I haven't done this yet (I don't have an NVidia card), but yast2 allows you to install the drivers off the nvidia site while running YOU (YaST Online Update).
I have a list of my passwords on my HD in plain-text. I don't mind that this list could get stolen somehow. That's because through the years I have devised a personal system of cyphering a password. I take a normal word, say the model of car I wish I had (porsche), and morph it (letter substitutions, doubling, pseudo-leetspeak, etc.) into something reasonably secure (poR%scK3), which I will then use as the actual string I type in. The plain-text list is only used to jog my memory in case I forget one of them.
My first job (spring '82) while attending LSU was at a game room across the street (Magic Union on Chimes). There was a guy that came in one morning and rolled his score over about 4 times. We called the one of the TV stations (hey, free publicity), they showed up, and just as they were setting up for the shot, the machine blanked out, and reset itself. Bummer.
In other news, the only game I was any good at was Alpine Ski. There was only one guy who could beat me, and after he would leave, I'd body-check the machine, and the tilt-switch would reset the machine, along with the high score. Heh.
You can use certain records in your zone file to store descriptive info (geographical, etc,) on your hosts. I don't remember the type of record nor the syntax, but I remember reading about it in O'Reilly's DNS and BIND. This data is obviously easily retrieved via dig, etc.
If/. moved to a login-only forum, this would stop the trolls, the goatsie idiots, etc. Troll, post your favorite body cavity, or be otherwise lame, get modded as such, and lose the ability to post, period. This I would consider paying for.
Um, what we are talking about is not the same thing as what you set up. A mailing list proper uses a program, such as majordomo, listserv, mailman, etc. that allows anyone to subscribe to the list and receive mail. Everyone gets a copy of the email that is sent, and usually everyone can in turn send mail to the list.
I manage such lists with majordomo, and the program works fairly well.
Yahoo Groups does this (which used to be OneList, which used to be...) as a service, as does several other portals. In addition, software packages often keep mailing lists for the users of said software, as a way of tracking bugs, asking newbie questions, etc.
In the case we are discussing, the security email list for the SuSE linux distribution was one of the ones hit by the email storm, due to a misconfiguration by the Singapore women's magazine list.
{begin rant}Designers ought to write 100%-valid html, period. I think the idea of coming up with a design, then spending weeks getting it to work in IE (all versions), Netscape (ditto), and the minor browsers (I'm not knocking Konquerer, just trying to make a point) is utter foolishness. Graphics are nice added touches, but having to depend upon them for your site to work is lame. Same thing for flash, javascript, etc.. If the browser can't or won't run these extras, the site ought to remain usable (i.e. degrade gracefully).{end rant}
In fact, any given electron in the cable probably doesn't go anywhere.
When I took Circuits I and II at LSU, they taught us about this. A current travelling down a wire is taken to be the movement of positive charges. This is known as "hole flow", since a place where an electron isn't is a hole, and (IIRC) is positively-charged with repect to the departed electron.
Electrons are negative, and actually move in the direction opposite from the current. It's called electron drift, and the electrons move at only a fraction of the speed that the current flows. This speed can be calculated (if I could locate my old textbook, I'd post the formula).
Current (or hole) flow is much faster than the corresponfing electron drift. A very bad analogy would be sound travelling through a medium. The molecules don't have to travel very far at all to transmit the sound waves. Current flows faster than the actual electrons because when we are discussing current, we are talking about the movement of charges, not the movement of electrons. Current is the change in charge with respect to time.
I'm not up on all the details, but OpenNic does share with other roots. If you resolve using our DNS servers, you get zone data from several of the other alternate roots at your disposal.
Actually (I'm showing my age, heh), the older cars do not run on unleaded gasoline. The pistons, valves, etc. were designed for lead deposits to form, and provide a cushioning effect, over time.
Running unleaded can be done, of course, but it wears out the parts, quick-like. There used to be an additive you could buy at the auto parts stores that put a lead-substitute of some sort back in the gas (you dumped in a bottle every couple of fill-ups, or whatever), which provided the cushioning effect, and saved your engine.
The way I see it (and I'm sure it's redundant, but I haven't had my weekly dose of rant, so...)
We win at least 2 ways:
We hack Linux to run on windoze. Major achievement, and we conquer that OS, proving that Linux is better/faster/stronger/more versatile/1337er/whatever than windoze.
Anything that gets Linux in the homes of the Unwashed and in their minds as a tool that they too can use is a Good Thing(tm). Our biggest obstacle is the entrenchment of windoze, and this cannot but help our cause.
Am I missing something here? The article mentions tattoos something like 4 or 5 times --- like the sales dweebs have to get a linux tattoo if they lose an account to redhat or something. Anyone know what's up with that?
You have to decide if your application needs to crunch numbers real fast, or if it needs to do a lot of I/O. Since you are communicating between 2 or more boxes, your bottleneck is I/O (ethernet, whatever). Number-crunching works well on clusters, because you are not shuttling stuff between the nodes so much.
On the other hand, databases with lots of little reads/writes have to spend most of their time sending data over the wire to each machine, and it is possible that if you cluster, your app could run slower than on a single machine. For these kinds of apps, you would get better performance from a multi-processor box (SMP).
You can, of course, take all of this into account, and engineer your app and the cluster accordingly. You can replicate your databases, etc. Basically, clustering is not a plug-and-play operation (although it is 31337 in front of your friends, even if you don't optimize it --- heh).
I guess this qualifies as a scary halloween story...
As I post this, I'm still ticked off about the "tech" that installed dsl yesterday at one of my client's locations. All this dude had to do was run a wire from the demarc to the telephone closet, plug in his router, and run the setup script via his laptop, and prove that we had a valid connection to the net.
He was so incompetent that he knicked the wires when he terminated his line, and had to cut then ends off several times before he got a reliable connection. He didn't know how to open a dos prompt, nor how to stop a ping -t. He would close out the dosbox, then hit start --> run then type his ping command again in the field, and hit ok. He also didn't know how to close his router interface program --- he would kick (there's a great tech-support term, meaning "hard reboot") his laptop, because he couldn't kill his app, nor shut down his win2k laptop.
He was on the phone to the real tech sitting in the CO for about an hour total, asking for them to check the line repeatedly, when all the problems he was having were of his own making. When he finally got one of our boxes on the net, he was ready to leave, and I had to stop him and make him give me the IPs, gateway, etc. info.
I even tried to talk to him a bit, to *gently* give him a little advice, and he got in my face and said to let him "do his job". Luser.
Ok, so I wait until he leaves (he was there for 3 hours), and called the tech support number I made him give me (he still had not told me how to make my server appear on the net --- all we could do is browse from the workstations), and also the number I copied off the side of his van, and both calls netted me promises of return calls by techs, which of course never happened. I don't have a support web site or email address, either. What a ripoff.
The dsl account was "free", a loss leader for some long distance company. 160k sdsl --- almost worthless, actually. And I had big plans of getting my client off domain hosting... *sigh*.
I thought about that for a while... simple to get the +12V and -12V, and the +5V wouldn't be that hard, either.
However, I would rather convert the 12-13VDC to 120VAC first, then use the computer's normal power supply from there. I'd venture to say that this would result in a more stable supply.
You could hack your own inverter, or grab one at Radio Trash --- either would work. The upside of this is that anyone could make this work --- just plug the inverted into the cigarette lighter, then plug the computer power cord into the inverter. Might have to use an adaptor, depending upon whether the inverter had 2- or 3-pronged outlets.
When I took programming classes at LSU back in the mid-80s, students were told to buy their computing texts, plus a handbook for VM/CMS (IBM big iron text-based UI). We learned how to use the system as we learned how to program. I have no idea if SNCC still has that system in use for programming labs, though...
Really, it is no big deal to train on a new system. KDE is remarkably similar (albeit far more powerful when you pop the hood) to the win95 desktop, so transitioning shouldn't be that terribly hard. There is even a friendly little "help" entry on the pull-down menu at the top of every GUI app if users get lost/brave.
Long ago (what? 10 years?), you went to work for a company, and you had to learn the system. Wang, other proprietary systems, even IBM if your company was large --- if you wanted the job, you learned the system, and that was that. I think that win9x has really dumbed down the computing user base (wasn't that the intention of M$ all along?). IMHO, getting away from win9x will liberate and empower users again, resulting in increased productivity.
I give out bogus numbers any time I am forced to give a phone number by some clerk or other. I also bogus my address, as well. Normally, I change a digit or something (555-1312 instead of 555-1212), so if it ever comes back on me, I can claim I wrote it down wrong, or they copied it down wrong, etc.
Why you wanna send "Tiny Tarzan" to prison? Cousan ain't done nuttin' wrong, neg...
Heh. You might actually have a legitimate gripe, but single-issue voters (you aren't even from Louisiana, are you?) scare me. Tauzin has done a lot for the state and the nation, and will continue to have my vote for as long as he wants to stay in congress.
While we're decreasing the budget for the NEA, let's cut out all those subsidies for tobacco farmers.
Somebody please tell me my tax dollars are not being used to fund cigarette production. Tobacco is a billion-dollar industry --- why the fsck do they need government assistance?
That's part of the joke. A capacitor doesn't have flux, but an inductor does. And the two (inductance and capacitance) counteract each other. So a flux capacitor is an oxymoron.
Ok, for the uninitiated...
A capacitor is constructed of 2 plates of metal that do not touch each other, so no current can pass between them. There is a voltage difference between the plates, resulting in a charge difference. No flux (see below), just an electric field. Capacitance is the capacity of the two plate to store an amount of charge.
An inductor is a coil of wire through which current passes. Current passing though a coil of wire creates a magnetic field (think electromagnet). Flux is defined as the flow of magnetism through the coil of wire. Since current is constantly flowing through the coil of wire, there is not an accumulation of charges, therefore there is no capacitance (well, a little between the turns of wire, but this is of interest to engineers, only).
Therefore, a capacitor cannot, by definition, have any flux.
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I haven't done this yet (I don't have an NVidia card), but yast2 allows you to install the drivers off the nvidia site while running YOU (YaST Online Update).
I have a list of my passwords on my HD in plain-text. I don't mind that this list could get stolen somehow. That's because through the years I have devised a personal system of cyphering a password. I take a normal word, say the model of car I wish I had (porsche), and morph it (letter substitutions, doubling, pseudo-leetspeak, etc.) into something reasonably secure (poR%scK3), which I will then use as the actual string I type in. The plain-text list is only used to jog my memory in case I forget one of them.
In other news, the only game I was any good at was Alpine Ski. There was only one guy who could beat me, and after he would leave, I'd body-check the machine, and the tilt-switch would reset the machine, along with the high score. Heh.
You can use certain records in your zone file to store descriptive info (geographical, etc,) on your hosts. I don't remember the type of record nor the syntax, but I remember reading about it in O'Reilly's DNS and BIND. This data is obviously easily retrieved via dig, etc.
If /. moved to a login-only forum, this would stop the trolls, the goatsie idiots, etc. Troll, post your favorite body cavity, or be otherwise lame, get modded as such, and lose the ability to post, period. This I would consider paying for.
I manage such lists with majordomo, and the program works fairly well.
Yahoo Groups does this (which used to be OneList, which used to be...) as a service, as does several other portals. In addition, software packages often keep mailing lists for the users of said software, as a way of tracking bugs, asking newbie questions, etc.
In the case we are discussing, the security email list for the SuSE linux distribution was one of the ones hit by the email storm, due to a misconfiguration by the Singapore women's magazine list.
{begin rant}Designers ought to write 100%-valid html, period. I think the idea of coming up with a design, then spending weeks getting it to work in IE (all versions), Netscape (ditto), and the minor browsers (I'm not knocking Konquerer, just trying to make a point) is utter foolishness. Graphics are nice added touches, but having to depend upon them for your site to work is lame. Same thing for flash, javascript, etc.. If the browser can't or won't run these extras, the site ought to remain usable (i.e. degrade gracefully).{end rant}
I've looked into this technology for a client. The fSONA company, at least, uses laser light (1550 nm) that is eye safe.
When I took Circuits I and II at LSU, they taught us about this. A current travelling down a wire is taken to be the movement of positive charges. This is known as "hole flow", since a place where an electron isn't is a hole, and (IIRC) is positively-charged with repect to the departed electron.
Electrons are negative, and actually move in the direction opposite from the current. It's called electron drift, and the electrons move at only a fraction of the speed that the current flows. This speed can be calculated (if I could locate my old textbook, I'd post the formula).
Current (or hole) flow is much faster than the corresponfing electron drift. A very bad analogy would be sound travelling through a medium. The molecules don't have to travel very far at all to transmit the sound waves. Current flows faster than the actual electrons because when we are discussing current, we are talking about the movement of charges, not the movement of electrons. Current is the change in charge with respect to time.
I'm not up on all the details, but OpenNic does share with other roots. If you resolve using our DNS servers, you get zone data from several of the other alternate roots at your disposal.
Running unleaded can be done, of course, but it wears out the parts, quick-like. There used to be an additive you could buy at the auto parts stores that put a lead-substitute of some sort back in the gas (you dumped in a bottle every couple of fill-ups, or whatever), which provided the cushioning effect, and saved your engine.
We win at least 2 ways:
Am I missing something here? The article mentions tattoos something like 4 or 5 times --- like the sales dweebs have to get a linux tattoo if they lose an account to redhat or something. Anyone know what's up with that?
You have to decide if your application needs to crunch numbers real fast, or if it needs to do a lot of I/O. Since you are communicating between 2 or more boxes, your bottleneck is I/O (ethernet, whatever). Number-crunching works well on clusters, because you are not shuttling stuff between the nodes so much.
On the other hand, databases with lots of little reads/writes have to spend most of their time sending data over the wire to each machine, and it is possible that if you cluster, your app could run slower than on a single machine. For these kinds of apps, you would get better performance from a multi-processor box (SMP).
You can, of course, take all of this into account, and engineer your app and the cluster accordingly. You can replicate your databases, etc. Basically, clustering is not a plug-and-play operation (although it is 31337 in front of your friends, even if you don't optimize it --- heh).
His answer to that and other questions (like, what's the mail relay address, etc.) was "call this number, they can tell you that".
As I post this, I'm still ticked off about the "tech" that installed dsl yesterday at one of my client's locations. All this dude had to do was run a wire from the demarc to the telephone closet, plug in his router, and run the setup script via his laptop, and prove that we had a valid connection to the net.
He was so incompetent that he knicked the wires when he terminated his line, and had to cut then ends off several times before he got a reliable connection. He didn't know how to open a dos prompt, nor how to stop a ping -t. He would close out the dosbox, then hit start --> run then type his ping command again in the field, and hit ok. He also didn't know how to close his router interface program --- he would kick (there's a great tech-support term, meaning "hard reboot") his laptop, because he couldn't kill his app, nor shut down his win2k laptop.
He was on the phone to the real tech sitting in the CO for about an hour total, asking for them to check the line repeatedly, when all the problems he was having were of his own making. When he finally got one of our boxes on the net, he was ready to leave, and I had to stop him and make him give me the IPs, gateway, etc. info.
I even tried to talk to him a bit, to *gently* give him a little advice, and he got in my face and said to let him "do his job". Luser.
Ok, so I wait until he leaves (he was there for 3 hours), and called the tech support number I made him give me (he still had not told me how to make my server appear on the net --- all we could do is browse from the workstations), and also the number I copied off the side of his van, and both calls netted me promises of return calls by techs, which of course never happened. I don't have a support web site or email address, either. What a ripoff.
The dsl account was "free", a loss leader for some long distance company. 160k sdsl --- almost worthless, actually. And I had big plans of getting my client off domain hosting... *sigh*.
Scary, indeed.
I used to do installs for Cox@home, and IIRC, it loads a network adapter, the same as if you went with a NIC.
However, I would rather convert the 12-13VDC to 120VAC first, then use the computer's normal power supply from there. I'd venture to say that this would result in a more stable supply.
You could hack your own inverter, or grab one at Radio Trash --- either would work. The upside of this is that anyone could make this work --- just plug the inverted into the cigarette lighter, then plug the computer power cord into the inverter. Might have to use an adaptor, depending upon whether the inverter had 2- or 3-pronged outlets.
When I took programming classes at LSU back in the mid-80s, students were told to buy their computing texts, plus a handbook for VM/CMS (IBM big iron text-based UI). We learned how to use the system as we learned how to program. I have no idea if SNCC still has that system in use for programming labs, though...
Really, it is no big deal to train on a new system. KDE is remarkably similar (albeit far more powerful when you pop the hood) to the win95 desktop, so transitioning shouldn't be that terribly hard. There is even a friendly little "help" entry on the pull-down menu at the top of every GUI app if users get lost/brave.
Long ago (what? 10 years?), you went to work for a company, and you had to learn the system. Wang, other proprietary systems, even IBM if your company was large --- if you wanted the job, you learned the system, and that was that. I think that win9x has really dumbed down the computing user base (wasn't that the intention of M$ all along?). IMHO, getting away from win9x will liberate and empower users again, resulting in increased productivity.
I give out bogus numbers any time I am forced to give a phone number by some clerk or other. I also bogus my address, as well. Normally, I change a digit or something (555-1312 instead of 555-1212), so if it ever comes back on me, I can claim I wrote it down wrong, or they copied it down wrong, etc.
Heh. You might actually have a legitimate gripe, but single-issue voters (you aren't even from Louisiana, are you?) scare me. Tauzin has done a lot for the state and the nation, and will continue to have my vote for as long as he wants to stay in congress.
Somebody please tell me my tax dollars are not being used to fund cigarette production. Tobacco is a billion-dollar industry --- why the fsck do they need government assistance?
Ok, for the uninitiated...
A capacitor is constructed of 2 plates of metal that do not touch each other, so no current can pass between them. There is a voltage difference between the plates, resulting in a charge difference. No flux (see below), just an electric field. Capacitance is the capacity of the two plate to store an amount of charge.
An inductor is a coil of wire through which current passes. Current passing though a coil of wire creates a magnetic field (think electromagnet). Flux is defined as the flow of magnetism through the coil of wire. Since current is constantly flowing through the coil of wire, there is not an accumulation of charges, therefore there is no capacitance (well, a little between the turns of wire, but this is of interest to engineers, only).
Therefore, a capacitor cannot, by definition, have any flux.
I'm just starting out, and haven't had that many takers yet, but who knows? If this takes off, I'll be in front of the pack :)