Look at prices of Nuclear generation vs Wind generation at http://www.esios.ree.es/web-publica/ France prices for power are mostly due to nuclear costs, prices in Spain and Portugal have a generous mix of renewables (wind, thermosolar and hidro), prices are auctioned on a hourly basis, so when wind blows prices in spain goes down (i've seen prices in the low €5 Mw)
Also look at wind generation anytime at https://demanda.ree.es/eolica.html it shows a variable generation rate but has a 33% average over installed power, it means we currently have 18 Gw installed power base on windmills, that sometimes generates 15 Gw and other times 1 Gw but in average it accounts as a 6 Gw. sustained generation . And Yes sometimes you need to use Gas generated power (as seen on https://demanda.ree.es/demanda.html )
In general the system here WORKS REALLY FINE, and Spain is not a high wind area, but redundancy, and multilocation of windmills, helps us to keep a high usage ratio of the windmills.
Yes this redundancy is expensive, but also is nuclear power, from building to maintaining and to life long storage of radioactive waste, look at the prices for new nuclear plants and you will see prices up in the $8000 to $10000 for Kw http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/business/energy-environment/29nuke.html, and that's much more expensive (only in building costs) than windmills, that are in the $1200 Kw range for 2 Mw Models.
I don't like those big UPSs, they are expensive, a lot of unneeded HW and they barely work when you need them most (expensive, small discharge time, batteries losing charge capacity.. )
So for our own datacenter we keep the currently bought UPSs and added some laptops for really critical services, we virtualice a lot too (OpenVZ) and both technologies enables us to degrade services gracefully and still keep high uptimes, laptops are great, cheap, and batteries can last up to 2 hours. It's not a solution for everyone, but works if your platform can be adapted to the architecture.
More like 2.3 cents per KWh, my car engine (Peugeot HDi) generates about 60 Kw/hour driving at 120 km/hour (75.5 milles/hour) so a 500 mile trip could be about 500 / 74.5 = 6.62 hours at 60 Kw/hour is 397 Kw used, if for such energy you pay $9, you pay $9 / 231 Kw = 2.27 cents per Kw.
This numbers are an extrapolation of my current diesel engine, maybe electric engines performs better that gas engines, and they can do more with less energy, I just don't know it.
If you were thinking in spend $35.000 to get an specific app, you will be happier if you need to spend a lot less...:)
Take a look at http://tinyerp.com/ if does everything you want and a lot more, maybe you will find it interesting. Yes it is an almost full featured ERP+CRM but the stock modules are pretty complete. They have the multiwarehouse you need, the backtrack and some aditional niceties.
You can use too http://compiere.org/, but from my experience with both packages, Compiere is heavier, harder to configure and uses Oracle, TinyErp uses postgresql is writen in python and is very easy to get a test bed working.
VoIP works as well as Skype, you have the same voice quality with similar bandwidth usage (iLBC codec is great) and a lot of providers at better prices than SkypeOut. I use voipbuster.com , great service, incredibly good prices, and I can use my grandstream.com SIP phone to dial and to speak with very good voice quality. They recomend to use the G-711 codec, but from my country I get best results with the G-723 or G-729 codecs. And best of all, in most areas you can get a local phone number for free.
Lets hope they've learned something from the previous attempt and they will go for a clear patent systems that only allows "real" inventions.
Yes, they have learnt, but not what you suppose, but how to HIDE their real intentions in a forest of goodwill. And more, how to deal with the parlament asking them before. I'm quite sure that in the end, the redaction of the proposition will misinterpret some of the arguments in they own benefit.
Hope that everybody keeps and eye (or two) open on this because we are not going to like what we can get.
I've been following Atkins diet for a while and it worked until I reached a line that my body refuses to cross, so I changed to a hipocaloric one (less than 1600 KCalories every day) and a little of exercice (walking as much as I can, and 2 hour gym every week), the results are very promising, and at this moments I think that I know a little about dieting and losing weight, some things that work for me :
1.- Watch what you eat, (http://www.nutritiondata.com/ has been a wonderful help) 1600 Kcalories enables you to loose up to 2 Kg every month.
2.- Eat frecuently, no more than 4 hours without eating something, 100 gr of fruit is right between meals when you are hungry. This way you are not empty (and hungry) when you do the real meal.
3.- If you are really hungry between meals, 10 gr of butter (yes pure butter only) helps me to avoid the starving feeling (thanks to Atking, this really works).
4.- Don't eat outside meal time, and stop doing it as soon as you have enough or you don't have hunger, this is really important, and it is an habit change that you need to track carefully.
5.- Make a little exercice, you don't need to train like Mr, Universe, just 20 minutes walking every day and some serious aerobic exercice 2 times (or more) a week is right.
6.- Avoid highly carbohydrated food, like rice, sugar, pasta, flour etc..., vegetables and fruit will give you more than enough for your needs.
7.- Drink, no less than 3 Liters of water every day, but no sodas or similar, just water or tea with a sugar substitute, saccharin is better than aspartame.
8.- Put the maximun food intake in the breakfast and the lunch, and the minimun in the dinner, this way you go to sleep almost empty.
9.- Loosing weight is a SLOW PROCESS, so don't try to recover your perfect weight in 2 weeks, put a realistic schedule, 1 to 2 years is a correct one. Going faster will not work in the long term.
10.- Persistence, all this is nonsense if you do it for 1 week and forget it the next one, loosing weight is a state of mind.
I've lost 20 Kg, in the past 18 months, and today I'm quite happy, even my sexual life has improved a lot, but I understand that every person is a world and at the end you need to decide what is right and what works for you, so watch how your body reacts to your actions.
I use 32 bits of an AMD 64 at 2 Ghz and skype barely uses 3% of the cpu to work, so something is clearly wrong with your computer.
One of my friends had exactly your same problem and the problems was overheating, the cpu gets so hot that the pentium slows the clock so it can deal with the heat, and thus the cpu usage increases up to your same levels when using skype.
It seems that eBay is quite unsuccessful, don't care enough about his site or don't care at all about his customers/sellers.
I'm quite happy to know that not only the buyers are the ones that suffer from ebay incompetence on dealing with fraud, in fact I've suffered it in the last two ebay purchases I did and I'm convinced that eBay was promoting it, when you put a maxim bid of let's say $ 120.49 and the shill bidder stops at $ 120.45, then certainly he knows when to stop.
My solution has been getting my money somewhere else, because eBay's customer Service is totally unsupportive, full of messages with the warning "Don't answer to this message becasue no one is going to read it".
I usually use the "print multiple pages" filter on kprinter just to get 2 pages on each face of the sheet, so I get 4 pages printed with each sheet, this way is much easier to carry.
The size letter is normally enough to read it without problems, my Kyocera (damm cheap, 40€, if you buy a used one) does a good work even with small typefaces.
When the number of pages are less than 80, I use the pamphlet filter, I still get the 4 pages for sheet but you can fold it by half, put a pair of staples and you get a nice booklet to read.
This small script accepts a.ps file and gives you 2 files to print, one for each side of the sheets, so you can easily have the pamphlet.
100$ is no money to get something interesting, the only thing you are going to buy is some useless crap that you are going to forget in 2 weeks.
Save it, and when you get enough money look for something useful and something you will really care. In my case a new portable (Compaq R3450) is what I want....
Being a lover of smalltalk, yes, Ruby is really nice, but lacks the passion (and orthogonality) I found in Smalltalk where every day you get surprised by something new you didn't know or by looking at how clever the architecture is.
Recently I've discovered Perl (after beign bored with Ruby), and I'm amazed, it has a steepy learning curve, but every day I learn new ways to do things in a more compact (but illegible for the untrained eye) and smart way possible. And the infinite wisdom you can find in CPAN.
The bidder are not eBay's customer, and their maximum benefit come from maximum prices.
So, when you use proxy bidding, you give eBay the information needed and the option to abuse the system, eBay can pretend to be whatever other person and raise prices up to your maximum bid because you are going to be the winner.
This has already happened to me and if you are really interested in an item, it's much better to be in front of your computer 10 seconds before the bid ends and make then your best offer.
I administer, for one of my customers, a small 10 computer office with lots of malware in his computers, and my solution for him has been to install Linux, Win4Lin over Linux with win98, that remounts itself from clean state every times the user logs in the xdm session manager, and when a virus, spyware, whateverware thing happens, the user just must restart his windows session to get a new, clean and working copy of his setup. It's a dommage that win4lin can only run win 9x/Me, but if you can live with it, your life becomes easier.
What really happens is that Outlook does not generate any kind of revenu stream for Microsoft, while Hotmail does, spam, advertisment, extra space, and msn are a wealthy influx of money for Microsoft. Look for more stringent conditions on hotmail usage in the near future.
Anyone of you remember the horror movie "The Omen" ?
It's an old movie from 1976, where the antichrist arrives to earth and tries to dominate the world through a company that monopolices world's food production.
Surprisingly Montsanto is trying to use the same path to world domination..., Maybe they saw the movie also.
I'm not saying Montsanto is the antichrist, but they methods are somewhat devilish.
In what language ? In spanish from where "tejas" comes, does not means Friend, friend is "amigo" and tejas can be translated to "slates" or "tile". It's the slate of pizarre or the tile of clay used for roofing or covering houses.
When I must to download something from MS, I use an empty VMWare WinXP image, I make a copy of all the packages that are being downloaded to the vmware image, and after this I can update all the computers I want, I've a copy of the files I need without giving MS information on me or my computing needs.
Forget ftp or http, WebDAV is the answer you need, modern, user friendly and convenient, your users will love it, not the fastest but it is right. WebDav gives you the advantages of http (firewall transparent) and some more (SSL, events, log processing, XML extensions). The worse thing about WebDav is that is usually harder for the admin to get it running and that it's not as universal as ftp are.
If that's true, I would like to see not a PowerPC emulation but a completely new processor, with a mixed RISC-Stack instruction set, so Java and other stack based languages (forth, perl, python,.NET etc.. ) would have an oportunity to run faster.
But what Java is today is Sun's responsibility, not Microsoft's or anybody else. Companies like Macromedia and Adobe have shown that you can compete with Microsoft and that you can ship formats and software that cuts into Microsoft's markets.
This is not entirely true. Microsoft did as much as they can to kill Java because Java was a threat to his business model, like Netscape, Java represented a neutral plattform that could force Microsoft's customers to change from the windows plattform without hassle. This is the real (tm) reason.
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Worse than this, If MS thinks it can make a Video set top box better than SONY can, they are plain wrong. SONY is now a major manufacturer of professional video devices, and a major maker of game consoles, they have the know-how to tie all this together with their own chips and manufacturing plants. Nice try microsoft, but this is not going to work...:-)
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Look at prices of Nuclear generation vs Wind generation at http://www.esios.ree.es/web-publica/
France prices for power are mostly due to nuclear costs, prices in Spain and Portugal have a generous mix of renewables (wind, thermosolar and hidro), prices are auctioned on a hourly basis, so when wind blows prices in spain goes down (i've seen prices in the low €5 Mw)
Also look at wind generation anytime at https://demanda.ree.es/eolica.html it shows a variable generation rate but has a 33% average over installed power, it means we currently have 18 Gw installed power base on windmills, that sometimes generates 15 Gw and other times 1 Gw but in average it accounts as a 6 Gw. sustained generation . And Yes sometimes you need to use Gas generated power (as seen on https://demanda.ree.es/demanda.html )
In general the system here WORKS REALLY FINE, and Spain is not a high wind area, but redundancy, and multilocation of windmills, helps us to keep a high usage ratio of the windmills.
Yes this redundancy is expensive, but also is nuclear power, from building to maintaining and to life long storage of radioactive waste, look at the prices for new nuclear plants and you will see prices up in the $8000 to $10000 for Kw http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/business/energy-environment/29nuke.html, and that's much more expensive (only in building costs) than windmills, that are in the $1200 Kw range for 2 Mw Models.
Not for everyone but google as a really clever solution http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
I don't like those big UPSs, they are expensive, a lot of unneeded HW and they barely work when you need them most (expensive, small discharge time, batteries losing charge capacity .. )
So for our own datacenter we keep the currently bought UPSs and added some laptops for really critical services, we virtualice a lot too (OpenVZ) and both technologies enables us to degrade services gracefully and still keep high uptimes, laptops are great, cheap, and batteries can last up to 2 hours. It's not a solution for everyone, but works if your platform can be adapted to the architecture.
More like 2.3 cents per KWh, my car engine (Peugeot HDi) generates about 60 Kw/hour driving at 120 km/hour (75.5 milles/hour) so a 500 mile trip could be about 500 / 74.5 = 6.62 hours at 60 Kw/hour is 397 Kw used, if for such energy you pay $9, you pay $9 / 231 Kw = 2.27 cents per Kw.
This numbers are an extrapolation of my current diesel engine, maybe electric engines performs better that gas engines, and they can do more with less energy, I just don't know it.
If you were thinking in spend $35.000 to get an specific app, you will be happier if you need to spend a lot less ... :)
Take a look at http://tinyerp.com/ if does everything you want and a lot more, maybe you will find it interesting. Yes it is an almost full featured ERP+CRM but the stock modules are pretty complete. They have the multiwarehouse you need, the backtrack and some aditional niceties.
You can use too http://compiere.org/, but from my experience with both packages, Compiere is heavier, harder to configure and uses Oracle, TinyErp uses postgresql is writen in python and is very easy to get a test bed working.
Hope it helps you
VoIP works as well as Skype, you have the same voice quality with similar bandwidth usage (iLBC codec is great) and a lot of providers at better prices than SkypeOut. I use voipbuster.com , great service, incredibly good prices, and I can use my grandstream.com SIP phone to dial and to speak with very good voice quality. They recomend to use the G-711 codec, but from my country I get best results with the G-723 or G-729 codecs. And best of all, in most areas you can get a local phone number for free.
Lets hope they've learned something from the previous attempt and they will go for a clear patent systems that only allows "real" inventions.
Yes, they have learnt, but not what you suppose, but how to HIDE their real intentions in a forest of goodwill. And more, how to deal with the parlament asking them before. I'm quite sure that in the end, the redaction of the proposition will misinterpret some of the arguments in they own benefit.
Hope that everybody keeps and eye (or two) open on this because we are not going to like what we can get.
I've been following Atkins diet for a while and it worked until I reached a line that my body refuses to cross, so I changed to a hipocaloric one (less than 1600 KCalories every day) and a little of exercice (walking as much as I can, and 2 hour gym every week), the results are very promising, and at this moments I think that I know a little about dieting and losing weight, some things that work for me :
1.- Watch what you eat, (http://www.nutritiondata.com/ has been a wonderful help) 1600 Kcalories enables you to loose up to 2 Kg every month.
2.- Eat frecuently, no more than 4 hours without eating something, 100 gr of fruit is right between meals when you are hungry. This way you are not empty (and hungry) when you do the real meal.
3.- If you are really hungry between meals, 10 gr of butter (yes pure butter only) helps me to avoid the starving feeling (thanks to Atking, this really works).
4.- Don't eat outside meal time, and stop doing it as soon as you have enough or you don't have hunger, this is really important, and it is an habit change that you need to track carefully.
5.- Make a little exercice, you don't need to train like Mr, Universe, just 20 minutes walking every day and some serious aerobic exercice 2 times (or more) a week is right.
6.- Avoid highly carbohydrated food, like rice, sugar, pasta, flour etc..., vegetables and fruit will give you more than enough for your needs.
7.- Drink, no less than 3 Liters of water every day, but no sodas or similar, just water or tea with a sugar substitute, saccharin is better than aspartame.
8.- Put the maximun food intake in the breakfast and the lunch, and the minimun in the dinner, this way you go to sleep almost empty.
9.- Loosing weight is a SLOW PROCESS, so don't try to recover your perfect weight in 2 weeks, put a realistic schedule, 1 to 2 years is a correct one. Going faster will not work in the long term.
10.- Persistence, all this is nonsense if you do it for 1 week and forget it the next one, loosing weight is a state of mind.
I've lost 20 Kg, in the past 18 months, and today I'm quite happy, even my sexual life has improved a lot, but I understand that every person is a world and at the end you need to decide what is right and what works for you, so watch how your body reacts to your actions.
I use 32 bits of an AMD 64 at 2 Ghz and skype barely uses 3% of the cpu to work, so something is clearly wrong with your computer.
One of my friends had exactly your same problem and the problems was overheating, the cpu gets so hot that the pentium slows the clock so it can deal with the heat, and thus the cpu usage increases up to your same levels when using skype.
It seems that eBay is quite unsuccessful, don't care enough about his site or don't care at all about his customers/sellers.
I'm quite happy to know that not only the buyers are the ones that suffer from ebay incompetence on dealing with fraud, in fact I've suffered it in the last two ebay purchases I did and I'm convinced that eBay was promoting it, when you put a maxim bid of let's say $ 120.49 and the shill bidder stops at $ 120.45, then certainly he knows when to stop.
My solution has been getting my money somewhere else, because eBay's customer Service is totally unsupportive, full of messages with the warning "Don't answer to this message becasue no one is going to read it".
To me eBay is DEAD.
I usually use the "print multiple pages" filter on kprinter just to get 2 pages on each face of the sheet, so I get 4 pages printed with each sheet, this way is much easier to carry.
.ps file and gives you 2 files to print, one for each side of the sheets, so you can easily have the pamphlet.
/bin/sh
The size letter is normally enough to read it without problems, my Kyocera (damm cheap, 40€, if you buy a used one) does a good work even with small typefaces.
When the number of pages are less than 80, I use the pamphlet filter, I still get the 4 pages for sheet but you can fold it by half, put a pair of staples and you get a nice booklet to read.
This small script accepts a
#!
psbook "$1" | psnup -2 -pa4 | psselect -e > "A.$1"
psbook "$1" | psnup -2 -pa4 | psselect -o > "B.$1"
100$ is no money to get something interesting, the only thing you are going to buy is some useless crap that you are going to forget in 2 weeks.
....
Save it, and when you get enough money look for something useful and something you will really care.
In my case a new portable (Compaq R3450) is what I want
Being a lover of smalltalk, yes, Ruby is really nice, but lacks the passion (and orthogonality) I found in Smalltalk where every day you get surprised by something new you didn't know or by looking at how clever the architecture is.
Recently I've discovered Perl (after beign bored with Ruby), and I'm amazed, it has a steepy learning curve, but every day I learn new ways to do things in a more compact (but illegible for the untrained eye) and smart way possible. And the infinite wisdom you can find in CPAN.
For me Perl is as fun as Smalltalk was.
PSA (Peugeot / Citröen) is working on it
ricardo.com
all4engineers.com
psa-peugeot-citroen.com
The bidder are not eBay's customer, and their maximum benefit come from maximum prices.
So, when you use proxy bidding, you give eBay the information needed and the option to abuse the system, eBay can pretend to be whatever other person and raise prices up to your maximum bid because you are going to be the winner.
This has already happened to me and if you are really interested in an item, it's much better to be in front of your computer 10 seconds before the bid ends and make then your best offer.
What you need to ear is not the DROPed packets, but the ACCEPTed ones.
If you make a diferent sound for every port/address/whatever packet you receive it becomes easy to recognice when the traffic is anormal.
I administer, for one of my customers, a small 10 computer office with lots of malware in his computers, and my solution for him has been to install Linux, Win4Lin over Linux with win98, that remounts itself from clean state every times the user logs in the xdm session manager, and when a virus, spyware, whateverware thing happens, the user just must restart his windows session to get a new, clean and working copy of his setup. It's a dommage that win4lin can only run win 9x/Me, but if you can live with it, your life becomes easier.
Who knows, perhaps one day we'll see the return of MS Supported OS and Apps on PPC?
.Net is, hardware independence.
This is what
What really happens is that Outlook does not generate any kind of revenu stream for Microsoft, while Hotmail does, spam, advertisment, extra space, and msn are a wealthy influx of money for Microsoft.
Look for more stringent conditions on hotmail usage in the near future.
Anyone of you remember the horror movie "The Omen" ?
It's an old movie from 1976, where the antichrist arrives to earth and tries to dominate the world through a company that monopolices world's food production.
Surprisingly Montsanto is trying to use the same path to world domination..., Maybe they saw the movie also.
I'm not saying Montsanto is the antichrist, but they methods are somewhat devilish.
In what language ? In spanish from where "tejas" comes, does not means Friend, friend is "amigo" and tejas can be translated to "slates" or "tile". It's the slate of pizarre or the tile of clay used for roofing or covering houses.
When I must to download something from MS, I use an empty VMWare WinXP image, I make a copy of all the packages that are being downloaded to the vmware image, and after this I can update all the computers I want, I've a copy of the files I need without giving MS information on me or my computing needs.
Forget ftp or http, WebDAV is the answer you need, modern, user friendly and convenient, your users will love it, not the fastest but it is right.
WebDav gives you the advantages of http (firewall transparent) and some more (SSL, events, log processing, XML extensions). The worse thing about WebDav is that is usually harder for the admin to get it running and that it's not as universal as ftp are.
If that's true, I would like to see not a PowerPC emulation but a completely new processor, with a mixed RISC-Stack instruction set, so Java and other stack based languages (forth, perl, python,.NET etc .. ) would have an oportunity to run faster.
But what Java is today is Sun's responsibility, not Microsoft's or anybody else. Companies like Macromedia and Adobe have shown that you can compete with Microsoft and that you can ship formats and software that cuts into Microsoft's markets.
This is not entirely true. Microsoft did as much as they can to kill Java because Java was a threat to his business model, like Netscape, Java represented a neutral plattform that could force Microsoft's customers to change from the windows plattform without hassle. This is the real (tm) reason.
Worse than this, If MS thinks it can make a Video set top box better than SONY can, they are plain wrong. SONY is now a major manufacturer of professional video devices, and a major maker of game consoles, they have the know-how to tie all this together with their own chips and manufacturing plants. :-)
Nice try microsoft, but this is not going to work...