In reply to my own post, apparently 384 50-disc spindles is 1 cubic metre. So that's 21,120,000 CDs/DVDs/fancy new Bly-ray type discs. Quite a lot.
CDs weigh arond 16 grams. The above number of disks would come to 337 metric tonnes; therefore you would not actually be able to get the whole lot in the plane. Unless you started taking out fuel &c.
No, the Antonov An-225 is larger than the new Airbus A380. The A380 is the world's largest passenger aircraft, but the Antonov is much bigger. Just look at those 32 wheels!
The Antonov can carry 250 tons; can anyone do the maths and see if 250 tons of CDs will actually fit in the hold!?!? The An-225's cargo volume is 1100m3.
that I consider to be
obvious and easy to find, but few people (if anyone else) have them bookmarked
I don't know about everyone else, but if there is a page that is obvious and easy to find I don't bookmark it. Easier to go to Google and simply type e.g. "scan today" is Scan's Today Only offers page (UK hardware- but mind the extortionate shipping charges.
The idea of having one bathroom in the whole office was originally popularised by the animators at Disney who believed this would mean everyone would meet little and often and thus have even better ideas.
Seriously, is it possible to do this will Linux software raid? Have several USB hard disks plugged in in RAID 5; if one fails, just replace it and watch the software sort everything out...
Could this not be solved by running all applications in a chrooted environment? There would be issues with access to/etc and the like, but someone can think of a way...
I've had some experience with hardware buttons. It's fairly easy to use the control lines on the parallel or serial ports, but it is far easier to adapt a standard keyboard.
If you have the space, just pull a key off the keyboard and wire in a switch instead. Or, you can do what I have done and just rip the keyboard controller out of the case; they are very simple devices really.
I have skied at over 140kph (that's circa 90mph) down red runs (in the 3 Vallees) in the past. That's measured using a GPS, so add a few mph to take account of the angle.
Believe me, you really don't want to fall over! I am an instructor, and felt confident even at those speeds, but the biggest danger is as the article says: the vibration. With modern parabolic/carving skis, the slightest angle on the ski will result in it trying to turn away; if this is not what you want, it could be curtains. Those small vibrations you feel skiing at a "normal" 30mph are multiplied dramatically at 90mph. It's not a thing I would recommend to any skier who is not an expert.
Re crashing, I would hope that one would simply slide a long way; so long as you don't catch an edge falling and start tumbling, you should hopefully be OK. A motorcycle rider will probably correct me here:-) but bear in mind that you're more likely to slide on snow than on asphalt.
Anyone know *why* they need to update their systems?? If it works, it works. How will an extra gigahertz of CPU power per desk help the citizens of Munich??
Now all we need is a return to the x-terminal concept: all these old P75s connected to a big farm of Athlons/P4s doing the hard work...
Many years ago (1996?)... the Finn brothers wrote Sibelius for Acorn computers; it was (and probably still is in its latest guise) classical composing software in the world. Users bought Acorn Risc PCs solely for Sibelius. Now it runs on Mac and Windows and Acorn's RISC OS is almost forgotten.
Circa 1997, Sibelius was connected to a grand piano and played a formidably complex Liszt piece to an enraptured audience. God knows how many clever features it has now!
Part of the appeal of the program is that it does not play the notes at the exact time specified by the score but can play in various styles, playing with human-like timing.
The Nikon D2H digital SLR has a wireless capability; it can FTP images as soon as they are taken to a local server. Just keep a small laptop nearby connected to a GPS and update the EXIF info as the pictures appear on the server. Parsing the GPS NMEA data is easy; you could probably do the whole thing in less than ten lines of shell script.
When I was young, we used BBC Micro computers at school. These booted in under a second into BBC BASIC, so you could simply type things like
PRINT "hello"
FOR N%=1 TO 10 : PRINT "hello again" + N% : NEXT
(I haven't used BBC BASIC for about eight years so I probably have some syntax wrong:-) )
It was very easy for even the most uninterested person to make something of their own, even if it was simply asked a person their name and then said "hello Edward" or the like. Programming a game is a much more complex thing: you must teach the basics first. You can download Brandy, which is an almost complete BBC BASIC interpreter for RISC OS (!), Linux, Mac, DOS and Windows. Graphics and sound support are limited, but for teaching the basics of procedures/functions, loops and logic an interpreted language like BASIC is ideal. When the basics have been grasped, it is a simple matter to move to a more advanced (and more complicated for simple programs) language such as C.
My CS teachers at school (who were great) taught us not to mess with formatting and concentrate on the content above all else - formating came last. A lesson very well learnt that has stayed with me.
That's the basic principle behind TeX/LaTeX. In fact, it's also the principle behind HTML -- separating content from fancy layout.
Case in point: I was doing some high bitrate multimedia capture a while back. In my system at that time, I had both 10krpm u2w scsi disks, and some 5400rpm ide disks. In order to not get frame drops due to long flushes to disk with ext2/3, I had to jump through all sorts of hoops and basically have a process calling sync() every couple seconds, even when writing to the scsi disk.
I had similar problems with IDE disks and ext2/3. You need to alter the bdflush settings in/proc/sys/vm.
Try: echo "5 150 0 50 100 3000 400 20 0" >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush (The first two numbers are most important in this context)
This makes the disks write almost continuously if there is data in the buffers. The kernel docs give more information.
A full-bore target rifle is fully capable of hitting a small target at 1200m, horizontal. An enormous balloon 300m further away is probably even easier to hit... I haven't tried.
Yes, it's vertical: so make allowances.
If you really are as hopeless as you appear to be, try a machine gun: SF range of 3000m and tracers so even you have a chance of hitting the damned thing.
12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound. Non-decimal! Too bad they didn't make a 16 somethings in a something, or else British geeks would be well on their way to learning hexadecimal...
You mean something like 16 ounces in a pound?
We also have differing size sterling notes on proper paper: one just laughs at all those silly little green dollar notes which all look the same:-)
It's a law of USENET, transmogrified to discussion web sites - anyone criticising the spelling or grammar of another poster will always make a spelling or grammar gaffe in that very post.
I believe this is even better...:-) It's a law of USENET - transmogrified to discussion web sites - that anyone criticising the spelling or grammar of another poster will always make a spelling or grammar gaffe in that their very own post.
However, I got this sudden flash of the obvious, where you build a "multi-core" computer, ie a computer with several CPUs. one or more CPU(s) can be assigned to work as the GPU(s) if needed, and then be reassigned to work as ordinary CPUs when raw processingpower is more needed than graphics output
Perhaps you mean something along the lines of SMP?
Moving on, why can't we squeeze two motherboards and CPUs into slightly larger case to run Mosix? Redundant, multi-processing, limited by the speed of the data connection such as gigabit ethernet.
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In reply to my own post, apparently 384 50-disc spindles is 1 cubic metre. So that's 21,120,000 CDs/DVDs/fancy new Bly-ray type discs. Quite a lot.
CDs weigh arond 16 grams. The above number of disks would come to 337 metric tonnes; therefore you would not actually be able to get the whole lot in the plane. Unless you started taking out fuel &c.
No, the Antonov An-225 is larger than the new Airbus A380.
The A380 is the world's largest passenger aircraft, but the Antonov is much bigger. Just look at those 32 wheels!
The Antonov can carry 250 tons; can anyone do the maths and see if 250 tons of CDs will actually fit in the hold!?!? The An-225's cargo volume is 1100m3.
All we need now is Google to better sort the wheat from the chaff- perhaps the Googlebar will soon sport a "ratings" button,
I don't know about everyone else, but if there is a page that is obvious and easy to find I don't bookmark it. Easier to go to Google and simply type e.g. "scan today" is Scan's Today Only offers page (UK hardware- but mind the extortionate shipping charges.
The idea of having one bathroom in the whole office was originally popularised by the animators at Disney who believed this would mean everyone would meet little and often and thus have even better ideas.
I think I shall follow McNealy's advice and keep them 'tuned'.
Seriously, is it possible to do this will Linux software raid? Have several USB hard disks plugged in in RAID 5; if one fails, just replace it and watch the software sort everything out...
And a DS is what precisely???
Could this not be solved by running all applications in a chrooted environment? There would be issues with access to /etc and the like, but someone can think of a way...
I've had some experience with hardware buttons. It's fairly easy to use the control lines on the parallel or serial ports, but it is far easier to adapt a standard keyboard.
If you have the space, just pull a key off the keyboard and wire in a switch instead. Or, you can do what I have done and just rip the keyboard controller out of the case; they are very simple devices really.
I have skied at over 140kph (that's circa 90mph) down red runs (in the 3 Vallees) in the past. That's measured using a GPS, so add a few mph to take account of the angle.
:-) but bear in mind that you're more likely to slide on snow than on asphalt.
Believe me, you really don't want to fall over! I am an instructor, and felt confident even at those speeds, but the biggest danger is as the article says: the vibration. With modern parabolic/carving skis, the slightest angle on the ski will result in it trying to turn away; if this is not what you want, it could be curtains. Those small vibrations you feel skiing at a "normal" 30mph are multiplied dramatically at 90mph. It's not a thing I would recommend to any skier who is not an expert.
Re crashing, I would hope that one would simply slide a long way; so long as you don't catch an edge falling and start tumbling, you should hopefully be OK. A motorcycle rider will probably correct me here
...but not something simple like XFree86.
:-)
That's probably a first...
Anyone know *why* they need to update their systems?? If it works, it works. How will an extra gigahertz of CPU power per desk help the citizens of Munich??
Now all we need is a return to the x-terminal concept: all these old P75s connected to a big farm of Athlons/P4s doing the hard work...
Many years ago (1996?)... the Finn brothers wrote Sibelius for Acorn computers; it was (and probably still is in its latest guise) classical composing software in the world. Users bought Acorn Risc PCs solely for Sibelius. Now it runs on Mac and Windows and Acorn's RISC OS is almost forgotten.
Circa 1997, Sibelius was connected to a grand piano and played a formidably complex Liszt piece to an enraptured audience. God knows how many clever features it has now!
Part of the appeal of the program is that it does not play the notes at the exact time specified by the score but can play in various styles, playing with human-like timing.
You could always use a Psion or iPaq type thing with serial connection to GPS and wifi for the D2H camera... but I understand the weight issue.
The Nikon D2H digital SLR has a wireless capability; it can FTP images as soon as they are taken to a local server. Just keep a small laptop nearby connected to a GPS and update the EXIF info as the pictures appear on the server. Parsing the GPS NMEA data is easy; you could probably do the whole thing in less than ten lines of shell script.
When I was young, we used BBC Micro computers at school. These booted in under a second into BBC BASIC, so you could simply type things like
:-) )
PRINT "hello"
FOR N%=1 TO 10 : PRINT "hello again" + N% : NEXT
(I haven't used BBC BASIC for about eight years so I probably have some syntax wrong
It was very easy for even the most uninterested person to make something of their own, even if it was simply asked a person their name and then said "hello Edward" or the like. Programming a game is a much more complex thing: you must teach the basics first. You can download Brandy, which is an almost complete BBC BASIC interpreter for RISC OS (!), Linux, Mac, DOS and Windows. Graphics and sound support are limited, but for teaching the basics of procedures/functions, loops and logic an interpreted language like BASIC is ideal. When the basics have been grasped, it is a simple matter to move to a more advanced (and more complicated for simple programs) language such as C.
That's the basic principle behind TeX/LaTeX. In fact, it's also the principle behind HTML -- separating content from fancy layout.
I had similar problems with IDE disks and ext2/3. You need to alter the bdflush settings in
Try:
echo "5 150 0 50 100 3000 400 20 0" >
(The first two numbers are most important in this context)
This makes the disks write almost continuously if there is data in the buffers. The kernel docs give more information.
How about a CIA wiki?!?
You are a muppet.
A full-bore target rifle is fully capable of hitting a small target at 1200m, horizontal. An enormous balloon 300m further away is probably even easier to hit... I haven't tried.
Yes, it's vertical: so make allowances.
If you really are as hopeless as you appear to be, try a machine gun: SF range of 3000m and tracers so even you have a chance of hitting the damned thing.
PS "You are" is generally shortened to "you're".
12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound. Non-decimal! Too bad they didn't make a 16 somethings in a something, or else British geeks would be well on their way to learning hexadecimal...
:-)
You mean something like 16 ounces in a pound?
We also have differing size sterling notes on proper paper: one just laughs at all those silly little green dollar notes which all look the same
It's a law of USENET, transmogrified to discussion web sites - anyone criticising the spelling or grammar of another poster will always make a spelling or grammar gaffe in that very post.
:-)
I believe this is even better...
It's a law of USENET - transmogrified to discussion web sites - that anyone criticising the spelling or grammar of another poster will always make a spelling or grammar gaffe in that their very own post.
However, I got this sudden flash of the obvious, where you build a "multi-core" computer, ie a computer with several CPUs. one or more CPU(s) can be assigned to work as the GPU(s) if needed, and then be reassigned to work as ordinary CPUs when raw processingpower is more needed than graphics output
Perhaps you mean something along the lines of SMP?
Moving on, why can't we squeeze two motherboards and CPUs into slightly larger case to run Mosix? Redundant, multi-processing, limited by the speed of the data connection such as gigabit ethernet.
Have a look at his girlfriend's site: there's an interesting (?) page about sexual reproduction.
So that's what feminist metaphysics is about!