It's rather astonishing isn't it? here we are looking at technology that can increase our storage to petabytes (probably tons more) of storage, and a year or two ago we were worrying about, what was it?, 10, 20, even 30 gigs not being enough? In this world of 300 gig harddrives, and 120 meg floppy disks, rewriteable cds, and such, you have to wonder, when will our advance stop? and how would such a stop in our advance affect us? would we be able to cope with such? but this kind of advance, it is amazing no doubt, i am just in awe at this, and wonder if such storage technologys as in sci fi novels (like the plasma storage in such, (was it asmiov?)) will soon become a reality.
It might be trying to get it's link cable enlarged...
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(Was postedin a prevoius article, but it still applys!:)
Re:Windows ATMs (Score:5, Interesting) [ Windows ATMs by 2005 ]
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Yeah we've had them for 6+ years (surprised this is news to others). I've seen them BSOD, ask for a login, and the one round the corner from me had a DHCP expiry/conflit alert on it for 3 months. You'd think SOMEONE would be arsed to fix it!
(Still worked though, but it put other people off using it, meaning I didn't have to queue to use it).
Lots of them are color and have shockwave flash type intro's.
The underground here in London (well, really DLR, the Docklands Light Railway) has ticket machines that run OS/2, apparently in French or German though (definately not English!). They often die at early hours of the morning (~6) until rebooted remotely.
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gotta love them bsods !
i'm reposting this because i beleive it still applys to this article
Yes, some households have several phone numbers per person. However, other households have one phone number for several people. Cell phones, second lines, etc are moderately common, but far from ubiquitous.
no, i just get a little pissed off when people bash a good hobby like that FOR ALMOST 70% of the comments... sorry if you thought it was over reacting, i'm just disgusted with what people think of ham radio today
i have a two hampsterwheel setup, that outputs 12 volts at around.5-1 amp that i can use to charge my battery pack (sealed lead acid 12volt 4Ah) in case of emergancies!
and what was this a bash on? BPL or HAM RADIO?
1, ham radio already has enough freqancies for itself, and really, dosnt need anymore, but does need to keep it's freqancies.
2. if this was BPL, BPL affects 80mhz and downard, and 802.11x is 2.4ghz
you idiot! ham radio is NOT AT ALL LIKE THAT (all the time). i for one, can call up on a local repeater and ask for driving directons, make emergancy PHONE CALLS using my radio through a repeater with an autopatch, and can assist in finding broken down cars and such, besides that, wtf is a 'pro' radio and a 'echo' mike?
ham1: yeah how's the weather out there bob ?
ham2: it's kind of crappy it's real dark and we don't have any electricity
if someone said that to me, i'd ASK THEIR LOCATION AND ASK IF ANY ASSITANCE WAS NEEDED IN THEIR AREA! I WOULDNT ASK ABOUT THEIR FUCKING RIG!!!!
The only remaining reason for ham radio to continue to exist (and it's a really important one) is for the utterly unique educational opportunities it provides. Where else can you, as an individual, design your own antennas, build your own radios, conduct propagation experiments, experiment with your own modulation schemes, or participate in the design, construction and operation of a spacecraft? Ham radio has launched many people into productive technical careers, and that has always been its biggest payoff.
hmm, really? i always thought it was kind of usefull for public service! in an area i used to live in, the hams assist the firefighters for nearly every fire (most of the firemen are licsenced hams). they would report who was there, if any people were in the buildings, and such stuff as that, which was invaluble because they didn't have much equipment and had to choose what truck to bring out and such based on that info to save money on stuff like gas and such
seriously, the home version of suse is a hell of a good deal, the install is clean and consice, the package managment is click the checkbox and install, and the startup/shutdown screen is nifty too. i'm not saying there can't be somthing better, but for the end user, this is the best. also, using suse in servers, i've only used x86 single proc servers, but i've never had any trouble with it, it worked flawlessly for me. and 8.2 has like a 2.4 somthing kernel, a pretty much recent kernel, beinc as 2.5 is still in devel (i think)
hmm, on that note you could be right, but i've seen some pretty screwed up things come from washington post writiers thou:)
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(note, i think that only the computers themselves are the ones that are faulting, not any of the modules, but this does provide a learning example.)
Yes, there is a kind of embedded 'os' which controlls and initilizes the hardware. I beleive that for each module it has a seperate control 'os' which does infact have the ability to 'reboot' akin to what us pc users are used to. It functions as such(according to what i have learned) lets say there is section that controls data transfer from one or two radar systems to a seperate computer, and it faults, mabey it's sent data it can't handle. it reboots, the other components failsafe untill the data transfer module is back up, and the other components resume communication. (note, this is theoretical, there may not be a 'data transfer module' for radar -> console computer, but it provides an example we can grasp.)
just so, there is a os as of such, and it can reboot as such as we do on our pcs, it's just not supposed to have to do that in flight:P
Anyway, there you have it, and yes, when rebooting the computer parts it does scroll some stuff across the lcds and such, and if it faults or somthing itll pause midoutput and display the error.
i don't know how the reboot works, but i imagine you just toggle the computers power switch, and that reboots it:D
2. Everyone thinks they are a "white hat" lobbyist, but their own perception of the hat is colored by the client. Look at Sun, are they a "white hat" because they went after MS? Are they still a "white hat" now that they are going after Linux? IBM used to be the "Great Satan" before MS. Now that they are supporting Open Source (after a fashion) are they now "white hat"? "White Hat" vs. "Black Hat" in technology is a myth.
On that note of corporation white hat v. black hat I must agree, but what on the note of hackers? would you still say that there is a white hat/black hat form of hacking?
one must ponder, this is a good point, but the original meaning of this is lost in this usage.
hmm, that might be interesting..... but what would one do with such information *stares blankly* no, that's improper! you shouldn't tell me what i'm already planning!
hmmm, microsoft software? wow, does the BIA run microsoft servers? amazing, and security for that is nonexistant compared to unix type os's(except mabey... *bleaug* LindowsOS) and that IT department needs to get it's ass back on the line and do some work
it does not propagate because our government does not want intellegant individuals underneath them, so they can flaunt their intellegance and do whatever they want, unless they happen to be seen by a semismart to smart reporter!
hmm, willfully not complying... why thou, they get paid to go to staples and get a router:P really, if the security is NOTHING, how come they don't take the matter into their own hands and buy a firewall package from macafee or somthing and get a big router? that would seem the best way to get somewhat better security
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www.windowsbeta.net has a code sample and a forum and a copy of the article. VISIT TO READ AND SEE THE CODE SAMPLE! (taskmon main.cpp for winnt)
It's rather astonishing isn't it? here we are looking at technology that can increase our storage to petabytes (probably tons more) of storage, and a year or two ago we were worrying about, what was it?, 10, 20, even 30 gigs not being enough? In this world of 300 gig harddrives, and 120 meg floppy disks, rewriteable cds, and such, you have to wonder, when will our advance stop? and how would such a stop in our advance affect us? would we be able to cope with such? but this kind of advance, it is amazing no doubt, i am just in awe at this, and wonder if such storage technologys as in sci fi novels (like the plasma storage in such, (was it asmiov?)) will soon become a reality.
It might be trying to get it's link cable enlarged...
(Was postedin a prevoius article, but it still applys! :)
Re:Windows ATMs (Score:5, Interesting) [ Windows ATMs by 2005 ]
by @madeus on 2003-09-19 10:56:00 7003951
Yeah we've had them for 6+ years (surprised this is news to others). I've seen them BSOD, ask for a login, and the one round the corner from me had a DHCP expiry/conflit alert on it for 3 months. You'd think SOMEONE would be arsed to fix it!
(Still worked though, but it put other people off using it, meaning I didn't have to queue to use it).
Lots of them are color and have shockwave flash type intro's.
The underground here in London (well, really DLR, the Docklands Light Railway) has ticket machines that run OS/2, apparently in French or German though (definately not English!). They often die at early hours of the morning (~6) until rebooted remotely.
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gotta love them bsods !
Well, who ever liked clippy anyway? and MS Bob? heh, you could run that under bochs -1 it's so simple :) but hell, who wouldn't want ms bob?
no, i just get a little pissed off when people bash a good hobby like that FOR ALMOST 70% of the comments... sorry if you thought it was over reacting, i'm just disgusted with what people think of ham radio today
i have a two hampsterwheel setup, that outputs 12 volts at around .5-1 amp that i can use to charge my battery pack (sealed lead acid 12volt 4Ah) in case of emergancies!
and what was this a bash on? BPL or HAM RADIO?
1, ham radio already has enough freqancies for itself, and really, dosnt need anymore, but does need to keep it's freqancies.
2. if this was BPL, BPL affects 80mhz and downard, and 802.11x is 2.4ghz
quite illegal, i'm afraid, to transmit the dvd itself is illegal, and there is other stuff like thta tthat makes it illegal
if someone said that to me, i'd ASK THEIR LOCATION AND ASK IF ANY ASSITANCE WAS NEEDED IN THEIR AREA! I WOULDNT ASK ABOUT THEIR FUCKING RIG!!!!
hey, listen up, what about emergancies where WE DO HAVE POWER?!?!?! i am a ham, and there have been a one such emergacnies that i can remember
remember 9/11? emergancy and we had power!
oh, and btw, to upgrade the kernel, you have to UPGRADE FUCKING SUSE, you know, upgrade the distro to a newer version number?!?!?!
seriously, the home version of suse is a hell of a good deal, the install is clean and consice, the package managment is click the checkbox and install, and the startup/shutdown screen is nifty too. i'm not saying there can't be somthing better, but for the end user, this is the best. also, using suse in servers, i've only used x86 single proc servers, but i've never had any trouble with it, it worked flawlessly for me. and 8.2 has like a 2.4 somthing kernel, a pretty much recent kernel, beinc as 2.5 is still in devel (i think)
Actually, i think it's somthing with switches, buttons, and reaching behind the seat to poke the reboot-monkey
hmm, on that note you could be right, but i've seen some pretty screwed up things come from washington post writiers thou :)
(note, i think that only the computers themselves are the ones that are faulting, not any of the modules, but this does provide a learning example.) Yes, there is a kind of embedded 'os' which controlls and initilizes the hardware. I beleive that for each module it has a seperate control 'os' which does infact have the ability to 'reboot' akin to what us pc users are used to. It functions as such(according to what i have learned) lets say there is section that controls data transfer from one or two radar systems to a seperate computer, and it faults, mabey it's sent data it can't handle. it reboots, the other components failsafe untill the data transfer module is back up, and the other components resume communication. (note, this is theoretical, there may not be a 'data transfer module' for radar -> console computer, but it provides an example we can grasp.) just so, there is a os as of such, and it can reboot as such as we do on our pcs, it's just not supposed to have to do that in flight :P
Anyway, there you have it, and yes, when rebooting the computer parts it does scroll some stuff across the lcds and such, and if it faults or somthing itll pause midoutput and display the error.
i don't know how the reboot works, but i imagine you just toggle the computers power switch, and that reboots it :D
2. Everyone thinks they are a "white hat" lobbyist, but their own perception of the hat is colored by the client. Look at Sun, are they a "white hat" because they went after MS? Are they still a "white hat" now that they are going after Linux? IBM used to be the "Great Satan" before MS. Now that they are supporting Open Source (after a fashion) are they now "white hat"? "White Hat" vs. "Black Hat" in technology is a myth. On that note of corporation white hat v. black hat I must agree, but what on the note of hackers? would you still say that there is a white hat/black hat form of hacking? one must ponder, this is a good point, but the original meaning of this is lost in this usage.
hmm, that might be interesting..... but what would one do with such information *stares blankly* no, that's improper! you shouldn't tell me what i'm already planning!
hmmm, microsoft software? wow, does the BIA run microsoft servers? amazing, and security for that is nonexistant compared to unix type os's(except mabey... *bleaug* LindowsOS) and that IT department needs to get it's ass back on the line and do some work
thank you, and i would like my rations in 1 lb blocks of milk chocolate :)
chocolate rations? they give chocolate rations? how come i was not notified of this? i would have sued for my chocolate rations!
it does not propagate because our government does not want intellegant individuals underneath them, so they can flaunt their intellegance and do whatever they want, unless they happen to be seen by a semismart to smart reporter!
hmm, willfully not complying... why thou, they get paid to go to staples and get a router :P really, if the security is NOTHING, how come they don't take the matter into their own hands and buy a firewall package from macafee or somthing and get a big router? that would seem the best way to get somewhat better security