Out here in Indianapolis you can go over to the Coke Cola plant, plunk down a hefty[note1] deposit and pick you a can of premix, add a can of CO2 a chiller and I think they have the cheapie hose and nozels or they know where to get them. This is 5 gallons of soda MUCH cheaper than this authors solution (even if I drool over the possibilites).
I called, I emailed, I didn't write Pepsi, they refused every effort on my part to do any sort of home vending other than sending me to a place that sold syrup in a box (at rip off prices in small lots). Real unpleasant people very ignorant of their own products. I suppose if it ain't got pink nipples sticking out of it, they don't know what to do.
Note 1: Damn you home brewers, just cause it was a 75 dollar deposit doesn't mean you can just keep the can, brew your beer in it mount it in a junk refrigerator and vend cold beer out the front. At 4 cans a refrig, the good people at Coke Cola had to raise the deposit on the tanks to near purchase price! So what if 5 gallons of the best Spudwiser is only 8 bucks and takes 30 days?:->)
They will work but you'll need to go to a bit of trouble to shield it. Either RFI paint or tacking foil onto the wood making sure you have a passable farad cage.
Metal would be easier, using inserts as someone else said and a standard case would be best.
If you can code try to fix it, if not donate money.
Matrox has been the tops when it comes to providing enough information to program it's hardware (ok so they took convincing). There are a lot of linux workstations sold commercially with Matrox and Linux (compaq)
It's may be a legal problem: This concerns the HAL portion that turns on dual head (exerpt from readme): "Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of intellectual property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the library and prohibits reverse engineering but allows free distribution under any operating system. Matrox encourages members of the open source community to freely distribute and assist in the further development of this driver."
For pointers to TV-out:
http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/
From that you can make it work or see this mention in the page authors howto: "The latest version (0.9.16) includes TV-out support for the G400/G450/G550"
I have a G450 and am !very! happy with it. TV-out was a toy to me and if it were a problem I'd just buy a VGA-video converter. Or build one or just buy a 100inch SharpVision projector (drool drool), I've played quake on one(drool drool).
>And at the time, this actually made some sense. >The government had no standing army, relying >instead on a citizen militia in times of war.
Actually the milita is subject to civilian control just like the military only at the state level. If local governors were so fearful of them all they had to do was activate them and use the self-procaimed milita's words as proof they'd volunteered. Then put them to work cleaning ditches or 'guarding the northern boarders' or some such. no problem. See your state laws for details. Of course if they disagreed there are some serious penelties, very serious in some cases.
Actually the right to bear arms applies to every person who happens to be breathing.
Information has always been the critical factor, why do you think the US government registers the press and it's reporters?
>>and has the advantage that its much harder to >>shoot people by accident.
Arms are not there to sway political opinion and I'd be pleased to see someone fertilizing food for poor people who would do so. Information collection and disemination are the key to that.
Arms are there mostly as a last resort, as such it's easy to dismiss them and let the need for them be obscured.
For the layman it's about guns and this was off the cuff. You are correct, I would state it more viciously though.
I don't speak of or worship a piece of paper, do some research on Indiana's state constitution as presented to Thomas Jefferson. How the state GOT statehood then exterminated (effectively) the citizens that made it a state. Then how they shredded the original constitution for a special interest one.
>>Guns are NOT just a fancy rock. Their are in the >>bill of rights to allow the citizens that right >>to over turn an oppressive government.
From a technical stand point they are and they are useless to overthrow ANYTHING with out information flow. I only have two hands and can only carry about 200 rounds + all the other stuff you'd need. Information buys you a support base for resupply, etc etc.
I do not disagree with your assesment otherwise.
I probably should have sterilized this from troll bait, it wasn't intended as a troll.
So do you want firearms ONLY in the hands of the people who want to make privacy a crime and tinkering and copying and encryption and...
While the founding documents of the U.S. government state otherwise, all rights are by nature transient, you have to keep renewing them.
Sometimes the renewel is costly and sometimes you never get them back. That is one reason firearms are still for the most part legal.
The costs to keep that right, while seemingly enormous, are tiny compared to the costs it will take to keep your right to privacy and communications channels of choice.
The right to privacy, nor the right to 'speak' via any medium was not codified in the forming documents of the US government so protecting it will add substantially to the cost.
Government's fear information flow they cannot control and information it cannot get at, firearms are peanuts in comparison.
A gun is a fancy rock, it cannot make spiritual or secular leaders of any importance, only information and the means to distribute as you will can do that.
Orwells ideas got a boost with the public with the release of the movie Minority Report, damn good view of what our society could become. Whether some of them liked it or loathed it I'll find out when masticated by google [:-} .
Are there minimal PDA's handheld, maybe the core of this game, that could be made to wireless network and also have the capability to IR Scan.
Indestructability is a must of course and running linux or something with a java VM would be a plus.
I'd prefer a bright display solution. The boxes I've seen are hideous and dark a lot of the users keep flashlight around to view them. I say damn the battery life they can hire someone to keep'em charged.
As cheap as this is, it'd be cool if something like it'd work, but I'd probably have to settle for something a bit heftier. But a game console would be super nice for some of the people in the warehouse, they could do much more than the rather braindead machines they have now.
If I knew I could get linux on that little beastie I go ahead and buy it, heck I should anyway it looks cool.
I loath restrictors, the ones that claim that we're too stupid to create wealth in abundance and must cut back. Cutting back on people by some unstated means or restricting the wealth to a fixed number of people.
I love those who create wealth generating tech like this, it's a smack in the teeth to restrictors.
We do wonders with most anything, and we've come a long way from fueling a heating fire with dried dung.
We'd be farther along if we truly had a free market, vegtable oils do smell GREAT [1] when used as a diesel fuel and are, well, edible. I suppose that edible could be considered really good biodegradabilty.;-)
I didn't check but could this be used to make food ? If vegtable oils can do what diesel does why make diesel, just make the dual-use oil.
[1] Check around on making one of those floating candles using olive oil. That smells so good.
If it's the 'bulk' of the herd data, maybe, but it allows niche products to be dumped quicker.
I'd prefer if the cable companies and providers had to guess LONGER if a show was (un)sucessful, at least I can get a few more of my favorite shows in before they cancel it. Since I like mostly scf-fi themed shows, delays in accurate information are usually a good thing. Of course the converse could be true the these entites go for bulk profits.
I'd been wondering when the digital cable boxes, the ones that display obnoxious ads to a captive audience, start doing directed advertisements based on your viewing preferences.
I also am now wondering when you'll get viewing directed popups and stuff you cannot control while watching your favorite show, changing the channel[1], having the TV come on at full volume in the middle of the night with a constipation relief advertisement and a screaming Austrailian yammering that if you're unable to sleep it's cause you hadn't eaten your food out of his new 'rooDung Ware. Not to mentione the bizarre and random channel changes to some new show that's on.
Cable companies could (er will) make it a requirement to whomever manufactures such devices that you'll get bombarded with ads even when you've recorded something. Fast forward might actually work, except on those commercials that paid a fee.
Hmm, we need to get anonymous money really working so people who hate this can pay people who know how to remove it.
J.
[1] I have seen where when changing the channel on one of those boxes at a friends house would require two or three presses to get past a channel. Until this very instant I didn't think it was anything more than poor quaility equipment. And it is poor quality so that's probably it.
WOULD SOMEONE RIPUP THIS CRAP AND LET US PARANOID TYPES KNOW FOR SURE.
If you are still looking for a solution to moving your power supply out
of the box or just to make it quiet.
Remoting all the controls, with limits you can extend the mouse,
monitor, keyboard and other cables. Some research would be needed
if it's a very long distance.
I have seen multiplexers that do ALL of these on one wire but do not
know if they'd pass any gaming spec.
Cooling:
A bit of mistyping but good.
http://www.geocities.com/teranova52/html/pc_coolin g_theory.html I
would use a non corrosive oil of some kind of silicon oil
rather than water.
One overclocker used compressed air
but I don't know if it was quiet,
it piped compressed air in and ran it
back out somewhere away from the computer
area.
Power supplies:
http://www.kepcopower.com/din.htm#acmulti
Look for a nice big one with lots of watts,
these are not cheap.
You would probably need a DC-DC system that
would take the voltage, store and regulate
it a bit as remotely running DC can leave
the remote end starved for power. Look for
an exact voltage to voltage DC-DC converter i.e.
a 12vDC-12vDC converter.
Or just build it, lots of Motorola regulators
come with excellent spec sheets and example
diagrams.
Cheaper power supplies (and some rediculously
large ones, like 200 amp +12/24/etc DC ones):
It helps to have a maker and part number when calling
MAI/Prime parts. These people can help with providing
working large power supplies, surplus or pulls,
they are in Indianapolis and I like them a lot, lots of
neat toys.
http://www.websitea.com/mai/
Here's a cooling article about liquid cooling and noise:
http://librenix.com/?inode=2105
Military style cooling: MAI/prime above as a limited
selection of heat exchangers that use liquid.
http://www.lytron.com/standard/index.htm
Lots of cooling in mil-systems use heat exchange
systems to prevent contamination of the equipment.
Standard cooling would remain in a your box.
Put that in a bigger box and sound proof the hell out
of it.
I've done this with other equipment.
You can build the box out of wood if you want and dress it up
nicely.
Make the box fairly large so that the sound proofing can fit.
You can suspend the computer from a
rack mounted with rubber straps (cut up some rubber
tie downs).
Line the case with most any convienient
sound proofing material, padding from an old speaker
or two can work or specialty products or insulation.
Run your heat exchanger grill/fan inside and position
so it's output will flow in the desired direction. This
will be connected through the case using piping (flexible
is ok if tough enough and is external to the box).
Then you connect this to the pump and the external
heat exchanger which will be located located far away.
This can be very quiet, but quite expensive.
I would HIGHLY recommend that you invest in some butterfly
switches that monitor airflow and use those to sound an alarm
or switch off the AC power, this is beyond this meager text.
I don't trust the bios monitoring much.
One last solution, not good for gaming is to use a
front end that is quiet.
The front end would be one of the smaller PC's preferably disk less fan-less
such as mentioned on/. (the via chips ala cirrus are I think extremely cool
running).
It would be just an vnc or X-terminal to the real horse power that's
located elsewhere.
Eat your quibble Re:A quibble with the article
on
AI in Sci-Fi
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Winner
Description: Probably Ellison's most well-known story. The tyrannical computer AM has taken over the world and now a few humans trapped inside it fight for survival. (Note: Palm versions of this story contain a character representation of a punch card graphic that the original story was published with. To view the original graphic see any of the other formats. The punch card graphic and the Palm character representation of it were approved by Mr. Ellison, and he tells us that both contain a message that few people have ever decoded.)
First Published: 1967
Publisher: Fictionwise.com
Linux users can decode the card.
Re:A better essay by a better SF writer
on
AI in Sci-Fi
·
· Score: 1
You said in less words and with a better reference than I did in my post.
Congrats, good job in pointing out this excellent article.
BTW, Mr. Vinge has two winners out.
A Fire Upon the Deep. and A Deepness in the Sky.
The second I will never forget, ever, it hits very deep indeed.
Recommended reading the article leaves out.
on
AI in Sci-Fi
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· Score: 1
Two Tales of Tommorrow
James P. Hogan
The Compete McAndrew
Charles Sheffield
Two quite unique viewpoints on an AI's response
at gaining sentience. In both, there is an attempt to create a self aware sentient AI. The answers I think are good and interesting to read.
Others of note as well as being a damned good
reads:
Signal to Noise and A Signal Shattered
Eric S. Nylund
Where the AI does is something I as a reader did not have expect. These had hideous covers, I hope this did not effect the readership of this excellent author.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Or how to start a revolution and how to finish it.
Yea, linux is great, run factor on common
numbers.
If I remove the last digit from my SSAN, it's a prime number! Add the last digit and it's a fizzle.
SO!
All you perl, sed, gawk, gasp, list, C, C++
hax0rs get busy, I need something that takes a number and runs many permutations on it factoring
each! Removing an the ending digits, one by one and factoring them. The beginning digits...
Hey, we could have our on Bibble code!
Stir in a laddling of The code of Hammurabi, KJV Gute, K, cOs, rederered into mumbers of course and we will answer all, I mean all of the
questions.
If you are still looking for a solution to moving your power supply out of the box or just to make it quiet.
Remoting all the controls, with limits you can extend the mouse, monitor, keyboard and other cables. Some research would be needed if it's a very long distance. I have seen multiplexers that do ALL of these on one wire but do not know
if they'd pass any gaming spec.
Cooling:
A bit of mistyping but good.
http://www.geocities.com/teranova52/html/pc_coolin g_theory.html
I would use a non corrosive oil of some kind of silicon oil rather than water. One overclocker used compressed air but I don't know if it was quiet, it piped compressed air in and ran it back out somewhere away from the computer area.
Power supplies:
http://www.kepcopower.com/din.htm#acmulti
Look for a nice big one with lots of watts, these are not cheap. You would probably need a DC-DC system that would take the voltage, store and regulate it a bit as remotely running DC can leave the remote end starved for power. Look for an exact voltage to voltage DC-DC converter i.e. a 12vDC-12vDC converter. Or just build it, lots of Motorola regulators come with excellent spec sheets and example diagrams.
Cheaper power supplies (and some rediculously large ones, like 200 amp +12/24/etc DC ones):
It helps to have a maker and part number with MAI/Prime parts. These people can help with providing working large power supplies, surplus or pulls, they are in Indianapolis and I like them a lot, lots of neat toys.
http://www.websitea.com/mai/
Here's a cooling article about liquid cooling and noise: http://librenix.com/?inode=2105
Military style cooling:
MAI/prime above as a limited selection of heat exchangers that use liquid.
http://www.lytron.com/standard/index.htm
Lots of cooling in mil-systems use heat exchange systems to prevent contamination of the equipment. Standard cooling would remain in a your box. Put that in a bigger box and sound proof the hell out of it. I've done this with other equipment. You can build the box out of wood if you want and dress it up nicely. Make the box fairly large so that the sound proofing can fit. You can suspend the computer from a rack mounted with rubber straps (cut up some rubber tie downs). Line the case with most any convienient sound proofing material, padding from an old speaker or two can work or specialty products or insulation. Run your heat exchanger grill/fan inside and position so it's output will flow in the desired direction. This will be connected through the case using piping (flexible is ok if tough enough is external to the box). Then you connect this to the pump and other heat exchanger which are located somewhere. This can be very quiet, but quite expensive.
One last solution, not good for gaming is to use a front end that is quiet. The front end would be one of the smaller PC's preferably fan-less such as mentioned on/. (the via chips ala cirrus are I think extremely cool running). It would be just an X-terminal to the real horse power that's located elsewhere.
At one time I had a 4.5' (yea foot) case, it was great till I had to move it around. It required extention cables for almost everything, had a 500watt power supply and a switch large enough to start a small nuclear war. The power supply died and for the price of a replacement at the time I bought a new smaller case, some ram and had money left over.
Now I like powerful and small, especially when building internet boxes for newbies. It is nice to pocket part of the difference rather than put it in the computer you sell, especially when you've saved them a fairly large amount of money over prebuilds.
It was ages ago that I was of the opinion that integrated components were bad. This was from experience and for economic reasons. Experience dictated that a plug in device would fail. Economics dictated that a motherboard was horribly expensive.
As costs have plummeted and devices that normally would be on a plug in card have become more reliable and the mechanisms for disabling onboard devices have become more reliable. I've reconsidered 'glue and go' motherboards for some applications.
I've built several of these for friends and family using several vendors of these styles of motherboards and have had a low dissatisfaction level.
I would not use one for myself, I love my audio and video card too much. But I do have a couple of file boxes built on 'glue and go' motherboards and they do what I want and at a good price.
My main gripe was that it would not read in my
old data. When I went to enter the new data it wouldn't shut up about saving records, which means about 200 clicks. Also it's auto fill in features are worthless for bulk data entry of disparate items.
I did like the earlier version but it refused to
compile on RH8, this was the latest as of maybe February.
You may adore using vi to edit XML by hand, I don't. That's not my job anyway it's the programs.
I'll probably buy the program, it's cheap, alot
cheaper than my time editing an unknown XML document by hand, with vi, might as well have offered me esmacks.
Good, rational, calm, response.
For 30 bux you sir have deal as soon as your poor little devil of a freebsd is working.
As long as I can bulk enter a couple of hundred transactions with out getting yelled to save each and every one (gnu-cash).
Oddly enough the other stuff is just icing.
J.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you for a well done article.
:->)
Out here in Indianapolis you can go over to the
Coke Cola plant, plunk down a hefty[note1] deposit and pick you a can of premix, add a can of CO2 a chiller and I think they have the cheapie hose and nozels or they know where to get them. This is 5 gallons of soda MUCH cheaper than this authors solution (even if I drool over the possibilites).
I called, I emailed, I didn't write Pepsi, they refused every effort on my part to do any sort of home vending other than sending me to a place that sold syrup in a box (at rip off prices in small lots). Real unpleasant people very ignorant of their own products. I suppose if it ain't got pink nipples sticking out of it, they don't know what to do.
Note 1: Damn you home brewers, just cause it was a 75 dollar deposit doesn't mean you can just keep the can, brew your beer in it mount it in a junk refrigerator and vend cold beer out the front. At 4 cans a refrig, the good people at Coke Cola had to raise the deposit on the tanks to near purchase price! So what if 5 gallons of the best Spudwiser is only 8 bucks and takes 30 days?
I cannot get it to print, gs is my friend (sort of).
Bandwidth would not be a problem if the device could store and transmit it when it or the network had time.
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c ope_ Professional_CD_Recorder__CD_Recorder_CDR300
Search terms in google three of them:
Leave + and " intact.
+"digital audio recorder" +2hrs
+"minidisk recorder"
+"CD Recorder"
http://www.thespystore.com/digitalvoicerecorder
I don't know these people, they popped up on google. Looks excellent though for 99 bux
USB to pc.
That's just the first one on the page.
You'd have to get specs.
If you want to burn to miniCD, you click here
http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfin
Full CD
http://www.epinions.com/Marantz_CDR300_Supers
They will work but you'll need to go to a bit
of trouble to shield it. Either RFI paint or tacking foil onto the wood making sure you have a passable farad cage.
Metal would be easier, using inserts as someone else said and a standard case would be best.
If you can code try to fix it, if not donate money.
Matrox has been the tops when it comes to providing enough information to program it's hardware (ok so they took convincing). There are a lot of linux workstations sold commercially with Matrox and Linux (compaq)
It's may be a legal problem:
This concerns the HAL portion that turns on dual head (exerpt from readme):
"Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of intellectual property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the library and prohibits reverse engineering but allows free distribution under any operating system. Matrox encourages members of the open source community to freely distribute and assist in the further development of this driver."
For pointers to TV-out:
http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/
From that you can make it work or see this mention in the page authors howto:
"The latest version (0.9.16) includes TV-out support for the G400/G450/G550"
I have a G450 and am !very! happy with it. TV-out was a toy to me and if it were a problem I'd just buy a VGA-video converter. Or build one or just buy a 100inch SharpVision projector (drool drool), I've played quake on one(drool drool).
>And at the time, this actually made some sense.
>The government had no standing army, relying
>instead on a citizen militia in times of war.
Actually the milita is subject to civilian control just like the military only at the state level. If local governors were so fearful of them all they had to do was activate them and use the self-procaimed milita's words as proof they'd volunteered. Then put them to work cleaning ditches or 'guarding the northern boarders' or some such. no problem. See your state laws for details. Of course if they disagreed there are some serious penelties, very serious in some cases.
Actually the right to bear arms applies to every person who happens to be breathing.
Information has always been the critical factor, why do you think the US government registers the press and it's reporters?
>>and has the advantage that its much harder to >>shoot people by accident.
Arms are not there to sway political opinion and I'd be pleased to see someone fertilizing food for poor people who would do so. Information collection and disemination are the key to that.
Arms are there mostly as a last resort, as such it's easy to dismiss them and let the need for them be obscured.
For the layman it's about guns and this was off the cuff. You are correct, I would state it more viciously though.
I don't speak of or worship a piece of paper, do some research on Indiana's state constitution as presented to Thomas Jefferson. How the state GOT statehood then exterminated (effectively) the citizens that made it a state. Then how they shredded the original constitution for a special interest one.
Paper is inflamable even if you don't burn it.
>>Guns are NOT just a fancy rock. Their are in the >>bill of rights to allow the citizens that right >>to over turn an oppressive government.
From a technical stand point they are and they are useless to overthrow ANYTHING with out information flow. I only have two hands and can only carry about 200 rounds + all the other
stuff you'd need. Information buys you a support base for resupply, etc etc.
I do not disagree with your assesment otherwise.
I probably should have sterilized this from troll bait, it wasn't intended as a troll.
So do you want firearms ONLY in the hands of the people who want to make privacy a crime and tinkering and copying and encryption and ...
While the founding documents of the U.S. government state otherwise, all rights are by nature transient, you have to keep renewing them.
Sometimes the renewel is costly and sometimes you never get them back. That is one reason firearms are still for the most part legal.
The costs to keep that right, while seemingly enormous, are tiny compared to the costs it will take to keep your right to privacy and communications channels of choice.
The right to privacy, nor the right to 'speak' via any medium was not codified in the forming documents of the US government so protecting it will add substantially to the cost.
Government's fear information flow they cannot control and information it cannot get at, firearms are peanuts in comparison.
A gun is a fancy rock, it cannot make spiritual or secular leaders of any importance, only information and the means to distribute as you will can do that.
Orwells ideas got a boost with the public with the release of the movie Minority Report, damn good view of what our society could become. Whether some of them liked it or loathed it I'll find out when masticated by google [:-} .
Are there minimal PDA's handheld, maybe the core of this game, that could be made to wireless network and also have the capability to IR Scan.
Indestructability is a must of course and running
linux or something with a java VM would be a plus.
I'd prefer a bright display solution. The boxes I've seen are hideous and dark a lot of the users keep flashlight around to view them. I say damn the battery life they can hire someone to keep'em charged.
As cheap as this is, it'd be cool if something like it'd work, but I'd probably have to settle for something a bit heftier. But a game console would be super nice for some of the people in the warehouse, they could do much more than the rather braindead machines they have now.
If I knew I could get linux on that little beastie I go ahead and buy it, heck I should anyway it looks cool.
I loath restrictors, the ones that claim that we're too stupid to create wealth in abundance and must cut back. Cutting back on people by some unstated means or restricting the wealth to a fixed number of people. I love those who create wealth generating tech like this, it's a smack in the teeth to restrictors. We do wonders with most anything, and we've come a long way from fueling a heating fire with dried dung. We'd be farther along if we truly had a free market, vegtable oils do smell GREAT [1] when used as a diesel fuel and are, well, edible. I suppose that edible could be considered really good biodegradabilty. ;-)
I didn't check but could this be used to make food ? If vegtable oils can do what diesel does why make diesel, just make the dual-use oil.
[1] Check around on making one of those floating candles using olive oil. That smells so good.
If it's the 'bulk' of the herd data, maybe, but it allows niche products to be dumped quicker.
I'd prefer if the cable companies and providers had to guess LONGER if a show was (un)sucessful, at least I can get a few more of my favorite shows in before they cancel it. Since I like mostly scf-fi themed shows, delays in accurate information are usually a good thing. Of course the converse could be true the these entites go for bulk profits.
I'd been wondering when the digital cable boxes, the ones that display obnoxious ads to a captive audience, start doing directed advertisements based on your viewing preferences.
I also am now wondering when you'll get viewing directed popups and stuff you cannot control while watching your favorite show, changing the channel[1], having the TV come on at full volume in the middle of the night with a constipation relief advertisement and a screaming Austrailian yammering that if you're unable to sleep it's cause you hadn't eaten your food out of his new 'rooDung Ware. Not to mentione the bizarre and random channel changes to some new show that's on.
Cable companies could (er will) make it a requirement to whomever manufactures such devices that you'll get bombarded with ads even when you've recorded something. Fast forward might actually work, except on those commercials that paid a fee.
Hmm, we need to get anonymous money really working so people who hate this can pay people who know how to remove it.
J.
[1] I have seen where when changing the channel on one of those boxes at a friends house would require two or three presses to get past a channel. Until this very instant I didn't think it was anything more than poor quaility equipment. And it is poor quality so that's probably it.
WOULD SOMEONE RIPUP THIS CRAP AND LET US PARANOID TYPES KNOW FOR SURE.
http://www.solenagroup.com/html/tech/tech.asp
http://www.changingworldtech.com/news.html http://www.ad-astra.net/cgi-bin/BBS/SpacePolicy/re ad/35926
I thought Replay was going to install some sort
of involutary Neilsen system in their units.
They also were an odd bunch as well.
Remoting all the controls, with limits you can extend the mouse, monitor, keyboard and other cables. Some research would be needed if it's a very long distance.
I have seen multiplexers that do ALL of these on one wire but do not know if they'd pass any gaming spec.
Cooling: A bit of mistyping but good. http://www.geocities.com/teranova52/html/pc_coolin g_theory.html I
would use a non corrosive oil of some kind of silicon oil
rather than water.
One overclocker used compressed air but I don't know if it was quiet, it piped compressed air in and ran it back out somewhere away from the computer area.
Power supplies: http://www.kepcopower.com/din.htm#acmulti Look for a nice big one with lots of watts, these are not cheap.
You would probably need a DC-DC system that would take the voltage, store and regulate it a bit as remotely running DC can leave the remote end starved for power. Look for an exact voltage to voltage DC-DC converter i.e. a 12vDC-12vDC converter.
Or just build it, lots of Motorola regulators come with excellent spec sheets and example diagrams.
Cheaper power supplies (and some rediculously large ones, like 200 amp +12/24/etc DC ones):
It helps to have a maker and part number when calling MAI/Prime parts. These people can help with providing working large power supplies, surplus or pulls, they are in Indianapolis and I like them a lot, lots of neat toys.
http://www.websitea.com/mai/
Here's a cooling article about liquid cooling and noise: http://librenix.com/?inode=2105
Military style cooling: MAI/prime above as a limited selection of heat exchangers that use liquid. http://www.lytron.com/standard/index.htm
Lots of cooling in mil-systems use heat exchange systems to prevent contamination of the equipment.
Standard cooling would remain in a your box.
Put that in a bigger box and sound proof the hell out of it.
I've done this with other equipment.
You can build the box out of wood if you want and dress it up nicely.
Make the box fairly large so that the sound proofing can fit. You can suspend the computer from a rack mounted with rubber straps (cut up some rubber tie downs). Line the case with most any convienient sound proofing material, padding from an old speaker or two can work or specialty products or insulation.
Run your heat exchanger grill/fan inside and position so it's output will flow in the desired direction. This will be connected through the case using piping (flexible is ok if tough enough and is external to the box). Then you connect this to the pump and the external heat exchanger which will be located located far away. This can be very quiet, but quite expensive.
I would HIGHLY recommend that you invest in some butterfly switches that monitor airflow and use those to sound an alarm or switch off the AC power, this is beyond this meager text. I don't trust the bios monitoring much.
One last solution, not good for gaming is to use a front end that is quiet.
The front end would be one of the smaller PC's preferably disk less fan-less such as mentioned on /. (the via chips ala cirrus are I think extremely cool
running).
It would be just an vnc or X-terminal to the real horse power that's located elsewhere.
Category: Science Fiction
Hugo Award Winner
Description: Probably Ellison's most well-known story. The tyrannical computer AM has taken over the world and now a few humans trapped inside it fight for survival. (Note: Palm versions of this story contain a character representation of a punch card graphic that the original story was published with. To view the original graphic see any of the other formats. The punch card graphic and the Palm character representation of it were approved by Mr. Ellison, and he tells us that both contain a message that few people have ever decoded.)
First Published: 1967
Publisher: Fictionwise.com
Linux users can decode the card.
You said in less words and with a better reference than I did in my post.
Congrats, good job in pointing out this excellent article.
BTW, Mr. Vinge has two winners out.
A Fire Upon the Deep.
and
A Deepness in the Sky.
The second I will never forget, ever, it hits very deep indeed.
Two quite unique viewpoints on an AI's response at gaining sentience. In both, there is an attempt to create a self aware sentient AI. The answers I think are good and interesting to read.
Others of note as well as being a damned good reads:
Signal to Noise and A Signal Shattered Eric S. Nylund
Where the AI does is something I as a reader did not have expect. These had hideous covers, I hope this did not effect the readership of this excellent author.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein
Or how to start a revolution and how to finish it.
He didn't get to bring Mike back in later novels.
Yea, linux is great, run factor on common numbers. If I remove the last digit from my SSAN, it's a prime number! Add the last digit and it's a fizzle. SO! All you perl, sed, gawk, gasp, list, C, C++ hax0rs get busy, I need something that takes a number and runs many permutations on it factoring each! Removing an the ending digits, one by one and factoring them. The beginning digits... Hey, we could have our on Bibble code! Stir in a laddling of The code of Hammurabi, KJV Gute, K, cOs, rederered into mumbers of course and we will answer all, I mean all of the questions.
If you are still looking for a solution to moving your power supply out of the box or just to make it quiet. Remoting all the controls, with limits you can extend the mouse, monitor, keyboard and other cables. Some research would be needed if it's a very long distance. I have seen multiplexers that do ALL of these on one wire but do not know if they'd pass any gaming spec. Cooling: A bit of mistyping but good. http://www.geocities.com/teranova52/html/pc_coolin g_theory.html
I would use a non corrosive oil of some kind of silicon oil rather than water. One overclocker used compressed air but I don't know if it was quiet, it piped compressed air in and ran it back out somewhere away from the computer area.
Power supplies:
http://www.kepcopower.com/din.htm#acmulti
Look for a nice big one with lots of watts, these are not cheap. You would probably need a DC-DC system that would take the voltage, store and regulate it a bit as remotely running DC can leave the remote end starved for power. Look for an exact voltage to voltage DC-DC converter i.e. a 12vDC-12vDC converter. Or just build it, lots of Motorola regulators come with excellent spec sheets and example diagrams.
Cheaper power supplies (and some rediculously large ones, like 200 amp +12/24/etc DC ones):
It helps to have a maker and part number with MAI/Prime parts. These people can help with providing working large power supplies, surplus or pulls, they are in Indianapolis and I like them a lot, lots of neat toys.
http://www.websitea.com/mai/
Here's a cooling article about liquid cooling and noise: http://librenix.com/?inode=2105
Military style cooling:
MAI/prime above as a limited selection of heat exchangers that use liquid.
http://www.lytron.com/standard/index.htm
Lots of cooling in mil-systems use heat exchange systems to prevent contamination of the equipment. Standard cooling would remain in a your box. Put that in a bigger box and sound proof the hell out of it. I've done this with other equipment. You can build the box out of wood if you want and dress it up nicely. Make the box fairly large so that the sound proofing can fit. You can suspend the computer from a rack mounted with rubber straps (cut up some rubber tie downs). Line the case with most any convienient sound proofing material, padding from an old speaker or two can work or specialty products or insulation. Run your heat exchanger grill/fan inside and position so it's output will flow in the desired direction. This will be connected through the case using piping (flexible is ok if tough enough is external to the box). Then you connect this to the pump and other heat exchanger which are located somewhere. This can be very quiet, but quite expensive.
One last solution, not good for gaming is to use a front end that is quiet. The front end would be one of the smaller PC's preferably fan-less such as mentioned on /. (the via chips ala cirrus are I think extremely cool running). It would be just an X-terminal to the real horse power that's located elsewhere.
At one time I had a 4.5' (yea foot) case, it was great till I had to move it around. It required extention cables for almost everything, had a 500watt power supply and a switch large enough to start a small nuclear war. The power supply died and for the price of a replacement at the time I bought a new smaller case, some ram and had money left over. Now I like powerful and small, especially when building internet boxes for newbies. It is nice to pocket part of the difference rather than put it in the computer you sell, especially when you've saved them a fairly large amount of money over prebuilds.
It was ages ago that I was of the opinion that integrated components were bad. This was from experience and for economic reasons. Experience dictated that a plug in device would fail. Economics dictated that a motherboard was horribly expensive.
As costs have plummeted and devices that normally would be on a plug in card have become more reliable and the mechanisms for disabling onboard devices have become more reliable. I've reconsidered 'glue and go' motherboards for some applications.
I've built several of these for friends and family
using several vendors of these styles of motherboards and have had a low dissatisfaction level.
I would not use one for myself, I love my audio and video card too much. But I do have a couple of file boxes built on 'glue and go' motherboards and they do what I want and at a good price.
My main gripe was that it would not read in my old data. When I went to enter the new data it wouldn't shut up about saving records, which means about 200 clicks. Also it's auto fill in features are worthless for bulk data entry of disparate items. I did like the earlier version but it refused to compile on RH8, this was the latest as of maybe February. You may adore using vi to edit XML by hand, I don't. That's not my job anyway it's the programs. I'll probably buy the program, it's cheap, alot cheaper than my time editing an unknown XML document by hand, with vi, might as well have offered me esmacks.
Good, rational, calm, response. For 30 bux you sir have deal as soon as your poor little devil of a freebsd is working. As long as I can bulk enter a couple of hundred transactions with out getting yelled to save each and every one (gnu-cash). Oddly enough the other stuff is just icing. J.