What about a duel bios system? Soder some wires to the bios socket, which then goes to a switch, and then goes to 2 bios chips. One the microsoft one, the other is a linux-compatable bios. To boot to a different OS you would just need to flip the switch.
Interesting, Both DSL and Cable are availible in my dorm. (though there are so many people in the area with cable connections that its as slow as dialup, but the DSL is pretty fast) However few people at my college who live in the dorms do this because it costs extra, and is slower (My college has duel OC3s and a T3) The option is availible though to those who want it.
There is still the time between when you install the OS and you get it updated. My machine got infected with a worm, and it was only connected to the internet long enough to download the paches (On an OC3 so the time is very short). Ive developed a workaround preventing infection, but it requires about $40 in additional equipment (wich I allready had) by placeing a router acting as a firewall and having it connect through that. Theroreticly a software firewall would work too if you dont need to download it. The best solution for preventing it is if you have the patches on CD already. and apply them before connecting to a network.
Download it from website and the artist makes a few pennies from advertizing. Download it from a P2P network and he/she makes nothing, but the music and the artist become more visible. Tough call.
Problem: How many licks does is take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
Materials: 3 tootsie roll pops, mouth
Procedure: 1. Unwrap tootsie roll pop 2. Lick tootsie roll pop counting the licks untill the center is reached 3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with remaining tootsie roll pops
Data: |Trial|# of licks |1.....|214 |2.....|194 |3.....|221 |Ave .|209 1/3
Observations: It took a lot of licks. My mouth is tierd now.
Conclusion: It takes aprox. 209 1/3 licks to get to the center of the tootsie pop.
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The computer lab is set up by downloading hard drive images from a server, allowing the operating system to be changed at will in only a few minutes. Just pop in a floppy disk with the imaging instructions, reboot the machine and poof, you got a different operating system, or the eqivilant of a fresh install of the same one. Everytime the drives are imaged the partitions are wiped and new ones created.
I disagree. I feel this prize is meant as more of a first step. Its designed to mimic the first flights of the governments in design (except these craft have to be reusable) It will promote companies to compete with each other for developing spacecraft increasing efficency, safty, and lower the cost. Having just NASA has the efficency of communism.
As to making money in space, there are two main ways that I see where profit can be made. The fisrt is tourism. People are willing to pay $20 million now, How many will be wiling when the price drops to a mere $10,000? @ondly, there is medicine. Many desieses progress slower or have there sypmptoms lessened in space. In the next 25 years i would be surprised to see hospitals, or even old folks homes set up in space. They will be expencive, probably to the point where only the very rich can afford them, but they will have the potential to make money and be profitable.
Well back in the days of dos i wrote a little Qbasic program that looked like DOS except that no matter what you typed it would always say "Bad command or file name" (unless you left it blank in wich case it would just skip a line) and set the autoexec.exe to run it automaticly on my friends computer. took him an hour to figure out what I did! (even though the programming environment flashes for about a quarter second when it goes to my program) I have since modified it to make it look like the computer hard drive has been formatted by adding some minimal functions. (like dir and cd) Im thinking about putting the program up for download.
Actually i know someone who went away on vacation. While he was on vacation the computer that he normally used was accidently damaged by co-workers working on a project. When he got beack he was told he had a new computer waiting for him. He walked into his cubical and there was a commadore vic20 hooked up to a small black and white TV with the words "Hello (Employee's name) I am your new computer" scrolling across the screen.
(they did actually have a new computer for him though that they gave him later that day)
Ha ha you just have a T3! I got duel OC3's + a T3!
Even with an unlimited bandwidth though, theres also the bandwidth in the computer itself. With the drives mentioned in the article I get 34.7 MB/s read speed (Benchmarked that exact type of drive just yesterday) which translates to about 278 Mb/s before overhead. have a 3MB page and get 12 hits per second or more and its going to overload the server no matter what kind of speed your internet connection is.
CD-ROM drives are more sensitive than CD players. They probably just make it so that there are tiny defects that would interfere with CD-ROMs but regular CD players wouldn't detect.
Actually you can get more than 2 bits in a 1 wavelength. most wireless equipment today uses 4 or 8 bits per wavelength. (9.4Mbps or 18.8Mbps at that frequency)
the 2,979,683,891 IP addesses that each person in the world would have with IPv8 are not enough. Go with IPv10 so I can have 193,753,945,031,922 IP addesses, that way each of my atoms can have its own IP address.:)
There are other problems with having a roof that consists of solar cells as well. When the current public library in my town was built it was fitted with solar cells. Unfortunatly, these solar cells had an unexpected side effect: They trapped moisture underneath them causing mildew to grow. (wich is not a good thing, especially in a library where mildew can damage and destroy books) making it nessisary for the solar cells to be removed.
I have some computer equipment that is now 25 years old and is working perfectly. (Atari) and some more that is 22 years old (commadore Vic 20) They are in perfect working condition and I wouldn't be surprised if they hit the 30 year mark without a problem. (these have never even needed repairs of any kind, still all original components)
Why not have the head spin around the CD in the opposite direction that the CD is spinning?
cd spins at 52x, head spins in opposite direction at 52x (and is not subject to shattering at too high a speed if made of the right materials so it could spin faster), and you get yourself a 104x CD-ROM. The downfall is that this would be an external drive as it would be too big to fit in a regular CD-ROM slot.
If the soviet union still existed it would be likely that video games would be banned not because of the violence, but because of the american ideals in them. (an american on mars in DOOM, individual company ownership in Duke Nukem, ect)
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What about a duel bios system? Soder some wires to the bios socket, which then goes to a switch, and then goes to 2 bios chips. One the microsoft one, the other is a linux-compatable bios. To boot to a different OS you would just need to flip the switch.
Interesting, Both DSL and Cable are availible in my dorm. (though there are so many people in the area with cable connections that its as slow as dialup, but the DSL is pretty fast) However few people at my college who live in the dorms do this because it costs extra, and is slower (My college has duel OC3s and a T3) The option is availible though to those who want it.
There is still the time between when you install the OS and you get it updated. My machine got infected with a worm, and it was only connected to the internet long enough to download the paches (On an OC3 so the time is very short). Ive developed a workaround preventing infection, but it requires about $40 in additional equipment (wich I allready had) by placeing a router acting as a firewall and having it connect through that. Theroreticly a software firewall would work too if you dont need to download it. The best solution for preventing it is if you have the patches on CD already. and apply them before connecting to a network.
Download it from website and the artist makes a few pennies from advertizing. Download it from a P2P network and he/she makes nothing, but the music and the artist become more visible. Tough call.
The toosie roll pop experiment:
e .|209 1/3
Problem: How many licks does is take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
Materials: 3 tootsie roll pops, mouth
Procedure:
1. Unwrap tootsie roll pop
2. Lick tootsie roll pop counting the licks untill the center is reached
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with remaining tootsie roll pops
Data:
|Trial|# of licks
|1.....|214
|2.....|194
|3.....|221
|Av
Observations:
It took a lot of licks. My mouth is tierd now.
Conclusion:
It takes aprox. 209 1/3 licks to get to the center of the tootsie pop.
Naaa, there all working together.
To admit guilt, please either hang up now, or press pound, star, or any number. To state that you are innocent, in wich case we will never bother you again, please press "q" or "z" on your touch tone phone. If you dont have a touch tone phone, or are calling on a cellular phone please hang up now, and we will automaticly assume your guilty.
The computer lab is set up by downloading hard drive images from a server, allowing the operating system to be changed at will in only a few minutes. Just pop in a floppy disk with the imaging instructions, reboot the machine and poof, you got a different operating system, or the eqivilant of a fresh install of the same one. Everytime the drives are imaged the partitions are wiped and new ones created.
Then its found out the bum is inelegeable because he doesn't have a permenant address....
I disagree. I feel this prize is meant as more of a first step. Its designed to mimic the first flights of the governments in design (except these craft have to be reusable) It will promote companies to compete with each other for developing spacecraft increasing efficency, safty, and lower the cost. Having just NASA has the efficency of communism.
As to making money in space, there are two main ways that I see where profit can be made. The fisrt is tourism. People are willing to pay $20 million now, How many will be wiling when the price drops to a mere $10,000? @ondly, there is medicine. Many desieses progress slower or have there sypmptoms lessened in space. In the next 25 years i would be surprised to see hospitals, or even old folks homes set up in space. They will be expencive, probably to the point where only the very rich can afford them, but they will have the potential to make money and be profitable.
Well back in the days of dos i wrote a little Qbasic program that looked like DOS except that no matter what you typed it would always say "Bad command or file name" (unless you left it blank in wich case it would just skip a line) and set the autoexec.exe to run it automaticly on my friends computer. took him an hour to figure out what I did! (even though the programming environment flashes for about a quarter second when it goes to my program) I have since modified it to make it look like the computer hard drive has been formatted by adding some minimal functions. (like dir and cd) Im thinking about putting the program up for download.
As an april fools joke about a year and a half ago some of my co-workers set up a whole computer lab at my college to windows 3.1
Actually i know someone who went away on vacation. While he was on vacation the computer that he normally used was accidently damaged by co-workers working on a project. When he got beack he was told he had a new computer waiting for him. He walked into his cubical and there was a commadore vic20 hooked up to a small black and white TV with the words "Hello (Employee's name) I am your new computer" scrolling across the screen. (they did actually have a new computer for him though that they gave him later that day)
But we need that $300,000 alaskan grasshopper research the government paid for.....
Ha ha you just have a T3! I got duel OC3's + a T3! Even with an unlimited bandwidth though, theres also the bandwidth in the computer itself. With the drives mentioned in the article I get 34.7 MB/s read speed (Benchmarked that exact type of drive just yesterday) which translates to about 278 Mb/s before overhead. have a 3MB page and get 12 hits per second or more and its going to overload the server no matter what kind of speed your internet connection is.
CD-ROM drives are more sensitive than CD players. They probably just make it so that there are tiny defects that would interfere with CD-ROMs but regular CD players wouldn't detect.
Actually you can get more than 2 bits in a 1 wavelength. most wireless equipment today uses 4 or 8 bits per wavelength. (9.4Mbps or 18.8Mbps at that frequency)
the 2,979,683,891 IP addesses that each person in the world would have with IPv8 are not enough. Go with IPv10 so I can have 193,753,945,031,922 IP addesses, that way each of my atoms can have its own IP address. :)
What about those of us who make applications and improvements for it? If they are going to put ads in ill submit my bug fixes to redhat instead.
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I got a machine running 2.0 still. Had a tiny hard drive so I needed to fit everything in 330 MB
There are other problems with having a roof that consists of solar cells as well. When the current public library in my town was built it was fitted with solar cells. Unfortunatly, these solar cells had an unexpected side effect: They trapped moisture underneath them causing mildew to grow. (wich is not a good thing, especially in a library where mildew can damage and destroy books) making it nessisary for the solar cells to be removed.
I have some computer equipment that is now 25 years old and is working perfectly. (Atari) and some more that is 22 years old (commadore Vic 20) They are in perfect working condition and I wouldn't be surprised if they hit the 30 year mark without a problem. (these have never even needed repairs of any kind, still all original components)
Why not have the head spin around the CD in the opposite direction that the CD is spinning? cd spins at 52x, head spins in opposite direction at 52x (and is not subject to shattering at too high a speed if made of the right materials so it could spin faster), and you get yourself a 104x CD-ROM. The downfall is that this would be an external drive as it would be too big to fit in a regular CD-ROM slot.
If the soviet union still existed it would be likely that video games would be banned not because of the violence, but because of the american ideals in them. (an american on mars in DOOM, individual company ownership in Duke Nukem, ect)