Jenny!!!

Is that you?

One day I remember going in to my Radio Shack to get a counter IC and found the whole area gone, and the manager (Steve) told me that they were clearing everything out, and not replacing it. It was all in a big octagonal cardboard clearance bin. I offered him $20 for the whole bin, and took the bin and everything home. I still have it, It's not used as much any more, but when you are thinking dang, where am I gonna find one of those nowadays, it is sure handy.

Only good for 90 days but you can relaunch virtual disk and get another 90..

All versions including and since XP

www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

Hope it helps

Unless you made the logic gates yourself, how can you be certain your binary adder is not just an arm chip emulating a logic gate, that turns your binary counter into a satellite link and secretly shift your bits to the NSA when it detects it's not hooked up to a logic analyzer?

Upgrade your tinfoil hat man for fscks sake!

That does NOT compute!

Are you staying for Sock Hop?

If I had a nickel for every time I stuffed a quarter in that game...

Even just the times I played while wearing roller skates...

I bought an 80GB Intel X25-M about 5 years ago, and I have done nothing to give it any breaks for being an SSD. All logging, swap, cache, etc is still at default or higher levels, and I've filled it hundreds of times. It has 6 partitions on it, and I move data around between them constantly.

I have a 16GB extended partition for installing the distro of the week that has seen over 200 installs just to try them out, or test RC's for bugs, or test changes to my main install, and I copy whatever I downloaded there to another 40GB partition that I use for my shared directory. That partition has downloaded over 5TB of stuff that has been either transferred to an external drive, and/or burned to DVD. I have transcoded and remastered over 2TB of DVDs removing the junk that comes on them from Disney etc and converted them for my portable devices. I have also ripped in my 500 CD collection 3 different times at ever increasing bitrates. I take thousands of pictures in burst mode to get the right moment, and then load them all and sort through them and delete 75% of them. I shoot and edit / transcode HD videos by the GB, and I have never once given a thought about wearing out the drive (backups!) and I use it like I would any other spinning rust drive.

I finally got to 99% on the life left wear indicator as reported by SMART and I've yet to have any sectors fail and have to be remapped to the spare flash. If I can do that for the next 100 years, and still have 75% life left on the flash, I'd say it's good enough for me!

Cheers!

check out:
http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/b58934cea0

I was curious how much 1000 Ghash/sec would cost, and pay out. A $3600 ASIC miner will pay for itself in under 5 days, and the estimated ROI after 1 year is about $40,000 (it actually starts losing $10 - $20 a month the last few months based on current rates) and then you could just buy the next one and keep making $

I was surprised!
Cheers

Err, you mean house...
(I live in the basement)

Fun Story:

The Condos I used to live in were made from an old lumber mill, so each floor of the building was over 20 feet tall, and the units were then two levels (but occoupied one floor) with a loft above the kitchen for bedrooms, and then the dining room and living room had the full 20 foot ceilings.

They had a new tenant that bought 1/4 of the 4th floor and had three large units remodeled into one giant palace. He had a guest bedroom with it's own bathroom, and the brand new water heater leaked shortly after it was installed. It wasn't noticed for quite a while because the people who lived directly below them on the third floor were gone for the winter, and the people below them on the second floor were gone for the winter, so the flood made it to the first floor bedroom before being noticed. By that time it had completely destroyed both levels of the third floor unit, and both levels of the second floor unit!

It was quite a mess!

If only they'd have designed the cables so all 4 pairs were next to each other instead of having the orange or green pair straddling the blue. It'd make assembling them so much easier!

Anyone know why the hell they did that?

Thanks for the explanation! I always thought that Quantum entanglement was the one thing that MAY be able to transmit data FTL. Is there some other quantum phenomenon that may offer the possibility to send information FTL that I have it confused with? Or is FTL (or instantaneous) quantum communication just a common misconception?

Cheers!

IANAP, but I always thought it was more like keeping one blank card, and sending another blank card, and then once the card arrived, you took your card and wrote either an A or a B on it, and the same letter would appear instantly on the other card. If you later erased the A and wrote a B, the other card would then also instantly begin to show a B. However if either of you looked at the cards to see the letter, it may change both of them, or erase them both completely.

Again... IANAP!

Does /. eat carrots?

mm^2

Asking the question here is kinda like saying "tell me a story about the olden days grandpa" sure you could go to the library and read a book, but hopefully a few folks here will get off their lawn long enough to tell us an amusing shoe-shining story, or reminisce about their experiences with some bad-ass (or slow-ass) hardware to add some depth and sense of community to the discussion you just don't get from a Google search.

I'd rather hear it here, and have it inline with the discussion for everyone to enjoy (before Dice squeezes the last drop of life from /. and we all HAVE to go read Wikipedia)

Cheers