I second that. I would say Ocarina of Time is one of my top 5 games, its awesome, I play it once a year or so in an emulator, and I hated all the Zelda games after it. It should be extended with more content. They ruined it with the follow on games, in my opinion. It was an impossible act to follow, really.
Deus Ex is the best game ever. [Deus Ex 2 was one of the worst]
I miss Deus Ex. I wish there were like 10 sequels using the exact format and an updated graphics engine.
The awesome voice acting and huge amounts of immersion content made that game just awesome. The inventory system ruled. The skill system ruled. The game could be played many ways and the whole things was just good.
I would say for console, Ocarina of Time and Super Metroid are the best console games that come to mind. But I have a long list of console game I really like.
I really also like Herzog Zwei a lot and wish they would come out with a sequel to the awesome and fun Kid Icarus.
I'm not saying that Canada's health care is "better," but drug companies in the US sell drugs cheaper to other markets, make questionably effective vaccines and use the government to force them on people, and there is a general sense of the medical industry here using legislation quite often to create a favorable wind. This industry is corrupted and needs a little negative exposure. I'm not saying Sicko is dead on, but Google is Evil to try and make money off this strife, and it is evil when it makes money putting people in Chinese prisons.
Google is bravely bouncing the email from propaganda minister Lauren:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<googlehealthadvertisingblog@google.com>: 64.233.183.25 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 5.5.3 <googlehealthadvertisingblog@google.com>... Invalid Giving up on 64.233.183.25.
Also, the headline is wrong. He will go to prison when this is done. Right now he is being held in a jail. Jail is used for , amongst other things (light sentences), to hold people who are on trial who cannot afford or are not granted bail.
Prison is where people go when they are convicted, and generally have to serve more than one year time.
I also believe that prisons are state administered and jails are county administered.
Anyways, I agree he isn't helping his case. I wonder why he did it, if he did it. Its too bad people cant just take a bunch of "the money" and leave for Brazil rather than do this stuff.
T he PRC Chinese government is a murdering band of thugs, the sad thing is, Google, Yahoo, Cisco and others help this murdering band of thugs maintain total authoritarian autocratic control over 1/5th of the worlds population.
Everyone, when you see "Made in China" and your buy it, you have blood on your hands.
You should read the letters between Madison and Jefferson about limited monopoly. Jefferson helped to pioneer the free library system, and was always supportive of the idea that lighting an another candle from your own candle costs nothing.
However, the framers of the formerly free constitutional republic known as the USA, were very respectful of what they termed "limited monopolies." The inventor should be able to own and leverage his inventions for profit. It is his property, his ideas, his methodology, and in fact it protects the "little people."
I think that companies shouldn't be allowed to hold patents, only people. No one has a problem with an inventor making money, its when say, a big oil companies buys up and invents and patents the use of ceramics in engines only to shelve it to force people to burn more petrol.
What you suggest is that if little John Q. Public invents something neat, and some huge megacorp takes the idea and gives the inventor nothing. Check out a man and a superior car named TUCKER to find out how bad it is already for the little guy.
Suspending limited monopolies (I think they should be short, no more than 20 years) will barely affect big businesses and only make it impossible for small time inventors to make anything off of inventions.
This whole life liberty property / pursuit of happiness thing was already nearly perfectly thought out by Jefferson, Madison, other framers, Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, etc.
The whole problem now is people think rights are collective, for example journalists have special rights, why isn't everyone a journalist? Secret Service can run with concealed sub-machine guns anywhere they want, but normal citizens cant, courts can cast blanket warrants, people are forced to confess to crimes (I think the 5th should make it impossible to self incriminate not optional), death penalty (cruel and unusual violated 8th), rights reserved (the people and the states are routinely stamped out by the feds) etc.
Modern society has perverted freedom so much we don't even recognize the freedoms we used to have here. In the old days, inventions could be entirely localized, there was no massive federal monster combing the countryside looking for people who copied a yolk design from a company and enforcing the violation.
I would just buy one or two RedHat for support (if you really need it, RHEL tends to work fairly well out of the box.)
The rest would be CentOS. I really get tired of expiring updates, and up2date not working unless you pay, and multiple channels for the same product (AS, ES, WS).
CentOS is free, is binary and ABI compatible, and is supported for the full 5 years for free.
Seriously, the CYA / "no one ever got fired for using (Cisco/Microsoft/Redhat)" actually applies to using centos, it doesn't run out and leave you exposed to security exploits.
The fact remains is RedHat uses extortionist tactics (by letting your defenses down) to keep you paying for support. Even the loathed MSFT lets you download security updates when in automatic mode even if you pirate the OS and they know it.
Software vendors should be held liable for exploited systems and damages caused after exploitation if the vendor uses extortion tactics against customers. CentOS is free and open and forever supported.
Remember, please try CentOS - it is RHEL minus the extortion.
Also, you want to save big on power, try making mass storage solid state or holographic. Who cares about faster CPUs at the moment when memory needs to get faster and less latent and less reliant on pipelining and more geared towards faster random access and throughput along with faster mass storage without moving parts.
AMD: Losing in SPEC after having a huge lead and having the superior HyperTransport architecture (direct descendant of the EV7 bus from Alpha's glue-less SMP).
Also, AMD bought ATI and is seriously de-focused - I'm deeply saddened that Intel wont be getting the same level of competition as before because it seems to me AMD/ATI are not headed in the right direction.
PS: Ever notice Intel "VIIV" is VI IV or 6 4 in roman numerals? Lol, right.
I'm no Intel shill, but these new Conroe/Woodcrest CPUs, well, try them out. You'll see.
Re:NAT is the IPv4 version of segmented memory
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v4 isnt going anywhere. I rarely like or agree with DJB, but here is a great article to read and consider about why IPv6 brings a lot of bad stuff with the large address expansion.
That and why dont all the IPv6 lovers go look up switching performance for IPv6 packets - all the IPv4 L3+ line rate switches turn to MUSH with IPv6, and have fun with linked list headers making switching super fast really hard. Its really fun to watch super expensive Cisco, Foundry, Extreme and Force10 gear turn into a boat anchor when trying to switch IPv6. Its also really nice that no one will be able to replace the aforementioned switches anytime soon, so enjoy slow-as-ass switching while having your super long IPv6 addresses. Even the Cisco 3750, which is ass at non v6 switching, is super-ass at v6 switching.
v6 is like having a phone book where every pronounceable permutation of first and last names are present, but only the ones with numbers next to them are actual live name/number combos.
The IPv6 mess by D. J. Bernstein The IPv4 address crunch Computers on the Internet talk to each other through IPv4, version 4 of the Internet Protocol. Each computer on the Internet has its own public IPv4 address, similar to a phone number: for example, 131.193.178.181. The target of each packet of data is identified by a public IPv4 address.
Problem: There are only a few billion public IPv4 addresses. Many of those addresses have already been allocated. What happens when we run out of public IPv4 addresses?
Partial solution: Do all these computers really need to be on the Internet? A company with 20 computers browsing the web doesn't need to put all those computers on the Internet. It can have a single computer on the Internet (a ``proxy'') that retrieves data from web servers on behalf of the other 19 computers, forwards telephone-over-IP calls from the other 19 computers, etc.
Most people agree, however, that proxies merely delay the inevitable.
Long-term solution: IPv6, version 6 of the Internet protocol, has many more addresses. There are other improvements from IPv4 to IPv6, but we can survive without them; what's really important is the expansion of address space.
Basic interoperability issues Suppose someone sells you a public IPv6 address. You put your computer on that address. You find that you can't reach the CNN servers or the Google servers or your company's web servers. How will you react? This is an example of what's called an interoperability failure. Right now, many---in fact, most---Internet servers can't talk to clients on public IPv6 addresses. Until this changes, using a public IPv6 address instead of a public IPv4 address will be a disaster for clients.
Similarly, many---in fact, most---Internet clients can't talk to servers on public IPv6 addresses. Until this changes, using a public IPv6 address instead of a public IPv4 address will be a disaster for servers.
Conclusion: Before clients can be safely deployed on public IPv6 addresses, practically every server will have to learn how to talk to those clients. Before servers can be safely deployed on public IPv6 addresses, practically every client will have to learn how to talk to those servers.
Public IPv6 addresses have an inherently lower cost than public IPv4 addresses, because there are many more of them, but this cost advantage won't matter as long as public IPv6 addresses are noticeably less useful than IPv4 addresses. Right now, public IPv6 addresses are practically useless.
(In response to this page, one commentator said that he had set up public IPv6 addresses, and that those addresses could talk to various public IPv6 addresses at other sites. This doesn't mean that those addresses are useful. The entire Internet is reachable through IPv4; only a small part of the Internet is reachable through IPv6. The sysadmin could eliminate his public IPv
Everyone - please download and use eMule 0.47b, it now has protocol obfuscation:
Protocol Obfuscation is a feature which causes eMule to obfuscate or "hide" its protocol when communicating with other clients or servers. Without obfuscation, each eMule communication has a given structure which can be easily recognized and idenitfied as an eMule packet by any observer. If this feature is turned on, the whole eMule communication appears like random data on the first look and an automatic identification is no longer easily possible. This helps against situations were the eMule Protocol is unjustly discriminated or even completly blocked from a network by identifying its packets. It is however important to note what Obfuscation is not intended to do: It will not increase your anonymity, it will not make you "invisible" in any way and it will also not protect you effective against eavesdroppers. Also if your network admin has a good legal reason to block eMule (for example a restircted company network), bypassing it may cause you other unwanted consequnces. Obfuscation is currently availble for ED2k TCP and UDP, Server TCP and UDP and Kad TCP communication. Kad UDP packets are not yet obfuscatable.
By default, each eMule client (>= 0.47b) supports obfuscated connections to other clients, but doesn't actively requests them. If your ISP is not discriminating the ED2K Protocol you do not need to change anything and still help other users which may need obfuscation. Otherwise your have the following options which can be found in the
Also, please update the ipfilter data file here in eMule, options, security, tick off "filter servers too", and put this URL in the "Update from URL box"
A well regulated population being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the government to register and band arms shall not be infringed.
What is going on these days should scare the hell out of people. They should all run out and stock up on ammo and arms. The new authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are on the rise and you and your gnu are the last defense against them.
Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals judge 9th district court of appeals, and a Romanian Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, warned in 2003, "the simple truth -- born of experience -- is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people."
"The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do," Judge Kozinski noted. "But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once." -- Alex Kozinski
Next we will get arrested for tuning a radio to something we aren't supposed to hear?
I believe FCC rules say if its transmitted, you can receive it.
These idiots should password or WEP or WPA or something protect the network.
This is the beginning of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. I hope the wireless base transmitter guys like living in a new world order with RFID chips implanted in their brains.
The fact he was a sex offender is completely orthogonal and defamatory and unrelated to the legal situation here. Mentioning previous crimes is defamatory and should never play a role in prosecution. A information / network theft has nothing to do with sex offense so it cant even be referred to for building a picture of character.
This story is travesty. This arrest is a travesty.
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Until we have public key voting and the ability to verify that the votes we cast were counted (verification of the vote should be able to be done online or at kiosks at City Halls, Post Offices and Police Stations) we don't even have a democratic constitutional republic.
DRM, DMCA, the Patriot Act are making aggressive progress against the rights of "The People," where there seems to be a basic assumption of guilt.
Back to the problem. If you don't know how the votes were tallied and that the elected officials were really the ones who won and have more than two parties allowed in each election (for all intents we have a two party exclusive system here in the US) we are going to keep getting these empty suit politicians.
Both the GOP and the Dems are screwing the public so bad with illegal junk un-constitutional legislation it hurts to watch.
Focus on how we count votes and making voting VERY transparent and verifiable online and may be able to make inroads.
This is egregious. Think about this. China belongs to the WTO. They use slave labor, actively kill and imprison union organizers. They allow massive pollution. They built the environmental holocaust the three gorges dam which now clogs itself with Yangtze river silt. They ban its citizens from owning firearms and use the military and as a police force. They use Yahoo and Google and Cisco technology, services and infrastructure to imprison and execute political dissidents. China executes over 10,000 people a year in an undocumented fashion with a maximum of two appeals.
China can barely call itself anything but a state holding its people hostage with fear and brainwashing. Recently someone in China who was being interviews by Nova or front line was shown a picture of "Tank Man" from Tiananmen square and they DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE IMAGE WAS OF! Maximum censorship OR total fear of even admitting that something against the government ever even happened. This was 4 students in the interview either feigning not knowing what "Tank Man" is or genuinely not knowing about the incident.
Russia who has valuable oil resources and a more European disposition and a moratorium on the death penalty sells a few MP3s in accordance with their local laws - something the pricks at Google (Schmidt) and Yahoo (Terry "Terrorist" Semel) say makes their anti-Chinese citizen policies in assisting the totalitarian authoritarian government with their persecution - and they cant join the WTO.
Doubt its a backroom deal. I built a 16 processor (8 dual core) box with 16GB of memory for around 20K. It blows the doors off of anything Dell sells and I did it from ordering all the parts from a local merchant, www.ebizpc.com, right down the road. When I picked up the 16 CPU Tyan system, booted CentOS 4.3 without any hassle (except I needed to boot with mem=1024M until I got the net kernel) (CentOS is Binary & ABI and even Kernel module compatible rebuild of RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3, everyone who uses RHEL should switch to the exact same thing for free, CentOS), downloaded the latest 2.6 kernel, recompiled and all was done. No sweat.
The only thing Dell can offer is an easy-peasy warranty, which would be nice as when you buy bucket of parts machines you are on your own and have to RMA parts individually. Nothing has broken yet though. I don't expect it to either.
Bad sadly, for Dell, a random vendor and I can do more for my company than Dell can for my company. That is sad, and Dell is losing out. Here in the SiVal, a lot of simulation and server farm guys are buying cheap stuff off the shelf and getting a low cost integrator like Rackable systems to put things together rather than deal with the likes of Dell.
I was going to post some of the neat config data (cpuinfo, dmidecode, free, cat/proc/interrupts, kcore size, lspci, top, uname, cat/etc/redhat-release, etc. ) but the lameness filter here sucks.
It is wrong to take his DNA. Compelling someone to give DNA should be used only as a tool, such as in the Duke case, to show that the prime suspects are either very likely to have committed the crime or not so likely. Rape, murder scene, robbery scene, etc.
The DNA should be take for the scope of that case and destroyed.
DNA banking is disgusting and should be stopped. The government will eventually look at your DNA, say you have sociopathic tendencies based on it and put you away pre-crime style.
Also, in the face of our brave new world, hoard guns, because a political shift will augment the fascist executive crap and then the other totalitarians/authoritarians will take away all our gun rights and take our guns away, leaving the population totally powerless.
That game was a lot of fun. I wish they made like 5 of those games on the same engine.
I also enjoyed the Sega Genesis versions qiute a bit as well.
Look, those games were at least something, the storyline and the Showdowrun world is so, so so cool and there is so much that could be done with it. Frick, just about every video game could be based on that world. Imagine grand theft auto in SHADOWRUN world? That would rule!
I don't like your arrogant assumption that you or the things you believe in know exactly why the climate is the way it is. Chandra observatory scientists and others have been noticing a huge increase in the output of the sun.
Also, no one should speak about this problem unless the propose a solution that is realistic. Asking China and India not to pollute is going to be impossible, and if developed countries let them "catch up," well, let me put it to you this way, the Chinese aren't going to sit around and think about how bad things are for the environment. Ever. So developed 1st world countries must continue to grow so that technology to deal with a more difficult future actually comes to fruition.
This post does not mean that I buy the gloom and doom scenarios put out by those who warn of global warming, nor do I reject them (I do not think the climate is understood very much at all) - I believe in clean energy, preferably for now, nuclear and wind power.
I believe in pollution being a problem, but to think that the activities of people or volcanism is more important than the activity of the sun or the earth's magnetosphere is really not very smart in understanding the Earth's climate.
Recently, Mars has been observed warming up.
Lets say everyone (including those in Russia, India and China which will *never* happen) go to 100% clean existence and we regress to simpler medieval times sustenance farming and making the Sierra Club happy is the new religion and then the earth CONTINUES to get warm, then we are in a real pickle - no technology to try and bail out the human race and the same problem as before.
MARS IS WARMING Daily Policy Digest GLOBAL WARMING Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming which supports many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due to a recent upsurge in solar energy, says James M. Taylor, of the Heartland Institute.
For three Mars summers, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress, says Taylor. Furthermore, documented changes from 1999 to 2005 show that Mars' climate is presently warmer, and perhaps getting warmer still, than it was several decades or centuries ago.
But there are not a lot of anthropogenic gas emissions on Mars, so what internal dynamic is warming the planet and what does it mean for Earth? According to researchers:
At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities. The problem is that Earth's atmosphere is not in thermodynamic equilibrium with the sun; the longer the time period that the Earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, the stronger the effect will be on the atmosphere. Therefore, greenhouse gases would still contribute to warming, but not as strongly as once thought. Furthermore, the warming of Mars adds another level of uncertainty to claims that the Earth's modest recent warming is a result of human activity, says Taylor.
Source: James M. Taylor, "Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report," Environment and Climate News: Heartland Institute, November 2005.
You know it totally agree here. I use Opterons professionally and love the 280's we are using right now. But even in high end server boards, I've had the best luck with the quality with which Intel reference servers and workstations are implemented with.
For example. Chang Sing Song Gung FUTECH Bloody Monster board gets a few BIOS updates and is forgotten. Off to the next chipset. Intel designs are supports for eons, I still have a PPRO VS440FX motherboard with a BIOS that came out MANY years after the board EOLed. I got the board in October 1996, and the last bios was Version 18.00 (eighteen) 8/14/2000, four years later. Talk about support. FYI, it runs Windows 2003 and I got 256MB in that thing.
I've always said to myself, man, what holds AMD back is the "seriousness" of the motherboards. Keep in mind I really favor the Opteron CPU and design and feel that these recent Intel Conroe benchmarks are meaningless until a Conroe machine shows up on www.spec.org. Really. Back to the "not so nice AMD CPU montherboards" argument. Fu Tech Asus MSI Chinatech Chaintech BFG Dinosaur BLOODY Monster LANPARTY motherboards are too "kiddie." Look, this is serious, expensive stuff. I do see chipset fans die on the TAIWAN MONSTER boards way too soon after being born (within a year/or two). I do see firmware/BIOS updates trail off. I do see BRUTAL spelling/grammar mistakes in the BIOS. I do see support for non-Windows operating systems a complete joke when using TAIWAN MONSTER motherboards (Intel has lots of WHQL drivers and LOTS of support for "other" OSes.).
Now with Intel they have a host of problems per board. But they are well documented. This fails, this heat sink retaining mechanism can fail etc. The failure modes of the product are documented and analyzed. BIOS, firmware and drivers are updated well past EOL. Product lines change little, "AUTO" settings are conservative and work stably, and the whole thing feels audited rather than a bunch of goofballs "mixing up the mess" "like bobcats on booze." Check ASUS's site for errata. HAH. And I like Asus ok, but the support framework sucks donkey genitals.
The AMD boards, from Tyan, to Arima/Rioworks, to Asus, to MSI, to Gigabyte, to whomever. Irritating. Even with Supermicro. I see a wild host of chipsets, junk IO, south-bridges, garbage SATA chips, jackass sound chips and general garbage silicon littered about from ATI (GayTI chipsets are horrible), SiS, Via, NVIDIA and whatnot. The only boards I really like are the AMD 8111/8131 boards. They are pure. But they are LONG in the tooth and have AMD hasn't come out yet with a 100% native chipset that does PCI-Express (that I know of.) I've even seen server works getting back into the action lately in AMD land, along with NVIDIA (a HORRIBLE chipset company with regards to Linux, Intel is much better for Linux) I really wish AMD would step up to the plate and banish this random cruft and define a reference platform.
I've had success with the D875PBZ and the new D975XBX is a dream of a motherboard for not much money and offers a great home for the upcoming Conroe. It is too bad that lame CPUs had to be strapped onto the D875PBZ. Its also too bad Intel hasn't learned to put the north-bridge on chip. Intel did dabble with the dark side, when ECC wasn't available. Remember the BX/GX chipsets supporting everything under the sun with regards to RAM? The MCH, the rambus , and all the cheap assed non-ECC capable chipsets with stupid memory limitations (i815 only can take 512MB, what a stupid stupid stupid joke) were very bad, and the reference boards, while well documented and supported, I was angry at Intel for chinsing out the product line. This is serious stuff, it needs to be documented, coherent \, offer a range of features, and be a little bit more premium than a Fry's special.
I've done ok with pure AMD 8111/8131 boards, but always feels they are chinsy. They work well, but would like to see one of those clean 100% Intel designs, like if AMD were to make the whole reference implementation from top to
Also, don't forget they are making oil rigs that can go ONE MILE DEEP into the ocean to get oil, and if oil reaches $90/bl. tar sands and shale oil get more attractive.
Peak Oil could be 2005/2006, but remember, just because its peaked doesn't mean economies that can afford to pay for it wont get their fix.
Betting against the bull can hurt, I want to see all these gloomy peak-oilists short sell stock and make billions on the impending downfall peakers predict.
I fail to understand why people fear peak oil and get all gloomy, like humanity will just give up and die out and not find other ways such as:
This post does not mean that I buy the gloom and doom scenarios put out by those who warn of global warming, nor do I reject them (I do not think the climate is understood very muchat all) - I believe in clean energy, preferably for now, nuclear and wind power.
I believe in pollution being a problem, but to think that the activities of people or volcanism is more important than the activity of the sun or the earth's magnetosphere is really not very smart in understanding the Earth's climate.
Recently, Mars has been observed warming up.
Lets say everyone (including those in Russia, India and China which will *never* happen) go to 100% clean existence and we regress to simpler medieval times sustenance farming and making the Sierra Club happy is the new religion and then the earth CONTINUES to get warm, then we are in a real pickle - no technology to try and bail out the human race and the same problem as before.
MARS IS WARMING Daily Policy Digest GLOBAL WARMING Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming which supports many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due to a recent upsurge in solar energy, says James M. Taylor, of the Heartland Institute.
For three Mars summers, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress, says Taylor. Furthermore, documented changes from 1999 to 2005 show that Mars' climate is presently warmer, and perhaps getting warmer still, than it was several decades or centuries ago.
But there are not a lot of anthropogenic gas emissions on Mars, so what internal dynamic is warming the planet and what does it mean for Earth? According to researchers:
At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities. The problem is that Earth's atmosphere is not in thermodynamic equilibrium with the sun; the longer the time period that the Earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, the stronger the effect will be on the atmosphere. Therefore, greenhouse gases would still contribute to warming, but not as strongly as once thought. Furthermore, the warming of Mars adds another level of uncertainty to claims that the Earth's modest recent warming is a result of human activity, says Taylor.
Source: James M. Taylor, "Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report," Environment and Climate News: Heartland Institute, November 2005.
SATA is 150MB/sec. Standard PCI is (32 * 33) / 8 = 132 (and generally * 0.8 for overhead if other things are present on the bus so more like just around 100).
You should say use a single PCI-Express lane, 500MB/sec.
Seriously, look into things before your post - especially when using snarky expressions such as "pray tell"
Also, direct connect to the PCI bus would require (most likely) funky drivers.
IDEALLY, marvell/adaptec/lsi or others should just have a back end to one of the common non-fakeraid controllers they make be RAM instead of disks, piggybacking the existing driver support for the raid cards.
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If his dead body doesn't contain the cure for cancer, something is wrong with the world.
I'm all for hearkening to the past and knowing how history, culture and famous individuals gave rise to things, but seriously.
Cancer, HIV, science, medicine, fusion, fuel cells, efficiency issues - you name it - we got problems that can be solved. I don't see how marking Copernicus' grave is going to help one whit.
Cisco should be stamped be the government for the following reason (And Juniper).
I am tired, tired tired of getting IOS from friends to fix security. I understand CCO/SmartNet/TAC support should cost money to protect the hardware, but when your software is deployed as much as IOS, JUNOS and Extreme and Foundry's OS, they should be FORCED to publicly provide free updates. Even MSFT provides free updates for Windows.
These networking companies are basically holding the entire free world's security hostage by demanding a tithe to fix BROKEN CODE in their IOS.
What if you bought the router new and had SmartNet a few years back? CISCO actually says with its policy, its ok for evil ones to use our equipment and software to destroy your network and other collaterally because you refused to pay our mafia protection fee.
TAC is becoming horrible. Fresh out of school know nothings at this point.
Incidentally, I once begged Juniper to give me an update to JUNOS - and they did. The seem far more interested and making network guys happier rather than their corporate bean counters.
Fedora and RedHat to me is annoying - I can't bring myself to use it professionally. It changes too frequently and is poorly supported in my opinion, never fix the problems, always upgrade the packages to move the problem somewhere else. Right now I still have machines running RedHat 7.3 running updates on the fedora legacy project. (There are legacy projects to keep the older RedHat's and various Fedora Cores alive because people hate upgrading a working system every 5 minutes.)
RedHat died the day up2date stopped working for free. Welcome to CentOS 3 and now CentOS, with up2date replaced by yum (which is arguably better). I've found CentOS to be every bit as good as the real RHEL. Please do what you can to support CentOS, as this is what RedHat was for all of us since what, Version 3.x?
My fondest memories of Linux distributions include: RedHat 6.2, the longest supported Linux, which I used past its deprecation, and Cobalt Linux. What could be better than a Linux that feels like it gets the same support level of Solaris.
Microsoft has messed up in a similar way with Windows 2000. Why no SP5? Why no SP7 for Windows NT 4.0? Why not have an SP every 3-4 months? This is very difficult to deal with general, particularly with software one has to pay for.
Ideally, everyone would do what Sun does with Solaris, and what CentOS (RHEL) does. Release a new update every 3-4 months, and have ongoing patching in between. Sun knocks it up a notch and separates the nice to have patches from the critical ones in the Recommended cluster.
Back to Fedora. RedHat jumped that shark at RedHat 8. I was done with RedHat at version 8. Luckily, CentOS 3 and now 4 (which us running great, SELinux and all) provides us with a way to get a Linux with a 5 year lifetime without changing our applications so that they compile on glibc-threads-of-doom-version-99.09099999-alpha-b6 -beta-theta-gamma-ppr6_pre1_rc5.
Right now there seems to be one thing missing from LinuxLand, and that's a more complete IPCop. I want IPCop based on 2.6 and a fully working IPSec/L2TP --and-- PPTPd that works with Windows 2000 and Windows XP/2003 clients without any modifications whatsoever. RedHat should craft up someone to heavily OpenWall/SmoothWall/Astaro/IPCop/OpenBSD/Checkpoin t-Nokia/PIX/etc. Beating a PIX should be real easy.
Back to RedHat miffing things up and leaving itself vulnerable to Novell taking over the leadership role of Linux leader. I've found that using Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and non-RedHat Linux like CentOS is pretty much the preferred MO these days. One thing that RedHat needs besides a firewall killer application, is a total drop in Exchange killer like Scalix.
One thing I have to pay homage to Solaris - I really like providing NFS with Solaris. I always set and forget Solaris, its a pain in the arcane butt with a fairly austere userland, but once its configured it runs like a champion. Im curious to see if RHEL 4 / CentOS 4 can provide NFS v4 services but I'm skeptical about it and will probably just use them as clients and leave the job of shoveling out NFS to client to the guys who invented it.
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I second that. I would say Ocarina of Time is one of my top 5 games, its awesome, I play it once a year or so in an emulator, and I hated all the Zelda games after it. It should be extended with more content. They ruined it with the follow on games, in my opinion. It was an impossible act to follow, really.
Deus Ex is the best game ever. [Deus Ex 2 was one of the worst]
I miss Deus Ex. I wish there were like 10 sequels using the exact format and an updated graphics engine.
The awesome voice acting and huge amounts of immersion content made that game just awesome. The inventory system ruled. The skill system ruled. The game could be played many ways and the whole things was just good.
I would say for console, Ocarina of Time and Super Metroid are the best console games that come to mind. But I have a long list of console game I really like.
I really also like Herzog Zwei a lot and wish they would come out with a sequel to the awesome and fun Kid Icarus.
I'm not saying that Canada's health care is "better," but drug companies in the US sell drugs cheaper to other markets, make questionably effective vaccines and use the government to force them on people, and there is a general sense of the medical industry here using legislation quite often to create a favorable wind. This industry is corrupted and needs a little negative exposure. I'm not saying Sicko is dead on, but Google is Evil to try and make money off this strife, and it is evil when it makes money putting people in Chinese prisons.
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prisons and help a corrupt industry do damage control.
Working prototype drives should be available within a decade.
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Huge reliable solid state storage will have taken over by then. Samsung has 32GB SSDs now.
( http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRelease/P
Latency is very low, and R/W throughput will increase along with capacity. optical / holographic storage is like ceramics, its always the "future."
Also, the headline is wrong. He will go to prison when this is done. Right now he is being held in a jail. Jail is used for , amongst other things (light sentences), to hold people who are on trial who cannot afford or are not granted bail.
Prison is where people go when they are convicted, and generally have to serve more than one year time.
I also believe that prisons are state administered and jails are county administered.
Anyways, I agree he isn't helping his case. I wonder why he did it, if he did it. Its too bad people cant just take a bunch of "the money" and leave for Brazil rather than do this stuff.
Remind ourselves that the USA, China, Iran are the leading murderers of their own people with the death penalty.
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T he PRC Chinese government is a murdering band of thugs, the sad thing is, Google, Yahoo, Cisco and others help this murdering band of thugs maintain total authoritarian autocratic control over 1/5th of the worlds population.
Everyone look at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/135
Everyone, when you see "Made in China" and your buy it, you have blood on your hands.
You should read the letters between Madison and Jefferson about limited monopoly. Jefferson helped to pioneer the free library system, and was always supportive of the idea that lighting an another candle from your own candle costs nothing.
However, the framers of the formerly free constitutional republic known as the USA, were very respectful of what they termed "limited monopolies." The inventor should be able to own and leverage his inventions for profit. It is his property, his ideas, his methodology, and in fact it protects the "little people."
I think that companies shouldn't be allowed to hold patents, only people. No one has a problem with an inventor making money, its when say, a big oil companies buys up and invents and patents the use of ceramics in engines only to shelve it to force people to burn more petrol.
What you suggest is that if little John Q. Public invents something neat, and some huge megacorp takes the idea and gives the inventor nothing. Check out a man and a superior car named TUCKER to find out how bad it is already for the little guy.
Suspending limited monopolies (I think they should be short, no more than 20 years) will barely affect big businesses and only make it impossible for small time inventors to make anything off of inventions.
This whole life liberty property / pursuit of happiness thing was already nearly perfectly thought out by Jefferson, Madison, other framers, Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, etc.
The whole problem now is people think rights are collective, for example journalists have special rights, why isn't everyone a journalist? Secret Service can run with concealed sub-machine guns anywhere they want, but normal citizens cant, courts can cast blanket warrants, people are forced to confess to crimes (I think the 5th should make it impossible to self incriminate not optional), death penalty (cruel and unusual violated 8th), rights reserved (the people and the states are routinely stamped out by the feds) etc.
Modern society has perverted freedom so much we don't even recognize the freedoms we used to have here. In the old days, inventions could be entirely localized, there was no massive federal monster combing the countryside looking for people who copied a yolk design from a company and enforcing the violation.
I would just buy one or two RedHat for support (if you really need it, RHEL tends to work fairly well out of the box.)
The rest would be CentOS. I really get tired of expiring updates, and up2date not working unless you pay, and multiple channels for the same product (AS, ES, WS).
CentOS is free, is binary and ABI compatible, and is supported for the full 5 years for free.
Seriously, the CYA / "no one ever got fired for using (Cisco/Microsoft/Redhat)" actually applies to using centos, it doesn't run out and leave you exposed to security exploits.
The fact remains is RedHat uses extortionist tactics (by letting your defenses down) to keep you paying for support. Even the loathed MSFT lets you download security updates when in automatic mode even if you pirate the OS and they know it.
Software vendors should be held liable for exploited systems and damages caused after exploitation if the vendor uses extortion tactics against customers. CentOS is free and open and forever supported.
Remember, please try CentOS - it is RHEL minus the extortion.
All this is a big yawn. Two important metrics: Frame rates and http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/ / http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/ .
Also, you want to save big on power, try making mass storage solid state or holographic. Who cares about faster CPUs at the moment when memory needs to get faster and less latent and less reliant on pipelining and more geared towards faster random access and throughput along with faster mass storage without moving parts.
AMD: Losing in SPEC after having a huge lead and having the superior HyperTransport architecture (direct descendant of the EV7 bus from Alpha's glue-less SMP).
AMD is now a partner with WildTangent, what a joke. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=3
Also, AMD bought ATI and is seriously de-focused - I'm deeply saddened that Intel wont be getting the same level of competition as before because it seems to me AMD/ATI are not headed in the right direction.
PS: Ever notice Intel "VIIV" is VI IV or 6 4 in roman numerals? Lol, right.
I'm no Intel shill, but these new Conroe/Woodcrest CPUs, well, try them out. You'll see.
That and why dont all the IPv6 lovers go look up switching performance for IPv6 packets - all the IPv4 L3+ line rate switches turn to MUSH with IPv6, and have fun with linked list headers making switching super fast really hard. Its really fun to watch super expensive Cisco, Foundry, Extreme and Force10 gear turn into a boat anchor when trying to switch IPv6. Its also really nice that no one will be able to replace the aforementioned switches anytime soon, so enjoy slow-as-ass switching while having your super long IPv6 addresses. Even the Cisco 3750, which is ass at non v6 switching, is super-ass at v6 switching.
v6 is like having a phone book where every pronounceable permutation of first and last names are present, but only the ones with numbers next to them are actual live name/number combos.
Article here:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
Also, please update the ipfilter data file here in eMule, options, security, tick off "filter servers too", and put this URL in the "Update from URL box"
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/nipfilter.dat.gz
And click load.
Dont forget to add these two servers to static and dont forget to connect to both KAD and the ED2K networks!
ed2k://|server|62.241.53.16|4242|/
ed2k://|server|62.241.53.2|4242|/
Happy donkeying!
Download here:
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A well regulated population being necessary to the security of a police state, the right of the government to register and band arms shall not be infringed.
What is going on these days should scare the hell out of people. They should all run out and stock up on ammo and arms. The new authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are on the rise and you and your gnu are the last defense against them.
Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals judge 9th district court of appeals, and a Romanian Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe, warned in 2003, "the simple truth -- born of experience -- is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people."
Next we will get arrested for tuning a radio to something we aren't supposed to hear?
I believe FCC rules say if its transmitted, you can receive it.
These idiots should password or WEP or WPA or something protect the network.
This is the beginning of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. I hope the wireless base transmitter guys like living in a new world order with RFID chips implanted in their brains.
The fact he was a sex offender is completely orthogonal and defamatory and unrelated to the legal situation here. Mentioning previous crimes is defamatory and should never play a role in prosecution. A information / network theft has nothing to do with sex offense so it cant even be referred to for building a picture of character.
This story is travesty. This arrest is a travesty.
Until we have public key voting and the ability to verify that the votes we cast were counted (verification of the vote should be able to be done online or at kiosks at City Halls, Post Offices and Police Stations) we don't even have a democratic constitutional republic.
DRM, DMCA, the Patriot Act are making aggressive progress against the rights of "The People," where there seems to be a basic assumption of guilt.
Back to the problem. If you don't know how the votes were tallied and that the elected officials were really the ones who won and have more than two parties allowed in each election (for all intents we have a two party exclusive system here in the US) we are going to keep getting these empty suit politicians.
Both the GOP and the Dems are screwing the public so bad with illegal junk un-constitutional legislation it hurts to watch.
Focus on how we count votes and making voting VERY transparent and verifiable online and may be able to make inroads.
This is egregious. Think about this. China belongs to the WTO. They use slave labor, actively kill and imprison union organizers. They allow massive pollution. They built the environmental holocaust the three gorges dam which now clogs itself with Yangtze river silt. They ban its citizens from owning firearms and use the military and as a police force. They use Yahoo and Google and Cisco technology, services and infrastructure to imprison and execute political dissidents. China executes over 10,000 people a year in an undocumented fashion with a maximum of two appeals.
China can barely call itself anything but a state holding its people hostage with fear and brainwashing. Recently someone in China who was being interviews by Nova or front line was shown a picture of "Tank Man" from Tiananmen square and they DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE IMAGE WAS OF! Maximum censorship OR total fear of even admitting that something against the government ever even happened. This was 4 students in the interview either feigning not knowing what "Tank Man" is or genuinely not knowing about the incident.
Russia who has valuable oil resources and a more European disposition and a moratorium on the death penalty sells a few MP3s in accordance with their local laws - something the pricks at Google (Schmidt) and Yahoo (Terry "Terrorist" Semel) say makes their anti-Chinese citizen policies in assisting the totalitarian authoritarian government with their persecution - and they cant join the WTO.
WHAT A JOKE. This is a total sick joke.
Doubt its a backroom deal. I built a 16 processor (8 dual core) box with 16GB of memory for around 20K. It blows the doors off of anything Dell sells and I did it from ordering all the parts from a local merchant, www.ebizpc.com, right down the road. When I picked up the 16 CPU Tyan system, booted CentOS 4.3 without any hassle (except I needed to boot with mem=1024M until I got the net kernel) (CentOS is Binary & ABI and even Kernel module compatible rebuild of RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3, everyone who uses RHEL should switch to the exact same thing for free, CentOS), downloaded the latest 2.6 kernel, recompiled and all was done. No sweat.
/proc/interrupts, kcore size, lspci, top, uname, cat /etc/redhat-release, etc. ) but the lameness filter here sucks.
The only thing Dell can offer is an easy-peasy warranty, which would be nice as when you buy bucket of parts machines you are on your own and have to RMA parts individually. Nothing has broken yet though. I don't expect it to either.
Bad sadly, for Dell, a random vendor and I can do more for my company than Dell can for my company. That is sad, and Dell is losing out. Here in the SiVal, a lot of simulation and server farm guys are buying cheap stuff off the shelf and getting a low cost integrator like Rackable systems to put things together rather than deal with the likes of Dell.
I was going to post some of the neat config data (cpuinfo, dmidecode, free, cat
It is wrong to take his DNA. Compelling someone to give DNA should be used only as a tool, such as in the Duke case, to show that the prime suspects are either very likely to have committed the crime or not so likely. Rape, murder scene, robbery scene, etc.
The DNA should be take for the scope of that case and destroyed.
DNA banking is disgusting and should be stopped. The government will eventually look at your DNA, say you have sociopathic tendencies based on it and put you away pre-crime style.
Also, in the face of our brave new world, hoard guns, because a political shift will augment the fascist executive crap and then the other totalitarians/authoritarians will take away all our gun rights and take our guns away, leaving the population totally powerless.
That game was a lot of fun. I wish they made like 5 of those games on the same engine.
I also enjoyed the Sega Genesis versions qiute a bit as well.
Look, those games were at least something, the storyline and the Showdowrun world is so, so so cool and there is so much that could be done with it. Frick, just about every video game could be based on that world. Imagine grand theft auto in SHADOWRUN world? That would rule!
I don't like your arrogant assumption that you or the things you believe in know exactly why the climate is the way it is. Chandra observatory scientists and others have been noticing a huge increase in the output of the sun.
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Also, no one should speak about this problem unless the propose a solution that is realistic. Asking China and India not to pollute is going to be impossible, and if developed countries let them "catch up," well, let me put it to you this way, the Chinese aren't going to sit around and think about how bad things are for the environment. Ever. So developed 1st world countries must continue to grow so that technology to deal with a more difficult future actually comes to fruition.
This post does not mean that I buy the gloom and doom scenarios put out by those who warn of global warming, nor do I reject them (I do not think the climate is understood very much at all) - I believe in clean energy, preferably for now, nuclear and wind power.
I believe in pollution being a problem, but to think that the activities of people or volcanism is more important than the activity of the sun or the earth's magnetosphere is really not very smart in understanding the Earth's climate.
Recently, Mars has been observed warming up.
Lets say everyone (including those in Russia, India and China which will *never* happen) go to 100% clean existence and we regress to simpler medieval times sustenance farming and making the Sierra Club happy is the new religion and then the earth CONTINUES to get warm, then we are in a real pickle - no technology to try and bail out the human race and the same problem as before.
http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/dpdarticle.php?article
MARS IS WARMING
Daily Policy Digest
GLOBAL WARMING
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming which supports many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due to a recent upsurge in solar energy, says James M. Taylor, of the Heartland Institute.
For three Mars summers, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress, says Taylor. Furthermore, documented changes from 1999 to 2005 show that Mars' climate is presently warmer, and perhaps getting warmer still, than it was several decades or centuries ago.
But there are not a lot of anthropogenic gas emissions on Mars, so what internal dynamic is warming the planet and what does it mean for Earth? According to researchers:
At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities.
The problem is that Earth's atmosphere is not in thermodynamic equilibrium with the sun; the longer the time period that the Earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, the stronger the effect will be on the atmosphere.
Therefore, greenhouse gases would still contribute to warming, but not as strongly as once thought.
Furthermore, the warming of Mars adds another level of uncertainty to claims that the Earth's modest recent warming is a result of human activity, says Taylor.
Source: James M. Taylor, "Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report," Environment and Climate News: Heartland Institute, November 2005.
You know it totally agree here. I use Opterons professionally and love the 280's we are using right now. But even in high end server boards, I've had the best luck with the quality with which Intel reference servers and workstations are implemented with.
For example. Chang Sing Song Gung FUTECH Bloody Monster board gets a few BIOS updates and is forgotten. Off to the next chipset. Intel designs are supports for eons, I still have a PPRO VS440FX motherboard with a BIOS that came out MANY years after the board EOLed. I got the board in October 1996, and the last bios was Version 18.00 (eighteen) 8/14/2000, four years later. Talk about support. FYI, it runs Windows 2003 and I got 256MB in that thing.
I've always said to myself, man, what holds AMD back is the "seriousness" of the motherboards. Keep in mind I really favor the Opteron CPU and design and feel that these recent Intel Conroe benchmarks are meaningless until a Conroe machine shows up on www.spec.org. Really. Back to the "not so nice AMD CPU montherboards" argument. Fu Tech Asus MSI Chinatech Chaintech BFG Dinosaur BLOODY Monster LANPARTY motherboards are too "kiddie." Look, this is serious, expensive stuff. I do see chipset fans die on the TAIWAN MONSTER boards way too soon after being born (within a year/or two). I do see firmware/BIOS updates trail off. I do see BRUTAL spelling/grammar mistakes in the BIOS. I do see support for non-Windows operating systems a complete joke when using TAIWAN MONSTER motherboards (Intel has lots of WHQL drivers and LOTS of support for "other" OSes.).
Now with Intel they have a host of problems per board. But they are well documented. This fails, this heat sink retaining mechanism can fail etc. The failure modes of the product are documented and analyzed. BIOS, firmware and drivers are updated well past EOL. Product lines change little, "AUTO" settings are conservative and work stably, and the whole thing feels audited rather than a bunch of goofballs "mixing up the mess" "like bobcats on booze." Check ASUS's site for errata. HAH. And I like Asus ok, but the support framework sucks donkey genitals.
The AMD boards, from Tyan, to Arima/Rioworks, to Asus, to MSI, to Gigabyte, to whomever. Irritating. Even with Supermicro. I see a wild host of chipsets, junk IO, south-bridges, garbage SATA chips, jackass sound chips and general garbage silicon littered about from ATI (GayTI chipsets are horrible), SiS, Via, NVIDIA and whatnot. The only boards I really like are the AMD 8111/8131 boards. They are pure. But they are LONG in the tooth and have AMD hasn't come out yet with a 100% native chipset that does PCI-Express (that I know of.) I've even seen server works getting back into the action lately in AMD land, along with NVIDIA (a HORRIBLE chipset company with regards to Linux, Intel is much better for Linux) I really wish AMD would step up to the plate and banish this random cruft and define a reference platform.
I've had success with the D875PBZ and the new D975XBX is a dream of a motherboard for not much money and offers a great home for the upcoming Conroe. It is too bad that lame CPUs had to be strapped onto the D875PBZ. Its also too bad Intel hasn't learned to put the north-bridge on chip. Intel did dabble with the dark side, when ECC wasn't available. Remember the BX/GX chipsets supporting everything under the sun with regards to RAM? The MCH, the rambus , and all the cheap assed non-ECC capable chipsets with stupid memory limitations (i815 only can take 512MB, what a stupid stupid stupid joke) were very bad, and the reference boards, while well documented and supported, I was angry at Intel for chinsing out the product line. This is serious stuff, it needs to be documented, coherent \, offer a range of features, and be a little bit more premium than a Fry's special.
I've done ok with pure AMD 8111/8131 boards, but always feels they are chinsy. They work well, but would like to see one of those clean 100% Intel designs, like if AMD were to make the whole reference implementation from top to
Peak Oil could be 2005/2006, but remember, just because its peaked doesn't mean economies that can afford to pay for it wont get their fix.
Betting against the bull can hurt, I want to see all these gloomy peak-oilists short sell stock and make billions on the impending downfall peakers predict.
I fail to understand why people fear peak oil and get all gloomy, like humanity will just give up and die out and not find other ways such as:
microbes
nuclear
wind
ocean current
fusion
shale oil
tar sands
mile deep rigs
etc.
This post does not mean that I buy the gloom and doom scenarios put out by those who warn of global warming, nor do I reject them (I do not think the climate is understood very muchat all) - I believe in clean energy, preferably for now, nuclear and wind power.
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I believe in pollution being a problem, but to think that the activities of people or volcanism is more important than the activity of the sun or the earth's magnetosphere is really not very smart in understanding the Earth's climate.
Recently, Mars has been observed warming up.
Lets say everyone (including those in Russia, India and China which will *never* happen) go to 100% clean existence and we regress to simpler medieval times sustenance farming and making the Sierra Club happy is the new religion and then the earth CONTINUES to get warm, then we are in a real pickle - no technology to try and bail out the human race and the same problem as before.
http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/dpdarticle.php?article
MARS IS WARMING
Daily Policy Digest
GLOBAL WARMING
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming which supports many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due to a recent upsurge in solar energy, says James M. Taylor, of the Heartland Institute.
For three Mars summers, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress, says Taylor. Furthermore, documented changes from 1999 to 2005 show that Mars' climate is presently warmer, and perhaps getting warmer still, than it was several decades or centuries ago.
But there are not a lot of anthropogenic gas emissions on Mars, so what internal dynamic is warming the planet and what does it mean for Earth? According to researchers:
At least 10 to 30 percent of global warming measured during the past two decades may be due to increased solar output rather than factors such as increased heat-absorbing carbon dioxide gas released by various human activities.
The problem is that Earth's atmosphere is not in thermodynamic equilibrium with the sun; the longer the time period that the Earth is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, the stronger the effect will be on the atmosphere.
Therefore, greenhouse gases would still contribute to warming, but not as strongly as once thought.
Furthermore, the warming of Mars adds another level of uncertainty to claims that the Earth's modest recent warming is a result of human activity, says Taylor.
Source: James M. Taylor, "Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report," Environment and Climate News: Heartland Institute, November 2005.
SATA is 150MB/sec. Standard PCI is (32 * 33) / 8 = 132 (and generally * 0.8 for overhead if other things are present on the bus so more like just around 100).
You should say use a single PCI-Express lane, 500MB/sec.
Seriously, look into things before your post - especially when using snarky expressions such as "pray tell"
Also, direct connect to the PCI bus would require (most likely) funky drivers.
IDEALLY, marvell/adaptec/lsi or others should just have a back end to one of the common non-fakeraid controllers they make be RAM instead of disks, piggybacking the existing driver support for the raid cards.
If his dead body doesn't contain the cure for cancer, something is wrong with the world.
I'm all for hearkening to the past and knowing how history, culture and famous individuals gave rise to things, but seriously.
Cancer, HIV, science, medicine, fusion, fuel cells, efficiency issues - you name it - we got problems that can be solved. I don't see how marking Copernicus' grave is going to help one whit.
Cisco should be stamped be the government for the following reason (And Juniper).
I am tired, tired tired of getting IOS from friends to fix security. I understand CCO/SmartNet/TAC support should cost money to protect the hardware, but when your software is deployed as much as IOS, JUNOS and Extreme and Foundry's OS, they should be FORCED to publicly provide free updates. Even MSFT provides free updates for Windows.
These networking companies are basically holding the entire free world's security hostage by demanding a tithe to fix BROKEN CODE in their IOS.
What if you bought the router new and had SmartNet a few years back? CISCO actually says with its policy, its ok for evil ones to use our equipment and software to destroy your network and other collaterally because you refused to pay our mafia protection fee.
TAC is becoming horrible. Fresh out of school know nothings at this point.
Incidentally, I once begged Juniper to give me an update to JUNOS - and they did. The seem far more interested and making network guys happier rather than their corporate bean counters.
Fedora and RedHat to me is annoying - I can't bring myself to use it professionally. It changes too frequently and is poorly supported in my opinion, never fix the problems, always upgrade the packages to move the problem somewhere else. Right now I still have machines running RedHat 7.3 running updates on the fedora legacy project. (There are legacy projects to keep the older RedHat's and various Fedora Cores alive because people hate upgrading a working system every 5 minutes.)
6 -beta-theta-gamma-ppr6_pre1_rc5.
n t-Nokia/PIX/etc. Beating a PIX should be real easy.
RedHat died the day up2date stopped working for free. Welcome to CentOS 3 and now CentOS, with up2date replaced by yum (which is arguably better). I've found CentOS to be every bit as good as the real RHEL. Please do what you can to support CentOS, as this is what RedHat was for all of us since what, Version 3.x?
My fondest memories of Linux distributions include: RedHat 6.2, the longest supported Linux, which I used past its deprecation, and Cobalt Linux. What could be better than a Linux that feels like it gets the same support level of Solaris.
Microsoft has messed up in a similar way with Windows 2000. Why no SP5? Why no SP7 for Windows NT 4.0? Why not have an SP every 3-4 months? This is very difficult to deal with general, particularly with software one has to pay for.
Ideally, everyone would do what Sun does with Solaris, and what CentOS (RHEL) does. Release a new update every 3-4 months, and have ongoing patching in between. Sun knocks it up a notch and separates the nice to have patches from the critical ones in the Recommended cluster.
Back to Fedora. RedHat jumped that shark at RedHat 8. I was done with RedHat at version 8. Luckily, CentOS 3 and now 4 (which us running great, SELinux and all) provides us with a way to get a Linux with a 5 year lifetime without changing our applications so that they compile on glibc-threads-of-doom-version-99.09099999-alpha-b
Right now there seems to be one thing missing from LinuxLand, and that's a more complete IPCop. I want IPCop based on 2.6 and a fully working IPSec/L2TP --and-- PPTPd that works with Windows 2000 and Windows XP/2003 clients without any modifications whatsoever. RedHat should craft up someone to heavily OpenWall/SmoothWall/Astaro/IPCop/OpenBSD/Checkpoi
Back to RedHat miffing things up and leaving itself vulnerable to Novell taking over the leadership role of Linux leader. I've found that using Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and non-RedHat Linux like CentOS is pretty much the preferred MO these days. One thing that RedHat needs besides a firewall killer application, is a total drop in Exchange killer like Scalix.
One thing I have to pay homage to Solaris - I really like providing NFS with Solaris. I always set and forget Solaris, its a pain in the arcane butt with a fairly austere userland, but once its configured it runs like a champion. Im curious to see if RHEL 4 / CentOS 4 can provide NFS v4 services but I'm skeptical about it and will probably just use them as clients and leave the job of shoveling out NFS to client to the guys who invented it.