I've heard Sun used to burn in SparcStations in vats of Fluorinert.
Neat stuff, the first time I've seen a demo of it was on Beyond 2000 a decade ago (The Ausssie version), where they had a TV turned on in a giant fishtank full of the stuff. I still wouldn't drink it, though...
It took me two hours to get to my apartment, as EVERYONE was leaving early. I found my wife was already at our new house working, and our apartment's alarm system was going off constantly. After cutting the wires to the horn, I went over to work on our newly purchased house.
Being an estate sale, it came with refridgerator. Which was full. And had been for months, but the fridge was kept on. Now it didn't have any power. It was pretty awful. I traced the horrendous stench to a fish that had fallen underneath the produce shelves and was rapidly decaying. After three days of scouring down the insides alternatly with bleach and baking powder/hot water, the smell was gone and we got our fridge! Thanks, blackout!
Of course, but nowadays I'd dare to say most speakers are MDF. It's just lightyears nicer to work with and cheaper than hardwoods, or marble:)
A fellow by the name of Cook had some experimental 78 rpm lp recordings out at the time,
Is his stuff available on LP, or CD? It sounds really interesting. I'm a fledgling oddball LP collector, I've got some fun early synthesizer demo LP's, and some odd technology demo LP's (dbx demo disc, dbx processor required:)
A guy I work with used to design loudspeakers. He said the editor of one of the car audio magazines had a custom subwoofer system built into his house. There were two towers with 6 12" subwoofers each, a hole driven into the bottom of each tower and ported into the basement (Infinite baffle design) Add a few thousand watts of amplification on a dedicated circuit and you have a system that will shatter glass.
Wooden cones would have a nice wide frequency range.
There is a whole school of thought in audio engineering, mostly driven by the Japaneese, that a single, crossover-less driver is the way to go in speaker design. The closest thing you can get to a single-driver full-range speaker right now is either an electrostatic, which dosen't go very low. There are many single-driver designs out there, but I haven't seen any that hit the trifecta of high sensitivity (for your 10W Single Ended Triode tube amp, of course:), low distortion, and wide frequency range.
Think about how wood sounds when you knock it with your knuckles - a nice dull thud. Yes, I'm ignoring all the musical instruments made of wood. I'm talking about your normal block of wood. They already make the vast majority of speaker cabinets out of wood precisely for the low-resonant properties that it exhibits.
Actually, the vast majority of speaker cabinets are made out of MDF, or Medium Desnsity Fiberboard, or what most subflooring is made out of these days. MDF is just wood dust compressed back together to make a denser, more uniform material. You can get hardwood that's just as dense, but it's much more expensive to start with, and getting a lot of it without knots or other irregularities is *really* expensive.
The really high end speakers use exotic materials like Corian or granite. Expensive countertop materials seem to be all the rage. The ultra-high-end Wilson Audio speakers mount the tweeters and midranges on a Corian-like material, or so I've heard. The denser the material == the higher the resonant frequency == the less likely it is to resonate, enough for you to hear at lest.
I know a guy who passed MCSE who swore he didn't study anything, and most of the questions on the test he answered with "Buy more hardware" or the equivalent (more hard drives, more RAM, cluster machines, buy a tape backup, etc...)
I don't think M$'s website goes down much cause their administrators are probably MSCE certified, and those guys know *everything*.
I bet they have tripwire rigged up to a cluster server so when an intrusion is detected, it downs the affected server and brings another, fresh one online. They probably even auto-ghost the affected machine and bring it back online when reset. It's the Gatling Gun method of system security.
I think I still have a copy of Netware 3.11 for Redhat Linux laying around somewhere. It was pretty cool, booting Netware on top of linux, but Novell canned the effort for some reason, and then mars-nwe was born, then died.
...snd my XP in in Ultima Online make me one of the wisest people around....snd my ngWorldStats in Unreal Tournament makes me one of the worst serial killers in the world.
Let's see, there's all Apple's IP, QuickTime technologies in MPEG4, a ton of software (OSX, Logic, Final Cut, Shake, i-Software) a fantastic industrial design department, manufacturing facilities, tight ties to Pixar (one of the most successful movie studios) a mature and integrated hardware/software design team, a chain of retail stores (successful or not, it's capital investment) and, currently, the most popular online music store (though not making profit, it's bringing in eyeballs) as well as the brand name Apple, probably as well known as Microsoft.
To get caught in a sting, the "stingee" needs to solicit something illegal from the "stinger." Just opening your car door for a prostitue doesn't necessarily constitute an illegal act, unless you solicited sex for money beforehand.
- You can't drop dollar bills on the road & then arrest citizens for stealing when they pick them up.
True, but you also can't sell baking soda to people in dime baggies telling them it's cocaine. Although, technically, p2p isn't really selling anything.
I've been looking around for a docbook reader/editor for a while. OpenOffice.org has some basic docbook import/export support, and there are some commercial apps that can do docbook, but most are really expensive (FrameMaker, XMLSpy I think.)
If we can get a really nice, friendly docbook editor/converter, ideally that doesn't use TeX (Arcane and HUGE)
A reader could be a modified browser, ideally one that would let you apply styles to your taste, like, oh, mosaic could do:)
I removed the "SCO code" from my main server at home by installing FreeBSD. You can also remove "SCO Code" by installing HURD, or Darwin x86, or BeOS. I'm afraid my HTPC and utility computers are still infected with the offending code, and will be for the forseeable future.
I also have a AT&T 3b2 workstation running SYS V that probably has code SCO owns, and an old DEC ULTRIX workstation that has code SCO owns. I also have the source code for the original PDP-11 UNIX laying around somewhere, which I belive SCO wrote back in the mid 70's;) I'll probably have to pay a LOT for the rights to read the source.
What GUI is he comparing the CLI to? Windoze? MacOS? BeOS? OS/2? IRIX? GNOME/KDE/Motif/enlightenment/CDE/XFCE?
I find I use the CLI along with the GUI about evenly. Looking at huge lists of heterogenous files is much nicer in a GUI, where icons give meta-information about what type of file it is, and you can scan lots of long filenames quickly. If I'm moving loads of files around, or doing quirky sorts then I fire up Cygwin, or a bash terminal in MacOS X.
I dare anyone to say page layout is better in text-mode than in a nice WYSIWIG pacakge. Unless you're a TeX freak, doing very complex formatting is fantastically easy in Quark or PageMaker.
I also haven't seen a really powerful CLI photo editor. Maybe an aalib frontend for the gimp?:)
Then, there was the Trilogy. Then the THX-certified trilogy. Then the Special Edition Trilogy. Then the Special Edition Collector's trilogy in the Mount Doom shaped box. Then the high definition, non-interlaced ultimate edition on fifteen DVD's. Then the ExXXXXtreme edition in uncompressed DV1 video on fifty blue-green DVD-HDs.
Of course, the REAL videophiles watch it on D-VHS, in uncompressed DV, and you can have any surround format you want as long as it's Dolby Digital 5.1:)
Jini was/is a great idea. Plug in a printer, it uploads it's driver to the computer. Put it on a network, any computer that connects to it automatically gets the driver.
Sounds kind of like what Apple is doing with Rendezvous. uPnP should die a quick death.
I use Gentoo dual booting with XP on my wife's TiVO I built. Use grub, it's the best bootloader I've seen. Plays fine with XP/2k/Whatever, no reinstallation needed after recompiling the kernel, loads of options, pictures, you name it.
Gentoo is a bit more low-level than Mandrake, especially the install:) . The configuration layout seems to make more sense than Mandrake, IMHO, but Mandrake is a great install-and-go system. Gentoo is nicer for hackers/power users.
Mono and DotGNU, if nothing else, are good contingency measures if.Net happens to crush Java in the realm of web apps (not likely.) I'm half suprised at the rush to implement forms, as web apps seems to be what.Net was intended for, though the Gnome guys are the ones driving development...
If your company seems resistant to Open Source for whatever reason, include a package from Redhat or Suse that includes support (such as Redhat enterprise.) Business types will prefer buying into a product/service package as opposed to a solution/process package. Then you can ease them into the idea of running pure open source software over time.
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I've heard Sun used to burn in SparcStations in vats of Fluorinert.
Neat stuff, the first time I've seen a demo of it was on Beyond 2000 a decade ago (The Ausssie version), where they had a TV turned on in a giant fishtank full of the stuff. I still wouldn't drink it, though...
It took me two hours to get to my apartment, as EVERYONE was leaving early. I found my wife was already at our new house working, and our apartment's alarm system was going off constantly. After cutting the wires to the horn, I went over to work on our newly purchased house.
Being an estate sale, it came with refridgerator. Which was full. And had been for months, but the fridge was kept on. Now it didn't have any power. It was pretty awful. I traced the horrendous stench to a fish that had fallen underneath the produce shelves and was rapidly decaying. After three days of scouring down the insides alternatly with bleach and baking powder/hot water, the smell was gone and we got our fridge! Thanks, blackout!
Of course, but nowadays I'd dare to say most speakers are MDF. It's just lightyears nicer to work with and cheaper than hardwoods, or marble :)
Is his stuff available on LP, or CD? It sounds really interesting. I'm a fledgling oddball LP collector, I've got some fun early synthesizer demo LP's, and some odd technology demo LP's (dbx demo disc, dbx processor required :)
All things considered, I love my Magneplanars :)
A guy I work with used to design loudspeakers. He said the editor of one of the car audio magazines had a custom subwoofer system built into his house. There were two towers with 6 12" subwoofers each, a hole driven into the bottom of each tower and ported into the basement (Infinite baffle design) Add a few thousand watts of amplification on a dedicated circuit and you have a system that will shatter glass.
There is a whole school of thought in audio engineering, mostly driven by the Japaneese, that a single, crossover-less driver is the way to go in speaker design. The closest thing you can get to a single-driver full-range speaker right now is either an electrostatic, which dosen't go very low. There are many single-driver designs out there, but I haven't seen any that hit the trifecta of high sensitivity (for your 10W Single Ended Triode tube amp, of course :), low distortion, and wide frequency range.
Actually, the vast majority of speaker cabinets are made out of MDF, or Medium Desnsity Fiberboard, or what most subflooring is made out of these days. MDF is just wood dust compressed back together to make a denser, more uniform material. You can get hardwood that's just as dense, but it's much more expensive to start with, and getting a lot of it without knots or other irregularities is *really* expensive.
The really high end speakers use exotic materials like Corian or granite. Expensive countertop materials seem to be all the rage. The ultra-high-end Wilson Audio speakers mount the tweeters and midranges on a Corian-like material, or so I've heard. The denser the material == the higher the resonant frequency == the less likely it is to resonate, enough for you to hear at lest.
I know a guy who passed MCSE who swore he didn't study anything, and most of the questions on the test he answered with "Buy more hardware" or the equivalent (more hard drives, more RAM, cluster machines, buy a tape backup, etc...)
So id can compile Doom 3 for a P4/DX9/512MBDDR target, press a button, and it'll compile for a Nokia phone! I bet that'll work GREAT.
Sounds like the old CHIP8 games.
http://members.aol.com/autismuk/chip8/
I don't think M$'s website goes down much cause their administrators are probably MSCE certified, and those guys know *everything*.
I bet they have tripwire rigged up to a cluster server so when an intrusion is detected, it downs the affected server and brings another, fresh one online. They probably even auto-ghost the affected machine and bring it back online when reset. It's the Gatling Gun method of system security.
I think I still have a copy of Netware 3.11 for Redhat Linux laying around somewhere. It was pretty cool, booting Netware on top of linux, but Novell canned the effort for some reason, and then mars-nwe was born, then died.
This will be interesting...
I've got no problems with MediaPlayer per se, I just prefer the old one :)
Media Player Classic 6.4.8.0
...snd my XP in in Ultima Online make me one of the wisest people around. ...snd my ngWorldStats in Unreal Tournament makes me one of the worst serial killers in the world.
That AOL CD's are ten times more ubiquitous than Microsoft software.
Let's see, there's all Apple's IP, QuickTime technologies in MPEG4, a ton of software (OSX, Logic, Final Cut, Shake, i-Software) a fantastic industrial design department, manufacturing facilities, tight ties to Pixar (one of the most successful movie studios) a mature and integrated hardware/software design team, a chain of retail stores (successful or not, it's capital investment) and, currently, the most popular online music store (though not making profit, it's bringing in eyeballs) as well as the brand name Apple, probably as well known as Microsoft.
I'd say there's quite a bit of value in APPL.
-It is akin to a sting operation...
To get caught in a sting, the "stingee" needs to solicit something illegal from the "stinger." Just opening your car door for a prostitue doesn't necessarily constitute an illegal act, unless you solicited sex for money beforehand.
- You can't drop dollar bills on the road & then arrest citizens for stealing when they pick them up.
True, but you also can't sell baking soda to people in dime baggies telling them it's cocaine. Although, technically, p2p isn't really selling anything.
I guess my advice would be caveat clepta.
Sounds like a job for (Dun dun daaa) Docbook!
:)
I've been looking around for a docbook reader/editor for a while. OpenOffice.org has some basic docbook import/export support, and there are some commercial apps that can do docbook, but most are really expensive (FrameMaker, XMLSpy I think.)
If we can get a really nice, friendly docbook editor/converter, ideally that doesn't use TeX (Arcane and HUGE)
A reader could be a modified browser, ideally one that would let you apply styles to your taste, like, oh, mosaic could do
Wow, modded down to -1 (Troll)! I guess I should have enclosed the whole thing in tags.
Is it to the point where any post even remotely, or sarcastically, disparaging linux gets modded down to troll or flamebait? Rough...
I removed the "SCO code" from my main server at home by installing FreeBSD. You can also remove "SCO Code" by installing HURD, or Darwin x86, or BeOS. I'm afraid my HTPC and utility computers are still infected with the offending code, and will be for the forseeable future.
;) I'll probably have to pay a LOT for the rights to read the source.
I also have a AT&T 3b2 workstation running SYS V that probably has code SCO owns, and an old DEC ULTRIX workstation that has code SCO owns. I also have the source code for the original PDP-11 UNIX laying around somewhere, which I belive SCO wrote back in the mid 70's
I prefer to play games where I get to watch TV. Or I play the Sims and watch virtual people watch virtual TV. Fun!
What GUI is he comparing the CLI to? Windoze? MacOS? BeOS? OS/2? IRIX? GNOME/KDE/Motif/enlightenment/CDE/XFCE?
:)
I find I use the CLI along with the GUI about evenly. Looking at huge lists of heterogenous files is much nicer in a GUI, where icons give meta-information about what type of file it is, and you can scan lots of long filenames quickly. If I'm moving loads of files around, or doing quirky sorts then I fire up Cygwin, or a bash terminal in MacOS X.
I dare anyone to say page layout is better in text-mode than in a nice WYSIWIG pacakge. Unless you're a TeX freak, doing very complex formatting is fantastically easy in Quark or PageMaker.
I also haven't seen a really powerful CLI photo editor. Maybe an aalib frontend for the gimp?
Then, there was the Trilogy. Then the THX-certified trilogy. Then the Special Edition Trilogy. Then the Special Edition Collector's trilogy in the Mount Doom shaped box. Then the high definition, non-interlaced ultimate edition on fifteen DVD's. Then the ExXXXXtreme edition in uncompressed DV1 video on fifty blue-green DVD-HDs.
:)
Of course, the REAL videophiles watch it on D-VHS, in uncompressed DV, and you can have any surround format you want as long as it's Dolby Digital 5.1
Jini was/is a great idea. Plug in a printer, it uploads it's driver to the computer. Put it on a network, any computer that connects to it automatically gets the driver.
Sounds kind of like what Apple is doing with Rendezvous. uPnP should die a quick death.
I use Gentoo dual booting with XP on my wife's TiVO I built. Use grub, it's the best bootloader I've seen. Plays fine with XP/2k/Whatever, no reinstallation needed after recompiling the kernel, loads of options, pictures, you name it.
:) . The configuration layout seems to make more sense than Mandrake, IMHO, but Mandrake is a great install-and-go system. Gentoo is nicer for hackers/power users.
Gentoo is a bit more low-level than Mandrake, especially the install
When I'm on a plane I load up my laptop with things to read, as I can't really get any work done crushed into the kid's-table-sized chairs.
:)
:)
1. I suck down a few news websites, the kernel traffic, cryptome (carefully) and some mailing list archives with wget.
2. I download a few free radio shows, like Off The Hook (2600 Radio) or This American Life (A bit harder, you have to, um, rip it
3. I grab the mailing list traffic from my mailing-list-only account and compose replies for later sending.
4. That pinball game is really addicting. Thanks Maxis!
Mono and DotGNU, if nothing else, are good contingency measures if .Net happens to crush Java in the realm of web apps (not likely.) I'm half suprised at the rush to implement forms, as web apps seems to be what .Net was intended for, though the Gnome guys are the ones driving development...
If your company seems resistant to Open Source for whatever reason, include a package from Redhat or Suse that includes support (such as Redhat enterprise.) Business types will prefer buying into a product/service package as opposed to a solution/process package. Then you can ease them into the idea of running pure open source software over time.