Here is a list of current regulations in the USA for the disposal of electronic equipment including CRT's.
National Recycling CoalitionEPA and the Display IndustryState of Massachusetts CRT Recycling
Right now, it is the consumer's responsability to dispose of these electronics following national & local regulations. In the future, it will be the electronics manaufacturers' responsability.
Not likely. Even if we do type enough garbage to overload Carnivore processing today, there is no way that would continue to be the case in the future. The amount of data that people generate manually cannot increase at the rate of Moore's Law.
What would work is if everyone ran a "flood Carnivore" process on their spare cycles instead of distributed.net or seti@home. But it would have to be complex enough so that Carnivore could not filter it out by its pattern of output.
When the outside temperature went above 95 degrees fahrenheit, we had to immediately shutdown the Cray T3D otherwise all systems would overheat and crash. We selected the T3D for 3 reasons:
1. The T3D could only be used for batch jobs - a C90 was it's front end. Any failed jobs would restart from a checkpoint.
2. The T3D was the second largest heat producer. The Cray-2 was first, but it was our primary fileserver and shutting down the Cray-2 would hang all systems.
3. The T3D required more electricity than our deisel generators could provide, so it would crash when the power company asked us to switch off of their power feed. Of course they only did that on the hottest days.
If I failed to power down the T3D in time, the Cray-2 would crash first. It was the most sensitive to temperature. It happened, but not on my watch.
Last year MSC decommissioned the Cray-2 and T3D. I don't know what they do to heat the building now.
Yes, it would cost a buttload to run this system, even just for 15 minutes. You can't even boot it without the proper power and cooling infrastructure.
So you don't run it. Paint it black. It looks like something that would only be comfortable in the Batcave. Quite ominous and menacing. I think that its design was meant to scare the bejesus out of Cray's competition.
Some info: to remove just one processor, you need to hook up the crane and winch. It cannot be carried safely by just 2 people. The control panel is a monochrome LCD from Apple that was used in their first Powerbooks.
Actually, you are right, you do get a wholesale rate. Part of the requirements of running one or more Crays, as I have done, is to have sufficient backup power. We had 12 battery backup units, each with 32 car batteries. That would keep the Crays running for 4 minutes. After that the 3 12-cylinder deisel engines would be running at full speed and supply power endlessly.
When we had hot days in Minnesota, the local power company would call us and ask us to switch to deisel power so they could use their energy to power everyone else's air conditioners. In return, we got a major discount on power.
Note: the 4 story building takes up a whole block, but has no furnace. Even in the dead of a Minnesota winter, the Crays heated the whole building including the indoor parking ramp...and we still needed to vent heat out via fans.
Hear, hear. Your tipping rules are what I follow exactly.
I love working with computers and programming. I am lucky as hell that it pays as well as it does in this age. I never worked as hard as my siblings, but I'm paid more than twice what they are. Heck, I didn't even get a degree like they did. I am more than happy to recognize someone else that provides a service to me with a good tip. I want them to know that I appreciated their work.
I seem to be one of the few in this tipping thread that realizes that service workers are working for me when they provide a service.
OK, billybob and Tet. Now you both realize that this is a cultural difference. If you are in the US, Tet, then you best follow our rules for tipping. 15 percent if you received good service. billybob, while I doubt you will ever venture out of our fine country, realize that tipping is not expected in much of Europe.
My mom works at a resort in Death Valley, CA and gets only European guests in the summer. They hardly ever tip and it frustrates her staff to no end.
Why don't you send an email to these folks. They run a library devoted to the history of computing at the University of Minnesota. I'm sure that they would be happy and able to lead you in the right direction.
Charles Babbage Institute
I second that. "CrayLink" was just marketing. They wanted to leverage the Cray name on SGI's highest-end systems to win sales at the national supercomputer centers. Cray was not involved with o2000 engineering. I was at SGI/Cray at the time too, in Minnesota.
You can check out kryotech.com They have freon-replacement coolers for PCs. It also speeds up your cpu without overclocking as a result of the low operating temperature.
Cray's used Flourinert(tm) from 3M to cool their systems. It has the same specific gravety as water, but it does not conduct electricity. You can immerse a computer in it. The case must be sealed, because Flourinert evaporates quickly.
Older mainframes from other vendors have been immersed in mineral oil.
The source for these shelves is Metro. http://www.metro.com/commercial/index.cfm
This is the company that invented the steel wire shelving that is copied by everyone else.
I bought mine at an Organized Living store. I got Metro shelving because it is customizable to my needs and it looks professional. With its black finish, it looks good in my home office too.
I wish I had a picture of my setup. It's shweet. It's holds my 2 tower cases, fax machine, laser printer, Sun SparcStation, 2 laptops, KVM switch, UPS, 60 CDs, DSL router, 2 hubs and lastly, 4 shelves of books (2 on each side). On the second shelf, there is room to add another tower to the KVM switch when a friend wants me to fix their computer. The top shelf hides random computer parts and cables.
To build it, I used four 6 foot posts, five 18"x48" shelves and four 4" lockable castors. I got a snap-on drop basket that holds the Sun and a laptop. The router and hubs are velcro'd to the side of the basket so I can see their lights. I also got 4 snap-on dividers to use as bookends. My office in-box and out-box hang off the side. A 60 CD holder hangs off the top shelf. Wires are managed with a few velcro strips.
Total cost: $440 plus tax (not on sale)
If you are going to put wheels on the shelves, get the heavy duty 4" Polymer wheels, not the cheap plastic 2.5" casters. The 2.5" casters max out at 100 pounds, whereas the 4" wheels handle 300 pounds.
Yes, fingerprint biometrics use about a 9-bit key. That is why they are used along with other security features such as password/pin.
Fingerprints can be used alone when convenience overrides assured security. However, take a moment to consider the practicality of key generation before attempting a brute force attack.
Very funny, Sargent. I titled your fake AP wire "Bill Gates LOVESYOU" and sent it to everyone in my contact list. I hope they do the same.
Man, this virus was just reported (9:20 AM) on my local news. I received it at 6AM, but did not open the attachment. It smelled less like a hot babe swooning over me and more like a drunk old bum mistaking me for his mother.
Can't prove you wrong, here. The USWest default in Minneapolis is a Cisco 605 internal card. I said I needed external (for my network) so the default external is a Cisco 675. I love it. Don't know the price, since mine was provided by USWest for free (with service).
One static IP for the little router and built-in DHCP & NAT to manage the private IPs of my choice for the 8 systems on my home office network.
To manage the box, you connect a serial cable, telnet in, or use a web browser. Note: doesn't use IOS, zehn, it uses CBOS. (Cisco Broadband Operation System) CBOS is "modeled" after IOS.
It was shipping long before that as the Cray CS6400. This is technology bought from Cray Research, Inc. in 1997. They were being acquired by SGI and wanted to unload technology that competed directly with SGI's Origin2000.
Linux Core Kernel Commentary by Scott E. Maxwell 1999
Maxwell is a programmer for NASA's JPL. He has created a Linux internals book in the spirit of the famous Lions' Commentary on Unix printout. It is basically a select 400 pages of the kernel source plus 100 pages of the authors comments on that code.
The author says that this is not meant to be a reference manual. I agree, and believe that well written and interesting code can indeed be regarded as literature.
It's all true. From the outset, The Bible may seem like any other book written by man. However, this book was penned by men, but written by God. Yes, that's right, this book has been certified as Truth by God. There have been thousands of religions over the course of humanity. Each of the peoples that follewed each of the non-Christian religions were certain that they understood the world and beyond. They were all wrong. Because they did not have a book certified by God. So forget yourself and all that you know and, for your sake, just follow the teachings of this book. You know it's all true. It's certified.
And now the problem is that these things are starting to kill people. The unfortunate thing is that there are no easy answers. Sitting up here in our omnipotent thrones, we can see that now the bullies are meaner and more unforgiving (and with longer memories, which is odd because I thought TV was supposed to be killing that), the geeks are suffering on a more long term basis (i.e. everyday), and because of this, IMO, more of a cause for the persecuted to strike back.
Interesting that you point that watching more TV should be killing long term memory. People seem to remember social interactions for a long time. In this age of broadcast media, computer games and the internet, face-to-face social interactions are more scarce. I believe that it is this lack of face time with parents & friends that is propogating more anti-social behavior.
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Here is a list of current regulations in the USA for the disposal of electronic equipment including CRT's. National Recycling Coalition EPA and the Display Industry State of Massachusetts CRT Recycling Right now, it is the consumer's responsability to dispose of these electronics following national & local regulations. In the future, it will be the electronics manaufacturers' responsability.
Not likely. Even if we do type enough garbage to overload Carnivore processing today, there is no way that would continue to be the case in the future. The amount of data that people generate manually cannot increase at the rate of Moore's Law.
What would work is if everyone ran a "flood Carnivore" process on their spare cycles instead of distributed.net or seti@home. But it would have to be complex enough so that Carnivore could not filter it out by its pattern of output.
Check out this link on how to harden your computers or computer room. I don't know the quality of the research or solution.
Hardening your computer assets
I concur. Copper mesh on the floor will do it. Ground it.
I just took a TCL class from AjubaSolutions and wrote some of scheme in TCL while the instructor was talking.
It cdr worked if I had more time.
When the outside temperature went above 95 degrees fahrenheit, we had to immediately shutdown the Cray T3D otherwise all systems would overheat and crash. We selected the T3D for 3 reasons:
1. The T3D could only be used for batch jobs - a C90 was it's front end. Any failed jobs would restart from a checkpoint.
2. The T3D was the second largest heat producer. The Cray-2 was first, but it was our primary fileserver and shutting down the Cray-2 would hang all systems.
3. The T3D required more electricity than our deisel generators could provide, so it would crash when the power company asked us to switch off of their power feed. Of course they only did that on the hottest days.
If I failed to power down the T3D in time, the Cray-2 would crash first. It was the most sensitive to temperature. It happened, but not on my watch.
Last year MSC decommissioned the Cray-2 and T3D. I don't know what they do to heat the building now.
Yes, it would cost a buttload to run this system, even just for 15 minutes. You can't even boot it without the proper power and cooling infrastructure.
So you don't run it. Paint it black. It looks like something that would only be comfortable in the Batcave. Quite ominous and menacing. I think that its design was meant to scare the bejesus out of Cray's competition.
Some info: to remove just one processor, you need to hook up the crane and winch. It cannot be carried safely by just 2 people. The control panel is a monochrome LCD from Apple that was used in their first Powerbooks.
Actually, you are right, you do get a wholesale rate. Part of the requirements of running one or more Crays, as I have done, is to have sufficient backup power. We had 12 battery backup units, each with 32 car batteries. That would keep the Crays running for 4 minutes. After that the 3 12-cylinder deisel engines would be running at full speed and supply power endlessly.
When we had hot days in Minnesota, the local power company would call us and ask us to switch to deisel power so they could use their energy to power everyone else's air conditioners. In return, we got a major discount on power.
Note: the 4 story building takes up a whole block, but has no furnace. Even in the dead of a Minnesota winter, the Crays heated the whole building including the indoor parking ramp...and we still needed to vent heat out via fans.
Hear, hear. Your tipping rules are what I follow exactly.
I love working with computers and programming. I am lucky as hell that it pays as well as it does in this age. I never worked as hard as my siblings, but I'm paid more than twice what they are. Heck, I didn't even get a degree like they did. I am more than happy to recognize someone else that provides a service to me with a good tip. I want them to know that I appreciated their work.
I seem to be one of the few in this tipping thread that realizes that service workers are working for me when they provide a service.
OK, billybob and Tet. Now you both realize that this is a cultural difference. If you are in the US, Tet, then you best follow our rules for tipping. 15 percent if you received good service. billybob, while I doubt you will ever venture out of our fine country, realize that tipping is not expected in much of Europe.
My mom works at a resort in Death Valley, CA and gets only European guests in the summer. They hardly ever tip and it frustrates her staff to no end.
Why don't you send an email to these folks. They run a library devoted to the history of computing at the University of Minnesota. I'm sure that they would be happy and able to lead you in the right direction. Charles Babbage Institute
I second that. "CrayLink" was just marketing. They wanted to leverage the Cray name on SGI's highest-end systems to win sales at the national supercomputer centers. Cray was not involved with o2000 engineering. I was at SGI/Cray at the time too, in Minnesota.
Here's a cube computer that predates NeXT. The Thinking Machines CM2 is from 1986. Want to see a picture?
You can check out kryotech.com They have freon-replacement coolers for PCs. It also speeds up your cpu without overclocking as a result of the low operating temperature.
Cray's used Flourinert(tm) from 3M to cool their systems. It has the same specific gravety as water, but it does not conduct electricity. You can immerse a computer in it. The case must be sealed, because Flourinert evaporates quickly.
Older mainframes from other vendors have been immersed in mineral oil.
And just like a CIO, the only complaints against him come from anonymous sources. hahahaha
Silly AC, find something to fight for, not against. And get a name.
The source for these shelves is Metro. http://www.metro.com/commercial/index.cfm
This is the company that invented the steel wire shelving that is copied by everyone else.
I bought mine at an Organized Living store. I got Metro shelving because it is customizable to my needs and it looks professional. With its black finish, it looks good in my home office too.
I wish I had a picture of my setup. It's shweet. It's holds my 2 tower cases, fax machine, laser printer, Sun SparcStation, 2 laptops, KVM switch, UPS, 60 CDs, DSL router, 2 hubs and lastly, 4 shelves of books (2 on each side). On the second shelf, there is room to add another tower to the KVM switch when a friend wants me to fix their computer. The top shelf hides random computer parts and cables.
To build it, I used four 6 foot posts, five 18"x48" shelves and four 4" lockable castors. I got a snap-on drop basket that holds the Sun and a laptop. The router and hubs are velcro'd to the side of the basket so I can see their lights. I also got 4 snap-on dividers to use as bookends. My office in-box and out-box hang off the side. A 60 CD holder hangs off the top shelf. Wires are managed with a few velcro strips.
Total cost: $440 plus tax (not on sale)
If you are going to put wheels on the shelves, get the heavy duty 4" Polymer wheels, not the cheap plastic 2.5" casters. The 2.5" casters max out at 100 pounds, whereas the 4" wheels handle 300 pounds.
One trip to mars and back and I will have enough frequent flier miles for the rest of my life.
Load as much data as you want onto Zip or DLT and load it into a boxcar. Sure the latency will be a few hours, but MAN the bandwidth!
Yes, fingerprint biometrics use about a 9-bit key. That is why they are used along with other security features such as password/pin.
Fingerprints can be used alone when convenience overrides assured security. However, take a moment to consider the practicality of key generation before attempting a brute force attack.
Very funny, Sargent. I titled your fake AP wire "Bill Gates LOVESYOU" and sent it to everyone in my contact list. I hope they do the same.
Man, this virus was just reported (9:20 AM) on my local news. I received it at 6AM, but did not open the attachment. It smelled less like a hot babe swooning over me and more like a drunk old bum mistaking me for his mother.
Can't prove you wrong, here. The USWest default in Minneapolis is a Cisco 605 internal card. I said I needed external (for my network) so the default external is a Cisco 675. I love it. Don't know the price, since mine was provided by USWest for free (with service).
One static IP for the little router and built-in DHCP & NAT to manage the private IPs of my choice for the 8 systems on my home office network.
To manage the box, you connect a serial cable, telnet in, or use a web browser. Note: doesn't use IOS, zehn, it uses CBOS. (Cisco Broadband Operation System) CBOS is "modeled" after IOS.
It was shipping long before that as the Cray CS6400. This is technology bought from Cray Research, Inc. in 1997. They were being acquired by SGI and wanted to unload technology that competed directly with SGI's Origin2000.
Linux Core Kernel Commentary
by Scott E. Maxwell
1999
Maxwell is a programmer for NASA's JPL. He has created a Linux internals book in the spirit of the famous Lions' Commentary on Unix printout. It is basically a select 400 pages of the kernel source plus 100 pages of the authors comments on that code.
The author says that this is not meant to be a reference manual. I agree, and believe that well written and interesting code can indeed be regarded as literature.
Yeah, Ice, read The Bible.
It's all true. From the outset, The Bible may seem like any other book written by man. However, this book was penned by men, but written by God. Yes, that's right, this book has been certified as Truth by God. There have been thousands of religions over the course of humanity. Each of the peoples that follewed each of the non-Christian religions were certain that they understood the world and beyond. They were all wrong. Because they did not have a book certified by God. So forget yourself and all that you know and, for your sake, just follow the teachings of this book. You know it's all true. It's certified.
And now the problem is that these things are starting to kill people. The unfortunate thing is that there are no easy answers. Sitting up here in our omnipotent thrones, we can see that now the bullies are meaner and more unforgiving (and with longer memories, which is odd because I thought TV was supposed to be killing that), the geeks are suffering on a more long term basis (i.e. everyday), and because of this, IMO, more of a cause for the persecuted to strike back.
Interesting that you point that watching more TV should be killing long term memory. People seem to remember social interactions for a long time. In this age of broadcast media, computer games and the internet, face-to-face social interactions are more scarce. I believe that it is this lack of face time with parents & friends that is propogating more anti-social behavior.