...so better buy up the real estate now while it's still cheap!
With the knowledge the universe is expanding, you'd probably regret buying "Real Estate" just to see it become a smaller and smaller percentage of whats out there...
I've run 4 7200RPM drives stacked about 1/4" apart in a machine that was always going and had no reliability issues, although I had 1 spindle motor die as the result of catastophic PS failure. No fans pointed in their direction, not even vent holes on that end of the case.
I've been considering something similar myself. After trying a few small arrays, I've decided to work towards a RAID 5 Solution.
With eight 160GB drives on a HighPoint 454 RAID 5 controller you would have access to just over 1TB (1024^4 Bytes) after Formatting.
I've ssen Maxtor 7200 RPM, 8MB buffer, ATA133 drives going for less than $90 after mail in rebates. With the controller your looking at under a grand, and there's nothing stopping you from buying drives bigger than 160GB.
And of course, since it's RAID 5, the parity will keep you from losing your data if you have a single drive failure (If you can, keep a spare handy)
It may not be the world record, but more power too them, especially since they did it from two terrestrial points. With fog, dust, reflections off anything along the ground, I'm glad to see them break the 50 mile mark with readily available hardware.
So you know, Guinness of beer and guinness of World Recod were (are) one in the same. The Guinness Book began as reference to settle disputes common amongst drinkers and bar goers who insisted they knew about the biggest/best (insert random arguement starter here)...
In my group of friends, my roommate and another had a falling out. For a laugh, my roommate decided to paste his email address anywhere he could; mostly porn sites, but any seedy place he could find.
It wasn't even 2 days before he begins bitching about all the spam he's been getting lately in his AOL mail in box (serves him right for using AOL I guess) He said he went from about 10 spams a day to about 150. And believe me, he was even more pissed off when he found out who was doing it.
While I don't agree with most of the things VeriSign does, and I think this isn't any better, I don't really see how this is squatting.
With CyberSquatting, one purchases a domain they have no reasonable claim to, specifically to keep it from those who do. They're not using this to keep domains from people, just utilizing any domain that isn't.
One thing that is important to remember about switching power supplies for your computer: If you have a 300 watt power supply, it's probably pulling 8-9 amps from your wall running full tilt (at least that's waht I gather from the PS's I have on hand)
If you figure it a pulling 8 amps at 120V AC RMS, your 300 wat PS is actually drawing 960 Watts off the line.
So with PS's running at 30% effeciency, lowering power consumption on the Mobo just a little can have a significant impact
First, I'm not a lawyer, nor am I associated with the legal process.
My first step in this case would be to contact a lawyer.
Have him see if your termination is legal. I'm sure there was something in your contract to the effect "If you do something illegal or are suspected of doing something illegal..." but who knows.
Second, If you are innocent, do everything you can to have this pursued to it's ugly end. The evidence they have is circumstantial, so I wouldn't expect this to come to charges or conviction. Perhaps it can be brought to a point where they will drop it all together, once/if they realize how stupid this accusation is.
Being contracted, don't expect any miracles, as most people pick up contracted hires in a manner that lets them drop them whenever they decide it's in their best interest.
Working in a Nightclub as a doorman, I've had a few bills passed on me, even standing outside in fairly decent light. The one which come to mind first is the fake hundred that was given for a cover charge. It didn't feel right, so I told the bartender to check it well. He marker checked it, and looked for the silouette by holding it to a nearby computer monitor. It looked ok and change was made. At the end of the night, however when the lights were on and we were cleaning up, he got a better look at it as he counted out his drawer. The paper was a shade lighter than normal, the ink of the black seal on the left had run a little, and the silouette wasn't complete. but aside from that it was an immaculate copy. Out of curiosity we used the electrostatic pen on it and it passed that as well. I'm pretty sure the club owner pawned it off on some poor sucker..
It may seem like those are standard cells, But after pulling apart my Dell laptop battery, I found those Cells to be significantly larger than AAs and longer than c cells. It would be fairly difficult to obtain 17-19 volts at a respectable A/hr rating with even the best off-the-shelf NiMH or LIon cells.
That may not be a good idea, as the screw is in a standoff. As you try to turn the screw in reverse with the out, it will just unscrew the standoff. I'd also have to suggest the mask and drill scenario.
If we went through the center of the earth in a straight line, why would we be coming back out in the northern hemisphere? I would think this would be of more use getting to Austrailia...
The RIAA's outlook on these activities is reminiscent of microsoft's anti-piracy figures from low-income countries. It seems pretty stupid to expect someone who pirates $500 of microsoft software to pay for it legally if that is their equivalent yearly income... Theory and Reality often differ significantly in cases of piracy.
I remeber reading, probably in popular science, that nanotubes of differing diameters placed end to end function similarly to a diode. Two diodes back to back form a transistor, so using nanotubes to make Integrated logic circuits is a definate possibility.
When my old boss decided he wanted to buy/resell laptops, he had me doing the refurb and setup. I noticed several of his 600 series laptops were having problems maintaining a charge. One laptop in particular would list "BADBADBAD" in every field of the battery info window under Windows. After a long search, my friend found a site (URL unknown) that listed a likely cause of this as the DC to DC converter board that each battery connects to when inserted. A continued search found replacement converters at less than half of IBM's replacement part price. Upon swapping the new converter in, the battery worked flawlessly. As a trial, we placed the new converter into each of the other laptops, and were surprised that all but one began working properly.
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...so better buy up the real estate now while it's still cheap!
With the knowledge the universe is expanding, you'd probably regret buying "Real Estate" just to see it become a smaller and smaller percentage of whats out there...
Since we can find many legitimate uses for the shift key, I'd find it much easier to have windows itself be considered a DMCA circumvention tool.
(Karma Whore, and damn proud of it!)
I've run 4 7200RPM drives stacked about 1/4" apart in a machine that was always going and had no reliability issues, although I had 1 spindle motor die as the result of catastophic PS failure. No fans pointed in their direction, not even vent holes on that end of the case.
I've been considering something similar myself. After trying a few small arrays, I've decided to work towards a RAID 5 Solution.
With eight 160GB drives on a HighPoint 454 RAID 5 controller you would have access to just over 1TB (1024^4 Bytes) after Formatting.
I've ssen Maxtor 7200 RPM, 8MB buffer, ATA133 drives going for less than $90 after mail in rebates. With the controller your looking at under a grand, and there's nothing stopping you from buying drives bigger than 160GB.
And of course, since it's RAID 5, the parity will keep you from losing your data if you have a single drive failure (If you can, keep a spare handy)
Best of luck!
It may not be the world record, but more power too them, especially since they did it from two terrestrial points. With fog, dust, reflections off anything along the ground, I'm glad to see them break the 50 mile mark with readily available hardware.
So you know, Guinness of beer and guinness of World Recod were (are) one in the same. The Guinness Book began as reference to settle disputes common amongst drinkers and bar goers who insisted they knew about the biggest/best (insert random arguement starter here)...
In my group of friends, my roommate and another had a falling out. For a laugh, my roommate decided to paste his email address anywhere he could; mostly porn sites, but any seedy place he could find.
It wasn't even 2 days before he begins bitching about all the spam he's been getting lately in his AOL mail in box (serves him right for using AOL I guess) He said he went from about 10 spams a day to about 150. And believe me, he was even more pissed off when he found out who was doing it.
It's even less impressive when you squeal the tires of an 8cyl when you think about it.
While I don't agree with most of the things VeriSign does, and I think this isn't any better, I don't really see how this is squatting.
With CyberSquatting, one purchases a domain they have no reasonable claim to, specifically to keep it from those who do. They're not using this to keep domains from people, just utilizing any domain that isn't.
It's still messed up.
One thing that is important to remember about switching power supplies for your computer: If you have a 300 watt power supply, it's probably pulling 8-9 amps from your wall running full tilt (at least that's waht I gather from the PS's I have on hand)
If you figure it a pulling 8 amps at 120V AC RMS, your 300 wat PS is actually drawing 960 Watts off the line.
So with PS's running at 30% effeciency, lowering power consumption on the Mobo just a little can have a significant impact
I'd be happy if I could use this to keep the sunlight out of my mom's basem... My room...
I find that hard to believe. And If it is true, what's so hard about writing 200 Billion?
First, I'm not a lawyer, nor am I associated with the legal process.
My first step in this case would be to contact a lawyer.
Have him see if your termination is legal. I'm sure there was something in your contract to the effect "If you do something illegal or are suspected of doing something illegal..." but who knows.
Second, If you are innocent, do everything you can to have this pursued to it's ugly end. The evidence they have is circumstantial, so I wouldn't expect this to come to charges or conviction. Perhaps it can be brought to a point where they will drop it all together, once/if they realize how stupid this accusation is.
Being contracted, don't expect any miracles, as most people pick up contracted hires in a manner that lets them drop them whenever they decide it's in their best interest.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those...
If I'm not risking my life riding a motorcycle, I'm damaging my hearing with my electric guitar
Mod Parent Down!!! Unnecessary refrence to Sliders.
I had truly hoped everyone had forgotten about that show...
Working in a Nightclub as a doorman, I've had a few bills passed on me, even standing outside in fairly decent light. The one which come to mind first is the fake hundred that was given for a cover charge. It didn't feel right, so I told the bartender to check it well. He marker checked it, and looked for the silouette by holding it to a nearby computer monitor. It looked ok and change was made. At the end of the night, however when the lights were on and we were cleaning up, he got a better look at it as he counted out his drawer. The paper was a shade lighter than normal, the ink of the black seal on the left had run a little, and the silouette wasn't complete. but aside from that it was an immaculate copy. Out of curiosity we used the electrostatic pen on it and it passed that as well. I'm pretty sure the club owner pawned it off on some poor sucker..
It may seem like those are standard cells, But after pulling apart my Dell laptop battery, I found those Cells to be significantly larger than AAs and longer than c cells. It would be fairly difficult to obtain 17-19 volts at a respectable A/hr rating with even the best off-the-shelf NiMH or LIon cells.
That may not be a good idea, as the screw is in a standoff. As you try to turn the screw in reverse with the out, it will just unscrew the standoff. I'd also have to suggest the mask and drill scenario.
If we went through the center of the earth in a straight line, why would we be coming back out in the northern hemisphere? I would think this would be of more use getting to Austrailia...
Woman On Plane: "Which video card manufacturer did you say you worked for?"
Anonynous Coward: "A Major one..."
apply light and you get an explosion...
The RIAA's outlook on these activities is reminiscent of microsoft's anti-piracy figures from low-income countries. It seems pretty stupid to expect someone who pirates $500 of microsoft software to pay for it legally if that is their equivalent yearly income... Theory and Reality often differ significantly in cases of piracy.
I remeber reading, probably in popular science, that nanotubes of differing diameters placed end to end function similarly to a diode. Two diodes back to back form a transistor, so using nanotubes to make Integrated logic circuits is a definate possibility.
Think about it, without dupe articles to repeatedly poke fun at, none of these poor souls would have any hope of improving their Karma...
When my old boss decided he wanted to buy/resell laptops, he had me doing the refurb and setup. I noticed several of his 600 series laptops were having problems maintaining a charge. One laptop in particular would list "BADBADBAD" in every field of the battery info window under Windows. After a long search, my friend found a site (URL unknown) that listed a likely cause of this as the DC to DC converter board that each battery connects to when inserted. A continued search found replacement converters at less than half of IBM's replacement part price. Upon swapping the new converter in, the battery worked flawlessly. As a trial, we placed the new converter into each of the other laptops, and were surprised that all but one began working properly.