Actually, having just sat through a few presentation from Lenovo on windows 7 support for their laptops, quite a few of the ThinVantage tools are going away, since they don't offer anything substantially different from what MS now implements.. Off the top of my head: Thinkvantage Presentation Director (since Win7 makes it very easy to setup secondary displays) Thinkvantage EasyEject since undocking is pretty standard now I think the Fingerprint software is going away, and a few other newer suprises..
I don't understand your first link. That has nothing to do with corruption when writing large files.
Ubuntu has hesitated to update the bootloader for a while now, because it might not understand how to handle things you have setup (like dual booting with BeOS or something not common) so they will install grub on new installs, but not upgrade it. Since a newer version of GRUB is required to change your boot partition to EXT4 (you can change all your other partitions, such as "/home" to ext4 in 9.04) they don't convert your partitions to EXT4 on the upgrade.
On a side note. It would be nice if the Ubuntu installer by default created a seperate/home partition. (or maybe they have in the last version or so, I haven't installed from scratch).
But it sure does make it easier to keep your data..
Try pressing Alt-F2 to bring up a "run" dialog, and typing update-manager -d
I can't remember if it needs a sudo in front of it, but it uses the GUI update manager to do the equivalent of a "sudo apt-get --dist-upgrade" from the command line. On the LTS versions, it does not announce new versions being available.
You should read Snow Crash. It is set in a world just like that. Different highways, each little fenced community is its own nation, with its own private security, etc...
Actually, I read the book for the first time a few months ago, and it completely creep-ed me out. I was doing evaluating some stuff with Second Life at the time for work.. And this book in the 80's described Second Life perfectly. Very creepy
If you don't drive, then you don't pay the "use fee" collected at the pumps.
Your kidding, right? Do you ride the bus? Buses run on Diesel (mostly.) which pays road tax. Do you purchase food at local stores? Guess how it got there.. You pay more as a driver, but everybody helps pay for it. But mostly, Look at water.
You know, other easy to make comments aside, you have no idea how much we take water for granted in the US. The vast majority of Americans are given very clean drinking water, and their waste is treated, by the government. We take that for granted, but many illnesses that used to be very common are exceedingly rare in the US. People talk about bottled water, and how much it makes for the companies, but its usage pales in comparison to a single days output from a municipal system. If you want to see the errors in your very conservative logic, go read about south America, where several nations (bolivia comes to mind) have "sold" the exclusive rights to make drinking water to a private, profit driven company. Make sure you read about the riots, protests, cost increases, and even how some protesters were killed. Meanwhile, we take it for granted here.
You really need to try playing I-spy on I80, anywhere between Reno and Chicago.. a Day of desert scrub, day of rolling plains, day of corn. You want to punch someone when they want to play that game again....
Its not the fine that interests me.. Its the "policy" of the church to go fanatically after its naysayers, and never admit guilt. This isn't some family suing in civil court. This would appear to be a fine levied by the government, which means they will have to fight the French Government (que the jokes....) but really, they have a history of never paying their fines, stalling, stalling, stalling, and going fanatically after their accusers.. this could get interesting..
I wish they would let me edit the transcript. It would be much faster for me to correct the transcript, instead of going back and listening to the VM later if I need the information again. Not to mention, it could really be some great feedback to tune their algorithms...
I've been looking like crazy, since the guy that remodeled the house I just bought loved Recessed can lights and dimmer switches. Right now, the only bulbs I see that come close in the LED range cost about $120 each. The CFL dimmables are crud, their lowest setting is still something like 75% of max brightness, so they are very bright when the dimmer is all the way down. I need a replacement LED "can light" in the $30 dollar range, before I can do anything about them. And the ones I have actually seen in that price range are designed for desklights and such, where they don't have to actually throw the light more than 2-3' from the bulb.
I really, really want to get rid of my old style bulbs, but the payback on 10x $120 bulbs is a very, very long time..
There are other solutions that are much better, if you don't mind more installation effort and/or more expense.
I would appreciate your feedback on a few solutions that are better. I have been toying with the idea of home automation for a while now, and am very serious about doing it in the next year.
I thought that was the idea behind Zigbee, the low cost, low power, mesh networking standard. Not to mention, there is a home powerline networking standard, HomePlug alliance, that has been out for quite awhile. Unfortunately, neither of them is popular enough to get the economies of scale. (now if that fancy little linux powered wall wart http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/kirkwood/plugcomputer.jsp would support either of the other two standards, we might be able to do some very, very cool stuff!)
"8.04LTS" worked fine on a number of systems, and 9.x caused never-ending forum postings from users wondering why the hell they couldn't get X going.
You know what LTS means, right? Long Term Support. As in, if it doesn't work in the newest version, but does in the older you're fine. Cause the older version is good for another couple of years of updates. the Ubuntu team has been very upfront about LTS releases being for "stability" and other releases being for new features. So yeah, if there is a "feature" that does not work right, and prevents you from upgrading, wait for the next LTS release, which will be very much inside the support window.
The MS mentality of everyone must always run the newest version of everything or else you won't be protected or get new features is pure crap. That doesn't have to happen in open source, when they aren't trying to force you to constantly upgrade to help their revenue cycle.
nd so you will never find a libertarian who is pro union, even though, according to their ideals, they should be.
I am a registered Libertarian, and am very pro Union. I am not a fan of "union shops" where just to get employment, you are forced to be in a union. For me, that is a little to close to "you have to be $Religion to work here". I am a firm believer that people can choose to join, or choose not to (and choose to leave) if they wish.
I'm also very much against anything done at the federal level, and handing things like Medicare and such to the states (including healthcare reform.) But yes, I do believe in universal healthcare, but it should be an option, and done by the states, (or groups of states, if they decide to band together).
Many, many people don't toe their parties lines.. Dear god, look at the log cabin republicans. Gay people in the republican party!
With incredibly stiff government regulation.. The companies screamed and moaned about E911, but now, they have apps that take advantage of knowing where you are. (and tout a cell as a safety device when traveling).
They screamed about number portability. yet they now all encourage you to port your number to them. (Would the iphone have been as successfull if everyone had to ditch their old numbers?)
Billions in upgrades??? Wow, I want to live where you live!.. I can't even get DSL, and I live 3 miles outside of a town. the phone company somehow managed to stretch 40,000 feet of copper between my house and their CO. And even though I live in a neighborhood of a hundred homes or so, they don't want to setup a "CO-Extender" box for our neighborhood, so we could have internet.
Did I mention that there is no cable either? (it comes within a half mile or so...) but nobody at the cable company will even return our calls. (Of course, charter is in bankruptcy).
So my choice for internet is Satellite, which several people have, but is expensive and slow, 3G cards from the cell phone companies, however, none of them provide more than about 128k\s where we live, since its low signal strength, and they have usage caps. Kind of frustrating when there is literally terrabits/s of data flowing over the fibers that run along the interstate, a mile from my house.. grrrr.. Now, if other companies were able to use that infrastructure, maybe thew would put in a small DSLAM to serve my neighborhood, or extend Charters fiber connection that last half mile to my neighborhood, or hell, at least use it as an endpoint, and put up Wi-Max.
Your site is very interesting, thank you for the link. I wish more people/sites had this kind of data. In my area, solar is not nearly as "incentivized" and I keep wondering if it is doable. Unfortunately, I have had a hard time finding real world data from people in my area, I would love to see what a 2KW array would actually produce, over 1 year in my part of Wisconsin.
I know there are lots of variables, but it would be nice if more people had a site like yours. (I know google is working on smart meters, but that is really limited on where it works)..
High speed rail won't be filled. The cost to add another car to the train is completely marginal compared to the basic infrastructure needed to start service. With airlines, planes are the most expensive part of the process, and they don't scale. Every plane needs another crew, ground crew, etc.
If only there was a way of preventing surges from doing this. Perhaps a "box" with some things that might "break" if the power load becomes too great. That would protect both ends of the circuit, and prevent frying the line. Heck, that might be handy to install in my own house, right where the power mains come in....
The article mentions a triangle of 8.5Miles per side, but not being used to dealing with large amounts of power.. (pretty much anything over 120V is over my head).. why do the superconducting pipes have to be that long?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to have the connections closer? or at that level of power, could there really be arc's 5 miles long? (or are there other issues related to crazy sine wave stuff?)
And really, I hope someday they decide to build one somewhere else too, like Colorado, or even further north. Then at least there are multiple points of failure.. (and if anyone gave a crap about texas, they would be invited into one of the other grids already, but obviously they think they are special...)
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Actually, having just sat through a few presentation from Lenovo on windows 7 support for their laptops, quite a few of the ThinVantage tools are going away, since they don't offer anything substantially different from what MS now implements.. Off the top of my head:
Thinkvantage Presentation Director (since Win7 makes it very easy to setup secondary displays)
Thinkvantage EasyEject since undocking is pretty standard now
I think the Fingerprint software is going away, and a few other newer suprises..
I don't understand your first link. That has nothing to do with corruption when writing large files.
Ubuntu has hesitated to update the bootloader for a while now, because it might not understand how to handle things you have setup (like dual booting with BeOS or something not common) so they will install grub on new installs, but not upgrade it. Since a newer version of GRUB is required to change your boot partition to EXT4 (you can change all your other partitions, such as "/home" to ext4 in 9.04) they don't convert your partitions to EXT4 on the upgrade.
On a side note. It would be nice if the Ubuntu installer by default created a seperate /home partition. (or maybe they have in the last version or so, I haven't installed from scratch).
But it sure does make it easier to keep your data..
Try pressing Alt-F2 to bring up a "run" dialog, and typing
update-manager -d
I can't remember if it needs a sudo in front of it, but it uses the GUI update manager to do the equivalent of a
"sudo apt-get --dist-upgrade" from the command line. On the LTS versions, it does not announce new versions being available.
Err, that "80's" was actually 1992, sorry.. Still, almost 20 years ago..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
You should read Snow Crash. It is set in a world just like that. Different highways, each little fenced community is its own nation, with its own private security, etc...
Actually, I read the book for the first time a few months ago, and it completely creep-ed me out. I was doing evaluating some stuff with Second Life at the time for work.. And this book in the 80's described Second Life perfectly. Very creepy
If you don't drive, then you don't pay the "use fee" collected at the pumps.
Your kidding, right? Do you ride the bus? Buses run on Diesel (mostly.) which pays road tax. Do you purchase food at local stores? Guess how it got there.. You pay more as a driver, but everybody helps pay for it. But mostly, Look at water.
You know, other easy to make comments aside, you have no idea how much we take water for granted in the US. The vast majority of Americans are given very clean drinking water, and their waste is treated, by the government. We take that for granted, but many illnesses that used to be very common are exceedingly rare in the US. People talk about bottled water, and how much it makes for the companies, but its usage pales in comparison to a single days output from a municipal system. If you want to see the errors in your very conservative logic, go read about south America, where several nations (bolivia comes to mind) have "sold" the exclusive rights to make drinking water to a private, profit driven company. Make sure you read about the riots, protests, cost increases, and even how some protesters were killed. Meanwhile, we take it for granted here.
You really need to try playing I-spy on I80, anywhere between Reno and Chicago.. a Day of desert scrub, day of rolling plains, day of corn. You want to punch someone when they want to play that game again....
Its not the fine that interests me.. Its the "policy" of the church to go fanatically after its naysayers, and never admit guilt. This isn't some family suing in civil court. This would appear to be a fine levied by the government, which means they will have to fight the French Government (que the jokes....) but really, they have a history of never paying their fines, stalling, stalling, stalling, and going fanatically after their accusers.. this could get interesting..
But banning liquids is a good thing.. Nobody has blown up a plane with a baby bottle since the law went into effect.
It works as good as my Cougar repelling rock in my office. I haven't seen a cougar in the office since I got it.
Sadly, sarcasm is about all I got left anymore...
I wish they would let me edit the transcript. It would be much faster for me to correct the transcript, instead of going back and listening to the VM later if I need the information again. Not to mention, it could really be some great feedback to tune their algorithms...
I've been looking like crazy, since the guy that remodeled the house I just bought loved Recessed can lights and dimmer switches. Right now, the only bulbs I see that come close in the LED range cost about $120 each. The CFL dimmables are crud, their lowest setting is still something like 75% of max brightness, so they are very bright when the dimmer is all the way down. I need a replacement LED "can light" in the $30 dollar range, before I can do anything about them. And the ones I have actually seen in that price range are designed for desklights and such, where they don't have to actually throw the light more than 2-3' from the bulb.
I really, really want to get rid of my old style bulbs, but the payback on 10x $120 bulbs is a very, very long time..
Cheap memory will fail more often than good, expensive memory. People seem to forget that SSD's are alot more like Memory, then Hard drives.
There are other solutions that are much better, if you don't mind more installation effort and/or more expense.
I would appreciate your feedback on a few solutions that are better. I have been toying with the idea of home automation for a while now, and am very serious about doing it in the next year.
I thought that was the idea behind Zigbee, the low cost, low power, mesh networking standard. Not to mention, there is a home powerline networking standard, HomePlug alliance, that has been out for quite awhile. Unfortunately, neither of them is popular enough to get the economies of scale. (now if that fancy little linux powered wall wart http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/kirkwood/plugcomputer.jsp would support either of the other two standards, we might be able to do some very, very cool stuff!)
I do miss the days when you could easily read and understand the source, without knowing all the intricacies of web development.
"8.04LTS" worked fine on a number of systems, and 9.x caused never-ending forum postings from users wondering why the hell they couldn't get X going.
You know what LTS means, right? Long Term Support. As in, if it doesn't work in the newest version, but does in the older you're fine. Cause the older version is good for another couple of years of updates. the Ubuntu team has been very upfront about LTS releases being for "stability" and other releases being for new features. So yeah, if there is a "feature" that does not work right, and prevents you from upgrading, wait for the next LTS release, which will be very much inside the support window.
The MS mentality of everyone must always run the newest version of everything or else you won't be protected or get new features is pure crap. That doesn't have to happen in open source, when they aren't trying to force you to constantly upgrade to help their revenue cycle.
nd so you will never find a libertarian who is pro union, even though, according to their ideals, they should be.
I am a registered Libertarian, and am very pro Union. I am not a fan of "union shops" where just to get employment, you are forced to be in a union. For me, that is a little to close to "you have to be $Religion to work here". I am a firm believer that people can choose to join, or choose not to (and choose to leave) if they wish.
I'm also very much against anything done at the federal level, and handing things like Medicare and such to the states (including healthcare reform.) But yes, I do believe in universal healthcare, but it should be an option, and done by the states, (or groups of states, if they decide to band together).
Many, many people don't toe their parties lines.. Dear god, look at the log cabin republicans. Gay people in the republican party!
With incredibly stiff government regulation.. The companies screamed and moaned about E911, but now, they have apps that take advantage of knowing where you are. (and tout a cell as a safety device when traveling).
They screamed about number portability. yet they now all encourage you to port your number to them. (Would the iphone have been as successfull if everyone had to ditch their old numbers?)
Just look at the success of the video surveillance system in London for cutting down on crimes.
Oh, wait.. I meant solving crimes,
Err, I meant.. Look how many jobs it created..
Bank Of America seems to have an opening for a CEO that likes to really mess up the company they run. Darl would be perfect!
Billions in upgrades??? Wow, I want to live where you live!.. I can't even get DSL, and I live 3 miles outside of a town. the phone company somehow managed to stretch 40,000 feet of copper between my house and their CO. And even though I live in a neighborhood of a hundred homes or so, they don't want to setup a "CO-Extender" box for our neighborhood, so we could have internet.
Did I mention that there is no cable either? (it comes within a half mile or so...) but nobody at the cable company will even return our calls. (Of course, charter is in bankruptcy).
So my choice for internet is Satellite, which several people have, but is expensive and slow, 3G cards from the cell phone companies, however, none of them provide more than about 128k\s where we live, since its low signal strength, and they have usage caps. Kind of frustrating when there is literally terrabits/s of data flowing over the fibers that run along the interstate, a mile from my house.. grrrr.. Now, if other companies were able to use that infrastructure, maybe thew would put in a small DSLAM to serve my neighborhood, or extend Charters fiber connection that last half mile to my neighborhood, or hell, at least use it as an endpoint, and put up Wi-Max.
Your site is very interesting, thank you for the link. I wish more people/sites had this kind of data. In my area, solar is not nearly as "incentivized" and I keep wondering if it is doable. Unfortunately, I have had a hard time finding real world data from people in my area, I would love to see what a 2KW array would actually produce, over 1 year in my part of Wisconsin.
I know there are lots of variables, but it would be nice if more people had a site like yours. (I know google is working on smart meters, but that is really limited on where it works)..
High speed rail won't be filled. The cost to add another car to the train is completely marginal compared to the basic infrastructure needed to start service. With airlines, planes are the most expensive part of the process, and they don't scale. Every plane needs another crew, ground crew, etc.
If only there was a way of preventing surges from doing this. Perhaps a "box" with some things that might "break" if the power load becomes too great. That would protect both ends of the circuit, and prevent frying the line. Heck, that might be handy to install in my own house, right where the power mains come in....
The article mentions a triangle of 8.5Miles per side, but not being used to dealing with large amounts of power.. (pretty much anything over 120V is over my head).. why do the superconducting pipes have to be that long?
Wouldn't it be cheaper to have the connections closer? or at that level of power, could there really be arc's 5 miles long? (or are there other issues related to crazy sine wave stuff?)
And really, I hope someday they decide to build one somewhere else too, like Colorado, or even further north. Then at least there are multiple points of failure.. (and if anyone gave a crap about texas, they would be invited into one of the other grids already, but obviously they think they are special...)