I wouldn't either. But as it happens I own a legal copy of CS2, and the damned thing would never validate... didn't know why, didn't care enough to pursue it (I won it at a conference). So... off to download what I already have a right to.
For our first 150 years or so, the U.S. got by on tariffs just like most of the world at the time. It was enough, and gov't was forced to live within its means. Then came the concept that gov't should take care of everyone, but someone's gotta fund that, and voila, tax-and-spend is born in America.
Much of the northern U.S. has repeated freeze/thaw conditions during the winter, thus "black ice" (transparent, often not visible against the pavement) is a routine winter hazard... and it is NOT signaled by a big, obvious blizzard either. (In fact, blizzard conditions tend to be far less slippery; your main hazard is getting stuck, or having a wheel get "grabbed" by the deeper snow along the edge of the road.)
What I wonder about, tho, is whether this road-based lighting might create its own hazard. In densely-falling snow, light shining into the snow reflects, sometimes so badly that you literally can't see a damn thing outside your windshield but a bright white mass of snow. Turn off your headlights, and you can see a LOT better. Might road-level lighting create a similarly hazardous visual "fog" in falling or blowing snow?
Oregon also has a fine of up to $6,250 for littering -- that's right, littering will cost you more than the fine for assault (in CA, max penalty for assault on a LEO is $5000, presumably OR's is similar). Does kinda point out where OR's priorities are.
But back to the real topic, the budget shortfall -- if last fall's resurfacing of US93 thru OR's SE corner is any indication, the amount of sheer waste and makework must be incredible. In this case, instead of restriping the road immediately after resurfacing it, they invested at least the same manpower, and probably quite a lot more time and money, in placing 50 miles of signs (every two miles in both directions, on posts set in the ground which is very time-consuming work) informing drivers that there was no center stripe. A month later they finally restriped it, which also involved taking down all those temporary signs. I'd guess they spent 4-5 times as much as if they'd just striped the damned highway in the first place (even if they had to hire a contractor to do it).
This is why I like the idea of an escalating fee schedule for copyright. First 7 or 14 years, very small fee. And then double it every 7 years. You could renew copyright indefinitely, so long as it was financially viable for you to do so, but when a given copyright became unprofitable for you, then you could let it go into the public domain.
Copyright was never intended to be permanent for any work.
The figures I've seen were 5 gallons of diesel to produce 4 gallons of ethanol. And as someone below notes, that doesn't account for the fact that it has to be trucked, it can't be moved by pipeline. So I'd guess the final tally is more like 6 or 7 gallons of diesel used to put 4 gallons of ethanol in your tank.
Trinity Rescue Kit -- http://trinityhome.org/ Comes with ddrescue and smartmontools, along with a lot of other useful software for working with Windows systems.
I've been a WD bigot for over 15 years now... out of all the...perhaps 200 or so (anecdotal level but still a reasonable sample) WDs I've used or maintained, I've only seen ONE fail without warning, and likely from *lack* of use as it was 8YO but had only 2600 hours on it (apparently sitting doing nothing is not so good; from what I've read the magnet can start affecting stuff and then the head gets stuck and you get the clank-of-death). I have some with over 11 years running 24/7. I've nursed several along for years after they came down with the creepiing crud. They do occasionally die, but with that one exception, they've always given me plenty of warning (even without SMART).
The Seagates I'd seen had been generally reliable, but when they died, went in a blaze of glory -- literally got too hot to touch, even when laying out in the air. (Bad bearings, someone told me. Makes sense.) And that overheating was all the notice you got.
Conversely, I've seen dozens of Maxtors die without warning (and only rarely with a complaint from SMART). After Seagate bought first Conner (prone to lose data when idle) and then Maxtor, I started hearing of and seeing more that just...died... without a prior hint of trouble. I'm guessing what's labeled Seagate now is more Maxtor tech than not, and THAT is the real problem.
BTW someone pointed out something with the "refurbs" that are now usually our RMA replacements... Seagate found that about 60% of RMAs were actually perfectly good HDs, suffering from software errors. And that "refurb" has been individually tested, not just batch-tested like new drives. So... you may be better off with refurbs for critical storage. (Certainly the only refurb I have has been good -- it has about 60,000 hours on it.)
What would you recommend as a live-ISO to use with ddrecue already included, specifically for folks who are NOT linux-savvy?
I've used an old version of Ghost to copy a sick drive... it did thousands of retries on bad sectors, took ~24 hours to copy a few GB, but got it all -- with NO errors found in the resulting disk image. I was amazed.
I normally use SeaMonkey (as the least obnoxious of the Moz family) but when some website expects yesterday's FF build, I use Palemoon -- the only FF incarnation I can stand. -- Their general memory piggishness seems to be a cache-handling bug, probably a side effect of an hour of use generating 4000 directories and 500 files (not a typo, there are bunches of empty folders) and never cleaning up after either. I found if I clear cache every few minutes, the galloping memory usage doesn't happen.
Good info about the 64bit stuff (in your other post)... I expect that would speed up the media plugins and such.
When I was a kid, firearms safety was taught even in grade school (you didn't have a choice, you attended the class). Now, if a school required such a class, the anti-gun wackos would throw a fit about "teaching our kids to be violent", and guess which side would "win" in the news media.
To hell with the dumpsters, I'll just raid *your* garbage!:D
I love those Tyan boards... sad that it got cooked:( No UPS?? sure helped when I lived where spikes and sags were a daily event.
I don't own anything as modern as a LGA775, other than a dual-core AMD that's about 6 years old. Next best in my collection is the iBase MB800 and it's just a P4-3GHz. (with ISA slots!)
As to the nominal topic, in my observation the average linux desktop needs about 2x the hardware as concurrent Windows to run at the same speed, so I don't think the "dropped support for 386s" means squat. Anyone running a 386 as a termnal-only server won't give a hoot about upgrades anyway.
As someone who is using a 1.8GHz as we speak... it's still plenty fast enough for most purposes.
The other everyday machine at the moment is a P3-600.
Those late P4s aren't coming my way as yet (and neither is the DDR/DDR2 I need to upgrade what I've got)... clearly I need to dig in a better grade of dumpster.
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I wouldn't either. But as it happens I own a legal copy of CS2, and the damned thing would never validate... didn't know why, didn't care enough to pursue it (I won it at a conference). So... off to download what I already have a right to.
Wars may have got it started, but welfare keeps it there.
For our first 150 years or so, the U.S. got by on tariffs just like most of the world at the time. It was enough, and gov't was forced to live within its means. Then came the concept that gov't should take care of everyone, but someone's gotta fund that, and voila, tax-and-spend is born in America.
If you grew up with them, and had what was a basic education when I was a kid, there's no difficulty in converting.
Now get off my lawn!
Much of the northern U.S. has repeated freeze/thaw conditions during the winter, thus "black ice" (transparent, often not visible against the pavement) is a routine winter hazard... and it is NOT signaled by a big, obvious blizzard either. (In fact, blizzard conditions tend to be far less slippery; your main hazard is getting stuck, or having a wheel get "grabbed" by the deeper snow along the edge of the road.)
What I wonder about, tho, is whether this road-based lighting might create its own hazard. In densely-falling snow, light shining into the snow reflects, sometimes so badly that you literally can't see a damn thing outside your windshield but a bright white mass of snow. Turn off your headlights, and you can see a LOT better. Might road-level lighting create a similarly hazardous visual "fog" in falling or blowing snow?
Oregon also has a fine of up to $6,250 for littering -- that's right, littering will cost you more than the fine for assault (in CA, max penalty for assault on a LEO is $5000, presumably OR's is similar). Does kinda point out where OR's priorities are.
But back to the real topic, the budget shortfall -- if last fall's resurfacing of US93 thru OR's SE corner is any indication, the amount of sheer waste and makework must be incredible. In this case, instead of restriping the road immediately after resurfacing it, they invested at least the same manpower, and probably quite a lot more time and money, in placing 50 miles of signs (every two miles in both directions, on posts set in the ground which is very time-consuming work) informing drivers that there was no center stripe. A month later they finally restriped it, which also involved taking down all those temporary signs. I'd guess they spent 4-5 times as much as if they'd just striped the damned highway in the first place (even if they had to hire a contractor to do it).
This is why I like the idea of an escalating fee schedule for copyright. First 7 or 14 years, very small fee. And then double it every 7 years. You could renew copyright indefinitely, so long as it was financially viable for you to do so, but when a given copyright became unprofitable for you, then you could let it go into the public domain.
Copyright was never intended to be permanent for any work.
I think more to the point, is that handgun owners are also more likely to own rifles and shotguns... more shit to steal once you've ID'd your target.
I lied; it's worse. Here's some math:
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/8/25/221617/881#comment-93851
The figures I've seen were 5 gallons of diesel to produce 4 gallons of ethanol. And as someone below notes, that doesn't account for the fact that it has to be trucked, it can't be moved by pipeline. So I'd guess the final tally is more like 6 or 7 gallons of diesel used to put 4 gallons of ethanol in your tank.
An AC coughed up this:
Trinity Rescue Kit -- http://trinityhome.org/
Comes with ddrescue and smartmontools, along with a lot of other useful software for working with Windows systems.
Sounds quite useful. Thanks to both of you!
I've been a WD bigot for over 15 years now... out of all the ...perhaps 200 or so (anecdotal level but still a reasonable sample) WDs I've used or maintained, I've only seen ONE fail without warning, and likely from *lack* of use as it was 8YO but had only 2600 hours on it (apparently sitting doing nothing is not so good; from what I've read the magnet can start affecting stuff and then the head gets stuck and you get the clank-of-death). I have some with over 11 years running 24/7. I've nursed several along for years after they came down with the creepiing crud. They do occasionally die, but with that one exception, they've always given me plenty of warning (even without SMART).
The Seagates I'd seen had been generally reliable, but when they died, went in a blaze of glory -- literally got too hot to touch, even when laying out in the air. (Bad bearings, someone told me. Makes sense.) And that overheating was all the notice you got.
Conversely, I've seen dozens of Maxtors die without warning (and only rarely with a complaint from SMART). After Seagate bought first Conner (prone to lose data when idle) and then Maxtor, I started hearing of and seeing more that just ...died... without a prior hint of trouble. I'm guessing what's labeled Seagate now is more Maxtor tech than not, and THAT is the real problem.
BTW someone pointed out something with the "refurbs" that are now usually our RMA replacements... Seagate found that about 60% of RMAs were actually perfectly good HDs, suffering from software errors. And that "refurb" has been individually tested, not just batch-tested like new drives. So... you may be better off with refurbs for critical storage. (Certainly the only refurb I have has been good -- it has about 60,000 hours on it.)
What would you recommend as a live-ISO to use with ddrecue already included, specifically for folks who are NOT linux-savvy?
I've used an old version of Ghost to copy a sick drive... it did thousands of retries on bad sectors, took ~24 hours to copy a few GB, but got it all -- with NO errors found in the resulting disk image. I was amazed.
I normally use SeaMonkey (as the least obnoxious of the Moz family) but when some website expects yesterday's FF build, I use Palemoon -- the only FF incarnation I can stand. -- Their general memory piggishness seems to be a cache-handling bug, probably a side effect of an hour of use generating 4000 directories and 500 files (not a typo, there are bunches of empty folders) and never cleaning up after either. I found if I clear cache every few minutes, the galloping memory usage doesn't happen.
Good info about the 64bit stuff (in your other post)... I expect that would speed up the media plugins and such.
D'oh!!
I did notice TFA had an agenda to push, largely about how terrible humans are compared to other animals. I smell an AR influence.
When I was a kid, firearms safety was taught even in grade school (you didn't have a choice, you attended the class). Now, if a school required such a class, the anti-gun wackos would throw a fit about "teaching our kids to be violent", and guess which side would "win" in the news media.
Which explains this utility..
http://www.sfxmachine.com/tppro/
or 3) people who just do what the computer tells them will nearly always pick "Yes" when confronted with such a question.
A whole bunch of arguments against automated ticketing, all in one place: http://www.thenewspaper.com/
To hell with the dumpsters, I'll just raid *your* garbage! :D
I love those Tyan boards... sad that it got cooked :( No UPS?? sure helped when I lived where spikes and sags were a daily event.
I don't own anything as modern as a LGA775, other than a dual-core AMD that's about 6 years old. Next best in my collection is the iBase MB800 and it's just a P4-3GHz. (with ISA slots!)
As to the nominal topic, in my observation the average linux desktop needs about 2x the hardware as concurrent Windows to run at the same speed, so I don't think the "dropped support for 386s" means squat. Anyone running a 386 as a termnal-only server won't give a hoot about upgrades anyway.
"...working T-Bird Athlon"
Waitaminnut.. is that a Tyan board?
As someone who is using a 1.8GHz as we speak... it's still plenty fast enough for most purposes.
The other everyday machine at the moment is a P3-600.
Those late P4s aren't coming my way as yet (and neither is the DDR/DDR2 I need to upgrade what I've got) ... clearly I need to dig in a better grade of dumpster.
I am SOOO jealous!!
I'm using one that does up to 1680x1050, but the only setting where it didn't fuck up the aspect ratio was at 1440x900. WTF kind of size is that?
As to size, I can deal with a movie being letterboxed... but dammit, I need both height AND correct aspect ratio at some sensible resolution.
A slight rephrasing:
To expect Joe Sixpack to use the Bible as the basis of their rationale behind whether to accept Jesus is unreasonable.