Just wait until the radio-controlled cyborg Ringo Starr is chasing you down the street with super-human speed and strength. More unfortunate yet, it won't make him a better drummer.
I had a 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 from 2004, the one they introduced when they couldn't reach the 3GHz Steve Jobs had promised to have by then. As a result of desperately trying to ramp up the clock speed they ended up used a custom-designed liquid cooling system to get the thing to be stable. I had a feeling the day we bought the machine that the cooling system would crap out sooner rather than later and bought the $300 AppleCare 3-year warranty extension thinking it would pay for itself.
Fast forward 5 years. This June I noticed a small green puddle underneath the tower and realized exactly what I had feared had happened 6 months out of warranty. Opening the case I realized the logic board, processors, power supply and cooling system were all coated in coolant and had started to rust away. Looking it up on the net I found forums where people claimed they had managed to get Apple to fix their machines for free out of warranty after some negotiation on the phone. I decided to book a Genius bar appointment and see where I could get. I put the tower on a really squeaky push cart and rolled it all the way through the shiny Apple store to the Genius bar at the back where I then placed it on the counter and opened the side panel, bits of rust and coolant falling onto the pristine Genius bar in front of me. The Genius on hand didn't say much and took about 30 minutes to calculate that a repair would cost me over $2,000 and that it would probably be better worth my money to buy a new one. I then asked to speak to a manager, which the Genius reluctantly complied with. After a few minutes with the "Lead Genius" (I love that title) I pointed out that it was unreasonable that a single poorly designed part failing should pretty much destroy a $4000 computer only months out of warranty, I also pointed out that others online had managed to have Apple fix the machines for free. He agreed that it was unreasonable, and offered me a brand new quad-core Xeon Mac Pro as a free replacement. I eagerly agreed and walked out of the store with my new machine and my faith in Apple restored.
Step Two: Build a neutron supply source, problalby most easily constructed is a farnsworth-type fusor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor (makes a great science project too)
Step Three: Get some deuterium and dissolve it in acetone, place in your sonoluminescence apperatus and start tuning it to produce bubbles. Availible at your local scientific supply store.
Step Five: Become the envy of the neighbourhood as the only guy on your block with a nuclear fusion device in your garage! (to avoid police suspicion call it a magical glowing bubble maker)
Lam says that Quanta, which has 500 design engineers in Taiwan, did about half of the design work for Apple Computer's G4 notebook.
Although it doesn't what the half includes but that seems like a lot more from Apple who proudly stamped my Powerbook G4 with Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in Taiwan. My guess is the design is only for the exterior of the case and the Taiwanese handle all of the hardware layout.
You sould look at the Elgato
EyeTV, it has a FireWire interface and a hardware-based MPEG2 encoder so it
doesn't bog down your processor. The best thing is that the software is written
exclusively for the Mac so it doesn't have that ported-at-the-last-second feel
to it.
I hope this sequel will have the same awesome set design that has been with the series since Tim Burton. Although the later movies lacked some of the far-out Burton style their set desing has always been really good at making you feel as though you were actully watching a comic book. None of the other recent comic book adaptations have taken it nearly as far as Batman has with the dark yet beautifully desgned Goham city sets.
A couple of years ago my Dad and I were cleaning up around the computers and Mom who insists that everything be tidy insisted that we shortend and ty up all of the cables with twist ties.
Well my Dad used the technique of unplug everything and then plug it back in one at a time. All the cables only fit in one hole, right? Well Palm happened to use the exact same size male DC plug on their 5 volt 250 mA Palm pilot AC adapter that Agfa uses on their 12 volt 1.5 AMP scanner adapters.
Everything seemed to be working fine until about 15 minutes later I noticed this strange smell like burning solder and quickly start to check everything. I noticed that tthe palm dock had a much too thick power cable inserted and quickly reached to grab the overheating Palm... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH......BURNING FLESH!!!!!!!!
The internal battery was so hot it had started to melt the plastic case and back of the LCD. I managed to escape with a minor burn to my palm (no pun intended). The Palm, after a long cooling, was perfectly fine minus a series of bubble like marks in the screen where it had actually started to melt, and a much battery life!
Non-removable is usually just means non-removable without using a screwdriver to open the case and un-plugging the battery, finding one in the the same cell/voltage configuration, and putting it back together. This was the case with my discontinued Handspring Visor, it took 30 seconds but was too "complicated" to be deemed as removable by the average consumer.
That's actually a really cool idea, but this line just cracks me up:
"...after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated."
The thing about doing it live is that they know exactly wo is using his computer. If the only evidence they had was in logs they couldn't tell it was him or his neighbour/roomate who has access his computer.
I'm planning on setting up a web server w/Panther Server and I have no use for the workgroup managment software. I am just wondering how easy it is to set up the server for multiple accounts and domains w/Mail, FTP, and Web services for each. Is it as easy as creating a new user for every site and setting up virtual hosts or would it require significant work? My other option is a linux box but I would love to be able to have it work without the hassle of command-line tools.
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Just wait until the radio-controlled cyborg Ringo Starr is chasing you down the street with super-human speed and strength. More unfortunate yet, it won't make him a better drummer.
I had a 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 from 2004, the one they introduced when they couldn't reach the 3GHz Steve Jobs had promised to have by then. As a result of desperately trying to ramp up the clock speed they ended up used a custom-designed liquid cooling system to get the thing to be stable. I had a feeling the day we bought the machine that the cooling system would crap out sooner rather than later and bought the $300 AppleCare 3-year warranty extension thinking it would pay for itself.
Fast forward 5 years. This June I noticed a small green puddle underneath the tower and realized exactly what I had feared had happened 6 months out of warranty. Opening the case I realized the logic board, processors, power supply and cooling system were all coated in coolant and had started to rust away. Looking it up on the net I found forums where people claimed they had managed to get Apple to fix their machines for free out of warranty after some negotiation on the phone. I decided to book a Genius bar appointment and see where I could get. I put the tower on a really squeaky push cart and rolled it all the way through the shiny Apple store to the Genius bar at the back where I then placed it on the counter and opened the side panel, bits of rust and coolant falling onto the pristine Genius bar in front of me. The Genius on hand didn't say much and took about 30 minutes to calculate that a repair would cost me over $2,000 and that it would probably be better worth my money to buy a new one. I then asked to speak to a manager, which the Genius reluctantly complied with. After a few minutes with the "Lead Genius" (I love that title) I pointed out that it was unreasonable that a single poorly designed part failing should pretty much destroy a $4000 computer only months out of warranty, I also pointed out that others online had managed to have Apple fix the machines for free. He agreed that it was unreasonable, and offered me a brand new quad-core Xeon Mac Pro as a free replacement. I eagerly agreed and walked out of the store with my new machine and my faith in Apple restored.
Plastics.
Seems pretty easy to me:
Step One: Build a sonoluminescence apperatus using an ocilloscope, a sine generator, audio amplifier, piezo transducers and spherical flask. Details here: http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/~rgeisle/nld/sbsl-howto .html
Step Two: Build a neutron supply source, problalby most easily constructed is a farnsworth-type fusor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor (makes a great science project too)
Step Three: Get some deuterium and dissolve it in acetone, place in your sonoluminescence apperatus and start tuning it to produce bubbles. Availible at your local scientific supply store.
Step Four: Build your own neutron detector and confirm the bubbles are producing fusion: http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/nuc/ncount.htm
Step Five: Become the envy of the neighbourhood as the only guy on your block with a nuclear fusion device in your garage! (to avoid police suspicion call it a magical glowing bubble maker)
Step 6: Profit!
Soylent Green is pppeeeooopppllleee!
I thought that too until I read this:
Lam says that Quanta, which has 500 design engineers in Taiwan, did about half of the design work for Apple Computer's G4 notebook.
Although it doesn't what the half includes but that seems like a lot more from Apple who proudly stamped my Powerbook G4 with Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in Taiwan. My guess is the design is only for the exterior of the case and the Taiwanese handle all of the hardware layout.
You sould look at the Elgato EyeTV, it has a FireWire interface and a hardware-based MPEG2 encoder so it doesn't bog down your processor. The best thing is that the software is written exclusively for the Mac so it doesn't have that ported-at-the-last-second feel to it.
"why not put in a belt buckle and get on the scene like a sex machine?"
This is slashdot, remember?
I hope this sequel will have the same awesome set design that has been with the series since Tim Burton. Although the later movies lacked some of the far-out Burton style their set desing has always been really good at making you feel as though you were actully watching a comic book. None of the other recent comic book adaptations have taken it nearly as far as Batman has with the dark yet beautifully desgned Goham city sets.
A couple of years ago my Dad and I were cleaning up around the computers and Mom who insists that everything be tidy insisted that we shortend and ty up all of the cables with twist ties. Well my Dad used the technique of unplug everything and then plug it back in one at a time. All the cables only fit in one hole, right? Well Palm happened to use the exact same size male DC plug on their 5 volt 250 mA Palm pilot AC adapter that Agfa uses on their 12 volt 1.5 AMP scanner adapters. Everything seemed to be working fine until about 15 minutes later I noticed this strange smell like burning solder and quickly start to check everything. I noticed that tthe palm dock had a much too thick power cable inserted and quickly reached to grab the overheating Palm... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH......BURNING FLESH!!!!!!!!
The internal battery was so hot it had started to melt the plastic case and back of the LCD. I managed to escape with a minor burn to my palm (no pun intended). The Palm, after a long cooling, was perfectly fine minus a series of bubble like marks in the screen where it had actually started to melt, and a much battery life!
Non-removable is usually just means non-removable without using a screwdriver to open the case and un-plugging the battery, finding one in the the same cell/voltage configuration, and putting it back together. This was the case with my discontinued Handspring Visor, it took 30 seconds but was too "complicated" to be deemed as removable by the average consumer.
I own the PD-150 and just recently bought a PDX10http://bssc.sel.sony.com/Professional/webapp/ ModelInfo?m=0&sm=0&p=2&sp=11&id=65 263 which is pretty much just a miniature version of the 150/170. The chips are smaller (1/4.7), and don't perform as well in low light, but are wider so you get a true 16:9 compared tof the 150 which just crops the top and bottom the frame. The XLR/Mic mount on top comes off and it switches to imternal mic so you can easily become very discreet if necessary. I would definately get a wide-angle adapter through like the Century Optics one http://www.centuryoptics.com/products/dv/65xhr_wa/ 65xhr_37mm.htm. But it also fits perfectly into the Sony Handycam sports casing http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/servlet/ProductDe tailDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=1000 1&productId=166371&navigationPath=32080n47120n4712 8 which lets you shoot up to 2 metres underwater with audio.
That's actually a really cool idea, but this line just cracks me up:
"...after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated."
The thing about doing it live is that they know exactly wo is using his computer. If the only evidence they had was in logs they couldn't tell it was him or his neighbour/roomate who has access his computer.
Good thing they make a 40 gig iPod, you'll need it to fit on Emacs! :-)
I'm planning on setting up a web server w/Panther Server and I have no use for the workgroup managment software. I am just wondering how easy it is to set up the server for multiple accounts and domains w/Mail, FTP, and Web services for each. Is it as easy as creating a new user for every site and setting up virtual hosts or would it require significant work? My other option is a linux box but I would love to be able to have it work without the hassle of command-line tools. Thanks