Yes they do my friend. The cpu's temps will go up to whatever it runs at when its 100% busy, and that entails an increase in the power consumption. Now as one wag here pointed out the total per annum increase in energy costs would be 5 or 6 bucks a machine, so its a no brainer to put that amount of money into running foldingathome for instance, a gamble that the research will reduce the long term health costs for the population as a whole, possibly by 10-20% per year per person. OTOH, it may also increase the long term health costs simply because we'll live longer, using up more resources as we do.
And that folks, in most scenarios, translates into billions of dollars that could be made available for other research into even more exotic fields.
No, its not free, but the costs are picyune, lost in the noise of turning the hall lights off for the night so to speak compared to the costs of shutting the machines off everynite at 5pm, which will result in far more maitainance than the energy saved will ever pay for. Since most places leave them on 24/7 for that reason alone, why not spend the other 5 bucks a year and have them doing something that may be productive to mankind as a whole? The answer to that is a no brainer except for the PHB's with an MBA who check the bottom line at 5pm everyday. I'd put Tom in that category in a heartbeat.
Those types aren't even sane IMO, I've had to deal with those types for short periods of time occasionally, but I've always outlasted their tenure on the job for some unknown reason I'll let you guess. (Hint, I got the job done, and they more than likely didn't)
With all due respect, thats BS. I have been running the client here for about 5.5 years, basicly since the project started, and I have yet, in all those years of running it on a 24/7/365 basis, had a problem that would cause me to point a finger at seti. FWIW, I rank at 99.27+% in the world in seti unit processing. Yes, it keeps the cpu well warmed up, it formerly ran on a old hungry 1400mhz athlon xp, and only if the room was extremely cold did it ever get below 70C. It ran that way for 4 years, finally dying when a video card failed and took the motherboard with it.
However, let me add my voice to the general sounds of outrage over the fireing of an elderly worker, in this case a programmer. If he was indeed a programmer, and I was very productive at writing code when I was his age but I've faded some in the 8 years of seniority I have on this gentleman, then he was obviously of above average intelligence, and to have the head of the dept make public statements in the manner in which he apparently made them is both very childish and immature on the part of the dept head, and IMO an actionable occurance that the state of Ohio may well have to pay for in the long run.
Talented people, generally speaking are, even if they are perceived as being a bit abrasive, are often well worth keeping around. They are doing it with me yet at 70 on a part time and emergency basis, more than willing to put up with a sometimes cantankerous old man for the simple reason that when things go to hell in a handbasket, or a lightning strike, having me available reduces the downtime more than enough to pay for the fringies I'm still getting, like health insurance etc.
Thats not saying that what he did was right. He should have asked for permission and abided by any ruleing TPTB made.
However, if I were in Toms shoes (and I'm glad I'm not ATM, I don't own any asbestos or nomex underwear) I think my 'punishment' would have been to issue a directive that a) seti be cleaned off the machines by the person who installed it, and b) the person who installed it would have lost the keys to the executive pisser for a week. Further action would have depended entirely on the results of that one. Obviously there may be more to the story that we aren't being told. But thats how I see it, and believe it or not, my employees, when I was full time, all respected me and my occasionally short temper, and do to this day.
They took that in stride in exchange for the times when I went into teacher mode trying to lessen the daily load on me by passing on the knowledge collected in 55+ years of chasing electrons for a living. I have tried to condense what to many looks like black magic, into the physical laws that govern how it does, or does not work. I've managed to succeed fairly well from observing the results. What more can a teacher do, but pass on what he knows?
Thats a good one, and I'm glad you thought of the concept. But, I'd advise you to get your patent application in early if you intend to capitalize on the idea.:-)
You're welcome. AIR, I actually found the author of that quote, tagged onto it here on/. years ago.
And as a sort of PS to my previous rant, I went back to the site again this morning (its been a short night, I'm a tv engineer, and I do a maintainance shift early Saturday mornings, my only consession from being totally retired at 70 years of age. Nobody else knows that 40+ year old box like I do) and it did not miss-behave other than getting stuck in a loop requireing me to eventually re-enter all my personal data about 5 or 6 times because I'd typu'd the name of the city. I was able to print it, and call the 2 numbers provided and leave messages of opposition (on their amswerboxes of course) to any bills that looked like those 2, and to plead for restoration of the copyright act as the framers intended, starting with the repeal of the most recent Disney pocket liner known as the Sonny Bono act. Any bill that makes instant felons out of 50 million plus american citizens is a bad bill, not to mention un-enforceable on a broad, everybody accepts it scale.
The sheer injustice of have a copyright violation worth more in criminal penalties what a murder conviction is, if enforced on that broad a scale, will bring out the ammo boxes with full intentions of emptying them.
Who knows, this may be this, or possibly the next generations, equivalent of the Boston Tea Party.
Please get a copy of, and read Lawrance Lessigs newest book, "Free Culture" (I got one free as a member of the FSF) in which he describes exactly the mistakes that cost him the case at the Supremes, and makes a very convincing argument for the restoration of copyrights as the framers of our constitution had a vision of 225+ years ago. The language there made it very clear that such "copyrighted works" were to pass into the public domain within a reasonable time frame for the public good.
Making instant felons out of an estimated 50 million (hell, its probably double that in actual fact, just because bad laws are already ignored but folks will 'take the 5th' before they'll admit it) citizens isn't justifiable on any grounds, ever. Not when this government is constitutionally a Government Of the People, By the People, For the People.
And for those that think I'm smoking something, sod off, its just plain common sense, but that unfortunately seems to be an uncommon thing today.
These types with what I'd call uncommon sense, or have a severe lack of common sense are the same ones who think that setting a man of fire to keep him warm for the rest of his life is a good thing(tm). Life doesn't work that way unless your name is Sadam Hussain, and as most have observed by now, that is over and anarchy now reigns supreme in Iraq. We've made far more enemies than we ever got rid of by taking out one tin despot. He (and his spoiled brats) should have been poisoned in the middle of the night, and Iraq left to sort out what it wanted to do from there. Among other things, I'd bet oil would never have topped $20/barrel. Unforch, we can't undo whats been done now, or arrive at something amicable all around without 10x the boots on the ground we've got there now because its going to turn into a modern day version of the crusades before the dust ever begins to settle. It seems to me that for every radical muslim we cancel, 10 moderates see that as an insult and jump the fence to become radicals themselves in revenge. Thats self defeating but you couldn't tell W that would happen, no sireee bob... He had to find it out for himself and now has a tiger by the tail (& an empty gas tank to put it in).
This is almost not worthy of a reply, other than to say its been over 15 years since I've had any smoke of any kind thats not second hand. As I told the author just now, if the page passes the verifier at W3C.org, fine, I'll go back and see if it repeats. If it does, then I'll file a bug on mozilla. If nothing else, I stand by my evidence until I know otherwise. As far as your pdf is concerned, I haven't looked at it, call me paranoid maybe but 3rd party stuff is always suspect. I could probably compose an equally good one myself given enough time to pull my copy of the 408 page pdf-1.2 reference manual off the shelf.
I don't normally expect to have the major features of a browser, any browser, disabled by a site I've visited.
And, while there has been a page or 2 that disabled the print icon in that it was rendered ghosted and non-functional, that is the first time I've had virtually everthing in the upper, controlling, lines of any browser disabled by eraseing them. It left only a pair of caricatured, token shrunken buttons in the back and forward positions. To be able to modify the button image presented took both extraordinary codeing work and the intention to do so.
Adobe may be able to disable the print button by ghosting its image, but they have never modified the image for that or any other button in any other manner.
As far as bugs, I can't say that mozilla is bug free, no software of that complexity will ever be, I've done enough writig of it in the past to know the trueism of that. But thats the first time its ever happened in several major versions. If your page is given a clean bill of health from the verifier at W3C.org, and I'm notified of that, then I'll go back to it and see if it repeats. If it does, then I'll file a bug against mozilla. Thats only fair.
The first post I made was one of those I've got one nerve left and you're standing on it situations.. The present situation vis-a-vis copyrights is wrong, what we have is nothing like the framers intended. If alive today, Ben F., Thomas J., John A. and George W. would all be ordering up more kegs of powder, and staying up late pouring balls and cutting patches in preparation to righting what they would perceive as a terrible injustice.
Yup. The ballot will probably go however Diebold wants it to, and the jury has been sold to the highest bidder, repeatedly. I should clarify that, not the jury of our peers because that is a sure way to get your case tossed, but too many times the jurist(s) seem to be in the employ of the highest bidder. One judge is smart enough to keep his mouth shut and get away with it, but 12 members of a jury of our peers will have a hard time keeping tampering from becoming public knowledge, at which point somebody absolutely has to 'do whats right' even if its wrong just to prove the system works and that they are the grand and glorious upholders of the balance beam of justice.
Thats not the only problem FireFox has. Regardless of how good it is, it still cannot import ALL of the mozilla environment, like remembered passwords.
Several. I've also worn out 3 rifle barrels at the target range and in the deer fields, doing it with a $14 Herters reloading press and 4 boxes of factory ammo plus about 30 lbs of surplus '06 & 250 Savage brass. I also have a charcoal burner and an electric lead pot for pouring my own. I also am a firm believer in the Bill of Rights, all of them. Next question?
It rewrote the upper frames of my Mozilla 1.7.3 (linux x86) window, doing away with absolutely everything but the back & fwd buttons & the tab it was opened under. The other 3 lines were gone, and backing out to my home page, which here is localhost:631 for cups management, did not restore it, I had to quit mozilla completely and restart it to get the rest of the buttons, and the other two lines of the normal header, like the bookmarks list and 'Print this page' icon back.
I suggest that you run that site thru the validator at W3C.org and fix whatever it complains about. And not trying to be insulting but I personally do not trust any site whose management thinks they own the copyrights so tightly that I cannot print that page for future reference. I'm sorry now that I filled in my data in what may be the first step of a phishing attempt. What else are you going to be using it for? Huh?
And no, I don't think I'm a kook, just a 70 year old man who has been 'contributing' to SS for 56 years, and has seen just about everything once. And once was enough to convince me this site was not on the up and up as claimed. I don't know what the game is, but influenceing the senatorial votes over the next few days would appear to be secondary to the real, not too well hidden agenda. So what is the real agenda?
Until I discovered that the so called Public Knowledge site had taken over Mozilla, and disabled my menu's for normal browser operations completely. What I was going to do was print the page so that I could make the calls during normal office hours tomorrow.
Then I discovered that even backing out to slashdots main page did not restore them and I had to quite Mozilla and restart it to restore the menus.
When a page does that, then my confidence in what else they might do becomes highly suspect.
I'm with Lawrance Lessig, who states in his new book that its time to redo the law when the literal interpretation of the law by the courts redefines 50 million+ otherwise law abiding citizens as felons. Felons who lose their voting rights and everything else that goes along with that label once it has been applied by a judge or jury.
For those who object to the fact that the likes of our Senators are all on Jack Valanti's payroll in the form of huge campaign contributions to those who vote for the RIAA/MPAA's extremely one sided view of copyright, the real cure is to work to elect senators and representatives who will govern as the people who elected him/her want them to govern. That is, after all is said and done, the premise of this 230 year old experiment in "Democracy" is it not?
OTOH, I agree with a fellow named Ed Howdershelt, whose message is in my sig. Right about now the emphasis is on the ballot box (if we can keep the Diebolds from stuffing it), next is the jury box, hopefully a little harder to stuff, the difficulty there is in secureing the indictment in the first place. And finally, failing that, the ammo box...
Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There's no normal car that accellerates harder than its brakes can hold
Excuse me, but I'd like to differ with that as a wee bit too general an assumption. I'm an old fart and I've had quite a few cars in my 55 years behind the wheel. I've also always been a pusher, as in pushing the envelope of what the vehicle can do. Some of the cars I've found were capable of pulling in spite of the brakes, a 1949 Nash Ambassador being one of them. This thing had 15" tires, but only 9"x2" brake drums up front, and 9"x1.5" inches wide in the rear. When fully tuned up, that 236 cid 6 could actually accelerate the car with about a hundred pounds on the brake pedal, in high gear! Mind you, it could stop from 60mph in about 140 feet when they were cold, which was pretty good brakes in 1949.
But, that 60mph panic stop was all they could do till they had had about an hour to cool before you did it again. At 80 mph, a stuck throttle and applying the brakes, you would get down to about 30 mph and be all done, 125 mph here we come.
I once popped up over a hill at about 80 to find some idiot pulling a disabled car with a chain pulling out of the fairgrounds entrance in front of me. I had about 100 yards to haul it down to about 15 mph or figure out a way make it to grow wings. I did get it pulled in, but every drum on it was cherry red and so out of round I had to replace them all to get back to a smooth brake pedal. And it didn't stop any better with all new drums and the best new Raybestos semi-metalic shoes.
I loved that car, it could haul me across 2 states in the middle of the night at 120+ mph and get 20-21 mpg doing it, but that SOB could not be stopped quickly from more than 65 or so.
That engine, BTW, is the same engine that was used in the Nash-Healy's of yore, fully capable to turning its 4.375" stroke engine at piston speeds that destroyed the rings in a second if one didn't watch the tach. It was built to haul ass, and in good tune did it very well. I had lots of fun picking on flathead fords with dual carbs, a fancy cam and 10.5/1 alu heads on them. But none could beat that Nash, much to some of thems chagrin. The night I finished that engine, breaking every ring in it, the tach said 8100 rpm.
And the guy who had just lost the title to his built '51 Ford to me? I gave it back. I didn't want that 3 legged dog. I went out and bought a 49 Mercury, built it up too, and did it to him again a year later. He was a slow learner I think. But that Merc could stop a hell of a lot better too.
Todays vehicles have so much better brakes than we had back in my 'salad' years its no comparison, so I'm like most commentators here, I have serious doubts about his story about stomping on the brakes not doing any good. I know damned well I can stop my 88 Nissan 4wd pickup and its 3 litre (199k miles on it now) with a stuck throttle, and its not much contest between the 3.6 litre in my mopar van and its brakes at 107k miles. That 3.6L positively honks, but its brakes are even better. How they would fare when the tranny started to downshift might lead to conjecture but by then the switch should be off anyway. 1st gear is twin streaks of Michelin's on the road behind you at anything over about half throttle.
I can access the georgia site above in about 700 milliseconds on a 768/128 dsl circuit. No ipv6 stuff has ever been installed or turned on in my path from this keyboard to the network. iptables on the firewall is still 1.2.6a because 1.2.7 requires a newer glibc than is on that now ancient rh7.3 box.
I repeat, clicking on the install now button generates absolutely no traffic at that instant on the routers or modems leds. I do see some later (10 seconds or so) activity, probably from kmail as it runs 24/7 here too, but in many tries, a flash of data was never generated by clicking on the install now button.
No, but short of painting it on the wall, also highly insecure, there is no way in hell I could remember all the passwords to all the places I might vicariously or otherwise go. Banking is just one instance. For instance, my ability to respond to your message is transparent, because mozilla remembered my login info for/. and silently logged me in as Almost-Retired.
To switch browsers now, would require I re-invent all of that for my daily tour of the net to see whats new. With all due respect for what may be an outstanding piece of code, if it cannot assume the duties, therefore making me re-invent the wheel to be able to function with it, then its nothing but eye candy. I have updated mozilla probably 10 times without being forced to do all that to recover what I feel are very basic functions. Since firefox comes from the same people, I fail to see where the excuse is that mozilla can be upgraded without losing functions, but firefox cannot also make use of that same information when it imports the bookmarks etc from mozilla. It doesn't grok.
I'm also behind enough firewall devices and software that no one, in the 18 months since I last set that up, has managed to get past the second line of defense, portsentry doing its thing on the firewall. The last time I had my address scanned, the only response was from a closed identd port, and I found an option in the router to shut even that off. The disadvantage is that I cannot run a BitTorrent server, but thats relatively un-important to me anyway. I can wait for the iso's to show up.
First off, the software update screen isn't in tools, its in prefs for my version about a week old.
Second, the 'check now' does generate some traffic on the net before it says there is a vital security update available and activates the 'install now' box for my clicking pleasure.
Unforch, while clicking on it does bring up the download progress screen, it generates absolutely no, none, nada, net traffic to initiate the download, it just sits there with its little wheel spinning forever.
Am I mis-configured somehow?
Also, it won't replace mozilla here until it can import all the mozilla stored passwords to go along with the import of mozilla's bookmark data. I cannot access my bank from firefox-0.10 without calling them up, going thru a rather lengthy ident procedure involving the sacrifice of my firstborn, and changing my password to yet another long sequence only mozilla seems to be able to remember.
This is very important to many of us, but firefox seems to have dropped the ball on ths one and that will prevent its instant, widespread acceptance as the default browser of choice at this location. I suspect many others will feel the same way.
Which is why I'd like to see the 3rd party candidates do well enough this time around to put the fear of god in TPTB.
There are some things I'm the eternal optimist about, but I'd really really like to be right for once.
This thing with the voting machines, particularly the Diebold versions, has me convinced that if the voters do not take back the country IN THIS ELECTION, it will assuredly be sold to the highest bidder. It, to me, is no longer a case of voting for the lessor evil as we've done that last few times, but with your heart for the good of the country.
Like the bumper sticker says "clean house (senate too)" I rather liked that perrenial(sp) favorite.
But I have to admit, unless we have a true revolution at the ballot box this November, you will, without a doubt, be found to be correct at the end of the day. Thats the ultimate definition of sadness for the passing of what was, 225 years ago, a promising way to govern people, for the overall good of the people, by a consensus of the people. But we haven't had that, or anything like it, since the end of Abe's days with the exception of a faint glimmer of it in the Truman era that got the 2 term limitation for presidents implanted. Harry was good, but he was also owned by his own political machine at the end of the day.
Poeple today, of any age I've talked to, are all pissed. But too many have an attitude of "what can I do", particularly when you can be grabbed anytime of the day or night, be told you are an enemy of the state, and be held incommunicado for the rest of your days under the so-called Patriot Act.
You would be amazed at the number of people today who are in favor of a tall tree and a short rope justice system, particularly for those to whom we've trusted with our vote that put them into that office, and the powers of that office are now being used to abuse. To me, to deny the oath of office and to cause that office to act in their own selfish interests is the ultimate form of treason. Ask around among the people you call friends and take notes & tally it up at the end of a month, any month. I suspect the results will astonish you. I dare you even.
"Intellectual property" is neither about "rewarding the inventor/creator" nor about "enriching the public domain" anymore. It is about "Them that have, get" and has been for quite some time.
IMO the only thing that will have a positive effect on either the patent situation or the copyright debacle we currently have is
1) to go back to the original time limits such protection is afforded the owner, and
2) the actual inventor/composer cannot sell/lease more than a 49% interest in the patent/copyright in aggregate.
Sure, it would still pay IBM to finance the application for, and granting of a patent, but they should be legally enjoined from owning the fruits of a talented engineer/designers output by more than a 49% interest in said patent.
IBM would still be able to leverage a quite useable profit margin out of that 49%, or they can decide to pass on it, in which case the talented individual should be free to apply on his own. Either way, the engineer/designer/artist would truely enjoy the fruits of his/her labors for the now limited duration of that patent. And he/she would maintain legal control over the 2nd party usage of that patent.
And that folks, would
3) drive the rate of innovation plumb thru the skylights all over. Talented people would no longer have to hide their homework from corporate raiders for fear of losing all rights in an idea, or quit their job and be at the mercy of the VC folks for their next meal and mortgage payment if they think they have an idea. That right there, is a very powerfull incentive not to innovate the really breakthrough ideas into working prototypes on company time as long as company time is being interpreted by the courts to equal breathing time, not stopping when the individual goes home. This line needs to be much more firmly defined than it currently is.
I have long lobbied for a copyright that belongs to the author, one that cannot be sold, but can legally be leased to someone or a company with sufficient resources to publish the work, but only for the duration of that lease which cannot exceed the duration of the copyright itself obviously, and certainly no guarantees of exclusivity would be legally binding except for an initial "ramp it up and get it into the pipeline" timelags that are endemic to mass production. That way the author is free to peddle it more than once if the first lease buyer doesn't do what the author thinks is an adequate job of promoting and selling the work in a reasonable time frame, adjustable according to the timeliness of the material. It would be a free market, with the proceeds going back to the author in whatever bookkeeping method was negotiated when he leased the work to a publisher.
In both cases then, it would be the artisan, be it words/music or hardware, would be assured of being compensated, sometimes hugely, for his work.
And that, IMO, is what it will take to fix the currently badly broken situation.
It wouldn't be so bad if Senators were limited to campaign contributions from individual residents who actualy live in the state.
Now that is one hell of an idea. But I suspect that if such a law were to be placed in the hopper for discussion, I'd suspect the hopper to spontainiously catch fire just from all the noise coming from the gored and screaming oxen we have in the senate today.
That, and a constitutional amendment mandating the votes in the electoral college by a states members, must be apportioned according to the popular vote rather than the 50.000001% winner takes all that exists now. And IMNSHO any candidate getting more than 1% of the popular gets a minimum of one electoral vote. That alone would bring up the noise floor because it would emphasize that every vote counts. It could conceiveably take away the over 50% advantage now automaticly enjoyed in most states with the winner take all rule.
But the old boy network is alive and well whether they are wearing white sheets or not.
Just a view from someone 2x older than the top of your 18-35 bracket. That doesn't mean I'm automaticly smarter, but I have had a long time to observe the foibles of the current system.:-)
I think we are in violent agreement about whats important. My grandpa was a farmer, but one who always seemed to know what it took to make this or that work, often better than new. He also knew his animals better than most, got that from his dad I think, who had a reputation for never coming back from town with the same team he took to town, and it seemed he always made a little cash in the trading even if the team he brought home wasn't worth peddling to the glue factory.
He was rarely without a good team though, tending to hang onto a decent pair of Percherons a lot longer than anything else because when push comes to shove, its a bit hard to argue with 2 tons of them when they leaned into the traces with nothing more than a tsk tsk to get them going. I buried a case LA tractor & a plow with 3 16" bottoms down in the south 40 one day, and those two horses had nearly 100 feet of 1/2" log chain up in the air by about 18" in the middle of the span from them to the tractor when the tractor finally came loose and crawled out of the hole I'd made. To say they were leaning into it is an understatement as I still remember their bellies only a foot off the ground to this day. Gentle giants they were, 4200 lbs between them. I rode them bareback many times, and caught hell from grandpa once when he saw one with me on it, running on hard ground, that was abuse in his eyes.
Yeah, I wish he weas still around, he could, if people wanted to learn, teach them a lot about living, where a mans handshake was better than a signature on a contract today. There was no such thing as fileing for bankruptcy to avoid makeing that handshake good then. If you were still breathing, you made good on it, it was that simple.
Unforch, even todays modern medicine couldn't save him from the cancer that killed him when he was 3 years younger than I am now. The big C also took my mother a bit ahead of her time, and a daughter of mine already, so I sometimes wonder if I'm running on borrowed time. I'll be 70 a week from today.
Anyway, thanks for the opportuniuty to reminisce a bit.
You had one like that? So did I. When the maytag backfired and broke grandmas ankle as she was stepping on the starter lever, grandpa went to town and came back with enough stuff to get started on a delco/wincharger 32 volt electric system and one of its first jobs was to replace that contankerous old maytag putt putt miss miss miss putt miss miss engine with an electric motor. So we had the first electric washing machine in Madison County Ia, within walking distance to many of the bridges they made a movie out of 60 years later.
Yeah, grandpa was like that. I would like to think I got some of my own common sense and technical ability from him.
So he can say its nothing to worry about. He hasnt had anything to worry about since it blew up in 80, carrying him and his cabin on the side of the mountain away without a trace.
I was living in N. CA in 80, and it cost me a windshield to turn on the wipers and wash/wipe away the dust that morning because I was in Salem OR at an aunts house at the time. Damn that stuff was abrasive. And it started the demise of the motor in my pickup because unknown to me, the factory recommended air filter did not actually fill the air cleaner, it left about an eight of an inch clearance above the paper element for dust to blow right on by.
Anyway, I hope the locals pay a bit more attention to the warnings this time, although memories can get faded in 24 years.
I'm having a bit of a problem with the perceived difficulty of building a dual core processor. I mean, around 10 years ago motorola was doing it, and so-called accelerator boards for the amiga computers could be had for about $700 or so.
The processor? A Motorola MC68060, which was a 50MHZ, all cmos version of the MC68040 with dual execution units, so theoreticly it should have been as fast as a 100MHZ MC68040. It fell somewhat short of true 4x speeds though since it had a few instructions missing and those were emulated in the 68060.library.
OTOH, running lightwave for the rendering engine, we could then do a computer animated 30 second commercial in one long middle of the night session. The same machine but with an 040 in it took 5 to 6 nights of rendering time, but was subjected to other tasks at the same time. Like it was the display machine for all our newscast graphics.
The 68060 ran pretty cool too, and didn't really need any more cooling than the 1/2" high picket post cooler (no fan) that most of these boards came with. The biggest problem with the genuine commode door board was that their minimum wage assemblers couldn't be taught + from - on the polarity of the bypass caps, so lots of them failed open silently, and the board then wasn't very stable. I know, I shotgunned the caps on 2 of them, at which point they were suddenly bulletproof.
Since I'm on the fence like the typical mugwump, I wouldn't have minded reading the (probably non-)answers from these two jokers.
But all I get is an instant white screen and the single word "done" in the mozilla status bar.
Ypu'd think those folks, as ofetn as they've been slashdotted before, would by now have enough iron to serve the masses who are interested far more in the man today, that what he was in 'nam, forgeries by CBS notwithstanding.
Seriously, if this little hoohah doesn't send a message to TPTB at CBS News that the general public isn't going to led around by their latest model of a Judas Goat, I don't know what will.
Frankly, I'm sick of the attitude that people in power think the Bill of Rights only applies to them, and not to the masses who often as not, vote with the tv remote until such time as they can step into the voting booth for real and throw the bums out.
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Yes they do my friend. The cpu's temps will go up to whatever it runs at when its 100% busy, and that entails an increase in the power consumption. Now as one wag here pointed out the total per annum increase in energy costs would be 5 or 6 bucks a machine, so its a no brainer to put that amount of money into running foldingathome for instance, a gamble that the research will reduce the long term health costs for the population as a whole, possibly by 10-20% per year per person. OTOH, it may also increase the long term health costs simply because we'll live longer, using up more resources as we do.
And that folks, in most scenarios, translates into billions of dollars that could be made available for other research into even more exotic fields.
No, its not free, but the costs are picyune, lost in the noise of turning the hall lights off for the night so to speak compared to the costs of shutting the machines off everynite at 5pm, which will result in far more maitainance than the energy saved will ever pay for. Since most places leave them on 24/7 for that reason alone, why not spend the other 5 bucks a year and have them doing something that may be productive to mankind as a whole? The answer to that is a no brainer except for the PHB's with an MBA who check the bottom line at 5pm everyday. I'd put Tom in that category in a heartbeat.
Those types aren't even sane IMO, I've had to deal with those types for short periods of time occasionally, but I've always outlasted their tenure on the job for some unknown reason I'll let you guess. (Hint, I got the job done, and they more than likely didn't)
Cheers, Gene
With all due respect, thats BS. I have been running the client here for about 5.5 years, basicly since the project started, and I have yet, in all those years of running it on a 24/7/365 basis, had a problem that would cause me to point a finger at seti. FWIW, I rank at 99.27+% in the world in seti unit processing. Yes, it keeps the cpu well warmed up, it formerly ran on a old hungry 1400mhz athlon xp, and only if the room was extremely cold did it ever get below 70C. It ran that way for 4 years, finally dying when a video card failed and took the motherboard with it.
However, let me add my voice to the general sounds of outrage over the fireing of an elderly worker, in this case a programmer. If he was indeed a programmer, and I was very productive at writing code when I was his age but I've faded some in the 8 years of seniority I have on this gentleman, then he was obviously of above average intelligence, and to have the head of the dept make public statements in the manner in which he apparently made them is both very childish and immature on the part of the dept head, and IMO an actionable occurance that the state of Ohio may well have to pay for in the long run.
Talented people, generally speaking are, even if they are perceived as being a bit abrasive, are often well worth keeping around. They are doing it with me yet at 70 on a part time and emergency basis, more than willing to put up with a sometimes cantankerous old man for the simple reason that when things go to hell in a handbasket, or a lightning strike, having me available reduces the downtime more than enough to pay for the fringies I'm still getting, like health insurance etc.
Thats not saying that what he did was right. He should have asked for permission and abided by any ruleing TPTB made.
However, if I were in Toms shoes (and I'm glad I'm not ATM, I don't own any asbestos or nomex underwear) I think my 'punishment' would have been to issue a directive that a) seti be cleaned off the machines by the person who installed it, and b) the person who installed it would have lost the keys to the executive pisser for a week. Further action would have depended entirely on the results of that one. Obviously there may be more to the story that we aren't being told. But thats how I see it, and believe it or not, my employees, when I was full time, all respected me and my occasionally short temper, and do to this day.
They took that in stride in exchange for the times when I went into teacher mode trying to lessen the daily load on me by passing on the knowledge collected in 55+ years of chasing electrons for a living. I have tried to condense what to many looks like black magic, into the physical laws that govern how it does, or does not work. I've managed to succeed fairly well from observing the results. What more can a teacher do, but pass on what he knows?
Cheers, Gene
ROTFLMAO!
:-)
Thats a good one, and I'm glad you thought of the concept. But, I'd advise you to get your patent application in early if you intend to capitalize on the idea.
Chuckle, Gene
You're welcome. AIR, I actually found the author of that quote, tagged onto it here on /. years ago.
And as a sort of PS to my previous rant, I went back to the site again this morning (its been a short night, I'm a tv engineer, and I do a maintainance shift early Saturday mornings, my only consession from being totally retired at 70 years of age. Nobody else knows that 40+ year old box like I do) and it did not miss-behave other than getting stuck in a loop requireing me to eventually re-enter all my personal data about 5 or 6 times because I'd typu'd the name of the city. I was able to print it, and call the 2 numbers provided and leave messages of opposition (on their amswerboxes of course) to any bills that looked like those 2, and to plead for restoration of the copyright act as the framers intended, starting with the repeal of the most recent Disney pocket liner known as the Sonny Bono act. Any bill that makes instant felons out of 50 million plus american citizens is a bad bill, not to mention un-enforceable on a broad, everybody accepts it scale.
The sheer injustice of have a copyright violation worth more in criminal penalties what a murder conviction is, if enforced on that broad a scale, will bring out the ammo boxes with full intentions of emptying them.
Who knows, this may be this, or possibly the next generations, equivalent of the Boston Tea Party.
Please get a copy of, and read Lawrance Lessigs newest book, "Free Culture" (I got one free as a member of the FSF) in which he describes exactly the mistakes that cost him the case at the Supremes, and makes a very convincing argument for the restoration of copyrights as the framers of our constitution had a vision of 225+ years ago. The language there made it very clear that such "copyrighted works" were to pass into the public domain within a reasonable time frame for the public good.
Making instant felons out of an estimated 50 million (hell, its probably double that in actual fact, just because bad laws are already ignored but folks will 'take the 5th' before they'll admit it) citizens isn't justifiable on any grounds, ever. Not when this government is constitutionally a Government Of the People, By the People, For the People.
And for those that think I'm smoking something, sod off, its just plain common sense, but that unfortunately seems to be an uncommon thing today.
These types with what I'd call uncommon sense, or have a severe lack of common sense are the same ones who think that setting a man of fire to keep him warm for the rest of his life is a good thing(tm). Life doesn't work that way unless your name is Sadam Hussain, and as most have observed by now, that is over and anarchy now reigns supreme in Iraq. We've made far more enemies than we ever got rid of by taking out one tin despot. He (and his spoiled brats) should have been poisoned in the middle of the night, and Iraq left to sort out what it wanted to do from there. Among other things, I'd bet oil would never have topped $20/barrel. Unforch, we can't undo whats been done now, or arrive at something amicable all around without 10x the boots on the ground we've got there now because its going to turn into a modern day version of the crusades before the dust ever begins to settle. It seems to me that for every radical muslim we cancel, 10 moderates see that as an insult and jump the fence to become radicals themselves in revenge. Thats self defeating but you couldn't tell W that would happen, no sireee bob... He had to find it out for himself and now has a tiger by the tail (& an empty gas tank to put it in).
Cheers, Gene
This is almost not worthy of a reply, other than to say its been over 15 years since I've had any smoke of any kind thats not second hand. As I told the author just now, if the page passes the verifier at W3C.org, fine, I'll go back and see if it repeats. If it does, then I'll file a bug on mozilla. If nothing else, I stand by my evidence until I know otherwise. As far as your pdf is concerned, I haven't looked at it, call me paranoid maybe but 3rd party stuff is always suspect. I could probably compose an equally good one myself given enough time to pull my copy of the 408 page pdf-1.2 reference manual off the shelf.
Cheers, Gene
I don't normally expect to have the major features of a browser, any browser, disabled by a site I've visited.
And, while there has been a page or 2 that disabled the print icon in that it was rendered ghosted and non-functional, that is the first time I've had virtually everthing in the upper, controlling, lines of any browser disabled by eraseing them. It left only a pair of caricatured, token shrunken buttons in the back and forward positions. To be able to modify the button image presented took both extraordinary codeing work and the intention to do so.
Adobe may be able to disable the print button by ghosting its image, but they have never modified the image for that or any other button in any other manner.
As far as bugs, I can't say that mozilla is bug free, no software of that complexity will ever be, I've done enough writig of it in the past to know the trueism of that. But thats the first time its ever happened in several major versions. If your page is given a clean bill of health from the verifier at W3C.org, and I'm notified of that, then I'll go back to it and see if it repeats. If it does, then I'll file a bug against mozilla. Thats only fair.
The first post I made was one of those I've got one nerve left and you're standing on it situations.. The present situation vis-a-vis copyrights is wrong, what we have is nothing like the framers intended. If alive today, Ben F., Thomas J., John A. and George W. would all be ordering up more kegs of powder, and staying up late pouring balls and cutting patches in preparation to righting what they would perceive as a terrible injustice.
Cheers, Gene
Yup. The ballot will probably go however Diebold wants it to, and the jury has been sold to the highest bidder, repeatedly. I should clarify that, not the jury of our peers because that is a sure way to get your case tossed, but too many times the jurist(s) seem to be in the employ of the highest bidder. One judge is smart enough to keep his mouth shut and get away with it, but 12 members of a jury of our peers will have a hard time keeping tampering from becoming public knowledge, at which point somebody absolutely has to 'do whats right' even if its wrong just to prove the system works and that they are the grand and glorious upholders of the balance beam of justice.
No Cheers, Gene
Thats not the only problem FireFox has. Regardless of how good it is, it still cannot import ALL of the mozilla environment, like remembered passwords.
Cheers, Gene
Several. I've also worn out 3 rifle barrels at the target range and in the deer fields, doing it with a $14 Herters reloading press and 4 boxes of factory ammo plus about 30 lbs of surplus '06 & 250 Savage brass. I also have a charcoal burner and an electric lead pot for pouring my own. I also am a firm believer in the Bill of Rights, all of them. Next question?
Cheers, Gene
It rewrote the upper frames of my Mozilla 1.7.3 (linux x86) window, doing away with absolutely everything but the back & fwd buttons & the tab it was opened under. The other 3 lines were gone, and backing out to my home page, which here is localhost:631 for cups management, did not restore it, I had to quit mozilla completely and restart it to get the rest of the buttons, and the other two lines of the normal header, like the bookmarks list and 'Print this page' icon back.
I suggest that you run that site thru the validator at W3C.org and fix whatever it complains about. And not trying to be insulting but I personally do not trust any site whose management thinks they own the copyrights so tightly that I cannot print that page for future reference. I'm sorry now that I filled in my data in what may be the first step of a phishing attempt. What else are you going to be using it for? Huh?
And no, I don't think I'm a kook, just a 70 year old man who has been 'contributing' to SS for 56 years, and has seen just about everything once. And once was enough to convince me this site was not on the up and up as claimed. I don't know what the game is, but influenceing the senatorial votes over the next few days would appear to be secondary to the real, not too well hidden agenda. So what is the real agenda?
No Cheers, Gene
Until I discovered that the so called Public Knowledge site had taken over Mozilla, and disabled my menu's for normal browser operations completely. What I was going to do was print the page so that I could make the calls during normal office hours tomorrow.
Then I discovered that even backing out to slashdots main page did not restore them and I had to quite Mozilla and restart it to restore the menus.
When a page does that, then my confidence in what else they might do becomes highly suspect.
I'm with Lawrance Lessig, who states in his new book that its time to redo the law when the literal interpretation of the law by the courts redefines 50 million+ otherwise law abiding citizens as felons. Felons who lose their voting rights and everything else that goes along with that label once it has been applied by a judge or jury.
For those who object to the fact that the likes of our Senators are all on Jack Valanti's payroll in the form of huge campaign contributions to those who vote for the RIAA/MPAA's extremely one sided view of copyright, the real cure is to work to elect senators and representatives who will govern as the people who elected him/her want them to govern. That is, after all is said and done, the premise of this 230 year old experiment in "Democracy" is it not?
OTOH, I agree with a fellow named Ed Howdershelt, whose message is in my sig. Right about now the emphasis is on the ballot box (if we can keep the Diebolds from stuffing it), next is the jury box, hopefully a little harder to stuff, the difficulty there is in secureing the indictment in the first place. And finally, failing that, the ammo box...
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There's no normal car that accellerates harder than its brakes can hold
Excuse me, but I'd like to differ with that as a wee bit too general an assumption. I'm an old fart and I've had quite a few cars in my 55 years behind the wheel. I've also always been a pusher, as in pushing the envelope of what the vehicle can do. Some of the cars I've found were capable of pulling in spite of the brakes, a 1949 Nash Ambassador being one of them. This thing had 15" tires, but only 9"x2" brake drums up front, and 9"x1.5" inches wide in the rear. When fully tuned up, that 236 cid 6 could actually accelerate the car with about a hundred pounds on the brake pedal, in high gear! Mind you, it could stop from 60mph in about 140 feet when they were cold, which was pretty good brakes in 1949.
But, that 60mph panic stop was all they could do till they had had about an hour to cool before you did it again. At 80 mph, a stuck throttle and applying the brakes, you would get down to about 30 mph and be all done, 125 mph here we come.
I once popped up over a hill at about 80 to find some idiot pulling a disabled car with a chain pulling out of the fairgrounds entrance in front of me. I had about 100 yards to haul it down to about 15 mph or figure out a way make it to grow wings. I did get it pulled in, but every drum on it was cherry red and so out of round I had to replace them all to get back to a smooth brake pedal. And it didn't stop any better with all new drums and the best new Raybestos semi-metalic shoes.
I loved that car, it could haul me across 2 states in the middle of the night at 120+ mph and get 20-21 mpg doing it, but that SOB could not be stopped quickly from more than 65 or so.
That engine, BTW, is the same engine that was used in the Nash-Healy's of yore, fully capable to turning its 4.375" stroke engine at piston speeds that destroyed the rings in a second if one didn't watch the tach. It was built to haul ass, and in good tune did it very well. I had lots of fun picking on flathead fords with dual carbs, a fancy cam and 10.5/1 alu heads on them. But none could beat that Nash, much to some of thems chagrin. The night I finished that engine, breaking every ring in it, the tach said 8100 rpm.
And the guy who had just lost the title to his built '51 Ford to me? I gave it back. I didn't want that 3 legged dog. I went out and bought a 49 Mercury, built it up too, and did it to him again a year later. He was a slow learner I think. But that Merc could stop a hell of a lot better too.
Todays vehicles have so much better brakes than we had back in my 'salad' years its no comparison, so I'm like most commentators here, I have serious doubts about his story about stomping on the brakes not doing any good. I know damned well I can stop my 88 Nissan 4wd pickup and its 3 litre (199k miles on it now) with a stuck throttle, and its not much contest between the 3.6 litre in my mopar van and its brakes at 107k miles. That 3.6L positively honks, but its brakes are even better. How they would fare when the tranny started to downshift might lead to conjecture but by then the switch should be off anyway. 1st gear is twin streaks of Michelin's on the road behind you at anything over about half throttle.
Cheers, Gene
I can access the georgia site above in about 700 milliseconds on a 768/128 dsl circuit. No ipv6 stuff has ever been installed or turned on in my path from this keyboard to the network. iptables on the firewall is still 1.2.6a because 1.2.7 requires a newer glibc than is on that now ancient rh7.3 box.
I repeat, clicking on the install now button generates absolutely no traffic at that instant on the routers or modems leds. I do see some later (10 seconds or so) activity, probably from kmail as it runs 24/7 here too, but in many tries, a flash of data was never generated by clicking on the install now button.
Cheers, Gene
No, but short of painting it on the wall, also highly insecure, there is no way in hell I could remember all the passwords to all the places I might vicariously or otherwise go. Banking is just one instance. For instance, my ability to respond to your message is transparent, because mozilla remembered my login info for /. and silently logged me in as Almost-Retired.
To switch browsers now, would require I re-invent all of that for my daily tour of the net to see whats new. With all due respect for what may be an outstanding piece of code, if it cannot assume the duties, therefore making me re-invent the wheel to be able to function with it, then its nothing but eye candy. I have updated mozilla probably 10 times without being forced to do all that to recover what I feel are very basic functions. Since firefox comes from the same people, I fail to see where the excuse is that mozilla can be upgraded without losing functions, but firefox cannot also make use of that same information when it imports the bookmarks etc from mozilla. It doesn't grok.
I'm also behind enough firewall devices and software that no one, in the 18 months since I last set that up, has managed to get past the second line of defense, portsentry doing its thing on the firewall. The last time I had my address scanned, the only response was from a closed identd port, and I found an option in the router to shut even that off. The disadvantage is that I cannot run a BitTorrent server, but thats relatively un-important to me anyway. I can wait for the iso's to show up.
Cheers, Gene
First off, the software update screen isn't in tools, its in prefs for my version about a week old.
Second, the 'check now' does generate some traffic on the net before it says there is a vital security update available and activates the 'install now' box for my clicking pleasure.
Unforch, while clicking on it does bring up the download progress screen, it generates absolutely no, none, nada, net traffic to initiate the download, it just sits there with its little wheel spinning forever.
Am I mis-configured somehow?
Also, it won't replace mozilla here until it can import all the mozilla stored passwords to go along with the import of mozilla's bookmark data.
I cannot access my bank from firefox-0.10 without calling them up, going thru a rather lengthy ident procedure involving the sacrifice of my firstborn, and changing my password to yet another long sequence only mozilla seems to be able to remember.
This is very important to many of us, but firefox seems to have dropped the ball on ths one and that will prevent its instant, widespread acceptance as the default browser of choice at this location. I suspect many others will feel the same way.
Cheers, Gene
No offense taken.
Which is why I'd like to see the 3rd party candidates do well enough this time around to put the fear of god in TPTB.
There are some things I'm the eternal optimist about, but I'd really really like to be right for once.
This thing with the voting machines, particularly the Diebold versions, has me convinced that if the voters do not take back the country IN THIS ELECTION, it will assuredly be sold to the highest bidder. It, to me, is no longer a case of voting for the lessor evil as we've done that last few times, but with your heart for the good of the country.
Like the bumper sticker says "clean house (senate too)" I rather liked that perrenial(sp) favorite.
But I have to admit, unless we have a true revolution at the ballot box this November, you will, without a doubt, be found to be correct at the end of the day. Thats the ultimate definition of sadness for the passing of what was, 225 years ago, a promising way to govern people, for the overall good of the people, by a consensus of the people. But we haven't had that, or anything like it, since the end of Abe's days with the exception of a faint glimmer of it in the Truman era that got the 2 term limitation for presidents implanted. Harry was good, but he was also owned by his own political machine at the end of the day.
Poeple today, of any age I've talked to, are all pissed. But too many have an attitude of "what can I do", particularly when you can be grabbed anytime of the day or night, be told you are an enemy of the state, and be held incommunicado for the rest of your days under the so-called Patriot Act.
You would be amazed at the number of people today who are in favor of a tall tree and a short rope justice system, particularly for those to whom we've trusted with our vote that put them into that office, and the powers of that office are now being used to abuse. To me, to deny the oath of office and to cause that office to act in their own selfish interests is the ultimate form of treason. Ask around among the people you call friends and take notes & tally it up at the end of a month, any month. I suspect the results will astonish you. I dare you even.
Cheers, Gene
The sites click on a name is already slashdotted.
When are folks like that going to understand that a mention on/. is going to kill their little server?
Bah, humbug
No cheers, Gene
"Intellectual property" is neither about "rewarding the inventor/creator" nor about "enriching the public domain" anymore. It is about "Them that have, get" and has been for quite some time.
IMO the only thing that will have a positive effect on either the patent situation or the copyright debacle we currently have is
1) to go back to the original time limits such protection is afforded the owner, and
2) the actual inventor/composer cannot sell/lease more than a 49% interest in the patent/copyright in aggregate.
Sure, it would still pay IBM to finance the application for, and granting of a patent, but they should be legally enjoined from owning the fruits of a talented engineer/designers output by more than a 49% interest in said patent.
IBM would still be able to leverage a quite useable profit margin out of that 49%, or they can decide to pass on it, in which case the talented individual should be free to apply on his own. Either way, the engineer/designer/artist would truely enjoy the fruits of his/her labors for the now limited duration of that patent. And he/she would maintain legal control over the 2nd party usage of that patent.
And that folks, would
3) drive the rate of innovation plumb thru the skylights all over. Talented people would no longer have to hide their homework from corporate raiders for fear of losing all rights in an idea, or quit their job and be at the mercy of the VC folks for their next meal and mortgage payment if they think they have an idea. That right there, is a very powerfull incentive not to innovate the really breakthrough ideas into working prototypes on company time as long as company time is being interpreted by the courts to equal breathing time, not stopping when the individual goes home. This line needs to be much more firmly defined than it currently is.
I have long lobbied for a copyright that belongs to the author, one that cannot be sold, but can legally be leased to someone or a company with sufficient resources to publish the work, but only for the duration of that lease which cannot exceed the duration of the copyright itself obviously, and certainly no guarantees of exclusivity would be legally binding except for an initial "ramp it up and get it into the pipeline" timelags that are endemic to mass production. That way the author is free to peddle it more than once if the first lease buyer doesn't do what the author thinks is an adequate job of promoting and selling the work in a reasonable time frame, adjustable according to the timeliness of the material. It would be a free market, with the proceeds going back to the author in whatever bookkeeping method was negotiated when he leased the work to a publisher.
In both cases then, it would be the artisan, be it words/music or hardware, would be assured of being compensated, sometimes hugely, for his work.
And that, IMO, is what it will take to fix the currently badly broken situation.
Cheers, Gene
It wouldn't be so bad if Senators were limited to campaign contributions from individual residents who actualy live in the state.
:-)
Now that is one hell of an idea. But I suspect that if such a law were to be placed in the hopper for discussion, I'd suspect the hopper to spontainiously catch fire just from all the noise coming from the gored and screaming oxen we have in the senate today.
That, and a constitutional amendment mandating the votes in the electoral college by a states members, must be apportioned according to the popular vote rather than the 50.000001% winner takes all that exists now. And IMNSHO any candidate getting more than 1% of the popular gets a minimum of one electoral vote. That alone would bring up the noise floor because it would emphasize that every vote counts. It could conceiveably take away the over 50% advantage now automaticly enjoyed in most states with the winner take all rule.
But the old boy network is alive and well whether they are wearing white sheets or not.
Just a view from someone 2x older than the top of your 18-35 bracket. That doesn't mean I'm automaticly smarter, but I have had a long time to observe the foibles of the current system.
Cheers, Gene
I think we are in violent agreement about whats important. My grandpa was a farmer, but one who always seemed to know what it took to make this or that work, often better than new. He also knew his animals better than most, got that from his dad I think, who had a reputation for never coming back from town with the same team he took to town, and it seemed he always made a little cash in the trading even if the team he brought home wasn't worth peddling to the glue factory.
He was rarely without a good team though, tending to hang onto a decent pair of Percherons a lot longer than anything else because when push comes to shove, its a bit hard to argue with 2 tons of them when they leaned into the traces with nothing more than a tsk tsk to get them going. I buried a case LA tractor & a plow with 3 16" bottoms down in the south 40 one day, and those two horses had nearly 100 feet of 1/2" log chain up in the air by about 18" in the middle of the span from them to the tractor when the tractor finally came loose and crawled out of the hole I'd made. To say they were leaning into it is an understatement as I still remember their bellies only a foot off the ground to this day. Gentle giants they were, 4200 lbs between them. I rode them bareback many times, and caught hell from grandpa once when he saw one with me on it, running on hard ground, that was abuse in his eyes.
Yeah, I wish he weas still around, he could, if people wanted to learn, teach them a lot about living, where a mans handshake was better than a signature on a contract today. There was no such thing as fileing for bankruptcy to avoid makeing that handshake good then. If you were still breathing, you made good on it, it was that simple.
Unforch, even todays modern medicine couldn't save him from the cancer that killed him when he was 3 years younger than I am now. The big C also took my mother a bit ahead of her time, and a daughter of mine already, so I sometimes wonder if I'm running on borrowed time. I'll be 70 a week from today.
Anyway, thanks for the opportuniuty to reminisce a bit.
Cheers, Gene
You had one like that? So did I. When the maytag backfired and broke grandmas ankle as she was stepping on the starter lever, grandpa went to town and came back with enough stuff to get started on a delco/wincharger 32 volt electric system and one of its first jobs was to replace that contankerous old maytag putt putt miss miss miss putt miss miss engine with an electric motor. So we had the first electric washing machine in Madison County Ia, within walking distance to many of the bridges they made a movie out of 60 years later.
Yeah, grandpa was like that. I would like to think I got some of my own common sense and technical ability from him.
Cheers, Gene
So he can say its nothing to worry about. He hasnt had anything to worry about since it blew up in 80, carrying him and his cabin on the side of the mountain away without a trace.
I was living in N. CA in 80, and it cost me a windshield to turn on the wipers and wash/wipe away the dust that morning because I was in Salem OR at an aunts house at the time. Damn that stuff was abrasive. And it started the demise of the motor in my pickup because unknown to me, the factory recommended air filter did not actually fill the air cleaner, it left about an eight of an inch clearance above the paper element for dust to blow right on by.
Anyway, I hope the locals pay a bit more attention to the warnings this time, although memories can get faded in 24 years.
Cheers, Gene
You're new here I assume...
I'm having a bit of a problem with the perceived difficulty of building a dual core processor. I mean, around 10 years ago motorola was doing it, and so-called accelerator boards for the amiga computers could be had for about $700 or so.
The processor? A Motorola MC68060, which was a 50MHZ, all cmos version of the MC68040 with dual execution units, so theoreticly it should have been as fast as a 100MHZ MC68040. It fell somewhat short of true 4x speeds though since it had a few instructions missing and those were emulated in the 68060.library.
OTOH, running lightwave for the rendering engine, we could then do a computer animated 30 second commercial in one long middle of the night session. The same machine but with an 040 in it took 5 to 6 nights of rendering time, but was subjected to other tasks at the same time. Like it was the display machine for all our newscast graphics.
The 68060 ran pretty cool too, and didn't really need any more cooling than the 1/2" high picket post cooler (no fan) that most of these boards came with. The biggest problem with the genuine commode door board was that their minimum wage assemblers couldn't be taught + from - on the polarity of the bypass caps, so lots of them failed open silently, and the board then wasn't very stable. I know, I shotgunned the caps on 2 of them, at which point they were suddenly bulletproof.
Cheers, Gene
Since I'm on the fence like the typical mugwump, I wouldn't have minded reading the (probably non-)answers from these two jokers.
But all I get is an instant white screen and the single word "done" in the mozilla status bar.
Ypu'd think those folks, as ofetn as they've been slashdotted before, would by now have enough iron to serve the masses who are interested far more in the man today, that what he was in 'nam, forgeries by CBS notwithstanding.
Seriously, if this little hoohah doesn't send a message to TPTB at CBS News that the general public isn't going to led around by their latest model of a Judas Goat, I don't know what will.
Frankly, I'm sick of the attitude that people in power think the Bill of Rights only applies to them, and not to the masses who often as not, vote with the tv remote until such time as they can step into the voting booth for real and throw the bums out.
Cheers, Gene