How long will a HD last on AA batteries? with the chip to be powered also this could put quite a drian on those litttle duracels and energizers. I would hate to see the batteries fail while the drive was writing data, or updating the FAT.
He was just another guy in the 70's writing cheap sci-fi. his low budget film just happened to come along at the right time to start what is now his "empire." His movie was a decent story but not that great. Feel free to bring on your flames.
we could have a computer setup to feed it images from any source, not just the other side. Imagine your new wall sized TV, with proper DRM of course(HA!) and the outdoor simulator for those rainy days when you'd like sun. or if you want it sunny and cool, not blazing hot wire it to your AC thermostat!
I hate to say this but, "the experts" can't make anything decent looking to save their life. Every thing they make is bulbuos and gaudy. The hardware and software. granted they perfrom well, but when it comes to how it looks, I would not want one on my desk. I'll keep my square, black rackmount case any day.
granted a steam engine would be cool, but to accually compute by steam many steam pistons and levers would be needed to make the accual mechanisms, not just the drive. it's like saying desktops compute with electriciy, they realle just run off of it.
The first thing I do on ANY box is goto every option there is and set it back to the way I had it! then I install all my drivers, updates, and programs and set all thier options correctly. It's a really big hassle on a windows box.
for years I have been willing to pay more for telev ision where I don't have to watch commercials or even the golf channel. BET has to be a bad one also. I am even willing to pay for basic cable plus 1$ per channel that I want, just to not recieve the channels I don't want. I hope this trend continues.
let me say I do see the sarcasm in your post, but seriously, any buisness that wants to survive has to learn to adapt. if the telcos don't adapt they will die. maybe, since they already have most the voip, internet backbones, and major connectoins they should provide a voip phone service to go with your new DSL line. my cable modem company is trying to get me to buy into it, but they cost to much.:)
most of the thing the telcos do is VoIP already! the pstn is just for that last mile. once your connection hits the nearest box, it becomes Voip and is shot over the internet to the next nearest box to the other conversationist and back into a soiund singnal. this just gets rid of the middle man. there is no reason to have to have two different connections for what should be the ame thing! The telco are holding back the emergence of voip just like the oil co's were doing for the electric car. Does any one else realize they don't have monopoly on communication any more?
This is the slashdot effect. They recieved to much traffic from their site being posted on/. when all the geeks flooded their server and accidentally DDoS-ed them. Get used to it.
right now a cellular modem is the best idea. but to use WIFI, get a router that runs a 12v (linksys makes one) then power that from your car (unless that VW is a wierd 9v model) get a wireless router with NAT to secure your computers and then a few directoinal anntennea for the best signal, pluss some mounting hardware for it. You should be good.
the key to useing zip ties, it to keep each cable separate and zip tie it only to itself. If you do need to bundle cables, keep power and data cables separate, and only bundle cables that go to and from the same box (ie: a cable modem that uses a cat5 cable, but your computer has a TV tuner card coming from the cable modem also, the same place as the network cable)the zip ties should only be used to shorten cables, not to secure them to things. If you do sercure them, use a separte one to shorten them. Use the right size ties, and cut off any of the excess length without pinching your cables. And finally buy alot of them and don't be afriad to cut them off at a moments notice. Hope it helped.
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How long will a HD last on AA batteries? with the chip to be powered also this could put quite a drian on those litttle duracels and energizers. I would hate to see the batteries fail while the drive was writing data, or updating the FAT.
He was just another guy in the 70's writing cheap sci-fi. his low budget film just happened to come along at the right time to start what is now his "empire." His movie was a decent story but not that great. Feel free to bring on your flames.
I'll be damned if i let some cell pphone toting war driver get into my network.looks like it's time to bump up the security abit.
homey, git yer' MAC filter, a diercoinal anntener', and yer shot gun. We's goin' to WAR!
this means somebody paid for an album by the Beastie Boys!
this time it's not people, but webspace!
we could have a computer setup to feed it images from any source, not just the other side. Imagine your new wall sized TV, with proper DRM of course(HA!) and the outdoor simulator for those rainy days when you'd like sun. or if you want it sunny and cool, not blazing hot wire it to your AC thermostat!
maybe use TCP/IP over USB? Windows could do it!
I hate to say this but, "the experts" can't make anything decent looking to save their life. Every thing they make is bulbuos and gaudy. The hardware and software. granted they perfrom well, but when it comes to how it looks, I would not want one on my desk. I'll keep my square, black rackmount case any day.
granted a steam engine would be cool, but to accually compute by steam many steam pistons and levers would be needed to make the accual mechanisms, not just the drive. it's like saying desktops compute with electriciy, they realle just run off of it.
lost the link but /. reported on a howto make you own speaker. same simple setup, still pretty cool.
To see what the Wizard will look like!
The first thing I do on ANY box is goto every option there is and set it back to the way I had it! then I install all my drivers, updates, and programs and set all thier options correctly. It's a really big hassle on a windows box.
for years I have been willing to pay more for telev ision where I don't have to watch commercials or even the golf channel. BET has to be a bad one also. I am even willing to pay for basic cable plus 1$ per channel that I want, just to not recieve the channels I don't want. I hope this trend continues.
and still we download it for free? what could we be thinking? If the price went down (all the way) we'd still download it for free. :)
let me say I do see the sarcasm in your post, but seriously, any buisness that wants to survive has to learn to adapt. if the telcos don't adapt they will die. maybe, since they already have most the voip, internet backbones, and major connectoins they should provide a voip phone service to go with your new DSL line. my cable modem company is trying to get me to buy into it, but they cost to much. :)
most of the thing the telcos do is VoIP already! the pstn is just for that last mile. once your connection hits the nearest box, it becomes Voip and is shot over the internet to the next nearest box to the other conversationist and back into a soiund singnal. this just gets rid of the middle man. there is no reason to have to have two different connections for what should be the ame thing! The telco are holding back the emergence of voip just like the oil co's were doing for the electric car. Does any one else realize they don't have monopoly on communication any more?
This is the slashdot effect. They recieved to much traffic from their site being posted on /. when all the geeks flooded their server and accidentally DDoS-ed them. Get used to it.
we still have ogg :)
before this things boils itself through the desk?
all that britian has is a gaint speed trap. As long as they aren't running red lights or speeding, the terrorists in Britain won't get cuaght.
It's bad when a corperation is building your neighborhood, I can see why he doesn't like it.
right now a cellular modem is the best idea. but to use WIFI, get a router that runs a 12v (linksys makes one) then power that from your car (unless that VW is a wierd 9v model) get a wireless router with NAT to secure your computers and then a few directoinal anntennea for the best signal, pluss some mounting hardware for it. You should be good.
the key to useing zip ties, it to keep each cable separate and zip tie it only to itself. If you do need to bundle cables, keep power and data cables separate, and only bundle cables that go to and from the same box (ie: a cable modem that uses a cat5 cable, but your computer has a TV tuner card coming from the cable modem also, the same place as the network cable)the zip ties should only be used to shorten cables, not to secure them to things. If you do sercure them, use a separte one to shorten them. Use the right size ties, and cut off any of the excess length without pinching your cables. And finally buy alot of them and don't be afriad to cut them off at a moments notice. Hope it helped.
It should just be a network drive that you can copy all your songs onto from ANY computer on your network, so how is it "not" compatable?
that loud roar that you will eventuaaly get used to and forget, is so cool to hear when they all wind down upon shutdown!