What else ??? ah, yes, an ugly as hell server I wouldn't mind this winter : http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=90 Dunno if many people are into rack server modding, but you cannot make it more ugly than it is on the outside....
The inside can host 16 Opteron 800 cores and 128Gig of Ram, which make it pretty hot - both senses.....
Personnaly I like people that forego LCDs and such and directly use a nice and silencious video projector for general informations (say a Sanyo Z3). Even more if you show your skills at system management using "Doom, the Aftermath"http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom /after.html
Yeah, follow my words, I can garantee your customers will be impressed 8)
Same for paris theaters from the late 70s to nowadays.
Worst I've seen was when catholic integrists burned some cinemas showing "the last tentation"(of the Christ) in the 80s, and we all know French Catholic Integrists like to dress up in army green with a violently violet iroquois hairdress...
My local cinema (multiplex) has a pico-cell that cancels all mobile signals, so no cretins with open mobiles either.
Yet, you still pay an arm for the two seats and a leg for drinks and pop-corn...
Some French cinemas have this "all you can see" card you can get for a monthly fee. Was very tempted to get one till I had :
1/ Seen the proposed selection of films go from medium good to bad 2/ Seen the price of the xga projectors go under 1200Eu
Dvd rentals + Anime Fansubs + Xbox Media Center => haven't been to the cinema since Lord Of the Rings 3...
And even that I regretted, as no one was showing the long version....
59 Miles should be enough to grant you space wings. They asked for a bit more for the Xprize (328,000 feet) but it is true than even spaceShipOne is gloating about "SpaceShipOne Wins X-Prize - Breaks X-15 altitude record"...
Now, if he had won the prize money, he might have been more "impressed" with the matter...
I happen to know and use this muscle in another application (sort of)...
In Judo, when you grab the opponent collar, this is where you put the bone on the back of your thumb to induce (more or less forcibly) a reflexive movement in the direction you wish (on beginners) or a conscient counter-pressure from intermediate fighters , so as to then accentuate the move and throw him/her/it somewhere on his back.
You get an instinctive reaction to avoid pressure on this point, so your body, in trying to protect you, is actually betraying you...
Try it with friends, for fun, don't try it on your sensei, he's gonna make you fly 8p
There are lots of pressure point used in acupuncture, massages and martial arts that have very interesting effects - healing, relaxative, dolorous or just plain deadly.
The main point was the touchscreen and an audio out...
I really want a recipe/weather/music/video screen for when I'm cooking and was thinking about an audrey for the task.
I was wondering if you could use the touchscreen for everything, but as you use the keyboard, there must bet no practical touchscreen keyboard included...
also browsing the web or my own personnal recipe site...
Can you give us more feedback of it's use as a kitchen appliance and automation, please ?
SATA2 is not yet provided, and it's true I was wondering about getting 300MB/s from a ram module that is quite capable of that.
I thought that, maybe, the FPGA they use cannot reach such a performance yet, and it could come with next revision, when they produce their own package from end to end.
I was more wondering about some tests missing using databases.
What better test than a database, say for a small website, with few modifications to the base and the biggest problem being that hdds are a latency hell when the db is waiting for the data to be unstored....
Under linux, I know I can easily script the partioning at each reboot, and have another script syncing the db to a hdd say every 5 minutes (x% of a max 4 gigs db @10MB/s writing speed... , syncing only the last 5 minutes journal... largely possible if your are not running a Enterprise class website...)
What would be the results of this test, aka a db with almost no latency and 100MB/s bandwith ?
Wouldn't that have been more intersting than using it as a pagefile ?
Nowadays the question is one of appropriate hardware choices for specific tasks...
The power supply is just a first step. A silent system is more like a long compromise on many fronts.
For instance I run a web/mail server using an old P2-400 and a maxtor 20gig from the scrap closet. I'm serving 150K pages a month and getting like 5000 mails/month.
True, a silent power supply would reduce the noise of this single machine, but buying a modern crusoe system with totally passive cooling with a "lowest" cpu would still give me more power than the P2-400 (890 Bogomips) and scratch a large enclosure beige box from my field of view... it's just a question of cost, I don't really need a low power machine, but I need the money it would cost me.
Another problem I have is the file server next to this machine: 3 fans, 5 hdd and a 450W power supply.
I need enough power to start and run 5 disks, and enough cooling to keep them disks "cold" (lukewarm, to tell the true).
So I can choose between water cooling the disks, and the CPU/GPU as long as I am at it, or find cooler and silenter disks (lol - seagate 5400r/s if they still make them) and/or put a controller to regulate the venting...plus a silent power supply... and a regulator for the cpu...everything comes quite expensive.
I can also get the long cable(s) and a KVM, ethernet KVM if there is such a thing...
Or better, a silent desktop machine and all the servers in a closet somewhere... and a solution to reboot the machines remotely...and a basic knowledge of remote desktops and ssh. altogether quite cheaper than the other solutions.
If I had the vented closet, I would get a crusoe something "dumb" terminal and a citrix-like Linux solution (forgot the name). Your puny computer is just accessing a much more powerfull one, and running everything on it.
You have a silent environment with high cpu power access, you can add unexpensive desktops wherever you want, wifi possible as you use a real computer as a terminal... Your server(s) has a nice, cool closet all to itself and can be happy churning watts without disturbing you. Cluster for redundancy, dual raid 10 array, or JBOD and a backup disk somewhere else and you have a corporate-like environment.
Still the problem of rebooting the remote server without moving, but a solution can be found in many flavors even from an X10 controlable power outlet and a mobo supporting wake-on-lan.
See how-much a silent power supply costs, see how much a low power "semi-dumb" would cost, and start emptying that closet.
Lets see the rest :
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"The OpenBSD project does not make the ISO images used to master the official CDs available for download. The reason is simply that we would like you to buy the CD sets, helping fund ongoing OpenBSD development. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt. Theo does not permit people to redistribute images of the official OpenBSD CDs. As an incentive for people to buy the CD set, some extras are included in the package as well (artwork, stickers etc).
Note that only the CD layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else from downloading OpenBSD and making their own CD. If for some reason you want to download a CD image, try searching the mailing list archives for possible sources. Of course, any OpenBSD ISO images available on the Internet either violate Theo de Raadt's copyright or are not official images. The source of an unofficial image may or may not be trustworthy; it is up to you to determine this for yourself.
We suggest that people who want to download OpenBSD for free use the FTP install option. For those that need a bootable CD for their system, bootdisk ISO images (named cd36.iso) are available for a number of platforms which will then permit the rest of the system to be installed via FTP. These ISO images are only a few megabytes in size, and contain just the installation tools, not the actual file sets."
So they do not provide isos for free, they prefer to have you buy a set of boxed cds to fund their effots. Yeah, I can see it... Bad, evil people trying to make some sort of money for a project.
They then say you can download from unofficial sources as you will. Gosh. They must be mad as well as evil...
They even propose to build a full system from an ftp using just a floppy or a cdrom . My head start spinning. This people REFUSE to give you an iso, but helps you 3 ways to get their sofware.(3.4 - Downloading via FTP, HTTP or AFS...)
So, I agree, BSD is made by Bad, Evil, Mind Spinning people that actually help you get their software. In multiple forms... but they won't provide you poor soul with an ISO, you'll have to use your bleeding fingers into 20 seconds of googling to get it...
Well, technicaly, I don't have to pay for a new copy, only for the paper and ink costs, because I already paid the copyright fee with the old one.
It's the same with that Blues Brother dvd. I already own the vhs. So i paid the copyright fee once already. Alas they didn't want to accept the 1$50 I gave instead of the 15$ they asked.
I even showed them my old vhs, and tried explaining to them how this stuff worked, but the big man in an uniform threw me out before he could understand.
Damn, and the worse is I'm right.... There is a capitalistic conspiracy making me pay many time for the same thing...8)
(it remind me of the guy emptying a few packs on cola into a bucket from the same store. When the security guy came to stop him, he just said "look, they say I gotta open the can to see if I won, and at the same time they say that this game is free and I don't have to buy to participate... So, here is the cola in the bucket, I didn't drink it. But I will take those 3 empty can, they are winner...")
"Some movies of the seventies seem to have been made yesterday;not this one.It's in fact one of the most dated works of its era.It's some gentler version of "Themroc",less pretentious, funny (in places) but not necessarily more palatable.
There's no story,but a spate of minisketches,some of them witty,("There's no more property,so there're no more thieves" the warden says while opening the cells ),a lot of them tedious and repetitive.There was enough material to make a very good short,but 85 minutes it's inevitably too long.In a nutshell,let's stop working,let's stop producing,let's stop everything and all you need is love.Hence the title "l'an O1" (=year 01):why a 0,by the way?This is the typically "events of May 68 way of life" film."
The idea of the film is...interesting, call it idealist anarcho-communism.
No masters, no worldly possetions, ans a basic idea at the start : we have enough...do you really need a better hair dryer or a better oven ? those we already have right now are ok, no ? so lets stop, and enjoy...in the end some turn the walkways into city-gardens.
The scene I remember most is a kid playing thieve in the midle of the night with an ex-convict, they enter into a retired couple room, ask and get the jewels, and then is told by the ex-convict "put them back, that way, when you want to steal them next you'll know where they are"
There has been a few studies recently that show that even if ethanol was the best solution and had, say the same efficiency as petrol for running your car, producing the quantities we need would mean that more than 100% of all arable land has to be used.
Not wanting to spend my life eating artificial meat and artificial vegetables because you use all the good land to grow fuel, if would take it well if you started right now looking for another solution...
Look, on one hand you have this: "The results clearly identify that ethanol outperformed conventional and reformulated gasoline with respect to energy use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions" http://transtech.anl.gov/v3n3/greet.html
"A solar chimney is an apparatus for harnessing solar energy by convection of heated air. Solar power describes a number of methods of harnessing energy from the light of the sun.... Convection is the transfer of heat by the motion of or within a fluid. In its simplest form, it simply consists of a black-painted chimney. During the daytime, solar energy heats the chimney and thereby heats the air within it, resulting in an updraft of air within the chimney. The suction this creates at the chimney base can be used to ventilate, and thereby cool, the building below. In most parts of the world, it is easier to harness wind power for such ventilation, but on hot windless days such a chimney can provide ventilation where there would otherwise be none. Wind power is the kinetic energy of wind, or the extraction of this energy by wind turbines.... General concept of proposed solar chimney power station Enlarge General concept of proposed solar chimney power station
This principle has been proposed for electric power generation, using a large greenhouse at the base rather than relying on heating of the chimney itself. The main problem with this approach is the relatively small difference in temperature between the highest and lowest temperatures in the system. Carnot's theorem greatly restricts the efficiency of conversion in these circumstances."
So cheap convection veranda + cheap home made wind turbine + Batteries = Electrical power in the middle of any hot/sunny desertic place.
Of course this particular turbine is not the best suited for this particular use, but generating wind is not that hard when you have a readily available power source...
Then, this is slashdot, whe should know about generating wind 8)
The cost was higher at first, the toner cartrige are horribly expensive.... But I only need one each 5000 leaf, and the printer don't mind if it waits two month between jobs...or if I need 5000 leafs right now...
I always considered that Ink printers to be a steal on my budjet after I had to get my first replacement cartridge...
It was almost cheaper to get a new printer with the included ink that to buy more ink... And that was a black and white. I don't even want to think about ppl doing color...
Also, if the law was rejected, it is because a few ppl had a large bunch of amendments ready that would have "denatured" (in the view of large software companies) the adventage software patent could have given them...
see The Register article here: "According to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, conservative MEP Klaus-Heiner Lehne is trying to establish a majority of MEPs to vote for a rejection of the Council's "Common Position", even before any amendments are discussed.
The FFII says it is no coincidence that supporters of the Common Position, like Lehne, are now calling for the directive to be dropped. It claims that parliament is close to establishing a majority of MEPs in support of the amendments tabled by Michel Rocard. The amendments would put limits on patentability, it argues, and so the directive should only be rejected if the 367 votes needed to pass the changes cannot be found."
So in effects the cancelling of the law is not so much a victory as a move by the opponents to pospone the problem until they have a better chance of passing it under their own terms, US style....
Also I totally agree with your view on the grey area actual patents are in, but article 52 http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ ar52.html of patent bureau clearly says that purely software patent are not to be, and that should be enough to cancel the existing ones....
We just need someone to enforce the existing rules....which is an other problem altogether...
The thing that caught my eye was the Remote Control...
As the happy owner of a home theater, I have a few (8 or 9) remotes, the XBOX media player hitting the Linux Fileserver, then the amp itself, plus the various cd/tape player...
I was thinking of getting a cheap (lol) tablet pc, an extensible bathroom mirror handle and hack together a nifty all-in-one appliance to control everything from my couch, including email and VNC to the rest of the network (a few pcs, including ONE windows machine)...
When you see that a Philips TSI6400 I Pronto costs $1,129.00, and that it has more or less comparable functions http://store.yahoo.com/aboutgizmos/phtsipr.html... 800$ seems almost reasonable 8)
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yeah, true, you shouldn't uuencode it...
Best way to make this is to open the JPEG with a text editor and directly use the text data as is
For, after all, a jpeg is just text file with a specific meaning to a specific parser, and the data is already compressed, so...
Just a question : what stops you from adding this new kernel to your grub or LILO and stress test it in any condition you think will cause a freeze ?
I mean there are few things as easy as installing a new kernel and then removing it later if it doesn't satisfy you...
Dunno about server, but I was wondering about a new desktop...
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m /after.html
http://www.orionmulti.com/products/specs_ds96
- Performance 230 GFlop peak, 110 GFlop sustained (Linpack) -
What else ??? ah, yes, an ugly as hell server I wouldn't mind this winter : http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=90
Dunno if many people are into rack server modding, but you cannot make it more ugly than it is on the outside....
The inside can host 16 Opteron 800 cores and 128Gig of Ram, which make it pretty hot - both senses.....
For the Network War room, what about a nice visual representation of network attacks/activity, using "The Spinning Cube of Imminent Doom" which is both impressive and easy to explain...:
http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/security/TheSpinningC
(maintenance of servers going on, use the cache, luke...
Personnaly I like people that forego LCDs and such and directly use a nice and silencious video projector for general informations (say a Sanyo Z3).
Even more if you show your skills at system management using "Doom, the Aftermath"http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doo
Yeah, follow my words, I can garantee your customers will be impressed 8)
Same for paris theaters from the late 70s to nowadays.
Worst I've seen was when catholic integrists burned some cinemas showing "the last tentation"(of the Christ) in the 80s, and we all know French Catholic Integrists like to dress up in army green with a violently violet iroquois hairdress...
My local cinema (multiplex) has a pico-cell that cancels all mobile signals, so no cretins with open mobiles either.
Yet, you still pay an arm for the two seats and a leg for drinks and pop-corn...
Some French cinemas have this "all you can see" card you can get for a monthly fee. Was very tempted to get one till I had :
1/ Seen the proposed selection of films go from medium good to bad
2/ Seen the price of the xga projectors go under 1200Eu
Dvd rentals + Anime Fansubs + Xbox Media Center => haven't been to the cinema since Lord Of the Rings 3...
And even that I regretted, as no one was showing the long version....
zipping past at very, very high speed.
/ HTML/E-16808.html
"Dana flew the X-15 research airplane 16 times, reaching a top speed of 3,897 miles per hour and a peak altitude of 310,000 feet (almost 59 miles high).http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-15
59 Miles should be enough to grant you space wings. They asked for a bit more for the Xprize (328,000 feet) but it is true than even spaceShipOne is gloating about "SpaceShipOne Wins X-Prize - Breaks X-15 altitude record"...
Now, if he had won the prize money, he might have been more "impressed" with the matter...
I happen to know and use this muscle in another application (sort of)...
In Judo, when you grab the opponent collar, this is where you put the bone on the back of your thumb to induce (more or less forcibly) a reflexive movement in the direction you wish (on beginners) or a conscient counter-pressure from intermediate fighters , so as to then accentuate the move and throw him/her/it somewhere on his back.
You get an instinctive reaction to avoid pressure on this point, so your body, in trying to protect you, is actually betraying you...
Try it with friends, for fun, don't try it on your sensei, he's gonna make you fly 8p
There are lots of pressure point used in acupuncture, massages and martial arts that have very interesting effects - healing, relaxative, dolorous or just plain deadly.
Google a bit, its quite educative 8)
for billions of $ ?
:p
yeah, there is one thing that is worth that...
Uranus....
The main point was the touchscreen and an audio out...
I really want a recipe/weather/music/video screen for when I'm cooking and was thinking about an audrey for the task.
I was wondering if you could use the touchscreen for everything, but as you use the keyboard, there must bet no practical touchscreen keyboard included...
also browsing the web or my own personnal recipe site...
Can you give us more feedback of it's use as a kitchen appliance and automation, please ?
SATA2 is not yet provided, and it's true I was wondering about getting 300MB/s from a ram module that is quite capable of that.
I thought that, maybe, the FPGA they use cannot reach such a performance yet, and it could come with next revision, when they produce their own package from end to end.
I was more wondering about some tests missing using databases.
What better test than a database, say for a small website, with few modifications to the base and the biggest problem being that hdds are a latency hell when the db is waiting for the data to be unstored....
Under linux, I know I can easily script the partioning at each reboot, and have another script syncing the db to a hdd say every 5 minutes (x% of a max 4 gigs db @10MB/s writing speed... , syncing only the last 5 minutes journal... largely possible if your are not running a Enterprise class website...)
What would be the results of this test, aka a db with almost no latency and 100MB/s bandwith ?
Wouldn't that have been more intersting than using it as a pagefile ?
Nowadays the question is one of appropriate hardware choices for specific tasks...
. html - I'm sure there is something comparable for Windows (citrix) but it sure will be expensive...)
The power supply is just a first step. A silent system is more like a long compromise on many fronts.
For instance I run a web/mail server using an old P2-400 and a maxtor 20gig from the scrap closet. I'm serving 150K pages a month and getting like 5000 mails/month.
True, a silent power supply would reduce the noise of this single machine, but buying a modern crusoe system with totally passive cooling with a "lowest" cpu would still give me more power than the P2-400 (890 Bogomips) and scratch a large enclosure beige box from my field of view...
it's just a question of cost, I don't really need a low power machine, but I need the money it would cost me.
Another problem I have is the file server next to this machine:
3 fans, 5 hdd and a 450W power supply.
I need enough power to start and run 5 disks, and enough cooling to keep them disks "cold" (lukewarm, to tell the true).
So I can choose between water cooling the disks, and the CPU/GPU as long as I am at it, or find cooler and silenter disks (lol - seagate 5400r/s if they still make them) and/or put a controller to regulate the venting...plus a silent power supply... and a regulator for the cpu...everything comes quite expensive.
I can also get the long cable(s) and a KVM, ethernet KVM if there is such a thing...
Or better, a silent desktop machine and all the servers in a closet somewhere... and a solution to reboot the machines remotely...and a basic knowledge of remote desktops and ssh. altogether quite cheaper than the other solutions.
If I had the vented closet, I would get a crusoe something "dumb" terminal and a citrix-like Linux solution (forgot the name). Your puny computer is just accessing a much more powerfull one, and running everything on it.
You have a silent environment with high cpu power access, you can add unexpensive desktops wherever you want, wifi possible as you use a real computer as a terminal...
Your server(s) has a nice, cool closet all to itself and can be happy churning watts without disturbing you. Cluster for redundancy, dual raid 10 array, or JBOD and a backup disk somewhere else and you have a corporate-like environment.
Still the problem of rebooting the remote server without moving, but a solution can be found in many flavors even from an X10 controlable power outlet and a mobo supporting wake-on-lan.
See how-much a silent power supply costs, see how much a low power "semi-dumb" would cost, and start emptying that closet.
(see here for some example of Linux thin clients : http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4923746399
"The OpenBSD project does not make the ISO images used to master the official CDs available for download. The reason is simply that we would like you to buy the CD sets, helping fund ongoing OpenBSD development. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt. Theo does not permit people to redistribute images of the official OpenBSD CDs. As an incentive for people to buy the CD set, some extras are included in the package as well (artwork, stickers etc).
Note that only the CD layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else from downloading OpenBSD and making their own CD. If for some reason you want to download a CD image, try searching the mailing list archives for possible sources. Of course, any OpenBSD ISO images available on the Internet either violate Theo de Raadt's copyright or are not official images. The source of an unofficial image may or may not be trustworthy; it is up to you to determine this for yourself.
We suggest that people who want to download OpenBSD for free use the FTP install option. For those that need a bootable CD for their system, bootdisk ISO images (named cd36.iso) are available for a number of platforms which will then permit the rest of the system to be installed via FTP. These ISO images are only a few megabytes in size, and contain just the installation tools, not the actual file sets."
So they do not provide isos for free, they prefer to have you buy a set of boxed cds to fund their effots. Yeah, I can see it... Bad, evil people trying to make some sort of money for a project.
They then say you can download from unofficial sources as you will. Gosh. They must be mad as well as evil...
They even propose to build a full system from an ftp using just a floppy or a cdrom . My head start spinning. This people REFUSE to give you an iso, but helps you 3 ways to get their sofware.(3.4 - Downloading via FTP, HTTP or AFS...)
So, I agree, BSD is made by Bad, Evil, Mind Spinning people that actually help you get their software. In multiple forms... but they won't provide you poor soul with an ISO, you'll have to use your bleeding fingers into 20 seconds of googling to get it...
Madmen, all...
- /jealous - of seeing your overly proud audio-geek neighbor house collapse into rubble... - /jealous -
I really hope for him he cancelled the harmonic at which his house resonates 8)
Also, I really would have had a look at his jacuzzi 8)
you mostly find "remastered" versions when they first came from analog medium.
One reason I always heard is that the digital medium allow for finer digitalisation than what was proposed before.
The other reason I heard was that the remastered version isn't the same as the analog copy you bought, so you cannot ask for a "free" copy.
If they were to give you the analog version you first bought, you could (COULD) go and ask for just production costs and pay that.
Which brings us to the remastered part...
Of course IANAL, but then I'm a cynical realist, which compensate 8)
Well, technicaly, I don't have to pay for a new copy, only for the paper and ink costs, because I already paid the copyright fee with the old one.
It's the same with that Blues Brother dvd. I already own the vhs. So i paid the copyright fee once already. Alas they didn't want to accept the 1$50 I gave instead of the 15$ they asked.
I even showed them my old vhs, and tried explaining to them how this stuff worked, but the big man in an uniform threw me out before he could understand.
Damn, and the worse is I'm right.... There is a capitalistic conspiracy making me pay many time for the same thing...8)
(it remind me of the guy emptying a few packs on cola into a bucket from the same store. When the security guy came to stop him, he just said "look, they say I gotta open the can to see if I won, and at the same time they say that this game is free and I don't have to buy to participate... So, here is the cola in the bucket, I didn't drink it. But I will take those 3 empty can, they are winner...")
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179641/
,less pretentious, funny (in places) but not necessarily more palatable .
,some of them witty,("There's no more property,so there're no more thieves" the warden says while opening the cells ),a lot of them tedious and repetitive.There was enough material to make a very good short,but 85 minutes it's inevitably too long.In a nutshell,let's stop working,let's stop producing,let's stop everything and all you need is love.Hence the title "l'an O1" (=year 01):why a 0,by the way?This is the typically "events of May 68 way of life" film."
...interesting, call it idealist anarcho-communism.
"Some movies of the seventies seem to have been made yesterday;not this one.It's in fact one of the most dated works of its era.It's some gentler version of "Themroc"
There's no story,but a spate of minisketches
The idea of the film is
No masters, no worldly possetions, ans a basic idea at the start : we have enough...do you really need a better hair dryer or a better oven ? those we already have right now are ok, no ? so lets stop, and enjoy...in the end some turn the walkways into city-gardens.
The scene I remember most is a kid playing thieve in the midle of the night with an ex-convict, they enter into a retired couple room, ask and get the jewels, and then is told by the ex-convict "put them back, that way, when you want to steal them next you'll know where they are"
a bit long, but nice really...
There has been a few studies recently that show that even if ethanol was the best solution and had, say the same efficiency as petrol for running your car, producing the quantities we need would mean that more than 100% of all arable land has to be used.
:
:d =190&catid=66 _ SeparatingFactFromFiction.pdf
Not wanting to spend my life eating artificial meat and artificial vegetables because you use all the good land to grow fuel, if would take it well if you started right now looking for another solution...
Look, on one hand you have this
"The results clearly identify that ethanol outperformed conventional and reformulated gasoline with respect to energy use and reducing greenhouse gas emissions"
http://transtech.anl.gov/v3n3/greet.html
And on the other those data
http://earthtrack.net/earthtrack/index.asp?page_i
http://www.cleanairchoice.org/outdoor/PDF/Ethanol
Now make your own mind...
P.S. You are actually proposing we use high-proof booze for fuel ? Yeah, right...
Imagine you get your wind turbine.
i mney
... Convection is the transfer of heat by the motion of or within a fluid. ...
Now imagine you live in a quite sunny place (Texas ? lol)
And that you have the know-how or the money to buld a plexiglass veranda + a chimney.
Et Voila !! you have a solar chimney for generating power...
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Solar-ch
"A solar chimney is an apparatus for harnessing solar energy by convection of heated air. Solar power describes a number of methods of harnessing energy from the light of the sun.
In its simplest form, it simply consists of a black-painted chimney. During the daytime, solar energy heats the chimney and thereby heats the air within it, resulting in an updraft of air within the chimney. The suction this creates at the chimney base can be used to ventilate, and thereby cool, the building below. In most parts of the world, it is easier to harness wind power for such ventilation, but on hot windless days such a chimney can provide ventilation where there would otherwise be none. Wind power is the kinetic energy of wind, or the extraction of this energy by wind turbines.
General concept of proposed solar chimney power station
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General concept of proposed solar chimney power station
This principle has been proposed for electric power generation, using a large greenhouse at the base rather than relying on heating of the chimney itself. The main problem with this approach is the relatively small difference in temperature between the highest and lowest temperatures in the system. Carnot's theorem greatly restricts the efficiency of conversion in these circumstances."
So cheap convection veranda + cheap home made wind turbine + Batteries = Electrical power in the middle of any hot/sunny desertic place.
Of course this particular turbine is not the best suited for this particular use, but generating wind is not that hard when you have a readily available power source...
Then, this is slashdot, whe should know about generating wind 8)
Dear Mr IRS,
:
You are welcome to come and collect !
Here are my coordinates
Lagrange Point N.3
You cannot miss it, it's just beind the mine field, to the left of the laser battery.
Best Regards....
As long as using racks AND not paying an arm and leg for them, have a look at a MIDI rack at your biggest local music store.
They come the same size as the computer racks, costs half the price, are even available second hand...
Yes you will need to buy rackable enclosures for you pcs, but everything computer will be in the same enclosure....
Then go the platic tie and tag everything...
The cost was higher at first, the toner cartrige are horribly expensive.... But I only need one each 5000 leaf, and the printer don't mind if it waits two month between jobs...or if I need 5000 leafs right now...
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I always considered that Ink printers to be a steal on my budjet after I had to get my first replacement cartridge...
It was almost cheaper to get a new printer with the included ink that to buy more ink...
And that was a black and white. I don't even want to think about ppl doing color...
There was an article some time ago about printer ink costing more than champagne (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0
Well, Cheers HP... I'll stick to my Canard Duchesne cuvee Henri VIII and you can have a glass of blue...
At the time it was an almost perfect word processor.
Simple, can do almost anything until you needed Quark like functions, almost unbloated...
I still have the floppies somewhere.
Sad it isn't supported anymore (no compatibility with the newer word...)
And you just happen to have access to a few hundred online bank accounts...
Also, if the law was rejected, it is because a few ppl had a large bunch of amendments ready that would have "denatured" (in the view of large software companies) the adventage software patent could have given them...
:
r ective/
/ ar52.html of patent bureau clearly says that purely software patent are not to be, and that should be enough to cancel the existing ones....
see The Register article here
"According to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, conservative MEP Klaus-Heiner Lehne is trying to establish a majority of MEPs to vote for a rejection of the Council's "Common Position", even before any amendments are discussed.
The FFII says it is no coincidence that supporters of the Common Position, like Lehne, are now calling for the directive to be dropped. It claims that parliament is close to establishing a majority of MEPs in support of the amendments tabled by Michel Rocard. The amendments would put limits on patentability, it argues, and so the directive should only be rejected if the 367 votes needed to pass the changes cannot be found."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/patent_di
So in effects the cancelling of the law is not so much a victory as a move by the opponents to pospone the problem until they have a better chance of passing it under their own terms, US style....
Also I totally agree with your view on the grey area actual patents are in, but article 52 http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e
We just need someone to enforce the existing rules....which is an other problem altogether...
poster.ps.gz, A0, 280 MB
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sad mirrordot doesn't also take the links
The thing that caught my eye was the Remote Control ...
...
. 800$ seems almost reasonable 8)
As the happy owner of a home theater, I have a few (8 or 9) remotes, the XBOX media player hitting the Linux Fileserver, then the amp itself, plus the various cd/tape player
I was thinking of getting a cheap (lol) tablet pc, an extensible bathroom mirror handle and hack together a nifty all-in-one appliance to control everything from my couch, including email and VNC to the rest of the network (a few pcs, including ONE windows machine)...
When you see that a Philips TSI6400 I Pronto costs $1,129.00, and that it has more or less comparable functions http://store.yahoo.com/aboutgizmos/phtsipr.html..