Nothing necessarily wrong with the DOS program anyway- if it works, why break it?
You should be able to run it pretty easily with either a virtual machine or an emulator- you can then look at extracting from it the data and migrating it to a flashier site. Sticking with the DOS program sounds like the simpler solution for now.
If the taxpayer wasn't funding your solar panels, it would be financially unviable.
Sadly, solar power at this level will always be pointless- far better to spend our taxpayers' money on something meaningful (e.g. a good power station) than waste time and money on subsidising PV panels on individual houses.
I wish you well with your payback in 12 years!
I hope governments (US and UK) stop subsidising these panels and let them succeed or fail on their merits, instead of an opaque quasi-benefits system.
You can write insecure websites using pretty much any tools, but if you're using MySQL and PHP, especially if you're using other peoples code in your app, you're probably going to end up with a security nightmare, regardless of how hard you try.
That's the problem.
Most of the pros on here can write good-quality, secure code, in PHP, RoR, whatever.
It's the external libraries which are the gap. For example, look at phplist, which is used in many places. Now, every installation of it needs to be upgraded. Now. Right now.
Unless you're a 100% fulltime sysadmin, you haven't got the time to be reading the security lists hourly and upgrading phplist etc when required.
The OP is really asking: how do I make sure phplist and the other hundred Ruby gems or PHP add-ins are up-to-date and safe? And keep them that way?
That's the first info I've seen on these implemented on a larger scale.
However- presumably the ground will heat up with these systems. If it's one house in a million, it won't be noticed. But say if all of London switched over, the ground might increase by a few degrees.
Does anyone know what effect this would have? We already have the "urban heat island" effect from lots of ACs and tarmac/concrete... this could just make it worse.
I've no idea if there would be an appreciable difference, but I haven't seen any analysis of it.
as for spoiling the view, that imo is a lesser price to pay for true clean power...
So you'd be happy to block in all your windows with energy efficient materials to reduce heat loss?
(Unless you live next to a concrete prison) there's always going to be a point where you say "no, I don't want power that much that I would spoil the view".
Anyway, wind power has SO many problems (e.g. power distribution, only working when windy & warm enough etc) that I really can't see how it would function in a purely objective free market ie one without "green grants".
Spring looks really good. I haven't played any RTS (nor any games really) since Dune II or C&C II: Red Alert, as they became far too fiddly for a normal person to play.
Seems that Spring has lots of "sub games" - I've looked over the website and there's no pointer to a basic, fun game. Should I download Complete Annihilation?
Didn't stop us being forcibly upgraded from our "1.5 mbps" service to the bright and sparkling "8 mbps" service... Now it seems the router/exchange tries really hard to get us value for money and the connection is more unreliable than before. Lost packets... high latency.. (Someone will point out that BT blocks unreliable slow connections down to something like 140kbps- yes, happens frequently).
I'd rather pay for the old, "slower" service.
(I'd also point out that the average person on Facebook wouldn't know the difference between 1mbps or 8mbps)
£5 per month for offpeak internet, then £1 per day if you use it onpeak.
My broadband was out of action for two weeks, so for £10 additional cost, I was able to work over my phone. (Normal Nokia N70, via bluetooth). 3G is more than fast enough.
Why pay for e.g. a 70W solar panel when replacing a single incandescent bulb with a fluorescent will have the SAME effect?
We could argue about duty cycles and manufacturing costs etc, but I think it's pretty pointless fussing about solar panels unless you've made sensible savings elsewhere already.
Both PDF and TIFF handle multiple pages, and have done so for years.
Either would be suitable for this application.
If you really want to convert these, Imagemagick would be the best tool to use.
However- it seems a little daft for storage space to be the main reason for changing: you're simply exchanging one compressed image format for another. You may save 10% e.g. if you move from JPEG in the PDF to PNG/similar in the TIFF but is that really worth the effort?!
If they really want shiny TIFFs, it would be easy to have an Imagemagick script to convert single PDFs to TIFF on-demand.
All new generations cameras (since last year at least) take 14bit photos (12bit still possible through menu): Canon XTi, XSi, 40D, 5D MkII, etc I'm a semi-pro photographers Both the XTi (400D for us in Europe) and the 5D are actually 12-bit. And there isn't a 5D Mk2 yet.
Fully agree about wanting the monitor- I am still surprised colour management is such a complex topic, after all these years. Finding a screen which shows colours accurately is hard.
Many distributions already have some form of automatic test suites to check for broken/non-broken packages. Now we can run performance tests automatically as well.
This will be fantastic for seeing performance regressions in the code, maybe for every check-in.
Every Ubuntu etc developer should have a VMWare guest running this continuously...
According to http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf65.html (sources listed at bottom of page), in 2006 13% of California's power was provided by 2 nuclear power stations. Note a station may be multiple reactors.
So it's only 15 or so more power stations. Is it so hard to slowly replace coal stations with nuclear ones?
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One bank I used in the UK had a great question. "What is your grandfather's name"?
When I pointed out that I had two such grandfathers (each with different names), the call handler seemed rather surprised.
Mod parent up!
Nothing necessarily wrong with the DOS program anyway- if it works, why break it?
You should be able to run it pretty easily with either a virtual machine or an emulator- you can then look at extracting from it the data and migrating it to a flashier site. Sticking with the DOS program sounds like the simpler solution for now.
If the taxpayer wasn't funding your solar panels, it would be financially unviable.
Sadly, solar power at this level will always be pointless- far better to spend our taxpayers' money on something meaningful (e.g. a good power station) than waste time and money on subsidising PV panels on individual houses.
I wish you well with your payback in 12 years!
I hope governments (US and UK) stop subsidising these panels and let them succeed or fail on their merits, instead of an opaque quasi-benefits system.
Is solar power a viable power option: 1000km x 1000km of Sahara solar power is enough to power the world
Can I vote for Theo to "help" manage X now?
I'm still amazed that RISC OS fonts looked so good back in the 1980s... that's 20 years ago.
Word in Windows still gets its kerning wrong.
You can write insecure websites using pretty much any tools, but if you're using MySQL and PHP, especially if you're using other peoples code in your app, you're probably going to end up with a security nightmare, regardless of how hard you try.
That's the problem.
Most of the pros on here can write good-quality, secure code, in PHP, RoR, whatever.
It's the external libraries which are the gap. For example, look at phplist, which is used in many places. Now, every installation of it needs to be upgraded. Now. Right now.
Unless you're a 100% fulltime sysadmin, you haven't got the time to be reading the security lists hourly and upgrading phplist etc when required.
The OP is really asking: how do I make sure phplist and the other hundred Ruby gems or PHP add-ins are up-to-date and safe? And keep them that way?
That's the first info I've seen on these implemented on a larger scale.
However- presumably the ground will heat up with these systems. If it's one house in a million, it won't be noticed. But say if all of London switched over, the ground might increase by a few degrees.
Does anyone know what effect this would have? We already have the "urban heat island" effect from lots of ACs and tarmac/concrete... this could just make it worse.
I've no idea if there would be an appreciable difference, but I haven't seen any analysis of it.
as for spoiling the view, that imo is a lesser price to pay for true clean power...
So you'd be happy to block in all your windows with energy efficient materials to reduce heat loss?
(Unless you live next to a concrete prison) there's always going to be a point where you say "no, I don't want power that much that I would spoil the view".
Anyway, wind power has SO many problems (e.g. power distribution, only working when windy & warm enough etc) that I really can't see how it would function in a purely objective free market ie one without "green grants".
Spring looks really good. I haven't played any RTS (nor any games really) since Dune II or C&C II: Red Alert, as they became far too fiddly for a normal person to play.
Seems that Spring has lots of "sub games" - I've looked over the website and there's no pointer to a basic, fun game. Should I download Complete Annihilation?
Thanks for that summary. It's been many years now since I kept up with the kernel changelogs and articles... the kernel now Just Works.
I was wondering what happened to all those coffee grounds.
I put mine into a worm-farm, which makes great compost, although in small (household) quantities.
I hear many Starbucks happily give away their grounds to gardeners. Otherwise, where does it go? Landfill.
Cue more questions on "Is putting compostable ingredients into landfill good? Will it compost?"...
We're about seven miles from the exchange.
Fastest we can get (reliably) is about 1.5mbps.
Didn't stop us being forcibly upgraded from our "1.5 mbps" service to the bright and sparkling "8 mbps" service...
Now it seems the router/exchange tries really hard to get us value for money and the connection is more unreliable than before. Lost packets... high latency.. (Someone will point out that BT blocks unreliable slow connections down to something like 140kbps- yes, happens frequently).
I'd rather pay for the old, "slower" service.
(I'd also point out that the average person on Facebook wouldn't know the difference between 1mbps or 8mbps)
The easy way to silence fans is to run them at 7 volts.
ie use the +5V as ground- this gives 7 volts across +12 and +5 wires.
Air flow is normally sufficient and noise is much less.
Is the original article really that original??
Do people really have time to listen to podcasts unless they are commuting?
Is there a transcript???
No, this is for internet access over a mobile telephone. (e.g. the Nokia N70, as stated).
Their fixed line broadband (as you say, over PSTN) are free if you have a monthly mobile plan over about 30 pounds or so.
Orange have had a better deal for years.
£5 per month for offpeak internet, then £1 per day if you use it onpeak.
My broadband was out of action for two weeks, so for £10 additional cost, I was able to work over my phone. (Normal Nokia N70, via bluetooth). 3G is more than fast enough.
No limits: I did 3GB in a fortnight.
LED lights (and the cold-cathode ones) are very efficient at producing light.
However- if we all convert our lights to e.g. LED then we're losing 100s-1000s of watts of heating in the house.
So long as your central heating is more efficient than electric, you're fine- but the normal comparisons of lighting ignore the heating effect.
You could consider a normal lightbulb as a rather good heater of 90%+ efficiency :-)
You're totally right.
Why pay for e.g. a 70W solar panel when replacing a single incandescent bulb with a fluorescent will have the SAME effect?
We could argue about duty cycles and manufacturing costs etc, but I think it's pretty pointless fussing about solar panels unless you've made sensible savings elsewhere already.
I've heard very good things about EuroTalk http://eurotalk.com/en/ . Certainly better value than Rosetta Stone.
Both PDF and TIFF handle multiple pages, and have done so for years.
Either would be suitable for this application.
If you really want to convert these, Imagemagick would be the best tool to use.
However- it seems a little daft for storage space to be the main reason for changing: you're simply exchanging one compressed image format for another. You may save 10% e.g. if you move from JPEG in the PDF to PNG/similar in the TIFF but is that really worth the effort?!
If they really want shiny TIFFs, it would be easy to have an Imagemagick script to convert single PDFs to TIFF on-demand.
I'm a semi-pro photographers Both the XTi (400D for us in Europe) and the 5D are actually 12-bit. And there isn't a 5D Mk2 yet.
Fully agree about wanting the monitor- I am still surprised colour management is such a complex topic, after all these years. Finding a screen which shows colours accurately is hard.
I find DNS causes Firefox to hang (until resolved) frequently. I use "automatic proxy" or "auto proxy url" as you do.
Seems odd that it would be written such that a DNS query would block the UI thread... but Outlook 2003 works (or doesn't) in much the same way!
It's taken a looong time to get here!
Many distributions already have some form of automatic test suites to check for broken/non-broken packages. Now we can run performance tests automatically as well.
This will be fantastic for seeing performance regressions in the code, maybe for every check-in.
Every Ubuntu etc developer should have a VMWare guest running this continuously...
If they are close enough, yes.
Look up image stacking and also there's a tool called "ale".. but I can't find the link right now.
According to http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf65.html (sources listed at bottom of page), in 2006 13% of California's power was provided by 2 nuclear power stations. Note a station may be multiple reactors.
So it's only 15 or so more power stations. Is it so hard to slowly replace coal stations with nuclear ones?