Maybe I should elaborate for those who are anti-gun.
Guns are a legal product. Placing registration and tracking requirements of all sales of a legal item, owned by non-licensed private citizens was something that started with the gun-control lobby.
The restriction in the trade of private property that is wholly owned is the precedent that allows people like the RIAA to propose stuff like this.
If an OS like Linux has a kernel flaw, you can say "well it's a kernel flaw in 2.4.15"
If Windows has a kernel flaw, you have to do something like:
"Well, Windows XP has a kernel flaw when IE 6.234 and Service Pack 23.531 and Office XP Version 2.542 is installed, but not if you installed critical update path OE-231 to fix vulernability CVE-23192."
When you have random unrelated MS products applying kernel patches like crazy, and every IE patch and upgrade patching your kernel, version control is nearly impossible.
MS is a unique example of how not to manage an OS. I don't know of any that are worse, except maybe Mac stuff.
Why do you think there are so many Nimda infections still rolling around? People have no idea if they applied the right voodoo in the right order to get it fixed.
Depends. Bands above 144Mhz or so, you are probably right, 30 Mhz and below are world wide. In the middle of the two, you are most likely safe with regional or local authority, but they sometimes carry worldwide.
actually have to install IE 5.5 over IE 6 (why would anyone do that) and browse a certain help file in order for it to get infected.
It's this whole voodoo-superstition shit that makes me really hate Windows. "Apply service pack 23ase, reboot twice, pray to the sun gods, upgrade DirectX, and walk twice clockwise around the computer".
Bullshit, total bullshit. Ask a Windows user which Windows kernel version they are running sometime, if you want an example.
Well... I think people inherently don't want to install software. They want it all preloaded, and Linux can provide that, with no additional cost.
I think it's mostly going to be kids (and a few adults) who can't run their latest games on Lindows that will be doing the whining. Everyone else might be happy.
Or they might just get their geek friend to reformat it in two weeks and put a pirated version of XP on it.
Well, I have to admit, I'm not really familiar enough with the modifications done to comment too much on the specific situation at hand. That said...
It's not against the GPL to aggregate the distribution of GPL and non-GPL, even closed source, or patented components. My original response was to the "one line of code anywhere in their distro".
The way I see it, unless they modified your code specifically, or linked their non-GPL compatible code to your code in a way more than just aggregation, you don't have much reason to complain, and you don't have any legal rights against them either.
The RAID is arranged as you assumed. We are using 7810 cards. The 7850 is primarily faster in RAID5 write performance, which is pretty low on the 7810. The numbers I quoted were RAID5 read performance.
We are using Tyan TigerMP motherboards. Motherboard selection is critical, there are a lot of little quirks between chipset, driver, linux kernel, with certain combinations. Make sure to read up on all bug reports and on google that mention your proposed hardware conbination.
Keep cable lengths as short as possible, 18-24 inches with 80 wire cables are best. If you have the budget, get 3wares official hot-swap trays, they are nice, but expensive.
We're going to need something to replace PCI before we can use 10Gbit ethernet fully though. Even 64bit 66Mhz PCI has a max (in theory) of 528 Megabytes/sec.
On a side note, I have sucessfully pulled 130Mbytes/sec out of 5400 RPM IDE Disks on 3ware controllers, with a cost less than $9000. 3 controllers, 24 disks, 64 bit 33Mhz PCI. RAID 0 over 5. So the potential is there to exceed current GigE, without too many disks or controllers, or getting too expensive.
It would also help a lot if we could get regular gigabit ethernet working well first. I think there was a story here on Slashdot not long ago that showed that most GigE cards had trouble pushing over 400Mbits even with large frames. Only the expensive $500 one came close to it's full potential (900Mbits). My experience is that without jumbo frames, there is hardly any advantage with lower end GigE cards.
It's best to be careful. Remember those devices that you plugged into a power outlet, and let you use your modem from any power outlet in your house? They still cause major interference to ham and other shortwave radio. The FCC found them in violation of Part 15 I think. It's best to stop this stuff before it gets out, it's hard to get people to stop using something once they install it.
People said the A-bomb would end all war too. Humans have a way of fighting against even the most devastating weapons. It will always be a game of cat and mouse, unless....
A question. If we could have a button to press to eliminate any selected person, group of people, or all the members of a country, with 100% accuracy and no collateral damage, should be ever push it? What conditions would justify pushing it? Would the world even survive 5 years past the invention of the perfect weapon?
Just the other day I saw someone use a butane lighter to light a cigarette. Apparently they don't even know the basic ways to make fire anymore. Was the tinder box uninvented?
Heh, The only percent of the time that matters is when you have a wanted level of 4 stars, your car is on fire and is about to explode, the mission has 30 seconds left, and you have to jump out and run before the cops run you over or your car blows up in your face.
It's not so bad to have to switch controls and hand positions, it's the times when you need to do it that make it kind of suck.:)
GTA3 PC barely supports reconfiguring the mouse and keyboard to anything managable. I really have to work around the awkward controls.
It's impossible to steer the car very well in mouse steering mode, and it's impossible to walk around and look easily where you are going without using the mouse for walking. So you get this lameness of having to change your hand positions whenever you get into or exit a car. The game rocks, but more freedom in binding the controls would go a long way.
Maybe some nice battery rechargers might sell well?
Well, I could see an emergency radio beacon, but it could only transmit at pretty low power, maybe 100-250mW, and you would have to wind it or crank it a lot to get it going.
As far as general purpose battery rechargers... I have an electric bike, it comes with the option of using a stand for it and riding it in stationary mode to recharge the batteries, it's definitely pretty hard to pedal with the motor/generator engaged, but it's pretty close to what you were talking about.
I'm surprised that there haven't been infomercials that offer products that can help to supplement the power to the home, or especially a log cabin or something.
The amounts of power we are talking about are miniscule. I'd be willing to bet no more than 5-10 watts are generated through any sort of human hand powered device, and less than 20-80 for a bicycle type thing. The saving factor in a crank system is the storage of potential energy, so you can turn 10 watts over 2 minutes into 120 watts for 10 seconds, neglecting friction loss.
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Troll eh?
Maybe I should elaborate for those who are anti-gun.
Guns are a legal product. Placing registration and tracking requirements of all sales of a legal item, owned by non-licensed private citizens was something that started with the gun-control lobby.
The restriction in the trade of private property that is wholly owned is the precedent that allows people like the RIAA to propose stuff like this.
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious.
Wonder how long it will be before you have to register each sale of a CD so that they can be traced.
I hope you gun control people are happy, nice precedent you set.
You don't upgrade screwdrivers.
If an OS like Linux has a kernel flaw, you can say "well it's a kernel flaw in 2.4.15"
If Windows has a kernel flaw, you have to do something like:
"Well, Windows XP has a kernel flaw when IE 6.234 and Service Pack 23.531 and Office XP Version 2.542 is installed, but not if you installed critical update path OE-231 to fix vulernability CVE-23192."
When you have random unrelated MS products applying kernel patches like crazy, and every IE patch and upgrade patching your kernel, version control is nearly impossible.
MS is a unique example of how not to manage an OS. I don't know of any that are worse, except maybe Mac stuff.
Why do you think there are so many Nimda infections still rolling around? People have no idea if they applied the right voodoo in the right order to get it fixed.
Depends. Bands above 144Mhz or so, you are probably right, 30 Mhz and below are world wide. In the middle of the two, you are most likely safe with regional or local authority, but they sometimes carry worldwide.
The lag is more like a minimum of 600ms. Just FYI from an actual user of Satellite Internet.
I was just posting my experience, I didn't say it couldn't be done with less.
actually have to install IE 5.5 over IE 6 (why would anyone do that) and browse a certain help file in order for it to get infected.
It's this whole voodoo-superstition shit that makes me really hate Windows. "Apply service pack 23ase, reboot twice, pray to the sun gods, upgrade DirectX, and walk twice clockwise around the computer".
Bullshit, total bullshit. Ask a Windows user which Windows kernel version they are running sometime, if you want an example.
Well... I think people inherently don't want to install software. They want it all preloaded, and Linux can provide that, with no additional cost.
I think it's mostly going to be kids (and a few adults) who can't run their latest games on Lindows that will be doing the whining. Everyone else might be happy.
Or they might just get their geek friend to reformat it in two weeks and put a pirated version of XP on it.
Well, I have to admit, I'm not really familiar enough with the modifications done to comment too much on the specific situation at hand. That said...
It's not against the GPL to aggregate the distribution of GPL and non-GPL, even closed source, or patented components. My original response was to the "one line of code anywhere in their distro".
The way I see it, unless they modified your code specifically, or linked their non-GPL compatible code to your code in a way more than just aggregation, you don't have much reason to complain, and you don't have any legal rights against them either.
If I had one line of code of my opensource in thier distro, I'd be on them like mad.
Why? They havn't violated anything.
Even 64bit 66Mhz PCI has a max (in theory) of 528 Megabytes/sec.
:)
Remember that Gbit is not Gbyte. 8 bit's to a byte. 528*8=4224.
Put down the crackpipe.
64bits=8 bytes
8*66=528 Megabytes/sec
The RAID is arranged as you assumed. We are using 7810 cards. The 7850 is primarily faster in RAID5 write performance, which is pretty low on the 7810. The numbers I quoted were RAID5 read performance.
We are using Tyan TigerMP motherboards. Motherboard selection is critical, there are a lot of little quirks between chipset, driver, linux kernel, with certain combinations. Make sure to read up on all bug reports and on google that mention your proposed hardware conbination.
Keep cable lengths as short as possible, 18-24 inches with 80 wire cables are best. If you have the budget, get 3wares official hot-swap trays, they are nice, but expensive.
That's pretty cheap for 2 terabytes.
Cato Institute=Mostly Libertarian "think tank".
Music Industry!=Cato Institute.
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Consider yourself hit with clue-stick.
There's plenty of local bandwidth, it's their upstream you are hogging.
We're going to need something to replace PCI before we can use 10Gbit ethernet fully though. Even 64bit 66Mhz PCI has a max (in theory) of 528 Megabytes/sec.
On a side note, I have sucessfully pulled 130Mbytes/sec out of 5400 RPM IDE Disks on 3ware controllers, with a cost less than $9000. 3 controllers, 24 disks, 64 bit 33Mhz PCI. RAID 0 over 5. So the potential is there to exceed current GigE, without too many disks or controllers, or getting too expensive.
It would also help a lot if we could get regular gigabit ethernet working well first. I think there was a story here on Slashdot not long ago that showed that most GigE cards had trouble pushing over 400Mbits even with large frames. Only the expensive $500 one came close to it's full potential (900Mbits). My experience is that without jumbo frames, there is hardly any advantage with lower end GigE cards.
It's best to be careful. Remember those devices that you plugged into a power outlet, and let you use your modem from any power outlet in your house? They still cause major interference to ham and other shortwave radio. The FCC found them in violation of Part 15 I think. It's best to stop this stuff before it gets out, it's hard to get people to stop using something once they install it.
Depends on if you factor in replacement cost and service life. LEDs can last a lot longer, which helps.
People said the A-bomb would end all war too. Humans have a way of fighting against even the most devastating weapons. It will always be a game of cat and mouse, unless....
A question. If we could have a button to press to eliminate any selected person, group of people, or all the members of a country, with 100% accuracy and no collateral damage, should be ever push it? What conditions would justify pushing it? Would the world even survive 5 years past the invention of the perfect weapon?
Just the other day I saw someone use a butane lighter to light a cigarette. Apparently they don't even know the basic ways to make fire anymore. Was the tinder box uninvented?
Heh, The only percent of the time that matters is when you have a wanted level of 4 stars, your car is on fire and is about to explode, the mission has 30 seconds left, and you have to jump out and run before the cops run you over or your car blows up in your face.
:)
It's not so bad to have to switch controls and hand positions, it's the times when you need to do it that make it kind of suck.
GTA3 PC barely supports reconfiguring the mouse and keyboard to anything managable. I really have to work around the awkward controls.
It's impossible to steer the car very well in mouse steering mode, and it's impossible to walk around and look easily where you are going without using the mouse for walking. So you get this lameness of having to change your hand positions whenever you get into or exit a car. The game rocks, but more freedom in binding the controls would go a long way.
Maybe some nice battery rechargers might sell well?
Well, I could see an emergency radio beacon, but it could only transmit at pretty low power, maybe 100-250mW, and you would have to wind it or crank it a lot to get it going.
As far as general purpose battery rechargers... I have an electric bike, it comes with the option of using a stand for it and riding it in stationary mode to recharge the batteries, it's definitely pretty hard to pedal with the motor/generator engaged, but it's pretty close to what you were talking about.
I'm surprised that there haven't been infomercials that offer products that can help to supplement the power to the home, or especially a log cabin or something.
The amounts of power we are talking about are miniscule. I'd be willing to bet no more than 5-10 watts are generated through any sort of human hand powered device, and less than 20-80 for a bicycle type thing. The saving factor in a crank system is the storage of potential energy, so you can turn 10 watts over 2 minutes into 120 watts for 10 seconds, neglecting friction loss.