That's odd. Suse 9.0 had no problems with my USB Logitech Wheel mouse on my desktop or laptop.
I did have to add a second mouse under Saxt to get it to allow my touchpad/stick to work at the same time as the USB mouse. IIRC, only the USB mouse worked, not the PS/2 touchpad/stick.
Basically, IE fell for the exploit, allowing wmplayer.exe to be copied over.
Firefox 0.8, Mozilla , Netscape 7.1, and Opera 7.23 didn't do anything-they just showed a blank page. They apppear to be immune, at least from this particular version of the exploit.
It's also worth noting, that like the exploit writer said, NAV didn't make any noise about what was going on and I had just updated my virus defs.
In IE, it copied itself over wmplayer.exe, SFP copied the original back, but that was enough for me. Firefox 0.8, OTOH, didn't budge and nothing happened to wmplayer.exe. Same thing with Netscape 7.1 and Opera 7.23.
At least in this case, IE seems to be the only one.
But you're burning a bunch of gasoline to push those eight pistons and all their associated bearings around when most of the time you could get away with two of 'em.
Cadillac tried something like this with disastrous results in the 70s, and I read a while back that Chevy wanted to try something similar with the Corvette-dropping down to 4 cylinders when power isn't needed and most GM cars kind of do this if the coolant runs outs, using half as many cylinders with the others just pumping air.
On the other hand, solenoid driven valves would allow stuff like to happen almost seemlessly. It would require higher voltages. Or use one of these NEC batteries to drive the solenoids.
Never thought of that.
I just thought of something, off topic though: Are there more injuries/deaths in countries with 220/240 service? From what I understand, 15mA@120V can cause serious injury if the current passes through the right area, so I have to wonder what 15mA@240V would do.
If I remember right, the Corvette ZR1 from the mid 90s had two keys, one for full performance and one for reduced.
I read something a couple years ago about a car that had a valet key that not only reduced performance, but limited the top speed to 30mph and the top distance to 10 miles OR something to that effect, the distance and speed limitations were part of it.
I don't think it was an OEM/factory thing, If anyone remembers?
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Well, you're not as far off as you could be, but there's always tomorrow.
Numerous car magazines have attested to the extreme capabilities of the factory honda and nissan engines. The factory cranks are capable of well over 500 hp, same goes for the blocks. Show me a Chevy of Ford engine where the factory block and crank can handle 2-3 times and/or 3-400hp over factory.
Many racers run Hondas and Nissans with factory cranks and blocks well into the 11s.
Optimum performance and reliability are not the same thing. I can have a very reliable overpowered car that doesn't run as fast it could because I didn't change gearing to match my new power curve, but this doesn't necessarily mean that my car is going to die an early death because my gearing is sub-optimal.
Cams and gearing are important for maximum power, but they don't really do much for reliability unless your combination makes all its power up top and that's where you keep your revs.
Serious hot-rod mods are not compatible with reliability or longevity, especially if the mods aren't supported by yet other mods. High school parking lots are littered with proof of this.
A lot of 12 second civic and eclipse daily drivers would disagree with that, as well as all those 10 second daily driver camaro and mustang owners.
As for high school parking lots, I've never understood why people feel the need to insult teenagers in order to make a point and/or compare certain people to teenagers (as if that's supposed to be an insult) when those people do something that another doesn't understand or agree with.
People in my high school who modded their cars used as much, or more, caution as adults who modded their cars. The ones who owned their own cars didn't want to be without a car for a days/weeks/months because of a stupid move and the ones whose parents bought the car didn't want to explain to their parents that they blew the car up pushing 150hp of nitrous to their stock engine.
In a thread about overclocking, I guess I could say that high schoolers bedrooms are littered with remnants of overclocking mistakes, that might rub more people the wrong way here as it's not necessarily true. There are people of all age groups who throw caution to the wind when it comes to tweaking but teens aren't guilty of anymore carelessness tweaking then their fellow over-the-magic-age tweakers.
On my Infiniti G20, I turned the timing up 4 degrees (from factory 15 to 19) and used 92 octane in it. I definitely noticed the increase in power and throttle response.
After the first tank, I got over the new power and stopped gunning it everywhere and started driving like I did it before. On subsequent tanks I noticed an increase of ~2.5 MPG. Other G20/Sentra/SR20DE owners have reported similar increases.
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Some people have found that by wrapping their exhaust tubing down to the main cat with exhaust insulating material they keep their engine compartment cooler and their main cat lights off just as quickly.
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A lot of mod chips run the car just as clean, if not cleaner, then they were stock. For instance, the EPA requires engines pass various emissions requirements using 87 octane fuel. This means that some manufacturers don't do any fuel mapping/timing advance to take advantage of the potential in higher octane fuel.
Some cars specify 91 only, but legally they must run clean on 87. This generally involves relaxed 91 timings so as to not damage the engine when 87 is put in and means significantly lower mileage and power when the engine begins to knock on 87.
Other areas of the car, such as intake and exhaust (which the mod chip can be programmed to take advantage of) may be designed for all climates and/or as the lowest cost part. If I modify my car to take an expensive, extensively tested and tuned intake and exhaust, and use a modified chip to take advantage of these higher efficiency parts, it may be more efficient and less polluting than it was stock. This is absolutely not cheating.
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If for some reason you don't have to get an actual emissions test, yet are required to have a catalytic converter, there's quite a simple answer -- install an empty one.
With an OBD-II ECU this will throw on the check engine light due to the rear O2 sensor seeing no difference in the free O2 level compared to the front O2 sensor, which usually isn't a big deal, but some people have complained of their cars (Seems to come from '95-'99 Mitsu Eclipse owners) running in a retarded timing/fail safe mode-possibly the OEMs way of punishing you for removing your cat.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the wastegate is there to channel exhaust either through the turbo or around it and directly out the tailpipe.
On another note, there is a difference between blowoff and bypass valve, both do bleed off boost when the throttle is closed.
Bypass valves take the boost and divert it back into the intake stream before the turbo, this helps keep the turbo spooled and according to some OEMs, is better for the ECU as it has already metered that air. I don't know exactly what the purpose of metering air is when it gets recycled like this, but that's what they say.
Blowoff valves vent that excess boost to the air.
Some people with extremely high boost engines use both, esp. if their bypass valve can't handle redirecting large amounts of boost.
I didn't mean that I got as much as possible whenever I wanted. I was mainly talking about using the existing pipe(s) to their fullest when traffic is low. When other people begin to demand bandwidth, then throttling occurs.
This is where minimum acceptable thresholds could come in.
The concept would be identical to CPU usage. I run folding@home and it takes 100% of my CPU, but steps aside when other applications need CPU time.
I'm thinking of some sort of priority based system, with different levels of priority based on bandwidth conditions. For instance, on a loop of 50Mb/s (random # as I don't know what a common speed is for loops), high bandwidth could be given low priority, so that my high b/w downloads are scaled back as people begin to demand b/w.
I don't know even know if something like this is possible or cost effective.
As my post will surely demonstrate, I'm not that familiar with how cable/DSL networks work.
Is it possible for cable companies to use some sort of demand based throttling ie., allow me to use as much bandwidth as my line/modem will allow until others begin to do the same? If the maximum possible bandwidth for my run is something like 45mb/s, allow me to use 20 of that until other people begin to use up the remaining 25.
Another example might be when I download ISOs. The first one d/l at ~345KB/s, when I go after the second one (different server), the first one drops down and the two seem to share the ~345KB/s, d/l at 165 and 180. When I went for the third one, they went down to ~115 each.
Could the cable companies set minimum thresholds to determine when to throttle high b/w users?
Off-topic, Does anyone else find it interesting and hypocritical at the same time that it's a federal crime to lie to federal agents and usually illegal to lie to state/local police, yet the courts have said it's not illegal for police/feds to lie to suspects?
It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong, but I don't think this breaks any laws of thermaldynamics. Anyone with a little more nuclear/physics knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong.
The way this reads to me is that they have found a way to released the enormous amount of energy in the molecule being "fusioned", using less energy to start that reaction than before.
They have caused a fusion reaction before, but the amount of energy necessary to start that reaction was more then the amount of energy that the reaction put out.
The only analogy I can think of is car starters. If I had an inefficient and extremely hard to crank engine, it is possible that the amount of energy needed to start the engine would be more then the engine put out once started. If I refine my starter design, I can come up with a starter that uses less energy to start the engine. This happens now. My engine puts out far more energy then my starter requires to start the engine.
If MS were to patent an entirely new file sharing API and/or protocol that was inoperable with current implementations of SAMBA, wouldn't this new protocol/API also be incompatible with current versions of windows?
If Longhorn+ can't share files with Server 2003/XP and before, companies may wait a very long time to roll out this new less compatible OS.
What do you base the assertion of "lower performance CPU" on?
I had an Inspiron 500m notebook with a 1.4Ghz Pentium-M. In every benchmark I ran, it bested their results for the P4-2.4. It encoded Divx movies 98% as fast my Athlon XP 2200 and 3.2 times faster than my P3-800.
Sandra gave similar results, with the 1.4 Pentium-M keeping pace with the P4 2.4 in all applicable benchmarks.
Because I had different hardware on all and couldn't accurately do 3D testing, I did do stuff like compare FPS in half-life wih software rendering, things like that and the M was always right there next to my XP2200 and 3 times faster then my P3-800.
The Pentium-M is a solid chip, and I would love to be able to get one for desktop use. It's a power miser and runs cool because of that, and has great performance. It would be perfect for an SFF and I would love to see an ITX board made for it. Even better would be a Mega PC from MSI that could use one.
As for the wireless, I pretty much agree. My main annoyance was how much memory was taken up on my laptop by just the Intel drivers and related apps. If memory serves, they took ~28MB by themselves.
AFAIK, Intel still doesn't have an A or G wireless card for the Centrino line. This probably explains why a lot of buyers just opt for the manufacturer provided A or G card. Had I known better than, I would have just got a Dell Tri-band card.
(off topic) I just wish Fujitsu would market an M based laptop that has an MVA screen.
Just out of curiosity, why doesn't a severed finger work? Is it along the same lines as the reason why my laptop's touchpad won't work with a gloved finger?
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That's odd. Suse 9.0 had no problems with my USB Logitech Wheel mouse on my desktop or laptop.
I did have to add a second mouse under Saxt to get it to allow my touchpad/stick to work at the same time as the USB mouse. IIRC, only the USB mouse worked, not the PS/2 touchpad/stick.
Sorry for the weird wording.
Basically, IE fell for the exploit, allowing wmplayer.exe to be copied over.
Firefox 0.8, Mozilla , Netscape 7.1, and Opera 7.23 didn't do anything-they just showed a blank page. They apppear to be immune, at least from this particular version of the exploit.
It's also worth noting, that like the exploit writer said, NAV didn't make any noise about what was going on and I had just updated my virus defs.
I played with fire and tested the PoC found here
In IE, it copied itself over wmplayer.exe, SFP copied the original back, but that was enough for me. Firefox 0.8, OTOH, didn't budge and nothing happened to wmplayer.exe. Same thing with Netscape 7.1 and Opera 7.23.
At least in this case, IE seems to be the only one.
But you're burning a bunch of gasoline to push those eight pistons and all their associated bearings around when most of the time you could get away with two of 'em.
Cadillac tried something like this with disastrous results in the 70s, and I read a while back that Chevy wanted to try something similar with the Corvette-dropping down to 4 cylinders when power isn't needed and most GM cars kind of do this if the coolant runs outs, using half as many cylinders with the others just pumping air.
On the other hand, solenoid driven valves would allow stuff like to happen almost seemlessly. It would require higher voltages. Or use one of these NEC batteries to drive the solenoids.
Great, now I have to watercool my battery charger?
Never thought of that. I just thought of something, off topic though: Are there more injuries/deaths in countries with 220/240 service? From what I understand, 15mA@120V can cause serious injury if the current passes through the right area, so I have to wonder what 15mA@240V would do.
If I remember right, the Corvette ZR1 from the mid 90s had two keys, one for full performance and one for reduced.
I read something a couple years ago about a car that had a valet key that not only reduced performance, but limited the top speed to 30mph and the top distance to 10 miles OR something to that effect, the distance and speed limitations were part of it.
I don't think it was an OEM/factory thing,
If anyone remembers?
Well, you're not as far off as you could be, but there's always tomorrow.
Numerous car magazines have attested to the extreme capabilities of the factory honda and nissan engines. The factory cranks are capable of well over 500 hp, same goes for the blocks. Show me a Chevy of Ford engine where the factory block and crank can handle 2-3 times and/or 3-400hp over factory.
Many racers run Hondas and Nissans with factory cranks and blocks well into the 11s.
Optimum performance and reliability are not the same thing. I can have a very reliable overpowered car that doesn't run as fast it could because I didn't change gearing to match my new power curve, but this doesn't necessarily mean that my car is going to die an early death because my gearing is sub-optimal.
Cams and gearing are important for maximum power, but they don't really do much for reliability unless your combination makes all its power up top and that's where you keep your revs.
Serious hot-rod mods are not compatible with reliability or longevity, especially if the mods aren't supported by yet other mods. High school parking lots are littered with proof of this.
A lot of 12 second civic and eclipse daily drivers would disagree with that, as well as all those 10 second daily driver camaro and mustang owners.
As for high school parking lots, I've never understood why people feel the need to insult teenagers in order to make a point and/or compare certain people to teenagers (as if that's supposed to be an insult) when those people do something that another doesn't understand or agree with.
People in my high school who modded their cars used as much, or more, caution as adults who modded their cars. The ones who owned their own cars didn't want to be without a car for a days/weeks/months because of a stupid move and the ones whose parents bought the car didn't want to explain to their parents that they blew the car up pushing 150hp of nitrous to their stock engine.
In a thread about overclocking, I guess I could say that high schoolers bedrooms are littered with remnants of overclocking mistakes, that might rub more people the wrong way here as it's not necessarily true. There are people of all age groups who throw caution to the wind when it comes to tweaking but teens aren't guilty of anymore carelessness tweaking then their fellow over-the-magic-age tweakers.
On my Infiniti G20, I turned the timing up 4 degrees (from factory 15 to 19) and used 92 octane in it. I definitely noticed the increase in power and throttle response.
After the first tank, I got over the new power and stopped gunning it everywhere and started driving like I did it before. On subsequent tanks I noticed an increase of ~2.5 MPG. Other G20/Sentra/SR20DE owners have reported similar increases.
Some people have found that by wrapping their exhaust tubing down to the main cat with exhaust insulating material they keep their engine compartment cooler and their main cat lights off just as quickly.
A lot of mod chips run the car just as clean, if not cleaner, then they were stock. For instance, the EPA requires engines pass various emissions requirements using 87 octane fuel. This means that some manufacturers don't do any fuel mapping/timing advance to take advantage of the potential in higher octane fuel.
Some cars specify 91 only, but legally they must run clean on 87. This generally involves relaxed 91 timings so as to not damage the engine when 87 is put in and means significantly lower mileage and power when the engine begins to knock on 87.
Other areas of the car, such as intake and exhaust (which the mod chip can be programmed to take advantage of) may be designed for all climates and/or as the lowest cost part. If I modify my car to take an expensive, extensively tested and tuned intake and exhaust, and use a modified chip to take advantage of these higher efficiency parts, it may be more efficient and less polluting than it was stock.
This is absolutely not cheating.
If for some reason you don't have to get an actual emissions test, yet are required to have a catalytic converter, there's quite a simple answer -- install an empty one.
With an OBD-II ECU this will throw on the check engine light due to the rear O2 sensor seeing no difference in the free O2 level compared to the front O2 sensor, which usually isn't a big deal, but some people have complained of their cars (Seems to come from '95-'99 Mitsu Eclipse owners) running in a retarded timing/fail safe mode-possibly the OEMs way of punishing you for removing your cat.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the wastegate is there to channel exhaust either through the turbo or around it and directly out the tailpipe.
On another note, there is a difference between blowoff and bypass valve, both do bleed off boost when the throttle is closed.
Bypass valves take the boost and divert it back into the intake stream before the turbo, this helps keep the turbo spooled and according to some OEMs, is better for the ECU as it has already metered that air. I don't know exactly what the purpose of metering air is when it gets recycled like this, but that's what they say.
Blowoff valves vent that excess boost to the air.
Some people with extremely high boost engines use both, esp. if their bypass valve can't handle redirecting large amounts of boost.
I didn't mean that I got as much as possible whenever I wanted. I was mainly talking about using the existing pipe(s) to their fullest when traffic is low. When other people begin to demand bandwidth, then throttling occurs. This is where minimum acceptable thresholds could come in. The concept would be identical to CPU usage. I run folding@home and it takes 100% of my CPU, but steps aside when other applications need CPU time. I'm thinking of some sort of priority based system, with different levels of priority based on bandwidth conditions. For instance, on a loop of 50Mb/s (random # as I don't know what a common speed is for loops), high bandwidth could be given low priority, so that my high b/w downloads are scaled back as people begin to demand b/w. I don't know even know if something like this is possible or cost effective.
As my post will surely demonstrate, I'm not that familiar with how cable/DSL networks work.
Is it possible for cable companies to use some sort of demand based throttling ie., allow me to use as much bandwidth as my line/modem will allow until others begin to do the same? If the maximum possible bandwidth for my run is something like 45mb/s, allow me to use 20 of that until other people begin to use up the remaining 25.
Another example might be when I download ISOs. The first one d/l at ~345KB/s, when I go after the second one (different server), the first one drops down and the two seem to share the ~345KB/s, d/l at 165 and 180. When I went for the third one, they went down to ~115 each.
Could the cable companies set minimum thresholds to determine when to throttle high b/w users?
60mph+, I can't imagine what happens when there's a collision.
Both and IPX/SPX. Can't beat these new layer 2 pigeons...
Off-topic,
Does anyone else find it interesting and hypocritical at the same time that it's a federal crime to lie to federal agents and usually illegal to lie to state/local police, yet the courts have said it's not illegal for police/feds to lie to suspects?
It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong, but I don't think this breaks any laws of thermaldynamics.
Anyone with a little more nuclear/physics knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong.
The way this reads to me is that they have found a way to released the enormous amount of energy in the molecule being "fusioned", using less energy to start that reaction than before.
They have caused a fusion reaction before, but the amount of energy necessary to start that reaction was more then the amount of energy that the reaction put out.
The only analogy I can think of is car starters. If I had an inefficient and extremely hard to crank engine, it is possible that the amount of energy needed to start the engine would be more then the engine put out once started.
If I refine my starter design, I can come up with a starter that uses less energy to start the engine. This happens now. My engine puts out far more energy then my starter requires to start the engine.
If MS were to patent an entirely new file sharing API and/or protocol that was inoperable with current implementations of SAMBA, wouldn't this new protocol/API also be incompatible with current versions of windows?
If Longhorn+ can't share files with Server 2003/XP and before, companies may wait a very long time to roll out this new less compatible OS.
What do you base the assertion of "lower performance CPU" on?
I had an Inspiron 500m notebook with a 1.4Ghz Pentium-M. In every benchmark I ran, it bested their results for the P4-2.4. It encoded Divx movies 98% as fast my Athlon XP 2200 and 3.2 times faster than my P3-800.
Sandra gave similar results, with the 1.4 Pentium-M keeping pace with the P4 2.4 in all applicable benchmarks.
Because I had different hardware on all and couldn't accurately do 3D testing, I did do stuff like compare FPS in half-life wih software rendering, things like that and the M was always right there next to my XP2200 and 3 times faster then my P3-800.
The Pentium-M is a solid chip, and I would love to be able to get one for desktop use. It's a power miser and runs cool because of that, and has great performance.
It would be perfect for an SFF and I would love to see an ITX board made for it. Even better would be a Mega PC from MSI that could use one.
As for the wireless, I pretty much agree. My main annoyance was how much memory was taken up on my laptop by just the Intel drivers and related apps. If memory serves, they took ~28MB by themselves.
AFAIK, Intel still doesn't have an A or G wireless card for the Centrino line. This probably explains why a lot of buyers just opt for the manufacturer provided A or G card. Had I known better than, I would have just got a Dell Tri-band card.
(off topic) I just wish Fujitsu would market an M based laptop that has an MVA screen.
Just out of curiosity, why doesn't a severed finger work? Is it along the same lines as the reason why my laptop's touchpad won't work with a gloved finger?
I don't know about all this "green eqauls good". Just look at what happens to green people at stickdeath.com
If you listen to Jessica Simpson, the DOI is charge of decorating. What kind of confidential/secret/classified information could they have?
I'm sorry, I thought I have it all formatted properly.
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Never mind, it's doing the same type formatting for HTML and plain text.
Never did this before. Damn you