Hey Everyone, I was just reading about Killer NIC's[^], RDMA[^] and TCP/IP Offload Engine Technology[]. And I was thinking, especially about the RDMA which seemed like a very interesting idea, which coupled with the TOE architecture in a modern NIC (although apparently found almost exclusively in servers currently), and my curiosity was genuinely piqued. And so I thought that I might like to have one of those Killer NICS, or one like it, but my Toshiba Satellite laptop clearly has no PCI Express x2 port. It does, however have an express slots, which with my computer's built in NIC and WiFi cards, I have never considered useful. So the thought occurred to me that a TOE NIC should exist for the express port, but that would be redundant with the Wireless card it already has, and although I don't know much about the Express Port's bus, doesn't seem like it would provide any significant gain in performance. Then it occurred to me; there is a notebook DIMM slot. That's what lead me to the following idea - an expansion device that consists of a Wifi card complete with the TOE architecture for de-obfuscating wireless internet communications, the constant bandwidth consuming synch's, ack's, DNS address resolution frames, etc. etc. that then mates directly with the memory expansion DIMM. In other words, when my CPU access memory 0xFFFFFF or whatever, which is in the Laptop's expansion DIMM slot, it is literally accessing raw memmory written there by the WiFi transceiver, consisting of the content of web pages that have been requested, and neatly and very efficiently stripped of all the unnecessary (at this stage) TCP/IP and 802.11x garbage. To send frames, the CPU simply WRITES to the memory block. Isn't it brilliant! What does everyone else think? What caveats do you foresee? Thanks everyone, I find this proposition tantalizing. -The Scientist

would the same work for a switch statement?

switch (null)
{
case dt:
{} break;
case dt.rows:
{} break;
default:
{/*actual exec., we have asserted everything's cool*/}
}

or how about this?

switch (true)
{
case (dt == null):
{/*handle the case that dt is null,
i.e. assign it something*/} break;
case (dt.rows == null):
{/*handle the case that dt.rows is null*/} break;
case (dt.rows[0]["number"] == 0):
{/*this element equals 0, it now needs to be assigned*/} break;
default:
{/*computer finally does something right*/} break;
}

maybe nest either one in a do loop till the computer gets its sh*t straight. please tell me why this is wrong, as i am just learning.

That article links to a detailled account of how to hack into a bank easily. This is almost information we shouldn't have.... http://www.darkreading.com/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208803634[^] I don't know about the integrity of "Darkreading.com" so maybe open at own risk?

Hey... I thought I recognized this... Isnt this the plot to every WWII movie, ever? The new guy comes into the platoon and everyone gives him a hard time cause hes fresh out of the academy... And the next thing you know its the end of the movie and he's ramboo-in it up, and his pecs have gotten bigger somehow... Meanwhile the chick you brought is crying cause "The hot one died.":'( <---Tear

Does anyone happen to know if time-sharing is still being implemented? I remember a story my astronomy proffessor (ex nasa egineer, my areas crawling with them :) told us a bout what is or was considereed the most powerful computer in the world based on some measurement*... where IBM* rents out a mainframe network* for $xxx,xxx and lexus* rented y* hours so it could calculate aerodynamic algorithyms*, perfecting how their cars perform... * indicates a detail i have forgotten[exceot that last one, I just forgot how to spell it] Anyway, hopefully someone has an Idea what im talking about and can substantiate this... Seemed like an interesting story at the time.

is this supposed to be a jpg jig?