I have to wonder about the 2000 election....When ABC (or was it NBC) was making their first prediction that Gore had won Florida (about 08:00 pm CST on election night), GW Bush said like "that's not possible, it can't be" instead of "we'll wait for all the votes to be counted" or " our polls find differently".... I didn't think anything of it at the time...but what has ensued since, I wish I had a recording of the broadcast, and have experts review it.
You've never seen a backhoe hit a buried distribution line?....Much worse than driving into a pole...Also when there is a fault in a cable, it is much easier to find it when it is above ground instead of underground....
Electric distribution (1 KV - 69 KV) lines in most suburban areas are underground...it is difficult to put transmission (115 KV - 384 KV) lines underground because of the electric isolation needed between each conductor and ground
What happened to the AppleWorks 2.0 Spreadsheet?
I had many complicated ledgers on that in 1984 on an Apple//c...It worked like a charm...I can't believe they couldn't have ported that to OS X
Hydrogen is simply a means of storing energy...There is very little H2 occuuring naturally on our planet, so it must be produced (most likely by the electrolysis of water), which will need a lot of energy..(I believe there is quite a bit of energy loss in the process)...
The energy to produce H2 could come from wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydro, or nuclear, but the source will have to be scalable, which currently leaves nuclear..
The amount of waste per watt from a nuclear plant is incredibally small, compared to fossil fuel plants, and nuclear plants release no waste products into the general atmosphere (they keep it all contained) - in fact a typical coal plant releases more radioactive material into the atmosphere than a nuclear plant.
I know South Africa was going to start using PBMRs to generate electricity, and the heat would be used for de-salanination to produce drinking water...If theis were done on a large scale, the excess electricity could be used for H2 production
The description in this article of the peer-to-peer collaboration seem very similar to what ICQ was doing with their "corporate version" before AOL bought them dismantled the product....
As far as the next generation of "traditional" fission reactors, I guess I've been more impressed with GE's ESBWR , than Westinghouse's APxxx...
IANANE (I am not a Nuclear Engineer), but BWRs seem to have fewer problems (no steam gnerators to leak/plug up, no vessle head degradation) and are theroetically more efficent (single cycle)...
I wonder if anyone is going to make a bid for GENE (General Electric Nuclear Energy)...
I also wonder why we dont hear more about CANDU reactors . They use natural uranium instead of enriched uranium, which could provide more peaceful energy in unstable areas of the worls
But it is entertaining to hear such panic mongering from someone who has undoubtedly made telephone credit card purchases, and we all know how secure the POTS network is.
EXACTLY...Espicially when people use their 49 or 900 MHz analog cordless phones....Anyone with a radio scanner and a decent antenna within a mile or two can copy everything going on...Add a DTMF decoder, and they have your bank number and pin (amazing the number of people that call automated phone banks with their cordless phones), or credit card number, exp date, etc...I'll take even a 64-bit SSL bitstream over most traditional methods, just, make sure systems are free of keystroke loggers, etc.....
Although I believe paper trails are good also, espicially in voting machines -- I don't trust Dibold.....
>>For storage I would want a good white box or a name box
That is what is what a SAN is good for....put a cheap box out there as a server and a have 2 or more high reliability storage devices on your network that all the servers use for storage
use one of the various Linux iSCSI targets and initiators (Microsoft has iSCSI target and initator software for Window$ also), along with LVM and Software RAID to create some cheap SAN devices consisting of 2 or more SATA drives, a beefy power supply (i.e not the one that came with your case), plenty of cooling, a large amount of RAM, middle of the road motherboard, and a decent NIC (ideally a dedicated NIC on both the initiator and target for iscsi traffic, and either dedicated switches for the SAN, or have the SAN on a high priority VLAN)...processor speed isn't too critical (bus speed is important though). Use LVM snapshots for backups/archives, and you've got a complete "enterprise" featured storage system...
OR
to be ultra cheap, just mirror many of your old desktops converted into servers using rsync every 5 minutes or so (using cron), with simple scripts that can be run by anyone in your office to promote one of the backup machines to primary when one fails.
Maybe use extra taxes on SUV getting less than 18 MPG to subsidise veichles getting over 30MPG or use alternative fuels, to encourage the mid and lower income people to purchase efficent veichles...
Even with Gas prices in NW MN getting over $2.25/gal, Local auto dealers can't sell anything other than trucks and SUVs.....
Sad that the Soccer Mom needs a Suburban to haul 2.4 kids around. A Crown Victoria, Bonneville, and similar cars have the needed useable space (easily carry 3 kids and lots of trunk room for gear) and can get almost twice the MPGs as the SUVs..
Transmitting signals into the air leave it open to anyone within line of site of the transmitter to receive the energy and do what ever they want to with it....
There are antennas with very narrow beamwidths, but new DSP radio receivers can really pull signals out of the mud
I have a BSD jail account from http://www.65535.net/ for about $15/mo. for 1GB disk and 20GB transfer - they have an unmetered account for $35/mo. You have root access to your own virtual server, with your own IP address, and can compile what ever you want for mail and www servers.
>Server software that runs on Linux for those of us that like a standard back office.
like asterisk
It supports many VoIP standards, pots, BRI, PRI, etc...
We had a tendency to grandiose engineering in the 70s, and we paid for that. There are much cleaner and simpler designs now.
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Exactly...The new GE ESBWR ( link )is said to be able to passivly remove heat for 72 hours after a loss of coolant accident, preventing an immediate meltdown.
Also, the MPBR is also said to be passivly safe, though there is not as much documentation available on it as PWRs and BWRs
It's not quite as refined as Quark, but it has much potential, and each 'official' release is making great strides. Save yourself over $2k, compile Scribus in *BSD or Linux.
The basic cable channels should be paying the carriers to carry their signal. Every basic cable channel seem to have more ads per hour than their broadcast couterparts. I would think that the increased ad revenue would be worth more than a few pennies pre subscriber. Many newspapers figured this out years ago
I use mgetty+sendfax for a FAX system, and all incoming and outgoing faxes are in the backups and archives of the server (as g3 files). The only limitation is they are not very easily searchable. (I suppose one could run an OCR on all the fax and come up with a way to search)
Why do you even send a.doc (application/msword) resume? If you want to send a "pretty" printable resume, send it as pdf (encoded as mime-type application/pdf), you can create a pdf by piping the print job through 'gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -'....Make sure you stick with the standard fonts so it renders the same on the recipent's computer
The thing to remember is radio amateurs (I don't know we became associated with pigs) are LICENSED to use the bands they use (in fact we have primary allocations in many bands)which does give amateur radio operators protection from unlicensed or secondary licensed interference... WiFi, Powerline Broadband, etc. are all unlicensed servicre and thus are not protected We had a (inter)national packet network (also had a node aboard MIR), complete with email long before most/.ers had even heard of the internet
Then why did the Bush government GIVE (without competitive bid) MCI/WC an essentially unlimited contract to rebuild Iraq's communication infastructure....
For less than $400 I just purchased a Soyo Tower (which is a nice case), 300 watt PS, Soyo Dragon Plus mother board (has hardware based IDE RAID on the motherboard, I haven't tried using it yet..), Athelon XP 2100+, 256MB DDR RAM, 40 GB 7200 rpm HDD, a cheap Memorex CR-RW and a cheap Nvidia AGP video card. The NIC is built-in to the mother board. Loaded Slackware on it and have had no problems setting it up (I did have to manually load the USB modules, but that isn't much of a concern on A SERVER). It just screams along now.... You could make an array of 10 of these for your budget....
The municipal utility I work for uses a 8550 and we have very similar experiences. It is a good solid printer. Capable of 11x17, built-in duplexer, built-in nic and lpd, and 2500 sheet tray (I realize that some of those things are options, but they all are worth it and don't add too much to the price at initial purchase. Enveolpes even print fine through the manual feed tray Also there is good support from HP for the 8550 for open source printing systems. It is also capable of directly printing pdf's
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I have to wonder about the 2000 election....When ABC (or was it NBC) was making their first prediction that Gore had won Florida (about 08:00 pm CST on election night), GW Bush said like "that's not possible, it can't be" instead of "we'll wait for all the votes to be counted" or " our polls find differently"....
I didn't think anything of it at the time...but what has ensued since, I wish I had a recording of the broadcast, and have experts review it.
You've never seen a backhoe hit a buried distribution line?....Much worse than driving into a pole...Also when there is a fault in a cable, it is much easier to find it when it is above ground instead of underground....
Electric distribution (1 KV - 69 KV) lines in most suburban areas are underground...it is difficult to put transmission (115 KV - 384 KV) lines underground because of the electric isolation needed between each conductor and ground
What happened to the AppleWorks 2.0 Spreadsheet? //c...It worked like a charm...I can't believe they couldn't have ported that to OS X
I had many complicated ledgers on that in 1984 on an Apple
Hydrogen is simply a means of storing energy...There is very little H2 occuuring naturally on our planet, so it must be produced (most likely by the electrolysis of water), which will need a lot of energy..(I believe there is quite a bit of energy loss in the process)...
The energy to produce H2 could come from wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydro, or nuclear, but the source will have to be scalable, which currently leaves nuclear..
The amount of waste per watt from a nuclear plant is incredibally small, compared to fossil fuel plants, and nuclear plants release no waste products into the general atmosphere (they keep it all contained) - in fact a typical coal plant releases more radioactive material into the atmosphere than a nuclear plant.
I know South Africa was going to start using PBMRs to generate electricity, and the heat would be used for de-salanination to produce drinking water...If theis were done on a large scale, the excess electricity could be used for H2 production
The description in this article of the peer-to-peer collaboration seem very similar to what ICQ was doing with their "corporate version" before AOL bought them dismantled the product....
As far as the next generation of "traditional" fission reactors, I guess I've been more impressed with GE's ESBWR , than Westinghouse's APxxx ...
IANANE (I am not a Nuclear Engineer), but BWRs seem to have fewer problems (no steam gnerators to leak/plug up, no vessle head degradation) and are theroetically more efficent (single cycle)...
I wonder if anyone is going to make a bid for GENE (General Electric Nuclear Energy)...
I also wonder why we dont hear more about CANDU reactors . They use natural uranium instead of enriched uranium, which could provide more peaceful energy in unstable areas of the worls
Although I believe paper trails are good also, espicially in voting machines -- I don't trust Dibold.....
>>For storage I would want a good white box or a name box
That is what is what a SAN is good for....put a cheap box out there as a server and a have 2 or more high reliability storage devices on your network that all the servers use for storage
use one of the various Linux iSCSI targets and initiators (Microsoft has iSCSI target and initator software for Window$ also), along with LVM and Software RAID to create some cheap SAN devices consisting of 2 or more SATA drives, a beefy power supply (i.e not the one that came with your case), plenty of cooling, a large amount of RAM, middle of the road motherboard, and a decent NIC (ideally a dedicated NIC on both the initiator and target for iscsi traffic, and either dedicated switches for the SAN, or have the SAN on a high priority VLAN)...processor speed isn't too critical (bus speed is important though).
Use LVM snapshots for backups/archives, and you've got a complete "enterprise" featured storage system...
OR
to be ultra cheap, just mirror many of your old desktops converted into servers using rsync every 5 minutes or so (using cron), with simple scripts that can be run by anyone in your office to promote one of the backup machines to primary when one fails.
key up your 160 meter CW rig with a half-wave vertical at 1500 Watts....Every flouresent light within 500 feet will glow
Maybe use extra taxes on SUV getting less than 18 MPG to subsidise veichles getting over 30MPG or use alternative fuels, to encourage the mid and lower income people to purchase efficent veichles...
Even with Gas prices in NW MN getting over $2.25/gal, Local auto dealers can't sell anything other than trucks and SUVs.....
Sad that the Soccer Mom needs a Suburban to haul 2.4 kids around. A Crown Victoria, Bonneville, and similar cars have the needed useable space (easily carry 3 kids and lots of trunk room for gear) and can get almost twice the MPGs as the SUVs..
128-bit encryption
Transmitting signals into the air leave it open to anyone within line of site of the transmitter to receive the energy and do what ever they want to with it....
There are antennas with very narrow beamwidths, but new DSP radio receivers can really pull signals out of the mud
I have a BSD jail account from http://www.65535.net/ for about $15/mo. for 1GB disk and 20GB transfer - they have an unmetered account for $35/mo. You have root access to your own virtual server, with your own IP address, and can compile what ever you want for mail and www servers.
My Local Phone Companies have been offering the VoDSL TV for 4/5 years now... Nothing new here
>Server software that runs on Linux for those of us that like a standard back office.
like asterisk
It supports many VoIP standards, pots, BRI, PRI, etc...
you mean like ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
We had a tendency to grandiose engineering in the 70s, and we paid for that. There are much cleaner and simpler designs now.
. Exactly...The new GE ESBWR ( link )is said to be able to passivly remove heat for 72 hours after a loss of coolant accident, preventing an immediate meltdown. Also, the MPBR is also said to be passivly safe, though there is not as much documentation available on it as PWRs and BWRs
It's not quite as refined as Quark, but it has much potential, and each 'official' release is making great strides.
Save yourself over $2k, compile Scribus in *BSD or Linux.
The basic cable channels should be paying the carriers to carry their signal. Every basic cable channel seem to have more ads per hour than their broadcast couterparts. I would think that the increased ad revenue would be worth more than a few pennies pre subscriber. Many newspapers figured this out years ago
I use mgetty+sendfax for a FAX system, and all incoming and outgoing faxes are in the backups and archives of the server (as g3 files). The only limitation is they are not very easily searchable. (I suppose one could run an OCR on all the fax and come up with a way to search)
Why do you even send a .doc (application/msword) resume? If you want to send a "pretty" printable resume, send it as pdf (encoded as mime-type application/pdf), you can create a pdf by piping the print job through 'gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -'....Make sure you stick with the standard fonts so it renders the same on the recipent's computer
The thing to remember is radio amateurs (I don't know we became associated with pigs) are LICENSED to use the bands they use (in fact we have primary allocations in many bands)which does give amateur radio operators protection from unlicensed or secondary licensed interference... /.ers had even heard of the internet
WiFi, Powerline Broadband, etc. are all unlicensed servicre and thus are not protected
We had a (inter)national packet network (also had a node aboard MIR), complete with email long before most
Then why did the Bush government GIVE (without competitive bid) MCI/WC an essentially unlimited contract to rebuild Iraq's communication infastructure....
Its a few years old, but still should work http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-11 -07-001-05-NW-LF
For less than $400 I just purchased a Soyo Tower (which is a nice case), 300 watt PS, Soyo Dragon Plus mother board (has hardware based IDE RAID on the motherboard, I haven't tried using it yet..), Athelon XP 2100+, 256MB DDR RAM, 40 GB 7200 rpm HDD, a cheap Memorex CR-RW and a cheap Nvidia AGP video card.
The NIC is built-in to the mother board. Loaded Slackware on it and have had no problems setting it up (I did have to manually load the USB modules, but that isn't much of a concern on A SERVER). It just screams along now....
You could make an array of 10 of these for your budget....
The municipal utility I work for uses a 8550 and we have very similar experiences. It is a good solid printer. Capable of 11x17, built-in duplexer, built-in nic and lpd, and 2500 sheet tray (I realize that some of those things are options, but they all are worth it and don't add too much to the price at initial purchase. Enveolpes even print fine through the manual feed tray
Also there is good support from HP for the 8550 for open source printing systems. It is also capable of directly printing pdf's