And google lets you download the video as avi in Linux (usually). YouTube doesn't seem to do this last I checked. Does that mean they just locked me out of their video content entirely?
I put FreeBSD 6.2 on it since that's what I'm most familiar with. When you cut the kernel options down it's actually pretty agile. I just used the case that Soekris Eng sells with the extra 4 port ethernet card. Because it's an actual PC that means you have to use crossover cables to connect to another PC directly. I'm not sure what you mean by zones.
It's a good time for these kind of PCs actually. You used to have to optimize systems to fit on a card, but a 512Mb CF card is $10 now - you can fit a default FreeBSD install on that with no optimizations easy. Laptop hard drives are also an option but I've been hearing bad things about the long term durability with running these things 24/7
I feel sort of lucky that my wife at least understands me this way. I got tired of problems with my netgear firewall/router so built my own out of a soekris net4801. When she asked what I was doing, I told her that I was replacing the old one with something that basically does the same thing (and some much more interesting things) but set up on my own.
Usually about this time she'll ask me a couple questions with some inquisitive looks and that's about it. Explaining this stuff to normal people usually results in the rolling of eyes and questions like "why bother" etc. Often the same people who bitch about how much everything costs because they can't do anything themselves.
I brought this up one time in a forum and most people just blew me off, but I still believe it to be true. Some people say they will not get a PS3. Others have a wait and see approach. And others will "wait for the price to drop" (a lot). It's only a sliver which actually bought them.
So what's the problem here? With everyone WAITING for the ps3 to drop in price, no one is purchasing them so economies of scale will actually ramp up. Sony is probably already loath to produce units for much longer since they're already sitting on the shelves just about everywhere. Unless that killer game comes out pretty soon, the price hit for the ps3 may last longer than Sony anticipated - which would probably make the ps3 even more of a financial liability.
Are you referring to the pump in dump scams in which the company has nothing to do with the spam email, because I don't see how that's going to help them. It also sounds like a great way to limit your competition by sending spam emails on behalf of your competitors.
The video game landscape has changed. Nintendo has plenty of games with blood now, and probably wouldn't stop you from killing Nazis in a game, which I fail to see anything wrong with.
Something similar has already happened I think although not intentionally. Some viruses in their attempt to spread themselves would send a bunch of junk out, and if a printer was on the other side then it would start spewing out garbage. I've also seen nmap scans lock up print servers / printers as well - sometimes with a line or two of stuff printed off.
China isn't free to do whatever it wants either because they rely on the U.S. to buy it's products. Sad fact is that this is a global economy and if the U.S. or Europe were to simply fall over dead, the global economy would go in the crapper along with it for a while. Can they do whatever they like within their own country? Well they have already, and everyone is already sort of scared of how dependent on China they really are, so no one says anything. Would China actually shoot down someone else's satellite? Not in the current world climate.
The Chinese aren't stupid. Times are good in much of China with an economy that is doing so well the government is trying to slow its growth. So why piss in the swimming pool when everything is okay? Truthfully I laugh when any American says China is a threat. They have us exactly where they want us but are at the same time dependent on us. This symbiotic relationship creates a strange stalemate that is much more peaceful than the cold war before it despite the fact that China is still quite communist and violating human rights, etc. I'm as worried about China shooting satellites down with lasers as I am about Japan suddenly producing Gundam robots. In either case it's pretty much harmless.
While I agree with you, this isn't the Holicene period. I often correct people who claim we are making CO2 and putting it in the atmosphere. No, we're putting it BACK. All the oil came from what? Yes things that were living and on the surface. At one time that same CO2 was part of the Earth's cycle.
However during such an age endless hurricanes, droughts and other natural disasters may have been a fact of life for dinosaurs, but it's not good for human society. The great extinction changed the face of the earth not just in the death of the dinosaurs, but giving plants a chance to remove so much CO2 from the environment that the weather patterns probably became much more sane.
Maybe it was truly hotter, however that doesn't mean we want to go back to those days either.
As someone who has little interest in Star Trek I have to admit that it's a nice setup. Now if he did a shoddy job I'd say it was crap, but he must have spent a lot of time getting that setup just right. I don't think you have to be a Trek fan to enjoy the novelty of it. Why is it so trendy to make home theaters look like real theaters now? This guy just took it to the next level.
I'm curious if he has any sound effects set up for the room.
Depends on how literally you take the term "law". It's about as law-like as say, Murphy's law. Lets not even get started on how people mis quote the law in ways that have nothing to do with transistors..
Using Gentoo (yes I use Gentoo) I've seen a noticeable increase as well using exactly the same apps, with only the compile arch changing. I'm not sure about 15% but I have seen a difference. My original system was compiled against an athlon-xp (-02), so most of the processor features since the i686 was introduced were in there. Going to an athlon64 (-02) basically added some sse things in the compile. Unless sse is responsible for the fair performance increase - which I doubt - then I would say just moving to 64bit and getting some features like twice as many registers gives you a decent speed upgrade.
That depends. For a simple mirror configuration I believe I worked it out that a 1 lane channel was enough bandwidth by itself. For more aggressive Raid 5 setups you will need more than one lane. That's why you could get a 4 lane card from a vendor like 3ware.
Here's the hitch though, many mainboard manufacturers are cutting corners and giving you a 4 lane slot with 1 lane bandwidth. So in a way this could help because of the crap the Chinese give us, the upgrade to PCIe2 will at least force the 1 lane to be twice as fast as it is now.
she doesn't have anybody to practice with, so she's forgetting it again!
This is the same problem I had. I learned a bit of German for a while then got burnt out on it and it faded away. Then I learned Japanese to an passable level but found that although I watch Japanese movies/TV I'm tending to still grow more and more rusty. Right now I'm learning Polish because my wife (and her family) is Polish. She thinks I'm crazy because Polish isn't very useful compared to other languages, but my theory is that when I pick up enough Polish I'll be able to converse with her on a regular basis to keep it alive in my mind. I'm hoping I might be able to springboard that and learn a bit of Czech too.
If done right I think this could be a good thing. For instance look at all the hooks required in a web browser for Javascript - the source of MANY IE and Firefox problems. By making one browser a static layout engine without Javascript, Active X, Java, Plugins or any of that other junk this could really make Outlook more secure.
Cases are part of the problem. Intel realized this and that's part of what BTX is about, and I have to say the design really makes sense. Move air in a reasonable fashion through the case for more effective cooling. Current CPU cooling is totally asinine in the way you smash air directly against the heatsink to spill the hot air out in random directions throughout the case. It wasn't a problem back in the 486 days when you consider the microscopic fan size, but now it's truly beyond help.
I'm not sure who this thing is really targeted at. BTX at least was focused on replacing ATX as a better alternative. AMD admits that it wants to drive up desktop sales because laptops are now dominating computer purchasing more. They then cite that desktops are more upgradeable than laptops. Then it says the DTX will have ONE pcie slot. What is DTX trying to accomplish? A platform trying to capture the Mac Mini market I'm guessing (however big that is).
While true to some extent this is a bit different. My understanding is that this could easily be fixed with a simple registry import - that's like what, 2kb worth of bandwidth from MS if they didn't just give a simple patch? I'd say your analogy would be more like Ford not fixing the speedometer when it was simply as easy as driving your car to a dealer and having him fix it by touching your car with a magic wand.
MS is just making this more inconvenient to "push" people to newer systems. Win2k is still under extended support until 2010 after all.
One day America will look around and say, there's so much opportunity for those that know where to go, but why aren't Americans filling these jobs?
What will be interesting is the fact that people will not be able to find senior level staff here. The general consensus is that when you have junior level staff they eventually become capable senior staff. That was cut out with outsourcing. The natural assumption is that we simply get senior level staff from India, however it doesn't look like people over there are coming up the ranks to be on par with the top level people they will need to replace.
It should be interesting when the day comes when no one can find anybody with the skills needed to do what they require.
But this isn't just a problem with outsourcing but also coupled with hiring. No one wants to invest in developing skills of that fresh college grad - they all want "x years experience". If they do get in and get paid too much they dump the employee, who at some point may not be able to get a job because they're overqualified.
I could be wrong, but my answer to your questions:
It is still "hot" but we don't get energy here on earth through the radiation (we could probably get more from the sun), instead we get it from fission. As someone else mentioned we could reprocess the "waste" to get the stuff that is still useful back out. Getting energy from radioactive materials isn't practical in terms of power generation unless you're under unusual circumstances like space probes.
Stuff came from the ground true, but what we're looking at is basically concentration. If you say dug up a mountain then put it back with the radioactive waste distributed evenly then it probably would qualify as basically harmless. However that again isn't too practical. Stuffing it underground I don't think is a real issue if it's deep enough, and you're absolutely sure it's clear of the water table and will no longer interact with the surface. Displacement from earthquakes could be an issue there however.
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And google lets you download the video as avi in Linux (usually). YouTube doesn't seem to do this last I checked. Does that mean they just locked me out of their video content entirely?
I put FreeBSD 6.2 on it since that's what I'm most familiar with. When you cut the kernel options down it's actually pretty agile. I just used the case that Soekris Eng sells with the extra 4 port ethernet card. Because it's an actual PC that means you have to use crossover cables to connect to another PC directly. I'm not sure what you mean by zones.
It's a good time for these kind of PCs actually. You used to have to optimize systems to fit on a card, but a 512Mb CF card is $10 now - you can fit a default FreeBSD install on that with no optimizations easy. Laptop hard drives are also an option but I've been hearing bad things about the long term durability with running these things 24/7
I feel sort of lucky that my wife at least understands me this way. I got tired of problems with my netgear firewall/router so built my own out of a soekris net4801. When she asked what I was doing, I told her that I was replacing the old one with something that basically does the same thing (and some much more interesting things) but set up on my own.
Usually about this time she'll ask me a couple questions with some inquisitive looks and that's about it. Explaining this stuff to normal people usually results in the rolling of eyes and questions like "why bother" etc. Often the same people who bitch about how much everything costs because they can't do anything themselves.
I brought this up one time in a forum and most people just blew me off, but I still believe it to be true. Some people say they will not get a PS3. Others have a wait and see approach. And others will "wait for the price to drop" (a lot). It's only a sliver which actually bought them.
So what's the problem here? With everyone WAITING for the ps3 to drop in price, no one is purchasing them so economies of scale will actually ramp up. Sony is probably already loath to produce units for much longer since they're already sitting on the shelves just about everywhere. Unless that killer game comes out pretty soon, the price hit for the ps3 may last longer than Sony anticipated - which would probably make the ps3 even more of a financial liability.
Not surprising since last I checked rockbox didn't support the 80gb iPod.
Are you referring to the pump in dump scams in which the company has nothing to do with the spam email, because I don't see how that's going to help them. It also sounds like a great way to limit your competition by sending spam emails on behalf of your competitors.
It's not like you can clone the game this way.
Played Final Fantasy lately? It's close.
The video game landscape has changed. Nintendo has plenty of games with blood now, and probably wouldn't stop you from killing Nazis in a game, which I fail to see anything wrong with.
Evidence - Wii Launch title: Call of Duty 3.
Sort of hard to leverage your monopoly when you don't bundle everything.
Something similar has already happened I think although not intentionally. Some viruses in their attempt to spread themselves would send a bunch of junk out, and if a printer was on the other side then it would start spewing out garbage. I've also seen nmap scans lock up print servers / printers as well - sometimes with a line or two of stuff printed off.
China isn't free to do whatever it wants either because they rely on the U.S. to buy it's products. Sad fact is that this is a global economy and if the U.S. or Europe were to simply fall over dead, the global economy would go in the crapper along with it for a while. Can they do whatever they like within their own country? Well they have already, and everyone is already sort of scared of how dependent on China they really are, so no one says anything. Would China actually shoot down someone else's satellite? Not in the current world climate.
The Chinese aren't stupid. Times are good in much of China with an economy that is doing so well the government is trying to slow its growth. So why piss in the swimming pool when everything is okay? Truthfully I laugh when any American says China is a threat. They have us exactly where they want us but are at the same time dependent on us. This symbiotic relationship creates a strange stalemate that is much more peaceful than the cold war before it despite the fact that China is still quite communist and violating human rights, etc. I'm as worried about China shooting satellites down with lasers as I am about Japan suddenly producing Gundam robots. In either case it's pretty much harmless.
While I agree with you, this isn't the Holicene period. I often correct people who claim we are making CO2 and putting it in the atmosphere. No, we're putting it BACK. All the oil came from what? Yes things that were living and on the surface. At one time that same CO2 was part of the Earth's cycle.
However during such an age endless hurricanes, droughts and other natural disasters may have been a fact of life for dinosaurs, but it's not good for human society. The great extinction changed the face of the earth not just in the death of the dinosaurs, but giving plants a chance to remove so much CO2 from the environment that the weather patterns probably became much more sane.
Maybe it was truly hotter, however that doesn't mean we want to go back to those days either.
As someone who has little interest in Star Trek I have to admit that it's a nice setup. Now if he did a shoddy job I'd say it was crap, but he must have spent a lot of time getting that setup just right. I don't think you have to be a Trek fan to enjoy the novelty of it. Why is it so trendy to make home theaters look like real theaters now? This guy just took it to the next level.
I'm curious if he has any sound effects set up for the room.
Depends on how literally you take the term "law". It's about as law-like as say, Murphy's law. Lets not even get started on how people mis quote the law in ways that have nothing to do with transistors..
Using Gentoo (yes I use Gentoo) I've seen a noticeable increase as well using exactly the same apps, with only the compile arch changing. I'm not sure about 15% but I have seen a difference. My original system was compiled against an athlon-xp (-02), so most of the processor features since the i686 was introduced were in there. Going to an athlon64 (-02) basically added some sse things in the compile. Unless sse is responsible for the fair performance increase - which I doubt - then I would say just moving to 64bit and getting some features like twice as many registers gives you a decent speed upgrade.
That depends. For a simple mirror configuration I believe I worked it out that a 1 lane channel was enough bandwidth by itself. For more aggressive Raid 5 setups you will need more than one lane. That's why you could get a 4 lane card from a vendor like 3ware.
Here's the hitch though, many mainboard manufacturers are cutting corners and giving you a 4 lane slot with 1 lane bandwidth. So in a way this could help because of the crap the Chinese give us, the upgrade to PCIe2 will at least force the 1 lane to be twice as fast as it is now.
she doesn't have anybody to practice with, so she's forgetting it again!
This is the same problem I had. I learned a bit of German for a while then got burnt out on it and it faded away. Then I learned Japanese to an passable level but found that although I watch Japanese movies/TV I'm tending to still grow more and more rusty. Right now I'm learning Polish because my wife (and her family) is Polish. She thinks I'm crazy because Polish isn't very useful compared to other languages, but my theory is that when I pick up enough Polish I'll be able to converse with her on a regular basis to keep it alive in my mind. I'm hoping I might be able to springboard that and learn a bit of Czech too.
omg.ponies
If done right I think this could be a good thing. For instance look at all the hooks required in a web browser for Javascript - the source of MANY IE and Firefox problems. By making one browser a static layout engine without Javascript, Active X, Java, Plugins or any of that other junk this could really make Outlook more secure.
Cases are part of the problem. Intel realized this and that's part of what BTX is about, and I have to say the design really makes sense. Move air in a reasonable fashion through the case for more effective cooling. Current CPU cooling is totally asinine in the way you smash air directly against the heatsink to spill the hot air out in random directions throughout the case. It wasn't a problem back in the 486 days when you consider the microscopic fan size, but now it's truly beyond help.
I'm not sure who this thing is really targeted at. BTX at least was focused on replacing ATX as a better alternative. AMD admits that it wants to drive up desktop sales because laptops are now dominating computer purchasing more. They then cite that desktops are more upgradeable than laptops. Then it says the DTX will have ONE pcie slot. What is DTX trying to accomplish? A platform trying to capture the Mac Mini market I'm guessing (however big that is).
or a loyal partner =P
While true to some extent this is a bit different. My understanding is that this could easily be fixed with a simple registry import - that's like what, 2kb worth of bandwidth from MS if they didn't just give a simple patch? I'd say your analogy would be more like Ford not fixing the speedometer when it was simply as easy as driving your car to a dealer and having him fix it by touching your car with a magic wand.
MS is just making this more inconvenient to "push" people to newer systems. Win2k is still under extended support until 2010 after all.
I would think it would have to be since the assumption is that machines may be in different timezones in the same domain.
One day America will look around and say, there's so much opportunity for those that know where to go, but why aren't Americans filling these jobs?
What will be interesting is the fact that people will not be able to find senior level staff here. The general consensus is that when you have junior level staff they eventually become capable senior staff. That was cut out with outsourcing. The natural assumption is that we simply get senior level staff from India, however it doesn't look like people over there are coming up the ranks to be on par with the top level people they will need to replace.
It should be interesting when the day comes when no one can find anybody with the skills needed to do what they require.
But this isn't just a problem with outsourcing but also coupled with hiring. No one wants to invest in developing skills of that fresh college grad - they all want "x years experience". If they do get in and get paid too much they dump the employee, who at some point may not be able to get a job because they're overqualified.
I could be wrong, but my answer to your questions:
It is still "hot" but we don't get energy here on earth through the radiation (we could probably get more from the sun), instead we get it from fission. As someone else mentioned we could reprocess the "waste" to get the stuff that is still useful back out. Getting energy from radioactive materials isn't practical in terms of power generation unless you're under unusual circumstances like space probes.
Stuff came from the ground true, but what we're looking at is basically concentration. If you say dug up a mountain then put it back with the radioactive waste distributed evenly then it probably would qualify as basically harmless. However that again isn't too practical. Stuffing it underground I don't think is a real issue if it's deep enough, and you're absolutely sure it's clear of the water table and will no longer interact with the surface. Displacement from earthquakes could be an issue there however.