For starters, boycot the Drive-In. Get out of your car, walk... yes walk to the counter, get your stuff and then walk all the way:) back to your car.
Frustrating thing is that fastfood chains give absolute priority to drive-in customers over people waiting at the counter. I once overheard a McD/BK manager instructing his staff about that, in terms not to misunderstand. It should be the other way around, but what can you expect from these chains.
Starting with number two, ask yourself the question: "do you want to know everything about nothing or nothing about everything". The best illustration I guess about these two extremes are getting a degree/masters in nuclear physics and on the other side doing an MBA. The former falls for me in the category 'learn a profession'. Now the interesting thing is that people can move in their career (and most will) from being a specialist to becoming more generic, like moving into management. But I don't see that happen the other way around.
Translating this to CS/IT: a programmer can easily become a sys-admin, but I don't see that happen so quickly the other way around. BTW, I'm saying all this with 25 years experience behind the belt. I've even been a short while on the other side of the fence, teaching CS/IT at the university.
The other part --aim high-- is simple. Which of your two options would be the biggest challenge to complete. Pick that one!! You can always downgrade, it's much tougher to upgrade.
A BlackBox has 8 racks (not 6). One of the racks is used for infrastructure components, like the dehumidifier, power, network, etc. The remaining seven racks are 38 RU, but because of the power distribution unit and a patch-panel, you can fit 36 1U servers in a rack. That is a total of 252 1U servers per BlackBox.
Someone calculated that if you would fill it completely with for example X2200 servers (two dual-core AMD Opteron), it would end up around position 200 in the Supercomputing Top500.
At first I wanted to make the same comment, about just replace when _you_ see that the prints get bad. But I read in other posts that the current drivers not only give you a warning, but also stop printing until you replace the cartridge. That makes this a real issue.
The Lexmark I had 5 years ago didn't have this behaviour, but it's easy to see why the printer guys have added this "feature":). In my case, I was mostly anoyed by the cartridges drying out when not printing for a few weeks.
OK, solved this long time ago by switching to a laser printer.
When I worked for Philips Electronics in the 1980s, early 90s, they developed an in-car navigation system 100% based on odometry and compass. GPS didn't exist yet. The trick is that when a car makes a 90 degree turn to the right, for example, you know that it's doing that when there is a side street to the right. It is pretty unlikely that it will hammer the front of that office building:-). So, by combining the odometry/compass readings with mapping data, you're constantly able to re-calibrate your position.
I'm not sure if cars nowadays will use dual data-inputs (GPS plus some other navigation) for their navigation systems, because it would make it more expensive than simply relying on GPS. But the information is there to do it. The board computer probably even knows if the steering wheel is turned. You could fall back on that if you have no compass readings (I would guess a compass doesn't work well in a underground parking garage).
Did you know that some electricity companies are giving a rebate when you by a Sun T1000/T2000 server, because saving electricity that way is for them cheaper than building a new power plant.
But maybe a system with 15 fans was a bad idea "from the beginning".
If you built yourself such a system because you REALLY needed it, than of course you will just keep it going, or you will have to replace it with a new system that's also power hungry.
The tough question becomes if you built that system because it looked cool, but in reality you don't really need the amount of horse-power. In that case you could now replace it with something modern, small and light, that would save a good amount of energy.
We should set up a little competition: who can type a first post in xml. Remember, you have to type in all these < and > (which I now had to type as "<" to show the ampersand... this becomes a recursive nightmare:-).
<user="wwwillem"> <subject>we should do this too</subject> <content>
What is good for government documents is also good for Slashdot posts.:-) </content> </xml>
Ahh, but when I crossed from Alberta into Idaho, while the guy was pretty friendly, no problem on that front, but the Californian lemons, bought at Safeways in Calgary, were confiscated. Seems that "re-entring" citrus fruits is a threat to the USA.:)
When my wife told the border guard that he should eat them, good vitamins, etc., he told us they had to be burnt. So, arriving in Sandpoint, we went again to the Safeway and bought another net of pretty similar lemons. I guess they came from the same warehouse.
BTW, these lemons were of course essential for our G&T. Why else to bring them.....
That would be cool, having two of those tiny cameras in your phone and then being able to send 3D stereo pictures. Only thing to figure out is how to display them, but I've seen solutions for that too (single screen, no glasses / goggles).
they exist for exactly the same reason why train stations are usually at the outskirts of towns (or, at least, were 'til the towns grew): The horse cabs were fearing for their business
L'histoire se repete.... why are there sooo many airports in the world, where there is no railway connection with downtown. From big Singapore, where the LRT "just missed it" to Denver, to here in Calgary, where there is even not a decent public bus going to the airport. It's all because of the taxi rackets. Not the cab drivers themselves, but the owners of the cab licenses. And that's a mafia even bigger than the MAFIAA.... (picked up that nice acronym by RFA:-)
Reading the article and posts, couple of hours ago, just after submission, I thought this was 'THE ONE TO GO FOR'. Would make my ideal moving maps / GPS platform.
But now having seen the photos, IMHO it's a pretty lousy design. I love the technology behind it, but just the design doesn't appeal to me at all. And you pay big bucks for being an early adopter, so the design better be right.
It has all this rounded off, soft cornered look and feel. Which IMHO doesn't match with the rest of the gear. If you like it or not, LCD displays are as square as you can get.
I would have bought the 800 tomorrow if the design would have been much more appealing. But I guess that will not happen....
An option nobody mentioned so far is to go with one of the RedHat Enterprise Linux clones, like Scientific Linux, CentOS, etc. Maybe not the most cutting edge, but definitely stable as a rock. Hey, CERN runs on it, doesn't that tell you something? And if you hate the default Gnome (I don't), you simply switch to KDE when installing.
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Don't forget to put the SIM card in one of those alu-coated bags that you bought your RAM in.
For starters, boycot the Drive-In. Get out of your car, walk ... yes walk to the counter, get your stuff and then walk all the way :) back to your car.
Frustrating thing is that fastfood chains give absolute priority to drive-in customers over people waiting at the counter. I once overheard a McD/BK manager instructing his staff about that, in terms not to misunderstand. It should be the other way around, but what can you expect from these chains.
Translating this to CS/IT: a programmer can easily become a sys-admin, but I don't see that happen so quickly the other way around. BTW, I'm saying all this with 25 years experience behind the belt. I've even been a short while on the other side of the fence, teaching CS/IT at the university.
The other part --aim high-- is simple. Which of your two options would be the biggest challenge to complete. Pick that one!! You can always downgrade, it's much tougher to upgrade.
I think I can: if I recall correctly it was elected by Americans not only once but twice.....
Any brand name / model number that can implement (today) your suggested density?
A BlackBox has 8 racks (not 6). One of the racks is used for infrastructure components, like the dehumidifier, power, network, etc. The remaining seven racks are 38 RU, but because of the power distribution unit and a patch-panel, you can fit 36 1U servers in a rack. That is a total of 252 1U servers per BlackBox.
Someone calculated that if you would fill it completely with for example X2200 servers (two dual-core AMD Opteron), it would end up around position 200 in the Supercomputing Top500.
At first I wanted to make the same comment, about just replace when _you_ see that the prints get bad. But I read in other posts that the current drivers not only give you a warning, but also stop printing until you replace the cartridge. That makes this a real issue.
:). In my case, I was mostly anoyed by the cartridges drying out when not printing for a few weeks.
The Lexmark I had 5 years ago didn't have this behaviour, but it's easy to see why the printer guys have added this "feature"
OK, solved this long time ago by switching to a laser printer.
An empty parking garage probably would be fine, but ever seen what 1000 big steel motorblocks are doing to a little magnet .....
When I worked for Philips Electronics in the 1980s, early 90s, they developed an in-car navigation system 100% based on odometry and compass. GPS didn't exist yet. The trick is that when a car makes a 90 degree turn to the right, for example, you know that it's doing that when there is a side street to the right. It is pretty unlikely that it will hammer the front of that office building :-). So, by combining the odometry/compass readings with mapping data, you're constantly able to re-calibrate your position.
I'm not sure if cars nowadays will use dual data-inputs (GPS plus some other navigation) for their navigation systems, because it would make it more expensive than simply relying on GPS. But the information is there to do it. The board computer probably even knows if the steering wheel is turned. You could fall back on that if you have no compass readings (I would guess a compass doesn't work well in a underground parking garage).
Did you know that some electricity companies are giving a rebate when you by a Sun T1000/T2000 server, because saving electricity that way is for them cheaper than building a new power plant.
Auch, I had mod points last week. I would have given you all five!!
But maybe a system with 15 fans was a bad idea "from the beginning".
If you built yourself such a system because you REALLY needed it, than of course you will just keep it going, or you will have to replace it with a new system that's also power hungry.
The tough question becomes if you built that system because it looked cool, but in reality you don't really need the amount of horse-power. In that case you could now replace it with something modern, small and light, that would save a good amount of energy.
Summary: it all depends!!
Who needs proof when GP is an Anonymous Coward and parent as well. Maybe they're just one and the same person, who knows.
I'm sure that by now you agree that doing a First Post this way, would be a tough challenge.... :)
We should set up a little competition: who can type a first post in xml. Remember, you have to type in all these < and > (which I now had to type as "<" to show the ampersand ... this becomes a recursive nightmare :-).
<user="wwwillem">
<subject>we should do this too</subject>
<content>
What is good for government documents is also good for Slashdot posts.
</content>
</xml>
You got it wrong ... it's Linux Journal!!
Ahh, but when I crossed from Alberta into Idaho, while the guy was pretty friendly, no problem on that front, but the Californian lemons, bought at Safeways in Calgary, were confiscated. Seems that "re-entring" citrus fruits is a threat to the USA. :)
When my wife told the border guard that he should eat them, good vitamins, etc., he told us they had to be burnt. So, arriving in Sandpoint, we went again to the Safeway and bought another net of pretty similar lemons. I guess they came from the same warehouse.
BTW, these lemons were of course essential for our G&T. Why else to bring them.....
You mean 3D
That would be cool, having two of those tiny cameras in your phone and then being able to send 3D stereo pictures. Only thing to figure out is how to display them, but I've seen solutions for that too (single screen, no glasses / goggles).
That sounds very much like the HandyGPS. Luckily I paid only 10 bucks for it on eBay, but indeed the thing is a complete mess.
L'histoire se repete
Thanks for the pictures!!
Reading the article and posts, couple of hours ago, just after submission, I thought this was 'THE ONE TO GO FOR'. Would make my ideal moving maps / GPS platform.
But now having seen the photos, IMHO it's a pretty lousy design. I love the technology behind it, but just the design doesn't appeal to me at all. And you pay big bucks for being an early adopter, so the design better be right.
It has all this rounded off, soft cornered look and feel. Which IMHO doesn't match with the rest of the gear. If you like it or not, LCD displays are as square as you can get.
I would have bought the 800 tomorrow if the design would have been much more appealing. But I guess that will not happen....
Make that "Lynx" ..... (www.lynx.org) which is a 'command line only' browser.
Are you not confusing your cell phone with the breasts of your girl friend?? :)
An option nobody mentioned so far is to go with one of the RedHat Enterprise Linux clones, like Scientific Linux, CentOS, etc. Maybe not the most cutting edge, but definitely stable as a rock. Hey, CERN runs on it, doesn't that tell you something? And if you hate the default Gnome (I don't), you simply switch to KDE when installing.