I feel your pain - my wife has been diagnosed for nearly 5 years, and has been progressively getting worse, hence my initial post. I think what my hope is that once a treatment/cure is successfuly developed (Tysabri - sp?), then an alternate treatment such as what the article referenced, or treatments that other posters suggested (stem cells) could be used to repair some of the damage.
I wonder if this could at all help existing nerves regenerate after damage caused by diseases like Multiple Sclerosis. While MS symptoms are a result of the mylin sheath being attacked rather than nerves being detatched, the end result is ultimately the same as the disease progresses - partial or total loss of nerve function in one or more regions of the body. If nerves can be encouraged to grow, it'd be great if they could be encouraged to repair as well.
Solid state laptops would do well out in the field since lack of moving parts would potentially help increase their durability when (not if) dropped. The price is probably comparable to existing ruggedized laptops on the market already.
Dell's finally seen the light. Given Dell's (past) market share in the server market, this is definately a big win for AMD. Let's hope it's not too late in the game, though.
One has to wonder, however, will there be any financial reprocussions from Intel after the announcement of this deal? If so, would it only push Dell further into AMD's lap?
Nextels do it as well, but the sounds is more like tssh tssh tssh tsssssssh tssh tssh tssh (longer when transmitting voice, shorter when transmitting silence).
On the plus side, you always knew when your phone was about to ring because the buzzing would become more intense and increase in duration.
The point of visudo is two-fold. One is syntax check, the other is to ensure proper permissions are used on the file. If joe blow edits an external file and copies it in w/ the wrong perms, Sudo is going to bitch and you get nowhere. Of course, the smarter admin/hacker would set the correct perms on/etc/sudo first.
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Ya know, I've always worked around the first two with exclusions, and the -s flag is automagically included.
Try the following:
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN =/sbin/shutdown Cmnd_Alias HALT =/sbin/halt Cmnd_Alias SHELLS =/bin/sh,/bin/bash,/sbin/nologin,/bin/ash,/bin/bsh/bin/ksh,/usr/bin/ksh,/usr/bin/pdksh,/bin/tcsh,/bin/csh,/bin/zsh Cmnd_Alias SU =/usr/bin/su,/bin/su,/usr/sbin/visudo
However, that's not going to stop joe user from copying bash over to/usr/local/bin/myshell and still gaining root that way. A better approach is to permit specifics and allow for an implicit deny rather than explicitly permitting all and denying specifics. There are times though when it's a giant PITA to permit just about everything specific under the sun because there's always going to be one command you've left out here or there. At that point, you just have to trust your users enough to know better and then take steps to secure the machine from the outside world.
The only company that paid my relocation did so with a "forgivable loan" which would be forgiven after 1 year of service. Beyond that, the terms of the loan were not outlined. Downside is they treated said loan as a starting bonus which was taxed left and right. I didn't know at the time (first real job), and didn't ask for extra to cover taxes, and ended up coming up a bit short.
I did stick it out for a year, but only just. When they "awarded" me with a 3% raise on a solid year (this was dot-com era), but then adjusted it to 2.5% based on length of service (wasn't quite 1 year), I decided that there were far greener pastures elsewhere.
Shoddy equipment is an understatement. Fortunately my move from Orange County to Phoenix wasn't too eventful, except that U-Haul didn't have my equipment ready on time. I also ended up being "upgraded" to a slightly larger truck - good thing though as I needed the space. Going from a 50mpg Prius to a 7-8mpg U-Haul (gasoline:-() was a shock! $150 in gas just blew me away - only to move most of my wordly junk and posessions into Storage for the next 9 months while my new home was built (stayed w/ in-laws to save on rent, but lost some to storage fees). As for the truck, a diesel would have done better on some of the hills between Indio and Blythe, and probably faired slightly better fuel economy to boot. The door lock on the driver's side was damaged, so the only way to lock the truck and leave it for short periods of time was via the passenger's side.
9 months later (in the heat of late August) I did a local move in AZ and had reserved the same size truck I had been upgraded to in the past, and they had "upgraded" me again to an *old* International 26' truck diesel (non-turbo) w/ Manual transmission (I hadn't driven stick in a year or so). One rep behind the counter said the truck was out of service and they may have to find another vehicle (which confirms above posts regarding checking whether or not truck is actually in good repair). Another said the truck was fine and handed it off to me. It was already 10:30am and the day was wearing on. I wanted to get my stuff moved before the afternoon heat peaked, so I accepted it and left. They managed to throw in a free set of pads and an extra dolly (I only ordered one and no pads), so I didn't complain.
The moment I pulled out of the U-Haul driveway into traffic, it became apparent that the first rep knew more about what was going on w/ that truck. I went from Grandma gear which was almost instant over-rev for an unloaded truck and tried to shift to 2nd, only to find out that 2nd gear was broken (wouldn't engage). So then it's on to third which almost stalled the truck. I finally got used to starting off in third while unloaded, and had to get really good at shifting quick when the truck was full. Fortunately, the entire move didn't use more than 10 miles on the truck, so it wasn't a huge deal - but the fact that they let old equipment out like that is unreasonable.
As I also mentioned, it was an end-of-August move, which means in PHX, it's 105F+ - turns out the A/C didn't work much, if at all.
There is a good side to the story, however. In the end, my credit card was never billed for the rental, but likely because I wrote in red ink on the return slip that 2nd gear was broken, and that the A/C didn't work.
Hopefully those of you who also had problems didn't get billed as well, or got some sort of discount for faulty equipment.
Owning a hybrid for me isn't about the money, but about social responsibility and environmental impact. I feel better knowing that my contribution to Phoenix's growing smog problem is less my fault, and more of the smoke belching truck or diesel SUV driving past me. Global warming (in the desert, that's very real) was another consideration. My purchase of two Prius was also a statement to the auto industry that (economy) hybrids are viable, desirable, and my only preference of vehicle. That, and what geek can't appreciate one of the most technologically advanced cars in production (at it's purchase time) for under $30k.
I can think of far greater wastes of money occuring every day that cause my "$3000" to pale in comparison. The H2 comes to mind, our "war on terror" that our thirst for oil seems to "fuel" (the aforementioned H2 doesn't help one bit here), misappropritaed government budgeting, corporate greed, etc.
You'll note that in this thread, my arguments never once suggested buying a hybrid as a means of saving money (unless you find one used for a lower than market price). I tell anyone looking to buy one that if their sole motivation is to save money on gas, they can realize a greater immediate savings w/ a standard economy car with slightly lower MPG. Owning a hybrid is taking it one step further though when one's values place social responsibility higher than capitalistic values (in other words, it isn't about the money).
For the price of one meal at the restaurant, I can cook four-six meals at home. I can make pancakes at a fourth of the price that can be bought in the city, and the time to make them is short (half an hour for 10 pieces at 26cm diameter)
While this may be true in some cases, one needs to consider the expense and energy of acquiring the ingredients, utensils, and cookware (for college students, you may have none of these) and your own time in making it as well.
We don't always purchase items to pay for themselves. Using less energy to start with is just a good idea. Look at hybrid car drivers. We drive them not only for great gas mileage, but because it's the right thing to do - smaller environmental foot print, less pollution, etc.
However - on the kill-a-watt topic, I plugged my entire PC system (monitor, speakers, etc) into it, and realized that even idle, it's using 140-150 watts. While gaming, it jumps up over 200 watts. It's also consuming over 25 watts at idle:-(. The LCD only consumes 2 watts powered off, 4 on standby and 40-something while powered on.
Even scarier was an old Dell Lattitude laptop I had plugged in but turned off - the power supply drew about 92 watts while plugged into the laptop - even when powered off. Considering I don't use that laptop much, I just unplugged it and put it back into it's case after giving it the tounge lashing of a lifetime.
Another startling observation, on my kids' computer running an older AMD Athlon TBird 1400 w/ Sk2 bus disconnect software (kinda like cpucool), the difference between idle bit on and off is 90 and 140 watts at idle. If you really must leave the PC on, make sure it's idle loop is as efficent as possible. That guy gets turned off when not in use though.
Yet another cost saver (depending on how you look at it) - eat out. Make the resaurant pay the energy bill of cooking and cleaning. By the time they've cooked and prep'd the meal, and considering the dirty dishes and cookware that doesn't need cleaning afterward (hot water and dishwasher electricity), you may just come out ahead, break even, or justify the difference toward sheer laziness. Granted, the health impact of eating out just may counter-act any savings.
Not to be a "me too", but I just pulled a Verbatim DataLifePlus CD out of my cake stack (I've got too many CD's/DVD's to use jewel cases effectively) and ran a Nero Scandisk on it - zero C2 errors. The CD was dated Nov 1998. Now some of my more recent DVD-R burns on Fry's GQ media didn't fair as well from last year. It really does come down to quality media.
I have some really old Altec Lansing ADA-305's that do the same, but I'd still put any set of speakers in this soft off state in the category of "wall wart" since there's surely still a notable current draw.
Part of my home theater syatem includes an active subwoofer (Infinity) which is always in a semi-on state, and a receiver which has an On and "Standby" mode (which really is more accurate than off).
Unfortuantely it sits in a soft off state when it doesn't have any signal to speak of, but that really doesn't have any affect on the power draw. Even in it's soft off state, it will pass and amplify any signal sent to it. Not to mention - the amp heat-sink plate on the back is aways pretty warm, if not mildly hot to the touch. What's worse is that the switched outlets on the receiver are rated at 100 or 120W max, which is just below the rated power draw of the subwoffer. One thought I had would be a relay to turn on the sub, but it doesn't prevent the annoying pop.
Add that to the VCR, TV's (one actually has a capacitor that "sings" mildly when off proving some power draw), cable boxes (DVR's are the worst due to the need to be "on" to record), PC speakers (betchya didn't think of that one), etc. Even our monitors in standby mode use a few watts (though some LCD's are truly 1W).
Because I live in the desert southwest, I've often considered a solar array to defray my power costs over time (plus the geek/green factor), however I feel that most power generated would probably be delivered to these parasites.
Those cameras were XapShot (http://www.sonicvideo.com/stillvideo/xap.html) cameras, made by Canon. They stored video as a single NTSC field. Only way to display them was through a TV either via the camera itself or a special disc reader. Supposedly there was also an interface card for direct capture to a computer, however it was twice as much as the camera itself.
We had quite a few of these where I went to High School. Back in the early 90's, these were much less expensive to use for photography students than the single $10,0000 XGAish resolution Kodak SLR digital camera we also had.
I came across this company in the past as a potential job opportunity. Sounds like they do exactly what you want, however I do believe their application is Windows specific (or it was at the time). They also offer IM archival using their client.
I remember the days of leaving my modem speaker on while BBSing to make sure call-waiting wasn't occuring. Amazing how many times a session would retrain on a crappy connection. What's worse is I could almost guess the speed in the end by the type of "white noise" I heard. Granted, this was on my USR Sportster 28.8k, not a 14.4. Had to make the big jump from 2400.
As long as it goes to fun viable open source projects with a bright future, but in need of funds, I'm not horribly partial to which group as long as it's well appropriated.
If it does disappear, any idea what MBNA would do with our affinity cards? Revoke them?
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Nope - but the images are linked to wierdal.com, and that site is toast. Remind me not to host my next site with Network Solutions.
Then it was DeJaVu - some of Werner's responses are so similar, I knew I had seem them before.
This is a dupe of a story run in May:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/17/04532
I was RTFA and thought it looked mighty familiar - that or DeJaVu.
I feel your pain - my wife has been diagnosed for nearly 5 years, and has been progressively getting worse, hence my initial post. I think what my hope is that once a treatment/cure is successfuly developed (Tysabri - sp?), then an alternate treatment such as what the article referenced, or treatments that other posters suggested (stem cells) could be used to repair some of the damage.
Until then, I continue to wear my red wristband, labeled "Hope", with the http://nationalmssociety.org/ URL.
I wonder if this could at all help existing nerves regenerate after damage caused by diseases like Multiple Sclerosis. While MS symptoms are a result of the mylin sheath being attacked rather than nerves being detatched, the end result is ultimately the same as the disease progresses - partial or total loss of nerve function in one or more regions of the body. If nerves can be encouraged to grow, it'd be great if they could be encouraged to repair as well.
Can we say ruggedized application?
Solid state laptops would do well out in the field since lack of moving parts would potentially help increase their durability when (not if) dropped. The price is probably comparable to existing ruggedized laptops on the market already.
Will Sega use the failure of the PS3 to catapult themselves back into the market, or will Wii and XBox360 be enough?
Dell's finally seen the light. Given Dell's (past) market share in the server market, this is definately a big win for AMD. Let's hope it's not too late in the game, though.
One has to wonder, however, will there be any financial reprocussions from Intel after the announcement of this deal? If so, would it only push Dell further into AMD's lap?
My old TDMA phones did it as well.
Nextels do it as well, but the sounds is more like tssh tssh tssh tsssssssh tssh tssh tssh (longer when transmitting voice, shorter when transmitting silence).
On the plus side, you always knew when your phone was about to ring because the buzzing would become more intense and increase in duration.
The point of visudo is two-fold. One is syntax check, the other is to ensure proper permissions are used on the file. If joe blow edits an external file and copies it in w/ the wrong perms, Sudo is going to bitch and you get nowhere. Of course, the smarter admin/hacker would set the correct perms on /etc/sudo first.
Try the following:However, that's not going to stop joe user from copying bash over to
The only company that paid my relocation did so with a "forgivable loan" which would be forgiven after 1 year of service. Beyond that, the terms of the loan were not outlined. Downside is they treated said loan as a starting bonus which was taxed left and right. I didn't know at the time (first real job), and didn't ask for extra to cover taxes, and ended up coming up a bit short.
I did stick it out for a year, but only just. When they "awarded" me with a 3% raise on a solid year (this was dot-com era), but then adjusted it to 2.5% based on length of service (wasn't quite 1 year), I decided that there were far greener pastures elsewhere.
Shoddy equipment is an understatement. Fortunately my move from Orange County to Phoenix wasn't too eventful, except that U-Haul didn't have my equipment ready on time. I also ended up being "upgraded" to a slightly larger truck - good thing though as I needed the space. Going from a 50mpg Prius to a 7-8mpg U-Haul (gasoline :-() was a shock! $150 in gas just blew me away - only to move most of my wordly junk and posessions into Storage for the next 9 months while my new home was built (stayed w/ in-laws to save on rent, but lost some to storage fees). As for the truck, a diesel would have done better on some of the hills between Indio and Blythe, and probably faired slightly better fuel economy to boot. The door lock on the driver's side was damaged, so the only way to lock the truck and leave it for short periods of time was via the passenger's side.
9 months later (in the heat of late August) I did a local move in AZ and had reserved the same size truck I had been upgraded to in the past, and they had "upgraded" me again to an *old* International 26' truck diesel (non-turbo) w/ Manual transmission (I hadn't driven stick in a year or so). One rep behind the counter said the truck was out of service and they may have to find another vehicle (which confirms above posts regarding checking whether or not truck is actually in good repair). Another said the truck was fine and handed it off to me. It was already 10:30am and the day was wearing on. I wanted to get my stuff moved before the afternoon heat peaked, so I accepted it and left. They managed to throw in a free set of pads and an extra dolly (I only ordered one and no pads), so I didn't complain.
The moment I pulled out of the U-Haul driveway into traffic, it became apparent that the first rep knew more about what was going on w/ that truck. I went from Grandma gear which was almost instant over-rev for an unloaded truck and tried to shift to 2nd, only to find out that 2nd gear was broken (wouldn't engage). So then it's on to third which almost stalled the truck. I finally got used to starting off in third while unloaded, and had to get really good at shifting quick when the truck was full. Fortunately, the entire move didn't use more than 10 miles on the truck, so it wasn't a huge deal - but the fact that they let old equipment out like that is unreasonable.
As I also mentioned, it was an end-of-August move, which means in PHX, it's 105F+ - turns out the A/C didn't work much, if at all.
There is a good side to the story, however. In the end, my credit card was never billed for the rental, but likely because I wrote in red ink on the return slip that 2nd gear was broken, and that the A/C didn't work.
Hopefully those of you who also had problems didn't get billed as well, or got some sort of discount for faulty equipment.
Owning a hybrid for me isn't about the money, but about social responsibility and environmental impact. I feel better knowing that my contribution to Phoenix's growing smog problem is less my fault, and more of the smoke belching truck or diesel SUV driving past me. Global warming (in the desert, that's very real) was another consideration. My purchase of two Prius was also a statement to the auto industry that (economy) hybrids are viable, desirable, and my only preference of vehicle. That, and what geek can't appreciate one of the most technologically advanced cars in production (at it's purchase time) for under $30k.
I can think of far greater wastes of money occuring every day that cause my "$3000" to pale in comparison. The H2 comes to mind, our "war on terror" that our thirst for oil seems to "fuel" (the aforementioned H2 doesn't help one bit here), misappropritaed government budgeting, corporate greed, etc.
You'll note that in this thread, my arguments never once suggested buying a hybrid as a means of saving money (unless you find one used for a lower than market price). I tell anyone looking to buy one that if their sole motivation is to save money on gas, they can realize a greater immediate savings w/ a standard economy car with slightly lower MPG. Owning a hybrid is taking it one step further though when one's values place social responsibility higher than capitalistic values (in other words, it isn't about the money).
For the price of one meal at the restaurant, I can cook four-six meals at home. I can make pancakes at a fourth of the price that can be bought in the city, and the time to make them is short (half an hour for 10 pieces at 26cm diameter)
While this may be true in some cases, one needs to consider the expense and energy of acquiring the ingredients, utensils, and cookware (for college students, you may have none of these) and your own time in making it as well.
It's also consuming over 25 watts at idle
Ack, that should read when powered off.
We don't always purchase items to pay for themselves. Using less energy to start with is just a good idea. Look at hybrid car drivers. We drive them not only for great gas mileage, but because it's the right thing to do - smaller environmental foot print, less pollution, etc.
:-(. The LCD only consumes 2 watts powered off, 4 on standby and 40-something while powered on.
However - on the kill-a-watt topic, I plugged my entire PC system (monitor, speakers, etc) into it, and realized that even idle, it's using 140-150 watts. While gaming, it jumps up over 200 watts. It's also consuming over 25 watts at idle
Even scarier was an old Dell Lattitude laptop I had plugged in but turned off - the power supply drew about 92 watts while plugged into the laptop - even when powered off. Considering I don't use that laptop much, I just unplugged it and put it back into it's case after giving it the tounge lashing of a lifetime.
Another startling observation, on my kids' computer running an older AMD Athlon TBird 1400 w/ Sk2 bus disconnect software (kinda like cpucool), the difference between idle bit on and off is 90 and 140 watts at idle. If you really must leave the PC on, make sure it's idle loop is as efficent as possible. That guy gets turned off when not in use though.
Yet another cost saver (depending on how you look at it) - eat out. Make the resaurant pay the energy bill of cooking and cleaning. By the time they've cooked and prep'd the meal, and considering the dirty dishes and cookware that doesn't need cleaning afterward (hot water and dishwasher electricity), you may just come out ahead, break even, or justify the difference toward sheer laziness. Granted, the health impact of eating out just may counter-act any savings.
Sorry guys - the plural of Prius is still Prius (many Japaneese words are the same both singular and plural).
Not to be a "me too", but I just pulled a Verbatim DataLifePlus CD out of my cake stack (I've got too many CD's/DVD's to use jewel cases effectively) and ran a Nero Scandisk on it - zero C2 errors. The CD was dated Nov 1998. Now some of my more recent DVD-R burns on Fry's GQ media didn't fair as well from last year. It really does come down to quality media.
I have some really old Altec Lansing ADA-305's that do the same, but I'd still put any set of speakers in this soft off state in the category of "wall wart" since there's surely still a notable current draw.
Part of my home theater syatem includes an active subwoofer (Infinity) which is always in a semi-on state, and a receiver which has an On and "Standby" mode (which really is more accurate than off).
Unfortuantely it sits in a soft off state when it doesn't have any signal to speak of, but that really doesn't have any affect on the power draw. Even in it's soft off state, it will pass and amplify any signal sent to it. Not to mention - the amp heat-sink plate on the back is aways pretty warm, if not mildly hot to the touch. What's worse is that the switched outlets on the receiver are rated at 100 or 120W max, which is just below the rated power draw of the subwoffer. One thought I had would be a relay to turn on the sub, but it doesn't prevent the annoying pop.
Add that to the VCR, TV's (one actually has a capacitor that "sings" mildly when off proving some power draw), cable boxes (DVR's are the worst due to the need to be "on" to record), PC speakers (betchya didn't think of that one), etc. Even our monitors in standby mode use a few watts (though some LCD's are truly 1W).
Because I live in the desert southwest, I've often considered a solar array to defray my power costs over time (plus the geek/green factor), however I feel that most power generated would probably be delivered to these parasites.
Those cameras were XapShot (http://www.sonicvideo.com/stillvideo/xap.html) cameras, made by Canon. They stored video as a single NTSC field. Only way to display them was through a TV either via the camera itself or a special disc reader. Supposedly there was also an interface card for direct capture to a computer, however it was twice as much as the camera itself.
We had quite a few of these where I went to High School. Back in the early 90's, these were much less expensive to use for photography students than the single $10,0000 XGAish resolution Kodak SLR digital camera we also had.
I came across this company in the past as a potential job opportunity. Sounds like they do exactly what you want, however I do believe their application is Windows specific (or it was at the time). They also offer IM archival using their client.
www.messagerite.com
I remember the days of leaving my modem speaker on while BBSing to make sure call-waiting wasn't occuring. Amazing how many times a session would retrain on a crappy connection. What's worse is I could almost guess the speed in the end by the type of "white noise" I heard. Granted, this was on my USR Sportster 28.8k, not a 14.4. Had to make the big jump from 2400.
... me too!
As long as it goes to fun viable open source projects with a bright future, but in need of funds, I'm not horribly partial to which group as long as it's well appropriated.
If it does disappear, any idea what MBNA would do with our affinity cards? Revoke them?