Yeah, people don't just explode in vacuum. I think the notion comes from bad movies... the only realistic scene depicting humans in vacuum that I can remember was in 2001, where that Dave guy gets back into the spaceship. He even correctly uses the escaping air to propel himself into the ship. Pretty cool if you think about it.
Unless the heat producing parts of your computer are in direct contact with the metal, there's no difference, because the air acts as a nice insulator. In fact, it's one of the best insulators out there.
Nah, it's a measure to control the population. The biggest danger to the U.S. government are the U.S. citizens. With the Army's latest craze of developing less-than-lethal and riot control technology, you can kinda guess where things are heading.
No. Read the blurb. They hacked the ISP's DHCP servers to provide a different domain name suffix, which caused the DHCP clients to access a hacked nameserver, which in turn returned IPs of a sniffing proxy. If the OP had configured his computers to use a local DNS, there would have been no compromise.
As an aside, my post provided a direct solution for the OP's problem, I fail to see how it can be offtopic. (Insert rant about crack smoking moderators here.)
Run your own caching DNS which gets its info straight from the root servers. Still not perfect, but much better. Also useful against primitive DNS censorship techniques which are used in some countries. In a home environment, I recommend an OpenBSD router, which will do this and much more. Tutorial here.
I completely agree. A few years back, there was an airline that prohibited the use of portable CD players on its planes; on the grounds that a certain overtone of the clock quartz would intefere with some vital avionics. My first reaction was "What. The. Fuck.". If the sub-microwatt emissions of a freakin' CD player cause the aircraft electronics to malfunction, then I certainly don't want to fly on this airplane. If these systems are really so vulnerable, then the airplane manufacturers should have a good look at the general quality of their electronics. I mean, EMI is everywhere, this wouldn't just concern phones. What if the plane's microwave oven develops a leak? Frequency is the same as a cellphone, with about 500 times as much power. Would this make the plane crash? What if a terrorist just smashes the glass on the front door and turns the thing on? And what about the interference that the onboard, high-power electronics themselves generate, you know, like, the radar. Again, same frequency as a cellphone, but hundreds of times more power behind that one. Of course, there are radars at the airport, too, with more than 2kW pulsed power.
So this leaves me with two possible conclusions, either commercial avionics are so freakin' sensitive that they go haywire if you turn on a flashlight next to them (in which case planes would be dropping out of the sky by the hundreds), or the authorities/airlines are spreading FUD, for whatever reason.
Umm, d00d, hate to tell you this, but LCDs are static. There is no blanking period, so shutter glasses are never going to work with LCDs. The refresh rate for LCDs will also remain at 60Hz. More just doesn't bring any improvement. DVI is fixed at 60Hz anyway.
Did yours whistle? Mine emitted a kind of high-pitched whistle/whine. I called Samsung service, and they said it's normal. Yeah right, you could hear it from the next freakin' room! Also, Counter Strike was unplayable because of the heavy smearing. DVDs and desktop apps looked good, though. I disagree on your description of "black is near black", it's exactly the same murky grey as with other LCDs. It's a limitation of the technology itself. Anyway, I returned it for a refund the same day I bought it. Regarding the brightness: the CCFL lamps in TFTs generally have a half-life of about 50,000 hours, so expect to turn the brightness up in a few years.
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia has nothing to do with being ambiguous about something, or even having a split personality. Classic schizophrenia usually manifests itself in delusions, hallucinations and/or paranoia, i.e. a distorted view of reality in general.
I think the users are a big part of the problem. If you don't cool your drive properly, it will die. Heat kills bearings. And the failure rate inreaseses exponentially with temperature. A drive that might run 10 years at 30C might die after 1 year at 60C. What percentage of people actually have active, fresh air cooling for their drives? My guess is that modern drives are more sensitive to heat, and the manufacturers can't really control the cooling design of every individual PC, so they just shortened the warranty.
You might want to use a utility like DTemp or hddtemp to check your drive's temperature, and improve your cooling if your temps are over 35C. I've been using a Chieftec Dragon case for my home box for a few years now, which has a really nice drive cage with an integrated 80mm fan that blows fresh air directly over the drives, and my temps are rarely over 30C.
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Speaking as a German, "Vee haf vays too make yoo change yoor laws."
He had a horrible accident while cleaning his gun.
The hawks in congress must be pretty confused ... Cubans vs. Iranians - whom are we going to send the military aid?
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How cute. Come on, give little Katee a kiss!
Yeah, people don't just explode in vacuum. I think the notion comes from bad movies ... the only realistic scene depicting humans in vacuum that I can remember was in 2001, where that Dave guy gets back into the spaceship. He even correctly uses the escaping air to propel himself into the ship. Pretty cool if you think about it.
No shit.
Unless the heat producing parts of your computer are in direct contact with the metal, there's no difference, because the air acts as a nice insulator. In fact, it's one of the best insulators out there.
I thought it was Idiots Building Machines.
Nah, it's a measure to control the population. The biggest danger to the U.S. government are the U.S. citizens. With the Army's latest craze of developing less-than-lethal and riot control technology, you can kinda guess where things are heading.
Interesting ... so when you come running into a hospital and say you have methanol poisoning, they're gonna fill you up with booze?
You got it all wrong. Those were meant to go on the forehead.
As an aside, my post provided a direct solution for the OP's problem, I fail to see how it can be offtopic. (Insert rant about crack smoking moderators here.)
Run your own caching DNS which gets its info straight from the root servers. Still not perfect, but much better. Also useful against primitive DNS censorship techniques which are used in some countries. In a home environment, I recommend an OpenBSD router, which will do this and much more. Tutorial here.
How can it be more efficient when you have to make three or four flights of 7E7s to transport the same number of passengers as an A3XX?
Nonono. The real question is, would they complain less if someone tied them to the wings of those windmills?
So this leaves me with two possible conclusions, either commercial avionics are so freakin' sensitive that they go haywire if you turn on a flashlight next to them (in which case planes would be dropping out of the sky by the hundreds), or the authorities/airlines are spreading FUD, for whatever reason.
That's exactly right. This is why in such a case (sizeable part of the population becomes unruly) governments usually build concentration camps.
Umm, d00d, hate to tell you this, but LCDs are static. There is no blanking period, so shutter glasses are never going to work with LCDs. The refresh rate for LCDs will also remain at 60Hz. More just doesn't bring any improvement. DVI is fixed at 60Hz anyway.
Did yours whistle? Mine emitted a kind of high-pitched whistle/whine. I called Samsung service, and they said it's normal. Yeah right, you could hear it from the next freakin' room! Also, Counter Strike was unplayable because of the heavy smearing. DVDs and desktop apps looked good, though. I disagree on your description of "black is near black", it's exactly the same murky grey as with other LCDs. It's a limitation of the technology itself. Anyway, I returned it for a refund the same day I bought it. Regarding the brightness: the CCFL lamps in TFTs generally have a half-life of about 50,000 hours, so expect to turn the brightness up in a few years.
CompactFlash is basically ATA with a small connector, so you're mistaken.
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia has nothing to do with being ambiguous about something, or even having a split personality. Classic schizophrenia usually manifests itself in delusions, hallucinations and/or paranoia, i.e. a distorted view of reality in general.
You might want to put some kind of rail on that deck first, though, or bad things could happen.
You might want to use a utility like DTemp or hddtemp to check your drive's temperature, and improve your cooling if your temps are over 35C. I've been using a Chieftec Dragon case for my home box for a few years now, which has a really nice drive cage with an integrated 80mm fan that blows fresh air directly over the drives, and my temps are rarely over 30C.