I use compression on folders in XP Pro. and Home SP2. I have not seen this problem on my systems at home and work. I always get the newest patches on their first release dates. I even defragged (PerfectDisk v6.0 with its patches) over the weekend. I haven't seen anything odd. I am usiDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFD FDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDF
SmartFTP allows you to edit files live. It ftps the selected file down, you edit it in your favourite editor (automatically launched from SmartFTP, of course), SmartFTP automatically detects that the file has changed and ftps it back up again. The overall effect is that you can hit save in Notepad++ then refresh the webpage to see the changes. A very convenient way to break a live website.:)
So, in a nutshell, you are building a top dollar machine to run an OS, right now, that isn't even out yet.
It always amazes me that people are willing to accept that to run the latest OS you need a staggering amount of resources to do it. Vista's minimum is approximately, what - 800MHz with 512Mb RAM? That's an astonishing amount of data and a lot of processor cycles. I'd love to know how it all breaks down (1% to run the kernel basics and 99% for all the pretty crud around it?).
It's the equivelent of Ford bringing out a new car every couple of years that weighs twice as much as the last one, and conveniently engine manufacturers making engines just big enough to push it along.
Roll on Haiku-OS, can't wait for that thing to get finished.
Was there a good chance that it would miss? Was there the possibility of an "unsuccessful" crash?
Ah, you must've read THHGTTG (shameless paste follows):
There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
In Wiltshire the papers have been covering how some of the residents are removing the tags from their bins and throwing them away because they're afraid that the electronic devices may contain "spy cameras" and other ways in snoop on their activity. Many of these people are more afraid of technology itself, however, rather than the privacy issues. The residents of small Wiltshire towns tend to be a "bit backward" (which is being generous and not mentioning anything to do with inbreeding;) ).
The councils claim that they have no devices on refuse collection lorrys that are capable of reading the tags, and that the tags contain no personal information at all anyway - just a unique ID that may one day aid with re-uniting "lost" bins with the residents. Of course, I dare say the paranoid amongst us will no doubt be wrapping their bins in tin-foil anyway.
1. Falsify terror attack involving liquids 2. Ban any liquid carry-ons 3. Bump up price of airline drinks 4. PROFIT!!! 5. Put ????? into a storage cupboard for later use on slashdot
The number of untrue or inaccurate statements in the posts about this article just go to show how little slashdot readers seem to actually think about the article (like that's a surprise).
First off, as stated in an earlier port, 2.45GHz is NOT the resonant frequency of water molecules, otherwise only the surface of food in microwaves would be heated.
Cell phones work at 850MHz or 1850MHz, so it's not looking good right from the off.
Second off, as stated by the article, "For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg."
Four watts. Four joules per second.
Lets look at this. I'll use some glaring assumptions just to get an estimate of the time taken to cook an egg with 4W (with is a factor of ten greater than you'd really expect from two mobile phone).
First off, lets assume that you want to heat the egg (70g - it's a large egg) from 20C to 100C. I'm not sure if that constitutes cooking, but it'll do for now.
Lets also assume that the energy required to heat the egg is similar to that of water (4186 J/kg).
So energy required is 4186 * 0.07 * 80 = 23kJ.
At 4W, we're talking 5860 seconds, or 98 minutes. And that's assuming 100% efficiency, which definitely won't be the case in this situation. (Not forgetting the already incorrect factor of ten for the phone output power, frequency of operation and burst nature of phone comms).
By the by, I discovered this page on egg boiling science as I finished writing this post:
I know a fellow at work that uses a cryptocard to access the company network while offsite (much more secure than a username/password combo - at least you'd think so).
However, he's written the pin on the back of the card - "1235", because apparently it wouldn't let him set "1234".
Sigh.
Several years back I built a MIDI interface for my trusty Amiga 1000, using a circuit design from a magazine.
I carefully etched the board by hand and manually drilled all the holes, only to discover to my horror that I'd printed the board upside down. So, rather than waste time doing the board over, I bent the pins of all the chips 180 degrees and mounted them upside down! Worked like a charm!
I speak from experience when I say that it's easier to insert the thru-hole components from the other side of the PCB than it is to bend all the pins over. Doh!
Well, this was unintentional, but I had a 60 Mhz Pentium and after a couple of years decided to replace it. I bought some new components and opened up the case to pull the memory and found the heat sink lying at the bottom of the case. It had completely fallen off at some point in the past. Strangely, there were never any symptoms and it worked fine the whole time.
Reminds me of P120 server I had in the loft. One day I was up there and looked inside the case to make sure everything was working, and saw the processor fan had stopped. Must've been like it for months, but it just kept on working!
On the subject of damage, my removal company dropped my PC when moving it, so hard the side of the case under the motherboard was dented in (having tried to undent it, I appreciate how hard it must've dropped to do the damage). Much to my suprise everything still worked though!
Ah, here we go. Cue the threads about how this is not a global solution and won't make any difference in the long run.
But... like it or not, the RIAA seem to have scared would-be mp3 swappers off the P2P networks with their heavy handed tactics - perhaps this will at least make would-be spammers think twice?
I don't think it would be too hard to write a script that compiles all of your files into 10MB RARs and sends them to your gmail account. You could keep remote backups of all of your documents, mail, etc.
I'm sure you could make Gmail appear as NFS by creating a local RPC service to act as an intermediary. The filesystem could be split into 10Mb blocks, inode numbers, permissions etc could be stored in the message body. Gmail's message search functionality could quickly identify which message contains what inodes and retrieve the correct attachment as appropriate. Sounds like a fun OSS project to me.:)
Hmm... makes you wonder if they just cite the uncompressed plain text capability. Maybe they use heavy compression on the mail text and the clever bit is the fast search algorithms on the compressed mailboxes (mailboxen?).
As the article demonstrates, any time you can get a battery, capacitor, and some wire together, you have the resouces to make a simplistic taser.
This is FUD. A taser requires a high voltage, so some form of step-up transformer, ladder multiplier or flyback circuit would be required. Not many pieces of consumer electronics contain such circuits.
Ever wondered why your camera makes a high-pitch whistle while your flash is charging? The camera contains an oscillator, step-up transformer and ladder network. You're hearing the oscillator as it charges the cap.
You know, the capacitors in a CRT monitor contain more than enough juice to kill a man. Just something to keep in mind...
Which capacitors are they? The only HT capacitor in monitor is the CRT itself (the inside and outside of the glass are coated with a conductive layer, and the glass forms the dielectric). Despite the high voltage (up to 25kV), the energy stored is fairly low - it's enough to give a nasty shock but fairly unlikely to kill.
Perhaps the real reason is that the RF generated by the phone could interfere with the electronics that meters the fuel from the pump? I guess modern pumps are designed with EMC/EMI in mind, but perhaps older ones are susceptible.
Not sure it proved anything, so they blew it up with something anyway.
IIRC, they ran a wire into the caravan and then got some guy to jiggle about in a nylon suit for a bit before touching the other end of the wire. The static did a way better job of igniting the petrol vapour than the mobile phones did.
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Ha ha, very funny. :P Maybe you should check yours because of tttonyyy. [grin]
:D
A fair point.
I use compression on folders in XP Pro. and Home SP2. I have not seen this problem on my systems at home and work. I always get the newest patches on their first release dates. I even defragged (PerfectDisk v6.0 with its patches) over the weekend. I haven't seen anything odd. I am usiDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFD FDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDFDF
;)
You might want to double check.
Well, you could try a combination of SmartFTP and Notepad++
:)
http://www.smartftp.com/
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
SmartFTP allows you to edit files live. It ftps the selected file down, you edit it in your favourite editor (automatically launched from SmartFTP, of course), SmartFTP automatically detects that the file has changed and ftps it back up again. The overall effect is that you can hit save in Notepad++ then refresh the webpage to see the changes. A very convenient way to break a live website.
So, in a nutshell, you are building a top dollar machine to run an OS, right now, that isn't even out yet.
It always amazes me that people are willing to accept that to run the latest OS you need a staggering amount of resources to do it. Vista's minimum is approximately, what - 800MHz with 512Mb RAM? That's an astonishing amount of data and a lot of processor cycles. I'd love to know how it all breaks down (1% to run the kernel basics and 99% for all the pretty crud around it?).
It's the equivelent of Ford bringing out a new car every couple of years that weighs twice as much as the last one, and conveniently engine manufacturers making engines just big enough to push it along.
Roll on Haiku-OS, can't wait for that thing to get finished.
Was there a good chance that it would miss? Was there the possibility of an "unsuccessful" crash?
Ah, you must've read THHGTTG (shameless paste follows):
There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
ESA are working on that last bit.
In Wiltshire the papers have been covering how some of the residents are removing the tags from their bins and throwing them away because they're afraid that the electronic devices may contain "spy cameras" and other ways in snoop on their activity. Many of these people are more afraid of technology itself, however, rather than the privacy issues. The residents of small Wiltshire towns tend to be a "bit backward" (which is being generous and not mentioning anything to do with inbreeding ;) ).
The councils claim that they have no devices on refuse collection lorrys that are capable of reading the tags, and that the tags contain no personal information at all anyway - just a unique ID that may one day aid with re-uniting "lost" bins with the residents. Of course, I dare say the paranoid amongst us will no doubt be wrapping their bins in tin-foil anyway.
You can stop the "PC Speaker Beep" too -- "sc stop beep"
Ah but in Vista when you try that it'll just say, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" before trying to kill you.
BombScare: i beat the internet
:)
BombScare: the end guy is hard
The poor internet - it's so misunderstood socially.
Presumably to make up for the >33% increase in the size of their new software? :)
1. Falsify terror attack involving liquids
2. Ban any liquid carry-ons
3. Bump up price of airline drinks
4. PROFIT!!!
5. Put ????? into a storage cupboard for later use on slashdot
I just wasted the amount of energy I could have saved unplugging my GC by reading this article! ;)
First off, as stated in an earlier port, 2.45GHz is NOT the resonant frequency of water molecules, otherwise only the surface of food in microwaves would be heated.
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/microwave_ovens. html
Cell phones work at 850MHz or 1850MHz, so it's not looking good right from the off.
Second off, as stated by the article, "For instance, a pair of mobiles each with 2 Watts of transmitter output will take three minutes to boil a large free range egg."
Four watts. Four joules per second.
Lets look at this. I'll use some glaring assumptions just to get an estimate of the time taken to cook an egg with 4W (with is a factor of ten greater than you'd really expect from two mobile phone).
First off, lets assume that you want to heat the egg (70g - it's a large egg) from 20C to 100C. I'm not sure if that constitutes cooking, but it'll do for now.
Lets also assume that the energy required to heat the egg is similar to that of water (4186 J/kg).
So energy required is 4186 * 0.07 * 80 = 23kJ.
At 4W, we're talking 5860 seconds, or 98 minutes. And that's assuming 100% efficiency, which definitely won't be the case in this situation. (Not forgetting the already incorrect factor of ten for the phone output power, frequency of operation and burst nature of phone comms).
By the by, I discovered this page on egg boiling science as I finished writing this post:
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/egg/
Perhaps someone with more patience than me can more accurately calculate the energy required to boil a 70g egg?
I know a fellow at work that uses a cryptocard to access the company network while offsite (much more secure than a username/password combo - at least you'd think so). However, he's written the pin on the back of the card - "1235", because apparently it wouldn't let him set "1234". Sigh.
I carefully etched the board by hand and manually drilled all the holes, only to discover to my horror that I'd printed the board upside down. So, rather than waste time doing the board over, I bent the pins of all the chips 180 degrees and mounted them upside down! Worked like a charm!
I speak from experience when I say that it's easier to insert the thru-hole components from the other side of the PCB than it is to bend all the pins over. Doh!
Reminds me of P120 server I had in the loft. One day I was up there and looked inside the case to make sure everything was working, and saw the processor fan had stopped. Must've been like it for months, but it just kept on working!
On the subject of damage, my removal company dropped my PC when moving it, so hard the side of the case under the motherboard was dented in (having tried to undent it, I appreciate how hard it must've dropped to do the damage). Much to my suprise everything still worked though!
Hmm... judging by the recent lack of comments the /. server could be full. First slashdot effect (ish) home goal? :)
Ah, here we go. Cue the threads about how this is not a global solution and won't make any difference in the long run.
But... like it or not, the RIAA seem to have scared would-be mp3 swappers off the P2P networks with their heavy handed tactics - perhaps this will at least make would-be spammers think twice?
I'm sure you could make Gmail appear as NFS by creating a local RPC service to act as an intermediary. The filesystem could be split into 10Mb blocks, inode numbers, permissions etc could be stored in the message body. Gmail's message search functionality could quickly identify which message contains what inodes and retrieve the correct attachment as appropriate. Sounds like a fun OSS project to me. :)
Hmm... makes you wonder if they just cite the uncompressed plain text capability. Maybe they use heavy compression on the mail text and the clever bit is the fast search algorithms on the compressed mailboxes (mailboxen?).
Time to uuencode my disk images and backup to Gmail!
This is FUD. A taser requires a high voltage, so some form of step-up transformer, ladder multiplier or flyback circuit would be required. Not many pieces of consumer electronics contain such circuits.
Ever wondered why your camera makes a high-pitch whistle while your flash is charging? The camera contains an oscillator, step-up transformer and ladder network. You're hearing the oscillator as it charges the cap.
Which capacitors are they? The only HT capacitor in monitor is the CRT itself (the inside and outside of the glass are coated with a conductive layer, and the glass forms the dielectric).
Despite the high voltage (up to 25kV), the energy stored is fairly low - it's enough to give a nasty shock but fairly unlikely to kill.
Perhaps the real reason is that the RF generated by the phone could interfere with the electronics that meters the fuel from the pump? I guess modern pumps are designed with EMC/EMI in mind, but perhaps older ones are susceptible.
IIRC, they ran a wire into the caravan and then got some guy to jiggle about in a nylon suit for a bit before touching the other end of the wire. The static did a way better job of igniting the petrol vapour than the mobile phones did.
Articles like this just make me want to get away from my computer and go enjoy the sunshine.