Discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes are long molecular tubes of carbon atoms that resemble cylinders of minuscule chicken wire (SN: 12/16/00, p. 398). The bonds between carbon atoms in this configuration are so robust that, weight-for-weight, carbon nanotubes are at least 100 times as strong as steel. They are, in fact, the strongest material known. A carbon-nanotube string half the width of a pencil can support more than 40,000 kilograms, Edwards notes. That's equivalent to the weight of 20 full-size cars.
How much could spiders' silk hold if it were that thick? I've heard that its quite a bit stronger than steel, but is it more than 100?
I was similar: I waited a bit before getting my account. maybe a week? but that was when 100 posts was a BIG story, before moderation (as you say), metamoderation, karma (and the act of whoring), Signal11 (remember him? with like 270+ karma).
This was before we had the option of html/extrans, filters on posted comments. I think nested and flat modes were in there from the beginning tho.
Before ads.
Before Timothy, Michael, and all the other guys. Just Taco and Hemos. They didnt spell check their posts then, either.
Back when linux would get mentioned in an article somewhere - that would get a posting on the front page ('theres an article on CNet and they mention linux!').
Then Slashdot would get mentioned somewhere (wired I think). Then it got famous. and the slashdot effect became what it is now.
And these guys with user accounts of #100,000 think they remember the 'good ol days'. Damn whippersnappers.
I remember back in the day I think it was slackware that allowed you to choose types of fonts for the linux term. not sure if I found/ran a prog that did this, or if it was a slack option, but I remember runnin it all in Kidprint. Anyone else remember doing this? Anyone know how it can be done today (program or other)?
My idea for a laptop: drop all the old crap and make it light. My wish list includes:
a bunch of USB ports (4 or 6 of em..and spread them out around the sides/back)
Firewire
Built in 802.11b
Integrated 10/100 + 56K
Slot load DVD/CDRW
Honestly, drop the paralell/serial/ps2 ports. Almost everything nowadays is USB (desk printers, kybd/mouse, dig cameras, scanners). Now make a 15" (ok..maybe even 16") screen, but thin it up. If that means you have to drop the speed on the cpu, fine. Cant put a 40G drive in and keep it thin? Put in a 20G - should be plenty (for now). So basically, I want an x86 Itanium - big screen, slim, light (relatively), all new technology, and plenty fast.
And if anybody knows of a laptop that has all of that, please tell me:) I dont even mind if its expensive (~2500 is around top of the line nowadays).
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So I pole vaulted in college (the event in Track and Field where you use the pole to go up over the bar). One of the guys I vaulted with was a math major (he actually just graduated with his Masters in Mathematics), and actually a very good vaulter. We were working out our approach run and some of the measurements, and he looked at me and asked 'Whats 23 divided by 2?'
I looked at him and said 'You're the math major, cant you do simple division?'
He replied 'No man, I need a calculator for that - now whats 23 divided by 2?!'
one last question - as alluded to by the poster above: whats the cdrw speed? Try as I could, I could not find a dang thing anywhere on the net about what speed it burns.
Thanks alot
Nate
What model was it exactly? I was just looking at Dells and Toshibas yesterday, and alot of those features are what I want (except for the cpad thing).
And if you dont mind, what did you pay?
For those of you with proof that evolution does take place, theres a creationist guy offering $250,000 for it. Enjoy. http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=250k
Funny, I just had one of my clients want to test this out, so he gave me one of his servers to set this up on. He wanted me to install both SQL-Ledger and NOLA. Preliminary results as far as a sysadmin is concerned:
SQL-Ledger: Rocks. VERY easy to set up, documentation is complete, and from what my client tells me, theres more modules available than most of the commercial stuff he's looked at. Its running on a Debian Potato system, and almost everything is stock (read: stable). All I added was a source install of pgsql, and added the couple of Perl modules via the CPAN perl shell. I think I had the entire thing runnin in less than an hour, from poppin in the 2.2r4 cd to firing up Moz on my other box.
NOLA: An absolute bitch to set up. Not only does all the documentation end in.doc (with.pdf's on the web...no text/html that I could find), but its EXTREMELY incomplete. It doesnt say what needs to be compiled with PHP (thats my biggest complaint - took me about 6 recompiles to figure out wtf it wanted in PHP). It dynamically generates most of its buttons via libgd, and they dont even look that good. Its got a lot of wizbang stuff, but they haven't worked on the actual use of it much. Not to mention it suggests using the absolute latest libs for things. I'd rather a production system not rely on the bleeding edge. I suggest staying away from it for a while till it matures.
Welp, there's my $0.02. Like I said..I'm the admin who's settin it all up...I haven't really used either of them, but a lot of times you can tell how good of a project it is by how easy it is to set up (ie: how good the documentation is).
That reminds me of my warez days on irc. When people used to offer up site lists via dcc bots, other people would merely have to type a certain command to begin a dcc send from the bot to them (something like: !list). One day, one of the OPs set his away message to: "0-day, 2000 site ftp list. All verified and working! Hit Alt+F4 to recieve the list!" Next thing you know, the channel of about 120 people turned into about 70 people. We almost got flooded off from the server messages 'NickX has quit' 'NickY has quit' 'Nickxxx has quit' et al. It was great.
And the thread of 8 posts of Linus announcing that he was working on an OS similar to minix:
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.... It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have:-(.
and the last post in the thread: One of the things that really bugs me about minix is the way device drivers
have to be compiled into the kernel. So, how about doing some sensible
installable device driver code (same goes for minix 2.0 whenever).
I think Linus took his advice.:)
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maybe it should be called viPod. Cause emacsPod would be kinda lame.
bastard. I was gonna post that joke and get the karma. oh well :)
how bout a link to the actual article?
Discovered in 1991, carbon nanotubes are long molecular tubes of carbon atoms that resemble cylinders of minuscule chicken wire (SN: 12/16/00, p. 398). The bonds between carbon atoms in this configuration are so robust that, weight-for-weight, carbon nanotubes are at least 100 times as strong as steel. They are, in fact, the strongest material known. A carbon-nanotube string half the width of a pencil can support more than 40,000 kilograms, Edwards notes. That's equivalent to the weight of 20 full-size cars.
How much could spiders' silk hold if it were that thick? I've heard that its quite a bit stronger than steel, but is it more than 100?
I was similar: I waited a bit before getting my account. maybe a week? but that was when 100 posts was a BIG story, before moderation (as you say), metamoderation, karma (and the act of whoring), Signal11 (remember him? with like 270+ karma).
This was before we had the option of html/extrans, filters on posted comments. I think nested and flat modes were in there from the beginning tho.
Before ads.
Before Timothy, Michael, and all the other guys. Just Taco and Hemos. They didnt spell check their posts then, either.
Back when linux would get mentioned in an article somewhere - that would get a posting on the front page ('theres an article on CNet and they mention linux!').
Then Slashdot would get mentioned somewhere (wired I think). Then it got famous. and the slashdot effect became what it is now.
And these guys with user accounts of #100,000 think they remember the 'good ol days'. Damn whippersnappers.
Anyone else get a mental picture of Michael J Fox turning up knob after knob, and standing in front of a giant speaker?
:)
*sigh* Maybe some DIY stuff should be left alone
The funny thing is that 4.79 is listed at 11/7/2001, while this is actually brand new: 8/15/2002.
dunno why they're supporting this old ver, but whatever..
I remember back in the day I think it was slackware that allowed you to choose types of fonts for the linux term. not sure if I found/ran a prog that did this, or if it was a slack option, but I remember runnin it all in Kidprint. Anyone else remember doing this? Anyone know how it can be done today (program or other)?
Oops..my bad. Thats what I meant - the apple Titaniums rock - but I want x86 :)
- a bunch of USB ports (4 or 6 of em..and spread them out around the sides/back)
- Firewire
- Built in 802.11b
- Integrated 10/100 + 56K
- Slot load DVD/CDRW
Honestly, drop the paralell/serial/ps2 ports. Almost everything nowadays is USB (desk printers, kybd/mouse, dig cameras, scanners). Now make a 15" (ok..maybe even 16") screen, but thin it up. If that means you have to drop the speed on the cpu, fine. Cant put a 40G drive in and keep it thin? Put in a 20G - should be plenty (for now). So basically, I want an x86 Itanium - big screen, slim, light (relatively), all new technology, and plenty fast.And if anybody knows of a laptop that has all of that, please tell me
I guess that puts a new twist on overclucking...
Apparently they weren't kidding.
I looked at him and said 'You're the math major, cant you do simple division?'
He replied 'No man, I need a calculator for that - now whats 23 divided by 2?!'
one last question - as alluded to by the poster above: whats the cdrw speed? Try as I could, I could not find a dang thing anywhere on the net about what speed it burns. Thanks alot Nate
Jesus, people... Stretch your brains a little.
You must be new! Welcome to slashdot. We here enjoy GroupThink[TM].
What model was it exactly? I was just looking at Dells and Toshibas yesterday, and alot of those features are what I want (except for the cpad thing).
And if you dont mind, what did you pay?
username: cypherpunks516
password: cypherpunks
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I hope they've done some serious testing on all these news stories. My guess is the summarization of nothing is still nothing :)
for those trying to get to it (its a bit /.ed atm), the article is split up in 16 pages. The good pictures are on page 14 and 16. So try to get through to those, rather than taking a guess:
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72/14
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72/16
the decades old question of why Guinness bubbles 'float' down the glass has been solved. Actually took some high end fluid modelling software to figure it out :)1 31010,00.html
http://articles.thetechmag.com/articles/?0,0372,0
Also a press release here: http://www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/pr5.htm
For those of you with proof that evolution does take place, theres a creationist guy offering $250,000 for it. Enjoy.
http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=250k
their rescue attempt will resemble this :)
Funny, I just had one of my clients want to test this out, so he gave me one of his servers to set this up on. He wanted me to install both SQL-Ledger and NOLA. Preliminary results as far as a sysadmin is concerned:
.doc (with .pdf's on the web...no text/html that I could find), but its EXTREMELY incomplete. It doesnt say what needs to be compiled with PHP (thats my biggest complaint - took me about 6 recompiles to figure out wtf it wanted in PHP). It dynamically generates most of its buttons via libgd, and they dont even look that good. Its got a lot of wizbang stuff, but they haven't worked on the actual use of it much. Not to mention it suggests using the absolute latest libs for things. I'd rather a production system not rely on the bleeding edge. I suggest staying away from it for a while till it matures.
SQL-Ledger: Rocks. VERY easy to set up, documentation is complete, and from what my client tells me, theres more modules available than most of the commercial stuff he's looked at. Its running on a Debian Potato system, and almost everything is stock (read: stable). All I added was a source install of pgsql, and added the couple of Perl modules via the CPAN perl shell. I think I had the entire thing runnin in less than an hour, from poppin in the 2.2r4 cd to firing up Moz on my other box.
NOLA: An absolute bitch to set up. Not only does all the documentation end in
Welp, there's my $0.02. Like I said..I'm the admin who's settin it all up...I haven't really used either of them, but a lot of times you can tell how good of a project it is by how easy it is to set up (ie: how good the documentation is).
That reminds me of my warez days on irc. When people used to offer up site lists via dcc bots, other people would merely have to type a certain command to begin a dcc send from the bot to them (something like: !list). One day, one of the OPs set his away message to: "0-day, 2000 site ftp list. All verified and working! Hit Alt+F4 to recieve the list!" Next thing you know, the channel of about 120 people turned into about 70 people. We almost got flooded off from the server messages 'NickX has quit' 'NickY has quit' 'Nickxxx has quit' et al. It was great.
And the thread of 8 posts of Linus announcing that he was working on an OS similar to minix:
... It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
:)
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
and the last post in the thread: One of the things that really bugs me about minix is the way device drivers have to be compiled into the kernel. So, how about doing some sensible installable device driver code (same goes for minix 2.0 whenever).
I think Linus took his advice.
ahh, the nostalgia