For the same reason you can't just hook the positive side of your car's battery up and expect it to work. Voltage is really a difference in potential between two points, and the water would just have a distributed potential that'd be hard to take advantage of for charging purposes. Like the other guy said - induction would be a great way to power these (IMHO).
Try a wrench. Get a wrench from any reputable truck-based tool seller (Snap-On, Mac, Matco, etc) and use it on a fastener that's rusted / seized. The first thing you'll notice is that your hand doesn't hurt when you pull on it - they've actually thought about egronomics. The next thing you'll notice is that, if there was any chance at all of the fastener coming out, you've just done it. A cheap chinese tool, the likes of which one might obtain through Harbor Freight and friends, will have either broken or rounded off the fastener. At the very least, your hand will hurt (several cheap "made in the USA" tools do that, too - as do the old-style Craftsman wrenches).
I own several Harbor Freight tools. They're things like hammers (heavy thing on a stick - hard to mess up) and angle grinders (having 10 cheap angle grinders with different stones is more convenient than one expensive one that I have to change all the time). My main HVLP paint gun is a Harbor Freight model, and it has laid down some really nice looking paint jobs without costing me a fortune. But precision instruments, like a torque wrench, a regular combination wrench, a pry bar - basically anything that will cause a big problem if it fails - those always come from a supplier who makes stuff in the USA - or at least used to.:)
Strangely, I've never thought of including a Violin in my list of things that I'd take with me when I go camping or to the beach. In any event, when one becomes that informal with a violin (banging around? Ack!), isn't one required to start referring to it as a "fiddle"?:)
Be sure to let the UN know about that - this is surely something they'll want to take care of when they take "control of the Internet" away from the US.:)
How can you link to Archos without mentioning the PMA 400? It's got a Linux SDK! Nevermind the AV500 and AV700, which both look slightly more polished...
If you've included support for PCI IDE controllers, the maximum number of supported interfaces is 10, giving 20 drives. That's why systems that have/dev populated manually (rather than running devfs/udev/etc) have drives from hda to hdt. Further devices aren't supported without changing that definition in ide.h
However, if you change the maxium number of interfaces, the name is calculated by adding the drive's index to 'a' - so after hdz you'd get hd{, hd|, hd}, hd~ - not such a pretty thing, and not something anyone rational's gonna see anytime soon anyway.:) It might be worth pionting out that/dev/hdt is major number 91, and major number 93 is used by/dev/iscc*, so there isn't room for two more drives after that using contiguous major numbers anyway (though the first, second, and third controlers sure jump all over the place)
You're also limited to 64 partitions by the device minor numbers, though it's further limited in ide.h, in case you're curious about that too.:)
You're right - modern procesors are fast enough that software RAID really is comparable or better in several cases. I'm partial to hardware solutions in general, and in the case of RAID for a couple of reasons. First, there are generally more channels and dedicated channels on a hardware RAID card (or, at least, more are available than on a regular motherboard). Second, the OS agnostic part is useful in this specific situation - I've had problems where the Windows 2K host OS on a separate drive couldn't boot, but I needed to recover the data. With a software solution, I'd have to get into a Windows rescue system and work from there. Since I use hardware solutions anything anything's important, though, I can use the Linux recovery tools with which I'm more comfortable (they're not neccesarily better - they're just better for *me*).
Anyway, yeah, there's really not one good RAID solution to rule them all. But, as you observed, a hardware bias is funnier.:)
That'll reduce the number of times rm is called (xargs gets the maximum command line length and puts as many of the passed-in args on the end as possible) *and* work better than the ${} method (which is the same as the `` method, basically) in case there are too many args to fit on a single command.
I'm getting there - I'd like to figure out what the problem is before I officially complain. I figure, if the transcode maintainer(s) knew the solution to the problem, it wouldn't *be* a problem in the latest "unstable" eBuild.:) I just posted the descriptive part here because this is/. and not a bug reporting service, but since you want to know:
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -D_REENTRANT -DMOD_PATH=\"/usr/lib/transcode\" -I.. -I../src -I../libac3 -I../avilib -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include -I../libvo -I../libioaux -I../libxio -I/usr/include/avifile-0.7 -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/lqt -I/usr/include/mjpegtools -I/usr/include/mjpegtools/mpeg2enc -I/usr/include/mjpegtools/mplex -I/usr/include -I/usr/share/pvm3/include -I../pvm3 -Wall -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fsched-spec-load -fgcse-lm -fgcse-sm -DDCT_YUV_PRECISION=1 -MT export_ffmpeg.lo -MD -MP -MF.deps/export_ffmpeg.Tpo -c export_ffmpeg.c -fPIC -DPIC -o.libs/export_ffmpeg.o export_ffmpeg.c: In function `export_ffmpeg_init': export_ffmpeg.c:677: error: structure has no member named `frame_rate' export_ffmpeg.c:678: error: structure has no member named `frame_rate_base' export_ffmpeg.c:681: error: structure has no member named `frame_rate' export_ffmpeg.c:682: error: structure has no member named `frame_rate_base' * those two lines repeat several times* make[2]: *** [export_ffmpeg.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/transcode-0.6.14-r2/work/transco de-0.6.14/export' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/transcode-0.6.14-r2/work/transco de-0.6.14' make: *** [all] Error 2
Yeah, I'd imagine that the people who make a big deal out of ensuring that all of the stuff they release is free, open, and reusable - I'd imagine those people would get pretty irritated about deriviative works. Well, assuming they're hypocrites, anyway.:)
I can tell you for sure that I'm pissed that I can't run Windows XP Home on my quad Opteron machine. Pissed, I tell you! And the lack of software RAID, which is clearly better than spending a few bucks on better performing, platform-independant hardware RAID? Why, if it weren't for the availability of VNC servers for free, XP Home would be totally useless.
!!! ERROR: media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 132, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
I guess they forgot to test xvid support in transcode, since the same version builds just fine with that use flag turned off. "What? Test things? Bah - it works for me.":( There are 5 versions of transcode marked unstable and one stable. One would think that there was time to either prune the old ones out, or fully stability test one of the newer releases...
I actually had pretty good luck with MySQL replication - so long as the machines all stay up and are running the same version.:( At least it wasn't very hard to set up.
I did the same thing. About half of the CDs I've bought in the last year or two have been purchased because some band made the music available for free. I like that idea enough that I'll actually pay for music that's just "ok", in order to encourage more to do that. The other half have been purchased because there's no other way to legally obtain it. Guess which bands will get money from me at concerts, etc (hint - not the ones who are apparently in it just for the money).
Well, one would think that the core would be a belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God. Hence Christian. Interpretations of his teachings, well, those differentiate different strains of Christians.
Most organized religions have wronged someone else at some point. It's much like anything else - too much of a good thing is generally bad.
Wiat, then we'll be left with *just* the hypocrites who claim to be holier than thou - you know, the really irritating ones. The only ones that'd be taken in the rapture are the ones that are alright to be around.:)
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For the same reason you can't just hook the positive side of your car's battery up and expect it to work. Voltage is really a difference in potential between two points, and the water would just have a distributed potential that'd be hard to take advantage of for charging purposes. Like the other guy said - induction would be a great way to power these (IMHO).
I miss getting sick days, paid vacation, and benefits other than a paycheck. :(
/me goes back to looking for a salaried position
Stupid contract work.
Try a wrench. Get a wrench from any reputable truck-based tool seller (Snap-On, Mac, Matco, etc) and use it on a fastener that's rusted / seized. The first thing you'll notice is that your hand doesn't hurt when you pull on it - they've actually thought about egronomics. The next thing you'll notice is that, if there was any chance at all of the fastener coming out, you've just done it. A cheap chinese tool, the likes of which one might obtain through Harbor Freight and friends, will have either broken or rounded off the fastener. At the very least, your hand will hurt (several cheap "made in the USA" tools do that, too - as do the old-style Craftsman wrenches).
:)
I own several Harbor Freight tools. They're things like hammers (heavy thing on a stick - hard to mess up) and angle grinders (having 10 cheap angle grinders with different stones is more convenient than one expensive one that I have to change all the time). My main HVLP paint gun is a Harbor Freight model, and it has laid down some really nice looking paint jobs without costing me a fortune. But precision instruments, like a torque wrench, a regular combination wrench, a pry bar - basically anything that will cause a big problem if it fails - those always come from a supplier who makes stuff in the USA - or at least used to.
Strangely, I've never thought of including a Violin in my list of things that I'd take with me when I go camping or to the beach. In any event, when one becomes that informal with a violin (banging around? Ack!), isn't one required to start referring to it as a "fiddle"? :)
Knowing that it pissed Howard Stern off and wasted some of his time, I now feel much better about this outage.
Let the UN take over!
Be sure to let the UN know about that - this is surely something they'll want to take care of when they take "control of the Internet" away from the US. :)
How can you link to Archos without mentioning the PMA 400? It's got a Linux SDK! Nevermind the AV500 and AV700, which both look slightly more polished...
However, if you change the maxium number of interfaces, the name is calculated by adding the drive's index to 'a' - so after hdz you'd get hd{, hd|, hd}, hd~ - not such a pretty thing, and not something anyone rational's gonna see anytime soon anyway.
You're also limited to 64 partitions by the device minor numbers, though it's further limited in ide.h, in case you're curious about that too.
You're right - modern procesors are fast enough that software RAID really is comparable or better in several cases. I'm partial to hardware solutions in general, and in the case of RAID for a couple of reasons. First, there are generally more channels and dedicated channels on a hardware RAID card (or, at least, more are available than on a regular motherboard). Second, the OS agnostic part is useful in this specific situation - I've had problems where the Windows 2K host OS on a separate drive couldn't boot, but I needed to recover the data. With a software solution, I'd have to get into a Windows rescue system and work from there. Since I use hardware solutions anything anything's important, though, I can use the Linux recovery tools with which I'm more comfortable (they're not neccesarily better - they're just better for *me*).
:)
Anyway, yeah, there's really not one good RAID solution to rule them all. But, as you observed, a hardware bias is funnier.
xargs is cool.
You're aware that I was joking, right?
Yeah, I'd imagine that the people who make a big deal out of ensuring that all of the stuff they release is free, open, and reusable - I'd imagine those people would get pretty irritated about deriviative works. Well, assuming they're hypocrites, anyway. :)
I can tell you for sure that I'm pissed that I can't run Windows XP Home on my quad Opteron machine. Pissed, I tell you! And the lack of software RAID, which is clearly better than spending a few bucks on better performing, platform-independant hardware RAID? Why, if it weren't for the availability of VNC servers for free, XP Home would be totally useless.
What kind of support does Fedora offer, anyway? :)
I'm partial to the idea of hiring a sysadmin who knows what he's doing, so there won't *be* problems - but then, I'm that sysadmin, so I'm biased...
I actually had pretty good luck with MySQL replication - so long as the machines all stay up and are running the same version. :( At least it wasn't very hard to set up.
What about those of us who have UMN set as the default mirror for our Sourceforge downloads? Darn it, we'll be inconvenienced too! :)
I did the same thing. About half of the CDs I've bought in the last year or two have been purchased because some band made the music available for free. I like that idea enough that I'll actually pay for music that's just "ok", in order to encourage more to do that. The other half have been purchased because there's no other way to legally obtain it. Guess which bands will get money from me at concerts, etc (hint - not the ones who are apparently in it just for the money).
Something about how, since he was a royally messed-up kid, he therefore thinks that everyone has the same fantasies as him?
Well, one would think that the core would be a belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God. Hence Christian. Interpretations of his teachings, well, those differentiate different strains of Christians.
Most organized religions have wronged someone else at some point. It's much like anything else - too much of a good thing is generally bad.
Wiat, then we'll be left with *just* the hypocrites who claim to be holier than thou - you know, the really irritating ones. The only ones that'd be taken in the rapture are the ones that are alright to be around. :)
I'd make the addition that, if you hit one squirrel, you have to hit them all. :)