The slashdot aniversary party in San Francisco is considering several public venues for the party. One topic of discussion was the fact that many slashdotters might not be able to recognize each other.
Perhaps there should be a slashdot party badge sized to fit a standard badge holder. Slashdotters could navigate to a page that would print out a recognizable Icon as well as their handle and perhaps other statistics (join date, first post date, number of posts, Karma points, etc.).
Those people unable to join an official slashdot party could particpate in a virtual slashdot party by wearing their paper badge in a badge holder as they go about their business in the mall, etc.
Aside: When ISPs and corporations are forced to pay equitably for the addresses (and routes!) they use, the IPv4 "crisis" will solve itself.
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company with 30 K employees that had 3 and now has 6 class B IP address ranges so that each computer could have a unique IP address. At the same time, they configured all routers to block all inbound traffic to all but a few of those addresses corresponding to servers for mail, HTML, and FTP!
A small fee of even 1 $/month would make that hoarding go away. Perhaps the first 5 or so could be reserved at a lower rate. The same is true for companies hoarding blocks of 1000 or 100 phone numbers which is causing all of the split and overlays in the NANP.
Mr. Joseph M. Weiss does not work directly for EPRI any more. A web search shows that he has worked for at least two consulting companies that provide a services for power companies.
EPRI used to be funded by power companies paying EPRI for research for the common good. Deregulation forced many of those companies to decrease the outlay of money for ouside research. That resulted in a reduced role for EPRI, and a decrease in the staff levels.
The demonstration was likely scripted for the intended audience that understands smoke and vibration and does not understand other failures that might be more subtle. Recent unplanned events have shown that small disturbances on the power grid can cause fairly widespread disruptions and actual equpment damage.
As another poster noted, the generator shown is the type used to provide emergency/startup power to a generating facility so that the rest of the facility can run. Operating Cycle is probably some non-technical translation of phase angle, mixture, coolant flow safety interlock or some other manipulated or controlled variable.
The Y2K project was about:
inventory
risk assessment
project management
information sharing (for efficient activites in the other areas)
Lots of things were replaced or upgraded (urban renual) because it was cheaper than doing a complete risk assessment. The legacy of the Y2K projects was that the mitigation of risk made the systems very resiliant to the 9/11 attacks. Many single points of failure had already been hardened, backed-up, and distributed away from major metropolitan centers.
Slightly off topic, but in line with the theme of non-windows system management in network environments.
What do people recommend to distribute software to a small number (say 10) of Mac OS 10 computers on a network?
It wastes time to have one person install and configure software on multiple computers. The results from having users install software themselves is extremely variable. One can try to conserve bandwith by downloading one image to a server, then installing from there, but it gets tedious (and error prone) after a few.
BTW: I suspect that most sites with 10 or so computers will not be running OS X Server on any computer, and will not have access to the Apple support resources.
Informix was used to hold configuration information in the Foxboro IA DCS (Intellegent Automation Distributed Control System) used to control process plants (chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, metals and mining, food and pharmaceuticals, textiles, and power generation).
At the time it was released (1987), this was the only DCS that used a commercial database for configuration, and the only DCS that had a real filesystem (because the underlying OS was a flavor of Unix).
For a variety of reasons, Foxboro lost a lot of the DCS market, was bought by Siebe and the company was renamed Invensys.
The IA product might have evoloved away from using Informix -- one can not tell from the public website.
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to stewed, or blasted, or ...
The article talks about adapting MySQL to be a front end. I wonder if someone is working on adapting PostgreSQL to be a front end too.
With Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Windows XP SP2 and six windows open the VM size is less than the Memory size.
I wonder if there are some shared memory segments, or memory mapped I/O.
No time to flush out with SysInternals. I have a turkey to prepare!
With Firefox 1.5.0.12 on Windows XP SP2 and six windows open the VM size is less than the Memory size.
I wonder if there are some shared memory segments, or memory mapped I/O.
No time to flush out with SysInternals. I have a turkey to prepare!
The work of Cyrano Sciences http://www.smalltimes.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=267768 commercialized the 1990's work at Caltech. Cyrano Sciences was acquired by Smiths Detection in 2003 http://www.rusticcanyon.com/portfolio/cmp_cyrano.html.
The slashdot aniversary party in San Francisco is considering several public venues for the party. One topic of discussion was the fact that many slashdotters might not be able to recognize each other.
Perhaps there should be a slashdot party badge sized to fit a standard badge holder. Slashdotters could navigate to a page that would print out a recognizable Icon as well as their handle and perhaps other statistics (join date, first post date, number of posts, Karma points, etc.).
Those people unable to join an official slashdot party could particpate in a virtual slashdot party by wearing their paper badge in a badge holder as they go about their business in the mall, etc.
I used to work for a Fortune 500 company with 30 K employees that had 3 and now has 6 class B IP address ranges so that each computer could have a unique IP address. At the same time, they configured all routers to block all inbound traffic to all but a few of those addresses corresponding to servers for mail, HTML, and FTP!
A small fee of even 1 $/month would make that hoarding go away. Perhaps the first 5 or so could be reserved at a lower rate. The same is true for companies hoarding blocks of 1000 or 100 phone numbers which is causing all of the split and overlays in the NANP.
Mr. Joseph M. Weiss does not work directly for EPRI any more. A web search shows that he has worked for at least two consulting companies that provide a services for power companies.
EPRI used to be funded by power companies paying EPRI for research for the common good. Deregulation forced many of those companies to decrease the outlay of money for ouside research. That resulted in a reduced role for EPRI, and a decrease in the staff levels.
The demonstration was likely scripted for the intended audience that understands smoke and vibration and does not understand other failures that might be more subtle. Recent unplanned events have shown that small disturbances on the power grid can cause fairly widespread disruptions and actual equpment damage.
As another poster noted, the generator shown is the type used to provide emergency/startup power to a generating facility so that the rest of the facility can run. Operating Cycle is probably some non-technical translation of phase angle, mixture, coolant flow safety interlock or some other manipulated or controlled variable.
The Y2K project was about:
- inventory
- risk assessment
- project management
- information sharing (for efficient activites in the other areas)
Lots of things were replaced or upgraded (urban renual) because it was cheaper than doing a complete risk assessment. The legacy of the Y2K projects was that the mitigation of risk made the systems very resiliant to the 9/11 attacks. Many single points of failure had already been hardened, backed-up, and distributed away from major metropolitan centers.He is just pissed that he responded to an "I Love You" e-mail virus
Does the video have the StarWars equivalent of Elaine's wacky dance on the tape that Kramer made of a movie on a Sienfeld episode?
Slightly off topic, but in line with the theme of non-windows system management in network environments.
What do people recommend to distribute software to a small number (say 10) of Mac OS 10 computers on a network?
It wastes time to have one person install and configure software on multiple computers. The results from having users install software themselves is extremely variable. One can try to conserve bandwith by downloading one image to a server, then installing from there, but it gets tedious (and error prone) after a few.
BTW: I suspect that most sites with 10 or so computers will not be running OS X Server on any computer, and will not have access to the Apple support resources.
but thinking about a new Dr. Who makes me so excited, my nose runs.
Informix was used to hold configuration information in the Foxboro IA DCS (Intellegent Automation Distributed Control System) used to control process plants (chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, metals and mining, food and pharmaceuticals, textiles, and power generation).
At the time it was released (1987), this was the only DCS that used a commercial database for configuration, and the only DCS that had a real filesystem (because the underlying OS was a flavor of Unix).
For a variety of reasons, Foxboro lost a lot of the DCS market, was bought by Siebe and the company was renamed Invensys.
The IA product might have evoloved away from using Informix -- one can not tell from the public website.