If I was moving into a brand new house, and was looking to build a server farm properly, I'd be ready - this is one of my favourite "What would you do if you won the Lottery?" answers, and I've spent a lot of time planning it.
After looking at the server farm in work I figured the first thing to decide is "What the heck is all that stuff going to sound like in my house? It's pretty noisy at work, and the walls are made of breeze block and concrete. I can hear a motor hum through the wall when there's no other noise. In my house, after about 10:30pm there's no noise at all, it's silent. If I leave my desktop PC on overnight you can hear it.
I'd certainly soundproof the walls, and if money was no object, I'd add insulation to keep the heat out. I'd then look at some kind of system to pull dust and fibles out of the air before they reached the equipment. We have an extraction system with filters that are regularly cleaned. Houses get pretty dusty, with the resultant build up all adding to the build up of heat.
I reckon you'd want to sort all that before you started with the actual ecuipment.
In the UK text messaging (SMS) is huge. Almost everyone over the age of 12 now has a phone, and teens are famous here for communicating mostly by SMS.
My partner (29) and her best friend, (30something) hardly ever their phones to make voice calls. I see people using text phones like Motorola V100 and Nokia 5510 all the time now. The instant messaging analogy is correct - people don't want to talk to other people all the time - why do you think that Post-It Notes became so popular?
Shoutcast is one of the reasons I stumped up for my ADSL connection. I like being able to search by genre (Downtempo is really cool to have on at home) and because my MP3 player displays song titles and artists (I use Winamp) I can buy or Morpheus the tracks that I want to keep. I can see a time coming when I'd be prepared to pay for the same system running into my car, especially if it meant that I could search for maps and information over the same connection (Surely a digital connection to the car is screaming out for this).
You, sir, are on drugs. You posted begging to buy help on Slashdot, giving the impression that you will actually do anything these guys tell you to do to your own laptop. And all without a hint of irony? K, here's my go: First, put your laptop in a plastic zip lock bag and put it into the freezer for 12 hours. This will trick the computer into thinking it's the ice age and the Y1K bug will frizz the BIOS. That was a freebie. Knock yourself out. ____________________________________________ _
You guys are reading far too much into a story that started as a short play for BBC Radio 4.
Adams did not know the complete story until he had started the fifth book. It was not mapped out, it was not planned. Originally, there was not meant to be a second book. The stories were bolted on, haphazardly, as Adams was pressed to write more. The books are never as good as the first because he only really had one book in him, and the first was an amalgum of neat ideas he had before he wrote it. The idea of 42 came about simply because it was as absract as Adams could get. It has no meaning (The religious nutter in a previous post shows how all religious nutters gamely clutch at straws in hope of deriving meaning from what, in fact, is crap made up by a gifted story teller.) and you lot reading more into it than you should do is realy, really sad.
Get a life, for your own sanity. _________________________________________ ____
5 years ago I worked in PC World, so I got to see all the new mainstream machines as they were launched. These were early Windows 95 days, and the machines on offer were pretty ropey. Packard Bell ruled the day, shifting their nasty ugly little boxes like hot cakes. Compaq were on the scene with freakish OS bolt ons and oddly shaped cases. The only machines of note were the Apricots - nicely designed machines of a high quality.
Then Viglen-Microsoft machines started arriving at the store. They were exquisitely finished high specced Viglen machines with top of the line Microsoft Mouse, Natural Keyboard, Sidewinder 3d Pro Joystick, Sidewinder Joypad, Altec Lansing Subwoofer and speaker system, nicely bound literature and restore CDs and a full compliment of Microsoft Games (Flight Sim, Age Of Empires et al) I really liked them and have found Microsoft hardware (I said hardware) to be of a reasonable to high build quality. I think that the X-Box looks like being an incredible toy, and I'm looking foreward to seeing what we can get it to do... ___________________________________________ __
What is this? I don't believe a word of it. There are no facts on that website, and the media list is a page boasting how many people have been hoaxed. Besides, even if it is real, this isn't going to be given away in boxes of Crackerjacks, or given free with Big Macs at Mickey's. These things will not be cheap to produce, and talk time will be no cheaper because of the make-up of the phone. When was the last time McDonald's gave away $5 worth of anything free? April Fool come early I say. The game's up, it's a fair cop. Shenanigans! Own up. missus, we should be told.
I liked Fight Club because of the idea that it is not our fault that we are Generation X. It's not our fault that we are disaffected or apathetic either. (It may well be, but Fight Club say's it's not.) The boomers revolutionised music for us, clothes, attitudes towards young people, they defined the 'teen' and pop, they did away with military service. We have had no wars to fight, we have no purpose. Fight Club says it's OK, and we buy into it, because it justifies our apathy.
You should try living in the UK under the monopolistic British Telecom (BT)regime.
In the last six years, my area (STD) code has gone from being: 0705 to 01705 to 023 92!
The first "big change" was hailed by BT as being an unfortunate necessity to help prevent them from "running out of numbers" due to all those inconsiderate modem users paying through the nose to get a second line fitted. In less than two years, they had to admit that they had grossly mis-calculated and another change was on the way.
This year, we had the second big number change, and all those small businesses who had their signage and stationary reprinted, as well as their phone book entries, their address book updates, their switchboards, one-touch dialing number fixes done the first time had no choice but to fork out again. Hoorah!
Now I'm told by my mobile phone service provider that they have been forced to add 07 to the beginning of my number to indicate it's mobile status. And because they are running out of numbers.
As far as 12 digit phone numbers go, mine has been 11 for about four years now, (023 92xx xxxx)and I'm starting to think it looks more like my public key or a serial number.
At 11 digits, I'm starting to think they can't possibly be running out of numbers, I mean, that's, like, eight phone numbers for every man, woman and child in the country already, isn't it? (:
Why's everybody still ranking on Katz all the time? I don't get it, his stuff isn't bad, or objectionable.
Could it be that you are jumping on a bandwagon here, and slagging Katz whenever you see his name, or are you really objecting to his piece?
Your argument: "yeah, FUCK OFF with your bullshit, Katz!!" while beautifully written, doesn't give us much of an insite into your reasoning, and the other Katz bashing posts seem to just attack his "Holier than thou" attitude, which isn't as offensive as some of the other crap that gets posted and certainly doesn't warrant the teenage responses.
How about jumping off the Katz bandwagon, and coming up with something worthwhile. (At least first posts and goat sex aren't constant personal attacks.)
No, I was thinking about being able to matrix together a panel that had a "face" made up of the very ends of the fibres. The length of the fibres would be "plumbed" to spread flat or to fit into some form of trunking. Light entering one "face" would shine along the fibre length and shine out of the other face creating glowing panels. In theory, one could create a panel for your roof, maybe facing South that sunlight would shine onto and the light could be plumbed down into the house, with fibres branchine off to supply light to smaller panels in different areas or rooms.
Similar things can be done now with standard optical fibres, but the extra brightness that the new fibres would add would allow sophisticated "light networking".
Imagine your desk being illuminated by natural daylight coming from a panel or thin strip for free.
A cluster of these fibres could be formed together to form a panel. This could be fed a light source from a few white LEDs that could form large panels of white light fitted flush to ceilings or walls. With clever "fibre plumbing" entire walls could give off cool white light, and could be switched to pull daylight deep into a room from outside.
Also, imagine the possibilities of large light strips covering the front of cars, powered cheaply by LEDs...
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If I was moving into a brand new house, and was looking to build a server farm properly, I'd be ready - this is one of my favourite "What would you do if you won the Lottery?" answers, and I've spent a lot of time planning it.
After looking at the server farm in work I figured the first thing to decide is "What the heck is all that stuff going to sound like in my house? It's pretty noisy at work, and the walls are made of breeze block and concrete. I can hear a motor hum through the wall when there's no other noise. In my house, after about 10:30pm there's no noise at all, it's silent. If I leave my desktop PC on overnight you can hear it.
I'd certainly soundproof the walls, and if money was no object, I'd add insulation to keep the heat out. I'd then look at some kind of system to pull dust and fibles out of the air before they reached the equipment. We have an extraction system with filters that are regularly cleaned. Houses get pretty dusty, with the resultant build up all adding to the build up of heat.
I reckon you'd want to sort all that before you started with the actual ecuipment.
It's not only Norway who are against the Nuclear Plant at Sellafield.
The Irish posted a full page ad in the British press on Friday. Story here
In the UK text messaging (SMS) is huge. Almost everyone over the age of 12 now has a phone, and teens are famous here for communicating mostly by SMS.
My partner (29) and her best friend, (30something) hardly ever their phones to make voice calls. I see people using text phones like Motorola V100 and Nokia 5510 all the time now.
The instant messaging analogy is correct - people don't want to talk to other people all the time - why do you think that Post-It Notes became so popular?
Shoutcast is one of the reasons I stumped up for my ADSL connection. I like being able to search by genre (Downtempo is really cool to have on at home) and because my MP3 player displays song titles and artists (I use Winamp) I can buy or Morpheus the tracks that I want to keep. I can see a time coming when I'd be prepared to pay for the same system running into my car, especially if it meant that I could search for maps and information over the same connection (Surely a digital connection to the car is screaming out for this).
what the well dressed geek is wearing this summer.
Over to you, Anonymous, with the weather...
You, sir, are on drugs._ _
You posted begging to buy help on Slashdot, giving the impression that you will actually do anything these guys tell you to do to your own laptop.
And all without a hint of irony?
K, here's my go:
First, put your laptop in a plastic zip lock bag and put it into the freezer for 12 hours. This will trick the computer into thinking it's the ice age and the Y1K bug will frizz the BIOS.
That was a freebie. Knock yourself out.
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You guys are reading far too much into a story that started as a short play for BBC Radio 4._ ____
Adams did not know the complete story until he had started the fifth book. It was not mapped out, it was not planned. Originally, there was not meant to be a second book. The stories were bolted on, haphazardly, as Adams was pressed to write more. The books are never as good as the first because he only really had one book in him, and the first was an amalgum of neat ideas he had before he wrote it.
The idea of 42 came about simply because it was as absract as Adams could get. It has no meaning (The religious nutter in a previous post shows how all religious nutters gamely clutch at straws in hope of deriving meaning from what, in fact, is crap made up by a gifted story teller.) and you lot reading more into it than you should do is realy, really sad.
Get a life, for your own sanity.
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5 years ago I worked in PC World, so I got to see all the new mainstream machines as they were launched.
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These were early Windows 95 days, and the machines on offer were pretty ropey. Packard Bell ruled the day, shifting their nasty ugly little boxes like hot cakes. Compaq were on the scene with freakish OS bolt ons and oddly shaped cases. The only machines of note were the Apricots - nicely designed machines of a high quality.
Then Viglen-Microsoft machines started arriving at the store. They were exquisitely finished high specced Viglen machines with top of the line Microsoft Mouse, Natural Keyboard, Sidewinder 3d Pro Joystick, Sidewinder Joypad, Altec Lansing Subwoofer and speaker system, nicely bound literature and restore CDs and a full compliment of Microsoft Games (Flight Sim, Age Of Empires et al)
I really liked them and have found Microsoft hardware (I said hardware) to be of a reasonable to high build quality. I think that the X-Box looks like being an incredible toy, and I'm looking foreward to seeing what we can get it to do...
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What is this? I don't believe a word of it. There are no facts on that website, and the media list is a page boasting how many people have been hoaxed.
Besides, even if it is real, this isn't going to be given away in boxes of Crackerjacks, or given free with Big Macs at Mickey's.
These things will not be cheap to produce, and talk time will be no cheaper because of the make-up of the phone. When was the last time McDonald's gave away $5 worth of anything free?
April Fool come early I say. The game's up, it's a fair cop. Shenanigans! Own up. missus, we should be told.
I liked Fight Club because of the idea that it is not our fault that we are Generation X. It's not our fault that we are disaffected or apathetic either. (It may well be, but Fight Club say's it's not.) The boomers revolutionised music for us, clothes, attitudes towards young people, they defined the 'teen' and pop, they did away with military service. We have had no wars to fight, we have no purpose.
Fight Club says it's OK, and we buy into it, because it justifies our apathy.
You should try living in the UK under the monopolistic British Telecom (BT)regime.
In the last six years, my area (STD) code has gone from being:
0705 to 01705 to 023 92!
The first "big change" was hailed by BT as being an unfortunate necessity to help prevent them from "running out of numbers" due to all those inconsiderate modem users paying through the nose to get a second line fitted. In less than two years, they had to admit that they had grossly mis-calculated and another change was on the way.
This year, we had the second big number change, and all those small businesses who had their signage and stationary reprinted, as well as their phone book entries, their address book updates, their switchboards, one-touch dialing number fixes done the first time had no choice but to fork out again. Hoorah!
Now I'm told by my mobile phone service provider that they have been forced to add 07 to the beginning of my number to indicate it's mobile status. And because they are running out of numbers.
As far as 12 digit phone numbers go, mine has been 11 for about four years now, (023 92xx xxxx)and I'm starting to think it looks more like my public key or a serial number.
At 11 digits, I'm starting to think they can't possibly be running out of numbers, I mean, that's, like, eight phone numbers for every man, woman and child in the country already, isn't it? (:
Why's everybody still ranking on Katz all the time? I don't get it, his stuff isn't bad, or objectionable.
Could it be that you are jumping on a bandwagon here, and slagging Katz whenever you see his name, or are you really objecting to his piece?
Your argument:
"yeah, FUCK OFF with your bullshit, Katz!!"
while beautifully written, doesn't give us much of an insite into your reasoning, and the other Katz bashing posts seem to just attack his "Holier than thou" attitude, which isn't as offensive as some of the other crap that gets posted and certainly doesn't warrant the teenage responses.
How about jumping off the Katz bandwagon, and coming up with something worthwhile. (At least first posts and goat sex aren't constant personal attacks.)
No, I was thinking about being able to matrix together a panel that had a "face" made up of the very ends of the fibres. The length of the fibres would be "plumbed" to spread flat or to fit into some form of trunking. Light entering one "face" would shine along the fibre length and shine out of the other face creating glowing panels. In theory, one could create a panel for your roof, maybe facing South that sunlight would shine onto and the light could be plumbed down into the house, with fibres branchine off to supply light to smaller panels in different areas or rooms. Similar things can be done now with standard optical fibres, but the extra brightness that the new fibres would add would allow sophisticated "light networking". Imagine your desk being illuminated by natural daylight coming from a panel or thin strip for free.
A cluster of these fibres could be formed together to form a panel. This could be fed a light source from a few white LEDs that could form large panels of white light fitted flush to ceilings or walls. With clever "fibre plumbing" entire walls could give off cool white light, and could be switched to pull daylight deep into a room from outside. Also, imagine the possibilities of large light strips covering the front of cars, powered cheaply by LEDs...