Sometimes you pre-order and have it delivered, and it will arrive on the release date in your mailbox (on your doorstep, what ever, probably door step as most places go UPS or FedEx vs USPS). Saves you the time of having to go out and get it. (As was the case of one of the LotR movies ordered from Costco). Of course, some might not ship it until the release date, so you have to wait a few days for it to show up(or not, depending on the shipping option). You still have to wait, but it will be shipped and because it was in stock instead of on back order.
Intersting stuff there, both the boards seem to offer IDE on board, so go and get a big hard drive directly to the board (would need some 44pin 2.5" IDE latptop -> normal IDE plug though because they got the 44 on board). Neat also the PC Cards and PCI slot, could have lots of fun with that. (I'm looking at the specs for the 230).
I wanna confirm this, I can have the capture card in one box, and change the channels and everything on another box correct? (If this is the way, then I see no use of my VCR, just use the capture card in my computer and my Xbox to watch the live TV).
For the batteries, if it is maintaining the voltage at a "float voltage" the batteries can be held nearly indefintly without a discharge or worry of overcharging. Lead acids have a float voltage of about 2.35 volts/cel (based on some quick googling). They will still die after some time. But I don't know what technology, size, or how the UPSes actually using the batteries. If I was DIY a UPS, I would have about 10 12Volt batteries (no transformers...), drive them off a full-wave rectifier, filter the power from the rectifier a bit, and then invert the power to make it back to AC and use my equipment off that. Advantage, I am always off the batteries, disadvantage, I have no monitoring ability and if I was to set the incoming voltage to the float voltage, it will probably take a while to charge.
They mention that it was the end of an era dating to the 1950's, what exactly are they referering too? Are they referering to the fact that the blockhouses are no longer near the rocket? Launching on land?
He asked his girlfriend how many she had sucked and she said, something like 36. Dante wanted to know if that has including him, then she changed her answer to 37. Then you had the "37, my girlfriend sucked 37 dicks" line.
From what I understand, it isn't so much a specific interferance as just a raising of the static noise so that signals which would have been receivable before fade into the noise.
Skimming the claims on the Patent Application there are lots of references to the communications and mass storage being in a seperate device, claim 3:
3. A home video game system according to claim 1, wherein said communications circuitry and said mass storage device are housed in an expansion device and said video game processing system is housed in a separate video game console which is coupled to said expansion device.
So I don't think XBox would have any problems (its network and hard drive aren't expansion), but the PS2 might be(Network adapter is attached to back of unit, but the hard drive does sit within the PS2, just connected to network adapter)
The article says AM broadcasting towers, which means very little. TV signals (at least the NTSC based broadcast over the air in the States) use an AM like signal for the Video and an FM based audio, so depending on your definition they are both a FM and AM broadcast tower. For the AM broadcasting, do they mean the broadcast band (which I think for most of the world is in the range.5 - 1.8 MHz), or do they mean shortwave (I think 3-30 MHz)?
If it is just for NAS work, then only have the servers necessary to share the files, and perhaps a SSH server to modify configurations. Leave everything else out, the less stuff running on it, the less stuff to have to keep patched up for security reasons.
To me the ideal disto would probably fit in under 100 MB, just need the servers, network support files, and a way to get in and edit files. If the machine has a monitor that can be used, perhaps you don't need SSH or any other remote method of getting into the machine. And the smaller the distro installed on it, the more space on the hard drives for the files. Perhaps the distro could be set to run off of CD, with only the config files on the hard drive.
I found that unless both machines were of a recent vintage, samba seems to hit a limit. Exmaple being my current computer AMD 2400XP running Linux 2.4.24, to a AMD 500 K6-2 running Linux 2.4.20 tops off about 1 MB sec on a 100 Mb/sec network. Contrast my current computer (2400 one) to a friends 2600XP running Win2K, I was seeing about 6-7 MB/sec. (and a 25% CPU usage...)
I have found that FTP seems to use the bandwidth up better if you want to test it. Computer xbox I can get 7-9 MB/sec on a 100 Mb/sec connection.
You might also look into some network bandwidth tools that just go to and from memory and are designed for testing network speeds.
NEC MultiSync 4PG 27" monitor. CRT, direct view weighing about 120 pounds. Specs say it can handle 15-50 KHz Horizontal, 40-120 Hz Vertical. Has composite and S-Video connectors(and switch to go NTSC and PAL), and 5BNC and 15HD RGB connectors. Combined that with a transcoder to go from component on games/DVD to RGB and I can do 480i,480p,1080i,720p.
Best part, the price. $150 at a University surplus sale.
My brother had me get one for him as well, he uses it at 1024x768 on his computer, and sometimes a game system through the s-video.
As other comment-posters have pointed out if was only availble via Nintendo's store website. The component cable also had a DAC in the cable so no third-party cables could be made. Sony and Microsoft put out an analog signal for the video out of the console.
It is also worth to note that by playing with the chip and pins they could get RGB signal out of it (only option IIRC for people with NTSC gamecubes to get RGB out, the signals aren't on the analog like it was on the N64/SNES(usually)), and they also found a point to attach a generic spdif audio chip to get the 48 KHz SPDIF compatible signal.
B5 also had some just plain intersting episodes. An example is the episode where you just followed the janitors arround.
Definitly agreeing with the plot continuity in B5. If it was damaged/destroyed in one episode, it usually wasn't repaired/replaced by the time the next episode. None of this blow up a chunk of the ship in a fight, next episode act like nothing happened. That and the story build up. It is fun watching the first season and seeing the foreshadowing.
Same thing here, except I just burned them out, no fire. Although I did get one drive to run when plugged in that way. (Did this about 6 years ago with equipment which was early 90's, late 80's era I think)
Don't forget Powell's bookstore. Bigger than a city block and (from their site talking about "Powell's City of Books" (main store) it is the "the largest used and new bookstore in the world"(page.) You want to see a 1,000,000 books in stock, talk a walk through there. The technical bookstore (about 2 blocks away) has lots of interesting books as well.
Or at the college I am attending: high out going bandwidth(IE >1GB/day seems to be the cut off point) == turned off internet access and you get to attend a copyright seminar (unless they see that it was caused by a virus, in which it just needs to be cleaned up) get caught a 2nd time (non-virus related), internet turned off for 4 months (and you have to be attending, so no doing it in may and assuming you are off the hook when you get back from summer break in September) I can't remember if it is the 3rd or 4th time that you are banned from ever using your own computer (or at least one registered in your name) on the network.
Or and on a side, while I was able to achieve about 800KB/sec my frosh year to the internet, they flipped on BW limiters and I now top off at 80KB/sec (yes, that first one is bytes), so while they may offer you high speed w/in campus, it might be slow accessing the general internet.
The USB pen drive is advantagous, especially because every computer I use on campus has USB and will recognize the pen drive.
I wouldn't use FTP servers to run all the way home, but I would use FTP servers run by the school (staying under the 50MB limit IIRC) to move stuff if I didn't have a pen drive and couldn't get to a CD-R.
But yeah, most of the machines I am around usually (ok, just the lab I watch a few hours a week) have Zip drives, but the seem to be phasing them out in the last batch of new computers. Last time I used a zip drive was I think on a mac connected though its SCSI port booting off of it (an old Zip100 that, I also had the Iomega ISA SCSI card for in my Linux box pre-non ISA motherboard).
But lets see 35GB, thats ~9 DVDRs(Say 4GB a disk so still 36GB). 9 DVDRs will run you about what <$20? and you wouldn't need the special drive to read the disk (but it would be a slower writing process, and we don't know the exact life of retention on the burnable DVDs).
Or perhaps they could just have the head-end router hi-jack their webconnections and redirect to a disconnect page of some sort. Disable anything outgoing that was non-web durring that time as well. (At least the college campus I am on does that, lots better than just shutting off the port on the wall so you are left wondering what the problem is like last year. Although it only affects your off campus access, so you are still free to bombard the computers inside the campus)
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Yeah, it isn't just a chip, but put the bigger engine in and the associated other electronics(higher power fuel system, ect) and then you can add a chip to play with the engine.
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Sometimes you pre-order and have it delivered, and it will arrive on the release date in your mailbox (on your doorstep, what ever, probably door step as most places go UPS or FedEx vs USPS). Saves you the time of having to go out and get it. (As was the case of one of the LotR movies ordered from Costco).
Of course, some might not ship it until the release date, so you have to wait a few days for it to show up(or not, depending on the shipping option). You still have to wait, but it will be shipped and because it was in stock instead of on back order.
Intersting stuff there, both the boards seem to offer IDE on board, so go and get a big hard drive directly to the board (would need some 44pin 2.5" IDE latptop -> normal IDE plug though because they got the 44 on board). Neat also the PC Cards and PCI slot, could have lots of fun with that. (I'm looking at the specs for the 230).
I wanna confirm this, I can have the capture card in one box, and change the channels and everything on another box correct? (If this is the way, then I see no use of my VCR, just use the capture card in my computer and my Xbox to watch the live TV).
For the batteries, if it is maintaining the voltage at a "float voltage" the batteries can be held nearly indefintly without a discharge or worry of overcharging. Lead acids have a float voltage of about 2.35 volts/cel (based on some quick googling). They will still die after some time.
But I don't know what technology, size, or how the UPSes actually using the batteries.
If I was DIY a UPS, I would have about 10 12Volt batteries (no transformers...), drive them off a full-wave rectifier, filter the power from the rectifier a bit, and then invert the power to make it back to AC and use my equipment off that. Advantage, I am always off the batteries, disadvantage, I have no monitoring ability and if I was to set the incoming voltage to the float voltage, it will probably take a while to charge.
They mention that it was the end of an era dating to the 1950's, what exactly are they referering too? Are they referering to the fact that the blockhouses are no longer near the rocket? Launching on land?
He asked his girlfriend how many she had sucked and she said, something like 36. Dante wanted to know if that has including him, then she changed her answer to 37. Then you had the "37, my girlfriend sucked 37 dicks" line.
I think broadband just means it uses more bandwidth for the signal (as opposed to a normal telephone modem which is narrowband)
From what I understand, it isn't so much a specific interferance as just a raising of the static noise so that signals which would have been receivable before fade into the noise.
So I don't think XBox would have any problems (its network and hard drive aren't expansion), but the PS2 might be(Network adapter is attached to back of unit, but the hard drive does sit within the PS2, just connected to network adapter)
But what do I know, I am NAL.
The article says AM broadcasting towers, which means very little. TV signals (at least the NTSC based broadcast over the air in the States) use an AM like signal for the Video and an FM based audio, so depending on your definition they are both a FM and AM broadcast tower. .5 - 1.8 MHz), or do they mean shortwave (I think 3-30 MHz)?
For the AM broadcasting, do they mean the broadcast band (which I think for most of the world is in the range
If it is just for NAS work, then only have the servers necessary to share the files, and perhaps a SSH server to modify configurations. Leave everything else out, the less stuff running on it, the less stuff to have to keep patched up for security reasons.
To me the ideal disto would probably fit in under 100 MB, just need the servers, network support files, and a way to get in and edit files. If the machine has a monitor that can be used, perhaps you don't need SSH or any other remote method of getting into the machine.
And the smaller the distro installed on it, the more space on the hard drives for the files. Perhaps the distro could be set to run off of CD, with only the config files on the hard drive.
I belive the Nintendo thing was emulating a handheld on another handheld GBA and optimizing it or something like that. /. article: Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down
I found that unless both machines were of a recent vintage, samba seems to hit a limit. Exmaple being my current computer AMD 2400XP running Linux 2.4.24, to a AMD 500 K6-2 running Linux 2.4.20 tops off about 1 MB sec on a 100 Mb/sec network. Contrast my current computer (2400 one) to a friends 2600XP running Win2K, I was seeing about 6-7 MB/sec. (and a 25% CPU usage...)
I have found that FTP seems to use the bandwidth up better if you want to test it. Computer xbox I can get 7-9 MB/sec on a 100 Mb/sec connection.
You might also look into some network bandwidth tools that just go to and from memory and are designed for testing network speeds.
NEC MultiSync 4PG 27" monitor. CRT, direct view weighing about 120 pounds. Specs say it can handle 15-50 KHz Horizontal, 40-120 Hz Vertical. Has composite and S-Video connectors(and switch to go NTSC and PAL), and 5BNC and 15HD RGB connectors. Combined that with a transcoder to go from component on games/DVD to RGB and I can do 480i,480p,1080i,720p.
Best part, the price. $150 at a University surplus sale.
My brother had me get one for him as well, he uses it at 1024x768 on his computer, and sometimes a game system through the s-video.
As other comment-posters have pointed out if was only availble via Nintendo's store website. The component cable also had a DAC in the cable so no third-party cables could be made. Sony and Microsoft put out an analog signal for the video out of the console.
It is also worth to note that by playing with the chip and pins they could get RGB signal out of it (only option IIRC for people with NTSC gamecubes to get RGB out, the signals aren't on the analog like it was on the N64/SNES(usually)), and they also found a point to attach a generic spdif audio chip to get the 48 KHz SPDIF compatible signal.
B5 also had some just plain intersting episodes. An example is the episode where you just followed the janitors arround.
Definitly agreeing with the plot continuity in B5. If it was damaged/destroyed in one episode, it usually wasn't repaired/replaced by the time the next episode. None of this blow up a chunk of the ship in a fight, next episode act like nothing happened. That and the story build up. It is fun watching the first season and seeing the foreshadowing.
Same thing here, except I just burned them out, no fire. Although I did get one drive to run when plugged in that way. (Did this about 6 years ago with equipment which was early 90's, late 80's era I think)
Don't forget Powell's bookstore. Bigger than a city block and (from their site talking about "Powell's City of Books" (main store) it is the "the largest used and new bookstore in the world"(page.) You want to see a 1,000,000 books in stock, talk a walk through there. The technical bookstore (about 2 blocks away) has lots of interesting books as well.
Or at the college I am attending:
high out going bandwidth(IE >1GB/day seems to be the cut off point) == turned off internet access and you get to attend a copyright seminar (unless they see that it was caused by a virus, in which it just needs to be cleaned up)
get caught a 2nd time (non-virus related), internet turned off for 4 months (and you have to be attending, so no doing it in may and assuming you are off the hook when you get back from summer break in September)
I can't remember if it is the 3rd or 4th time that you are banned from ever using your own computer (or at least one registered in your name) on the network.
Or and on a side, while I was able to achieve about 800KB/sec my frosh year to the internet, they flipped on BW limiters and I now top off at 80KB/sec (yes, that first one is bytes), so while they may offer you high speed w/in campus, it might be slow accessing the general internet.
Well it mentioned that who wanted to know the size of the system, so it was just curiosity (and right now we all seem to be a bunch of cats...).
Microsoft offers Windows Update CDs every few months for free from them. Perhaps get a few, http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order .asp
Of course if everyone using the library has broadband it might be kinda mute, but it would be useful for everyone else.
The USB pen drive is advantagous, especially because every computer I use on campus has USB and will recognize the pen drive.
I wouldn't use FTP servers to run all the way home, but I would use FTP servers run by the school (staying under the 50MB limit IIRC) to move stuff if I didn't have a pen drive and couldn't get to a CD-R.
But yeah, most of the machines I am around usually (ok, just the lab I watch a few hours a week) have Zip drives, but the seem to be phasing them out in the last batch of new computers. Last time I used a zip drive was I think on a mac connected though its SCSI port booting off of it (an old Zip100 that, I also had the Iomega ISA SCSI card for in my Linux box pre-non ISA motherboard).
But lets see 35GB, thats ~9 DVDRs(Say 4GB a disk so still 36GB). 9 DVDRs will run you about what <$20? and you wouldn't need the special drive to read the disk (but it would be a slower writing process, and we don't know the exact life of retention on the burnable DVDs).
The spell checker must not work on that doc (or they didn't use it or they have some strange settings)
"support rteam."
Maybe others, but that one was glaring @ me (it is right beneath the 3. OpenOffice 1.1 is an Open Source alternative)
Also what is this OpenOffice they refer to? I know of an OpenOffice.Org and they mention that "OpenOffice" is a trademark owned by someone else.
Or perhaps they could just have the head-end router hi-jack their webconnections and redirect to a disconnect page of some sort. Disable anything outgoing that was non-web durring that time as well. (At least the college campus I am on does that, lots better than just shutting off the port on the wall so you are left wondering what the problem is like last year. Although it only affects your off campus access, so you are still free to bombard the computers inside the campus)
With the stock engine or a Chevy V8 or Ford 5.0L V8?
Yeah, it isn't just a chip, but put the bigger engine in and the associated other electronics(higher power fuel system, ect) and then you can add a chip to play with the engine.