So long as the difference between the opinion polls and exit polls and the official "results" aren't too large
Why should there be any differences? Who checks what happens with "poll votes" underway? Who funds the polls? Who is the management of companies that conduct the polls?
We have elections instead of polls only because polls are considered highly unreliable comparing to elections. And their reliability is not only affected by statistical errors, but by many other "behind the scenes" factors too.
So - feel free to fake the elections as much as you wish, just remember to "modify" the polls results accordingly.
Do I need it all? I don't think so. I want webpages to load faster and downloads to run faster and so far the 486 is not the bottleneck for my transfer rates. When it becomes the bottleneck and I'm still NOT satisfied with my transfers, I may consider replacing it. The problem with your thinking is typical problem of thinking like most americans: "I want more money, I want more of everything". You're never satisfied with what you already have and if you could have more, you want that. For now, I'm satisfied with most of my hardware and don't plan on changing it anytime soon - just because it can do most of what I want from it. CD 24x... Why faster?! PS/2 mouse and keyboard - Saving USB for more important. 16M Riva Vanta. Since I don't play games, it's far above what I'd ever need, to watch movies it's just enough. 700MHZ Duron. I rarely top its load, when I do, I get results in very reasonable time. Why buy faster? HDD120GB - recent purchase, 20G was just not enough... In most cases I don't need faster/better stuff because I'm happy with what I can do with what I have, and in great most cases I'm quite unimpressed with that stuff new hardware could give me. Of course my hardware can't do this all. But the fact that my neighbour can kill groups of pixels at zillion FPS and watch 5 movies simultaneously doesn't mean I WANT to do that too.
Alot of our present computers couldn't even come close to handling that kind of data.
What about 10mbit ethernet for 8bit Atari? You forget that in many cases we don't USE our hardware at its maximum settings. I have a 10mbit LAN but my 486 firewall simply won't process stuff that fast. I have motherboard with two ATA100 controllers, yet I use one of them at 66, just because that's how much my HDD supports. I use SB16/ISA instead of far superior FM801 because I value compatibility and stability over performance.
If I used 56K modem, with hardware that could handle some 50Mbit transfers, switching to 100Mbit LAN isn't entirely pointless. I just won't use ALL of it, but far more than I have nowadays anyway. So your point is plainly wrong, "better network" doesn't have to mean all the rest has to be discarded.
look for lm sensors. I'm afraid you'll have trouble setting it up on Knoppix if you have some not-very-standard sensor hardware - in that case it often requires patching and recompiling kernel.
1) Buy them 2) Purposedly make some dumb decisions. 3) Close them down as "unprofitable".
Imagine Google putting pop-up ads, requiring registration and agreement to send spam to your home address, puting multiple (50+) "paid hits" on top, requiring you to install spyware (now googlebar is optional;), allowing The One OS, would you keep using it? And with MS buying it, it would sound a probable thing to happen.
How is the interspecies sex covered in the book? I really wonder what approach does the author take on that. True, Incest is fun for whole family, being a bi doubles your chances, and being a herm gives you at least twice as much positions, but still in means of pleasure nothing beats old-fashioned bucket and cuddly fluffy mare rump.
We've moved to ATX some time ago. Now think about that: The monitor is still plugged into your wall socket, so it produces light just OK. Then the CPU collects the light. Perpetual motion? Where? Of course monitors "Made In USSR" would do best for that task. "High Radiation" models that make your room glow for a hour after switching power off preferably. And then people will start complaining that this ecology is so unhealthy...
Yup. Same with Atari and other 8-bit. Unlike PCs, they had much more "computational power" than just the CPU. That's why I think some skilled hacker COULD achieve 10mbit/s transfers on Atari. The question is: With 64K RAM to fill - What for? Take 24K for "drivers" and "OS", remaining 40K for your use - Do you feel any difference if it takes 3s to fill it or 0.03s? Either way you end up with full RAM you have to do something with...
Do you know Amiga 1200 with 12MHZ CPU - from user's feel side of view - felt WAY faster than 486/80MHZ with twice as much RAM?
Why? Better architecture. Not only CPU but whole computer. I can imagine employing the gfx chipset for such a work. It can move data between ports and memory at amazing (comparing to the CPU) speeds, fill large areas of memory with specific values, move memory areas etc. Without taking CPU time and without even the CPU waiting (so CPU may do its own stuff while GFX chipset does its own.
Let's make a very rough count...
10Mbps with traffic overhead of Ethernet etc (all that is stripped on hardware) is about 1 Mbyte/s. With 64K of RAM, it's about 0.064s to fill whole RAM. Assume screen frequency of 50HZ, gives 0.02s/frame. Transfer of 20K/frame required. For the CPU - way too much. For ANTIC (the gfx chip) - acceptable amounts I think...
Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will
already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask
for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him pizza.
This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is twenty
thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
one night, courtesy of someone in the US
Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
did this.
Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
from Germany:-)
Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
On a CD - I don't know of any. But the question was "Is there a way to damage the data temporarily??" so I answer, yes, and give an example I know. The fact that I don't know any way to damage CD data temporarily (or in a recoverable way) doesn't mean there isn't any. (it's not the point though. I just meant the data gets FUBAR and there's no way you could get it back, unlike when, i.e. you get coffee on your cd, and it won't work until you wash it)
How does fire look without gravity? I mean, standard open flame always directs itself upwards by heating air and making it lighter than surrounding, making it flow upwards. But what, if there's enough air, but no "upwards"? A ball of fire that lasts until it uses up all available oxygen? Some odd fractal? Somebody ask the astronauts to light a match for a moment and send us a movie!
...when e-books will be accepted as widespread classroom help. In this case, you buy a reader (a laptop?) at the start of the school and then, well, we all know how it's with all software and other data with students...:) No more paying for books!
Ah well, if you're entitled to free education, why can't it be really free?
I bought a new Seagate, which is very quiet and nice and planned to remove my old one and silence it somehow. For time being, I removed it from the mounting and placed vertically inside the case so I could mount the new one properly... and then, it went quiet! All of sudden, I don't hear that awful scratching noise, it's all nice, silent... and surprise-surprise - it still works!:)
Ever seen MiB? The Government has already made a deal with THEM and doesn't want us to know anything about THEM. All UFO sightings could lead us to the truth... and we're not ready to accept the truth. (like such as The Spoon is Out There)
Yes. Frost. On floppy. Expose a floppy to some -10C for half a hour. Put it in a drive immediately after that - all data gets destroyed, the floppy damaged, you may discard it as it's unformattable anymore. Leave it for a hour in a mildly warm place and with enough luck (i.e. that the floppy wasn't bent before "defreezing" - that are microfractures that render it useless) all data will be perfectly readable and the floppy will work just fine.
At least on my home box with w98SE. Recently I decided I want it up to date, downloaded all the pending patches, installed them as I was supposed to (MANY reboots) and it resulted in a system that crashes after 3 mins of using the explorer (the tool to browse your disk!), can't load MS Word, can't launch Notepad (!) and works -nearly- stable as long as I use strictly non-MS software and avoid anything that was shipped with windows (luckily start menu worked). I thought "screw this", re-checked security on my firewall, formatted windows partition, reinstalled Windows from CD and disabled Windows Update using some tweak tool. And to make things even better, I switched off mostly everything that could be switched off from system run-time services. Now I have just the date in system tray, just "My Computer" on desktop, 2 tasks on tasks list (Explorer and Systray), startmenu and quicklaunch bar to that - and I got the most stable of Windows I ever had!
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So long as the difference between the opinion polls and exit polls and the official "results" aren't too large
Why should there be any differences?
Who checks what happens with "poll votes" underway?
Who funds the polls?
Who is the management of companies that conduct the polls?
We have elections instead of polls only because polls are considered highly unreliable comparing to elections. And their reliability is not only affected by statistical errors, but by many other "behind the scenes" factors too.
So - feel free to fake the elections as much as you wish, just remember to "modify" the polls results accordingly.
Do I need it all? I don't think so. I want webpages to load faster and downloads to run faster and so far the 486 is not the bottleneck for my transfer rates. When it becomes the bottleneck and I'm still NOT satisfied with my transfers, I may consider replacing it. The problem with your thinking is typical problem of thinking like most americans: "I want more money, I want more of everything". You're never satisfied with what you already have and if you could have more, you want that. For now, I'm satisfied with most of my hardware and don't plan on changing it anytime soon - just because it can do most of what I want from it. CD 24x... Why faster?! PS/2 mouse and keyboard - Saving USB for more important. 16M Riva Vanta. Since I don't play games, it's far above what I'd ever need, to watch movies it's just enough. 700MHZ Duron. I rarely top its load, when I do, I get results in very reasonable time. Why buy faster? HDD120GB - recent purchase, 20G was just not enough... In most cases I don't need faster/better stuff because I'm happy with what I can do with what I have, and in great most cases I'm quite unimpressed with that stuff new hardware could give me. Of course my hardware can't do this all. But the fact that my neighbour can kill groups of pixels at zillion FPS and watch 5 movies simultaneously doesn't mean I WANT to do that too.
Alot of our present computers couldn't even come close to handling that kind of data.
What about 10mbit ethernet for 8bit Atari?
You forget that in many cases we don't USE our hardware at its maximum settings. I have a 10mbit LAN but my 486 firewall simply won't process stuff that fast. I have motherboard with two ATA100 controllers, yet I use one of them at 66, just because that's how much my HDD supports. I use SB16/ISA instead of far superior FM801 because I value compatibility and stability over performance.
If I used 56K modem, with hardware that could handle some 50Mbit transfers, switching to 100Mbit LAN isn't entirely pointless. I just won't use ALL of it, but far more than I have nowadays anyway. So your point is plainly wrong, "better network" doesn't have to mean all the rest has to be discarded.
look for lm sensors. I'm afraid you'll have trouble setting it up on Knoppix if you have some not-very-standard sensor hardware - in that case it often requires patching and recompiling kernel.
Whose local ISP BOFHs besides mine used the recent solar flares as excuse for downtime?
1) Buy them
;), allowing The One OS, would you keep using it? And with MS buying it, it would sound a probable thing to happen.
2) Purposedly make some dumb decisions.
3) Close them down as "unprofitable".
Imagine Google putting pop-up ads, requiring registration and agreement to send spam to your home address, puting multiple (50+) "paid hits" on top, requiring you to install spyware (now googlebar is optional
MSN is being split into two subdivisions
Called MICROSO~1.MSN and MICROSO~2.MSN ?
How is the interspecies sex covered in the book? I really wonder what approach does the author take on that. True, Incest is fun for whole family, being a bi doubles your chances, and being a herm gives you at least twice as much positions, but still in means of pleasure nothing beats old-fashioned bucket and cuddly fluffy mare rump.
We've moved to ATX some time ago. Now think about that: The monitor is still plugged into your wall socket, so it produces light just OK. Then the CPU collects the light. Perpetual motion? Where? Of course monitors "Made In USSR" would do best for that task. "High Radiation" models that make your room glow for a hour after switching power off preferably. And then people will start complaining that this ecology is so unhealthy...
His most recent blog entry:
:) I bet this guy will end up with better work than before after that story made it to /.
Oh my lord -- I've been slashdotted.
I have literally hundreds of messages in my e-mail inbox. I'll pop my head up as soon as I can.
I wonder how many of them are new job offers
Yup. Same with Atari and other 8-bit. Unlike PCs, they had much more "computational power" than just the CPU. That's why I think some skilled hacker COULD achieve 10mbit/s transfers on Atari. The question is: With 64K RAM to fill - What for? Take 24K for "drivers" and "OS", remaining 40K for your use - Do you feel any difference if it takes 3s to fill it or 0.03s? Either way you end up with full RAM you have to do something with...
Do you know Amiga 1200 with 12MHZ CPU - from user's feel side of view - felt WAY faster than 486/80MHZ with twice as much RAM?
Why? Better architecture. Not only CPU but whole computer. I can imagine employing the gfx chipset for such a work. It can move data between ports and memory at amazing (comparing to the CPU) speeds, fill large areas of memory with specific values, move memory areas etc. Without taking CPU time and without even the CPU waiting (so CPU may do its own stuff while GFX chipset does its own.
Let's make a very rough count...
10Mbps with traffic overhead of Ethernet etc (all that is stripped on hardware) is about 1 Mbyte/s. With 64K of RAM, it's about 0.064s to fill whole RAM. Assume screen frequency of 50HZ, gives 0.02s/frame. Transfer of 20K/frame required. For the CPU - way too much. For ANTIC (the gfx chip) - acceptable amounts I think...
It's not me joking! It's a part of official SAMBA FAQ.
Google link.
It's Pizzaware!
:-)
1.9. Pizza supply details
Those who have registered in the Samba survey as "Pizza Factory" will
already know this, but the rest may need some help. Andrew doesn't ask
for payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him pizza.
This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is twenty
thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
one night, courtesy of someone in the US
Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
did this.
Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
from Germany
Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
-- Samba FAQ
On a CD - I don't know of any. But the question was "Is there a way to damage the data temporarily??" so I answer, yes, and give an example I know. The fact that I don't know any way to damage CD data temporarily (or in a recoverable way) doesn't mean there isn't any. (it's not the point though. I just meant the data gets FUBAR and there's no way you could get it back, unlike when, i.e. you get coffee on your cd, and it won't work until you wash it)
How does fire look without gravity? I mean, standard open flame always directs itself upwards by heating air and making it lighter than surrounding, making it flow upwards. But what, if there's enough air, but no "upwards"? A ball of fire that lasts until it uses up all available oxygen? Some odd fractal? Somebody ask the astronauts to light a match for a moment and send us a movie!
So the hack value increases substantially!
(note SO many things done by hackers had been said to be impossible before they came true!)
Like this one?
Begone, bogon!
...when e-books will be accepted as widespread classroom help. In this case, you buy a reader (a laptop?) at the start of the school and then, well, we all know how it's with all software and other data with students... :) No more paying for books!
Ah well, if you're entitled to free education, why can't it be really free?
I bought a new Seagate, which is very quiet and nice and planned to remove my old one and silence it somehow. For time being, I removed it from the mounting and placed vertically inside the case so I could mount the new one properly... and then, it went quiet! All of sudden, I don't hear that awful scratching noise, it's all nice, silent... and surprise-surprise - it still works! :)
Ever seen MiB? The Government has already made a deal with THEM and doesn't want us to know anything about THEM. All UFO sightings could lead us to the truth... and we're not ready to accept the truth. (like such as The Spoon is Out There)
Remember that missions from GTA with RC cars? Humm.....
What would be the hack value of modding one into a nuclear bomb?
Yes. Frost. On floppy.
Expose a floppy to some -10C for half a hour. Put it in a drive immediately after that - all data gets destroyed, the floppy damaged, you may discard it as it's unformattable anymore. Leave it for a hour in a mildly warm place and with enough luck (i.e. that the floppy wasn't bent before "defreezing" - that are microfractures that render it useless) all data will be perfectly readable and the floppy will work just fine.
At least on my home box with w98SE. Recently I decided I want it up to date, downloaded all the pending patches, installed them as I was supposed to (MANY reboots) and it resulted in a system that crashes after 3 mins of using the explorer (the tool to browse your disk!), can't load MS Word, can't launch Notepad (!) and works -nearly- stable as long as I use strictly non-MS software and avoid anything that was shipped with windows (luckily start menu worked). I thought "screw this", re-checked security on my firewall, formatted windows partition, reinstalled Windows from CD and disabled Windows Update using some tweak tool. And to make things even better, I switched off mostly everything that could be switched off from system run-time services. Now I have just the date in system tray, just "My Computer" on desktop, 2 tasks on tasks list (Explorer and Systray), startmenu and quicklaunch bar to that - and I got the most stable of Windows I ever had!