I always wanted to do something like this, but found it a bit time consuming to blunder through getting it right. This guy has really done a bang up job. Keep up the good work! Perhaps I'll take what you've learned and go back to the drawing board.
There was another company called Cool Chip LLC that can be found over at http://www.pinksheets.com which claims to have produced a chip which, using electron tunnelling (as I recall) to create an ultra-efficient means of cooling using banks of these chips. In short they take a small amount of electricity and convert it using the tunnelling technique to cool air. They are also in the process of making it work in reverse, where heat alone could produce electricity. Apparently they demoed it to Boeing. Links to the articles should be available both at the Pink Sheets website and somewhere on Slashdot an article about this was posted, but I can't find it now.
Sure, they may not be insured, but odds are next to none that both the backup that you keep at your house, the current running version of things on your lan and your bank are ALL going to go the way of the dodo on the same day. And if your really concerned about that then keep 2 deposit boxes at different branches of your bank.
Some of us are forgetting mentioning that they suspect that the real cause was a total power failure which in turn caused the computer to loose power and cease functioning. In the article it explains that, for some stupid ass reason, they were using slip on battery connectors...come on guys, its a rocket, it vibrates, and it appeared that the terminals came loose before ground impact which would explain why the rocket behaved as it did.
Lets see, free advertising.....or no positive publicity.......free advertising....or my competitors knowing my prices.....oh wait, they can figure that out from a flyer on Sunday morning. For petes sake retailers, are you pissed because other people carry the same products at lower prices than you and you don't want to honor your "we'll beat any of our competitors price's" kind of mottos? Makes me not want to patronize your stores.
I agree with you m.lemur. Why would they spend 2-300 dollars on a product when according to the likes of Sally Struthers that money would feed a starving child for almost a year. Starving child, cool toy, starving child, cool toy....which one to pick, which one to pick....
To think, we've moved into a society that has a need to protest virtual issues online. Even more interesting is that sometimes people seem more interested in these virtual issues than the ones that actually plaque society.
I can see your point in that. However, given MS's track record with time to fix previous bugs the tend to need a bit of prodding, otherwise they wait months to give the users of their products a service release. Someone had commented that Linux users would be in an uproar if someone publicly post a bug to allow someone root access to your machine and format your drive. I disagree with that, I would applaud the person who posted that how-to in a forum that is not meant for hacking but to show security bugs. This is much for the same reason I applaud BugTraq. Atleast once that information is made public then people can take necissary precautions or take steps to rectify the problem. But back to your original point, they probably could have accomplished their purpose in a more responsible mannor, but what that is I haven't a clue.
Had BugTraq not posted this code then what proof would they have to take to Micro$oft. After all, the people that want to utilize that code are going to be able to find it anyway. In my opinion this merely makes Micro$oft responsible for their product and hopefully will lead to the quicker introduction of a patch. Or, God forbid, it could entice people to use a different web browser.
I recently graduated from St. Joseph's College, a tiny liberal arts school in Rensselear, IN, where the chair of our CS department is very active in developing wireless technology as a viable solution to running wires all over campus/the barren countryside. For the last year and a half students have been experimenting with the wireless technology and testing it in an attempt to make it viable for use in the dorms and other areas around campus. Last semester there was a class solely dedicated to wireless networking where students setup the wireless network using the latest greatest secure protocols in addition to a variety of hardware to build a robust wireless network spanning the campus and reaching into the small town of Rensselaer. Academia has made some great strides in the last two or three years regarding wireless technology, hopefully it will be available more readily in the public sector soon...I'd like to not have to have cable, or a phone line, or a T1 and be able to get broadband at my apartment.
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I always wanted to do something like this, but found it a bit time consuming to blunder through getting it right. This guy has really done a bang up job. Keep up the good work! Perhaps I'll take what you've learned and go back to the drawing board.
If you worked with me you would be using it. The project I'm on right now is entirely in PHP and MySQL :)
There was another company called Cool Chip LLC that can be found over at http://www.pinksheets.com which claims to have produced a chip which, using electron tunnelling (as I recall) to create an ultra-efficient means of cooling using banks of these chips. In short they take a small amount of electricity and convert it using the tunnelling technique to cool air. They are also in the process of making it work in reverse, where heat alone could produce electricity. Apparently they demoed it to Boeing. Links to the articles should be available both at the Pink Sheets website and somewhere on Slashdot an article about this was posted, but I can't find it now.
Sure, they may not be insured, but odds are next to none that both the backup that you keep at your house, the current running version of things on your lan and your bank are ALL going to go the way of the dodo on the same day. And if your really concerned about that then keep 2 deposit boxes at different branches of your bank.
Some of us are forgetting mentioning that they suspect that the real cause was a total power failure which in turn caused the computer to loose power and cease functioning. In the article it explains that, for some stupid ass reason, they were using slip on battery connectors...come on guys, its a rocket, it vibrates, and it appeared that the terminals came loose before ground impact which would explain why the rocket behaved as it did.
Lets see, free advertising.....or no positive publicity.......free advertising....or my competitors knowing my prices.....oh wait, they can figure that out from a flyer on Sunday morning. For petes sake retailers, are you pissed because other people carry the same products at lower prices than you and you don't want to honor your "we'll beat any of our competitors price's" kind of mottos? Makes me not want to patronize your stores.
I agree with you m.lemur. Why would they spend 2-300 dollars on a product when according to the likes of Sally Struthers that money would feed a starving child for almost a year. Starving child, cool toy, starving child, cool toy....which one to pick, which one to pick....
I suppose your right, stupid 120 character limit, it was on there before....atleast I thought so.
To think, we've moved into a society that has a need to protest virtual issues online. Even more interesting is that sometimes people seem more interested in these virtual issues than the ones that actually plaque society.
I can see your point in that. However, given MS's track record with time to fix previous bugs the tend to need a bit of prodding, otherwise they wait months to give the users of their products a service release. Someone had commented that Linux users would be in an uproar if someone publicly post a bug to allow someone root access to your machine and format your drive. I disagree with that, I would applaud the person who posted that how-to in a forum that is not meant for hacking but to show security bugs. This is much for the same reason I applaud BugTraq. Atleast once that information is made public then people can take necissary precautions or take steps to rectify the problem. But back to your original point, they probably could have accomplished their purpose in a more responsible mannor, but what that is I haven't a clue.
Had BugTraq not posted this code then what proof would they have to take to Micro$oft. After all, the people that want to utilize that code are going to be able to find it anyway. In my opinion this merely makes Micro$oft responsible for their product and hopefully will lead to the quicker introduction of a patch. Or, God forbid, it could entice people to use a different web browser.
My company's solution is pretty simple, get a full time guy to test everything continuously and log bugs :)
I recently graduated from St. Joseph's College, a tiny liberal arts school in Rensselear, IN, where the chair of our CS department is very active in developing wireless technology as a viable solution to running wires all over campus/the barren countryside. For the last year and a half students have been experimenting with the wireless technology and testing it in an attempt to make it viable for use in the dorms and other areas around campus. Last semester there was a class solely dedicated to wireless networking where students setup the wireless network using the latest greatest secure protocols in addition to a variety of hardware to build a robust wireless network spanning the campus and reaching into the small town of Rensselaer. Academia has made some great strides in the last two or three years regarding wireless technology, hopefully it will be available more readily in the public sector soon...I'd like to not have to have cable, or a phone line, or a T1 and be able to get broadband at my apartment.