..magnetic field there would have to be enormous, which is not easy to do. Using the one that comes with the planet, could be touchy, as side effects could be unexpectedly bad.
Inducing a charge to the particles to have them be more attractive to an oppositely charged collector system perhaps. What kind of storm can one engineer that high up?
Out military does have high power lasers now, that can track fast moving small objects, and vaporize them. Lots of target practice.
Problem remains, space is full of dust and particles, so shielding to absorb or deflect those bits is the method used in Sci-Fi thought experiments on the subject.
If you haven't evaluated BixData http://bixdata.com/ yet? You're missing out. No nag/reg required, free use for less than 30 hosts.
Does not include kitchen sink. Only the next generation advanced monitoring system that can handle phyisical and virtual as well as the hypervisors! VMware friendly.
"BixData is profoundly different. It took science fiction to provide the metaphor. Bix is Borg - 'an inter-connected collective' (self-organizing p2p) that 'assimilates' new life forms (cross-platform virtual machine), functions with a single hive-mind (n-cube datastore) and adapts through self-learning (cybernetic feedback loop) - all in pursuit of perfection. Resistance is Futile."
This is the next generation monitoring solution. Self-installing,organizing,adjusting,correcting,tuning, P2P, 3D, n-cube OLAP, scalable,...
It's like something they'd have on StarTrek. A huge advancement in management science. I had a chance to use it a while ago, and I can only say you have to try it to experience the 'awesome'. Hardly compares to the current day popular systems people are still struggling with.
There's even a free version community edition for 30 hosts.. no registration required either, and they love critical feedback. So don't forget to give them some.
I'm not affiliated with BixData, just love the efficiency and thoughtfulness.
When these guys ramp up, there may be a great quick way of testing for any of these nasty flu variants. They have a great test for the A/H5N1 Avian Flu right now. 100% sensitivity and specificity, which means no false positives. There's nothing else like this.. cool technology and FDA approved.
Depending on the type of load each company has throughout the day/night, there are usually high and lows in the overall system usage which can be used to save some power apart from simply going virtual.
VMware has cool management tools for this and the shutting down of systems is managed by Distributed Power Management (DPM). http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/drs.html Has more details.
So not only can you save power with shutting down servers, but the HVAC systems get their load reduced as while the servers are off. Mind you this only works well (automagically) with newer systems that support Wake on Lan (WoL).
Otherwise have your NOC monkeys take care of it instead of sleeping:)
Like the hand gestures in minority report, why not use a theremin type interface for a mouse? You'd control your cursor just by moving your finger/hand through an imaginary grid in the air.
You can see it now, a story of intense technical concentration and tragedy. He was preoccupied by an intriguing database problem while his laptop running Vista was crashing....and was never seen or heard from again.
Mauled by a huge tanker? Chomped on by great white sharks? Or sunk from hitting some sharp rocks at the bottom.. Dr. Who where are you?
I was a Descent I master (according to my ladder kills at the time), first truly 3D 360 degree capable game, being able to pivot about any of the 3 axis'. Hard game to play for most, so it wasn't popular with the uncoordinated. Those that 'got it' were top guns, and the elite were truly amazing pilots. Some just playing with a keyboard. I was a mouser. The rest had 16 button programmable joysticks with throttle levers. Just like a jet.
I even managed to work for Outrage Entertainment (former Parallax) for a while, working on Descent 3 Demo 1, which could have used more time to get finished. Those were the days.
The crazy level editors that came, the amazing levels that were made, impossible rooms created.
Also no waiting for players to start, you join when you're ready, and fly like your life depended on it. No other game had that option at the time.
Also, one of the first games to be played over the internet using dialup slip/ppp accounts, and IHHD [2-way] sofware, (less known MILK [3-way]) and later replaced by Kali and Kahn whose revolution started getting a networking stack into new games. Pretty soon there was no need for any hacks or helper apps to play online. Then companies started their own portals and private game trackers. Sigh Battle.net. No more calling people direct for a nice fast game.
Not many other games bring people together like these did, if any.
Ironicaly there is a network services company by the same name, Blackbox. Even further, the irony is that they specialize in datacenter buildout. Those are the guys in black that come in and erect your racks, hook up power, cooling, and hook up the static crossconnects.
It seems there's a bit much of the "fine" syndrome. Can't we play nice? Guess not, because one side said Fine, and the other FINE, and we end up with IceWeasel? WTF?
There's so much respect in the air..
How about people realizing the problem and finding a solution that will keep the name from changing yet again. Or just leave it out in non-free and have a meta package take care of it..
Debian could also switch to Kmeleon as it's less memory hungry.
Instead of virtualizing the whole OS, just virtualize their work application, if possible. http://www.rpath.com/corp/
People become more efficient, get a lot more work done, and can't screw around on the net playing with other un-needed features of the OS that inherently comes with a full OS install.
For now, the Tesla sports car is a technology showcase, and an incremental bump in efficiency, or so they claim with their 250mile range and 3.5hr charge time. Someone mentioned why build it? Because it's suicide to build anything else first for the company.. it needs brand recognition and a cash infusion for their "cool, new" prototype, and guess what, people here in the silicon valley will buy it, because it's better than the TZero and can actually take you places and beat the 150mile range of the Civic GX for example (which runs on CNG). Don't get me started on CNG (compressed natural gas).. it's been around for ages, Europeans have been modding their cars with systems like Bedini and have dual gasoline/CNG. I had one myself.. which doubles your range.. I had something like 600-700miles on both tanks. Why isn't this bigger in the US? Ask your favorite car company and their politicians.
Now for the real solution.. the only way we will get to transportation heaven is to cascade a multitude of technologies and efficient energy conversions in such a way that the efficiency for the leftover byproducts keeps the entire system conversion cycle running many times over. This is something along the lines of burning hydrogen which creates heat and water, where the heat is used, and the water is used again to make more hydrogen. Simple example with diminishing returns, but imagine a chain of conversion reactions 10-20 elements deep. Much better. Now put together high efficiency motors, channel all their heat output to a boiler for steam which spins a Tesla Turbine, and round and round we go.
What about Klein/HHO/Brown Gas? Aka Aquygen. This gas, made from plain water exhibits amazing properties. Originally used by welders for cutting the hardest metals in seconds, this gas is cheap to produce and can be made so fast, that a car could run with a generator making the gas on demand. Combine that with electric and you have a car that runs on water. Perfect for Seattle with some built in rain collectors. Wanna fill up on a hot day? Get a carwash. Or find a deep enough puddle. Fuel stations could be as simple as large dips in a driveway filled with water you drive through. How's that for convenience.
Single fuel/cycle technologies won't survive as none are effienient enough. Technology integrators who figure out the right sequence of the cascading fuel/energy conversions will make interstellar travel possible. The rest just need to fill in the gaps and work on efficient matter and energy conversion.
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..magnetic field there would have to be enormous, which is not easy to do. Using the one that comes with the planet, could be touchy, as side effects could be unexpectedly bad.
Inducing a charge to the particles to have them be more attractive to an oppositely charged collector system perhaps. What kind of storm can one engineer that high up?
Out military does have high power lasers now, that can track fast moving small objects, and vaporize them. Lots of target practice.
Problem remains, space is full of dust and particles, so shielding to absorb or deflect those bits is the method used in Sci-Fi thought experiments on the subject.
.. a tractor beam, and depending on how wide the beam is, in 24 hrs, an entire strip across the sky could be debris free.
Could also be a national attraction watching things sparkle and burn up as it's doing re-entry.
Leverage the power of virtualization to run your legacy platform for now, and have time to come up with other solutions.
If you haven't evaluated BixData http://bixdata.com/ yet? You're missing out. No nag/reg required, free use for less than 30 hosts.
Does not include kitchen sink. Only the next generation advanced monitoring system that can handle phyisical and virtual as well as the hypervisors! VMware friendly.
On their science page http://www.bixdata.com/science, they say Bix is Borg. And they're not kidding.
"BixData is profoundly different. It took science fiction to provide the metaphor. Bix is Borg - 'an inter-connected collective' (self-organizing p2p) that 'assimilates' new life forms (cross-platform virtual machine), functions with a single hive-mind (n-cube datastore) and adapts through self-learning (cybernetic feedback loop) - all in pursuit of perfection. Resistance is Futile."
Just... Wow.
Haven't evaluated BixData http://bixdata.com/ ? See my previous post..
I see you haven't evaluated BixData http://bixdata.com/.. see my other comment above.
Yes, there is a solution to this problem. BixData. http://www.bixdata.com/
This is the next generation monitoring solution. Self-installing,organizing,adjusting,correcting,tuning, P2P, 3D, n-cube OLAP, scalable, ...
It's like something they'd have on StarTrek. A huge advancement in management science. I had a chance to use it a while ago, and I can only say you have to try it to experience the 'awesome'. Hardly compares to the current day popular systems people are still struggling with.
There's even a free version community edition for 30 hosts.. no registration required either, and they love critical feedback. So don't forget to give them some.
I'm not affiliated with BixData, just love the efficiency and thoughtfulness.
Please familiarize yourself with the difference between hardware fault tolerance and software fault tolerance.
Like everyone else pointed out, it's a VM in lockstep with a 'shadow' VM. This is not just 'continuous VMotion'.
If something happens to the VM, the shadow VM goes live instantly (you don't notice a thing if you're doing something on the VM).
Right after that, the system starts bringing up another shadow VM on another host to regain full FT protection.
This can be network intensive, depending on the VM load, and currently only works with 1 vCPU per VM. Think 1-2 FT VMs per ESX host + shadow VMs.
You'll need recent CPUs that support FT and have an VMware HA / DRS Cluster set up.
So if you've got it, use it wisely. It's very cool.
When these guys ramp up, there may be a great quick way of testing for any of these nasty flu variants.
They have a great test for the A/H5N1 Avian Flu right now. 100% sensitivity and specificity, which means no false positives. There's nothing else like this.. cool technology and FDA approved.
Since these guys have the best Avian Flu test, they might be able to make a variant for this one too..
Amazing biotech on this test btw..
Depending on the type of load each company has throughout the day/night, there are usually high and lows in the overall system usage which can be used to save some power apart from simply going virtual.
:)
VMware has cool management tools for this and the shutting down of systems is managed by Distributed Power Management (DPM). http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/drs.html Has more details.
So not only can you save power with shutting down servers, but the HVAC systems get their load reduced as while the servers are off. Mind you this only works well (automagically) with newer systems that support Wake on Lan (WoL).
Otherwise have your NOC monkeys take care of it instead of sleeping
Like the hand gestures in minority report, why not use a theremin type interface for a mouse? You'd control your cursor just by moving your finger/hand through an imaginary grid in the air.
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/Iperf/
Very configurable, and if u want GUI or network tuning.. read the FAQ, they give suggestions.
You can see it now, a story of intense technical concentration and tragedy. He was preoccupied by an intriguing database problem while his laptop running Vista was crashing.. ..and was never seen or heard from again.
Mauled by a huge tanker? Chomped on by great white sharks? Or sunk from hitting some sharp rocks at the bottom.. Dr. Who where are you?
Time for some hound dolphins.
Oh yeah, remember D.E.S.C.E.N.T. ? Ever been to #Descent on EFnet ?
I was there.
Good times. (see my other post a lil later)
Right on, mod parent up.
I was a Descent I master (according to my ladder kills at the time), first truly 3D 360 degree capable game, being able to pivot about any of the 3 axis'. Hard game to play for most, so it wasn't popular with the uncoordinated. Those that 'got it' were top guns, and the elite were truly amazing pilots. Some just playing with a keyboard. I was a mouser. The rest had 16 button programmable joysticks with throttle levers. Just like a jet.
I even managed to work for Outrage Entertainment (former Parallax) for a while, working on Descent 3 Demo 1, which could have used more time to get finished. Those were the days.
The crazy level editors that came, the amazing levels that were made, impossible rooms created.
Also no waiting for players to start, you join when you're ready, and fly like your life depended on it. No other game had that option at the time.
Also, one of the first games to be played over the internet using dialup slip/ppp accounts, and IHHD [2-way] sofware, (less known MILK [3-way]) and later replaced by Kali and Kahn whose revolution started getting a networking stack into new games. Pretty soon there was no need for any hacks or helper apps to play online. Then companies started their own portals and private game trackers. Sigh Battle.net. No more calling people direct for a nice fast game.
Not many other games bring people together like these did, if any.
Ironicaly there is a network services company by the same name, Blackbox. Even further, the irony is that they specialize in datacenter buildout. Those are the guys in black that come in and erect your racks, hook up power, cooling, and hook up the static crossconnects.
Unless they're in on it.
Yes, I mean another Gecko based browser. You're correct as Kmeleon is win32 only.
It seems there's a bit much of the "fine" syndrome. Can't we play nice? Guess not, because one side said Fine, and the other FINE, and we end up with IceWeasel? WTF?
There's so much respect in the air..
How about people realizing the problem and finding a solution that will keep the name from changing yet again. Or just leave it out in non-free and have a meta package take care of it..
Debian could also switch to Kmeleon as it's less memory hungry.
Instead of virtualizing the whole OS, just virtualize their work application, if possible.
http://www.rpath.com/corp/
People become more efficient, get a lot more work done, and can't screw around on the net playing with other un-needed features of the OS that inherently comes with a full OS install.
For now, the Tesla sports car is a technology showcase, and an incremental bump in efficiency, or so they claim with their 250mile range and 3.5hr charge time.
Someone mentioned why build it? Because it's suicide to build anything else first for the company.. it needs brand recognition and a cash infusion for their "cool, new" prototype, and guess what, people here in the silicon valley will buy it, because it's better than the TZero and can actually take you places and beat the 150mile range of the Civic GX for example (which runs on CNG). Don't get me started on CNG (compressed natural gas).. it's been around for ages, Europeans have been modding their cars with systems like Bedini and have dual gasoline/CNG. I had one myself.. which doubles your range.. I had something like 600-700miles on both tanks.
Why isn't this bigger in the US? Ask your favorite car company and their politicians.
Now for the real solution.. the only way we will get to transportation heaven is to cascade a multitude of technologies and efficient energy conversions in such a way that the efficiency for the leftover byproducts keeps the entire system conversion cycle running many times over.
This is something along the lines of burning hydrogen which creates heat and water, where the heat is used, and the water is used again to make more hydrogen. Simple example with diminishing returns, but imagine a chain of conversion reactions 10-20 elements deep. Much better. Now put together high efficiency motors, channel all their heat output to a boiler for steam which spins a Tesla Turbine, and round and round we go.
What about Klein/HHO/Brown Gas? Aka Aquygen. This gas, made from plain water exhibits amazing properties. Originally used by welders for cutting the hardest metals in seconds, this gas is cheap to produce and can be made so fast, that a car could run with a generator making the gas on demand.
Combine that with electric and you have a car that runs on water. Perfect for Seattle with some built in rain collectors. Wanna fill up on a hot day? Get a carwash. Or find a deep enough puddle. Fuel stations could be as simple as large dips in a driveway filled with water you drive through. How's that for convenience.
Single fuel/cycle technologies won't survive as none are effienient enough. Technology integrators who figure out the right sequence of the cascading fuel/energy conversions will make interstellar travel possible. The rest just need to fill in the gaps and work on efficient matter and energy conversion.
Let's hope in our lifetime...
Why not use OO.o Base instead?
Or even 4th Dimension? 4D. Does anyone still use 4D? Anyone want a job doing 4D work?
let me know
I'm interested in something like this as well, let me know what's missing. I'm not following you on the editable data-grid control.
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