I wish to make a random broadband RF generator for great profit. While this may affect the function of consumer wireless electronics, I assure you that people will still buy them. Ajit, can you be a pal and get rid of those pesky spectrum allocation rules?
This is true and fortunate, but I was more so talking about the threading behavior of the underlying OS (which is abstracted to the programmer by the library du juor).
I can't speak for their reasoning, but Windows threads are definitely less portable (multiproc should leave less cross-platform stuff to wrangle). Also shared address space and environment between threads and the main program (might be appropriate from a security standpoint). It used to be that Windows threads did not scale (performance-wise) very well, though I don't know how much that has changed since this was published: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.o...
If anyone has insight on Windows multithreading performance, I'm all ears, as this may be one of the bigger reasons.
If the peltier plate takes a crap, you're suddenly insulating your CPU; main reason why I never did more than play around with them. Fried a couple pentium IIIs and an athlon. Should be less of an issue with modern CPUs, but suddenly hitting 99C and downclocking/clock stopping means it still becomes instantly useless.
Only if you haven't taken pains to remove interior moisture before cooling it, and then primarily if you open if while the temperature is below dew point. Of course, not being able to open it quickly might be a problem in itself. Just put like 10 buckets of damp-rid in there, and leave it off overnight before first run.
Most computers don't typically release more than a few hundred watts worth of heat (example is for 1000+, I think my toaster cranks like 1800), even under heavy load. It is likely that the fridge would need to run at a high duty cycle to keep up with a normal computer, so it might be less problematic if one includes a large thermal mass inside the compartment (and pre-cool it before running anything).
It'll work fine, if you can get all of the water out of the air inside. If it needs to be opened, the system needs to be brought up above dew point before opening. You'll probably want desiccant packs (e.g. damprid) as well.
I take (minor, technical) exception to this being regarded as smoke. Ideally, no chemical reaction occurs. Droplets of liquid vapors are the result of boiling the material, and it should not be producing combustion products (carbon oxides, acrolein, etc.). Of course, it's possible that the thing might overheat and burn the material, but that's usually readily detectable by the user. Please don't consider this a plug or slant regarding the focus of the topic, just a matter of defining the word 'smoke'. I also can't stand when people describe it as harmless water vapor (it contains almost not water, usually just what the hygroscopic nature of the glycols allows); it degrades indoor air quality considerably. I used to work at a place where at least 10% of all people there (about 100 folks on a floor, and in some areas, more than half used them, including myself at the time) used them, and while less choking than a 'smoke-filled room', I definitely had a lot more respiratory issues there than any other office space i've worked in.
This is more like they had a spurious cable attached between some random door below deck, and some critical lever in the control room... The point people are trying to make is: this guy is being given the shaft as a direct result of the fallout from idiots putting privileged/critical information into widely accessible documentation.
Once, while watching the auth logs on a test box, observed a fairly strong SSH bruteforce to take some 4 hours to guess that user=test pass=test. Box then became, briefly, part of a DDoS botnet.
To put it plainly, my take is that understanding our origins is reasonably important to understanding our potential (as a species) for the future. It lets us check current trends against historical trends. I wouldn't mod you -1 for asking legitimate questions, but I also don't have very thorough answers to provide. Hopefully someone else with better insight on the subject can fulfill that.
Bring the hardware up to modern specifications, then try to maintain a reasonable price, and people will be more likely flock to it. Of course, they make enough money on iPhone/iPad that they probably don't feel particularly motivated to improve the state of affairs for desktop/laptop users.
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I wish to make a random broadband RF generator for great profit. While this may affect the function of consumer wireless electronics, I assure you that people will still buy them. Ajit, can you be a pal and get rid of those pesky spectrum allocation rules?
I somehow doubt this is an issue any longer. (insert something about Ajit Pai here)
Pedantic, the best kind of correct?
Technically, yes.
This is true and fortunate, but I was more so talking about the threading behavior of the underlying OS (which is abstracted to the programmer by the library du juor).
I can't speak for their reasoning, but Windows threads are definitely less portable (multiproc should leave less cross-platform stuff to wrangle). Also shared address space and environment between threads and the main program (might be appropriate from a security standpoint). It used to be that Windows threads did not scale (performance-wise) very well, though I don't know how much that has changed since this was published:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.o...
If anyone has insight on Windows multithreading performance, I'm all ears, as this may be one of the bigger reasons.
Ouch... had never heard about the previous issue (or perhaps I did, maybe 10 years ago)... makes sense now.
We could stave off the year 2038 problem for a few more decades with the same method, but we'd be pretending the 60s never happened.
Pretty sure you're thinking of this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was something else. https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
I remember it as being when they hit 16777216 (2^24) comments... but yeah, same idea here xD
found the story:
https://slashdot.org/story/06/...
If the peltier plate takes a crap, you're suddenly insulating your CPU; main reason why I never did more than play around with them. Fried a couple pentium IIIs and an athlon. Should be less of an issue with modern CPUs, but suddenly hitting 99C and downclocking/clock stopping means it still becomes instantly useless.
Only if you haven't taken pains to remove interior moisture before cooling it, and then primarily if you open if while the temperature is below dew point. Of course, not being able to open it quickly might be a problem in itself. Just put like 10 buckets of damp-rid in there, and leave it off overnight before first run.
Most computers don't typically release more than a few hundred watts worth of heat (example is for 1000+, I think my toaster cranks like 1800), even under heavy load. It is likely that the fridge would need to run at a high duty cycle to keep up with a normal computer, so it might be less problematic if one includes a large thermal mass inside the compartment (and pre-cool it before running anything).
That being said, it'll probably run at 100% duty cycle until the compressor fails.
It'll work fine, if you can get all of the water out of the air inside. If it needs to be opened, the system needs to be brought up above dew point before opening. You'll probably want desiccant packs (e.g. damprid) as well.
I take (minor, technical) exception to this being regarded as smoke. Ideally, no chemical reaction occurs. Droplets of liquid vapors are the result of boiling the material, and it should not be producing combustion products (carbon oxides, acrolein, etc.). Of course, it's possible that the thing might overheat and burn the material, but that's usually readily detectable by the user. Please don't consider this a plug or slant regarding the focus of the topic, just a matter of defining the word 'smoke'. I also can't stand when people describe it as harmless water vapor (it contains almost not water, usually just what the hygroscopic nature of the glycols allows); it degrades indoor air quality considerably. I used to work at a place where at least 10% of all people there (about 100 folks on a floor, and in some areas, more than half used them, including myself at the time) used them, and while less choking than a 'smoke-filled room', I definitely had a lot more respiratory issues there than any other office space i've worked in.
This is more like they had a spurious cable attached between some random door below deck, and some critical lever in the control room... The point people are trying to make is: this guy is being given the shaft as a direct result of the fallout from idiots putting privileged/critical information into widely accessible documentation.
Once, while watching the auth logs on a test box, observed a fairly strong SSH bruteforce to take some 4 hours to guess that user=test pass=test. Box then became, briefly, part of a DDoS botnet.
I've heard they're rather unreliable...
... use yellow paper?
Dinosaurs will die.
To put it plainly, my take is that understanding our origins is reasonably important to understanding our potential (as a species) for the future. It lets us check current trends against historical trends. I wouldn't mod you -1 for asking legitimate questions, but I also don't have very thorough answers to provide. Hopefully someone else with better insight on the subject can fulfill that.
Start demanding $20/day from IP addresses originating in D.C. to get more than 5KB/s transfers. Shouldn't have any complaints about that, should they?
Bring the hardware up to modern specifications, then try to maintain a reasonable price, and people will be more likely flock to it. Of course, they make enough money on iPhone/iPad that they probably don't feel particularly motivated to improve the state of affairs for desktop/laptop users.
Reminded me somehow of the lyrics to NoFX - Dinosaurs must die...
Zombie Bon Scott will save us all!