Does anybody know where you might find those case LEDs (the ones with the pair of wires and the motherboard connector) for sale without having to buy the whole case (or a lot of 10,000)? I looked forever for those (I have a case with a few ATA cards in it and I wanted to connect up the LEDs to so I can see which chains are busy and what card is causing the occasional problems).
You'd think those LEDs would be everywhere, but so far all the ones I've managed to find have been scrounged from old cases. Even Radio Shack doesn't carry them (and I even looked through the catalog).
If you're good enough you can get away with Interim Secret while you wait on your Secret clearance (think 12-18 months). The Interim Secret is basically just a credit check and some various identity verification from what I can tell. You might apply for those jobs and just tell the interviewer that you don't have a clearance but are willing to get one. If they are desperate enough they should pony up the dough for the clearance and hire you.
I think that was only available on the IBM Deathstars. The feature you're thinking of is command tagged queueing, and it's pretty much the same as the CTQ used in sCSI drives (although with a much smaller tag limit). It doesn't really save much bus time, it's more a method of lowering average seek time by ordering your operations so the write head only has to seek in one direction instead of randomly jumping all over the place like in most ATA drives.
Both failed miserably (in the case of the Genesis the otherwise cheap add-on failed), and for the most part I remember people not bothering, because at that point, who in their right mind would play the "old" games when you had this new and powerful system in front of you?
Me, for one. I never had a PSx (also didn't have a DVD player), so when the PS2 came out I was all over the ability to play all of those old classic games I missed while I was in school, like Final Fantasy Tactics (translated by team All Your Base), or Bushido Blade. The emulation isn't perfect unfortunatly (Bushido blade had a minor graphics glitch) and the high speed disk spin option tends to break cutscenes on some games (Legend of Mana for instance). The texture smoothing feature is kind of nice, except I play mostly sprite based games.:/
That's not the way these cards work. I've been testing the cards for some time now and you don't need any fancy network equiptment (other than the cards themselves) to set this up. The Policy Server here is a Windows applications (downside: no automation ability in the beta I had, not even a simple scripting engine). Configuration is sent over the network as special UDP (I think) packet.
The card has a few oddities nonetheless. First, when you install these cards, you need to build an "install image" on the policy manager. You then have to run that after you put the card in the machine to flash it's firmware (the cards send heartbeats back to the Policy Server, so they have to know where to send them). In effect, your users always have to download an install from your network to set up their cards, they can't just go out to the web and grab one. Fortunatly the card works as a regular NIC before you flash it.
This card also includes IPSEC offload for people running VPNs and the like. I never actually got it to work, but it's supposed to do the encryption in hardware. Apparently the firewall sits OUTSIDE of the ipsec traffic though, so all it sees are the encrypted packets, which limits its usefulness considerably.
All in all the cards are OK, not supurb yet (that management console is very click intensive to use), and reasonably cheap for their target market. I think they stand a good chance of taking off, especially as corporate security folks notice that these are the perfect replacment for the ubiquitious software firewalls in use today.
One more thing I thought would be amusing. If someone were to steal your machine and turn it on elsewhere without noticing what card you have, the security folks would immediatly know where their machine went.
boggle How do you figure that? DDR (Double Data Rate) referrs to the speed at which the system can pull data from the chips, it has nothing to do with the size of the memory (which was the original posters point, 256 MB with WinXP is swap city once you start running moderatly memory hungry apps (like games!)).
I think you need to do a google search for "robots.txt".
Actually I've found robots.txt to be a little anemic (you can't tell the bots to ignore the entire site EXCEPT a certain directory easily), but it's been around long enough that everyone understands it.
Then you have the problem of random jerks finding the best sellers and giving them negative feedback even when the seller performs his duties. Remember, no matter what you do there are going to be people trying to make the whole process as difficult as possible for everyone.
Work for a Government contractor. There are several, Raytheon, TRW, MITRE, MITRETEK, or in just about any aerospace firm for starters. The contractors act as independant entities (they are) that are funded by the government (although indrectly sometimes). There is where you will find the smart people (contractors don't have as many weird pay-ceiling rules that the government employees have) working on problems that nobody else is doing. (If someone else IS doing it, the government tends to prefer to buy it off the shelf instead of hiring those expensive contractors to reinvent the wheel).
Bonuses:
Stable income
Good working hours (they're still on government time)
Upward mobility
Chance to work on problem (extending the Inernet to Mars for instance) that nobody else is even thinking about yet.
Smart people
Friendly towards post-graduate education. Most of the people I work with are Masters or PHDs
Can get you a security clearance, which makes you worth your weight in gold in the government sector, especially if you have a PHD
Negatives:
Government sponsers can be easily destracted. You must constantly reaffirm your importance to them.
Easier to get fired than a pure government job (especially for incompetence).
Lots of ex-military types, especially in the managerial positions. Many programers (and Slashdot types) would probably have at least some personality conflict. This is pretty minor as most of the people are good guys
Older more professional workforce, most of the people have familys and are settled down. It's not a.com where you don't trust anyone over 30. This is considered a bonus by many people.
You'll never get into Fortune magazine or on the news (unless you REALLY screw up).
Sorry, try again. An image compessed with PNG (even at the highest compression setting) will tend be considerably larger than the image compresed with JPEG. What PNG gives you is lossless compression and an alpha channel (that's not even properly supported in many browsers).
Yeah, but remember how annoying it was in Point Blank that you couldn't shoot up hills reliably (or at all IIRC). And the Plane was nearly impossible to use (plus it was easily shot out of the sky by those dammable missiles on the hovertank (or was it just a light tank?).) Still, it was plenty fun to play nonetheless.
If you're the kind of person who's going to be bothered by the sound of a quiet (probably 4800 RPM) hd thats not even active most of the time, then you aren't going to be listening to OGGs. You are going to be in your specially designed soundproof room with the CD on your $1M sound system listending to marginally better sounding music.
Heck, if you want to be really cheap you don't even need those IDE RAID cards. I built a home brew 650GB NAC for a little under $1500 several months ago (10 80GB drives, RAID5 through vinum on FreeBSD). Beware that Promise (who seemed like a natural choice) only supports 1 of any card in any system. In reality you can put 2 ATA100 adapters in a system (and a third "misc" adapter, like the on-board ATA controller or something). I have them broken into two LUNs so I can use the slave positions for the second LUN without impacting the performace of the system.
There are several caveats:
1. Cooling: keep those HDs cool (not easy in a standard case, but it can be done, you may need to rig some sort of active cooling on the HDs, especially if they are in half height 3 1/2 bays).
2. Power: Jury rigging a second power supply might be a good idea. In any case buy good high power power supplies.
3. Connectivity: I didn't need super high speeds, so I just used a decent 10/100 Ethernet card.
4. Case: Cases large enough to hold that many drives are not common, but they aren't too hard to find.
It's really not as hard of a project as it originally appears. And $4000 for a 480GB device is really pretty cheap in the business market from what I understand.
IMHO, the Click of Death was overrated. At least in my school it seemed the only people who got it were the people who abused their drives (dropping them, cramming those zip disks in there with 20 foot-pounds of force, etc...). The real reason the Zip drive is a footnote in history is the cost of the media. $10 for 100MB (which I believe is still the going rate) is way way too expensive to replace $0.30 floppy disks, even if they do hold more per dollar. I got a Zip drive thinking the media would come down to $1 or $2 a pop and people would use them like floppy disks. Most people don't mind if they loose a floppy or two trading files because they are so cheap, but a $10 zip disk is another matter entirely. Now my Zip drive gathers dust in the corner, fully obsolete by ethernet, broadband, and CD-Burner technologies. It is rather sobering to think that you can buy 25 (or in some cases 50!) CDs for the cost of a single zip disk.
Don't be so fast to knock that upstream bandwidth, it's faster than you can get with a cable modem if you were unlucky enough to be switched over to ComCast when @Home bit it.
When you post on a topic that you have already moderated all of your moderations are lost and your mod points wasted. Read the handbook and be enligtened.
Easy solution:
1. Install.
2. Go to Edit->Preferences...
3. Choose Privacy & Security->Images
4. Animated images should loop: Once or Never
Personally, I leave mine set on "Once" because sometimes I hit pages with animated images I want to see move (once). This won't stop Flash ads (but you can just kill the Flash plugin to get those).
Who's talking about the business. I'm talking about the consumers. If everybody in the business knows that Band Foo is wonderful, but they still have nothing but word of mouth (on the other side of the country/planet) to go on, chances are you'll never hear about them. This is where the internet and services like Napster could really shine, but they keep being shut down before people come up with truely innovative ways to utilize the huge base of music.
Slashdot Mirror
Prostitutes are better lying.
Just like the Lawyers.
I know in my area it is illegal to own a set of lockpicks unless you are a licensed locksmith. I don't know about slim jims though.
Does anybody know where you might find those case LEDs (the ones with the pair of wires and the motherboard connector) for sale without having to buy the whole case (or a lot of 10,000)? I looked forever for those (I have a case with a few ATA cards in it and I wanted to connect up the LEDs to so I can see which chains are busy and what card is causing the occasional problems).
You'd think those LEDs would be everywhere, but so far all the ones I've managed to find have been scrounged from old cases. Even Radio Shack doesn't carry them (and I even looked through the catalog).
If you're good enough you can get away with Interim Secret while you wait on your Secret clearance (think 12-18 months). The Interim Secret is basically just a credit check and some various identity verification from what I can tell. You might apply for those jobs and just tell the interviewer that you don't have a clearance but are willing to get one. If they are desperate enough they should pony up the dough for the clearance and hire you.
There's something vaguely satisfying about thinking that those 5 people who just tailgated you through that yellow got ticketed.
I think that was only available on the IBM Deathstars. The feature you're thinking of is command tagged queueing, and it's pretty much the same as the CTQ used in sCSI drives (although with a much smaller tag limit). It doesn't really save much bus time, it's more a method of lowering average seek time by ordering your operations so the write head only has to seek in one direction instead of randomly jumping all over the place like in most ATA drives.
Both failed miserably (in the case of the Genesis the otherwise cheap add-on failed), and for the most part I remember people not bothering, because at that point, who in their right mind would play the "old" games when you had this new and powerful system in front of you?
:/
Me, for one. I never had a PSx (also didn't have a DVD player), so when the PS2 came out I was all over the ability to play all of those old classic games I missed while I was in school, like Final Fantasy Tactics (translated by team All Your Base), or Bushido Blade. The emulation isn't perfect unfortunatly (Bushido blade had a minor graphics glitch) and the high speed disk spin option tends to break cutscenes on some games (Legend of Mana for instance). The texture smoothing feature is kind of nice, except I play mostly sprite based games.
That's not the way these cards work. I've been testing the cards for some time now and you don't need any fancy network equiptment (other than the cards themselves) to set this up. The Policy Server here is a Windows applications (downside: no automation ability in the beta I had, not even a simple scripting engine). Configuration is sent over the network as special UDP (I think) packet.
The card has a few oddities nonetheless. First, when you install these cards, you need to build an "install image" on the policy manager. You then have to run that after you put the card in the machine to flash it's firmware (the cards send heartbeats back to the Policy Server, so they have to know where to send them). In effect, your users always have to download an install from your network to set up their cards, they can't just go out to the web and grab one. Fortunatly the card works as a regular NIC before you flash it.
This card also includes IPSEC offload for people running VPNs and the like. I never actually got it to work, but it's supposed to do the encryption in hardware. Apparently the firewall sits OUTSIDE of the ipsec traffic though, so all it sees are the encrypted packets, which limits its usefulness considerably.
All in all the cards are OK, not supurb yet (that management console is very click intensive to use), and reasonably cheap for their target market. I think they stand a good chance of taking off, especially as corporate security folks notice that these are the perfect replacment for the ubiquitious software firewalls in use today.
One more thing I thought would be amusing. If someone were to steal your machine and turn it on elsewhere without noticing what card you have, the security folks would immediatly know where their machine went.
Great, Rob, throw this out while the blackout is going on,
I'd forgotten about that. No wonder the S/N ratio has been so high recently.
boggle How do you figure that? DDR (Double Data Rate) referrs to the speed at which the system can pull data from the chips, it has nothing to do with the size of the memory (which was the original posters point, 256 MB with WinXP is swap city once you start running moderatly memory hungry apps (like games!)).
I think you need to do a google search for "robots.txt".
Actually I've found robots.txt to be a little anemic (you can't tell the bots to ignore the entire site EXCEPT a certain directory easily), but it's been around long enough that everyone understands it.
Then you have the problem of random jerks finding the best sellers and giving them negative feedback even when the seller performs his duties. Remember, no matter what you do there are going to be people trying to make the whole process as difficult as possible for everyone.
Bonuses:
Negatives:
So the moral of the story: if you have broadband, make sure you treat it like a modem, because you want more bandwidth right?
...smaller files than JPG.
Sorry, try again. An image compessed with PNG (even at the highest compression setting) will tend be considerably larger than the image compresed with JPEG. What PNG gives you is lossless compression and an alpha channel (that's not even properly supported in many browsers).
Yeah, but remember how annoying it was in Point Blank that you couldn't shoot up hills reliably (or at all IIRC). And the Plane was nearly impossible to use (plus it was easily shot out of the sky by those dammable missiles on the hovertank (or was it just a light tank?).) Still, it was plenty fun to play nonetheless.
It seems they have put down the server.
It's better that way. We don't want to let their server continue to suffer (after being slashdotted).
If you're the kind of person who's going to be bothered by the sound of a quiet (probably 4800 RPM) hd thats not even active most of the time, then you aren't going to be listening to OGGs. You are going to be in your specially designed soundproof room with the CD on your $1M sound system listending to marginally better sounding music.
Heck, if you want to be really cheap you don't even need those IDE RAID cards. I built a home brew 650GB NAC for a little under $1500 several months ago (10 80GB drives, RAID5 through vinum on FreeBSD). Beware that Promise (who seemed like a natural choice) only supports 1 of any card in any system. In reality you can put 2 ATA100 adapters in a system (and a third "misc" adapter, like the on-board ATA controller or something). I have them broken into two LUNs so I can use the slave positions for the second LUN without impacting the performace of the system.
There are several caveats:
1. Cooling: keep those HDs cool (not easy in a standard case, but it can be done, you may need to rig some sort of active cooling on the HDs, especially if they are in half height 3 1/2 bays).
2. Power: Jury rigging a second power supply might be a good idea. In any case buy good high power power supplies.
3. Connectivity: I didn't need super high speeds, so I just used a decent 10/100 Ethernet card.
4. Case: Cases large enough to hold that many drives are not common, but they aren't too hard to find.
It's really not as hard of a project as it originally appears. And $4000 for a 480GB device is really pretty cheap in the business market from what I understand.
IMHO, the Click of Death was overrated. At least in my school it seemed the only people who got it were the people who abused their drives (dropping them, cramming those zip disks in there with 20 foot-pounds of force, etc...). The real reason the Zip drive is a footnote in history is the cost of the media. $10 for 100MB (which I believe is still the going rate) is way way too expensive to replace $0.30 floppy disks, even if they do hold more per dollar. I got a Zip drive thinking the media would come down to $1 or $2 a pop and people would use them like floppy disks. Most people don't mind if they loose a floppy or two trading files because they are so cheap, but a $10 zip disk is another matter entirely. Now my Zip drive gathers dust in the corner, fully obsolete by ethernet, broadband, and CD-Burner technologies. It is rather sobering to think that you can buy 25 (or in some cases 50!) CDs for the cost of a single zip disk.
Don't be so fast to knock that upstream bandwidth, it's faster than you can get with a cable modem if you were unlucky enough to be switched over to ComCast when @Home bit it.
You forgot to read the moderators handbook.
When you post on a topic that you have already moderated all of your moderations are lost and your mod points wasted. Read the handbook and be enligtened.
GAR! That'll teach me to preview. That link in step 1 should be for Mozilla.
Easy solution: .
1. Install
2. Go to Edit->Preferences...
3. Choose Privacy & Security->Images
4. Animated images should loop: Once or Never
Personally, I leave mine set on "Once" because sometimes I hit pages with animated images I want to see move (once). This won't stop Flash ads (but you can just kill the Flash plugin to get those).
Who's talking about the business. I'm talking about the consumers. If everybody in the business knows that Band Foo is wonderful, but they still have nothing but word of mouth (on the other side of the country/planet) to go on, chances are you'll never hear about them. This is where the internet and services like Napster could really shine, but they keep being shut down before people come up with truely innovative ways to utilize the huge base of music.