You should try the Maxtor DiamondMAX 9 Plus with liquid bearings series. It is amazingly silent too. You have to put your head next to the case to hear it purring softly while doing an updatedb (heavy disk activity) for example. Very cool. Now I only need to silence my PSU and CPU fans.:-)
Often layouts like that are done by computer. One of my university buddies worked on a project at a large consumer electronics corp where they were looking to improve layouts by use of lots of math theory (I don't know the specifics). It was sort of a linear programming problem: Try to minimize total length of wires, subject to problems with heat dissapation, maximal transmission times, etc.
So I'm saying it might have been a coincidence. On the other hand, if there really are people like this, there's hope yet...:-)
The biggest problem with trying to do this is that electromagnetic waves drop off very, very rapidly as they propagate through space, and to counter this you need a huge generator.
Isn't that what the inverse square law is about... or not? The link seems to suggest it only happens to omnidirectional point sources of radiation. So if a beam is sent out on a "tight" angle it no longer follows this law? What applies in this case?
Okay, so I guess I'm just wondering what sort of powerloss there would be over a particular distance if you used parabolic antennas. With regular telecom microwave links you need repeaters if you're covering a longer distance. Repeaters wouldn't be much good if its power you're distributing.:-)
"Yea, so what the slats extention switch can be accidentally turned on by an unintentional movement, possibly causing passenter-injury. Tell the pilots to be more careful and not fuck up."
No, they didn't. They said,
"Ok, so this is a problem. Why don't we cover the slats switch with a spherical clear cover that has to be unhinged before extending slats -- that way, they won't get extended at 500mph and cause the plane to trolly."
Heh, so this was an actual problem in the aircraft industry? I just finished reading Micheal Crichtons 'Airframe' in which this problem is a large part of the story. Its an excellent book, very well written and hard to put down, like his other books.
I actually just read New Rose Hotel in the Burning Chrome short story collection. I don't think its that great, and besides, he's done a much better Maas -> Hosaka defection story with Count Zero.
Well, you need interest in a project as well. I had a scratch to be itched, but the union of the set "people who code" and "people who skydive" is very small. For some reason people aren't as interested in my project. I have #2, am lacking #1 and #3 for lack of interest from people also interested in the same. So I think that your theory about being able to find #1 and create #3 doesn't always work.:-)
screen -d -m while true; do wget -O/dev/null -m http://EmarketersAmerica.org; sleep 2; done
:-)
Oh yeah I was wondering, if I'd really want to send my spam to email addresses listed on the website, how would I go about making sure that my own email address was obfuscated/removed so it wouldn't end up on lots of their mailing lists?
This reminds me of the Monty Python sketch: Silly Job Interview / Careers Advisory Board (Google cache). The interviewer basically confuses the hell out of the interviewee. Hilarious.
Sorry the original page this was on died. Sorry can't post it here cause the lameness filter is too lame.
Yeah, um... some of us don't live in the US, remember? And besides Britain, I don't think the TiVo is offered anywhere else. So, for a lot of us there is no TiVo option, however much we'd like one. The homebrew PVR is the only option.
So how about providing a cell phone with a generator from one of these forever flashlights? Just shake your phone a couple times and it's recharged.
Okay, I realize you'd need quite a bit of shaking, since a LED uses a lot less power than the transmitter of your mobile phone, but still... maybe in the future, phones get smaller, need less power because cells get smaller maybe. Ah well, wishfull thinking...
Try Overnet. They have a Linux client, they have set and forget. They have file hashes, multiple source downloading. They have very good fileindexes from which you can get your MD4 hashes (you basically paste the hash into your client, and it merrily goes and gets the file from various places).
Overnet is the new serverless eDonkey client. The eDonkey network was not scalable because it relied on centralized servers (anyone could run a server, but it was centralized all the same). Overnet has no such problems and it works fantastically.
What about the part where Neo is first flushed out of the "system". He's dumped in some sort of lake, where he starts drowning, right before the Nebucannazar picks him up. He doesn't seem to have any trouble breathing there (except for being unable to swim and having difficulties coping with breathing water:-))
Cheers,
Costyn.
Re:maybe get this on the bittorrent server?
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Underworld Trailer
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You can grab mms:// urls with MMS Client or feed it straight to mplayer, which will stream it.
If you wanna watch it under Linux, you can use mplayer, which will play straight in mozilla if you have the mozilla-mplayer plugin.
Or if you wanna save it onto your HD you can view the HTML source and pick out the URL. Get the asx file with wget. Then take the mms:// link that is in there and feed it to MMS client.
These (mozilla plugin, mplayer, mmsclient) are all available as Debian packages.:-)
Hear ye hear ye. A bunch of my fellow students and I have been using Prosper, a slide making package for LaTeX. Only it doesn't look like the regular slide package that comes with LaTeX. Very slick, not at all boring or bland. And of course with all the equation power of LaTeX. And they're not hard to make either.
The output is PDF files, which for presentations can be displayed easily in fullscreen on anything that will display PDF files. We have recieved many comments on how slick the presentations look, especially the equations which are unequalled by any MS package.
See the screenshots. The Contemporain and White Cross styles are very beautiful.
So how come there are no French cars in the US? Citroën, Peugeot, and Renault make pretty decent cars. While there are lots of German and Scandinavian cars in the US, I've never actually seen any French cars there. You guys don't hate the French that much, do you?
Well, my moms computer was being really flakey the other day. It would run for a while, and then suddenly reboot. Or switch off suddenly. So anyhow one day it refused to start up. The HD light would flicker happily, as if going through IDE scan, but the weird thing was the power light would stay off. There was no output to the screen. There were no BIOS beep codes.
This was not Bonzi's doing. Definately weird crap going on, not due to clueless user (my mom isn't actually that clueless)
So first I cleaned up the memory card (there was a bunch of dust on it blown onto it from the CPU fan). I put the memory in a different slot. That helped, for a couple days, when the same symptoms happened again. So, I opened up the powersupply, took care of all the dust in there, cause the symptoms kinda were looking like a power supply problem.
So that didn't help anything. My last resort before going out and buying a new power supply was to reset the CMOS.
That worked, amazingly.
While I'd never tweaked any funny settings in the BIOS setup, so I'm having a hard time explaining these symptoms/solution. I think this fits into the category of a computer becoming neurotic and needing a "clean" start.
Hey, great article, ololiuhqui. Now I have a question: how exactly would you pronounce 'ololiuhqui'?:-)
Re:Somebody hang Tomothy by his toenails
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Okay, well, I've downloaded the latest Knoppix ISO and am running Overnet, so here's the eDonkey link (you would be able to download from me if you have Overnet or the hybrid client):
My awesome ISP took their own initiative and set up various scripts and pages where you can figure out how to set up your own 6in4 tunnel and network. They even have some CGI scripts which generate settings for your flavour of OS which you can type in and it'll just work. (sorry, the scripts are behind a login, so I can't link to them).
Also how to set up the machine you have your tunnel endpoint as being a router for the rest of your internal network (with radvd, etc). Very cool. XS4ALL rocks! THE Geek/nerd friendly ISP.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
You should try the Maxtor DiamondMAX 9 Plus with liquid bearings series. It is amazingly silent too. You have to put your head next to the case to hear it purring softly while doing an updatedb (heavy disk activity) for example. Very cool. Now I only need to silence my PSU and CPU fans. :-)
Cheers!
Costyn.
Often layouts like that are done by computer. One of my university buddies worked on a project at a large consumer electronics corp where they were looking to improve layouts by use of lots of math theory (I don't know the specifics). It was sort of a linear programming problem: Try to minimize total length of wires, subject to problems with heat dissapation, maximal transmission times, etc.
:-)
So I'm saying it might have been a coincidence. On the other hand, if there really are people like this, there's hope yet...
Isn't that what the inverse square law is about... or not? The link seems to suggest it only happens to omnidirectional point sources of radiation. So if a beam is sent out on a "tight" angle it no longer follows this law? What applies in this case?
Okay, so I guess I'm just wondering what sort of powerloss there would be over a particular distance if you used parabolic antennas. With regular telecom microwave links you need repeaters if you're covering a longer distance. Repeaters wouldn't be much good if its power you're distributing.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Heh, so this was an actual problem in the aircraft industry? I just finished reading Micheal Crichtons 'Airframe' in which this problem is a large part of the story. Its an excellent book, very well written and hard to put down, like his other books.
Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Costyn.
What the hell is a spork? Spoonfork? Okay, never mind... Google to the rescue:
... sporks.
Since we're talking about weird websites, might as well mention this one dedicated to
Amazing...
I actually just read New Rose Hotel in the Burning Chrome short story collection. I don't think its that great, and besides, he's done a much better Maas -> Hosaka defection story with Count Zero.
So whats the big deal with New Rose Hotel?
Cheers,
Costyn.
Well, you need interest in a project as well. I had a scratch to be itched, but the union of the set "people who code" and "people who skydive" is very small. For some reason people aren't as interested in my project. I have #2, am lacking #1 and #3 for lack of interest from people also interested in the same. So I think that your theory about being able to find #1 and create #3 doesn't always work. :-)
Cheers,
Costyn.
Everybody now:
/dev/null -m http://EmarketersAmerica.org; sleep 2; done
:-)
screen -d -m while true; do wget -O
Oh yeah I was wondering, if I'd really want to send my spam to email addresses listed on the website, how would I go about making sure that my own email address was obfuscated/removed so it wouldn't end up on lots of their mailing lists?
Cheers!
Costyn
This reminds me of the Monty Python sketch: Silly Job Interview / Careers Advisory Board (Google cache). The interviewer basically confuses the hell out of the interviewee. Hilarious.
Sorry the original page this was on died. Sorry can't post it here cause the lameness filter is too lame.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I can't buy a TiVo where I live. Homebrew PVR is my only option.
Yeah, um... some of us don't live in the US, remember? And besides Britain, I don't think the TiVo is offered anywhere else. So, for a lot of us there is no TiVo option, however much we'd like one. The homebrew PVR is the only option.
Cheers,
Costyn.
So how about providing a cell phone with a generator from one of these forever flashlights? Just shake your phone a couple times and it's recharged.
Okay, I realize you'd need quite a bit of shaking, since a LED uses a lot less power than the transmitter of your mobile phone, but still... maybe in the future, phones get smaller, need less power because cells get smaller maybe. Ah well, wishfull thinking...
Cheers!
Costyn.
Try Overnet. They have a Linux client, they have set and forget. They have file hashes, multiple source downloading. They have very good file indexes from which you can get your MD4 hashes (you basically paste the hash into your client, and it merrily goes and gets the file from various places).
Overnet is the new serverless eDonkey client. The eDonkey network was not scalable because it relied on centralized servers (anyone could run a server, but it was centralized all the same). Overnet has no such problems and it works fantastically.
Have fun!
Cheers,
Costyn.
What about the part where Neo is first flushed out of the "system". He's dumped in some sort of lake, where he starts drowning, right before the Nebucannazar picks him up. He doesn't seem to have any trouble breathing there (except for being unable to swim and having difficulties coping with breathing water :-))
Cheers,
Costyn.
You can grab mms:// urls with MMS Client or feed it straight to mplayer, which will stream it.
Cheers!
CvD.
If you wanna watch it under Linux, you can use mplayer, which will play straight in mozilla if you have the mozilla-mplayer plugin.
:-)
Or if you wanna save it onto your HD you can view the HTML source and pick out the URL. Get the asx file with wget. Then take the mms:// link that is in there and feed it to MMS client.
These (mozilla plugin, mplayer, mmsclient) are all available as Debian packages.
Cheers!
Costyn.
Hear ye hear ye. A bunch of my fellow students and I have been using Prosper, a slide making package for LaTeX. Only it doesn't look like the regular slide package that comes with LaTeX. Very slick, not at all boring or bland. And of course with all the equation power of LaTeX. And they're not hard to make either.
The output is PDF files, which for presentations can be displayed easily in fullscreen on anything that will display PDF files. We have recieved many comments on how slick the presentations look, especially the equations which are unequalled by any MS package.
See the screenshots. The Contemporain and White Cross styles are very beautiful.
Have fun!
Cheers,
Costyn.
Dude Nissans are from Japan. :-)
So I guess no French cars are available in the US. Just like you can't buy French skydiving gear in the US. Weird...
Cheers,
Costyn.
So how come there are no French cars in the US? Citroën, Peugeot, and Renault make pretty decent cars. While there are lots of German and Scandinavian cars in the US, I've never actually seen any French cars there. You guys don't hate the French that much, do you?
Cheers,
Costyn.
Contractions in English are fun:
"You'vn't any mail"
Cheers.
Well, my moms computer was being really flakey the other day. It would run for a while, and then suddenly reboot. Or switch off suddenly. So anyhow one day it refused to start up. The HD light would flicker happily, as if going through IDE scan, but the weird thing was the power light would stay off. There was no output to the screen. There were no BIOS beep codes.
This was not Bonzi's doing. Definately weird crap going on, not due to clueless user (my mom isn't actually that clueless)
So first I cleaned up the memory card (there was a bunch of dust on it blown onto it from the CPU fan). I put the memory in a different slot. That helped, for a couple days, when the same symptoms happened again. So, I opened up the powersupply, took care of all the dust in there, cause the symptoms kinda were looking like a power supply problem.
So that didn't help anything. My last resort before going out and buying a new power supply was to reset the CMOS.
That worked, amazingly.
While I'd never tweaked any funny settings in the BIOS setup, so I'm having a hard time explaining these symptoms/solution. I think this fits into the category of a computer becoming neurotic and needing a "clean" start.
Can anybody explain this?
Cheers,
Costyn.
Hey, great article, ololiuhqui. Now I have a question: how exactly would you pronounce 'ololiuhqui'? :-)
Okay, well, I've downloaded the latest Knoppix ISO and am running Overnet, so here's the eDonkey link (you would be able to download from me if you have Overnet or the hybrid client):
8 73 280|931571d31ff327cc95f850173ec15194|/
ed2k://|file|KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-03-24-EN.iso|731
(sorry, slash won't let me make a valid clickable link; and make sure you get the spaces out that slash puts in)
Cheers,
Costyn.
Someone should put it on Kazaa or eDonkey or somesuch. These distributed, multisource p2p apps are perfect for stuff like this.
Cheers,
Costyn.
My awesome ISP took their own initiative and set up various scripts and pages where you can figure out how to set up your own 6in4 tunnel and network. They even have some CGI scripts which generate settings for your flavour of OS which you can type in and it'll just work. (sorry, the scripts are behind a login, so I can't link to them).
:-)
Also how to set up the machine you have your tunnel endpoint as being a router for the rest of your internal network (with radvd, etc). Very cool. XS4ALL rocks! THE Geek/nerd friendly ISP.
Cheers,
Costyn.