Whether the measures are funny depends on how you look at it I guess, as 373K is as arbitrary as 212F for boiling water. Not to mention you have to memorize arbitrary names like nano and deci in the metric system.
Actually, if anything Kelvin is a lot less 'arbitrary' than Farenheit. Kelvin is based on Celsius, with the only difference being the 0K is absolute zero (there are no negatives on the Kelvin scale). Celsius is based on wanter. 0 for freezing, and 100 for boiling. Unlike F, which is loosely based on the body temperature of a feverish woman.
So, if you look at it, Kelvin is anything but arbitrary when you are referring to state changes of water.
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I did something similar. A buddy had an old USR voice he wasn't using that seemed to work fine except one small thing. It wouldn't do caller-id. Turns out had to play around with the init strings a bit and turn caller-id on. After that, things seemed to work okay, though I still haven't gotten around to replacing are cheap ($20) digital answering machine that sounds worse than any tape I've heard.
Funny, a little while back I bought exactly what you said. A 2600 (OC'd to 3000) with a Nvidia 5600, and 1GB ram. Full system including a nice case (window, some leds) for
I bought this in anticipation of HL2 (before the first delay and then the code leak delay). It plays HL great. I'm usually the first one to enter the game after a map change. I play at a steady 60fps (my monitor's limitation, not the machines). Even in heavy fire fights is stays at 59 fps.
I may have to upgrade the video card come HL2's final release, but for now I have a machine that can play any game out there. I'm incredibly satisfied with AMD (my first AMD CPU).
Online backups are wonderful. I just finished implementing an online backup system for a webhost. The clients data is backed up on the LAN to a backup server that is really nothing more than a big RAID. Then, via the web, users can download and restore their files as they wish.
Backups are done via rsync, and restores are done with cp. (The whole system is run on linux with php and mysql). The files are backed up from/restored to windows servers over samba.
This is all great and makes the users happy. However, any intelligent business will also have offsite backups. Right now, if a (pick your natural disaster/accident) happens, the company is basicaly out of business since no data resides outside the server room.
Of course since all the client data is stored in a central location, it would take nothing to add some tape backups/hot-swap HD/etc. and take them offsite once a week.
Where I live (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada), they've recently finished draining the lake/creek in town. The radio reported that the lake was draining at a rate of one stove per second.
I propose that for volumes less than one Library Of Congress, we measure volumes in household appliances.
I vaguely recall seeing something on a science channel some number of years ago about this. The sun will eventually expand, doubling or tripling in size and then implode, creating a black hole.
Close. Our sun will expand, encompassing the earth. However, our sun is not massive enough to form a black hole. I've seen stats saying a star needs to be at least eight solar masses, to stats saying three solar masses, but everything seems to agree that our sun is not massive enough to form a black hole.
True, and I don't think stolen cars should be "automatically disabled".
What should happen is the owner notifies police that the car is stolen and that it has the Trakker thing on it. Police use GPS to locate car. When they are close enough and the situation is safe, they notify company to turn off the car.
Well, in some countries there is a minimum age to purchase alcohol. In the US, its 21. According to: http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html the commodore was released Jan, 1982. Making it 21 years old, or, old enough to drink.
obligatory: IANAL
I own CD A. I make an mp3 of a particular song. This is a legal copy. You make a copy of that song, you now have a legal copy. The way I read this, as long as I am making a copy of a legal copy, we're okay.
This will probably be modded off-topic (and deservedly so) but my wife (as of about 32 hours ago) and I are headed there to spend a few days in the mall.
Just glad we'll get to an Ikea (none here in Sask).
I'm guessing your trying to be funny, but did you know that a lot (most?) of Canada can reach temperatures of 35C during the summer, and -35C during the winter? Guess what, you laugh, but where I am, south SK, we have on average one of the highest temperature ranges in the world. It can get to be more than an 80 degree range (Celsius).
How do you propose their share of the market be limited?
Customer: I'd like to buy a copy of Windows XP
Sales: Sorry, you'll have to wait until someone buys a Mac or installs linux
Customer: What?
Sales: Well, you see, Microsoft can only have xx% of the market. Until they lose a bit, we can't sell any copis of XP
Customer: What?
Not really, with the bit of talking I've done with the maintenance guys, I was under the assumption it was forced air they supplied (be cooling or heating), but I couldn't say for sure.
Unfortunately, we can't really power anything from our own generators. They are at capacity already, though I believe they are preparing to upgrade them.
Agreed, and though I checked on most things, backup A/C was just something I did not consider yet. The problem is that while the building has backup generators running on natural gas, the A/C is not in this building, there is a campus wide HVAC system (we're located on the U of Regina campus). The power company is currently cavasing North America looking for transformers they can bring in to substitue in for the substation.
Just found out as well, the power company can only guarantee the campus 3.5 megawatts, we're currently drawing over 7.
You should have thought of this LONG before now.
There's a lot of things that were out of whack when I started here about 6 months ago, I'm working on it. Redundant air was just not something I considered
Why do you host at a place without dual power companies providing power?
Because we don't have two power companies here. I live in Saskatchewan (Canada) and we only have one power company
Why do you host at a place without dual redundant A/C on EACH power provider?
The office is located on the University or Regina campus. The campus provides heating and cooling to every building here. Redundant A/C is out of the question on that kind of scale for this small a community (~225,000)
Why do you host at a place without dual redundant power generators?
We have natural gas generators, however, they only power certain things within this building, not the A/C for the campus.
Just how "essential" is the stuff you're hosting?
Depends who you talk to. Our clients think they're sites are critical to their business. If we can't maintain uptime, we lose clients. If we lose enough clients we go out of business, and I lose this job, and get stuck going back to the Government, something I DON'T want to do
The Gov't Job was for anyone reading my profile and wondering why I say I work for the Gov't and now say I work for a web hosting company. Its not an excuse. Secondly, I have been working on improving things here, but I was brought in for a development project which recently finished. Only lately have I started to work on the network, servers, facilities, etc.
In a game of Puerto Rico there is no doubt who is a better person.
I don't know, I don't play board games to find out who is a 'better person'. I play to have fun and socialize with friends. I enjoy playing Risk, and so do my friends.
Definitely have to agree with you on the Belgariad. I've suggested this before on slashdot. I think you could compress it into 3 movies of ~3 hours each. Like most movie adaptions, you'd miss out on a few things, but it could still cover the basic ideas of the books. I'd love to see Peter Jackson involved with this project.
Then lets look at why the government IT workers don't know/care about these issues.
(From personal experience in the Canadian Gov't)
Incompetence is promoted. If you're a yes-man/woman and never disagree with anything the boss says, you'll go far!
Job Stability - There's no fear of being fired if you leave something horribly insecure or only do a half-ass job.
Benefits are good, but salaries aren't. Those that are truly skilled are finding better paying and more satisfying jobs in the private sector (and why I'm on a year leave while I work in the private sector for a while)
This is not to say this is the case for all IT workers/management everywhere. There are some very talented and motivated people working for the government, however, its been my experience that the best solution isn't always picked by those who make the decisions.
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Actually, if anything Kelvin is a lot less 'arbitrary' than Farenheit. Kelvin is based on Celsius, with the only difference being the 0K is absolute zero (there are no negatives on the Kelvin scale). Celsius is based on wanter. 0 for freezing, and 100 for boiling. Unlike F, which is loosely based on the body temperature of a feverish woman.
So, if you look at it, Kelvin is anything but arbitrary when you are referring to state changes of water.
I did something similar. A buddy had an old USR voice he wasn't using that seemed to work fine except one small thing. It wouldn't do caller-id. Turns out had to play around with the init strings a bit and turn caller-id on. After that, things seemed to work okay, though I still haven't gotten around to replacing are cheap ($20) digital answering machine that sounds worse than any tape I've heard.
Funny, a little while back I bought exactly what you said. A 2600 (OC'd to 3000) with a Nvidia 5600, and 1GB ram. Full system including a nice case (window, some leds) for I bought this in anticipation of HL2 (before the first delay and then the code leak delay). It plays HL great. I'm usually the first one to enter the game after a map change. I play at a steady 60fps (my monitor's limitation, not the machines). Even in heavy fire fights is stays at 59 fps.
I may have to upgrade the video card come HL2's final release, but for now I have a machine that can play any game out there. I'm incredibly satisfied with AMD (my first AMD CPU).
Note, last link requires some other OS.
Imagine that a product called Winamp requires windows.
Backups are done via rsync, and restores are done with cp. (The whole system is run on linux with php and mysql). The files are backed up from/restored to windows servers over samba.
This is all great and makes the users happy. However, any intelligent business will also have offsite backups. Right now, if a (pick your natural disaster/accident) happens, the company is basicaly out of business since no data resides outside the server room.
Of course since all the client data is stored in a central location, it would take nothing to add some tape backups/hot-swap HD/etc. and take them offsite once a week.
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My apologies, this new system of measurement is very confusing (and here I am proposing new units).
I propose that for volumes less than one Library Of Congress, we measure volumes in household appliances.
Close. Our sun will expand, encompassing the earth. However, our sun is not massive enough to form a black hole. I've seen stats saying a star needs to be at least eight solar masses, to stats saying three solar masses, but everything seems to agree that our sun is not massive enough to form a black hole.
For those who don't know, check out imdb. As a bonus, its coming back to theatres as a directors cut.
True, and I don't think stolen cars should be "automatically disabled". What should happen is the owner notifies police that the car is stolen and that it has the Trakker thing on it. Police use GPS to locate car. When they are close enough and the situation is safe, they notify company to turn off the car.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000 110465903023055/a03-4160_1ex10d1.htm
And if you'll notice, RBC but in $30 mil, or 60% of the investment.
Well, in some countries there is a minimum age to purchase alcohol. In the US, its 21. According to: http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html the commodore was released Jan, 1982. Making it 21 years old, or, old enough to drink.
The RH up2date service is free for personal use, though there is a bandwidth and connection limit unless you pay.
obligatory: IANAL
I own CD A. I make an mp3 of a particular song. This is a legal copy. You make a copy of that song, you now have a legal copy. The way I read this, as long as I am making a copy of a legal copy, we're okay.
Just glad we'll get to an Ikea (none here in Sask).
Customer: I'd like to buy a copy of Windows XP
Sales: Sorry, you'll have to wait until someone buys a Mac or installs linux
Customer: What?
Sales: Well, you see, Microsoft can only have xx% of the market. Until they lose a bit, we can't sell any copis of XP
Customer: What?
Unfortunately, we can't really power anything from our own generators. They are at capacity already, though I believe they are preparing to upgrade them.
Just found out as well, the power company can only guarantee the campus 3.5 megawatts, we're currently drawing over 7.
There's a lot of things that were out of whack when I started here about 6 months ago, I'm working on it. Redundant air was just not something I considered
Why do you host at a place without dual power companies providing power?
Because we don't have two power companies here. I live in Saskatchewan (Canada) and we only have one power company
Why do you host at a place without dual redundant A/C on EACH power provider?
The office is located on the University or Regina campus. The campus provides heating and cooling to every building here. Redundant A/C is out of the question on that kind of scale for this small a community (~225,000)
Why do you host at a place without dual redundant power generators?
We have natural gas generators, however, they only power certain things within this building, not the A/C for the campus.
Just how "essential" is the stuff you're hosting?
Depends who you talk to. Our clients think they're sites are critical to their business. If we can't maintain uptime, we lose clients. If we lose enough clients we go out of business, and I lose this job, and get stuck going back to the Government, something I DON'T want to do
The Gov't Job was for anyone reading my profile and wondering why I say I work for the Gov't and now say I work for a web hosting company. Its not an excuse. Secondly, I have been working on improving things here, but I was brought in for a development project which recently finished. Only lately have I started to work on the network, servers, facilities, etc.
I don't know, I don't play board games to find out who is a 'better person'. I play to have fun and socialize with friends. I enjoy playing Risk, and so do my friends.
"Watch out for flack"
Definitely have to agree with you on the Belgariad. I've suggested this before on slashdot. I think you could compress it into 3 movies of ~3 hours each. Like most movie adaptions, you'd miss out on a few things, but it could still cover the basic ideas of the books. I'd love to see Peter Jackson involved with this project.
(From personal experience in the Canadian Gov't)
This is not to say this is the case for all IT workers/management everywhere. There are some very talented and motivated people working for the government, however, its been my experience that the best solution isn't always picked by those who make the decisions.