so if you use scsi fine... but what if you dont want to clutter up your computer with all those cables... maybe your into pc mods
You'll actually need more cables to hook up a bunch of IDE drives than to hook up a bunch of SCSI drives. IDE will only support two drives per channel, while narrow SCSI can support up to seven and wide SCSI handles up to 15 drives.
As for riced-out PCs, I won't go there. Case cutouts and neon lights look as ridiculous on PCs as "powered by Foo" stickers, huge-ass spoilers, and fire extinguishers on the A-post look on small, underpowered cars.
I liked the multiple attempts at getting a decent seal from the hoses...the author must not have heard of hose clamps. Also, some baffles inside the block to direct flow ought to make it more effective.
Go back another decade to 1982, the era of the Commodore Vic20 and the Timex/Sinclair ZX80/ZX81. Apple's Macintosh wouldn't hit the market for another two years yet; their Apple ][ was dominant. How much of that software do you still have? How much of it will still run on any sort of computer you still have access to today? Emulation is fair game.
Given how much old hardware I have (three Apple IIs (IIGS, IIe, II+), a TI-99/4A, a CoCo, a VIC-20, and a PC/XT), I can run a fair chunk of that old software. Hell, I still use AppleWorks 3.0 (released in 1989...applied some Y2K patches to it a couple or three years ago) to log the maintenance for my car and my truck (mainly out of habit at this point). I don't need no steenking emulators!:-)
CSO has a ton of rackmount AT cases (empty...no motherboard, power supply, etc.) available. They're not on the company's website, but the guy who built the toolbox PC said he bought one of these dirt-cheap. If you email CSO and ask about the FoxBox cases, you should be able to get prices and specs from them. I don't think adapting them to ATX would be too difficult (you'd need a big rectangular cutout for the back-panel stuff). They have no drive bays open to the front, but I'd imagine you could punch a hole for a CD burner or whatever and clean it up in a manner similar to what was done with the toolbox PC.
VCR tapes don't get all scratched up and all as easy as those DVD's that are a royal pain to backup.
DVDs aren't difficult to copy at all...with a DVD-ROM drive, the right software, and a reasonably fast computer, you can rip, reencode, and burn a DVD in a few hours (most of the time is spent reencoding, so you can start that and go do something else). Some software titles to seek out are SmartRipper, DVD2AVI, VFAPIConv, TMPGEnc, VCDImager, and FireBurner...they'll do what you want, and all of them (except FireBurner) are free (as in beer and/or speech). (You might be able to substitute cdrdao for FireBurner.) About the only other software you might need would be something to add subtitles to foreign-language flicks...VirtualDub has a subtitler filter available, and there are some programs whose names I don't recall that rip subtitles from VOBs and convert them to a form that you can mix into the video.
This isnt all that interesting unless these chips have a linux port and you can build a cluster of them.
I was about to say "RTFA," but the Register article doesn't mention that these chips are MIPS-compatible. They did link to this page, though, which mentions Linux as one of three supported OSen.
(Then again, timothy provided the same link...so maybe "RTFA" is an appropriate response after all.:-) )
I've been using Linux From Scratch for a while now...when I replaced SuSE with LFS on my home server, I noticed a considerable increase in speed. Since Gentoo compiles everything from source (like LFS), it sounds like this'd be an easier way to get the benefits of LFS. Instead of having to babysit the machine while each package is built, you tell it what to build and let it go to town.
I have a R*dh*t box at work (that was set up by a total incompetent, which makes things even worse) that's screaming for an upgrade...while I can get LFS going in not much time now, I think I'll end up giving Gentoo a shot when the time comes.
On the mailing lists to which I subscribe, "coffee-can exhaust" is the usual phrase I hear. (IIRC, this page has a funny take on coffee-can exhausts. I think I've seen it before, but I can't verify it because Angelfire says the site exceeded its bandwidth limit.)
Hacking an old fashioned analog odometer is easy (at least I imagine it to be), and people do it frequently.
A while back, I replaced the speedometer in my '77 Cutlass Supreme with an older model...the replacement (swiped from a '73 Cutlass in the junkyard) is a 120-mph speedometer with a nicer-looking scale than the 85-mph speedometer that was in my car. I wanted to retain the odometer reading, though. It turned out to be fairly easy to unclip the odometer mechanism from the "old" speedometer and stick it into the "new" speedo. If I had been so inclined, a few minutes with an electric drill would've let me dial in whatever mileage I wanted. (FWIW, it's old enough that it rolls over at 100k miles. It's probably rolled over once, but it very well could've rolled over twice—or not at all—before I bought the car. As for odometer checks, it was exempt on account of (1) age and (2) the probability that it had exceeded its mechanical limits.)
Ah.. nice. Dual though, wouldn't that require the MP chips?
Not according to this, which links to an article on modding newer Athlon XPs so they'll work in multiprocessor configurations. (Older Athlon XPs have been said to work without this mod.)
I've yet to find an AMD motherboard with onboard SCSI (granted, I have only looked in a few places but.. you'd think they'd be common from ASUS).
The Tyan Thunder K7 includes dual-channel Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI, dual 3Com Fast Ethernet NICs, an AGP Pro 50 slot, 64-bit PCI, and a bunch of other stuff. It's also a dual-processor board, so you get twice the Athlon goodness.:-)
Only moron users can't tell that KaZaA is loaded with spyware. If you're moderately experienced, it's piss-easy to choose the "custom install" option when installing KaZaA. All the spyware programs are clearly listed in that install,
Not all of them are...IIRC, Cydoor isn't listed. What's more, Kazaa won't work without Cydoor. (Fortunately, there is a dummy cd_clnt.dll out there that will allow Kazaa to run...it's even bundled with Kazaa Lite.)
Wouldn't an easier and more effective treatment be to
slashdot them?
Your suggestion appears to be working.:-) (Then again, maybe it's just the crappy DSL connection at work that's sluggish...it's hard to tell conclusively.)
Here is a quote from a lawyer regarding NY anti-SLAPP "Besides myself a couple of other attorneys have also looked at the New York statute. It is limited in what it applies to. For the most part the protected comments must have occurred before government entities." That means its no good in this case. NY doesn't have a _REAL_ anit-SLAPP law, not like CA.
I noticed something similar with the law here in Nevada. IANAL, but it appears to apply only if someone tries to sue you over comments you made to a government agency or official. Odds are good that many other states' laws are similar. If you take your claim that a business is engaged in fraudulent practices to the attorney general's office (for instance), you're safe. If you vent your spleen about the same company on/., the law appears to offer no protection.
To search Google from Opera, all I have to do is press F8 (or click in the address field), then type
g my-search-keywords
You can set up something similar in IE...but the Google Toolbar is even better.
MDI kicks ass for web browsing.
Ick...maybe it's OK if the browser is all you have running. Fire up a couple of SSH terminals, your favorite IDE, or whatever, and then try working in those while you have two or three webpages open. MDI is Pure Evil®...why do you think Microsoft has migrated its apps from MDI to SDI over the past few years?
my only complaint about [Mozilla] is that it doesnt support the ability to change the colour of the scroll bars found on certain webpages.
Consider yourself lucky. There is absolutely no reason for a website to fsck with the color of scrollbars and other widgets.
This is a point worth repeating:
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR A WEBSITE TO FSCK WITH THE COLOR OF SCROLLBARS AND OTHER WIDGETS.
I expect the scrollbar to be a certain color, determined by the appearance scheme I have selected. When a website takes it upon itself to change the color (or worse, the placement...some sites have moved it to the left side of the window instead of leaving it on the right where it belongs), that only makes the site that much more difficult to navigate.
(If anybody has a tip on how to get IE 6 to ignore these requests, I'm all ears.)
If you need to store values that range from 0 to 255, a type that only runs from -128 to 127 won't work so well.
It will work just fine. The most you should have to do is a little casting and "& 0xFF" to compensate for type promotion.
You just made my point again...additional work is needed to kludge a (signed) char to behave like an unsigned char. If your language had an unsigned type to begin with, you wouldn't need to do that. Your software would be smaller, faster, and more readable.
What are you doing that is going to require you to double your storage requirements for your bitmap? Not having an unsigned datatype shouldn't do that.
If you need to store values that range from 0 to 255, a type that only runs from -128 to 127 won't work so well. (You could adjust the values (add 128 on load, subtract 128 on store) when you need to do some calculations on the image data, but now you've just added to the number of calculations your program will need to do.)
Why would you need a unsigned data type? If the value is too large for the current data type: use one larger.
So when you're working with bitmapped image data, you're supposed to just double the memory usage for each component because you have to use short instead of unsigned char? That's smart. (int won't work if you're dealing with 8-bit or packed 24-bit images. It's barely usable for 24-bit images that use 32 bits per pixel...simple pixel moves go faster, but working on subpixel components slows down when you have to mask out the stuff you don't want to change.)
Are you running on a Commodore 64 and worried about the extra 4 bytes?
It's that attitude that's responsible for monstrosities such as Windows XP. Back in the day, bumming your code to use less system resources (whether space or time) was usually regarded as a Good Thing. I thought it still was.
Eww...that's nasty stuff. (I thought Weetabix would be similar to Shredded Wheat. Weetabix turns into mush approximately 2.45 seconds after you add milk.)
Got modded as redundant. I don't care about Karma, but how is it redundant?
The crack whores who get mod points nowadays like to mark posts "redundant." Fight back with metamoderation...metamod "redundant" mods as unfair and maybe they'll back off.
Yeah but you can't deny that the election was rigged...
Sure it was...in Algore's favor. Why else would so many absentee ballots from military personnel have been thrown out/not counted? That Bush still won is a minor miracle.
All the crowing one way or another about the "popular vote" is irrelevant. Not only is it constitutionally irrelevant, but with incomplete absentee-ballot counting, nobody really has a clue what the true "popular vote" count is anyway.
You act like this is a democracy, as if every voice counts, surprise this is a republic, if every voice counted, BUSH would not be president right now, after all he didnt win the popular vote, and he didnt really win the recount either, but the electoral college (THE JUDGE) and the system made him president.
Just because you say he didn't win the recounts doesn't make it so. Under every interpretation of the vote results, Algore lost and Dubya won. Deal with it.
Furthermore, America is not a democracy, and I for one am grateful that it isn't. Democracy is, as another/.er's sig says, two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. Our nation is a representative republic. There is a difference. Learn it, live it, love it.
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You'll actually need more cables to hook up a bunch of IDE drives than to hook up a bunch of SCSI drives. IDE will only support two drives per channel, while narrow SCSI can support up to seven and wide SCSI handles up to 15 drives.
As for riced-out PCs, I won't go there. Case cutouts and neon lights look as ridiculous on PCs as "powered by Foo" stickers, huge-ass spoilers, and fire extinguishers on the A-post look on small, underpowered cars.
I liked the multiple attempts at getting a decent seal from the hoses...the author must not have heard of hose clamps. Also, some baffles inside the block to direct flow ought to make it more effective.
Given how much old hardware I have (three Apple IIs (IIGS, IIe, II+), a TI-99/4A, a CoCo, a VIC-20, and a PC/XT), I can run a fair chunk of that old software. Hell, I still use AppleWorks 3.0 (released in 1989...applied some Y2K patches to it a couple or three years ago) to log the maintenance for my car and my truck (mainly out of habit at this point). I don't need no steenking emulators! :-)
CSO has a ton of rackmount AT cases (empty...no motherboard, power supply, etc.) available. They're not on the company's website, but the guy who built the toolbox PC said he bought one of these dirt-cheap. If you email CSO and ask about the FoxBox cases, you should be able to get prices and specs from them. I don't think adapting them to ATX would be too difficult (you'd need a big rectangular cutout for the back-panel stuff). They have no drive bays open to the front, but I'd imagine you could punch a hole for a CD burner or whatever and clean it up in a manner similar to what was done with the toolbox PC.
DVDs aren't difficult to copy at all...with a DVD-ROM drive, the right software, and a reasonably fast computer, you can rip, reencode, and burn a DVD in a few hours (most of the time is spent reencoding, so you can start that and go do something else). Some software titles to seek out are SmartRipper, DVD2AVI, VFAPIConv, TMPGEnc, VCDImager, and FireBurner...they'll do what you want, and all of them (except FireBurner) are free (as in beer and/or speech). (You might be able to substitute cdrdao for FireBurner.) About the only other software you might need would be something to add subtitles to foreign-language flicks...VirtualDub has a subtitler filter available, and there are some programs whose names I don't recall that rip subtitles from VOBs and convert them to a form that you can mix into the video.
I was about to say "RTFA," but the Register article doesn't mention that these chips are MIPS-compatible. They did link to this page, though, which mentions Linux as one of three supported OSen.
(Then again, timothy provided the same link...so maybe "RTFA" is an appropriate response after all. :-) )
I have a R*dh*t box at work (that was set up by a total incompetent, which makes things even worse) that's screaming for an upgrade...while I can get LFS going in not much time now, I think I'll end up giving Gentoo a shot when the time comes.
On the mailing lists to which I subscribe, "coffee-can exhaust" is the usual phrase I hear. (IIRC, this page has a funny take on coffee-can exhausts. I think I've seen it before, but I can't verify it because Angelfire says the site exceeded its bandwidth limit.)
A while back, I replaced the speedometer in my '77 Cutlass Supreme with an older model...the replacement (swiped from a '73 Cutlass in the junkyard) is a 120-mph speedometer with a nicer-looking scale than the 85-mph speedometer that was in my car. I wanted to retain the odometer reading, though. It turned out to be fairly easy to unclip the odometer mechanism from the "old" speedometer and stick it into the "new" speedo. If I had been so inclined, a few minutes with an electric drill would've let me dial in whatever mileage I wanted. (FWIW, it's old enough that it rolls over at 100k miles. It's probably rolled over once, but it very well could've rolled over twice—or not at all—before I bought the car. As for odometer checks, it was exempt on account of (1) age and (2) the probability that it had exceeded its mechanical limits.)
Not according to this, which links to an article on modding newer Athlon XPs so they'll work in multiprocessor configurations. (Older Athlon XPs have been said to work without this mod.)
The Tyan Thunder K7 includes dual-channel Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI, dual 3Com Fast Ethernet NICs, an AGP Pro 50 slot, 64-bit PCI, and a bunch of other stuff. It's also a dual-processor board, so you get twice the Athlon goodness. :-)
Not all of them are...IIRC, Cydoor isn't listed. What's more, Kazaa won't work without Cydoor. (Fortunately, there is a dummy cd_clnt.dll out there that will allow Kazaa to run...it's even bundled with Kazaa Lite.)
Your suggestion appears to be working. :-) (Then again, maybe it's just the crappy DSL connection at work that's sluggish...it's hard to tell conclusively.)
I noticed something similar with the law here in Nevada. IANAL, but it appears to apply only if someone tries to sue you over comments you made to a government agency or official. Odds are good that many other states' laws are similar. If you take your claim that a business is engaged in fraudulent practices to the attorney general's office (for instance), you're safe. If you vent your spleen about the same company on /., the law appears to offer no protection.
You can set up something similar in IE...but the Google Toolbar is even better.
Ick...maybe it's OK if the browser is all you have running. Fire up a couple of SSH terminals, your favorite IDE, or whatever, and then try working in those while you have two or three webpages open. MDI is Pure Evil®...why do you think Microsoft has migrated its apps from MDI to SDI over the past few years?
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Consider yourself lucky. There is absolutely no reason for a website to fsck with the color of scrollbars and other widgets.
This is a point worth repeating:
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR A WEBSITE TO FSCK WITH THE COLOR OF SCROLLBARS AND OTHER WIDGETS.
I expect the scrollbar to be a certain color, determined by the appearance scheme I have selected. When a website takes it upon itself to change the color (or worse, the placement...some sites have moved it to the left side of the window instead of leaving it on the right where it belongs), that only makes the site that much more difficult to navigate.
(If anybody has a tip on how to get IE 6 to ignore these requests, I'm all ears.)
You just made my point again...additional work is needed to kludge a (signed) char to behave like an unsigned char. If your language had an unsigned type to begin with, you wouldn't need to do that. Your software would be smaller, faster, and more readable.
If you need to store values that range from 0 to 255, a type that only runs from -128 to 127 won't work so well. (You could adjust the values (add 128 on load, subtract 128 on store) when you need to do some calculations on the image data, but now you've just added to the number of calculations your program will need to do.)
So when you're working with bitmapped image data, you're supposed to just double the memory usage for each component because you have to use short instead of unsigned char? That's smart. (int won't work if you're dealing with 8-bit or packed 24-bit images. It's barely usable for 24-bit images that use 32 bits per pixel...simple pixel moves go faster, but working on subpixel components slows down when you have to mask out the stuff you don't want to change.)
It's that attitude that's responsible for monstrosities such as Windows XP. Back in the day, bumming your code to use less system resources (whether space or time) was usually regarded as a Good Thing. I thought it still was.
Eww...that's nasty stuff. (I thought Weetabix would be similar to Shredded Wheat. Weetabix turns into mush approximately 2.45 seconds after you add milk.)
"That's not a moon...that's a space station."
The crack whores who get mod points nowadays like to mark posts "redundant." Fight back with metamoderation...metamod "redundant" mods as unfair and maybe they'll back off.
Sure it was...in Algore's favor. Why else would so many absentee ballots from military personnel have been thrown out/not counted? That Bush still won is a minor miracle.
All the crowing one way or another about the "popular vote" is irrelevant. Not only is it constitutionally irrelevant, but with incomplete absentee-ballot counting, nobody really has a clue what the true "popular vote" count is anyway.
Just because you say he didn't win the recounts doesn't make it so. Under every interpretation of the vote results, Algore lost and Dubya won. Deal with it.
Furthermore, America is not a democracy, and I for one am grateful that it isn't. Democracy is, as another /.er's sig says, two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. Our nation is a representative republic. There is a difference. Learn it, live it, love it.