if you switch from nuclear to wind you give no benefit to the environment. while there is still fossil fuel power on the grid its irresponsible to reduce nuclear capacity.
Dont forget that electricity currently accounts for only about 20-30% of energy use. to go carbon neutral we need to electrify home heating/cooking and transport. even if we make everything more efficient as we do this, we still need to double electricity generating capacity.
we are talk about the nanoseconds it takes a memory access requests to cross your motherboard and the answer to return. and the many CPU clock cycles spend idle while wait for it.
if i could make gtk3 use the theme that they would use under GNOME3 that would be an improvement. a bit of inconsistency is better than grey boxes with no icons.
The mate roadmap has "Add GTK3 support for most themes" for 1.6, so i guess that is what is needed.
when i get to work and plug a monitor into my laptop * on GNOME2, GNOME3 and MATE, it automatically configures it to how how it was set last time (and remembers settings per monitor) * on KDE i get a message saying, 'you plugged in a monitor, do you want to configure it', and then i can go into a rather epic config window and choose what i want (again) * on light weight WMs it either does nothing, or just switches to a default dual screen setup (ie with the monitor on the wrong side)
Apt/dpkg has depends, recommends and suggests. by default 'depends' and 'recommends' get installed. but if you want small and light you can set apt to just install 'depends'. if you want all the features of a program to work when you install it then you can install the 'recommends' and 'suggests'. i'd love to see yum/rpm pick this up.
(I have been running F18 with mate since mid december) Note that fedora 18 repos only have small selection of mate packages. for example mate-panel-applets is missing, so no system monitor in your panel. none of the MATE apps (beyond the file manager and terminal), and when you run gnome3 apps they dont pick up theming. So while on paper fedora 18 has MATE as an option, the integration is poor. Hopefully this will be improved.
There is an unofficial more complete MATE repo, but it does not support F18 yet.
27TB seems odd. each cell can only be rewritten ~72 times (assuming good wear levelling)? surely you should be able to rewrite cells 1000s of times, and have some spare ones to replace any that fail early.
i'd say you would need a very *write heavy* workload to burn through this. I've shot a film on a DSLR and at most generated 20-30 GB in a day. So if i loaded that on to the drive each day, and then threw it away (or copied it somewhere else) at some point so i could keep filming more, that would be 10 years non-stop. (in practice we shot weekends for a few months and ended up with ~500GB of footage that will be kept long term).
I guess there a caching applications were you have streams that you need to record continuously, and then discard. But i think as a typical drive for a home user (even one who shoots a lot of video) 72TB would last a long time. A programmer on a large project might generate multi-gigabyte builds, but i doubt they would be rebuilding the whole codebase everyday (the project build server would be a different issue, but i assume that could use a 32GB ram disk or something).
while AFS is great at some things, it has some limitations. we use it for home directories on our linux work stations and compute nodes here.
however some things are strangely slow, i think because for various operations the AFS server has to inform all connect clients. for example exiting vim takes takes about 10 to 30 seconds. also it assumes that your computer is always online.if you install it on a laptop, and then disconnect from the network some applications will lockup because think they should still be able to read something.
it depends if you count this as breaking encryption.
its more like them running a browser on there server and giving you remote access to this browser. so its not 'breaking' encryption any more than you are when you visit the a HTTPS site.
seeing a whole graph of temperature (or daily max, or daily mean or whatever) against time will always tell you much more about a trends than a list of its peaks can.
in my experience linux users are far less likely to pirate software. opensource depends strongly on copyright law. honest folk use libreoffice and gimp, pirates use cracked MS office and Photoshop.
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which is what i mean for the openmoko. The casing of the phone, without which you would have a bare motherboard and screen.
Openmoko opened the CAD models of their case (ok, not the coolest case in the world :-) ). People have also modified the design for 3d printing http://blog.slyon.de/3d-printed-gta04-case/ . There is also a wooden case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jRI7InTpE
for $99 id expect a dual-core A9, 1GB of RAM, Gigabit ethernet, a FPGA and a well documented 16core coprocessor. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone
If cpu power was not an issue i'd just use a raspberry pi.
if you switch from nuclear to wind you give no benefit to the environment. while there is still fossil fuel power on the grid its irresponsible to reduce nuclear capacity.
Dont forget that electricity currently accounts for only about 20-30% of energy use. to go carbon neutral we need to electrify home heating/cooking and transport. even if we make everything more efficient as we do this, we still need to double electricity generating capacity.
we are talk about the nanoseconds it takes a memory access requests to cross your motherboard and the answer to return. and the many CPU clock cycles spend idle while wait for it.
if i could make gtk3 use the theme that they would use under GNOME3 that would be an improvement. a bit of inconsistency is better than grey boxes with no icons.
The mate roadmap has "Add GTK3 support for most themes" for 1.6, so i guess that is what is needed.
when i get to work and plug a monitor into my laptop
* on GNOME2, GNOME3 and MATE, it automatically configures it to how how it was set last time (and remembers settings per monitor)
* on KDE i get a message saying, 'you plugged in a monitor, do you want to configure it', and then i can go into a rather epic config window and choose what i want (again)
* on light weight WMs it either does nothing, or just switches to a default dual screen setup (ie with the monitor on the wrong side)
Yum/rpm has only 1 level of depends.
Apt/dpkg has depends, recommends and suggests. by default 'depends' and 'recommends' get installed. but if you want small and light you can set apt to just install 'depends'. if you want all the features of a program to work when you install it then you can install the 'recommends' and 'suggests'. i'd love to see yum/rpm pick this up.
If you want properly integrated MATE then Fedora is not the best distro. I suggest trying MINT to see how well it can work.
(I have been running F18 with mate since mid december)
Note that fedora 18 repos only have small selection of mate packages. for example mate-panel-applets is missing, so no system monitor in your panel. none of the MATE apps (beyond the file manager and terminal), and when you run gnome3 apps they dont pick up theming. So while on paper fedora 18 has MATE as an option, the integration is poor. Hopefully this will be improved.
There is an unofficial more complete MATE repo, but it does not support F18 yet.
27TB seems odd. each cell can only be rewritten ~72 times (assuming good wear levelling)? surely you should be able to rewrite cells 1000s of times, and have some spare ones to replace any that fail early.
i'd say you would need a very *write heavy* workload to burn through this. I've shot a film on a DSLR and at most generated 20-30 GB in a day. So if i loaded that on to the drive each day, and then threw it away (or copied it somewhere else) at some point so i could keep filming more, that would be 10 years non-stop. (in practice we shot weekends for a few months and ended up with ~500GB of footage that will be kept long term).
I guess there a caching applications were you have streams that you need to record continuously, and then discard. But i think as a typical drive for a home user (even one who shoots a lot of video) 72TB would last a long time. A programmer on a large project might generate multi-gigabyte builds, but i doubt they would be rebuilding the whole codebase everyday (the project build server would be a different issue, but i assume that could use a 32GB ram disk or something).
can OLPC mesh networking solve this? maybe not if everything is in range of the router.
while AFS is great at some things, it has some limitations. we use it for home directories on our linux work stations and compute nodes here.
however some things are strangely slow, i think because for various operations the AFS server has to inform all connect clients. for example exiting vim takes takes about 10 to 30 seconds. also it assumes that your computer is always online.if you install it on a laptop, and then disconnect from the network some applications will lockup because think they should still be able to read something.
it depends if you count this as breaking encryption.
its more like them running a browser on there server and giving you remote access to this browser. so its not 'breaking' encryption any more than you are when you visit the a HTTPS site.
or openmoko.
the xbox was 'just a PC' hardware wise.
depends on the balance with soot settling on icecaps and making them absorb more light.
i look forward to this vegetation free world were i can be safe from forest fires.
seeing a whole graph of temperature (or daily max, or daily mean or whatever) against time will always tell you much more about a trends than a list of its peaks can.
think of them as negative kelvin (i.e. hotter than normal temperatures).
i guess you missed the openmoko
someone wrote a emacs interface to the telephony system on the openmoko phones
https://github.com/paulfertser/fso-el/wiki
but you can do all maner of clever things like that with virualisation.
in my experience linux users are far less likely to pirate software. opensource depends strongly on copyright law. honest folk use libreoffice and gimp, pirates use cracked MS office and Photoshop.
wikipedia has quite a good explanation of negative temperature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature