Centralization puts similar objects where a small group of techs can have immediate hands-on access, store spare parts and spare machines, have backup power with economies of scale (large diesel or Capstone turbine gensets), and directly guard and monitor equipment.
That's simple physical, observable reality not requiring citation.
Isolated units which are small involve sacrificing advantages of immediate service. If no workee, dispatching a tech by car or truck with tools and parts is required. If it gets severely damaged by (for example) lightning strike, fire, vandalism or theft that means delivering and connecting a replacement.
"HOLY FUCK I BET THEY NEVER CONSIDERED THAT THEY COULD ALSO PAINT THE CABINET WHITE!"
If so, they would have done that and used an appropriate constrasting Aologo.
See these for commercial examples "light color" use:
"They are probably more interested in a datacenter in a shipping container."
Indeed. ISO containers are cheap and you can send one to your site with everything you need AND have storage or workspace INSIDE the container protected from the weather.
If your "AOL in a can" breaks in foul weather, then you need to COVER it to OPEN it.
You don't need to pour a slab for ISOs as they are supported by the corner fittings. A railroad tie under each end is usually just fine.
I use ISOs for personal shop buildings and storage, and have worked in and with them while deployed.
ISO containers are available in small 10-foot configurations too. Generic example:
If you are going to pour a slab, USE all of the square footage. Pot four twist-locks in the slab, install ISO, and lock it down. Even a hurricane isn't likely to shift it. Alternately, bolt it down with common expansion anchors through welded-on tabs of your choice then tack weld the bolt heads to the tabs. It ain't leaving on its own.
ISO containers don't have a proprietary form-factor container to deter upgrades either.
I don't sell ISOs, but do have morbid nasty love for them.
Sea Box website with MANY examples of container mods. Your local welding and fab shop can roll your own easily:
"I can clearly see that they don't care about the environment."
Citation fucking needed NOW.
The tiny servers-in-a-can model is cute, (the stupid black paint job has to go, try that in AZ in August and you couldn't even open the door without burning your hand), but centralization makes for much easier operation and maintenance for large server farms.
You DO know that MODERN POPULATIONS in both Russia and China were vastly greater when Stalin and Mao did their thing, and killing technology was far more ADVANCED, than when superstitionists went on their sprees long before?
Different times mean different levels of opportunity.
"The common underpinning of faith does not imply that other religions share the institutionalized, wholesale abuse and corruption committed by the Church of Scientology."
The Catholic Church has handed out over ONE BILLION DOLLARS in settlements to abuse victims worldwide (it can afford the hush money) and the problem is ongoing. Not only doesn't the Church punish pedos, it has sheltered them from prosecution and played a "shell game" moving them to new areas.
Islams abusive nature currently includes killing apostates and heretics.
Faith unsupported be EVIDENCE yet propagated as truth deserves opposition.
Prove your God exists, here, now, and I'll recant and kiss his/her/it's Noodly Appendage. Do it now or take your lying nonsense and stick it where the sun never shines.
T-bird is great for managing multiple webmail accounts and archiving local copies "just in case".
I use Thunderbird Portable on Windows and periodically burn a copy to DVD. Read-only copies can't be erased by sync'ing, and if you stop using one account you can still access your messages and contacts conveniently. If you attempt to run T-bird portable from a read-only medium it offers to copy itself to hard disk.
I dislike webmail page formats and don't care for adverts. Thunderbird eliminates those hassles. I don't have a Spam problem even with old and well-used Yahoo accounts.
Thunderbird works fine for me on Linux and Windows.
"but need to keep it running regularly so that our food doesn't thaw."
Eat the food, don't replace with food requiring cold storage until situation is resolved. That's what self and neighbors did during Hurricane Hugo. Fire up the gas grills/gas stoves and have at it. BTW we have a gas "fireplace" and a gas stove/oven as backup heat for winters too. Forethought is cheap, use it.
Concindentally, my fridge died yesterday. All food not worth icing down got fed to the chickens (to be returned as tasty eggs!) and there will be very little to transfer from coolers when the new one is delivered tomorrow.
That's why other countries should seek to boost their own research as the US is taken over by Christian Taliban Luddite White Trash pawns of the rich Elite who want to cut all research that isn't directly war-related.
The US isn't your friend, it doesn't stand for anything good any more, and to the extent others rely on it for things they might do for themselves they become vulnerable.
The BRIC countries especially should use their wealth to fund research as they are on the ascent and it will speed their growth.
I've loved using them since my Phantom avionics days when they weighed about fifty lbs without cables. Great for finding "conductive but defective" cables and connections. I like the sort which have an "oscilloscope style" display, but there are a variety including optical TDRs for fiber.
Location = SC. Temps = over 100 last few days, 97 today, Horrid humidity as normal.
I had coated black roofs for years (I prefer metal roofing because it's tough and taxes are lower. I loathe asphalt shingles!) but two years ago I hit all my roofs with white roof coating including my non-air conditioned shop.
It reflects so much light that you can get sunburned by the reflection if you apply it on a bright day. I had to wear sunglasses while mopping it on!
Hard to measure on my utility bill what with all the tools I run, but I'm much more comfortable. If your local codes/covenants allow white or light roof materials or coatings, give them a try.
"Probably because they don't want to spend a few hundred dollars for a Windows license and have to reboot every time they feel like playing a game into an operating system that they're uncomfortable with."
Pay for Windows? Gamers? LMFAO.
It's faster to install 7 with a SLIC loader than it is to type in a key and activate legitimately, and there is no way for anyone else to tell the difference. If 7s overhead is a bit much, there are custom very light XP "distros" for download via the usual sources.
I don't bother because I detest even "free" Windows and I don't game, but the idea that many people buy retail OS who have even the slightest knowledge of workarounds has been silly since "keyless" Windows 95 installs.
Heroin addiction is far less a problem than the legal consequences creating a vastly profitable black market, Government REACTION to heroin creates far worse problems then would a supply of cheap, clean smack .
In contrast, fossil fuel addiction doesn't have a "safer mode".
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True as anyone who's done HVAC maintenance knows.
Centralization puts similar objects where a small group of techs can have immediate hands-on access, store spare parts and spare machines, have backup power with economies of scale (large diesel or Capstone turbine gensets), and directly guard and monitor equipment.
That's simple physical, observable reality not requiring citation.
Isolated units which are small involve sacrificing advantages of immediate service. If no workee, dispatching a tech by car or truck with tools and parts is required. If it gets severely damaged by (for example) lightning strike, fire, vandalism or theft that means delivering and connecting a replacement.
"HOLY FUCK I BET THEY NEVER CONSIDERED THAT THEY COULD ALSO PAINT THE CABINET WHITE!"
If so, they would have done that and used an appropriate constrasting Aologo.
See these for commercial examples "light color" use:
http://www.capstoneturbine.com/
Citation needed for the assertion re: Google being environmentally irresponsible because their processes are not simple and easily observed.
Also, post with your nick, bitch. ACs eat shit. :-)
"They are probably more interested in a datacenter in a shipping container."
Indeed. ISO containers are cheap and you can send one to your site with everything you need AND have storage or workspace INSIDE the container protected from the weather.
If your "AOL in a can" breaks in foul weather, then you need to COVER it to OPEN it.
You don't need to pour a slab for ISOs as they are supported by the corner fittings. A railroad tie under each end is usually just fine.
I use ISOs for personal shop buildings and storage, and have worked in and with them while deployed.
ISO containers are available in small 10-foot configurations too.
Generic example:
http://www.shippingcontainertrader.com/johnads/6/Tmp0002F.jpg
If you are going to pour a slab, USE all of the square footage. Pot four twist-locks in the slab, install ISO, and lock it down. Even a hurricane isn't likely to shift it. Alternately, bolt it down with common expansion anchors through welded-on tabs of your choice then tack weld the bolt heads to the tabs. It ain't leaving on its own.
ISO containers don't have a proprietary form-factor container to deter upgrades either.
I don't sell ISOs, but do have morbid nasty love for them.
Sea Box website with MANY examples of container mods. Your local welding and fab shop can roll your own easily:
http://www.seabox.com/
"I can clearly see that they don't care about the environment."
Citation fucking needed NOW.
The tiny servers-in-a-can model is cute, (the stupid black paint job has to go, try that in AZ in August and you couldn't even open the door without burning your hand), but centralization makes for much easier operation and maintenance for large server farms.
"2) Most that fail to commit suicide realize they shouldn't be looking for help on social networks."
They should have inferred that from posts suggesting they "an hero", but some folks are a bit dense...
You DO know that MODERN POPULATIONS in both Russia and China were vastly greater when Stalin and Mao did their thing, and killing technology was far more ADVANCED, than when superstitionists went on their sprees long before?
Different times mean different levels of opportunity.
"The common underpinning of faith does not imply that other religions share the institutionalized, wholesale abuse and corruption committed by the Church of Scientology."
The Catholic Church has handed out over ONE BILLION DOLLARS in settlements to abuse victims worldwide (it can afford the hush money) and the problem is ongoing. Not only doesn't the Church punish pedos, it has sheltered them from prosecution and played a "shell game" moving them to new areas.
Islams abusive nature currently includes killing apostates and heretics.
Faith unsupported be EVIDENCE yet propagated as truth deserves opposition.
Prove your God exists, here, now, and I'll recant and kiss his/her/it's Noodly Appendage. Do it now or take your lying nonsense and stick it where the sun never shines.
T-bird is great for managing multiple webmail accounts and archiving local copies "just in case".
I use Thunderbird Portable on Windows and periodically burn a copy to DVD. Read-only copies can't be erased by sync'ing, and if you stop using one account you can still access your messages and contacts conveniently. If you attempt to run T-bird portable from a read-only medium it offers to copy itself to hard disk.
I dislike webmail page formats and don't care for adverts. Thunderbird eliminates those hassles. I don't have a Spam problem even with old and well-used Yahoo accounts.
Thunderbird works fine for me on Linux and Windows.
Prove your God exists, now, and I'll grovel, recant, and kiss it's Noodly Appendage.
Fantasy posed as truth but unsupported by evidence merits no respect.
Neither do its proponents.
"but need to keep it running regularly so that our food doesn't thaw."
Eat the food, don't replace with food requiring cold storage until situation is resolved. That's what self and neighbors did during Hurricane Hugo. Fire up the gas grills/gas stoves and have at it. BTW we have a gas "fireplace" and a gas stove/oven as backup heat for winters too. Forethought is cheap, use it.
Concindentally, my fridge died yesterday. All food not worth icing down got fed to the chickens (to be returned as tasty eggs!) and there will be very little to transfer from coolers when the new one is delivered tomorrow.
That's why other countries should seek to boost their own research as the US is taken over by Christian Taliban Luddite White Trash pawns of the rich Elite who want to cut all research that isn't directly war-related.
The US isn't your friend, it doesn't stand for anything good any more, and to the extent others rely on it for things they might do for themselves they become vulnerable.
The BRIC countries especially should use their wealth to fund research as they are on the ascent and it will speed their growth.
"there's nothing wrong with people having different beliefs"
If those beliefs cannot be supported by evidence yet are sold as truths, that makes them LIES and propagation of lies as truth is indeed "wrong".
Prove your God exists, now, and I'll recant and grovel before the Pope.
Cheap. It doesn't get very cold down here.
"Look up Time Domain Reflectometry."
TDRs for teh troubleshooting WIN!
I've loved using them since my Phantom avionics days when they weighed about fifty lbs without cables. Great for finding "conductive but defective" cables and connections. I like the sort which have an "oscilloscope style" display, but there are a variety including optical TDRs for fiber.
Since this is Slashdot, have a LAN version:
http://www.electro-meters.com/Triplett/T_M/Cable_Tracing/LAN_TDR.htm
Location = SC.
Temps = over 100 last few days, 97 today, Horrid humidity as normal.
I had coated black roofs for years (I prefer metal roofing because it's tough and taxes are lower. I loathe asphalt shingles!) but two years ago I hit all my roofs with white roof coating including my non-air conditioned shop.
It reflects so much light that you can get sunburned by the reflection if you apply it on a bright day. I had to wear sunglasses while mopping it on!
Hard to measure on my utility bill what with all the tools I run, but I'm much more comfortable. If your local codes/covenants allow white or light roof materials or coatings, give them a try.
Ergonomics still require input and viewing devices that don't suck.
"Electric power steering is better for remote control than mechanical power steering; it can be guided by the Traffic Jam Assist black box."
All these lovely controls will not be built to military aircraft specs, so they should assist mechanical controls rather than replacing them.
Techno-fetishists should remember that cars need to steer and stop if all power, ALL power, is lost.
There is no need to "take chances" to do the research and development for self-driving cars.
Testing autos is thoroughly understood.
Their choice of locations speaks volumes...though it doesn't SELL volumes!
"Probably because they don't want to spend a few hundred dollars for a Windows license and have to reboot every time they feel like playing a game into an operating system that they're uncomfortable with."
Pay for Windows? Gamers?
LMFAO.
It's faster to install 7 with a SLIC loader than it is to type in a key and activate legitimately, and there is no way for anyone else to tell the difference. If 7s overhead is a bit much, there are custom very light XP "distros" for download via the usual sources.
I don't bother because I detest even "free" Windows and I don't game, but the idea that many people buy retail OS who have even the slightest knowledge of workarounds has been silly since "keyless" Windows 95 installs.
Heroin addiction is far less a problem than the legal consequences creating a vastly profitable black market, Government REACTION to heroin creates far worse problems then would a supply of cheap, clean smack .
In contrast, fossil fuel addiction doesn't have a "safer mode".
"If you aren't running HPUX on a home Itanium server, then you're just using watered down bullshit.
Also, my dick is bigger than yours."
This thread is useless without screenshots and pics.
"When are we going to get some goddamn patent reform???"
Never. Business owns the US and owns both Parties and the public are and will remain too stupid to understand the issues.
The American people are getting the country most of them deserve.
They not only allow it, they endorse it. Think about that for a bit.
It's IMO time for the rest of the world to tell the US (which is nothing more than a corporate money and globalist war machine) to fuck off.
Deny the US international support for its follies and it can't do much unilaterally.
"Is anyone else tired of the never-ending upgrade/version parade?"
No.
I benefit greatly from early adopters buying "new stuff". I benefit even more from not being one of them.
"Im tired of chasing the mess."
I never chased it, and so am not tired.
"Now get off my lawn."
I paid off my lawns because I never chased the mess. Everyone ELSE, however, should race after it with gusto.