Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on VIA C7

2011-07-10 Thread John DeGood
motor) computer fans can be similarly tamed by reduced voltage, or by PWM. John On 7/8/2011 5:59 PM, ron minnich wrote: What you see strapped to it is a 12V fan from a dell desktop which I ran at 5V, not 12V (a trick I learned from John DeGood). Very little air had to move, it was noiseless

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

2009-08-03 Thread John DeGood
erik quanstrom wrote: do you really think its reasonable that someone could run this drive at 100% of capacity for 2½ years? even allowing for shipping and installation time will get you pretty close to the warranty. can you think of how this could be done with a plan 9 application that's

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

2009-08-02 Thread John DeGood
erik quanstrom wrote: just looking at the intel x25-e datasheet, the URE rate (unrecoverable read error) is the same as enterprise sata drives at 1e-15, but the mtbf is higher, but within a factor of two. assuming honest mtbf numbers, one would expect similar ures for the same io workload

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

2009-08-01 Thread John DeGood
J.R. Mauro wrote: Doesn't ASUS burn the Linux distro into a chip, though? Maybe there are utilities to flash it with something else. I believe new ASUS motherboards typically boot Splashtop from hard disk, not from flash. On my ASUS M4A78 PLUS, Splashtop can be installed into a directory tree

Re: [9fans] punched cards live

2008-11-03 Thread John DeGood
It's the ACPI Secure Computing Initiative: fixed input format == no buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Long live Herman Hollerith! ron minnich wrote: This courtesy of the ACPI spec: RSD PTR (Notice that this signature must contain a trailing blank character.) So where do we get the guys