If you look around at the specifications you'll find that virtually all laptops use ATI video chipsets - and of course we have no option to change them. HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, all of them carry the ATI curse.
It's possible to buy an IBM Thinkpad with Linux preinstalled so if anybody who has one of these machines is reading this, what drivers have IBM installed ?
According to the spokesman one of the uses of the system is "the prevention of natural catastrophes such as flooding or fires". Yet another example of EU politicians promising the Sun and Moon but delivering nothing.
This is just a few billion Euro down the drain which could be better spent.
I've been living and working in Europe for about nine years now, and it's probably one of the best moves I've ever made.
You WILL need a work permit and sponsorship from an employer, but this is a lot easier than an H1B.
You WILL need to make this a 100% commitment and start living like a European rather than an American abroad. Above all realize that the world does not revolve around the United States and not everyone speaks English.
In return you'll get a more relaxed lifestyle, better living conditions and a better public transport system.
Agreed, somebody carrying out these modifications should know what they are doing, but I think my post and your reply requires some clarification.
A 5000mfd capacitor rated for 110/220 volt operation would probably be about the same size as the light fitting. Disc ceramic capacitors MIGHT work if you are very careful about the voltage rating but the devices I was referring to are known as X2 rated capacitors (I've now had a chance to look this up). The X2 rated capacitor I am looking at now is rated to 275 volts AC and is self healing with an epoxy case. It has a value of 0.22mfd, somewhat bigger than your 5000mfd example.
Finally (and I agree with you again) anybody carrying out work like this should know what they are doing, be aware of the required rating of any components used, and be aware of the dangers. Being roasted in your own body fat whilst connected to a 110 volt line is not a nice way to die.
As a radio ham I have similar problems, try the following.
1) You can get ferrite rings of various diameters. Try winding a couple of turns of the cord leading to the light through one of these rings. The ring should be as close as possible to the fixture.
2) Wire RF chokes in series with the fittings. These work in a similar way to the ferrite rings but are more effective.
3) It's possible to obtain capacitors that are rated for 110/220 volt operation. Have a look inside a PC power supply and you may see one, they are normally encased in yellow transparent epoxy. Wire one of these across the fitting.
And finally.........
4) Ask for help from the right people. Try and find either a local radio ham or (even better) a local ham club. These guys will be experts at fighting RFI and will help you out.
And it needs to stick to them. Microsoft may produce buggy insecure code but I'm fed up of finding bugs in Open Source software and being told 'what do you expect, it's free'.
I would be more impressed if they could feed the millions of poor in the Indian sub-continent. Sure, a manned space shot by India would be impressive, but it matters very little to the man on the streets of Bombay who has to beg in order to feed his family.
My girlfriend runs a Mac, my parents run an old P2 machine with Fedora installed and locked down and when asked to support friends computers I tell them "sorry, but I don't work on MS Windows machines".
I will (for free) wipe MS Windows and install Linux on any friends machine but my days of providing free support for Bill G are over.
I find this cuts down on the support calls and I can then enjoy Thanksgiving.
Ed Almos Budapest, Hungary
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Never mind what OS they were running or the state of their firewall, the company broke the first rule. Once somebody has physical access to your machine you're hosed.
I don't care if you're a client of our company or the finest I.T. geek on the planet, if I find that you, as a none-company employee, have been messing around with one of the machines under my care then the cops get called and the hard drive gets wiped.
I can't speak for the HiFi crowd but when it comes to Ham Radio tubes still have a job to do.
The front ends of receivers ALWAYS behave better when a tube is used because of the gradual distortion that has already been mentioned. On some of the bands that hams use receivers overload easily and the tube characteristics coupled with a high voltage power supply (80 volts or so compared with 12 volts for a transistor rig) can save the day.
Power amps for transmitters are always best when a valve or two is used. There are amps out there that use FETS and exotic technology but if you want to shove 2Kw up an antenna the only way to do it is with some heavy duty tubes.
Yeah verily I say to you, avoid the mark of 3Com for they sucketh greatly. If thee seeketh the path of enterprise solutions then also seeketh the company of Cisco or their ally Juniper, thus will you avoid the weeping of your women and the wrath of your superior.
OK, I feel your pain but this is just one more symptom of a greater problem. Printing under Linux is a mess and it needs to be fixed. I run a Brother 1250 and in order to get it to work I need to do the following:
Windows Run the setup program. This installs an applet in the Control Panel along with the driver. The printer is detected on the USB port the first time I turn it on. Sharing is done in about five seconds with a right-click and a couple of selections.
Linux Install Foomatic, install CUPS, install Ghostscript, fart around for thirty minutes making sure that they can all talk to each other. The total installation size for all of this is well over 50Mb and don't even talk to me about sharing the printer over my network, it isn't going to happen.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys !! We are now well into the 21st Century and Linux is still using a printing system that appears to have been written in the 1960's. This needs fixing with a solution that is small, fast and easy to use.
Here we use the 'double nickle' on all our file servers, RAID 5 spread across five disks. In six years we have never lost data due to a drive failure and if one of the little buggers does die we just pull the drive out of its cage and slot in a new one. The server BIOS (IBM Netfinity) then takes care of rebuilding.
Given that the machine could not store its program as well as the data I would say no, but it's a nice try for the number one spot. The German machine is also IMHO a better machine than ENIAC as ENIAC had to be reprogrammed by almost completely rebuilding the machine.
Sorry folks, but the first true computer was (and still is) the Manchester University Mark 1.
Fedora Core 2 doesn't like to boot at all, never mind just dual boot systems. So far I have tried installing FC2 on two systems (PII laptop and VIA C3 machine) and both of them fail. The laptop insists that there is not enough disk space and then borks out and the C3 machine just reboots in an endless cycle.
For those who follow Bugzilla the numbers you need are 121819 if you have an ASUS motherboard and 120685 if you have a VIA C3 system. The second link for the C3 is much more involved and a number of the posters are deep into the kernel architecture at the moment.
This is not good, I thought that the test releases were supposed to pick things like this up ?
Hi there, and welcome to Slashdot. I know a couple of people who are autistic and it takes real courage to do what you've done, so well done in getting this far.
As others have said, the main problem you will face with most Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses are the math requirements. I've been into computers since the TRS-80 yet when I did my studies in the 90's I found the math about as much fun as root canal work.
I reckon your best bet is to find a local computer engineering shop who understand your position but are able to offer you a position there. Field service may be out but you can still learn plenty on the benches.
I might consider buying your book if you didn't want a hundred and twenty books per copy !! Unless each page is printed on sheets of platinum I don't see how you can justify such a price.
'every IBM laptop, desktop, and workstation still comes with Windows pre-loaded!'
Check your facts please. This message is being typed on an IBM Thinkpad which came with Red Hat 9 pre-loaded. I had a choice of Windows 2000, Windows XP, SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux when I came to purchase.
Douglas Adams refererences aside I used to wear a digital watch and thought that it was cool, until someone pointed out that whenever we see a digital time display we always visualize the hour and minute hands in our minds before we can read the time.
I now wear an analogue watch and avoid conversion losses.
Normally this would worry me but since Darl and his gang are the lowest of the low I don't give a damn. Work hard to become the most hated company in the industry and this sort of thing happens.
Kroupware is your friend. I heard good things about it after a friend of mine went to a conference in the UK and saw a presentation on Kroupware by Bo Thorensen.
My last contract was as Senior Support Engineer at a software company. I worked on the 'Hotline' answering all the really sticky calls from clients.
My boss was French and her management style consisted of screaming instructions at the top of her voice so that everyone in the room could hear. Sometimes it was management by fear, other times she just seemed to make it up as she went along.
Just to add insult to injury the bonus scheme the company ran was so skewed that nobody ever qualified for the full amount even if they worked eighty hour weeks and cleared every call. What finally made me quit was that the product we were supporting sucked, big time. There were so many bugs that the fault reporting system couldn't cope and used to crash on a regular basis.
In the end I just quit and promised myself that I would never again work on telephone support or for a French boss. I sleep every night now and the gray patches on the beard are almost gone.
If there is we didn't put it there. So far as I'm aware we are running stock AIX software with our stuff on top, and that does NOT contain any SCO code unless SCO suddenly decided to get into banking software.
Ask the nice men from IBM who look after these wee beasties.
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If you look around at the specifications you'll find that virtually all laptops use ATI video chipsets - and of course we have no option to change them. HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, all of them carry the ATI curse.
It's possible to buy an IBM Thinkpad with Linux preinstalled so if anybody who has one of these machines is reading this, what drivers have IBM installed ?
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
According to the spokesman one of the uses of the system is "the prevention of natural catastrophes such as flooding or fires". Yet another example of EU politicians promising the Sun and Moon but delivering nothing.
This is just a few billion Euro down the drain which could be better spent.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
I've been living and working in Europe for about nine years now, and it's probably one of the best moves I've ever made.
You WILL need a work permit and sponsorship from an employer, but this is a lot easier than an H1B.
You WILL need to make this a 100% commitment and start living like a European rather than an American abroad. Above all realize that the world does not revolve around the United States and not everyone speaks English.
In return you'll get a more relaxed lifestyle, better living conditions and a better public transport system.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Agreed, somebody carrying out these modifications should know what they are doing, but I think my post and your reply requires some clarification.
.
A 5000mfd capacitor rated for 110/220 volt operation would probably be about the same size as the light fitting. Disc ceramic capacitors MIGHT work if you are very careful about the voltage rating but the devices I was referring to are known as X2 rated capacitors (I've now had a chance to look this up). The X2 rated capacitor I am looking at now is rated to 275 volts AC and is self healing with an epoxy case. It has a value of 0.22mfd, somewhat bigger than your 5000mfd example
Finally (and I agree with you again) anybody carrying out work like this should know what they are doing, be aware of the required rating of any components used, and be aware of the dangers. Being roasted in your own body fat whilst connected to a 110 volt line is not a nice way to die.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
As a radio ham I have similar problems, try the following.
1) You can get ferrite rings of various diameters. Try winding a couple of turns of the cord leading to the light through one of these rings. The ring should be as close as possible to the fixture.
2) Wire RF chokes in series with the fittings. These work in a similar way to the ferrite rings but are more effective.
3) It's possible to obtain capacitors that are rated for 110/220 volt operation. Have a look inside a PC power supply and you may see one, they are normally encased in yellow transparent epoxy. Wire one of these across the fitting.
And finally.........
4) Ask for help from the right people. Try and find either a local radio ham or (even better) a local ham club. These guys will be experts at fighting RFI and will help you out.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
YES !!!
And it needs to stick to them. Microsoft may produce buggy insecure code but I'm fed up of finding bugs in Open Source software and being told 'what do you expect, it's free'.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
I would be more impressed if they could feed the millions of poor in the Indian sub-continent. Sure, a manned space shot by India would be impressive, but it matters very little to the man on the streets of Bombay who has to beg in order to feed his family.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
My girlfriend runs a Mac, my parents run an old P2 machine with Fedora installed and locked down and when asked to support friends computers I tell them "sorry, but I don't work on MS Windows machines".
I will (for free) wipe MS Windows and install Linux on any friends machine but my days of providing free support for Bill G are over.
I find this cuts down on the support calls and I can then enjoy Thanksgiving.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
It was all faked in a movie studio I tell you.
Oooh look, flame, pretty.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Never mind what OS they were running or the state of their firewall, the company broke the first rule. Once somebody has physical access to your machine you're hosed.
I don't care if you're a client of our company or the finest I.T. geek on the planet, if I find that you, as a none-company employee, have been messing around with one of the machines under my care then the cops get called and the hard drive gets wiped.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
I can't speak for the HiFi crowd but when it comes to Ham Radio tubes still have a job to do.
The front ends of receivers ALWAYS behave better when a tube is used because of the gradual distortion that has already been mentioned. On some of the bands that hams use receivers overload easily and the tube characteristics coupled with a high voltage power supply (80 volts or so compared with 12 volts for a transistor rig) can save the day.
Power amps for transmitters are always best when a valve or two is used. There are amps out there that use FETS and exotic technology but if you want to shove 2Kw up an antenna the only way to do it is with some heavy duty tubes.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Yeah verily I say to you, avoid the mark of 3Com for they sucketh greatly. If thee seeketh the path of enterprise solutions then also seeketh the company of Cisco or their ally Juniper, thus will you avoid the weeping of your women and the wrath of your superior.
Here endeth the lesson.
Brother Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
OK, I feel your pain but this is just one more symptom of a greater problem. Printing under Linux is a mess and it needs to be fixed. I run a Brother 1250 and in order to get it to work I need to do the following:
Windows
Run the setup program. This installs an applet in the Control Panel along with the driver. The printer is detected on the USB port the first time I turn it on. Sharing is done in about five seconds with a right-click and a couple of selections.
Linux
Install Foomatic, install CUPS, install Ghostscript, fart around for thirty minutes making sure that they can all talk to each other. The total installation size for all of this is well over 50Mb and don't even talk to me about sharing the printer over my network, it isn't going to happen.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys !! We are now well into the 21st Century and Linux is still using a printing system that appears to have been written in the 1960's. This needs fixing with a solution that is small, fast and easy to use.
OK, rant over, feel better now.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Here we use the 'double nickle' on all our file servers, RAID 5 spread across five disks. In six years we have never lost data due to a drive failure and if one of the little buggers does die we just pull the drive out of its cage and slot in a new one. The server BIOS (IBM Netfinity) then takes care of rebuilding.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Given that the machine could not store its program as well as the data I would say no, but it's a nice try for the number one spot. The German machine is also IMHO a better machine than ENIAC as ENIAC had to be reprogrammed by almost completely rebuilding the machine.
Sorry folks, but the first true computer was (and still is) the Manchester University Mark 1.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Fedora Core 2 doesn't like to boot at all, never mind just dual boot systems. So far I have tried installing FC2 on two systems (PII laptop and VIA C3 machine) and both of them fail. The laptop insists that there is not enough disk space and then borks out and the C3 machine just reboots in an endless cycle.
For those who follow Bugzilla the numbers you need are 121819 if you have an ASUS motherboard and 120685 if you have a VIA C3 system. The second link for the C3 is much more involved and a number of the posters are deep into the kernel architecture at the moment.
This is not good, I thought that the test releases were supposed to pick things like this up ?
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Hi there, and welcome to Slashdot. I know a couple of people who are autistic and it takes real courage to do what you've done, so well done in getting this far.
As others have said, the main problem you will face with most Computer Science and Computer Engineering courses are the math requirements. I've been into computers since the TRS-80 yet when I did my studies in the 90's I found the math about as much fun as root canal work.
I reckon your best bet is to find a local computer engineering shop who understand your position but are able to offer you a position there. Field service may be out but you can still learn plenty on the benches.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
I might consider buying your book if you didn't want a hundred and twenty books per copy !! Unless each page is printed on sheets of platinum I don't see how you can justify such a price.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
'every IBM laptop, desktop, and workstation still comes with Windows pre-loaded!'
Check your facts please. This message is being typed on an IBM Thinkpad which came with Red Hat 9 pre-loaded. I had a choice of Windows 2000, Windows XP, SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux when I came to purchase.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
Douglas Adams refererences aside I used to wear a digital watch and thought that it was cool, until someone pointed out that whenever we see a digital time display we always visualize the hour and minute hands in our minds before we can read the time.
I now wear an analogue watch and avoid conversion losses.
Normally this would worry me but since Darl and his gang are the lowest of the low I don't give a damn. Work hard to become the most hated company in the industry and this sort of thing happens.
Tough shit !!
Ed Almos
Seven and two tenths of an inch. That will be three groats to you good sir !!
Ed
Kroupware is your friend. I heard good things about it after a friend of mine went to a conference in the UK and saw a presentation on Kroupware by Bo Thorensen.
Pity the name sucks.
My last contract was as Senior Support Engineer at a software company. I worked on the 'Hotline' answering all the really sticky calls from clients.
My boss was French and her management style consisted of screaming instructions at the top of her voice so that everyone in the room could hear. Sometimes it was management by fear, other times she just seemed to make it up as she went along.
Just to add insult to injury the bonus scheme the company ran was so skewed that nobody ever qualified for the full amount even if they worked eighty hour weeks and cleared every call. What finally made me quit was that the product we were supporting sucked, big time. There were so many bugs that the fault reporting system couldn't cope and used to crash on a regular basis.
In the end I just quit and promised myself that I would never again work on telephone support or for a French boss. I sleep every night now and the gray patches on the beard are almost gone.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
If there is we didn't put it there. So far as I'm aware we are running stock AIX software with our stuff on top, and that does NOT contain any SCO code unless SCO suddenly decided to get into banking software.
Ask the nice men from IBM who look after these wee beasties.
Ed