Does anybody have some resources on doing this? How far down can I underclock a chip? How much of a difference does it make? How about notebook chips? etc...
I've read a lot on things like flower coolers, silent power supplies, hd enclosures, etc, but I've never ran across any good info on underclocking. I wouldn't mind spending a bit extra for a faster chip so I could underclock and have a quiet system. My 1.4 athlon is loud and plenty fast (heck my 667 g4 is fast enough for me). I wouldn't mind my next pc being a 2.5ghz system run at 2ghz or something, but silent.
I want to know how the fuck this got modded a troll. If you look at the replies, you'll see that other people, and even honda agrees with me. The mods are on complete crack these days.
The problem is, it's not worth what they're paying for it. Maybe it was during the boom, but you can probobly get a similar property for way less nowadays.
Yah, it's tall, it's been tested, and it's pretty simple. It's made out of almost all glass, concrete, and some steel. Stick these puppies out in the desert where nobody is anyway. Like in Australia and the southwestern US (*cough* california power problems).
Yes, you're going to have some problems with cloudy days, so accept that there are going to be some days when you're not going to get much power out. So make sure you use the extra electric on good days to make lots of hydrogen. That way we can move a source of energy around the country to places that may have trouble with this type of power (new england for example). You could also fire up some fuel cells to make electric out of said stored up hydrogen when the days are nasty.
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What's the penalty on breaking the lease? If they're paying $500k/month on a place, and breaking the least costs them 3 million, and they can get by with a place that costs 75k/month (keep key staff in the office, journalists can work from home), what not break it? The $475k/month savings would pay for the breaking of the lease in less than a year. I'm just picking numbers out of the air, but who knows...
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I just wrote the first thing that came in my mind when I thought about sliding around. A loaded shoping cart doesn't really turn much, you just kinda slide around the back wheels.
Yah, and new suspension, new tires that aren't 3 inches wide, stiffer chassis, bigger brakes (that could be interesting with the regenerative braking), and so on. Oh, and there goes your warenty. Not exactly something I'd like to do to a car I just dropped $20k on, and intend to drive for at least 5 years. I'll do all my tinkering on cars that I paid less than $4k for, thankyou.
The point is, the tech is there to build a car with insane torque like you mentioned, but nobody has done it. I do remember mention of some sort of honda sporty hybrid concept car, but I can't remember any details.
Where are the performance hybrids?
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It seems like if you want to get good fuel economy you have to buy a car that takes 3 minutes to get to 60 mph, and handles like a shopping cart. I don't want an SUV (ford has a new hybrid suv) nor do I want an econobox. I want a car that has similar performance and styling to something like an celica/rsx type S/tiberon v6/accord v6/new edge cougar v6 (which I currently drive). Oh, and remembering the market, it must be below $25k. Ideally around $20k. (My Cougar was $18k loaded) Heck, I'd even settle for a 4 door sport sedan.
Yes, I'd even be willing to give up my beloved 5 speed gear box for this. 40mpg city in a fastish car would be nice. C'mon car makers, what's the deal?
I give my downstairs neighbor an ethernet drop for free cause I'm a nice guy and he let me use his washer/dryer the first few months I lived here until I got my own, and he gives me food when he bbqs. I've spent maybe 2 hours total helping him with computer stuff unrelated to setting up broadband, about the limit of what I'll do for a friend/neighbor for free. The good thing is, he's starting his own business, and is about to put me on a retainer to be his 'IT guy'.
This was probobly pretty rare though, it's not that often you have a good neighbor who's relativly smart and friendly, without being a pain in the neck.
In that case, Dave Winner and his XML-RPC project that existed before SOAP is very much prior art. I don't have time to dig up links right now, but he's written a lot about it, and SOAP.
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Things like normal house related stuff, theft, fire, flood, etc. Is covered under your homeowners usually. There is usually a limit though. For pricier stuff you can usually get an add on to your policy to cover it. I pay an extra $40 a year to have $3000 of coverage on my powerbook. It pretty much covers anything. I really made sure of that when I bought the policy. "So if a kid runs into me at the airport in Mexico, and the laptop flies out of my hands, under the wheels of one of those airport golf carts, gets crushed, and then confiscated by the men in black and eaten by a dog, am I covered?" And he said yes.
So it would be a good idea to check with your insurance company about coverage, especially if you have a laptop.
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I used to work at a non-profit computer center in southeast ohio, in the ohio river flood plain. We had a flood one year that got a couple LCIIIs wet. After it was over, they dried out for a couple days, and fired right up. The RFI sheild actually had a bit of rust on it. I can't remember if I had to use any contact cleaner on the connectors, but overall they were back in action very quickly.
My first linux machine was built out of old parts gathered from wherever. The 20 meg hard drive needed a slap on the side to get it going... Fun stuff.
Most of the 'MIS' type stuff in the military is allready windows. Your desktop computer, fileserver, etc will probobly run NT. Some apps for specialized stuff runs on unix though (JCALS for example). But none of it critical for fighting a war, just time saving stuff.
Mission critical stuff on the other hand is another story. At least in the air force, it's whatever works best for the job. VMS, Solaris, random embeded operating systems, etc. That's the important stuff, and the policy should stay the same. I'd prefer to trust my life to what works best. That said, I somehow doubt key systems will go with the stupid windows policy. Allthough the stuff about the air craft carier (or was it a destroyer, I dunno) and windows crashing it was kinda scary. Don't expect to see a fighter or tracking system or crypto com system running windows any time soon in the air force though.
As far as net access, unless you're on a remote tour without a computer of your own, you'll be responsable for your own net connection/pc. The dorm I lived in 5 years ago (I'm seperated now) had cable modem support. DSL was added just after I moved out of there.
Make them understand the site needs to be designed, written, and tested. If you leave out the design and testing part it will suck. Lots of books written by people smarter than me will back this up. If they say they can bring in somebody else who can write the code right without a design/test phase, they're lying to them.
Despite tough times, things still need to be grounded in reality. They need to get over it and do the right thing, or can the project. The customers aren't going to care about the site reflecting bad on YOU, it'll reflect bad on the COMPANY.
The reality is you probobly won't learn enough VMS in 4 days to secure it up right. This comes from somebody who spent 4 years with a large vax cluster. VMS is a pretty cool os, and you'll learn enough to use in a few days, but secure something requires you knowing the ins and outs of it, something that only comes with experience.
I know jack about AS/400, I know I could probobly be a proficient user in 4 days, and maybe even a relativly good admin in a few weeks, but to feel like a did a good job securing it would take a lot longer.
This is someplace where it actually is a good idea to pay a consultant a ton of money. Specialized skills (like VMS these days) are hard to come by. A consultant who specializes in vms will have the experience to help.
That is, unless you have a member of your team who knows what they're doing allready. An extra set of eyes with a fresh perspective, and a good understanding of the existing use of the cluster will help the experienced (and maybe slightly complacent) vms guru with his/her job.
Here's some more stuff other slashdoters looked up.
Or is that you posting as an AC, Samir? It's a good thing you don't have to fake your headers and mess that up like you did when you 'worked' for sega.
Your education background is pretty impressive too.
At least you're presistant. It looks like you've managed to fool alot of people on slashdot. It is kinda funny though. Super Marx Brothers [slaps knee]
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Does anybody have some resources on doing this? How far down can I underclock a chip? How much of a difference does it make? How about notebook chips? etc...
I've read a lot on things like flower coolers, silent power supplies, hd enclosures, etc, but I've never ran across any good info on underclocking. I wouldn't mind spending a bit extra for a faster chip so I could underclock and have a quiet system. My 1.4 athlon is loud and plenty fast (heck my 667 g4 is fast enough for me). I wouldn't mind my next pc being a 2.5ghz system run at 2ghz or something, but silent.
I found a neat website on this thing:
:)
http://www.ebtx.com/mech/optolite.html
They sound like the real deal. I'm going to stop by target and grab one.
If you had remote bios access with a pc weasel you could just disable booting from the floppy.
I want to know how the fuck this got modded a troll. If you look at the replies, you'll see that other people, and even honda agrees with me. The mods are on complete crack these days.
The problem is, it's not worth what they're paying for it. Maybe it was during the boom, but you can probobly get a similar property for way less nowadays.
You can heat things with the sun too, like air and water. This one uses air: http://www.enviromission.com.au/
Yah, it's tall, it's been tested, and it's pretty simple. It's made out of almost all glass, concrete, and some steel. Stick these puppies out in the desert where nobody is anyway. Like in Australia and the southwestern US (*cough* california power problems).
Yes, you're going to have some problems with cloudy days, so accept that there are going to be some days when you're not going to get much power out. So make sure you use the extra electric on good days to make lots of hydrogen. That way we can move a source of energy around the country to places that may have trouble with this type of power (new england for example). You could also fire up some fuel cells to make electric out of said stored up hydrogen when the days are nasty.
So umm... why not?
Gah it looks like I can't subtract.
[goes sit in corner]
What's the penalty on breaking the lease? If they're paying $500k/month on a place, and breaking the least costs them 3 million, and they can get by with a place that costs 75k/month (keep key staff in the office, journalists can work from home), what not break it? The $475k/month savings would pay for the breaking of the lease in less than a year. I'm just picking numbers out of the air, but who knows...
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. I just wrote the first thing that came in my mind when I thought about sliding around. A loaded shoping cart doesn't really turn much, you just kinda slide around the back wheels.
Anyway, you get the idea...
Yah, and new suspension, new tires that aren't 3 inches wide, stiffer chassis, bigger brakes (that could be interesting with the regenerative braking), and so on. Oh, and there goes your warenty. Not exactly something I'd like to do to a car I just dropped $20k on, and intend to drive for at least 5 years. I'll do all my tinkering on cars that I paid less than $4k for, thankyou.
The point is, the tech is there to build a car with insane torque like you mentioned, but nobody has done it. I do remember mention of some sort of honda sporty hybrid concept car, but I can't remember any details.
It seems like if you want to get good fuel economy you have to buy a car that takes 3 minutes to get to 60 mph, and handles like a shopping cart. I don't want an SUV (ford has a new hybrid suv) nor do I want an econobox. I want a car that has similar performance and styling to something like an celica/rsx type S/tiberon v6/accord v6/new edge cougar v6 (which I currently drive). Oh, and remembering the market, it must be below $25k. Ideally around $20k. (My Cougar was $18k loaded) Heck, I'd even settle for a 4 door sport sedan.
Yes, I'd even be willing to give up my beloved 5 speed gear box for this. 40mpg city in a fastish car would be nice. C'mon car makers, what's the deal?
I give my downstairs neighbor an ethernet drop for free cause I'm a nice guy and he let me use his washer/dryer the first few months I lived here until I got my own, and he gives me food when he bbqs. I've spent maybe 2 hours total helping him with computer stuff unrelated to setting up broadband, about the limit of what I'll do for a friend/neighbor for free. The good thing is, he's starting his own business, and is about to put me on a retainer to be his 'IT guy'.
This was probobly pretty rare though, it's not that often you have a good neighbor who's relativly smart and friendly, without being a pain in the neck.
In that case, Dave Winner and his XML-RPC project that existed before SOAP is very much prior art. I don't have time to dig up links right now, but he's written a lot about it, and SOAP.
See http://www.scripting.com for more info.
Things like normal house related stuff, theft, fire, flood, etc. Is covered under your homeowners usually. There is usually a limit though. For pricier stuff you can usually get an add on to your policy to cover it. I pay an extra $40 a year to have $3000 of coverage on my powerbook. It pretty much covers anything. I really made sure of that when I bought the policy. "So if a kid runs into me at the airport in Mexico, and the laptop flies out of my hands, under the wheels of one of those airport golf carts, gets crushed, and then confiscated by the men in black and eaten by a dog, am I covered?" And he said yes.
So it would be a good idea to check with your insurance company about coverage, especially if you have a laptop.
I used to work at a non-profit computer center in southeast ohio, in the ohio river flood plain. We had a flood one year that got a couple LCIIIs wet. After it was over, they dried out for a couple days, and fired right up. The RFI sheild actually had a bit of rust on it. I can't remember if I had to use any contact cleaner on the connectors, but overall they were back in action very quickly.
My first linux machine was built out of old parts gathered from wherever. The 20 meg hard drive needed a slap on the side to get it going... Fun stuff.
Aww shucks...
[Bows]
Heh.. I got modded as a troll or flamebait or something last time I posted something about him.
My guess on the USB ports is the chipset supports all 3 turned on (1 client and 2 hosts) but they didn't have enough room on the case for 3 usb ports.
Intel: Reference design uses XScale
IBM: Reference design uses PPC
YOU: Pick one you like best. Weigh all factors, cost, features, speed, power consumption. There ARE differences.
More choice is always good.
Most of the 'MIS' type stuff in the military is allready windows. Your desktop computer, fileserver, etc will probobly run NT. Some apps for specialized stuff runs on unix though (JCALS for example). But none of it critical for fighting a war, just time saving stuff.
Mission critical stuff on the other hand is another story. At least in the air force, it's whatever works best for the job. VMS, Solaris, random embeded operating systems, etc. That's the important stuff, and the policy should stay the same. I'd prefer to trust my life to what works best. That said, I somehow doubt key systems will go with the stupid windows policy. Allthough the stuff about the air craft carier (or was it a destroyer, I dunno) and windows crashing it was kinda scary. Don't expect to see a fighter or tracking system or crypto com system running windows any time soon in the air force though.
As far as net access, unless you're on a remote tour without a computer of your own, you'll be responsable for your own net connection/pc. The dorm I lived in 5 years ago (I'm seperated now) had cable modem support. DSL was added just after I moved out of there.
Make them understand the site needs to be designed, written, and tested. If you leave out the design and testing part it will suck. Lots of books written by people smarter than me will back this up. If they say they can bring in somebody else who can write the code right without a design/test phase, they're lying to them.
Despite tough times, things still need to be grounded in reality. They need to get over it and do the right thing, or can the project. The customers aren't going to care about the site reflecting bad on YOU, it'll reflect bad on the COMPANY.
The reality is you probobly won't learn enough VMS in 4 days to secure it up right. This comes from somebody who spent 4 years with a large vax cluster. VMS is a pretty cool os, and you'll learn enough to use in a few days, but secure something requires you knowing the ins and outs of it, something that only comes with experience.
I know jack about AS/400, I know I could probobly be a proficient user in 4 days, and maybe even a relativly good admin in a few weeks, but to feel like a did a good job securing it would take a lot longer.
This is someplace where it actually is a good idea to pay a consultant a ton of money. Specialized skills (like VMS these days) are hard to come by. A consultant who specializes in vms will have the experience to help.
That is, unless you have a member of your team who knows what they're doing allready. An extra set of eyes with a fresh perspective, and a good understanding of the existing use of the cluster will help the experienced (and maybe slightly complacent) vms guru with his/her job.
I caught it, but the play on words wasn't as good as super marx brothers.
I had an itch, I scratched it.
Here's some more stuff other slashdoters looked up.
Or is that you posting as an AC, Samir? It's a good thing you don't have to fake your headers and mess that up like you did when you 'worked' for sega.
I thought you worked at Sega?
How's your Smell-o-vision project going?
Your education background is pretty impressive too.
At least you're presistant. It looks like you've managed to fool alot of people on slashdot. It is kinda funny though. Super Marx Brothers [slaps knee]