So, out of curiosity, is there a simple quick way to have an otherwise static page return different size pictures depending on the browser? (here they were 1024x768). I personally don't like to cripple my pages for less capable clients, and would rather not have to make 2 copies of each page with a user agent switcher or somesuch (great for a commercial site, but not worth my time for a hobby site)
This is because most CTs (current transformers) are not calibrated properly by the device they're connected to. I used 3 different CTs on the same load in my setup and made sure they were reading about the same. With the ECM1240, you can adjust offsets to make the CT readings "just right" should they be off a bit when you get them. I worked with the owner, and he does care about getting as correct values as possible and made his device very tweakable.
There is one caveat: you need windows for the initial setup, although I did it in vmware, maybe it works in wine too, but since then it's been running fine on linux (and it would work just the same on MacOS since it's a python script).
well, obviously the guy was deranged, but some of his points are valid. The problem is that most countries rely on ever increasing population for their economy to strive and the politicians to do well (starting with social security that is not funded by people other than the ones who get the money).
The world clearly could do better with a decreasing population, but most governments encourage exactly the opposite, so indeed right now humans are going to spread until they've taken over all the resources available and at the expense of pretty much all other lifeforms on the planet.
I'll be dead before then, but thinking about it makes me sad.
since you're not a radio and hardware engineer, I guess it's not obvious to you that putting antennas and electronics for different frequencies does cost board space. It's not impossible but it's hard on a small phone and definitely more money. Yes, I'd also love a phone that does it all, but they aren't exactly common. It's not just HTC, it's pretty much everyone.
What OS limitations? I tether for free on my android phones, I can make them be an adhoc AP for people to connect through my phone, and of course the OS is multitasking.
I'm not sure you know what you're talking about, or I'm not understanding you.
They already took all my fingerprints (all 10) twice before doing the background check and giving me my green card. I wasn't thrilled about it, but eh, I suppose I can't entirely blame them for it.
How is taking the damn things again every time I enter the country going to help anything or anyone?
Also, believe it or not, but some geeks actually work nights and weekends, not because they have to, or feel pressured, but because they really have nothing else they want to do with their time.
Sorry, I realize that this came out a bit wrong. First, geek is not meant in a bad way, I'm a geek and proud of it. Also, I know non geeks who also worked very long hours in the random companies I've been at anyway. And, I should have written that some "have nothing they'd rather be doing with their time", because they either have few/no hobbies, or simply because they enjoy what they do at work so much that they'd rather do it during their free time too. Then, you also have workoholics, but that's a different matter, and most are responsible for their own status. Either way, none of that has anything to do with the company they're at, I've seen the different kinds of folks everywhere, and I'll freely admit to having been one who also worked on his free time in the not so distant past because I liked the work better than whatever else I would have done at the time (in a previous company). I got better since then, and have many hobbies now:)
Eh, I won't claim that the cost of living in the bay area is good, but your comments about being peer pressured into working until nighttime and weekends at google, aren't true. As you said "I work there, so I know".
Sure, some people work there late, some by choice, and others because they showed up at work after noon. Sure, amongst 10K+ employees, you can find a few who are working late nights or occasional weekends, but those are definitely the exception more than the rule, and this is no different than your average company in the bay area. Also, believe it or not, but some geeks actually work nights and weekends, not because they have to, or feel pressured, but because they really have nothing else they want to do with their time. This has nothing to do with Google, some of the ones I know have always done this, whichever company happens to pay their salary at the time.
Oh, and I apologize for working there and having a good livestyle with freetime during which I enjoy doing other things. Really, I'm sorry.
It's a cool phone if it existed, which is what I thought in March of 2005, but the phone never appeared, so still hearing about it today makes me warry. Check out the way back machine for february 2005 vs today's page You'll notice subtle changes, but for something that was announced at least 18 months ago and that still doesn't exist, my patience has eroded somewhat.
The funny part is that the page actually has thumbnails of the 5MPix pictures (down to 640x480 or smaller):) But yes, it takes a long time to load, although all IMG tags have sizes so the page can render without all the pictures having been loaded.
But no, the page couldn't take the./ effect, I would have had to tone it way down, and it was more meant to be complete than to be able to take 100hits/s. I'm also on vacation on the other side of the globe, so that doesn't help with timely remote admin. People who cared have come back later, or will do soon. Others, well, too bad:)
After reading this page about a worst case scenario of what could happen after we run out of oil, I've come to wonder if its claims that we don't have enough platinum on earth to make fuel cells feasible for cars is true. Does anyone know either way?
One thing is a confirmed fact though, they cost a lot to make 1 million US$, and they may come down to $100,000 in 10 years. What a bargain!
I sure hope they can make fuel cells work, but everything I've read seems to indicate that best case, it's not a done deal quite yet.
The only reason you can put another GSM chip in your phone is that your phone is not locked to your chip. Most cheaper phones are locked to only work with the chip from your carrier If you paid more money for your phone, or bought it in a store and had it activated later, then it is mostly likely unlocked and you can indeed change GSM chips at will
Of course, Verizon and Sprint customers just lose there, this only works for GSM phones (i.e AT&T / T-Mobile / Cingular Wireless)
While alerting the vendor first if you are a real security researcher is the right thing to do, what if you aren't a "real" security researcher, and all you want to do is piss them off and give microsoft users with a clue yet another chance to regret using microsoft products?
It seems pretty clear that this is what has happened here.
The only reason "go to hell" pointed to microsoft for a while is that lots of people linked that sentence to microsoft.com. Google didn't cheat, users played with one of the algorithm google used to rank search results to play that little trick
Soon thereafter google updated the code so that the results couldn't be shifted to a random site as easily (in other words, google changed the code so that go to hell wouldn't point to microsoft anymore, and no, that wasn't done by hand, but by the new algorithm)
Seriously, who would buy a sub gigabyte MP3 player? For $170, I can buy a gig compact flash card and put it in my zaurus to play ogg and mp3 (you can buy a used zaurus for $150 or so, do the math and see who's better/cheaper, not counting that the zaurus does a lot more than just play mp3s)
An mp3 player that doesn't have a hard drive (20-30G min) or isn't very small with a few gigs of flash is just so 3 years ago...
(I bought more than 2 years ago my archos jukebox 6000, upgraded the drive to 30G, all this for a total of $400)
While I hate IDE, and for good reasons, I have nothing against firewire, but SCSI has been designed
to do what the poster wanted, and has been available for more than 10 years.
It's too bad that the price gap between SCSI and IDE drives has widenned so much, because they are essentially the same drives with slightly different electronics.
I am unfortunately used to journalists writing about technical subjects they
obviously know nothing about, but Mr John Dvorak has few excuses for this highly
subjective and incorrect article on personal video recorders.
1) I paid $200 for my Tivo, not $500 as claimed in the article (you could pay
$400 if you prepay the $10/m service charge, but the article mentions that
charge too, so it implies that you can expect to pay $500 +$10/month for a Tivo)
By the way, the $10/m covers automatic upgrades of my Tivo, which with a
VCR would require throwing it away, and buying a new one. My Dvorak also
conveniently fails to mention the work Tivo does to put the TV guides together
in a way that I can use them on my Tivo
2) The article repeatetly tries to blame Tivo for stealing TV stations by
allowing viewers to skip commercials
Never mind objectivism, Tivo is actually the one to not help users to skip
commercials (ReplayTV has a commercial skip button, Tivo only has a fast
forward, just like my VCR, and they refuse to support an automatic commercial
advance feature like my VCR does).
Furthermore, Tivo is actually the one company who's working with TV stations to
advertise their shows and make recording easier, so it's not in their interest
to tick them off
3) Ever heard of a VCR? We probably need to outlaw those too since they allow
unscrupulous watchers to, god forbid, not watch commercials
4) The attempted comparison with MP3s is beyond lame. PVRs have nothing to
do with MP3s, piracy or trading. That Mr Dvorak even tried to compare them
thankfully makes him look completely clueless and hopefully makes the whole
article look like something not very trustworthy.
5) My god, PVRs require a phone line. I guess we must stop using Pay per view
and satellite too then. Ok, UltimateTV apparently has a storage bug, well what
do you expect?
1) It comes from microsoft. 'Nuf said...
2) they tried to design and sell this device in a really short time in order to
give some competition to Tivo and ReplayTV/Sonicblue, and obviously, they didn't
get it right the first time.
If you're so desperate for content that you have to publish such rubish, I pity
you, I thought Forbes was a serious publication.
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Just for the record, the system didn't die because of a hard drive, apparently it just crashed, and god forbid, it may even be linux that crashed.
Sure, a drive died, but the machine was running RAID obviously, and the array was still working after that, but due to some unknown problem, the machine crashed and the kernel refused to load after a reboot (either a problem on disk, or an admin problem which caused an bad kernel to be installed)
Hard to say for sure after the fact, but at this point it can be a software problem as well as a hardware one (or even a admin mistake)
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Actually, that's not quite it.
Slashdot is run by employees.
Linux.com and themes.org are community sites run
by a handful of employees and lots of volunteers
worldwide (including some sysadmins).
1) many of these people, not only aren't paid
obviously, but they have lives, especially
during the weekend
2) As for on staff people who had physical access
to the machine to help out, one was moving this
weekend and the other one was sick.
3) Coordinating with people on the other side of
the globe on a weekend ain't always a piece of
cake.
So sure, flame along, when you've been a sysadmin
on call (without necessarily being paid for it),
we can talk about it again.
Slashdot Mirror
So, out of curiosity, is there a simple quick way to have an otherwise static page return different size pictures depending on the browser? (here they were 1024x768).
I personally don't like to cripple my pages for less capable clients, and would rather not have to make 2 copies of each page with a user agent switcher or somesuch (great for a commercial site, but not worth my time for a hobby site)
I know lots of people who go, but have no desire to go myself.
The climate is actually mostly ok, but the alkaline dust definitely sucks, I'm not going to say otherwise.
This is because most CTs (current transformers) are not calibrated properly by the device they're connected to. I used 3 different CTs on the same load in my setup and made sure they were reading about the same. With the ECM1240, you can adjust offsets to make the CT readings "just right" should they be off a bit when you get them.
I worked with the owner, and he does care about getting as correct values as possible and made his device very tweakable.
Marc
See http://www.etherbee.com/products/ECM1240/default.htm
and see what you can output with one of those guys:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linuxha/post_2010-08-13_Fine-grained-house-wide-power-monitoring-with-Brultech-ECM1240_-ecmread_py-_with-net-metering-support_-and-graphing-with-cacti.html
There is one caveat: you need windows for the initial setup, although I did it in vmware, maybe it works in wine too, but since then it's been running fine on linux (and it would work just the same on MacOS since it's a python script).
Marc
well, obviously the guy was deranged, but some of his points are valid.
The problem is that most countries rely on ever increasing population for their economy to strive and the politicians to do well (starting with social security that is not funded by people other than the ones who get the money).
The world clearly could do better with a decreasing population, but most governments encourage exactly the opposite, so indeed right now humans are going to spread until they've taken over all the resources available and at the expense of pretty much all other lifeforms on the planet.
I'll be dead before then, but thinking about it makes me sad.
since you're not a radio and hardware engineer, I guess it's not obvious to you that putting antennas and electronics for different frequencies does cost board space. It's not impossible but it's hard on a small phone and definitely more money.
Yes, I'd also love a phone that does it all, but they aren't exactly common. It's not just HTC, it's pretty much everyone.
What OS limitations?
I tether for free on my android phones, I can make them be an adhoc AP for people to connect through my phone, and of course the OS is multitasking.
I'm not sure you know what you're talking about, or I'm not understanding you.
They already took all my fingerprints (all 10) twice before doing the background check and giving me my green card. I wasn't thrilled about it, but eh, I suppose I can't entirely blame them for it.
How is taking the damn things again every time I enter the country going to help anything or anyone?
Also, believe it or not, but some geeks actually work nights and weekends, not because they have to, or feel pressured, but because they really have nothing else they want to do with their time.
Sorry, I realize that this came out a bit wrong. First, geek is not meant in a bad way, I'm a geek and proud of it. Also, I know non geeks who also worked very long hours in the random companies I've been at anyway. :)
And, I should have written that some "have nothing they'd rather be doing with their time", because they either have few/no hobbies, or simply because they enjoy what they do at work so much that they'd rather do it during their free time too.
Then, you also have workoholics, but that's a different matter, and most are responsible for their own status.
Either way, none of that has anything to do with the company they're at, I've seen the different kinds of folks everywhere, and I'll freely admit to having been one who also worked on his free time in the not so distant past because I liked the work better than whatever else I would have done at the time (in a previous company). I got better since then, and have many hobbies now
Eh, I won't claim that the cost of living in the bay area is good, but your comments about being peer pressured into working until nighttime and weekends at google, aren't true.
As you said "I work there, so I know".
Sure, some people work there late, some by choice, and others because they showed up at work after noon.
Sure, amongst 10K+ employees, you can find a few who are working late nights or occasional weekends, but those are definitely the exception more than the rule, and this is no different than your average company in the bay area.
Also, believe it or not, but some geeks actually work nights and weekends, not because they have to, or feel pressured, but because they really have nothing else they want to do with their time.
This has nothing to do with Google, some of the ones I know have always done this, whichever company happens to pay their salary at the time.
Oh, and I apologize for working there and having a good livestyle with freetime during which I enjoy doing other things. Really, I'm sorry.
Sounds of Slashdot was mixed by San Nettwerk Mehat, a former VA Linux coworkers.
It's still one of the best Trance CD ever made, along with Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport 1
http://www.tagtuner.com/music/albums/Sounds-of-Slashdot/Mixed-by-San-%22NeTTwerk%22-Mehat/album-v2115744
Tracks & Durations
1. Debian "yes, the software" 14:48
2. Lost Tribe "Gamemaster" Hooj Choons 6:56
3. Tekara "Breathe in You (Tekara's M&M Dub) - 3 Beat 7:49
4. BBE "Seven Days & one Week (Kai Tracid remix)" - Additive 6:38
5. Faithless "Bring My family Back (Paul Van Dyk Club Mix)" - Cheeky 5:41
6. Erik Morillo "You+Me - technique (you+me mash up matt mix)" - Creation 4:58
7. Plastic Boy "Twixt (Original Mix)" - Bonzai 3:18
8. Tilt "Invisible (Tilt's Tunnel Mix)" - Hooj Choons 8:21
They'd like their distro back :)
Marc
It's a cool phone if it existed, which is what I thought in March of 2005, but the phone never appeared, so still hearing about it today makes me warry.
Check out the way back machine for february 2005 vs today's page
You'll notice subtle changes, but for something that was announced at least 18 months ago and that still doesn't exist, my patience has eroded somewhat.
The funny part is that the page actually has thumbnails of the 5MPix pictures (down to 640x480 or smaller) :)
./ effect, I would have had to tone it way down, and it was more meant to be complete than to be able to take 100hits/s. I'm also on vacation on the other side of the globe, so that doesn't help with timely remote admin. :)
But yes, it takes a long time to load, although all IMG tags have sizes so the page can render without all the pictures having been loaded.
But no, the page couldn't take the
People who cared have come back later, or will do soon. Others, well, too bad
Cheers,
Marc
After reading this page about a worst case scenario of what could happen after we run out of oil, I've come to wonder if its claims that we don't have enough platinum on earth to make fuel cells feasible for cars is true. Does anyone know either way?
One thing is a confirmed fact though, they cost a lot to make 1 million US$, and they may come down to $100,000 in 10 years. What a bargain!
I sure hope they can make fuel cells work, but everything I've read seems to indicate that best case, it's not a done deal quite yet.
The only reason you can put another GSM chip in your phone is that your phone is not locked to your chip.
Most cheaper phones are locked to only work with the chip from your carrier
If you paid more money for your phone, or bought it in a store and had it activated later, then it is mostly likely unlocked and you can indeed change GSM chips at will
Of course, Verizon and Sprint customers just lose there, this only works for GSM phones (i.e AT&T / T-Mobile / Cingular Wireless)
While alerting the vendor first if you are a real security researcher is the right thing to do, what if you aren't a "real" security researcher, and all you want to do is piss them off and give microsoft users with a clue yet another chance to regret using microsoft products?
It seems pretty clear that this is what has happened here.
Baaah, who cares about kazaa when you have mldonkey, which can connect to kazaa and pretty much all the other p2p networks...
You are very mistaken.
The only reason "go to hell" pointed to microsoft
for a while is that lots of people linked that sentence to microsoft.com.
Google didn't cheat, users played with one of the algorithm google used to rank search results to
play that little trick
Soon thereafter google updated the code so that
the results couldn't be shifted to a random site
as easily
(in other words, google changed the code so that
go to hell wouldn't point to microsoft anymore,
and no, that wasn't done by hand, but by the new
algorithm)
Seriously, who would buy a sub gigabyte MP3 player?
For $170, I can buy a gig compact flash card and put it in my zaurus to play ogg and mp3
(you can buy a used zaurus for $150 or so, do the math and see who's better/cheaper, not counting
that the zaurus does a lot more than just play mp3s)
An mp3 player that doesn't have a hard drive (20-30G min) or isn't very small with a few gigs of flash is
just so 3 years ago...
(I bought more than 2 years ago my archos jukebox
6000, upgraded the drive to 30G, all this for a total of $400)
In other words, this gateway mp3 player is a joke
wireless internet would be nice
While I hate IDE, and for good reasons, I have nothing against firewire, but SCSI has been designed
to do what the poster wanted, and has been available for more than 10 years.
It's too bad that the price gap between SCSI and IDE drives has widenned so much, because they are essentially the same drives with slightly different electronics.
Either way, I would still go with SCSI.
I am unfortunately used to journalists writing about technical subjects they
obviously know nothing about, but Mr John Dvorak has few excuses for this highly
subjective and incorrect article on personal video recorders.
1) I paid $200 for my Tivo, not $500 as claimed in the article (you could pay
$400 if you prepay the $10/m service charge, but the article mentions that
charge too, so it implies that you can expect to pay $500 +$10/month for a Tivo)
By the way, the $10/m covers automatic upgrades of my Tivo, which with a
VCR would require throwing it away, and buying a new one. My Dvorak also
conveniently fails to mention the work Tivo does to put the TV guides together
in a way that I can use them on my Tivo
2) The article repeatetly tries to blame Tivo for stealing TV stations by
allowing viewers to skip commercials
Never mind objectivism, Tivo is actually the one to not help users to skip
commercials (ReplayTV has a commercial skip button, Tivo only has a fast
forward, just like my VCR, and they refuse to support an automatic commercial
advance feature like my VCR does).
Furthermore, Tivo is actually the one company who's working with TV stations to
advertise their shows and make recording easier, so it's not in their interest
to tick them off
3) Ever heard of a VCR? We probably need to outlaw those too since they allow
unscrupulous watchers to, god forbid, not watch commercials
4) The attempted comparison with MP3s is beyond lame. PVRs have nothing to
do with MP3s, piracy or trading. That Mr Dvorak even tried to compare them
thankfully makes him look completely clueless and hopefully makes the whole
article look like something not very trustworthy.
5) My god, PVRs require a phone line. I guess we must stop using Pay per view
and satellite too then. Ok, UltimateTV apparently has a storage bug, well what
do you expect?
1) It comes from microsoft. 'Nuf said...
2) they tried to design and sell this device in a really short time in order to
give some competition to Tivo and ReplayTV/Sonicblue, and obviously, they didn't
get it right the first time.
If you're so desperate for content that you have to publish such rubish, I pity
you, I thought Forbes was a serious publication.
Just for the record, the system didn't die because of a hard drive, apparently it just crashed, and god forbid, it may even be linux that crashed.
Sure, a drive died, but the machine was running RAID obviously, and the array was still working after that, but due to some unknown problem, the machine crashed and the kernel refused to load after a reboot (either a problem on disk, or an admin problem which caused an bad kernel to be installed)
Hard to say for sure after the fact, but at this point it can be a software problem as well as a hardware one (or even a admin mistake)
Actually, that's not quite it.
Slashdot is run by employees.
Linux.com and themes.org are community sites run
by a handful of employees and lots of volunteers
worldwide (including some sysadmins).
1) many of these people, not only aren't paid
obviously, but they have lives, especially
during the weekend
2) As for on staff people who had physical access
to the machine to help out, one was moving this
weekend and the other one was sick.
3) Coordinating with people on the other side of
the globe on a weekend ain't always a piece of
cake.
So sure, flame along, when you've been a sysadmin
on call (without necessarily being paid for it),
we can talk about it again.
BTW,