What's old is new again. The Cray supercomputers had immersion cooling systems from the 70's on. I seem to remember that the Cray 1 had a benchseat as a cooling system accessory.
Posts by Inspector71
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Can gamers teach us anything about datacenter cooling? Lenovo seems to think so
BOFH: I know of a small biz that could deliver nothing for a fraction of the cost
FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor
Emissions-slashing hybrid trains to hit tracks in Europe
Half of bosses out of touch with reality, study shows
Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection
Re: Ooops!
/watch nerd on
The even better news is that you are entitled upon approval and presentation of your (used) ejector seat serial number to a very special edition Bremont MBI watch. It's subtly different to the "civilian" model but if you know ..you know. An owner's club with a very exclusive membership all of whom would probably liked never to have joined.
/watch nerd off
Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops
Peak Laptop?
Each of us has our own idea of the perfect laptop. For me this period of Thinkpads hits the spot, Build quality, design, functionality were all just right for me. At one point I had 5 from this period X61s, X61Tablet, T61p, X301 and X201. You could take it completely apart and replace practically every part and screw. At the time I remember that after IBM sold the hardware business to Lenovo a lot of people thought it would all go downhill fast but for a period they hit it out of the park.
I've been very tempted to get either of the upgraded X63 or X210.
What do you mean, 'Microsoft doesn't care about Windows on Arm'? Here's a cheap, underpowered test rig
IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out
Hungover Brits declare full English breakfast the solution to all their ills
Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence
Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah
Ransomware crims read our bank balance and demanded the lot, reveals Scotland's Dundee and Angus College
NASA hires Nokia to build first 4G network on the Moon as part of plan to boldly go back to lunar surface by 2024
Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it
Hello, support? What do I click if I want some cash?
Flat Earther and wannabe astronaut killed in homemade rocket
School's out as ransomware attack downs IT systems at Scotland's Dundee and Angus College
Ever wondered what Microsoft really thought about the iPad? Ex-Windows boss spills beans
Yes, Doonesbury pretty much marked the Newton handwriting recognition for all time. :-)
To give it it's due by the time Steve Jobs killed the Newton when he returned to Apple they had improved on the infamous recognition a lot and it functioned really well. The last model, the MessagePad 2000/2100 was a really good product only (plus ca change) way too expensive and niche for the time. Powered by ARM cpus as well so a harbinger of the future in one way.
Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!
The Other Side
Having period flashbacks here.
For those of us on the Mac side of things, mid to late 90's networking brought us the wonders of Appleshare, the glory of Open Transport and if you wanted to pollute the network with Windows then of course you needed Dave. Not a bloke called Dave, there really was SMB networking software called Dave.
Functionality for all this was of course at times optional.
Extension Manager was your best and only friend.
A little product renaming here, a little RISC-V magic there, some extra performance, and voila – Imagination's 10th-gen PowerVR is born
Microsoft Chrom... Edge hits beta as new browser prepped for biz testing
Queen Elizabeth has a soggy bottom: No, the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, what the hell did you think we meant?
Re: Trim options and the sticker price
That assumes that any of those parts work in the first place. It had better be simpler to work on because it is rarely out of maintenance. The F35 has been barely able to fulfil its role(s) properly since day one and has been dogged with airframe, systems integration and god knows how many other problems.
Don't get me wrong I admire it as an engineering and technical exercise, it's quite an achievement. But as a front line aircraft deployed both on land and at sea it is as they say, sub optimal. Aircraft Techs have a more choice phrase I believe.
It's an absolute classic product of the military/industrial complex. A $1.5 Trillion (and rising) tribute to pork barrel politics.
Yorkshire bloke's Jolly Roger flag given the heave-ho after council receives one complaint
Idle Computer Science skills are the Devil's playthings
Mad King Leo pulled the wool over HP shareholders' eyes, ex-CEO Whitman tells court
Re: The more this goes on...
Yes for all we have a go at the fruity one and boy do they deserve it at times they are pretty canny that way. Their biggest aquistion ever I believe was when they bought Beats for $3 Billion which is verging on change down the back of the sofa for them considering the cash pile they are sitting on.
'Happy to throw Leo under the bus', Meg Whitman told HP after Autonomy buyout
Oracle suspects Pentagon fell for a JEDI Prime trick: Amazon now accused of luring two officials with jobs
A real head-scratcher: Tech support called in because emails 'aren't showing timestamps'
Re: "WTF do you think you're doing?"
Yep
I got my very first IT "job" through my aunt one summer in the local council computer dept. She was in charge of the "punch room" where a gang of very lively women punched all the data on to cards and I got to load them on and off the I/O card reader in the computer room.
NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...
Pandas so useless they just look at delicious kid who fell into enclosure
Fujitsu pitched stalker-y AI that can read your social media posts as solution to Irish border, apparently
Apple is Mac-ing on enterprise: Plans strategic B2B alliance with HPE
Have to say that that I think there was a point when Apple could have made a dent in at least the SMB enterprise market. They should have pushed Mac OS X Server and the XServes as a all in one business in a box solution like the old MS SBS product which Microsoft was breaking up when they thought they could make more money by selling separate products.
The "proper" OS X Server around Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard and the G5 and Intel Xserves made it a really good solution IMHO.
But then along came the iPhone and Apple Computer became Apple Inc, OS X Server became just an "app" and the Intel Xserves were killed off and they started offering Mac Minis as "servers". They just lost interest.
Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it
Great news, cask beer fans: UK shortage of CO2 menaces fizzy crap taking up tap space
Microsoft Azure Europe embraced the other GDPR: Generally Down, Possibly Recovering
Pwned with '4 lines of code': Researchers warn SCADA systems are still hopelessly insecure
Apple will throw forensics cops off the iPhone Lightning port every hour
It's less DJing now and more live "producing" now that you can essentailly have a complete recording studio on your MacBook. Layering not just effects but actual instruments over the tracks and then doing the mixdown live as you go. Be it automated or manually tweaking it with a controller. The next step is no doubt going to be an AI DJ. (shudders)
In the end the real skill of a DJ is not being able to put together a seamless mix or knowing where exactly to place the drop or being able to scratch 3 decks at once, it's simply about choosing good music to create a mood as it always has been. Be it in a hip club at 2.00am or your cousin's wedding.
Right I'm off to Discogs....
Agreed but nostalgia apart, there is/was a greater sense of theatre with a box of 12's, a pair of SL-1200s and working the crossfader on an SH-DJ1200. I was a very poor amateur but when you saw DJ Shadow or Z-Trip or DJ Hype do a vinyl set live (as I have several times over the years) it was some experience.
It's all too perfect today where you can fade in the breakdown to the thousandth of a millisecond and you can pretty much pre program your set. Even the old school DJs who have embraced the digital age still have a little xtra something to my mind as a lot of them still use it in an analog way with all the imperfections that implies.
I know, I know, rose-tinted.
GNOMEs beat Microsoft: Git Virtual File System to get a new name
Five actually useful real-world things that came out at Apple's WWDC
Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion
You've heard that pop will eat itself. Boffins have unveiled a rocket that does the same
Look how modern we are! UK network Three to kill off 3G-only phones
Re: 2G (GSM, not USA CDMA)
2G will continue for a few more years yet. There are a lot of legacy systems especially M2M devices that still depend on it and the network kit will still be around as it is still used by hundreds of millions of users who can't afford (or you could argue need, 1st world problems and all that....) our shiny smartphones.
Good news as well for my original Nokias, 3110 and 8110.