Let's see, 1Wh for a 500Mhz SIMD enabled ARM. Throw a couple even at the GPU, you're upto 3Wh now. Ok you need a NIC, that's probably a Wh [I don't know] when idle.
You need some tightly coupled ram for the GFX. That's a couple Watts and some ram for the main GPU another couple Watts.
All in all you're upto ~10Wh or so.
Put it this way. The PSP manages a SEVERAL processors, 3d graphics on a decent size screen, the screen, the backlight, the controls, the sound, the networking and the memories all within a couple Watts [according to Sony it's 6hrs which IIRC would be 1080mW but it's more like 3 hours in practice].
So if a PSP can do this all in [say to round up] 3Wh why can't a desktop be in 20Wh? I'm not including the monitor or stereo or whatever else you hook upto it.
In 20 Watts you could do quite a bit more and still play your games etc...
Note I'm not saying replace the AMD64 or P4 with ONLY ARM I'm saying offer the choice. This would also require people stop tying themselves to windows [or MSFT making a port to ARM/MIPS/etc].
But imagine if you could go to Dell and have a choice between that 1000$ P4 desktop and the 500$ ARM desktop sitting beside it. The ARM desktop would net you a quieter box that burns less current yet still lets you use your office apps. Then for the rest of us [btw I do number crunching too] we can buy the P4 or AMD64 box....
It's about choice and free market. Something you yuppy americans should like.
Laptops are more costly, easier to break and generally don't last as long [because you're moving them around and what not].
Not ideal for the "family computer".
Even then, keep in mind your adapter is usually running a couple amps at 14-20V which is much better than a desktop but still peaks upwards of 100Wh.
Now imagine, you replaced your power hungry processor and GPU with two SIMD enabled MIPS or ARM processors. You just dropped 12-20Wh [at idle] of power usage down to say 0.5Wh.
My laptop for instance at idle consumes ~1050mAh at 16V which is 16.8Wh of which the CPU is roughly 7-9Wh and the GPU is probably 2-3Wh.
The typical ARM core is less than 0.5mW/Mhz meaning that at peak [500Mhz] an ARM core draws less than half a Watt yet nets you upto 550 MIPS of processing power. Certainly way more than enough to post on slashdot, chat on gaim and reply to that critical business email all at the same time.
Sure the ARM won't get you into the Ghz range or more than 1.1 MIPS/Mhz like the Athlon64 will. For the people who crunch numbers [I do that too] you can't beat [for consumer prices] an AMD64.
However, I'd gladly buy an ARM or MIPS powered [prefer ARM though] laptop if it meant that my 50Wh battery would last 12 hours instead of 4. Since the ARM is smaller it's also easier to manufacture which reduces the cost of the processor and in turn the cost of the machine. Since it doesn't need active cooling you drop weight and cost again to remove the heatsink and fan which in turn also raises the battery life.
etc, etc, etc.
There are MANY benefits to an ARM or MIPS powered laptop/desktop outside of just being "a cool little deviant running a hippie processor". Many of the benefits should interest the "suits" as well [e.g. lower cost laptop == more sales == more market share == more investors == longer trips to the beach].
Typical BS reply. "it's my right to have it!" then put up with the fucking noise you loser cry baby.
But know this. You like high gas prices? What do you think drives it up [hint: supply & demand].
So keep using your 450Wh computers [anther other excesses]. you'll drive power demands up higher and higher and costs higher and higher.
Or... you can play on the winning team and not live in excess.
I mean I too use [and make good use of] a dual core AMD64. But I'd love it to be more scalable too. It idles at 2.2Ghz and roughly +9C over ambient. I have no idea what the GPU is doing have the time [though I did get a low end PCI-E card...], etc, etc.
I'd say out of a given day my computer is sitting doing absolutely nothing productive around 16 hours or so. I can't turn it on and off because I often login remotely, but during the 2/3rds of the day it's not doing anything it would be nice to have it go into a sleep state of sorts, e.g. clock the cpu down to absurdly low states, heck even halt the GPU, lower the DRAM refresh, etc...
But they focus more on getting the highest frequency, largest volume, etc instead of scalable. Granted I love the AMD64 in terms of IPC and shear ability to crunch numbers. My recent Bignum work shows that the AMD64 totally floors the P4 Prescott [which floors the Athlon-XP series btw] which is useful.
As for the others, how many computer owners you imagine actually do more than trivial tasks with their computers? I'm sure that for the vast majority of computer owners an ARM core or two is more than enough processing power, a hell of a lot more scalable and cheaper to produce.
That's another thing, in another reply [a week ago] I went through the economics of making ARM... on a 300mm wafer where you have 500 P4 Prescotts you can have TENS OF THOUSANDS of ARM922T processors. That makes an ARM processor essentially a throw-away component at that cost.
You could trivially have one ARM for your main cpu, one for your GPU, one for your SPU [sound], one for your network [scalable from DC to 500Mhz] and STILL take less power than your current desktop. Yeah sure you won't get the MIPS or FPS you get now but at reasonable performance [and this would also require developers to pay attention to what they're doing], lower costs and lower power usages it's far outweighing the negative.
Look at the PSP design for instance. IIRC it has multiple [custom] MIPS processors for the various taskings and it takes a whopping 1080mWh of power [or so] to run. Your CPU fan takes more power than that [usually 12V at 0.1A that's 1200mWh].
And the PSP gets decent 3D graphics, sound, networking, general purpose and I/O in all that [granted the current goes up during DVD reads but that's another story].
So why can you play decent 3d games on a PSP in under two Watts but can't do this on a desktop in under a couple hundred Watts?
Answer? The architecture is not scalable or sustainable and was totally marketting driven.
I know I'm rambling a bit but I'm just sick of these people who are so utterly dependent on a vendor for no good reason.
I dunno the law obviously. I'd say there are benefits to being a CC though. You are no longer liable for any passengers actions, you probably get more business, etc...
Being "selective" is your right but you lose the protection of being a CC.
thirty page story full of advertisements with zero content.
Wanna lower the noise of your computer? Stop burning 450 WATTS of power to browse the web or send email.
Don't see any moving parts on your gameboy do you? Or your PDA for that matter. If desktop computers were made of APPROPRIATE parts instead of the "my computer has to be faster than yours" parts we'd have silent desktops that run in under 20 Watts of power that cost 150$ and run whatever OS you choose.
Anything short of this and you're doing to noise what we do to heat, moving the problem elsewhere. You could [for example] pump ice cold water over the heatsinks and keep the pump outside, in the basement, etc...
But that's just moving the problem elsewhere and not really solving it.
The solution is more scalable computing or appropriate choices. There is no reason, for example, why the P4 idles at 400Mhz and the AMD64 at 1Ghz other than the design can only scale so far. This matters a bit more in laptops where every mW counts.
Generally they can't just randomly block people. They can deny flights to customers they deem a risk (e.g. violent, drunk, suspicious).
But if they wholesale denied boarding of [say] black people they could hardly call themselves a common carrier. I'm sure you could also sue if you were denied a flight for which you paid for no valid legal reason.
Actually they can't because at the point where they take responsibility for the content they're no longer a common carrier.
It's like if I fly American Airlines to Chicago then go murder 800 people. Did AA "aid a criminal"? No they're a common carrier who flies anyone who is eligible.
Similarly if Telus takes up the job of filtering and re-routing specific traffic then they're responsible for [say] viruses or other malware I may stumble upon. They're no longer a common carrier if they deny access to legitimate eligible traffic.
I'm not taking any sides in the strike/business issue. Personally I think quite a few "big corps" are getting away with too much b.s. these days. That said I also think having no job is worse than having a job that doesn't pay fairly.
Though I guess at some point you have to take a stand and demand your share of the proverbial pie.
Hey you wanna sell penis pills? Why not disclose what's in them, open up to peer review and proper double blind testing? Oh right, because they're not legit that's the whole fucking point!!!
I'm not against the concept of a penis pill. Hell, if it gets thrills all the better. What I am against are snake oil peddlers trying to scam people out of their money.
Stupid people are the people who can afford the least to be scammed out of their money sadly.
Again, my point is 99.99999% of all over-the-web-meds companies are not legit. They're selling overpriced placaebos. Most if not all of them only get hits through spam.
As for "low mortgages"... Go to a bank or other brick-and-mortar. Something that lasts 5, 10, 20 years isn't supposed to be "super quick over the web" because that's likely how they screw you.
Keep this in mind
Every [and I mean EVERY] business on Earth sole purpose is to extract the money from your wallet. So if it sounds too good to be true [low interest rate, 36" penis, blah blah blah] it is. Not it's "likely is" or "probably is" it is.
Companies are not in the business [punny!] of doing favours. Occasionally they're plesant or nice to you but how much does a smile and job well done really cost anyways?
So yeah, down with these flash in the pan over night scam websites. They're a scurge on humanity and we can do without them.
Also take note that first admendment is from the government not private citizens.
Hey fuck you trying to tell me how to live. I have a RIGHT to buy that H2 hummer and drive it around accelerating how ever I please.
It's fucking yuppy idiots like you that make me sad to be an american. This is the fucking land of the free motherfucker! If you don't like it you can fucking leave!...
+1 sarcasm
Seriously though why not a bigger push towards a good metro system [or better?]. Places like California sure could use a rail line or two. Fucking escalade driving motherfuckers gotta be taken down a notch or two.
Generally yes, but it lowers the cost/risk of an attack significantly.
If I walk past your computer in the office I could sit down and rip the drive out or boot up in single mode or whatever...
But that takes time and I risk getting caught.
If I can just insert a usb dongle and then run a quick command I can now be up and going quicker [plus I can logout and leave the box like you left it].
This is just "yet another thing" MSFT got wrong further lending credence to the fact their "reports", er... "press releases" are just FUD.
I don't think you have to worry about the latter. How many legitimate penis-pill and "get rich quick" websites are there anyways?
Chances are if the website is trying to sell you herbal penis-happy-happy pills they too use spam at one point.
Though I agree with your former comment. However, realize that you don't need excess bandwidth. The idea is to fill their databases with useless information to make it harder to find any [if at all] orders were made.
Tom
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um... do raid in software and be done with. That way the point of failure is either the kernel [roll back, quick fix] or the device [rush off and buy a new one].
RAID-1 is a simple way to get a "reliable" store.
Note that copying data to RAID [any of them] is *NOT* a backup solution. It's a "temp fix" for storing data.
I use my RAID-1 [two 200GB disks I bought for 130$ each] as a simple "place to dump nightlies" which I then backup to CDR weekly. I do rely on the redundancy of RAID-1 in case I trash my CVS or home dir but my longterm backup strategy includes the weekly CDRs as well.
Some tips for good "short term backuping"
1. Use RAID-1 not RAID-0
2. Use a good file system like reiserFS that's fairly immune to the side effects of being turned off in a hurry [ntfs and ext2 are not]
3. Don't use the raid drive as a home or other frequently accessed directory. Do your backups from a well tested cronjob. The less you play with your raid drive the less likely you are to delete/mess with the files on it.
4. Do backup the files from the raid to a medium like tape or CD/DVD on a regular basis.
5. If one drive should fail, do a backup before you restore the raid. That way if you mess up restoring the raid you don't lose data [particularly beginners do this]
... um fucktard, goto a local computer shop you trust and ask them to build 40 computers. Not only will it be cheaper and easier to collect [no mailing from Texas for instance] but you can avoid the MS tax easily.
I dunno about you guys but EVERY computer [aside from my laptop since it's hard to buy laptop parts like you can desktop parts] I've bought came either with no HD at all or a blank HD which I loaded [by my choice] DOS, Windows or Linux on.
PV cells "come from this earth" but are made of things that when combined then left in a landfill create a problem.
As for the water vapor issue, time will tell on that one. However, I've been to California [re: treelessville] and if you've ever been to Ottawa you can see concreteland (tm) where clear cutting and buildings are the norm.
Yet it's still hot/warm there...
Have you ever walked through a nature trail on a sunny day? Is it totally unplesant and unbearable? I know from where I live outside of the mosquitos and what not it's actually quite ok.
The PPC [G3] is about as efficient for bignum math as the AMD Athlon-XP and the P4 ALU. See this chart for instance.
I think the G4 maybe be slightly better [the instruction set remains the same w.r.t. bignum math] but still same ballpark.
The problem with that design really is that while it has a good RISC ISA and lots of registers it's simply not meant for math. You have to execute two 4-6 cycle multiplies to get one 32x32=>64 product whereas other cpus can get the full product in 6 cycles AT A HIGHER FREQUENCY.
Where the PPC is nice though... is in embedded work. It's not quite as efficient as the ARM but can be clocked higher. So it's a good tradeoff between something like an ARM which gets enough MIPS and way low power and an Athlon which gets very high MIPS but takes a lot of power [by comparison].
All in all though I think the PPC can hold it's own against the x86 offerings. It just doesn't scale as nicely.
I don't know about the G5 though [I don't have access to one]...
I'm dead serious, I've used google for 100% of my searching since a few years. I used to use Yahoo quite a bit but Google is just faster and for the most part more relevent.
Who are these people who use msn search, yahoo, altavisa, etc???
Because they don't take no for an answer and they rely on the fact that you may not be interested but when it comes down to it you're not likely to just abruptly hang up on the person.
It's the same like the beggars in european train stations peddling two euro trash newspapers or selling address books for the blind...
They get in your face and insist you buy one...
Fortunately I just "forget how to speak french" at the exact same moment...
1. Age 2. Name 3. Sex [usually obvious] 4. Location [ask them tough questions about the locale]
Those are the easy ones, here are more fun ones
5. How long and many breaks do they get 6. Salary 7. Benefits 8. When their last holiday was 9. What school they went/go to 10. Whether they think this is a worthwhile job 11. The name of the last person they called 12. The name of the person next to them 13. The first 4 digits of their phone number [home]
and so on...
keep a scorecard handy and see how much you can get.
It's not personal, more so just annoying. Only so many times you can read/listen to the FUD machine work before you blow up.
A lot of the things you are mentioning can and do happen in Windows [and BSD and MacOS and SunOS and IRIX and...].
Yeah I've had some problems with OSS software from time to time but the minor amounts of downtime or displeasure is entirely displaced whenever I have to make changes to the system and not pay MSFT more money...
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Let's see, 1Wh for a 500Mhz SIMD enabled ARM. Throw a couple even at the GPU, you're upto 3Wh now. Ok you need a NIC, that's probably a Wh [I don't know] when idle.
You need some tightly coupled ram for the GFX. That's a couple Watts and some ram for the main GPU another couple Watts.
All in all you're upto ~10Wh or so.
Put it this way. The PSP manages a SEVERAL processors, 3d graphics on a decent size screen, the screen, the backlight, the controls, the sound, the networking and the memories all within a couple Watts [according to Sony it's 6hrs which IIRC would be 1080mW but it's more like 3 hours in practice].
So if a PSP can do this all in [say to round up] 3Wh why can't a desktop be in 20Wh? I'm not including the monitor or stereo or whatever else you hook upto it.
In 20 Watts you could do quite a bit more and still play your games etc...
Note I'm not saying replace the AMD64 or P4 with ONLY ARM I'm saying offer the choice. This would also require people stop tying themselves to windows [or MSFT making a port to ARM/MIPS/etc].
But imagine if you could go to Dell and have a choice between that 1000$ P4 desktop and the 500$ ARM desktop sitting beside it. The ARM desktop would net you a quieter box that burns less current yet still lets you use your office apps. Then for the rest of us [btw I do number crunching too] we can buy the P4 or AMD64 box....
It's about choice and free market. Something you yuppy americans should like.
Tom
Laptops are more costly, easier to break and generally don't last as long [because you're moving them around and what not].
Not ideal for the "family computer".
Even then, keep in mind your adapter is usually running a couple amps at 14-20V which is much better than a desktop but still peaks upwards of 100Wh.
Now imagine, you replaced your power hungry processor and GPU with two SIMD enabled MIPS or ARM processors. You just dropped 12-20Wh [at idle] of power usage down to say 0.5Wh.
My laptop for instance at idle consumes ~1050mAh at 16V which is 16.8Wh of which the CPU is roughly 7-9Wh and the GPU is probably 2-3Wh.
The typical ARM core is less than 0.5mW/Mhz meaning that at peak [500Mhz] an ARM core draws less than half a Watt yet nets you upto 550 MIPS of processing power. Certainly way more than enough to post on slashdot, chat on gaim and reply to that critical business email all at the same time.
Sure the ARM won't get you into the Ghz range or more than 1.1 MIPS/Mhz like the Athlon64 will. For the people who crunch numbers [I do that too] you can't beat [for consumer prices] an AMD64.
However, I'd gladly buy an ARM or MIPS powered [prefer ARM though] laptop if it meant that my 50Wh battery would last 12 hours instead of 4. Since the ARM is smaller it's also easier to manufacture which reduces the cost of the processor and in turn the cost of the machine. Since it doesn't need active cooling you drop weight and cost again to remove the heatsink and fan which in turn also raises the battery life.
etc, etc, etc.
There are MANY benefits to an ARM or MIPS powered laptop/desktop outside of just being "a cool little deviant running a hippie processor". Many of the benefits should interest the "suits" as well [e.g. lower cost laptop == more sales == more market share == more investors == longer trips to the beach].
Tom
Typical BS reply. "it's my right to have it!" then put up with the fucking noise you loser cry baby.
... you can play on the winning team and not live in excess.
But know this. You like high gas prices? What do you think drives it up [hint: supply & demand].
So keep using your 450Wh computers [anther other excesses]. you'll drive power demands up higher and higher and costs higher and higher.
Or
I mean I too use [and make good use of] a dual core AMD64. But I'd love it to be more scalable too. It idles at 2.2Ghz and roughly +9C over ambient. I have no idea what the GPU is doing have the time [though I did get a low end PCI-E card...], etc, etc.
I'd say out of a given day my computer is sitting doing absolutely nothing productive around 16 hours or so. I can't turn it on and off because I often login remotely, but during the 2/3rds of the day it's not doing anything it would be nice to have it go into a sleep state of sorts, e.g. clock the cpu down to absurdly low states, heck even halt the GPU, lower the DRAM refresh, etc...
But they focus more on getting the highest frequency, largest volume, etc instead of scalable. Granted I love the AMD64 in terms of IPC and shear ability to crunch numbers. My recent Bignum work shows that the AMD64 totally floors the P4 Prescott [which floors the Athlon-XP series btw] which is useful.
As for the others, how many computer owners you imagine actually do more than trivial tasks with their computers? I'm sure that for the vast majority of computer owners an ARM core or two is more than enough processing power, a hell of a lot more scalable and cheaper to produce.
That's another thing, in another reply [a week ago] I went through the economics of making ARM... on a 300mm wafer where you have 500 P4 Prescotts you can have TENS OF THOUSANDS of ARM922T processors. That makes an ARM processor essentially a throw-away component at that cost.
You could trivially have one ARM for your main cpu, one for your GPU, one for your SPU [sound], one for your network [scalable from DC to 500Mhz] and STILL take less power than your current desktop. Yeah sure you won't get the MIPS or FPS you get now but at reasonable performance [and this would also require developers to pay attention to what they're doing], lower costs and lower power usages it's far outweighing the negative.
Look at the PSP design for instance. IIRC it has multiple [custom] MIPS processors for the various taskings and it takes a whopping 1080mWh of power [or so] to run. Your CPU fan takes more power than that [usually 12V at 0.1A that's 1200mWh].
And the PSP gets decent 3D graphics, sound, networking, general purpose and I/O in all that [granted the current goes up during DVD reads but that's another story].
So why can you play decent 3d games on a PSP in under two Watts but can't do this on a desktop in under a couple hundred Watts?
Answer? The architecture is not scalable or sustainable and was totally marketting driven.
I know I'm rambling a bit but I'm just sick of these people who are so utterly dependent on a vendor for no good reason.
Tom
I dunno the law obviously. I'd say there are benefits to being a CC though. You are no longer liable for any passengers actions, you probably get more business, etc...
Being "selective" is your right but you lose the protection of being a CC.
Tom
thirty page story full of advertisements with zero content.
Wanna lower the noise of your computer? Stop burning 450 WATTS of power to browse the web or send email.
Don't see any moving parts on your gameboy do you? Or your PDA for that matter. If desktop computers were made of APPROPRIATE parts instead of the "my computer has to be faster than yours" parts we'd have silent desktops that run in under 20 Watts of power that cost 150$ and run whatever OS you choose.
Anything short of this and you're doing to noise what we do to heat, moving the problem elsewhere. You could [for example] pump ice cold water over the heatsinks and keep the pump outside, in the basement, etc...
But that's just moving the problem elsewhere and not really solving it.
The solution is more scalable computing or appropriate choices. There is no reason, for example, why the P4 idles at 400Mhz and the AMD64 at 1Ghz other than the design can only scale so far. This matters a bit more in laptops where every mW counts.
Tom
Generally they can't just randomly block people. They can deny flights to customers they deem a risk (e.g. violent, drunk, suspicious).
But if they wholesale denied boarding of [say] black people they could hardly call themselves a common carrier. I'm sure you could also sue if you were denied a flight for which you paid for no valid legal reason.
Tom
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/
Basically yes.
Essentially now that they're not a common carrier they're liable for every bit of kiddie porn, viruses, phishing email, etc, you name it.
They're acting out without thinking of the consequences of their actions and people have to take them down a notch.
Tom
Actually they can't because at the point where they take responsibility for the content they're no longer a common carrier.
It's like if I fly American Airlines to Chicago then go murder 800 people. Did AA "aid a criminal"? No they're a common carrier who flies anyone who is eligible.
Similarly if Telus takes up the job of filtering and re-routing specific traffic then they're responsible for [say] viruses or other malware I may stumble upon. They're no longer a common carrier if they deny access to legitimate eligible traffic.
I'm not taking any sides in the strike/business issue. Personally I think quite a few "big corps" are getting away with too much b.s. these days. That said I also think having no job is worse than having a job that doesn't pay fairly.
Though I guess at some point you have to take a stand and demand your share of the proverbial pie.
Tom
Hey you wanna sell penis pills? Why not disclose what's in them, open up to peer review and proper double blind testing? Oh right, because they're not legit that's the whole fucking point!!!
I'm not against the concept of a penis pill. Hell, if it gets thrills all the better. What I am against are snake oil peddlers trying to scam people out of their money.
Stupid people are the people who can afford the least to be scammed out of their money sadly.
Tom
Again, my point is 99.99999% of all over-the-web-meds companies are not legit. They're selling overpriced placaebos. Most if not all of them only get hits through spam.
... Go to a bank or other brick-and-mortar. Something that lasts 5, 10, 20 years isn't supposed to be "super quick over the web" because that's likely how they screw you.
As for "low mortgages"
Keep this in mind
Every [and I mean EVERY] business on Earth sole purpose is to extract the money from your wallet. So if it sounds too good to be true [low interest rate, 36" penis, blah blah blah] it is. Not it's "likely is" or "probably is" it is.
Companies are not in the business [punny!] of doing favours. Occasionally they're plesant or nice to you but how much does a smile and job well done really cost anyways?
So yeah, down with these flash in the pan over night scam websites. They're a scurge on humanity and we can do without them.
Also take note that first admendment is from the government not private citizens.
Tom
Hey fuck you trying to tell me how to live. I have a RIGHT to buy that H2 hummer and drive it around accelerating how ever I please.
...
It's fucking yuppy idiots like you that make me sad to be an american. This is the fucking land of the free motherfucker! If you don't like it you can fucking leave!
+1 sarcasm
Seriously though why not a bigger push towards a good metro system [or better?]. Places like California sure could use a rail line or two. Fucking escalade driving motherfuckers gotta be taken down a notch or two.
Tom
Generally yes, but it lowers the cost/risk of an attack significantly.
If I walk past your computer in the office I could sit down and rip the drive out or boot up in single mode or whatever...
But that takes time and I risk getting caught.
If I can just insert a usb dongle and then run a quick command I can now be up and going quicker [plus I can logout and leave the box like you left it].
This is just "yet another thing" MSFT got wrong further lending credence to the fact their "reports", er... "press releases" are just FUD.
Tom
I don't think you have to worry about the latter. How many legitimate penis-pill and "get rich quick" websites are there anyways?
Chances are if the website is trying to sell you herbal penis-happy-happy pills they too use spam at one point.
Though I agree with your former comment. However, realize that you don't need excess bandwidth. The idea is to fill their databases with useless information to make it harder to find any [if at all] orders were made.
Tom
um ... do raid in software and be done with. That way the point of failure is either the kernel [roll back, quick fix] or the device [rush off and buy a new one].
RAID-1 is a simple way to get a "reliable" store.
Note that copying data to RAID [any of them] is *NOT* a backup solution. It's a "temp fix" for storing data.
I use my RAID-1 [two 200GB disks I bought for 130$ each] as a simple "place to dump nightlies" which I then backup to CDR weekly. I do rely on the redundancy of RAID-1 in case I trash my CVS or home dir but my longterm backup strategy includes the weekly CDRs as well.
Some tips for good "short term backuping"
1. Use RAID-1 not RAID-0
2. Use a good file system like reiserFS that's fairly immune to the side effects of being turned off in a hurry [ntfs and ext2 are not]
3. Don't use the raid drive as a home or other frequently accessed directory. Do your backups from a well tested cronjob. The less you play with your raid drive the less likely you are to delete/mess with the files on it.
4. Do backup the files from the raid to a medium like tape or CD/DVD on a regular basis.
5. If one drive should fail, do a backup before you restore the raid. That way if you mess up restoring the raid you don't lose data [particularly beginners do this]
Tom
... um fucktard, goto a local computer shop you trust and ask them to build 40 computers. Not only will it be cheaper and easier to collect [no mailing from Texas for instance] but you can avoid the MS tax easily.
I dunno about you guys but EVERY computer [aside from my laptop since it's hard to buy laptop parts like you can desktop parts] I've bought came either with no HD at all or a blank HD which I loaded [by my choice] DOS, Windows or Linux on.
Tom
Problem is timing.
Take that suggestion and a time machine and go implement it in 1985.
Tom
a google search for you
PV cells "come from this earth" but are made of things that when combined then left in a landfill create a problem.
As for the water vapor issue, time will tell on that one. However, I've been to California [re: treelessville] and if you've ever been to Ottawa you can see concreteland (tm) where clear cutting and buildings are the norm.
Yet it's still hot/warm there...
Have you ever walked through a nature trail on a sunny day? Is it totally unplesant and unbearable? I know from where I live outside of the mosquitos and what not it's actually quite ok.
Tom
They have chosen a name and I still don't care.
Me and my AMD64 will keep running a Linux distro since it works very well.
How about we hold the press releases I mean articles until Microsoft open sources [even if not GPL'ed] their kernel and other core OS components?
Tom
It isn't required but it isn't illegal.
So continue using morse code and shut up already.
Fuck, christ almighty you'd think the world was coming to an end...
Tom
Just add a bit...
The PPC [G3] is about as efficient for bignum math as the AMD Athlon-XP and the P4 ALU. See this chart for instance.
I think the G4 maybe be slightly better [the instruction set remains the same w.r.t. bignum math] but still same ballpark.
The problem with that design really is that while it has a good RISC ISA and lots of registers it's simply not meant for math. You have to execute two 4-6 cycle multiplies to get one 32x32=>64 product whereas other cpus can get the full product in 6 cycles AT A HIGHER FREQUENCY.
Where the PPC is nice though... is in embedded work. It's not quite as efficient as the ARM but can be clocked higher. So it's a good tradeoff between something like an ARM which gets enough MIPS and way low power and an Athlon which gets very high MIPS but takes a lot of power [by comparison].
All in all though I think the PPC can hold it's own against the x86 offerings. It just doesn't scale as nicely.
I don't know about the G5 though [I don't have access to one]...
Tom
What?
I'm dead serious, I've used google for 100% of my searching since a few years. I used to use Yahoo quite a bit but Google is just faster and for the most part more relevent.
Who are these people who use msn search, yahoo, altavisa, etc???
Tom
Because they don't take no for an answer and they rely on the fact that you may not be interested but when it comes down to it you're not likely to just abruptly hang up on the person.
It's the same like the beggars in european train stations peddling two euro trash newspapers or selling address books for the blind...
They get in your face and insist you buy one...
Fortunately I just "forget how to speak french" at the exact same moment...
Hehehehe
Info to try and get out of them
1. Age
2. Name
3. Sex [usually obvious]
4. Location [ask them tough questions about the locale]
Those are the easy ones, here are more fun ones
5. How long and many breaks do they get
6. Salary
7. Benefits
8. When their last holiday was
9. What school they went/go to
10. Whether they think this is a worthwhile job
11. The name of the last person they called
12. The name of the person next to them
13. The first 4 digits of their phone number [home]
and so on...
keep a scorecard handy and see how much you can get.
Tom
It's not personal, more so just annoying. Only so many times you can read/listen to the FUD machine work before you blow up.
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A lot of the things you are mentioning can and do happen in Windows [and BSD and MacOS and SunOS and IRIX and
Yeah I've had some problems with OSS software from time to time but the minor amounts of downtime or displeasure is entirely displaced whenever I have to make changes to the system and not pay MSFT more money...
Tom