This sounds somewhat similar to TIPC which we're using in some projects where I work. Like UDP it is message based, but it provides a reliable message transport. It also runs in the kernel as a protocol stack. It does have some differences, though. It is not based on a source and destination, but rather a publish/subscribe mechanism which sounds similar to the SCTP multi-homing support. With the publish/subscribe, one or more clients can indicate that they're interested in a certain service. When that service becomes available or disappears on the node, cluster, or network (depending on the scope of configuration) the client stack will automatically notify it.
It also has the concept of priority in it, so that messages may be prioritized.
Unlike SCTP, however, it does not run on top of IP but is its own protocol that runs directly over the wire, which means that it cannot be routed across an IP network. It is great as an internal embedded messaging protocol, but not as useful when a network is involved.
TIPC is also not connection oriented. There is no connection setup required to send messages much like UDP.
Apparently Darl McBride will be giving a keynote speach at the Moscow Interop show in June. How the hell could anyone consider him for a kenote speach unless it's to throw stuff at him. Article on Yahoo at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060215/law019.html?.v= 44.
One thing many manufacturers do is default their white balance on the TV sets to 9000K or higher since it looks a lot brighter than a properly set TV at 6500K. However, when watching it at the lower temperature, although the image will not look as bright, the colors will appear more vivid. I believe the SMPTE NTSC standard recommends 6500K or there abouts. I don't know about ATSC, but I would imagine it's similar. Try it with a monitor. At first it will look yellowish until you adjust to it, though this usually passes shortly.
For dealing with photos or even scanned images you will often want more than 8bpp, especially when you want to do things like shadow enhancement or highlight recovery. In this way it lets you choose what will be thrown away instead of having the camera throw information away when it converts to JPEG. There is a lot of detail that is often thrown away that can be brought out with the right software.
For example, one technique used when shooting photos in high contrast lighting conditions is to shoot the photos a bit underexposed then go back and adjust them after the fact, since otherwise the camera can screw up the highlights, often causing them to shift colors due to saturation. Having the extra bits gives a lot more room to change the photo later.
RAW images are becoming increasingly popular, and though there are several different formats, just supporting Canon and Nikon will probably make 90% of the people happy. For those not familiar with raw image formats, most high-end cameras support more than 8 bits per pixel, often 12 bits and preserve the original CCD/CMOS mosaic pattern. Code like dcraw has already been written which can read most of the formats out there. I myself as a Linux user have fallen in love with Bibble, which allows me to quickly go through hundreds or even thousands of photos and fix things like white balance, shadow recovery, lens distortion, sharpening, etc. all while supporting the higher color depth.
I have an old IBM SCSI hard drive that has a small window in the side, though it's a dark orange in color and difficult to see through, it is there and you can see inside. This drive is over 10 years old though.
This has the potential to wreck havoc with consumers. Say I'm trying to tape my kid's birthday party and a DVD is playing in the background. Or I'm trying to tape something and someone blares music at the same time with the signal. What will happen? Will my video camera refuse to record because an analog signal is embedded in the DVD soundtrack? I think this is a very bad idea that will anger a lot of consumers. It will do little, if anything, to curb copyright infringement. For people that record movies in theaters it will just mean that they'll use older equipment or find some other way around it. Also, a lot of those movies come out of foreign countries which have no such restrictions.
I recently did a lot of research before dropping a lot of money on a new digital SLR and ended up going with 17th Street Photo who had a very high rating and they too were very professional and shipped my order quickly. It's always good to check http://www.resellerratings.com before you buy. Another place someone at work recommended had a very bad rating and must have been one of the only positive ratings they ever had.
Recently I bought a new camera. Before buying, I researched a lot. I went through several message boards and read the messages, including the negative ones. Even the best stores will have at least one or two negative ratings. One place some people where I work dealt with was Genius Cameras. I looked into them and it seems that one person was the exception to the rule and had a good experience. The other person ran into the try and sell you the standard accessories at huge markups or we don't have the item in stock. The reseller ratings for the place were horrible, like 0.1 on a scale of 0 to 10 so I looked elsewhere. I finally settled on 17th street photo and must say I had a very good experience dealing with them. I got one phone call to verify my order and no one tried to sell me anything else and it was promptly shipped. Their prices were a little cheaper than B&H photo, and their reseller ratings were actually a bit higher.
As others have pointed out, new batteries are $3000, not $7000. Also, the price will likely drop further as the supply grows. Plus, I think here in CA the batteries are warranted for 180 months or 150,000 miles.
I have been researching cars and plan to get a new Prius early next year.
As for other parts and reliability, the transmission in the Prius is vastly different than most vehicles and should be extremely reliable. There is no clutch plate or other parts that should receive much wear. It's just a planetary gear set which should be extremely reliable. Similarly, electric motors are also very reliable. With respect for the added electronics driving the electric motor and charging the battery, I have not found any problems with reliability. The Prius is one of the most reliable cars out there.
The only problem I came across was a rare stalling problem which has been fixed by newer software.
Also, I can't read TFA, but I wonder how many people plan on the price of gasoline rising. All it takes is another disaster in the middle east, Venezuela, or more hurricanes next year in the Gulf of Mexico and prices will skyrocket... supply is very tight and I don't see this changing any time soon.
As far as diesel cars go, they don't meet the smog requirements in my state (California) and tend to spit out a lot of NOX due to the much higher compression ratios. Not only that, but diesel is also more expensive than gasoline here too and this will only get worse when the low sulphur requirement kicks in.
It's even better since a number of colleges in other states will likely not accept the science accreditation from Kansas. There's already lawsuits against the University of California because they aren't accepting some high school curriculum.
Kansas will just dig their own grave as more and more colleges refuse to admit graduates from Kansas schools.
[sorry if this gets posted more than once - Slashdot is screwing up badly tonight]
As far as I'm concerned, SuSE Linux has been going downhill. I really like KDE, but SuSE 10 seems quite unstable. I don't think it's KDE since I run the stock KDE at work on my Sun workstation. I have had nothing but trouble since upgrading from 9.3 to 10 and think they jumped the gun on moving to GCC 4.0. Everything seems less stable.
I like KDE and all of the options and features available through it. With Gnome, I was often frustrated looking for various options, like a menu editor (which they finally added), or just changing the focus policy in the window manager.
I'm also running into issues compiling some of the multimedia add-ons SuSE does not include because they jumped to GCC 4.0. Some of which refuse to compile due to bugs in the new version.
I will likely soon look for a new distribution, since YaST has caused me no end of problems... sound is unreliable, KDE keeps locking up when starting up, and Konqueror is really flakey. That and the fact that SuSE seems to love pushing software before it's ready, like beta versions of Open Office.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with generated code. There are numerous instances where a simple text file describing something can generate a horrendous amount of code. A human generating this code is prone to errors. There are many places where a code generator can be a life saver, but the idea is that you should never have to edit the generated code. Examples of this are Lex, Yacc and XDR, though where I work we also use some SNMP MIB compilers that generate C code from tables describing it as well as a number of in-house tools.
In the case of Lex/Yacc, one should never edit the output file. If you need to change or fix something, fix the input files and regenerate the output.
Also, I have found autogenerated documentation can be quite good. The QT documentation is a good example of this. This makes it much easier to keep the documentation up to date with the code, but it also requires you to format your comments so the documentation can be generated.
That's not to say that code generation can also be bad. I've seen GUI generators that spit out code and once it is output you are basically forced to edit the output code. The output code can be hard to understand and once output, you can't regenerate it again.
I ran into several issues when I upgraded from 9.3 to 10 last weekend.
In some ways I think SuSE 10 is worse than 9.3... I ran into a number of issues, usually with YaST.
First of all, the SCSI device list changed and it would not mount my RAID drives... a quick edit of/etc/fstab fixed that, but YaST was useless. What I hate is that the new YaST install would not allow me to go in and fix it during the upgrade process. I believe I was able to edit this in previous versions.
Second, the YaST printer tool refused to work properly... it would just hang every time I tried to run it, as did lpoptions and just consume the CPU. I finally managed to get that working after manually deleting a number of configuration files and rebooting. For the life of me I still can't figure out why rebooting worked.
Third, I ran into more YaST problems with my sound card. YaST somehow got corrupted and would not allow me to edit or delete my sound card settings to reconfigure it. After deleting a bunch of configuration files and reinstalling I got that working.
Fourth, Like 9.3, SuSE does not work with my TV capture card... it used to work with the 8.2 and I think 9.0 and worked, though without sound, in 9.3. It's a Pinnacle PCTV Studio PRO capture card based off of a standard BTTV chip.
And last but not least, SuSE no longer includes a DVD with all of the source RPMs. This wouldn't be so bad, but I've spent the last two days trying to download the Xorg source RPM from their incredibly slow FTP site so I can apply a patch to it to use my Logitech MX1000 mouse properly... I applied the patch to previous versions to enable the Linux event mechanism from a Gentoo patch I found. This is what really pisses me off. Also, it looks like all of the DVD and CD ISOs are mirrored, but not the source files.
I still have a ways to go to see how the upgrade went, but this is my first impression. Oh, and during the upgrade it barfed on the quicktime library include files... renaming and moving/usr/include/quicktime fixed that.
I've upgraded a few other machines which have much simpler installs that went a lot better, but still not without a couple of incidents.
Part of the problem with YaST is just trying to figure out which files each part of YaST is trying to use and is barfing on.
All in all, so far I think SuSE 10 is a little less reliable than 9.3... I was hoping it would be better because I really need to upgrade my home server which has been running over 2 years without a reboot running SuSE Professional 8.2, which as far as I can tell is their best release to date in terms of stability. Sadly, SuSE has pulled all of their patches and is no longer supporting this version, or if they are I certainly cannot afford it for a home machine.
Hopefully for 10.1 they'll have things better stabilized as well as have support for S.M.A.R.T. for SATA, which is another thing I want for when I rebuild my server.
Some things worked quite well, but there is still a long way to go.
In 9.3 there were 2 DVDs included. One DVD contained all of the 32-bit and 64-bit binary RPMs. The 5 CDs only contained the 32-bit code. The second DVD contained all of the source RPMs. The binary DVD is dual layer, and hence fits both the 32-bit and 64 bit RPMs. The downloadable ISOs are separate, containing two DVDs instead, presumably since most people don't use dual-layer recording media.
As far as finding the source code, for SuSE 9.3 the source code is in/pub/suse/i386/9.3/suse/src/ For SuSE 10.0 they do not have it on the main SuSE FTP site or on the mirrors, but you need to go to the opensuse FTP site, which is completely overloaded and does not appear to be mirrored as far as I can tell. Only the ISOs appear to be mirrored.
I wish SuSE would continue to include the source DVD, since not everyone has high-speed Internet access and with SuSE's poor history of their FTP servers (I've been waiting for several minutes to just get the src RPM file list from SuSE's overloaded server at http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/ SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/suse/src/ ).
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I am not aware of a problem after 49.7 days, but there was a bug that was fixed around 2.4.21 where the kernel uptime counter would roll over after 497 days. I can validate this since my server has been up for 793 days. When it hit 497 days, the uptime counter rolled over. The machine is running SuSE Linux Professional 8.2 with kernel 2.4.20. At first I tried to figure out why it had crashed, until going through the logs I found it didn't crash, only rolled over. Makes it a bit of a pain when I have to keep adding 497 to the uptime (which currently reports 296 days). Now you might be thinking of Windows 95 and 98, which both had a problem which caused them to possibly reboot after 49.7 days due to a similar problem (google for 49.7). Though my Windows 95 box also often stays up for much longer than that, though it is usually idle and runs no 3rd party software (it's an embedded device).
I received my copy of SuSE 10 today but have yet to install it. One thing I noticed is that the source DVD is no longer included. Version 9.3 Professional included 5 CDs and 2 DVDs, one DVD containing the source code. Hopefully it won't require me to go to SuSE's FTP site, which has always been notoriously slow (hopefully some of the mirrors will have the source code).
As it is right now, I do not see the source code on their FTP site, nor do I see how they can fit everything for both the 32-bit and 64-bit and the source code on a single DVD unless they have cut back significantly on what's included.
The reason I'm looking for the source code is I want to see if they have added the Gentoo patch to Xorg to support the event interface for the mouse so I can take advantage of the extra buttons on my Logitech MX1000 mouse. I patched earlier versions of SuSE's X, but without the source I won't be able to do it with this version.
If I can apply this patch and if the kernel is more responsive on my Athlon64 I'll finally be able to switch my new desktop machine to my Athlon64. SuSE 9.3 tended to stutter at times when using the GUI. Also, hopefully some of the issues I've run into with V4L2 with my pcHDTV tuner card will also be addressed by the new kernel.
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I'm considering upgrading my server which is running SuSE Professional 8.2. The server has been up 793 days so far without a reboot, even though I've had runaway tasks fill up the swap and have completely changed configurations in that time. I'll play with SuSE 10 and see if it is as stable as 8.2 was (which was the most stable release I've ever worked with to date). Sadly, SuSE has dropped all their patches for 8.2, so I am rather forced to upgrade. At least it won't have the 497 day uptime kernel bug in 2.4.20 (where I must manually add 497 to the uptime counter since it rolled over).
I'm considering building a new server to replace my old one. Hopefully SuSE 10 will have addressed a few beefs I have with 9.3 (i.e. no S.M.A.R.T. support for SATA).
This sounds like gas absorption refrigeration. A good web page describing how it works can be found here. A little searching on the web shows that this has other potential uses as well, since all it needs is a heat source and gravity. I would think someone could build something like this but use solar energy as the heat source and thus have free A/C. There are no moving parts and it is a closed system, using a combination of water, ammonia and hydrogen.
Another site here describes using such a system to also generate electricity as well as cooling.
For uploading stuff I've had good luck using BitPim, an open source cross platform program for accessing various phones, usually CDMA based ones. With that and a $5 USB cable I was able to get around all the restrictions Verizon placed on me to upload my own ringtones and move pictures back and forth between the phone without paying to download them. Plus I love using it to update my address book, and for that matter, just backing up my phone.
If you did a bit of research you'd know that volcanos put out only a tiny fraction of the CO2 as human activity puts out. I hate it when people keep trying to say that humans occupy such a small area and try and say we have little impact because that just is not true. We may occupy a small area, but our impact is spread over large areas. Look at the United States, for example. Vast tracts of land are used for farming. Vast amounts of coal are extracted from the ground and burned. And wherever oil is to be found the surface is littered with wells pumping it out as fast as we can. We've deforested huge areas of land and are continuing to do so. It doesn't take a huge population density for humans to significantly change the environment of an area thanks to modern machinery or even slash and burn agriculture. We've drained huge areas of wetlands and swamps, and have even created some pretty sizable lakes by damning various rivers.
One other thing to remember is that Clinton ran his choices before the republicans before he nominated them before the republicans came to power in the 1994 election. That's why in 1993 the judiciary committee voted unanimously to accept Ruth Bader Ginsburg and unanimously voted for Stephen Breyer in 1994 when democrats were still in charge. He made a real effort to work with them. For Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the senate voted 96 to 3 in favor. For Stephen Breyer was confirmed 89 to 9. Bush, on the other hand, has done everything within his power to totally ignore the democrats or even antagonize them. See http://hnn.us/articles/13357.html for a history of Clinton's appointees.
I agree with this. A couple weeks ago I put together a new Athlon64 system and when it came to cases I saw a lot of really cool looking cases that claimed all sorts of features for cooling, but lacked fans blowing across the hard drives. I finally went with an Antec case, which while was not nearly the coolest looking, had excellent cooling capabilities, including for the hard drives. The other thing I looked for was air filtering support to help keep out the dust. This case had some filtering, but not as much as I'd like.
A number of years ago I ran a Maxtor full-height 1.7GB SCSI drive that would get extremely hot, so I added fans to help keep it cool. My father put together a system with the same drive, but no fans. While I never had a drive failure, my father went through several drives. The only difference was the cooling.
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Konqueror in KDE 3.5.1 looks just fine here and looks like it passes.
This sounds somewhat similar to TIPC which we're using in some projects where I work. Like UDP it is message based, but it provides a reliable message transport. It also runs in the kernel as a protocol stack. It does have some differences, though. It is not based on a source and destination, but rather a publish/subscribe mechanism which sounds similar to the SCTP multi-homing support. With the publish/subscribe, one or more clients can indicate that they're interested in a certain service. When that service becomes available or disappears on the node, cluster, or network (depending on the scope of configuration) the client stack will automatically notify it.
It also has the concept of priority in it, so that messages may be prioritized.
Unlike SCTP, however, it does not run on top of IP but is its own protocol that runs directly over the wire, which means that it cannot be routed across an IP network. It is great as an internal embedded messaging protocol, but not as useful when a network is involved.
TIPC is also not connection oriented. There is no connection setup required to send messages much like UDP.
-Aaron
Apparently Darl McBride will be giving a keynote speach at the Moscow Interop show in June. How the hell could anyone consider him for a kenote speach unless it's to throw stuff at him. Article on Yahoo at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060215/law019.html?.v= 44.
-Aaron
KDE has had this for as long as I can remember as well.
One thing many manufacturers do is default their white balance on the TV sets to 9000K or higher since it looks a lot brighter than a properly set TV at 6500K. However, when watching it at the lower temperature, although the image will not look as bright, the colors will appear more vivid. I believe the SMPTE NTSC standard recommends 6500K or there abouts. I don't know about ATSC, but I would imagine it's similar. Try it with a monitor. At first it will look yellowish until you adjust to it, though this usually passes shortly.
For dealing with photos or even scanned images you will often want more than 8bpp, especially when you want to do things like shadow enhancement or highlight recovery. In this way it lets you choose what will be thrown away instead of having the camera throw information away when it converts to JPEG. There is a lot of detail that is often thrown away that can be brought out with the right software.
For example, one technique used when shooting photos in high contrast lighting conditions is to shoot the photos a bit underexposed then go back and adjust them after the fact, since otherwise the camera can screw up the highlights, often causing them to shift colors due to saturation. Having the extra bits gives a lot more room to change the photo later.
RAW images are becoming increasingly popular, and though there are several different formats, just supporting Canon and Nikon will probably make 90% of the people happy. For those not familiar with raw image formats, most high-end cameras support more than 8 bits per pixel, often 12 bits and preserve the original CCD/CMOS mosaic pattern. Code like dcraw has already been written which can read most of the formats out there. I myself as a Linux user have fallen in love with Bibble, which allows me to quickly go through hundreds or even thousands of photos and fix things like white balance, shadow recovery, lens distortion, sharpening, etc. all while supporting the higher color depth.
I have an old IBM SCSI hard drive that has a small window in the side, though it's a dark orange in color and difficult to see through, it is there and you can see inside. This drive is over 10 years old though.
This has the potential to wreck havoc with consumers. Say I'm trying to tape my kid's birthday party and a DVD is playing in the background. Or I'm trying to tape something and someone blares music at the same time with the signal. What will happen? Will my video camera refuse to record because an analog signal is embedded in the DVD soundtrack? I think this is a very bad idea that will anger a lot of consumers. It will do little, if anything, to curb copyright infringement. For people that record movies in theaters it will just mean that they'll use older equipment or find some other way around it. Also, a lot of those movies come out of foreign countries which have no such restrictions.
I recently did a lot of research before dropping a lot of money on a new digital SLR and ended up going with 17th Street Photo who had a very high rating and they too were very professional and shipped my order quickly. It's always good to check http://www.resellerratings.com before you buy. Another place someone at work recommended had a very bad rating and must have been one of the only positive ratings they ever had.
Another place to check is the Better Business Bureau.
Recently I bought a new camera. Before buying, I researched a lot. I went through several message boards and read the messages, including the negative ones. Even the best stores will have at least one or two negative ratings. One place some people where I work dealt with was Genius Cameras. I looked into them and it seems that one person was the exception to the rule and had a good experience. The other person ran into the try and sell you the standard accessories at huge markups or we don't have the item in stock. The reseller ratings for the place were horrible, like 0.1 on a scale of 0 to 10 so I looked elsewhere. I finally settled on 17th street photo and must say I had a very good experience dealing with them. I got one phone call to verify my order and no one tried to sell me anything else and it was promptly shipped. Their prices were a little cheaper than B&H photo, and their reseller ratings were actually a bit higher.
As others have pointed out, new batteries are $3000, not $7000. Also, the price will likely drop further as the supply grows. Plus, I think here in CA the batteries are warranted for 180 months or 150,000 miles.
I have been researching cars and plan to get a new Prius early next year.
As for other parts and reliability, the transmission in the Prius is vastly different than most vehicles and should be extremely reliable. There is no clutch plate or other parts that should receive much wear. It's just a planetary gear set which should be extremely reliable. Similarly, electric motors are also very reliable. With respect for the added electronics driving the electric motor and charging the battery, I have not found any problems with reliability. The Prius is one of the most reliable cars out there.
The only problem I came across was a rare stalling problem which has been fixed by newer software.
Also, I can't read TFA, but I wonder how many people plan on the price of gasoline rising. All it takes is another disaster in the middle east, Venezuela, or more hurricanes next year in the Gulf of Mexico and prices will skyrocket... supply is very tight and I don't see this changing any time soon.
As far as diesel cars go, they don't meet the smog requirements in my state (California) and tend to spit out a lot of NOX due to the much higher compression ratios. Not only that, but diesel is also more expensive than gasoline here too and this will only get worse when the low sulphur requirement kicks in.
It's even better since a number of colleges in other states will likely not accept the science accreditation from Kansas. There's already lawsuits against the University of California because they aren't accepting some high school curriculum.
Kansas will just dig their own grave as more and more colleges refuse to admit graduates from Kansas schools.
[sorry if this gets posted more than once - Slashdot is screwing up badly tonight]
As far as I'm concerned, SuSE Linux has been going downhill. I really like KDE, but SuSE 10 seems quite unstable. I don't think it's KDE since I run the stock KDE at work on my Sun workstation. I have had nothing but trouble since upgrading from 9.3 to 10 and think they jumped the gun on moving to GCC 4.0. Everything seems less stable.
I like KDE and all of the options and features available through it. With Gnome, I was often frustrated looking for various options, like a menu editor (which they finally added), or just changing the focus policy in the window manager.
I'm also running into issues compiling some of the multimedia add-ons SuSE does not include because they jumped to GCC 4.0. Some of which refuse to compile due to bugs in the new version.
I will likely soon look for a new distribution, since YaST has caused me no end of problems... sound is unreliable, KDE keeps locking up when starting up, and Konqueror is really flakey. That and the fact that SuSE seems to love pushing software before it's ready, like beta versions of Open Office.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with generated code. There are numerous instances where a simple text file describing something can generate a horrendous amount of code. A human generating this code is prone to errors. There are many places where a code generator can be a life saver, but the idea is that you should never have to edit the generated code. Examples of this are Lex, Yacc and XDR, though where I work we also use some SNMP MIB compilers that generate C code from tables describing it as well as a number of in-house tools.
In the case of Lex/Yacc, one should never edit the output file. If you need to change or fix something, fix the input files and regenerate the output.
Also, I have found autogenerated documentation can be quite good. The QT documentation is a good example of this. This makes it much easier to keep the documentation up to date with the code, but it also requires you to format your comments so the documentation can be generated.
That's not to say that code generation can also be bad. I've seen GUI generators that spit out code and once it is output you are basically forced to edit the output code. The output code can be hard to understand and once output, you can't regenerate it again.
-Aaron
I ran into several issues when I upgraded from 9.3 to 10 last weekend.
/etc/fstab fixed that, but YaST was useless. What I hate is that the new YaST install would not allow me to go in and fix it during the upgrade process. I believe I was able to edit this in previous versions.
/usr/include/quicktime fixed that.
In some ways I think SuSE 10 is worse than 9.3... I ran into a number of issues, usually with YaST.
First of all, the SCSI device list changed and it would not mount my RAID drives... a quick edit of
Second, the YaST printer tool refused to work properly... it would just hang every time I tried to run it, as did lpoptions and just consume the CPU. I finally managed to get that working after manually deleting a number of configuration files and rebooting. For the life of me I still can't figure out why rebooting worked.
Third, I ran into more YaST problems with my sound card. YaST somehow got corrupted and would not allow me to edit or delete my sound card settings to reconfigure it. After deleting a bunch of configuration files and reinstalling I got that working.
Fourth, Like 9.3, SuSE does not work with my TV capture card... it used to work with the 8.2 and I think 9.0 and worked, though without sound, in 9.3. It's a Pinnacle PCTV Studio PRO capture card based off of a standard BTTV chip.
And last but not least, SuSE no longer includes a DVD with all of the source RPMs. This wouldn't be so bad, but I've spent the last two days trying to download the Xorg source RPM from their incredibly slow FTP site so I can apply a patch to it to use my Logitech MX1000 mouse properly... I applied the patch to previous versions to enable the Linux event mechanism from a Gentoo patch I found. This is what really pisses me off. Also, it looks like all of the DVD and CD ISOs are mirrored, but not the source files.
I still have a ways to go to see how the upgrade went, but this is my first impression. Oh, and during the upgrade it barfed on the quicktime library include files... renaming and moving
I've upgraded a few other machines which have much simpler installs that went a lot better, but still not without a couple of incidents.
Part of the problem with YaST is just trying to figure out which files each part of YaST is trying to use and is barfing on.
All in all, so far I think SuSE 10 is a little less reliable than 9.3... I was hoping it would be better because I really need to upgrade my home server which has been running over 2 years without a reboot running SuSE Professional 8.2, which as far as I can tell is their best release to date in terms of stability. Sadly, SuSE has pulled all of their patches and is no longer supporting this version, or if they are I certainly cannot afford it for a home machine.
Hopefully for 10.1 they'll have things better stabilized as well as have support for S.M.A.R.T. for SATA, which is another thing I want for when I rebuild my server.
Some things worked quite well, but there is still a long way to go.
-Aaron
In 9.3 there were 2 DVDs included. One DVD contained all of the 32-bit and 64-bit binary RPMs. The 5 CDs only contained the 32-bit code. The second DVD contained all of the source RPMs. The binary DVD is dual layer, and hence fits both the 32-bit and 64 bit RPMs. The downloadable ISOs are separate, containing two DVDs instead, presumably since most people don't use dual-layer recording media.
/pub/suse/i386/9.3/suse/src/ For SuSE 10.0 they do not have it on the main SuSE FTP site or on the mirrors, but you need to go to the opensuse FTP site, which is completely overloaded and does not appear to be mirrored as far as I can tell. Only the ISOs appear to be mirrored.
/ SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/suse/src/ ).
As far as finding the source code, for SuSE 9.3 the source code is in
I wish SuSE would continue to include the source DVD, since not everyone has high-speed Internet access and with SuSE's poor history of their FTP servers (I've been waiting for several minutes to just get the src RPM file list from SuSE's overloaded server at http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution
I am not aware of a problem after 49.7 days, but there was a bug that was fixed around 2.4.21 where the kernel uptime counter would roll over after 497 days. I can validate this since my server has been up for 793 days. When it hit 497 days, the uptime counter rolled over. The machine is running SuSE Linux Professional 8.2 with kernel 2.4.20. At first I tried to figure out why it had crashed, until going through the logs I found it didn't crash, only rolled over. Makes it a bit of a pain when I have to keep adding 497 to the uptime (which currently reports 296 days). Now you might be thinking of Windows 95 and 98, which both had a problem which caused them to possibly reboot after 49.7 days due to a similar problem (google for 49.7). Though my Windows 95 box also often stays up for much longer than that, though it is usually idle and runs no 3rd party software (it's an embedded device).
I received my copy of SuSE 10 today but have yet to install it. One thing I noticed is that the source DVD is no longer included. Version 9.3 Professional included 5 CDs and 2 DVDs, one DVD containing the source code. Hopefully it won't require me to go to SuSE's FTP site, which has always been notoriously slow (hopefully some of the mirrors will have the source code).
As it is right now, I do not see the source code on their FTP site, nor do I see how they can fit everything for both the 32-bit and 64-bit and the source code on a single DVD unless they have cut back significantly on what's included.
The reason I'm looking for the source code is I want to see if they have added the Gentoo patch to Xorg to support the event interface for the mouse so I can take advantage of the extra buttons on my Logitech MX1000 mouse. I patched earlier versions of SuSE's X, but without the source I won't be able to do it with this version.
If I can apply this patch and if the kernel is more responsive on my Athlon64 I'll finally be able to switch my new desktop machine to my Athlon64. SuSE 9.3 tended to stutter at times when using the GUI. Also, hopefully some of the issues I've run into with V4L2 with my pcHDTV tuner card will also be addressed by the new kernel.
I'm considering upgrading my server which is running SuSE Professional 8.2. The server has been up 793 days so far without a reboot, even though I've had runaway tasks fill up the swap and have completely changed configurations in that time. I'll play with SuSE 10 and see if it is as stable as 8.2 was (which was the most stable release I've ever worked with to date). Sadly, SuSE has dropped all their patches for 8.2, so I am rather forced to upgrade. At least it won't have the 497 day uptime kernel bug in 2.4.20 (where I must manually add 497 to the uptime counter since it rolled over).
I'm considering building a new server to replace my old one. Hopefully SuSE 10 will have addressed a few beefs I have with 9.3 (i.e. no S.M.A.R.T. support for SATA).
-Aaron
This sounds like gas absorption refrigeration. A good web page describing how it works can be found here . A little searching on the web shows that this has other potential uses as well, since all it needs is a heat source and gravity. I would think someone could build something like this but use solar energy as the heat source and thus have free A/C. There are no moving parts and it is a closed system, using a combination of water, ammonia and hydrogen.
Another site here describes using such a system to also generate electricity as well as cooling.
For uploading stuff I've had good luck using BitPim, an open source cross platform program for accessing various phones, usually CDMA based ones. With that and a $5 USB cable I was able to get around all the restrictions Verizon placed on me to upload my own ringtones and move pictures back and forth between the phone without paying to download them. Plus I love using it to update my address book, and for that matter, just backing up my phone.
-Aaron
If you did a bit of research you'd know that volcanos put out only a tiny fraction of the CO2 as human activity puts out. I hate it when people keep trying to say that humans occupy such a small area and try and say we have little impact because that just is not true. We may occupy a small area, but our impact is spread over large areas. Look at the United States, for example. Vast tracts of land are used for farming. Vast amounts of coal are extracted from the ground and burned. And wherever oil is to be found the surface is littered with wells pumping it out as fast as we can. We've deforested huge areas of land and are continuing to do so. It doesn't take a huge population density for humans to significantly change the environment of an area thanks to modern machinery or even slash and burn agriculture. We've drained huge areas of wetlands and swamps, and have even created some pretty sizable lakes by damning various rivers.
One other thing to remember is that Clinton ran his choices before the republicans before he nominated them before the republicans came to power in the 1994 election. That's why in 1993 the judiciary committee voted unanimously to accept Ruth Bader Ginsburg and unanimously voted for Stephen Breyer in 1994 when democrats were still in charge. He made a real effort to work with them. For Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the senate voted 96 to 3 in favor. For Stephen Breyer was confirmed 89 to 9. Bush, on the other hand, has done everything within his power to totally ignore the democrats or even antagonize them. See http://hnn.us/articles/13357.html for a history of Clinton's appointees.
Years ago we did that to my father's Micropolis hard drive and were able to recover all of the data. So this technique does indeed work.
-Aaron
I agree with this. A couple weeks ago I put together a new Athlon64 system and when it came to cases I saw a lot of really cool looking cases that claimed all sorts of features for cooling, but lacked fans blowing across the hard drives. I finally went with an Antec case, which while was not nearly the coolest looking, had excellent cooling capabilities, including for the hard drives. The other thing I looked for was air filtering support to help keep out the dust. This case had some filtering, but not as much as I'd like.
A number of years ago I ran a Maxtor full-height 1.7GB SCSI drive that would get extremely hot, so I added fans to help keep it cool. My father put together a system with the same drive, but no fans. While I never had a drive failure, my father went through several drives. The only difference was the cooling.
-Aaron