Considering that "The company (the poster) works for builds extremely sensitive electric and magnetic field sensors" it just may be possible that they are trying to measure gravity waves.
Tools needed: 1 Dremel Moto-Tool (or equivalent) and an appropriate burr bit; 1 vacuum cleaner with smallish wand; 1 clear "safety cap" from a bottled water bottle; clear adhesive tape as needed.
Here's the idea: using the moto-tool, drill a hole in the TOP of the safety cap just big enough for the bit to pass thru. Also drill a hole in the side of the cap you can attach the vacuum cleaner wand to with the adhesive tape.
Now here's how to use it: turn the vacuum cleaner on and place your fashioned hood over the screw. The suction may keep it in place, or you may need a helper or duct tape. Now stick your moto-tool in the top of the hood and grind away. Hopefully, the vacuum cleaner will suck away the filings well enough to prevent damage to the motherboard.
Here's another thought: if you can access the edge of the motherboard, you might be able to get a hacksaw blade between the mobo and the case and cut the offending standoff off.
OK, so an air purifier would be a nice thing to have. It's also an expensive thing to have.
You should instead be asking, "Why is my air so dusty?" There's a number of steps you can take to keep the air clean to begin with; try them and you just may find you don't need an air purifier after all.
1) Remove the carpeting. Hard surface flooring doesn't create as much dust and it's easier to keep clean.
2) Throw away your broom. These stir up as much dust as they collect. Use a vacuum cleaner with fine filtration; make sure its exhaust directs away from dusty surfaces (try up).
3) Dust surfaces daily with a tack cloth or damp rag. You don't want to stir up the dust; you want to take it away.
4) Put your printers in another room. Paper dust can be overwhelming.
5) Enforce a dress code that prefers the use of low-lint fabrics.
6) Make your users take showers on a regular basis. A lot of the dust in the air is dead skin. Have your users take a shower immediately before entering the computer lab; they should remain completely nude while in the lab to eliminate dust from degrading textiles. For obvious reasons, you may want to prohibit the use of digital cameras in the lab.
7) Change HVAC filters more frequently; use finer filters (the spun fiberglass ones are junk).
8) Get rid of the chalkboard.
9) If you live near a busy street or highway, much of your "dust" may be diesel soot. Take steps to seal up the room, allowing only cleaned air to enter.
10) No smoking in the compuker lab.
11) Have you taken a close look at your users' keyboards? You could probably eat for a week on the spooge that's hiding under the keys. Clean your keyboards regularly.
What I see as successful are the projects that do something that already being done by a successful commercial application, only doing it cheaper and very well.
The ones that do the same thing, only poorly, will fail.
The ones that end up costing more to implement than the commercial application, even if they do it better, will fail.
The projects that do something new, something people don't know they need, are doomed to failure from the start because your typical open source developer doesn't have the resources to market the product. There was a time when people didn't need sliced bread. Bakers didn't need bread slicers. But the bread-slicer-makers had the resources to market their product and convince the bakers and public it was needed. So now we have sliced bread, and nothing greater since.
Most of your cases have this annoying little problem of all sorts of holes where crud can get in. Also, most cases seem to have fans that blow outward. This, of course, means it's drawing air -- and crud -- in thru all those little holes.
What you want to do is get case fans that suck air into the case (have enough to counteract the outward-blowing PS fan) to create a positive pressure inside the case. Filter the air going to the case intake fan.
You could probably use some dryer hose and/or duct tape to draw air from a cleaner source, run it thru a filter, on to the intake of your case. Since the computer's in the basement, you could probably tap off the A/C duct. Remember to disconnect it when heating season returns!
Make sure you don't do as one of my customers did: her computer was in a cupboard barely larger than her computer. There was only one fan, the power supply fan, which exhausted out the back. The air intakes were in the back. Her computer was recycling its air. Hot air. Very hot air.:-)
I'll believe it when I see it on the peg at Wal*Mart.
Wonder which we'll see on the shelves first: this thing or Serial ATA? Which, by the way, has been on backorder for the last 6 months or so.
If anything deserves an award in the "Promises, promises" category (excepting Duke Nukem Whenever; that's earned several), it's Serial ATA.
Has anyone out there actually got their hands on a Serial ATA drive, PURCHASED from a retail source? I mean, severalonlineshops LIST them, but nobody seems to actually HAVE them.
I take that back. In researching for this post, I actually DID find a place that lists them in stock. Let's hope they are telling the truth! Also, let's hope their order system can survive a slashdotting, since they seem to be the only place in the world that has them. I'm sure they'll be backordered by tomorrow.
"...Windows wasen't desinged for the Internet and it's TCP/IP protocoll.."
Only those versions of Windows built on top of MS-DOS (3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, Me). Networking support of ANY kind (NetBEUI, TCP/IP, Netware, Appletalk, etc.) is a patch on a patch on a patch on a patch. Remember, DOS was at it's core a stand-alone, single-user, single-tasking, single-threaded operating system. It could do one thing and do it well. It's when you try to throw a bunch of patches at it to make it do something it wasn't designed to do that it craps out on you.
Imagine an Amtrak train mounted on The Wheel. Note the singular "wheel." It might get you where you want to go, but it will take a long time and crash many times on the way there. That's what Windows-on-DOS is.
As for those built on top of DEC Pathworks (NT 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP), they indeed have networking support designed in from the beginning. The kernel itself understands networking, regardless of the protocol, as long as the "virtual driver" for that protocol is installed and stable. Hearkening back to the Amtrak train, the different protocols are like different gauges of track: the train's stable, just happens to be a different protocol.
As I recall, there used to be software available for the HP-48SX/GX calculators that allowed it to function as an IR remote control for your *whatever*.
"I bet some of the cameras being used by the photographers don't have "red eye" reduction. Should they be fired too?"
What you are bringing up is the difference between correction and alteration. What this photographer did was clearly alteration: he changed the image to represent something that did not exist.
To remove red-eye, improve color balance, enhance contrast, or make similar modifications (either by digital or manual means) is not alteration. It is correction: making the final image more true to what the naked eye would see. The human eye and brain are very tolerant of variations in contrast, brightness, saturation, and color balance.
Physical limitations of the camera and film (or electronic elements) will result in images that are not true representations. Consider a subject that is dark colored. In the background is a pale blue sky with white clouds. You set the exposure on your camera to properly expose the subject. Normal processing will return a picture where the sky is washed out -- you can't tell the clouds from the sky. However, you can correct the brightness, contrast, and color balance of the sky (and not the subject) so the detail is retained. This is not alteration, because you have not changed the image objects from what you saw in the viewfinder. It is correction.
The newspaper most likely would not find a problem with correction; in fact, the paper probably would WANT the photographer to do this. Now, if the photographer had brought the picture into Photoshop and artificially added clouds against a deeper blue sky, that WOULD be alteration and as such would be unacceptable to the newspaper's "no alteration" policy.
Security and Freedom are mutually exclusive. When the Guvmint proclaims "we need to do this in the name of security," you can bet your freedoms will be trampled in the process.
I'm sorry, the mental picture just isn't forming. Reproduction of household appliances in this manner isn't something I'm familiar with; what do the offspring look like?
Taper has a limitation in that the archive can not be greater than 4GB. If larger, it will appear to write OK, but it'll segfault when you go to try and read the archive.
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary doesn't know what untrasonic is, either.
Considering that "The company (the poster) works for builds extremely sensitive electric and magnetic field sensors" it just may be possible that they are trying to measure gravity waves.
Tools needed: 1 Dremel Moto-Tool (or equivalent) and an appropriate burr bit; 1 vacuum cleaner with smallish wand; 1 clear "safety cap" from a bottled water bottle; clear adhesive tape as needed.
Here's the idea: using the moto-tool, drill a hole in the TOP of the safety cap just big enough for the bit to pass thru. Also drill a hole in the side of the cap you can attach the vacuum cleaner wand to with the adhesive tape.
Now here's how to use it: turn the vacuum cleaner on and place your fashioned hood over the screw. The suction may keep it in place, or you may need a helper or duct tape. Now stick your moto-tool in the top of the hood and grind away. Hopefully, the vacuum cleaner will suck away the filings well enough to prevent damage to the motherboard.
Here's another thought: if you can access the edge of the motherboard, you might be able to get a hacksaw blade between the mobo and the case and cut the offending standoff off.
If .org was gone, then how could they post the story to.... slashdot.org?
"Like many of you I'm recently laid..." Like many of me? Are you kidding? I can't even get a date! "...off." Oh.
Lesson number one: finish reading before commenting.
Thanking I still have a job.
OK, so an air purifier would be a nice thing to have. It's also an expensive thing to have.
You should instead be asking, "Why is my air so dusty?" There's a number of steps you can take to keep the air clean to begin with; try them and you just may find you don't need an air purifier after all.
1) Remove the carpeting. Hard surface flooring doesn't create as much dust and it's easier to keep clean.
2) Throw away your broom. These stir up as much dust as they collect. Use a vacuum cleaner with fine filtration; make sure its exhaust directs away from dusty surfaces (try up).
3) Dust surfaces daily with a tack cloth or damp rag. You don't want to stir up the dust; you want to take it away.
4) Put your printers in another room. Paper dust can be overwhelming.
5) Enforce a dress code that prefers the use of low-lint fabrics.
6) Make your users take showers on a regular basis. A lot of the dust in the air is dead skin. Have your users take a shower immediately before entering the computer lab; they should remain completely nude while in the lab to eliminate dust from degrading textiles. For obvious reasons, you may want to prohibit the use of digital cameras in the lab.
7) Change HVAC filters more frequently; use finer filters (the spun fiberglass ones are junk).
8) Get rid of the chalkboard.
9) If you live near a busy street or highway, much of your "dust" may be diesel soot. Take steps to seal up the room, allowing only cleaned air to enter.
10) No smoking in the compuker lab.
11) Have you taken a close look at your users' keyboards? You could probably eat for a week on the spooge that's hiding under the keys. Clean your keyboards regularly.
That was a long review. I felt as if I had read the book. Or was that the book?
What I see as successful are the projects that do something that already being done by a successful commercial application, only doing it cheaper and very well.
The ones that do the same thing, only poorly, will fail.
The ones that end up costing more to implement than the commercial application, even if they do it better, will fail.
The projects that do something new, something people don't know they need, are doomed to failure from the start because your typical open source developer doesn't have the resources to market the product. There was a time when people didn't need sliced bread. Bakers didn't need bread slicers. But the bread-slicer-makers had the resources to market their product and convince the bakers and public it was needed. So now we have sliced bread, and nothing greater since.
Most of your cases have this annoying little problem of all sorts of holes where crud can get in. Also, most cases seem to have fans that blow outward. This, of course, means it's drawing air -- and crud -- in thru all those little holes.
:-)
What you want to do is get case fans that suck air into the case (have enough to counteract the outward-blowing PS fan) to create a positive pressure inside the case. Filter the air going to the case intake fan.
You could probably use some dryer hose and/or duct tape to draw air from a cleaner source, run it thru a filter, on to the intake of your case. Since the computer's in the basement, you could probably tap off the A/C duct. Remember to disconnect it when heating season returns!
Make sure you don't do as one of my customers did: her computer was in a cupboard barely larger than her computer. There was only one fan, the power supply fan, which exhausted out the back. The air intakes were in the back. Her computer was recycling its air. Hot air. Very hot air.
I'll believe it when I see it on the peg at Wal*Mart.
Wonder which we'll see on the shelves first: this thing or Serial ATA? Which, by the way, has been on backorder for the last 6 months or so.
If anything deserves an award in the "Promises, promises" category (excepting Duke Nukem Whenever; that's earned several), it's Serial ATA.
Has anyone out there actually got their hands on a Serial ATA drive, PURCHASED from a retail source? I mean, several online shops LIST them, but nobody seems to actually HAVE them.
I take that back. In researching for this post, I actually DID find a place that lists them in stock. Let's hope they are telling the truth! Also, let's hope their order system can survive a slashdotting, since they seem to be the only place in the world that has them. I'm sure they'll be backordered by tomorrow.
IANATA, or I am not a tax accountant.
"...Windows wasen't desinged for the Internet and it's TCP/IP protocoll.."
Only those versions of Windows built on top of MS-DOS (3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, Me). Networking support of ANY kind (NetBEUI, TCP/IP, Netware, Appletalk, etc.) is a patch on a patch on a patch on a patch. Remember, DOS was at it's core a stand-alone, single-user, single-tasking, single-threaded operating system. It could do one thing and do it well. It's when you try to throw a bunch of patches at it to make it do something it wasn't designed to do that it craps out on you.
Imagine an Amtrak train mounted on The Wheel. Note the singular "wheel." It might get you where you want to go, but it will take a long time and crash many times on the way there. That's what Windows-on-DOS is.
As for those built on top of DEC Pathworks (NT 3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP), they indeed have networking support designed in from the beginning. The kernel itself understands networking, regardless of the protocol, as long as the "virtual driver" for that protocol is installed and stable. Hearkening back to the Amtrak train, the different protocols are like different gauges of track: the train's stable, just happens to be a different protocol.
Remember, gigabit-over-copper was onced debunked. Before that, it was 100Mb-over-copper that was debunked.
Never understimate the creativity of a sufficiently-funded engineer.
I can't let this go by without mentioning Mark Levinson.
As I recall, there used to be software available for the HP-48SX/GX calculators that allowed it to function as an IR remote control for your *whatever*.
My desire to get this post in early does not allow me time to do a Google search, but I'm sure someone will.
Where's the RFC for "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Low-Pressure Steam?"
"I bet some of the cameras being used by the photographers don't have "red eye" reduction. Should they be fired too?"
What you are bringing up is the difference between correction and alteration. What this photographer did was clearly alteration: he changed the image to represent something that did not exist.
To remove red-eye, improve color balance, enhance contrast, or make similar modifications (either by digital or manual means) is not alteration. It is correction: making the final image more true to what the naked eye would see. The human eye and brain are very tolerant of variations in contrast, brightness, saturation, and color balance.
Physical limitations of the camera and film (or electronic elements) will result in images that are not true representations. Consider a subject that is dark colored. In the background is a pale blue sky with white clouds. You set the exposure on your camera to properly expose the subject. Normal processing will return a picture where the sky is washed out -- you can't tell the clouds from the sky. However, you can correct the brightness, contrast, and color balance of the sky (and not the subject) so the detail is retained. This is not alteration, because you have not changed the image objects from what you saw in the viewfinder. It is correction.
The newspaper most likely would not find a problem with correction; in fact, the paper probably would WANT the photographer to do this. Now, if the photographer had brought the picture into Photoshop and artificially added clouds against a deeper blue sky, that WOULD be alteration and as such would be unacceptable to the newspaper's "no alteration" policy.
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At least something in the Arab world is free.
So if the neighbor girl leaves her pants down, does that mean you can... er... um... "attach" to her "network" and upload some "packets?"
You didn't see me type that.
Your sig: "My job involves looking at naked chicks all day. Why doesn't yours?"
Do you really think I want to work on an egg farm? Chickenshit stinks, dude. Bad.
Security and Freedom are mutually exclusive. When the Guvmint proclaims "we need to do this in the name of security," you can bet your freedoms will be trampled in the process.
"4. ...fucking hot water heaters and ac units..."
I'm sorry, the mental picture just isn't forming. Reproduction of household appliances in this manner isn't something I'm familiar with; what do the offspring look like?
"The bike is ac."
Well, um, pardon my ignorance, but... couldn't you just use a transformer, then, and, like, y'know--step it up from, oh, say 12VAC to 120VAC?
Then you could, maybe, just plug in the laptop's regular ordinary PS into the xfmr. That would be suhweet.
Am I missing something here? Like: needs of the powerbook exceeding the capabilities of the bike's altenator?
I don't think this one will hold water.
Taper has a limitation in that the archive can not be greater than 4GB. If larger, it will appear to write OK, but it'll segfault when you go to try and read the archive.