It was world-beating when it was new, but now has less processor power than a bargain bin handset. Nevertheless, it's been dutifully in service for 15 years, and for the past 7 or so has been working well as a file server with 9TB of disk. The 5 disks are due for replacement soon, but I still see no reason to replace the system itself.
Next year it will be eligible for a driver's license in the US.
I reflowed the solder on my ThinkPad T40 GPU a number of years ago. I masked the board with foil and heated it up with a heat gun, and watched the temperature with an IR thermometer. The computer lasted another two years, and by the time it went off again, it was 7 years old and due for replacement anyway.
I blame the failure on that computer primarily to a case that was too flexible. Picking it up at a corner caused a lot of flex, and it didn't occur to me that it was happening until after it was too late. The ThinkPad that replaced it has a much more solid case, almost no flex, but I still avoid picking it up at the corner...
This all boils down to a supplier mix-up. The ignition switches used by GM were headed for Toyota cars, and the system used by Toyota should have gone to GM. The GM cars would have kept the airbags on, and the Toyota's could have been turned off once they found themselves in an unintended acceleration condition.
There is nothing to "get" regarding a hybrid versus any other car. If I drive my turbo roadster with my foot hard down all the time, I might get 18 mpg or worse on a trip. If I drive it gently, accelerate slowly (keeping it off the turbo), brake early, keep to the speed limit or a reasonable speed--I can quite easily exceed 35 mpg for the entire trip. Purely on the highway it's possible to exceed 40 mpg.
The same variations are true for hybrid cars, with the only real difference being that really aggressive braking will throw away some of the energy that might have been recovered by regenerative braking.
The Power Mac G4 "Digital Audio" only has 3 DIMM slots, each supporting up to 512mb. The older machines (which came with the divisible by 50 processor speeds) had 4 slots, and could actually hold 2 GB even though they claimed a 1.5 maximum. Mine physically cannot accept that much memory.
My home server is a 12-year-old Power Mac G4 533mhz that I bought brand new in 2001. I've stuffed it with over 9TB of disks and the RAM is maxed out (at an amusing 1.5GB), but other than that it's as it was when it was new. It works better than any consumer grade off-the-shelf NAS you can buy today, and there's no reason to replace something that works just fine.
Search the web for Windows 7 SLP installation. The computer you buy will almost certainly have a valid, genuine Windows 7 key already installed in its BIOS, and with just a teeny, tiny bit of Google searching, you'll figure out how to do a legal, clean installation using that key.
FYI: Windows 8 uses a newer version of the same technology that doesn't require any actions on the part of the end user to invoke. Just put in a Win8 disk, install, and you're done.
Maybe it's worth noting that the Twentieth Anniversary Mac had a Bose designed audio system. That said, as I recall it was poorly designed and had a persistent hum that some users never found a way to be rid of.
I have a Canon BJC-600 that is over 11 years old, and has a seperate (replaceable) print head, and 4 individual ink cartridges.
ELEVEN years ago Canon made this printer, yet Epson and HP love to brag about innovations such as seperate cartridges, permanent print heads, and the like. Meanwhile most HP cartridges come with the print heads clogged for you already (save you the trouble of printing anything) and Epson does you the service of gouging you on the cost of "economical" individual cartridges.
Better still, the Canon has printed many thousands upon thousands of pages, the ink is cheap, refills are cheaper, and it still works fine...oh and its ELEVEN YEARS OLD. I wouldn't hold my breath for an HP to last eleven days.
If you RTFA, it says that the cars currently cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000,000 Yen to build. A quick search on google, and a conversion later, that translates to ~$890,000. The cars are leased because financially they have to. No one would buy the stupid thing for $890,000 outright. Furthermore, if they sell the cars, there are other problems like supplying service and parts as they go through their life cycle. I know I'd be pissed if I bought a $890,000 car and 2 years later there was no one to service it.
This is the same reason GM leased the EV1 and Toyota leased the RAV4 EV, they cost alot to make (though I doubt that much), and they don't do leases like this for the consumer's sake. They do it so they can get real world testing, a lease is the only way to get someone behind the wheel of one of these cars.
Here's a tip from someone else who has spent more time then they'd care to struggling with acne:
If you have active acne, and as a result any skin discoloration, be extra careful when exposing that skin to the sun. UV radiation can permanently discolor skin with acne, and when the acne finally clears up, you'll be left with an unpleasant reminder of where it once was.
Also, you can create quite a painful situation for yourself if you get too much sun exposure while on certain medications which slow down the rate at which skin cells regenerate. This is especially true for topical medications.
This isn't to say not to go in the sun if you have acne, but I would definately use sunscreen on any acne-prone skin and limit exposure to only when necessary.
It's a pretty painful situation for someone such as myself as well, as I love to spend time in the sun, but this summer I'm on some powerful drugs forcing me to limit my exposure.
The Tekram ARC-1110 PCI-X SATA II RAID controller does RAID 5, supports 4 drives, and does it to the tune of about $400. A fair price to pay, for that kind of reliability, I would say. Another hundred and fifty or so and you can step up to a controller that supports 8 drives.
Seriously, you can put together a nice RAID 5 setup; if a drive fails, replace it and rebuild the array. You're stuff is automatically "backed up" from device failure--maybe not from other issues, but device failure seems to be you're main concern.
On top of that, you get the side bonus of fast disk access for your DV work; and you can expand the array pretty much whenever you want for more space.
I'm using a SGI 1600SW (original production dates way back to 1998), a 32MB Radeon AGP, and my Power Mac G4 2x533, and the display is as responsive as could be. No lag at all, and I use this machine for just about everything you could imagine (including what crappy games my 3 year old mac can play). This includes the signal passing through the SGI MultiLink box, connecting the LVDS panel to my DVI (actually ADC with a passive adapter) mac.
With stuff as old as mine, and as many adapters as I've got running, I'd say something is wrong with that Dell panel. Trade it in for something of much better quality.
http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/
This has more than you'd ever want to know about the Mac easter eggs and sounds...
Scroll down to "computer hardware eggs" to hear the system sounds.
Thank goodness for that utilitiy. I couldn't read the text to the left of the start menu that says "Windows 98". How would I have known which version I was running without winver?
Amen. I hate my cellular phone. There are days I just want to throw it out the window on the freeway. When I am out, off work, I don't want other people interfering with what my life. It's a horrible electronic leash.
When I broke my laptop last year, I was very upset for a few weeks, but I never replaced it and I couldn't be happier. Leave the internet and all the connectivity at home.
You will be a happier person. I guarantee it.
I don't care about Ogg. I want MP4 support for the iPod (tada 5 gig model goes from 1000 to 2000 songs) and support built into iTunes. MP4/AAC is the next big thing. Apple already has a decoder/encoder working and in Quicktime 6, now just implement it already!
...is what would one do with a single hard disk that insanely huge?
I know that its the same mentality when the 386 was out and there was talk of a 2ghz processor and people said "I'll never be able to use that!"....but as processors slowly got faster and faster, we always found a way to use them to their full potential. Everytime a new program came out it would always look better and run faster on the faster chips. Yet, virtually all of todays major software applications still ship on a single CD-ROM a now, what, 18 (I think) year old technology--which holds 650MB per disk and require the same disk space...but I digress.
For casual use, an insanely sized drives serve no forseeable purpose. Even in data intensive situations like databases and video storage/editing, it is overkill. Oh well, maybe I'm just not seeing the future.
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It was world-beating when it was new, but now has less processor power than a bargain bin handset. Nevertheless, it's been dutifully in service for 15 years, and for the past 7 or so has been working well as a file server with 9TB of disk. The 5 disks are due for replacement soon, but I still see no reason to replace the system itself. Next year it will be eligible for a driver's license in the US.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
I reflowed the solder on my ThinkPad T40 GPU a number of years ago. I masked the board with foil and heated it up with a heat gun, and watched the temperature with an IR thermometer. The computer lasted another two years, and by the time it went off again, it was 7 years old and due for replacement anyway.
I blame the failure on that computer primarily to a case that was too flexible. Picking it up at a corner caused a lot of flex, and it didn't occur to me that it was happening until after it was too late. The ThinkPad that replaced it has a much more solid case, almost no flex, but I still avoid picking it up at the corner...
This all boils down to a supplier mix-up. The ignition switches used by GM were headed for Toyota cars, and the system used by Toyota should have gone to GM. The GM cars would have kept the airbags on, and the Toyota's could have been turned off once they found themselves in an unintended acceleration condition.
There is nothing to "get" regarding a hybrid versus any other car. If I drive my turbo roadster with my foot hard down all the time, I might get 18 mpg or worse on a trip. If I drive it gently, accelerate slowly (keeping it off the turbo), brake early, keep to the speed limit or a reasonable speed--I can quite easily exceed 35 mpg for the entire trip. Purely on the highway it's possible to exceed 40 mpg. The same variations are true for hybrid cars, with the only real difference being that really aggressive braking will throw away some of the energy that might have been recovered by regenerative braking.
Better known as No-Automaker-Left-Behind.
The Power Mac G4 "Digital Audio" only has 3 DIMM slots, each supporting up to 512mb. The older machines (which came with the divisible by 50 processor speeds) had 4 slots, and could actually hold 2 GB even though they claimed a 1.5 maximum. Mine physically cannot accept that much memory.
My home server is a 12-year-old Power Mac G4 533mhz that I bought brand new in 2001. I've stuffed it with over 9TB of disks and the RAM is maxed out (at an amusing 1.5GB), but other than that it's as it was when it was new. It works better than any consumer grade off-the-shelf NAS you can buy today, and there's no reason to replace something that works just fine.
Search the web for Windows 7 SLP installation. The computer you buy will almost certainly have a valid, genuine Windows 7 key already installed in its BIOS, and with just a teeny, tiny bit of Google searching, you'll figure out how to do a legal, clean installation using that key. FYI: Windows 8 uses a newer version of the same technology that doesn't require any actions on the part of the end user to invoke. Just put in a Win8 disk, install, and you're done.
If this is anything like other GM innovations, it won't be here until 2018...
Maybe it's worth noting that the Twentieth Anniversary Mac had a Bose designed audio system. That said, as I recall it was poorly designed and had a persistent hum that some users never found a way to be rid of.
I have a Canon BJC-600 that is over 11 years old, and has a seperate (replaceable) print head, and 4 individual ink cartridges.
ELEVEN years ago Canon made this printer, yet Epson and HP love to brag about innovations such as seperate cartridges, permanent print heads, and the like. Meanwhile most HP cartridges come with the print heads clogged for you already (save you the trouble of printing anything) and Epson does you the service of gouging you on the cost of "economical" individual cartridges.
Better still, the Canon has printed many thousands upon thousands of pages, the ink is cheap, refills are cheaper, and it still works fine...oh and its ELEVEN YEARS OLD. I wouldn't hold my breath for an HP to last eleven days.
If you RTFA, it says that the cars currently cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000,000 Yen to build. A quick search on google, and a conversion later, that translates to ~$890,000. The cars are leased because financially they have to. No one would buy the stupid thing for $890,000 outright. Furthermore, if they sell the cars, there are other problems like supplying service and parts as they go through their life cycle. I know I'd be pissed if I bought a $890,000 car and 2 years later there was no one to service it. This is the same reason GM leased the EV1 and Toyota leased the RAV4 EV, they cost alot to make (though I doubt that much), and they don't do leases like this for the consumer's sake. They do it so they can get real world testing, a lease is the only way to get someone behind the wheel of one of these cars.
Here's a tip from someone else who has spent more time then they'd care to struggling with acne:
If you have active acne, and as a result any skin discoloration, be extra careful when exposing that skin to the sun. UV radiation can permanently discolor skin with acne, and when the acne finally clears up, you'll be left with an unpleasant reminder of where it once was.
Also, you can create quite a painful situation for yourself if you get too much sun exposure while on certain medications which slow down the rate at which skin cells regenerate. This is especially true for topical medications.
This isn't to say not to go in the sun if you have acne, but I would definately use sunscreen on any acne-prone skin and limit exposure to only when necessary.
It's a pretty painful situation for someone such as myself as well, as I love to spend time in the sun, but this summer I'm on some powerful drugs forcing me to limit my exposure.
The Tekram ARC-1110 PCI-X SATA II RAID controller does RAID 5, supports 4 drives, and does it to the tune of about $400. A fair price to pay, for that kind of reliability, I would say. Another hundred and fifty or so and you can step up to a controller that supports 8 drives.
Seriously, you can put together a nice RAID 5 setup; if a drive fails, replace it and rebuild the array. You're stuff is automatically "backed up" from device failure--maybe not from other issues, but device failure seems to be you're main concern. On top of that, you get the side bonus of fast disk access for your DV work; and you can expand the array pretty much whenever you want for more space.
Now you're just not trying.
I'm using a SGI 1600SW (original production dates way back to 1998), a 32MB Radeon AGP, and my Power Mac G4 2x533, and the display is as responsive as could be. No lag at all, and I use this machine for just about everything you could imagine (including what crappy games my 3 year old mac can play). This includes the signal passing through the SGI MultiLink box, connecting the LVDS panel to my DVI (actually ADC with a passive adapter) mac.
With stuff as old as mine, and as many adapters as I've got running, I'd say something is wrong with that Dell panel. Trade it in for something of much better quality.
http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/ This has more than you'd ever want to know about the Mac easter eggs and sounds... Scroll down to "computer hardware eggs" to hear the system sounds.
Thank goodness for that utilitiy. I couldn't read the text to the left of the start menu that says "Windows 98". How would I have known which version I was running without winver?
Microsoft...always thinking ahead...
but the postage and packing from the UK would have put me back whatever I would have saved.....
Amen. I hate my cellular phone. There are days I just want to throw it out the window on the freeway. When I am out, off work, I don't want other people interfering with what my life. It's a horrible electronic leash. When I broke my laptop last year, I was very upset for a few weeks, but I never replaced it and I couldn't be happier. Leave the internet and all the connectivity at home. You will be a happier person. I guarantee it.
Yes, it is a fine copy of the Hummer H2.
I don't care about Ogg. I want MP4 support for the iPod (tada 5 gig model goes from 1000 to 2000 songs) and support built into iTunes. MP4/AAC is the next big thing. Apple already has a decoder/encoder working and in Quicktime 6, now just implement it already!
...is what would one do with a single hard disk that insanely huge?
I know that its the same mentality when the 386 was out and there was talk of a 2ghz processor and people said "I'll never be able to use that!"....but as processors slowly got faster and faster, we always found a way to use them to their full potential. Everytime a new program came out it would always look better and run faster on the faster chips. Yet, virtually all of todays major software applications still ship on a single CD-ROM a now, what, 18 (I think) year old technology--which holds 650MB per disk and require the same disk space...but I digress.
For casual use, an insanely sized drives serve no forseeable purpose. Even in data intensive situations like databases and video storage/editing, it is overkill. Oh well, maybe I'm just not seeing the future.