The boot up process starts a lot of extra electrical noise in the box by spinning up all the fans, HDs, probing things, etc. That's usually when something breaks. What I have seen is that boxes which get rebooted frequently tend to burn out faster. I have had 2 otherwise equivalent machines, purchased at the same time, one used for dev and one for production, and the dev machine burned out 2 years before we retired the production machine (burned out means too many fan/disk/CPU failures to bother with). The biggest difference? The dev machine was updated and rebooted far more frequently. The production machine we took care to only muck with when we had to, and when possible, we fixed it without a reboot.
Now it could be that the frequent updates on the dev machine is what caused it to burn out faster (more random use), and sure, it could have been a fluke, but look at it this way- when does a light bulb burn out? When you turn it on or when it's left on?
My suggestion is don't limit yourself when you decide to get back into the microcontroller stuff. I have an arduino as well, but you just can't pass on something that cheap.
I bought 3 for less than $15. And I didn't pay a cent for the programming software. The free development kit is all you need due to the limited memory available. The pay-to-play stuff is for larger memory model microcontrollers.
Just spend the $15 and order a few. It's an obvious lost leader (the USB cables would cost that much), but learning multiple microcontrollers will leave you with a more well rounded experience.
I'm sure adblock plus will continue to function as advertised.
Seriously, is anyone using/. still seeing ads? It's a non-issue.
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This is when "normal" people are sitting around drinking and one of them points out a beer bottle is brown cause it blocks sunlight, and the rest of them chide him or her for being a "geek". And then they have a hearty laugh when the newly labeled geek seems to have forgotten their otherwise inevitable pocket protector, because that is a hilarious joke to make about a geek.
Which is when I point out that we're drinking imports instead of the distilled rice water they deluding themselves into thinking is beer.
Then I jump in the hot tub and see how long it takes their wives to send over their friends from work.
Has that personal touch they like, and you can certainly adjust the ingredients to suit any stage of the relationship. I think the link provides a good "year 10+" setting.
Give me a shell on a unix machine somewhere with a compiler, and I can guarantee almost nothing I do will compromise the integrity of said machine... up until I run sudo somethingorother
Apparently you have never taught a *nix class on how to use fork().
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My aunt named her kids Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
Well, that's your opinion.
The boot up process starts a lot of extra electrical noise in the box by spinning up all the fans, HDs, probing things, etc. That's usually when something breaks. What I have seen is that boxes which get rebooted frequently tend to burn out faster. I have had 2 otherwise equivalent machines, purchased at the same time, one used for dev and one for production, and the dev machine burned out 2 years before we retired the production machine (burned out means too many fan/disk/CPU failures to bother with). The biggest difference? The dev machine was updated and rebooted far more frequently. The production machine we took care to only muck with when we had to, and when possible, we fixed it without a reboot.
Now it could be that the frequent updates on the dev machine is what caused it to burn out faster (more random use), and sure, it could have been a fluke, but look at it this way- when does a light bulb burn out? When you turn it on or when it's left on?
Also missing: users who have installed Adblock Plus and don't even see the ads.
My suggestion is don't limit yourself when you decide to get back into the microcontroller stuff. I have an arduino as well, but you just can't pass on something that cheap.
I bought 3 for less than $15. And I didn't pay a cent for the programming software. The free development kit is all you need due to the limited memory available. The pay-to-play stuff is for larger memory model microcontrollers.
Just spend the $15 and order a few. It's an obvious lost leader (the USB cables would cost that much), but learning multiple microcontrollers will leave you with a more well rounded experience.
If it's just cheap and affordable you're looking for, take a look at the MSP430 LaunchPad. Less than $5.
Getting the crystal in is less than fun, but still, that's one cheap board.
You forgot to link to a gold for bread video:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/feb/11/zimbabwe-gold-panning-starvation-food
Only on /. would a comment mentioning that you can throw a washing machine from your pickup on the highway be modded up as informative.
Additionally, use up your vacation hours now- extra time for the search. Chances are those hours will vanish if not used soon.
You have confused me. Your UID makes me think you've been around for a while, but your post makes me think you are very young.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people. There is strength in numbers, and they certainly have the numbers on their side.
No, you don't need a recipe for that. You need a recipe for when a female who isn't a full time drunk comes over.
Not always; consider the red light district in Amsterdam. Photographs are strictly prohibited and you'd find yourself in a good deal of trouble.
Are you surprised?
yahoo [jhu] n pl -hoos a crude, brutish, or obscenely coarse person
What else would you expect from a bunch of yahoos?
I'm sure adblock plus will continue to function as advertised.
Seriously, is anyone using /. still seeing ads? It's a non-issue.
This is when "normal" people are sitting around drinking and one of them points out a beer bottle is brown cause it blocks sunlight, and the rest of them chide him or her for being a "geek". And then they have a hearty laugh when the newly labeled geek seems to have forgotten their otherwise inevitable pocket protector, because that is a hilarious joke to make about a geek.
Which is when I point out that we're drinking imports instead of the distilled rice water they deluding themselves into thinking is beer.
Then I jump in the hot tub and see how long it takes their wives to send over their friends from work.
How about a realdoll?
Obligatory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdXG2gV01k
You forgot "dig hole, put computer in hole, fill hole with concrete".
Instead of flowers, maybe a few roses?
Has that personal touch they like, and you can certainly adjust the ingredients to suit any stage of the relationship. I think the link provides a good "year 10+" setting.
No more than someone getting busted for drinking and driving will stop everyone else from doing the same.
Why should I let Mozilla, a large group with contradictory desires and many masters, control whether I delist it as a trusted root?
Because Mozilla is capable of doing it and most computer users are (effectively) not.
Because we care about what happens to the internet.
Because it's going to be our mom's machine, and we'll have to fix it.
Oh, that explains it. For a while there, I thought they actually made that crappy product! I just don't see why they didn't wait until April 1st..
Definitely brought to you by the same guys who made Champions Online.
Because we haven't learned to hate gmail yet.
the Cxx (COO, CFO, whatever) who made that decision should be beaten to death with his own intestines or fired.
Can't it be both?
Give me a shell on a unix machine somewhere with a compiler, and I can guarantee almost nothing I do will compromise the integrity of said machine... up until I run sudo somethingorother
Apparently you have never taught a *nix class on how to use fork().