Yeah, i used to work near royal roads --> Port angeles.
One thing Ive found out about shaw in the western communities (atleast langford) is that their speed has been very generous, i've got 'extreme' and they advertise upto 15megs/sec, but I hit 2MB downloads frequently (16megabit), so like wtf?:D
Ahwell, hello to you sir! From an man from langford (and no camaro on his lawn)
OK, so you live in mill bay or duncan? Or like down some logging road in shawnigan?
You're telling me you dont have shaw service out to where you live?!
You're exactly the reason why I'd love to setup wimax stations on some of the mountain tops. Feel for you sir.
Ps, from langford, just before the malahat starts.
Was lucky enough to do some work with butanol while in school (O-chem, with some manufacturing chemistry)
Apparently nowdays there's several fancy nickel catalysts that do the trick, but with relatively low yields
BUT, fiberous bed bioreactors are the trick for half decent yields...
I'm out of chem now, I stuck with my computer nerd roots and am in a server room right now, but it was readily apparent (back in the day) that butanol was the clear choice for ease of transition, octane rating, transportability, and it's emissions are 'supposed to be' cleaner than current gas offerings.
ANYWAY, go butanol go! Not quite the same octane ratings as ethanol, but it'll run on almost any vehicle with very little-if any- tuning
I pledged $50, it's my most sincere hope that projects like this get off the ground. The students/hackers/tinkerers that are super into this kind of stuff could use all the tools they can get, I'm just a newbie when it comes to this stuff, but I can certainly respect it. Anyway, here's hoping that they hit 200% pledges, they're already at 115%!
Sure,
I have your problem solved right here: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=2300325&ntref=prod_top
Basically, it's a bare metal hypervisor for your systems. Fire up an image and you're good to go. Upgrade to new hardware? No problem, you're virtualized. Remote users with laptops? No problem, remote reimage works too.
Yay?:D
if not, then my friend Reg Barkley will hook his brain into the holodeck and become the new computer core. he's always on the holodeck anyway, right guys?
Out west, We have Shaw.
And their bandwidth cap is very forgiving, customer service with them is second to none.
Not sure what the deal is heading east (manitoba and beyond) but out this way, shaw kicks ass:)
I'm very west coast (Victoria), and I was ALRIGHT with the conservatives thanks to them trying to scrap the gun registry, as I own rifles and hunt etc. (That's a whole debate in itself, ok?)
But, they've now effectively lost my vote. Digital rights is extremely important to me, and I hope that the newly formed pirate party (unfortunate name for some good ideas, but hey I guess the same with the green party) (speaking of which, have a look at the green party platform for BC, some cool infrastructure stuff in it) gets some votes from canadians now. The only way you can actually change anything is getting different groups (political parties) brought in. [and yes I realize I'm flipping back and fourth between federal and provincial parties, but hey im ranting anyway...]
You'll rarely see a genuinely excellent politician, note that the BC legislature gave themselves a 30% raise just a few years ago, because they thought they deserved more pay.
Politics in general is brutal, some people vote based upon the "theory" of that party, some based upon their history, some to follow the crowd, some vote based upon unverified assumptions about that party. More people need to vote, and make an informed vote by doing their research.
So, in 1.5 million years we might possibly be threatened by some comets? Something tells me that unless we do something incredibly SMART in the next 1.5 million years, a lot of humanity isn't going to be on earth.
So, in short, how is this news? I don't think anyone is going to be around in 1.5 million years.
There, Fixed that for you.
You're assuming that humanity will last the next 500:P
I could forsee it being handy for things like deep-space navigation. And THAT would be extremely interesting!
For making ultra precise time and distance calculations? I guess when you're talking several thousand AU or even lightyears, if we can get a clock to such precision, then we would be able to hopefully narrow down accuracy of such systems to say....a few meters in a lightyear? (just as an example, probably more like a few meters in an AU, but I havent done the math)
Ofcourse, I'm not well versed in such things, I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me about this could readily correct me.:)
Hey, thanks for the info, I honestly thought they were restricted to RDPing into a terminal server (presumably from their laptops), but its good to know that they've got some sort of basic functionality up there.:)
Great, they RDP to a ground computer and go about their way.
3 problems I can forsee:
1. Somewhat laggy screen redraw
2. Possible RDPviewer remote code exploits? Then there'll be the first goatxe in space.
3. Line of sight problems, how is the handoff handled once the station goes over the horizon?
Cool, though, glad to hear they've got the capability... Lets get them 100meg access, the RIAA and MPAA cant get them in SPACE!
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Yeah, i used to work near royal roads --> Port angeles. One thing Ive found out about shaw in the western communities (atleast langford) is that their speed has been very generous, i've got 'extreme' and they advertise upto 15megs/sec, but I hit 2MB downloads frequently (16megabit), so like wtf? :D
Ahwell, hello to you sir! From an man from langford (and no camaro on his lawn)
OK, so you live in mill bay or duncan? Or like down some logging road in shawnigan?
You're telling me you dont have shaw service out to where you live?!
You're exactly the reason why I'd love to setup wimax stations on some of the mountain tops. Feel for you sir.
Ps, from langford, just before the malahat starts.
For a brief second, I thought that TeamSpeak3 got an oscar Nomination. :P
I was (not so) shocked to see ventrilo was left out of the running.
Nuke 'em from orbit....It's the only way to be sure!
Was lucky enough to do some work with butanol while in school (O-chem, with some manufacturing chemistry)
Apparently nowdays there's several fancy nickel catalysts that do the trick, but with relatively low yields
BUT, fiberous bed bioreactors are the trick for half decent yields...
I'm out of chem now, I stuck with my computer nerd roots and am in a server room right now, but it was readily apparent (back in the day) that butanol was the clear choice for ease of transition, octane rating, transportability, and it's emissions are 'supposed to be' cleaner than current gas offerings.
ANYWAY, go butanol go! Not quite the same octane ratings as ethanol, but it'll run on almost any vehicle with very little-if any- tuning
I pledged $50, it's my most sincere hope that projects like this get off the ground. The students/hackers/tinkerers that are super into this kind of stuff could use all the tools they can get, I'm just a newbie when it comes to this stuff, but I can certainly respect it. Anyway, here's hoping that they hit 200% pledges, they're already at 115%!
Sure, :D
I have your problem solved right here:
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=2300325&ntref=prod_top
Basically, it's a bare metal hypervisor for your systems. Fire up an image and you're good to go. Upgrade to new hardware? No problem, you're virtualized. Remote users with laptops? No problem, remote reimage works too.
Yay?
ITS OK,
Professor Moriarty will save us.
if not, then my friend Reg Barkley will hook his brain into the holodeck and become the new computer core. he's always on the holodeck anyway, right guys?
1 of these http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno=rpc-4220
1 of these http://www.lsi.com/channel/products/raid_controllers/sata_sas/3ware_9750-8i/index.html
1 quad core Xeon + mobo + 8gigs of ram of your choice
1 of these http://www.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?sku=75
1 of operating system of your choice
20 of these http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=733
and then put on the media software of your choice (mine is ps3 media server)
This is all because my current (6tb) array got filled with media, home movies, tv shows and what have you. So, hopefully ~30tb (raid6 + 2 hotspares) will do the trick for a while.....
Probably WAY overkill for your use, but +hypervisor of your choice, its nice and easy to run as a media server and an ARMAII server or TF2 server....
lastly, check out i-star or istar usa, they have rackmount cases for prettymuch everything. Awesomeness! (50drive case....maybe for my next one, mwahaha)
Out west, We have Shaw. And their bandwidth cap is very forgiving, customer service with them is second to none. Not sure what the deal is heading east (manitoba and beyond) but out this way, shaw kicks ass :)
Dear Mr. Kotick,
....You Greedy Asshat.
You've already ruined infinity ward, please dont touch blizzard.
...it's no EVE..
Wow, and I got first! I win the antigame!
And I used to say MY lawyer was expensive.....
But, they've now effectively lost my vote. Digital rights is extremely important to me, and I hope that the newly formed pirate party (unfortunate name for some good ideas, but hey I guess the same with the green party) (speaking of which, have a look at the green party platform for BC, some cool infrastructure stuff in it) gets some votes from canadians now. The only way you can actually change anything is getting different groups (political parties) brought in. [and yes I realize I'm flipping back and fourth between federal and provincial parties, but hey im ranting anyway...]
You'll rarely see a genuinely excellent politician, note that the BC legislature gave themselves a 30% raise just a few years ago, because they thought they deserved more pay. Politics in general is brutal, some people vote based upon the "theory" of that party, some based upon their history, some to follow the crowd, some vote based upon unverified assumptions about that party. More people need to vote, and make an informed vote by doing their research.
Sadly, we're another step closer to 1984.
You got it bang on.
So, in 1.5 million years we might possibly be threatened by some comets? Something tells me that unless we do something incredibly SMART in the next 1.5 million years, a lot of humanity isn't going to be on earth. So, in short, how is this news? I don't think anyone is going to be around in 1.5 million years.
There, Fixed that for you.
You're assuming that humanity will last the next 500 :P
They're reinvesting the money into Cheyenne mountain. Dont sweat it ;)
Who knows, we may even get dedicated server support ;)
Or Doing it incredibly right. ;)
I could forsee it being handy for things like deep-space navigation. And THAT would be extremely interesting!
For making ultra precise time and distance calculations? I guess when you're talking several thousand AU or even lightyears, if we can get a clock to such precision, then we would be able to hopefully narrow down accuracy of such systems to say....a few meters in a lightyear? (just as an example, probably more like a few meters in an AU, but I havent done the math)
Ofcourse, I'm not well versed in such things, I'm sure someone with more knowledge than me about this could readily correct me. :)
Hey, thanks for the info, I honestly thought they were restricted to RDPing into a terminal server (presumably from their laptops), but its good to know that they've got some sort of basic functionality up there. :)
Great, they RDP to a ground computer and go about their way. 3 problems I can forsee: 1. Somewhat laggy screen redraw 2. Possible RDPviewer remote code exploits? Then there'll be the first goatxe in space. 3. Line of sight problems, how is the handoff handled once the station goes over the horizon? Cool, though, glad to hear they've got the capability... Lets get them 100meg access, the RIAA and MPAA cant get them in SPACE!
But with a good 3G connection, you can get all the prawn you can handle!
Sad, I was going to (wanted to) buy one. :(
Although, one running chrome would be pretty B-A :)