experienced some hail a few years ago down in solvang (60 miles south), quarter inch to half inch sized pieces. right in the middle of the Solvang century bike ride.
And.. we just had hail in Las Vegas last week in between 100+ degree days. That said, I'm sure the panels have been tested for inclement weather.
OK, maybe eminent domain was too strong of a term(I'm not a lawyer).. but the 2 units we had ordered were taken away from us(delivered 9 months later), maybe, because as you say, they might have paid more. Or got a tax break, or was promised a larger contract later on. Customer ill will doesn't seem to be a concern to the manufacturers, since there are only 3 major players in the > 1 megawatt generator space. the story we got from Detroit Diesel in 2004 was that they went to the middle east for the war and we had to wait.
Actually, a lot of the delays have been caused by the war. It takes time to build these generators, and when the war started a lot of the generators that were ready to ship were taken by the military (eminent domain) and shipped off to the middle east. Some of the new production also gave them priority. Everyone else has to wait...
about as long as it would take you to crack the VPN (I'm assuming IPSEC or SSL VPN) that the original question mentioned using, probably a huge thumb drive, because you'll need all that data to even attempt to crack the VPN.
DoS attacks are another thing... but if they use VPN clients on the client computers, data safety shouldn't be a problem.
We ran GPFS for about 10 months. It's great for it's primary purpose, and it was pretty stable on Linux, though we had a crash or two... but the biggest problem we ran across was with large number of files. We had > 150 million small files in 10000 directories, and gpfs couldn't handle the load. I'm sure with a smaller number of files, our experience would have been very different. Waiting 10 minutes for an ls in a directory wasn't really what I considered fun.:)
SMP at its finest has yet to be seen, hopefully 5.0 will make your statement true, but with 4.x and below, we've had to switch to Linux for our databases because the threading wasn't managed by the kernel, and thus you can't have more than one thread from the same process on multiple processors at once. Pretty much useless for some applications, might as well just have 1 cpu.
tell the users that they NEED to be on your side of the border to use your service.. but slip them a note that says the service MAY work on the other side of the border. I think that passes the buck to the consumer, technically, they're the ones breaking the rules if there are any.
Just like DirectTV users in Canada that have US billing addresses. The service isn't(wasn't?) available there but it works.
when I worked at a certain huge company that everyone hates... we had cisco localdirectors that had (1)PIII-450 CPU's in them.. we found that by opening up the box(thus breaking warranty), upgrading BIOS & CPU(to 600, this was back in '99), we got 30% more traffic thru the same box... processing power is the limitation, but, that's not to say that some of these commercial boxes from CISCO and the like are not PC based... They look just like any other box on the inside, except they had an ISA card with a flash rom that had their software on it.
I'm a little more than halfway thru my Masters in CS, and I'm VERY burnt out when it comes to school things, I hate going to classes and I hate even more the abstract assignments I have to deal with... It's not that it's no longer fun, I just don't want to do it anymore.
I don't let it get in the way though, I find that taking on a project that I don't HAVE to do for a grade, is way more fun. There are thousands of projects out there that need help with coding and documentation and stuff. Just find one and make youself useful. That's the thing with school, specially, being an undergrad, it makes you feel that all your work is for naught, that nobody is using it, or worse yet, it will never see the light of day. Find something to do that will make you feel appreciated, and you'll start feeling better about the grind.
I was really disappointed with this year's show. I didn't think it had the same energy as last year's show in San Jose. I think the number of exhibitors have gone down. I'm sure the economy has something to do with it, probably half the companies that were there last year have gone under. I thought the general mood was: eh.. we're here.. let's TRY to sell something.. whereas last year was: Hey! I've got something new and innovative, this is something you can't live without. There was also a lot more anticipation last year I think, there was the release of Helix(now Ximian) and OSDN, 2.4 kernel, and the economy and the technology outlook was much better. SGI was noticably absent, they had one of the biggest areas last year. There just wasn't the noise and excitement this year.
ergonomics, then speed and toys.
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The pointer is important (to me), I like the 'eraser' type that IBM has, and some others, like Dell who have dual. I hate those touch pad things(personal preference). So the laptop doesn't really matter as long as I can use some type of windowing system and ssh, and have the pointer.. it can be an old 486-66 thinkpad(which I had for a while) to a Gateway solo 3150 which I use now(pII-366, dvd, built in ethernet, a little over an inch thick).
For me, ergonomics plays a bigger role than the processor speed and all those fixins, next to that I'd like a nice clear screen, doesn't have to be big.<p>
I buy my cabinets at one of the many auctions that come through town, with most of the sellers and buyers being professionals(people with commercial arcades to fill) but sometimes you find a gem here and there, that you might want to fight them for. There were several Ms. Pacmans there at the last auction in town, Missle command, tempest, and some others too.. there was a good mix of old and new. www.superauctions.com seems to tour the US fairly regularly...
There is also a lot of information (FAQ's) about buying arcade machines from auctions and other places at www.spies.com/arcade/info
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Because it's all about the dogfood at Microsoft.
experienced some hail a few years ago down in solvang (60 miles south), quarter inch to half inch sized pieces. right in the middle of the Solvang century bike ride.
And.. we just had hail in Las Vegas last week in between 100+ degree days. That said, I'm sure the panels have been tested for inclement weather.
anyone else notice the assignee of the patent as Lucent?
OK, maybe eminent domain was too strong of a term(I'm not a lawyer).. but the 2 units we had ordered were taken away from us(delivered 9 months later), maybe, because as you say, they might have paid more. Or got a tax break, or was promised a larger contract later on. Customer ill will doesn't seem to be a concern to the manufacturers, since there are only 3 major players in the > 1 megawatt generator space. the story we got from Detroit Diesel in 2004 was that they went to the middle east for the war and we had to wait.
Actually, a lot of the delays have been caused by the war. It takes time to build these generators, and when the war started a lot of the generators that were ready to ship were taken by the military (eminent domain) and shipped off to the middle east. Some of the new production also gave them priority. Everyone else has to wait...
about as long as it would take you to crack the VPN (I'm assuming IPSEC or SSL VPN) that the original question mentioned using, probably a huge thumb drive, because you'll need all that data to even attempt to crack the VPN.
DoS attacks are another thing... but if they use VPN clients on the client computers, data safety shouldn't be a problem.
We ran GPFS for about 10 months. It's great for it's primary purpose, and it was pretty stable on Linux, though we had a crash or two... but the biggest problem we ran across was with large number of files. We had > 150 million small files in 10000 directories, and gpfs couldn't handle the load. I'm sure with a smaller number of files, our experience would have been very different. Waiting 10 minutes for an ls in a directory wasn't really what I considered fun. :)
Oh no! the rootkit got replicated to the backup server!
we have a csc duplicator that we use to erase and copy drives.. VERY slow.. but it does the job. CSC Portable Pro Drive Service/Test/Duplication Workstation
download the google free API(for non-commercial use), would make your scripting/programming, much easier...
Watch your system stats or that xmms playlist.
CrystalFontz has 2 line & 4 line displays that go into drive bays very nicely.
spits out a pdf file you can read with any pdf viewer.
http://www.bulldog.tzo.org/ascii2pdf/
txt2pdf is shareware.. more features..
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html
SMP at its finest has yet to be seen, hopefully 5.0 will make your statement true, but with 4.x and below, we've had to switch to Linux for our databases because the threading wasn't managed by the kernel, and thus you can't have more than one thread from the same process on multiple processors at once. Pretty much useless for some applications, might as well just have 1 cpu.
Actually I believe the mirrors grab from a non-public ftp server.
tell the users that they NEED to be on your side of the border to use your service.. but slip them a note that says the service MAY work on the other side of the border. I think that passes the buck to the consumer, technically, they're the ones breaking the rules if there are any.
Just like DirectTV users in Canada that have US billing addresses. The service isn't(wasn't?) available there but it works.
Don't you look at all the code you use line by line to see if there is anything weird in there? Isn't that the reason for using open source? ;^P
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Publisher : O'Reilly
Pub Date : January 1999
ISBN : 1-56592-582-3
Pages : 280
Should be about $25, good essays and stuff in it about where things are headed and where things came from.
I'd get them on the phone and keep calling up the chain of command until it gets fixed.
The hard to find Customer service phone number:
408-349-3300 press 2
Good Luck.
When I think of tungsten, I think of a heavy metal... for me, the name conveys weight, sluggishness, bad name, might as well call it lead.
when I worked at a certain huge company that everyone hates... we had cisco localdirectors that had (1)PIII-450 CPU's in them.. we found that by opening up the box(thus breaking warranty), upgrading BIOS & CPU(to 600, this was back in '99), we got 30% more traffic thru the same box... processing power is the limitation, but, that's not to say that some of these commercial boxes from CISCO and the like are not PC based... They look just like any other box on the inside, except they had an ISA card with a flash rom that had their software on it.
F5 BIG/IP's are BSDI boxen, etc.etc.
a gun if the campus allows it(if she's in a dorm)... if not, some pepper spray or something for the grabby frat boy.
I don't let it get in the way though, I find that taking on a project that I don't HAVE to do for a grade, is way more fun. There are thousands of projects out there that need help with coding and documentation and stuff. Just find one and make youself useful. That's the thing with school, specially, being an undergrad, it makes you feel that all your work is for naught, that nobody is using it, or worse yet, it will never see the light of day. Find something to do that will make you feel appreciated, and you'll start feeling better about the grind.
I was really disappointed with this year's show. I didn't think it had the same energy as last year's show in San Jose. I think the number of exhibitors have gone down. I'm sure the economy has something to do with it, probably half the companies that were there last year have gone under. I thought the general mood was: eh.. we're here.. let's TRY to sell something.. whereas last year was: Hey! I've got something new and innovative, this is something you can't live without. There was also a lot more anticipation last year I think, there was the release of Helix(now Ximian) and OSDN, 2.4 kernel, and the economy and the technology outlook was much better. SGI was noticably absent, they had one of the biggest areas last year. There just wasn't the noise and excitement this year.
For me, ergonomics plays a bigger role than the processor speed and all those fixins, next to that I'd like a nice clear screen, doesn't have to be big.<p>
There is also a lot of information (FAQ's) about buying arcade machines from auctions and other places at www.spies.com/arcade/info