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Definitely not !! The solution is a new design for power supplies and case.
The overall size of the PSU stayed the same for years, but the power capabilities of those beasts nowadays are muth greater than what we had ten years ago, resulting in components having much more heat to evacuate, and to evacuate the heat, we cannot extend more the heatsinks size (because of the size of the PSU housing): we extend the airflow with the associated noise.
My solution is, for a tower case, make the PSU size as big as the base, with heavy apparent external heatsinks or, better yet, a big and heavy heatsink as the base of the case.
Pros:
- Any decent designer is able to make it look neat, cool and desirable with those heavy heatsinks
- Since the base is heavy, your computer will be harder to tip -> better case stability
- Since there is much more room for the PSU components, they can be more spread on the PCB, resulting in better heat dissipation and increased reliability
- external heatsinks -> fanless PSU:-)
Cons:
- Weight !!
- Will be quite expensive !!:-(
- Watercooling will be more hazardous and/or dangerous (water leak)
European companies will probably use SCO's letters as toilet paper
VERY bad idea: if you wipe your ass with such paper, it will hurt like hell for 4 weeks !!
The only useful thing to do with such letter is using it to lit the barbecue.
Actually, i think it is better (and easier) to have some kind of viral knoppix for that, since the system is already configured and immediately usable.
There is very little steps needed to be performed when the worm is run, have a look:
* First, the worm must download the knoppix ISO image (this is the most time and bandwidth consuming task)
* Then, check the MD5 signatures and extract the files from the ISO and the boot floppy images to the harddisk into an hidden directory
* Using the Windows "locales", configure little things like keyboard layout, default language,...
* When everything is set up, install and configure the linux bootloader. (lilo is preferred here since it is blocklist based: booting Knoppix from NTFS partition is possible)
* Mass-mailing using outlook, like any other worm:-)
* You may have a choice here: should it delete the windoze system files ??
* Finally, the worm reboot the system to finish the "infection":-)
* Enjoy your Gnu/Linux-infected machine:-D
"Infecting" windoze machines with a Gnu/linux distribution without user interaction look like a feasible task to me: all we need is a crazy and skilled enough windoze worm developper.
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I keep a copy of Windows 98 on my HD for only one purpose: GAMES.
The games i play with is the Visual Pinball/PinMAME emulator suite: i tried to run those under Win2K and all i have is drop-outs in the sound and erratic ball movements, even with a minimal install. Newer versions of Windows are just bloatware.
I even tried to run those under Wine with no success.:-(
For the rest (web, mail, some other games, CD burning, photo editing, programming,...), it's GNU/Linux all the way.
We didn' reflash those routers with Linux just for fun, we have a clear goal: having a cheap and reliable wireless node for use within a mesh network , a footprint small enough so you can easily put it on a building roof and hardware that does not consume a lot of power so you can power it from small batteries or solar cells. Good luck doing the same thing with classical desktop hardware !!
We also want to use a dynamic routing protocol such as AODV or ZRP and make those things IPv6 ready.
If you can find a router with such things in the firmware, tell me.
Yup! I had the same thing with a 8 Gig Seagate Hard disk: It made something like a continuous clicking and rubbing noise when powered on: i lost about half of my data (the rest was backed up on CD), i threw it on the ground, kicked his ass like hell ('cause i was angry), and it worked fine after that.
I still have that hard disk and i plan to use it as an ogg/mp3 storage for my car juke box: if it decides to die definitely, all i will have to do is replace the beast , format it and reload my musick from my server (OS on Read-Only Flash):-)
In fact, every modern motherboard (manufactured after year 2000) can boot from USB devices, which can be USB hard disks, USB CD-Rom, USB floppy drives and event USB ZIP drives. Unfortunately, i tried to boot from a Card-reader plugged on the USB: it crashes the 3 computers i tried.:-(
Nope, you're not the only one.;-) For me, the bayesian filtering in mozilla mail works like a charm: does not miss any spam and absolutely NO false positive.
*NIX/Linux systems can be at risk if you're using a misconfigured wine.
Seriously, wine is getting better every month and can run a wider lot of window$ software, it is not surprising that it will (could?) run windows worms/viruses (which are software written by human after all) and put our supposed-virus-free-OS [insert your preferred flavour of unix here] at the same level of risk than windoze users.
Please think about it if you install such a software...
What about Midnight Commander, a clone of the famous Norton Commander ???
It is, IMHO, the best interface design ever, i don't think you can get a better design than this one for managing files: two (not three or four or more: two) independent windows, pointing to different directories and list files in each, a bottom line representing what each F-key will do if you press on it, sticking to some rules about what a given F-key will do (for example: F1 means help and F10 means quit.) and still having a prompt to type commands into the same way you would do if you were at a plain shell.
It is THE killer console app: i can't live without it.:-)
Enschede ?? Remember: about 4 years ago, a fireworks factory ended up in flames. throwing out *huge blocks of concrete* in the sky. Many houses in the neightborhood were gone in smoke.
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Definitely not !!
:-)
:-(
The solution is a new design for power supplies and case.
The overall size of the PSU stayed the same for years, but the power capabilities of those beasts nowadays are muth greater than what we had ten years ago, resulting in components having much more heat to evacuate, and to evacuate the heat, we cannot extend more the heatsinks size (because of the size of the PSU housing): we extend the airflow with the associated noise.
My solution is, for a tower case, make the PSU size as big as the base, with heavy apparent external heatsinks or, better yet, a big and heavy heatsink as the base of the case.
Pros:
- Any decent designer is able to make it look neat, cool and desirable with those heavy heatsinks
- Since the base is heavy, your computer will be harder to tip -> better case stability
- Since there is much more room for the PSU components, they can be more spread on the PCB, resulting in better heat dissipation and increased reliability
- external heatsinks -> fanless PSU
Cons:
- Weight !!
- Will be quite expensive !!
- Watercooling will be more hazardous and/or dangerous (water leak)
A link please !! :-)
The only useful thing to do with such letter is using it to lit the barbecue.
Actually, i think it is better (and easier) to have some kind of viral knoppix for that, since the system is already configured and immediately usable.
:-) :-) :-D
There is very little steps needed to be performed when the worm is run, have a look:
* First, the worm must download the knoppix ISO image (this is the most time and bandwidth consuming task)
* Then, check the MD5 signatures and extract the files from the ISO and the boot floppy images to the harddisk into an hidden directory
* Using the Windows "locales", configure little things like keyboard layout, default language,...
* When everything is set up, install and configure the linux bootloader. (lilo is preferred here since it is blocklist based: booting Knoppix from NTFS partition is possible)
* Mass-mailing using outlook, like any other worm
* You may have a choice here: should it delete the windoze system files ??
* Finally, the worm reboot the system to finish the "infection"
* Enjoy your Gnu/Linux-infected machine
"Infecting" windoze machines with a Gnu/linux distribution without user interaction look like a feasible task to me: all we need is a crazy and skilled enough windoze worm developper.
Software patents sucks...
I keep a copy of Windows 98 on my HD for only one purpose: GAMES.
:-(
The games i play with is the Visual Pinball/PinMAME emulator suite: i tried to run those under Win2K and all i have is drop-outs in the sound and erratic ball movements, even with a minimal install. Newer versions of Windows are just bloatware.
I even tried to run those under Wine with no success.
For the rest (web, mail, some other games, CD burning, photo editing, programming,...), it's GNU/Linux all the way.
We didn' reflash those routers with Linux just for fun, we have a clear goal: having a cheap and reliable wireless node for use within a mesh network , a footprint small enough so you can easily put it on a building roof and hardware that does not consume a lot of power so you can power it from small batteries or solar cells. Good luck doing the same thing with classical desktop hardware !!
We also want to use a dynamic routing protocol such as AODV or ZRP and make those things IPv6 ready.
If you can find a router with such things in the firmware, tell me.
Hey !! I did build those JTAG adaptators you see on the pictures: the 0.75 mm wires were all i had at the time of building those things. :-)
Concerning the 1/2 watt resistors, i didn't buy the parts. I knew that even 1/8 watt would have been fine.
Yup! I had the same thing with a 8 Gig Seagate Hard disk: It made something like a continuous clicking and rubbing noise when powered on: i lost about half of my data (the rest was backed up on CD), i threw it on the ground, kicked his ass like hell ('cause i was angry), and it worked fine after that.
:-)
I still have that hard disk and i plan to use it as an ogg/mp3 storage for my car juke box: if it decides to die definitely, all i will have to do is replace the beast , format it and reload my musick from my server (OS on Read-Only Flash)
My linux box at home (Belzebuth) had an uptime of 200 days.
I took it down just to install an UPS.
Before that time, i had power outages due to the ceiling light (light bulb goes short: *BLAM*)
The box is pretty busy: doing webserver, FTP, Wifi router, Mail, SMB, mp3/Ogg jukebox, DNS and ssh.
Never ever had a problem...
> I don't remember if it was Digital or somebody else who started "vaxen" instead of the more awkward and easily mispronounced "vaxes.
:-)
Maybe it was related to the word "Vixen"
Here
In fact, every modern motherboard (manufactured after year 2000) can boot from USB devices, which can be USB hard disks, USB CD-Rom, USB floppy drives and event USB ZIP drives. Unfortunately, i tried to boot from a Card-reader plugged on the USB: it crashes the 3 computers i tried. :-(
Go check your BIOS...
Nope, you're not the only one. ;-)
For me, the bayesian filtering in mozilla mail works like a charm: does not miss any spam and absolutely NO false positive.
*NIX/Linux systems can be at risk if you're using a misconfigured wine.
Seriously, wine is getting better every month and can run a wider lot of window$ software, it is not surprising that it will (could?) run windows worms/viruses (which are software written by human after all) and put our supposed-virus-free-OS [insert your preferred flavour of unix here] at the same level of risk than windoze users.
Please think about it if you install such a software...
What about Midnight Commander, a clone of the famous Norton Commander ???
:-)
It is, IMHO, the best interface design ever, i don't think you can get a better design than this one for managing files: two (not three or four or more: two) independent windows, pointing to different directories and list files in each, a bottom line representing what each F-key will do if you press on it, sticking to some rules about what a given F-key will do (for example: F1 means help and F10 means quit.) and still having a prompt to type commands into the same way you would do if you were at a plain shell.
It is THE killer console app: i can't live without it.
There is a Windows NT with a command line interface, it's called Reactos, and it is not sponsorized by Micro$oft... :-)
I think it's GPL-licensed apps with an installshield installer.
:-)
Using a proprietary software installer to install and setup free (as in libre) software... Can you find where the funny thing is ??
Reminds me the Linux kernel map... :-)
:-))
(BTW: FirstPost !!
http://afrotechmods.com/stupid/memory/memory.htm
... that NT meaned "Neanderthal Technology"
Ditch the crappy mail client and get a real one :-)
Enschede ?? Remember: about 4 years ago, a fireworks factory ended up in flames. throwing out *huge blocks of concrete* in the sky. Many houses in the neightborhood were gone in smoke.
:-)
Enschede is a really hot place.