if a fan / cooling-subsystem was -ahem- failing in the machine, for any reason, or
there was a.. power-'glitch'.. thereby increasing the erors in it, or
there was some kind of electromagnetic pulse that induced erors in the electronics in that place/area, or
if one stuck a bit of ionizing-material ( low-grade radioactive material ) somewhere among the machine where it'd create increase-of eror-probability
organized wrong would very likely use this sort of thing to grab/enforce leverage/authority...
Electronic error plus already-placed opportunistic code is now proven to break assumed-safety, and that is a story.
Actually, that blue-stone they used for that particular henge, came from the vein of blue-rock that ended-up...
half in the Bay of Fundy, and
half in west British Isles
( Inter-Continental Bureaucratic Migration, I think they call-it: like missiles, but takes millions of years to do it.. )
What's really weird, is, that particular blue-stone was supposed to be so indestructible/hard etc. that it made the perfect ( for the time/culture ) sharpening-stone, for whichever end of the Industrial Era it was, that used it for such...
They went 50 feet, IIRC, into the side of the cliff, ripping-out every last scrap of that stuff, from the Bay of Fundy...
grrr.. how come I can't find any of this on the 'net, hasn't anyone engaged in copyright infringement?!??
( disclaimer: that's a *joke*, for any authorities reading this )
It was in WoodCuts(r), IIRC that they mentioned the Canadian existence of that blue-stone...
TWiki has built-in version-control, so you can recover useful info after the site's been defaced ( if you choose wiki )
Questions, though...
Accessibility: how much?
web-forum is totally accessable, wiki less so.
Do you want whomever can contribute to do so?
I'd use a forum, then, but instead of expecting the forum to produce finished docs, I'd use a moderatable forum to produce raw info ( tips & tricks, experiences, point-up blindnesses in the program's --help listings, etc. ) that could be turned, easily, into user-friendly and complete docs.
Others would prefer a more exclusive wiki, to produce more self-consistent docs...
Do you want the docs to stand on their own?
TWiki's got a plugin that creates non-editable web-page versions of the wiki, so you could deploy it behind a.. password block, and give accounts only to whom-you-trust, and have it automatically create web-pages from the wiki your friends create...
Personally, I'd just go with a forum, and every 6 weeks create a new version of each doc ( and have the comments on that version help me create the next version ).
It'd be as inclusive as possible, it'd force me to perceive where I was creating problems for users' comprehension ( my work's assumptions ), I could put source-code up that way for the parts that were annoying me ( to get as many eyes on it as possible ), it'd be ( from the users perspective ) simpler.
I'd zope ( they're down, right now, some sort of proxy eror? ) it just because then their bookmarks would work...
Motor Assisted Bicycles are a Good Thing[tm]
( unless one's Gov't has decided to destroy one's possible choices, for the benefit of their authority, OR for the benefit of their preferred lobby-groups )...
... compared with many alternatives...
BUT:
MX5 Super Bike Engine seems to be the one that works best ( though I gather it requires a bit of break-in/tuning ), and unfortunately, it's a 2-stroke, and
( halfway down the page ) Honda 4-stroke 31cc Bicycle Engine, while it is a 4-stroke, it boshes one's ability to stack stuff on the rear rack...
What should manufacturers of ( networking etc. ) sw/tech do to help their customers' security, or security-efforts?
And Please differentiate between Pragmatic and Practical!
Yeah, secure defaults would be a start, but what sort of secure defaults'd be maximally effective + minimally totality-cost-ly?
Perhaps ought gov't/consortia ( instead of standard corporate welfare ) offer tax-breaks/awards to the corps that compromise world security the least?
( increasing competition in a directed way, and this is said realizing that gov't/mass-media manufactures conditions among given countries/nations by manufacturing policy/popular-will, and no that isn't my concept-of-heaven, but it is fact )?
More specific items? ( since I'm just/dev/random > thought-filter >/.-posting.. barnstorming is it called? )
We Have To Develop BioWeapons Of Mass Inhumanity Or They Will First
( with the implicit "We Are Virtuous And Need To Use Them On Others,
They Are Evil And Need Such Used On Them" )
Fallacy/assumption.
If all smart ones stopped contributing to sentient entropy, it'd speed-along slower.
( and HOW to get ones to stop contributing to racial slaughter? by contributing to racial well-being, since it IS an alternative... )
Fallacies can phuck theirselfs.
As for the question of whether such.. competition.. improves the chances that we'll wipe our own race out quicker...
... and we maintain that we have no responsibility for the consequences of our actions...
Bah
Fucked-In-The-Head mistakes I make when annoyed/tired:
THIS is the board I was trying to recommend you try in your prototyper machine...
Why?
Athlon's floating-point-optimized CPUs are, I gather, drastically faster than Intel's streaming-multimedia optimized CPUs in most engineering stuff, and the DUAL CPU 'board will mean the machine still responds, even when one CPU's saturated.
Why'd I recommend 3GB? because you can't functionally get 4GB into 'em: the PCI devices eat about.5GB, so 3.5's as high as can sanely be got.
Sorry I can't provide the link to the quotes/benchmarks of that chip-designer guy who'd compared both Intel 'boards and AMD 'boards, but.. damn, it was significant difference, between 'em.
Also, I'm REALLY recommending/seconding that advice that you take it one unit at a time, but amplifying on it: build prototypes so you understand the 'gotchas' involved, and are able to get hard data on the different subsystems in your intended answer.
brane-theory's categorically wrong, then, since it insists that there are more spacial dimensions than the open 3 ( and, obviously, if things CAN exist without being particles in the open-3, then they have to exist somehow, and therefore Mind may exist... ).
Thank GOD/YOUR-NATIONALISM/RELIGION/CHURCH you have set me straight on that.
Yes, that Primary Law of Scientism: Scientism Knows that Knowing Cannot Exist ( hence the existence of "The Hard Problem" ).
Therefore Only Scientism's Knowing CAN Exist, and logically must be Ultimate Truth.
Convenient how "Dark Matter" is something that doesn't obey the reductionism's religious assumptions, twit, nor does "Dark Energy"...
I'm NOT claiming "Mind Is Inherently More Real Than Matter" ( as you so conveniently suggest with your Mind Over Matter deliberate misquote... ), I'm Suggesting that Mind Actually Exists, IN SPITE OF your existence.
IF something exists in 10-dimensional space, PLUS time, AND doesn't manifest as particle in the open3, THEN it is possible that it is existing in Time+Space+SomeThingElse that Manifests as NonLocalCoherence or Mind.
Oh, yes, I'd forgot that your Scientism banished depth from Universe, eh?
IF evidence of non-locality NEED be ignored by your religion, in order to make your precious assumptions perfect, then you don't have any place for Scientific Method, and that's fine: neither did the Church/Inquisition, or Nazism or any other form of rabies
I fail to see why it is assumed that only Time and Space count as dimensions: cannot Non-locality ( or unitary-ness/field-ness, as opposed to wave-ness or particle-ness ) or Mind count as one too?
Damn, sorry I forgot:
IF you CAN find 'em, you can also use the Silicon Image SATA chip based motherboards/add-on-cards with linux ( the 2.6 kernel's going to be fully supporting 'em, though for the 2.4 kernel, 3Ware's your only open-source choice, it seems, UNLESS you can get drivers specifically for that SATA board from somewhere )
Reason for using SATA rather than normal/parallel ATA? Very Low CPU Usage, that's why..
1. don't buy an Itanic, if you're going with Opteron for its ultra-fast RAM ( compared with Itanic ) and drastic cost-effectiveness ( ditto ), an Itanic won't show you whether Opteron'd be a good match: the architectures are totally different.
2. RAID storage: don't buy Promise 'raid' cards ( and DON'T do 'raid' 0/1, do RAID-5 ).
Why?..
1. it ISN'T possible to use S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics in your drives with the Promise ones, at least ( you'll crash the PCI-bus, hanging, fatally, the machine, using Promise chips.. don't know about Highpoint or Adaptec ), and...
2. they oppose Open Source drivers, and coders, for their own products.
Highpoint has only SuSE 7.3-8.0/Redhat-whatever ( IIRC ) drivers for their fast 1520 cards, but if you want compute performance, you want Gentoo... ( and SuSE's been at 8.1 for ages, now... )
Adaptec? I don't know if their cards have the same issues as the Promise/Highpoint, but their cards compete with Promise's, and so probably cut corners in similar ways ( I'd love to see hard data on that point, though )...
3ware are the only cheap ( compared with SCSI ) RAID controllers I know-of, that offer bootable, real, actual, S.M.A.R.T.able RAID on ATA drives.
( I'd stick scads of 120GB IBM 180GXPs on 'em, because they're cooler-running than the 180GB versions, and better than most other drives: fast, quiet, reliable-looking, etc.. quiet means, to me, that wear&tear isn't happening as much, though I wonder-at the No-Seagate rule expressed earlier... is it that fluid-bearings fail soon? or that Seagate has worthless support from our perspective? )
3. SuSE or Gentoo are really your only choice, that I can see.
Why?.. 1. Redhat's trying to microsoft linux, by ignoring standards and making its way law, and Mandrake's.. a flaky ( though fast ) variant originally based on Redhat... I'm fed-up with both, but YKMV ( metric, here )..
2. SuSE includes damn-near every program-capability one could imagine, and has excellent hardware support ( beyond any others' )..
3. Gentoo's compiled specifically for the hardware you are running, and with --buildpkg you get to build on one, then copy all the tbz2's built, to all of the other ( identical ) machines, and just install 'em, and voilá: ultra-performance.
Misc Links:
Chassis, suitable for lots-of-drives NAS type thing.. or this one for well-cooled system ( thick aluminum's a good conductor of heat, and that makes for a longer-living, less-downtime machine )
I'd use Athlons, but that's just me ( Intel's murdered/crippled WAY too many CPUs, and chipsets, for me to be loyal to them ), and would use these HSFs with Verax.de ( or Panasonic Panaflo ) fans on 'em, just because the noise machines make increase sick-time and reduce health/sanity/productivity so damn much.
Consider using P/Ss like these, remembering that 1. they're REALLY quiet only when running at about 50% load, and 2. the UPS-VA-rating you need for each one is DOUBLE the delivered-watts rating of the P/S.
Also, you want LINE-INTERACTIVE UPSs on all machines. ( NO data-corruption due to brown-outs or other glitches ).
I'd consider dual-CPU machines standard for the desktop, simply because even if a CPU was saturated, on that machine, the machine'd still respond, and I'd stuff as much quick RAM into it as I possibly could ( 3GB/desktop, for engineers ), and I'd ALWAYS use ECC RAM.
Like the Marines: Capability-based, not capability-choked, right?
The best advice I've seen on this page is
1. get a GOOD admin ( character, more than anything, values, sanity, cultural-harmony-with-you: you CAN change someone's skillset, you CANNOT change their nature ), and
2. metrics, understanding precisely what 'success' means, what the context is, etc...
3. do it one unit at-a-time
Oh, yeah, here's an Opteron-board news link... ( I'm waiting for lots-of-SATAs-on-board )...
Finally, change the ferro-resonant ballasts in your flourescent lighting to RF ballasts, and switch to Phillips TL-930 4' fluorescent tubes ( Colour Rendition Index of 95, rather than the cheap-cool-white CRI 50!! ), and your health will improve, significantly ( you can then ask for a raise, for your increased effectiveness, see )... if you find the warm-white of the TL-930s ( 3000K ) not brilliant/awakening enough, then mix-in a couple of TL-950s ( 5000K, mid-day-sunshine/sky colour ), to punch-up your alertness.
Integrity is opposed both by cracker-blood and by beaurocracy-blood.
...
Open/Moving Effectiveness is possible, IF the process AND the someones-involved AND the means are coherently open/moving and effective...
...
many have commented, over the years, on how increasing a 'unit' from 130 to 140 people, whether Hutterite (sp?) community or military group ( or Goretex company's units ) doesn't break the unitary meaning of the unit, yet...
increasing it from 148-158 breaks it into 2 ( or more ) factions, simply because of our hardwired brain/mind capability.
NASA isn't within the ordered-unit capability of human-mind, and they apparently don't fractally divide theirself into complete/working units of the right size ( for human minds ).
...
It's also been known for ages that the realtime-process nature of communications defines whether a company/entity is functional, and whether it's getting functional or non-functional...
face-to-face works, phone works, IRC works, at the other extreme memos manufacture won't ( and won't-work ) into an entity's mode.
This is quite established, quite known, yet our unconscious ( or cultural ) addiction to.. The Authoritative Importance that our Glorious NonFuntion Derives for Us...
...
Also, the Single Leading Focus rule seems necessary ( also spoken as "Don't Confuse Management/Admin with Leading", and "Never Separate Responsibility from Authority or Diffuse Responsibility" )...
Skunkworks, Ferrari, that admiral guy ( US submarines ), Linux, BeOS, etc. show that Leading By Committee can't work as phenomenally
decisively as can the alternative...
Someone's got to lead, and they've got to do so openly enough to be able to be aware, and determinedly enough to disallow inertia to 'lead' for 'em.
...
Try living in the nation's capital, and telling me that beaurocracy really does work...
French civil law is based on the same assumption, I believe ( France and Quebec, both ).
Seems illogical to both: .. have authorities who have extra powers/rights-negations, AND
rig law to assume authority's-assertion is inherently valid...
"Checks", "Balances" and "Justice" and "Living Freedom" contradict that paradigm, directly, no?
Such paradigm assumes that no authority is able-to commit ( or be ) wrong ( else they'd not have power-to-assign-guilt and function-of-assigning-guilt on others... ).
Bo-Gus.
Note that your first statement suggests that the accused automatically is guilty, yet the second suggests that that is merely assumption ( yet the seizure happened, and instead of copying it & returning it, kept it until forced to comply with the law ).
THAT is the problem: the law-enforcement ( or authority, and parents/church do the same sorta thing... ) is rigged to damage, as much as possible, anyone enforcement chooses to 'hit'.
NOT that accusations are sometimes false and sometimes true, OR that investigation can sometimes take time, but that obliteration ( of worth, resources, autonomy, rights ), and enforcement are used in ways that damage significantly more than necessary...
... for sake of leveraging more authority... ( where's that crazy Jew, who laced-into hypocrites, and obstructed state-execution etc, when ya need 'im... )
( disclaimer: all body-entangled mind is/seems deranged, so expecting justice among physical world must, logically, itself be deranged, and therefore sanity cannot exist, right? )
In Magic Bullet performance, you do one thing, really really well, and ignore any potential problems ( single CPU motherboards are in this category ), but...
... in No Weak Points performance, you instead make sure that no matter what.. the system continues responding, functioning, reducing whatever obstacle/work/opposition it's there to deal-with.
Single Ultrafast CPU, is so very fast that rarely does some wonky process saturate the CPU,.. BUT.. if one does, you're experiencing a DoS from your-own system, because there isn't another CPU ( not saturated ) that is/would-be paying any attention to you...
The believing-mode ( think-of-the-money, or just-believe-in-this, or ignore-what-alternatives-may-be, or propaganda, etc. ) is a human rendition of Magic Bullet Mode...
Ah, but there is also No Weak Points mode, eh?
in No Weak Points mode, there are 2(+) CPUs, sharing the work, so that some process would have to saturate both of 'em ( drastically less likely ), simultaneously, to DoS the system.
In other words, it's much more likely to be responsive.. every second it's running, though it mayn't be as quick at finishing something as the single-CPU version would, when it wasn't experiencing saturation... ( partly due to slower chips, partly due to non-shareable tasks or non-threaded processes ).
The Japanese developments called 'Go' ( the game ), and 'Ninpo' ( formerly nin-jutsu ), and the ( unknown nationality ) programming environment/language Pliant all embody the No Weak Points mode of surviving ongoingly ( whereas, our planet's fossil-record is littered with the remnants of races who, magic-bullet-style, evolved-themselves 'off a cliff', as it were, due to specialization or dependency ).
Magic Bullet mode is good for when things are peachy, and the system ( one's-self, being a possible 'system' ) is 'in its element', but...
No Weak Points mode is better at ensuring enduring survival.
Continuity plans, that include having backups, and having alternate sites, and cross-training, and developing understanding of 'what's going on' ( outside one's specialty ) and not putting all one's family/execs in one plane, etc. are showing No Weak Points mode...
Consider the meaning-of ( and justification-for ) 'diversification', and see if it doesn't contrast directly with 'consolidation'...
( and remember! civilized minds cannot hold balance between two concepts, for even a second, so... where was I? )
As for nothing needing so strong a CPU, though,.. I gather all RSYNC servers need very strong CPU because the RSYNC system doesn't cache the individual-block checksums, so the machine has to calculate 'em all every time the given file is requested... ... and compression, movie-viewing, etc. are all requiring strong CPU, too
The config you were using may have been rigged to be as braindead as Vindoze[tm], but that doesn't mean you're stuck:
try http://www.knoppix.net/ for a bootable CD you can run on your own machine ( or on a friend's ), since it'll little-touch the machine's filesystem ( I think it now places a config-file on the first FAT16 / FAT32 filesystem it finds? ), and you can boot into either GNOME, KDE, or Xfce ( unless they've changed that...? it was an advanced-boot-option )
How odd.. my experience is precisely the opposite:
'authority', or 'self-attachment', or 'self-importance' is the root problem, and when held valid by others, then is 'established authority' ( contrast with self-command! - a means of destroying one's mind-'chains' ).
Eradicating one's unconscious assumption that authority exists is means-of removing "evil"'s power
( if one knows one is going to get obliterated, again and again, according to karma's law, then laughingly going on anyways, means one's lightness-of-meaning shortens the path, realizing livingness )...
"true duality of existence" I don't assume, either: .. in our condition.. duality exists, but...
when we're no-longer within duality-context, it.. doesn't apply!
Think of it this-way:
if I don't be subject-to obliteration, how'm I going to develop commitment-developing-realizing, let-alone commitment-to-realizing through all my own ignorance/ignosis? .. what is called 'evil', then, is simply a means of education, and is limited to within mara/maya ( Tibetan/Japanese buddhism, mine: power+clarity, and, for non-buddhists, mara is the word for dream / delusion / appearances / transience / phenomena / ignorance / obliteration-realities )
As for how this sort of understanding could possibly have anything to do with the nature of ( swarming, other... ) intelligence, ask oneself this:
is a swarm.. swarming to accomplish some higher goal? or...
is it swarming, unconscious, because that is what its doing is doing?
Evolution suggests the latter, yet we.. can choose the former, if we arrange/create such choosing...
Freedom is creating/making one's meaning-reality one's own way.
I do agree with you, though, that all interaction must be individual ( or, if-you-will, 'personal', though with inner infinity/detachment ), and The Excellent Jew seems to've both had, and insisted-on personal relationship between one's self, one's soul, and origin-of-souls ( buddhist term for 'soul' is 'very-subtle-mind' )
I've never heard of god/buddha assisting a beaurocracy into enlightenment/resurrection...
Perhaps, then, you'd care to read the ( well hidden ) slashdot posting of Section-by-Section Analysis of PATRIOT II, or, if you don't want to discuss the issue, then merely read the actual article, and then tell me the constitution is being permitted to interfere with such things as Assumption of Authority by ( state/private ) corporations, that we commit when we're assuming our corporate importance is real, and heart-worth isn't...
"... I get no spam on this address apart from the monthly MS offers"
Firstly, because they drop the spam sent to hotmail addresses, and Secondly...
They CAN sell all non-hotmail addresses in their database, you know... ...spam TO hotmail costs them, but selling all non-hotmail addresses they have, both
a) won't cost 'em anything ( in hotmail maintenance/anti-spamming ), and
b) gets 'em money, and
c) puts users in our proper place ( hey, religion is religion, eh? and I'm not saying only Microsoft would microsoft a category of someones, many would microsoft a category of someones for little reason: Intuit seems to delight in microsofting us )
Also, note that MS has informed us that they do share their dossiers on us with their 'partner' corporations...
Item 1: read a translation, rather than an interpretation, of the bible. ( the closest I've been able to discover is The Amplified Bible, and try reading it with several different perspectives -- short-view, millenia-view, gnostic view, etc. It seems that some routers are fscked, right now, but there's an online copy at http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible, so you don't need to buy or borrow anything to consider it )
Item 2: it'd be "Old Covenant" and "New Covenant", not "~ testament", since it's an active bargain, rather than a passive receiving ( and yes, this mis-translation has been known for years, same as some "translator" seemingly-deliberately mistranslated the hebrew term for 'witchcraft' as 'dreams'.. because he had issues with dreams, and wanted to make god's word obey his views... )
Item 3: don't confuse spiritual reality with 'established religious organization' or "an established religion's authority", as they isn't identical, in any way.
Item 4: Ahmed Ali's translation of the Koran ( Qu'ran? ) is amazing, I think it was on Princeton Press... ( didn't quite finish it, so the last surah's I didn't get, but the sense of it is fascinating ).
Item 5: don't believe for an instant that immersion in western culture gives you one iota of the actual text of any scripture ( any tradition, and I'm buddhist ).
e.g. The Excellent Jew gave healing to anyone whose HEART asked.
Remember that bit about being in a crowd, all pressing against him, and one woman crawled to touch his cloak, and he called her out and said to her "woman, your faith healed you"? Show me a single christian who deeply removes illness from themself by faith in some Jew's God... ( oh, but that'd mean accepting responsibility!! )
yeah, right.
Or how about the rock-certainty The Excellent Jew had in interrupting a state-execution ( of a hooker )?
I don't have guts to put me in the path of projectile-weapons as he did...
Or how his Jewish-style lacing-into Position-People is part of his religion, yet.. oh, Christians made Popes and things, to smother that bit, so god'd glorify 'em, wasn't that right?...
Or how-about the term 'day' being used in several different senses in the same bible? "The Day of Moses".. "The Day of Isaiah".. then you get christians 'INFORMING ONE' that.. GOD DON'T EVER MEAN THAT... because 'day' means human-scale-calendar-day, therefore the 7k years planet-age tripe... ( yeah, God isn't infinite enough to've created worldS? )
An excellent book is Donald Spoto's "The Hidden Jesus: A New Life", which is the first time I'd ever come-across living christianity/faith, rather than believing...
Yeah, I really mean that.
I don't think he goes far-enough, though ( The Excellent Jew was Jewish, right?.. and seemed rather gnostic, rather than authority/position-ic. )
Also, reading 'John', remember that his friend was quite Jewish, and at-least-once called Rabbi ( means he were married ), in the 'gospels', so he woulda been really Jewish,.. so how come John keeps using the term 'the Jews' in the accusative? Sarcasm! he was referring to Positional Jews, not to real ones...
Semitic Irony, I gather it's called : )
Anyways, don't get me started on the harmonics between the Tibetan Buddhists, the Toltecs, and Brane/Superstring theory...
( PS the same damn establishment-authority games that get played in 'christianity' happen in buddhist cultures, too: some buddhist practitioners have to live in hiding for fear of being murdered by enforcer-types who believe they're protecting their establishment or are protecting buddhism itself, or something, even though I don't recall murder having ever been taught by Buddha Shakyamuni hisself, but it seeeems the establishment's authority is threatened by independent realizations, and so... you get the picture.
Fuck 'em ( the establishments ). Realize your soul, and let 'em ( establishment-holders ) go-it-again, and again, and again, and again, reincarnating blindly, determined to make reality/Universe obey their assumption-rules. Why this strange attitude? -- ALL experience contributes to realizations, indirectly or directly, eventually or really-eventually, and there isn't any other way ( for one's soul ) out ( excepting realization ), so having as many 'days' as it takes to awaken one's soul is.. inevitable ( throws the concept 'eternal hell(s)' into a new light, when seen within Universe's recycling, or our-souls re-incarnating, don't it? ) : )
Slashdot Mirror
or...
if a fan / cooling-subsystem was -ahem- failing in the machine, for any reason, or .. power-'glitch' .. thereby increasing the erors in it, or
there was a
there was some kind of electromagnetic pulse that induced erors in the electronics in that place/area, or
if one stuck a bit of ionizing-material ( low-grade radioactive material ) somewhere among the machine where it'd create increase-of eror-probability
organized wrong would very likely use this sort of thing to grab/enforce leverage/authority...
Electronic error plus already-placed opportunistic code is now proven to break assumed-safety, and that is a story.
Actually, that blue-stone they used for that particular henge, came from the vein of blue-rock that ended-up...
half in the Bay of Fundy, and
half in west British Isles
( Inter-Continental Bureaucratic Migration, I think they call-it: like missiles, but takes millions of years to do it.. )
What's really weird, is, that particular blue-stone was supposed to be so indestructible/hard etc. that it made the perfect ( for the time/culture ) sharpening-stone, for whichever end of the Industrial Era it was, that used it for such...
They went 50 feet, IIRC, into the side of the cliff, ripping-out every last scrap of that stuff, from the Bay of Fundy...
grrr .. how come I can't find any of this on the 'net, hasn't anyone engaged in copyright infringement?!??
( disclaimer: that's a *joke*, for any authorities reading this )
It was in WoodCuts(r), IIRC that they mentioned the Canadian existence of that blue-stone...
TWiki has built-in version-control, so you can recover useful info after the site's been defaced ( if you choose wiki )
Questions, though...
Accessibility: how much?
web-forum is totally accessable, wiki less so.
Do you want whomever can contribute to do so?
I'd use a forum, then, but instead of expecting the forum to produce finished docs, I'd use a moderatable forum to produce raw info ( tips & tricks, experiences, point-up blindnesses in the program's --help listings, etc. ) that could be turned, easily, into user-friendly and complete docs.
Others would prefer a more exclusive wiki, to produce more self-consistent docs...
Do you want the docs to stand on their own?
TWiki's got a plugin that creates non-editable web-page versions of the wiki, so you could deploy it behind a .. password block, and give accounts only to whom-you-trust, and have it automatically create web-pages from the wiki your friends create...
Personally, I'd just go with a forum, and every 6 weeks create a new version of each doc ( and have the comments on that version help me create the next version ).
It'd be as inclusive as possible, it'd force me to perceive where I was creating problems for users' comprehension ( my work's assumptions ), I could put source-code up that way for the parts that were annoying me ( to get as many eyes on it as possible ), it'd be ( from the users perspective ) simpler.
I'd zope ( they're down, right now, some sort of proxy eror? ) it just because then their bookmarks would work...
Motor Assisted Bicycles are a Good Thing[tm] ...
( unless one's Gov't has decided to destroy one's possible choices, for the benefit of their authority, OR for the benefit of their preferred lobby-groups )
... compared with many alternatives...
BUT:
MX5 Super Bike Engine seems to be the one that works best ( though I gather it requires a bit of break-in/tuning ), and unfortunately, it's a 2-stroke, and
( halfway down the page ) Honda 4-stroke 31cc Bicycle Engine, while it is a 4-stroke, it boshes one's ability to stack stuff on the rear rack...
Also, I'm told that Small Engine Care & Repair is the best book to get with 'em.
/dev/motor-assisted-bicycle(random||forum) can be found here
Interesting this discussion of how engineering enforces, rather than embracing improvisation/creativity...
A Pattern Language sought to destroy that enforcement pattern/assumption, decades ago...
I'd find-interesting the CS/coder equivalent to it...
YES!!
What should manufacturers of ( networking etc. ) sw/tech do to help their customers' security, or security-efforts?
And Please differentiate between Pragmatic and Practical!
Yeah, secure defaults would be a start, but what sort of secure defaults'd be maximally effective + minimally totality-cost-ly?
Perhaps ought gov't/consortia ( instead of standard corporate welfare ) offer tax-breaks/awards to the corps that compromise world security the least?
( increasing competition in a directed way, and this is said realizing that gov't/mass-media manufactures conditions among given countries/nations by manufacturing policy/popular-will, and no that isn't my concept-of-heaven, but it is fact )?
More specific items? ( since I'm just /dev/random > thought-filter > /.-posting .. barnstorming is it called? )
Yes, it's always a race.
Interesting, that...
ALWAYS a race...
We Have To Develop BioWeapons Of Mass Inhumanity Or They Will First
( with the implicit "We Are Virtuous And Need To Use Them On Others,
They Are Evil And Need Such Used On Them" )
Fallacy/assumption.
If all smart ones stopped contributing to sentient entropy, it'd speed-along slower.
( and HOW to get ones to stop contributing to racial slaughter? by contributing to racial well-being, since it IS an alternative... )
Fallacies can phuck theirselfs.
As for the question of whether such .. competition .. improves the chances that we'll wipe our own race out quicker...
... and we maintain that we have no responsibility for the consequences of our actions...
Bah
Fucked-In-The-Head mistakes I make when annoyed/tired:
THIS is the board I was trying to recommend you try in your prototyper machine...
Why?
Athlon's floating-point-optimized CPUs are, I gather, drastically faster than Intel's streaming-multimedia optimized CPUs in most engineering stuff, and the DUAL CPU 'board will mean the machine still responds, even when one CPU's saturated.
Why'd I recommend 3GB? because you can't functionally get 4GB into 'em: the PCI devices eat about .5GB, so 3.5's as high as can sanely be got.
Sorry I can't provide the link to the quotes/benchmarks of that chip-designer guy who'd compared both Intel 'boards and AMD 'boards, but .. damn, it was significant difference, between 'em.
Also, I'm REALLY recommending/seconding that advice that you take it one unit at a time, but amplifying on it: build prototypes so you understand the 'gotchas' involved, and are able to get hard data on the different subsystems in your intended answer.
brane-theory's categorically wrong, then, since it insists that there are more spacial dimensions than the open 3 ( and, obviously, if things CAN exist without being particles in the open-3, then they have to exist somehow, and therefore Mind may exist... ).
Thank GOD/YOUR-NATIONALISM/RELIGION/CHURCH you have set me straight on that.
Yes, that Primary Law of Scientism: Scientism Knows that Knowing Cannot Exist ( hence the existence of "The Hard Problem" ).
Therefore Only Scientism's Knowing CAN Exist, and logically must be Ultimate Truth.
Convenient how "Dark Matter" is something that doesn't obey the reductionism's religious assumptions, twit, nor does "Dark Energy"...
I'm NOT claiming "Mind Is Inherently More Real Than Matter" ( as you so conveniently suggest with your Mind Over Matter deliberate misquote... ), I'm Suggesting that Mind Actually Exists, IN SPITE OF your existence.
IF something exists in 10-dimensional space, PLUS time, AND doesn't manifest as particle in the open3, THEN it is possible that it is existing in Time+Space+SomeThingElse that Manifests as NonLocalCoherence or Mind.
Oh, yes, I'd forgot that your Scientism banished depth from Universe, eh?
IF evidence of non-locality NEED be ignored by your religion, in order to make your precious assumptions perfect, then you don't have any place for Scientific Method, and that's fine: neither did the Church/Inquisition, or Nazism or any other form of rabies
I fail to see why it is assumed that only Time and Space count as dimensions: cannot Non-locality ( or unitary-ness/field-ness, as opposed to wave-ness or particle-ness ) or Mind count as one too?
Greenshift: when something is standing still at high relativistic velocity.
Damn, sorry I forgot:
IF you CAN find 'em, you can also use the Silicon Image SATA chip based motherboards/add-on-cards with linux ( the 2.6 kernel's going to be fully supporting 'em, though for the 2.4 kernel, 3Ware's your only open-source choice, it seems, UNLESS you can get drivers specifically for that SATA board from somewhere )
Reason for using SATA rather than normal/parallel ATA? Very Low CPU Usage, that's why..
1. don't buy an Itanic, if you're going with Opteron for its ultra-fast RAM ( compared with Itanic ) and drastic cost-effectiveness ( ditto ), an Itanic won't show you whether Opteron'd be a good match: the architectures are totally different.
2. RAID storage: don't buy Promise 'raid' cards ( and DON'T do 'raid' 0/1, do RAID-5 ).
Why? .. .. don't know about Highpoint or Adaptec ), and...
1. it ISN'T possible to use S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics in your drives with the Promise ones, at least ( you'll crash the PCI-bus, hanging, fatally, the machine, using Promise chips
2. they oppose Open Source drivers, and coders, for their own products.
Highpoint has only SuSE 7.3-8.0/Redhat-whatever ( IIRC ) drivers for their fast 1520 cards, but if you want compute performance, you want Gentoo... ( and SuSE's been at 8.1 for ages, now... )
Adaptec? I don't know if their cards have the same issues as the Promise/Highpoint, but their cards compete with Promise's, and so probably cut corners in similar ways ( I'd love to see hard data on that point, though )...
3ware are the only cheap ( compared with SCSI ) RAID controllers I know-of, that offer bootable, real, actual, S.M.A.R.T.able RAID on ATA drives.
( I'd stick scads of 120GB IBM 180GXPs on 'em, because they're cooler-running than the 180GB versions, and better than most other drives: fast, quiet, reliable-looking, etc .. quiet means, to me, that wear&tear isn't happening as much, though I wonder-at the No-Seagate rule expressed earlier... is it that fluid-bearings fail soon? or that Seagate has worthless support from our perspective? )
3. SuSE or Gentoo are really your only choice, that I can see.
Why? .. 1. Redhat's trying to microsoft linux, by ignoring standards and making its way law, and Mandrake's .. a flaky ( though fast ) variant originally based on Redhat... I'm fed-up with both, but YKMV ( metric, here )..
2. SuSE includes damn-near every program-capability one could imagine, and has excellent hardware support ( beyond any others' )..
3. Gentoo's compiled specifically for the hardware you are running, and with --buildpkg you get to build on one, then copy all the tbz2's built, to all of the other ( identical ) machines, and just install 'em, and voilá: ultra-performance.
Misc Links:
Chassis, suitable for lots-of-drives NAS type thing.. or this one for well-cooled system ( thick aluminum's a good conductor of heat, and that makes for a longer-living, less-downtime machine )
I'd use Athlons, but that's just me ( Intel's murdered/crippled WAY too many CPUs, and chipsets, for me to be loyal to them ), and would use these HSFs with Verax.de ( or Panasonic Panaflo ) fans on 'em, just because the noise machines make increase sick-time and reduce health/sanity/productivity so damn much.
Consider using P/Ss like these, remembering that 1. they're REALLY quiet only when running at about 50% load, and 2. the UPS-VA-rating you need for each one is DOUBLE the delivered-watts rating of the P/S.
Also, you want LINE-INTERACTIVE UPSs on all machines. ( NO data-corruption due to brown-outs or other glitches ).
I'd consider dual-CPU machines standard for the desktop, simply because even if a CPU was saturated, on that machine, the machine'd still respond, and I'd stuff as much quick RAM into it as I possibly could ( 3GB/desktop, for engineers ), and I'd ALWAYS use ECC RAM.
Consider this board as something to compare against, with Something Like This KVR266X72C25/1G or this times 3 of 'em, per motherboard.
Like the Marines: Capability-based, not capability-choked, right?
The best advice I've seen on this page is
1. get a GOOD admin ( character, more than anything, values, sanity, cultural-harmony-with-you: you CAN change someone's skillset, you CANNOT change their nature ), and
2. metrics, understanding precisely what 'success' means, what the context is, etc...
3. do it one unit at-a-time
Oh, yeah, here's an Opteron-board news link... ( I'm waiting for lots-of-SATAs-on-board )...
Finally, change the ferro-resonant ballasts in your flourescent lighting to RF ballasts, and switch to Phillips TL-930 4' fluorescent tubes ( Colour Rendition Index of 95, rather than the cheap-cool-white CRI 50!! ), and your health will improve, significantly ( you can then ask for a raise, for your increased effectiveness, see )... if you find the warm-white of the TL-930s ( 3000K ) not brilliant/awakening enough, then mix-in a couple of TL-950s ( 5000K, mid-day-sunshine/sky colour ), to punch-up your alertness.
More info here
Integrity is opposed both by cracker-blood and by beaurocracy-blood.
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Open/Moving Effectiveness is possible, IF the process AND the someones-involved AND the means are coherently open/moving and effective...
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many have commented, over the years, on how increasing a 'unit' from 130 to 140 people, whether Hutterite (sp?) community or military group ( or Goretex company's units ) doesn't break the unitary meaning of the unit, yet...
increasing it from 148-158 breaks it into 2 ( or more ) factions, simply because of our hardwired brain/mind capability.
NASA isn't within the ordered-unit capability of human-mind, and they apparently don't fractally divide theirself into complete/working units of the right size ( for human minds ).
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It's also been known for ages that the realtime-process nature of communications defines whether a company/entity is functional, and whether it's getting functional or non-functional...
face-to-face works, phone works, IRC works, at the other extreme memos manufacture won't ( and won't-work ) into an entity's mode.
This is quite established, quite known, yet our unconscious ( or cultural ) addiction to .. The Authoritative Importance that our Glorious NonFuntion Derives for Us...
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Also, the Single Leading Focus rule seems necessary ( also spoken as "Don't Confuse Management/Admin with Leading", and "Never Separate Responsibility from Authority or Diffuse Responsibility" )...
Skunkworks, Ferrari, that admiral guy ( US submarines ), Linux, BeOS, etc. show that Leading By Committee can't work as phenomenally decisively as can the alternative...
Someone's got to lead, and they've got to do so openly enough to be able to be aware, and determinedly enough to disallow inertia to 'lead' for 'em.
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Try living in the nation's capital, and telling me that beaurocracy really does work...
Energy is conserved. What do you think it would be converted to?
Ah, ... conservatism?
Ouch!
French civil law is based on the same assumption, I believe ( France and Quebec, both ).
Seems illogical to both:
.. have authorities who have extra powers/rights-negations, AND
rig law to assume authority's-assertion is inherently valid...
"Checks", "Balances" and "Justice" and "Living Freedom" contradict that paradigm, directly, no?
Such paradigm assumes that no authority is able-to commit ( or be ) wrong ( else they'd not have power-to-assign-guilt and function-of-assigning-guilt on others... ).
Bo-Gus.
The book recommended by AC is Unintended Consequences
Note that your first statement suggests that the accused automatically is guilty, yet the second suggests that that is merely assumption ( yet the seizure happened, and instead of copying it & returning it, kept it until forced to comply with the law ).
THAT is the problem: the law-enforcement ( or authority, and parents/church do the same sorta thing... ) is rigged to damage, as much as possible, anyone enforcement chooses to 'hit'.
NOT that accusations are sometimes false and sometimes true, OR that investigation can sometimes take time, but that obliteration ( of worth, resources, autonomy, rights ), and enforcement are used in ways that damage significantly more than necessary...
... for sake of leveraging more authority ... ( where's that crazy Jew, who laced-into hypocrites, and obstructed state-execution etc, when ya need 'im... )
( disclaimer: all body-entangled mind is/seems deranged, so expecting justice among physical world must, logically, itself be deranged, and therefore sanity cannot exist, right? )
Ah, but there are 2 kinds of performance, see:
Magic Bullet performance, and
No Weak Points performance.
In Magic Bullet performance, you do one thing, really really well, and ignore any potential problems ( single CPU motherboards are in this category ), but ...
... in No Weak Points performance, you instead make sure that no matter what .. the system continues responding, functioning, reducing whatever obstacle/work/opposition it's there to deal-with.
Single Ultrafast CPU, is so very fast that rarely does some wonky process saturate the CPU, .. BUT .. if one does, you're experiencing a DoS from your-own system, because there isn't another CPU ( not saturated ) that is/would-be paying any attention to you...
The believing-mode ( think-of-the-money, or just-believe-in-this, or ignore-what-alternatives-may-be, or propaganda, etc. ) is a human rendition of Magic Bullet Mode...
Ah, but there is also No Weak Points mode, eh?
in No Weak Points mode, there are 2(+) CPUs, sharing the work, so that some process would have to saturate both of 'em ( drastically less likely ), simultaneously, to DoS the system.
In other words, it's much more likely to be responsive .. every second it's running, though it mayn't be as quick at finishing something as the single-CPU version would, when it wasn't experiencing saturation... ( partly due to slower chips, partly due to non-shareable tasks or non-threaded processes ).
The Japanese developments called 'Go' ( the game ), and 'Ninpo' ( formerly nin-jutsu ), and the ( unknown nationality ) programming environment/language Pliant all embody the No Weak Points mode of surviving ongoingly ( whereas, our planet's fossil-record is littered with the remnants of races who, magic-bullet-style, evolved-themselves 'off a cliff', as it were, due to specialization or dependency ).
Magic Bullet mode is good for when things are peachy, and the system ( one's-self, being a possible 'system' ) is 'in its element', but...
No Weak Points mode is better at ensuring enduring survival.
Continuity plans, that include having backups, and having alternate sites, and cross-training, and developing understanding of 'what's going on' ( outside one's specialty ) and not putting all one's family/execs in one plane, etc. are showing No Weak Points mode...
Consider the meaning-of ( and justification-for ) 'diversification', and see if it doesn't contrast directly with 'consolidation'...
( and remember! civilized minds cannot hold balance between two concepts, for even a second, so ... where was I? )
As for nothing needing so strong a CPU, though, .. I gather all RSYNC servers need very strong CPU because the RSYNC system doesn't cache the individual-block checksums, so the machine has to calculate 'em all every time the given file is requested...
... and compression, movie-viewing, etc. are all requiring strong CPU, too
The config you were using may have been rigged to be as braindead as Vindoze[tm], but that doesn't mean you're stuck:
try http://www.knoppix.net/ for a bootable CD you can run on your own machine ( or on a friend's ), since it'll little-touch the machine's filesystem ( I think it now places a config-file on the first FAT16 / FAT32 filesystem it finds? ), and you can boot into either GNOME, KDE, or Xfce ( unless they've changed that...? it was an advanced-boot-option )
Try http://www.xfce.org/, then, oh vast and ominoidal dude...
How odd .. my experience is precisely the opposite:
'authority', or 'self-attachment', or 'self-importance' is the root problem, and when held valid by others, then is 'established authority' ( contrast with self-command! - a means of destroying one's mind-'chains' ).
Eradicating one's unconscious assumption that authority exists is means-of removing "evil"'s power
( if one knows one is going to get obliterated, again and again, according to karma's law, then laughingly going on anyways, means one's lightness-of-meaning shortens the path, realizing livingness )...
"true duality of existence" I don't assume, either:
.. in our condition .. duality exists, but... .. doesn't apply!
when we're no-longer within duality-context, it
Think of it this-way:
.. what is called 'evil', then, is simply a means of education, and is limited to within mara/maya ( Tibetan/Japanese buddhism, mine: power+clarity, and, for non-buddhists, mara is the word for dream / delusion / appearances / transience / phenomena / ignorance / obliteration-realities )
if I don't be subject-to obliteration, how'm I going to develop commitment-developing-realizing, let-alone commitment-to-realizing through all my own ignorance/ignosis?
As for how this sort of understanding could possibly have anything to do with the nature of ( swarming, other... ) intelligence, ask oneself this: .. swarming to accomplish some higher goal? or...
is a swarm
is it swarming, unconscious, because that is what its doing is doing?
Evolution suggests the latter, yet we .. can choose the former, if we arrange/create such choosing...
Freedom is creating/making one's meaning-reality one's own way.
I do agree with you, though, that all interaction must be individual ( or, if-you-will, 'personal', though with inner infinity/detachment ), and The Excellent Jew seems to've both had, and insisted-on personal relationship between one's self, one's soul, and origin-of-souls ( buddhist term for 'soul' is 'very-subtle-mind' )
I've never heard of god/buddha assisting a beaurocracy into enlightenment/resurrection...
Perhaps, then, you'd care to read the ( well hidden ) slashdot posting of Section-by-Section Analysis of PATRIOT II, or, if you don't want to discuss the issue, then merely read the actual article, and then tell me the constitution is being permitted to interfere with such things as Assumption of Authority by ( state/private ) corporations, that we commit when we're assuming our corporate importance is real, and heart-worth isn't...
"... I get no spam on this address apart from the monthly MS offers"
Firstly, because they drop the spam sent to hotmail addresses, and Secondly...
They CAN sell all non-hotmail addresses in their database, you know...
...spam TO hotmail costs them, but selling all non-hotmail addresses they have, both
a) won't cost 'em anything ( in hotmail maintenance/anti-spamming ), and
b) gets 'em money, and
c) puts users in our proper place ( hey, religion is religion, eh? and I'm not saying only Microsoft would microsoft a category of someones, many would microsoft a category of someones for little reason: Intuit seems to delight in microsofting us )
Also, note that MS has informed us that they do share their dossiers on us with their 'partner' corporations...
Item 1: read a translation, rather than an interpretation, of the bible. ( the closest I've been able to discover is The Amplified Bible, and try reading it with several different perspectives -- short-view, millenia-view, gnostic view, etc. It seems that some routers are fscked, right now, but there's an online copy at http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible, so you don't need to buy or borrow anything to consider it )
Item 2: it'd be "Old Covenant" and "New Covenant", not "~ testament", since it's an active bargain, rather than a passive receiving ( and yes, this mis-translation has been known for years, same as some "translator" seemingly-deliberately mistranslated the hebrew term for 'witchcraft' as 'dreams' .. because he had issues with dreams, and wanted to make god's word obey his views... )
Item 3: don't confuse spiritual reality with 'established religious organization' or "an established religion's authority", as they isn't identical, in any way.
Item 4: Ahmed Ali's translation of the Koran ( Qu'ran? ) is amazing, I think it was on Princeton Press... ( didn't quite finish it, so the last surah's I didn't get, but the sense of it is fascinating ).
Item 5: don't believe for an instant that immersion in western culture gives you one iota of the actual text of any scripture ( any tradition, and I'm buddhist ).
e.g. The Excellent Jew gave healing to anyone whose HEART asked.
Remember that bit about being in a crowd, all pressing against him, and one woman crawled to touch his cloak, and he called her out and said to her "woman, your faith healed you"? Show me a single christian who deeply removes illness from themself by faith in some Jew's God... ( oh, but that'd mean accepting responsibility!! )
yeah, right.
Or how about the rock-certainty The Excellent Jew had in interrupting a state-execution ( of a hooker )?
I don't have guts to put me in the path of projectile-weapons as he did...
Or how his Jewish-style lacing-into Position-People is part of his religion, yet .. oh, Christians made Popes and things, to smother that bit, so god'd glorify 'em, wasn't that right?...
Or how-about the term 'day' being used in several different senses in the same bible? "The Day of Moses" .. "The Day of Isaiah" .. then you get christians 'INFORMING ONE' that .. GOD DON'T EVER MEAN THAT... because 'day' means human-scale-calendar-day, therefore the 7k years planet-age tripe... ( yeah, God isn't infinite enough to've created worldS? )
An excellent book is Donald Spoto's "The Hidden Jesus: A New Life", which is the first time I'd ever come-across living christianity/faith, rather than believing...
Yeah, I really mean that.
I don't think he goes far-enough, though ( The Excellent Jew was Jewish, right? .. and seemed rather gnostic, rather than authority/position-ic. )
Also, reading 'John', remember that his friend was quite Jewish, and at-least-once called Rabbi ( means he were married ), in the 'gospels', so he woulda been really Jewish, .. so how come John keeps using the term 'the Jews' in the accusative? Sarcasm! he was referring to Positional Jews, not to real ones...
Semitic Irony, I gather it's called : )
Anyways, don't get me started on the harmonics between the Tibetan Buddhists, the Toltecs, and Brane/Superstring theory...
( PS the same damn establishment-authority games that get played in 'christianity' happen in buddhist cultures, too: some buddhist practitioners have to live in hiding for fear of being murdered by enforcer-types who believe they're protecting their establishment or are protecting buddhism itself, or something, even though I don't recall murder having ever been taught by Buddha Shakyamuni hisself, but it seeeems the establishment's authority is threatened by independent realizations, and so... you get the picture. .. inevitable ( throws the concept 'eternal hell(s)' into a new light, when seen within Universe's recycling, or our-souls re-incarnating, don't it? )
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Fuck 'em ( the establishments ). Realize your soul, and let 'em ( establishment-holders ) go-it-again, and again, and again, and again, reincarnating blindly, determined to make reality/Universe obey their assumption-rules. Why this strange attitude? -- ALL experience contributes to realizations, indirectly or directly, eventually or really-eventually, and there isn't any other way ( for one's soul ) out ( excepting realization ), so having as many 'days' as it takes to awaken one's soul is