yep, I work for the IMA, and we are currently using the video equipment for recording today's workshop. the equipment is used by Unit.
(ugh.. working on weekends)
Actualy, most people being stupid, don't think to consider several factors that lead to the myth of hydrogen being dangerous.
#1: people survived the crash of the hindenburg. when was the last time someone survived a crashed 747?
why? because hydrogen is lighter than air, and moves upward while it burns. jet's use a liquid fuel, which sticks to everything, and causes much more damage. it goes the same for cars, gasoline is just as volitile as hydrogen, actualy it's more volitile, because it has a higher energy density than hydrogen. it takes a supercharged diesel to produce similar engine preformance to a gasoline engine of the same displacement with hydrogen. Hydrogen is not an optimal fuel when it comes to energy density.
an auto accident with a hydrogen vehicle would be similar to an accident with an LP gas based vehilce. unless the tank is punctured, there isn't much of a problem.
the thing that makes hydrogen a slightly more dangerous fuel is the fact that it must be stored presurized at cold temps to get any kind of sufficent quantity of the stuff stored in the same space as gasoline.
this is why I'm still an EV fan. batteries somewhat safer than combusting fuels. they only have the major drawback that current batteries have really nasty chemicals inside, lead, hydrochloric acid, lithium, Nickle. I can't wait for polymer batteries.:)
I'm still not sure where I fit in this list. I've never been a karma whore, and I don't troll. But then again.. I just read/. to pickup on the news, read a few +4/5 funny posts, and if the mod points flow, do my part to make it easier to find interesting comments.
maybe I just fell through the cracks of the typical/. user.
well, as said by other posts, it's not their machine, they don't really want to know what was wrong, they just want to get back to working
here's my story of remote-admin hell. I remotely admin'd NT workstations (hell). calls would come in, and I would remote-connect to see what the problem was. I could fix the problem, and explain to the user what went wrong at the same time. "oh.. this wasn't your fault" or "don't do that, you break the computer" you have to use a combination of both remote admining, to cut down on mis-information from the user. and phone support so the user knows what's going on. that's how you earn the trust of the remote admin.. you have them on the phone from the time the problem is reported, till it's fixed.
a remote support person should not just get a note of a problem througha ticketing system.. there is no re-asurance to the user that something is going on..
this is about how it is in the US, fewer tellers, 1-$2 fee's for withdrawl's from cross-bank ATM's.. I've now noticed that I get double-charged for cross bank stuff.. the bank that is making the transaction hit's me, and now my bank hit's me. I might have to switch to wells fargo. sorry USbank.
the only nice thing to come out of this, is that electronic transactions are much easier.. I had a small local bank, not a regional bank before, and they had no web site, and no ATM network. everywhere I went, I was paying ATM fees, and I had a limit of 12 ATM transactions a month.. before I got charged fees. that was the worst I've ever had.
I have found that some of the most, "no one wins" kind of fun is multi-player deathmatch Quake* (or any other FPS) It just depends on who you're playing with.. we've come up with some creative ways to play.. we make the point of the game not to just rack up frags, but you have to do it with style. and no one ever looks at the top score at the end of the map (timelimit, not fraglimit) all people want to do is get back into the next map. we also put addons in to make things more interesting. like having a grenade that powerfull enough to take out an entire room, but we have a rule.. you have to kill yourself with it.. terrorist style.. no cheap shots.
we never run tournements, have prizes, or any reward for winning.
I'm supprised you didn't mention Difinative's line of loudspeakers. for being on the upper side of the midrange stuff, they are quite good for home theater applications.
yes.. magnepan speakers are excelent for pure music listening.. havn't heard anything spectacular about their use as home theater stuff.. they do make a set designed for it tho.
http://www.magnepan.com
Here in minnesota, our north-suburban GeekHaus is fully equiped with the latest (and also non-lastest) gear.
IBM netfinity rack (4' tall)
Yamaha 995a (awsome reciver)
Apex 600a (the new "fixed one":(
POS 4head VCR (panasonic i think)
Pioneer vintage LaserDisk player
PPro200 for mp3/xterm serving.
NCD xterminal for surfing/irc/mail/xmms
Philco 27" ultra-crusty tube.
American flag (gota have one)
20hour TiVo (soon to be upgraded)
Difinative Biploar speakers, all around
Klipsch 12" sub
as far as audio goes.. the combination of definiative bipolars (bp8's, matching center/rear), the klipsch, and the Yamaha 995a is close to perfect for a system costing only $3000
all the speakers match up, providing good surround panning, (ill matching speakers can make for wierd pans from front/back/left/right)
and the bipolars make for excelent room-filling music for when guests are over. the BP8's also have a beautiful piano key black laqur finish, which if you keep shiny with murphy's oil soap, really show their class.
here's a pic of the place, a while ago.. here we have since then replaced the futon with a loveseat matching the nice couch on the left and a new 36" TV is on it's way to replace the poor tired old philco (which works amazingly well for a 15 year old TV:)
yes.. geeks actualy live here:)
this is still a step in the WRONG direction. It's the same problem that mandrake has.. it's pretty, it's GUI, but it's not capeable of being used for automation.. there MUST be a backend library, like apt, to do the real work.. if I can't use it with a CLI, in a shellscript, I can't use it for my network automation. these GUI's are great for users, useless for companies with large network installs of boxes... I don't want to go back to rsync'ing boxes. looks like I get to stay with debian for now. (conectiva's apt port is the right way of doing it.. they are on my list of good distro's now)
random pot-shots.. untill it saw damage.. then it just kept firing.. kinda lame.. but it worked.. and the random windspeed I added made things interesting.
ok.. I'm going to kill myself for being used to slam enter to next filed.. but that's another story..
What I'd love to see is crash dumping, and better debuging tools.. this is something enterprise linux needs in order to be accepted by big business.. come on.. even NT can dump ram to disk
I've got a port of scorch for palmOS.. I even loved the game so much, that a long time ago, in a land far away... I wrote a mini clone of the game for my TI-85 graphing calculator.. 1 player vs computer, it was in graphic mode, had some cool math involved, and even played fast.. (for being written in TI-BASIC.. written before zshell existed) the whole thing was only 2k of code (2000 characters of code, TI byte-compiled basic was fairly nasty to code in)
hopefully i'll be able to transfer my company AT&T service to a VisorPhone so i don't have to change my number, and use voicestream's service..
according to the goobers at best buy, the visorphone will be out next week, sold as just another GSM phone through voicestream
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You're right, there are a lot of blind folowers, but I'd like to consider myself somewhat diverse in what I know. I've worked with several unix's, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, SCO, DG/UX, AT&T Sys3, free/net/open BSD, and a couple others that i can't remember.
After all i've done, I enjoy every unix, they each have their own personality, and I'm noding my head along with you. but I normaly try and work with linux as much as I can, it just has the feel i enjoy most.
Linux is great for manufacturing.. I work for a mid-sized auto remanufacutuer, and we use postgresql all over the place, to do inventory, and core checkin. postgres has made huge strides in the last few years.. we started out with an old pentium running 6.3 postgres.. it was slow as dirt.. we are currently running 6.5.3, on a 600mhz alpha system.. and will probably move to 7 one of these days.
you have a budget? what's that? *smirk* I'm lucky if i get $50 for a stack of CD-R's.
I sponsor an openprojects server, vinge.openprojects.net, It's just for testing, we only have 5 users attached to it, yet this person felt it should be offline, so he sent over 100mb/sec down the pipe, slowing down the local backbone, (3 45mb DS3's at visi.com) and choking my poor ISP off for 15min.. that's not a long time, but to a modem customer who is surfing, or trying to get email, it's the end of the world. I just moved to this ISP recently, and I've allready got a bad rep with the admins. luckly I've known them for years, and they are personal friends, but it looks really bad when all i do is attract flooding, and DoS. they have enough problems with wu-ftpd scans, and netbios crap. I pay for the hosting, and the box out of pocket, so a few of my friends can get email and IRC, I ask myself, is it worth it? this is the closest i've come to saying no in the 2 years i've run nerp.net.
I have stashed away on one of my forgotten backups is a Global Thermonuclear War game that a friend of mine wrote in Qbasic back durring a late night coding frenzy in college, it really seemed fun at 4am after a couple 12packs of dew.:)
umm, i think you are being a bit picky. this is talking about lazy admins not repairing computers, just blowing away the whole system and re-installing.. the point of the argument is that sometimes supporting yourself in an IT situation is better than calling your IT department.. i've seen some IT people with a serious lack of skills of any kind.
USBank recently re-did their website, it used to be some really bad CGI.exe's and it was really slow.. it's much faster now, and looks like they use cold fusion on their main site. and now JSP on the secure web site for the online banking.. it does require a 128bit encryption browser, but works fine with netscape 4.75 in linux.
netcraft seems to be fubar right now.. so i can't check the actual server info.
where I see something like this being usefull, if the process is more efficent than motor drives, is for collecting light for solar panels. solar panels work great in direct light, but it would be great to produce fairly efficient use of ambient light. tho the surface area of the fibers would have to be signifigantly larger than a normal direct light panel. but i bet they would be a lot less obtrusive than a normal panel.. you could just strech a tarp like sheet out over a roof to collect the light.
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yep, I work for the IMA, and we are currently using the video equipment for recording today's workshop. the equipment is used by Unit.
(ugh.. working on weekends)
yea.. sometimes I stop fast-forwarding on my tivo just to see a commercial. like the IBM guys in the space suits, they rock.
Actualy, most people being stupid, don't think to consider several factors that lead to the myth of hydrogen being dangerous.
:)
#1: people survived the crash of the hindenburg. when was the last time someone survived a crashed 747?
why? because hydrogen is lighter than air, and moves upward while it burns. jet's use a liquid fuel, which sticks to everything, and causes much more damage. it goes the same for cars, gasoline is just as volitile as hydrogen, actualy it's more volitile, because it has a higher energy density than hydrogen. it takes a supercharged diesel to produce similar engine preformance to a gasoline engine of the same displacement with hydrogen. Hydrogen is not an optimal fuel when it comes to energy density.
an auto accident with a hydrogen vehicle would be similar to an accident with an LP gas based vehilce. unless the tank is punctured, there isn't much of a problem.
the thing that makes hydrogen a slightly more dangerous fuel is the fact that it must be stored presurized at cold temps to get any kind of sufficent quantity of the stuff stored in the same space as gasoline.
this is why I'm still an EV fan. batteries somewhat safer than combusting fuels. they only have the major drawback that current batteries have really nasty chemicals inside, lead, hydrochloric acid, lithium, Nickle. I can't wait for polymer batteries.
I'm still not sure where I fit in this list. I've never been a karma whore, and I don't troll. But then again.. I just read /. to pickup on the news, read a few +4/5 funny posts, and if the mod points flow, do my part to make it easier to find interesting comments.
/. user.
maybe I just fell through the cracks of the typical
well, as said by other posts, it's not their machine, they don't really want to know what was wrong, they just want to get back to working
here's my story of remote-admin hell. I remotely admin'd NT workstations (hell). calls would come in, and I would remote-connect to see what the problem was. I could fix the problem, and explain to the user what went wrong at the same time. "oh.. this wasn't your fault" or "don't do that, you break the computer" you have to use a combination of both remote admining, to cut down on mis-information from the user. and phone support so the user knows what's going on. that's how you earn the trust of the remote admin.. you have them on the phone from the time the problem is reported, till it's fixed.
a remote support person should not just get a note of a problem througha ticketing system.. there is no re-asurance to the user that something is going on..
this is about how it is in the US, fewer tellers, 1-$2 fee's for withdrawl's from cross-bank ATM's.. I've now noticed that I get double-charged for cross bank stuff.. the bank that is making the transaction hit's me, and now my bank hit's me. I might have to switch to wells fargo. sorry USbank.
the only nice thing to come out of this, is that electronic transactions are much easier.. I had a small local bank, not a regional bank before, and they had no web site, and no ATM network. everywhere I went, I was paying ATM fees, and I had a limit of 12 ATM transactions a month.. before I got charged fees. that was the worst I've ever had.
very odd.. both of my roomie's are gay (bi really, but i havn't seen either one with a woman, ever)
they both own fairly identical new Vaio's
what are you talking about, doom didn't use floating point anyway. it ran just fine on 386's with no FPU. doom was all int based.
I have found that some of the most, "no one wins" kind of fun is multi-player deathmatch Quake* (or any other FPS) It just depends on who you're playing with.. we've come up with some creative ways to play.. we make the point of the game not to just rack up frags, but you have to do it with style. and no one ever looks at the top score at the end of the map (timelimit, not fraglimit) all people want to do is get back into the next map. we also put addons in to make things more interesting. like having a grenade that powerfull enough to take out an entire room, but we have a rule.. you have to kill yourself with it.. terrorist style.. no cheap shots.
we never run tournements, have prizes, or any reward for winning.
I'm supprised you didn't mention Difinative's line of loudspeakers. for being on the upper side of the midrange stuff, they are quite good for home theater applications.
yes.. magnepan speakers are excelent for pure music listening.. havn't heard anything spectacular about their use as home theater stuff.. they do make a set designed for it tho.
http://www.magnepan.com
Here in minnesota, our north-suburban GeekHaus is fully equiped with the latest (and also non-lastest) gear.
:(
:) :)
IBM netfinity rack (4' tall)
Yamaha 995a (awsome reciver)
Apex 600a (the new "fixed one"
POS 4head VCR (panasonic i think)
Pioneer vintage LaserDisk player
PPro200 for mp3/xterm serving.
NCD xterminal for surfing/irc/mail/xmms
Philco 27" ultra-crusty tube.
American flag (gota have one)
20hour TiVo (soon to be upgraded)
Difinative Biploar speakers, all around
Klipsch 12" sub
as far as audio goes.. the combination of definiative bipolars (bp8's, matching center/rear), the klipsch, and the Yamaha 995a is close to perfect for a system costing only $3000 all the speakers match up, providing good surround panning, (ill matching speakers can make for wierd pans from front/back/left/right) and the bipolars make for excelent room-filling music for when guests are over. the BP8's also have a beautiful piano key black laqur finish, which if you keep shiny with murphy's oil soap, really show their class.
here's a pic of the place, a while ago..
here we have since then replaced the futon with a loveseat matching the nice couch on the left and a new 36" TV is on it's way to replace the poor tired old philco (which works amazingly well for a 15 year old TV
yes.. geeks actualy live here
this is still a step in the WRONG direction. It's the same problem that mandrake has.. it's pretty, it's GUI, but it's not capeable of being used for automation.. there MUST be a backend library, like apt, to do the real work.. if I can't use it with a CLI, in a shellscript, I can't use it for my network automation. these GUI's are great for users, useless for companies with large network installs of boxes... I don't want to go back to rsync'ing boxes. looks like I get to stay with debian for now. (conectiva's apt port is the right way of doing it.. they are on my list of good distro's now)
random pot-shots.. untill it saw damage.. then it just kept firing.. kinda lame.. but it worked.. and the random windspeed I added made things interesting.
ok.. I'm going to kill myself for being used to slam enter to next filed.. but that's another story..
What I'd love to see is crash dumping, and better debuging tools.. this is something enterprise linux needs in order to be accepted by big business.. come on.. even NT can dump ram to disk
I've got a port of scorch for palmOS.. I even loved the game so much, that a long time ago, in a land far away... I wrote a mini clone of the game for my TI-85 graphing calculator.. 1 player vs computer, it was in graphic mode, had some cool math involved, and even played fast.. (for being written in TI-BASIC.. written before zshell existed) the whole thing was only 2k of code (2000 characters of code, TI byte-compiled basic was fairly nasty to code in)
I was scared for a second that the music group BT, was suing the music group Prodigy over some mp3 thing.. nevermind, it's just telco's acting stupid
hopefully i'll be able to transfer my company AT&T service to a VisorPhone so i don't have to change my number, and use voicestream's service..
according to the goobers at best buy, the visorphone will be out next week, sold as just another GSM phone through voicestream
You're right, there are a lot of blind folowers, but I'd like to consider myself somewhat diverse in what I know. I've worked with several unix's, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, SCO, DG/UX, AT&T Sys3, free/net/open BSD, and a couple others that i can't remember.
After all i've done, I enjoy every unix, they each have their own personality, and I'm noding my head along with you. but I normaly try and work with linux as much as I can, it just has the feel i enjoy most.
Linux is great for manufacturing.. I work for a mid-sized auto remanufacutuer, and we use postgresql all over the place, to do inventory, and core checkin. postgres has made huge strides in the last few years.. we started out with an old pentium running 6.3 postgres.. it was slow as dirt.. we are currently running 6.5.3, on a 600mhz alpha system.. and will probably move to 7 one of these days.
you have a budget? what's that? *smirk* I'm lucky if i get $50 for a stack of CD-R's.
I sponsor an openprojects server, vinge.openprojects.net, It's just for testing, we only have 5 users attached to it, yet this person felt it should be offline, so he sent over 100mb/sec down the pipe, slowing down the local backbone, (3 45mb DS3's at visi.com) and choking my poor ISP off for 15min.. that's not a long time, but to a modem customer who is surfing, or trying to get email, it's the end of the world. I just moved to this ISP recently, and I've allready got a bad rep with the admins. luckly I've known them for years, and they are personal friends, but it looks really bad when all i do is attract flooding, and DoS. they have enough problems with wu-ftpd scans, and netbios crap. I pay for the hosting, and the box out of pocket, so a few of my friends can get email and IRC, I ask myself, is it worth it? this is the closest i've come to saying no in the 2 years i've run nerp.net.
I have stashed away on one of my forgotten backups is a Global Thermonuclear War game that a friend of mine wrote in Qbasic back durring a late night coding frenzy in college, it really seemed fun at 4am after a couple 12packs of dew. :)
umm, i think you are being a bit picky. this is talking about lazy admins not repairing computers, just blowing away the whole system and re-installing.. the point of the argument is that sometimes supporting yourself in an IT situation is better than calling your IT department.. i've seen some IT people with a serious lack of skills of any kind.
USBank recently re-did their website, it used to be some really bad CGI .exe's and it was really slow.. it's much faster now, and looks like they use cold fusion on their main site. and now JSP on the secure web site for the online banking.. it does require a 128bit encryption browser, but works fine with netscape 4.75 in linux.
netcraft seems to be fubar right now.. so i can't check the actual server info.
where I see something like this being usefull, if the process is more efficent than motor drives, is for collecting light for solar panels. solar panels work great in direct light, but it would be great to produce fairly efficient use of ambient light. tho the surface area of the fibers would have to be signifigantly larger than a normal direct light panel. but i bet they would be a lot less obtrusive than a normal panel.. you could just strech a tarp like sheet out over a roof to collect the light.