The big problem with send and receive is that if you have any bit errors in the data stream receive will back out everything. That means its useless for long term backup where you might only need to get one file off an tape since its an all or nothing. I think ZFS's biggest failure at this point is a lack of a way to do backups without modifying the meta data on the files.
My laptop goes on trips with me all the time and they are more likely to get broken than stolen if you attempt to keep it safe. Over a decade ago I would travel with my SparcBOOK but now nearly every backpacker seems to have a laptop.
Most laptops have a "figure 8" non-grounded cord on their power brick but a few have a "mickey mouse" grounded type (Wikipedia IEC c5 c7 for pics). You may be able to find a UK style figure 8 cable before you leave. The plug will be a massive thing with 3 square plugs that will be about the size of a dryer plug and google "UK plug" will show you an image. UK plugs have fuses in them and the power point will have a switch. The cord in a UK shop may be called a "flex" and I expect you can find it at the local Tandy shop. Just check that your power supply can cope with 240V. A replacement cord is much easier to carry around than the huge power adapters.
If your staying at nice hotels you should have a safe big enough to lock the laptop. If your staying at a backpackers, just find an old beat up laptop to take along and it will be safe since everyone will have a nicer faster laptop.
Be careful where your flights arrive and leave from. There are several international airports in London and Gatwick is the second most common. Cheap round trips have been known to leave from a different airport. UK Immigration will ask you if your there to work and they will want proof that your going back. Even with a return ticket they may not be happy and I know people who were sent back. Just have documentation that of where you will be staying and when you will be back and that sort of thing. Also for return customs, you can clear customs back to the US in Puerto Rico which is preferable to JFK in many ways.
SA was a hack on the early systems and the newest sats don't have that ability at all. The SA adjuster on older sats is a motor driven thing and it has been broken on several sats since before SA was turned off. The new sats have spot beams which can be used to turn off GPS (and may have the ability to introduce random jitter in the outbound signals) in part of the world but the USAF has local GPS jamming that works far better. The problem with turning on SA or blocking GPS in a local area is that having GPS work properly is more useful than having it broken since the US is in a better position to use the technology in a hostile location than the locals are at using it to fight back.
The cool bit is that it was known that SR/GR would be an issue before they even launched the 1st sat so there are several ways they can adjust the drift in the clocks both in space and on the ground. It is one reason why GPS is good to less than 10 meters while other space based attempts were good for about a half mile or so.
The observation of GPS clocks and some unexplained issues are why Gravity Probe B was created. Dr. Parkinson was one of the project leaders on both projects.
Its a power play. He could turn off google in a second and I'm sure people have told him that. What he is after is to get all the other news papers to say "Hey, he is right, lets turn off access to google and charge!" He wants to be the last one standing in that game and he is in a reasonable position to be the last one standing in that game since he does own a few of the news papers that people will pay to read.
In a corporate environment it isn't hard to manage such a list outside of the scope of the system. Even in a home environment it would be a huge step forward.
A solution that would help a great deal is to white list the programs that can run and deny everything else. Microware's OS 9 had this back in 1982 or so.
Except that there is a lag on the speed details from the GPS engine. In many cases that tends to be about 5 seconds. The Kalman filter has to go through several iterations to deal with dx, dy & dz when going from a dead stop to a steady speed. If the acceleration wasn't smooth or the signal was bounced around due to multi-path, there is a very good chance that the GPS didn't know the speed at the time.
Ethiopia is going to end up being Africa's equivalent o New Zealand for Australia or Madagascar for Africa. What has happened before will happen again.
There is an ISO standard for testing bulbs. To get a 6000 hr rating, 1/2 the bulbs must last 6000 hours. The other half can die with in seconds of the start of the test and they can all be dead at 6001 hours. Also the lights only have to produce some light at 6000 hours but that can be 1/100th of their rated level and it would still pass.
Ever consider hiring a librarian? I've worked at 3 small companies that had one and they were far more profitable than most of their competition because there was someone in charge of organizing the data.
It's not so much that he wants a bigger slice of the pie, its that he has to talk up every other newspaper in to going to a charge for content model before he turns off Google. If Google was smart, they would simply stop crawling his sites until he comes back begging. Murdoch owns most of the newspapers that aren't going to die in the next few years but he owns lots that will be dead in a less than a year and I think he is spooked by the numbers. For the last few decades the newspaper was paid for by ads from car dealers, real-estate and classified ads all of which are down significantly. Ever notice how Murdoch's news papers never mention Craig's list? The larger dealers have negotiated with many news papers to keep their ads the same size as they have been for years so it doesn't look like the paper is getting smaller.
My concern would be that sometimes the flow is backwards in small areas and that might help flush junk off of membranes. Even in areas where the pressure gets very low, osmotic pressure might back flush some membranes. That wouldn't be a problem for short term use but I suspect it will mess up something in the very long term.
I have a bunch of cheap CFL bulbs and every single one of them came in a box that says they will save 80% yet not a single one will. The best I've found so far is a very expensive CFL that is 64% but some of the cheapest (like some from Ikea) are worse than incandescent bulbs. If every single CFL manufacturer in the world seems to be willing to lie to me, why won't the other appliance makers? Also where are the government departments that are supposed to keep customers from getting ripped off?
I'm running Safari 4 on an Intel imac but I have 3.2.1 loaded via Multi-Safari. I run Safari 3 on an PPC G4 notebook since Safari 4 seemed to kill its battery and performance. I can't stand how slow Firefox seems on the same machines but I've only found Safari 4 will use up all the CPUs for no good reason. I would love have a symbol added to the "Window" menu options that told me which windows were eating up all the ram/cpu since I'll frequently have 20 to 30 windows open.
Melbourne Australia currently has a network that covers a surprisingly large area and we keep adding nodes. I run one of the fiber connected backbone nodes where we have access to the local peering exchange.
We are even linking to other free wireless networks via tunnels as well so our network now reaches all the way to Adelaide. We are looking to connect to other networks so if anyone wants to link to our network, get in touch with me.
Something else that has been observed but mostly not well understood is how this may effect rainfall. There are a couple of low level magnetic north poles sitting off Perth and they formed about the same time as the rain stopped in that area.
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The Vectra was based on a platform that came from the 900 -> 900NG -> 93 line.
Backup software should not modify the metadata such as access times on the files.
The big problem with send and receive is that if you have any bit errors in the data stream receive will back out everything. That means its useless for long term backup where you might only need to get one file off an tape since its an all or nothing. I think ZFS's biggest failure at this point is a lack of a way to do backups without modifying the meta data on the files.
My laptop goes on trips with me all the time and they are more likely to get broken than stolen if you attempt to keep it safe. Over a decade ago I would travel with my SparcBOOK but now nearly every backpacker seems to have a laptop.
Most laptops have a "figure 8" non-grounded cord on their power brick but a few have a "mickey mouse" grounded type (Wikipedia IEC c5 c7 for pics). You may be able to find a UK style figure 8 cable before you leave. The plug will be a massive thing with 3 square plugs that will be about the size of a dryer plug and google "UK plug" will show you an image. UK plugs have fuses in them and the power point will have a switch. The cord in a UK shop may be called a "flex" and I expect you can find it at the local Tandy shop. Just check that your power supply can cope with 240V. A replacement cord is much easier to carry around than the huge power adapters.
If your staying at nice hotels you should have a safe big enough to lock the laptop. If your staying at a backpackers, just find an old beat up laptop to take along and it will be safe since everyone will have a nicer faster laptop.
Be careful where your flights arrive and leave from. There are several international airports in London and Gatwick is the second most common. Cheap round trips have been known to leave from a different airport. UK Immigration will ask you if your there to work and they will want proof that your going back. Even with a return ticket they may not be happy and I know people who were sent back. Just have documentation that of where you will be staying and when you will be back and that sort of thing. Also for return customs, you can clear customs back to the US in Puerto Rico which is preferable to JFK in many ways.
How do they tax aluminum foil over the antenna?
SA was a hack on the early systems and the newest sats don't have that ability at all. The SA adjuster on older sats is a motor driven thing and it has been broken on several sats since before SA was turned off. The new sats have spot beams which can be used to turn off GPS (and may have the ability to introduce random jitter in the outbound signals) in part of the world but the USAF has local GPS jamming that works far better. The problem with turning on SA or blocking GPS in a local area is that having GPS work properly is more useful than having it broken since the US is in a better position to use the technology in a hostile location than the locals are at using it to fight back.
The cool bit is that it was known that SR/GR would be an issue before they even launched the 1st sat so there are several ways they can adjust the drift in the clocks both in space and on the ground. It is one reason why GPS is good to less than 10 meters while other space based attempts were good for about a half mile or so.
The observation of GPS clocks and some unexplained issues are why Gravity Probe B was created. Dr. Parkinson was one of the project leaders on both projects.
Its a power play. He could turn off google in a second and I'm sure people have told him that. What he is after is to get all the other news papers to say "Hey, he is right, lets turn off access to google and charge!" He wants to be the last one standing in that game and he is in a reasonable position to be the last one standing in that game since he does own a few of the news papers that people will pay to read.
In a corporate environment it isn't hard to manage such a list outside of the scope of the system. Even in a home environment it would be a huge step forward.
A solution that would help a great deal is to white list the programs that can run and deny everything else. Microware's OS 9 had this back in 1982 or so.
Except that there is a lag on the speed details from the GPS engine. In many cases that tends to be about 5 seconds. The Kalman filter has to go through several iterations to deal with dx, dy & dz when going from a dead stop to a steady speed. If the acceleration wasn't smooth or the signal was bounced around due to multi-path, there is a very good chance that the GPS didn't know the speed at the time.
Ethiopia is going to end up being Africa's equivalent o New Zealand for Australia or Madagascar for Africa.
What has happened before will happen again.
There is an ISO standard for testing bulbs. To get a 6000 hr rating, 1/2 the bulbs must last 6000 hours. The other half can die with in seconds of the start of the test and they can all be dead at 6001 hours. Also the lights only have to produce some light at 6000 hours but that can be 1/100th of their rated level and it would still pass.
Yep. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. I wasn't sleeping. I wasn't browsing the web. I was using the future of cockpit aviation.
Notice it has no CD slot? I'm guessing they just stacked the disks.
Ever consider hiring a librarian? I've worked at 3 small companies that had one and they were far more profitable than most of their competition because there was someone in charge of organizing the data.
In some countries its pronounced 'Vee-Vee-Vee'
It's not so much that he wants a bigger slice of the pie, its that he has to talk up every other newspaper in to going to a charge for content model before he turns off Google. If Google was smart, they would simply stop crawling his sites until he comes back begging. Murdoch owns most of the newspapers that aren't going to die in the next few years but he owns lots that will be dead in a less than a year and I think he is spooked by the numbers. For the last few decades the newspaper was paid for by ads from car dealers, real-estate and classified ads all of which are down significantly. Ever notice how Murdoch's news papers never mention Craig's list? The larger dealers have negotiated with many news papers to keep their ads the same size as they have been for years so it doesn't look like the paper is getting smaller.
That sounds very much like they trying to get a patent on something they just fought in court.
My concern would be that sometimes the flow is backwards in small areas and that might help flush junk off of membranes. Even in areas where the pressure gets very low, osmotic pressure might back flush some membranes. That wouldn't be a problem for short term use but I suspect it will mess up something in the very long term.
I have a bunch of cheap CFL bulbs and every single one of them came in a box that says they will save 80% yet not a single one will. The best I've found so far is a very expensive CFL that is 64% but some of the cheapest (like some from Ikea) are worse than incandescent bulbs. If every single CFL manufacturer in the world seems to be willing to lie to me, why won't the other appliance makers? Also where are the government departments that are supposed to keep customers from getting ripped off?
I'm running Safari 4 on an Intel imac but I have 3.2.1 loaded via Multi-Safari. I run Safari 3 on an PPC G4 notebook since Safari 4 seemed to kill its battery and performance. I can't stand how slow Firefox seems on the same machines but I've only found Safari 4 will use up all the CPUs for no good reason. I would love have a symbol added to the "Window" menu options that told me which windows were eating up all the ram/cpu since I'll frequently have 20 to 30 windows open.
Melbourne Australia currently has a network that covers a surprisingly large area and we keep adding nodes. I run one of the fiber connected backbone nodes where we have access to the local peering exchange.
We are even linking to other free wireless networks via tunnels as well so our network now reaches all the way to Adelaide. We are looking to connect to other networks so if anyone wants to link to our network, get in touch with me.
That appears to be Motorola canopy which is not compatible with wifi and in many cases will destroy all the wifi near by.
Something else that has been observed but mostly not well understood is how this may effect rainfall. There are a couple of low level magnetic north poles sitting off Perth and they formed about the same time as the rain stopped in that area.