* this is going to make a couple of degrees difference, tops. you'd have more effect moving your case a couple of inches further from the wall
* who runs within 2 degrees of max temp for their CPU? some crazy overclockers, but it's not exactly reliable practice, is it? if it was 10 degrees, maybe but it's not going to make that much difference
* stop knocking the thermal pads. retail CPUs use these because joe sixpack can't f*vck it up and claim on their warranty. if you don't like it, scrape it off and stick a blob of arctic silver or similar
* bear in mind AMDs warranty only applies if you use approved thermal solutions
*Basic keyboard/mouse skills. Sounds obvious but as a trainer, it isn't for some people
* What directories are and how to use them. Again, the number of people who just save to a default directory and then can't find the file later is surprising
* How to use Office or similar - word processing using your favourite package, etc. By default this tends to be MS Office because that's what they'll face when they hit the real world. You can push OO or similar which may be ethically nice but it's less useful.
*Use of the internet. This includes web searching, email and *usenet*! There are kids today who think "Google Groups" is news!
*Run options in things you think they'll be interested in: DTP, graphics, etc etc
*Anyone who runs a "hacking 101" will be rebuilding their community PCs every few hours and fending off enquiries from their ISP. Why give yourself the hassle?
they get you know then they'll have got your IP from connecting with something like a Kazaa client to your machine. They legal your ISP and find out who you are, and then you get a letter inviting you to be sued.
Of course at this point, most people would hide their MP3 hard disk, or destroy the contents. This doesn't help - they've already got the details and your IP and I'd imagine with expensive enough lawyers behind you that'd be enough...
I work in data capture for a pharma company. We're required by law to keep *RAW DATA* for the patentable lifetime of a drug, which could be 40 years in some cases. Doesn't sound too bad, but our raw data needs our application to browse it. That application needs our infrastructure - which is huge - it doesn't work as a standalone. That infrastructure only works on a particular set of hardware. There isn't an easy answer. We could say we'd bodge it and export to XML, but what about those ECG graphical traces that are in a proprietary format with annotations? It's really difficult and it's very tempting to say "print the whole lot out on several trees and put it in the paper archive"...
...you can figure this out if you try *real hard*.
yes, lead acid batteries are a terrible thing to throw in the trash. rechargeables aren't much better, but you don't chuck them each time they run out.
for rechargeables, you want lithium ion, nickel metal hydride and nicad in that order. memory, output voltage, etc etc.
just go read up on it, yeah? this isn't rocket science. and don't anyone come out of the woodwork talking about battery powered rockets, or i'll whup your ass. ok?
VW/Audi 1.8T engine: standard 150-170BHP.
Half a day with Mike @ Jabbasport with his laptop and rolling road? 225BHP at the fly, with the dyno to prove it.
Driven one and it's very quick indeed. Handily, the same engine comes in a 225BHP variant with a larger turbo, so you're not even overstressing it.
Go fuck yourself.
I'm the guy who *buys* all this shit, and what it's taught me is that it may be new, it may make people on slashdot go "ooooooooooh" but that DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE IT PRACTICAL.
has it got an in-dash DIN sized display? an in-dash DIN-sized interface device? No. So what's the point of making it DIN sized? Just so people can see what you've blown all your money on instead of sticking it in the boot like your autochanger?
this is all very well but is a pc what you want in your car? keyboard, mouse, tiny icons due to running on a small LCD? unless someone's released "Windows XP Car edition" or similar I really don't see this as all that useful - compared to say a navigation unit and an in car MP3 player. Or a PDA based system that has an OS that's in ROM and can be
Ubiquitous computing doesn't necesarily mean a *PC* is the best tool for the job. I don't fancy driving into the back of someone because I was trying to click on the MSN messenger icon...
i still maintain that a properly configured win2k box running as a DC and DNS shouldn't have reliability problems. yours may, but it's *not* typical and suggests something is wrong...
* no support for playlists at all with native player
* dodgy plastic lens on camera really limits things. 640x480's not that bad (i remember paying quite a bit for the first domestic digital cameras that did this and being reasonably happy) but a glass lens would really help
* dodgy new memory format - the memory stick duo. it's a sony, so maybe you can't expect an SD slot, but it'd be nice. the duo cards are *really* expensive
* provide a means of terminating running programs without third party software. why don't the apps have a "close" icon? this is plain dumb
there's probably a few more, but these are the main gripes. don't get me wrong, i love mine. make it a little bit slimmer and less plasticy and i'd be *really* happy
if you're not running much in the way of 3rd party apps then years of uptime are not unusual. i admin a few NT4 and 2k boxes and they stay up until you turn them off...
get yourself a sony-ericsson P800.
symbian OS, full outlook synch, opera browser, symbian OS, camera etc etc. it's a little chunky for a phone, but not much...
..along with the web, email, trips to the coffee machine, phone calls, scratching my bollocks and leaving early this means i might never need to do anything in the office ever again!
and it's going to cope with access permissions perfectly? public folder apps that have been written in-house by people who've since left? maybe it will, but i doubt it'd be straightforward.
Hell yes, maybe you could get some real work done like spending hours frigging around with an OS your IS department isn't going to support, and you could also spend ages pestering them on the phone asking why you can't talk to the exchange server anymore.
why not go poking around disconnecting things attached to your airbags? it's not like they're complicated, explosive, safety-critical devices or anything, right?
alternately, "it seems you're right. XYZ does indeed crash our production server. it didn't used to, when we went through the user acceptance testing when it was first built. what has changed? is it something on, say, our network that now behaves differently? or an untested update that someone's put on the client? does it do it on a test rig? (as i'd better not fvck about with a production server that's validated and so would require a complete rebuild according to the mountain of paperwork required for, say, FDA compliance if I changed anything)"
Mine's running R1D/R2C/R1F01/R2A01 and battery life's fine. Easily 4 days with average calls/email - the camera kills the battery though.
For BT headsets (the only decent, non buggy use of BT if you ask me) the Jabra BT200's are excellent. 4 days battery life, cheaper than the SE models and looks less tragic clipped to your ear.
With you 100% on the stupid memory stick duo cards though. Expansys.co.uk sell a fullsize memory stick adaptor for them, but they're clunky. First person to get smartmedia to fit gets my thanks...
this was the USP that ericsson were selling BT with back in maybe 1997...libraries would have a BT "shut the hell up" beacon installed, and phones would switch to silent. never happened, mind...
already has a camera (ok, only 640x480!), bluetooth, mp3 player, mpg4 video player all built in - only problem is those proprietary memory stick duo cards rather than smartmedia or similar...
Point 2 is fair enough, Point 1 can be easily taken care of by turning up at the office at random intervals holding a screwdriver or length of cat5 and muttering...
fair enough: sum *metre* accuracy- typically we want 7-30cm accuracy depending on the job and number of satellites we can get a lock on due to high building etc
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* who runs within 2 degrees of max temp for their CPU? some crazy overclockers, but it's not exactly reliable practice, is it? if it was 10 degrees, maybe but it's not going to make that much difference
* stop knocking the thermal pads. retail CPUs use these because joe sixpack can't f*vck it up and claim on their warranty. if you don't like it, scrape it off and stick a blob of arctic silver or similar
* bear in mind AMDs warranty only applies if you use approved thermal solutions
* What directories are and how to use them. Again, the number of people who just save to a default directory and then can't find the file later is surprising * How to use Office or similar - word processing using your favourite package, etc. By default this tends to be MS Office because that's what they'll face when they hit the real world. You can push OO or similar which may be ethically nice but it's less useful.
*Use of the internet. This includes web searching, email and *usenet*! There are kids today who think "Google Groups" is news!
*Run options in things you think they'll be interested in: DTP, graphics, etc etc
*Anyone who runs a "hacking 101" will be rebuilding their community PCs every few hours and fending off enquiries from their ISP. Why give yourself the hassle?
they get you know then they'll have got your IP from connecting with something like a Kazaa client to your machine. They legal your ISP and find out who you are, and then you get a letter inviting you to be sued.
Of course at this point, most people would hide their MP3 hard disk, or destroy the contents. This doesn't help - they've already got the details and your IP and I'd imagine with expensive enough lawyers behind you that'd be enough...
I work in data capture for a pharma company. We're required by law to keep *RAW DATA* for the patentable lifetime of a drug, which could be 40 years in some cases. Doesn't sound too bad, but our raw data needs our application to browse it. That application needs our infrastructure - which is huge - it doesn't work as a standalone. That infrastructure only works on a particular set of hardware. There isn't an easy answer. We could say we'd bodge it and export to XML, but what about those ECG graphical traces that are in a proprietary format with annotations? It's really difficult and it's very tempting to say "print the whole lot out on several trees and put it in the paper archive"...
...you can figure this out if you try *real hard*.
yes, lead acid batteries are a terrible thing to throw in the trash. rechargeables aren't much better, but you don't chuck them each time they run out.
for rechargeables, you want lithium ion, nickel metal hydride and nicad in that order. memory, output voltage, etc etc.
just go read up on it, yeah? this isn't rocket science. and don't anyone come out of the woodwork talking about battery powered rockets, or i'll whup your ass. ok?
VW/Audi 1.8T engine: standard 150-170BHP.
Half a day with Mike @ Jabbasport with his laptop and rolling road? 225BHP at the fly, with the dyno to prove it.
Driven one and it's very quick indeed. Handily, the same engine comes in a 225BHP variant with a larger turbo, so you're not even overstressing it.
Go fuck yourself.
I'm the guy who *buys* all this shit, and what it's taught me is that it may be new, it may make people on slashdot go "ooooooooooh" but that DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE IT PRACTICAL. has it got an in-dash DIN sized display? an in-dash DIN-sized interface device? No. So what's the point of making it DIN sized? Just so people can see what you've blown all your money on instead of sticking it in the boot like your autochanger?
he didn't. he installed a hardware keylogger in line in the keyboard socket.
this is all very well but is a pc what you want in your car? keyboard, mouse, tiny icons due to running on a small LCD? unless someone's released "Windows XP Car edition" or similar I really don't see this as all that useful - compared to say a navigation unit and an in car MP3 player. Or a PDA based system that has an OS that's in ROM and can be
Ubiquitous computing doesn't necesarily mean a *PC* is the best tool for the job. I don't fancy driving into the back of someone because I was trying to click on the MSN messenger icon...
...and i'm fvcked if i can get it talking to my 2k box via BT...
i still maintain that a properly configured win2k box running as a DC and DNS shouldn't have reliability problems. yours may, but it's *not* typical and suggests something is wrong...
* no support for playlists at all with native player
* dodgy plastic lens on camera really limits things. 640x480's not that bad (i remember paying quite a bit for the first domestic digital cameras that did this and being reasonably happy) but a glass lens would really help
* dodgy new memory format - the memory stick duo. it's a sony, so maybe you can't expect an SD slot, but it'd be nice. the duo cards are *really* expensive
* provide a means of terminating running programs without third party software. why don't the apps have a "close" icon? this is plain dumb
there's probably a few more, but these are the main gripes. don't get me wrong, i love mine. make it a little bit slimmer and less plasticy and i'd be *really* happy
if you're not running much in the way of 3rd party apps then years of uptime are not unusual. i admin a few NT4 and 2k boxes and they stay up until you turn them off...
get yourself a sony-ericsson P800. symbian OS, full outlook synch, opera browser, symbian OS, camera etc etc. it's a little chunky for a phone, but not much...
..along with the web, email, trips to the coffee machine, phone calls, scratching my bollocks and leaving early this means i might never need to do anything in the office ever again!
and it's going to cope with access permissions perfectly? public folder apps that have been written in-house by people who've since left? maybe it will, but i doubt it'd be straightforward.
Hell yes, maybe you could get some real work done like spending hours frigging around with an OS your IS department isn't going to support, and you could also spend ages pestering them on the phone asking why you can't talk to the exchange server anymore.
why not go poking around disconnecting things attached to your airbags? it's not like they're complicated, explosive, safety-critical devices or anything, right?
alternately, "it seems you're right. XYZ does indeed crash our production server. it didn't used to, when we went through the user acceptance testing when it was first built. what has changed? is it something on, say, our network that now behaves differently? or an untested update that someone's put on the client? does it do it on a test rig? (as i'd better not fvck about with a production server that's validated and so would require a complete rebuild according to the mountain of paperwork required for, say, FDA compliance if I changed anything)"
For BT headsets (the only decent, non buggy use of BT if you ask me) the Jabra BT200's are excellent. 4 days battery life, cheaper than the SE models and looks less tragic clipped to your ear.
With you 100% on the stupid memory stick duo cards though. Expansys.co.uk sell a fullsize memory stick adaptor for them, but they're clunky. First person to get smartmedia to fit gets my thanks...
this was the USP that ericsson were selling BT with back in maybe 1997...libraries would have a BT "shut the hell up" beacon installed, and phones would switch to silent. never happened, mind...
already has a camera (ok, only 640x480!), bluetooth, mp3 player, mpg4 video player all built in - only problem is those proprietary memory stick duo cards rather than smartmedia or similar...
Point 2 is fair enough, Point 1 can be easily taken care of by turning up at the office at random intervals holding a screwdriver or length of cat5 and muttering...
fair enough: sum *metre* accuracy- typically we want 7-30cm accuracy depending on the job and number of satellites we can get a lock on due to high building etc
it's not free, either. if it all gets used up, what happened to the network's forward planning?