This is awesome. Surely GM, the US's greatest engineering company can pull this off.
They've hardly had any recalls, except for the 2 million vehicles recalled earlier this year for seat belt problems, or the 800,000 for brakes, or these:
330,000 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 Series and the Yukon XL model, from the 2000 through 2001 model years, for potential overheating of fuel pump wires that could lead to engine stalling or crash and injuries.
142,000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Series and GMC Sierra pick-up trucks, 1999 through 2002 model years, and the 2500 Series pick-up trucks and the 3500 Series pick-up trucks from the 2001 through 2004 model years, with manual transmission. Apparent problems deal with the parking brake systems and have resulted in at least 26 crashes.
69,000 Buick Lacrosse and Buick Allure 2005 models were manufactured in Canada, apparently for US sale, with a bent clip that holds part of the brake system. The problem is, if the brake clip comes off, it can lead to loss of the brakes and a crash. Apparently this problem was discovered during an investigation of just such a crash.
39,000 Buick Rendezvous and Pontica Azteks from the 2004 model year have been recalled for stalling and failure to start because of a problem in the ignition relay system. This problem was also apparently discovered during another investigation of a crash.
22,000 Saturn L Series Wagons from the 2002 through 2004 model year lines have been recalled because some of the seat belt anchors are not up to Federal Safety Standards.
I'll be the first in line for the new Chevy Kevorkian 4x4. Sign me up now.
Go to home depot and buy a fish tape, and one of those 5 foot long flexible drill bits. Cut the holes for your outlet in the wall where you want it, use the flex bit to drill through the base of the wall into the level below. Stick your fishtape down it. If it lines up with another wall, or goes into an unfinished basement, you're golden.
Otherwise, you might end up having to cut access holes to pull the cable through. Cut them outlet size, and when you're done, just put a blank plate over it. I had to do this in 2 places in my house. My basement is finished, but I still managed to run wire to every room in the house.
Also, if your cable tv wires are not stapled down, you can use these as fish tape. I attached a bundle of RG6 and 2 cat6's to a couple of them, found the end in the basement, and just pulled the old wire out while pulling the new stuff in at the same time.
I successfully rewired 10 rooms and did away with the old crappy coax that was in the house. Some of them really took a lot of time. It just depends on how much you really wanna mess with it.
Note that this is illegal according to most building codes in the US. This is because it can allow a fire to spread through the home faster either because of increased oxygen supply or because it offers a pathway for hot gases to travel to other portions of the house.
I looked into doing this, and the building inspector said no way in hell would he approve it.
There was a Target store a few miles from me, in a pretty shady part of town. The store always had about 10-15 off-duty cops walking around in plainclothes for theft prevention. A couple of years ago, that store lost $11 MILLION DOLLARS to shoplifters, That's $30k per day on average. Of course, some if it most surely was the employees also. Someone mentioned in another thread that there was a study that showed 50% of theft is done by employees.
A friend of mine was a manager of another store closeby and told me the story.
I worked for a large ad agency that advertised for beer and liquor companies. We could drink anytime we wanted, and it was all free. No one ever overdid it and people were pretty responsible.
It all comes down to the fact that if you treat your employees like children, they will act like children. Everything was pretty lenient there, and short of one guy getting busted with kiddie porn, we didn't have any problems. Turns out he didn't get it from the net either (so the unfiltered net argument holds no merit), he took it himself.
It's some long skinny thing, and puts out something like 800 watts. The peltiers I was using only drew about 40 watts each, and there were 12 of them. So I had plenty of power to spare. I originally bought it to build a cable lighting system in my apartment using a bunch of 50W low voltage halogens, but I could never the sockets I needed to plug the lights into and cannibalized it for another project.:)
I built one of these back in 1999 with some peltiers I ordered direct from a manufacturer, some old heatsinks, case fans, and bent tin sheets.
It fit in the window, just like a regular ac unit, but it didn't stick out at all. Basically, it was just two layers of heatsinks with the peltiers sandwiched in between. The hot side faced out the window and fans forced air on them to cool them, and the cool side faced inwards, with fans along the lower edge, a sheet of tin across the middle to make the air flow more over the fins, and an opening on top where it blew into the room.
It worked well for a small room. I suppose if I had the money at the time, I could have purchased some massively power hungry units and been able to get some crazy cooling power out of it. I probably still have it in a box somewhere.
You did it all wrong. When you get a parking ticket, put it on the car behind you. 9 times out of 10, the person will just pay it without looking at it.
A co-worker of mine used to do this when living on the east coast, and it only backfired twice, out of about 20 of them.
If he's accepting incoming connections, he'll need a static NAT back to his PC from an outside IP. Someone on one end of the connection is going to need a static NAT.
I've gotten iChats vid conferencing to work without opening any ports on my side, and only having ports opened on the remote end. I had to initiate the connection though.
I work for a security firm that resells just about everything under the sun, and the two I like the best are McAfee's IntruShield and Juniper's IDP.
Both have a fairly intuitive interface, but I like Juniper's interface better. The juniper interface works like a firewall, where you create policies linked to attacks, and choose whether or not to allow them to pass. Updates come out weekly or whenever something major comes out. However, their interface is not web based, so you need to run a client on either a windows or linux machine. And, as far as I know, they still have not release their hardware accelerated version yet, so you are limited to monitoring something like a couple hundred megs/sec.
McAfee's solution requires a console box to control all of the devices. The interface is web based, and it feels bloated and slow because of all of the java they are using. However, once you get the hang of it, it's fairly easy to configure and use. The McAfee solution feels more like a purpose built device, and until Juniper releases the blade for the ISG2000 or the hardware accelerated device, the McAfee device is what I'm going to go with. McAfee has several different models, their smallest costs $15k and will monitor something like 200Mbit/sec of traffic. Their largest does 2 or 4 gig.
I've used stuff from ISS also, and it sucks to configure and get running. It's complicated, and feels bloated. I've played with just about everything else on the market, and nothing really compares to the McAfee and Juniper solutions.
However, Top Layer came in and did a presentation recently, and their stuff looks awesome. However, I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, and word on the street is that it's about 2-3 times more moola than anyone elses.
Sniff and figure out the MAC address of it, and then view the CAM or MAC table in your switches to find out what port it's in. Simple, and it works great.
I've owned one of each. I got rid of the DS after a week. The games for it were only so-so, it felt like a cheap piece of crap, and I didn't particularly like the screen or controls.
Personally, I think the PSP beats the DS on all counts. The DS seems like it's targetted more towards children, so if the results of that survey came from kids, I can see why they found what they did.
Get ahold of the command and control codes for some zombie army and create your own "outsourcing" company.:) Then, offer l33t kiddies some CC#'s to run it all for you. Send your employer a bill from a shell company in Nevada (which is owned by you anonymously). Profit.
McAfee or Trend. In a non-public review I read of about 50 different products, Trend came out on top. This was an internal review for a company with several tens of thousands of employees.
Microsoft admitted several years ago that if it wasn't for piracy, they wouldn't be where they are today. If someone figures out how to install OSX on commodity hardware, this opens the door for rampant piracy with the OS. That means that apple will gain marketshare, even though they won't get any revenue directly from it.
But, there's a trickledown effect. The more people that use it, the more likely companies are to buy Apple products, and more than likely, software developers will consider porting their products to it. And both of these help apple in the end.
I have a sony DMS-8400 petabyte storage array sitting in storage. They should buy it from me.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is to sell something like this. It seems like any of the companies that need it have the money to purchase it new. Argh!
Binary incompatibility shouldn't be much of a problem if they switch architectures. OSX supports something called Fat Binaries, where you can compile your app to run on multiple architectures and then ship it in a single package. True, it would require vendors to just check a box and recompile, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Additionally, I somehow doubt they will move to x86. The PPC architecture is open, and I would assume they are simply tapping Intel to fab some PPC970's for them. I've done assembly on both architectures, and I think the PPC is vastly superior. That's my personal preference, however, many others feel the same way. Why would they switch to something that is built upon 30 year old technology?
What do they expect when the price of a piece of software is an entire yearly salary for someone in the countries that they cite?
What I don't understand is why companies that are so concerned with their software being pirated don't go and develop some sort of crazy crypto scheme to deal with authorization/licensing. When you have a piece of software that you sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars, developing software crypto or providing crypto usb dongles might actually be worth the money. However, MS wouldn't be where they are today if it wasn't for piracy. They have a 90%+ market share, but according to the article, 1/3 of that is pirated. Assuming a good portion of those people can't afford to pay for it (students, third world countries, etc.), that would leave significantly less share for them.
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This is awesome. Surely GM, the US's greatest engineering company can pull this off.
They've hardly had any recalls, except for the 2 million vehicles recalled earlier this year for seat belt problems, or the 800,000 for brakes, or these:
330,000 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 Series and the Yukon XL model, from the 2000 through 2001 model years, for potential overheating of fuel pump wires that could lead to engine stalling or crash and injuries.
142,000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Series and GMC Sierra pick-up trucks, 1999 through 2002 model years, and the 2500 Series pick-up trucks and the 3500 Series pick-up trucks from the 2001 through 2004 model years, with manual transmission. Apparent problems deal with the parking brake systems and have resulted in at least 26 crashes.
69,000 Buick Lacrosse and Buick Allure 2005 models were manufactured in Canada, apparently for US sale, with a bent clip that holds part of the brake system. The problem is, if the brake clip comes off, it can lead to loss of the brakes and a crash. Apparently this problem was discovered during an investigation of just such a crash.
39,000 Buick Rendezvous and Pontica Azteks from the 2004 model year have been recalled for stalling and failure to start because of a problem in the ignition relay system. This problem was also apparently discovered during another investigation of a crash.
22,000 Saturn L Series Wagons from the 2002 through 2004 model year lines have been recalled because some of the seat belt anchors are not up to Federal Safety Standards.
I'll be the first in line for the new Chevy Kevorkian 4x4. Sign me up now.
I haven't watched them since the early 90's, it's just a big long annoying commercial.
Go to home depot and buy a fish tape, and one of those 5 foot long flexible drill bits. Cut the holes for your outlet in the wall where you want it, use the flex bit to drill through the base of the wall into the level below. Stick your fishtape down it. If it lines up with another wall, or goes into an unfinished basement, you're golden.
Otherwise, you might end up having to cut access holes to pull the cable through. Cut them outlet size, and when you're done, just put a blank plate over it. I had to do this in 2 places in my house. My basement is finished, but I still managed to run wire to every room in the house.
Also, if your cable tv wires are not stapled down, you can use these as fish tape. I attached a bundle of RG6 and 2 cat6's to a couple of them, found the end in the basement, and just pulled the old wire out while pulling the new stuff in at the same time.
I successfully rewired 10 rooms and did away with the old crappy coax that was in the house. Some of them really took a lot of time. It just depends on how much you really wanna mess with it.
Note that this is illegal according to most building codes in the US. This is because it can allow a fire to spread through the home faster either because of increased oxygen supply or because it offers a pathway for hot gases to travel to other portions of the house.
I looked into doing this, and the building inspector said no way in hell would he approve it.
There was a Target store a few miles from me, in a pretty shady part of town. The store always had about 10-15 off-duty cops walking around in plainclothes for theft prevention. A couple of years ago, that store lost $11 MILLION DOLLARS to shoplifters, That's $30k per day on average. Of course, some if it most surely was the employees also. Someone mentioned in another thread that there was a study that showed 50% of theft is done by employees.
A friend of mine was a manager of another store closeby and told me the story.
I worked for a large ad agency that advertised for beer and liquor companies. We could drink anytime we wanted, and it was all free. No one ever overdid it and people were pretty responsible.
It all comes down to the fact that if you treat your employees like children, they will act like children. Everything was pretty lenient there, and short of one guy getting busted with kiddie porn, we didn't have any problems. Turns out he didn't get it from the net either (so the unfiltered net argument holds no merit), he took it himself.
In your xterm as root, run fc-cache. Exit out of root, run fc-list to verify that fonts are listed. Start Inkscape. Works fine.
Actually, I bought a power supply from here:
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http://www.ax-man.com/
It's some long skinny thing, and puts out something like 800 watts. The peltiers I was using only drew about 40 watts each, and there were 12 of them. So I had plenty of power to spare. I originally bought it to build a cable lighting system in my apartment using a bunch of 50W low voltage halogens, but I could never the sockets I needed to plug the lights into and cannibalized it for another project.
It's viruses. It would only be virii if the latin root was virius, which it is not.
I built one of these back in 1999 with some peltiers I ordered direct from a manufacturer, some old heatsinks, case fans, and bent tin sheets.
It fit in the window, just like a regular ac unit, but it didn't stick out at all. Basically, it was just two layers of heatsinks with the peltiers sandwiched in between. The hot side faced out the window and fans forced air on them to cool them, and the cool side faced inwards, with fans along the lower edge, a sheet of tin across the middle to make the air flow more over the fins, and an opening on top where it blew into the room.
It worked well for a small room. I suppose if I had the money at the time, I could have purchased some massively power hungry units and been able to get some crazy cooling power out of it. I probably still have it in a box somewhere.
You did it all wrong. When you get a parking ticket, put it on the car behind you. 9 times out of 10, the person will just pay it without looking at it.
A co-worker of mine used to do this when living on the east coast, and it only backfired twice, out of about 20 of them.
If he's accepting incoming connections, he'll need a static NAT back to his PC from an outside IP. Someone on one end of the connection is going to need a static NAT.
I've gotten iChats vid conferencing to work without opening any ports on my side, and only having ports opened on the remote end. I had to initiate the connection though.
I work for a security firm that resells just about everything under the sun, and the two I like the best are McAfee's IntruShield and Juniper's IDP.
Both have a fairly intuitive interface, but I like Juniper's interface better. The juniper interface works like a firewall, where you create policies linked to attacks, and choose whether or not to allow them to pass. Updates come out weekly or whenever something major comes out. However, their interface is not web based, so you need to run a client on either a windows or linux machine. And, as far as I know, they still have not release their hardware accelerated version yet, so you are limited to monitoring something like a couple hundred megs/sec.
McAfee's solution requires a console box to control all of the devices. The interface is web based, and it feels bloated and slow because of all of the java they are using. However, once you get the hang of it, it's fairly easy to configure and use. The McAfee solution feels more like a purpose built device, and until Juniper releases the blade for the ISG2000 or the hardware accelerated device, the McAfee device is what I'm going to go with. McAfee has several different models, their smallest costs $15k and will monitor something like 200Mbit/sec of traffic. Their largest does 2 or 4 gig.
I've used stuff from ISS also, and it sucks to configure and get running. It's complicated, and feels bloated. I've played with just about everything else on the market, and nothing really compares to the McAfee and Juniper solutions.
However, Top Layer came in and did a presentation recently, and their stuff looks awesome. However, I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, and word on the street is that it's about 2-3 times more moola than anyone elses.
Sniff and figure out the MAC address of it, and then view the CAM or MAC table in your switches to find out what port it's in. Simple, and it works great.
I've owned one of each. I got rid of the DS after a week. The games for it were only so-so, it felt like a cheap piece of crap, and I didn't particularly like the screen or controls.
Personally, I think the PSP beats the DS on all counts. The DS seems like it's targetted more towards children, so if the results of that survey came from kids, I can see why they found what they did.
Get ahold of the command and control codes for some zombie army and create your own "outsourcing" company. :) Then, offer l33t kiddies some CC#'s to run it all for you. Send your employer a bill from a shell company in Nevada (which is owned by you anonymously). Profit.
McAfee or Trend. In a non-public review I read of about 50 different products, Trend came out on top. This was an internal review for a company with several tens of thousands of employees.
:)
Or, switch everyone off windows.
Did anyone ask you for your two farthings? I think not.
.0025 hogshead of beer before I drive 1600 furlongs to my parents house to stay for the next .5 fortnight.
Now leave me alone so I can go drink my
Microsoft admitted several years ago that if it wasn't for piracy, they wouldn't be where they are today. If someone figures out how to install OSX on commodity hardware, this opens the door for rampant piracy with the OS. That means that apple will gain marketshare, even though they won't get any revenue directly from it.
But, there's a trickledown effect. The more people that use it, the more likely companies are to buy Apple products, and more than likely, software developers will consider porting their products to it. And both of these help apple in the end.
I don't know what your boss has been smoking, but it is blatantly obvious that he has smoked it all.
I have a sony DMS-8400 petabyte storage array sitting in storage. They should buy it from me.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is to sell something like this. It seems like any of the companies that need it have the money to purchase it new. Argh!
I shit you not, I just got a 503 when trying to reply to another post in this article.
Damn you DeBeers!!
Binary incompatibility shouldn't be much of a problem if they switch architectures. OSX supports something called Fat Binaries, where you can compile your app to run on multiple architectures and then ship it in a single package. True, it would require vendors to just check a box and recompile, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Additionally, I somehow doubt they will move to x86. The PPC architecture is open, and I would assume they are simply tapping Intel to fab some PPC970's for them. I've done assembly on both architectures, and I think the PPC is vastly superior. That's my personal preference, however, many others feel the same way. Why would they switch to something that is built upon 30 year old technology?
Getting made fun of on Slashdot because you're a LAMER standing in line IN COSTUME for a movie .
I would think most slashdotters would make fun of the guy OUT of costume.
What do they expect when the price of a piece of software is an entire yearly salary for someone in the countries that they cite?
What I don't understand is why companies that are so concerned with their software being pirated don't go and develop some sort of crazy crypto scheme to deal with authorization/licensing. When you have a piece of software that you sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars, developing software crypto or providing crypto usb dongles might actually be worth the money. However, MS wouldn't be where they are today if it wasn't for piracy. They have a 90%+ market share, but according to the article, 1/3 of that is pirated. Assuming a good portion of those people can't afford to pay for it (students, third world countries, etc.), that would leave significantly less share for them.