While a freon-style coolant based system running with no compressor (as implied in the parent) wouldnt be very effective, there are some compressor based systems. Most notably is the asetek vapochill which is a compressor-driven phase change cooler hooked up to a CPU pad. The same company makes widgets that are essencally case-sized airconditioners. These are NOT low-noise solutions like water cooling though, as compressors (think of a refridgerator or airconditioner) are loud.
As for using another liquid in a compressorless system, there really isnt anything practical that would work better. Of sane materials, water is best, the only liquid (at room temperature) more thermally conductive than water is Mercury, and that would be very heavy, and pose a substantal health risk. Koolance provides a good explination of this situation from the perspective of computer cooling. The coolest ones are that inert 3M material they show that is ALLMOST as thermally conductive as water, and completely inert (safe if it gets on your system, and even for submersion cooling, unfortunately the stuff costs about $500/gallon).
For some very good information on F/OSS based clustering, check out aggregate.org. They have really neat ideas, that are reasonably well doccumented and freely implementable/usable. I built a little cluster (AFAPI on a WAPERS switch) with them for my highschool senior project, and it was a great experence.
I get the feeling Microsoft is a little schizophrenic about OSS whenever I see this sort of thing. Aside from the (frequently pointedout) inclusing of BSD networking components, Microsfot has a couple other dealings with the OSS community that didnt invovle bashing. One of the stranger things I've come across has to be Allegance, a MMO-like space sim that Microsoft Open Souced after it tanked commercially. Appaerntly people still play it.
Having seen dell in action "considering" AMD in hopes of squeezing more discounts out of Intel, and seeing as Microsoft has a new version of Windows coming along, my guess is that this is just posturing to squeeze better discounts out of Microsoft on Vista OEM pricing.
It's a nice thought, but probably just a ploy.
Creative has been using that inteface for several models prior to the Zen, such as the (much better but also much larger*) Nomad Jukebox3, which came out in 2002, and a similar interface in the (reportedly horrible) origional Nomad Jukebox , which came out in 2001.
While I think it is ridiculous to grant a patent for a that menuing system (people who say there is no alternative: there are players on the market with file-based navigation, but it sucks), prior art is not the problem.
*I owned a Nomad Jukebox 3 until about a year ago, when I decided it was time for something smaller and bought a Rio Karma (which also uses tag-based menus).
While the various conceptual problems with large-scale surveillance have been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, I wonder if it will be as bad as the other attempts at large-scale surveillance in the U.S.
Be, Inc. tried exactly that, they spewed the lightly crippled "Personal Edition" (very cool; it could chainboot from linux or windows) of their OS everywhere they could in the late 90s. While alot of people know about BeOS because of that effort, few people bought the full edition after their "trial", and Be went under, and the BeOS properties were sold to Palm, then YellowTAB, who is attempting to resuscitate BeOS (as seen on/. recently)
For this very reason it seems somewhat more practical to induce sanctions of some sort against Intel than it was against Microsoft; there still IS competition, both in the chip market at large, and within x86. With Microsoft, governments hands were tied as far as penalties, because there is truly NO competition for Joe User (Linux & co. arent quite there for the average user, OS X is close but only runs on Apple hardware), so restrictions are impractical. Here, Intel's dominance can be challanged driectly wihout serously changing the market.
I very heavily use my thumb drive on school/library pubic systems, and have an allmost entirely different set of programs i use:
For AIM: TerrAIM,sure its ugly, but it works a lot better than miranda
For IRC: Dana I acutally use this little IRC client whenever im in windows, even on my own machines. very light and fast.
For Remote:
Both RealVNC and PuTTY
My favorive text editor: Notepad++
And a number of tools from DS Software Notably TaskKill.
Last I checked YellowTAB (http://www.yellowtab.com) is working on a new release of BeOS (which really is a nice OS), called zeta, and has collected most of the IP rights to the old BeOS. I wonder if/hope they see some of this.
When i started reading the post i assumed it was going to be about Arch's package manager, Pacman (personally, i tried arch, and it seems like it should be nice...when its finished, sort of gentoo lite). The first time i saw that on their site, i thought it was a lawsuit waiting to happen. just a random thought.
in one of those moments of painful geekyness, reading about the Z80 based port made me think of my old TI calcs...if it runs on the other systems mentioned, those would be plenty.
Anyone else use Aladdin's Stuffit. The expander is free, runs on Mac or Win, and has opened just about anything i've thrown at it including parts of defective installers,and a variety of other things that do not belong near your archive program. It also compresses to just about any format, so you can get files to anything, from idiotboy's PC, all the way down to to that apple2 sitting in the corner slowly roting (remember Shrinkit?)
There are a few problems with Sager. 1.Those things are expensive compared to the big retailers. 2. M$ noticed the no OS option, and it sadly, is gone, it happened while I was shopping for a notebook, and they had a "according to the new Microsoft volume licensing we are no longer able to offer Systems without Microsoft Windows" sort of message up for a few days. 3. He said small, Sager doesn't make small laptops (smallest is a 14.1"@about 7lbs)
In a similar direction to buying an iBook/Powerbook from Apple, there is another non-x86 option, Buying a UltraSPARC (sun) based laptop from Tadpole Computers that runs Solaris. In my search for a laptop earlier this year, I did eventually give up and pay the M$tax. I do run windows on it, (just not the version it came with), and Linux, and BeOS, and hopefully soon Solaris x86 too. It seems that OSless x86 laptops don't really exist anymore, but you do have two other options. (Although both are a bit pricey).
Now you've done it, they are going to hunt you down with some new flashy, expensive, and dubiously constitutional surveillance system, and attack you for distributing circumvention devices. (I wish this was completely joking...) -PAPPP
Adressing the question of running OS X on non apple hardware from a software perspective, simpler and more effective than emulation would be a port of the darwin core for other (presumably x86 or x86-64) archetecture. Can anyone think of a reason this would be more impractical than emulation?
Too true, could you imagine what would happen if some advert. agency got into that. Or, even worse than adverising, imagine the potential that this would leave for a good HaXor to steal/create fake identities.
I reguraly visit the RIAA site to see if the label/artist of a CD i want is associated with them. if it is, i guess a little extra time online to download it cant hurt. I must say it is a nice service to give us a blacklist of labels that will use our money to help pay for DRM.
I can see two things that could be helpful in this area,lots of privately run annon proxies, and non-corperately run public-key encryption (something we need anyway). The servers would prevent IP tracing, and the Public-key encryption would prevent spooks from getting the "vote of confidence" needed to get on the networks and spoof them with bullshit files.
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While a freon-style coolant based system running with no compressor (as implied in the parent) wouldnt be very effective, there are some compressor based systems. Most notably is the asetek vapochill which is a compressor-driven phase change cooler hooked up to a CPU pad. The same company makes widgets that are essencally case-sized airconditioners. These are NOT low-noise solutions like water cooling though, as compressors (think of a refridgerator or airconditioner) are loud.
As for using another liquid in a compressorless system, there really isnt anything practical that would work better. Of sane materials, water is best, the only liquid (at room temperature) more thermally conductive than water is Mercury, and that would be very heavy, and pose a substantal health risk. Koolance provides a good explination of this situation from the perspective of computer cooling. The coolest ones are that inert 3M material they show that is ALLMOST as thermally conductive as water, and completely inert (safe if it gets on your system, and even for submersion cooling, unfortunately the stuff costs about $500/gallon).
For some very good information on F/OSS based clustering, check out aggregate.org. They have really neat ideas, that are reasonably well doccumented and freely implementable/usable. I built a little cluster (AFAPI on a WAPERS switch) with them for my highschool senior project, and it was a great experence.
I get the feeling Microsoft is a little schizophrenic about OSS whenever I see this sort of thing. Aside from the (frequently pointedout) inclusing of BSD networking components, Microsfot has a couple other dealings with the OSS community that didnt invovle bashing. One of the stranger things I've come across has to be Allegance, a MMO-like space sim that Microsoft Open Souced after it tanked commercially. Appaerntly people still play it.
Having seen dell in action "considering" AMD in hopes of squeezing more discounts out of Intel, and seeing as Microsoft has a new version of Windows coming along, my guess is that this is just posturing to squeeze better discounts out of Microsoft on Vista OEM pricing.
It's a nice thought, but probably just a ploy.
While I think it is ridiculous to grant a patent for a that menuing system (people who say there is no alternative: there are players on the market with file-based navigation, but it sucks), prior art is not the problem.
*I owned a Nomad Jukebox 3 until about a year ago, when I decided it was time for something smaller and bought a Rio Karma (which also uses tag-based menus).
While the various conceptual problems with large-scale surveillance have been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, I wonder if it will be as bad as the other attempts at large-scale surveillance in the U.S.
Be, Inc. tried exactly that, they spewed the lightly crippled "Personal Edition" (very cool; it could chainboot from linux or windows) of their OS everywhere they could in the late 90s. While alot of people know about BeOS because of that effort, few people bought the full edition after their "trial", and Be went under, and the BeOS properties were sold to Palm, then YellowTAB, who is attempting to resuscitate BeOS (as seen on /. recently)
Like this poor bird.
For this very reason it seems somewhat more practical to induce sanctions of some sort against Intel than it was against Microsoft; there still IS competition, both in the chip market at large, and within x86. With Microsoft, governments hands were tied as far as penalties, because there is truly NO competition for Joe User (Linux & co. arent quite there for the average user, OS X is close but only runs on Apple hardware), so restrictions are impractical. Here, Intel's dominance can be challanged driectly wihout serously changing the market.
I very heavily use my thumb drive on school/library pubic systems, and have an allmost entirely different set of programs i use: ,sure its ugly, but it works a lot better than miranda
For AIM:
TerrAIM
For IRC:
Dana I acutally use this little IRC client whenever im in windows, even on my own machines. very light and fast.
For Remote:
Both RealVNC and PuTTY
My favorive text editor:
Notepad++
And a number of tools from DS Software Notably TaskKill.
Last I checked YellowTAB (http://www.yellowtab.com) is working on a new release of BeOS (which really is a nice OS), called zeta, and has collected most of the IP rights to the old BeOS. I wonder if/hope they see some of this.
When i started reading the post i assumed it was going to be about Arch's package manager, Pacman (personally, i tried arch, and it seems like it should be nice...when its finished, sort of gentoo lite). The first time i saw that on their site, i thought it was a lawsuit waiting to happen. just a random thought.
in one of those moments of painful geekyness, reading about the Z80 based port made me think of my old TI calcs...if it runs on the other systems mentioned, those would be plenty.
Anyone else use Aladdin's Stuffit. The expander is free, runs on Mac or Win, and has opened just about anything i've thrown at it including parts of defective installers,and a variety of other things that do not belong near your archive program. It also compresses to just about any format, so you can get files to anything, from idiotboy's PC, all the way down to to that apple2 sitting in the corner slowly roting (remember Shrinkit?)
There are a few problems with Sager. 1.Those things are expensive compared to the big retailers. 2. M$ noticed the no OS option, and it sadly, is gone, it happened while I was shopping for a notebook, and they had a "according to the new Microsoft volume licensing we are no longer able to offer Systems without Microsoft Windows" sort of message up for a few days. 3. He said small, Sager doesn't make small laptops (smallest is a 14.1"@about 7lbs)
In a similar direction to buying an iBook/Powerbook from Apple, there is another non-x86 option, Buying a UltraSPARC (sun) based laptop from Tadpole Computers that runs Solaris. In my search for a laptop earlier this year, I did eventually give up and pay the M$tax. I do run windows on it, (just not the version it came with), and Linux, and BeOS, and hopefully soon Solaris x86 too. It seems that OSless x86 laptops don't really exist anymore, but you do have two other options. (Although both are a bit pricey).
Now you've done it, they are going to hunt you down with some new flashy, expensive, and dubiously constitutional surveillance system, and attack you for distributing circumvention devices.
(I wish this was completely joking...)
-PAPPP
Adressing the question of running OS X on non apple hardware from a software perspective, simpler and more effective than emulation would be a port of the darwin core for other (presumably x86 or x86-64) archetecture. Can anyone think of a reason this would be more impractical than emulation?
Too true, could you imagine what would happen if some advert. agency got into that. Or, even worse than adverising, imagine the potential that this would leave for a good HaXor to steal/create fake identities.
I reguraly visit the RIAA site to see if the label/artist of a CD i want is associated with them. if it is, i guess a little extra time online to download it cant hurt. I must say it is a nice service to give us a blacklist of labels that will use our money to help pay for DRM.
I can see two things that could be helpful in this area,lots of privately run annon proxies, and non-corperately run public-key encryption (something we need anyway). The servers would prevent IP tracing, and the Public-key encryption would prevent spooks from getting the "vote of confidence" needed to get on the networks and spoof them with bullshit files.