Well, say you set up a lunch meeting with the Martians at 12 o'clock sharp and you show up 15 minutes late, what does that say about us as a species? Is that really the message you want to send them?
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Not on pricewatch at least.
Maybe not, but that's what I pay (in parts, not counting time of course) in Sweden. The Duron is $30, 40GB Seagate Cuda $50, box (Q-Tec smiley) $20, RAM $30, an Asus MX all-in-one mobo for $40 and with floppy, CD, rat, keyboard and cables for another $30 you're home. Or, if you don't want to build one yourself, go to Walmart - they have several sub-$200 models, with or withour Lindows, hell they even have one for a few dimes under $160 (no harddrive in that puppy, but I bet it runs Knoppix just fine).
Riiiiight.
Right. Seen any 333MHz 1.2GB PCs on dell.com lately? No? That's because there aren't any. They are obsolete. You'll find them in dumpsters, yard sales or on Ebay for free or a reasonable facsimily of free.
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I haven't priced VMWARE in a long time, but if memory serves, that should be near or over the 2K mark by itself.
You need to refresh your DRAM. VMWare Workstation 4 costs $299 from vmware.com. The rest of the stuff can be had for free, more or less. 17" monitors are $100 a pop new (CRT, that is), the 1.2GHz box can be built new for around $200 (1300 Duron, 256MB RAM, 40GB disk) and the rest of them are dumpster-diving fodder. The only things in his list that actually may cost Real Money (TM) are the big screens, but you can get old 24" Sun monitors on Ebay for a song and maybe a little dance and then you just need to get/make a VGA-Sun adapter to be in business.
Could that have to do with the fact that in Sweden, you may only go 120 (or 110?) km/h even on the highways
It's 110 km/h and compared to the 88 km/h that's the normal highest speed in the US, your point is...? Besides, CrystalFalcon only goes under 110 km/h if he's stopping for fuel.;-)
there are virtually no cars (or anything at all) on the roads, except probably in Stockholm?
The streets of Stockholm would be crowded indeed if you tried to fit 4 million cars (the number of registered cars in Sweden) on the roads of a city with 1 million inhabitants.:-)
Besides, the points you address (speed limits and potential lack of oncoming traffic) would affect cars and bikes alike.
Given that the car protects you better on a factor of, oh, about infinity squared, I do believe that bikes are inherently more dangerous.
Let me amend my statement slightly to add the helmet, Kevlar-lined jacket and trousers, boots and gloves to the concept of "bike". You do include the seat belts and air bags in your assessment of the dangerosity of cars, right? Besides, I was just making the point that statistically, the risks are about the same. From that standpoint, it's valid to look closer and see why this is so. Since the data is so counter-intuitive, it's probably very interesting.
I don't think you're going to challenge that bike drivers are more alert to their situation.
Nope.
However, if this is true, and the level of danger was the same, then the number of fatalities should have been much lower?
Ah, but you conveniently forget the large amount of morons in the statistics. Discounting them as anomalies should reveal the 'real' dangers of cars vs bikes as coming out on favour of the bikes, just as you surmise above. Ha!:-)
(...as long as car drivers don't necessarily adopt MY particular attitude of getting aircraft-class wheels and making a principle of going at least twice the posted speed limit...)
The helmet already narrows my visual field as it is.
Unless you have a very restrictive helmet, I've found it's the other way around. In a car, you have lots of stuff narrowing your field of view while my helmet only restricts a little of my peripheral vision. Moving my head also moves those restrictions around, revealing stuff behind them. In a car, they are fixed (A, B and C posts, roof, neckrests and passengers all restrict your field of view).
I thought of one thing I'd like this HUD to be able to do, thanks to your interior light analogy: I'd like it to dim. A knob somewhere or a light sensor so the HUD is more or less barely visible at all times but not glaring in my eye. When I ride a car at night I like to go Black Panel - dim the dashboard almost all the way down. I can still read the gauges, but they're not blinding me in any way.
Thanks.;-) And yes, for the record, I'm the one that told him about the "fun tax" on speeding tickets, too.
Or, like a fellow on the GPZ mailing list has as his.sig: "Wear gear, do wheelies".
Weering back on-topic - I for one welcome our new HUD overlords. A non-obtrusive speed reading and the possibility for the system to add any other interesting information like the oil warning light and an indicator for low fuel would be nice. Nothing that's in the middle of my field of vision, just so I won't have to look down. A glance into a top corner would be fine.
BTW, I'm a certified MC safety instructor and just today I got some interesting statistics in the mail: In Sweden, the difference between cars and motorcycles regarding the chances of personal injury per vehicle in traffic is neglible. That is, statistically, riding a bike in Sweden carries the same level of risks as riding a car. Bikes are not inherently more dangerous than cars. And this statistic includes all the crackpots who go out speeding on a borrowed bike, with no protective gear while drunk. A full 3/4ths of all motorcycle deaths occur when the driver fulfils one or more of those critera: Borrowed/stolen bike, no gear and drunk/high. If you'd disregard those and also disregard the number of dead car drivers/passengers that are in stolen/borrowed cars, without a seat belt and inebriated, you'd reach the conclusion that CARS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN MOTORCYCLES. This is because it seems that cars attract a much lower ratio of idiots.;-)
YMMV, I have no idea what the stats look like in the US although I've once rented a bike and ridden from WV down the Shenandoah Valley to Lynchburg and up the Blue Ridge Parkway. In 30 degree C heat and all of my gear. On that two-day trip I encountered a bike accident, something I haven't done in 18 years (and counting) in Sweden. Go figure.
I am not anti-open source software! I just have realistic expectations of what I can and cannot get for free.
I guess all the "professional-level" software that I've found available for free has raised my expectations way above yours. Then again, perhaps Microsoft has been lowering my expectations for "professional-level" software.:-)
My Athlon box sounds like a buzzsaw with all of the fans it needs
There are fans and there are fans. Try to find a CPU fan/heatsink with a large diameter fan, they won't need to spin as fast and are therefore much quieter. I have found Arctic Cooling's Copper Silent and Slim Silent Pro are whisper quiet, especially compared to my older Zalman "Rolls-Royce Spey" CP-5000 fans. A case with room for 12cm case fans instead of the 8cm ones also helps.
Oh, and if you can step down a notch or two for the gfx board, there are passive cooling solutions out there that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. My gaming rig has a Ti 4200 with a passive Zalman cooler superglued to it - works perfectly.
My main workstation is a dual Athlon 2000+ MSI board with a pair of AC fans, two 12cm case fans plus a Seagate Barracuda drive and it's barely audible.
Ah. And as the file system (Reiser3, in this case) assigns an inode to directories (ie making it a file in some technical meaning), that's why I get the Stale NFS Handle message even when I just try to ls/nfs-mounted-dir/ on the client? Makes some kind of sense...
But doesn't this cookie system sorta break the statelessness of the NFS server, at least in spirit? What's the reason for doing it this way instead of having the client ask for full path names? Can this behaviour be turned off somehow? Having the client automatically ask for a new cookie when it receives this error message would seem like a good idea...?
I know the feeling. I kinda woke up just after the rumors that Samsung would buy it and just before Barney the Dinosaur and Tokyo Happy Prawn Company would...
But damn, I miss the Workbench.
Maybe it's just a really, really long rest? Pining for the fjords a bit?
Dunno really. Came to think of it (since I felt like I was just karma-whoring with that comment, even if I don't need it) and thought it'd look cool like that.
Like all other disasters, it seemed like a good idea at the time.:-)
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I tried running this on all statements and press releases coming out of SCO and Darl McBride for the last six months and after a thorough semantic analysis, this is the resulting summary:
"Pass me the crackpipe, man!"
Proudly karma-whoring since the turn of the millenium
There was this freeware project for the Amiga 2000 where you could get instructions and parts to solder a Zorro-ISA bridgeboard and use the ISA slots in an Amiga 2000 for stuff like network cards. Normally, those ISA slots were for the Commodore PC-on-a-card 8086, 286 and 386 cards, but with this hack, you could use them from the Amiga (with the proper drivers, of course). Anyway, my card didn't really want to work and after a few hours of trouble-shooting I got pissed off and put it in backwards and turned the machine on to punish it.
Smoke.
I turned it off after a few seconds, flipped the card around and turned it back on - it worked perfectly.
That's what I have, however sometimes when the server's been down and back up again, the clients get a "Stale NFS handle" error trying to access the mounted volumes. umount/mount fixes it, but what causes it in the first place? Kernel 2.4.22, Gentoo.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
I thought it said "powdered flight" and wondered if cocaine wasn't older than that...
Just run a big fat hose from the nearest water tap and pipe it into a small hydroelectric turbine near the computer rack.
Advantages:
Shielded from spikes on the grid
Use the water to cool the servers
UPS functionality - as long as you have water, you have power
The whine from the turbine will drown out the whine from your manager
No cords!
Well, say you set up a lunch meeting with the Martians at 12 o'clock sharp and you show up 15 minutes late, what does that say about us as a species? Is that really the message you want to send them?
Maybe not, but that's what I pay (in parts, not counting time of course) in Sweden. The Duron is $30, 40GB Seagate Cuda $50, box (Q-Tec smiley) $20, RAM $30, an Asus MX all-in-one mobo for $40 and with floppy, CD, rat, keyboard and cables for another $30 you're home. Or, if you don't want to build one yourself, go to Walmart - they have several sub-$200 models, with or withour Lindows, hell they even have one for a few dimes under $160 (no harddrive in that puppy, but I bet it runs Knoppix just fine).
Riiiiight.
Right. Seen any 333MHz 1.2GB PCs on dell.com lately? No? That's because there aren't any. They are obsolete. You'll find them in dumpsters, yard sales or on Ebay for free or a reasonable facsimily of free.
You need to refresh your DRAM. VMWare Workstation 4 costs $299 from vmware.com. The rest of the stuff can be had for free, more or less. 17" monitors are $100 a pop new (CRT, that is), the 1.2GHz box can be built new for around $200 (1300 Duron, 256MB RAM, 40GB disk) and the rest of them are dumpster-diving fodder. The only things in his list that actually may cost Real Money (TM) are the big screens, but you can get old 24" Sun monitors on Ebay for a song and maybe a little dance and then you just need to get/make a VGA-Sun adapter to be in business.
It's 110 km/h and compared to the 88 km/h that's the normal highest speed in the US, your point is...? Besides, CrystalFalcon only goes under 110 km/h if he's stopping for fuel. ;-)
there are virtually no cars (or anything at all) on the roads, except probably in Stockholm?
The streets of Stockholm would be crowded indeed if you tried to fit 4 million cars (the number of registered cars in Sweden) on the roads of a city with 1 million inhabitants. :-)
Besides, the points you address (speed limits and potential lack of oncoming traffic) would affect cars and bikes alike.
Let me amend my statement slightly to add the helmet, Kevlar-lined jacket and trousers, boots and gloves to the concept of "bike". You do include the seat belts and air bags in your assessment of the dangerosity of cars, right? Besides, I was just making the point that statistically, the risks are about the same. From that standpoint, it's valid to look closer and see why this is so. Since the data is so counter-intuitive, it's probably very interesting.
I don't think you're going to challenge that bike drivers are more alert to their situation.
Nope.
However, if this is true, and the level of danger was the same, then the number of fatalities should have been much lower?
Ah, but you conveniently forget the large amount of morons in the statistics. Discounting them as anomalies should reveal the 'real' dangers of cars vs bikes as coming out on favour of the bikes, just as you surmise above. Ha! :-)
(...as long as car drivers don't necessarily adopt MY particular attitude of getting aircraft-class wheels and making a principle of going at least twice the posted speed limit...)
I didn't teach you that, did I?
Unless you have a very restrictive helmet, I've found it's the other way around. In a car, you have lots of stuff narrowing your field of view while my helmet only restricts a little of my peripheral vision. Moving my head also moves those restrictions around, revealing stuff behind them. In a car, they are fixed (A, B and C posts, roof, neckrests and passengers all restrict your field of view).
I thought of one thing I'd like this HUD to be able to do, thanks to your interior light analogy: I'd like it to dim. A knob somewhere or a light sensor so the HUD is more or less barely visible at all times but not glaring in my eye. When I ride a car at night I like to go Black Panel - dim the dashboard almost all the way down. I can still read the gauges, but they're not blinding me in any way.
Thanks. ;-) And yes, for the record, I'm the one that told him about the "fun tax" on speeding tickets, too.
Or, like a fellow on the GPZ mailing list has as his .sig: "Wear gear, do wheelies".
Weering back on-topic - I for one welcome our new HUD overlords. A non-obtrusive speed reading and the possibility for the system to add any other interesting information like the oil warning light and an indicator for low fuel would be nice. Nothing that's in the middle of my field of vision, just so I won't have to look down. A glance into a top corner would be fine.
BTW, I'm a certified MC safety instructor and just today I got some interesting statistics in the mail: In Sweden, the difference between cars and motorcycles regarding the chances of personal injury per vehicle in traffic is neglible. That is, statistically, riding a bike in Sweden carries the same level of risks as riding a car. Bikes are not inherently more dangerous than cars. And this statistic includes all the crackpots who go out speeding on a borrowed bike, with no protective gear while drunk. A full 3/4ths of all motorcycle deaths occur when the driver fulfils one or more of those critera: Borrowed/stolen bike, no gear and drunk/high. If you'd disregard those and also disregard the number of dead car drivers/passengers that are in stolen/borrowed cars, without a seat belt and inebriated, you'd reach the conclusion that CARS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN MOTORCYCLES. This is because it seems that cars attract a much lower ratio of idiots. ;-)
YMMV, I have no idea what the stats look like in the US although I've once rented a bike and ridden from WV down the Shenandoah Valley to Lynchburg and up the Blue Ridge Parkway. In 30 degree C heat and all of my gear. On that two-day trip I encountered a bike accident, something I haven't done in 18 years (and counting) in Sweden. Go figure.
I guess all the "professional-level" software that I've found available for free has raised my expectations way above yours. Then again, perhaps Microsoft has been lowering my expectations for "professional-level" software. :-)
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. You really are an asshole.
According to Microsoft product naming guidelines, that should read "Windows ME too!".
They tried, but ME didn't quite work out that way.
There are fans and there are fans. Try to find a CPU fan/heatsink with a large diameter fan, they won't need to spin as fast and are therefore much quieter. I have found Arctic Cooling's Copper Silent and Slim Silent Pro are whisper quiet, especially compared to my older Zalman "Rolls-Royce Spey" CP-5000 fans. A case with room for 12cm case fans instead of the 8cm ones also helps.
Oh, and if you can step down a notch or two for the gfx board, there are passive cooling solutions out there that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. My gaming rig has a Ti 4200 with a passive Zalman cooler superglued to it - works perfectly.
My main workstation is a dual Athlon 2000+ MSI board with a pair of AC fans, two 12cm case fans plus a Seagate Barracuda drive and it's barely audible.
1833 MHz, actually (if it's the Barton core 2500+). AMD+ Marketing+ strikes again!
In that case, my 1 GHz Via C3 Nehemiah processor scores well above my 90 MHz Pentium.
Well, it does, doesn't it? And you love that CPU for it, don't you? :-)
But doesn't this cookie system sorta break the statelessness of the NFS server, at least in spirit? What's the reason for doing it this way instead of having the client ask for full path names? Can this behaviour be turned off somehow? Having the client automatically ask for a new cookie when it receives this error message would seem like a good idea...?
I know the feeling. I kinda woke up just after the rumors that Samsung would buy it and just before Barney the Dinosaur and Tokyo Happy Prawn Company would...
But damn, I miss the Workbench.
Maybe it's just a really, really long rest? Pining for the fjords a bit?
But what would you love most: The explaining itself or the bill you'd send them afterwards?
Like all other disasters, it seemed like a good idea at the time. :-)
Patenting fake .sigs since the turn of the millenium
Watch out, Monster Cable!
"Pass me the crackpipe, man!"
Proudly karma-whoring since the turn of the millenium
Not to mention the increased ability to quickly spot "re-written" bought term papers.
You have to show 'em who's the boss.
There was this freeware project for the Amiga 2000 where you could get instructions and parts to solder a Zorro-ISA bridgeboard and use the ISA slots in an Amiga 2000 for stuff like network cards. Normally, those ISA slots were for the Commodore PC-on-a-card 8086, 286 and 386 cards, but with this hack, you could use them from the Amiga (with the proper drivers, of course). Anyway, my card didn't really want to work and after a few hours of trouble-shooting I got pissed off and put it in backwards and turned the machine on to punish it.
Smoke.
I turned it off after a few seconds, flipped the card around and turned it back on - it worked perfectly.
Hey, this IS an Ask Slashdot, right? :-)