Anyone who has read Prey by Michael Crichton is probably shuddering right about now.
Basically, the idea in the book was that there were swarms of these very kinds of devices that could gain self-awareness and intelligence, and formed into 3-d copies of people. They were able to mimic the actions and sound of people undetectably.
They also were able to self-replicate and other stuff, like kill people and what not. Hilarity ensued.
Anyone who hasn't read Prey and finds this interesting may be in for a good read.
So if your technology can't win on price and performance, break out the lawyers and sue everyone. Does anyone else see this as the end of SCO (Caldera) like I do? I certainly will never use anything from them ever again.
Incidentally, they also sue for criticism. You will be served next Tuesday.
When the prime started sparking over, Hodges emitted a scream the like of which I hadn`t heard since his scrotum was burned off during my experiment with fluorine gas last year.
I nearly fell out of my seat when I read this... ouch! This letter could have come right out of the pages of The Onion, from perhaps Zwiebel's (sp?) cheif scientist.
2 Western Digital drives in RAID 0. Fast as hell. Beats 15k SCSI drives.
I think that most of the innovative work is being focused on IDE, so we get uber fast drives like those (promised) for SATA. Meanwhile, the quality work is focused on SCSI, since they are a slightly more niche market and cost matters less. So, either get a really big, fast, innovative drive that might or might not die in a few months, or get a really expensive SCSI drive that will probably last years, but was obsolete (capacity wise) months before it was even purchased.
The way I see it, if one of my IDE drives goes, aside from being SOL, I'll just buy a new one. Hell, they're cheap enough...
I guess it's time to get two more drives and set it up for 0+1... just jinxed myself maybe?
As it happens, a bug of this type has been around for a long time, affecting non-SP1 installations of WinXP (such as my own). However, The Screen Savers described the bug and how to fix it on national television. No harm done.
On the other hand, some people are saying here that the bug has only been known for about 12 days. I think that this is simply not true. Because all the news agencies are walking on eggshells not to give ANY USEFUL INFORMATION WHATSOEVER, I can't be sure whether this is the same exploit or not. If it is, then it has, in fact, been known about both inside and outside Microsoft since JULY. The Screen Savers talked about it on September 10. If it is the same exploit, then 12 days is naievely underestimating how long the exploit has been around.
Are there any insidious uses for this technology? There always are, but realistically what?
I could kinda see this being used for speed checking using the time elapsed between passing different sensors (like VASCAR) if the sensors could differentiate certain cars.
It's an old mailing list message, in which the author (Grant Stockly) says:
I've already created an IDE to Ethernet AISC for a mini www server, and
thought it would be fun to see if I could use the base of it as a cheap way
of throwing drives onto a system.
However, Google returns no hits for "ethernet ide asic" which is about as general as I could think to make the search term...
Anyhow, does anyone have information about this ASIC? If so, it sounds *exactly* like what we want here.
Because having a DVD-player-cum-VCD-jukebox-on-a-HDD is 1337!
For me at least, the attraction is in the "neat-o gadget" factor. Kinda like having a Snapstream server at home off of which I can stream Satellite in my dorm room...
Google cache links for various pages: Article link: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:xTNcBn kYSi0C: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/connectindex.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Hard Drive Preparation: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache :eIK7PXDIR3wC: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/harddrivepre p.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Hard Drive Power: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:yVisV CJbkysC: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/harddrivepow er.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Lots more articles on the page linked in the article, but those are the ones of interest... hmmm... I think maybe the Google cache just got Slashdotted (!!??!!) cause its loading reeeaaal slow here...
sure, it's a "standard," but think about this for a minute. gm vehicles have been coming with xm for a while. what happens to the people that bought xm? what about people who want digital radio but have a radio they want to keep, or a high-end head unit that they bought for quality but can't get any models with digital? car radios need to be more like home stereos. we're dealing with products that are basically a closed system, no expandability which need to be replaced whenever we want a new feature. not to mention that of the few forays into this matter, only a few are truly useful, namely the car stereos with line inputs. screw the "xm ready" proprietary hookups. it needs to be more universal.
then again, i want a toilet made out of solid gold, but it's just not in the cards, baby. sorry for the rant.
yeah, no kidding about the dish compression. i was at costco watching dish on one of the hdtv plasma monitors right next to an ota (over-the-air) signal, and the ota blew dishnet away. i would not push inferior technology on people simply because there was no other alternative, so i am *certainly* glad the merger was not approved. oh, and as for digital cable, i'd rather NOT see ads with my program guide, kthxbye.
And I thought that American (US, anyhow) journalism was above bias!
Meh. The author calls IBM a victim- a victim of what? Their own stupidity and inability to produce a good product? Oh, no, I get it... <SARCASM thickness="very">IBM is a victim of companies (such as Komag) who are capable of producing a better product than them. Nasty, underhanded good-product companies!</SARCASM>
Seriously though, IBM is out of the business. Sure the Pixie Dust info. is relevant (i.e. Komag is better because they don't need pixie dust), but the stuff about millipede... how is that relevant if it's still 5-10 years out? It seems like the author is just trying to play up IBM even though they failed out of their own stupidity. Not even a mention of WD's new 200gb drives... Komag even makes the platters for WD!!
I know I wouldn't mind having a dozen or so cheap Cappuccino-type knockoffs... building in quantity would probably make them a lot cheaper than the $300+ for an industrial SBC. In-dash MP3 player, anyone?
This particular machine has been around for a long time. I can remember seeing it advertised in Video Systems or TV Technology or some such trade mag for a long time. Apparently, it has been in use for quite some time (think years).
Yeah, that's basically how closed-captioning and timecode work in video. Captioning is text that is basically stenog'ed on line 21 of the vertical interval (for CC 1, anyhow). Other information, such as v-chip ratings, timecode, and sometimes the networks' internal routing information is encoded as well. Realistically, then, Bin Laden could be hiding messages in CC1, or a couple of lines off and then have his "disciples" (read: brainwashed thugs) decode it using the standard closed-captioning option on a TV or shift it vertically first, maybe encrypt it, change the encoding system, etc. etc. etc. Bottom line, this is a *very* real possibility. Realistic? Maybe, it's kind of difficult to do, but with all of Bin Laden's US training from the Russian occupation, he probably has the know-how, maybe technology as well to do it.
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Basically, the idea in the book was that there were swarms of these very kinds of devices that could gain self-awareness and intelligence, and formed into 3-d copies of people. They were able to mimic the actions and sound of people undetectably.
They also were able to self-replicate and other stuff, like kill people and what not. Hilarity ensued.
Anyone who hasn't read Prey and finds this interesting may be in for a good read.
So, how often does Dynix release patches?
It's not like you will have to go replace your entire computer and perephials to use the new technology.
Unless it's an Apple product, or a laptop. Or both.
I nearly fell out of my seat when I read this... ouch! This letter could have come right out of the pages of The Onion, from perhaps Zwiebel's (sp?) cheif scientist.
RAID 0+1 my friend. Although it's double the cost, just consider it part of the price of data godliness.
2 Western Digital drives in RAID 0. Fast as hell. Beats 15k SCSI drives.
I think that most of the innovative work is being focused on IDE, so we get uber fast drives like those (promised) for SATA. Meanwhile, the quality work is focused on SCSI, since they are a slightly more niche market and cost matters less. So, either get a really big, fast, innovative drive that might or might not die in a few months, or get a really expensive SCSI drive that will probably last years, but was obsolete (capacity wise) months before it was even purchased.
The way I see it, if one of my IDE drives goes, aside from being SOL, I'll just buy a new one. Hell, they're cheap enough...
I guess it's time to get two more drives and set it up for 0+1... just jinxed myself maybe?
As it happens, a bug of this type has been around for a long time, affecting non-SP1 installations of WinXP (such as my own). However, The Screen Savers described the bug and how to fix it on national television. No harm done.
On the other hand, some people are saying here that the bug has only been known for about 12 days. I think that this is simply not true. Because all the news agencies are walking on eggshells not to give ANY USEFUL INFORMATION WHATSOEVER, I can't be sure whether this is the same exploit or not. If it is, then it has, in fact, been known about both inside and outside Microsoft since JULY. The Screen Savers talked about it on September 10. If it is the same exploit, then 12 days is naievely underestimating how long the exploit has been around.
We noted this 2.5 years ago. :)
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Please mod down.
Are there any insidious uses for this technology? There always are, but realistically what?
I could kinda see this being used for speed checking using the time elapsed between passing different sensors (like VASCAR) if the sensors could differentiate certain cars.
Or knowing where you are at any given time. Hmmm.
Any other suggestions?
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/1999/04/
It's an old mailing list message, in which the author (Grant Stockly) says:
However, Google returns no hits for "ethernet ide asic" which is about as general as I could think to make the search term...Anyhow, does anyone have information about this ASIC? If so, it sounds *exactly* like what we want here.
Because having a DVD-player-cum-VCD-jukebox-on-a-HDD is 1337!
For me at least, the attraction is in the "neat-o gadget" factor. Kinda like having a Snapstream server at home off of which I can stream Satellite in my dorm room...
Google cache links for various pages:n kYSi0C: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/connectindex .htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
O Dch-8C: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/harddrive.ht m+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
e :eIK7PXDIR3wC: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/harddrivepre p.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
V CJbkysC: www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/harddrivepow er.htm+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Article link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:xTNcB
Add-a-HDD page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:EwQdB
Hard Drive Preparation:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cach
Hard Drive Power:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:yVis
Lots more articles on the page linked in the article, but those are the ones of interest... hmmm... I think maybe the Google cache just got Slashdotted (!!??!!) cause its loading reeeaaal slow here...
sure, it's a "standard," but think about this for a minute. gm vehicles have been coming with xm for a while. what happens to the people that bought xm? what about people who want digital radio but have a radio they want to keep, or a high-end head unit that they bought for quality but can't get any models with digital? car radios need to be more like home stereos. we're dealing with products that are basically a closed system, no expandability which need to be replaced whenever we want a new feature. not to mention that of the few forays into this matter, only a few are truly useful, namely the car stereos with line inputs. screw the "xm ready" proprietary hookups. it needs to be more universal.
then again, i want a toilet made out of solid gold, but it's just not in the cards, baby. sorry for the rant.
yeah, no kidding about the dish compression. i was at costco watching dish on one of the hdtv plasma monitors right next to an ota (over-the-air) signal, and the ota blew dishnet away. i would not push inferior technology on people simply because there was no other alternative, so i am *certainly* glad the merger was not approved. oh, and as for digital cable, i'd rather NOT see ads with my program guide, kthxbye.
One time I crimped my CAT5 by setting the TV on it. Crimped it right in the middle. Sony XBR HD direct-view set, couple hundred pounds.
And I thought that American (US, anyhow) journalism was above bias!
Meh. The author calls IBM a victim- a victim of what? Their own stupidity and inability to produce a good product? Oh, no, I get it... <SARCASM thickness="very">IBM is a victim of companies (such as Komag) who are capable of producing a better product than them. Nasty, underhanded good-product companies!</SARCASM>
Seriously though, IBM is out of the business. Sure the Pixie Dust info. is relevant (i.e. Komag is better because they don't need pixie dust), but the stuff about millipede... how is that relevant if it's still 5-10 years out? It seems like the author is just trying to play up IBM even though they failed out of their own stupidity. Not even a mention of WD's new 200gb drives... Komag even makes the platters for WD!!
Perhaps it is time to start sending dt-mail. If they already have people in both houses, count the days of freedom...
I know I wouldn't mind having a dozen or so cheap Cappuccino-type knockoffs... building in quantity would probably make them a lot cheaper than the $300+ for an industrial SBC. In-dash MP3 player, anyone?
This particular machine has been around for a long time. I can remember seeing it advertised in Video Systems or TV Technology or some such trade mag for a long time. Apparently, it has been in use for quite some time (think years).
Yeah, that's basically how closed-captioning and timecode work in video. Captioning is text that is basically stenog'ed on line 21 of the vertical interval (for CC 1, anyhow). Other information, such as v-chip ratings, timecode, and sometimes the networks' internal routing information is encoded as well. Realistically, then, Bin Laden could be hiding messages in CC1, or a couple of lines off and then have his "disciples" (read: brainwashed thugs) decode it using the standard closed-captioning option on a TV or shift it vertically first, maybe encrypt it, change the encoding system, etc. etc. etc. Bottom line, this is a *very* real possibility. Realistic? Maybe, it's kind of difficult to do, but with all of Bin Laden's US training from the Russian occupation, he probably has the know-how, maybe technology as well to do it.