The article doesn't say what they were runnign before this switch. My hunch is that it was Solaris.
I get the feeling that most large desktop migrations happen from commercial UNIX to linux rather than from Windows to linux. That transition would seem much more difficult and costly.
Also are they using a distribution or are they "rolling their own"?
Remeber this story about the Novell server that was hidden in a walled off section of the University of North Carolina?
The found it after 4 years of it being missing, and still working perfectly, never dropping packets and doing it's job perfectly. Now that's what I call uptime!
I wonder if they will wall it back up after they put SuSE on it?
Apple is trying to please both crowds and is doing a pretty good job of it.
They are giving end-users the software and hardware that fits their needs, such as the iMusic software and the introduction of the G5. at the same time, they are not forgetting the *NIX and open source base of their current OS. Actions such as this one and the continued "giving back" of code to OSS projects exemplify this trend.
Apple seems to have its head on straight and although I don't use their products, I support them and their continued sucess. A computer monoculture is a bad thing.
Now, I might actually buy a Mac laptop if they didn't cost so damn much!
According to the article the cause of failure is an increase in temperature in the fibers when bent.
"the damage is caused by an increase in temperature that occurs when the power leaks out of the fiber at a bend and is absorbed by its coating. This either causes the fiber coating to burn off leaving the silica beneath exposed or if the temperature is high enough (around 1100C) the fiber itself deforms giving rise to a large permanent optical loss."
It would seem that research needs to be done in the optical fiber coatings and their heat transfer properties as the fibers can handle the increased temperature, but the coatings can't. Either that or we are seeing the limits of fiber systems and the amount of load they can carry. Anyone know what the current coatings are made of, or any alternatives to these coatings that would alleviate these problems?
Perhaps this is a good stock tip... When you hear of a company that has created a new fiber optic coating that increases the amount of heat trasnferred away from fibers, jump on their stock.
Kudos to Adam Dunkels for pushing the envelope of 8-bit computing. Many people will say "whats' the point of this." or "This has no application whatsoever and is a waste of time." but I disagree. Adam is making software and designing methods of programming to run internet based programs on chips and systems that where never designed for it, like the Atari Jaguar the Atari 8-bit console not to mention the C64. This work will allow others to get the motivation to push the envelope in other areas of computing as well.
It seems Adam has what was once prevailant in the computing and electronics industry. Tinkering and programming for the sheer joy of creating something new. In this way, programming and building systems like this are very similar to creating a piece of art, contrary to public opinion and modern developments in computing. Keep up the good work Adam. You are an inspriation to hobbyists in all fields.
I'm not a biochemist either, but this website shows the basic Glycolysis reactions and their output.
Basically, in this process Glucose + ATP is broken down into glucose-6-phosphate + ADP, giving off a net reaction of energy.
Without knowing the the reactions in the process that Dr. Eda et. al. have developed, I can only guess that the oxidized glucose will combine with the some other ions (such as a phosphate) and become waste products just liek any other in the body. I'm not really sure what happens to the glucose-6-phosphatea after Glycolysis.
Want to burn calories while sitting in front of your computer at work? How about shedding those extra pounds while powering your TV at the same time?
This way people will get an increased metabolism (since some of your sugars are being converted into energy for non-local entities), and they will be able to reduce the number of batteries and other power sources needed.
Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls. That would be the killer app.
The Smart Dust Project at UC Berkeley, which seeks to create a wireless network of sensors each of which is one cunic milimeter in size. These "micro motes" create an ad-hock network to communicate between each other and relay information back to a central computer. The motes are cheap and self powered so they can be placed a variety of places.
Here's a good article on the motes and what they are all about.
Along with "Smart Buildings", the "Smart Kindergarten" would seem like the perfect non-military application for this emerging technology.
I download music that I don't own. If that makes me a music pirate, so be it. I've been doing it for a long time. That's not the point of this post.
I've found that my exposure to a diverse range of music has increased significantly due to the availablity of cheap (read: free) music. My friends have told me about bands that I'm sure that they wouldn't have heard about if not for file trading. I have been to concerts that I wouldn't have seen if not for file trading. I have bought band merchandice that I wouldn't have thought about buying before. I have heard music that has changed my life. I would not have had these experiences without file trading.
I give money back to bands or music acts that I really like. I still buy CDs, although very few of them and usually only to get high quality recordings instead of MP3s/oggs.
File trading has changed music in the way it is made and listened to, whether the RIAA likes it or not.
I couldn't find that listed in the article. From the picture it appears that this box does not have a traditional monitor interface, so my hunch is that it's a linux box with a proprietary interface for the custom LCD they have.
That is still the ultimate "nerd" calculator. Came in a zipper pouch, had a slot for expansion cards, and like all decent calculators worth their circuits, used Reverse Polish Notation.
I remember many an hour wasted in class playing Columns or Arkanoid or Crazy Cars.
Before there was Palm Pilot for looking like you were doing work, there was the HP48GX!
I agree that Mozilla could be the stepping stone that many people use to get into open-source software and in particular the GNU/Linux flavor of OS.
I have converted many friends to Mozilla and a few of them have begun to ask about linux and why I use it. The concept of open-source is very foreign to many people, but once they get a taste and see the high quality product, they become much more receptive.
This way you come off as much less "zealot-like". If they already have some experience they are more open already. GB Mozilla and their high quality products. Keep up the good work boys and girls!
Microsoft has numerous on campus events where they give out copies of their software, in particular their Visual Studio development package.
In order to increase market share, these are the people who need to be sold on open-source. Currently there are not very many college students in CS or CompE that use open-source development products. In order to stay competitive, open-source must go out of its way to recruit these youngsters and give them the opportunity to try out open-source. This should happen at both the college and high school level.
This can be a real advantage to open-source as there are so many projects that these students can contribute on. It's a win-win situation. They get real-world hands on experience and open-source gets more coders and people dedicated to open-source philosophies.
I mean it's pretty inconcievable that scientists would choose the most opportune time in terms of energy to launch their probes, right?
Did they also guess that the reason the shuttle hasn't flown as of late was because of a tragic accident that they still have not determined the exact cause of?
There are too many wealthy vested interests in copyright law that change at this stage is nearly impossible. The interconnectedness of laws and elections and corporations make the changing of the law to include more logic and coherancy is impossible.
The lawyers don't want change even though they see the problems everyday since it will keep more cases out of court and decrease their job opportunities.
The monied corps don't want to change them because the ambiguity helps their cases as they can just throw money at lawyers and the courts in order to win their cases.
The politicians don't want to change them because they are paid well for opposing such changes.
Therefore, the only people who want them changed are people like you and me... The ones who are informed and see the problem. The only thing is that we are a small minority of the voting public.
What will the effect be on groups.google.com be if Microsoft begins to take over Usenet?
Personally, I don't even use a normal newsreader program, but just peruse using google. I find the info I want (typically tech help on linux) and then that's it. You can even post to newsgroups through google.
There has been morethanone study that shows the effects of moderate alcohol consumption to be beneficial to cardiovascular health and in particular reducing the risk of stroke and Type II diabetes.
Also of interesting note, there is what is referred to as The French Paradox (which has nothing to do with French military might and their place in NATO). Instead it refers to the fact that the french have a diet high in saturated fat (think cream and cheese) and high high rates of alcohol consumption (think wine) yet have low rates of morbid obesity comapred to other nations (and especially to the US).
Here's a Beer Drinker's Diet that includes beer as a "non-starchy vegetable" in the food pyramid. Note: The link goes to a website that wishes to sell a book on the topic. That seems like quite a reach to me as I don't think beer posesses the antioxidant or vitamin content of other items in this group.
But the fact of the matter is that the carbohydrate content is not listed on the bottles or cans or packaging of beer here in the US. I haven't found a website in my quick searching that listed the carbohydrate content of common beers.
But why wouldn't email suffice? That uses much less bandwidth... Also if they can connect at 20kbps, they can have analog telephony as well. Why wouldn't that work? I have never seen the need for videoconferencing, especially in a low bandwidth environment.
I understand that utilizing the existing infrastructure is key in these sorts of projects, but I really have one question
Why do the people of rural India need videoconferencing?
It woul be much more suitable for scientific outposts in remote places in the world where the people can utilize the conferencing technology along with other data compression schemes to increase their "connectivity".
Are there any laws that would prevent them from linking the information they collect to identifiable info? Do they have a privacy policy somewhere for their customers? I suppose it's all about trust. If you trust "Company A" with your personal information, and trust them not to link that with your actions, then so be it. Every consumer action has some risk of privacy or security breach.
But, simply put, I don't trust very many corporations. There are no watchdogs here, and Disney or any other corporation is out there for one thing and one thing only. Themselves
It just saddens me that there are so many people in this world that don't give a lick about privacy or security as long as they have some "added" feature (which they end up paying for). Sorry bub, but that's not for me, and that's why I'm not going to go to Disney World anytime soon. If I ever did go, you better bet I'll be wearing my tin-foil hat... and gloves so they don't my DNA from my fingerprints fromaround Mickey's throat.:)
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The article doesn't say what they were runnign before this switch. My hunch is that it was Solaris.
I get the feeling that most large desktop migrations happen from commercial UNIX to linux rather than from Windows to linux. That transition would seem much more difficult and costly.
Also are they using a distribution or are they "rolling their own"?
which one is Gozilla and which one is Mothra?
Remeber this story about the Novell server that was hidden in a walled off section of the University of North Carolina?
The found it after 4 years of it being missing, and still working perfectly, never dropping packets and doing it's job perfectly. Now that's what I call uptime!
I wonder if they will wall it back up after they put SuSE on it?
Apple is trying to please both crowds and is doing a pretty good job of it.
They are giving end-users the software and hardware that fits their needs, such as the iMusic software and the introduction of the G5. at the same time, they are not forgetting the *NIX and open source base of their current OS. Actions such as this one and the continued "giving back" of code to OSS projects exemplify this trend.
Apple seems to have its head on straight and although I don't use their products, I support them and their continued sucess. A computer monoculture is a bad thing.
Now, I might actually buy a Mac laptop if they didn't cost so damn much!
According to the article the cause of failure is an increase in temperature in the fibers when bent.
"the damage is caused by an increase in temperature that occurs when the power leaks out of the fiber at a bend and is absorbed by its coating. This either causes the fiber coating to burn off leaving the silica beneath exposed or if the temperature is high enough (around 1100C) the fiber itself deforms giving rise to a large permanent optical loss."
It would seem that research needs to be done in the optical fiber coatings and their heat transfer properties as the fibers can handle the increased temperature, but the coatings can't. Either that or we are seeing the limits of fiber systems and the amount of load they can carry. Anyone know what the current coatings are made of, or any alternatives to these coatings that would alleviate these problems?
Perhaps this is a good stock tip... When you hear of a company that has created a new fiber optic coating that increases the amount of heat trasnferred away from fibers, jump on their stock.
Kudos to Adam Dunkels for pushing the envelope of 8-bit computing. Many people will say "whats' the point of this." or "This has no application whatsoever and is a waste of time." but I disagree. Adam is making software and designing methods of programming to run internet based programs on chips and systems that where never designed for it, like the Atari Jaguar the Atari 8-bit console not to mention the C64. This work will allow others to get the motivation to push the envelope in other areas of computing as well.
It seems Adam has what was once prevailant in the computing and electronics industry. Tinkering and programming for the sheer joy of creating something new. In this way, programming and building systems like this are very similar to creating a piece of art, contrary to public opinion and modern developments in computing. Keep up the good work Adam. You are an inspriation to hobbyists in all fields.
The ultimate geek matchup: Tengwar vs. Aurebesh!
Which font will earn the right to go up against Klingon for the hearts (and webpages) of geeks worldwide?
On a personal note, I'll always be an Aurebesh man myself.
I'm not a biochemist either, but this website shows the basic Glycolysis reactions and their output.
Basically, in this process Glucose + ATP is broken down into glucose-6-phosphate + ADP, giving off a net reaction of energy.
Without knowing the the reactions in the process that Dr. Eda et. al. have developed, I can only guess that the oxidized glucose will combine with the some other ions (such as a phosphate) and become waste products just liek any other in the body. I'm not really sure what happens to the glucose-6-phosphatea after Glycolysis.
Want to burn calories while sitting in front of your computer at work? How about shedding those extra pounds while powering your TV at the same time?
This way people will get an increased metabolism (since some of your sugars are being converted into energy for non-local entities), and they will be able to reduce the number of batteries and other power sources needed.
Just wait till the come out with some nano-bots that run off this process and will scrub the plaque off your arterial walls. That would be the killer app.
The Smart Dust Project at UC Berkeley, which seeks to create a wireless network of sensors each of which is one cunic milimeter in size. These "micro motes" create an ad-hock network to communicate between each other and relay information back to a central computer. The motes are cheap and self powered so they can be placed a variety of places.
Here's a good article on the motes and what they are all about.
Along with "Smart Buildings", the "Smart Kindergarten" would seem like the perfect non-military application for this emerging technology.
I download music that I don't own. If that makes me a music pirate, so be it. I've been doing it for a long time. That's not the point of this post.
I've found that my exposure to a diverse range of music has increased significantly due to the availablity of cheap (read: free) music. My friends have told me about bands that I'm sure that they wouldn't have heard about if not for file trading. I have been to concerts that I wouldn't have seen if not for file trading. I have bought band merchandice that I wouldn't have thought about buying before. I have heard music that has changed my life. I would not have had these experiences without file trading.
I give money back to bands or music acts that I really like. I still buy CDs, although very few of them and usually only to get high quality recordings instead of MP3s/oggs.
File trading has changed music in the way it is made and listened to, whether the RIAA likes it or not.
I couldn't find that listed in the article. From the picture it appears that this box does not have a traditional monitor interface, so my hunch is that it's a linux box with a proprietary interface for the custom LCD they have.
Looks interesting.
That is still the ultimate "nerd" calculator. Came in a zipper pouch, had a slot for expansion cards, and like all decent calculators worth their circuits, used Reverse Polish Notation.
I remember many an hour wasted in class playing Columns or Arkanoid or Crazy Cars.
Before there was Palm Pilot for looking like you were doing work, there was the HP48GX!
How long before this becomes an exploit in order to perform a DOS attack on wifi points?
I say about 1 month, maybe less. Any takers?
I agree that Mozilla could be the stepping stone that many people use to get into open-source software and in particular the GNU/Linux flavor of OS.
I have converted many friends to Mozilla and a few of them have begun to ask about linux and why I use it. The concept of open-source is very foreign to many people, but once they get a taste and see the high quality product, they become much more receptive.
This way you come off as much less "zealot-like". If they already have some experience they are more open already. GB Mozilla and their high quality products. Keep up the good work boys and girls!
Microsoft has numerous on campus events where they give out copies of their software, in particular their Visual Studio development package.
In order to increase market share, these are the people who need to be sold on open-source. Currently there are not very many college students in CS or CompE that use open-source development products. In order to stay competitive, open-source must go out of its way to recruit these youngsters and give them the opportunity to try out open-source. This should happen at both the college and high school level.
This can be a real advantage to open-source as there are so many projects that these students can contribute on. It's a win-win situation. They get real-world hands on experience and open-source gets more coders and people dedicated to open-source philosophies.
Only produce movies starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, that way... No one will want to pirate them because they suck so bad!
Wow, what a great leap of logic...
I mean it's pretty inconcievable that scientists would choose the most opportune time in terms of energy to launch their probes, right?
Did they also guess that the reason the shuttle hasn't flown as of late was because of a tragic accident that they still have not determined the exact cause of?
What will they come up with next?
There are too many wealthy vested interests in copyright law that change at this stage is nearly impossible. The interconnectedness of laws and elections and corporations make the changing of the law to include more logic and coherancy is impossible.
The lawyers don't want change even though they see the problems everyday since it will keep more cases out of court and decrease their job opportunities.
The monied corps don't want to change them because the ambiguity helps their cases as they can just throw money at lawyers and the courts in order to win their cases.
The politicians don't want to change them because they are paid well for opposing such changes.
Therefore, the only people who want them changed are people like you and me... The ones who are informed and see the problem. The only thing is that we are a small minority of the voting public.
What will the effect be on groups.google.com be if Microsoft begins to take over Usenet?
Personally, I don't even use a normal newsreader program, but just peruse using google. I find the info I want (typically tech help on linux) and then that's it. You can even post to newsgroups through google.
There has been more than one study that shows the effects of moderate alcohol consumption to be beneficial to cardiovascular health and in particular reducing the risk of stroke and Type II diabetes.
Also of interesting note, there is what is referred to as The French Paradox (which has nothing to do with French military might and their place in NATO). Instead it refers to the fact that the french have a diet high in saturated fat (think cream and cheese) and high high rates of alcohol consumption (think wine) yet have low rates of morbid obesity comapred to other nations (and especially to the US).
Here's a Beer Drinker's Diet that includes beer as a "non-starchy vegetable" in the food pyramid. Note: The link goes to a website that wishes to sell a book on the topic. That seems like quite a reach to me as I don't think beer posesses the antioxidant or vitamin content of other items in this group.
But the fact of the matter is that the carbohydrate content is not listed on the bottles or cans or packaging of beer here in the US. I haven't found a website in my quick searching that listed the carbohydrate content of common beers.
But why wouldn't email suffice? That uses much less bandwidth... Also if they can connect at 20kbps, they can have analog telephony as well. Why wouldn't that work? I have never seen the need for videoconferencing, especially in a low bandwidth environment.
I understand that utilizing the existing infrastructure is key in these sorts of projects, but I really have one question
Why do the people of rural India need videoconferencing?
It woul be much more suitable for scientific outposts in remote places in the world where the people can utilize the conferencing technology along with other data compression schemes to increase their "connectivity".
Are there any laws that would prevent them from linking the information they collect to identifiable info? Do they have a privacy policy somewhere for their customers? I suppose it's all about trust. If you trust "Company A" with your personal information, and trust them not to link that with your actions, then so be it. Every consumer action has some risk of privacy or security breach.
:)
But, simply put, I don't trust very many corporations. There are no watchdogs here, and Disney or any other corporation is out there for one thing and one thing only. Themselves
It just saddens me that there are so many people in this world that don't give a lick about privacy or security as long as they have some "added" feature (which they end up paying for). Sorry bub, but that's not for me, and that's why I'm not going to go to Disney World anytime soon. If I ever did go, you better bet I'll be wearing my tin-foil hat... and gloves so they don't my DNA from my fingerprints fromaround Mickey's throat.