port 2 WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1 120.3GB OK
+ Port 3 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 120.0GB OK Next time arround I'll go with the X Raid:)
Ext3 isn't much better: I've had to fsck this filesystem several times last month: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda3 321G 221G 84G 73%/data
SGI has its prom that is graphical, the machine boots to a menu: Start system, Install OS, Diagnostics, Restore System and Maintance mode. The first time I saw it a was shocker, 24bit color BIOS! and a nice chime, it is a graphics workstation. When you select Maintance mode, by clicking on it or pressing 5 it takes you to a console window that works verymuch like openfirmware. It boots to the same menu over serial just it is a text menu: System Maintenance Menu
1) Start System 2) Install System Software 3) Run Diagnostics 4) Recover System 5) Enter Command Monitor
Option? 5 Command Monitor. Type "exit" to return to the menu. >> hinv
System: IP22
Processor: 175 Mhz R4400, with FPU
Primary I-cache size: 16 Kbytes
Primary D-cache size: 16 Kbytes
Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
Memory size: 32 Mbytes
Audio: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0 >> version PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.3 Rev B10 R4X00/R5000 IP24 Feb 12, 1996 (BE) >>
If PC's booted in 32bit mode it would sure make life easier. Nix the BIOS and replace it with a 32 or 64 bit interface like OpenFirmware or the SGI PROM.
Did a quick google on "Project Prometheus" and nasa found the spoof: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO- 8859-1&q =%22Project+Prometheus%22+nasa&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+ Lucky
Wouldn't this just heat up the walls of the house and then the room? I'm no engineer, but I do know that the wall cavity in an average house is only 3.5" x 16.5" x 93" or 5400 cubic inches. Routing your cooling fan in to such a confined space would mearly where out your cooling fans faster due to the increased back presure. And drywall doesn't transfer heat very well, it might cool the computer for an hour or so till the drywall heated up and then the computer would overheat.
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Yes, it's called a "Platform Security Processor".
1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html...
This shouldn't come as any surprise considering how it was discussed in the context of DRM a decade ago. People choose the cloud, people loose choice.
Now we just run every JavaScript program through an obfuscator then JSNice and we have consistent naming.
The latest example of managers who don't get that computers work by copying data.
Given HIPAA standards I'm suprised they are just asking for a user account. An unknown public server at a medical facility is a definite risk, and IT is probably very aware of HIPAA standards. Then again, they probably don't think twice when installing the latest version of whatever commercial software they use that makes outgoing TCP connections from "license compliance".
If the Phoenicians where as scared as the US public is of making a dangerous voyage they would have been forgotten. We can't make the most complicated machine ever built, built by the lowest bidder as safe as a minivan. Then again, if you consider accident risk per mile, the auto industry has a high standard to match. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Unit of Productivity = 1 / (hours of down time)
They are paying you to keep bad things from happening.
The A100 and A110 are 90nm, they look to be a Dothan derived CPU rather than a Core2. The Core2 is a new micro architecture designed similarly to the previous P6 architecture which the Dothan is a uses. I would suspect you have a different list of bugs to work off of, given the Dothan was the last P6 CPU rather than the first like the Core2 the list is probably shorter.
To put it simply, I don't want to pay for development time to design a product to prevent me from doing things. Previously software development costs were to add features to empower the user, not limit how the user uses the product..
I'm currently running a Dothan on my desktop (ASUS CT-479 + P4P800-VM), it makes it very clear that Netburst has been dead for some time now. Intel has been milking a dead but very expensive cow, and will continue to do so for as long as they can.
363000000 km^2 x (12000 ft - 3000 ft) x (90 F - 32 F) x (4.186 J/gC)
These have been avaliable for a few years now, I found them a while back when looking for drop in upgrades for an SGI Indy. The idea of pocket IRIX is sort neat, would just need a 1280x1024 touchscreen on your PDA.
They've done this before, SGI used RDRAM on their MGRAS graphics systems. Last time I checked a 3MB TRAM (texture memory upgrade) still goes for about $100. Oh, and the hardware was release 10 years ago.
Windows XP includes may common features with spyware:
* slow down the systems
* phones home to centeral servers
* long click though eula the nobody reads
* pushed on unwitting consumers
* claims to improve system security
* only avaliable on PC
"All the cables are sleeved with a tinned copper braid, which act to shield the rest of the PC from EMI." How cables that transmit DC power going to generate EMI? If if a device's current draw is fluctuation enough to cause RF propagation the device needs to be replaced, not sheild the DC transmition cables.
I belive they are refering the 64bit data bus, rather than 64bit registers and address space that was featured in the Alpha at that time.
Time to clean up all those VMS rements.
Open sourcefile in notepad, Ctrl+H, Search for: VMS Replace with: NT, Replace All.
I see one design issue: It's advertised with 2 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot but I see only one avaliable slot in the back, and it requires a 1U riser.
Also the latest G4 towers no longer have the AppleSystemTool kit in the ROMs (so I'm told) and use OpenFirmware, so I would expect that OS X doesn't require it. Wouldn't it be relativly easy to make a clone Mac now, the Darwin kernel is "open" source so any hardware compatiblity issues could be resolved at the kernel level.
SCSI ID 0 3ware 3W-6410 disk controller :)
* Array Unit 0 Striped with Parity 64K (RAID 5) 359.99 GB OK
+ Port 0 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 120.0GB OK
+ Port 1 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 120.0GB OK
+ Port 2 WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1 120.3GB OK
+ Port 3 WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 120.0GB OK
Next time arround I'll go with the X Raid
Ext3 isn't much better: /dev/sda3 321G 221G 84G 73% /data
I've had to fsck this filesystem several times last month:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
It takes about 45min.
I remeber seeing an upgrade for some Apple II to upgrade it the a full Megahetz.
SGI has its prom that is graphical, the machine boots to a menu: Start system, Install OS, Diagnostics, Restore System and Maintance mode. The first time I saw it a was shocker, 24bit color BIOS! and a nice chime, it is a graphics workstation. When you select Maintance mode, by clicking on it or pressing 5 it takes you to a console window that works verymuch like openfirmware. It boots to the same menu over serial just it is a text menu:
System Maintenance Menu
1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor
Option? 5
Command Monitor. Type "exit" to return to the menu.
>> hinv
System: IP22
Processor: 175 Mhz R4400, with FPU
Primary I-cache size: 16 Kbytes
Primary D-cache size: 16 Kbytes
Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
Memory size: 32 Mbytes
Audio: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0
>> version
PROM Monitor SGI Version 5.3 Rev B10 R4X00/R5000 IP24 Feb 12, 1996 (BE)
>>
If PC's booted in 32bit mode it would sure make life easier. Nix the BIOS and replace it with a 32 or 64 bit interface like OpenFirmware or the SGI PROM.
I really need more practice.
Did a quick google on "Project Prometheus" and nasa found the spoof:- 8859-1&q =%22Project+Prometheus%22+nasa&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+ Lucky
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO
Just emailed this to there info@ address:
Wouldn't this just heat up the walls of the house and then the room? I'm no engineer, but I do know that the wall cavity in an average house is only 3.5" x 16.5" x 93" or 5400 cubic inches. Routing your cooling fan in to such a confined space would mearly where out your cooling fans faster due to the increased back presure. And drywall doesn't transfer heat very well, it might cool the computer for an hour or so till the drywall heated up and then the computer would overheat.