Beagle runs much better if you are using extended attributes,
http://beagle-project.org/FAQ
"Do I really need extended attributes?
It is strongly recommended. There is an sqlite-based fallback in place, but using this as the primary store is slow and noticably degrades performance.
Note that, with extended attributes. beagle will use some extra space for storing the attributes of each file. It depends on the filesystem how much is used for each attribute and it is a small amount. However, it can add up to some 10s of MBs for several GBs of files. Also, writing extended attributes changes the ctime of a file; this might cause problem if you are using any backup utility that compares ctime to backup changed files. If you want to run with extended attributes disabled, set the environment variale BEAGLE_DISABLE_XATTR. Keep in mind that beagle will run slower with extended attribute disabled. "
bird mortality varies from region to region, but your right the larger ones do kill fewer. and building windfarms help stop urban growth....but.."bats, they're disease carrying vermin (ebola, rabies, etc.)"..any mammel can carry rabbies and only 0.5% of bats carry rabbies. and as for the ebola thing, thats unproven, and in africa. bats are great at keeping down mosquito populations which spread west nile virus.
if you didn't get the memo you should look up the data on raptor and bat deaths associated with large wind farms. just because its not a hydrocarbon creator doesn't make it clean. look at the effect of hydroelectric plants on salmon and other fish species. if this is a NIMBY issue then ask yourself why would it be a NIMBY issue if they are so charming as Anne Applebaum says they are.
ok ive read the review (quickly) read the ifolder website and hit wikipedia. high points are; automated file synchrnization, cross platform, will be p2p soon (via gaim?).
what would be nice is a comparison of this to BitTorrent (+RSS ?) rsynch etc etc. some clues as to how to implement this in a large as well as small org. my org is all windows/novell/suse so i figure i can ifolder..
1. some desktop software as long as there arnt things like registry changes that need to go allong 2. some data files that all the users want locally like GIS files
but can the users pick and pull what they want? or do they just get the whole folder?
great but how do i get out of GroupWise??? i have to use Groupwise at work, which i kind of like. but i would love to be able to use sunbird/lightning (with whatever) as the merge point for my family calendar needs and my work needs.
for fiction and some nonfiction, books are just better. just face it and move on. when people read fiction they tend to read one at a time. you can create a paper thin diplay thats as good as any lcd display, sell it for 10$, and have a battery that lasts forever but if its just for fiction no one will buy it. evfar.
but fur everything else... a document distribution and management framework combined with a flash based tablet that runs on AA batteries and linux, 7 inch screen. call it the NOTWEN (newton backwards). it needs wireless, bluetooth, bittorret, email, pdf reader, and mp3/ogg player, boot from SD and storage on a USB flashdrive. set up an effective gui for subscribing to online document libraries and getting updates to docuements delivered automaiticaly (RSS/bittorrent??). users will be able to set up corporate and personal document libraries and the device will mesh them together to help them manage access to written documents. its a PDA and a document organizer. my boss will get one and he wil leave it on his desk for weeks useing it as a digital picture frame, then he will pull it from the cradle and plug in his usb flash drive and read docs while riding to some meeting or use it to listen to podcasts.
low power soho server
do not use a laptop as a server. do not use 2.5 inch drives unleess your going to buy one of those fancy new sun servers with 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives.
whatever nas/raid solution you do decide on you want to use as few drives as possible to conserve power. so think carefully about weather you want to stripe two 500gig drives or mirror or move to one of the raids that requires more than 2 disks.
you need a router right? so now what do you need this server to do? does this server really need to be on 24-7? or is it just a big digital closest?
get a router that has a built in print server like the ones from asus. i have one and its the print server and a ftp server useing a flash drive for super low power 24-7 access. this way the raid solution doesnt have to be on in order to access the printer. maybe someone has some info on the lowest power routers out there?
figure out your raid level needs, server procccessing needs, and your bandwidth needs first. if the server is just a file server then there are a bunch of low cost nas solutions out there that use very low power proccessors and just do file server related tasks. I WOULD LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS AS PART OF A SOLUTION. this way you turn it off when not in use.
if you need more proccessing power on the server then your going to have to first figure out your bandwidth needs to the raid array. many adapter based solutons require 64bit pci slots versus if you can get by with usb or firewire bandwidth from the raid then you can get an external raid array like one of these..
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/rt5.phphttp://www.fastora.com/product_index.php?doc_name= raid-300http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1060 0
there are all sorts of low power front ends you could mate up to these i think. plus, that way you can work directly off the array from your laptop or connect it up to the server. maybe even just plug one of these into a asus/dlink/netgear storage router?? the question is the server has to be able to handle a terrabyte of storage i guess.
personnally i would look at the "home theater pc" thing seperately. but some people may argue to set up a htpc with the raid attached to it depending on use. if (like me) all you want to do is watch divix/xvid etc then get a lower power single drive device that you move data on to in order to play it on the tv. just think, do you need to have both the raid array and the htpc on at once?
if you want to use mini-itx and build your own then get a fanless one. i have been useing a mx266 from www.bcmcom.com it has sata, cf slot, dual nics, mini-pci for wireless nic, and the 1ghz eden proccessor. i have yet to run this board fanless though, but i think its possible with a aftermarket heatsink. whatever board you get boot it from compact flash. i think that will use less power but im not really sure. with mini-itx you get one 32bit pci slot so if you dont use a usb/firewire raid array then you may end up having to use that slot for a controller or adapter for the raid array.
baisicly you need to first put more time into visuallizeing your use patterns and needs.
what ru smokin????
he wants a terrabyte, are 12 laptop drives on a raid controller going to consume less than four 500gig 3.5 drives on a controller? and that little embebded you mention is cool but how is he hooking a raid array into it?
on the otherhand i agree about the power supply. shop around
im doing the same thing but just not on the same schedual you are
i just ordered one of these to better understand the power draw on various componants
the pro model is a data logger
the cheap and dirty method can be found at..
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article19-page1.html
A $5 DIY Power Meter
http://www.brunton.com/product.php?id=256
"Editors' Top Product Picks 2004"--Outdoor Photographer
"...this solar charger may end your battery woes for good."
--Backpacker Magazine
"If you can't bear to leave your gadgets behind, pack this waterproof solar panel to power them. It rolls up like a poster and charges like a cigarette lighter."--Newsweek
"A boon for off-the-grid campers, the 18-ounce, 57-inch-long Brunton SolarRoll 14 can harvest enough solar energy to power a mobile phone or laptop-or even recharge your car battery. --Men's Journal
"Drape it over a tent in full sun and the 12-by-57-inch Brunton SolarRoll 14 will power a sat phone, GPS or laptop-it'll even recharge a dead car battery in a lonely corner of Death Valley. Best of all, the 19.5-ounce solar panel and adapter plugs can be rolled up and tucked away in a foot-long, three-inch-diameter tube that'll slip covertly into your pack or kayak."
--Outside Magazine
"Gear Of The Year"- "Brunton's new line is a genuine breakthrough...Brunton, a company renowned among outdoor types for first-rate optics,personal navigation, and (especially) camping gear, has now pioneered a line of portable power equipment that can generate, store, and convert electricity so many of us opt to use in our hunting pursuits. This line is so ingeniously conceived and versatile in scope it can keep the power on for anything from teeny AAA batteries to sat phones to portable ice chests (and even my ravenous laptop)." --American Hunter
"Now you can be a day's horseback ride or a ten-mile hike from civilization and still have power."--Sports Afield
"The need to recharge batteries is a serious issue for expeditioners and other see-you-in-a-month travelers. The best of the several solar chargers available is the Brunton SolarRoll. It cranks out (surprise!) 14 watts, which is enough to run a small device (camera, ipod) or chargea large one (laptop, car battery). What really distinguishes it, though, is the way it can be stored - in a tube. Unfurled, the Brunton is one by five feet; rolled up, it's a three-inch thick burrito. It weighs just over a pound."
--National Geographic Adventure
i just bought the 5w version from Sundance Solar. i have not used it yet, but i almost returned it when i got it. specs stated it weighed.6 pounds but its about twice that. it is very durable feeling. they have a much lighter version aht i think i will order next. FYI i think all of the ones you listed are made by the same company.
i guess it depends on where you live, location location locaton and all that, but proximity to schools doesnt correlate highly to houseing prices where i live in california. the majority case is; rich people buy bigger houses/lots farter away from schools.
if parents want to live out in the hinterlands(far from thier town school) then they should have to pay the cost for transporting the kid in every day. or get the district to build satalite classrooms. while were at it lets stop subsidizing cheap gas/diesel.
from the article.. "At the time Dotzler was working for a market research company in Texas. His wife, Deanna Pierce, worked different hours, so he would often work on the Mozilla project in the evenings until she got home"..and then what did they do???? just curious
a full GIS platform that is ussable by new gis users and still usefull and customizeable for expert users. a simple mapping application that makes it easy to deal with multiple datasets, make maps, and do basic GIS queries yet can be customized into verticle applications.
THUBAN and QGIS (and the libraries they leverage) are two efforts that are approaching this but they are a long way off from filling the need.
such a GIS application doesnt need to completely replace the the high end applications developed by ESRI (and others) for those will allways be used by GIS techs but such a app would make GIS more accessable at occasional user end.
i bought LED lights tro replace some of my household lights. i bought them from this place...
kinda of expensive to start off with, but, i love takeing something thats highly dissposable and replaceing it with something that will last for 10+ years.
the 11 led versions are kinda dim for anything but difuse background light but some of the ones that are larger than that are good for reading lights and porch lights.
i havnt used it, but, isnt this what your looking for...
http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/
anyone here used it? did it leave your days filled with joy and happyness or dispair and bitterness?
i totally agree, 3ware is great. I have a debian/woody box with the 8 port controller and WD 120gig drives and its worked flawlessly for 6 months now. i think 3 ware has a new 8 port version with a 2mb buffer now, not much compared to the scsi controllers out there but great for cheap mass storage and local mirrors.
1. contact your local state college/university library and ask if they have a "special collections" department. they can tell you all kinds of stuff.
2. tiff and png with searchable copies in PDF (for text)
3. cd + tape + hardrive
(one backup is never enough)
4. google it... "Document Conservation" http://www.nedcc.org/
Slashdot Mirror
Beagle runs much better if you are using extended attributes, http://beagle-project.org/FAQ "Do I really need extended attributes? It is strongly recommended. There is an sqlite-based fallback in place, but using this as the primary store is slow and noticably degrades performance. Note that, with extended attributes. beagle will use some extra space for storing the attributes of each file. It depends on the filesystem how much is used for each attribute and it is a small amount. However, it can add up to some 10s of MBs for several GBs of files. Also, writing extended attributes changes the ctime of a file; this might cause problem if you are using any backup utility that compares ctime to backup changed files. If you want to run with extended attributes disabled, set the environment variale BEAGLE_DISABLE_XATTR. Keep in mind that beagle will run slower with extended attribute disabled. "
Braess paradox
bird mortality varies from region to region, but your right the larger ones do kill fewer. and building windfarms help stop urban growth....but.."bats, they're disease carrying vermin (ebola, rabies, etc.)"..any mammel can carry rabbies and only 0.5% of bats carry rabbies. and as for the ebola thing, thats unproven, and in africa. bats are great at keeping down mosquito populations which spread west nile virus.
if you didn't get the memo you should look up the data on raptor and bat deaths associated with large wind farms. just because its not a hydrocarbon creator doesn't make it clean. look at the effect of hydroelectric plants on salmon and other fish species. if this is a NIMBY issue then ask yourself why would it be a NIMBY issue if they are so charming as Anne Applebaum says they are.
ok ive read the review (quickly) read the ifolder website and hit wikipedia. high points are; automated file synchrnization, cross platform, will be p2p soon (via gaim?).
what would be nice is a comparison of this to BitTorrent (+RSS ?) rsynch etc etc. some clues as to how to implement this in a large as well as small org. my org is all windows/novell/suse so i figure i can ifolder..
1. some desktop software as long as there arnt things like registry changes that need to go allong
2. some data files that all the users want locally like GIS files
but can the users pick and pull what they want? or do they just get the whole folder?
great but how do i get out of GroupWise??? i have to use Groupwise at work, which i kind of like. but i would love to be able to use sunbird/lightning (with whatever) as the merge point for my family calendar needs and my work needs.
for fiction and some nonfiction, books are just better. just face it and move on. when people read fiction they tend to read one at a time. you can create a paper thin diplay thats as good as any lcd display, sell it for 10$, and have a battery that lasts forever but if its just for fiction no one will buy it. evfar.
but fur everything else... a document distribution and management framework combined with a flash based tablet that runs on AA batteries and linux, 7 inch screen. call it the NOTWEN (newton backwards). it needs wireless, bluetooth, bittorret, email, pdf reader, and mp3/ogg player, boot from SD and storage on a USB flashdrive. set up an effective gui for subscribing to online document libraries and getting updates to docuements delivered automaiticaly (RSS/bittorrent??). users will be able to set up corporate and personal document libraries and the device will mesh them together to help them manage access to written documents. its a PDA and a document organizer. my boss will get one and he wil leave it on his desk for weeks useing it as a digital picture frame, then he will pull it from the cradle and plug in his usb flash drive and read docs while riding to some meeting or use it to listen to podcasts.
low power soho server do not use a laptop as a server. do not use 2.5 inch drives unleess your going to buy one of those fancy new sun servers with 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives. whatever nas/raid solution you do decide on you want to use as few drives as possible to conserve power. so think carefully about weather you want to stripe two 500gig drives or mirror or move to one of the raids that requires more than 2 disks. you need a router right? so now what do you need this server to do? does this server really need to be on 24-7? or is it just a big digital closest? get a router that has a built in print server like the ones from asus. i have one and its the print server and a ftp server useing a flash drive for super low power 24-7 access. this way the raid solution doesnt have to be on in order to access the printer. maybe someone has some info on the lowest power routers out there? figure out your raid level needs, server procccessing needs, and your bandwidth needs first. if the server is just a file server then there are a bunch of low cost nas solutions out there that use very low power proccessors and just do file server related tasks. I WOULD LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS AS PART OF A SOLUTION. this way you turn it off when not in use. if you need more proccessing power on the server then your going to have to first figure out your bandwidth needs to the raid array. many adapter based solutons require 64bit pci slots versus if you can get by with usb or firewire bandwidth from the raid then you can get an external raid array like one of these.. http://www.wiebetech.com/products/rt5.php http://www.fastora.com/product_index.php?doc_name= raid-300
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1060 0
there are all sorts of low power front ends you could mate up to these i think. plus, that way you can work directly off the array from your laptop or connect it up to the server. maybe even just plug one of these into a asus/dlink/netgear storage router?? the question is the server has to be able to handle a terrabyte of storage i guess.
personnally i would look at the "home theater pc" thing seperately. but some people may argue to set up a htpc with the raid attached to it depending on use. if (like me) all you want to do is watch divix/xvid etc then get a lower power single drive device that you move data on to in order to play it on the tv. just think, do you need to have both the raid array and the htpc on at once?
if you want to use mini-itx and build your own then get a fanless one. i have been useing a mx266 from www.bcmcom.com it has sata, cf slot, dual nics, mini-pci for wireless nic, and the 1ghz eden proccessor. i have yet to run this board fanless though, but i think its possible with a aftermarket heatsink. whatever board you get boot it from compact flash. i think that will use less power but im not really sure. with mini-itx you get one 32bit pci slot so if you dont use a usb/firewire raid array then you may end up having to use that slot for a controller or adapter for the raid array.
baisicly you need to first put more time into visuallizeing your use patterns and needs.
what ru smokin???? he wants a terrabyte, are 12 laptop drives on a raid controller going to consume less than four 500gig 3.5 drives on a controller? and that little embebded you mention is cool but how is he hooking a raid array into it? on the otherhand i agree about the power supply. shop around
im doing the same thing but just not on the same schedual you are i just ordered one of these to better understand the power draw on various componants the pro model is a data logger the cheap and dirty method can be found at.. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article19-page1.html
A $5 DIY Power Meter
thats silly, your silly, PDF is great, tons of things read it, yada yada yada
http://www.brunton.com/product.php?id=256 "Editors' Top Product Picks 2004"--Outdoor Photographer "...this solar charger may end your battery woes for good." --Backpacker Magazine "If you can't bear to leave your gadgets behind, pack this waterproof solar panel to power them. It rolls up like a poster and charges like a cigarette lighter."--Newsweek "A boon for off-the-grid campers, the 18-ounce, 57-inch-long Brunton SolarRoll 14 can harvest enough solar energy to power a mobile phone or laptop-or even recharge your car battery. --Men's Journal "Drape it over a tent in full sun and the 12-by-57-inch Brunton SolarRoll 14 will power a sat phone, GPS or laptop-it'll even recharge a dead car battery in a lonely corner of Death Valley. Best of all, the 19.5-ounce solar panel and adapter plugs can be rolled up and tucked away in a foot-long, three-inch-diameter tube that'll slip covertly into your pack or kayak." --Outside Magazine "Gear Of The Year"- "Brunton's new line is a genuine breakthrough...Brunton, a company renowned among outdoor types for first-rate optics,personal navigation, and (especially) camping gear, has now pioneered a line of portable power equipment that can generate, store, and convert electricity so many of us opt to use in our hunting pursuits. This line is so ingeniously conceived and versatile in scope it can keep the power on for anything from teeny AAA batteries to sat phones to portable ice chests (and even my ravenous laptop)." --American Hunter "Now you can be a day's horseback ride or a ten-mile hike from civilization and still have power."--Sports Afield "The need to recharge batteries is a serious issue for expeditioners and other see-you-in-a-month travelers. The best of the several solar chargers available is the Brunton SolarRoll. It cranks out (surprise!) 14 watts, which is enough to run a small device (camera, ipod) or chargea large one (laptop, car battery). What really distinguishes it, though, is the way it can be stored - in a tube. Unfurled, the Brunton is one by five feet; rolled up, it's a three-inch thick burrito. It weighs just over a pound." --National Geographic Adventure
i just bought the 5w version from Sundance Solar. i have not used it yet, but i almost returned it when i got it. specs stated it weighed .6 pounds but its about twice that. it is very durable feeling. they have a much lighter version aht i think i will order next. FYI i think all of the ones you listed are made by the same company.
i guess it depends on where you live, location location locaton and all that, but proximity to schools doesnt correlate highly to houseing prices where i live in california. the majority case is; rich people buy bigger houses/lots farter away from schools.
if parents want to live out in the hinterlands(far from thier town school) then they should have to pay the cost for transporting the kid in every day. or get the district to build satalite classrooms. while were at it lets stop subsidizing cheap gas/diesel.
from the article.. "At the time Dotzler was working for a market research company in Texas. His wife, Deanna Pierce, worked different hours, so he would often work on the Mozilla project in the evenings until she got home" ..and then what did they do???? just curious
have you tired this board? does "Vacuum Tube Technology" really work?
i have been on the brink of buying some mini-itx componants to do this and create a small, fannless machine for the front room that can be bolted under a table. the forever pending release of better and smaller boards by VIA has kept me from acting. my quesiton is whats the diffrence between the 5.1 sound from a VIA board like this.. http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_MII_spec.j sp?motherboardId=202
and a PCI card like the ones from AVID ..
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Revolution51 -main.html
a full GIS platform that is ussable by new gis users and still usefull and customizeable for expert users. a simple mapping application that makes it easy to deal with multiple datasets, make maps, and do basic GIS queries yet can be customized into verticle applications. THUBAN and QGIS (and the libraries they leverage) are two efforts that are approaching this but they are a long way off from filling the need. such a GIS application doesnt need to completely replace the the high end applications developed by ESRI (and others) for those will allways be used by GIS techs but such a app would make GIS more accessable at occasional user end.
you rock..i just wet myself
hmmm.. link didnt come through... https://www.netdisty.net/ds/DEC-G11/default.asp
i bought LED lights tro replace some of my household lights. i bought them from this place... kinda of expensive to start off with, but, i love takeing something thats highly dissposable and replaceing it with something that will last for 10+ years. the 11 led versions are kinda dim for anything but difuse background light but some of the ones that are larger than that are good for reading lights and porch lights.
i havnt used it, but, isnt this what your looking for... http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/ anyone here used it? did it leave your days filled with joy and happyness or dispair and bitterness?
i totally agree, 3ware is great. I have a debian/woody box with the 8 port controller and WD 120gig drives and its worked flawlessly for 6 months now. i think 3 ware has a new 8 port version with a 2mb buffer now, not much compared to the scsi controllers out there but great for cheap mass storage and local mirrors.
1. contact your local state college/university library and ask if they have a "special collections" department. they can tell you all kinds of stuff. 2. tiff and png with searchable copies in PDF (for text) 3. cd + tape + hardrive (one backup is never enough) 4. google it... "Document Conservation" http://www.nedcc.org/