Still lots of other ways it is bloated, and one can find some pretty minimalistic Linux installs that Windows Server could never come close to in small footprint.
Well, there is always Windows Server Nano. It's approximately 410 MB installed, I believe.
They cut it down to *only* 400 Megabytes and called it NANO!?!? I didn't realize M$ was such good comedians.
Read it again. The claim is that capacity factor for both is not that different. Hydro tends to be seasonal, especially if you're doing run-of-river but even reservoirs have low periods so you can't get close to 100% for very long
In the case of solar, you can install it locally, it scales up & down quite well. For wind turbines, bigger is better but that tends to upset of lot of people
Because elected officials were willing to be known as "that guy who hates people in wheelchairs and expects them to drag their bodies up the steps of a building with just their hands"...?
Lots of elected officials have no problem opposing any restriction on gun rights, even to the faces of those who lost their young children to deranged shooters.
Oracle's Linux for SPARC includes mods to openssl that should enable crypto speedup on Linux
openssl
The openssl package has been modified to provide support for the built-in encryption functions of the SPARC T4/T5 chip. The T4 crypto engine implements acceleration for the following cryptographic algorithms:
You can use the openssl speed -evp command to test the speed of these algorithms, for example:
# openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc To test the speed without T4 acceleration, set the OPENSSL_DISABLE_T4 environment variable to any value, for example:
# OPENSSL_DISABLE_T4=1 openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc The openssl engine command reports (no T4) if the T4 encryption instructions are either not available or have been disabled.
cheaper than having to get stuff from IBM or Oracle/Sun.
OTOH second hand Oracle stuff is dirt cheap. (Don't know abut IBM). You can get an Oracle T1000 with 16 threads for less than $100, built to a spec that few Intel boxes could dream of. The clock speed isn't very high (1GHz?) but the memory bandwidth means all those threads all run full speed. And it only draws about 200W.
Of course, only Solaris and OpenBSD run on it, and your favorite game probably wont (unless you are still playing Colossal Cave [how the hell do you get the pearl out of the oyster?] and "Hunt the Wumpus"). In fact, it probably does not do graphics at all. But SQL goes pretty fast. And, if running Solaris, so does cryptography.
America is no 1 for per-capita gun ownership but there are quite a few advanced countries where the rates are high and they don't devolve into OK corral shootouts nearly as often, even adjusting for all other factors - Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Canada The difference is mental, cultural, personal
Not every country. But even though many of the advanced countries still have gun violence, when you add it all up, including shootings by law enforcement, it's a lot less than in the USofA
I don't have all the answers but it's not up to me to decide - I don't write laws. We've found ways of drawing distinctions between sober & drunk even though the line is not that clear cut. Just because it may not be an easy thing is no reason to keep on accepting the status quo. Other countries have done it; so can America.
A kneejerk reaction? One dead boy facedown on some unknown beach caused a huge change in the public attitude towards refugees. Twenty slaughtered American kids who'd never done anything worse in their lives than steal cookies or maybe kicked a puppy and what changed? Not a goddamn thing.
"The federal government allowed Dylan Roof to purchase his legal gun" Wait a sec....is this some lame attempt to pin this on Obama? You do realize that the FBI director who admitted it was a failure of one of his examiners is a Republican, right? Or do you think Obama didn't spend *enough* money on surveillance and that a Republican president, house & senate will make sure to grow the government enough to keep guns out of the hands of angry white men with the NRAs full support?
But I expect the number of mass shootings to drop now that the Muslim overlord is out of the White House, which seemed to incite a whole lot of crazy talk and er, ill-mannered behavior among the Godfearin'. After all, angry white liberals can't can't shoot & sip their soy lattes at the same time & would never shoot up their favorite Starbucks.
how about locking up the disturbed individuals? oh, forgot "equality" means that the insane must be treated as if they are sane and the sane treated as if they are insane, foreign migrants like citizens and citizens like disenfranchised foreigners, etc.
The US prison system has a huge number of inmates who would be psych patients, not prisoners, in other countries.
And there was Don Sadoway's great presentation about dirt-cheap batteries, made out of dirt as he put it; he founded Ambri They seem to be active again after a quiet period of a few years but still very much in the lab phase.
Going beyond batteries, I had high hopes for Isentropic UKs Pumped Heat Energy Storage - seemed simple & robust enough. Two tanks of gravel, one hot, one cold. But it's been at least 10 years since I stumbled on them and I don't think they've had a news update in over a year
Turning a breakthrough into a reliable commercial product can be more difficult than even experienced companies realize. From 2009 - 2011, Sumitomo Corp was promising their low-temp molten salt battery would be ready by 2015. They've been rather quiet the past few years. The Ryden dual-carbon battery and the Phinergy aluminium-air (although it's more of an aluminium-water-air fuel cell) all made big waves and then went dark. Perhaps they'll be on the market this year - or in ten years.
After Sandy Hook & Isla Vista, it should have become easier to keep guns out of the hands of disturbed individuals, even if Sandy Hook may not have been stopped by such legislation. Instead it's become easier which is, frankly, as insane as anyone being able to go on a shooting spree with legally obtained firearms because one of the voices in his head told him so.
It can take quite some time to move beyond the lab. Goodenough et al demonstration of a rechargeable LiCoO2 cell was in 79-80 and it wasn't until 1991 that the 1st commercial Li-on battery was produced by Sony
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...on their clothes. Pardon me if that was meat to be the joke.
That joke needed more meat. And cue the mother jokes
Bad enough Australia & Austria gets confused but now we're mixing up South Africa with South Australia?
No, the fastest route between two points is to make the two points the same.
Open a hole in the space-time continuum and move the batteries via folded space. It's the fastest way possible, right?
That'll take a lot of Spice
Still lots of other ways it is bloated, and one can find some pretty minimalistic Linux installs that Windows Server could never come close to in small footprint.
Well, there is always Windows Server Nano. It's approximately 410 MB installed, I believe.
They cut it down to *only* 400 Megabytes and called it NANO!?!?
I didn't realize M$ was such good comedians.
"with the new requirements to keep "spinning capacity" at a higher level than used to be required"
What's the reason & what's the diff between old requirements & new?
Read it again. The claim is that capacity factor for both is not that different. Hydro tends to be seasonal, especially if you're doing run-of-river but even reservoirs have low periods so you can't get close to 100% for very long
In the case of solar, you can install it locally, it scales up & down quite well.
For wind turbines, bigger is better but that tends to upset of lot of people
So job creation, then?
"if half the bloody electorate wasn't working hard to make sure government didn't work because it's so convinced government doesn't work:
Parent can't be modded up enough
Because elected officials were willing to be known as "that guy who hates people in wheelchairs and expects them to drag their bodies up the steps of a building with just their hands"...?
Lots of elected officials have no problem opposing any restriction on gun rights, even to the faces of those who lost their young children to deranged shooters.
Every org has a propaganda statement
Exactly the point. We have a number of cultural issues that need to be sorted out, instead all anyone wants to talk about is stripping away rights.
There's a longstanding American tradition of "stripping away rights": that's one cultural issue that may never change
Oracle's Linux for SPARC includes mods to openssl that should enable crypto speedup on Linux
openssl
The openssl package has been modified to provide support for the built-in encryption functions of the SPARC T4/T5 chip. The T4 crypto engine implements acceleration for the following cryptographic algorithms:
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithms:
aes-128-cbc, aes-192-cbc, aes-256-cbc, aes-128-ctr, aes-192-ctr, aes-256-ctr, aes-128-cfb8, aes-192-cfb8, aes-256-cfb8, aes-128-ecb, aes-192-ecb, and aes-256-ecb
Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithms:
des-cbc, des-ede3-cbc, des-ecb, and des-ede3-ecb
Cryptographic hash functions:
md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512
You can use the openssl speed -evp command to test the speed of these algorithms, for example:
# openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
To test the speed without T4 acceleration, set the OPENSSL_DISABLE_T4 environment variable to any value, for example:
# OPENSSL_DISABLE_T4=1 openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
The openssl engine command reports (no T4) if the T4 encryption instructions are either not available or have been disabled.
cheaper than having to get stuff from IBM or Oracle/Sun.
OTOH second hand Oracle stuff is dirt cheap. (Don't know abut IBM). You can get an Oracle T1000 with 16 threads for less than $100, built to a spec that few Intel boxes could dream of. The clock speed isn't very high (1GHz?) but the memory bandwidth means all those threads all run full speed. And it only draws about 200W.
Of course, only Solaris and OpenBSD run on it, and your favorite game probably wont (unless you are still playing Colossal Cave [how the hell do you get the pearl out of the oyster?] and "Hunt the Wumpus"). In fact, it probably does not do graphics at all. But SQL goes pretty fast. And, if running Solaris, so does cryptography.
Oracle released a Linux-for-SPARC distro that should run on a T1000 a couple years ago.
Relnotes are https://oss.oracle.com/linux-s...
Source & binaries DVDs can be downloaded from https://oss.oracle.com/linux-s...
America is no 1 for per-capita gun ownership but there are quite a few advanced countries where the rates are high and they don't devolve into OK corral shootouts nearly as often, even adjusting for all other factors - Switzerland, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Canada
The difference is mental, cultural, personal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not every country. But even though many of the advanced countries still have gun violence, when you add it all up, including shootings by law enforcement, it's a lot less than in the USofA
I don't have all the answers but it's not up to me to decide - I don't write laws.
We've found ways of drawing distinctions between sober & drunk even though the line is not that clear cut.
Just because it may not be an easy thing is no reason to keep on accepting the status quo. Other countries have done it; so can America.
A kneejerk reaction?
One dead boy facedown on some unknown beach caused a huge change in the public attitude towards refugees.
Twenty slaughtered American kids who'd never done anything worse in their lives than steal cookies or maybe kicked a puppy and what changed?
Not a goddamn thing.
"The federal government allowed Dylan Roof to purchase his legal gun"
Wait a sec....is this some lame attempt to pin this on Obama? You do realize that the FBI director who admitted it was a failure of one of his examiners is a Republican, right? Or do you think Obama didn't spend *enough* money on surveillance and that a Republican president, house & senate will make sure to grow the government enough to keep guns out of the hands of angry white men with the NRAs full support?
But I expect the number of mass shootings to drop now that the Muslim overlord is out of the White House, which seemed to incite a whole lot of crazy talk and er, ill-mannered behavior among the Godfearin'.
After all, angry white liberals can't can't shoot & sip their soy lattes at the same time & would never shoot up their favorite Starbucks.
how about locking up the disturbed individuals? oh, forgot "equality" means that the insane must be treated as if they are sane and the sane treated as if they are insane, foreign migrants like citizens and citizens like disenfranchised foreigners, etc.
The US prison system has a huge number of inmates who would be psych patients, not prisoners, in other countries.
And there was Don Sadoway's great presentation about dirt-cheap batteries, made out of dirt as he put it; he founded Ambri
They seem to be active again after a quiet period of a few years but still very much in the lab phase.
Going beyond batteries, I had high hopes for Isentropic UKs Pumped Heat Energy Storage - seemed simple & robust enough. Two tanks of gravel, one hot, one cold.
But it's been at least 10 years since I stumbled on them and I don't think they've had a news update in over a year
Turning a breakthrough into a reliable commercial product can be more difficult than even experienced companies realize.
From 2009 - 2011, Sumitomo Corp was promising their low-temp molten salt battery would be ready by 2015.
They've been rather quiet the past few years.
The Ryden dual-carbon battery and the Phinergy aluminium-air (although it's more of an aluminium-water-air fuel cell) all made big waves and then went dark.
Perhaps they'll be on the market this year - or in ten years.
After Sandy Hook & Isla Vista, it should have become easier to keep guns out of the hands of disturbed individuals, even if Sandy Hook may not have been stopped by such legislation. Instead it's become easier which is, frankly, as insane as anyone being able to go on a shooting spree with legally obtained firearms because one of the voices in his head told him so.
There was an Ima Ho at a company I did some contract work for about 15 years ago
It can take quite some time to move beyond the lab.
Goodenough et al demonstration of a rechargeable LiCoO2 cell was in 79-80 and it wasn't until 1991 that the 1st commercial Li-on battery was produced by Sony