DOH!!! How in the hell could I have forgotten AD&D (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons). I think I would have not made it through Jr. High if it had not been for the creative and escapist outlet that is D&D.
I spent WAY to many hours reading up on homemade subwoofer construction for my home A/V system, and settled on one somewhat like the one in the article. It took me and my Dad about 8-10 hours to build and cost around $250 US. With a cheap 150 watt Parasound it blows the doors off the house when cranked up (which I don't do often since I already have tinitus from my punk-rawk days) but can blend nicely for really smooth bass when listening to music.
If you are planning on using mod_proxy, I would recommend sticking with 1.3.20, or wait until 1.3.25 is released. Why? The new mod_proxy code has a bug which won't "downgrade" HTTP 1.1 responses sent from the proxy to upstream HTTP servers. Which means if you have a HTTP 1.0 browser (Netscape 4.*) and you access a site proxied with Apache 1.3.24 (or anything past 1.3.21 methinks) you will get a bunch of garbage displayed on the page (the HTTP 1.1 "de-chunking" byte markers)
70Hz for a subwoofer is pretty bad. I would expect as low as 20-30 Hz for true butt-shakin' Quake2 sound.:)
As far as headphones go, I have always found that poor sounding speakers are less noticible than poor sounding headphones. And price isn't the only factor in the quality of either speakers or headphones. I have a set of custom modified Baltec 90's (no longer in production, made in Latvia) that cost less than $300 (even after all the mods) and they sound very good; even my dad (who owns a $6K modified pair of B&W 801's) is amazed how good these cheap speakers sound, all for ~$5,700 less!
I read somewhere that SGI was working towards dual-boot Irix/Linux boxes that don't actually require a reboot. Anyone know if this is similar technology?
If this VMware thing actually works, and the overhead is low (less than 10%) I'd buy it. I am a bit skeptical though...
What makes it even more difficult is that even those units you list above are used in different ways depending on what technology they are used to measure:
Mb = Megabit, but this can mean either 1,048,576 bits (2^20) or 1,000,000 (10^6). How fsck'ing annoying! In networking 1 Mb *usually* means 10^6, but for memory it means 2^20.
It seems like most hard drive companies now list their drives where 1MB (Megabyte) equals 1,000,000 bytes! Those sneaky bastards!! Anyone know when they started doing this? I swear I recall having some old Seagate drives on which 1MB equaled 1,048,576 bytes...
My audiophile dad and his friend tried the same thing with "reference quality" CD: Burned a copy, and then did listening tests (on a VERY high end rig, mod B&W 801s, etc) and said they could detect very small sound quality loss (no more then the difference between $100 and $500 component cables).
I am curious what setup you used to copy the CD. In what ways did the CD-R disk sound worse?
-beb (who tries to fight the audiophile genes to save his wallet)
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DOH!!! How in the hell could I have forgotten AD&D (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons). I think I would have not made it through Jr. High if it had not been for the creative and escapist outlet that is D&D.
- Adventure (This game was like LSD to my 11 year old brain!)
- Pacman (Not in a good way, but this game pissed me off more than any game ever. I waited 4 months for this to ship and it was SO F*CKING LAME!!)
From the C-64 days:- M.U.L.E.
- Bruce Lee (I felt like I entered an alternate dimension playing this game. And no, I wasn't high!)
- Fort Appocalypse
- Paradroid
From Amiga days:- Stunt Car Driver
- Virus (by David Braben, one of the best game sever IMO!)
- It Came From The Desert (played it for 14 hours nonstop and felt like I was in a movie)
From PC days:- Civilization (Nearly dropped out of school cuz of this game!)
- Quake 2
- Tribes 2 (more addictive than any game I have played to date)
- Riven
Non-computer games:Hey, I'm not ignorant. Just "old-school" and addicted to the sheer SPEED of Pine (nothing else comes close for me)! =8^)
-9 year Pine user
I spent WAY to many hours reading up on homemade subwoofer construction for my home A/V system, and settled on one somewhat like the one in the article. It took me and my Dad about 8-10 hours to build and cost around $250 US. With a cheap 150 watt Parasound it blows the doors off the house when cranked up (which I don't do often since I already have tinitus from my punk-rawk days) but can blend nicely for really smooth bass when listening to music.
See it here:
http://wisdomtools.com/~brbothwe/shivasub/
If you have the excellent BassBox Pro 6, here is the BB6 data file:
shivasub.bb6
This design (like most sonotube subs) is ported. Even smoother subs (for high-end audio) can be made sealed.
The following site has probably already been posted, but if not check it out:
http://www.diysubwoofers.org
Doh! And I have "probelms" spelling this morning. =8^)
If you are planning on using mod_proxy, I would recommend sticking with 1.3.20, or wait until 1.3.25 is released. Why? The new mod_proxy code has a bug which won't "downgrade" HTTP 1.1 responses sent from the proxy to upstream HTTP servers. Which means if you have a HTTP 1.0 browser (Netscape 4.*) and you access a site proxied with Apache 1.3.24 (or anything past 1.3.21 methinks) you will get a bunch of garbage displayed on the page (the HTTP 1.1 "de-chunking" byte markers)
= 7513
= 7195
= 7572
Here's the bug:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id
Also, the 1.3.24 mod_proxy code so far still has the following bugs:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id
(mod_proxy munches cookies if number of cookies > 1)
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id
(mod_proxy ignores "Timeout" directive and cuts off long up/downloads)
Even the best of software have its share of bugs.
70Hz for a subwoofer is pretty bad. I would expect as low as 20-30 Hz for true butt-shakin' Quake2 sound. :)
As far as headphones go, I have always found that poor sounding speakers are less noticible than poor sounding headphones. And price isn't the only factor in the quality of either speakers or headphones. I have a set of custom modified Baltec 90's (no longer in production, made in Latvia) that cost less than $300 (even after all the mods) and they sound very good; even my dad (who owns a $6K modified pair of B&W 801's) is amazed how good these cheap speakers sound, all for ~$5,700 less!
I'd love a nice pair of Seinheisser headphones.
-beb
I heard it this way:
; umount;sleep
Q: How does a UNIX Guru have Sex?
A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;more;yes
I read somewhere that SGI was working towards dual-boot Irix/Linux boxes that don't actually require a reboot. Anyone know if this is similar technology?
If this VMware thing actually works, and the overhead is low (less than 10%) I'd buy it. I am a bit skeptical though...
-beb
What makes it even more difficult is that even those units you list above are used in different ways depending on what technology they are used to measure:
Mb = Megabit, but this can mean either 1,048,576 bits (2^20) or 1,000,000 (10^6). How fsck'ing annoying! In networking 1 Mb *usually* means 10^6, but for memory it means 2^20.
It seems like most hard drive companies now list their drives where 1MB (Megabyte) equals 1,000,000 bytes! Those sneaky bastards!! Anyone know when they started doing this? I swear I recall having some old Seagate drives on which 1MB equaled 1,048,576 bytes...
-beb
My audiophile dad and his friend tried the same thing with "reference quality" CD: Burned a copy, and then did listening tests (on a VERY high end rig, mod B&W 801s, etc) and said they could detect very small sound quality loss (no more then the difference between $100 and $500 component cables).
I am curious what setup you used to copy the CD. In what ways did the CD-R disk sound worse?
-beb (who tries to fight the audiophile genes to save his wallet)