And if the ISPs bitch too much, saying it's no longer profitable, then have the gov appropriate the "infrastructure upgrades" we paid for, and lease their use. Send 'em a bill for upgrade cash that wasn't spent on the network.
In my part of the world at least, you need a lot of power to warm a bus from -40 to something more reasonable. Diesels have a hard time keeping up.
Would they have another bank of capacitors for resistive heating?
What if the bus gets stuck in snow and runs out of charge? will the snow and slush cause problems with the charging contacts?
Trolleybusses seem a lot more practical to me, I never understood why they are so unpopular in north america, even if only used in high density areas, where the infrastructure would pay off.
WRT54G uses TNC connectors. N is a bit heavy for a low power consumer thing.
I should mention though, the polarity is reversed (male plug have a socket instead of pin) so that wou can't hook up standard TNC stuff all willy nilly. Of course you can buy the reverse polarity connectors, so it doesn't actually prevent anything, just makes things more annoying. (like those bloody tamper resistant screws).
I can't wait until they start suing the electrons!
section 4083:
(1) A person commits an offence if:
They network two computers via:
(a) copper; or
(b) fibre; or
(c) through the ether.
(2) A person commits an offence if they network a media operating device via sneakernet.
(i) An offence against subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, and will have the network removed from their possesion; or
(ii) in the case of subsection (2), the offender will have the limbs used in the crime removed from their person.
(3) every one who attempts to commit or is an accessory to the commission of a network is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definition of "sneakernet"
(4) For the purposes of this Act, "sneakernet" is transferring files from a device to another device using removable magnetic, solid state, or optical media; this does not exempt future removable media from the Act.
I think it would take a decade to offset the cost of a new NAS; Unless of course, it happens to be a flame thrower...
An old PIII or similar is pretty light on power, I can't see it being more than 50W, esp. considering it is idling most of the time. (I think TDP for the later PIII was ~20W).
So say 1.2kWh per day (assuming the 50W figure), for an old PIII. 438kWH/yr, at 10 cents a piece (not sure the cost of power where he is) makes... $45 a year. So maybe not a decade, but it's not that terribly expensive either.
"And who in their right mind would use Windows as the basis for a backup?"
I've been working on one for some wifi enabled control functions - I have a couple USB serial dongles hanging off it, one with an I2c bridge for general IO & control. (Using openWRT)
But - the USB serial cables drop out after a while on 2.4 kernel, and 2.6 doesn't support the onboard wifi (because broadcom doesn't release info on it, from what I understand) - but the serial cables seem solid in 2.6.
Pretty sweet as it stands, but it would be great if the wifi was working under 2.6 - or maybe it is now?
There are a few other things lacking in 2.4, but I can't think of them at the moment.
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Just once.
And if the ISPs bitch too much, saying it's no longer profitable, then have the gov appropriate the "infrastructure upgrades" we paid for, and lease their use. Send 'em a bill for upgrade cash that wasn't spent on the network.
composite TO modern, make that.
And even if it does, composite modern converters exist.
Seems rather pathetically low power to me.
I can't see them getting too much range out of that, not to mention that lower freqs = bigger antennas.
But more BW is always nice.
make that medium iron.
I think they're going for desktop here, seeing as how they're comparing it to win7.
I thought IBM was still pushing redhat for lower end servers, and AIX for big iron?
I might agree with you if it ran off 48V, but 18.5V? WTF is that?
Plus I'd assume that it needs close to bang on 18.5V, whereas 48V enterprise stuff is good within ±25%, generally...
Not that I see central offices lining up to get mac minis anyways.
Never underestimate what sheep will sign away for pizza.
I think, even with inefficiency of a heat exchanger, cooling from +45 to +25 will use less juice that heating from -40 to +20..?
In my part of the world at least, you need a lot of power to warm a bus from -40 to something more reasonable. Diesels have a hard time keeping up.
Would they have another bank of capacitors for resistive heating?
What if the bus gets stuck in snow and runs out of charge? will the snow and slush cause problems with the charging contacts?
Trolleybusses seem a lot more practical to me, I never understood why they are so unpopular in north america, even if only used in high density areas, where the infrastructure would pay off.
I suppose they'll have to make reality movies. But - now more than ever - Detroit could really benefit from robocop.
For mechanical turkish delight.
Do they run massive websites?
WRT54G uses TNC connectors. N is a bit heavy for a low power consumer thing.
I should mention though, the polarity is reversed (male plug have a socket instead of pin) so that wou can't hook up standard TNC stuff all willy nilly. Of course you can buy the reverse polarity connectors, so it doesn't actually prevent anything, just makes things more annoying. (like those bloody tamper resistant screws).
Shortwave would be useless for wifi... on a good day, a watt can go half way around the world - that's gonna bugger your signal to noise ratio.
Not to mention low frequencies mean long antennas.
Will be going away anytime this lifetime.
You aren't going to be able to make analog/variable button keyboards for $5.
Normal buttons will be here for a long long time.
It's a bad one too.
I suppose a naked android avatar should be prescribed, then no one's feelings can be hurt... except the android haters.
How about no avatar..? And no twitter while we're at it.
They'll just start adding them together.
UltraUltra low power
UltraSuperMicroMini low power
PicoPicoPicoPicoPower
Or we could skip all that and do what ST does; Embellish a bit and call it "zeropower" (which is trademarked no less).
Zeropower NVRAM - Which of course is battery backed, and uses... power.
I can't wait until they start suing the electrons!
section 4083:
(1) A person commits an offence if:
They network two computers via:
(a) copper; or
(b) fibre; or
(c) through the ether.
(2) A person commits an offence if they network a media operating device via sneakernet.
(i) An offence against subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, and will have the network removed from their possesion; or
(ii) in the case of subsection (2), the offender will have the limbs used in the crime removed from their person.
(3) every one who attempts to commit or is an accessory to the commission of a network is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Definition of "sneakernet"
(4) For the purposes of this Act, "sneakernet" is transferring files from a device to another device using removable magnetic, solid state, or optical media; this does not exempt future removable media from the Act.
I think it would take a decade to offset the cost of a new NAS; Unless of course, it happens to be a flame thrower...
An old PIII or similar is pretty light on power, I can't see it being more than 50W, esp. considering it is idling most of the time. (I think TDP for the later PIII was ~20W).
So say 1.2kWh per day (assuming the 50W figure), for an old PIII. 438kWH/yr, at 10 cents a piece (not sure the cost of power where he is) makes... $45 a year. So maybe not a decade, but it's not that terribly expensive either.
"And who in their right mind would use Windows as the basis for a backup?"
I can't argue with that!
Correct. "Power Factor Correction"
I've been working on one for some wifi enabled control functions - I have a couple USB serial dongles hanging off it, one with an I2c bridge for general IO & control. (Using openWRT)
But - the USB serial cables drop out after a while on 2.4 kernel, and 2.6 doesn't support the onboard wifi (because broadcom doesn't release info on it, from what I understand) - but the serial cables seem solid in 2.6.
Pretty sweet as it stands, but it would be great if the wifi was working under 2.6 - or maybe it is now?
There are a few other things lacking in 2.4, but I can't think of them at the moment.
Well, it could have been worse. They could have gone with NTSC.
Well the trees can't afford lawyers, so it would be an easy case. On the other hand, they can't pay damages either.
Wow! You've done this before haven't you?! :-D