Last time I checked, not a lot of games supported keyboard+mouse control on either Playstation or Xbox and it is the most convenient way to play FPS or strategy or point and click adventure games.
It doesn't cost 25BTC to mine the block. Mining the block generates brand new 25BTC. Transaction fees are added to that, so the miner receives slightly more than 25BTC.
Any software old enough to care about Win9x is software that Microsoft does not care about supporting on Windows 9.
Without backward compatibility, Windows loses one of the major selling points.
And the software might check for Windows 9x just so it can display an error that Windows 9x is not supported by said application.
64 bit Windows do not support 16bit applications, so any software that runs on Windows 3x will not run on Windows 30, unless Microsoft goes back to supporting 16bit software on 64bit releases or still has a 32bit version of Windows 30.
The old devices are not deliberately restricted. I usually buy an older device that suits my needs instead of a new one for this reason and because if is easier to repair when it does fail.
Let's say I have an old tape deck. It is what it is, the sound quality or functions are not artificially restricted. If I want to I can improve it beyond the original specifications, but that requires modifying it. Same with my car - if it does not have some part then it doesn't, if I want to I can install it and use the new function.
Compare that to, say, modern phones. Android is very similar to Linux, but I cannot get a root shell on my own phone (without modifying it) even though it is physically capable of this, but that feature is restricted by the manufacturer. For example, I have a video file that plays without sound on an Android tablet because the sound codec is not supported. Decoding sound does not take a lot of CPU power, so I should be able to just install the codec as I can do on a PC, but it is restricted.
12V needs thick wires, just look at the wires that are used for car audio amps. This is because 1) Lower voltage means higher current for the same power and 2) Lower voltage means lower allowed voltage drop on the wire.
Let's say the wire is 20 meters long (probably reasonable for my house, since the wire does not go in the shortest possible distance) and I need 10A (100-120W) If I want to keep the voltage drop at 1V (resulting in 91% efficiency), I would need a 7mm^2 wire. For 1kW I would need 70mm^2 wire. Or run 230V in parallel with 12V = more wiring.
For LED lights, the best solution would be the power supply (230V -> whatever the LED needs) to be part of the fixture, or a module that plugs in the fixture.
I use some long life bulbs (rated for 3000h) and the efficiency rating for them is "G" IIRC, while regular bulbs have efficiency rating of "E". OTOH, I like the lower color temperature of the long life bulbs, something I could not have with halogens (since lowering their temperature shortens the life).
The filament has a relatively high thermal mass, so it does not cool down much at 100Hz. Running the lightbulb on DC would probably be better for its longevity though.
Which is why I have installed a slow-start dimmer to prolong the life of the incandescent bulbs, so I do not need to buy as many to last me many years. They also sell long-life bulbs now, 3000h, but lower efficiency (which I don't care about) and lower color temperature (which I actually like), so I got a bunch of those.
However, having bad roads and poorly trained drivers higher speed results in higher probability of a crash (for example higher probability that you won't see a pedestrian crossing or won't be able to stop in time) and a worse crash. So, the result is (even if probability stays the same) you drive too fast = you cause problems for other people, while you don't wear a seatbelt = you cause problems only for yourself.
Also, even Germany has speed limits on other roads and inside cities.
After a few accidents caused by drunk cops driving (that actually injuredor killed people) in my country, the new law is that if a cop is caught drunk behind the wheel, he can start looking for a new job (in addition to whatever punishment a non-cop would get in the same situation).
Speeding = higher risk of crash. Crash can involve other people. This means that if you speed you are more likely to kill somebody. Not wearing a seatbelt = higher risk of injury/death in case of a crash, but only to the person not wearing the seat belt. I think the fine should be lower and let the idiots kill themselves.
Well, driving a car with a manual gearbox makes talking on the phone while driving (without using handsfree equipment) inconvenient (unless I am driving on a straight long road). I never text while driving. SMS is low priority and high latency to me - I will reply when I can. If it is urgent to you - call.
However, this device seems pointless. I have to buy it and install it in my car. Even assuming it can work with my older phones (a Nokia E90 and a Nokia 1100), I could, you know, just don't use the phone while driving if I do not want to and I do not need to spend money. OTOH, if somebody wants to use the phone while driving, they will not buy a device that prevents them or will turn it off.
This sort of device has to be mandated by law (hopefully just for new cars, so I do not have to buy such a device) or it will see very low adoption rates.
I have used cable for so long, I do not remember the terrestrial broadcasts. Well, other than the very noisy picture I got when using a portable TV outside or using a piece of wire as an antenna during cable outages.
Well, I get analog broadcasts from my cable company. Whether it's the multiple splitters or the long cables (after the amp), but the video quality is not that great. Sure, it's better than VHS, but I cannot really see a difference between it and SVHS.
I also get IPTV from another company. The SD channels are higher quality than the analog channels that i get.
And yet, with digital VCRs (and tapes for them) being so expensive, i have to continue to use VHS...
Still, when compared to analog broadcast, (or very compressed digital) SD, a good VCR and a good tape produce quite a good image, it's not full broadcast quality, but good enough for me. Especially since digital (and especially HD capable) VCRs are so expensive (tapes for them too) and not very common. So, no way to record HD and the best I can do is to record to a good VHS tape, since SVHS tapes are expensive too. DVDs don't last and don't allow overwrites, so a DVD recorder would not be useful to me.
As someone who's been a network admin for a few years, I'm fairly confident in my statements. Do you do even minor surgery on yourself if you're not a surgeon?
I am a network (and Linux) admin by profession, but I can also repair my audio equipment and do some repairs on my car, even though I do not work as a car mechanic or electronics repair guy. While I could find a mechanic to repair my car (and sometimes I do), a lot of the time is is cheaper and faster to do it myself.
So, if the OP wants to create a monitoring solution himself (assuming he knows something about the monitoring systems) more power to him. I probably would ask a similar question if I had to monitor 500 remote servers that are in different locations (if they are all in the same place I would just use VPN). It would be possible to use VPN or SSH tunnels or something else, but sometimes one may need an advice from others as to which option is the best.
What is I like driving? Actually, I probably could not sit in a driverless car for, say, half an hour with nothing to do. I cannot read while in a car because I get motion sickness if I am not watching the road, I also cannot talk to the driver (as I do now when I am in a car but not driving). And I can listen to music while I am driving just as well.
It is more convenient for me, for example cat/some/file/somewhere| grep something (hmm, didn't get what I wanted) cat/some/file/somewhere| grep some (good)
If I do grep something/some/file/somewhere and and to edit my search string, I have to move the cursor further than in the cat|grep version.
Also, I sometimes replace tail with cat when looking at a log file tail -n 2000 | grep (it wasn't here, let's look at the whole file) cat | grep (found it)
So that he didn't need to discharge the battery while starting the car? Useful if you are going short distances and the battery is not recharged before the next stop.
I would like a crank starter on my car as an addition to the electric starter of course. In some cases the battery is too weak to start the engine, but has enough power to operate the ignition, fuel cutoff valves and the field coil of the alternator. Sure, the car can then be push started, but that requires at least one other person and the car to not be at the bottom of a hill (it's difficult to push a car uphill). I could then crank start the car. It does not look lie adding the crank would have cost the manufacturer lots of money.
Well, some music I listen to is in mono because it was recorded before the invention of stereo records. A stereo system can play both mono and stereo music well.
And I once had a 4.0 system and later found out that just using stereo did not reduce my enjoyment of movies at all. To me there is not that much point (to me) of surround sound if the image is not surround and is not interactive (hearing an enemy behind me in games is better though, but that can be achieved with stereo headphones).
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Last time I checked, not a lot of games supported keyboard+mouse control on either Playstation or Xbox and it is the most convenient way to play FPS or strategy or point and click adventure games.
It doesn't cost 25BTC to mine the block. Mining the block generates brand new 25BTC. Transaction fees are added to that, so the miner receives slightly more than 25BTC.
Any software old enough to care about Win9x is software that Microsoft does not care about supporting on Windows 9.
Without backward compatibility, Windows loses one of the major selling points.
And the software might check for Windows 9x just so it can display an error that Windows 9x is not supported by said application.
64 bit Windows do not support 16bit applications, so any software that runs on Windows 3x will not run on Windows 30, unless Microsoft goes back to supporting 16bit software on 64bit releases or still has a 32bit version of Windows 30.
The old devices are not deliberately restricted. I usually buy an older device that suits my needs instead of a new one for this reason and because if is easier to repair when it does fail.
Let's say I have an old tape deck. It is what it is, the sound quality or functions are not artificially restricted. If I want to I can improve it beyond the original specifications, but that requires modifying it. Same with my car - if it does not have some part then it doesn't, if I want to I can install it and use the new function.
Compare that to, say, modern phones. Android is very similar to Linux, but I cannot get a root shell on my own phone (without modifying it) even though it is physically capable of this, but that feature is restricted by the manufacturer. For example, I have a video file that plays without sound on an Android tablet because the sound codec is not supported. Decoding sound does not take a lot of CPU power, so I should be able to just install the codec as I can do on a PC, but it is restricted.
12V needs thick wires, just look at the wires that are used for car audio amps. This is because 1) Lower voltage means higher current for the same power and 2) Lower voltage means lower allowed voltage drop on the wire.
Let's say the wire is 20 meters long (probably reasonable for my house, since the wire does not go in the shortest possible distance) and I need 10A (100-120W) If I want to keep the voltage drop at 1V (resulting in 91% efficiency), I would need a 7mm^2 wire. For 1kW I would need 70mm^2 wire. Or run 230V in parallel with 12V = more wiring.
For LED lights, the best solution would be the power supply (230V -> whatever the LED needs) to be part of the fixture, or a module that plugs in the fixture.
I use some long life bulbs (rated for 3000h) and the efficiency rating for them is "G" IIRC, while regular bulbs have efficiency rating of "E". OTOH, I like the lower color temperature of the long life bulbs, something I could not have with halogens (since lowering their temperature shortens the life).
The filament has a relatively high thermal mass, so it does not cool down much at 100Hz. Running the lightbulb on DC would probably be better for its longevity though.
Which is why I have installed a slow-start dimmer to prolong the life of the incandescent bulbs, so I do not need to buy as many to last me many years. They also sell long-life bulbs now, 3000h, but lower efficiency (which I don't care about) and lower color temperature (which I actually like), so I got a bunch of those.
However, having bad roads and poorly trained drivers higher speed results in higher probability of a crash (for example higher probability that you won't see a pedestrian crossing or won't be able to stop in time) and a worse crash. So, the result is (even if probability stays the same) you drive too fast = you cause problems for other people, while you don't wear a seatbelt = you cause problems only for yourself.
Also, even Germany has speed limits on other roads and inside cities.
After a few accidents caused by drunk cops driving (that actually injuredor killed people) in my country, the new law is that if a cop is caught drunk behind the wheel, he can start looking for a new job (in addition to whatever punishment a non-cop would get in the same situation).
Speeding = higher risk of crash. Crash can involve other people. This means that if you speed you are more likely to kill somebody.
Not wearing a seatbelt = higher risk of injury/death in case of a crash, but only to the person not wearing the seat belt. I think the fine should be lower and let the idiots kill themselves.
Well, driving a car with a manual gearbox makes talking on the phone while driving (without using handsfree equipment) inconvenient (unless I am driving on a straight long road). I never text while driving. SMS is low priority and high latency to me - I will reply when I can. If it is urgent to you - call.
However, this device seems pointless. I have to buy it and install it in my car. Even assuming it can work with my older phones (a Nokia E90 and a Nokia 1100), I could, you know, just don't use the phone while driving if I do not want to and I do not need to spend money. OTOH, if somebody wants to use the phone while driving, they will not buy a device that prevents them or will turn it off.
This sort of device has to be mandated by law (hopefully just for new cars, so I do not have to buy such a device) or it will see very low adoption rates.
I have used cable for so long, I do not remember the terrestrial broadcasts. Well, other than the very noisy picture I got when using a portable TV outside or using a piece of wire as an antenna during cable outages.
Well, I get analog broadcasts from my cable company. Whether it's the multiple splitters or the long cables (after the amp), but the video quality is not that great. Sure, it's better than VHS, but I cannot really see a difference between it and SVHS.
I also get IPTV from another company. The SD channels are higher quality than the analog channels that i get.
And yet, with digital VCRs (and tapes for them) being so expensive, i have to continue to use VHS...
Still, when compared to analog broadcast, (or very compressed digital) SD, a good VCR and a good tape produce quite a good image, it's not full broadcast quality, but good enough for me. Especially since digital (and especially HD capable) VCRs are so expensive (tapes for them too) and not very common. So, no way to record HD and the best I can do is to record to a good VHS tape, since SVHS tapes are expensive too. DVDs don't last and don't allow overwrites, so a DVD recorder would not be useful to me.
As someone who's been a network admin for a few years, I'm fairly confident in my statements. Do you do even minor surgery on yourself if you're not a surgeon?
I am a network (and Linux) admin by profession, but I can also repair my audio equipment and do some repairs on my car, even though I do not work as a car mechanic or electronics repair guy. While I could find a mechanic to repair my car (and sometimes I do), a lot of the time is is cheaper and faster to do it myself.
So, if the OP wants to create a monitoring solution himself (assuming he knows something about the monitoring systems) more power to him. I probably would ask a similar question if I had to monitor 500 remote servers that are in different locations (if they are all in the same place I would just use VPN). It would be possible to use VPN or SSH tunnels or something else, but sometimes one may need an advice from others as to which option is the best.
What is I like driving? Actually, I probably could not sit in a driverless car for, say, half an hour with nothing to do. I cannot read while in a car because I get motion sickness if I am not watching the road, I also cannot talk to the driver (as I do now when I am in a car but not driving). And I can listen to music while I am driving just as well.
And what's the difference between this and cat | grep?
To me it is also more understandable, that is, the flow of data:
cat file | grep this | grep -v butnotthis | cut | tr | awk > result.txt
Are you also using 'cat | grep'?
What's wrong with that?
It is more convenient for me, for example /some/file/somewhere| grep something (hmm, didn't get what I wanted) /some/file/somewhere| grep some (good)
cat
cat
If I do grep something /some/file/somewhere and and to edit my search string, I have to move the cursor further than in the cat|grep version.
Also, I sometimes replace tail with cat when looking at a log file
tail -n 2000 | grep (it wasn't here, let's look at the whole file)
cat | grep (found it)
At least in Centos6, postgresql port is also configured in the start script that's in /etc/init.d/
Wouldn't it start at lower RPM though? If so, just increase the gear ratio.between crank and engine.
So that he didn't need to discharge the battery while starting the car? Useful if you are going short distances and the battery is not recharged before the next stop.
I would like a crank starter on my car as an addition to the electric starter of course. In some cases the battery is too weak to start the engine, but has enough power to operate the ignition, fuel cutoff valves and the field coil of the alternator. Sure, the car can then be push started, but that requires at least one other person and the car to not be at the bottom of a hill (it's difficult to push a car uphill). I could then crank start the car. It does not look lie adding the crank would have cost the manufacturer lots of money.
But only the combinations you think of, while in real life something might happen that you did not expect.
Well, some music I listen to is in mono because it was recorded before the invention of stereo records. A stereo system can play both mono and stereo music well.
And I once had a 4.0 system and later found out that just using stereo did not reduce my enjoyment of movies at all. To me there is not that much point (to me) of surround sound if the image is not surround and is not interactive (hearing an enemy behind me in games is better though, but that can be achieved with stereo headphones).