Like this one: http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312
It works wonderfully for Windows swap file! (and better still for Photoshop/Premiere swapfile)
It is limited to 4GB (draws power from the PCI bus) and it is driver-less. (works with ANY PC motherboard supported OS)
It connects to the PC using a SATA1 connection (but a continuous 1.5 Gb/s is still better than most HDDs) and it uses 4x 1024MB DDR1 RAM Modules.
There is a future 8GB DDR2 SATA2 3.0 Gb/s model (allegedly) coming out soon that fits in a 5.25" drive bay: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/10116 (please, oh please, don't be vaporware)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FBI+Wiretaps+via+Onstar&btnG=Google+Search
I am wondering if the electronics that are used to operate the Onstar system can be disabled without the car being rendered useless? (as in pull the fuse)
Perhaps aftermarket companies will sell Onstar "Tinfoil Hats" to cover up the transceiver antennas on the Onstar systems to give the consumer a choice in if they want to use the system or not.
A Good comment posted from the original article:
7. No License... No Reading by Todd on Oct 8th, 2007 @ 8:41am
Dear Lawfirm,
Regarding your recent letter containing copyrighted content, I seem to not have an appropriate license to read your letter. I sure wish I could respond to whatever allegations you claim, but that would require that I read your letter, of which I do not have a proper license to do.
How does this not open the brain cavity up to Serious Infections? Re: Meninges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninges
Aren't our brains "water cooled" (by blood) in the first place?
"It took 300 layers of each the glue-like polymer and the clay nanosheets to create a piece of this material as thick as a piece of plastic wrap." Sounds labor inten$ive though..
You make a very good point. I NEVER gouge customers with any service call and a follow-up visit for the same "event" is part of the first call charge, they paid me to fix it. If I am not there or remotely working on it, I am not on the clock for their bill. I try very hard not to overlap billing, but there is a minimum fee. One can work on multiple systems at the same time, and possible losses on my behalf for a long diagnostic time (such as Memtest86+ may require) are typically absorbed while I preform other NEEDED support functions, (and Memtest86+ is typically used once many other likely causes are eliminated).
I charge most clients the same every month as we are retained under a yearly/monthly bundled service contract, however, for an unscheduled off-the-street customer I charge a set diagnostic and/or work fee (agreed to before hand) and I ask that they leave their PC in the shop overnight (typically calling IF it is hardware or if software repair requires purchase, expired AV, etc...) There's always some sort of (actual and needed) work to be done on other PC's/remote servers/etc.. while a scan runs... plus someone, somewhere, is always installing some crapware/spyware/smiley-crap at some small business causing problems. Some clients may still have Win98/ME, or simply won't run their systems other than as 'Administrator' (and they DO pay you to fix them) despite professional and honest advice to lock them down and run an AV that also kills malware. (Some listen, but many users know better then their support people, and you get more business for it... It's the human condition and some PEBKAC).
I'd have the Memtest86+ boot CD running continuously at the client's location OVERNIGHT and I'd just go there first thing the next morning. Chances are if there are memory/chipset issues, they are already using another workstation (and thank God for ECC RAM on servers!). If Memtest86+ failed to uncover the "intermittent" or "insidious" RAM failure following an all-night session, that would be a first for me. I have had a few cases where the errors were only reported after the second or third pass, and none that occurred after 5 successful passes.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso Bootable from USB Drive, CD, or Floppy......A standard troubleshooting tool in my TS kit. Sure, it takes some time, but it eliminates instability/random software/OS issues and verifies the RAM is 100% IN SITU.
In college, friends of mine would occasionally get harassed by loss prevention when trying to exit our local Wal-Mart.... Mysteriously there would one or more RFID stickers stuck on their backs (or in their jacket pockets, etc...) -Oddly enough I could be found chuckling off to the side. Strange what you can find stuck to the outside of the more expensive items in a Wal-mart. -I generally bought the first couple of rounds/pitchers at the bar to regain favor, but it was all the more funny.
As far as reactivity with atmospheric Ozone (O3), Halogens (big electronegative atoms) Chlorine and/or Bromine in refrigerant = BAD. Fluorine only in refrigerant = GOOD.
We are talking about a class of chemicals that are modified Natural Gases like Methane, Ethane, etc.. that have had one or more of their Hydrogens replaced with CL, Br, or F to make them "less flammable" and to engineer their properties making them superior refrigerants.
See the ~Montreal Protocol~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
"At present, 191 nations have become party to the Montreal Protocol (see external link below). Those 5 that are not as of September 2007 are Andorra, Iraq, San Marino, Timor-Leste and Vatican City."
A single 12 ounce can of R-12 Automotive Freon was only ~$.99 in the 1980's? [You could recharge your car AC Cheaply and ON YOUR OWN.] The current price on the R134A replacement is over $10 per 12 ounce can! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-134a ) And if you are lucky enough to have some stock of the old banned R12, is it selling over $25 per 12oz can now!! http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=1&catref=m37&satitle=R12+can+refrigerant
In addition, you MUST now be Professionally Licensed to even tap into an R12 air conditioning system's coolant loop using only special expensive approved refrigerant recycling/vapor recovery equipment which costs many hundreds of dollars per unit.
Not to mention, R134a refrigerant REQUIRES a new class of synthetic lubricant oils, special compatible plumbing/hoses, and new compressor designs. R134a and its oils are corrosive to many metals (R12 was not) and R134a is NOT as good of a refrigerant compared to R12 (therefore AC systems in vehicles today are a bit larger and a bit less efficient to yield the same cooling needs, after all; cars are really just greenhouses with wheels)
So a chemical that is virtually as inexpensive to manufacture (comparing R12 to its "replacement" R134a) now costs over 10x as much to purchase, yields complete incompatibility with older R12 systems, and creates a very lucrative "gray market" and "black market" for R12 refrigerant. R12 refrigerant manufacturers created as much R12 as was humanly possible before the Montreal Protocol manufacturer's ban date. Realize that this is and has been an artificially controlled market and now the profits are crazy. (Think like the cost of manufacture of a CD compared to the sale price) The politics of this were simple: making fortunes and claiming positive environmental action. There are R12 "blends" that are mixtures of various things that sort of work ok, but there is not a good replacement even to date and stockpiles of R12 only get more expensive. But hey, Yay for the environment! More references: http://yarchive.net/ac/politics.html
One Word: Beano http://www.beanogas.com/...Being sealed inside a space capsule would give a whole new take on the ol' "Dutch Oven" treatment wouldn't it?
That's My Favorite Desktop Wallpaper!
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02991
Original Caption Released with Image: Global city lights. The Eastern U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while the interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America remain (for now) dark and lightly populated. (Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. Based on data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program).
FULL RESOLUTION IMAGE: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA02991.tif
At what point in its development and/or what orifice does an "Embryonic Planet" have to pass through to be classified as "born" under this metaphor/anthropomorphism?
"While wearing the fNIRS device, test subjects viewed a multicolored cube consisting of eight smaller cubes with two, three or four different colors. As the cube rotated onscreen, subjects counted the number of colored squares in a series of 30 tasks."
they are also susceptible to the illusion of "beer goggles"?...Next thing you know, your personal robot's software has it waking up in bed with your new Dyson vacuum and a strange Toaster! [There must be a Bender joke in here somewhere] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender_(Futurama)
I should have written: "In order for Apple to have any hope of ~WINNING~ any DOD Bid Contract,... Apple would be forced to develop a USER FIELD REPLACEABLE battery and any firmware updates would not "brick" the radio once the military unlocked it." (...Now that I think of it, the Military would also NEVER use iTunes in order to get their radios working.)
To get a DOD bid contract, Apple would be forced to develop a USER FIELD REPLACEABLE battery and any firmware updates would not "brick" the radio once the military unlocked it.
Slashdot Mirror
Chris Pine: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1517976/
Eric Bana: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051509/
There is one true James TIBERIUS Kirk! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk
Is Paramount trying to do with Kirk what has been done with the various flavors of "007" or "Batman"?
People are doing it with SD: http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/05/sd_to_ssd_conversion_made_easy.html
Here is the CF version: http://forevergeek.com/gadgets/compact_flash_to_ssd_converter.php
If you are not limited to the 2.5" form factor of a laptop chassis, there are better/faster ways of doing this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/242281-32-drives
Like this one: http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312
It works wonderfully for Windows swap file! (and better still for Photoshop/Premiere swapfile) It is limited to 4GB (draws power from the PCI bus) and it is driver-less. (works with ANY PC motherboard supported OS)
It connects to the PC using a SATA1 connection (but a continuous 1.5 Gb/s is still better than most HDDs) and it uses 4x 1024MB DDR1 RAM Modules.
There is a future 8GB DDR2 SATA2 3.0 Gb/s model (allegedly) coming out soon that fits in a 5.25" drive bay:
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/10116 (please, oh please, don't be vaporware)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FBI+Wiretaps+via+Onstar&btnG=Google+Search
I am wondering if the electronics that are used to operate the Onstar system can be disabled without the car being rendered useless?
(as in pull the fuse)
Perhaps aftermarket companies will sell Onstar "Tinfoil Hats" to cover up the transceiver antennas on the Onstar systems to give the consumer a choice in if they want to use the system or not.
A Good comment posted from the original article:
7. No License... No Reading by Todd on Oct 8th, 2007 @ 8:41am
Dear Lawfirm,
Regarding your recent letter containing copyrighted content, I seem to not have an appropriate license to read your letter. I sure wish I could respond to whatever allegations you claim, but that would require that I read your letter, of which I do not have a proper license to do.
Sincerely,
Your Victim
How does this not open the brain cavity up to Serious Infections? Re: Meninges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninges Aren't our brains "water cooled" (by blood) in the first place?
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=beer+helmet&btnG=Search+Images
"It took 300 layers of each the glue-like polymer and the clay nanosheets to create a piece of this material as thick as a piece of plastic wrap." Sounds labor inten$ive though..
You make a very good point. I NEVER gouge customers with any service call and a follow-up visit for the same "event" is part of the first call charge, they paid me to fix it. If I am not there or remotely working on it, I am not on the clock for their bill. I try very hard not to overlap billing, but there is a minimum fee. One can work on multiple systems at the same time, and possible losses on my behalf for a long diagnostic time (such as Memtest86+ may require) are typically absorbed while I preform other NEEDED support functions, (and Memtest86+ is typically used once many other likely causes are eliminated). I charge most clients the same every month as we are retained under a yearly/monthly bundled service contract, however, for an unscheduled off-the-street customer I charge a set diagnostic and/or work fee (agreed to before hand) and I ask that they leave their PC in the shop overnight (typically calling IF it is hardware or if software repair requires purchase, expired AV, etc...) There's always some sort of (actual and needed) work to be done on other PC's/remote servers/etc.. while a scan runs... plus someone, somewhere, is always installing some crapware/spyware/smiley-crap at some small business causing problems. Some clients may still have Win98/ME, or simply won't run their systems other than as 'Administrator' (and they DO pay you to fix them) despite professional and honest advice to lock them down and run an AV that also kills malware. (Some listen, but many users know better then their support people, and you get more business for it... It's the human condition and some PEBKAC).
That's Mr. Zorin to you! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/
I'd have the Memtest86+ boot CD running continuously at the client's location OVERNIGHT and I'd just go there first thing the next morning. Chances are if there are memory/chipset issues, they are already using another workstation (and thank God for ECC RAM on servers!). If Memtest86+ failed to uncover the "intermittent" or "insidious" RAM failure following an all-night session, that would be a first for me. I have had a few cases where the errors were only reported after the second or third pass, and none that occurred after 5 successful passes.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso Bootable from USB Drive, CD, or Floppy... ...A standard troubleshooting tool in my TS kit. Sure, it takes some time, but it eliminates instability/random software/OS issues and verifies the RAM is 100% IN SITU.
In college, friends of mine would occasionally get harassed by loss prevention when trying to exit our local Wal-Mart.... Mysteriously there would one or more RFID stickers stuck on their backs (or in their jacket pockets, etc...) -Oddly enough I could be found chuckling off to the side. Strange what you can find stuck to the outside of the more expensive items in a Wal-mart. -I generally bought the first couple of rounds/pitchers at the bar to regain favor, but it was all the more funny.
Its bad enough that the AACS DRM is there, but to make it so strong many legit users can't use it, Inconceivable! Mandatory /. Link: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/1917210
As far as reactivity with atmospheric Ozone (O3), Halogens (big electronegative atoms) Chlorine and/or Bromine in refrigerant = BAD. Fluorine only in refrigerant = GOOD. We are talking about a class of chemicals that are modified Natural Gases like Methane, Ethane, etc.. that have had one or more of their Hydrogens replaced with CL, Br, or F to make them "less flammable" and to engineer their properties making them superior refrigerants. See the ~Montreal Protocol~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol "At present, 191 nations have become party to the Montreal Protocol (see external link below). Those 5 that are not as of September 2007 are Andorra, Iraq, San Marino, Timor-Leste and Vatican City." A single 12 ounce can of R-12 Automotive Freon was only ~$.99 in the 1980's? [You could recharge your car AC Cheaply and ON YOUR OWN.] The current price on the R134A replacement is over $10 per 12 ounce can! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-134a ) And if you are lucky enough to have some stock of the old banned R12, is it selling over $25 per 12oz can now!! http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=1&catref=m37&satitle=R12+can+refrigerant In addition, you MUST now be Professionally Licensed to even tap into an R12 air conditioning system's coolant loop using only special expensive approved refrigerant recycling/vapor recovery equipment which costs many hundreds of dollars per unit. Not to mention, R134a refrigerant REQUIRES a new class of synthetic lubricant oils, special compatible plumbing/hoses, and new compressor designs. R134a and its oils are corrosive to many metals (R12 was not) and R134a is NOT as good of a refrigerant compared to R12 (therefore AC systems in vehicles today are a bit larger and a bit less efficient to yield the same cooling needs, after all; cars are really just greenhouses with wheels) So a chemical that is virtually as inexpensive to manufacture (comparing R12 to its "replacement" R134a) now costs over 10x as much to purchase, yields complete incompatibility with older R12 systems, and creates a very lucrative "gray market" and "black market" for R12 refrigerant. R12 refrigerant manufacturers created as much R12 as was humanly possible before the Montreal Protocol manufacturer's ban date. Realize that this is and has been an artificially controlled market and now the profits are crazy. (Think like the cost of manufacture of a CD compared to the sale price) The politics of this were simple: making fortunes and claiming positive environmental action. There are R12 "blends" that are mixtures of various things that sort of work ok, but there is not a good replacement even to date and stockpiles of R12 only get more expensive. But hey, Yay for the environment! More references: http://yarchive.net/ac/politics.html
One Word: Beano http://www.beanogas.com/ ...Being sealed inside a space capsule would give a whole new take on the ol' "Dutch Oven" treatment wouldn't it?
Self Correction, Here is the FULL 16384 x 8192 39.6MB TIFF image: http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//1438/land_lights_16384.tif Sourced: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_detail.php?id=1438
That's My Favorite Desktop Wallpaper! http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02991 Original Caption Released with Image: Global city lights. The Eastern U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while the interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America remain (for now) dark and lightly populated. (Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. Based on data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program). FULL RESOLUTION IMAGE: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA02991.tif
At what point in its development and/or what orifice does an "Embryonic Planet" have to pass through to be classified as "born" under this metaphor/anthropomorphism?
"While wearing the fNIRS device, test subjects viewed a multicolored cube consisting of eight smaller cubes with two, three or four different colors. As the cube rotated onscreen, subjects counted the number of colored squares in a series of 30 tasks."
...WILL IT BLEND? http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=chuck
they are also susceptible to the illusion of "beer goggles"? ...Next thing you know, your personal robot's software has it waking up in bed with your new Dyson vacuum and a strange Toaster! [There must be a Bender joke in here somewhere] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender_(Futurama)
...Because Al Gore invented the Internet and it would never waste energy causing Global Warming!
I should have written: "In order for Apple to have any hope of ~WINNING~ any DOD Bid Contract,... Apple would be forced to develop a USER FIELD REPLACEABLE battery and any firmware updates would not "brick" the radio once the military unlocked it." (...Now that I think of it, the Military would also NEVER use iTunes in order to get their radios working.)
To get a DOD bid contract, Apple would be forced to develop a USER FIELD REPLACEABLE battery and any firmware updates would not "brick" the radio once the military unlocked it.