If anyone gets one of these let me know - I'll not kill you for only £20K, heck introduce a friend and I'll not kill them too for a mere extra £5K (as long as they apply at the same time as you).
We're talking major savings here AT THESE PRICES I CAN'T KEEP THIS OFFER GOING FOR TOO LONG - HURRY WHILE IT LASTS!!!
And sure enough, if you want to hear the ultimate in reproduction from a classical orchestra it is preferable to possess your own concert hall and hire a real orchestra!
The problem with the valve (tube) Vs. silicon debate is that it doesn't relate to the 'average joe' who listens to snatches of music 'on the go' on their radio, CD or MP3 player, probably while doing other things such as sitting on a train, driving their car or working on their PC. Under these circumstances the listener isn't focusing solely on the purity of the sound reproduction but on the 'background noise' that the sound provides with a familiar or favourite tune.
Naturally, a true audiophile will have their own acoustically perfect listening room, will slip on their favourite headphones or sit in front of their favourite speaker system and will wait for their tubes or FETs to warm up - heck no, they'll never turn them off in the first place! Under these circumstances the audiophile will buy whatever they believe will do their 'listening pleasure justice' - tubes, FETs or hybrids. Fair enough - those with the money can do what they want, but the vast majority will be happy with their Sony, Panasonic, PC system etc. and won't give a stuff what actually makes the sound come out the speakers.
In a similar way, the recording industry's attempts to thwart the 'for personal use' pirates with copy protection mechanisms makes be laugh-if I REALLY want to make a copy of something 'protected' and I can't be bothered to find out where to download the latest crack or workaround off the 'net then I'll simply hook up a stereo mike in front of my speakers and make a copy that way - naturally, this won't give me a 100% perfect audio copy but that's NOT going to bother me if all I want is a 'rough and ready' copy.
When our in-house facilities team built me a computer room - for a VAX 11/750 no-less! - in the mid 1980s, they walled in the radiators but didn't actually turn them off, so come winter we were very confused as to why the computer room was *so* warm - so was the maintenance guy that came in to 'fix' the air con!
We also found out why our air con was sooo good in the summer - the room stat was placed very close to a window so heat radiation from outside always convinced the stat that the room was too warm and the air con stayed on more than necessary. Come winter, the reverse conditions applied - and coupled with the radiators - hey presto, instant sauna!
The VAX occupied about a 20ft length of computer room and was eventually joined by a MicroVAX that was the size of a large, modern PC-type server. I got quite good at threading 2400ft reel-to-reel tapes on the TS11 tape unit in about 5 seconds flat!
Hmmm...
Electronics...
Brightly coloured (colored) smoke...
Terrible smell..
That'll be a tantalum capacitor or three then..!
Good job you didn't breathe in much of the smoke - nasty stuff - this is from a product guide...
Do not expose the face close to the capacitor when burning. It is discharging burning gas and decomposition gas from its outer resin. If having inhaled the gases, immediately gargle with water.
The FD of a large corporate had root access to the unix system holding the accounts system (don't ask!).
One day he tried to restore some old bought ledger files (all starting with 'b') but managed to put them in the root folder instead of the right place so he COPIED them into the right location and then deleted everything in the root that started with 'b' - including the 'boot' directory.
Things we 'fine' until we did some remote admin one night followed by a reboot - funny that the system didn't come up again! Not so funny that I had to drive to site sometime around midnight to find out why!
The US stays stubbornly metric because it makes it a pain in the ass for international terrorists to buy ammunition and chemicals - viz:
Abdul: I wahnt some 9mm bullets for my Uzi
Clint: No sh*t, is that the same as 0.38 or 0.44?
Saddam: Can I have 2500ml of isopropyl alcohol please
Duane Reade assistant: I'll need to phone the FBI to have them convert that into fluid ounces, can you wait while I make the call?
I think you'll need the Emulated In-game Sony Architecture (EISA) expansion option for full cross compatibility, provided ALR, Compaq, Apricot and Olivetti et al. will licence the spec to M$
In a written statement issued today, a Micro$oft spokesperson said:
"Our enhanced XBox2 platform will bring gaming to a new generation with outstanding graphics, unrivaled technology and performance while also appealing to existing gamers wishing to protect their investment in legacy games from other platforms through our licencing of the IBM PS2 MCA architecture [Ed: Check this out - shouldn't that be something to do with 'Sony'?]
Never seen a Faraday cage made of chicken wire then? A screen need not be solid.
In general, the most RF-leaky part of a PC is the main power lead where the crap from the switch mode power supply leaks out - I had to setup a system near to an AM shortwave receiver and to find out the most RF leaky parts of the PC we gradually covered it completely in metal foil. The RF noise picked up by the receiver didn't vary significantly between a fully covered and fully uncovered PC. The 'fix' for the noise was to improve the power filter on the INSIDE of the power supply - even fitting an external filter close to the body of the PC made a significant difference to RF noise levels. Doing the same process at UHF and VHF frequencies went about the same - filtering the power lead had the biggest effect.
I am responsible for IT matters in a company with 28 remote sites. Although I'm never 'on call' after working hours, I need to be 'available' for consulting on technical issues nearly 24/7 but I also have a life (honest!). If I'm 'out and about' I can still access any of our network resources via my GPRS mobile phone and a bluetooth link to an iPAQ PDA. The PDA acts as a:
1) SSH terminal (pockeTTY) for our Linux servers
2) Remote Desktop to our Windows servers
3) Remote support tool for desktop PCs using a Pocket PC version of VNC.
Plus of course the usual Web browsing and email checking.
The PDA means I can go out without lugging a laptop everythwere or having to go home or to the nearest office if there's a minor crisis. With the PDA I can 'dial in' from almost anywhere - a few months ago I fixed a print spool problem on a Windows 2000 server while the passenger in a car travelling along the M4 motorway in the UK, and more recently I took a 10 minute 'timeout' from a meal in a Chinese restaurant to reprogram a router. The alternative would be for me to stay in all the time.
I have tried a smartphone for all of this but the screens are just not big enough.
The only hassle with 'airplane' or 'flight' mode on a phone is convincing a frantic steward/ess or passenger that you are NOT using your 'phone'. I find a PDA attracts much less attention.
In general, a PDA will always have a bigger screen than a smartphone, or the phone will be absurdly large. My wife's SonyEricsson P900 is the best attempt I've seen so far at a hybrid but it's still a chunky phone that doesn't quite make it as a PDA, screenwise.
Like another poster hereabouts, I prefer a simple (small) phone and a full-blown PDA with wifi and bluetooth.
L3K
PS: Posted via my iPAQ from the street outside my house via wifi while keeping an eye on my 4-year-old son on his bike.
1) Work out what you want to snap about 3-5 seconds beforehand because that's how long it will take the bl**dy electronics to auto-focus the camera and take the picture...your son/daughter on a merry-go-round = tons of pictures of them not quite in shot, or just leaving it!
2) Want to take an action sequence? FORGET IT because it will take your camera 3-5 seconds to save each picture to CF/SD/memory Stick/Smartmedia, whatever.
3)Take nice, deep, calm breaths and wait for technology to catch up with reality.
WEST Sussex, actually - and I live about 5 miles away too!
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Totally agree - I'm also freelance and have a good old SonyEricsson T68i (no camera) - one site even freaked out when I plugged in the USB charging lead because they thought I was firing up a comms connection to my laptop, which was also connected to their network.
No one's going to buy these unless they have a built-in camera, replaceable 'mood' covers, can play MP3s and have polyphonic ringtones. Sheesh - get with the action marketing boys and girls.
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Bugger!
If anyone gets one of these let me know - I'll not kill you for only £20K, heck introduce a friend and I'll not kill them too for a mere extra £5K (as long as they apply at the same time as you).
We're talking major savings here AT THESE PRICES I CAN'T KEEP THIS OFFER GOING FOR TOO LONG - HURRY WHILE IT LASTS!!!
And sure enough, if you want to hear the ultimate in reproduction from a classical orchestra it is preferable to possess your own concert hall and hire a real orchestra!
The problem with the valve (tube) Vs. silicon debate is that it doesn't relate to the 'average joe' who listens to snatches of music 'on the go' on their radio, CD or MP3 player, probably while doing other things such as sitting on a train, driving their car or working on their PC. Under these circumstances the listener isn't focusing solely on the purity of the sound reproduction but on the 'background noise' that the sound provides with a familiar or favourite tune.
Naturally, a true audiophile will have their own acoustically perfect listening room, will slip on their favourite headphones or sit in front of their favourite speaker system and will wait for their tubes or FETs to warm up - heck no, they'll never turn them off in the first place! Under these circumstances the audiophile will buy whatever they believe will do their 'listening pleasure justice' - tubes, FETs or hybrids. Fair enough - those with the money can do what they want, but the vast majority will be happy with their Sony, Panasonic, PC system etc. and won't give a stuff what actually makes the sound come out the speakers.
In a similar way, the recording industry's attempts to thwart the 'for personal use' pirates with copy protection mechanisms makes be laugh-if I REALLY want to make a copy of something 'protected' and I can't be bothered to find out where to download the latest crack or workaround off the 'net then I'll simply hook up a stereo mike in front of my speakers and make a copy that way - naturally, this won't give me a 100% perfect audio copy but that's NOT going to bother me if all I want is a 'rough and ready' copy.
...or the Soylent Green will have crunchy bits..
When our in-house facilities team built me a computer room - for a VAX 11/750 no-less! - in the mid 1980s, they walled in the radiators but didn't actually turn them off, so come winter we were very confused as to why the computer room was *so* warm - so was the maintenance guy that came in to 'fix' the air con!
We also found out why our air con was sooo good in the summer - the room stat was placed very close to a window so heat radiation from outside always convinced the stat that the room was too warm and the air con stayed on more than necessary. Come winter, the reverse conditions applied - and coupled with the radiators - hey presto, instant sauna!
The VAX occupied about a 20ft length of computer room and was eventually joined by a MicroVAX that was the size of a large, modern PC-type server. I got quite good at threading 2400ft reel-to-reel tapes on the TS11 tape unit in about 5 seconds flat!
Electronics...
Brightly coloured (colored) smoke...
Terrible smell..
That'll be a tantalum capacitor or three then..!
Good job you didn't breathe in much of the smoke - nasty stuff - this is from a product guide...
The FD of a large corporate had root access to the unix system holding the accounts system (don't ask!).
One day he tried to restore some old bought ledger files (all starting with 'b') but managed to put them in the root folder instead of the right place so he COPIED them into the right location and then deleted everything in the root that started with 'b' - including the 'boot' directory.
Things we 'fine' until we did some remote admin one night followed by a reboot - funny that the system didn't come up again! Not so funny that I had to drive to site sometime around midnight to find out why!
Sure, it's right there on my list right above 200 packets of Betty Crocker's sponge cake mix
Yep, and required to make Sarin
The US stays stubbornly metric because it makes it a pain in the ass for international terrorists to buy ammunition and chemicals - viz:
Abdul: I wahnt some 9mm bullets for my Uzi
Clint: No sh*t, is that the same as 0.38 or 0.44?
Saddam: Can I have 2500ml of isopropyl alcohol please
Duane Reade assistant: I'll need to phone the FBI to have them convert that into fluid ounces, can you wait while I make the call?
I think you'll need the Emulated In-game Sony Architecture (EISA) expansion option for full cross compatibility, provided ALR, Compaq, Apricot and Olivetti et al. will licence the spec to M$
In a written statement issued today, a Micro$oft spokesperson said:
"Our enhanced XBox2 platform will bring gaming to a new generation with outstanding graphics, unrivaled technology and performance while also appealing to existing gamers wishing to protect their investment in legacy games from other platforms through our licencing of the IBM PS2 MCA architecture [Ed: Check this out - shouldn't that be something to do with 'Sony'?]
OK, downloaded and installed the s/w on Whitebox Linux - how do I get a desktop icon for it and/or replace the Mozilla one.
Info or pointers to a Web site would be great.
Thanks
Thanks for the elaboration - I was keeping it simple while pointing out that the entire enclosure didn't have to be solid; maybe I oversimplified.
Never seen a Faraday cage made of chicken wire then? A screen need not be solid.
In general, the most RF-leaky part of a PC is the main power lead where the crap from the switch mode power supply leaks out - I had to setup a system near to an AM shortwave receiver and to find out the most RF leaky parts of the PC we gradually covered it completely in metal foil. The RF noise picked up by the receiver didn't vary significantly between a fully covered and fully uncovered PC. The 'fix' for the noise was to improve the power filter on the INSIDE of the power supply - even fitting an external filter close to the body of the PC made a significant difference to RF noise levels. Doing the same process at UHF and VHF frequencies went about the same - filtering the power lead had the biggest effect.
I am responsible for IT matters in a company with 28 remote sites. Although I'm never 'on call' after working hours, I need to be 'available' for consulting on technical issues nearly 24/7 but I also have a life (honest!). If I'm 'out and about' I can still access any of our network resources via my GPRS mobile phone and a bluetooth link to an iPAQ PDA. The PDA acts as a:
1) SSH terminal (pockeTTY) for our Linux servers
2) Remote Desktop to our Windows servers
3) Remote support tool for desktop PCs using a Pocket PC version of VNC.
Plus of course the usual Web browsing and email checking.
The PDA means I can go out without lugging a laptop everythwere or having to go home or to the nearest office if there's a minor crisis. With the PDA I can 'dial in' from almost anywhere - a few months ago I fixed a print spool problem on a Windows 2000 server while the passenger in a car travelling along the M4 motorway in the UK, and more recently I took a 10 minute 'timeout' from a meal in a Chinese restaurant to reprogram a router. The alternative would be for me to stay in all the time.
I have tried a smartphone for all of this but the screens are just not big enough.
There's a version of VNC that runs on the SonyEricsson P900 smartphone and, of course, there's PDA versions. No wifi on the smartphone though
The only hassle with 'airplane' or 'flight' mode on a phone is convincing a frantic steward/ess or passenger that you are NOT using your 'phone'. I find a PDA attracts much less attention.
In general, a PDA will always have a bigger screen than a smartphone, or the phone will be absurdly large. My wife's SonyEricsson P900 is the best attempt I've seen so far at a hybrid but it's still a chunky phone that doesn't quite make it as a PDA, screenwise.
Like another poster hereabouts, I prefer a simple (small) phone and a full-blown PDA with wifi and bluetooth.
L3K
PS: Posted via my iPAQ from the street outside my house via wifi while keeping an eye on my 4-year-old son on his bike.
...beat me to it. I use one too with a 2.4GHz P4 Tosh Satellite room heater/notebook - very comfy and the hard flat surface still allows air to flow.
1) Work out what you want to snap about 3-5 seconds beforehand because that's how long it will take the bl**dy electronics to auto-focus the camera and take the picture...your son/daughter on a merry-go-round = tons of pictures of them not quite in shot, or just leaving it!
2) Want to take an action sequence? FORGET IT because it will take your camera 3-5 seconds to save each picture to CF/SD/memory Stick/Smartmedia, whatever.
3)Take nice, deep, calm breaths and wait for technology to catch up with reality.
OK, that's THREE things - so I lied.
WEST Sussex, actually - and I live about 5 miles away too!
Totally agree - I'm also freelance and have a good old SonyEricsson T68i (no camera) - one site even freaked out when I plugged in the USB charging lead because they thought I was firing up a comms connection to my laptop, which was also connected to their network.
No one's going to buy these unless they have a built-in camera, replaceable 'mood' covers, can play MP3s and have polyphonic ringtones. Sheesh - get with the action marketing boys and girls.
That was wasted in the wilderness of anonymity - it was funny too!
"Oh no", says the first
"What's up?", Says number two
"I've lost an electron", says #1
"Are you sure?", Asks 2
"Yep, I'm positive" Says 1