(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication
If you attack another node, and in the course of doing so your malicious packets cross a state or country border, then you're breaking the federal law. The FBI will investigate if the victim presses criminal charges, as a federal court will be used for judicial procedings on the matter.
Yeah, all of one or two deivces [sic] in each category. Sure, USB connectors have been standard on PC motherboards for a while, but that doesn't mean that people were using them.
If those USB-supporting PC motherboards had dropped the parallel, serial, mouse, and keyboard ports, people would be using USB on PCs. But those motherboards didn't, so people bought and used the cheaper non-USB parts. The iMac forces you to use USB peripherals.
Actually, the copper wires I was referring to are the unburied wires. A few years ago I did a travel report on Central Africa. One of the things to bring was a satellite-linked phone because, even if where you were staying had phones, the service was often unavailable because bandits had stolen the copper wiring from the telco switches, phone poles, and out of the basements of hotels and other buildings.
That's assuming that the phone lines running to your neck of the desert haven't been stolen for the copper wiring (to be made into jewelry or traded for goods). I'd just love to see what happens when they start laying the fibre landlines. "Clear plastic is all the rage out of Cairo this season..."
In short: no. They aren't that great, if you ask me. Give me (please?) a Viewsonic VP150 or three.
The VP150 has a 400:1 contrast ratio and a 250cd/m^2 brightness compared to theMASS units' 200:1 contrast ratio and 200cd/m^2 brightness.
Neither has a DFP connector, but at least there's a digital version of the VP150 (the VPD150).
The VP150 and the MASS screens have the same physical size and resolution (1024x768). However, the VP150 has a notably wider horizontal viewing angel of 140 degrees.
Now the big question: How much does a Twin cost? A pair of VP150s go for under US$2000.
A Triple was quoted at $6500. A trio of VP150s would be less than half that including shipping. Yes, that would mean three stands on the desk. But it also means a wrap-around screen, instead of a wide flat one (raising issue with the Triple's viewing angle).
It's pretty clear that the project has been scrapped. But I'd like to know why the author took the approach he did. There are so many problems with the design.
Forced use of the highest colour depth prevents you from running a lower colour depth and using the unused video memory for pixmap caching.
The connection notification feature of the Network Server could be exploited for DoS. Imagine 10K "Can this person connect to me?" windows appearing on your screen in a matter of seconds. The security hole in X is easily plugged (ever heard of a firewall?) anyway. If someone was really (insane) ambitious, they could patch in an xf86config option to enable/disable the network server in X.
I think Apple still needs to come a long way, like shave at least 15% off prices and go back to SCSI.
Besides, no matter what Apple says the performance over a PC is, consumers see the MHz, RAM, and HD numbers as the end-all be-all indication of the bang the machine will give them for their buck. If you put a 450MHz G3 next to a 450MHz P2, both with 128MB of RAM and 13GB HD, they'll buy the PC because it's $500 less, even if it does perform disproportionately slower (pricewise) and is technically inferior.
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And just think, with serial and USB ports, you could plug in a cellular modem and a keyboard, call up your ISP and read/. while doing 80mph (130km/h) down the expressway.
Do you really need that high of a bitrate? I get a virtually perfect[1] reproduction of the CD track at only 56kbps.
(No troll, just an honest question.)
1: Not quite perfect because of the MPEG algorhythm, but I couldn't hear any artifacts regardless of genre or volume.
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There is (used?) to be a company here in Portland, OR (USA) that did air brushing and film overlays on cases. A matched set (cpu, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers) isn't too cheap, but the holographic film overlay on my workstation is damned cool.
I have no idea how they're expecting to be able to do SMP under Win9x. They'd have to come up with their own SMP engine and tack it onto the kernel I suppose. But then I'm no SE.
I'm curious what Neon would do in the presence of all those miniscule electric currents on a motherboard.
If you're referring to neon lighting, it won't happen. Not only would no sparking take place under normal operation, but a spark large enough to start a plasma reaction with the neon would generate so much RFI that it would likely interupt or fry most of the ICs in the system.
Have you given any thought to adding a filter to the pump? Since the pump is drawing the oil across the CPU's HS fins I would be quite concerned about conductive particles being swept up against the CPU board and shorting something out.
Also, have you considered using a stock Celeron HS and housing? It would help to better channel the oil across the fins.
Plus there's the risk of a reaction between the mineral oil and thermal compounds...
An AT power supply has a "power ok" lead from the motherboard that tells it to switch on or not. If you turn on an AT supply without this lead connected, the power supply won't turn on. XT power supplies, on the other hand, are completely dumb (I use them for testing drives, in fact)
ASUS was able to hack a keyboard power on feature into some of their ATX boards (I think specifically those with the BX chipset) where in the BIOS you can enable the space bar as a power on key.
My Asus P2B and P2B-S boards have a quirk in the KBPWR feature: it causes the system to reset instead of power down after the OS tells it to turn off.
Also, the KBPWR feature draws so much current (it's powering the keyboard controller) that the 850mA on the +5VSB lead isn't enough to use KBPWR and WOL simultaneously.
It's not posted as HTML because the paper requires the use of special character fonts to produce the letters used in the formulae. Besides, you can download and print out the PS version.
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I think that if you can find something you love to do, do it well, and make a living doing it, you're one very lucky individual.
"if money is seen as a reason for doing something, that task will suddenly become less interesting to do...it's not the most important thing."
Haven't you ever even thought about it? Getting paid ridiculous sums of money to persue your hobby in a professional environment where you have the budget for and access to equipment a hobbyist can only dream of? Maybe I'm just not a true hacker. But if being a hacker means doing what I do now and maybe not getting paid for it, you can have it. I'll stick to my business contracts and $130k annual income thank you.
Why else would they need proof of date-of-purchase?
So that a business can't buy something really ancient from a collector (or have a replica built), put a little bit of data on it, use it for a few days, then enter and win the contest.
Why else would they need proof of date-of-purchase?
So that a business can't buy or borrow something really ancient from a collector, put a little bit of data on it, use it for a week or two, then enter and win the contest.
> Why else would they need proof of > date-of-purchase? It's so that a business can't buy or borrow something really ancient from a collector, put a little bit of data on it, use it for a week or two, then enter and win the contest.
> Why else would they need proof of > date-of-purchase?
It's so that a business can't buy or borrow something really ancient from a collector, put a little bit of data on it, use it for a week or two, then enter and win the contest.
I'd be more interested in what the theatres for episodes 7, 8, and 9 are going to be like. Digital FED screens with true 3D sound systems? Or perhaps retina projection?
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(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication
If you attack another node, and in the course of doing so your malicious packets cross a state or country border, then you're breaking the federal law. The FBI will investigate if the victim presses criminal charges, as a federal court will be used for judicial procedings on the matter.
Yeah, all of one or two deivces [sic] in each category. Sure, USB connectors have been standard on PC motherboards for a while, but that doesn't mean that people were using them.
If those USB-supporting PC motherboards had dropped the parallel, serial, mouse, and keyboard ports, people would be using USB on PCs. But those motherboards didn't, so people bought and used the cheaper non-USB parts. The iMac forces you to use USB peripherals.
Actually, the copper wires I was referring to are the unburied wires. A few years ago I did a travel report on Central Africa. One of the things to bring was a satellite-linked phone because, even if where you were staying had phones, the service was often unavailable because bandits had stolen the copper wiring from the telco switches, phone poles, and out of the basements of hotels and other buildings.
That's assuming that the phone lines running to your neck of the desert haven't been stolen for the copper wiring (to be made into jewelry or traded for goods). I'd just love to see what happens when they start laying the fibre landlines. "Clear plastic is all the rage out of Cairo this season..."
In short: no. They aren't that great, if you ask me. Give me (please?) a Viewsonic VP150 or three.
The VP150 has a 400:1 contrast ratio and a 250cd/m^2 brightness compared to theMASS units' 200:1 contrast ratio and 200cd/m^2 brightness.
Neither has a DFP connector, but at least there's a digital version of the VP150 (the VPD150).
The VP150 and the MASS screens have the same physical size and resolution (1024x768). However, the VP150 has a notably wider horizontal viewing angel of 140 degrees.
Now the big question: How much does a Twin cost? A pair of VP150s go for under US$2000.
A Triple was quoted at $6500. A trio of VP150s would be less than half that including shipping. Yes, that would mean three stands on the desk. But it also means a wrap-around screen, instead of a wide flat one (raising issue with the Triple's viewing angle).
The new version of NTFS uses 64-bit block addresses. The volume size limit is in the realm of petabytes or exabytes, I believe.
It's pretty clear that the project has been scrapped. But I'd like to know why the author took the approach he did. There are so many problems with the design.
Forced use of the highest colour depth prevents you from running a lower colour depth and using the unused video memory for pixmap caching.
The connection notification feature of the Network Server could be exploited for DoS. Imagine 10K "Can this person connect to me?" windows appearing on your screen in a matter of seconds. The security hole in X is easily plugged (ever heard of a firewall?) anyway. If someone was really (insane) ambitious, they could patch in an xf86config option to enable/disable the network server in X.
I think Apple still needs to come a long way, like shave at least 15% off prices and go back to SCSI.
Besides, no matter what Apple says the performance over a PC is, consumers see the MHz, RAM, and HD numbers as the end-all be-all indication of the bang the machine will give them for their buck. If you put a 450MHz G3 next to a 450MHz P2, both with 128MB of RAM and 13GB HD, they'll buy the PC because it's $500 less, even if it does perform disproportionately slower (pricewise) and is technically inferior.
And just think, with serial and USB ports, you could plug in a cellular modem and a keyboard, call up your ISP and read /. while doing 80mph (130km/h) down the expressway.
"...at an 168K bitrate."
Do you really need that high of a bitrate? I get a virtually perfect[1] reproduction of the CD track at only 56kbps.
(No troll, just an honest question.)
1: Not quite perfect because of the MPEG algorhythm, but I couldn't hear any artifacts regardless of genre or volume.
There is (used?) to be a company here in Portland, OR (USA) that did air brushing and film overlays on cases. A matched set (cpu, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers) isn't too cheap, but the holographic film overlay on my workstation is damned cool.
I don't see why this can't be done on Win9X.
Simple: The Win9x kernel can not granulate.
I have no idea how they're expecting to be able to do SMP under Win9x. They'd have to come up with their own SMP engine and tack it onto the kernel I suppose. But then I'm no SE.
I'm curious what Neon would do in the presence of all those miniscule electric currents on a motherboard.
If you're referring to neon lighting, it won't happen. Not only would no sparking take place under normal operation, but a spark large enough to start a plasma reaction with the neon would generate so much RFI that it would likely interupt or fry most of the ICs in the system.
Have you given any thought to adding a filter to the pump? Since the pump is drawing the oil across the CPU's HS fins I would be quite concerned about conductive particles being swept up against the CPU board and shorting something out.
Also, have you considered using a stock Celeron HS and housing? It would help to better channel the oil across the fins.
Plus there's the risk of a reaction between the mineral oil and thermal compounds...
Mineral oil is lighter than water, I just checked (and made a mess of the kitchen sink in the process).
My question: What's the dielectric strength of mineral oil?
An AT power supply has a "power ok" lead from the motherboard that tells it to switch on or not. If you turn on an AT supply without this lead connected, the power supply won't turn on. XT power supplies, on the other hand, are completely dumb (I use them for testing drives, in fact)
ASUS was able to hack a keyboard power on feature into some of their ATX boards (I think specifically those with the BX chipset) where in the BIOS you can enable the space bar as a power on key.
My Asus P2B and P2B-S boards have a quirk in the KBPWR feature: it causes the system to reset instead of power down after the OS tells it to turn off.
Also, the KBPWR feature draws so much current (it's powering the keyboard controller) that the 850mA on the +5VSB lead isn't enough to use KBPWR and WOL simultaneously.
It's not posted as HTML because the paper requires the use of special character fonts to produce the letters used in the formulae. Besides, you can download and print out the PS version.
I think that if you can find something you love to do, do it well, and make a living doing it, you're one very lucky individual.
"if money is seen as a reason for doing something, that task will suddenly become less interesting to do...it's not the most important thing."
Haven't you ever even thought about it? Getting paid ridiculous sums of money to persue your hobby in a professional environment where you have the budget for and access to equipment a hobbyist can only dream of? Maybe I'm just not a true hacker. But if being a hacker means doing what I do now and maybe not getting paid for it, you can have it. I'll stick to my business contracts and $130k annual income thank you.
Why else would they need proof of date-of-purchase?
So that a business can't buy something really ancient from a collector (or have a replica built), put a little bit of data on it, use it for a few days, then enter and win the contest.
Why else would they need proof of date-of-purchase?
So that a business can't buy or borrow something really ancient from a collector, put a little bit of data on it, use it for a week or two, then enter and win the contest.
> Why else would they need proof of > date-of-purchase? It's so that a business can't buy or borrow something really ancient from a collector, put a little bit of data on it, use it for a week or two, then enter and win the contest.
> Why else would they need proof of
> date-of-purchase?
It's so that a business can't buy or borrow something really ancient from a collector, put a little bit of data on it, use it for a week or two, then enter and win the contest.
I'd be more interested in what the theatres for episodes 7, 8, and 9 are going to be like. Digital FED screens with true 3D sound systems? Or perhaps retina projection?