I have setup some systems to dual boot with LILO, but another way to do it that will work is to use the BIOS.
I installed one hard disk, installed an OS and then pulled off the IDE cable. Put in a second hard disk, installed the 2nd OS. Then restored the first hard drive. (powering down as needed)
I just change the boot order in the BIOS. Anyone who just walks up to the PC and boots it will not know that the other OS is there. Users freak out about LILO sometimes.
It does not look from the article that he did this, and I was expecting to see this used in combination with the other methods.
The reason the volcano cooking works and takes the time it does can be seen from the question.
Foods burn when they reach excessive temperatures. If you expose the bird to a very high temperature directly to the skin, the outside will quickly get up to over 100 C and the water in the food will boil out. Then the skin will go up over 100 C and char.
When you wrap it in the layers to prevent it from burning, you have insulated it. Also the moisture driven off from the leaves and the bird is kept in a somewhat enclosed area. So the constant adding of heat such as happens in Alton's broiler is not happening here. He does not wrap his birds in leaves before putting them in the oven I bet.
To avoid burning food, cooks reduce the temperature to the point that the interior of the bird gets to a cooked temperature before the outside gets charred.
The volcanic rock may also act as an insulator. If you were to try to cook a water balloon instead of food, I would guess the inside temperature of the lava would be lower than the outside temperature.
Next time you do this try the following two experiments:
After the bird is cooked, when you crack open the lava, measure the temperature of the leaves in contact with the bird and the temperature of the lava on the inside of your oven. It should be less than the outside temperature because the water from the leaves is a much better coolant than the air.
Cook a bird in the normal manner but don't add the leaves. Remove after about 20 minutes, chip through the char and check the inside temperature. Or place it inside a haybox (http://solarcooking.org/ret-heat.htm). The outside may be a charred mess, but the inside done.
I have had times in which I have seen color differences that people with "normal" vision could not see.
If you watch and are not bashfull about asking, you can find places where the paint on walls has been retouched in the wrong color and yet it not noticeable/dumb looking to the general population. I used to think everyone could see it.
Sometimes I can catch my wife making mistakes when sorting socks for instance but she has good vision.
At least one of the old dot tests has numbers that we can see that are quite hard for the normal vision folks.
You used the road for less time than was paid for.
You need to request a discount!
Re:Why go from 32 to 64? Why not jump to 128?
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A 128 bit chip would likely be slower for many/most applications. Because the amount of memory fetched and used would be larger, the real time thruput can be slower.
As a way of over simplifying the problem think of the following example:
I give you two calculators you can do math with. One has an 8 digit display, one has a sixteen digit display.
OK, now one extra rule, you must enter ALL the digits for every number you put in. Including leading zeros.
You will vary rarely need to use the 16 digit machine and you will quickly hate it.
I started thinking about this issue and I had some ideas.
Lets not talk about pieces which are big enough to track. That is a separate issue.
Let's try to improve the ecology of space, to clean it up in general. By sweeping through space with something. I believe that most objects when stuck would loose enough speed that they would fall into the atmosphere. But the impact would create lots of little particles which would in the short term make things worse. Most of these new particles would be from the sweeper ship. The problem is now that these particles can damage things themselves (actually, I believe the sweeper itself would be in the most danger.) Can the particles be made non damaging to other space craft? What if we made the sweeper out of ice. The particles would freeze dry in a short time and no longer be a problem. A little water vapor would not punch a hole in a space craft no mater how fast it was going.
This leads to the following question: What if we just sprayed a bunch of water vapor into low earth orbit and used that to slow down the junk?
Some one want to take a crack at the following questions:
How much water vapor? Ecological impact? Does the amount of vapor needed, put an end to all ideas of being able to sweep random tiny objects from low earth orbit?
Sweeping out a single orbit would be like driving through a staight city street at high speed with a bulldozer and then thinking you did not have to stop at stop lights on that road because you cleared everything out of that path two hours ago.
Objects start mostly going in the same direction, but the tidal forces of the moon distort the orbit and twist it until it is following some other path. (of course we also have the polar orbits the military use)
Most of these objects quickly hit the atmosphere, Many stay up for years and a few probably get ejected out of earth orbit.
You child gets on TV for winning a spelling contest, or the TV visits the day care or whatever. You can record, You can make backup copies. Sounds good right?
They will probably have a simple flag to tell you machine to encript the data deeply oin the tape. Using its own specific, nonportable key
Now you can not send grandma a tape, when your tape deck dies, you also discover that you can not read these tapes on anything other than the machine which recorded them first.
How much good does it do you to backup something if the drive is dead?
Now if you want something you will have to a$k the local station for a copy that is open. I am sure that will be free as in beer:-(
I think this might be possible to do by changing the sync frequency or pattern that the screen is written.
I do not know how the current systems work, however a couple of things come to mind.
Use three/four colored lasers to raster scan the screen. Vary the sync(screen refresh) rates at random between 60 to 150 hz. This could be done and not mess up humans (if you coordinated the brightness correctly) however I am guessing that camcorders would get all sorts of artifacts as they try to syncronize.
This would be like taking a high shutter speed photo of a TV. You get to see where the beam is.
I hope this make sense. I could be completely wrong on this, BTW.
Drat, they found out. I thought you tested the system to confirm self recognition was not possible! .... Ok, well get the patch done soon so I can reboot, ok?
We thought very strongly about buying one of these for our low end web server. The article on installing Linux on one of these was not yet out. Could not be sure about the video. and did not know if we could yank the modem or if it was part of the motherboard.
I have built a couple of PC's from scratch before, but I do not like that moment when you first power up the motherboard and find out if you got all of the voltage jumpers right.
My wife can install Linux on a box (even edited a book on the subject). But she would not think about putting a machine together from the ground up.
Compusa will put a PC together for you, but the one I priced out was going to be more expensive than the prebuilt ones in the stores.
We went with Fry's instead because we could do it without delay and hassel. (then spent an evening trying to figure out what was causing the random reboots, [mtbf 15 min] looks like the motherboard bios allows memory settings faster than it truely supports (but I could be wrong))
In AZ you have the option of getting a "lifetime" drivers license. Of course it is not really a "lifetime" license but I have had mine for several years now and it expires in 2019. When I am 60.
They have gone through three design changes since I got mine. So I have no bar code.
How can they force me to get scanned if my license has not expired?
Actually it is a bit of a lie,[by the state] I have to go in in a couple of years and get a new picture and pay a small fee if I want to continue to drive in Arizona. But the date on the card is 2019!
This was a silly law passed mostly to appeal to the stupid. When the people need to come in and get a new photo there will be no way for the aveRage user to realize they have reached the limit! Will be a big stink when they realize it is a problem.
Galileo pointed the telescope they had been using to cheat on the commodities market at the moon and the world was not the same.
Try this. Get a inexpensive $200 telescope and set it up where there will be some 8-year-old kids at night when there will be 1/4 moon. Tell them about Galileo and what people thought the moon was like.
Slashdot Mirror
use
ps -ef | grep -i nets...
to determine if you are running one of these applications
I have setup some systems to dual boot with LILO, but another way to do it that will work is to use the BIOS.
I installed one hard disk, installed an OS and then pulled off the IDE cable. Put in a second hard disk, installed the 2nd OS. Then restored the first hard drive. (powering down as needed)
I just change the boot order in the BIOS. Anyone who just walks up to the PC and boots it will not know that the other OS is there. Users freak out about LILO sometimes.
It does not look from the article that he did this, and I was expecting to see this used in combination with the other methods.
The reason the volcano cooking works and takes the time it does can be seen from the question.
Foods burn when they reach excessive temperatures. If you expose the bird to a very high temperature directly to the skin, the outside will quickly get up to over 100 C and the water in the food will boil out. Then the skin will go up over 100 C and char.
When you wrap it in the layers to prevent it from burning, you have insulated it. Also the moisture driven off from the leaves and the bird is kept in a somewhat enclosed area. So the constant adding of heat such as happens in Alton's broiler is not happening here. He does not wrap his birds in leaves before putting them in the oven I bet.
To avoid burning food, cooks reduce the temperature to the point that the interior of the bird gets to a cooked temperature before the outside gets charred.
The volcanic rock may also act as an insulator. If you were to try to cook a water balloon instead of food, I would guess the inside temperature of the lava would be lower than the outside temperature.
Next time you do this try the following two experiments:
After the bird is cooked, when you crack open the lava, measure the temperature of the leaves in contact with the bird and the temperature of the lava on the inside of your oven. It should be less than the outside temperature because the water from the leaves is a much better coolant than the air.
Cook a bird in the normal manner but don't add the leaves. Remove after about 20 minutes, chip through the char and check the inside temperature. Or place it inside a haybox (http://solarcooking.org/ret-heat.htm). The outside may be a charred mess, but the inside done.
Of course, YMMV
I have had times in which I have seen color differences that people with "normal" vision could not see.
If you watch and are not bashfull about asking, you can find places where the paint on walls has been retouched in the wrong color and yet it not noticeable/dumb looking to the general population. I used to think everyone could see it.
Sometimes I can catch my wife making mistakes when sorting socks for instance but she has good vision.
At least one of the old dot tests has numbers that we can see that are quite hard for the normal vision folks.
"No sir, I do not want you to search my car"
Wearing black,red (*color) clothes
Visting pawn shops (*resale store)
Registering to vote other than major parties
Working for politically incorrect industry
Outdoors after some unstated cerfew
Joining a protest march
T-Shirt with logo not for approved activity
Signing a pettition
Websites...
----
Now if you try to get a job which requires a background check...
Chase one of the links in the article then scroll down. there are a few "links" on the bottom of the page.
Note that they have not built the link for "Our Principles" yet.
A problem is it?
You used the road for less time than was paid for.
You need to request a discount!
A 128 bit chip would likely be slower for many/most applications. Because the amount of memory fetched and used would be larger, the real time thruput can be slower.
As a way of over simplifying the problem think of the following example:
I give you two calculators you can do math with. One has an 8 digit display, one has a sixteen digit display.
OK, now one extra rule, you must enter ALL the digits for every number you put in. Including leading zeros.
You will vary rarely need to use the 16 digit machine and you will quickly hate it.
Is this where we submit questions? Or is an editor going to setup a separate article?
It looks like most of this thread is rants on the cancled responce.
Nothing works like just trying things out. Just get cookbooks and try stuff.
There is lots of stuff on the web as well.
Just remember that every time you mess up something you learn something new.
Shameless plug for my wife's website follows =>
it was fine until we slashdotted the webserver ;-)
I started thinking about this issue and I had some ideas.
Lets not talk about pieces which are big enough to track. That is a separate issue.
Let's try to improve the ecology of space, to clean it up in general. By sweeping through space with something. I believe that most objects when stuck would loose enough speed that they would fall into the atmosphere. But the impact would create lots of little particles which would in the short term make things worse. Most of these new particles would be from the sweeper ship. The problem is now that these particles can damage things themselves (actually, I believe the sweeper itself would be in the most danger.) Can the particles be made non damaging to other space craft? What if we made the sweeper out of ice. The particles would freeze dry in a short time and no longer be a problem. A little water vapor would not punch a hole in a space craft no mater how fast it was going.
This leads to the following question: What if we just sprayed a bunch of water vapor into low earth orbit and used that to slow down the junk?
Some one want to take a crack at the following questions:
How much water vapor?
Ecological impact?
Does the amount of vapor needed, put an end to all ideas of being able to sweep random tiny objects from low earth orbit?
We have this already. Its called the moon.
OK, time for a little orbital machanics
Sweeping out a single orbit would be like driving through a staight city street at high speed with a bulldozer and then thinking you did not have to stop at stop lights on that road because you cleared everything out of that path two hours ago.
Objects start mostly going in the same direction, but the tidal forces of the moon distort the orbit and twist it until it is following some other path. (of course we also have the polar orbits the military use)
Most of these objects quickly hit the atmosphere, Many stay up for years and a few probably get ejected out of earth orbit.
It is the intersections you have to watch out for
How about this for a local TV money maker =>
:-(
You child gets on TV for winning a spelling contest, or the TV visits the day care or whatever. You can record, You can make backup copies. Sounds good right?
They will probably have a simple flag to tell you machine to encript the data deeply oin the tape. Using its own specific, nonportable key
Now you can not send grandma a tape, when your tape deck dies, you also discover that you can not read these tapes on anything other than the machine which recorded them first.
How much good does it do you to backup something if the drive is dead?
Now if you want something you will have to a$k the local station for a copy that is open. I am sure that will be free as in beer
my real email address is
myname@jacobs.coxatwork.com
Where myname is my last name followed by my initials.
Thus myname@jacobs.cox@work.com is bogus.
Come on, give out you latest distribution! ;-)
With microsofts security background it may be easier just to crack the network interface and root the box. Then down load the image and run that way.
This would not qualify for B as a cd boot is required.
Of course if this was easy someone would build a worm and upgrade 10k boxes one evening
Parent post is very good. To expand on it a bit:
What if the government of China were to buy and use this technology? But not just on the ads.
Or the government of where you live now. Nothing really prevents them from editing the content of the site.
If you have a VAX (or better, an Alpha) and you are not going to do anything for profit on it. Get the hobbist version of openVMS and serve from that.
I am planning on doing this in the near future.
I also expect to spend lots of time laughing at skript kiddies !
I think this might be possible to do by changing the sync frequency or pattern that the screen is written.
I do not know how the current systems work, however a couple of things come to mind.
Use three/four colored lasers to raster scan the screen. Vary the sync(screen refresh) rates at random between 60 to 150 hz. This could be done and not mess up humans (if you coordinated the brightness correctly) however I am guessing that camcorders would get all sorts of artifacts as they try to syncronize.
This would be like taking a high shutter speed photo of a TV. You get to see where the beam is.
I hope this make sense. I could be completely wrong on this, BTW.
Drat, they found out. I thought you tested the system to confirm self recognition was not possible!
....
Ok, well get the patch done soon so I can reboot, ok?
We thought very strongly about buying one of these for our low end web server. The article on installing Linux on one of these was not yet out. Could not be sure about the video. and did not know if we could yank the modem or if it was part of the motherboard.
I have built a couple of PC's from scratch before, but I do not like that moment when you first power up the motherboard and find out if you got all of the voltage jumpers right.
My wife can install Linux on a box (even edited a book on the subject). But she would not think about putting a machine together from the ground up.
Compusa will put a PC together for you, but the one I priced out was going to be more expensive than the prebuilt ones in the stores.
We went with Fry's instead because we could do it without delay and hassel. (then spent an evening trying to figure out what was causing the random reboots, [mtbf 15 min] looks like the motherboard bios allows memory settings faster than it truely supports (but I could be wrong))
In AZ you have the option of getting a "lifetime" drivers license. Of course it is not really a "lifetime" license but I have had mine for several years now and it expires in 2019. When I am 60.
They have gone through three design changes since I got mine. So I have no bar code.
How can they force me to get scanned if my license has not expired?
Actually it is a bit of a lie,[by the state] I have to go in in a couple of years and get a new picture and pay a small fee if I want to continue to drive in Arizona. But the date on the card is 2019!
This was a silly law passed mostly to appeal to the stupid. When the people need to come in and get a new photo there will be no way for the aveRage user to realize they have reached the limit! Will be a big stink when they realize it is a problem.
Galileo pointed the telescope they had been using to cheat on the commodities market at the moon and the world was not the same.
Try this. Get a inexpensive $200 telescope and set it up where there will be some 8-year-old kids at night when there will be 1/4 moon. Tell them about Galileo and what people thought the moon was like.
Then let them look through it.
Lots of ooooohhhs!