That may have been it. You are totally right about it being touchy. If you had a decent machine it worked reasonably well, but there was always that guy with the problem child machine that caused endless problems. At one point we discovered that if you used the chat box while the game was starting, the 486 guy's UART would crash (forcing him to cold reboot).
A couple of years later people bought their 10Mb Ethernet cards and coax cables and started the LAN party craze.
If you wanted to really troll your friends, you could bring that 386 to a LAN party, especially if they all had shiny new Pentiums. Doom framelocked everybody to the slowest computer in the group, so the previously butter smooth Doom gameplay would instead be a slideshow on their powerful machines.
I remember the days of doing 4 player games using serial ports (you had to have guys with 2 serial port machines in the middle) using some third party utility that I've long forgotten the name of. In college we used the ROLM phones to dial two computers together, and NULL modem cables to connect the roomates up for 4 player games without having to lug any machines around, it was glorious, unless we were connecting to that jerk with the 25Mhz 486 Packard Bell with the flaky UART.
I imagine leakage from the batteries might be a good chunk of that. Even a small 0.5%/day leakage adds up when you've got a huge battery pack. 40W to run a dash computer (with the screen off!) is definitely excessive, especially since it uses a chipset designed for tablets and phones.
“Get her on an airplane and get her here,” Judge Alsup responded. “She’s a U.S. citizen. She doesn’t need a visa. I’m not going to believe that she can’t get on a plane until she tries again. ”
Um, isn't this kind of the point of a No-Fly list? It doesn't matter if you are a US Citizen, if you're on the list you don't get to fly. The alternatives are either finding a boat or chartering a private flight I think. I suspect that she will be able to board the plane if she tries again however, I can't imagine the government attorneys are going to let that much egg hit them right in the face.
I've always found it shocking that after reading about how important it is to apply paste properly and take the time to do it right when building my own machine, every time I open up an OEM box I discover the paste just globbed on there willy nilly with a caulking gun. nVidia had a huge problem with this back with the 8xxx series GPUs in laptops.
I know some guy making $0.30/day in China isn't going to take a credit card and insure a perfectly smooth and even coating of thermal paste before carefully applying the cooler, but there must be a better way than blorting it on like a 3 year old with a tube of oil paint.
I must mother my drives like crazy, because I only have one that is less than 5 years old right now, out of I think 10 or so currently spinning in different machines. This includes 4 laptop drives too, which are notorious for their shorter lifespans. I have had drives fail on me, but only 1 in the past decade. Most of the time I upgrade drives not because they're failing, but because they're too small for their job and I can replace a old 4 disk array with a single drive and still quadruple the capacity.
In my experience the first part to fail is usually one of the cheapass fans that are stuffed in most PCs. Most people don't notice though because there's still enough cooling in the box to keep it from dying outright. Of course the hot spot in the box leads to more component failures (especially hard drives, they hate being hot).
Plus, you don't have to worry about the replacement drive coming in from a different batch that has 100 fewer sectors on it. You can tell a new RAID admin because he will accept the system's default of "use every sector on the drive" instead of reserving.1% for drive manufacturer rounding shenanigans.
I don't know, maybe the situation is better today, but if I'm put in charge of a RAID array, I'm always going to shave off a few sectors out of distrust of drive manufacturers.
One thing to remember about 10k RPM drives is that they get [b]hot[/b], and being hot kills drives. If you have a fast drive, it [i]needs[/i] active cooling or it will cook itself.
I had a buddy who was always complaining that hard drives were crap and they always failed way too quickly. He actually used the warranty on his drives regularly it was so bad. One time I was over at his place when he was pulling yet another drive for replacement. He turned his machine off, took off the cover and stopped. After waiting for a bit I asked him what he was doing, and he explained that he had to wait a bit before removing the drive so he didn't get burnt. That was probably an exaggeration, but it was too hot to hold in your hand apparently. The drive was sandwiched in between two other drives in an unventilated bay with big fat ribbon cables behind them blocking any possible airflow. He eventually got a new case that had fans mounted in the front of each drive bay and suddenly his drives started seeing their first birthday.
That's only if you absolutely cannot run a drive outside of its warranty period. Drives aren't so expensive that if you have to replace one out of pocket that you will be in trouble. If the 2 year drive is the same as the 5 year drive but costs 1/3 less, I know which one I will pick. The company will always try to charge you more for the warranty than they think it is worth (they're trying to make a profit here), so as long as you have enough slush funds to cover the cost of a failed drive there isn't a lot f benefit in the longer warranty.
Sometimes a longer warranty means the manufacturer thinks the item will last that much longer on average, but with hard drives it mostly seems to be a way to siphon extra money out of businesses for the same product.
Hey Apple: I'd rather have a phone with longer battery life than one that is so thin I have to wear glove to avoid being cut by the edges and uses an obnoxious 2.5mm headphone jack.
IIRC with a Prius there is still a mechanical linkage, but it has a good amount of play before it engages the brakes. So if you lightly tap the pedal the computer can switch over to regen braking without using the pads, but if you stomp the pedal far enough the pads will be engaged.
It helps when a lot of the parents are MIT grads and engineers as well. There is a cycle of ignorance where parents who are uneducated tend to have children who are uninterested in education. These kids end up squandering their school years and then have their own kids, who perpetuate the cycle.
I grew up in West Virginia, in a not particularly wealthy or prestigious part of the state. However, we did have a lot of local chemical plants, and thus lots of chemical engineers. When these sorts of tests came around, our local school districts would totally blow the curve for the state because of the local concentration of motivated kids from stable families. Only the elite prep schools tested higher, and then mostly because they were free to reject poorer performing kids. Incidentally, this is also why voucher programs are so pernicious, they suck all of the engaged students out of the system and leave the public schools with nothing but the dregs, causing them to fail and convincing lawmakers that they need to pursue more voucher programs.
Are fly by wire brakes even legal? It was my understanding that there must always be a mechanical linkage between the brake pedal and the brakes, just to give you a hail mary if your brake booter craps out.
You're creating a whole bunch of induced current in the circuits, there is a definite possibility that something is not going to work right after being hit by it.
On the other hand, I look at these laws as simply protectionism for the middlemen. They're disgusting. We've all been paying too much for our cars because they didn't want to have to compete with a more efficient business model and convinced the local governments to enshrine their profits in the law.
They could include nonprintable characters and it would still only be 256^5 == ~1.1 trillion passwords. A GPU cracker can run through about 350 billion guesses per second. Interestingly enough, it would burn through the entire password list in close to pi seconds (3.1414 seconds).
Your bank has shitty security. A 5 character limit means if their password list is ever leaked then the entire list could be bruteforced in just a few hours on a cheap GPU assisted rig. Probably less than that, since a 5 character limit suggests that it is using a very old legacy system somewhere, and that system probably doesn't support anything like a modern hash function.
That's only true if you never reuse passwords, which means you're pretty much forced to use something like Keypass anyway, and might as well make the password secure since it's just as easy to use a 32 character random string as it is a normal human password. If you don't use a password manager, then it's hard to come up with a memorable password for every goddamn site that needs a login these days. It's so damn annoying to google a problem and find a potential solution, but then click on the link and bet told "you must register a free account before you can view this forum."
Every time someone sets up forum software to require an account to simply read it, they should be kicked in the nuts. Requiring an account to post is totally ok, but requiring an account to read is not.
For watching movies or writing code that 30hz refresh will be perfectly fine. Fire up a FPS on there and you'll be feeling the choppiness. The difference between 30fps and 60fps is absolutely noticeable in fullscreen games.
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That may have been it. You are totally right about it being touchy. If you had a decent machine it worked reasonably well, but there was always that guy with the problem child machine that caused endless problems. At one point we discovered that if you used the chat box while the game was starting, the 486 guy's UART would crash (forcing him to cold reboot).
A couple of years later people bought their 10Mb Ethernet cards and coax cables and started the LAN party craze.
I don't know where you live, but in my country extortion is a crime.
If you wanted to really troll your friends, you could bring that 386 to a LAN party, especially if they all had shiny new Pentiums. Doom framelocked everybody to the slowest computer in the group, so the previously butter smooth Doom gameplay would instead be a slideshow on their powerful machines.
I remember the days of doing 4 player games using serial ports (you had to have guys with 2 serial port machines in the middle) using some third party utility that I've long forgotten the name of. In college we used the ROLM phones to dial two computers together, and NULL modem cables to connect the roomates up for 4 player games without having to lug any machines around, it was glorious, unless we were connecting to that jerk with the 25Mhz 486 Packard Bell with the flaky UART.
I imagine leakage from the batteries might be a good chunk of that. Even a small 0.5%/day leakage adds up when you've got a huge battery pack. 40W to run a dash computer (with the screen off!) is definitely excessive, especially since it uses a chipset designed for tablets and phones.
Um, isn't this kind of the point of a No-Fly list? It doesn't matter if you are a US Citizen, if you're on the list you don't get to fly. The alternatives are either finding a boat or chartering a private flight I think. I suspect that she will be able to board the plane if she tries again however, I can't imagine the government attorneys are going to let that much egg hit them right in the face.
I've always found it shocking that after reading about how important it is to apply paste properly and take the time to do it right when building my own machine, every time I open up an OEM box I discover the paste just globbed on there willy nilly with a caulking gun. nVidia had a huge problem with this back with the 8xxx series GPUs in laptops.
I know some guy making $0.30/day in China isn't going to take a credit card and insure a perfectly smooth and even coating of thermal paste before carefully applying the cooler, but there must be a better way than blorting it on like a 3 year old with a tube of oil paint.
I must mother my drives like crazy, because I only have one that is less than 5 years old right now, out of I think 10 or so currently spinning in different machines. This includes 4 laptop drives too, which are notorious for their shorter lifespans. I have had drives fail on me, but only 1 in the past decade. Most of the time I upgrade drives not because they're failing, but because they're too small for their job and I can replace a old 4 disk array with a single drive and still quadruple the capacity.
In my experience the first part to fail is usually one of the cheapass fans that are stuffed in most PCs. Most people don't notice though because there's still enough cooling in the box to keep it from dying outright. Of course the hot spot in the box leads to more component failures (especially hard drives, they hate being hot).
Plus, you don't have to worry about the replacement drive coming in from a different batch that has 100 fewer sectors on it. You can tell a new RAID admin because he will accept the system's default of "use every sector on the drive" instead of reserving .1% for drive manufacturer rounding shenanigans.
I don't know, maybe the situation is better today, but if I'm put in charge of a RAID array, I'm always going to shave off a few sectors out of distrust of drive manufacturers.
One thing to remember about 10k RPM drives is that they get [b]hot[/b], and being hot kills drives. If you have a fast drive, it [i]needs[/i] active cooling or it will cook itself.
I had a buddy who was always complaining that hard drives were crap and they always failed way too quickly. He actually used the warranty on his drives regularly it was so bad. One time I was over at his place when he was pulling yet another drive for replacement. He turned his machine off, took off the cover and stopped. After waiting for a bit I asked him what he was doing, and he explained that he had to wait a bit before removing the drive so he didn't get burnt. That was probably an exaggeration, but it was too hot to hold in your hand apparently. The drive was sandwiched in between two other drives in an unventilated bay with big fat ribbon cables behind them blocking any possible airflow. He eventually got a new case that had fans mounted in the front of each drive bay and suddenly his drives started seeing their first birthday.
So you're saying that enterprise data architects are big XBox One fans?
That's only if you absolutely cannot run a drive outside of its warranty period. Drives aren't so expensive that if you have to replace one out of pocket that you will be in trouble. If the 2 year drive is the same as the 5 year drive but costs 1/3 less, I know which one I will pick. The company will always try to charge you more for the warranty than they think it is worth (they're trying to make a profit here), so as long as you have enough slush funds to cover the cost of a failed drive there isn't a lot f benefit in the longer warranty.
Sometimes a longer warranty means the manufacturer thinks the item will last that much longer on average, but with hard drives it mostly seems to be a way to siphon extra money out of businesses for the same product.
Hey Apple: I'd rather have a phone with longer battery life than one that is so thin I have to wear glove to avoid being cut by the edges and uses an obnoxious 2.5mm headphone jack.
IIRC with a Prius there is still a mechanical linkage, but it has a good amount of play before it engages the brakes. So if you lightly tap the pedal the computer can switch over to regen braking without using the pads, but if you stomp the pedal far enough the pads will be engaged.
It helps when a lot of the parents are MIT grads and engineers as well. There is a cycle of ignorance where parents who are uneducated tend to have children who are uninterested in education. These kids end up squandering their school years and then have their own kids, who perpetuate the cycle.
I grew up in West Virginia, in a not particularly wealthy or prestigious part of the state. However, we did have a lot of local chemical plants, and thus lots of chemical engineers. When these sorts of tests came around, our local school districts would totally blow the curve for the state because of the local concentration of motivated kids from stable families. Only the elite prep schools tested higher, and then mostly because they were free to reject poorer performing kids. Incidentally, this is also why voucher programs are so pernicious, they suck all of the engaged students out of the system and leave the public schools with nothing but the dregs, causing them to fail and convincing lawmakers that they need to pursue more voucher programs.
I'd say the guy with the 140cm thick torso probably needs a pacemaker.
Are fly by wire brakes even legal? It was my understanding that there must always be a mechanical linkage between the brake pedal and the brakes, just to give you a hail mary if your brake booter craps out.
Or just get a Diesel. Then the only thing you have to worry about is the fuel pump crapping out.
You're creating a whole bunch of induced current in the circuits, there is a definite possibility that something is not going to work right after being hit by it.
On the other hand, I look at these laws as simply protectionism for the middlemen. They're disgusting. We've all been paying too much for our cars because they didn't want to have to compete with a more efficient business model and convinced the local governments to enshrine their profits in the law.
They could include nonprintable characters and it would still only be 256^5 == ~1.1 trillion passwords. A GPU cracker can run through about 350 billion guesses per second. Interestingly enough, it would burn through the entire password list in close to pi seconds (3.1414 seconds).
Your bank has shitty security. A 5 character limit means if their password list is ever leaked then the entire list could be bruteforced in just a few hours on a cheap GPU assisted rig. Probably less than that, since a 5 character limit suggests that it is using a very old legacy system somewhere, and that system probably doesn't support anything like a modern hash function.
That's only true if you never reuse passwords, which means you're pretty much forced to use something like Keypass anyway, and might as well make the password secure since it's just as easy to use a 32 character random string as it is a normal human password. If you don't use a password manager, then it's hard to come up with a memorable password for every goddamn site that needs a login these days. It's so damn annoying to google a problem and find a potential solution, but then click on the link and bet told "you must register a free account before you can view this forum."
Every time someone sets up forum software to require an account to simply read it, they should be kicked in the nuts. Requiring an account to post is totally ok, but requiring an account to read is not.
That was a masterful troll sir, including The DaVinci Code in the list of literary works.
For watching movies or writing code that 30hz refresh will be perfectly fine. Fire up a FPS on there and you'll be feeling the choppiness. The difference between 30fps and 60fps is absolutely noticeable in fullscreen games.