Once, I was working on a computer that seemed to have a dead power supply. I opened it up and noticed that a fuse on it was blown. So, I took a staple, and soldered it on top of the fuse to see if it would bring it back to life. When I plugged it in, the thing started shooting flames (or sparks or something) a few feet into the air, and making strange noises. Luckily, I unplugged it before anything bad happened. I learned that day that when a fuse blows in a power supply, it probably happened for a good reason.
Quicksearching in about:config was a much-needed feature. I always had trouble locating stuff in there, especially when I didn't know exactly what it was named.
Now they'll have to figure out how to prevent property loss associated with the repeated compaction of buildings from heavy misguided farming equipment...
But you could actually have passwords based on a 1 character alphabet. Just take a string, and treat it as a base 256 number. If the number comes out (in decimal) to, say, 238758237532, then you just have to make your password that length.
I found this Gamer's Internet Tunnel program a while back when attempting to play Starcraft without going through battle.net:
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/git/
It listens for almost any kind of traffic on a network, and relays it over TCP or UDP to another network, allowing LAN-only games to be played across the Internet. It might even work with GameCubes if you put a PC on the same LAN as one or more of them.
What we need is a disc that stores a really fricking huge amount of data. 23GB is nothing. How about 100TB? That'd be good. All they have to do is replace the red/blue/violet laser with some kind of evil death ray.
But the thing is, when the main warez sites with torrent links get shut down, this does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to prevent you from sharing your personal files, because your ability to share files has nothing to do with what other people are sharing. BitTorrent basically uses a completely separate network for every file that gets distributed, which is why it's so efficient at distributing individual files.
"So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
If the hardware is really the same on the two units, then it may be possible to put the Siemens firmware onto the SMC unit. You might want to try looking at both of them side by side in a hex editor to see if there are slight differences between the two to prevent cross-flashing.
You can do a similar thing with the RioVolt SP-250 MP3 player... you just change the header from an iRiver iMP-250 firmware to match that of the SP-250, and it allows you to use the (better) iRiver firmware on the Rio player.
I've heard that many (all?) of the Australian broadband options have limits on how much you can download per month. I hope it's not a sign of things to come in the rest of the world.
This sounds a bit like the part in Super Mario Bros 3 on the Nintendo, where you get to pick from a set of three boxes to see which power-up you collect. I was playing the game on an emulator, and I saved the state before picking a box, then reloaded the state to try all the boxes. It turns out that the item you win has already been predetermined, and all three boxes contain the same thing. I guess it saves memory and processing time if you only have to pick one random number instead of three, and the developers must have never considered that people would one day be able to emulate the game on an ordinary PC.
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Those coordinates seem to point to a place known as Green Island, located in New Zealand.
Or you could add some large speakers to the PDA, and pre-record all your music; then you don't even to turn pages at all. And you wouldn't need a piano.
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The word "loony" actually comes from "lunar," because it was once believed that people went crazy from exposure to moonlight.
But what if it were made of barbeque spare ribs. Would you eat it then?
Once, I was working on a computer that seemed to have a dead power supply. I opened it up and noticed that a fuse on it was blown. So, I took a staple, and soldered it on top of the fuse to see if it would bring it back to life. When I plugged it in, the thing started shooting flames (or sparks or something) a few feet into the air, and making strange noises. Luckily, I unplugged it before anything bad happened. I learned that day that when a fuse blows in a power supply, it probably happened for a good reason.
Does anyone know where I can pick up some Athlon seeds?
Proxies are allowed, too.
What about NAT?
Uncompressed Bitmaps + Slashdot = Very Bad
Quicksearching in about:config was a much-needed feature. I always had trouble locating stuff in there, especially when I didn't know exactly what it was named.
I didn't say anybody would want to do it... I just said it was possible.
When watching the video, I was rather disappointed when the 20th Generation figure at the end didn't trip and fall off the edge of the grid.
Now they'll have to figure out how to prevent property loss associated with the repeated compaction of buildings from heavy misguided farming equipment...
But you could actually have passwords based on a 1 character alphabet. Just take a string, and treat it as a base 256 number. If the number comes out (in decimal) to, say, 238758237532, then you just have to make your password that length.
So that explains why you can't go down some of the pipes in Super Mario Bros. I guess you need to get the RJ45 flower first.
I found this Gamer's Internet Tunnel program a while back when attempting to play Starcraft without going through battle.net:
http://www.morpheussoftware.net/git/
It listens for almost any kind of traffic on a network, and relays it over TCP or UDP to another network, allowing LAN-only games to be played across the Internet. It might even work with GameCubes if you put a PC on the same LAN as one or more of them.
What we need is a disc that stores a really fricking huge amount of data. 23GB is nothing. How about 100TB? That'd be good. All they have to do is replace the red/blue/violet laser with some kind of evil death ray.
But the thing is, when the main warez sites with torrent links get shut down, this does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to prevent you from sharing your personal files, because your ability to share files has nothing to do with what other people are sharing. BitTorrent basically uses a completely separate network for every file that gets distributed, which is why it's so efficient at distributing individual files.
Is it really a good idea to link to the site that's having bandwidth issues?
"So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
If the hardware is really the same on the two units, then it may be possible to put the Siemens firmware onto the SMC unit. You might want to try looking at both of them side by side in a hex editor to see if there are slight differences between the two to prevent cross-flashing.
You can do a similar thing with the RioVolt SP-250 MP3 player... you just change the header from an iRiver iMP-250 firmware to match that of the SP-250, and it allows you to use the (better) iRiver firmware on the Rio player.
Does anyone know where I can get a stream of the TechTV channel? My cable provider doesn't carry it in this area.
I guess it's the opposite for me: I can barely ever find any Vorbis files. Which network do you usually use?
I've heard that many (all?) of the Australian broadband options have limits on how much you can download per month. I hope it's not a sign of things to come in the rest of the world.
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Look Out! It's time to secure the International Space Station! (I misread the headline at first)
This sounds a bit like the part in Super Mario Bros 3 on the Nintendo, where you get to pick from a set of three boxes to see which power-up you collect. I was playing the game on an emulator, and I saved the state before picking a box, then reloaded the state to try all the boxes. It turns out that the item you win has already been predetermined, and all three boxes contain the same thing. I guess it saves memory and processing time if you only have to pick one random number instead of three, and the developers must have never considered that people would one day be able to emulate the game on an ordinary PC.
Those coordinates seem to point to a place known as Green Island, located in New Zealand.
here's a map.
Or you could add some large speakers to the PDA, and pre-record all your music; then you don't even to turn pages at all. And you wouldn't need a piano.