Whenever you buy storage, you should buy the necessary backup capacity at the same time. You should never buy storage without buying backup capacity. Budget for it right from the start. If you can't afford the backup, you can't afford the storage. This may mean getting half as much storage as you'd like, but that's just the way it has to be. You probably wouldn't buy a car without an engine. It wouldn't do its job. So don't buy storage without backup. If you do, you have a storage system that can't do its job.
Titan, by Stephen Baxter sticks in my mind as being incredibly, irritatingly depressing. Despite the "uplifting" epilog tacked on at the end, it's the story of an expedition to Titan that goes utterly, horribly wrong in every possible way that will prolong the suffering of the protagonists. It's not a novel, it's a torture fantasy that ends [spoiler alert] with the deaths of all of the characters, but only after author has exhausted all of the possible ways of degrading and abusing them. Ick.
I've been trying to contact all of my legislators, but the web page containing Virginia Senator Mark Warner's official contact form seems to be dead (see http://warner.senate.gov). Does anyone know of a good alternative way to get messages to him?
Picasa stores some things, including titles and tags, in IPTC data within the image files themselves. This is great, since it lets you carry these things around with the files when you move them to another image viewer, etc.
I wish it did the same thing with albums, but album data is stored in a separate file. In principle there are IPTC tags (like "collections") that could be used to record album-membership information within the image file itself, but Picasa doesn't do it that way.
Portable VirtualBox looks interesting, but it also looks like it requires the user to have admin privileges on the Windows machine that's hosting vbox. See the documentation here:
"VirtualBox needs at least main user rights, there 4 Services
(VBoxDRV, VBoxUSBMon and if not already installs VBoxUSB,
the VBoxNetFLT and sun_VboxNetFLT) to be furnished and
VirtualBox must in " Ring-3" - Mode is initiated. The drivers
the network become with snetcfg.exe (from the ms DDK 2003)
merged. So that they are loaded, must into that Attitudes of
Portable-VirtualBox, under the rider " NET" , this to be
selected. For security, which one installs, must for the
installation be agreed. After terminating Portable-VirtualBox
the drivers become and files again removes!"
I've used Seamonkey as my default browser for a long time now, mainly because I like the user interface better. Seamonkey 2.0 now uses Firefox's printing system, though, and this is one of the main things I don't like about Firefox. I use lpr for printing, not cups, and I liked the fact that earlier versions of Seamonkey (and "Mozilla" before it) remembered any changes I made to the "lpr command" in the print dialog. Firefox uses gtk-print, which reverts back to the default lpr command every time you click print, even in the same session. I've reported this as a bug in the Seamonkey bugzilla.
Regarding crashes, I've seen another report of this at LWN.
...and we haven't been back since. Beyond the question of how long it would take a motivated civilization to expand throughout the galaxy, there's the question of "would they bother?". We don't seem to be bothering.
These have 15 hot-swap SATA slots. Each set of 5 is multiplexed to one eSATA connector on the back of the crate. The crate comes with a PCI-X 4-port eSATA controller. We use the crate as Just a Bunch of Disks, but it can be also configured as a RAID array. At the price (about $800), it's very cheap per slot. We currently have two of these full of terabyte disks, and an older DS-1200 (12-slot) with a mixture of disks. They've been very reliable so far.
At $0.07/KWh, generating a kilowatt for a year would cost.07*24*365 = $613.20. Over 5 years, this would be a total of $3066.00 for generating one kilowatt during that time, or about $3 per watt. If the solar cells cost $1 per watt and they last for five years (they'd better last at least this long), then the solar cells win by a factor of three.
A couple of good examples of science writing for non-experts:
* Stephen J. Gould's books (e.g., "The Panda's Thumb") about natural history. He made a point of never "lying" to his students or readers. He believed that teachers only needed to fudge the truth if they didn't understand the material well enough themselves. His books are clear, informative and enjoyable, and they don't cut any corners on the science.
* Science News ( http://www.sciencenews.org/ ), which is one of the best examples of science journalism anywhere. I've subscribed to it, off and on, since the 1960s. (It's been published since the 1920s.) They're excellent journalists.
We used Mosix (and then OpenMosix) for several years, with much success. Around, oh, I don't remember but say 2002-2003 we started to see stability problems with it, though, and eventually dropped it. This may have been a problem with our local configuration, or hardware, or who knows what (we never got to the bottom of it).
By that time, though, I'd already come to be uncomfortable with OpenMosix for two reasons:
The develpers seemed to be completely uninterested in security issues. This is something that was less of a concern in The Good Old Days, but really should be on the frontest of burners now.
The OpenMosix kernel code was so large and stuck its tentacles into so many places, there was no way it was ever going to make it into the mainstream kernel. This meant that, if any changes were necessary, we were either at the mercy of the OpenMosix developers or we were going to have to maintain them ourselves.
All of that being said, I loved OpenMosix when it worked. It's a great idea. I came out of a VAX/VMS cluster background, and OpenMosix was a serious step in the direction of resurrecting that functionality in open source. I'd like to see someone take over OpenMosix, make security a priority, and work to break it into small, digestible lumps that could slowly be merged into the mainline kernel.
> You need administrator privileges in order to able to run TrueCrypt in 'traveller' mode.
This makes it mostly useless. I can't count on having administrative privileges on a computer wherever I am. I've been looking for a solution that is (a) cross-platform, (b) has executables that can be store on a thumb drive, along with an encrypted filesystem image and (c) doesn't require root/administrative access. TrueCrypt looks good for the first two, but fails on (c). Why is administrative access required if "Traveller" mode doesn't install any drivers?
Our society is anchored at two points: The democratic process, which protects the rights of the majority, and the Constitution, which protects the rights of the minority. This only works as long as the Constitution is honored. We now live in a culture where many people care little about others, as long as they themselves have their freedoms. Politicians are free to ignore the Constitution, as long as their actions only injure a minority of the voters.
How do we change the current culture of self-absorption that leads to environmental disasters (global warming), human rights violations (Wal-Mart, Nike), health problems (rampant obesity and addiction), socioeconomic imbalances (illegal immigrants), and many other problems?
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Emojis are the 21st-century equivalent of the "blink" tag. They should be restricted to Geocities web sites.
Whenever you buy storage, you should buy the necessary backup capacity at the same time. You should never buy storage without buying backup capacity. Budget for it right from the start. If you can't afford the backup, you can't afford the storage. This may mean getting half as much storage as you'd like, but that's just the way it has to be. You probably wouldn't buy a car without an engine. It wouldn't do its job. So don't buy storage without backup. If you do, you have a storage system that can't do its job.
Titan, by Stephen Baxter sticks in my mind as being incredibly, irritatingly depressing. Despite the "uplifting" epilog tacked on at the end, it's the story of an expedition to Titan that goes utterly, horribly wrong in every possible way that will prolong the suffering of the protagonists. It's not a novel, it's a torture fantasy that ends [spoiler alert] with the deaths of all of the characters, but only after author has exhausted all of the possible ways of degrading and abusing them. Ick.
I've been trying to contact all of my legislators, but the web page containing Virginia Senator Mark Warner's official contact form seems to be dead (see http://warner.senate.gov). Does anyone know of a good alternative way to get messages to him?
The site looks fine under the current Firefox, but is badly broken under Seamonkey 1.1 (Which I still use regularly. Sue me.) See the screenshot here:
http://i.imgur.com/VePRd.jpg
From the radio show "X Minus One":
http://otr.relicradio.com/2010/03/sf94-the-category-inventor-by-x-minus-one/
OK, so we know now that just pointing out the facts doesn't work. What does? Have any studies identified techniques that actually work?
Picasa stores some things, including titles and tags, in IPTC data within the image files themselves. This is great, since it lets you carry these things around with the files when you move them to another image viewer, etc.
I wish it did the same thing with albums, but album data is stored in a separate file. In principle there are IPTC tags (like "collections") that could be used to record album-membership information within the image file itself, but Picasa doesn't do it that way.
The event horizon isn't wavelength-dependent. It's the place where the escape velocity equals the speed of light.
Black holes that evaporate due to Hawking radiation don't leave behind a naked singularity. They're just gone.
Portable VirtualBox looks interesting, but it also looks like it requires the user to have admin privileges on the Windows machine that's hosting vbox. See the documentation here:
http://www.vbox.me/?path=./Description&file=ReadMe.txt
"VirtualBox needs at least main user rights, there 4 Services
(VBoxDRV, VBoxUSBMon and if not already installs VBoxUSB,
the VBoxNetFLT and sun_VboxNetFLT) to be furnished and
VirtualBox must in " Ring-3" - Mode is initiated. The drivers
the network become with snetcfg.exe (from the ms DDK 2003)
merged. So that they are loaded, must into that Attitudes of
Portable-VirtualBox, under the rider " NET" , this to be
selected. For security, which one installs, must for the
installation be agreed. After terminating Portable-VirtualBox
the drivers become and files again removes!"
I've used Seamonkey as my default browser for a long time now, mainly because I like the user interface better. Seamonkey 2.0 now uses Firefox's printing system, though, and this is one of the main things I don't like about Firefox. I use lpr for printing, not cups, and I liked the fact that earlier versions of Seamonkey (and "Mozilla" before it) remembered any changes I made to the "lpr command" in the print dialog. Firefox uses gtk-print, which reverts back to the default lpr command every time you click print, even in the same session. I've reported this as a bug in the Seamonkey bugzilla.
Regarding crashes, I've seen another report of this at LWN.
"an unspecified carrier" seems to be AT&T. At the bottom of this page:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/techspecs/
is a link labeled "Check the coverage viewer" that points to
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverageviewer/popUp_3g.jsp
...in "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation", in 1977:
http://authors.wizards.pro/books/titles/50243/rotating-cylinders-and-the-possibility-of-global-causality-violation
"Einstein's Bridge" seems to be twenty years later.
...and we haven't been back since. Beyond the question of how long it would take a motivated civilization to expand throughout the galaxy, there's the question of "would they bother?". We don't seem to be bothering.
...what does the PINK light that Valis shines on your brain do to you?
For what it's worth, we've had good luck with the Norco disk crates like this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133023
These have 15 hot-swap SATA slots. Each set of 5 is multiplexed to one eSATA connector on the back of the crate. The crate comes with a PCI-X 4-port eSATA controller. We use the crate as Just a Bunch of Disks, but it can be also configured as a RAID array. At the price (about $800), it's very cheap per slot. We currently have two of these full of terabyte disks, and an older DS-1200 (12-slot) with a mixture of disks. They've been very reliable so far.
At $0.07/KWh, generating a kilowatt for a year would cost .07*24*365 = $613.20.
Over 5 years, this would be a total of $3066.00 for generating one kilowatt
during that time, or about $3 per watt. If the solar cells cost $1 per watt
and they last for five years (they'd better last at least this long), then the
solar cells win by a factor of three.
A couple of good examples of science writing for non-experts:
* Stephen J. Gould's books (e.g., "The Panda's Thumb") about natural history. He made a point of never "lying" to his students or readers. He believed that teachers only needed to fudge the truth if they didn't understand the material well enough themselves. His books are clear, informative and enjoyable, and they don't cut any corners on the science.
* Science News ( http://www.sciencenews.org/ ), which is one of the best examples of science journalism anywhere. I've subscribed to it, off and on, since the 1960s. (It's been published since the 1920s.) They're excellent journalists.
By that time, though, I'd already come to be uncomfortable with OpenMosix for two reasons:
- The develpers seemed to be completely uninterested in security issues. This is something that was less of a concern in The Good Old Days, but really should be on the frontest of burners now.
- The OpenMosix kernel code was so large and stuck its tentacles into so many places, there was no way it was ever going to make it into the mainstream kernel. This meant that, if any changes were necessary, we were either at the mercy of the OpenMosix developers or we were going to have to maintain them ourselves.
All of that being said, I loved OpenMosix when it worked. It's a great idea. I came out of a VAX/VMS cluster background, and OpenMosix was a serious step in the direction of resurrecting that functionality in open source. I'd like to see someone take over OpenMosix, make security a priority, and work to break it into small, digestible lumps that could slowly be merged into the mainline kernel.This makes it mostly useless. I can't count on having administrative privileges on a computer wherever I am. I've been looking for a solution that is (a) cross-platform, (b) has executables that can be store on a thumb drive, along with an encrypted filesystem image and (c) doesn't require root/administrative access. TrueCrypt looks good for the first two, but fails on (c). Why is administrative access required if "Traveller" mode doesn't install any drivers?
http://www.sefora.org/pages.php?submitted=1&id=93
What's up with this? Was it run through bablefish?
Imagine the support nightmare this would cause....
....of EVERYTHING!
Our society is anchored at two points: The democratic process, which protects the rights of
the majority, and the Constitution, which protects the rights of the minority. This only works
as long as the Constitution is honored. We now live in a culture where many
people care little about others, as long as they themselves have their freedoms. Politicians are
free to ignore the Constitution, as long as their actions only injure a minority of the voters.
How do we change the current culture of self-absorption that leads to environmental disasters
(global warming), human rights violations (Wal-Mart, Nike), health problems (rampant obesity
and addiction), socioeconomic imbalances (illegal immigrants), and many other problems?