extrordinarily unlikely in this case. most of the cxbx code consists of wrappers for the existing directx calls used by xbox games. the xbox really is essentially a pc, with a few different system calls for hardware access (specifically in the shared video/system memory access). the directx and cpu calls can execute directly under windows without emulation, which is the only reason that this thing can run at playable speeds.
in order to make this run under *nix, you need directx9 running under *nix, which as i understand is still a long way from happening.
this might seem odd to you, but some people design listening systems for sound quality, not volume. if you'll RTFA, you find that the amp is only delivering 6W to each of 2 horns (despite total power handling capacity of 6400 watts).
the vessel is a commercially available catamaran that the us navy is renting. this isn't a battle vehicle people, it's a technology testbed. there's little chance of this craft ever seeing combat. the boat is simply there as a platform to test the computer hardware and software.
and you, for one, maybe don't deserve the bandwidth you get for _free_ downloads. your favorite linux distro has to pay the bills sometime too, and i don't imagine that you've actually paypal'd anyone to host their isos. so contribute (either by cash or bandwidth) or shut up.
just like competition has driven down the price of ssl certificates? that's outrageous.
like the original poster, i run about 10 domains on a mail server at home for myself and some friends. at $250 for a 2 year cert (bargain basement prices), that's going to cost me $1250 a year, which i think is unreasonable for the "little guy" who isn't running a company.
keep in mind that there are plenty of people happily using the internet that have no commercial intent whatsoever. i know it's very un-american of me, but none of my websites and domains are intended to make money.
competition is only going to drive down prices if there is true competition, which currently isn't the case with certificates. basically, microsoft has de facto control over who can issue certificates as they control which trusted root certificates are going to ship with their browsers. until this situation has changed, i'll take my chances with either un-secured connections or educating my users on how to install a root certificate into their browser before i pay into the verisign cartel.
because eink only draws power when you change the display, the speed at which you read won't matter. it can change the display 10,000 times on a charge regardless of how long each page is displayed.
read the article - what you're talking about is often referred to "nearline" storage. you're right about the cost of tape - for some reason the technology hasn't kept up with "spinning platter" magnetic storage capacities.
many storage vendors (hitachi/ibm, emc, etc) have been pitching drive arrays as backup solutions for years. as long as the array is redundant enough, it should be wel suited for interim backup use. (daily incrementals or quick-access disaster recovery drive images for critical systems.)
for archival purposes however tape is still the medium of choice. they have very long shelf lives, and they are well known and well supported across every computing platform under the sun. they also have one great feature that hard drives lack - they are durable as hell. you can rotate archives in and out of a remote storage site without worries of damaging the media. most every large enterprise in the US does this for accounting and auditing purposes as most auditing firms demand it.
the lacie "drive" is actually a striped array in an external box. note that there's no redunancy in this array, so if either of the 2 250gb drives in their 500gb box goes out, the whole volume is lost. basically, you double your chances of catastrophic data loss with one of these units.
if you don't have a backup solution capable of handling 500gb, i wouldn't touch one of these things.
the 137gb was the limit with the 24 bit addressing standard used in the ATA spec. ATA133 doesn't fix this problem, LBA48 does. basically it uses the same addressing scheme, but takes 2 cycles to read 2 sets of 24 bit address (hence the 48bit), which will go into the terabyte range. as it doesn't take any real intelligence from the controller, this is a feature that can be added with software updates - as long as the drive isn't your boot drive. if you want to boot from a drive with LBA48 your controller has to understand the addressing method, which is why buying a new controller worked for you.
as an example, large hard drive (>137gb) support was added to modified xboxes by way of a bios upgrade a couple months ago. my xbox now has a 320gb in it where it used to only handle dives smaller than 137gb.
true - they show a molded plastic case with some parts in it.
what this means:
a) infinium doesn't have any sort of in house design staff to create the shell design b) infinium has no manufacturing capabilities at all, and has to shop out even one-off small scale model shop type plastic molds
what this doesn't mean:
a) that the plstic model has any basis in reality b) that the electonic bits inside actually _do_ anything.
1 used xbox: $150 1 cheapmod: $10 -or- rented copy of "mech assault" or "007 agent under fire" plus memory card: $20 1 copy of xbox media center (visit #xbins on efnet to obtain this): priceless! (and free too!)
XBox Media Center (XBMC) will play VOB files across the network from machines sharing the files via SMB (regular windows networking) or 2 other xbox-only streaming protocols. XBMC also plays divx, xvid, mpeg, quicktime, realmedia, ogm, and other video codecs. throw in mp3/ogg support, streaming internet radio from shoutcast, a picutre viewer for your digital pics, and even weather updates from the weather channel.com and you have yourself a pretty cheap playback system.
one motive other than kindness might be the endless stream of attacks on the nation's communication and commerce infrastructure due to poorly secured internet-attached servers (not just windows - there's been plenty of linux based root jobs too). perhaps the NSA takes it's role in protecting our nation a bit more seriously than you would think?
i'm not a big fan of regulation, but requiring access to emergency services seems like a pretty reasonable request. the tone of this story seems to indicate that the government mandating that people are able to call for emergency service is somehow a bad thing. it's in the "your rights online" section, but i don't see where my rights are being trampled.
it seems the the entire foundation of his arguement is that having access to the source leads to security problems. this coming from the same guy who generally likes linux and promotes it as an enterprise-ready secure platform. i'm not sure i understand what the hell he's talking about anymore...
not long i'd imagine, as new games come out with new features/graphics/bell/whistles to replace the old. evercrack and ultima online still are going, but given they're aging tech and the onslaught of newcomers, i don't imagine they'll be generating much revenue for long.
diamond windows would be terrible - the reason that diamond would make a great semiconductor substrate is that it has an almost perposterously high coefficient of thermal conductivity - almost an order of magnitude beyond any other common material. this means you'd have a damn cold house if your windows were all diamond. it'd make a great radiator for your fusion-powered flying car though!
anti matter is well known, and can in fact be created in labs (along with being created in our ionosphere all the time). dark matter is completely different stuff.
Car Talk will now be available via the Windows Media Player, rather than RealMedia. That's right, we're unceremoniously dumping RealMedia.
Why? Because, for a long time, we've had tons of complaints about RealNetworks. And the one that ticks us off the most is the perceived trickery they use to sell their premium products. This is just our opinion, mind you, but it's shared by enough of our listeners, that we finally decided to take action.
Here's the problem. In order to hear our audio, you have to go to Real.com and download their "free" RealPlayer. But when you get to the web site, the free player is harder to find than Osama Bin Laden at night. And the site seems to do everything it possibly can to get you to "buy" a player instead. You have to work very hard to get the free player. And we think that stinks. And get this. It stinks so much that it even makes Microsoft look good by comparison. That's something, huh?
We've heard from many of our fans that have been duped, and who have accidentally shelled out their hard-earned dineros. And we won't even get into the ways that the RealPlayer tries to take over your computer once you install it. So, after surveying the alternatives, we're switching to Windows Media Player (which works on Macs, too).
For those of you who don't yet have the Windows Media Player installed, you can get it for Windows--for free--at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window smedia/9ser ies/player.aspx
And for Mac--for free--at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window smedia/soft ware/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx for OS X or http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ down load/mac71.aspx for OS 8.1 and up
Listening to Car Talk is painful enough by itself. You don't need more angst. If you'd rather take Car Talk with you, you can also download the show anytime by clicking on the Audible link at: http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ (Cheapskate alert: fee *definitely* involved.)
when major broadcasters are dumping real's products due to their "betcha can't find the free version" antics, maybe real would wisen up and actually make good on their "free" players.
not that i care - real alternative and media player classic take care of my windows-based media viewing just fine, minus all the spyware and other crap.
you can replace damn near anything in a modern hp/compaq server without the use of any screws whatsoever (this includes mounting the unit into a rack as well). only swapping the system board involves a screwdriver.
dan's data did some testing of various thermal compounds on the market, and threw in vegemite and toothpaste as a control. they all finished within the margin of error of the testing aparatus.
read the article here: http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm
after reading this i just have to laugh at all the people posting here (and elsewhere) about how the super expensive paste they bought brought their cpu temperature down 10 degrees or more. if that's actually true, they installed the first product they used wrong. or they could have saved the money and used toothpaste:)
the shutter speed of the camera doesn't matter a bit. it's the speed of the flash that counts. the camera is setup for a long exposure, but it only collects light for the duration of the flash, so it doesn't really matter how fast the camera is.
the charges would be dropped in a jiffy and a large campaign contribution would be made and the whole issue swept under the carpet. you can't possibly believe that anything else would happen...
i was going to say the same thing about detroit. their hub at DTW is now like a hundred times better since they rebuilt it.... damn that airport used to suck eggs... nothing like siting on the tarmac for hours on end for no reason at all.
the xrays don't come from inside the event horizon, they arise as the energy being blasted off from the matter accelerating to insane velocities as they approach the event horizon. x-rays are light, and like light they cannot escape the event horizon (regardless of what lies underneath it - singularity or bubble or whatever).
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extrordinarily unlikely in this case. most of the cxbx code consists of wrappers for the existing directx calls used by xbox games. the xbox really is essentially a pc, with a few different system calls for hardware access (specifically in the shared video/system memory access). the directx and cpu calls can execute directly under windows without emulation, which is the only reason that this thing can run at playable speeds.
in order to make this run under *nix, you need directx9 running under *nix, which as i understand is still a long way from happening.
this might seem odd to you, but some people design listening systems for sound quality, not volume. if you'll RTFA, you find that the amp is only delivering 6W to each of 2 horns (despite total power handling capacity of 6400 watts).
the vessel is a commercially available catamaran that the us navy is renting. this isn't a battle vehicle people, it's a technology testbed. there's little chance of this craft ever seeing combat. the boat is simply there as a platform to test the computer hardware and software.
and you, for one, maybe don't deserve the bandwidth you get for _free_ downloads. your favorite linux distro has to pay the bills sometime too, and i don't imagine that you've actually paypal'd anyone to host their isos. so contribute (either by cash or bandwidth) or shut up.
just like competition has driven down the price of ssl certificates? that's outrageous.
like the original poster, i run about 10 domains on a mail server at home for myself and some friends. at $250 for a 2 year cert (bargain basement prices), that's going to cost me $1250 a year, which i think is unreasonable for the "little guy" who isn't running a company.
keep in mind that there are plenty of people happily using the internet that have no commercial intent whatsoever. i know it's very un-american of me, but none of my websites and domains are intended to make money.
competition is only going to drive down prices if there is true competition, which currently isn't the case with certificates. basically, microsoft has de facto control over who can issue certificates as they control which trusted root certificates are going to ship with their browsers. until this situation has changed, i'll take my chances with either un-secured connections or educating my users on how to install a root certificate into their browser before i pay into the verisign cartel.
because eink only draws power when you change the display, the speed at which you read won't matter. it can change the display 10,000 times on a charge regardless of how long each page is displayed.
read the article - what you're talking about is often referred to "nearline" storage. you're right about the cost of tape - for some reason the technology hasn't kept up with "spinning platter" magnetic storage capacities.
many storage vendors (hitachi/ibm, emc, etc) have been pitching drive arrays as backup solutions for years. as long as the array is redundant enough, it should be wel suited for interim backup use. (daily incrementals or quick-access disaster recovery drive images for critical systems.)
for archival purposes however tape is still the medium of choice. they have very long shelf lives, and they are well known and well supported across every computing platform under the sun. they also have one great feature that hard drives lack - they are durable as hell. you can rotate archives in and out of a remote storage site without worries of damaging the media. most every large enterprise in the US does this for accounting and auditing purposes as most auditing firms demand it.
the lacie "drive" is actually a striped array in an external box. note that there's no redunancy in this array, so if either of the 2 250gb drives in their 500gb box goes out, the whole volume is lost. basically, you double your chances of catastrophic data loss with one of these units.
if you don't have a backup solution capable of handling 500gb, i wouldn't touch one of these things.
the 137gb was the limit with the 24 bit addressing standard used in the ATA spec. ATA133 doesn't fix this problem, LBA48 does. basically it uses the same addressing scheme, but takes 2 cycles to read 2 sets of 24 bit address (hence the 48bit), which will go into the terabyte range. as it doesn't take any real intelligence from the controller, this is a feature that can be added with software updates - as long as the drive isn't your boot drive. if you want to boot from a drive with LBA48 your controller has to understand the addressing method, which is why buying a new controller worked for you.
as an example, large hard drive (>137gb) support was added to modified xboxes by way of a bios upgrade a couple months ago. my xbox now has a 320gb in it where it used to only handle dives smaller than 137gb.
true - they show a molded plastic case with some parts in it.
what this means:
a) infinium doesn't have any sort of in house design staff to create the shell design
b) infinium has no manufacturing capabilities at all, and has to shop out even one-off small scale model shop type plastic molds
what this doesn't mean:
a) that the plstic model has any basis in reality
b) that the electonic bits inside actually _do_ anything.
1 used xbox: $150
1 cheapmod: $10
-or-
rented copy of "mech assault" or "007 agent under fire" plus memory card: $20
1 copy of xbox media center (visit #xbins on efnet to obtain this): priceless! (and free too!)
XBox Media Center (XBMC) will play VOB files across the network from machines sharing the files via SMB (regular windows networking) or 2 other xbox-only streaming protocols. XBMC also plays divx, xvid, mpeg, quicktime, realmedia, ogm, and other video codecs. throw in mp3/ogg support, streaming internet radio from shoutcast, a picutre viewer for your digital pics, and even weather updates from the weather channel.com and you have yourself a pretty cheap playback system.
oh yeah and it can play xbox games too.
xbox media center website
information on hacking the xbox (news, tutorials, and forums)
reliable source of cheap chips in the us
one motive other than kindness might be the endless stream of attacks on the nation's communication and commerce infrastructure due to poorly secured internet-attached servers (not just windows - there's been plenty of linux based root jobs too). perhaps the NSA takes it's role in protecting our nation a bit more seriously than you would think?
i'm not a big fan of regulation, but requiring access to emergency services seems like a pretty reasonable request. the tone of this story seems to indicate that the government mandating that people are able to call for emergency service is somehow a bad thing. it's in the "your rights online" section, but i don't see where my rights are being trampled.
it seems the the entire foundation of his arguement is that having access to the source leads to security problems. this coming from the same guy who generally likes linux and promotes it as an enterprise-ready secure platform. i'm not sure i understand what the hell he's talking about anymore...
not long i'd imagine, as new games come out with new features/graphics/bell/whistles to replace the old. evercrack and ultima online still are going, but given they're aging tech and the onslaught of newcomers, i don't imagine they'll be generating much revenue for long.
diamond windows would be terrible - the reason that diamond would make a great semiconductor substrate is that it has an almost perposterously high coefficient of thermal conductivity - almost an order of magnitude beyond any other common material. this means you'd have a damn cold house if your windows were all diamond. it'd make a great radiator for your fusion-powered flying car though!
anti matter is well known, and can in fact be created in labs (along with being created in our ionosphere all the time). dark matter is completely different stuff.
when major broadcasters are dumping real's products due to their "betcha can't find the free version" antics, maybe real would wisen up and actually make good on their "free" players.
not that i care - real alternative and media player classic take care of my windows-based media viewing just fine, minus all the spyware and other crap.
you can replace damn near anything in a modern hp/compaq server without the use of any screws whatsoever (this includes mounting the unit into a rack as well). only swapping the system board involves a screwdriver.
dan's data did some testing of various thermal compounds on the market, and threw in vegemite and toothpaste as a control. they all finished within the margin of error of the testing aparatus.
:)
read the article here: http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm
after reading this i just have to laugh at all the people posting here (and elsewhere) about how the super expensive paste they bought brought their cpu temperature down 10 degrees or more. if that's actually true, they installed the first product they used wrong. or they could have saved the money and used toothpaste
the shutter speed of the camera doesn't matter a bit. it's the speed of the flash that counts. the camera is setup for a long exposure, but it only collects light for the duration of the flash, so it doesn't really matter how fast the camera is.
the charges would be dropped in a jiffy and a large campaign contribution would be made and the whole issue swept under the carpet. you can't possibly believe that anything else would happen...
i was going to say the same thing about detroit. their hub at DTW is now like a hundred times better since they rebuilt it.... damn that airport used to suck eggs... nothing like siting on the tarmac for hours on end for no reason at all.
and all this time i thought the "big suck" i heard coming my way was the next start wars movie.
the xrays don't come from inside the event horizon, they arise as the energy being blasted off from the matter accelerating to insane velocities as they approach the event horizon. x-rays are light, and like light they cannot escape the event horizon (regardless of what lies underneath it - singularity or bubble or whatever).