That sounds about as exciting as watching grass die. No offense meant here, I get the reference to the designer and all, thats cool. But I don'' see how this is going to excite kids. Kid sees "Hans the 555 timer chip". Kid thinks: "Whats a timer chip?" and unless that is answered in a very obvious way EVERY TIME the character is shown, it'll be lost.
If the mail server is set up well, yes. But many aren't, and not everyone is on gmail or the like. When I did it, I was the mail server admin so I could do whatever I wanted, to be honest. This is why spammers go after breaking into legit accounts.
Actually, jackass, she is a very intelligent woman, and in many ways smarter than I am. The point is that abstract concepts often need demonstration before they are well understood.
I did this once to prove the point to my wife. I made up some ridiculous email and then called her and asked her if she got it. She had. When I told her it was from ME, she finally got the point. The email was telling her she was a winner of free tickets to a concert for an artist that hasn't performed in a VERY long time. And I didn't have to telnet into a server to do it. I just set up my mail program.
I completely agree. Antenna engineering is not a trivial matter and if the proper R&D has gone into that $120 unit and it actually works, then its worth double that.
Anything you homebrew will end up being a copy of it, and probably not as good unless you've built a yagi before and know exactly what you're doing.
1) Quality number 1, 2 and 3 Philips screwdrivers. QUALITY ones. Not cheap junk. Magnetic tipped. 2) Multi Tool. I like the Gerber Suspension. Cheap ($30 USD) and effective 3) Screwdriver kit with every known bit. DO NOT USE as your every day. See #1 4) Spend $30 on an LED flashlight 5) Air! You need air. $100 cheapo compressor with a 2 gallon tank is enough, but get 5 gallons if you can. 6) Zip Ties, ROLLS of velcro, electrical tape. 7) Soldering kit. A cheap Weller stick will do. You'll need it at times. Not very many.
With a good enclosure and some good storage, not to mention a hefty battery, I can see this spending lots of time taking time lapse photos for days and even weeks on end! I can't wait to see how its packaged, and I hope the lens doesn't stink.
You nailed it right on the head. The customer will just take their crappy outmoded php or perl or whatever to some other host who will gladly take their money. I was in web hosting as a sysadmin for several years. I had a customer who had built his website in php, and very poorly. You could to http://hisjackasswebsite.bizfo/index.php?myawesomemalwaresite.com/virus.asp and frame ANY site into his. He refused to believe it was his problem, even after I proved it to him first hand. So, I suspended his site (I was getting sick of getting that server blocked on sorbs etc) and he went somewhere else. I contacted his new provider and let them know the score and advised them to watch out. They were actually thankful for the heads up. Could this program have fixed that? Doubtfully. Will the problem persist? Yes. Because people are lazy and cheap!
then vBulletin is your only way to go. SMF, phpBB, Yabb.... I've seen forum owners start with all of them, and when their forum is actually successful, they end up migrating to vBulletin because it just works. The pricing is reasonable, the features are there, and so is the support, which you'll eventually need.
On the other hand, if you are just opening a small support forum for a product you sell or if you intend specifically to keep it from growing too big, then sure, look at phpBB, its pretty good.
I understand the implications of lower power for infrastructure reasons. Lower power means lower cost for power, lower cooling needs, etc. I get that. But what is the "Killer app" for these low power servers? Is it data warehousing? Simple web hosting? I can see these being useful for odds-and-ends servers in data centers with bigger iron for more heavy duty apps, but why is everyone jumping on this bandwagon?
According to TFA, the control room featured is mostly Shuttle era equipment, with SOME Apollo era consoles and equipment.
Interesting things I learned from the article: - Bare information from the mainframe (IBM System/360) was combined with an automated slide overlay to make it more readable with column headings and threshold levels etc. - Each person manning a console had a small team of people in another room helping them and communicating with them. - These people were the real deal, and were hand picked for their positions. People who couldn't deal with the weight of the position were washed out within a year before they ever made it to a live mission. - From TFA " Sy recommends the IEEE's three-part article, "Houston, We Have a Solution" as the most complete and accurate retelling of the entire Apollo 13 explosion and its aftermath." That is HERE: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/apollo-13-we-have-a-solution and it is a FANTASTIC read. The lessons learned from Apollo 13 were fantastic, and upgrades were applied before Apollo 14. One major one was that if something went out of spec, a light would come one advising that there was an anomaly. But, if it went away, so did the light. So an intermittent problem had to be caught red handed. By Apollo 14, they'd changed it so that the light *stayed* on until dismissed. Seems obvious now, but back then it wasn't. These people were true pioneers.
You are wrong. HP sells pieces of crap. Lenevo has and still does make good computers that have very little crapware pre-loaded. Earlier this year my wife needed a new PC asap, and because we are living in different parts of the country, building her a new one wasn't an option. So, I bought a Lenovo desktop PC and had it shipped to her address. Its a great computer, is reasonably fast for the price I paid ($310 on sale) and it hasn't as much as hiccuped.
I've also recommended them to several clients without any negative feedback (trust me, I'd hear it!) and they are just good solid computers without too much fluff.
HP is as lousy as ever, selling some of the biggest piece of crap computers I've ever seen, with perhaps the exception of E-Machines (which I think is gone anyway).
Slashdot Mirror
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/049209/security-firm-predicts-murder-by-internet-connected-devices
Looks like they were mostly correct.
subject says it.
News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters! Thanks Slashdot! Its been a while...
I'd suggest that maybe you're new here, but I think your UID is lower than mine.
You make a good point. And to the person who modded my post TROLL... I am NOT trolling. Its a genuine opinion with a real reason behind it.
That sounds about as exciting as watching grass die. No offense meant here, I get the reference to the designer and all, thats cool. But I don'' see how this is going to excite kids. Kid sees "Hans the 555 timer chip". Kid thinks: "Whats a timer chip?" and unless that is answered in a very obvious way EVERY TIME the character is shown, it'll be lost.
Make up some story about how you tracked down a huge network of movie pirates.
New for nerds doesn't mean "anything, no matter how trite, expensive and useless as long as it uses a 3D printer and a Raspberry Pi."
FTFY
If the mail server is set up well, yes. But many aren't, and not everyone is on gmail or the like. When I did it, I was the mail server admin so I could do whatever I wanted, to be honest. This is why spammers go after breaking into legit accounts.
Actually, jackass, she is a very intelligent woman, and in many ways smarter than I am. The point is that abstract concepts often need demonstration before they are well understood.
I did this once to prove the point to my wife. I made up some ridiculous email and then called her and asked her if she got it. She had. When I told her it was from ME, she finally got the point. The email was telling her she was a winner of free tickets to a concert for an artist that hasn't performed in a VERY long time. And I didn't have to telnet into a server to do it. I just set up my mail program.
Welcome our new Robotic Parrot Overlords!
I completely agree. Antenna engineering is not a trivial matter and if the proper R&D has gone into that $120 unit and it actually works, then its worth double that.
Anything you homebrew will end up being a copy of it, and probably not as good unless you've built a yagi before and know exactly what you're doing.
1) Quality number 1, 2 and 3 Philips screwdrivers. QUALITY ones. Not cheap junk. Magnetic tipped.
2) Multi Tool. I like the Gerber Suspension. Cheap ($30 USD) and effective
3) Screwdriver kit with every known bit. DO NOT USE as your every day. See #1
4) Spend $30 on an LED flashlight
5) Air! You need air. $100 cheapo compressor with a 2 gallon tank is enough, but get 5 gallons if you can.
6) Zip Ties, ROLLS of velcro, electrical tape.
7) Soldering kit. A cheap Weller stick will do. You'll need it at times. Not very many.
Thats all I could think of for now.
With a good enclosure and some good storage, not to mention a hefty battery, I can see this spending lots of time taking time lapse photos for days and even weeks on end! I can't wait to see how its packaged, and I hope the lens doesn't stink.
You nailed it right on the head. The customer will just take their crappy outmoded php or perl or whatever to some other host who will gladly take their money. I was in web hosting as a sysadmin for several years. I had a customer who had built his website in php, and very poorly. You could to http://hisjackasswebsite.bizfo/index.php?myawesomemalwaresite.com/virus.asp and frame ANY site into his. He refused to believe it was his problem, even after I proved it to him first hand. So, I suspended his site (I was getting sick of getting that server blocked on sorbs etc) and he went somewhere else. I contacted his new provider and let them know the score and advised them to watch out. They were actually thankful for the heads up. Could this program have fixed that? Doubtfully. Will the problem persist? Yes. Because people are lazy and cheap!
then vBulletin is your only way to go. SMF, phpBB, Yabb.... I've seen forum owners start with all of them, and when their forum is actually successful, they end up migrating to vBulletin because it just works. The pricing is reasonable, the features are there, and so is the support, which you'll eventually need.
On the other hand, if you are just opening a small support forum for a product you sell or if you intend specifically to keep it from growing too big, then sure, look at phpBB, its pretty good.
So what you're saying is "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things!"?
I understand the implications of lower power for infrastructure reasons. Lower power means lower cost for power, lower cooling needs, etc. I get that. But what is the "Killer app" for these low power servers? Is it data warehousing? Simple web hosting? I can see these being useful for odds-and-ends servers in data centers with bigger iron for more heavy duty apps, but why is everyone jumping on this bandwagon?
Now I'm going to have to re-read that book! I have it somewhere... or HAD it at least. Great book. Too bad the sequels were just aweful.
According to TFA, the control room featured is mostly Shuttle era equipment, with SOME Apollo era consoles and equipment.
Interesting things I learned from the article:
- Bare information from the mainframe (IBM System/360) was combined with an automated slide overlay to make it more readable with column headings and threshold levels etc.
- Each person manning a console had a small team of people in another room helping them and communicating with them.
- These people were the real deal, and were hand picked for their positions. People who couldn't deal with the weight of the position were washed out within a year before they ever made it to a live mission.
- From TFA " Sy recommends the IEEE's three-part article, "Houston, We Have a Solution" as the most complete and accurate retelling of the entire Apollo 13 explosion and its aftermath."
That is HERE: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/apollo-13-we-have-a-solution and it is a FANTASTIC read. The lessons learned from Apollo 13 were fantastic, and upgrades were applied before Apollo 14. One major one was that if something went out of spec, a light would come one advising that there was an anomaly. But, if it went away, so did the light. So an intermittent problem had to be caught red handed. By Apollo 14, they'd changed it so that the light *stayed* on until dismissed. Seems obvious now, but back then it wasn't. These people were true pioneers.
Yes.
'Today everyone in the city of Los Angeles is an astronaut,' said L.A. Fire Department Chief Brian Cumming
I hope for the sake of the astronauts that the reverse isn't true.
You are wrong. HP sells pieces of crap. Lenevo has and still does make good computers that have very little crapware pre-loaded. Earlier this year my wife needed a new PC asap, and because we are living in different parts of the country, building her a new one wasn't an option. So, I bought a Lenovo desktop PC and had it shipped to her address. Its a great computer, is reasonably fast for the price I paid ($310 on sale) and it hasn't as much as hiccuped.
I've also recommended them to several clients without any negative feedback (trust me, I'd hear it!) and they are just good solid computers without too much fluff.
HP is as lousy as ever, selling some of the biggest piece of crap computers I've ever seen, with perhaps the exception of E-Machines (which I think is gone anyway).
Hopefully it worked better in space than it did in WRT54G's.