It depends on your provider and what you negotiate. A friend and I run a couple of servers out of my house, and we have the lowest-tier commercial cable connection that Cox will provide. We have an SLA that kicks in after 30 minutes, and the one time that service has been interrupted, they made good on it.
Additionally, we pay for a 3.0Mbps downstream connection, and wget, Firefox, and ksysguard routinely tell me I'm getting a full 400KB/s download rate.
The SoX utility is quite useful for scripted or automated mangling of audio files. While a dedicated MP3-splitting program would certainly work just fine, SoX has a "trim" command that cuts a certain section out of the file; "sox trim [randomstart] 00:00:30" would grab 30 seconds starting from whenever you want.
Because, from experience, putting a 3ware controller in a 64-bit/66MHz slot is more than 4 times faster than putting the same controller in a 32-bit/33MHz slot. If you're paying for the controller and the array, don't skimp and cheat yourself out of 80% of the performance because you won't pay for a decent motherboard.
And that is exactly the blind spot that Microsoft is just now starting to realize it has--that there are a lot of good programmers out there who are not working for a software company and want to program on their spare time. While most companies will swallow $1000 like a drop of water, the hobbyists (and remember where Linux, Apache, and friends started) will go elsewhere.
The language taught in school means nothing. If you're a good programmer you can take the skills you learned in Java and apply them to whatever you use in real life.
Sure, the programmer can. The issue, though, is mindshare; remember the article a bit back that pointed out how Linux is usually presented to management types as arcane and not for desktops. If Java is the language that the non-programmers hear is popular while they're in school, they'll tend to gravitate toward it when they're overspecifying projects later on.
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At Brookhaven National Lab, the high-voltage systems are considered relatively safe. It's the 5V electronics-power distribution systems that carry upwards of 600A and have fuses bigger around than your fist. Shorting one of those with a wrench would make the wrench explode.
Oddly enough, the "fast" chargers (1-hour, usually) are better for the batteries than the usual 5- or 12-hour models (assuming they don't overcharge them). While this is nonintuitive, remember that the primary reason that rechargeable batteries go dead is crystal formation inside the battery, which inhibits the chemical reaction. Faster charging times mean fewer and smaller crystals form.
This sort of thing absolutely requires super high energies...
Interestingly enough, the only major power draw at RHIC itself is the refrigeration (which draws about 15MW when on)--the collider ring magnets themselves are superconducting. After that, the electronics draw the second most power.
Try Insight (lost the link ATM). The thing is (usually--I'm running Gentoo with all sorts of screwy customizations) simply astounding. When I was having issues with one program, I told Insight to run and debug the binary--and it managed to find the relevant source file buried in/usr/src and provide it for a step-through.
Even worse than that... it *was* the final version of Win3.1, and it *would* function correctly. Digital Research had done a good enough job of rebuilding DOS that it was bug-for-bug compatible. Windows only gave a "warning" about something that was irrelevant and then proceeded to work just fine. But the box scared people who didn't know better, and DR-DOS never took off, at least in part because people thought it wouldn't work with Windows.
Damages may depend on many factors, but the only requirements for a verdict of libel are proof that a person or entity "printed" (in whatever form) false, defamatory content about you. Even denying malicious intent isn't always enough to get you off the hook, and whether someone actually causes you economic or other harm is irrelevant. That said, retractions usually *do* limit the damages (that's why you always see retractions followed by "$PUBLISHER regrets the error.").
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; (U.S. Constitution, article I)
If the DMCA has the basic effect of inhibiting this progress, it is unconstitutional. Any question of this has been settled with the watermarking fiasco.
One simple problem with this: dust. All sorts of stuff flies around in the air, and as anyone who's left a system running for three months and opened it knows, it collects in the system. And any skin oils or other deposits left in the system might compromise the non-conductivity of the water.
Xawtv. Compile Video4Linux into your kernel and watch away (or search Freshmeat for other interesting projects, including a Web+cron-based unattended VCR).
Have you ever actually spent any time using Sun Rays? Where I work (a local ISP), everything runs on Sun systems, and the techs all log in to a Sun session server. There are absolutely no delays or stutters running a 19" monitor at high resolution, and the unbelievable ease of jamming in a smart card and then being able to carry your session anywhere in the office is more than enough reason to at least take a look. In fact, thin clients of sorts are making their first major appearances, running remote X apps off of *ix servers (see the Largo Vista case study everyone loves).
I do wish that the Sun Rays were a little less expensive and would (easily) run from a Linux-based server, but they're definitely worth taking a look at for a small to medium-sized company--and maybe even larger ones.
Sorcerer's authors already considered this--Sorcerer includes a feature (whose name I cannot remember because I've not used it) that will allow multiple systems to be slaved to a server (via SSH, I believe) so that upgrading all of the machines can take place without having to manually go around and update things.
Ironically, perhaps this will increase corporate adoption because the management that couldn't comprehend the fact that good software is available for no cost will be willing to spend *some* money on a better alternative.
New language? The interpreter's on version 1.6.5, and the language has been evolving in Japan for several years. Now as far as being compiled, you're right--it's not. But the Ruby people claim that they've managed to implement parts of a WM in it, and until KDE, that was generally considered too speed-critical for even C++. I don't personally see what benefit a compiled language has over an interpreted one besides, of course, speed. As far as training... It just *works*! Really!
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It depends on your provider and what you negotiate. A friend and I run a couple of servers out of my house, and we have the lowest-tier commercial cable connection that Cox will provide. We have an SLA that kicks in after 30 minutes, and the one time that service has been interrupted, they made good on it.
Additionally, we pay for a 3.0Mbps downstream connection, and wget, Firefox, and ksysguard routinely tell me I'm getting a full 400KB/s download rate.
Or ^W for an entire word. Learn it and love it.
The SoX utility is quite useful for scripted or automated mangling of audio files. While a dedicated MP3-splitting program would certainly work just fine, SoX has a "trim" command that cuts a certain section out of the file; "sox trim [randomstart] 00:00:30" would grab 30 seconds starting from whenever you want.
Because, from experience, putting a 3ware controller in a 64-bit/66MHz slot is more than 4 times faster than putting the same controller in a 32-bit/33MHz slot. If you're paying for the controller and the array, don't skimp and cheat yourself out of 80% of the performance because you won't pay for a decent motherboard.
And that is exactly the blind spot that Microsoft is just now starting to realize it has--that there are a lot of good programmers out there who are not working for a software company and want to program on their spare time. While most companies will swallow $1000 like a drop of water, the hobbyists (and remember where Linux, Apache, and friends started) will go elsewhere.
CNN also has the full story, still being rewritten as of now.
The language taught in school means nothing. If you're a good programmer you can take the skills you learned in Java and apply them to whatever you use in real life.
Sure, the programmer can. The issue, though, is mindshare; remember the article a bit back that pointed out how Linux is usually presented to management types as arcane and not for desktops. If Java is the language that the non-programmers hear is popular while they're in school, they'll tend to gravitate toward it when they're overspecifying projects later on.
At Brookhaven National Lab, the high-voltage systems are considered relatively safe. It's the 5V electronics-power distribution systems that carry upwards of 600A and have fuses bigger around than your fist. Shorting one of those with a wrench would make the wrench explode.
110V can tickle. 5V can kill.
Oddly enough, the "fast" chargers (1-hour, usually) are better for the batteries than the usual 5- or 12-hour models (assuming they don't overcharge them). While this is nonintuitive, remember that the primary reason that rechargeable batteries go dead is crystal formation inside the battery, which inhibits the chemical reaction. Faster charging times mean fewer and smaller crystals form.
more likely they don't tell anyone in the real world and possibly not even anyone in the virtual world...
Not sure about the "real world", but I heard from about eight of them in the virtual world this morning...
This sort of thing absolutely requires super high energies...
Interestingly enough, the only major power draw at RHIC itself is the refrigeration (which draws about 15MW when on)--the collider ring magnets themselves are superconducting. After that, the electronics draw the second most power.
It depends. It lands normal citizens in jail and wealthy ones in office.
It once was said: "Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos"
That was before Slashdot.
Hmm... if this was the way things really worked, many software companies (not just MS) would be out of business rather quickly.
Try Insight (lost the link ATM). The thing is (usually--I'm running Gentoo with all sorts of screwy customizations) simply astounding. When I was having issues with one program, I told Insight to run and debug the binary--and it managed to find the relevant source file buried in /usr/src and provide it for a step-through.
Even worse than that... it *was* the final version of Win3.1, and it *would* function correctly. Digital Research had done a good enough job of rebuilding DOS that it was bug-for-bug compatible. Windows only gave a "warning" about something that was irrelevant and then proceeded to work just fine. But the box scared people who didn't know better, and DR-DOS never took off, at least in part because people thought it wouldn't work with Windows.
Damages may depend on many factors, but the only requirements for a verdict of libel are proof that a person or entity "printed" (in whatever form) false, defamatory content about you. Even denying malicious intent isn't always enough to get you off the hook, and whether someone actually causes you economic or other harm is irrelevant. That said, retractions usually *do* limit the damages (that's why you always see retractions followed by "$PUBLISHER regrets the error.").
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; (U.S. Constitution, article I)
If the DMCA has the basic effect of inhibiting this progress, it is unconstitutional. Any question of this has been settled with the watermarking fiasco.
One simple problem with this: dust. All sorts of stuff flies around in the air, and as anyone who's left a system running for three months and opened it knows, it collects in the system. And any skin oils or other deposits left in the system might compromise the non-conductivity of the water.
Xawtv. Compile Video4Linux into your kernel and watch away (or search Freshmeat for other interesting projects, including a Web+cron-based unattended VCR).
Have you ever actually spent any time using Sun Rays? Where I work (a local ISP), everything runs on Sun systems, and the techs all log in to a Sun session server. There are absolutely no delays or stutters running a 19" monitor at high resolution, and the unbelievable ease of jamming in a smart card and then being able to carry your session anywhere in the office is more than enough reason to at least take a look. In fact, thin clients of sorts are making their first major appearances, running remote X apps off of *ix servers (see the Largo Vista case study everyone loves).
I do wish that the Sun Rays were a little less expensive and would (easily) run from a Linux-based server, but they're definitely worth taking a look at for a small to medium-sized company--and maybe even larger ones.
Sorcerer's authors already considered this--Sorcerer includes a feature (whose name I cannot remember because I've not used it) that will allow multiple systems to be slaved to a server (via SSH, I believe) so that upgrading all of the machines can take place without having to manually go around and update things.
Ironically, perhaps this will increase corporate adoption because the management that couldn't comprehend the fact that good software is available for no cost will be willing to spend *some* money on a better alternative.
New language? The interpreter's on version 1.6.5, and the language has been evolving in Japan for several years. Now as far as being compiled, you're right--it's not. But the Ruby people claim that they've managed to implement parts of a WM in it, and until KDE, that was generally considered too speed-critical for even C++. I don't personally see what benefit a compiled language has over an interpreted one besides, of course, speed. As far as training... It just *works*! Really!