Or this one:
Wrightspeed X1
The LiX is interesting.. putting solar panels on it is just for show.. you might get enough power from those panels to run the turn signal.
The wierd thing about the LiX is.. there are a lot of news articles about it.. but no one seems to have any real info beond some fluf specs..
I've seen the X1 in person, it FLIES.
the only problem with optical connections.. the bandwidth required for 1600x1200@60Hz, and 32bit color raw data is 3.5Gbps.. A basic Gbic is $75, if you could 4 of those to make a one-way display connection, it'd add $300 to the connection.. copper is used because high bandwidth for short distances is cheap.
I don't know if this is typical or not.. but I worked for Target Corp, they shutdown all IT changes for the holiday season to minimize impact on the workforce.
It's only half Ubuntu's fault.. most of the problems are with the ipw2200 driver. I've spent many hours fighting to get WPA working. The ipw2200 driver guys are great, but they release code quiet often, and Ubuntu can only do so much testing of single drivers. Every Ubuntu release so far I've had to keep a custom-built ipw2200 driver around.
As for udev/hotplug.. those have been in ubuntu since the beginning.. I don't know what specifics they changed with 5.10, because I havn't had the time to upgrade most of my machines from 5.04.
I hope things have settled down in ipw-land enough that Ubuntu can release a reasonable driver. I'm not worried about it right now, but I am worried that 6.06 will lack good support for the new pci express variant that the Core Duo laptops will have. (the driver is still being written)
So it's dumb to provide the ability to remotely access the exact same enviornment that the students use in the lab?
Don't have a copy of matlab on your windows PC at home? Well, just pick a color, and ssh to color.labs.cs.foo.edu. Then you can do your work.
This isn't dumb, or an oversight.. It is intentional.
Note: I used to sysadmin for a university, and we did this for exactly this reason. Having publicly accessable machines was policy, as sometimes students were coming from off campus, or were faculty from other institutions. Some departments (smaller, less users) have setup bastien hosts, but most still allow direct access. Some faculty like to be able to connect directly to their systems, and in the university world, they win every time.
Antennas only affect the shape of the RF output, and the frequency range at which you can efficiently radiate.
Take some examples: Omni-directional wifi antennas on most APs: a single stick with a fraction of the wavelength of 2.4ghz. Very simple, can do anything from SSB, AM, FM, or OFDM modulation.
Most of what software defined radios is talking about modulation changes, not frequncy changes.
The only difference between 802.11b and 802.11g is the modulation (CCK vs OFDM)
The big thing missing is ram.. the slimserver needs lots of ram.. I setup my parrents slimserver on basicaly the same kind of box as that, but I installed it with a striped down debian install that does nothing but run slimserver. The running slimserver needs ~60MB of ram on its own.
Yep, I hate that type too. Fanboys of all types are anoying. I totally agree, fuck that.. I'm here at Google because it's interesting work, and I get paid for it. When the work day is done, I go home and do other things that are totaly un-related. Like right now, time to go home.
The issue of how many hours you work is up to the person working. I think the point people miss is that places like Google attract work-a-holics. The whole of the Bay Area is like that. Personaly, I'm not that type. I go home at a reasonable hour and don't normaly check my work mail off-hours. Some days are exceptions, but that's normal for what I do at any work place. I don't think providing an atmosphere for work-a-holics to be happy is evil. Google is a good place to work, even if you're not a stary-eyed fan of the company.
#1: tcp window sizes are neat. By changing a couple proc variables, I can push 350mbps with a single tcp flow over a busy I2 link with a single stock fedora core 3 kernel, on a 1ghz P3.
#2: -10 points for using "synergy" in technical info (linked ms.com article)
But the parrents were not talking about Opteron, they were talking about Athlon X2, which does not have multiple memory controlers, it simply has a crossbar switch between the cores, and a single memory controler.
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Or this one: Wrightspeed X1 The LiX is interesting.. putting solar panels on it is just for show.. you might get enough power from those panels to run the turn signal. The wierd thing about the LiX is.. there are a lot of news articles about it.. but no one seems to have any real info beond some fluf specs.. I've seen the X1 in person, it FLIES.
He's very un-lucky, cause his name is Scott Dier. Hah!
the only problem with optical connections.. the bandwidth required for 1600x1200@60Hz, and 32bit color raw data is 3.5Gbps.. A basic Gbic is $75, if you could 4 of those to make a one-way display connection, it'd add $300 to the connection.. copper is used because high bandwidth for short distances is cheap.
I don't know if this is typical or not.. but I worked for Target Corp, they shutdown all IT changes for the holiday season to minimize impact on the workforce.
It's only half Ubuntu's fault.. most of the problems are with the ipw2200 driver. I've spent many hours fighting to get WPA working. The ipw2200 driver guys are great, but they release code quiet often, and Ubuntu can only do so much testing of single drivers. Every Ubuntu release so far I've had to keep a custom-built ipw2200 driver around.
As for udev/hotplug.. those have been in ubuntu since the beginning.. I don't know what specifics they changed with 5.10, because I havn't had the time to upgrade most of my machines from 5.04.
I hope things have settled down in ipw-land enough that Ubuntu can release a reasonable driver. I'm not worried about it right now, but I am worried that 6.06 will lack good support for the new pci express variant that the Core Duo laptops will have. (the driver is still being written)
So it's dumb to provide the ability to remotely access the exact same enviornment that the students use in the lab?
Don't have a copy of matlab on your windows PC at home? Well, just pick a color, and ssh to color.labs.cs.foo.edu. Then you can do your work.
This isn't dumb, or an oversight.. It is intentional.
Note: I used to sysadmin for a university, and we did this for exactly this reason. Having publicly accessable machines was policy, as sometimes students were coming from off campus, or were faculty from other institutions. Some departments (smaller, less users) have setup bastien hosts, but most still allow direct access. Some faculty like to be able to connect directly to their systems, and in the university world, they win every time.
That's why gmail supports pop3. You can keep a backup copy if you're paranoid.= 1555
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic
Gmail has a huge back-end and very reliable infrastructure. I've never heard anyone complain about lost mail sent through Gmail.
Hell yea.. a bit of logical reasoning can get you out of a lot of stuck games of minesweeper. I think my record for expert is under 100 seconds.
Except for inflation which makes $20USD in 1980 $50.79 right now.
you're correct on all counts, I was over-simplifying for the /. crowd.
:)
ahh.. the magic of a good HF multi-band vertical.. maybe not so much magic, but lots of coils
1/4 is the fraction I was thinking about.
Antennas only affect the shape of the RF output, and the frequency range at which you can efficiently radiate.
Take some examples:
Omni-directional wifi antennas on most APs: a single stick with a fraction of the wavelength of 2.4ghz. Very simple, can do anything from SSB, AM, FM, or OFDM modulation.
Most of what software defined radios is talking about modulation changes, not frequncy changes.
The only difference between 802.11b and 802.11g is the modulation (CCK vs OFDM)
> There is no evidence that consumers have turned away from Microsoft in any numbers.
No, but consumers didn't turn away from ma bell either. That's the problem with a monopoly that is abused.
Google is aiding everyone by trying to provide the information.. the problem is Google doesn't have guns.. The Government does.
Of course, NASA has a huge SGI Altix cluster, which runs linux.
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28
I don't know if no one used it.. mostly I remember it not doing anything usefull, like provide advanced features.
Speaking of Emacs.. my fav gnome tweek:
/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs
gconftool-2 -s -t string
google: metacity disable animation
/apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources true
Turns up the simple answer in under a second:
gconftool-2 -s -t bool
haha, my girlfriend is a Finn, so I atleast know how to say Sau-na properly.
Also.. your website is awesome.
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Damn, I didn't know we had a sauna at work.
The big thing missing is ram.. the slimserver needs lots of ram.. I setup my parrents slimserver on basicaly the same kind of box as that, but I installed it with a striped down debian install that does nothing but run slimserver. The running slimserver needs ~60MB of ram on its own.
Yep, I hate that type too. Fanboys of all types are anoying. I totally agree, fuck that.. I'm here at Google because it's interesting work, and I get paid for it. When the work day is done, I go home and do other things that are totaly un-related. Like right now, time to go home.
Note: I work at Google.
The issue of how many hours you work is up to the person working. I think the point people miss is that places like Google attract work-a-holics. The whole of the Bay Area is like that. Personaly, I'm not that type. I go home at a reasonable hour and don't normaly check my work mail off-hours. Some days are exceptions, but that's normal for what I do at any work place. I don't think providing an atmosphere for work-a-holics to be happy is evil. Google is a good place to work, even if you're not a stary-eyed fan of the company.
#1: tcp window sizes are neat. By changing a couple proc variables, I can push 350mbps with a single tcp flow over a busy I2 link with a single stock fedora core 3 kernel, on a 1ghz P3.
#2: -10 points for using "synergy" in technical info (linked ms.com article)
But the parrents were not talking about Opteron, they were talking about Athlon X2, which does not have multiple memory controlers, it simply has a crossbar switch between the cores, and a single memory controler.
It does if you install ubuntu.