You brought an eServer and are complaining about the lack of remote management!!!
You do realize that with Dell remote management is an optional extra, and there is a range of dirt cheap hardware that comes with nothing more than basic IPMI just like the eSeries does.
You want remote management you need to pay for it.
I call bullshit as the DS300 is the old Adaptec storage array that used old fashioned SCSI with EXP400 expansion shelves. No fibre channel in sight. On that vintage of hardware you would have a DS400 which uses the same EXP400 expansion shelves but presents them as fibre chennel out the back. Still Adaptec rebadged storage.
I would add that we have in general had excellent support from IBM on hardware issues. We where not impressed with the firmware issues surrounding version 7.36.12 and 7.36.15 versions of the firmware for the various DS4000 arrays. I have also noted that they still have not fixed their firmware release processes as they shipped some drive firmware in the ESM 1.64 version that would efficiently brick your drives as it put standard firmware signatures on the drives, so then the arrays refused to talk to them:-)
Why do I have to have a full sized keyboard. At that point it is too large, I want something small and cheap for on the go. Something I can chuck in the bag and not worry about. The moment you fit it with a full sized keyboard it is too big.
It is like the increasing size of netbook screens, aynthing beyond 10" is really to large, and 9 is big enough.
I also don't understand the fascination of things like ethernet ports, WiFi is perfectly adequate for a netbook. Kill the port and make it robust.
The purpose of baning incandescents is to reduce CO2 emissions not save money. If that were the sole consideration everyone would be buying CFL's today.
I live in Scotland, where close to 50% of my electricity is from low carbon sources (mainly hydro and nuclear), something my condensing gas boiler is not, even though it is cheaper to run.
I would add where I live there is *no* cooling in private houses period. The number of days a year in which the temperature gets over 25 Celcius can be counted on ones hands.
We don't all live in places live California or Spain.
Yes I am aware heat rises. I also spend a lot of time heating my ceiling, because if the light bulb does not heat the ceiling, then my central heating will.
However I live in Scotland, some 20% of my electricity is generated from renewables (mainly hydro) and another ~25% comes from nuclear. All low carbon options, and that percentage is likely to rise in the future, and could theoretically hit 100%
Firing my gas central heating will never be low carbon.
In which case the study is done by a bunch of clueless morons. Where it is cold and you have thermostatically controlled central heating, the waste heat from an incandescent will be entirely made up by the central heating system working harder. This is fundamental basic thermodynamics.
As soon as you turn on your thermostatically controlled central heating then the efficiency of an incandescent light bulb jumps radically. To work out how efficient it is you have to work out the difference between the carbon output of the generation and transmission of the electricity (which will vary depending on where you live) against the equivalent of your central heating system.
Remember the goal is lower CO2 emissions. What is better running an incandescent light bulb from a hydro electric power station or a CFL from the same powerstation and making the difference up by burning natural gas in my central heating systems boiler?
I would say the opposite. I live in a more northerly latitude, 56 degress 28 minutes north to be precise. At the moment whenever it is dark and I have my lights on I also have my thermostatically controlled central heating on. In effect my incandescent light bulbs currently have an efficiency of 100%. If I where to switch to CFL or LED lights, then my thermostatically controlled central heating would simply work harder to make up the difference. Not only that where I live a significant proportion of the electricity consumed comes from low or zero carbon sources (mainly hydro and nuclear). My central heating is of course natural gas, though I do have a condensing boiler so it is wildly efficient.
Then the summer arrives, and it does not get dark to very late and I hardly have the lights on at all.
Now if I lived in Spain for example it would be an entirely different situation, however I don't so yet again this has been a pointless exercise, and advances our understanding no further.
The still did not take into account the combination of daylight hours and when central heating systems are on. This is an important consideration for more northerly latitudes. At the moment my incandescent light bulbs are 100% efficient.
Except what has been disclosed comes from a hacked site...
The first rule of a hacked site is that *EVERYTHING* is in question. If I hack a site I can make it say anything I want.
That this fact is not been shouted from the rooftops, somewhat amazes me, especially on Slashdot.
The first question is which side of the debate did the people who hacked this site come from. The second question is do the people involved confirm the validity of the emails. Until these questions have been answered then it is all pointless hot air.
In theory no reason. But he is been extradited using a bilateral treaty (supposedly for terrorists) that the US congress has refused to ratify. A decent UK government would amend the legislation so that extraditions under the treaty where not permissible while it was not in enforce in the USA, and immediately suspend his extradition.
Secondly the US should not be using this treaty period, and the UK government needs to amend the legislation so it has to be used for terrorists, and suspend his extradition.
You assume all neurons are connected to all other neurons. My brain does not work like that, so why you would expect a simulated brain to work like that does not make sense.
If you have custom silicon to do each neuron then you are going to be hugely more power efficient that a general purpose processor simulating a neuron in software. There is nothing new there and anyone who thinks otherwise is just clueless. Given IBM have the facilities and resources to fabricate some custom silicon I fail to see the issue.
Given that this is a major component of the disgusting gunk left behind, then clearly it is a biohazard. On a related note if I brought a Dell or IBM or random other make of computer and used in a flour mill I would expect not to be covered by the warranty.
Well for starters that 5% is actually 4%, but that is splitting hairs.
However it is for glass/air boundaries, which is why you have such things as silver side mirrors.
You basics physics would also not appear to have taught you about thin film interference. Otherwise known to the layman as an anti reflective coating. Slap a whole bunch of suitable layers on and you can easily get that to close to 100%. If you do the maths a perfect mirror merely requires a material with zero impedance...
I suggest that you might want to do some more advanced reading on the subject, and would recommend Optics by Eugene Heck, in the fourth edition now I believe, and still the standard textbook on the subject.
All that said, in a combat situation none of the above is going to help.
Why just China? This is the United Kingdom calling and we have trillions of dollars of stolen IP damages we want, for all the IP you stole in the 19th century.
Except he said heavier not heavy, so deuterium, tritium would be heavier isotopes, as would various isotopes of helium and lithium which could also be used in fusion reactors.
Yes and no. Thermodynamics 101, you *CANNOT* win. So yes you will have some local climate cooling where you convert the suns energy into electricity, but ultimately summed over the whole globe it is a zero sum game as all that electricity ends up back as heat.
It has been repeatedly shown that long term economies structurally change to accommodate high oil prices. We live drive less by say living nearer to work. We buy vehicles that are more fuel efficient. Petrol/Gas cost the equivalent of 6.80USD per US gallon at the moment. Much more than it does in the US, but our economy has not ground to a halt because of it.
What is really bad for the economy is changing oil prices. Here the high taxes in Europe cushion us from fluctuating oil prices. The price of petrol today is only 20% higher than it was a decade ago in the UK.
Every single device in my house has a correctly rated fuse. In fact I go one better and have 1A, 2A, 7A and 10A fuses available so may devices are fitted with smaller fuses than normal as only 3A, 5A and 13A fuses are in widespread availability.
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That is a cluster file system, which is something DRDB is not.
Oh, and yes there are a number of clustered file systems both free and non-free for Linux
The one with a new measles vaccine, saying it is linked to the combined MMR, and stands to loose out if wide spread adoption of the MMR takes place?
You brought an eServer and are complaining about the lack of remote management!!!
You do realize that with Dell remote management is an optional extra, and there is a range of dirt cheap hardware that comes with nothing more than basic IPMI just like the eSeries does.
You want remote management you need to pay for it.
I call bullshit as the DS300 is the old Adaptec storage array that used old fashioned SCSI with EXP400 expansion shelves. No fibre channel in sight. On that vintage of hardware you would have a DS400 which uses the same EXP400 expansion shelves but presents them as fibre chennel out the back. Still Adaptec rebadged storage.
I would add that we have in general had excellent support from IBM on hardware issues. We where not impressed with the firmware issues surrounding version 7.36.12 and 7.36.15 versions of the firmware for the various DS4000 arrays. I have also noted that they still have not fixed their firmware release processes as they shipped some drive firmware in the ESM 1.64 version that would efficiently brick your drives as it put standard firmware signatures on the drives, so then the arrays refused to talk to them :-)
However actual bust hardware they are very good.
Why do I have to have a full sized keyboard. At that point it is too large, I want something small and cheap for on the go. Something I can chuck in the bag and not worry about. The moment you fit it with a full sized keyboard it is too big.
It is like the increasing size of netbook screens, aynthing beyond 10" is really to large, and 9 is big enough.
I also don't understand the fascination of things like ethernet ports, WiFi is perfectly adequate for a netbook. Kill the port and make it robust.
The purpose of baning incandescents is to reduce CO2 emissions not save money. If that were the sole consideration everyone would be buying CFL's today.
I live in Scotland, where close to 50% of my electricity is from low carbon sources (mainly hydro and nuclear), something my condensing gas boiler is not, even though it is cheaper to run.
I would add where I live there is *no* cooling in private houses period. The number of days a year in which the temperature gets over 25 Celcius can be counted on ones hands.
We don't all live in places live California or Spain.
Yes I am aware heat rises. I also spend a lot of time heating my ceiling, because if the light bulb does not heat the ceiling, then my central heating will.
Your grasp of thermodynamics is poor.
However I live in Scotland, some 20% of my electricity is generated from renewables (mainly hydro) and another ~25% comes from nuclear. All low carbon options, and that percentage is likely to rise in the future, and could theoretically hit 100%
Firing my gas central heating will never be low carbon.
In which case the study is done by a bunch of clueless morons. Where it is cold and you have thermostatically controlled central heating, the waste heat from an incandescent will be entirely made up by the central heating system working harder. This is fundamental basic thermodynamics.
As soon as you turn on your thermostatically controlled central heating then the efficiency of an incandescent light bulb jumps radically. To work out how efficient it is you have to work out the difference between the carbon output of the generation and transmission of the electricity (which will vary depending on where you live) against the equivalent of your central heating system.
Remember the goal is lower CO2 emissions. What is better running an incandescent light bulb from a hydro electric power station or a CFL from the same powerstation and making the difference up by burning natural gas in my central heating systems boiler?
I would say the opposite. I live in a more northerly latitude, 56 degress 28 minutes north to be precise. At the moment whenever it is dark and I have my lights on I also have my thermostatically controlled central heating on. In effect my incandescent light bulbs currently have an efficiency of 100%. If I where to switch to CFL or LED lights, then my thermostatically controlled central heating would simply work harder to make up the difference. Not only that where I live a significant proportion of the electricity consumed comes from low or zero carbon sources (mainly hydro and nuclear). My central heating is of course natural gas, though I do have a condensing boiler so it is wildly efficient.
Then the summer arrives, and it does not get dark to very late and I hardly have the lights on at all.
Now if I lived in Spain for example it would be an entirely different situation, however I don't so yet again this has been a pointless exercise, and advances our understanding no further.
The still did not take into account the combination of daylight hours and when central heating systems are on. This is an important consideration for more northerly latitudes. At the moment my incandescent light bulbs are 100% efficient.
Except what has been disclosed comes from a hacked site...
The first rule of a hacked site is that *EVERYTHING* is in question. If I hack a site I can make it say anything I want.
That this fact is not been shouted from the rooftops, somewhat amazes me, especially on Slashdot.
The first question is which side of the debate did the people who hacked this site come from. The second question is do the people involved confirm the validity of the emails. Until these questions have been answered then it is all pointless hot air.
In theory no reason. But he is been extradited using a bilateral treaty (supposedly for terrorists) that the US congress has refused to ratify. A decent UK government would amend the legislation so that extraditions under the treaty where not permissible while it was not in enforce in the USA, and immediately suspend his extradition.
Secondly the US should not be using this treaty period, and the UK government needs to amend the legislation so it has to be used for terrorists, and suspend his extradition.
You assume all neurons are connected to all other neurons. My brain does not work like that, so why you would expect a simulated brain to work like that does not make sense.
If you have custom silicon to do each neuron then you are going to be hugely more power efficient that a general purpose processor simulating a neuron in software. There is nothing new there and anyone who thinks otherwise is just clueless. Given IBM have the facilities and resources to fabricate some custom silicon I fail to see the issue.
Well for starters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Toxicology
Given that this is a major component of the disgusting gunk left behind, then clearly it is a biohazard. On a related note if I brought a Dell or IBM or random other make of computer and used in a flour mill I would expect not to be covered by the warranty.
Of course you could just use a silver side mirror...
Take a lot of work keeping it clean and polished though.
Well for starters that 5% is actually 4%, but that is splitting hairs.
However it is for glass/air boundaries, which is why you have such things as silver side mirrors.
You basics physics would also not appear to have taught you about thin film interference. Otherwise known to the layman as an anti reflective coating. Slap a whole bunch of suitable layers on and you can easily get that to close to 100%. If you do the maths a perfect mirror merely requires a material with zero impedance...
I suggest that you might want to do some more advanced reading on the subject, and would recommend Optics by Eugene Heck, in the fourth edition now I believe, and still the standard textbook on the subject.
All that said, in a combat situation none of the above is going to help.
Why just China? This is the United Kingdom calling and we have trillions of dollars of stolen IP damages we want, for all the IP you stole in the 19th century.
Perhaps the USA might like to pay damages to the heirs of the Dickens estate for example...
In the 19th century the USA paid little head to other peoples IP.
Except he said heavier not heavy, so deuterium, tritium would be heavier isotopes, as would various isotopes of helium and lithium which could also be used in fusion reactors.
Yes and no. Thermodynamics 101, you *CANNOT* win. So yes you will have some local climate cooling where you convert the suns energy into electricity, but ultimately summed over the whole globe it is a zero sum game as all that electricity ends up back as heat.
Sort of, but in a different form, known as Hawking radiation
It has been repeatedly shown that long term economies structurally change to accommodate high oil prices. We live drive less by say living nearer to work. We buy vehicles that are more fuel efficient. Petrol/Gas cost the equivalent of 6.80USD per US gallon at the moment. Much more than it does in the US, but our economy has not ground to a halt because of it.
What is really bad for the economy is changing oil prices. Here the high taxes in Europe cushion us from fluctuating oil prices. The price of petrol today is only 20% higher than it was a decade ago in the UK.
Every single device in my house has a correctly rated fuse. In fact I go one better and have 1A, 2A, 7A and 10A fuses available so may devices are fitted with smaller fuses than normal as only 3A, 5A and 13A fuses are in widespread availability.