Chromnium is available under one of the repositories (http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/googles-chromium-project-ported-to-n900/), works asides for some of the menu's running off screen. The Opera crowd does have Opera Mini available as well (see http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/11/). The default browser, MicroB, is based on Firefox.
Of course, there is a terminal; vnc & ssh are both readily available in the Maemo.org repositories.
...however, take a peek at the N900. The screen is way better than a 3GS, Skype & IM integrate seamlessly, and there is no sleazy attempts to keep you from doing anything with your phone. Meamo 5 may be only, say, 75% done, but it's better than only being able to use 50% of the phone!
True that. I upgraded to 8gb of RAM for some design work & rendering, and made the big leap to XP 64-bit. Not a cheap path, granted. As best as I can tell, XP wouldn't bring in drivers for the SATA controller from anything except a floppy disk, the process of ripping the ISO, adding the drivers, and reburning was annoying at best. The bonus, however, was taking some time to go through nLite (I believe) and stripping what I don't use out. It was quite zippy afterwards, worth the initial time.
'du', disk use, obviously should describe the actual used space on the drive, as that is the name of the program. I, however, would rather any other form of file management to note the physical size of the data in the file. Checking file sizes against, say, a website you just uploaded is a quick and easy way to ensure it all transferred for example.
Glass? That can not be safe, the grip issues alone would preclude it. One good jack-knife, and shards of road all over the place sounds pretty dangerous too. The biggest hang-up here is certainly not cost, but safety.
Icebreaking cargo vessels have operated this route for a while: the Ukrainian made SA-15 cargo vessels are perhaps the best icebreaking cargo ships out there these days (see http://www.tpub.com/content/ArmyCRREL/CR96_03/CR96_030014.htm). I would liken these more to be the truck route, as they are adapted for ice use. The Beluga vessel's transom stern and bulbous bow ensure it's inadequacy for any serious ice-work: hence, it's noteworthy, and your Darien Gap equivalent would be Toyota Corolla's and Hyundai Accent's.
Canada at one time experimented with a 'hybrid' (a misnomer in the marine industry, as diesel-electric arrangements and all-electric ships aren't really rare) nuclear submarine plant. A small, 1.5MW or so reactor would be used to recharge the batteries while submerged, extending dive times - though the primary power source remained diesel engines through snorkel or surfaced.
Another interesting submarine propulsion system are the peroxide based boats, which actually ran the diesels while submerged & developed the oxygen for combustion chemically.
That said, I'm not entirely sure what the Navy is aiming for here, certainly the article is way to sparse to draw conclusions. There are some issues with current diesel-electric drives, most importantly efficiencies in energy transferral and conversions. An extremely promising technology is superconducting electric drives, and may be more of what the article is referencing. As far as electric motors being used for propulsion "boosts" to a mechanical shaft, we have them. Shaft generators can be used to perform this function or for generating service power for the ship (as conditions require). Such flexible electrical systems have been developed for the cruise ship industry (Siemen's has an excellent presentation thereof I could probably find if anyone is interested).
My suspicion then might be that it's not new technology, but rather money for the testing, integration, and installation plans for a flexible system which will bring the vessels closer to being an all-electric-ship; as the systems will have to be fully scrutinized for the realities of naval vessel equipment: minimal noise, blast-proofing, electromagnetic emissions, etc. ~ not trivial.
Wish I had some mod points, as this is what I gathered from the article: it's arbitrage trading code, where speed is the beginning, ending, and be-all. I don't see any problem therein ether, as both ends receive market value, it's how we imagine trading across markets to work; just done really quickly.
At the college I just finished at, they used Symantec Endpoint Protection. While they hadn't yet cut out access for non-compliant systems, that is a functionality. Interestingly, it uses the old Sygate system for its firewall. That's the only "good" side I could see to it, as the system was atrocious. The frequent I/O activity was hugely detrimental to the system. I benchmarked a few things (these are not rigourous, but with such huge numbers, it doesn't have to be;) some highlights;
Wireless transfer speeds dropped 90% (avg. of 15Mbps -> 1.6Mbps)
Battery life dropped 22% (from 1h25m to 1h06m)
USB transfer speeds dropped 94.5% (15.8Mbps -> 0.88Mbps)
The best solution? If living on campus, get DSL or cable to your room and ignore them. Or get an aircard. This sort of network lockdown is foolish outside of corporate/private environments.
The Vatican, advantaged by its small size, will count on revenue and solar aid from Italy after 2014. That's when the new plant is scheduled to turn the enclave into an electricity exporter to the nation that surrounds it.
Thanks! The article was/.'d when I went to read. Of course there are valid reasons for oversizing solar (the variability of sunshine, etc.) or any powerplant for that reason. A caveat to the Vatican, they may find the Italian monopoly of the export market leads to some thin margins (See Churchill Falls, Nfld.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re_Upper_Churchill_Water_Rights_Reversion_Act )
Either everyone has lots of houses, they plan to fire up another 6-7 radiostations, or some engineers went a little nuts with the Church's charge card. Serious overcapacity!:P
Agree'd. An article was posted to my wiki at http://wiki.neely-chaulk.com/ and it's been continually updated since it went up. The creation of an account, creation of a page using a random word (which could be mistaken and linked to valid pages, concievably), and lack of notification to anyone is a bit of a jerkish act. They also failed to list any form of contact information on the project site they linked to. 'Grafitti' was well named.
Ideally, the UAC prompts would only occur as per sudo prompts on a *nix system; however, it is a degree easier to su in a terminal and get what you need done under *nix, and Vista has a truckload of problems with historical file placements. For example, trying to re-arrange the start menu so it's not a disaster will run up UAC prompts atleast once per attempted move.
I saw the update message on the Wii this morning, lame. Unauthorized software?
Remember the time when software updates added functionality and/or fixed bugs? Rather than trying to limit your use of your own hardware (or is it leased now?) and protect the suppliers own revenue streams. While I haven't (yet) played around with the homebrew channel, and probably won't for a couple months (newborn due shortly!), I'm skipping this 'update' out of disgust.
This weeks 'Economist' has a little tidbit saying that they may have recognized they won't be able to sell music to consumers anymore; instead, the recording industry is planning on bundling unlimited music "free" with thirdparty products, for say a year. The cost will thus be built into consumer electronics. The foundation may be crumbling, but we're not looking at the monopoly state failing yet, desperate as they seem.
For the longest time my town of 160,000--St. John's, Newfoundland--lacked any form of detail. Proceeding 50km north, however, would (and still does) show a large square of ocean full of ripply water and some drift-ice.
Not to mention gift registries. Looks like registering for the baby shower will probably be through an "infringing" party. Wonder what Toy's-R-Us or Walmart would say to this..
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Chromnium is available under one of the repositories (http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/googles-chromium-project-ported-to-n900/), works asides for some of the menu's running off screen. The Opera crowd does have Opera Mini available as well (see http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/11/). The default browser, MicroB, is based on Firefox. Of course, there is a terminal; vnc & ssh are both readily available in the Maemo.org repositories.
...however, take a peek at the N900. The screen is way better than a 3GS, Skype & IM integrate seamlessly, and there is no sleazy attempts to keep you from doing anything with your phone. Meamo 5 may be only, say, 75% done, but it's better than only being able to use 50% of the phone!
Touche, a turn of speech poorly used. Thanks for the correction!
True that. I upgraded to 8gb of RAM for some design work & rendering, and made the big leap to XP 64-bit. Not a cheap path, granted. As best as I can tell, XP wouldn't bring in drivers for the SATA controller from anything except a floppy disk, the process of ripping the ISO, adding the drivers, and reburning was annoying at best. The bonus, however, was taking some time to go through nLite (I believe) and stripping what I don't use out. It was quite zippy afterwards, worth the initial time.
'du', disk use, obviously should describe the actual used space on the drive, as that is the name of the program. I, however, would rather any other form of file management to note the physical size of the data in the file. Checking file sizes against, say, a website you just uploaded is a quick and easy way to ensure it all transferred for example.
Glass? That can not be safe, the grip issues alone would preclude it. One good jack-knife, and shards of road all over the place sounds pretty dangerous too. The biggest hang-up here is certainly not cost, but safety.
....The theory of evolution does not even explain how fossils are made.... No, good sir. That is covered under the theory of fossilization. :P
Icebreaking cargo vessels have operated this route for a while: the Ukrainian made SA-15 cargo vessels are perhaps the best icebreaking cargo ships out there these days (see http://www.tpub.com/content/ArmyCRREL/CR96_03/CR96_030014.htm). I would liken these more to be the truck route, as they are adapted for ice use. The Beluga vessel's transom stern and bulbous bow ensure it's inadequacy for any serious ice-work: hence, it's noteworthy, and your Darien Gap equivalent would be Toyota Corolla's and Hyundai Accent's.
Canada at one time experimented with a 'hybrid' (a misnomer in the marine industry, as diesel-electric arrangements and all-electric ships aren't really rare) nuclear submarine plant. A small, 1.5MW or so reactor would be used to recharge the batteries while submerged, extending dive times - though the primary power source remained diesel engines through snorkel or surfaced. Another interesting submarine propulsion system are the peroxide based boats, which actually ran the diesels while submerged & developed the oxygen for combustion chemically. That said, I'm not entirely sure what the Navy is aiming for here, certainly the article is way to sparse to draw conclusions. There are some issues with current diesel-electric drives, most importantly efficiencies in energy transferral and conversions. An extremely promising technology is superconducting electric drives, and may be more of what the article is referencing. As far as electric motors being used for propulsion "boosts" to a mechanical shaft, we have them. Shaft generators can be used to perform this function or for generating service power for the ship (as conditions require). Such flexible electrical systems have been developed for the cruise ship industry (Siemen's has an excellent presentation thereof I could probably find if anyone is interested). My suspicion then might be that it's not new technology, but rather money for the testing, integration, and installation plans for a flexible system which will bring the vessels closer to being an all-electric-ship; as the systems will have to be fully scrutinized for the realities of naval vessel equipment: minimal noise, blast-proofing, electromagnetic emissions, etc. ~ not trivial.
Turn a widescreen sideways, your drivers should support screen rotation :)
Wish I had some mod points, as this is what I gathered from the article: it's arbitrage trading code, where speed is the beginning, ending, and be-all. I don't see any problem therein ether, as both ends receive market value, it's how we imagine trading across markets to work; just done really quickly.
At the college I just finished at, they used Symantec Endpoint Protection. While they hadn't yet cut out access for non-compliant systems, that is a functionality. Interestingly, it uses the old Sygate system for its firewall. That's the only "good" side I could see to it, as the system was atrocious. The frequent I/O activity was hugely detrimental to the system. I benchmarked a few things (these are not rigourous, but with such huge numbers, it doesn't have to be;) some highlights; Wireless transfer speeds dropped 90% (avg. of 15Mbps -> 1.6Mbps) Battery life dropped 22% (from 1h25m to 1h06m) USB transfer speeds dropped 94.5% (15.8Mbps -> 0.88Mbps) The best solution? If living on campus, get DSL or cable to your room and ignore them. Or get an aircard. This sort of network lockdown is foolish outside of corporate/private environments.
Perhaps a few hundred bucks could change your opinion?
The Vatican, advantaged by its small size, will count on revenue and solar aid from Italy after 2014. That's when the new plant is scheduled to turn the enclave into an electricity exporter to the nation that surrounds it.
Thanks! The article was /.'d when I went to read. Of course there are valid reasons for oversizing solar (the variability of sunshine, etc.) or any powerplant for that reason. A caveat to the Vatican, they may find the Italian monopoly of the export market leads to some thin margins (See Churchill Falls, Nfld.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re_Upper_Churchill_Water_Rights_Reversion_Act )
Either everyone has lots of houses, they plan to fire up another 6-7 radiostations, or some engineers went a little nuts with the Church's charge card. Serious overcapacity! :P
Agree'd. An article was posted to my wiki at http://wiki.neely-chaulk.com/ and it's been continually updated since it went up. The creation of an account, creation of a page using a random word (which could be mistaken and linked to valid pages, concievably), and lack of notification to anyone is a bit of a jerkish act. They also failed to list any form of contact information on the project site they linked to. 'Grafitti' was well named.
Ideally, the UAC prompts would only occur as per sudo prompts on a *nix system; however, it is a degree easier to su in a terminal and get what you need done under *nix, and Vista has a truckload of problems with historical file placements. For example, trying to re-arrange the start menu so it's not a disaster will run up UAC prompts atleast once per attempted move.
I saw the update message on the Wii this morning, lame. Unauthorized software? Remember the time when software updates added functionality and/or fixed bugs? Rather than trying to limit your use of your own hardware (or is it leased now?) and protect the suppliers own revenue streams. While I haven't (yet) played around with the homebrew channel, and probably won't for a couple months (newborn due shortly!), I'm skipping this 'update' out of disgust.
This weeks 'Economist' has a little tidbit saying that they may have recognized they won't be able to sell music to consumers anymore; instead, the recording industry is planning on bundling unlimited music "free" with thirdparty products, for say a year. The cost will thus be built into consumer electronics. The foundation may be crumbling, but we're not looking at the monopoly state failing yet, desperate as they seem.
For the longest time my town of 160,000--St. John's, Newfoundland--lacked any form of detail. Proceeding 50km north, however, would (and still does) show a large square of ocean full of ripply water and some drift-ice.
My bigger concern is the content of these privacy agreements.
Yea, but if this 'Oberg' is truely worth his salt, he'll be on slashdot, too. Who doesn't know an idiot engineer? lol
It reduces smog more than prevents global warming (NOx's vs. apmospheric carbon), I do believe :)
Not to mention gift registries. Looks like registering for the baby shower will probably be through an "infringing" party. Wonder what Toy's-R-Us or Walmart would say to this..
I know atleast one CowMan. Certainly was enough going around to take my name :)