This system is based on technology from activepower. For line conditioning power from a DC bank of photovoltaics their CleanSource(R) DC product may be a better fit as it doesn't include all of the UPS addons that wouldn't necessarily be needed in such a setup.
Most of the Dell and IBM Xseries servers I've installed in the last couple years have had DVD drives in them, when even a slimline DVD drive costs only $50 there really is no reason not to include them.
If all you want is a PDA then Palm is the way to go, I carry a Palm IIIxe myself. However when it came time to build a vertical app for my fathers small business I had to go with PocketPC. Throwing together an order form in PocketExcel that pulled info from PocketAccess and then printed via Bluetooth fax service was SO much easier than trying to do the equivilant on Palm, where you needed poorly supported third party apps or expensive per month services. And of course for larger enterprises RIM is the way to go as the built in datamodem is better than anything else.
If your Intellimouse was a first generation then yes, it was a defect. MS acknowledged it and replaced a few dozen first generation Intellimice with broken cords for us. The design defect was having a 90 degree bend in the cord where it enters the mouse, this made the cord abraid against corner of the plastic every time the mouse was moved, eventually most mice wore out. Three year waranty with only the serial number needed for proof (we bought all of ours in package deals, no seperate invoice for the mouse) was pretty darn good by my eyes.
log into iTunes on the secondary computer and activate that computer for the iTunes account that has purchased the music. I believe you are allowed up to five computers per account, of which any two(?) can be active at any time.
Datacenter server isn't just server 2003 with a higher price tag, it is server 2003 win a specific configuration on a specific piece of hardware with VERY tight SLA's, like no more than X unscheduled downtime per year, etc. And yes there ARE companies that are using it for new projects in areas where mainframes would have traditionally been used. Mainframes though will likely never die. The reason is that mainframes have a mindset that no other computer architecture has, it doesn't matter how fast something gets done on average, it matters how slowly it gets done in the worst case. Mainframes are all about insuring that batch processing of high volume loads get done by a certain deadline, else there is usually hell to pay. Until there is a PC or UNIX OS/platform that is focused on those same goals then mainframes aren't going anywhere. Microsoft might have killed it the mainframe killer but what they really meant was our first foray into the upper echelons of the datacenter.
Cray's next machine, uncreatively called the "Cray-2,"solved the cooling/plumbing problem another way: the boards themselves were swimming in a non-conducting liquid called "Fluorinert," a blood plasma substitute used in surgery that happens to have the right thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties.link
I know this isn't the only place I've seen this as well. In fact back in 1996 when I attended a computer camp at The University of Michigan and we were working on the Cray YMP-80 the prof gave us a little history of their supercomputer center and mentioned this fact about their Cray 2.
Well since every other major architecture except IA-32 has NOEXEC or similar I would imagine that every Free OS has such code already, it might need to be ported and cleaned up but most of the work should already be done. Also XP SP2 should have it later this year.
The Cray-2 supercomputer was also liquid cooled. They used a fluid called flourinert which is electrically non-conductive but a good thermal conductor. Flourinert was origionally developed as an artificial plasma substitute for heart surgery. It is also insanely expensive, around $500/gallon!
From the USAHA 1998 report mentioned by another reply:
Dr. Alfonso Torres, Center Director, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, reminded the audience of the purpose of the Plum Island facility and the importance of its location. He pointed out that while operation and maintenance costs are more than $10 million per year, there would not be a great savings by moving the facility onto the mainland of the United States. This is the only level 5 biocontainment facility in the United States and by having it on the island, there is more security when working with foot-and-mouth disease virus, etc.
Well if the director of the facility is calling it a Level 5 facility only 6 years ago I would hardly call that outdated or incorrect as in theory he should know more than anyone about the subject. Basically they are saying that Plum Island is a facility where it's a good idea to work on the nastiest of nasty germs, I would dispute this and say that a new facility should be constructed somewhere far away from population centers, say a desert island.
Acutually, it is the only BSL5 facility in the U.S. At least according to the last two directors:
Officially listed as a Level 3 facility, I have deteremined that Plum Island is, in reality, a Biocontainment Level 5 Facility...the only known such facility in the U.S. According to documents that I have obtained from the 1998 USAHA (United States Animal Health Association) website, Dr. Mike Kiley, and also the previous Director (until July 1999) Dr. Alfonso Torres, *both* refer to Plum Island as the "only Biocontainment Level 5 Facility in the U.S." link
NO. Presidential order has stopped many classes of federal workers from striking and private individuals can be forced to cease striking under the Taft-Hartley Act which Bush used to reopen west coast ports. If he can force dock workers whos actions only result in economic impact back to work then surely he has the authority to force safety critical workers as well. Of course it would never be done because that would draw way too much attention to the fact that there is a bioweapons and severly contagious disease facility just miles from long island.
Where all of the animals on the island died when some unknown pathogen was accidently released in the 1970's? If so there are some systemic problems and the site needs to be shut down. Having that kind of work done on the east coast is NUTS, put it out in the desert somewhere where accidents don't endanger a huge percentage of the U.S. population.
Camera phones will NEVER be good for anything. The reason is simple, optics. You are never going to be able to put good optics into the 5mm or so that cellphone manufacturers give for the lens, it's a matter of physics. You could have a 10MP sensor behind it and it wouldn't matter. I guess camera phones will replace the $10 point-and-shoot fixed lens Walmart camera, but that's a lot of expensive electronics to replace such a lowly item. The real answer is that it is not customer demand that is driving camera phones, it is service providers trying to find a billable use for their expensive 2.5G data networks, and camera phones have enough of a novelty effect at this point to drive some sales of expensive phones and some usage of the data network. Longterm most people decide that they don't really need the camera portion, especially once they get their bill and see the per shot charges!
Actually it looks more equitable than most solutions. Transmit your audio blog by torrented-RSS, if only a few people are interested then your server sends out almost like a normal web server. However if you get crushed with demand for content then the people who are overloading your system shoulder some of the burden. In that case there is no corporate entity that is gaining, just a poor blogger who won't be getting a huge bandwidth bill or losing his site. I think this would be a great way for popular figures to post replays of speeches for example Linus's keynote speech could be hosted this way from his theoretical homepage, when all the geeks go to listen they all share some of the bandwidth costs.
I wasn't aware that they had a new generation of product out. Guess I will have to look into them. If they can keep out airplane noise then I might consider them because as you said wearing the Epy's for extended periods can be annoying.
The real answer as I learned from another sysadmin who has to do occasional deskside work is to carry a 125mL bottle of Purell. Use it religiously and you will reduce your chance of getting sick by a ton.
It's to get most of the atomized snot to recolese on your hand instead of hanging in the air for others to inhale into their lungs. Since the bronchial passage is the main way foreign pathogens enter a healthy persons system this makes sense.
Bose noise cancelling headphones suck, they aren't even the best active noise cancelling headphones available. Sennheiser has better models for around the same price. Far better than either though is
the Etymotic ER-4P, these in ear canal headphone provide over 24dB of isolation, with some nice jazz playing you won't hear anything outside, headphone.com has them for only $219, about the same as the Bose units.
But in this case it's absolutly retarded. For only $17 MSRP you can get the Arctic Cooling Silencer64 which is designed to handle any AMD Opteron/Athlon64 currently shipped and produces only 20dB of noise (essentially silent). It achieves this through a large, slow fan which also has the advantage of being more reliable =)
I've had my PC for over 3 years now, and with an upgrade to the video card it still plays everything I've thrown at it. Of course I can only play Silent Storm at 1024*768 with no AA and medium graphics quality, but that's the point, allow gracefull degredation and even 3 year old PC's can play. The same game will bring todays fastest processors and GPU's to their knees at max quality, so the engine should still look good in a couple years. With game development times as long as they are today you have to design things like this if you want to look decent at launch let alone after a bit of time.
Except you'd be suprised how often they forget to demill stuff before selling it. Like the F-18 that went up for sale a while ago, due to a paperwork messup it wasn't classified as needing to be demilled so the mainspar wasn't cut. There was also the nuclear diffusion plant whos equipment was sold as scrap without being cut up (the new owner tried to sell it to the Israeli's before the CIA knocked on his door, his comment was that at least he didn't try to sell it to Iran). There are tons of other lesser examples all the time.
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This system is based on technology from activepower. For line conditioning power from a DC bank of photovoltaics their CleanSource(R) DC product may be a better fit as it doesn't include all of the UPS addons that wouldn't necessarily be needed in such a setup.
Most of the Dell and IBM Xseries servers I've installed in the last couple years have had DVD drives in them, when even a slimline DVD drive costs only $50 there really is no reason not to include them.
If all you want is a PDA then Palm is the way to go, I carry a Palm IIIxe myself. However when it came time to build a vertical app for my fathers small business I had to go with PocketPC. Throwing together an order form in PocketExcel that pulled info from PocketAccess and then printed via Bluetooth fax service was SO much easier than trying to do the equivilant on Palm, where you needed poorly supported third party apps or expensive per month services. And of course for larger enterprises RIM is the way to go as the built in datamodem is better than anything else.
If your Intellimouse was a first generation then yes, it was a defect. MS acknowledged it and replaced a few dozen first generation Intellimice with broken cords for us. The design defect was having a 90 degree bend in the cord where it enters the mouse, this made the cord abraid against corner of the plastic every time the mouse was moved, eventually most mice wore out. Three year waranty with only the serial number needed for proof (we bought all of ours in package deals, no seperate invoice for the mouse) was pretty darn good by my eyes.
log into iTunes on the secondary computer and activate that computer for the iTunes account that has purchased the music. I believe you are allowed up to five computers per account, of which any two(?) can be active at any time.
Datacenter server isn't just server 2003 with a higher price tag, it is server 2003 win a specific configuration on a specific piece of hardware with VERY tight SLA's, like no more than X unscheduled downtime per year, etc. And yes there ARE companies that are using it for new projects in areas where mainframes would have traditionally been used. Mainframes though will likely never die. The reason is that mainframes have a mindset that no other computer architecture has, it doesn't matter how fast something gets done on average, it matters how slowly it gets done in the worst case. Mainframes are all about insuring that batch processing of high volume loads get done by a certain deadline, else there is usually hell to pay. Until there is a PC or UNIX OS/platform that is focused on those same goals then mainframes aren't going anywhere. Microsoft might have killed it the mainframe killer but what they really meant was our first foray into the upper echelons of the datacenter.
Cray's next machine, uncreatively called the "Cray-2,"solved the cooling/plumbing problem another way: the boards themselves were swimming in a non-conducting liquid called "Fluorinert," a blood plasma substitute used in surgery that happens to have the right thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties. link
I know this isn't the only place I've seen this as well. In fact back in 1996 when I attended a computer camp at The University of Michigan and we were working on the Cray YMP-80 the prof gave us a little history of their supercomputer center and mentioned this fact about their Cray 2.
They are both perfluorinated liquids. Fluorinert is the 3M brand name for their line and Galden is the brand name for Ausimont's.
Well since every other major architecture except IA-32 has NOEXEC or similar I would imagine that every Free OS has such code already, it might need to be ported and cleaned up but most of the work should already be done. Also XP SP2 should have it later this year.
The Cray-2 supercomputer was also liquid cooled. They used a fluid called flourinert which is electrically non-conductive but a good thermal conductor. Flourinert was origionally developed as an artificial plasma substitute for heart surgery. It is also insanely expensive, around $500/gallon!
From the USAHA 1998 report mentioned by another reply:
Dr. Alfonso Torres, Center Director, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, reminded the audience of the purpose of the Plum Island facility and the importance of its location. He pointed out that while operation and maintenance costs are more than $10 million per year, there would not be a great savings by moving the facility onto the mainland of the United States. This is the only level 5 biocontainment facility in the United States and by having it on the island, there is more security when working with foot-and-mouth disease virus, etc.
Well if the director of the facility is calling it a Level 5 facility only 6 years ago I would hardly call that outdated or incorrect as in theory he should know more than anyone about the subject. Basically they are saying that Plum Island is a facility where it's a good idea to work on the nastiest of nasty germs, I would dispute this and say that a new facility should be constructed somewhere far away from population centers, say a desert island.
Acutually, it is the only BSL5 facility in the U.S. At least according to the last two directors:
Officially listed as a Level 3 facility, I have deteremined that Plum Island is, in reality, a Biocontainment Level 5 Facility...the only known such facility in the U.S. According to documents that I have obtained from the 1998 USAHA (United States Animal Health Association) website, Dr. Mike Kiley, and also the previous Director (until July 1999) Dr. Alfonso Torres, *both* refer to Plum Island as the "only Biocontainment Level 5 Facility in the U.S."
link
NO.
Presidential order has stopped many classes of federal workers from striking and private individuals can be forced to cease striking under the Taft-Hartley Act which Bush used to reopen west coast ports. If he can force dock workers whos actions only result in economic impact back to work then surely he has the authority to force safety critical workers as well. Of course it would never be done because that would draw way too much attention to the fact that there is a bioweapons and severly contagious disease facility just miles from long island.
Where all of the animals on the island died when some unknown pathogen was accidently released in the 1970's? If so there are some systemic problems and the site needs to be shut down. Having that kind of work done on the east coast is NUTS, put it out in the desert somewhere where accidents don't endanger a huge percentage of the U.S. population.
Camera phones will NEVER be good for anything. The reason is simple, optics. You are never going to be able to put good optics into the 5mm or so that cellphone manufacturers give for the lens, it's a matter of physics. You could have a 10MP sensor behind it and it wouldn't matter. I guess camera phones will replace the $10 point-and-shoot fixed lens Walmart camera, but that's a lot of expensive electronics to replace such a lowly item. The real answer is that it is not customer demand that is driving camera phones, it is service providers trying to find a billable use for their expensive 2.5G data networks, and camera phones have enough of a novelty effect at this point to drive some sales of expensive phones and some usage of the data network. Longterm most people decide that they don't really need the camera portion, especially once they get their bill and see the per shot charges!
Actually it looks more equitable than most solutions. Transmit your audio blog by torrented-RSS, if only a few people are interested then your server sends out almost like a normal web server. However if you get crushed with demand for content then the people who are overloading your system shoulder some of the burden. In that case there is no corporate entity that is gaining, just a poor blogger who won't be getting a huge bandwidth bill or losing his site. I think this would be a great way for popular figures to post replays of speeches for example Linus's keynote speech could be hosted this way from his theoretical homepage, when all the geeks go to listen they all share some of the bandwidth costs.
How else could we slashdot Google? =)
I wasn't aware that they had a new generation of product out. Guess I will have to look into them. If they can keep out airplane noise then I might consider them because as you said wearing the Epy's for extended periods can be annoying.
The real answer as I learned from another sysadmin who has to do occasional deskside work is to carry a 125mL bottle of Purell. Use it religiously and you will reduce your chance of getting sick by a ton.
After all, licking your workmates is just gross.
Guess it depends on your workmates =)
It's to get most of the atomized snot to recolese on your hand instead of hanging in the air for others to inhale into their lungs. Since the bronchial passage is the main way foreign pathogens enter a healthy persons system this makes sense.
Bose noise cancelling headphones suck, they aren't even the best active noise cancelling headphones available. Sennheiser has better models for around the same price. Far better than either though is the Etymotic ER-4P, these in ear canal headphone provide over 24dB of isolation, with some nice jazz playing you won't hear anything outside, headphone.com has them for only $219, about the same as the Bose units.
But in this case it's absolutly retarded. For only $17 MSRP you can get the Arctic Cooling Silencer64 which is designed to handle any AMD Opteron/Athlon64 currently shipped and produces only 20dB of noise (essentially silent). It achieves this through a large, slow fan which also has the advantage of being more reliable =)
I've had my PC for over 3 years now, and with an upgrade to the video card it still plays everything I've thrown at it. Of course I can only play Silent Storm at 1024*768 with no AA and medium graphics quality, but that's the point, allow gracefull degredation and even 3 year old PC's can play. The same game will bring todays fastest processors and GPU's to their knees at max quality, so the engine should still look good in a couple years. With game development times as long as they are today you have to design things like this if you want to look decent at launch let alone after a bit of time.
Except you'd be suprised how often they forget to demill stuff before selling it. Like the F-18 that went up for sale a while ago, due to a paperwork messup it wasn't classified as needing to be demilled so the mainspar wasn't cut. There was also the nuclear diffusion plant whos equipment was sold as scrap without being cut up (the new owner tried to sell it to the Israeli's before the CIA knocked on his door, his comment was that at least he didn't try to sell it to Iran). There are tons of other lesser examples all the time.