That is one thing I always loved about Open Source Software, you can't hold it hostage. If something happens to threaten the project, its fork you, and bye bye!
The users and developers take what was there (and theirs) pack up and resume life a usual somewhere else, and give the finger to all the Larrys that come along and try to (ab)use them as part of their own personal plot.
If you take care of them they will stay, and you might even see your user and developer base grow, but try and take advantage of them and you will soon be left with nothing. They take the short term pain of starting over instead of the long term pain of taking orders from someone who does not have their best interests in mind.
I've seen a place that regrinds recycled plastic into pipe, and it requires some huge equipment, and careful processing to get anything consistent enough to make safe long term pressurized plumbing pipe. To have a miniaturized version of that place that ran even remotely efficiently (without even having to buy the machine) so you could make the pipe for less than 5X what you would pay for it in the store (even if the raw material was nearly clean and free) and then including the cost of your labor.../.ramble They had 3 X 250 HP reâ"grinders that fed the whole thing. That had big stomper feet that smashed the containers into these augers that fed it into a grinder, that fed into an extruder. It was pretty amazing what went into the process of making pipe from (mostly) recycled scrap plastic. Lots of heat, and energy went in to squirting molten plastic around, and forming it.
But yeah it would be cool to 3d print your pipes, direclty off the AutoCad model of your new house of the future, from a hopper of old milk jugs.
Check out the app Display Brightness. It allows you to put a transparent slider on the edge of your choosing that overlays the screen and allows you to change the backlight by sliding your finger along your selected edge.
Just be sure to uncheck apply at boot if you're gonna see how low you can set the backlight! Some phones work down to 0%, others turn off the backlight completely somewhere below 5%. Then it becomes a race between you and your device rebooting to uninstall it before it gets loaded. After trying unsuccessfully (god I was so close... wish i had ADB enabled too) for 30+ minutes, i had to hard reset mine!
IIRC it loads some kind of IE only plugin to do the 'secure' ordering and reservations, but I will give that a try. I gotta pay him a holiday visit anyways. I didn't see him@ Target this Christmas eve. First time since Target opened here about 10 years ago:) I can't imagine he had all his shopping done ahead of time!
What better way to say happy holidays than to remove the last remaining piece of Microsoft software from his life and update his 10.04 Ubuntu install to Mint 14!
I actually had to for my friend. He loves using Ubuntu since I converted his work laptop, then all his home computers, but there was some stupid IE only website that he had to use to make reservations for his business.
It is not perfect, but it gets the job done, and works much better than Virtual Box on his old laptop. Much less pwnage running under Wine too.
WTF you mean you only got a 250MM one? That wont fit, its too small ya dumbass!
Well i got a 275 MM one...
I don't wanna round off this gigantic fucking nut, then I'll have to use a chisel! Where the hell'd ya get that setta tools? Don't you know that Komatsu is made in the USofA?
Will this big ass pliers work...
Guess it'll have to, My adjustable wrench ain't big enough! Got a cheater bar for it?
Who would buy a 6 million dollar (euro whatever) earth raping machine that looses thousands of dollars every hour it's broken, and not get the right tools to work on it?
It seemed like Yamaha really went out of their way to make an excellent CD drive back then, not sure how they are now...
Before CD players had playback buffers, the Audio Mastering mode made a huge difference in getting skip free playback on the go as well.
I recently re-ripped many of my 600+ CD's as well that I originally did @ 128k and they all worked flawlessly even after 8 - 10 years on highly questionable cheap media. Maybe keeping them in the Sony mega-changers helped, IDK...
I had to re-burn many of the live shows I had for my friends because their "original" copy no longer played reliably, and they wanted a copy again!
I still have an old Win98 machine upgraded to WinXP machine around, and the special version of Nero that supports all the other features it has, any idea if there is a way to use the audio mastering capability under Linux? Ill admit, i haven't looked into it, but that CD burner is the last reason I have to keep that computer around. Any ideas?
This could probably happen on the way back to the solar collector as the oil is heated back up, then you would just have to condense the steam back into water. Most of the steam would likely just exhaust on its own, but what's trapped in the oil would come out once it's reheated.
So you would dedicate say 1 or 2 CPUs per node or a node per rack for sniffing all of the intermediate data off of the local highest speed interconnect as it's sent between nodes, and sending it out to a fifo queue on the (or a separate) network to store the intermediate results in case of a failure?
If you had the last couple chunks of data that every node sent to every other node it would make restarting from a failed node much easier as you would just have to reload the data in, recompute it, and compare the previous outputs and continue on with the job on a different node.
It would take additional resources per rack for the spare nodes and data recording nodes, as well as possibly a second network and local storage in the rack to save the data, but at the exascale level, this might make sense.
If you had 8 compute CPUs per node, and 1 more of them that had 16X the RAM and was a storage / supervisory CPU for the whole node, and a whole node per rack doing the same thing would it be able to keep up and would it cover most failures?
Is this something that could be built right in to future interconnect chips so they can store the last couple of transactions and reroute and dump the data to a different node if something fails?
It might be expensive, but so is the power required to run these huge computers and everything else about them.
Is this something that can be partially avoided by using Itanium processors instead of X86? Or has all of the reliability stuff been included in the recent Xenon chips?
I understand that there's little the processor can do if the mobo dies (unless it notices an increase in failed computations right before maybe it could send a signal) but is there any advantage to the type of processor used in some cases?
Having worked on farms for about 10 years growing up, it's something you get used to. Although the "weedburner" type fencers have quite a bit more jolt, and the newer fencers will adjust the output depending on the load from the moisture in the grass, and the length of the fence to give the right amount of zap.
I still remember seeing the output knob on the fencer that got me turned all the way up with the overrange light blinking indicating it was turned up too high. They had the field behind the shed sectioned off into 4 parts for grazing, and depending on how the gates were set (some days it wasn't even hot behind the famous shed!) the electrified portion of the fence could be 1 - 4 miles long, but the farmer controlled the output knob and it remained on 11 no matter what.
IIRC the fencer said it was good for 10 miles of fence, and could easily jump 1/2". I bought it at the sale they had when they quit raising cows and still have it to this day for various activities requiring a remote ignition source. Somewhere along the line I removed the cover lots of resistors, and the knob, and now it's just set on kill. If there's no wire on the output terminal it easily jumps a loud purple spark 3/4" from the top of the insulated output screw to the case.
About 30 years ago I fell victim to the older neighbor kids when i had to pee. They told me to go behind the shed, but don't piss on the shed because my dad will get mad, so i went with my back to the shed and pissed right on an electric fence. It got me 3 times before I figured out what the hell was going on, and turned away. No damage, just a wee bit sore for a few hours.
I don't care what the Mythbusters say, it is possible, I know it is, and my older neighbors all laughed having suckered another person into pissing on it, so I wasn't the first one with a painful experience behind that shed!
One of my past employers had internet explorer configured that way. When traveling you had to VPN in to use their proxy server to get to the Internet (:via the Internet:) DNS, everything came through their proxy servers all the time so it was just like back at the office, but Slowwwww...
The guy that did the desktop IT support was a good friend of mine, and I asked him why they did that, and after that he used to poke fun at me that they could read my encrypted web mail and web browsing (unless I encrypted it elsewhere and just sent cyphertext!) It's not just protect me from malware!
They did that to everyone, to 'verify' ALL the traffic from every single one of their laptops.
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That is one thing I always loved about Open Source Software, you can't hold it hostage. If something happens to threaten the project, its fork you, and bye bye!
The users and developers take what was there (and theirs) pack up and resume life a usual somewhere else, and give the finger to all the Larrys that come along and try to (ab)use them as part of their own personal plot.
If you take care of them they will stay, and you might even see your user and developer base grow, but try and take advantage of them and you will soon be left with nothing. They take the short term pain of starting over instead of the long term pain of taking orders from someone who does not have their best interests in mind.
Cheers!
I've seen a place that regrinds recycled plastic into pipe, and it requires some huge equipment, and careful processing to get anything consistent enough to make safe long term pressurized plumbing pipe. To have a miniaturized version of that place that ran even remotely efficiently (without even having to buy the machine) so you could make the pipe for less than 5X what you would pay for it in the store (even if the raw material was nearly clean and free) and then including the cost of your labor... /.ramble
They had 3 X 250 HP reâ"grinders that fed the whole thing. That had big stomper feet that smashed the containers into these augers that fed it into a grinder, that fed into an extruder. It was pretty amazing what went into the process of making pipe from (mostly) recycled scrap plastic.
Lots of heat, and energy went in to squirting molten plastic around, and forming it.
But yeah it would be cool to 3d print your pipes, direclty off the AutoCad model of your new house of the future, from a hopper of old milk jugs.
Perhaps Someday...
Or these...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee_manufacturing_in_China
Didn't GM go batshit when the Chineese copied the Hummer?
I seem to recall it making quite a stir.
Cheers!
I believe it's Baaastin...
Cheers!
Check out the app Display Brightness. It allows you to put a transparent slider on the edge of your choosing that overlays the screen and allows you to change the backlight by sliding your finger along your selected edge.
Just be sure to uncheck apply at boot if you're gonna see how low you can set the backlight! Some phones work down to 0%, others turn off the backlight completely somewhere below 5%. Then it becomes a race between you and your device rebooting to uninstall it before it gets loaded. After trying unsuccessfully (god I was so close... wish i had ADB enabled too) for 30+ minutes, i had to hard reset mine!
Best app out there!
Cheers!
IIRC it loads some kind of IE only plugin to do the 'secure' ordering and reservations, but I will give that a try. I gotta pay him a holiday visit anyways. I didn't see him@ Target this Christmas eve. First time since Target opened here about 10 years ago:) I can't imagine he had all his shopping done ahead of time!
What better way to say happy holidays than to remove the last remaining piece of Microsoft software from his life and update his 10.04 Ubuntu install to Mint 14!
Thanks and Happy New Year!
www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=internet+explorer&search=app
I actually had to for my friend. He loves using Ubuntu since I converted his work laptop, then all his home computers, but there was some stupid IE only website that he had to use to make reservations for his business.
It is not perfect, but it gets the job done, and works much better than Virtual Box on his old laptop. Much less pwnage running under Wine too.
Cheers!
Agreed... you are always much better off getting the crappie;)
Sorry... i had to...
I can almost hear the frustration now...
Hey can you grab me the 10" box end wrench.
WTF you mean you only got a 250MM one? That wont fit, its too small ya dumbass!
Well i got a 275 MM one...
I don't wanna round off this gigantic fucking nut, then I'll have to use a chisel! Where the hell'd ya get that setta tools? Don't you know that Komatsu is made in the USofA?
Will this big ass pliers work...
Guess it'll have to, My adjustable wrench ain't big enough! Got a cheater bar for it?
Who would buy a 6 million dollar (euro whatever) earth raping machine that looses thousands of dollars every hour it's broken, and not get the right tools to work on it?
PB B'laster kicks liquid wrenches butt...
If you've never tried it, you have to!
Cheers!
It seemed like Yamaha really went out of their way to make an excellent CD drive back then, not sure how they are now...
Before CD players had playback buffers, the Audio Mastering mode made a huge difference in getting skip free playback on the go as well.
I recently re-ripped many of my 600+ CD's as well that I originally did @ 128k and they all worked flawlessly even after 8 - 10 years on highly questionable cheap media. Maybe keeping them in the Sony mega-changers helped, IDK...
I had to re-burn many of the live shows I had for my friends because their "original" copy no longer played reliably, and they wanted a copy again!
I still have an old Win98 machine upgraded to WinXP machine around, and the special version of Nero that supports all the other features it has, any idea if there is a way to use the audio mastering capability under Linux? Ill admit, i haven't looked into it, but that CD burner is the last reason I have to keep that computer around. Any ideas?
Cheers!
THIS is why I cling to my Yamaha CRW-F1.
10 years old, 1000s of CDs ripped and burned, and never a bad rip, or a coaster to it's name!
Have you heard of these? Any thoughts?
Cheers!
This could probably happen on the way back to the solar collector as the oil is heated back up, then you would just have to condense the steam back into water. Most of the steam would likely just exhaust on its own, but what's trapped in the oil would come out once it's reheated.
Cheers
Oh come on now...
How can you have a 6 digit UID and possibly ask /. if you are the only one who uses a host file? :)
Ducks...
So you would dedicate say 1 or 2 CPUs per node or a node per rack for sniffing all of the intermediate data off of the local highest speed interconnect as it's sent between nodes, and sending it out to a fifo queue on the (or a separate) network to store the intermediate results in case of a failure?
If you had the last couple chunks of data that every node sent to every other node it would make restarting from a failed node much easier as you would just have to reload the data in, recompute it, and compare the previous outputs and continue on with the job on a different node.
It would take additional resources per rack for the spare nodes and data recording nodes, as well as possibly a second network and local storage in the rack to save the data, but at the exascale level, this might make sense.
If you had 8 compute CPUs per node, and 1 more of them that had 16X the RAM and was a storage / supervisory CPU for the whole node, and a whole node per rack doing the same thing would it be able to keep up and would it cover most failures?
Is this something that could be built right in to future interconnect chips so they can store the last couple of transactions and reroute and dump the data to a different node if something fails?
It might be expensive, but so is the power required to run these huge computers and everything else about them.
Cheers
Is this something that can be partially avoided by using Itanium processors instead of X86? Or has all of the reliability stuff been included in the recent Xenon chips?
I understand that there's little the processor can do if the mobo dies (unless it notices an increase in failed computations right before maybe it could send a signal) but is there any advantage to the type of processor used in some cases?
Just curious...
Cheers
Having worked on farms for about 10 years growing up, it's something you get used to. Although the "weedburner" type fencers have quite a bit more jolt, and the newer fencers will adjust the output depending on the load from the moisture in the grass, and the length of the fence to give the right amount of zap.
I still remember seeing the output knob on the fencer that got me turned all the way up with the overrange light blinking indicating it was turned up too high. They had the field behind the shed sectioned off into 4 parts for grazing, and depending on how the gates were set (some days it wasn't even hot behind the famous shed!) the electrified portion of the fence could be 1 - 4 miles long, but the farmer controlled the output knob and it remained on 11 no matter what.
IIRC the fencer said it was good for 10 miles of fence, and could easily jump 1/2". I bought it at the sale they had when they quit raising cows and still have it to this day for various activities requiring a remote ignition source. Somewhere along the line I removed the cover lots of resistors, and the knob, and now it's just set on kill. If there's no wire on the output terminal it easily jumps a loud purple spark 3/4" from the top of the insulated output screw to the case.
I wouldn't wanna piss on it now!
About 30 years ago I fell victim to the older neighbor kids when i had to pee. They told me to go behind the shed, but don't piss on the shed because my dad will get mad, so i went with my back to the shed and pissed right on an electric fence. It got me 3 times before I figured out what the hell was going on, and turned away. No damage, just a wee bit sore for a few hours.
I don't care what the Mythbusters say, it is possible, I know it is, and my older neighbors all laughed having suckered another person into pissing on it, so I wasn't the first one with a painful experience behind that shed!
My(BZZZZT)th Conf(BZZZZT)irm(BZZZZT)ed
Owww!
Cheers...
It's always fun to reload the page and watch how fast the number of results grows over time.
Anyone care to graph this over the next few days?
About 217 results:)
Less NACKs should give you more for your money though.
It's almost a win, win...
Cheers
It would most likely have been covered by the black flap then...
Any thoughts on Enyo?
enyojs.com/showcase/
Thanks!
Check s4gru.com for updates!
Cheers
One of my past employers had internet explorer configured that way. When traveling you had to VPN in to use their proxy server to get to the Internet (:via the Internet:) DNS, everything came through their proxy servers all the time so it was just like back at the office, but
Slowwwww...
The guy that did the desktop IT support was a good friend of mine, and I asked him why they did that, and after that he used to poke fun at me that they could read my encrypted web mail and web browsing (unless I encrypted it elsewhere and just sent cyphertext!) It's not just protect me from malware!
They did that to everyone, to 'verify' ALL the traffic from every single one of their laptops.
Cheers