but one of the things that worries me is that it requires special software (supposedly).
It does, at least with Starband and the 360 model modems. I'm assuming the DirecWay are the same type of setup. It needs to munge up your whole TCP/IP stack, or else you get really shitty throughput. Not going to work on an unsupported OS.
Of course, you can use a pentium 166 as a Win2k router running tiny personal firewall, and then at least you don't have to use Windows on a real computer.
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So what? Loss leaders need to be sold to be effective... That's the whole point, you advertise your loss leaders like crazy, then push people to buy more profitable items once they are in your store/on your site.
Yep, if we ever got close enough to a black hole, it would be the solution to global warming, corruption in government, freedom on the Internet, minority rights, energy production, and pretty much every other petty human problem you can think of.
Because it doesn't repeal the laws of physics. If you hit a ledge or large gravel going 50 mph, you will face plant into the pavement, gyro or no gyro.
Maybe not.... Since the work of government employees is public domain, if this was created by government employees, then at least the modifications are public domain, which seems to mean it would be legal if you own the original battlezone. If they contracted this out, which is likely, then it might be illegal.
I guess the bigger question is... who the hell is going to care enough to sue you over something like this?
There is sort of an inherent problem with that. If the hole is too small to even hit any nerve endings, it's probably too small to let blood cells through.
As it is, when my late grandmother was getting up in years, we had to prick her like three times with the heavy setting on the lanclet just to get blood.
No sick jokes, I know you are comtemplating them!:)
The female computer interns we have had at work were universally failures, totally inept. We have stopped accepting internships completely as a result. My girlfriend on the other hand, is pretty capable with computers and Linux. I think the skillful women are the exception and not the rule.
I find this sort of behavior, even said as a joke, completely unacceptable.
I find your behaviour completely unacceptable. If you were the least bit secure in your skills and such, you wouldn't have a problem with sexist jokes. I know I don't have a problem with sexist jokes aimed at men. This PC bullshit is going to homogenize our society and thinking to the level of the false utopia of Brave New World.
What's the point of RFID on your cat? I could understand marking expensive purebred dogs, as there is fraud rampant there, so an indelible serial number is a good thing (even though tattoo works just as well), but how could RFID help if your cat was lost or something? What's the likelihood of some animal shelter waving an RFID reader around your cat?
You are not likely to run out of work to do, no matter how much of it you automate.
I agree.
Lack of automation and documentation means your productivity eventually goes to flat (you are still "producing", but you are just treading water, putting out fires all day). I couldn't imagine working that way. It would be pretty boring.
As a wannabe inventor/tinkerer, I often find myself with wires to strip, and no implements of stripping. Luckily the gap between the tops of my front teeth is exactly 22/24 guage. Perfect for stripping phone wires/cat5/small wires of all kinds. (God forbid you get that stuff stuck between your teeth, if you ever had spacers put in by an orthodontist, you know the feeling)
Actually, certain insulations do have a slightly sicky sweet taste/smell, especially if they have broken down due to ozone exposure, it's sort of the way amyl or benzyl alcohol smells. Probably aromatic compounds that are byproducts of the manufacturing process, or breakdown products with ozone.
I could see myself thinking that was a tasty lunch if I were an ant.
It would reduce reliability, as most catestrophic failures of hard disks involve head crash of some sort. Twice as many moving parts is bad, mmmkkkay.:)
The head assembly also takes up quite a bit of room. You would probably have to go to a half height 5-1/4 form factor like old SCSI disks were.
Hot plugging serial ATA is not going to be available for Windows users until the next version of Windows, which MS now says won't be until 2005.
Of course the Linux kernel will probably support it a few months from now.
Another plus you didn't mention... The cable length is 1 meter, but since it is serial, it's likely that can be eventually extended to a couple meters (depending on controller, you might get away with it now), for a ultra high speed connection for external hard disks sometime in the future.
I've also seen in several benchmarks, the modern 7.2k ATA drives with 8mb cache in RAID configurations with a decent (or even Promise:) controller sometimes beat out 10k SCSI in the same RAID configurations. I'm sure this is also dependent on load patterns, driver/controller efficiency, etc, but it is something to chew on.
Personally, I've mostly stuck to 5400 rpm ATA in RAID for higher reliability. For storing large files with little random access, the rotational latency isn't really a big deal, so you can make up the difference in sequential speed by adding an extra drive or two.
That said, I did recently build an ad hoc NAS computer with 180GB 7200 RPM WD ATA drives, quantity 5, in software RAID5 for about 680GB usable. I used two ATA100 two port Promise controllers (with their own additional cache), and both onboard ATA channels for the RAID disks.
The root/OS disk and CDROM was some random smallish SCSI stuff we had laying around. This was to free up available ATA ports.
That thing flys. Compared to other 3ware ATA RAID5's we have with 5400GB Maxtor disks with 2MB cache, it pushes out a lot more per/disk throughput.
I'm kinda leery considering the promise cards have cache, and also the drives have large cache, none of which is battery backed directly, but this server is not being put into a critical role, and is kept on a UPS. I've noticed that battery-backed cache seems to have lost favor in RAID controllers. There is still a danger, correct?
One thing that is striking about it is the latency. It just "feels" fast. I think that may have something to do with using Linux software raid5d rather than 3ware hardware RAID, in addition to the cache and higher rotational speed.
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Thanks... That's sure something they don't often mention in history books. I guess it would have been classified until recently.
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You got a link on that nuclear mishap? As you can see from my sig, nukes are a sort of hobby of mine.
Yeah, but the light is pretty useless unless it bounces off something, and into your eye. It's also going to bounce upward too. Unless you plan on building huge mirrors over every lighted highway, there is always going to be a lot of "waste"
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but one of the things that worries me is that it requires special software (supposedly).
It does, at least with Starband and the 360 model modems. I'm assuming the DirecWay are the same type of setup. It needs to munge up your whole TCP/IP stack, or else you get really shitty throughput. Not going to work on an unsupported OS.
Of course, you can use a pentium 166 as a Win2k router running tiny personal firewall, and then at least you don't have to use Windows on a real computer.
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So what? Loss leaders need to be sold to be effective... That's the whole point, you advertise your loss leaders like crazy, then push people to buy more profitable items once they are in your store/on your site.
All Red Hat RPMs are signed and signatures are automatically checked by up2date.
Cool. Guess I should RTFA all the way through next time. :)
Yep, if we ever got close enough to a black hole, it would be the solution to global warming, corruption in government, freedom on the Internet, minority rights, energy production, and pretty much every other petty human problem you can think of.
Because it doesn't repeal the laws of physics. If you hit a ledge or large gravel going 50 mph, you will face plant into the pavement, gyro or no gyro.
Maybe not.... Since the work of government employees is public domain, if this was created by government employees, then at least the modifications are public domain, which seems to mean it would be legal if you own the original battlezone. If they contracted this out, which is likely, then it might be illegal.
I guess the bigger question is... who the hell is going to care enough to sue you over something like this?
And the femto lasers were on the frickin' sharks' heads anyway.
There is sort of an inherent problem with that. If the hole is too small to even hit any nerve endings, it's probably too small to let blood cells through.
:)
As it is, when my late grandmother was getting up in years, we had to prick her like three times with the heavy setting on the lanclet just to get blood.
No sick jokes, I know you are comtemplating them!
By that logic, saying that light travels at the speed of light is also false. :)
I understand the physics, just trying to be funny.
Heh, just messing around man.
:)
I can see it now, you probably will jump on me every time I mispel sumting.
That seems like the quickest way to get them to NOT read your email or consider it.
by the time i hit kindergarden i was already at a 2nd rgade level.
Good thing too, looks like your writing skills haven't progressed much since then.
Dude, MS sucks!
Personally, I find this incredibly insulting.
Wah.
usually have quite valid opinions.
The female computer interns we have had at work were universally failures, totally inept. We have stopped accepting internships completely as a result. My girlfriend on the other hand, is pretty capable with computers and Linux. I think the skillful women are the exception and not the rule.
I find this sort of behavior, even said as a joke, completely unacceptable.
I find your behaviour completely unacceptable. If you were the least bit secure in your skills and such, you wouldn't have a problem with sexist jokes. I know I don't have a problem with sexist jokes aimed at men. This PC bullshit is going to homogenize our society and thinking to the level of the false utopia of Brave New World.
What's the point of RFID on your cat? I could understand marking expensive purebred dogs, as there is fraud rampant there, so an indelible serial number is a good thing (even though tattoo works just as well), but how could RFID help if your cat was lost or something? What's the likelihood of some animal shelter waving an RFID reader around your cat?
You are not likely to run out of work to do, no matter how much of it you automate.
I agree.
Lack of automation and documentation means your productivity eventually goes to flat (you are still "producing", but you are just treading water, putting out fires all day). I couldn't imagine working that way. It would be pretty boring.
As a wannabe inventor/tinkerer, I often find myself with wires to strip, and no implements of stripping. Luckily the gap between the tops of my front teeth is exactly 22/24 guage. Perfect for stripping phone wires/cat5/small wires of all kinds. (God forbid you get that stuff stuck between your teeth, if you ever had spacers put in by an orthodontist, you know the feeling)
Actually, certain insulations do have a slightly sicky sweet taste/smell, especially if they have broken down due to ozone exposure, it's sort of the way amyl or benzyl alcohol smells. Probably aromatic compounds that are byproducts of the manufacturing process, or breakdown products with ozone.
I could see myself thinking that was a tasty lunch if I were an ant.
It would reduce reliability, as most catestrophic failures of hard disks involve head crash of some sort. Twice as many moving parts is bad, mmmkkkay. :)
The head assembly also takes up quite a bit of room. You would probably have to go to a half height 5-1/4 form factor like old SCSI disks were.
Hot plugging serial ATA is not going to be available for Windows users until the next version of Windows, which MS now says won't be until 2005.
Of course the Linux kernel will probably support it a few months from now.
Another plus you didn't mention... The cable length is 1 meter, but since it is serial, it's likely that can be eventually extended to a couple meters (depending on controller, you might get away with it now), for a ultra high speed connection for external hard disks sometime in the future.
I've also seen in several benchmarks, the modern 7.2k ATA drives with 8mb cache in RAID configurations with a decent (or even Promise :) controller sometimes beat out 10k SCSI in the same RAID configurations. I'm sure this is also dependent on load patterns, driver/controller efficiency, etc, but it is something to chew on.
Personally, I've mostly stuck to 5400 rpm ATA in RAID for higher reliability. For storing large files with little random access, the rotational latency isn't really a big deal, so you can make up the difference in sequential speed by adding an extra drive or two.
That said, I did recently build an ad hoc NAS computer with 180GB 7200 RPM WD ATA drives, quantity 5, in software RAID5 for about 680GB usable. I used two ATA100 two port Promise controllers (with their own additional cache), and both onboard ATA channels for the RAID disks.
The root/OS disk and CDROM was some random smallish SCSI stuff we had laying around. This was to free up available ATA ports.
That thing flys. Compared to other 3ware ATA RAID5's we have with 5400GB Maxtor disks with 2MB cache, it pushes out a lot more per/disk throughput.
I'm kinda leery considering the promise cards have cache, and also the drives have large cache, none of which is battery backed directly, but this server is not being put into a critical role, and is kept on a UPS. I've noticed that battery-backed cache seems to have lost favor in RAID controllers. There is still a danger, correct?
One thing that is striking about it is the latency. It just "feels" fast. I think that may have something to do with using Linux software raid5d rather than 3ware hardware RAID, in addition to the cache and higher rotational speed.
Thanks... That's sure something they don't often mention in history books. I guess it would have been classified until recently.
You got a link on that nuclear mishap? As you can see from my sig, nukes are a sort of hobby of mine.
Yeah, but the light is pretty useless unless it bounces off something, and into your eye. It's also going to bounce upward too. Unless you plan on building huge mirrors over every lighted highway, there is always going to be a lot of "waste"