my brother has an odb2 module and likes to play with the various settings etc in his engine directly from his laptop. the hardware is relatively cheap and is usually purchased along with software. its all windoze based of course. he spent around $1500 i believe for everything.
this *is not* for people who don't know what they're doing! you can adjust things like when your engine shifts, and really screw up your engine if you do something bad/wrong...
i have my ReplayTV set up to tape a few programs, and CSI has been top on the list since its debut. the rest of the space on my upgraded 80gig drive is taken up by various hbo programs, a couple movies, buffy, angel, smallville, er and xfiles zones. but CSI is the one show i watch religiously. =)
i've gotten my parents and many coworkers watching it as well. if you aren't currently watching it, why not, nothing else is on at 9pm Thurs...
those inside-the-body bullet tracking scenes are straight out of Three Kings, pretty cool stuff.
because Log4J is a much better logging package than that which is included in jdk1.4!
much more time/effort/thinking has gone into log4j.
i recently needed to write to NT System log, and the jdk1.4beta (and i assume release as well) was completely unable to do this. log4j made it super easy!
just wanted to give my past experience with this kind of thing. at my (undergraduate) college, one of the cs profs had implemented a cheating detector of his own. in my senior year i was in his class and took an extended break one weekend. i had my code done early as i knew i wouldn't be able to work on it at all that weekend, and some people in the class knew i wouldn't be around. a guy who was also in the class came over to my dorm, was let into my room by my roommate, got on my comp, and took my code. the roommate's excuse was "well he came over before to study with you before so i figured it was ok to let him on your comp". dumbass.
the prof called us in separately a couple weeks after the assignment was due and i honestly had no idea what was going on. despite my explanations of what happened etc, he decided that it wasn't his job to decide if i was telling the truth, what should be done, etc and so he turned us BOTH over to the honor council. we were tried separately and with my roommate's testimony i was found innocent, and never again gave my l/p to the guy so he could play games on my box when i wasn't around. the other guy got off too, but that was because he was a 2nd semester senior with 2 weeks left and they just decided to get him out of there.
there were similar examples to this (where innocent parties are in trouble unfairly) due to people stealing printouts of peoples code in a shared lab, taking printouts from the garbage, stealing floppy discs w/code, stealing code from/tmp, stealing files located in shared storage space with bad modes set (644), etc. all of this happened while i was in college to various friends etc but most of it occured in the low-level cs classes where the non-cs/non-engineer types were struggling to get "hello world" type programs to work.
when a similar cheating detector was used in the cs101 intro to c class, something like 20% of the class got in trouble. it was a real mess for the honor council. groups of people would steal code from smarter people and then share it around. amazing...
just a quick comment on UT server administration...
having admin'ed q1, q2, q3, and most recently ut servers, i think q3 and ut are rather similar in ease of remote administration.
contrary to what you indicated in your post, you CAN easily admin the server from any of the clients... "So I wound up walking over to the server to get rid of the bots under UT FFA when everyone got up and running."
take a look at this webpage:
http://www.planetunreal.com/game/console.shtml
go down to " u n r e a l s c r i p t c o n s o l e c o m m a n d s (Can be used by remote administrators)"
adding/removing bots, changing maps, etc is all very easily done:
adminlogin your-password-here
killall bots
addbots 3
switchlevel DmDeck16
etc...
i'll agree that changing game types and maps is somewhat EASIER from the Web interface, but it is definitely doable inside the game!
other than this misinformation, nice post...
wayne
how lame is this:
Once the message is received it is impossible to turn on an infected phone again.
what kind of design went into this product? is there no way to force a hard-reboot of the phone or something similar, to reset it? what about detaching the battery briefly, etc??
it would really suck to have this happen while on a business trip or something and have to run by the nearest Nokia store to exchange your phone for another, or have it unfrozen or whatnot. and i'm sure Nokia would just exchange/fix the phone for free (not)... they'd probably require that you mail it in to them and wait 4-6 weeks to get it back, finally fixed.
the point was simply that it could be done with just as much/more stuff in each box for much less...
i did put (needed??) next to floppy and cdrom, which obviously means "only if deemed necessary for whatever reason"... but apparently you can't read. personally i don't see them as necessary in a cluster, but in the spirit of matching (and beating) the other cluster in terms of components/power vs cost, i figured i'd include them in the calculations.
same thing goes for snd/vid... i'd rather have more than i need in a box, esp when it comes to debugging a box that won't boot but i can't get a terminal on it since i have no vid card...
i think i could build a better supercomputer
for less money with amd procs/mobos/etc
1gig tbird $100
decent cheap amd mobo w/integrated vid/snd/net $100
256meg ram $25
15gig ide $50
floppy drive (needed??) $15
cdrom (needed??) $25
decent nic $20
cheap case $40
total $375
subtract 10% (due to quantity purchase) gives less than $350 total each
pay a bunch of college kids $10/hour
they'd build 2 machines/hour
so 125hrs total to build comps is $1250
$350 x 250 machines is $87,500
add in (8) good quality 32 port switches @ $200 each and you're up another $2k
add in 250ish cat5 cables for another $1k (who wants to make them, buy for $3-4 ea)
your total cost is way under $100k
or even better
use the new SMP durons, 1gig each
not much more $$ since durons are cheap
add like $50 for the 2nd proc (total $150 for 2 duron 1gig smps, unsure if thats reasonable pricing) and another $50 to mobo cost for dual smp mobo
thats $450 ea box
250 x $450 gives us $112.5k for the boxes
add in networking stuff etc
less than $125k prob
actually even better than completely cutting off a users net access would be limiting their access and rerouting all HTTP requests a site which explains that they have the virus and provides complete directions on how to remove the virus etc...
then once they have fixed the virus they could perhaps go back to that site, click a button which would somehow verify that they are patched up, and then their connection would be restored...
this limits the damage they can do to others, and limits the time these dsl/cable provider CSR's need to spend dealing with stupid users...
just wanted to throw in my 2c... one of my boxes got infected by one of these recent worms and i was at work that whole day so it was just spamming everyone...
but i imagine that my box probably infected others, and that's just not acceptable.
anything these home dsl/cable providers can do which limits the spread of these virii is a Good Thing (TM). except for blocking port 80 permanently on their networks of course... =)
Alternatively, you could just use the Go.com translator service provided (for free) via http://translator.go.com. I have seen a few sites that were using this service and it worked quite nicely. It is fairly intelligent about what words should be translated (text) and what should be left alone (image paths), and continues translating all the pages of your site that the user visits after they start their translation session.
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my brother has an odb2 module and likes to play with the various settings etc in his engine directly from his laptop. the hardware is relatively cheap and is usually purchased along with software. its all windoze based of course. he spent around $1500 i believe for everything.
this *is not* for people who don't know what they're doing! you can adjust things like when your engine shifts, and really screw up your engine if you do something bad/wrong...
--w
i have my ReplayTV set up to tape a few programs, and CSI has been top on the list since its debut. the rest of the space on my upgraded 80gig drive is taken up by various hbo programs, a couple movies, buffy, angel, smallville, er and xfiles zones. but CSI is the one show i watch religiously. =)
i've gotten my parents and many coworkers watching it as well. if you aren't currently watching it, why not, nothing else is on at 9pm Thurs...
those inside-the-body bullet tracking scenes are straight out of Three Kings, pretty cool stuff.
--w
because Log4J is a much better logging package than that which is included in jdk1.4!
much more time/effort/thinking has gone into log4j.
i recently needed to write to NT System log, and the jdk1.4beta (and i assume release as well) was completely unable to do this. log4j made it super easy!
so don't dis it, log4j rules.
--wayne
i already got in on this at AT forums... but anyways, someone asked what this was supposed to be selling for... more like $399!
--w
just wanted to give my past experience with this kind of thing. at my (undergraduate) college, one of the cs profs had implemented a cheating detector of his own. in my senior year i was in his class and took an extended break one weekend. i had my code done early as i knew i wouldn't be able to work on it at all that weekend, and some people in the class knew i wouldn't be around. a guy who was also in the class came over to my dorm, was let into my room by my roommate, got on my comp, and took my code. the roommate's excuse was "well he came over before to study with you before so i figured it was ok to let him on your comp". dumbass.
/tmp, stealing files located in shared storage space with bad modes set (644), etc. all of this happened while i was in college to various friends etc but most of it occured in the low-level cs classes where the non-cs/non-engineer types were struggling to get "hello world" type programs to work.
the prof called us in separately a couple weeks after the assignment was due and i honestly had no idea what was going on. despite my explanations of what happened etc, he decided that it wasn't his job to decide if i was telling the truth, what should be done, etc and so he turned us BOTH over to the honor council. we were tried separately and with my roommate's testimony i was found innocent, and never again gave my l/p to the guy so he could play games on my box when i wasn't around. the other guy got off too, but that was because he was a 2nd semester senior with 2 weeks left and they just decided to get him out of there.
there were similar examples to this (where innocent parties are in trouble unfairly) due to people stealing printouts of peoples code in a shared lab, taking printouts from the garbage, stealing floppy discs w/code, stealing code from
when a similar cheating detector was used in the cs101 intro to c class, something like 20% of the class got in trouble. it was a real mess for the honor council. groups of people would steal code from smarter people and then share it around. amazing...
wayne
just a quick comment on UT server administration...
having admin'ed q1, q2, q3, and most recently ut servers, i think q3 and ut are rather similar in ease of remote administration.
contrary to what you indicated in your post, you CAN easily admin the server from any of the clients... "So I wound up walking over to the server to get rid of the bots under UT FFA when everyone got up and running."
take a look at this webpage:
http://www.planetunreal.com/game/console.shtml
go down to " u n r e a l s c r i p t c o n s o l e c o m m a n d s (Can be used by remote administrators)"
adding/removing bots, changing maps, etc is all very easily done:
adminlogin your-password-here
killall bots
addbots 3
switchlevel DmDeck16
etc...
i'll agree that changing game types and maps is somewhat EASIER from the Web interface, but it is definitely doable inside the game!
other than this misinformation, nice post...
wayne
imagine the electricity bill...
--w
how lame is this:
Once the message is received it is impossible to turn on an infected phone again.
what kind of design went into this product? is there no way to force a hard-reboot of the phone or something similar, to reset it? what about detaching the battery briefly, etc??
it would really suck to have this happen while on a business trip or something and have to run by the nearest Nokia store to exchange your phone for another, or have it unfrozen or whatnot. and i'm sure Nokia would just exchange/fix the phone for free (not)... they'd probably require that you mail it in to them and wait 4-6 weeks to get it back, finally fixed.
--w
the point was simply that it could be done with just as much/more stuff in each box for much less...
i did put (needed??) next to floppy and cdrom, which obviously means "only if deemed necessary for whatever reason"... but apparently you can't read. personally i don't see them as necessary in a cluster, but in the spirit of matching (and beating) the other cluster in terms of components/power vs cost, i figured i'd include them in the calculations.
same thing goes for snd/vid... i'd rather have more than i need in a box, esp when it comes to debugging a box that won't boot but i can't get a terminal on it since i have no vid card...
but gee thanks for the comment.
--w
i think i could build a better supercomputer
for less money with amd procs/mobos/etc
1gig tbird $100
decent cheap amd mobo w/integrated vid/snd/net $100
256meg ram $25
15gig ide $50
floppy drive (needed??) $15
cdrom (needed??) $25
decent nic $20
cheap case $40
total $375
subtract 10% (due to quantity purchase) gives less than $350 total each
pay a bunch of college kids $10/hour
they'd build 2 machines/hour
so 125hrs total to build comps is $1250
$350 x 250 machines is $87,500
add in (8) good quality 32 port switches @ $200 each and you're up another $2k
add in 250ish cat5 cables for another $1k (who wants to make them, buy for $3-4 ea)
your total cost is way under $100k
or even better
use the new SMP durons, 1gig each
not much more $$ since durons are cheap
add like $50 for the 2nd proc (total $150 for 2 duron 1gig smps, unsure if thats reasonable pricing) and another $50 to mobo cost for dual smp mobo
thats $450 ea box
250 x $450 gives us $112.5k for the boxes
add in networking stuff etc
less than $125k prob
man i want to do this
need someone with $$ =P
--wayne =)
actually even better than completely cutting off a users net access would be limiting their access and rerouting all HTTP requests a site which explains that they have the virus and provides complete directions on how to remove the virus etc...
then once they have fixed the virus they could perhaps go back to that site, click a button which would somehow verify that they are patched up, and then their connection would be restored...
this limits the damage they can do to others, and limits the time these dsl/cable provider CSR's need to spend dealing with stupid users...
--w
just wanted to throw in my 2c... one of my boxes got infected by one of these recent worms and i was at work that whole day so it was just spamming everyone...
but i imagine that my box probably infected others, and that's just not acceptable.
anything these home dsl/cable providers can do which limits the spread of these virii is a Good Thing (TM). except for blocking port 80 permanently on their networks of course... =)
--w
Check it out.
--w
its the cheapest online book source i've found
http://www.elgrande.com
they have this book for $28.49!
not to diss on ThinkGeek, but their price is $17 more...