Why run any current through the plates? Run 5-24V, depending on what the tube filliments need, through a current limiting resistor in series with the filliments, and make sure the tubes are well ventilated so your rig doesn't overheat.
The tube filliments don't take up any more power that an incondessant bulb, just make sure you limit the current so they glow an orangeish color.
Try posting on the HardOCP cool cases forum for ideas. They do a lot of interesting case mods, maybe someone there has done something like what you want to do.
In the US, we have the Godd Smaration Law, which is simulur.
The good smaration law states that if you assest someone in an emergancy situation, you are automatily given imunaty to any crimminal and civil action that arises aganst you as a result, unless you deliberatly acted malioucesly or negligently.
Example:
You're walking down the street, and you see a store on fire. You call 911, and while you're waiting for the fire dept. to arive, you hear cries for help. You rush over to investigate, and find someone is trapped behind the store window. You shoot out the window, allowing the other person to escape.
They can't charge you, they can't sue you, unless it's proven in the investigation that you didn't excersorise adiquite care, or that you were actuilly trying to delibreatly harm the other person.
At one time I had four external SCSI devices attached to my computer. Placement of the four items would cause the chain to work or not. I am not talking about placement on the chain (which can definitely between working and not), but rather on my desk. If I moved the Zip drive too far to the right the chain would fail. If I tried to move the hard drive under the desk the chain would fail.
Sounds like you had a bad connection somewhere. Of course, faulty hardware will give you nothing but trouble, no matter what you're running.
FYI, SCSI doesn't care where a device is phsyicaly on the chain, it only cares about the device's ID. Just make sure the chain is properly terminated, you don't try to make two or mre devices share an ID, and you keep slower devices and faster devices on seperate chains.
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My SBLive works in linux, it's the older SBLive Value, but they use the same chipset. What problems have you been having?
DVD drives work in linux now, older kernels that do not have DVD support will see a DVD-ROM drive as a CD-ROM drive.
There are still problems with playing CSS encypted DVD movies on linux, but those are being worked on, and there's a variaty of linux DVD players now.
It's worth noteing that the problems with CSS encypted movies are more about leagel issuses than technical issuses. The OpenDVD.org site has more infomation.
An 'untrusted' user that any process can switch to that has very limited access to anything on your system. This would provide a way to semi-safely run executable content without worrying about whether or not it will be a virus or not.
Add to that how to go to a terminal from X and how to go back (Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7, or whatever your box uses).
I would also add how to use top, how to kill a process, the Left Alt-sysRq sequence (LAlt-SysRq-r,s,e,i,u,and b) or whatever is used to proform an emergency shutdown, and emergency recovery procedures (how to deal with a failed filesystem check, the system hanging at boot, ect. and how to use a rescue disk, boot to a diffrent runlevel, ect.).
However, as has been pointed out, USB 2 is more than fast enough (at 480 MBits/second).
One problem; USB2 is not yet available, and won't be for some time.
While Firewire does provide the speed now, it is more expensive, and AFAIK there is no way of getting hubs for Firewire.
True, firewire is more expensive than USB, but its not that much more are far as computer hardware goes. Firewire is still a new technology compared to USB, but the prices are starting to go down.
FYI, pruning trees regularly is a good idea, it helps keep them healthy by removing dead branches, and diseased and damaged limbs. It also keeps errant limbs out of the way, and, if you know what you're doing, you can actully train a tree to grow in a certian shape or direction.
Getting back on topic, the problems you were having wern't your satellite system's fault. At the microwave frequancies used, the leaves on your tree where acting like miniture reflectors, scattering and disrupting the signal. Mircowave systems need a clear line-of-sight between the transmitting and recieving stations. Incedently, this is also why bad weather can interfere with satellite reseption, signals on some microwave bands don't so through water vapior so well.
At a college I used to go to, they were using smoke detectors that were 20+ years old at the time. The things were so old, the housings were made of metal.
They still worked, er...sortof, I remember that false alarms were somewhat common under certian conditions, namely conditions that stired up alot of dust and pollen in the air.
FYI, americium is also used in ionization type smoke detectors.
Am 241 has a half-life of 432 years? Thats odd, thats the same material used in the ion chamber in these type of detectors, and those things have to be replaced once every 10 years...
I'm sure they'll use conventional engines to launch it into space, and then use the nuclear engines once the rocket is safely clear of the planet's orbit.
I couldn't get to the site, but from the write-up, I'm sure the actual amount of nuclear material used in the engine is small.
- space and noise (and heat/speed) can be fixed by something like "computer in the fridge", which I am sure everyone read about...
You're forgetting certian laws of physics that basicly say "the heat has to go somewhere".
Refridgerators do a good job of keeping your food cold, at the expence of heating your house. You're still going to have problems with the heat unless you pipe the heat outside somehow (usialy, this means using airconditioning equiptment).
- electricity charges are not that high considering the number of monitors;) which is actually one per cluster/network or less.
True, but you're still going to use more electricty with a cluster of low power machines than with one high power machine. Not only do you need more power for the additional machines, but you also need to consider things such as cooling, the equiptment thats needed to network the cluster together and manage it, and other considerations. Obviously, there's also maintainace and administration issues as well.
If you want to try it, be my guest.:) But don't be supprised if it turns out to be more of a hassle than its worth for what you want to use it for. Even though clusters and distributed systems have thier uses, they're just massave overkill for the average desktop/workstation users purposes.
What would've happened instead was the people who wanted only a browser would be satisfied, but those who wanted a communications suite, opon realizing that it's only a browser, would either stick with thier old versions of communicator, or switch to another communications suite. The communications suite users would still think of NS6 as only a browser, even if a communicator version were released soon after, and would be wondering why NS didn't release the communicator version in the first place. The browser-only users wouldn't be happy for long, they'd still have the same problems that people are having with the browser in NS6!
Also, don't forget about internet appliance manufactures. For a verity of reasons, using a communications suite is much more advantagious, for that purpose, than using seperate programs. If NS6 was browser-only, the majority of i-net appliance makers wouldn't use it because it wouldn't meet the needs that they're trying to forfill.
And don't forget about novice users and users who only want to use thier computers. For a majority of these users, a communications suite better serves thier needs as it offers a lower learning curve (the usre only has to deal with one program, he doesn't have to deal with many diffrent programs, and getting them to work and play nice with each other). If you don't believe it, take a look at the success of AOL and MS IE/OE/FP.
The problems with NS6 were largly due to a management fuckup on Netscape's part. They have nothing to do with NS6 including a mail/news clint, a webpage authoring tool, and other extras; mozilla has these extras, and it doesn't have anywhere near half the problems that NS6 does.
As it stands, Netscape has a good chance of saving face, if they're smart about it, and make bug-fixing a top priority for thier 6.1 release, and they relaese it without unnecessary deleay. But, making NS6 browser-only wouldn't solve anything, and could've easily given them more problems.
Then they would have alianated people who want, or need, a full communations suite. They would never have had a chance of winning over potential converts who curently use MS IE/OE.
Also, its been said before, but, aparently, it needs repeating, you can choose what extras you install (or not install) with the browser at installion.
NS6's problems have nothing to do with it being a communations suite. They have everything to do with the fact that it was based off of an out-of-date version of mozilla that had some serious bugs, and the fact that NS's management decided to listen more to it's marketing divsion than to the people who were testing and developing it, and give more priority to adding marketing-driven features (features that, btw, are not found in mozilla, even in it's latest release) than fixing those serious bugs.
Of course, not only do you have to have a broadband connection for internet radio, which effectively limits access to a very few...
Not if you just want to listen. Even though I only have a dail-up connection, can successfuly listen to internet radio over it, and I sometimes do. The quality isn't all that great, but it is listenable.
Now if you want to broadcast, you'll need a countunious internet connection with enough bandwith to run the server off of. I wouldn't try running a server off of a dial-up connection unless you're a motchoist, dail-ups arn't really ment to feed severs, a broadband connection is a much better choice for that.
A crystal is the part of the pager which sets the reception frequency, nothing else. Very often you need to change the crystal when changing pager service, because different services use different radio frequencies. In fact there is a huge market for services like changing the crystals.
That's true with older pagers, but the newer ones use a PLL (phase locked loop), the crystal only provides a refrence frequancy. It's cheaper to use a PLL since you don't have to replace a part to change the frequancy (just reprogram the pager), and you don't have to use a custom crystal in your design (you can get away with using a common refernce crystal, and use the PLL to tune the pager).
Very few pieces of modern radio equitpment are still tuned with crystals. If fact, when recrystaling services recrystal the newer pagers, they're actuily tuning the pager's PLL to the new frequancy.
Come on.. Do you just like to hear yourself talk or something? It's not like floating point ops are used in 'scape 6.
Many graphicly and computationly intencive apps do use floating point ops. Thsts why so many people had problems with the original P1's FP bugs. Guess what, it was not just people who were running thing such as MathCAD, gamers and people who did spreadsheet and graphics work had problems too. BTW the K6/2 FP isn't defective, it's just slow, and that was (and still is) a major compliant about it. The pages he was using are graphicly intencive (he even says so in the review), so I can see how the K6/2's slow FP could've affected his results.
I highly doubt that the kernel he is using has a major effect on performance - since it was an INDEPENDENT variable throught his test.
Unless you consider the fact that the kernel is the central part of the OS, and flaws in the kernel can easily cause problems elseware. Doesn't sound like an independent variable to me.
I still don't understand why he used an old version of a beta kernel in his tests. You want the system that you're testing software on to be as stable and as solid as possible, since you want to be sure that any problems you experance are caused by the software you're testing, and not by something else.
The point is netscape 6.0 was a PUBLIC RELEASE - NOT A BETA/DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT/ETC.
NS6 was based on a 6 week old version of mozilla, as another poster pointed out. It was based off of an older devolpment version of Mozilla, I would be supprised if it didn't have bugs, considering that Mozilla is still in beta.
Why dont people start to learn you dont release a product because your shareholders want you to, you release it if its ready.
On that, I agree with you, but, realisticly, NS may not have had a choice. They were facing pressure from the up and comming release of MSIE6, they allready missed one boat, missing this one for the sake of "waiting untill it's ready" could've proved disastorus for them.
He's using the 2.4.0-test4 kernel, which is a prerealase kerrnel, and his version is rather old. He's also using a K6/2 processor, which has been known to have certian issuses and deficenties with floating point operations.
Even though his hardware should be ok (as long as it's meeting his needs), he should try his review agian with a newer 2.4.0-test kernel, or a recent 2.2.x kernel. The kernel he's using is a older bata version, and bugs in the kernel may have influnced his test results.
I tried NS6, but I'm going to wait untill NS6.1 is out before passing judgement, and I recommend you do the same. Considering that it was based off a 2 month old version of mozilla, and mozilla is still bata quilaty, the fact that it's buggy isn't that suprising.
This leads to an idea about a fallback position on DECSS: as a copyright owner, you are allowed to encrypt copyrighted material, but only if you deposit the keys with (say) the Library of Congress. When copyright expires, the keys become publicly available.
Only problem with that is if the copyright holder should "accidently" lose the keys, you'd still be unable to decypt the material (at least, not without serious diffaculty, and, even then, there are no garuntees). Also, having the decryption keys doesn't help if the only copy of the work is lost or damaged beyond all possable repair.
A better idea would be to require that an encypted copyrighted work be completly decrypted, and then completly archived into the public domian, after the copyright expires.
Of course, for this to do any good, copyright has to be brought down to reasonable lengths, the copyright extenions in the sonny bono act need to go, and the DMCA needs to be repieled or throughly rewritten. Either way, copyright needs to go back to being in the athuor's (and, after expration, the public's) benifit, not just the publishing company's.
Off-topic, but I would expect VHS tape to eventually deteriorate as well. Possibly faster than film.
True, but many old movies were shot with celuloide film that used nitrate based pigments. These materials are unstable, and many older films are already rapidly detorating.
Another thing, film lasting longer than VHS doesn't mean anything if you can't find a player to view the film with.
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I agree about the kayboard nand monitor, but.
Why run any current through the plates? Run 5-24V, depending on what the tube filliments need, through a current limiting resistor in series with the filliments, and make sure the tubes are well ventilated so your rig doesn't overheat.
The tube filliments don't take up any more power that an incondessant bulb, just make sure you limit the current so they glow an orangeish color.
Try posting on the HardOCP cool cases forum for ideas. They do a lot of interesting case mods, maybe someone there has done something like what you want to do.
INIAL but,
In the US, we have the Godd Smaration Law, which is simulur.
The good smaration law states that if you assest someone in an emergancy situation, you are automatily given imunaty to any crimminal and civil action that arises aganst you as a result, unless you deliberatly acted malioucesly or negligently.
Example:
You're walking down the street, and you see a store on fire. You call 911, and while you're waiting for the fire dept. to arive, you hear cries for help. You rush over to investigate, and find someone is trapped behind the store window. You shoot out the window, allowing the other person to escape.
They can't charge you, they can't sue you, unless it's proven in the investigation that you didn't excersorise adiquite care, or that you were actuilly trying to delibreatly harm the other person.
That's why you have to terminate both ends of the chain. ;)
My SBLive works in linux, it's the older SBLive Value, but they use the same chipset. What problems have you been having?
DVD drives work in linux now, older kernels that do not have DVD support will see a DVD-ROM drive as a CD-ROM drive.
There are still problems with playing CSS encypted DVD movies on linux, but those are being worked on, and there's a variaty of linux DVD players now.
It's worth noteing that the problems with CSS encypted movies are more about leagel issuses than technical issuses. The OpenDVD.org site has more infomation.
Timothy, he's talking about connecting a IR transceiver to the IRDA header his desktop's mainboard.
The IRDA header is a standard port, there are five connections:
VCC(+5V)
key (no connection)
IRRX (recieve)
Ground
IRTX (transmit)
Some older mainboards have the recieve connection split into two connections; slow speed recieve and high speed recieve.
You can find more info in your mainboard's manual, or if you lost the manual (like I did), the manufacture's site.
Basicly everything's already on the mianboard except the IRDA transciever.
Oh, like the "nobody" user?
Add to that how to go to a terminal from X and how to go back (Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7, or whatever your box uses).
I would also add how to use top, how to kill a process, the Left Alt-sysRq sequence (LAlt-SysRq-r,s,e,i,u,and b) or whatever is used to proform an emergency shutdown, and emergency recovery procedures (how to deal with a failed filesystem check, the system hanging at boot, ect. and how to use a rescue disk, boot to a diffrent runlevel, ect.).
One problem; USB2 is not yet available, and won't be for some time.
True, firewire is more expensive than USB, but its not that much more are far as computer hardware goes. Firewire is still a new technology compared to USB, but the prices are starting to go down.
You can get firewire cards for $30 and firewire hubs for less than $100. The firewire drives are still quite expensive, but you can get aruond that by getting a firewire drive bay for around $100 and supplying your own drive.
OT, but why didn't you prune the tree?
FYI, pruning trees regularly is a good idea, it helps keep them healthy by removing dead branches, and diseased and damaged limbs. It also keeps errant limbs out of the way, and, if you know what you're doing, you can actully train a tree to grow in a certian shape or direction.
Getting back on topic, the problems you were having wern't your satellite system's fault. At the microwave frequancies used, the leaves on your tree where acting like miniture reflectors, scattering and disrupting the signal. Mircowave systems need a clear line-of-sight between the transmitting and recieving stations. Incedently, this is also why bad weather can interfere with satellite reseption, signals on some microwave bands don't so through water vapior so well.
That's nothing...
At a college I used to go to, they were using smoke detectors that were 20+ years old at the time. The things were so old, the housings were made of metal.
They still worked, er...sortof, I remember that false alarms were somewhat common under certian conditions, namely conditions that stired up alot of dust and pollen in the air.
FYI, americium is also used in ionization type smoke detectors.
Am 241 has a half-life of 432 years? Thats odd, thats the same material used in the ion chamber in these type of detectors, and those things have to be replaced once every 10 years...
I'm sure they'll use conventional engines to launch it into space, and then use the nuclear engines once the rocket is safely clear of the planet's orbit.
I couldn't get to the site, but from the write-up, I'm sure the actual amount of nuclear material used in the engine is small.
I Agree.
To be fair, this is more of a problem with the religion's leadership that with the religion itself.
Still, how can anyone or any orginization expect you to follow them if they can't even follow thier own rules?
You're forgetting certian laws of physics that basicly say "the heat has to go somewhere".
Refridgerators do a good job of keeping your food cold, at the expence of heating your house. You're still going to have problems with the heat unless you pipe the heat outside somehow (usialy, this means using airconditioning equiptment).
True, but you're still going to use more electricty with a cluster of low power machines than with one high power machine. Not only do you need more power for the additional machines, but you also need to consider things such as cooling, the equiptment thats needed to network the cluster together and manage it, and other considerations. Obviously, there's also maintainace and administration issues as well.
If you want to try it, be my guest.
Unfortunatly, it doesn't work that way.
What would've happened instead was the people who wanted only a browser would be satisfied, but those who wanted a communications suite, opon realizing that it's only a browser, would either stick with thier old versions of communicator, or switch to another communications suite. The communications suite users would still think of NS6 as only a browser, even if a communicator version were released soon after, and would be wondering why NS didn't release the communicator version in the first place. The browser-only users wouldn't be happy for long, they'd still have the same problems that people are having with the browser in NS6!
Also, don't forget about internet appliance manufactures. For a verity of reasons, using a communications suite is much more advantagious, for that purpose, than using seperate programs. If NS6 was browser-only, the majority of i-net appliance makers wouldn't use it because it wouldn't meet the needs that they're trying to forfill.
And don't forget about novice users and users who only want to use thier computers. For a majority of these users, a communications suite better serves thier needs as it offers a lower learning curve (the usre only has to deal with one program, he doesn't have to deal with many diffrent programs, and getting them to work and play nice with each other). If you don't believe it, take a look at the success of AOL and MS IE/OE/FP.
The problems with NS6 were largly due to a management fuckup on Netscape's part. They have nothing to do with NS6 including a mail/news clint, a webpage authoring tool, and other extras; mozilla has these extras, and it doesn't have anywhere near half the problems that NS6 does.
As it stands, Netscape has a good chance of saving face, if they're smart about it, and make bug-fixing a top priority for thier 6.1 release, and they relaese it without unnecessary deleay. But, making NS6 browser-only wouldn't solve anything, and could've easily given them more problems.
Then they would have alianated people who want, or need, a full communations suite. They would never have had a chance of winning over potential converts who curently use MS IE/OE.
Also, its been said before, but, aparently, it needs repeating, you can choose what extras you install (or not install) with the browser at installion.
NS6's problems have nothing to do with it being a communations suite. They have everything to do with the fact that it was based off of an out-of-date version of mozilla that had some serious bugs, and the fact that NS's management decided to listen more to it's marketing divsion than to the people who were testing and developing it, and give more priority to adding marketing-driven features (features that, btw, are not found in mozilla, even in it's latest release) than fixing those serious bugs.
Not if you just want to listen. Even though I only have a dail-up connection, can successfuly listen to internet radio over it, and I sometimes do. The quality isn't all that great, but it is listenable.
Now if you want to broadcast, you'll need a countunious internet connection with enough bandwith to run the server off of. I wouldn't try running a server off of a dial-up connection unless you're a motchoist, dail-ups arn't really ment to feed severs, a broadband connection is a much better choice for that.
That's true with older pagers, but the newer ones use a PLL (phase locked loop), the crystal only provides a refrence frequancy. It's cheaper to use a PLL since you don't have to replace a part to change the frequancy (just reprogram the pager), and you don't have to use a custom crystal in your design (you can get away with using a common refernce crystal, and use the PLL to tune the pager).
Very few pieces of modern radio equitpment are still tuned with crystals. If fact, when recrystaling services recrystal the newer pagers, they're actuily tuning the pager's PLL to the new frequancy.
Many graphicly and computationly intencive apps do use floating point ops. Thsts why so many people had problems with the original P1's FP bugs. Guess what, it was not just people who were running thing such as MathCAD, gamers and people who did spreadsheet and graphics work had problems too. BTW the K6/2 FP isn't defective, it's just slow, and that was (and still is) a major compliant about it. The pages he was using are graphicly intencive (he even says so in the review), so I can see how the K6/2's slow FP could've affected his results.
Unless you consider the fact that the kernel is the central part of the OS, and flaws in the kernel can easily cause problems elseware. Doesn't sound like an independent variable to me.
I still don't understand why he used an old version of a beta kernel in his tests. You want the system that you're testing software on to be as stable and as solid as possible, since you want to be sure that any problems you experance are caused by the software you're testing, and not by something else.
NS6 was based on a 6 week old version of mozilla, as another poster pointed out. It was based off of an older devolpment version of Mozilla, I would be supprised if it didn't have bugs, considering that Mozilla is still in beta.
On that, I agree with you, but, realisticly, NS may not have had a choice. They were facing pressure from the up and comming release of MSIE6, they allready missed one boat, missing this one for the sake of "waiting untill it's ready" could've proved disastorus for them.
Sorry, I ment to say that it was based off a 1 month old version of mozilla, not a 2 month old version.
He's using the 2.4.0-test4 kernel, which is a prerealase kerrnel, and his version is rather old. He's also using a K6/2 processor, which has been known to have certian issuses and deficenties with floating point operations.
Even though his hardware should be ok (as long as it's meeting his needs), he should try his review agian with a newer 2.4.0-test kernel, or a recent 2.2.x kernel. The kernel he's using is a older bata version, and bugs in the kernel may have influnced his test results.
I tried NS6, but I'm going to wait untill NS6.1 is out before passing judgement, and I recommend you do the same. Considering that it was based off a 2 month old version of mozilla, and mozilla is still bata quilaty, the fact that it's buggy isn't that suprising.
Only problem with that is if the copyright holder should "accidently" lose the keys, you'd still be unable to decypt the material (at least, not without serious diffaculty, and, even then, there are no garuntees). Also, having the decryption keys doesn't help if the only copy of the work is lost or damaged beyond all possable repair.
A better idea would be to require that an encypted copyrighted work be completly decrypted, and then completly archived into the public domian, after the copyright expires.
Of course, for this to do any good, copyright has to be brought down to reasonable lengths, the copyright extenions in the sonny bono act need to go, and the DMCA needs to be repieled or throughly rewritten. Either way, copyright needs to go back to being in the athuor's (and, after expration, the public's) benifit, not just the publishing company's.
True, but many old movies were shot with celuloide film that used nitrate based pigments. These materials are unstable, and many older films are already rapidly detorating.
Another thing, film lasting longer than VHS doesn't mean anything if you can't find a player to view the film with.