To be fair though, if you are using a disk heavily that is near full, you're more likely to encounter pathological issues where the OS fails in strange ways due to lack of available storage rather than encounter a problem with the disk. Think bad old days when printing wouldn't work if you dropped below a certain amount of free space.
Even file systems that prevent or silently defrag can only do so much once you pass 80% utilization. Simply stated, a person doing what you're describing is courting disaster no matter what type of drive he/she is using.
While you don't need intelligence to play MMOs, they are the best test for a program designed to interact with other people due to the range of styles of communications.
Everything from "OMG!!!1!u sux" to "Prithee, but have ye a sledgehammer?"
It's a question of volume in EVE or WoW. Note they aren't trying to "build a better gold farming bot" but to use it for a Turing test type situation.
It's really a perspective thing. I just spec'd one with a Visualization node, Storage node, and 3 compute nodes. 20 cores, 3600GB storage, 160GB ram, monitors and all. $88k. Given that the medical practice I worked at between 2002 and 2006 had one server alone that cost $133k, and two others at $60k, $77k all for an electronic medical records system, this Cray doesn't seem like all that bad a deal for something so compact.
According to this report, the average CO2 produced per megawatt hour in 2000 was 0.668 tons. Given you could run 10 of these for that, and remove 200 tons in the process seems a reasonable return.
Had a not dissimilar problem when I first tried them. Of 6 I bought to replace 6 60watt bulbs in a bathroom lightbar, within 3 months, all were dead. All came from Home Depot.
I decided to try again with a different brand with a different color range from 1000bulbs.com, this time buying 14 bulbs, 6 for the light bar above, and 8 for a lightbar in the master bath. That was 3 years back, and every one of them is still working fine, they also get to full bright much quicker than the ones I'd tried previously. All were globe shaped.
Source seemed to play a huge role in life. Or at least brand.
His arguement is valid. When the change was made, it applied to all FairPlay protected songs, and you knew exactly what the change was. The point remains that in the windows world, each song can have completely different allowances from any other.
And yes, legally (disagree all you want) they can change permissions on things you already have. After all, with DRM they own the music, you are simply playing it with the rights they give you. To quote a certain snazzy dresser in black, "Pray they don't alter the deal further." And no, not talking about Jobs.
Would have been better to start by convincing a forward thinking school district to issue these to all students starting in a certain grade. Contract with manual printers to put their books on it. Sell them for $110 a child and use the extra to fund foreign aid.
There's enough interesting bits to these that it would drive a fair bit of innovation... The automatic meshing, epaper display mode, etc. The halo effect from sample boards has already forced a fair amount of open source changes to improve performance.
Darn good idea, but perhaps a bit to ambitious initially.
Home support is life sucking. That said, you will want to incorporate. You will want to look at umbrella liability protection if you don't have it. If you have a soul, you'll feel uncomfortable charging what you're worth, mainly because in most cases, you're sitting around waiting on scans to finish... Don't give in to that or you're just giving away the farm. Find out what the average is in your area and don't try the "undercut" routine. Word of mouth will get you business if you know what you're doing no matter the price. If you undercut, you get the cheapskates and general troublemakers.
For equipment, having an assortment of liveCDs is rather handy. Having a computer you can pull an HD and stick into to make offline scans is also very handy but bulky. Can usually get by with a small assortment of tools, you'll figure out what you need quickly. There generally isn't enough reason to buy some of the more esoteric (and expensive tools) if you're doing this part-time. Instead, see if you can form relationships with people in the area who are specialists.
Be prepared to walk away if you find yourself stressed. Working in home, you're going to run into everything. I personally couldn't stand the smoker or cat houses myself. Be prepared to make recommendations which will be forgotten before you leave the site. Be prepared for bounced checks. Plan on a budget for advertising. Figure out how many visits you can make a week. SCHEDULE ONLY THAT MANY. Do not "emergency? Oh, I'll shoe horn you in." The busier you are, the more most people are willing to wait (if you're any good).
I imagine it has something to do with overcoming prudery. Given sufficient advancement, clothing becomes simply decoration or possibly a way to hold stuff as your environment is temperature controlled. Given the Asgard are clones, personal art probably wouldn't hold much meaning, instead represented in the architecture or other shared form.
Here in the U.S. people get all hung up on a breast being exposed, when other cultures don't see it as a big deal. But hey, blowing people up in prime time is a'ok in our book.
California's been making owning certain types of guns illegal retroactively. If they get away with it, it's only a matter of time before some yutz at RIAA or MPAA goes, hey... Let's make any DVD player without our blessed DRM illegal.
We need a way out of this mess before our legal system pulls us back into the dark ages. Ah well, I suppose my children have to look forward to the day the world's sole super power (China) comes to our rescue.
What you need is a Document Management System, NOT a suggestion to email limits. Having had to peice together blown up Exchange servers in the past, it's not pretty, not fun, and no guarantee you'll recover everything even given regular backups.
Train people to move things that should be in a customer file into that file. If that means having to move from paper folders to an electronic version, then do it. But using email as a mission critical storage archive? That's just asking for heartache.
What I want is something like Plan9's Fossil+Venti file system. Versioned, with permenant copies offloaded to archive media. It's a rather nice, though not blazingly fast, complete view of data. Not the rather ephemeral view most of us take. Restore to any point in time since inception.
Failing that, something like OpenAFS with mirrored globally addressable volumes that can work at the system level rather than user level. Sure you can use IP security for OpenAFS, and a few brave folks have even gotten network booting to OpenAFS working... Again, snapshots are an option.
The world view of data should really be 1. Create 2. Version 3. Archive. Instead we have as-it-stands-now and arbitrary-backup-in-case-of-failure-or-user-stupid ity. Sure some people do put/etc under SVN/CVS control, but not many.
MBAs are cranked out by the thousands from universities and other programs. The vast majority learn the letter of business administration when a rare few learn the spirit. Those from the first category result in Rule 1 situations.
GM is a prime example. They are way over capacity, the quality is sub par, and all they can think of is slashing the prices on cars people didn't want in the first place. Ford is going through those same motions now.
To most MBAs improving the cash flow means slashing expenses at all costs. There is no tempering this mindset with common sense evaluation of what expenses are valid. Bye bye training expenses.
When I first started in the industry, I was working with a small mom n pop computer assembly store. I had just started as a part timer, when UPS delivered parts, and I was to build a brand new state of the art 486dx33.
Given the time crunch, the manager (a non-technical person), installed the CPU in the motherboard and handed it over to me to put in the case. After getting everything ready, I fired it up for the first time... Something very reminicent of ground fog started rolling out near the socket. "Cool. Oh, shiat!" were my exact words.
Amazingly enough, the computer worked after pulling power, and correcting the socket alignment.
You misunderstand. Trolltech's QT library is GPL, not LGPL. You are correct, you could sell your source code to a client commercially, but you could not sell a binary QT based application without having a commercial license from Trolltech. Otherwise your binary would be tainted and you'd need to release the source.
This is at the heart of why LGPL exists, and why distributions use Gnome as it's core libraries are LGPL.
All that said, QT is cheap for what you get, and well worth the cost if you are a professional.
Direcway satellite. I'm in MD hitting a geosync satellite for my Internet. Average ping time is ~750ms to most sites. Nowhere near "3.75-4 seconds"
Note this is bi-directional... It's not cheating by sending a land signal out and getting returns by satellite.
And yes if you're interested, World of Warcraft runs just fine...
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Having both a Tivo Series 2 and a Myth TV box...
Out of the box, Tivo is much nicer. After pulling hair and much fighting, MythTV is a heck of a lot nicer. There was a lot of pain to get there though, definately not for the faint of heart.
The main thing I learned in the process is don't overcomplicate. A PVR-250 is a fine card to use, the PVR-350 is just more features to pull out hair over.
TV Listings are a pain though. I have Direcway satellite as nothing else is available. The satellite receiver does some strange proxying. Because of that, my MythTV TV listings must be fetched via a ssh tunnel to a tinyproxy box at the office, otherwise it just fails.
If you have time, and patience, the MythTV solution is much more satisfying, otherwise Tivo is probably a better bet.
In our house, both are used. When Tivo finally dies though, it'll be replaced by MythTV.
What I'm looking at implementing (20 wireless tablet pcs used by physicians and their techs) is something more like this:
Bare open wireless with a dedicated DHCP/OpenVPN server. Server configured to only allow connections to/from known MAC addresses. Use OpenVPN (128 bit certificate keyed AES) to connect to the internal network.
Potentially an attacker could compromise one of the wireless devices, however the clients could be firewalled to permit only connections to/from the server to limit that exposure.
All clients are already setup with network/printer sharing disabled, so using the software firewall will be an acceptable risk.
Application level would be nice excepting for a few problems. Legacy apps that don't support it, and required services that can't be encrypted (printing/shared drives) without using a fairly brittle IPSEC solution. OpenVPN is a better solution. You end up with strong encryption, better key management, high resiliance (udp tunnelling, not tcp) to loss, higher throughput (lzo compression), and transparent protection.
I think we like the memory of what HP was, and hate what it has become. Every division has suffered.
Their PCs, printers, and servers are all a shadow of what they were. Feels like the entire line has been taken over in quality by the Presario line. They've replaced all-in-ones with units that don't have a fourth of the capabilities. New PCs that break in odd ways and their support has no documentation for (machines labeled 'HP Compaq' on the front). Bad news all around.
Sad to watch a former tech leader become a "also-run" fading star.
It's very real (buyback/rollback) and required by law in most states, although they don't necessarily have to give you cash if you exceed, and most cap credits.
It's not so simple as plugging into a socket though. You need a unit that takes your power (usually DC from the source) and matches the phase to the supply source.
A grid-tied system is generally much cheaper than an off-grid solution, as there's no need for batteries. Of course, you lose power when the grid does unless you install batteries and a service disconnect...
Many states require some form of verbal warning. "I am armed" qualifies, or the racking of a pump shotgun in most cases. Agreed though, a "warning shot" is idiotic.
Where I live, we get many wanna-be hunters from Baltimore area. Nothing makes me shudder more than going into a store, and seeing a group of them standing around talking about "bush shots." Where, they heard something rustling and shot. Never knew what or who it was...
A "warning shot" is just as ill-advised as a "bush shot."
My mother's house was a target for an attempted breakin. She had an alarm, she were home, they still tried. Fortunately they ran when the alarm sounded. Our area has had it's share of smash/grab robberies too. Very country, with a minimal 15 minute average time for a cop to show.
After that she wanted a gun. Given that I have a fair collection, we talked rather seriously about it. In the end, it came down to her deciding she couldn't have a gun effectively.
It comes down to this. If you have a gun, and point it at another human being, you must realize that you fully intend to terminate that person's life. There is no shoot-to-wound, you shoot to kill or be killed. It's not the movies.
If you don't realize that, and accept the burden of potentially having to live the rest of your life having actively caused the death of another, then find some other means. A gun would at best be a paperweight, at worst a hazard.
Yes it's expensive to imprison. It's a cost of our own making.
We currently imprison non-violent drug offenders, frequently resulting in violent offenders getting early release due to overcrowding. Legalizing drugs would eliminate the non-violent offenders, and eliminate the draw for violent offenders. Sin tax it and use the revenue to provide prevention/education if you have to.
Stop giving prisoners the right to pursue nuissance law suits. We have plenty of issues with lifers suing over piddly things, and judges being unwilling to summary judge for fear of overrule on appeal.
Make prison, well, prison. Some states are better about this than others.
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To be fair though, if you are using a disk heavily that is near full, you're more likely to encounter pathological issues where the OS fails in strange ways due to lack of available storage rather than encounter a problem with the disk. Think bad old days when printing wouldn't work if you dropped below a certain amount of free space.
Even file systems that prevent or silently defrag can only do so much once you pass 80% utilization. Simply stated, a person doing what you're describing is courting disaster no matter what type of drive he/she is using.
While you don't need intelligence to play MMOs, they are the best test for a program designed to interact with other people due to the range of styles of communications.
Everything from "OMG!!!1!u sux" to "Prithee, but have ye a sledgehammer?"
It's a question of volume in EVE or WoW. Note they aren't trying to "build a better gold farming bot" but to use it for a Turing test type situation.
It's really a perspective thing. I just spec'd one with a Visualization node, Storage node, and 3 compute nodes. 20 cores, 3600GB storage, 160GB ram, monitors and all. $88k. Given that the medical practice I worked at between 2002 and 2006 had one server alone that cost $133k, and two others at $60k, $77k all for an electronic medical records system, this Cray doesn't seem like all that bad a deal for something so compact.
According to this report, the average CO2 produced per megawatt hour in 2000 was 0.668 tons. Given you could run 10 of these for that, and remove 200 tons in the process seems a reasonable return.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oiaf/1605/cdrom/pdf/e-supdoc.pdf
Had a not dissimilar problem when I first tried them. Of 6 I bought to replace 6 60watt bulbs in a bathroom lightbar, within 3 months, all were dead. All came from Home Depot.
I decided to try again with a different brand with a different color range from 1000bulbs.com, this time buying 14 bulbs, 6 for the light bar above, and 8 for a lightbar in the master bath. That was 3 years back, and every one of them is still working fine, they also get to full bright much quicker than the ones I'd tried previously. All were globe shaped.
Source seemed to play a huge role in life. Or at least brand.
Signed up, and checked in tonight. What the hell is it running?
/var/xgrid/agent/tasks/4nOFfwTN/executables/boinc -no_gui_rpc -attach_project http://setiathome/
nobody 5606 100.0 -3.4 103580 70916 ?? RN 8:00PM 130:53.62 setiathome_5.13_powerpc-apple-darwin
nobody 5598 0.0 -0.3 28208 5508 ?? SNs 7:57PM 0:02.37
For a serious grid, sure I'd donate. But for what sure seems like an attempt to inflate some jack-off's seti at home score? Don't think so.
His arguement is valid. When the change was made, it applied to all FairPlay protected songs, and you knew exactly what the change was. The point remains that in the windows world, each song can have completely different allowances from any other.
And yes, legally (disagree all you want) they can change permissions on things you already have. After all, with DRM they own the music, you are simply playing it with the rights they give you. To quote a certain snazzy dresser in black, "Pray they don't alter the deal further." And no, not talking about Jobs.
Would have been better to start by convincing a forward thinking school district to issue these to all students starting in a certain grade. Contract with manual printers to put their books on it. Sell them for $110 a child and use the extra to fund foreign aid.
There's enough interesting bits to these that it would drive a fair bit of innovation... The automatic meshing, epaper display mode, etc. The halo effect from sample boards has already forced a fair amount of open source changes to improve performance.
Darn good idea, but perhaps a bit to ambitious initially.
Home support is life sucking. That said, you will want to incorporate. You will want to look at umbrella liability protection if you don't have it. If you have a soul, you'll feel uncomfortable charging what you're worth, mainly because in most cases, you're sitting around waiting on scans to finish... Don't give in to that or you're just giving away the farm. Find out what the average is in your area and don't try the "undercut" routine. Word of mouth will get you business if you know what you're doing no matter the price. If you undercut, you get the cheapskates and general troublemakers.
For equipment, having an assortment of liveCDs is rather handy. Having a computer you can pull an HD and stick into to make offline scans is also very handy but bulky. Can usually get by with a small assortment of tools, you'll figure out what you need quickly. There generally isn't enough reason to buy some of the more esoteric (and expensive tools) if you're doing this part-time. Instead, see if you can form relationships with people in the area who are specialists.
Be prepared to walk away if you find yourself stressed. Working in home, you're going to run into everything. I personally couldn't stand the smoker or cat houses myself. Be prepared to make recommendations which will be forgotten before you leave the site. Be prepared for bounced checks. Plan on a budget for advertising. Figure out how many visits you can make a week. SCHEDULE ONLY THAT MANY. Do not "emergency? Oh, I'll shoe horn you in." The busier you are, the more most people are willing to wait (if you're any good).
Good luck. Don't burn out. Life is too short.
I imagine it has something to do with overcoming prudery. Given sufficient advancement, clothing becomes simply decoration or possibly a way to hold stuff as your environment is temperature controlled. Given the Asgard are clones, personal art probably wouldn't hold much meaning, instead represented in the architecture or other shared form.
Here in the U.S. people get all hung up on a breast being exposed, when other cultures don't see it as a big deal. But hey, blowing people up in prime time is a'ok in our book.
California's been making owning certain types of guns illegal retroactively. If they get away with it, it's only a matter of time before some yutz at RIAA or MPAA goes, hey... Let's make any DVD player without our blessed DRM illegal.
We need a way out of this mess before our legal system pulls us back into the dark ages. Ah well, I suppose my children have to look forward to the day the world's sole super power (China) comes to our rescue.
What you need is a Document Management System, NOT a suggestion to email limits. Having had to peice together blown up Exchange servers in the past, it's not pretty, not fun, and no guarantee you'll recover everything even given regular backups.
Train people to move things that should be in a customer file into that file. If that means having to move from paper folders to an electronic version, then do it. But using email as a mission critical storage archive? That's just asking for heartache.
What I want is something like Plan9's Fossil+Venti file system. Versioned, with permenant copies offloaded to archive media. It's a rather nice, though not blazingly fast, complete view of data. Not the rather ephemeral view most of us take. Restore to any point in time since inception.
d ity. Sure some people do put /etc under SVN/CVS control, but not many.
Failing that, something like OpenAFS with mirrored globally addressable volumes that can work at the system level rather than user level. Sure you can use IP security for OpenAFS, and a few brave folks have even gotten network booting to OpenAFS working... Again, snapshots are an option.
The world view of data should really be 1. Create 2. Version 3. Archive. Instead we have as-it-stands-now and arbitrary-backup-in-case-of-failure-or-user-stupi
MBAs are cranked out by the thousands from universities and other programs. The vast majority learn the letter of business administration when a rare few learn the spirit. Those from the first category result in Rule 1 situations.
GM is a prime example. They are way over capacity, the quality is sub par, and all they can think of is slashing the prices on cars people didn't want in the first place. Ford is going through those same motions now.
To most MBAs improving the cash flow means slashing expenses at all costs. There is no tempering this mindset with common sense evaluation of what expenses are valid. Bye bye training expenses.
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-5109435.html
So it can be used to eavesdrop on stolen cars, and only by a split 2-1 decision is the FBI blocked from using it as a "wiretap"
I'd say yes, they could tell when you're making out with a real doll.
When I first started in the industry, I was working with a small mom n pop computer assembly store. I had just started as a part timer, when UPS delivered parts, and I was to build a brand new state of the art 486dx33.
Given the time crunch, the manager (a non-technical person), installed the CPU in the motherboard and handed it over to me to put in the case. After getting everything ready, I fired it up for the first time... Something very reminicent of ground fog started rolling out near the socket. "Cool. Oh, shiat!" were my exact words.
Amazingly enough, the computer worked after pulling power, and correcting the socket alignment.
You misunderstand. Trolltech's QT library is GPL, not LGPL. You are correct, you could sell your source code to a client commercially, but you could not sell a binary QT based application without having a commercial license from Trolltech. Otherwise your binary would be tainted and you'd need to release the source.
This is at the heart of why LGPL exists, and why distributions use Gnome as it's core libraries are LGPL.
All that said, QT is cheap for what you get, and well worth the cost if you are a professional.
Not insightful.
Direcway satellite. I'm in MD hitting a geosync satellite for my Internet. Average ping time is ~750ms to most sites. Nowhere near "3.75-4 seconds"
Note this is bi-directional... It's not cheating by sending a land signal out and getting returns by satellite.
And yes if you're interested, World of Warcraft runs just fine...
Having both a Tivo Series 2 and a Myth TV box...
Out of the box, Tivo is much nicer. After pulling hair and much fighting, MythTV is a heck of a lot nicer. There was a lot of pain to get there though, definately not for the faint of heart.
The main thing I learned in the process is don't overcomplicate. A PVR-250 is a fine card to use, the PVR-350 is just more features to pull out hair over.
TV Listings are a pain though. I have Direcway satellite as nothing else is available. The satellite receiver does some strange proxying. Because of that, my MythTV TV listings must be fetched via a ssh tunnel to a tinyproxy box at the office, otherwise it just fails.
If you have time, and patience, the MythTV solution is much more satisfying, otherwise Tivo is probably a better bet.
In our house, both are used. When Tivo finally dies though, it'll be replaced by MythTV.
What I'm looking at implementing (20 wireless tablet pcs used by physicians and their techs) is something more like this:
Bare open wireless with a dedicated DHCP/OpenVPN server. Server configured to only allow connections to/from known MAC addresses. Use OpenVPN (128 bit certificate keyed AES) to connect to the internal network.
Potentially an attacker could compromise one of the wireless devices, however the clients could be firewalled to permit only connections to/from the server to limit that exposure.
All clients are already setup with network/printer sharing disabled, so using the software firewall will be an acceptable risk.
Application level would be nice excepting for a few problems. Legacy apps that don't support it, and required services that can't be encrypted (printing/shared drives) without using a fairly brittle IPSEC solution. OpenVPN is a better solution. You end up with strong encryption, better key management, high resiliance (udp tunnelling, not tcp) to loss, higher throughput (lzo compression), and transparent protection.
I think we like the memory of what HP was, and hate what it has become. Every division has suffered.
Their PCs, printers, and servers are all a shadow of what they were. Feels like the entire line has been taken over in quality by the Presario line. They've replaced all-in-ones with units that don't have a fourth of the capabilities. New PCs that break in odd ways and their support has no documentation for (machines labeled 'HP Compaq' on the front). Bad news all around.
Sad to watch a former tech leader become a "also-run" fading star.
It's very real (buyback/rollback) and required by law in most states, although they don't necessarily have to give you cash if you exceed, and most cap credits.
It's not so simple as plugging into a socket though. You need a unit that takes your power (usually DC from the source) and matches the phase to the supply source.
A grid-tied system is generally much cheaper than an off-grid solution, as there's no need for batteries. Of course, you lose power when the grid does unless you install batteries and a service disconnect...
Plenty of sources out there on this very thing.
Many states require some form of verbal warning. "I am armed" qualifies, or the racking of a pump shotgun in most cases. Agreed though, a "warning shot" is idiotic.
Where I live, we get many wanna-be hunters from Baltimore area. Nothing makes me shudder more than going into a store, and seeing a group of them standing around talking about "bush shots." Where, they heard something rustling and shot. Never knew what or who it was...
A "warning shot" is just as ill-advised as a "bush shot."
My mother's house was a target for an attempted breakin. She had an alarm, she were home, they still tried. Fortunately they ran when the alarm sounded. Our area has had it's share of smash/grab robberies too. Very country, with a minimal 15 minute average time for a cop to show.
After that she wanted a gun. Given that I have a fair collection, we talked rather seriously about it. In the end, it came down to her deciding she couldn't have a gun effectively.
It comes down to this. If you have a gun, and point it at another human being, you must realize that you fully intend to terminate that person's life. There is no shoot-to-wound, you shoot to kill or be killed. It's not the movies.
If you don't realize that, and accept the burden of potentially having to live the rest of your life having actively caused the death of another, then find some other means. A gun would at best be a paperweight, at worst a hazard.
Yes it's expensive to imprison. It's a cost of our own making.
We currently imprison non-violent drug offenders, frequently resulting in violent offenders getting early release due to overcrowding. Legalizing drugs would eliminate the non-violent offenders, and eliminate the draw for violent offenders. Sin tax it and use the revenue to provide prevention/education if you have to.
Stop giving prisoners the right to pursue nuissance law suits. We have plenty of issues with lifers suing over piddly things, and judges being unwilling to summary judge for fear of overrule on appeal.
Make prison, well, prison. Some states are better about this than others.