I have an external firewire drive with a WD 160gb installed in it. It's made for a 5 1/4 bay so it's pretty big. There is one small fan in the back. It died, the drive was overheating so I replaced it. Then it died again. So I got a little creative and now things are going well.
I went to compusa and got a 3 fan drive bay cooler. I also got hard drive heat sinks that screw on the sides. It was a little tricky finding a way to mount everything so it'd fit in the case, but it's secured to the bottom. Both of these seems to keep the drive nearly at room temperature. It's not the most ideal situation since I had to hack it together, but it works.
So I'd say get a 5 1/4 size so you have room to put more fans in. Definitely get one with a decent power supply. Dirty power will not help your hard drive over the long haul. Of course if you can find something that advertises itself as clean power and lots of cooling, consider that option.
The article says these should cost from $15-$20 per device. So are we really to expect that Verizon or Cingular are only going to charge that? They charge $50 for a car kit for god sakes! This would be a really good idea to consolidate the mess of cables many people deal with, but this seems like another opportunity for Cell providers to charge ridiculous amounts for someone to work with one specific phone.
How would things be different today if Apple initially offered the Lisa at a substantially lower price just so people experienced the GUI? IBM and the clones were much cheaper, so businesses probably chose initial cost over an interface that could have lowered training costs and increased productivity. And if people were using Apple machines at work, then they would have bought an Apple for home later on.
yeah I know what you mean. Every time I run "make menuconfig" I'm like "linux is NOT ready for the desktop!"
It's not linux that makes things difficult, I find it's usually the programs coded in one toolkit running on a DE with another toolkit that don't always work well with each other. I never realized how nice a consistent and useful "open dialog box" was until I used programs using different tool kits. That inconsistency adds to the difficulty in teaching people how to use linux distros.
For example, kioslaves is great with connecting hardware that you didn't have to put an entry into fstab to use it. However, you may not be able to easily access that hardware using a program that was not coded using qt.
Um...not really. A CPU only executes very simple instructions like "pull this chunk of memory to a register" and "add this register to that register" and "set the program counter so we can jump to this location in the program." It's usually up to the compiler to get anything useful (for most people) and easy to program to run on that. Even then, the compiler (most languages) is going to generate code that will only run on that cpu. Why? The instructions are just a bunch of ones and zeros, not for loops and such. So all this high level code they're now running on pentiums should have already gone through the proper testing to make sure it's secure. Granted it's an operating system and you need to access the hardware directly, but I doubt if a lot of their code changes creating a situation where they have all this untested code running around. There are some hardware specific concerns that may need to be addressed, but that sounds like the compiler will focus on that.
Yeah, they make the Roomba, but their more important robot is the packbot. I've used the EOD packbot before and it's a lot more of a robot than roomba, but it still has its shortcomings. For those geeks interested, the OCU runs redhat and the OCU and the RCV communicate through WiFi. The system is all digital, compared to other robots and that is good and bad depending on the situation. I would be concerned with how rugged this anti-sniper robot is after lots of use.
Well everyone I know who robs banks for a drives very fast while leaving the scene. So I really hope auto manufacturers address this problem and stop making fast cars. These fast cars are costing the FDIC millions. Hell, there should be a "bank robbery fine" on all speeding tickets worth 4 or more points. That'll teach those speeders to stop robbing banks.
That's a good point. Has anyone had any experience with those Ionic Breeze ones I see 20 times a day on TV? Placing one of those near your computer, and hence you'll benefit from it as well when you're using computer would be a good idea. A clean room will make for a clean computer.
There are only so many individuals you can convince that you are more likely to have a better and safer web experience with Firefox than IE. Not guaranteed, but more likely. What should now be a focus for people concerned about this is convincing large businesses and universities to consider it. Any large switch is painful and expensive, but the reduced support costs down the road should be considered.
It's not that Americans in general think it's bad. It's that some lady some where thinks she can get some money out of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Most Americans would have no problem with it, but it's not worth it for some company to take the risk. American is becoming a place where the minorities (not racial!) gain more rights than the average person. So someone is going to get offended some where and will raise a fit and get some money.
In a corporate setting where everyone's afraid of a sexual harassment lawsuit, you can go wrong with even an image like this. It sucks, but you got the play by other people's pretend rules they've established through verdicts.
But more importantly, you can not guarantee a connection to the Internet. This sounds an awful like remote areas where connections may go down for a day or so randomly. Companies have been pushing the network computer for normal people for years and it never caught on. Well, it's probably because companies like Microsoft and Apple don't like that idea, but there are valid reasons it won't work.
No one wants to be tied down to a service that may go out randomly. If you want to type a document and print it out, there's no reason you should NEED the Internet.
Microsoft better do something soon because they can't stay at the top forever in this environment. Their cash cow, Office and with that Windows, isn't something tangible that people can't live without. There are too many people out there able and willing to make a better product and sell it at a cheaper price. The growth of open source software is a testament to this. Other companies are realizing the benefits of supporting an open source development model.
I'm not for or against Microsoft. I use their products some times. I use open source products other times. The situation is too unstable for all this money and power to stay within one company.
Megabytes - the amount of disc space on your computer and the amount of memory
Gigabytes - also refers to disc space, but measures it in larger quantities
Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC.
Is this supposed to help or hurt things? These definitions don't explain anything. Maybe this is the problem. What they should get is a simple course or some terms with proper definitions posted. If people learn the basics, they can figure out a lot more on their own. These just raise more questions than they answer.
Well I'm out of mod points so I can't change anything. I agree with you that the total experience should be focused on, not just one app. I find openoffice okay, nothing spectacular. My biggest gripe is how I spend all that time loading everything up and the components don't integrate well. I want a spreadsheet to make a graph that will look the same in a document. I want a picture to move around when I hit enter before it.
It's the simple crap like this that makes openoffice useless to me. And it's tough. Running office though crossover is a pain. I think it's funny though that it still loads a lot faster.
To me, OpenOffice is too bloated, but not integrated. So in other words, it doesn't work well when you're paying for that start up time so it should work well.
Some linux users cringe at this, but Microsoft does a good job on office, and openoffice simple isn't up to par.
DRM to the rescue! And while I guess it's a valid use, it shows how DRM, both "good" stuff like this and "bad" stuff like I bought a DVD at Bestbuy and I can't play it on my computer that's not connected to the internet to validate it will slowly creep into businesses and then homes.
About the 16->32 shift, if I remember correctly (I was young at the time) wasn't that pretty much everyone already had a 486 or a pentium and windows 95 was coming out?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Massachusetts isn't using OpenOffice's format, it's using OpenDocument. This is an open format that OOo just happens to use as well. I understand OOo had a hand in creating it, but it's not "their" format. Here's the wiki link explaining it a little further
Alright, but why are you posting after the fact on slashdot? Maybe your efforts would have been more effective if you had started this campaign a year ago to the people who make these decisions.
then again, like the iPod, the earlier adopters are the "cool" people who started the trend who are sitting around with a bigger heavier 10 gig iPod. I just got my 30 gig photo iPod and it's great. The screen is so much nicer than the black and white one. I'd buy it for that alone over the photo capabilities.
So now I guess I'm the cool one since I waited a little while.
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I have an external firewire drive with a WD 160gb installed in it. It's made for a 5 1/4 bay so it's pretty big. There is one small fan in the back. It died, the drive was overheating so I replaced it. Then it died again. So I got a little creative and now things are going well.
I went to compusa and got a 3 fan drive bay cooler. I also got hard drive heat sinks that screw on the sides. It was a little tricky finding a way to mount everything so it'd fit in the case, but it's secured to the bottom. Both of these seems to keep the drive nearly at room temperature. It's not the most ideal situation since I had to hack it together, but it works.
So I'd say get a 5 1/4 size so you have room to put more fans in. Definitely get one with a decent power supply. Dirty power will not help your hard drive over the long haul. Of course if you can find something that advertises itself as clean power and lots of cooling, consider that option.
No, it's "affected"
Effect is a noun, affect is a verb. How do you put a noun in the past tense?
The article says these should cost from $15-$20 per device. So are we really to expect that Verizon or Cingular are only going to charge that? They charge $50 for a car kit for god sakes! This would be a really good idea to consolidate the mess of cables many people deal with, but this seems like another opportunity for Cell providers to charge ridiculous amounts for someone to work with one specific phone.
How would things be different today if Apple initially offered the Lisa at a substantially lower price just so people experienced the GUI? IBM and the clones were much cheaper, so businesses probably chose initial cost over an interface that could have lowered training costs and increased productivity. And if people were using Apple machines at work, then they would have bought an Apple for home later on.
yeah I know what you mean. Every time I run "make menuconfig" I'm like "linux is NOT ready for the desktop!"
It's not linux that makes things difficult, I find it's usually the programs coded in one toolkit running on a DE with another toolkit that don't always work well with each other. I never realized how nice a consistent and useful "open dialog box" was until I used programs using different tool kits. That inconsistency adds to the difficulty in teaching people how to use linux distros.
For example, kioslaves is great with connecting hardware that you didn't have to put an entry into fstab to use it. However, you may not be able to easily access that hardware using a program that was not coded using qt.
Um...not really. A CPU only executes very simple instructions like "pull this chunk of memory to a register" and "add this register to that register" and "set the program counter so we can jump to this location in the program." It's usually up to the compiler to get anything useful (for most people) and easy to program to run on that. Even then, the compiler (most languages) is going to generate code that will only run on that cpu. Why? The instructions are just a bunch of ones and zeros, not for loops and such. So all this high level code they're now running on pentiums should have already gone through the proper testing to make sure it's secure. Granted it's an operating system and you need to access the hardware directly, but I doubt if a lot of their code changes creating a situation where they have all this untested code running around. There are some hardware specific concerns that may need to be addressed, but that sounds like the compiler will focus on that.
Yeah, they make the Roomba, but their more important robot is the packbot. I've used the EOD packbot before and it's a lot more of a robot than roomba, but it still has its shortcomings. For those geeks interested, the OCU runs redhat and the OCU and the RCV communicate through WiFi. The system is all digital, compared to other robots and that is good and bad depending on the situation. I would be concerned with how rugged this anti-sniper robot is after lots of use.
Well everyone I know who robs banks for a drives very fast while leaving the scene. So I really hope auto manufacturers address this problem and stop making fast cars. These fast cars are costing the FDIC millions. Hell, there should be a "bank robbery fine" on all speeding tickets worth 4 or more points. That'll teach those speeders to stop robbing banks.
That's a good point. Has anyone had any experience with those Ionic Breeze ones I see 20 times a day on TV? Placing one of those near your computer, and hence you'll benefit from it as well when you're using computer would be a good idea. A clean room will make for a clean computer.
There are only so many individuals you can convince that you are more likely to have a better and safer web experience with Firefox than IE. Not guaranteed, but more likely. What should now be a focus for people concerned about this is convincing large businesses and universities to consider it. Any large switch is painful and expensive, but the reduced support costs down the road should be considered.
What about SuSE? Novell seems like a big commercial company.
It's not that Americans in general think it's bad. It's that some lady some where thinks she can get some money out of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Most Americans would have no problem with it, but it's not worth it for some company to take the risk. American is becoming a place where the minorities (not racial!) gain more rights than the average person. So someone is going to get offended some where and will raise a fit and get some money.
In a corporate setting where everyone's afraid of a sexual harassment lawsuit, you can go wrong with even an image like this. It sucks, but you got the play by other people's pretend rules they've established through verdicts.
But more importantly, you can not guarantee a connection to the Internet. This sounds an awful like remote areas where connections may go down for a day or so randomly. Companies have been pushing the network computer for normal people for years and it never caught on. Well, it's probably because companies like Microsoft and Apple don't like that idea, but there are valid reasons it won't work.
No one wants to be tied down to a service that may go out randomly. If you want to type a document and print it out, there's no reason you should NEED the Internet.
Microsoft better do something soon because they can't stay at the top forever in this environment. Their cash cow, Office and with that Windows, isn't something tangible that people can't live without. There are too many people out there able and willing to make a better product and sell it at a cheaper price. The growth of open source software is a testament to this. Other companies are realizing the benefits of supporting an open source development model.
I'm not for or against Microsoft. I use their products some times. I use open source products other times. The situation is too unstable for all this money and power to stay within one company.
Gigabytes - also refers to disc space, but measures it in larger quantities
Excell - this helps to run programs on your PC.
Is this supposed to help or hurt things? These definitions don't explain anything. Maybe this is the problem. What they should get is a simple course or some terms with proper definitions posted. If people learn the basics, they can figure out a lot more on their own. These just raise more questions than they answer.
le bleh?
Probably. They never like to re-write entire programs. This sounds like just a new interface with menu items burried in wizards.
So instead of people just sitting down and typing, it'll first ask you "where do you want to go today" and there will be only options.
Well I'm out of mod points so I can't change anything. I agree with you that the total experience should be focused on, not just one app. I find openoffice okay, nothing spectacular. My biggest gripe is how I spend all that time loading everything up and the components don't integrate well. I want a spreadsheet to make a graph that will look the same in a document. I want a picture to move around when I hit enter before it.
It's the simple crap like this that makes openoffice useless to me. And it's tough. Running office though crossover is a pain. I think it's funny though that it still loads a lot faster.
To me, OpenOffice is too bloated, but not integrated. So in other words, it doesn't work well when you're paying for that start up time so it should work well.
Some linux users cringe at this, but Microsoft does a good job on office, and openoffice simple isn't up to par.
I believe they obtained a special license to use it how they wish. So it's not an example of stealing code under the BSD license.
DRM to the rescue! And while I guess it's a valid use, it shows how DRM, both "good" stuff like this and "bad" stuff like I bought a DVD at Bestbuy and I can't play it on my computer that's not connected to the internet to validate it will slowly creep into businesses and then homes.
About the 16->32 shift, if I remember correctly (I was young at the time) wasn't that pretty much everyone already had a 486 or a pentium and windows 95 was coming out?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Massachusetts isn't using OpenOffice's format, it's using OpenDocument. This is an open format that OOo just happens to use as well. I understand OOo had a hand in creating it, but it's not "their" format. Here's the wiki link explaining it a little further
Alright, but why are you posting after the fact on slashdot? Maybe your efforts would have been more effective if you had started this campaign a year ago to the people who make these decisions.
then again, like the iPod, the earlier adopters are the "cool" people who started the trend who are sitting around with a bigger heavier 10 gig iPod. I just got my 30 gig photo iPod and it's great. The screen is so much nicer than the black and white one. I'd buy it for that alone over the photo capabilities.
So now I guess I'm the cool one since I waited a little while.