" Designing a new cargo sled for the shuttle would be more complex than simply designing a new rocket. The SRB's were a nasty hack to get the shuttle off the ground, and have a lot of problems. No two (including the ones installed at the time) produce the exact same thrust. Once you light the SRB it will burn until it runs out of fuel. " He mentions keeping the existing "orbiter" engines. One could even get away with compromises there, since it's no longer meant to be reusable.
"The foam and external tank issue is another problem. The foam keeps splitting off and hitting the spacecraft. "
Who cares? Since this "truck" he proposes is not designed for re-entry, it is irrelevant if the shielding is damaged like Columbia's RCC panels were. In fact, it's no longer needed to use highly heat-resistant (but very impact-weak) panels if reentry is no longer a goal.
They're powerful (considering their cost, $3 to $12 each), and very easy to program.
http://www.avrfreaks.net/ is an excellent AVR resource.
In addition, you can program AVRs in C rather than assembler. There is a GCC version that targets the AVR platform, although my preference has been for Codevision AVR compiler/IDE/library set- It's $150 for a full version, but worth every penny (Mainly for the library set it comes with. No need to write your own I2C, One-Wire, or LCD interface routines, as CV-AVR has libraries for all of those).
You spilled soda on your laptop and dropped it and you're trying to get it fixed on Dell's bill.
I know at least five I8000 owners (including my father, who bought the system on my reccomendation because of the other people I knew who used 8000s) who have had nothing but positive experiences with their systems. My I8200 is a year old now and is still running flawlessly.
"it displayed it even though I had removed all the drives and used my drive replicator hardware to copy the master to the other drives to instantly image 10 laptops.. (It's nice to be at a company that let's me buy the right tools...)"
So you're basically saying that you replicated the drive from one machine bit-for-bit (including EULA) to the other machines. DUH!!!
Which the Dell defaults to booting in its shipped state. After agreeing to the EULA (plus a small multimedia intro to your machine), the partition is never used again.
Apparently, the Inspiron 5100s have the default BIOS boot order set to boot the HD before the CD. (See a post near the end of this article's comments from a guy that mass-installed Linux on some 5100s where he worked. This was not the case with my 8200 from what I remember, which DID have this EULA.) Pressing F2 at bootup lets you change this to a more sensible order, after which you can insert your favorite OS install CD and nuke the EULA partition into oblivion without ever even booting it.
Although from what I recall of my (long since nuked) "EULA", it had a small introduction to the computer and lots of fancy music, etc. In fact, I think it may actually have performed some configuration of the Windows partition (beyond just tweaking the boot flags) after clicking "Yes".
Also, IIRC, on extremely large hard drives there's a minimum size increment for a partition proportional to the size of the HD. I kind of remember not being able to create a partition smaller than 15ish megs on a 30-40 gig HD, although I can't be sure.
The article text (at least the reposts, original is Slashdotted), *implies* that it's in BIOS but doesn't actually have evidence to confirm that it is in BIOS and not in a small partition on the HD like every Dell manufactured for the past 2-3 years. People assume that if something appears between BIOS and Windows, then it too must be BIOS, even when it isn't.
Don't like the license? Put the install CD of your favorite OS, boot from it, and repartition/reformat that license into oblivion.
I'd like to know too, since every Inspiron 8000 owner I've met personally was completely happy with their machine, to the point where I reccommended one to my father two years ago. He still uses it and absolutely loves it (Except for wishing he'd ordered the largest HD available instead of smallest). Because of his and others' experinces, I ordered an 8200. It works beautifully.
It had the EULA too. Nothing a Linux install disk couldn't fix, considering that it's in a small partition on the hard drive and NOT in the BIOS as the clueless idiots here that either don't own Dells or never bothered to analyze their HD structure keep claiming.
Hint: I do (Inspiron 8200). And before nuking and repaving my HD (WinXP sucked), I analyzed the structure of my HD. The EULAs on Dell notebooks are in a small (30-50 MB - Yeah, that's big, but it's tiny by today's standards.) partition on the hard drive that is flagged as the boot partition when the laptop arrives at your house. Clicking yes on the EULA will change the flag to the actual partition. Using an fdisk utility to re-flag the EULA partition as the boot partition will make the EULA reappear. Repartitioning the entire hard drive and reformatting it before the first bootup will cause this partition (and the EULA) to disappear.
The article says NOTHING about the clickthrough actually being in the BIOS, just that it *starts after POSTing*. It's in a small (30-50MB or less) partition on the hard drive that is toggled bootable in a shipping configuration. Once one agrees to the license, the main HD partition is toggled bootable and you never see the contents of the mini-partition again, unless you use some fdisk variant to re-toggle that partition as bootable. Guess what - You get the EULA again!
Fdisk that partition away and you'll never see it.
If you're not using the software you're benchmarking?
duh...
If you nuke and repave your Windows partition with Linux, you had better NOT be publishing.NET framework benchmarks - Because there's no way you're getting valid data if you're not running.NET under Windows.
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/regulatory/reglycom in g_bolt.html
Suuure... Rigorously tested and reliable. I feel comfortable trusting my life with an engine that has had crankshaft failures due to metallurgical defects.
I'm not talking about the fact that cable modems have low upstream caps, I'm talking about what happens when you hit those caps.
Due to the extremely long packet queues of a cable modem, when the upstream connection saturates and the queue starts filling up, latency goes to hell. No matter what the cap is, if you saturate a cable modem's upstream connection, everything falls apart because of the fact that the latency on all packets (including ACK packets) skyrockets.
If the cable modem didn't have such a long packet queue this wouldn't happen when the connection saturated, or at least it wouldn't be so severe.
" Go to nana-e, and they'll tell you that robots from space run SPEWS, and there's no way to get a hold of them. They start with Class C's, then progress to banning class A's. Some of the crazies who post on nana-e even have the whole country of Brazil banned on their private lists. SPEWS had information too on DNS blackholing (i.e. preventing your users from going to internet sites) and on HTTP blocking. If it was anyone else (the government) who was advocating this, people would be outraged."
i.e. no matter how hard one tries, there is still a great chance of getting screwed by these vigilantes.
"Again, just a hunch with no test data to support it."
I can confirm that discs burned at 4x in my Lite-On have lasted FAR longer than discs burned at 48x, some of which are exhibiting data corruption even after 5-6 months, and also had initially better burn quality. (I have never once had a read error from a disc burned at 4x that wasn't severely scratched, while I've had read errors from day 1 on discs burned at full speed, or even down at 24x on 48x rated media.)
It seems like YOU are the one with no test data to support your claims, other than bad experiences with a POS first-generation drive.
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If there's anything where the GameCube and N64 excelled, it was at party games.
Three words: Super Smash Brothers
" Designing a new cargo sled for the shuttle would be more complex than simply designing a new rocket. The SRB's were a nasty hack to get the shuttle off the ground, and have a lot of problems. No two (including the ones installed at the time) produce the exact same thrust. Once you light the SRB it will burn until it runs out of fuel. "
He mentions keeping the existing "orbiter" engines. One could even get away with compromises there, since it's no longer meant to be reusable.
"The foam and external tank issue is another problem. The foam keeps splitting off and hitting the spacecraft. "
Who cares? Since this "truck" he proposes is not designed for re-entry, it is irrelevant if the shielding is damaged like Columbia's RCC panels were. In fact, it's no longer needed to use highly heat-resistant (but very impact-weak) panels if reentry is no longer a goal.
Don't you mean the 8200 or 8500? 8300 never existed.
Yes, you can nuke that 30M partition. I did and the machine works beautifully.
"That means, you can circumvent the obligatory agreement to the EULA?"
No... The agreement of the EULA covers software on the machine.
If you nuke it with a RedHat CD, there's no software with a license for you to agree to.
They're powerful (considering their cost, $3 to $12 each), and very easy to program.
http://www.avrfreaks.net/ is an excellent AVR resource.
In addition, you can program AVRs in C rather than assembler. There is a GCC version that targets the AVR platform, although my preference has been for Codevision AVR compiler/IDE/library set- It's $150 for a full version, but worth every penny (Mainly for the library set it comes with. No need to write your own I2C, One-Wire, or LCD interface routines, as CV-AVR has libraries for all of those).
You spilled soda on your laptop and dropped it and you're trying to get it fixed on Dell's bill.
I know at least five I8000 owners (including my father, who bought the system on my reccomendation because of the other people I knew who used 8000s) who have had nothing but positive experiences with their systems. My I8200 is a year old now and is still running flawlessly.
I think you're right.
I'll have to watch it again sometime this weekend to confirm.
Then how do you explain this?
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"it displayed it even though I had removed all the drives and used my drive replicator hardware to copy the master to the other drives to instantly image 10 laptops.. (It's nice to be at a company that let's me buy the right tools...)"
So you're basically saying that you replicated the drive from one machine bit-for-bit (including EULA) to the other machines. DUH!!!
Which the Dell defaults to booting in its shipped state. After agreeing to the EULA (plus a small multimedia intro to your machine), the partition is never used again.
Apparently, the Inspiron 5100s have the default BIOS boot order set to boot the HD before the CD. (See a post near the end of this article's comments from a guy that mass-installed Linux on some 5100s where he worked. This was not the case with my 8200 from what I remember, which DID have this EULA.) Pressing F2 at bootup lets you change this to a more sensible order, after which you can insert your favorite OS install CD and nuke the EULA partition into oblivion without ever even booting it.
Although from what I recall of my (long since nuked) "EULA", it had a small introduction to the computer and lots of fancy music, etc. In fact, I think it may actually have performed some configuration of the Windows partition (beyond just tweaking the boot flags) after clicking "Yes".
Also, IIRC, on extremely large hard drives there's a minimum size increment for a partition proportional to the size of the HD. I kind of remember not being able to create a partition smaller than 15ish megs on a 30-40 gig HD, although I can't be sure.
If you do it right, that agreement will no longer exist, as it's on the hard drive.
The article text (at least the reposts, original is Slashdotted), *implies* that it's in BIOS but doesn't actually have evidence to confirm that it is in BIOS and not in a small partition on the HD like every Dell manufactured for the past 2-3 years. People assume that if something appears between BIOS and Windows, then it too must be BIOS, even when it isn't.
Don't like the license? Put the install CD of your favorite OS, boot from it, and repartition/reformat that license into oblivion.
I'd like to know too, since every Inspiron 8000 owner I've met personally was completely happy with their machine, to the point where I reccommended one to my father two years ago. He still uses it and absolutely loves it (Except for wishing he'd ordered the largest HD available instead of smallest). Because of his and others' experinces, I ordered an 8200. It works beautifully.
It had the EULA too. Nothing a Linux install disk couldn't fix, considering that it's in a small partition on the hard drive and NOT in the BIOS as the clueless idiots here that either don't own Dells or never bothered to analyze their HD structure keep claiming.
Do you actuall own a Dell laptop?
Hint: I do (Inspiron 8200). And before nuking and repaving my HD (WinXP sucked), I analyzed the structure of my HD. The EULAs on Dell notebooks are in a small (30-50 MB - Yeah, that's big, but it's tiny by today's standards.) partition on the hard drive that is flagged as the boot partition when the laptop arrives at your house. Clicking yes on the EULA will change the flag to the actual partition. Using an fdisk utility to re-flag the EULA partition as the boot partition will make the EULA reappear. Repartitioning the entire hard drive and reformatting it before the first bootup will cause this partition (and the EULA) to disappear.
The article says NOTHING about the clickthrough actually being in the BIOS, just that it *starts after POSTing*. It's in a small (30-50MB or less) partition on the hard drive that is toggled bootable in a shipping configuration. Once one agrees to the license, the main HD partition is toggled bootable and you never see the contents of the mini-partition again, unless you use some fdisk variant to re-toggle that partition as bootable. Guess what - You get the EULA again!
Fdisk that partition away and you'll never see it.
I've confirmed this on my Inspiron 8200.
That's not in BIOS. It's in a small hidden partition on the hard drive that is initially toggled bootable, which un-toggles itself after you accept.
If you fdisk the hard drive and completely reformat it, you will never see the clickthroughs.
If you're not using the software you're benchmarking?
.NET framework benchmarks - Because there's no way you're getting valid data if you're not running .NET under Windows.
duh...
If you nuke and repave your Windows partition with Linux, you had better NOT be publishing
My cousin's oldest kid is (I believe) 16, or turning 16 soon.
He has full access to all of the guns (whether shotgun or rifle) on my aunt's farm, and goes hunting on his own often.
That said, he's extremely responsible with the guns. Nerf weapons... YIKES. But real firearms, he's *damned careful* with.
Yes, they live out in the country. Kids with guns are a normal thing in many parts of this country, and it's normally not considered a problem.
It's:
"Guns don't kill people. I KILL PEOPLE"
- Dude on UHF (Movie starring Weird Al Yankovic)
Dell refers to all of the older 8000-series (and all of their mediabay-compatible brethren) as C-series laptops.
Basically anything Dell made at that time was a C-series.
Their newest generation are referred to as the D-series.
Hello Mr. Anonymous Coward:
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Suuure... Rigorously tested and reliable. I feel comfortable trusting my life with an engine that has had crankshaft failures due to metallurgical defects.
I'm not talking about the fact that cable modems have low upstream caps, I'm talking about what happens when you hit those caps.
Due to the extremely long packet queues of a cable modem, when the upstream connection saturates and the queue starts filling up, latency goes to hell. No matter what the cap is, if you saturate a cable modem's upstream connection, everything falls apart because of the fact that the latency on all packets (including ACK packets) skyrockets.
If the cable modem didn't have such a long packet queue this wouldn't happen when the connection saturated, or at least it wouldn't be so severe.
A quote of an earlier comment:
" Go to nana-e, and they'll tell you that robots from space run SPEWS, and there's no way to get a hold of them. They start with Class C's, then progress to banning class A's. Some of the crazies who post on nana-e even have the whole country of Brazil banned on their private lists. SPEWS had information too on DNS blackholing (i.e. preventing your users from going to internet sites) and on HTTP blocking. If it was anyone else (the government) who was advocating this, people would be outraged."
i.e. no matter how hard one tries, there is still a great chance of getting screwed by these vigilantes.
"Again, just a hunch with no test data to support it."
I can confirm that discs burned at 4x in my Lite-On have lasted FAR longer than discs burned at 48x, some of which are exhibiting data corruption even after 5-6 months, and also had initially better burn quality. (I have never once had a read error from a disc burned at 4x that wasn't severely scratched, while I've had read errors from day 1 on discs burned at full speed, or even down at 24x on 48x rated media.)
It seems like YOU are the one with no test data to support your claims, other than bad experiences with a POS first-generation drive.
That's sig material!