Also helpfull is that the gas electric doesn't have to haul around nearly as much battery weight. The EV1 1997 (Lead Acid) has a curb weight of 2922 lbs (2848 lbs for the 1999 NiMH model), and a payload of 440lbs / 2 seats. The 2001 Honda Insight curb weight is 1959 (almost 1000 lbs lighter) with its 410lb / 2 seat payload.
Notably, the NiMH EV1 and the Insight have similar energy costs/mile, depending on local conditions.
That sounds a lot like when I worked at Lucent during the Fiorina era. It was among the most unreal and disconcerting eras in my life. My little group was actually protected from lay-offs for that whole summer because three tiers (at least) of management structure retired at once. Since head count was viewed as being somewhat less desirable than AIDS the ensuing argument over which organization would be responsible for us kept us off everybody's books for months.
By the way, can anybody tell me what Lucent does these days? After all the lay-offs, spin-offs and write-offs, I've lost track.
I've taken to filtering my e-mail with whois and by protocol deviations. I can see how I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that the same aproach can be thrown at the refer spammers, that: 1> The headers their clients send are different than those of ordinary clients. 2> That the properties revealed by whois are different for refer spammer clients than for ordinary clients. 3> That the whois properties for the spam refer sites are different than those of legitimate sites.
I'll bet that ignoring input from/referring to China and Korea is a good start, and that the bogus sites will tend to cluster in identifiable networks.
IIRC (I don't have the computer I use for this handy), the magic piece of the puzzle is xine or mplayer and the 12 MBish windows codec pack. One or the other of these can read realaudio streams and transcode them to mp3 files. From there it's a matter of pushing the mp3 files out over shoutcast, or whatever the relevant stream format is, which will hopefully be fairly easy if the Linksys box plays shoutcast streams.
1> As every one has so astutely pointed out, Alan Keys is a crank. 2> At no point in the race did Alan Keys have any chance of winning the election. 3> Alan Keys is a part a plan of either the old-line republicans to shame the fundamentalist wing of the party, or a plan by the fundamentalists to take over the republican party. 4> Alan Keys' publicly announce strategy to win this election is to say absurd and offensive things in hope of getting media coverage. Good job guys!
From what I can tell (not so much, but enough, and I have been around a fairly long time), there has Always been an open X11 implementation. The X.org kit has always been the reference implementation that everybody built their versions of X11 from, and to that end has always been under some variation of the BSD license, or at least from the very early days of Linux/*BSD.
XFree86 was a fork of the X Consortium (which ultimately mutated into X.org) when the X Consortium was the stodgy old line, conservative organization, and (again, if I'm not mistaken) it inherited those qualities from the X Consortium (which, I underline, has become X.org). It became the defacto reference implementation because the economics of the workstation business and of graphics cards made XFree86 the only set of drivers that people cared about.
And a Lot of work goes into making sure some cars are nice and quiet. My honda has an excessive system of tubing and a huge resonator on the air intake to keep it as quiet as possible.
Not only this, but my new laptop's ATI chip appears to Really work out of the box. I haven't much tested that the GLX/DRI extensions make a difference, but they Claim to be there and a quick test sez they work.
I believe you underestimate the cost of driving a mechanical fan. It's been a long time since I investigated, but I remember an estimate of tens of HP moving from a mechanical fan to an electric on some of the old ford V8 trucks. It sounds high when I think about it, but I'm guessing it's not cheap, especially in a context where my cars almost never run the fan (I wasn't entirely sure that I had a broken fan on one car until one sweltering day visiting DC, stuck in traffic (in front of the Supreme Court no less)).
And which "1% of autos that have that particular problem" are you talking about. The mechanical fan thing only works sans pulleys for RWD cars. All front wheel drive cars (nearly all passenger cars in the US) have transverse mounted engines where the engine cranks parallel to the wheels, perpendicular to the radiator. That alone was enough to drive the mechanical fan out of existence.
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1> why doesn't the article include a direct link to the damn thing.
2> The declaration stinks of pointy haired people sitting in afternoon long meetings. I suppose it serves as a way to explain the value of openness to other pointy-haired people. As a Declaration of Independence, the prose soars exactly the way a bowling ball droped from a tall building might (it doesn't).
3> It still seems a little rich for IBM to be supporting a document that contradicts every aspect of IBM business practices through nearly its entire existence.
We will likely be using a large amount of oil to create hydrogen and even more to power massive ICE generators
Not likely. What we would probably be using is vast quantities of domestically mined coal, which is cheap to get and (I suspect) very easy to build hydrogen plants fueled thereby. There are tremendous reserves of coal in the US. The downside is that this coal would be nasty for the environment to remove cheaply, and nasty for the environment to burn.
Last I checked, my 60GB fat32 formatted USB drive was working just fine. XP/2K didn't want to format that large a partition, but my parents' old Win ME machine was pleased as punch to do it, and every machine/OS I've used it with has been just fine with it.
the vehicles do get better gas mileage than standard automobiles.
Perhaps... it's kinda hard to do the apples and oranges comparisons for fuel efficiency but:
- 89 Honda CRX HF (high fuel efficiency model) got me 35-40 MPG with a very marginal engine.
- 89 Pontiac Lemans - 33-37 MPG with an engine in fair to poor condition.
- 92 Honda Del Sol gets 30-35.
None of the quite matches the Insight or the prius, they rank right around the Civic Hybrid in spite of me being a bit lead-footed and the cars all being worn out.
I tried that for a couple years. The practice stopped abruptly when I got stranded in Flint, MI on the ugly-cold weekend before christmas last year with some sort of mystery problem and the shop I towed it to wanted to rape me because it wasn't REALLY american (even though it was a pontiac).
Not that I bought a new car, but with the mfrs trying so hard to peddle new cars, used cars are remarkably cheap right now.
Feh, my first PC was a 386DX16 clocked to 25. Jumpers? An effette innovation of the bourgeoise...
My first motherboard had a removable quartz crystal... 32 MHZ for a 16 MHZ cpu, 80 for a 40 MHZ cpu. (Anyone remember the old AMD 40 MHZ 386 chip? As I recall, there was an era when it was considered pretty nifty.)
Run your house with quality cat 5, maybe cat5e. At least cat5e supports gigabit ethernet, for which there are even dirt-cheap cards available. Make at least two drops, one for phone, one for network and your life will be happy. Try to drop some coax for television cable while you're at it.
Don't mess with fiber. It's fussy, expensive to put connectors on, expensive to get devices for, and I've yet to see any reason for normal people to use it. Gigabit over copper is probably enough bandwidth for anything you'll do at home (with the advent of ubiquitous switching, most applications only need a 10Mbit link anyway).
I know that if I ever kicked my Laserwriter Plus, I'd be the one worse for it. Ouch! That beast was heavy. Nestled among the usual warnings about any use of the device possibly causing injury was a note that the printer was heavy. It was still running fine when I threw it away because I didn't want to ever move it again.
Your failure to do a Debian install is hardly a personal failure. I'm as good at installing Operating Systems as just about anybody. I've done some really hairy installs like Xenix on a TRS-80 and OpenBSD on a Dec/MIPS workstation. I've even done a number of successfull installs with older versions of Debian. While I eventually succeeded at installing a recent version debian on each of the four computers I regularly use, it never was easy, and usually required me to take at least one heroic measure, and typically far more. Moreover, each install was difficult in it's own special way. Anyone short of a wizard could not make a current debian install go on current hardware.
It would have been easier if debian had just supplied a tar-ball of the minimally installed system and left me to create the filesystems, install the boot loader, etc...
These guys don't know what they're doing if they are banging on your servers every second. It is a strategy that is bound to make any competent admin irate and probably break things. Anything more than once-a-minute is probably overkill. Once every 5 minutes is a good window for most things. Your people are quite entitled to block them at the firewall.
Your sales people have to figure out how to appease the customers. That's their job. You are a tech and you'll just foul things up using tools like fairness and logic. I've been there.
Lastly, if they overflowed your log partition, you aren't monitoring enough things. It isn't enough to make sure that your sites are up, you need to make sure that the disks they depend on have enough free space, that the servers they run on don't have unnacceptible load spikes, etc... Comprehensive solutions are hard, but quick-and-dirty solutions aren't. Remember though that it's hard to send pages from a dead server and design accordingly.
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Also helpfull is that the gas electric doesn't have to haul around nearly as much battery weight. The EV1 1997 (Lead Acid) has a curb weight of 2922 lbs (2848 lbs for the 1999 NiMH model), and a payload of 440lbs / 2 seats. The 2001 Honda Insight curb weight is 1959 (almost 1000 lbs lighter) with its 410lb / 2 seat payload.
Notably, the NiMH EV1 and the Insight have similar energy costs/mile, depending on local conditions.
That sounds a lot like when I worked at Lucent during the Fiorina era. It was among the most unreal and disconcerting eras in my life. My little group was actually protected from lay-offs for that whole summer because three tiers (at least) of management structure retired at once. Since head count was viewed as being somewhat less desirable than AIDS the ensuing argument over which organization would be responsible for us kept us off everybody's books for months.
By the way, can anybody tell me what Lucent does these days? After all the lay-offs, spin-offs and write-offs, I've lost track.
I've taken to filtering my e-mail with whois and by protocol deviations. I can see how I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that the same aproach can be thrown at the refer spammers, that:
1> The headers their clients send are different than those of ordinary clients.
2> That the properties revealed by whois are different for refer spammer clients than for ordinary clients.
3> That the whois properties for the spam refer sites are different than those of legitimate sites.
I'll bet that ignoring input from/referring to China and Korea is a good start, and that the bogus sites will tend to cluster in identifiable networks.
IIRC (I don't have the computer I use for this handy), the magic piece of the puzzle is xine or mplayer and the 12 MBish windows codec pack. One or the other of these can read realaudio streams and transcode them to mp3 files. From there it's a matter of pushing the mp3 files out over shoutcast, or whatever the relevant stream format is, which will hopefully be fairly easy if the Linksys box plays shoutcast streams.
$345 shure was a lot of money when a house cost $22,000 and the average income was $3,960 (thanks to fiftiesweb).
A quick adjustment based on the 2001 median household income of $42228 (US Census Bureau) is $3,450... rather a lot of money.
1> As every one has so astutely pointed out, Alan Keys is a crank.
2> At no point in the race did Alan Keys have any chance of winning the election.
3> Alan Keys is a part a plan of either the old-line republicans to shame the fundamentalist wing of the party, or a plan by the fundamentalists to take over the republican party.
4> Alan Keys' publicly announce strategy to win this election is to say absurd and offensive things in hope of getting media coverage. Good job guys!
From what I can tell (not so much, but enough, and I have been around a fairly long time), there has Always been an open X11 implementation. The X.org kit has always been the reference implementation that everybody built their versions of X11 from, and to that end has always been under some variation of the BSD license, or at least from the very early days of Linux/*BSD.
XFree86 was a fork of the X Consortium (which ultimately mutated into X.org) when the X Consortium was the stodgy old line, conservative organization, and (again, if I'm not mistaken) it inherited those qualities from the X Consortium (which, I underline, has become X.org). It became the defacto reference implementation because the economics of the workstation business and of graphics cards made XFree86 the only set of drivers that people cared about.
And a Lot of work goes into making sure some cars are nice and quiet. My honda has an excessive system of tubing and a huge resonator on the air intake to keep it as quiet as possible.
Not only this, but my new laptop's ATI chip appears to Really work out of the box. I haven't much tested that the GLX/DRI extensions make a difference, but they Claim to be there and a quick test sez they work.
I believe you underestimate the cost of driving a mechanical fan. It's been a long time since I investigated, but I remember an estimate of tens of HP moving from a mechanical fan to an electric on some of the old ford V8 trucks. It sounds high when I think about it, but I'm guessing it's not cheap, especially in a context where my cars almost never run the fan (I wasn't entirely sure that I had a broken fan on one car until one sweltering day visiting DC, stuck in traffic (in front of the Supreme Court no less)).
And which "1% of autos that have that particular problem" are you talking about. The mechanical fan thing only works sans pulleys for RWD cars. All front wheel drive cars (nearly all passenger cars in the US) have transverse mounted engines where the engine cranks parallel to the wheels, perpendicular to the radiator. That alone was enough to drive the mechanical fan out of existence.
1> why doesn't the article include a direct link to the damn thing.
2> The declaration stinks of pointy haired people sitting in afternoon long meetings. I suppose it serves as a way to explain the value of openness to other pointy-haired people. As a Declaration of Independence, the prose soars exactly the way a bowling ball droped from a tall building might (it doesn't).
3> It still seems a little rich for IBM to be supporting a document that contradicts every aspect of IBM business practices through nearly its entire existence.
Support desk woke me up an hour ago, presumably becuase they couldn't be bothered to wake up the person responsible.
Damn 24x7x365 availability... they'll be trying to page me out even after I'm dead.
We will likely be using a large amount of oil to create hydrogen and even more to power massive ICE generators
Not likely. What we would probably be using is vast quantities of domestically mined coal, which is cheap to get and (I suspect) very easy to build hydrogen plants fueled thereby. There are tremendous reserves of coal in the US. The downside is that this coal would be nasty for the environment to remove cheaply, and nasty for the environment to burn.
It's not at all certain that the black death was caused by the bubonic plague.
There you go again, debasing our heros. Our children need diseases to aspire to.
Last I checked, my 60GB fat32 formatted USB drive was working just fine. XP/2K didn't want to format that large a partition, but my parents' old Win ME machine was pleased as punch to do it, and every machine/OS I've used it with has been just fine with it.
As for >4GB files, that's not my problem.
AST lists several independently developed systems of equivalent complexity to Mixix 1.0 / System 7. Here are a couple more I found:
OMU (6809 processor, ported to 68000) roughly system 7 but only single user, integrated shell.
http://tallyho.bc.nu/~steve/omu.html
UZI (Z80 processor, ported to 180, 280) roughly system 7: multitasking
http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html
the vehicles do get better gas mileage than standard automobiles.
Perhaps... it's kinda hard to do the apples and oranges comparisons for fuel efficiency but:
- 89 Honda CRX HF (high fuel efficiency model) got me 35-40 MPG with a very marginal engine.
- 89 Pontiac Lemans - 33-37 MPG with an engine in fair to poor condition.
- 92 Honda Del Sol gets 30-35.
None of the quite matches the Insight or the prius, they rank right around the Civic Hybrid in spite of me being a bit lead-footed and the cars all being worn out.
I tried that for a couple years. The practice stopped abruptly when I got stranded in Flint, MI on the ugly-cold weekend before christmas last year with some sort of mystery problem and the shop I towed it to wanted to rape me because it wasn't REALLY american (even though it was a pontiac).
Not that I bought a new car, but with the mfrs trying so hard to peddle new cars, used cars are remarkably cheap right now.
Feh, my first PC was a 386DX16 clocked to 25. Jumpers? An effette innovation of the bourgeoise...
My first motherboard had a removable quartz crystal... 32 MHZ for a 16 MHZ cpu, 80 for a 40 MHZ cpu. (Anyone remember the old AMD 40 MHZ 386 chip? As I recall, there was an era when it was considered pretty nifty.)
Run your house with quality cat 5, maybe cat5e. At least cat5e supports gigabit ethernet, for which there are even dirt-cheap cards available. Make at least two drops, one for phone, one for network and your life will be happy. Try to drop some coax for television cable while you're at it.
Don't mess with fiber. It's fussy, expensive to put connectors on, expensive to get devices for, and I've yet to see any reason for normal people to use it. Gigabit over copper is probably enough bandwidth for anything you'll do at home (with the advent of ubiquitous switching, most applications only need a 10Mbit link anyway).
I've kicked my Personal Laserwriter 320
I know that if I ever kicked my Laserwriter Plus, I'd be the one worse for it. Ouch! That beast was heavy. Nestled among the usual warnings about any use of the device possibly causing injury was a note that the printer was heavy. It was still running fine when I threw it away because I didn't want to ever move it again.
Your failure to do a Debian install is hardly a personal failure. I'm as good at installing Operating Systems as just about anybody. I've done some really hairy installs like Xenix on a TRS-80 and OpenBSD on a Dec/MIPS workstation. I've even done a number of successfull installs with older versions of Debian. While I eventually succeeded at installing a recent version debian on each of the four computers I regularly use, it never was easy, and usually required me to take at least one heroic measure, and typically far more. Moreover, each install was difficult in it's own special way. Anyone short of a wizard could not make a current debian install go on current hardware.
It would have been easier if debian had just supplied a tar-ball of the minimally installed system and left me to create the filesystems, install the boot loader, etc...
Does the fix also involve an inanimate carbon rod?
As "8-bit music promoter" Ihu Anyanuwu claims: "Right now there's too much fetishization of new technology.
And this isn't fetishizing old technology?
These guys don't know what they're doing if they are banging on your servers every second. It is a strategy that is bound to make any competent admin irate and probably break things. Anything more than once-a-minute is probably overkill. Once every 5 minutes is a good window for most things. Your people are quite entitled to block them at the firewall.
Your sales people have to figure out how to appease the customers. That's their job. You are a tech and you'll just foul things up using tools like fairness and logic. I've been there.
Lastly, if they overflowed your log partition, you aren't monitoring enough things. It isn't enough to make sure that your sites are up, you need to make sure that the disks they depend on have enough free space, that the servers they run on don't have unnacceptible load spikes, etc... Comprehensive solutions are hard, but quick-and-dirty solutions aren't. Remember though that it's hard to send pages from a dead server and design accordingly.