The scenic isn't big by American standards, it's a full meter shorter than the Ford 500, let alone an SUV or full sized pickup. But, that's decent economy for a decent sized car.
Even restricting it to 911 is stupid. I put my phone on vibrate and if my folks need to get ahold of me for an emergency with one of my kids they text me. This is almost completely silent (much quieter than most people at the theater these days) and other than a bit of leaked light shouldn't affect anyone else. There ARE ways to use technology so as not to annoy everyone around you, you just have to be courteous and think.
The problem is that without that 5-10% there really isn't any NEED for the higher bandwidth, the other 90-95% are idle or just web browsing/checking email. I have very bursty patterns, I will download an entire season of a show to watch, then not download much of anything else for quite a while. I like my max available speed to be there so that I can get those episodes in faster than real time, I'm impulsive that way. If my bittorrent downloads were throttled to modem speed I would use the same amount of bandwidth, it would just take much longer and would probably lead me to seek another ISP, probably FIOS with a more modern design and a backbone that's been touched in the last 5 years. Cable is capable of competing with FIOS, just look at DOCSIS 3, but it will require physical plant upgrades and possibly redesigns of some oversaturated segments. The big three are so worried about milking every dime for the customers that they've spent the last 5 years overpaying for that they don't even want to think about spending more dough. Also this kind of traffic shaping crushes any new innovative technology that needs bandwidth and doesn't reuse HTTPS for its transport.
Cisco has a solution that puts the PHY on the antenna out in the premises and just send back the partially processed signal to the MAC built into either an AP or linecard.
Nah, everything but HBO/Cinemax/Starz and VOD should be available through the Firewire feed. Most of the time if the "do not record" flag is set on anything other than those channels it is a mistake and contacting the right person at the cable company can get it fixed. The biggest problem right now AFAIK is getting a driver for most of the Firewire ports, there's some talk on avsforum about getting various models working, but many of the most widely deployed boxes do not have a working driver.
Actually he proved it with some cool math. Basically there is a certain amount of entropy which must be overcome to initialize a bit of data, multiply that small amount of energy by the number of bits in a 128bit filesystem and you get enough energy to bring all of the earths oceans to a boil. It was one of the best examples for the scale of large numbers I've come across.
You can still buy ROTT! I recently wanted to play a little bit and when I went to a legit abandonware site they had a note that it was pulled because the game was still being published. I bought a network license (allows I believe 5 instances, though there is no technical limit) and played with some friends. Then I remembered why I disliked early FPS games, I get motion sickness.
In dollar volume, not units shipped. Since an average desktop is probably 1.5-3x more expensive than the typical desktop it's pretty easy for the laptop number to get to parity/a slight lead.
Hacker hijacks web server of popular site, but instead of simply defacing the front page the slip in a little bit of code to release a botnet installer or adware installer based on this type of vulnerability. It happens all the time.
There's actually more photosynthetic biomass in North America today then there was when the white man arrived. The major factor is the cessation of natural and man made brush fires leading to a decline in grasslands and savannas and major reforestation.
And I've never seen what I would call a Datacenter with Dell.....
Dell is mostly in small shops with a rack or two of equipment. Datacenters are usually HP/IBM/Sun with HDS, IBM or EMC SAN's.
Some are glass, some are metal, and some are ceramic. It depends on the generation and manufacturer and possibly line, where more expensive materials might be used for higher end drives.
The only boxes with 32 processors that I am aware of are the ES7000 boxes from Unisys and the Integrity Superdome line from HP which goes to 64 processors. I've never seen anyone run Windows on the Superdome line, but it's listed as a supported OS. Fujitsu and IBM both make 16 way Windows machines.
Do you have anyone mounting multiple Starfish presentation nodes via SAMBA using DFS. This would seem to be the ideal way to access the redundant data from a Windows host without introducing a single point of failure with the SAMBA presentation server.
Wrong, Pyrex is RESISTANT to shattering when rapidly cooled, not impervious. I personally shattered a Pyrex vessel with heat and cold. We were using a Pyrex watchglass with ice on top to collect material from an evaporated solution is a beaker. I was trying to get all of the salt on the watchglass so I used by burner to heat the sides of the beaker, well the flame jumped due to an idiot lab partner leaning on the inlet tubing and when the flame hit the watchglass it shattered, the ice fell into the Pyrex beaker full of boiling solution and that too shattered. That's why they make you wear your safety goggles even when you aren't dealing with nasty chemicals, things can still happen.
Why the heck would you have 2 dozen T1's for 150 handsets? Each T1 can do 24 voice channels so even if every line was active all the time you would only need a half dozen T1's to service all the handsets. Was there really 400% excess capacity in the system, or was that needed because of all of the different providers involved? I guess that's why going with a VoIP telco is so nice, you need only n+1 connections for redundancy instead of 2n+2m+2p etc for traditional telco circuits.
No, western society is NOT sustainable at todays resource usage rates. If all of the arable landmass in the world were used to produce energy from solar insolation we would need to have a process that was 70% net efficient to power the current world population at the rate of energy consumption in the US. While there are non bio-fuel ways of capturing sunlight for energy none are currently to the level where we could even hope to use them for deployments big enough to offset even a couple percent of our current fossil fuel energy usage.
How the fuck is it "unprofessional" for an adult to drink at a party?!?!? God damn, the teatotalers really are being successful in bringing back prohibition through the back door. This time it won't be the government imposing it, it will just be the companies. I can see drinking alcohol being prohibited by employment contracts at any company run by a good upstanding "conservative".
Over the life of the card the extra power consumed will probably cost you more than the $200 savings and will further pollute the planet. My rig is an Athlon x2 4200+ LV with 2GB ram and SLI'd Geforce 7600GT's. It can play any game out there today and consumes less power total than any card in these reviews (about 150W peak). Oh yeah, it's mostly passively cooled with 2 large slow case fans, the PSU fan, and the CPU fan. It is silent enough to use as a HTPC box.
If you want a passively cooled card that can still play games look at the Geforce 8600GTS line. There are even models with HDCP chips to support Bluray/HDDVD playback.
The problem wasn't totally with the way the thing was wired, it was only an alarm after all, but with the reaction I had to the way the alarm was wired. Combine that with a room sized UPS with an EPO with no toggle cover or confirmation and you get my own personal disaster. The generator not coming on is part of what freaked me out, I had the room apparently on UPS without the generator running, runtime was only ~15 minutes so I needed to figure the problem out rather quickly as a clean shutdown could take 10-12 minutes on some of the boxes (stupid sizing I know, wasn't my design just my problem). At the end of the day my reaction combined with the technicians wiring cost about 200 man hours of engineers time and about 20-30 hours of IT time bringing the systems back up plus whatever runtime was lost since the last checkpoints on the compute cluster and whatever unsaved work was lost. All in all a small disaster compared to many, but still a tale about why EPO's should have protective covers.
You'd think so wouldn't you, but I guess it's because of the very large amounts of electricity typically flowing through these systems.
I know my own Red Button disaster was such a case. We had just moved into a new facility with a (at the time) fancy datacenter with a big central UPS and generator with remote panel. We had remote alarming outside both entrances to the datacenter.
One day the alarm sounds, the strobe goes off, and the light indicates that we are on UPS only. I go and check the generator panel and sure enough it's dark. So I head into the datacenter to figure out what is wrong. I go to the UPS panel and start to check the messages. Just then my finger slips on some silicon grease and slides down the surface mount panel. A fraction of a second later the room is COMPLETELY silent (still the worst noise I have ever heard). After checking transfer switches and manually exercising the generator I turn the UPS back on.
The room comes back to life and all of the Windows (NT4 and 2000) servers and most of the Unix servers come back to life. About 15 of the compute nodes fail to come back online and so I contact the Unix support team and they take most of the rest of the day getting those systems back up and running.
Once everything is sane and checked out I go back through the logs on the UPS to figure out exactly WTF went on. It turns out the system was simply complaining about the filters needing to be checked, the tech had wired that message in as a full alarm instead of a simple callout to the service wing of his company through the modem. The tech got reamed and I got a great story to tell during interviews =)
Mope, technicians are not qualified or authorized to make those type of calls, they just take the pictures and send em to the doctors. If there's a problem it's up to the guy with MD before his name to talk to the folks. I know our technician wouldn't even give a definitive on sex since they are occasionally wrong and people get pissed if they have to repaint a room or return all the baby clothes.
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The scenic isn't big by American standards, it's a full meter shorter than the Ford 500, let alone an SUV or full sized pickup. But, that's decent economy for a decent sized car.
Even restricting it to 911 is stupid. I put my phone on vibrate and if my folks need to get ahold of me for an emergency with one of my kids they text me. This is almost completely silent (much quieter than most people at the theater these days) and other than a bit of leaked light shouldn't affect anyone else. There ARE ways to use technology so as not to annoy everyone around you, you just have to be courteous and think.
They really fund it through a lucrative TV series and spinoffs based on their actual mission reports =)
The problem is that without that 5-10% there really isn't any NEED for the higher bandwidth, the other 90-95% are idle or just web browsing/checking email. I have very bursty patterns, I will download an entire season of a show to watch, then not download much of anything else for quite a while. I like my max available speed to be there so that I can get those episodes in faster than real time, I'm impulsive that way. If my bittorrent downloads were throttled to modem speed I would use the same amount of bandwidth, it would just take much longer and would probably lead me to seek another ISP, probably FIOS with a more modern design and a backbone that's been touched in the last 5 years. Cable is capable of competing with FIOS, just look at DOCSIS 3, but it will require physical plant upgrades and possibly redesigns of some oversaturated segments. The big three are so worried about milking every dime for the customers that they've spent the last 5 years overpaying for that they don't even want to think about spending more dough. Also this kind of traffic shaping crushes any new innovative technology that needs bandwidth and doesn't reuse HTTPS for its transport.
Cisco has a solution that puts the PHY on the antenna out in the premises and just send back the partially processed signal to the MAC built into either an AP or linecard.
Nah, everything but HBO/Cinemax/Starz and VOD should be available through the Firewire feed. Most of the time if the "do not record" flag is set on anything other than those channels it is a mistake and contacting the right person at the cable company can get it fixed. The biggest problem right now AFAIK is getting a driver for most of the Firewire ports, there's some talk on avsforum about getting various models working, but many of the most widely deployed boxes do not have a working driver.
Actually he proved it with some cool math. Basically there is a certain amount of entropy which must be overcome to initialize a bit of data, multiply that small amount of energy by the number of bits in a 128bit filesystem and you get enough energy to bring all of the earths oceans to a boil. It was one of the best examples for the scale of large numbers I've come across.
You can still buy ROTT! I recently wanted to play a little bit and when I went to a legit abandonware site they had a note that it was pulled because the game was still being published. I bought a network license (allows I believe 5 instances, though there is no technical limit) and played with some friends. Then I remembered why I disliked early FPS games, I get motion sickness.
In dollar volume, not units shipped. Since an average desktop is probably 1.5-3x more expensive than the typical desktop it's pretty easy for the laptop number to get to parity/a slight lead.
Hacker hijacks web server of popular site, but instead of simply defacing the front page the slip in a little bit of code to release a botnet installer or adware installer based on this type of vulnerability. It happens all the time.
There's actually more photosynthetic biomass in North America today then there was when the white man arrived. The major factor is the cessation of natural and man made brush fires leading to a decline in grasslands and savannas and major reforestation.
And I've never seen what I would call a Datacenter with Dell.....
Dell is mostly in small shops with a rack or two of equipment. Datacenters are usually HP/IBM/Sun with HDS, IBM or EMC SAN's.
Some are glass, some are metal, and some are ceramic. It depends on the generation and manufacturer and possibly line, where more expensive materials might be used for higher end drives.
The only boxes with 32 processors that I am aware of are the ES7000 boxes from Unisys and the Integrity Superdome line from HP which goes to 64 processors. I've never seen anyone run Windows on the Superdome line, but it's listed as a supported OS. Fujitsu and IBM both make 16 way Windows machines.
Do you have anyone mounting multiple Starfish presentation nodes via SAMBA using DFS. This would seem to be the ideal way to access the redundant data from a Windows host without introducing a single point of failure with the SAMBA presentation server.
Wrong, Pyrex is RESISTANT to shattering when rapidly cooled, not impervious. I personally shattered a Pyrex vessel with heat and cold. We were using a Pyrex watchglass with ice on top to collect material from an evaporated solution is a beaker. I was trying to get all of the salt on the watchglass so I used by burner to heat the sides of the beaker, well the flame jumped due to an idiot lab partner leaning on the inlet tubing and when the flame hit the watchglass it shattered, the ice fell into the Pyrex beaker full of boiling solution and that too shattered. That's why they make you wear your safety goggles even when you aren't dealing with nasty chemicals, things can still happen.
Why the heck would you have 2 dozen T1's for 150 handsets? Each T1 can do 24 voice channels so even if every line was active all the time you would only need a half dozen T1's to service all the handsets. Was there really 400% excess capacity in the system, or was that needed because of all of the different providers involved? I guess that's why going with a VoIP telco is so nice, you need only n+1 connections for redundancy instead of 2n+2m+2p etc for traditional telco circuits.
No, western society is NOT sustainable at todays resource usage rates. If all of the arable landmass in the world were used to produce energy from solar insolation we would need to have a process that was 70% net efficient to power the current world population at the rate of energy consumption in the US. While there are non bio-fuel ways of capturing sunlight for energy none are currently to the level where we could even hope to use them for deployments big enough to offset even a couple percent of our current fossil fuel energy usage.
How the fuck is it "unprofessional" for an adult to drink at a party?!?!? God damn, the teatotalers really are being successful in bringing back prohibition through the back door. This time it won't be the government imposing it, it will just be the companies. I can see drinking alcohol being prohibited by employment contracts at any company run by a good upstanding "conservative".
Over the life of the card the extra power consumed will probably cost you more than the $200 savings and will further pollute the planet. My rig is an Athlon x2 4200+ LV with 2GB ram and SLI'd Geforce 7600GT's. It can play any game out there today and consumes less power total than any card in these reviews (about 150W peak). Oh yeah, it's mostly passively cooled with 2 large slow case fans, the PSU fan, and the CPU fan. It is silent enough to use as a HTPC box.
If you want a passively cooled card that can still play games look at the Geforce 8600GTS line. There are even models with HDCP chips to support Bluray/HDDVD playback.
Windows 2003 does all of that as well, just FYI.
The problem wasn't totally with the way the thing was wired, it was only an alarm after all, but with the reaction I had to the way the alarm was wired. Combine that with a room sized UPS with an EPO with no toggle cover or confirmation and you get my own personal disaster. The generator not coming on is part of what freaked me out, I had the room apparently on UPS without the generator running, runtime was only ~15 minutes so I needed to figure the problem out rather quickly as a clean shutdown could take 10-12 minutes on some of the boxes (stupid sizing I know, wasn't my design just my problem). At the end of the day my reaction combined with the technicians wiring cost about 200 man hours of engineers time and about 20-30 hours of IT time bringing the systems back up plus whatever runtime was lost since the last checkpoints on the compute cluster and whatever unsaved work was lost. All in all a small disaster compared to many, but still a tale about why EPO's should have protective covers.
You'd think so wouldn't you, but I guess it's because of the very large amounts of electricity typically flowing through these systems.
I know my own Red Button disaster was such a case. We had just moved into a new facility with a (at the time) fancy datacenter with a big central UPS and generator with remote panel. We had remote alarming outside both entrances to the datacenter.
One day the alarm sounds, the strobe goes off, and the light indicates that we are on UPS only. I go and check the generator panel and sure enough it's dark. So I head into the datacenter to figure out what is wrong. I go to the UPS panel and start to check the messages. Just then my finger slips on some silicon grease and slides down the surface mount panel. A fraction of a second later the room is COMPLETELY silent (still the worst noise I have ever heard). After checking transfer switches and manually exercising the generator I turn the UPS back on.
The room comes back to life and all of the Windows (NT4 and 2000) servers and most of the Unix servers come back to life. About 15 of the compute nodes fail to come back online and so I contact the Unix support team and they take most of the rest of the day getting those systems back up and running.
Once everything is sane and checked out I go back through the logs on the UPS to figure out exactly WTF went on. It turns out the system was simply complaining about the filters needing to be checked, the tech had wired that message in as a full alarm instead of a simple callout to the service wing of his company through the modem. The tech got reamed and I got a great story to tell during interviews =)
Mope, technicians are not qualified or authorized to make those type of calls, they just take the pictures and send em to the doctors. If there's a problem it's up to the guy with MD before his name to talk to the folks. I know our technician wouldn't even give a definitive on sex since they are occasionally wrong and people get pissed if they have to repaint a room or return all the baby clothes.