I was a "bridge" student. I had to take typing on IBM selectrics freshman year, but we also had an Apple II lab, and a MacIntosh by the end of that year, 1984.
On weekends we would bike/bus over to Weird Stuff and the first Fry's Electronics and dig for parts for various projects. I got a 300 baud modem (so fast!) that had a blown capacitor, then dug around for a month looking for the right one to replace it.
So while were training for the jobs of the past still, at least I had exposure to the future.
Going to school in Silicon Valley was always a weird experience like that, I am sure SoCal was the same.
Somehow I am not too concerned they are going to seize anything.
I work for IBM, with lots of people that travel out of the country. I have not even heard of anyone getting more than a request to start the laptop to make sure it is real.
It is not even on the list of things IBM Travel created to worry about on a trip, although certain over-the-counter drugs will get you in deep shit if you are not careful...
I can't imagine the heat doing much compared to the running tempretures of a normal PC. 70C is not out of the picture in an overclocked system, and it survives just fine.
Besides, how do you think it got over here in the first place? Shipped by cargo ship from the far east.
Personally, I would hand carry any media I wanted to protect. The data is important, the hardware is an inconvenience.
We sell more AOD to customers than other cloud offerings. Application on Demand gives you Power+ running AIX or Linux on IBM's cloud infrastructure, accessed remotely.
The new PureFlex architecture allows you to mix AIX and Linux on Power+ using the same cloud provisioning toolset across both platforms.
I work for IBM, in the Midrange space, (and if it is not Mainframe or AS/400, it is Midrange, unless it is a embedded system/appliance) so I see tons of it coming through the pipeline, especially when the customer wants an enterprise sized install, like a Data Warehouse.
Fast as x86 CPU's are, if you need I/O speed, it is still RISC systems, including SUN and HP.
AIX is still IBM's premier UNIX based OS for the enterprise. RHEL is Linux solution. from Enterprise to desktop.
Having SA'd using HP, *BSD, AIX, SCO, UNIXWARE, Linux and Solaris since 1992, AIX by far is the most automated and best toolset. What you can't do is customize and tune it like the other UNIX based systems.
HP is somewhere in the middle. I hear TRU64 is too, but never got to use it.
AS/400 was migrated to RS64 architecture in 96, so you could run AS400 on it. AS400 became an OS, not a hardware line. Under the covers, it was the RS6000 line.
And the new PureFlex systems are actually pretty decent hardware if you are in a market for a scalable "blade" system that is not really a blade.
The power management abilities of the hardware are pretty decent, allowing computing power to spin up and down depending on demand.
Yeah, a lot like a standard PC or laptop right? but on a larger 100+ socket scale. Power and cooling are significantly less than stand alone systems or blade chassis.
People who are walking can turn their heads and look before changing directions. They can walk/jog/run on the shoulder as instructed by plenty of signs. They can not move 3 or 4 abreast so I have a place to pass. They can not wear headphones so they can hear when I alert them.
Oh, and alerting them can be dangerous. I called out the standard warning "On your left" and was greeted with a clothesline arm out and an assault when I crashed. Thank god it was right by a university and others came to help, or he could have kept pounding me.
Broken nose, several bruises, road rash, ruined riding cloths, and significant damage to the bike... and of course the asshat had no assets or insurance to compensate me.
Him? a citation and got off with "anger management" training. Sure, I drove his lower than 500 credit rating even lower with a judgement, but I will never see the money.
As for cyclist totally ignoring the rules of the road? Can't help you there, drives me nuts too. If we want to be respected like the vehicles we are, we need to obey the traffic laws and act like vehicles. I don't agree with the "Stop and put your foot down at the stop signs" rule, as it totally blows out our kinetic energy and puts us at risk because we must accelerate across the intersection while cars are impatient . A slowdown to 1 or 2 mph and then a sprint across when it is our turn would be just as useful.
And don't get me started on idiots riding against traffic in the bike lanes... insanity.
Except that pedestrians can stop in a single step, 3 feet, or make an immediate 90 or 180 turn without notice.
There simply is no time to stop, at any reasonable speed, even 5mph, if pedestrians refuse to signal where they are going. Or walk 5 abreast, or wear iPods/bluetooths and not pay attention to what is around them.
Why they even walk on the paved part is beyond me, there is a wonderful sand/decayed granite strip one either side of the trail which is as wide as the trail itself. It is smooth, and won't blow out your joints like pavement will.
Trust me, I have no interest in hitting them, there is a steel tube aimed right at my nuts if I do.
Moreover, the bike trails are mixing pedestrian and bike traffic, and it is not a good mix.
Can't tell you how many times I have had to dodge a pedestrian who decides to cross the trail without looking.
Even worse is women pushing strollers. The baby cries and their instinct is to turn the stroller 90 degrees, blocking most or all of the trail without warning.
But like Pearl Harbor, and 9/11, we had intelligence this was coming, and we did not have our guard up.
I don't blame the "murderers", because it was a legitimate target. The fact that we want to see it as a police action and thus a "murder" is hubris and stupidity. They have declared war on us many times and we won't treat it as such.
What we need is a kinda round thing, that rotates, and then it can move a new rail in place each time it fires so they can cool down and last longer...
It is line-of-sight for up to 6 miles for sea level targets, and then there is a huge whitespace out to about 36 miles out to the max where it can lob the shells.
Of course, you would be able to fire at objects higher in the air like incoming missiles, but not a ship.
Holder fucked up Obama appointed Holder. Holder fucks up, then Obama is responsible.
It has worked that way every time I fucked up as a manager, I got grilled by the higher ups why my people fucked up. I was responsible for them, and "gee I didn't know" was not fucking good enough.
Sure as fuck is not good enough for "The smartest man in the room".
Especially when he hires fucking Holder, who has admitted he fucking participated in the take-over of the Columbia University ROTC lounge in an effort to rename it after Malcolm X, and expect him to have any Fucking respect for the fucking rule of law.
What are you talking about? of course people take USD.
Are you telling me you have never seen a USD, or seen someone else pay for something with one?
BitCoins might be entirely virtual, but currency is not.
And we were discussing various forms of currency, and why acceptance is important. Since I can't handle BitCoins they are a bit less useful than USD, which is both physical and virtual, and probably about the same as gold, whiskey, or shiny shells, which cannot be digitized.
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I was a "bridge" student. I had to take typing on IBM selectrics freshman year, but we also had an Apple II lab, and a MacIntosh by the end of that year, 1984.
On weekends we would bike/bus over to Weird Stuff and the first Fry's Electronics and dig for parts for various projects. I got a 300 baud modem (so fast!) that had a blown capacitor, then dug around for a month looking for the right one to replace it.
So while were training for the jobs of the past still, at least I had exposure to the future.
Going to school in Silicon Valley was always a weird experience like that, I am sure SoCal was the same.
We were discussing the heat, not impact.
And in that case, just repack it in the original packaging. That was all that was protecting it in the first place.
You do have your original packing, don't you?
2000 seizures out of 264 million travelers.
Somehow I am not too concerned they are going to seize anything.
I work for IBM, with lots of people that travel out of the country. I have not even heard of anyone getting more than a request to start the laptop to make sure it is real.
It is not even on the list of things IBM Travel created to worry about on a trip, although certain over-the-counter drugs will get you in deep shit if you are not careful...
I can't imagine the heat doing much compared to the running tempretures of a normal PC. 70C is not out of the picture in an overclocked system, and it survives just fine.
Besides, how do you think it got over here in the first place? Shipped by cargo ship from the far east.
Personally, I would hand carry any media I wanted to protect. The data is important, the hardware is an inconvenience.
Again with the ignorance.
We sell more AOD to customers than other cloud offerings. Application on Demand gives you Power+ running AIX or Linux on IBM's cloud infrastructure, accessed remotely.
The new PureFlex architecture allows you to mix AIX and Linux on Power+ using the same cloud provisioning toolset across both platforms.
Not exactly the market.
Power systems are overkill for most people, unless you get old ones on the cheap.
I work for IBM, in the Midrange space, (and if it is not Mainframe or AS/400, it is Midrange, unless it is a embedded system/appliance) so I see tons of it coming through the pipeline, especially when the customer wants an enterprise sized install, like a Data Warehouse.
Fast as x86 CPU's are, if you need I/O speed, it is still RISC systems, including SUN and HP.
AIX is still IBM's premier UNIX based OS for the enterprise. RHEL is Linux solution. from Enterprise to desktop.
Having SA'd using HP, *BSD, AIX, SCO, UNIXWARE, Linux and Solaris since 1992, AIX by far is the most automated and best toolset. What you can't do is customize and tune it like the other UNIX based systems.
HP is somewhere in the middle. I hear TRU64 is too, but never got to use it.
Good gods.
OS2 ran on PC, PowerPC/RS6000 and mainframe.
AS/400 was migrated to RS64 architecture in 96, so you could run AS400 on it. AS400 became an OS, not a hardware line. Under the covers, it was the RS6000 line.
And the new PureFlex systems are actually pretty decent hardware if you are in a market for a scalable "blade" system that is not really a blade.
The power management abilities of the hardware are pretty decent, allowing computing power to spin up and down depending on demand.
Yeah, a lot like a standard PC or laptop right? but on a larger 100+ socket scale. Power and cooling are significantly less than stand alone systems or blade chassis.
AIX runs on Power7. There also is RHEL for Power7:
http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/for-ibm-power/
However, AIX does not run on Mainframe hardware, although you can run Linux on the Mainframe.
So you can run Linux on anything IBM sells, but that is the only OS since OS2 to do it.
How about this:
People who are walking can turn their heads and look before changing directions.
They can walk/jog/run on the shoulder as instructed by plenty of signs.
They can not move 3 or 4 abreast so I have a place to pass.
They can not wear headphones so they can hear when I alert them.
Oh, and alerting them can be dangerous. I called out the standard warning "On your left" and was greeted with a clothesline arm out and an assault when I crashed. Thank god it was right by a university and others came to help, or he could have kept pounding me.
Broken nose, several bruises, road rash, ruined riding cloths, and significant damage to the bike... and of course the asshat had no assets or insurance to compensate me.
Him? a citation and got off with "anger management" training. Sure, I drove his lower than 500 credit rating even lower with a judgement, but I will never see the money.
As for cyclist totally ignoring the rules of the road? Can't help you there, drives me nuts too. If we want to be respected like the vehicles we are, we need to obey the traffic laws and act like vehicles. I don't agree with the "Stop and put your foot down at the stop signs" rule, as it totally blows out our kinetic energy and puts us at risk because we must accelerate across the intersection while cars are impatient . A slowdown to 1 or 2 mph and then a sprint across when it is our turn would be just as useful.
And don't get me started on idiots riding against traffic in the bike lanes... insanity.
Except that pedestrians can stop in a single step, 3 feet, or make an immediate 90 or 180 turn without notice.
There simply is no time to stop, at any reasonable speed, even 5mph, if pedestrians refuse to signal where they are going. Or walk 5 abreast, or wear iPods/bluetooths and not pay attention to what is around them.
Why they even walk on the paved part is beyond me, there is a wonderful sand/decayed granite strip one either side of the trail which is as wide as the trail itself. It is smooth, and won't blow out your joints like pavement will.
Trust me, I have no interest in hitting them, there is a steel tube aimed right at my nuts if I do.
Moreover, the bike trails are mixing pedestrian and bike traffic, and it is not a good mix.
Can't tell you how many times I have had to dodge a pedestrian who decides to cross the trail without looking.
Even worse is women pushing strollers. The baby cries and their instinct is to turn the stroller 90 degrees, blocking most or all of the trail without warning.
Reading Slashdotters talk about guns is like listening to a bunch of nerds talk about sex.
Oh, wait...
Possibly.
But like Pearl Harbor, and 9/11, we had intelligence this was coming, and we did not have our guard up.
I don't blame the "murderers", because it was a legitimate target. The fact that we want to see it as a police action and thus a "murder" is hubris and stupidity. They have declared war on us many times and we won't treat it as such.
It. is. a. fucking. war.
No, it is 1/2mv^2
What we need is a kinda round thing, that rotates, and then it can move a new rail in place each time it fires so they can cool down and last longer...
Behold! The Gatling Railgun!
Worse than the exploding capacitors need to run the thing?
If you read the documents, it is both.
It is line-of-sight for up to 6 miles for sea level targets, and then there is a huge whitespace out to about 36 miles out to the max where it can lob the shells.
Of course, you would be able to fire at objects higher in the air like incoming missiles, but not a ship.
Here is the problem you seem to not grasp:
Holder fucked up
Obama appointed Holder.
Holder fucks up, then Obama is responsible.
It has worked that way every time I fucked up as a manager, I got grilled by the higher ups why my people fucked up. I was responsible for them, and "gee I didn't know" was not fucking good enough.
Sure as fuck is not good enough for "The smartest man in the room".
Especially when he hires fucking Holder, who has admitted he fucking participated in the take-over of the Columbia University ROTC lounge in an effort to rename it after Malcolm X, and expect him to have any Fucking respect for the fucking rule of law.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201012/eric-holder-attorney-general-rahm-emanuel-white-house-elections?printable=true
P.S. I hope all the extra "fuckings" made it easier for you to follow the argument.
But I do suffer from Asperger's, you insensitive clod!
This whole Benghazi thing is driving people nuts, just like 9/11.
They think: How does this shit happen without a devious plot by the CIA, Illuminati, or some other shadowy government operatives?
We are unable or unwilling to accept that both happened because of shear stupidity, hubris, and incompetence. (and not necessarily in that order)
What are you talking about? of course people take USD.
Are you telling me you have never seen a USD, or seen someone else pay for something with one?
BitCoins might be entirely virtual, but currency is not.
And we were discussing various forms of currency, and why acceptance is important. Since I can't handle BitCoins they are a bit less useful than USD, which is both physical and virtual, and probably about the same as gold, whiskey, or shiny shells, which cannot be digitized.
And?
The difference is most people WILL take USD, and most WILL NOT take Bitcoins.
Gold, whiskey, shiny rocks or shells... the value is set by those who will honor it. The more that do, the more useful it is.
The daily quote on ./ was right on target today:
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides. -- Andre Malraux
Gods!
I wish the Ronulans had stayed technophobic.