When it turns into a Red Super Giant. But, before that, the earth will certainly get smacked by an asteroid when Bruce WIllis ain't lookin'.
ANYWAY... I took my 4.5gph Pietenpol Air Camper for a joy flight over the weekend and had a great time doing it. Didn't even think twice about buying carbon credits to offset the fuel burn. Shocking, ain't it?
Really, look here: I've got a pocketful of pretty shells. I say they're worth something, you agree, we have adopted this as a currency, I give you shells, you give me bread. You give me shells, I give you milk.
Fine.
It's the same with paper dollars. I work at my desk doing "useful things," my boss signs my paper paycheck, and some electrons are transferred to a harddrive at my bank, I take my plastic card to the grocery store to buy bread and milk, I transfer some of the electrons sitting at my bank into the grocers harddrive sitting in his bank. I eat, he eats, we're happy.
So, what's wrong with the currency we already have? I have 200,000-300,000 CPUs at my disposal (I work for the government so really, I do). What's to stop me (or any government agency or OMG, GOOGLE!!) from "mining" BC, flooding the system by giving them away, and devaluating the currency?
"The full precipitating causes may never be known, but one February night in 1970 a McDonald Observatory employee (not a Texan, but an Ohioan newly hired from another observatory!) suffered a breakdown and carried a pistol to the observing floor of the 107-inch telescope. He fired a shot at his supervisor, and then unloaded the rest of the clip into the primary mirror. Happily, fused silica is more resilent than ordinary glass, and the big mirror did not break. The craters have been bored out and painted black to reduce any light-scattering effect, and the end result is simply a slight reduction in the efficiency of the telescope. It is now the equivalent of a 106-inch telescope. The incident made the national television news..."
Pick your favorite auto parts store: napa, autozone, etc. They have tons of bearings and gears and what-not. And of course, the junkyard is a great place to visit.
In college I took some sculpture classes (I majored in Physics) and one of the sculptures I did was a half ton kinetic behemoth that rotated around 2 axis, driven by the wind. Pretty cool stuff.
Well, this is "duh, obvious" to say but, you don't do it single system to single system. You do it from X systems to Y systems where X and Y are >>1.
I think the the last CMS data transfer challenge from CERN to Fermilab was on the order of 80Gbps, sustained. There are dozens if not hundreds of systems on each end of that link to transfer that much data.
Clearly the problem is due to the fact that there are keyboards attached to most personal computers. Silly hardware vendors, when will they learn that if they give a user an interface to a computer some people will try to use it. Just give us monitors with shiny bouncy balls on the screen. Soooo happy. Shiny bouncy balls./sarcasm
When lightning hits the earth it naturally find the path of least resistance. If it strikes anywhere near a buried power line, it will find that power line and overload the circuit. When lines are hung from towers, lightning hits the tower to find ground, essentially ignoring the line.
According to the article, "the complaint accuses Google,... of violating KinderStart's constitutional right to free speech by blocking search engine results..." Apparently, someone needs to review their copy of the Bill of Rights. To wit, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech."
Last time I checked, "Congress" didn't equate to "Google" and "law" didn't equate to "seach engine results."
I used to work at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source at Argonne National Lab (IPNS) for a couple of years. While I was there ('96-98) one of the studies a post-doc did on the QENS instrument (iirc) was to study how anesthetics work. As it turns out, anesthetics enter between the walls of cells such that they recede so far from each other that the nerve senders/receptors can't make contact thus, the pain signals aren't transmitted to the brain.
Here's a little mind experiment: imagine having 2 balloons, one inside the other. Now, blow air into the outer balloon, leaving the inner balloon the same size. The air you push into the volume between the 2 balloons is the anesthetic. The more anesthetic, the farther apart the balloon walls get from each other and the nerves lose contact with each other.
So, it would follow that if you were to generally increase the amount of fluid in your body, the same thing would happen: the water would enter between the inner and outer cell walls such that the nerves would make less contact than normal.
How many 3ware controllers have you used? 1? 2? Less than 10? More than 10? At Fermilab we use A LOT of 3ware controllers, where "A LOT" is in the thousands. We've got ~1PB of disk attached to them (yes, that's 1PB - 1000TBs). I brought them in here back in early 2001, starting with the 6800 cards. In RAID 5 mode these card *would* corrupt data when a disk went bad. In RAID 1/10 mode, they worked just fine. 3ware replaced all our 6800 cards with 7810 cards, which worked just fine in R5, albeit, somewhat slowly in block writes (~18MB/s) but block reads were just fine (>90MB/s). But, I digress.
Yes, we have experienced problems with our 3ware ATA RAID systems, but more often than not, it was due to the disk drives failing in spectacularly subtle ways. In one instance, the "quiet bit" was enabled on some WD drives that would force the drives offline, even when they were fine; some Maxtor drives failed in such subtle and unexpected ways that the only solution was to replace all of the drives in a system because you just can't tell which drive is bad.
Some 3ware cards have failed, but face it hardware fails, and these were rare. There was a problem with the 8506 cards; the first SATA RAID cards. These were missing a capacitor that made them very susceptible to electronic noise in the chassis, caused by the system fans. Again, 3ware replaced these cards.
Overall, I've been quite satisfied with the service and support that I, personally, I have recieved from 3ware's support staff.
That said, there are some other interesting SATA RAID products on the market that has piqued my interest, specifically the Tekram Areca controllers. I have yet to personally lay hands on one of these cards, but they sound very interesting.
Just a couple of comments, since I was on the team:
1) Only some of the members used patched 2.6.12.x kernels. I used XFS patched Scientific Linux (i.e., RHELv3 compatible) 2.4.21-37 kernels on my nodes (21 senders, 41 receivers), so nothing terribly special.
2) It wasn't 131Gbps over a single link: we had 22 10Gbps links in to and out of the routers in our booths on the show floor that were measured simultaneously. The links were full duplex, so the maximum theoretical bandwidth in and out was 440Gbps. However, we only had 17 network analyzers for the 15 minute Challenge period, so theoretical max of 340Gbps.
Don't let it get you down, man. I mean, c'mon, try living in the real world with a name like mine. I'll let you ponder that for a while. Ok, enough, you don't need to get any more images. Anyway, I'm rather attached to my real name. It is, after all, mine. But, when I tried to sign up to Orkut, they wouldn't let me use it. Nope. The username 'yocum' is verboten because of those last 3 letters, in that particular order. What's a guy to do? Move on, there's more important things in life than a stupid username.
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That the cow is a perfect sphere in a vacuum...
[rimshot]
It was probably a very, very clean rag.
When it turns into a Red Super Giant. But, before that, the earth will certainly get smacked by an asteroid when Bruce WIllis ain't lookin'.
ANYWAY... I took my 4.5gph Pietenpol Air Camper for a joy flight over the weekend and had a great time doing it. Didn't even think twice about buying carbon credits to offset the fuel burn. Shocking, ain't it?
So, what's the difference between bitcoin and, say, shells on the beach?
Really, look here: I've got a pocketful of pretty shells. I say they're worth something, you agree, we have adopted this as a currency, I give you shells, you give me bread. You give me shells, I give you milk.
Fine.
It's the same with paper dollars. I work at my desk doing "useful things," my boss signs my paper paycheck, and some electrons are transferred to a harddrive at my bank, I take my plastic card to the grocery store to buy bread and milk, I transfer some of the electrons sitting at my bank into the grocers harddrive sitting in his bank. I eat, he eats, we're happy.
So, what's wrong with the currency we already have? I have 200,000-300,000 CPUs at my disposal (I work for the government so really, I do). What's to stop me (or any government agency or OMG, GOOGLE!!) from "mining" BC, flooding the system by giving them away, and devaluating the currency?
My work here is done.
I'm going to go collect some shells on the beach.
"I reject your religion, and substitute my own."
"The full precipitating causes may never be known, but one February night in 1970 a McDonald Observatory employee (not a Texan, but an Ohioan newly hired from another observatory!) suffered a breakdown and carried a pistol to the observing floor of the 107-inch telescope. He fired a shot at his supervisor, and then unloaded the rest of the clip into the primary mirror. Happily, fused silica is more resilent than ordinary glass, and the big mirror did not break. The craters have been bored out and painted black to reduce any light-scattering effect, and the end result is simply a slight reduction in the efficiency of the telescope. It is now the equivalent of a 106-inch telescope. The incident made the national television news..."
Taken from http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/telescopes/mcdonald.html
Only if you wear a lone wolf t-shirt while using your iphone...
"In their benchmarking, EXT4 and XFS performed, as impressively as each other."
Welcome to 2001, subby. Glad you could make it this decade.
I completely understand them not jumping to XFS, though. I'd never want to convert exabytes of data from one FS to another.
They should submit a drawing a of a spider to pay for the invoice remitted by Toyota.
Pick your favorite auto parts store: napa, autozone, etc. They have tons of bearings and gears and what-not. And of course, the junkyard is a great place to visit.
In college I took some sculpture classes (I majored in Physics) and one of the sculptures I did was a half ton kinetic behemoth that rotated around 2 axis, driven by the wind. Pretty cool stuff.
The chemical they use is very rare and highly unstable. Just like you, Kent.
yes.
Give it to Hemos... instant cell phone bath, guaranteed dead cell phone. ;-)
Well, this is "duh, obvious" to say but, you don't do it single system to single system. You do it from X systems to Y systems where X and Y are >>1.
I think the the last CMS data transfer challenge from CERN to Fermilab was on the order of 80Gbps, sustained. There are dozens if not hundreds of systems on each end of that link to transfer that much data.
Clearly the problem is due to the fact that there are keyboards attached to most personal computers. Silly hardware vendors, when will they learn that if they give a user an interface to a computer some people will try to use it. Just give us monitors with shiny bouncy balls on the screen. Soooo happy. Shiny bouncy balls. /sarcasm
Old news. Didn't you see this on Myth Busters? Zonk, you need to get out more. Or least start watching a little TV.
When lightning hits the earth it naturally find the path of least resistance. If it strikes anywhere near a buried power line, it will find that power line and overload the circuit. When lines are hung from towers, lightning hits the tower to find ground, essentially ignoring the line.
According to the article, "the complaint accuses Google, ... of violating KinderStart's constitutional right to free speech by blocking search engine results..." Apparently, someone needs to review their copy of the Bill of Rights. To wit, "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech."
Last time I checked, "Congress" didn't equate to "Google" and "law" didn't equate to "seach engine results."
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
I used to work at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source at Argonne National Lab (IPNS) for a couple of years. While I was there ('96-98) one of the studies a post-doc did on the QENS instrument (iirc) was to study how anesthetics work. As it turns out, anesthetics enter between the walls of cells such that they recede so far from each other that the nerve senders/receptors can't make contact thus, the pain signals aren't transmitted to the brain.
Here's a little mind experiment: imagine having 2 balloons, one inside the other. Now, blow air into the outer balloon, leaving the inner balloon the same size. The air you push into the volume between the 2 balloons is the anesthetic. The more anesthetic, the farther apart the balloon walls get from each other and the nerves lose contact with each other.
So, it would follow that if you were to generally increase the amount of fluid in your body, the same thing would happen: the water would enter between the inner and outer cell walls such that the nerves would make less contact than normal.
Good ole Di-Hydrogen Monoxide!
How many 3ware controllers have you used? 1? 2? Less than 10? More than 10? At Fermilab we use A LOT of 3ware controllers, where "A LOT" is in the thousands. We've got ~1PB of disk attached to them (yes, that's 1PB - 1000TBs). I brought them in here back in early 2001, starting with the 6800 cards. In RAID 5 mode these card *would* corrupt data when a disk went bad. In RAID 1/10 mode, they worked just fine. 3ware replaced all our 6800 cards with 7810 cards, which worked just fine in R5, albeit, somewhat slowly in block writes (~18MB/s) but block reads were just fine (>90MB/s). But, I digress.
Yes, we have experienced problems with our 3ware ATA RAID systems, but more often than not, it was due to the disk drives failing in spectacularly subtle ways. In one instance, the "quiet bit" was enabled on some WD drives that would force the drives offline, even when they were fine; some Maxtor drives failed in such subtle and unexpected ways that the only solution was to replace all of the drives in a system because you just can't tell which drive is bad.
Some 3ware cards have failed, but face it hardware fails, and these were rare. There was a problem with the 8506 cards; the first SATA RAID cards. These were missing a capacitor that made them very susceptible to electronic noise in the chassis, caused by the system fans. Again, 3ware replaced these cards.
Overall, I've been quite satisfied with the service and support that I, personally, I have recieved from 3ware's support staff.
That said, there are some other interesting SATA RAID products on the market that has piqued my interest, specifically the Tekram Areca controllers. I have yet to personally lay hands on one of these cards, but they sound very interesting.
Just a couple of comments, since I was on the team:
1) Only some of the members used patched 2.6.12.x kernels. I used XFS patched Scientific Linux (i.e., RHELv3 compatible) 2.4.21-37 kernels on my nodes (21 senders, 41 receivers), so nothing terribly special.
2) It wasn't 131Gbps over a single link: we had 22 10Gbps links in to and out of the routers in our booths on the show floor that were measured simultaneously. The links were full duplex, so the maximum theoretical bandwidth in and out was 440Gbps. However, we only had 17 network analyzers for the 15 minute Challenge period, so theoretical max of 340Gbps.
Rob,
Don't let it get you down, man. I mean, c'mon, try living in the real world with a name like mine. I'll let you ponder that for a while. Ok, enough, you don't need to get any more images. Anyway, I'm rather attached to my real name. It is, after all, mine. But, when I tried to sign up to Orkut, they wouldn't let me use it. Nope. The username 'yocum' is verboten because of those last 3 letters, in that particular order. What's a guy to do? Move on, there's more important things in life than a stupid username.
Cheers,
Dan
dCache
What's old is new, again.
I, for one, welcome the return of our poodle skirted, beehive hairdoo'd overlords.
Timothy - time to up the voltage on your shock treatments.
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