You would think that signing up for cutting green house gasses could push towards a less oil-oriented economy; surely in these days of rising oil prices and the dodgy areas of the world involved in supplying some of it that being less dependent on oil might produce a more stable economy.
It strikes me that it would be a good use of any spare capacity some search engines might have to search for image headers on web sites, that are attempting to exploit these types of problems.
Or you could just carry a Knoppix cd with you. (and if you are really paranoid about the machines you might come up against a bootable USB-CDrom drive).
However much the designers of something try and test it, there is nothing like throwing a few thousand misguided, ignorant, diverse users (who didn't bother to read the help) at a site/piece of software. Preferably all at once. It's a damn good way of testing something; and hell they're free - so we can hardly complain!
These are fairly good papers and a good example of an idea 30 years ahead of useful technology. A stereoscopic display mounted on an enormous ceiling mount (rather like an upside down anglepoise lamp) with crude wire frame graphics - this is VR 1968 style.
Sutherland, Ivan E.: 'The ultime display' 1965 Sutherland, Ivan E.: 'A head-mounted three dimensional display'
While the Unix code being covered up doesn't help, it would be nice to know exactly which bits of Linux code they are pointing to - then someone can go and trawl through the archives and find exactly where it came from.
My one concern is reliability and recovery from failure; I've had a few cases where my belief in ReiserFS has been questioned; however I can't get Ext3 to build on larger than 500GB arrays.
At this point I'd happily choose based on reliability/recoverability/stability not raw speed.
Well didn't the original fuel cells split water into hydrogen and oxygen during charging and then reverse the process during use; so it was completely reversible - no physical addition of new chemicals; just plug in and charge.
Oh this is mad - fuel cells are a wonderful idea - but to have to have refills?! Oh please - can the lot of them and send the guys back to the research lab until they can make them rechargeable.
I've had a Focus 5001 that I picked up at a radio rally for £3 many years ago; it was my main keyboard for a long time - function keys down the left as well as accross the top, calculator in built and diagonal arrow keys!
As far as I can tell tapes are awful, but they are still unfortunatly the best choice. It looks like the Ultrium 2's might be the curent best of the bunch capacity/cost wise - with 200GB (uncompressed) per tape. I wish they were firewire/USB2 rather than having to prat with SCSI cards.
The Maxtor MaxLine 2 hard drives do look tempting though; it will be interesting to see if the 300GB versions ever become available. (They were originally listed as 320GB!)
When Mozilla was first turned open source it was pretty bity and crashy and hopeless.
Now its probably one of the more stable browsers.
It does show that dumping a large amount of commercial source into the open community can produce results - but with this amount of code it does take time.
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You would think that signing up for cutting green house gasses could push towards a less oil-oriented economy; surely in these days of rising oil prices and the dodgy areas of the world involved in supplying some of it that being less dependent on oil might produce a more stable economy.
Erm I mean in lets see - ~80ps/clock?
So P4's double clock their ALUs - that means that ALU is shifting at > 12GHz.
Welcome to measuring your operations in picoseconds.
It strikes me that it would be a good use of any spare capacity some search engines might have to search for image headers on web sites, that are attempting to exploit these types of problems.
OQO has been due out soon for a long time now - it sure looks nice, but things are catching up - I hope it really does land.
Or you could just carry a Knoppix cd with you.
(and if you are really paranoid about the machines you might come up against a bootable USB-CDrom drive).
So, how about that 'Minority Report' GUI driven by one of these babies?
However much the designers of something try and test it, there is nothing like throwing a few thousand misguided, ignorant, diverse users (who didn't bother to read the help) at a site/piece of software. Preferably all at once. It's a damn good way of testing something; and hell they're free - so we can hardly complain!
Haha - Amiga - oh yes that thing.
Sorry, this is the 21st century - move along.
So anyone got a copy of /proc/cpuinfo from this mother?
(Oh and do you do something special to 'top' so it doesn't give you 512 lines of CPU state?)
These are fairly good papers and a good example of an idea 30 years ahead of useful technology.
A stereoscopic display mounted on an enormous ceiling mount (rather like an upside down anglepoise lamp) with crude wire frame graphics - this is VR 1968 style.
Sutherland, Ivan E.: 'The ultime display' 1965
Sutherland, Ivan E.: 'A head-mounted three dimensional display'
While the Unix code being covered up doesn't help, it would be nice to know exactly which bits of Linux code they are pointing to - then someone can go and trawl through the archives and find exactly where it came from.
and for more mind breaking arguments about time and the rest of reality you might want to read
"Fabric of Reality" by David Deautsch
My one concern is reliability and recovery from failure; I've had a few cases where my belief in ReiserFS has been questioned; however I can't get Ext3 to build on larger than 500GB arrays.
At this point I'd happily choose based on reliability/recoverability/stability not raw speed.
Well didn't the original fuel cells split water into hydrogen and oxygen during charging and then reverse the process during use; so it was completely reversible - no physical addition of new chemicals; just plug in and charge.
Oh this is mad - fuel cells are a wonderful idea - but to have to have refills?! Oh please - can the lot of them and send the guys back to the research lab until they can make them rechargeable.
I've had a Focus 5001 that I picked up at a radio rally for £3 many years ago; it was my main keyboard for a long time - function keys down the left as well as accross the top, calculator in built and diagonal arrow keys!
I'm now on an original IBM keyboard
As far as I can tell tapes are awful, but they are still unfortunatly the best choice.
It looks like the Ultrium 2's might be the curent best of the bunch capacity/cost wise - with 200GB (uncompressed) per tape. I wish they were firewire/USB2 rather than having to prat with SCSI cards.
The Maxtor MaxLine 2 hard drives do look tempting though; it will be interesting to see if the 300GB versions ever become available. (They were originally listed as 320GB!)
Give me an open source cave troll to play with!
So >that's what's melting the glaciers.
Indeed - and it would be more valuable than annoymous. At least when he pops off we can take him to bits and find out what that DNA did for him.
When Mozilla was first turned open source it was pretty bity and crashy and hopeless.
Now its probably one of the more stable browsers.
It does show that dumping a large amount of commercial source into the open community can produce results - but with this amount of code it does take time.
(Running mozilla 0.9.9)
Can someone explain what the hell this problem is about in English please? (Preferably avoiding the word manifold).
A boss that is techy enough to understand why things work.
I've got a boss now who I respect for his coding skills and his knowledge. Thats GOOD.
Hard drives latency is too high. If they used hard drives the machines would be sitting their most of the time waiting for the drive to find things.