A lot of cars are pretty detuned from the factory. That supra is one of them. It's pretty crazy how well the engine is built. What you do ruin though, is clutches:)
There's a lot of other cars similar too - the Eagle Talon/Mitsubish Eclipse sister cars have 2.0 liter 4 cylinder engines capable of 400 horsepower with JUST bolt-on parts, 600 if you do some work, and you could drive it every day, in traffic, totally safely.
And I don't consider nitrous an option for any daily driven car.
Actually, MkIV supras are VERY tunable. You can get 600 horsepower without opening the engine at all, 800 with the stock block. I know someone who's supra puts down 820 at the wheels, with a 100% stock block.
And that's on gasoline too. I helped build a 550HP Eagle Talon that gets 24 MPG doing highway driving only.
Wow I totally forgot about Hampton Beach. My family vacationed in York Maine every year, we always spent a day at Hampton Beach, I've always been an arcade junkie. I'm glad to hear that place is still going strong, I'll have to make a road trip up there soon.
Usually, the number of balls per game is an option that can be set by the game owner. My Williams Taxi has a simple menu accessable by two buttons inside the coin door. You can set a large number of options, some affect scoring, some gameplay. And most importantly, free play:)
There's an arcade in Vernon, CT (about 40 minutes from where I live) that has 5 games (Jurassic Park, Twilight Zone, Adams Family, Circus Voltaire, and I think X-files), ALL of them are set to 5 bals per game, for $0.50.
I'm of the opinion that the cost of games is the biggest problem. At some point in the late 80's or early 90's, when most arcade games lost a little popularity (this would be about when Street Fighter came out), arcade owners started increasing the price of *all* their games, rather than just the most common games (the whole 2 credits to start, one to continue thing). I mean, come on, a dollar a game? That's the big reason why *I* don't play anything but pinball anymore. Well pinball was always my favorite, but I'm not paying a buck to play anything.
Drop the price of basic games and pinball back down to $0.25, and more popular or larger games down to $0.50, and I bet there will be an increase in number of games played.
Nah, I'd bet that most people play rather than buy. The machines aren't cheap after all, certainly not for the more modern games. And they require maintainance - more than the average person is willing to perform. And if you don't do it yourself, you have to pay someone to do it - IF you can find someone.
Which reminds me. Must fix the weak right flipper on my 1987 Williams Taxi game.
Really.... Where I work engineers regularly make and process, multi-gigabyte files, some even larger than 4GB, and we never have filesystem problems. Ever.
This is with SGI IRIX, using xfs filesystems. Xfs is designed for the type of use you call "abuse". Clearly, NTFS is not.
I work with a bunch of engineers who design power plants, and do a LOT of visualization. We don't use the SGI's for it, since most of the software vendors suggest we use our HP machines instead - they are much faster.
That and our new Dual Athlon with a GEforce 3 just makes them all look bad.
But I'm talking about workstation stuff, not huge servers - you don't do visualization on those, you do rendering. For our computational fluid dynamics work, we use an 8-node Beowulf of dual Athlon boxes (1.5Ghz, 2GB RAM each), it's amazingly fast.
I sure hope this Fuel gets SGI back on top of the graphics market - I bought a whole bunch of SGI stock when it was at $0.65:)
Oh come on people, learn to look things up for yourselves. If you can't help yourself, why should we help you?
Just out of curiosity, I put "LDAP" into google, and the 2nd result defines what the acronym means, I'm sure most of them will give you a clue what it really does.
I implemented LDAP at a dot-bomb company I worked for in late 2000, and had NO PROBLEM finding tools. I was using a nice Gtk user manager, and had my mail server (and all the mail clients) looking up users in the LDAP server. All the tools I used I found on Freshmeat. Maybe try searching the web?
www.smarthome.com sells just the rails for racks,
in full-height (96" or something) and half-height
(45" or so). They're about $100 for the set of
four rails. I just bought a set myself, I've
got a big UPS, some hubs, and a few small boxes
now, and plans for a 4U RAID cabinet and a 2U web
server. Plus the spare wood from the deck my
parents just dismantled, I figure I got a pretty
great deal.
Re:Zelazny's Amber series
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Lord of Light
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· Score: 1
Ahh yes, the diceless RPG. Before finding it, my group had tried several non-AD&D (yuck) games (including weird ones like Lace and Steel, and Monoxide Amazon). We had gotten rather bored with most of them.
Then Amber came along. Origionally there were only three of our 8-person group who had any clue about Amber, one was our GM. We came up with an epic game that ran for the entire school semester, and it was by far the best game I've ever been a part of.
Ahh memories....
Great review too, LoL has been on my (way too long) reading list for a while now, ever since I read the Chronicles of Amber and Jack of Shadows. I'll bump it up a bit now:)
Exactly what I've been thinking. I've never really been a Matrox fan - in fact I've avoided them for a long time due to their arrogance when people first wanted Millenium drivers for XFree86.
Now that they've embraced Linux, that's changed. But their drivers still aren't up to the quality that some others are. I had a TNT1 before I put my G450 in (only for dual head really, I needed the PCI slot the 2nd video card was in...), and I had no problems with GL and games. Now, I try to run Unreal Tournament, or any other GL programs, and at least I get segmentation faults, at most, complete system lockups.
Thanks for the slick utility Matrox. But maybe you should put a little more effort into supporting the features people really want, like *working* GL, and TV out.
That's exactly my plan. I have eyes on a Yamaha amp, or maybe my friend's Marantz when he wants to upgrade. And the only choice for good speakers in my opinion is Paradigm.
As for TV, I bought a 2 year old Mitsubishi 50" from a friend, just couldn't pass up the deal. It's 4:3, but hey, it was less than $1000.
All this BS lately about copyrights, "required" encryption, and lawsuits over intellectual property is starting to make me seriously want to get out of the computer industry and persue my less-technology-oriented hobbies. Thanks to the U.S. government.
Wow, DG posts on/.:) And annonymously no doubt. I actually knew who posted that message before I saw the link to the SM page:)
- Kazin (fellow club DSM member)
Re:CapsLock vs. Ctrl. Round 1. FIGHT!
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Interface Zen
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· Score: 1
I *love* my Gateway AnyKey keyboards. I have two now, one painted flat black, and one semi-sticky (dumpster rescue). I broke my very first one, but a call to Gateway with my customer number and $45 got me a new one. Worth it.
Though I still wonder if there's something better. Haven't found it yet though.
At work, we make submarines, so we use names of former submarines for our servers. Marlin, skate, sanfran, mero, edison, seawolf, etc. We also do fish, skate, clam, pomodon, sunfish. I don't know where poppy and tulip came from...
At home, I started with Chaos from Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, we had Amber, Rebma, TheKeep, Avalon, and TirNa also.
Then I moved out, and took Chaos with me, and added Entropy later. Soemtime after, I named my laptop Mud (my name is mud...) and followed that with Slime. Recently I got into naming things after cats, so I have tiger, lion, cougar, panther, cheetah, lynx, and bobcat.
And I really think the creative names help - we have lots of trouble remembering stuff like 121583 - our NT workstations are named after their asset numbers. Which sucks.
The Ringworld books were just Niven, by himself. And you know what? I haven't liked a single book he's written in colaboration. I do however, own every single book he's written by himself.
But since this was origionally about Gibson, I'll get back to that. I think he's WAY overrated too. I mean, sure, he had a great story, and it was one of the first, but he's just a mediocre writer. There's much better out there, Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Walter John Williams.
I'm not sure what the whole issue is here - ISC's BIND supports dynamic updates now. And their DHCP client supports sending the hostname as part of the packet.
In fact, if you look at this link, you'll see that I currently use a perl program to take entries out of my DHCPD lease file, and update my DNS with the new hostnames, DYNAMICALLY!
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DeScribe is one of the few software packages I've ever purchased. Very much worth it, I used it exclusively for years.
(The other OS/2 software I bought includes Dualstor, Watcom C 10.0, and Zoc)
A lot of cars are pretty detuned from the factory. That supra is one of them. It's pretty crazy how well the engine is built. What you do ruin though, is clutches :)
There's a lot of other cars similar too - the Eagle Talon/Mitsubish Eclipse sister cars have 2.0 liter 4 cylinder engines capable of 400 horsepower with JUST bolt-on parts, 600 if you do some work, and you could drive it every day, in traffic, totally safely.
And I don't consider nitrous an option for any daily driven car.
Actually, MkIV supras are VERY tunable. You can get 600 horsepower without opening the engine at all, 800 with the stock block. I know someone who's supra puts down 820 at the wheels, with a 100% stock block.
And that's on gasoline too. I helped build a 550HP Eagle Talon that gets 24 MPG doing highway driving only.
Umm... that's what radius server logs are for. To identify who was using a particular dynamic IP address at a particular time.
Wow I totally forgot about Hampton Beach. My family vacationed in York Maine every year, we always spent a day at Hampton Beach, I've always been an arcade junkie. I'm glad to hear that place is still going strong, I'll have to make a road trip up there soon.
My Favorites, in no particular order:
Theatre of Magic
Medieval Madness
Taxi (which I own)
Cyclone
Godzilla
Usually, the number of balls per game is an option that can be set by the game owner. My Williams Taxi has a simple menu accessable by two buttons inside the coin door. You can set a large number of options, some affect scoring, some gameplay. And most importantly, free play :)
There's an arcade in Vernon, CT (about 40 minutes from where I live) that has 5 games (Jurassic Park, Twilight Zone, Adams Family, Circus Voltaire, and I think X-files), ALL of them are set to 5 bals per game, for $0.50.
Of course, DDR is far more popular there.
I'm of the opinion that the cost of games is the biggest problem. At some point in the late 80's or early 90's, when most arcade games lost a little popularity (this would be about when Street Fighter came out), arcade owners started increasing the price of *all* their games, rather than just the most common games (the whole 2 credits to start, one to continue thing). I mean, come on, a dollar a game? That's the big reason why *I* don't play anything but pinball anymore. Well pinball was always my favorite, but I'm not paying a buck to play anything.
Drop the price of basic games and pinball back down to $0.25, and more popular or larger games down to $0.50, and I bet there will be an increase in number of games played.
Nah, I'd bet that most people play rather than buy. The machines aren't cheap after all, certainly not for the more modern games. And they require maintainance - more than the average person is willing to perform. And if you don't do it yourself, you have to pay someone to do it - IF you can find someone.
Which reminds me. Must fix the weak right flipper on my 1987 Williams Taxi game.
Really.... Where I work engineers regularly make and process, multi-gigabyte files, some even larger than 4GB, and we never have filesystem problems. Ever.
This is with SGI IRIX, using xfs filesystems. Xfs is designed for the type of use you call "abuse". Clearly, NTFS is not.
I work with a bunch of engineers who design power plants, and do a LOT of visualization. We don't use the SGI's for it, since most of the software vendors suggest we use our HP machines instead - they are much faster.
:)
That and our new Dual Athlon with a GEforce 3 just makes them all look bad.
But I'm talking about workstation stuff, not huge servers - you don't do visualization on those, you do rendering. For our computational fluid dynamics work, we use an 8-node Beowulf of dual Athlon boxes (1.5Ghz, 2GB RAM each), it's amazingly fast.
I sure hope this Fuel gets SGI back on top of the graphics market - I bought a whole bunch of SGI stock when it was at $0.65
Oh come on people, learn to look things up for yourselves. If you can't help yourself, why should we help you?
Just out of curiosity, I put "LDAP" into google, and the 2nd result defines what the acronym means, I'm sure most of them will give you a clue what it really does.
I implemented LDAP at a dot-bomb company I worked for in late 2000, and had NO PROBLEM finding tools. I was using a nice Gtk user manager, and had my mail server (and all the mail clients) looking up users in the LDAP server. All the tools I used I found on Freshmeat. Maybe try searching the web?
www.smarthome.com sells just the rails for racks,
in full-height (96" or something) and half-height
(45" or so). They're about $100 for the set of
four rails. I just bought a set myself, I've
got a big UPS, some hubs, and a few small boxes
now, and plans for a 4U RAID cabinet and a 2U web
server. Plus the spare wood from the deck my
parents just dismantled, I figure I got a pretty
great deal.
- Kazin
Mine is just:
export PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
If I'm root I just s/\\\$/#/ instead.
Plain, boring, but highly informative.
Also in my
if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" -o \
"$TERM" = "xterm-color" -o \
"$TERM" = "rxvt" -o \
"$TERM" = "vs100" ]; then
export HOST=`hostname`;
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne \
"\033]2;$HOST: $PWD\007\033]1;$LOGNAME@$HOST\007"'
fi
- Kazin
Ahh yes, the diceless RPG. Before finding it, my group had tried several non-AD&D (yuck) games (including weird ones like Lace and Steel, and Monoxide Amazon). We had gotten rather bored with most of them.
:)
Then Amber came along. Origionally there were only three of our 8-person group who had any clue about Amber, one was our GM. We came up with an epic game that ran for the entire school semester, and it was by far the best game I've ever been a part of.
Ahh memories....
Great review too, LoL has been on my (way too long) reading list for a while now, ever since I read the Chronicles of Amber and Jack of Shadows. I'll bump it up a bit now
- kazin
Exactly what I've been thinking. I've never really been a Matrox fan - in fact I've avoided them for a long time due to their arrogance when people first wanted Millenium drivers for XFree86.
Now that they've embraced Linux, that's changed. But their drivers still aren't up to the quality that some others are. I had a TNT1 before I put my G450 in (only for dual head really, I needed the PCI slot the 2nd video card was in...), and I had no problems with GL and games. Now, I try to run Unreal Tournament, or any other GL programs, and at least I get segmentation faults, at most, complete system lockups.
Thanks for the slick utility Matrox. But maybe you should put a little more effort into supporting the features people really want, like *working* GL, and TV out.
- kazin
That's exactly my plan. I have eyes on a Yamaha amp, or maybe my friend's Marantz when he wants to upgrade. And the only choice for good speakers in my opinion is Paradigm.
As for TV, I bought a 2 year old Mitsubishi 50" from a friend, just couldn't pass up the deal. It's 4:3, but hey, it was less than $1000.
Now I just need the house to put it all in....
All this BS lately about copyrights, "required" encryption, and lawsuits over intellectual property is starting to make me seriously want to get out of the computer industry and persue my less-technology-oriented hobbies. Thanks to the U.S. government.
Wow, DG posts on /. :) And annonymously no doubt. I actually knew who posted that message before I saw the link to the SM page :)
- Kazin (fellow club DSM member)
I *love* my Gateway AnyKey keyboards. I have two now, one painted flat black, and one semi-sticky (dumpster rescue). I broke my very first one, but a call to Gateway with my customer number and $45 got me a new one. Worth it.
Though I still wonder if there's something better. Haven't found it yet though.
And yes, I remap capslock to a control key too.
- Kazin
At work, we make submarines, so we use names of former submarines for our servers. Marlin, skate, sanfran, mero, edison, seawolf, etc. We also do fish, skate, clam, pomodon, sunfish. I don't know where poppy and tulip came from...
At home, I started with Chaos from Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, we had Amber, Rebma, TheKeep, Avalon, and TirNa also.
Then I moved out, and took Chaos with me, and added Entropy later. Soemtime after, I named my laptop Mud (my name is mud...) and followed that with Slime. Recently I got into naming things after cats, so I have tiger, lion, cougar, panther, cheetah, lynx, and bobcat.
And I really think the creative names help - we have lots of trouble remembering stuff like 121583 - our NT workstations are named after their asset numbers. Which sucks.
- Kazin
The Ringworld books were just Niven, by himself. And you know what? I haven't liked a single book he's written in colaboration. I do however, own every single book he's written by himself.
But since this was origionally about Gibson, I'll get back to that. I think he's WAY overrated too. I mean, sure, he had a great story, and it was one of the first, but he's just a mediocre writer. There's much better out there, Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Walter John Williams.
- Kazin
I'm not sure what the whole issue is here - ISC's BIND supports dynamic updates now. And their DHCP client supports sending the hostname as part of the packet.
In fact, if you look at this link, you'll see that I currently use a perl program to take entries out of my DHCPD lease file, and update my DNS with the new hostnames, DYNAMICALLY!
- Kazin