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Partition the usb drive into two. sdb1 is a tiny ntfs partition with some barney pics, and sdb2 is ext3 with all the awesome stuff on it. Windows won't even know how to access the 2nd partition AFAIK. Last time I checked Windows wouldn't even let you partition a usb thumbdrive w/ more than 1 partition.
Did you also notice the graph was labeled "cooling" energy yet displayed a 12 month calendar. The evaporative cooler had nearly zero energy usage during the winter months, for some reason./s
C'mon guys, this isn't rocket science. Keep it modular and keep it off-the-shelf, right?
First stage, convert a regular evaporative cooler to pump the dessicant solution instead of water. It just needs to be highly corrosive-resistant. Now your incoming 100F air at 40% RH is now like 120F at 10% humidity or something like that. Hotter, but drier.
Next, you need a heat exchanger to pull some of that energy out without adding humidity. Adobe Air makes a modular product to do this. Or, you can skip this piece and get a two-stage evap such as the OASys. Or just insert a Coolerado here.
Finally, to really get cool temperatures, we need to add water back in. If you inserted a two-stage unit above, you're done. Otherwise just use a regular-ole evaporative cooler here.
Since we actually want to make this feasible without vast quantities of free energy, we will recharge the dessicant in a more sustainable manner. Obtain two empty swimming pools. The first pool is for the dry dessicant, the 2nd pool for the wet dessicant. After the cooling season, use a small solar concentrating array to recharge the dessicant pool. It'll take all winter but that's fine.
Actually I am still looking for something that makes multisession cdburning as dead-simple as it is on Windows. Ya know, so I can get my father-in-law to use Linux. Don't try to tell him to use a flash drive.
If you mean neighborhoods with people willing or capable of paying more for energy might not choose a plan that include TOU (time-of-use), or appliance-control-- then you are correct and that is exactly what is happening right now regardless of a mandatory policy. Poor people will generally try to reduce their electric bill by any means possible. If that means TOU, or even appliance control, fine, they will do it. Does that mean it is bad? Well, it sucks to be poor but they can save some money by doing it. Would you opt for everyone to be forced to pay the same (higher) flat-rate for electricity regardless of your income level?
Maybe I am just worn out from all the extreme slippery slope arguments against damn near everything. I mean literally any new anything could be turned into your "mandatory" argument.
Yeah! Like 1.6GPF toilets!! GAHH I miss my 12 gallon flusher. Damn socialists!
I have every right to use the energy that I pay for, as much as I want, whenever I want!! STAY OUTTA MY BUSINESS!!
Wait, what's that? There is a price model that accounts for time of use AND demand? Penalizing me for running my 5-Ton oversized A/C Unit that short-cycles like mad while I'm doing dishes and laundry at 3PM in July?
My old water heater had a label on it that said something like "This device is controlled by SRP" or something to that effect. I got the impression it was radio controlled. I cannot find any information on this old program in Arizona. The previous owners of our house were pretty weird so they might have been beta testers or something. Anyone know anything about this?
I almost bought some, but I wanted the big bulbs and sorry, the big C7 LED lights look weak. Of course, I kept blowing the 5amp fuse on my lights so I guess I am the sucker
Bruce, you need to retire from BZflag and get yourself a copy of UrbanTerror (http://www.urbanterror.net). It's FREE, and cross-platform; using the quake3 source and some free Data files. Your son will love it, too. It should also push your graphics card quite a bit more, for testing. See, your just load testing the drivers-- especially those smoke grenades and their transparency effects... those are a killer. Let us know your FPS. Thanks!
All day long... Our CMS does a lot of stuff like: cat file.txt |grep -e garbage |sed -e s/^foo/bar/g |cut -f1-3 -d\&
See, it is really easy to add more threads by just piping them together. Our server needs at least four processors to perform adequately with 10 web visitors, because of our excellent programming practices.
This would be cool and all, but why not focus more on letting humans do the hard work-- like if I could take a picture of a tree and then press a button and say aloud; "redwood tree", and have that tag the file.
Nope. I think everything shuts down except the memory is kept alive. That's why they can sleep forever, unlike PC laptops that may or may not sleep for very long at all (or wake up for that matter). I've seen a mac sleep for more than a week and still have plenty of juice
Indeed, after I got my box working with the TV and all, we bought an iBook. Now we often just lay in bed and watch live tv or recorded shows directly over the wirelessG. Coolest stuff...
Agreed-- I stream over 802.11g to my ibook, in bed. Since our bedroom is on the other side of the house from the access point, sometimes the show will drop due to the low signal. That only happens for live tv/ mpeg2 content. My stuff gets transcoded to mpeg4 every morning so I rarely have a problem.
Are you sure you do? Because, it sure does seem to be a pretty gray area in the legal world. I would say it is borderline entrapment if you install "illegal" software on someone's computer and bust them when they start to use it...
If the police put child porn on your computer, could you get busted for viewing it? *shrug*, I don't know with our wacky legal system-- and I doubt you do either.
Why didn't their IT department remove the games if it was so against policy (even during lunch breaks)? To me, you can't justly enforce a policy unless you make a resonable attempt to prevent the behavior. No drinking at work, but keep the fridge stocked with beer?
If you are curious enough to read the report, they mention the water usage. Making electricity uses water too, especially from the increased surface area in damming rivers... Thus, the evaporative cooler doesn't actually use a LOT more water than conventional compressor systems... and a large part of the water used is actually discharged and reclaimable as irrigation water for a garden, etc...
Cool features: Runs off 120VAC, pulls between 100 and 500watts while cooling up to 3.5 tons. Automatic variable speed fan motor runs off AC and DC automatically; you can hook up some solar panels and it will blend them without an inverter.
I have been watching this for nearly a year, and it's finally coming to market-- I should be getting my unit in march for $1800. Yes, it is evaporative but it should maintain humidity of around 40-50% indoors, which is actually the recommended levels for people and computers, furniture, etc.
Despite being evaporative technology, it would work fine during monsoon here in AZ, since it can achieve sub-dew point temperatures...
Microsoft is against ISPs doing anything that would restrict customers' choice of software Bullcrap! Microsoft's ISP screws a lot of people. Case in point: I helped a little ole' lady move from win98 to a mac mini. She had been a qwest user since the uswest days but then one day qwest decided to switch her to MSN because Microsoft pays them off... they migrate her pop account to an msn account and send her the msn client which totally craps her computer out...
Anyway, the MSN client isn't available for Mac anymore, not that she'd want to use it. I was hoping to just set her up with safari, iphoto and the apple email client. Except, you can't get regular pop or IMAP access with MSN (despite some hopeful threads I found hinting that you can call up and complain). You can only use Outlook or Webmail(hotmail).
So, in short, she can't take advantage of iPhoto to easily send pictures over email (via a standard email client) and it's generally a crappy situation.
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Partition the usb drive into two. sdb1 is a tiny ntfs partition with some barney pics, and sdb2 is ext3 with all the awesome stuff on it. Windows won't even know how to access the 2nd partition AFAIK. Last time I checked Windows wouldn't even let you partition a usb thumbdrive w/ more than 1 partition.
You're right, it gets hot, but they use an evaporatively cooled heat exchanger to remove this heat. So it literally is a heat pump.
Make sure it is distilled and you'll probably want to clean it often anyway with acid. Calcium build up will destroy your unit pretty quick.
Did you also notice the graph was labeled "cooling" energy yet displayed a 12 month calendar. The evaporative cooler had nearly zero energy usage during the winter months, for some reason. /s
C'mon guys, this isn't rocket science. Keep it modular and keep it off-the-shelf, right?
First stage, convert a regular evaporative cooler to pump the dessicant solution instead of water. It just needs to be highly corrosive-resistant. Now your incoming 100F air at 40% RH is now like 120F at 10% humidity or something like that. Hotter, but drier.
Next, you need a heat exchanger to pull some of that energy out without adding humidity. Adobe Air makes a modular product to do this. Or, you can skip this piece and get a two-stage evap such as the OASys. Or just insert a Coolerado here.
Finally, to really get cool temperatures, we need to add water back in. If you inserted a two-stage unit above, you're done. Otherwise just use a regular-ole evaporative cooler here.
Since we actually want to make this feasible without vast quantities of free energy, we will recharge the dessicant in a more sustainable manner. Obtain two empty swimming pools. The first pool is for the dry dessicant, the 2nd pool for the wet dessicant. After the cooling season, use a small solar concentrating array to recharge the dessicant pool. It'll take all winter but that's fine.
Actually I am still looking for something that makes multisession cdburning as dead-simple as it is on Windows. Ya know, so I can get my father-in-law to use Linux. Don't try to tell him to use a flash drive.
http://www.theplumber.com/toiletssatisfiedlowflowmay2000.html
If you mean neighborhoods with people willing or capable of paying more for energy might not choose a plan that include TOU (time-of-use), or appliance-control-- then you are correct and that is exactly what is happening right now regardless of a mandatory policy. Poor people will generally try to reduce their electric bill by any means possible. If that means TOU, or even appliance control, fine, they will do it. Does that mean it is bad? Well, it sucks to be poor but they can save some money by doing it. Would you opt for everyone to be forced to pay the same (higher) flat-rate for electricity regardless of your income level?
Maybe I am just worn out from all the extreme slippery slope arguments against damn near everything. I mean literally any new anything could be turned into your "mandatory" argument.
Wait, what's that? There is a price model that accounts for time of use AND demand? Penalizing me for running my 5-Ton oversized A/C Unit that short-cycles like mad while I'm doing dishes and laundry at 3PM in July?
http://www.aps.com/main/services/residential/rates/rates_28.html
Oh crap!!! It's voluntary today-- it'll be mandatory tomorrow!! It's time to get the guns!! Let FREEDOM RINGGGGGG and the WHITE DOVE Singgggg
My old water heater had a label on it that said something like "This device is controlled by SRP" or something to that effect. I got the impression it was radio controlled. I cannot find any information on this old program in Arizona. The previous owners of our house were pretty weird so they might have been beta testers or something. Anyone know anything about this?
Is that a Science Made Stupid reference? If so, what is that in ratsasses?
I almost bought some, but I wanted the big bulbs and sorry, the big C7 LED lights look weak. Of course, I kept blowing the 5amp fuse on my lights so I guess I am the sucker
Bruce, you need to retire from BZflag and get yourself a copy of UrbanTerror (http://www.urbanterror.net). It's FREE, and cross-platform; using the quake3 source and some free Data files. Your son will love it, too. It should also push your graphics card quite a bit more, for testing. See, your just load testing the drivers-- especially those smoke grenades and their transparency effects... those are a killer. Let us know your FPS. Thanks!
All day long... Our CMS does a lot of stuff like: cat file.txt |grep -e garbage |sed -e s/^foo/bar/g |cut -f1-3 -d\&
See, it is really easy to add more threads by just piping them together. Our server needs at least four processors to perform adequately with 10 web visitors, because of our excellent programming practices.
This would be cool and all, but why not focus more on letting humans do the hard work-- like if I could take a picture of a tree and then press a button and say aloud; "redwood tree", and have that tag the file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher
Nope. I think everything shuts down except the memory is kept alive. That's why they can sleep forever, unlike PC laptops that may or may not sleep for very long at all (or wake up for that matter). I've seen a mac sleep for more than a week and still have plenty of juice
Indeed, after I got my box working with the TV and all, we bought an iBook. Now we often just lay in bed and watch live tv or recorded shows directly over the wirelessG. Coolest stuff...
Agreed-- I stream over 802.11g to my ibook, in bed. Since our bedroom is on the other side of the house from the access point, sometimes the show will drop due to the low signal. That only happens for live tv/ mpeg2 content. My stuff gets transcoded to mpeg4 every morning so I rarely have a problem.
Are you sure you do? Because, it sure does seem to be a pretty gray area in the legal world. I would say it is borderline entrapment if you install "illegal" software on someone's computer and bust them when they start to use it...
If the police put child porn on your computer, could you get busted for viewing it? *shrug*, I don't know with our wacky legal system-- and I doubt you do either.
Why didn't their IT department remove the games if it was so against policy (even during lunch breaks)? To me, you can't justly enforce a policy unless you make a resonable attempt to prevent the behavior. No drinking at work, but keep the fridge stocked with beer?
If you are curious enough to read the report, they mention the water usage. Making electricity uses water too, especially from the increased surface area in damming rivers... Thus, the evaporative cooler doesn't actually use a LOT more water than conventional compressor systems... and a large part of the water used is actually discharged and reclaimable as irrigation water for a garden, etc...
Indirect/Direct two stage evaporative AC system coming to market soon:9 8-022-0.html
http://www.oasysairconditioner.com/
background:
http://energy.ca.gov/pier/buildings/projects/500-
Cool features: Runs off 120VAC, pulls between 100 and 500watts while cooling up to 3.5 tons. Automatic variable speed fan motor runs off AC and DC automatically; you can hook up some solar panels and it will blend them without an inverter.
I have been watching this for nearly a year, and it's finally coming to market-- I should be getting my unit in march for $1800. Yes, it is evaporative but it should maintain humidity of around 40-50% indoors, which is actually the recommended levels for people and computers, furniture, etc.
Despite being evaporative technology, it would work fine during monsoon here in AZ, since it can achieve sub-dew point temperatures...
Probably Raid 1, and 160GB drives are pretty cheap anyway... why not?
Microsoft is against ISPs doing anything that would restrict customers' choice of software
Bullcrap!
Microsoft's ISP screws a lot of people. Case in point: I helped a little ole' lady move from win98 to a mac mini. She had been a qwest user since the uswest days but then one day qwest decided to switch her to MSN because Microsoft pays them off... they migrate her pop account to an msn account and send her the msn client which totally craps her computer out...
Anyway, the MSN client isn't available for Mac anymore, not that she'd want to use it. I was hoping to just set her up with safari, iphoto and the apple email client. Except, you can't get regular pop or IMAP access with MSN (despite some hopeful threads I found hinting that you can call up and complain). You can only use Outlook or Webmail(hotmail).
So, in short, she can't take advantage of iPhoto to easily send pictures over email (via a standard email client) and it's generally a crappy situation.
So, yeah, Thanks for looking out for us M$!
Observe the water droplet roll off my hand in a random fashion