Do the math. A 15watt compact flouro (equivalent to a 60watt incandescent) will pay for itself in about 1000 hours. 1000 hours is the typical life of an incadescent bulb. A compact flouro has a listed lifetime of 8000 hours. Even if you replace the compact flouro at its half life you have still saved money.
If the compact flouro is not bright enough, buy a higher watt compact flouro. A 23watt compact flouro is much brighter then a 60watt incandescent but the compact flouro is still cheaper to run. The brighter light should pay for itself in 1800 hours.
assume: $0.075 per kWh, $3.50 13W compact flouro, $5 23W compact flouro, and free incandescent bulbs. Sylvania, GE, et al consider a 13W compact flouro to have the equivalent light output of a 60W soft white incandescent.
1) water absorbs many frequencies. 2.4GHz is not ideal, but is used because it is close enough, and 2.4GHz is one of the frequency bands allocated for ISM use (industrial, scientific, medical).
3) Standing waves are not required to heat stuff up. To deliver maxium power from the magnetron you need to match its impedance. For a microwave oven to work safely you also need to contain all of the emf radiation. A properly shaped cavity will satisfy both requirements. You can just as easily heat stuff up with a magnetron and a feed horn, but then you have the problem of cooking anything infront of the horn as well as your food.
I agree. Now that consumers can make a direct comparision of a Dell with a Mac it is going to be harder for Apple to set Macs apart. Judgeing by the number of people buying bottom end Dells, trying to market "hardware quality" is not going to gain market share. Apple is going to have to sell Macs on MacOS alone.
I think the home market is more then ready for MacOS. People of fed up with Windows and its problems. However home users are paying at most $500 for a disposable computer with monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and maybe even a printer. Good luck trying to convince them to pay only $150 for a Mac Mini with the same junk. Worst there is no $650 Mac Mini bundle at the Apple store.
I don't own a mac but I have always liked them. I will be in the market for a laptop next year. I hope there will be a 12" x86 powerbook then.
But that's unpossible! Apple would never ship a computer using a chip with known problems. I don't believe those papers. Some anti-mac stupid wintel weanie must have hacked those websites and posted those fake files.
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It is a sad day when pointless powerpc mac fanboyism is posted as news that matters. I find it odd how many Mac fans are hopeing that switch to Intel will fail. It is a small but vocal minority. They have been looking for every reason to hate the new x86 Macs, from technical limitations, to grand conspiracies. All the while they dream of Cell based Macs that never would have been made.
Apple switched to Intel because Apple needed to work with a manufacturer who is dedicated to making chips for personal computers. Neither IBM (servers) nor Freescale (embeded) has that dedication.
switch to screen + btlaunchmanycurses.py. It is easier to manage. Set --minport and --maxport to the same port and you only need to open/forward a single port your firewall. (Do this and your d/l rate will increase dramatically.) The option --max_upload_rate can manage the traffic of all the torrents. Just copy your torrent files to a single directory monitored by btlaunchmanycurses. Delete the torrents when you are done.
Steve Gibson is not technically gifted. He may understand computers and software but he only has a shallow understanding of computer security. Gibson does a decent job of sumarizing what other security professionals write. And he does a very good job of writing about himself.
A USB gps device can be easily used to timesync that way. Older modems could be put into a mode to decode the time from a dialup server. A suspect that a few HAM groups have a circuit that will decode the time too. However anyone who has cared about time accuracy has had access to NTP for two decades, and access to GPS recievers for almost as long. The radio broadcast time is less accurate then NTP unless you are right next to the transmitter. The radio waves skip across the atmosphere causeing unpredictable jitter. GPS is ofcourse the most accurate short of having your own atomic clock.
ATI has a well deserved reputation for shipping bad drivers and related software (control panel, etc). It is a common theme in old Anandtech.com and Tomshardware.com articles. It had been a problem for ATI since the early windows 3.0 days. The Radeon 9700 was a real shocker: not only was ATI faster then Nvidia, but the drivers didn't suck.
Encryption is not always the answer. A single block error could render an entire encrypted archive useless. There is also the problem of managing the encryption keys. Security is about more then just denying access to data. Ensuring access to data is an aspect of data security that is just as important.
Herbivore suffers from man in the middle attacks. It listed as a problem with their system but they don't have any clear solution. Many encryption systems that try to be easy or seemless suffer from the same problem. Any system that is based off of OpenPGP (gnupg/pgp) requires human intervention and oversight. OpenPGP relies on humans manageing keys and the web of trust. To date any system that tried to hide the complexity of OpenPGP key management from the user has failed due to man in the middle attacks. An encrypted mail system that is invisible to the user probably requires a central authority to manage keys (x509 + ldap). Unfortunately no central authority has shown itself to be trustworthy.
Do not use OTR. It is snake oil. It is trivial to launch a man in the middle attack against OTR. It simply cannot work as designed. The current recommendation to use a phone call or similar out of band communication is questionable.
In general, well known encryption systems such as OpenPGP (pgp/gnupg), or SSL/TLS are more secure then "home-brew" encryption. The well known systems are understood and well tested. Other encryption systems often miss important details that render the encryption useless. A secure system is much more then a 256 bit AES algorithm.
Use one of the jabber clients that supports OpenPGP (gnupg) encrypted messages. Jabber SSL is not a full solution. Several clients are prone to man in the middle attacks as those clients do no validate the server certificates. Jabber with SSL does not provide client to client encryption and authentication either. Jabber with OpenPGP does.
it would require a radical change in how the internet currently works
No it wouldn't. It is a common myth. TCP/IP was desgined to allow for dumb routers so that it is resiliant to damage. But TCP/IP does not enforce this feature. There is nothing to prevent smart routers from prioritising packets or simply dropping packets into the void. There is nothing preventing AT&T from closeing their massive network and disconnecting it from the Internet. The rest of the Internet will continue to function as designed, but that is little comfort to whose people who are left with an inferior network at a higher price.
Canadian pop uses real sugar. The label would list corn syrup if that is what it used. Also Canadian pop is Kosher (look for Pavere on the can), and HFCS is not Kosher.
You can taste the difference. American coke tastes funny.
I have had good experiences with HP, IBM, and Sun support. All have sent out technicians to fix problems promptly. Dell support is alright, but you need to twist their arm some time.
For rackmount gear go with a name brand. I have had nothing but trouble with generic white box rackmount gear. Recently a stack of 20 antec cases was 1/4" too high to fit in the industry standard rack.
For non rackmount servers I will go with HP/IBM/Sun if I want SCSI or similar server features. For really low end stuff I might go with white box but only if the hardware budget is an issue, or if I need a specialty box with specific hardware. If I go with a white box I always use higher end components so their isn't much of a price difference anyway.
The biggest issue I have had with white box machines is that the hardware was not designed to run 24/7 and it fails. Despite what the tweakers think most white box server cases have poor heat management. Adding more fans is not the solution when the harddrives sit in a dead zone of low air movement.
And again the support from HP, IBM, and Sun is really nice.
I want to know how they expect to regain their subscription levels. They can run all the media blitzes they want but the gaming websites reviews are all negative.
The majority of corporate data theft is by malicious insiders. The second most frequent cause is accidental (selling harddrive full of data). Malicious remote attacks are probably less then 10%. This is conjecture ofcourse. It is hard to get real numbers on malicious insiders and harder still to get numbers on accidental causes. These numbers don't include the popular worms and trojans which don't usually access coporate data.
So called application firewalls are snake-oil. It is just another bad hack attempting to fix broken services. The only way an application firewall can work is if it is a feature complete version of the service that needs protecting. It is easier to fix the broken service.
The Stars Wars sets are excellent. The sets from the original SW series in particular. Many are as good as the original mini person space sets from two decades ago. Who ever is in charge of these sets is an old school Lego fan. The sets are solidly built using basic bricks with a few bits of SW specific trim. The attention to detail is excellent. The Jar Jar sets aren't as good.
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Switch to higher power lights. 15-17W instead of the 13W or the rather dim 11W lights.
The colour issue has been solved for a while now. The dirt cheap lights may look like crap but the Sylvania and GE are fine.
Do the math. A 15watt compact flouro (equivalent to a 60watt incandescent) will pay for itself in about 1000 hours. 1000 hours is the typical life of an incadescent bulb. A compact flouro has a listed lifetime of 8000 hours. Even if you replace the compact flouro at its half life you have still saved money.
If the compact flouro is not bright enough, buy a higher watt compact flouro. A 23watt compact flouro is much brighter then a 60watt incandescent but the compact flouro is still cheaper to run. The brighter light should pay for itself in 1800 hours.
assume: $0.075 per kWh, $3.50 13W compact flouro, $5 23W compact flouro, and free incandescent bulbs. Sylvania, GE, et al consider a 13W compact flouro to have the equivalent light output of a 60W soft white incandescent.
1) water absorbs many frequencies. 2.4GHz is not ideal, but is used because it is close enough, and 2.4GHz is one of the frequency bands allocated for ISM use (industrial, scientific, medical).
3) Standing waves are not required to heat stuff up. To deliver maxium power from the magnetron you need to match its impedance. For a microwave oven to work safely you also need to contain all of the emf radiation. A properly shaped cavity will satisfy both requirements. You can just as easily heat stuff up with a magnetron and a feed horn, but then you have the problem of cooking anything infront of the horn as well as your food.
What gps in my cell phone?
I agree. Now that consumers can make a direct comparision of a Dell with a Mac it is going to be harder for Apple to set Macs apart. Judgeing by the number of people buying bottom end Dells, trying to market "hardware quality" is not going to gain market share. Apple is going to have to sell Macs on MacOS alone.
I think the home market is more then ready for MacOS. People of fed up with Windows and its problems. However home users are paying at most $500 for a disposable computer with monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and maybe even a printer. Good luck trying to convince them to pay only $150 for a Mac Mini with the same junk. Worst there is no $650 Mac Mini bundle at the Apple store.
I don't own a mac but I have always liked them. I will be in the market for a laptop next year. I hope there will be a 12" x86 powerbook then.
But that's unpossible! Apple would never ship a computer using a chip with known problems. I don't believe those papers. Some anti-mac stupid wintel weanie must have hacked those websites and posted those fake files.
</stupidity>
It is a sad day when pointless powerpc mac fanboyism is posted as news that matters. I find it odd how many Mac fans are hopeing that switch to Intel will fail. It is a small but vocal minority. They have been looking for every reason to hate the new x86 Macs, from technical limitations, to grand conspiracies. All the while they dream of Cell based Macs that never would have been made.
Apple switched to Intel because Apple needed to work with a manufacturer who is dedicated to making chips for personal computers. Neither IBM (servers) nor Freescale (embeded) has that dedication.
switch to screen + btlaunchmanycurses.py. It is easier to manage. Set --minport and --maxport to the same port and you only need to open/forward a single port your firewall. (Do this and your d/l rate will increase dramatically.) The option --max_upload_rate can manage the traffic of all the torrents. Just copy your torrent files to a single directory monitored by btlaunchmanycurses. Delete the torrents when you are done.
Steve Gibson is not technically gifted. He may understand computers and software but he only has a shallow understanding of computer security. Gibson does a decent job of sumarizing what other security professionals write. And he does a very good job of writing about himself.
A USB gps device can be easily used to timesync that way. Older modems could be put into a mode to decode the time from a dialup server. A suspect that a few HAM groups have a circuit that will decode the time too. However anyone who has cared about time accuracy has had access to NTP for two decades, and access to GPS recievers for almost as long. The radio broadcast time is less accurate then NTP unless you are right next to the transmitter. The radio waves skip across the atmosphere causeing unpredictable jitter. GPS is ofcourse the most accurate short of having your own atomic clock.
ATI has a well deserved reputation for shipping bad drivers and related software (control panel, etc). It is a common theme in old Anandtech.com and Tomshardware.com articles. It had been a problem for ATI since the early windows 3.0 days. The Radeon 9700 was a real shocker: not only was ATI faster then Nvidia, but the drivers didn't suck.
DLT7000 holds 35GB uncompressed.
LTO-3 holds 400GB uncompressed.
As you could not get these two basic facts correct one can only assume that you are talking out of your ass.
Encryption is not always the answer. A single block error could render an entire encrypted archive useless. There is also the problem of managing the encryption keys. Security is about more then just denying access to data. Ensuring access to data is an aspect of data security that is just as important.
Herbivore suffers from man in the middle attacks. It listed as a problem with their system but they don't have any clear solution. Many encryption systems that try to be easy or seemless suffer from the same problem. Any system that is based off of OpenPGP (gnupg/pgp) requires human intervention and oversight. OpenPGP relies on humans manageing keys and the web of trust. To date any system that tried to hide the complexity of OpenPGP key management from the user has failed due to man in the middle attacks. An encrypted mail system that is invisible to the user probably requires a central authority to manage keys (x509 + ldap). Unfortunately no central authority has shown itself to be trustworthy.
Do not use OTR. It is snake oil. It is trivial to launch a man in the middle attack against OTR. It simply cannot work as designed. The current recommendation to use a phone call or similar out of band communication is questionable.
In general, well known encryption systems such as OpenPGP (pgp/gnupg), or SSL/TLS are more secure then "home-brew" encryption. The well known systems are understood and well tested. Other encryption systems often miss important details that render the encryption useless. A secure system is much more then a 256 bit AES algorithm.
Use one of the jabber clients that supports OpenPGP (gnupg) encrypted messages. Jabber SSL is not a full solution. Several clients are prone to man in the middle attacks as those clients do no validate the server certificates. Jabber with SSL does not provide client to client encryption and authentication either. Jabber with OpenPGP does.
it would require a radical change in how the internet currently works
No it wouldn't. It is a common myth. TCP/IP was desgined to allow for dumb routers so that it is resiliant to damage. But TCP/IP does not enforce this feature. There is nothing to prevent smart routers from prioritising packets or simply dropping packets into the void. There is nothing preventing AT&T from closeing their massive network and disconnecting it from the Internet. The rest of the Internet will continue to function as designed, but that is little comfort to whose people who are left with an inferior network at a higher price.
John Howard.
And too many poisonous snakes. oh wait....
Canadian pop uses real sugar. The label would list corn syrup if that is what it used. Also Canadian pop is Kosher (look for Pavere on the can), and HFCS is not Kosher.
You can taste the difference. American coke tastes funny.
I have had good experiences with HP, IBM, and Sun support. All have sent out technicians to fix problems promptly. Dell support is alright, but you need to twist their arm some time.
For rackmount gear go with a name brand. I have had nothing but trouble with generic white box rackmount gear. Recently a stack of 20 antec cases was 1/4" too high to fit in the industry standard rack.
For non rackmount servers I will go with HP/IBM/Sun if I want SCSI or similar server features. For really low end stuff I might go with white box but only if the hardware budget is an issue, or if I need a specialty box with specific hardware. If I go with a white box I always use higher end components so their isn't much of a price difference anyway.
The biggest issue I have had with white box machines is that the hardware was not designed to run 24/7 and it fails. Despite what the tweakers think most white box server cases have poor heat management. Adding more fans is not the solution when the harddrives sit in a dead zone of low air movement.
And again the support from HP, IBM, and Sun is really nice.
I want to know how they expect to regain their subscription levels. They can run all the media blitzes they want but the gaming websites reviews are all negative.
First read the Acts of Gord. Then really consider if you want to run a game store.
An Apple media centre won't have a tv tuner. Apple wants to sell tv shows via iTunes.
The majority of corporate data theft is by malicious insiders. The second most frequent cause is accidental (selling harddrive full of data). Malicious remote attacks are probably less then 10%. This is conjecture ofcourse. It is hard to get real numbers on malicious insiders and harder still to get numbers on accidental causes. These numbers don't include the popular worms and trojans which don't usually access coporate data.
So called application firewalls are snake-oil. It is just another bad hack attempting to fix broken services. The only way an application firewall can work is if it is a feature complete version of the service that needs protecting. It is easier to fix the broken service.
The Stars Wars sets are excellent. The sets from the original SW series in particular. Many are as good as the original mini person space sets from two decades ago. Who ever is in charge of these sets is an old school Lego fan. The sets are solidly built using basic bricks with a few bits of SW specific trim. The attention to detail is excellent. The Jar Jar sets aren't as good.