That's right...oil from something other than Jurassic Park leftovers. Sorry I think this is one thing the creationists are right about, oil doesn't come from rotten dinosaurs, coal probably from forrests, chemical make up is complex enough to be plant origin but not petrolium.
additionaly the energy/pressure requirements to turn methane into more complex organics like hexane are pretty steep, turning hexane into methane is do-able at a cost but going the other way is way to expensive methane != oil
Raising crops is far more difficult than cows Not so ever wonder where all of that good corn-fed beef gets it corn? Yup its grown and there isn't a trementdous difference between growing field corn and growsing sweet corn until harvest.
don't forget about alfalfa, clover. peas, and soy used in hay and silage. Also straw for bedding
Feed cattle 10lbs of food and you get 1 lbs of beef, feed humans 10lbs of food you get 1 lbs of human; just not a lot of difference so its easier to feed people insteed of cattle. Having said that, I like my beef, I just do.
If this guy had to compete with the gas/coal fired mega watt power plant, he'd be spreading undigested manure on the field like everyone else. Ever consider that in the next ten years there is going to be tremendous changes in the way that farms are operated in regards to run-off regulations that will basicaly require things like this.
Our city is being blamed for E. Colli contamination of the river/lake system because our sanitary-sewers are not completely seperated from storm sewers yet. The river that the over-flows occur in passes a Billion gallons a day yes that's correct a one with nine zeros after it. In a big storm, the combined portions of the system overflow into the river and all of the E. colli "swim" upstream against a current cuased by the billion gal per day to cause beaches 10 miles upstream to be closed. Guess what it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is caused by farm run off. When this is forced to be corrected then the cost's subsitized by the energy co-op is going to be collect at your grocery stores allong with appropriate mark-ups along the way.
I'm not "qualified" but I remember that during the late 60's our high school ecology club toured our city's waste-water treatment palnt and they were doing it then, used the methane to run the engine powered pumps in the primary loop. Later in college, late 70's after the Army, we again toured the facility and learned that the methane generation was no longer enough to run the all of the pumps because of the addition of secondary treatment but was still used to help the energy balance in the plant. A benefit that often forgotten is that engines run on methane need very little routine maintenace, there is no fuel dilution, combustion by-products don't turn into organic-acids and no carbon soot in the oil eating up the engine; so almost no oil changes or spark plugs are required and the engine seem to last forever.(same engine, probably 30-40 years old)
Remember that these guys are not really making a fair amount, they are collecting a fair amount, the methane would still be generated naturaly and released into the atmosphere eventualy. Methane is the second most powerful green-house gas and turning it into CO2 is more benificial than not make the CO2. One of the arguments against the greenhouse gas treaty was that the treaty didn't give us credit for things like this or for increasing forests to sequester atmospheric CO2. Waste water is pretty complex stuf conider that people eat a diverse diet, garbage disposals, laundry,dish and bath water, industrial effluents ect. but yes it does work
You don't sound like you have anywhere near the juice to get a total overhaul through the company regardless of how good your analysis is. This is probaly the crux of the matter, management is setting up the Linux thing for failure predominatly because they can say they "tried the Linux thing but it didn't work for us" this poor guy seems like he locked into a death spiral and if he even gets close to sucess they'll either cut his resources or increase his requirements. I'm sure any help he gets from us would be greatly appreciated.
Yess realy strange get front page to load once, find out I have mod points and then server errors, finaly get into a thread with only 28 posts and one of them is already modded up to +5! Methinks something is realy hockey here; so much for peer moderation on slashdot.
Sorry sick hummor I guess, Don't try that at home/work ect.
Anyways I'm sure even police don't come to an ISP as Big as Testra, kick in the doors and walk arround unescorted by someone that works there. It's not like crack dealers are going to flush the stuff when the cop's arrive. The article sounded kind of melodramatic by using the word raid, in reality it was more like "Do you want the original or is a back-up tape good enough?" when they were presented with the warrents.
Gentleman, unfortunatly our Halon Fire suppression system activated, and has locked down the area you are in, this necessitates that all 15 of you share the 5 scott's escape air pack providing 5 minutes of escape air until the fire department arives in about 10 minutes, have a nice day....
What the hell is a service industry, does anybody know? I think that the idea of a service industry is just some kind of pablum that we are feeding ourselves to placate our selves into thinking that there is some kind of hope that we can survive in the coming world economy.
I've always thought computer literacy was an oxymoron becuase people generaly can't/don't read and can't/don't follow instructions and very very few ever display critical thinking. All of these as we know are essential parts of computer literacy. I've often said better to teach kids to be literate than computer literate.
Well aprearently the Maine experience is proving me wrong. Way to go Maine hope you can continue.
sorry it's never go over the horizon, if go can't see there with your own eyes it wouldn't go. putting the transmitter and recievers up on towers and repeaters will help but it's still line-of-sight. it's cool for "last mile" stuff but probably no-good for long-haul
If I could get an inexpensive device that could communicate for about 10 miles,
Well off the top of my head I'd say that if you made a device like a colimater which is basicaly t telescope the light is shined thru backwards it would greatly increse the range. All of the light would be packed into a beam, Mirrors up to 10 inches in diameter and accurate to 1/10 wave are available. This would send a beam 10 inches in dia so any obstructions from snow would be much less likely. Amature astromomers make their own mirror, some times as large as 18 inches in dia. after that its a matter of just pumping enough power thru the thing.
The thing wouldn't be completely reliable, but I'd bet that when the system goes down the weather would be so bad that not many people would be at work anyways.
not to mention the possible inclution of spy-ware into the IM clients having security implications. I think some healthcare providers are going to get burned by this when HIPPA comes on line
what's faster old way, 1. stop what your doing, 2. talk on phone 3. write copius not about conversation 4. open word make 64Kb word.doc to contain 10kb memo of unsterstanding about above conversation. 5. Fax copy and send as an Email attachment(just to be sure) 6. talk on phone agian to make sure he got the fax and agrees. 7. fax ran out of toner so resend. 8. recall to make sure it worked this time.
new way 1. chat online with IM 2. both save a copy as a file of conversation.
and it interoperates one friend on MSN, no problem, one friend on Yahoo no problem, one friend on AOL usualy not a problem. and you can set up a conference between all of them a let them think your a freaken genius.
win32 clients for jabber were more polished than the Linux clients when I checked a few years ago.
why I would need to spend some money on something like this.
you absoultly don't need to spend any money, 1 Jabber is free as is the clients, you can use their server or set up your own. 2. Yahoo is free just tell your people a yahoo account is required period and that they have to run ymessenger at work.
IM is going to be one of those things that one year from now will be a disaster if it goes down. If nothing else think of all of the time spent by employees not having stop and answer a phone for Honey pick up milk messenges.
Of course, having said all that, Jabber r00lz. Funny you should say this because the article said "But users of different instant messaging systems cannot communicate readily with each other. AOL has the biggest IM system in the United States, followed by Microsoft and Yahoo." which is what most of the world is going to believe, basicaly AOL FUD. For me Jabber was easy to install and worked great out of the box, the clients were a little clunky but that was a few years ago, I sure things are much better now.( well linux clients, windows clients worked/looked great.) Jabber inter-operates with all major services and uses an XML format allowing even programs to communicate even if their IP addresses change.
don't go. living in Germany is different and the cost of living like an American will be horendous but if you do go, make sure to drink some local beer, not the mass-mechant stuff but the local brews if any still exists. Do some travelling see the sights meet some people in area where rude GI's/tourists haven't yet turned the people totaly off Americans. Food is good, the wine is better and the beer is great.
a lot of the problem is more in naming schemes rather than real an exampple is ymessenger, will no work in SuSE unless you make a link from what SuSE called libcrypt to what RedHat called libcrypt and bingo now it works.
The real biggest differense between distro's to me is that slackware uses the BSD style init scripts and everybody else uses system4 style init scripts.
Actualy 26 billion is cheap for what they're proposing to do which is re-invent the US Army.
These Linux systems are going into: new TANKs, new Command Vehicles, new support vehicles, new weapons system all the way down to new rifles and body armor all linked digitaly and all of this transportable in aircraft exisiting today.
mix and match subsystems for each mission way cool stuff. actualy they are even talking about remoutly opperated land vehicles and all of they systems interoperating on the fly, everybody can know what anybody else see or hear in various spectrums.
Think of this as more like a battleship where all of the combat and sensor systems are intigrated and apply it to an army.
So the tarpit slows my smtp way down, unless I've attached a 15MB Mpeg to my Emails I'd never notice. It would be "Gee mail a bit slow" if I noticed at all. Sending a couple GBs of spam would be a different story. I though this thing was supposed to analise in real-time so it would only effect my spam and not real Email coming from the same IP address.
if the tarpit is sensing that mail coming from your IP address has a high probabilty of being spam based on content signatures, it throtles down the bandwidth for your ip address, or at least that's the impression that I get.
My IP that are relatively clean may get 1.44 Mbs of bandwith, Evil-spammer only gets 14.4 Kbs. Evil-Spammer is getting blocked for all pratical resons because he's trying to send a Gigabyte of spams. It don't matter 1 thread gets 14.4 or 100,000 threads get 14.4Kbs. And all of this will change in real time.
MY MY that disk must of came out of your historical archives to have had Netscape in it. Maybe you should try a disrto were Gnome and KDE weren't ALPHA releases and see if you can reproduce the crashes.
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That's right...oil from something other than Jurassic Park leftovers.
Sorry I think this is one thing the creationists are right about, oil doesn't come from rotten dinosaurs, coal probably from forrests, chemical make up is complex enough to be plant origin but not petrolium.
additionaly the energy/pressure requirements to turn methane into more complex organics like hexane are pretty steep, turning hexane into methane is do-able at a cost but going the other way is way to expensive methane != oil
Raising crops is far more difficult than cows
Not so ever wonder where all of that good corn-fed beef gets it corn? Yup its grown and there isn't a trementdous difference between growing field corn and growsing sweet corn until harvest.
don't forget about alfalfa, clover. peas, and soy used in hay and silage. Also straw for bedding
Feed cattle 10lbs of food and you get 1 lbs of beef, feed humans 10lbs of food you get 1 lbs of human; just not a lot of difference so its easier to feed people insteed of cattle.
Having said that, I like my beef, I just do.
If this guy had to compete with the gas/coal fired mega watt power plant, he'd be spreading undigested manure on the field like everyone else.
Ever consider that in the next ten years there is going to be tremendous changes in the way that farms are operated in regards to run-off regulations that will basicaly require things like this.
Our city is being blamed for E. Colli contamination of the river/lake system because our sanitary-sewers are not completely seperated from storm sewers yet. The river that the over-flows occur in passes a Billion gallons a day yes that's correct a one with nine zeros after it. In a big storm, the combined portions of the system overflow into the river and all of the E. colli "swim" upstream against a current cuased by the billion gal per day to cause beaches 10 miles upstream to be closed. Guess what it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is caused by farm run off. When this is forced to be corrected then the cost's subsitized by the energy co-op is going to be collect at your grocery stores allong with appropriate mark-ups along the way.
I'm not "qualified" but I remember that during the late 60's our high school ecology club toured our city's waste-water treatment palnt and they were doing it then, used the methane to run the engine powered pumps in the primary loop.
Later in college, late 70's after the Army, we again toured the facility and learned that the methane generation was no longer enough to run the all of the pumps because of the addition of secondary treatment but was still used to help the energy balance in the plant. A benefit that often forgotten is that engines run on methane need very little routine maintenace, there is no fuel dilution, combustion by-products don't turn into organic-acids and no carbon soot in the oil eating up the engine; so almost no oil changes or spark plugs are required and the engine seem to last forever.(same engine, probably 30-40 years old)
Remember that these guys are not really making a fair amount, they are collecting a fair amount, the methane would still be generated naturaly and released into the atmosphere eventualy. Methane is the second most powerful green-house gas and turning it into CO2 is more benificial than not make the CO2. One of the arguments against the greenhouse gas treaty was that the treaty didn't give us credit for things like this or for increasing forests to sequester atmospheric CO2.
Waste water is pretty complex stuf conider that people eat a diverse diet, garbage disposals, laundry,dish and bath water, industrial effluents ect. but yes it does work
You don't sound like you have anywhere near the juice to get a total overhaul through the company regardless of how good your analysis is.
This is probaly the crux of the matter, management is setting up the Linux thing for failure predominatly because they can say they "tried the Linux thing but it didn't work for us" this poor guy seems like he locked into a death spiral and if he even gets close to sucess they'll either cut his resources or increase his requirements. I'm sure any help he gets from us would be greatly appreciated.
Yess realy strange get front page to load once, find out I have mod points and then server errors, finaly get into a thread with only 28 posts and one of them is already modded up to +5!
Methinks something is realy hockey here; so much for peer moderation on slashdot.
Sorry sick hummor I guess, Don't try that at home/work ect.
Anyways I'm sure even police don't come to an ISP as Big as Testra, kick in the doors and walk arround unescorted by someone that works there. It's not like crack dealers are going to flush the stuff when the cop's arrive. The article sounded kind of melodramatic by using the word raid, in reality it was more like "Do you want the original or is a back-up tape good enough?" when they were presented with the warrents.
Gentleman, unfortunatly our Halon Fire suppression system activated, and has locked down the area you are in, this necessitates that all 15 of you share the 5 scott's escape air pack providing 5 minutes of escape air until the fire department arives in about 10 minutes, have a nice day....
What the hell is a service industry, does anybody know? I think that the idea of a service industry is just some kind of pablum that we are feeding ourselves to placate our selves into thinking that there is some kind of hope that we can survive in the coming world economy.
I've always thought computer literacy was an oxymoron becuase people generaly can't/don't read and can't/don't follow instructions and very very few ever display critical thinking. All of these as we know are essential parts of computer literacy. I've often said better to teach kids to be literate than computer literate.
Well aprearently the Maine experience is proving me wrong. Way to go Maine hope you can continue.
sorry it's never go over the horizon, if go can't see there with your own eyes it wouldn't go. putting the transmitter and recievers up on towers and repeaters will help but it's still line-of-sight. it's cool for "last mile" stuff but probably no-good for long-haul
If I could get an inexpensive device that could communicate for about 10 miles,
Well off the top of my head I'd say that if you made a device like a colimater which is basicaly t telescope the light is shined thru backwards it would greatly increse the range. All of the light would be packed into a beam, Mirrors up to 10 inches in diameter and accurate to 1/10 wave are available. This would send a beam 10 inches in dia so any obstructions from snow would be much less likely. Amature astromomers make their own mirror, some times as large as 18 inches in dia. after that its a matter of just pumping enough power thru the thing.
The thing wouldn't be completely reliable, but I'd bet that when the system goes down the weather would be so bad that not many people would be at work anyways.
So what counts as p()rn?
nudity
genital photos
simulated sex
real sex
bsdm
not to mention the possible inclution of spy-ware into the IM clients having security implications. I think some healthcare providers are going to get burned by this when HIPPA comes on line
what's faster old way,
1. stop what your doing,
2. talk on phone
3. write copius not about conversation
4. open word make 64Kb word.doc to contain 10kb memo of unsterstanding about above conversation.
5. Fax copy and send as an Email attachment(just to be sure)
6. talk on phone agian to make sure he got the fax and agrees.
7. fax ran out of toner so resend.
8. recall to make sure it worked this time.
new way
1. chat online with IM
2. both save a copy as a file of conversation.
and it interoperates one friend on MSN, no problem, one friend on Yahoo no problem, one friend on AOL usualy not a problem. and you can set up a conference between all of them a let them think your a freaken genius.
win32 clients for jabber were more polished than the Linux clients when I checked a few years ago.
why I would need to spend some money on something like this.
you absoultly don't need to spend any money,
1 Jabber is free as is the clients, you can use their server or set up your own.
2. Yahoo is free just tell your people a yahoo account is required period and that they have to run ymessenger at work.
IM is going to be one of those things that one year from now will be a disaster if it goes down. If nothing else think of all of the time spent by employees not having stop and answer a phone for Honey pick up milk messenges.
Of course, having said all that, Jabber r00lz. Funny you should say this because the article said "But users of different instant messaging systems cannot communicate readily with each other. AOL has the biggest IM system in the United States, followed by Microsoft and Yahoo." which is what most of the world is going to believe, basicaly AOL FUD.
For me Jabber was easy to install and worked great out of the box, the clients were a little clunky but that was a few years ago, I sure things are much better now.( well linux clients, windows clients worked/looked great.)
Jabber inter-operates with all major services and uses an XML format allowing even programs to communicate even if their IP addresses change.
I've used NFS at home wo/complaints but my home network hardly counts as a high-performance enterprise level thingy.
Samba at work gets flakey at times but I think its the windows machines rather than the server and I don't know enough about to figure out for sure.
don't go.
living in Germany is different and the cost of living like an American will be horendous but if you do go, make sure to drink some local beer, not the mass-mechant stuff but the local brews if any still exists. Do some travelling see the sights meet some people in area where rude GI's/tourists haven't yet turned the people totaly off Americans. Food is good, the wine is better and the beer is great.
a lot of the problem is more in naming schemes rather than real an exampple is ymessenger, will no work in SuSE unless you make a link from what SuSE called libcrypt to what RedHat called libcrypt and bingo now it works.
The real biggest differense between distro's to me is that slackware uses the BSD style init scripts and everybody else uses system4 style init scripts.
Actualy 26 billion is cheap for what they're proposing to do which is re-invent the US Army.
These Linux systems are going into:
new TANKs, new Command Vehicles, new support vehicles, new weapons system all the way down to new rifles and body armor all linked digitaly and all of this transportable in aircraft exisiting today.
mix and match subsystems for each mission way cool stuff. actualy they are even talking about remoutly opperated land vehicles and all of they systems interoperating on the fly, everybody can know what anybody else see or hear in various spectrums.
Think of this as more like a battleship where all of the combat and sensor systems are intigrated and apply it to an army.
So the tarpit slows my smtp way down, unless I've attached a 15MB Mpeg to my Emails I'd never notice. It would be "Gee mail a bit slow" if I noticed at all. Sending a couple GBs of spam would be a different story. I though this thing was supposed to analise in real-time so it would only effect my spam and not real Email coming from the same IP address.
if the tarpit is sensing that mail coming from your IP address has a high probabilty of being spam based on content signatures, it throtles down the bandwidth for your ip address, or at least that's the impression that I get.
My IP that are relatively clean may get 1.44 Mbs of bandwith, Evil-spammer only gets 14.4 Kbs. Evil-Spammer is getting blocked for all pratical resons because he's trying to send a Gigabyte of spams. It don't matter 1 thread gets 14.4 or 100,000 threads get 14.4Kbs. And all of this will change in real time.
MY MY that disk must of came out of your historical archives to have had Netscape in it. Maybe you should try a disrto were Gnome and KDE weren't ALPHA releases and see if you can reproduce the crashes.