Well, I have a few nitro RC cars. Let's look at one.
~1HP on 20% nitromethane blend. Fuel tank: 75cc 1 gallon = 4546cc or about 60 tanks of fuel
My car has a top speed of 68mph or so (and can hit 60 in around 4.5 seconds when geared to do it). But to maintain sane fuel economy... it has to sit around 22krpm, or around 35mph. It can go on that for about 10 minutes (though maybe 12).
Or 6 tanks per hour Or 10 hours 10 hours at 35mph = 350mpg
Keep in mind that this is a high-performance, fuel sucking, 35krpm peak, engine. It also doesn't have the weight of a bottle of nitro either on it. But I think 300mpg is possible. 1HP could move 10 pounds (car and fuel) that I would surmise.
If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!
Still to figure out sendmail.cf, Rob?
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drove a Toyota hatchback (true.)
A Toyota Supra Twin-Turbo is still a hatchback, and a nice one at that.
Actually we only tell people to go to places that might get us whacked with a lawsuit (hate sites, porn sites, etc) or anything the suits deem "unprofessional".
The logs are reported on ONLY when some manager asks us if someone is sitting there wasting time.
We've done it... 20 times ever in 3 years?
I AM the IT manager and guess who I answer to? Ya. The CIO.
I'd really like to run Sun Rays with Solaris with some OpenBSD up front providing protection.
But the cost of moving to Sun hardware (no Solaris on x86 please), getting Solaris versions of apps we run or rolling our own, staff retraining, etc... we simply can't afford it. What do you do when your desktop users need to access the accounting package client? CRM package? Etc. We tried Wine and such, but with little success. We've tried piloting 2 Linux desktops as well, with the most technically inclined users we had, but they weren't productive.
It's not like we moved to windows anyways, it was there when I got there. If VMS or AIX was there, I wouldn't of touched it, trust me. But it was a small place running Small Business Server 4.0 on NT4 and management had little interest on migrating things to a new platform.
Trust me, we woulnd't replace our accounting package and EDI solution with plain old anything (we're running MAS200 and QualEDI), we need that bulletproof support in case things ever do go awry.
We've automated much of the Win maintenance with a lot of custom scripts and simple AT jobs. It's not very difficult truthfully to run a pretty secure shop. I've run Linux for years and Solaris in more recent times, with a bit of AIX, and I found the time invested in all to be roughly the same. Just keep up on the lists and news and use common sense and practices.
It was an idea, emailing it, or putting it in a folder in an exchange store, but sometimes you'd forget about it.
But when you hear a printer print a line (and not page feed either, just print one line and thats it) occasionally you go "Oh ya, printer" and head over there to see what's on it.
We also ship a lot of other information to it too, like sporking disks, low disk space, high memory consumption, high CPU use, etc. And with paper, we at least always have a hard copy.
At work we have somewhat of an answer to viruses. 20 file extensions including exe, pif, scr, com, bat, vbs, vbe, and others are filtered at the server into a "Quarantine" folder and reports are generated every few hours on it and piped to a line printer for our review. We deal with them from there by either giving them to the employee, or by responding to who sent it with an automagically generated email.
Additionally, all mail is screened against the server's pattern file, which tries to update itself hourly. If sometimes passes through mail, it'll be found if on a server, and the client software, which updates its pattern file upon logon, will find things as they're opened.
All with unnoticable performance difference. We haven't had a virus infection in a LONG time now.
Worms like Nimda are a bit more annoying, but we take things like this seriously, and by doing so, avoided Nimda and others completely.
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As for net access, we do run reports on the proxy logs occasionally. Employees understand that they have little privacy in the workplace and that if we see them goofing off (except for after hours or at lunch), they do get an email regarding it. But we haven't had to do that in years. They more or less behave, because we trust them and they trust us.
Why doesn't the air force get an anti-virus solution for the server/clients? Block attachment types (obvious ones,.pif,.scr,.com,.bat,.exe, etc), filter for virii, and have it update automagically.
SERVERAL vendors make a product like this (i.e. Trend Micro).
Don't forget the wonderful arm-mountable gauss rifles in FASA's Battletech.
Mechs were fusion powered if I can recall correctly, so they could actually generate the massive amounts of power possible to make them somewhat feasible as a weapon. -----
I bought the 1000 for my sister and mounted it under her desk in her studio apartment (crammed for room!) and got her a decent 15" flatpanel and a keyboard/touchpad combo with some flat speakers.
Techhead? Hardly. Doesn't even care for the stuff. She just surfs, reads her email, and maybe plays Bejewled or uses wordpad to type something up. Tossed in a PCI ATi All-in-Wonder so it doubles as her TV too.
Its running XP Home nicely, not Linux. And she loves it.
1U essentially. would take up less room. has a DVI and DVD too. Exhaust is side mounted too so air can escape pretty easily. Mounts under the cupboard without a problem.
These guys make absolutely bulletproof power supplies too. But take this, throw in a wireless/RF keyboard/mouse combo, and put in a 15" flat panel ($200 now?) and you have something for the kitchen or wherever.
Traffic congestion is still a problem at intersections, as parking them. I'd also like to see how it handles routing through the city.
Also, now we're talking about tracks. What happens when one jumps the tracks? It just sit there hold up everything else behind it?
How are we going to accomodate for all these tracks in existing cities? It's grossly expensive and takes up space. Might as well have the Big Dig in every major city.
And us Bostonians know how the Big Dig is coming along::snicker::
Look at automobiles. A 1981 VW Rabbit (Golf in Europe) weighed about 1,800lbs. A modern Golf weighs in at about 2,800lbs. Most of that weight gain is because of safety regulations requiring everything from stronger bumpers to airbags to bracing in the doors. In another 50 years, will economy cars weigh as much as Chevy Suburbans due to ever-increasing safety regulation?
The new Audi A4s are over 3500lbs I believe, and that's still quite a compact car. The new S4 will likely weigh 2 tons.
I know in C# you can use XML for commenting, and it'll pull it right out of the source. In the development environment it even adds basic comments for you (function name, parameters, etc) if you choose to do so.
I wonder if all.NET languages (and mebbe even Mono ones) can just slap XML in the source?
What about price? They said this will be larger than a Pocket PC, but smaller than a tablet PC.
Pocket PCs are $500 still, and tablet PCs are expected to run up to $2000 a whack. What's this puppy going to cost you? $1000? Too much... I think there's a 27" flat HDTV you can get for less than that now -- throw in a nice DVD player to make it an even G. That's also as much or less than your joe sixpack PC.
The Linux Standard Base (LSB) defines a system interface for compiled applications and a minimal environment for support of installation scripts. Its purpose is to enable a uniform industry standard environment for high-volume applications conforming to the LSB.
The LSB defines a binary interface for application programs that are compiled and packaged for LSB-conforming implementations on many different hardware architectures. Since a binary specification must include information specific to the computer processor architecture for which it is intended, it is not possible for a single document to specify the interface for all possible LSB-conforming implementations. Therefore, the LSB is a family of specifications, rather than a single one.
The LSB is composed of two basic parts: A common part of the specification describes those parts of the interface that remain constant across all hardware implementations of the LSB, and an architecture-specific part of the specification describes the parts of the specification that are specific to a particular processor architecture. Together, the generic LSB and the architecture-specific supplement for a single hardware architecture provide a complete interface specification for compiled application programs on systems that share a common hardware architecture.
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Why not sue big companies like Tyco and Alcoa? Wouldn't they seem much more lucrative to a company like this?
Oh wait, because the legal teams that Tyco and Alcoa have would crush this stupid company like a bug!
If my company was a target, I would've crushed these guys like a bug for attempting to mess with small businesses.
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Guns drawn? What? Why? Were they equipped in uncursed splint mail +1 and weilding a vorpal blade +3?
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Gee... why not...
Rick Moranis?
Or... Sean Connery?
Or... Bob Saget?
Seriously, they'd be better suited.
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Well, I have a few nitro RC cars. Let's look at one.
~1HP on 20% nitromethane blend.
Fuel tank: 75cc
1 gallon = 4546cc or about 60 tanks of fuel
My car has a top speed of 68mph or so (and can hit 60 in around 4.5 seconds when geared to do it). But to maintain sane fuel economy... it has to sit around 22krpm, or around 35mph. It can go on that for about 10 minutes (though maybe 12).
Or 6 tanks per hour
Or 10 hours
10 hours at 35mph = 350mpg
Keep in mind that this is a high-performance, fuel sucking, 35krpm peak, engine. It also doesn't have the weight of a bottle of nitro either on it. But I think 300mpg is possible. 1HP could move 10 pounds (car and fuel) that I would surmise.
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If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!
Still to figure out sendmail.cf, Rob?
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drove a Toyota hatchback (true.)
A Toyota Supra Twin-Turbo is still a hatchback, and a nice one at that.
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iexplore.exe if you noticed is pretty small. IE is actually REALLY modular and it just loads in libraries it needs.
Delete those libraries and see what happens.
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Actually we only tell people to go to places that might get us whacked with a lawsuit (hate sites, porn sites, etc) or anything the suits deem "unprofessional".
The logs are reported on ONLY when some manager asks us if someone is sitting there wasting time.
We've done it... 20 times ever in 3 years?
I AM the IT manager and guess who I answer to? Ya. The CIO.
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ZIPs are checked up to 7 levels deep. All archives are.
Tens of thousands? Ha. $30 a seat. Maintenance is minimal. Quite being a bigot.
I'd really like to run Sun Rays with Solaris with some OpenBSD up front providing protection.
But the cost of moving to Sun hardware (no Solaris on x86 please), getting Solaris versions of apps we run or rolling our own, staff retraining, etc... we simply can't afford it. What do you do when your desktop users need to access the accounting package client? CRM package? Etc. We tried Wine and such, but with little success. We've tried piloting 2 Linux desktops as well, with the most technically inclined users we had, but they weren't productive.
It's not like we moved to windows anyways, it was there when I got there. If VMS or AIX was there, I wouldn't of touched it, trust me. But it was a small place running Small Business Server 4.0 on NT4 and management had little interest on migrating things to a new platform.
Trust me, we woulnd't replace our accounting package and EDI solution with plain old anything (we're running MAS200 and QualEDI), we need that bulletproof support in case things ever do go awry.
We've automated much of the Win maintenance with a lot of custom scripts and simple AT jobs. It's not very difficult truthfully to run a pretty secure shop. I've run Linux for years and Solaris in more recent times, with a bit of AIX, and I found the time invested in all to be roughly the same. Just keep up on the lists and news and use common sense and practices.
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It was an idea, emailing it, or putting it in a folder in an exchange store, but sometimes you'd forget about it.
But when you hear a printer print a line (and not page feed either, just print one line and thats it) occasionally you go "Oh ya, printer" and head over there to see what's on it.
We also ship a lot of other information to it too, like sporking disks, low disk space, high memory consumption, high CPU use, etc. And with paper, we at least always have a hard copy.
We only go through 500 or so pages a year anyways
At work we have somewhat of an answer to viruses. 20 file extensions including exe, pif, scr, com, bat, vbs, vbe, and others are filtered at the server into a "Quarantine" folder and reports are generated every few hours on it and piped to a line printer for our review. We deal with them from there by either giving them to the employee, or by responding to who sent it with an automagically generated email.
Additionally, all mail is screened against the server's pattern file, which tries to update itself hourly. If sometimes passes through mail, it'll be found if on a server, and the client software, which updates its pattern file upon logon, will find things as they're opened.
All with unnoticable performance difference. We haven't had a virus infection in a LONG time now.
Worms like Nimda are a bit more annoying, but we take things like this seriously, and by doing so, avoided Nimda and others completely.
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As for net access, we do run reports on the proxy logs occasionally. Employees understand that they have little privacy in the workplace and that if we see them goofing off (except for after hours or at lunch), they do get an email regarding it. But we haven't had to do that in years. They more or less behave, because we trust them and they trust us.
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Why doesn't the air force get an anti-virus solution for the server/clients? Block attachment types (obvious ones, .pif, .scr, .com, .bat, .exe, etc), filter for virii, and have it update automagically.
SERVERAL vendors make a product like this (i.e. Trend Micro).
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Don't forget the wonderful arm-mountable gauss rifles in FASA's Battletech.
Mechs were fusion powered if I can recall correctly, so they could actually generate the massive amounts of power possible to make them somewhat feasible as a weapon.
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Not only is it cheap, Sun has absolutely incredible tech support. You really can't beat it.
As long as you're comfortable with a System V based UNIX, this is a VERY nice option.
I bought the 1000 for my sister and mounted it under her desk in her studio apartment (crammed for room!) and got her a decent 15" flatpanel and a keyboard/touchpad combo with some flat speakers.
Techhead? Hardly. Doesn't even care for the stuff. She just surfs, reads her email, and maybe plays Bejewled or uses wordpad to type something up. Tossed in a PCI ATi All-in-Wonder so it doubles as her TV too.
Its running XP Home nicely, not Linux. And she loves it.
1U essentially. would take up less room. has a DVI and DVD too. Exhaust is side mounted too so air can escape pretty easily. Mounts under the cupboard without a problem.
Sleekline 1260
These guys make absolutely bulletproof power supplies too. But take this, throw in a wireless/RF keyboard/mouse combo, and put in a 15" flat panel ($200 now?) and you have something for the kitchen or wherever.
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Traffic congestion is still a problem at intersections, as parking them. I'd also like to see how it handles routing through the city.
::snicker::
Also, now we're talking about tracks. What happens when one jumps the tracks? It just sit there hold up everything else behind it?
How are we going to accomodate for all these tracks in existing cities? It's grossly expensive and takes up space. Might as well have the Big Dig in every major city.
And us Bostonians know how the Big Dig is coming along
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Look at automobiles. A 1981 VW Rabbit (Golf in Europe) weighed about 1,800lbs. A modern Golf weighs in at about 2,800lbs. Most of that weight gain is because of safety regulations requiring everything from stronger bumpers to airbags to bracing in the doors. In another 50 years, will economy cars weigh as much as Chevy Suburbans due to ever-increasing safety regulation?
The new Audi A4s are over 3500lbs I believe, and that's still quite a compact car. The new S4 will likely weigh 2 tons.
Probably a tank though.
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I know in C# you can use XML for commenting, and it'll pull it right out of the source. In the development environment it even adds basic comments for you (function name, parameters, etc) if you choose to do so.
.NET languages (and mebbe even Mono ones) can just slap XML in the source?
I wonder if all
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This is what their marketing department does all day ...
Figures.
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What about price? They said this will be larger than a Pocket PC, but smaller than a tablet PC.
... I think there's a 27" flat HDTV you can get for less than that now -- throw in a nice DVD player to make it an even G. That's also as much or less than your joe sixpack PC.
Pocket PCs are $500 still, and tablet PCs are expected to run up to $2000 a whack. What's this puppy going to cost you? $1000? Too much
This is also more than just a gaming device too.
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Try 2.8 GHz
Or why not 3.0!
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For the lazy... (from the document):
The Linux Standard Base (LSB) defines a system interface for compiled applications and a minimal environment for support of installation scripts. Its purpose is to enable a uniform industry standard environment for high-volume applications conforming to the LSB.
The LSB defines a binary interface for application programs that are compiled and packaged for LSB-conforming implementations on many different hardware architectures. Since a binary specification must include information specific to the computer processor architecture for which it is intended, it is not possible for a single document to specify the interface for all possible LSB-conforming implementations. Therefore, the LSB is a family of specifications, rather than a single one.
The LSB is composed of two basic parts: A common part of the specification describes those parts of the interface that remain constant across all hardware implementations of the LSB, and an architecture-specific part of the specification describes the parts of the specification that are specific to a particular processor architecture. Together, the generic LSB and the architecture-specific supplement for a single hardware architecture provide a complete interface specification for compiled application programs on systems that share a common hardware architecture.
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