Having had mild PTSD for a while, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. The phrase "1000 yard stare" makes much more sense when you've experienced it.
Also "PTSD is associated with about a 53% increased risk for incident cardiovascular events over the course of eight to 10 years. And that’s on the order of about half a pack of cigarettes a day." - source http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jbc1v
This is the UK's shoot your foot off moment. It won't even be the UK within 5 years - 80% chance that Scotland will vote to leave the UK to rejoin the EU, and ffff know's what's going to happen in Northern Ireland.
Whilst I can see the attraction of "wiping it from the face of the earth" - you can't do that by just destroying the biological copies any more.
Wiping out smallpox would involve destroying all digital copies of it too. Since the Smallpox genome is sequenced, what you do with the known biological copies doesn't really matter too much - a biological virus is nothing more than it's DNA sequence
Anyone with the resources to reconstruct the biological form from the digital form (which will be anyone at all within a few years) could do-so if they wanted to. I'd guess it's pretty easy to obtain a digital copy of the DNA sequence of Smallpox, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
I received a smallpox vaccine about 35 years ago when I lived in Singapore - I wonder if it's still effective...
"last generation" hardware usually uses huge amounts of power compared to the current generation. e.g. 150 watts a piece plus. That could quite easily cost US$200 per year to run in a datacentre. You're usually better off scrapping them.
How about:
Raspberry pi - 5 watts Dell Optiplex 160 - 15 watts Dell R210-II, with the hard disk removed, and a single Intel SSD instead - ~35 watts
All of those have no spinning disks, and the first two have no moving parts at all.
Solar photo-voltaic panels are useless in Britain at current prices - they are 10-20% efficient, and probably won't last 25 years. Solar thermal (hot water), OTOH are a lot cheaper good ones are 80% efficient, and can pay back financially in a few years (CO2 payback from manufacturing costs are ~6 months vs. 5 years+ in the UK for solar electric).
I've recently created a fairly low power, high spec PC. Unfortunately, I needed 64bit, and HW virtualisation assitance, so I couldn't get the power that low.
2x 60G laptop hard disks (1 watt each) as a mirror 3x 500M Maxtor (7 watts each spinning, 1 watt on standby), RAID5 (less frequently accessed data - spun down >90% of the time) 1x Asus N4L-VM (~ 3 watts, 945GM chipset + graphics) "Socket 479" motherboard. 1x Core 2 Duo Mobile T7400 2.16GHz (30 watts full speed / both cores flat-out, but about half this with speed step, and less if idle) - you could use one of the much lower power ~6 watt ULV (ultra low voltage) Celerons, or Cores.
If you don't need that much horsepower, go for a VIA MiniITX, or an ARM for your always-on box, as other people have said. All-in ~65watts, not as good as I'd hoped, and I may be able to get it down a bit further using a more efficient PSU, but at least it's doing good science whilst it's on!
The BBC ran a radio interview with the inventor last November. The following page gives a bit more detail than the MSNBC story, but most there is a lot more in the radio programme (RealAudio link on the page)....
There is a fish - found in New Zealands' Fjordland (Milford Sound, and surrounding Fjords), which has been given the name "Fiordichthys slartibartfasti" - after Slartibartfast - the award-winning Fjord designer in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker books.
Well, racks of PCs are heavy, and noisy, and it's going to cost you a packet to ship them to the states (make sure you take the HDs out first, and package them up properly).
If you can get away with it, you should consider using something like these:
http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=14
If not, then the only rack-mount machines that are worth purchasing IMHO are these:
http://www.rackable.com
I've deployed about 35 of these, and they do nearly everything right - price, performance, remote management, footprint, service. I've used Dell, HP, IBM, Gigabyte and others, but only Rackable seem to really know what they are doing at a decent price. Highly recomended.
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Yep - deploying this system on a uC is not out of the question - initial development on a PC is simpler / more flexible tho' (and I already have a PC on 24/7, which I can use).
re b) - It's cheaper to let the house "settle up" - since less energy is used over all. You will also be putty your heating/cooling system through fewer cycles (as well as less overall work), and thus wearing it *less*, not more.
BTW, I'm in the process of installing this system, and it looks good so far (only one zone on at the moment tho').
Yes - very light on details, especially EIRP - if it's just 100mw - like the 802.11b spectrum (which it may well be, due to the MoD's concerns about radar) then I can't see any point in using it - may as well stick with the cheaper 2.4GHz 802.11b technology. There's no appreciable 2.4GHz interference in rural areas anyway..
EIRP is a stupid idea IMHO - a directed beam at higher power levels is far less likely to cause interference than an isotropic radiator. The US rules make some allowance for this on 802.11b - the European ETSI regs don't. Morons.
Have you tried unmasking interupts on the source hard disk and DVD writer using 'hdparm -u 1/dev/hdx'? I think the Linux pipe 'depth' limit is 4k, but check it isn't limited to less than this, with ulimit..
This might well not be enough to make on the fly burning possible, but it might be worth a try... I assume the source drive and writer aren't on the same IDE bus?
One will become cheaper (either in terms of media, or drives, either because of technology differences, or muscle of the backers), then economies of scale will win out, and fewer people will buy the more expensive type of drives - then feedback sets in..
After all, coins normally come up either heads or tails, but rarely land on their edges;-).
Ahh, but I don't live in the US (any more) - I live somewhere at little less lawyer dominated.
However for those of you who live somewhere that is - if you want the opportunity for serious pain, and litigation, go through your CDROM collection, and look for any that have little cracks at the hub, and then attach a little fragment of postit note at the opposite edge (remembering to remove it before you call your lawyer).
We've had two CDs go in the last 6 months in my office, both in 50x drives. One was a CDR, the other was an original photoshop CD. In both cases bits flew out of the front of the drive, and they didn't half make a noise! One of the drives work afterwards, despite having bits of plastic knocked off by the exploding disc.
Dangerous if you ask me - if you have a tower case, make sure the CD drive isn't at eye level!
This is not an invasion of privacy. It is well known that all people who drive in London are:
Taxi Drivers
Delivery Drivers
Moving Home
Stupid
So, intelligent, right thinking people have nothing to fear.
In fact, there are already so many reasons to not drive (or even own a car) in London, that the negligable decrease in privacy makes very little difference.
My stepbrother works for an automotive design company, and he mentioned a couple of things about ignition control computers in cars that he's worked on:
He came across an Audi that altered the ignition timing to make the engine quieter when the electric windows were down
Nearly all cars do a pattern recognition to see when they are doing the EU fuel economy test, and then put the engine into a more economic, lower performance mode
Whilst I think the first item is quite neat (depending upon what else it did to the performance/economy), the second is a pretty dirty trick IMO...
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Perhaps more worrying is that people are getting distracted by the smartphones whilst voting, with disastrous consequences.
Having had mild PTSD for a while, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. The phrase "1000 yard stare" makes much more sense when you've experienced it.
Also "PTSD is associated with about a 53% increased risk for incident cardiovascular events over the course of eight to 10 years. And that’s on the order of about half a pack of cigarettes a day." - source http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jbc1v
This is the UK's shoot your foot off moment. It won't even be the UK within 5 years - 80% chance that Scotland will vote to leave the UK to rejoin the EU, and ffff know's what's going to happen in Northern Ireland.
Not surprised that was posted by an anon coward.
I had the same problem with paypal tokens stopping working. Paypal and ebay tech support were clueless...
I eventually stumbled on the fix by clearing all paypal / ebay cookies from my browser.
It'd be nice if they took up Fido U2F, since they're part of the bloody standards group for Fs sake... https://www.paypal-engineering.com/tag/fido/
Sussex UK is about to get 116 wind turbines about 8 miles off shore, and people are going to be really pissed off when they see them.
http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Rampion-foundations-complete-1.jpg
These really need to go further off shore where they're out of sight, like the floating wind farm being constructed off Aberdeen Scotland
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/16/worlds-first-floating-wind-farm-gets-go-ahead-off-scottish-coast/
More wind, more power, less pissed off people.
This discussion is pretty ridiculous.
Whilst I can see the attraction of "wiping it from the face of the earth" - you can't do that by just destroying the biological copies any more.
Wiping out smallpox would involve destroying all digital copies of it too. Since the Smallpox genome is sequenced, what you do with the known biological copies doesn't really matter too much - a biological virus is nothing more than it's DNA sequence
Anyone with the resources to reconstruct the biological form from the digital form (which will be anyone at all within a few years) could do-so if they wanted to. I'd guess it's pretty easy to obtain a digital copy of the DNA sequence of Smallpox, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
I received a smallpox vaccine about 35 years ago when I lived in Singapore - I wonder if it's still effective...
Yes, companies have been tracking via GSM for years...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/tracking_phones/
Oh yeah, also consider OpenVZ VMs (OK for ntp too), or libvirt/KVM VMs. The Dell R210-II will quite happily run a load of those...
"last generation" hardware usually uses huge amounts of power compared to the current generation. e.g. 150 watts a piece plus. That could quite easily cost US$200 per year to run in a datacentre. You're usually better off scrapping them.
How about:
Raspberry pi - 5 watts
Dell Optiplex 160 - 15 watts
Dell R210-II, with the hard disk removed, and a single Intel SSD instead - ~35 watts
All of those have no spinning disks, and the first two have no moving parts at all.
Solar photo-voltaic panels are useless in Britain at current prices - they are 10-20% efficient, and probably won't last 25 years. Solar thermal (hot water), OTOH are a lot cheaper good ones are 80% efficient, and can pay back financially in a few years (CO2 payback from manufacturing costs are ~6 months vs. 5 years+ in the UK for solar electric).
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http://www.navitron.org.uk/solar_collector_panel.
I've recently created a fairly low power, high spec PC. Unfortunately, I needed 64bit, and HW virtualisation assitance, so I couldn't get the power that low.
2x 60G laptop hard disks (1 watt each) as a mirror
3x 500M Maxtor (7 watts each spinning, 1 watt on standby), RAID5 (less frequently accessed data - spun down >90% of the time)
1x Asus N4L-VM (~ 3 watts, 945GM chipset + graphics) "Socket 479" motherboard.
1x Core 2 Duo Mobile T7400 2.16GHz (30 watts full speed / both cores flat-out, but about half this with speed step, and less if idle)
- you could use one of the much lower power ~6 watt ULV (ultra low voltage) Celerons, or Cores.
And when it's idle, it runs http://climateprediction.net/.
If you don't need that much horsepower, go for a VIA MiniITX, or an ARM for your always-on box, as other people have said. All-in ~65watts, not as good as I'd hoped, and I may be able to get it down a bit further using a more efficient PSU, but at least it's doing good science whilst it's on!
The BBC ran a radio interview with the inventor last November. The following page gives a bit more detail than the MSNBC story, but most there is a lot more in the radio programme (RealAudio link on the page)....
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/costingtheear
There is a fish - found in New Zealands' Fjordland (Milford Sound, and surrounding Fjords), which has been given the name "Fiordichthys slartibartfasti" - after Slartibartfast - the award-winning Fjord designer in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker books.
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http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cf
Well, racks of PCs are heavy, and noisy, and it's going to cost you a packet to ship them to the states (make sure you take the HDs out first, and package them up properly).
If you can get away with it, you should consider using something like these:
http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=14
If not, then the only rack-mount machines that are worth purchasing IMHO are these:
http://www.rackable.com
I've deployed about 35 of these, and they do nearly everything right - price, performance, remote management, footprint, service. I've used Dell, HP, IBM, Gigabyte and others, but only Rackable seem to really know what they are doing at a decent price. Highly recomended.
Yep - deploying this system on a uC is not out of the question - initial development on a PC is simpler / more flexible tho' (and I already have a PC on 24/7, which I can use).
re b) - It's cheaper to let the house "settle up" - since less energy is used over all. You will also be putty your heating/cooling system through fewer cycles (as well as less overall work), and thus wearing it *less*, not more.
BTW, I'm in the process of installing this system, and it looks good so far (only one zone on at the moment tho').
Yes - very light on details, especially EIRP - if it's just 100mw - like the 802.11b spectrum (which it may well be, due to the MoD's concerns about radar) then I can't see any point in using it - may as well stick with the cheaper 2.4GHz 802.11b technology. There's no appreciable 2.4GHz interference in rural areas anyway..
EIRP is a stupid idea IMHO - a directed beam at higher power levels is far less likely to cause interference than an isotropic radiator. The US rules make some allowance for this on 802.11b - the European ETSI regs don't. Morons.
This might well not be enough to make on the fly burning possible, but it might be worth a try... I assume the source drive and writer aren't on the same IDE bus?
After all, coins normally come up either heads or tails, but rarely land on their edges ;-).
However for those of you who live somewhere that is - if you want the opportunity for serious pain, and litigation, go through your CDROM collection, and look for any that have little cracks at the hub, and then attach a little fragment of postit note at the opposite edge (remembering to remove it before you call your lawyer).
We've had two CDs go in the last 6 months in my office, both in 50x drives. One was a CDR, the other was an original photoshop CD. In both cases bits flew out of the front of the drive, and they didn't half make a noise! One of the drives work afterwards, despite having bits of plastic knocked off by the exploding disc.
Dangerous if you ask me - if you have a tower case, make sure the CD drive isn't at eye level!
Taxi Drivers
Delivery Drivers
Moving Home
Stupid
So, intelligent, right thinking people have nothing to fear.
In fact, there are already so many reasons to not drive (or even own a car) in London, that the negligable decrease in privacy makes very little difference.
Oh yeah, you can leave comments on that page, so please fill in the gaps on the speccy guys if you can remember who was who....
Some (not very many) photos (not very varied, or good) are here
He came across an Audi that altered the ignition timing to make the engine quieter when the electric windows were down
Nearly all cars do a pattern recognition to see when they are doing the EU fuel economy test, and then put the engine into a more economic, lower performance mode
Whilst I think the first item is quite neat (depending upon what else it did to the performance/economy), the second is a pretty dirty trick IMO...