Weren't we in the west solving the problem with women's pantyhose (toxic shock syndrome) about that same time? (leading to those 'breathable' cotton panels at the important place)
It's just yet another example of how Apple continues to flaunt their closed-source hardware designs.
Whatever happened to the 'fans are bad' philosophy at Apple? Oh, right. The fanless design failed almost immediately. I remember those $350 addon fans that Apple users had to install in the 'chimney' hand-hold hole of their Mac Plus to keep it from heat-crashes. My SE/30s definitely have a fan inside.
Oh, come on. There are free Usenet servers out there. Are you talking about an 'ISP' that doesn't support TCP/IP?
I have an account at a Usenet server in Germany that gives me a login account and posting rights through their server for free. There are others out there as well.
The big reason a lot of ISPs no longer 'support Usenet' is that the binary groups overwhelmed their bandwidth. There are still many active and worthwhile text-only groups.
Not necessarily. If it has two windings on it, it's a transformer, not an inductor.
And you mean torroidal inductor, to be more specific. Most likely the torroid is made of ferrite. Also the term 'coil' is usually reserved for air-core inductors, of the kind used in RF gear. The kind in the microHenery range with often quite fine wire.
You would be amazed at the tremendous damage highly educated people (particularly EEs on the rampage in the electronic lab at 5:30 on a Friday night) can inflict on electronic equipment and delicate prototypes.
Best advice is to disallow Ph.D's from any access to soldering equipment unless they are one of the few with a tech background.
Heat sinks appeared and became 'default' with the 486DX-2 66 MHz chips. A regular 486DX 50 chip can get mighty hot as well. I ran my 486DX 33 system for ages with no heat sink. Those machines ran considerably quieter than machines now, except for the big 5-1/4" full-height 330 Meg ESDI drive I had in the machine.
That's a cpu that's in the tiny plastic case which has no way provided to heat sink it even if you wanted. I've never seen one of them get so hot as to burn.
I put a heat sink on the Z80 processor in my CP/M machine, hoping that would solve some heat instability problems. Those are 40 pin wide DIP parts.
I still have 'dream cases' that I acquired in the baby-AT era. They're such good stuff (and I paid so much extra for them) that I haven't the heart to get rid of them. I also have the nearly ideal ATX cases. Those extra-wide Inwin mid-tower cases. Unless you're a color fetishist who deplores beige, there really isn't, and hasn't ever been, a better case.
But now I'm running cruddy Dell Optiplexes. I have so damned many of them, since I got 80 of them, about 1/5 Pentium III systems, on two skids at auction for $40. I have so damned many of them that I don't think I'll ever be able to justfy buying any more hardware.
Components aren't necessarily 'fried' by static. More often, mild 'latent static damage' occurs. A few pins on random chips within the circuit suffer partial damage. They become 'leaky' and inputs draw more current. The system slowly deteriorates from random mysterious problems.
Hot dogs who obsolete everything at six month intervals might not notice this sort of damage. The rest of us would.
Has Apple fixed the problem in the G5 yet where the fans are controlled by some intricate dab of MacOSedness, and if you install and run a non MacOS on your G5 all 27 (or are there 47?) fans spin up at their default full-speed?
I use Windows 98 on that machine. If I get around to figuring out if the ultra-cheap Wireless card (Microsoft brand, sigh) will work with a freenix I may switch the machine. It works, for text-oriented blogs and news sites, with IE or Mozilla, but best with Opera.
It's impossible to listen to MP3's on such a machine. It's the bare minimum for 'doze 98 as it is.
I've got Windows 98 on a 486DX-100 machine, with 32 megs of RAM. It connects to my wireless hub with a PC card wireless NIC and works prefectly adequate for non-multimedia Web browsing from the porch. It also runs Office 2000 quite adequately. I wouldn't get up in front of 1000 people to run a Powerpoint Presentation on it, of course...
(but almost anything reasonable you want to do with Powerpoint in a presentation you can do as well with regular HTML in a projected browser window)
Depends. My 'old' PC laptop is an HP Omnibook 300. The machine with Windows 3, Word, and Excel in a ROM card. I replaced the PCMCIA hard drive awhile back with an 80 meg SanDisk Flash card.
It runs for hours and hours on four AA penlight batteries.
I've had excellent luck with small 2.5" hard drives on eBay. I maintain a small collection of older 486 laptops and a 2 gig drive is perfect for such a machine.
I use a Toshiba 486-100 machine with a wireless card in it to browse the web away from the machine room, i.e. on the back porch. It's a good little system.
I don't choose to blow it on shiney new plastic crap.
I spent $300 a few weeks ago on two vintage Maytag MultiMotors (the old gasoline engines that ran Maytag washing machines). Guess what? My $150 Maytag engines are gonna go UP in value from this point on. Your plastic stuff drops in value by half when you break the seal on the package.
My friend has an import Reggae cassette he got in the middle east years ago. It is clearly labeled with the word 'Sozy' very similar in appearance to the Sony logo. I always, automatically, pronounce Sony 'Sozee' because of that tape.
People said the same thing about the Walkman tape player when it first came out.
When there is an array of seventeen choices in the store, from six different brands, 'the best of their kind' will be ambiguous.
There's nowhere for iPod market share to go but down at this point. It's only a matter of who will move in and capture a slice of that market. This isn't 1970 and the iMac isn't a telephone from Western Electric. Music isn't engineered to only run on Apple hardware.
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Weren't we in the west solving the problem with women's pantyhose (toxic shock syndrome) about that same time? (leading to those 'breathable' cotton panels at the important place)
Being able to automount a disk image can be a very useful exploit, though. Mount it over /usr or /usr/local and you've done something very powerful.
hopefully the rest of his fans can keep it civil (heh) on the fucktard's blog
When has anything on a forum associated with Stern ever been civil?
It's just yet another example of how Apple continues to flaunt their closed-source hardware designs.
Whatever happened to the 'fans are bad' philosophy at Apple? Oh, right. The fanless design failed almost immediately. I remember those $350 addon fans that Apple users had to install in the 'chimney' hand-hold hole of their Mac Plus to keep it from heat-crashes. My SE/30s definitely have a fan inside.
The 486DX 50 was the 'top end' of it's day, and screaming fast, but as you said, it had some stability issues.
No fanatical CPU IC collector has 'the full set' without a 486DX 50 part, along with (of course) a ceramic 487SX chip, which is the REAL rarity.
Oh, come on. There are free Usenet servers out there. Are you talking about an 'ISP' that doesn't support TCP/IP?
I have an account at a Usenet server in Germany that gives me a login account and posting rights through their server for free. There are others out there as well.
The big reason a lot of ISPs no longer 'support Usenet' is that the binary groups overwhelmed their bandwidth. There are still many active and worthwhile text-only groups.
Right. They have done the Embrace part. Next comes Extend, then Extinguish.
What's wrong with just using plain old Pan or Agent to read news? (which are powerful tools, not really 'plain' or 'old' at all.)
And in the era when you would have been installing an 80387 chip at a computer store, that was a damned expensive chip to smoke.
Not necessarily. If it has two windings on it, it's a transformer, not an inductor.
And you mean torroidal inductor, to be more specific. Most likely the torroid is made of ferrite. Also the term 'coil' is usually reserved for air-core inductors, of the kind used in RF gear. The kind in the microHenery range with often quite fine wire.
You would be amazed at the tremendous damage highly educated people (particularly EEs on the rampage in the electronic lab at 5:30 on a Friday night) can inflict on electronic equipment and delicate prototypes.
Best advice is to disallow Ph.D's from any access to soldering equipment unless they are one of the few with a tech background.
Heat sinks appeared and became 'default' with the 486DX-2 66 MHz chips. A regular 486DX 50 chip can get mighty hot as well. I ran my 486DX 33 system for ages with no heat sink. Those machines ran considerably quieter than machines now, except for the big 5-1/4" full-height 330 Meg ESDI drive I had in the machine.
A 386sx chip that got hot?
That's a cpu that's in the tiny plastic case which has no way provided to heat sink it even if you wanted. I've never seen one of them get so hot as to burn.
I put a heat sink on the Z80 processor in my CP/M machine, hoping that would solve some heat instability problems. Those are 40 pin wide DIP parts.
I still have 'dream cases' that I acquired in the baby-AT era. They're such good stuff (and I paid so much extra for them) that I haven't the heart to get rid of them. I also have the nearly ideal ATX cases. Those extra-wide Inwin mid-tower cases. Unless you're a color fetishist who deplores beige, there really isn't, and hasn't ever been, a better case.
But now I'm running cruddy Dell Optiplexes. I have so damned many of them, since I got 80 of them, about 1/5 Pentium III systems, on two skids at auction for $40. I have so damned many of them that I don't think I'll ever be able to justfy buying any more hardware.
Components aren't necessarily 'fried' by static. More often, mild 'latent static damage' occurs. A few pins on random chips within the circuit suffer partial damage. They become 'leaky' and inputs draw more current. The system slowly deteriorates from random mysterious problems.
Hot dogs who obsolete everything at six month intervals might not notice this sort of damage. The rest of us would.
Has Apple fixed the problem in the G5 yet where the fans are controlled by some intricate dab of MacOSedness, and if you install and run a non MacOS on your G5 all 27 (or are there 47?) fans spin up at their default full-speed?
I use Windows 98 on that machine. If I get around to figuring out if the ultra-cheap Wireless card (Microsoft brand, sigh) will work with a freenix I may switch the machine. It works, for text-oriented blogs and news sites, with IE or Mozilla, but best with Opera.
It's impossible to listen to MP3's on such a machine. It's the bare minimum for 'doze 98 as it is.
I filled my car up at 1.609 a gallon last week. Semi-rural 'flyover country' living is great.
I've got Windows 98 on a 486DX-100 machine, with 32 megs of RAM. It connects to my wireless hub with a PC card wireless NIC and works prefectly adequate for non-multimedia Web browsing from the porch. It also runs Office 2000 quite adequately. I wouldn't get up in front of 1000 people to run a Powerpoint Presentation on it, of course...
(but almost anything reasonable you want to do with Powerpoint in a presentation you can do as well with regular HTML in a projected browser window)
Depends. My 'old' PC laptop is an HP Omnibook 300. The machine with Windows 3, Word, and Excel in a ROM card. I replaced the PCMCIA hard drive awhile back with an 80 meg SanDisk Flash card.
It runs for hours and hours on four AA penlight batteries.
I've had excellent luck with small 2.5" hard drives on eBay. I maintain a small collection of older 486 laptops and a 2 gig drive is perfect for such a machine.
I use a Toshiba 486-100 machine with a wireless card in it to browse the web away from the machine room, i.e. on the back porch. It's a good little system.
I have 300-400$ discretionary spending money.
I don't choose to blow it on shiney new plastic crap.
I spent $300 a few weeks ago on two vintage Maytag MultiMotors (the old gasoline engines that ran Maytag washing machines). Guess what? My $150 Maytag engines are gonna go UP in value from this point on. Your plastic stuff drops in value by half when you break the seal on the package.
This is not the year 1970. We are not all required to use a single telephone made by Western Electric and installed by a man from the phone company.
Similarly, there is not a single brand of portable music player.
All the other portable music player vendors have to do is market their product to 'the rest of us' which Apple is increasingly incapable of doing.
Not everybody in the world wants to drive a New Beetle with flowers in the dashboard vase.
a sermon to the choir? yes. but a fair analysis? nobody will ever know, since only the choir heard the sermon.
Who but a diehard enthusiast would go to a website called 'iPodlounge'??
My friend has an import Reggae cassette he got in the middle east years ago. It is clearly labeled with the word 'Sozy' very similar in appearance to the Sony logo. I always, automatically, pronounce Sony 'Sozee' because of that tape.
People said the same thing about the Walkman tape player when it first came out.
When there is an array of seventeen choices in the store, from six different brands, 'the best of their kind' will be ambiguous.
There's nowhere for iPod market share to go but down at this point. It's only a matter of who will move in and capture a slice of that market. This isn't 1970 and the iMac isn't a telephone from Western Electric. Music isn't engineered to only run on Apple hardware.