In my town they built a natural gas power plant called the Cogen that takes the steam, and runs it to a large lumbermill next door, to power the equipment. Most lumbermills still use steam to drive saws and such, as it is more efficient (and cheaper) than straight power saws.. Kind of a neat idea for a "dual use" system
I have given out our "master" passoword, and I don't understand what the problem is with other people doing it. The President has 1/3 of the password, the HR director has 1/3, and the lawyer has 1/3, all locked in seperate fireproof safes, in seperate buildings. If things really go bad, or I get hit by a truck, the three of them can get together, and get the password, and give it to my replacement...
I use open source solutions often at my work, and its not because of the cost. (I don't mind paying for the right tool for the job) It has much more to do with the tracking.. If I go purchase SQL server and windows server, I have to keep track of licenses, versions, (are they enterprise, standard, etc) Are they CAL based, and do I have enough CAL's a few months later, are they processor based (and if so, did I move the app to a server with more processors). With virtualization, its an even bigger push for me, as its very, very easy to quickly deploy a new virtual OS. It takes much, much longer to ensure licensing compliance, and go through the approval and purchasing process if needed..
Actually, there are several laws, (or i guess rules would be a better word). Many federal exams, like one you fill out during the process of getting hired at Homeland Security require a "proctored test" with so many requirements on the room, quietness, the people watching and the stuff on the computers, that its almost silly. When they last asked our community college to be a proctor site for TSA exams, we looked at the requirements that stated that we had to use MS Java, which is no longer available or supported, with IE 5, we could download both from their secure FTP site, and no other browsers or plugins or versions of java could be installed (or any other software).. We declined..
Yes, from a technical standpoint it is better. But tell someone that isn't "technical" how to install an app they need. You either tell them to go to the command prompt, which scares the hell out of them, or you tell them to use a tool like synaptic, that has so many choices and things you can install that it is just plain overwhelming. They want to play movies, they don't want to decide if they want Totem, Gstreamer, VLC, etc...
As much as I love ubuntu, I have to agree with you. The 8.04 just wasn't "done" when it was released. Although I didn't have any driver problems, Pulseaudio has caused nothing but headaches for people, and their including a beta release of a browser (firefox 3) in a LTS OS is a strange thing. I've read the arguments for and against that one, but still, if they kept it in beta a few weeks till firefox 3 was released, they could have fixed lots of other issues as well. Its opensource, its not like there are huge marketing campains with millions spent on advertising that would be wasted by delaying the release..
However, the Volt is not a pure electric vehicle. It is planned to also have a small motor (gas or e85 or whatever they decide) that will recharge the batteries on the road. Basically the motor is just big enough to turn a generator to power the battery and wheels.. (kinda like a train..) So you won't need any gas to go 100Miles or whatever, but if you need to go more, then you will use fuel..
Right, one technology is never going to be our solution. In the north, they could do other things, such as ground source heat pumps, which would drastically lower the amount of energy needed to heat/cool homes, and that extra energy saved could be put to other uses.. Hell, just encourage everyone to replace electric water heaters with tankless water heaters.. How much power would be saved not keeping 80 gallons of water at 125degrees all day, when you only use it for a few minutes of showering in the morning, and some dishes and laundry some days..
I'm very interested in the Volt. I'm married, and soon to have kids. My wife is going to be getting a smaller, economical SUV or crossover vehicle. (she doesn't drive much) I would love the Volt, or something small, and pluggable. I'm looking at a 25mile commute each way to work. For weekend trips, or vacations, whatever, take the wife's roomier car..
Unfortunately, it is one of the major ingredients in fertilizer. In rural farming comunities, the problems with algea can get very severe from farmers over-fertilizing their fields. The algea bloom might be many, many miles down a river, from the combination of many different farms.
In Ubuntu 8.04, firefox will crash randomly on pages that have flash video with sound. There is a bug apparently between flash and pulseaudio. There have been a few patches that have been released, and it is better, but still sometimes crashes.
and the skies over northern California and SOuthern Oregon are dark, because of the smoke... Visibility in my town (about 2 hours north of some of the fires) is really, really bad. All that dark smoke traps heat, but blocks and absorbs sunlight..
There are other factors as well.. Kinda nice when you want to sell your house to tell prospective buyers, "yeah, well, we pay about $20/month for electric in the summer, when the AC is running full tilt.."
I imagine that would be worth quite a bit in resale value after the first few years of depreciation (and energy price increases)
Not to mention, if you can get paid by the utility in sunny california, everyone and their dog will start mounting solar panels, and want their checks. The price of electricity will plummet, and the utility will have no money left over to pay for things like transmission line maintenance, or for base load power plants that produce power at night, etc...
Because they could actually put in place the infrastructure in time. Look at it, they have basically built one of the largest airports in the world in the last few years, built all the olympic venues and buildings needed... (most olympics only build a few buildings, and use existing ones for events when they can). They have built hotels, highways, light rail (from the new airport to downtown) and all sorts of infrastructure in a short time frame. Its pretty impressive what you can do when you have the political will, and a lack of environmental concerns, and don't care what the people think...
I have the globe lights in my bathroom too.. Some people complain about the fact they take a few seconds to get to full brightness, but when I smack the alarm for the 4th time, stumble into the bathroom to take a shower cause I'm running late, I'm damn happy that they take a minute to warm up. I used to hate flicking on those lights when I was half asleep, it was a rude awakening.. (literally)
I asked that same question at the local sprint store in my town, almost two years ago, their answer.. "In this area, your taxes will add 6.3% to your bill"
Couple of years ago, we had a party at our house, and some girls locked themselves out of their car. Roommate got a long piece of metal, and was in the process of opening the door of the car, which was parked on the side of the street, when the cops drove by. They stopped and asked if everything was okay, (they looked fresh out of the academy) and my roommate told them, "Its okay, I've been doing this since you were in grade school!"
Oregon has had a few proposals to make the mail in ballots postage paid. I think the estimates were something along the lines of $15Million per election. However, in Oregon, the vast majority of the population lives in one valley. They don't want to spend the money on postage, since anyone can drive a few blocks and drop it off somewhere.. The rest of the state, if you aren't in one of the handful of larger cities, you could easily drive 30 minutes (or much, much more) to drop off your ballot, and they are claiming that paying postage is akin to a "ballot tax"
Exaclty my thinking.. and on a curious note, what does the FBI do when some person hires the use of a spambot network to send out craploads of image spam with actual pictures attached? Arrest everyone that got the Image? Or just shut down all email? I have a feeling it would pass through most spam filters, since if the message is over a certain size, it is statistically less likely to be spam...
I agree.. People seem to think the problem is getting one or two certs. I would need 12 (off the top of my head) and have to keep track of them, their expiration dates, etc, just so that traffic between people working at home or on the road, and some of our servers is encrypted. (like webmail) I would love to see a solution more like DNS. I get a Cert for my domain from the root. Then, I can issue sub-certs for my systems. IE, the client goes to the root, finds contoso.com, then goes to contoso.com, authenticates, then asks for "webmail.constoso.com"'s cert, etc. Self signed by contoso.com, but totaly valid.
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In my town they built a natural gas power plant called the Cogen that takes the steam, and runs it to a large lumbermill next door, to power the equipment. Most lumbermills still use steam to drive saws and such, as it is more efficient (and cheaper) than straight power saws.. Kind of a neat idea for a "dual use" system
I have given out our "master" passoword, and I don't understand what the problem is with other people doing it. The President has 1/3 of the password, the HR director has 1/3, and the lawyer has 1/3, all locked in seperate fireproof safes, in seperate buildings. If things really go bad, or I get hit by a truck, the three of them can get together, and get the password, and give it to my replacement...
I use open source solutions often at my work, and its not because of the cost. (I don't mind paying for the right tool for the job) It has much more to do with the tracking.. If I go purchase SQL server and windows server, I have to keep track of licenses, versions, (are they enterprise, standard, etc) Are they CAL based, and do I have enough CAL's a few months later, are they processor based (and if so, did I move the app to a server with more processors). With virtualization, its an even bigger push for me, as its very, very easy to quickly deploy a new virtual OS. It takes much, much longer to ensure licensing compliance, and go through the approval and purchasing process if needed..
Actually, there are several laws, (or i guess rules would be a better word). Many federal exams, like one you fill out during the process of getting hired at Homeland Security require a "proctored test" with so many requirements on the room, quietness, the people watching and the stuff on the computers, that its almost silly. When they last asked our community college to be a proctor site for TSA exams, we looked at the requirements that stated that we had to use MS Java, which is no longer available or supported, with IE 5, we could download both from their secure FTP site, and no other browsers or plugins or versions of java could be installed (or any other software).. We declined..
Yes, from a technical standpoint it is better. But tell someone that isn't "technical" how to install an app they need. You either tell them to go to the command prompt, which scares the hell out of them, or you tell them to use a tool like synaptic, that has so many choices and things you can install that it is just plain overwhelming. They want to play movies, they don't want to decide if they want Totem, Gstreamer, VLC, etc...
As much as I love ubuntu, I have to agree with you. The 8.04 just wasn't "done" when it was released. Although I didn't have any driver problems, Pulseaudio has caused nothing but headaches for people, and their including a beta release of a browser (firefox 3) in a LTS OS is a strange thing. I've read the arguments for and against that one, but still, if they kept it in beta a few weeks till firefox 3 was released, they could have fixed lots of other issues as well. Its opensource, its not like there are huge marketing campains with millions spent on advertising that would be wasted by delaying the release..
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Ahh, so nice to see a Gentoo user!
However, the Volt is not a pure electric vehicle. It is planned to also have a small motor (gas or e85 or whatever they decide) that will recharge the batteries on the road. Basically the motor is just big enough to turn a generator to power the battery and wheels.. (kinda like a train..) So you won't need any gas to go 100Miles or whatever, but if you need to go more, then you will use fuel..
Right, one technology is never going to be our solution. In the north, they could do other things, such as ground source heat pumps, which would drastically lower the amount of energy needed to heat/cool homes, and that extra energy saved could be put to other uses.. Hell, just encourage everyone to replace electric water heaters with tankless water heaters.. How much power would be saved not keeping 80 gallons of water at 125degrees all day, when you only use it for a few minutes of showering in the morning, and some dishes and laundry some days..
I'm very interested in the Volt. I'm married, and soon to have kids. My wife is going to be getting a smaller, economical SUV or crossover vehicle. (she doesn't drive much) I would love the Volt, or something small, and pluggable. I'm looking at a 25mile commute each way to work. For weekend trips, or vacations, whatever, take the wife's roomier car..
Unfortunately, it is one of the major ingredients in fertilizer. In rural farming comunities, the problems with algea can get very severe from farmers over-fertilizing their fields. The algea bloom might be many, many miles down a river, from the combination of many different farms.
In Ubuntu 8.04, firefox will crash randomly on pages that have flash video with sound. There is a bug apparently between flash and pulseaudio. There have been a few patches that have been released, and it is better, but still sometimes crashes.
California has had something like 9% annual increases in their electric bills the last few years. That easily drops a few years off the payback..
and the skies over northern California and SOuthern Oregon are dark, because of the smoke... Visibility in my town (about 2 hours north of some of the fires) is really, really bad. All that dark smoke traps heat, but blocks and absorbs sunlight..
There are other factors as well.. Kinda nice when you want to sell your house to tell prospective buyers, "yeah, well, we pay about $20/month for electric in the summer, when the AC is running full tilt.."
I imagine that would be worth quite a bit in resale value after the first few years of depreciation (and energy price increases)
Not to mention, if you can get paid by the utility in sunny california, everyone and their dog will start mounting solar panels, and want their checks. The price of electricity will plummet, and the utility will have no money left over to pay for things like transmission line maintenance, or for base load power plants that produce power at night, etc...
Because they could actually put in place the infrastructure in time. Look at it, they have basically built one of the largest airports in the world in the last few years, built all the olympic venues and buildings needed... (most olympics only build a few buildings, and use existing ones for events when they can). They have built hotels, highways, light rail (from the new airport to downtown) and all sorts of infrastructure in a short time frame. Its pretty impressive what you can do when you have the political will, and a lack of environmental concerns, and don't care what the people think...
I have the globe lights in my bathroom too.. Some people complain about the fact they take a few seconds to get to full brightness, but when I smack the alarm for the 4th time, stumble into the bathroom to take a shower cause I'm running late, I'm damn happy that they take a minute to warm up. I used to hate flicking on those lights when I was half asleep, it was a rude awakening.. (literally)
I asked that same question at the local sprint store in my town, almost two years ago, their answer.. "In this area, your taxes will add 6.3% to your bill"
Why? All air force generals drink pure grain alcohol and rain water. Rain water has no fluoride.. (thanks for the reference btw, made my day!)
Couple of years ago, we had a party at our house, and some girls locked themselves out of their car. Roommate got a long piece of metal, and was in the process of opening the door of the car, which was parked on the side of the street, when the cops drove by. They stopped and asked if everything was okay, (they looked fresh out of the academy) and my roommate told them, "Its okay, I've been doing this since you were in grade school!"
True, but they keep the original paper absentee ballot, in case of a recount. with electronic voting, there is no recount..
Oregon has had a few proposals to make the mail in ballots postage paid. I think the estimates were something along the lines of $15Million per election. However, in Oregon, the vast majority of the population lives in one valley. They don't want to spend the money on postage, since anyone can drive a few blocks and drop it off somewhere.. The rest of the state, if you aren't in one of the handful of larger cities, you could easily drive 30 minutes (or much, much more) to drop off your ballot, and they are claiming that paying postage is akin to a "ballot tax"
Exaclty my thinking.. and on a curious note, what does the FBI do when some person hires the use of a spambot network to send out craploads of image spam with actual pictures attached? Arrest everyone that got the Image? Or just shut down all email? I have a feeling it would pass through most spam filters, since if the message is over a certain size, it is statistically less likely to be spam...
I agree.. People seem to think the problem is getting one or two certs. I would need 12 (off the top of my head) and have to keep track of them, their expiration dates, etc, just so that traffic between people working at home or on the road, and some of our servers is encrypted. (like webmail) I would love to see a solution more like DNS. I get a Cert for my domain from the root. Then, I can issue sub-certs for my systems. IE, the client goes to the root, finds contoso.com, then goes to contoso.com, authenticates, then asks for "webmail.constoso.com"'s cert, etc. Self signed by contoso.com, but totaly valid.