I just dug out the report from our evaluation (I was not the one evaluating Postgres - for the simple reason that I love Postgres too much), but the main reasons for not recommending it for our environment was the combination of two things: Transaction throughput dropped to about one-third when using multi-master replication with two nodes, with dedicated 100mbit links between the data nodes, and the replication was not synchronous. If it was synchronous, then the drop in performance would not be such a big deal, but when it's not, the loss of performnace was difficult to explain and increased the risk of conflicting updates. MySQL, on the other hand, remained at >85% efficiency in the same setup (not synchronous, though).
If any of the conclusions were wrong, or if anything has changed during the last 6 months, then we will obviously have to re-evaluate at the next crossroads, which would be in another 6 months or so.
And please DO prove me wrong here, as Postgres would be very much preferred...
Sure I have to pay for that when going for the commercial bigwigs. However, MySQL pretends to be enterprise-class these days, which makes their efforts look even more ridicolous. Hell, the NDB-cluster idea isn't so bad, if it wasn't for NDB... Why the heck couldn't they do some kind of disk backed storage instead/as an alternative?? Last I checked I couldn't even use swap for the purpose of extending the DB, not to mention that would be dog slow, very inefficient (no db-page alignment on reads/writes, no sorting, no indexing) and unbelieveably dirty...
Open ingres would be interesting if it worked on FreeBSD and had a working jdbc driver that works in 64-bit environments. Not to mention the database would have to manage a 64-bit environment, but it might, I haven't checked.
Sure, but that one is 1 inflexible and 2 inefficient and 3 not able to fulfill the requirements we had when evaluating it (about 4 months ago). I can't remember exactly what the conclusion was, but even though we hungered for something else than MySQL we ended up sticking with it for another maintenance cycle...
But neither of the two have a good, cross-platform clustering- or multi-master replication solution, which makes things kinda difficult in our end. For MySQL I can use circular replication, but this is undocumented at best, and very error-prone in extreme situations. The clustering in MySQL doesn't count - in-memory storage limited to half of your physical mem - come on, that's ridicolous. And for Postgres, any multi-master solution there would (currently) dramatically reduce performance. Not the best thing either.
Why was I told, by a Dell sales representative (our key account manager, actually), that "if I wanted to have a Matrox dual-DVI G650 card with my computers, I would *have* to accept that they came with WinXP preinstalled"??? I asked back, what does a piece of hardware have to do with any piece of software. And why on earth do they offer (now, but not when we placed our first batch of orders) a dual-DVI ATI card, for about half the price, WITHOUT requiring a WinXP installation?
Let me try to get this straight: - I order a clean PC, and tell them I want a Matrox G650 card preinstalled ---> No can do, if you want the Matrox card preinstalled, you need XP preinstalled.
- I order a clean PC, and tell them I want an ATI Xwhatever card preinstalled ---> No problem, do you want FreeDOS with that?
And to top it off: I COULD have the Matrox card, OF COURSE, but then I'd have to install it myself.
Yea right, install a frikkin' gfx card in 60 computers, thereby ruining much of my warranty - up yours.
We use FreeBSD with IPF, IPFW and some home-brewn tools in our main hosting centre. We have chosen name-brand hardware and free software - already having in-depth knowledge in-house, we had no need to buy a complete black-box solution.
Of course - investing in "fresh" knowledge on FreeBSD or whichever other platform you wish to roll your own firewall/ids solution on top of - is going to be expensive. Thus this solution might not work for all...
Too bad you don't consider the cost of getting RID of a solar panel. Disposing of one without harming the environment further is expensive (processing) and a waste of energy (transport - you can coordinate deliveries but not as easily collection). If you add that to the equation, solar panels aren't efficient at all.
Oh and another thing - producing them isn't enough, they need to be transported and installed as well. Which, again, costs energy (and money).
What kind of CPU do you have? bzip2 is SLOW, and any reasonably sized disk (several gigs) would probably take several hours to compress, and a bit less to decompress - in any case heaps more than your quoted 5 and 3 minutes.
Wasn't there a story on/. a few years ago about someone researching why the bubbles in Guinness were apparently sinking - with the conclusion that they are driven down by streams closer to the centre of the glass?
According to my own experience with the T68i, the build quality and usability of that phone is significantly worse than that of the T68. Sure, you can bring them to the same level firmware-wise, but the T68 is just more sturdy than the 'i' model. I had one T68 and two T68i's, and the T68 works nicely still (it's the oldest and has had the roughest treatment), while the i's have both broken down, and been repaired four times altogether. But I don't like any of them; they are just too damn slow. I mean come on - 2-3 seconds wait to open the address book? And what about typing SMS'es, by the time you wrote half the message you have to wait for the phone to catch up with you..
I really hope this new one is faster, sturdier and more usable. Then I'll perhaps check it out.
According to the article as it stands right now, Yahoo has gone up against NCR on this one, so I bet we'll see most of their patents (this is not the only one) rebutted. Quite honestly, there are patents out there that should scare us up more than this one, because this one is simply so obviously wrong that there's no risk involved in going up against NCR if you're being attacked. Other patents however do patent stuff that can't be rebutted by facts. They are unethical and disgusting but unfortunately, by todays standards (in the US) they hold water pretty well.
In fact, the EPO has nothing to do with the EU. It's a standalone organization. AFAIK it gets its funding from the member states and from the patent owners, not from the EU as such.
I'm also working at the EPO, as an external contractor. It is interesting to see that he has been forced to pull his interview, but there may be some good reasons for this. And probably none of them has anything to do with the questions per se. Imagine you working for a huuuuge company, say IBM, Microsoft, WorldCom;) or any other company getting lots of media coverage. Imagine you, as 'just another worker' would start answering questions from the press and so on. No matter how much you would state that you do not represent them or their opinion etc. etc., try thinking how easy it is for a newspaper, website, radio station, etc. to simply edit those statements away.. Not only would you risk ending up having your statements treated as if they were 'authoritative', you would, with good reason, piss your boss off. One thing is to talk to your friends about the good and bad things happening at your job. An entirely different thing is to publically make statements about it when you really have NO authority to do so. If you are working for someone, you need to be able to trust your employer, AND your employer needs to be able to trust you. I could have said a lot of interesting things about how the EPO works, both positive and negative, but I won't do so in a public forum simply because it is not my job! If you want answers from the EPO, or any other company or organization, there are usually public relations departments or the like. They are not always too helpful, but that should always be the place to start. And I wouldn't be all too surprised if they would indeed agree to do an interview with the slashdot crowd. After all the EPO takes pride in saying it's an organization of scientists, fundamentally differently organized than the american patent office, and atleast some people in high places do identify with our kind.
Like, they put one of those into an airplane and flew it half around the globe or something.. That might have been another aspect of the theory though.
But one thing is for sure: They won't 'prove' Einstein in any way by doing this - but they might *prove* him wrong. Only negative proof can be done by example.
Having MS open their source and/or making SW for free isn't going to prove a business case for them. And I'm not even sure if it's really what we (should) want them to do. The most critical problem isn't their lack of OSS - it's their active bashing of anything that has to do with Linux and GPL etc. What needs to be brought across is that what they are doing is bad, it's scaring people off, so in the long run it's going to be more negative to their revenues than it would be to (and here's what we *should* hope for) start complying more with standards, to allow cooperation with other software, no matter what platform and licence it's on/under.
I think the way to put it is 'respect your opponents'. They have to be told they can NEVER be a 100% monopoly. They should rather try to be 'happy' with 50% or 75% or whatever makes them smile (hopefully in the end it will be less, but I don't want a monopoly of OSS/Linux software either), and make people smile back at them by *allowing* competition. And by allowing people to choose their own solutions and systems.
This is what we should wish for, and this is what we need to bring across. Note that I'm aware I haven't brought forward any 'proof' as to why this would be good business for them, all support I have for my statements are what I consider common sense. I'd love to have someone knowledgeable prove me right or wrong - both would be beneficial to me AND the community.
..that they would have made sure this couldn't happen.. I mean after all, as opposed to boxes standing in peoples homes, they knew _EXACTLY_ what these demo boxes would be doing.. And it should be pretty limited too.. Maybe a self-running demo.. And the possibility to try one game or so.. How hard can it be to test this for a copla days before sending it out to demo??
I used to work for a company where they use all kinds of operating systems.. They did, and still do, web and database development and graphical design (computer graphics, posters, company 'look/image', etc.
Since the nature of their work is in essence multiplatform, there is a true multitude of platforms in operation within the company. There are Mac workstations, using MacOS or Linux/BSD, there are OS/2 workstations, Linux workstations, PC/BSD platforms, QNX and BeOS workstation.. And the occasional Windows box.
The company stresses that whoever works there should be allowed to use whatever operating system makes them do their job most effectively - truly seeing how subjective and individual that is.
On a side note, there are things indicating that the Norwegian government might want to rid themselves of their dependency on Windows... Whatever that means..
I'm sorry you take it this way. And I'm sorry if my post made it look like the only thing I'm doing is to bash Trekies.
My reason for doing so is that the most common source of critics agains B5 comes from trekies, and thus it's natural for me to compare to that. I know I shouldn't. And I know, people posting here have been mostly kind to B5.. However, the major reason for this is probably that B5 wasn't mentioned in the original story! Such things tend to have some effect on the following discussion..
Anyway.. I watch ST myself, but as I said in my original post, mostly for entertainment purposes. As far as that goes, it's among the best things around. Partly because it's sci-fi, and partly because it's hitech stuff. And I'm a geek;)
And why don't I mention/bash/criticize/compliment other series? Because from what I've seen (which admittedly is rather limited due to my location and so on) there are no other sci-fi series worth mentioning. B5 and ST are the top-notch, each in their own genre, but complementing eachother quite well as far as brainfood and entertainment needs are concerned.
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This is ridicolous. If the reason for all this is the skript-kiddos thumping away at the big irc nets, then I say this is not the right means to deal with the problem. IRC doesn't need encryption and all that crap, except perhaps of DCC chats. It's a total waste of computing power. And it will make my IRC client obsolete:P Tunnel IRC connections through SSH if it's that goddamn important;)
An improvement in the way the servers communicate, resulting in better stability and availability, would however be very welcome.. It's rather ridicolous that networks like openprojects are so incredibly unstable - and afaik that's not even due to attacks, but simply that people don't understand one basic rule: "If it's not broken, don't fix it!"
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Not to mention that many of the things I do _require_ me to use several tools more or less in parallel. I.e. I need an editor to do my coding, a few command lines to handle compiling and debugging, a browser or other tool to view the result of my coding, documentation tools and sources, IRC (for informational purposes;), etc. etc. etc.
Although not all of these processes are actually _doing_ anything all the time, they are several applications that I need to have running and ready-to-serve at any given moment of the day. So even though _I_ may be working on only one task as such, the computer is working on several. And without this capability of my operating system of choice, I wouldn't be able to do my job half as effectively.
Bottom line is - My computer is a tool. As long as I am using only one computer at a time, and only working on one project at a time, I'm single-tasking. My computer is multi-tasking, but the term 'task' has a entirely different meaning.
I know I know.. It's not on 'now' (except SciFi US), but it's still _the_ scifi show. It's got a really well-thought out universe and plot, the story goes well beyond the start and the end of the series as such, the actors are great, and.. well.. I think a lot of people would benefit from watching it;)
What I usually say to ST fans who claim B5 is crap and has no story and is a soap opera like anything else is: Can you, after seeing the entire ST:TNG series (all seasons), then see one episode and pinpoint it to a specific point in the story? Usually not. With B5, I could do that pretty accurately; a good indication that to B5, there is a story, to ST, there is (almost) no story.
And to piss ya folks off even more: ST is entertainment. B5 is brainfood.;)
I seem to remember at least one other explanation to this whole question.. The norwegian professor Thor Heyerdahl (the man behind the Kon-Tiki, Ra, Easter Island etc. expeditions and associated theories) came up with a mechanical device that proved able to lift/transport/put in place the huge blocks of stone (ofcourse with the required accuracy). He didn't present it as _the_ answer, but as one of many proofs that aliens weren't responsible for the pyramids..
Respect to anyone fighting those ideas, and to anyone in pursuit of the truth.
Last I heard, these scientists (especially the danish guy being behind the first 'discovery' of these indications) have found more similiar effects that indeed seem as if, in sum, they could produce the kind of weather variations we've had over the last 30 years. And the figures they recently have presented do indeed include data up to the late 90's (99 being the last year if i remember correctly), still having a very strong tie to the weather conditions..
The biggest problem they have is actually that they are being accused of being sponsored/bribed by the oil industry... An industry they have nothing to do with, but that happens to like their ideas... And on this basis, they are rejected by 'established' theorists as.. well.. guess.
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Sorry, that (spreading FUD) was not my intention.
I just dug out the report from our evaluation (I was not the one evaluating Postgres - for the simple reason that I love Postgres too much), but the main reasons for not recommending it for our environment was the combination of two things: Transaction throughput dropped to about one-third when using multi-master replication with two nodes, with dedicated 100mbit links between the data nodes, and the replication was not synchronous. If it was synchronous, then the drop in performance would not be such a big deal, but when it's not, the loss of performnace was difficult to explain and increased the risk of conflicting updates.
MySQL, on the other hand, remained at >85% efficiency in the same setup (not synchronous, though).
If any of the conclusions were wrong, or if anything has changed during the last 6 months, then we will obviously have to re-evaluate at the next crossroads, which would be in another 6 months or so.
And please DO prove me wrong here, as Postgres would be very much preferred...
Sure I have to pay for that when going for the commercial bigwigs. However, MySQL pretends to be enterprise-class these days, which makes their efforts look even more ridicolous. Hell, the NDB-cluster idea isn't so bad, if it wasn't for NDB... Why the heck couldn't they do some kind of disk backed storage instead/as an alternative??
:)
Last I checked I couldn't even use swap for the purpose of extending the DB, not to mention that would be dog slow, very inefficient (no db-page alignment on reads/writes, no sorting, no indexing) and unbelieveably dirty...
Open ingres would be interesting if it worked on FreeBSD and had a working jdbc driver that works in 64-bit environments. Not to mention the database would have to manage a 64-bit environment, but it might, I haven't checked.
Nope, I'm not flaming
Sure, but that one is 1 inflexible and 2 inefficient and 3 not able to fulfill the requirements we had when evaluating it (about 4 months ago). I can't remember exactly what the conclusion was, but even though we hungered for something else than MySQL we ended up sticking with it for another maintenance cycle...
I count two (2) things: PostgreSQL and MySQL.
;)
Since when was two a crowd?
But neither of the two have a good, cross-platform clustering- or multi-master replication solution, which makes things kinda difficult in our end. For MySQL I can use circular replication, but this is undocumented at best, and very error-prone in extreme situations. The clustering in MySQL doesn't count - in-memory storage limited to half of your physical mem - come on, that's ridicolous. And for Postgres, any multi-master solution there would (currently) dramatically reduce performance. Not the best thing either.
Oh well. Maybe by this time next year.
Can someone please explain to me one thing:
Why was I told, by a Dell sales representative (our key account manager, actually), that "if I wanted to have a Matrox dual-DVI G650 card with my computers, I would *have* to accept that they came with WinXP preinstalled"??? I asked back, what does a piece of hardware have to do with any piece of software. And why on earth do they offer (now, but not when we placed our first batch of orders) a dual-DVI ATI card, for about half the price, WITHOUT requiring a WinXP installation?
Let me try to get this straight:
- I order a clean PC, and tell them I want a Matrox G650 card preinstalled
---> No can do, if you want the Matrox card preinstalled, you need XP preinstalled.
- I order a clean PC, and tell them I want an ATI Xwhatever card preinstalled
---> No problem, do you want FreeDOS with that?
And to top it off: I COULD have the Matrox card, OF COURSE, but then I'd have to install it myself.
Yea right, install a frikkin' gfx card in 60 computers, thereby ruining much of my warranty - up yours.
Puzzled, I am.
We use FreeBSD with IPF, IPFW and some home-brewn tools in our main hosting centre. We have chosen name-brand hardware and free software - already having in-depth knowledge in-house, we had no need to buy a complete black-box solution.
Of course - investing in "fresh" knowledge on FreeBSD or whichever other platform you wish to roll your own firewall/ids solution on top of - is going to be expensive. Thus this solution might not work for all...
Too bad you don't consider the cost of getting RID of a solar panel. Disposing of one without harming the environment further is expensive (processing) and a waste of energy (transport - you can coordinate deliveries but not as easily collection). If you add that to the equation, solar panels aren't efficient at all.
Oh and another thing - producing them isn't enough, they need to be transported and installed as well. Which, again, costs energy (and money).
What kind of CPU do you have? bzip2 is SLOW, and any reasonably sized disk (several gigs) would probably take several hours to compress, and a bit less to decompress - in any case heaps more than your quoted 5 and 3 minutes.
Found it here.
:)
It's old
Wasn't there a story on /. a few years ago about someone researching why the bubbles in Guinness were apparently sinking - with the conclusion that they are driven down by streams closer to the centre of the glass?
Is there any way I can do the upgrade myself? And where can I find out what the latest firmware is?
According to my own experience with the T68i, the build quality and usability of that phone is significantly worse than that of the T68. Sure, you can bring them to the same level firmware-wise, but the T68 is just more sturdy than the 'i' model. I had one T68 and two T68i's, and the T68 works nicely still (it's the oldest and has had the roughest treatment), while the i's have both broken down, and been repaired four times altogether.
But I don't like any of them; they are just too damn slow. I mean come on - 2-3 seconds wait to open the address book? And what about typing SMS'es, by the time you wrote half the message you have to wait for the phone to catch up with you..
I really hope this new one is faster, sturdier and more usable. Then I'll perhaps check it out.
According to the article as it stands right now, Yahoo has gone up against NCR on this one, so I bet we'll see most of their patents (this is not the only one) rebutted.
Quite honestly, there are patents out there that should scare us up more than this one, because this one is simply so obviously wrong that there's no risk involved in going up against NCR if you're being attacked.
Other patents however do patent stuff that can't be rebutted by facts. They are unethical and disgusting but unfortunately, by todays standards (in the US) they hold water pretty well.
It's a sad world.
In fact, the EPO has nothing to do with the EU. It's a standalone organization. AFAIK it gets its funding from the member states and from the patent owners, not from the EU as such.
I'm also working at the EPO, as an external contractor. It is interesting to see that he has been forced to pull his interview, but there may be some good reasons for this. And probably none of them has anything to do with the questions per se. ;) or any other company getting lots of media coverage. Imagine you, as 'just another worker' would start answering questions from the press and so on. No matter how much you would state that you do not represent them or their opinion etc. etc., try thinking how easy it is for a newspaper, website, radio station, etc. to simply edit those statements away.. Not only would you risk ending up having your statements treated as if they were 'authoritative', you would, with good reason, piss your boss off.
Imagine you working for a huuuuge company, say IBM, Microsoft, WorldCom
One thing is to talk to your friends about the good and bad things happening at your job. An entirely different thing is to publically make statements about it when you really have NO authority to do so. If you are working for someone, you need to be able to trust your employer, AND your employer needs to be able to trust you.
I could have said a lot of interesting things about how the EPO works, both positive and negative, but I won't do so in a public forum simply because it is not my job!
If you want answers from the EPO, or any other company or organization, there are usually public relations departments or the like. They are not always too helpful, but that should always be the place to start. And I wouldn't be all too surprised if they would indeed agree to do an interview with the slashdot crowd. After all the EPO takes pride in saying it's an organization of scientists, fundamentally differently organized than the american patent office, and atleast some people in high places do identify with our kind.
Like, they put one of those into an airplane and flew it half around the globe or something.. That might have been another aspect of the theory though.
But one thing is for sure: They won't 'prove' Einstein in any way by doing this - but they might *prove* him wrong. Only negative proof can be done by example.
Having MS open their source and/or making SW for free isn't going to prove a business case for them. And I'm not even sure if it's really what we (should) want them to do.
The most critical problem isn't their lack of OSS - it's their active bashing of anything that has to do with Linux and GPL etc.
What needs to be brought across is that what they are doing is bad, it's scaring people off, so in the long run it's going to be more negative to their revenues than it would be to (and here's what we *should* hope for) start complying more with standards, to allow cooperation with other software, no matter what platform and licence it's on/under.
I think the way to put it is 'respect your opponents'. They have to be told they can NEVER be a 100% monopoly. They should rather try to be 'happy' with 50% or 75% or whatever makes them smile (hopefully in the end it will be less, but I don't want a monopoly of OSS/Linux software either), and make people smile back at them by *allowing* competition. And by allowing people to choose their own solutions and systems.
This is what we should wish for, and this is what we need to bring across.
Note that I'm aware I haven't brought forward any 'proof' as to why this would be good business for them, all support I have for my statements are what I consider common sense.
I'd love to have someone knowledgeable prove me right or wrong - both would be beneficial to me AND the community.
..that they would have made sure this couldn't happen.. I mean after all, as opposed to boxes standing in peoples homes, they knew _EXACTLY_ what these demo boxes would be doing.. And it should be pretty limited too.. Maybe a self-running demo.. And the possibility to try one game or so.. How hard can it be to test this for a copla days before sending it out to demo??
I used to work for a company where they use all kinds of operating systems.. They did, and still do, web and database development and graphical design (computer graphics, posters, company 'look/image', etc.
Since the nature of their work is in essence multiplatform, there is a true multitude of platforms in operation within the company. There are Mac workstations, using MacOS or Linux/BSD, there are OS/2 workstations, Linux workstations, PC/BSD platforms, QNX and BeOS workstation.. And the occasional Windows box.
The company stresses that whoever works there should be allowed to use whatever operating system makes them do their job most effectively - truly seeing how subjective and individual that is.
On a side note, there are things indicating that the Norwegian government might want to rid themselves of their dependency on Windows... Whatever that means..
I'm sorry you take it this way. And I'm sorry if my post made it look like the only thing I'm doing is to bash Trekies.
;)
My reason for doing so is that the most common source of critics agains B5 comes from trekies, and thus it's natural for me to compare to that. I know I shouldn't. And I know, people posting here have been mostly kind to B5.. However, the major reason for this is probably that B5 wasn't mentioned in the original story! Such things tend to have some effect on the following discussion..
Anyway.. I watch ST myself, but as I said in my original post, mostly for entertainment purposes. As far as that goes, it's among the best things around. Partly because it's sci-fi, and partly because it's hitech stuff. And I'm a geek
And why don't I mention/bash/criticize/compliment other series? Because from what I've seen (which admittedly is rather limited due to my location and so on) there are no other sci-fi series worth mentioning. B5 and ST are the top-notch, each in their own genre, but complementing eachother quite well as far as brainfood and entertainment needs are concerned.
This is ridicolous. If the reason for all this is the skript-kiddos thumping away at the big irc nets, then I say this is not the right means to deal with the problem. IRC doesn't need encryption and all that crap, except perhaps of DCC chats. It's a total waste of computing power. And it will make my IRC client obsolete :P Tunnel IRC connections through SSH if it's that goddamn important ;)
An improvement in the way the servers communicate, resulting in better stability and availability, would however be very welcome.. It's rather ridicolous that networks like openprojects are so incredibly unstable - and afaik that's not even due to attacks, but simply that people don't understand one basic rule: "If it's not broken, don't fix it!"
br
Not to mention that many of the things I do _require_ me to use several tools more or less in parallel. I.e. I need an editor to do my coding, a few command lines to handle compiling and debugging, a browser or other tool to view the result of my coding, documentation tools and sources, IRC (for informational purposes ;), etc. etc. etc.
;)
Although not all of these processes are actually _doing_ anything all the time, they are several applications that I need to have running and ready-to-serve at any given moment of the day. So even though _I_ may be working on only one task as such, the computer is working on several. And without this capability of my operating system of choice, I wouldn't be able to do my job half as effectively.
Bottom line is - My computer is a tool. As long as I am using only one computer at a time, and only working on one project at a time, I'm single-tasking. My computer is multi-tasking, but the term 'task' has a entirely different meaning.
And no OS does multitasking like OS/2
I know I know.. It's not on 'now' (except SciFi US), but it's still _the_ scifi show. It's got a really well-thought out universe and plot, the story goes well beyond the start and the end of the series as such, the actors are great, and.. well.. I think a lot of people would benefit from watching it ;)
;)
What I usually say to ST fans who claim B5 is crap and has no story and is a soap opera like anything else is: Can you, after seeing the entire ST:TNG series (all seasons), then see one episode and pinpoint it to a specific point in the story? Usually not. With B5, I could do that pretty accurately; a good indication that to B5, there is a story, to ST, there is (almost) no story.
And to piss ya folks off even more: ST is entertainment. B5 is brainfood.
I seem to remember at least one other explanation to this whole question.. The norwegian professor Thor Heyerdahl (the man behind the Kon-Tiki, Ra, Easter Island etc. expeditions and associated theories) came up with a mechanical device that proved able to lift/transport/put in place the huge blocks of stone (ofcourse with the required accuracy). He didn't present it as _the_ answer, but as one of many proofs that aliens weren't responsible for the pyramids..
Respect to anyone fighting those ideas, and to anyone in pursuit of the truth.
Last I heard, these scientists (especially the danish guy being behind the first 'discovery' of these indications) have found more similiar effects that indeed seem as if, in sum, they could produce the kind of weather variations we've had over the last 30 years. And the figures they recently have presented do indeed include data up to the late 90's (99 being the last year if i remember correctly), still having a very strong tie to the weather conditions..
.. well.. guess.
The biggest problem they have is actually that they are being accused of being sponsored/bribed by the oil industry... An industry they have nothing to do with, but that happens to like their ideas... And on this basis, they are rejected by 'established' theorists as