Sounds like all the older houses in South Florida when people actually had a clue. They were the ones still standing after Andrew.
My current house seems to eat WiFi signal, there seems to be 12 inch solid concrete walls in the middle of the house that wifi doesn't seem to like at all, neither did my 18 inch masonry bit when drilling to run ethernet to get around the wifi problem, I hit some of the steel in the wall and hosed a good bit, that cost way to much money.
In the end this is a massive pita as my cordless is all but useless excpt in a few rooms as is the WiFi, and due to the tint on the windows very little usable signal actually escapes the house....err, yeah it's cool living in an unintentional faraday cage, I feel your pain, need to set up an additional WAP to get around this.
Well I guess that is your skewed perspective, as a Floridian I would eat out every night, as I enjoyed it.
The meal and tip were always around $30 at a minimum for my meal, cheaper in the middle of the night at Denny's, way more at a nice place.
The smoking ban went through, I took this as the restaurants as well as the general population in Florida no longer need my money.
So in the end you got what you wanted, you eliminated a customer who would always tip, bring a bunch of friends and dump a load of cash in your establishment for almost zero work.
So your observation about if they all did it smokers would have no choice....incorrect my friend, there are plenty of non-restaurants who make food to go. I go there, I invite everyone to my place and we eat and smoke and have a good time. I didn't go to your restaurant for food, it's that last place I'd go, most restaurants in Florida suck compared to any decent sized metro area around the country.
You just _believe_ your actions don't impact others.
If I actually met you I could find many things you do apart the decrease the quality of my life.
We all do them, tolerance is something people seem to have lost, and that is a very big problem.
I guess it starts with people believeing they have rights beyond the paper they are written on, exercising your rights to the detriment of man around you is not why those rights exist, in this case it is you wanting the power to control others as you have no control over your own life.
Disagree with me here, however everyone's special and no one is unique, you fit the mold of hundreds of others I have seen that have your exact traits.
Are your eyes brown, as you certainly are full of shit, please back your numbers with something.
Should I have just made the comment that this is yet another thing americans like to take credit for yet upper slobobia is actually the inventor of war.
Heh, so you would make laws based on your convience, You obviously ride with the windows down. Out of my concern for your saftey see the need to enact a law to fine you. A piece of debris could fly from the road and strike you, possible resulting in bodily injury and likely leading to the loss of control of your vehicle thereby causing an avoidable collision.
My solution to this problem is to fine everyone $10,000 if they are found to be riding with the windows down, and increase the price of fuel for cars to $10.00 per gallon for the necessary additonal police to enforce this rule, this would also reduce our dependance on foreign oil supplies as fewer people would drive, reducing the need for pavement, cars, bridges, factories, plastics, tires, mechanics, auto insurance, parts suppliers, hospitals, and various other things that have been confirmed by laboratory research to annoy someone.
Oh and if we just outright banned the personal ownership of cars we could also reduce the amount of injuries which occur every year as a direct result of auto accidents. You don't want to be put at risk of having an accident, do you?
Perhaps it's time for him to get a 9-5 job flipping hamburgers, as that's the only job he'll likely get after a prospective employer hears of this malicious implementation.
Our jobs are based entirely on trust, he just lost my trust as well as everyone else in this thread.
If I were to employ this guy the only thing I would be thinking is "did he put a backdoor in my code", as such he would be on the street.
If you don't understand this unspoken rule of trust in this industry, you will one day when you break it.
Err, I didn't think they did, I thought it was just shunted, I believe you since you're in the business, I happen to know some of this stuff as I grew up around it, and learned basic logic playing with those cube relays and learning to read relay logic prints.
In FL it seems that all are VVVF if they are maintined by a major, I'm sure they're not all, but as they need major work done the old units are replaced. Relay logic is disappearing as well as most people today just don't get it, and can't fix it.
My dad does it for a living, mainly the finish work prior to inspection. When he retires I'll get him further into computers, heh, he carries a laptop on him now as it is.
Actually most traction elevators today use a VVVF direct drive system where the motor is directly coupled to the "ropes". VVVF is variable voltage variable frequency which is coupled to a poly-phase motor. What we could call a stepper motor. Sans the batteries it is very similar to what's being used in the next gen electric cars. From my understanding, and it's been some time, the only thing required to slow an elevator is a change in the frequency and voltage applied to the motor. They have for the most part stopped using the old system, that used a motor generator set, which used an ac motor turning a dc generator which allowed control of the speed of the car. In that system they could simply shunt the motor to reduce speed while the generator is doing nothing and that was sufficent. The power company would be pissed if you were pushing out of phase current back to them. Not to mention eveyone else in the local vicinity, it would likely cause all sorts of really bad things to happen.
In the old days of the ISP business, before mega-isps inhabited the land and support was handled by many people in fields of cubes, when the tech support sat at folding tables on slow pcs themselves, and the isp charged 25.00 for dialup slip, an admin could actually fire customers who consumed too much tech time, "I'm sorry, we do not have the ability to assist you any further, we are terminating your account". To which they would respond with shock, profanity, and then it would set in, they in-fact are ignorant and they may wish to get a clue if they desire to be on the internet.
What other thing in day to day life allows people to throw their hands up and say I don't know Certainly not the IRS, the insurance company, the corporate documents, the accounting book work, college, high-school, the cop who just pulled you over, the stove, the coffee maker, the microwave oven, there is nothing else in modern life you can refuse to get a clue on and the people in the industry will basiclly bend over backwards to help you.
This I believe is the problem, people are not self-sufficent when it comes to tech, they give up, and throw a tantrum on the floor when it refuses to operate the way they think it should.
Oh and to reply to the above, cancel your fucking ISP, stop paying them money, it is the only thing that will make them see their mistake, and by the time they do, it will be too late.
I worked at an ISP where the mail was always fucked, we knew how to fix it, but it couldn't make it's way through the maze of incompitence to be approved to be fixed. They went bankrupt, and got bought for pennies on the dollar.
ATT is a prime example of this, which my contract is up, by by to them.
Let the capitalist ecosystem work and those who are unable to meet expectations will be weeded out.
No, the poster who said your military is in shambles, and it is, misses the point here, which isn't that canada can't defend it's borders, we can't either, but that Canada is less caught up in the cesspools of the world, so a smaller military is perfectly O.K.
I understand the need to protect our oil supplies, but here's the problem, it doesn't make financial sense to do so.
The price of crude is still unstable, people still have doubts in their mind, not due to the fact of the supply, or even the potential supply, it is the fear of bombing another oil producing country and taking their oil production off-line.
The only thing we, the citizenry can do is limit our direct and indirect oil consumption.
I just recently bought a car, I could've easily bought a much faster one, a bigger one, a better one, but it seems every luxery car has horrific gas mileage compared to the cheaper ones, so I bought a cheaper one, a japanese one made here.
Vote with your dollars, the political system is rigged, your money is the only thing that can change anything.
Canada's security is dependant on ours, if Canada wishes to remain secure they need to start playing hardball with the US Gov't.
Oh yeah, I'm a republican, and everyone I know, fellow republicans included, are voting for kerry to restore the perception of stability, that is the only thing that will pull the economy back up.
If you want social programs, save your pennies, do the paperwork, and become a Canadian, you do have a choice ya know.
We had to crack the copy protection just to keep our hardware from self-destructing, anyone remember the 1541, gronk...gronk...groooonk...as the heads slammed into the track0 stop, did anyone else have a hole cut in the bottom to realign the bitch?
Shit everyone should have their windows game machine ghosted, as many games often don't like each other anyhow.
We appreciated 3.5 inch floppies, you could put tons of warez on a 1581! Now you'd be lucky to save a word doc to a floppy.
I'm wearing, as we speak, a watch my Grandfather wore 57 years ago that was given to him when he retired from the railroad. It's engraved on the back with the year 1947.
As I started reading that the scene from Pulp Fiction popped back into my head.
I own the gold version of that watch, and i had the atainless version as well, most useful watch I've ever had, and it keeps dead on time. Don't let the battery die for more than a day tho, the stainless one froze up and refused to work as the internals don't like not to be under constant power.
The concentrated nicotine would take care of your warts.....and you. They do use the stuff for pesticide......stick to the nitrogen....
On the topic of the story, yep it's kind of extreme to pull the nitrogen out to get clock speed, and the major problem I see is the condensate, has anyone attempted to do this with the motherboard in a case at a vacuum and the heatsink exposed through the top of the case. I'm sure something would need to be fashioned from some copper connected to the heat sink to cool any ICs that rely on airflow, but it would be neat to push everything all at once just to see how fast everything could be overclocked.
Well, you see everything pre OSX sucked, in the day I would tell people with Macs when they sneered at my choice in computers (Amiga) that I just emulated theirs and skipped the expense. The emulation was actually faster than a real Mac.
Now that the original man has come back from exile, and brought with him NeXT (killer machines),the philosophy, and promptly dumped my whole reason for never buying a Macintosh, I bought one.
It is a shiny new 15inch powerbook complete with the backlit keyboard and all the goodies.
It has working power management, complete laptop support unlike Linux and *BSD.
I now have mysql, php, the whole dev suite, and now it looks as if porting my fav KDE apps is possible without the suckiness of X (tho it sucks less than windows).
So expect all the KDE stuff to be ported, because I like it, as well as those like me who miss them from our desktops.
Funny, this will be a new sub-culture on the Mac, not those who moved from windows and not knowing any better, but those of us knowing how it should work and making it better.
Actual working transparent terminals really kick ass, these aren't transparent window decoration, but actual transparent windows.
So say what you will, but there is nothing like Unix with a real GUI attached to it, I'm sure I will find some faults with it, but I haven't found any that were as painful as doing modelines in 1994.
X has failed, it should be shot and buried.
Will I continue to run Linux....sure, as a server....will it ever have a desktop again....nope, not until something workable comes about, until then my desktop is OSX, this KDE news is pure joy.
I hope you read this....do you know what the max size harddrive the original qube can take, was it limited to 137GB, that model was the mips processor version right?
It does sound really good, but it does not sound 192K+ that all my mp3s are ripped at.
It does sound good tho, and the only time I can really notice this difference is with the car off. I don't own XM yet, will really soon though. Audiophile quality != any auto sound system with car on
I haven't has a problem with VLANS in linux. Since all the addresses on the internal VLAN are non-routable you'd need a box with an external public ip address with one of the VLANS built to it from the switch as well as the internal VLAN to make a compromise, this should never happen.
This seems kinda like a rigged situation, if you have an IDS you probably also have switches which support VLANS.
Well, the machines already had 2 nics on board, I don't think the sound card fits the devices intended purpose and merely drives the price up on the unit(the pci slot it plugs into).
So they'd rather give users a pci slot that won't be used in it's intended application (this does add to the complexity of the board) but something that would actually be useful in it's intended application is omitted(a nice SCSI drive).
RAQ3 and RAQ4 machines had a seperate file that DNS was generated from, it is a good thing they fixed this, one less place to tar-up....or forget to.
I will give them one thing, in a full height rack with all of them on, they did look cool. Now it's time for someone to pick up this ball and replicate what they did, but actually make a decent interface, actually an interface with an "Advanced" tab would be all that's needed.
As far as with the sound card......yep I did consider it for the RAQ4 , but then they sent me one of those Qube cardboard mockups, it sat on my desk, I'd look at it every now and then and almost convince myself to buy it for just that purpose.
They sent me many pens, many pads of paper, a shirt, a watch, that cardboard qube thing, the posters and many other nic-nacs. I can't remember another company who barraged me with stuff to that degree. I always enjoyed getting the pens as they actually weren't bad to write with, not the typical vendor pen that runs out of ink in the first day, I still have the cobalt pens, they were me red stapler:-)
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I'm not quite sure for some reason :-)
Sounds like all the older houses in South Florida when people actually had a clue. They were the ones still standing after Andrew.
My current house seems to eat WiFi signal, there seems to be 12 inch solid concrete walls in the middle of the house that wifi doesn't seem to like at all, neither did my 18 inch masonry bit when drilling to run ethernet to get around the wifi problem, I hit some of the steel in the wall and hosed a good bit, that cost way to much money.
In the end this is a massive pita as my cordless is all but useless excpt in a few rooms as is the WiFi, and due to the tint on the windows very little usable signal actually escapes the house....err, yeah it's cool living in an unintentional faraday cage, I feel your pain, need to set up an additional WAP to get around this.
Well I guess that is your skewed perspective, as a Floridian I would eat out every night, as I enjoyed it.
The meal and tip were always around $30 at a minimum for my meal, cheaper in the middle of the night at Denny's, way more at a nice place.
The smoking ban went through, I took this as the restaurants as well as the general population in Florida no longer need my money.
So in the end you got what you wanted, you eliminated a customer who would always tip, bring a bunch of friends and dump a load of cash in your establishment for almost zero work.
So your observation about if they all did it smokers would have no choice....incorrect my friend, there are plenty of non-restaurants who make food to go. I go there, I invite everyone to my place and we eat and smoke and have a good time. I didn't go to your restaurant for food, it's that last place I'd go, most restaurants in Florida suck compared to any decent sized metro area around the country.
You just _believe_ your actions don't impact others.
If I actually met you I could find many things you do apart the decrease the quality of my life.
We all do them, tolerance is something people seem to have lost, and that is a very big problem.
I guess it starts with people believeing they have rights beyond the paper they are written on, exercising your rights to the detriment of man around you is not why those rights exist, in this case it is you wanting the power to control others as you have no control over your own life.
Disagree with me here, however everyone's special and no one is unique, you fit the mold of hundreds of others I have seen that have your exact traits.
Are your eyes brown, as you certainly are full of shit, please back your numbers with something.
Should I have just made the comment that this is yet another thing americans like to take credit for yet upper slobobia is actually the inventor of war.
Heh, so you would make laws based on your convience,
You obviously ride with the windows down. Out of my concern for your saftey see the need to enact a law to fine you. A piece of debris could fly from the road and strike you, possible resulting in bodily injury and likely leading to the loss of control of your vehicle thereby causing an avoidable collision.
My solution to this problem is to fine everyone $10,000 if they are found to be riding with the windows down, and increase the price of fuel for cars to $10.00 per gallon for the necessary additonal police to enforce this rule, this would also reduce our dependance on foreign oil supplies as fewer people would drive, reducing the need for pavement, cars, bridges, factories, plastics, tires, mechanics, auto insurance, parts suppliers, hospitals, and various other things that have been confirmed by laboratory research to annoy someone.
Oh and if we just outright banned the personal ownership of cars we could also reduce the amount of injuries which occur every year as a direct result of auto accidents. You don't want to be put at risk of having an accident, do you?
Perhaps it's time for him to get a 9-5 job flipping hamburgers, as that's the only job he'll likely get after a prospective employer hears of this malicious implementation.
Our jobs are based entirely on trust, he just lost my trust as well as everyone else in this thread.
If I were to employ this guy the only thing I would be thinking is "did he put a backdoor in my code", as such he would be on the street.
If you don't understand this unspoken rule of trust in this industry, you will one day when you break it.
Err, I didn't think they did, I thought it was just shunted, I believe you since you're in the business, I happen to know some of this stuff as I grew up around it, and learned basic logic playing with those cube relays and learning to read relay logic prints.
In FL it seems that all are VVVF if they are maintined by a major, I'm sure they're not all, but as they need major work done the old units are replaced. Relay logic is disappearing as well as most people today just don't get it, and can't fix it.
My dad does it for a living, mainly the finish work prior to inspection. When he retires I'll get him further into computers, heh, he carries a laptop on him now as it is.
Actually most traction elevators today use a VVVF direct drive system where the motor is directly coupled to the "ropes".
VVVF is variable voltage variable frequency which is coupled to a poly-phase motor.
What we could call a stepper motor.
Sans the batteries it is very similar to what's being used in the next gen electric cars.
From my understanding, and it's been some time, the only thing required to slow an elevator is a change in the frequency and voltage applied to the motor.
They have for the most part stopped using the old system, that used a motor generator set, which used an ac motor turning a dc generator which allowed control of the speed of the car. In that system they could simply shunt the motor to reduce speed while the generator is doing nothing and that was sufficent.
The power company would be pissed if you were pushing out of phase current back to them. Not to mention eveyone else in the local vicinity, it would likely cause all sorts of really bad things to happen.
In the old days of the ISP business,
before mega-isps inhabited the land and support was handled by many people in fields of cubes,
when the tech support sat at folding tables on slow pcs themselves,
and the isp charged 25.00 for dialup slip,
an admin could actually fire customers who consumed too much tech time,
"I'm sorry, we do not have the ability to assist you any further, we are terminating your account".
To which they would respond with shock, profanity, and then it would set in,
they in-fact are ignorant and they may wish to get a clue if they desire to be on the internet.
What other thing in day to day life allows people to throw their hands up and say I don't know Certainly not the IRS, the insurance company, the corporate documents, the accounting book work, college, high-school, the cop who just pulled you over, the stove, the coffee maker, the microwave oven, there is nothing else in modern life you can refuse to get a clue on and the people in the industry will basiclly bend over backwards to help you.
This I believe is the problem, people are not self-sufficent when it comes to tech, they give up, and throw a tantrum on the floor when it refuses to operate the way they think it should.
Oh and to reply to the above, cancel your fucking ISP, stop paying them money, it is the only thing that will make them see their mistake, and by the time they do, it will be too late.
I worked at an ISP where the mail was always fucked, we knew how to fix it, but it couldn't make it's way through the maze of incompitence to be approved to be fixed. They went bankrupt, and got bought for pennies on the dollar.
ATT is a prime example of this, which my contract is up, by by to them.
Let the capitalist ecosystem work and those who are unable to meet expectations will be weeded out.
No, the poster who said your military is in shambles, and it is, misses the point here, which isn't that canada can't defend it's borders, we can't either, but that Canada is less caught up in the cesspools of the world, so a smaller military is perfectly O.K.
I understand the need to protect our oil supplies, but here's the problem, it doesn't make financial sense to do so.
The price of crude is still unstable, people still have doubts in their mind, not due to the fact of the supply, or even the potential supply, it is the fear of bombing another oil producing country and taking their oil production off-line.
The only thing we, the citizenry can do is limit our direct and indirect oil consumption.
I just recently bought a car, I could've easily bought a much faster one, a bigger one, a better one, but it seems every luxery car has horrific gas mileage compared to the cheaper ones, so I bought a cheaper one, a japanese one made here.
Vote with your dollars, the political system is rigged, your money is the only thing that can change anything.
Canada's security is dependant on ours, if Canada wishes to remain secure they need to start playing hardball with the US Gov't.
Oh yeah, I'm a republican, and everyone I know, fellow republicans included, are voting for kerry to restore the perception of stability, that is the only thing that will pull the economy back up.
If you want social programs, save your pennies, do the paperwork, and become a Canadian, you do have a choice ya know.
We had to crack the copy protection just to keep our hardware from self-destructing, anyone remember the 1541, gronk...gronk...groooonk...as the heads slammed into the track0 stop, did anyone else have a hole cut in the bottom to realign the bitch?
Shit everyone should have their windows game machine ghosted, as many games often don't like each other anyhow.
We appreciated 3.5 inch floppies, you could put tons of warez on a 1581! Now you'd be lucky to save a word doc to a floppy.
I'm wearing, as we speak, a watch my Grandfather wore 57 years ago that was given to him when he retired from the railroad. It's engraved on the back with the year 1947.
As I started reading that the scene from Pulp Fiction popped back into my head.
I own the gold version of that watch, and i had the atainless version as well, most useful watch I've ever had, and it keeps dead on time. Don't let the battery die for more than a day tho, the stainless one froze up and refused to work as the internals don't like not to be under constant power.
Yeah, make it the mirrored stuff, so they fly right into it full speed.
The concentrated nicotine would take care of your warts.....and you. They do use the stuff for pesticide......stick to the nitrogen....
On the topic of the story, yep it's kind of extreme to pull the nitrogen out to get clock speed, and the major problem I see is the condensate, has anyone attempted to do this with the motherboard in a case at a vacuum and the heatsink exposed through the top of the case. I'm sure something would need to be fashioned from some copper connected to the heat sink to cool any ICs that rely on airflow, but it would be neat to push everything all at once just to see how fast everything could be overclocked.
I miss those, they seem to have went out of favor fairly quickly.
I guess the dot com bubble affects everything.
It's really a bitch when expansion stops and all the jobs go to contractors.
Well, you see everything pre OSX sucked, in the day I would tell people with Macs when they sneered at my choice in computers (Amiga) that I just emulated theirs and skipped the expense. The emulation was actually faster than a real Mac.
,the philosophy, and promptly dumped my whole reason for never buying a Macintosh, I bought one.
Now that the original man has come back from exile, and brought with him NeXT (killer machines)
It is a shiny new 15inch powerbook complete with the backlit keyboard and all the goodies.
It has working power management, complete laptop support unlike Linux and *BSD.
I now have mysql, php, the whole dev suite, and now it looks as if porting my fav KDE apps is possible without the suckiness of X (tho it sucks less than windows).
So expect all the KDE stuff to be ported, because I like it, as well as those like me who miss them from our desktops.
Funny, this will be a new sub-culture on the Mac, not those who moved from windows and not knowing any better, but those of us knowing how it should work and making it better.
Actual working transparent terminals really kick ass, these aren't transparent window decoration, but actual transparent windows.
So say what you will, but there is nothing like Unix with a real GUI attached to it, I'm sure I will find some faults with it, but I haven't found any that were as painful as doing modelines in 1994.
X has failed, it should be shot and buried.
Will I continue to run Linux....sure, as a server....will it ever have a desktop again....nope, not until something workable comes about, until then my desktop is OSX, this KDE news is pure joy.
I hope you read this....do you know what the max size harddrive the original qube can take, was it limited to 137GB, that model was the mips processor version right?
It does sound really good, but it does not sound 192K+ that all my mp3s are ripped at.
It does sound good tho, and the only time I can really notice this difference is with the car off. I don't own XM yet, will really soon though. Audiophile quality != any auto sound system with car on
I haven't has a problem with VLANS in linux.
Since all the addresses on the internal VLAN are non-routable you'd need a box with an external public ip address with one of the VLANS built to it from the switch as well as the internal VLAN to make a compromise, this should never happen.
This seems kinda like a rigged situation, if you have an IDS you probably also have switches which support VLANS.
Well, the machines already had 2 nics on board, I don't think the sound card fits the devices intended purpose and merely drives the price up on the unit(the pci slot it plugs into).
:-)
So they'd rather give users a pci slot that won't be used in it's intended application (this does add to the complexity of the board) but something that would actually be useful in it's intended application is omitted(a nice SCSI drive).
RAQ3 and RAQ4 machines had a seperate file that DNS was generated from, it is a good thing they fixed this, one less place to tar-up....or forget to.
I will give them one thing, in a full height rack with all of them on, they did look cool. Now it's time for someone to pick up this ball and replicate what they did, but actually make a decent interface, actually an interface with an "Advanced" tab would be all that's needed.
As far as with the sound card......yep I did consider it for the RAQ4 , but then they sent me one of those Qube cardboard mockups, it sat on my desk, I'd look at it every now and then and almost convince myself to buy it for just that purpose.
They sent me many pens, many pads of paper, a shirt, a watch, that cardboard qube thing, the posters and many other nic-nacs. I can't remember another company who barraged me with stuff to that degree. I always enjoyed getting the pens as they actually weren't bad to write with, not the typical vendor pen that runs out of ink in the first day, I still have the cobalt pens, they were me red stapler
Both of you have some serious flaws in your logic, this is Slashdot, so that's O.K.
Yeah, they already tried that, remember Ultimate TV, it seems to have died on the vine.