Solar panels are the way to put power generation into the hands of the people. When I look out at all the rooftops in the area - houses, office buildings, Super S-Marts and their enormous un-covered parking lots, all I can think of is if every one of those surfaces had a single solar panel our energy demands from centralized (corporate:p) energy would a fraction of what it is now.
Have we learned nothing from decentralized computing?
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Thankfully, everyone knows it's bullshit, so no one's listening to this jerk, right?...Right? RIGHT?
Security is an illusion created by those who would pilfer your wallet. You are not safe, and no one can make you safe. Once you accept that you attain a level of freedom you never knew existed.
Having been a SCSI-drive user since my Amiga 1000 days, you need to understand MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) and the difference between IDE/SATA drives and SCSI/FiberChannel drives. Remember that the profit margins on consumer electronics is razor thin, so any manufacturer is going to put any device it can't find a problem with back into service (eg: your RMA'd drives).
Even better, depending on the mutual fund and the institution you got it from, you can take setup a margin loan against the fund, which is usually charged prime + 1.5 % interest. Not bad, if your fund is doing well. It's more-or-less a loan to yourself, and if you eventually pay off the margin loan your mutual fund is stil in tact and preferrably made a better percentage than what you paid on the loan. Though you can only "borrow" up to about 60% and if your fund drops, they will call the margin and sell you out to cover the loan (but in this case, the difference between where you bought into the market and where you got sold out would be a tax deduction). But that's better than having just pissed away all the money in the first place.
Cluster need special software to take advantage of the disturbed computing. They are built with a specific task in mind. Or do you already have a need and just failed to tell us?
And specifically, is this a processing cluster or a failsafe cluster? I kind of assume a processing cluster, since that's what most people on slashdot refer to as a cluster, but in my experience most of the clusters out there are failsafe clusters ("5 9's" of service versus raw horsepower). Two rather different applications of clustering, requiring different design philosophy and sometimes different clustering applications.
OB Mony Python ref: "I don't know what you mean, an african cluster or a euopean cluster?"
Eberhard suggests it would be easy enough to pump MP3s of prerecorded engine roar into the car's Blaupunkt stereo. And for those with even older tastes, the sound of horse hooves could be substituted.
I can second that. I've used the Xserve RAID on Suns, x86 Linux, Windows 2k server, and actual Xservers too! i was very impressed with the fact that the RAID manager software was a run-anywhere java app. Pull it out of the package, and it runs on anything with a JRE.
The music for Total Annihilation was fantastic. Interestingly enough (if you were playing multiplayer and had quorum cds) if you dropped in the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian, it synchronized really well with the gameplay of TA.:)
From what I've read here, the big carriers (and ISPs) are getting hit with charges for sites that become "popular". "Popular" == "more bandwidth" and on the net, bandwidth is money.
So, it's really just a matter of bandwidth. There are plenty of technical solutions to that, namely proxies.
Granted, a lot of network stuff these days is "active" or generated on the fly, but the bandwidth-heavy stuff just isn't. You don't want to cache, say, someone's Amazon shopping cart while they're buying something, but that page has a lot of standard Amazon graphics on it, which can be cached and should be cached since images (taking a leap here) make up most of the data on a web page. Anything that is popular, most streaming data, images, audio, should all be cached by proxies at the ISP level. Keep the bandwidth local.
Hell, even if particular (ahem, 'slashdotted') sites were to maintain cacheing servers at ISPs, that would probably help considerably. Maybe slashdot could lead the charge, and host slashdot proxy servers at the ISPs that make up the majority of traffic to the site?
I just have this "dirty" feeling about this, like the problem got tossed to the moneymen, and this is their solution. If all you have is a hammer...
Mostly for the RAID Manager app, which, if you open it up and pull out the.jar file, can be run on any system with a java VM. I had Xserve RAIDs attached to Xserves, Sun servers, Linux servers, and a Windows server.
Maybe, just maybe, Bush (or someone else in the administration, more likely) got a clue and read 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'?
Suddenly one-upping China by going to Mars instead of the Moon was overshadowed by the possibility of China pounding the bejezus out everyone else with moon rocks.
Hm, I wonder if we're being subjected to the scrapings of Intel's marketing brainpans.
Actually, I wonder if Intel is just tossing up their hands at 64-bit Pentiums and just 'moving on' - but making it a marketing "win!". I'm assuming though, that the "Core" (What a totally unique name! Can't wait till they try to trademark it!) core is 64-bit.
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Why all the talk of centralized power generation?
:p) energy would a fraction of what it is now.
Solar panels are the way to put power generation into the hands of the people. When I look out at all the rooftops in the area - houses, office buildings, Super S-Marts and their enormous un-covered parking lots, all I can think of is if every one of those surfaces had a single solar panel our energy demands from centralized (corporate
Have we learned nothing from decentralized computing?
Thankfully, everyone knows it's bullshit, so no one's listening to this jerk, right? ...Right? RIGHT?
Lighten up, Francis.
The tab I've got this article in says "Bug Pushes Vista Out..."
:)
Apparently the bugs have gotten tired of having MS slouching about all the time.
which sort of mitigates the whole point.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mitigate
OB The Princess Bride quote:
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Security is an illusion created by those who would pilfer your wallet.
You are not safe, and no one can make you safe. Once you accept that you attain a level of freedom you never knew existed.
Yep - you can definitely pick it out in the upper left quadrant of the crater. Just to the left of the large shadowed cliff/region.
Having been a SCSI-drive user since my Amiga 1000 days, you need to understand MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) and the difference between IDE/SATA drives and SCSI/FiberChannel drives. Remember that the profit margins on consumer electronics is razor thin, so any manufacturer is going to put any device it can't find a problem with back into service (eg: your RMA'd drives).
Here are some articles I dug up in a few minutes:
http://www.bqr.com/faq/faq.htm
http://www.atruereview.com/Articles/scsi.php
http://www.driveservice.com/bestwrst.htm (a bit old, but has useful info)
To answer your qeustion:
Caveat Emptor!
I buy music expecting that I might be listening to it in 15 years time, but the number of games in the same position is tiny.
Oh now you've done it. Time to boot up the ol' Amiga 1000 and find my Lemmings disk.
O-o-o-oh No-o-o-o-o! POP!
The what is huh? Oooh, fudge!
Firefox, about your new girlfriend? Bad News, dude, Bad News.
Ah. Never did paid much attention to MS marketing. :)
Even better, depending on the mutual fund and the institution you got it from, you can take setup a margin loan against the fund, which is usually charged prime + 1.5 % interest. Not bad, if your fund is doing well. It's more-or-less a loan to yourself, and if you eventually pay off the margin loan your mutual fund is stil in tact and preferrably made a better percentage than what you paid on the loan.
Though you can only "borrow" up to about 60% and if your fund drops, they will call the margin and sell you out to cover the loan (but in this case, the difference between where you bought into the market and where you got sold out would be a tax deduction). But that's better than having just pissed away all the money in the first place.
Cluster need special software to take advantage of the disturbed computing. They are built with a specific task in mind. Or do you already have a need and just failed to tell us?
And specifically, is this a processing cluster or a failsafe cluster? I kind of assume a processing cluster, since that's what most people on slashdot refer to as a cluster, but in my experience most of the clusters out there are failsafe clusters ("5 9's" of service versus raw horsepower). Two rather different applications of clustering, requiring different design philosophy and sometimes different clustering applications.
OB Mony Python ref:
"I don't know what you mean, an african cluster or a euopean cluster?"
> Since Windows 95.
MS-DOS
Eberhard suggests it would be easy enough to pump MP3s of prerecorded engine roar into the car's Blaupunkt stereo. And for those with even older tastes, the sound of horse hooves could be substituted.
:)
Or turboprop engines.
I can second that. I've used the Xserve RAID on Suns, x86 Linux, Windows 2k server, and actual Xservers too!
i was very impressed with the fact that the RAID manager software was a run-anywhere java app. Pull it out of the package, and it runs on anything with a JRE.
Why was the parent to this modded 'Funny'?
Speaking of viral marketing, you want to watch this movie: http://www.hempmento.com/
Where's Wes Craven when you need him?
The music for Total Annihilation was fantastic. Interestingly enough (if you were playing multiplayer and had quorum cds) if you dropped in the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian, it synchronized really well with the gameplay of TA. :)
From what I've read here, the big carriers (and ISPs) are getting hit with charges for sites that become "popular". "Popular" == "more bandwidth" and on the net, bandwidth is money.
So, it's really just a matter of bandwidth. There are plenty of technical solutions to that, namely proxies.
Granted, a lot of network stuff these days is "active" or generated on the fly, but the bandwidth-heavy stuff just isn't. You don't want to cache, say, someone's Amazon shopping cart while they're buying something, but that page has a lot of standard Amazon graphics on it, which can be cached and should be cached since images (taking a leap here) make up most of the data on a web page. Anything that is popular, most streaming data, images, audio, should all be cached by proxies at the ISP level. Keep the bandwidth local.
Hell, even if particular (ahem, 'slashdotted') sites were to maintain cacheing servers at ISPs, that would probably help considerably. Maybe slashdot could lead the charge, and host slashdot proxy servers at the ISPs that make up the majority of traffic to the site?
I just have this "dirty" feeling about this, like the problem got tossed to the moneymen, and this is their solution. If all you have is a hammer...
I can also recommend the Xserve RAIDs from Apple.
.jar file, can be run on any system with a java VM. I had Xserve RAIDs attached to Xserves, Sun servers, Linux servers, and a Windows server.
Mostly for the RAID Manager app, which, if you open it up and pull out the
See: http://www.alienraid.org/
Maybe, just maybe, Bush (or someone else in the administration, more likely) got a clue and read 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'?
Suddenly one-upping China by going to Mars instead of the Moon was overshadowed by the possibility of China pounding the bejezus out everyone else with moon rocks.
Hmm.
That or Halliburton just bought a hotel chain.
Yeah, but it's a blipvert WITHIN a commercial!
Uwe Boll? Who?
VI = 6
IV = 4
VIIV = 64! Isn't that COOOL!
Hm, I wonder if we're being subjected to the scrapings of Intel's marketing brainpans.
Actually, I wonder if Intel is just tossing up their hands at 64-bit Pentiums and just 'moving on' - but making it a marketing "win!". I'm assuming though, that the "Core" (What a totally unique name! Can't wait till they try to trademark it!) core is 64-bit.