I have a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 TV/out (yeah it's old, but hey I need to eat).
After a couple months, there was a loud rattling noise, a loud squeaking noise, and then silence. Upon investigation, the fan had seized up. The Kyro II heatsink on this card is round, with a special fan embedded down in it to fit between the AGP and the first PCI slot. I had an old fan from an external SCSI enclosure, which I glued onto the skeleton of the old fan. At the same time, I noticed my chipset fan wouldn't turn. I replaced it with another small fan, strapped on with magnet wire. The Kyro II fan died in a few weeks, so I grabbed a Socket 7 fan and wired it on. Still runs, I contacted Hercules and they said they could send me a new fan, but honestly I trust the CPU fan more. It covers a PCI slot, but it's not a problem...yet.
Who's the narrowminded moron? Did I say "people of Chinese ethnicity can't do anything smart"?
No.
I'm talking about China the country, as opposed to people of slightly different skin tones.
If you're an example of another country's attitude, and someone concerned with equal treatment of different races, you're pretty sorry spokesman for your anonymous country. Why don't we sit down and compare major scientific breakthroughs, human rights, relative wealth, and other interesting statistics country-by-country?
Is it OK for you to speak derisively and with prejudice against me and my country, and then expect me to keep my mouth shut about other countries' problems?
I think I know why people hate America. And the problem isn't within the U.S. borders.
I'm kind of wondering what that "Troll" mod was for. Everyone knows that half the software in China is pirated, if not more.
They even had to have American engineers fix their Long March missile, which had a 70% launch pad failure rate. Supposedly that was to help their space program, but now they have cross-Arctic capable nukes.
If only they would pirate the ideas of human rights and some democracy + free speech.
If the hardware design habits of the Chinese are anything like their software programming efforts, then the Dragon will be reverse-engineered and rebranded Pentium.
They probably didn't even have to reverse engineer it, just give a spy an assignment codenamed "INTEL HACKED BY CHINESE"
Actually, a robot can have limitless degrees of freedom. Your fourth degree would be wrist rotation, for example. A fifth would be forearm extension, etc.
CS's make software for hardware that doesn't really exist yet, but we're supposed to figure it out and also make it cheap.
Seems like this is project that should have started from the hardware end. What if the hardware required is never developed? Then all of their work is useless.
Point 1: These computers are not going to poor underpriveleged kids, these are a bit off-the-edge activists with some fringe anti-American tendencies.
Point 2: No matter who they're going to, 300 computers is insignificant. Many medium-sized businesses are getting rid of old computers in these numbers. And since these computers aren't going to help poor kids in schools learn technology, it has no effect. Not newsworthy. I've personally disposed of hundreds of computers, and I'd always put a nice package of freeware on the hard drive before sending it away.
Point 3: The only reason this is happening, is to get some good press. This isn't a "helping a child" story, or a "rejuvenating a country" story, or anything like that, but that's how it is being reported. I'd like to see how many millions of dollars of financial support our government spends in the same country, yet totally goes unreported and uncredited.
Yeah...for the typical bums I know, time spent playing computer games would be pretty beneficial. For them, there are a lot of worse things they could be doing.
For us, maybe not as much. I'm not going to go pick pockets or drink booze while sitting in the gutter instead of taking care of my family. But computer games are pretty close to zero benefit. They are a fun way to spend an afternoon with friends, or when you have absolutely nothing better to do (or don't want to try). I don't have a TV because it's even worse of a time waster.
You shouldn't play video games to the point that any study applies to you. Mix it up, try different things. I'm not against the occasional gaming marathon, or a good RPG that grabs you for a few days. But don't go out and buy another one right away...dust off the bike, rollerblades, R/C airplane, whatever.
So far, the replies seem to assume the asker is talking about online job sites. No, they're talking about a resume writing service, in the hopes that they will be able to put together a good resume.
Frankly, I've never used one of these services. Perhaps they have ways to word things that make you look really good, but I prefer my resume to be an example of my work. It's done well enough the way it is...I'm currently looking for an engineering position, but the real reason I don't have one yet is the market itself.
Employers are being swamped with resumes. One employer I interviewed with showed me a stack of resumes four inches thick. Even if your resume is more distinctive than the Declaration of Independence, it still has a good chance of being lost in the mess.
One flat piece of paper looks pretty much like any other flat piece of paper after the first two hundred.
Write up a good resume, but don't focus entirely on it. In today's job market you need phone time and face time. There is no other way a recruiter will notice you more than others. Well yeah, if your resume is currently written in crayon, a resume service will help, but in that case you're not going to get a job anyway.
Flashy, glitzy, buzzword-filled resumes are probably as much of a put-off as anything. I'm sure a recruiter can look at a resume and say "This person did not write this."
Go to places you want to work, call them, get face time and phone time. Don't just inquire at companies who say they have jobs...they get the most motivated employees when they wait for the candidates to ask if a position is available.
Just to verify what other have been saying about typical scanner software:
I haven't run into a scanner that didn't let you define jobs or a batch scan feature. Everything from an HP SCSI monster 8 years ago, to a slick new USB scanner, to my $35 UBid special Mustek parallel scanner. It is a pretty basic feature.
Just check through the TWAIN interface and look for something involving batch scanning. Just out of curiosity, did you buy your copy of Photoshop? Or are you using a "lite" version that came with the scanner? I just ask because GIMP has given me all the tools I've ever needed.
Yet again, an Ask Slashdot question appears to be a stumper, but really is something that a tech support operator (or small child) should deal with.
1. Most Lindows users are going to be home users, without much knowledge of networking anyway, and not likely to have many computers.
2. In corporate environments, there usually is someone readily available who can help.
3. People really need to get their heads out of the sand and learn a little bit about computers. I'm not comfortable creating a huge gap between those who have technical knowledge and those who don't. Once it's basic for the techies, it should at least exist to everyone else.
Seriously...the more we make a big fuss about things like this, the worse Linux looks. Anyone not familiar with Linux would think "So does this mean that Linux users couldn't see Windows shares until just now? What else does Linux not have?"
There is something sinister behind the scenes. For evidence, simply check out the second photo. In the background, near a pile of scrap, is a gruesome severed head! There's even a 1x2 puddle of blood!
As a graduate of Rose-Hulman (I attended during the last four years running we were #1 on U.S. News) I agree that $100,000 is a pretty reasonable estimate. And they don't give out full-tuition scholarships...I was lucky to get about $7k/year. They aren't making money, either. Most development and equipment purchases have to come from donations (some extremely generous alumni are out there!).
We had a very similar problem with network bandwidth. Junior year I was lucky to get 3k/s and couldn't download any distros, couldn't get required files for my classes, and web surfing was painful. On one of the campus-only newsgroups, there was a pretty big thread of, umm, negative comments about the quality of the network staff. Some of us got talked to a little bit, but it brought the issue to the forefront and a "town-hall meeting" was scheduled over the network situation. It was standing room only, and lasted two hours past expected...everyone wanted more bandwidth (we had only two T1's) and proved that RHIT allocated less bandwidth per student than a dial-up ISP would allocate for modem customers. Shortly afterwards, two more T1 circuits were installed.
It didn't help. Within weeks, the network was just as slow. It was still slow until the beginning of senior year. At that time, the network department announced that it would be throttling certain types of traffic, and there would be an informational meeting. One of the major points of interest of that meeting was a chart: percentage of bandwidth in different traffic. I believe that over two-thirds of the bandwith was peer-to-peer filesharing traffic. Another interesting point: five individuals were producing over 50% of the filesharing traffic.
At that point everyone saw red and wholeheartedly approved the throttling, which was time-of-day based; drastically reduced percentages during the day, zero filesharing in classrooms (laptop school, network ports at every desk), and half-way throttled on weekends. The effect was immediate and normal internet use vastly improved.
On a college campus, there are enough people and enough music files to go around, if that's your thing. You just have to go out and actually interact with people. It's not cool to sit in your room racking up 150 Kazaa connections, using the school's bandwith as an alternative to interactin with people outside your dorm room.
Go check your junk box, see if you have an electric motor that is light, and at the same time powerful enough to tow an airplane without burning up.
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Most transciever circuits do operate from 5 VDC. I'd bet the wall wart is a very inexpensive unregulated one, and the real regulator is inside the hub. So, technically, you could look inside and find the 7805 on the hub, and maybe just bypass it with your own regulated battery source. That would be more efficent than 12V > regulator > 8V > regulator > 5V.
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The only thing you'll need to do is a small package to transform the 12V to 7.5 (7808 or even a small transformer), and wire it to the right DC plug for the hub, and there you go!
See, this is one of my pet peeves: people talking authoritatively about stuff they have no concept of.
Well, I'll give you a half point, you did say 7808 which is an 8-volt regulator. But...a small transformer? That's right off the scale. Transformers don't work on DC.
The regulator is definitely the best way to go, and you'll need a battery voltage that's decently higher than required supply. The reason is that your battery voltage will drop as the hub runs, and I'm not sure how low it will go before the hub quits working. So, don't pick up five 1.5V nickel-metal-hydride AA's to get 7.5 volts.
A small 12V gel cell battery would be ideal. Put everything into a project box and add a charger, and you've got a solution.
Finally...I can completely immerse myself in the sickly sweet meadow scene.
And watch Yoda bounce and skitter across the heads of the audience down in front.
Some of the more grandiose, expansive scenes will come out nicely though. These are what IMAX does best. The droid factory, the clone factory, and the city chase will be especially striking.
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I have a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 TV/out (yeah it's old, but hey I need to eat).
After a couple months, there was a loud rattling noise, a loud squeaking noise, and then silence. Upon investigation, the fan had seized up. The Kyro II heatsink on this card is round, with a special fan embedded down in it to fit between the AGP and the first PCI slot. I had an old fan from an external SCSI enclosure, which I glued onto the skeleton of the old fan. At the same time, I noticed my chipset fan wouldn't turn. I replaced it with another small fan, strapped on with magnet wire. The Kyro II fan died in a few weeks, so I grabbed a Socket 7 fan and wired it on. Still runs, I contacted Hercules and they said they could send me a new fan, but honestly I trust the CPU fan more. It covers a PCI slot, but it's not a problem...yet.
Whoa....
Yeah I read the title with inadequate amounts of both coffee and sleep.
Armadillo Rocket Makes A (Short) Manned Hop
All I could envision were scaly space vehicles somehow related to dwarves jumping.
Good point.
While still offering the printed version, couldn't they also put in a cheap CD writer and burn CDs with books of your choice?
Everytime they stop they could run to a Staples for a few stacks of cheap CD-R's. Probably less expensive than paper.
Yeah, that would about do it. In fact, that's a pretty simple and easy to set up idea.
Goes to show how easy it is to get anything you need out of Linux, just by thinking about it for a minute or two and never again afterward.
Who's the narrowminded moron? Did I say "people of Chinese ethnicity can't do anything smart"?
No.
I'm talking about China the country, as opposed to people of slightly different skin tones.
If you're an example of another country's attitude, and someone concerned with equal treatment of different races, you're pretty sorry spokesman for your anonymous country. Why don't we sit down and compare major scientific breakthroughs, human rights, relative wealth, and other interesting statistics country-by-country?
Is it OK for you to speak derisively and with prejudice against me and my country, and then expect me to keep my mouth shut about other countries' problems?
I think I know why people hate America. And the problem isn't within the U.S. borders.
I'm kind of wondering what that "Troll" mod was for. Everyone knows that half the software in China is pirated, if not more.
They even had to have American engineers fix their Long March missile, which had a 70% launch pad failure rate. Supposedly that was to help their space program, but now they have cross-Arctic capable nukes.
If only they would pirate the ideas of human rights and some democracy + free speech.
Hmmm....
If the hardware design habits of the Chinese are anything like their software programming efforts, then the Dragon will be reverse-engineered and rebranded Pentium.
They probably didn't even have to reverse engineer it, just give a spy an assignment codenamed "INTEL HACKED BY CHINESE"
Actually, a robot can have limitless degrees of freedom. Your fourth degree would be wrist rotation, for example. A fifth would be forearm extension, etc.
Loser.
I bought Office XP at my school for $15. Educational license that turned into a permanent license when I graduated.
$15, and it was worth every penny.
Why does this sound familiar?
CS's make software for hardware that doesn't really exist yet, but we're supposed to figure it out and also make it cheap.
Seems like this is project that should have started from the hardware end. What if the hardware required is never developed? Then all of their work is useless.
Point 1: These computers are not going to poor underpriveleged kids, these are a bit off-the-edge activists with some fringe anti-American tendencies.
Point 2: No matter who they're going to, 300 computers is insignificant. Many medium-sized businesses are getting rid of old computers in these numbers. And since these computers aren't going to help poor kids in schools learn technology, it has no effect. Not newsworthy. I've personally disposed of hundreds of computers, and I'd always put a nice package of freeware on the hard drive before sending it away.
Point 3: The only reason this is happening, is to get some good press. This isn't a "helping a child" story, or a "rejuvenating a country" story, or anything like that, but that's how it is being reported. I'd like to see how many millions of dollars of financial support our government spends in the same country, yet totally goes unreported and uncredited.
Yeah...for the typical bums I know, time spent playing computer games would be pretty beneficial. For them, there are a lot of worse things they could be doing.
For us, maybe not as much. I'm not going to go pick pockets or drink booze while sitting in the gutter instead of taking care of my family. But computer games are pretty close to zero benefit. They are a fun way to spend an afternoon with friends, or when you have absolutely nothing better to do (or don't want to try). I don't have a TV because it's even worse of a time waster.
You shouldn't play video games to the point that any study applies to you. Mix it up, try different things. I'm not against the occasional gaming marathon, or a good RPG that grabs you for a few days. But don't go out and buy another one right away...dust off the bike, rollerblades, R/C airplane, whatever.
Don't you see? He invented the net while the reporter was there!
So far, the replies seem to assume the asker is talking about online job sites. No, they're talking about a resume writing service, in the hopes that they will be able to put together a good resume.
Frankly, I've never used one of these services. Perhaps they have ways to word things that make you look really good, but I prefer my resume to be an example of my work. It's done well enough the way it is...I'm currently looking for an engineering position, but the real reason I don't have one yet is the market itself.
Employers are being swamped with resumes. One employer I interviewed with showed me a stack of resumes four inches thick. Even if your resume is more distinctive than the Declaration of Independence, it still has a good chance of being lost in the mess.
One flat piece of paper looks pretty much like any other flat piece of paper after the first two hundred.
Write up a good resume, but don't focus entirely on it. In today's job market you need phone time and face time. There is no other way a recruiter will notice you more than others. Well yeah, if your resume is currently written in crayon, a resume service will help, but in that case you're not going to get a job anyway.
Flashy, glitzy, buzzword-filled resumes are probably as much of a put-off as anything. I'm sure a recruiter can look at a resume and say "This person did not write this."
Go to places you want to work, call them, get face time and phone time. Don't just inquire at companies who say they have jobs...they get the most motivated employees when they wait for the candidates to ask if a position is available.
....wireless networks inside offices. Wireless is maybe god where people....
Wireless is really cool and everything, but it's got a long way to go before it becomes a religion! Do you have your WAP in a little shrine?
Although, religion usually is wireless....
Just to verify what other have been saying about typical scanner software:
I haven't run into a scanner that didn't let you define jobs or a batch scan feature. Everything from an HP SCSI monster 8 years ago, to a slick new USB scanner, to my $35 UBid special Mustek parallel scanner. It is a pretty basic feature.
Just check through the TWAIN interface and look for something involving batch scanning. Just out of curiosity, did you buy your copy of Photoshop? Or are you using a "lite" version that came with the scanner? I just ask because GIMP has given me all the tools I've ever needed.
Yet again, an Ask Slashdot question appears to be a stumper, but really is something that a tech support operator (or small child) should deal with.
1. Most Lindows users are going to be home users, without much knowledge of networking anyway, and not likely to have many computers.
2. In corporate environments, there usually is someone readily available who can help.
3. People really need to get their heads out of the sand and learn a little bit about computers. I'm not comfortable creating a huge gap between those who have technical knowledge and those who don't. Once it's basic for the techies, it should at least exist to everyone else.
Lindows discovers Samba. Amazing.
Seriously...the more we make a big fuss about things like this, the worse Linux looks. Anyone not familiar with Linux would think "So does this mean that Linux users couldn't see Windows shares until just now? What else does Linux not have?"
I'll do the "hard work" of enclosing your link in the appropriate tags:
http://www.eighthreality.com/
There.
There is something sinister behind the scenes. For evidence, simply check out the second photo. In the background, near a pile of scrap, is a gruesome severed head! There's even a 1x2 puddle of blood!
The horror!
As a graduate of Rose-Hulman (I attended during the last four years running we were #1 on U.S. News) I agree that $100,000 is a pretty reasonable estimate. And they don't give out full-tuition scholarships...I was lucky to get about $7k/year. They aren't making money, either. Most development and equipment purchases have to come from donations (some extremely generous alumni are out there!).
We had a very similar problem with network bandwidth. Junior year I was lucky to get 3k/s and couldn't download any distros, couldn't get required files for my classes, and web surfing was painful. On one of the campus-only newsgroups, there was a pretty big thread of, umm, negative comments about the quality of the network staff. Some of us got talked to a little bit, but it brought the issue to the forefront and a "town-hall meeting" was scheduled over the network situation. It was standing room only, and lasted two hours past expected...everyone wanted more bandwidth (we had only two T1's) and proved that RHIT allocated less bandwidth per student than a dial-up ISP would allocate for modem customers. Shortly afterwards, two more T1 circuits were installed.
It didn't help. Within weeks, the network was just as slow. It was still slow until the beginning of senior year. At that time, the network department announced that it would be throttling certain types of traffic, and there would be an informational meeting. One of the major points of interest of that meeting was a chart: percentage of bandwidth in different traffic. I believe that over two-thirds of the bandwith was peer-to-peer filesharing traffic. Another interesting point: five individuals were producing over 50% of the filesharing traffic.
At that point everyone saw red and wholeheartedly approved the throttling, which was time-of-day based; drastically reduced percentages during the day, zero filesharing in classrooms (laptop school, network ports at every desk), and half-way throttled on weekends. The effect was immediate and normal internet use vastly improved.
On a college campus, there are enough people and enough music files to go around, if that's your thing. You just have to go out and actually interact with people. It's not cool to sit in your room racking up 150 Kazaa connections, using the school's bandwith as an alternative to interactin with people outside your dorm room.
$20,000?
Go check your junk box, see if you have an electric motor that is light, and at the same time powerful enough to tow an airplane without burning up.
Most transciever circuits do operate from 5 VDC. I'd bet the wall wart is a very inexpensive unregulated one, and the real regulator is inside the hub. So, technically, you could look inside and find the 7805 on the hub, and maybe just bypass it with your own regulated battery source. That would be more efficent than 12V > regulator > 8V > regulator > 5V.
The only thing you'll need to do is a small package to transform the 12V to 7.5 (7808 or even a small transformer), and wire it to the right DC plug for the hub, and there you go!
See, this is one of my pet peeves: people talking authoritatively about stuff they have no concept of.
Well, I'll give you a half point, you did say 7808 which is an 8-volt regulator. But...a small transformer? That's right off the scale. Transformers don't work on DC.
The regulator is definitely the best way to go, and you'll need a battery voltage that's decently higher than required supply. The reason is that your battery voltage will drop as the hub runs, and I'm not sure how low it will go before the hub quits working. So, don't pick up five 1.5V nickel-metal-hydride AA's to get 7.5 volts.
A small 12V gel cell battery would be ideal. Put everything into a project box and add a charger, and you've got a solution.
Finally...I can completely immerse myself in the sickly sweet meadow scene.
And watch Yoda bounce and skitter across the heads of the audience down in front.
Some of the more grandiose, expansive scenes will come out nicely though. These are what IMAX does best. The droid factory, the clone factory, and the city chase will be especially striking.