Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:02:23 +0100
From : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem
In article <4C4FA16D.3070400@...>, Rick Murray <rick@...>
writes
>So much for the Great Firewall of China.
Oh, if it's spying, trying to steal intellectual property or h4x0r
activity that's perfectly fine, of course.
>!? What sort of RFI do you have?
It's when the telescope dome opens and closes (did you look at the link
I gave?) Something in the electrics must give out a fair amount of RFI,
'cos it causes eeeeeePCs to immediately crash. No other computer is
affected and there is a huge amount of kit installed. Not only that,
the eeeeePC is at the other end of the building from the enclosure
pumps.
> Not noticed anything odd here, except
>the WiFi failing to connect (defaults to 192.254.x.x IIRC) which is
>random and probably in part due to the Livebox (which I rebooted yet
>again...).
Go Wired young man. Modern day version of Go West etc.
>Mom has just told me she heard on the radio (R4LW or WorldService; was
>about 2.30am, when does R4LW switch over?) that...
> there's a serious vuln in the handling of "ports" so that when
> things like harddiscs are connected, the computer can be infected
> within microseconds with no other user activity. It affects both
> Windows and Linux and travels via WiFi and is prevalent in Internet
> caf?s.
Yeah, Great, isn't it. Old news though. It's about time the EU and
the US Govt started putting the thumbscrews on M$ and fine them for each
and every new vuln discovered.
>The mom filter
:-)
> I guess I'll keep an eye on El Reg to see if
>I can find some actual info on this. ;-)
It's old news.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/19/win_shortcut_vuln/
>I'm highly suspicious of the bit about affecting both Win AND the
>penguin.
Me too. Accuracy in reporting.. they've heard of it.
>...sorry I asked. Blooooooooooodddeeeeee hhhhheee..... <gulp!>
Pretty lowish-end these days. The trick is to stay behind the bleeding
edge. Let the early adopters suffer the bugs and depreciation, then
pick up yer bargains off ebay from those caught up in never-ending
upgradeitis.
We retire PCs after 3 years in the office. I've thrown out better kit
than what you're using, I'm sorry to say.
>Aiko is an SP2 box. While that may seem to contradict my previous
>advice, Aiko is absolutely _not_ going on-line.
:-)
> It is depressing how quickly you can fill a 320Gb
>harddisc...
Indeed. why I just stuffed a 2Tb in mine to replace a 1Tb.
I've just installed and brought up a 48Tb array to store data from the
telescope. With current and predicted future usage, it'll fill up in
about 18 months.
>...especially now my Neuros works at 1200kbit [*] which is about 35-40%
>more (and correspondingly larger) than my older PVR.
Must look Meuros up, it sounds interesting. Is it hardware like a PVR,
or software like MythTV?
I've just dumped my PVR, an Inverto 7000, because it uses a proprietary
14-day EPG and the company responsible for transmitting it has come to
the end of its contract and isn't gonna renew. There is no facility to
revert to the standard Freeview 8-day EPG, and no updates or support
from Inverto, so I'm stuffed. Bloody annoying, especially as I also got
burned by a Daewoo set-top box which broke when Digital UK started
transmitting split NITs (network information table). No firmware update
and a big 'swivel on this' from Daewoo. No more Daewoo kit for me, it's
crap anyway.
So I've just bought a Topfield 5810 (diskless) dual-tuner PVR from ebay,
which arrived yesterday, and chucked in a spare 400gb disk I had. It's
great, beats the pants off the Inverto. Store returns, 80 quid vs. 300
new. Completely immaculate, the remote was still sealed in its original
polybag. There's a thriving hacker community around the Topfield PVRs:
http://www.toppy.org.uk so I shall be having some fun.
>OvationPro, VB5, OpenWatcom, Firefox... all of that was happy and not
>terribly slow, on Aiko. SP2, 128Mb.
I'm impressed. You must have the patience of a saint :-)
>I did try taking one of the 512Mb memory modules from Ayleigh and
>putting it into Aiko, but I ended up with... 128Mb. It must be something
>annoying like it can only address 128Mb per slot? I tried the 512 and
>the 128, but it saw only 128... Mmmm...
It might have been high density memory, which will work in only a very
select few boards, usually with a VIA chipset. If it has 4 chips a
side, it's high density.
> Acer laptop (Angelique) - 466MHz Celeron, W98SE, 64Mb RAM.
> Generic (Aiko) - 450MHz P2, Win XP, 128Mb RAM.
>While you are true in more memory and disc space does wonders to
>Windows, there is a physical limit to how fast you can push the data around.
>Aiko runs just a mite under TWICE as fast as Angelique, despite having a
>SLOWER processor, and running a more heavyweight OS.
The Celery has no L2 cache. That makes a massive difference. The PII
most likely has 512Kb. It'll be Slot 1, too, you should be able to pick
up an upgrade cheap on fleabay. I have a PIII 550 spare you're very
welcome to, if you'd like it. Stick that and another 512MB in Aiko and
you won't believe the difference.
>For a start, Aiko's FSB is 100MHz (vs 66MHz).
indeed.
>So, guys, if you're looking for a new PC, there's more to it than "how
>fast does the processor go?"
EXACTLY. That is the same advice I give people. Don't look at the
headline speed, check out the FSB. And think carefully: do you really
need a 6-core processor? A 2 or 4 core with a higher FSB is most likely
a better proposition.
Rick, we're veering dangerously off-topic here (actually, I think we
went off the cliff some time ago :-). We'd better take it to email if
you want to continue; I don't want to upset others on the list.
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