Dryer sheets make decent disposable filters. Just stick them in front of your intake fans with magnets or tape or some other method that works well with your setup. As a bonus, your computer room will smell like a Fresh Mountain Spring Breeze!
I see a few advantages of sealed unit watercoolers compared to their heatpipe based competition
1:they tend to be smaller and lighter
2: there is some flexibility in radiator placement (good for those building small form factor systems)
3: they exhaust the CPU heat straight out of the case from the rad rather than relying on general case airflow to take it out
4: a large portion of their weight is mounted on the case rather than the motherboard. That means less risk of damage when moving the machine.
A few tweaks to your points...
1. The water is just transferring the heat from the source to the radiator, the same as heatpipes or direct contact would do in other heatsinks. The amount of material is similar, and possibly even larger and heavier when you include the pump. You still need airflow through cooling fins to actually do the cooling, so the radiator tends to be pretty similar to the fin assembly of traditional heatsinks. However, the weight and size is distributed between the mobo and case as you mention in point 4.
2. While tubing is more flexible than a copper heatpipe, you can run into other issues. The hose barbs on my ECO A.L.C. hit my (large passive) northbridge heatsink when mounted one way, and my top case fans when mounted the other way. Most people probably wouldn't run into this same situation in their systems, but you're not completely negating mounting issues, just changing the details.
3. You actually get better results most of the time if you intake cool outside air into the radiator rather than using it as an exhaust fan. The cool outside air drops the CPU temps quite a bit, while affecting internal case temps very little (especially in a typical enthusiast case with exhaust fans on the top). Obviously this will depend on your particular setup, and you need to make sure that reversing that fan isn't completely destroying the airflow in your case, but overall it tends to work better.
I agree with this. I created a template for our Helpdesk to use in gathering information for tickets that get escalated. I used https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines as a base, and customized it into a template that matched our ticketing system's fields and the apps we use. If you want them to give you information, you need to let them know what information you need, preferably with examples of good and bad submissions.
I too have had great experience with the N16 running Tomato USB. I convinced a couple friends to get it as well, and they're also very happy. The router has tons of RAM, ROM, and CPU. My only complaint is that it's only 2.4GHz, not 5GHz dual-band. However, the only 5GHz device I've got is my work laptop, and I have a separate AP for 802.11g and not much else around me, so 5GHz isn't that big a deal right now.
There are a few advanced features of DD-WRT that Tomato USB doesn't do (at least from the GUI), but it's got enough features for most power users. Unless there's some very specific feature of DD-WRT that you need, I suspect you'll be happy with Tomato as well.
I'm not sure about the newer models, but previous routers were known for having very slow (like 2MB/s) USB access. Obviously this isn't quite the same problem if you're actually seeing resource exhaustion, but it is a common issue that someone just techy enough to follow these instructions could run into.
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For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails. As our experts at Geek Squad would tell you, be very cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown senders.
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If you read the linked MLive "source" story and its followup, all the Facebook stuff happened early- to mid-2010. The estranged first wife got back in touch with the man (to let him know that their 6 year old son had autism) via Facebook about a year ago. He unfriended her a few weeks later, which they describe as a few months before the second wedding (which was in July 2010).
When I saw the headline of this article, experts-exchange.com is the first thing I thought of. More often than not, whatever question I'm Googling is answered by one (or more) of the five links before EE or the five after. Now that I know you can still see the answers at the bottom, perhaps my first step when I see EE in the results won't be to search again with "-site:experts-exchange.com" added on. As far as I'm concerned, EE is using a paywall on their search results, and hiding the answers at the bottom solely to avoid getting removed from Google. They even have a cute little "Tired of scrolling?" ad at the bottom next to the answers which isn't there on the direct page. Even though I can now see the answers, I dislike the practice, and it has thus far kept me from even giving the site a second look.
I didn't realize that you could cover the cost of subscription by answering questions, so I'll probably do that just to have the access handy for when a problem does come up. I do enough free tech support on my site and other forums, so I might as well answer a few questions at EE and "get something" for it. Again, this decision is based on your post, whereas EE's site has conditioned me to simply click "Back" or "X" when I stumble upon one of their pages while trying to solve a problem, or just completely exclude their domain from my searches. While I'm sure there are smarter people out there, I am generally considered quite knowledgeable and helpful, and yet I'm the kind of person EE is alienating. Based on the other comments here, I'm not the only one (and while/.ers might not be the most friendly people in general, they're probably more knowledgeable about tech issues than average).
What can I do if I think that the information about my address is incorrect?
If you see information that you believe is incorrect, please let us know. You can let us know if you believe the provider is not available at that location. Please remember that the search results show information about the census block or road segment. Generally, if broadband is available within part of a census block or road segment, it is available across all of that area, but not always.
We can whine all we want here but how is the justice system going to determine that this is or isn't real? Because you're saying so? Yeah right! Because you can show another vid. of those kids in class? How are we to know that the "proof vid" isn't actually the fake one? Or a deliberate one to cover up ?
Because the teacher was present and authorized the first recording where he performed a nice song for the kids.
This is simply mapping certain motions (detected by the Kinect) into certain keyboard commands, just as the U-Force mapped hand motions to NES buttons. Note that the U-Force was universally rated among the worst controllers and peripherals of all time.
It would be cool if your mage could throw a fireball with a hadoken gesture, but this is currently just "move left arm down to press 1" and "lean forward to press Up".
The article mentions that AT&T and Verizon are selling femtocells for $150 and $250 respectively, while T-Mobile has some "WiFi phones" that can use VoIP directly and Sprint gives out their femtocells for free to customers with proven signal issues.
Unlike AT&T and Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have not told the F.C.C. of any concerns about boosters.
While I do understand that a proliferation of random radio devices could very well lead to issues, it does seem a bit suspect that the carriers selling competing products are complaining about this, while the carriers that are not selling them have not mentioned this problem.
For standard website browsing, the biggest bottleneck is probably going to be the network connection. If you're talking about a handful of seconds to download a page, then a few milliseconds here and there on some Javascript isn't going to matter, like AC said. However, AJAXy webapps that make extensive use of Javascript may show a lot more difference if each Javascript function takes an extra 100ms to run. I think that's the point of these JS benchmarks - everything else is pretty much the same, so we're testing the one thing that could make a difference on script-intensive sites. Whether or not we actually have sites right now that are advanced enough to really show a difference, I can't say.
As a few others have said, XenClient is pretty cool if your hardware is on the (short) compatibility list. My work E6500 is unsupported only due to its Quadro (rather than Intel integrated graphics), so I'm waiting for Nvidia support. I've only had a chance to play with it a little bit on a new E6410 that I had for testing, but it was quite interesting for the little bit of playing I did with it.
So why haven't they replaced the standard downloading options built into any major OS?
The OS is the least of worries. NAT configuration is the biggest problem. Having to forward ports to systems is a pain. Certainly if you have more than one system behind your NAT. And I'm not even taking dynamic DHCP into consideration.
We'd need one of
An open protocol to tell the NAT your intentions. This will happen immediately after hell freezes over.
A torrent proxy either on the NAT/router device or on a server running any popular server OS (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows.) I myself can't be arsed as I have to run a family. But god forbid one of the "major players" comes with a solution.
Generally speaking, I agree with you. To work best, BT needs some configuration. However, port forwarding can be handled by UPnP. While UPnP was specifically designed without security, it's possible for routers to at least limit UPnP port forwarding to the PC requesting it (i.e. a PC can request that a port be opened for itself, but not for a different machine). UPnP allows a lot of apps to "just work" behind a router, and having the router limit changes to the machine making the request adds a bit of security. If your system has been taken over with malware, being able to open a port for itself probably isn't that much worse than what's already on it.
Beyond just forwarding ports, unlimited uploads can actually choke off the BT download itself. There are some apps that will attempt to calculate your bandwidth limits and not destroy your connection, but they're not foolproof.
I used to play WoW, and I played EverQuest back in the day. With EQ, patches were a straight HTTP download from Sony's servers. Every patch, their servers melted. If they didn't crash, you downloaded at sub-dialup speeds due to the huge load on the servers. Mirrors would eventually pop up as people managed to get the download finished, but it wasn't uncommon to not be able to play the game for at least a day simply because you weren't able to get the required new patch downloaded.
With WoW's BitTorrent-based patching system, I was always able to download the patch at the maximum speed of my internet connection. I usually had the patch downloaded and installed before they were done updating the servers.
Note that the actual patcher app from Blizzard sucks. You can't configure it to use specific ports or limit its upload rate. I watched it choke off its own download to dialup speeds while on cable. Using a separate app, I throttled the upload down a few KB/s and my download shot up to my connection's max download speed. The nice thing about using standard BT for patching is that a.torrent file is embedded in the patcher's executable. A simple webscript or app can extract that.torrent file out and you can use your existing, properly-configured BT client to download the patch with all the benefits of BT and none of Blizzard's issues. I still have no idea why Blizzard doesn't post the.torrent files directly on their download page next to their other download links - it's much easier for those who already have BT clients and just adds another user to the swarm who may otherwise use one of their HTTP mirrors. I actually put up a site at http://www.wowpatcherstuff.com/ explaining this, simply because of all the complaints I heard about WoW's patcher, which were actually issues with Blizzard's app specifically, not with the BT-based patching system or BT in general.
I've heard a lot of people complain that Blizzard is leeching users' connections with BT so they don't have to pay for servers to mirror the download. While I understand where they're coming from, I think BT actually provides a better experience for the user. I'm willing to donate a little upload bandwidth in exchange for the ability to download the patch from 5 million broadband customers rather than a handful of overloaded servers. I've already done the "patch download servers" thing, and it was horrible. Sure, Blizzard may be a little better at it, but Sony's not exactly a dumb little mom & pop shop. You also have to look at the fact that there are even more WoW players than there were EQ players.
Check out the Browser Extensions section of http://bit.ly/pages/tools for an addon that will show you the unobfuscated links. As an example, here's a bit.ly link for my site: http://bit.ly/bHnUhd
I would expect similar tools to pop up for any URL shortening service that becomes decently popular.
Last year while camping in Canada, I tried out the free version of MotionX's GPS app on my iPhone 3G. It worked quite well, so I bought the full version when we went into town for ice and I found some wifi. Earlier this year, a coworker got a few of us into geocaching. With my new iPhone 4, MotionX GPS seems to be just as accurate as the others' Garmins. However, the iPhone seems to be much more impacted by leaf cover while in the woods. When I get right on top of the target in the woods, it gets jumpy and less accurate.
I do use my phone for some fairly precise GPSing. When it gets a good signal, it's as accurate as anything else, but it seems more likely to easily lose that good signal. You may find that the phone doesn't work nearly as well out in the woods as it does giving you directions in the city. If possible, I'd try out the hardware out on a hiking trip (throw your own SIM in for connectivity and use Google Maps or something) before committing to it.
Just something to consider... The phone may work just fine for what he's wanting to do, and all the other apps could be great to have too. Or you may end up with a crappy GPS that barely works combined with a bunch of extra crap he doesn't care about. Just make sure you end up with something that actually works, rather than letting your geekiness build a theoretically awesome device that in reality is useless.
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Dryer sheets make decent disposable filters. Just stick them in front of your intake fans with magnets or tape or some other method that works well with your setup. As a bonus, your computer room will smell like a Fresh Mountain Spring Breeze!
I see a few advantages of sealed unit watercoolers compared to their heatpipe based competition
1:they tend to be smaller and lighter 2: there is some flexibility in radiator placement (good for those building small form factor systems) 3: they exhaust the CPU heat straight out of the case from the rad rather than relying on general case airflow to take it out 4: a large portion of their weight is mounted on the case rather than the motherboard. That means less risk of damage when moving the machine.
A few tweaks to your points...
I agree with this. I created a template for our Helpdesk to use in gathering information for tickets that get escalated. I used https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines as a base, and customized it into a template that matched our ticketing system's fields and the apps we use. If you want them to give you information, you need to let them know what information you need, preferably with examples of good and bad submissions.
I too have had great experience with the N16 running Tomato USB. I convinced a couple friends to get it as well, and they're also very happy. The router has tons of RAM, ROM, and CPU. My only complaint is that it's only 2.4GHz, not 5GHz dual-band. However, the only 5GHz device I've got is my work laptop, and I have a separate AP for 802.11g and not much else around me, so 5GHz isn't that big a deal right now.
There are a few advanced features of DD-WRT that Tomato USB doesn't do (at least from the GUI), but it's got enough features for most power users. Unless there's some very specific feature of DD-WRT that you need, I suspect you'll be happy with Tomato as well.
I'm not sure about the newer models, but previous routers were known for having very slow (like 2MB/s) USB access. Obviously this isn't quite the same problem if you're actually seeing resource exhaustion, but it is a common issue that someone just techy enough to follow these instructions could run into.
Thanks for the info. Minor correction, it's /var/root/Library/Caches/locationd/consolidated.db.
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I like that they turned it into an opportunity to plug Geek Squad as well.
If you read the linked MLive "source" story and its followup, all the Facebook stuff happened early- to mid-2010. The estranged first wife got back in touch with the man (to let him know that their 6 year old son had autism) via Facebook about a year ago. He unfriended her a few weeks later, which they describe as a few months before the second wedding (which was in July 2010).
The ZDNet story is quite different from the linked MLive story. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/03/alleged_grand_rapids_polygamis_1.html is a followup story with more details. ZDNet has the timeline and details all messed up.
P.S. The wedding was in Muskegon County, the same place as the Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video story.
for the last time it's not a paywall either.. if you scroll to the bottom you can still see the actual results and answers, use your end key.
As others have said, this only works if you have a Google (and possibly other sites) referrer. If you go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html, you will not see any answers at the bottom. If you go to http://www.google.com/search?q=Exchange+2007+shell+cmd+to+show+mailbox+sizes+in+a+store%3F+site%3Aexperts-exchange.com and click through on the first result, then you'll see the answer at the bottom. If you then go directly to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Email_Servers/Exchange/Q_23968962.html again, you will once again not see any answers at the bottom.
When I saw the headline of this article, experts-exchange.com is the first thing I thought of. More often than not, whatever question I'm Googling is answered by one (or more) of the five links before EE or the five after. Now that I know you can still see the answers at the bottom, perhaps my first step when I see EE in the results won't be to search again with "-site:experts-exchange.com" added on. As far as I'm concerned, EE is using a paywall on their search results, and hiding the answers at the bottom solely to avoid getting removed from Google. They even have a cute little "Tired of scrolling?" ad at the bottom next to the answers which isn't there on the direct page. Even though I can now see the answers, I dislike the practice, and it has thus far kept me from even giving the site a second look.
I didn't realize that you could cover the cost of subscription by answering questions, so I'll probably do that just to have the access handy for when a problem does come up. I do enough free tech support on my site and other forums, so I might as well answer a few questions at EE and "get something" for it. Again, this decision is based on your post, whereas EE's site has conditioned me to simply click "Back" or "X" when I stumble upon one of their pages while trying to solve a problem, or just completely exclude their domain from my searches. While I'm sure there are smarter people out there, I am generally considered quite knowledgeable and helpful, and yet I'm the kind of person EE is alienating. Based on the other comments here, I'm not the only one (and while /.ers might not be the most friendly people in general, they're probably more knowledgeable about tech issues than average).
What can I do if I think that the information about my address is incorrect?
If you see information that you believe is incorrect, please let us know. You can let us know if you believe the provider is not available at that location. Please remember that the search results show information about the census block or road segment. Generally, if broadband is available within part of a census block or road segment, it is available across all of that area, but not always.
The article is using old information. Emory was arrested initially and released on a $5,000 bond. On Wednesday 2/16, he was arraigned on a felony charge of manufacturing child sexual abusive material. http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/muskegon_county/YouTube-singer-charged-with-felony
We can whine all we want here but how is the justice system going to determine that this is or isn't real? Because you're saying so? Yeah right! Because you can show another vid. of those kids in class? How are we to know that the "proof vid" isn't actually the fake one? Or a deliberate one to cover up ?
Because the teacher was present and authorized the first recording where he performed a nice song for the kids.
He was arrested and taken to jail. He was released on a $5,000 bond. He is still facing charges that could result in 20 years in prison. http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/muskegon_county/YouTube-singer-charged-with-felony
This is simply mapping certain motions (detected by the Kinect) into certain keyboard commands, just as the U-Force mapped hand motions to NES buttons. Note that the U-Force was universally rated among the worst controllers and peripherals of all time.
It would be cool if your mage could throw a fireball with a hadoken gesture, but this is currently just "move left arm down to press 1" and "lean forward to press Up".
The article mentions that AT&T and Verizon are selling femtocells for $150 and $250 respectively, while T-Mobile has some "WiFi phones" that can use VoIP directly and Sprint gives out their femtocells for free to customers with proven signal issues.
Unlike AT&T and Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have not told the F.C.C. of any concerns about boosters.
While I do understand that a proliferation of random radio devices could very well lead to issues, it does seem a bit suspect that the carriers selling competing products are complaining about this, while the carriers that are not selling them have not mentioned this problem.
For standard website browsing, the biggest bottleneck is probably going to be the network connection. If you're talking about a handful of seconds to download a page, then a few milliseconds here and there on some Javascript isn't going to matter, like AC said. However, AJAXy webapps that make extensive use of Javascript may show a lot more difference if each Javascript function takes an extra 100ms to run. I think that's the point of these JS benchmarks - everything else is pretty much the same, so we're testing the one thing that could make a difference on script-intensive sites. Whether or not we actually have sites right now that are advanced enough to really show a difference, I can't say.
As a few others have said, XenClient is pretty cool if your hardware is on the (short) compatibility list. My work E6500 is unsupported only due to its Quadro (rather than Intel integrated graphics), so I'm waiting for Nvidia support. I've only had a chance to play with it a little bit on a new E6410 that I had for testing, but it was quite interesting for the little bit of playing I did with it.
So why haven't they replaced the standard downloading options built into any major OS?
The OS is the least of worries. NAT configuration is the biggest problem. Having to forward ports to systems is a pain. Certainly if you have more than one system behind your NAT. And I'm not even taking dynamic DHCP into consideration. We'd need one of
Generally speaking, I agree with you. To work best, BT needs some configuration. However, port forwarding can be handled by UPnP. While UPnP was specifically designed without security, it's possible for routers to at least limit UPnP port forwarding to the PC requesting it (i.e. a PC can request that a port be opened for itself, but not for a different machine). UPnP allows a lot of apps to "just work" behind a router, and having the router limit changes to the machine making the request adds a bit of security. If your system has been taken over with malware, being able to open a port for itself probably isn't that much worse than what's already on it.
Beyond just forwarding ports, unlimited uploads can actually choke off the BT download itself. There are some apps that will attempt to calculate your bandwidth limits and not destroy your connection, but they're not foolproof.
Yes, thank god.
I used to play WoW, and I played EverQuest back in the day. With EQ, patches were a straight HTTP download from Sony's servers. Every patch, their servers melted. If they didn't crash, you downloaded at sub-dialup speeds due to the huge load on the servers. Mirrors would eventually pop up as people managed to get the download finished, but it wasn't uncommon to not be able to play the game for at least a day simply because you weren't able to get the required new patch downloaded.
With WoW's BitTorrent-based patching system, I was always able to download the patch at the maximum speed of my internet connection. I usually had the patch downloaded and installed before they were done updating the servers.
Note that the actual patcher app from Blizzard sucks. You can't configure it to use specific ports or limit its upload rate. I watched it choke off its own download to dialup speeds while on cable. Using a separate app, I throttled the upload down a few KB/s and my download shot up to my connection's max download speed. The nice thing about using standard BT for patching is that a .torrent file is embedded in the patcher's executable. A simple webscript or app can extract that .torrent file out and you can use your existing, properly-configured BT client to download the patch with all the benefits of BT and none of Blizzard's issues. I still have no idea why Blizzard doesn't post the .torrent files directly on their download page next to their other download links - it's much easier for those who already have BT clients and just adds another user to the swarm who may otherwise use one of their HTTP mirrors. I actually put up a site at http://www.wowpatcherstuff.com/ explaining this, simply because of all the complaints I heard about WoW's patcher, which were actually issues with Blizzard's app specifically, not with the BT-based patching system or BT in general.
I've heard a lot of people complain that Blizzard is leeching users' connections with BT so they don't have to pay for servers to mirror the download. While I understand where they're coming from, I think BT actually provides a better experience for the user. I'm willing to donate a little upload bandwidth in exchange for the ability to download the patch from 5 million broadband customers rather than a handful of overloaded servers. I've already done the "patch download servers" thing, and it was horrible. Sure, Blizzard may be a little better at it, but Sony's not exactly a dumb little mom & pop shop. You also have to look at the fact that there are even more WoW players than there were EQ players.
Check out the Browser Extensions section of http://bit.ly/pages/tools for an addon that will show you the unobfuscated links. As an example, here's a bit.ly link for my site: http://bit.ly/bHnUhd
I would expect similar tools to pop up for any URL shortening service that becomes decently popular.
As the article states, Jonathan Zdziarski has been doing this for several years. He's the author of iErase/iWipe (which seems to have been in the App Store previously but is Cydia-only now), runs iPhoneInsecurity.com, and has a blog with quite of bit of stuff related to iPhone forensics and security. He even has a post specifically addressing the "screenshot leak".
the processed sounds of animals being put thru an industrial shredder
It sounds like you're describing a cross between the Happiness in Slavery and unreleased March of the Pigs videos.
Last year while camping in Canada, I tried out the free version of MotionX's GPS app on my iPhone 3G. It worked quite well, so I bought the full version when we went into town for ice and I found some wifi. Earlier this year, a coworker got a few of us into geocaching. With my new iPhone 4, MotionX GPS seems to be just as accurate as the others' Garmins. However, the iPhone seems to be much more impacted by leaf cover while in the woods. When I get right on top of the target in the woods, it gets jumpy and less accurate.
I do use my phone for some fairly precise GPSing. When it gets a good signal, it's as accurate as anything else, but it seems more likely to easily lose that good signal. You may find that the phone doesn't work nearly as well out in the woods as it does giving you directions in the city. If possible, I'd try out the hardware out on a hiking trip (throw your own SIM in for connectivity and use Google Maps or something) before committing to it.
Just something to consider... The phone may work just fine for what he's wanting to do, and all the other apps could be great to have too. Or you may end up with a crappy GPS that barely works combined with a bunch of extra crap he doesn't care about. Just make sure you end up with something that actually works, rather than letting your geekiness build a theoretically awesome device that in reality is useless.
I always loved posting this pic for a forum friend who worked at Intel.
http://images.invisibill.net.nyud.net/intelmodelnumbers.jpg