It's called "red dye" diesel. It's used in Ag equipment, construction/logging/mining equipment, and by railroads where paying the road taxes would be a needless expense. I'm told it eventually comes out of your tank, but it takes forever.
Odd's are, your average VW TDI or Mercedes diesel isn't going to get checked. But if you drive a diesel pickup in agricultural regions, there's a small but non-zero chance an officer will ask to inspect your tank. It's never happened to anyone in my family in 20+ years of owning diesels. I'm told the odds go up dramatically if you have a fuel transfer tank in the bed of your truck.
And you're only pecking at the surface. It's my understanding NASA had to lower the allowable crosswind aloft numbers because they kept getting close to the shear strength for the nose attachment on the orbiter. The rocket engines swivel to compensate and keep the shuttle on track. But they can generate enough force to shear away from the tank. Too windy... shuttle disintegrates... and there are hundereds of such scenarios.
The Soviet Buran, which was not a knockoff of the American Shuttles, had ejection seats for a certain number of crew members. Were the lives of Soviet Cosmonauts more valuable than those of American Astronauts?
The Columbia had ejection seats for the first 4 missions. They were removed once the shuttle made operational status to save weight. They were only for the pilot and co-pilot, and would not have helped the Challenger crew. Surviving high altitude ejections at supersonic, let alone hypersonic, speeds is not a trivial engineering task. Riding a seat up the rails and into the slipstream at mach 3 will kill you. You need a protective capsule.
I suspect you're misplacing the blame. It's not the governement. They're just the insturment. It's the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and their unions. They don't want to compete with DIY's, so they lobby government for stupid laws. The question then becomes... Why did you let this happen Mr. Voter?
Seagate FH 5.25" 9 gb scsi drives. They're 10 years old. Their MTBF is clearly published, and about 800,000 hours, if memory serves....
I'm going to miss these old 5-1/4 inch drives.... If they ever die that is...
Can someone remind me why we went to 3-1/2 inch drives for servers in the first place? Can you image how much storage we could fit in a FH 5-1/4 disk these days? With advances in minaturization, you could make the heads independantly positionable, the sustained transfer rates would make 3-1/2 drives look like floppies...
It's my understanding that anti-matter makes for a poor weapon. First because of cost. If you can afford to produce and contain anti-matter in appreciable quantities, you can certainly make a conventional nuke for much less.
Secondly, anti-matter does not release it's energy in as useful a way as fission/fusion does. Anti-matter annihilation releases gamma rays. With fission/fusion some of the MC^2 appears as momentum imparted to the daughter products, which is instant heat. The gammas compton scatter hither and yon, and don't transfer their energy to as small a space. In short fission/fusion goes bang. Antimatter goes poof. Which isn't to say that "poof" wouldn't make a useful weapon. YMMV...
There is zero real demand for Donkey Kong roms at any non-zero price.
Perhaps... But you have finite time, and a desire for entertainment. You might not buy Super Mario Bros. XXIV if you had unlimted access to all the great games of the past. So it becomes a case of eliminating the competition. You may not like that, or somehow feel it's wrong. But the companies don't care what you or I think.
Field day for all California Ham's should be held in Mendocino this year. Special emphasis on 23cm moonbounce operation requested. All HF ops with 1500 watt amps should bring their own generators, as an electrical shortage is expected.
Not everyone who worked in the military is under qualified.
Acually... I find people with military service to be among the best, most reliable employees. When I'm sorting through resumes, people with military service go in their own pile, and I pay closer attention to them. The only drawback I've noticed is it takes some coaxing to get them to be creative. But once they understand a problem, and that they're on the hook for solving it, they perform very well. One other drawback I have noticed... They don't do well managing dot.com types. Picture a marine drill instructor trying to herd a dozen cats...
Just idle speculation on my part. Sun is more of a pure-play Unix vendor, and thus might seem more appropriate as a takeover initiator, but I don't think their financial reserves are high enough to do it.
Sun still has several billion dollars lying around for just such uses. Given their current market cap, it would be a simple matter of convincing SGI shareholders. But you have to stop and ask, what would Sun aquire from SGI that it doesn't already have, or is able to create from COTS chips in a short period of time? Sun got what it wanted from SGI when it aquired the Cray SPARC assets. There's probably some nifty software, and some nifty graphics code to be had, but for the most part there's nothing at SGI that Sun couldn't create in-house in a short period of time, and without picking up the fiscal hit of absorbing their support contracts, etc...
One of the dirty little secrets regarding SGI & the movie industry... The graphics may be displayed on SGI's and printed to film, but unless things have changed recently, many of the render farms are Sun's.
It's my understanding Nvidia was originally largely made up of fed-up and/or layed off SGI engineers. Which probably explains why my Nvidia board works so well under the various *nix's.
I'd like to learn whether sun hardware is worth the big $ they charge for it.
You bought the wrong used Sun to answer that question. U5's and U10's are basicly PC's. If you drop a SCSI interface in them, and use SCSI disks, they do OK, but the IDE disks are crap. Also... Early models have 8-bit frame buffers.
Both Ignis and Fumus will be toast if the local utility screws up.
Had the util drop a tree branch across a 12KV line, shorting to the local 220 lines. UPS's are good, but they are not going to save your bacon from the full fury of a local grid accident.... or an earthquake, fire, etc...
They definitly use it as a tool to coerce people into the dealership. But OBD-II scanners are easy to find.
But the real hue and cry will start when one of the auto makers asks the FBI to shutdown one of the performance chip makers because they reverse engineered their PCM software in violation of the DMCA. I just see this one coming...
Me, I'll stick with my rusty old low-tech no-computer diesel pickup... With an mp3 player... and propane fumigation... B-)
d) crow about how smart they are and squander their energy on trivialities.
You obviously know nothing about the value of pure research. The beauty of it is, you don't know what will come of it. Edison came very close to inventing the vacuum tube. But he'd solved his problem, electric light, and sought to solve the "misery of darkness" by commercializing it. Had he played with it a bit more in the lab, where would we be today? How about the Apollo program? Didn't do a thing for world hunger or suffering... or did it? Most dismiss it as cold war grandstanding, and a huge waste of money. But look at the value of all the technology that came from it. You don't know what will come of the 39th Mersenne prime, neither do I, or the people that found it. Time will tell.
Now as to the underlying premise... To be honest with you.... I think you've been suckling from the public school system's socialist teat for too long. I could care less about your misery or anyone elses for that matter. By all accounts there's no general solution to the list of problems you've presented at this time. Everyone "getting together" and trying to solve it is a complete waste of time. I for one find it increases my personal misery, and reduces my quality of life, as I become a slave to your socialist agenda. Life is competative. Get over it, and go compete. Do something useful... Quit whining.
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Both companies oppose Microsoft, and don't use Intel chips. Sun has always wanted a place on the desktop. Apple has always wanted their computers to be taken seriously by business.:-)
Sklyarov is clearly guilty of violating the DMCA. The not guilty plea is stupid nonsense.
Jeez... If you're a US citizen, you obviously didn't learn anything in civics. If he pleads guilty, it's game over, and off to jail after a brief sentancing hearing. In order to make any kind of defense, including a constitutional challenge defense, he must plead not guilty. All the not guilty plea means is he wants to fight it out in court.
Don't proclaim Sklyarov's innocence, because he isn't. Instead, proclaim the injustice of a law that imposes draconian punishments for things that should not be illegal in the first place.
Again, you don't seem to understand how US law works. Congress passed the DMCA, and it was signed into law by then president Clinton. The US system of checks and balances allows judicial review. If the law is found to violate some provision of the constitution, something a law isn't allowed to do, then the judiciary may declare the law null and void. An unconstitutional law is no law at all. If the DMCA is found to be unconstitutional, Sklyarov will be guilty of nothing. But in order to get that review, he needs to plead not guilty, and fight it out.
these don't really sound like good reasons at all. Surely there must be _somebody_ who is using Solaris x86 for real work?
I've been running my home web/file/db/mail/development server on Solaris x86 for the last 5 years. It just works. No kernel of the week, no LILO crap to deal with. I just upgrade it once every year or so, and add some patches in between. I get to focus on making the computer do my work, not making my computer work.
I have to admit I don't understand why Sun is resisting the switch to Linux. I'm not saying they should dump Solaris over night, but a two or three year transition plan would make a lot of sense.
For starters, Linux threads suck. Not a popular thing to say around here, but it's true. You can prove it for yourself. Grab a IA32 box, and install a recent copy of Linux (distro of your choice), and Solaris 8 x86 in a dual boot config. Log into Solaris and surf the web using Netscape for a few minutes. Multitask on the browser. While you're waiting for a page to load, click "get msg" in the email window. Scroll through an email message while a browser window renders a page. Then, reboot into Linux, and try the same thing. Same application, same code base. You'll notice an immediate difference on Linux, scroll bars will freeze or won't work, the X server will fail to draw newly uncovered windows, etc... Eventually, it will do what you want, but you have to wait for it to schedule the threads right. It's annoying as hell.
I've tried repeatedly to move to Linux, and finally gave up. Now I stick with Solaris (SPARC and x86) and OpenBSD. Which isn't to say I knock Linux. All the people involved have done wonderful things, and I applaud their efforts. They just have a ways further to go.
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It's called "red dye" diesel. It's used in Ag equipment, construction/logging/mining equipment, and by railroads where paying the road taxes would be a needless expense. I'm told it eventually comes out of your tank, but it takes forever.
Odd's are, your average VW TDI or Mercedes diesel isn't going to get checked. But if you drive a diesel pickup in agricultural regions, there's a small but non-zero chance an officer will ask to inspect your tank. It's never happened to anyone in my family in 20+ years of owning diesels. I'm told the odds go up dramatically if you have a fuel transfer tank in the bed of your truck.
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The United States has *never* made any old money issued illegal tender before.
I'm not sure this is true. I believe they pretty much rounded up the old gold dollar coins way back when...
Anyone know for sure?
all the good sysadmins are probably working and not monitoring these posts
Dead wrong... All the good sysadmins have automated their jobs and have all day to surf.
And you're only pecking at the surface. It's my understanding NASA had to lower the allowable crosswind aloft numbers because they kept getting close to the shear strength for the nose attachment on the orbiter. The rocket engines swivel to compensate and keep the shuttle on track. But they can generate enough force to shear away from the tank. Too windy... shuttle disintegrates... and there are hundereds of such scenarios.
Temkin
The Soviet Buran, which was not a knockoff of the American Shuttles, had ejection seats for a certain number of crew members. Were the lives of Soviet Cosmonauts more valuable than those of American Astronauts?
The Columbia had ejection seats for the first 4 missions. They were removed once the shuttle made operational status to save weight. They were only for the pilot and co-pilot, and would not have helped the Challenger crew. Surviving high altitude ejections at supersonic, let alone hypersonic, speeds is not a trivial engineering task. Riding a seat up the rails and into the slipstream at mach 3 will kill you. You need a protective capsule.
Temkin
I suspect you're misplacing the blame. It's not the governement. They're just the insturment. It's the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and their unions. They don't want to compete with DIY's, so they lobby government for stupid laws. The question then becomes... Why did you let this happen Mr. Voter?
Temkin
Seagate FH 5.25" 9 gb scsi drives. They're 10 years old. Their MTBF is clearly published, and about 800,000 hours, if memory serves....
I'm going to miss these old 5-1/4 inch drives.... If they ever die that is...
Can someone remind me why we went to 3-1/2 inch drives for servers in the first place? Can you image how much storage we could fit in a FH 5-1/4 disk these days? With advances in minaturization, you could make the heads independantly positionable, the sustained transfer rates would make 3-1/2 drives look like floppies...
Temkin
Anyone care to guess what the implications for SSH key exchange is?
Temkin
It's my understanding that anti-matter makes for a poor weapon. First because of cost. If you can afford to produce and contain anti-matter in appreciable quantities, you can certainly make a conventional nuke for much less.
Secondly, anti-matter does not release it's energy in as useful a way as fission/fusion does. Anti-matter annihilation releases gamma rays. With fission/fusion some of the MC^2 appears as momentum imparted to the daughter products, which is instant heat. The gammas compton scatter hither and yon, and don't transfer their energy to as small a space. In short fission/fusion goes bang. Antimatter goes poof. Which isn't to say that "poof" wouldn't make a useful weapon. YMMV...
Temkin
There is zero real demand for Donkey Kong roms at any non-zero price.
Perhaps... But you have finite time, and a desire for entertainment. You might not buy Super Mario Bros. XXIV if you had unlimted access to all the great games of the past. So it becomes a case of eliminating the competition. You may not like that, or somehow feel it's wrong. But the companies don't care what you or I think.
Temkin
Field day for all California Ham's should be held in Mendocino this year. Special emphasis on 23cm moonbounce operation requested. All HF ops with 1500 watt amps should bring their own generators, as an electrical shortage is expected.
Temkin
Not everyone who worked in the military is under qualified.
Acually... I find people with military service to be among the best, most reliable employees. When I'm sorting through resumes, people with military service go in their own pile, and I pay closer attention to them. The only drawback I've noticed is it takes some coaxing to get them to be creative. But once they understand a problem, and that they're on the hook for solving it, they perform very well. One other drawback I have noticed... They don't do well managing dot.com types. Picture a marine drill instructor trying to herd a dozen cats...
Temkin
You can also pick up a working
Just idle speculation on my part. Sun is more of a pure-play Unix vendor, and thus might seem more appropriate as a takeover initiator, but I don't think their financial reserves are high enough to do it.
Sun still has several billion dollars lying around for just such uses. Given their current market cap, it would be a simple matter of convincing SGI shareholders. But you have to stop and ask, what would Sun aquire from SGI that it doesn't already have, or is able to create from COTS chips in a short period of time? Sun got what it wanted from SGI when it aquired the Cray SPARC assets. There's probably some nifty software, and some nifty graphics code to be had, but for the most part there's nothing at SGI that Sun couldn't create in-house in a short period of time, and without picking up the fiscal hit of absorbing their support contracts, etc...
One of the dirty little secrets regarding SGI & the movie industry... The graphics may be displayed on SGI's and printed to film, but unless things have changed recently, many of the render farms are Sun's.
Temkin
like Nvidia
It's my understanding Nvidia was originally largely made up of fed-up and/or layed off SGI engineers. Which probably explains why my Nvidia board works so well under the various *nix's.
Temkin
I'd like to learn whether sun hardware is worth the big $ they charge for it.
You bought the wrong used Sun to answer that question. U5's and U10's are basicly PC's. If you drop a SCSI interface in them, and use SCSI disks, they do OK, but the IDE disks are crap. Also... Early models have 8-bit frame buffers.
Temkin
Both Ignis and Fumus will be toast if the local utility screws up.
Had the util drop a tree branch across a 12KV line, shorting to the local 220 lines. UPS's are good, but they are not going to save your bacon from the full fury of a local grid accident.... or an earthquake, fire, etc...
Temkin
They definitly use it as a tool to coerce people into the dealership. But OBD-II scanners are easy to find.
But the real hue and cry will start when one of the auto makers asks the FBI to shutdown one of the performance chip makers because they reverse engineered their PCM software in violation of the DMCA. I just see this one coming...
Me, I'll stick with my rusty old low-tech no-computer diesel pickup... With an mp3 player... and propane fumigation... B-)
Temkin
You forgot:
d) crow about how smart they are and squander their energy on trivialities.
You obviously know nothing about the value of pure research. The beauty of it is, you don't know what will come of it. Edison came very close to inventing the vacuum tube. But he'd solved his problem, electric light, and sought to solve the "misery of darkness" by commercializing it. Had he played with it a bit more in the lab, where would we be today? How about the Apollo program? Didn't do a thing for world hunger or suffering... or did it? Most dismiss it as cold war grandstanding, and a huge waste of money. But look at the value of all the technology that came from it. You don't know what will come of the 39th Mersenne prime, neither do I, or the people that found it. Time will tell.
Now as to the underlying premise... To be honest with you.... I think you've been suckling from the public school system's socialist teat for too long. I could care less about your misery or anyone elses for that matter. By all accounts there's no general solution to the list of problems you've presented at this time. Everyone "getting together" and trying to solve it is a complete waste of time. I for one find it increases my personal misery, and reduces my quality of life, as I become a slave to your socialist agenda. Life is competative. Get over it, and go compete. Do something useful... Quit whining.
Temkin
apartment renting as an example
Except you have no freedom. You have to live by the landlords rules. Hardly what I'd call a win-win.
Temkin
And will they be around in two years????
Both companies oppose Microsoft, and don't use Intel chips. Sun has always wanted a place on the desktop. Apple has always wanted their computers to be taken seriously by business. :-)
(Ducks and runs...)
Sklyarov is clearly guilty of violating the DMCA. The not guilty plea is stupid nonsense.
Jeez... If you're a US citizen, you obviously didn't learn anything in civics. If he pleads guilty, it's game over, and off to jail after a brief sentancing hearing. In order to make any kind of defense, including a constitutional challenge defense, he must plead not guilty. All the not guilty plea means is he wants to fight it out in court.
Don't proclaim Sklyarov's innocence, because he isn't. Instead, proclaim the injustice of a law that imposes draconian punishments for things that should not be illegal in the first place.
Again, you don't seem to understand how US law works. Congress passed the DMCA, and it was signed into law by then president Clinton. The US system of checks and balances allows judicial review. If the law is found to violate some provision of the constitution, something a law isn't allowed to do, then the judiciary may declare the law null and void. An unconstitutional law is no law at all. If the DMCA is found to be unconstitutional, Sklyarov will be guilty of nothing. But in order to get that review, he needs to plead not guilty, and fight it out.
Temkin
It'll be OK I guess... Unless I end up interviewing you. :-)
these don't really sound like good reasons at all. Surely there must be _somebody_ who is using Solaris x86 for real work?
I've been running my home web/file/db/mail/development server on Solaris x86 for the last 5 years. It just works. No kernel of the week, no LILO crap to deal with. I just upgrade it once every year or so, and add some patches in between. I get to focus on making the computer do my work, not making my computer work.
I have to admit I don't understand why Sun is resisting the switch to Linux. I'm not saying they should dump Solaris over night, but a two or three year transition plan would make a lot of sense.
For starters, Linux threads suck. Not a popular thing to say around here, but it's true. You can prove it for yourself. Grab a IA32 box, and install a recent copy of Linux (distro of your choice), and Solaris 8 x86 in a dual boot config. Log into Solaris and surf the web using Netscape for a few minutes. Multitask on the browser. While you're waiting for a page to load, click "get msg" in the email window. Scroll through an email message while a browser window renders a page. Then, reboot into Linux, and try the same thing. Same application, same code base. You'll notice an immediate difference on Linux, scroll bars will freeze or won't work, the X server will fail to draw newly uncovered windows, etc... Eventually, it will do what you want, but you have to wait for it to schedule the threads right. It's annoying as hell.
I've tried repeatedly to move to Linux, and finally gave up. Now I stick with Solaris (SPARC and x86) and OpenBSD. Which isn't to say I knock Linux. All the people involved have done wonderful things, and I applaud their efforts. They just have a ways further to go.
Temkin