I work on small hydros and my boss feeds his family by owning them and the 4-8 other people who work with me don't mind his make work project either.
Granted we could all be working on 10mW machines instead of 300kw-1mw stations since the theory, control, operating is the same so our time put in to mw generated ratio could be a lot higher but that only affects my boss' profit and his business isn't going under so there ya go
What was the advantage to Sun to have OpenSolaris? Whatever it was, Oracle will likely have the same reason to continue dedicating reasources to OpenSolaris as Sun did.
how else is a power station operator on a remote plant supposed to work? You don't expect them to go to the plant if it is hours away from anything. Stay at the plant, away from families? Forget it. operators telecommute too!
People always say these things aren't connected to the internet and there are supposed to be seperate control and communication and PC networks but I bet few plants actually have that. Maybe super critical ones like nuclear, but your average small hydro or peaking gas plant...
Time, Budget, the need to get that sensor or remote control connected to something, anything, whatever is near by so we can talk to it *now* and then the temporary fix becomes permanent
hmm, i've been looking for a 2 channel smart meter with load control relays on both channels so I could have remote disconnect and use the 2nd channel for dispatchable loads like hot water that could then be billed at a lower rate. Maybe I'll check out remote interrupters.
the 'smart' meters i've dealt with allowed remote disconnect, but remote re-connect impossible. Re-connect could be enabled remotely, but someone had to operate something physical to re-connect the customer premise.
I think they didn't want to go about re-energizing customer premise remotely in case someone had said "oh house is disconnected I will do this electrical work since all wires are dead".
i recall one student's work was pretty much ignored. He modified gnome so different workspaces could have different background images.
maybe the changes were too obtrusive or unmaintainable, but to me it points to a poor mentor. The mentor should have helped the student implement the changes in such a way that they could be accepted. see the student's blog with the gnome bugzilla links.
What is wrong with $60 a month? How much is your cable TV bill? Your cell phone bill? You would switch from nice, fast, reliable cable to some hacked together wireless job to save $25 a month?
My Linux server was exploited, I'm not quite sure how (nor did the server management guys)... the exploit was brand new and wasn't very well known, however, I ran into quite a few people who had suffered the exact same exploit on their Linux machines when I was trying to figure out how it occured.
Ah so you do know exactly which exploit was used? Which one was it?
I haven't had a machine rooted since 2.0.36 but maybe I've just been lucky.
There are many comments attached to this story with anecdotes of how every brand has had good and bad runs with their products.
Spinning platters are not going to to last for ever.
I've been holding off purchasing some new computers for a remote industrial application until solid state drives are widely available and a bit cheaper as I am under the impression that they could potentially last a long time.
Our storage requirements are small but reliability is key! I can't imaging we'll run into the write-limit either.
I'm hoping to install these computers and close the (physical) door on them for 10-15 years.
Will solid state drives have a longer lifespan than convention spinning platters?
I'm also going to go for remote KVM and reundant power supplies. What other hardware features would you look for? Is fanless an option? I'd love to have no moving parts in there at all.
i discovered this one through drupal. I thought it was completely free but apparently for high traffic sites it isn't.
I think all your user generated content is sent to them and checked for spaminess against the other submissions they are receiving and they give you back a rating.
maybe it is all of the USA but people on maui have an infatuation with giant mud tires and huge lift kits. stompaz don't seemed to be concerned with the price of gas. if they are willing to spend $30k to ruin a brand new truck that cost $50k a few extra dollars per gallon is a joke.
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I work on small hydros and my boss feeds his family by owning them and the 4-8 other people who work with me don't mind his make work project either.
Granted we could all be working on 10mW machines instead of 300kw-1mw stations since the theory, control, operating is the same so our time put in to mw generated ratio could be a lot higher but that only affects my boss' profit and his business isn't going under so there ya go
I haven't had any trouble installing or maintaining freenx. it was the same as any other package I installed.
what troubles might i have had?
What was the advantage to Sun to have OpenSolaris? Whatever it was, Oracle will likely have the same reason to continue dedicating reasources to OpenSolaris as Sun did.
how else is a power station operator on a remote plant supposed to work? You don't expect them to go to the plant if it is hours away from anything. Stay at the plant, away from families? Forget it. operators telecommute too!
People always say these things aren't connected to the internet and there are supposed to be seperate control and communication and PC networks but I bet few plants actually have that. Maybe super critical ones like nuclear, but your average small hydro or peaking gas plant...
Time, Budget, the need to get that sensor or remote control connected to something, anything, whatever is near by so we can talk to it *now* and then the temporary fix becomes permanent
Maybe I have imagined this, but I thought there used to be a slashbox which displayed OS and or browser stats.
I think it got to be a bit depressing to see the % of linux users dropping as /. attracted bigger and bigger crowds so that slashbox disappeared.
I doubt there is another website which has more linux users so the /. stats probably represent a best case number for linux market penetration.
I don't mind it either. I don't understand why some hate on it so much. Maybe they don't like their browsing history to be so apparent.
the gnome file manager also has an awesome bar like firefox now!
the tectonic article states that maybe IBM would buy sun for MySQL since DB2 is 'flagging'.
Or just Gnome decided that was a too advanced feature that the user shouldn't have.
yeah. Bad choice if project for SoC then ... student slave Implement this feature we don't want!
hmm, i've been looking for a 2 channel smart meter with load control relays on both channels so I could have remote disconnect and use the 2nd channel for dispatchable loads like hot water that could then be billed at a lower rate. Maybe I'll check out remote interrupters.
the 'smart' meters i've dealt with allowed remote disconnect, but remote re-connect impossible. Re-connect could be enabled remotely, but someone had to operate something physical to re-connect the customer premise.
I think they didn't want to go about re-energizing customer premise remotely in case someone had said "oh house is disconnected I will do this electrical work since all wires are dead".
i recall one student's work was pretty much ignored. He modified gnome so different workspaces could have different background images.
maybe the changes were too obtrusive or unmaintainable, but to me it points to a poor mentor. The mentor should have helped the student implement the changes in such a way that they could be accepted.
see the student's blog with the gnome bugzilla links.
you clearly did not RTFA. microwave.
What is wrong with $60 a month? How much is your cable TV bill? Your cell phone bill?
You would switch from nice, fast, reliable cable to some hacked together wireless job to save $25 a month?
this isn't a bug tracker so much as a task & time tracker but I can't live without clocking it now
my ipod touch 2.2 syncs fine with itunes in a virtualbox guest.
Maybe you need a newer version of virtualbox.
how do you expect telemarketers to avoid calling people on the do-not-call list if they don't have a copy of the list?
My Linux server was exploited, I'm not quite sure how (nor did the server management guys) ...
the exploit was brand new and wasn't very well known, however, I ran into quite a few people who had suffered the exact same exploit on their Linux machines when I was trying to figure out how it occured.
Ah so you do know exactly which exploit was used? Which one was it?
I haven't had a machine rooted since 2.0.36 but maybe I've just been lucky.
any server, windows, linux, HP-UX, openBSD etc would have been serving up that PDF file if it had the same shoddy PHP scripts as your linux server.
what is the lifespan of a solid state disk? could it be 10+ years?
There are many comments attached to this story with anecdotes of how every brand has had good and bad runs with their products.
Spinning platters are not going to to last for ever.
I've been holding off purchasing some new computers for a remote industrial application until solid state drives are widely available and a bit cheaper as I am under the impression that they could potentially last a long time.
Our storage requirements are small but reliability is key! I can't imaging we'll run into the write-limit either.
I'm hoping to install these computers and close the (physical) door on them for 10-15 years.
Will solid state drives have a longer lifespan than convention spinning platters?
I'm also going to go for remote KVM and reundant power supplies. What other hardware features would you look for? Is fanless an option? I'd love to have no moving parts in there at all.
yeah i want the ipod touch 2g to be jailbroken too so I can add songs without itunes. and I suppose run non app store apps potentially.
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i discovered this one through drupal. I thought it was completely free but apparently for high traffic sites it isn't.
I think all your user generated content is sent to them and checked for spaminess against the other submissions they are receiving and they give you back a rating.
maybe it is all of the USA but people on maui have an infatuation with giant mud tires and huge lift kits. stompaz don't seemed to be concerned with the price of gas. if they are willing to spend $30k to ruin a brand new truck that cost $50k a few extra dollars per gallon is a joke.
what they really need is an inter-island grid. That way they can use big island's geothermal power, maui's wind power and solar on all islands.
Plans have been made to attach oahu, maui, molokai and lanai and build about 400MW of wind power.