Depends what your definition of "many many tons" is. Mining trucks (eg. Caterpillar) have automatic transmissions that are the same in principle as your car's , except they weigh about a ton and have the same rough dimensions (maybe a little bigger) as a 44 gallon drum. Total loaded weight they move is normally about 300 tons at about 40MPH, from a 2000HP engine.
Automatic transmissions are useful for their torque convertor which allows you to match engine rpm to transmission RPM under heavy load without damage.
I've just checked the mail server logs on several of our filter servers (we operate a service which filters spam and viruses out of our customers' email), and it definately looks like Telstra have sorted out at least their incoming email.
We've got several thousand email customers who use BigPond, and our servers queues were clogging with huge amounts of email destined to extmail.bigpond.com -- mostly, our connection attempts were being refused. For most of the day yesterday (the 11th) and for at least a week prior, we couldn't get much of anything through; it wasn't until around midnight that we started to get email delivered.
Even when we were getting good connections, for a while there it looks like Telstra's servers ran out of disk space. From around 6pm last night until around midnight, we were getting errors like: "Error writing message temporaries - message exceeds disk space available at this time", or "Mail system storage is full; try again later".
Whoever manages Telstra's email infrastructure appears to be a rank amateur. Granted, they have a pretty large number of customers to serve, but with a scalable infrastructure there should be no problem. Other ISPs can do it -- Why can't Telstra??
As for Telstra's explanations as to the cause of this whole mess, I don't buy the "artifically increased the load factors" line. From our logs at least, it looks like they simply broke their servers, and then when they did get them back up they were absolutely pummelled by the volume of traffic which was backed up awating inbound delivery. Bloody amateurs.
In any case, from where I sit it does look like they've got their shit sorted out..
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If you go to a site or are veered to a site not listed in the "Trusted Zone", it will come up with a warning message and you have to explicitly add that site to the list.
I bet that lasts about 5 sites, before the user figures out how to turn it off.
Perhaps if they just bit the bullet and built a browser that was a bit more hardened, things would work out better.
You could always get your 7500 programmers to audit a windows module each for buffer overflows. That'd knock a few exploits on the head right there. Surely even with overheads, in parallel 7500 programmers could do that in a month.
(No, I haven't read The Mythical Man-Month but I'm moderately aware of the principle)
If you built something that the human could survive inside to withstand the stresses, congratulations, you've just rebuilt the shuttle.
Hardly.
How about a soyuz return capsule. Or even a 60's era MOOSE.
It's only a metric ton of heat when you've got 50 tons of orbiter smacking into the atmosphere. There's a lot less excess energy to bleed off when it's 1 man+250kg. Still, *I* wouldn't want to try personal orbital re-entry until every other option was exhausted.
Double distilled (ie distilled from distilled) is fine. Well, conductivity from our still is about 18MOhm... that's *practically* nonconductive.
For instance, 240V across 18MOhms is 0.01mA. For a comparison, a typical earth leakage breaker will trip at 30mA and stop you from being electrocuted.
Problem is water is pretty much a universal solvent. Any stray coatings / impurities / dust on your motherboard will quickly make your water conductive again.
Hmmm. I think all the hard drive manufacturers have standardised, and they've standardised on the SI definition of Giga. Pretty hard to find a disk manufacturer in category B these days.
In fact, I can't remember a drive manufacturer actually using GiBytes as opposed to GBytes. Wait... I think my old 42MB drive was actually 42MiB. But that was 10 years ago now.
On the contrary, with every drive manufacturer pushing their physical media to the limit , sector errors happen a *lot*.
Disks die suddenly because they *suddenly* run out of redundant sectors to remap your data to. This remapping happens transparently to the OS, inside the drive electronics and can usually only be picked up by deteriorating S.M.A.R.T. characteristics. There's only so many redundant sectors and once they're all in use your drive goes downhill will every bump and jolt.
Imagine Slashdot, compressed to the size of a matchbox.
That's a mini box of nerds.
Of course, Slashdot compressed to that size would be highly unstable, with a density of nerds/cm3 similar to a neutron star. Add to this the large number of trolls and the links to goatse.cx (oh, the humanity!) and the generally stupid comments and you'd soon realise that a mini box of nerds is something you don't want to mess with.
So I'm guessing BIG really does mean lard-ass, in the american case anyway. Especially since it would appear from those stats that more than half the population is overweight.
For the record , from OECD health data, the list from most obese to less obese countries goes:
USA
UK
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Czech Republic
Spain
Finland
Italy
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
I presume by "skinny whine drinking smoking shorties", you mean the french... they're not even on the list.
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I've found that its Excel filter is sometimes better than Excel's if the file is corrupted. There's been a few occasions now where Excel has told me the file is unreadable, but OpenOffice can open the bulk (90+%) of it, and save back as an Excel file again.
*very* handy.
(and on re-reading your post, yes , it does the same for Word docs as well;-)
Because your average layman wouldn't know a terabyte if you force fed it to him , bit-by-bit. For example - I bought an 80GB drive for a server the other day.....
Secretary : "80GB? how big is that?"
Me: "Well...... if you presume that there are:
80 characters across a page by 66 lines down, you get approx 4000 characters per page of (dense) text.
So, 80 thousand million divided by 4000 gives you 20 million pages of text."
Secretary (mildly impressed): "That's a lot!"
Now, she has no real idea how much volume of paper is involved in 20 million pages, so I continued:
Me : "So, if you translate that into boxes of paper thats... 20000000 / 500 sheet reams / 10 reams to a box.. that gives 4000 boxes of paper, like that heavy box on the floor beside you. Imagine 4 cubes of 10x10x10 boxes, that's 20 million pages. (Casually waves drive about) All in this conveniently-sized package!"
Think along the lines of search and rescue beacons. Whip antenna , small power output, easily traceable.
It doesn't need to transmit its location on any sort of data stream, it just needs to transmit. I dare say that the technical guy said "Location of winning can determined via satellite" and the PR guys said "Oh, GPS"
Whether you could condense it down to coke-can size and still have it look and feel the same as all the other cans is a different issue.
Didn't you get all that stuff in school about how we were going to run out of gas/petrol/coal/etc in around 2002-2020. Strangely nobody has mentioned that in the last 5 years, that could well be because it was wrong or perhaps teachers were asked not to mention it for some reason.
It's because reserves of coal/oil that were deemed uneconomic in the 70's can now be mined because of (a) improvements in technique and (b) people are willing to pay more for it.
Rough estimates today put this shortage to be in the late 2000's - early 2100's. Of course, what we'll be doing then is anyone's guess.
Give them online community service. 100 hours of helping out n00bs will be enough to persuade even the most hardened criminal to repent.
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It's probably along the lines that cash is deemed legal tender by the gov't, therefore you must accept it in exchange for your goods or services that you sell. In order for this to work properly and avoid all sorts of localised (eg town-sized) currency and tax-avoidance issues, a law gets passed that you have to accept legal tender.
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Depends what your definition of "many many tons" is.
Mining trucks (eg. Caterpillar) have automatic transmissions that are the same in principle as your car's , except they weigh about a ton and have the same rough dimensions (maybe a little bigger) as a 44 gallon drum. Total loaded weight they move is normally about 300 tons at about 40MPH, from a 2000HP engine.
Automatic transmissions are useful for their torque convertor which allows you to match engine rpm to transmission RPM under heavy load without damage.
If you go to a site or are veered to a site not listed in the "Trusted Zone", it will come up with a warning message and you have to explicitly add that site to the list.
I bet that lasts about 5 sites, before the user figures out how to turn it off.
Perhaps if they just bit the bullet and built a browser that was a bit more hardened, things would work out better.
You could always get your 7500 programmers to audit a windows module each for buffer overflows. That'd knock a few exploits on the head right there. Surely even with overheads, in parallel 7500 programmers could do that in a month.
(No, I haven't read The Mythical Man-Month but I'm moderately aware of the principle)
USB 1.0 cards are cheap, just whack another one in your PC for $15 and keep on plugging those cameras in :-)
One of those electric car manufacturers is planning to do just that, tap into the 'grid' of cars on charge to get back power when it's needed.
It was on slashdot a little while ago - anyone remember it?
If you built something that the human could survive inside to withstand the stresses, congratulations, you've just rebuilt the shuttle.
Hardly.
How about a soyuz return capsule.
Or even a 60's era MOOSE.
It's only a metric ton of heat when you've got 50 tons of orbiter smacking into the atmosphere. There's a lot less excess energy to bleed off when it's 1 man+250kg. Still, *I* wouldn't want to try personal orbital re-entry until every other option was exhausted.
Double distilled (ie distilled from distilled) is fine. Well, conductivity from our still is about 18MOhm... that's *practically* nonconductive.
For instance, 240V across 18MOhms is 0.01mA. For a comparison, a typical earth leakage breaker will trip at 30mA and stop you from being electrocuted.
Problem is water is pretty much a universal solvent. Any stray coatings / impurities / dust on your motherboard will quickly make your water conductive again.
Yes , but the ACCC has the power to fine companies operating in Australia, in a big manner.
;-)
A 50 million dollar fine for extortive practices would put a rather large dent in SCO's operations.
Even if it is in AUD
Hmmm. I think all the hard drive manufacturers have standardised, and they've standardised on the SI definition of Giga. Pretty hard to find a disk manufacturer in category B these days.
... I think my old 42MB drive was actually 42MiB. But that was 10 years ago now.
In fact, I can't remember a drive manufacturer actually using GiBytes as opposed to GBytes.
Wait
On the contrary, with every drive manufacturer pushing their physical media to the limit , sector errors happen a *lot*.
Disks die suddenly because they *suddenly* run out of redundant sectors to remap your data to. This remapping happens transparently to the OS, inside the drive electronics and can usually only be picked up by deteriorating S.M.A.R.T. characteristics. There's only so many redundant sectors and once they're all in use your drive goes downhill will every bump and jolt.
Excel uses the scroll lock key - if set, the arrow keys will pan about the spreadsheet , otherwise the active cell is moved.
if it's a single frame, just replace it with the previous one. One or two duplicate frames at 24fps through a movie isn't something to worry about.
Imagine Slashdot, compressed to the size of a matchbox.
That's a mini box of nerds.
Of course, Slashdot compressed to that size would be highly unstable, with a density of nerds/cm3 similar to a neutron star. Add to this the large number of trolls and the links to goatse.cx (oh, the humanity!) and the generally stupid comments and you'd soon realise that a mini box of nerds is something you don't want to mess with.
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So I'm guessing BIG really does mean lard-ass, in the american case anyway. Especially since it would appear from those stats that more than half the population is overweight.
For the record , from OECD health data, the list from most obese to less obese countries goes
- USA
- UK
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Spain
- Finland
- Italy
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Switzerland
I presume by "skinny whine drinking smoking shorties", you mean the french... they're not even on the list.Checkout kyocera - they're pretty green these days. Solar-powered office buildings and whatnot.
Accepted :-)
"I, for one, welcome our new legal-ROM-supplying overlords, and would like to point out that as a trusted Slashdot Identity with low userid and Excellent karma, I would be useful in helping to round up the trolls to toil in your underground bit-mines."
I've found that its Excel filter is sometimes better than Excel's if the file is corrupted. There's been a few occasions now where Excel has told me the file is unreadable, but OpenOffice can open the bulk (90+%) of it, and save back as an Excel file again.
;-)
*very* handy.
(and on re-reading your post, yes , it does the same for Word docs as well
The XFS journalling filesystem was developed by them, for one thing.
Check out their OSS page for things they have their finger in.
Because your average layman wouldn't know a terabyte if you force fed it to him , bit-by-bit.
:
For example - I bought an 80GB drive for a server the other day.....
Secretary : "80GB? how big is that?"
Me: "Well...... if you presume that there are:
80 characters across a page by 66 lines down, you get approx 4000 characters per page of (dense) text.
So, 80 thousand million divided by 4000 gives you 20 million pages of text."
Secretary (mildly impressed): "That's a lot!"
Now, she has no real idea how much volume of paper is involved in 20 million pages, so I continued
Me : "So, if you translate that into boxes of paper thats... 20000000 / 500 sheet reams / 10 reams to a box.. that gives 4000 boxes of paper, like that heavy box on the floor beside you. Imagine 4 cubes of 10x10x10 boxes, that's 20 million pages. (Casually waves drive about) All in this conveniently-sized package!"
Secretary (dumbfounded): "Wow."
Me : "Ain't technology great?"
Think along the lines of search and rescue beacons.
Whip antenna , small power output, easily traceable.
It doesn't need to transmit its location on any sort of data stream, it just needs to transmit. I dare say that the technical guy said "Location of winning can determined via satellite" and the PR guys said "Oh, GPS"
Whether you could condense it down to coke-can size and still have it look and feel the same as all the other cans is a different issue.
Didn't you get all that stuff in school about how we were going to run out of gas/petrol/coal/etc in around 2002-2020. Strangely nobody has mentioned that in the last 5 years, that could well be because it was wrong or perhaps teachers were asked not to mention it for some reason.
It's because reserves of coal/oil that were deemed uneconomic in the 70's can now be mined because of (a) improvements in technique and (b) people are willing to pay more for it.
Rough estimates today put this shortage to be in the late 2000's - early 2100's. Of course, what we'll be doing then is anyone's guess.
Give them online community service.
100 hours of helping out n00bs will be enough to persuade even the most hardened criminal to repent.
It's probably along the lines that cash is deemed legal tender by the gov't, therefore you must accept it in exchange for your goods or services that you sell. In order for this to work properly and avoid all sorts of localised (eg town-sized) currency and tax-avoidance issues, a law gets passed that you have to accept legal tender.
Most terminals allow you to manually key in the digits of a card , so even with a bad stripe you can still get lunch.