Difficult because heat generators are PCB mounted
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For audio equipment, the big heat generators (the output driver FETs or transistors) can be physically removed from the Printed Circuit Board and mounted to the heatsinks. Connections are made with a couple wires. This is not possible with the major heat generators in a personal computer - the processor, bridge, video, and memory must be mounted on the PCB because of the speed of the signals going into and coming out of these components. Long runs mean delays and (more importantly) bad signal quality. Possible solutions are:
use of heat transfer technology to migrate the energy from these components to the outside case / heatsinks
a shift to a new technology, like totally asynchronous.
a complete rethink of the "rectangular box" PC design and enclosed circuitry
Next problem is what you do with a very hot case. It's got to be placed where it can radiate the heat. I'm not sure, but crammed into a corner under a desk might not be the best place.
Darn those pesky wireless mice! So free, mobile, and easy to use. Good thing Apple hasn't discovered "ease of use" yet.
But seriously folks, wireless mice and kbds are soooooo nice. I would have thought that this would be the top priority for a company that claims "user friendly" as it's mantra.
My wife and I have gone through 4 different PCs (2 desktop, 2 laptop) looking for something that she can classify as "quiet" - which means as quiet as an old, 1Ghz P3 slugeron Dell laptop which she says is "almost tolerable" (the fans come on only occasionally). Our experience is that speed (CPU, disks, memory) translates to heat, which translates to cooling requirements, which translates to noise. There are ways around it, but water cooling is expensive, and a "quiet" fan is still too noisy. Tech support claimed that the laptops we bought and returned were "very quiet", but in the end they were both unacceptably loud. I even tried the Dell fan control do-honkus. Not enough. A hypersensitive individual can hear, and is bothered by, a noise level below the threshold of most "normies". The only solution I can see is
Normally, this machine would only be for reading email, surfing, and running Word, so 800 Mhz would do the job, but she has mentioned that she wants to run Photoshop.
I can sympathize - I love my Northgate Omnikey keyboards. CTRL key where it should be. ALT where it should be. F-keys where they should be. Only problem is, they're not made any more. But these guys are building an acceptable, but very pricy, substitute. Uses same "clicky" Alps key switches. I'd sure like someone to buy one and tell me if it's worth it.....
Jeez. I can (theoretically) sniff packets and I don't even need a court order. Just a copy of ethereal, nmap and nessus, none of which I have ever used or have any experience with. But as pointed out, a packet of encoded fluff doesn't do me, or the government, a lot of good, unless one of us has a way of decoding it in near-real time, and my secret decoder ring only goes to 32 bit.
The fish was caught and eaten in a remote village...
In the same paragraph:
Local environmentalists and government officials negotiated to release the record-breaking animal so it could continue its spawning migration... But the fish, an adult male, later died.
In a world without hackers
there would be no need for computer security.
In a world without violence
we would feel safe all the time.
In a world without crime
there would be no need for police, or prisons.
In a world where all beings agreed with and respected each other
there would be no need for the lawyers.
In a world without war
we wouldn't need the tools of warmongering.
In a world without anger
all the art would be boring.
In a world without tension
there would be no incentive for personal growth.
In a world without pain
pleasure would be meaningless.
In a world without fear
we would all be enlightened.
But we are not without those things. We are not perfect. We are flawed, but spiritual beings in the midst of a human experience. Accept that and everything else makes sense.
My Franklin planner has a monthly page & a daily page. Loadus Nodes has a handy calender function that can send reminders and automatically accept emailed meeting invitations. The problem of course is that I have to keep all three of these schedules synchronized, which I manage to do about 90% of the time, but it's a major pain, and a major embarassment when I don't. Lotus also allows me to "share" my calender (make it viewable/editable by others), and anyone trying to schedule a meeting with multiple attendees can easily find timeslots when all (or most) people have "empty" time - provided that everyone keeps their calendar up-to-date and shares it out. Now all we need to do is get our conference room scheduling system tied in (it's a totally separate web app).
Here's a short list of what I'd like to see:
daily time slots
weekly & monthly views
flexible repeat entry scheduling
warnings & reminders that go away if the event has long since passed
different warning/reminder behavior for meeting vs. appointment vs. reminder vs. anniversary vs. event
knowledge of company holidays
configurable "weekday" vs. "weekend", including weird schedules that use 40 hr weeks by 10 or 12 hr days.
settable by other people via email, but with "exclude user X" capability.
After a year or two, my fans are covered with a layer of crud - dust, oil, cat hair, mouse poop, gnu fur, and that's with filters in place! I wonder what this system would look like after sitting in the corner for a couple years? I've heard of Wall of Noise, and wall of sound, but wall of ventilation?
Government officials, in their statement, called the content available on Elitetorrents.org "virtually unlimited"
That sounds like it must include all private documents ever created, and all secret & "top secret" documents every created. That's why the JBTs were so prompt in reacting. Or perhaps this is Immigration & Customs tooting their own horn looking for more funding. Come to think of it, weren't they the ones responsible for dragging poor little Elian out of a closet at gun-point a few years ago?
and signaled their intent to continue efforts to rein in illegal downloading.
<include gratitous but appropriateStar Wars quote>
Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more [star] systems will slip through your fingers.
Prohibits any person from bringing a civil action under State law premised upon the defendant's violating this Act.
If I read that correctly, I can't sue someone who installs spyware on my pc or tries to phish me. But I don't understand the "under State law" clause, so maybe I could still sue under federal law? Does this limit my recourse to breaking the guy's kneecaps?
... deficits in concentration, orientation, abstracting ability, judgment, and problem-solving ability.
You're describing most of our politicians.
Other frontal lobe deficits include loss of initiative, inappropriate behavior, release of sucking and grasping reflexes, gait apraxia, sphincteric incontinence . . . and inappropriate social behavior (e.g., use of obscene language, urinating in public)"
Yea, I voted for that guy....
... people with prefrontal cortex lesions are among the most difficult patients to interact with on a daily basis.
With the Tapis Plan, we go to eleven. You see, these CMEs come along, and the scale these other blokes use only goes to 9. So, at 9, they're all the way up - all the way. Where can you go from there? Nowhere. So what we do, if we need that extra push into the lower ionosphere, Eleven.
Gates has always been slow on networking
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MS didn't get into the game until the third inning. WfWG was a mess. UNI* had been doing networked communications for years before MS decided that "sneaker-net" was not the most productive data exchange methodology. Kludging networking onto the side of DOS is what sent it into the toilet (IMHO). It's an OS that wasn't conceived in an interconnected age. It was designed to be an island unto itself. They eventually got workgroup networking semi-functional, but then they didn't forsee how an infrastructure built for wide-open everyone-is-my-friend access would become a liability when connected to the entire planet, where not everyone is a warm-and-fuzzy smoochy-pal. At every step Gates has considered Windows to be the Gibralter, the impervious center of the universe, to which other, lesser products would gladly tie their boats. He hasn't realized what McNeely saw long ago: "the network is the computer".
Uses "merge meister" and "build master" methodology. We don't.
"Standard" Java. Ha. As if. I've got 3 "standard" and incompatible versions of JRE on my system, each installed by a different tool vendor. In my universe, Java means "write once / run (slowly) nowhere"
At the company where I work, we are "re-evaluating" our commitment to a major Configuration Management (CM) package, due to various issues. We are studying several commercial packages -- nothing in the open-source arena meets our requirements. Most of the CM systems we've seen use a single, centralized server, and these suffer from excessive item "get" ("check out", "get copy") times for non-local users. The problem appears to be network latency, rather than bandwidth. Getting a single 8MB item is relatively fast, but getting 4500+ small items can take too long. There's just too much per-item overhead.
So I was thinking... why not use something like BitTorrent as the item distribution engine?
NOTE: Yes, systems like StarTeam and MKS use distributed replication or proxy servers. They're on the short list. And thanks, please don't suggest <insert mom's favorite version control system>. Our needs go way beyond simple VC.
Ok, I checked it out (I found it at snapfiles) I don't know what good a process "balancer" will do. Let's take the case where I click on an EXE, which may or may not be infected. The Anti-Virus needs to scan the file after the system opens it, but before the app itself initializes and runs. If the load balancer drops the priority of the AV down, because it's busy scanning, then that will just delay when the app begins. Am I missing something here????
His mentioning of how a anti-virus and firewall can bring your computer the " slow their computers to a crawl" I can't say I have had that problem in years. And usally a good system tuneup/clean out/tuneup fixes the problem.
Well, not all of us can afford the latest multi-giga-hurts processor upgrade every few months. Since you can, rock on. My 2.4Ghz system at work is noticably slower running McAfee Enterprise (the AV required by our I.T. department for any computer plugged into the network). I really hate the concept that I need an entire friggin' processor (and support electronics) just to run AV. And why? Because I'm using Windoze. Someday Linux may run all my apps, but not yet. Someday Win2095 may be secure, but not yet. Someday the virus writers may turn their energies and intellect to something more constructive, like a cure for AIDS or cancer, but not yet.
Great! Thanks for that instructive reply. I'm still a little vague on your explaination of "threaded applications" vs. "non-threaded applications" and why they won't just pile up on the current processor. What makes an app run on processor #1 vs #2 or #22?
Some websites are Flash-specific. I'll use MSIE for those and Firefox for the other 99.9%. I stopped using Flash when the ads for "Firefly" took over my browser when I was at Yahoo.
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- use of heat transfer technology to migrate the energy from these components to the outside case / heatsinks
- a shift to a new technology, like totally asynchronous.
- a complete rethink of the "rectangular box" PC design and enclosed circuitry
Heat piping and liquid cooling has been done. U of Manchester has developed an async version of the ARM. Good luck getting anyone to bite on, and invest in, doing things very different.Next problem is what you do with a very hot case. It's got to be placed where it can radiate the heat. I'm not sure, but crammed into a corner under a desk might not be the best place.
Dude, if I had any mod points I'd give 'em all to you! Made my day!!
Darn those pesky wireless mice! So free, mobile, and easy to use. Good thing Apple hasn't discovered "ease of use" yet. But seriously folks, wireless mice and kbds are soooooo nice. I would have thought that this would be the top priority for a company that claims "user friendly" as it's mantra.
- The slowest version of one of the "ultra low voltage" CPUs from Intel, which aren't really targeted at PCs, but at embedded devices
- A slow, quiet (A/V) disk
- Not much memory
- Totally passive cooling
Normally, this machine would only be for reading email, surfing, and running Word, so 800 Mhz would do the job, but she has mentioned that she wants to run Photoshop.I can sympathize - I love my Northgate Omnikey keyboards. CTRL key where it should be. ALT where it should be. F-keys where they should be. Only problem is, they're not made any more. But these guys are building an acceptable, but very pricy, substitute. Uses same "clicky" Alps key switches. I'd sure like someone to buy one and tell me if it's worth it.....
Jeez. I can (theoretically) sniff packets and I don't even need a court order. Just a copy of ethereal, nmap and nessus, none of which I have ever used or have any experience with. But as pointed out, a packet of encoded fluff doesn't do me, or the government, a lot of good, unless one of us has a way of decoding it in near-real time, and my secret decoder ring only goes to 32 bit.
I wonder how big the prawns get?
In a world without hackers
there would be no need for computer security.
In a world without violence
we would feel safe all the time.
In a world without crime
there would be no need for police, or prisons.
In a world where all beings agreed with and respected each other
there would be no need for the lawyers.
In a world without war
we wouldn't need the tools of warmongering.
In a world without anger
all the art would be boring.
In a world without tension
there would be no incentive for personal growth.
In a world without pain
pleasure would be meaningless.
In a world without fear
we would all be enlightened.
But we are not without those things. We are not perfect. We are flawed, but spiritual beings in the midst of a human experience. Accept that and everything else makes sense.
Here's a short list of what I'd like to see:
- daily time slots
- weekly & monthly views
- flexible repeat entry scheduling
- warnings & reminders that go away if the event has long since passed
- different warning/reminder behavior for meeting vs. appointment vs. reminder vs. anniversary vs. event
- knowledge of company holidays
- configurable "weekday" vs. "weekend", including weird schedules that use 40 hr weeks by 10 or 12 hr days.
- settable by other people via email, but with "exclude user X" capability.
- viewable by others
That's all I can think of for now.....After a year or two, my fans are covered with a layer of crud - dust, oil, cat hair, mouse poop, gnu fur, and that's with filters in place! I wonder what this system would look like after sitting in the corner for a couple years? I've heard of Wall of Noise, and wall of sound, but wall of ventilation?
In Akeley Mn
or here in Del Norte Cty, CA.
Princess Leia: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more [star] systems will slip through your fingers.
With the Tapis Plan, we go to eleven. You see, these CMEs come along, and the scale these other blokes use only goes to 9. So, at 9, they're all the way up - all the way. Where can you go from there? Nowhere. So what we do, if we need that extra push into the lower ionosphere, Eleven.
With apologies to the gang.
MS didn't get into the game until the third inning. WfWG was a mess. UNI* had been doing networked communications for years before MS decided that "sneaker-net" was not the most productive data exchange methodology. Kludging networking onto the side of DOS is what sent it into the toilet (IMHO). It's an OS that wasn't conceived in an interconnected age. It was designed to be an island unto itself. They eventually got workgroup networking semi-functional, but then they didn't forsee how an infrastructure built for wide-open everyone-is-my-friend access would become a liability when connected to the entire planet, where not everyone is a warm-and-fuzzy smoochy-pal. At every step Gates has considered Windows to be the Gibralter, the impervious center of the universe, to which other, lesser products would gladly tie their boats. He hasn't realized what McNeely saw long ago: "the network is the computer".
Issues
- builds are not repeatable
- changes are not atomic
- Ch Req attachments are not versioned
- Uses "merge meister" and "build master" methodology. We don't.
- "Standard" Java. Ha. As if. I've got 3 "standard" and incompatible versions of JRE on my system, each installed by a different tool vendor. In my universe, Java means "write once / run (slowly) nowhere"
PlusesSo I was thinking ... why not use something like BitTorrent as the item distribution engine?
NOTE: Yes, systems like StarTeam and MKS use distributed replication or proxy servers. They're on the short list. And thanks, please don't suggest <insert mom's favorite version control system>. Our needs go way beyond simple VC.
... and what have they got me doing? Straightening radio waves. Sharpening images. Enhancing Pam Anderson's nipples. Oh, I am so depressed.
And in the spirit of SlashDot's new "big obnoxious ad " ....
Death to DMCA. Time to start using Adblock.
Ok, I checked it out (I found it at snapfiles) I don't know what good a process "balancer" will do. Let's take the case where I click on an EXE, which may or may not be infected. The Anti-Virus needs to scan the file after the system opens it, but before the app itself initializes and runs. If the load balancer drops the priority of the AV down, because it's busy scanning, then that will just delay when the app begins. Am I missing something here????
Great! Thanks for that instructive reply. I'm still a little vague on your explaination of "threaded applications" vs. "non-threaded applications" and why they won't just pile up on the current processor. What makes an app run on processor #1 vs #2 or #22?
Some websites are Flash-specific. I'll use MSIE for those and Firefox for the other 99.9%. I stopped using Flash when the ads for "Firefly" took over my browser when I was at Yahoo.