Something like that has happened to me. When I was younger, my bedroom was next to the computer room, and my father would play the old version of minesweeper that shipped with Windows 3.11. It had distinctive sound effects, and I got used to hearing them while in that bedroom. Eventually I began to hear the game even when the room was empty and the computer was off. Indeed, even after I moved out of that bedroom and minesweeper had evolved beyond sound effects, I continued to occasionally hear them. It was weird indeed.
The problem is people aren't used to any changes. I saw some dude almost get creamed apparently because one of his 3+ brake light assemblies was burnt out so the lady behind him never realized he was slowing down.
I went on vacation in Utah. It would have been incredibly dangerous to pass people on those roads in a car incapable of 80+. It was interesting enough in our gutless rental.
You say it like it's bad, but if you have servers in a dead spot in a room where they just keep recirculating their own exhaust, a cheap little fan can make a massive difference.
I run Firefox 3 on XP and get very erratic behavior from flash. The normal symptom is on sites with flash based video players - normally the video simply does not show up. It doesn't tend to crash the browser though. Sometimes refreshing over and over will make it work. I initially assumed that this is an isolated problem but several of my friends are having the same issue.
Voltage fluctuations are pretty normal. Half of my house is an addition, it's all powered through a 100 foot or so conduit running to the main breaker. Turning on a CRT, anything with power capacitors, or power tools will cause the lights to flicker briefly. There's nothing wrong, just a long cable run and basic physics at work.
While it would work, it's not the best idea to run a UPS off a car battery. Car batteries are designed to put out massive current for a very short period of time (starting your engine), but will not survive being deeply discharged and recharged many times at all. You also have liquid battery acid and greater hydrogen gas output to worry about. Get some proper deep cycle batteries.
My house is pretty far from the street. I figured that since I can't even access the network from across the house, there there should be no problem with other people using it. Then my friend downloaded a file onto his laptop as we left the neighborhood... oops. I suppose I should do something about the unsecured Windows boxes in my house.
Public transit vehicles? The trains in Japan had "No Mobile Phones" signs everywhere, but is anyone anywhere else in the world bothered by a cell phone conversation taking place in such a situation?
I find it funny that if there's one thing people learn in the computer labs at my high school, it's how to sneak in their mp3 players and charge them off the USB ports without being caught.
I have Comcast, and Bittorrent connections have been acting strangely for the last several months. The speed slowly ramps up to a good rate, then suddenly drops to almost nothing, and starts slowly ramping up over and over again. The same thing has been happening at my friend's house, who also uses Comcast.
Or maybe my cheap router is just dropping packets under the heavier than normal load.
Aside from the storage space, that thing is almost on par with my somewhat aged desktop computer. Hell, the FSB speed of the Pentium M is about double that of my AMD Duron. That's a pretty capable laptop for $200; if it actually ends up selling for that price I will certainly consider buying one.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people."
My monitor has this too, however the power button eventually broke, so I just taped over it anyway. Now it simply hibernates all night long, but there is no annoying light.
Anyway, screw this wannabe ball-lightning, i want to know what that flash in the sky was that turned 2.30AM into 11.30AM and killed the power to my town!
And this lasted for like 3 seconds as well! I can't put it into any category of "lightning"... Probably a major power line arcing out - it can take the breakers several seconds to kill it. I live a mile or two away from a major substation, so I occasionally get to witness such events.
The emergency broadcast system has changed a bit since the cold war. My understandg is that instead of shutting down, all radio stations stay on air and repeat the message. A properly configured pirate station that doesn't normally create any interference would have no negative effect on this system at all. Indeed, it would be possible for the pirate station to be configured to broadcast the emergency message as well, if the creator so desired.
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Something like that has happened to me. When I was younger, my bedroom was next to the computer room, and my father would play the old version of minesweeper that shipped with Windows 3.11. It had distinctive sound effects, and I got used to hearing them while in that bedroom. Eventually I began to hear the game even when the room was empty and the computer was off. Indeed, even after I moved out of that bedroom and minesweeper had evolved beyond sound effects, I continued to occasionally hear them. It was weird indeed.
If he doesn't have one yet. Preferably one with a proper locking blade.
The problem is people aren't used to any changes. I saw some dude almost get creamed apparently because one of his 3+ brake light assemblies was burnt out so the lady behind him never realized he was slowing down.
I went on vacation in Utah. It would have been incredibly dangerous to pass people on those roads in a car incapable of 80+. It was interesting enough in our gutless rental.
You say it like it's bad, but if you have servers in a dead spot in a room where they just keep recirculating their own exhaust, a cheap little fan can make a massive difference.
I run Firefox 3 on XP and get very erratic behavior from flash. The normal symptom is on sites with flash based video players - normally the video simply does not show up. It doesn't tend to crash the browser though. Sometimes refreshing over and over will make it work. I initially assumed that this is an isolated problem but several of my friends are having the same issue.
Voltage fluctuations are pretty normal. Half of my house is an addition, it's all powered through a 100 foot or so conduit running to the main breaker. Turning on a CRT, anything with power capacitors, or power tools will cause the lights to flicker briefly. There's nothing wrong, just a long cable run and basic physics at work.
While it would work, it's not the best idea to run a UPS off a car battery. Car batteries are designed to put out massive current for a very short period of time (starting your engine), but will not survive being deeply discharged and recharged many times at all. You also have liquid battery acid and greater hydrogen gas output to worry about. Get some proper deep cycle batteries.
A friend of mine was ticketed for speeding in a 20mph school zone on his bike.
Play the original Tetris game one the most powerful computer it's ever been played on. That's the first thing I would do.
My house is pretty far from the street. I figured that since I can't even access the network from across the house, there there should be no problem with other people using it. Then my friend downloaded a file onto his laptop as we left the neighborhood... oops. I suppose I should do something about the unsecured Windows boxes in my house.
Public transit vehicles? The trains in Japan had "No Mobile Phones" signs everywhere, but is anyone anywhere else in the world bothered by a cell phone conversation taking place in such a situation?
I find it funny that if there's one thing people learn in the computer labs at my high school, it's how to sneak in their mp3 players and charge them off the USB ports without being caught.
Thanks. I'll check that next time I use bittorrent.
I have Comcast, and Bittorrent connections have been acting strangely for the last several months. The speed slowly ramps up to a good rate, then suddenly drops to almost nothing, and starts slowly ramping up over and over again. The same thing has been happening at my friend's house, who also uses Comcast.
Or maybe my cheap router is just dropping packets under the heavier than normal load.
What's wrong with a hunting knife?
Aside from the storage space, that thing is almost on par with my somewhat aged desktop computer. Hell, the FSB speed of the Pentium M is about double that of my AMD Duron. That's a pretty capable laptop for $200; if it actually ends up selling for that price I will certainly consider buying one.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people."
My monitor has this too, however the power button eventually broke, so I just taped over it anyway. Now it simply hibernates all night long, but there is no annoying light.
I believe the Porsche 911 was air-cooled through the 90s.
Personally, I prefer the beefy old power switches that go ca-CHUNK when you use them. Modern ones just aren't as satisfying.
The emergency broadcast system has changed a bit since the cold war. My understandg is that instead of shutting down, all radio stations stay on air and repeat the message. A properly configured pirate station that doesn't normally create any interference would have no negative effect on this system at all. Indeed, it would be possible for the pirate station to be configured to broadcast the emergency message as well, if the creator so desired.
I may be mistaken, but I believe turnitin.com only sends the teachers the text that is processed - the formatting, font, etc. are all stripped out.
These days nearly all public transit busses have cameras in them anyway, so they would not help very much if one wants to stay "off the radar".