Or your local dumpsters. Thanks to the inkjet printer/ink business model, there is often a cheap inkjet printer in the trash at the apartments close to where I live. Most of them look to be somewhat newish and in pretty decent shape. Most could probably be coaxed into working fairly easily with a refill kit. When you're done just pitch it back where you found it.
This seems like one of those cases where you shouldn't do something even though you can. Instead of destroying rare or unique works, it pays instead to wait a few short years to get the same results without damaging the work.
Sounds like that's what the DVDs are for, assuming that they just don't chuck them in the trash after they get a few weeks old. That's one reason I like write-only media like that - there's nothing like having a half-dozen spindles in your closet covering the last several years in case everything else fails on you.
Well, for one thing there is the environmental impact of the exploration. Then there is the fact that the government subsidizes it, so we (the taxpayers) foot the bill anyway. And from a strategic point of view, we shouldn't use the limited resources we have up so long as others are willing to sell us theirs relatively cheaply.
The way he got there might be a big off, but the final number is about right. My Athlon machine of similar vintage pulls about 155-180W from the wall, depending on what it's doing. It has 3 hard drives, 2 optical drives, dual video cards, and a bunch of fans. Of course, if he's not going to run the machine very much then it's not a big deal.
In the US, it's illegal to broadcast on channel 14, unless you have a license to do so. Not that I don't doubt that cheap baby monitors spam channel 14, but if you wanted to you could contact the FCC and complain about it. There's a chance, however very small, that they may do something about it. And for those with cheap baby monitors - you really don't want to be on the bad side of the FCC.
A lot of people view the "requirements" more of a list that the ideal canidate might have. This attitude probably came about because of all the job postings out there with an unreasonably large list of requirements that very few, if anyone, has (and especially the ones that list senior-level requirements for junior-level pay). Also, some people are willing to apply for a job that says something like "requires knowledge of Python" even if they don't know Python, because they know they can pick up Python really fast. They could lie about it to get past HR, but most people aren't willing to go that far.
Sending the computer in for repair means you'll be without your computer for at least a week or two. Can you survive without your work computer for a week or more? In additon, for something like "locks up once every couple of days" the computer will probably make it through their diagnostics just fine (they don't spend long testing them - certainly not days) and they'll just send it back to you without repairing anything.
I think I'll go with the DIY option and having spare parts on hand, with Micro Center and overnight from Newegg as the backup options.
Actually, Macs are a bad example because the used market for them is simply insane. The value of a used, 7 year-old PC is pretty much $0, even for one that was high-end in its day and is in good working order. But you can still expect to pay hundreds for a used Mac that old, unless it's broken.
The manufacturer is going to get sued if it's a manufacturing or design defect that caused the wheel to fall off. If it falls off because the owner didn't maintain their car, the owner is going to get sued (or perhaps the garage they pay to take care of those sorts of things). It doesn't matter if the wheel falls off at 300,000 miles from normal wear and tear or at 10,000 miles because the vehicle was used in extreme conditions.
It's 1908, not 1108. Two years earlier an earthquake demolished San Francisco and people weren't blaming aliens for that, so why would this be any different?
It's true that all modern harddrives can hold more data than they tell the operating they are capable of, but it has nothing to do with the GB vs. GiB thing - that's all about the difference between 2^30 and 10^9.
File systems designed for flash drives should have an improvement. Typically when you delete something on your computer, the filesystem does not actually remove the file from the device, it just marks the area taken by the file as available. However, this takes place at a level above where the drive lives, so the flash drive does not know what is important and what has been "deleted" - all it sees is data on the drive. This means that the drive is can't always just have an area available to write a file to, as it doesn't know that something isn't important until the OS tells the drive to overwrite that area - at that point the drive can go about its business of clearing and rewriting blocks so it can write the file. To make matters worse, since the drive doesn't know what is important and what has been "deleted", the drive is could be moving around already deleted data from some other file at this point because it doesn't know any better. Not only does this decrease the performance, but it causes additional wear and tear on the media.
One solution would be to just zero out any file you delete. This would improve things, but this will still cause the drive to do extra work, as any data in a block that is not part of the deleted file will need to be rewritten when you zero the deleted file, causing additional wear and tear on the media. What the drive needs to know from the filesystem is what data on the drive is important and what data is not important. That way the drive would not have to worry about shuffling around already deleted data, and any blocks that contain all unimportant data could be cleared out by the drive so they will be ready for a new file to be written to the block.
The C64 stuck around for far longer than most people realized, it was only discontinued in mid-1994! It's not hard to imagine a scenario where you could get an old 8088 or 286 for cheaper than a C64 in the early 1990's.
Why would they fix this? It's pretty clear that Intel wants to segregate the market here. Likely using the virtualization feature as a move to push the corporate users up to a higher end, more profitable processor when they would otherwise be happy with the performance of a lower end model. Probably the only way it's going to change is if the major OEMs get smart and start offering inexpensive AMD-based computers to companies interested in virtualization.
But if I interpet that right, there will be versions of the Q8300, E5400, E5300, E7500 and E7400 processors both with and without VT-x support, depending on whether you have an "early" or a "late" model? Way to go Intel here...
The biggest flaw to me is that only tried the coffee at two locations for each restaurant. My experience with restaurant chains is that the quality can vary greatly between different locations. To get a good feel for who's the best, I would expect that they would have to visit more locations, preferably over a large geographic area, and even visit each location more than once. Then you may have a good feel for who is better - and even then that doesn't mean that the location closest to you is not an exception to the trend.
Those won't get hot enough to smoke and destroy themselves, unless perhaps you pried off the heatspreader first. It's the early Athlons with the exposed die that can go up with lots of smoke and charring.
My only guess is that the trojan was savvy enough to infect the restore partition on that computer. He may have thought that he was reinstalling Windows from a CD, but it was really just some OEM restore disk that accesses the restore partition to do the "reinstall".
How much ram do you have? You'll need at least 128MB, and 256MB if you want it to run reasonably. 512MB (or more if the machine supports it) would be ideal. It'll install in 64MB but I wouldn't recommend it. If you can get your hands on Windows 2000, it may be a better option since 2000 will run reasonably in 128MB and runs pretty well with 256MB. The speed of your harddisk will also be a factor, as laptop drives tend to be slow so it's that much more painful whenever you hit the pagefile.
I might take some flak for this, but depending on what the machine is used for you might want to consider only using XP SP1. SP1 is stable and requires less resources than SP2 - the disadvantage being that Microsoft hasn't patched SP1 now for several years, the builtin wireless support in SP1 isn't very good, and you won't have access to the later versions of Windows Media Player and.NET. Supposedly SP3 requires more resources than SP2, but I haven't noticed a big difference.
How much the ram upgrade is going to cost depends on the computer, with DDR being more expensive than the newer DDR2, and PC133 being yet more expensive. Then you have to deal with whatever limits the computer has, and the cost of a simple upgrade goes up if you don't have any free slots left.
My guess is that those computers are going to be replaced "real soon now", but it keeps getting pushed out.
Do you happen to still have any printouts around from that printer? I'm curious to hear if they have faded or have had any other problems now that it's been close to 20 years.
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Or your local dumpsters. Thanks to the inkjet printer/ink business model, there is often a cheap inkjet printer in the trash at the apartments close to where I live. Most of them look to be somewhat newish and in pretty decent shape. Most could probably be coaxed into working fairly easily with a refill kit. When you're done just pitch it back where you found it.
This seems like one of those cases where you shouldn't do something even though you can. Instead of destroying rare or unique works, it pays instead to wait a few short years to get the same results without damaging the work.
Sounds like that's what the DVDs are for, assuming that they just don't chuck them in the trash after they get a few weeks old. That's one reason I like write-only media like that - there's nothing like having a half-dozen spindles in your closet covering the last several years in case everything else fails on you.
Well, for one thing there is the environmental impact of the exploration. Then there is the fact that the government subsidizes it, so we (the taxpayers) foot the bill anyway. And from a strategic point of view, we shouldn't use the limited resources we have up so long as others are willing to sell us theirs relatively cheaply.
The way he got there might be a big off, but the final number is about right. My Athlon machine of similar vintage pulls about 155-180W from the wall, depending on what it's doing. It has 3 hard drives, 2 optical drives, dual video cards, and a bunch of fans. Of course, if he's not going to run the machine very much then it's not a big deal.
In the US, it's illegal to broadcast on channel 14, unless you have a license to do so. Not that I don't doubt that cheap baby monitors spam channel 14, but if you wanted to you could contact the FCC and complain about it. There's a chance, however very small, that they may do something about it. And for those with cheap baby monitors - you really don't want to be on the bad side of the FCC.
A lot of people view the "requirements" more of a list that the ideal canidate might have. This attitude probably came about because of all the job postings out there with an unreasonably large list of requirements that very few, if anyone, has (and especially the ones that list senior-level requirements for junior-level pay). Also, some people are willing to apply for a job that says something like "requires knowledge of Python" even if they don't know Python, because they know they can pick up Python really fast. They could lie about it to get past HR, but most people aren't willing to go that far.
Sending the computer in for repair means you'll be without your computer for at least a week or two. Can you survive without your work computer for a week or more? In additon, for something like "locks up once every couple of days" the computer will probably make it through their diagnostics just fine (they don't spend long testing them - certainly not days) and they'll just send it back to you without repairing anything.
I think I'll go with the DIY option and having spare parts on hand, with Micro Center and overnight from Newegg as the backup options.
What are you talking about? There are plenty of reputable retailers that already sell things for half of Best Buy's prices.
Actually, Macs are a bad example because the used market for them is simply insane. The value of a used, 7 year-old PC is pretty much $0, even for one that was high-end in its day and is in good working order. But you can still expect to pay hundreds for a used Mac that old, unless it's broken.
The manufacturer is going to get sued if it's a manufacturing or design defect that caused the wheel to fall off. If it falls off because the owner didn't maintain their car, the owner is going to get sued (or perhaps the garage they pay to take care of those sorts of things). It doesn't matter if the wheel falls off at 300,000 miles from normal wear and tear or at 10,000 miles because the vehicle was used in extreme conditions.
It's 1908, not 1108. Two years earlier an earthquake demolished San Francisco and people weren't blaming aliens for that, so why would this be any different?
It's true that all modern harddrives can hold more data than they tell the operating they are capable of, but it has nothing to do with the GB vs. GiB thing - that's all about the difference between 2^30 and 10^9.
File systems designed for flash drives should have an improvement. Typically when you delete something on your computer, the filesystem does not actually remove the file from the device, it just marks the area taken by the file as available. However, this takes place at a level above where the drive lives, so the flash drive does not know what is important and what has been "deleted" - all it sees is data on the drive. This means that the drive is can't always just have an area available to write a file to, as it doesn't know that something isn't important until the OS tells the drive to overwrite that area - at that point the drive can go about its business of clearing and rewriting blocks so it can write the file. To make matters worse, since the drive doesn't know what is important and what has been "deleted", the drive is could be moving around already deleted data from some other file at this point because it doesn't know any better. Not only does this decrease the performance, but it causes additional wear and tear on the media.
One solution would be to just zero out any file you delete. This would improve things, but this will still cause the drive to do extra work, as any data in a block that is not part of the deleted file will need to be rewritten when you zero the deleted file, causing additional wear and tear on the media. What the drive needs to know from the filesystem is what data on the drive is important and what data is not important. That way the drive would not have to worry about shuffling around already deleted data, and any blocks that contain all unimportant data could be cleared out by the drive so they will be ready for a new file to be written to the block.
The C64 stuck around for far longer than most people realized, it was only discontinued in mid-1994! It's not hard to imagine a scenario where you could get an old 8088 or 286 for cheaper than a C64 in the early 1990's.
Why would they fix this? It's pretty clear that Intel wants to segregate the market here. Likely using the virtualization feature as a move to push the corporate users up to a higher end, more profitable processor when they would otherwise be happy with the performance of a lower end model. Probably the only way it's going to change is if the major OEMs get smart and start offering inexpensive AMD-based computers to companies interested in virtualization.
But if I interpet that right, there will be versions of the Q8300, E5400, E5300, E7500 and E7400 processors both with and without VT-x support, depending on whether you have an "early" or a "late" model? Way to go Intel here...
The biggest flaw to me is that only tried the coffee at two locations for each restaurant. My experience with restaurant chains is that the quality can vary greatly between different locations. To get a good feel for who's the best, I would expect that they would have to visit more locations, preferably over a large geographic area, and even visit each location more than once. Then you may have a good feel for who is better - and even then that doesn't mean that the location closest to you is not an exception to the trend.
Those won't get hot enough to smoke and destroy themselves, unless perhaps you pried off the heatspreader first. It's the early Athlons with the exposed die that can go up with lots of smoke and charring.
My only guess is that the trojan was savvy enough to infect the restore partition on that computer. He may have thought that he was reinstalling Windows from a CD, but it was really just some OEM restore disk that accesses the restore partition to do the "reinstall".
So, instead of using public transportation, you stay at work an extra 45-60 minutes a day and they pay you for this extra time?
What about real-time operating systems?
How much ram do you have? You'll need at least 128MB, and 256MB if you want it to run reasonably. 512MB (or more if the machine supports it) would be ideal. It'll install in 64MB but I wouldn't recommend it. If you can get your hands on Windows 2000, it may be a better option since 2000 will run reasonably in 128MB and runs pretty well with 256MB. The speed of your harddisk will also be a factor, as laptop drives tend to be slow so it's that much more painful whenever you hit the pagefile.
I might take some flak for this, but depending on what the machine is used for you might want to consider only using XP SP1. SP1 is stable and requires less resources than SP2 - the disadvantage being that Microsoft hasn't patched SP1 now for several years, the builtin wireless support in SP1 isn't very good, and you won't have access to the later versions of Windows Media Player and .NET. Supposedly SP3 requires more resources than SP2, but I haven't noticed a big difference.
How much the ram upgrade is going to cost depends on the computer, with DDR being more expensive than the newer DDR2, and PC133 being yet more expensive. Then you have to deal with whatever limits the computer has, and the cost of a simple upgrade goes up if you don't have any free slots left.
My guess is that those computers are going to be replaced "real soon now", but it keeps getting pushed out.
Do you happen to still have any printouts around from that printer? I'm curious to hear if they have faded or have had any other problems now that it's been close to 20 years.