Once in a city, pick up a local phonebook and look for Internet Cafes. They'll be advertised in it. And if you don't find any in a particular area, you're on your honeymoon! You should have better things to do.
BTW, it'll also keep your BIOS clock running at the right speed. If you find it dropping 6 minutes an hour when you get to Europe, then that's why.
Huh? The only thing the electronics see is DC voltage. And this one is the same wherever you go; that's why you can pick a european video card (eg Guillemot) (or whatever other computer part) and plug it without problem in your computer. So given that, could you explain how the BIOS is supposed to drop 6 minutes an hour? Moreover, that drop is 10%, and the difference between 50Hz and 60Hz is 16.7% or 20%, depending on which one is the reference.
Given their current (known and unkown) computers, how long until they crack the Universe? And does that mean that once they cracked it, no matter what cipher or keylength or passphrase I use, they'll be able to decrypt my messages?
But if you work there, please don't give the winner of the World Cup. I wan't to see it live as everyone else.
You're right, I'm wrong. It wasn't a brown envelope. It was a skiing vacation in the Rockies, and everybody knows that she prefers to do sight-seeing on a Mediterranean cruise...
Hope it wasn't the UK reserve in NY... although it makes sense to keep some unmarked plutonium reserve in a foreign country rather than on it's own soil. If something goes wrong, it's far enough, and you can always blame somebody else if it's robbed.
If you know the initial state of the lights and they are conventional lightbulbs
Say the initial state is all the lights are on (initial state is not necessarily all off). You'd get three warm bulbs. And that's assuming you can feel them (glass preventing you from touching, too high, etc.).
On those old CPU's, it was the motherboard only which was saying what was the multiplier to the CPU. By decreasing it (probably jumpers, might be dipswitches) to 1.5-2, you still have enough juice to do the routing/firewalling/NATing, but the power consumption will be quite lower (power is directly proportional to frequency for the same core). Or get a more massive passive heatsink: there were some Pentium 166 shipped with only a passive heatsink (HP I think, could be Compaq or Dell or any combination of the above).
Warning: try to answer yourself before reading the rest of this comment.
1) (Never saw those at a bank or elsewhere, but I think I can still figure out how they're made) So you need to be able to express all the numbers from 1 to 31, with 12 cube faces. You need 10 faces for 0,1,... 8, 9. Then you need an extra 1, 2 and 3 for the tens. Which gives 13 faces, right? Wrong! You don't need two 3, as 33 is not a day of a month.
Now how to distribute those 12 symbols on the 2 cubes: You need both 1 and both 2 on different cubes (obviously). The rest can then be spread anyway you want, even though there's probably a way which minimizes the number of cube switching during the month.
Or, if you always want to show both cubes (which the previous answer didn't do), all you need is the 6 and the 9 to the inverse of each other. Then, cube A has 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and cube B has 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 (with the 9 being an inverted 6).
2) I'd say 2 times, assuming you know the initial state of the lights, 3 times otherwise.
If you know the initial state, flip 2 switches, then see which lights have changed state. The one which didn't is the one connected to the switch you didn't use. Then reflip one of the 2 switches you started with. The light which has now changed state is connected to it, so the 3rd light and the 3rd switch are connected.
If you don't know the initial state, there's no purpose to flip some switches randomly and then enter the room, so enter and look at the state of the lights. Then do as above.
3) Build the dome on top of a flat roof with a round hole in the middle which connects the dome's base to the squared walls. Or if you don't care about the weather and/or the sun, make the diameter of your dome the same as the length of the walls: it will rest on the middle of each wall.
My turn:
1) How do you form 4 equal triangles with 6 matches? You can only connect the matches at their ends.
2) How do you cut a cake in 8 equal parts with only 3 cuts?
3) Assuming that with the previous question, not everybody had the same amount of topping, how do you cut the cake in 8 equal parts (topping included) with only 3 cuts?
My point is they did a documentary on something, then market it to those same people (region free DVD, etc), but fail to address one of the needs of those same people by not allowing free software to play the trailer and/or the first 8 minutes. I was looking forward to maybe buy it, but since I can't see either the trailer nor the preview on the exact platform they based the movie on, I won't.
An mpeg would be really difficult to produce... right?
I juste tried to download the trailer of Revolution OS, and since I use Mozilla 1.0rc2 (yes, I know 1.0rc3 has been released) on Linux, I'm not able to view it. It seems to be offered in Real, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Flash(?, probably for surfing the site and not the actual film). So I'm not sure who's targetted by this... but I know I'm not able to view it easily (could fire up Mplayer, but still need a copy of the actual file). Not very good for a film of this nature.
Transgaming offers binary packages (RPM, deb and tgz) to subscribers only. These packages have the copy-protection, an updated InstallShield core, and a few other things that they licensed themselves. For non subscribers, they have their public Sourceforge CVS tree. No source package, no binary package, only raw CVS source.
I don't think they'll stop the (subscriber's) debian package: there's no reason to do so.
If you'd like to compare, the LGPL'd Wine (the official branch) offers CVS source tree and about a release a month, packaged as a tgz (source only). Some other individuals (see WineHQ for a small list) package it and distribute binaries.
There were still a lot of things for the original trilogy. Remember that scene in Spaceballs, in Yogurt's temple, where he shows off some merchandises? Lunch boxes, t-shirts, even a flame-thrower!
That's way before TPM. And it is a satyre, but still, even for then, it was maybe a bit too much.
As for the 2 films of Katz's article, I saw AotC twice, and I haven't seen Spider-Man yet, and don't plan to see it. Why? I followed the Star Wars story, and liked it. TPM wasn't the best film ever, but if you like (love) something, you must be able to forgive. And I never been hooked by the Spider-Man story. Not before 9/11 (when it was originally supposed to go out, remember?), and especially not after. Come on, it almost looks like cold-war or WWII propaganda!
Different juridictions: you're in Washington state (so in the US), they (and I) are in Canada. They drove from Sherbrooke (Québec) to the military base of Gagetown (New-Brunswick) for a launch, which is about 10 hours.
It makes him not only a pilot, but also the owner (and launcher) of an object which could (depending on commercial flight routes in his area) end up near a commercial (or private) plane. Or be mistaken for a missile, and acted upon accordingly by the US military.
I know there are some rules you must observe if you wish to launch a model rocket. Some guys at my Uni were (are still probably) designing a small rocket able to reach a couple kilometers high (not manned, very small payload). They can't just launch it from anywhere: for one of their latest tests, they had to take it to a military base nearly 10 hours away to be able to do it legally.
If you don't get clearance beforehand, you will have some serious problems if it is to reach a couple kilometers high and be detected by military (or civilian) radars. Of course, thi is assuming the guy survives the launch and the flight...
Whitout the judge's exact ruling, you can't say for sure if there are loopholes (or problems) with it. Remember it's a recap by a journalist, which he probably interpreted some way or the other.
"Commercially available": if I sell commercially (or offer to sell commercially, along with a free (beer) version) some cracking tools (with or without a warning about not using them on other networks), can Mafiaboy use them?
For the "hackers", the judge probably didn't use that word, and it was probably more geared towards IRCing in crackerz (or 31337) chatrooms.
And your last point... it means if he does it again, he is liable for doing it in the first place, and then for doing it when a judge told him not to do it. I'm not sure about the name of that charge though, but it's more serious (recidivist).
Bruce talks about 99.9%, so there's 0.1% left, not 0.01% as the story says right now.
If a person is mistaken once for a terrorist (or a "normal" criminal), don't you think other recognition points will do the same mistake? What do you do then? Plan a few extra hours each time you take the plane? Get an official letter stating "I'm not a terrorist"? If a simple letter can get you through, terrorists will get some.
One type of case I'd have liked to see reviewed is cubes like the Chenbro's or Yeong Yang's. I think Enermax does some also. Basically, instead of having a full tower, you have have something twice as wide, but half as high, with the same (actually, probably more) room inside for 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 devices.
Personally, I bought a YY-0221. Although it's quite heavy, it's easier to move around (comes with casters) and to carry than a full tower of the same weight. And it fits easily under my desk (which was a reason to go with it). The only drawback is from a cooling POV. There's no exhaust fan around the CPUs, and since the PSU is in the drives compartment, it can get quite hot. Solution: put a fan through the top (not done yet, probably today).
That means that your flow is not balanced. In your case, you seem to have more flow outwards than inwards.
The normal air flow in a case is to go in at the front of the case, then cooling whatever is in the path (HDD, RAM, CPU), then thrown out by the rear (mostly by the PSU, but more and more with a second fan below the PSU, just after the CPU).
Could you verify if the fan(s) in the front are actually pulling air in the case? It may be that it is (they are) reversed, so there's negative pressure inside the case, which then sucks air through all the holes it can. If not, your exhaust fan(s) might be too powerful for the intake fan(s), achieving the same problem.
Take any minitower, put your stuff in it (the older the better or almost for heat), and forget about it in a corner. I'm toying with the idea of buying a VIA CPU ~800MHz to put in such a rig. With a motherboard which has video/lan, an old cdrom and 128MB SDRAM, you can get it (around here) for less than $CAN185 (including 15% tax), which is roughly $US115. Before tax, it's $CAN170 ($US105). Not very expensive for a computer.
The other use for such an otherwise wimpy CPU is in small personal clusters. Now if I only could get a reason to actually buy a couple of those...
At first I thought they had the client partof Q3A or UT or whatever other FPS running on a cluster of computers (along the lines of those x nodes control the graphics, those y nodes control the physics, etc.). But after readding their FAQ, the're only hosting servers on a farm of servers. It's a lot less appealing that way.
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Saw it in the frontpage of NTCW, which is a retailer in the Vancouver area. Looks like it's more solid than it first appeared...
Once in a city, pick up a local phonebook and look for Internet Cafes. They'll be advertised in it. And if you don't find any in a particular area, you're on your honeymoon! You should have better things to do.
BTW, it'll also keep your BIOS clock running at the right speed. If you find it dropping 6 minutes an hour when you get to Europe, then that's why.
Huh? The only thing the electronics see is DC voltage. And this one is the same wherever you go; that's why you can pick a european video card (eg Guillemot) (or whatever other computer part) and plug it without problem in your computer. So given that, could you explain how the BIOS is supposed to drop 6 minutes an hour? Moreover, that drop is 10%, and the difference between 50Hz and 60Hz is 16.7% or 20%, depending on which one is the reference.
Given their current (known and unkown) computers, how long until they crack the Universe?
And does that mean that once they cracked it, no matter what cipher or keylength or passphrase I use, they'll be able to decrypt my messages?
But if you work there, please don't give the winner of the World Cup. I wan't to see it live as everyone else.
You're right, I'm wrong. It wasn't a brown envelope. It was a skiing vacation in the Rockies, and everybody knows that she prefers to do sight-seeing on a Mediterranean cruise...
Judge said the brown envelope sent to her address wasn't big enough to warrant such a thing.
(Note for humour impaired: don't moderate it)
Hope it wasn't the UK reserve in NY... although it makes sense to keep some unmarked plutonium reserve in a foreign country rather than on it's own soil. If something goes wrong, it's far enough, and you can always blame somebody else if it's robbed.
Uniformize the platforms? Ditch some of the boxes? Laptop? A new box which will be your "server", and all other machines access it?
If you know the initial state of the lights and they are conventional lightbulbs
Say the initial state is all the lights are on (initial state is not necessarily all off). You'd get three warm bulbs. And that's assuming you can feel them (glass preventing you from touching, too high, etc.).
On those old CPU's, it was the motherboard only which was saying what was the multiplier to the CPU. By decreasing it (probably jumpers, might be dipswitches) to 1.5-2, you still have enough juice to do the routing/firewalling/NATing, but the power consumption will be quite lower (power is directly proportional to frequency for the same core). Or get a more massive passive heatsink: there were some Pentium 166 shipped with only a passive heatsink (HP I think, could be Compaq or Dell or any combination of the above).
Warning: try to answer yourself before reading the rest of this comment.
,1, ... 8, 9. Then you need an extra 1, 2 and 3 for the tens. Which gives 13 faces, right? Wrong! You don't need two 3, as 33 is not a day of a month.
1) (Never saw those at a bank or elsewhere, but I think I can still figure out how they're made) So you need to be able to express all the numbers from 1 to 31, with 12 cube faces. You need 10 faces for 0
Now how to distribute those 12 symbols on the 2 cubes: You need both 1 and both 2 on different cubes (obviously). The rest can then be spread anyway you want, even though there's probably a way which minimizes the number of cube switching during the month.
Or, if you always want to show both cubes (which the previous answer didn't do), all you need is the 6 and the 9 to the inverse of each other. Then, cube A has 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and cube B has 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 (with the 9 being an inverted 6).
2) I'd say 2 times, assuming you know the initial state of the lights, 3 times otherwise.
If you know the initial state, flip 2 switches, then see which lights have changed state. The one which didn't is the one connected to the switch you didn't use. Then reflip one of the 2 switches you started with. The light which has now changed state is connected to it, so the 3rd light and the 3rd switch are connected.
If you don't know the initial state, there's no purpose to flip some switches randomly and then enter the room, so enter and look at the state of the lights. Then do as above.
3) Build the dome on top of a flat roof with a round hole in the middle which connects the dome's base to the squared walls. Or if you don't care about the weather and/or the sun, make the diameter of your dome the same as the length of the walls: it will rest on the middle of each wall.
My turn:
1) How do you form 4 equal triangles with 6 matches? You can only connect the matches at their ends.
2) How do you cut a cake in 8 equal parts with only 3 cuts?
3) Assuming that with the previous question, not everybody had the same amount of topping, how do you cut the cake in 8 equal parts (topping included) with only 3 cuts?
Those were fun to do: do you have more?
They didn't do a backup of the evidence before somebody could destroy it?
My point is they did a documentary on something, then market it to those same people (region free DVD, etc), but fail to address one of the needs of those same people by not allowing free software to play the trailer and/or the first 8 minutes. I was looking forward to maybe buy it, but since I can't see either the trailer nor the preview on the exact platform they based the movie on, I won't.
An mpeg would be really difficult to produce... right?
I juste tried to download the trailer of Revolution OS, and since I use Mozilla 1.0rc2 (yes, I know 1.0rc3 has been released) on Linux, I'm not able to view it. It seems to be offered in Real, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Flash(?, probably for surfing the site and not the actual film). So I'm not sure who's targetted by this... but I know I'm not able to view it easily (could fire up Mplayer, but still need a copy of the actual file). Not very good for a film of this nature.
Anybody had more luck than me?
Transgaming offers binary packages (RPM, deb and tgz) to subscribers only. These packages have the copy-protection, an updated InstallShield core, and a few other things that they licensed themselves. For non subscribers, they have their public Sourceforge CVS tree. No source package, no binary package, only raw CVS source.
I don't think they'll stop the (subscriber's) debian package: there's no reason to do so.
If you'd like to compare, the LGPL'd Wine (the official branch) offers CVS source tree and about a release a month, packaged as a tgz (source only). Some other individuals (see WineHQ for a small list) package it and distribute binaries.
There were still a lot of things for the original trilogy. Remember that scene in Spaceballs, in Yogurt's temple, where he shows off some merchandises? Lunch boxes, t-shirts, even a flame-thrower!
That's way before TPM. And it is a satyre, but still, even for then, it was maybe a bit too much.
As for the 2 films of Katz's article, I saw AotC twice, and I haven't seen Spider-Man yet, and don't plan to see it. Why? I followed the Star Wars story, and liked it. TPM wasn't the best film ever, but if you like (love) something, you must be able to forgive. And I never been hooked by the Spider-Man story. Not before 9/11 (when it was originally supposed to go out, remember?), and especially not after. Come on, it almost looks like cold-war or WWII propaganda!
What will be the next cloned species? Dinosaurs? Bad idea...
Different juridictions: you're in Washington state (so in the US), they (and I) are in Canada. They drove from Sherbrooke (Québec) to the military base of Gagetown (New-Brunswick) for a launch, which is about 10 hours.
It makes him not only a pilot, but also the owner (and launcher) of an object which could (depending on commercial flight routes in his area) end up near a commercial (or private) plane. Or be mistaken for a missile, and acted upon accordingly by the US military.
I know there are some rules you must observe if you wish to launch a model rocket. Some guys at my Uni were (are still probably) designing a small rocket able to reach a couple kilometers high (not manned, very small payload). They can't just launch it from anywhere: for one of their latest tests, they had to take it to a military base nearly 10 hours away to be able to do it legally.
If you don't get clearance beforehand, you will have some serious problems if it is to reach a couple kilometers high and be detected by military (or civilian) radars. Of course, thi is assuming the guy survives the launch and the flight...
Whitout the judge's exact ruling, you can't say for sure if there are loopholes (or problems) with it. Remember it's a recap by a journalist, which he probably interpreted some way or the other.
"Commercially available": if I sell commercially (or offer to sell commercially, along with a free (beer) version) some cracking tools (with or without a warning about not using them on other networks), can Mafiaboy use them?
For the "hackers", the judge probably didn't use that word, and it was probably more geared towards IRCing in crackerz (or 31337) chatrooms.
And your last point... it means if he does it again, he is liable for doing it in the first place, and then for doing it when a judge told him not to do it. I'm not sure about the name of that charge though, but it's more serious (recidivist).
Bruce talks about 99.9%, so there's 0.1% left, not 0.01% as the story says right now.
If a person is mistaken once for a terrorist (or a "normal" criminal), don't you think other recognition points will do the same mistake? What do you do then? Plan a few extra hours each time you take the plane? Get an official letter stating "I'm not a terrorist"? If a simple letter can get you through, terrorists will get some.
One type of case I'd have liked to see reviewed is cubes like the Chenbro's or Yeong Yang's. I think Enermax does some also. Basically, instead of having a full tower, you have have something twice as wide, but half as high, with the same (actually, probably more) room inside for 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 devices.
Personally, I bought a YY-0221. Although it's quite heavy, it's easier to move around (comes with casters) and to carry than a full tower of the same weight. And it fits easily under my desk (which was a reason to go with it). The only drawback is from a cooling POV. There's no exhaust fan around the CPUs, and since the PSU is in the drives compartment, it can get quite hot. Solution: put a fan through the top (not done yet, probably today).
That means that your flow is not balanced. In your case, you seem to have more flow outwards than inwards.
The normal air flow in a case is to go in at the front of the case, then cooling whatever is in the path (HDD, RAM, CPU), then thrown out by the rear (mostly by the PSU, but more and more with a second fan below the PSU, just after the CPU).
Could you verify if the fan(s) in the front are actually pulling air in the case? It may be that it is (they are) reversed, so there's negative pressure inside the case, which then sucks air through all the holes it can. If not, your exhaust fan(s) might be too powerful for the intake fan(s), achieving the same problem.
Take any minitower, put your stuff in it (the older the better or almost for heat), and forget about it in a corner. I'm toying with the idea of buying a VIA CPU ~800MHz to put in such a rig. With a motherboard which has video/lan, an old cdrom and 128MB SDRAM, you can get it (around here) for less than $CAN185 (including 15% tax), which is roughly $US115. Before tax, it's $CAN170 ($US105). Not very expensive for a computer.
The other use for such an otherwise wimpy CPU is in small personal clusters. Now if I only could get a reason to actually buy a couple of those...
At first I thought they had the client partof Q3A or UT or whatever other FPS running on a cluster of computers (along the lines of those x nodes control the graphics, those y nodes control the physics, etc.). But after readding their FAQ, the're only hosting servers on a farm of servers. It's a lot less appealing that way.