As mentionned by lullabud in an earlier post , RealVNC has a 100% hardware solution that's fully independant of the machines. But it's the admins can walk to the rack for the occasional reboot, I'd stick to the pedestrian solution. You should never loose an opportunity to perform some physical activity in this line of business...
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Gee, do not be so partisan ! I'm not saying anything on how Iraqi would vote. Actually, I have no idea on how they would vote, the news coverage on Iraq being so bad. I'm just pointing to the fact that, right now, the POTUS as much more influence on the life of the ordinary Iraqi than on the life of the average American. That's that. No point being shrill...
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I was quite surprised too when I first saw Bush votes on the Continent and then 2 things occured to me:
- The sample size is small and easy to manipulate. (well, duh)
- France and Germany have become so anti-american that they actually wish 4 more years of Bush for America.
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Not to mention, Americans have a vested interest. Whoever wins the elctions effects our lives much more than most foreigner
Err, go say that to all those fine people in Bagdad. What the POTUS thinks and does has much more influence on them than on me, here in Kalifornia (yeah, we pick Autrian bodybuilders as ubersupremo over here but at least we have a say). I'm sure lots of Iraqi would love to vote on Nov 2nd and that it would greatly matter to them:).
You should also use a air compressor and nozzle to dry the alcohol and blow off the dust. That kind of tools is fairly common on industrial settings like an slaughterhouse.
The only thing we would gain from John Kerry is a government that's a slave to France, and I don't know if that's an improvement even in civil liberties terms.
Err, well, actually, no.
John Kerry's foreign relations would look pretty much like GWB's, equally bad for Europe, just using nicer words. I'd prefer a 2nd GWB term for that matter. At least, European politicos won't be allowed to snooze for 4 years thinking they have a friend in the White House. In their own twisted (and wholly involuntary) ways, the Republican loudmouths are more honest.
I have a lot of sympathy for Rumsfeld. So transparent...
Nothing to do with covering up Nazism. The history of WWII, the death camps and Adolf Hitler get a lot of attention in general education. You can walk around most European cities and find plates in the street saying "Here so and so were shot down by the German army", "There so and so was tortured to death by the Gestapo". History is present in everyday life at an extent most USians cannot imagine.
It's so present that professing Nazism today is now not considered as free speech. This ideology was given a try and resulted in tens of millions of people killed all over Europe. There's no more benefit of the doubt, no room left for public debate. The case is settled. Nazism is pure unadulterated evil. Its ideas do kill people and must not be tolerated in a civilized society.
There is one thing you must know about Nazism to understand why it is actively repressed in Europe. Nazism emerged from a democracy (while Stalinism emerged from a dictorial environment). Germany's Weimar Republic may have been dysfunctionnal and rife with political violence but it was a democracy nonetheless. Adolf Hitler came to power by the polls and gained a large following by convincing people far more than by coercing them. So there is no illusion in Europe on the ability of democracies to deal with this kind of ideas by the mere virtue of democratic debate. We know all too well how totalitarian ideologies can fall through the cracks and use momentary difficulties to impose themselves. Hence, the will not give those ideas any breathing space.
We know that democracies are fragile and must be defended. We learned that the hard way and that's a lesson I hope we'll never forget.
No, it's not a moon ! It's a giant death star threatening our civilisation !
Only one solution : preemptive invasion ! We must immediately pour gigantic ressources in space technology and all sorts of other related cool stuff ! Quick ! It's a matter of survival !
I actually saw the issue on systems in my company and, boy, diagnozing that crap was a complete pain in the neck.
The flame-retardant mechanism is that when the part catches fire, the phosphorus burns first and starves the fire of oxigen. The resin heats up, melts and seals the whole crap. It may seem bizarre but it atually works.
The problem : the package can crack under mechanical stress and water can sip in the part (ambient humidity). Water + phosphorus -> electrolyte (phosphoric acid). If it happens somewhere on the part (in general on the die pads) where there is a strong static electrical field (think ground-power pair), it causes electrolytic migration. It can create a conductive bridge. In usual english, you call that a short. And then, duh, the part doesn't work anymore.
Where it can get really fun is that those parasitic conductive bridges are not so conductive. Just enough to cause a problem. They are also resistive enough to dissipate a bit of heat and melt away when a current flows through it. Oh, cute! A fuse! So the problem goes away when the fuse blows up. Except that then the electrolytic migration starts again until it creates a bridge and then shorts the part again and then blows up again, etc, etc.
The process for that crap takes days or weeks. Needless to say that's a very unusual timescale for electronic engineers, who are more used to nanseconds and picoseconds. To figure out what was going on, it took us nearly a year of RMAs and very pissed off customers.
The circumstances have nothing to do the woman death in 1982. That affair was treated as an ordinary crime. It's only one year later that Vetrov is outed as Western spy and quickly executed. For reference, you should look at a book by Serguei Kostine
Bonjour Farewell.
It seems that the leak was a stupid mistake by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (equivalent to the US Dept of States). A less charitable explanation is that the US tried to go around the French, get directly in touch with Vetrov and blew it. Dunno what the truth is but his death had every thing to do with him spying.
2 things to note about the Farewell affair:
- Vetrov was not involved with the DGSE, the French equivalent of the the CIA, but with the DST, the French counter-intelligence agency. Very unusual. Vetrov, who was in good position to know, probably considered that the DGSE was too rotten with Soviet agents.
- Vetrov was not just involved in outing illegal technology imports by the Soviet and enabling cool hacks. He more importantly outed more than a 100 Soviet agents on the West side. His defection was a complete utter disaster for the KGB and that probably made the most important Western asset in the whole history of the Cold War (in the early 80s, it was really damn cold).
For instance, check France's ASMP. Mach 2, liquid fuel RAM jet with integrated solid booster, range up to 300 km, inertial guidance system. And it's, pfff, pretty old : work on it started in the mid 70's and it has been in operationnal service since 1988. So everybody says to India :
" Welcome to the 70s, India ! The Wonderful Years of Disco, Hippies and Free Love Communes ! ". (Yeah, it's THAT old).
Right now, ASMPs are fitted with a 300 kt nuclear warhead but they could refitted with conventional warheads if needed. Noises about a long range (~1000 km) version are emitted every now and then and nothing happens.
At least Enron would balance the budget and pay off the debt in 1 quarter.
Well, at least they would try to balance the budget and pay off the debt in 1 quarter, and fail, and bring down the world economy, and set off World War III, and end cilisation as we know it, but at least they would try. That's much more than you can say about the guys currently in charge.
... or you would know what happens when you try to recall the bombers:-)
Anyway, on a more serious note, those hypersonic bombers would likely be drones. With a payload limited to 12,000 pounds, I can't see how they would blow up another 5 or 6,000 pounds just for a useless pilot or 2 and the associated life support system.
Um, not counting Russia, but what European countries have enough nukes to match the U.S.?
US and Russia both have in the order of 6000 deliverable nukes (deliverable as in when the crazy guy at the top pushed the big red button).
But Russia's not really in Europe, at least so far. France has about 600 deliverables nukes and the UK 200. UK doesn't really count 'cause those nukes are under US control. 600 nukes don't look like much compared to 6000 but with 1 or 2 thermonukes per city, that's still 300 to 500 major cities completely leveled. Enough to send back a country to the stone age. BTW, while the US and USSR (Russia) spent most of the Cold War devising very intricate nuclear doctrines of graduated strikes against military targets and so on yada yada, France has always been very straight forward regarding its doctrine: "If you attack us or threaten to attack with nukes, we nuke as many of your cities as possible and kill as many of your people as possible." Raw anti-metropolis stuff.
Plus, we are busy building a missile shield which will soon render most ICBMs fairly useless against us.
I suspect that's a attempt at humoring us.
This fancy "shield" GWB, Rumsfeld and Co are so busy deploying is targeted at very primitive ballistic missiles (North Korea or Iranian flying junk) and even then it's not working and not at risk of working any time soon. Needless to say, there won't be any working shield for the next 20 years against maneuverable hardened warheads masked by tons of decoys.
Michael K. Powell is Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was sworn in as a member of the Commission on November 3, 1997. He was designated Chairman by President Bush on January 22, 2001.
Mr. Powell, a Republican, was nominated by President William J. Clinton on July 31, 1997, and confirmed by the United States Senate on October 28, 1997.
There is an agreement on power sharing at the FCC that gives 2 commissioners to the majority, 2 commissioners to the minority and the chairman to the President or something like that. Mike Powell was appointed in 1997 by Bill Clinton because the Republicans told him to do so. Had the President at this time been an armadillo, Mike Powell would have been appointed by an armadillo...
In Tera's case, the goal was to mask the latency of a totally shared uniformed memory. The CPUs were completly cache-less. Their approach was really extreme. It seems they also did a blunder by betting on gallium arsenide, in the words of one of my university professors, a technology that has been the future for the past 25 years;-)
At least datacom equipements. PC and big irons may be a bit more flimsy. But, for what I know of a BIG vendor of datacom gear, all the products are specified to run from 5C to 40C and are actually tested at -5C (23F) and 55C (131F) ambient for weeks in a row. The nominal operating temperature is assumed to be 25C.
So from 17C to 40C, there's quite some room. Yet, watch out. Those temperature are specified at the cooling inlet of the equipment. With lateral cooling, the gear at the wrong end of a row of racks may suck heated air from the other racks and see much higher temperature than ambient. That's bad room design;-)
IMHO, the guy who spec'ed 17C is overdoing it (and padding the wallet of the local utility). 25C should be OK.
Great, but that won't prevent the RIAA of harassing small webcasters playing your music unless you explicitly waive in written the CARP fees and the publisher royalties (aka "mechanical" fees) in a way which is easy to administer for the webcasters. Call that an anti-RIAA license. If they can point to these licenses, that will help the webcasters to defend themselves when the jackbooted RIAA lawyers come crashing at the door.
The webcasters will in any case be burdened by the obligation of keeping an exact log of anything they broadcast. Not easy as it sounds. Think about a live webcast from a club when the DJ himself has no idea where the f**k half the tunes in his mix are coming from. There is an urgent need for a system to track and propagate anti-RIAA licenses embedded in the music files.
But more important, the legal system on copyright is now based on a presumption of guilt. And that, my friend, is wrong, plain wrong.
It's "juicy" because it's revealing of the general tone of those letters. They are fairly tame by any standard. Sure, our favorite IP goons, aka Rosen and Valenti, start with a rant on how bad bad very bad it is to "steal" IP and that a thief is a thief is a thief (well, no, not before the law. copyright infringement is not theft, it's infrigement). Yet, the rest of the letter is rather about "bad" it is for the colleges because of bandwidth, security, etc. The RIAA & MPAA prefer to talk about "why it hurts you" rather than "why it hurt us". They are appealling to the colleges' self-interest. And that's quite novel and it could actually be effective.
... not really a gyroscope. You must integrate to get an absolute indication. Also, at 0.05/s/Hz^1/2, don't count on it for your next homemade ICBM. Still, it's really tiny cute cheap and all that. I guess the main applications will be in cars (or Segways...)
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As mentionned by lullabud in an earlier post , RealVNC has a 100% hardware solution that's fully independant of the machines. But it's the admins can walk to the rack for the occasional reboot, I'd stick to the pedestrian solution. You should never loose an opportunity to perform some physical activity in this line of business...
Gee, do not be so partisan ! I'm not saying anything on how Iraqi would vote. Actually, I have no idea on how they would vote, the news coverage on Iraq being so bad. I'm just pointing to the fact that, right now, the POTUS as much more influence on the life of the ordinary Iraqi than on the life of the average American. That's that. No point being shrill...
I was quite surprised too when I first saw Bush votes on the Continent and then 2 things occured to me:
- The sample size is small and easy to manipulate. (well, duh)
- France and Germany have become so anti-american that they actually wish 4 more years of Bush for America.
Rubbing alcohol ? Not a bad idea.
You should also use a air compressor and nozzle to dry the alcohol and blow off the dust. That kind of tools is fairly common on industrial settings like an slaughterhouse.
John Kerry's foreign relations would look pretty much like GWB's, equally bad for Europe, just using nicer words. I'd prefer a 2nd GWB term for that matter. At least, European politicos won't be allowed to snooze for 4 years thinking they have a friend in the White House. In their own twisted (and wholly involuntary) ways, the Republican loudmouths are more honest.
I have a lot of sympathy for Rumsfeld. So transparent...
Nothing to do with covering up Nazism. The history of WWII, the death camps and Adolf Hitler get a lot of attention in general education. You can walk around most European cities and find plates in the street saying "Here so and so were shot down by the German army", "There so and so was tortured to death by the Gestapo". History is present in everyday life at an extent most USians cannot imagine.
It's so present that professing Nazism today is now not considered as free speech. This ideology was given a try and resulted in tens of millions of people killed all over Europe. There's no more benefit of the doubt, no room left for public debate. The case is settled. Nazism is pure unadulterated evil. Its ideas do kill people and must not be tolerated in a civilized society.
There is one thing you must know about Nazism to understand why it is actively repressed in Europe. Nazism emerged from a democracy (while Stalinism emerged from a dictorial environment). Germany's Weimar Republic may have been dysfunctionnal and rife with political violence but it was a democracy nonetheless. Adolf Hitler came to power by the polls and gained a large following by convincing people far more than by coercing them. So there is no illusion in Europe on the ability of democracies to deal with this kind of ideas by the mere virtue of democratic debate. We know all too well how totalitarian ideologies can fall through the cracks and use momentary difficulties to impose themselves. Hence, the will not give those ideas any breathing space.
We know that democracies are fragile and must be defended. We learned that the hard way and that's a lesson I hope we'll never forget.
No, it's not a moon ! It's a giant death star threatening our civilisation !
Only one solution : preemptive invasion ! We must immediately pour gigantic ressources in space technology and all sorts of other related cool stuff ! Quick ! It's a matter of survival !
I actually saw the issue on systems in my company and, boy, diagnozing that crap was a complete pain in the neck.
The flame-retardant mechanism is that when the part catches fire, the phosphorus burns first and starves the fire of oxigen. The resin heats up, melts and seals the whole crap. It may seem bizarre but it atually works.
The problem : the package can crack under mechanical stress and water can sip in the part (ambient humidity). Water + phosphorus -> electrolyte (phosphoric acid). If it happens somewhere on the part (in general on the die pads) where there is a strong static electrical field (think ground-power pair), it causes electrolytic migration. It can create a conductive bridge. In usual english, you call that a short. And then, duh, the part doesn't work anymore.
Where it can get really fun is that those parasitic conductive bridges are not so conductive. Just enough to cause a problem. They are also resistive enough to dissipate a bit of heat and melt away when a current flows through it. Oh, cute! A fuse! So the problem goes away when the fuse blows up. Except that then the electrolytic migration starts again until it creates a bridge and then shorts the part again and then blows up again, etc, etc.
The process for that crap takes days or weeks. Needless to say that's a very unusual timescale for electronic engineers, who are more used to nanseconds and picoseconds. To figure out what was going on, it took us nearly a year of RMAs and very pissed off customers.
I hate Sumitomo. I really hate them.
The circumstances have nothing to do the woman death in 1982. That affair was treated as an ordinary crime. It's only one year later that Vetrov is outed as Western spy and quickly executed. For reference, you should look at a book by Serguei Kostine Bonjour Farewell.
It seems that the leak was a stupid mistake by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (equivalent to the US Dept of States). A less charitable explanation is that the US tried to go around the French, get directly in touch with Vetrov and blew it. Dunno what the truth is but his death had every thing to do with him spying.
2 things to note about the Farewell affair:
- Vetrov was not involved with the DGSE, the French equivalent of the the CIA, but with the DST, the French counter-intelligence agency. Very unusual. Vetrov, who was in good position to know, probably considered that the DGSE was too rotten with Soviet agents.
- Vetrov was not just involved in outing illegal technology imports by the Soviet and enabling cool hacks. He more importantly outed more than a 100 Soviet agents on the West side. His defection was a complete utter disaster for the KGB and that probably made the most important Western asset in the whole history of the Cold War (in the early 80s, it was really damn cold).
Already done.
For instance, check France's ASMP. Mach 2, liquid fuel RAM jet with integrated solid booster, range up to 300 km, inertial guidance system. And it's, pfff, pretty old : work on it started in the mid 70's and it has been in operationnal service since 1988. So everybody says to India :
" Welcome to the 70s, India ! The Wonderful Years of Disco, Hippies and Free Love Communes ! ". (Yeah, it's THAT old).
Right now, ASMPs are fitted with a 300 kt nuclear warhead but they could refitted with conventional warheads if needed. Noises about a long range (~1000 km) version are emitted every now and then and nothing happens.
At least Enron would balance the budget and pay off the debt in 1 quarter.
Well, at least they would try to balance the budget and pay off the debt in 1 quarter, and fail, and bring down the world economy, and set off World War III, and end cilisation as we know it, but at least they would try. That's much more than you can say about the guys currently in charge.
And always look on the bright side of life...
... or you would know what happens when you try to recall the bombers :-)
Anyway, on a more serious note, those hypersonic bombers would likely be drones. With a payload limited to 12,000 pounds, I can't see how they would blow up another 5 or 6,000 pounds just for a useless pilot or 2 and the associated life support system.
I'm 99% sure the original post was humor. You know humor ? Stuff that makes you, like, laugh ...
When someone say that "we worked so hard to establish on this earth... peace and liberty", 'must be humor or at least involuntary humor.
That puts us in, let's seeeee, well, 2032AD. Don't forget Jenna Bush (2016-2024) and Barbara Bush (2024-2032). No worry, time flies...
Um, not counting Russia, but what European countries have enough nukes to match the U.S.?
US and Russia both have in the order of 6000 deliverable nukes (deliverable as in when the crazy guy at the top pushed the big red button). But Russia's not really in Europe, at least so far. France has about 600 deliverables nukes and the UK 200. UK doesn't really count 'cause those nukes are under US control. 600 nukes don't look like much compared to 6000 but with 1 or 2 thermonukes per city, that's still 300 to 500 major cities completely leveled. Enough to send back a country to the stone age. BTW, while the US and USSR (Russia) spent most of the Cold War devising very intricate nuclear doctrines of graduated strikes against military targets and so on yada yada, France has always been very straight forward regarding its doctrine: "If you attack us or threaten to attack with nukes, we nuke as many of your cities as possible and kill as many of your people as possible." Raw anti-metropolis stuff.
Plus, we are busy building a missile shield which will soon render most ICBMs fairly useless against us.
I suspect that's a attempt at humoring us.
This fancy "shield" GWB, Rumsfeld and Co are so busy deploying is targeted at very primitive ballistic missiles (North Korea or Iranian flying junk) and even then it's not working and not at risk of working any time soon. Needless to say, there won't be any working shield for the next 20 years against maneuverable hardened warheads masked by tons of decoys.
Michael K. Powell is Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was sworn in as a member of the Commission on November 3, 1997. He was designated Chairman by President Bush on January 22, 2001.
Mr. Powell, a Republican, was nominated by President William J. Clinton on July 31, 1997, and confirmed by the United States Senate on October 28, 1997.
There is an agreement on power sharing at the FCC that gives 2 commissioners to the majority, 2 commissioners to the minority and the chairman to the President or something like that. Mike Powell was appointed in 1997 by Bill Clinton because the Republicans told him to do so. Had the President at this time been an armadillo, Mike Powell would have been appointed by an armadillo...
In Tera's case, the goal was to mask the latency of a totally shared uniformed memory. The CPUs were completly cache-less. Their approach was really extreme. It seems they also did a blunder by betting on gallium arsenide, in the words of one of my university professors, a technology that has been the future for the past 25 years ;-)
So what had to happen happened.
Still, Teras were really cool machines. Sigh...
Really shocking!
There would be suspicions of collusion between federal authorities and corporate interests in this country.
Unbelievable !
But I am fully confident that our elected leaders will know how to address those issues.
At least datacom equipements. PC and big irons may be a bit more flimsy. But, for what I know of a BIG vendor of datacom gear, all the products are specified to run from 5C to 40C and are actually tested at -5C (23F) and 55C (131F) ambient for weeks in a row. The nominal operating temperature is assumed to be 25C.
;-)
So from 17C to 40C, there's quite some room. Yet, watch out. Those temperature are specified at the cooling inlet of the equipment. With lateral cooling, the gear at the wrong end of a row of racks may suck heated air from the other racks and see much higher temperature than ambient. That's bad room design
IMHO, the guy who spec'ed 17C is overdoing it (and padding the wallet of the local utility). 25C should be OK.
Great, but that won't prevent the RIAA of harassing small webcasters playing your music unless you explicitly waive in written the CARP fees and the publisher royalties (aka "mechanical" fees) in a way which is easy to administer for the webcasters. Call that an anti-RIAA license. If they can point to these licenses, that will help the webcasters to defend themselves when the jackbooted RIAA lawyers come crashing at the door.
The webcasters will in any case be burdened by the obligation of keeping an exact log of anything they broadcast. Not easy as it sounds. Think about a live webcast from a club when the DJ himself has no idea where the f**k half the tunes in his mix are coming from. There is an urgent need for a system to track and propagate anti-RIAA licenses embedded in the music files.
But more important, the legal system on copyright is now based on a presumption of guilt. And that, my friend, is wrong, plain wrong.
Read the letters please...
It's "juicy" because it's revealing of the general tone of those letters. They are fairly tame by any standard. Sure, our favorite IP goons, aka Rosen and Valenti, start with a rant on how bad bad very bad it is to "steal" IP and that a thief is a thief is a thief (well, no, not before the law. copyright infringement is not theft, it's infrigement). Yet, the rest of the letter is rather about "bad" it is for the colleges because of bandwidth, security, etc. The RIAA & MPAA prefer to talk about "why it hurts you" rather than "why it hurt us". They are appealling to the colleges' self-interest. And that's quite novel and it could actually be effective.
Nyanyanyaaaa ;-)
(Yep, that's 1.4 mega byte per second)
... not really a gyroscope. You must integrate to get an absolute indication. Also, at 0.05 /s/Hz^1/2, don't count on it for your next homemade ICBM. Still, it's really tiny cute cheap and all that. I guess the main applications will be in cars (or Segways ...)