Here's another, courtesy of another user on Slashdot: oldwarez, oldwarez.
For you who do not wanna bother, I post the meat here...(I cleaned up the HTML a bit in my editor)
Jim Dyke, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said the committee is proud of its outreach efforts. "You want to make it easy for them to participate," he said. "That is a good thing."
Lisa Boyce, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said, "If an editor receives 10 letters that may be the same, they at least know there are 10 people that are concerned about the issue and would take the time to send a letter."
The people who edit the letters pages disagree, generally believing that letters should be the work of those who sign them. Armed with Internet search engines and e-mail lists of their own, they are mapping Web sites and alerting each other about the form letters appearing in their mailboxes.
"We type phrases into Google all the time," said Susan Clotfelter, the letters editor at The Denver Post. "We hate to be fooled." The Post published at least two form letters last year: one in support of the budget proposal of President Bush and one in support of the terrorism stance of Senator Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota.
Organized letter-writing campaigns have been around for decades. But the Internet has sped up both their scope and pace. At any time, editors are being bombarded by at least two or three campaigns covering any range of topics, among them immigration, school prayer and politics in general. The large campaigns are easier to spot because many identical letters appear at once. It is the isolated letter that editors have to keep an eye out for.
The editors issue alerts and queries on a 600-member e-mail list run by the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Last week, for example, an editor from Nebraska posted a questionable letter about the Pledge of Allegiance and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Within minutes, editors from Wisconsin, Tennessee, Illinois and Nebraska responded, saying they had received the same letter.
"It's instant communication among us," said Lynnell Burkett, the editorial page editor of The San Antonio Express-News. "It's extremely helpful, every day, several times a day."
Despite these efforts, some form letters still sneak into print. One letter praising President Bush, distributed by the Republican National Committee at the www.gopteamleader.com site, has appeared in more than 20 papers since Jan. 8, including The Boston Globe, The Cincinnati Post, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Press-Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif., and The Star Press of Muncie, Ind. The letter begins, "When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership."
Several editors said the letter had slipped through partially because it seemed specifically tailored for letters pages. "It was timely," said J. R. Hill, an editorial writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "It was short. We didn't need to do a lot of heavy editing. It stuck to basically one point."
"We were burned," she said.
Editors say some readers simply do not understand the ethical issues of sending a letter written by someone else. "They had no idea that they were bending any sort of rules whatsoever or that they were trying to put one over on us," Ms. Clotfelter said. "I e-mailed back and forth with one woman who was distressed that we wouldn't print her letter because it was really how she felt."
Others defend their use of form letters. "I've seen the same thing from the other side," said Trevor D. Carlson, who signed one of the pro-Bush form letters to The Press Democrat.
Editors say the groups are becoming more sophisticated and the letters harder to spot. Last week, The Wisconsin State Journal of Madison received a number of letters in support of abortion rights that referred to the
30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision recognizing a constitutional right to abortion.
The editors were suspicious. But no two letters were exactly alike. A few technical errors in some of the later e-mails, however, showed that they had come from www.ppwi.org, operated by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
At its Web site, users were encouraged to mix and match paragraphs from about 10 form letters. They could send their newly created letters to any of a number of publications in Wisconsin.
The complexity and the creativity of the site surprised Tim Kelley, the paper's editorial page editor. "Maybe you can call them genuine letters because they are encouraged to cut-and-paste," he said.
Methinks they oughta use an autocorrelation filter so that they can compare replies against each other, using a "rotational" algorithm to compare emails against others, so that it will illuminate likenesses in whichever parts that one email as it compares to others. If the filter detects spikes in the likenesses, it would flag it. With current systems capabilities of performing real-time MPEG, I think this is quite do-able.
Your response to my post is appreciated. I will address your comments.
Yeah, but it is the content you want/buy, otherwise you would go out and buy a blank CD, not a music CD.
Very true. I consider what I paying for with legal tender is a legal licence for my personal use of the work encoded onto the media. The media itself is of little value, as is the bag. Both are just containers.
I often buy a carton of eggs. Its not the carton I want, but it comes preloaded with eggs. I know I could, if I had to, get empty cartons, raise hens, and end up with the same carton loaded with eggs - but the store made it so easy to buy eggs, so why bother? Now if the farmers started playing all sorts of games with me, trying to tell me what I could do with the eggs, and under what conditions I could prepare them, I might have to resort to raising chickens.
I consider it to be my right to transfer the work amongst any media I have, because I have paid for it, and I intend to enjoy it. In my case, its backup to another CD, then rip to MP3, mix, and burn so I can play it in the car and jogging player.
If the original media gets damaged later, its no big deal. As long as the original media stays intact long enough for me to transfer its contents onto my system, with due backup systems, losing the original carrier is about as traumatic as losing the box the hard drive came in, albeit that
I do place significant effort to keep my original source media in pristine condition. Thats what backup is all about... the data is the only thing thats really important. Everything else is replacable.
Back to the eggs.. just because they came a dozen to a box does not mean I am forced to eat them in sequence.. I want an egg here, a strip of bacon there, grits there, etc. Same with the music. I have my own unique tastes of what I want, and I compile my own mix. I do not feel some authority can tell me I can not mix my music anymore than some farmer can tell me I have to eat the whole dozen eggs before I can eat the toast. Or telling me I can't fry my bacon in a microwave oven.
I do not believe I have any right to dictate to the sellers what they can do with the money after the trade, nor do I consider they have any right to tell me how I am going to be allowed to enjoy my use of their work after the trade. If I made your car, do I have a right to tell you where you can go?
Yup, and thus you own that copy (just as you own a particular "copy" of a football if you buy it). You do NOT hold the copyright to the copy though. As such, you can do anything you want with your copy as long as it is not one of the things prevented by copyright. Rather simple really.
True, quite simple. I feel I can do anything with my copy as long as it is not one of the things prevented by "copyright".. only problem is coming up with what both parties agree to be the fair use definition of "copyright". I feel committed to the "like a book" doctrine. I feel when I pay the purchase price, I am entitled to personal use of the work. I feel a lot of people get confused with media. Media is only the "box" the "work" was delivered in. I feel I purchased the "work", but the media was necessary just as the carton was a necessary part of purchasing the eggs.
Something inside me sniffed out something that didn't sound right. I wasn't for sure exactly what - but your 261 grams sounds right on the money...
I thought maybe it was the confusion that always stems from a "food calorie" being a physical kilocalorie. That one caused me a lot of miscalculation once.
( I thought I could drink 100 mL of ice water, forcing myself to expend 3700 calories to bring the water up to 37 degrees C. (98.6 degrees F) then pass the warm water, take on more cold water, and lose weight that way.. I figured I could easily swamp out even the 100 to 500 calories that may be in the drink itself. This procedure did not work. At all. I am sure you see where I goofed. )
Quite right about the sat fat and unsat fats. Gasoline should be in the same ballpark as fats. About the same energy. In my case, being I do almost no *physical* work to speak of, if I do not ultimately radiate the energy, I must store it (as fat).
The Krebs cycle... God, what an efficient mechanism. I only wish I could design and implement something so elegant.;) The car engine would burn up that 261 grams of fuel in a few minutes, like you say, with most of its energy uselessly converted to high temperature heat as the thermodynamic basis of the car engine is the Carnot cycle.
I would suppose you could burn a 261 gram candle (fat)over a 24 hour period and it should keep a moderately clothed 180 pound bag of water at a constant temperature of 98.6 degrees, assuming all the heat went to the bag, and the bag radiated it. The end result is heat, carbon dioxide, and water vapor, but for us there sure is a lot of other stuff that happens during the transfer.
People like you are the reason I like Slashdot. How many other people could I mention the Krebs cycle to and they have the slightest inkling of what I am referring to?...much less post an intelligent reply?
I would certainly hope that all would consider that *I* own the media once I have legally *purchased* it. However, I do not consider that I own the work on the media. I see the media as only being a carrier for the work, much as I see a bag as a carrier for its contents. The way I see it, I have only purchased a copy of that work for my own benefit - whatever that is.
I still strongly adhere to the concept that I have purchased a copy of the work, and strongly defend what I consider as my right to transfer that work amongst other media I may have. I do not consider replication of that work for distribution to others so that they do not need to purchase that work themselves to be my prerogative, although I would bend as far as running off a sample.. kinda like I would share a swig of my Stolichnaya, but would be quite miffed if once they got a sample, they expected me to be their free source of it.
Personally, I think the content industry has went way too far though. I must know what it is that I am intending to buy because there is a lot of stuff out there that I have no interest in whatsoever. Walking into a record store and buying a CD, without knowing about it first, makes just about as much sense to me as walking in an auto parts store and buying a water pump, without knowing if the pump I am purchasing will fit the car under repair.
As biologicals, God created us extremely efficient. So much so that obesity is a national problem. If you want to see a really good example of "molecular systolic programming", I suggest you pick up a biochemistry manual and refer to the Krebbs cycle.
The Krebbs Cycle is the basic biological mechanism by which we, as living organisms, derive our energy from our raw inputs of fats, carbohydrates, and protein. If we were literally metabolizing the equivalent of 260 Kilograms (hydrocarbon) per day, we would be almost incandescent. Instead, we glow at about 98.6 degrees farenheit. An infrared transducer would see me as an energy source, emitting atout 500 watts at about 9.3 microns. ( Thats how burglar alarm Passive Infrared Detectors see us. )
God knows how much I would like to skip a day's worth of eatin's and lose 260 KiloGrams! ( since fat has roughly the same energy density as gasoline. )
( The bit about 500 watts and 9.3 microns is from the book "Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits", McGraw-Hill, Page 147. In an entry by W.E.Osborne, Staff Scientist, Gilfilian Corp, Los Angeles, Ca. *cough* 1964 ).
(Or did I take one too many nips of Stolichnaya, the Nectar of the Gods...?)
Twenty some odd years ago, I purchased a Pansonic KX-P4450 "Laser Partner" laser.
The thing that sold me on this $2,000 printer was that it had this little slot below the paper tray in which you could pour toner from a bottle. I loved the idea that I could easily replace the exact consumable needed without having to replace everything else.
For twenty years, things have been peachy.
But now, MicroCenter, Staples, OfficeDepot, et all, have stopped carrying my simple bottles of toner. Wouldn't you know it, there's something special in this toner and regular office copier toner won't work? ( I made a terrible mess by trying and cost it me a drum. ).
I will re-read this. If you can help me with which toner might work for me, could you please append my post?
I was *trying* to be environmentally friendly by purchasing stuff that would generate the minimum amount of landfill - stuff I know that should continue to function until the proverbial cows come home, but it looks like my 20 year old machine, despite the fact it works perfectly, may see its demise only for the lack of its consumable.
You know how it is if you hire somebody *else* to paint your house? There is usually a heckuva lotta stuff you would have done differently because its *your* house.
But if you paint the house yourself, it takes a heck of a lot longer than you dreamed, but it's done right - to your exact satisfaction. You know everything about it - and if anything goes wrong, you know exactly how to fix it.
There's a big different between *yours* and *someone-else's*.
I feel the same about OS.
If its really not all that important, I will go with whatever gets the job done quickest.
But, if my life or reputation depend upon it, I need to be secure in my knowledge that I know exactly what I am doing - for it is I and I alone which must take responsibility for the outcome.
I think a lot of it is like choosing rope - if you are a shopkeeper, you may choose a rope based on its markup and profit potential, but if you are a mountain climber, you probably choose rope based on a completely different criteria.
For me, this has just started up... I attach my Zone Labs Log File so you may compare the activity to what you are seeing. ( I am not trying to take up valuable area, but rather am trying to give you another dataset to compare your experiences to. Presently I am getting hit about once every
fifteen seconds attempting to connect to my port 1434. As you can see, these are coming from various other IP's on varying ports.
I am on a dialup. DHCP. ( I get whatever IP PacBell assigne me for the duration of my connect).
Actually, while I type this, I have had ZoneLabs notify me each time I get a hit, and I am now up to hit #12 or so.
Weird! Its gonna be interesting to read on Slashdot just what this thing is.
Why remove the existing heat sinks? Rather than removing them from components and risking forgetting a mica insulator or doing other damage, why not
simply take advantage of them as an easy surface to which to attach cooling tubes. Most power supplies I've opened, I could solder copper tubing to the
heatsinks fairly easily.
ehhh.. most heat sinks are aluminum... solder does not take well to aluminum.. heat conductive epoxy maybe, but watch the thermal expansion coefficients.. a lot of time when you undergo thermal changes, epoxy has a tendency to work loose.
I've also got concerns about the overall safety of this. Even without mica insulators or any other outward signs, a heatsink may be running at some potential
other than ground. Pure water isn't very conductive, but all the same, your cooling water is likely to be grounded - and should be grounded. Pumping water through a tube attached to a component or heatsink will bring the water to that potential; using a piece of plastic tubing to insulate one metal tube from
another is NOT safe.,
Maybe something use something like a freon? How about "heat pipes" which are manufactured with a
freon compound contained in them. The phase changes allow a lot of heat transfer per unit volume. The electrical conductivity of the freon piping is definitely a consideration.
Make sure that the water is grounded, and then run the power supply from a Ground-Fault Interruptor (GFI) receptacle like you'd find in a bathroom. This way, a water leak in the power supply should turn off the power at the outlet and reduce the risk of a bigger problem.
Very true if you are gonna put something like water in the power supply! After all this, is it
really an improvement to try to water cool the power supply? Consider too, the transistors mounted upon heat sinks may not be the only components needing an airflow assist in order to remove excess heat. The transformer, along with various other components, may overheat if deprived of airflow.
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For you who do not wanna bother, I post the meat here...(I cleaned up the HTML a bit in my editor)
Jim Dyke, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said the committee is proud of its outreach efforts. "You want to make it easy for them to participate," he said. "That is a good thing."
Lisa Boyce, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said, "If an editor receives 10 letters that may be the same, they at least know there are 10 people that are concerned about the issue and would take the time to send a letter."
The people who edit the letters pages disagree, generally believing that letters should be the work of those who sign them. Armed with Internet search engines and e-mail lists of their own, they are mapping Web sites and alerting each other about the form letters appearing in their mailboxes.
"We type phrases into Google all the time," said Susan Clotfelter, the letters editor at The Denver Post. "We hate to be fooled." The Post published at least two form letters last year: one in support of the budget proposal of President Bush and one in support of the terrorism stance of Senator Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota.
Organized letter-writing campaigns have been around for decades. But the Internet has sped up both their scope and pace. At any time, editors are being bombarded by at least two or three campaigns covering any range of topics, among them immigration, school prayer and politics in general. The large campaigns are easier to spot because many identical letters appear at once. It is the isolated letter that editors have to keep an eye out for.
The editors issue alerts and queries on a 600-member e-mail list run by the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Last week, for example, an editor from Nebraska posted a questionable letter about the Pledge of Allegiance and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Within minutes, editors from Wisconsin, Tennessee, Illinois and Nebraska responded, saying they had received the same letter.
"It's instant communication among us," said Lynnell Burkett, the editorial page editor of The San Antonio Express-News. "It's extremely helpful, every day, several times a day."
Despite these efforts, some form letters still sneak into print. One letter praising President Bush, distributed by the Republican National Committee at the www .gopteamleader.com site, has appeared in more than 20 papers since Jan. 8, including The Boston Globe, The Cincinnati Post, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Press-Democrat of Santa Rosa, Calif., and The Star Press of Muncie, Ind. The letter begins, "When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership."
Several editors said the letter had slipped through partially because it seemed specifically tailored for letters pages. "It was timely," said J. R. Hill, an editorial writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "It was short. We didn't need to do a lot of heavy editing. It stuck to basically one point."
"We were burned," she said.
Editors say some readers simply do not understand the ethical issues of sending a letter written by someone else. "They had no idea that they were bending any sort of rules whatsoever or that they were trying to put one over on us," Ms. Clotfelter said. "I e-mailed back and forth with one woman who was distressed that we wouldn't print her letter because it was really how she felt."
Others defend their use of form letters. "I've seen the same thing from the other side," said Trevor D. Carlson, who signed one of the pro-Bush form letters to The Press Democrat.
Editors say the groups are becoming more sophisticated and the letters harder to spot. Last week, The Wisconsin State Journal of Madison received a number of letters in support of abortion rights that referred to the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision recognizing a constitutional right to abortion.
The editors were suspicious. But no two letters were exactly alike. A few technical errors in some of the later e-mails, however, showed that they had come from www.ppwi.org, operated by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
At its Web site, users were encouraged to mix and match paragraphs from about 10 form letters. They could send their newly created letters to any of a number of publications in Wisconsin.
The complexity and the creativity of the site surprised Tim Kelley, the paper's editorial page editor. "Maybe you can call them genuine letters because they are encouraged to cut-and-paste," he said.
Methinks they oughta use an autocorrelation filter so that they can compare replies against each other, using a "rotational" algorithm to compare emails against others, so that it will illuminate likenesses in whichever parts that one email as it compares to others. If the filter detects spikes in the likenesses, it would flag it. With current systems capabilities of performing real-time MPEG, I think this is quite do-able.
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Yeah, but it is the content you want/buy, otherwise you would go out and buy a blank CD, not a music CD.
Very true. I consider what I paying for with legal tender is a legal licence for my personal use of the work encoded onto the media. The media itself is of little value, as is the bag. Both are just containers.
I often buy a carton of eggs. Its not the carton I want, but it comes preloaded with eggs. I know I could, if I had to, get empty cartons, raise hens, and end up with the same carton loaded with eggs - but the store made it so easy to buy eggs, so why bother? Now if the farmers started playing all sorts of games with me, trying to tell me what I could do with the eggs, and under what conditions I could prepare them, I might have to resort to raising chickens.
I consider it to be my right to transfer the work amongst any media I have, because I have paid for it, and I intend to enjoy it. In my case, its backup to another CD, then rip to MP3, mix, and burn so I can play it in the car and jogging player.
If the original media gets damaged later, its no big deal. As long as the original media stays intact long enough for me to transfer its contents onto my system, with due backup systems, losing the original carrier is about as traumatic as losing the box the hard drive came in, albeit that I do place significant effort to keep my original source media in pristine condition. Thats what backup is all about... the data is the only thing thats really important. Everything else is replacable.
Back to the eggs.. just because they came a dozen to a box does not mean I am forced to eat them in sequence.. I want an egg here, a strip of bacon there, grits there, etc. Same with the music. I have my own unique tastes of what I want, and I compile my own mix. I do not feel some authority can tell me I can not mix my music anymore than some farmer can tell me I have to eat the whole dozen eggs before I can eat the toast. Or telling me I can't fry my bacon in a microwave oven.
I do not believe I have any right to dictate to the sellers what they can do with the money after the trade, nor do I consider they have any right to tell me how I am going to be allowed to enjoy my use of their work after the trade. If I made your car, do I have a right to tell you where you can go?
Yup, and thus you own that copy (just as you own a particular "copy" of a football if you buy it). You do NOT hold the copyright to the copy though. As such, you can do anything you want with your copy as long as it is not one of the things prevented by copyright. Rather simple really.
True, quite simple. I feel I can do anything with my copy as long as it is not one of the things prevented by "copyright".. only problem is coming up with what both parties agree to be the fair use definition of "copyright". I feel committed to the "like a book" doctrine. I feel when I pay the purchase price, I am entitled to personal use of the work. I feel a lot of people get confused with media. Media is only the "box" the "work" was delivered in. I feel I purchased the "work", but the media was necessary just as the carton was a necessary part of purchasing the eggs.
Something inside me sniffed out something that didn't sound right. I wasn't for sure exactly what - but your 261 grams sounds right on the money...
I thought maybe it was the confusion that always stems from a "food calorie" being a physical kilocalorie. That one caused me a lot of miscalculation once.
( I thought I could drink 100 mL of ice water, forcing myself to expend 3700 calories to bring the water up to 37 degrees C. (98.6 degrees F) then pass the warm water, take on more cold water, and lose weight that way.. I figured I could easily swamp out even the 100 to 500 calories that may be in the drink itself. This procedure did not work. At all. I am sure you see where I goofed. )
Quite right about the sat fat and unsat fats. Gasoline should be in the same ballpark as fats. About the same energy. In my case, being I do almost no *physical* work to speak of, if I do not ultimately radiate the energy, I must store it (as fat).
The Krebs cycle... God, what an efficient mechanism. I only wish I could design and implement something so elegant. ;) The car engine would burn up that 261 grams of fuel in a few minutes, like you say, with most of its energy uselessly converted to high temperature heat as the thermodynamic basis of the car engine is the Carnot cycle.
I would suppose you could burn a 261 gram candle (fat)over a 24 hour period and it should keep a moderately clothed 180 pound bag of water at a constant temperature of 98.6 degrees, assuming all the heat went to the bag, and the bag radiated it. The end result is heat, carbon dioxide, and water vapor, but for us there sure is a lot of other stuff that happens during the transfer.
People like you are the reason I like Slashdot. How many other people could I mention the Krebs cycle to and they have the slightest inkling of what I am referring to?...much less post an intelligent reply?
(That was good for another swig of Stolichnaya.)
I still strongly adhere to the concept that I have purchased a copy of the work, and strongly defend what I consider as my right to transfer that work amongst other media I may have. I do not consider replication of that work for distribution to others so that they do not need to purchase that work themselves to be my prerogative, although I would bend as far as running off a sample.. kinda like I would share a swig of my Stolichnaya, but would be quite miffed if once they got a sample, they expected me to be their free source of it.
Personally, I think the content industry has went way too far though. I must know what it is that I am intending to buy because there is a lot of stuff out there that I have no interest in whatsoever. Walking into a record store and buying a CD, without knowing about it first, makes just about as much sense to me as walking in an auto parts store and buying a water pump, without knowing if the pump I am purchasing will fit the car under repair.
Why is 137? Why exactly 137?
That's 260 kg of gasoline per day equivalent.
As biologicals, God created us extremely efficient. So much so that obesity is a national problem. If you want to see a really good example of "molecular systolic programming", I suggest you pick up a biochemistry manual and refer to the Krebbs cycle.
The Krebbs Cycle is the basic biological mechanism by which we, as living organisms, derive our energy from our raw inputs of fats, carbohydrates, and protein. If we were literally metabolizing the equivalent of 260 Kilograms (hydrocarbon) per day, we would be almost incandescent. Instead, we glow at about 98.6 degrees farenheit. An infrared transducer would see me as an energy source, emitting atout 500 watts at about 9.3 microns. ( Thats how burglar alarm Passive Infrared Detectors see us. )
God knows how much I would like to skip a day's worth of eatin's and lose 260 KiloGrams! ( since fat has roughly the same energy density as gasoline. )
( The bit about 500 watts and 9.3 microns is from the book "Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits", McGraw-Hill, Page 147. In an entry by W.E.Osborne, Staff Scientist, Gilfilian Corp, Los Angeles, Ca. *cough* 1964 ).
(Or did I take one too many nips of Stolichnaya, the Nectar of the Gods...?)
Twenty some odd years ago, I purchased a Pansonic KX-P4450 "Laser Partner" laser.
The thing that sold me on this $2,000 printer was that it had this little slot below the paper tray in which you could pour toner from a bottle. I loved the idea that I could easily replace the exact consumable needed without having to replace everything else.
For twenty years, things have been peachy.
But now, MicroCenter, Staples, OfficeDepot, et all, have stopped carrying my simple bottles of toner. Wouldn't you know it, there's something special in this toner and regular office copier toner won't work? ( I made a terrible mess by trying and cost it me a drum. ).
I will re-read this. If you can help me with which toner might work for me, could you please append my post?
I was *trying* to be environmentally friendly by purchasing stuff that would generate the minimum amount of landfill - stuff I know that should continue to function until the proverbial cows come home, but it looks like my 20 year old machine, despite the fact it works perfectly, may see its demise only for the lack of its consumable.
sig:
You know how it is if you hire somebody *else* to paint your house? There is usually a heckuva lotta stuff you would have done differently because its *your* house.
But if you paint the house yourself, it takes a heck of a lot longer than you dreamed, but it's done right - to your exact satisfaction. You know everything about it - and if anything goes wrong, you know exactly how to fix it.
There's a big different between *yours* and *someone-else's*.
I feel the same about OS.
If its really not all that important, I will go with whatever gets the job done quickest.
But, if my life or reputation depend upon it, I need to be secure in my knowledge that I know exactly what I am doing - for it is I and I alone which must take responsibility for the outcome.
I think a lot of it is like choosing rope - if you are a shopkeeper, you may choose a rope based on its markup and profit potential, but if you are a mountain climber, you probably choose rope based on a completely different criteria.
http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/Securiteam/ 2002-07/0115.html
For me, this has just started up... I attach my Zone Labs Log File so you may compare the activity to what you are seeing. ( I am not trying to take up valuable area, but rather am trying to give you another dataset to compare your experiences to. Presently I am getting hit about once every fifteen seconds attempting to connect to my port 1434. As you can see, these are coming from various other IP's on varying ports.
I am on a dialup. DHCP. ( I get whatever IP PacBell assigne me for the duration of my connect).
ZoneLabs Log:
FWIN,2003/01/24,14:23:48 -8:00 GMT,216.161.101.173:62540,67.112.46.155:3525,TCP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:23:48 -8:00 GMT,216.161.101.173:62539,67.112.46.155:3525,TCP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:23:48 -8:00 GMT,216.161.101.173:62541,67.112.46.155:3525,TCP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:30:22 -8:00 GMT,67.112.46.162:1028,67.112.46.155:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:30:28 -8:00 GMT,67.112.46.161:1097,67.112.46.155:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:37:08 -8:00 GMT,67.112.46.161:1098,67.112.46.155:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:38:54 -8:00 GMT,67.112.46.161:1096,67.112.46.155:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:40:16 -8:00 GMT,4.62.221.54:0,67.112.46.155:0,ICMP FWIN,2003/01/24,14:48:20 -8:00 GMT,67.112.46.161:1025,67.112.46.155:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/24,15:03:22 -8:00 GMT,200.64.172.254:1084,67.112.46.155:137,UDP PE,2003/01/25,00:32:57 -8:00 GMT,Netscape Navigator application file,206.13.29.12:53,N/A
and this is when the crap started flying
PE,2003/01/25,00:33:08 -8:00 GMT,The Proxomitron,206.13.29.12:53,N/A FWIN,2003/01/25,00:37:22 -8:00 GMT,128.205.156.40:3537,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:38:42 -8:00 GMT,67.112.251.186:2991,67.112.46.156:80,TCP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:40:02 -8:00 GMT,211.13.231.200:4216,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:41:00 -8:00 GMT,63.254.129.14:4632,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:41:32 -8:00 GMT,207.97.136.48:4899,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:44:32 -8:00 GMT,64.239.122.46:53342,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:45:10 -8:00 GMT,207.46.200.139:2126,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:51:02 -8:00 GMT,62.149.128.35:1235,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:54:58 -8:00 GMT,63.240.201.75:1478,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:56:36 -8:00 GMT,216.97.147.185:1706,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:58:12 -8:00 GMT,129.250.226.100:3581,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,00:58:28 -8:00 GMT,24.30.207.206:4096,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:01:10 -8:00 GMT,212.219.8.246:4686,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:01:48 -8:00 GMT,10.208.128.97:4222,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:05:42 -8:00 GMT,164.67.192.239:4850,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:06:12 -8:00 GMT,64.15.237.180:1459,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:08:36 -8:00 GMT,66.230.209.230:3513,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:09:46 -8:00 GMT,130.94.19.249:2482,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:09:56 -8:00 GMT,65.118.242.70:3108,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:10:30 -8:00 GMT,62.129.134.253:1226,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:12:40 -8:00 GMT,64.210.7.98:4182,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:13:04 -8:00 GMT,66.28.8.72:3420,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP PE,2003/01/25,01:13:09 -8:00 GMT,Netscape Navigator application file,127.0.0.1:8080,N/A FWIN,2003/01/25,01:14:00 -8:00 GMT,210.214.8.133:1025,67.112.46.156:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:16:06 -8:00 GMT,205.243.25.86:4181,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:17:24 -8:00 GMT,217.160.133.189:1098,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:18:48 -8:00 GMT,139.134.5.239:2274,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:19:26 -8:00 GMT,80.13.193.122:1026,67.112.46.156:137,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:19:38 -8:00 GMT,145.101.195.133:2886,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:24:00 -8:00 GMT,62.20.108.24:1291,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:24:12 -8:00 GMT,65.160.127.210:2722,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:26:20 -8:00 GMT,157.169.10.11:3281,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:26:48 -8:00 GMT,129.125.140.178:2536,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:27:16 -8:00 GMT,193.140.134.125:1033,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:28:32 -8:00 GMT,216.29.52.98:3466,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:28:56 -8:00 GMT,129.242.210.240:1574,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:32:00 -8:00 GMT,212.141.84.123:1954,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:33:16 -8:00 GMT,65.209.2.2:1062,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:37:22 -8:00 GMT,203.251.202.13:1576,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:38:16 -8:00 GMT,63.215.151.135:1970,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:38:30 -8:00 GMT,61.61.104.231:1028,67.112.46.156:137,UDP PE,2003/01/25,01:41:18 -8:00 GMT,OPERA.EXE,127.0.0.1:8080,N/A FWIN,2003/01/25,01:41:34 -8:00 GMT,128.186.85.26:1757,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:43:00 -8:00 GMT,195.194.95.160:4327,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:43:10 -8:00 GMT,63.243.24.97:1107,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:45:18 -8:00 GMT,202.125.128.100:1603,67.112.46.156:1434,UDP FWIN,2003/01/25,01:45:38 -8:00 GMT,67.35.15.77:0,67.112.46.156:0,ICMP
Actually, while I type this, I have had ZoneLabs notify me each time I get a hit, and I am now up to hit #12 or so. Weird! Its gonna be interesting to read on Slashdot just what this thing is.
A few comments:
Why remove the existing heat sinks? Rather than removing them from components and risking forgetting a mica insulator or doing other damage, why not simply take advantage of them as an easy surface to which to attach cooling tubes. Most power supplies I've opened, I could solder copper tubing to the heatsinks fairly easily.
ehhh.. most heat sinks are aluminum... solder does not take well to aluminum.. heat conductive epoxy maybe, but watch the thermal expansion coefficients.. a lot of time when you undergo thermal changes, epoxy has a tendency to work loose.
I've also got concerns about the overall safety of this. Even without mica insulators or any other outward signs, a heatsink may be running at some potential other than ground. Pure water isn't very conductive, but all the same, your cooling water is likely to be grounded - and should be grounded. Pumping water through a tube attached to a component or heatsink will bring the water to that potential; using a piece of plastic tubing to insulate one metal tube from another is NOT safe.,
Maybe something use something like a freon? How about "heat pipes" which are manufactured with a freon compound contained in them. The phase changes allow a lot of heat transfer per unit volume. The electrical conductivity of the freon piping is definitely a consideration.
Make sure that the water is grounded, and then run the power supply from a Ground-Fault Interruptor (GFI) receptacle like you'd find in a bathroom. This way, a water leak in the power supply should turn off the power at the outlet and reduce the risk of a bigger problem.
Very true if you are gonna put something like water in the power supply! After all this, is it really an improvement to try to water cool the power supply? Consider too, the transistors mounted upon heat sinks may not be the only components needing an airflow assist in order to remove excess heat. The transformer, along with various other components, may overheat if deprived of airflow.