The only special items I would suggest would be some cheap air filters (probably a sponge sheet where you can use scissors and cut things to size) for your fan intakes and an optical mouse. A lot of posters have suggested using old equipment, which is a good idea if you want to keep your main machine nice and pretty, but using an old roller-ball style mouse in a shop environment is asking for problems. Imagine all the crap that would get gummed up in that thing... ew.
Nicolai Tesla demonstrated electrical power could be sent wirelessly, so why bother with all the equipment? Hell, just piggyback broadband on wireless power transmission! No wires, no repeaters every km, no grid to break down -- just one huge global RF field for porn and p2p for all! I want to instantaneously download everything into my iMac from a bolt of lightning from the sky... yeah, now THAT'S the internet I want...
Too bad we'd all have to walk around with tinfoil caps.
I've done a few (as in as I can count the total jobs I've done on my left hand) projects for programmers who couldn't design their way out of a wet paper bag. Problem is that not too many programmers have approached me with work, so it remains a hobby for me. It's been my experience that programmers simply don't want to deal with giving even small parts of their projects to others, quite likely out of fear that someone will shanghai their hard work. It's a legitimate concern, sure, but most graphic designers/artists aren't looking to burgle your code...
If you're having trouble with with your graphics, then by all means give the job to someone else. Please. There are plenty of folks who speak the same language you do who will do the work you need on the cheap.
Even though the chances are remote, finding undeniable evidence of alien life on Titan will forever change how we look at the universe and how life actually works. Suppose there is something alive on Titan... what is its biochemical makeup? How does it metabolize? Reproduce? If there is something there, it'll be quite unlike anything we've ever encountered.
It would be interesting to see the general political, scientific, and public reaction here on Earth if the Huygens probe due to be released in January manages to snap an image of a gaping maw full of teeth just before it goes silent...
Another approach you could take is to take steps to make your household more energy efficient -- upgrade your insulation, get energy star rated appliances, change to flourescents -- all of those things we should have learned in school and keep learning about in the adverts that come with our energy bills.
You could look into alternative energy sources, but since cost is a factor, I won't go into details, except to say the up-front costs can be prohibitive.
In all honesty, a generator IS your best option if you want to keep running in a blackout. You may be able to poke around and find a used one for 1/3 the cost of the new article.
If that's still not an option, build a fire pit and stock up on wood...
Not that I can see what the all-in-one G3's have to do with running Linux with the G5 liquid-cooling system, but you CAN install OS X on the all-in-one machines (and other older 'unsupported' power macs) with XPostFacto3.
As for price... well, it no fault but your own if you're going to be cheap.:)
Perhaps you could help by posting more information or maybe more informative links on this technology so we could clear this issue up a bit. Posting trolls and flamebait isn't going to help educate others on what your friend has been working on, nor will it stem the flow of FUD about TC-enabled boards.
This is a troll and flamebait on a slippery slope spiced with namecalling. I can only assume from this that you're not here to openly discuss the topic and the possible pros and cons of TC-enabled boards.
Your input on this topic has certainly been welcome and informative -- but your troll has not.
Just making sure I'm clear on this: the chip is a little encryption-dedicated device, and is not designed with little gremlins, foo fighters, faeries, or evil spirits. It is embedded in the hardware, and it is not readily removeable (but it can be switched off by those who know how), nor is there any readily easy distinction between TC boards and non-TC boards. I'm not intentionally "spreading lies" or "repeating rumors". I am voicing my concerns about what the article itself stated... and I DID say that it would actually be a very good thing for most users.
Sure, I could turn it off in the BIOS, but Joe Six-Pack isn't going to know this, and maybe that's just as well. Joe Six-Pack would be better off with it, and we'd all be better of if Joe Six-Pack had it. I'd personally just as soon not have it there on my own machine in the first place. That should be an option. That's all I'm saying here. I'm not knocking the technology. I'm simply pointing out that it should be optional, and not embedded like a hardware version of IE.
Umm... maybe I should've used "slashdotter"? Or maybe I should have stuck with "technologically literate"...
I agree that this chip would make a VERY secure system that the CIA couldn't hope to crack into in any reasonable length of time. But as an example of what I was trying to say (and probably should have said outright in the first place) is that you know most users out there don't even know what a firewall is, let alone how to use one -- most users have no clue about how easily simple passwords can be hacked. Most users have NO clue how to encrypt much of anything, but I'm sure you know all of these things. I was more concerned about the what was stated in the article:
"...trusted chips will eventually be used by software manufacturers to make sure the computer's owner does not do anything with the software which the manufacturer does not want to permit"
Now a super-secure system would be great, but do you honestly want something in your box that keeps you from running what you tell it to run? I could be wrong about this, but it's what this sound like to me: a super-encrypted safebox that won't let me check my e-mail if I don't use the approved e-mail application for that computer.
I'm sorry, but something about that is just WRONG.
This could be a good idea IF it were optional, rather than embedded in every single chip that rolls off the line. Most of us know that the majority of sytems out there are horribly insecure, mostly because their users have no idea what to do when it comes to sysstem security. This hardware could be marketed towards the technically challenged, and it would tie up a lot of the loose ends that give headaches to those of us who know what the hell we're actually doing.
The problem is that including this across the board will cause more headaces in the long run than it would cure. I certainly have no need for such hardware, and I'm pretty damned sure most of the readers here don't need it, either. If we had these things embedded in our own systems, it would cause us more problems than it would solve.
Techheads don't need this chip... but AOL users do. if its optional, I'm all for the idea -- but if it's just going to be there, then I don't want anything to do with it.
Income through litigation doesn't do jack for software innovation. Unfortunately, this is the very tack that a lot of companies (SCO, Kodak, et al) seem to be using now.
Thing is that though this may bring nice dividends in the short term, in the long run these litigating profiteers will sink in the mud. No one is going to buy into a software company whose product code depends on updates from lawyers.
However, if litigated code is the future of software (see SCO's mission statement), one is left wondering when lawyers are going to be outsourced...
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Are we all going to need tinfoil caps?
Who cares? If there's something crapping out fourty pound gold pieces like this on Mars then the mission already has paid for itself!
The only special items I would suggest would be some cheap air filters (probably a sponge sheet where you can use scissors and cut things to size) for your fan intakes and an optical mouse. A lot of posters have suggested using old equipment, which is a good idea if you want to keep your main machine nice and pretty, but using an old roller-ball style mouse in a shop environment is asking for problems. Imagine all the crap that would get gummed up in that thing... ew.
Nicolai Tesla demonstrated electrical power could be sent wirelessly, so why bother with all the equipment? Hell, just piggyback broadband on wireless power transmission! No wires, no repeaters every km, no grid to break down -- just one huge global RF field for porn and p2p for all! I want to instantaneously download everything into my iMac from a bolt of lightning from the sky... yeah, now THAT'S the internet I want...
Too bad we'd all have to walk around with tinfoil caps.
DVD Player STILL isn't working!!!
Thankfully the fine folks on the VCL project know what they're doing.
(Everything else seems pretty much the same, although the OS doesn't hog quite as much CPU as it used to...)
I've done a few (as in as I can count the total jobs I've done on my left hand) projects for programmers who couldn't design their way out of a wet paper bag. Problem is that not too many programmers have approached me with work, so it remains a hobby for me. It's been my experience that programmers simply don't want to deal with giving even small parts of their projects to others, quite likely out of fear that someone will shanghai their hard work. It's a legitimate concern, sure, but most graphic designers/artists aren't looking to burgle your code...
If you're having trouble with with your graphics, then by all means give the job to someone else. Please. There are plenty of folks who speak the same language you do who will do the work you need on the cheap.
Please mod this overbaked comment down. I was blinded by the possibilities of projected pocket porn...
Is that a projection in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Even though the chances are remote, finding undeniable evidence of alien life on Titan will forever change how we look at the universe and how life actually works. Suppose there is something alive on Titan... what is its biochemical makeup? How does it metabolize? Reproduce? If there is something there, it'll be quite unlike anything we've ever encountered.
It would be interesting to see the general political, scientific, and public reaction here on Earth if the Huygens probe due to be released in January manages to snap an image of a gaping maw full of teeth just before it goes silent...
Another approach you could take is to take steps to make your household more energy efficient -- upgrade your insulation, get energy star rated appliances, change to flourescents -- all of those things we should have learned in school and keep learning about in the adverts that come with our energy bills.
You could look into alternative energy sources, but since cost is a factor, I won't go into details, except to say the up-front costs can be prohibitive.
In all honesty, a generator IS your best option if you want to keep running in a blackout. You may be able to poke around and find a used one for 1/3 the cost of the new article.
If that's still not an option, build a fire pit and stock up on wood...
Apple virus is
Hot air, FUD and a bash script
Run as root user.
At the risk of being off-topic...
:)
Not that I can see what the all-in-one G3's have to do with running Linux with the G5 liquid-cooling system, but you CAN install OS X on the all-in-one machines (and other older 'unsupported' power macs) with XPostFacto3.
As for price... well, it no fault but your own if you're going to be cheap.
None of these device's interfaces impresses me as much as the iPod.
If there's anything that's going to kill the iPod it'll be its lack of Ogg Vorbis support...
I agree. You should be able to pick up an old iMac that will do the job on eBay for well under $200.
Just what we all need... an electronic Driver's Ed teacher!
Hey, I like awful B-Movies... so my statement was probably biased. I don't think DeForest ever had a bad toupeé, though...
I agree.
Perhaps you could help by posting more information or maybe more informative links on this technology so we could clear this issue up a bit. Posting trolls and flamebait isn't going to help educate others on what your friend has been working on, nor will it stem the flow of FUD about TC-enabled boards.
This is a troll and flamebait on a slippery slope spiced with namecalling. I can only assume from this that you're not here to openly discuss the topic and the possible pros and cons of TC-enabled boards.
Your input on this topic has certainly been welcome and informative -- but your troll has not.
Just making sure I'm clear on this: the chip is a little encryption-dedicated device, and is not designed with little gremlins, foo fighters, faeries, or evil spirits. It is embedded in the hardware, and it is not readily removeable (but it can be switched off by those who know how), nor is there any readily easy distinction between TC boards and non-TC boards. I'm not intentionally "spreading lies" or "repeating rumors". I am voicing my concerns about what the article itself stated... and I DID say that it would actually be a very good thing for most users.
Sure, I could turn it off in the BIOS, but Joe Six-Pack isn't going to know this, and maybe that's just as well. Joe Six-Pack would be better off with it, and we'd all be better of if Joe Six-Pack had it. I'd personally just as soon not have it there on my own machine in the first place. That should be an option. That's all I'm saying here. I'm not knocking the technology. I'm simply pointing out that it should be optional, and not embedded like a hardware version of IE.
"They don't have to pay expensive actors..." Can I assume that is why they called Shatner?
DeForest Kelly must be rolling in his grave...
Umm... maybe I should've used "slashdotter"? Or maybe I should have stuck with "technologically literate"...
I agree that this chip would make a VERY secure system that the CIA couldn't hope to crack into in any reasonable length of time. But as an example of what I was trying to say (and probably should have said outright in the first place) is that you know most users out there don't even know what a firewall is, let alone how to use one -- most users have no clue about how easily simple passwords can be hacked. Most users have NO clue how to encrypt much of anything, but I'm sure you know all of these things. I was more concerned about the what was stated in the article:
"...trusted chips will eventually be used by software manufacturers to make sure the computer's owner does not do anything with the software which the manufacturer does not want to permit"
Now a super-secure system would be great, but do you honestly want something in your box that keeps you from running what you tell it to run? I could be wrong about this, but it's what this sound like to me: a super-encrypted safebox that won't let me check my e-mail if I don't use the approved e-mail application for that computer.
I'm sorry, but something about that is just WRONG.
Outsource all the lawyers to India. That way legal fees for downloading music on p2p will be the same price as a download from iTunes.
This could be a good idea IF it were optional, rather than embedded in every single chip that rolls off the line. Most of us know that the majority of sytems out there are horribly insecure, mostly because their users have no idea what to do when it comes to sysstem security. This hardware could be marketed towards the technically challenged, and it would tie up a lot of the loose ends that give headaches to those of us who know what the hell we're actually doing.
The problem is that including this across the board will cause more headaces in the long run than it would cure. I certainly have no need for such hardware, and I'm pretty damned sure most of the readers here don't need it, either. If we had these things embedded in our own systems, it would cause us more problems than it would solve.
Techheads don't need this chip... but AOL users do. if its optional, I'm all for the idea -- but if it's just going to be there, then I don't want anything to do with it.
Income through litigation doesn't do jack for software innovation. Unfortunately, this is the very tack that a lot of companies (SCO, Kodak, et al) seem to be using now. Thing is that though this may bring nice dividends in the short term, in the long run these litigating profiteers will sink in the mud. No one is going to buy into a software company whose product code depends on updates from lawyers. However, if litigated code is the future of software (see SCO's mission statement), one is left wondering when lawyers are going to be outsourced...