So, if you combined this with the 31.4 trillion digits of Pi computed recently (setting a new record), you'd end up with 31,399,968,600 hours of music. That's 1,308,332,025 days, if you divide that by 365.24 days in a year, you get 3,582,116 years of music.
That's compared to the 41,667 days (114 years) that you'll get with the current web applet....
Having worked in the aerial firefighting industry, I can agree with most of the analysis to date on the dangers associated with using rigid wing, transport type aircraft for fire fighting operations. The stresses associated with dropping water are not conducive to longevity in these aircraft.
Even before they were put in to use as fire bombing aircraft, the C-130A models provided to those companies by the government had a history of wing spar failures due to fatigue... that's the biggest reason they were removed from service. Supplying this aircraft to the fire bombing companies was a huge mistake by the government in the first place.... C-130s are not good fire bombers.
P-3's are also not a good platform for a fire bomber, as the wing is too rigid, and the "A" model P-3's being supplied were also known for having their wings fall off... the civialian version of the P-3 was the Lockheed Electra turbo-prop airliner, which again had a history for loosing their wings due to spar fatigue.
The P-2 Neptune on the other hand has one of the most flexible wings in service, and, other than a narrow body / limited wing spar / bomb bay clearance, which limites tank capacity (from 1800-2200 gallons, depending on who manufactured the tanks), are an excellent firefighting platform. This limit also means that the P-2 is carrying less than half of it's max rated payload with a full load of retardant. The few aerial firefighting P-2's I've heard of being lost were due to pilot error, I don't know of one that was lost due to fatigue (though it is possible.)
The Japanese modified their P-2 Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft to use turboprops, so it would be fairly straightforward to replace the R-3350 radial piston engines currently on the P-2 if this became a concern.
Non-pressurized aircraft, like the P2, also have fewer problems with fatigue due to pressurization / depressurization cycles... which both the P3 and C-130 suffer from.
Grounding all 33 of the larger air tankers was a stupid, reactionary move... the P-2's should be returned to service ASAP, as they are likely some of the safest aircraft to use for aerial firefighting. Grounding the C-130s, P-3s and other, World War II era aircraft (Like the PB4Y-2 which was lost in Colorado, a Navy single tail variant of the B-24!) makes sense, until they can be properly inspected / documented for return to service or permanent removal.
Cockeyed.com did a comparison of the cost of various liquids by the gallon in the US. Check it out, some of them are pretty amazing:
Cockeyed presents: The Price of a Gallon
Fixed GPS receivers are used to set up differential GPS transmitters (they broadcast the variation due to local atmospheric / electromagnetic activity, making GPS more accurate... and were a way around the deviation caused by the military years ago...) Fixed GPS receivers are also used for very accurate time receivers, for measuring things like network latency accurately.
Plasma coils already exist, they're used for MagnetoHydroDynamic power taps in experimental fusion reactors. Or maybe they're not...
And, believe it or not, IBM placed an advertisement (could have been april fools, I suppose), that they can replicate a uniform-molecule object (I.E. a steel bolt) kind of like a transporter, or maybe a replicator, so I suppose it would be safe to say IBM is working on that.
You can beam yourself to Hawaii, but you have to purchase your program 30 days in advance. (Tron)
We are using LRE technology to connect approximately 50 buildings via cat 1 and cat 3 underground phone cable. LRE requires only a signle pair, and can share a pair with a voice line, just like DSL.
Out to 3000 feet 15 megabits is normal, between 3000 and 5000 only 5 megabits is typical, but it depends on the quality of the cable.
This technology is based on VDSL and works using the same principals, but runs at a higher data rate, limiting the distance. Also, LRE transports Ethernet frames directly, without any ATM protocol overhead, unlike most of the other DSL solutions. This greatly reduces costs.
The Cisco 575 LRE device is much like the low-end Cisco 600 series DSL routers in appearance, but has no active layer 3 capabilities. Basically, the remote 575 port appears to the 2924LRE as if it were a local port, allowing trunking and vlan assignments as supported by the 2900 series switch.
If you could order a number of "alarm pairs(dry copper)" from your local telco, between a friendly ISP and your houses, and the distance was less than 5000 ft., this would be a pretty economical solution. Otherwise, it's not of much use for the average homeowner.
NcFTP will NOT auto-resume from the symlinks, because the file size is not returned properly.
So, be sure to go to the source directory (I.E./pub/redhat/releases/guinness/i386/iso) to resume, or you'll start over again (480M of download down the drain...)
I'm currently a Department of the Navy systems / network administrator, civil service. We've been using Linux for the past 4-5 years, running DNS services and Sendmail. In the past year, Linux has seen use for Squid caching proxy servers, DHCP servers, SAMBA servers, log hosts, RADIUS servers, and network troubleshooting / analysis / monitoring. In that time, we've experienced only a couple of software-related systems failures, and they were due to misconfiguration that was quickly and easily fixed.
As far as server certification goes, our use of Linux is known and acknowledged by the regional IT coordinators. There aren't currently any problems accreditting these Linux servers: they are configured by the same guidelines as is required of any Unix/POSIX system. Obviously there are some differences, but there were already allowances in the process to deal with Solaris, HPUX, AIX, DG/UX or whatever variant of Unix the system was designed with.
While true that Linux isn't currently certified for DoD use, and is operating via a waiver, Windows NT was put into place in a very similar manner over a much longer timeframe, since 1996! Just recently Windows NT received the necessary certification for government use (C2).
SGI is working to bring C2 certification to a Linux distribution by late 2000 / early 2001 ( see http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/12/1035205.shtm l for more information.)
Along with OpenMotif, and the other interoperability enchancements being made to Linux every day, I don't think there will be any insurmountable problems using Linux in the DoD in the future. But that's just my opinion.
-Falcor
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I'm looking forward to 3-14-15 at 9:26:53.59 in the morning. Seems like a much more accurate time / date that the others proposed.
They were beta software, but did work just fine...
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RedHat 5.2 doesn't support SMP out of the box, so it could be that Dell isn't supporting any custom configuration. This could also explain the lack of RAID controller support (though it could also be that the RAID setups they sell aren't compatible with Linux)
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So, if you combined this with the 31.4 trillion digits of Pi computed recently (setting a new record), you'd end up with 31,399,968,600 hours of music. That's 1,308,332,025 days, if you divide that by 365.24 days in a year, you get 3,582,116 years of music.
That's compared to the 41,667 days (114 years) that you'll get with the current web applet....
Having worked in the aerial firefighting industry, I can agree with most of the analysis to date on the dangers associated with using rigid wing, transport type aircraft for fire fighting operations. The stresses associated with dropping water are not conducive to longevity in these aircraft.
Even before they were put in to use as fire bombing aircraft, the C-130A models provided to those companies by the government had a history of wing spar failures due to fatigue... that's the biggest reason they were removed from service. Supplying this aircraft to the fire bombing companies was a huge mistake by the government in the first place.... C-130s are not good fire bombers.
P-3's are also not a good platform for a fire bomber, as the wing is too rigid, and the "A" model P-3's being supplied were also known for having their wings fall off... the civialian version of the P-3 was the Lockheed Electra turbo-prop airliner, which again had a history for loosing their wings due to spar fatigue.
The P-2 Neptune on the other hand has one of the most flexible wings in service, and, other than a narrow body / limited wing spar / bomb bay clearance, which limites tank capacity (from 1800-2200 gallons, depending on who manufactured the tanks), are an excellent firefighting platform. This limit also means that the P-2 is carrying less than half of it's max rated payload with a full load of retardant. The few aerial firefighting P-2's I've heard of being lost were due to pilot error, I don't know of one that was lost due to fatigue (though it is possible.)
The Japanese modified their P-2 Anti-Submarine Warfare aircraft to use turboprops, so it would be fairly straightforward to replace the R-3350 radial piston engines currently on the P-2 if this became a concern.
Non-pressurized aircraft, like the P2, also have fewer problems with fatigue due to pressurization / depressurization cycles... which both the P3 and C-130 suffer from.
Grounding all 33 of the larger air tankers was a stupid, reactionary move... the P-2's should be returned to service ASAP, as they are likely some of the safest aircraft to use for aerial firefighting. Grounding the C-130s, P-3s and other, World War II era aircraft (Like the PB4Y-2 which was lost in Colorado, a Navy single tail variant of the B-24!) makes sense, until they can be properly inspected / documented for return to service or permanent removal.
If you paid for a $199 desktop license with $199 Taiwanese New Dollars, it would cost you $5.78 US.
I didn't see a specification that all amounts were in US dollars, and Taiwanese New Dollars are negotiable currency.
I couldn't know what the current exchange rates are for Monopoly Money....
Cockeyed.com did a comparison of the cost of various liquids by the gallon in the US. Check it out, some of them are pretty amazing: Cockeyed presents: The Price of a Gallon
Fixed GPS receivers are used to set up differential GPS transmitters (they broadcast the variation due to local atmospheric / electromagnetic activity, making GPS more accurate... and were a way around the deviation caused by the military years ago...) Fixed GPS receivers are also used for very accurate time receivers, for measuring things like network latency accurately.
Plasma coils already exist, they're used for MagnetoHydroDynamic power taps in experimental fusion reactors. Or maybe they're not...
And, believe it or not, IBM placed an advertisement (could have been april fools, I suppose), that they can replicate a uniform-molecule object (I.E. a steel bolt) kind of like a transporter, or maybe a replicator, so I suppose it would be safe to say IBM is working on that.
You can beam yourself to Hawaii, but you have to purchase your program 30 days in advance. (Tron)
We are using LRE technology to connect approximately 50 buildings via cat 1 and cat 3 underground phone cable. LRE requires only a signle pair, and can share a pair with a voice line, just like DSL.
Out to 3000 feet 15 megabits is normal, between 3000 and 5000 only 5 megabits is typical, but it depends on the quality of the cable.
This technology is based on VDSL and works using the same principals, but runs at a higher data rate, limiting the distance. Also, LRE transports Ethernet frames directly, without any ATM protocol overhead, unlike most of the other DSL solutions. This greatly reduces costs.
The Cisco 575 LRE device is much like the low-end Cisco 600 series DSL routers in appearance, but has no active layer 3 capabilities. Basically, the remote 575 port appears to the 2924LRE as if it were a local port, allowing trunking and vlan assignments as supported by the 2900 series switch.
If you could order a number of "alarm pairs(dry copper)" from your local telco, between a friendly ISP and your houses, and the distance was less than 5000 ft., this would be a pretty economical solution. Otherwise, it's not of much use for the average homeowner.
-Falcor
NcFTP will NOT auto-resume from the symlinks, because the file size is not returned properly.
/pub/redhat/releases/guinness/i386/iso) to resume, or you'll start over again (480M of download down the drain...)
So, be sure to go to the source directory (I.E.
-Falcor
I'm currently a Department of the Navy systems / network administrator, civil service. We've been using Linux for the past 4-5 years, running DNS services and Sendmail. In the past year, Linux has seen use for Squid caching proxy servers, DHCP servers, SAMBA servers, log hosts, RADIUS servers, and network troubleshooting / analysis / monitoring. In that time, we've experienced only a couple of software-related systems failures, and they were due to misconfiguration that was quickly and easily fixed.
m l for more information.)
As far as server certification goes, our use of Linux is known and acknowledged by the regional IT coordinators. There aren't currently any problems accreditting these Linux servers: they are configured by the same guidelines as is required of any Unix/POSIX system. Obviously there are some differences, but there were already allowances in the process to deal with Solaris, HPUX, AIX, DG/UX or whatever variant of Unix the system was designed with.
While true that Linux isn't currently certified for DoD use, and is operating via a waiver, Windows NT was put into place in a very similar manner over a much longer timeframe, since 1996! Just recently Windows NT received the necessary certification for government use (C2).
SGI is working to bring C2 certification to a Linux distribution by late 2000 / early 2001 ( see http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/12/1035205.sht
Along with OpenMotif, and the other interoperability enchancements being made to Linux every day, I don't think there will be any insurmountable problems using Linux in the DoD in the future. But that's just my opinion.
-Falcor
I'm looking forward to 3-14-15 at 9:26:53.59 in the morning. Seems like a much more accurate time / date that the others proposed.
-Falcor
Are available for download from creative labs.
They were beta software, but did work just fine...
RedHat 5.2 doesn't support SMP out of the box, so it could be that Dell isn't supporting any custom configuration. This could also explain the lack of RAID controller support (though it could also be that the RAID setups they sell aren't compatible with Linux)
-Falcor
to combat MS-FUD. Humor is one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal, methinks.
Down with MS-FUD in '99!
-Falcor