It's either a rare chip, or there is something wrong with it. It's in a Dell Latitude CPI and every diag util I've ran on it shows it as a PII 100. It's a nice laptop except it's slow as hell. If anybody knows anything I could do to make it run faster I would appreciate it.
It really doesn't matter. Knoppix is nice, but runs VERY slow on my PII 100Mhz 128Mb laptop, which is probably more advanced than anything he would find there. Maybe if he rebuilt it and took out all the games and some of the stuff that loads by default.
I've never really seen the use of a camera on a phone. The quality isn't going to be very good and once the novilty wears off, it's pretty much useless.
The only thing I think I could use the camera on a phone for is to get a camera into places they won't normaly let you take cameras....
My Wife is from Iceland and they still charge per/minute on landlines as well as cell phones. She said that alot of her friends got so used to typing SMSs that they don't even have to look at the phone.
A friend of mine had a NIC that did that. He went through two or three of his own mobos and a couple of his friends (I don't think mine ever touched it). He tried to sell it at a swapmeet/sale but for some reason it didn't go. Last I knew, he still had it laying around with a label on it that said "NIC of Death"
That quote is from "Pulp Fiction" and the whole basis around it's use in the movie is that it was misinterpreted and used to justify the killing to the charector. Here, read the whole quote from near the end of the movie:
Jules: Wanna know what I'm buyin' Ringo? Pumpkin: What? Jules: Your life. I'm givin' you that money so I don't hafta kill your ass. You read the Bible? Pumpkin: Not regularly. Jules: There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.
So, ask yourselves, in this conflict, who is the weak, who is the tyranny of evil men, and who is trying to be the shepherd?
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Well, the security badge I have for work works off the same concept (see my other post http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=57915&cid=5565 848 ) and it works from about 4-6 inches away. Depending on what your desk was made out of you could mount it to the bottom, and it could even be built into the desk. That would actually be a great idea, your whole desk could recharge anything you set on it. It could even put out enough power to run and charge your laptop.
I haven't had a land line in about 3 years. Cell phone for voice and cable modem for internet. I was never at home and nobody ever called my home phone anyway except for telemarketers. So, the only thing it was good for was an answering service.
Theoretically, charging time could be as fast or faster than a normal charger. The reciever circuit could easily be built into a cellphone battery to use in existing phones or even into a AA, AAA battery or battery back to use in about anything that is currently on the market without soldering.
It *could* operate on either 120 or 220, but the problem is the receiver gets the desired voltage through a ratio of the input voltage to the pad(just like a transformer), if you doubled the input voltage to the pad, you would double the output voltage of the receiver.
And, yes, you could make a mousepad out of it to use with a wireless mouse, but then your mouse pad would have to be plugged in. What would be the point of that?
The principal is the same thing that makes the current charger for your phone or power supply for your laptop work. They all have a transformer inside to step down the voltage coming from the wall. 110VAC goes through one coil in the transformer which is held close to another coil that is wrapped different so you get a lower AC voltage out the other side. There is no electrical connection, but since it's AC power, it creates a magnetic field that is picked up by the second coil. Then, it's just run through a rectifier and a filter to convert it to DC voltage to plug into your phone.
This is also the same concept that makes security badges at the last two companies I've worked for function. You get a sealed plastic badge that you just hold up next to (within about 5 inches) a "block" on the wall and it reads the data off it. The badge doesn't have a battery in it but is still able to transmit and never runs down. It works because the "block" is transmitting a low frequency radiation that is picked up by a coil in the badge which supplies power to it. That activates the circuit built into it (that has a number hard coded into it) and a tiny radio transmitter that transmits the number back to the "block" on a higher frequency. Both the badge and the "block" are encased in plastic and have no electrical connection to each other.
1, charging for email to limit spam is like limiting freedom of speech by charging people to talk.
2, by charging even a small fee for email, you would cut out some spam from small operations, but you would also be giving a green light to anybody that is willing to pay for it. You wouldn't have any recourse to take to stop them anymore.
The serial/parallel port will only be sending a number or other data to tell the circuit what color to make it. The frequencies/pulsewidth/whatever will be controlled by the circuit.
Obviously, you wouldn't be allowed to kill someone, but also situations like locking someone in a room or tying them up or anything where one player would be intruding on the constitutional rights of another user would have to be taken into consideration. Like in sex role-playing (bondage, BDSM...) there would have to be some kind of "codeword" players could use for emergencies, but to keep it from being overused, they could get some kind of penalty for using it.
1, Most large companies are using switched networks which prevents sniffing.
2, If you could sniff the network, all you would need to capture was login names and password hashes. Then just do a little LC4 at home and come back later with a laptop in a meeting room or try to VPN in from the public library with the logins you have.
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Hey, Sproqit, VNC called and wants his pants back.
Does anybody know how to get bittorrent to work through an http proxy? I don't want to wait until I get home to download it.
It's either a rare chip, or there is something wrong with it. It's in a Dell Latitude CPI and every diag util I've ran on it shows it as a PII 100. It's a nice laptop except it's slow as hell. If anybody knows anything I could do to make it run faster I would appreciate it.
It really doesn't matter. Knoppix is nice, but runs VERY slow on my PII 100Mhz 128Mb laptop, which is probably more advanced than anything he would find there. Maybe if he rebuilt it and took out all the games and some of the stuff that loads by default.
That's exactly the one I was looking for. I thought it should be #1, How could you beat the War of the Worlds?
Is is waterproof?
I've never really seen the use of a camera on a phone. The quality isn't going to be very good and once the novilty wears off, it's pretty much useless.
The only thing I think I could use the camera on a phone for is to get a camera into places they won't normaly let you take cameras....
like strip clubs.
My Wife is from Iceland and they still charge per/minute on landlines as well as cell phones. She said that alot of her friends got so used to typing SMSs that they don't even have to look at the phone.
A friend of mine had a NIC that did that. He went through two or three of his own mobos and a couple of his friends (I don't think mine ever touched it). He tried to sell it at a swapmeet/sale but for some reason it didn't go. Last I knew, he still had it laying around with a label on it that said "NIC of Death"
Only when you're young, after age 13 or so, your thyroid(sp) shuts off and your stuck with the immune system you have.
Actual Ezekiel 25:17 is in the bible, but it's quite different. The quote from the movie was mostly fabricated by Quentin.
That quote is from "Pulp Fiction" and the whole basis around it's use in the movie is that it was misinterpreted and used to justify the killing to the charector. Here, read the whole quote from near the end of the movie:
Jules: Wanna know what I'm buyin' Ringo?
Pumpkin: What?
Jules: Your life. I'm givin' you that money so I don't hafta kill your ass. You read the Bible?
Pumpkin: Not regularly.
Jules: There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.
So, ask yourselves, in this conflict, who is the weak, who is the tyranny of evil men, and who is trying to be the shepherd?
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Well, the security badge I have for work works off the same concept (see my other post http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=57915&cid=5565 848 ) and it works from about 4-6 inches away. Depending on what your desk was made out of you could mount it to the bottom, and it could even be built into the desk. That would actually be a great idea, your whole desk could recharge anything you set on it. It could even put out enough power to run and charge your laptop.
I haven't had a land line in about 3 years. Cell phone for voice and cable modem for internet. I was never at home and nobody ever called my home phone anyway except for telemarketers. So, the only thing it was good for was an answering service.
They put a COMPUTER on top of a TV?!?!?!?!?
Revenues are only higher because LCD displays are so expensive.
Theoretically, charging time could be as fast or faster than a normal charger. The reciever circuit could easily be built into a cellphone battery to use in existing phones or even into a AA, AAA battery or battery back to use in about anything that is currently on the market without soldering.
It *could* operate on either 120 or 220, but the problem is the receiver gets the desired voltage through a ratio of the input voltage to the pad(just like a transformer), if you doubled the input voltage to the pad, you would double the output voltage of the receiver.
And, yes, you could make a mousepad out of it to use with a wireless mouse, but then your mouse pad would have to be plugged in. What would be the point of that?
The principal is the same thing that makes the current charger for your phone or power supply for your laptop work. They all have a transformer inside to step down the voltage coming from the wall. 110VAC goes through one coil in the transformer which is held close to another coil that is wrapped different so you get a lower AC voltage out the other side. There is no electrical connection, but since it's AC power, it creates a magnetic field that is picked up by the second coil. Then, it's just run through a rectifier and a filter to convert it to DC voltage to plug into your phone.
This is also the same concept that makes security badges at the last two companies I've worked for function. You get a sealed plastic badge that you just hold up next to (within about 5 inches) a "block" on the wall and it reads the data off it. The badge doesn't have a battery in it but is still able to transmit and never runs down. It works because the "block" is transmitting a low frequency radiation that is picked up by a coil in the badge which supplies power to it. That activates the circuit built into it (that has a number hard coded into it) and a tiny radio transmitter that transmits the number back to the "block" on a higher frequency. Both the badge and the "block" are encased in plastic and have no electrical connection to each other.
1, charging for email to limit spam is like limiting freedom of speech by charging people to talk.
2, by charging even a small fee for email, you would cut out some spam from small operations, but you would also be giving a green light to anybody that is willing to pay for it. You wouldn't have any recourse to take to stop them anymore.
The serial/parallel port will only be sending a number or other data to tell the circuit what color to make it. The frequencies/pulsewidth/whatever will be controlled by the circuit.
Obviously, you wouldn't be allowed to kill someone, but also situations like locking someone in a room or tying them up or anything where one player would be intruding on the constitutional rights of another user would have to be taken into consideration. Like in sex role-playing (bondage, BDSM...) there would have to be some kind of "codeword" players could use for emergencies, but to keep it from being overused, they could get some kind of penalty for using it.
1, Most large companies are using switched networks which prevents sniffing.
2, If you could sniff the network, all you would need to capture was login names and password hashes. Then just do a little LC4 at home and come back later with a laptop in a meeting room or try to VPN in from the public library with the logins you have.
You have security dogs at your company?
90% of my email is spam