Actually the article gets it quite wrong, with a bogus explanation when it says "For Physics reasons"...
HVDC is actually FAR better for long line power distribution due to ACs inductive line losses... IIRC DC _is_ used some places. (California)
The downside is that AC requires only a series of transformers to step it down to various levels for local power distribution--- Makes for a relatively straightfoward infrastructure.
DC for all practicle purposed MUST be converted to AC for this purpose, via big honking inverters, unless you happen to NEED 250KV@1000A.
Seems like you could do something with mythdvd and lirc... Would still have to have removable media support etc.
I was curious about what a DVD changer cost, and Google found this... "http://www.compuplus.com/i-Sony-400-Disc-DVD-Chan ger-Player-DVP-CX985V-1005242~refer-froogle.html"
Linux(Score:-1) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09, @06:38PM (#14682898) Its obvious most people here run Linux, just because it's Linux - not because they are trying solve any type of business problem or make money or anything. In the end they will spend hundreds of needless hours to have to learn how to do something in Linux compared to Windows, well, just because its Linux. Get a life!
(wasting words on a troll, but I feel compelled to somehow...)
No, not JUST because it's Linux... I only run Linux as I was exshausted from the self flaggelation of trying to keep a Windows box up.
I gave up in 1994...
Based on what I have seen on many many Win boxes over the years I have had to fix, it hasn't really improved THAT much (overall) on the Windows side of the aisle, some things better, some things worse.(PnP works, but now you have a regisrty... Ugh)
Linux has shown very steady improvement in most all areas, at a seemingly ever increasing rate.
In the days of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the USAF developed dedicated anti-radar aircraft nicknamed "Wild Weasels", originally F-4s IIRC, might have been an earlier version... Can't recall.
In any case, the acronym for their mission plan (originally for defense vs the invading Soviet Horde in Europe) was "SEAD"--Supression of Enemy Air Defenses": Knocking out a radar system ANTENNA was sufficient to take it offline long enough to get your forces safely by to do your primary mission. Made sense under the inteneded scenarios.
In the first Gulf War, they modified the mission ---- The Weasels would go in first and "Supress" defenses by fragging the radar dish etc, then to prevent anyone from fixing the site, a herd of whatever else could blow up things (Apaches, A-10s, F16s) would arrive and blow the absolute hell out of everything else that moved or not. The location essentially became a smoking hole in the ground.
Radio jamming site antenna/Radar dish: $20-250K, replace in 24 hours (or less)
Unit of highly skilled Radar technicians that took years to train, in wartime: (Almost) priceless
The new methodology is called "Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses", or "DEAD".
"...Between management's reluctance to shell out for training, and being moved from the lab, I'm getting the distinct sense that training is something I'm expected to take care of, on my own time."
To me, that is a sure sign your management is heavily populated with drooling idiots.
I suggest you get the training you need ON COMPANY DIME+time if at all possible (check with HR, not your boss, most remotely decent companies will at least pay for work related training/classes)
Once that's all done, discreetly look for a real job, if the place is that much of a steaming pile.
Re:Makes sense (Score:3, Insightful) by gEvil (beta) (945888) Alter Relationship on Wednesday January 18, @11:12AM (#14500085) (http://evil.google.com/) I find it very interesting when I encounter people that are totally meticulous, yet leave the seat up when they're done.
Military training, Sir.
In basic, males are taught to leave the seat UP, since some bozo will forget to lift it and miss. (open hole seat, commercial toilet). This makes for less to clean.
Females are trained to leave it down, so some bozo doesn't fall in when she sits to pee.
He didn't spec the machine, but Mandriva 2006.0 installed on a new harddrive, sent in the mail would have done the trick as well, assuming >350MHz and 128M RAM.
"Japanese version (Score:3, Informative) by vectorian798 (792613) Alter Relationship on Wednesday December 28, @06:12PM (#14354639) As you might recall, the Japanese beat Professor Kaz's team to it, although the application the Japanese one is aimed at is different: The Sexy Japanese Version [techdigest.tv]"
Neat, but I'd be FAR more impressed if he was picking up a 140Kilo American Wal-Mart Mama than a cute 40Kilo(maybe) Japanese chick.
"BTW isn't having a gas engine bad because of the noise it might make?"
Depends. A small gas turbine, or perhaps a tiny Wankel rotary might sound righteous. If it sound like a Briggs&Stratton, you lose all cool points.
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There's a joke here about Zombies...
;-)
I guess I should just leave it be
It actually took many months (~6+) for Intel to start shipping 1GHz processors at anything more than engineering sample volumes...
You could go out and BUY a 1GHz Athlon at retail within days.
He didn't turn Tehran, Kabul, and Bagdaha into smoking craters on Sept 12, 2001.
I give him props for that, probably better than I would have done.
Since then however.... I got nothin.
In spite of your very low user ID, you come across as a troll.
Did someone hijack a low UID?
Actually the article gets it quite wrong, with a bogus explanation when it says "For Physics reasons"...
HVDC is actually FAR better for long line power distribution due to ACs inductive line losses... IIRC DC _is_ used some places. (California)
The downside is that AC requires only a series of transformers to step it down to various levels for local power distribution--- Makes for a relatively straightfoward infrastructure.
DC for all practicle purposed MUST be converted to AC for this purpose, via big honking inverters, unless you happen to NEED 250KV@1000A.
You don't understand...
Those are the system requirements for the ROOTKIT to work...
Do you care to post some evidence, or are you just a dickhead?
Hi, Darl!
Seems like you could do something with mythdvd and lirc...
n ger-Player-DVP-CX985V-1005242~refer-froogle.html"
Would still have to have removable media support etc.
I was curious about what a DVD changer cost, and Google found this...
"http://www.compuplus.com/i-Sony-400-Disc-DVD-Cha
For $279, seems almost too good to be true.
Or is that what you had in mind?
Linux(Score:-1)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09, @06:38PM (#14682898)
Its obvious most people here run Linux, just because it's Linux - not because they are trying solve any type of business problem or make money or anything. In the end they will spend hundreds of needless hours to have to learn how to do something in Linux compared to Windows, well, just because its Linux.
Get a life!
(wasting words on a troll, but I feel compelled to somehow...)
No, not JUST because it's Linux...
I only run Linux as I was exshausted from the self flaggelation of trying to keep a Windows box up.
I gave up in 1994...
Based on what I have seen on many many Win boxes over the years I have had to fix, it hasn't really improved THAT much (overall) on the Windows side of the aisle, some things better, some things worse.(PnP works, but now you have a regisrty... Ugh)
Linux has shown very steady improvement in most all areas, at a seemingly ever increasing rate.
In the days of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the USAF developed dedicated anti-radar aircraft nicknamed "Wild Weasels", originally F-4s IIRC, might have been an earlier version... Can't recall.
In any case, the acronym for their mission plan (originally for defense vs the invading Soviet Horde in Europe) was "SEAD"--Supression of Enemy Air Defenses": Knocking out a radar system ANTENNA was sufficient to take it offline long enough to get your forces safely by to do your primary mission. Made sense under the inteneded scenarios.
In the first Gulf War, they modified the mission ----
The Weasels would go in first and "Supress" defenses by fragging the radar dish etc, then to prevent anyone from fixing the site, a herd of whatever else could blow up things (Apaches, A-10s, F16s) would arrive and blow the absolute hell out of everything else that moved or not. The location essentially became a smoking hole in the ground.
Radio jamming site antenna/Radar dish:
$20-250K, replace in 24 hours (or less)
Unit of highly skilled Radar technicians that took years to train, in wartime:
(Almost) priceless
The new methodology is called "Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses", or "DEAD".
I personally find that I/O has far more effect on the "feel" and responsiveness than 100% CPU usage.
ferinstance---I can be running several background processes, which keep the CPU usage pegged at 100%.
The GUI works fine, smooth, minimal lag. (K7Barton2800+/1G ram/Nvidia card+driver) as long as these processes are NOT doing heavy file I/O.
If mythcommflag runs (niced), or anything else with even moderate HD access (whereisdb), the system CRAWLS at ~20% CPU or less usage.
Is there some method of setting up some sort of qos-like bandwith limiter to the HD for niced processes?
(or anything else?)
Anything one can load in Blender etc?
"...Between management's reluctance to shell out for training, and being moved from the lab, I'm getting the distinct sense that training is something I'm expected to take care of, on my own time."
To me, that is a sure sign your management is heavily populated with drooling idiots.
I suggest you get the training you need ON COMPANY DIME+time if at all possible (check with HR, not your boss, most remotely decent companies will at least pay for work related training/classes)
Once that's all done, discreetly look for a real job, if the place is that much of a steaming pile.
Re:Makes sense
(Score:3, Insightful)
by gEvil (beta) (945888) Alter Relationship on Wednesday January 18, @11:12AM (#14500085)
(http://evil.google.com/)
I find it very interesting when I encounter people that are totally meticulous, yet leave the seat up when they're done.
Military training, Sir.
In basic, males are taught to leave the seat UP, since some bozo will forget to lift it and miss.
(open hole seat, commercial toilet). This makes for less to clean.
Females are trained to leave it down, so some bozo doesn't fall in when she sits to pee.
(Former Latrine Queen;-)
He didn't spec the machine, but Mandriva 2006.0 installed on a new harddrive, sent in the mail would have done the trick as well, assuming >350MHz and 128M RAM.
BTW: You're a good brother, dude.
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche designed and BUILT an AWD electric car in ~1908 (or earlier?) with regenerative braking.
I kinda suspect a bit of prior art somewhere.
They should try it with a grapefruit, much more stable output.
If they used zinc and carbon, and put a few in series, they would be able to run a PDA quite well.
I for one welcome our new grapfruit generator overlords!
(Idiots)
Right now, you can get low-cost (and low performance) WC rigs, and ones that potentially cost more than the whole PC.
Where is this one going to fall?
The fellow that said 30GB was enough has NEVER edited video.
C'mon, that's like the 3rd ON TOPIC *BSD post I have ever seen.
+5 insightful.
The only solution to this is to make "corporate citizens" have ZERO influence, to the greatest extent possible.
Want to air radio/tv ads all day to brainwash the public? knock yourself out.
But a single dollar crossing palms to a politician by any means should be a hard-time bubba-is-my-husband felony on both parties.
I believe anything short of this is just a waste of time.
Happy New Year, BTW!
"Japanese version
(Score:3, Informative)
by vectorian798 (792613) Alter Relationship on Wednesday December 28, @06:12PM (#14354639)
As you might recall, the Japanese beat Professor Kaz's team to it, although the application the Japanese one is aimed at is different:
The Sexy Japanese Version [techdigest.tv]"
Neat, but I'd be FAR more impressed if he was picking up a 140Kilo American Wal-Mart Mama than a cute 40Kilo(maybe) Japanese chick.
"BTW isn't having a gas engine bad because of the noise it might make?"
Depends. A small gas turbine, or perhaps a tiny Wankel rotary might sound righteous.
If it sound like a Briggs&Stratton, you lose all cool points.
You forgot "create a huge new bureaucracy" to "speed" things up...
McCain is very likely the ONLY person on Capitol Hill who can actually have a "real" opinion on torture...
from personal experience.
I'm pretty certain he really, really opposes it.