48 volt DC. Why the hell are we still putting 110 AC into the power supply and steping it down to 24 volt DC. And what do you get when you do that? HEAT. And to compensate for not having a better power system you then get to spend a fortune on HVAC to cool the room that you heat by stepping down the voltage. 110 power supplies make sense in the home but in a data center it is stupid.
Please, I just finished lunch. While we are at it how of us had some half-ass development methodology forced us us because one of the bosses friends did it in his company and he got a raise.
I personally think Microsoft is getting a kick back from the spammers. They don't seem to do a very good job of patching their software and now they are opening up a new hole for spammers to get through. One step forward, 12 steps bask.
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He was also being a smart-ass (something you don't do around police),
So, he got tazed 5 times because he was being a smart-ass? Talking back is now a crime? In your world the only thing that is allowed is silent obedience? You will make a nice sheep. See you at the death camp, fool.
Democrats have no chance of retaking Congress or Senate! Are you out of your minds?
And I am glad of this for 2 reasons.
1) The Democratic party has failed so badly over the last 25 year, since the coming of Reagan, that they deserve to die. I am speaking as a former Democrat. A 4th generation Democrat. Time to die. Like the Whigs before them, it is now time for them to drift into the mists of history.
2) With the Republicans owning all 3 branches of goverment it is all on their head. Any screwups and it is their fault. No blaming the Democrats, that is like saying "My dog ate my homework" No blaming Clinton, he has been out of office for 6 years now. No, this is their show now, lock, stock and barrel. All my life I heard the Republicans whining "Put us in charge of the White House and both houses of Congress and things will be better" Well, my grandfater used to say "Don't ask for something, you just might get it" Now they have their wish and they also do not have someone to blame shit on.
Good luck, fuckwits. You shit is now out of the frying pan and into the fire.
How much could Bill Gates grant himself per year if he had a 3% pay raise and a further 2% bonus on a good year? How about Steve Jobs?
If I am not mistaken, Steve Jobs has an annual salary of $1.00. Considering how much stock he owns and how much money he made in the past I don't think he thinks very much about how much he is getting paid. I think the CEO of Cisco has the same deal.
I had a contract gig in the early 90's at a call center in Chicago. I was fixing their software which was a POS (Pile Of Shit) running on SCO. My "office" was a closet. My "desk" was a door sitting on top of milk crates. My "chair" was a couple of milk crates, one on top of the other. I had to go across the alley to steal the milk crates from the Jewelle/Osco. I had to provide my own computer. The worst part was my "boss" who spent most of the day sitting at his desk doing shots of Tequila, cleaning his guns and verbally abusing the women who worked their. I was never so glad to leave a job.
Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.
The key for the RIAA is to ingrain the meme that if you illegally trade files that you will be caught and fined.
to paraphrase "If enough people are prosecuted for smoking marijuana then people will stop. The key for the DEA is to ingrain the meme that if you smoke weed then you will be caught and sent to jail."
Ummmm, next time think it all the way through before you post one of your brillent non sequiturs
The Dead always got it - they made far more money touring than by selling records. Letting fans record concerts and swap tapes created a lot of good will and good publicity.
Phish also gets it. They have always let fans tape and trade their shows. In Feburary of this year that launched a website (livephish.com) where you can buy and download a soundboard recording, in MP3 or in FLAC, of the entire concert for $9.95 (MP3) or $12.95 (FLAC). The recordings are posted within 2 or 3 days after the concert. The online catalog lists every concert they have done so far this year.
In July there was an article in, I think, the New York Times where the Phish web site manager said that the site had had over 1 million sales. Do the math. This is from a non-mainstream band. When was the last time you saw Phish on MTV? Think about this; Phish played 2 nights at The Shoreline in Mountian View, Ca. Both nights were sold out. The Shoreline holds, I guess, 30,000 people. Using this web site they get to re-sell the concert without splitting the proceeds with BGP (Bill Graham Presents) and TicketBastard. Do you think the music industry is missing something?
And we should just allow this kind of proliferation of WMDs in Asia? Why isn't the US already bombing the shit out of them?
Because Taiwan has no oil and the Chinese army is really big. Body bags can really put the whammy on a re-election, or I should say election, campaign. The current regime is making Nixon look good.
And watch the U.S. federal government block trade with countries that don't have a strong copyright law, strong enforcement thereof, a Bono Act, and a DMCA.
Not going to happen. China is very well know for not having any respect for copyright laws yet 1 billion plus people in a virtually untapped market is irresistible to business. Which is why one of the last Communist dictatorships goes about their merry way without a peep out of the U.S. goverment.
Nice theory but since profit margins on PC hardware is razor thin the manufactures are looking for anything to give them an edge. If DRM in the BIOS becomes common then there will be motherboards made, most likley in places like Korea, that do not have this "feature".
Agree. Long uptimes are a recipe for disaster. 2 things can go wrong 1) the system on disk has changed under the system in memory. Broken or missing shared libraries and init scripts. 2) my fav, the disks stop spinning. This is lots of fun. Try it some time. Go to one of your older machine, the one with 500 plus days of uptime. Shut it down, remove the power cord, wait 3 minutes, reattach the power cord, put your finger on the power switch. OK, gentlemen, place your bets. Will all the disks spinup? If they do not, you get to find out how good your backups really are. When was the last time you backed that system up? When was the last time you verified the backup? A simple "Put more memory into this machine" becomes 3 or 4 days of living hell as you run around trying to figure out what happened, try to reconstruct the contents of that dead disk. Fun, fun, fun.
Anyone who allows a machine to go more than 30 days without a reboot is asking for trouble. There is a reason why mainframers have a maintenance window every Sunday.
This is ridiculous. Wilful destruction of property is AGAINST THE LAW! Let's look at this another way. He's effectively saying that if you download copyrighted material, someone can be sent by the company that owns it to break both your legs.
I have a question for the Senator from Utah. Under the recently passed Patriot Act distruction of a computer system is considered an act of terrorism. Does the senators recent comments mean he is now supporting act of terrorism?
It's not like those buying in the second-hand market would buy new CD's at Best Buy anyway. After all, the reason they buy there is because they can't afford the $15 a CD that retail asks of them.
I buy _ALL_ my CDs in used stores. I buy between 3 and 4 CDs a week, all used. I have not bought a new CD in 3 years. Why? Because it will be a fucking cold day in hell when I give money to anyone who calls me a theif because I exerise my right to fair usage by making backup copies of CDs that I own. The music industry can kiss my kosher ass.
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That is something I really did not want in my head. thanks dude for giving me a serious case of the willies
48 volt DC. Why the hell are we still putting 110 AC into the power supply and steping it down to 24 volt DC. And what do you get when you do that? HEAT. And to compensate for not having a better power system you then get to spend a fortune on HVAC to cool the room that you heat by stepping down the voltage. 110 power supplies make sense in the home but in a data center it is stupid.
Please, I just finished lunch. While we are at it how of us had some half-ass development methodology forced us us because one of the bosses friends did it in his company and he got a raise.
I personally think Microsoft is getting a kick back from the spammers. They don't seem to do a very good job of patching their software and now they are opening up a new hole for spammers to get through. One step forward, 12 steps bask.
66 square kilometers == 25.5 square mile
About half the size of San Francisco
So, he got tazed 5 times because he was being a smart-ass? Talking back is now a crime? In your world the only thing that is allowed is silent obedience? You will make a nice sheep. See you at the death camp, fool.
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Indeed. Listen to a my hometown radio station KPFA in Berkeley, Ca. for a few hours then you will know what real leftist radio sounds like.
Democrats have no chance of retaking Congress or Senate! Are you out of your minds?
And I am glad of this for 2 reasons.
1) The Democratic party has failed so badly over the last 25 year, since the coming of Reagan, that they deserve to die. I am speaking as a former Democrat. A 4th generation Democrat. Time to die. Like the Whigs before them, it is now time for them to drift into the mists of history.
2) With the Republicans owning all 3 branches of goverment it is all on their head. Any screwups and it is their fault. No blaming the Democrats, that is like saying "My dog ate my homework" No blaming Clinton, he has been out of office for 6 years now. No, this is their show now, lock, stock and barrel. All my life I heard the Republicans whining "Put us in charge of the White House and both houses of Congress and things will be better" Well, my grandfater used to say "Don't ask for something, you just might get it" Now they have their wish and they also do not have someone to blame shit on.
Good luck, fuckwits. You shit is now out of the frying pan and into the fire.
How many Microsoft executives does it take to change a light bulb? None, they redefine "dark" to be the industry standard.
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All over America Pointer Hair Bosses issue a menu stating that all non compliant light bulbs must be removed
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If I am not mistaken, Steve Jobs has an annual salary of $1.00. Considering how much stock he owns and how much money he made in the past I don't think he thinks very much about how much he is getting paid. I think the CEO of Cisco has the same deal.
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Yep, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this.
Black, Sweet, and Hot as hell!
I had a contract gig in the early 90's at a call center in Chicago. I was fixing their software which was a POS (Pile Of Shit) running on SCO. My "office" was a closet. My "desk" was a door sitting on top of milk crates. My "chair" was a couple of milk crates, one on top of the other. I had to go across the alley to steal the milk crates from the Jewelle/Osco. I had to provide my own computer. The worst part was my "boss" who spent most of the day sitting at his desk doing shots of Tequila, cleaning his guns and verbally abusing the women who worked their. I was never so glad to leave a job.
I would join the revolution, but I have to mail in my mortgage payment by 5pm today.
yea, that reminds me I have to mail in my membership to the EFF and the ACLU.
Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.
The key for the RIAA is to ingrain the meme that if you illegally trade files that you will be caught and fined.
to paraphrase "If enough people are prosecuted for smoking marijuana then people will stop. The key for the DEA is to ingrain the meme that if you smoke weed then you will be caught and sent to jail."
Ummmm, next time think it all the way through before you post one of your brillent non sequiturs
Judging by the amount of spam I am getting from Korea I think we need to take the Internet away from them ;-/
The Dead always got it - they made far more money touring than by selling records. Letting fans record concerts and swap tapes created a lot of good will and good publicity.
Phish also gets it. They have always let fans tape and trade their shows. In Feburary of this year that launched a website (livephish.com) where you can buy and download a soundboard recording, in MP3 or in FLAC, of the entire concert for $9.95 (MP3) or $12.95 (FLAC). The recordings are posted within 2 or 3 days after the concert. The online catalog lists every concert they have done so far this year.
In July there was an article in, I think, the New York Times where the Phish web site manager said that the site had had over 1 million sales. Do the math. This is from a non-mainstream band. When was the last time you saw Phish on MTV? Think about this; Phish played 2 nights at The Shoreline in Mountian View, Ca. Both nights were sold out. The Shoreline holds, I guess, 30,000 people. Using this web site they get to re-sell the concert without splitting the proceeds with BGP (Bill Graham Presents) and TicketBastard. Do you think the music industry is missing something?
And we should just allow this kind of proliferation of WMDs in Asia? Why isn't the US already bombing the shit out of them?
Because Taiwan has no oil and the Chinese army is really big. Body bags can really put the whammy on a re-election, or I should say election, campaign. The current regime is making Nixon look good.
And watch the U.S. federal government block trade with countries that don't have a strong copyright law, strong enforcement thereof, a Bono Act, and a DMCA.
Not going to happen. China is very well know for not having any respect for copyright laws yet 1 billion plus people in a virtually untapped market is irresistible to business. Which is why one of the last Communist dictatorships goes about their merry way without a peep out of the U.S. goverment.
Until no one sells one without DRM.
Nice theory but since profit margins on PC hardware is razor thin the manufactures are looking for anything to give them an edge. If DRM in the BIOS becomes common then there will be motherboards made, most likley in places like Korea, that do not have this "feature".
Agree. Long uptimes are a recipe for disaster. 2 things can go wrong 1) the system on disk has changed under the system in memory. Broken or missing shared libraries and init scripts. 2) my fav, the disks stop spinning. This is lots of fun. Try it some time. Go to one of your older machine, the one with 500 plus days of uptime. Shut it down, remove the power cord, wait 3 minutes, reattach the power cord, put your finger on the power switch. OK, gentlemen, place your bets. Will all the disks spinup? If they do not, you get to find out how good your backups really are. When was the last time you backed that system up? When was the last time you verified the backup? A simple "Put more memory into this machine" becomes 3 or 4 days of living hell as you run around trying to figure out what happened, try to reconstruct the contents of that dead disk. Fun, fun, fun.
Anyone who allows a machine to go more than 30 days without a reboot is asking for trouble. There is a reason why mainframers have a maintenance window every Sunday.
This is ridiculous. Wilful destruction of property is AGAINST THE LAW! Let's look at this another way. He's effectively saying that if you download copyrighted material, someone can be sent by the company that owns it to break both your legs.
I have a question for the Senator from Utah. Under the recently passed Patriot Act distruction of a computer system is considered an act of terrorism. Does the senators recent comments mean he is now supporting act of terrorism?
It's not like those buying in the second-hand market would buy new CD's at Best Buy anyway. After all, the reason they buy there is because they can't afford the $15 a CD that retail asks of them.
I buy _ALL_ my CDs in used stores. I buy between 3 and 4 CDs a week, all used. I have not bought a new CD in 3 years. Why? Because it will be a fucking cold day in hell when I give money to anyone who calls me a theif because I exerise my right to fair usage by making backup copies of CDs that I own. The music industry can kiss my kosher ass.