DC transmission lines are actually more efficient than AC; AC only rides on the "skin" of the conductor (google for skin effect) whereas DC travels through the entire conductor, leading to higher IR losses, among other things.
The problem is, as you've mentioned, adjusting the voltage easily. However there are plenty of HVDC links and they're used for a variety of purposes. Among them is connecting unsynchronized grids and higher efficiency "bulk" power transfers.
The Debian guy's an idiot. I got my IBM T30 and had Slack 9.1 on it the way I wanted, including the security upgrades, downloading the shiny new KDE 3.2.1 and compiling freetype myself in order to get the hinter enabled, in under 3 hours. Give me another two hours and I'll have all my data moved over from the old system.
My main beef against Gentoo (and yes I know you can get around it) is that you pretty much need a full development environment on every Gentoo system you have. I use Checkinstall with Slackware and have one "master" system I do all the builds on and then just push the additional packages around.
I personally am a HUGE fan of the Nex IIe -- $65 and however big a CF card you want. I personally have a 1G one, after upgrading from a 256M. 256M gives you roughly 4h of music so with 16h of music in my pocket I'm pretty much set.
Two AA batteries gives me tons of runtime. The only two features I really wish it had were a proper shuffle (not random, shuffle -- I only want to a song again after all the others have played) and a feature in which it remembers the last song when you shut it off so it starts from that position in the playlist next time it is powered up.
Great little MP3 player and not encumbered by any proprietary memory technology or power-draining HDD.
OpenOffice has a database *client* -- it just doesn't have a standalone database component. Adabas isn't worth it, IMO. I realize not everyone has the time, inclination or skill to set up a postgres box but that's exactly what we do. There's Rekall, originally by thekompany but now ofered by a company called totalrekall.co.uk IIRC, which lets you do pretty much everything Access let you do, but with any DB. Totally GPL, but binaries are sold rather than given away. Feel free to download the source and mke your own free binary though.
Hell OO's DB client can even work with Access MDB files on Win32 through ODBC.
People are selling orkut invitations on ebay... the epitome of capitalism... can't make it on your own, buy your way in.
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Anyone who hooks up through Slashdot Personals -- you **MUST** post about it! Karma be damned!
Match.com sucks ass, IMO. Use LavaLife or Single Me -- their interfaces are nicer, their pages render (mostly) correctly on Konqueror (Lava uses a stupid Java chat but at least it works) and the "what you can do for what you pay" (I'm not gonna use the term "bang for buck" in relation to online dating, sorry) is by far better on Lava.
I've met about a dozen women through Lava, and had two really "wow" dates from it since January. Of that 12 or so I've made four really good friends and if things are going the way I think they are, I might have found someone truly special out of it all. Not bad considering I really joined up just to expand my social circle in ways outside of sports and the bar scene, although taking the kids to the park and grocery shopping work really well, too.:-)
Yup you do mean afio. Just like tar but it creates a separate compression record for each file, instead of the entire stream. I have had DDS tapes fail on me (well I screwed them up actually) and yes there were a bunch of unrecoverable files but at the next compression header things started streaming out of the drive again and I recovered quite a lot.
Diesels are another beast entirely. I must admit though that if I were looking for a new vehicle I'd take a good hard look at diesels; the engines are built like tanks, the petrol's a little cheaper and they just plain old _last_.
Not to mention that I could run it on grease if I really wanted to.:-)
My '94 Jeep Grand Cherokee has 136k miles on it and is still going strong... Longevity is not something only the Japanese manufacturers can build into a vehicle.
there was a recumbent cyclist who had something like this... four buttons on each handle bar for the four fingers of each hand -- 8 bits... instant 8-bit ASCII.
Sorry, I didn't want FreeRADIUS, and qmail-src is the bare-ass qmail, as per DJB's license. (Alright, qmail's not a fair program to use.) Also, everything you mentioned was in -unstable. Why don't I just not run a package manager at all if I'm pulling from the unstable tree? That is invariably what happens if you ever point dpkg to anything but stable or testing.
That only works for apps which people have made debian packages for. I'm not going to bother searching, but when I *was* looking for it, there were no packages for gnu-radiusd, qmail, openoffice and a handful of others.
Sure, install from source... but now I have shit in the system that the package manager has nothing on... checkinstall on debian's only a band-aid.... oh well. Back to Slackware for me.
That is one thing I will give the Debian folks - you make your package work or you don't get in stable.
Very true, and if you can deal with the versions of software that appear in -stable, you're golden. Debian Stable is really, truly, stable.
Unfortunately all the latest shite is in -unstable and you've just opened Pandora's box if you point your deb repository there. Or if you compile your own app. Right back to dependency hell.
if you are going to use rpms stick to your vendor. it may suck being a slave to up2date but it beats the conflicts.
And that, my friends, is the exact reason why I steer clear of any dep-tracking package manager. How do you install applications that your vendor doesn't provide packages for? Source, of course. But now you're using two dep trackers -- the one in your head and the one that your distro uses. You could build your own real package for the app and really make yourself a maintainer (and help the world) but let's face it, you don't often have time to do that.
I've tried Suse. I've tried Debian. Redhat. Gentoo. All of these have one common problem: they track dependencies and without becoming a package maintainer you're stuck with what they've got. Slackware's where it's at, baby. I never understood what the problem with "can't find libfoo.so" was -- oh, I need libfoo... freshmeat or google for it, or better yet check the MANIFEST.gz to see if it's already there somewhere.
And checkinstall --newslack --nodoc never gives you "busted" packages.:-)
The amigas all shipped with full schematics. Problem is that a lot of the custom chips the Amigas used are no longer available, and attempts at recreating them have ended up with timing issues.
Personally I find the latter hard to believe but I haven't actually tried to recreate it myself.:-)
Perhaps a little offtopic but I have to ask if anyone here knows why this is:
My DVD Player (JVC XV-S300) has RCA digital out for audio. No worries. Make great use of it. I threw in an MP3 CD the other day and there's no digital output. WTF?
I threw in a regular audio CD and out came the tunes... MP3 CD... no digital out. Now I can understand then not spitting out the digital audio for an audio CD, but an MP3 CD? I already ripped the goddamned music!
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... What colour is the sky on your planet?
That'd be like cutting off my nose despite my face.
hahaha... I love it; it's like "for all intensive purposes." :-)
I think you wanted to say "to spite" my face, not "despite."
Use rpm -ql [packagename]
Even better:
I'm sorry, but ROX is "major" ??
Nope, OO is a clean installer. It spits stuff in ~/OpenOffice.orgv1.v2.v3/ and that's about it.
DC transmission lines are actually more efficient than AC; AC only rides on the "skin" of the conductor (google for skin effect) whereas DC travels through the entire conductor, leading to higher IR losses, among other things.
The problem is, as you've mentioned, adjusting the voltage easily. However there are plenty of HVDC links and they're used for a variety of purposes. Among them is connecting unsynchronized grids and higher efficiency "bulk" power transfers.
I wrote extensively on this on Kuro5hin. See here and here. I wrote more about it but google's not finding the links. That entire thread is good, actually.
The Debian guy's an idiot. I got my IBM T30 and had Slack 9.1 on it the way I wanted, including the security upgrades, downloading the shiny new KDE 3.2.1 and compiling freetype myself in order to get the hinter enabled, in under 3 hours. Give me another two hours and I'll have all my data moved over from the old system.
My main beef against Gentoo (and yes I know you can get around it) is that you pretty much need a full development environment on every Gentoo system you have. I use Checkinstall with Slackware and have one "master" system I do all the builds on and then just push the additional packages around.
I personally am a HUGE fan of the Nex IIe -- $65 and however big a CF card you want. I personally have a 1G one, after upgrading from a 256M. 256M gives you roughly 4h of music so with 16h of music in my pocket I'm pretty much set.
Two AA batteries gives me tons of runtime. The only two features I really wish it had were a proper shuffle (not random, shuffle -- I only want to a song again after all the others have played) and a feature in which it remembers the last song when you shut it off so it starts from that position in the playlist next time it is powered up.
Great little MP3 player and not encumbered by any proprietary memory technology or power-draining HDD.
OpenOffice has a database *client* -- it just doesn't have a standalone database component. Adabas isn't worth it, IMO. I realize not everyone has the time, inclination or skill to set up a postgres box but that's exactly what we do. There's Rekall, originally by thekompany but now ofered by a company called totalrekall.co.uk IIRC, which lets you do pretty much everything Access let you do, but with any DB. Totally GPL, but binaries are sold rather than given away. Feel free to download the source and mke your own free binary though. Hell OO's DB client can even work with Access MDB files on Win32 through ODBC.
People are selling orkut invitations on ebay... the epitome of capitalism... can't make it on your own, buy your way in.
Anyone who hooks up through Slashdot Personals -- you **MUST** post about it! Karma be damned!
Match.com sucks ass, IMO. Use LavaLife or Single Me -- their interfaces are nicer, their pages render (mostly) correctly on Konqueror (Lava uses a stupid Java chat but at least it works) and the "what you can do for what you pay" (I'm not gonna use the term "bang for buck" in relation to online dating, sorry) is by far better on Lava.
I've met about a dozen women through Lava, and had two really "wow" dates from it since January. Of that 12 or so I've made four really good friends and if things are going the way I think they are, I might have found someone truly special out of it all. Not bad considering I really joined up just to expand my social circle in ways outside of sports and the bar scene, although taking the kids to the park and grocery shopping work really well, too. :-)
Yup you do mean afio. Just like tar but it creates a separate compression record for each file, instead of the entire stream. I have had DDS tapes fail on me (well I screwed them up actually) and yes there were a bunch of unrecoverable files but at the next compression header things started streaming out of the drive again and I recovered quite a lot.
I'd be really nice if that article actually had figures 1 through 3 so I could see the configuraiton. :-)
I repaired a VCR for a guy named Jack Gaugh...
Diesels are another beast entirely. I must admit though that if I were looking for a new vehicle I'd take a good hard look at diesels; the engines are built like tanks, the petrol's a little cheaper and they just plain old _last_.
:-)
Not to mention that I could run it on grease if I really wanted to.
My '94 Jeep Grand Cherokee has 136k miles on it and is still going strong... Longevity is not something only the Japanese manufacturers can build into a vehicle.
there was a recumbent cyclist who had something like this... four buttons on each handle bar for the four fingers of each hand -- 8 bits... instant 8-bit ASCII.
What highend CAD/CAM systems are available on Linux? Anything close to Mechanical Desktop for 2D and Inventor for 3D?
Sorry, I didn't want FreeRADIUS, and qmail-src is the bare-ass qmail, as per DJB's license. (Alright, qmail's not a fair program to use.) Also, everything you mentioned was in -unstable. Why don't I just not run a package manager at all if I'm pulling from the unstable tree? That is invariably what happens if you ever point dpkg to anything but stable or testing.
That only works for apps which people have made debian packages for. I'm not going to bother searching, but when I *was* looking for it, there were no packages for gnu-radiusd, qmail, openoffice and a handful of others.
Sure, install from source... but now I have shit in the system that the package manager has nothing on... checkinstall on debian's only a band-aid. ... oh well. Back to Slackware for me.
That is one thing I will give the Debian folks - you make your package work or you don't get in stable.
Very true, and if you can deal with the versions of software that appear in -stable, you're golden. Debian Stable is really, truly, stable.
Unfortunately all the latest shite is in -unstable and you've just opened Pandora's box if you point your deb repository there. Or if you compile your own app. Right back to dependency hell.
if you are going to use rpms stick to your vendor. it may suck being a slave to up2date but it beats the conflicts.
And that, my friends, is the exact reason why I steer clear of any dep-tracking package manager. How do you install applications that your vendor doesn't provide packages for? Source, of course. But now you're using two dep trackers -- the one in your head and the one that your distro uses. You could build your own real package for the app and really make yourself a maintainer (and help the world) but let's face it, you don't often have time to do that.
I've tried Suse. I've tried Debian. Redhat. Gentoo. All of these have one common problem: they track dependencies and without becoming a package maintainer you're stuck with what they've got. Slackware's where it's at, baby. I never understood what the problem with "can't find libfoo.so" was -- oh, I need libfoo... freshmeat or google for it, or better yet check the MANIFEST.gz to see if it's already there somewhere.
And checkinstall --newslack --nodoc never gives you "busted" packages. :-)
They found that rats' bodies produced high levels of ozone when exposed to strong electrical fields.
I'm sure they emitted more than ozone when they first came in contact with the strong electrical fields. :-)
The amigas all shipped with full schematics. Problem is that a lot of the custom chips the Amigas used are no longer available, and attempts at recreating them have ended up with timing issues. Personally I find the latter hard to believe but I haven't actually tried to recreate it myself. :-)
Perhaps a little offtopic but I have to ask if anyone here knows why this is:
My DVD Player (JVC XV-S300) has RCA digital out for audio. No worries. Make great use of it. I threw in an MP3 CD the other day and there's no digital output. WTF?
I threw in a regular audio CD and out came the tunes... MP3 CD ... no digital out. Now I can understand then not spitting out the digital audio for an audio CD, but an MP3 CD? I already ripped the goddamned music!
Unbelievable.