System memory is currently running at 266-333MHz in the high end so this is a perfectly viable replacement in mid-range systems. Also for embedded systems where start-up time is more visible to the consumer than raw speed, again this is a viable replacement.
Remember DDR2 PC800 is 200MHz quad pumped not 800MHz. -nB
One benefit for Ovonics based tech (PCM) is that it is inherently radiation and magnetic field resistant. While I realize that the former of those applications is nominal, the latter is not. It's only downfall is thermal stability, the temperatures experienced in reflow are sufficient to erase the memory. While this is beneficial from a security aspect (strip line heater on top of your memory bank, hit the panic button and poof the memory is blank) it may not be in other industrial applications.
Any indications about mRAM's magnetic/EMP stability? -nB
To your post and GP post: Naturally, if you use the phone for daily "stuff" then this holds true. However, should you have need of a one time connection, or a connection to only one or two numbers for several instances, then a pre-paid phone is still an acceptable solution, by no means ideal, but certainly acceptable. With a low end phone the cost is on-par or cheaper than pay phones.
Death of an era, really. As TFA says though, almost anyone and everyone has a wireless handset. I recent switched to a PP cell myself. That's the real key... Pay phones were anonymous, with Pre-paid you can pay cas for the phone ans sim, using bogus info where needed. You can still be invisible. -nB
Actually I think their Shareware-ish approach is a good idea. By not reducing the functionality and simply nagging the user they will get a wider adoption from pirate geeks who usually are responsible for recommending systems to average users. Maybe they've come to finally realize that widespread piracy is bad, but no piracy is worse. -nB
I know it's a joke, but... Does anyone know where to get a copy of CP/M that will run reliably on newer hardware and with clean drivers for larger HDDs? -nB
Actually other than gas mileage/passenger space as a criteria the ferrari is a superior car, just like MS Office is a superior office suite, however if you ask which are the better value (assigning a cost of $0.01 to OOo to avoid Div0 errors) then clearly the Civic and OOo are vastly better values. -nB
I love my phillips dvd player. plays Divx/Xdix vcds and if you put in a real DVD you press (on the remote only curiously) stop, stop, play and shazam, the movie starts. No trailiers, no BS, just the movie. Furthermore, no region issues yet. Only issue it has is it doesn't like PAL DVDs as it is an NTSC player with no option in my version of firmware (fixed in an update, but then they broke Xvid compatibility) -nB
Also, how much does the format matter anymore? I can play PAL or NTSC (never tried NTSC-J, but it should work, and SECAM doesn't work) on my TV and it doesn't give a shit, just plays (PAL forms a border on the top and bottom). I'm in the US and I assume this isn't the norm here, but in the UK with SCART, doesn't NTSC work, albeit with a touch of overscan? -nB
In fact I've found in two cases that the unmarked batteries I bought for consumer electronics were the same unit I could buy from the OEM, but the OEM didn't know the factory was working two shifts, instead of one. Similar to the "fake"/real DVDs out of china. But, yeah I'd not worry about the "oem spec" aftermarket that's up and up about being aftermarket.
Yes you are correct. Frankly, the coffee should be brewed hot, but have a "cool down" period before being served. My only gripe is that the whole lawsuit was a clusterfuck. Was it a valid suit? yes. Were the damages reasonable? no. Why? Because Mc D's acted like asshats and the jury saw it.
I personally hate that lawsuit, but was also unimpressed with McDonald's handling of the case pre-trial. -nB
OT here, but I had a co-worker put a print of this joke (complete with a picture of a befuddled looking bush) on the door to my shop. I generally coat my shop in UF, XKCD, and Dilbert comics, so this was particularly out of place. Add to that I am careful to avoid political affiliations at work (they can be rather career limiting) and I was miffed about this rogue joke showing up. I took it down (offending the co-worker), trying to explain that funny or not, it was not my humor, and thus was not on my door. Anyone else have an idea how to handle that? -nB
I always assumed that XP and 2K would have similar flaws, however I would hope that Vista is a little better. yeah, sorry that post was pointless... To add some substance:
Is there any reason that MS can't make portions of their code "open Source" but not-free? I.e.: You may look at this source code and even compile it for evaluation, you may not, however use this code for any production (including home pc) uses. Technically I think they could, but realistically I doubt it would ever happen (aside from large channel partners). -nB
As google's index grows the ability to build a complete MD5 or SHA1 rainbow table from several pieces grows. [tinfoil_hat] the NSA's rainbow tables are already hash complete. [/tinfoil_hat] -nB
All valid points, in my case the Core2Duo was ideal because I can run jobs on it and it can be my filer (3.6TB). If all you need is to serve a couple 500 gig drives on a 100meg link, then an old 166 with a PCI SATA card is the way to go overall. -nB
My current core2duo system (when at idle) draws less than an idle P1 166mmx. at full tilt, of course the newer system draws gobs more power, but idle is what counts as for that gobs more power I also get gobs^2 more performance. -nB
Yes it appears that Hitachi has fixed this. I too was the recipient of several bad "deathstar" drives. Noticed they all came form the Philippines site, whereas the drives from the Hungary site did not fail (early).
In my current lab we have piles of Hitachi, and I was skeptical at first, but they seem to be holding up quite well... Grain of salt, etc. -nB
Because it sucks. If your drives have somewhere less than 4% free space and you do an unclean shutdown it hoses the drives. Both my brother and I have lost drives under similar conditions.
Not entirely. That adds a "local salt" but... courtesy of possible hash collisions there is another password that may work equally well. by having the login function add the salt a straight rainbow lookup is defeated (unless you pre-computed a rainbow with the salt). As admin he could still enter the salted MD5, find a suitable password without salt, disable salting, get in enable salting, change the password. BUT a "normal" hacker without access to the DB tools and salting function of the app, but in possession of the hash table (and even the salt to some extent) would be defeated. if the attacker had the salt and hash table then with enough time the will break you login through rainbow tables, but not before. -nB
It's already on the plans for Intel to put an integrated MCH on the processor. I would assume first as a multi chip package, following up to full integration. -nB
I'm in that last boat. I generally am not a gamer, but I love Halo. I bought a 360 the other day just to play Halo3. $450 for a fscking video game... Geeze. On the bright side, I still don't have to consider more RAM, or the latest top end video card for my PC because I don't need it to support games there, so I suppose it's a wash. -nB
Partly because of the American revolution. It was because the yanks revolted that the crown realized that a looser grip on the colonies elsewhere was needed, lest they all revolt. -nB
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System memory is currently running at 266-333MHz in the high end so this is a perfectly viable replacement in mid-range systems. Also for embedded systems where start-up time is more visible to the consumer than raw speed, again this is a viable replacement.
Remember DDR2 PC800 is 200MHz quad pumped not 800MHz.
-nB
One benefit for Ovonics based tech (PCM) is that it is inherently radiation and magnetic field resistant. While I realize that the former of those applications is nominal, the latter is not. It's only downfall is thermal stability, the temperatures experienced in reflow are sufficient to erase the memory. While this is beneficial from a security aspect (strip line heater on top of your memory bank, hit the panic button and poof the memory is blank) it may not be in other industrial applications.
Any indications about mRAM's magnetic/EMP stability?
-nB
To your post and GP post:
Naturally, if you use the phone for daily "stuff" then this holds true. However, should you have need of a one time connection, or a connection to only one or two numbers for several instances, then a pre-paid phone is still an acceptable solution, by no means ideal, but certainly acceptable. With a low end phone the cost is on-par or cheaper than pay phones.
-nB
Death of an era, really.
As TFA says though, almost anyone and everyone has a wireless handset. I recent switched to a PP cell myself.
That's the real key... Pay phones were anonymous, with Pre-paid you can pay cas for the phone ans sim, using bogus info where needed. You can still be invisible.
-nB
Actually I think their Shareware-ish approach is a good idea. By not reducing the functionality and simply nagging the user they will get a wider adoption from pirate geeks who usually are responsible for recommending systems to average users. Maybe they've come to finally realize that widespread piracy is bad, but no piracy is worse.
-nB
I know it's a joke, but...
Does anyone know where to get a copy of CP/M that will run reliably on newer hardware and with clean drivers for larger HDDs?
-nB
Actually other than gas mileage/passenger space as a criteria the ferrari is a superior car, just like MS Office is a superior office suite, however if you ask which are the better value (assigning a cost of $0.01 to OOo to avoid Div0 errors) then clearly the Civic and OOo are vastly better values.
-nB
The voltage at node A and B will be the same assuming no current draw. The resistor limits current, not voltage.
-nB
I love my phillips dvd player.
plays Divx/Xdix vcds and if you put in a real DVD you press (on the remote only curiously) stop, stop, play and shazam, the movie starts. No trailiers, no BS, just the movie.
Furthermore, no region issues yet. Only issue it has is it doesn't like PAL DVDs as it is an NTSC player with no option in my version of firmware (fixed in an update, but then they broke Xvid compatibility)
-nB
Also, how much does the format matter anymore?
I can play PAL or NTSC (never tried NTSC-J, but it should work, and SECAM doesn't work) on my TV and it doesn't give a shit, just plays (PAL forms a border on the top and bottom). I'm in the US and I assume this isn't the norm here, but in the UK with SCART, doesn't NTSC work, albeit with a touch of overscan?
-nB
Yes, but is copying a "non-copyrighted cd" wrong??
I would think not in all honesty. They even did not use BB media.
-nB
In fact I've found in two cases that the unmarked batteries I bought for consumer electronics were the same unit I could buy from the OEM, but the OEM didn't know the factory was working two shifts, instead of one. Similar to the "fake"/real DVDs out of china.
But, yeah I'd not worry about the "oem spec" aftermarket that's up and up about being aftermarket.
-nB
Yes you are correct.
Frankly, the coffee should be brewed hot, but have a "cool down" period before being served. My only gripe is that the whole lawsuit was a clusterfuck. Was it a valid suit? yes. Were the damages reasonable? no. Why? Because Mc D's acted like asshats and the jury saw it.
I personally hate that lawsuit, but was also unimpressed with McDonald's handling of the case pre-trial.
-nB
OT here, but I had a co-worker put a print of this joke (complete with a picture of a befuddled looking bush) on the door to my shop.
I generally coat my shop in UF, XKCD, and Dilbert comics, so this was particularly out of place. Add to that I am careful to avoid political affiliations at work (they can be rather career limiting) and I was miffed about this rogue joke showing up.
I took it down (offending the co-worker), trying to explain that funny or not, it was not my humor, and thus was not on my door.
Anyone else have an idea how to handle that?
-nB
I always assumed that XP and 2K would have similar flaws, however I would hope that Vista is a little better.
yeah, sorry that post was pointless... To add some substance:
Is there any reason that MS can't make portions of their code "open Source" but not-free?
I.e.: You may look at this source code and even compile it for evaluation, you may not, however use this code for any production (including home pc) uses.
Technically I think they could, but realistically I doubt it would ever happen (aside from large channel partners).
-nB
As google's index grows the ability to build a complete MD5 or SHA1 rainbow table from several pieces grows.
[tinfoil_hat]
the NSA's rainbow tables are already hash complete.
[/tinfoil_hat]
-nB
All valid points, in my case the Core2Duo was ideal because I can run jobs on it and it can be my filer (3.6TB).
If all you need is to serve a couple 500 gig drives on a 100meg link, then an old 166 with a PCI SATA card is the way to go overall.
-nB
Specifically it's a bathtub curve respective to age on the X axis and probability of failure on the Y axis.
-nB
My current core2duo system (when at idle) draws less than an idle P1 166mmx.
at full tilt, of course the newer system draws gobs more power, but idle is what counts as for that gobs more power I also get gobs^2 more performance.
-nB
Yes it appears that Hitachi has fixed this.
I too was the recipient of several bad "deathstar" drives. Noticed they all came form the Philippines site, whereas the drives from the Hungary site did not fail (early).
In my current lab we have piles of Hitachi, and I was skeptical at first, but they seem to be holding up quite well...
Grain of salt, etc.
-nB
Because it sucks.
If your drives have somewhere less than 4% free space and you do an unclean shutdown it hoses the drives. Both my brother and I have lost drives under similar conditions.
Not entirely.
That adds a "local salt" but... courtesy of possible hash collisions there is another password that may work equally well.
by having the login function add the salt a straight rainbow lookup is defeated (unless you pre-computed a rainbow with the salt). As admin he could still enter the salted MD5, find a suitable password without salt, disable salting, get in enable salting, change the password. BUT a "normal" hacker without access to the DB tools and salting function of the app, but in possession of the hash table (and even the salt to some extent) would be defeated. if the attacker had the salt and hash table then with enough time the will break you login through rainbow tables, but not before.
-nB
It's already on the plans for Intel to put an integrated MCH on the processor. I would assume first as a multi chip package, following up to full integration.
-nB
I'm in that last boat.
I generally am not a gamer, but I love Halo. I bought a 360 the other day just to play Halo3. $450 for a fscking video game... Geeze. On the bright side, I still don't have to consider more RAM, or the latest top end video card for my PC because I don't need it to support games there, so I suppose it's a wash.
-nB
Partly because of the American revolution.
It was because the yanks revolted that the crown realized that a looser grip on the colonies elsewhere was needed, lest they all revolt.
-nB