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  1. Re:Solaris 10 on Sun Ultra 5/Ultra 10 questions on Solaris 10 Released · · Score: 1



    It'll run, on a U5/10 but you really need 512mb of RAM. It will probably boot on 256mb, maybe, but I wouldn't expect much.

  2. Re:Solaris 10 install hang at USB detection on VMw on Solaris 10 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting



    I have a beta build running on an iBook G4 under VPC 7, which is explicitly "not supported" by VPC. Took a while to install... :)

  3. Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux on Solaris 10 Released · · Score: 1


    There's two different ways to install a zone. You can have a sparse filesystem or a full filesystem. Then you can play games with lofs to mount various shared bits. It's quite flexable.

  4. Re:Representatives of the People, Indeed on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1



    More importantly, the senators would vote in their states interest again. Direct election of senators is one of the biggest mistakes we've ever made.

  5. Re:JPEG - get it right on Breakthrough In JPEG Compression · · Score: 1



    If I remember correctly, JPEG stands for "joint photograpic expert group" or some such... It stands to reason then that the M$ users drop "expert". A requirement even...

  6. Re:I'm all alone on Google Index Doubles · · Score: 1



    You're not alone... They don't index my site either. :P

  7. Re:deaths... on Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate? · · Score: 1


    And the number of people that died mining the coal, and the people that died as a result of the pollution...

  8. Re:Sun vs. AOL on Red Hat Acquires Netscape Server Products · · Score: 1

    such as Postfix, qmail (my favorite), exim, and sendmail (if that's your bag) among others as an MTA. Courier (again, my favorite) and Cyrus (again, among others) work great for IMAP/POP. Why waste money buying yet another mail server with so many excellent options?



    Because these are toys compared to S1MS. The S1MS MTA is a multithreaded hydra. I've seen it saturate 30 CPU systems doing SMTP relay... literally 100's of messages per second relayed.... Cyrus/Postfix/Exim only dream about the kind of scalability S1MS has. Sendmail isn't even in the running.



    ...and no I don't work for a spammer.

  9. Re:Calendar Server on Red Hat Acquires Netscape Server Products · · Score: 3, Informative


    It became iPlanet CS, which became SunONE CS and is integrated into the Sun JES stack. It now includes an Outlook connector.

    http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/calendar_s rv r/home_calendar.html

  10. Re:The FCC will spank them... on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    A lease that says I can't use a HAM radio on the property is unenforceable.



    Now I'd love to see a link on this one. The FCC has been very cagey on circumventing CC&R/deed/lease restrictions to benefit Ham radio. Got a reference?

  11. The FCC will spank them... on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 3, Informative



    Part 15 devices are REQUIRED to accept all interference from other devices. The FCC will spank them just to protect their turf, and that will be the end of that.

  12. Re:BUILD? on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For an Excursion, you're talking 1-2 more MPG.



    Don't count on that. Much of the fuel costs on a big vehicle like an Excursion are spent in starting it from a dead stop. I own a diesel Excursion, and it can get 22 mpg (usually more like 18.5) on the highway, but get into stop and go, and it plummets to 13.5. The gas ones are much worse.

    Ford has a prototype transmission for the "SuperDuty" chassis (F-[250,350,450,550], and Excursion) that uses pressurized nitrogen to effect regenerative braking, and use the captured energy to get the rig rolling again. Apparently it makes quite a difference, but it's not in production. Personally, I'd like to see a full diesel electric traction system.

  13. Re:California on California Orders SBC to Split Phone, DSL Service · · Score: 1

    So lacking anything resembling fiscal responsibility (controlling spending), and having been denied reasonable property tax increases on large swaths of real estate for decades... California municipalities are now doing everything in their power to increase the cost of housing so they can get their funding thru the attrition and turnover that does occur.

    How else does one explain the permit & planning fee's required to build a single family home in most California cities there days? I'm told Livermore, CA requires nearly $100,000 worth of permits and fee's to build a single family residence. This means there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of finding a house less than $300,000 in Livermore. They're taking their money up front, and forcing people to pay their lender interest on it over 30 years.

    Your grandmother's house wouldn't have shot up to that $200,000 valuation without prop 13 & highly restrictive growth limits that artificially create a supply/demand problem. Caps could have been enacted for senior citizens on fixed incomes, without exempting everyone.

    As it stands, it's the political 3rd rail of California politics. Nobody dares touch it. Once you own a house, you're bought in to the system. They've managed to craft the perfect "screw you, I've got mine" system.

    Temkin
    A Native Californian... That Escaped!

  14. Re:Why? Lightning! on Austin Becoming Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 1


    Nope. Grey cloth. But the paint is dark blue. :(

    I'm OK with the heat. In Kali I lived in the far east SF bay, which IS a desert in the summer. No rain, no humidity, just hot. What gets me here is the UV. It's enough of a latitude change that the UV numbers are really up there. I can sunburn in about 15 minutes at noon here.

    We had a commute train called "ACE" that ran a reasonable route for me, and had both WiFi onboard, as well as UoP MBA classes. The rail project they're trying here doesn't seem very promising.

  15. Why? Lightning! on Austin Becoming Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having just moved to the Austin area from Silicon Valley....

    Wireless is very popular here because they get more lightning strikes per week than Kali gets in a year! Having everything connected with wires is like playing russian roulette. I'm going to need at least 3 more APC UPS's.

    On the upside... The BBQ is excelent, and gas/diesel/rent/food/etc... is cheap. :)

  16. ISTP on Uniquely Bright: Experiences and Tips? · · Score: 1


    INTP? You must be kidding. Clear cut case of ISTP.

  17. Re:Great... on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    Diesels have a rep for low power, too.



    What have you been smoking?

    Go find a Ford dealer, and test drive a F-250 with the 6.0L diesel. Low power is not how I'd describe it.

  18. Re:Commodore 64 on Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing · · Score: 1



    1988? Try 1984.

  19. Re:Maybe time for a new generation of math-process on Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remember the co-processors? Well, actually I don't (I'm a tad to young). But I know about them.



    Dig deeper. 8087 FPU's were nice, though they ran hot enough to cook on, but the idea had existed for 15 or more years before they appeared. Try looking into the old DEC PDP-11 archives. There you'll find DEC's own "CIS" or "commercial instruction set", which was a set of boards (later a add on chip) that added string, character and BCD math instructions. DEC also had a FPU card set that implemented a 64-bit FPU out of AMD 2901 bit slice processors. Many low-budget not-quite-supercomputers were really add-on hardware boxes to a general purpose computers. Basicly add-on stunt boxes.


    Dam... I'm too young to feel this old! Most of this stuff was in play when I was in grade school.


    Temkin

  20. Re:Been done. Years ago. With graphics. on Pizza From the Command Line · · Score: 1



    They had a couple internal variants that survived in to the 90's as X11 apps. I posted elsewhere about "Burritotool".

    Temkin

  21. Sun Microsystems... Back in the day... on Pizza From the Command Line · · Score: 1

    Way back when, like 10+ years ago... Sun Microsystems used to have "BurritoTool". Which allowed you to order a burrito from a local Mountain View burrito joint, and have it delivered to the lobby of your building. It was a pre-Web X11 application.


    Hmmm... That might even be prior art...


    Temkin

  22. Way back in early 1995.... on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1


    I was an environmental geology tech, trying to work my way towards my RG cert. I worked for a mid-sized environmental firm that did mostly pump & treat and SVE hydrocarbon work. Since that was coming to an end at our locale, we were branching out to more nasty stuff like halogenated hydrocarbons, and chromium contamination.

    We landed a contract with a large chrome plating facility that had basicly ignored several years of letters from the local groundwater regulatory authority. They called us they day a registered letter arrived informing them that they were going to be shut down. Somehow, my managers saved their bacon, and allowed them to continue to operate while we performed an investigation. We drilled some wells in the ground around the plant.... The water came out of the ground dark "you're dehydrated" piss yellow. It was Cr 6+, the evil carcinogenic chemical from the movie "Erin Brockovitch". The regulators (rightfully!) went ballistic.

    We started a containment and remediation plan, while all kinds of regulatory agencies, swooped in for the kill. The next call was to help them stop the leaks. My managers tried to help them, despite the fact that we were not a hazmat response company. My office manager and I went out to the plant, and ventured inside.... Inside were vast tanks of hot acids, and all kinds of associated plumbing. The air was choked with acid fumes, and I could feel my lungs start to suffer. The piping under the tanks smoldered, and dripped on the degraded crumbling concrete floor. All the stairways and walkways were made of acid damaged wood.

    So there stands my boss in a suit and polished wingtips, at the bottom of some creaky wooden stairs leading under some boiling acid vats, and he wants me to step into a yellow puddle of who knows what to take some measurements for a containment barrier. I tell him "hang on a sec while I suit up", intending to at least pull on a Tyvek suit, some yellow "nuke boots" and gloves, and a acid fume mask. He replies "Oh no... We don't want to scare their employees! It's just pH zero water."

    For those that didn't take chemistry, pH is a log function of the hydrogen ion activity. The closer you get to zero, the more acidic it is. But note... You can't actually get to zero!

    Somehow... I managed to keep my calm, and stare him right in the eye and say "and what about this scared employee?"

    I never went down those stairs. My company backed out, and informed the client that we were not set up to do incident response. I had a new job a couple weeks later doing computer consulting for a large company that was trying to roll out Unix based intranet web servers... that I just happened to have learned all about in my last 2 years of college, thanks to a guy in Finland, and some people Illinois. ;)

    Temkin

  23. Re: RIGHT on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1


    Certainly. Obesity and type 2 diabetes go hand in hand. But which causes which? I suspect I simply burned out my pancreas in college by drinking too much soda and eating too much candy trying to stay awake, and/or skipping meals. Some of my earliest memories are getting in trouble for putting too much sugar in my breakfast cereal. I've always had a predisposition towards sugar and sweets. It's possible I'm a member of the first wave of teen onset type 2 diabetics.

    The weight gain didn't happen until I took a dot.com job and sat down behind a desk.

    As for 75kg... I doubt I can make it that far. I'd be happy to get to 85 kg. I'm a bit barrel chested and have broad shoulders, so I figure I get a pass to the high side of the chart. (I know... excuses... excuses...) It's still too late for me. I'm fully diabetic. No amount of weight loss is going to help me grow a new pancreas. All I can do is make the most of what insulin production I have left. I'm currently expermenting with weight lifting, in the hopes that I can add some more insulin receptors, and further reduce any insulin resistance I have.

  24. Re:Blood type? on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    You meant hyperglycemic for your type O MIL, yes?

    I'm not sure what my blood type is. Nobody has ever bothered to tell me, and I've never been interested enough to ask. It's most likely O-. I'm going to find out, next chance I get.

    My wife is type A. She's hypoglycemic, low blood glucose. She tried to go on Atkins with me, and her blood glucose dropped to the point she was getting dizzy, and couldn't think straight. So I may have some correlation for you, although that's hardly scientific.

    I'd love a pointer to any more information you might have on this.

    Thanks!

  25. Re: RIGHT on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    What is your age, weight, and height?



    male 35, 93 kilograms, 180 cm.

    You're going to try and calc my BMI. Don't waste your time. I weighed 111 kilos when I was diagnosed. The question is, was I fat because I was diabetic, or did my fat cause me to become diabetic. Cause and effect are not so simple with diabetes. I exhibited signs of being pre-diabetic when I was 21, active and weighed a reasonably skinny 75 kilos.

    Blood glucose swings modify appetite. It's a feedback loop. It can be managed, but first you have to know you have a problem. Stability is the key. Trust me, nothing makes you feel crappier than having your BG go from 95 mg/dL to 250 and back to 110 in a 6 hour period. The rise causes rapid heartbeat, thirst, lethargy, vision changes... The fall, ravenous hunger.