Well, since this one seems to be going off-topic from the very start...
You are one UNLUCKY dude! I have never heard of a heatsink failing, but you have seen this multiple times? What is the most common failure mode of aluminum heatsinks?:)
I guess it's all relative? If one gets used to rebooting every few days and a new "patch" can stretch that out to a month or so, I guess this could be perceived as "reliable"?
NT? Yeah, right. Even core dumps hang. If it comes from micro$lop it's crap.
Wait 'til they embed outlook, excel, powerpoint, paint, and hotmail access into exploder - then uptime of ten minutes will seem phenomenal!;)
Well, I don't understand how the current "top level" registry functions, but I cannot see how this could be possible? Perhaps the slimeball "registrars" are just taking advantage of some "grace period" in the hope that the registrant is unaware of it?
The ones that *really* piss me off are the wannabe "registrars" (resellers) who scour the master registry and then send me email (to never-used contact email addresses) warning that I need to "act now" to register the.info or.biz flavors of my current domains. Those assholes in Oregon are #1 on my hit list!
A significant improvement would be if ICANN (or whoever) would just occasionally test the contact information on domain records to insure it's validity?
NetSol was bad enough - now we have a thousand "independant monopolies". Of course, the "government" would only make things worse if they get (more) involved - it's up to us to fix this! If it requires a road trip to Oregon, so be it.
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NAK to that too. That's like saying the lugnuts are part of the wheel? Heatsinks are just as easily mounted with thermal epoxy.
:)
The whole issue is kind of funny since *real* processors have die-temperature sensors and any decent design would use these to prevent damage.
Who's gonna make a pun (intentional or not) on the term 'die-temperature' and drive this fork even *more* off-topic?
Nope. That was a failure of the 'retention mechanism', *not* the heatsink? ;)
Well, since this one seems to be going off-topic from the very start...
:)
You are one UNLUCKY dude! I have never heard of a heatsink failing, but you have seen this multiple times? What is the most common failure mode of aluminum heatsinks?
Hmm... How's that thing go about a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent? ;)
So, you revert to your fourth-grade (maybe) years to insult me because you don't know what a core dump is? I guess I know when I've been "licked".
:o
WOW! *Weeks* of uptime - AWESOME!
;)
I guess it's all relative? If one gets used to rebooting every few days and a new "patch" can stretch that out to a month or so, I guess this could be perceived as "reliable"?
NT? Yeah, right. Even core dumps hang. If it comes from micro$lop it's crap.
Wait 'til they embed outlook, excel, powerpoint, paint, and hotmail access into exploder - then uptime of ten minutes will seem phenomenal!
Well, I don't understand how the current "top level" registry functions, but I cannot see how this could be possible? Perhaps the slimeball "registrars" are just taking advantage of some "grace period" in the hope that the registrant is unaware of it?
.info or .biz flavors of my current domains. Those assholes in Oregon are #1 on my hit list!
The ones that *really* piss me off are the wannabe "registrars" (resellers) who scour the master registry and then send me email (to never-used contact email addresses) warning that I need to "act now" to register the
A significant improvement would be if ICANN (or whoever) would just occasionally test the contact information on domain records to insure it's validity?
NetSol was bad enough - now we have a thousand "independant monopolies". Of course, the "government" would only make things worse if they get (more) involved - it's up to us to fix this! If it requires a road trip to Oregon, so be it.
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"Lost 100GB"? Sounds like a new backup strategy is in order? ;)
Geez - you can buy them on ebaY for $50.
Perhaps the fbi should hurry to quash:
http://www.keykatcher.com/howitworks.htm ???
Maybe they're not willing to admit that they squandered millions of our tax $$$ to reinvent something that has been available from china for years?
Shit - if you have physical access to the guy's keyboard, any sixth-grade kid should be able to snag the keystrokes with a PIC or SBC?
;)