Its not much of a warning, but it may be enough time to shut down some processes, park the heads on the disk drive, turn on the backup generator, etc.
Screw the computer! With a few seconds notice, get under your desk or into a door frame. Priority one is shelter and getting away from breaking glass. Not broken yet? Just wait.
Either the earthquake will be too small and your hard drives could care less, or it will be too big, and you won't be caring about your hard drives at all. You're looking at catastrophic losses larger than a few unsynced disks.
Now, if you wanted to set up an automated system, sure, be geeky, go right ahead...:)
Mount St. Helens Update, October 1, 2004, 7:00 P.M.
Current status is Alert-Level 2-Volcano Advisory
The increasingly energetic seismic swarm of the past week culminated in a small 25-miunute-long eruption around noon today from a vent just south of the lava dome. The vent opened in a portion of the glacier that had become increasingly crevassed and uplifted over the past few days. This deformation was probably driven by piston-like uplift of a portion of the lava dome and crater floor. The eruption sent a steam and minor ash plume to an altitude of about 10,000 ft. It drifted southwestward accompanied by minor ashfall in areas close to the volcano. Seismicity dropped to a low level for several hours after the eruption, but is gradually increasing with earthquakes (maximum Magnitude about 3) occurring a rate of 1-2 per minute. We infer that the system is repressurizing. As a result, additional steam-and-ash eruptions similar to today's could occur at any time.
I'd just like to see Yoda, ala the end of Episode 2, slicing and dicing the film reels of Eps 1 and 2 into tiny little pieces that slip through Lucas' fingers the tighter he grasps...
Because of course, if Lucas stopped at 3 films, the series would become more powerful than he could possibly imagine.
Forget Diebold, everyone seems to be forgetting the Letter to the Editor scandal, where the same letter was passed around for troops to sign and then passed off as a letter to the editor in the troops home town. Some of the soldiers whos letters were publish claim they never even signed the things in the first place.
Who's to say that the emails coming from soldiers would even be from the soldiers at all?
C'mon people... standardized paper ballot, a pencil X and a little bit of saliva on the envelope, and a walk to the outgoing mail bag. It shouldn't be that hard!
Just ask the RIAA. They've got some great software for taking an MP3, extracting bits of the file, and replacing the rest with (loud) white noise. Should be perfect for your needs.
I'm surprised the geeks haven't jumped all over this one yet.
An increase in MBps/s isn't an increase in speed. It's an increase in Bandwidth. No amount of b, g, or n will increase the speed of light.
It's like saying a train with 100 cars goes twice as fast as a train with 50 cars. OK, bad analogy. Like moving to a new apartment with a moving van versus your VW Beetle.
So you won't be able to download your porn faster, you'll just be able to get twice as much of it. (or get larger porn).
Even if we are the only earth-like body in the universe (a laughable assumption), there may be life on those gas giants.
*nerd mode on* Yea, like remember in Star Control II when you go through the entire game searching only rocky planets and can't find the Slylandro, and then realize they live on the gas giant, after days and days of playing and searching around dozens of star systems make you believe that Gas Giants are worthless? *nerd mode off*
OK, I'll go hide now.
(C'mon, a few of you out there went through EXACTLY what I just described. Admit it)
There's nothing that can humble you more quickly than playing trivia on an IRC channel. Knowledge is often only about 50% of what's required. Speedy and accurate typing is just as important.
Unfortunately capitalization is not required in these games, which is why you're probably seeing a bunch of people bragging about their 110 wpm typing skills with a complete inability to capitalize a sentence properly.
Prediction by presuming the hypothesis to be true.
By the same logic, we'll find the WMD in Iraq within the next 20 years.
You *might* be able to make a strong case for the opposite, that if we don't hear anything within 20 years, that there may probably *not* be anything nearby. Or one of SETI's other hypotheses are wrong.
Are you sure that they didn't change the "root" user account to something else, and left the login id "root" as a honeypot to watch for hackers?
The fact that they responded the next day indicates they were watching rather closely. Log watching is not something you expect from sysadmins who don't change their passwords.
No, I'm talking about a nightly backup of 250GB of data. Not 250GB of new data daily. Yes you could use differential backup which is why I'm asking about 250GB media.
Again, cost savings is what I was looking for here. If tape wasn't so expensive, it wouldn't be scorned so much by all those Slashdotters who think that RAID5 or mirroring to HD is adequate.
For those tape advocates out there, here's a chance to one up those "I'd rather just use hard drives for backup" folks.
Can anyone actually reccomend a good, stable home tape backup solution that costs less than $200 (hardware and media) to backup, say, 250GB of data nightly? Linux or Windows (preferably both).
I've dabbled with some used 8mm backup media and hardware before, but the hardware was too old and tended to fail a lot. I just gave up. And I rarely (heck, lets say never) see cheap tape backup options at my local computer hardware shop or Future Shop or Staples type store.
See, if I had the time and money I'd setup a company here in Canada where we don't have these insane laws limited consumer rights. Yes, it's getting worse up here, but for now I see this as the near-by safe haven for developing PVR type products safe from being sued.
I find this post ironic considering we don't yet have Tivos in Canada, and they aren't coming here (white market) any time soon.
Actually I think the big question is the next question: "Why didn't live evolve like it did on Earth".
Suppose we find evidence of fossilized life on Mars, and that Mars was once a warm, wet world. What went wrong? Was it simply that Mars was colder, or is something more subtle going on?
On worlds where "life may once have been", we also have an excellent opportunity to examine worlds in many ways like Earth that failed to produce life. Mars, Venus, Titan... These could potentially be what Earth looks like millions of years from now. Exactly what nudges a world in that direction? Carbon Dioxide? Hydrocarbons in the air? Something else we don't even know about yet?
I believe that examining the chemosystems and environments of non-Earths is immensely valuable. And in my opinion, the knowledge gained far outweighs the (negligable) risk of using nuclear RTG for the trip, something we've all happily forgotten after Cassini passed Earth for the last time. If understanding Titan gives us a better knowledge of our own environment, we need to use this argument next time someone protests using an RTG on a launch vehicle.
Can anyone confirm that the hideous POT release is missing about 15 minutes in the middle? I remember seeing stuff about the Patriot act in the preview, it seems to have been edited out of this version.
Which completely sucks, because this particular POT version is missing a good 15 minutes out of the middle (all the bits about the patriot act) and is probably the most hideous cam I've ever seen taken of a movie. I was downloading the DVD version hoping it was better, but now I'll stop.
If you're going to advocate downloading a movie, at least have a decent telesync online first!:)
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Regarding the earthquake alert system:
:)
Its not much of a warning, but it may be enough time to shut down some processes, park the heads on the disk drive, turn on the backup generator, etc.
Screw the computer! With a few seconds notice, get under your desk or into a door frame. Priority one is shelter and getting away from breaking glass. Not broken yet? Just wait.
Either the earthquake will be too small and your hard drives could care less, or it will be too big, and you won't be caring about your hard drives at all. You're looking at catastrophic losses larger than a few unsynced disks.
Now, if you wanted to set up an automated system, sure, be geeky, go right ahead...
Guess what. It's not all over.... The earthquakes have started again...
Update from 2 hours ago from USGS
Mount St. Helens Update, October 1, 2004, 7:00 P.M.
Current status is Alert-Level 2-Volcano Advisory
The increasingly energetic seismic swarm of the past week culminated in a small 25-miunute-long eruption around noon today from a vent just south of the lava dome. The vent opened in a portion of the glacier that had become increasingly crevassed and uplifted over the past few days. This deformation was probably driven by piston-like uplift of a portion of the lava dome and crater floor. The eruption sent a steam and minor ash plume to an altitude of about 10,000 ft. It drifted southwestward accompanied by minor ashfall in areas close to the volcano. Seismicity dropped to a low level for several hours after the eruption, but is gradually increasing with earthquakes (maximum Magnitude about 3) occurring a rate of 1-2 per minute. We infer that the system is repressurizing. As a result, additional steam-and-ash eruptions similar to today's could occur at any time.
CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH!
Karma to anyone who can actually call the match.
I think a lot of us pay our mortgages biweekly instead of monthly. Likely the source of the confusion...
I still run Win98SE you insensitve clod!
:)
And everyone who mods me up still uses Win98SE too, so there.
This is by far the most witty (image only) reply to a thread (taking the whole thread into account) I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Or maybe I just like art...
Kudos!
Yoda: Destroyed my childhood, he has.
I'd just like to see Yoda, ala the end of Episode 2, slicing and dicing the film reels of Eps 1 and 2 into tiny little pieces that slip through Lucas' fingers the tighter he grasps...
Because of course, if Lucas stopped at 3 films, the series would become more powerful than he could possibly imagine.
I'll stop now...
Or we could all just read slashdot and get the advisories about 1-2 hours later....
Seriously... Are pics like these supposed to demonstrate how the series died off?
(ducks)
(apologies to all, I'm actually I Firefly fan)
(ducks again)
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It's impossible, it can't be!
640 watts per hour should be enough for everybody.
Forget Diebold, everyone seems to be forgetting the Letter to the Editor scandal, where the same letter was passed around for troops to sign and then passed off as a letter to the editor in the troops home town. Some of the soldiers whos letters were publish claim they never even signed the things in the first place.
Who's to say that the emails coming from soldiers would even be from the soldiers at all?
C'mon people... standardized paper ballot, a pencil X and a little bit of saliva on the envelope, and a walk to the outgoing mail bag. It shouldn't be that hard!
10gbps = 1.25GB/s = 2 DivX movies/s = 1 DVD-5/4s = 416 MP3s/s = Brown Trousers time for the MPAA = Roll over in grave time for RIAA
Just ask the RIAA. They've got some great software for taking an MP3, extracting bits of the file, and replacing the rest with (loud) white noise. Should be perfect for your needs.
I'm surprised the geeks haven't jumped all over this one yet.
An increase in MBps/s isn't an increase in speed. It's an increase in Bandwidth. No amount of b, g, or n will increase the speed of light.
It's like saying a train with 100 cars goes twice as fast as a train with 50 cars. OK, bad analogy. Like moving to a new apartment with a moving van versus your VW Beetle.
So you won't be able to download your porn faster, you'll just be able to get twice as much of it. (or get larger porn).
Let the semantics flame war commence!
Even if we are the only earth-like body in the universe (a laughable assumption), there may be life on those gas giants.
*nerd mode on*
Yea, like remember in Star Control II when you go through the entire game searching only rocky planets and can't find the Slylandro, and then realize they live on the gas giant, after days and days of playing and searching around dozens of star systems make you believe that Gas Giants are worthless?
*nerd mode off*
OK, I'll go hide now.
(C'mon, a few of you out there went through EXACTLY what I just described. Admit it)
There's nothing that can humble you more quickly than playing trivia on an IRC channel. Knowledge is often only about 50% of what's required. Speedy and accurate typing is just as important.
Unfortunately capitalization is not required in these games, which is why you're probably seeing a bunch of people bragging about their 110 wpm typing skills with a complete inability to capitalize a sentence properly.
Prediction by presuming the hypothesis to be true.
By the same logic, we'll find the WMD in Iraq within the next 20 years.
You *might* be able to make a strong case for the opposite, that if we don't hear anything within 20 years, that there may probably *not* be anything nearby. Or one of SETI's other hypotheses are wrong.
Are you sure that they didn't change the "root" user account to something else, and left the login id "root" as a honeypot to watch for hackers?
The fact that they responded the next day indicates they were watching rather closely. Log watching is not something you expect from sysadmins who don't change their passwords.
No, I'm talking about a nightly backup of 250GB of data. Not 250GB of new data daily. Yes you could use differential backup which is why I'm asking about 250GB media.
Again, cost savings is what I was looking for here. If tape wasn't so expensive, it wouldn't be scorned so much by all those Slashdotters who think that RAID5 or mirroring to HD is adequate.
For those tape advocates out there, here's a chance to one up those "I'd rather just use hard drives for backup" folks.
Can anyone actually reccomend a good, stable home tape backup solution that costs less than $200 (hardware and media) to backup, say, 250GB of data nightly? Linux or Windows (preferably both).
I've dabbled with some used 8mm backup media and hardware before, but the hardware was too old and tended to fail a lot. I just gave up. And I rarely (heck, lets say never) see cheap tape backup options at my local computer hardware shop or Future Shop or Staples type store.
See, if I had the time and money I'd setup a company here in Canada where we don't have these insane laws limited consumer rights. Yes, it's getting worse up here, but for now I see this as the near-by safe haven for developing PVR type products safe from being sued.
I find this post ironic considering we don't yet have Tivos in Canada, and they aren't coming here (white market) any time soon.
Actually I think the big question is the next question: "Why didn't live evolve like it did on Earth".
Suppose we find evidence of fossilized life on Mars, and that Mars was once a warm, wet world. What went wrong? Was it simply that Mars was colder, or is something more subtle going on?
On worlds where "life may once have been", we also have an excellent opportunity to examine worlds in many ways like Earth that failed to produce life. Mars, Venus, Titan... These could potentially be what Earth looks like millions of years from now. Exactly what nudges a world in that direction? Carbon Dioxide? Hydrocarbons in the air? Something else we don't even know about yet?
I believe that examining the chemosystems and environments of non-Earths is immensely valuable. And in my opinion, the knowledge gained far outweighs the (negligable) risk of using nuclear RTG for the trip, something we've all happily forgotten after Cassini passed Earth for the last time. If understanding Titan gives us a better knowledge of our own environment, we need to use this argument next time someone protests using an RTG on a launch vehicle.
Can anyone confirm that the hideous POT release is missing about 15 minutes in the middle? I remember seeing stuff about the Patriot act in the preview, it seems to have been edited out of this version.
Which completely sucks, because this particular POT version is missing a good 15 minutes out of the middle (all the bits about the patriot act) and is probably the most hideous cam I've ever seen taken of a movie. I was downloading the DVD version hoping it was better, but now I'll stop.
:)
If you're going to advocate downloading a movie, at least have a decent telesync online first!