...about using old DSS/Primestar dishes for this type of thing. You should be able to pick up the dishes for cheap/free now a days. Would anyone care to post some links to resources on this subject?
How about Elvish? With the release of LotR: FotR a few short weeks ago, everyone wants to know more about Elvish. Then again, I don't know how to say "Hello World!" in Klingon, much less Elvish.:)
The downside of UWB for users is range, which is generally limited to around one kilometer with high gain antennas, and for the fastest data rates, can be measured in tens of feet. UWB trades bandwidth for distance, so longer links are slower.
Certainly better than 802.11a. Now 100mbits at 802.11b range is a reality!
Their internet access pipe gets a/.'ing before it can even get off the ground, there are gonna be a lot of screaming Aussies tomorrow! This brings a new meaning to DoS! A simple Slashdot linking will saturate all lines of communication with Australia.... Oops, I guess we did it again.
Durons make a great budget cpu...
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Especially now, since the price of the XP processors are ever increasing. For less than $150 I can get a Duron 1200 and a very capable companion motherboard, the ECS K7S5A. For $65 after shipping from Newegg.com (No, I have no vested interests in Newegg, I just like their customer support and shipping), you get a solid performing, stable, compatable motherboard with built in Sound and Lan. Nothing to scoff at. It even has overclockability using such programs as CPUFSB. The Durons are a great family, I think I may go ahead and get one now:)
it has much of the same problems other non-mainstream operating systems have, application support. Oh, and 3d accellerator support. I first was introduced to QNX through my 3COM Audrey( http://www.audreyhacking.com ), I then installed it as the primary OS on one of my older machines.
I was impressed with QNX, stable, fast, easy to setup(auto-detection on all hardware, unlike some operating systems I know...), quake3 ran:D, etc. However, what finally killed QNX for me was the sheer lack of decent applications. Sure it had phirc, abiword, phplay, etc, but those are no substitute for mirc, MS Word, winamp, etc. In the end I ended up dumping QNX, it is ment for embedded systems(Audrey) where it does well, but it simply is not a good desktop OS.
The article sites other uses, such as micromachine propulsion and military explosives, but I imagine this woudl make for the ultimate in copy protection, as well: "Unauthorized copy detected. This system will self-destruct in 10... 9..." Science Daily also has a copy."
You might use caution when using Science Daily's copy of this article, you never know what might pop up.
Speaking of cheap systems, does anyone know how overclockable the new Duron is? I'm almost tempted to buy one and another K7S5A and bump the FSB up to 133. A 1600MHz DuronXP(might as well call it that) should compete nicely with an Athlon XP 1900+, and at little more than 1/3 the price.
Tom's Hardware already did a review of the Celeron 1300 vs the Duron 1200 (benchmarks included the Celeron 1200) where the Duron simply spanks the Celeron.
SIS has restored my faith in AMD. The ECS K75SA motherboard is only $64 after shipping and works with any Socketed Athlon/Duron cpu. It is fast and stable, accepts DDR and SDR, built in networking and sound(ok, AC'97 isn't that great), a real winner. You can build a 1GHz system and only pay $120 for the cpu, heatsink/fan, and mobo.
...great for pirates. Seriously. The GameCube HAD an excellent antipiracy mechanism. Now all HK has to do is crack the disc, distrobution is no longer and issue.
Nintendo made an excellent decision as far as anti-piracy goes with the disc size. I personally love them. I have a feeling that the majority of Q purchases are going to be for the purpose of pirating the games in the near future.
Because of the price of the Q, I don't see piracy becomming a big deal. We know that there must be some heavy profit on each Q sold. This is probably to offset the potential piracy that Nintendo expects to occur.
The only reason we even see a Panasonic Q is because Panasonic probably cut Nintendo a deal on the drives that are in every GameCube.
Hopefully, we can reduce the weight of the fuel and oxidizer that's needed to be carried on board the vehicle and that will decrease the size of the vehicle," said NASA scientist Kenneth House. "So hopefully, we could get more payload into space with less of the fuel."
They want to reduce the fuel needed. Meaning the launch vehicles will have to do some thrust by themselves, but not nearly as much.
Also, some people have noted that g-forces would be a problem. Not likely, if we angle the vehicle at a 45-degree starting angle we drastically reduce the ammount of g-forces needed.
Another point, the maglev system is frictionless. The LV is at no time during the launch touching the track. You've seen bullet-trains, right? Same consept. This further reduces the work needed to launch a vehicle.
I do see this system working. It will probably be 10 years or so, but it will work.
Now understand I know very little in the approach, but from what I gather, microkernal operating systems run all drivers as services. You can actually kill your keyboard, sound, disk access, etc. driver with a simple kill command. This also allows easy portabliity and scalability because all of your drivers are not IN the kernel code itself, but external programs.
So tell me, what advantages/disadvantages does this have over QNX? QNX may be closed source, but it is free for home use. I really would like to know how this stacks up against QNX, in which I was actually able to play Quake3, WITH SOUND! Oh, and QNX sets-up and configures everything on my system, AND WORKS, you cant get much better than that.
Something about HURD that doesn't make sense to me. One gigabyte partitions and FOUR distro cds. Now lets say each CD only uses 512megs. That is two gigabytes. Something here strike you as odd?
Anyways, I am really not an avid linux person, after attempting to install debian(video setup, ARGH!!), mandrake(VNC would stop the system from finishing boot), and darwin(ok, that was stupid to even try). Things like QNX and Windows 9x/2k just work. So Windows9x is unstable, at least I can get it installed with my eyes shut.
Really, is 1.5Mbits too slow for $50 a month? Perhaps you can do better with dsl? (Hint: you can't)
I have Charter Pipeline and I think it may be caped @ 1.5Mbits (I used to get 2-2.5Mbits max), do you see me complaining?
No, I think $34/month(1 year contract) is an excellent deal for 256kbit/1.5mbit cable that has about a 99.5% uptime.
Your friend should count himself lucky to still have cable in his situation.
No thanks. As the owner of several VIA chipset boards I can personally vouch for their unstability. If an Intel solution(i845D) offers performance on par with the VIA solution, I'll take the Intel solution ANY DAY. It's worth not having all kinds of hardware conflicts(SB Live anyone?) and crashes.
Why do people even want to bother with this kind of thing? A simple video in board and some PVR software on a Shuttle FV24 with an additional remote would be a much better solution.
Perhaps its just that geeks prefer to hack things apart more than hacking them together?
Seems to me that the Treo has(had) more of everything that the iPod has.
More than twice the size.
More than twice the weight.
More than twice the difficulty in using.
More than twice the storage capacity.
More than half the price.
More than one thirty-fourth the transfer speed!!!
Mighty impressive. Apple has more than inpressed me these past few months. I tried a firewire iBook at circuit city and was convinced that it was time to make the transition from x86. I'm waiting for the G4 iBook and G5 Desktop before iBuy into Apple.
"In addition to a new station crew and supplies, Endeavour is carrying a host of scientific investigations, including experiments from space agencies, schools and universities across the United States, Europe and South America as well as a small satellite that has involved more than 25,000 students in 26 countries. "
So what exactly does this massive student project satellite do?
"1. home priced, 2. stable, and 3. respectful of privacy (as opposed to an authentication system that reveals your telephone number to Microsoft). "
Windows 2000 Professional:
1. home priced; $138 for full retail version
2. stable; yep, its stable all right
3. respectful of privacy (as opposed to an authentication system that reveals your telephone number to Microsoft).; No authenication here.
However, Windows 2000 is vulnerable to viruses much more than any of your open soure OSes. Why? Because 1. Microsoft cannot properly secure their software. 2. Windows has penetration to where Joe Average is the main user.
As for Regedit not having its own icon: That's like saying there should be a button on every desktop that activates rm -rf /
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...about using old DSS/Primestar dishes for this type of thing. You should be able to pick up the dishes for cheap/free now a days. Would anyone care to post some links to resources on this subject?
While this may be stating the obvious, we all knew that a key generator would eventually come along. After all, nothing is unbreakable....
I guess they used an IBM hdd...
How about Elvish? With the release of LotR: FotR a few short weeks ago, everyone wants to know more about Elvish. Then again, I don't know how to say "Hello World!" in Klingon, much less Elvish. :)
Certainly better than 802.11a. Now 100mbits at 802.11b range is a reality!
Their internet access pipe gets a /.'ing before it can even get off the ground, there are gonna be a lot of screaming Aussies tomorrow! This brings a new meaning to DoS! A simple Slashdot linking will saturate all lines of communication with Australia.... Oops, I guess we did it again.
Especially now, since the price of the XP processors are ever increasing. For less than $150 I can get a Duron 1200 and a very capable companion motherboard, the ECS K7S5A. For $65 after shipping from Newegg.com (No, I have no vested interests in Newegg, I just like their customer support and shipping), you get a solid performing, stable, compatable motherboard with built in Sound and Lan. Nothing to scoff at. It even has overclockability using such programs as CPUFSB. The Durons are a great family, I think I may go ahead and get one now :)
it has much of the same problems other non-mainstream operating systems have, application support. Oh, and 3d accellerator support. I first was introduced to QNX through my 3COM Audrey( http://www.audreyhacking.com ), I then installed it as the primary OS on one of my older machines.
:D, etc. However, what finally killed QNX for me was the sheer lack of decent applications. Sure it had phirc, abiword, phplay, etc, but those are no substitute for mirc, MS Word, winamp, etc. In the end I ended up dumping QNX, it is ment for embedded systems(Audrey) where it does well, but it simply is not a good desktop OS.
I was impressed with QNX, stable, fast, easy to setup(auto-detection on all hardware, unlike some operating systems I know...), quake3 ran
You might use caution when using Science Daily's copy of this article, you never know what might pop up.
Speaking of cheap systems, does anyone know how overclockable the new Duron is? I'm almost tempted to buy one and another K7S5A and bump the FSB up to 133. A 1600MHz DuronXP(might as well call it that) should compete nicely with an Athlon XP 1900+, and at little more than 1/3 the price.
SIS has restored my faith in AMD. The ECS K75SA motherboard is only $64 after shipping and works with any Socketed Athlon/Duron cpu. It is fast and stable, accepts DDR and SDR, built in networking and sound(ok, AC'97 isn't that great), a real winner. You can build a 1GHz system and only pay $120 for the cpu, heatsink/fan, and mobo.
...great for pirates. Seriously. The GameCube HAD an excellent antipiracy mechanism. Now all HK has to do is crack the disc, distrobution is no longer and issue.
Nintendo made an excellent decision as far as anti-piracy goes with the disc size. I personally love them. I have a feeling that the majority of Q purchases are going to be for the purpose of pirating the games in the near future.
Because of the price of the Q, I don't see piracy becomming a big deal. We know that there must be some heavy profit on each Q sold. This is probably to offset the potential piracy that Nintendo expects to occur.
The only reason we even see a Panasonic Q is because Panasonic probably cut Nintendo a deal on the drives that are in every GameCube.
They want to reduce the fuel needed. Meaning the launch vehicles will have to do some thrust by themselves, but not nearly as much.
Also, some people have noted that g-forces would be a problem. Not likely, if we angle the vehicle at a 45-degree starting angle we drastically reduce the ammount of g-forces needed.
Another point, the maglev system is frictionless. The LV is at no time during the launch touching the track. You've seen bullet-trains, right? Same consept. This further reduces the work needed to launch a vehicle.
I do see this system working. It will probably be 10 years or so, but it will work.
The article doesn't go into details, but it sounds to me like it's just extended range HomePNA. Did I miss something?
ION Storm had a rise?
Now understand I know very little in the approach, but from what I gather, microkernal operating systems run all drivers as services. You can actually kill your keyboard, sound, disk access, etc. driver with a simple kill command. This also allows easy portabliity and scalability because all of your drivers are not IN the kernel code itself, but external programs.
So tell me, what advantages/disadvantages does this have over QNX? QNX may be closed source, but it is free for home use. I really would like to know how this stacks up against QNX, in which I was actually able to play Quake3, WITH SOUND! Oh, and QNX sets-up and configures everything on my system, AND WORKS, you cant get much better than that.
Something about HURD that doesn't make sense to me. One gigabyte partitions and FOUR distro cds. Now lets say each CD only uses 512megs. That is two gigabytes. Something here strike you as odd?
Anyways, I am really not an avid linux person, after attempting to install debian(video setup, ARGH!!), mandrake(VNC would stop the system from finishing boot), and darwin(ok, that was stupid to even try). Things like QNX and Windows 9x/2k just work. So Windows9x is unstable, at least I can get it installed with my eyes shut.
I believe a better wording would be: Dude, you're goin' to jail!
That it was bound to happen. The guy knew this would happen, he just got a lot of free publicity and testing.
Also, this is ONE hole, how many of Microsoft's holes have been exposed? I don't even want to start counting.
Really, is 1.5Mbits too slow for $50 a month? Perhaps you can do better with dsl? (Hint: you can't)
I have Charter Pipeline and I think it may be caped @ 1.5Mbits (I used to get 2-2.5Mbits max), do you see me complaining?
No, I think $34/month(1 year contract) is an excellent deal for 256kbit/1.5mbit cable that has about a 99.5% uptime.
Your friend should count himself lucky to still have cable in his situation.
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/1.3.19 Server at www.introversion.co.uk Port 80
So this is what happens when Apache can't handle a
No thanks. As the owner of several VIA chipset boards I can personally vouch for their unstability. If an Intel solution(i845D) offers performance on par with the VIA solution, I'll take the Intel solution ANY DAY. It's worth not having all kinds of hardware conflicts(SB Live anyone?) and crashes.
Perhaps its just that geeks prefer to hack things apart more than hacking them together?
Seems to me that the Treo has(had) more of everything that the iPod has.
More than twice the size.
More than twice the weight.
More than twice the difficulty in using.
More than twice the storage capacity.
More than half the price.
More than one thirty-fourth the transfer speed!!!
Mighty impressive. Apple has more than inpressed me these past few months. I tried a firewire iBook at circuit city and was convinced that it was time to make the transition from x86. I'm waiting for the G4 iBook and G5 Desktop before iBuy into Apple.
So what exactly does this massive student project satellite do?
"1. home priced, 2. stable, and 3. respectful of privacy (as opposed to an authentication system that reveals your telephone number to Microsoft). " Windows 2000 Professional: 1. home priced; $138 for full retail version 2. stable; yep, its stable all right 3. respectful of privacy (as opposed to an authentication system that reveals your telephone number to Microsoft).; No authenication here. However, Windows 2000 is vulnerable to viruses much more than any of your open soure OSes. Why? Because 1. Microsoft cannot properly secure their software. 2. Windows has penetration to where Joe Average is the main user. As for Regedit not having its own icon: That's like saying there should be a button on every desktop that activates rm -rf /