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If you can speed read English, I think you learn to take in whole chunks of text (like kanji) instead of parsing the individual letters which is maybe why this works.
You would notice mispelled words not because they're mispelled, but because they're "shaped" differently than what you're used to. I wonder if somebody has done a PhD paper on this yet?
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Hm.. well this proves, you can only scramble commonly used base words. Once you start into extended vocabulary.. don't think this is gonna work.
I've set up Oracle 8.1 on both Sun and Redhat Linux systems... On Solaris, it's better to have a dedicated partition with Solaris Disk Suite, or use Veritas VxFS.
You have no choice on RH Linux so you stick it on a ext3 filesystem in the default install.
Never got Oracle running in FreeBSD. How did you do it?
Some people just want to use their Microsoft Windows software, and they don't care how it works. They pay money for Microsoft Windows software, and they expect it to just work.
Can we sue Microsoft for the every virus attack now?
I've seen it in the R&D lab. It really walks on its own two feet. The reason it has the cart behind it is the computers/electronics would add too much weight for the legs to carry.
Maybe we can all take a page from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and wrap a towel around our head when anything dangerous approaches. We would then be more confident and capable.
With the price of high-end SCSI hard drives through the rough and the lack of any decent SCSI CD-RWs or DVD-ROMs, it would be nice if there was a way to get all the benefits of SCSI without the SCSI price and without having to settle for older devices. Addonics thinks that they have the solution with their IDE to SCSI and ATAPI to SCSI adapters. Now we are out to see how well they perform and how well they work with Linux. Are these the solutions you've been looking for?
The Devices
The devices (pictured above) are small PCBs that attach directly to the back of the IDE/ATAPI devices and perform the necessary conversion from the IDE/ATAPI protocol to Ultra160 SCSI. These are not simple cables that perform some magic with wiring tricks but each device is a controller that can correctly convert communication back and forth from the appropriate protocols. As you can see in the photos, the devices each have a micro-controller onboard, the large chip in the ATAPI version and under the heatsink on the IDE version. Each device features upgradable firmware and comes with a 1-year warranty. Installation
Addonics has made these completely plug-and-play and they require absolutely no drivers for any OS. Installation, therefore, could not be easier. All that you do for either device is to attach the device to the IDE connector on the back of the drive, apply power to the drive and to the converter, and finally, set the the jumpers and hook up the SCSI cable. The installation is that straight forward and is shown visually below.
IDE to SCSI Installation ATAPI to SCSI Installation
Each device ships in a small box that includes the converter itself, a Y-cable to provide power to the device and the drive, and installation instructions. The instructions that come with converters are a much more detailed step-by-step process to get you up and running quickly. Also included in the instructions are jumper settings for the SCSI ID and SCSI termination.
The installation is really that easy and both converters worked the first boot without issue. The compact design allows you to install these without even removing the drives from the machine. They also fit very snug on the back of the drives which means that you will not need to rearrange your case's insides just to accommodate the converters. Performance
The next question is obviously, "How do these perform?" We definitely don't want to lose any performance through the conversion process and we would even like to see an increase in speed through the process. One quick note is on the fact that these devices convert IDE to an Ultra160 standard which means that your SCSI bus will not slowed down by a legacy device on the bus. This is a big deal if you have an adapter that downgrades all SCSI devices to the lowest speed on the bus.
All the tests in this review were performed on a IWILL DX400-SN motherboard based platform with dual 2.8GHz Xeons. The onboard SCSI (Qlogic 12160) provided a convenient testbed and provided less opportunity for possible incompatibility.
First we'll check out the IDE to SCSI converter and run the drive through ZCAV under IDE and then SCSI. ZCAV is a utility that measures throughput at various points across a disk. In the graph below we used increments of 100MB.
Above we tried the IDE to SCSI converter on two drives, a Seagate Barracuda III 40GB and an IBM 75GXP 75GB. The graph shows very different results for each drive. The Seagate had much more steady performance with very few fluctuations running on IDE rather than SCSI. SCSI performance fluctuated wildly and overall was under the mark set by IDE. The IBM drive on the other hand actually held a steadier line on SCSI than on IDE and the performance is almost identical across the disk.
To find out more about how read/write performance would actually be on the the Seagate drive, we turned to Bonnie++ for some more detailed file system performance benchmarks.
[ table ]
The above table shows that the Seagate drive in some real-world applications would perform virtually identical. You can see that the winning spot goes back and forth across tests and that the difference in the two is very small.
Now turning to the ATAPI to SCSI converter, we will once again analyze reading performance with ZCAV. In this test we used two drives, a Lite-On 48x12x48 CD-RW and a generic 52X CD-ROM. ZCAV reads were done in 10MB increments.
The ATAPI to SCSI converter seems to like both of these drives. On the Lite-On drive, the performance was identical across the disk. On the generic 52X drive, which is a terrible CD-ROM to begin with, the performance was the same across the disk until the end, where the SCSI converter seemed to actually help the drive's performance.
We also wanted to know if tasks such as CD writing would be affected by the converter. To test this we burnt the same CD image with the drive attached to IDE and then to SCSI. What we were interested in at disk burn completion was the average write speed and the minimum fill of the burn buffer. After testing we found that the drive performed identically attached to either bus. The average write speed was 32.4x and the minimum fill was 93%. Conclusion
The first thing we wanted to mention in the conclusion is who would be interested in such a device. A couple of scenarios come to mind:
* A user that wants to go all SCSI but can't find the devices that they want as SCSI devices. This user is one that wants/needs the advantages of SCSI or just doesn't want the overhead of having additional devices on the PCI bus (the IDE controller) or the extra drivers loaded.
* Someone that is setting up something such as a server in which they need a large quantity of drives and doesn't want to spend the money on high-end SCSI drives. This could either be a large hard drive array or even a CD reproduction system.
In either of these situations, the converters are just what the doctor ordered. The IDE to SCSI converter had good performance on both drives, although it seems that it may work better on some drives over others. The ATAPI to SCSI converter was flawless in our testing, providing identical or even better performance to that of the device running on the IDE bus.
The price of these devices are a little higher than you might expect at $99 and $109 for the IDE to SCSI and ATAPI to SCSI converters respectfully. The price isn't too bad though when you consider the price SCSI typically carries as compared to IDE. Buying an IDE hard drive over SCSI could save you $300 or more. That would net you an over $200 in savings even with the price of the converter. The ATAPI converter's price is a little more difficult to justify with a price comparison but with the dropping price of CD-RWs to the sub-$80 mark, you wouldn't pay too much more for an IDE drive with SCSI converter over a SCSI drive at a slower speed.
Overall, We were very impressed with the quality, ease of installation, and performance of these devices. Addonics has produced devices that have been missing from the drive market for a long time and they have done it right. If these are something you've been looking for, we highly recommend them. They are more than we expected and receive both our Works with Linux Certification and the LinuxHardware.org Top Honors Award.
Pachell, er Cingular isn't much better either. Signals that go from full bars to zero and everything else in between standing in one place, or turning around.
I'm hearing from friends that it's all about tuning the cell stations for reflections and such which AT&T is the best at. Maybe, but AT&T has 1-0 bar reception in my area.
Cellular carriers should be forced to allow "actual" coverage maps to be made available, created from users much in the same way as that guy in the Verizon commercials is doing.
But, this allows wallet voting, which would be a "bad thing".
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>The problem with the current IM model is that it's not decentralized.
Hm.. decentralized IM. IM network splits.. here we come!
cvsup
make buildworld
make installworld
If you can speed read English, I think you learn to take in whole chunks of text (like kanji) instead of parsing the individual letters which is maybe why this works.
You would notice mispelled words not because they're mispelled, but because they're "shaped" differently than what you're used to. I wonder if somebody has done a PhD paper on this yet?
Hm.. well this proves, you can only scramble commonly used base words. Once you start into extended vocabulary.. don't think this is gonna work.
:)
So better than PGP?
I've set up Oracle 8.1 on both Sun and Redhat Linux systems... On Solaris, it's better to have a dedicated partition with Solaris Disk Suite, or use Veritas VxFS.
You have no choice on RH Linux so you stick it on a ext3 filesystem in the default install.
Never got Oracle running in FreeBSD. How did you do it?
And softupdates 0wns j00!
Some people just want to use their Microsoft Windows software, and they don't care how it works. They pay money for Microsoft Windows software, and they expect it to just work.
Can we sue Microsoft for the every virus attack now?
A lot of your issues have been solved IMO with HFS and resource forks. I'm not sure if this is your "attributes", but it's been done.
I've seen it in the R&D lab. It really walks on its own two feet. The reason it has the cart behind it is the computers/electronics would add too much weight for the legs to carry.
Maybe we can all take a page from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and wrap a towel around our head when anything dangerous approaches. We would then be more confident and capable.
>Additionally, some major component appears to be on tow. I'm rather baffled as to what this is. Bolt-on internal combustion engine, perhaps?
Looks like an external gas-powered generator/charger.
No, since the editors don't either. Timothy strikes again!
So will Geeks needs this camera to see how horribly color uncoordinated they're dressed?
Or the Geeks will just be color-blind to the horrible colors of the resulting pictures too?
Sooo, is this Bigfoot's hometown?
I think you need to hack Windows to run on PPC.
That should be very easy, and I don't think Microsoft would come after Tivo next.
portupgrade -ai for FreeBSD is nice. Kick it off, upgrade every single third-party (port) program installed.
Then, there's also the classic:
make buildworld
make installworld
for the system binaries.
So, DMCA supports terrorism...
I wonder what our "enlightened" reps in Congress think of that.
Give proper credit! Apple IIs had this way before the Mac. We're talking 1980 and on. Just plug in a card into the expansion slot and go.
Mac people tend to forget about their older brother.
So bets on how long before wireless spells b-a-g-i-n-s?
My precious!
With the price of high-end SCSI hard drives through the rough and the lack of any decent SCSI CD-RWs or DVD-ROMs, it would be nice if there was a way to get all the benefits of SCSI without the SCSI price and without having to settle for older devices. Addonics thinks that they have the solution with their IDE to SCSI and ATAPI to SCSI adapters. Now we are out to see how well they perform and how well they work with Linux. Are these the solutions you've been looking for?
The Devices
The devices (pictured above) are small PCBs that attach directly to the back of the IDE/ATAPI devices and perform the necessary conversion from the IDE/ATAPI protocol to Ultra160 SCSI. These are not simple cables that perform some magic with wiring tricks but each device is a controller that can correctly convert communication back and forth from the appropriate protocols. As you can see in the photos, the devices each have a micro-controller onboard, the large chip in the ATAPI version and under the heatsink on the IDE version. Each device features upgradable firmware and comes with a 1-year warranty.
Installation
Addonics has made these completely plug-and-play and they require absolutely no drivers for any OS. Installation, therefore, could not be easier. All that you do for either device is to attach the device to the IDE connector on the back of the drive, apply power to the drive and to the converter, and finally, set the the jumpers and hook up the SCSI cable. The installation is that straight forward and is shown visually below.
IDE to SCSI Installation
ATAPI to SCSI Installation
Each device ships in a small box that includes the converter itself, a Y-cable to provide power to the device and the drive, and installation instructions. The instructions that come with converters are a much more detailed step-by-step process to get you up and running quickly. Also included in the instructions are jumper settings for the SCSI ID and SCSI termination.
The installation is really that easy and both converters worked the first boot without issue. The compact design allows you to install these without even removing the drives from the machine. They also fit very snug on the back of the drives which means that you will not need to rearrange your case's insides just to accommodate the converters.
Performance
The next question is obviously, "How do these perform?" We definitely don't want to lose any performance through the conversion process and we would even like to see an increase in speed through the process. One quick note is on the fact that these devices convert IDE to an Ultra160 standard which means that your SCSI bus will not slowed down by a legacy device on the bus. This is a big deal if you have an adapter that downgrades all SCSI devices to the lowest speed on the bus.
All the tests in this review were performed on a IWILL DX400-SN motherboard based platform with dual 2.8GHz Xeons. The onboard SCSI (Qlogic 12160) provided a convenient testbed and provided less opportunity for possible incompatibility.
First we'll check out the IDE to SCSI converter and run the drive through ZCAV under IDE and then SCSI. ZCAV is a utility that measures throughput at various points across a disk. In the graph below we used increments of 100MB.
Above we tried the IDE to SCSI converter on two drives, a Seagate Barracuda III 40GB and an IBM 75GXP 75GB. The graph shows very different results for each drive. The Seagate had much more steady performance with very few fluctuations running on IDE rather than SCSI. SCSI performance fluctuated wildly and overall was under the mark set by IDE. The IBM drive on the other hand actually held a steadier line on SCSI than on IDE and the performance is almost identical across the disk.
To find out more about how read/write performance would actually be on the the Seagate drive, we turned to Bonnie++ for some more detailed file system performance benchmarks.
[ table ]
The above table shows that the Seagate drive in some real-world applications would perform virtually identical. You can see that the winning spot goes back and forth across tests and that the difference in the two is very small.
Now turning to the ATAPI to SCSI converter, we will once again analyze reading performance with ZCAV. In this test we used two drives, a Lite-On 48x12x48 CD-RW and a generic 52X CD-ROM. ZCAV reads were done in 10MB increments.
The ATAPI to SCSI converter seems to like both of these drives. On the Lite-On drive, the performance was identical across the disk. On the generic 52X drive, which is a terrible CD-ROM to begin with, the performance was the same across the disk until the end, where the SCSI converter seemed to actually help the drive's performance.
We also wanted to know if tasks such as CD writing would be affected by the converter. To test this we burnt the same CD image with the drive attached to IDE and then to SCSI. What we were interested in at disk burn completion was the average write speed and the minimum fill of the burn buffer. After testing we found that the drive performed identically attached to either bus. The average write speed was 32.4x and the minimum fill was 93%.
Conclusion
The first thing we wanted to mention in the conclusion is who would be interested in such a device. A couple of scenarios come to mind:
* A user that wants to go all SCSI but can't find the devices that they want as SCSI devices. This user is one that wants/needs the advantages of SCSI or just doesn't want the overhead of having additional devices on the PCI bus (the IDE controller) or the extra drivers loaded.
* Someone that is setting up something such as a server in which they need a large quantity of drives and doesn't want to spend the money on high-end SCSI drives. This could either be a large hard drive array or even a CD reproduction system.
In either of these situations, the converters are just what the doctor ordered. The IDE to SCSI converter had good performance on both drives, although it seems that it may work better on some drives over others. The ATAPI to SCSI converter was flawless in our testing, providing identical or even better performance to that of the device running on the IDE bus.
The price of these devices are a little higher than you might expect at $99 and $109 for the IDE to SCSI and ATAPI to SCSI converters respectfully. The price isn't too bad though when you consider the price SCSI typically carries as compared to IDE. Buying an IDE hard drive over SCSI could save you $300 or more. That would net you an over $200 in savings even with the price of the converter. The ATAPI converter's price is a little more difficult to justify with a price comparison but with the dropping price of CD-RWs to the sub-$80 mark, you wouldn't pay too much more for an IDE drive with SCSI converter over a SCSI drive at a slower speed.
Overall, We were very impressed with the quality, ease of installation, and performance of these devices. Addonics has produced devices that have been missing from the drive market for a long time and they have done it right. If these are something you've been looking for, we highly recommend them. They are more than we expected and receive both our Works with Linux Certification and the LinuxHardware.org Top Honors Award.
That diameter looks a bit high. But, every user on the cell reduces the diameter -- something not really tauted.
Pachell, er Cingular isn't much better either. Signals that go from full bars to zero and everything else in between standing in one place, or turning around.
I'm hearing from friends that it's all about tuning the cell stations for reflections and such which AT&T is the best at. Maybe, but AT&T has 1-0 bar reception in my area.
Cellular carriers should be forced to allow "actual" coverage maps to be made available, created from users much in the same way as that guy in the Verizon commercials is doing.
But, this allows wallet voting, which would be a "bad thing".
Sounds like Plan 9. We know where that is now.
Well, if you wanted to only save that particular scene, digitize it and burn it to CD. Then show your friends anywhere there's a computer.
and how many of those original employees still work there? I think few to none.
Sure, maybe what happened is they burned out and walked with their stock earnings. But how many of us can do that too?
Look at Steve Wozniak.. As much as I admire the man, he just went wacko (before and after the airplane accident). Jobs isn't that much better.
> tell him to work the same hours you do.
And he'll blow you off and say no - he's the boss and has more important things to do.
I've tried this, esp when there's these "hey let's do this new thing on the website and btw, it's due tommorrow!" projects.
You'll work your butt off and he'll go home early to his wife, dinner, and golf.
Not worth it. Quit and move on.