they were designed under the electoral court's orders by universities and private companies. after the design was ready, the manufacturing was outsorced to several comapnies, one of them was procomp, that later was purchased by diebold.
diebold doesn't own the designs or the copyright to the software. the electoral court does. so if diebold is thinking about selling similar machines in US, they'll have to pay our govt. royalties.
talked like one of those german-descendant freaks who want independence. now, let's destroy your arguments, shal we ?
So if the power lines go straight to Sao Paulo, how is Sao Paulo's grid connected to Parana's? You contradict yourself here.
No, I do not.
Itaipu's lines are not the only ones from Parana to Sao Paulo.
Please do not distort my arguments for your own purposes.
yes, you do contradict yourself. if the power grids are connected, it means that Sao paulo can buy energy from parana when it needs it, but THE REVERSE IS ALSO TRUE, parana can buy power from sao paulo too, or from rio de janeiro, or bahia or anywhere where a surplus exists.
Also, why should Sao Paulo get any money from Parana? The Brazil and Paraguay own the dam, not the state of Parana.
Because (1) it is in the state of Parana, (2) it uses Parana's (and Paraguay's) river resources and (3) Parana actually lost the 7 Quedas touristic attraction (it was submerged by the dam's water).
BTW Brazil is a Federative republic, I don't remember Parana being a vassal state of Sao Paulo.
(1) itaipu pays royalties to the cities covered by the lake. if you wanted more from it, why didn't the state of parana ponied up to contribute for the construction ? (2) the river is not parana's. it's brasilian/paraguayan. natural resources (including rivers and lakes) are owned by the federal government. (3) and got a huge lake in return. build some marinas there and charge rich people to put yatches there
BTW, brasil is a federative republic in name only. read the constitution, its a centralized nation with very little autonomy for the states. proof of the pudding: even supposedly "state taxes" like ICMS are actually colected by the federal reserve, then distributed to the states according to the state's size/budget and political alegiance of the state's governor/state assembly.
yeah, i know, it's demagogic and hypocritical, but it's politics. get used to it or get a german passport and GTFO.
most homes here have bi-phase installations. this prevents things like lights dimming everytime the refrigerator motor starts, for example. it could be the case that his UPS was in one phase and the CFLs on another. yesterday's snafu started with a brown out that afected one, maybe two of the tri-phase system. up until everything went out for good, one of the phases was at full voltage at my place too. enough to have most of my bulbs and my TV working.
I live in sao paulo too (actually, tanto andré, a neighboring town). this brown out was interesting, the lights started to flicker while I was watching TV, so I unplugged it quickly, the CFL in the room couldn't start in full, only the terminals were orange. it stayed this way on both phases. a few minutes later, one of the phases returned almost in full, with some fluctuations. enough to turn on most lamps and the TV, while the other phase in my apartment remained with very low voltage. close to 11:00PM both phases were out for good (and sudenly) and only returned after 1:30 AM.
IANA electrical engineer, but it looks to me one or two phases on the power grid had an enourmos current leakage that caused a significant voltage drop on those, leaving only one phase with full voltage, the final blackout being caused by the National Operator of the Electrical System (a govt. body) to shut down this part of the grid for the repair works.
I live in brasil, never heard anything about cracker being responsible for the blackouts in espirito santo in 2007. to tell the truth, the first time i heard about it was on the web a few days ago, reading blog posts about the 60min report.
the minister of energy and the national system operator (the office that controls our power grid) already denied the "information" from the 60min show.
IMHO, it's just another piece of typical american fear-mongering, probably aimed at selling some incredibly expensive, over-complicated and completelly unecessary "technology" to the government.
most of the exocets the argentinians had were naval versions designed to be lanched from ships. since they were keeping their ships away from the combat zone after a british sub sunk ARA general belgrano.
after that they were left with the very few aircraft lanuched units they had. in the end, 3 hit. one in the HMS sheffield, two on MV atlantic conveyor. sheffild sunk near the exclusion zone. atlantic conveyor lost the cargo and was towed back to england, then scuttled bacuase the damages were so extensive it'd be cheaper to build another ship thank repair her.
to tell the truth, the argentinians were ONE exocet away from winning the war. if they had scored one fatal hit against HMS invincible, that would have given them the war and the malvinas islands. unfortunatelly, our "hermanos" only had one left. the super etendards atacked the invincible with support of four A4 skyhawks, but the exocet only caused superficial damage, and the bombs from the skyhawks missed.
thus the british kept their islands.
disclaimer: i'm brasilian, was alive during the war and living in rio grande do sul, a brasilian state that shares a large border with argentina.
because in 2009 CPU power and memory are cheaper than dirt. or didn't you notice we're discussing a 100-core CPU ?
with capacities like that, even firing MS word to edit a plain text file, instead of notepad, is not too costly anymore... and no, i won't apologize, say i was kidding or any other shenanigans. i really mean it.
you know, just trick the good ol'.DEB package format to include several archs, then let to dpkg decide wich binaries to extract.
is not that in linux the binaries are one big blob with binaries, libs, images, videos, heplfiles, etc. all ditributed in as a single "file" which is actualy a directory with metadata that the finder hides as being a "program file".
being able to copy a binary ELF from one box to another doesn't guarantee it'll work, specially if it's GUI apps that may require other support files, so fat binaries in linux would be simply a useless gimmick. either distribute fat.DEBs, or just do the Right Thing(tm): distribute the source.
well, I learned more about history from Civ IV's civilopedia then in grade school. i dont't know if this speaks more about the quality of the game, os the complete disregard the authorities in my country have for education.
MS office isn't compatible with _ITSELF_ on the formating issue.
problem with MS office is, it relies on information from the printer driver to format documents. test it this way, install 2 printers on your system, say one HP the other a xerox, set the default printer to HP, format your documents on ms word, note where page breaks are, save the doccument and exit office.
change the default printer to xerox, open your document again. check the page breaks, margins, etc.
are they different ? yes ? congratulations, you'll have to reformat everything.
i got bitten in the ass several times before by this annoying "feature". then i learned to print everything as PDF first when there was the possibility of printing in anything other than my own printer.
I used linux with opie on an ipaq for years, the only reason i replaced it was because the battery wasn't lasting as long as it once was, and a new semi-smart phone would be much cheaper.
I loved it, it beated winCE hands down.
i even translated the thing to pt_br and sent back the translation to the project.
and it's not like they don't have the resources in place already. my company has an agreement with MS that allowed me to purchase - legaly - a copy of office 2007 enterprise for R$ 26.00 ( that's $ 15.00 american bucks), download an instalable.EXE and run it. it's now working under wine on my personal notebook.
at the company, for business use, we have access to ALL microsoft software products free. all available for download as instalable.MSI,.EXE or burnable.ISO
this handling fees, this is plain old greed IMHO.
one more way that shows how apple handles this much better. you can buy snow leopard upgrade for a few bucks, then install it on top of tiger. tiger users are not eligible for the cheap upgrade, only leopard users are. but apple didn't put any verification on the upgrade. they just trust tiger users will do the right thing and buy the full package. wanna bet it's paying off ?
a 3d model can't capture particle effects, translucent creations such as ghosts and anything non-solid to tell the truth (think fire and water). plus, the posters creations are movies, not stactic models. which means, he needs the files.
tape might be a durable medium, but is still requires a compatible drive. even if you supply the drive, the bus/port/connector might not be available in the future, also electronics degrade over time (specially the ones that store firmware in flash memory and/or contain capacitors). so even if you sell your work with: a) computer; b) operating system and software; c) drive; d) tapes. there's no guarantee.
the same is true for all of the media mentioned by parent.
only solution guaranteed to last centuries ?
*** PAPER AND INK ***
yes, your heard me. ink and paper. well stored it can last thousands of years. you have to print your files as a very compact, machine readable data matrix, store it along with human readable books explaining the technology neccessary to read the print-outs, including schematics, source code, etc. no need to mention that the file formats and software need to be open source, or you need a license to the code.
this way future generations will have everything neccessary to put toghether a hardware/software combination capable of reading the data matrices, convert the bits to files and display the result.
this could be an art project on itself, since you can embed paterns and colors on the data matrices. check wikipedia page for "QR codes" to see examples of data matrices with embeded art. very cool stuff.
when we hang the last burocrat with the intestines of the last congressman.
sorry for the shocking opening statement, but the matter of fact is that as a whole, the western societies are slowly forgeting who actually wields the power and giving carreer politicians and burocrats on the government too much leeway. it's time to take it back and let those people know where the limits are.
left unchecked, these government institutions won't stop untill we're back in the dark ages, withe high taxation, no representation and no freedom at all.
I'm now using EXT4 on my kubuntu laptop (a stop-gap waiting for a combination of latest ATI drivers + linux 2.6.31 + debian lenny to play along with each other).
EXT4 is wickedly fast, if compared with EXT3, and it looks stable. no data-loss or corruption, even with forced cold reboots (damn you to hell ATI !!! ). but ever since I got burned by reiserfs and the crappy fsck tools of the time, i'm weary of trying anything that doesn't begin with "EXT".
so, here's the question: how stable, data-loss proof is btrfs right now ? are the user space tools reliable if I need to check, recover, rebuild a FS ?
my particion layout is:
30 GB: / - OS and applications 5 GB: swap space 285 GB:/home - with all my personal files.
I can afford to lose/, it'll be a pain to reinstall everything, but i can survive that. but definetly can't afford losing/home/bento/Misc/XXX... having the movies localy beats redtube hands down...
dumbass... TFA is _specifficaly_ refering to the kernel. if people want to use "linux kernel" to refer to linus' piece of code they're free to do so, just like some people call MS's operating system "microsoft windows", so just shut the fuck up.
last time I've seen a new laptop that DID have a serial port was three years ago when I got this latitude D610 that i use to this day at work.
since we have to manage a whole bunch of unix boxes here, the day management decides to replace these crappy old dells, i hope they're clever enough to buy a couple of USB->serial adapters, because i doubt they'd be able to find new notebooks with RS232 ports built-in.
as for desktops, many new motherboards don't have them anymore. this spells doom to RS232 on consumer class PCs, so for the future me and my kind (unix sysadmins) will be left with USB adapters for old boxes and network connectivity for servers with lights-out cards. thankfully all new unix hardware built on the last few years have them.
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they were designed under the electoral court's orders by universities and private companies. after the design was ready, the manufacturing was outsorced to several comapnies, one of them was procomp, that later was purchased by diebold.
diebold doesn't own the designs or the copyright to the software. the electoral court does. so if diebold is thinking about selling similar machines in US, they'll have to pay our govt. royalties.
brasil isn't latin america, duffus. barsil is brasil. plain and simple.
our democracy is a lot more solid than our neighbor's.
here's an onion to hang on your belt, granpa.
now, on a more serious note, isn't gopher a faster protocol than HTTP ? could we just use it to transport html, pictures, etc ?
talked like one of those german-descendant freaks who want independence. now, let's destroy your arguments, shal we ?
So if the power lines go straight to Sao Paulo, how is Sao Paulo's grid connected to Parana's? You contradict yourself here.
No, I do not.
Itaipu's lines are not the only ones from Parana to Sao Paulo.
Please do not distort my arguments for your own purposes.
yes, you do contradict yourself. if the power grids are connected, it means that Sao paulo can buy energy from parana when it needs it, but THE REVERSE IS ALSO TRUE, parana can buy power from sao paulo too, or from rio de janeiro, or bahia or anywhere where a surplus exists.
Also, why should Sao Paulo get any money from Parana? The Brazil and Paraguay own the dam, not the state of Parana.
Because (1) it is in the state of Parana, (2) it uses Parana's (and Paraguay's) river resources and (3) Parana actually lost the 7 Quedas touristic attraction (it was submerged by the dam's water).
BTW Brazil is a Federative republic, I don't remember Parana being a vassal state of Sao Paulo.
(1) itaipu pays royalties to the cities covered by the lake. if you wanted more from it, why didn't the state of parana ponied up to contribute for the construction ?
(2) the river is not parana's. it's brasilian/paraguayan. natural resources (including rivers and lakes) are owned by the federal government.
(3) and got a huge lake in return. build some marinas there and charge rich people to put yatches there
BTW, brasil is a federative republic in name only. read the constitution, its a centralized nation with very little autonomy for the states. proof of the pudding: even supposedly "state taxes" like ICMS are actually colected by the federal reserve, then distributed to the states according to the state's size/budget and political alegiance of the state's governor/state assembly.
yeah, i know, it's demagogic and hypocritical, but it's politics. get used to it or get a german passport and GTFO.
most homes here have bi-phase installations. this prevents things like lights dimming everytime the refrigerator motor starts, for example. it could be the case that his UPS was in one phase and the CFLs on another. yesterday's snafu started with a brown out that afected one, maybe two of the tri-phase system. up until everything went out for good, one of the phases was at full voltage at my place too. enough to have most of my bulbs and my TV working.
I live in sao paulo too (actually, tanto andré, a neighboring town). this brown out was interesting, the lights started to flicker while I was watching TV, so I unplugged it quickly, the CFL in the room couldn't start in full, only the terminals were orange. it stayed this way on both phases. a few minutes later, one of the phases returned almost in full, with some fluctuations. enough to turn on most lamps and the TV, while the other phase in my apartment remained with very low voltage. close to 11:00PM both phases were out for good (and sudenly) and only returned after 1:30 AM.
IANA electrical engineer, but it looks to me one or two phases on the power grid had an enourmos current leakage that caused a significant voltage drop on those, leaving only one phase with full voltage, the final blackout being caused by the National Operator of the Electrical System (a govt. body) to shut down this part of the grid for the repair works.
I live in brasil, never heard anything about cracker being responsible for the blackouts in espirito santo in 2007. to tell the truth, the first time i heard about it was on the web a few days ago, reading blog posts about the 60min report.
the minister of energy and the national system operator (the office that controls our power grid) already denied the "information" from the 60min show.
IMHO, it's just another piece of typical american fear-mongering, probably aimed at selling some incredibly expensive, over-complicated and completelly unecessary "technology" to the government.
more here (in portuguese).
disclaimer: estadão is a reliable, reasonably unbiased brasilian news agency.
(yes, applicaitons would need to be re-compiled, but for many apps that's all it would take).
it's not that simple. this porting howto from handhelds.org have some good info on the subject:
http://handhelds.org/minihowto/porting-software.html
the most important issue there when porting from x86 to arm is the pointer alignement thing.
most of the exocets the argentinians had were naval versions designed to be lanched from ships. since they were keeping their ships away from the combat zone after a british sub sunk ARA general belgrano.
after that they were left with the very few aircraft lanuched units they had. in the end, 3 hit. one in the HMS sheffield, two on MV atlantic conveyor. sheffild sunk near the exclusion zone. atlantic conveyor lost the cargo and was towed back to england, then scuttled bacuase the damages were so extensive it'd be cheaper to build another ship thank repair her.
to tell the truth, the argentinians were ONE exocet away from winning the war. if they had scored one fatal hit against HMS invincible, that would have given them the war and the malvinas islands. unfortunatelly, our "hermanos" only had one left. the super etendards atacked the invincible with support of four A4 skyhawks, but the exocet only caused superficial damage, and the bombs from the skyhawks missed.
thus the british kept their islands.
disclaimer: i'm brasilian, was alive during the war and living in rio grande do sul, a brasilian state that shares a large border with argentina.
because in 2009 CPU power and memory are cheaper than dirt. or didn't you notice we're discussing a 100-core CPU ?
with capacities like that, even firing MS word to edit a plain text file, instead of notepad, is not too costly anymore... and no, i won't apologize, say i was kidding or any other shenanigans. i really mean it.
you know, just trick the good ol' .DEB package format to include several archs, then let to dpkg decide wich binaries to extract.
is not that in linux the binaries are one big blob with binaries, libs, images, videos, heplfiles, etc. all ditributed in as a single "file" which is actualy a directory with metadata that the finder hides as being a "program file".
being able to copy a binary ELF from one box to another doesn't guarantee it'll work, specially if it's GUI apps that may require other support files, so fat binaries in linux would be simply a useless gimmick. either distribute fat .DEBs, or just do the Right Thing(tm): distribute the source.
don't bother. i usually finish him and gengis khan before they even get airplanes...
yes, i'm a warmonger.
well, I learned more about history from Civ IV's civilopedia then in grade school. i dont't know if this speaks more about the quality of the game, os the complete disregard the authorities in my country have for education.
MS office isn't compatible with _ITSELF_ on the formating issue.
problem with MS office is, it relies on information from the printer driver to format documents. test it this way, install 2 printers on your system, say one HP the other a xerox, set the default printer to HP, format your documents on ms word, note where page breaks are, save the doccument and exit office.
change the default printer to xerox, open your document again. check the page breaks, margins, etc.
are they different ? yes ? congratulations, you'll have to reformat everything.
i got bitten in the ass several times before by this annoying "feature". then i learned to print everything as PDF first when there was the possibility of printing in anything other than my own printer.
I used linux with opie on an ipaq for years, the only reason i replaced it was because the battery wasn't lasting as long as it once was, and a new semi-smart phone would be much cheaper.
I loved it, it beated winCE hands down.
i even translated the thing to pt_br and sent back the translation to the project.
and it's not like they don't have the resources in place already. my company has an agreement with MS that allowed me to purchase - legaly - a copy of office 2007 enterprise for R$ 26.00 ( that's $ 15.00 american bucks), download an instalable .EXE and run it. it's now working under wine on my personal notebook.
at the company, for business use, we have access to ALL microsoft software products free. all available for download as instalable .MSI, .EXE or burnable .ISO
this handling fees, this is plain old greed IMHO.
one more way that shows how apple handles this much better. you can buy snow leopard upgrade for a few bucks, then install it on top of tiger. tiger users are not eligible for the cheap upgrade, only leopard users are. but apple didn't put any verification on the upgrade. they just trust tiger users will do the right thing and buy the full package. wanna bet it's paying off ?
try this on a solaris box:
# find / -type f -perm -ugo-x -exec digest -va md5 {} \; > /executables_digest
then every week, do:
# find / -type f -perm -ugo-x -exec digest -va md5 {} \; > /tmp/weekly_digest /executables_digest /tmp/weekly_digest
# diff
pretty much what software like tripwire works.
what those crooks on TFA want is collect a bunch of information about everybody's computers, then sell to the highest bidder.
fuck them. not on my solaris boxes. not on my linux boxes.
a 3d model can't capture particle effects, translucent creations such as ghosts and anything non-solid to tell the truth (think fire and water). plus, the posters creations are movies, not stactic models. which means, he needs the files.
none of those are proved to last centuries.
tape might be a durable medium, but is still requires a compatible drive. even if you supply the drive, the bus/port/connector might not be available in the future, also electronics degrade over time (specially the ones that store firmware in flash memory and/or contain capacitors). so even if you sell your work with: a) computer; b) operating system and software; c) drive; d) tapes. there's no guarantee.
the same is true for all of the media mentioned by parent.
only solution guaranteed to last centuries ?
*** PAPER AND INK ***
yes, your heard me. ink and paper. well stored it can last thousands of years. you have to print your files as a very compact, machine readable data matrix, store it along with human readable books explaining the technology neccessary to read the print-outs, including schematics, source code, etc. no need to mention that the file formats and software need to be open source, or you need a license to the code.
this way future generations will have everything neccessary to put toghether a hardware/software combination capable of reading the data matrices, convert the bits to files and display the result.
this could be an art project on itself, since you can embed paterns and colors on the data matrices. check wikipedia page for "QR codes" to see examples of data matrices with embeded art. very cool stuff.
when we hang the last burocrat with the intestines of the last congressman.
sorry for the shocking opening statement, but the matter of fact is that as a whole, the western societies are slowly forgeting who actually wields the power and giving carreer politicians and burocrats on the government too much leeway. it's time to take it back and let those people know where the limits are.
left unchecked, these government institutions won't stop untill we're back in the dark ages, withe high taxation, no representation and no freedom at all.
disclaimer: I'm an anarchist.
yes, it's called "monitor".
just buy a dell 30 incher without a tunner and you're set.
good to know. thanks.
I'm now using EXT4 on my kubuntu laptop (a stop-gap waiting for a combination of latest ATI drivers + linux 2.6.31 + debian lenny to play along with each other).
EXT4 is wickedly fast, if compared with EXT3, and it looks stable. no data-loss or corruption, even with forced cold reboots (damn you to hell ATI !!! ). but ever since I got burned by reiserfs and the crappy fsck tools of the time, i'm weary of trying anything that doesn't begin with "EXT".
so, here's the question: how stable, data-loss proof is btrfs right now ? are the user space tools reliable if I need to check, recover, rebuild a FS ?
my particion layout is:
30 GB: / - OS and applications /home - with all my personal files.
5 GB: swap space
285 GB:
I can afford to lose /, it'll be a pain to reinstall everything, but i can survive that. but definetly can't afford losing /home/bento/Misc/XXX ... having the movies localy beats redtube hands down...
dumbass... TFA is _specifficaly_ refering to the kernel. if people want to use "linux kernel" to refer to linus' piece of code they're free to do so, just like some people call MS's operating system "microsoft windows", so just shut the fuck up.
last time I've seen a new laptop that DID have a serial port was three years ago when I got this latitude D610 that i use to this day at work.
since we have to manage a whole bunch of unix boxes here, the day management decides to replace these crappy old dells, i hope they're clever enough to buy a couple of USB->serial adapters, because i doubt they'd be able to find new notebooks with RS232 ports built-in.
as for desktops, many new motherboards don't have them anymore. this spells doom to RS232 on consumer class PCs, so for the future me and my kind (unix sysadmins) will be left with USB adapters for old boxes and network connectivity for servers with lights-out cards. thankfully all new unix hardware built on the last few years have them.