Hey, fine. As long as we get to put an antenna on it and use it for wireless access.
Hey, if it has an aluminized skin [or mylar or similar], you won't *need* an aerial to bounce signals off of it. Use your Pringles Can aerial, aim at blimp, and they bounce right off.
To say this is trivial just because there is not a lot of extra heat production is like saying to Alexander Fleming that he's making too big a deal out of that petri dish where he can't get the cultures to grow -- after all, it's just one dish.
I'm not saying that it is trivial, just that it will be a long road [if ever] from cold fusion to flying cars.
was calling it 'Cold Fusion.' If you read the DOE or DOD papers on the subject, there *is* excess heat and nuclear material being generated, but it is eensy weensy amounts. Not enough to fuse the gum to the bottom of your chair, let alone H-->He.
It produces infintesimal amounts of excess energy.
At this point, it is a scientific curiosity that in need of an explanation, but not something that is going to produce enough energy to blow your nose.
I don't know if it will ever lead to anything practical or even useful, but it does beg explaining.
no. P&F weren't reviled because they were wrong. they were reviled because they circumvented the whole publishing and peer review part of science and went directly to the 'make wild-ass claims to the press' part.
that said, being wrong didn't help them either.
Mod parent up. P&F weren't *wrong*, however, they just made those WAC's that weren't supportable. There *is* something going on in these experiments [I've read some of the DOE and DOD papers on it], but it *ain't* cold fusion, and we really don't know what it is.
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Clearly GUI editors aren't much use until you can get X running. I use vi my self, but none of the existing Linux text mode editors use the "standard" keyboard shortcuts such as cntl-c for copy. To old win/dos users I would recommend pico as the least esoteric of the non-X editors. Does anyone know of a win98 edit.com clone for linux?
Actually, for Windows users migrating over to *nix, 'ee' [easyeditor] would be much more intuitive. The only problem [as I see it] with ee is the different implementations between different platforms--different control key sequences for the same action, depending upon OS.
What's missing in the new car world today is a lack of Real Choice. Granted, there never was a lot of Real Choice, but it's dwindled to almost nothing these days.
In years past, you had a choice of interiors [vinyl/cloth/leather], transmissions [manual or automatic], power/manual windows, bucket or bench seats, cruise control/not etc. Now there are no choices in many of these areas, and you are stuck with a pile of expensive geegaws that you may not want in the first place.
Where this really blows my mind is in the world of pickup trucks.
Growing up, my dad was in agribusiness. The most 'frills' you could wish for [or even *wanted*, for that matter] would be A/C and FM on the radio. Today, trucks are nothing more than big luxury cars. I hate to have to use one in agribusiness--it might get dirty!
What needs to be done is that cars should be more like PCs--pick your frame, your body style, your engine, your transmission [manual for me], window types, etc. etc.
Make it modular, give people Real Choices [electric, gasoline, diesel, biodiesle, greasel or fuel cell engine & no power windows for me, thanks] and I might buy a new car. Until then, no way.
you still have to go to all the work of removing the viral OS, configure *nix and get it working properly. Just because it's a SFF doesn't make me want to run out and buy one.
However, a Russian Beowulf cluster of these, and all your base are belong to us!
this is coming entirely from a *BSD perspective [especially FreeBSD], but the older and slower your hardware, the more you might depend upon packages, just because they take less time to install.
That said, I routinely build stuff from source on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz dual CPU machine at work. It's not our main server, so the performance hit is never noticed.
Portupgrade is a absolute must on this machine, as we have all kinds of software running on it. Without portupgrade, I'm sure it would be a nightmare.
In the end, it's whatever works best in your situation, and to have this as 'news' on slashdot seem really freakin' ridiculous.
I don't spend much time at all fixing computers on my home network. Routine maintenance, on the other hand, does eat some time. There isn't a Windoze machine in the house, which I think accounts for some of the lack of "fixing".
The right cabling makes perfect feedline for HF radio applications. I removed well over 300 feet of Twinax from the building I work in, and I could take all I wanted for free. [I now feed a 40-meter dipole with it]. The loss characteristics are about the same is RG-8.
All you amateur radio operators/SWL'ers, offer to remove the stuff for free.
One caveat, it is really dirty work, depending upon the building.
But if you put yourself in the shoes of someone living independently offgrid, the rest of the world looks like a bunch of over-dependent, over-consuming idiots (which they/we/I are, in a sense).
Absolutely. I think that every time I ride my bike to work and the auto drivers try to kill me.
Now as it happens I can live on solar energy just fine. I already raise much of my own food. I ride a bicycle. I produce electricity with my bicycle and my food. My family has a 20 acre wood lot. I live this way because I enjoy living this way. Most look on my "lifestyle" with distaste.
NYC is going to be fucked though. Nevermind Las Vegas.
Can you produce enough solar energy to supply downstate NY with enough hydrogen to meet its current energy needs, and without starving them to death? 'Cause we already "sucked Niagra dry."
Doing it without striping the Catskills bare would be a plus. We tried that once. It wasn't pretty.
The world can live on solar power just fine. It did so for billions of years. It did so, however, without electric lights, automobiles, PCes and hydrogen fuel for them.
And without so damned many people.
How the *hell* did Ted Kosinski get ahold of a computer in prison?!
putting / on a solid-state HD? Granted, it has to have constant power [even when the machine is off], but might be one way for things to start more quickly.
Good points. The author strikes me as a bit of a dipschnitzel anyway. I run Free- Net- and OpenBSD on different machines, and they all have their worth. Pick the right tool for the right job.
One line that made me laugh was ". ..standalone server. .." Golly, if your server doesn't hook up to any other machines, is it really a server?
I prefer LyX. I've done two of my wife's theses with it, and really like the simple interface, the 'programability', and especially the quality of the output.
What other WordStar-like control-key command editors are there? I find that not having to take my hands off the home row of keys saves about 15% of editing time. I also find that Vi (Vim) is too complicated and quirky to teach my customers.
Hunt down an old copy of WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS. Keyboard commands are still faster than using a mouse, and I try to learn as many of them as possible.
DeScribe was [and still is, IMO] one of the best 'all-around' word processors around. Small footprint, just enough bells and whistles, does everything you need it to, runs on Win 3.1, Win95, OS/2, and was *cheap*.
Why doesn't somebody port *that* to Unix? It's a helluva lot better than AbiWord!!
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Hey, fine. As long as we get to put an antenna on it and use it for wireless access.
Hey, if it has an aluminized skin [or mylar or similar], you won't *need* an aerial to bounce signals off of it. Use your Pringles Can aerial, aim at blimp, and they bounce right off.
Rush Limbaugh has a new job? Watching over *every one* of us?
To say this is trivial just because there is not a lot of extra heat production is like saying to Alexander Fleming that he's making too big a deal out of that petri dish where he can't get the cultures to grow -- after all, it's just one dish.
I'm not saying that it is trivial, just that it will be a long road [if ever] from cold fusion to flying cars.
they said 'hot spot,' heh.
was calling it 'Cold Fusion.' If you read the DOE or DOD papers on the subject, there *is* excess heat and nuclear material being generated, but it is eensy weensy amounts. Not enough to fuse the gum to the bottom of your chair, let alone H-->He.
It produces infintesimal amounts of excess energy.
At this point, it is a scientific curiosity that in need of an explanation, but not something that is going to produce enough energy to blow your nose.
I don't know if it will ever lead to anything practical or even useful, but it does beg explaining.
no. P&F weren't reviled because they were wrong. they were reviled because they circumvented the whole publishing and peer review part of science and went directly to the 'make wild-ass claims to the press' part.
that said, being wrong didn't help them either.
Mod parent up. P&F weren't *wrong*, however, they just made those WAC's that weren't supportable. There *is* something going on in these experiments [I've read some of the DOE and DOD papers on it], but it *ain't* cold fusion, and we really don't know what it is.
would be Prune Juice.
Prune Juice will set you free!
Clearly GUI editors aren't much use until you can get X running. I use vi my self, but none of the existing Linux text mode editors use the "standard" keyboard shortcuts such as cntl-c for copy. To old win/dos users I would recommend pico as the least esoteric of the non-X editors. Does anyone know of a win98 edit.com clone for linux?
Actually, for Windows users migrating over to *nix, 'ee' [easyeditor] would be much more intuitive. The only problem [as I see it] with ee is the different implementations between different platforms--different control key sequences for the same action, depending upon OS.
Why is that?
"Currently it looks like only a Windows client is necessary, though."
*Now* I get it!
What's missing in the new car world today is a lack of Real Choice. Granted, there never was a lot of Real Choice, but it's dwindled to almost nothing these days.
In years past, you had a choice of interiors [vinyl/cloth/leather], transmissions [manual or automatic], power/manual windows, bucket or bench seats, cruise control/not etc. Now there are no choices in many of these areas, and you are stuck with a pile of expensive geegaws that you may not want in the first place.
Where this really blows my mind is in the world of pickup trucks.
Growing up, my dad was in agribusiness. The most 'frills' you could wish for [or even *wanted*, for that matter] would be A/C and FM on the radio. Today, trucks are nothing more than big luxury cars. I hate to have to use one in agribusiness--it might get dirty!
What needs to be done is that cars should be more like PCs--pick your frame, your body style, your engine, your transmission [manual for me], window types, etc. etc.
Make it modular, give people Real Choices [electric, gasoline, diesel, biodiesle, greasel or fuel cell engine & no power windows for me, thanks] and I might buy a new car. Until then, no way.
. . .maybe someone can remove my e-stumbling blocks and I can get that EE I've always wanted.
you still have to go to all the work of removing the viral OS, configure *nix and get it working properly. Just because it's a SFF doesn't make me want to run out and buy one.
However, a Russian Beowulf cluster of these, and all your base are belong to us!
So generating the SGML equals a 20hour trip in swapland since the thing is stuffed up to the neck with crossreferences.
Jeez, but a quad 85-MHz processor Sparc 20 stuffed to the gills with RAM on Ebay already, or a dual processor Ultra2-->they're practically dirt cheap.
this is coming entirely from a *BSD perspective [especially FreeBSD], but the older and slower your hardware, the more you might depend upon packages, just because they take less time to install.
That said, I routinely build stuff from source on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz dual CPU machine at work. It's not our main server, so the performance hit is never noticed.
Portupgrade is a absolute must on this machine, as we have all kinds of software running on it. Without portupgrade, I'm sure it would be a nightmare.
In the end, it's whatever works best in your situation, and to have this as 'news' on slashdot seem really freakin' ridiculous.
I don't spend much time at all fixing computers on my home network. Routine maintenance, on the other hand, does eat some time. There isn't a Windoze machine in the house, which I think accounts for some of the lack of "fixing".
do you use just one of the center conductors, or both of them?
Both of them with Twinax. It is shielded, balanced, 100 ohm impedance feedline.
The right cabling makes perfect feedline for HF radio applications. I removed well over 300 feet of Twinax from the building I work in, and I could take all I wanted for free. [I now feed a 40-meter dipole with it]. The loss characteristics are about the same is RG-8.
All you amateur radio operators/SWL'ers, offer to remove the stuff for free.
One caveat, it is really dirty work, depending upon the building.
Hah. You stole my post. :)
But if you put yourself in the shoes of someone living independently offgrid, the rest of the world looks like a bunch of over-dependent, over-consuming idiots (which they/we/I are, in a sense).
Absolutely. I think that every time I ride my bike to work and the auto drivers try to kill me.
Now as it happens I can live on solar energy just fine. I already raise much of my own food. I ride a bicycle. I produce electricity with my bicycle and my food. My family has a 20 acre wood lot. I live this way because I enjoy living this way. Most look on my "lifestyle" with distaste.
NYC is going to be fucked though. Nevermind Las Vegas.
Can you produce enough solar energy to supply downstate NY with enough hydrogen to meet its current energy needs, and without starving them to death? 'Cause we already "sucked Niagra dry."
Doing it without striping the Catskills bare would be a plus. We tried that once. It wasn't pretty.
The world can live on solar power just fine. It did so for billions of years. It did so, however, without electric lights, automobiles, PCes and hydrogen fuel for them.
And without so damned many people.
How the *hell* did Ted Kosinski get ahold of a computer in prison?!
but I won't be replacing my RPN HP-15C any time soon. I've had it since 1984, and it's still going strong.
Then again, I won't be replacing my slide rules, either. . .
putting / on a solid-state HD? Granted, it has to have constant power [even when the machine is off], but might be one way for things to start more quickly.
Kinda pricey, though. . .
Good points. The author strikes me as a bit of a dipschnitzel anyway. I run Free- Net- and OpenBSD on different machines, and they all have their worth. Pick the right tool for the right job.
.standalone server. . ." Golly, if your server doesn't hook up to any other machines, is it really a server?
One line that made me laugh was ". .
I think not.
I prefer LyX. I've done two of my wife's theses with it, and really like the simple interface, the 'programability', and especially the quality of the output.
What other WordStar-like control-key command editors are there? I find that not having to take my hands off the home row of keys saves about 15% of editing time. I also find that Vi (Vim) is too complicated and quirky to teach my customers.
Hunt down an old copy of WordPerfect 5.0 for DOS. Keyboard commands are still faster than using a mouse, and I try to learn as many of them as possible.
DeScribe was [and still is, IMO] one of the best 'all-around' word processors around. Small footprint, just enough bells and whistles, does everything you need it to, runs on Win 3.1, Win95, OS/2, and was *cheap*.
Why doesn't somebody port *that* to Unix? It's a helluva lot better than AbiWord!!