Yep. unlike modern HP's all but one of the gears on the HP LJIII Plus are metal, I know because I repaired one with 1.3 million pages on it where the plastic gear had developed plastic rot. It was a bit annoying to get to but it's been almost 4 years since that repair and the machine hasn't needed any additional servicing =)
iPod's may be mountable as Firewire drives but you can't just dump music to it. The iPod has a database that keeps track of all of the songs and playlists currently on the player. If you don't update the db then it's as if the songs never got transfered. Luckily the format is either open or easily reversed because there are programs like ephpod that can rebuild it.
20 people sharing a single dsl/cable line would not be very practical
Why not? I see this all the time in small/branch offices for businesses. If it's good enough for a business why shouldn't it be good enough for the freeloaders? Sure not everyone can be streaming video but with cable at least most of em could be streaming audio and certainly they all could be surfing even fairly heavy pages, especially if you use transparant squid on the PC along with the traffic shaping/blocking. And finally an.11g card that has a hard time talking to an.11b card is either not compliant to the standard or is talking to an AP which is not. None of the standards compliant equipment I've tested has any problems.
Where the hell do you live that you can get 1.5Mb up DSL for 'the extra $10/month'. Everywhere I've seen 768/128 ADSL runs around $40-50 month and business class SDSL with that kind of bandwidth runs more like $200-300/month.
Iron Mountain (who are the big boys in record management and offsite storage) has this to say in the fist paragraph of their corporate history:
Iron Mountain has come a long way since the 50's, when a depleted iron ore mine in upstate New York was converted to the United States' first secure underground records storage center designed to protect corporate vital records in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
I know as of Win98 and NT4 that Windows does NOT grok Rockridge correctly, they instead went and implemented Joliet, which is of course patented as you mentioned. Not sure what the status is on 2k but XP supports it according to This site. Anything older than 2k doesn't matter to me anymore but I think most manufacturers will have to worry about them for a little while longer.
I think any place that sells car batteries is required to accept used lead acid batteries for disposal. They probably just throw em in with the car batteries that get sent to a place that reconditions them.
My CPA told me you are probably safe with the greater of the 'reasonable sale price' or purchase price minus standard depreciation table methods. You just have to be able to justify it to an auditor should it come to that. Obviously overvalued deductions can get you flagged for an audit and should you be overstating your case the fines, penalties, and headaches will make it SO not worth it.
Well if you use non-retarded memory like say most CF storage then it's not a problem because the flash cells are never physically rewritten the same way twice. This keeps things like the beginning of the cells from wearing out while the later portions are never touched. For MMC and some other dump flash varients this logic has to be done in the controlling device rather than the memory itself.
ISO-9660 also has some severe limitations on the max tree depth and max length of a complete tree name. It's not much of a problem for cameras but for MP3 players it could be if you want to do things like genre->artist->period->album->title or other variations thereof. I know because I wrote my own little frontend program for a TMBG compilation MP3 cd and I had to rename some of the files because the max characters was exceeded. I also had a backup fail because I had too deap of a tree.
Uh except FAT32 has been in use since 1996 and it is now late 2003 and MS is just now going after people, in the tech field that IS a submarine patent!
Or: 600$ for the desktop/LCD combo, with no APM/ACPI, with minimal/no real power management,
WTF?? Since when do desktops not have APM/ACPI ??? And beyond that there are desktops based around desktop versions of the lower power laptop chips that allow you to do the same kind speed bumping both manually and automagically through software. Not only that but you can manually turn off the LCD when you want =) These kinds of systems can get within about 20% of the power usage of a desktop replacement laptop.
I've been a devotee to Targus ever since I got my Palm Pilot. I knew I needed a case and after the first cheap plastic case I bought broke I replaced it with something nice and in leather, a Targus as it turned out. Flash forward three months and I'm out of my third story balcony, my 18 month old son comes out to hug me and knocks the case off my belt. I think "Oh shit there goes $250", because the case with Pilot on board had fallen 3.5 stories onto the ground floors cement padio. Well I rush downstairs and grab the case, open it up expecting to find scrambled bits and broken glass. NOTHING was damaged, and I continue to use that same Pilot almost 4 years later =)
You obviosly can't read. The first generation that is expected to go in soon is 100MB/s or 1Gbps, not too shabby but as you note not as fast as the currently available high speed commercial solutions. The next generation is going to be 10GB/s or 100Gb/s more than twice as fast as the fastest commonly available circuits today and 10 times faster than the fastest LAN technology currently deployed.
As of this week China can be officially declared a FORMER communist country. The upper house introduced a bill that is sure to pass guarenteeing private property rights. This is the end of any idea of communism in China and the beginning of their own brand of socialist capatalism more along the lines of Europe.
Itanium2 does have lockstepping but it is being removed in future models in favor of an I/O based checking method which Intel's engineers claims is needed because lockstepping exposes transient soft errors as errors to the software layer, I say GOOD! The software SHOULD know when errors are happening so that you can spot trends. It's a lot easier to do trend analysis for failing components if you have the information, if you only get reports on some percentage of errors then you might miss an oportunity to catch failing hardware before it becomes too late. Also Itaniums performance in the real world is far below synthetic benchmarks for most applications because the design requires smart compilers, VERY smart ones, but the design is so new and so divergent from everything else that the compilers for EPIC are immature.
You CAN replace the iPod's battery if you aren't a pansy about opening consumer electronics. In fact for series 1 and 2 iPod's you can get an ~20% higher capacity replacement. The folks at the strangely named ipodbattery.com will be happy to sell them to you and they even include instructions on how to do it =)
Just do what HP does, put two CPU's on die and have them both run the calculation and checksum the results, a non-zero result means the calcs are run again by both CPU's, a second non-zero result and that CPU is disabled. This is why it's a real shame that HP decided to go with Itanic, it's a toy compared to their existing equipment.
What are you talking about, there are 2GB and 4GB sticks on the market today if you have the cash. They are extremely expensive and Apple does not guarentee that they will work although independant tests show that the G5's will work with 2GB sticks.
Well actually he's mostly correct in that without specific hacks both of the major OS's for 32bit platforms will only allow 2GB for the application space, with hacks NT based OS's will go to 3GB and Linux will go to 3.5GB (I guess more if you really wanted). You are correct though that he flubbed the calculation vs storage thing though. Then again there isn't a real world machine that can address a full 64bits =)
My guess is they ran a tool like Rational Purify against the source. Purify is the best of breed memory leak and runtime error detection tool, but there are others including some open source tools. If Purify wasn't so expensive I would say that all open source projects should have a regular audit with it since it really gets rid of a lot of the stupid errors that are the norm in any large software project.
Evergreen made such an upgrade kit for 486 systems that allowed a low end Pentium CPU to run with the 486's motherboard limitations. They are still around and some info can be foun at their website
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Well since modern evidence shows that leap second(s) might not have been needed After all maybe Unix wasn't so wrong in ignoring it =)
Yep. unlike modern HP's all but one of the gears on the HP LJIII Plus are metal, I know because I repaired one with 1.3 million pages on it where the plastic gear had developed plastic rot. It was a bit annoying to get to but it's been almost 4 years since that repair and the machine hasn't needed any additional servicing =)
iPod's may be mountable as Firewire drives but you can't just dump music to it. The iPod has a database that keeps track of all of the songs and playlists currently on the player. If you don't update the db then it's as if the songs never got transfered. Luckily the format is either open or easily reversed because there are programs like ephpod that can rebuild it.
20 people sharing a single dsl/cable line would not be very practical
.11g card that has a hard time talking to an .11b card is either not compliant to the standard or is talking to an AP which is not. None of the standards compliant equipment I've tested has any problems.
Why not? I see this all the time in small/branch offices for businesses. If it's good enough for a business why shouldn't it be good enough for the freeloaders? Sure not everyone can be streaming video but with cable at least most of em could be streaming audio and certainly they all could be surfing even fairly heavy pages, especially if you use transparant squid on the PC along with the traffic shaping/blocking. And finally an
Where the hell do you live that you can get 1.5Mb up DSL for 'the extra $10/month'. Everywhere I've seen 768/128 ADSL runs around $40-50 month and business class SDSL with that kind of bandwidth runs more like $200-300/month.
Iron Mountain (who are the big boys in record management and offsite storage) has this to say in the fist paragraph of their corporate history:
Iron Mountain has come a long way since the 50's, when a depleted iron ore mine in upstate New York was converted to the United States' first secure underground records storage center designed to protect corporate vital records in the event of a nuclear holocaust.
I know as of Win98 and NT4 that Windows does NOT grok Rockridge correctly, they instead went and implemented Joliet, which is of course patented as you mentioned. Not sure what the status is on 2k but XP supports it according to This site. Anything older than 2k doesn't matter to me anymore but I think most manufacturers will have to worry about them for a little while longer.
I think any place that sells car batteries is required to accept used lead acid batteries for disposal. They probably just throw em in with the car batteries that get sent to a place that reconditions them.
My CPA told me you are probably safe with the greater of the 'reasonable sale price' or purchase price minus standard depreciation table methods. You just have to be able to justify it to an auditor should it come to that. Obviously overvalued deductions can get you flagged for an audit and should you be overstating your case the fines, penalties, and headaches will make it SO not worth it.
mostly talking limits and various permutations thereof.
Well if you use non-retarded memory like say most CF storage then it's not a problem because the flash cells are never physically rewritten the same way twice. This keeps things like the beginning of the cells from wearing out while the later portions are never touched. For MMC and some other dump flash varients this logic has to be done in the controlling device rather than the memory itself.
ISO-9660 also has some severe limitations on the max tree depth and max length of a complete tree name. It's not much of a problem for cameras but for MP3 players it could be if you want to do things like genre->artist->period->album->title or other variations thereof. I know because I wrote my own little frontend program for a TMBG compilation MP3 cd and I had to rename some of the files because the max characters was exceeded. I also had a backup fail because I had too deap of a tree.
Uh except FAT32 has been in use since 1996 and it is now late 2003 and MS is just now going after people, in the tech field that IS a submarine patent!
Or: 600$ for the desktop/LCD combo, with no APM/ACPI, with minimal/no real power management,
WTF??
Since when do desktops not have APM/ACPI ??? And beyond that there are desktops based around desktop versions of the lower power laptop chips that allow you to do the same kind speed bumping both manually and automagically through software. Not only that but you can manually turn off the LCD when you want =) These kinds of systems can get within about 20% of the power usage of a desktop replacement laptop.
Well in Calculus devision by zero can be zero, one, infinity, or undefined.
I've been a devotee to Targus ever since I got my Palm Pilot. I knew I needed a case and after the first cheap plastic case I bought broke I replaced it with something nice and in leather, a Targus as it turned out. Flash forward three months and I'm out of my third story balcony, my 18 month old son comes out to hug me and knocks the case off my belt. I think "Oh shit there goes $250", because the case with Pilot on board had fallen 3.5 stories onto the ground floors cement padio. Well I rush downstairs and grab the case, open it up expecting to find scrambled bits and broken glass. NOTHING was damaged, and I continue to use that same Pilot almost 4 years later =)
You obviosly can't read. The first generation that is expected to go in soon is 100MB/s or 1Gbps, not too shabby but as you note not as fast as the currently available high speed commercial solutions. The next generation is going to be 10GB/s or 100Gb/s more than twice as fast as the fastest commonly available circuits today and 10 times faster than the fastest LAN technology currently deployed.
As of this week China can be officially declared a FORMER communist country. The upper house introduced a bill that is sure to pass guarenteeing private property rights. This is the end of any idea of communism in China and the beginning of their own brand of socialist capatalism more along the lines of Europe.
Itanium2 does have lockstepping but it is being removed in future models in favor of an I/O based checking method which Intel's engineers claims is needed because lockstepping exposes transient soft errors as errors to the software layer, I say GOOD! The software SHOULD know when errors are happening so that you can spot trends. It's a lot easier to do trend analysis for failing components if you have the information, if you only get reports on some percentage of errors then you might miss an oportunity to catch failing hardware before it becomes too late. Also Itaniums performance in the real world is far below synthetic benchmarks for most applications because the design requires smart compilers, VERY smart ones, but the design is so new and so divergent from everything else that the compilers for EPIC are immature.
You CAN replace the iPod's battery if you aren't a pansy about opening consumer electronics. In fact for series 1 and 2 iPod's you can get an ~20% higher capacity replacement. The folks at the strangely named ipodbattery.com will be happy to sell them to you and they even include instructions on how to do it =)
Just do what HP does, put two CPU's on die and have them both run the calculation and checksum the results, a non-zero result means the calcs are run again by both CPU's, a second non-zero result and that CPU is disabled. This is why it's a real shame that HP decided to go with Itanic, it's a toy compared to their existing equipment.
What are you talking about, there are 2GB and 4GB sticks on the market today if you have the cash. They are extremely expensive and Apple does not guarentee that they will work although independant tests show that the G5's will work with 2GB sticks.
Well actually he's mostly correct in that without specific hacks both of the major OS's for 32bit platforms will only allow 2GB for the application space, with hacks NT based OS's will go to 3GB and Linux will go to 3.5GB (I guess more if you really wanted). You are correct though that he flubbed the calculation vs storage thing though. Then again there isn't a real world machine that can address a full 64bits =)
My guess is they ran a tool like Rational Purify against the source. Purify is the best of breed memory leak and runtime error detection tool, but there are others including some open source tools. If Purify wasn't so expensive I would say that all open source projects should have a regular audit with it since it really gets rid of a lot of the stupid errors that are the norm in any large software project.
Evergreen made such an upgrade kit for 486 systems that allowed a low end Pentium CPU to run with the 486's motherboard limitations. They are still around and some info can be foun at their website