The question is how to turn the most food into the most meat using the least square footage -- and the answer is one that treats animals in less than favorable conditions. But let's not consider whether animals live in painful conditions for the months before they die (who cares), but look only at the environmental impact of this scheme.
But veal tastes sooo good!!
I understand the problem - having a rack of servers here at home does this - but, for me, the solution is to use the built-in motherboard temp. monitors (yeah, they're off a few degrees, I know) and build rules. For example, under Windows, you can get MBM and a companion program, SHDN and set them to sit in taskbar and just monitor temps, voltages, etc. and shutdown the box when it gets too hot. Under linux, you can use the i2c kernel stuff and write a script that will poll the sensors and initiate a shutdown -h now command if the temperature line in the resulting file (piped to a text file, of course) exceeds a temperature that you set. I'm pretty conservative, so I set my systems to go down if the CPU temp is above 122F or the system temp is above 83F, and this works out well for me.
Anyway... if you put the script into a cronjob and set it to run every 5 minutes, say, then this should down your box before it explodes into flame. Also, you may want to head into BIOS and ensure that "power state after power off" is not set to "resume" or whatever - this would be a Bad Thing (tm).
Now, of course, the thing to do is water cool everything.:) My $.02
PS: If the internal temperature sensors being off a few degrees REALLY bothers you, you may want to look into some LCD displays. Typically, you can get them so that they plug into a 5.25" bay, and they're pretty useful. You'll want to check out the web for CrystalFontz and others, and as a rule V... umm.. dang (VDT's?). The vacuum tube displays (like you see in hospitals) are a good deal brighter and have more contrast than the LCD models... but you pay for it.
Arkeia? Last time I worked with this, you could do all sorts of cross-platform stuff and it seemed pretty robust.
Then again, I never really pulled the guts out of it, either - it just worked, and I was happy with that.:)
~N~
This is in response to the AC who wrote, "show me a company that writes its own OS and browser"... okay, here you go - QNX. It's actually an RTOS, it's VERY neat, and they use the photon browser for surfing around on the web. Check it out; it's a full RTOS that fits on a floppy... neat, eh?
Further trivia still: the University of Arizona has a tribute to the finding of the Bucky Ball in its Biological Sciences (now named after some guy) building.
Actually, I'm in the process of doing this myself - you can get a cheap ($30) micro-ATX case and a cheap ($29) micro-ATX motherboard (head to pricewatch.com - that's where I found the prices, etc.) and then it's off to get a P3 s370 CPU and an AGP card - the board that I found has one AGP and three or four PCI on a micro-ATX form-factor! Also, take a look on slashdot.org and do a search for "shuttle" - you'll see that this very thing was discussed a while back, and the concensus was that a PCI card will hit you for 30% performance losses in doing MPEG-2 PVR'ing.
Take it easy; I'm waiting for my parts to arrive. I'd ultimitely like to do a 2- or 3-card setup so that I can record on one card, watch TV on another, and get listings from the third... if only wavetop was still up!:)
~N~
Was looking into this. I work with a data-mining group and we were going to do a POP project for them. But then things fell through... so I assume that they still went ahead with this project.
~N~
(on thier web page, too): "Take our exam package (Cisco, Microsoft, A+, etc.), and if you fail twice within 90 days of buying our $1500 package, then we'll refund your money." Yeah. Well, I've just settled with the bank 2 years later (after calling and calling FFT) for a $1200 settlement. Seems kinda shady to me.
I personally name my servers after philosophers. Right now, Hegel is serving the web, Nietzsche is where I generally work from, and Kant... is being Kant - mysterious and buggy.:)
I didn't want to believe it. I mean, hell, Hong Kong Cinema is typically great in its nuances. But this... this was crap. Cooked, soaked with gasoline, smeared in your face with ants poured on top. My girlfriend and I ended up walking out of the theatre - quite a feat, considering we're poor.:/
This gets five angry yawns down.
Just my $.02 - this guy wouldn't have made it through college english. I may well be begging for an onslaught of "you're being picky", but his grammar is horrible. This can't be for real... but, wait... no, I understand now - he used Word to grammar/spell check his e-mail!
Ah... the dawning light of understanding.;)
HDTV displays are *AWESOME*! I saw a display in a large geek-friendly store (known for returns sitting on the shelf), and an american football game was on, and it looked like you were just watching the game through a picture-frame.
Simply amazing.
HOWEVER... the U.S. is so slow to adopt HDTV that if you get an HDTV-ready TV or one with the receiver already in place, it may well be a couple of years before you can use it. There are, though, some stations already broadcasting using the format. Were I to buy a TV right now, and were I looking in the mid- to high-end market (i.e. $2000 range), I'd personally get an HDTV receiver built into the TV.
What about the "sucks" domain name ruling, then - could a case be made such that the "sucks" part of the domain is just an opinion? Anyone remember what jurisdiction this took place in?
I'm a year out from a CSE (merged Computer Science and Engineering) degree, and with the coursework flows here (at an unnamed University in Northern Arizona), it'll take considerably longer (2 years) to do the degree than I think it should. As such, *my* solution is to pack it up and go to MIS. But - if you're one semester away, I'd probably stay in it, and then if you're looking at doing IT management, I'd head to grad school for an MBA. Just my $.02; it's good to know that I'm not the only one going through this!
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The question is how to turn the most food into the most meat using the least square footage -- and the answer is one that treats animals in less than favorable conditions. But let's not consider whether animals live in painful conditions for the months before they die (who cares), but look only at the environmental impact of this scheme. But veal tastes sooo good!!
I understand the problem - having a rack of servers here at home does this - but, for me, the solution is to use the built-in motherboard temp. monitors (yeah, they're off a few degrees, I know) and build rules. For example, under Windows, you can get MBM and a companion program, SHDN and set them to sit in taskbar and just monitor temps, voltages, etc. and shutdown the box when it gets too hot. Under linux, you can use the i2c kernel stuff and write a script that will poll the sensors and initiate a shutdown -h now command if the temperature line in the resulting file (piped to a text file, of course) exceeds a temperature that you set. I'm pretty conservative, so I set my systems to go down if the CPU temp is above 122F or the system temp is above 83F, and this works out well for me.
... if you put the script into a cronjob and set it to run every 5 minutes, say, then this should down your box before it explodes into flame. Also, you may want to head into BIOS and ensure that "power state after power off" is not set to "resume" or whatever - this would be a Bad Thing (tm).
:)
... umm .. dang (VDT's?). The vacuum tube displays (like you see in hospitals) are a good deal brighter and have more contrast than the LCD models ... but you pay for it.
Anyway
Now, of course, the thing to do is water cool everything.
My $.02
PS: If the internal temperature sensors being off a few degrees REALLY bothers you, you may want to look into some LCD displays. Typically, you can get them so that they plug into a 5.25" bay, and they're pretty useful. You'll want to check out the web for CrystalFontz and others, and as a rule V
Arkeia? Last time I worked with this, you could do all sorts of cross-platform stuff and it seemed pretty robust. Then again, I never really pulled the guts out of it, either - it just worked, and I was happy with that. :)
~N~
Well ... they *could* be traffic-shaping at the LS-1010. Just a thought.
~N~
This is in response to the AC who wrote, "show me a company that writes its own OS and browser" ... okay, here you go - QNX. It's actually an RTOS, it's VERY neat, and they use the photon browser for surfing around on the web. Check it out; it's a full RTOS that fits on a floppy ... neat, eh?
Further trivia still: the University of Arizona has a tribute to the finding of the Bucky Ball in its Biological Sciences (now named after some guy) building.
Actually, I'm in the process of doing this myself - you can get a cheap ($30) micro-ATX case and a cheap ($29) micro-ATX motherboard (head to pricewatch.com - that's where I found the prices, etc.) and then it's off to get a P3 s370 CPU and an AGP card - the board that I found has one AGP and three or four PCI on a micro-ATX form-factor! Also, take a look on slashdot.org and do a search for "shuttle" - you'll see that this very thing was discussed a while back, and the concensus was that a PCI card will hit you for 30% performance losses in doing MPEG-2 PVR'ing. Take it easy; I'm waiting for my parts to arrive. I'd ultimitely like to do a 2- or 3-card setup so that I can record on one card, watch TV on another, and get listings from the third ... if only wavetop was still up! :)
~N~
Was looking into this. I work with a data-mining group and we were going to do a POP project for them. But then things fell through ... so I assume that they still went ahead with this project.
~N~
(on thier web page, too): "Take our exam package (Cisco, Microsoft, A+, etc.), and if you fail twice within 90 days of buying our $1500 package, then we'll refund your money." Yeah. Well, I've just settled with the bank 2 years later (after calling and calling FFT) for a $1200 settlement. Seems kinda shady to me.
I personally name my servers after philosophers. Right now, Hegel is serving the web, Nietzsche is where I generally work from, and Kant ... is being Kant - mysterious and buggy. :)
I didn't want to believe it. I mean, hell, Hong Kong Cinema is typically great in its nuances. But this ... this was crap. Cooked, soaked with gasoline, smeared in your face with ants poured on top. My girlfriend and I ended up walking out of the theatre - quite a feat, considering we're poor. :/
This gets five angry yawns down.
I am! (hopefully this isn't triple-posted)
Haven't we known this for months and months and months? I thought so. :/
So I can browse through and figure out all the shows of Married ... With Children where Christina Applegate wore a bikini?
... win-win. :)
Wowww
Just my $.02 - this guy wouldn't have made it through college english. I may well be begging for an onslaught of "you're being picky", but his grammar is horrible. This can't be for real ... but, wait ... no, I understand now - he used Word to grammar/spell check his e-mail!
Ah ... the dawning light of understanding. ;)
HDTV displays are *AWESOME*! I saw a display in a large geek-friendly store (known for returns sitting on the shelf), and an american football game was on, and it looked like you were just watching the game through a picture-frame.
... the U.S. is so slow to adopt HDTV that if you get an HDTV-ready TV or one with the receiver already in place, it may well be a couple of years before you can use it. There are, though, some stations already broadcasting using the format. Were I to buy a TV right now, and were I looking in the mid- to high-end market (i.e. $2000 range), I'd personally get an HDTV receiver built into the TV.
:)
Simply amazing.
HOWEVER
Just my $.02.
What about the "sucks" domain name ruling, then - could a case be made such that the "sucks" part of the domain is just an opinion? Anyone remember what jurisdiction this took place in?
The first ammendment is upheld in the courts. Mirroring another reply, good work there in CA on this. :)
I'm a year out from a CSE (merged Computer Science and Engineering) degree, and with the coursework flows here (at an unnamed University in Northern Arizona), it'll take considerably longer (2 years) to do the degree than I think it should. As such, *my* solution is to pack it up and go to MIS. But - if you're one semester away, I'd probably stay in it, and then if you're looking at doing IT management, I'd head to grad school for an MBA. Just my $.02; it's good to know that I'm not the only one going through this!