It just so happens that one of the many things at which Linux excels is in viewing DVDs (I have seen articles claim 25% better framerates vs. Windows).
Quit yer trolling...if you're getting 29.97 fps, you're getting as much out of a DVD as you can.
Kaiserslautern American High School had a series of electronics classes when I went there ('86-'88), and apparently still does. In addition to picking up fundamental concepts (Ohm's Law and friends), I got to "play around" with robotics (we had a Heathkit Hero 1 with the manipulator arm). It was also the first class in the school to get an Apple IIGS, back when they were still fairly new (before that, DoDDS was buying mainly Atari's 8-bit computer systems).
I've got one of these (althout I'm not sure its the CS model)...
Can you provide any links, software, or help in using it? Last time I checked out Cayman's site (a while ago, admittedly) they weren't much help.:-(
Netopia bought out Cayman a while back. Firmware updates and utility software for legacy products were on their website just a few months ago, but they're gone now. Email me if you want me to send the files (warning: you'll need a Mac with LocalTalk ports to do anything with them).
You might find these pages useful for setting up your GatorBox:
I haven't tried that yet. I suppose it'd be a neat hack, but since I have a 340MB SCSI hard drive (w00t!:-) ) in mine, I've not had much impetus to get it working. (It'd be a useful capability for my IIe if I had a Workstation Card for it...only problem is that I don't have one, and a hard-disk controller would probably cost about the same and would be more useful.)
...that we'd be so happy to see things we never want to have to use again.:-)
I don't know about you, but I just installed the latest version of netatalk on my LFS server and got my Apple IIGS talking to it through a Cayman GatorBox CS. Now if they'll just add MacIP support to Marinetti, I'll be able to put my GS on the net without having to do SL/IP or PPP through another box. (Having it access files on my Linux server and my Mac is good enough for the time being, though.)
Now that you mention it...from NAV/Exchange on one of our servers earlier today:
Sender of the infected attachment: ******
Recipient of the infected attachment: ******
Subject of the message: W32.Klez.E removal tools
One or more attachments were quarantined.
Attachment install.exe was Quarantined for the following reasons:
Virus W32.Klez.H@mm was found.
I had something similar show up at home a few days ago. IIRC, Klez grabs the subject line for its mail from a random (?) message in your inbox, so it must've gotten lucky to go out identifying itself as something that'd remove itself. (I think my copy called itself a Nimda removal tool.)
(Of course, I run qmail and mutt instead of Exchange and Lookout, so Klez has been little more than an inbox-filling annoyance for me.)
You might want to read the original message more carefully...the problem is that Gigabit Ethernet switches are still expen$ive. The $39 switch to which you linked is a Fast Ethernet switch, which is an order of magnitude slower.
I've seen 5-port Fast Ethernet switches for $25. The cheapest Gigabit Ethernet switch I saw on Pricewatch just now was the D-Link DGS-3204, a 4-port switch for $300.
No kidding. I went my entire education (BA Chem) without once using a single graphing calculator.
I only finished college last year (was on the "12-year program":-) ), but I got through the math and science courses needed for my computer-science degree without a graphing calculator. The most powerful calculator I used was a TI-68...it had some limited equation-solving capabilities and could even do numerical integration, but (IIRC) it only had a 12x2 or so display where one line was dot-matrix and the other was 7-segment. (I'd still have it if I hadn't cracked the display.) Everything else I had was just a run-of-the-mill scientific calculator of one sort or another (nothing more powerful than a TI-35).
I used a PalmPilot Pro (then a Palm III when I cracked the screen on the PalmPilot) for some of my later classes, but all I did with it was take notes. I managed to get fairly decent at Graffiti that way, but I eventually went back to pen-and-paper because there wasn't an easy way to input some of the symbols that were needed.
The compass and protractor are as obsolete as the sextant. If a kid graduates from school and doesn't know how to work a PDA, he's going to quickly learn how to work a deep fryer.
...and what happens when the battery goes dead? It's your kind of thinking that leads to simpletons like the cashier I ran across today. First, she rang a traveler's check into her register as a regular check. She called for help when the customer in front of me asked about his change. Her supervisor came over and had to tell the cashier that to figure change, you need to subtract the total from the amount tendered.
I had the amount figured in my head before she was done plugging the numbers into a calculator.
I didn't say anything at the time, but a cashier who can't make change without a calculator ought to be reassigned someplace where she doesn't have to deal with money.
(As for me, I swiped my ATM card...there's no worrying about getting the correct change back that way.)
Current hard drives need to be sealed too, and they are dirt cheap in case you havent noticed.
They aren't completely sealed...you typically have a few small holes in the case, with some sort of filter material behind them. This allows the pressure inside the drive to equalize with the pressure outside. With the much smaller feature size of the storage mentioned in the article, would this type of setup still be adequate? Probably not, unless there's a better filter material that can be used.
I'd like the browser to halt with a 'Error: Page invalid' myself. If IE (and all browsers) would do this for nonvalidating HTML and CSS I'd say we'd see things improving pretty fast.
It doesn't halt on invalid HTML, but iCab has an indicator on the address bar that tells you if a page uses valid or invalid HTML and/or CSS. Something similar in Mozilla would be nice.
(BTW, iCab doesn't think much of/.'s HTML, but that comes as no surprise.)
Great! this is actually one of the few sites that passes the w3 (x)html validator!
I'd swear they returned six errors (all "references to non-SGML characters") when I tried it.
(BTW, the moderator who marked the parent offtopic is a fucking retard. In what way is a comment on the validity of the HTML used by a website that purports to stick to standards offtopic?)
I think most of us know that Gopher is not used very much anymore, so MS supporters are definitely downplaying this hole. However, by not releasing a patch and instead just removing Gopher support, MS is leaving millions of people still open to vulnerabilities!
They ought to just hire Bill Murray and be done with the problem. (Hey, it wouldn't be any worse than anything else they've done...)
SO to avoid all these headaches and pitfalls I'm just going to spend a few bucks more and get me a P4 with a solid heat spreader, built in CPU heat protection, and dozens of motherboard to choose from.
Let me guess...there's no such thing as a shitty P4 motherboard, while the shitty Athlon boards are jumping out at you left and right? Riiight. Careful selection of components is crucial when configuring any computer.
Good for you....but my experience is somewhat different. I have a 1.5Ghz p4, and I wish I had a faster one because processing large quantities of video is a lot of burden on the CPU.
Even transfering video using IEEE1394 to the computer is such a delicate exercise, that I tend to avoid doing more than 30 minutes at a time. Of course I carefully close down all my programs before doing so, and even then it is a very unstable process. Last night I tried twice, and got dropped frames both times after 30 minutes or so.
What kind of storage are you using? I have a 1.0-GHz Athlon with an All-In-Wonder Radeon. I use a pair of IBM Deskstar 120GXPs in software RAID-0 for capture and editing. I can capture Huffyuv-compressed video at maximum resolution & framerate for at least an hour without dropping frames (one hour is currently the longest I've needed to capture). That involves capture and on-the-fly lossless compression...the video that you're bringing in through FireWire is already compressed (DV, I assume), so it ought to be a simpler matter of moving video from the camcorder to the hard drive.
(It could be the software that you're using. The stuff ATI bundles with AIW cards works OK for capturing MPEG-2, but it sucks at lossless compression. VirtualDub didn't cut it, either...when it worked, the audio and video drifted out of sync. If you have an AIW, look for a program called AVI_IO.)
We've been here before, when we all went from 16bit to 32bit CPUs, and sooner or later Intel's horse is going to win - it just depends on when Microsoft ships a 64 bit "desktop" version of Windows the consumers actually buy.
IIRC, Microsoft has already committed to x86-64. Intel has also been said to have a skunkworks project to develop an x86-compatible 64-bit processor, though whether this would be compatible with Hammer is unknown.
Personally, I'll just wait for the price cuts to take effect, then buy an XP.
I'm holding out for Hammer. My home system is a 1.0-GHz T-Bird...it still gets the job done. I figure that by the time Hammer is widely available, I'll have two years on my current system, which is reasonable. I have faster systems to play with at work in the meantime (like the dual 1.6-GHz Athlon MP goodness I'm typing on right now:-) ).
Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
Sounds like it's time to dump Redh*t. LFS on a Celery 433, with Apache, Samba, Squid, OpenSSH, and qmail added, takes maybe half a minute (if that) from end-of-POST to login prompt. Even if it was configured as a workstation (with X) instead of a server (without X), I doubt that it'd take anywhere near 5 minutes to load up.
I just can't believe that a engine would last as long being started 40-50 times a day normal driving
It'll probably mean that lots of parts need regular replacement by an authorised dealer, and that the car becomes obsolete after 3 years, if current practise is anything to go by...
Sounds like a flawed design if that's the case. Properly maintained and not abused, a car ought to be good for at least something like 10-15 years (preferably more than that) before you need to start looking at rebuilding engines and such. Before that, it ought not need much more than oil changes and maybe new rubber parts (belts/hoses/tires).
If I recall the article correctly, Dodge believes they could reduce 0-60 time by 2 seconds if a system were put on a Viper. I vaguely recall something about 200 extra horses, but I can't say with any certainty that's the case.
It's probably not horsepower so much as it is torque. Internal-combustion engines produce maximum torque (and power as well) at some non-zero rotational speed (usually, it's quite a bit to the right on the curve...3000 rpm or higher, unless it's a big-ass diesel). An electric motor, OTOH, produces maximum torque when it's stopped and still delivers plenty of torque at low speeds...and low speeds are what you're dealing with when you're accelerating from a stop. Torque is what gets you off the line, not horsepower.
'sides, what, she claims it was $100/week. That's not THAT outrageous compared to such concepts as "shopping therapy".
It's a hell of a lot more than zero, which (along with a couple of minutes) is all it takes to trim your nails back. If you've lost the clippers, add in a dollar or two for new ones.
$400 a month for someone to cut your nails? The monthly payment on my truck isn't much more than that!
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Quit yer trolling...if you're getting 29.97 fps, you're getting as much out of a DVD as you can.
Super8 is film. Hi8 is tape.
Says who? I'll buy it and Mediterranean Ave., build it up for next to nothing, and clean out everybody else. Been there, done that!
Kaiserslautern American High School had a series of electronics classes when I went there ('86-'88), and apparently still does. In addition to picking up fundamental concepts (Ohm's Law and friends), I got to "play around" with robotics (we had a Heathkit Hero 1 with the manipulator arm). It was also the first class in the school to get an Apple IIGS, back when they were still fairly new (before that, DoDDS was buying mainly Atari's 8-bit computer systems).
Netopia bought out Cayman a while back. Firmware updates and utility software for legacy products were on their website just a few months ago, but they're gone now. Email me if you want me to send the files (warning: you'll need a Mac with LocalTalk ports to do anything with them).
You might find these pages useful for setting up your GatorBox:
I haven't tried that yet. I suppose it'd be a neat hack, but since I have a 340MB SCSI hard drive (w00t! :-) ) in mine, I've not had much impetus to get it working. (It'd be a useful capability for my IIe if I had a Workstation Card for it...only problem is that I don't have one, and a hard-disk controller would probably cost about the same and would be more useful.)
I don't know about you, but I just installed the latest version of netatalk on my LFS server and got my Apple IIGS talking to it through a Cayman GatorBox CS. Now if they'll just add MacIP support to Marinetti, I'll be able to put my GS on the net without having to do SL/IP or PPP through another box. (Having it access files on my Linux server and my Mac is good enough for the time being, though.)
I had something similar show up at home a few days ago. IIRC, Klez grabs the subject line for its mail from a random (?) message in your inbox, so it must've gotten lucky to go out identifying itself as something that'd remove itself. (I think my copy called itself a Nimda removal tool.)
(Of course, I run qmail and mutt instead of Exchange and Lookout, so Klez has been little more than an inbox-filling annoyance for me.)
You might want to read the original message more carefully...the problem is that Gigabit Ethernet switches are still expen$ive. The $39 switch to which you linked is a Fast Ethernet switch, which is an order of magnitude slower.
I've seen 5-port Fast Ethernet switches for $25. The cheapest Gigabit Ethernet switch I saw on Pricewatch just now was the D-Link DGS-3204, a 4-port switch for $300.
I only finished college last year (was on the "12-year program" :-) ), but I got through the math and science courses needed for my computer-science degree without a graphing calculator. The most powerful calculator I used was a TI-68...it had some limited equation-solving capabilities and could even do numerical integration, but (IIRC) it only had a 12x2 or so display where one line was dot-matrix and the other was 7-segment. (I'd still have it if I hadn't cracked the display.) Everything else I had was just a run-of-the-mill scientific calculator of one sort or another (nothing more powerful than a TI-35).
I used a PalmPilot Pro (then a Palm III when I cracked the screen on the PalmPilot) for some of my later classes, but all I did with it was take notes. I managed to get fairly decent at Graffiti that way, but I eventually went back to pen-and-paper because there wasn't an easy way to input some of the symbols that were needed.
I had the amount figured in my head before she was done plugging the numbers into a calculator.
I didn't say anything at the time, but a cashier who can't make change without a calculator ought to be reassigned someplace where she doesn't have to deal with money.
(As for me, I swiped my ATM card...there's no worrying about getting the correct change back that way.)
The P5s I have don't care much one way or the other. :-)
("P5" refers to a somewhat older processor than you think.)
They aren't completely sealed...you typically have a few small holes in the case, with some sort of filter material behind them. This allows the pressure inside the drive to equalize with the pressure outside. With the much smaller feature size of the storage mentioned in the article, would this type of setup still be adequate? Probably not, unless there's a better filter material that can be used.
It doesn't halt on invalid HTML, but iCab has an indicator on the address bar that tells you if a page uses valid or invalid HTML and/or CSS. Something similar in Mozilla would be nice.
(BTW, iCab doesn't think much of /.'s HTML, but that comes as no surprise.)
I'd swear they returned six errors (all "references to non-SGML characters") when I tried it.
(BTW, the moderator who marked the parent offtopic is a fucking retard. In what way is a comment on the validity of the HTML used by a website that purports to stick to standards offtopic?)
They ought to just hire Bill Murray and be done with the problem. (Hey, it wouldn't be any worse than anything else they've done...)
Let me guess...there's no such thing as a shitty P4 motherboard, while the shitty Athlon boards are jumping out at you left and right? Riiight. Careful selection of components is crucial when configuring any computer.
IHNBT. YHL. HAND.
What kind of storage are you using? I have a 1.0-GHz Athlon with an All-In-Wonder Radeon. I use a pair of IBM Deskstar 120GXPs in software RAID-0 for capture and editing. I can capture Huffyuv-compressed video at maximum resolution & framerate for at least an hour without dropping frames (one hour is currently the longest I've needed to capture). That involves capture and on-the-fly lossless compression...the video that you're bringing in through FireWire is already compressed (DV, I assume), so it ought to be a simpler matter of moving video from the camcorder to the hard drive.
(It could be the software that you're using. The stuff ATI bundles with AIW cards works OK for capturing MPEG-2, but it sucks at lossless compression. VirtualDub didn't cut it, either...when it worked, the audio and video drifted out of sync. If you have an AIW, look for a program called AVI_IO.)
IIRC, Microsoft has already committed to x86-64. Intel has also been said to have a skunkworks project to develop an x86-compatible 64-bit processor, though whether this would be compatible with Hammer is unknown.
When you consider how Tom's was ripping Rambus (and rightly so) a year or so ago, this makes the choice to use RDRAM now somewhat suspect.
I'm holding out for Hammer. My home system is a 1.0-GHz T-Bird...it still gets the job done. I figure that by the time Hammer is widely available, I'll have two years on my current system, which is reasonable. I have faster systems to play with at work in the meantime (like the dual 1.6-GHz Athlon MP goodness I'm typing on right now :-) ).
Sounds like it's time to dump Redh*t. LFS on a Celery 433, with Apache, Samba, Squid, OpenSSH, and qmail added, takes maybe half a minute (if that) from end-of-POST to login prompt. Even if it was configured as a workstation (with X) instead of a server (without X), I doubt that it'd take anywhere near 5 minutes to load up.
Sounds like a flawed design if that's the case. Properly maintained and not abused, a car ought to be good for at least something like 10-15 years (preferably more than that) before you need to start looking at rebuilding engines and such. Before that, it ought not need much more than oil changes and maybe new rubber parts (belts/hoses/tires).
It's probably not horsepower so much as it is torque. Internal-combustion engines produce maximum torque (and power as well) at some non-zero rotational speed (usually, it's quite a bit to the right on the curve...3000 rpm or higher, unless it's a big-ass diesel). An electric motor, OTOH, produces maximum torque when it's stopped and still delivers plenty of torque at low speeds...and low speeds are what you're dealing with when you're accelerating from a stop. Torque is what gets you off the line, not horsepower.
It's a hell of a lot more than zero, which (along with a couple of minutes) is all it takes to trim your nails back. If you've lost the clippers, add in a dollar or two for new ones.
$400 a month for someone to cut your nails? The monthly payment on my truck isn't much more than that!