Remember that 1,000,000,000 dead birds means 1,000,000,000 easy meals for birds that know how to avoid windows. The ones that hit my greenhouse rarely last through the day before other critters, including birds, leave nothing but a pile of feathers.
For animals, an increase in the food supply usually means increased reproduction. So does this really have any impact on the birds population, or is it an increase in turnover?
The article should point out that not all cable providers are as bad as Comcast.
Cablevision's Optimum Online service, which I use in NJ, is outstanding. They do NOT cap their service (8Mb down, 1Mb up). While I consider myself to be a heavy user, I have NEVER had a problem with my usage (unchanged over the last 4 years).
One way that cable providers can make customers happy, and reduce their costs, is to make newsgroups available (and educate their customers about them). This is an alternative, safer way for customers to get the media files they would otherwise go to P2P applications for. Since the news server is "on net" the ISP does not have to pay anyone else for the bandwidth.
Comcast's actions aren't just customer hostile, they show a lack of business acumen and technical skill. If I were in their area, I'd opt for any other provider (even multiple dialip lines if it came to that).
The D-Link DCS-1000W is an Ethernet/802.11b wired/wireless camera than can use 128-bit WEP. It's only $200 at CompUSA (the lowest price I could find, even comparing mail order when I purchased it). It has an on-board web server and can even email/ftp date/time stamped images when motion or switch closure is detected (or time based). More here:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=41
If you'd like to use it as a time-lapse security camera, I have a script on Sourceforge:
I'm not sure what chipsets Maxtor uses in their external USB 2.0/Firewire drives, but from my 100GB transfer timing measurements they are sustaining ~34MB/sec/~40MB/sec respectively.
I'm not the only one that has seem this; check the benchmarks. I'm sure if you Google-around you can find more.
Perhaps the limiting factor is the machine you're using? When I connected the same drive to an older laptop, the transfer rate dropped to about 1/3 the rated speed. The bottleneck may be elsewhere in your I/O path.
In addition, all PC USB 2.0/Firewire interfaces are not equal, and my testing was performed with a 2.4.22-based Linux kernel. There are many variables that will impact performance, and isolating a constriction is not a trivial task.
The rotational speed of a drive primarily impacts its sustained data transfer rate. For random access to small files, the cache size and algorithm (e.g., full track read-ahead), and head seek time are the primary controlling factors. In my experience, the 5400rpm drives are quite capable of keeping the slow interface saturated in either case.
Too bad the average sustained transfer rates for USB 2.0 are far lower than those of FireWire, despite the peak rate being higher.
Lower, but not far lower (USB 2.0 ~ 34MB/sec, FW400 ~ 40MB/sec). As others have pointed out, the transfer rate on USB 2.0 is not the bottleneck in this type of device, it's usually the storage device.
I always find the flip side of the equation funnier... When people buy external USB/Firewire hard drives, they select 7200rpm drives over 5400rpm drives. The bottleneck on those devices is the USB 2.0 or Firewire interface, so the (lower cost, cooler running, lower power consumption, quieter) 5400rpm drive is actually the better choice.
This is the same (faulty) logic that says that restricting guns stops crime.
Any criminal will, of course, simply ignore a law that prevents them from doing what they want to. That is after all the definition of a criminal -- someone that commits a crime (breaks the law).
The only thing that restricting access to any tool does, is stop those people you don't care about -- those that obey the law. Everyone really knows this, but this is really about control, not security or safety.
I also used the free TaxAct last year -- the web based version. My taxes were somewhat more complicated, including my consulting revenue and business expenses. TaxAct was very simple and straight forward to use. I paid the extra few dollars to have it do my state taxes as well. Filing was electronic and free. I received my refunds in 2-3 weeks. You also downloaded a copy for your records as an Adobe PDF file. I was very pleased with the results and plan to use it again this year.
She's a web designer, right? It's just a Photoshop/Gimp job! Since no one reported this (sarcasm) heinous crime (/sarcasm), it obviously never really occurred. I remember hearing that digitally processed photographs aren't evidence, unless someone can testify to the authenticity.
7000 wind turbines kill 22,000 birds in 20 years? That means that a wind turbine will kill a bird (that's "1") every 7 years or so.
To put that in perspective... I have a greenhouse (glass enclosed room) on my home. On average, one or two birds fly into it and kill themselves each year. So my greenhouse is 7-14 times as deadly to birds as a wind turbine.
This is just Darwinian selection at work. By the way, the dead birds get eaten by other birds and animals, so some number of them survive from the free meal. I think they forgot to count those.
HTML takes care of that issue, with the img tag. There are already cross-platform e-book readers that take HTML (including embedded graphics and tables) and convert them to a compressed form for display on the target device (iSilo is my personal favorite). And yes, the conversion software is available for Linux as well.
Any document that can be displayed as a web page (pretty much any document that exists) can be read as an e-book.
The real problem is that there aren't any DRM-like controls on the documents. That's a good thing, but obviously it's going to take about a decade before book publishers finally agree to that.
2003-04-20 01:51:36 Using video processing as "attached processor" (askslashdot,hardware) (rejected)
But as you can see it was rejected. I was particularly interested in the use of the GPU for cryptographic functions (e.g., with a loopback encrypted filesystem), to offload the processing from the main CPU. Is anyone aware of any work in this area?
Is this even a viable implementation, or would the overhead of continually dispatching work to the GPU exceed the benefit derived?
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Sure you don't want to use it for a long term server
Your mileage may vary, but I'm not having any problems with Fedora Core being used as a server. It's been running since the day it was first available for download, with zero downtime.
"Battlestar Galactica 2003: Series Highly Likely, Say Recent Rumors
And, since the series will be on the SCI-FI channel, might as well note that the series is canceled (just as soon as you decide you like it) while you're at it.
I think it's great that it's not just news for nerds anymore, and that we have true lifestyle/diet/nutritional stories, like this one. I'm definitely looking forward to hearing that Tampax have released an update to Tampax 4.5, or about the latest advances in bath salts.
Well, I can't help you with the Tampax update, but there is news interesting to nerds in the bath salts arena.
Pretty much forever, since most don't get paid (except in pizza and soda:-).
We've had many interns in our lab; most work so that they can get experience to put on their resumes. That way, when they graduate from college, they can be hired as experienced. Heck we've tried to hire some of them ourselves after training them.
Mainframes (at least IBM big iron) don't need this -- they have the original product that VMware was modeled on, zVM (VM/CMS, VM/370, VM/XA, VM/ESA, historically).
zVM is what allows many (thousands on high-end machines) of virtual Linux images to run on a single large mainframe, in combination with other virtual operating systems.
Mainframes are, on the high end, quite capable of supporting 10s of thousands of users, with massive I/O subsystems (litterally thousands of disk drives, all running nearly saturated, continuously). You can use machines with large CPUs for processor-intensive monolithic tasks, or many small CPUs for high-concurrency processes.
You can dedicate resources (CPUs, memory, I/O) to specific virtual systems for high performance or share and/or cap the resource utilization on them. Configurations can be changed on-the fly as demand or needs of the business dictate. A virtual system can even be identified as a V=R (virtual=real) preferred guest, which can take control of the real system dynamically in the event of a VM operating system failure.
Mainframe can be extremely cost effective, in the right circumstances.
Yes, if you have a supported firewire interface and a recent kernel (for HFS+ support). Then you can use any of the available iTunes clones on Linux with your iPod.
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Remember that 1,000,000,000 dead birds means 1,000,000,000 easy meals for birds that know how to avoid windows. The ones that hit my greenhouse rarely last through the day before other critters, including birds, leave nothing but a pile of feathers.
For animals, an increase in the food supply usually means increased reproduction. So does this really have any impact on the birds population, or is it an increase in turnover?
The article should point out that not all cable providers are as bad as Comcast.
Cablevision's Optimum Online service, which I use in NJ, is outstanding. They do NOT cap their service (8Mb down, 1Mb up). While I consider myself to be a heavy user, I have NEVER had a problem with my usage (unchanged over the last 4 years).
One way that cable providers can make customers happy, and reduce their costs, is to make newsgroups available (and educate their customers about them). This is an alternative, safer way for customers to get the media files they would otherwise go to P2P applications for. Since the news server is "on net" the ISP does not have to pay anyone else for the bandwidth.
Comcast's actions aren't just customer hostile, they show a lack of business acumen and technical skill. If I were in their area, I'd opt for any other provider (even multiple dialip lines if it came to that).
The D-Link DCS-1000W is an Ethernet/802.11b wired/wireless camera than can use 128-bit WEP. It's only $200 at CompUSA (the lowest price I could find, even comparing mail order when I purchased it). It has an on-board web server and can even email/ftp date/time stamped images when motion or switch closure is detected (or time based). More here:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=41
If you'd like to use it as a time-lapse security camera, I have a script on Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcs1000w
Tivo didn't seem to have that much trouble buiding a Linux PVR. Isn't one person's experience too small a sample for such a broad comment?
I'm not the only one that has seem this; check the benchmarks. I'm sure if you Google-around you can find more.
Perhaps the limiting factor is the machine you're using? When I connected the same drive to an older laptop, the transfer rate dropped to about 1/3 the rated speed. The bottleneck may be elsewhere in your I/O path.
In addition, all PC USB 2.0/Firewire interfaces are not equal, and my testing was performed with a 2.4.22-based Linux kernel. There are many variables that will impact performance, and isolating a constriction is not a trivial task.
The rotational speed of a drive primarily impacts its sustained data transfer rate. For random access to small files, the cache size and algorithm (e.g., full track read-ahead), and head seek time are the primary controlling factors. In my experience, the 5400rpm drives are quite capable of keeping the slow interface saturated in either case.
Lower, but not far lower (USB 2.0 ~ 34MB/sec, FW400 ~ 40MB/sec). As others have pointed out, the transfer rate on USB 2.0 is not the bottleneck in this type of device, it's usually the storage device.
I always find the flip side of the equation funnier... When people buy external USB/Firewire hard drives, they select 7200rpm drives over 5400rpm drives. The bottleneck on those devices is the USB 2.0 or Firewire interface, so the (lower cost, cooler running, lower power consumption, quieter) 5400rpm drive is actually the better choice.
This is the same (faulty) logic that says that restricting guns stops crime.
Any criminal will, of course, simply ignore a law that prevents them from doing what they want to. That is after all the definition of a criminal -- someone that commits a crime (breaks the law).
The only thing that restricting access to any tool does, is stop those people you don't care about -- those that obey the law. Everyone really knows this, but this is really about control, not security or safety.
The COCOON enclosure seems like a better idea. While hideously expensive, it's still lower cost than this solution.
Right now. No questions asked, no conditions.
There are somethings in life that are more important than individual survival; the "zeroth law".
I also used the free TaxAct last year -- the web based version. My taxes were somewhat more complicated, including my consulting revenue and business expenses. TaxAct was very simple and straight forward to use. I paid the extra few dollars to have it do my state taxes as well. Filing was electronic and free. I received my refunds in 2-3 weeks. You also downloaded a copy for your records as an Adobe PDF file. I was very pleased with the results and plan to use it again this year.
She's a web designer, right? It's just a Photoshop/Gimp job! Since no one reported this (sarcasm) heinous crime (/sarcasm), it obviously never really occurred. I remember hearing that digitally processed photographs aren't evidence, unless someone can testify to the authenticity.
7000 wind turbines kill 22,000 birds in 20 years? That means that a wind turbine will kill a bird (that's "1") every 7 years or so.
To put that in perspective... I have a greenhouse (glass enclosed room) on my home. On average, one or two birds fly into it and kill themselves each year. So my greenhouse is 7-14 times as deadly to birds as a wind turbine.
This is just Darwinian selection at work. By the way, the dead birds get eaten by other birds and animals, so some number of them survive from the free meal. I think they forgot to count those.
Worthless article.
Any document that can be displayed as a web page (pretty much any document that exists) can be read as an e-book.
The real problem is that there aren't any DRM-like controls on the documents. That's a good thing, but obviously it's going to take about a decade before book publishers finally agree to that.
AGP 8x can move 2.1 gigabytes per second (GB/s), according to Intel.
I had submitted an AskSlashdot on this subject:
2003-04-20 01:51:36 Using video processing as "attached processor" (askslashdot,hardware) (rejected)
But as you can see it was rejected. I was particularly interested in the use of the GPU for cryptographic functions (e.g., with a loopback encrypted filesystem), to offload the processing from the main CPU. Is anyone aware of any work in this area?
Is this even a viable implementation, or would the overhead of continually dispatching work to the GPU exceed the benefit derived?
Your mileage may vary, but I'm not having any problems with Fedora Core being used as a server. It's been running since the day it was first available for download, with zero downtime.
And, since the series will be on the SCI-FI channel, might as well note that the series is canceled (just as soon as you decide you like it) while you're at it.
Well, I can't help you with the Tampax update, but there is news interesting to nerds in the bath salts arena.
Pretty much forever, since most don't get paid (except in pizza and soda :-).
We've had many interns in our lab; most work so that they can get experience to put on their resumes. That way, when they graduate from college, they can be hired as experienced. Heck we've tried to hire some of them ourselves after training them.
Looks like it's time for me to strap on the old six-sniffers, and bag me some spam!
Be vewwy, vewwy quiet...
Mainframes (at least IBM big iron) don't need this -- they have the original product that VMware was modeled on, zVM (VM/CMS, VM/370, VM/XA, VM/ESA, historically).
zVM is what allows many (thousands on high-end machines) of virtual Linux images to run on a single large mainframe, in combination with other virtual operating systems.
Mainframes are, on the high end, quite capable of supporting 10s of thousands of users, with massive I/O subsystems (litterally thousands of disk drives, all running nearly saturated, continuously). You can use machines with large CPUs for processor-intensive monolithic tasks, or many small CPUs for high-concurrency processes.
You can dedicate resources (CPUs, memory, I/O) to specific virtual systems for high performance or share and/or cap the resource utilization on them. Configurations can be changed on-the fly as demand or needs of the business dictate. A virtual system can even be identified as a V=R (virtual=real) preferred guest, which can take control of the real system dynamically in the event of a VM operating system failure.
Mainframe can be extremely cost effective, in the right circumstances.
Now you know why mainframes still exist.
Yes, if you have a supported firewire interface and a recent kernel (for HFS+ support). Then you can use any of the available iTunes clones on Linux with your iPod.
Why on Earth would ANYONE with two (functioning) brain cells want to prevent broad, free, distribution of an ADVERTISEMENT???
Knowingly filing a false claim is still a crime in this country, even for corporations.