So you think you're pretty smart by buying two big HDs and doing a nightly copy of one to the other? Just think what happens when the source disk fails in the middle of the nightly backup. You have a failed source disk. And a half-baked backup disk. With a possibly unrecoverable file system. You just lost all your data.
I think if you want to do backups to HD you need three of them!
Of course, a station could advertise itself as the station you know so well, they don't need a logo - a bit like postage stamps in the UK not needing the country on them, or USA domain names not having a country code. "If its not got a logo, its us!" sort of thing.
If only he'd deleted her Microsoft applications, Windows, given her the $$$ cost of the apps and OS back, and most importantly NOT DELETED HER WORK FILES!!!
Well, some of the riders participate in boring old slow 'safety' bicycle races at world standard, and there's drug testing a-plenty for The Tour de France!
Gimp has a lens flare simulator in its FlareFX plug-in. Why not get the gimp source and find out how it does it? An option not available for the Photoshop version.
Yes, even wire up the men's room. That's what happened here. Cables hanging down from the ceiling ready for a network point. Gives a whole new meaning to 'Log on'.
Three guys are at a strip joint. A stripper comes up close to the first one and he hooks $10 into her thong. She shakes her booty at the second and he pokes a $50 bill into her underwear. She wiggles at the third guy who takes out his ATM card, swipes it down her butt, and takes the $60.
How does a galactic collision affect planets in a galaxy?
Consider a single star, not in a galaxy, with a planetary system like the sun. Nice and stable. But if it should be heading for a galaxy, what are the chances of it passing through without gravitational forces disrupting the planets?
Interstellar separation may be large compared to stellar radii, but if you pass through enough stars there's an increased chance that you come near enough to one to affect the planets. Maybe.
You could try Star Office. You can set up fields in a StarWord document that get data from any of the databases that StarOffice support, since it supports ODBC that means any database that ODBC supports. Then a complete database-driven mail merge printout is only a couple of clicks away.
And its free and cross-platform. And the US dept of defense like it.
Yes there's no disk spinning and with a 486 there's no CPU fan, but there's still the 'gentle hum' of the power supply.
We've got a few users in our dept with Tektronix X-terminals, and these are silent. They use black box transformer power supplies with no fans. These people value their silence, and would find even the hum of a fan annoying (especially on an old 486 which is going to start rattling and failing pretty soon! New PSU time...). It's hard to concentrate on pure mathematics with any distraction, they tell me!
So can anyone suggest silent power supplies that can be hooked up to a PC to make a truly silent X terminal? Has anyone done this? Can I just find a transformer with 9V and 5V and enough wattage and hack together a connector to the machine?
I've actually done the reverse - hacked a single PC power supply to drive three Tek Xterms! Noise wasn't a problem because there are other machines in that lab, but cost was. New Tek PSU's = about £80 = $100 each. Old 486 PSU = £free = $free. Fun hacking power cables off = priceless.
Why no way can you test it? Mosix works fine on two boxes. You dont need a front-end machine at all, unlike some clustering solutions. You can set it up as a peerless cluster. Processes on machine A migrate to machine B if A is a bit busy, processes started on B flip to A if they get a chance. They jump back to B if something starts up on A. The system balances itself out, taking care of any difference in CPU power between the cluster machines.
I dont know much about blender, but if you are rendering an animation and the frames are independent, then with an N-node mosix cluster you can render N frames at once.
There's discussion of a blender network renderer on http://www.blender.nl/opensource/brd.php and a mailing list. With mosix, you'd just tell blender to fork a maximum of N rendering jobs, and let the kernel sort out the distribution!
gimp certainly runs on our mosix cluster, but since it does an awful lot of disk I/O when dealing with large and complex images the processes will often stick on the home node and not get the benefit of migrating to a faster machine.
mosix cannot run gimp plugins faster by distributing them over CPUs in a mosix cluster - unless the plugin forks several processes which mosix can then migrate if there's a benefit to running them on a remote mosix node.
The folks on www.mosix.org and associated mailing lists are very friendly and helpful.
There's a lot of people using their PCs in recording studios who also need nice quiet solutions. Check out the articles in Sound On Sound, such as this one. You can get quiet fans for your case and stick your hard drive in an acoustic cover that keeps the noise in.
Although personally I think unless you have a perfectly silent machine you'll soon think the noise is unacceptable!
I once tried to wipe a floppy disk on a guitar speaker magnet. Left it there for a couple of days. Stroked it on the magnet a few times for good measure. Stuck it in my drive and it worked fine. These things can be more robust than you think.
Of course, if it had had my only copy of a precious file, it would have gone if I'd sneezed within a mile of it.
Alex,
the web is full of interesting sites on the fringes of science. Some may well be true, and some not. How can we tell which are written by people who also think they are Napoleon and which are written by true Edisons? Now how do these criteria apply to your material?
"an Internet user without a Passport will not exist within the system, and will not be able to access or use Passport services. Because users pay to participate in the HailStorm system, in practice this means that Microsoft will control a user's identity, leasing it to them for use within HailStorm for a recurring fee."
with
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Hmmmmmm. I think the Gates-as-Borg icon needs replacing with Gates-with-666-tattoo icon. Reckon John meant 'the IP number of his name'?
Next time I get spam from someone trying to sell me 10 million email addresses, I'm going to buy them and send out 10 million messages telling people where to read the RFC on spam! Woohoo.
Slashdot Mirror
So you think you're pretty smart by buying two big HDs and doing a nightly copy of one to the other? Just think what happens when the source disk fails in the middle of the nightly backup. You have a failed source disk. And a half-baked backup disk. With a possibly unrecoverable file system. You just lost all your data.
I think if you want to do backups to HD you need three of them!
Of course, a station could advertise itself as the station you know so well, they don't need a logo - a bit like postage stamps in the UK not needing the country on them, or USA domain names not having a country code. "If its not got a logo, its us!" sort of thing.
Maybe they could even trademark the non-logo....
If only he'd deleted her Microsoft applications, Windows, given her the $$$ cost of the apps and OS back, and most importantly NOT DELETED HER WORK FILES!!!
Did she have a backup?
Baz
Well, some of the riders participate in boring old slow 'safety' bicycle races at world standard, and there's drug testing a-plenty for The Tour de France!
Gimp has a lens flare simulator in its FlareFX plug-in. Why not get the gimp source and find out how it does it? An option not available for the Photoshop version.
Baz
Yes, even wire up the men's room. That's what happened here. Cables hanging down from the ceiling ready for a network point. Gives a whole new meaning to 'Log on'.
Three guys are at a strip joint. A stripper comes up close to the first one and he hooks $10 into her thong. She shakes her booty at the second and he pokes a $50 bill into her underwear. She wiggles at the third guy who takes out his ATM card, swipes it down her butt, and takes the $60.
"World's Second XP System Sold".
Point 7 --
"7. You may not display the Logo on any site that disparages Microsoft or its products or services"
kinda makes it impossible to comply with point 4 --
"4. The Logo may be displayed only on Web pages that make accurate references to Microsoft."
Oops.
I'm going to request that Larry has 'Bad Mondorf' as an error message in the next release of perl. Can you imagine?
% perl thing.pl
Error compiling thing.pl: bad mondorf
Go check the pics if you haven't a clue what I'm on about!
Baz
As long as people don't refer to the 'Linux C Compiler' or the 'Linux C Library' the GNU people should be happy.
Baz
How does a galactic collision affect planets in a galaxy?
Consider a single star, not in a galaxy, with a planetary system like the sun. Nice and stable. But if it should be heading for a galaxy, what are the chances of it passing through without gravitational forces disrupting the planets?
Interstellar separation may be large compared to stellar radii, but if you pass through enough stars there's an increased chance that you come near enough to one to affect the planets. Maybe.
Baz
You could try Star Office. You can set up fields in a StarWord document that get data from any of the databases that StarOffice support, since it supports ODBC that means any database that ODBC supports. Then a complete database-driven mail merge printout is only a couple of clicks away.
And its free and cross-platform. And the US dept of defense like it.
Baz
One where nothing happens in the bottom left of the screen..
Maybe the three bits can be arranged into a wide-screen format arrangement?
Baz
Yes there's no disk spinning and with a 486 there's no CPU fan, but there's still the 'gentle hum' of the power supply.
We've got a few users in our dept with Tektronix X-terminals, and these are silent. They use black box transformer power supplies with no fans. These people value their silence, and would find even the hum of a fan annoying (especially on an old 486 which is going to start rattling and failing pretty soon! New PSU time...). It's hard to concentrate on pure mathematics with any distraction, they tell me!
So can anyone suggest silent power supplies that can be hooked up to a PC to make a truly silent X terminal? Has anyone done this? Can I just find a transformer with 9V and 5V and enough wattage and hack together a connector to the machine?
I've actually done the reverse - hacked a single PC power supply to drive three Tek Xterms! Noise wasn't a problem because there are other machines in that lab, but cost was. New Tek PSU's = about £80 = $100 each. Old 486 PSU = £free = $free. Fun hacking power cables off = priceless.
Baz
Baz
% more
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
#ident "@(#)clear.sh 1.8 96/10/14 SMI"
# Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
# All Rights Reserved
# This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
# Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.
Gosh. And what is this proprietary information, I hear you ask?
# clear the screen with terminfo.
# if an argument is given, print the clear string for that tty type
/usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2>
exit
Ooh, these 'leet Microsoft programmers....
Baz
Why no way can you test it? Mosix works fine on two boxes. You dont need a front-end machine at all, unlike some clustering solutions. You can set it up as a peerless cluster. Processes on machine A migrate to machine B if A is a bit busy, processes started on B flip to A if they get a chance. They jump back to B if something starts up on A. The system balances itself out, taking care of any difference in CPU power between the cluster machines.
I dont know much about blender, but if you are rendering an animation and the frames are independent, then with an N-node mosix cluster you can render N frames at once.
There's discussion of a blender network renderer on http://www.blender.nl/opensource/brd.php and a mailing list. With mosix, you'd just tell blender to fork a maximum of N rendering jobs, and let the kernel sort out the distribution!
Baz
gimp certainly runs on our mosix cluster, but since it does an awful lot of disk I/O when dealing with large and complex images the processes will often stick on the home node and not get the benefit of migrating to a faster machine.
mosix cannot run gimp plugins faster by distributing them over CPUs in a mosix cluster - unless the plugin forks several processes which mosix can then migrate if there's a benefit to running them on a remote mosix node.
The folks on www.mosix.org and associated mailing lists are very friendly and helpful.
Baz
Although personally I think unless you have a perfectly silent machine you'll soon think the noise is unacceptable!
Baz
I once tried to wipe a floppy disk on a guitar speaker magnet. Left it there for a couple of days. Stroked it on the magnet a few times for good measure. Stuck it in my drive and it worked fine. These things can be more robust than you think.
Of course, if it had had my only copy of a precious file, it would have gone if I'd sneezed within a mile of it.
Baz
Alex,
the web is full of interesting sites on the fringes of science. Some may well be true, and some not. How can we tell which are written by people who also think they are Napoleon and which are written by true Edisons? Now how do these criteria apply to your material?
Baz
Compare and contrast:
"an Internet user without a Passport will not exist within the system, and will not be able to access or use Passport services. Because users pay to participate in the HailStorm system, in practice this means that Microsoft will control a user's identity, leasing it to them for use within HailStorm for a recurring fee."
with
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Hmmmmmm. I think the Gates-as-Borg icon needs replacing with Gates-with-666-tattoo icon. Reckon John meant 'the IP number of his name'?
Baz
Next time I get spam from someone trying to sell me 10 million email addresses, I'm going to buy them and send out 10 million messages telling people where to read the RFC on spam! Woohoo.
Baz
I've seen lots of people with this tattoed on them
Its the union of the set M with the set m. It looks like this:
M u m
I can't think why it's so popular.
Baz