Sorry before, I was distracted and forgot to connect Asus in.:)
I wish I knew where the finger was, especially given that there really isn't that much MS can do to Asus. Are they not going to allow drivers for Asus hardware? Imagine the public outcry. What does Asus have to lose by continuing their support for Linux?
Posturing for a major company like Microsoft that likes to throw its weight around is nothing new for smaller companies. It is sad though how many cave under pressure. For the sake of progress and alternatives, I hope the "apology" was more posturing than anything else.
Sounds like the rack I got. I have an E6500 (8 CPU, 5GB RAM) with an E4500 (4 CPU, 4GB RAM) in the bottom of the rack. Each machine has 12 18.6GB hard drives. It took a little work to get mine running. When I got it, it had been turned on once (when it was installed) and shut down once (when three power supplies in the 6500 failed). There's some nice folks at a place called Serverworlds in Minnesota that should have whatever parts you need at a reasonable price. I got some used power supplies from them for pretty cheap, and I needed a new cabinet exhaust fan set, which I also got from them at a good deal. I have the 6500 running on a 208V circuit when I need it, its not kept running all the time. However, when I do fire it up, it is fast to boot and works great. I use the systems for computational fluid dynamics simulations using NASA CFD codes, and advanced 3D CAD. Some advanced engineering tools simply just won't run on commodity hardware or operating systems. Not the fastest thing in the world, but with 12 CPUs and 9GB RAM, and the fact that it is Sun Enterprise gear, I can't complain about what I got for less than $500.
In the small Kansas city I live in, we had a lot of home invasions this year. That stopped when two guys broke into the home of someone armed. The two intruders were shot 12 times. The best part is they survived to be charged. The frequency of home invasions suddenly dropped.
Garmin explicitly says on garminasus.com "OS: Linux" in the specifications for the nuvifone G60. There is also their linux code download page, developer.garmin.com/linux, where you can get code modified for four different device families. Finally, Garmin's membership in the Open Handset Alliance is very much indicative of support for the L word.
You reminded me of something very interesting that Mercedes does with their service. Mercedes "supports" every car they have ever built for consumers. I can walk into any dealer and they will either have or can quickly get parts for my 1973 450SL. For older or more obscure cars, there's always their Classic Center in Irvine, where they will work on anything old Mercedes built. Additionally, Mercedes honors recalls indefinitely. The 107 series cars had a problem with cracking subframes, and when I bought my 73 SL (in 2003) and registered it with MB, I got a letter in the mail in 1970s MB letterhead instructing me to take it to a dealer, and they would repair or replace the subframe free of charge.
"Thirdly, hand-off actually works in mobile protocols. 4G/LTE devices will be able to transparently hand-off from your personal home femtocell to a macrocell when you walk outside, to a 3G or even GPRS/2G cell if you roam out of range.... all without you even noticing. Try that with a WiFi based system!"
The municipal wifi in Lawrence, Kansas can handle handoffs between mesh nodes. The network is divided into a segments a few square miles in area with lots of mesh nodes. As long as you stay within one segment, handoffs between mesh nodes work fine.
I'm still friends with the people who *designed* the *original* network there ages ago. Back in the day, NTS barely had a clue. A major reshuffle happened a couple years ago and everyone who knew anything was fired or quit.
That having been said, the university has an interesting history in computing. Read your manpage for lynx. Some of the guys from ACS (Academic Computing Services) went on to Netscape. Recently an IBM 350 was found there and dissected by grad students. Once upon a time there were lots of Linux and Tru64 systems there. Not long ago, the EECS department mail server was a DEC Alpha box. It might still be there, I don't know. There was a student web server, condor, that ran Tru64, and a faculty server (lark) that I think was Linux. Lark is gone, but I think condor might still be up. The old EECS department sysadmin was a major UNIX/Linux guru, and all the EECS workstations in the Engineering building were Linux boxes. When they opened the EECS building, all EECS owned machines were Gentoo boxes.
Overall at the university there are a lot of RHEL and Solaris servers. There is still an 8-node Origin2000 sitting in the Computer Center on the DC floor, but I don't know if there is anyone left who knows how to run it, because they got rid of the two people who had SGI experience.
Don't be let down though, the community supports Linux seriously. The local wireless ISP is entirely Linux based, a lot of engineering research projects have used embedded Linux, there is a strong Linux user group in the area (KULUA) and there are local businesses that support Linux.
Apollo/HP seemed to do rather well with m68k systems. There are two motherboards from retired Apollos hanging on my wall right now, one with a 68030 and 68882, and the other with a 68040. I've used real working Apollos, and still have full sets of Domain/OS 10.3 and 10.4 tapes for them. Sun also had m68k systems with the Sun 3 series machines. Somewhere I have a Sun 3/80, which has the same 68030 and 68882 as my old Apollo. Even NeXT computers had m68k processors, though while I've had several Apollos and Suns, I've never even seen a NeXT box.
If you can move your cg laterally you can also get out of a flat spin. A test pilot in Wichita entered into a flat spin, climbed out onto the wing to bail, and the cg excursion was enough to induce a roll, and got him out of the flat spin. He said "I can recover from this!" and got back into the aircraft and safely landed.
One of my favorite old machines is actually my NT4 box. P-200MMX, 80MB RAM. And you know what? It is really quick. I'd have the task bar two rows tall because I'd have that much crap open and it still ran fine.
I will give you that hand-eye coordination is something important, but that is not specific to weapon handling or target sighting. At best though, someone could learn rudimentary knowledge of sights from a game, as its all a 2D screen. When you have a 9 lb. rifle in your hands on a hot day, and you're trying to sight your target 200m away through a peep sight, video game dynamics are out the window. I know that on a nasty day like that, even I have trouble at long range with just the iron sights on my HK91.
Pistol shooting is even worse. How you tense your hands, the muscles in your strong arm, and how you pull the trigger all effect your accuracy. People don't think about these things, and there's no way a video game can account for them.
"a citizen playing a first person shooter would have a leg up when it comes to weapons use."
Yep, to fire, all they have to do is click. They really can carry nine large weapons and all the ammunition for them on their person. And when they empty a mag, they just need to shoot off to the side to reload.
I own several weapons and have been trained in the use of even more. Video games don't teach you *anything* about how to handle a weapon.
I've seen some pretty palacial offices in the federal courts. A good friend of mine is a federal district judge. Her main office is HUGE, I'd say over 1000 square feet, with oriental rugs, and beautiful wood walls, and a great view of the city from the 20-something'th floor. In addition, there is a front office for an intern/paralegal/secretary, and a private full bathroom off to the back.
What's your battery capacity? This D630 has an 85Wh pack. Dell usually has a few different capacities available. Maybe a bigger one would help? Also, see if the software for the video card allows auto-throttling the GPU speed. My Quadro (and your 4850s) shouldn't need to be running at full speed all the time.
"You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you."
You need to fill out paperwork justifying your need for a public defender. Lying on those forms is a criminal offense. PDs are meant for people who *need* them, not for lazy millionaires who don't care.
...running a fairly powerful laptop, a Dell Latitude D630 (Core2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 120GB HD, nVidia Quadro NVS135M w/256MB RAM) on Fedora 10. I regularly run it for 4-5 hours on battery.
ADA is still very much alive. Most of the fighter aircraft used in the USAF have computers running ADA software.
FORTRAN is still very much alive. I believe a new spec came out recently even. Several analytical programs in science and engineering heavily rely on FORTRAN. Many structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics programs are written in FORTRAN.
I always enjoyed being able to go practically forever on the highway in my diesels.
My 1984 Mercedes 300SD had a turbocharged 3.0L 5-cylinder and a 4-speed automatic transmission. I had manual control over the ALDA from the driver's seat so I could adjust the injector pump flow manually, bigger turbo, second battery, heavy duty relays for the glow plugs, rear end from a 380SE, and a straight-piped exhaust. That sucker could probably tow a house. Estimated power was about 200hp, economy was 38mpg cruising 55-60mph.
Add a couple decades of technology, and you have my 2008 Vauxhall Zafira. 1.9L common rail direct injection turbocharged diesel engine, 6-speed manual gearbox. In a 7-passenger MPV fully loaded on a roadtrip, I got no less than 35mpg, usually closer to 45mpg.
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Sorry before, I was distracted and forgot to connect Asus in. :)
I wish I knew where the finger was, especially given that there really isn't that much MS can do to Asus. Are they not going to allow drivers for Asus hardware? Imagine the public outcry. What does Asus have to lose by continuing their support for Linux?
Posturing for a major company like Microsoft that likes to throw its weight around is nothing new for smaller companies. It is sad though how many cave under pressure. For the sake of progress and alternatives, I hope the "apology" was more posturing than anything else.
Sounds like the rack I got. I have an E6500 (8 CPU, 5GB RAM) with an E4500 (4 CPU, 4GB RAM) in the bottom of the rack. Each machine has 12 18.6GB hard drives. It took a little work to get mine running. When I got it, it had been turned on once (when it was installed) and shut down once (when three power supplies in the 6500 failed). There's some nice folks at a place called Serverworlds in Minnesota that should have whatever parts you need at a reasonable price. I got some used power supplies from them for pretty cheap, and I needed a new cabinet exhaust fan set, which I also got from them at a good deal. I have the 6500 running on a 208V circuit when I need it, its not kept running all the time. However, when I do fire it up, it is fast to boot and works great. I use the systems for computational fluid dynamics simulations using NASA CFD codes, and advanced 3D CAD. Some advanced engineering tools simply just won't run on commodity hardware or operating systems. Not the fastest thing in the world, but with 12 CPUs and 9GB RAM, and the fact that it is Sun Enterprise gear, I can't complain about what I got for less than $500.
In the small Kansas city I live in, we had a lot of home invasions this year. That stopped when two guys broke into the home of someone armed. The two intruders were shot 12 times. The best part is they survived to be charged. The frequency of home invasions suddenly dropped.
Asus is also in the OHA and in partnership with them to make and market Linux based phones. Asus is giving MS the finger.
Garmin explicitly says on garminasus.com "OS: Linux" in the specifications for the nuvifone G60. There is also their linux code download page, developer.garmin.com/linux, where you can get code modified for four different device families. Finally, Garmin's membership in the Open Handset Alliance is very much indicative of support for the L word.
Except for, you know, the Linux based phone they partnered with Garmin on and have a giant splash ad for on their website.
You reminded me of something very interesting that Mercedes does with their service. Mercedes "supports" every car they have ever built for consumers. I can walk into any dealer and they will either have or can quickly get parts for my 1973 450SL. For older or more obscure cars, there's always their Classic Center in Irvine, where they will work on anything old Mercedes built. Additionally, Mercedes honors recalls indefinitely. The 107 series cars had a problem with cracking subframes, and when I bought my 73 SL (in 2003) and registered it with MB, I got a letter in the mail in 1970s MB letterhead instructing me to take it to a dealer, and they would repair or replace the subframe free of charge.
"Thirdly, hand-off actually works in mobile protocols. 4G/LTE devices will be able to transparently hand-off from your personal home femtocell to a macrocell when you walk outside, to a 3G or even GPRS/2G cell if you roam out of range .... all without you even noticing. Try that with a WiFi based system!"
The municipal wifi in Lawrence, Kansas can handle handoffs between mesh nodes. The network is divided into a segments a few square miles in area with lots of mesh nodes. As long as you stay within one segment, handoffs between mesh nodes work fine.
I'm still friends with the people who *designed* the *original* network there ages ago. Back in the day, NTS barely had a clue. A major reshuffle happened a couple years ago and everyone who knew anything was fired or quit.
That having been said, the university has an interesting history in computing. Read your manpage for lynx. Some of the guys from ACS (Academic Computing Services) went on to Netscape. Recently an IBM 350 was found there and dissected by grad students. Once upon a time there were lots of Linux and Tru64 systems there. Not long ago, the EECS department mail server was a DEC Alpha box. It might still be there, I don't know. There was a student web server, condor, that ran Tru64, and a faculty server (lark) that I think was Linux. Lark is gone, but I think condor might still be up. The old EECS department sysadmin was a major UNIX/Linux guru, and all the EECS workstations in the Engineering building were Linux boxes. When they opened the EECS building, all EECS owned machines were Gentoo boxes.
Overall at the university there are a lot of RHEL and Solaris servers. There is still an 8-node Origin2000 sitting in the Computer Center on the DC floor, but I don't know if there is anyone left who knows how to run it, because they got rid of the two people who had SGI experience.
Don't be let down though, the community supports Linux seriously. The local wireless ISP is entirely Linux based, a lot of engineering research projects have used embedded Linux, there is a strong Linux user group in the area (KULUA) and there are local businesses that support Linux.
Just being picky, but the amount of bandwidth you need for voice communication on a cell phone is only about 8.5kbps.
Apollo/HP seemed to do rather well with m68k systems. There are two motherboards from retired Apollos hanging on my wall right now, one with a 68030 and 68882, and the other with a 68040. I've used real working Apollos, and still have full sets of Domain/OS 10.3 and 10.4 tapes for them. Sun also had m68k systems with the Sun 3 series machines. Somewhere I have a Sun 3/80, which has the same 68030 and 68882 as my old Apollo. Even NeXT computers had m68k processors, though while I've had several Apollos and Suns, I've never even seen a NeXT box.
If you can move your cg laterally you can also get out of a flat spin. A test pilot in Wichita entered into a flat spin, climbed out onto the wing to bail, and the cg excursion was enough to induce a roll, and got him out of the flat spin. He said "I can recover from this!" and got back into the aircraft and safely landed.
One of my favorite old machines is actually my NT4 box. P-200MMX, 80MB RAM. And you know what? It is really quick. I'd have the task bar two rows tall because I'd have that much crap open and it still ran fine.
I will give you that hand-eye coordination is something important, but that is not specific to weapon handling or target sighting. At best though, someone could learn rudimentary knowledge of sights from a game, as its all a 2D screen. When you have a 9 lb. rifle in your hands on a hot day, and you're trying to sight your target 200m away through a peep sight, video game dynamics are out the window. I know that on a nasty day like that, even I have trouble at long range with just the iron sights on my HK91.
Pistol shooting is even worse. How you tense your hands, the muscles in your strong arm, and how you pull the trigger all effect your accuracy. People don't think about these things, and there's no way a video game can account for them.
"a citizen playing a first person shooter would have a leg up when it comes to weapons use."
Yep, to fire, all they have to do is click. They really can carry nine large weapons and all the ammunition for them on their person. And when they empty a mag, they just need to shoot off to the side to reload.
I own several weapons and have been trained in the use of even more. Video games don't teach you *anything* about how to handle a weapon.
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
I've seen some pretty palacial offices in the federal courts. A good friend of mine is a federal district judge. Her main office is HUGE, I'd say over 1000 square feet, with oriental rugs, and beautiful wood walls, and a great view of the city from the 20-something'th floor. In addition, there is a front office for an intern/paralegal/secretary, and a private full bathroom off to the back.
WHHHOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHH
What's your battery capacity? This D630 has an 85Wh pack. Dell usually has a few different capacities available. Maybe a bigger one would help? Also, see if the software for the video card allows auto-throttling the GPU speed. My Quadro (and your 4850s) shouldn't need to be running at full speed all the time.
"You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you."
You need to fill out paperwork justifying your need for a public defender. Lying on those forms is a criminal offense. PDs are meant for people who *need* them, not for lazy millionaires who don't care.
...running a fairly powerful laptop, a Dell Latitude D630 (Core2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, Seagate Momentus 7200rpm 120GB HD, nVidia Quadro NVS135M w/256MB RAM) on Fedora 10. I regularly run it for 4-5 hours on battery.
ADA is still very much alive. Most of the fighter aircraft used in the USAF have computers running ADA software.
FORTRAN is still very much alive. I believe a new spec came out recently even. Several analytical programs in science and engineering heavily rely on FORTRAN. Many structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics programs are written in FORTRAN.
"Ya you know what, if it means VZ is more careful about who they hire, I think that's a good thing and I'm willing to pay the $0.0001 for it."
Wait, do you mean .0001 dollars or .0001 cents?
I always enjoyed being able to go practically forever on the highway in my diesels.
My 1984 Mercedes 300SD had a turbocharged 3.0L 5-cylinder and a 4-speed automatic transmission. I had manual control over the ALDA from the driver's seat so I could adjust the injector pump flow manually, bigger turbo, second battery, heavy duty relays for the glow plugs, rear end from a 380SE, and a straight-piped exhaust. That sucker could probably tow a house. Estimated power was about 200hp, economy was 38mpg cruising 55-60mph.
Add a couple decades of technology, and you have my 2008 Vauxhall Zafira. 1.9L common rail direct injection turbocharged diesel engine, 6-speed manual gearbox. In a 7-passenger MPV fully loaded on a roadtrip, I got no less than 35mpg, usually closer to 45mpg.
That's like giving a kid a quarter and saying "don't spend it all in one place!"