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Sandia Builds Micromechanical 'Device Driver'
DanielRavenNest writes: "Sandia Labs has built a tiny bicycle chain type drive out of silicon. This allows one micromechanical motor to drive multiple devices scattered about a chip."
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Solid-state good.
This looks like more solutions to non-problems.
Perhaps I should have selected "Technology" rather than "Science". Anyway, I found it at robots.net, another mod_virgule site. Get your robot news there first!
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> Slackware forever. Honestly, what else would you trust when it absolutely positively has to be stable, secure, and easy
.. ease is a matter of context, and security (akas: kernal/security mailing-list anality) is about as good as it gets. Can you point me towards a non-slackware-biased source that can break it down for me?
Since when did secure go hand in hand with ease?
We stick with FreeBSD
"Old man yells at systemd"
Ever since computers were run by human beings, who tend to make mistakes when technology becomes unecessarily complicated.
FreeBSD does indeed have a good reputation for security, but not for the reasons you suggest. Also, the slackware user you responded to probably thinks slack is easier because he's been using it for so long, rather than because of any particularly well-made interface (slackware is very minimalist.)
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It depends on what you're doing with it. If you want to go a few thousands of miles without chain goo slinging off onto your nice, clean Kilamanjaro Jacket then shaft drive is the way to go.
However, shaft driven bikes (with the exception of some BMWs) exhibit "shaft-jacking" meaning that the back end of the bike will lift up an extra inch or so under heavy acceleration making the suspension less pliant and potentially upsetting a rider who pushing the bike hard.
Belts, (IMHO) just don't cut it. There's a reason why you don't see them on world superbike machines. The only roadracing bikes to use them are Buells. But they're a segregated into a seperate class.
Chains, however, seem to handle the 170HP of a Honda SP2 racebike (2001 SP1 Specs) just fine.
Yes, I'm a geek -- even about cool stuff like motorcycles.
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