I'll stick with my APC Back-UPS Pro 1000 I got for $100 at a computer show. 670W of capacity, 1000VA, will power my workstation for several hours.
Look for people selling these from companies who've tossed them when upgrading to larger more centralized backup power (APC silicon, etc).
There was another rackmount 1400VA unit for $100 when I went back a few weeks later... I was a little upset but what the hell 1000 is enough for me, and I dont have a rack in my apartment (though I'd like to);-)
Just look at this letter from RMS, here's a few choice quotes:
We heard about Linux after its release. At that time, the question facing us was, ``Should we cancel the Hurd project and use Linux instead?''
We heard that Linux was not at all portable (this may not be true today, but that's what we heard then). And we heard that Linux was architecturally on a par with the Unix kernel; our work was leading to something much more powerful.
Um, yeah. More powerful... hmm. And now that Linux has been ported to everything from Pocket PCs to the Dreamcast... What's the point?
But we did start the Hurd, back then, and now we have made it work. We hope its superior architecture will make free operating systems more powerful.
Well, here's to finally supporting 56k modems. You've only got a little further to go till you revolutionize the industry with your superior architecture *g*
How exactly do you do access control and authentication on WiFi?
I'm thinking the upstream locked down and only accessible via IPSec (which you would pay to get an account for). This would be an excellent solution since it would also serve to secure your communications.
This seminal series about the paranormal and an FBI agent's obsession with an alien invasion closes its files. And after nearly a decade of teasing, "the truth" is finally revealed.
Or is it? Executive producer Frank Spotnitz says the two-hour finale "puts all the pieces together in as straightforward a manner as possible. We give a very definite answer about what's going to happen to the world. But then we pose the question: Can fate be changed? That's the heart of the [episode]." Appropriately, David Duchovny returns to the role of Fox Mulder, who reappears after a yearlong absence and reunites with Scully (Gillian Anderson). Mulder is charged with murder, and Spotnitz says that the resulting military tribunal "creates the framework that allows us to explain what Mulder's been doing for the last nine years." Expect a lot of flashbacks, as well as the reemergence of some infamous characters.
A second X-Files movie is contemplated after the series ends. "It's not like [the characters'] lives come to an end at the end of the TV series," Spotnitz says. "But I think they've all taken a journey and ended up at a place that feels like completion." Gen. Suveg: William Devane. Toothpick Man: Alan Dale. Skinner: Mitch Pileggi.
I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles.
Whoah.. whoah.. WHOAH hold on a sec. FIVE DAYS ?!?! Dude. The matrix trailer came out yesterday morning in quicktime format. I decided to finally take the plunge and try out the crossover plugin. It was up and running in 5 minutes, and I was playing quicktime movies in mozilla.
Something is seriously wrong if it takes you FIVE DAYS to set that up. I smell a troll.
While making the move to the semi-professional desktop, linux became more unstable (I don't know how many times I've grunted after installing yet another 2.4.x kernel) and certainly couldn't keep up with the gains made by windows on the user friendly side.
Stop installing kernels and leave your system alone. Damn. Use whatever kernel your distro has deemed "Stable" and stick with it. If you keep tossing pre-this and pl-that on there OF COURSE it's going to crash...
Right now, I can't keep my development pc running for more than a week because of some application that leaks memory and uses up my entire memory after a few days.
Perhaps you, being a developer should take a look at the source code and assist in resolving the memory leak, or at the least report your experience to the maintainer(s) of the app so they can correct the problem. Community support means just that.
I just hate it when I encounter yet another website that doesn't load using Konqueror, mozilla, opera... you fill in the blanks. I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles.
I just love it when I encounter yet another website that adheres to industry standards and renders perfectly in mozilla, konqeror, opera...
Grab the receiver remote. Press power, select input for DVD.
Put it down and grab the tv remote, press power, put it down.
Grab the DVD remote press play.
Phone Call
Grab the receiver remote. Press mute.
Grab the DVD remote, press pause.
Is soooooooooooooo much easier than just pressing [Watch a DVD]. Phone Call -- press [mute].
1. It uses discrete commands where possible.
basically this means, it will send an "ON" command instead of a "toggle power" command.
2. It's got a help function if some equipment becomes out of sync. It will ask you for example "Is the TV on?" so you can correct it, then everything is fine again.
Wow, it's been quite a long time since/. did quickies. They were one of my favorite types of articles. You get some load balancing across all of the links so there's not quite as much/. effect directed towards each site;-)
Glad to see quickies return. Keep 'em coming. It's been *AT LEAST* a year since the last one. =P
"He said his company had built defensive measures into its products that would make them invulnerable to such an attack. However, he said he was unwilling to be specific about the nature of the security system, because such information would be valuable to someone who was attempting to break the security of the Atmel smart cards."
If it's secure, but only because noone knows how it works, then it's inherently *NOT* secure. When will they learn?
Incidentally, the DUL is currently stopping CmdrTaco from directly emailing one of the Slash coders.
No, the slash coder's ISP is stopping Cmdr Taco's email from being delivered. It's *NOT* the DUL/MAPS thats doing it. Don't blame the blacklist for blocking people, blame people who use the blacklist to block people.
Here's a novel idea... use your ISP's smtp relay to send email. DUL tracks blocks of dialup/customer IPs. Normally emails DO NOT originate directly from these addresses to the final destination unless something fishy is going on, or the customer runs their own mail server. At either rate, simply route your outbound mail through your ISPs smtp server and your fine.
I just bought a bunch of new gear and built a server with the intent of setting up a 3-IDE drive RAID5 software under linux-2.4. Well as luck would have it, some wierd bug has bitten my system and I'm getting the dreaded PCI timeouts which hang the whole thing solid. I've tried a bunch of stuff and decided it isn't worth my time to try and solve.
So I've given up on that and ordered a 3ware 6410 for $99. True hardware IDE RAID5 for under $100...not bad. Good to hear they excel at support. We'll see how it goes when I get it in a few days. *eagerly awaits*. I especially like the fact you can download a full source driver tarball from their website. But of course the driver has been in the kernel since mid-2.2 days.
Snap up those 6000 series, it looks like they are discontinued (and 7000's start at $250 and are 64bit only! ack!).
If they can make a storage system that moves 80GB/sec, why are we still putzin' along with DDR RAM that only moves 4.2GB/sec ???
Methinks were being jipped...
A better way to think about it...
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Time Travel
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Time travel to the future isn't really the right way to look at it. It's actually slowing time around yourself while the rest of the universe continues normally. A good portrayal of how this would be perceived can be seen in the movie "Flight of the Navigator". The kid wanders into the woods one night and is abducted, then... he returns home, his perception of whis the next day, to find his his family has moved and time has shifted forward by 10 years.
Time "travel" is a really misleading term. Instead it should be referred to as slowed or suspended animation. By calling it "travel" you imply that it's bidiretional, which I don't feel it is. You can slow time, perhaps even stop it for an volume of matter, but you can't stop it while causing time for all the other matter in the universe to travel backwards. It just doesn't make any sense.
I got my HDTV. My DVDs look nice. I'm happy. I can wait for Hi-Def. Till then, I'll just go to Circuit City and drool at HDNet, then realize it's the ONLY channel they have to show, then go home, happy I'm saving tons of money by waiting.
That made me realize just how overly geeky/techy I am.
Besides running component cables and making sure 3:2 pulldown is turned on to eliminate motion artifacts associated with deinterlacing and frame-rate convertion... I actually purchased a calibration disc and adjusted my white and black levels to optimized settings and I'm considering purchasing a sound level meter to make sure sound levels are set correctly for each channel... and to find out just how loud that 85Db THX-suggested-sound-level really is (and if my neighbors will tolerate it).
Joe-Consumer: hook up DVD player, with one big round cable, set TV to CH3, pres play. Total bliss.
Lets see 50 channels all at once over analogue or one channel at a time over digital.
WTF? I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Digital Cable is *not* the same thing as Digital TV (ATSC standard). Digital cable does compress several normal NTSC and send them over a a single channel. But...
Why do people think digital is an *improvement*? I mean I have 5 devices capable of watching cable in my house. Had I switched to digital I would only be able to watch on one. [basically every member of my family has a set in their room].
Um... I would imagine, no matter what, you just stick a box there and you can tune in any channel you want... ?? Why can you only watch one channel at a time?
Until they make it so you can watch on multiple sets from the same feed I can't reason why Digital cable would be better.
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Look for people selling these from companies who've tossed them when upgrading to larger more centralized backup power (APC silicon, etc).
There was another rackmount 1400VA unit for $100 when I went back a few weeks later... I was a little upset but what the hell 1000 is enough for me, and I dont have a rack in my apartment (though I'd like to) ;-)
Now No Doubt is jumping on the RIAA bandwagon TOO??
Sheesh, and I really liked their music. Guess it's boycott time.
Um, yeah. More powerful... hmm. And now that Linux has been ported to everything from Pocket PCs to the Dreamcast... What's the point?
Well, here's to finally supporting 56k modems. You've only got a little further to go till you revolutionize the industry with your superior architecture *g*
"Server" in the back is a *NIX box. I remember one time the manager "upgraded the system". This consisted of software updates from HQ off tape.
of violating the DMCA. It's illegal to spread information on how copy protection systems can be circumvented. Just ask Dmitry...
I'm thinking the upstream locked down and only accessible via IPSec (which you would pay to get an account for). This would be an excellent solution since it would also serve to secure your communications.
Or is it? Executive producer Frank Spotnitz says the two-hour finale "puts all the pieces together in as straightforward a manner as possible. We give a very definite answer about what's going to happen to the world. But then we pose the question: Can fate be changed? That's the heart of the [episode]." Appropriately, David Duchovny returns to the role of Fox Mulder, who reappears after a yearlong absence and reunites with Scully (Gillian Anderson). Mulder is charged with murder, and Spotnitz says that the resulting military tribunal "creates the framework that allows us to explain what Mulder's been doing for the last nine years." Expect a lot of flashbacks, as well as the reemergence of some infamous characters.
A second X-Files movie is contemplated after the series ends. "It's not like [the characters'] lives come to an end at the end of the TV series," Spotnitz says. "But I think they've all taken a journey and ended up at a place that feels like completion." Gen. Suveg: William Devane. Toothpick Man: Alan Dale. Skinner: Mitch Pileggi.
Whoah.. whoah.. WHOAH hold on a sec. FIVE DAYS ?!?! Dude. The matrix trailer came out yesterday morning in quicktime format. I decided to finally take the plunge and try out the crossover plugin. It was up and running in 5 minutes, and I was playing quicktime movies in mozilla.
Something is seriously wrong if it takes you FIVE DAYS to set that up. I smell a troll.
Stop installing kernels and leave your system alone. Damn. Use whatever kernel your distro has deemed "Stable" and stick with it. If you keep tossing pre-this and pl-that on there OF COURSE it's going to crash...
Right now, I can't keep my development pc running for more than a week because of some application that leaks memory and uses up my entire memory after a few days.
Perhaps you, being a developer should take a look at the source code and assist in resolving the memory leak, or at the least report your experience to the maintainer(s) of the app so they can correct the problem. Community support means just that.
I just hate it when I encounter yet another website that doesn't load using Konqueror, mozilla, opera... you fill in the blanks. I just hate it that I can't play movies on my linux machine without five days of intensive configuration battles.
I just love it when I encounter yet another website that adheres to industry standards and renders perfectly in mozilla, konqeror, opera...
Um, because I'm an idiot =)
Grab the receiver remote. Press power, select input for DVD.
Put it down and grab the tv remote, press power, put it down.
Grab the DVD remote press play.
Phone Call
Grab the receiver remote. Press mute.
Grab the DVD remote, press pause.
Is soooooooooooooo much easier than just pressing [Watch a DVD]. Phone Call -- press [mute].
basically this means, it will send an "ON" command instead of a "toggle power" command.
2. It's got a help function if some equipment becomes out of sync.
It will ask you for example "Is the TV on?" so you can correct it, then everything is fine again.
=D
Glad to see quickies return. Keep 'em coming. It's been *AT LEAST* a year since the last one. =P
You may not tell someone that by putting a post-it(tm) note on their CD, they can circumvent this protection, it's illegal.
OOps, I just did too... d'oh.
Is slashdot liable also for spreading this information?
When will the madness end?
And apparently... bullshit walks. They're called patent attorneys.
If it's secure, but only because noone knows how it works, then it's inherently *NOT* secure. When will they learn?
OBSCURITY IS NOT SECURITY
*sigh*
Software error:
Unable to get database connection! at /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Everything/NodeBase . m line 58.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (kurt@animefu.com), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
BWAHAHAHHA!
No, the slash coder's ISP is stopping Cmdr Taco's email from being delivered. It's *NOT* the DUL/MAPS thats doing it. Don't blame the blacklist for blocking people, blame people who use the blacklist to block people.
Here's a novel idea... use your ISP's smtp relay to send email. DUL tracks blocks of dialup/customer IPs. Normally emails DO NOT originate directly from these addresses to the final destination unless something fishy is going on, or the customer runs their own mail server. At either rate, simply route your outbound mail through your ISPs smtp server and your fine.
Wow, how hard was that?
Looks like "hit and miss" is missing an ;-)
I just bought a bunch of new gear and built a server with the intent of setting up a 3-IDE drive RAID5 software under linux-2.4. Well as luck would have it, some wierd bug has bitten my system and I'm getting the dreaded PCI timeouts which hang the whole thing solid. I've tried a bunch of stuff and decided it isn't worth my time to try and solve.
So I've given up on that and ordered a 3ware 6410 for $99. True hardware IDE RAID5 for under $100...not bad. Good to hear they excel at support. We'll see how it goes when I get it in a few days. *eagerly awaits*. I especially like the fact you can download a full source driver tarball from their website. But of course the driver has been in the kernel since mid-2.2 days.
Snap up those 6000 series, it looks like they are discontinued (and 7000's start at $250 and are 64bit only! ack!).
Methinks were being jipped...
Time "travel" is a really misleading term. Instead it should be referred to as slowed or suspended animation. By calling it "travel" you imply that it's bidiretional, which I don't feel it is. You can slow time, perhaps even stop it for an volume of matter, but you can't stop it while causing time for all the other matter in the universe to travel backwards. It just doesn't make any sense.
I say:
Meanwhile... welcome to 16:9
I got my HDTV. My DVDs look nice. I'm happy. I can wait for Hi-Def. Till then, I'll just go to Circuit City and drool at HDNet, then realize it's the ONLY channel they have to show, then go home, happy I'm saving tons of money by waiting.
Besides running component cables and making sure 3:2 pulldown is turned on to eliminate motion artifacts associated with deinterlacing and frame-rate convertion... I actually purchased a calibration disc and adjusted my white and black levels to optimized settings and I'm considering purchasing a sound level meter to make sure sound levels are set correctly for each channel... and to find out just how loud that 85Db THX-suggested-sound-level really is (and if my neighbors will tolerate it).
Joe-Consumer: hook up DVD player, with one big round cable, set TV to CH3, pres play. Total bliss.
Sad really... makes me depressed.
Lets see 50 channels all at once over analogue or one channel at a time over digital.
WTF? I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say. Digital Cable is *not* the same thing as Digital TV (ATSC standard). Digital cable does compress several normal NTSC and send them over a a single channel. But...
Why do people think digital is an *improvement*? I mean I have 5 devices capable of watching cable in my house. Had I switched to digital I would only be able to watch on one. [basically every member of my family has a set in their room].
Um... I would imagine, no matter what, you just stick a box there and you can tune in any channel you want... ?? Why can you only watch one channel at a time?
Until they make it so you can watch on multiple sets from the same feed I can't reason why Digital cable would be better.
See above... wtf?