Many hardware dev labs and manufacturing sites have ESD flooring - the trick is, you need to wear ESD compatible footwear (such as the ones I have on now)... This keeps the floor at AC ground, and via the shoes, you keep even with the floor. Since all of the machines are tied to the same ground as the floor as well as the worksurfaces (tables, benches, whatever), everyone and everything should be at almost the same potential.
ESD shoes make your feet sweat more than most regualar shoes so you conduct better to them, and have conductive insides and soles. Works well, and you end up with a lot less part mysteriously failing... --
I'll put in my 2 quatloos re: point 1 -
My Matrox G200 (and my old 1995 vintage Matrox Millenium) can drive my 21" monitor cleaner at the higher resolutions in 2D (ghosting, edges, etc) than my TNT. Comparing the G400Max and the GTS, there's the same comparison in 2D quality, which is where I spend most of my time (3D/. ?!) In 3D, the image quality with matching settings comes through sharper on the Matrox, but that GTS is a killer for speed, though Triple Play and Madden don't really cause nearly as much pain as Q3.
That, and it took the other video card makers until late 1998 to make a card that performed better than the "old" 4MB Millenium at 1024x768/32bpp and better... shouldn't have been a problem, but 3D was the focus. Oh well... now I'm just into my crotchety old man phase again (once you hit 23, it's all downhill;-) --
True, that human error is a killer (most literally)... Shutting off the safeties on a (unstable by design RBMK) reactor, and running it at over 110% capacity was not, shall we say, the crowning moment of mankind's nuclear understanding...
TMI stayed contained, though. Not a great thing to happen, but at least the reactor was designed better from the start... --
Yes, unfortunately the US has a law against reprocessing the fuel, unlike some other contries. I think Japan sends their spent fuel to France to be reprocessed, or something along that lines. You end up with more fuel for less money, with less waste... kind of a win-win... the problem is that people get very concerned about the transport of said materials...
A good breeder reactor does a lot of good, if used properly. --
In fact he was in no way commenting on it... actually... he was never there... none of this actually happened. These aren't the droids you are looking for... --
Ask them if they've ever read Simon Travaglia's BOFH (the originals and the new ones at theregister.co.uk). A good icebreaker, and, uh... it presents good reference scenarios... yeah... --
It's not a supported feature, and in fact there is a check in VMWare to prevent you from booting vmware in a guest OS... As always, there are people that found a way around it "because they could". The early betas didn't have the check, but you could barely get VMWare installed in the guest, much less run it. It *is* amazing what one can do given the right tools, though...
There's certainly no reason to do such a thing, but I did see it running... The person who did it has since graduated from college (a couple years ago along with myself), so he no longer has the screenshots up on his campus-connected box. I'll see what I can do about getting him to show that, or have him send me the shots and I'll host them myself... --
The author who posts the story (here: Cliff) can choose to post it just to the section page, or to both the section and the front page. The better part of Ask/. stories aren't frontpagers (as is the case with other sections, too: science, apache, etc...).
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I no longer follow links from anyone over uid #200k, unless they are easily verifyable (sharkyextreme, nytimes, zdnet, etc). All these virtual domain hosts seem to be extra pleasure for the trolls...
They must get a kick out of it... I browse with Java/JS off, except when I need it on (espn, financial sites).
There's something that I wish I had - if Netscape let me selectively enable Java/JS for particular domains, or even if I turned it off in one window, it shouldn't affect the others I have up, and vice-versa... hmmm... --
Well, I've seen VMWare run from within itself - e.g. Linux running in VMWare on NT on VMWare on Linux... as well as NT on NT on NT... theoretically, if you have enough memory and drive space, you could keep doing this.
I've yet to see anything as complicated as VMWare run on VPC...
The StrongARM chips also don't have FPUs... not that one is really needed on a cell phone, but hey, if you are going for that much power in a cell phone, you might as well be able to play text-mode Quake...
I can it the chip in your cell phone... all you need to do is carry around this 5 pound battery on your belt, and you'll be all set... though a 400MHz Celery, built on a.13 process would probably be pretty efficient, power-wise...
Usually the first PCI slot is physically tied to the same interrupt as the AGP slot... so you usually just have to move a few cards around...
My best int-sharing test was under NT4 (so I assigned them all manually). Had a Matrox G200 (AGP), Adaptec 2940UW, SMC Ethernet and 3Com ethernet all on the same IRQ (11). Ran for a whole day, then I got too nervous, and put everything back...
I was playing a little bit of Devil's advocate there... I haven't ever used a board with integrated sound/video that's been better than a temporary solution until one can put the new hardware in...
>The problem is that there are no low cost Socket A motherboards
Yes, that's my point - the people trying to hit the $300-500 price point don't care nearly as much about anything else. Of course, the people that buy end up getting them at BestBuy or Radio Smack, and hope it comes with that Microsoft Netscape thing, that lets you download the Internet (fits conveniently on a Zip disk!)... An extra few bucks is usually worth the money, especially on motherboards... --
ASUS P2B-DS... now *that* was a kicking mainboard (I almost wrote planar...). Nothing like built-in Adaptec UW SCSI (a good UW channel still beat ATA/66 all the time and ATA/100 almost all the time, especially with all the extra devices, but I digress).
My main system is apparently hopelessly outdated (Abit BH-6 C-300a@450, Matrox G200, 512MB registered ECC), but it gets the job done... my gaming box is due for an upgrade soon... those 1GHz+ with a GTS2 sounds like a plan... hmmm... --
True, but with a low end system you also have to consider motherboards and features... it's much easier to get $65 board with integrted video and sound for the Celeron than it is for the Duron/T-Bird (hence the relevance of this story).
The additional cost of those other components more than make up for the the cost difference for the proc. --
Yeah, most of the WMs for X don't allow a lot for keyboard input. I found that KDE does a better job than most (if you want it to), including the most basic of things (though it has gotten less basic in KDE2) - Alt+F2 brings up a line where you can type in a command to run (better be a GUI prog, though - stdout + stderr go elsewhere).
Neither of the worlds Win/X are even close to ideal, but since both have been grabbing some of the better features from each other, we can hopefully expect the overall usability of each to improve (wow, doesn't that sound like a bunch of Meta-BS)... --
>In terms of deleting multiple folders, GUI's are far more simple.
That depends on your example...
selecting junk\ from within C:\stuff\ and [pressing delete| right click, select delete]
isn't any easier or harder than
rm -r junk/ or...
deltree junk\
if you need to delete some, but not all subdirs that don't have a common identifier, selecting multiple ones then hitting delete in a gui can be quicker than typing rm foo for a bunch of differnet foos... If they have a common identifier (say they all start with feb00 (because you keep things organized), then rm -r feb00* is a heck of a lot quicker...
While I don't think that children are "taught" any GUI in schools (there is very little to learn about GUIs, IMNSHO - changing between Mac/Win/KDE/ Gnome/FVWM/etc usually requires less than a half day to get oriented, and within a day or two, one should be fairly proficient), some reasons that they may have encountered Macs more than often than PCs in school include:
- Apple gave a big price break to schools (smart move).
- The early Macs were a heck of a lot better at most things than early PCs (8088/86, 286)
- Applications for kids actually existed, and were easily obtainable.
- The teachers had them, since often they could get them at a discount through the school.
Now, I've always owned x86 PCs since the end of my C64/128 days, but the Apple GS and early Macs were "ahead" of the early PCs in a lot of ways. --
Heck, I was born here in the USA, and I've been trying to speak English for ~23 years now (some would say that Americans can never learn proper English, but that ain't right;-) So, it took me (let's say) 10-12 years to master English, but I can "Learn Perl in 21 Days" and "Learn C in 7 Days"... or, if you want to be picky, a good semester course in Models of Computation could have one fairly fluent in C, Lex, Yacc, and a few others in a fairly short time. Programming / scripting lanuages are more direct and precise, since computers aren't very adept at guessing what we really mean if we are ambiguous...
I think I had a point, but I must have forgotten it by now... shoot, it probably just boils down to a "Me Too!" post by now. --
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Odd, since I don't have tubes in my speakers...
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Many hardware dev labs and manufacturing sites have ESD flooring - the trick is, you need to wear ESD compatible footwear (such as the ones I have on now)... This keeps the floor at AC ground, and via the shoes, you keep even with the floor. Since all of the machines are tied to the same ground as the floor as well as the worksurfaces (tables, benches, whatever), everyone and everything should be at almost the same potential.
ESD shoes make your feet sweat more than most regualar shoes so you conduct better to them, and have conductive insides and soles. Works well, and you end up with a lot less part mysteriously failing...
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I'll put in my 2 quatloos re: point 1 - /. ?!) In 3D, the image quality with matching settings comes through sharper on the Matrox, but that GTS is a killer for speed, though Triple Play and Madden don't really cause nearly as much pain as Q3.
;-)
My Matrox G200 (and my old 1995 vintage Matrox Millenium) can drive my 21" monitor cleaner at the higher resolutions in 2D (ghosting, edges, etc) than my TNT. Comparing the G400Max and the GTS, there's the same comparison in 2D quality, which is where I spend most of my time (3D
That, and it took the other video card makers until late 1998 to make a card that performed better than the "old" 4MB Millenium at 1024x768/32bpp and better... shouldn't have been a problem, but 3D was the focus. Oh well... now I'm just into my crotchety old man phase again (once you hit 23, it's all downhill
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True, that human error is a killer (most literally)... Shutting off the safeties on a (unstable by design RBMK) reactor, and running it at over 110% capacity was not, shall we say, the crowning moment of mankind's nuclear understanding...
TMI stayed contained, though. Not a great thing to happen, but at least the reactor was designed better from the start...
--
Yes, unfortunately the US has a law against reprocessing the fuel, unlike some other contries. I think Japan sends their spent fuel to France to be reprocessed, or something along that lines. You end up with more fuel for less money, with less waste... kind of a win-win... the problem is that people get very concerned about the transport of said materials...
A good breeder reactor does a lot of good, if used properly.
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In fact he was in no way commenting on it... actually... he was never there... none of this actually happened. These aren't the droids you are looking for...
--
Ask them if they've ever read Simon Travaglia's BOFH (the originals and the new ones at theregister.co.uk). A good icebreaker, and, uh... it presents good reference scenarios... yeah...
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I'll just send them the URL...
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It's not a supported feature, and in fact there is a check in VMWare to prevent you from booting vmware in a guest OS... As always, there are people that found a way around it "because they could". The early betas didn't have the check, but you could barely get VMWare installed in the guest, much less run it. It *is* amazing what one can do given the right tools, though...
There's certainly no reason to do such a thing, but I did see it running... The person who did it has since graduated from college (a couple years ago along with myself), so he no longer has the screenshots up on his campus-connected box. I'll see what I can do about getting him to show that, or have him send me the shots and I'll host them myself...
--
The author who posts the story (here: Cliff) can choose to post it just to the section page, or to both the section and the front page. The better part of Ask/. stories aren't frontpagers (as is the case with other sections, too: science, apache, etc...).
--
I no longer follow links from anyone over uid #200k, unless they are easily verifyable (sharkyextreme, nytimes, zdnet, etc). All these virtual domain hosts seem to be extra pleasure for the trolls...
They must get a kick out of it... I browse with Java/JS off, except when I need it on (espn, financial sites).
There's something that I wish I had - if Netscape let me selectively enable Java/JS for particular domains, or even if I turned it off in one window, it shouldn't affect the others I have up, and vice-versa... hmmm...
--
Well, I've seen VMWare run from within itself - e.g. Linux running in VMWare on NT on VMWare on Linux... as well as NT on NT on NT... theoretically, if you have enough memory and drive space, you could keep doing this.
I've yet to see anything as complicated as VMWare run on VPC...
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Don't forget about the 23% who called it "Pentium Ivy", and got all excited about Drew Barrymore...
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The StrongARM chips also don't have FPUs... not that one is really needed on a cell phone, but hey, if you are going for that much power in a cell phone, you might as well be able to play text-mode Quake...
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I can it the chip in your cell phone... all you need to do is carry around this 5 pound battery on your belt, and you'll be all set... though a 400MHz Celery, built on a .13 process would probably be pretty efficient, power-wise...
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no, no - it's more like tactical nuke... it only takes out a few mmediately surrounding square miles...
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Usually the first PCI slot is physically tied to the same interrupt as the AGP slot... so you usually just have to move a few cards around...
My best int-sharing test was under NT4 (so I assigned them all manually). Had a Matrox G200 (AGP), Adaptec 2940UW, SMC Ethernet and 3Com ethernet all on the same IRQ (11). Ran for a whole day, then I got too nervous, and put everything back...
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You probably mean soccer, don't you? Silly rest of the world, calling it football ;-)
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www.pricewatch.com, it looks like...
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(first, pardon the typos in my eariler post..)
I was playing a little bit of Devil's advocate there... I haven't ever used a board with integrated sound/video that's been better than a temporary solution until one can put the new hardware in...
>The problem is that there are no low cost Socket A motherboards
Yes, that's my point - the people trying to hit the $300-500 price point don't care nearly as much about anything else. Of course, the people that buy end up getting them at BestBuy or Radio Smack, and hope it comes with that Microsoft Netscape thing, that lets you download the Internet (fits conveniently on a Zip disk!)... An extra few bucks is usually worth the money, especially on motherboards...
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ASUS P2B-DS... now *that* was a kicking mainboard (I almost wrote planar...). Nothing like built-in Adaptec UW SCSI (a good UW channel still beat ATA/66 all the time and ATA/100 almost all the time, especially with all the extra devices, but I digress).
My main system is apparently hopelessly outdated (Abit BH-6 C-300a@450, Matrox G200, 512MB registered ECC), but it gets the job done... my gaming box is due for an upgrade soon... those 1GHz+ with a GTS2 sounds like a plan... hmmm...
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True, but with a low end system you also have to consider motherboards and features... it's much easier to get $65 board with integrted video and sound for the Celeron than it is for the Duron/T-Bird (hence the relevance of this story).
The additional cost of those other components more than make up for the the cost difference for the proc.
--
Yeah, most of the WMs for X don't allow a lot for keyboard input. I found that KDE does a better job than most (if you want it to), including the most basic of things (though it has gotten less basic in KDE2) - Alt+F2 brings up a line where you can type in a command to run (better be a GUI prog, though - stdout + stderr go elsewhere).
Neither of the worlds Win/X are even close to ideal, but since both have been grabbing some of the better features from each other, we can hopefully expect the overall usability of each to improve (wow, doesn't that sound like a bunch of Meta-BS)...
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>In terms of deleting multiple folders, GUI's are far more simple.
That depends on your example...
selecting junk\ from within C:\stuff\ and [pressing delete| right click, select delete]
isn't any easier or harder than
rm -r junk/ or...
deltree junk\
if you need to delete some, but not all subdirs that don't have a common identifier, selecting multiple ones then hitting delete in a gui can be quicker than typing rm foo for a bunch of differnet foos... If they have a common identifier (say they all start with feb00 (because you keep things organized), then rm -r feb00* is a heck of a lot quicker...
While I don't think that children are "taught" any GUI in schools (there is very little to learn about GUIs, IMNSHO - changing between Mac/Win/KDE/ Gnome/FVWM/etc usually requires less than a half day to get oriented, and within a day or two, one should be fairly proficient), some reasons that they may have encountered Macs more than often than PCs in school include:
- Apple gave a big price break to schools (smart move).
- The early Macs were a heck of a lot better at most things than early PCs (8088/86, 286)
- Applications for kids actually existed, and were easily obtainable.
- The teachers had them, since often they could get them at a discount through the school.
Now, I've always owned x86 PCs since the end of my C64/128 days, but the Apple GS and early Macs were "ahead" of the early PCs in a lot of ways.
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Heck, I was born here in the USA, and I've been trying to speak English for ~23 years now (some would say that Americans can never learn proper English, but that ain't right ;-) So, it took me (let's say) 10-12 years to master English, but I can "Learn Perl in 21 Days" and "Learn C in 7 Days"... or, if you want to be picky, a good semester course in Models of Computation could have one fairly fluent in C, Lex, Yacc, and a few others in a fairly short time. Programming / scripting lanuages are more direct and precise, since computers aren't very adept at guessing what we really mean if we are ambiguous...
I think I had a point, but I must have forgotten it by now... shoot, it probably just boils down to a "Me Too!" post by now.
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