They work now, they're just not quite optimal. The biggest issues seem to be surrounding manufacture rather than performance.
NASA has done some cool things with sealed stirling engine solar generators for satalites. I don't think they ever used it, but it had 1 moving part and was supposed to be quite efficient.
Luckily, solar cells are not the only way to harvest sunlight directly to energy. Solar powered turbines are in use, Stirling engines (unfortunatly long negelected) are starting to gain some small measure of popularity in research circles again...
Any prime mover can be used to harvest sunlight.
Personally, though, I think most gains will come in the form of more efficient ways to use the fuels we use now. We belch an awful lot of waste heat and fumes our of our cars for no reason. Now if I can just justify either the Honda or Toyota hybrid car this fall...
But if it's a forgery, then it may be illegal. Just because there's a whole industry of people committing a crime doesn't make it legal, it just makes it organized crime...
If the law strikes back at those people forging their headers, then maybe we'll get a nice baseball bat to knock the spammers around with...
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BEGIN TRANSMISSION Origin: Orbiting invasion fleet Destination: GiS Commando Team
MESSAGE BEGINS Commander Taco, we are pleased thus far with your progress in destroying the mentality of the computing elite on earth, however we are beginning to find flaws in your intelilgence information. While we greatly approve of your method of transmission (the use of resonance frequencies of fiber optics created my multiple simultaneous downloads of GiS is particularly impressive) and we also think that your development of the so called "personality cult" will greatly aid us in the coming battles, the quality of the tatical information you have been providing has dropped significantly in the past months.
To cite an example, several scout ships were destroyed while investigating your claim that the Earth's primary satalite had been destroyed by a multination conglomerate (please provide more information on the Pik-oh-low group). It has been discovered that either the moon has NOT been destroyed or it has been replaced by a very effective replica. The theory that it was merely a holographic projection to give the appearance of a moon has been disproved by the destruction of the scout ships mentioned. We fear that the continued presence of ocean tides will further delay the invasion.
Please put more effort into checking your reports for inaccuracies. Remember that the future of the invasion depends on accurate information.
NEW DIRECTIVE FOLLOWS Please send more information regarding the entity known as Roberta Williams.
Also include more information on the Sayan race. They appear to be a potential threat to the oncoming invasion. END NEW DIRECTIVE
Please put every effort into your presidential campaign. We feel this will be an excellent move in the further indoctrination of the Earth.
But it's IMPOSSIBLE to get in on the middle of. Like, in the middle of the series. I keep trying to watch it, but I have NO IDEA what's going on.
I LIKE giant robots fighting each other, but they don't do it very often on Gundam Wing. There's way too much politics and not enough fighting. Most of the time you see Gundams, they're moving the Gundam AWAY from the battle (to keep them safe? I thought the Gundams were nigh-indestructible... hmm)
I even went to a Gundam website trying to get a handle on what the heck was going on, but I still don't understand. I'll go watch Bubblegum Crisis. At least I understand that...
How much larger? How many sponsorship lines do I have to tolerate in dmesg? And when I load up my X server. And in my Sendmail logs. And...
It could easily get unmanagable. If every kernel module I loaded had 3 lines of sponsorship information, I'd NEVER find any useful information in there.:-(
My biggest problem with this is that it pollutes the stream I try to parse as it goes buy.
Somebody said that they ignore all those messages as they scroll by, but I don't. I almost ALWAYS wind up checking dmesg or the logs to be sure everything started OK. I make a LOT of changes to my system and I want to know when I break something.
"Oops, sound drivers didn't load, what did I just change?" instead of "CRAP! My MP3s won't play! What have I changed this week?"
Admittedly, it's a minor annoyance, but dmesg has a relatively small buffer. I'd hate for the whole boot sequence not to fit because everyone feels the need to thank their sponsors.
But it need not be a black hole if you don't want it to. It may not be the default that they tell you how to set up, but should you be reconfiging company e-mail if you can't make Sendmail do what you want?
AFA their criteria, all of these different lists have different criteria. It's the Admin's job to pick the one that fits best with their mentality.
ORBS is NOT a "black hole" - we do not disseminate routing information causing included hosts to be unreachable from portions of the Internet. Running an open relay is usually accidental and those admins who continue to run open relays after being warned about it by ORBS and/or other entities will eventually find themselves in the MAPS RBL - which is a "black hole" and is used by at least 40% of the mail servers on the Internet.
ORBS tracks these systems so that people operating mailservers subscribed to our database can block e-mail coming from open relays until such time as they are fixed to no longer permit third-party SMTP relay.
Admins may alternatively set their systems up to tag messages delivered from open servers as "possibly spam", or just log the connections. What any admin does is entirely up to that admin. If you've been blocked from delivering mail and given a pointer to this site please note: It is the decision of the administrator of the site which blocked you to disallow mail from open relays. Those open relays must comply with that admin's rules (not ours) in order to deliver mail to that site - we're just verifying to the admin whether a host is an open relay or not.
* These are the code names used for these products while they were under development. They are not actual product names or trademarks. We use them here because many people know the nicknames but not the actual product name. If Intel's lawyers saw us using them, they would start hopping around on one foot with all the pores of their bodies frowning, and then they'd probably make us stop...
I used to agree, but then I started looking at leaving my current job. On the market, I think the cert makes a difference.
Now, don't get me wrong. I don't think it means much. I've learned some studying for these tests, but after using NT, 95, VC++, VB, IIS, etc for years, I was hoping it'd be a walk in the park.
Instead, I get tested on the stupidest shit you can imagine just because they need to ask the questions on SOMETHING. I don't regret my choice, I think it will do nice things for my potential sallary, but as a new MCSE, MCDBA and next week a mcsd, the letters don't mean much except for a few extra $$ while negotiating the contract.
on the other hand, I really get peved when people assume I'm an MCSE so I a)Love MS and b)Am and idiot.
I was configuring TCP/IP on Linux when you were just a pup! getouttahere! This just happens to be what I make money doing.
back on topic: Oh, and the mcsd tests don't tend to expire as quickly as the others. More useful, too.
Do you even use the file associations under linux? there is a way, but I haven't run into anyone who uses it yet, just because the amount of work it saves is (IMHO) miniscule.
Why not install it and see? I'm getting RM files to play for the first time (older versions never liked my system). It really is an easy installation.
it's pretty good! installation was nice (using the non RPM version), and it went just fine, except for the fact that I wasn't installing as root so it couldn't add the helper files in/usr/local/bin that it wanted to. But that's ok, I'll fix it later.
I Can watch RM files now!!! The earlier versions never worked for me at all. This one is very nice in comparison:-).
To the guy worried about the file bindings, no, it doesn't screw anything up. I doubt it knows about the few file binding options you have under Linux. It seems to be very well behaved.
Thanks, Real! It's finally usable and I for one really appreciate it!
On another note, does anyone know what video codecs are included? Do we get the annoying Microsoft ones, too?
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True, but unf. I'm on a budget! Still gotta eat.:-) One of these days, though, I hope to settle down with a nice little hardware RAID-5 array all my own...:-)
No, for the moment at least ATA-66 will be fine for me.
You guys should try ABIT!
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They ROCK. Nice, stable Mobos (IMHO) and rocking advancements. They're the only boards I've bought since my P75.
Nothing like changing processor voltage from the BIOS.
And the BP6 ROCKS! Nothing like ATA-66 and Dual Celerons.
I assume you mean the DVD IOCTLs patch and the UDMA patch. This finally got fixed. Check out the mailing list archives at opensource.creative.com for the dxr2 project. Jens Axobe (please pardon spelling errors, it's early) finally got the two patches together. Using them currently on my bp6 and they work beautifully!
I don't know if the link ever made it to his main site. If not, drop me an e-mail and I'll give you the latest one I've got.
Now if I could only get my USB mouse to work too...:-)
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They work now, they're just not quite optimal. The biggest issues seem to be surrounding manufacture rather than performance.
NASA has done some cool things with sealed stirling engine solar generators for satalites. I don't think they ever used it, but it had 1 moving part and was supposed to be quite efficient.
Pax.
Just as a side point...
Luckily, solar cells are not the only way to harvest sunlight directly to energy. Solar powered turbines are in use, Stirling engines (unfortunatly long negelected) are starting to gain some small measure of popularity in research circles again...
Any prime mover can be used to harvest sunlight.
Personally, though, I think most gains will come in the form of more efficient ways to use the fuels we use now. We belch an awful lot of waste heat and fumes our of our cars for no reason. Now if I can just justify either the Honda or Toyota hybrid car this fall...
Oh you can yell fire in a crowded theatre, it is up to the other people to decide whether you are a dickhead or telling the truth.
Just for the record, you may want to go read up on some Supreme Court decisions. Your statement is false.
I think that computer networks, in general, provide an easy mechanisim for accessing personal data. How can this be tolerated?
If there is a file on one computer and I want to use it on another, what choice do I have except for a computer network? This is incredibly insecure!
And don't EVEN get me started about floppy drives!
It's the www.pornolize.com.
But if it's a forgery, then it may be illegal. Just because there's a whole industry of people committing a crime doesn't make it legal, it just makes it organized crime...
If the law strikes back at those people forging their headers, then maybe we'll get a nice baseball bat to knock the spammers around with...
BEGIN TRANSMISSION
Origin: Orbiting invasion fleet
Destination: GiS Commando Team
MESSAGE BEGINS
Commander Taco, we are pleased thus far with your progress in destroying the mentality of the computing elite on earth, however we are beginning to find flaws in your intelilgence information.
While we greatly approve of your method of transmission (the use of resonance frequencies of fiber optics created my multiple simultaneous downloads of GiS is particularly impressive) and we also think that your development of the so called "personality cult" will greatly aid us in the coming battles, the quality of the tatical information you have been providing has dropped significantly in the past months.
To cite an example, several scout ships were destroyed while investigating your claim that the Earth's primary satalite had been destroyed by a multination conglomerate (please provide more information on the Pik-oh-low group). It has been discovered that either the moon has NOT been destroyed or it has been replaced by a very effective replica. The theory that it was merely a holographic projection to give the appearance of a moon has been disproved by the destruction of the scout ships mentioned. We fear that the continued presence of ocean tides will further delay the invasion.
Please put more effort into checking your reports for inaccuracies. Remember that the future of the invasion depends on accurate information.
NEW DIRECTIVE FOLLOWS
Please send more information regarding the entity known as Roberta Williams.
Also include more information on the Sayan race. They appear to be a potential threat to the oncoming invasion.
END NEW DIRECTIVE
Please put every effort into your presidential campaign. We feel this will be an excellent move in the further indoctrination of the Earth.
MESSAGE ENDS
END TRANSMISSION
NOOO!
Dammit, I WANT to believe in 3dfx. They support Linux. For a long time they were king-of-the-hill!
But now, even with the GEForce2 out, they have to delay a card that requires me to hook up a HD connector to power it?!?
Dammit, if nVidia would just open up their drivers a little bit more, I wouldn't mourn for these guys, but ARGH!
With only one GIS episode a week, I need more to help me get though the week. HELP ME!
But it's IMPOSSIBLE to get in on the middle of. Like, in the middle of the series. I keep trying to watch it, but I have NO IDEA what's going on.
I LIKE giant robots fighting each other, but they don't do it very often on Gundam Wing. There's way too much politics and not enough fighting. Most of the time you see Gundams, they're moving the Gundam AWAY from the battle (to keep them safe? I thought the Gundams were nigh-indestructible... hmm)
I even went to a Gundam website trying to get a handle on what the heck was going on, but I still don't understand. I'll go watch Bubblegum Crisis. At least I understand that...
Pax.
Monday. Heavy Gear II for Linux. And I couldn't be happier.
:-)
I've got Loki's Civ CTP, Q3 and HG2 now and I am eagerly awaiting SC3k.
Yes, unfortunatly I've got Windows on my PC, but HG2 may change that. It's looking to be more fun than the only reason I keep W98 around, Mech3.
AND it uses both processors! What a concept.
So, yes, I am part of the fabled "Linux Gamer" market.
How much larger? How many sponsorship lines do I have to tolerate in dmesg? And when I load up my X server. And in my Sendmail logs. And...
:-(
It could easily get unmanagable. If every kernel module I loaded had 3 lines of sponsorship information, I'd NEVER find any useful information in there.
My biggest problem with this is that it pollutes the stream I try to parse as it goes buy.
Somebody said that they ignore all those messages as they scroll by, but I don't. I almost ALWAYS wind up checking dmesg or the logs to be sure everything started OK. I make a LOT of changes to my system and I want to know when I break something.
"Oops, sound drivers didn't load, what did I just change?" instead of "CRAP! My MP3s won't play! What have I changed this week?"
Admittedly, it's a minor annoyance, but dmesg has a relatively small buffer. I'd hate for the whole boot sequence not to fit because everyone feels the need to thank their sponsors.
I don't think it interferes. IIRC, POTS is 0 to 4kHz, xDSL is 30kHz to 1.5M Hz and HomePNA is 5.5M Hz to 9.5M Hz.
That info is from a presentation on AMDtek's website about their Pegasus chip, which is in the 10/100 ethernet adapters and also does HomePNA.
But it need not be a black hole if you don't want it to. It may not be the default that they tell you how to set up, but should you be reconfiging company e-mail if you can't make Sendmail do what you want?
AFA their criteria, all of these different lists have different criteria. It's the Admin's job to pick the one that fits best with their mentality.
Pax.
From their What is this? Page:
ORBS is NOT a "black hole" - we do not disseminate routing information causing included hosts to be
unreachable from portions of the Internet. Running an open relay is usually accidental and those admins who
continue to run open relays after being warned about it by ORBS and/or other entities will eventually find
themselves in the MAPS RBL - which is a "black hole" and is used by at least 40% of the mail servers on the
Internet.
ORBS tracks these systems so that people operating mailservers subscribed to our database can block
e-mail coming from open relays until such time as they are fixed to no longer permit third-party SMTP relay.
Admins may alternatively set their systems up to tag messages delivered from open servers as "possibly
spam", or just log the connections. What any admin does is entirely up to that admin. If you've been blocked
from delivering mail and given a pointer to this site please note: It is the decision of the administrator of the site
which blocked you to disallow mail from open relays. Those open relays must comply with that admin's rules
(not ours) in order to deliver mail to that site - we're just verifying to the admin whether a host is an open relay
or not.
In the Graphics card secion:
* These are the code names used for these products while they were under development. They are not actual product names or trademarks. We use them here because many people know the nicknames but not the actual product name. If Intel's lawyers saw us using them, they would start hopping around on one foot with all the pores of their bodies frowning, and then they'd probably make us stop...
I used to agree, but then I started looking at leaving my current job. On the market, I think the cert makes a difference.
Now, don't get me wrong. I don't think it means much. I've learned some studying for these tests, but after using NT, 95, VC++, VB, IIS, etc for years, I was hoping it'd be a walk in the park.
Instead, I get tested on the stupidest shit you can imagine just because they need to ask the questions on SOMETHING. I don't regret my choice, I think it will do nice things for my potential sallary, but as a new MCSE, MCDBA and next week a mcsd, the letters don't mean much except for a few extra $$ while negotiating the contract.
on the other hand, I really get peved when people assume I'm an MCSE so I a)Love MS and b)Am and idiot.
I was configuring TCP/IP on Linux when you were just a pup! getouttahere! This just happens to be what I make money doing.
back on topic:
Oh, and the mcsd tests don't tend to expire as quickly as the others. More useful, too.
are the file associations your biggest gripe?
Do you even use the file associations under linux? there is a way, but I haven't run into anyone who uses it yet, just because the amount of work it saves is (IMHO) miniscule.
Why not install it and see? I'm getting RM files to play for the first time (older versions never liked my system). It really is an easy installation.
it's pretty good! installation was nice (using the non RPM version), and it went just fine, except for the fact that I wasn't installing as root so it couldn't add the helper files in /usr/local/bin that it wanted to. But that's ok, I'll fix it later.
:-).
I Can watch RM files now!!! The earlier versions never worked for me at all. This one is very nice in comparison
To the guy worried about the file bindings, no, it doesn't screw anything up. I doubt it knows about the few file binding options you have under Linux. It seems to be very well behaved.
Thanks, Real! It's finally usable and I for one really appreciate it!
On another note, does anyone know what video codecs are included? Do we get the annoying Microsoft ones, too?
True, but unf. I'm on a budget! Still gotta eat. :-) One of these days, though, I hope to settle down with a nice little hardware RAID-5 array all my own... :-)
No, for the moment at least ATA-66 will be fine for me.
They ROCK. Nice, stable Mobos (IMHO) and rocking advancements. They're the only boards I've bought since my P75.
Nothing like changing processor voltage from the BIOS.
And the BP6 ROCKS! Nothing like ATA-66 and Dual Celerons.
I assume you mean the DVD IOCTLs patch and the UDMA patch. This finally got fixed. Check out the mailing list archives at opensource.creative.com for the dxr2 project. Jens Axobe (please pardon spelling errors, it's early) finally got the two patches together. Using them currently on my bp6 and they work beautifully!
:-)
I don't know if the link ever made it to his main site. If not, drop me an e-mail and I'll give you the latest one I've got.
Now if I could only get my USB mouse to work too...
ROTFLMAO!
General Chalupa, I salute you!
Do we have a late beanie award for "Best Grits/Natalie Portman post"?
Well, if you're going to snuff out Linux out of the gate (although I disagree, but that's probably because I compare it to NT)..
Sendmail? (So it's not the GPL. So What?)
Apache?
WindowMaker (A personal favorite)?
Just random thoughts.