The potential uses for roll up displays are just about endless. I've had a dream of pulling up the "monitor" from my laptop for just about as long as I can remember.
Can't wait to see full wall panels made. IMAX at home baby. Slashdot can follow me through the house. Yum.
And if you want true excitement, porn everyewhere! (not like it wasn't there already)
Actually, I have one. In fact my company includes one (with the Gyration wireless keyboard) with our HTPC computers. The response of the mouse is great and it makes things like low gravity deathmatches a breeze. Flick of the wrist and you spin in the air.
It is absolutely ideal for HTPC applications. Instead of mousing across the screen to pop up the DVD software, it's more like pointing at what you want. It's RF, so I actually keep the reciever behind the equipment in my rack of stereo equipment, no line of sight needed.
The most comfortable way to use the mouse is to have your arm on an arm rest, and just move your wrist. It's quite comfortable, and helps with stability too.
Shameless plug: Here's a link to my companies website, we build HTPC computers HTPCWorks
That's it. That's all I got. They way to fix it? Smack the harddrive at the right front corner as hard as you can until you can hear the head inside bounce. Then turn off the computer, disconnect power to the drive, turn the computer back on, and put the power plug back into the drive. Worked every time, circa 1982 that is.:)
I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Once this is mass produced how long do you think it's going to take until someone turns it into addressable wallpaper for your home? Screw rolling the thing up, just return the wall to your favorite pattern/color when you're done watching TV.
Now you go and take this stuff and combine it with the See-Through, Paper-Thin Speakers and you've got your media where ever you go.
Just makes me wonder how long it's going to be until movies are made from a central perspective, like IMAX in your home.
At the very least it should be a cheaper method for bringing those remaining 34,940 movie theatres into the digital age
In a cold environment most chickens die from asphyxiation rather than anything else. They have a tendency to cluster very tightly together to preserve their body heat and end up suffocating one another.
When I was a child, I had the onerous duty of raising chickens in upstate NY through a very bad winter. It was quite a shock to come in from the snow one morning to find a pile of dead chickens in the center of the coop.
Regardless of how much cross breeding they do with chickens, nothing is going to make them any more intelligent.
I haven't been able to find a link to the actual Bill. But you know they're going to extend the wording to include online distribution.
I find it hard to believe that this will have any effect whatsoever on acts of violence from children. I know very few kids that can go out and purchase a $40 or $50 video game. Most of them download the demo, and either search down the warez version, or con their parents into buying it for them.
So, are they going to start levying fines against ID, EA, or Sierra for making demos available to everyone? How about sites like FilePlanet for making it so easy to get ahold of those demos that contain all the violence of the full version?
I wish these stupid law makers would realize that it's the responsibility of the parents to protect their children, and *not* the shop keepers.
This Bill is horribly thought out. Is it any surprise that the congressman's last name is "Baca" which is sooooooo close to "Baka"?
I've found Banana's get quite warm when covered with hot fudge. Of course they typically sit on top of vanilla ice cream. Does this make them the peltier coolers of the fruit and desert world?
It sounds complex when I write it all out like this, but it's really not. Every machine has two interfaces, the internal and external. Everything IP that is cluster facing is bound to the external interface, the internal interface is for adminstrative access only. Each interface is numbered and attached to a network that doesn't have a route to the other.
Bearing all that in mind, this naming convention is fairly easy:)
- Each geo-location has a specific theme for hosts which is bound to their administrative (internal) interface. (Porn stars for the west coast, politicians for the east coast, beer for germany, football teams for the UK)
- Each cluster member within a geo-location has a role related (unfriendly) name in addition to it's friendly name.
- IP addresses that reverse to an unfriendly name are always bound to external interfaces.
- Routers have a unique theme across all geo-locations. (Super heroes)
- Routers have a non-friendly role related name.
- Switches have only a non-friendly name that directly relates to their geographic location. We just happen to use airport codes to identify location. SW-42-SFO-FL3 or some such. You aren't aren't going to touch these as often as other things.
- External reverse DNS always resolves to a non friendly name.
- Build your clusters around blocks of IPs, and pre-set your non-friendly names for the cluster members. Now you can repurpose boxes by simply binding new IPs to their external interfaces.
 Of course this can lead to a lot of unused space in the blocks you use on your cluster network, but you're using unroutable addresses there, right?:)
Worse than that, he's covertly gaining the acceptance of the/. userbase so that he can blame the/. effect as a form of social stimulus.
Ah hell, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Let's turn those kids into a massive parallel processing cluster and run SETI@home off 'em.
Might as well use their raw processing power to find some *real* intelligence...
Nothing compared to the Amadeus Data Processing Fa
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Okay, I'm going to preface this by admitting I've never been inside the Amadeus facility. I have however lovingly devoured the Amadeus coffee table book on the history of their facility, as well as spent plenty of time talking with the folks from Amadeus about their facility. Now I've searched and searched for publicly available info on the ADP, but can't find anything. Google pulls up obscure references to it, but nothing that describes the facilities in detail.
My issue with the Hostworks facility is that it's designed to handle physical currency, not data. You can fit a hell of a lot more electronic currency in 1 square foot than you could ever fit physical currency.
The Amadeus Data Processing Facility (aka the ADP [no relation to the ADP you see on your paychecks]) in Erding Germany is the Fort Knox of data facilities. It's designed to not only protect the servers physically, but to also protect the transactions within the facility
Amadeus is the European equivalent of Sabre in the US. They have roughly a 90% market share of the European market, 10% of the US, and a lot of the rest of the world to boot.
Their facilities are oriented towards traditional transaction processing systems (Tandem/Himalaya machines) rather than "normal" servers. While there is overlap in methodology there are a *lot* of differences. For the most part, they manage all the machines.
This facility supports all of the Amadeus traffic (both queries and bookings for hotels, cruises, airlines, car rentals, even travel insurance.), as well as the data processing for a number of international airlines (British Airways is one), and supposedly several international banks as well.
The facility is oriented around (roughly triangular) firecells, of which there are 3 for machines. These are massively over built. They were originally designing for hundreds of mainframe style machines, and (literally) tons of copper cabling in each firecell.
Each primary walkway is secured at multiple points. You're escorted at all times by a guard who doesn't have the ability to open any doors. Doors can only be opened by a guard remotely. At every point a guard can verify what he's seeing on the camera by direct visual observation.
Cooling is completely isolated from electrical which is completely isolated from network cabling which is completely isolated from the machines. Machines are the at the center of the firecells with corridors for cooling, electrical, and other support systems surrounding it. Each of the corridors is physically secure from all of the others.
ADP has enough generator power to run the entire town of Erding in the event that Erding loses it's main power source(s). Rumor has it that this has happened on numerous occasions.
Geographically isolated in a "easily defensible location". (One of those comments that kinda sticks in your mind when you hear it)
If they don't know you're coming you are stopped by armed guards before you're in sight of the building.
There is a No-Fly zone around their facility. (How this is enforced I don't know...)
Every Tandem is actively mirrored by another in a seperate firecell on a seperate floor. If your Tandem in cell-1 floor-2 goes away, the mirror in cell-3 floor-1 keeps the transaction from being lost.
The list goes on and on. Someone out there in the/. universe has to have heard of this facility and can probably fill in or correct details, but the Hostworks facility is by no means truly unique.
Slashdot Mirror
This one truly has me excited.
The potential uses for roll up displays are just about endless. I've had a dream of pulling up the "monitor" from my laptop for just about as long as I can remember.
Can't wait to see full wall panels made. IMAX at home baby. Slashdot can follow me through the house. Yum.
And if you want true excitement, porn everyewhere! (not like it wasn't there already)
Actually, I have one. In fact my company includes one (with the Gyration wireless keyboard) with our HTPC computers. The response of the mouse is great and it makes things like low gravity deathmatches a breeze. Flick of the wrist and you spin in the air.
It is absolutely ideal for HTPC applications. Instead of mousing across the screen to pop up the DVD software, it's more like pointing at what you want. It's RF, so I actually keep the reciever behind the equipment in my rack of stereo equipment, no line of sight needed.
The most comfortable way to use the mouse is to have your arm on an arm rest, and just move your wrist. It's quite comfortable, and helps with stability too.
Shameless plug: Here's a link to my companies website, we build HTPC computers HTPCWorks
That's it. That's all I got. They way to fix it? Smack the harddrive at the right front corner as hard as you can until you can hear the head inside bounce. Then turn off the computer, disconnect power to the drive, turn the computer back on, and put the power plug back into the drive. Worked every time, circa 1982 that is. :)
And yes, I'm serious.
If it weren't for the fact that I expected it, and it's incredibly ironic, I would be livid.
Now you go and take this stuff and combine it with the See-Through, Paper-Thin Speakers and you've got your media where ever you go.
Just makes me wonder how long it's going to be until movies are made from a central perspective, like IMAX in your home.
At the very least it should be a cheaper method for bringing those remaining 34,940 movie theatres into the digital age
In a cold environment most chickens die from asphyxiation rather than anything else. They have a tendency to cluster very tightly together to preserve their body heat and end up suffocating one another.
When I was a child, I had the onerous duty of raising chickens in upstate NY through a very bad winter. It was quite a shock to come in from the snow one morning to find a pile of dead chickens in the center of the coop.
Regardless of how much cross breeding they do with chickens, nothing is going to make them any more intelligent.
I haven't been able to find a link to the actual Bill. But you know they're going to extend the wording to include online distribution.
I find it hard to believe that this will have any effect whatsoever on acts of violence from children. I know very few kids that can go out and purchase a $40 or $50 video game. Most of them download the demo, and either search down the warez version, or con their parents into buying it for them.
So, are they going to start levying fines against ID, EA, or Sierra for making demos available to everyone? How about sites like FilePlanet for making it so easy to get ahold of those demos that contain all the violence of the full version?
I wish these stupid law makers would realize that it's the responsibility of the parents to protect their children, and *not* the shop keepers.
This Bill is horribly thought out. Is it any surprise that the congressman's last name is "Baca" which is sooooooo close to "Baka"?
It's "ntldr"
Might not be bad if they take the fscking job postings off their home page.
I've found Banana's get quite warm when covered with hot fudge.
Of course they typically sit on top of vanilla ice cream.
Does this make them the peltier coolers of the fruit and desert world?
It sounds complex when I write it all out like this, but it's really not. Every machine has two interfaces, the internal and external. Everything IP that is cluster facing is bound to the external interface, the internal interface is for adminstrative access only. Each interface is numbered and attached to a network that doesn't have a route to the other. :)
:)
Bearing all that in mind, this naming convention is fairly easy
- Each geo-location has a specific theme for hosts which is bound to their administrative (internal) interface. (Porn stars for the west coast, politicians for the east coast, beer for germany, football teams for the UK)
- Each cluster member within a geo-location has a role related (unfriendly) name in addition to it's friendly name.
- IP addresses that reverse to an unfriendly name are always bound to external interfaces.
- Routers have a unique theme across all geo-locations. (Super heroes)
- Routers have a non-friendly role related name.
- Switches have only a non-friendly name that directly relates to their geographic location. We just happen to use airport codes to identify location. SW-42-SFO-FL3 or some such. You aren't aren't going to touch these as often as other things.
- External reverse DNS always resolves to a non friendly name.
- Build your clusters around blocks of IPs, and pre-set your non-friendly names for the cluster members. Now you can repurpose boxes by simply binding new IPs to their external interfaces.
 Of course this can lead to a lot of unused space in the blocks you use on your cluster network, but you're using unroutable addresses there, right?
So when is the first litter of taquitos expected?
And Kathleen, please keep your last name... Sooner or later, someone is going to call you "Kat" Taco, and you know it's going to stick.
Congrats!
Worse than that, he's covertly gaining the acceptance of the /. userbase so that he can blame the /. effect as a form of social stimulus.
Ah hell, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Let's turn those kids into a massive parallel processing cluster and run SETI@home off 'em.
Might as well use their raw processing power to find some *real* intelligence...
My issue with the Hostworks facility is that it's designed to handle physical currency, not data. You can fit a hell of a lot more electronic currency in 1 square foot than you could ever fit physical currency.
The Amadeus Data Processing Facility (aka the ADP [no relation to the ADP you see on your paychecks]) in Erding Germany is the Fort Knox of data facilities. It's designed to not only protect the servers physically, but to also protect the transactions within the facility
Amadeus is the European equivalent of Sabre in the US. They have roughly a 90% market share of the European market, 10% of the US, and a lot of the rest of the world to boot.
Their facilities are oriented towards traditional transaction processing systems (Tandem/Himalaya machines) rather than "normal" servers. While there is overlap in methodology there are a *lot* of differences. For the most part, they manage all the machines.
This facility supports all of the Amadeus traffic (both queries and bookings for hotels, cruises, airlines, car rentals, even travel insurance.), as well as the data processing for a number of international airlines (British Airways is one), and supposedly several international banks as well.
The facility is oriented around (roughly triangular) firecells, of which there are 3 for machines. These are massively over built. They were originally designing for hundreds of mainframe style machines, and (literally) tons of copper cabling in each firecell.
Each primary walkway is secured at multiple points. You're escorted at all times by a guard who doesn't have the ability to open any doors. Doors can only be opened by a guard remotely. At every point a guard can verify what he's seeing on the camera by direct visual observation.
Cooling is completely isolated from electrical which is completely isolated from network cabling which is completely isolated from the machines. Machines are the at the center of the firecells with corridors for cooling, electrical, and other support systems surrounding it. Each of the corridors is physically secure from all of the others.
ADP has enough generator power to run the entire town of Erding in the event that Erding loses it's main power source(s). Rumor has it that this has happened on numerous occasions.
Geographically isolated in a "easily defensible location". (One of those comments that kinda sticks in your mind when you hear it)
If they don't know you're coming you are stopped by armed guards before you're in sight of the building.
There is a No-Fly zone around their facility. (How this is enforced I don't know...)
Every Tandem is actively mirrored by another in a seperate firecell on a seperate floor. If your Tandem in cell-1 floor-2 goes away, the mirror in cell-3 floor-1 keeps the transaction from being lost.
The list goes on and on. Someone out there in the /. universe has to have heard of this facility and can probably fill in or correct details, but the Hostworks facility is by no means truly unique.