when you are near a "swine operation" in order to smell anything, you really should visit a doctor. I have friends who live close by and they can not sit outside in the summer. Too bad for them the farm was built after they moved in. Ah the wonders where the city meets the countryside.:)
I just worked a bit on making my pc silent, mostly for the fun of it but it was a nice bonus if I could get less noisy PC
First I got the MSI FX5900 with the dual fans. Makes less noise than my GF3 TI500 and a lot less heat.(no more warm cabinet:)
Then I swapped the standard Intel P4 cooler with a Zalman CNPS7000A-CU.
I also installed a Thermaltake PSU that I already had, which lowered the noise compared to the noname PSU I had before.
I exchanged the Western Digital harddrive with a Seagate Barracuda which has no rotation noise, unlike the WD harddrive.
I have a 5" mounting frame for the HD that suspends the HD screws in some rubber thingys that I hope will lower the head movent noise that the Seagate does have.
Finally my cabinet has room for a big fan in the front which I have installed and adjusted so it runs slowly with little noise.
So what now makes the most noise in my PC are the fans on the Thermaltake PSU.
Regarding the cooler. The CPU temp went to 35c when idle(and fan runnin 200rpm) and 50c under full load with fan running at 70%(before staring to make noise). With the original cooler the idle temp was 43c and it hit 55c(full fan speed and a lot of noise) under full load where the motherboard kicked in at fired up the fan to full speed. I don't have much expirence in this and I am a bit unsure if I have applied the correct amount of thermal paste, but I have a lot left for experimentation, so I will try different configurations. I was expecting poor air flow inside the cabinet to be the cause of the high operating temperature but I tried opening the cabinet and placed an office fan above it to make sure the air in the cabinet was room temp. and the CPU temp. readings was pretty much the same. They only got 2-3c higher when the cabinet are closed.
Also if anyone has any suggestions for a silent harddrive, I would like to know. Of course I would like it to be fast but noise levels are the top priority.
It has been fun playing with this, tryng to make the optimal air flow and getting the most out of as little cooling as possible. And it is now clear to me that noise reduction and a silent PC is often one of the things you don't get in a DIY PC unless you put some effort into it.
Now I have never tried a AOL connection so I do not know how it works, but the article says "But the setting changed is on Windows, not AOL's software. ". So if you are running some special software to connect to AOL, why did they not just add code that would filter/block it in their own software as a default. and the give the users that ability to turn the filtering off?
What's worse is that if you have more than 2 CPUs you need the big version that costs 1499$. I have around 100 machines, most of them are 2 cpu servers and a few are 4 cpu servers. I would like to use Redhat in the future, but I am finding it difficult to get approval for buying the licenses. so I fear that I am stuck on the old versions.
Their cut is that big in most countries because they are the ones that have to cover the loss in case theft, abuse, etc. So the company that sells the service/product will get the money anyway and the phone company will take the loss. So their cut is bigger due to the risk they take.
at least he was lucky there where drivers. Try installing it on real server hardware, then even FreeBSD has more drivers for stuff like RAID controllers etc. Look at the Hardware Compatibility List.
If you are planning on installing Solaris in your enterprise enviroment you have to buy hardware that will work with Solaris x86 rather than the hardware you normally use. But then again, in a enterprise enviroment, I guess one would choose the Sparc platform or buy the Sun Intel hardware.
No, but then I also run Google toolbar, I don't use the pagerank feature only the search input and the popup blocker.
It is worth installing for the popup blocker alone. Let's you enable popups for for single sites just by pressing the popup blocker counter.
It looks like a cool phone/pda, could be what we have been waiting for.
But I agree what Bluetooth would be great to have. When you first have tried a phone with Bluetooth, it is hard to do without.
I love that a phone with Bluetooth just needs to be around the office for it to sync with my calendar. But I guess if the applications are supported properly, one should be able to sync without connections and through the internet (GPRS).
Although I must admit while it is great that my phone is connected to the internet without dialing up, the GPRS connection are often very slow in most places.
Ehh, maybe not in the US but here Europe is has been very big for a long time. Most people I know have ISDN phones, geeks and non-geeks. It is available to everyone who wants it and it really provides excellent voice quality. I am told that you get an ISDN line when you order a new phone line unless you ask not to get one. The ISDN connection box has a build in D/A converter so you have the choice of connecting either a ISDN phone or old analog phone.
Now because of ADSL it might be past it's prime. But one of the reasons it became so popular was because of the internet, and the ability to surf the net and still be able to recieve calls.
Ah, might be true but I have a P2 Celeron 300 Mhz over clocked to 450 Mhz (standard voltage). I have been running 24x7 for a couple of years as my home server, ever since it was the latest thing.
It might be because I haven't raised the voltage but what do I know.
Data from cellphone towers/antennas has already been used for tracking people. In different criminal cases, the location of a cell phones and the calls made in that area from that phone, has been used to establish proof of guilt. It has also been used to contact people who were possible witness to the crime or other events that could help solve it.
No,, rather this: Bart: Yeah! Funzo makes playtime fun! [Funzo walks over to Bart's Krusty doll and strangles it with its pull
string]
Hey, why is it destroying other toys?
Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition!
followed by..
Hay Dieter, ve arh gatting a lot of zurfers on our zite!!
Jah, Hanzie, Das is guth! Ich habe ferkaufen a lot of new carz tzo rent aut!
Guth Thinking, Dieter! Weh are goinh to be raich nowh.
The Windows help program tells me to press the shift key to avoid autorun programs. So the Windows documentation itself has told me how to bypass their copy protection
and people get the connection speed they buy, down to the DSLAM. If you want a line that ensures that you get maximum speed it costs a lot more.
What would anyone gain to sue them for not delivering fx my 1 Megabit line full speed from everywhere in the world at all times? all you would "win" was to get much slower line speed for a much higher price. The bills has to be payed and if you force them to guarantee that you get full speed all the time, the price will raise a lot.
I mean if you specify the wrong ip address, the only neighbours you will be connected to, are the ones YOU connect to, since you have specified the wrong ip so any attempt by them to connect to you, will fail due to the wrong address.
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when you are near a "swine operation" in order to smell anything, you really should visit a doctor. I have friends who live close by and they can not sit outside in the summer. Too bad for them the farm was built after they moved in. Ah the wonders where the city meets the countryside. :)
I just worked a bit on making my pc silent, mostly for the fun of it but it was a nice bonus if I could get less noisy PC :)
First I got the MSI FX5900 with the dual fans. Makes less noise than my GF3 TI500 and a lot less heat.(no more warm cabinet
Then I swapped the standard Intel P4 cooler with a Zalman CNPS7000A-CU.
I also installed a Thermaltake PSU that I already had, which lowered the noise compared to the noname PSU I had before.
I exchanged the Western Digital harddrive with a Seagate Barracuda which has no rotation noise, unlike the WD harddrive. I have a 5" mounting frame for the HD that suspends the HD screws in some rubber thingys that I hope will lower the head movent noise that the Seagate does have.
Finally my cabinet has room for a big fan in the front which I have installed and adjusted so it runs slowly with little noise.
So what now makes the most noise in my PC are the fans on the Thermaltake PSU. Regarding the cooler. The CPU temp went to 35c when idle(and fan runnin 200rpm) and 50c under full load with fan running at 70%(before staring to make noise). With the original cooler the idle temp was 43c and it hit 55c(full fan speed and a lot of noise) under full load where the motherboard kicked in at fired up the fan to full speed. I don't have much expirence in this and I am a bit unsure if I have applied the correct amount of thermal paste, but I have a lot left for experimentation, so I will try different configurations. I was expecting poor air flow inside the cabinet to be the cause of the high operating temperature but I tried opening the cabinet and placed an office fan above it to make sure the air in the cabinet was room temp. and the CPU temp. readings was pretty much the same. They only got 2-3c higher when the cabinet are closed.
Also if anyone has any suggestions for a silent harddrive, I would like to know. Of course I would like it to be fast but noise levels are the top priority.
It has been fun playing with this, tryng to make the optimal air flow and getting the most out of as little cooling as possible. And it is now clear to me that noise reduction and a silent PC is often one of the things you don't get in a DIY PC unless you put some effort into it.
yeah, today some new motherboards have a backup bios that can save you from a bad flashing.
Now I have never tried a AOL connection so I do not know how it works, but the article says "But the setting changed is on Windows, not AOL's software. ". So if you are running some special software to connect to AOL, why did they not just add code that would filter/block it in their own software as a default. and the give the users that ability to turn the filtering off?
Yes, it does sound just a bit made up. Does not seem to reflect real life really well.
What's worse is that if you have more than 2 CPUs you need the big version that costs 1499$. I have around 100 machines, most of them are 2 cpu servers and a few are 4 cpu servers. I would like to use Redhat in the future, but I am finding it difficult to get approval for buying the licenses. so I fear that I am stuck on the old versions.
Their cut is that big in most countries because they are the ones that have to cover the loss in case theft, abuse, etc. So the company that sells the service/product will get the money anyway and the phone company will take the loss. So their cut is bigger due to the risk they take.
:) Hey we ARE talking UFO's here.
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at least he was lucky there where drivers. Try installing it on real server hardware, then even FreeBSD has more drivers for stuff like RAID controllers etc. Look at the Hardware Compatibility List.
If you are planning on installing Solaris in your enterprise enviroment you have to buy hardware that will work with Solaris x86 rather than the hardware you normally use. But then again, in a enterprise enviroment, I guess one would choose the Sparc platform or buy the Sun Intel hardware.
No, but then I also run Google toolbar, I don't use the pagerank feature only the search input and the popup blocker.
It is worth installing for the popup blocker alone. Let's you enable popups for for single sites just by pressing the popup blocker counter.
It looks like a cool phone/pda, could be what we have been waiting for.
But I agree what Bluetooth would be great to have. When you first have tried a phone with Bluetooth, it is hard to do without.
I love that a phone with Bluetooth just needs to be around the office for it to sync with my calendar. But I guess if the applications are supported properly, one should be able to sync without connections and through the internet (GPRS). Although I must admit while it is great that my phone is connected to the internet without dialing up, the GPRS connection are often very slow in most places.
Ehh, maybe not in the US but here Europe is has been very big for a long time. Most people I know have ISDN phones, geeks and non-geeks. It is available to everyone who wants it and it really provides excellent voice quality. I am told that you get an ISDN line when you order a new phone line unless you ask not to get one. The ISDN connection box has a build in D/A converter so you have the choice of connecting either a ISDN phone or old analog phone.
Now because of ADSL it might be past it's prime. But one of the reasons it became so popular was because of the internet, and the ability to surf the net and still be able to recieve calls.
Ah, might be true but I have a P2 Celeron 300 Mhz over clocked to 450 Mhz (standard voltage). I have been running 24x7 for a couple of years as my home server, ever since it was the latest thing.
It might be because I haven't raised the voltage but what do I know.
Data from cellphone towers/antennas has already been used for tracking people. In different criminal cases, the location of a cell phones and the calls made in that area from that phone, has been used to establish proof of guilt. It has also been used to contact people who were possible witness to the crime or other events that could help solve it.
No,, rather this:
Bart: Yeah! Funzo makes playtime fun!
[Funzo walks over to Bart's Krusty doll and strangles it with its pull string]
Hey, why is it destroying other toys?
Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition!
Bart: You mean like Microsoft?
Lisa: Exactly
followed by..
Hay Dieter, ve arh gatting a lot of zurfers on our zite!!
Jah, Hanzie, Das is guth! Ich habe ferkaufen a lot of new carz tzo rent aut!
Guth Thinking, Dieter! Weh are goinh to be raich nowh.
and it's Suprnova, I guess they had it coming. :)
The Windows help program tells me to press the shift key to avoid autorun programs. So the Windows documentation itself has told me how to bypass their copy protection
who gives a fuck?
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Hey Burgertime rocked, along with Boot Hill, which was on the other side of my azimuth aligning tape for my c64.
m,yeeeasss. Those were the marks we inserted into the reels delivered to the Aztec theater in Springfield.
So how is it going in Springfield?
Here, take down my number, it's 555-6321!
Got it, hey 555 is not a real number, they only use that in the moooviiees.
No shit honey, what do you think this is, real life?
and people get the connection speed they buy, down to the DSLAM. If you want a line that ensures that you get maximum speed it costs a lot more.
What would anyone gain to sue them for not delivering fx my 1 Megabit line full speed from everywhere in the world at all times? all you would "win" was to get much slower line speed for a much higher price. The bills has to be payed and if you force them to guarantee that you get full speed all the time, the price will raise a lot.
In Russia the YOU connect to the neighbours!
I mean if you specify the wrong ip address, the only neighbours you will be connected to, are the ones YOU connect to, since you have specified the wrong ip so any attempt by them to connect to you, will fail due to the wrong address.