Here in Montreal, they buried a bunch of sensors into the ground under the major highways. These sensors track in realtime the flow of traffic, so you can have an instant glimpse at the entire network's traffic status, and find out where to avoid. For now it's a small portion of the roads, but it's already proven to be very effective.
Can't wait until more roads have that and the map!
See it here.
From my understanding of negative ground currents to protect underground copper wires from oxydizing, the telephone company must connect evey costumer pair of wires to the telephone equipment so that a negative voltage can be applied to the line all the time. This current flow inhibits the copper line from destroying themselves due to being underground/outdoor etc.
That was the main problem prevending the telephone companies to hook a physical line to the DSL equipment without connecting it to the phone equipment. DSL would still work, but the line would corrode away in a matter of years.
I guess they found a technically acceptable way of supplying voltage to the line while not connected to telco equipment, which is probably a small device or maybe some modified telco DSL modem that can supply that as well.
Might also be just a marketing problem that prevented from "offering" it... but the demand is there and it's strong, so I suspect it was more of a technical issue.
Nowasays, Rogers AT&T cellular here decided to divide "unlimited" into two seperate type of plans. Their first is unlimited, for real, for the weekends and weekdays nights. The other one is "1000 minutes" for the same weekends. Of course both are not the same price, and it's perfect that way. Maybe you don't need true unlimited, and can do with 1000 minutes instead, which is still a lot.
So it's good to see that this company figured out that "unlimited" can have variations, and clearly detailed them.
Too bad that once linux runs on something, the something isn't of much use anymore. What would a Linux Playstation2 be used for? One would need to hack away at least the video drivers for it to become something of a MAME arcade emulator.
Making a PVR with that is impossible, no tuner!
I don't really see the point of always trying to fix some linux or some BSD distribution on every freaking piece of processing hardware there is. A commitment to portability?
How about spending more time fixing bugs in actual useful and popular software for linux instead? It would be pretty sweet to have PCs with better hardware support than running gentoo on my refrigerator. "Yay! Kernel support for FridgeLight and TempProbe"
Well yeah, that's mainly because the x86 architechture exists. If Intel said that there would be no more x86 processors, and only foobar processors, and that AMD followed (or leaded, whichever) the new architechture as well, your emulator would suddently become quite interesting for anyone needing a fast machine (ie: newest cpu) to run legacy code (ie: quake 3).
And have legacy software run within software emulators. Emulators are already quite effective, and we can emulate just about any architechture, i don't see why we couldn't emulate x86 on a new and completely different architechture.
I mean, it all sums up to displaying porn on a monitor anyhow!
Heh up until recently, some mIRC "leet" scripts had that +++ATH0 ctcp trick implemented to ATH0 nuke others or something. Probably useless today since i don't think any v.90 implementation has that bug (feature!) anymore.
According to this United Nation's Press Release about the Bering link, two other big advantages of having this tunnel link would be "parallel fibre optic communications and energy distribution systems". Now that the satellites communication links are packed and we keep shooting more, and knowing canada's hydro-electric capacity to sell energy at great prices, this would provide indeed "new economic opportunities".
You are right, my mistake. I was thinking about capacitors when in fact, they installed compensators. Still, the effect remains, but technically it's a whole different thing.
Here, from Hydro-Quebec's site:
Installation of series compensators on transmission lines to increase system stability. This measure has proved to be highly useful in mitigating the impact of magnetic storms.
More info: http://www.hydroquebec.com/solar_storms/index.html
As to whether they've fixed things so it won't happen again, I guess we'll see tonight
I can't talk for all of Canada, but in Quebec it's been fixed years ago. They simply installed giant capacitors at the ends of transport lines, so that DC current is filtered out.
Anyway, I was told that (but does not have proofs of) the whole electrical problem mainly concerned the province of Quebec because of the way the grid is layed out geographically. Big hydroelectric power plants in the northern part of the province, and very long and straight power lines to bring all that to the south. Apparently, the alignment of the lines (north-south) and their lenght (several hundred kilometers) would have helped greatly to generate the DC current that fried everything.
2 The board has a header below the last Chip/fan combo, If you have anything protruding from the mainboard directly in line with the AGP slot this board aint gonna fit.
Maybe not. As far as I can see from the picture, there is a V-Groove in between the Connector area and the rest of the PCB. This is commonly used to manufacture several units on the same board, and then snapping the appart. If this is the case, that connector-area could be snapped off, if there is need to.
Maybe they added that so you can have more support if you have some kind of very small motherboard or something...
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Here in Montreal, they buried a bunch of sensors into the ground under the major highways. These sensors track in realtime the flow of traffic, so you can have an instant glimpse at the entire network's traffic status, and find out where to avoid. For now it's a small portion of the roads, but it's already proven to be very effective. Can't wait until more roads have that and the map! See it here.
From my understanding of negative ground currents to protect underground copper wires from oxydizing, the telephone company must connect evey costumer pair of wires to the telephone equipment so that a negative voltage can be applied to the line all the time. This current flow inhibits the copper line from destroying themselves due to being underground/outdoor etc.
That was the main problem prevending the telephone companies to hook a physical line to the DSL equipment without connecting it to the phone equipment. DSL would still work, but the line would corrode away in a matter of years.
I guess they found a technically acceptable way of supplying voltage to the line while not connected to telco equipment, which is probably a small device or maybe some modified telco DSL modem that can supply that as well.
Might also be just a marketing problem that prevented from "offering" it... but the demand is there and it's strong, so I suspect it was more of a technical issue.
Nowasays, Rogers AT&T cellular here decided to divide "unlimited" into two seperate type of plans. Their first is unlimited, for real, for the weekends and weekdays nights. The other one is "1000 minutes" for the same weekends. Of course both are not the same price, and it's perfect that way. Maybe you don't need true unlimited, and can do with 1000 minutes instead, which is still a lot.
So it's good to see that this company figured out that "unlimited" can have variations, and clearly detailed them.
Too bad that once linux runs on something, the something isn't of much use anymore. What would a Linux Playstation2 be used for? One would need to hack away at least the video drivers for it to become something of a MAME arcade emulator.
Making a PVR with that is impossible, no tuner!
I don't really see the point of always trying to fix some linux or some BSD distribution on every freaking piece of processing hardware there is. A commitment to portability?
How about spending more time fixing bugs in actual useful and popular software for linux instead? It would be pretty sweet to have PCs with better hardware support than running gentoo on my refrigerator. "Yay! Kernel support for FridgeLight and TempProbe"
Laurent
Ouno premioro gento
Well yeah, that's mainly because the x86 architechture exists. If Intel said that there would be no more x86 processors, and only foobar processors, and that AMD followed (or leaded, whichever) the new architechture as well, your emulator would suddently become quite interesting for anyone needing a fast machine (ie: newest cpu) to run legacy code (ie: quake 3).
And have legacy software run within software emulators. Emulators are already quite effective, and we can emulate just about any architechture, i don't see why we couldn't emulate x86 on a new and completely different architechture.
I mean, it all sums up to displaying porn on a monitor anyhow!
Well i found this article dated September 2nd which appears to be the one being submitted today. So happy caching
Heh up until recently, some mIRC "leet" scripts had that +++ATH0 ctcp trick implemented to ATH0 nuke others or something. Probably useless today since i don't think any v.90 implementation has that bug (feature!) anymore.
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I think that this project might be the solution to the above-mentionned 'shared libraries hell' problem. http://www.gnupdate.org/
2001-03-24 14:23:00, and i'm not using caps.
According to this United Nation's Press Release about the Bering link, two other big advantages of having this tunnel link would be "parallel fibre optic communications and energy distribution systems". Now that the satellites communication links are packed and we keep shooting more, and knowing canada's hydro-electric capacity to sell energy at great prices, this would provide indeed "new economic opportunities".
You are right, my mistake. I was thinking about capacitors when in fact, they installed compensators. Still, the effect remains, but technically it's a whole different thing.
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Here, from Hydro-Quebec's site: Installation of series compensators on transmission lines to increase system stability. This measure has proved to be highly useful in mitigating the impact of magnetic storms. More info: http://www.hydroquebec.com/solar_storms/index.htm
As to whether they've fixed things so it won't happen again, I guess we'll see tonight
I can't talk for all of Canada, but in Quebec it's been fixed years ago. They simply installed giant capacitors at the ends of transport lines, so that DC current is filtered out.
Anyway, I was told that (but does not have proofs of) the whole electrical problem mainly concerned the province of Quebec because of the way the grid is layed out geographically. Big hydroelectric power plants in the northern part of the province, and very long and straight power lines to bring all that to the south. Apparently, the alignment of the lines (north-south) and their lenght (several hundred kilometers) would have helped greatly to generate the DC current that fried everything.
2 The board has a header below the last Chip/fan combo, If you have anything protruding from the mainboard directly in line with the AGP slot this board aint gonna fit.
Maybe not. As far as I can see from the picture, there is a V-Groove in between the Connector area and the rest of the PCB. This is commonly used to manufacture several units on the same board, and then snapping the appart. If this is the case, that connector-area could be snapped off, if there is need to.
Maybe they added that so you can have more support if you have some kind of very small motherboard or something...