Some people just seem to have gremlins suck on them and if anything can break, they'll break it. Some of these people have to be newbies.
Actually most newbie's are going to be intimidated to even post a bug or unexpected behaviour thinking that they've done something "wrong".
I'd think it would be a good Idea when testing the software to get some newbies to do it, you'd have a better Idea of the throughness of the doc's, the intuitiveness of the UI ect.
I've never seen any trace of graphite in WD40, I buy the stuff in Gallon cans. WD40 is typicaly used for cleaning, it'll cut thru waxes and grease and adhesives pretty good. A well known use is is to use it to dry out wet electrical devices , just power off anything that might arc before application. I frequently use it on the base of light bulbs before I replace them, they screw in and out a lot easier and last about twice as long because the bases don't arc through.
Now if you said it's a bad IDEA because it would eventualy WASH OUT THE HEATSINK COMPOUND between the heatsink and the processor, I'd say yeah I tought of that problem half way between clicking submit and arriving at work.
I have to agree that other sources of the pulses should be ruled out, it just seems likely to my lay mind that something that dense, and spinning that rapidly would very likely be very homogenous. This would decrese the probability that the emissions come from that small of a area of the total surface.
The other thing that seems hockey is these are pulses in the range of 0.5 -1 GHz, what kind of carrier freq are they looking at? I don't think anybody should get to excited untill ther's indendent confirmation use different equipment.
It might just be a fridge. Actually its a bit small for a fridge, If you could canablize a dorm sized fridge and was good bending tubing, you could probablby get about 8 quad processor mobo's to fit and you'd have about the coolest over-clocked beowolf cluster arround. Maybe put in a pump and have it recirculate WD40 over the non-cpu parts of the boards for cooling the memory and controling condesation.
Image the looks on your friends faces the first time they helped themselves to a beer.
Back in the old days when we walked twenty miles to school bare-footed in waist deep snow uphill both ways our CMOS computers used static circuits and static ram, 500 nSec. there was a switch on the front that would disable the clock oscilator and connect the clock line to a push-button and to debug a program the computer you would single step through it, by single stepping the computer, push the button, the clock line cycled once and you could figure out what the programming was doing with a comparison to your calculations with pencil and paper. Now-a-days, single-stepping a program is just a software simulation. Of course back then a cpu speed of 1.8 Mhz was fast.
It's somewhat counter-intuative but the stopper is really capacitance. it takes so much energy to charge the transitors and interconnectios so the higher the clock freq, the more energy it takes. on the other hand reducing the size reduces the capcitance and the energy requirements and therefore the heat generated by the cpu core, thats while when all other things are equal a 13 micron processor will run faster than a 25 micron processor.
If the site doesnt work with your browser, set to your "home-page" and get as many people as you can to follow suit. No excuse for this in this day and age, call their support lines; fill up their error logs make noise.
I agree. as a Yank, there is not much more impressive than get drunk in a bar twice as old as your country. The one I would get drunk in in Germany was build out of brick the walls were thick and the typical construction had the bricks interlocking in two dimensions rather than the one dimention interlock typical in america wher brick is used more as an aesthetic outer layer on the wall. The European bricks are also thicker, taller than american bricks and the edges are also curregated to increas adhesion with the mortar. The bar was showen in a fresco on the wall showing the town as it existed in the 1600's. The hardest part to replicate today is the beams used to support the floor, it was probably thick, dense wood from an old-growth forrests that would be immpossible to get today, these forrest that still exsist today are simply to precious to use for lumber; altho today in the US people dive in rivers to find logs that sunk durring the logging boom and raise them to sell, the wood was so dense that the logs wouldn't float.
I remember someone telling me that the typical German home is built for multiple generations and is finaced with a hundred year mortgage.
We probably agree far more than either of us would like to admit. When I said good science, I meant a process of investigation where conclusions are basicaly in agreement with observed facts; and sometime I have to admit that "good Science" disagrees with what I like or dislike on an emoitional level. Bad science on the other hand is what is done to support an investigator personal or sponcered agenda. Bad Science typicaly designs experimants and observations to favor pre-concieved outcomes, filters data or even falsifies data to support conclusions.
As I said in my original post atmosperic interaction are complex, no-linear(chaos therory) and chaotic. Things are unpredictable.
The ability to see or resolve is a function of the wavelength of the photon and the appature of the recieving device.
a six inch telescope has an appature of about 10 million wavelength, most radio antenna have an appature of 1/2 of a wavelenght so the telescope is able to seperate individual photon sources about 40 million times better all other things being equal.
Well let's say it's likely that a crime cartel exists selling bootleged copies of say Windows XP ect. to asians are paying protection to terrorists to get their product to their consumers, it's still a long stretch to say that p2p networks alowing people to download out-of-print software, warez, are connected. After all we know that if I download some p2p porn mpegs that it doesn't hurt the pornographer that are probably heavily infiltrated by organised criminals don't we.
No I have to agree it's just a case of them using the latest buzz-word "supports terrorists" to their advantage
Yes, we allege that SCO-Caldera could not have possibly have been smart enough to have brought their product to market without violate SCO-Caldera's Intelectual Property.
no seriously Caldera probably violated the same IP as IBM, but it was SCO's IP(still trying to figure out what the IP actualy was) at the time. So releasing it per GPL was probably illegal. Caldera then bought SCO after the fact, so now SCO isn't likely to file complaints against itself. WARNING if you think about this too hard you may get a headache, the whole thing seems prety bizzar
Just bought the wife a new 'puter with WinXP, nice machine too,now I get IM SPAM.
Neither of us have ever used MSN IM client. but it gets IM SPAM. that means that the machine is automaticaly logging in to a MSN server that I didn't give it permission to login to and opening a port from the machine to MICROSOFT and MICROSOFT is alowing SPAMMERS to IM us.
They have sold my name to spammers, the spammers know my name. This is not my Email address but myname god only knows what else they've sold. That's probably the last time that I'll ever get a MICROSOFT product and that means that I'm telling Gateway and Dell and all of those other clueless loser companies, "lie with dogs, wake up with fleas". If I can't get it without Windows, I'll build my own!
How about the guys overseas that have a big-assed list of email addresses real and imagined, I buy an account get a email address to send one email to the address and the scripts on the server strips off the original Email address add some forged headers and starts spewing out the same Email to every name of the list rotating between known open-relays?
these guys get busted and it off to an other country, get a co-located server and do it again.
punish companies that *hire* spammers, When I feel spunky and complain about the spam I recieve I complain mainly to the people who will benefit from the spam i.e. the companies trying to sell something, and I usualy tell them that the spam placed them on, My do not do business with list. It commercial so somebody benefits, go there
The way I see it is bandwidth on the user's side of the ISP's network is cheap, bandwidth from the ISP's network to the internet is expensive.
So the 1st solution is to over sell your bandwith in the hopes that not everbody is going to use the bandwidth at the sametime, this thing works great when I'm download patches at 06:30, works pathetic when I download patches at 20:30. I looked into the ISP thing year's ago and the telco guy said the rule of thumb was three business users per b channel (re in 18.6Kbs/user) thirty home users per b channel(re 1.8Kbs/user), so a T1 with 23 b Channels is suposed to support 690 users! Now you know why getting that expensive 56K modem ten years ago didn't do jack)
The second part of the solution is to install a transpearent proxy on the network so that every request doesn't have to leave the ISP's network thereby aggreagating all of the user's requests into one request saving ton's of bandwith inbound.
Unfortunatly not all of us do things that cache well like running servers, file sharing ect. So the bean-counters dream are giving way to the net-admins warnings and all of the pointy-haired bosses are blaming the customers and everbody else rather than coming up with the real solution. Which I see as
IP6 NOW, we need the name-space (probably should have went to IP8 instead why go through all of this pain again next century) and give everybody a static IP or even ten or twenty
give everybody a domain name and set up for alternative domain resolutions
If I am served to or from the ISP's network I get full available bandwith unlimited traffic inside that bandwith(have domain names and statiic IP's should make this do-able)
if I'm served by cache-able and cached get full available bandwith and unlimited traffic
cache misses get a percentage of the available bandwith to the internet, say somewhere between 60-80%
un-chacheable outside traffic gets to share the remaining bandwidth.
This just seems a more honest way to do it to me. Also ISP's could setup links between their networks and market it as a value added thing imagine getting a full speed connection from a internet friends 'puter on Warner in Milwalkee and yours in Detroit on Comcast (Hint Hint cable guys, its not like your realy competitors you know; DSL provider could never do this).
nothing self-regulating about CO2 produced by burning of fossil fuels.
the only one that I can't think of a self-regulating mechanism of the top of my head is alkanes like methane. Example
CO2 increases, more get disolved into rain water to be deposited into the ocean where plankton photosynthesis turns it back into O2 also calcium ions in the ocean turn the acidic carbonic acid into limestone
sulpher oxide also get disolved into water to make the nasty acid rain, I've rain durring the summer in my area and gotten a pH as low as 5 so the sulph*tes are coming out of the air and again will be absorbed by calcium to become plaster
actualy even alkanes like methane will eventualy become peroxidised and disolve into organic acids and/or alcohol in the water and eventuanly be bio-degraded
The facts are that we don't know if global-warming is occuring and that the current evidence is point toward it is occuring but not enough for a rational person to say one way or the other.
The temperature regulation mechanisms of a planet is a highly complicated nonlinear self-referential chaotic system and a small change to one part such as increasing CO2 could have no effect, acutaly result in thing getting warmer, or even things getting cooler. We just don't know and if we're lucky will never know. Saying we do know is an emotional argument and bad science, clouding the issue.
I've seen them and there are many more than you'd imagnine. Replicans are an evil lot whose purpose in life is to produce Replicants! just GOOGLE for replicans and you'll get 10 pages, how that for proof?
We need to line our hats with aluminum foil to keep out the magnetic waves they produce(the replicants), no wonder GM is pulling the EV1, inductivly coupled charging mechanism just think of all the magnetic waves these thing must produce! Much better to use a normal plug to charge it who cares if the cars blow-up in the car wash from shorting out and if a toodler sticks a metal fork in the plug and get electrocuted, well his mother should have just watched them better that's all.
Are you guys kidding or am I realy that old, IBM made Microsoft. Quite literaly microsoft was Bill Gates in a garage set-up hacking on Basic (a computer language designed to help teach Fortran in a friendly way). IBM had an OS they called IBM-DOS and hired microsoft to polish it up for their new product called a Personal Computer, and also liciensed microsoft to distribute DOS as MS-DOS to the clone market. In those days single-source was bad. Anyways that's the way I remember it, but I also walked to school 20 MI uphill both directions in waist deep snow with no shoes too so some of the details may be a little fuzzy
SCO/Caldera might get laughed out of the Linux business. Caldera was the NUMBER ONE business distro for Linux. But they forgot the number one rule of business which is "what business am I in?" this rule keeps you focused and keeps people from laughing. Who's Caldera now, anybody know? Linux to embedded systems to DOS clones fro embedded systems to litigetion for profit.
An other example HP Engineering technology, high class calculators-high ticket test equipment, then high end server, then high end desk top then commodity desktops maybe soon just printers and a death spiral.
Maybe they think having a name at the table will add creditability to the claims. On thing I've noticed is when you bring in the big guns from outa town, the judge tends to bitchslap you a lot if you don't have at least two homeboys of the judge at the table too.
Frequently the local lawyers 1 do all of the real work, 2 do most of the standing up in court 3 keep the big-gun lawyer from doing stupid stuff that pisses off the judge
So David Boies has been in a lot of high profile cases, but I don't remember his win/loss record being particualry impressive, in short he's probably there for show not go
I tried to read the complaint, I really did try, but all I seemed to get out of it is Caldera, er I mean SCO saying IBM had purchased the rights to look at our source code for Unix which works good, and Linux works good so they must have stolen our IP. So while IANAL the whole thing seems to be amateur crap. I guess we could say a SCO law suit is to IBM as a bicycle is to a Luxury Car.
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Some people just seem to have gremlins suck on them and if anything can break, they'll break it. Some of these people have to be newbies.
Actually most newbie's are going to be intimidated to even post a bug or unexpected behaviour thinking that they've done something "wrong".
I'd think it would be a good Idea when testing the software to get some newbies to do it, you'd have a better Idea of the throughness of the doc's, the intuitiveness of the UI ect.
I've never seen any trace of graphite in WD40, I buy the stuff in Gallon cans. WD40 is typicaly used for cleaning, it'll cut thru waxes and grease and adhesives pretty good. A well known use is is to use it to dry out wet electrical devices , just power off anything that might arc before application. I frequently use it on the base of light bulbs before I replace them, they screw in and out a lot easier and last about twice as long because the bases don't arc through.
Now if you said it's a bad IDEA because it would eventualy WASH OUT THE HEATSINK COMPOUND between the heatsink and the processor, I'd say yeah I tought of that problem half way between clicking submit and arriving at work.
I have to agree that other sources of the pulses should be ruled out, it just seems likely to my lay mind that something that dense, and spinning that rapidly would very likely be very homogenous. This would decrese the probability that the emissions come from that small of a area of the total surface.
The other thing that seems hockey is these are pulses in the range of 0.5 -1 GHz, what kind of carrier freq are they looking at? I don't think anybody should get to excited untill ther's indendent confirmation use different equipment.
It might just be a fridge. Actually its a bit small for a fridge, If you could canablize a dorm sized fridge and was good bending tubing, you could probablby get about 8 quad processor mobo's to fit and you'd have about the coolest over-clocked beowolf cluster arround. Maybe put in a pump and have it recirculate WD40 over the non-cpu parts of the boards for cooling the memory and controling condesation.
Image the looks on your friends faces the first time they helped themselves to a beer.
Back in the old days when we walked twenty miles to school bare-footed in waist deep snow uphill both ways our CMOS computers used static circuits and static ram, 500 nSec. there was a switch on the front that would disable the clock oscilator and connect the clock line to a push-button and to debug a program the computer you would single step through it, by single stepping the computer, push the button, the clock line cycled once and you could figure out what the programming was doing with a comparison to your calculations with pencil and paper. Now-a-days, single-stepping a program is just a software simulation. Of course back then a cpu speed of 1.8 Mhz was fast.
It's somewhat counter-intuative but the stopper is really capacitance. it takes so much energy to charge the transitors and interconnectios so the higher the clock freq, the more energy it takes. on the other hand reducing the size reduces the capcitance and the energy requirements and therefore the heat generated by the cpu core, thats while when all other things are equal a 13 micron processor will run faster than a 25 micron processor.
If the site doesnt work with your browser, set to your "home-page" and get as many people as you can to follow suit. No excuse for this in this day and age, call their support lines; fill up their error logs make noise.
I agree. as a Yank, there is not much more impressive than get drunk in a bar twice as old as your country. The one I would get drunk in in Germany was build out of brick the walls were thick and the typical construction had the bricks interlocking in two dimensions rather than the one dimention interlock typical in america wher brick is used more as an aesthetic outer layer on the wall. The European bricks are also thicker, taller than american bricks and the edges are also curregated to increas adhesion with the mortar. The bar was showen in a fresco on the wall showing the town as it existed in the 1600's. The hardest part to replicate today is the beams used to support the floor, it was probably thick, dense wood from an old-growth forrests that would be immpossible to get today, these forrest that still exsist today are simply to precious to use for lumber; altho today in the US people dive in rivers to find logs that sunk durring the logging boom and raise them to sell, the wood was so dense that the logs wouldn't float.
I remember someone telling me that the typical German home is built for multiple generations and is finaced with a hundred year mortgage.
We probably agree far more than either of us would like to admit. When I said good science, I meant a process of investigation where conclusions are basicaly in agreement with observed facts; and sometime I have to admit that "good Science" disagrees with what I like or dislike on an emoitional level. Bad science on the other hand is what is done to support an investigator personal or sponcered agenda. Bad Science typicaly designs experimants and observations to favor pre-concieved outcomes, filters data or even falsifies data to support conclusions.
As I said in my original post atmosperic interaction are complex, no-linear(chaos therory) and chaotic. Things are unpredictable.
The ability to see or resolve is a function of the wavelength of the photon and the appature of the recieving device.
a six inch telescope has an appature of about 10 million wavelength, most radio antenna have an appature of 1/2 of a wavelenght so the telescope is able to seperate individual photon sources about 40 million times better all other things being equal.
Well let's say it's likely that a crime cartel exists selling bootleged copies of say Windows XP ect. to asians are paying protection to terrorists to get their product to their consumers, it's still a long stretch to say that p2p networks alowing people to download out-of-print software, warez, are connected. After all we know that if I download some p2p porn mpegs that it doesn't hurt the pornographer that are probably heavily infiltrated by organised criminals don't we.
No I have to agree it's just a case of them using the latest buzz-word "supports terrorists" to their advantage
Yes, we allege that SCO-Caldera could not have possibly have been smart enough to have brought their product to market without violate SCO-Caldera's Intelectual Property.
no seriously Caldera probably violated the same IP as IBM, but it was SCO's IP(still trying to figure out what the IP actualy was) at the time. So releasing it per GPL was probably illegal. Caldera then bought SCO after the fact, so now SCO isn't likely to file complaints against itself. WARNING if you think about this too hard you may get a headache, the whole thing seems prety bizzar
lot of other fixes for performance
Sorry but I've had 1.3b for about a week now and it's slow and it broke galeon too.
Just bought the wife a new 'puter with WinXP, nice machine too,now I get IM SPAM. Neither of us have ever used MSN IM client. but it gets IM SPAM. that means that the machine is automaticaly logging in to a MSN server that I didn't give it permission to login to and opening a port from the machine to MICROSOFT and MICROSOFT is alowing SPAMMERS to IM us. They have sold my name to spammers, the spammers know my name. This is not my Email address but myname god only knows what else they've sold. That's probably the last time that I'll ever get a MICROSOFT product and that means that I'm telling Gateway and Dell and all of those other clueless loser companies, "lie with dogs, wake up with fleas". If I can't get it without Windows, I'll build my own!
How about the guys overseas that have a big-assed list of email addresses real and imagined, I buy an account get a email address to send one email to the address and the scripts on the server strips off the original Email address add some forged headers and starts spewing out the same Email to every name of the list rotating between known open-relays?
these guys get busted and it off to an other country, get a co-located server and do it again.
punish companies that *hire* spammers, When I feel spunky and complain about the spam I recieve I complain mainly to the people who will benefit from the spam i.e. the companies trying to sell something, and I usualy tell them that the spam placed them on, My do not do business with list. It commercial so somebody benefits, go there
I've got a default account where non-existant users get about 17MB a week. To cope I just upload a zero length file by ftp
So the 1st solution is to over sell your bandwith in the hopes that not everbody is going to use the bandwidth at the sametime, this thing works great when I'm download patches at 06:30, works pathetic when I download patches at 20:30. I looked into the ISP thing year's ago and the telco guy said the rule of thumb was three business users per b channel (re in 18.6Kbs/user) thirty home users per b channel(re 1.8Kbs/user), so a T1 with 23 b Channels is suposed to support 690 users! Now you know why getting that expensive 56K modem ten years ago didn't do jack)
The second part of the solution is to install a transpearent proxy on the network so that every request doesn't have to leave the ISP's network thereby aggreagating all of the user's requests into one request saving ton's of bandwith inbound.
Unfortunatly not all of us do things that cache well like running servers, file sharing ect. So the bean-counters dream are giving way to the net-admins warnings and all of the pointy-haired bosses are blaming the customers and everbody else rather than coming up with the real solution. Which I see as
This just seems a more honest way to do it to me. Also ISP's could setup links between their networks and market it as a value added thing imagine getting a full speed connection from a internet friends 'puter on Warner in Milwalkee and yours in Detroit on Comcast (Hint Hint cable guys, its not like your realy competitors you know; DSL provider could never do this).
- CO2 increases, more get disolved into rain water to be deposited into the ocean where plankton photosynthesis turns it back into O2 also calcium ions in the ocean turn the acidic carbonic acid into limestone
- sulpher oxide also get disolved into water to make the nasty acid rain, I've rain durring the summer in my area and gotten a pH as low as 5 so the sulph*tes are coming out of the air and again will be absorbed by calcium to become plaster
- actualy even alkanes like methane will eventualy become peroxidised and disolve into organic acids and/or alcohol in the water and eventuanly be bio-degraded
The facts are that we don't know if global-warming is occuring and that the current evidence is point toward it is occuring but not enough for a rational person to say one way or the other. The temperature regulation mechanisms of a planet is a highly complicated nonlinear self-referential chaotic system and a small change to one part such as increasing CO2 could have no effect, acutaly result in thing getting warmer, or even things getting cooler. We just don't know and if we're lucky will never know. Saying we do know is an emotional argument and bad science, clouding the issue.Sorry CO2 is number four in greenhouse gases in strength, right behind number 3 water vapor; so you'd have to leave out the and part.
I've seen them and there are many more than you'd imagnine. Replicans are an evil lot whose purpose in life is to produce Replicants! just GOOGLE for replicans and you'll get 10 pages, how that for proof?
We need to line our hats with aluminum foil to keep out the magnetic waves they produce(the replicants), no wonder GM is pulling the EV1, inductivly coupled charging mechanism just think of all the magnetic waves these thing must produce! Much better to use a normal plug to charge it who cares if the cars blow-up in the car wash from shorting out and if a toodler sticks a metal fork in the plug and get electrocuted, well his mother should have just watched them better that's all.
Are you guys kidding or am I realy that old, IBM made Microsoft. Quite literaly microsoft was Bill Gates in a garage set-up hacking on Basic (a computer language designed to help teach Fortran in a friendly way). IBM had an OS they called IBM-DOS and hired microsoft to polish it up for their new product called a Personal Computer, and also liciensed microsoft to distribute DOS as MS-DOS to the clone market. In those days single-source was bad. Anyways that's the way I remember it, but I also walked to school 20 MI uphill both directions in waist deep snow with no shoes too so some of the details may be a little fuzzy
SCO/Caldera might get laughed out of the Linux business.
Caldera was the NUMBER ONE business distro for Linux. But they forgot the number one rule of business which is "what business am I in?" this rule keeps you focused and keeps people from laughing. Who's Caldera now, anybody know? Linux to embedded systems to DOS clones fro embedded systems to litigetion for profit.
An other example HP Engineering technology, high class calculators-high ticket test equipment, then high end server, then high end desk top then commodity desktops maybe soon just printers and a death spiral.
Maybe they think having a name at the table will add creditability to the claims. On thing I've noticed is when you bring in the big guns from outa town, the judge tends to bitchslap you a lot if you don't have at least two homeboys of the judge at the table too.
Frequently the local lawyers
1 do all of the real work,
2 do most of the standing up in court
3 keep the big-gun lawyer from doing stupid stuff that pisses off the judge
So David Boies has been in a lot of high profile cases, but I don't remember his win/loss record being particualry impressive, in short he's probably there for show not go
I tried to read the complaint, I really did try, but all I seemed to get out of it is Caldera, er I mean SCO saying IBM had purchased the rights to look at our source code for Unix which works good, and Linux works good so they must have stolen our IP. So while IANAL the whole thing seems to be amateur crap. I guess we could say a SCO law suit is to IBM as a bicycle is to a Luxury Car.