Using the alternator is a bad idea. An experiment that will show this: collect an alternator to a hand crank and a variable load. set the load to minimum, turn the crank, note how easy/hard it is. start turning the load up, continuing to turn the crank. Note that it gets progressively harder to turn the crank at the same speed. By sapping "wasted" power at idle you're making the engine work all that much harder to maintain RPMs. More work == more gas consumed. Water has a substantially lower potential energy than 2xH2 and O2 separately.
Then the song I will use for my comparison is a lame encoded rendition of "six degrees of inner turbulence" by Dream Theater⦠(It goes for 42 minutes) at 320kbps CBR
I will accept that I can download the equivalent of any 4 digit number of this song per month. (~3MB/min for CBR 320Kbps MP3 * 42min = 126megs/song *1000(min 4 digit positive number)=126GB/month)
I would consider Chew and Hiccup by Book Oven. The "song" is 240 minutes long, but I am concerned that it may compress fairly well...
Yes! this old CAT5K I have sitting here not using it because it finally shit its self (any one have a fan module or need parts?)
Funny thing, before my local ISP got Sodomized By Cowboys I plugged this thing into my DSL modem (no integrated router) and behold they had not turned off RIP on their customer ports... Since I was admin on my local box, with little effort I was able to map their network, from DSLAM to switch to routers. Called their tech support to be friendly and let them know of this security issue and was greeted with the equivalent of "you're hacking us, we're filing a police report". Finally got to their NOC department and got the issue cleared up, but things only reverted once SBC came to town. I've since moved and am on e a little ISP that overcharges, and only can deliver 1Mbps to my premise, but interestingly enough I get better torrent speeds through that 1 meg link than I ever got from SBC's 6 meg link (go figure). -nB
Silver is better than gold all the way around with only one exception: it oxidizes. If you want the *best* signal quality possible, it's silver plated copper stranded wire (or Coax if that's the app) with silver connectors both on the cable and console. The connectors need to mate very tightly and ideally have a small gasket to seal them.
That's what I use on my GHz frequency equipment. I'd use it on my video editing gear as well, but some conspiracy has landed me with only gold plate beryllium copper contacts as the best I can find...
for average joe consumer though, they buy overpriced cables with high-end looking terminations badly assembled ending up with this as the result. -nB
no you'd not only get sued, you'd go to jail for "cyberbullying" and when you raised the defense that it was a response to his "meatspace bullying" they'd respond with: "that's still legal. Since only you broke the law, only you will go to jail".
About the person who said kids have no spine these days. I sadly must concur. My kids are learning (3 and 5) that they can come to me for anything, but that they may not always get the interdiction that they hoped for. Sometimes they have to solve their own problems. I'll given them the tools, and support, but they will need to go and do it. This did, however, result in my daughter taking a hand pump (those plastic balloon pumps) and smacking one of the boys in her pre-school with it because they were picking on her and her kid brother... I made her apologize and then explained how (and why) her response was in error and what would have been a better response. Lucky for me the boy's mom also had seen the teasing, and did not wholly disagree with my daughters handling of the situation:-) -nB
more importantly is there any rule *which* DNS to use or *how long* you can cache that information for? My home proxy system uses a DNS other than that handed out by my ISPs DHCP. It Caches the address of a site I visit till such times as either it receives a HTTP error code, or I request it refresh. -nB
What is your defense was that you actually monitor *tons* of trackers, looking for say popularity spikes/curves/what have you; and when they try to bulldog you you produce the data of your analysis: I.e. linux distro trackers surge in the hours following a release, the curves for TV shows, movies, games, books, whatever. So long as you don't claim you didn't download anything you have committed an error of omission, not a factual lie (IANAL), assuming you did download the torrent in question. However, so long as you didn't download that particular item you could in-fact claim you did not.
Might even be helpful to release an oss tool that simply connects to trackers and compiles this kind of data, if enough people ran it (distributed ap?) you could vastly increase the noise level. -nB
I remember being on the internet via BBS in 89 (possibly late 88) and with prodigy by 91(2?). I committed my first internet based credit card fraud when I borrowed my dad's visa to buy a 14.4 Kbaud modem:-) -nB
True, but now your detector is more complicated, is limited to only the three wavelengths it was designed for, and the pixel sizes on those things is somewhat unimpressive. -nB
you have 6,000,000 pixels (give or take) available to you. Would you rather: A) get the highest possible resolution image (thus monochrome) from them, switching in filters to detect color bands? or B) Cripple them by gluing the filters to the sensor element as is done with "color" digicams and only have about 1/3 the usable image representation? -nB
It's a great company, just this particular manager is an asshat. I'm working on a solution though. Since I'm a non-exempt employee I'm going to document everything then start coming in at 8:00 sharp, leaving from 12:00 to 1:00 and leaving at 5:00 sharp. If stuff goes un-done, not my problem. It will get noticed by higher-ups and I'll be expecting a "teamwork" meeting and/or write-up, at which point I'll present said documentation. While line management won't "get it" I'm sure HR will understand the labor law implications. -nB
Somewhere I still have three Wren III *dual head* drives and a Micropolis... I still use the case that those four monsters were in (for those who should get off my lawn: Each was 1 5.25" full height drive (same as 2 cd-rom drives)). Difference is rather than storing an amazing 160*3+720MB (1.2GB Baby!), I now have 4 3 drive enclosures for a total capacity of 12TB (currently at 6), and if I wanted to do away with trays I could fit 20TB in the same space (but cooling would be a bitch). -nB
you can't do that. you have 16 blocks (0x0-0xF, address, 0z0-0zF absolute) each block is a byte.
you erase the device: all blocks now hold 0xFF you write 0xAA to 0xF, it is written to 0zF you read 0xF you read 0xAA you erase 0xF, it is erased and now contains 0xFF you write 0x55 to 0xF, it is written to 0zD (or any other currently un-cycled cell). you read 0xF, you read 0x55. You enter testmode you read 0zF you read 0xFF you read 0zD you read 0x55
That's how wear leveling works. So unless you can enter test mode (and I won't tell how on the particular manufacturer I know how to) you can not repeatably write to the same cell. Having done this, however, I can tell you that the devices I've seen can handle no less than 10K operations per cell, and that's while being hammered by Vcc excursions to min and max, and temp excursions to min and max.
NOR flash is blazing fast writes and reasonably fast reads (approx equal in reads to PC100 SDRAM).
NAND has roughly the same read speeds, but it's write speeds (as a previous poster has also stated) are highly optimized for block writes in a very *very* linear manner. i.e. your digicam will sequentially write files, block by block, and it will write them fast. You will have only partilly filled blocks at the end of a file, but that's ok.
The moment you want to modify something that's already written things slow down quickly. It's a bummer, but that's how it works. Where NAND would shine is a transaction server where it's writing a continuous (and possibly high speed) stream of data, that will be written once, but then read from multiple times, by different clients, with high contention rates.
First, unlike you teenagers, adults go to work to earn a living. Supervisors, unlike the corporations they work for, empathise with this. You don't deprive a person of their livelihood for something trivial. While I think normally this is true, I'd really like you to get my current boss to subscribe to your newsletter...
I type this on my 10 minute lunch (rather than the hour that is scheduled, yes actually scheduled in outlook, in an apparently vain attempt to actually get time to eat and relax for a little bit). -nB
how about we attack the C&C of the botnets, distribute patches and all is well. We all know there will be fallout, machines stuck in a BSOD loop or whatnot, but wouldn't that be a better solution than said "carpet bombing"? -nB
you know, off topic... but... you need to become a foe of one of my foes, thus you would show up with every damn light I can think of: friend fan friend of friend foe of friend
does/. even do foe of foe? if not, then that's my suggestion for the day:-)
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Using the alternator is a bad idea.
An experiment that will show this:
collect an alternator to a hand crank and a variable load.
set the load to minimum, turn the crank, note how easy/hard it is.
start turning the load up, continuing to turn the crank. Note that it gets progressively harder to turn the crank at the same speed.
By sapping "wasted" power at idle you're making the engine work all that much harder to maintain RPMs. More work == more gas consumed.
Water has a substantially lower potential energy than 2xH2 and O2 separately.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen06/gen06234.htm
Then the song I will use for my comparison is a lame encoded rendition of "six degrees of inner turbulence" by Dream Theater⦠(It goes for 42 minutes) at 320kbps CBR
I will accept that I can download the equivalent of any 4 digit number of this song per month. (~3MB/min for CBR 320Kbps MP3 * 42min = 126megs/song *1000(min 4 digit positive number)=126GB/month)
I would consider Chew and Hiccup by Book Oven. The "song" is 240 minutes long, but I am concerned that it may compress fairly well...
real router... real router... let me see...
Yes! this old CAT5K I have sitting here not using it because it finally shit its self (any one have a fan module or need parts?)
Funny thing, before my local ISP got Sodomized By Cowboys I plugged this thing into my DSL modem (no integrated router) and behold they had not turned off RIP on their customer ports... Since I was admin on my local box, with little effort I was able to map their network, from DSLAM to switch to routers. Called their tech support to be friendly and let them know of this security issue and was greeted with the equivalent of "you're hacking us, we're filing a police report". Finally got to their NOC department and got the issue cleared up, but things only reverted once SBC came to town. I've since moved and am on e a little ISP that overcharges, and only can deliver 1Mbps to my premise, but interestingly enough I get better torrent speeds through that 1 meg link than I ever got from SBC's 6 meg link (go figure).
-nB
Silver is better than gold all the way around with only one exception: it oxidizes.
If you want the *best* signal quality possible, it's silver plated copper stranded wire (or Coax if that's the app) with silver connectors both on the cable and console. The connectors need to mate very tightly and ideally have a small gasket to seal them.
That's what I use on my GHz frequency equipment. I'd use it on my video editing gear as well, but some conspiracy has landed me with only gold plate beryllium copper contacts as the best I can find...
for average joe consumer though, they buy overpriced cables with high-end looking terminations badly assembled ending up with this as the result.
-nB
?!?
you don't have at least the cheapo cable checker from paliden tools that steps through each signal with LEDs?
I use that when connection quality doesn't matter. When it does, or for *long* cable runs I use a wirescope.
-nB
Shuttle flight computer uses the 386 double sigma.
here are some other notes:
http://klabs.org/DEI/Processor/shuttle/
try this:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gingivitis/DS00363
for what it's worth pot does increase your likelihood of developing givial disease.
-nB
And it's not from the munchies...
Link is dead.
If anyone has a copy and can e-mail it to me I'll cache it on one of my servers for a while...
-nB
no you'd not only get sued, you'd go to jail for "cyberbullying" and when you raised the defense that it was a response to his
:-)
"meatspace bullying" they'd respond with: "that's still legal. Since only you broke the law, only you will go to jail".
About the person who said kids have no spine these days. I sadly must concur. My kids are learning (3 and 5) that they can come to me for anything, but that they may not always get the interdiction that they hoped for. Sometimes they have to solve their own problems. I'll given them the tools, and support, but they will need to go and do it.
This did, however, result in my daughter taking a hand pump (those plastic balloon pumps) and smacking one of the boys in her pre-school with it because they were picking on her and her kid brother... I made her apologize and then explained how (and why) her response was in error and what would have been a better response. Lucky for me the boy's mom also had seen the teasing, and did not wholly disagree with my daughters handling of the situation
-nB
um...
I swear I don't have anything but a trolling myspace page but:
Me Too!
That line is *too* good.
more importantly is there any rule *which* DNS to use or *how long* you can cache that information for?
My home proxy system uses a DNS other than that handed out by my ISPs DHCP. It Caches the address of a site I visit till such times as either it receives a HTTP error code, or I request it refresh.
-nB
What is your defense was that you actually monitor *tons* of trackers, looking for say popularity spikes/curves/what have you; and when they try to bulldog you you produce the data of your analysis:
I.e. linux distro trackers surge in the hours following a release, the curves for TV shows, movies, games, books, whatever.
So long as you don't claim you didn't download anything you have committed an error of omission, not a factual lie (IANAL), assuming you did download the torrent in question. However, so long as you didn't download that particular item you could in-fact claim you did not.
Might even be helpful to release an oss tool that simply connects to trackers and compiles this kind of data, if enough people ran it (distributed ap?) you could vastly increase the noise level.
-nB
Tell me about it
-nB
I remember being on the internet via BBS in 89 (possibly late 88) and with prodigy by 91(2?). I committed my first internet based credit card fraud when I borrowed my dad's visa to buy a 14.4 Kbaud modem :-)
-nB
True, but now your detector is more complicated, is limited to only the three wavelengths it was designed for, and the pixel sizes on those things is somewhat unimpressive.
-nB
you have 6,000,000 pixels (give or take) available to you. Would you rather:
A) get the highest possible resolution image (thus monochrome) from them, switching in filters to detect color bands?
or
B) Cripple them by gluing the filters to the sensor element as is done with "color" digicams and only have about 1/3 the usable image representation?
-nB
It's a great company, just this particular manager is an asshat.
I'm working on a solution though. Since I'm a non-exempt employee I'm going to document everything then start coming in at 8:00 sharp, leaving from 12:00 to 1:00 and leaving at 5:00 sharp. If stuff goes un-done, not my problem. It will get noticed by higher-ups and I'll be expecting a "teamwork" meeting and/or write-up, at which point I'll present said documentation. While line management won't "get it" I'm sure HR will understand the labor law implications.
-nB
Somewhere I still have three Wren III *dual head* drives and a Micropolis...
I still use the case that those four monsters were in (for those who should get off my lawn: Each was 1 5.25" full height drive (same as 2 cd-rom drives)). Difference is rather than storing an amazing 160*3+720MB (1.2GB Baby!), I now have 4 3 drive enclosures for a total capacity of 12TB (currently at 6), and if I wanted to do away with trays I could fit 20TB in the same space (but cooling would be a bitch).
-nB
you can't do that.
you have 16 blocks (0x0-0xF, address, 0z0-0zF absolute)
each block is a byte.
you erase the device: all blocks now hold 0xFF
you write 0xAA to 0xF, it is written to 0zF
you read 0xF you read 0xAA
you erase 0xF, it is erased and now contains 0xFF
you write 0x55 to 0xF, it is written to 0zD (or any other currently un-cycled cell).
you read 0xF, you read 0x55.
You enter testmode
you read 0zF you read 0xFF
you read 0zD you read 0x55
That's how wear leveling works. So unless you can enter test mode (and I won't tell how on the particular manufacturer I know how to) you can not repeatably write to the same cell. Having done this, however, I can tell you that the devices I've seen can handle no less than 10K operations per cell, and that's while being hammered by Vcc excursions to min and max, and temp excursions to min and max.
NOR flash is blazing fast writes and reasonably fast reads (approx equal in reads to PC100 SDRAM).
NAND has roughly the same read speeds, but it's write speeds (as a previous poster has also stated) are highly optimized for block writes in a very *very* linear manner. i.e. your digicam will sequentially write files, block by block, and it will write them fast. You will have only partilly filled blocks at the end of a file, but that's ok.
The moment you want to modify something that's already written things slow down quickly.
It's a bummer, but that's how it works. Where NAND would shine is a transaction server where it's writing a continuous (and possibly high speed) stream of data, that will be written once, but then read from multiple times, by different clients, with high contention rates.
-nB
I type this on my 10 minute lunch (rather than the hour that is scheduled, yes actually scheduled in outlook, in an apparently vain attempt to actually get time to eat and relax for a little bit).
-nB
Physical access of the computer, user, and a gun will usually result in total system access as well...
how about we attack the C&C of the botnets, distribute patches and all is well. We all know there will be fallout, machines stuck in a BSOD loop or whatnot, but wouldn't that be a better solution than said "carpet bombing"?
-nB
you know, off topic...
/. even do foe of foe? if not, then that's my suggestion for the day :-)
but...
you need to become a foe of one of my foes, thus you would show up with every damn light I can think of:
friend
fan
friend of friend
foe of friend
does