The thing that most people don't know - and I didn't until just recently - is how MANY closed circuit video cameras there are in England. How many? Over 2,500,000 of them. We're not talking about just the cameras that are inside certain businesses, but outside on the street. There are over 150,000 in London alone. 1,400 in the Underground, and 1,600 around other public transportation. Just walking down the street in London you will get filmed an average of 300 times in a single day.
The history of the cameras is that in the 1990s when the IRA was putting bombs all over London, the Brits started putting cameras up to spot the terrorists. But since no one protested, the numbers grew from a few thousand a decade ago to the millions that now adorn every little hamlet across the cold little island today.
The casualness of the above post and others I have read here in/. leads me to believe that the English have completely become accustomed to having their right to privacy thrown out the window. I didn't even know what a CCTV WAS until a week or so ago. The English basically live 1/2 a step away from a big-brother police state and are used to it already.
Actually, they are quite proud of it: A recent article in Spain's El Mundo has a wonderful little quote (translated back into English) "I think that only those that have something to hide oppose the video cameras. If you're an honerable citizen, I don't see what there is to fear, they're there to protect you. -- Lucy Chapman, a London Lawyer of 32 years." Well isn't THAT wonderfully cliche?
A society has to have a base level of pettiness, distrust and basic disgust for their fellow man to have as many cameras as England has. It's amazing to me that they aren't out in the street protesting about them. But 2.5 million isn't enough: The secretary of the Interior, John Denham just announced that Great Britain is investing another 160 million Euros in MORE cameras.
The article has a variety of whingers talking about how the cameras have cut crime rates, etc. But at what price? Why try not fix a society that has massive cultural and class divisions which cause this sort of pettty crime that the cameras are stopping in the first place?
I'm hoping that we Americans can keep our heads after 9/11 and not go nuts like the Brits and put cameras everywhere in some sort of deluded attempt to stop crime and terrorism.
I'm AMAZED at how fast this site comes up. On a 33 kbps modem in freakin' Spain and these pages popped up on my screen like I had them cached. Faster, actually. It probably had a lot to do with the compression he was talking about in the article. I've got to look at doing that on my home page, it's just So NICE when that pages snaps up like that. (And it's being/.ed... impressive.)
This is a great article. I only use Java for my server development and now I've got some really great amunition for the non-converted.
It's all about weaning yourself away from Microsoft by using cross-platform apps. First you get your job so you don't need Microsoft tools (Java), then you go for taking out the browser (Mozilla) then the Office apps (StarOffice) then you start going for some of the low level stuff that you miss on Unix (Cygwin)...
Before you know it, you're not using anything on your Windows box that you can't find for Mac or Linux. Then poof. A backup, reinstall and you're MS Free. (I'll still miss Macromedia Fireworks, but maybe it works with WINE...)
All hail the cross-platform developers (Mozdev, CygWin, more...)
Someone mod parent waay up. This is the number one way that we, as consumers, can fight back in the capitalist society that we all live in. We all have influence over X dollars. We need to put that influence to work for us whenever there is an occasion to do so.
I won't buy McAfee software now or recommend it to my clients either (like the above poster). That's going to take several hundred dollars out of McAffees pockets at least. Small change, certainly, but significant if repeated time and again.
Other examples are Microsoft who is a monopolist bully and Adobe who is trying to use the fear of the DMCA to protect it's faulty technology. Both of these companies no longer receive my money in any form either (i.e. NO XBox. I'm talking to you Taco.)
There are examples of this policy not working. Remember when the Baptists boycotted Disneyworld? Disney just shrugged and continued it's brainwashing of our children and eventually the Baptists caved and said, "well... maybe Disney isn't so bad after all." (Which is a good thing since I'm pretty sure they were protesting gay-day at Disneyword, the idiots. I'm glad that Disney didn't cave on this one.)
The difference of course is that Disney is huge multi-national conglomerate and McAfee is just yet another struggling tech company. Trust me when I say that focusing your economic influence elsewhere will definitely be felt at McAffee.
I once had a contract were I was hired at the same time as a bunch of other progammers to release a 2.0 version of a product. We were reorganizing the project and setting everything up again from scratch and decided to use CVS. It was an easy call since most of us new guys were comfortable with CVS having used it in other projects. It's light, it's fast, it's tested, it's multi-platform and it works.
However the original developers had used a combination of SourceSafe and some other proprietary versioning system for windows and they bitched and moaned about CVS like crazy. One of the only clients at the time was WinCVS, which is a horrible and not very intuitive client and they really balked. They felt like it was a step backward.
It was only after we had set up CVSWeb and cool build scripts that ran every night and sent out emails to the people who broke the build and other really helpful and productive functionality that they finally came around. The fact that CVS is open and has been around so long and has quite a following really does make a difference.
Anyways, this was a few years ago and I'm not sure what GUIs there are now (I still use the command line) but if you do go the CVS route (which I think is the best idea for any size company) prepare yourself for the backlash...
-Russ
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What the fsck do you mean "allow"? How is making XBoxes connect over the internet using your own PC as a hub infinging on any of Microsoft's rights? How would they not "allow" it?
Someone tell me if I'm missing something and Microsoft can pull a little DMCA action on this? IT doesn't look like it to me.
If you register through register.com, they let you point your domain wherever you want using their web interface. I wish I had registered all my domains through them.
The Eclipse stuff also includes.so libraries for Linux/*nix too, so it's not only Windows.
In my opinion this is a good direction to take. If you want to do sound in Java, for example, you need to have platform specific solutions (except for the most generic uses). The same for GUI stuff...
But what's a delegate? And why is it useful in Java?
Controlling my computer with my mind sounds pretty good, but soldering any of my nervecells sounds incredibly painful. Actually, any soldering of any part of my body just seems like a bad idea.
It would be kinda cool if I lost my hand or something I could solder in a Palm Pilot, but still it just seems too borgish. Hmmm... but hey, soldering in my DreamCast game controller and now we're talking. Man, talk about reaction times on Soul Caliber...
One of the things I'm doing to promote myself as I'm looking for new work is working on an open source project that I can use as an example of my technical ability.
It's fun, teaches me a lot, and is better than a resume in showing what I can do and will hopefully land me a cool job.
My reply to this is that your example uses MP3s which have an inherent hierarchical structure; Prodigy wrote minefield and it's rock music. Poof. There's your structure.
But after a year or so of owning a digital camera, I now have more then 3,000 photos on my computer. Organizing these photos has been a nightmare until I finally just went back to simply organizing them by date. It's not photos/family/weekend or photos/vacation/beach it's now photos/2000/october/12.
After trying to come up with some sort of organizational structure that made sense (does this photo go in the "family" folder or the "beach" foder?)I finally decided that dates are the only thing that is inherent and unchangeable: Some file was created on a certain date. The rest is up to opinion and therefore makes organization equally as arbitrary. And that makes it difficult to communicate or even remember.
If you're looking for a faster java GUI library, try SWT from IBM (now Eclipse).
In the/. article a short while ago about Eclipse, the new open source IDE for Java (and other things) released by IBM it mentions SWT. It's open source and comes with the Eclipse download. The idea is that it makes JNI calls to the base OS for the GUI, so it's fast. I've just started playing with it and it seems to do a lot of things that SWING does, but just a whole lot faster. It even includes the ability to work with OLE docs, etc.
I can't say much more about it because I haven't had much time to play with it much. But also SWING is supposed to be 30% faster in Jave 1.4 - whatever that means - and SWT seems like a cool idea. I think that the Java people are sick of not being able to create proper GUI apps and are starting to do something about it.
Okay, so I downloaded the source for Bob and made it (quick and easy on my Win2k box using CygWin tools...) but now what do I do with it? There's a couple samples, but not much else and there's no docs in the bob.zip file and looking up "Bob" on Google is an effort in futility... (Hey, but there's also a "Dylan" programming language.)
Anyone have a link to some syntax? I found this on DDJ but it's only a description of the article, not the article.
This is sort of a joke. I'm not trying to take away from LimeWire's hard work. This is just version lw1.8 compiled with a new name. You'll need to install the JRE to run it, it doesn't have an install, but once you unzip it, just run the run.bat or run.sh files.
I was about to call you names back. But then I CVSed the source and low-and-behold, if you download it and compile it yourself (very, very easy with Apache Ant - there's even a batch file to do it) it's the same version (1.8) but WITHOUT the ad stuff. You don't even have to muss with the code.
I've always thought of question of "what is Art?" as the answer to one of two other questions: "Can you do it?" And "Would you do it?"
For example, some art museums have examples of art that are these huge canvases covered with splatters of paint. Your first thought is normally, "Hell, I could do that..." But the in reality, WOULD you have done it? Would you have thought, out of the blue, to create a work of art of enormous size and the scatter random paint on it? Probably not - that's why it's art - because of it's innovation.
The other examples of traditional art are those fantastic, almost-real, oil paintings in fine-art buildings. Yes, I could paint a picture of a bowl of fruit. People do it every day - but I can't do it with such grace, skill and ability. Thus, it's art by sake of the skill it took to create the work. (Maybe with some innovation thrown in.)
Okay - so in my definition above, Video games are a combination of both. Almost every successful new video game that comes out is by definition innovative. It does things that no other game before it has. It can be interesting, beautiful, horrific or just surprising, but it's something that no one else has thought of. The second is the technical ability to create these games is insane. The cutting edge of computer development is the most difficult of any programming tasks (IMHO). Not only are the games usually innovative, but they take amazing skill to implement.
So video games in my opinion are obviously Art - at least the interesting, new and creative ones and not the 4th generation knock-off first person shooters.
Not that I know fsck-all or am a doctor or anything... But this seems like SUCH a bad idea.
Though your baby probably won't develop general hearing loss, he/she might lose the ability to hear in a range of sound because of his/her developing ears having constant noise exposure in that range.
Real hearing loss for adults which can result in being exposed to noise above 85 decibels for 8 hours or so straight and since normal speech is around 55 to 60 db, this probably isn't the case in your baby's room.;-) But I wouldn't suggest keeping a semi-noisy computer in there humming away all day/night either.
Why doesn't Borland just call this thing Delphi for Linux?
Notice it doesn't ever say WHAT language it uses on the website? I wonder how many developers downloaded this thing and then said, "What? I have to program in Pascal?!?!"
PJAE 1.2 adds security as specified in Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.2.2 (referred to as "JDKTM 1.2.2" in this specification). Therefore, this specification contains some APIs based on JDK 1.2.2 APIs. These are identified in the appropriate sections.
Below in the spec it says the createImage apis use Java 1.2 too.
I found this stuff while trying to figure out if you were right:
Even still, it uses Java 1.18 for most of it's functionality, but this isn't totally useless! I was doing some decent development a few years ago using that spec...
Yeah, it's way too easy of an excuse to use that by chance, some meteorite just happend to fall in the middle of the few civilizations on Earth at that time. I mean, how many people even existed then? And it just happened that a rock fell in middle of these budding civilizations and caused widespread disaster? It seems like reeeeeally bad luck.
What about the chinese? They had a pretty advanced civilization in 2000 B.C. no? Wouldn't they have a record of something of this magnitude? Or maybe they were just happy that all these hairy guys from the West stopped coming around...
But then again, Occam's Razor. Maybe this is the simplest solution...
What an idiot I am. I've NEVER held the laptop up to my ear to figure out what the noise is. Like you I just assumed it was the fan. It's not the fan at all... in fact, the fan's not moving now since it's unplugged and not hot. The HDD is THE WHOLE PROBLEM.
I was thinking about swapping my drive for a bigger one, but now I'm sure. Also, I think I remember setting the power settings so that it never powered down, too... that was a dumb-ass move. After 3 minutes, it'll power down plugged in or not now. We'll see if that helps until I can order a new drive. I'll have to do some research and find one that's quiet.
THANKS!
-Russ
The apartment is quiet now except for the occasional flips of the page from my wife's book, occasional clicks of my mouse, and the ECHO OF THE HDD HUM off the far wall...
It's not the ultimate game machine, but I think my Dell Latitude is making me deaf. I spend so much time on it and that constant humming is killing me. I think laptops are worse than desktops (which are usually under the desk) because they are so close to you. Humming all day and night. I feel like a guy from an Edgar Allen Poe story... I hear the fan running in my sleep. Do YOU hear it too?
It's not that it's loud, it's just constant. Does anyone else have this problem with their notebooks?
Think about flip-flops for a second. Isn't it just pure luck that it works at all? From my understanding it's an anomally of nature that when you have a gate and it's stuck to one side because of an electrical current, then when you stop and start the current again, the gate flip-flops and sticks to the other side. Not much rhyme or reason... it just does. And all of computer science is based on this weirdness.
So my question is, what's a FLAP? Where does that fit in? It's not one side or the other of a gate, but a third option like "straight through"? It's nice to say this in theory, but the question is does nature DO that?
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The thing that most people don't know - and I didn't until just recently - is how MANY closed circuit video cameras there are in England. How many? Over 2,500,000 of them. We're not talking about just the cameras that are inside certain businesses, but outside on the street. There are over 150,000 in London alone. 1,400 in the Underground, and 1,600 around other public transportation. Just walking down the street in London you will get filmed an average of 300 times in a single day.
/. leads me to believe that the English have completely become accustomed to having their right to privacy thrown out the window. I didn't even know what a CCTV WAS until a week or so ago. The English basically live 1/2 a step away from a big-brother police state and are used to it already.
The history of the cameras is that in the 1990s when the IRA was putting bombs all over London, the Brits started putting cameras up to spot the terrorists. But since no one protested, the numbers grew from a few thousand a decade ago to the millions that now adorn every little hamlet across the cold little island today.
The casualness of the above post and others I have read here in
Actually, they are quite proud of it: A recent article in Spain's El Mundo has a wonderful little quote (translated back into English) "I think that only those that have something to hide oppose the video cameras. If you're an honerable citizen, I don't see what there is to fear, they're there to protect you. -- Lucy Chapman, a London Lawyer of 32 years." Well isn't THAT wonderfully cliche?
A society has to have a base level of pettiness, distrust and basic disgust for their fellow man to have as many cameras as England has. It's amazing to me that they aren't out in the street protesting about them. But 2.5 million isn't enough: The secretary of the Interior, John Denham just announced that Great Britain is investing another 160 million Euros in MORE cameras.
The article has a variety of whingers talking about how the cameras have cut crime rates, etc. But at what price? Why try not fix a society that has massive cultural and class divisions which cause this sort of pettty crime that the cameras are stopping in the first place?
I'm hoping that we Americans can keep our heads after 9/11 and not go nuts like the Brits and put cameras everywhere in some sort of deluded attempt to stop crime and terrorism.
-Russ
I'm AMAZED at how fast this site comes up. On a 33 kbps modem in freakin' Spain and these pages popped up on my screen like I had them cached. Faster, actually. It probably had a lot to do with the compression he was talking about in the article. I've got to look at doing that on my home page, it's just So NICE when that pages snaps up like that. (And it's being /.ed... impressive.)
This is a great article. I only use Java for my server development and now I've got some really great amunition for the non-converted.
-Russ
It's all about weaning yourself away from Microsoft by using cross-platform apps. First you get your job so you don't need Microsoft tools (Java), then you go for taking out the browser (Mozilla) then the Office apps (StarOffice) then you start going for some of the low level stuff that you miss on Unix (Cygwin)...
Before you know it, you're not using anything on your Windows box that you can't find for Mac or Linux. Then poof. A backup, reinstall and you're MS Free. (I'll still miss Macromedia Fireworks, but maybe it works with WINE...)
All hail the cross-platform developers (Mozdev, CygWin, more...)
-Russ
Someone mod parent waay up. This is the number one way that we, as consumers, can fight back in the capitalist society that we all live in. We all have influence over X dollars. We need to put that influence to work for us whenever there is an occasion to do so.
I won't buy McAfee software now or recommend it to my clients either (like the above poster). That's going to take several hundred dollars out of McAffees pockets at least. Small change, certainly, but significant if repeated time and again.
Other examples are Microsoft who is a monopolist bully and Adobe who is trying to use the fear of the DMCA to protect it's faulty technology. Both of these companies no longer receive my money in any form either (i.e. NO XBox. I'm talking to you Taco.)
There are examples of this policy not working. Remember when the Baptists boycotted Disneyworld? Disney just shrugged and continued it's brainwashing of our children and eventually the Baptists caved and said, "well... maybe Disney isn't so bad after all." (Which is a good thing since I'm pretty sure they were protesting gay-day at Disneyword, the idiots. I'm glad that Disney didn't cave on this one.)
The difference of course is that Disney is huge multi-national conglomerate and McAfee is just yet another struggling tech company. Trust me when I say that focusing your economic influence elsewhere will definitely be felt at McAffee.
I hope their stock takes a huge dive on Monday.
-Russ
I once had a contract were I was hired at the same time as a bunch of other progammers to release a 2.0 version of a product. We were reorganizing the project and setting everything up again from scratch and decided to use CVS. It was an easy call since most of us new guys were comfortable with CVS having used it in other projects. It's light, it's fast, it's tested, it's multi-platform and it works.
However the original developers had used a combination of SourceSafe and some other proprietary versioning system for windows and they bitched and moaned about CVS like crazy. One of the only clients at the time was WinCVS, which is a horrible and not very intuitive client and they really balked. They felt like it was a step backward.
It was only after we had set up CVSWeb and cool build scripts that ran every night and sent out emails to the people who broke the build and other really helpful and productive functionality that they finally came around. The fact that CVS is open and has been around so long and has quite a following really does make a difference.
Anyways, this was a few years ago and I'm not sure what GUIs there are now (I still use the command line) but if you do go the CVS route (which I think is the best idea for any size company) prepare yourself for the backlash...
-Russ
What the fsck do you mean "allow"? How is making XBoxes connect over the internet using your own PC as a hub infinging on any of Microsoft's rights? How would they not "allow" it?
Someone tell me if I'm missing something and Microsoft can pull a little DMCA action on this? IT doesn't look like it to me.
-Russ
Whhaaat? I've got 30 domains to manage, this doesn't seem that cheap to me. From the easydns website:
DNS Subscription Pricing per year
annual per normal discount
10 domains $149.00 $14.90 $19.95 25.31%
25 domains $349.00 $13.96 $19.95 30.03%
50 domains $649.00 $12.98 $19.95 34.94%
100 domains $999.00 $ 9.99 $19.95 49.92%
If you register through register.com, they let you point your domain wherever you want using their web interface. I wish I had registered all my domains through them.
-Russ
The Eclipse stuff also includes
In my opinion this is a good direction to take. If you want to do sound in Java, for example, you need to have platform specific solutions (except for the most generic uses). The same for GUI stuff...
But what's a delegate? And why is it useful in Java?
-Russ
Controlling my computer with my mind sounds pretty good, but soldering any of my nervecells sounds incredibly painful. Actually, any soldering of any part of my body just seems like a bad idea.
It would be kinda cool if I lost my hand or something I could solder in a Palm Pilot, but still it just seems too borgish. Hmmm... but hey, soldering in my DreamCast game controller and now we're talking. Man, talk about reaction times on Soul Caliber...
-Russ
I disagree.
One of the things I'm doing to promote myself as I'm looking for new work is working on an open source project that I can use as an example of my technical ability.
It's fun, teaches me a lot, and is better than a resume in showing what I can do and will hopefully land me a cool job.
-Russ
I don't know... Nietzsche said "God is dead" and he was right on the money.
-Russ
My reply to this is that your example uses MP3s which have an inherent hierarchical structure; Prodigy wrote minefield and it's rock music. Poof. There's your structure.
But after a year or so of owning a digital camera, I now have more then 3,000 photos on my computer. Organizing these photos has been a nightmare until I finally just went back to simply organizing them by date. It's not photos/family/weekend or photos/vacation/beach it's now photos/2000/october/12.
After trying to come up with some sort of organizational structure that made sense (does this photo go in the "family" folder or the "beach" foder?)I finally decided that dates are the only thing that is inherent and unchangeable: Some file was created on a certain date. The rest is up to opinion and therefore makes organization equally as arbitrary. And that makes it difficult to communicate or even remember.
-Russ
If you're looking for a faster java GUI library, try SWT from IBM (now Eclipse).
In the
I can't say much more about it because I haven't had much time to play with it much. But also SWING is supposed to be 30% faster in Jave 1.4 - whatever that means - and SWT seems like a cool idea. I think that the Java people are sick of not being able to create proper GUI apps and are starting to do something about it.
-Russ
Okay, so I downloaded the source for Bob and made it (quick and easy on my Win2k box using CygWin tools...) but now what do I do with it? There's a couple samples, but not much else and there's no docs in the bob.zip file and looking up "Bob" on Google is an effort in futility... (Hey, but there's also a "Dylan" programming language.)
Anyone have a link to some syntax? I found this on DDJ but it's only a description of the article, not the article.
-Russ
Is anyone using the latest Mozilla and noticed the icon in the URL flicking you the bird on elenor.net? That's a nice way to greet your readers.
Yeah, well fu2.
-Russ
Try GnuWire.
This is sort of a joke. I'm not trying to take away from LimeWire's hard work. This is just version lw1.8 compiled with a new name. You'll need to install the JRE to run it, it doesn't have an install, but once you unzip it, just run the run.bat or run.sh files.
-Russ
I was about to call you names back. But then I CVSed the source and low-and-behold, if you download it and compile it yourself (very, very easy with Apache Ant - there's even a batch file to do it) it's the same version (1.8) but WITHOUT the ad stuff. You don't even have to muss with the code.
http://core.limewire.org/servlets/ProjectSource
Very nice. (Thanks for being a jerk.)
-Russ
I've always thought of question of "what is Art?" as the answer to one of two other questions: "Can you do it?" And "Would you do it?"
For example, some art museums have examples of art that are these huge canvases covered with splatters of paint. Your first thought is normally, "Hell, I could do that..." But the in reality, WOULD you have done it? Would you have thought, out of the blue, to create a work of art of enormous size and the scatter random paint on it? Probably not - that's why it's art - because of it's innovation.
The other examples of traditional art are those fantastic, almost-real, oil paintings in fine-art buildings. Yes, I could paint a picture of a bowl of fruit. People do it every day - but I can't do it with such grace, skill and ability. Thus, it's art by sake of the skill it took to create the work. (Maybe with some innovation thrown in.)
Okay - so in my definition above, Video games are a combination of both. Almost every successful new video game that comes out is by definition innovative. It does things that no other game before it has. It can be interesting, beautiful, horrific or just surprising, but it's something that no one else has thought of. The second is the technical ability to create these games is insane. The cutting edge of computer development is the most difficult of any programming tasks (IMHO). Not only are the games usually innovative, but they take amazing skill to implement.
So video games in my opinion are obviously Art - at least the interesting, new and creative ones and not the 4th generation knock-off first person shooters.
-Russ
Not that I know fsck-all or am a doctor or anything... But this seems like SUCH a bad idea.
Though your baby probably won't develop general hearing loss, he/she might lose the ability to hear in a range of sound because of his/her developing ears having constant noise exposure in that range.
Real hearing loss for adults which can result in being exposed to noise above 85 decibels for 8 hours or so straight and since normal speech is around 55 to 60 db, this probably isn't the case in your baby's room.
-Russ
Why doesn't Borland just call this thing Delphi for Linux?
Notice it doesn't ever say WHAT language it uses on the website? I wonder how many developers downloaded this thing and then said, "What? I have to program in Pascal?!?!"
-Russ
It says on the Sharp developer news page that it uses PersonalJava version 1.2 and from that spec you can see that:
- PJAE 1.2 uses JDK 1.1.8 as its base.
- PJAE 1.2 adds security as specified in Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.2.2 (referred to as "JDKTM 1.2.2" in this specification). Therefore, this specification contains some APIs based on JDK 1.2.2 APIs. These are identified in the appropriate sections.
Below in the spec it says the createImage apis use Java 1.2 too.I found this stuff while trying to figure out if you were right:
Even still, it uses Java 1.18 for most of it's functionality, but this isn't totally useless! I was doing some decent development a few years ago using that spec...
-Russ
Yeah, it's way too easy of an excuse to use that by chance, some meteorite just happend to fall in the middle of the few civilizations on Earth at that time. I mean, how many people even existed then? And it just happened that a rock fell in middle of these budding civilizations and caused widespread disaster? It seems like reeeeeally bad luck.
What about the chinese? They had a pretty advanced civilization in 2000 B.C. no? Wouldn't they have a record of something of this magnitude? Or maybe they were just happy that all these hairy guys from the West stopped coming around...
But then again, Occam's Razor. Maybe this is the simplest solution...
-Russ
WOW!
What an idiot I am. I've NEVER held the laptop up to my ear to figure out what the noise is. Like you I just assumed it was the fan. It's not the fan at all... in fact, the fan's not moving now since it's unplugged and not hot. The HDD is THE WHOLE PROBLEM.
I was thinking about swapping my drive for a bigger one, but now I'm sure. Also, I think I remember setting the power settings so that it never powered down, too... that was a dumb-ass move. After 3 minutes, it'll power down plugged in or not now. We'll see if that helps until I can order a new drive. I'll have to do some research and find one that's quiet.
THANKS!
-Russ
The apartment is quiet now except for the occasional flips of the page from my wife's book, occasional clicks of my mouse, and the ECHO OF THE HDD HUM off the far wall...
It's not the ultimate game machine, but I think my Dell Latitude is making me deaf. I spend so much time on it and that constant humming is killing me. I think laptops are worse than desktops (which are usually under the desk) because they are so close to you. Humming all day and night. I feel like a guy from an Edgar Allen Poe story... I hear the fan running in my sleep. Do YOU hear it too?
It's not that it's loud, it's just constant. Does anyone else have this problem with their notebooks?
-Russ
Think about flip-flops for a second. Isn't it just pure luck that it works at all? From my understanding it's an anomally of nature that when you have a gate and it's stuck to one side because of an electrical current, then when you stop and start the current again, the gate flip-flops and sticks to the other side. Not much rhyme or reason... it just does. And all of computer science is based on this weirdness.
So my question is, what's a FLAP? Where does that fit in? It's not one side or the other of a gate, but a third option like "straight through"? It's nice to say this in theory, but the question is does nature DO that?
-Russ