I never thought you could actually kill PCs with static like that,
I built a flyback transformer driver, 25kilovolts or so (for a lifter;) ), and decided to try and fry an old digital camera I had.
Nothing! High voltage arching right across the circuit boards and it was still working fine! The only thing I managed to do was over-saturate the LCD, but even that returned to normal after an hour or two.
I also remember someone's anecdote about working in a computer store with nasty carpets. The owner decided to prove a point by shuffling along the floor to a radiator holding a DIMM, then letting it spark across the DIMM. He then plugged it into a ram tester to show it still working fine.
My driving instructor was always having trouble with his fuel injection system (i think it was a Peugeot). He'd tried putting injector cleaning fluid in the fuel and everything but it kept losing power momentarily.
I was having a driving lesson and the thing cut out altogether. It wouldn't start at all. After trying a few things I suggested that we could disconnect the battery for a few seconds to reboot the ECU. Unplugged the battery, plugged it back in, and it started first time. I got the lesson for free for that:)
Of course there is NO WAY I'd go back to a carburettor, I've had a Skoda that has a Bosh fuel injection system for a while now and it works perfectly, starts first time _every time_ no matter how cold it is. We can all romanticise about how old cars were "more reliable" before they had computers in them but the simple fact is that new cars are on the whole a lot more reliable then old cars (well, maybe with the exception of old Toyota Hilux pickups) even with computerised systems, and get much better performance and fuel consumption because of them.
What a true geek would do is build their own computer-controlled laser cutting/etching rig, a few of these together should cut through aluminium or mild steel no problem:)
They are not remotely disabling your copy of Quicken, they had been providing a service for free as the online bill payment system had to go through their server. They've realised they can't keep doing that forever, but for some reason rather then introducing a small subscription fee they're getting people to upgrade instead.
Do you have to pay a subscription fee for Quicken's online payment system? If not then I guess as long as the upgrade price is reasonable it seems fair to charge a small amount as a kind of subscription to their service, as you can't expect companies to provide a service for free indefinitely (and as a bonus you keep your version of Quicken up-to-date)
Windows: I run a spyware checker every week or two, and it almost consistently finds new spyware.
What are you installing??? I run windows and I never get any spyware apart from tracking cookies which of course are not really spyware.
I mean, if everyone ran Linux then there would be plenty of Linux spyware around, all it'd have to do is convince the average user that to take advantage of a billion free smilies they need to enter their root password.
No-one seems to be mentioning it, but they used to offer this service for free (when creating a new account in Outlook express it gives you the option to add a hotmail account).
No, I'm talking about the owners of the PC's that comprise the botnets. Making it a crime to participate in botnets, knowingly or not.
That's ridiculous, If I'm running a fully secured and patched system, but I need to run a particular web facing service, and that service happens to have an undiscovered vulnerability in it, why should I be liable for it?
A better car analogy would be making the driver liable if his car's breaks failed, it's just not fair. We can't expect everyone to be computer savy, it's really up to Microsoft to sort their OS out, and they've had a lot of time to do it, after all Apple's managed to built a pretty secure OS that is easy for average people to use.
I don't think there's been a Power button on Apple keyboards since they used the ADC bus (laptops still use ADC internally, hence the power button).
Actually the USB G3 towers had powerbuttons on their USB keyboards (for some reason they took them off the newer keyboards, much to the dismay of our graphic designer).
Infact you can actually get several usb dongles that plug into the keyboard and provides a power button
I don't know what these new features are (not even the google cache of the page is loading) but I'll certainly be waiting for these features to make it into FireFox rather then change to Mozilla temporarily.
Of course depending on what the features were I'd probably install Mozilla to see if they cause any issues with the web design work I do.
I'm sure this will be posted about a hundred times, but what's the point of having a programmable display on the ram?
Why not have a separate programmable display you can put anywhere? You used to be able to get a programmable LCD display for the Amiga, it plugged into the parallel port and you could use the system's built in scripting to display anything, so you could have the CPU load, available ram, time remaining in your ray-tracer rendering or even the subject of your most recent unread email. Now that was cool and useful at the same time.
This just seems to be the LAN party equivalent of a 12" tail pipe
The Gameboy as a brand certainly has a long-held portable gaming throne, I mean the 1989 original lasted virtually 10 years on its own... However I wouldn't say the DS had a long-held portable gaming throne, it's only really just come out!
A cheap Apple computer is exactly what Apple need, if it wasn't for the price I would've recomended an Apple to all my computer illiterate family members.
However to really be mass market they'll need to get a lot more game developers on board and raise it's profile with the gaming comunity (Games are pretty much the only thing my 2 brothers do with their PCs)
The article doesn't mention what would happen if they did fail but if you drive over a large lump very fast will these spokes break and cause a nasty dent in the tire (resulting in a rather bumpy ride)?
That's funny, because I seem to remember the most likely theory on the disaster was the foam hit and punctured the leading edge of the wing which is made of reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC), and not the heat resistant tiles (which are designed so a few can be lost during normal flights anyway).
Looking at all the automatic PHP error responses, it seems that as long as the web server's task does not have write access to the web sites folder you're safe.
After looking at their rather obsfucated javascript code it seems that they (as I suspected) use XML HTTP Request
Google seem to use this alot (it's what makes their gmail interface so fast) but I haven't seen used much in other web applications which is a strange because it makes server interaction a lot faster.
On a side note, Apple and every other music player maker should make this part of the software that comes with their device, we all change the icons, desktops, and everything else on our computers, so it makes sense to be able to brand our music players any way we want.
I competely agree, my Canon digital camera allows me to upload new spashscreens and samples to it which I think is a very nifty feature. Most companies will probably worry too much about brand preservation to implement this though which is a shame
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You could build a full-resolution cinema-sized display, then all you'd need is a couple of matrox multi-head cards to drive them :)
I never thought you could actually kill PCs with static like that,
;) ), and decided to try and fry an old digital camera I had.
I built a flyback transformer driver, 25kilovolts or so (for a lifter
Nothing! High voltage arching right across the circuit boards and it was still working fine! The only thing I managed to do was over-saturate the LCD, but even that returned to normal after an hour or two.
I also remember someone's anecdote about working in a computer store with nasty carpets. The owner decided to prove a point by shuffling along the floor to a radiator holding a DIMM, then letting it spark across the DIMM. He then plugged it into a ram tester to show it still working fine.
My driving instructor was always having trouble with his fuel injection system (i think it was a Peugeot). He'd tried putting injector cleaning fluid in the fuel and everything but it kept losing power momentarily.
:)
I was having a driving lesson and the thing cut out altogether. It wouldn't start at all. After trying a few things I suggested that we could disconnect the battery for a few seconds to reboot the ECU. Unplugged the battery, plugged it back in, and it started first time. I got the lesson for free for that
Of course there is NO WAY I'd go back to a carburettor, I've had a Skoda that has a Bosh fuel injection system for a while now and it works perfectly, starts first time _every time_ no matter how cold it is. We can all romanticise about how old cars were "more reliable" before they had computers in them but the simple fact is that new cars are on the whole a lot more reliable then old cars (well, maybe with the exception of old Toyota Hilux pickups) even with computerised systems, and get much better performance and fuel consumption because of them.
What a true geek would do is build their own computer-controlled laser cutting/etching rig, a few of these together should cut through aluminium or mild steel no problem :)
That's not a particularly good analogy now is it?
They are not remotely disabling your copy of Quicken, they had been providing a service for free as the online bill payment system had to go through their server. They've realised they can't keep doing that forever, but for some reason rather then introducing a small subscription fee they're getting people to upgrade instead.
Do you have to pay a subscription fee for Quicken's online payment system? If not then I guess as long as the upgrade price is reasonable it seems fair to charge a small amount as a kind of subscription to their service, as you can't expect companies to provide a service for free indefinitely (and as a bonus you keep your version of Quicken up-to-date)
Windows: I run a spyware checker every week or two, and it almost consistently finds new spyware.
What are you installing??? I run windows and I never get any spyware apart from tracking cookies which of course are not really spyware.
I mean, if everyone ran Linux then there would be plenty of Linux spyware around, all it'd have to do is convince the average user that to take advantage of a billion free smilies they need to enter their root password.
No-one seems to be mentioning it, but they used to offer this service for free (when creating a new account in Outlook express it gives you the option to add a hotmail account).
No, I'm talking about the owners of the PC's that comprise the botnets. Making it a crime to participate in botnets, knowingly or not.
That's ridiculous, If I'm running a fully secured and patched system, but I need to run a particular web facing service, and that service happens to have an undiscovered vulnerability in it, why should I be liable for it?
A better car analogy would be making the driver liable if his car's breaks failed, it's just not fair. We can't expect everyone to be computer savy, it's really up to Microsoft to sort their OS out, and they've had a lot of time to do it, after all Apple's managed to built a pretty secure OS that is easy for average people to use.
I don't think there's been a Power button on Apple keyboards since they used the ADC bus (laptops still use ADC internally, hence the power button).
Actually the USB G3 towers had powerbuttons on their USB keyboards (for some reason they took them off the newer keyboards, much to the dismay of our graphic designer).
Infact you can actually get several usb dongles that plug into the keyboard and provides a power button
There's a perfectly good build of the calendar pluggin for FireFox, I'm using it now infact :)
> IE's html standard
Bad idea, then bad poorly written web pages will never get fixed!
I thought that this was the whole point of FireFox? Is there actually anything you can do in Mozilla that can't be done in FireFox?
I don't know what these new features are (not even the google cache of the page is loading) but I'll certainly be waiting for these features to make it into FireFox rather then change to Mozilla temporarily.
Of course depending on what the features were I'd probably install Mozilla to see if they cause any issues with the web design work I do.
>How much will the OS cost for the mini mac?
>$0.00
Actually I think you'll find there's a yearly subscription fee for OSX.(n++)
I bet ThinkSecret feel vindicated (tho not as vindicated as they'll feel if Apple's lawsuit fails!)
I'm sure this will be posted about a hundred times, but what's the point of having a programmable display on the ram?
Why not have a separate programmable display you can put anywhere? You used to be able to get a programmable LCD display for the Amiga, it plugged into the parallel port and you could use the system's built in scripting to display anything, so you could have the CPU load, available ram, time remaining in your ray-tracer rendering or even the subject of your most recent unread email. Now that was cool and useful at the same time.
This just seems to be the LAN party equivalent of a 12" tail pipe
The Gameboy as a brand certainly has a long-held portable gaming throne, I mean the 1989 original lasted virtually 10 years on its own...
However I wouldn't say the DS had a long-held portable gaming throne, it's only really just come out!
A cheap Apple computer is exactly what Apple need, if it wasn't for the price I would've recomended an Apple to all my computer illiterate family members.
However to really be mass market they'll need to get a lot more game developers on board and raise it's profile with the gaming comunity (Games are pretty much the only thing my 2 brothers do with their PCs)
But is it actually much stronger?
The article doesn't mention what would happen if they did fail but if you drive over a large lump very fast will these spokes break and cause a nasty dent in the tire (resulting in a rather bumpy ride)?
That's funny, because I seem to remember the most likely theory on the disaster was the foam hit and punctured the leading edge of the wing which is made of reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC), and not the heat resistant tiles (which are designed so a few can be lost during normal flights anyway).
...to write software without buffer overflow problems?
_ SIZE){
It's not just MS, even plenty of OSS programs have buffer overflow exploits.
I haven't done any lowlevel programming, but can it really be that difficult to do
malloc buffer MAX_BUFFER_SIZE
if(mem_to_copy.length>MAX_BUFFER
return ERROR_DATA_TOO_LONG
}else{
copy(mem_to_copy,buffer)
}
?
Looking at all the automatic PHP error responses, it seems that as long as the web server's task does not have write access to the web sites folder you're safe.
After looking at their rather obsfucated javascript code it seems that they (as I suspected) use XML HTTP Request
Google seem to use this alot (it's what makes their gmail interface so fast) but I haven't seen used much in other web applications which is a strange because it makes server interaction a lot faster.
I competely agree, my Canon digital camera allows me to upload new spashscreens and samples to it which I think is a very nifty feature.
Most companies will probably worry too much about brand preservation to implement this though which is a shame