It takes about 10 minutes into the Episode 1 review before things really start getting awesome. After that I was hooked and I now base my life upon Lord Plinkett's teachings.
Exactly. I write software for PIC and AVR and I have a couple of dev kits for each but I end up using the prototype of the product once I am past the proof of concept phase. The point of Arduino is that a hobbyist can get something up and running quick but that's about it. It doesn't work out well when you're looking for a job in the MCU field and your experience is limited to slapping something together on Arduino.
I was about to post the same thing. I wouldn't hire someone who would give out their password just because they were asked. Chances are it's the same password for that person's email account if not other things.
I was home sick from kindergarten that day and I remember watching the explosion. Being 5 years old at the time I didn't know what to think about what I just saw. I remember hearing about the teacher in space program and thinking that the reason why the shuttle exploded was that aliens didn't want teachers in space so they blew it up.
I was toying with an idea to use fat to power a steam generator to solve the energy and obesity crisis in the USA. Basically you have all the fat people get major liposuction and the excess fat is used to fuel what would be the worlds largest grease fire. Maybe I could work out a way to use your mulch idea to solve the homeless problem.
He should use the 802.11b gear to troll his neighbors by reducing their bandwidth. The SSID should be something like "Hai Im In Ur Air Wavez Slowin Ur Downloadz" for full troll effect.
I've been using Sprint for almost 10 years now with no problems but I am seriously considering switching (most likely to Verizon) because of their poor Android 2.x smartphone selection.
What if the real objective wasn't to make a motion detector it was to get out of school early? I really feel for the kid though. When I was in sixth grade my friend and I came up with an idea to make our own ruby laser. Fortunately we couldn't find a synthetic ruby rod and xenon flash tube. I say fortunately because our master plan was to destroy the school.
I'd get a cluster of netbooks and duct tape them at the seams to keep dust out. They are cheap, low power, compact, and they have batteries so they have a UPS built in.
"HEY KIDS! Are YOU homeless?? Do you need a place to stay here on the INTERNET INFORMATION SUPERDUPER HIGHWAY? WELL YOU'RE IN LUCK KIDDO! Motherfucking illfuckinghostit.com has got all the goods for you to have a good time and SAVE MONEY! Shit dawg for $0.00 a month we can get you set up with just about anything your ass is looking for! Thats right! I SAID FREE! but only for a limited time, so GET YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN SHIT TOGETHER AND SIGN UP! (due to our infancy here at illfuckinghostit.com free registrations only include a website that points to http://yourusername.illfuckinghostit.com/ anything more you must first sign up then ask services@illfuckinghostit.com to set it up for you.)
You need web space? I'LL FUCKING HOST IT!
You need email? I'LL FUCKING HOST IT!
You need dns services? I'LL FUCKING HOST IT!
You need a whole fucking bunch of shit for a buisness internet site? shit dawg, I'LL FUCKING HOST IT! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SIGN THE FUCK UP!"
It's no different than auditing a course at a local college. I think this program is similar to MIT's open course-ware. You don't get credit for taking the class.
Weird. I wonder if it makes a difference if you purchase computers from the home user or business sites. At any rate I'm glad that you can still get the OS install disk by itself.
They used to do just that. I found an NT 4.0 disk from an old Compaq just the other day. This disk is a relic of computer history before the dark times... before the crapware...
These days you are lucky to get installation media at all since recovery partitions are included on most if not all new computers and the media costs money.
I'm sure that the agreement the OEM's strike with the crapware vendors mandates that the crapware gets reinstalled whenever Windows does. I can't imagine HP or Dell discontinuing this practice since any corporate IT person is most likely going to wipe the disk anyway and most home users can't be bothered to raise a fuss about it.
I would connect the original heads to a data logging device and manually control the servo motor. I would also buy an identical drive and recreate their experiment (as closely as possible) up to the point before they run dd. I would use a hex editor to locate the sectors that the data reside in and use that as a guide for where to look on their drive. That might rule out a lot of surface area to scan through.
Anyway, like you said the contest just isn't worth it. Ontrack is a huge data recovery company and I would believe they have put at least a little effort into researching this. If a data recovery company came up with a reliable way to recover a zero filled drive I'm sure it would make the evening news.
Actually we open the drive and replace the heads directly if that's what's required. Removing the platter stack is a very high risk move. This is especially true if the drive has multiple platters. The only reason I can think of to do that is if the motor fails.
The only way I can think of to complete their challenge is to hack the firmware of the drive so the head/track alignment is just a little off so maybe the heads can pick up a residual trace of the data. Even then I think it's too much effort to bother with.
After going through a few cheap routers I decided throw down some cash on a D-Link gaming router. It got rave reviews and I liked the fact that it had giga-bit Ethernet which was rare at the time (over two years ago) and it let me prioritize traffic (QoS?). It has performed flawlessly no matter what I do to stress it out. I could have bought two WRT54Gs for the price I paid for this but I swear the quality was worth it. I didn't know about using a router as a name server. I always used my own DNS. In any case I'd recommend turning of unnecessary features and ensuring the router isn't overheating. My old router (WR?54G) had a serious problem with heat.
He's right though. Don't be mad at 900ftJesus just because he is expressing his love for saving other people's data. Granted we are talking about some guys home computer setup and not an enterprise level solution. Tape isn't a good choice for home users simply because of the cost. External hard drives and Flash media are the way to go in this guys case.
Sure everyone indulges in some form of escapism but whenever I read a book or watch TV I can get up and walk away whenever I want without the characters getting pissed.
Any game that you can't put down at a moments notice without some sort of penalty is saying that the game itself is more important than anything else you might have going on.
What's the point of this encryption if you can plug the drive in to another PC and read the data anyway? From TFA "The built-in AES automatically encrypts all data when storing it on the hard disk drive and decrypts the data when read. Unlike software-based encryption, the key does not reside in the computer's memory."
So what's stopping me from pulling this drive and reading the data on another computer if the act of reading data decrypts the information? How does the hard drive authenticate valid computers? Can someone explain please?
I wonder if they will remove references to the "American Empire" and other things that might cause a fuss. Also, Saito will have to get used to carrying around a huge walkie-talkie.
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It takes about 10 minutes into the Episode 1 review before things really start getting awesome. After that I was hooked and I now base my life upon Lord Plinkett's teachings.
Exactly. I write software for PIC and AVR and I have a couple of dev kits for each but I end up using the prototype of the product once I am past the proof of concept phase. The point of Arduino is that a hobbyist can get something up and running quick but that's about it. It doesn't work out well when you're looking for a job in the MCU field and your experience is limited to slapping something together on Arduino.
I was about to post the same thing. I wouldn't hire someone who would give out their password just because they were asked. Chances are it's the same password for that person's email account if not other things.
I was home sick from kindergarten that day and I remember watching the explosion. Being 5 years old at the time I didn't know what to think about what I just saw. I remember hearing about the teacher in space program and thinking that the reason why the shuttle exploded was that aliens didn't want teachers in space so they blew it up.
I was toying with an idea to use fat to power a steam generator to solve the energy and obesity crisis in the USA. Basically you have all the fat people get major liposuction and the excess fat is used to fuel what would be the worlds largest grease fire. Maybe I could work out a way to use your mulch idea to solve the homeless problem.
He should use the 802.11b gear to troll his neighbors by reducing their bandwidth. The SSID should be something like "Hai Im In Ur Air Wavez Slowin Ur Downloadz" for full troll effect.
I've been using Sprint for almost 10 years now with no problems but I am seriously considering switching (most likely to Verizon) because of their poor Android 2.x smartphone selection.
What if the real objective wasn't to make a motion detector it was to get out of school early? I really feel for the kid though. When I was in sixth grade my friend and I came up with an idea to make our own ruby laser. Fortunately we couldn't find a synthetic ruby rod and xenon flash tube. I say fortunately because our master plan was to destroy the school.
I'd get a cluster of netbooks and duct tape them at the seams to keep dust out. They are cheap, low power, compact, and they have batteries so they have a UPS built in.
I thought it went to the island of misfit code.
It sucks that they were bought out by some company that made them clean up their homepage. Here's an excerpt from http://web.archive.org/web/20030417233012/http://www.illfuckinghostit.com/
"HEY KIDS! Are YOU homeless?? Do you need a place to stay here on the INTERNET INFORMATION SUPERDUPER HIGHWAY? WELL YOU'RE IN LUCK KIDDO! Motherfucking illfuckinghostit.com has got all the goods for you to have a good time and SAVE MONEY! Shit dawg for $0.00 a month we can get you set up with just about anything your ass is looking for! Thats right! I SAID FREE! but only for a limited time, so GET YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN SHIT TOGETHER AND SIGN UP! (due to our infancy here at illfuckinghostit.com free registrations only include a website that points to http://yourusername.illfuckinghostit.com/ anything more you must first sign up then ask services@illfuckinghostit.com to set it up for you.) You need web space? I'LL FUCKING HOST IT! You need email? I'LL FUCKING HOST IT! You need dns services? I'LL FUCKING HOST IT! You need a whole fucking bunch of shit for a buisness internet site? shit dawg, I'LL FUCKING HOST IT! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SIGN THE FUCK UP!"
It's no different than auditing a course at a local college. I think this program is similar to MIT's open course-ware. You don't get credit for taking the class.
I use http://lolcode.com/examples for all my LOLCODE programs.
Weird. I wonder if it makes a difference if you purchase computers from the home user or business sites. At any rate I'm glad that you can still get the OS install disk by itself.
These days you are lucky to get installation media at all since recovery partitions are included on most if not all new computers and the media costs money.
I'm sure that the agreement the OEM's strike with the crapware vendors mandates that the crapware gets reinstalled whenever Windows does. I can't imagine HP or Dell discontinuing this practice since any corporate IT person is most likely going to wipe the disk anyway and most home users can't be bothered to raise a fuss about it.
I would connect the original heads to a data logging device and manually control the servo motor. I would also buy an identical drive and recreate their experiment (as closely as possible) up to the point before they run dd. I would use a hex editor to locate the sectors that the data reside in and use that as a guide for where to look on their drive. That might rule out a lot of surface area to scan through.
Anyway, like you said the contest just isn't worth it. Ontrack is a huge data recovery company and I would believe they have put at least a little effort into researching this. If a data recovery company came up with a reliable way to recover a zero filled drive I'm sure it would make the evening news.
The only way I can think of to complete their challenge is to hack the firmware of the drive so the head/track alignment is just a little off so maybe the heads can pick up a residual trace of the data. Even then I think it's too much effort to bother with.
Nuke it from orbit of course. Just to be sure.
If you only install quality drivers and hardwar[e], a MS system can go months without a reboot. Stop downloading drivers and installing random fixes.
Preach on brother! I haven't looked at Linksys stuff for myself in a long time. I don't have a brand preference really I just like stuff that works.
After going through a few cheap routers I decided throw down some cash on a D-Link gaming router. It got rave reviews and I liked the fact that it had giga-bit Ethernet which was rare at the time (over two years ago) and it let me prioritize traffic (QoS?). It has performed flawlessly no matter what I do to stress it out. I could have bought two WRT54Gs for the price I paid for this but I swear the quality was worth it. I didn't know about using a router as a name server. I always used my own DNS. In any case I'd recommend turning of unnecessary features and ensuring the router isn't overheating. My old router (WR?54G) had a serious problem with heat.
Linus, is that you?
He's right though. Don't be mad at 900ftJesus just because he is expressing his love for saving other people's data. Granted we are talking about some guys home computer setup and not an enterprise level solution. Tape isn't a good choice for home users simply because of the cost. External hard drives and Flash media are the way to go in this guys case.
Any game that you can't put down at a moments notice without some sort of penalty is saying that the game itself is more important than anything else you might have going on.
So what's stopping me from pulling this drive and reading the data on another computer if the act of reading data decrypts the information? How does the hard drive authenticate valid computers? Can someone explain please?
I wonder if they will remove references to the "American Empire" and other things that might cause a fuss. Also, Saito will have to get used to carrying around a huge walkie-talkie.