My business has 2 SMTP servers out on the net, but Comcast blocks outbound port 25 under the guise of limiting spammers. They encourage usage of their SMTP servers, but we routinely send pictures with our emails because we are in the construction business. Comcast simply times out sending large files (5-10Mb). Thus, my business is adversely affected. Complaints have been met with silence.
I'm guessing since you have your own mail server, you can configure it to accept mail on the submission port, 587. Just a thought...
Although I am unfamiliar with her situation, I suspect that this particular judge will rise no higher in the ranks of the Federal Government
That would be up to us. If we remember her for her good works, and demand her promotion via the electoral process, she will advance. If we keep electing corporate plutocrats... Perhaps not.
Yea... I'm a little disappointed that I had to scan halfway thru the discussion to find this. The younger generation here on Slashdot doesn't seem very well read. They just scream and leap into the discussion... On the other hand... They don't even recognize the device is a weapon, which is key...
How many more years will we be using rotating magnetic media for storage? Flash disks are just around the corner. A generation or three of development, and this kind of disk media will likely be dead.
The download site says it'll take forever. Anyone know where to find a torrent?
They publish torrent seeds on the download page. I'm not going to publish the links here to be fair to them and make people click thru the donation request. These guys are doing a great job on a shoestring budget. Please consider making a donation. Even a couple Dollars/Euros helps!
I have bt running on a hosted server, and am donating bandwidth to them (The counter rolls at the end of the month anyway...). It's pushing ~1Mb/sec back at the cloud.
Full size 20 mpg SUV? Already been done. Ford killed it at the end of the 2005 production year. It bore the brunt of many SUV jokes, and drew the ire of many environmental groups. It was called the Excursion. My wife still has hers. With the diesel engine in good shape, and careful driving, we've recorded (paper method, no kidding) 22 mpg highway.
What's funny is, you always find yourself on the defensive with a vehicle like this. People assume it gets 8 mpg, and ask why you don't get a mini van. This would net us maybe 3 -5 mpg more (based on my MIL's 05 Honda...), loose half the capacity & towing ability, and I couldn't run biodiesel. If I could get a diesel hybrid, I'd buy another.
A co-worker bought a hybrid GM 1/2-ton truck. I got a good look at it last time I was in the SF bay area. Not bad, but too light duty to be considered by serious pickup truck users. I'm waiting to see how they stack up pulling construction/farm trailers, or an RV.
Maybe something subtle, like a lunch symposia titled "Current Ideas in Granitized Fluids" where you serve poisoned food items would be a good idea now and then?
Maybe... But I left the field. I was working on groundwater modeling, writing my own software, and there was this Finnish guy that released a free OS with a real VM system... and years of study was suddenly boring... I think that was kernel 0.95a.:-)
While I was wrapping up my Geology degree in the early 90's, I actually came across a old geezer with tenure at a symposium that kept rambling about granitizing fluids. Thankfully, he wasn't a prof at my school.
It's been said that any major change in the fundamental theories of a field will not be accepted until the old guard dies off. Plate tectonics was one such shift. I figure if we're wrong about global warming, we won't be able to admit it until 2045 or so...
My friend down in Galveston would love to draw from both, but he isn't allowed to do so. I'm told it varies by district even within Texas, depending on how they structure it. There has been a couple half hearted attempts at fixing it. I just thought I'd bring it up, because it could be a rude shock if you were caught off guard by it.
I think most of the original "Generation X" crowd, now in their mid-thirties, expects to get screwed over by Social Security anyway. I suspect this is why the quality of 2008 presidential candidates is so bad. The so called "trust fund" goes negative in the second term of whomever wins, and they'll have to face up to fixing it.
Furthermore... In some districts in Texas at least, and I believe elsewhere, the Teachers have their own retirement system structured such that they do not pay into Social Security. Through some legal contrivance I still haven't figured out, if you become a teacher and start paying in this retirement system, you loose credit for all your contributions to SS. I know one guy that did 20 years in the oil industry, and then switched careers to teach. He desperately needed to retire for health reasons, but hadn't finished putting in his 20 as a teacher, and had lost his right to claim social security. Probably a corner case, but it sure makes me think twice about getting a teaching credential.
Very funny. Stamp & paper costs are trivial. I spent more last night at Sonic than I have on stamps & paper over the last year. My point is they're pushing e-file to save themselves money in data entry. But it if turns out to cost me more frustration and penalties, I'll stick with paper.
The amount of schandenfreude exhibited in all these "serves you right for waiting until the last minute" is mind boggling. There's any number of reasons why you might have to wait. Maybe your paperwork was wrong/late/lost/etc... Some people's taxes are quite a bit more complex than the usual 1040EZ "Enter your W-2 wages in box 1, take standard single zero deduction and lookup taxes in table".
I filed monday morning. I'm still waiting for my confirmation. I'm going to have to call the IRS to find out if it was actually transmitted. You have to admit, it's a neat loophole. The government isn't alllowed to entrap you, so they get a corperation to do it for them, and reap the penalty rewards. Hey we gotta pay for GW's spending somehow, right?
I'm not going to be a guinea pig for their e-file fantasies/experments. If I pay a cent in penalties, the IRS will get paper from me for a decade.
I have my 'Mips Pro Auto Parallellizing Option 7.2.1' cd sitting right next to my Irix 6.5 machine... and I know it's YEARS old
I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing with "-xautopar" option in Sun's compiler way back in 1996. I just checked and it's still there. The problem was always making sure loops didn't have dependancies on the loop counter, and only had one exit.
Sun gives away the whole Sun Studio compiler suite now days, complete with OpenMP and all the profiling tools. They have a Linux port too.
(Yawn...) Go find the 8052-BASIC code on the net, program it into a modern '51 variant like a DS89C450 or AT89C51ED2, attach a serial LCD & keyboard, and you've got way more than 256 lines a second execution speed...
Several people have mentioned the Atmel AVR's, and I can't fault them. But don't overlook the 8051 derivatives. Atmel makes a nice line, as does Silabs, NXP and Dallas. One in particular is worth mention. The Atmel AT89C51ED2. It has 64k of flash, 2k EEPROM, and 1.7k of internal XRAM, and a bunch of useful extensions like SPI etc...
The real trick is, it has a bootloader ROM. You hold reset high, and pulse PSEN (from memory, check the Datasheet), and it starts a bootloader. You can do this with a couple push buttons. You then program it via the UART. That chip, a MAX232 and a xtal is all you need. Intel's MCS-51 BASIC is available from numerous sites, and will run entirely internal on the chip. When you outgrow that, you have 64k of flash, and enough XRAM to code in C (go find SDCC on sourceforge).
The AVR is nice, but single source, and for some reason, they don't make a version with a factory bootloader. The single source doesn't sound like a problem... until you go look at Silabs, Dallas, and NXP's offerings!
Cheap: Yes Easy to Program: Yes Decent arch to learn on: Hell no!
PIC's are crap. It's a oddball POS straight from 1975. It has limited addressing modes, small instruction set, no orthoginallity, and is difficult to program in a high level language.
Looks at modern AVR's and derivative 8051's. If you want a real screamer, try Silabs.
Just a couple bits of information for those not familiar with sailing in the SF bay. I used to own a small sailboat in the SF bay, a Cal-20. Just about the smallest (and slowest) real keel boat you can find. The SF Bay has some of the finest sailing in the world. Between April and October, the wind at the gate is a nice steady 7 to 10 knots all day long.
Most people think of California and picture the sunny beaches and warm water off LA. This doesn't exist north of Santa Cruz. California north of Santa Cruz has a rocky cliff shore. The water off SF is chilled by a current that comes down from Alaska. This time of year, it's probably 40 deg/F (4.5 deg/C), in the summer, it's not much warmer. The cold water kills people very fast. You fall in this time of year, and you have maybe 15 minutes before you're dead. They've lost experienced sailors to hypothermia inside the bay, where the water is slightly warmer, in the amount of time it takes the crew to pull down the sheets and do a man overboard 180. If he fell overboard without some kind of wetsuit or thermal protection, he's done. A 40 foot boat set up for solo would probably have some kind of steering autopilot, and would sail outside the initial search area on it's own in just a few hours.
The sea will try very hard to kill you. A fellow geek made the good life, and appears to have been settling in to enjoy his golden years. Most of us have similar dreams and aspirations. I don't know him, but I'm going to think good thoughts for him and his family, and hope for the best.
Surely you need more than 38 HP to move a 40ft boat that size in water?
Displacement hulls are remarkably effecient. A human is roughly 1/8th a hp, maybe 1/2hp in short bursts. You could probably make it move by giving it a good shove from the dock, but I wouldn't expect much in the way of speed. 38 hp will probably move it at close to the hull speed limit. kts = 1.2*sqrt(length) for most displacement hulls.
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My business has 2 SMTP servers out on the net, but Comcast blocks outbound port 25 under the guise of limiting spammers. They encourage usage of their SMTP servers, but we routinely send pictures with our emails because we are in the construction business. Comcast simply times out sending large files (5-10Mb). Thus, my business is adversely affected. Complaints have been met with silence.
I'm guessing since you have your own mail server, you can configure it to accept mail on the submission port, 587. Just a thought...
IMAP is a horrible protocol. Works brilliantly but its a absolute nightmare to implement.
I've been testing IMAP servers since 1996. It's way easier to test than the !!?$%@! webmail client of the month.
Although I am unfamiliar with her situation, I suspect that this particular judge will rise no higher in the ranks of the Federal Government
That would be up to us. If we remember her for her good works, and demand her promotion via the electoral process, she will advance. If we keep electing corporate plutocrats... Perhaps not.
Yea... I'm a little disappointed that I had to scan halfway thru the discussion to find this. The younger generation here on Slashdot doesn't seem very well read. They just scream and leap into the discussion... On the other hand... They don't even recognize the device is a weapon, which is key...
How many more years will we be using rotating magnetic media for storage? Flash disks are just around the corner. A generation or three of development, and this kind of disk media will likely be dead.
Not a certainty, but something to think about...
The download site says it'll take forever. Anyone know where to find a torrent?
They publish torrent seeds on the download page. I'm not going to publish the links here to be fair to them and make people click thru the donation request. These guys are doing a great job on a shoestring budget. Please consider making a donation. Even a couple Dollars/Euros helps!
I have bt running on a hosted server, and am donating bandwidth to them (The counter rolls at the end of the month anyway...). It's pushing ~1Mb/sec back at the cloud.
Enemy of whom? Iran has not been in a war of aggression against any nation, since the 19th century.
So that little decade long stalemate with Iraq back in the 80's doesn't count?
I hope someone has been looking at the worldwide reserves of "economically recoverable Lithium".
Full size 20 mpg SUV? Already been done. Ford killed it at the end of the 2005 production year. It bore the brunt of many SUV jokes, and drew the ire of many environmental groups. It was called the Excursion. My wife still has hers. With the diesel engine in good shape, and careful driving, we've recorded (paper method, no kidding) 22 mpg highway.
What's funny is, you always find yourself on the defensive with a vehicle like this. People assume it gets 8 mpg, and ask why you don't get a mini van. This would net us maybe 3 -5 mpg more (based on my MIL's 05 Honda...), loose half the capacity & towing ability, and I couldn't run biodiesel. If I could get a diesel hybrid, I'd buy another.
A co-worker bought a hybrid GM 1/2-ton truck. I got a good look at it last time I was in the SF bay area. Not bad, but too light duty to be considered by serious pickup truck users. I'm waiting to see how they stack up pulling construction/farm trailers, or an RV.
Maybe something subtle, like a lunch symposia titled "Current Ideas in Granitized Fluids" where you serve poisoned food items would be a good idea now and then?
Maybe... But I left the field. I was working on groundwater modeling, writing my own software, and there was this Finnish guy that released a free OS with a real VM system... and years of study was suddenly boring... I think that was kernel 0.95a.
While I was wrapping up my Geology degree in the early 90's, I actually came across a old geezer with tenure at a symposium that kept rambling about granitizing fluids. Thankfully, he wasn't a prof at my school.
It's been said that any major change in the fundamental theories of a field will not be accepted until the old guard dies off. Plate tectonics was one such shift. I figure if we're wrong about global warming, we won't be able to admit it until 2045 or so...
My friend down in Galveston would love to draw from both, but he isn't allowed to do so. I'm told it varies by district even within Texas, depending on how they structure it. There has been a couple half hearted attempts at fixing it. I just thought I'd bring it up, because it could be a rude shock if you were caught off guard by it.
I think most of the original "Generation X" crowd, now in their mid-thirties, expects to get screwed over by Social Security anyway. I suspect this is why the quality of 2008 presidential candidates is so bad. The so called "trust fund" goes negative in the second term of whomever wins, and they'll have to face up to fixing it.
Furthermore... In some districts in Texas at least, and I believe elsewhere, the Teachers have their own retirement system structured such that they do not pay into Social Security. Through some legal contrivance I still haven't figured out, if you become a teacher and start paying in this retirement system, you loose credit for all your contributions to SS. I know one guy that did 20 years in the oil industry, and then switched careers to teach. He desperately needed to retire for health reasons, but hadn't finished putting in his 20 as a teacher, and had lost his right to claim social security. Probably a corner case, but it sure makes me think twice about getting a teaching credential.
Very funny. Stamp & paper costs are trivial. I spent more last night at Sonic than I have on stamps & paper over the last year. My point is they're pushing e-file to save themselves money in data entry. But it if turns out to cost me more frustration and penalties, I'll stick with paper.
The amount of schandenfreude exhibited in all these "serves you right for waiting until the last minute" is mind boggling. There's any number of reasons why you might have to wait. Maybe your paperwork was wrong/late/lost/etc... Some people's taxes are quite a bit more complex than the usual 1040EZ "Enter your W-2 wages in box 1, take standard single zero deduction and lookup taxes in table".
I filed monday morning. I'm still waiting for my confirmation. I'm going to have to call the IRS to find out if it was actually transmitted. You have to admit, it's a neat loophole. The government isn't alllowed to entrap you, so they get a corperation to do it for them, and reap the penalty rewards. Hey we gotta pay for GW's spending somehow, right?
I'm not going to be a guinea pig for their e-file fantasies/experments. If I pay a cent in penalties, the IRS will get paper from me for a decade.
When physicists screw up, they certainly do it spectacularly. Though I don't think this quite rises to the level of the Castle Bravo "oops"
I have my 'Mips Pro Auto Parallellizing Option 7.2.1' cd sitting right next to my Irix 6.5 machine... and I know it's YEARS old
I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing with "-xautopar" option in Sun's compiler way back in 1996. I just checked and it's still there. The problem was always making sure loops didn't have dependancies on the loop counter, and only had one exit.
Sun gives away the whole Sun Studio compiler suite now days, complete with OpenMP and all the profiling tools. They have a Linux port too.
I smell astroturf...
(Yawn...) Go find the 8052-BASIC code on the net, program it into a modern '51 variant like a DS89C450 or AT89C51ED2, attach a serial LCD & keyboard, and you've got way more than 256 lines a second execution speed...
Several people have mentioned the Atmel AVR's, and I can't fault them. But don't overlook the 8051 derivatives. Atmel makes a nice line, as does Silabs, NXP and Dallas. One in particular is worth mention. The Atmel AT89C51ED2. It has 64k of flash, 2k EEPROM, and 1.7k of internal XRAM, and a bunch of useful extensions like SPI etc...
The real trick is, it has a bootloader ROM. You hold reset high, and pulse PSEN (from memory, check the Datasheet), and it starts a bootloader. You can do this with a couple push buttons. You then program it via the UART. That chip, a MAX232 and a xtal is all you need. Intel's MCS-51 BASIC is available from numerous sites, and will run entirely internal on the chip. When you outgrow that, you have 64k of flash, and enough XRAM to code in C (go find SDCC on sourceforge).
The AVR is nice, but single source, and for some reason, they don't make a version with a factory bootloader. The single source doesn't sound like a problem... until you go look at Silabs, Dallas, and NXP's offerings!
The old dog has learned some new tricks.
Cheap: Yes
Easy to Program: Yes
Decent arch to learn on: Hell no!
PIC's are crap. It's a oddball POS straight from 1975. It has limited addressing modes, small instruction set, no orthoginallity, and is difficult to program in a high level language.
Looks at modern AVR's and derivative 8051's. If you want a real screamer, try Silabs.
Nahhh... My uid is 1/5th yours. I'm just in denial man!
Slashdot allows astroturf!?!?!? Say it isn't so!!!!
Just a couple bits of information for those not familiar with sailing in the SF bay. I used to own a small sailboat in the SF bay, a Cal-20. Just about the smallest (and slowest) real keel boat you can find. The SF Bay has some of the finest sailing in the world. Between April and October, the wind at the gate is a nice steady 7 to 10 knots all day long.
Most people think of California and picture the sunny beaches and warm water off LA. This doesn't exist north of Santa Cruz. California north of Santa Cruz has a rocky cliff shore. The water off SF is chilled by a current that comes down from Alaska. This time of year, it's probably 40 deg/F (4.5 deg/C), in the summer, it's not much warmer. The cold water kills people very fast. You fall in this time of year, and you have maybe 15 minutes before you're dead. They've lost experienced sailors to hypothermia inside the bay, where the water is slightly warmer, in the amount of time it takes the crew to pull down the sheets and do a man overboard 180. If he fell overboard without some kind of wetsuit or thermal protection, he's done. A 40 foot boat set up for solo would probably have some kind of steering autopilot, and would sail outside the initial search area on it's own in just a few hours.
The sea will try very hard to kill you. A fellow geek made the good life, and appears to have been settling in to enjoy his golden years. Most of us have similar dreams and aspirations. I don't know him, but I'm going to think good thoughts for him and his family, and hope for the best.
Surely you need more than 38 HP to move a 40ft boat that size in water?
Displacement hulls are remarkably effecient. A human is roughly 1/8th a hp, maybe 1/2hp in short bursts. You could probably make it move by giving it a good shove from the dock, but I wouldn't expect much in the way of speed. 38 hp will probably move it at close to the hull speed limit. kts = 1.2*sqrt(length) for most displacement hulls.