Forgot to mention, when we started having issues we created an entry in our timesheet system so that if we were having issues we would log our time against it. We're now up to 80 hours of lost productivity due to this device.
My company bought a Synology DS 1511+ about four months ago due to our aging Thecus NAS starting to show some signs of giving up. Note that we had been using this Thecus unit for many years, and the only problem we were having was that we would occasionally get warning messages about the disks being on their last legs. All our file operations were fine.
The Synology unit has had issues from day 1, mostly to do with file locking. After several weeks of random "This file could not be saved", or "Too many open files" messages, we started to ask Synology for help. They were useless. It took over a month for them to even acknowledge our increasingly desperate pleas for help, and several times we would arrange a time for them to log into our system only for them to forget to turn up.
Eventually we started fiddling around in the system ourselves, bumping up inode limits, stuffing around with everything to try to stop the system from falling over constantly. It doesn't help that when you turn logging on, the device suffers from a memory leak that after a couple of days renders it useless. It also doesn't help that they're using a version of Samba from 3 years ago.
We're waiting delivery of a QNap device as I type this, and I seriously can't wait to see the end of the piece of shoddy crap from Synology.
Please, do not buy a synology NAS. You'll regret it later.
OK the system requirements say that you need OS X 10.4.9, 256MB RAM, and 50 meg of disk space.
I'm running 10.4.9, 1.25 GB RAM on a Powerbook G4, have 18 GB spare on my HD, yet the installer says: "You cannot install Safari Beta 3 on this volume. This volume doesn't meet the requirements for this update."
Anyone else getting this error? Anyone know of a workaround? How can you tell why the installer is stopping?
I went to the thunderbolts site, however it doesn't seem to contain an explanation of the "Plasma Universe". Maybe it's there, but if so then surely you should have deep linked to the explanation?
Clip clop clip clop what's that under the bridge, Mr. Billy Goat Gruff?
It's harder than you think.
Intertia, timing, wind gusts, and the like all add up to make it very very tricky.
It might not explicitly be rocket science, but damn it's close!
My favorite stat is that 99% of the mass of the solar system is the Sun, with the other 1% being Jupiter. Our wonderful planet, with all it's enormity and majesty, and all most of us will ever know personally, is lost in the underflow of the total mass.:-)
Most VVVF (Variable voltage, variable frequency) drives used in heavy industry use something called "Dynamic Braking", where the back EMF from the motor is fed to the big DC rails, to slow the motor down. So in other words, regenerative braking comes built-in.
I'm pretty sure you can get VVVF drives without the AC parts, as some of the machines I worked on used DC rails to get their power.
...and our engineers in less than a day had come up with three solutions; one is filtering and the other is processing and neither one is incrementally an increase in the cost.
There are numerous experiments described where the scientists hook up polygraphs to plants, get one person to just think about smashing the plant, burning leaves, that sort of thing, and the plant would go psycho. Other people who loved plants would be put into the same room and the plant would exhibit totally different behaviours.
One guy actually controlled his garage door by hooking up a philodendron to an amplifier, and he could open the door just by thinking "Love" at his plant.
It's compulsory if you're on the electoral roll, but it's quite legal to not be on the electoral roll. They don't publish this fact very often though...
I haven't voted for years, I'll be b*ggered if those politicians are going to tell me what to do with my Saturday!
That's right in the middle of our summer holidays, usually heralding a trip to the beach with our new christmas presents, and lazy summer days. You can prise that week from my cold dead fingers! The first week in July would be much better.
I've tuned engines on racing cars. Firstly a little formula SAE racer, later V8 supercars.
Those Engine Control Units need to be bulletproof. And by bulletproof, I mean being able to handle being short circuited, reverse polarity applied, handle vibration, lots of heat, have weird settings applied, and generally being totally mistreated.
There are so many things that can go wrong on an engine, that to troubleshoot a problem you need to have 100% faith in the ECU. I don't mean 99.999%, I really do mean 100%! If there's a tiny little nagging doubt in your mind that the ECU might be at fault, then it throws your faultfinding completely out the window. Most of the time when there's a problem you need to fix it RIGHT NOW, normally this is at the start of a practice session, and the engineers want to get some tuning data for the suspension, the driver wants to practice the track, and every second of downtime means lots of stress for everyone in the team, including the manager and sponsorship guys. If you haven't worked in motorsport you have no idea what stress is all about. It's hardcore.
Why didn't they go with an established manufacturer such as MoTeC or Magneti Marelli? Those guys really know what's what when it comes to making an ECU.
I don't care how much experience or money Microsoft has, making a realtime OS for an ECU is no trivial matter. It's extremely difficult! You can't just whack a desktop OS like Windows CE or linux onto a small computer, things really and truly don't work like that. It will only take a couple of bugs before the engineers in F1 will be tearing their hair out, going on strike, and trying to retrofit their old ECUs into the cars. I really don't think that this idea will fly.
I went to a WWDC a couple of years ago, when Steve released a beta of Jagwyre to all attendees. It leaked out a couple of weeks after that, but still it's one thing to download it, it's another to have the 'official' copy.
WWDC isn't about product announcements though, it's a chance for normal everyday developers to talk to the Apple guys in charge about the decisions they're making in the future. Stuff like "When are you going to put InputSprockets on OS X?". This is where the juicy stuff is, in the tutorials, not when Steve walks out onto the stage.
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Third, fast charges are very inefficient by comparison to level 2 chargers-- there's a lot of waste energy.
As much waste energy as carting around an inefficient internal combustion engine, that gets at best 30% efficiency? I think not.
Forgot to mention, when we started having issues we created an entry in our timesheet system so that if we were having issues we would log our time against it. We're now up to 80 hours of lost productivity due to this device.
It's cost us around $10,000 in lost productivity.
Don't go there.
My company bought a Synology DS 1511+ about four months ago due to our aging Thecus NAS starting to show some signs of giving up. Note that we had been using this Thecus unit for many years, and the only problem we were having was that we would occasionally get warning messages about the disks being on their last legs. All our file operations were fine.
The Synology unit has had issues from day 1, mostly to do with file locking. After several weeks of random "This file could not be saved", or "Too many open files" messages, we started to ask Synology for help. They were useless. It took over a month for them to even acknowledge our increasingly desperate pleas for help, and several times we would arrange a time for them to log into our system only for them to forget to turn up.
Eventually we started fiddling around in the system ourselves, bumping up inode limits, stuffing around with everything to try to stop the system from falling over constantly. It doesn't help that when you turn logging on, the device suffers from a memory leak that after a couple of days renders it useless. It also doesn't help that they're using a version of Samba from 3 years ago.
We're waiting delivery of a QNap device as I type this, and I seriously can't wait to see the end of the piece of shoddy crap from Synology.
Please, do not buy a synology NAS. You'll regret it later.
Perfect, I moved it back and now everything's installing fine.
Thanks for that!
OK the system requirements say that you need OS X 10.4.9, 256MB RAM, and 50 meg of disk space.
I'm running 10.4.9, 1.25 GB RAM on a Powerbook G4, have 18 GB spare on my HD, yet the installer says:
"You cannot install Safari Beta 3 on this volume. This volume doesn't meet the requirements for this update."
Anyone else getting this error? Anyone know of a workaround? How can you tell why the installer is stopping?
I was waiting for a comment like yours :-)
I went to the thunderbolts site, however it doesn't seem to contain an explanation of the "Plasma Universe". Maybe it's there, but if so then surely you should have deep linked to the explanation?
Clip clop clip clop what's that under the bridge, Mr. Billy Goat Gruff?
I smell a troll.
That's the best laugh I've had all day!
:-)
Thanks
It's harder than you think. Intertia, timing, wind gusts, and the like all add up to make it very very tricky. It might not explicitly be rocket science, but damn it's close!
6 x 9. Not 7 x 9.
I think you mean immensity, not enormity.
Most VVVF (Variable voltage, variable frequency) drives used in heavy industry use something called "Dynamic Braking", where the back EMF from the motor is fed to the big DC rails, to slow the motor down. So in other words, regenerative braking comes built-in. I'm pretty sure you can get VVVF drives without the AC parts, as some of the machines I worked on used DC rails to get their power.
Baked, beans,
Are good for the heart.
Baked, beans,
Make you fart.
The more you fart,
The better you feel,
So eat, Baked beans,
For every meal!
There, corrected it for you.
Errr... 1 + 1 = 3 now?
Read The Secret life of Plants. It will open your eyes.
There are numerous experiments described where the scientists hook up polygraphs to plants, get one person to just think about smashing the plant, burning leaves, that sort of thing, and the plant would go psycho. Other people who loved plants would be put into the same room and the plant would exhibit totally different behaviours.
One guy actually controlled his garage door by hooking up a philodendron to an amplifier, and he could open the door just by thinking "Love" at his plant.
Fantastic stuff!
No, h2olio didn't spell it Nucular :-)
Voting isn't compulsory in Australia.
It's compulsory if you're on the electoral roll, but it's quite legal to not be on the electoral roll. They don't publish this fact very often though...
I haven't voted for years, I'll be b*ggered if those politicians are going to tell me what to do with my Saturday!
The point. <=======> You.
Yes, but your weight and powerbars don't count as your payload...
So in other words, AI was solved on the first of April, 2005?
And that didn't ring any bells?
Man,
That's right in the middle of our summer holidays, usually heralding a trip to the beach with our new christmas presents, and lazy summer days. You can prise that week from my cold dead fingers! The first week in July would be much better.
Damn northern-hemisphere-centric views...
Errr... that would be MacBooks thank you.
I've tuned engines on racing cars. Firstly a little formula SAE racer, later V8 supercars.
Those Engine Control Units need to be bulletproof. And by bulletproof, I mean being able to handle being short circuited, reverse polarity applied, handle vibration, lots of heat, have weird settings applied, and generally being totally mistreated.
There are so many things that can go wrong on an engine, that to troubleshoot a problem you need to have 100% faith in the ECU. I don't mean 99.999%, I really do mean 100%! If there's a tiny little nagging doubt in your mind that the ECU might be at fault, then it throws your faultfinding completely out the window. Most of the time when there's a problem you need to fix it RIGHT NOW, normally this is at the start of a practice session, and the engineers want to get some tuning data for the suspension, the driver wants to practice the track, and every second of downtime means lots of stress for everyone in the team, including the manager and sponsorship guys. If you haven't worked in motorsport you have no idea what stress is all about. It's hardcore.
Why didn't they go with an established manufacturer such as MoTeC or Magneti Marelli? Those guys really know what's what when it comes to making an ECU.
I don't care how much experience or money Microsoft has, making a realtime OS for an ECU is no trivial matter. It's extremely difficult! You can't just whack a desktop OS like Windows CE or linux onto a small computer, things really and truly don't work like that. It will only take a couple of bugs before the engineers in F1 will be tearing their hair out, going on strike, and trying to retrofit their old ECUs into the cars. I really don't think that this idea will fly.
GNOME -- the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers and portable Internet devices.
Seems a little bit arrogant doesn't it? Quite apart from all those using OS X or Windows, what about KDE?
I went to a WWDC a couple of years ago, when Steve released a beta of Jagwyre to all attendees. It leaked out a couple of weeks after that, but still it's one thing to download it, it's another to have the 'official' copy.
:-)
WWDC isn't about product announcements though, it's a chance for normal everyday developers to talk to the Apple guys in charge about the decisions they're making in the future. Stuff like "When are you going to put InputSprockets on OS X?". This is where the juicy stuff is, in the tutorials, not when Steve walks out onto the stage.
It's also a heck of a lot of fun