We may have been down for a bit, and had an ex op who still had the domain under her control just deregister the domain, but we are back, and are releasing episodes as we speak. Check us out, same old site, new URL.
Thanks to everyone who supports us, and sorry for any of the inconvenience!
-Aurelius
Just an FYI: http://torrents.slash0.org/ has many of the features the torrentse.cx site has, and is still answering requests. They have a comment system, you can upload your own torrents, and the categories are a little more refined than the other sites. Go check it out!
I think that there is the potential for much more with torrents, even though the main market for it at the moment is warez/porn. I think perhaps tv studios should take note of it as a potential distribution method for a "new market".
A friend of mine was picking up some american english stations in the land mobile range (best guess we had was a fire frequency) in L-VHF (39.780 iirc). He was picking this up in Brazil, most likely coming in over a 5000+ mile link. So yes, distance is possible on VHF. He was picking the signals up in NFM (5khz) at about S8 signal level...
Well, it depends what kind of network you are referring to. A network of number cranking computers, yes, it's the bottle neck. A network of web serving computers, the disk access usually comes into play here. If it's a network of programs that generate a lot of chatty traffic (Windows), then the network is your bottleneck:) (though in the specific case of windows, everything seems to be your bottleneck..)
This group Paul is proposing is not an exclusive group in terms of who receives the upgrade/security alerts. Already, when a new version of BIND is ready for release, it is given to the ROOT server managers. Since the DNS heirarchy is no longer merely . and everything else, there need to be more clearcut ways to define who should receive the "early warning" (bad word to use, but take it lightly:).
"ISC wanted to get the new code on the street soon enough to give people a running head start at upgrading. (the root name servers were all done last week, for example.)" -- Paul
Why is 60 tv channels not enough? No, this is not a troll, but seriously, if you had a real genuine choice in your TV programming, would you suffer by "only having 60 channels"? I would actually have hard times deciding what to watch, since everything you receive is something you wanted. I can't think of many people who regularly watch > 60 channels where a program they want is not simulcast on another station.
of the transceiver. Some of it's marketing fluff, but there are SOME nice details near the bottom, at mPhase's FAQ Page. (They call their device the Traverser)
I think that this would be a great service, and a way to even out the playing field, so to speak. Right now, you can get voice services over coax. Now the phone companies can expand into delivering video over coppper.
It would be even nicer if the subscriber could even go so far as to choose the channels they received:)
Your loyalties should be to yourself first. To your coworkers second. To the company third. This may seem backwards from what many people say, but if you put the company above all else, you end up being not a very nice person. If you put yourself first, then you are watching out for the most important person in your life, and then you are loyal to your coworkers, and they will most likely follow suit towards you. By putting the company third, you don't alienate it, nor jeopardize your job, you just realize that there are other jobs, but you will be able to maintain the connections you made while there.
Your argument about RAID 1 is half correct. When it is WRITING it is slow. When it is reading however, it is almost normal reading speed for the device.
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Well, the original poster had the right idea, just the wrong name. Suelette is attributed as the author, not Julian:)
Just to clear it up, the [42]20R's are not Netras, they are Enterprise servers: E420R, E220R.
I can actually see these very handy for DNS servers, and large arrays of web servers (at this price you can buy 3 of these to take the place of 1 slightly bigger/better machine, and have more points of failure)
From the sun white paper on the X1, it states that it can only hold 2 IDE drives. The beta version that unnamed source refers to probably had heat issues.
Actually, computers are not the scapegoat. They are merely one contributor to the problem. If we hadn't deregulated, we would still have the same power usage, and probably the same amounts of power. The fact that we did deregulate just exacerbated the issue.
The only issue with that is that you distribute processing load less. Linux is not really the crux of the problem. It's the pervasiveness of the Internet (AKA Web). Now that everyone and their brother has access to use the Internet, and end user bandwidth is increasing hundred fold every 5-10 years or so, the processing power at the central servers (read: Web Servers) increases almost exponentially, since along with higher rates of access for what existed 5 years ago, we also now have multimedia. The only problem is that chip technology has not progressed nearly as fast as data transmission and/or presentation technology. Because of this, we have lower grade computers trying to serve up more than they really were designed for, in the name of redundancy, and high availablility.
Do you think that the generators can run 24/7/365? They had to take them offline, and historically, the winter months see dramatically lower power usage, so they did what they usually do, and took them down for maintenance. This is hardly manipulating the market, but rather doing what they've done for years, much longer than dot-com's had their computers up 24/7/365.
As for getting power from the wind, we do that already in california. We have the Altamont Pass in Alameda County, Tehachapi Pass down in San Bernadino County, and I'm sure there are others, but those two contain thousands of windmills, and having recently driven through both of them, all but a few (probably down for maintenance) were spinning.
That is not entirely true. In certain markets (Santa Clara, CA, for example) the power grid is reaching it's maximum capacity. The city runs it's own power grid for the purpose of keeping growth down, but that hardly worked since there are a number of colo facilities there now.
California Power utilities are not able to pass on the cost of wholesale electricity due to a rate freeze from deregulation. Apparantly though, the utility's parent company restructured, and can thus keep it's profits, and let the utility die.
It's ultimately the colocation environments that suck up most of the power. Think about it for a moment. Something (big) like Ebay, which has an E10k, lots of disk arrays, lots of computers, lots of switches, plus the A/C for their colo at abovenet, probably uses more electricity than a couple residential city blocks in San Francisco.
If you consider they have a bunch of 2U's, each using 220W (guesstimate), and they have ~ 100 machines, that's 22,000W, 15,840 kwh/month! Keep in mind that this is only a guess on part of Ebay's machines, and they only account for 1/4 of one colo at one facility. Start adding up the colocation usage statewide, and it starts getting pretty nasty. The sad thing is, that even though the colocation facility has a deal with the utilities to cut back on usage, the people colocated usually don't. The A/C levels may be turned up a degree or two, but the computers' power needs are still there.
It does not make it the equivalent of $52,463. It reflects a 9 month appointment, because that's all they work. In the schools where they go year round, the teachers get paid the same amount, basically. It just is spread out over the year instead. They don't ever see the full year's salary equivalent of $52,463. A lot of teachers I know take odd-jobs over the summer, to "pay the bills".
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We may have been down for a bit, and had an ex op who still had the domain under her control just deregister the domain, but we are back, and are releasing episodes as we speak. Check us out, same old site, new URL. Thanks to everyone who supports us, and sorry for any of the inconvenience! -Aurelius
Why don't you elaborate instead of just saying "Your site sucks." Especially since you are posting as AC...
Just an FYI: http://torrents.slash0.org/ has many of the features the torrentse.cx site has, and is still answering requests. They have a comment system, you can upload your own torrents, and the categories are a little more refined than the other sites. Go check it out!
I think that there is the potential for much more with torrents, even though the main market for it at the moment is warez/porn. I think perhaps tv studios should take note of it as a potential distribution method for a "new market".
Aurelius (fp?)
A friend of mine was picking up some american english stations in the land mobile range (best guess we had was a fire frequency) in L-VHF (39.780 iirc). He was picking this up in Brazil, most likely coming in over a 5000+ mile link. So yes, distance is possible on VHF. He was picking the signals up in NFM (5khz) at about S8 signal level...
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Well, it depends what kind of network you are referring to. A network of number cranking computers, yes, it's the bottle neck. A network of web serving computers, the disk access usually comes into play here. If it's a network of programs that generate a lot of chatty traffic (Windows), then the network is your bottleneck :) (though in the specific case of windows, everything seems to be your bottleneck..)
This group Paul is proposing is not an exclusive group in terms of who receives the upgrade/security alerts. Already, when a new version of BIND is ready for release, it is given to the ROOT server managers. Since the DNS heirarchy is no longer merely . and everything else, there need to be more clearcut ways to define who should receive the "early warning" (bad word to use, but take it lightly :).
"ISC wanted to get the new code on the street soon enough to give people a running head start at upgrading. (the root name servers were all done last week, for example.)" -- Paul
HTH
Why is 60 tv channels not enough? No, this is not a troll, but seriously, if you had a real genuine choice in your TV programming, would you suffer by "only having 60 channels"? I would actually have hard times deciding what to watch, since everything you receive is something you wanted. I can't think of many people who regularly watch > 60 channels where a program they want is not simulcast on another station.
of the transceiver. Some of it's marketing fluff, but there are SOME nice details near the bottom, at mPhase's FAQ Page. (They call their device the Traverser)
HTH
I think that this would be a great service, and a way to even out the playing field, so to speak. Right now, you can get voice services over coax. Now the phone companies can expand into delivering video over coppper.
:)
It would be even nicer if the subscriber could even go so far as to choose the channels they received
Your loyalties should be to yourself first. To your coworkers second. To the company third. This may seem backwards from what many people say, but if you put the company above all else, you end up being not a very nice person. If you put yourself first, then you are watching out for the most important person in your life, and then you are loyal to your coworkers, and they will most likely follow suit towards you. By putting the company third, you don't alienate it, nor jeopardize your job, you just realize that there are other jobs, but you will be able to maintain the connections you made while there.
:)
A very idealistic POV, I know, but it works
Your argument about RAID 1 is half correct. When it is WRITING it is slow. When it is reading however, it is almost normal reading speed for the device.
Well, the original poster had the right idea, just the wrong name. Suelette is attributed as the author, not Julian :)
Just to clear it up, the [42]20R's are not Netras, they are Enterprise servers: E420R, E220R.
I can actually see these very handy for DNS servers, and large arrays of web servers (at this price you can buy 3 of these to take the place of 1 slightly bigger/better machine, and have more points of failure)
Keep in mind that the Sparcs are RISC as opposed to CISC.
From the sun white paper on the X1, it states that it can only hold 2 IDE drives. The beta version that unnamed source refers to probably had heat issues.
Actually, computers are not the scapegoat. They are merely one contributor to the problem. If we hadn't deregulated, we would still have the same power usage, and probably the same amounts of power. The fact that we did deregulate just exacerbated the issue.
The only issue with that is that you distribute processing load less. Linux is not really the crux of the problem. It's the pervasiveness of the Internet (AKA Web). Now that everyone and their brother has access to use the Internet, and end user bandwidth is increasing hundred fold every 5-10 years or so, the processing power at the central servers (read: Web Servers) increases almost exponentially, since along with higher rates of access for what existed 5 years ago, we also now have multimedia. The only problem is that chip technology has not progressed nearly as fast as data transmission and/or presentation technology. Because of this, we have lower grade computers trying to serve up more than they really were designed for, in the name of redundancy, and high availablility.
Do you think that the generators can run 24/7/365? They had to take them offline, and historically, the winter months see dramatically lower power usage, so they did what they usually do, and took them down for maintenance. This is hardly manipulating the market, but rather doing what they've done for years, much longer than dot-com's had their computers up 24/7/365.
As for getting power from the wind, we do that already in california. We have the Altamont Pass in Alameda County, Tehachapi Pass down in San Bernadino County, and I'm sure there are others, but those two contain thousands of windmills, and having recently driven through both of them, all but a few (probably down for maintenance) were spinning.
That is not entirely true. In certain markets (Santa Clara, CA, for example) the power grid is reaching it's maximum capacity. The city runs it's own power grid for the purpose of keeping growth down, but that hardly worked since there are a number of colo facilities there now.
California Power utilities are not able to pass on the cost of wholesale electricity due to a rate freeze from deregulation. Apparantly though, the utility's parent company restructured, and can thus keep it's profits, and let the utility die.
It's ultimately the colocation environments that suck up most of the power. Think about it for a moment. Something (big) like Ebay, which has an E10k, lots of disk arrays, lots of computers, lots of switches, plus the A/C for their colo at abovenet, probably uses more electricity than a couple residential city blocks in San Francisco.
If you consider they have a bunch of 2U's, each using 220W (guesstimate), and they have ~ 100 machines, that's 22,000W, 15,840 kwh/month! Keep in mind that this is only a guess on part of Ebay's machines, and they only account for 1/4 of one colo at one facility. Start adding up the colocation usage statewide, and it starts getting pretty nasty. The sad thing is, that even though the colocation facility has a deal with the utilities to cut back on usage, the people colocated usually don't. The A/C levels may be turned up a degree or two, but the computers' power needs are still there.
Well, it appears that Yahoo! France DOES have a physical presence in France:
domain: yahoo.fr
descr: Yahoo France
descr: 14 place Marie Jeanne Bassot
descr: 92593 Levallois Perret
admin-c: DJ723-FRNIC
tech-c: SC1772-FRNIC
tech-c: DJ723-FRNIC
tech-c: JPH17
zone-c: NFC1-FRNIC
nserver: ns.yahoo.com
nserver: av1.yahoo.com
nserver: ns.europe.yahoo.com
mnt-by: FR-NIC-MNT
mnt-lower: FR-NIC-MNT
changed: Vincent.Gillet@inria.fr 19970707
changed: ripe-dbm@ripe.net 19990711
changed: migration-dbm@nic.fr 20001015
source: FRNIC
You can see, they have an office in Levallois-Perret, just outside of Paris.
It does not make it the equivalent of $52,463. It reflects a 9 month appointment, because that's all they work. In the schools where they go year round, the teachers get paid the same amount, basically. It just is spread out over the year instead. They don't ever see the full year's salary equivalent of $52,463. A lot of teachers I know take odd-jobs over the summer, to "pay the bills".
Jason