So, the school board member is not expected to have successfully completed at least tenth grade? You don't need to have completed the second year of high school to serve on the school board? The member did not know the answer to a *single* question on a test which is aimed at the average 16 year old's expected math skills, and he only got a 62% on the reading section.
This person has a Bachelor's, two Master's degrees (one of which is almost certainly an MBA), and is working on a doctorate. And he can't do math or reading at the level we expect from children who just got their driver's license. And his excuse is the same one you'd get from a 16 year old - "this isn't useful in real life". This bone head can "make sense of" complex financial data because he has underlings who actually can do this math. Not everyone can take every problempresented in life and ask someone else to make a pie chart they can understand.
I think the sentiment expressed in the summary is pretty well spot-on.;)
Why are you hoarding his card? Information wants to be free - you should give it away. And if you give it to someone who says "Thank You", punch them in the mouth, because getting compensated for work like that is a sign that you've fallen victim to moral decay!
RAID certainly is backup if your original media is a bunch of optical disks. And it's probably the best way to get a large amount of storage with some reasonable level of reliability. Doing LVM with striping and mirroring would also work, but performance is nowhere near RAID10 (or even RAID5) on Linux. And I only say "on Linux" because I've not tried a comparison on other platforms which have the option to compare.
That's why I stopped using "external" RAID solutions (for home use, which is what we're talking about) a while back. Linux software RAID has a near negligible performance impact on the system. With LVM running on top of a RAID5, you can individually replace disks in the array with larger capacity models and readd them to the array. Once they're all the larger size (or "a" larger size), you can increase the size of the array to use as much extra space as possible. Then you're just a pvresize and lvresize -r away from the space being available for use. The RAID5 storing my media in my file server at home has gone from four 256G drives to four 512G drives to four 1G drives to five 1GB drives. Each of those space increases has happened without even restarting the daemons on the system, let alone any kind of power cycle. As soon as resizing RAID 10 works properly, this'll be even more flexible (the drives don't even have to be the same size).
I do this for a few arrays at home. My "enclosures" are just SATA hot-swap drive bays which go in the 5.25" spaces on a regular system. I got rid of the last SCSI cage a few weeks ago; I'll have to remember to get that up on eBay before it's a complete museum piece.:)
The important thing to me is that using software RAID like that means you just need a linux boot disk and way to get all the drives onto a machine; you're not tied to a specific controller or drive. I had a multi-disk drive controller with some smaller drives in a RAID die a while back, so I ended up using a USB-to-IDE converter to individually dd each of the small drives to specially-sized (the default mdadm format inconveniently puts metadata at the end of the partition) partitions onto a couple of bigger drives, and then reassembled the "array" of about 6 partitions across 2 disks on the new machine so I could recover the data. You haven't really lived until you've run mdadm --assemble/dev/sda1/dev/sda2/dev/sda3/dev/sda4/dev/sdb1/dev/sdb2.:D
...compared against the risk of enough disks failing to corrupt a RAID. I've never had two drives fail at the same time - a power problem is just as likely to strike at the exact moment I plug in my external USB drive as any other time, and if you say I should use a second computer on a physically isolated circuit, I'll point out that such a solution is just really expensive and slow RAID1.
No way to store surplus electricity? Batteries are one. Flywheel-based storage is another. There are a number of ways to store energy. And distributing electricity is a pretty much solved problem.:) I'm pretty sure the problem with solar energy is almost entirely one of the extreme cost to do it with in any kind of volume.
In the article, the researcher thought they'd have something done in around two years. This seems to be a different institution, but I guess it's nice that someone seems to have finally gotten it working.
The first upload to the FUNET FTP server was September 1991. You've seriously been running it since essentially the very first kernel 0.01? While not impossible, color me skeptical.:) /16 years here,;)
You don't have to know the operators; that's what the "advanced search" button does for you. You then look at the query, and remember the ones you might use often. I use "word * otherword" -"word badphrase" pretty often when I need to filter results more, for example.
For learning the terms to search, I find that searching for something close enough usually helps me stumble upon the right search terms sometime in the first page or two.
All that learning does come from experience with searching - not from having the answers spoon-fed to you by asking on Slashdot.:) In this specific case, I typed "windows fake bounce email", and got a program that can do it on the first hit. I tries "spoof" rather than "fake", and ignoring the first four hits on Slashdot, the first link (which would've been returned before this question existed) provided a solution. But you're right - the original link was mildly offensive; he should've used lmgtft, as in http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+fake+bounce+email. That does a way nicer job of teaching how Teh Googles works.;)
Interestingly, the billing cycle ended on the 4th, and my phone has been turned off for the last week while I wait for a new touch screen to arrive...
Between my wife and I, our average data consumption over the last 12 months is 1055467KB. Yes, that's an average, and in KB. We've had a couple of months where we were at or just above 1.5GB, most months are just within a few hundred megs of 1GB. I'm the reason everyone else's data plans are more expensive.:D
/lacks mod points, so just commenting "thank you".
This is like taking all of your junk mail, writing "return to sender" on the outside, and shoving it in your neighbor's mailbox. Now it's wasted your time *and* your neighbor's time. Reject at the SMTP level with a proper spam filter, or just put the message in your own trash.
If I didn't have the resources and someone else did, good for them. This is not hypothetical: I publicly posted an idea a while back to build a device for myself, and a couple of years later, it was a successful consumer electronic product someone else made. Someone else did the production and marketing, and then a big company eventually bought the company out. Yeah, I had the idea and did the initial design, but I wouldn't have marketed it. So I'm glad someone else was able to get what they wanted.
People who want to hoard knowledge are bad for society. If you actually will act upon it, great, you need some protections like patents or whatever. But if it's just something you enjoy doing, be happy with doing what you enjoy. Life's not all about money...
I've been running ios 12.1 for years - this "5" junk has to be way out of date. cisco-2950-24>show version Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C2950 Software (C2950-I6Q4L2-M), Version 12.1(22)EA2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Well, there's your problem. You can't keep your data in Canada unless your server is also in Canada. They have pretty strict laws about that kind of thing up there: http://www.privireal.org/content/dp/canada.php, for example.
Well, the power in the LT1 is mostly due to the reverse-flow cooling which allowed higher compression ratios because the heads stay cooler, and the roller cam allowing more aggressive lobe profiles. The actual components vary only slightly from the Gen I small block introduced in 1957; the external accessory holes and mounts are actually identical, and the pistons+ rings are identical (well, ignoring that the piston grooves in an LT1 are some crazy metric dimension; the ring gap, piston pin, and piston skirt treatments are identical).
The LS, OTOH, is a ground-up redesign. The variable valve timing thing is new within the last year on a couple of models, but those are not the higher power variants - any you find in a junkyard or crate would be the same cam hooked to a timing chain as in every Chevy V8. The LSx actually has fewer things to break than the GenI and GenII, as there's no distributor drive (it uses a toothed wheel to provide a timing signal to an external controller) and no mechanical fuel pump provisions. And the main caps are all 6-bolts / the blocks are stronger (an aluminum LS block is actually as strong as an iron Gen I/II). There's a lot of guys running carb'd intakes on those things, and then just an ignition box (which just about everyone serious runs anyway). The big deal in these things is the heads. They went to 4 bolts per cylinder instead of 5, but they're arranged better. The shape of the intake runner is way improved (where most of the power's coming from). And most are using beehive springs now, which taper at the top to reduce the amount of weight being thrown around at the end of the pushrod. Technology is cool.
All that said, I think I'll be doing another LT1 in the Chevelle, controlled with Megasquirt this time so I can do variable turbocharged boost and flex fuel capability. The LS motors just need too many tweaks to bolt into older cars.:/
Well, in my defense, I had just used some Restore on my '80 Caprice (running the oil-burning 307 which originally came in my wife's Chevelle). It shockingly actually made an improvement, so I sold the car right away.:) Then I thought "well, if it helped that POS, maybe it'll do something for this car too"... It did "something".:/
I might be willing to trade off a little bit of interior space for the insane power potential those LS engines have. I'm putting 523HP out at the flywheel in my simple carb'd truck, while people are putting that and more to the street with LS engines that sound stock and get decent mileage. Those things are neat. But yeah, the parts aren't cheap. Not that my 16 year old BMW is cheap to maintain, either. New catalytic converters? $1300 *per side* just for the parts. Ooof.
I've had the Goodyears on my Caprice wagon (the wagons got all the good stuff from the cop cars except for the coolers) for almost 10 years now - they still look brand new inside and out (I flushed the system last year, which is why I looked inside the hoses). I loved my 9C1 as well, but it experienced a major drivetrain failure which was my fault. That "Restore" junk should not be put into an engine which works.:/
For other cars... I also currently have an '04 Grand Marquis (the wife's car). I have no idea why people compare the Caprice and the Marquis. They're about the same size, and I like the Marquis in its own way -but there's no comparison between it and the Caprices. Parked next to the Caprice and Marquis is a '95 BMW 740i (my daily driver - oddly, it's got the lowest current trade-in value, despite having a new price in 1995 which exceeds what I paid for my house). In terms of performance, the BMW and Caprice are extremely similar, but the German car has a way nicer interior.:) The Marquis, well, is just a big car. It's a turd off the line, it doesn't corner all that well (even with the new 18s and Michelins), it gets ok mileage, and it's fairly cheap to maintain. I'm really looking forward to a few years down the road when the new Chevy 9C1 starts getting rotated out of fleets again; the Fords just don't do it for me, but I'd be ok with a cop car running an LS-based V8.:)
Well, the genere of automated config management based on convergence pretty much owes its existence to Mark Burgess's thesis, and Cfengine is his implementation of promise theory. Now you've also got Puppet - which basically exists because Luke didn't like the way Cfengine was going (my opinion may vary), and Chef because that guy didn't quite like how Puppet worked. And several others which are probably listed in a table on Wikipedia or something.
And if you're a sysadmin completely unfamiliar with those, you should rectify that situation now. You're doing too much work.
In terms of the Caprice 9C1 (since you mention the green silicone hoses), Goodyear makes a hose set for the essentially identical Impala SS under the name "Super Hi-Miler" which have a similar lifetime. The silicone hoses will last forever, but do not like any kind of contact with anything. The blue Goodyears will still outlast the car, but are more resistant to abrasion, and you can use regular hose clamps (but I still prefer to use the lined stainless clamps which don't cut into the hose).
On the newer Crown Vics, watch for frame rust-through in the bends behind the front tires. A huge chunk of those stupid things will look fine with under 100K miles, but are taken out of service because of rust on the frame.:)
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So, the school board member is not expected to have successfully completed at least tenth grade? You don't need to have completed the second year of high school to serve on the school board? The member did not know the answer to a *single* question on a test which is aimed at the average 16 year old's expected math skills, and he only got a 62% on the reading section.
This person has a Bachelor's, two Master's degrees (one of which is almost certainly an MBA), and is working on a doctorate. And he can't do math or reading at the level we expect from children who just got their driver's license. And his excuse is the same one you'd get from a 16 year old - "this isn't useful in real life". This bone head can "make sense of" complex financial data because he has underlings who actually can do this math. Not everyone can take every problempresented in life and ask someone else to make a pie chart they can understand.
I think the sentiment expressed in the summary is pretty well spot-on. ;)
I don't usually remember the name afterwards anyway. Hooray for a short attention span!
Why are you hoarding his card? Information wants to be free - you should give it away. And if you give it to someone who says "Thank You", punch them in the mouth, because getting compensated for work like that is a sign that you've fallen victim to moral decay!
RAID certainly is backup if your original media is a bunch of optical disks. And it's probably the best way to get a large amount of storage with some reasonable level of reliability. Doing LVM with striping and mirroring would also work, but performance is nowhere near RAID10 (or even RAID5) on Linux. And I only say "on Linux" because I've not tried a comparison on other platforms which have the option to compare.
That's why I stopped using "external" RAID solutions (for home use, which is what we're talking about) a while back. Linux software RAID has a near negligible performance impact on the system. With LVM running on top of a RAID5, you can individually replace disks in the array with larger capacity models and readd them to the array. Once they're all the larger size (or "a" larger size), you can increase the size of the array to use as much extra space as possible. Then you're just a pvresize and lvresize -r away from the space being available for use. The RAID5 storing my media in my file server at home has gone from four 256G drives to four 512G drives to four 1G drives to five 1GB drives. Each of those space increases has happened without even restarting the daemons on the system, let alone any kind of power cycle. As soon as resizing RAID 10 works properly, this'll be even more flexible (the drives don't even have to be the same size).
I do this for a few arrays at home. My "enclosures" are just SATA hot-swap drive bays which go in the 5.25" spaces on a regular system. I got rid of the last SCSI cage a few weeks ago; I'll have to remember to get that up on eBay before it's a complete museum piece. :)
The important thing to me is that using software RAID like that means you just need a linux boot disk and way to get all the drives onto a machine; you're not tied to a specific controller or drive. I had a multi-disk drive controller with some smaller drives in a RAID die a while back, so I ended up using a USB-to-IDE converter to individually dd each of the small drives to specially-sized (the default mdadm format inconveniently puts metadata at the end of the partition) partitions onto a couple of bigger drives, and then reassembled the "array" of about 6 partitions across 2 disks on the new machine so I could recover the data. You haven't really lived until you've run mdadm --assemble /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2. :D
...compared against the risk of enough disks failing to corrupt a RAID. I've never had two drives fail at the same time - a power problem is just as likely to strike at the exact moment I plug in my external USB drive as any other time, and if you say I should use a second computer on a physically isolated circuit, I'll point out that such a solution is just really expensive and slow RAID1.
..says the person afraid to tie an identity to a post.
No way to store surplus electricity? Batteries are one. Flywheel-based storage is another. There are a number of ways to store energy. And distributing electricity is a pretty much solved problem. :) I'm pretty sure the problem with solar energy is almost entirely one of the extreme cost to do it with in any kind of volume.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/04/02/10/1514248/curse-your-way-to-live-support
In the article, the researcher thought they'd have something done in around two years. This seems to be a different institution, but I guess it's nice that someone seems to have finally gotten it working.
The first upload to the FUNET FTP server was September 1991. You've seriously been running it since essentially the very first kernel 0.01? While not impossible, color me skeptical. :)
/16 years here, ;)
You don't have to know the operators; that's what the "advanced search" button does for you. You then look at the query, and remember the ones you might use often. I use "word * otherword" -"word badphrase" pretty often when I need to filter results more, for example.
For learning the terms to search, I find that searching for something close enough usually helps me stumble upon the right search terms sometime in the first page or two.
All that learning does come from experience with searching - not from having the answers spoon-fed to you by asking on Slashdot. :) In this specific case, I typed "windows fake bounce email", and got a program that can do it on the first hit. I tries "spoof" rather than "fake", and ignoring the first four hits on Slashdot, the first link (which would've been returned before this question existed) provided a solution. But you're right - the original link was mildly offensive; he should've used lmgtft, as in http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+fake+bounce+email. That does a way nicer job of teaching how Teh Googles works. ;)
This billing cycle, Sprint says:
Interestingly, the billing cycle ended on the 4th, and my phone has been turned off for the last week while I wait for a new touch screen to arrive...
Between my wife and I, our average data consumption over the last 12 months is 1055467KB. Yes, that's an average, and in KB. We've had a couple of months where we were at or just above 1.5GB, most months are just within a few hundred megs of 1GB. I'm the reason everyone else's data plans are more expensive. :D
Teaching to fish > giving fish
/lacks mod points, so just commenting "thank you".
This is like taking all of your junk mail, writing "return to sender" on the outside, and shoving it in your neighbor's mailbox. Now it's wasted your time *and* your neighbor's time. Reject at the SMTP level with a proper spam filter, or just put the message in your own trash.
If I didn't have the resources and someone else did, good for them. This is not hypothetical: I publicly posted an idea a while back to build a device for myself, and a couple of years later, it was a successful consumer electronic product someone else made. Someone else did the production and marketing, and then a big company eventually bought the company out. Yeah, I had the idea and did the initial design, but I wouldn't have marketed it. So I'm glad someone else was able to get what they wanted.
People who want to hoard knowledge are bad for society. If you actually will act upon it, great, you need some protections like patents or whatever. But if it's just something you enjoy doing, be happy with doing what you enjoy. Life's not all about money...
I've been running ios 12.1 for years - this "5" junk has to be way out of date.
cisco-2950-24>show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) C2950 Software (C2950-I6Q4L2-M), Version 12.1(22)EA2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Well, there's your problem. You can't keep your data in Canada unless your server is also in Canada. They have pretty strict laws about that kind of thing up there: http://www.privireal.org/content/dp/canada.php, for example.
I accidentally posted this while trying to plug my iPod's charging cable into my old Poloroid camera's flash port. At a bar.
Well, the power in the LT1 is mostly due to the reverse-flow cooling which allowed higher compression ratios because the heads stay cooler, and the roller cam allowing more aggressive lobe profiles. The actual components vary only slightly from the Gen I small block introduced in 1957; the external accessory holes and mounts are actually identical, and the pistons+ rings are identical (well, ignoring that the piston grooves in an LT1 are some crazy metric dimension; the ring gap, piston pin, and piston skirt treatments are identical).
The LS, OTOH, is a ground-up redesign. The variable valve timing thing is new within the last year on a couple of models, but those are not the higher power variants - any you find in a junkyard or crate would be the same cam hooked to a timing chain as in every Chevy V8. The LSx actually has fewer things to break than the GenI and GenII, as there's no distributor drive (it uses a toothed wheel to provide a timing signal to an external controller) and no mechanical fuel pump provisions. And the main caps are all 6-bolts / the blocks are stronger (an aluminum LS block is actually as strong as an iron Gen I/II). There's a lot of guys running carb'd intakes on those things, and then just an ignition box (which just about everyone serious runs anyway). The big deal in these things is the heads. They went to 4 bolts per cylinder instead of 5, but they're arranged better. The shape of the intake runner is way improved (where most of the power's coming from). And most are using beehive springs now, which taper at the top to reduce the amount of weight being thrown around at the end of the pushrod. Technology is cool.
All that said, I think I'll be doing another LT1 in the Chevelle, controlled with Megasquirt this time so I can do variable turbocharged boost and flex fuel capability. The LS motors just need too many tweaks to bolt into older cars. :/
Well, in my defense, I had just used some Restore on my '80 Caprice (running the oil-burning 307 which originally came in my wife's Chevelle). It shockingly actually made an improvement, so I sold the car right away. :) Then I thought "well, if it helped that POS, maybe it'll do something for this car too"... It did "something". :/
I might be willing to trade off a little bit of interior space for the insane power potential those LS engines have. I'm putting 523HP out at the flywheel in my simple carb'd truck, while people are putting that and more to the street with LS engines that sound stock and get decent mileage. Those things are neat. But yeah, the parts aren't cheap. Not that my 16 year old BMW is cheap to maintain, either. New catalytic converters? $1300 *per side* just for the parts. Ooof.
I've had the Goodyears on my Caprice wagon (the wagons got all the good stuff from the cop cars except for the coolers) for almost 10 years now - they still look brand new inside and out (I flushed the system last year, which is why I looked inside the hoses). I loved my 9C1 as well, but it experienced a major drivetrain failure which was my fault. That "Restore" junk should not be put into an engine which works. :/
For other cars... I also currently have an '04 Grand Marquis (the wife's car). I have no idea why people compare the Caprice and the Marquis. They're about the same size, and I like the Marquis in its own way -but there's no comparison between it and the Caprices. Parked next to the Caprice and Marquis is a '95 BMW 740i (my daily driver - oddly, it's got the lowest current trade-in value, despite having a new price in 1995 which exceeds what I paid for my house). In terms of performance, the BMW and Caprice are extremely similar, but the German car has a way nicer interior. :) The Marquis, well, is just a big car. It's a turd off the line, it doesn't corner all that well (even with the new 18s and Michelins), it gets ok mileage, and it's fairly cheap to maintain. I'm really looking forward to a few years down the road when the new Chevy 9C1 starts getting rotated out of fleets again; the Fords just don't do it for me, but I'd be ok with a cop car running an LS-based V8. :)
Well, the genere of automated config management based on convergence pretty much owes its existence to Mark Burgess's thesis, and Cfengine is his implementation of promise theory. Now you've also got Puppet - which basically exists because Luke didn't like the way Cfengine was going (my opinion may vary), and Chef because that guy didn't quite like how Puppet worked. And several others which are probably listed in a table on Wikipedia or something.
And if you're a sysadmin completely unfamiliar with those, you should rectify that situation now. You're doing too much work.
Sort of. It was built from patches a bunch of webmasters had made against NCSA httpd.
https://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html
In terms of the Caprice 9C1 (since you mention the green silicone hoses), Goodyear makes a hose set for the essentially identical Impala SS under the name "Super Hi-Miler" which have a similar lifetime. The silicone hoses will last forever, but do not like any kind of contact with anything. The blue Goodyears will still outlast the car, but are more resistant to abrasion, and you can use regular hose clamps (but I still prefer to use the lined stainless clamps which don't cut into the hose).
On the newer Crown Vics, watch for frame rust-through in the bends behind the front tires. A huge chunk of those stupid things will look fine with under 100K miles, but are taken out of service because of rust on the frame. :)
You don't know women very well. ;)