There is another factor not covered. At least in Minnesota there used a be a property tax exemption for land that was under CRP. You would pay a significantly reduced property tax vs farmable land. They removed this exemption about 10 years ago now, and since that as CRP expires farmers would rather farm it, then pay the taxes as if they were farming it -- but without the associated yearly income.
I know when I upgraded from pre-digital capable TVs to the new HD TVs... I went way down in TV ownership. I disposed of 5 older TVs, and replaced it with one new TV. Once the last 5 years, I've since upgraded that new TV, and put the older one in a second room.
My parents, and many of my friends are the same way. They went from a TV in every room, to one main one... and as the main one was upgraded the others have slowly moved to other living spaces.
Security for the infrastructure room.. (I don't care if it's a closet or a multimillion dollar server room..) Solid core, fire rated doors with appropriate locks. (Amazing how many businesses don't have the minimum there!)
As someone else said, conduit and wiring ability to expand over time. If someone wants to run 1" conduit, double it to 2" or 3". In the future there will be some new technology and it's almost impossible to ever remove old wiring, but adding new will be much easier.
Climate control -- note I didn't say air conditioning. For the best results, the room should have the ability to have it's own climate control. This may mean air cleaners (if fresh air is used for heating/cooling), air conditioning unit, etc. Don't rely on the building system, because as technology changes the heating/cooling requirements of the technology will change.
A space twice the size you need.. Equipment is always changing in size.. both bigger and smaller, as are the company needs.. room to grow is a good thing!
Finally power.. the room should have it's own dedicated power feed, that can easily be managed by a generator, power backup unit, etc.. even if you don't need those things today, planning ahead for them makes it a whole lot cheaper if you do ever need them. Again relying on building wide power is fine for a while.. but it's much better to have the ability for dedicated stuff in the IT room.
I agree.. Westlaw/Lexis information includes history context, legal analysis, links to secondary (court cases) sources that interpret the law, and as well as if the law is in the process of being appealed as unconstitutional or whatever.
This is what Westlaw and Lexis sell to lawyers, the actual content of the law itself is something required in order for the money making part to exist.
I have worked on systems in the past (for West specifically) that perform automated primary law patching.
The key thing is to understand the standard language and breakdown of the code. In some jurisdiction, it's by section, others it is by subsection, others, paragraph, and others sentence or sentence fragment.
The laws themselves need to be organized in a fashion they can be searched, patched, and retrieved (verified) based on offical versions.
One thing people have ignored is that generally speaking is there are two types of legal codes. Codified sections and Articles/Laws/Uncodified. The Codified sections are of the type mentioned above.. Title 17, section 237, subsection (a) is amended to read... vs Articles -- Act 236 of the 85th congress is amended as follows.. This is MUCH harder to patch.. because in essence you are patching a patch. (Note, most Tax and Social Security related rules are non-codified. This is because the only way to change from non-codified to codified is to repeal and then re-enact the legislation with an official title. And absolutely no congressman wants to be know as someone who voted to repeal social security, or know as someone who voted in all of these taxes...)
I attended a college with a wonderful Sci-Fi lit course. As others have indicated forcing students to see Lit through the eyes of the teacher is going to kill any interest in the course. Instead the class was focused on discussion of the topics, background into the reason why various facets of the material were generated, i.e. Parallelism to time and events, etc.
Also focusing a Lit class specifically on reading books is IMHO a mistake often made in course like this. Doing things like bringing in movies such as "When the Earth Stood Still" (the original not the WHOA! version).. Even reading books like Jurassic Park (which I hated), and then paralleling it to the movie (which was worse then the books) and what trade-offs had to be done. It was very informative and a good way to introduce people who are not into Sci-Fi (and Fantasy) into the genre, and give additional background to people who may have been reading it for years.
Start with short stories, and move toward more mainstream novels and authors. During half a year you should be able to go through at least 5 books and numerous short stories and at least 2 or 3 movies adaptations.
EFI is useful in the same way Open Firmware on PowerPC and Sparc is useful. It gives you an extensable system that can do different things with devices. This is great on a system where you don't know what the hardware may be (i.e. Workstations).. but starts to fall down when you get to servers, blades or embedded systems.
On most systems these days BIOS or any type takes between 3 and 30 seconds to boot to the OS. This is simply not acceptable to many blade and embedded system designs.. (Even some server designs this isn't acceptable.)
I can boot a system with coreboot in a second or less to the OS. This is really the most important part of coreboot. (For embedded systems, most of the time our target is in the.2 to.5 range from power on to OS start... this almost all but excludes ia32 from many embedded applications today.)
If you think putting together a processor and an FPGA is revolutionary I think you need to look at Xilinx (Virtex II Pro) and Altera. Both of them have CPU + FPGA combinations. Xilinx is a PowerPC 405 core, Altera is an ARM9 (I think).
Xilinx also has an FPGA that has enough space to implement a full PowerPC 405 processor.
This to me indicates more of a simple evolution then revolution...
The problem with flourescents is the ballest gives off a hell of a lot of EMF "noise". For those of us who like to us X10 to switch on and off lighting, flourescents cause nothing problem problems.
Give me a clean, quiet, low heat LED bulb and I'll buy it even if it is $25-$40 a bulb..
StorageTek cost me $250 + $200 transportation (plus sales tax). This is far from a modern unit.. new the system was between $50k and $100k depending on options.
Power _IS_ extremely expensive.. it's 6 1/2 cents a KWh. Trust me that adds up quickly. 1 Dual Athlon, 1 PowerMac G3, 1 Dual SparcUltra all added up to approx $25-$30 a month in electricity. That is approx $300 a year. (Now of course I am speaking of home electric rates.. commercial are generally more expensive.)
I IDE raids that I have been involved with all failed in approx 2 to 3 year time frames.. (before the official warrantee was up mind you...)
The failures generally happened to multiple drives within hours of each other, rendering the raid 5 invalid and corrupting tons of data.. (which of course required the restore off a more perminant media... DLT tape.)
I'm not saying they could have gotten a backup system for the same amount of money using convential DLT tapes and media libraries.. however, my experience is that hard disk based (long-term) storage is dangerous without a secondary backup system.
I looked at doing something similar (but on a smaller scale) for my home.. but the amount of power that a hard drive based storage system takes is amazing. In additional IDE hard drives arn't know for their reliability..:P (I've had numerous IDE raids fail spectacularly to the point I won't do that again...)
I ended up going on ebay and getting a StorageTek 9714 "Media Library" with 2 DLT 4000 drives in it. It takes a maximum of 2A of power.. (I've measured it much lower then that when the tape drives arn't in use..) This sucker will store up to 2.4 TB ( 1.2 TB uncompressed) in the 60 available tape slots..
The electricity saves more then makes up for the cost of the tapes.. (Also I expect the tapes to last approx 5-10 years.. I wouldn't expect that with the hard drives.)
Am I the only one sick of hearing about BOOKS? BOOKS rot your brain. The whole appeal of computers and the internet for me is that I can stay in touch with the parts of collective culture that I want to hear about, and ignore the capitalist fluff that gets forced down my eyetubes through exposure to BOOKS. Supporting BOOK PUBLISHERS and its ilk will eventually help the mass media monopolies exert more control over your computer and viewing habits/preferences.
You know.. this is such complete bullshit. Anything can rot your brain. You are the one who chooses what you watch, read, listen to, etc. Someone else may pick the subject mater and content, but you don't have to pay attention.
VCRs, TiVos, etc all allow you even greater control over the content (i.e. commercials). If ya don't like it don't watch it.
Personally I think this is a big victory for the Digitial (and HDTV) future. While the arguments of "people have satellite or cable" are valid, there is a VERY larger percentage of people that do not have either.
I have been putting off the purchase of a new TV exactly for this reason, I don't want to screw around with an external tuner. Put it in the TV.
I've had pretty good experience w/ Direct TV. There was an access card problem with one of my recievers and the tech support person stayed on the phone with me for almost an hour and a half working out how to diagnose and solve the problem.
Needless to say, I kept offering to hang up and call back.. (Some of the steps took 15 minutes for the sat to sync up and stuff..) She said, no thats fine.. your satisfaction is more important than our call times.
Needless to say I was very impressed they were will to deal with me.
I stopped reading the article on the second page. The Gecko CPU is based on the Book E standard and IBM's (not yet released) PPC 440 processor. The only thing common between the "Book E" standard PPC and regular PowerPC's like the 750 are the usermode instructions are the same. Supervisory mode such as memory management, page tables, etc are all changed.
Its probably running VxWorks. This doesn't stop you from trying to run Linux on it. What kind of PowerPC is it? IBM 403? Motorola PowerPC 823, 855 or 860? 8240? 8245? etc?
If you know that information its actually pretty easy to get it booting Linux.. there are only a few ways those things are wired up internally.
4 MB Flash and 16 MB ram is more then enough to do something fun with it. Also if the 2 rj45's are wired directly to the CPU (depending on the PowerPC) you may be able to do ethernet on both instead of DSL.
Also the WindRiver bootloader, is very easily "adjustable" to load something else..;)
Apple has shipped source code to make their machines run since before 1996. Every heard of MkLinux?!
MkLinux source for all machine (prior to NewWorld) were available during all of this crap. Be got money from Intel, so they didn't care about the Mac anymore.
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There is another factor not covered. At least in Minnesota there used a be a property tax exemption for land that was under CRP. You would pay a significantly reduced property tax vs farmable land. They removed this exemption about 10 years ago now, and since that as CRP expires farmers would rather farm it, then pay the taxes as if they were farming it -- but without the associated yearly income.
I know when I upgraded from pre-digital capable TVs to the new HD TVs... I went way down in TV ownership. I disposed of 5 older TVs, and replaced it with one new TV. Once the last 5 years, I've since upgraded that new TV, and put the older one in a second room.
My parents, and many of my friends are the same way. They went from a TV in every room, to one main one... and as the main one was upgraded the others have slowly moved to other living spaces.
Fix for CVE-2014-7169 was posted only a small bit ago:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/26/1
Security for the infrastructure room.. (I don't care if it's a closet or a multimillion dollar server room..) Solid core, fire rated doors with appropriate locks. (Amazing how many businesses don't have the minimum there!)
As someone else said, conduit and wiring ability to expand over time. If someone wants to run 1" conduit, double it to 2" or 3". In the future there will be some new technology and it's almost impossible to ever remove old wiring, but adding new will be much easier.
Climate control -- note I didn't say air conditioning. For the best results, the room should have the ability to have it's own climate control. This may mean air cleaners (if fresh air is used for heating/cooling), air conditioning unit, etc. Don't rely on the building system, because as technology changes the heating/cooling requirements of the technology will change.
A space twice the size you need.. Equipment is always changing in size.. both bigger and smaller, as are the company needs.. room to grow is a good thing!
Finally power.. the room should have it's own dedicated power feed, that can easily be managed by a generator, power backup unit, etc.. even if you don't need those things today, planning ahead for them makes it a whole lot cheaper if you do ever need them. Again relying on building wide power is fine for a while.. but it's much better to have the ability for dedicated stuff in the IT room.
I agree.. Westlaw/Lexis information includes history context, legal analysis, links to secondary (court cases) sources that interpret the law, and as well as if the law is in the process of being appealed as unconstitutional or whatever.
This is what Westlaw and Lexis sell to lawyers, the actual content of the law itself is something required in order for the money making part to exist.
I have worked on systems in the past (for West specifically) that perform automated primary law patching.
The key thing is to understand the standard language and breakdown of the code. In some jurisdiction, it's by section, others it is by subsection, others, paragraph, and others sentence or sentence fragment.
The laws themselves need to be organized in a fashion they can be searched, patched, and retrieved (verified) based on offical versions.
One thing people have ignored is that generally speaking is there are two types of legal codes. Codified sections and Articles/Laws/Uncodified. The Codified sections are of the type mentioned above.. Title 17, section 237, subsection (a) is amended to read... vs Articles -- Act 236 of the 85th congress is amended as follows.. This is MUCH harder to patch.. because in essence you are patching a patch. (Note, most Tax and Social Security related rules are non-codified. This is because the only way to change from non-codified to codified is to repeal and then re-enact the legislation with an official title. And absolutely no congressman wants to be know as someone who voted to repeal social security, or know as someone who voted in all of these taxes...)
I attended a college with a wonderful Sci-Fi lit course. As others have indicated forcing students to see Lit through the eyes of the teacher is going to kill any interest in the course. Instead the class was focused on discussion of the topics, background into the reason why various facets of the material were generated, i.e. Parallelism to time and events, etc.
Also focusing a Lit class specifically on reading books is IMHO a mistake often made in course like this. Doing things like bringing in movies such as "When the Earth Stood Still" (the original not the WHOA! version).. Even reading books like Jurassic Park (which I hated), and then paralleling it to the movie (which was worse then the books) and what trade-offs had to be done. It was very informative and a good way to introduce people who are not into Sci-Fi (and Fantasy) into the genre, and give additional background to people who may have been reading it for years.
Start with short stories, and move toward more mainstream novels and authors. During half a year you should be able to go through at least 5 books and numerous short stories and at least 2 or 3 movies adaptations.
I wish people would stop spreading the misconception that US gasoline is lower octane then European.
Octane is simply measured differently in the US vs Europe. 87 octane in the US is equivalent of I believe 92 in Europe..
EFI is useful in the same way Open Firmware on PowerPC and Sparc is useful. It gives you an extensable system that can do different things with devices. This is great on a system where you don't know what the hardware may be (i.e. Workstations).. but starts to fall down when you get to servers, blades or embedded systems.
On most systems these days BIOS or any type takes between 3 and 30 seconds to boot to the OS. This is simply not acceptable to many blade and embedded system designs.. (Even some server designs this isn't acceptable.)
I can boot a system with coreboot in a second or less to the OS. This is really the most important part of coreboot. (For embedded systems, most of the time our target is in the .2 to .5 range from power on to OS start... this almost all but excludes ia32 from many embedded applications today.)
If you think putting together a processor and an FPGA is revolutionary I think you need to look at Xilinx (Virtex II Pro) and Altera. Both of them have CPU + FPGA combinations. Xilinx is a PowerPC 405 core, Altera is an ARM9 (I think).
Xilinx also has an FPGA that has enough space to implement a full PowerPC 405 processor.
This to me indicates more of a simple evolution then revolution...
It was shown on DirecTV this weekend as well. All Viacom channels, at least once an hour starting Friday night or so.
--Mark
The problem with flourescents is the ballest gives off a hell of a lot of EMF "noise". For those of us who like to us X10 to switch on and off lighting, flourescents cause nothing problem problems.
Give me a clean, quiet, low heat LED bulb and I'll buy it even if it is $25-$40 a bulb..
--Mark
StorageTek cost me $250 + $200 transportation (plus sales tax). This is far from a modern unit.. new the system was between $50k and $100k depending on options.
Power _IS_ extremely expensive.. it's 6 1/2 cents a KWh. Trust me that adds up quickly. 1 Dual Athlon, 1 PowerMac G3, 1 Dual SparcUltra all added up to approx $25-$30 a month in electricity. That is approx $300 a year. (Now of course I am speaking of home electric rates.. commercial are generally more expensive.)
--Mark
I IDE raids that I have been involved with all failed in approx 2 to 3 year time frames.. (before the official warrantee was up mind you...)
The failures generally happened to multiple drives within hours of each other, rendering the raid 5 invalid and corrupting tons of data.. (which of course required the restore off a more perminant media... DLT tape.)
I'm not saying they could have gotten a backup system for the same amount of money using convential DLT tapes and media libraries.. however, my experience is that hard disk based (long-term) storage is dangerous without a secondary backup system.
--Mark
I looked at doing something similar (but on a smaller scale) for my home.. but the amount of power that a hard drive based storage system takes is amazing. In additional IDE hard drives arn't know for their reliability.. :P (I've had numerous IDE raids fail spectacularly to the point I won't do that again...)
I ended up going on ebay and getting a StorageTek 9714 "Media Library" with 2 DLT 4000 drives in it. It takes a maximum of 2A of power.. (I've measured it much lower then that when the tape drives arn't in use..) This sucker will store up to 2.4 TB ( 1.2 TB uncompressed) in the 60 available tape slots..
The electricity saves more then makes up for the cost of the tapes.. (Also I expect the tapes to last approx 5-10 years.. I wouldn't expect that with the hard drives.)
--Mark
Lets try that another way...
Am I the only one sick of hearing about BOOKS? BOOKS rot your brain. The whole appeal of computers and the internet for me is that I can stay in touch with the parts of collective culture that I want to hear about, and ignore the capitalist fluff that gets forced down my eyetubes through exposure to BOOKS. Supporting BOOK PUBLISHERS and its ilk will eventually help the mass media monopolies exert more control over your computer and viewing habits/preferences.
You know.. this is such complete bullshit. Anything can rot your brain. You are the one who chooses what you watch, read, listen to, etc. Someone else may pick the subject mater and content, but you don't have to pay attention.
VCRs, TiVos, etc all allow you even greater control over the content (i.e. commercials). If ya don't like it don't watch it.
You need a Pioneer VSX-49TXi for the reciever (i.Link in) and a Pioneer 47Ai SCAD player to send the signal over i.Link.
I havn't personally heard this combination, but I've been told the sound is incredible.
--Mark
Personally I think this is a big victory for the Digitial (and HDTV) future. While the arguments of "people have satellite or cable" are valid, there is a VERY larger percentage of people that do not have either.
I have been putting off the purchase of a new TV exactly for this reason, I don't want to screw around with an external tuner. Put it in the TV.
I've had pretty good experience w/ Direct TV. There was an access card problem with one of my recievers and the tech support person stayed on the phone with me for almost an hour and a half working out how to diagnose and solve the problem.
Needless to say, I kept offering to hang up and call back.. (Some of the steps took 15 minutes for the sat to sync up and stuff..) She said, no thats fine.. your satisfaction is more important than our call times.
Needless to say I was very impressed they were will to deal with me.
I stopped reading the article on the second page. The Gecko CPU is based on the Book E standard and IBM's (not yet released) PPC 440 processor. The only thing common between the "Book E" standard PPC and regular PowerPC's like the 750 are the usermode instructions are the same. Supervisory mode such as memory management, page tables, etc are all changed.
--Mark
well, I'll feed the troll...
Linux is an industry standard OS.. it has a higher market share then WinCE does.. (in the embedded market.)
Its probably running VxWorks. This doesn't stop you from trying to run Linux on it. What kind of PowerPC is it? IBM 403? Motorola PowerPC 823, 855 or 860? 8240? 8245? etc?
;)
If you know that information its actually pretty easy to get it booting Linux.. there are only a few ways those things are wired up internally.
4 MB Flash and 16 MB ram is more then enough to do something fun with it. Also if the 2 rj45's are wired directly to the CPU (depending on the PowerPC) you may be able to do ethernet on both instead of DSL.
Also the WindRiver bootloader, is very easily "adjustable" to load something else..
--Mark
SuSe 7.1 uses glibc 2.2.x and rpm 3.0.x.
Apple has shipped source code to make their machines run since before 1996. Every heard of MkLinux?!
MkLinux source for all machine (prior to NewWorld) were available during all of this crap. Be got money from Intel, so they didn't care about the Mac anymore.
PCI IDE card support works just fine... and has for a long time now...
You will probably have to recompile the kernel to enable support for your specific IDE card, but thats about it.
--Mark