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nope, the "DX" in the 386 was different than in the 486 line. the 386SX used a 32 bit core but communicated to the system and memory through a 16 bit bus. the DX had a true 32 bit bus to system and ram. for a math coprocessor for either you needed to install a 387.
as you know, the SX and DX designations on the 486 line signified the presense of an onboard coprocessor.
what you need is an rf modulator like this: http://www.smarthome.com/7780d.html
basically takes a composite input and spits an output onto broadband cable. if you want stereo sound figure on adding at least $100 per device, and make sure it's "frequency agile", that is, it will broadcast on channels other than 3 or 4.
i found it to be keanu reeve's best showing since bill and ted's for the very same reason - he's damn good at standing around being generally confused.
any part that actually requires him to act is another thing altogether...
i clearly came too late to suggest this to you, but there's plenty of ways of making your turntables not skip. mass is your friend. my fav is to bring 2 large empty plastic trays, fill them with sand, stack a couple cinder blocks in each tray full of sand, and lay a table surface across the top. you can dance yourself silly on stage with this setup and it won't miss a beat...
just about any semi-urban city in america has some company that offers off site record storage. this problem isn't new to computers - people have been storing accounting and business records offsite for decades. our service comes to our building every day in a van, carts off a boatload of tapes from the tape library, and returns a month old case to be cycled back into the library. check your local yellow pages, it should be easy to find.
well, if you read those posts, you'll find that changing the serial number is possible, but it's not trivial. the biggest problem is ATA locking on the hard drive. in order to change the serial, you have to unlock and then relock the ahrd drive with the new serial, which involves a couple trips swapping the hard drive into your pc and back into the xbox. it'll take about an hour to go through all this, so randomly chaning serial numbers until you hit a good one could be a bloody nightmare...
it's beingworked onalready, and basically as you've said - there's an eeprom that holds the serial number, and it can be reprogrammed with a different serial number. the suggestion of "flooding" m$ with hacked serials has been brought up, but i suppose the success of that will depend on how acurate m$'s database of known xbox serial #s is.
actually, check your car's owners manual. i know every chevy i've owned has 3000 miles listed for industrial use (police cars, taxi's, etc), but 6000 miles for normal use. jiffy lube of course picks 3000...
first off, the original post was a reposting of some other jackass's comment to the story from the first go around (every day is slashback day!). i've got to assume that it was so stupid the first time around that it has been reposted for laughs. so laugh.
anyway, what you've described (parallax) isn't our only sense of depth perception, but it's the easiest to recreate with a computer. the _other_ way we sense depth is a hell of a lot harder to recreate digitally - focus. we have to change the geometry of the lens in our eye to change focus from something that's near to something that's far. parallax displays will create a credible sense of depth, but it's still not entirely believable as both eyes are seeing the entire scene on one fixed-distance planes.
not only do the iscsi nics (at least from emulex) offload the processing, they also allow remote booting over iscsi for completely diskless servers, much like your typical FC HBA.
understood about throughput issues (even w/ gbit ethernet), but as as the question was for a home setup, he obviously isn't going to be dropping the quid on a new brocade switch and an emc symmetrix. iscsi can run _right_now_ over hardware he probably already has.
i know that it isn't ieee 1394, but if you want SAN capability hosted by an off the shelf linux box, you may want to take a look at some earlyimplementations of the draft iSCSI spec. basically, it'll let you present scsi devices over IP, giving you a SAN over any IP network (preventing you from dropping $$$ on fibre channel infrastructure). --------
folks here are forgetting the console video game business model - THEY LOSE MONEY ON THE HARDWARE. this has been true since the original NES, and is likely to continue to be the case in the future. this is why the games are $50 - they make money from the game license, like the old razor and razor blade model. more boxes sold with unlicensed divx players and linux means money lost by M$, not made.
vague promises of reliabilty or quality is what you will get from knock-off vendors selling you IDE RAID packs. IBM, EMC, et. al. will monitor your systems 24/7, replace parts before you know they are broken, send techs on site at the drop of a hat, and generally hold your nuts - which makes sense given the amount of money you're spending on their storage.
sorry for sounding a bit trollish, but the current replies here seem to follow the formula of checking the biggest ide drive on pricewatch and multipying that out to give you a number.
forget all that.
if all you wanted was a pile of ide hard drives, maybe this would be ok, but anybody looking for 50TB of storage is not just looking for some disk to hold the pr0n they downloaded last week. large scale storage systems need to manage multiple host access to high speed (15krpm U3SCSI) drives in flexible raid configurations with maximum redundancy, high speed caching (with GBs of RAM to do it), fiber channel switching, cross platform capability, high end management and monitoring, HSM backup and data migration, offsite vaulting of disaster recovery data, power and air conditioning, and a fat service contract from the vendor. none of the above are going to be found at pricewatch.com.
your best bet is to talk to multiple storage vendors about your needs. call up EMC, Hitachi, IBM, and Fujitsu to start, them let them see each other's numbers. With the amount of money that you are going to spend (and it almost certainly will exceed $10 mil - but maybe not $20), each of these vendors will do backflips to get your business (and EMC is particularly good at junkets - take them for all they're worth:)
i don't have any benchmarks, but i'd imagine that the FP version is still much faster than the integer version. there's a lot of small devices that can decode mp3's using a non-floating point decoder on cheap hardware, and it's the primary reason that many soft-upgradable devices haven't had vorbis support in the past. decoding mp3's and vorbis files without an FP unit requires doing a lot of manual conversions in the code, bloating the code out.
i have a friend of mine that moved to china about a year ago. he had mentioned that a number of US media sites (cnn.com, msnbc.com, etc) were blocked. i set up cgiproxy, an anonymizing web proxy perl cgi - it's the script that runs anonymizer.com. my friend can now establish an ssl connection through a normal browser to jump around any webfiltering in place.
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nope, the "DX" in the 386 was different than in the 486 line. the 386SX used a 32 bit core but communicated to the system and memory through a 16 bit bus. the DX had a true 32 bit bus to system and ram. for a math coprocessor for either you needed to install a 387.
as you know, the SX and DX designations on the 486 line signified the presense of an onboard coprocessor.
what you need is an rf modulator like this: http://www.smarthome.com/7780d.html
basically takes a composite input and spits an output onto broadband cable. if you want stereo sound figure on adding at least $100 per device, and make sure it's "frequency agile", that is, it will broadcast on channels other than 3 or 4.
it seems pretty clear that he's talking "centralized" within the location (not across the WAN), which is why he needs 70 of these things.
i found it to be keanu reeve's best showing since bill and ted's for the very same reason - he's damn good at standing around being generally confused.
any part that actually requires him to act is another thing altogether...
i clearly came too late to suggest this to you, but there's plenty of ways of making your turntables not skip. mass is your friend. my fav is to bring 2 large empty plastic trays, fill them with sand, stack a couple cinder blocks in each tray full of sand, and lay a table surface across the top. you can dance yourself silly on stage with this setup and it won't miss a beat...
just about any semi-urban city in america has some company that offers off site record storage. this problem isn't new to computers - people have been storing accounting and business records offsite for decades. our service comes to our building every day in a van, carts off a boatload of tapes from the tape library, and returns a month old case to be cycled back into the library. check your local yellow pages, it should be easy to find.
well, if you read those posts, you'll find that changing the serial number is possible, but it's not trivial. the biggest problem is ATA locking on the hard drive. in order to change the serial, you have to unlock and then relock the ahrd drive with the new serial, which involves a couple trips swapping the hard drive into your pc and back into the xbox. it'll take about an hour to go through all this, so randomly chaning serial numbers until you hit a good one could be a bloody nightmare...
it's being worked on already, and basically as you've said - there's an eeprom that holds the serial number, and it can be reprogrammed with a different serial number. the suggestion of "flooding" m$ with hacked serials has been brought up, but i suppose the success of that will depend on how acurate m$'s database of known xbox serial #s is.
actually, check your car's owners manual. i know every chevy i've owned has 3000 miles listed for industrial use (police cars, taxi's, etc), but 6000 miles for normal use. jiffy lube of course picks 3000...
they didn't steal your truck cause they were there to steal your radio. sounds like the alarm didn't help at all...
and who own's austin, and distributes the mini in the us? bmw. if you're going to be a troll at least get your references straight.
first off, the original post was a reposting of some other jackass's comment to the story from the first go around (every day is slashback day!). i've got to assume that it was so stupid the first time around that it has been reposted for laughs. so laugh.
anyway, what you've described (parallax) isn't our only sense of depth perception, but it's the easiest to recreate with a computer. the _other_ way we sense depth is a hell of a lot harder to recreate digitally - focus. we have to change the geometry of the lens in our eye to change focus from something that's near to something that's far. parallax displays will create a credible sense of depth, but it's still not entirely believable as both eyes are seeing the entire scene on one fixed-distance planes.
not only do the iscsi nics (at least from emulex) offload the processing, they also allow remote booting over iscsi for completely diskless servers, much like your typical FC HBA.
understood about throughput issues (even w/ gbit ethernet), but as as the question was for a home setup, he obviously isn't going to be dropping the quid on a new brocade switch and an emc symmetrix. iscsi can run _right_now_ over hardware he probably already has.
:)
just not ieee 1394 that i know of
i know that it isn't ieee 1394, but if you want SAN capability hosted by an off the shelf linux box, you may want to take a look at some early implementations of the draft iSCSI spec. basically, it'll let you present scsi devices over IP, giving you a SAN over any IP network (preventing you from dropping $$$ on fibre channel infrastructure).
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folks here are forgetting the console video game business model - THEY LOSE MONEY ON THE HARDWARE. this has been true since the original NES, and is likely to continue to be the case in the future. this is why the games are $50 - they make money from the game license, like the old razor and razor blade model. more boxes sold with unlicensed divx players and linux means money lost by M$, not made.
fucking genius - geat post man. completely unintelligble at the end but highly entertaining.
vague promises of reliabilty or quality is what you will get from knock-off vendors selling you IDE RAID packs. IBM, EMC, et. al. will monitor your systems 24/7, replace parts before you know they are broken, send techs on site at the drop of a hat, and generally hold your nuts - which makes sense given the amount of money you're spending on their storage.
sorry for sounding a bit trollish, but the current replies here seem to follow the formula of checking the biggest ide drive on pricewatch and multipying that out to give you a number.
:)
forget all that.
if all you wanted was a pile of ide hard drives, maybe this would be ok, but anybody looking for 50TB of storage is not just looking for some disk to hold the pr0n they downloaded last week. large scale storage systems need to manage multiple host access to high speed (15krpm U3SCSI) drives in flexible raid configurations with maximum redundancy, high speed caching (with GBs of RAM to do it), fiber channel switching, cross platform capability, high end management and monitoring, HSM backup and data migration, offsite vaulting of disaster recovery data, power and air conditioning, and a fat service contract from the vendor. none of the above are going to be found at pricewatch.com.
your best bet is to talk to multiple storage vendors about your needs. call up EMC, Hitachi, IBM, and Fujitsu to start, them let them see each other's numbers. With the amount of money that you are going to spend (and it almost certainly will exceed $10 mil - but maybe not $20), each of these vendors will do backflips to get your business (and EMC is particularly good at junkets - take them for all they're worth
i don't have any benchmarks, but i'd imagine that the FP version is still much faster than the integer version. there's a lot of small devices that can decode mp3's using a non-floating point decoder on cheap hardware, and it's the primary reason that many soft-upgradable devices haven't had vorbis support in the past. decoding mp3's and vorbis files without an FP unit requires doing a lot of manual conversions in the code, bloating the code out.
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the phatnoise music box (and now kenwood music keg) runs linux on non-fp hardware, and as such cannot handle vorbis - until now?
new pentium 4 mp3 decoder performs much better due to intel's new floating point conversion opcodes
i have a friend of mine that moved to china about a year ago. he had mentioned that a number of US media sites (cnn.com, msnbc.com, etc) were blocked. i set up cgiproxy, an anonymizing web proxy perl cgi - it's the script that runs anonymizer.com. my friend can now establish an ssl connection through a normal browser to jump around any webfiltering in place.
sorry bout that, it was supposed to be a reply to this story.
1) red bull
2) red bull
3) red bull
-or-
4) red bull and vodka (your frag count will decrease drastically after this last one, but it can be more fun...)
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