Back in the day, I was using some fly-by-night outfit that charged $10 per month when most others were still closer to $20 per month. They weren't too pleased that I'd stay dialed in for hours at a time, downloading MP3z or whatever. They considered that "abuse." (I ended up switching to MindSpring, which had a better news server anyway.)
I think you've hit on a new cool case mod.... using the fans to create a hover-case!
Years ago, somebody built a cooler for an Apple IIGS that had way too many fans on it. It just about needed the weight of a monitor, floppy drives, etc. over it to keep it from floating over the computer.
Or what the scientific or monetary reasons for NASA to put men on the moon 40 years ago.
None whatsoever. The moon landing was a useless, overly expensive PR stunt in America's arms race with the Soviets.
"Useless?" The computer you're using to post to/. most likely would still fill a decent-sized room (or at least a refrigerator-sized box) if the Apollo project hadn't forced us to figure out a way to make a computer fit into a shoebox instead. That's just one counterexample...there are many more.
For example, why is Japan.jp instead of.nh, when germany got.dk?
Last time I checked, Germany is.de..dk is Denmark. As for why some ccTLDs are derived from the local language (.de,.es) and some aren't (.jp,.ru), your guess is as good as mine. (One theory is that countries where the local language uses a non-Roman alphabet (or no alphabet at all) got their ccTLDs derived from the English names for those countries.)
Some people are strange, i must be one of them, because i still use that puck. Wouldn't change it for another one, too. Only thing that lacks is a scrollwheel...
...and a second button.
(I use a Microsoft optical mouse with my beige G3. It's shared with two other machines through a KVM switch and a PS/2-to-USB adapter. PS/2-to-ADB would've been nicer, but it would've been much more expensive.)
15 years ago? I don't know about anyone else, but I was using pkzip/unzip well into 1996 or so.
The copyright notice at the top of unzip.c says 1990...not quite 15 years, but close enough. I think I first used it with some pre-1.0 version of Linux back in '93 or '94 (or maybe with DR DOS 6 before that).
Sandisk Compact Flash is as good as anyones. It is their SD flash that is terrible.
FWIW, I've had no problems with 256MB and 512MB SD cards, used with either a no-name reader or a Palm Tungsten T. What are the problems of which you speak?
I see a lot of people bitching about how info sucks. Well, you know what? Maybe it does. But have you actually tried to write a man page?
I have. The markup used by man ([gnt]roff -man, really) isn't that complicated. If you've ever used a non-WYSIWYG word processor or written your own HTML, throwing together a manpage shouldn't be that difficult to figure out. You should be able to figure out enough to get by just by looking at the system-provided manpages.
2400 DPI? You wouldn't actually scan an 8.5x11" paper at that would you? Unless you want to save a 500MB file for each document.
An 8.5x11" scan at 2400x2400 dpi, 1 bpp takes a bit over 64 MB. Compression (you could use something like Group III fax compression or PNG here) would no doubt reduce the image size significantly. Such a scan would easily reproduce text or halftone images pretty accurately.
(That said, it's still overkill most of the time. 600 dpi is often good enough. A higher-resolution scanner is more likely to do a better job at lower resolutions than a lower-resolution scanner that's running closer to its operating limits.)
When you say "Sparc 5" most people assume you mean "SparcStation 5"
Considering that you're dealing with the same people who took "PS/2" and dropped the slash from it to use as a shorthand label for some gaming toy, is it at all surprising that the editors/author would get Sun's nomenclature mixed up?
The most annoying thing is when my parents or grandparents complain about things popping up, and I tell them that I don't have that problem because of my browser. They, of course, don't want to change, simply because they want the browser that everyone uses. sheesh
Mine don't do that. Then again, I installed Mozilla & set it as their default browser & mail client when I last cleaned up their machines. (One got away with a thorough scrubbing with Ad-aware and Norton Antivirus, while the other needed a nuke & reinstall.) After a few minutes' familiarization, they were good to go. I even set up WebWasher for them to kill banner ads.
The other day, Dad said browsing stuff with Mozilla over an EarthLink dial-up is much faster than MSN (also dial-up) ever was. If your folks want a testimonial, there you go. (FWIW.)
For that matter, many Javascript-supporting browsers allow Javascript to be disabled.
Even better, some let you disable just those features of JavaScript that tend to be abused. Of the five options Mozilla 1.6 gives you to allow scripts to do, only "change images" is checked. Under about:config, all of the dom.disable_window_* features are set to true. If there were an option to keep scripts from hijacking the right mouse button, Mozilla would be perfect.
Pretent that you are tasked with protecting American lives from Islamic terrorists on your own soil. How would YOU do it?
I'd start by not making the assumption that the terrorists would be Islamic.
Other than McVeigh, how many terrorists who've given us trouble lately have not been Islamist headcases? Does it not make more sense for airport-security types, etc. to pay a bit more attention to Mohammed al-Bumfsckistan than to some random grandma from Des Moines?
And look what happens when you buy all your hardware from random sources and piece it all together... you get so many machines that lock up for no reason at all.
They only do that if you're buying sh*tty components. The computers I build don't do that. If you have a P4 or Athlon cooled by a dinky heatsink more appropriate for a 486, installed on an ECS motherboard, booting from a Maxtor hard drive, and running on whatever no-name memory you picked up at the swap meet, I wouldn't find it surprising that you would run into problems.
So the Army is working on electronic dogs to carry food, ammunition, and other supplies.
IT'S CALLED A MULE YOU DUMBASSES!!! You've been using them for hundreds of years.
Mules get tired. Mules get sick. Mules need to be fed. Mules don't hold up too well in environmental extremes. A 'bot would have its own refueling/recharging/maintenance needs as well, but those should be easier for troops in the field to handle.
I'm looking at getting a nice Thermalright heatsink, thought. A slow 92mm fan would do much better for cooling and noise than my 60mm fan with shit heatsink that I have now.
If you have the mounting holes and clearance for it, Zalman CNPS7000* coolers are quiet and effective. With the fan running at slow speed, you can't hear it (20 dB @ 1350 rpm). At full speed, it's still fairly quiet (25 dB @ 2400 rpm). You'll need to be careful when moving the computer in the future...but the same can be said for any massive heatsink that exceeds AMD's 300g weight limit (for Socket A, anyway).
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Back in the day, I was using some fly-by-night outfit that charged $10 per month when most others were still closer to $20 per month. They weren't too pleased that I'd stay dialed in for hours at a time, downloading MP3z or whatever. They considered that "abuse." (I ended up switching to MindSpring, which had a better news server anyway.)
Years ago, somebody built a cooler for an Apple IIGS that had way too many fans on it. It just about needed the weight of a monitor, floppy drives, etc. over it to keep it from floating over the computer.
"Useless?" The computer you're using to post to /. most likely would still fill a decent-sized room (or at least a refrigerator-sized box) if the Apollo project hadn't forced us to figure out a way to make a computer fit into a shoebox instead. That's just one counterexample...there are many more.
Oh, I don't know...because it's there, perhaps? That's always been a good reason to seek out terra incognita in the past.
Last time I checked, Germany is .de. .dk is Denmark. As for why some ccTLDs are derived from the local language (.de, .es) and some aren't (.jp, .ru), your guess is as good as mine. (One theory is that countries where the local language uses a non-Roman alphabet (or no alphabet at all) got their ccTLDs derived from the English names for those countries.)
I wasn't aware that CAMRA was up for sale...:-)
You're new here, aren't you?
(I use a Microsoft optical mouse with my beige G3. It's shared with two other machines through a KVM switch and a PS/2-to-USB adapter. PS/2-to-ADB would've been nicer, but it would've been much more expensive.)
Performance Is Not The Object.
The copyright notice at the top of unzip.c says 1990...not quite 15 years, but close enough. I think I first used it with some pre-1.0 version of Linux back in '93 or '94 (or maybe with DR DOS 6 before that).
FWIW, I've had no problems with 256MB and 512MB SD cards, used with either a no-name reader or a Palm Tungsten T. What are the problems of which you speak?
There's a more obvious choice for UN*X on a Mac that you're missing...
I have. The markup used by man ([gnt]roff -man, really) isn't that complicated. If you've ever used a non-WYSIWYG word processor or written your own HTML, throwing together a manpage shouldn't be that difficult to figure out. You should be able to figure out enough to get by just by looking at the system-provided manpages.
s/.gov/.com/g, perhaps?
An 8.5x11" scan at 2400x2400 dpi, 1 bpp takes a bit over 64 MB. Compression (you could use something like Group III fax compression or PNG here) would no doubt reduce the image size significantly. Such a scan would easily reproduce text or halftone images pretty accurately.
(That said, it's still overkill most of the time. 600 dpi is often good enough. A higher-resolution scanner is more likely to do a better job at lower resolutions than a lower-resolution scanner that's running closer to its operating limits.)
Considering that you're dealing with the same people who took "PS/2" and dropped the slash from it to use as a shorthand label for some gaming toy, is it at all surprising that the editors/author would get Sun's nomenclature mixed up?
Mine don't do that. Then again, I installed Mozilla & set it as their default browser & mail client when I last cleaned up their machines. (One got away with a thorough scrubbing with Ad-aware and Norton Antivirus, while the other needed a nuke & reinstall.) After a few minutes' familiarization, they were good to go. I even set up WebWasher for them to kill banner ads.
The other day, Dad said browsing stuff with Mozilla over an EarthLink dial-up is much faster than MSN (also dial-up) ever was. If your folks want a testimonial, there you go. (FWIW.)
Even better, some let you disable just those features of JavaScript that tend to be abused. Of the five options Mozilla 1.6 gives you to allow scripts to do, only "change images" is checked. Under about:config, all of the dom.disable_window_* features are set to true. If there were an option to keep scripts from hijacking the right mouse button, Mozilla would be perfect.
Other than McVeigh, how many terrorists who've given us trouble lately have not been Islamist headcases? Does it not make more sense for airport-security types, etc. to pay a bit more attention to Mohammed al-Bumfsckistan than to some random grandma from Des Moines?
Monty Python dispelled that notion long ago.
They only do that if you're buying sh*tty components. The computers I build don't do that. If you have a P4 or Athlon cooled by a dinky heatsink more appropriate for a 486, installed on an ECS motherboard, booting from a Maxtor hard drive, and running on whatever no-name memory you picked up at the swap meet, I wouldn't find it surprising that you would run into problems.
There'll be a warning sticker on it:
Do Not Look Into Laser With Remaining Eye.
Mules get tired. Mules get sick. Mules need to be fed. Mules don't hold up too well in environmental extremes. A 'bot would have its own refueling/recharging/maintenance needs as well, but those should be easier for troops in the field to handle.
Is there a difference between them?
If you have the mounting holes and clearance for it, Zalman CNPS7000* coolers are quiet and effective. With the fan running at slow speed, you can't hear it (20 dB @ 1350 rpm). At full speed, it's still fairly quiet (25 dB @ 2400 rpm). You'll need to be careful when moving the computer in the future...but the same can be said for any massive heatsink that exceeds AMD's 300g weight limit (for Socket A, anyway).