Newbies that accidentally share data that they don't want available on the P-2-P network. For instance, search on E-mule for ".tax" and see people's tax return documents shared on their. Besides the accidental sharing of data, I guess the risk of ID theft could be caused my malicious software downloaded and executed.
I can't watch youtube videos in full-screen mode on my Dell D610 laptop (Pentium M Dothan 1.86GHz, 2GB RAN) without usually having to pause it in order for the CPU utilization to stop from being so high that the player won't be able to download the streaming video fast enough to keep up with the playback. Weird run-on sentence, no?
Yes, they do have a choice. They can just download cracked windows XP off bittorrent or other p-2-p systems and walla! The only trick is getting drivers to work on certain new systems that don't have support for XP drivers on the product's web site.
Storage@home!? That's hilarious. I thought that was a joke at first... Sounds like a good alternative to spending more money on the project just to store data.
A SSD from the company, Mitron should last 140 years if you were to write/erase 50GB per day, every day. Seems like it should last 20+ years for a heavily used workstation/laptop. The main thing is to not run defrag at all, except to keep fragmentation levels OK, not that it really matters in an SSD.
This information is from this link:: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3064&p=2 (on the left side of the table at the top of the page)
I agree with you spywhwere about regular pc consumers having to inevitably move to vista, but bittorrent/p2p users will 'get' XP on our new computers until drivers are not made for the new hardware. At that point, I might kill myself(j/k), or move to linux, or just run vista in the Classic visual mode.
Well, the Pentium 4 laptop chip is the most power inefficient of all the other CPUs that have ever been in a laptop. I have a pentium M laptop, and by watching the discharge rate of the battery in milliwatts, I can see the power consumption of the machine before the AC adapter. If I am crunching a seti@home work unit(i.e.: 100% CPU usage), full screen brightness, the GPU is idle because I am not gaming, it reads 31500 milliwatts. Then, given oh 65% efficiency of my AC adapter:: 31.5 watts *.35=11.025 watts +31.5=42.525 watts total power consumption! My laptop may take as much as 55 watts when totally maxed out with gaming and disk defragmenting and such. That is the power consumption of my entire laptop, not just the chip.
So, there are then the [AMD Turion 64, AMD Turion 64 x2, K6-2, K6-3, Barcelona],Pentium 3 -M, 2-M and Pentium 1m, core duo, core 2 duo, and now Penryn. All Of the Intel chips listed above are rated at or below 35 watts (Thermal design power). Go ahead look them up. A high-end Pentium-4M chip is the worst case, and I'm sure some take more than 100 watts. But the average across all those CPUS (not the whole system), if they are completely maxxed out, is less than 60w, guaranteed. Yes, that's an assumption, but there is no way in heaven that I am wrong.
An Excerpt from the article:: "An SC648 chip, with six processors on it, draws around 8 watts of power, which compares to a typical notebook computer CPU needing 100 watts, according to SiCortex CEO John Mucci."
Yea, my sister's p4-HT 3GHZ laptop CPU only takes 88 watts max. I guess they meant the average power consumption of the whole laptop, averaging across all models on the market? Well, obviously the statement in the article is bogus.
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL7DT
Yea, we could send out signals, which I think is a wonderful idea. I doubt that by doing that, we would be pissing off aliens.
But, the seti@home distributed computing project analyzes radio telescope data from the Arecibo Telescope, looking for patterns in detail, to determine whether their is intelligent noises coming from the sound file it receives to analyze. They need more computer time to help them! We need to continue to listen for signals as much as we should be sending more of them!
wwwdotsetiathomedotcom
I have the Zone-Alarm Security Suite software (software firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, Ad blocking, Cookie control, Identity protection), and it comes with "IM Security". It encrypts all IM conversations when both sides of the conversation have the software installed. I don't know how strong the encryption is, but it is something.. Makes me feel secure when I am talking about government conspiracies...
Go Honda Civics! Tailgating is dangerous and can make drivers around you nervous. By draft, it is meant as a military draft. Who would know that drafting a large SUV would help gas mileage nearly as much as a semi-truck!?
Murdock: "What have you found?"
randomguy: "All I've found is that these red lights keep moving back and forth. Aside from that this thing seems to have no other function! whatsoever sir.
Murdock: "Well that's impossible, I mean.. it must have... some.. sort.. of function I mean why would they go and put all that money to a thing with red lights that keep going back and forth! It doesn't...make... any sense. Keep working on it.
Oh yeah, make sure that BOINC is running-as-a-service in Windows, so the software can log into the server without windows having to logged on to the desktop.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned BOINC as a tracker. At least the whenever the seti@home BOINC project connects to it's servers, it will log the IP address that it connected from (So you can easily log into your seti@home account and find out), enabling law enforcement agencies to track down where your stolen laptop is/was connected to an internet gateway.
Of course this works for linux and windows versions of BOINC, why wouldn't it.
VERY good point Sir.
We just have to assume that the 'limits' are for uncompressed music, e-mails with embedded images, and pictures from a typical 7MP camera.
So for the pictures, about 1.75MB per picture; 1.75 *250,000=437,500 MBs.
I know that this is very unlikely to be the 'magic' actual limit that Comcast employs.
An e-mail I sent to gamedaily.com about this article.
I have a question about the article on your website named:: Comcast Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy
The article says the equivalent bandwidth usage may cause Comcast to cut the user off from their High speed Internet service:: "the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month."
Ok, why did they not actually give you an actual # of bytes that the Internet connection would have to download through Comcast's Internet service before it is cut off? Should I assume that an average song is around 3 megabytes each, and so that the actual limit is 90 Gigabytes per month?
They are not clarifying anything because Comcast has not released the exact limit..and I don't know why.
I have wondered that too. If you were to put two servo's on a drive instead of one, it couldn't be on the side next to it (I'm guessing the two servos could touch each other!), but the side opposite and over, but that would cause either the form factor size to change of the entire drive chassis, or the platter diameter would have to shrink in order to make room in the corner for the second servo.
I'd like to see it happen, but high capacity has its benefits, because of being able to 'short stroke' it.
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Dude don't chuck it! "It Belongs in a museum!"
Newbies that accidentally share data that they don't want available on the P-2-P network. For instance, search on E-mule for ".tax" and see people's tax return documents shared on their. Besides the accidental sharing of data, I guess the risk of ID theft could be caused my malicious software downloaded and executed.
Cool, but can it traverse through Jeffries Tubes? Imagine those robots replicating and spreading throughout the NCC-1701-D (instead of Nanites)
I can't watch youtube videos in full-screen mode on my Dell D610 laptop (Pentium M Dothan 1.86GHz, 2GB RAN) without usually having to pause it in order for the CPU utilization to stop from being so high that the player won't be able to download the streaming video fast enough to keep up with the playback. Weird run-on sentence, no?
no, the 100w fluourescent bulb equiv. is 25 watts (General Electric) but whatev
'God': "And stop touching yourself!"
Yes, they do have a choice. They can just download cracked windows XP off bittorrent or other p-2-p systems and walla! The only trick is getting drivers to work on certain new systems that don't have support for XP drivers on the product's web site.
Storage@home!? That's hilarious. I thought that was a joke at first... Sounds like a good alternative to spending more money on the project just to store data.
A SSD from the company, Mitron should last 140 years if you were to write/erase 50GB per day, every day. Seems like it should last 20+ years for a heavily used workstation/laptop. The main thing is to not run defrag at all, except to keep fragmentation levels OK, not that it really matters in an SSD. This information is from this link:: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3064&p=2 (on the left side of the table at the top of the page)
I agree with you spywhwere about regular pc consumers having to inevitably move to vista, but bittorrent/p2p users will 'get' XP on our new computers until drivers are not made for the new hardware. At that point, I might kill myself(j/k), or move to linux, or just run vista in the Classic visual mode.
Well, the Pentium 4 laptop chip is the most power inefficient of all the other CPUs that have ever been in a laptop. I have a pentium M laptop, and by watching the discharge rate of the battery in milliwatts, I can see the power consumption of the machine before the AC adapter. If I am crunching a seti@home work unit(i.e.: 100% CPU usage), full screen brightness, the GPU is idle because I am not gaming, it reads 31500 milliwatts. Then, given oh 65% efficiency of my AC adapter:: 31.5 watts *.35=11.025 watts +31.5=42.525 watts total power consumption! My laptop may take as much as 55 watts when totally maxed out with gaming and disk defragmenting and such. That is the power consumption of my entire laptop, not just the chip. So, there are then the [AMD Turion 64, AMD Turion 64 x2, K6-2, K6-3, Barcelona],Pentium 3 -M, 2-M and Pentium 1m, core duo, core 2 duo, and now Penryn. All Of the Intel chips listed above are rated at or below 35 watts (Thermal design power). Go ahead look them up. A high-end Pentium-4M chip is the worst case, and I'm sure some take more than 100 watts. But the average across all those CPUS (not the whole system), if they are completely maxxed out, is less than 60w, guaranteed. Yes, that's an assumption, but there is no way in heaven that I am wrong.
An Excerpt from the article:: "An SC648 chip, with six processors on it, draws around 8 watts of power, which compares to a typical notebook computer CPU needing 100 watts, according to SiCortex CEO John Mucci." Yea, my sister's p4-HT 3GHZ laptop CPU only takes 88 watts max. I guess they meant the average power consumption of the whole laptop, averaging across all models on the market? Well, obviously the statement in the article is bogus. http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL7DT
Yea, we could send out signals, which I think is a wonderful idea. I doubt that by doing that, we would be pissing off aliens. But, the seti@home distributed computing project analyzes radio telescope data from the Arecibo Telescope, looking for patterns in detail, to determine whether their is intelligent noises coming from the sound file it receives to analyze. They need more computer time to help them! We need to continue to listen for signals as much as we should be sending more of them! wwwdotsetiathomedotcom
I have the Zone-Alarm Security Suite software (software firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware, Ad blocking, Cookie control, Identity protection), and it comes with "IM Security". It encrypts all IM conversations when both sides of the conversation have the software installed. I don't know how strong the encryption is, but it is something.. Makes me feel secure when I am talking about government conspiracies...
Go Honda Civics! Tailgating is dangerous and can make drivers around you nervous. By draft, it is meant as a military draft. Who would know that drafting a large SUV would help gas mileage nearly as much as a semi-truck!?
Darn those blasted SUVs! I have a little bumper sticker that says; Draft SUV drivers first!
Murdock: "What have you found?" randomguy: "All I've found is that these red lights keep moving back and forth. Aside from that this thing seems to have no other function! whatsoever sir. Murdock: "Well that's impossible, I mean.. it must have... some.. sort.. of function I mean why would they go and put all that money to a thing with red lights that keep going back and forth! It doesn't ...make... any sense. Keep working on it.
sheeeeep .... sheeeeep
shp .... shp
How much air does that door need to open/close?
Oh yeah, make sure that BOINC is running-as-a-service in Windows, so the software can log into the server without windows having to logged on to the desktop.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned BOINC as a tracker. At least the whenever the seti@home BOINC project connects to it's servers, it will log the IP address that it connected from (So you can easily log into your seti@home account and find out), enabling law enforcement agencies to track down where your stolen laptop is/was connected to an internet gateway. Of course this works for linux and windows versions of BOINC, why wouldn't it.
VERY good point Sir. We just have to assume that the 'limits' are for uncompressed music, e-mails with embedded images, and pictures from a typical 7MP camera. So for the pictures, about 1.75MB per picture; 1.75 *250,000=437,500 MBs. I know that this is very unlikely to be the 'magic' actual limit that Comcast employs.
An e-mail I sent to gamedaily.com about this article. I have a question about the article on your website named:: Comcast Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy The article says the equivalent bandwidth usage may cause Comcast to cut the user off from their High speed Internet service:: "the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month." Ok, why did they not actually give you an actual # of bytes that the Internet connection would have to download through Comcast's Internet service before it is cut off? Should I assume that an average song is around 3 megabytes each, and so that the actual limit is 90 Gigabytes per month? They are not clarifying anything because Comcast has not released the exact limit..and I don't know why.
I have no clue. Short stroking is fun. Its a quicker way to access the 'data'. Especially with larger 'drives'
I have wondered that too. If you were to put two servo's on a drive instead of one, it couldn't be on the side next to it (I'm guessing the two servos could touch each other!), but the side opposite and over, but that would cause either the form factor size to change of the entire drive chassis, or the platter diameter would have to shrink in order to make room in the corner for the second servo. I'd like to see it happen, but high capacity has its benefits, because of being able to 'short stroke' it.
...and high latency.