The 'heat' jokes used to all be about the Pentium (back in the Pentium 60 days those jokes were one of the ways for Apple customers to feel good in spite of the reaming they got every time they bought another pricey Apple box). It's nice to see AMD take the heat (pun intended) off Intel.
Actually, the Class A license is less strict than the Class B license. The FCC reasons that in residential areas RFI is more of an issue than in commercial settings. Computers that aren't designed for ordinary home use (i.e. mainframes, minicomputers) are Class A. 'Consumer' computers are Class B.
Leaving the cover off a case is usually a bad idea. A well designed case is set up so that the air flow through the fans pulls air across the components that need cooling. If you take the cover off, it results in zero airflow over critical components.
Back when my computer was a Z-80 based Bigboard running CP/M I had the bigboard (single board video, cpu, ram, controller, etc. on it) installed in a surplus 19" rack chassis. It would periodically fail due to overheating.
I went out and bought several expensive air conditioners (lived in the second floor of an ancient house where it got pretty warm).
No change at all. The machine still overheated regularly.
I dug in the junkbox and found a cheap muffin fan, and set it up to push air across the Bigboard. It never failed again.
Static dissipative plastics don't have enough metal content to shield radio frequency interference. They're designed to conduct electrostatic, which is a completely different issue.
I suspect we won't see any system vendors, even screwdriver shops, selling machines made with this case. The vendor probably only get approval to sell the cases without any electronics in them. The RFI generated once there's a fast motherboard running inside of an unshielded case will preclude them being allowed to sell a full system. What a hobbyist does with the empty case once it's in a home is another matter. I haven't heard of the FCC out chasing after RFI in ages.
Not like when they raided Comdex and tagged most of the exhibits of PC hardware as non-compliant in the early 80's (killing the TRS-80 Model 1)
I think you're describing the things that Deja tried to do when they discovered they were running at a loss with the older, more geek friendly, interface.
I was an ignorant Linux fanatic, dripping with zeal, a few years ago. And because I posted to great excess on alt.os.linux.advocacy from an account with my real name entered, it's all out there for the world to read. I was hoping for a warehouse fire, or at least that this stuff would be locked away forever.
Unfortunately, the decline of the American Universities can be dated back about a half decade before Reagan became President.
The decline lies in the gradual takeover of the Universities by the 'New Left' and their radical ideology. This occured in the late 70's, and accelerated during the Reagan era, in spite of who was our President at the time.
Farmers poured the milk out because there wasn't a transportation infrastructure to get it to market. There weren't spiteful farmers saying 'let them starve', there was just a gridlocked mess where no transportation was available.
Milk in high volumes is a NASTY thing to pour on land, it ruins the soil. Farmers aren't that foolish, believe me.
Of course, if code paid for by a company makes it's way into the 'Open Source' project the converse is true. The company may end up suing the organisation/individuals who put the software out under the GPL. It cuts both ways, and the money is likely on the company.
Is RMS really a tenured professor? I knew he was 'tenured' in some form, but I've never heard him referred to as 'Doctor' or heard of any advanced degree that he's earned.
I guess I've always assumed he's just another one of those people who dug in their heels in the 70's and never left campus**. I have a friend like that, who started out a work-study bottle washer in the campus hospital in the early 1970's, and has had jobs in the labs ever since.
(**Avoid letting yourself be 'mentored' by such people, college students. They're mired in place. Don't spend more time than necessary hanging out on campus, it leads to a very warped sense of reality. It isn't the real world!)
How are these employers 'organized'?? My impression is that the employers are cutthroat competetive with one another. Thats why good software developers are paid so well, there is fierce competition to hire them.
'Unions' only work in slow moving governmental businesses and where the resources are very geographically based. A company isn't going to move a steel mill or an auto plant overnight to get away from the Union, so they negotigate. A mining company obviously can't move, so the Union takes hold.
Software development can be carried out anywhere. There's nothing tying a business to operate in any specific region. Where operating costs are high, the company will only employ a skeleton staff, and all the real work will be shipped overseas.
I suppose there could be drawer at the bottom to store a deck of cards, the cribbage board, some dice and checkers, if need be. For people who don't play games it could double as auxillary storage for disks, etc.
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The 'heat' jokes used to all be about the Pentium (back in the Pentium 60 days those jokes were one of the ways for Apple customers to feel good in spite of the reaming they got every time they bought another pricey Apple box). It's nice to see AMD take the heat (pun intended) off Intel.
Or the Linux 6.0.34 source tarball.
Yep. The John Glenn mission was 'nice' wasn't it?
It's really a shame they're being such hypocrites at NASA.
You're right. I mean, they sent a fricking school teacher up on a shuttle mission (code name 'Oops, Fireball') for PR.
NASA needs stuff like this to happen. They need to be cut down a few notches, so we can get on with progress.
Actually, the Class A license is less strict than the Class B license. The FCC reasons that in residential areas RFI is more of an issue than in commercial settings. Computers that aren't designed for ordinary home use (i.e. mainframes, minicomputers) are Class A. 'Consumer' computers are Class B.
That reminds me of the time I plugged the EPROM into a breadboard backwards. The power is on the corner pins, so it got powered backwards.
Ever seen a Light Emitting EPROM?
Leaving the cover off a case is usually a bad idea. A well designed case is set up so that the air flow through the fans pulls air across the components that need cooling. If you take the cover off, it results in zero airflow over critical components.
Back when my computer was a Z-80 based Bigboard running CP/M I had the bigboard (single board video, cpu, ram, controller, etc. on it) installed in a surplus 19" rack chassis. It would periodically fail due to overheating.
I went out and bought several expensive air conditioners (lived in the second floor of an ancient house where it got pretty warm).
No change at all. The machine still overheated regularly.
I dug in the junkbox and found a cheap muffin fan, and set it up to push air across the Bigboard. It never failed again.
Static dissipative plastics don't have enough metal content to shield radio frequency interference. They're designed to conduct electrostatic, which is a completely different issue.
I suspect we won't see any system vendors, even screwdriver shops, selling machines made with this case. The vendor probably only get approval to sell the cases without any electronics in them. The RFI generated once there's a fast motherboard running inside of an unshielded case will preclude them being allowed to sell a full system. What a hobbyist does with the empty case once it's in a home is another matter. I haven't heard of the FCC out chasing after RFI in ages.
Not like when they raided Comdex and tagged most of the exhibits of PC hardware as non-compliant in the early 80's (killing the TRS-80 Model 1)
'Have you stopped beating your wife yet?'
(insert various other unfounded attacks here)
You need an account on FreeShell.
I think you're describing the things that Deja tried to do when they discovered they were running at a loss with the older, more geek friendly, interface.
I feel much the same.
I was an ignorant Linux fanatic, dripping with zeal, a few years ago. And because I posted to great excess on alt.os.linux.advocacy from an account with my real name entered, it's all out there for the world to read. I was hoping for a warehouse fire, or at least that this stuff would be locked away forever.
Excellent! Just what's needed.
More lawsuits.
Unfortunately, the decline of the American Universities can be dated back about a half decade before Reagan became President.
The decline lies in the gradual takeover of the Universities by the 'New Left' and their radical ideology. This occured in the late 70's, and accelerated during the Reagan era, in spite of who was our President at the time.
Was that confirmed, or was it an U. L. ?
Farmers poured the milk out because there wasn't a transportation infrastructure to get it to market. There weren't spiteful farmers saying 'let them starve', there was just a gridlocked mess where no transportation was available.
Milk in high volumes is a NASTY thing to pour on land, it ruins the soil. Farmers aren't that foolish, believe me.
There's so much Urban Folklore out there... sigh.
Of course, if code paid for by a company makes it's way into the 'Open Source' project the converse is true. The company may end up suing the organisation/individuals who put the software out under the GPL. It cuts both ways, and the money is likely on the company.
Is RMS really a tenured professor? I knew he was 'tenured' in some form, but I've never heard him referred to as 'Doctor' or heard of any advanced degree that he's earned.
I guess I've always assumed he's just another one of those people who dug in their heels in the 70's and never left campus**. I have a friend like that, who started out a work-study bottle washer in the campus hospital in the early 1970's, and has had jobs in the labs ever since.
(**Avoid letting yourself be 'mentored' by such people, college students. They're mired in place. Don't spend more time than necessary hanging out on campus, it leads to a very warped sense of reality. It isn't the real world!)
How are these employers 'organized'?? My impression is that the employers are cutthroat competetive with one another. Thats why good software developers are paid so well, there is fierce competition to hire them.
'Unions' only work in slow moving governmental businesses and where the resources are very geographically based. A company isn't going to move a steel mill or an auto plant overnight to get away from the Union, so they negotigate. A mining company obviously can't move, so the Union takes hold.
Software development can be carried out anywhere. There's nothing tying a business to operate in any specific region. Where operating costs are high, the company will only employ a skeleton staff, and all the real work will be shipped overseas.
One week after the 'union' has started, all software development will be moved to Singapore or India.
What about games??
I suppose there could be drawer at the bottom to store a deck of cards, the cribbage board, some dice and checkers, if need be. For people who don't play games it could double as auxillary storage for disks, etc.
Actually most ladies shave more skin surface area than most men.
Ah, John Gilmore, the steadfast defender of the right to copy protection. Speaking out on the behalf of 'people's copy protection.' Hmmm....
Whoops! The price just went up by $3000. And honey, who left this 19" rack in the living room??