Get an used (old model) HP Laserjet. They can be found at reasonable prices, with service and replacement parts still available, and it's toner lasts forever. The printer will too, they are some of the most relaiable printers ever built. Too bad HP has been going down the crapper lately.
Laser printers are expensive at a first glance, but the price per page is a fraction of a inkjet. It's overall a much better value.
Still, if you want a cheap one, try the newer Cannon inkjets. You'll still be forced to buy overpriced, half-filled ink tanks, but they work as expected, the printing heads don't clog and the print quality is top notch (for an inkjet). I have a Cannon S1000 at work that has been working perfectly for almost two years now. I wish i could say the same about Epson printers.
Remember the ill-famed John Titor story. It said things would get ugly with "civil unrest" after the 2004 US election. Well, what would happen if, by some reason, the recounts come back wildly different - or even declaring Kerry winner of the elections?
I'm bored, and that site is a fascinating read. It's like watching a trainwreck, you know you're not supposed to enjoy it but just can't look away.
Something that also bothers me is that apparently Bush supporters feel outraged by the mere thought of killing a human embryo, but have no regards about bombing the shit out of a country that meant no threat to them. At all.
Anyway, abortion is a tricky subject. My stand is that each country should set a legal "age" threshold in which a fetus is considered a living human being, and only then abortion should be considered illegal.
How much involvement had Warren Spector in the final form of "Deus Ex: Invisible war"? I remember seeing early screenshots for the game, and they were so different (and better) than the final product that i wanna cry. It felt to me that the DX:IW team was forced into "dumbing down" the game to make it appealing to console gamers.
In any case, i wish him the best in his new endeavors. Not too long ago having Warren involved in a game was pretty much a guarantee it would turn out to be great.
I was just going to post the same. C/C++ are more prone to buffer overflows, given - if the language is compiled the possibilty can't be avoided, even less with such "low level" ones like these. But it's not that hard to harden (pun!) C/C++ against overflows: if you're inputting data, of any kind, and no matter what, check it for validity. Presto!
C# and Java are nicely sandboxed and have many nice features both C and C++ lack, but all of that comes with a performance hit, no matter how minor. For some people it's not a choice, and like the parent said, writting secure C/C++ is no rocket science. At all.
... even when it's a computer, most people bought it simply as a game system, and a fine one it was.
Anyway, the weak link in th C-64 was not the computer itself, but the power supply, which was separated. Since it was somewhat complicated (fully regulated) and encased in a solid black epoxy box, most people didn't bothered to fiddle with it. This site has the complete schematic for a power supply, from where you can either fix it or build a new one entirely.
I think you have a point here. My two favourite FPSs of all time (Deus Ex and System Shock 2) had relatively little shooting arround, and they were much more focused on the ambient and story delivering, which made them much more appealing than regular "shoot-everything-that-moves" FPSs.
Gameplay and history are being placed second to graphics and presentation nowadays, which is kinda sad. A good looking game is a good looking game for so long, a great game is always a great game.
Simon the Sorcerer were quite unappreciated games. In one part of STS 1, a discussion between three woodworms had me laughing so hard i had to stop playing for 10 minutes.
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Agreed. If one game genre got humor right, it was graphic adventures. Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, DOTT, Grim Fandango, Simon the Sorcerer, even titles like Full Throttle. It always work well in such games, probably because most graphic adventures had great "scripts" to begin with.
Well, if you were so bright you might have realized that the President has the right to preemptive strike, which is exactly what we did in Iraq -- this is completely Constitutional, especially since Bush had Congress vote before he acted. You said we had no excuse, but have you ever heard of crimes against humanity? What about the countless UN sanctions violated by Saddam?
Preemptive stike? Against Iraq? Exactly how is Iraq a threat to the US when they're barely a threat to their neigbour countries? Since the link between Iraq and Bin Laden has been shoot to the ground, it's unjustificable.
And by the way, the US administration went to war with Iraq because WMD, Terrorism, or just because Sadaam is evil and has to be dealt with? What's the excuse this week?
This is not a personal attack - i just want to know.
Hmm, i'm being an asshole here, but the world is a tad bigger than five countries. It's not a matter of friendship, it's a matter of animosity: US actions aren't well received in the rest of the civilzed world.
Now that almost half of the US citizens (which was a different matter to begin with) are clearly endorsing those actions, don't be surprised if that animosity is extended to the US population rather than it's leaders.
Agreed. I'm running mine with an XP 1800+ now, and works like a dream. The first revisions of this board had some issues, but they're excellent, specially considering the price. Onboard sound, 10/100 ethernet, USB, and has the ability to work both with DDRAM or SDRAM.
And the SiS chipset, despiste what people might think of the company, is superb. Tom's Hardware had a series of benchmarks for Athlon/Duron chipsets back then, and SiS did wonderfully - better than the AMD brand! Never had an stability issue with the motherboard, even after flashing the BIOS with an unofficial one.
Heh, of course, but then again, 14kW of dissipation isn't exactly your everyday electronic gadgets:).
I once knew a guy who worked in a company that built laser and plasma metal cutters. His cooling rig for testing? An evaporative cooler, not much unlike a nuclear reactor chimney (it certainly looked similar in a few photos).
My main concern, besides noise, it's that it introduces another "break point" in the system; which means i'll have to monitor the waterblock temperature constantly (extra circuitery). Not only in case the fan dies; also if the pump dies, or the radiator becomes clogged. Besides that, it's all advantages.
Other thing i considered was a smaller heatsink inside a pipe with two fans blowing, again, at low voltages (5-9 volts). If the sink is large enough this would work quite nicely, but dust acumulation is a concern.
I'd much rater use solid aluminium sinks but those are quite expensive, so i still really don't know what to do with the whole thing.
Rust and bacterial clogging. Antifreeze helps in keeping the water from reacting with the metals inside the radiator, and, to a degree, also help with bacteria cultives forming in the water. The water circuit is closed on watercoolers, so you must keep it as clean as possible all the time.
...to cool a Class-A amp i'm building right now that dissipates 200w of pure heat continuosly. My first thought was a small motorcycle oil radiator, but that would need a small fan to help the airflow and i wanted too keep it as noiseless as possible. Car radiators are so big that the surface area is enough to cool the "modest" power requirements of electronics without aditional fans.
Those old car radiators can be found in different sizes, and they're dirt cheap if bought as replacements for old models - or free if found lying arround as junk.
Seriously. The new logo looks great and has a "corporate" feel all over it, but the old demon (daemon?) was just too cute, and something you'd associate immediatly with *BSD. The one with the demons lifting the flag was too hard to reproudce though.
I just though the demon would appear in some way in the new logo.
Please mod up. The strength of Gentoo isn't in the (particularly good) package system or even the (even better) 'USE' flags thing, but in their community. The Gentoo forums is perhaps the last place where you can ask a "n00b" Linux question and be answered promptly, with zero elitist bullshit attached. I liked the source distribution idea beforehand, but when i witnessed this i was sold.
For some reason it seems to draw in nice people...
If John Wayne had been a Linux user, he would have used Gentoo. Gentoo users are pioneers, people who like to live close to the metal, and don't mind hurting themselves on sharp objects. Some feel that Gentoo users are simply lazy louts who always want to have a ready excuse for why they are not doing constructive things with their computer, other than compiling or recompiling the latest kernel, app, or hapless passerby. The official Gentoo motto is, "If it moves, compile it."
Paraphrasing Maddox, Gentoo users are baddases and listen to Pantera. Red Hat users get their nails done and shop for purses.
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Get an used (old model) HP Laserjet. They can be found at reasonable prices, with service and replacement parts still available, and it's toner lasts forever. The printer will too, they are some of the most relaiable printers ever built. Too bad HP has been going down the crapper lately.
Laser printers are expensive at a first glance, but the price per page is a fraction of a inkjet. It's overall a much better value.
Still, if you want a cheap one, try the newer Cannon inkjets. You'll still be forced to buy overpriced, half-filled ink tanks, but they work as expected, the printing heads don't clog and the print quality is top notch (for an inkjet). I have a Cannon S1000 at work that has been working perfectly for almost two years now. I wish i could say the same about Epson printers.
Remember the ill-famed John Titor story. It said things would get ugly with "civil unrest" after the 2004 US election. Well, what would happen if, by some reason, the recounts come back wildly different - or even declaring Kerry winner of the elections?
I'm bored, and that site is a fascinating read. It's like watching a trainwreck, you know you're not supposed to enjoy it but just can't look away.
One can only hope. I've been dreaming about System Shock 3 the second i finished the 3.
Something that also bothers me is that apparently Bush supporters feel outraged by the mere thought of killing a human embryo, but have no regards about bombing the shit out of a country that meant no threat to them. At all.
Anyway, abortion is a tricky subject. My stand is that each country should set a legal "age" threshold in which a fetus is considered a living human being, and only then abortion should be considered illegal.
How much involvement had Warren Spector in the final form of "Deus Ex: Invisible war"? I remember seeing early screenshots for the game, and they were so different (and better) than the final product that i wanna cry. It felt to me that the DX:IW team was forced into "dumbing down" the game to make it appealing to console gamers.
In any case, i wish him the best in his new endeavors. Not too long ago having Warren involved in a game was pretty much a guarantee it would turn out to be great.
I was just going to post the same. C/C++ are more prone to buffer overflows, given - if the language is compiled the possibilty can't be avoided, even less with such "low level" ones like these. But it's not that hard to harden (pun!) C/C++ against overflows: if you're inputting data, of any kind, and no matter what, check it for validity. Presto!
C# and Java are nicely sandboxed and have many nice features both C and C++ lack, but all of that comes with a performance hit, no matter how minor. For some people it's not a choice, and like the parent said, writting secure C/C++ is no rocket science. At all.
What scares me shitless is not thay they try to patent them. The USPTO is so screwed up they might actually grant them.
Anyway, the weak link in th C-64 was not the computer itself, but the power supply, which was separated. Since it was somewhat complicated (fully regulated) and encased in a solid black epoxy box, most people didn't bothered to fiddle with it. This site has the complete schematic for a power supply, from where you can either fix it or build a new one entirely.
I think you have a point here. My two favourite FPSs of all time (Deus Ex and System Shock 2) had relatively little shooting arround, and they were much more focused on the ambient and story delivering, which made them much more appealing than regular "shoot-everything-that-moves" FPSs.
Gameplay and history are being placed second to graphics and presentation nowadays, which is kinda sad. A good looking game is a good looking game for so long, a great game is always a great game.
Simon the Sorcerer were quite unappreciated games. In one part of STS 1, a discussion between three woodworms had me laughing so hard i had to stop playing for 10 minutes.
Agreed. If one game genre got humor right, it was graphic adventures. Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, DOTT, Grim Fandango, Simon the Sorcerer, even titles like Full Throttle. It always work well in such games, probably because most graphic adventures had great "scripts" to begin with.
Well, if you were so bright you might have realized that the President has the right to preemptive strike, which is exactly what we did in Iraq -- this is completely Constitutional, especially since Bush had Congress vote before he acted. You said we had no excuse, but have you ever heard of crimes against humanity? What about the countless UN sanctions violated by Saddam?
Preemptive stike? Against Iraq? Exactly how is Iraq a threat to the US when they're barely a threat to their neigbour countries? Since the link between Iraq and Bin Laden has been shoot to the ground, it's unjustificable.
And by the way, the US administration went to war with Iraq because WMD, Terrorism, or just because Sadaam is evil and has to be dealt with? What's the excuse this week?
This is not a personal attack - i just want to know.
Hmm, i'm being an asshole here, but the world is a tad bigger than five countries. It's not a matter of friendship, it's a matter of animosity: US actions aren't well received in the rest of the civilzed world.
Now that almost half of the US citizens (which was a different matter to begin with) are clearly endorsing those actions, don't be surprised if that animosity is extended to the US population rather than it's leaders.
Just in case anyone's missing the joke here: check this link out. The guy might've been full of shit (or not), but it's a very interesting read.
I guess you don't live in South America, do you?
Agreed. I'm running mine with an XP 1800+ now, and works like a dream. The first revisions of this board had some issues, but they're excellent, specially considering the price. Onboard sound, 10/100 ethernet, USB, and has the ability to work both with DDRAM or SDRAM.
And the SiS chipset, despiste what people might think of the company, is superb. Tom's Hardware had a series of benchmarks for Athlon/Duron chipsets back then, and SiS did wonderfully - better than the AMD brand! Never had an stability issue with the motherboard, even after flashing the BIOS with an unofficial one.
Heh, of course, but then again, 14kW of dissipation isn't exactly your everyday electronic gadgets :).
I once knew a guy who worked in a company that built laser and plasma metal cutters. His cooling rig for testing? An evaporative cooler, not much unlike a nuclear reactor chimney (it certainly looked similar in a few photos).
My main concern, besides noise, it's that it introduces another "break point" in the system; which means i'll have to monitor the waterblock temperature constantly (extra circuitery). Not only in case the fan dies; also if the pump dies, or the radiator becomes clogged. Besides that, it's all advantages.
Other thing i considered was a smaller heatsink inside a pipe with two fans blowing, again, at low voltages (5-9 volts). If the sink is large enough this would work quite nicely, but dust acumulation is a concern.
I'd much rater use solid aluminium sinks but those are quite expensive, so i still really don't know what to do with the whole thing.
Rust and bacterial clogging. Antifreeze helps in keeping the water from reacting with the metals inside the radiator, and, to a degree, also help with bacteria cultives forming in the water. The water circuit is closed on watercoolers, so you must keep it as clean as possible all the time.
Those old car radiators can be found in different sizes, and they're dirt cheap if bought as replacements for old models - or free if found lying arround as junk.
The tricky part is to make it look good though...
Seriously. The new logo looks great and has a "corporate" feel all over it, but the old demon (daemon?) was just too cute, and something you'd associate immediatly with *BSD. The one with the demons lifting the flag was too hard to reproudce though.
I just though the demon would appear in some way in the new logo.
Please mod up. The strength of Gentoo isn't in the (particularly good) package system or even the (even better) 'USE' flags thing, but in their community. The Gentoo forums is perhaps the last place where you can ask a "n00b" Linux question and be answered promptly, with zero elitist bullshit attached. I liked the source distribution idea beforehand, but when i witnessed this i was sold.
For some reason it seems to draw in nice people...
Touché. Mod up!
Offtopic, but i have a few if anyone's interested. Not that they're rare anymore or anything.
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If John Wayne had been a Linux user, he would have used Gentoo. Gentoo users are pioneers, people who like to live close to the metal, and don't mind hurting themselves on sharp objects. Some feel that Gentoo users are simply lazy louts who always want to have a ready excuse for why they are not doing constructive things with their computer, other than compiling or recompiling the latest kernel, app, or hapless passerby. The official Gentoo motto is, "If it moves, compile it."
Paraphrasing Maddox, Gentoo users are baddases and listen to Pantera. Red Hat users get their nails done and shop for purses.
Ok, i'll shut up now