This is in every way wrong. If that damn company can't make mail software it's their problem. They don't have anything to do with us who just try to block spam.
No spam filter... Now what? Guess I have to look for another, hopefully as good as orbz.
Seems /.ed... Here's the article:
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Serial ATA Coming
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· Score: 5, Informative
(no pictures!:)
Serial ATA, A New Standard Serial Advanced Technology A ttachment is an evolutionary high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel ATA attachment of internal storage devices. It connects hard disks, DVDs, CD-R/Ws, zip drives and all other ATA and ATAPI devices to the motherboard in desktop and mobile PCs, servers and network storage.
The new point-to-point device communicates trough a 4 layer interface:
4) Application Layer 3) Transport Layer 2) Link Layer 1) Physical Layer
If you want more information, you can download the Serial ATA 1.0 specifications at http://www.serialata.org
The reason for the late breakthrough of Serial ATA is that nobody wanted to, unnecessarily, spend time and money, developing a new interface. Because of the higher performance demands, several companies had to cooperate developing a much better, more intelligent ATA: Serial ATA will allow these future enhancements to the computing platform. The Serial ATA working group that developed the Serial ATA specification was led by APT Technologies Inc, Dell Computer Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM), Intel Corporation, Maxtor Corporation, and Seagate Technology. Seagate and Maxtor told us the new drives would be shipping in autumn, but the real breakthrough will take place when chipset manufacturers (Intel/Via) have integrated Serial ATA on their Southbridge.
Benefits Let's take a look at some end user benefits of Serial ATA:
No software depency, it's 100% compatible with today's software and OS transparent.
Easier configuration of the storage devices (jumpers are no longer needed).
Supports lower cost device architectures.
Much better cabling and connectors: the thin and flexible cables result in better airflow trough the pc housing and enables design of smaller PC/motherboard chassis. Therefore, they are simple to route and install, and can be up to 1m long.
Last but not least, a higher bandwidth: the transfer rate exceeds all current ATA standards. Generation 1, 2 and 3 S-ATA supports respectively up to 150MB/s (1.2Gbits/sec), 300MB/s (2.4Gbits/sec), 600MB/s (4.8Gbits/sec). As Serial ATA works asynchronous, there are no isochronous requirements.
The Prototypes Seagate's SATA prototype:
Maxtor's prototype:
When we take a closer look at the connectors, we see there's a slight difference: Maxtor used the 35B1 configuration, starting right: the Serial ATA connector, with both power and signal segments, legacy jumper and power connector. Seagate used the 35B4 configuration which has no legacy power connector.
The Serial ATA signal segment counts seven pins: three ground pins a transmitter signal pair and a receiver signal pair. The Serial ATA power segment counts 15 pins, containing three different voltages: 3.3V, 5V and 12V.
The prototypes momentary shown, need a PCI-to-SATA host controller or a SATA-to-Parallel ATA bridge chip.
Maxtor used the first one:
The Future By the end of 2002, there should be SATA-sytems on the market. As you might have noticed, the parallel ATA is finally dead, though it could take up to four years to eliminata all parallel ATA devices. Nevertheless, I'm going to wait buying a new system, because most new technology suffers childhood disease.
I agree. However, the smaller "normal" keyboards do have many good features that the bigger ones have. (you can hold your fingers on the buttons, etc.) They are very unergonomic too... I'm mostly concerned with the trouble of having to hit backspace all the time because the keyboard has typed in all kinds of junk when I'm looking the other way.
What is accepted as a keystroke? I know when I'm writing I tend to hold my fingers on the buttons. And sometimes I might want to keep a button down for a period of time. How does this work on a keyboard that optically detects the strokes? And doesn't it become ergonomically really unsuitable for longer periods of writing?
Yes, there was a Dell article between Science: Optical Cryptography and Your Rights Online: Farber, Neumann, and Weinstein Call for End to ICANN. I don't know where it went, but here is the link:
First, as an immediate temporary measure, all Internet policy, operational, and other Internet-related functions currently performed by ICANN should be transferred, as soon as practicable while maintaining continuity, to a different, already existing non-profit organization (or organizations) on a non-permanent, strictly stewardship basis. One potential candidate we would suggest considering for this role would be the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), although there are a range of other possibilities of course. The process to plan and begin a transfer of responsibilities from ICANN should be initiated immediately.
If you say so, but these kinds of global decissions should not be made easily. If they are going to reconstruct the system, make it a good one, and something that will work in the future (with future expandings of the network).
I don't mind Microsoft trying to be everywhere, do everything. But when they try to effectively prevent us from using something else, it really pisses me off! That's just plain right unfair!
I can honestly say that life would be a real pain in the ass without the Net.
I couldn't agree more. The first time I really realized that the Internet had really become a big part of my life, was when my ISP disconnected me fore a few hours. I couldn't do anything! I just sat around wondering how to continue.
You don't notice you're hooked/need it until you don't have it. It's pain, I can tell you!
The last thing you want to do is play around with your XPs! They are the most fragile pices of anything I've ever seen. If you however decide to play around with them, remember that the processor die is like a small ant, put a little pressure on it and it will die. One has to be really careful when attaching the heat sink. And never ever try to run it even for a fraction of a second without a heat sink and a fan, it will die immediately, probably destroying your motherboard.
Let this be a warning! Be careful when playing around with an Athlon XP!
I would like to know if there are any really smart uses of this out there. Anyone using this at home for anything clever? Or at a small business/educational institution? I don't want to know about large companies doing 3D simulations with cluster. Something usefull that can be used at home would be interesting...
Using the Linux Terminal Server, this could be a good idea for schools. They usually have a bunch of computers with the same HD image. By using clusters, they would never need to upgrade the image on all computers, no need for expensive HDs and the sound level would probably fall quite a lot!
I guess they mean they can use the CD as candy wrapper. Every candy has a nice little game!
I can see all the small children in the stores bying their own bag of interactive candy...
looks interesting alright, but why wait? I'm running my own RedHat 7.2 box with iptables, squid and the whole nine yards. Works perfectly, probably because I had to configure it myself, didn't use a preconfigured firewall distro.
The copyright problems concerning this would be just too messy to be worth the trouble of coding something like a mirror system. And getting permission by the author of the page would really take too long.
I've got several old cd drives around somewhere, but not a single floppy drive! I guess it's because floppies are floppies, they've stayed the same. CD drives, however, have constantly increased their reading speeds, therefore we have bought new drives every now and then. It is much more likely a computer has a CD than a floppy. I don't think I've used a floppy for several years! Except when installing Debian on my 486 laptop, but that's an exeption...
Take a look at Mimerdesk. It looks like a very promising e-Learning tool.
MimerDesk is an open-source group environment designed for a wide variety of uses such as web-based eLearning, carrying out projects and setting up communities. MimerDesk also has tools for personal management. A short description could be a groupware with eLearning and communication capabilities.
If you're looking for an amazing cooling product for your hot CPU, 3D card, etc., check out this page: zalmantech.com.
Now, if those products could be combined with the new fan technology from Y.S. Tech, we could have the next generation cooling solution at our fingertips.
Zalman's cooling products really made my Athlon XP 1700+ a lot colder than with the default fan system, and made it virtually noiseless, as the fan runs at 1600 RPMs!
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So if the north pole moves over my backyard, can I sell tickets to people who want to visit it, or will it be public domain?
This is in every way wrong. If that damn company can't make mail software it's their problem. They don't have anything to do with us who just try to block spam.
No spam filter... Now what? Guess I have to look for another, hopefully as good as orbz.
(no pictures! :)
Serial ATA, A New Standard
Serial Advanced Technology A ttachment is an evolutionary high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel ATA attachment of internal storage devices. It connects hard disks, DVDs, CD-R/Ws, zip drives and all other ATA and ATAPI devices to the motherboard in desktop and mobile PCs, servers and network storage.
The new point-to-point device communicates trough a 4 layer interface:
4) Application Layer 3) Transport Layer 2) Link Layer 1) Physical Layer
If you want more information, you can download the Serial ATA 1.0 specifications at http://www.serialata.org
The reason for the late breakthrough of Serial ATA is that nobody wanted to, unnecessarily, spend time and money, developing a new interface. Because of the higher performance demands, several companies had to cooperate developing a much better, more intelligent ATA: Serial ATA will allow these future enhancements to the computing platform.
The Serial ATA working group that developed the Serial ATA specification was led by APT Technologies Inc, Dell Computer Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM), Intel Corporation, Maxtor Corporation, and Seagate Technology.
Seagate and Maxtor told us the new drives would be shipping in autumn, but the real breakthrough will take place when chipset manufacturers (Intel/Via) have integrated Serial ATA on their Southbridge.
Benefits
Let's take a look at some end user benefits of Serial ATA:
No software depency, it's 100% compatible with today's software and OS transparent.
Easier configuration of the storage devices (jumpers are no longer needed).
Supports lower cost device architectures.
Much better cabling and connectors: the thin and flexible cables result in better airflow trough the pc housing and enables design of smaller PC/motherboard chassis. Therefore, they are simple to route and install, and can be up to 1m long.
Last but not least, a higher bandwidth: the transfer rate exceeds all current ATA standards. Generation 1, 2 and 3 S-ATA supports respectively up to 150MB/s (1.2Gbits/sec), 300MB/s (2.4Gbits/sec), 600MB/s (4.8Gbits/sec). As Serial ATA works asynchronous, there are no isochronous requirements.
The Prototypes
Seagate's SATA prototype:
Maxtor's prototype:
When we take a closer look at the connectors, we see there's a slight difference: Maxtor used the 35B1 configuration, starting right: the Serial ATA connector, with both power and signal segments, legacy jumper and power connector. Seagate used the 35B4 configuration which has no legacy power connector.
The Serial ATA signal segment counts seven pins: three ground pins a transmitter signal pair and a receiver signal pair. The Serial ATA power segment counts 15 pins, containing three different voltages: 3.3V, 5V and 12V.
The prototypes momentary shown, need a PCI-to-SATA host controller or a SATA-to-Parallel ATA bridge chip.
Maxtor used the first one:
The Future
By the end of 2002, there should be SATA-sytems on the market. As you might have noticed, the parallel ATA is finally dead, though it could take up to four years to eliminata all parallel ATA devices. Nevertheless, I'm going to wait buying a new system, because most new technology suffers childhood disease.
I agree.
However, the smaller "normal" keyboards do have many good features that the bigger ones have. (you can hold your fingers on the buttons, etc.) They are very unergonomic too... I'm mostly concerned with the trouble of having to hit backspace all the time because the keyboard has typed in all kinds of junk when I'm looking the other way.
What is accepted as a keystroke? I know when I'm writing I tend to hold my fingers on the buttons. And sometimes I might want to keep a button down for a period of time. How does this work on a keyboard that optically detects the strokes? And doesn't it become ergonomically really unsuitable for longer periods of writing?
I guess we won't be reading it on /.
Yes, there was a Dell article between Science: Optical Cryptography and Your Rights Online: Farber, Neumann, and Weinstein Call for End to ICANN. I don't know where it went, but here is the link:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/19/05162
First, as an immediate temporary measure, all Internet policy, operational, and other Internet-related functions currently performed by ICANN should be transferred, as soon as practicable while maintaining continuity, to a different, already existing non-profit organization (or organizations) on a non-permanent, strictly stewardship basis. One potential candidate we would suggest considering for this role would be the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), although there are a range of other possibilities of course. The process to plan and begin a transfer of responsibilities from ICANN should be initiated immediately.
If you say so, but these kinds of global decissions should not be made easily. If they are going to reconstruct the system, make it a good one, and something that will work in the future (with future expandings of the network).
I don't mind Microsoft trying to be everywhere, do everything. But when they try to effectively prevent us from using something else, it really pisses me off! That's just plain right unfair!
This article apparently was correct, even though everyone complained...
Something smells here, and it's not my feet!
I can honestly say that life would be a real pain in the ass without the Net.
I couldn't agree more. The first time I really realized that the Internet had really become a big part of my life, was when my ISP disconnected me fore a few hours. I couldn't do anything! I just sat around wondering how to continue.
You don't notice you're hooked/need it until you don't have it. It's pain, I can tell you!
The last thing you want to do is play around with your XPs! They are the most fragile pices of anything I've ever seen. If you however decide to play around with them, remember that the processor die is like a small ant, put a little pressure on it and it will die. One has to be really careful when attaching the heat sink. And never ever try to run it even for a fraction of a second without a heat sink and a fan, it will die immediately, probably destroying your motherboard.
Let this be a warning!
Be careful when playing around with an Athlon XP!
I would like to know if there are any really smart uses of this out there. Anyone using this at home for anything clever? Or at a small business/educational institution? I don't want to know about large companies doing 3D simulations with cluster.
Something usefull that can be used at home would be interesting...
Using the Linux Terminal Server, this could be a good idea for schools. They usually have a bunch of computers with the same HD image. By using clusters, they would never need to upgrade the image on all computers, no need for expensive HDs and the sound level would probably fall quite a lot!
I guess they mean they can use the CD as candy wrapper. Every candy has a nice little game!
I can see all the small children in the stores bying their own bag of interactive candy...
looks interesting alright, but why wait?
I'm running my own RedHat 7.2 box with iptables, squid and the whole nine yards. Works perfectly, probably because I had to configure it myself, didn't use a preconfigured firewall distro.
The copyright problems concerning this would be just too messy to be worth the trouble of coding something like a mirror system. And getting permission by the author of the page would really take too long.
It's really not Slashdot's headache...
Not every computer has a floppy drive!
I've got several old cd drives around somewhere, but not a single floppy drive! I guess it's because floppies are floppies, they've stayed the same. CD drives, however, have constantly increased their reading speeds, therefore we have bought new drives every now and then. It is much more likely a computer has a CD than a floppy. I don't think I've used a floppy for several years! Except when installing Debian on my 486 laptop, but that's an exeption...
If you want to make your custom Linux disc, take a look at this step-by-step howto:
http://wam.umd.edu/~kefferb/floppy.html
According to the study, 50 percent of people use names of family members or pets as passwords.
The other 50% just have really weird pet names.
The case, Shattuck v. Klotzbach, is scheduled to be heard in May in Plymouth Superior Court by Judge Ernest B. Murphy.
I guess we'll really find out the importance of being Earnest.
Here is the article at USC which covers the subject, including an interesting picture!
Take a look at Mimerdesk. It looks like a very promising e-Learning tool.
MimerDesk is an open-source group environment designed for a wide variety of uses such as web-based eLearning, carrying out projects and setting up communities. MimerDesk also has tools for personal management. A short description could be a groupware with eLearning and communication capabilities.
If you're looking for an amazing cooling product for your hot CPU, 3D card, etc., check out this page: zalmantech.com.
Now, if those products could be combined with the new fan technology from Y.S. Tech, we could have the next generation cooling solution at our fingertips. Zalman's cooling products really made my Athlon XP 1700+ a lot colder than with the default fan system, and made it virtually noiseless, as the fan runs at 1600 RPMs!