I haven't even used a CD to upgrade a distro in a long time. This assumes you have a second computer with the space. It's not hard to set up net (or flash etc) installs anymore, and once you've made it work you'll never go back to CD/DVD distros.
Last I checked there was about a 1 in 100,000 risk of a vision-threatening infection with contacts in general, and an even higher risk with extended wear. My O.D. keeps trying to talk me into getting Lasik, because not only is it now cheaper than contacts over the long term, it is *almost* but not quite lower risk for someone as nearsighted as I am (-6, -7 diopter).
Like a lot of science, the applications for this may not be obvious right away, or obvious to a layman.
[Insert layman joke here.]
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If it gets messy at 100K likes, you can just email a copy to all your coworkers to collaborate in debugging.
I've seen six year old tickets in a production trouble ticket system, but it's much more likely the TT system would be upgraded and cleaned of cruft during that time.
Used to be, these systems responded to a particular frequency of strobe flashes, and people were selling cheater boxes all over Ebay.
Nowadays the systems have a "password". It's still a one-way hash, so theoretically one can capture the flashes from a fire truck going down the street. So a generic box you buy on EBay isn't much use. And assuming the authorities have programmed security codes into the devices.
As a result, I predict that Google will soon make a bid to buy back the Louisiana Purchase from the US so they can use the Mississippi River watershed for hydro power. You heard it here first!
As far as I know drunks and underage drinkers are not a protected class. Several companies will not hire you if you are a smoker, and it's legal for them to do so.
Engineering for quake resistance is no problem. In SF it's simply that PG&E cannot deliver any more power in the city. Our colo facility is half empty and cannot add new customers, and other providers are in this pinch.
The ships are going to have to be self powered, and the ports are in marginal neighboorhoods that are already bitching about "environmental racism", biodiesel or not.
How many analog channels could you get before? You'll probably need an outdoor antenna if you are in a fringe area, regardless.
Everyone probably knows this already, but if you are in a fringe area, digital reception is all or nothing. You'll either get a picture, an intermittent picture, or nothing. Although there are some anecdotal reports that here in the SF Bay Area it's easier to acquire a digital channel than its analog counterpart in our hilly, urban terrain. Most likely because a modern receiving box has better RF performance than some crappy old TV it's hooked up to.
You're only missing the big networks, though. No great loss. Spend the money on a Netflix subscription instead.
This is in YRO, so it's obvious the MPAA is going to make sure they get the maximum sentence, so they can be sent to Gitmo and be tortured by RIAA henchmen.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think even DRAC 5 requires OS support. To be honest, I have not taken a look at this in a couple of years, so it's worth revisiting.
It's not for lack of talent in the Dell Linux team. I've been following the Dell Linux server list for years, having been responsible for all-Dell Linux server farms in the past, and Matt Domsch and the team there has been doing great work, considering the obstacles thrown in their way by the randomness of the hardware.
This is constantly-morphing commodity hardware, with light-outs support, RAID, and other details optimized for Windows, and a new interface randomly tossed out the door in each new server model. The hardware lands in the the Linux support group's laps after the fact, and they do they best they can, bound by the proprietariness and sometimes just plain weirdness of the hardware features.
We'll start buying Dells again when they have standalone lights-out management like Sun and HP. They are making slow progress. It's unfair to say their stuff is junk. You can get good support, if you follow their rules.
You inconsiderate clod, it creates nothing but opportunity for lawyers to charge endless fees for e-discovery. Imagine the new volumes of information available for them to charge $500 an hour to sift through! And if they can charge $1.50 per page to make copies of documents, imagine how much they can markup deleted email recovery services! And the damage awards they can demand from corporation-hating juries for failure to retain data that may or may not have any relevance to the case at hand.
My cell phone charges at 1A at 5V - that's a fairly hefty load for a cheap, minuscule wall wart. To get it to recharge in 10 min would take - well - anyone care to lug around a 12-gauge extension cord to deliver the 10A it would take to deliver that much power?
Alternatively, you could make your power cord really short - build the charger to plug directly into the wall without a cord. But it would still be big.
What next - I'll be asking for a 408V 1000A 3-phase industrial drop to recharge my electric car in an hour!
I have two and they work fine for me both in my old house in Mountain View an my new house in Contra Costa.
They are not totally immune to interference, if all your lights are on dimmers, or they sit right on top of your PC with an open case. But I get a "lock" about 4 out of 5 days.
You can buy a cheapo GPS module from Garmin or somebody and then plug into the serial port of your computer. With NTP, presto! Instant GPS time reference anywhere in the world.
Now, who knows what kind of stuff is rated less than secret. It's probably somewhere in sensitivity between the bills for the Coke machines and Osama bin Laden's cell phone number.
But most likely the article is some activist trying to stir up FUD, or just the usual sloppy, lazy journalism.
I know it's heavily subsidized already, but if I am going to get (YA) locked-down device, it needs to be far cheaper. Like my cell phone, which probably has a retail value of $400, but was essentially free since I agreed to be locked down to Verizon's lame network for two years.
I have read a few E-books - with an ancient HP Jornada believeitornot, and I download the content from my local library over the Jornada's IE browser, which, miraculously, still works with many sites. It's not as lame as it sounds, even at 18x80 chars. But If I'm going to pay $$$, I want the device to at least have open content and maybe be able to make cell phone calls or play music.
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I haven't even used a CD to upgrade a distro in a long time. This assumes you have a second computer with the space. It's not hard to set up net (or flash etc) installs anymore, and once you've made it work you'll never go back to CD/DVD distros.
Last I checked there was about a 1 in 100,000 risk of a vision-threatening infection with contacts in general, and an even higher risk with extended wear. My O.D. keeps trying to talk me into getting Lasik, because not only is it now cheaper than contacts over the long term, it is *almost* but not quite lower risk for someone as nearsighted as I am (-6, -7 diopter).
Like a lot of science, the applications for this may not be obvious right away, or obvious to a layman.
[Insert layman joke here.]
If it gets messy at 100K likes, you can just email a copy to all your coworkers to collaborate in debugging.
Sheesh, doesn't EVERYONE do it this way?
- bringing dogs to work was a good idea. Now if we could just get rid of the stepping in poo problem.
OTOH, if you're being monitored like this you'll need a supply of feces to fling at your zookeepers.
I've seen six year old tickets in a production trouble ticket system, but it's much more likely the TT system would be upgraded and cleaned of cruft during that time.
Used to be, these systems responded to a particular frequency of strobe flashes, and people were selling cheater boxes all over Ebay.
Nowadays the systems have a "password". It's still a one-way hash, so theoretically one can capture the flashes from a fire truck going down the street. So a generic box you buy on EBay isn't much use. And assuming the authorities have programmed security codes into the devices.
As a result, I predict that Google will soon make a bid to buy back the Louisiana Purchase from the US so they can use the Mississippi River watershed for hydro power. You heard it here first!
I, for one, cannot wait to deploy machines with a smiley face or flower decal on the front panel in my Linux HPC envionment.
Colo NOC: "Now, which server do I need to reboot?"
Me: "The one with Barbie on the front panel!"
As far as I know drunks and underage drinkers are not a protected class. Several companies will not hire you if you are a smoker, and it's legal for them to do so.
Engineering for quake resistance is no problem. In SF it's simply that PG&E cannot deliver any more power in the city. Our colo facility is half empty and cannot add new customers, and other providers are in this pinch.
The ships are going to have to be self powered, and the ports are in marginal neighboorhoods that are already bitching about "environmental racism", biodiesel or not.
" is the name of a garage band from Omaha"
Well, this is Wiki, if the content isn't there, do something!
- Writer likes Scrievener and WriteRoom
- Everybody hates Microsoft
- Who knows, maybe writer was drunk
Rats, I thought something was fishy, them ditching SSL and all.
Don't laugh, Datek (now Ameritrade) used basic HTTP auth until about 2001 or so. Yikes!
How many analog channels could you get before? You'll probably need an outdoor antenna if you are in a fringe area, regardless.
Everyone probably knows this already, but if you are in a fringe area, digital reception is all or nothing. You'll either get a picture, an intermittent picture, or nothing. Although there are some anecdotal reports that here in the SF Bay Area it's easier to acquire a digital channel than its analog counterpart in our hilly, urban terrain. Most likely because a modern receiving box has better RF performance than some crappy old TV it's hooked up to.
You're only missing the big networks, though. No great loss. Spend the money on a Netflix subscription instead.
This is in YRO, so it's obvious the MPAA is going to make sure they get the maximum sentence, so they can be sent to Gitmo and be tortured by RIAA henchmen.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think even DRAC 5 requires OS support. To be honest, I have not taken a look at this in a couple of years, so it's worth revisiting.
It's not for lack of talent in the Dell Linux team. I've been following the Dell Linux server list for years, having been responsible for all-Dell Linux server farms in the past, and Matt Domsch and the team there has been doing great work, considering the obstacles thrown in their way by the randomness of the hardware.
This is constantly-morphing commodity hardware, with light-outs support, RAID, and other details optimized for Windows, and a new interface randomly tossed out the door in each new server model. The hardware lands in the the Linux support group's laps after the fact, and they do they best they can, bound by the proprietariness and sometimes just plain weirdness of the hardware features.
We'll start buying Dells again when they have standalone lights-out management like Sun and HP. They are making slow progress. It's unfair to say their stuff is junk. You can get good support, if you follow their rules.
You inconsiderate clod, it creates nothing but opportunity for lawyers to charge endless fees for e-discovery. Imagine the new volumes of information available for them to charge $500 an hour to sift through! And if they can charge $1.50 per page to make copies of documents, imagine how much they can markup deleted email recovery services! And the damage awards they can demand from corporation-hating juries for failure to retain data that may or may not have any relevance to the case at hand.
The opportunities are endless!
A kill switch? Controlled by the secret Illuminati cell at the MPA?
Anyone can buy one right now:
http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php
I can't possibly imagine a black market in these thing developing in Africa! Shocking!
So the OLPC does have a kill switch; if the one you pick up in Africa somehow "escaped" from some school's inventory, you might get bricked.
My cell phone charges at 1A at 5V - that's a fairly hefty load for a cheap, minuscule wall wart. To get it to recharge in 10 min would take - well - anyone care to lug around a 12-gauge extension cord to deliver the 10A it would take to deliver that much power?
Alternatively, you could make your power cord really short - build the charger to plug directly into the wall without a cord. But it would still be big.
What next - I'll be asking for a 408V 1000A 3-phase industrial drop to recharge my electric car in an hour!
I have two and they work fine for me both in my old house in Mountain View an my new house in Contra Costa.
They are not totally immune to interference, if all your lights are on dimmers, or they sit right on top of your PC with an open case. But I get a "lock" about 4 out of 5 days.
You can buy a cheapo GPS module from Garmin or somebody and then plug into the serial port of your computer. With NTP, presto! Instant GPS time reference anywhere in the world.
TFA doesn't say how much memory they have, but with Vista, 4 TB of physical memory will do you much more good than 860 "gig flops" of CPU cycles.
All their diabolical processing cycles! Useless!
Now, who knows what kind of stuff is rated less than secret. It's probably somewhere in sensitivity between the bills for the Coke machines and Osama bin Laden's cell phone number.
But most likely the article is some activist trying to stir up FUD, or just the usual sloppy, lazy journalism.
I know it's heavily subsidized already, but if I am going to get (YA) locked-down device, it needs to be far cheaper. Like my cell phone, which probably has a retail value of $400, but was essentially free since I agreed to be locked down to Verizon's lame network for two years.
I have read a few E-books - with an ancient HP Jornada believeitornot, and I download the content from my local library over the Jornada's IE browser, which, miraculously, still works with many sites. It's not as lame as it sounds, even at 18x80 chars. But If I'm going to pay $$$, I want the device to at least have open content and maybe be able to make cell phone calls or play music.