I WAS AT MY GFS HOUSE B4 AND SHE TOTALLY WAS LIKE MIKE U BITCH GET ME COOKIES AND I WAS LIKE BITCH WHAT YOUR GONNA GET A FATTASS HA UR TEH SUXORZ HAH HA w00t w00t,'"?[insert 34 exclamation points here - FU LAMENESS FILTER]
Did I pass? (By the way,/.'s being a bitch. It keeps saying "Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I think I'm going to have to bitchslap it.)
Perhaps you missed the part about how easy counterfeiting makes it the currency of choice for everyone. Counterfeiters and other shady elements of society have the same effect on the economy as a whole that the porn industry has on the media distrobution and technology industries. They're the ones who decide who lives and who dies. If you allow them to counterfeit without too much hassle while only making a few examples, your money becomes popular and strong against other types of money. Then you control the world economy even when you aren't really producing much of anything.
It's the only Linux install I've ever done, and it was easy as pie. Debian-install is the best thing ever invented for Linux. If other distros have something that easy, they really should consider telling people about it. I burned an iso (granted, this requires a working system, but only once), then I booted from that CD. I hit exactly one glitch, and that was when it was trying to get a DHCP-assigned address without the cable plugged in (PEBKAC).
There was another iso with a full install, and I'm not sure how easy that one was. Judging from my net install experience, I'd say it's probably every bit as easy as Windows, if not easier.
Windows tends to dumb things down too much. I'd rather see messages that say "Installing xyz_hardware drivers (xyz_filename) - n%" than "Setting up system", and most people with working brain cells (even morons with very few working brain cells) would probably agree with me. They want to pretend they know what's going on, and Windows doesn't allow that during installation, or even general use. Giving the user a "choice" during installation makes them feel smart and powerful (even though we all know they're neither of those things), and they can't screw anything up by changing the options I saw presented during the Debian installation (YMMV).
forbidding the citizens of a municipality from forming their own fire department...and making only one company the legal provider of "fire protection services"
You're on to something there. I mean, civil disobedience has worked, but now corporations are greasing the politicians to ensure that it doesn't. So how about "enforced civil obedience"? Here's the plan:
1) Start fire protection company 2) ??? (oh, no...) 3) Profit! (sorry. I had to.) 4) Lobby for laws against government run fire protection districts, and be sure to cite these telecom laws as a basis for why you would ask for such a thing 5)a) Law passes. 6)a) PROFIT! (again!) 5)b) Law fails. 6)b) Make a massive stink about telecom companies getting preferencial treatment and turn the public against them.
Enforce civil obedience upon the telecoms. Make them your bitch.
Main Entry: sarcasm Pronunciation: 'sär-"ka-z&m Function: noun Etymology: French or Late Latin; French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmos, from Greek sarkasmos, from sarkazein to tear flesh, bite the lips in rage, sneer, from sark-, sarx flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwar&s- to cut 1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain 2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm synonym see WIT
All the crimes he mentioned were done by American citizens. Bombing federal buildings? McVeigh. Mailing bombs to universities? Kaczynski. Sniping people in Washington DC? Malvo. At least two of them thought they were fighting for their country, which they (somewhat correctly) saw as having been overrun by greedy corporate/big government idiots. I'm pretty sure Malvo was just getting a kick out of killing people.
In light of these examples, the "War on Terror" looks like a silly, yet all-too-serious, grab for power. In other words, I think you're preaching to the choir.
Indisputably, PCs are far more general purpose machines than Macs.
I call bullshit.
There is nothing inherently un-general purpose about a Mac. MacOS X may be a bit closed down compared to the vast wasteland of accessible system guts in a default Windows install, but if you take a PC and a Mac, put them side-by-side, and wipe them and install Linux, then they're just about 100% equal in every technical respect. The only differences are small and easily hacked around, like:
- PC uses a (much advanced) clone of the old IBM BIOS, Mac uses Open Firmware - this means precisely dick to anyone that doesn't write low-level code. - PC (assuming Intel, of course) is little-endian, Mac (and especially the newer non-endian-agnostic PPC's) are big-endian - again, unless you're writing code that talks directly to hardware (like a driver), you don't need to know this.
In fact, in recent years, Macs have begun to use more and more common parts (ATA drives starting with Performas, PCI starting with the pro-line PowerMacs in the PPC604 era, etc.) which makes them every bit as hackable, pokeable, and proddable as an Intel-based PC. The *only* difference is that you can't just go buy the motherboard and processor from a parts dealer. That doesn't make it any less of a general purpose turing machine.
As for your disclaimer, I don't find your post insulting to Macs, I just think you should be a bit better informed about what they really are.
Target uses Automated Logic HVAC controls. ALC has had a long-standing relationship with Liebert, and *they're* the "specialized" HVAC guys that do server rooms. I know all this crap because I work for an ALC dealer. I do this stuff for a living.
As for the GP's question about outside air: yes. Outside air is very commonly used for "free" cooling. You have to calculate the enthalpy, which is the potential amount of cooling based on the temperature and humidity of the air inside vs. outside. Basically, if you have low outside air humidity, your enthalpy can go sky high. This is especially true if your indoor humidity is high. It's basically just a calculation of how much surface evaporation is going to take place if you mix these two air sources.
Of course, a proper HVAC unit is going to have decent (and hopefully well-maintained) filters. Which means that those server room units are already using as much outside air "free" cooling as they can.
The "Revolution" is going to be a handheld system. People with devkits (that they picked up a GDC) already know this. And it's not just YANH (Nintendo handheld). It's a handheld Gamecube.
Built-in wi-fi (especially after criticism of the DS's half-assed version) is a good thing.
Tell the post office to refuse deliveries for you from those senders. They back-charge the sender for returning the unwelcome mail, IIRC. The USPS has to stay profitable, so they'll be more than happy to comply with this sort of request. More money for the USPS, more peace for you and your mailbox, less money for the greedy info-trading bastards. Win, win, win!
No it's not. The PSP will die a quick death very soon. But not at the hands of the GBA SP or the DS. The reason the PS2 is so popular is because the PSX took advantage of a weak competitor (the N64) and built a HUGE library of games that could later be played on the PS2 as well.
But Nintendo uses disks now, and they're about the size of the PSP disks. They already have a Gamecube library that dwarfs the "OMG 20 LAUNCH TITLES" that the PSP has, and will continue to do so for some time. What if the "Revolution" is a portable? They keep mentioning it'll have wireless networking like the DS, which only really makes sense for a portable device. I would bet good money on it having at least a GCN backward compatibility mode if it's not just out-and-out a portable GCN. Sure, the Xbox and PS2 can compete with a GCN on all the technical specs, but the PSP can't.
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Actually, from what I can tell, most people want something that doesn't "break when you click it" like Windows XP does. That would be MacOS X. They all have a sob story about how they double-clicked the megabyte and now their hard drive won't download. It's usually because Windows is a fucked up piece of shit that nobody can seem to figure out how to run, much less configure so a newbie can run it without trouble.
People want to "run the internet", send and receive email, and sometimes type a report for school. Some of them are advanced enough to know they want to play music or store/email/print pictures. Let's see... that's Safari, Mail, Pages, and for those "advanced" newbies, iTunes and iPhoto.
All of that is included on a system that isn't as susceptible to "viruses" (or malware of other sorts) and "just works" without needing to worry about pressing [random key on keyboard that they're sure was the one] and the DVD-Floppy-Modem quit working.
There are also about 2759023845908750923854 (as of last week) versions of solitaire available for the Mac, and they're ALL better than MS's version, though none of them are as ubiquitous. They usually cost $20 and come with 8 trillion variations, along with an editor to make your own types of solitaire. And don't forget Bejeweled and Alchemy to keep them addicted (and thus out of your way) for a good long time.
For someone who's already "broken" their Dell and thus has the keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer/scanner/fax/copier, and USB-enabled kitchen sink, the Mac Mini is perfect. It's also perfect for those of us who don't want to fix relatives' computers anymore.
True, but if you write your code as "strict" code, IE will perk up and look almost right. Which is good enough (it's about time "good enough" got used against Microsoft). And if there's any sort of security setup on your site, or if you just want to blow smoke, you can put a note on the page that says "OMG YOU'LL GET OWN3D BY VIRII IF YOU DON'T USE FIREFOX" (or something to that effect) and get the boss to go along with it under the ever-present, ever-proud flag of fighting evil hacker terrorists trying to steal peoples' important data and rape their daughters.
Wow... that was a long and poorly formed sentence. I'd like to see IE parse that.
No... Teflon is not the substance you're looking for.
Teflon is used for low-capacitance ratings, not necessarily for plenum cable.
Plenum cable is expensive, though. CAT5e is about $70/1000ft. Plenum CAT5e is $170/1000ft. And if you're wondering how to tell the difference just by looking at the jacket, well, you'll see some markings on it... plenum jacketting says "CMP" or "CL2P" or "CL3P", while non-plenum jackets say "CMR" or "CL2R" or "CL3R". And if you see one that says "FMP" or the like, that's fire-alarm-rated cable (and it's probably red).
Spray cooling is used in every refrigerant-based A/C unit ever. Compress a gas into a liquid, remove as much heat as you can, then let it evaporate and enjoy the cool breeze as it removes all the heat from the surrounding air.
Works for water too, but not as well. It's a process called "direct expansion" (or DX, in the HVAC industry), and it has many uses. Refrigerant for cooling air, refrigerant for chilled water, and if you use chilled water, you usually heat water in a separate loop, so you need a cooling tower. A cooling tower is a big basin with a spray nozzle at the top and a drain out the bottom. Most of them have fans on them these days.
Basically, any evaporation process is going to cool the surrounding materials. And in this case, you do sweat it.
The SLK3700AMB addresses all 3 of these points. It comes with 120mm fans, it includes rubber grommets, and it has soft rubber feet on the bottom (made of the same type of rubber as the grommets). It's still quite possible to make it a noisy PC, and you can introduce other components that cause heavy vibration. Here are some of the other things to look out for:
- CD-ROM drives need grommets, but rarely have a place they will fit into. Additionally, many of them are on slide-rail systems that have NO padding around them. This is a good place to use that (thin) felt. Do not put it above or below the drive, however, as felt tends to insulate, allowing heat to build up.
- Plastic trim will vibrate and make rattling noises. If minor manufacturing defects are causing it to make noise, either add some of that magical felt (HA!) or glue it on (if you know you won't ever have to remove it).
- The CPU fan freqently causes more noise and vibration than all the other parts of the case combined. A big, heavy copper heatsink may sound like a good idea, but the more it weighs, the more vibration it's going to cause once there's a fan swinging around on top of it (or actually, on the side of it).
- If you decide a spare room is the answer, make sure it's properly ventilated. A burning PC igniting the drapes turns into a rather noisy item in a hurry. The fire engine sirens alone are enough to wake the dead.
Better yet, put a thermistor inline with the fan. As the temperature goes up, resistance goes down and fan speed will go up. Obviously, the reverse is also true.
Finding the right temperature-to-resistance curve would be necessary, but once you find it, you could make a metric(or imperial, either one) fuckton of money selling it to enthusiasts for $20 (which is about $19.50 gross profit once you factor in the price of the thermistor, the molex connectors, and the wire... if you were making an inline device for any fan).
Working in HVAC, we use various types for various systems. The most common one I work with uses a Precon (old, defunct brand) "curve 2", and has a reference point of 10K-ohm at 77degF. It goes down to about 2K-ohm at 120degF and up to 25K-ohm at 30degF.
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/.'s being a bitch. It keeps saying "Please use fewer 'junk' characters." I think I'm going to have to bitchslap it.)
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I WAS AT MY GFS HOUSE B4 AND SHE TOTALLY WAS LIKE MIKE U BITCH GET ME COOKIES AND I WAS LIKE BITCH WHAT YOUR GONNA GET A FATTASS HA UR TEH SUXORZ HAH HA w00t w00t,'"?[insert 34 exclamation points here - FU LAMENESS FILTER]
Did I pass? (By the way,
If it has a graphics card in it that can drive those displays, it's going to be loud. I'd be willing to bet his PC ended up with the same problem.
If you're buying a PC, you're likely already selling your soul to Bill Gates. If not him, then the Intel CEO.
ALL HAIL STEVE JOBS!
F and J? No way. D and K. All my keyboards have bumps on D and K at home. They would at work too, if I had my way.
What a nice anecdote.
I have a DI-604 at home. It works perfectly.
I have a DI-604 at work. It works perfectly.
Consider your anecdote negated, and chalk one up for D-Link.
My guess? You said "heh".
Perhaps you missed the part about how easy counterfeiting makes it the currency of choice for everyone. Counterfeiters and other shady elements of society have the same effect on the economy as a whole that the porn industry has on the media distrobution and technology industries. They're the ones who decide who lives and who dies. If you allow them to counterfeit without too much hassle while only making a few examples, your money becomes popular and strong against other types of money. Then you control the world economy even when you aren't really producing much of anything.
One word: "Sarge"
It's the only Linux install I've ever done, and it was easy as pie. Debian-install is the best thing ever invented for Linux. If other distros have something that easy, they really should consider telling people about it. I burned an iso (granted, this requires a working system, but only once), then I booted from that CD. I hit exactly one glitch, and that was when it was trying to get a DHCP-assigned address without the cable plugged in (PEBKAC).
There was another iso with a full install, and I'm not sure how easy that one was. Judging from my net install experience, I'd say it's probably every bit as easy as Windows, if not easier.
Windows tends to dumb things down too much. I'd rather see messages that say "Installing xyz_hardware drivers (xyz_filename) - n%" than "Setting up system", and most people with working brain cells (even morons with very few working brain cells) would probably agree with me. They want to pretend they know what's going on, and Windows doesn't allow that during installation, or even general use. Giving the user a "choice" during installation makes them feel smart and powerful (even though we all know they're neither of those things), and they can't screw anything up by changing the options I saw presented during the Debian installation (YMMV).
forbidding the citizens of a municipality from forming their own fire department...and making only one company the legal provider of "fire protection services"
You're on to something there. I mean, civil disobedience has worked, but now corporations are greasing the politicians to ensure that it doesn't. So how about "enforced civil obedience"? Here's the plan:
1) Start fire protection company
2) ??? (oh, no...)
3) Profit! (sorry. I had to.)
4) Lobby for laws against government run fire protection districts, and be sure to cite these telecom laws as a basis for why you would ask for such a thing
5)a) Law passes.
6)a) PROFIT! (again!)
5)b) Law fails.
6)b) Make a massive stink about telecom companies getting preferencial treatment and turn the public against them.
Enforce civil obedience upon the telecoms. Make them your bitch.
You missed the point. Let me help you out a bit.
Main Entry: sarcasm
Pronunciation: 'sär-"ka-z&m
Function: noun
Etymology: French or Late Latin; French sarcasme, from Late Latin sarcasmos, from Greek sarkasmos, from sarkazein to tear flesh, bite the lips in rage, sneer, from sark-, sarx flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwar&s- to cut
1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2 a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
synonym see WIT
All the crimes he mentioned were done by American citizens. Bombing federal buildings? McVeigh. Mailing bombs to universities? Kaczynski. Sniping people in Washington DC? Malvo. At least two of them thought they were fighting for their country, which they (somewhat correctly) saw as having been overrun by greedy corporate/big government idiots. I'm pretty sure Malvo was just getting a kick out of killing people.
In light of these examples, the "War on Terror" looks like a silly, yet all-too-serious, grab for power. In other words, I think you're preaching to the choir.
Indisputably, PCs are far more general purpose machines than Macs.
I call bullshit.
There is nothing inherently un-general purpose about a Mac. MacOS X may be a bit closed down compared to the vast wasteland of accessible system guts in a default Windows install, but if you take a PC and a Mac, put them side-by-side, and wipe them and install Linux, then they're just about 100% equal in every technical respect. The only differences are small and easily hacked around, like:
- PC uses a (much advanced) clone of the old IBM BIOS, Mac uses Open Firmware - this means precisely dick to anyone that doesn't write low-level code.
- PC (assuming Intel, of course) is little-endian, Mac (and especially the newer non-endian-agnostic PPC's) are big-endian - again, unless you're writing code that talks directly to hardware (like a driver), you don't need to know this.
In fact, in recent years, Macs have begun to use more and more common parts (ATA drives starting with Performas, PCI starting with the pro-line PowerMacs in the PPC604 era, etc.) which makes them every bit as hackable, pokeable, and proddable as an Intel-based PC. The *only* difference is that you can't just go buy the motherboard and processor from a parts dealer. That doesn't make it any less of a general purpose turing machine.
As for your disclaimer, I don't find your post insulting to Macs, I just think you should be a bit better informed about what they really are.
Target uses Automated Logic HVAC controls. ALC has had a long-standing relationship with Liebert, and *they're* the "specialized" HVAC guys that do server rooms. I know all this crap because I work for an ALC dealer. I do this stuff for a living.
As for the GP's question about outside air: yes. Outside air is very commonly used for "free" cooling. You have to calculate the enthalpy, which is the potential amount of cooling based on the temperature and humidity of the air inside vs. outside. Basically, if you have low outside air humidity, your enthalpy can go sky high. This is especially true if your indoor humidity is high. It's basically just a calculation of how much surface evaporation is going to take place if you mix these two air sources.
Of course, a proper HVAC unit is going to have decent (and hopefully well-maintained) filters. Which means that those server room units are already using as much outside air "free" cooling as they can.
It would be OSeX
Other people replying to you are bashing the wi-fi in the "Revolution". I'm here to tell them all just how moronic they are.
Let me make this a bit clearer than I did before.
The "Revolution" is going to be a handheld system. People with devkits (that they picked up a GDC) already know this. And it's not just YANH (Nintendo handheld). It's a handheld Gamecube.
Built-in wi-fi (especially after criticism of the DS's half-assed version) is a good thing.
On a related note, a port of Bust-A-Move was announced today for the next-gen Nintendo.
Tell the post office to refuse deliveries for you from those senders. They back-charge the sender for returning the unwelcome mail, IIRC. The USPS has to stay profitable, so they'll be more than happy to comply with this sort of request. More money for the USPS, more peace for you and your mailbox, less money for the greedy info-trading bastards. Win, win, win!
The GBA SP is the real PSP competition.
No it's not. The PSP will die a quick death very soon. But not at the hands of the GBA SP or the DS. The reason the PS2 is so popular is because the PSX took advantage of a weak competitor (the N64) and built a HUGE library of games that could later be played on the PS2 as well.
But Nintendo uses disks now, and they're about the size of the PSP disks. They already have a Gamecube library that dwarfs the "OMG 20 LAUNCH TITLES" that the PSP has, and will continue to do so for some time. What if the "Revolution" is a portable? They keep mentioning it'll have wireless networking like the DS, which only really makes sense for a portable device. I would bet good money on it having at least a GCN backward compatibility mode if it's not just out-and-out a portable GCN. Sure, the Xbox and PS2 can compete with a GCN on all the technical specs, but the PSP can't.
Tell Joe User his PC will look cool and that he doesn't need to fork over for anti-virus and spyware tools and he'll sign right up.
It hasn't worked for MacOS X yet. Joe User is becoming an increasingly disinterested party, and isn't going to put up with this crap for much longer.
Toast only runs on Mac. You'll have to use Easy Media Creator if you're using a PC.
Actually, from what I can tell, most people want something that doesn't "break when you click it" like Windows XP does. That would be MacOS X. They all have a sob story about how they double-clicked the megabyte and now their hard drive won't download. It's usually because Windows is a fucked up piece of shit that nobody can seem to figure out how to run, much less configure so a newbie can run it without trouble.
People want to "run the internet", send and receive email, and sometimes type a report for school. Some of them are advanced enough to know they want to play music or store/email/print pictures. Let's see... that's Safari, Mail, Pages, and for those "advanced" newbies, iTunes and iPhoto.
All of that is included on a system that isn't as susceptible to "viruses" (or malware of other sorts) and "just works" without needing to worry about pressing [random key on keyboard that they're sure was the one] and the DVD-Floppy-Modem quit working.
There are also about 2759023845908750923854 (as of last week) versions of solitaire available for the Mac, and they're ALL better than MS's version, though none of them are as ubiquitous. They usually cost $20 and come with 8 trillion variations, along with an editor to make your own types of solitaire. And don't forget Bejeweled and Alchemy to keep them addicted (and thus out of your way) for a good long time.
For someone who's already "broken" their Dell and thus has the keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer/scanner/fax/copier, and USB-enabled kitchen sink, the Mac Mini is perfect. It's also perfect for those of us who don't want to fix relatives' computers anymore.
True, but if you write your code as "strict" code, IE will perk up and look almost right. Which is good enough (it's about time "good enough" got used against Microsoft). And if there's any sort of security setup on your site, or if you just want to blow smoke, you can put a note on the page that says "OMG YOU'LL GET OWN3D BY VIRII IF YOU DON'T USE FIREFOX" (or something to that effect) and get the boss to go along with it under the ever-present, ever-proud flag of fighting evil hacker terrorists trying to steal peoples' important data and rape their daughters.
Wow... that was a long and poorly formed sentence. I'd like to see IE parse that.
No... Teflon is not the substance you're looking for.
Teflon is used for low-capacitance ratings, not necessarily for plenum cable.
Plenum cable is expensive, though. CAT5e is about $70/1000ft. Plenum CAT5e is $170/1000ft. And if you're wondering how to tell the difference just by looking at the jacket, well, you'll see some markings on it... plenum jacketting says "CMP" or "CL2P" or "CL3P", while non-plenum jackets say "CMR" or "CL2R" or "CL3R". And if you see one that says "FMP" or the like, that's fire-alarm-rated cable (and it's probably red).
Spray cooling is used in every refrigerant-based A/C unit ever. Compress a gas into a liquid, remove as much heat as you can, then let it evaporate and enjoy the cool breeze as it removes all the heat from the surrounding air.
Works for water too, but not as well. It's a process called "direct expansion" (or DX, in the HVAC industry), and it has many uses. Refrigerant for cooling air, refrigerant for chilled water, and if you use chilled water, you usually heat water in a separate loop, so you need a cooling tower. A cooling tower is a big basin with a spray nozzle at the top and a drain out the bottom. Most of them have fans on them these days.
Basically, any evaporation process is going to cool the surrounding materials. And in this case, you do sweat it.
Or buy an Antec case.
The SLK3700AMB addresses all 3 of these points. It comes with 120mm fans, it includes rubber grommets, and it has soft rubber feet on the bottom (made of the same type of rubber as the grommets). It's still quite possible to make it a noisy PC, and you can introduce other components that cause heavy vibration. Here are some of the other things to look out for:
- CD-ROM drives need grommets, but rarely have a place they will fit into. Additionally, many of them are on slide-rail systems that have NO padding around them. This is a good place to use that (thin) felt. Do not put it above or below the drive, however, as felt tends to insulate, allowing heat to build up.
- Plastic trim will vibrate and make rattling noises. If minor manufacturing defects are causing it to make noise, either add some of that magical felt (HA!) or glue it on (if you know you won't ever have to remove it).
- The CPU fan freqently causes more noise and vibration than all the other parts of the case combined. A big, heavy copper heatsink may sound like a good idea, but the more it weighs, the more vibration it's going to cause once there's a fan swinging around on top of it (or actually, on the side of it).
- If you decide a spare room is the answer, make sure it's properly ventilated. A burning PC igniting the drapes turns into a rather noisy item in a hurry. The fire engine sirens alone are enough to wake the dead.
Better yet, put a thermistor inline with the fan. As the temperature goes up, resistance goes down and fan speed will go up. Obviously, the reverse is also true.
Finding the right temperature-to-resistance curve would be necessary, but once you find it, you could make a metric(or imperial, either one) fuckton of money selling it to enthusiasts for $20 (which is about $19.50 gross profit once you factor in the price of the thermistor, the molex connectors, and the wire... if you were making an inline device for any fan).
Working in HVAC, we use various types for various systems. The most common one I work with uses a Precon (old, defunct brand) "curve 2", and has a reference point of 10K-ohm at 77degF. It goes down to about 2K-ohm at 120degF and up to 25K-ohm at 30degF.