The problem is with blowing snow it might only cover one side of the 4 traffic paths...
For example: a 'traditional' 4 way intersection... three sides 'normal' one side 'covered'
In this case the normal side is Green and the covered side is 'Red'
If the covered side treats it as a 4 way stop, the oncoming 'Green' lane will not stop (they have no way of telling that the other side is covered) so there exists a possibility of someone pulling out into the street on a Red light, and getting hit...
The real 'cool factor' starts to kick in when this stuff is fully automated, the demos that I've seen you can take a rack of dev/test servers and drop the power they are using off hours, then give the power back (cpu clock rate, etc) during the day. We already have something simmilar in our company datacenters: the HP systems (running ESX) we have now ballance (via vMotion) running systems at night, and power down some of the hosts (about half of them on a normal night, it bases it on current load) saving money and power... no impact to the end user. Its a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
If you have access to the file at the remote end I would run it though QuickPar http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ at that point you can split the file into a group of smaller files (less chance of any one file being mangled), plus add ckecksum files to the set, that way if one of the files is mangled in transport it's 1: identifiable and 2. automatically fixed by reassembling the par files on your end of the connection.
I thought that the actual 'Achievement' article was the one requiring a post in order to unlock. (gotta love the the fact there is no master list of achievements yet:) )
It would be more fun to require a +5 mod on said April 1st post for it to count...
in iTunes: right click the song, select properties, tada! "Account Name: "
(its in the same place as the DRM'd copies)
I find it a little odd that so many people simply expected to get files with no account information, since all that was promised was FairPlay being removed. I'm still a little peeved about having to pay 0.30$ a tune to unlock my current library however.
Ok, at first glance it looks good. It won 75% of the tests right? Looking over the pretty charts, its not so great:
1. Boot time: Windows 7 is slightly better (by 10 seconds "woo") and WTF on Vista SP1 being slower than Vista RTM? (I thought it was suppose to offer huge performance gains?)
2. Passmark Test: Only slightly beats out Vista (and again, SP1 is slower?)
3. PCmark: 500 points higher than Vista(s) (about a 10% gain, not bad.)
4. Cinebench10: 500 points worse. and *again* Vista RTM is faster than SP1.
so it seem to balance out. and at the current rate is Microsoft going to keep slowing down Vista with each service pack to make the jump to 7 seem even more promising? "Looks its 700% Faster than Vista SP3!" (and about the same as Vista RTM, and would have been slower then the 'evil' XP that we had to kill off...)
I'll wait till 7 RTMs before I make my final call, but after all the games they played with Vista, it had better make serious strides in usability...
The problem is that lots of vendors pay big$ to install their crapware on new PCs. So in reality you save 30$ by not having Windows installed, and then pay 70$ more because NortonWare and JoeBobFirewall, etc (both 30 day evals BTW:) ) are no longer subsidizing the cost.
Much like the PSP; the games that 'require' a certain version ship with the update on the disk. Super Smash Brothers prompted me to update (which it did from the disk) before it would run.
It boils down to: can content carries make cost changes to providers or content.
For example (totally made up):
Comcast and AT&T really like Disney, Disney made a large 'Donation' to AT&T: In a net-newtral world, there is not a lot anyone can do, or notice, however *without* it: Comcast / AT&T can give priority to Disney / NBC content over say, NickJr.com.
It also allows them to charge Google big$ because 'oh my god, they use all our bandwidth answering search requests' The fallacy there (and what the lawmakers seems to be missing) is that Google *already pays* for a connection from their data centers to the Tubes...
A staggering number of people in this country dont believe results that these scientists / engineers come up with, I don't think the (Quoting Palin) *ahem* 'Joe Six Packs' of this nation care.
This election is going to come down to what it always does, who has: 'who's the candidate I can see having a beer with'
I think it has to do with the level of cost of a failure, its one thing to have a system fail, but its more complicated then the trip alone costs 10+ million dollars
my guess is 5min to send the commands, 1.9weeks to diagnose what exactly failed, and how to repair it...
Apparently the new 'glass' screen will have the glare problem 'overcome' by making the display brighter (according to the Q&A at the end of the demo.) I'm going to hold off judgment (however I'm really skeptical) until I see one in person.
Windows 1.x = 1 Windows 2.x = 2 Windows 3.x = 3 Windows NT 3.5 = um... 3.5? Windows NT 4 = 4 Windows 2000 = 5 Windows XP = 6 Windows Vista = null Windows 7 = 7
Whats really sad is that roads where your likely to be doing 80mph are normally safe at that speed, this will not stop Jr. from doing 60mph in a 25mpg zone and running over a crossing guard...
I would wager that you could in fact get in more trouble going faster than posted at a lower speed than on a highway...
Because the named.conf file gets stomped, the 'backup' RPMSAVE file it creates is the caching-only file, not the original named.conf file.
I caught this a couple of weeks ago on a test server (where *all* patches should be tested first, Microsoft or otherwise) best way to fix? cp/etc/named.conf/root/named.conf.backup ; up2date-nox -u ; cp/root/named.conf.backup/etc/named.conf ;/etc/init.d/named restart
For my long term archives I'm currently using LTO3 Tapes (last year the drive was 1750$ from Dell, with a 5 year warrantee) and 5 packs of tapes are about 150$ on eBay, they hold 400/800gb (I get about 430gb a tape due to already compressed content)
WORM (Write Once Read Many) tapes bump up the life expectancy as well, I keep one local copy in the gun safe, and one in a bank safe deposit box, the tapes are backwards compatible for at least one generation of tape (LTO3 will be readable in a LTO4 drive, etc)
I cycle the tapes out once every 6 months, and make sure I can restore the data of the 'Bank' copy, and the local copy.
All these backups were on DLT1 tapes until last year, so as time progresses you can simply restore the tapes, and upgrade to the new formats (and backup software for that matter)
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The problem is with blowing snow it might only cover one side of the 4 traffic paths ...
For example: a 'traditional' 4 way intersection ...
three sides 'normal' one side 'covered'
In this case the normal side is Green and the covered side is 'Red'
If the covered side treats it as a 4 way stop, the oncoming 'Green' lane will not stop (they have no way of telling that the other side is covered) so there exists a possibility of someone pulling out into the street on a Red light, and getting hit...
I know my Gateway 2000 (back when they didn't produce crap!) 386DX/25 had a nice Red Button on the front to drop the speed down.
The real 'cool factor' starts to kick in when this stuff is fully automated, the demos that I've seen you can take a rack of dev/test servers and drop the power they are using off hours, then give the power back (cpu clock rate, etc) during the day. We already have something simmilar in our company datacenters: the HP systems (running ESX) we have now ballance (via vMotion) running systems at night, and power down some of the hosts (about half of them on a normal night, it bases it on current load) saving money and power ... no impact to the end user. Its a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
If you have access to the file at the remote end I would run it though QuickPar http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ at that point you can split the file into a group of smaller files (less chance of any one file being mangled), plus add ckecksum files to the set, that way if one of the files is mangled in transport it's 1: identifiable and 2. automatically fixed by reassembling the par files on your end of the connection.
I thought that the actual 'Achievement' article was the one requiring a post in order to unlock. (gotta love the the fact there is no master list of achievements yet :) )
It would be more fun to require a +5 mod on said April 1st post for it to count ...
I would think 'no' since there is a Single Digit UID, 2 Digit, etc ... its impossible to get into all the groups
*sigh* no 'Low 6 Digit achievement' :P
in iTunes: right click the song, select properties, tada! "Account Name: "
(its in the same place as the DRM'd copies)
I find it a little odd that so many people simply expected to get files with no account information, since all that was promised was FairPlay being removed. I'm still a little peeved about having to pay 0.30$ a tune to unlock my current library however.
Ok, at first glance it looks good. It won 75% of the tests right? Looking over the pretty charts, its not so great:
1. Boot time: Windows 7 is slightly better (by 10 seconds "woo") and WTF on Vista SP1 being slower than Vista RTM? (I thought it was suppose to offer huge performance gains?)
2. Passmark Test: Only slightly beats out Vista (and again, SP1 is slower?)
3. PCmark: 500 points higher than Vista(s) (about a 10% gain, not bad.)
4. Cinebench10: 500 points worse. and *again* Vista RTM is faster than SP1.
so it seem to balance out. and at the current rate is Microsoft going to keep slowing down Vista with each service pack to make the jump to 7 seem even more promising? "Looks its 700% Faster than Vista SP3!" (and about the same as Vista RTM, and would have been slower then the 'evil' XP that we had to kill off...)
I'll wait till 7 RTMs before I make my final call, but after all the games they played with Vista, it had better make serious strides in usability ...
The problem is that lots of vendors pay big$ to install their crapware on new PCs. So in reality you save 30$ by not having Windows installed, and then pay 70$ more because NortonWare and JoeBobFirewall, etc (both 30 day evals BTW :) ) are no longer subsidizing the cost.
I'll do it, I have mod points today!
Oh wait ... crap.
Much like the PSP; the games that 'require' a certain version ship with the update on the disk. Super Smash Brothers prompted me to update (which it did from the disk) before it would run.
Jimmy will be fine :)
You forgot the MS Airbag(tm)
You'll need those to survive the crashes ;)
It boils down to: can content carries make cost changes to providers or content.
For example (totally made up):
Comcast and AT&T really like Disney, Disney made a large 'Donation' to AT&T: In a net-newtral world, there is not a lot anyone can do, or notice, however *without* it: Comcast / AT&T can give priority to Disney / NBC content over say, NickJr.com.
It also allows them to charge Google big$ because 'oh my god, they use all our bandwidth answering search requests' The fallacy there (and what the lawmakers seems to be missing) is that Google *already pays* for a connection from their data centers to the Tubes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality :)
for all the gory details
A staggering number of people in this country dont believe results that these scientists / engineers come up with, I don't think the (Quoting Palin) *ahem* 'Joe Six Packs' of this nation care.
This election is going to come down to what it always does, who has: 'who's the candidate I can see having a beer with'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17316144
I think it has to do with the level of cost of a failure, its one thing to have a system fail, but its more complicated then the trip alone costs 10+ million dollars
my guess is 5min to send the commands, 1.9weeks to diagnose what exactly failed, and how to repair it...
I think its a higher likelihood of 'loopholes' being added for 'political ads / content' (just like the National Do not Call list.
There is simply to much lobbyist $ rolling around to hope for an outright repeal.
I'm not sure if they have updated the site or not, but I have a 'Delete All' button that quite nicely cleaned the list up with only two clicks ...
Apparently the new 'glass' screen will have the glare problem 'overcome' by making the display brighter (according to the Q&A at the end of the demo.) I'm going to hold off judgment (however I'm really skeptical) until I see one in person.
I fully understand that, but I'm trying to block Vista out of my memory at this point :)
4.0 = NT :)
5.0 = 2000
5.1 = XP
6.0 = *shudders* Vista
7.0 = hopefully something that works consistently
Windows 1.x = 1
Windows 2.x = 2
Windows 3.x = 3
Windows NT 3.5 = um... 3.5?
Windows NT 4 = 4
Windows 2000 = 5
Windows XP = 6
Windows Vista = null
Windows 7 = 7
Ta-da!
I71 South in Kentucky is 70mph, I'd like more than 10mph of sway for passing trucks / slower cars
As I've said earlier, you can get in a lot more trouble going 60 in a 25 zone, than 80 in a 70 ...
Whats really sad is that roads where your likely to be doing 80mph are normally safe at that speed, this will not stop Jr. from doing 60mph in a 25mpg zone and running over a crossing guard...
I would wager that you could in fact get in more trouble going faster than posted at a lower speed than on a highway...
vBulletin 3 has this option, I cant remember what it is called, but it adds the troll to every bodies Ignore List.
Because the named.conf file gets stomped, the 'backup' RPMSAVE file it creates is the caching-only file, not the original named.conf file.
I caught this a couple of weeks ago on a test server (where *all* patches should be tested first, Microsoft or otherwise) best way to fix? cp /etc/named.conf /root/named.conf.backup ; up2date-nox -u ; cp /root/named.conf.backup /etc/named.conf ; /etc/init.d/named restart
Little to no downtime on the prod servers :)
For my long term archives I'm currently using LTO3 Tapes (last year the drive was 1750$ from Dell, with a 5 year warrantee) and 5 packs of tapes are about 150$ on eBay, they hold 400/800gb (I get about 430gb a tape due to already compressed content)
WORM (Write Once Read Many) tapes bump up the life expectancy as well, I keep one local copy in the gun safe, and one in a bank safe deposit box, the tapes are backwards compatible for at least one generation of tape (LTO3 will be readable in a LTO4 drive, etc)
I cycle the tapes out once every 6 months, and make sure I can restore the data of the 'Bank' copy, and the local copy.
All these backups were on DLT1 tapes until last year, so as time progresses you can simply restore the tapes, and upgrade to the new formats (and backup software for that matter)