However, the electronics to drive it would not be simple. Currently we have 3 fairly high frequency signals, one for each gun (red, green and blue). For this idea you'd need a set of three signals for each separate gun. Assuming you split into 4 subdisplays, you'd need 12 signals (plus the various sync and other control channels). I don't think a common-or-garden graphics card is going to do that very well. Better to do it within the monitor, I'd guess it'd increase the price by about $100.
Now, the alignment. Not as hard as you imagine; at least all the parts are within one enclosure. The display could auto-calibrate by aligning signals off the edge of the viewable area.
Cross-talk between the different steering coils would be a far larger problem. You could either compensate for this automatically (increased electronics complexity, expensive, reliability issues) or put in some mu-metal to absorb the field (expensive, heavy)
I suggest you do a patent search, see if anyone's had this idea before. Personally, I don't think it's feasable;)
Oh, and as for energy saving, I don't think so! Electrons lose very little energy during flight.
FreeS/WAN can now be compiled as a module, and is therefore more likely to be resiliant across kernel versions.
Unfortunately there is little or no chance of getting any real encryption into the kernel, due to various laws etc.
Yes, FreeS/WAN is a pain. Quite quite braindamaged/damaging in places. Maybe OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation is better; I'm waiting for a new machine to test it on.
And don't just think this is to "get" people who put stuff up any old how, oh no - "[I]f you place material unsuitable for minors on a web page, even on a password protected section of your site and give the password only to your adult friends, you could be prosecuted under criminal law."
Interesting. What if someone has something dubious on their machine's hard drive and some script kiddie manages to trojan his way in.
Someone sub7 a judge's pc with a report on a prosecution under this act...
At the lab where I worked we needed a radioactive test pattern for a PET scanner, so I hit on the idea of filling an old inkjet cartridge with oxygen-15 labelled water.
The half-life is only a few minutes, but that's long enough for the print to dry and to run the test.
Don't try this at home though, we had 10cm thick lead to put the printer behind!
[irc] Connected to chat.uk.quakenet.org:
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Our peak user count is in the 40k region, and our main servers handle as many users each as your net has in total.
As far as I know, we've never been mentioned on Slashdot, and I don't really care.
The reason OPN is mentioned is that it is the OpenProjects network, where people like Debian maintainers hang out.
Wavelength division multiplexing can give this rate already, but the erbium amplifiers used to boost the signal do not amplify across the whole usable spectrum, so this datarate would only be possible for sub 50km distances.
Additionally you'd need whole rack of electronics to decode the demux'd streams.
You only need to do the complex terminating when joining raw cable. Many fibre-optic cables come ready terminated, in one of three ways, SC, ST or FC. Additionally, for 'low' bandwidth there are lossy ways of joining two fibres quickly.
SC and ST are similar, but one of them (ST) has a bayonet-style fitting to keep it firm, FC type has a plug which holds 2 fibres which clicks into place quite nicely. This is usually the type of port that you'll find in mid-range switches.
I'd expect a connector similar to FC, but designed to connect with out any patch cabling.
Do any major sites follow the HTML spec properly anyway?
There are a number of reasons:
* What is out there works.
* W3C specs even surpass the most obscure RFCs in their obtrusity.
* W3C specs are usually playing catch-up with existing technologies.
In the end, if I cannot view a page, I won't. This happens with flash quite frequently, I refuse to install the damn thing.
Heh, I was going to ask if anyone had tried to verify the text, GPG barfs on it:
gpg: Signature made Wed Sep 26 18:08:57 2001 BST using DSA key ID B2D7795E
gpg: requesting key B2D7795E from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net...
gpg: key B2D7795E: no valid user IDs
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
I'm guessing PGP7 and GPG don't work together completely.
I had huge problems *reading* those codes, so I had to find a way to make them readable. Luckily my scanman32 had a finely adjustable contrast and, by scanning in line-art mode, I was able to convert them to back and white, which I then just printed.
I'm sure a lot of people here have cpu overheat stories. Mine fits with Tom's test quite well, but with a slight twist.
My somewhat weird setup is a P3 in a slocket in an old slot1 BX board. This means that the system cannot monitor the CPU temp and shut it down safely.
One day after some h/w modification (I seem to recall it was moving a tv card from slot to slot) I must have accidentally jammed a power cable in the CPU fan.
After about 10 freezes in a day I wonder if my graphics card is overheating. It is as cool as ever (about 40 deg C), so I just touch the P3 heatsink, and blister my finger. So I spit on a spare finger and *tssst* the spit boils away instantly. I turn the machine off, thinking, "Oh well, I wanted to upgrade anyway".
I cool the poor fevered cpu down with strips of damp tissue paper and find the trapped cable.
An hour later I nervously turn the machine back on and hey presto, the old thing jumps into life as if nothing happened.
I'm currently planning to upgrade to an MP athlon, but I will have to have a checklist for when I muck around with anything;)
Isolating the dazed/confused side of me, I am suprised at the poor quality of the media coverage. It seems that they decided to rerun the same poor quality clip repeatedly, on all channels. It just left me feeling numb. Only now are they properly speculating on the who/how/where/when details.
Added to this is the way that almost every international news website crumpled and died for about 5 hours after the events.
Slashdot Mirror
for your "fire in sequence" idea you'd effectively need 4*refresh rate, far easier to do either of the other solutions ;)
They also contain lead, which is banned from landfills.
They contain leaded glass, which should be recycled anyway, into more CRTs.
Besides, show me a LCD monitor that can display 1600x1200 and I'll show you a new car.
Interesting idea.
;)
However, the electronics to drive it would not be simple. Currently we have 3 fairly high frequency signals, one for each gun (red, green and blue). For this idea you'd need a set of three signals for each separate gun. Assuming you split into 4 subdisplays, you'd need 12 signals (plus the various sync and other control channels). I don't think a common-or-garden graphics card is going to do that very well. Better to do it within the monitor, I'd guess it'd increase the price by about $100.
Now, the alignment. Not as hard as you imagine; at least all the parts are within one enclosure. The display could auto-calibrate by aligning signals off the edge of the viewable area.
Cross-talk between the different steering coils would be a far larger problem. You could either compensate for this automatically (increased electronics complexity, expensive, reliability issues) or put in some mu-metal to absorb the field (expensive, heavy)
I suggest you do a patent search, see if anyone's had this idea before. Personally, I don't think it's feasable
Oh, and as for energy saving, I don't think so! Electrons lose very little energy during flight.
FreeS/WAN can now be compiled as a module, and is therefore more likely to be resiliant across kernel versions.
Unfortunately there is little or no chance of getting any real encryption into the kernel, due to various laws etc.
Yes, FreeS/WAN is a pain. Quite quite braindamaged/damaging in places. Maybe OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation is better; I'm waiting for a new machine to test it on.
You set up an IPSEC tunnel to a trusted net, i.e.:
[laptop] . . . . [Wireless AP]---[Linux+FreeS/WAN]--(the world)
\-------tunnel-----------------/
I'm writing a paper on this at the moment, it'll go up somewhere on my web page, some time.
ribbon cables? BAH
Find an old IBM PS/2, you can take the whole thing apart and reassemble it in 60s, including bootup times.
Everything is clipped into a casing structure and connects by solid edge connectors, even things like the fans.
They don't make em like they used to
Interesting. What if someone has something dubious on their machine's hard drive and some script kiddie manages to trojan his way in.
Someone sub7 a judge's pc with a report on a prosecution under this act...
At the lab where I worked we needed a radioactive test pattern for a PET scanner, so I hit on the idea of filling an old inkjet cartridge with oxygen-15 labelled water.
The half-life is only a few minutes, but that's long enough for the print to dry and to run the test.
Don't try this at home though, we had 10cm thick lead to put the printer behind!
OOH 2000 users!!
[irc] Connected to chat.uk.quakenet.org:
[chat.uk] There are 15296 users and 13052 invisible on 45 servers
[chat.uk] 58 operator(s) online
[chat.uk] 37423 channels formed
[chat.uk] I have 424 clients and 1 servers
[chat.uk] Highest connection count: 689 (688 clients)
Our peak user count is in the 40k region, and our main servers handle as many users each as your net has in total.
As far as I know, we've never been mentioned on Slashdot, and I don't really care.
The reason OPN is mentioned is that it is the OpenProjects network, where people like Debian maintainers hang out.
Well. I'm impressed by his eagerness to post something vaguely relavent quickly.
With a bit of work he could have karma like mine
Fibre's really not far off.
Wavelength division multiplexing can give this rate already, but the erbium amplifiers used to boost the signal do not amplify across the whole usable spectrum, so this datarate would only be possible for sub 50km distances.
Additionally you'd need whole rack of electronics to decode the demux'd streams.
Project Eunuch from the Temple ov thee Lemur.
It is a joke.
Recognition at last
(hint: check my username)
You only need to do the complex terminating when joining raw cable. Many fibre-optic cables come ready terminated, in one of three ways, SC, ST or FC. Additionally, for 'low' bandwidth there are lossy ways of joining two fibres quickly.
SC and ST are similar, but one of them (ST) has a bayonet-style fitting to keep it firm, FC type has a plug which holds 2 fibres which clicks into place quite nicely. This is usually the type of port that you'll find in mid-range switches.
I'd expect a connector similar to FC, but designed to connect with out any patch cabling.
As for how long it took, well it *was* BT...
'nuff said.
You swine!
OK, I'll forgive you.
I do like HP though, they donated an OmniBook XE3 to my uni for each student doing my course.
Maybe they could help out the STI Project
Sounds like a fair deal, though I am more used to accepting souls in return.
Duh, the foot will include the sole of course!
:P
If the companies have permission, it's hardly unsolicited. Duh.
Do any major sites follow the HTML spec properly anyway?
There are a number of reasons:
* What is out there works.
* W3C specs even surpass the most obscure RFCs in their obtrusity.
* W3C specs are usually playing catch-up with existing technologies.
In the end, if I cannot view a page, I won't. This happens with flash quite frequently, I refuse to install the damn thing.
Heh, I was going to ask if anyone had tried to verify the text, GPG barfs on it:
...
gpg: Signature made Wed Sep 26 18:08:57 2001 BST using DSA key ID B2D7795E
gpg: requesting key B2D7795E from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
gpg: key B2D7795E: no valid user IDs
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
I'm guessing PGP7 and GPG don't work together completely.
I had huge problems *reading* those codes, so I had to find a way to make them readable. Luckily my scanman32 had a finely adjustable contrast and, by scanning in line-art mode, I was able to convert them to back and white, which I then just printed.
Thank god the days of code sheets are gone.
I'm sure a lot of people here have cpu overheat stories. Mine fits with Tom's test quite well, but with a slight twist.
;)
My somewhat weird setup is a P3 in a slocket in an old slot1 BX board. This means that the system cannot monitor the CPU temp and shut it down safely.
One day after some h/w modification (I seem to recall it was moving a tv card from slot to slot) I must have accidentally jammed a power cable in the CPU fan.
After about 10 freezes in a day I wonder if my graphics card is overheating. It is as cool as ever (about 40 deg C), so I just touch the P3 heatsink, and blister my finger. So I spit on a spare finger and *tssst* the spit boils away instantly. I turn the machine off, thinking, "Oh well, I wanted to upgrade anyway".
I cool the poor fevered cpu down with strips of damp tissue paper and find the trapped cable.
An hour later I nervously turn the machine back on and hey presto, the old thing jumps into life as if nothing happened.
I'm currently planning to upgrade to an MP athlon, but I will have to have a checklist for when I muck around with anything
Isolating the dazed/confused side of me, I am suprised at the poor quality of the media coverage. It seems that they decided to rerun the same poor quality clip repeatedly, on all channels. It just left me feeling numb. Only now are they properly speculating on the who/how/where/when details.
Added to this is the way that almost every international news website crumpled and died for about 5 hours after the events.
75 was obviously the cutoff...
the paq could stand for packard? ;)