This is an unmanned dirigible flying at 70,000' Why not just fill it full of Hydrogen, and use the big balloon as a "gas tank" for a hydrogen fuel cell to power the dang thing. The solar cells could then be used to power devices to extract hydrogen from the atmosphere, and fill the baloon during the day. If it gets shot or blown up, who cares, they're out over the ocean, and sound pretty cheap..
You let companies do anything they want with the source-code. Don't enforce a single darn thing. Then, 20 years later, decide that you need to protect your "IP" becuase your business model is horribly, horribly flawed. Then start suing companies for billions of dollars.
Since these linux drivers are responsible for so much revenue to these big companies, they would much rather gobble you up for a couple dozen million (chump change really), than deal with the publicity of a lawsuit.
Of course you need to have a backup plan incase they don't bite. You need to protect your "IP" so you issue press releases like you were the AP, telling anyone and everyone that you are suing these evil corporations, and you have expensive lawyers. Sell your stock like mad, when dumb people buy your story..
If they ask "what IP do you have?" Loudly shout "errr, umm, Look at that monkey over there!", and make sure that by the time they turn back around, your expensive lawyer is there with lawsuit in hand..
I don't need an MBA or a Law Degree, everything I need to know i learned from Slashdot and the litigious bastards.
My girlfriend is a camera Freak, and spent alot of time researching CF/Microdrive cards for her new Nikon digital SLR. On slashdot, that makes me an expert, especially the GF part;)
The Microdrive is slower at pulling the data off the drive, but much quicker than CF at writing the data to the disk. (i believe on her 1GB IBM/Hitachi, its 2 seconds for a 15Meg pic, vs 5 sec for a CF card. While the flash cards are more resilient to shock and abuse, the flash cards have a limited number of writes before they start having errors. (its a very, very high number, but no-where near the level of the microdive)
when doing quick photography (like nature or action pics) the limiting factor on most cameras is how fast the memory buffer can dump the huge pics to the disk..
for one damn reason, Save a file as a Wordperfect 11 file, open it in wordperfect 8, and "Holy Crap", it works.. Formatted correctly, no nasty errors, it doesn't force you to upgrade all your computers office-wide to be compatible...
The problem is that there is more than one user at the ISP end. My neighborhood has 650 houses that are on one fiber headend, this is not active cable modem users, but houses. (actually about 100 active data accounts) Our service has so many "channels" of digital service set aside for internet, and they are shared among all these houses. If they cap my bandwith at the ISP headend, I can effectively DOS all of the people in my neighborhood that have cable modems. Sure, i won't swamp charters 45MB connection out of town, but my neighbors will not be able to do anything. I will be the proverbial 1% ruining it for the rest. By limiting it at the cable modem, they are forcing users to be nice net-neighbors.
On another Simple admin fix, is it really that hard to block outgoing SMTP connections (except from the mail servers) at the router or firewall? Not only is it quick and easy to see who has a virus (or spyware), its just being a nice net-neighbor in case you get infected with something...
Look, i'll make it easy for you for cisco routers:
access-list 110 permit tcp host 12.34.56.78 any eq smtp
access-list 110 deny tcp 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 any eq smtp log
where 12.34.56.78 is the ip of your Mail server, and list 110 is for your outgoing connection.
Now every single story posted on slashdot for the next 6 months is going to have a comment of "Imagine an XGrid of these!" The old incarnation was slowly dying too...
No kidding.. Write a worm, put it out monday morning before the patches.. microsoft doesn't have time to get the patch issued by the next day.. and you have a month and a day until people check for more patches...
Moving the Executive jobs to India? Cmon, think of it, a Intelligent looking figurehead for your company for $7.25 per day?? Sounds like a bargain.. Moving one job saves you millions, instead of moving thousands of jobs, and think about what the Customers would think.. they would flock to you for being frugal, and preserving jobs while slashing labor costs..
We run Symantec Ghost enterprise here, and the one thing that really bugs me is ghosting multiple machines at a time. We are a college, so our labs have 30 machines each. When i try to ghost the whole lab at once, i have anywhere from 4-12 of these machines drop out mid process. Then i have to use the network boot disk and manually do the rest. Its still a hell of a lot faster then building them up by hand, but I wish i could figure out why the machines crap out partway through.
Your wrong, it doesn't even come close to windows.
If you want a have a windows 2003 Server, thats 1 CD, an exchange server 1CD, office 2003 3 CD's, visual studio.NET 5 CD's, SQL Server at least 1CD etc, etc, etc.. I love how anyone that compares windows to linux (bug reports, install size, etc) seems to forget that there is a hell of alot of software on distribution CD's. It includes everything, not just the base OS that windows includes. I wonder how many bugs windows has in bugtraq if you add windows, exchange, office (including outlook) iis, sql server, etc.
How do i join the class action. I don't use my site much, just to put pics up for family and friends and stuff.. but the idea behind it really pisses me off. I have spam checkers (and sendmail) going apeshit about all these domains suddenly existing.. I don't really want a portion of the settlement (how unamerican of me) but I'd rather it go to schools. I just want versign to learn in the only way corporations do, with their wallet.
Well, i'm kinda hoping that the tax is based on seller location, cause that would mean lots more tech jobs here for me. Recessions suck ass when your a government employee..
I pay for an up2date account for 2 servers here at work. That entitles me to the preferred service, and earlier ISO downloads. Problem was, I was getting 8k/s from redhat, and found that the Bittorrent was getting me about 130k/s. For the small updates its great, It has saved us a few times to instantly get in and not have to wait cause the paying users get in first. for $50 a year, it was a bargain. Redhat usually has enough bandwidth for its customers, but when something huge comes out, its just easier to use bittorrent.
For those of you who use Redhat at work, remember, you pay $50 dollars for one entitlement account, and you get a second one free. so $50 for two servers, or $100 for 3, etc.. for a year. and you don't have to have the newest distro to update. The demo versions of up2date I believe only works if your version is 1 year old or less.. I'm getting lots of updates for RH 7.2 and 7.3..
When is the US going to grow up and recycle and refine spent uranium, instead of trying so hard to bury it in the ground. Other countries have breeder reactors that refine used uranium, meaning less fuel mined, less waste made, and the waste that is made has less radioactivity and half life...
We have enough power generation capacity sitting in nuclear waste cooldown pools to run all of our nuclear power plants for several decades... we just have to refine it.
If your local governments started putting public information online in a searchable format. Do a simple search on your local govt web site to get minutes of committe meetings, forclosures, law changes, heck, just put all the local laws and requlations in a database that is easily searchable. That would make it much easier for people to find laws and regulations. In my town at least, you either read about the town meetings in the local, and very crappy newspaper, or you have to trudge down to city hall and ask to see it. Not to mention putting on these websites who these elected and appointed leaders are, and what they have voted for and against. Nationwide, any state, county or city.. Would make it much easier to decide who to vote for, and what they have stood for in the past..
Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
26 " 'Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.
27 " 'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
30 " 'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
It never amazes me how many clean cut white cowboys wearing cotton and polyester and eat rare steakes are against homosexuality.. If they really read and followed leviticus, they are sinners too, and condemned to the same fate..
Of course, the Generals always want to build bombs out of stuff, but what about the line:
The experiment released 60 times as much energy as was put in, and in theory a much greater energy release could be achieved.
Is this counting the energy put into "loading" the isotope? Whith the kind of energy they are talking about, this could be huge for us. Think "Nuclear Fusion" without the Nuclear part!! cleaner power, and no hippy anti-nuke types protesting.. I'm trying to remember my old science classes here, aren't the "Gama" radiation bits realitively easy to block?.. A room with lead walls, a bit of this chemical, and X-ray generator, and a large vat of water to make steam... How many years have we spent trying to get Nuclear Fusion to produce more power than went in to making the reaction?! and this is 60 times the engery with a few x-rays!! Why does science always have to deal with weapons first? can't we just pretend that our planet as a whole is growing up and thinking about peace?
The Project i was talking about was This one. Sure, it cost a cool 1/4 of a Mil at the time, but this was back in 98 and 99. costs have dropped, prossessing power is increased, blah, blah, blah..
Generic processors are ineffecient. Imagine having the fastest processesor on earth, and then take that chip and use it to do the calculation of x1++ (thats x1 = x1 +1 for you non-C'ers)and looping it a few Trillion times. Then take a processor that is desinged specifically to do x1++, and only that calculation. You can run a hell of alot faster, you don't need to worry about having to multiply, devide, etc.. they're smaller, and cooler, and after the cost of engineering them, cheaper.
Can't remember the link, but somebody made a board with a few FPGA chips (I think) that cracked a 56bit DES key in a few days or less, and distributed.net had how many computers working on it for how many years?
Its all about designing the chip for the application. The ones they are refferring to would probably be designed to do mass computation of heavy physics, and only be able to run custom Nuke Simulation software.
The thing I am interested in, as an Ex Computer Systems Engineering major, is are they interested in designing and fabbing processors from the ground up, or using an assload of FPGA's or something from a company like Altera and program them..
How would you propose to balance California's budget? Cutbacks, or new revenue opportunities? If it is cutbacks, where would your biggest cutbacks come from?
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This is an unmanned dirigible flying at 70,000' Why not just fill it full of Hydrogen, and use the big balloon as a "gas tank" for a hydrogen fuel cell to power the dang thing. The solar cells could then be used to power devices to extract hydrogen from the atmosphere, and fill the baloon during the day. If it gets shot or blown up, who cares, they're out over the ocean, and sound pretty cheap..
Since these linux drivers are responsible for so much revenue to these big companies, they would much rather gobble you up for a couple dozen million (chump change really), than deal with the publicity of a lawsuit.
Of course you need to have a backup plan incase they don't bite. You need to protect your "IP" so you issue press releases like you were the AP, telling anyone and everyone that you are suing these evil corporations, and you have expensive lawyers. Sell your stock like mad, when dumb people buy your story..
If they ask "what IP do you have?" Loudly shout "errr, umm, Look at that monkey over there!", and make sure that by the time they turn back around, your expensive lawyer is there with lawsuit in hand..
I don't need an MBA or a Law Degree, everything I need to know i learned from Slashdot and the litigious bastards.
The Microdrive is slower at pulling the data off the drive, but much quicker than CF at writing the data to the disk. (i believe on her 1GB IBM/Hitachi, its 2 seconds for a 15Meg pic, vs 5 sec for a CF card. While the flash cards are more resilient to shock and abuse, the flash cards have a limited number of writes before they start having errors. (its a very, very high number, but no-where near the level of the microdive)
when doing quick photography (like nature or action pics) the limiting factor on most cameras is how fast the memory buffer can dump the huge pics to the disk..
for one damn reason, Save a file as a Wordperfect 11 file, open it in wordperfect 8, and "Holy Crap", it works.. Formatted correctly, no nasty errors, it doesn't force you to upgrade all your computers office-wide to be compatible...
Holy Crap, They could have done some research and development on something much more usefull for that amount, such as designing Helicopters
How many of these 6 billion items are in the form of www.massivepopups.com/your_search_term.html
The problem is that there is more than one user at the ISP end. My neighborhood has 650 houses that are on one fiber headend, this is not active cable modem users, but houses. (actually about 100 active data accounts) Our service has so many "channels" of digital service set aside for internet, and they are shared among all these houses. If they cap my bandwith at the ISP headend, I can effectively DOS all of the people in my neighborhood that have cable modems. Sure, i won't swamp charters 45MB connection out of town, but my neighbors will not be able to do anything. I will be the proverbial 1% ruining it for the rest. By limiting it at the cable modem, they are forcing users to be nice net-neighbors.
Look, i'll make it easy for you for cisco routers:
access-list 110 permit tcp host 12.34.56.78 any eq smtp
access-list 110 deny tcp 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 any eq smtp log
where 12.34.56.78 is the ip of your Mail server, and list 110 is for your outgoing connection.
Now every single story posted on slashdot for the next 6 months is going to have a comment of "Imagine an XGrid of these!" The old incarnation was slowly dying too...
No kidding.. Write a worm, put it out monday morning before the patches.. microsoft doesn't have time to get the patch issued by the next day.. and you have a month and a day until people check for more patches...
Moving the Executive jobs to India? Cmon, think of it, a Intelligent looking figurehead for your company for $7.25 per day?? Sounds like a bargain.. Moving one job saves you millions, instead of moving thousands of jobs, and think about what the Customers would think.. they would flock to you for being frugal, and preserving jobs while slashing labor costs..
Brian
We run Symantec Ghost enterprise here, and the one thing that really bugs me is ghosting multiple machines at a time. We are a college, so our labs have 30 machines each. When i try to ghost the whole lab at once, i have anywhere from 4-12 of these machines drop out mid process. Then i have to use the network boot disk and manually do the rest. Its still a hell of a lot faster then building them up by hand, but I wish i could figure out why the machines crap out partway through.
One minor correction, Pilot error is not the most dangerous thing about flying, Gravity is!..
If you want a have a windows 2003 Server, thats 1 CD, an exchange server 1CD, office 2003 3 CD's, visual studio.NET 5 CD's, SQL Server at least 1CD etc, etc, etc.. I love how anyone that compares windows to linux (bug reports, install size, etc) seems to forget that there is a hell of alot of software on distribution CD's. It includes everything, not just the base OS that windows includes. I wonder how many bugs windows has in bugtraq if you add windows, exchange, office (including outlook) iis, sql server, etc.
I don't like following all those licenses and EULA's anyways.. If cisco wins, wouldn't it make it impossible to enforce licenses?
How do i join the class action. I don't use my site much, just to put pics up for family and friends and stuff.. but the idea behind it really pisses me off. I have spam checkers (and sendmail) going apeshit about all these domains suddenly existing.. I don't really want a portion of the settlement (how unamerican of me) but I'd rather it go to schools. I just want versign to learn in the only way corporations do, with their wallet.
Well, i'm kinda hoping that the tax is based on seller location, cause that would mean lots more tech jobs here for me. Recessions suck ass when your a government employee..
I pay for an up2date account for 2 servers here at work. That entitles me to the preferred service, and earlier ISO downloads. Problem was, I was getting 8k/s from redhat, and found that the Bittorrent was getting me about 130k/s. For the small updates its great, It has saved us a few times to instantly get in and not have to wait cause the paying users get in first. for $50 a year, it was a bargain. Redhat usually has enough bandwidth for its customers, but when something huge comes out, its just easier to use bittorrent.
For those of you who use Redhat at work, remember, you pay $50 dollars for one entitlement account, and you get a second one free. so $50 for two servers, or $100 for 3, etc.. for a year. and you don't have to have the newest distro to update. The demo versions of up2date I believe only works if your version is 1 year old or less.. I'm getting lots of updates for RH 7.2 and 7.3..
When is the US going to grow up and recycle and refine spent uranium, instead of trying so hard to bury it in the ground. Other countries have breeder reactors that refine used uranium, meaning less fuel mined, less waste made, and the waste that is made has less radioactivity and half life...
We have enough power generation capacity sitting in nuclear waste cooldown pools to run all of our nuclear power plants for several decades... we just have to refine it.
If your local governments started putting public information online in a searchable format. Do a simple search on your local govt web site to get minutes of committe meetings, forclosures, law changes, heck, just put all the local laws and requlations in a database that is easily searchable. That would make it much easier for people to find laws and regulations. In my town at least, you either read about the town meetings in the local, and very crappy newspaper, or you have to trudge down to city hall and ask to see it. Not to mention putting on these websites who these elected and appointed leaders are, and what they have voted for and against. Nationwide, any state, county or city.. Would make it much easier to decide who to vote for, and what they have stood for in the past..
Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
26 " 'Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.
27 " 'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
30 " 'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD
It never amazes me how many clean cut white cowboys wearing cotton and polyester and eat rare steakes are against homosexuality.. If they really read and followed leviticus, they are sinners too, and condemned to the same fate..
The experiment released 60 times as much energy as was put in, and in theory a much greater energy release could be achieved.
Is this counting the energy put into "loading" the isotope? Whith the kind of energy they are talking about, this could be huge for us. Think "Nuclear Fusion" without the Nuclear part!! cleaner power, and no hippy anti-nuke types protesting.. I'm trying to remember my old science classes here, aren't the "Gama" radiation bits realitively easy to block?.. A room with lead walls, a bit of this chemical, and X-ray generator, and a large vat of water to make steam... How many years have we spent trying to get Nuclear Fusion to produce more power than went in to making the reaction?! and this is 60 times the engery with a few x-rays!! Why does science always have to deal with weapons first? can't we just pretend that our planet as a whole is growing up and thinking about peace?
The Project i was talking about was This one. Sure, it cost a cool 1/4 of a Mil at the time, but this was back in 98 and 99. costs have dropped, prossessing power is increased, blah, blah, blah..
Can't remember the link, but somebody made a board with a few FPGA chips (I think) that cracked a 56bit DES key in a few days or less, and distributed.net had how many computers working on it for how many years?
Its all about designing the chip for the application. The ones they are refferring to would probably be designed to do mass computation of heavy physics, and only be able to run custom Nuke Simulation software.
The thing I am interested in, as an Ex Computer Systems Engineering major, is are they interested in designing and fabbing processors from the ground up, or using an assload of FPGA's or something from a company like Altera and program them..
How would you propose to balance California's budget? Cutbacks, or new revenue opportunities? If it is cutbacks, where would your biggest cutbacks come from?