Without trying to sound too much like a fanboy, The classics are the whole reason why I even still own a GBA. I have to admit though, I like what they did with Super Mario Advanced. Rerelease a classic, but give it a few extra tricks to make it shine on the newer hardware.
While I'm sure this will simply get lost in the noise, it's a very timely subject for me. I had the pleasure of installing Windows 2000, then Windows 2000, then Windows XP part of the way, then Windows 2000 and finally Windows 2000 on my wife's new/old computer this weekend. Her old machine died a blue smoke death, so she inherited my Athlon 2.0 ghz and I got a shiney new P4. Mind you, My sturdy old Athlon ran linux like a champ. We're talking dual headed xinerama and all. The exact same hardware just wouldn't run Windows! The end result was that the TV card was preventing 2000 from installing, then the network printer drivers kept windows from booting, then windows update kept me from sleeping until finally a virgin, pure install of 2k was burned, booted, copied and stored forever to prevent future reinstalls on her machine.
I don't do windows because it's too delicate and takes too much time to get happy.
Let me sum up. Old turbo, propane tank, metal tube, power steering pump used as an oil pump driven by a hand drill, 6 inchs of flame shooting out the end of the tube and the whole thing is mounted on a couple of painted 2x4s. Tell me, which piece will fail first?
I love these homemade projects, but good lord, this one is 2 steps away from a stay in the burn ward.
Im working on finishing my basement right now and their are no shortage of little places to fit a couple of gigs of data. But here is my thought. I bet you could fit a gumstix into a standard outlet box. Get the bluetooth version and an SD card, then just put a dummy ethernet jack or phone line into the box and viola. Easy to get to should you need the access and the last place I would ever look for a machine.
When we did our house, I had a choice. We could afford a rack, or a few ebay rack mount cases (the 30 dollar 4u jobbies that were around a little bit ago). We went with the cases and I built a rack out of 2x4s and 1x2s
I work in that building. They are actually there just to power the parking lot lights, but they do make a noticable impact on the power bill (My dad works for the company that tends the building). The whole building was designed to be energy efficient. That big lake out front actually holds a bunch of coils for the cooling/heating system. I believe they call it a hydrothermal heatpump and it is the same concept as a geothermal heatpump. Inside, everything is designed to be as energy efficient as possible. Unfortunatly, not many people have moved in as it was real estate that really wasn't needed (look at all the other office buildings right around it!) but I think its pretty slick.
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It was called the Art of War by some guy named Sun Tzu. I think he worked for IBM or something;-)
People seem to consistently miss the point of open source software. As an OSS user, you ARE the Beta tester, developer, end user and marketing department. Software is developed to scratch an itch, sent to the general public who then complain that it doesn't scratch their particular itch, the software is tweaked, made better, and before you know it we all have fleas!
No wait, that's wrong. But you get the idea. It drives me nuts to see people harp on how poor an OSS piece of software is when they haven't done a single thing to contribute to that code. This is OSS folks, you dont just yell at a vendor that you paid money to (you did pay money right?) until they change their app. You have the source, resources are online everywhere to help you learn how to code. Use that energy towards fixing what you see as a flaw instead of complaining about it.
I have a similar problem, but due to SBC giving out free wireless hardware to people that don't need it. The only success I had was when I decided I would just out power everyone else. I picked up a pair of 7db gain antennas, smacked one on my AP and the other on my laptop. I then switched to channel 9, nothing seemed to be using that channel. While it's not the most friendly, It works. Unfortunatly, the next step involves an op-amp and figuring out a way to insulate my toaster.
Not true sir. Utilities like ettercap make it pretty darn easy to sniff a switched network. Download it and give it a shot. Note, ettercap will almost definetly set off just about any IDS that is sitting on the segment you are peaking into, also, ettercap is still limited to your broadcast domain, so dont try to use it to sniff a segment that is out of your subnet.
I have been using a K2 Jiver for about 3 months now it has made it to the top of my list. Very roomy, padded in all the right places and just looks cool.
I agree with the spirit of the post, but I would suggest a 110 block if you are going to go this route. 66 will leave you heartburn later on if you try to pump highspeed data through. What I did, and it is working great, is cat 5 everywhere. Phone into a 110 block and then the 110 block connecting into a patch panel. A second patch panel handles all the cat5 in the house, so if a port needs to be data, it goes into my switch. If a port needs to be voice, then it goes into the other patch panel.
Am I the only one that loves to read these stories about these massive SIM type games having the same problems as real life? Their has got to be some way to capitalize on this and use it as a predictor of human behaviour. I say we hunt down the perfect SIMS neighborhood and model it in reality somewhere in Oklahoma.
1. Dropped off a high rise construction, about 20 stories down. 2. Ran over by a D9 Cat at same high rise construnction 3. Two words, washing machine 4. Left at Olive Garden. Guy that found it did not want to give it back and would argue with anyone that called it. 5. I now have a pager. Company wont issue me anymore cell phones, and here is the kicker, I WORK for a wireless company!
Actually, call setup time is pretty much the same for all of them, between 5 to 8 seconds. After the initial setup though, it drops closer to 2 seconds
I have never heard of this before with an AP. I have a dlink ap-1000 that doesnt even get to room temperature. Are these AP's really getting that hot or are they designed to operate in temps below 80F? Can someone post actual temps?
What I have done is purchase a socket 370 Via C3 online (they go for like 30 bucks for a 900Mhz that uses very little power) and then just used an old socket 370 mini atx case (ya know, the one with 2 PCI slots and EVERYTHING else built onboard). No harddrives in it, I run everything off of CD and use Ramdisks for RW stuff. It's a little noisy when it first boots up but after 45 seconds or so, it's as quiet as a powersupply fan and a CPU fan can be. Cheap too, I think I have a total of 60 bucks invested (god love ebay). So in short, be a geek and build your own. The power difference over a year between the eden boards and a C3 you can buy will amount to a super sized extra value meal over a year.
If you have a desire to let your data room double as a disco. Just smack some mirrors on all of your cooling fans and issue fish tank platform shoes at the door.
These "compression" servers do two things. The first is standards or client based compression e.g. removing carriage returns from your HTML or using a client to pipe the text through a compression program and then decompressing that data at the client side. But the gains are pretty much all seen in the image compression. All the image compression does though is downsample your images to a lower rate, pixelizing the hell out of them and making them almost useless. This is a poor effort pimped by a marketing drone to keep customers from putting too much pressure on an ISP for broadband.
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These gray cube walls ARE sucking the life out of me!
anyone else see that great big blue screen and have it just scream out "please send me to fark"
Without trying to sound too much like a fanboy, The classics are the whole reason why I even still own a GBA. I have to admit though, I like what they did with Super Mario Advanced. Rerelease a classic, but give it a few extra tricks to make it shine on the newer hardware.
While I'm sure this will simply get lost in the noise, it's a very timely subject for me. I had the pleasure of installing Windows 2000, then Windows 2000, then Windows XP part of the way, then Windows 2000 and finally Windows 2000 on my wife's new/old computer this weekend. Her old machine died a blue smoke death, so she inherited my Athlon 2.0 ghz and I got a shiney new P4. Mind you, My sturdy old Athlon ran linux like a champ. We're talking dual headed xinerama and all. The exact same hardware just wouldn't run Windows! The end result was that the TV card was preventing 2000 from installing, then the network printer drivers kept windows from booting, then windows update kept me from sleeping until finally a virgin, pure install of 2k was burned, booted, copied and stored forever to prevent future reinstalls on her machine.
I don't do windows because it's too delicate and takes too much time to get happy.
Let me sum up. Old turbo, propane tank, metal tube, power steering pump used as an oil pump driven by a hand drill, 6 inchs of flame shooting out the end of the tube and the whole thing is mounted on a couple of painted 2x4s. Tell me, which piece will fail first?
I love these homemade projects, but good lord, this one is 2 steps away from a stay in the burn ward.
Im working on finishing my basement right now and their are no shortage of little places to fit a couple of gigs of data. But here is my thought. I bet you could fit a gumstix into a standard outlet box. Get the bluetooth version and an SD card, then just put a dummy ethernet jack or phone line into the box and viola. Easy to get to should you need the access and the last place I would ever look for a machine.
BTW, love the name, that was a great book.
When we did our house, I had a choice. We could afford a rack, or a few ebay rack mount cases (the 30 dollar 4u jobbies that were around a little bit ago). We went with the cases and I built a rack out of 2x4s and 1x2s
I work in that building. They are actually there just to power the parking lot lights, but they do make a noticable impact on the power bill (My dad works for the company that tends the building). The whole building was designed to be energy efficient. That big lake out front actually holds a bunch of coils for the cooling/heating system. I believe they call it a hydrothermal heatpump and it is the same concept as a geothermal heatpump. Inside, everything is designed to be as energy efficient as possible. Unfortunatly, not many people have moved in as it was real estate that really wasn't needed (look at all the other office buildings right around it!) but I think its pretty slick.
It was called the Art of War by some guy named Sun Tzu. I think he worked for IBM or something ;-)
People seem to consistently miss the point of open source software. As an OSS user, you ARE the Beta tester, developer, end user and marketing department. Software is developed to scratch an itch, sent to the general public who then complain that it doesn't scratch their particular itch, the software is tweaked, made better, and before you know it we all have fleas!
No wait, that's wrong. But you get the idea. It drives me nuts to see people harp on how poor an OSS piece of software is when they haven't done a single thing to contribute to that code. This is OSS folks, you dont just yell at a vendor that you paid money to (you did pay money right?) until they change their app. You have the source, resources are online everywhere to help you learn how to code. Use that energy towards fixing what you see as a flaw instead of complaining about it.
The article claims that the piezo generator can crank out up to 10amps! Is that right?
I have a similar problem, but due to SBC giving out free wireless hardware to people that don't need it. The only success I had was when I decided I would just out power everyone else. I picked up a pair of 7db gain antennas, smacked one on my AP and the other on my laptop. I then switched to channel 9, nothing seemed to be using that channel. While it's not the most friendly, It works. Unfortunatly, the next step involves an op-amp and figuring out a way to insulate my toaster.
Not true sir. Utilities like ettercap make it pretty darn easy to sniff a switched network. Download it and give it a shot. Note, ettercap will almost definetly set off just about any IDS that is sitting on the segment you are peaking into, also, ettercap is still limited to your broadcast domain, so dont try to use it to sniff a segment that is out of your subnet.
Sorry man, it's not the disc. Back Street Boys really do sound like that, no matter how many times you return it.
A bible with the words inscriber "finals are coming, better get to study"
I have been using a K2 Jiver for about 3 months now it has made it to the top of my list. Very roomy, padded in all the right places and just looks cool.
I agree with the spirit of the post, but I would suggest a 110 block if you are going to go this route. 66 will leave you heartburn later on if you try to pump highspeed data through. What I did, and it is working great, is cat 5 everywhere. Phone into a 110 block and then the 110 block connecting into a patch panel. A second patch panel handles all the cat5 in the house, so if a port needs to be data, it goes into my switch. If a port needs to be voice, then it goes into the other patch panel.
Am I the only one that loves to read these stories about these massive SIM type games having the same problems as real life? Their has got to be some way to capitalize on this and use it as a predictor of human behaviour. I say we hunt down the perfect SIMS neighborhood and model it in reality somewhere in Oklahoma.
1. Dropped off a high rise construction, about 20 stories down.
2. Ran over by a D9 Cat at same high rise construnction
3. Two words, washing machine
4. Left at Olive Garden. Guy that found it did not want to give it back and would argue with anyone that called it.
5. I now have a pager. Company wont issue me anymore cell phones, and here is the kicker, I WORK for a wireless company!
Actually, call setup time is pretty much the same for all of them, between 5 to 8 seconds. After the initial setup though, it drops closer to 2 seconds
I have never heard of this before with an AP. I have a dlink ap-1000 that doesnt even get to room temperature. Are these AP's really getting that hot or are they designed to operate in temps below 80F? Can someone post actual temps?
What I have done is purchase a socket 370 Via C3 online (they go for like 30 bucks for a 900Mhz that uses very little power) and then just used an old socket 370 mini atx case (ya know, the one with 2 PCI slots and EVERYTHING else built onboard). No harddrives in it, I run everything off of CD and use Ramdisks for RW stuff. It's a little noisy when it first boots up but after 45 seconds or so, it's as quiet as a powersupply fan and a CPU fan can be. Cheap too, I think I have a total of 60 bucks invested (god love ebay). So in short, be a geek and build your own. The power difference over a year between the eden boards and a C3 you can buy will amount to a super sized extra value meal over a year.
Teaching old programmers new dogs new tricks
If you have a desire to let your data room double as a disco. Just smack some mirrors on all of your cooling fans and issue fish tank platform shoes at the door.
These "compression" servers do two things. The first is standards or client based compression e.g. removing carriage returns from your HTML or using a client to pipe the text through a compression program and then decompressing that data at the client side. But the gains are pretty much all seen in the image compression. All the image compression does though is downsample your images to a lower rate, pixelizing the hell out of them and making them almost useless. This is a poor effort pimped by a marketing drone to keep customers from putting too much pressure on an ISP for broadband.