Humans have been messing with Australia for about 40,000 years. One of the current versions of the history show that there was a huge wombat like creature that did a very good job of cleaning out the underbrush. Apaerently these things where as large as cows and would eat huge amounts of underbrush. The humans came along and had the giant wombats for dinner and then the underbrush built up and the massive fires started. The humans figured out that if they start the fires, more of them are likly to survive and they would have more stuff to eat. Some of the trees have adapted and now there are a few types that loose their leaves in the summer buring season and have leaves in the winter. Odd development for only 40k years.
Australia is also home to the oldest existing rainforest. Some of the forests are millions of years old. It even appears that some of the existing rainforest would periodcly adapt to winters below the antartic circle.
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The breeding population is unknown. There is a slight chance that this thing isn't extinct yet, its just there have been no confirumed sightings since the 1930s. However Tasmania is a very rural place and there is the chance that some of these creatures are still there. I don't think most people in the world understand just how few people there are in some places in Australia. For example Cape Tribulation is a major town on the north east side (its on your maps). Its got a stable population of about 100 and has power till 10:00 at night. A days hike from there and you can be places where people haven't been in a very long time.
Back to the Tasmanian Tiger.
They aren't cats.
The are marsupials and they were also known as the Tassy Wolf. The "Tiger" name was a result of their stripes.
Marsupials have a number of strange breeding habbits. They can put their young "on hold" during times of little water and food. The time between mating and birth isn't a set time like almost all other animals. They young ones just stop growing for a while. All their young are born in a much less developed state than mammels as well. They also seem to have a way of laying low that can make some of them very difficult to find. Most Aussie animals don't have many if any preditors since the Tiger and Tassy Devil were about the only two that hunted larger animals.
Wild dogs wiped them off the mainland less than 4000 years ago.
I've worked for way too many goverment groups in the past and the best advice was from a water engineer at the soil conservation survice.
The goverment works like a large bolder rolling down the hill. You can't stop it but you can change its direction if you push it at the right time and place.
Years ago I used this while working for DISA (DIMA's parent, they control the IT for the AF, as well as the Army, Navy etc in theory). DISA had decided that GOSIP email was the one true way and nothing was going to change that. Ok fine. Its a messed up version of X400 based on some of the worst code I have ever seen. I attended lots of meetings where lots was discussed but nothing was ever done. At the time I managed a large email system that involved some 87,000 users over 12 main systems. It was the largest system of its kind in the goverment. From what I had learned while working at SCS, I did the only reasonable thing which was to ask a Col if I could make a change to the propsed migration document. I changed one line to allow both X.400 migration system as well as SMTP migration. That got included in the main document, which became the long term plan and now thanks to cut and past into other docs, fully allows SMTP as valid part of the GOSSIP systems.
One edit and I killed X.400. Not bad for goverment work.
First of all disk cache isn't high speed cache like your CPU uses. Its cheap standard dram type memory.
You don't need 2mb cache. Its pointless on modern drives. What you need is at least two full virtual "tracks" worth. Since most OS's want to format the drive so that its less than 1024 tracks that means a large ide disk will need 2*63*255*512=~16m bytes just to hold a virutal track mapping. If the drive doesn't have that, then when you do a large request, it will span real physical tracks and it will take several revolutions to get your data while you wait.
Of course this much memory would add nearly $16 to the price of a modern drive.
In 2002? I know the compter industry.
If they say next quarter they mean next year.
If they say more than a year, its still in R&D and may never see the light of day.
At work I'm using 30gig ide hard drives as disposable backup media for my sun farm which all uses SCSI because sun/solaris sucks beyond belief with IDE drives.
At home I just got a WD 30gig drive and I can't play mp3's while ripping anymore. I used to have a maxtor 6 gig ide drive that didn't cause problems.
My new system has 2 IDE busses.
0a 30 gig drive+dvd player
0b 10x dvd player
1a removable (that I hot swap)
1b not used
This sucks because I should have the DVD drive on a different controler than the main HD but I can't hot swap on the second contoller without playing games with master/slave switches and all the removable drives are jumpperd as master (remember the disosable removable meda from above?). It looks like I need another controller.
Do you know how many 30 gig drives you can buy for the price of a reliable scsi tape system and tapes?
Flourescent lights make light two ways. Generly the first is a huge surge of UV light at something like 30% duty cycle at the frequency of the AC power. This surge would look about like a 500 W UV light if you could see it and the bulbs weren't filtering most of it out. The other bit of light is a result of the UV light exciting the flourescent material in the tube and that glows with a almost but not quite white glow. Our eyes do pick up some of the UV surge but we don't "see" it.
As far as flourescent bulbs being more enviromentaly friendly, they aren't. They typicaly use less power to operate but they take far more power to make. They are full of toxic chemicals (including mercury) which can't even been recycled in most areas. A well designed system will use less power but all it takes is one transformer in 100 to go bad and that may change. I don't know how may times I've found transformers that were converting more than 100W into heat.
The small little flourescent bulbs that are replacing normal light bulbs are the worrst. They are even sold by some enviromental groups as being a good thing. Lets see, they have all the toxic chemicals as the typical 4' tubes concentrated in a small package. They use transistors to do the switching so its production involved even more fun chemicals. How about all that plastic too? And once the things are a few years old, the transformers are only about 10% efficent which blows any savings from operating the stilly things. I have yet to see them last any longer than good incondecent bulbs. One last warning since I don't want this to happen to anyone else --don't point these facts out to your friendly greenpeace people unless you can deal with a crying enviromentalist:-)
Last night while watching Logan's Run, I was wondering when they would remake it.
I'm willing to bet that the new one won't have any of the cool special effects that only were done a few decades ago. Who could forget the Ft Worth water park, mat paintings and all that plexiglas tubing.
Remember the Star Wars film was stolen from a theater charging $3.50. Sure NY is more expensive but why do the small theaters here charge more? Its due to people like Village getting exclusive rights and ripping off anyone they can.
This is exactly why another group in a different area needs to bring the same kind of suit against SBC. Then all the partys involved need to make sure that Wall Street knows about the problem. SBC will not do a damn thign unless they are forced by the FCC, courts or upset stock holders. There is nothing that will get a large company moving faster than their stock price going down for a reason they can pinpoint.
Its about time these idots learn that if they advertise "internet access" that means full tcp/ip including server. They can limit bandwidth to servers on shared media like cable but they can't simply say "no servers" because that isn't "Internet Access".
Trolling or not, Metallica is marketed to that group.
I haven't seen Jazz marketed towards any group. Same goes with Classical & Gsopel.
Your right about Heavy metal. How many pimple cream ads do you see scaatterd about the videos?
Sure they aren't part of culture but their money still puts coke on the table in LA.
Get a clue. Modern music is about big payoffs and the musicians are just discardable pawns in the game.
If you want to hear bands that play in pubs near where I live, check out my web site
Why is it that most musicians I know have a huge collection of cutouts CD? For thouse that don't know, a cutout is a deeply discounted CD thats been cut on the spine of the jewel case. That is done to mark the CD as no longer in the normal retail channel and so the artist does not get any thing from the sale and may even be billed for the production of the CD.
As far as the story is concerned, I can see Lars is concerned. As far as the big money is concerend he (and his pissy band) are the "heavy metal" band so his stuff get pushed on to the 14 yr old market segment. Napster allows that market to hear new stuff which makes them look like shit. Its not like he's got it anymore and their last stuff rocked less than J Jett/L Ford did when there were doing suff under the name the Runaways and they where maybe 16 when they did that.
As far as the recent ruling thanks to the fine price fixers at the MPAA. There is a solution. Its a simple solution but will make people reading this sick. Its write a windows program (yes I mentioned the w word) that rips DVDs and puts them into several ISO images and then another program that takes the ISO images and plays a DVD quality movie. If you think these bozos are hot under the coller now, wait till that gets released. It would be even more amusing if the name of the program was something you wouldn't want to say to a judge. Hell if they don't do something about theater prices in Australia (a movie is now running US$8.50), I may write the damn thing myself.
Press Release
Redmond WA
Today Mircosfot Announced that they would port the best selling office automation package known as Microsfot Office [tm] to the Linux operating system....blah blah blah
Press Release
Redomnd WA
Today Microsoft said they had stoped production of the much awaited Linux version of Microsoft Office. Comapny officals claim that the many versions of Linux make it difficult to provide a stable product and that the development team had problems using the avalable development systems...FUD...FUD...FUD...Linux Bashing...more priase of w2k...stuff that will scare a PHB away from Linux....FUD...
As far as the broadcasting over the net....
Anyone got about $100,000 to piss off the IOC? Thats what it would take to put a good camera in a helicopter for a few events and get the data to a to a well connected streaming server. Of course the banner ads would quickly make up for that. Most of the Olympic park in Sydney would be a radio mess but with good antennas in the right places, wireless ethernet will work. The real problem is that once security knows whats going on, you loose the camera, equipment and other tickets but thouse problems can be solved with enough $$.
I expect the next great thing [tm] in memory will be better interfaces to the cheaper and well known memory that we already have.
There have been people adding things like fast static ram in dram chips for a while but it never took off.
With the widespread use of flash memory, I would love to see a flash package that is smart enough to remap bad blocks once they are detected. Its a real pain that my rio now can't write to block 0 most of the time because its developed a problem.
What is being done to help with syncing issues? As multi-media gets more widespread, its going to be very useful to have the sound playback systems independent from the graphics but with a losely controled sync signals. One feature that seems to be missing is to be able to say "play the audio frame 3433 to start in exactly 2.1 seconds". Fixed bitrates make that easy but VBR gets to be a real mess unless there is extra info in the audio data.
Or maybe its a huge PR stunt. Keep in mind that these companies know they can't work together. Look at what happend when Sun and AT&T climbed in bed with each other to concieve system Vr4. That was a huge mess and both parties gave up after the first release. How about the DEC, IBM, HP mess? About the only "standard" that came out of that orgy was Motif which was supplied by IBM (who bought it from someone else)
These large companies know that if they announce these colabortive efforts, its good for their stock prices and that nothing will ever come from it.
So yet another usenet portal bites the dust. That doesn't bother me nearly as much as the number of major usenet sites that are looking for peers. Last week I got a message from my best feed saying that that they are closing down their own nntp server becuase they only have a few customers that use it and thouse tend to like the alt.sex.binarys.isoimages and wares groups. Now most isps aren't running their own news servers anymore and just farm it out to someone that just takes care of it. So much for distributed news. Thouse ISPs that do run news tend to just have one usenet feed from a backbone provider that is only running news because some sysadmin somewhere decied they needed it for their own use.
I've been running usenet (or netnews) servers since 1987 and I'm thinking that usenet as it was is slowly going away. I remember back in the days were spam didn't have a name. before it was invaded by C&S and sciencultology. when sept was when all the newbies showed up. Them where the days:-) Too bad the modern net isn't based on lots of people tring to help each other for the common good.
So if anyone needs a news peer that only will carry about 600 groups email me
I could not register so I think ICANN is a sham. Thats ok with me. I'm just not going to play their game. I will add a top level zone for every TLD they come up with and point it to where ever I feel like so if some large company decides to pay out and buy a top level name they can be assued that their potential customers that use my dns will happly get their competittions web site.
I do not support any new TLDs until the.us domain is made usable by us companies.
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Humans have been messing with Australia for about 40,000 years. One of the current versions of the history show that there was a huge wombat like creature that did a very good job of cleaning out the underbrush. Apaerently these things where as large as cows and would eat huge amounts of underbrush. The humans came along and had the giant wombats for dinner and then the underbrush built up and the massive fires started. The humans figured out that if they start the fires, more of them are likly to survive and they would have more stuff to eat. Some of the trees have adapted and now there are a few types that loose their leaves in the summer buring season and have leaves in the winter. Odd development for only 40k years.
Australia is also home to the oldest existing rainforest. Some of the forests are millions of years old. It even appears that some of the existing rainforest would periodcly adapt to winters below the antartic circle.
The breeding population is unknown. There is a slight chance that this thing isn't extinct yet, its just there have been no confirumed sightings since the 1930s. However Tasmania is a very rural place and there is the chance that some of these creatures are still there. I don't think most people in the world understand just how few people there are in some places in Australia. For example Cape Tribulation is a major town on the north east side (its on your maps). Its got a stable population of about 100 and has power till 10:00 at night. A days hike from there and you can be places where people haven't been in a very long time.
Back to the Tasmanian Tiger.
They aren't cats.
The are marsupials and they were also known as the Tassy Wolf. The "Tiger" name was a result of their stripes.
Marsupials have a number of strange breeding habbits. They can put their young "on hold" during times of little water and food. The time between mating and birth isn't a set time like almost all other animals. They young ones just stop growing for a while. All their young are born in a much less developed state than mammels as well. They also seem to have a way of laying low that can make some of them very difficult to find. Most Aussie animals don't have many if any preditors since the Tiger and Tassy Devil were about the only two that hunted larger animals.
Wild dogs wiped them off the mainland less than 4000 years ago.
I've worked for way too many goverment groups in the past and the best advice was from a water engineer at the soil conservation survice.
The goverment works like a large bolder rolling down the hill. You can't stop it but you can change its direction if you push it at the right time and place.
Years ago I used this while working for DISA (DIMA's parent, they control the IT for the AF, as well as the Army, Navy etc in theory). DISA had decided that GOSIP email was the one true way and nothing was going to change that. Ok fine. Its a messed up version of X400 based on some of the worst code I have ever seen. I attended lots of meetings where lots was discussed but nothing was ever done. At the time I managed a large email system that involved some 87,000 users over 12 main systems. It was the largest system of its kind in the goverment. From what I had learned while working at SCS, I did the only reasonable thing which was to ask a Col if I could make a change to the propsed migration document. I changed one line to allow both X.400 migration system as well as SMTP migration. That got included in the main document, which became the long term plan and now thanks to cut and past into other docs, fully allows SMTP as valid part of the GOSSIP systems.
One edit and I killed X.400. Not bad for goverment work.
First of all disk cache isn't high speed cache like your CPU uses. Its cheap standard dram type memory.
You don't need 2mb cache. Its pointless on modern drives. What you need is at least two full virtual "tracks" worth. Since most OS's want to format the drive so that its less than 1024 tracks that means a large ide disk will need 2*63*255*512=~16m bytes just to hold a virutal track mapping. If the drive doesn't have that, then when you do a large request, it will span real physical tracks and it will take several revolutions to get your data while you wait.
Of course this much memory would add nearly $16 to the price of a modern drive.
In 2002? I know the compter industry.
If they say next quarter they mean next year.
If they say more than a year, its still in R&D and may never see the light of day.
At work I'm using 30gig ide hard drives as disposable backup media for my sun farm which all uses SCSI because sun/solaris sucks beyond belief with IDE drives.
At home I just got a WD 30gig drive and I can't play mp3's while ripping anymore. I used to have a maxtor 6 gig ide drive that didn't cause problems.
My new system has 2 IDE busses.
0a 30 gig drive+dvd player
0b 10x dvd player
1a removable (that I hot swap)
1b not used
This sucks because I should have the DVD drive on a different controler than the main HD but I can't hot swap on the second contoller without playing games with master/slave switches and all the removable drives are jumpperd as master (remember the disosable removable meda from above?). It looks like I need another controller.
Do you know how many 30 gig drives you can buy for the price of a reliable scsi tape system and tapes?
I'm not into idol warship.
I do agree about the gutters. Use of the trusty clueby4 can be very messy.
Flourescent lights make light two ways. Generly the first is a huge surge of UV light at something like 30% duty cycle at the frequency of the AC power. This surge would look about like a 500 W UV light if you could see it and the bulbs weren't filtering most of it out. The other bit of light is a result of the UV light exciting the flourescent material in the tube and that glows with a almost but not quite white glow. Our eyes do pick up some of the UV surge but we don't "see" it.
:-)
As far as flourescent bulbs being more enviromentaly friendly, they aren't. They typicaly use less power to operate but they take far more power to make. They are full of toxic chemicals (including mercury) which can't even been recycled in most areas. A well designed system will use less power but all it takes is one transformer in 100 to go bad and that may change. I don't know how may times I've found transformers that were converting more than 100W into heat.
The small little flourescent bulbs that are replacing normal light bulbs are the worrst. They are even sold by some enviromental groups as being a good thing. Lets see, they have all the toxic chemicals as the typical 4' tubes concentrated in a small package. They use transistors to do the switching so its production involved even more fun chemicals. How about all that plastic too? And once the things are a few years old, the transformers are only about 10% efficent which blows any savings from operating the stilly things. I have yet to see them last any longer than good incondecent bulbs. One last warning since I don't want this to happen to anyone else --don't point these facts out to your friendly greenpeace people unless you can deal with a crying enviromentalist
Last night while watching Logan's Run, I was wondering when they would remake it.
I'm willing to bet that the new one won't have any of the cool special effects that only were done a few decades ago. Who could forget the Ft Worth water park, mat paintings and all that plexiglas tubing.
I must admit I did like the costums.
Thats close. but the key here is simple enough for a windows user to use it and a million windows users using it.
Remember the Star Wars film was stolen from a theater charging $3.50. Sure NY is more expensive but why do the small theaters here charge more? Its due to people like Village getting exclusive rights and ripping off anyone they can.
This is exactly why another group in a different area needs to bring the same kind of suit against SBC. Then all the partys involved need to make sure that Wall Street knows about the problem. SBC will not do a damn thign unless they are forced by the FCC, courts or upset stock holders. There is nothing that will get a large company moving faster than their stock price going down for a reason they can pinpoint.
Its about time these idots learn that if they advertise "internet access" that means full tcp/ip including server. They can limit bandwidth to servers on shared media like cable but they can't simply say "no servers" because that isn't "Internet Access".
Trolling or not, Metallica is marketed to that group.
I haven't seen Jazz marketed towards any group. Same goes with Classical & Gsopel.
Your right about Heavy metal. How many pimple cream ads do you see scaatterd about the videos?
Sure they aren't part of culture but their money still puts coke on the table in LA.
Get a clue. Modern music is about big payoffs and the musicians are just discardable pawns in the game.
If you want to hear bands that play in pubs near where I live, check out my web site
Why is it that most musicians I know have a huge collection of cutouts CD? For thouse that don't know, a cutout is a deeply discounted CD thats been cut on the spine of the jewel case. That is done to mark the CD as no longer in the normal retail channel and so the artist does not get any thing from the sale and may even be billed for the production of the CD.
As far as the story is concerned, I can see Lars is concerned. As far as the big money is concerend he (and his pissy band) are the "heavy metal" band so his stuff get pushed on to the 14 yr old market segment. Napster allows that market to hear new stuff which makes them look like shit. Its not like he's got it anymore and their last stuff rocked less than J Jett/L Ford did when there were doing suff under the name the Runaways and they where maybe 16 when they did that.
As far as the recent ruling thanks to the fine price fixers at the MPAA. There is a solution. Its a simple solution but will make people reading this sick. Its write a windows program (yes I mentioned the w word) that rips DVDs and puts them into several ISO images and then another program that takes the ISO images and plays a DVD quality movie. If you think these bozos are hot under the coller now, wait till that gets released. It would be even more amusing if the name of the program was something you wouldn't want to say to a judge. Hell if they don't do something about theater prices in Australia (a movie is now running US$8.50), I may write the damn thing myself.
Thats nothing compared to mistyping a command to this thing.
So does s do stop or shoot?
My guess on what will go down:
Press Release
Redmond WA
Today Mircosfot Announced that they would port the best selling office automation package known as Microsfot Office [tm] to the Linux operating system....blah blah blah
Press Release
Redomnd WA
Today Microsoft said they had stoped production of the much awaited Linux version of Microsoft Office. Comapny officals claim that the many versions of Linux make it difficult to provide a stable product and that the development team had problems using the avalable development systems...FUD...FUD...FUD...Linux Bashing...more priase of w2k...stuff that will scare a PHB away from Linux....FUD...
Most formatting assums block 0 is good. What happens when it goes bad?
Fsck the IOC.
:-)
As far as the broadcasting over the net....
Anyone got about $100,000 to piss off the IOC? Thats what it would take to put a good camera in a helicopter for a few events and get the data to a to a well connected streaming server. Of course the banner ads would quickly make up for that. Most of the Olympic park in Sydney would be a radio mess but with good antennas in the right places, wireless ethernet will work. The real problem is that once security knows whats going on, you loose the camera, equipment and other tickets but thouse problems can be solved with enough $$.
Any takers
This is just like that funky dish on the front of the Enterpirse is for--it sweeps stuff out of the way.
Can't NASA come up with any of their own ideas?
I expect the next great thing [tm] in memory will be better interfaces to the cheaper and well known memory that we already have.
There have been people adding things like fast static ram in dram chips for a while but it never took off.
With the widespread use of flash memory, I would love to see a flash package that is smart enough to remap bad blocks once they are detected. Its a real pain that my rio now can't write to block 0 most of the time because its developed a problem.
What is being done to help with syncing issues? As multi-media gets more widespread, its going to be very useful to have the sound playback systems independent from the graphics but with a losely controled sync signals. One feature that seems to be missing is to be able to say "play the audio frame 3433 to start in exactly 2.1 seconds". Fixed bitrates make that easy but VBR gets to be a real mess unless there is extra info in the audio data.
Or maybe its a huge PR stunt. Keep in mind that these companies know they can't work together. Look at what happend when Sun and AT&T climbed in bed with each other to concieve system Vr4. That was a huge mess and both parties gave up after the first release. How about the DEC, IBM, HP mess? About the only "standard" that came out of that orgy was Motif which was supplied by IBM (who bought it from someone else)
These large companies know that if they announce these colabortive efforts, its good for their stock prices and that nothing will ever come from it.
Your not going to get my ID chip unless you cut it out of my cold dead hand!
Oh, I see you've got a knife and I can only guess why you brought along your brain trust.
Got any anaesthesia?
Wack!
[fade to black, then our hero wakes up]
Officer, someone mugged me and cut out my chip!
No officer I didn't steal that mp3-- someone is framing me -- please don't put me in jail.
So yet another usenet portal bites the dust. That doesn't bother me nearly as much as the number of major usenet sites that are looking for peers. Last week I got a message from my best feed saying that that they are closing down their own nntp server becuase they only have a few customers that use it and thouse tend to like the alt.sex.binarys.isoimages and wares groups. Now most isps aren't running their own news servers anymore and just farm it out to someone that just takes care of it. So much for distributed news. Thouse ISPs that do run news tend to just have one usenet feed from a backbone provider that is only running news because some sysadmin somewhere decied they needed it for their own use.
:-) Too bad the modern net isn't based on lots of people tring to help each other for the common good.
I've been running usenet (or netnews) servers since 1987 and I'm thinking that usenet as it was is slowly going away. I remember back in the days were spam didn't have a name. before it was invaded by C&S and sciencultology. when sept was when all the newbies showed up. Them where the days
So if anyone needs a news peer that only will carry about 600 groups email me
I could not register so I think ICANN is a sham. Thats ok with me. I'm just not going to play their game. I will add a top level zone for every TLD they come up with and point it to where ever I feel like so if some large company decides to pay out and buy a top level name they can be assued that their potential customers that use my dns will happly get their competittions web site.
.us domain is made usable by us companies.
I do not support any new TLDs until the