Nah, we used the classic approx 12" diameter reels of what I guess was about 1/2" tape.
I'm getting all sorts of memories now. The thing was supposed to automatically spool the tape onto the take-up spool, but that was unreliable. To try and make it work you had to trim the end of the tape with a handy trimmer that was kept on top of the drive. This cut the end of the tape into a nice 'V' shape that should feed better. Too much trimming would eventually bite into your data.
The auto-feed was rubbish even with trimming, so you ended up having to feed it through by hand.
And the 'write-protect' tags were badly designed too. In order to write-protect a tape you removed the plastic write-protect ring. The best option was to keep one plastic ring per tape DRIVE, not per tape. You kept this on the tape drive. Then you removed all the other rings and played hoop-la with them on the nearest coat-rack.
If you wanted to write on a tape, you had to insert the ring from the tape drive, hence it was a failsafe mechanism - if you accidentally left a precious tape in the mechanism without a ring you couldnt overwrite it.
Possibly because the computer is the size of a large room, the tape drive is half the size of a car, and the air-conditioning for it is in danger of melting. Maybe.
When I was a physicist we had a DEC VAX with a tape drive, it took a whole room, and probably had less power than my laptop. Tape drives are not small things.
In case anyone else doesn't get it, it is the difference between 'Man eating shark' and 'Man-eating shark'. People who don't understand the difference can be seen running scared out of Chinese restaurants.
I cant really agree with you, there's an awful lot of production goes into Hip-hop and Rap, getting the bass just right so it kicks you out of the club headfirst.
But I dont think FM radio or low-bitrate MP3s will handle being cranked up to such volumes.
Hard-copy is more reliable than hard disk or GPS RAM. If this data is costing you a packet to collect, and going back to do it again is not an option you want to have to explore, then get your coordinates onto paper as soon as possible. Print several copies and post some of them off. If you do lose your digital data, its cheaper to get it retyped or OCRd from printouts.
My GPS glitched three times in Morocco - possibly the dodgy power in the Land Rover. On the third time the reset cleared the memory. I lost the waypoint I was heading for, as well as all the stored locations I had.
I re-entered the waypoints from a book, and we were on our way again.
Yes, paper can burn, get soggy, get lost, get eaten by rodents - but then so can computer hardware.
A friend of mine had a chess clock and labelled the two clocks 'work' and 'doss' (slang for not work). Whenever he was busy proving theorems, running statistical models, the 'work' clock was running. If you went into his office and asked him about the soccer game last night, he would hit the clock and 'doss' would start ticking.
I made some ethernet jewellery for some geek friends who got married (yes, it happens) recently. I put them in a nice box labelled 'to my favourite twisted pair'.
I followed a link from a Google Maps Sightseeing page for the Great Wall of China, but I couldn't see it. That settles the argument about it being visible from space - you can't even see it from the internet:)
Try RefBase, and get everyone in your department to use it. Then you'll have a dept-wide database of references, just a few clicks away, and easily inserted into your LaTeX documents via BiBTeX. Its the way.
About: refbase is a Web-based multi-user interface for managing scientific literature and bibliographic references. It offers powerful search tools and automatically generated citation lists.
Last year I computed a distance-weighted adjustment of the Eurovision scores, on the basis that if you voted for a country far away from you, you must have really liked the song since its cultural attachments to you are weaker than a song from your neighbour. So if you like faraway songs they must be really good, and hence worthy of more marks.
I got a map of Europe, used the locations of the capital cities as surrogate coordinates, computed the distance matrix, and reweighted the score from the Eurovision website to adjust for this.
Here's the top 5 from my adjusted list (left) and the original list (right):
Dont be so sure. I looked at Moodle for a deployment at my site, and discovered there was no way to hide grades from students. We wanted the teachers to be able to keep the grades hidden until the quiz was closed, or possibly afterwards. So I hacked at the PHP until it did it.
Of course I suggested this change back to the moodle people but it didn't fit in with their philosophy - how can withholding grades possibly benefit the students? Well, I'm no educational theorist, I just have to do what the lecturers here think is a good idea. So the moodle people didn't want my patches.
Anyway, that doesn't stop us using our patched version. The cost doesn't enter into it. If a commercial package doesn't have a feature you are normally even less likely to get a patch accepted, even if you can write the patch in the first place..
Troll?
If you do the math its because for certain values of the exact geometry there are multiple solutions in the range [0,pi] for t in the equation k.t+phi = tan(v.t) (where k is the rotational rate of the camera, v is the velocity of the flyby probe, phi is the angle of the camera to the probe at time t=0).
Obviously there are other solutions as the camera rotates round again, and I've assumed the camera is static and the probe is in a constant speed linear path.
The above maths is pretty simple, every graduate should be capable of computing it. Its hardly rocket science. Oh hang on, maybe it is!
I'm guessing the encryption password needs to be re-entered on reboot (before mounting the FS, it seems). So if the feds bust in and kick you off your warez box, as long as they dont switch it off, they've got your 0-day filez in the plain. Just dd it all across the network.
And oh yeah, with SMB as your network file system, is the traffic securely encrypted? Weakest link, and all that...
There's enough power in radio transmissions to be able to pick them up without power. I used to have a little radio set where you clipped a croc clip to something big and metal (like a radiator, which is probably connected to the rest of your heating system) and then stuck an earphone in your lughole. You could get the main radio stations.
A long way to being able to power a PC though. Now microwaves.....
Last night's episode had aliens disguised as politicians trying to start a phoney war by claiming alien forces had "massive weapons of destruction" that could be unleashed in "45 seconds".
And the reason for the war? They wanted the earth for fuel. Mmm. Sounds familiar...
Now that the BBC cant be overtly political, what with the coming election, its sneaking its politics covertly into "kids" programmes:)
Slashdot Mirror
That's an 'in-depth' review and we dont see the guts of the thing? Take the darn thing to pieces so the fanboys dont have to. But they will anyway...
Baz
Nah, we used the classic approx 12" diameter reels of what I guess was about 1/2" tape.
I'm getting all sorts of memories now. The thing was supposed to automatically spool the tape onto the take-up spool, but that was unreliable. To try and make it work you had to trim the end of the tape with a handy trimmer that was kept on top of the drive. This cut the end of the tape into a nice 'V' shape that should feed better. Too much trimming would eventually bite into your data.
The auto-feed was rubbish even with trimming, so you ended up having to feed it through by hand.
And the 'write-protect' tags were badly designed too. In order to write-protect a tape you removed the plastic write-protect ring. The best option was to keep one plastic ring per tape DRIVE, not per tape. You kept this on the tape drive. Then you removed all the other rings and played hoop-la with them on the nearest coat-rack.
If you wanted to write on a tape, you had to insert the ring from the tape drive, hence it was a failsafe mechanism - if you accidentally left a precious tape in the mechanism without a ring you couldnt overwrite it.
Baz
Possibly because the computer is the size of a large room, the tape drive is half the size of a car, and the air-conditioning for it is in danger of melting. Maybe.
When I was a physicist we had a DEC VAX with a tape drive, it took a whole room, and probably had less power than my laptop. Tape drives are not small things.
In case anyone else doesn't get it, it is the difference between 'Man eating shark' and 'Man-eating shark'. People who don't understand the difference can be seen running scared out of Chinese restaurants.
I'm guessing this is meant to read 'U.S. Government-Crafted OSS'. Then it makes sense.
I cant really agree with you, there's an awful lot of production goes into Hip-hop and Rap, getting the bass just right so it kicks you out of the club headfirst.
But I dont think FM radio or low-bitrate MP3s will handle being cranked up to such volumes.
Albums in category Hip Hop
No albums were found in this category
Tracks in category Hip Hop
No tracks were found in this category
Albums in category Rap
No albums were found in this category
Tracks in category Rap
No tracks were found in this category
Yet they have 36 pages of Progressive Rock. Draw your own conclusion...
Hard-copy is more reliable than hard disk or GPS RAM. If this data is costing you a packet to collect, and going back to do it again is not an option you want to have to explore, then get your coordinates onto paper as soon as possible. Print several copies and post some of them off. If you do lose your digital data, its cheaper to get it retyped or OCRd from printouts.
My GPS glitched three times in Morocco - possibly the dodgy power in the Land Rover. On the third time the reset cleared the memory. I lost the waypoint I was heading for, as well as all the stored locations I had.
I re-entered the waypoints from a book, and we were on our way again.
Yes, paper can burn, get soggy, get lost, get eaten by rodents - but then so can computer hardware.
Baz
A friend of mine had a chess clock and labelled the two clocks 'work' and 'doss' (slang for not work). Whenever he was busy proving theorems, running statistical models, the 'work' clock was running. If you went into his office and asked him about the soccer game last night, he would hit the clock and 'doss' would start ticking.
His days worked out with a 50:50 work-doss ratio!
Baz
Maybe several people will do this. Perhaps they think of forking Phrack. Try saying that seven times fast.
I made some ethernet jewellery for some geek friends who got married (yes, it happens) recently. I put them in a nice box labelled 'to my favourite twisted pair'.
I followed a link from a Google Maps Sightseeing page for the Great Wall of China, but I couldn't see it. That settles the argument about it being visible from space - you can't even see it from the internet :)
Dont you mean:
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster connected by these things!"
Try RefBase, and get everyone in your department to use it. Then you'll have a dept-wide database of references, just a few clicks away, and easily inserted into your LaTeX documents via BiBTeX. Its the way.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/refbase/
About:
refbase is a Web-based multi-user interface for managing scientific literature and bibliographic references. It offers powerful search tools and automatically generated citation lists.
http://www.refbase.net/
There's a few other similar projects listed on Freshmeat that may fit you better, just search for "bibtex".
Baz
...blatantly ripping off The Matrix graphics, names, logo, and then worrying about other people infringing copyright....
Baz
Now someone photoshop (or gimp) a wind farm turbine onto a PC case and put it up as an example of Xtreme Fan Kooling Teknologee.
Baz
I used to program on a VM/CMS machine, and we used REXX. The first line in every file had to be a comment. My usual comment was: /* IBM REXX LIVES! */
which changed meaning depending on how you pronounced the third word...
Baz
Last year I computed a distance-weighted adjustment of the Eurovision scores, on the basis that if you voted for a country far away from you, you must have really liked the song since its cultural attachments to you are weaker than a song from your neighbour. So if you like faraway songs they must be really good, and hence worthy of more marks.
I got a map of Europe, used the locations of the capital cities as surrogate coordinates, computed the distance matrix, and reweighted the score from the Eurovision website to adjust for this.
Here's the top 5 from my adjusted list (left) and the original list (right):
cyprus 280 ukraine 280
ukraine 273 serbiamontenegro 263
greece 263 greece 252
turkey 245 turkey 195
serbiamontenegro 199 cyprus 170
So Cyprus jumped four places by my system into first place!
I should have cranked this system up again for this year, offered it to the TV companies, profit!!
The big irony is that I had a proper scientific paper (on malaria prevalence) REJECTED by Nature this year, and then they produce this fluff! Gah!
Baz
Dont be so sure. I looked at Moodle for a deployment at my site, and discovered there was no way to hide grades from students. We wanted the teachers to be able to keep the grades hidden until the quiz was closed, or possibly afterwards. So I hacked at the PHP until it did it.
Of course I suggested this change back to the moodle people but it didn't fit in with their philosophy - how can withholding grades possibly benefit the students? Well, I'm no educational theorist, I just have to do what the lecturers here think is a good idea. So the moodle people didn't want my patches.
Anyway, that doesn't stop us using our patched version. The cost doesn't enter into it. If a commercial package doesn't have a feature you are normally even less likely to get a patch accepted, even if you can write the patch in the first place..
Troll?
His next project is sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads....
If you do the math its because for certain values of the exact geometry there are multiple solutions in the range [0,pi] for t in the equation k.t+phi = tan(v.t) (where k is the rotational rate of the camera, v is the velocity of the flyby probe, phi is the angle of the camera to the probe at time t=0).
Obviously there are other solutions as the camera rotates round again, and I've assumed the camera is static and the probe is in a constant speed linear path.
The above maths is pretty simple, every graduate should be capable of computing it. Its hardly rocket science. Oh hang on, maybe it is!
TFA suggests you use his cryptfs script thus:
.bash_history file afterwards. Its the first place we look.
cryptfs -m Encryption key: secretstring
dont forget to zap your
Baz
I'm guessing the encryption password needs to be re-entered on reboot (before mounting the FS, it seems). So if the feds bust in and kick you off your warez box, as long as they dont switch it off, they've got your 0-day filez in the plain. Just dd it all across the network.
:)
And oh yeah, with SMB as your network file system, is the traffic securely encrypted? Weakest link, and all that...
Baz
PS yes, I know you're only doing legal stuff
There's enough power in radio transmissions to be able to pick them up without power. I used to have a little radio set where you clipped a croc clip to something big and metal (like a radiator, which is probably connected to the rest of your heating system) and then stuck an earphone in your lughole. You could get the main radio stations.
A long way to being able to power a PC though. Now microwaves.....
Its political satire.
:)
Last night's episode had aliens disguised as politicians trying to start a phoney war by claiming alien forces had "massive weapons of destruction" that could be unleashed in "45 seconds".
And the reason for the war? They wanted the earth for fuel. Mmm. Sounds familiar...
Now that the BBC cant be overtly political, what with the coming election, its sneaking its politics covertly into "kids" programmes
Baz