Well, I don't use a 40x drive (sadly, I don't have one) but I haven't burned a coaster on my box at 20x. I've got a Yamaha 20x drive with 8MB buffer. I use Imation media, rated somewhere above where my drive burns, and Nero Burning Rom. I'm runing WinXP on an AMD Duron 700 with 512MB of RAM. I'm usually doing other things on the box while burning as well. Pretty sweet, I'd say. The last bit of media I bought was $10 US for 50 discs. It wouldn't surprise me if a similar 40x drive worked the same at that speed.
Most CD-RWs now have BurnProof (or similar). I burn.ISOs over a poor quality 10-Base-T network and I haven't burned a coaster since I got my Yamaha 20x burner. It just drops down to zero, waits for the data, fills the buffer again, and restarts. No underruns ruining CDs. It'll slow the burn process down, though...but not by much...and at 52X, you still have the beginning and end of the process. No way was it 20 seconds...it'd take that long just to read the ISO into memory...not to mension lead in and lead out.
I'm not a ham (I'd like to be one, but haven't had time to study code exam or money to buy gear)
Just so you know, there's a level of license called 'Technician' that requires no code. As to your second issue, if you have $100, you can get a fairly decent mobile (car mount) radio, or even a nice used base.
Heh. Old laptops. I've got two old laptops that I still use regularly. I've got an IBM Thinkpad 701c (486/75, 32MB RAM, running FreeBSD, it's the one with the butterfly keyboard) and a NEC Versa 6200MX (P/166, 64MB RAM, Win2K oddly enough). The Thinkpad is still running strong after all these years, but the poor NEC -- I've gone through 2 hard drives, 3 power supplies, a stick of ram and some case bits. The Versa is ready to kill this hard drive too...it freezes the system, and you get to hear this wonderful grinding noise from it...then in about 10 minutes, it wakes up and finishes whatever it's doing. Rather odd, I think. I have another one, too, which I got this hard drive out of, but it was given to me broken already. Bad mainboard after a coffee accident, the guy told me. *Nelson Muntz* "Ha-ha!"
Which died, the sticker or the laptop? How did (either) die? Will the shirt die in your possession? Why do they come to you to die? *angst-filled scream*
Right, right. Sorry, this is all so new to me. Good minions are hard to find, but zombies, well, they're easy. Just need to find one good 'foreman' zombie to head it all up. Hmmm...well, I'm in the right place to find someone like/that/, no?
I've got a D-Link WAP (the one with a print server, modem port,etc), two laptops on Proxim RangeLAN DS NICs and an iPaq on D-Link compact flash NIC. I haven't seen any drops on the laptops inside my apartment, running at 11M.
The laptops have bad batteries, though, so they don't go too far outside...but with the iPaq, I get across the road, through the parking garage, and all the way to the next block -- and my apartment is in a brick building.
Not to mension the 6 other WAPs I can see from the parking garage on the iPaq...3 of which are open, and one that hasn't changed the password on the config page (admin! whoo!). Range doesn't seem to be an issue with my components...but then, I've never had a high opinion of Belkin products either...but that's just my opinion, anyway.
Hmmm...perhaps I should defect. I mean the side of good has...the Super Friends...yeesh! The Wonder Twins? Talk about horrid!
Hmm...well, as Dark Helmet always says, "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." You can't argue with logic like that.
Muahahahaha.
Yes, rather fitting. Time to go join the mad scientists' union. The benefits are better anyway. Seriously, have you seen the health plan? Enjoy...but beware...this place is swarming with the forces of Good. No, really!
If someone cripples the 911 system in a large city because of poor security at the call center's computers, then it doesn't matter if it's a terrorist or a script kiddie. It's just as bad.
...and if those computers are even on the internet, then the 911 system in that city is run by a true idiot. There is absolutely no need for those computers to be on the public internet. Perhaps an intranet, not open to the world...but not on the internet at large, not even behind a firewall or VPN. Not at all.
I can just see the feds now, wardriving with a iPaq and Mini-Stumbler (or whatever the CE version of Netstumbler is)
Actually, there's not a whole lot you have to do on an iPaq to get (most of) the functionality of NetStumbler. Just plug your card in, and it grabs all the local WAPs' SSIDs and tells you the encription level. If you want to crack the encription, that's something different.
There are 6 WAPs that I can hit from the parking garage across the street from my apartment. Two are wide open, one has admin as the password. Yeesh.
Are you kidding? A swimming pool (of the in-ground variety) is perfect for killing people. You just have to drop one on someone to see. Indeed, they're quite large and heavy, and the killing involves a nice splat-crunch noise, always extra fun!
...and if they just wanted to make sure that young people didn't copy anything, would it be the Youth Millenuum Copyright Act? "Remember kids, don't violate the YMCA!"
Right. Tell that to my friend's '92 Caprice with 325,000 miles on it, no major repairs, my '94 Crown Vic with 186,000 (that, admittedly, died recently...due to a power steering problem that would have cost more to fix than the car was worth) or my current '95 Mystique with 112,000, again, no major repairs. Not to mension the large number of Crown Vics and Grand Marquis that my parents went through, 150k each before they traded them in working fine.
If you maintain it, it will live.
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If only their door handles could have been the same. I was always breaking those.
I'll say! I went through 5 door handles on one car! (replaced them as they broke). The only one that never broke was the passenger rear door. The car itself was great, lasted to around 325,000 miles. The engine was still good, but I really didn't feel like putting the work into the body or getting a new one. I miss that car, now that I have a gas powered one that only gets about 27 mpg on average.
Hehehe. Actaully, I'm a bit of a collector. I've got a storage locker just for such things. Mainly, I'm looking for components of late -- core memory, reels, and the like...but if someone can provide me with a full system, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. Of course, it'd have to be somewhere that I could pick it up with a truck -- I can't afford shipping on big iron. It *is* big iron after all.
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How would you use a washing machine for storage? Maybe the level of water in the drum?
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What you need to do is to mod the Amazing Lego DAT Tape Changer!
Well, I don't use a 40x drive (sadly, I don't have one) but I haven't burned a coaster on my box at 20x. I've got a Yamaha 20x drive with 8MB buffer. I use Imation media, rated somewhere above where my drive burns, and Nero Burning Rom. I'm runing WinXP on an AMD Duron 700 with 512MB of RAM. I'm usually doing other things on the box while burning as well. Pretty sweet, I'd say. The last bit of media I bought was $10 US for 50 discs. It wouldn't surprise me if a similar 40x drive worked the same at that speed.
As to the buffer underruns:
.ISOs over a poor quality 10-Base-T network and I haven't burned a coaster since I got my Yamaha 20x burner. It just drops down to zero, waits for the data, fills the buffer again, and restarts. No underruns ruining CDs. It'll slow the burn process down, though...but not by much...and at 52X, you still have the beginning and end of the process. No way was it 20 seconds...it'd take that long just to read the ISO into memory...not to mension lead in and lead out.
Most CD-RWs now have BurnProof (or similar). I burn
You forgot making holes in little orange clay discs!
Hmmmmm...I wonder if I could get hole punches banned...
I'm not a ham (I'd like to be one, but haven't had time to study code exam or money to buy gear)
Just so you know, there's a level of license called 'Technician' that requires no code. As to your second issue, if you have $100, you can get a fairly decent mobile (car mount) radio, or even a nice used base.
For more info, check out the American Radio Relay League's Website
Heh. Old laptops. I've got two old laptops that I still use regularly. I've got an IBM Thinkpad 701c (486/75, 32MB RAM, running FreeBSD, it's the one with the butterfly keyboard) and a NEC Versa 6200MX (P/166, 64MB RAM, Win2K oddly enough). The Thinkpad is still running strong after all these years, but the poor NEC -- I've gone through 2 hard drives, 3 power supplies, a stick of ram and some case bits. The Versa is ready to kill this hard drive too...it freezes the system, and you get to hear this wonderful grinding noise from it...then in about 10 minutes, it wakes up and finishes whatever it's doing. Rather odd, I think. I have another one, too, which I got this hard drive out of, but it was given to me broken already. Bad mainboard after a coffee accident, the guy told me. *Nelson Muntz* "Ha-ha!"
It's a very nice 20lb paperweight.
Which died, the sticker or the laptop? How did (either) die? Will the shirt die in your possession? Why do they come to you to die? *angst-filled scream*
...or perhaps a very small shell script? (and veering back off at a blinding rate for the sake of a bad pun AND a product placement...)
It's not "the killing of guys named 'Reggie'"? Man, I hate this language! *giggle*
Right, right. Sorry, this is all so new to me. Good minions are hard to find, but zombies, well, they're easy. Just need to find one good 'foreman' zombie to head it all up. Hmmm...well, I'm in the right place to find someone like /that/, no?
I haven't seen that sort of issue, myself.
,etc), two laptops on Proxim RangeLAN DS NICs and an iPaq on D-Link compact flash NIC. I haven't seen any drops on the laptops inside my apartment, running at 11M.
I've got a D-Link WAP (the one with a print server, modem port
The laptops have bad batteries, though, so they don't go too far outside...but with the iPaq, I get across the road, through the parking garage, and all the way to the next block -- and my apartment is in a brick building.
Not to mension the 6 other WAPs I can see from the parking garage on the iPaq...3 of which are open, and one that hasn't changed the password on the config page (admin! whoo!). Range doesn't seem to be an issue with my components...but then, I've never had a high opinion of Belkin products either...but that's just my opinion, anyway.
Indeed. It certainly seems that the "Right Side" is the wrong one.
Pick one up for me while you're there -- I'll be too busy building my next Secret Lair.
Muahahaha...
Hmmm...perhaps I should defect. I mean the side of good has...the Super Friends...yeesh! The Wonder Twins? Talk about horrid!
Hmm...well, as Dark Helmet always says, "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." You can't argue with logic like that.
Muahahahaha.
Yes, rather fitting. Time to go join the mad scientists' union. The benefits are better anyway. Seriously, have you seen the health plan? Enjoy...but beware...this place is swarming with the forces of Good. No, really!
Just as an aside: Kerio bought Tiny Software. Kerio Personal Firewall is Tiny Personal Firewall. It doesn't seem to have changed /much/...
EEEEK!!! Somebody stop him! He's going to become an evil genius! Confiscate his iPaq and give it to me! Yeah! That'll save us all... *giggle*
If someone cripples the 911 system in a large city because of poor security at the call center's computers, then it doesn't matter if it's a terrorist or a script kiddie. It's just as bad.
...and if those computers are even on the internet, then the 911 system in that city is run by a true idiot. There is absolutely no need for those computers to be on the public internet. Perhaps an intranet, not open to the world...but not on the internet at large, not even behind a firewall or VPN. Not at all.
I can just see the feds now, wardriving with a iPaq and Mini-Stumbler (or whatever the CE version of Netstumbler is)
Actually, there's not a whole lot you have to do on an iPaq to get (most of) the functionality of NetStumbler. Just plug your card in, and it grabs all the local WAPs' SSIDs and tells you the encription level. If you want to crack the encription, that's something different.
There are 6 WAPs that I can hit from the parking garage across the street from my apartment. Two are wide open, one has admin as the password. Yeesh.
# begin poor attempt at humour
Are you kidding? A swimming pool (of the in-ground variety) is perfect for killing people. You just have to drop one on someone to see. Indeed, they're quite large and heavy, and the killing involves a nice splat-crunch noise, always extra fun!
# end poor attempt at humor
*oops* That's "millennium". I even previewed too. Oh, well.
...and if they just wanted to make sure that young people didn't copy anything, would it be the Youth Millenuum Copyright Act? "Remember kids, don't violate the YMCA!"
Nonono, that's strike-anywhere match heads! The regular ones don't do a whole lot, usually...requiring multiple throws.
Also good: strike-anywhere match heads + sandpaper + 5.25" floppy disk. I think you get the idea.
Right. Tell that to my friend's '92 Caprice with 325,000 miles on it, no major repairs, my '94 Crown Vic with 186,000 (that, admittedly, died recently...due to a power steering problem that would have cost more to fix than the car was worth) or my current '95 Mystique with 112,000, again, no major repairs. Not to mension the large number of Crown Vics and Grand Marquis that my parents went through, 150k each before they traded them in working fine.
If you maintain it, it will live.
If only their door handles could have been the same. I was always breaking those.
I'll say! I went through 5 door handles on one car! (replaced them as they broke). The only one that never broke was the passenger rear door. The car itself was great, lasted to around 325,000 miles. The engine was still good, but I really didn't feel like putting the work into the body or getting a new one. I miss that car, now that I have a gas powered one that only gets about 27 mpg on average.
Nope! Massachusetts is a commonwealth, not a state! It would be a commonwealth of bliss! *giggles*
Hehehe. Actaully, I'm a bit of a collector. I've got a storage locker just for such things. Mainly, I'm looking for components of late -- core memory, reels, and the like...but if someone can provide me with a full system, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth. Of course, it'd have to be somewhere that I could pick it up with a truck -- I can't afford shipping on big iron. It *is* big iron after all.
# begin poor attempt at humour
How would you use a washing machine for storage? Maybe the level of water in the drum?
# end poor attempt at humour