I've always considered Fedora as an "pathfinder" distribution that *will* be initially broken after new release, and I think it really is the nature of Fedora as an distribution. Give it a few months and worst problems should be gone. Early adopters could naturally speed up the process by proper bug/problem reporting via channels that developers actually do read.
Don't panic. You are working to keep that environment up and running. If disaster strikes, you are working to get it back up. It is just another side of your work; you work to avoid disasters, but you don't worry about them, you prepare and deal with them.
It is a job, not your life. If you forget that, you will end up burning yourself out. Take a good look at your work agreement - it will tell what you are expected to do and for how many hours in a week, and how much money and benefits you are getting in exchange.
Actully Tampere is still rather strong left wing area, and part of the story lies in the words "opium for the masses". However, the reason to resign for many is that they aren't really believers - they just happen to be members of the church and they haven't ever really thought about this. What comes to that church at Tampere - there are many things that are more oppressive than old art; imagine working and living with people who are dogmatic in their religion and think that all of those who don't believe like they do, are going to hell and can be fucked with as ever they please.
Hopefully they will put some effort on this one, give it some character and not kill it prematurely (like the original was). Or kiss up viewers with end season cliffhangers.
Russian shuttle program, even if it crashed with USSR, was promising. They didn't waste shuttle weight on placing any (main) engines on the shuttle itself, as it actually doesn't need any. They could have used higher payloads and still glide back home like current shuttle design does.
Producing a warm, wet, and, I guess, more importantly, orificed interactive version seems somewhat more complex and definitely beyond the realms of this lifetime....
Even if woman was implemented a long time ago (some legends mention a liberal usage of spare parts from a standard nerd), the price hasn't gone down, and this product is still very rare among nerd community.
When you ask from a company about what systems they are using, they will give (if they will give such information) out an number which consists of systems are actively maintained server or desktop systems or other systems which cause expenses.
If the system doesn't cost anything extra, it doesn't exist in those numbers. Hence, all test and development environments don't show up in these numbers. In many cases the company doesn't even want to give out any information on what platform they are developing their products on - or then the people in the management see them only as "pc" expenses, and draw an conclusion that it must be also an windows box.
What should I say? Maybe I should tell how I feel for those who are suffering right now? Well. I am worried - diseases will attack the people as infrastructure has suffered major damage and there are alot of dead and injured people, but why should I tell that in slashdot? It doesn't help them in any way, and at the moment, I actually don't have any means of giving those people a hand. They most likely can't read slashdot at the moment so they could see how someone "feels for them" - or they might have some better things to do right now.
Instead, I am trying to get information that interests me, as I haven't managed to notice anything about this in news.
I remember when CD was a new, still rather marginal thing in the shadow of the vinyl disc. Because of lower manufacturing costs of the CD, lower prices were promised, as soon as CD market starts up.
Price of LP was around 10EUR around then, and CDs cost 16-18EUR. (Prices weren't exactly like that, as the value of the currency changed after that quite many times, but you'll get figure.) Nowdays CDs cost around 20-25EUR, and one doesn't even get the fancy covers the vinyls had. Where are the promises of the affordable price? Why the music industry doesn't even try to aim for affordable consumer price, and settles to spend into expensive technology to "stop" piracy instead of selling the music at the price where people wouldn't bother pirating?
What comes to music overall - radio stations play the hit songs over and over again. After two weeks of constant playing, I've already gotten fed up with these hit songs, and I definately will not buy the record anymore. Combined, the high price of music and constant radio coverage on new albums, has driven me to avoid music. I rather listen to human voice, talking.
They also have a model country - of how not to do things. Unfortunately, that is country I live in. (Finland)
For some reason, we've had bunch of politicians ruling us who a) fight political fights with each others and seem to value this more than making wise decisions for the people, b) are afraid of making other kind of decisions than restricting and limiting ones.
I somehow understand the b-part, as consequences of permitting something are much more difficult to snap back at the maker of the ruling than the permitting ones.
In Finland, we are taxed up to the point where most of the money traffic goes to the state through different kinds of taxes and state gives the living to the majority of the people. (Unemployed and otherwise unfit to work, at the moment, but there have been talks about citizenship salary..) Terribly close to socialistic system, even on mental state, as people are already expecting for state to give them things they should have to be able to fund by themselves.
Most likely, Estonia will be rocketing past us in coming years in what comes to economy and living conditions. It is a good thing that at least someone can benefit from our stupid politicians - it is unfortunate that democracy is dictatorship of the gullible and average people, who can be pulled around like sheep on leash.
OTOH - you can't pick the country you happen to born in, and for some reason, I see alot of good things in this country. Slow slide towards socialistic system isn't one of those. Hopefully they wake up in time.
In a bioreactor, the amount of waste doesn't reduce too much. Bacteria process the organic material in waste and produces gas, which can be used in heating or engines (even in cars - at least Volvo has a car suitable for this purpose).
Rest of the (liquid) waste has to be dealt with still. I've heard that in Denmark, they separate the water from solid matter and use the product as fertilizer. Dealing with the waste is much easier process in this state anyway, as it doesn't stink anymore.
Currently, there are alot of unused energy resources out there. Burning those gases has a bonus side other than cheap energy: they are harmful for ozone layer if they are not burnt.
Deffinately do not put diesel in your plane, unless you happen to be flying a WWII era Mescerschmitt (designed to run on deisel because more refined fuels were scarce).
Lack of fuel is a fact, but none of the Messerschmitts were equiped with diesel engines. They all had engines running on low octane gasoline - only Junkers Ju86 bomber had variations with diesel engines.
All of the Messerschmitt fighters were equipped with fuel injection, which might lure to think they were diesel also. (Due to the fuel injection, german planes had an advantage over early model RAF equipment - their engine gave full power in negative g situations, as RAF engines had problems with their carburators. This was later fixed, by some clever mechanic woman, IIRC.)
Germany produced synthetic gasoline from the coal, which they had plenty available - hydrogenated oil products didn't solve their lack of oil products though. Used lubrication oil was regenerated, which helped to manage the situation.
House cabling would still pose as a problem. The idea of the PLC is tempting to power companies, as they could utilize their existing powergrid and get an share of the consumer market of the internet connections. (Personally, I think that they should stick to their core competence areas.)
If the power company would go for upgrading the cabling, it wouldn't be a significant cost to lay an fiber or copper data cabling next to the power cables - this would be the right way to go, altough the phone company usually has an existing and more suitable cabling installed.
This issue has been already discussed under topic "Ethernet Via Electric Conduits".
But let's not get too much into that: Powerlines are designed to be transport lines for 50-60Hz AC voltage, and these PLC solutions utilize the bandwidth under 30MHz.
Because the transport line isn't suitable for as high frequencies PLC solutions are using, losses for the transmitted signal are incredibly high. All this "lost" power that wasn't transmitted to the receiver, has been radiated into environment.
Thus, power lines act as a huge antenna, which leads into few things:
your data is not safe, eavesdropping is easy
HF radio bands get polluted, which not only annoys the radio amateurs, but also the army, ship traffic..
In Japan, power line communications were rejected, mostly because of the huge amount of interference. Companies manufacturing the PLC equipment have tried to push down the amount of interference using spread spectrum techniques, which indeed drops the amount of interference in one spot frequency - but total amount of interference doesn't drop. And as you have huge number of PLC hubs in one area, interference sums up into high static noise level.
And what really sucks is, that basically PLC is a cable modem solution - user shares his bandwidth with the other users in area.
This PLC is simply put "a bad idea". Nice goal, but there are also sane ways in achieving it - like different DSL-technologies (or LRE) we already have available.
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Actually, swedes don't know much about Sauna. I've seen horrible examples of this when visiting sweden. Some "saunas" in there are only mildly warm, like +40C only - and people just sit there and read newspapers. Some swe-saunas have air exchange ventilation into room next door, which whill definately cause problems with moisture if the sauna is used properly. Generally it seems, that in those houses that have sauna in sweden, they use it for drying clothes. Drainage has seldom taken care of.
In Finland, we have long traditions of using sauna as a place to sweat the dirt and stress out and wash up. The idea is not to punish and abuse ones body, just to sweat, relax and get clean.
THE SAUNA-HOWTO:
1. Heat up the sauna up to +70C..+100C (up to you) 2. Undress, wash up 3. Climb up to the seats on the sauna (feet above the level of stones in stove) 4. Toss some clean, warm water onto stones. Control the amount of steam up to your liking by tossing more or less water into stove. Keep the moisture up! 5. Sweat for a while, if you feel too hot, step down from the seats and wash the sweat off. Chill down for a while. (Don't go into cold water or snow straight away. Might be bad if you have a heart condition hiding.) 6. When you feel like it, repeat steps 3-5. 7. When you feel that you are ready, wash up well. 8. Dry yourself, take some time relaxing and cooling down before dressing up.
Remember to drink alot of water to replace the water you lost by sweating!
And for you who live in hot climate: after sauna, that heat outside doesn't feel that hot anymore.
Finding unbiased information is just as difficult as drawing unbiased conclusions from it. You might find some data about this issue, but to understand it, you have to understand how the nation being subject works. That is why adopting practices blindly from other countries often fails.
There is nothing wrong in owning a gun or even to like guns. Something is wrong in a bad way, if people feel that they have to carry guns for safety. Situation is really scary if their fears for their safety are real.
Amnesty's modus operandi is basically to ask governments and corporations to consider the morality of what they do.
And in some cases, Amnesty really should ask itself if it is really asking the right question. It is so easy to attack details, when the big picture is either not seen or seen through trippy hippy pink glasses. Not that Amnesty wouldn't be doing the right thing defending those who really suffer, but when they began to cradle lifestyle anarchists[1], they lost their credibility in my eyes.
[1] It is normal to rebel against authority - it is usually called puberty. Some people just can't get past that. Usually these people demand takedown of institutes like police, while they desperately need the protection of the police so that they wouldn't get beaten beyond recognition.
I hope they get their anarchy some day. I call that day "kill a hippie and don't go into jail"-day.;-)
Well - I'm not saying that it is wrong to provide anonymous access point, but that brings up problems like this. My post was written with more "static" ISP's in mind.
Blocking port 25 most likely wouldn't harm your business, if you would provide a mail server users can use freely, just forward all connections into port 25 into your server instead of any other. Limit the amount of emails user can send at a time and you have a quite good damage prevention system set up.
If I would visit your cybercafe, I would accept the monitoring (logging) with no problems - for the same reason I accept safety cameras and code of behaviour in pub I happen to drop by.
If one customer using my laptop gateway sends a spam from my IP address, is that the end of my cybercafe?
There is an easy way to prevent users from spamming, and I can't see any good reasons why not to take it: - Prevent outgoing connections into port 25 from other computers than mail server - Block connections into port 25 from all dialups - Log user activities, it is nice to have evidence when going to court
ISP users can still read their email and send email through service providers systems, and then it is rather trivial to make checks that sender address is valid address in the system (or real address with simple obfuscation). ISP's should also log the usage of their dynamic IP ranges - I've seen cases where there is no way to determine which user had which dynamic IP three days ago.
A user also has to settle into terms that ISP has set on the service - ISP's do have the power to say "No mass emailings from our systems".
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Flammability isn't the only issue with methanol, what comes to airplanes. Methanol also corrodes aluminium, which of airplanes are mostly made of.
The story mentioned, that type of radiation is beta radiation. I remember from school from physics class when we got an introduction into radiation types - a piece of paper was thick enough to stop beta particles. They can't penetrate the skin either. The dangerous part with beta radiating matter is if the radiating mass gets pulverized and inhaled after that. In direct contact with lungs it might cause an cancer some day. (Do you smoke? Don't worry about radiation causing cancer..;-))
Afterall, inhaling or consuming any kind of power cell contents are quite likely to get you into bad condition, acids, alkalines, heavy metals..
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Should this type of component be known as an "valvistor"?
I've always considered Fedora as an "pathfinder" distribution that *will* be initially broken after new release, and I think it really is the nature of Fedora as an distribution. Give it a few months and worst problems should be gone. Early adopters could naturally speed up the process by proper bug/problem reporting via channels that developers actually do read.
Don't panic. You are working to keep that environment up and running. If disaster strikes, you are working to get it back up. It is just another side of your work; you work to avoid disasters, but you don't worry about them, you prepare and deal with them.
It is a job, not your life. If you forget that, you will end up burning yourself out. Take a good look at your work agreement - it will tell what you are expected to do and for how many hours in a week, and how much money and benefits you are getting in exchange.
Actully Tampere is still rather strong left wing area, and part of the story lies in the words "opium for the masses". However, the reason to resign for many is that they aren't really believers - they just happen to be members of the church and they haven't ever really thought about this.
What comes to that church at Tampere - there are many things that are more oppressive than old art; imagine working and living with people who are dogmatic in their religion and think that all of those who don't believe like they do, are going to hell and can be fucked with as ever they please.
Hopefully they will put some effort on this one, give it some character and not kill it prematurely (like the original was). Or kiss up viewers with end season cliffhangers.
I ordered mine. These guys have done huge amount of work on this, and I hope them all the best.
Russian shuttle program, even if it crashed with USSR, was promising. They didn't waste shuttle weight on placing any (main) engines on the shuttle itself, as it actually doesn't need any. They could have used higher payloads and still glide back home like current shuttle design does.
Producing a warm, wet, and, I guess, more importantly, orificed interactive version seems somewhat more complex and definitely beyond the realms of this lifetime....
Actually, that's already reality. This implementation is called "woman". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman for more information.
Even if woman was implemented a long time ago (some legends mention a liberal usage of spare parts from a standard nerd), the price hasn't gone down, and this product is still very rare among nerd community.
When you ask from a company about what systems they are using, they will give (if they will give such information) out an number which consists of systems are actively maintained server or desktop systems or other systems which cause expenses.
If the system doesn't cost anything extra, it doesn't exist in those numbers. Hence, all test and development environments don't show up in these numbers. In many cases the company doesn't even want to give out any information on what platform they are developing their products on - or then the people in the management see them only as "pc" expenses, and draw an conclusion that it must be also an windows box.
What should I say? Maybe I should tell how I feel for those who are suffering right now? Well. I am worried - diseases will attack the people as infrastructure has suffered major damage and there are alot of dead and injured people, but why should I tell that in slashdot? It doesn't help them in any way, and at the moment, I actually don't have any means of giving those people a hand. They most likely can't read slashdot at the moment so they could see how someone "feels for them" - or they might have some better things to do right now.
Instead, I am trying to get information that interests me, as I haven't managed to notice anything about this in news.
I don't remember exactly where A.C. Clarke is living, but it was at Sri Lanka - and in those videos I've seen, he's always walking on the beach.
Makes me wonder if the old guy is still around.
I remember when CD was a new, still rather marginal thing in the shadow of the vinyl disc. Because of lower manufacturing costs of the CD, lower prices were promised, as soon as CD market starts up.
Price of LP was around 10EUR around then, and CDs cost 16-18EUR. (Prices weren't exactly like that, as the value of the currency changed after that quite many times, but you'll get figure.)
Nowdays CDs cost around 20-25EUR, and one doesn't even get the fancy covers the vinyls had. Where are the promises of the affordable price? Why the music industry doesn't even try to aim for affordable consumer price, and settles to spend into expensive technology to "stop" piracy instead of selling the music at the price where people wouldn't bother pirating?
What comes to music overall - radio stations play the hit songs over and over again. After two weeks of constant playing, I've already gotten fed up with these hit songs, and I definately will not buy the record anymore. Combined, the high price of music and constant radio coverage on new albums, has driven me to avoid music. I rather listen to human voice, talking.
They also have a model country - of how not to do things. Unfortunately, that is country I live in. (Finland)
For some reason, we've had bunch of politicians ruling us who a) fight political fights with each others and seem to value this more than making wise decisions for the people, b) are afraid of making other kind of decisions than restricting and limiting ones.
I somehow understand the b-part, as consequences of permitting something are much more difficult to snap back at the maker of the ruling than the permitting ones.
In Finland, we are taxed up to the point where most of the money traffic goes to the state through different kinds of taxes and state gives the living to the majority of the people. (Unemployed and otherwise unfit to work, at the moment, but there have been talks about citizenship salary..)
Terribly close to socialistic system, even on mental state, as people are already expecting for state to give them things they should have to be able to fund by themselves.
Most likely, Estonia will be rocketing past us in coming years in what comes to economy and living conditions. It is a good thing that at least someone can benefit from our stupid politicians - it is unfortunate that democracy is dictatorship of the gullible and average people, who can be pulled around like sheep on leash.
OTOH - you can't pick the country you happen to born in, and for some reason, I see alot of good things in this country. Slow slide towards socialistic system isn't one of those. Hopefully they wake up in time.
High-visibility? MSN? Hotmail? I haven't *ever* seen either of those, and I probably won't either.
Only thing that Microsoft has ever sought for, is how to abuse users (everyones, nowdays) wallet and get rich doing that.
In a bioreactor, the amount of waste doesn't reduce too much. Bacteria process the organic material in waste and produces gas, which can be used in heating or engines (even in cars - at least Volvo has a car suitable for this purpose).
Rest of the (liquid) waste has to be dealt with still. I've heard that in Denmark, they separate the water from solid matter and use the product as fertilizer. Dealing with the waste is much easier process in this state anyway, as it doesn't stink anymore.
Currently, there are alot of unused energy resources out there. Burning those gases has a bonus side other than cheap energy: they are harmful for ozone layer if they are not burnt.
Deffinately do not put diesel in your plane, unless you happen to be flying a WWII era Mescerschmitt (designed to run on deisel because more refined fuels were scarce).
Lack of fuel is a fact, but none of the Messerschmitts were equiped with diesel engines. They all had engines running on low octane gasoline - only Junkers Ju86 bomber had variations with diesel engines.
All of the Messerschmitt fighters were equipped with fuel injection, which might lure to think they were diesel also. (Due to the fuel injection, german planes had an advantage over early model RAF equipment - their engine gave full power in negative g situations, as RAF engines had problems with their carburators. This was later fixed, by some clever mechanic woman, IIRC.)
Germany produced synthetic gasoline from the coal, which they had plenty available - hydrogenated oil products didn't solve their lack of oil products though. Used lubrication oil was regenerated, which helped to manage the situation.
House cabling would still pose as a problem. The idea of the PLC is tempting to power companies, as they could utilize their existing powergrid and get an share of the consumer market of the internet connections. (Personally, I think that they should stick to their core competence areas.)
If the power company would go for upgrading the cabling, it wouldn't be a significant cost to lay an fiber or copper data cabling next to the power cables - this would be the right way to go, altough the phone company usually has an existing and more suitable cabling installed.
But let's not get too much into that: Powerlines are designed to be transport lines for 50-60Hz AC voltage, and these PLC solutions utilize the bandwidth under 30MHz.
Because the transport line isn't suitable for as high frequencies PLC solutions are using, losses for the transmitted signal are incredibly high. All this "lost" power that wasn't transmitted to the receiver, has been radiated into environment.
Thus, power lines act as a huge antenna, which leads into few things:
your data is not safe, eavesdropping is easy
HF radio bands get polluted, which not only annoys the radio amateurs, but also the army, ship traffic..
In Japan, power line communications were rejected, mostly because of the huge amount of interference.
Companies manufacturing the PLC equipment have tried to push down the amount of interference using spread spectrum techniques, which indeed drops the amount of interference in one spot frequency - but total amount of interference doesn't drop. And as you have huge number of PLC hubs in one area, interference sums up into high static noise level.
And what really sucks is, that basically PLC is a cable modem solution - user shares his bandwidth with the other users in area.
This PLC is simply put "a bad idea". Nice goal, but there are also sane ways in achieving it - like different DSL-technologies (or LRE) we already have available.
Actually, swedes don't know much about Sauna. I've seen horrible examples of this when visiting sweden. Some "saunas" in there are only mildly warm, like +40C only - and people just sit there and read newspapers.
Some swe-saunas have air exchange ventilation into room next door, which whill definately cause problems with moisture if the sauna is used properly.
Generally it seems, that in those houses that have sauna in sweden, they use it for drying clothes. Drainage has seldom taken care of.
In Finland, we have long traditions of using sauna as a place to sweat the dirt and stress out and wash up.
The idea is not to punish and abuse ones body, just to sweat, relax and get clean.
THE SAUNA-HOWTO:
1. Heat up the sauna up to +70C..+100C (up to you)
2. Undress, wash up
3. Climb up to the seats on the sauna (feet above the level of stones in stove)
4. Toss some clean, warm water onto stones. Control the amount of steam up to your liking by tossing more or less water into stove. Keep the moisture up!
5. Sweat for a while, if you feel too hot, step down from the seats and wash the sweat off. Chill down for a while. (Don't go into cold water or snow straight away. Might be bad if you have a heart condition hiding.)
6. When you feel like it, repeat steps 3-5.
7. When you feel that you are ready, wash up well.
8. Dry yourself, take some time relaxing and cooling down before dressing up.
Remember to drink alot of water to replace the water you lost by sweating!
And for you who live in hot climate: after sauna, that heat outside doesn't feel that hot anymore.
Finding unbiased information is just as difficult as drawing unbiased conclusions from it.
You might find some data about this issue, but to understand it, you have to understand how the nation being subject works. That is why adopting practices blindly from other countries often fails.
There is nothing wrong in owning a gun or even to like guns. Something is wrong in a bad way, if people feel that they have to carry guns for safety. Situation is really scary if their fears for their safety are real.
Amnesty's modus operandi is basically to ask governments and corporations to consider the morality of what they do.
;-)
And in some cases, Amnesty really should ask itself if it is really asking the right question. It is so easy to attack details, when the big picture is either not seen or seen through trippy hippy pink glasses. Not that Amnesty wouldn't be doing the right thing defending those who really suffer, but when they began to cradle lifestyle anarchists[1], they lost their credibility in my eyes.
[1] It is normal to rebel against authority - it is usually called puberty. Some people just can't get past that. Usually these people demand takedown of institutes like police, while they desperately need the protection of the police so that they wouldn't get beaten beyond recognition.
I hope they get their anarchy some day. I call that day "kill a hippie and don't go into jail"-day.
Well - I'm not saying that it is wrong to provide anonymous access point, but that brings up problems like this. My post was written with more "static" ISP's in mind.
Blocking port 25 most likely wouldn't harm your business, if you would provide a mail server users can use freely, just forward all connections into port 25 into your server instead of any other. Limit the amount of emails user can send at a time and you have a quite good damage prevention system set up.
If I would visit your cybercafe, I would accept the monitoring (logging) with no problems - for the same reason I accept safety cameras and code of behaviour in pub I happen to drop by.
If one customer using my laptop gateway sends a spam from my IP address, is that the end of my cybercafe?
There is an easy way to prevent users from spamming, and I can't see any good reasons why not to take it:
- Prevent outgoing connections into port 25 from other computers than mail server
- Block connections into port 25 from all dialups
- Log user activities, it is nice to have evidence when going to court
ISP users can still read their email and send email through service providers systems, and then it is rather trivial
to make checks that sender address is valid address in the system (or real address with simple obfuscation).
ISP's should also log the usage of their dynamic IP ranges - I've seen cases where there is no way to determine
which user had which dynamic IP three days ago.
A user also has to settle into terms that ISP has set on the service - ISP's do have the power to say "No mass
emailings from our systems".
Basic case handling fee: $500,00
Case study: $280
Rapid deployment fee: $843,00
8 workhours: 8 * $184,00 = $1472
Non-office hours: 4 * $380,00 = $1520
Travel expenses: 43 miles * $2/mile = $86,00
TOTAL: $4701
TO BE PAID: $4701 + taxes
DUE: TODAY
Your previous boss didn't ask for price. That means, he is prepared to pay anything.
Flammability isn't the only issue with methanol, what comes to airplanes. Methanol also corrodes aluminium, which of airplanes are mostly made of.
;-))
The story mentioned, that type of radiation is beta radiation. I remember from school from physics class when we got an introduction into radiation types - a piece of paper was thick enough to stop beta particles. They can't penetrate the skin either. The dangerous part with beta radiating matter is if the radiating mass gets pulverized and inhaled after that. In direct contact with lungs it might cause an cancer some day. (Do you smoke? Don't worry about radiation causing cancer..
Afterall, inhaling or consuming any kind of power cell contents are quite likely to get you into bad condition, acids, alkalines, heavy metals..