Hmm, that's a good idea. I like it for files that never get edited. Because, when someone edits a file, it still gets edited for the other departments.
Still, that gets us one step closer... thanks for the suggestion.:)
"Because people tend to have multiple copies of the same files,"
I see this all the time on our file servers. Different departments need copies of the same stuff in their own shares (not to mention the fact that every user has their own copy of WMP10 in their user folder). I've mitigated the problem to some extent with a "public" folder that is softlinked to a central location, but this has drawbacks if one dept deletes a file, it's gone for everybody else too.
I would love to have a filesystem that automatically detects dupe blocks and links them, and then unlinks the blocks that get changed later. Since I'm not aware of any Linux or Windows filesystems that do this, the technology that TFA talks about would be a nice to have.
Nice idea, but after failing to get your little image catchpa correct several times in a row, I had to change my answer from 'happy' to 'sad' (and that was only because there wasn't a 'suicidally depressed' option).
"the lower end will NOT buy a snapper. they will buy thr $99.00 cheapie. Just like the really busy Manager will buy the $99.00 cheapie."
For a lot people, this is true, sadly. However there are a few of us that buy the cheapie $99 mower, then proceed to actually sharpen/balance the blade, change the oil/air filter/spark plug every year, and store it overwinter with gas stabilizer in the tank and a squirt of WD-40 in the cylinder. It doesn't take that much time and effort. Mine is starting its fourth season this spring, and I expect it to last for several more. It still starts on the first or second pull. Heck it started on the first pull this spring after it sat all last winter.
"so it would be really cool if we amatuer Wi-Fi folks could get some long range stuff wto muck about with."
Except... a lot of the MW and HF transmissions can circle the globe (especially at night and/or during the 11-year sunspot cycle). I can't even begin to imagine the massive interference...
Now, something like VHF between 50Mhz and 200MHz or so would let you go a hundred miles or so, without the global interference being a problem.
"I have heard that the *entire* braking system must be replaced in all cars over a certain number of years of age."
We're close to that in the US. No shop wants to get sued if somebody gets in an accident when the brakes fail, so every shop will tell you you need new everything-brake-related whenever you go to them with a brake issue on an older car. It's not a law, it's CYA, but it amounts to almost the same thing.
They can be more fuel efficient, and emmissions are often better as the engine does a more complete burn process of the fuel.
Nope, sorry. "Wankel engines are criticized for poor fuel efficiency and exhaust emissions."
"Just as the shape of the Wankel combustion chamber prevents preignition, it also leads to incomplete combustion of the air-fuel charge, with the remaining unburned hydrocarbons released into the exhaust."
"A related cause for unexpectedly poor fuel economy involves an inherent weakness of the Wankel rotor design when used with conventional fuels. Some studies have indicated that at high speeds, the rate at which the volume of the combustion chamber increases in the moments after ignition actually outpaces the expansion of the burning fuel. The result is that, at high speeds, less useful energy is extracted from the same volume of fuel"
"I would also think that David Lynch would be good for this type of adaptation."
I suppose he did a fair job of Dune*, if you watch the 3- or 4-hour versions. The 2-hour version is a little disappointing.
*And by Dune, I mean the 1980's film, not the complete and utter disaster that the SciFi Channel produced and called "Dune" which no doubt causes Frank Herbert's dearly departed soul to writhe in anguish and agony to this day.
"In all societies I visited in East Africa, a baby is a blessing and seen as such. Neighbors will freely volunteer time to spend time with the infant for free! Find that in USA!!!"
Er, actually, members of my church do that for each other all the time. You just have to find the right sub-culture within the USA.;)
You probably just need your dish re-aimed or you need to trim some occluding bushes or trees. There should be plenty of extra signal to punch through rain, sleet, snow, whatever unless you are in an extremely northern (or southern) latitude -- like Canada. If you are that far from the equator, your dish installer shouldn't have given you an 18" dish in the first place.
"Pay the bill to get away from the ISP and restore your service with another ISP -- this puts you firmly on the right side of the law. Then sue the original ISP in the small claims court... this is not the terrifying activity it sounds like. It's done locally and the small claims court is setup to deal with this sort of thing quickly (and hand hold newbies through the process), you don't need solicitors etc etc."
Good tip. Our American friends, though, will want a laywer rather than a door-to-door salesman.;)
"I believe that most people don't care about computers for the same reason they don't care about anything else."
Exactly. How many people have the slightest idea how the internal combustion engine in their car works? Not many. They have more important things to worry about, like complaining about the price of gasoline and keeping the battery on their cell phone (of which they also have no idea how it works) charged.
I didn't actually test any for PPS, I just assumed that if they didn't advertise PPS, they didn't have it. Obviously this assumption was incorrect -- undocumented features hadn't occurred to me. D'oh!
None of the $75 GPS units I've looked at have had PPS. I thought PPS-enabled receivers were a lot more expensive than your run-of-the-mill GPS receiver?
Researched this for work not too long ago. You can use a consumer-grade GPS receiver to get within 1 second accuracy, but there's a lot of jitter. More expensive PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) GPS receivers are extremely accurate but cost about $1,000. This is assuming you have a clear view of a large swath of sky. You can interface these with (GPL) NTPd with an RS232 serial cable or you can buy a $3,000 total hardware solution in an 19" 1U rackmount server.
There are also radio receivers that listen to WWV (same as the "atomic" clocks you buy at Wal-Mart). Again, you can buy a $3,000 total hardware solution, or you can use any handy shortwave receiver and patch the headphone jack into your sound card Line-in port and let NTPd do the same thing.
The third solution is to use a special modem that connects to a cellular network (Verizon was the one we looked at), I think that solution ran about $1,000.
This is all going by memory so I might be off on some of the prices.
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"If I write an email to my wife asking her to invite the neighbors over for dinner, how does that qualify as interstate commerce?"
Oh but it is. Perhaps you haven't heard about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich?
That's what PGP is for. The problem is, using encryption makes it looks like you have something to hide, even if you don't.
"like regulations on badger farming or some crap."
Hey! I AM a badger farmer, you insensitive clod!
Hmm, that's a good idea. I like it for files that never get edited. Because, when someone edits a file, it still gets edited for the other departments.
:)
Still, that gets us one step closer... thanks for the suggestion.
"Because people tend to have multiple copies of the same files,"
I see this all the time on our file servers. Different departments need copies of the same stuff in their own shares (not to mention the fact that every user has their own copy of WMP10 in their user folder). I've mitigated the problem to some extent with a "public" folder that is softlinked to a central location, but this has drawbacks if one dept deletes a file, it's gone for everybody else too.
I would love to have a filesystem that automatically detects dupe blocks and links them, and then unlinks the blocks that get changed later. Since I'm not aware of any Linux or Windows filesystems that do this, the technology that TFA talks about would be a nice to have.
Nice idea, but after failing to get your little image catchpa correct several times in a row, I had to change my answer from 'happy' to 'sad' (and that was only because there wasn't a 'suicidally depressed' option).
"the lower end will NOT buy a snapper. they will buy thr $99.00 cheapie. Just like the really busy Manager will buy the $99.00 cheapie."
For a lot people, this is true, sadly. However there are a few of us that buy the cheapie $99 mower, then proceed to actually sharpen/balance the blade, change the oil/air filter/spark plug every year, and store it overwinter with gas stabilizer in the tank and a squirt of WD-40 in the cylinder. It doesn't take that much time and effort. Mine is starting its fourth season this spring, and I expect it to last for several more. It still starts on the first or second pull. Heck it started on the first pull this spring after it sat all last winter.
We're the ones laughing all the way to the bank.
"I would have figured 1701."
D'OH! Crap, I have to change my PIN now.
My boss let me choose the combo to our electronic safe. I used 74656.
"so it would be really cool if we amatuer Wi-Fi folks could get some long range stuff wto muck about with."
Except... a lot of the MW and HF transmissions can circle the globe (especially at night and/or during the 11-year sunspot cycle). I can't even begin to imagine the massive interference...
Now, something like VHF between 50Mhz and 200MHz or so would let you go a hundred miles or so, without the global interference being a problem.
Thank you for the insightful post. Indeed, a better definition for "law" might be "a punishment affixed to a choice".
2,896 trillion pints.
"DSL isn't available (and even if it were I'd have to buy a phone line to go along with it which would make it even more expensive"
Not anymore. I have naked DSL from Qwest, just DSL, no dialtone. It's even cheaper than my local sucky cable provider by $7.
"I have heard that the *entire* braking system must be replaced in all cars over a certain number of years of age."
We're close to that in the US. No shop wants to get sued if somebody gets in an accident when the brakes fail, so every shop will tell you you need new everything-brake-related whenever you go to them with a brake issue on an older car. It's not a law, it's CYA, but it amounts to almost the same thing.
"Just as the shape of the Wankel combustion chamber prevents preignition, it also leads to incomplete combustion of the air-fuel charge, with the remaining unburned hydrocarbons released into the exhaust."
"A related cause for unexpectedly poor fuel economy involves an inherent weakness of the Wankel rotor design when used with conventional fuels. Some studies have indicated that at high speeds, the rate at which the volume of the combustion chamber increases in the moments after ignition actually outpaces the expansion of the burning fuel. The result is that, at high speeds, less useful energy is extracted from the same volume of fuel"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_rotary
"I think you're being a little Harsh on the SciFi channel's Dune."
;)
Could be you're right. I couldn't bring myself to watch it to the end.
"I would also think that David Lynch would be good for this type of adaptation."
I suppose he did a fair job of Dune*, if you watch the 3- or 4-hour versions. The 2-hour version is a little disappointing.
*And by Dune, I mean the 1980's film, not the complete and utter disaster that the SciFi Channel produced and called "Dune" which no doubt causes Frank Herbert's dearly departed soul to writhe in anguish and agony to this day.
"In all societies I visited in East Africa, a baby is a blessing and seen as such. Neighbors will freely volunteer time to spend time with the infant for free! Find that in USA!!!"
;)
Er, actually, members of my church do that for each other all the time. You just have to find the right sub-culture within the USA.
You probably just need your dish re-aimed or you need to trim some occluding bushes or trees. There should be plenty of extra signal to punch through rain, sleet, snow, whatever unless you are in an extremely northern (or southern) latitude -- like Canada. If you are that far from the equator, your dish installer shouldn't have given you an 18" dish in the first place.
"Pay the bill to get away from the ISP and restore your service with another ISP -- this puts you firmly on the right side of the law. Then sue the original ISP in the small claims court... this is not the terrifying activity it sounds like. It's done locally and the small claims court is setup to deal with this sort of thing quickly (and hand hold newbies through the process), you don't need solicitors etc etc."
;)
Good tip. Our American friends, though, will want a laywer rather than a door-to-door salesman.
"The point is i dont want to be flying with someone who DOESN'T have or WON'T show an ID card."
Yeah, because terrorists won't be able to get these ID cards -- the same way that terrorists aren't able to pilot a plane into a building.
Oh whoops...
"the errors happened during regular maintenence."
So... LJ getting hacked is a regular occurence? Got it.
"I believe that most people don't care about computers for the same reason they don't care about anything else."
Exactly. How many people have the slightest idea how the internal combustion engine in their car works? Not many. They have more important things to worry about, like complaining about the price of gasoline and keeping the battery on their cell phone (of which they also have no idea how it works) charged.
I didn't actually test any for PPS, I just assumed that if they didn't advertise PPS, they didn't have it. Obviously this assumption was incorrect -- undocumented features hadn't occurred to me. D'oh!
"Also, the 1pps output of a $75 GPS unit"
None of the $75 GPS units I've looked at have had PPS. I thought PPS-enabled receivers were a lot more expensive than your run-of-the-mill GPS receiver?
Researched this for work not too long ago. You can use a consumer-grade GPS receiver to get within 1 second accuracy, but there's a lot of jitter. More expensive PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) GPS receivers are extremely accurate but cost about $1,000. This is assuming you have a clear view of a large swath of sky. You can interface these with (GPL) NTPd with an RS232 serial cable or you can buy a $3,000 total hardware solution in an 19" 1U rackmount server.
There are also radio receivers that listen to WWV (same as the "atomic" clocks you buy at Wal-Mart). Again, you can buy a $3,000 total hardware solution, or you can use any handy shortwave receiver and patch the headphone jack into your sound card Line-in port and let NTPd do the same thing.
The third solution is to use a special modem that connects to a cellular network (Verizon was the one we looked at), I think that solution ran about $1,000.
This is all going by memory so I might be off on some of the prices.