Well, I'd guess you use the controller movement more or less as you would a mouse on a PC - In *combination* with the movement keys. Use the pad to move, and wave to aim;-)
But I did put some work into it as well. There are two fans in my case, the PSU 120mm fan, and the 120mm fan that blows air through the radiator of my watercooling system. I am running an AMD64 3700+ that barely reaches 30C, even when the ambient temperature is 35C and the CPU is at 100%. My whole case is padded on the inside with asphalt/foam mats, which reduces the noise considerably. This does increase the case temperature, but the water cooling takes care of that effectively. My only harddrive is mounted in some Zalman harddrive cooler/silencer thingy, that adds rubber gromits.
My PC is so silent that I can't hear it when I switch off everything. What I hear is the kitchen fan-thingy since I can't switch that off.
I'm a bit south of the polar circle, and nightfall here in the middle of the summer is around 2am, with the sun rising again less than two hours later. We don't have much night around here in the summer;-)
Or, if you're a bit more hardcore, run OpenSlug which is a firmware-from-scratch solution. Increases the flexibility of the firmware (By allowing USB hubs and more harddrives to be connected, and allows connecting other devices)
It can use several other USB peripherals. Some are tested, some are not. Most USB scanners and cameras that are supported by SANE should work (My Canon IXUS for instance).
It consumes about 8.4W, slightly more if you de-underclock it to 266MHz.
It is not possible to underclock it to any lower speed than 133.
Me and a lot of my friends make a point of avoiding products which have shitty commercials. I rather buy something that has a commercial that makes me laugh.
Quote from TFA: "Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment."
I think that makes it perfectly possible to do context sensitive. The keyboard driver could monitor which app is active at any moment and swap "keymaps" on the fly (Hey! Art? You reading this?!;), while still having the possibility of switching between several modes *within* the program by using the keys on the left.
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Pykrete melts so damn slowly due to the low thermal transfer rate of th wood pulp. Didn't you ever have physics? Don't you read the wikipedia links you paste?;-)
Haha. That reminds me of the time someone managed to fool me into running a process that consumed 100% cpu. On my single cpu desktop, it'd kill it. But I was sitting on my dual cpu workstation, so I had more than enough cpu power to see which task went haywire and kill it. Malicious app with lousy design.. Didn't account for multiple cpus;-)
Who cares about hyperthreading programs? If the OS supports hyperthreading properly, it can divide the tasks between the various cores accordingly. On my Dual PII 633, keeping one cpu busy with a game server and everything else on the other cpu is brilliant:-)
As a test of the generic slashdot population, you will even have to think a little bit to get to our website... (That, or we are too un-1337 to actually have a dns-entry that forwards to www)
What really surprises me is that noone has said anything about what license this new firmware has. If it's based on LinkSys' firmware, it's (atleast partly) under the GPL. Are they required to make the source available?
Bah. Nevermind. Found the source tarball. 59mb. Won't bother downloading to check license;-)
This is caused by the body's natural heat regeneration features. You will find that applying the same icy cold beverage will make the headache go away. This continuation-technique is also known as "repairing", which is a slight misnormer since it doesn't actually repair, but instead reinstates the body in the wanted state of painlessness;-)
Gangsters are starting to roam the streets, killing people at a rate of 8-9 people a day. Do you then propose "normal" citizens should get a gun and shoot them motherfsckers down? What if a stray shot kills an innocent? (And no, the analogy isn't inept. You *WILL* hurt innocent systems by doing this)
Are you willing to be liable for taking down a major international corporations headquarters? Killing off millions of Windows PC's that are in a different locale than the worm, because you hit a locale-specific bug in Chinese Windows? Or maybe your worm manages to knock out Cisco routers (Code Red crashed my i677DIR). Now that'd be real fun, wouldn't it? What about the amount of bandwidth this worm creates. If this worm of yours is 220kb, and I'm getting hit by it repeatedly while surfing over GPRS, will you pay the cost? (Currently, that'd cost me almost 1 USD) Or, your worm has a bug that overwrites a random file in the filesystem. Who will pay for the damages? "You destroyed my thesis! I've been working two months writing it!"
No matter the reasoning behind it. There are millions of different windows configurations, hundreds of different windows versions (if not thousands). How the hell are you going to QA this worm?
Blocking outgoing port 25 would effectively break my ability to send mail from most of the locations I surf from today. I use my laptop to surf and send mails from hotspots I visit, friend's flats, my workplace etc. Not only would I have to set up a gazillion different profiles for whatever ISP I'm currently using to surf, but I'd have to figure out which ISP a certain hotspot uses before I can send mail. My current solution is a mailserver I've set up, that I authenticate against. Very effective solution to my problem. Webmail is, due to attachments, not an option.
I agree that something should be done to stop all the zombie PC's out there. But blocking outgoing port 25 is not the way to do it.
When it comes to virusscanning in SMTP-servers, it should be The Law (tm). I have set up ClamAV to scan all my mails, both incoming and outgoing. Any virus-infected mails are trashed.
The current state of affairs appears to be that you can pay your ISP to scan mails for you... What they should realize is that the cost of *not* scanning your customers mails for viruses (no, not virii) is higher than the cost of the CPU-power used to scan the mails. Think "Customer Support". Removing one (1) virus for one (1) infected customer takes atleast three (3) minutes. I'd say more, based on experience, but let's keep it low. For a large ISP, this will crop up to a rather large number of support calls every day, which costs the ISP money. More money than scanning the mails by default.
I've heard two reports of firefox 1.0.3 being vulnerable to remote code execution. So far I've been unable to reproduce any. So this seems like special cases to me.
Just right of the URL field, there's a google/yahoo/ebay/creative commons/amazon searchbox. Press tab while you're in the url field, and you can enter your google search.
That's a standard 120mm fan. Useful to get nice airflow without the high-pitched whine of smaller fans. My current desktop has two of those (One in PSU, one on the radiator)
Yes. I have. Several times. Last time was yesterday. Often (But unfortunately not always), it lists the offending DLL (which in my case was NetPeeker). It was as simple as rebooting, uninstalling netpeeker, rebooting again, *then* try to enable my wireless card;)
If you've ever tried comparing KDE or Gnome from Slackware/RedHat/Debian with Gentoo, you will see that the optimizations are very effective. I've used Slack,RH/FC, Deb, LFS and Gentoo. It takes me less than half the time to open Mozilla on gentoo. I like that.
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Well, I'd guess you use the controller movement more or less as you would a mouse on a PC - In *combination* with the movement keys. Use the pad to move, and wave to aim ;-)
No. That is why you are signing an NDA. If you break that, you should be in deep shit.
But I did put some work into it as well. There are two fans in my case, the PSU 120mm fan, and the 120mm fan that blows air through the radiator of my watercooling system.
:-D
I am running an AMD64 3700+ that barely reaches 30C, even when the ambient temperature is 35C and the CPU is at 100%.
My whole case is padded on the inside with asphalt/foam mats, which reduces the noise considerably. This does increase the case temperature, but the water cooling takes care of that effectively.
My only harddrive is mounted in some Zalman harddrive cooler/silencer thingy, that adds rubber gromits.
My PC is so silent that I can't hear it when I switch off everything. What I hear is the kitchen fan-thingy since I can't switch that off.
I love silence
I'm a bit south of the polar circle, and nightfall here in the middle of the summer is around 2am, with the sun rising again less than two hours later. We don't have much night around here in the summer ;-)
Or, if you're a bit more hardcore, run OpenSlug which is a firmware-from-scratch solution. Increases the flexibility of the firmware (By allowing USB hubs and more harddrives to be connected, and allows connecting other devices)
Which already was done by nslu2-linux.org, using our unslung or openslug firmware.
It can use several other USB peripherals. Some are tested, some are not. Most USB scanners and cameras that are supported by SANE should work (My Canon IXUS for instance).
It consumes about 8.4W, slightly more if you de-underclock it to 266MHz.
It is not possible to underclock it to any lower speed than 133.
Note that even if you remove the underclocking resistor, the slug runs at 266MHz with almost no increase in power consumption.
Me and a lot of my friends make a point of avoiding products which have shitty commercials. I rather buy something that has a commercial that makes me laugh.
Quote from TFA: "Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment."
;), while still having the possibility of switching between several modes *within* the program by using the keys on the left.
I think that makes it perfectly possible to do context sensitive.
The keyboard driver could monitor which app is active at any moment and swap "keymaps" on the fly (Hey! Art? You reading this?!
Pykrete melts so damn slowly due to the low thermal transfer rate of th wood pulp. Didn't you ever have physics? Don't you read the wikipedia links you paste? ;-)
Haha. That reminds me of the time someone managed to fool me into running a process that consumed 100% cpu. On my single cpu desktop, it'd kill it. But I was sitting on my dual cpu workstation, so I had more than enough cpu power to see which task went haywire and kill it. Malicious app with lousy design.. Didn't account for multiple cpus ;-)
Who cares about hyperthreading programs? If the OS supports hyperthreading properly, it can divide the tasks between the various cores accordingly. On my Dual PII 633, keeping one cpu busy with a game server and everything else on the other cpu is brilliant :-)
That's Pol Pot ;-)
As a test of the generic slashdot population, you will even have to think a little bit to get to our website...
(That, or we are too un-1337 to actually have a dns-entry that forwards to www)
What really surprises me is that noone has said anything about what license this new firmware has. If it's based on LinkSys' firmware, it's (atleast partly) under the GPL. Are they required to make the source available?
;-)
Bah. Nevermind. Found the source tarball. 59mb. Won't bother downloading to check license
This is caused by the body's natural heat regeneration features. You will find that applying the same icy cold beverage will make the headache go away. ;-)
This continuation-technique is also known as "repairing", which is a slight misnormer since it doesn't actually repair, but instead reinstates the body in the wanted state of painlessness
Gangsters are starting to roam the streets, killing people at a rate of 8-9 people a day. Do you then propose "normal" citizens should get a gun and shoot them motherfsckers down? What if a stray shot kills an innocent? (And no, the analogy isn't inept. You *WILL* hurt innocent systems by doing this)
Are you willing to be liable for taking down a major international corporations headquarters? Killing off millions of Windows PC's that are in a different locale than the worm, because you hit a locale-specific bug in Chinese Windows? Or maybe your worm manages to knock out Cisco routers (Code Red crashed my i677DIR). Now that'd be real fun, wouldn't it?
What about the amount of bandwidth this worm creates. If this worm of yours is 220kb, and I'm getting hit by it repeatedly while surfing over GPRS, will you pay the cost? (Currently, that'd cost me almost 1 USD)
Or, your worm has a bug that overwrites a random file in the filesystem. Who will pay for the damages? "You destroyed my thesis! I've been working two months writing it!"
No matter the reasoning behind it. There are millions of different windows configurations, hundreds of different windows versions (if not thousands). How the hell are you going to QA this worm?
Blocking outgoing port 25 would effectively break my ability to send mail from most of the locations I surf from today. I use my laptop to surf and send mails from hotspots I visit, friend's flats, my workplace etc. Not only would I have to set up a gazillion different profiles for whatever ISP I'm currently using to surf, but I'd have to figure out which ISP a certain hotspot uses before I can send mail.
My current solution is a mailserver I've set up, that I authenticate against. Very effective solution to my problem. Webmail is, due to attachments, not an option.
I agree that something should be done to stop all the zombie PC's out there. But blocking outgoing port 25 is not the way to do it.
When it comes to virusscanning in SMTP-servers, it should be The Law (tm). I have set up ClamAV to scan all my mails, both incoming and outgoing. Any virus-infected mails are trashed.
The current state of affairs appears to be that you can pay your ISP to scan mails for you... What they should realize is that the cost of *not* scanning your customers mails for viruses (no, not virii) is higher than the cost of the CPU-power used to scan the mails. Think "Customer Support". Removing one (1) virus for one (1) infected customer takes atleast three (3) minutes. I'd say more, based on experience, but let's keep it low. For a large ISP, this will crop up to a rather large number of support calls every day, which costs the ISP money. More money than scanning the mails by default.
Probably a lot of that ram is shared memory ;)
I've heard two reports of firefox 1.0.3 being vulnerable to remote code execution. So far I've been unable to reproduce any. So this seems like special cases to me.
Just right of the URL field, there's a google/yahoo/ebay/creative commons/amazon searchbox. Press tab while you're in the url field, and you can enter your google search.
That's a standard 120mm fan. Useful to get nice airflow without the high-pitched whine of smaller fans. My current desktop has two of those (One in PSU, one on the radiator)
Yes. I have. Several times. Last time was yesterday. ;)
Often (But unfortunately not always), it lists the offending DLL (which in my case was NetPeeker). It was as simple as rebooting, uninstalling netpeeker, rebooting again, *then* try to enable my wireless card
Yeah, you're as much trolling as the story ;)
If you've ever tried comparing KDE or Gnome from Slackware/RedHat/Debian with Gentoo, you will see that the optimizations are very effective. I've used Slack,RH/FC, Deb, LFS and Gentoo. It takes me less than half the time to open Mozilla on gentoo. I like that.