For $30 you can get a quality PS, a 300W Sparkle.
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Dont know why some people still opt for the $12 one that specifically says "all sales final", which can be translated to "we are warning you now, dont yell at us when it blows up tomorrow and takes your MBoard+cpu with it". Ive seen too many computers dead from blown PS's to count.
Maybe because Laptops run off DC power, thus not needing the giant cooling fans to cool off the transistors/transformers/othercomponents since they are not needed? They are also designed around not needing much power, since they have to run off a battery. Desktops are also much more powerfull in terms of computing speed. At any given time, you point out the fastest laptop available, and there will be several PC's that can blow it away.
Having worked at a computer repair shop, I can assure you, YES there is a BIG difference between cheap PS's and quality ones. Cheap ones will last only a few months on any newer system, they might last a few years on older ones. Blown PS's was one of the most frequent repair jobs, and anytime someone requested the cheapest part to replace it with, I knew I would see them in a few weeks. They also affect System stability, if the PS cant put out the power the computer needs, it will crash (and the PS will burn itself up sooner as well). Got frequent blue-screens/sig11's and cant find anything wrong? Change your PS to a better one, there's a good chance thats the cause. Go to a local computer shop and pick up a cheap one in one hand and a good one in another, you will feel the difference. I always recommend Sparkle (there are some re-branded ones made by sparkle, will have SP in the model #) and HEC, and although I havent RTF yet, I would bet one of those is at the top, and the other is close to it.
Another thing to consider when buying a case.. the PS they put in cases are the CHEAP kind, unless they specify what kind it is, I generally expect to replace it within a year. A few years ago I had one of the dual socket370 BP-6 boards, it refused to boot on the PS I had that came with my case (Enlight none the less). I swapped it to a sparkle 300watt and have had no probs since.
This was also recently covered by Tom's Hardware, and earlier by a few other sites. The sparkle and HEC normally blow away the rest, with their 250w beating the specs for most 300+w, and even being able to hold 300w operation themselves. just my $.02
Q1. What if Microsoft developed a way to carry out their authentication (using these trusts) either
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That's what patents are for. They protect your "invention" against any other thing being developed that is the same. It doesnt matter if you never saw theirs, or even knew of a patent. The inventor is responsible for searching for pre-existing patents. A patent is different from a Copyright, where knowledge of existance might be important.
By February 2002, Mr. Green has spat his dummy again - adding a bizarre and rather sad fantasy story entitled "Evidence Eliminator destroys marriage" to his collection of anonymous rants, gay insinuations, and bogus legales
What kind of company would use "gay" to describe anything? This sounds more like script kiddies trying to run a buisness on something you can do with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/target/file/to/remove count=sizeof.file on a linux system.
As posted in the immediatly preceding article, they are planning their "censor network" that is "an Internet-like peer-to-peer network". Maybe they should pay attention to the wording of this bill, or actually get a clue and think just a little before proposing crap like this.
Only if it happens to be the same model notebook, or one close enough to have the same chassi+monitor. About the only common components between different notebooks are the CD/DVD/HD/Floppy drives (ignoring any mounting hardware or cosmetics you can harvest from the old drive, they are mostly the same), ram, CPU (if removable) and sometimes modem card. Most have unique chassi designs that require a specific motherboard to fit, and even then you have to match the LCD to the video hookup on the mboard's video card.
uhh ever take physics? g forces are a measure of acceleration in reference to the standard acceleration of freefall on earth. Since they are saying 10g's at touchdown, that means the acceleration at tuchdown is 10*g(9.8M/s/s), or about 98M/s/s. Since mass*acceleration=force, your mass*98m/s/s==the downward force you would create on this landing. Using g's, you remove the unit dependance, making it easier to create estimates such as "at 10g's a person weighing 180Lbs would feel like they weigh 1800Lbs". What is also important but not mentioned is the duration and delta of this acceleration.
Even if hey had enough fuel to match the ISS's orbit, docking would still not have been possible. The only time they take the docking module with them is when they expect to dock with something. The shuttle itself only has an airlock to the cargo bay. Thats where they put the docking module, which isnt light. See the pic and links on this page. Since this was a purely scientific mission, the docking ring was not onboard to save weight, which in turn saves fuel, which saves much $$.
Well, that was the first test.... This was one of the ones they had been delaying because they actually used a REAL shuttle wing panel as opposed to the fiberglass mock-up (from the prototype shuttle Enterprise) they used before. The first test was used to determine the severity to see if the second and further testing was going to be worth the $$$$$ that those panels cost. The second test showed that the carbon-carbon panels would crack significantly, prompting this test. These tests are not cheap, quoth the WashingtonTimes.com: The $1 million foam-impact test at Southwest Research Institute took just a second.
Maybe this stuff will be strong enough to overcome the limit. Its definately a step in the right direction. Im too lazy to run through the material engineering aspects of it all right now and actually figure the needed strength/weight ratio needed. Im sure its something insanely strong.
you download copyrghted material that you have the right to use? The author gets pissed at you for whatever, or simply makes a "mistake" and nukes your computer anyway..... This opens a whole new can of worms of how this would be used (IF it could even be developed).
Problem is, if its incompatible with the thing that is supposed to play it, then its nothing more than a plastic disc with a thin bit of foil glued to it. All DRM does is make it more difficult to use the disc. If someone wants to copy it, all they have to do is play the disc in anything that has digital output and a digital copy can be made. Back in the days of cassette tapes, GOOD coppies were ones that were dubbed, decent coppies could still be made by recording the song off a radio or even recording off of the speakers. The money being put into DRM would be better spent on the artists themselves. The artists would get more that way than anything they might get from whatever the RIAA hopes to accomplish with DRM technologies. Not to mention the savings of not haveing to pay for DRM support staff (lawyers etc).
Im sorry, but isnt that what -j DROP is for??? If someone is messing with your firewall, just write a rule to block by that IP or IP/port combo that targets the DROP iptables target. Drops the packets, makes it look like the whole machine turned off. Works great for spam too, anyone that spams repeatedly gets their addy added to a rule that drops all port25 traffic from them.
I know it doesnt scale this way, but its still phun to look at these numbers...
588 blades
x 2CPUs each
== 1176 physical CPU's
x 2cpus/cpu (hyperthreading on the xenons)
== 2352 hyperthreaded cpu's
x 2.8GHz
== 6585.6GHz
~6.6THz
well... thats a just a bit of rendering power, wonder whats gona happen once they are done with them. Which also makes me wonder, what happended to that somewhat famous renderfarm for toystory? Seems whenever a movie requiring horsepower like this comes out, they just buy new equipment since the stuff used on the last movie is probably obsolete already... ohwell
A decent spacecraft should be able to take of and land automated
Uhhh, the shuttle does. If you read any of the reports about the columbia accident, you would know that the flight profile showed the automated system trying to compensate for extra drag on the left wing just before contact was lost. IIRC there has only been 1 manual landing of the shuttle.
So sticking to the 20+ year old crapper (literally) used on the shuttle is outright stupid.
But its cheaper. Redesigning all the systems on a 26year old vehicle would be redicuously expensive. Thats why NASA is only making critical updates. The money is better spent designing and building the replacement (which is in the works). The original design of the shuttle was way different than what was built. IIRC The original booster design was going to use cryogenic gasses like the main engines on the shuttle. Political games and such caused the massive hulk of a shuttle we have now. The original white ET was another political waste. When NASA finally quit painting it, it saved several $$Million per launch and an unbelievable ammount of weight. Politicians used the shuttle as a means of gaining more $$ by pusing for things that would give their supporters contracts building it.
Actually the bolt is 40Lbs, ~2' long and is what hold the SRB to the ET, you dont exactly want that to break under stress. Explosive bolts are used alot on the shuttle assembly, more than you would think. All the seperation maneuvers involve pyrotechnic bolts, both the SRB seperation and ET seperation, and seperation from the launch platform (what holds the shuttle on the pad before liftoff? Not just gravity). The problem was with a device called a "bolt catcher", and the ones most recently used that showed the problem were from a new manufacturer. It was found that they were breaking at something around 54000inch-pounds where they are specd to break at no less than 66000. Cause: bad welds, all broke at the welded seams. The problem has been identified and already fixed.
hype helps these companies generate funding to aid in completing whatever it is they are hyping (supposedly). I think it is deceptive and a bad buisness practice to describe a product as though its finished, generating hype about how awesome it is when it barely accomplishes a minimal set of functions. It not only throws off potential buyers when they learn of its actuall state, it causes more turmoil for that companie's stock and normally costs the company more in bad PR or lost sales or both. Remember the 90's.com boom? Remember what happened when this exact thing became exposed with most of the.com's? They were promising great products that either didnt exist, existed but were nowhere near what they were hyped, or a product that was nothing but a name that would magically generate revenue because it ended in.com . Its not a good thing, but its the way alot of companies (especially software companies) like to do buisness. They generate Hype around something but forget the part about "when its done", leading people to think its already there. Its worse when the product gets purchased in a similar state, causing the buyer a great deal of time and $$ basically developing what they thought they were buying fully, pissing everone off along the way (I know of at least 1 game released like that, and some high-end commercial softwares too).
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Nothing new to see here, the patent office has had its head up its own ass for some time now. I think Im going to run off and patent a method for transporting oneself by placing one foot in front of the other in repetitive succession.
From Think Geek. This one's a bit less pricey, and allows you to use a standard QWERTY layout or DVORAK if you want. Basically the two halves function like trackpads, they just also have keys printed on the surface. It also uses jestures and has the mouse functionality built in.
I dont have one of these (yet), and the price is still a bit much for a keyboard, but it is tempting me, and if I see good reviews I might just have to get one...
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Found another way of keeping ants without having to mod your case this week.... they seem to do well if you leave your WiFi access port plugged in anywhere they might find it. I picked mine up from a friend's house who was moving a couple days ago, and as soon as I moved it, thousands of them came out to say Hi! Guess they enjoy the warm circuitry and small spaces inside the little box. Seems they had already set up camp, most were carrying eggs with them. Luckily, no damage to the AP.
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. Dont know why some people still opt for the $12 one that specifically says "all sales final", which can be translated to "we are warning you now, dont yell at us when it blows up tomorrow and takes your MBoard+cpu with it". Ive seen too many computers dead from blown PS's to count.
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Another thing to consider when buying a case.. the PS they put in cases are the CHEAP kind, unless they specify what kind it is, I generally expect to replace it within a year. A few years ago I had one of the dual socket370 BP-6 boards, it refused to boot on the PS I had that came with my case (Enlight none the less). I swapped it to a sparkle 300watt and have had no probs since.
This was also recently covered by Tom's Hardware, and earlier by a few other sites. The sparkle and HEC normally blow away the rest, with their 250w beating the specs for most 300+w, and even being able to hold 300w operation themselves.
just my $.02
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That's what patents are for. They protect your "invention" against any other thing being developed that is the same. It doesnt matter if you never saw theirs, or even knew of a patent. The inventor is responsible for searching for pre-existing patents. A patent is different from a Copyright, where knowledge of existance might be important.
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What kind of company would use "gay" to describe anything? This sounds more like script kiddies trying to run a buisness on something you can do with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/target/file/to/remove count=sizeof.file on a linux system.
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The $1 million foam-impact test at Southwest Research Institute took just a second.
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588 blades
x 2CPUs each
== 1176 physical CPU's
x 2cpus/cpu (hyperthreading on the xenons)
== 2352 hyperthreaded cpu's
x 2.8GHz
== 6585.6GHz
~6.6THz
well... thats a just a bit of rendering power, wonder whats gona happen once they are done with them. Which also makes me wonder, what happended to that somewhat famous renderfarm for toystory? Seems whenever a movie requiring horsepower like this comes out, they just buy new equipment since the stuff used on the last movie is probably obsolete already... ohwell
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Uhhh, the shuttle does. If you read any of the reports about the columbia accident, you would know that the flight profile showed the automated system trying to compensate for extra drag on the left wing just before contact was lost. IIRC there has only been 1 manual landing of the shuttle.
So sticking to the 20+ year old crapper (literally) used on the shuttle is outright stupid.
But its cheaper. Redesigning all the systems on a 26year old vehicle would be redicuously expensive. Thats why NASA is only making critical updates. The money is better spent designing and building the replacement (which is in the works). The original design of the shuttle was way different than what was built. IIRC The original booster design was going to use cryogenic gasses like the main engines on the shuttle. Political games and such caused the massive hulk of a shuttle we have now. The original white ET was another political waste. When NASA finally quit painting it, it saved several $$Million per launch and an unbelievable ammount of weight. Politicians used the shuttle as a means of gaining more $$ by pusing for things that would give their supporters contracts building it.
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Nothing new to see here, the patent office has had its head up its own ass for some time now. I think Im going to run off and patent a method for transporting oneself by placing one foot in front of the other in repetitive succession.
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I dont have one of these (yet), and the price is still a bit much for a keyboard, but it is tempting me, and if I see good reviews I might just have to get one...
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