A few months ago I was trying to track down some sudden instability in my machine. It seemed that it would always crash about the same amount of time after I booted it up, regardless of the OS or the tasks that it was doing. It took maybe 45 minutes before it would reboot itself and come back up, and crash again shortly after that unless I left it off for a while.
Thinking there was a temperature problem, I installed (I can't stand the software...) MBM and fired it up. It was reporting high temps...and a 12v rail at 18v (this was shortly after boot). Thinking it was a malfunction I pulled out my multimeter and read the voltage right off the power rails on the mobo. 19.1v. And rising.
Out of morbid curiousity I watched it for a while, as it gained about 2v/min. When it hit 40v I cut the power and went out and bought a new one.
The ATX connector on my motherboard is charred and the ground pin is nearly completely burned out. The male side on the dead PSU was melted a bit and the ground contact completely burned out.
Everything in the system still works perfectly fine. Pretty tough stuff.
I tried plugging a cheap Realtek NIC into a running machine once...and was greeted by a very visible arc that left a soot trail on the PCI connector. Two of the pins on the card itself were burned completely off. The overload protection in the PSU tripped and I had to replug the thing to get it to boot again. But boot it did, and I all lost was a $5 NIC. Never doing that again though...
I'm glad I don't work with you. When you see the same dialogs 200 times in a day, you don't need to stop and read them every time. Especially when you have work to do.
The real overhead is more probably the database query and code that runs on the server to generate the RSS. I highly doubt this is a bandwidth issue, especially since they're mentioning scalability issues. They're having trouble distributing the processing and aren't happy that they even have to for a once-an-hour peak that never gets approached 98% of the time.
That's the situation here too (in Canada), so you're probably right. I only know one person out there and she's having a hell of a time finding a decent ISP.
Much more likely it's a transparent proxy on port 80 (I dropped my last ISP for exactly this reason, though the blocking was a paid addon, I didn't like the idea of them proxying all my web traffic, and the proxy was down far more than the internet transit itself). Use SSL or find another ISP, cheif. And considering the situation in Britain right now, I doubt it would be easy to find another broadband ISP...and noone is going to switch from broadband to dialup over something that doesn't directly affect them. Telecom companies are essentially monopolies in a good portion of the western world, actions like this are pretty scary. At the very least there should be (and may be) some sort of commitee at BT that reviews the list from IWT to ensure that they're not abusing the power bestowed upon them. But that raises it's own legal issues...
It's a hairy problem, and IMO, it's best to keep ISPs and other transit providers out of it.
Have you played Halo on an XBox? Have you done so with 16 other players across 4 or more consoles? Halo "got it right". The control scheme is nearly perfect (and if you don't like it, there are a number of alternate stick and button configurations to suit your play style), and the fact that everyone is using the same type of controller definitely helps balance the gameplay. No longer do you have to worry about the LPB with a Boomslang while you're stuck with a 20 year old Microsoft Mouse. As well, given a short amount of practice you can be as good (if not even better) with the controller as you would with a keyboard and mouse. The ability to easily modulate your movement speed by degrees is one major win that an analog console controller has over a keyboard and mouse, for example.
After playing at a 16 player Halo party for a weekend, I beg to differ. After at least 10 hours of straight playing, I'd still drop the controller in a second of a KB/mouse was availiable. Aiming with a stick simply sucks ass. It doesn't feel natural and can't react nearly as fast (or as slow) as a mouse can.
Console FPSs are good for having fun with others, but they suck single player because the controls are so awful.
Agreed. However, some organizations have priorities that don't include standards evangalism. They just need the site to work properly in as many browsers as possible, and if that means doing a bit of JS hacking, so be it. IMO it's better than the alternative of using preblended images for both the developer and the user, and it's more flexible too (png+alpha over standard bitmaps).
I completely ignore IE for any of my personal sites, but for anything that I want to look at least semi-professional, I attempt to comply entirely with standards *and* have things display the same in most browsers, including IE, despite the ugly hacks required.
It seems that engines get more ineffecient as they age. My '89 Suzuki Swift was great on 87 octane gas for the first few years I had it, maybe the first 150,000km. After that it needed 89 to prevent knocking on hills.
I'd assume this mostly applies to high-RPM engines.
Just wait until they make the logical extension. Filming a movie with a camcorder is no different than copying a CD or video. No different at all.
Except that the experience is severely degraded from the source media. Just wait until they make that logical extension. You'll be in jail 25 years for copying a CD.
The only real difference is that in the case of CD (well any phyiscal media), you're paying to actually purchase something tangible. When you go to the theatre, you're paying only for that specific performance.
So are all Jabber users in one namespace? Or do you have to keep track of which server someone is on? (like, I want to chat with joe@jabber.uk not joe@jabber.ru) If it's the latter, I can't imagine this NOT being a deciding issue.
Huh? The Jabber addresses take the exact same format as standard e-mails, and we have no problems using those. Coincidentally, MSN Messenger also uses the same format for screenames. I find a concise e-mail address much easier to remember and use than HotSexyUnderageTeenSlut16u6283648732 that you see all too often on protocols like AIM and Y! that have a single namespace.
You may want to give EAC a try. It's widely regarded as the most bit-accurate ripper availiable, and while slow, I've never had it flounder on a disc either. I haven't used iTunes much, just touting my favourite software;). It's also easy to integrate it with any external encoder, so you can create nice LAME VBR mp3s instead of AACs, if you want.
Yeah, and looking at the massive moire problems in the example images, I wouldn't really consider this high quality. The vertical resolution isn't even that high, you can get better resolution with a decent quality consumer digicam.
Nothing to see here folks, if you want to shell out $7k for a camera, get a nice dSLR.
Yes it does, but you need to use the putty keygen tool to convert the public key to a format putty can use. After that it's trivial..the agent is nice and simple too and works well.
At midnight, it moves/bin/rm to/bin/REALLY-rm (well if it wasn't missing the forward slashes which I'm assuming is the original intent...), then moves it back at 9am. Makes you think twice about what you're rm'ing in a sleep deprived state;).
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It's usually easier to just buy a new mobo when your flash ROM is burned with meaningless garbage.
Destroying the whole machine is a bit much though.
A few months ago I was trying to track down some sudden instability in my machine. It seemed that it would always crash about the same amount of time after I booted it up, regardless of the OS or the tasks that it was doing. It took maybe 45 minutes before it would reboot itself and come back up, and crash again shortly after that unless I left it off for a while.
Thinking there was a temperature problem, I installed (I can't stand the software...) MBM and fired it up. It was reporting high temps...and a 12v rail at 18v (this was shortly after boot). Thinking it was a malfunction I pulled out my multimeter and read the voltage right off the power rails on the mobo. 19.1v. And rising.
Out of morbid curiousity I watched it for a while, as it gained about 2v/min. When it hit 40v I cut the power and went out and bought a new one.
The ATX connector on my motherboard is charred and the ground pin is nearly completely burned out. The male side on the dead PSU was melted a bit and the ground contact completely burned out.
Everything in the system still works perfectly fine. Pretty tough stuff.
Wow I suppose you're lucky.
I tried plugging a cheap Realtek NIC into a running machine once...and was greeted by a very visible arc that left a soot trail on the PCI connector. Two of the pins on the card itself were burned completely off. The overload protection in the PSU tripped and I had to replug the thing to get it to boot again. But boot it did, and I all lost was a $5 NIC. Never doing that again though...
I'm glad I don't work with you. When you see the same dialogs 200 times in a day, you don't need to stop and read them every time. Especially when you have work to do.
Well you haven't got it quite right. In that case it was the final unstabalization.
The real overhead is more probably the database query and code that runs on the server to generate the RSS. I highly doubt this is a bandwidth issue, especially since they're mentioning scalability issues. They're having trouble distributing the processing and aren't happy that they even have to for a once-an-hour peak that never gets approached 98% of the time.
That's the situation here too (in Canada), so you're probably right. I only know one person out there and she's having a hell of a time finding a decent ISP.
Much more likely it's a transparent proxy on port 80 (I dropped my last ISP for exactly this reason, though the blocking was a paid addon, I didn't like the idea of them proxying all my web traffic, and the proxy was down far more than the internet transit itself). Use SSL or find another ISP, cheif. And considering the situation in Britain right now, I doubt it would be easy to find another broadband ISP...and noone is going to switch from broadband to dialup over something that doesn't directly affect them. Telecom companies are essentially monopolies in a good portion of the western world, actions like this are pretty scary. At the very least there should be (and may be) some sort of commitee at BT that reviews the list from IWT to ensure that they're not abusing the power bestowed upon them. But that raises it's own legal issues...
It's a hairy problem, and IMO, it's best to keep ISPs and other transit providers out of it.
That would be a welcome change, but I don't see it happening in the next 5 years. It's like the IE of the web application DBMS world...
Then just say NIC?
Have you played Halo on an XBox? Have you done so with 16 other players across 4 or more consoles? Halo "got it right". The control scheme is nearly perfect (and if you don't like it, there are a number of alternate stick and button configurations to suit your play style), and the fact that everyone is using the same type of controller definitely helps balance the gameplay. No longer do you have to worry about the LPB with a Boomslang while you're stuck with a 20 year old Microsoft Mouse. As well, given a short amount of practice you can be as good (if not even better) with the controller as you would with a keyboard and mouse. The ability to easily modulate your movement speed by degrees is one major win that an analog console controller has over a keyboard and mouse, for example.
After playing at a 16 player Halo party for a weekend, I beg to differ. After at least 10 hours of straight playing, I'd still drop the controller in a second of a KB/mouse was availiable. Aiming with a stick simply sucks ass. It doesn't feel natural and can't react nearly as fast (or as slow) as a mouse can.
Console FPSs are good for having fun with others, but they suck single player because the controls are so awful.
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Agreed. However, some organizations have priorities that don't include standards evangalism. They just need the site to work properly in as many browsers as possible, and if that means doing a bit of JS hacking, so be it. IMO it's better than the alternative of using preblended images for both the developer and the user, and it's more flexible too (png+alpha over standard bitmaps).
I completely ignore IE for any of my personal sites, but for anything that I want to look at least semi-professional, I attempt to comply entirely with standards *and* have things display the same in most browsers, including IE, despite the ugly hacks required.
The SuperPNG Photoshop plugin is free, and does a far better job than the built in PNG filter..and supports more features as well.
Also, one of the IE-only filter() properties can enable proper PNG opacity support. It's not hard to enable and actually works quite well.
ALA has an article.
It is however possible to use a IE-only kludge to get proper support on all modern browsers.
It seems that engines get more ineffecient as they age. My '89 Suzuki Swift was great on 87 octane gas for the first few years I had it, maybe the first 150,000km. After that it needed 89 to prevent knocking on hills.
I'd assume this mostly applies to high-RPM engines.
Just wait until they make the logical extension. Filming a movie with a camcorder is no different than copying a CD or video. No different at all.
Except that the experience is severely degraded from the source media. Just wait until they make that logical extension. You'll be in jail 25 years for copying a CD.
The only real difference is that in the case of CD (well any phyiscal media), you're paying to actually purchase something tangible. When you go to the theatre, you're paying only for that specific performance.
So are all Jabber users in one namespace? Or do you have to keep track of which server someone is on? (like, I want to chat with joe@jabber.uk not joe@jabber.ru) If it's the latter, I can't imagine this NOT being a deciding issue.
Huh? The Jabber addresses take the exact same format as standard e-mails, and we have no problems using those. Coincidentally, MSN Messenger also uses the same format for screenames. I find a concise e-mail address much easier to remember and use than HotSexyUnderageTeenSlut16u6283648732 that you see all too often on protocols like AIM and Y! that have a single namespace.
Or you can have ZoneEdit forward all your domain's e-mail to another account of your choice. For free.
You may want to give EAC a try. It's widely regarded as the most bit-accurate ripper availiable, and while slow, I've never had it flounder on a disc either. I haven't used iTunes much, just touting my favourite software ;). It's also easy to integrate it with any external encoder, so you can create nice LAME VBR mp3s instead of AACs, if you want.
Yeah, and looking at the massive moire problems in the example images, I wouldn't really consider this high quality. The vertical resolution isn't even that high, you can get better resolution with a decent quality consumer digicam.
Nothing to see here folks, if you want to shell out $7k for a camera, get a nice dSLR.
$ du -h mindterm.jar
592K mindterm.jar
$ du -h putty.exe
364K putty.exe
Yes it does, but you need to use the putty keygen tool to convert the public key to a format putty can use. After that it's trivial..the agent is nice and simple too and works well.
At midnight, it moves /bin/rm to /bin/REALLY-rm (well if it wasn't missing the forward slashes which I'm assuming is the original intent...), then moves it back at 9am. Makes you think twice about what you're rm'ing in a sleep deprived state ;).