Clarious, You seem like someone I should know. I would like to meet with you and HanoiLUG next time I am in Hanoi. Please email me at treed@tracyreed.org or IM at t_ashpool2000 on Yahoo.:)
If you went to KPLUG meetings in 2003 it is a pretty sure bet that we did cross paths because I'm a regular attendee.
Yes, I am familiar with vietlug. It is pretty much all ethnic Vietnamese people living outside of Vietnam. I used to be on their linux discussion mailing list for a few years but I seem to have fallen off and not noticed.
The only real LUG action in Vietnam that I am aware of is being conducted by my friend Kevin Miller who lives in Sai Gon and has a website here: http://www.saigonnezumi.com/ It was through Vietlug that I met Kevin. He was the only person on that list who actually lives in Vietnam and he isn't Vietnamese! We actually held a LUG meeting and invited locals who attended a computer class in school:
First and only meeting afaik of the group. Most of those kids were there because their teacher told them to attend. There is nearly zero interest in Linux there aside from us ex-pats.
Finding actual Vietnamese using Linux who live in Vietnam is quite hard. The pressure to use Windows there is incredible. First Windows is "free" as in price there. Then there is the social pressure. Not many like to "rock the boat" or be different. Conform or else. And then there is a lack of interest in computing in general because they don't have the hacker culture or technological evolution that we have seen in the more developed countries. They didn't get the hype when growing up about how computers were someday going to rule everything and we'll all have Rosie the Robots cleaning our houses etc. While we were experiencing all that they were just hoping not to be killed and to have something to eat.
There is a serious cultural issue here that prevents Vietnam from taking advantage of Linux.
They've been talking about this for years. I worked in Vietnam for a year three years ago and still visit a couple times a year and they were talking about it even then.
But so far I have never seen a computer running Linux there that I or a Linux user friend of mine didn't set up myself. And I am completely unable so far to find the actual text of the proclamation that says that they will use Linux. Nor have I been able to contact anyone who knows anything about it. They are probably just looking for leverage against Microsoft.
Why is it that nobody ever links to the actual text of the legislation or proclamation?
You are in the shrink-wrap software market? It is possible but pretty unlikely.
I've written tons of software and been paid well for it. None of it was shrink-wrap. None of it had to do with people being accustomed to paying for software. The vast majority of programmers out there are not in the shrink-wrap software business and would not be negatively affected by paying being unaccustomed to paying for software.
The disappearance of Microsoft would be a very good thing for the rest of us. Microsoft has caused massive stagnation. If they go away a lot of new software will be able to be written and some of it will even be better.
As far as I can tell you are the first communist person to respond on this thread. From your signature I take it you go to a Russian University? And you study Math, Lisp, and Linux there? Very cool! Are you ethnic Vietnamese living in Russia or ethnic Russian?
You may be right about life in Vietnam and life in GDR or Poland. However, that is because Vietnam was such a backwards country from the beginning. They had a lot of catching up to do. But Poland is no longer communist. And the life there is still much better than the life of the average Vietnamese. And either way, we ultimately found out that the sort of economy that the Soviet Union was trying to create was not sustainable or practical and even Russia had to move towards a more free-market economy.
The nominal GDP per capita of Vietnam is $829. In Poland it is now $11,072. Huge difference. And compare that to what it was in Poland before they became a free country. Huge difference.
Had GDR and Poland not suffered communism it is a pretty sure bet that they would have had even better lives. Saying life there was better than life in Vietnam is not saying anything at all.
I know many party members in Vietnam. In private they all tell me they love the Doi Moi "new thinking" which brought in the free market economy which made them richer. Now they are working on slowly moving away from the communist form of government. It has not escaped them that the more they get away from communism/socialism (two different but related things, I know) the more successful their country becomes. This study:
shows a 42% increase in GDP attributable to "Doi Moi" aka the move away from the socialist system to a market economy.
But they have to somehow maintain the pride of the people. They are all brainwashed into loving Ho Chi Minh (similar to how many Russians still like Lenin). They forget the bad and remember only the good (a lot of which is unsubstantiated). They spend a lot of time in school studying about him instead of studying reading, writing, arithmetic which puts them behind educationally. They have to somehow change course while the elders who got 2 million Vietnamese killed in their war to destroy their own country try to save face. They can't just come out one day and say it was all a big mistake and "I'm sorry." It would destroy their pride. So they must make the very slow change which ensures everyone feels good about it.
Right now they are fighting the scourge of corruption. There are far too many selfish people ruining the economy with the efficiency sapping corruption.
Yes, there was corruption in the government of South Vietnam. Because it was run by Vietnamese. That was part of their society at the time. And at that time the entire country was corrupt from north to south. It makes me wonder: Does communism bring corruption? Or does the corruption allow the communism to happen? It is hard to tell.
Things are slowly getting better in Vietnam as they change their society.
But there is still so far to go. Petty crime is everywhere. On Christmas day (3 days ago) my mother in law was standing in front of a very nice shopping area (Diamond Plaza) in downtown Saigon. A thief ran by and ripped the necklace right off of her neck. Fortunately, she was not injured. The communist police there do nothing about it. They are too busy confiscating peoples motorbike
I did not say it requires a perfectly fair market. The more fair it is the better it works. Even Vietnam is seeing some small level of prosperity today thanks to their change towards a free market economy instead of a command driven economy. The average American would say most of them live in squalor but it is better there now than it has ever been.
I don't know where you live but here in the US we lead lives like faery tales compared to most people in the world (although most of us have not traveled enough to realize this). I live in an ordinary middle class neighborhood and looking down the street I see trash cans full of boxes and wrapping paper today. Capitalism works very well. Yes, you need a government to impose some rules and regulations to approach a fair market. I'm not saying we have a perfectly fair market. What I am saying is that the fairer the market the better capitalism works. Our market is as close or closer to fair than that of any other country in the world.
Yes, companies try to subvert those rules and it is our jobs as citizens to make sure they don't. We do this by holding our leaders accountable for producing the appropriate rules and legislation, enforcing those rules, and ensuring that they work to make the market fair. We don't always succeed but fortunately we don't have to. Just ask Randy Cunningham who is now serving time in a state prison in Arizona.
Not at all. For capitalism to work it requires a fair market. This is why Vietnam is not really seeing the benefits of capitalism and remains quite poor with very bad infrastructure.
This is absolutely true. They have a stock market and everything. They are very capitalist in that even the communist leaders are playing the markets, making investments, and trying to acquire as much wealth as they can. The free market is definitely in effect. The big difference is that there is little transparency and no real regulations to ensure that it is a fair market. So corruption is everywhere destroying the efficiency of the market. You are right: Is is capitalism without democracy.
Some of them chose communism. A lot of them didn't. Having lived and worked over there (on a Linux related project even) I know good Vietnamese there who supported South Vietnam and the US. After the south fell they spent years in re-education camps. They had been to the US in the 60's and received training on computers and electronics. Now they don't own a single thing and are kept out of any good paying job by the communists who still seek to push the former South Vietnamese. They live in poverty even poor Americans cannot imagine. It is very sad what they are doing to their own country. But the poor brainwashed people of Vietnam still support communism.
I'm not sure we can really fault the poor and uneducated who chose communism. They were starving and were just looking for a better way. They did not have access to world news or history classes from their villages and only knew what they received in the form of propaganda.
But we can definitely fault the corrupt communist leadership for taking advantage of these poor people and making millions of them pay with their lives.
Nah, it's fascist bull just as we suspected. I lived in Vietnam for a year, married a Vietnamese woman, and spend at least two weeks there every year since. They have no legitimate need to censor the net other than to keep the current corrupt officials in power.
So here I am reading the document linked in this story when I get to page 85 about tempest. I encounter the phrases "He sauntered past a kind of carport jutting out..." and "a carefully concealed dipole antenna, horizontally polarized." And I thought...I've heard these exact words somewhere else before. Where would I have encountered this exact wording from a document which has been declassified just in the past few days? I dumped the phrase into google and sure enough:
Here it is in this document about tempest which was declassified 9-27-2007. It contains a lot more about the story in Japan and tempest etc.
And I notice that this document contains what is certainly the redacted paragraph in the other document between the paragraph about the discovery of the antenna and the one that begins "Why, way back in 1954, when the Soviets published a rather comprehensive set of standards..."
This paragraph is about how 40 microphones were found in the US embassy in Moscow and talks about a "large metal grid buried in the cement of the ceiling over the Department of State communications area" and that it had a wire leading off somewhere. Apparently such things were being found as far back as 1953 and the US did not know what their purpose was.
The next paragraph puts the above into context when it says that in 1954 "the Soviets published a rather comprehensive set of standards for the suppression of radio frequency interference". So the previous paragraph reveals some details about what kinds of devices were found but the second paragraph goes on to imply that the Soviets may have been listening in on our unencrypted electronic communications for at least 10 years before the US figured out that it was possible to do so and took action.
It's funny how something which would seem so obvious to us now in hindsight baffled the NSA for at least 10 years. It is also funny that it is possible to reconstruct redacted materials from declassified documents using Google due to the use of cut and paste from a document written back in 1973.
I'm not sure which will be the bigger headache when my internet breaks: waiting in line at the new government internet office, or waiting on hold for cable tech support.
At least you will have a CHOICE. What a concept eh?
Right now I have to go with Cox Cable. That's it. No DSL, no other cable companies, nothing. And it still costs $40/mo for basic cablemodem at the same speed as what I used to pay 10 years ago when I was one of the first customers in my area. In the meantime I have an order of magnitude more RAM, disk, cpu, etc. for a much lower price hooked up to that cablemodem connection.
The school nerd will set up an http proxy with squid and show everyone how to configure their browsers to proxy through it. Or perhaps he will show them how to tunnel out with ssh. If he's an entrepreneur he will charge them money for this. Instant porn.
Notice that he is comparing to wind. Nuclear is still far better as far as carbon goes than coal or other common power sources.
Nuclear must emit more carbon and air pollution than wind due to the construction of the plant and the mining/processing of the uranium since the actual operation of the plant does not emit anything.
If all of the power used to do the construction and mining came from nuclear/wind also that problem would be solved. So the more wind turbines/nukes we build to replace the coal powered plants the less of a problem this is.
A modern state of the art giant wind turbine can produce 500kw on a good day. It needs about a third of an acre. Fill in 2200000 for the "input value". Leave the area at.38 acres and size of turbine at 500kw. The result says we need 4,400 wind turbines and 1672 acres to replace the nuclear power plant. But that is *just* the actual footprint of the base of the wind turbine. You need space between them. I'd say you can probably multiple that number by at least 12 for a realistic setup. Now we are talking 20,064 acres.
Note that those 20,064 acres need to be in good windy areas like mountain passes (such as they are in Tehachapi). That alone is rather tall order. Then consider that you will need a number of these setups in different areas because it won't always be windy.
We have 15,000 wind turbines in CA on tens if not hundreds of thousands of acres of land. And it still only produces 1% of our power.
I think the right answer is going to be both. Put wind turbines where we can as they are doing in CA (Tehachapi, Palm Springs, Altamont) and other areas. Build out nuclear plants to handle the rest of the load. And because nuclear reactors take so long to build you have to get started now. You can't wait until an energy crisis due to the lead time. And, of course, recycle the nuclear fuel (feeder-breeder, thorium reactors, etc.) so that we produce much less waste. If it is radioactive it still has plenty of energy in it. Don't bury it. That is a huge waste of resources. React it.
Unfortunately, we don't have our own ipv4 allocation now. We have a dynamically allocated IP which we NAT. We would like to be able to number our internal network with real reachable IP's. and we don't want to have to renumber our internal network if we change ISP's. We want to be able to take the space with us. That is why we want to get a 6 allocation.
It has been on my plate to get my company a block of addresses and IPv6 connectivity (through a tunnel for now since our uplink doesn't do ipv6 natively; it's time I asked again) but I've never been quite sure how to go about doing it. So, how do I get a block of IPv6 addresses assigned to me?
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Are you working on legislation which would lock up all of those content thieves who get up and go to the bathroom instead of watching the commercials thereby depriving the starving artists of their hard earned income?
Faster javascript is nice but what I really want it a multi-process sort of firefox like Chrome has. I want to see which tab is slowing me down and kill it. I want all of my tabs to run independently on multiple cpu's. I want the memory leakage of any one process to go away when I kill it instead of restarting the whole browser. I spend very little time waiting on the results of javascript execution.
You seem to misunderstand the article. They are saying that if you need 12T of storage RAID 5 is not reliable. You would be better off with a single 12T disk if such a thing existed.
With 7 brand new disks, you have ~20% chance of seeing a disk failure each year.
SATA drives are commonly specified with an unrecoverable read error rate (URE) of 10^14. Which means that once every 100,000,000,000,000 bits, the disk will very politely tell you that, so sorry, but I really, truly canâ(TM)t read that sector back to you.
So now you can't rebuild your array. And there is a 20% chance of this happening every year. If you had a single disk your chance of total disk failure averages 3%. In this case you are better off having one disk and making good backups. Or perhaps a mirror or even a 3-way mirror if the system is smart enough to read data off of the other disk in the event that one returns a URE.
Which is exactly why some of us prefer the term Free Software.:) Besides, they are much more loathe to say they are Free Software than Open Source because even if one misunderstands the definition of "free" it means they still can't sell their software.
As for how, that's up to you. Maybe send encouraging emails. If he comments here, reply with your support. Spread the word about the RIAA trying to sue a legal critic into silence. Please, everyone who's been enlightened, informed, and amused by Ray's comments here, do your part in return.
How about money? Does he need any money to help pay a paralegal? Does he need us to write letters to lawmakers or judges or something? Or perhaps the victims of the RIAA campaign need some sort of support, financial or otherwise. Sending him a bunch of email seems like it would only suck up his valuable time.
Whether we like it or not MS is slowly but surely on their way to strong-arming everyone into running Vista. I don't care about XP anymore. What is the TTO (time to ownage) for Vista?
I'll believe Windows is getting more secure when I start getting less spam in my inbox.
This says that Sun already had the rights to open source SYSV even when SCO sued IBM for open sourcing SYSV technology (which didn't actually happen) into Linux. Yet Sun stood by and said nothing.
Perhaps they are secretly hoping Linux will get stomped so that Solaris can make a comeback?
It seems more and more that you just can't trust anyone and that Sun isn't and probably never will be as FOSS friendly as they would have us believe.
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Clarious, You seem like someone I should know. I would like to meet with you and HanoiLUG next time I am in Hanoi. Please email me at treed@tracyreed.org or IM at t_ashpool2000 on Yahoo. :)
If you went to KPLUG meetings in 2003 it is a pretty sure bet that we did cross paths because I'm a regular attendee.
Yes, I am familiar with vietlug. It is pretty much all ethnic Vietnamese people living outside of Vietnam. I used to be on their linux discussion mailing list for a few years but I seem to have fallen off and not noticed.
The only real LUG action in Vietnam that I am aware of is being conducted by my friend Kevin Miller who lives in Sai Gon and has a website here: http://www.saigonnezumi.com/ It was through Vietlug that I met Kevin. He was the only person on that list who actually lives in Vietnam and he isn't Vietnamese! We actually held a LUG meeting and invited locals who attended a computer class in school:
http://tracyreed.org/photo-album/Vietnam/sai-gon-linux-users-group
First and only meeting afaik of the group. Most of those kids were there because their teacher told them to attend. There is nearly zero interest in Linux there aside from us ex-pats.
Finding actual Vietnamese using Linux who live in Vietnam is quite hard. The pressure to use Windows there is incredible. First Windows is "free" as in price there. Then there is the social pressure. Not many like to "rock the boat" or be different. Conform or else. And then there is a lack of interest in computing in general because they don't have the hacker culture or technological evolution that we have seen in the more developed countries. They didn't get the hype when growing up about how computers were someday going to rule everything and we'll all have Rosie the Robots cleaning our houses etc. While we were experiencing all that they were just hoping not to be killed and to have something to eat.
There is a serious cultural issue here that prevents Vietnam from taking advantage of Linux.
They've been talking about this for years. I worked in Vietnam for a year three years ago and still visit a couple times a year and they were talking about it even then.
But so far I have never seen a computer running Linux there that I or a Linux user friend of mine didn't set up myself. And I am completely unable so far to find the actual text of the proclamation that says that they will use Linux. Nor have I been able to contact anyone who knows anything about it. They are probably just looking for leverage against Microsoft.
Why is it that nobody ever links to the actual text of the legislation or proclamation?
I really do hope they mean it.
You are in the shrink-wrap software market? It is possible but pretty unlikely.
I've written tons of software and been paid well for it. None of it was shrink-wrap. None of it had to do with people being accustomed to paying for software. The vast majority of programmers out there are not in the shrink-wrap software business and would not be negatively affected by paying being unaccustomed to paying for software.
The disappearance of Microsoft would be a very good thing for the rest of us. Microsoft has caused massive stagnation. If they go away a lot of new software will be able to be written and some of it will even be better.
As far as I can tell you are the first communist person to respond on this thread. From your signature I take it you go to a Russian University? And you study Math, Lisp, and Linux there? Very cool! Are you ethnic Vietnamese living in Russia or ethnic Russian?
You may be right about life in Vietnam and life in GDR or Poland. However, that is because Vietnam was such a backwards country from the beginning. They had a lot of catching up to do. But Poland is no longer communist. And the life there is still much better than the life of the average Vietnamese. And either way, we ultimately found out that the sort of economy that the Soviet Union was trying to create was not sustainable or practical and even Russia had to move towards a more free-market economy.
According to:
http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator_detail.cfm?IndicatorID=116&Country=PL
The life expectancy in Poland in the year 2000 was 68.6 years. In Vietnam it was 64.9. And according to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
The nominal GDP per capita of Vietnam is $829. In Poland it is now $11,072. Huge difference. And compare that to what it was in Poland before they became a free country. Huge difference.
Had GDR and Poland not suffered communism it is a pretty sure bet that they would have had even better lives. Saying life there was better than life in Vietnam is not saying anything at all.
I know many party members in Vietnam. In private they all tell me they love the Doi Moi "new thinking" which brought in the free market economy which made them richer. Now they are working on slowly moving away from the communist form of government. It has not escaped them that the more they get away from communism/socialism (two different but related things, I know) the more successful their country becomes. This study:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119050150/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
shows a 42% increase in GDP attributable to "Doi Moi" aka the move away from the socialist system to a market economy.
But they have to somehow maintain the pride of the people. They are all brainwashed into loving Ho Chi Minh (similar to how many Russians still like Lenin). They forget the bad and remember only the good (a lot of which is unsubstantiated). They spend a lot of time in school studying about him instead of studying reading, writing, arithmetic which puts them behind educationally. They have to somehow change course while the elders who got 2 million Vietnamese killed in their war to destroy their own country try to save face. They can't just come out one day and say it was all a big mistake and "I'm sorry." It would destroy their pride. So they must make the very slow change which ensures everyone feels good about it.
Right now they are fighting the scourge of corruption. There are far too many selfish people ruining the economy with the efficiency sapping corruption.
Yes, there was corruption in the government of South Vietnam. Because it was run by Vietnamese. That was part of their society at the time. And at that time the entire country was corrupt from north to south. It makes me wonder: Does communism bring corruption? Or does the corruption allow the communism to happen? It is hard to tell.
Things are slowly getting better in Vietnam as they change their society.
But there is still so far to go. Petty crime is everywhere. On Christmas day (3 days ago) my mother in law was standing in front of a very nice shopping area (Diamond Plaza) in downtown Saigon. A thief ran by and ripped the necklace right off of her neck. Fortunately, she was not injured. The communist police there do nothing about it. They are too busy confiscating peoples motorbike
I did not say it requires a perfectly fair market. The more fair it is the better it works. Even Vietnam is seeing some small level of prosperity today thanks to their change towards a free market economy instead of a command driven economy. The average American would say most of them live in squalor but it is better there now than it has ever been.
I don't know where you live but here in the US we lead lives like faery tales compared to most people in the world (although most of us have not traveled enough to realize this). I live in an ordinary middle class neighborhood and looking down the street I see trash cans full of boxes and wrapping paper today. Capitalism works very well. Yes, you need a government to impose some rules and regulations to approach a fair market. I'm not saying we have a perfectly fair market. What I am saying is that the fairer the market the better capitalism works. Our market is as close or closer to fair than that of any other country in the world.
Yes, companies try to subvert those rules and it is our jobs as citizens to make sure they don't. We do this by holding our leaders accountable for producing the appropriate rules and legislation, enforcing those rules, and ensuring that they work to make the market fair. We don't always succeed but fortunately we don't have to. Just ask Randy Cunningham who is now serving time in a state prison in Arizona.
Not at all. For capitalism to work it requires a fair market. This is why Vietnam is not really seeing the benefits of capitalism and remains quite poor with very bad infrastructure.
This is absolutely true. They have a stock market and everything. They are very capitalist in that even the communist leaders are playing the markets, making investments, and trying to acquire as much wealth as they can. The free market is definitely in effect. The big difference is that there is little transparency and no real regulations to ensure that it is a fair market. So corruption is everywhere destroying the efficiency of the market. You are right: Is is capitalism without democracy.
Some of them chose communism. A lot of them didn't. Having lived and worked over there (on a Linux related project even) I know good Vietnamese there who supported South Vietnam and the US. After the south fell they spent years in re-education camps. They had been to the US in the 60's and received training on computers and electronics. Now they don't own a single thing and are kept out of any good paying job by the communists who still seek to push the former South Vietnamese. They live in poverty even poor Americans cannot imagine. It is very sad what they are doing to their own country. But the poor brainwashed people of Vietnam still support communism.
I'm not sure we can really fault the poor and uneducated who chose communism. They were starving and were just looking for a better way. They did not have access to world news or history classes from their villages and only knew what they received in the form of propaganda.
But we can definitely fault the corrupt communist leadership for taking advantage of these poor people and making millions of them pay with their lives.
Nah, it's fascist bull just as we suspected. I lived in Vietnam for a year, married a Vietnamese woman, and spend at least two weeks there every year since. They have no legitimate need to censor the net other than to keep the current corrupt officials in power.
So here I am reading the document linked in this story when I get to page 85 about tempest. I encounter the phrases "He sauntered past a kind of carport jutting out..." and "a carefully concealed dipole antenna, horizontally polarized." And I thought...I've heard these exact words somewhere else before. Where would I have encountered this exact wording from a document which has been declassified just in the past few days? I dumped the phrase into google and sure enough:
http://www.nsa.gov/public/pdf/tempest.pdf
Here it is in this document about tempest which was declassified 9-27-2007. It contains a lot more about the story in Japan and tempest etc.
And I notice that this document contains what is certainly the redacted paragraph in the other document between the paragraph about the discovery of the antenna and the one that begins "Why, way back in 1954, when the Soviets published a rather comprehensive set of standards..."
This paragraph is about how 40 microphones were found in the US embassy in Moscow and talks about a "large metal grid buried in the cement of the ceiling over the Department of State communications area" and that it had a wire leading off somewhere. Apparently such things were being found as far back as 1953 and the US did not know what their purpose was.
The next paragraph puts the above into context when it says that in 1954 "the Soviets published a rather comprehensive set of standards for the suppression of radio frequency interference". So the previous paragraph reveals some details about what kinds of devices were found but the second paragraph goes on to imply that the Soviets may have been listening in on our unencrypted electronic communications for at least 10 years before the US figured out that it was possible to do so and took action.
It's funny how something which would seem so obvious to us now in hindsight baffled the NSA for at least 10 years. It is also funny that it is possible to reconstruct redacted materials from declassified documents using Google due to the use of cut and paste from a document written back in 1973.
I'm not sure which will be the bigger headache when my internet breaks: waiting in line at the new government internet office, or waiting on hold for cable tech support.
At least you will have a CHOICE. What a concept eh?
Right now I have to go with Cox Cable. That's it. No DSL, no other cable companies, nothing. And it still costs $40/mo for basic cablemodem at the same speed as what I used to pay 10 years ago when I was one of the first customers in my area. In the meantime I have an order of magnitude more RAM, disk, cpu, etc. for a much lower price hooked up to that cablemodem connection.
The main things you'll see in a high end PSU:
1) Voltage stabilizing in case the power coming to the PSU is not very good
2) Quieter fans
3) Output voltage/watts and efficiency stay within reason at higher load
4) Some generic heat up quite a bit.
Don't forget power factor correction (PFC). Especially in a datacenter.
The school nerd will set up an http proxy with squid and show everyone how to configure their browsers to proxy through it. Or perhaps he will show them how to tunnel out with ssh. If he's an entrepreneur he will charge them money for this. Instant porn.
HTH HAND
Notice that he is comparing to wind. Nuclear is still far better as far as carbon goes than coal or other common power sources.
Nuclear must emit more carbon and air pollution than wind due to the construction of the plant and the mining/processing of the uranium since the actual operation of the plant does not emit anything.
If all of the power used to do the construction and mining came from nuclear/wind also that problem would be solved. So the more wind turbines /nukes we build to replace the coal powered plants the less of a problem this is.
I am a big fan of wind power (being from Tehachapi, CA USA Here we can find a wind power calculator filled in with some typical values.
A modern state of the art giant wind turbine can produce 500kw on a good day. It needs about a third of an acre. Fill in 2200000 for the "input value". Leave the area at .38 acres and size of turbine at 500kw. The result says we need 4,400 wind turbines and 1672 acres to replace the nuclear power plant. But that is *just* the actual footprint of the base of the wind turbine. You need space between them. I'd say you can probably multiple that number by at least 12 for a realistic setup. Now we are talking 20,064 acres.
Note that those 20,064 acres need to be in good windy areas like mountain passes (such as they are in Tehachapi). That alone is rather tall order. Then consider that you will need a number of these setups in different areas because it won't always be windy.
We have 15,000 wind turbines in CA on tens if not hundreds of thousands of acres of land. And it still only produces 1% of our power.
I think the right answer is going to be both. Put wind turbines where we can as they are doing in CA (Tehachapi, Palm Springs, Altamont) and other areas. Build out nuclear plants to handle the rest of the load. And because nuclear reactors take so long to build you have to get started now. You can't wait until an energy crisis due to the lead time. And, of course, recycle the nuclear fuel (feeder-breeder, thorium reactors, etc.) so that we produce much less waste. If it is radioactive it still has plenty of energy in it. Don't bury it. That is a huge waste of resources. React it.
Very useful reply. Thanks!
Unfortunately, we don't have our own ipv4 allocation now. We have a dynamically allocated IP which we NAT. We would like to be able to number our internal network with real reachable IP's. and we don't want to have to renumber our internal network if we change ISP's. We want to be able to take the space with us. That is why we want to get a 6 allocation.
It has been on my plate to get my company a block of addresses and IPv6 connectivity (through a tunnel for now since our uplink doesn't do ipv6 natively; it's time I asked again) but I've never been quite sure how to go about doing it. So, how do I get a block of IPv6 addresses assigned to me?
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Are you working on legislation which would lock up all of those content thieves who get up and go to the bathroom instead of watching the commercials thereby depriving the starving artists of their hard earned income?
These BATHROOM BANDITS must be stopped.
Faster javascript is nice but what I really want it a multi-process sort of firefox like Chrome has. I want to see which tab is slowing me down and kill it. I want all of my tabs to run independently on multiple cpu's. I want the memory leakage of any one process to go away when I kill it instead of restarting the whole browser. I spend very little time waiting on the results of javascript execution.
You seem to misunderstand the article. They are saying that if you need 12T of storage RAID 5 is not reliable. You would be better off with a single 12T disk if such a thing existed.
With 7 brand new disks, you have ~20% chance of seeing a disk failure each year.
SATA drives are commonly specified with an unrecoverable read error rate (URE) of 10^14. Which means that once every 100,000,000,000,000 bits, the disk will very politely tell you that, so sorry, but I really, truly canâ(TM)t read that sector back to you.
So now you can't rebuild your array. And there is a 20% chance of this happening every year. If you had a single disk your chance of total disk failure averages 3%. In this case you are better off having one disk and making good backups. Or perhaps a mirror or even a 3-way mirror if the system is smart enough to read data off of the other disk in the event that one returns a URE.
Which is exactly why some of us prefer the term Free Software. :) Besides, they are much more loathe to say they are Free Software than Open Source because even if one misunderstands the definition of "free" it means they still can't sell their software.
As for how, that's up to you. Maybe send encouraging emails. If he comments here, reply with your support. Spread the word about the RIAA trying to sue a legal critic into silence. Please, everyone who's been enlightened, informed, and amused by Ray's comments here, do your part in return.
How about money? Does he need any money to help pay a paralegal? Does he need us to write letters to lawmakers or judges or something? Or perhaps the victims of the RIAA campaign need some sort of support, financial or otherwise. Sending him a bunch of email seems like it would only suck up his valuable time.
Whether we like it or not MS is slowly but surely on their way to strong-arming everyone into running Vista. I don't care about XP anymore. What is the TTO (time to ownage) for Vista?
I'll believe Windows is getting more secure when I start getting less spam in my inbox.
According to this Sun may still not be honestly supportive of FOSS:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080625020853732
This says that Sun already had the rights to open source SYSV even when SCO sued IBM for open sourcing SYSV technology (which didn't actually happen) into Linux. Yet Sun stood by and said nothing.
Perhaps they are secretly hoping Linux will get stomped so that Solaris can make a comeback?
It seems more and more that you just can't trust anyone and that Sun isn't and probably never will be as FOSS friendly as they would have us believe.