Hmm... my Tadpole laptop has a 1Gig SCSI drive. Wonder if this would fit? It's funny how running Solaris with a 1Gig drive makes you feel a bit cramped.
"Tundra test stuns scientists - Carbon dioxide could be dumped into atmosphere - Dramatic results made public today from a unique 20-year American
experiment are raising the spectre of runaway warming above the Arctic
tundra that would accelerate global climate change. "
-snip-
"This double whammy arises because U.S. researchers discovered climate
warming might trigger conditions where tundra decomposition will dump
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than it's soaked up by
accelerated plant growth."
My choices for cable are Roadrunner, or Earthlink which resells Time Warner cheaper than Roadrunner. I have Earthlink. I tried to get various Covad resellers, but Verizon would sabotage the DSL every time. I'd love to get Speakeasy, but unless they get their own C.O. I'm out of luck for DSL, and yes cable sucks bigtime.
My problem is that I need to host a lot of 50 - 300 meg photo files. I serve about one a week on average but I just don't know which one out of hundreds I'll need. Then there are about 6000 small and medium thumbnails that get a little bit of traffic.
"I work for a hosting/colocation provider, and I see all kinds of stuff pressed into service as servers: cheap white boxes, Sun and Apple workstations, even an X-Box or two."
So how cheap is this CoLo anyway? Most of the CoLos I have looked at are prices high enough that using an X-Box would just be silly. I'd love to find a CoLo shelf space priced for someone like me who wants to put say 100Gig on line but expects fairly low traffic.
One problem though, since a TIFF file uses 4-byte integer file offsets to store image data, doesn't that mean a TIFF file cannot have more than 4 Gigabytes of raster data ? Current high end 22 megapixel backs with 16 bit Bayer sensors would give a 440 meg file. I would conservatively guess that we will see 200 megapixel cameras with 4 Gigabyte raw files in 10 years. If this hit's the wall at 200 megapixels, I guess it will only be about 10 years until it's obsolete.
" I read the article and I still don't see the point. How is a "raw" file format any better than any other lossless image format (like PNG or TIFF)?"
Well, a raw file is a lot more compact, and it does not do anything to change the artifacts and or "lossyness" of the sensor itself. For instance the Canon cameras use a Bayer sensor. Imagine a checkerboard where half the sensors, are green , arranged in a checkerboard pattern, and the other half the sensors alternate between red and blue. The 12 bit value of each sensor site is encoded as the eight bit difference between it and the nearest same color site to its left. ( Amiga developers will find this vaguely familiar) The theoretical case of there being a full 12 bit difference between 2 sites never happens due to the optical properties of the camera and lens.
So when I tell somone that this is the right tool for the job , how am I supposed to pronounce it?
ja-ru-bee? ( gummie candy treat perhaps? )
har-you-bee ?
or jay-ru-bee as though it were named after Lee Harvey Oswald's killer Jack Ruby ( J. Ruby ) ?
When I was in grad school we never had any problems buying Everclear for making punch. "At 190 proof or 95-percent pure alcohol, Everclear is 95% pure grain alcohol, odorless, tasteless, and very potent. " http://www.beerliquors.com/liquors/grain.htm
Actually, Hitachi, the makers of the drives in the Apple and Muvo MP3 players makes two types of drives. One type has both a IDE interface and a CF (compact flash) interface. These will work in the MP3 players, cameras, and as a hard drive on a computer. The other type only has the IDE interface. These will work in the MP3 players and as a hard drive on a computer, but will not work on the cameras. The Apple uses the IDE only drive. The Muvo used the IDE and CF compatible version until Hitachi made them switch to the IDE only version, because it was hurting sales of their stand alone product at much higher margins. The Rio player uses a Seagate drive so the issues may be different.
BTW Creative has a new Muvo with the Seagate drive, that is easier to take apart.
POSTED: 6:17 pm EDT September 4, 2004 MIAMI -- Some employees concerned about being forced to go to work have contacted Local 10 for answers.
Local 10 has received e-mails and phone calls from people who say they are being forced to leave their homes to go to work even though the area is under hurricane evacuation order.
Saturday, State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle and Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas addressed those concerns.
Penelas reiterated that no one should be out on the highways and no employer should be forcing employees to go to work unless they are "essential" workers such as medical care workers or law enforcement officers.
Fernandez-Rundle told Local 10's Michael Putney that employers who ignore the county's request and won't do it "for good will and to protect others" should obey the request because they could face both civil and criminal liabilities if an employee is hurt due to being out in th
example.com is set up for exactly thie purpose. See RFC 2606..test.invalid.localhost are also mentioned in RFC 2606..localhost may cause more fun when somone tries to mail spam to it.
It's NOT possible (at the moment) to create another file that has the same hash as an existing one that has a backdoor while still looking and behaving like the original file.
and not simply that it was possible to create an arbitrary file with an predetermined hash. Actually I'd be impressed by the simpler case of picking a hash and creating a file with that hash.
They couldn't very well call it the "The Junk Fax Shit Act of 2004."
elimination (-lm-nshn) n.
The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Thick was move heavy who.
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Scraped off of a few spams, these all seem to come from the same source and have the same odd formating. Some of them are crying out to be set to music.
Wagon blow noon oil. Except food always were other follow push field fail. Again first country valley october. Thick was move heavy who.
Taken ill for poor member. She news fence anger class receive gray stick idea. Yard her oil row tought place. Am count share instead i warm settle cover.
Boys lead only throw press soil through thrown after road six. Iron could trust set held usual. Carry anger animals dance return stand six.
Morning bottle see often spoke. An ready wet try meet gather ago branch fill trade clean. Measure lay wagon suffer journey made.
Sometimes somnambulist about trembles, but wheelbarrow related to curse always plan an escape from dahlia about umbrella!A few pockets, and defined by impresario) to arrive at a state of insurance agentWhen you see over impresario, it means that of short order cook self-flagellates.Doug and I took behind fundraiser (with about snow, living with hydrogen atom.
Sometimes avocado pit over gets stinking drunk, but living with widow always bestow great honor upon line dancer toward!Unlike so many maestros who have made their womanly pocket to us.
bubbles remain smelly.Indeed, stalactite living with power drill a change of heart about stalactite over asteroid.around eggplant seek from carpet tack.girls remain snooty.Now and then, living with oil filter give secret financial aid to class action suit defined by.He called her Donovan (or was it Donovan?).
When inside squid daydreams, for demon reads a magazine.
If crank case toward starlet buy an expensive gift for ribbon for microscope, then defined by pork chop prays.He called her Foster (or was it Foster?).When you see living with corporation, it means that beyond hockey player gets stinking drunk.
Unlike so many taxidermists who have made their infected rattlesnake to us.
Full sign laugh serve direct join began something best. Electric caught smell ridden led there night cloth. Into sometimes wonder success cool advance hole. Wise whether saturday hurry gate walk. Double once walk various nine return height.
Blow black promise bag against cold believe famous seat no. Far drink around gain. Met while movement three so life i along joy toward.
Hello pain but low. Movement class sing miles count notice arrive army next. Easy follow means lone play hole tail divide another body form. Sign many animal arms likr aunt voice important ring. Worth wore deep fish stone still hand probably new.
Box wait fruit wall poor right of ago the raise. Can gives west many sugar face bean winter therefore.
Wagon blow noon oil. Except food always were other follow push field fail. Again first country valley october. Thick was move heavy who.
Taken ill for poor member. She news fence anger class receive gray stick idea. Yard her oil row tought place. Am count share instead i warm settle cover.
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Class an left back. Warm tail star following.
Plain lady step story told. Write news middle modern does chief was got.
Stood end street word weight spot desire fix. Paid dream eight although wish.
I don't believe they allow warning shots in NYC, the theory being that the bullets are going to hit something or someone no matter what direction you fire in. I read that the police are trained to only shoot to kill, since they would be likely to miss if they fired at arms or legs. Nowadays between all the police wandering around with machine guns, the national guard loitering at the train stations and Macy's, and the vast numbers of gun toting undercover police from various city state and federal agencies the only thing that makes me nervous is that the machine gun totters will get surprised by the gun toting undercover police. ( surprised person with gun = bad thing IMHO ) A few years ago I was in a restaurant when a bunch of undercover and off duty cops from different agencys drew on each other when they did not recognize each other as cops. It sounds funny now but just a few weeks before a uniformed cop had killed an undercover cop who was making an arrest on the subway, without even shouting a warning.
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Hmm... my Tadpole laptop has a 1Gig SCSI drive. Wonder if this would fit?
It's funny how running Solaris with a 1Gig drive makes you feel a bit cramped.
link should have been
In an article Greenhouse Gas Jump Spurs Global Warming Fears
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
Uh Yeah....
Funny you should mention Carbon Sinks - In an article Greenhouse Gas Jump Spurs Global Warming Fears
"Tundra test stuns scientists - Carbon dioxide could be dumped into atmosphere - Dramatic results made public today from a unique 20-year American experiment are raising the spectre of runaway warming above the Arctic tundra that would accelerate global climate change. "
-snip-
"This double whammy arises because U.S. researchers discovered climate warming might trigger conditions where tundra decomposition will dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than it's soaked up by accelerated plant growth."
Thanks for the suggestions
My choices for cable are Roadrunner, or Earthlink which resells Time Warner cheaper than Roadrunner. I have Earthlink. I tried to get various Covad resellers, but Verizon would sabotage the DSL every time. I'd love to get Speakeasy, but unless they get their own C.O. I'm out of luck for DSL, and yes cable sucks bigtime.
My problem is that I need to host a lot of 50 - 300 meg photo files. I serve about one a week on average but I just don't know which one out of hundreds I'll need. Then there are about 6000 small and medium thumbnails that get a little bit of traffic.
So how cheap is this CoLo anyway? Most of the CoLos I have looked at are prices high enough that using an X-Box would just be silly.
I'd love to find a CoLo shelf space priced for someone like me who wants to put say 100Gig on line but expects fairly low traffic.
(in the NYC area would be nice as well)
One problem though, since a TIFF file uses 4-byte integer file offsets to store image data, doesn't that mean a TIFF file cannot have more than 4 Gigabytes of raster data ?
Current high end 22 megapixel backs with 16 bit Bayer sensors would give a 440 meg file. I would conservatively guess that we will see 200 megapixel cameras with 4 Gigabyte raw files in 10 years. If this hit's the wall at 200 megapixels, I guess it will only be about 10 years until it's obsolete.
Well, a raw file is a lot more compact, and it does not do anything to change the artifacts and or "lossyness" of the sensor itself.
For instance the Canon cameras use a Bayer sensor. Imagine a checkerboard where half the sensors, are green , arranged in a checkerboard pattern, and the other half the sensors alternate between red and blue. The 12 bit value of each sensor site is encoded as the eight bit difference between it and the nearest same color site to its left. ( Amiga developers will find this vaguely familiar) The theoretical case of there being a full 12 bit difference between 2 sites never happens due to the optical properties of the camera and lens.
Well the original Olympics were conducted in the nude, but women weren't permitted as participants or spectators under penalty of death.
c oring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=Romanian+gymnasts++nud e
Nowadays, you get a huge flap over a handful of naked Romanian gymnasts.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&s
or perhaps
"released"
so long after it's released
So when I tell somone that this is the right tool for the job , how am I supposed to pronounce it?
ja-ru-bee? ( gummie candy treat perhaps? )
har-you-bee ?
or jay-ru-bee as though it were named after Lee Harvey Oswald's killer Jack Ruby ( J. Ruby ) ?
When I was in grad school we never had any problems buying Everclear for making punch.
"At 190 proof or 95-percent pure alcohol, Everclear is 95% pure grain alcohol, odorless, tasteless, and very potent. "
http://www.beerliquors.com/liquors/grain.htm
But... aren't CF memory cards anywhere from 3 to 5 times slower?
In a word, No
High end CF memory cards are 2 to 3 times faster than microdrives.
Of course they can cost up to fourteen thousand dollars for the really big ones
Actually, Hitachi, the makers of the drives in the Apple and Muvo MP3
i ve/
players makes two types of drives. One type has both a IDE interface
and a CF (compact flash) interface. These will work in the MP3 players,
cameras, and as a hard drive on a computer. The other type only has
the IDE interface. These will work in the MP3 players and as a hard
drive on a computer, but will not work on the cameras. The Apple uses
the IDE only drive. The Muvo used the IDE and CF compatible version
until Hitachi made them switch to the IDE only version, because it was
hurting sales of their stand alone product at much higher margins. The
Rio player uses a Seagate drive so the issues may be different.
BTW Creative has a new Muvo with the Seagate drive, that is easier to take apart.
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=1249&s=1
http://www.photo.net/equipment/hitachi/mp3microdr
here is something
Employers Could Face Civil, Criminal Liabilities
POSTED: 6:17 pm EDT September 4, 2004
MIAMI -- Some employees concerned about being forced to go to work have contacted Local 10 for answers.
Local 10 has received e-mails and phone calls from people who say they are being forced to leave their homes to go to work even though the area is under hurricane evacuation order.
Saturday, State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle and Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas addressed those concerns.
Penelas reiterated that no one should be out on the highways and no employer should be forcing employees to go to work unless they are "essential" workers such as medical care workers or law enforcement officers.
Fernandez-Rundle told Local 10's Michael Putney that employers who ignore the county's request and won't do it "for good will and to protect others" should obey the request because they could face both civil and criminal liabilities if an employee is hurt due to being out in th
e storm.
"Ive used macs since the orignal - that just had 1Mb of ram!"
The orignal had 256K of ram!
Then the Fat Mac came out with 512K
example.com is set up for exactly thie purpose. See RFC 2606. .test .invalid .localhost are also mentioned in RFC 2606. .localhost may cause more fun when somone tries to mail spam to it.
People who are interested in getting things done seem to be drawn from a different group that the people who post to slashdot.
So how is it that the estate can halt the use of the Daleks but can't halt the entire series?
Hmm, so what you meant was more like
It's NOT possible (at the moment) to create another file that has the same hash as an existing one that has a backdoor while still looking and behaving like the original file.
and not simply that it was possible to create an arbitrary file with an predetermined hash. Actually I'd be impressed by the simpler case of picking a hash and creating a file with that hash.
If it is possible to create two files with an identical hash, how is it not possible to create another file that has the same hash as an existing one?
Seems like the second case would be a subset of the first. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you mean by "create two files with an identical hash"
Could you explain or link to an explanation?
They couldn't very well call it the "The Junk Fax Shit Act of 2004."
elimination (-lm-nshn)
n.
The process of expelling or removing, especially of waste products from the body.
Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Scraped off of a few spams, these all seem to come from the same source and have the same odd formating. Some of them are crying out to be set to music.
Wagon blow noon oil. Except food always were other follow push field fail. Again first country valley october. Thick was move heavy who.
Taken ill for poor member. She news fence anger class receive gray stick idea. Yard her oil row tought place. Am count share instead i warm settle cover.
Boys lead only throw press soil through thrown after road six. Iron could trust set held usual. Carry anger animals dance return stand six.
Morning bottle see often spoke. An ready wet try meet gather ago branch fill trade clean. Measure lay wagon suffer journey made.
Sometimes somnambulist about trembles, but wheelbarrow related to curse always plan an escape from dahlia about umbrella!A few pockets, and defined by impresario) to arrive at a state of insurance agentWhen you see over impresario, it means that of short order cook self-flagellates.Doug and I took behind fundraiser (with about snow, living with hydrogen atom.
Sometimes avocado pit over gets stinking drunk, but living with widow always bestow great honor upon line dancer toward!Unlike so many maestros who have made their womanly pocket to us.
bubbles remain smelly.Indeed, stalactite living with power drill a change of heart about stalactite over asteroid.around eggplant seek from carpet tack.girls remain snooty.Now and then, living with oil filter give secret financial aid to class action suit defined by.He called her Donovan (or was it Donovan?).
When inside squid daydreams, for demon reads a magazine.
If crank case toward starlet buy an expensive gift for ribbon for microscope, then defined by pork chop prays.He called her Foster (or was it Foster?).When you see living with corporation, it means that beyond hockey player gets stinking drunk.
Unlike so many taxidermists who have made their infected rattlesnake to us.
Full sign laugh serve direct join began something best. Electric caught smell ridden led there night cloth. Into sometimes wonder success cool advance hole. Wise whether saturday hurry gate walk. Double once walk various nine return height.
Blow black promise bag against cold believe famous seat no. Far drink around gain. Met while movement three so life i along joy toward.
Hello pain but low. Movement class sing miles count notice arrive army next. Easy follow means lone play hole tail divide another body form. Sign many animal arms likr aunt voice important ring. Worth wore deep fish stone still hand probably new.
Box wait fruit wall poor right of ago the raise. Can gives west many sugar face bean winter therefore.
Wagon blow noon oil. Except food always were other follow push field fail. Again first country valley october. Thick was move heavy who.
Taken ill for poor member. She news fence anger class receive gray stick idea. Yard her oil row tought place. Am count share instead i warm settle cover.
Class an left back. Warm tail star following.
Plain lady step story told. Write news middle modern does chief was got.
Stood end street word weight spot desire fix. Paid dream eight although wish.
http://freecache.org/http://www.bahneman.com/liem/ photos/tricks/digital-rebel-tricks.html
try this
I don't believe they allow warning shots in NYC, the theory being that the bullets are going to hit something or someone no matter what direction you fire in. I read that the police are trained to only shoot to kill, since they would be likely to miss if they fired at arms or legs.
Nowadays between all the police wandering around with machine guns, the national guard loitering at the train stations and Macy's, and the vast numbers of gun toting undercover police from various city state and federal agencies the only thing that makes me nervous is that the machine gun totters will get surprised by the gun toting undercover police. ( surprised person with gun = bad thing IMHO ) A few years ago I was in a restaurant when a bunch of undercover and off duty cops from different agencys drew on each other when they did not recognize each other as cops. It sounds funny now but just a few weeks before a uniformed cop had killed an undercover cop who was making an arrest on the subway, without even shouting a warning.