Here in Denmark, we have some guys working on a manned space flight: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
"Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space.
This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen,
based entirely on sponsors and volunteers."
Their progress is impressive!
Newer turbines don't lock the rotor if there is no emergency - they just pitch the blades so that they will not turn the rotor significantly. Therefore, the rotor may actually still rotate (slowly) even when the turbine is shut down.
Thanks.
If it was a smaller company where the impact on global pollution were negligible the decision would have been fine. Instead the OSes ended up on hundred of millions of computers which MS probably had expected. Some sort of workaround cannot have been that difficult to implement compared to the consequences. At least they could have made it easy for the consumers to turn on the HLT-instruction:-/
If you look a little back in time Microsoft was responsible for an insane waste of energy by not letting Windows 95 and 98 (and others) use the HLT-instruction to make processors save power. Back when I had my P2-300 it used 40 watts when idling under Linux 2.2 and 60 watts under Windows 98 (non-scientific measurement with a simple digital multimeter). Scale that difference up to all Windows 95 and 98 in the world and Microsoft doesn't seem so environment-friendly any longer.
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Regards
Jes Vestervang
Beware, it is probably quite noisy. I'd consider ripping the case and stuff it with a mini-itx board for the looks...although it is a litte blasphemic:-/
Actually I used percussive maintenance with great succes for a longer period about ten years ago.
It was a Commodore PC-I, 8088 4,77 MHz with some sort of expansion box with a 20MB Seagate hard drive. Sadly the drive refused to spin up. I was 13 at the time (the reason that I used such an old system) so I simply took the drive apart and found out that the problem was caused by locked bearings.
I tore it loose and the disk would run for a couple of days before the bearings locked again. After having repeated the procedure some times I found out that simple beating at the metal expansion box would knock the bearings loose. Eventually the case became pretty dented but the trick kept working:-)
Oh, I almost forgot my lousy Dell Inspiron 4100. Sometimes the screen flickers like crazy but that can be solved using percussive maintenance too:-)
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Here in Denmark, we have some guys working on a manned space flight: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ "Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space. This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, based entirely on sponsors and volunteers." Their progress is impressive!
Newer turbines don't lock the rotor if there is no emergency - they just pitch the blades so that they will not turn the rotor significantly. Therefore, the rotor may actually still rotate (slowly) even when the turbine is shut down.
Thanks. If it was a smaller company where the impact on global pollution were negligible the decision would have been fine. Instead the OSes ended up on hundred of millions of computers which MS probably had expected. Some sort of workaround cannot have been that difficult to implement compared to the consequences. At least they could have made it easy for the consumers to turn on the HLT-instruction :-/
If you look a little back in time Microsoft was responsible for an insane waste of energy by not letting Windows 95 and 98 (and others) use the HLT-instruction to make processors save power. Back when I had my P2-300 it used 40 watts when idling under Linux 2.2 and 60 watts under Windows 98 (non-scientific measurement with a simple digital multimeter). Scale that difference up to all Windows 95 and 98 in the world and Microsoft doesn't seem so environment-friendly any longer. -- Regards Jes Vestervang
No, the looks aren't blasphemic, stuffing it would be :-)
I should go to bed now...
Beware, it is probably quite noisy. I'd consider ripping the case and stuff it with a mini-itx board for the looks ...although it is a litte blasphemic :-/
Actually I used percussive maintenance with great succes for a longer period about ten years ago.
:-)
:-)
It was a Commodore PC-I, 8088 4,77 MHz with some sort of expansion box with a 20MB Seagate hard drive. Sadly the drive refused to spin up. I was 13 at the time (the reason that I used such an old system) so I simply took the drive apart and found out that the problem was caused by locked bearings.
I tore it loose and the disk would run for a couple of days before the bearings locked again. After having repeated the procedure some times I found out that simple beating at the metal expansion box would knock the bearings loose. Eventually the case became pretty dented but the trick kept working
Oh, I almost forgot my lousy Dell Inspiron 4100. Sometimes the screen flickers like crazy but that can be solved using percussive maintenance too