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Dude, this is WAY geekier RAID than that.

If that's the geekiest thng you've ever heard of you must be new aro... I can't even say it. ;)

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Gotta love it. Remember this guy. He used USB floppies in pretty much the same manner. I actually emailed him because I was curious about portability(traveling kind). Apparently all the raid information is stored on the drives so the entire raid array could be plugged into another machine and would work with no problems.

This is quite a big geekier if you ask me.
Striping floppies to get better speed and storage...

I see that you admit at least there is a global warming phenomena. Most scientists finally agree with that.

Wrong.

I read those articles. The first one doesn't say anything about their relative toxicities; I expect that Dr. Cohen expected Mr. Nader to cease ingestion of caffeine at a point that would still be safe for both of them.

The second says that, under certain conditions, caffeine can be more toxic. It doesn't discuss the conditions.

The third was best. It stated that the chemical toxicity of caffeine was greater than that of plutonium, but I didn't see anything to back it up.

The fourth didn't address the issue. Dr. Cohen clarified what he said previously, and discussed ingestion vs inhalation, but regarding relative toxicities only said: "eating plutonium is about equal in danger to eating the same quantity of caffeine", but I couldn't find where he explains that claim. (Admittedly, since it's a 17-chapter book, I didn't finish the whole thing.)

The final link again makes the claim that caffeine is more toxic than plutonium, but doesn't discuss it further.

Now, I took it upon myself to do a bit of research, using TOXNET (which doesn't handle deep linking well). I couldn't find any toxicity reports regarding ingestion of plutonium. But there are a number of intravenious studies of both caffeine and plutonium.

It looks like the LDLo (smallest dose recorded to kill) of intravenious caffeine on a dog is 4 mg/kg, while the LD50 (50% kill) of intravenious plutonium citrate is merely 300 ug/kg. Note that since this is comparing an LDLo to an LD50, it doesn't tell us the relative toxicities, but it does seem to suggest that plutonium is more toxic. (Sources: plutonium citrate, caffeine).

To compare LD50 to LD50, we can first look at [JPETAB Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. (Williams & Wilkins Co., 428 E. Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21202) V.1- 1909/10- Volume(issue)/page/year: 82,89,1944]. This paper establishes the LD50 of caffeine administered intraveniously to a rat at 105 mg/kg. Now, [Venugopal, B. and T.D. Luckey. Metal Toxicity in Mammals, 2. New York: Plenum Press, 1978. 169 (peer reviewed)] establishes the LD50 for plutonium administered intraveniously to a rat at 0.0014 uCi/g. Now, since 5 ug of plutonium has a radioactivity of 0.3 uCi (reference), this figure is equivalent to 8.4e-5 mg/kg.

Perhaps the absorption rate of plutonium is 1e6 times less than that of caffeine. There are suggestions that plutonium is not absorbed easily. But 1e6 still seems like a lot, lacking any other evidence.

But pointing the other way, remember that plutonium builds up on the bones, leading to a chronic toxicity which is higher than its acute toxicity.

So, I'm going to remain skeptical for the time being. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that I'm not sure that I agree with that statement.

Actually, there is scientific evidence that not only is low-level radiation exposure harmless, it is actually good for you, and the optimium level is well above the normal background radiation.

Here Here and here for example.

It is true that any ionizing radiation can damage cellular material, but the human immune system seems to derive benefit from practicing fending off such low-level damage.

The evididence is not conclusive for low-level radiation benefits, but there are several good studies that suggest that it is, and not one scientific study that suggest the opposite as far as I know. If so, I would like to see it. Nearly all nuclear radiation threat assesments is based on extrapolation from high-level radiation exposes.

At first I did a double take and figured it would be some awkward, jury-rigged proof-of-concept with ugly wires all over the place, but the obvious googling came up with this: http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm with great pictures. It's beautifully executed on OS X and very pretty to look at. Amazing!

Funny, but on my Mac (running the very bsd-like OS X) you have RAID built into the OS, as demonstrated here with Floppy drives

I'm sure Ansel Adams would have closely followed any new photographic technology but, if you look past the marketing hype into the actual science of CCD and related technology, digital is significantly inferior to film technology on most fronts.
See this for an in-depth comparison.

Perhaps they used this, he said with a grin: Mac Raid Storage Solution

The other question I have is how much of network pipe do they have to the outside world? Tungsten has a 40Gb connection to the Internet.

The focus of these questions being- if you can't get your data onto and out of the cluster, what use are all those teraflops?

Big Mac does prove a valid point, but it's purchase smacks more of a stunt than a real attempt to provide users with a useful computing environment.

http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/INGLES/MicroReactor.ht ml

Does anyone know if there will be an SDK for the iTunes for Windows version? I have put together a little page that I hope to track what happens here. It will have a list of dev tools, resources, etc.. and a listing of the known plugins that work with Windows.

I expect a lot of cool stuff to be made for this:

Here is the link at ohlssonvox my webpage.

BUT, Can the AMD do this??

The HDD should be this
.

Because you presumably don't want your email to be stored in just one place, I'd suggest a quiet (?), cheap RAID setup like this one

You might especially look in to this variation... ;)

Because you presumably don't want your email to be stored in just one place, I'd suggest a quiet (?), cheap RAID setup like this one

You might especially look in to this variation... ;)

It would be cool if the OS saw it as 1 huge 1.2GB drive, but that would be a hell of a hack to make it display as unified piece of media.

I would imagine he has the drives striped in software to appear as one large drive. This is pretty easy to do with Windows, OS X, and pretty much any semi-modern un*x.

Here's a guy who striped 5 floppy drives to make a floppy RAID... he's my hero:
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

Anyway, it seems a bit silly to try to make something useful out of rather old hardware.

What next? RAID-5 using a stack of 8 inch floppies?

Go here and scroll down to "South Park." Basically it's a way of using misdirection to confuse a jury into voting your way.

It's been done.. usb floppy raid!

raid arrays with usb based drives...

Didn't someone do this already?

Floppy disk RAID system here for the cutting-edge Luddite.

Floppy Raid Array

I want to try it!

is a Floppy RAID to put it on.

this guy.

Oh BSA, your cacophonic rapper playing on an 68020 processor without an FPU has opened my eyes. I will never again copy a floppy. In fact, I won't even use one, and I quite hopefully will never see one again except perhaps in a RAID device. From now on, I will only copy CDs, DVDs, books, Reagan's economic policies, the sound of a dying giraffe, and just about everything other than floppies.

had read in a newspaper report some months back that authorities in Mumbai, India were planning to install this kind of 'travelator' to link two of the most important railway stations in Mumbai, Churchgate and CST.

How will the Indian version work? Will there be mannequins permanently mounted to the moving surface for the passengers to hang on?

Excuse me for "hanging" this on your funny-post, but the FDD-RAID project is just soo funny and I'd like more people to see it.

It is really cool when you access the drives the way they flash each light and spin in no particular order that I can discern. It is of course faster than a standard single drive. I was able to transfer "DEVO Uncontrolable Urge.mp3" which is 3.6 MB in 32 seconds. Which is pretty good I think.

(Really, with people posting "what's vorbis?" with every Vorbis story, I'm sure there must be persons out there for which this is new)

You will of course, run the USB Floppy Disk Striped RAID on OS-X!

• Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: (pulling down a diagram of Chewie) this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! (jury looks shocked)

• Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

  But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case? (calmly) Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!

NM

FOIA stuff

interesting reading

besides the fact that it would have to weigh about 20lbs, be slightly larger that "pocket-sized," and the gyroscopic force would make putting your cell phone up to your ear nearly impossible

Here is a link which will tell you more or less why it wouldn't weigh 20lbs.

As far as the gyroscopic force issue, please exercise some creativity here. As I pointed out earlier there's no reason why you couldn't have some (instead of one) small flywheels in multiples of two, spinning in opposite directions. I mean if US Flywheel is working on a solution for the ISS, I don't see why it wouldn't be an applicable technology for cell phones and laptops provided you could miniaturize things enough.

- goatse.cx
- hick.org
- bumperdumper.com
- mrwinkle.com
- white gangstaz
- cowboyneal.org

"Hacked by Chinese!"

can't remember where i was reading it -- but the chemical process used in photoreactive film for 35mm film would take something like 40 - 45 megapixels to duplicate ...

mind you that's not a reasonable facsimile, that is supposed to be a genuine reproduction of the amount of data in a silver chrystals on the film

on a side note -- this is a very interesting article all about digital photography and its limits.

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- hick.org
- bumperdumper.com
- mrwinkle.com
- white gangstaz
- cowboyneal.org

White Gangstaz?

the only use of flywheel tech ive seen that made it beyond the research stage was a UPS system. It used a massive weight spinning at extraordinary speeds to store the energy in case of a power loss. For safety it was spec'd to be buried outside below grade since it weighed around 90kg and spun at an angular velocity of a few hundred kph.

Here's a bit more info on this: Flywheel Basics

A 12 inch diameter flywheel weighing only 23 lb will store 3 kilowatt hours of energy at 100,000 rpm. This is the kind of flywheel UPS that is being installed as mechanical batteries for UPS systems. Typically they use concrete containment vessels (an uncontrolled release of 3 kwh in a few hundred milliseconds is catastrophic) but a lighter weight containment vessel is feasible. It's just hard to beat digging a hole and burying it for low cost safety.

For quite some time now, the PGP source has been available here. Admittedly, it's not the latest and greatest - but this is open source folks, surely some talented hackers out there can expand on what is already open?

Hell, we might even be able to create open-source, free PGP plugins for the masses to use. Transparent encryption for everyone!

This is of the first post, thank you to my friend for it allowing to happen. Goodbye now.
Yet another post by yet another Anonymous Coward! Thank you sirs!

This is of the first post, thank you to my friend for it allowing to happen. Goodbye now.

Except for the detached keyboard, the iMac looks so close to the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A that those of us from the old days had to chuckle when we first saw it. So no, it's not an enclosure design that Apple originated.

Hell, there are DEC VT-series terminals (I think the 22x series) that look even closer to the iMac than the Lear-Siegler.

Let's be real. Almost nothing Apple has done is really new or innovative in case design.

http://www.mp3.com/news/222.html
http://www.musicalevolution.8k.com/albini.htm
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/albini .html
http://www.musicianassist.com/archive/article/ART/ a-1098-1.htm

Don't forget about the infamous Martian Defence Force. These guys are sure be up for some more target practice.

Bitmaster's ethernet card. its currently on the workbench, but its an easier way to get ethernet in dclinux, since you can use almost any ne2k clone.

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A week ago I set up the JAPPS (Java Applet Parallel Processing Server) download page, since then, there was 5 or 10 downloads, but nobody comments it, Is a good example of Distributed Processing OS, kinda Seti@Home, but multi-user, multi-Purpose system, and needs no instalation (Runs in a Browser). Please somebody make a DES-key Crack with it and send it to me :) The URL us http://wk1300.8k.com/japps

A week ago I set up the JAPPS (Java Applet Parallel Processing Server) download page, since then, there was 5 or 10 downloads, but nobody comments it, Is a good example of Distributed Processing OS, kinda Seti@Home, but multi-user, multi-Purpose system, and needs no instalation (Runs in a Browser). Please somebody make a DES-key Crack with it and send it to me :) The URL us http://wk1300.8k.com/japps

Thats the name of my new Distributed-OS-like OpenSource Projects. If you want a easy way to get the CPU power of anyone that load your page, this system is out, and works. 100% java, 100% opensource, SQL support, etc. Take a look at http://wk1300.8k.com/japps

cya, Andrew...