It's not so much having a heat sink as having it stay on. The old spring clip system designed for the much smaller heat sinks of the P54C era aren't good enough now -- if someone could make a nice big heat sink for the Athlon that could bolt to either the motherboard or the case, that would be nice. Oh, and a heat spreader should be on the list, to prevent cracked dies.
If Europe's the destination, my first choice for a country would probably be the Netherlands. From what I've seen, they're far more progressive than the US, there's a good contingent of English speakers there (though I certainly wouldn't mind learning Dutch), and it just seems like a cool place.
Integer BASIC was Woz's handiwork. the later FPBASIC was a licensed port of Microsoft BASIC -- in fact, the ROM chip on my ROM1 IIgs has a "(C) MICROSOFT 77" message printed on it.
No...I'm having problems as well, reading it from my Win98-equipped work machine. I'm guessing it's Macintosh smart quotes that no one bothered to strip.
The worst solution by far would be to get the centralised involved. That way the government itself would, in a sense, own the right to the art. Not the artist, not the public.
Ultimately, it *does* come down to that. "IP rights" are usually granted by the government of whatever country you're in, and they reserve the right to set policy.
1) It's Western Digital that was buying IBM drives, and even them, only certain models are OEM IBM (and from what little I've seen of them, had WDC-made controllers on them as well).
2) Maxtor and Quantum HDD are merging, so that rules them out. That leaves Seagate and Fujitsu, basically.
1)Bios-wipe the disk clean. Wipe it with a friggin' magnet, if it won't let ya do it through official channels.
One problem with the magnet: Most hard drives made since 1992 (and all voice coil drives ever made, with the possible exception of certain older Quantums) keep servo and tracking information on the disks, as well as extra firmware and things like the drive serial number and defect map. Unless you *really* know what you're doing (and have access to equipment that can talk directly to the heads on the drive; a clean room is helpful too), taking any sort of magnet to a modern drive would cause damage only the factory could fix.
If you're using a nightly build, you should be warned that it's built directly from the latest CVS every night, and thus some things may work strangely or not at all (and it's definitely not meant to include Java and Flash out of the box). It's meant for developers that are tracking bugs, and for people that want to see how things are going -- it's not necessarily meant to be polished. This also goes for the milestones, though they're supposed to get better with time.
And to answer your questions:
* Debugging in the binaries, bookmarks not quite working, no helpers registered: See above about Mozilla's status. If something doesn't work, wait a few days and try a new build, or better yet, report the bug to the developers so it can get fixed.
* Getting Flash and Java working: For now, you have to install these manually. You can get the Java 2 plugin here, and for Flash, just use the existing Netscape 4 plugin (it'll grab it automatically on Windows, for Linux, copy it to.mozilla/plugins in your home directory).
I've seen drives (both Seagates; a ST32550N Barracuda 2LP and a ST36450A Medalist Pro 5400rpm) that have fit more than 4 platters into a 1" high form factor, actually (the Barracuda has 6, the Medalist has 5). Not sure if anyone else has done it, though.
Actually, you can do that with any liquid oil (though doing it with solid fat or animal fat is tricky because it gels more easily in cold temps), and the resulting mix of esters is supposed to be quite a bit cleaner-burning than regular #2 petroleum fuel oil (and also very easy to make; the process is very similar to soapmaking). I read most of what I know about it here. Based on what they say, this stuff is pretty cool.
Patents, as a general rule, aren't binding outside the country where they're issued, so if you patent something in the US, you can only enforce the monopoly in the US and its territories. This way, assuming the patent wasn't registered in Japan as well, Toshiba and Hitachi could go ahead and ignore the patent. If they did, though, they'd effectively be banned from selling SDRAM or DDR SDRAM in the US (or anyplace else where Rambus has patents active). It's like this for the RSA public-key algorithm as well; it's only patented in the US, and if you try to sell anything but RSA BSAFE here, RSA could sue you into oblivion (or at least into submission)...but outside the US, you can use the algorithm any way you see fit[1].
(Has anyone considered making a form of high-speed RAM that's easy to make and isn't covered by Rambus patents? Yes, I did look at the SLDRAM page, but there has to be other people trying.)
-lee
[1] The US RSA patent expires in September; after that, the algorithm is free to use by anyone.
"What if" whoever owns what's left of the Unix liscense were to suddenly try to "repossess" Linux? Absurd? Think about it.
Actually, this isn't a problem for Linux, since the Linux kernel doesn't have any code from AT&T UNIX in it. There *was* a squabble over this several years ago in the BSD community, stemming from a complaint by USL about certain parts of the 4.4BSD Net/2 distribution. After USL was sold to Novell, however, they were quick to settle, and both FreeBSD and NetBSD met the terms of the settlement (which involved deleting all the encumbered parts and rewriting them from scratch) by the end of 1994. Given all this, I'd say free unixen are fairly safe from any greedy interests.
How exactly would I go about determining something like that? Would a card just fail if there was not enough wattage? And forgive me if I'm EE clueless, but if it wanted more wattage, how did turning up the voltage help?
Well, first off, power supplies and regulators are only rated to put out a certain number of amps at a certain voltage; thickness of the leads and traces leading to the cards and components also plays a part. To make a long story short, when you start getting close to the physical limits, it causes brownouts, and digital devices are very sensitive to this.
Raising the voltage on the regulator counteracts some of this; with the voltage higher, the wattage available without causing a brownout is increased. Wattage is volts times amps, so if you increase the voltage, the amount of current you need for a certain wattage decreases. Thicker cables help because they reduce resistance in the power lines and give the regulators a better idea of what the power usage is.
Probably not. Distributed is trying to crack RC5-64 currently, and this chip doesn't do RC5 (I can't think of anything offhand that does that in hardware).
-lee
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Hm. That sounds almost like an episode fo the old series "Max Headroom", where the protagonist was investigating a rather Big Brother-ish company that ran all security and credit systems for possible insider trading, and he got marked as a criminal in their database (which was run by a giant AI that controlled *everything*). I'm kinda hoping things don't get *that* bad.
...considering who owns them. Their corporate parent (Time Warner) is one of the heavyweights in the DVD market (indeed, almost all of the DVDs I've seen are through Warner Home Video), and also one of the founding members of the DVD Forum. Actually telling the unbiased truth in this case isn't gonna be in their best interest.
-lee...I'm not buying any DVD-related products or equipment until this clears up. I already have a VCR, I'll live with VHS for now.
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There's a bug report in for that, number 18172. It appears to be some weirdness in the XPCOM code, and I've compiled it on my 3.3-S box with the stock gcc and gotten the exact same crash. The code in question is gcc-inlined assembler, though, so it's a bit over my head.
I've been reading these comments, and I figure I should add my two cents.
In another thread, someone talks about living life in a drug-induced haze. For the first 10 years of my life, things were quite hazy -- I was one of those kids that's unbelievably smart (I was reading at three, doing complex stats calculations and reading calculus books at about 8 or 9, and pinned Woodcock-Johnson every time I took it)...but it came with a price. I was very hyperactive, very curious, and tended to not do schoolwork because it was boring, or wander off either to explore or to diddle with something mechanical or electronic. Circa 1982, I was diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin...that calmed me down, but I started to regress into my own little world at times, especially if classes were boring me, and in some cases, the doses were so high that I became "stoned". Because of this (and my tendency to get obsessive crushes on people and not know how to handle them), I had few friends, and had a real difficulty telling what was wrong.
It was like this for about 10 years (and I count the years 1989-1990 as the worst in my history so far); by 1992, I had a new diagnosis, was on medicine for the obsessive thoughts (considered a form of OCD), and I slowly started getting better. I still got obsessive crushes on people (one of which lasted in force until this year, and got projected onto several people), but the cloud I'd been in since childhood is gone, and I can handle the obsessions much better. I've been off the medicine since 1998 (though this was more because I had no insurance and couldn't justify the cost), and I've managed to function in a fairly normal fashoin since then. Also, having people to talk to (mostly on IRC, which I discovered in 1996) helps a *lot*, and I count people there as my best friends.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that what you said is more or less the case for me...the medication change in 1992 helped me pull out of the fog, but (since some of my biggest hangups were with socialization) talking about it (and getting out there and doing things) helped more than any amount of Prozac or Anafranil could do alone.
Now I know that these reviews are intended for people to see what movies their kids shouldn't watch, but for some films (South Park comes to mind), they treat them as if they were so awful that NO ONE should see them at all.
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They damn well BETTER not, hell, my 1984 Colony Park has enough problems!
It's not so much having a heat sink as having it stay on. The old spring clip system designed for the much smaller heat sinks of the P54C era aren't good enough now -- if someone could make a nice big heat sink for the Athlon that could bolt to either the motherboard or the case, that would be nice. Oh, and a heat spreader should be on the list, to prevent cracked dies.
-lee...or they could always go back to Slot A...
It's AAVID [aavid.com], actually. Avid [avid.com] makes high-end video-editing and SAN gear, among other things.
-lee
If Europe's the destination, my first choice for a country would probably be the Netherlands. From what I've seen, they're far more progressive than the US, there's a good contingent of English speakers there (though I certainly wouldn't mind learning Dutch), and it just seems like a cool place.
-lee
Integer BASIC was Woz's handiwork. the later FPBASIC was a licensed port of Microsoft BASIC -- in fact, the ROM chip on my ROM1 IIgs has a "(C) MICROSOFT 77" message printed on it.
-lee
No...I'm having problems as well, reading it from my Win98-equipped work machine. I'm guessing it's Macintosh smart quotes that no one bothered to strip.
-lee
Seriously, has anybody every heard of a piece of lab gear called a "mouse homogenizer"? Not for the faint of heart...
And if you haven't, well, have fun.
-lee
The worst solution by far would be to get the centralised involved. That way the government itself would, in a sense, own the right to the art. Not the artist, not the public.
Ultimately, it *does* come down to that. "IP rights" are usually granted by the government of whatever country you're in, and they reserve the right to set policy.
-lee
How 'bout a less-than-official "firmware update"? :-)
:D
That'd work.
-lee
Two things I want to point out:
1) It's Western Digital that was buying IBM drives, and even them, only certain models are OEM IBM (and from what little I've seen of them, had WDC-made controllers on them as well).
2) Maxtor and Quantum HDD are merging, so that rules them out. That leaves Seagate and Fujitsu, basically.
-lee
1)Bios-wipe the disk clean. Wipe it with a friggin' magnet, if it won't let ya do it through official channels.
One problem with the magnet: Most hard drives made since 1992 (and all voice coil drives ever made, with the possible exception of certain older Quantums) keep servo and tracking information on the disks, as well as extra firmware and things like the drive serial number and defect map. Unless you *really* know what you're doing (and have access to equipment that can talk directly to the heads on the drive; a clean room is helpful too), taking any sort of magnet to a modern drive would cause damage only the factory could fix.
-lee
What about a gene called "I love you"?
:D
-lee
If you're using a nightly build, you should be warned that it's built directly from the latest CVS every night, and thus some things may work strangely or not at all (and it's definitely not meant to include Java and Flash out of the box). It's meant for developers that are tracking bugs, and for people that want to see how things are going -- it's not necessarily meant to be polished. This also goes for the milestones, though they're supposed to get better with time.
.mozilla/plugins in your home directory).
And to answer your questions:
* Debugging in the binaries, bookmarks not quite working, no helpers registered: See above about Mozilla's status. If something doesn't work, wait a few days and try a new build, or better yet, report the bug to the developers so it can get fixed.
* Getting Flash and Java working: For now, you have to install these manually. You can get the Java 2 plugin here, and for Flash, just use the existing Netscape 4 plugin (it'll grab it automatically on Windows, for Linux, copy it to
-lee
I've seen drives (both Seagates; a ST32550N Barracuda 2LP and a ST36450A Medalist Pro 5400rpm) that have fit more than 4 platters into a 1" high form factor, actually (the Barracuda has 6, the Medalist has 5). Not sure if anyone else has done it, though.
-lee
Actually, you can do that with any liquid oil (though doing it with solid fat or animal fat is tricky because it gels more easily in cold temps), and the resulting mix of esters is supposed to be quite a bit cleaner-burning than regular #2 petroleum fuel oil (and also very easy to make; the process is very similar to soapmaking). I read most of what I know about it here. Based on what they say, this stuff is pretty cool.
-lee
Patents, as a general rule, aren't binding outside the country where they're issued, so if you patent something in the US, you can only enforce the monopoly in the US and its territories. This way, assuming the patent wasn't registered in Japan as well, Toshiba and Hitachi could go ahead and ignore the patent. If they did, though, they'd effectively be banned from selling SDRAM or DDR SDRAM in the US (or anyplace else where Rambus has patents active). It's like this for the RSA public-key algorithm as well; it's only patented in the US, and if you try to sell anything but RSA BSAFE here, RSA could sue you into oblivion (or at least into submission)...but outside the US, you can use the algorithm any way you see fit[1].
(Has anyone considered making a form of high-speed RAM that's easy to make and isn't covered by Rambus patents? Yes, I did look at the SLDRAM page, but there has to be other people trying.)
-lee
[1] The US RSA patent expires in September; after that, the algorithm is free to use by anyone.
My bad, that should be 4. 3 BSD Net/2. The replacements for it were 4.4BSD Lite-1 (September 1993) and 4.4BSD Lite-2 (1995).
-lee
"What if" whoever owns what's left of the Unix liscense were to suddenly try to "repossess" Linux? Absurd? Think about it.
Actually, this isn't a problem for Linux, since the Linux kernel doesn't have any code from AT&T UNIX in it. There *was* a squabble over this several years ago in the BSD community, stemming from a complaint by USL about certain parts of the 4.4BSD Net/2 distribution. After USL was sold to Novell, however, they were quick to settle, and both FreeBSD and NetBSD met the terms of the settlement (which involved deleting all the encumbered parts and rewriting them from scratch) by the end of 1994. Given all this, I'd say free unixen are fairly safe from any greedy interests.
-lee
How exactly would I go about determining something like that? Would a card just fail if there was not enough wattage? And forgive me if I'm EE clueless, but if it wanted more wattage, how did turning up the voltage help?
Well, first off, power supplies and regulators are only rated to put out a certain number of amps at a certain voltage; thickness of the leads and traces leading to the cards and components also plays a part. To make a long story short, when you start getting close to the physical limits, it causes brownouts, and digital devices are very sensitive to this.
Raising the voltage on the regulator counteracts some of this; with the voltage higher, the wattage available without causing a brownout is increased. Wattage is volts times amps, so if you increase the voltage, the amount of current you need for a certain wattage decreases. Thicker cables help because they reduce resistance in the power lines and give the regulators a better idea of what the power usage is.
-lee
Probably not. Distributed is trying to crack RC5-64 currently, and this chip doesn't do RC5 (I can't think of anything offhand that does that in hardware).
-lee
Hm. That sounds almost like an episode fo the old series "Max Headroom", where the protagonist was investigating a rather Big Brother-ish company that ran all security and credit systems for possible insider trading, and he got marked as a criminal in their database (which was run by a giant AI that controlled *everything*). I'm kinda hoping things don't get *that* bad.
-lee
...considering who owns them. Their corporate parent (Time Warner) is one of the heavyweights in the DVD market (indeed, almost all of the DVDs I've seen are through Warner Home Video), and also one of the founding members of the DVD Forum. Actually telling the unbiased truth in this case isn't gonna be in their best interest.
-lee...I'm not buying any DVD-related products or equipment until this clears up. I already have a VCR, I'll live with VHS for now.
There's a bug report in for that, number 18172. It appears to be some weirdness in the XPCOM code, and I've compiled it on my 3.3-S box with the stock gcc and gotten the exact same crash. The code in question is gcc-inlined assembler, though, so it's a bit over my head.
-lee
I've been reading these comments, and I figure I should add my two cents.
In another thread, someone talks about living life in a drug-induced haze. For the first 10 years of my life, things were quite hazy -- I was one of those kids that's unbelievably smart (I was reading at three, doing complex stats calculations and reading calculus books at about 8 or 9, and pinned Woodcock-Johnson every time I took it)...but it came with a price. I was very hyperactive, very curious, and tended to not do schoolwork because it was boring, or wander off either to explore or to diddle with something mechanical or electronic. Circa 1982, I was diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin...that calmed me down, but I started to regress into my own little world at times, especially if classes were boring me, and in some cases, the doses were so high that I became "stoned". Because of this (and my tendency to get obsessive crushes on people and not know how to handle them), I had few friends, and had a real difficulty telling what was wrong.
It was like this for about 10 years (and I count the years 1989-1990 as the worst in my history so far); by 1992, I had a new diagnosis, was on medicine for the obsessive thoughts (considered a form of OCD), and I slowly started getting better. I still got obsessive crushes on people (one of which lasted in force until this year, and got projected onto several people), but the cloud I'd been in since childhood is gone, and I can handle the obsessions much better. I've been off the medicine since 1998 (though this was more because I had no insurance and couldn't justify the cost), and I've managed to function in a fairly normal fashoin since then. Also, having people to talk to (mostly on IRC, which I discovered in 1996) helps a *lot*, and I count people there as my best friends.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that what you said is more or less the case for me...the medication change in 1992 helped me pull out of the fog, but (since some of my biggest hangups were with socialization) talking about it (and getting out there and doing things) helped more than any amount of Prozac or Anafranil could do alone.
-lee
For extra added fun, go read their review of American Pie. It states right at the beginning that the reviewer walked out after just 44 minutes.
Now I know that these reviews are intended for people to see what movies their kids shouldn't watch, but for some films (South Park comes to mind), they treat them as if they were so awful that NO ONE should see them at all.
-lee