I've only run into a few cases where the DVI did not work. Mostly this was with Geforce cards and the nv driver.. worked fine with the nvidia driver.
I have a 17" DVI pannel and a Nvidia Quadro 4 card at work.. no problems..
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Sell the damn truck, and get a VW Golf TDI instead... it get's great gas milage, and can haul 90% of what you can haul with the truck. Plus they look a lot nicer than most of the trucks on the road.
bah.. several of my gf's saw my ram keyfob, and wanted one for their keys. My current gf gave me a couple Cray system boards as gifts.. I have my X-MP and Y-MP system boards at work.. and she keeps her Y-MP board on our key pedistal by our front door. Damn, those Y-MP system boards are heavy.
Another nice option for those pesky MS CD's. Get some self-adhesive 1mm thick cork bord, and turn them into nice shiny coasters. Great for putting a nice glass of scotch on.
Yep. I also work on some EMC stuff with copper FC. But the ports on the system are female. The picture makes it look like male ports.. that's why I was confused. I also think it would be a wase of money to include a copper port, and a Optical GBIC.
You're right.. I can't seem to find a copy of the invoice in my pile of papers.. but I seem to remember the thing cost about $20k for 2tb of 72gb FCAL disks. Add to that the $15k in 8 port Brocade FibreChannel switch, and Qlogic cards. Not cheap.
Sistina GFS works great tho.. have 4 servers setup on that disk.
Is it just me, or are there a DB-9 serial ports on the controlers.. I thought Apple considered RS-232 legacy and obsolete?
I work on a ProFibre DF4000 system.. and the serial port is the best way to configure the system. The *gak* windows based in-band management software is crap.
The only other thing I wonder is how 7200RPM ide drives benchmark against my 10kRPM FCAL disks.
I work for a university, and the only thing I've signed are my health benefits, my W2's, and my yearly review of my job. No NDA's, no drug tests, no background checks.
I worked for a place before the U, and they droped me into the random drug test bucket.. I let the HR people know how damned offensive it was, but I took the test anyway. I'm kinda glad I don't work there anymore. Even tho I personaly don't do illegal drugs, I don't think a company has the right to tell me what I should or shouldn't do on my free time.
As for NDA's and shit.. I got offered a job working at an ISP, and they wanted me to sign a non-compete clause, and turn over all my ideas/code to the company. I told them to fuck off. As sysadmin I can't just simply develop all my personal tools, and then just give them up. It's my personal toolbox of admin tricks.. I wouldn't ask a car mechanic to give up their home wrenches, just cause he _could_ fix a car outside of work.
I've been using PXE for years.. It's an Intel standard. I've used both grub and bpbatch to netboot linux machines. I just finished a PXE based re-intall of all the nodes in the cluster I run. The machines net-boot every boot, so all i have to do is flag their PXE config to switch the to re-install mode.. it clears the partition table, and starts redhat kickstart. very good stuff
Links: http://www.intel.com/labs/manage/WfM/ h ttp://www.bpbatch.com http://www.gnu.org/manual/g rub/html_node/Network.h tml http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
I havn't seen a decent USB boot spec tho. I normaly do CD booting if PXE is not an option.
Better example of a mylar speaker driver is Magnepan
http://www.magnepan.com
They use a sheet of mylar with aluminum ribon on it.
Great speakers.. fairly sturdy.. but the mylar does wear out over time.. I've talked to several magnepan people who have said 5-10 year lifespan on the sheet driver, and you have to have a new sheet put on. Aleast it's not expensive to replace.
I was just talking to a friend who teaches AP CS class at a local school. He does this for an hour every morning, then goes to work at Cray, doing more fun stuff. I just wish more schools would do something like this. When I was in HS, there wasn't a teacher in the school that knew anything beond using word processors, or replacing toner in the printer.
It's also just as easy to loose your license. Intentional interfearance will, if you get caught, will get your license revoked, and depending on the things you do.. get you jail time.. I heard (over This Week in Amature Radio) about a guy in texas wo was serving jail time, for breaking his probation and using radios to jam police, and make death threats on amature radio bands. This was after his ham license was revoked, and serving jail time for similar things.
I work for a University computing center, and I was amused when the guy setting up Nagios for our network didn't know that Nagios was being developed at our school.
We have 73 hosts in our setup, and phone paging to our on-call phone. Things have been working really well.. the only thing we have yet to setup is the passive monitoring so that the linux cluster (behind firewall) can send status to the central paging server.
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I like how you post supporting "comments" yourself. Very amusing. I think your ego likes you just as much as you like yourself.
Start with the CLI, back when I started work on appleII and dos machines, CLI was all there was.. and it was a good thing, because I learned early on, that you don't ask "what am I supposed to do", but rather "what can I do".
Viewing the CLI, and computers in general, as an open book with nothing limiting what you can do with them is a key to making people use computers properly.
You could have other problems if you're getting pops and clicks.. Depending on what kind of cable you have between your PC and your stereo. I try and use optical digital cable when I can. it really doesn't matter the cable quality with optical cable, since it's all just plastic tubing. The only major limitation is length.. you don't want to run any longer than 15 feet, and you probably don't want more than one or two splicers.
if it's just mp3's, I'd just search around for some better copies.. or better yet.. now that you have money, go buy the CD and make some damn nice encodings of your own. I do this for most of the stuff on my empeg, since most people are only worried about how fast they can rip/encode. not the quality of the music they get out of it.
yep, there's a damn good reason for that. I'm very glad that they don't automaticaly do anything to my plan. If there is a new special, or a new plan, I want to be the one that decides to change to it.
right now I'm on a really old plan.. which has features that are NOT available anymore..
I get 500min + 1500min night/weekend for about $50.
things that are on my contract that arn't available anymore:
night min start at 8pm (currently all new plans start at 9pm) first incoming min free. this saves me TONS.
yes.. it's SUCH A PAIN to go visit the sprint website and look for new plans. I got burned once when I was using ATT wireless for a bunch of sales people in my company.. ATT released a new plan which would be much cheaper for about 1/2 of my sales guys who don't use their phones much. but I didn't get to use it for a month because I didn't know about it till i called to upgrade plans for a couple guys who were using insane ammounts of min. but basicaly it boils down to this.. there are good summer plans, good holiday season plans, and sometimes a good spring plan.. the rest of the year... you might as well stick to what you have.
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I don't know what resolution they are using for the video display, but they are using the XVideo extention.. which means they are probably using hardware pixel scaling.. if you send a 160x120 (1/4 of a 640x480 stream) at 32bit color depth, you get 4.4 megabytesy per second. with 60 frames per second.
if you want to send a full 640x480 image to each display, you would need 70.3 megabytes/sec.
32bit/33mhz PCI is 133MB/sec.. so they are probably taking advantange of the XVideo hardware scaling.
you also have to take into consideration the network bandwith used to push the video into each box.
my only question is.. what bit depth are they using.. and how does that affect the PCI bandwidth used.
haha.. I made a couple hundred of them on a zebra label printer.. here's a shot of one
on Malda himself
Thanks Rob for being such a good sport, even if I couln't afford a real run of color lables:)
this is interesting, and telling about some auto makers. if you know anything about VW corp, they share chassis between a bunch of their cars. (VW Corp has 4 divisions, VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda if i remember right)
The Jetta, Golf, GTI, and Beetle are all based on the "A4" chassis. which includes the Audi A4, S4, and TT. they all look different, and have different styles, but the things that matter, the frame, drivetrain, and engine compartment are all the same.
they modularized the components, which is why you have FOUR engine options on the jetta, and there are even more available. in manufacturing.. it's all drop-in.
2.8L V6 2.0L I4 1.9L Turbo Diesel 1.8L Turbo I4 (identical to Audi A4 1.8T)
other engines (for the A4 frame) include a Dual Turbocharer V6, and I belive a 2.3L Turbo Diesel.
One cool thing to note about the new GM design.. because it's one flat chassi, they can seal the bottom up for MUCH better ground-effect areodynamics.. the top of cars today are great, but the underbody is an ugly mess of crap, gas tank straped under the frame, susspention components with no areodynamic thought in mind, cables, and other crap just sitting under there.
the main problem with water consumption, is that it all needs to get treated at a sewage plant after you're done with it. I switched my shower head from the cheap thing my apartment had, to a nice 2.5gallon/min unit. I use about half the watter for my showers than I used to. it also helps because it takes a lot of energy to heat the water for my shower. that saves a lot of electricity/gas for the water heater, and keeps the thing from getting drained and going cold when I shower.
this is interesting, because my work (big 10 university) is part of the MSDN Acedemic Alliane. which basicaly gives all the students, staff, and faculty in the IT college access to anything in the MSDN tree. this includes compilers, libraries, and Operating systems. including server stuff. as long as it's for educational or personal use.
in exchange for this, MS is not deducting on what people actualy use, but what people _could_ use. the number I heard was that they were taking a FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR tax write-off for just our college.. (CS, EE, Math, Etc) this doesn't even include what they could be doing with liberal arts, medical, or general college.
oh.. and I think my department has used maybe 3 copies of win2k for use by professor's desktop systems.
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I've only run into a few cases where the DVI did not work. Mostly this was with Geforce cards and the nv driver.. worked fine with the nvidia driver.
I have a 17" DVI pannel and a Nvidia Quadro 4 card at work.. no problems..
Sell the damn truck, and get a VW Golf TDI instead... it get's great gas milage, and can haul 90% of what you can haul with the truck. Plus they look a lot nicer than most of the trucks on the road.
bah.. several of my gf's saw my ram keyfob, and wanted one for their keys. My current gf gave me a couple Cray system boards as gifts.. I have my X-MP and Y-MP system boards at work.. and she keeps her Y-MP board on our key pedistal by our front door. Damn, those Y-MP system boards are heavy.
Hopefully, you're aware of the Twin Cities Wireless User Group.
http://www.tcwug.org
We have a map system of available access points, and other fun stuff
Another nice option for those pesky MS CD's. Get some self-adhesive 1mm thick cork bord, and turn them into nice shiny coasters. Great for putting a nice glass of scotch on.
Yep. I also work on some EMC stuff with copper FC. But the ports on the system are female. The picture makes it look like male ports.. that's why I was confused. I also think it would be a wase of money to include a copper port, and a Optical GBIC.
You're right.. I can't seem to find a copy of the invoice in my pile of papers.. but I seem to remember the thing cost about $20k for 2tb of 72gb FCAL disks. Add to that the $15k in 8 port Brocade FibreChannel switch, and Qlogic cards. Not cheap.
Sistina GFS works great tho.. have 4 servers setup on that disk.
Is it just me, or are there a DB-9 serial ports on the controlers.. I thought Apple considered RS-232 legacy and obsolete?
I work on a ProFibre DF4000 system.. and the serial port is the best way to configure the system. The *gak* windows based in-band management software is crap.
The only other thing I wonder is how 7200RPM ide drives benchmark against my 10kRPM FCAL disks.
I work for a university, and the only thing I've signed are my health benefits, my W2's, and my yearly review of my job. No NDA's, no drug tests, no background checks.
I worked for a place before the U, and they droped me into the random drug test bucket.. I let the HR people know how damned offensive it was, but I took the test anyway. I'm kinda glad I don't work there anymore. Even tho I personaly don't do illegal drugs, I don't think a company has the right to tell me what I should or shouldn't do on my free time.
As for NDA's and shit.. I got offered a job working at an ISP, and they wanted me to sign a non-compete clause, and turn over all my ideas/code to the company. I told them to fuck off. As sysadmin I can't just simply develop all my personal tools, and then just give them up. It's my personal toolbox of admin tricks.. I wouldn't ask a car mechanic to give up their home wrenches, just cause he _could_ fix a car outside of work.
I've been using PXE for years.. It's an Intel standard. I've used both grub and bpbatch to netboot linux machines. I just finished a PXE based re-intall of all the nodes in the cluster I run. The machines net-boot every boot, so all i have to do is flag their PXE config to switch the to re-install mode.. it clears the partition table, and starts redhat kickstart. very good stuff
h ttp://www.bpbatch.comg rub/html_node/Network.h tml
Links:
http://www.intel.com/labs/manage/WfM/
http://www.gnu.org/manual/
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
I havn't seen a decent USB boot spec tho. I normaly do CD booting if PXE is not an option.
Better example of a mylar speaker driver is Magnepan
http://www.magnepan.com
They use a sheet of mylar with aluminum ribon on it.
Great speakers.. fairly sturdy.. but the mylar does wear out over time.. I've talked to several magnepan people who have said 5-10 year lifespan on the sheet driver, and you have to have a new sheet put on. Aleast it's not expensive to replace.
I was just talking to a friend who teaches AP CS class at a local school. He does this for an hour every morning, then goes to work at Cray, doing more fun stuff. I just wish more schools would do something like this. When I was in HS, there wasn't a teacher in the school that knew anything beond using word processors, or replacing toner in the printer.
It's also just as easy to loose your license. Intentional interfearance will, if you get caught, will get your license revoked, and depending on the things you do.. get you jail time.. I heard (over This Week in Amature Radio) about a guy in texas wo was serving jail time, for breaking his probation and using radios to jam police, and make death threats on amature radio bands. This was after his ham license was revoked, and serving jail time for similar things.
I work for a University computing center, and I was amused when the guy setting up Nagios for our network didn't know that Nagios was being developed at our school.
We have 73 hosts in our setup, and phone paging to our on-call phone. Things have been working really well.. the only thing we have yet to setup is the passive monitoring so that the linux cluster (behind firewall) can send status to the central paging server.
I like how you post supporting "comments" yourself. Very amusing. I think your ego likes you just as much as you like yourself.
Pot
Kettle
Black
Start with the CLI, back when I started work on appleII and dos machines, CLI was all there was.. and it was a good thing, because I learned early on, that you don't ask "what am I supposed to do", but rather "what can I do".
Viewing the CLI, and computers in general, as an open book with nothing limiting what you can do with them is a key to making people use computers properly.
You could have other problems if you're getting pops and clicks.. Depending on what kind of cable you have between your PC and your stereo. I try and use optical digital cable when I can. it really doesn't matter the cable quality with optical cable, since it's all just plastic tubing. The only major limitation is length.. you don't want to run any longer than 15 feet, and you probably don't want more than one or two splicers.
if it's just mp3's, I'd just search around for some better copies.. or better yet.. now that you have money, go buy the CD and make some damn nice encodings of your own. I do this for most of the stuff on my empeg, since most people are only worried about how fast they can rip/encode. not the quality of the music they get out of it.
yep, there's a damn good reason for that. I'm very glad that they don't automaticaly do anything to my plan. If there is a new special, or a new plan, I want to be the one that decides to change to it.
right now I'm on a really old plan.. which has features that are NOT available anymore..
I get 500min + 1500min night/weekend for about $50.
things that are on my contract that arn't available anymore:
night min start at 8pm (currently all new plans start at 9pm)
first incoming min free. this saves me TONS.
yes.. it's SUCH A PAIN to go visit the sprint website and look for new plans. I got burned once when I was using ATT wireless for a bunch of sales people in my company.. ATT released a new plan which would be much cheaper for about 1/2 of my sales guys who don't use their phones much. but I didn't get to use it for a month because I didn't know about it till i called to upgrade plans for a couple guys who were using insane ammounts of min. but basicaly it boils down to this.. there are good summer plans, good holiday season plans, and sometimes a good spring plan.. the rest of the year... you might as well stick to what you have.
I don't know what resolution they are using for the video display, but they are using the XVideo extention.. which means they are probably using hardware pixel scaling.. if you send a 160x120 (1/4 of a 640x480 stream) at 32bit color depth, you get 4.4 megabytesy per second. with 60 frames per second.
if you want to send a full 640x480 image to each display, you would need 70.3 megabytes/sec.
32bit/33mhz PCI is 133MB/sec.. so they are probably taking advantange of the XVideo hardware scaling.
you also have to take into consideration the network bandwith used to push the video into each box.
my only question is.. what bit depth are they using.. and how does that affect the PCI bandwidth used.
haha.. I made a couple hundred of them on a zebra label printer.. here's a shot of one on Malda himself :)
Thanks Rob for being such a good sport, even if I couln't afford a real run of color lables
Bah to both of you :)
Slashdot+IRC has kept me sane at several jobs.
Now if we could just get back the "Malda Sucks" poll options. I doubt anyone here remembers the Malda Sucks stickers I made for linuxworld 2000
this is interesting, and telling about some auto makers. if you know anything about VW corp, they share chassis between a bunch of their cars. (VW Corp has 4 divisions, VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda if i remember right)
The Jetta, Golf, GTI, and Beetle are all based on the "A4" chassis. which includes the Audi A4, S4, and TT. they all look different, and have different styles, but the things that matter, the frame, drivetrain, and engine compartment are all the same.
they modularized the components, which is why you have FOUR engine options on the jetta, and there are even more available. in manufacturing.. it's all drop-in.
2.8L V6
2.0L I4
1.9L Turbo Diesel
1.8L Turbo I4 (identical to Audi A4 1.8T)
other engines (for the A4 frame) include a Dual Turbocharer V6, and I belive a 2.3L Turbo Diesel.
One cool thing to note about the new GM design.. because it's one flat chassi, they can seal the bottom up for MUCH better ground-effect areodynamics.. the top of cars today are great, but the underbody is an ugly mess of crap, gas tank straped under the frame, susspention components with no areodynamic thought in mind, cables, and other crap just sitting under there.
the main problem with water consumption, is that it all needs to get treated at a sewage plant after you're done with it. I switched my shower head from the cheap thing my apartment had, to a nice 2.5gallon/min unit. I use about half the watter for my showers than I used to. it also helps because it takes a lot of energy to heat the water for my shower. that saves a lot of electricity/gas for the water heater, and keeps the thing from getting drained and going cold when I shower.
all i have to say about this post is:
Ben is an idiot
this is interesting, because my work (big 10 university) is part of the MSDN Acedemic Alliane. which basicaly gives all the students, staff, and faculty in the IT college access to anything in the MSDN tree. this includes compilers, libraries, and Operating systems. including server stuff. as long as it's for educational or personal use.
in exchange for this, MS is not deducting on what people actualy use, but what people _could_ use. the number I heard was that they were taking a FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR tax write-off for just our college.. (CS, EE, Math, Etc) this doesn't even include what they could be doing with liberal arts, medical, or general college.
oh.. and I think my department has used maybe 3 copies of win2k for use by professor's desktop systems.