Thanks, I live in Beersheba, Israel. I don't see your name / handle in the Debian archives!
Although Debian and Suse both detected the LAN card as r8169, this motherboard actually uses an 8111E. The drivers for this card are not included in the kernels of any released Linux OS, I don't know about the recent 3.5, though. My complaint is that the LAN card does not support the legacy drivers in reduced-thoroughput mode. Even Windows 7 would not get online with a stock Windows install, one needs to install the driver disk that came with the motherboard. And getting the right Realtek drivers for Linux was a pain. The official Reaktek site would not let me download from any of the 6 mirrors, and they use Javascript and HTTP authentication tricks to prevent one from downloading with wget (I tried from a server in Germany that I have access to, I thought it might have better connectivity to the European mirror). I finally downloaded from a mirror on Google Code.
Even with the correct driver, I cannot enable DHCP. I don't know what kind of LAN card issue would prevent DHCP from working, and I really cannot prove that the DHCP problem is related to the LAN card drivers, but I could only get online by manually setting the machine's IP address to a static address. I don't claim to be a networking guru, so perhaps it is an issue that is possible to fix, but I burned quite a few hours on the issue, it would have cost me less time/money to buy another motherboard.
You remind me of the time that I discovered that USB and LAN ports have the same width. It turns out that when plugging in a keyboard without looking, it might wind up in the unused onboard LAN port. That was the same day that I was repremanded for trying to plug something else into the wrong port. Both experiences ended with me frustrated.
Asus doesn't inexpensively license the technology to other board oems. Not sure how much of this is software and how much is hardware, but if there is a special USB-SCSI command set that is separate from plain SCSI then they will need to be open and supporting on that front for all OS's as well.
I came to say the same thing. Linux users can no longer buy Asus motherboards (at least not the budget boards) as the new integrated LAN card does not support the legacy Realtek drivers. Even Windows cannot get online with them until one installs the near 1 GiB "driver disk" with all its other unrelated junk. And before you tell me to just install a PCI LAN card, some models (including the one I bought) don't even have PCI slots!
I didn't mean to rant. But Asus can no longer be trusted as a supplier, so any technology that is Asus-only is DOA.
There's no need to get some metal involved who's only real values are 1. Shiny and 2. Doesn't corrode.
Gold, despite its single valence electron, does not reflect all wavelengths of visible light due to the relativistic effects of that electron's huge (i.e.: fast) orbit. Hence, special shiny, not silver-like shiny.
Gold, despite its single valence electron, does not react well with other chemicals due to the relativistic effects of that electron's huge (i.e.: fast) orbit. Hence, does not corrode.
Therefore, gold's real value is based on relativity. Relativity was concocted by a Jew, who was even a candidate for the presidency of Israel. Therefore, the root of all evil is the Jews and Israel!
(Politically-correct mods: look at my username before deciding that I'm an antisemetic troll)
you have to understand how small the event horizon is on something like this. The chances of it hitting ANY atom in your brain is so low that it's more likely that the planet would get hit by a full sized black hole than one of these tiny ones. Not only can they pass through matter and not hit atoms, they can pass through atoms and not any of its constituent particles.
You have to understand how many atoms it passes in an orbit inside the Earth. Lets say for arguments sake that the object is orbiting the center of the Earth at half-Earth radius: 3200 KM or thereabout. That's about 20,000 KM of distance it travels each orbit. Each gram of carbon contains about 6E23 atoms, adjust up or down slightly for different elements.
I agree that the chance of a meandering black hole eating an atom as it passes through one's brain is staggeringly low, but I dare say that the chances of it eating another few atoms each orbit is within the realm of statistical possibility.
... and have fallen to the center of the Earth where they don't hurt anything.
Fallen? And what do you thing happens when they get there with some velocity?
Such black holes almost certainly exist, not only in the Earth but in all other large bodies as well. But they aren't "fallen" in the center, but rather orbiting the body inside of it, possibly eating a few atoms on each orbit. In any case I wouldn't call that "harmless" but rather "mostly harmless". I wouldn't mind one passing through my fingernails, but I might be upset if it ate away at a bit of my brain.
I am 34 years old, fit both mentally and physically. I get along with people but very much value my solitary time. I do not like having many friends, instead I prefer small groups of quality people. I served as a combat soldier and a medic, and did a few years of an engineering degree, but did not complete it. I already have two wonderful children, and both they and my wife have known for years that should the opportunity pop up for daddy to go to Mars, we will have a big party and say goodbye to daddy. It is a family dream to send daddy to Mars, I have full support of my family. Though, I never did believe that the opportunity would ever come up. I'll be 45 years old in 2023. Judging by my pedigree, that is a perfect age for me. I will still be in excellent physical health, and I will be acute mentally.
I would like to be as prepared as possible for the time when you start accepting applicants. I will start to brush up on my medical skills, but how else should I prepare? I am a handy tinkerer and fixer, and I don't really see where I can improve in that regard. Should I learn some electrical engineering? Should I practice soldering upside down? Minor self-surgery without anesthetic? Horticulture? Parachuting? Soldering while parachuting with a tourniquet on one arm?
This is due to the human eye's inability to focus on objects closer than ~25cm. I should imagine that when Andromeda galaxy is 25cm from us, that the collision will be considered to have already occured!
You are correct, the post that you replied to did not account for galaxy-core supermassive black holes. However, the followup post (rely to self) addresses this.
Andromeda is already that big in the sky - it's over four times the size of the full Moon as seen from Earth right now. It's *extremely* diffuse though (and will continue to get more diffuse as it gets closer), so it's quite dim and generally isn't visible except from relatively dark sites.
The Schwarzchild radius is proportional to the mass M. The tidal effect is proportional to the derivative of the gravitational field, which is proportional to M / R^3. Setting R to be the Schwarzchild radius, to measure the tidal effect at this point, we find that it is proportional to 1 / M^2. So the more massive a black hole is, the smaller the tidal effect at its event horizon - and for a sufficient black hole mass, the tidal effect must be insufficient to break up a star.
Calculating the mass at which this happens is left as an exercise for the reader.;-)
Thanks. I address this in my followup post, posted as a reply to self. And I also left the "insufficient tidal effect" BH mass as an exercise for the reader, for any arbitrary definition of insufficient!
Just a followup: let us assume the largest black hole that we can imagine, ingesting the smallest star that we can imagine, in the interest of minimising the tidal forces on the star. In this extreme hypothetical case of no tidal force on the star until it contacts the event horizon, you will agree that the star will have also drag down with it minimal material from the accretion disk, and certainly not all of it. Now imagine what a star passing through the remaining material does to the distribution of that material. You can see that even in this extreme example of the star going "quietly" the resulting effect on the accretion disk is anything but quiet.
It was explained in my astrophysics class that when a black hole reaches a certain mass that whole stars pass inside the event horizon before being torn up by tidal force.
Then the singularity no longer has a big accretion disk and the radiation emitted by infalling matter is trapped within the event horizon.
So it goes quiet.
Who was your lecturer? Pick a mass, any reasonable mass for a black hole, and calculate it's Schwarzschild radius. Now add the diameter of a star, any star, to that radius and calculate the gravity field at that distance from the center of the black hole. Do you notice the difference? That tidal force will tear any star apart. It will tear iron apart.
Furthermore, it is very unreasonable to assume that the only object orbiting the black hole is the single ingested star. Most (all?) black holes have large quantities of mass orbiting them in accretion disks, the ingested star will of course disturb matter in the accretion disk. I will leave to your own imagination why the ingested star's influence on the accretion disk will be anything but 'quiet'. As to the assertion that afterwards "the singularity no longer has a big accretion disk" it is likely that the ingested star leaves more of its own material in the accretion disk than that which it drags down with it. Hint for calculating it: stars rotate.
Thanks. I suppose by "manually initiate installation of the printer" you mean to plug the printer into the USB port and to let the Windows wizard pop up, and from that wizard to select the.INF files? I use Ubuntu at home but on more than one occasion I have had to fight with neighbours' or family members' Windows computers.
On Ubuntu one can print just fine to an HP printer, but to use features such as a built-in scanner then the hpijs or hplip drivers are necessary. But they are available right from the stock Ubuntu repos and seem to be nothing more than just the driver.
- saturn:~$ aptitude show hpijs Uncompressed Size: 1,774 k
- saturn:~$ aptitude show hplip Uncompressed Size: 606 k
You don't need fuel for the trip back. Just send astronauts with terminal illnesses and less than a year to live. I'm sure many (most?) would be willing to go die in Mars.
I'm perfectly healthy and happy, with a wife and two wonderful daughters. And I would go in a second, no questions asked. I'd even be content with knowing that I'll die of radiation poisoning on the way, and have my dead body crashed into a martian crater, just in order to learn from it and make the trip safer for the next guy.
Works fine in Safari. That said, if you press a key other than ijkl it does something random. I assumed wasd would work, and was very confused until I read the instructions.
I use Vimperator, you insensitive clod! Even ijkl don't work for me, and my fingers kept trying hjkl anyway!
Hi there! I would be honoured if you would take a look at my resume. I am not currently seeking a job, but I will be in about two more months. I simply pieced the resume together in Open Office, so I'm sure that it is a mess.
My Gmail username is the same as my/. username. Alternatively, you can mail me at "lightknight at dotancohen dot com", yes, that is a real address!
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The last time that I tried to contact Intuit about Quicken on Linux was a mess:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/quicken_on_linux.html
I certainly hope that they handle their code better than they handle their customers.
The platters are in a vacuum, but the PCB is not. GP was concerned about condensation on the PCB.
Thanks, I live in Beersheba, Israel. I don't see your name / handle in the Debian archives!
Although Debian and Suse both detected the LAN card as r8169, this motherboard actually uses an 8111E. The drivers for this card are not included in the kernels of any released Linux OS, I don't know about the recent 3.5, though. My complaint is that the LAN card does not support the legacy drivers in reduced-thoroughput mode. Even Windows 7 would not get online with a stock Windows install, one needs to install the driver disk that came with the motherboard. And getting the right Realtek drivers for Linux was a pain. The official Reaktek site would not let me download from any of the 6 mirrors, and they use Javascript and HTTP authentication tricks to prevent one from downloading with wget (I tried from a server in Germany that I have access to, I thought it might have better connectivity to the European mirror). I finally downloaded from a mirror on Google Code.
Even with the correct driver, I cannot enable DHCP. I don't know what kind of LAN card issue would prevent DHCP from working, and I really cannot prove that the DHCP problem is related to the LAN card drivers, but I could only get online by manually setting the machine's IP address to a static address. I don't claim to be a networking guru, so perhaps it is an issue that is possible to fix, but I burned quite a few hours on the issue, it would have cost me less time/money to buy another motherboard.
That wouldn't stop you buying a PCI Express network adapter.
None of my local retailers stock them, and ordering one rivals the price of another motherboard.
like I like my women, FAST, WIDE and SCSI
You remind me of the time that I discovered that USB and LAN ports have the same width. It turns out that when plugging in a keyboard without looking, it might wind up in the unused onboard LAN port. That was the same day that I was repremanded for trying to plug something else into the wrong port. Both experiences ended with me frustrated.
Asus doesn't inexpensively license the technology to other board oems. Not sure how much of this is software and how much is hardware, but if there is a special USB-SCSI command set that is separate from plain SCSI then they will need to be open and supporting on that front for all OS's as well.
I came to say the same thing. Linux users can no longer buy Asus motherboards (at least not the budget boards) as the new integrated LAN card does not support the legacy Realtek drivers. Even Windows cannot get online with them until one installs the near 1 GiB "driver disk" with all its other unrelated junk. And before you tell me to just install a PCI LAN card, some models (including the one I bought) don't even have PCI slots!
I didn't mean to rant. But Asus can no longer be trusted as a supplier, so any technology that is Asus-only is DOA.
There's no need to get some metal involved who's only real values are 1. Shiny and 2. Doesn't corrode.
Gold, despite its single valence electron, does not reflect all wavelengths of visible light due to the relativistic effects of that electron's huge (i.e.: fast) orbit. Hence, special shiny, not silver-like shiny.
Gold, despite its single valence electron, does not react well with other chemicals due to the relativistic effects of that electron's huge (i.e.: fast) orbit. Hence, does not corrode.
Therefore, gold's real value is based on relativity. Relativity was concocted by a Jew, who was even a candidate for the presidency of Israel. Therefore, the root of all evil is the Jews and Israel!
(Politically-correct mods: look at my username before deciding that I'm an antisemetic troll)
you have to understand how small the event horizon is on something like this. The chances of it hitting ANY atom in your brain is so low that it's more likely that the planet would get hit by a full sized black hole than one of these tiny ones. Not only can they pass through matter and not hit atoms, they can pass through atoms and not any of its constituent particles.
You have to understand how many atoms it passes in an orbit inside the Earth. Lets say for arguments sake that the object is orbiting the center of the Earth at half-Earth radius: 3200 KM or thereabout. That's about 20,000 KM of distance it travels each orbit. Each gram of carbon contains about 6E23 atoms, adjust up or down slightly for different elements.
I agree that the chance of a meandering black hole eating an atom as it passes through one's brain is staggeringly low, but I dare say that the chances of it eating another few atoms each orbit is within the realm of statistical possibility.
... and have fallen to the center of the Earth where they don't hurt anything.
Fallen? And what do you thing happens when they get there with some velocity?
Such black holes almost certainly exist, not only in the Earth but in all other large bodies as well. But they aren't "fallen" in the center, but rather orbiting the body inside of it, possibly eating a few atoms on each orbit. In any case I wouldn't call that "harmless" but rather "mostly harmless". I wouldn't mind one passing through my fingernails, but I might be upset if it ate away at a bit of my brain.
Maybe this explains memory loss... Scientists!
I am 34 years old, fit both mentally and physically. I get along with people but very much value my solitary time. I do not like having many friends, instead I prefer small groups of quality people. I served as a combat soldier and a medic, and did a few years of an engineering degree, but did not complete it. I already have two wonderful children, and both they and my wife have known for years that should the opportunity pop up for daddy to go to Mars, we will have a big party and say goodbye to daddy. It is a family dream to send daddy to Mars, I have full support of my family. Though, I never did believe that the opportunity would ever come up. I'll be 45 years old in 2023. Judging by my pedigree, that is a perfect age for me. I will still be in excellent physical health, and I will be acute mentally.
I would like to be as prepared as possible for the time when you start accepting applicants. I will start to brush up on my medical skills, but how else should I prepare? I am a handy tinkerer and fixer, and I don't really see where I can improve in that regard. Should I learn some electrical engineering? Should I practice soldering upside down? Minor self-surgery without anesthetic? Horticulture? Parachuting? Soldering while parachuting with a tourniquet on one arm?
Come on man, give Ps a chance.
If it were his username, then he would have green Ps.
This is due to the human eye's inability to focus on objects closer than ~25cm. I should imagine that when Andromeda galaxy is 25cm from us, that the collision will be considered to have already occured!
You are correct, the post that you replied to did not account for galaxy-core supermassive black holes. However, the followup post (rely to self) addresses this.
Andromeda is already that big in the sky - it's over four times the size of the full Moon as seen from Earth right now. It's *extremely* diffuse though (and will continue to get more diffuse as it gets closer), so it's quite dim and generally isn't visible except from relatively dark sites.
Why will Andromeda get more diffuse?
The Schwarzchild radius is proportional to the mass M. The tidal effect is proportional to the derivative of the gravitational field, which is proportional to M / R^3. Setting R to be the Schwarzchild radius, to measure the tidal effect at this point, we find that it is proportional to 1 / M^2. So the more massive a black hole is, the smaller the tidal effect at its event horizon - and for a sufficient black hole mass, the tidal effect must be insufficient to break up a star.
Calculating the mass at which this happens is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
Thanks. I address this in my followup post, posted as a reply to self. And I also left the "insufficient tidal effect" BH mass as an exercise for the reader, for any arbitrary definition of insufficient!
Just a followup: let us assume the largest black hole that we can imagine, ingesting the smallest star that we can imagine, in the interest of minimising the tidal forces on the star. In this extreme hypothetical case of no tidal force on the star until it contacts the event horizon, you will agree that the star will have also drag down with it minimal material from the accretion disk, and certainly not all of it. Now imagine what a star passing through the remaining material does to the distribution of that material. You can see that even in this extreme example of the star going "quietly" the resulting effect on the accretion disk is anything but quiet.
It was explained in my astrophysics class that when a black hole reaches a certain mass that whole stars pass inside the event horizon before being torn up by tidal force.
Then the singularity no longer has a big accretion disk and the radiation emitted by infalling matter is trapped within the event horizon.
So it goes quiet.
Who was your lecturer? Pick a mass, any reasonable mass for a black hole, and calculate it's Schwarzschild radius. Now add the diameter of a star, any star, to that radius and calculate the gravity field at that distance from the center of the black hole. Do you notice the difference? That tidal force will tear any star apart. It will tear iron apart.
Furthermore, it is very unreasonable to assume that the only object orbiting the black hole is the single ingested star. Most (all?) black holes have large quantities of mass orbiting them in accretion disks, the ingested star will of course disturb matter in the accretion disk. I will leave to your own imagination why the ingested star's influence on the accretion disk will be anything but 'quiet'. As to the assertion that afterwards "the singularity no longer has a big accretion disk" it is likely that the ingested star leaves more of its own material in the accretion disk than that which it drags down with it. Hint for calculating it: stars rotate.
Thanks. Have a great week!
Thanks. I suppose by "manually initiate installation of the printer" you mean to plug the printer into the USB port and to let the Windows wizard pop up, and from that wizard to select the .INF files? I use Ubuntu at home but on more than one occasion I have had to fight with neighbours' or family members' Windows computers.
On Ubuntu one can print just fine to an HP printer, but to use features such as a built-in scanner then the hpijs or hplip drivers are necessary. But they are available right from the stock Ubuntu repos and seem to be nothing more than just the driver.
- saturn:~$ aptitude show hpijs
Uncompressed Size: 1,774 k
- saturn:~$ aptitude show hplip
Uncompressed Size: 606 k
I got the driver package labeled "IT professionals only", that didn't include the crapware and was 1/10th the size to download.
And where does one get such a driver package?
Mods! I wasted all my mod points on blow and hookers, please give parent post the attention that it deserves!
Don't be sorry, of all the responses you are the only one who hit the nail on the head!
You don't need fuel for the trip back. Just send astronauts with terminal illnesses and less than a year to live. I'm sure many (most?) would be willing to go die in Mars.
I'm perfectly healthy and happy, with a wife and two wonderful daughters. And I would go in a second, no questions asked. I'd even be content with knowing that I'll die of radiation poisoning on the way, and have my dead body crashed into a martian crater, just in order to learn from it and make the trip safer for the next guy.
Works fine in Safari. That said, if you press a key other than ijkl it does something random. I assumed wasd would work, and was very confused until I read the instructions.
I use Vimperator, you insensitive clod! Even ijkl don't work for me, and my fingers kept trying hjkl anyway!
Hi there! I would be honoured if you would take a look at my resume. I am not currently seeking a job, but I will be in about two more months. I simply pieced the resume together in Open Office, so I'm sure that it is a mess.
My Gmail username is the same as my /. username. Alternatively, you can mail me at "lightknight at dotancohen dot com", yes, that is a real address!
Thanks!