Although not a physicist, I do not agree with that statement. From what I've seen, from what the MIT scientists have seen, this merits further investigation. I have many questions: Does this scale up? How strong are his magnets? Do the magnets depolarize over time?
Yeah, that's the catch. His thing might be very-very-very-long-low-energy-motion, but it's not perpetual if it deals with magnets. Magnets have stored energy. Eventually they use it and become hunks of unmagnetized slag. It may take a year, or two, or 100, but it's not perpetual. Not to mention, things like this need oil for the bearings, which has to be refilled every-so-often, etc. Perpetual motion is a non-possibility.
Same thing with any invention requiring water. What happens when the water evaporates? Keep it in a climate controlled environment? How do you control the environment? etc.
Still, I'm intrigued by this, and would subscribe to his newsletter, etc.
There's a time and place for these places. Where I live (Blacksburg, VA) there isn't a miniature golf place for probably 50 miles in any direction. I know that it is kind of a niche environment, but come on... someone open a puttputt. Some of us like miniature golf, or have kids who like miniature golf, etc. My 3 year old would enjoy a place like that, or would in a year or so, especially if it had skeeball and whatnot.
I dunno, I guess I know why the arcade part of them isn't working, but I swear, it'd be a business model that would work here. Even just on exclusivity alone.
Keep in mind that PostgreSQL may have more stable performance for a varied workload. That may mean fewer surprise slowdowns for you.
Most of us who are worried about speed across a varied workload I'd imagine just split the workload up until it's homogeneous per server. It's what we do where I work - our backend stuff such as user DB's, policy rules, etc are all running mysql, and it might be faster if they were all on one server to do it with postgres, but as it stands, they're all independently functioning discrete servers, or IPVS/keepalived server clouds.
The decision was made before I got here, but as far as I can tell, the reason we picked mysql was speed first, and level / quality of code 2nd. There are probably other faster databases, but there aren't any faster databases that have both the functionality and the developer support of mysql, or the universal familiarity for that matter - new developers we hire can be dropped into a situation and be told "Ok, here's A, here's B, this is how we want the interprocess communication, and here's a mysql database. Go." and they'll know what's up.
Al Gore did what every politician on the planet does. If he/she signs on as a sponsor, co-sponsor, or especially namesake of a bill that funds X, and X is successful, the politician later takes credit for creating X.
"I took the initiative in creating lower teen pregnancy rates"
"I took the initiative in creating cleaner air"
"I took the initiative in creating jobs by lowering corporate taxes"
or whatever.
"I took the initiative in creating the internet" is no more far-fetched than to assume a politician *actually* lowered teen pregnancy rates, *actually* used their own hands and knowledge to create cleaner air, or *actually* increased the number of jobs available in the US directly.
Actually, and I kid you not, the fundamentalist southern baptist church that I went to when I was younger and still under the thumb of my parents did exactly what you're saying.
Seriously, they figured that people would be watching the superbowl, and that's UNACCEPTABLE! Why? BECAUSE THE ADS ARE FOR BEER. Can't have good christians watching advertisements with frogs saying "Bud", now can we? So they showed the superbowl up on the wall of the gathering area at the church with a projector, and during the commercials, they'd instead air mini-commercials about jesus that the youth group had put together.
Yeah, almost all aftermarket email providers offer SMTP access, and trust me, from experience, it's far better than your ISP's SMTP server.
ISP blocks outbound port 25? No problem, try 587.
For example, shameless plug (my new employer, unemployed less than 2 weeks and loving the new job): at Mailtrust (rackspace's mail division) we support not one, but three ports for SMTP with SMTP-Auth, as well as 3 ports for SMTP w/ SSL. (http://www.mailtrust.com/support/noteworthy/email-setup). That's what paying for outsourced email gets you. And I'm constantly amazed as I go through the learning process at how many problems could be solved if people would use a real SMTP server, or barring access to one, a major webmail provider (gmail for free, any number of webhosts for minimal charge).
Seriously, even if you don't want to pay rackspace for high-end business email hosting, do yourself and everyone else on the internet a favor, spend the $10/month for a basic webhosting company that will handle your email for you, spend $10/yr on a domain, and use their SMTP server and webmail, with email boxes at your own domain.
Comcast, Juno, roadrunner, and several other ISP's are CONSTANTLY getting themselves on blacklists anyway, and if you use their SMTP server, you're going to lose mail. We make an effort to whitelist most of the major ISP's mail server IPs, at least to the point that they get past the RBL checks and on to the heuristic and proprietary stuff that we do, and even then IP's are constantly changing. Not to mention, mail from these servers constantly is falling into spam tar-pits and triggering anti-spam measures, or getting flagged for other reasons. Our Postmaster and his full-time gopher work untold hours trying to keep communications open, but the ISP's by and large are very lax.
The bottom line, and take it from someone who is amazed on a daily basis how much effort goes into a *good* email system like the one that we have at my job, is that sending through your ISP's SMTP server sucks. Period. Don't do it.
Negative; the earliest gospel was written aprox. 40 years after Jesus' death was to have occured (this is Mark, written circa 65-70 AD). Matthew and Luke were written using Mark as a primary source, with the addition of an unknown secondary source, now thought to have possibly been the "Gospel of Thomas".
John was written in pieces, by multiple authors, over a long period of time, and much later than any other gospel (90-115 AD), and it is only in John that the divinity of Jesus is expressly discussed. John takes a FAR different tone than Mark, it is much more theological and introspective. Given a death-date of around 33AD, not only is it very unlikely that John was written by anyone who actually talked with Jesus; it is highly unlikely that the authors even SPOKE to anyone who was old enough to remember Jesus' death. They would have had to be 75 years old, given an age of 15 at the crucifixion and the earliest start date for John.
Anyway, contrast this to pretty much any other famous person from the ancient world. Aside from the bible, which isn't authoritative, there is no mention of Jesus in outside sources until 93 AD, when Josephus wrote that "there was a man, Jesus, the brother of James, called the Christ". There's also this long diatribe of a paragraph in Josephus' work that talks about Jesus and his miracles, death, etc, but unbiased scholars are almost in universal agreement that the passage is either in whole, or,at a minimum, in part a later addition.
I'm willing to go as far as to say "A historical Jesus existed", but I'm not going any further than saying he was a philosopher and a bit of an anarchist, and was possibly liquidated for his political beliefs and influence. I am pretty sure he was only elevated to "venerated status" long after his death, and god-hood even longer after that. It really wasn't until 300+AD that Jesus was conclusively thought of as some form of the one-god-of-israel, and it isn't until at a minimum 900AD that the theory of the Trinity comes into play in a Greek manuscript, and of the literally thousands of complete and incomplete Greek manuscripts we have of the new testament, only 8 contain the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7-8 - "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.").
But, then, I went fiddling around with it, and for starters, if you enable the options:
tap two fingers on the touchpad = right click put two fingers on the touchpad and move them = scroll
And I have to agree with an above poster, now that I've had these features (fleetingly, damnit, i hated giving the macbook pro back when i quit my last job), I can't stand to use touchpads without them. Once I had this stuff enabled, and knew how to use it, I couldn't have cared if the damn thing had any buttons.
I mean, come on, apple, the rest of the world now has 5+ button mice (mine has L, R, two thumb, scroll wheel which scrolls u,d,l,r, and is clickable, on-the-fly sensativity settings). I think mom and pop can deal with a two button mouse. But I get what they're doing: they're trying to save the techie types from "Ok, now left click on...", by A.) KISS philosophy, B.) Allowing power users to enable these functions on the new mightymouse, C.) Engineering the OS so that almost all common functions are one click away, not two+ or a right click away, i.e. by having contextual buttons on each app.
We (my coworker and I) used to watch streaming netflix at lunch at work. We stopped going out to eat because the cost of a decent lunch has basically tripled in the past 5 years, both of us started bringing lunch, and then we realized we could just watch TV or movies at lunchtime. It was pretty cool, actually.
Depends on what you classify as "technology", but I guess I have a set of screwdrivers my dad gave me that are more than 30 years old now. If you count it, my mom still has my grandmother's cast-iron skillet, which is probably 60 or 70 years old.
FYI, they do also own TWO-ZERO-SEVEN (or two-zed-seven for those east of the pond). Check out http://207.net/. I mean, it's still iffy, telling someone 192.168.234.207.net or whatever, but it's not substituting an OSCAR for a ZERO. It's just registering a domain name that's three numerics below the 255 cutoff limit for IP addresses.
There was a big stink a year or two back when they deleted the individual pages for Counter-Strike maps (de_dust, cs_office, etc). A bunch of people, like me, who play CS and/ore CS:S were like "Guys, this is literally the most popular first person shooter ever in existance; almost 25,000,000 copies have been sold, and at any given time, there are 75,000 people playing counter-strike source - SIX YEARS after it came out". A bunch of know-it-all editors swooped in and were all "BLARG ITS NOT NOTABLE ITS A VIDEOGAME YOU FANBOYS GET A LIFE" and axed the articles (which were in my opinion well written and informative).
So, the "I can't believe there's a wikipedia page for X" is a game almost anyone can play. There are individual pages for each pokemon in existence, there are pages for obscure tv show X's individual episodes, but it's really up to the editors what is notable. Wikipedia isn't a collaborative effort in the sense that each person's collaboration is treated equally, and expertise on a subject is not grounds for having any more weight on the subject than someone who is one of the "more equal" members of wikipedia.
Also, make sure that your building contractors don't skimp on the AC even after you tell them what you need.
Case in point, at my soon to be ex-employer, we moved to a new building in the research park. Of course, they over-promised, and when it turned out we weren't going to get any space in the datacenter in the adjacent building, they stuck the server room in about 230 square feet, L-shaped, in the office building.
Well, first we had to scream and holler that we didn't want a carpeted floor, which they finally agreed to after explaining to them that we had like $120,000 worth of just SAN equipment where all their oh-so-important data was, and that the SAN is so sensitive to voltage changes that it comes with it's own power conditioning unit. That coupled with the dry, cold climate in Blacksburg in the winter eventually convinced them that static electricity is bad(tm).
Then, we ran the numbers into a Dell utility that we have where you input your server model numbers and specs, and it tells you what kind of power and HVAC you need. We ran several sets of numbers, one being with the 3 racks we have now which were about 1/2 populated, and one with our racks fully populated, which, considering we didn't have any of the 3 racks 4 years ago, we figured was a realistic 5 year projection. With our current load (quick list is 2 15-drive sans, about 20ish 1-U servers, and a smattering of 20 or so 2-U and 4-U servers, auto-tape loader, disk storage arrays, and APC 3000VA UPS's. Current load for an AC to keep the server room at 60-65 degrees is about 6-7 tons of AC. Fully loaded, we would need between 13 and 15 (since only about 80% of the servers are dells, we were estimating what the comparable dell model would be, so it's less accurate than it otherwise would be). Also, with current power needs, we'd need 6x 30A twistlock receptacles, and for full-bore, we'd need between 12 and 15 of them. So, of course, we asked for 15 tons of AC and 15 twist-lock 30A plugs.
We didn't hear anything else about it, but of course, we got there and only had 6 plugs (in the wrong places), a 5-ton AC ac (so the server room is about 73-75 in the summer when the sun is on that side of the building), and the intake and outlet vents all wrong. Wonderful.
Ride the builders and the executives, and demand to be involved in the process.
1.) go to Trend Micro's download page 2.) lower right side, click "Damage Cleanup Engine", and download sysclean.com: "If you are not a Trend Micro customer please download the following file. Sysclean Package 3.2MB MD5 checksum: 4cb85b5a3c097fcb494dceed216b8d9e" 3.) go back to the download page, lower right side, click "Trend Micro pattern files" 4.) download the latest official or controled (beta) virus defs. 5.) stick these on a usb key, reboot in safe mode, copy to the desktop, place both files in the same folder, and run it.
Trend Micro's end user virus protection is not that great, it is bloated and annoying like most end user antivirus. But their enterprise product is SUPERB.
This, coupled with HijackThis (also now a Trend Micro product) and a good dose of Spybot and AdAware Personal will clean 99.9% of systems in safe mode, first time.
f there was not this stupid flaw on saving (game autosave at each map transition at night, you can't turn autosave off, and saving seem to take quite a long time..
This is what ruined F.E.A.R. for me. For a game that was supposed to be so big on surprise and suspense, after the first two chapters it was painfully obvious that whenever the game stopped for literally ten seconds to autosave, a big battle was coming up. Kinda ruined the surprises.
Just because it's "Logical" doesn't mean that it's PRACTICAL.
How do you practically measure people in meters? What relation does a person's height have in the laypersons' mind to the speed that light travels in a vaccuum, or the transition period of a hydrogen atom? In meters, everyone is 1.5 to 2 meters tall. I'd rather be 6'1" than 1.85 meters - it's just easier to deal with.
What about volume? What if you want a cup of flour, or a cup of water? It's either.236 L or 236 mL. But to those of us who use imperial, it's a practical measurement, it's about as much water as you'd want in a cup! It's something we can relate to! Plus, its very easy to convert liquid measure from weight to volume in imperial - which is a common complaint I hear. A pint's a pound the world around. 16 ounces of water (or water-type liquid) weighs 16 ounces.
Also, with a pound being 16 ounces and a foot being 12 inches, both of these measurements are divisible by many denominators. Fractions come easily and naturally. Metric fractions are difficult because, while a base-10 system works well with computers and exponents, 1/3 of a meter, or 1/3 of a liter, don't translate into another measurement smoothly.
The DMCA would be "of help" here only in that it would be able to give someone at the ISP a huge fine and possibly jail time for what otherwise was, and is, *already* illegal under existing copyright laws.
The ISP is not reverse-engineering or breaking encryption. They are reading your packets, changing the content, and presenting the end user with content generated by a 3rd party (here, Google) while representing it as their own (powered by SuperISP(tm) at the bottom of the page) or as unmodified (replacing ads with their own).
Copyright is not difficult: Don't redistribute things that you don't explicitly have the right to redistribute. The DMCA goes waaaaay beyond this, and wouldn't be needed in this case.
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Although not a physicist, I do not agree with that statement. From what I've seen, from what the MIT scientists have seen, this merits further investigation. I have many questions: Does this scale up? How strong are his magnets? Do the magnets depolarize over time?
Yeah, that's the catch. His thing might be very-very-very-long-low-energy-motion, but it's not perpetual if it deals with magnets. Magnets have stored energy. Eventually they use it and become hunks of unmagnetized slag. It may take a year, or two, or 100, but it's not perpetual. Not to mention, things like this need oil for the bearings, which has to be refilled every-so-often, etc. Perpetual motion is a non-possibility.
Same thing with any invention requiring water. What happens when the water evaporates? Keep it in a climate controlled environment? How do you control the environment? etc.
Still, I'm intrigued by this, and would subscribe to his newsletter, etc.
~W
There's a time and place for these places. Where I live (Blacksburg, VA) there isn't a miniature golf place for probably 50 miles in any direction. I know that it is kind of a niche environment, but come on... someone open a puttputt. Some of us like miniature golf, or have kids who like miniature golf, etc. My 3 year old would enjoy a place like that, or would in a year or so, especially if it had skeeball and whatnot.
I dunno, I guess I know why the arcade part of them isn't working, but I swear, it'd be a business model that would work here. Even just on exclusivity alone.
~Wx
Use Foxit Reader.
Polka?
Keep in mind that PostgreSQL may have more stable performance for a varied workload. That may mean fewer surprise slowdowns for you.
Most of us who are worried about speed across a varied workload I'd imagine just split the workload up until it's homogeneous per server. It's what we do where I work - our backend stuff such as user DB's, policy rules, etc are all running mysql, and it might be faster if they were all on one server to do it with postgres, but as it stands, they're all independently functioning discrete servers, or IPVS/keepalived server clouds.
The decision was made before I got here, but as far as I can tell, the reason we picked mysql was speed first, and level / quality of code 2nd. There are probably other faster databases, but there aren't any faster databases that have both the functionality and the developer support of mysql, or the universal familiarity for that matter - new developers we hire can be dropped into a situation and be told "Ok, here's A, here's B, this is how we want the interprocess communication, and here's a mysql database. Go." and they'll know what's up.
~wx
Al Gore did what every politician on the planet does. If he/she signs on as a sponsor, co-sponsor, or especially namesake of a bill that funds X, and X is successful, the politician later takes credit for creating X.
"I took the initiative in creating lower teen pregnancy rates"
"I took the initiative in creating cleaner air"
"I took the initiative in creating jobs by lowering corporate taxes"
or whatever.
"I took the initiative in creating the internet" is no more far-fetched than to assume a politician *actually* lowered teen pregnancy rates, *actually* used their own hands and knowledge to create cleaner air, or *actually* increased the number of jobs available in the US directly.
I wish this meme would die.
~Wx
This is exactly what libertarians oppose
Show me five people who are libertarians, who can all agree what a libertarian is, and I'll mail you a waffle.
~Wx
Actually, and I kid you not, the fundamentalist southern baptist church that I went to when I was younger and still under the thumb of my parents did exactly what you're saying.
Seriously, they figured that people would be watching the superbowl, and that's UNACCEPTABLE! Why? BECAUSE THE ADS ARE FOR BEER. Can't have good christians watching advertisements with frogs saying "Bud", now can we? So they showed the superbowl up on the wall of the gathering area at the church with a projector, and during the commercials, they'd instead air mini-commercials about jesus that the youth group had put together.
Yeah. No joke. Wild.
~Wx
Yeah, almost all aftermarket email providers offer SMTP access, and trust me, from experience, it's far better than your ISP's SMTP server.
ISP blocks outbound port 25? No problem, try 587.
For example, shameless plug (my new employer, unemployed less than 2 weeks and loving the new job): at Mailtrust (rackspace's mail division) we support not one, but three ports for SMTP with SMTP-Auth, as well as 3 ports for SMTP w/ SSL. (http://www.mailtrust.com/support/noteworthy/email-setup). That's what paying for outsourced email gets you. And I'm constantly amazed as I go through the learning process at how many problems could be solved if people would use a real SMTP server, or barring access to one, a major webmail provider (gmail for free, any number of webhosts for minimal charge).
Seriously, even if you don't want to pay rackspace for high-end business email hosting, do yourself and everyone else on the internet a favor, spend the $10/month for a basic webhosting company that will handle your email for you, spend $10/yr on a domain, and use their SMTP server and webmail, with email boxes at your own domain.
Comcast, Juno, roadrunner, and several other ISP's are CONSTANTLY getting themselves on blacklists anyway, and if you use their SMTP server, you're going to lose mail. We make an effort to whitelist most of the major ISP's mail server IPs, at least to the point that they get past the RBL checks and on to the heuristic and proprietary stuff that we do, and even then IP's are constantly changing. Not to mention, mail from these servers constantly is falling into spam tar-pits and triggering anti-spam measures, or getting flagged for other reasons. Our Postmaster and his full-time gopher work untold hours trying to keep communications open, but the ISP's by and large are very lax.
The bottom line, and take it from someone who is amazed on a daily basis how much effort goes into a *good* email system like the one that we have at my job, is that sending through your ISP's SMTP server sucks. Period. Don't do it.
~Wx
Negative; the earliest gospel was written aprox. 40 years after Jesus' death was to have occured (this is Mark, written circa 65-70 AD). Matthew and Luke were written using Mark as a primary source, with the addition of an unknown secondary source, now thought to have possibly been the "Gospel of Thomas".
John was written in pieces, by multiple authors, over a long period of time, and much later than any other gospel (90-115 AD), and it is only in John that the divinity of Jesus is expressly discussed. John takes a FAR different tone than Mark, it is much more theological and introspective. Given a death-date of around 33AD, not only is it very unlikely that John was written by anyone who actually talked with Jesus; it is highly unlikely that the authors even SPOKE to anyone who was old enough to remember Jesus' death. They would have had to be 75 years old, given an age of 15 at the crucifixion and the earliest start date for John.
Anyway, contrast this to pretty much any other famous person from the ancient world. Aside from the bible, which isn't authoritative, there is no mention of Jesus in outside sources until 93 AD, when Josephus wrote that "there was a man, Jesus, the brother of James, called the Christ". There's also this long diatribe of a paragraph in Josephus' work that talks about Jesus and his miracles, death, etc, but unbiased scholars are almost in universal agreement that the passage is either in whole, or,at a minimum, in part a later addition.
I'm willing to go as far as to say "A historical Jesus existed", but I'm not going any further than saying he was a philosopher and a bit of an anarchist, and was possibly liquidated for his political beliefs and influence. I am pretty sure he was only elevated to "venerated status" long after his death, and god-hood even longer after that. It really wasn't until 300+AD that Jesus was conclusively thought of as some form of the one-god-of-israel, and it isn't until at a minimum 900AD that the theory of the Trinity comes into play in a Greek manuscript, and of the literally thousands of complete and incomplete Greek manuscripts we have of the new testament, only 8 contain the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7-8 - "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.").
~Will
Dude, I used to be the same way.
But, then, I went fiddling around with it, and for starters, if you enable the options:
tap two fingers on the touchpad = right click
put two fingers on the touchpad and move them = scroll
And I have to agree with an above poster, now that I've had these features (fleetingly, damnit, i hated giving the macbook pro back when i quit my last job), I can't stand to use touchpads without them. Once I had this stuff enabled, and knew how to use it, I couldn't have cared if the damn thing had any buttons.
I mean, come on, apple, the rest of the world now has 5+ button mice (mine has L, R, two thumb, scroll wheel which scrolls u,d,l,r, and is clickable, on-the-fly sensativity settings). I think mom and pop can deal with a two button mouse. But I get what they're doing: they're trying to save the techie types from "Ok, now left click on...", by A.) KISS philosophy, B.) Allowing power users to enable these functions on the new mightymouse, C.) Engineering the OS so that almost all common functions are one click away, not two+ or a right click away, i.e. by having contextual buttons on each app.
~Wx
We (my coworker and I) used to watch streaming netflix at lunch at work. We stopped going out to eat because the cost of a decent lunch has basically tripled in the past 5 years, both of us started bringing lunch, and then we realized we could just watch TV or movies at lunchtime. It was pretty cool, actually.
~WX
You could link to the video by the duke scientists types:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_fuZyHDuk
~wx
I mean, Batali is in the video, but he's only quasi-associated with Iron Chef now-a-days.
Depends on what you classify as "technology", but I guess I have a set of screwdrivers my dad gave me that are more than 30 years old now. If you count it, my mom still has my grandmother's cast-iron skillet, which is probably 60 or 70 years old.
~Wx
Crap, my bad. I meant "Naught". That's right, cause Clarkson and Hammond are always on about the naught-to-60 times. My apologies.
~Wx
FYI, they do also own TWO-ZERO-SEVEN (or two-zed-seven for those east of the pond). Check out http://207.net/. I mean, it's still iffy, telling someone 192.168.234.207.net or whatever, but it's not substituting an OSCAR for a ZERO. It's just registering a domain name that's three numerics below the 255 cutoff limit for IP addresses.
~Wx
There was a big stink a year or two back when they deleted the individual pages for Counter-Strike maps (de_dust, cs_office, etc). A bunch of people, like me, who play CS and/ore CS:S were like "Guys, this is literally the most popular first person shooter ever in existance; almost 25,000,000 copies have been sold, and at any given time, there are 75,000 people playing counter-strike source - SIX YEARS after it came out". A bunch of know-it-all editors swooped in and were all "BLARG ITS NOT NOTABLE ITS A VIDEOGAME YOU FANBOYS GET A LIFE" and axed the articles (which were in my opinion well written and informative).
So, the "I can't believe there's a wikipedia page for X" is a game almost anyone can play. There are individual pages for each pokemon in existence, there are pages for obscure tv show X's individual episodes, but it's really up to the editors what is notable. Wikipedia isn't a collaborative effort in the sense that each person's collaboration is treated equally, and expertise on a subject is not grounds for having any more weight on the subject than someone who is one of the "more equal" members of wikipedia.
~WX
Also, make sure that your building contractors don't skimp on the AC even after you tell them what you need.
Case in point, at my soon to be ex-employer, we moved to a new building in the research park. Of course, they over-promised, and when it turned out we weren't going to get any space in the datacenter in the adjacent building, they stuck the server room in about 230 square feet, L-shaped, in the office building.
Well, first we had to scream and holler that we didn't want a carpeted floor, which they finally agreed to after explaining to them that we had like $120,000 worth of just SAN equipment where all their oh-so-important data was, and that the SAN is so sensitive to voltage changes that it comes with it's own power conditioning unit. That coupled with the dry, cold climate in Blacksburg in the winter eventually convinced them that static electricity is bad(tm).
Then, we ran the numbers into a Dell utility that we have where you input your server model numbers and specs, and it tells you what kind of power and HVAC you need. We ran several sets of numbers, one being with the 3 racks we have now which were about 1/2 populated, and one with our racks fully populated, which, considering we didn't have any of the 3 racks 4 years ago, we figured was a realistic 5 year projection. With our current load (quick list is 2 15-drive sans, about 20ish 1-U servers, and a smattering of 20 or so 2-U and 4-U servers, auto-tape loader, disk storage arrays, and APC 3000VA UPS's. Current load for an AC to keep the server room at 60-65 degrees is about 6-7 tons of AC. Fully loaded, we would need between 13 and 15 (since only about 80% of the servers are dells, we were estimating what the comparable dell model would be, so it's less accurate than it otherwise would be). Also, with current power needs, we'd need 6x 30A twistlock receptacles, and for full-bore, we'd need between 12 and 15 of them. So, of course, we asked for 15 tons of AC and 15 twist-lock 30A plugs.
We didn't hear anything else about it, but of course, we got there and only had 6 plugs (in the wrong places), a 5-ton AC ac (so the server room is about 73-75 in the summer when the sun is on that side of the building), and the intake and outlet vents all wrong. Wonderful.
Ride the builders and the executives, and demand to be involved in the process.
~Wx
FREE ENTERPRISE-GRADE ANTIVIRUS SCAN
1.) go to Trend Micro's download page
2.) lower right side, click "Damage Cleanup Engine", and download sysclean.com:
"If you are not a Trend Micro customer please download the following file.
Sysclean Package 3.2MB
MD5 checksum: 4cb85b5a3c097fcb494dceed216b8d9e"
3.) go back to the download page, lower right side, click "Trend Micro pattern files"
4.) download the latest official or controled (beta) virus defs.
5.) stick these on a usb key, reboot in safe mode, copy to the desktop, place both files in the same folder, and run it.
Trend Micro's end user virus protection is not that great, it is bloated and annoying like most end user antivirus. But their enterprise product is SUPERB.
This, coupled with HijackThis (also now a Trend Micro product) and a good dose of Spybot and AdAware Personal will clean 99.9% of systems in safe mode, first time.
~Wx
f there was not this stupid flaw on saving (game autosave at each map transition at night, you can't turn autosave off, and saving seem to take quite a long time..
This is what ruined F.E.A.R. for me. For a game that was supposed to be so big on surprise and suspense, after the first two chapters it was painfully obvious that whenever the game stopped for literally ten seconds to autosave, a big battle was coming up. Kinda ruined the surprises.
~Wx
I don't get why people want to switch to metric.
Just because it's "Logical" doesn't mean that it's PRACTICAL.
How do you practically measure people in meters? What relation does a person's height have in the laypersons' mind to the speed that light travels in a vaccuum, or the transition period of a hydrogen atom? In meters, everyone is 1.5 to 2 meters tall. I'd rather be 6'1" than 1.85 meters - it's just easier to deal with.
What about volume? What if you want a cup of flour, or a cup of water? It's either
Also, with a pound being 16 ounces and a foot being 12 inches, both of these measurements are divisible by many denominators. Fractions come easily and naturally. Metric fractions are difficult because, while a base-10 system works well with computers and exponents, 1/3 of a meter, or 1/3 of a liter, don't translate into another measurement smoothly.
~X
Well, if you don't want to talk to a woman, a Q-Tip will work just as well.
And yes, I am actually suggesting that slashdotters should clean their ears.
~Wx
The DMCA would be "of help" here only in that it would be able to give someone at the ISP a huge fine and possibly jail time for what otherwise was, and is, *already* illegal under existing copyright laws.
The ISP is not reverse-engineering or breaking encryption. They are reading your packets, changing the content, and presenting the end user with content generated by a 3rd party (here, Google) while representing it as their own (powered by SuperISP(tm) at the bottom of the page) or as unmodified (replacing ads with their own).
Copyright is not difficult: Don't redistribute things that you don't explicitly have the right to redistribute. The DMCA goes waaaaay beyond this, and wouldn't be needed in this case.
~Wx
Consumer reports doesn't accept free products. They go buy things, with real money through a real sales experience, and review based on that.
It's why people *are* willing to pay for it. People trust Consumer Reports.
~W