Of course it's losing its cool. Lots of people have them - they are no longer an exclusive item. The Ipod is a fashion accessory disguised as a MP3 player, and fashion trends only last so long. Why do you think it took the world by storm in the first place?
The concept can be taken as far as to cutting down to a single power supply per rack.
The article mentions the distribution will be done using 48V for distribution - you will still need DC:DC conversion at the boxes. These DC:DC converters will need to be run at higher current than an AC:DC converter. Higher current can cause more series loss in the system as well leakage losses in the switching supply.
AC:DC converters, as mentioned in the article aren't really that ineffiecient (article itself quotes 90%). AC:DC converters are infact really DC:DC convertors, they just have a rectifier circuit to convert the AC to high volatge DC for DC:DC conversion.
Lets not mislead the reader to believe that a CCFL Inverter won't bite. I use them regularly and whilst they do output a low current, the body certainly can feel the hit from a CCFL driver, infact it puts little burn marks on your skin upon contact. I sure wouldn't recommend playing with this stuff if you had a pacemaker or a weak heart (or had little experience with electronics). It really does make you jump if you touch one of the live outputs.
To me this increase in sales can be somewhat attributed to the success of the ipod. The ipod certainally has brought a whole lot more exposure to apple in general over the last 12 months. And it's not like OSX is a bad OS for them to be pushing, if someone is curious and checks it out they probably won't be too dissapointed. Couple that with the fact that Windows XP is a few years old and is starting to seem a little dated. Windows will probably strike back a little come Vista but I guess only time will tell.
I use my laptop daily and have now for around a year and a half. All you need to do is get a USB keyboard/mouse and another monitor and you have a very flexible Dual head configuration. I use this computer to do all of my engineering tasks- Coding, circuit design, hardware debugging (using usb->Rs232 converter), circuit simulation, slashdot posts and word processing.
Great thing about this setup is that if I ever need to go anywhere my whole desktop PC is all of a sudden portable - I don't have to worry about copying data across to another PC. Your missing out on a good PC experience if you haven't tried this.
Good to see someone actually understood the significance of this project.
The amount of ignorant hate going on in this thread is a sad reflection on the state of much of the slashdot community. Lay off the haterade ppl and stop being such a bunch of ignorant apple fanboys.
contract or none, Cmdtaco will not bow to any sponser(poses for pizza hut). well, im sorry you feel that way, but basically, its the nature of the beast... maybe on wrong about this, but the beast does not include on selling out( holds dorrto chip bag)... Timothy, you know what im talking about?...(leans back in chair, dressed all in reebok) its like people only do things to get paid, and thats just really sad.... ( Cmdtaco holding his head) i cant talk about it anymore, its giving me a headache...here, take two of these...( garth unwinds an asprin case) ah...small...yellow...different. Look, you can stay here in the big leagues, or go back to the start, its your choice...( Cmdtaco holds up a pepsi can) and its the choice of a new generation(drinks, then smiles)
To me it seems strange that this article does not mention DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface). It is a new standard for Lighting control that is sure to shake things up. Especially when you see DALI is currently being pushed by lighting manufacturers such as Osram, Atco, Helvar and Phillips to name a few. Dali places a fair bit of intelligence at the lighting fixture, and can be easily intergraded to TCP/IP networks using such systems as Atco's windim@net. This allows for remote monitoring and control. Better yet DALI can be wired using standard 240v insulated cabling and can be run next to the mains wiring (no segregation). It really is a smart step foward for lighting control. Check it out http://www.dali-ag.org/
I have to agree with you here. I've just gone back to Fedora from running Gentoo. Gentoo just got to be too much trouble when i went to update my system - ie things would break quite often and I'd have to sit there injecting packages etc, just to get through a big list of world updates. No diss on gentoo here, just it was taking a little more maintenance than I like.
Currently I'm running Fedora Core 3 with Gnome and the whole thing just works so nicely out of the box. The little up2date tick in the system tray makes keeping up to date and patched a breeze, and to make things even easier I also have apt-rpm installed - this makes installing mp3 media players and stuff like that a breeze.
I also use this box for firmware development for AVR microcontrollers and it certainally works fine as a workstation.
If you've learn't your linux ropes and you keen to go back to a low maintenance distro, or if you want a hassle free linux, Fedora Core 3 certainally takes some beating.
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Its quite simple, video games are an escape from the reality (you know, the one where we have to deal with people with an ugly personalities like yours).
I expect we'll find you infront of the television, wallowing in mediocrity but feeling better about yourself by attempting to make sweeping statements of generalisation about "most" people who play games.
Video Games are not a big part of life, you're right about that but aside that you're just another bitter idiot who overanalyses the completely casual act of sitting down infront of a game for a few hours.
To those of you who actually do spend half your life playing games: Don't blame you, have fun and I hope you get a kick out of hearing imbeciles like our humble parent here try to feel better about themselves.
I'm with you on this call dude. Gnome 2.6 and Gnome 2.8 seemed fine to me (responsive wise). It doesn't take a genius to have a poke at C lacking boundary checking. Last time I checked the kernel was written in C also- what a hack! Furthermore I thought that most Gnome's apps were written in python.
Seems strange noone has mentioned it but you should teach them how to download source code and build it. The ol' tar zxvf, configure, make, make install steps. Teaching them how to administer patches too would definitely be relavant.
Furthermore you should give them some tips on troubleshooting. Ie searching google and IRC for tips and advice. Knowing where to turn to for help is _very_ important. Also make them read he "How to ask questions" guide. This way you won't have them suffer humiliation from some l33t bigot.
Your list of tasks you want them to do indicates that you really need to focus on getting them to grips with the terminal. I reckon your being pretty ambitious if you think you can pull it off in 3 days. Perhaps give them all a little reference pocketbook as part of the course.
Farnell (& RS) have an extensive range of SMD parts, sometimes priced not too far off Altronics and Jaycar prices. Altronics stock SMT passives in 10 packs at reasonable prices. I agree with your point about 78XX regs, however there is no rule that says you can't mix smt with th. Infact i have found that th passives such as electrolytic caps are cheaper than their smt equivalents, a mixed board is often a cost effective solution.
Do you really think a site full of Linux people, run on Linux computers, and owned by a Linux company is the place to advertise Microsoft software effectively?
Yes.
That's why you see MS banner ads at the top of/. pages quite often. Microsoft no doubt regards slashdot as a great place to advertise, have a look at the stats on browsers used to view slashdot and you may even see why.
Whilst I don't think this article is an ad, MS products have definitely been advertised by slashdot before.
Yeah, I have to say SMT is the way to go. I used to design all my boards using Though Hole Technology but recently I have changed to SMT boards and haven't looked back. Assembly is actually easier provided you stick to not-too-small components. It saves time too as you don't have to do that awful process of thread, pull, solder, cut for each component like you do with through hole components. It's more like solder pad1 , solder pad2, done! Things do get a little trickier when you need to mount ICs with high pin densities, but a little bit of solderpaste and solderwick goes a long way.
Any experienced solderer should easily be able to solder 2-pin passive components down 0603 size provided they have a decent soldering iron and some good tweezers.
Moreover, SMT boards have been shown to generally generate less noise than an equivalent through hole based board. Hence the boards are less likely to fail compliance testing such as FCC or CE.
I generally find manual pages to be horrible unless there are a few example usages at the end. Why examples are not on every man page (where applicable) is a little beyond me. Often I find myself searching google for how to use the tool as the man page has let me down.
Also, is it true that BSD man pages are more likely to have examples of usage in them (i think i heard this yonks ago)?
I found this app yesterday while looking for a ultra simple note taker / todo list that hides in the system tray. It makes remembering who phoned and what I need to do a little easier to remember.
Once again more Gnome Posts. Once again more people complaining about Gnomes simplicity and how there should be advanced options. I'm actually a little confused what they all mean. Can someone please elaborate for me what advanced features gnome 2.6.x or gnome 2.7.x is missing? I challange you to list a few, cause I've been using Gnome 2.6 for about 2 months now and find it to be quite refined. To me a lot of posts in this thread are offereing very little insight into peoples experiences with gnome 2.6 but rather are just a rant on someones own ideals on what they want these free software makers to build for them.
Ps in my profile you will see my post elaborating on my own experiences with Gnome 2.6.
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Of course it's losing its cool. Lots of people have them - they are no longer an exclusive item. The Ipod is a fashion accessory disguised as a MP3 player, and fashion trends only last so long. Why do you think it took the world by storm in the first place?
The article mentions the distribution will be done using 48V for distribution - you will still need DC:DC conversion at the boxes. These DC:DC converters will need to be run at higher current than an AC:DC converter. Higher current can cause more series loss in the system as well leakage losses in the switching supply.
AC:DC converters, as mentioned in the article aren't really that ineffiecient (article itself quotes 90%). AC:DC converters are infact really DC:DC convertors, they just have a rectifier circuit to convert the AC to high volatge DC for DC:DC conversion.
Check your Adblock settings if your running it with Firefox. This caused problems with flash videos on my computer.
Lets not mislead the reader to believe that a CCFL Inverter won't bite. I use them regularly and whilst they do output a low current, the body certainly can feel the hit from a CCFL driver, infact it puts little burn marks on your skin upon contact. I sure wouldn't recommend playing with this stuff if you had a pacemaker or a weak heart (or had little experience with electronics). It really does make you jump if you touch one of the live outputs.
To me this increase in sales can be somewhat attributed to the success of the ipod. The ipod certainally has brought a whole lot more exposure to apple in general over the last 12 months. And it's not like OSX is a bad OS for them to be pushing, if someone is curious and checks it out they probably won't be too dissapointed. Couple that with the fact that Windows XP is a few years old and is starting to seem a little dated. Windows will probably strike back a little come Vista but I guess only time will tell.
I use my laptop daily and have now for around a year and a half. All you need to do is get a USB keyboard/mouse and another monitor and you have a very flexible Dual head configuration. I use this computer to do all of my engineering tasks- Coding, circuit design, hardware debugging (using usb->Rs232 converter), circuit simulation, slashdot posts and word processing.
Great thing about this setup is that if I ever need to go anywhere my whole desktop PC is all of a sudden portable - I don't have to worry about copying data across to another PC. Your missing out on a good PC experience if you haven't tried this.
This thread reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, goes something like:
"Experience is something you get after you most need it"
Nuff Said
Good to see someone actually understood the significance of this project.
The amount of ignorant hate going on in this thread is a sad reflection on the state of much of the slashdot community. Lay off the haterade ppl and stop being such a bunch of ignorant apple fanboys.
contract or none, Cmdtaco will not bow to any sponser(poses for pizza hut). well, im sorry you feel that way, but basically, its the nature of the beast... maybe on wrong about this, but the beast does not include on selling out( holds dorrto chip bag)... Timothy, you know what im talking about?...(leans back in chair, dressed all in reebok) its like people only do things to get paid, and thats just really sad.... ( Cmdtaco holding his head) i cant talk about it anymore, its giving me a headache...here, take two of these...( garth unwinds an asprin case) ah...small...yellow...different. Look, you can stay here in the big leagues, or go back to the start, its your choice...( Cmdtaco holds up a pepsi can) and its the choice of a new generation(drinks, then smiles)
To me it seems strange that this article does not mention DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface). It is a new standard for Lighting control that is sure to shake things up. Especially when you see DALI is currently being pushed by lighting manufacturers such as Osram, Atco, Helvar and Phillips to name a few. Dali places a fair bit of intelligence at the lighting fixture, and can be easily intergraded to TCP/IP networks using such systems as Atco's windim@net. This allows for remote monitoring and control. Better yet DALI can be wired using standard 240v insulated cabling and can be run next to the mains wiring (no segregation). It really is a smart step foward for lighting control. Check it out http://www.dali-ag.org/
Firefox's usage growth slow down to just 15% (Jan-Feb)
Reasons include slashdots consistant failure to rendor correctly on either Mozilla or Firefox browser.
Why the hell is this problem still not fixed?
I have to agree with you here. I've just gone back to Fedora from running Gentoo. Gentoo just got to be too much trouble when i went to update my system - ie things would break quite often and I'd have to sit there injecting packages etc, just to get through a big list of world updates. No diss on gentoo here, just it was taking a little more maintenance than I like.
Currently I'm running Fedora Core 3 with Gnome and the whole thing just works so nicely out of the box. The little up2date tick in the system tray makes keeping up to date and patched a breeze, and to make things even easier I also have apt-rpm installed - this makes installing mp3 media players and stuff like that a breeze.
I also use this box for firmware development for AVR microcontrollers and it certainally works fine as a workstation.
If you've learn't your linux ropes and you keen to go back to a low maintenance distro, or if you want a hassle free linux, Fedora Core 3 certainally takes some beating.
Didn't Microsoft just recently team up with TIVO?
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/050106/323/f9t5b.html
Anyone have any thoughts on how this will effect TIVOs choice of Linux as their OS?
Its quite simple, video games are an escape from the reality (you know, the one where we have to deal with people with an ugly personalities like yours).
I expect we'll find you infront of the television, wallowing in mediocrity but feeling better about yourself by attempting to make sweeping statements of generalisation about "most" people who play games.
Video Games are not a big part of life, you're right about that but aside that you're just another bitter idiot who overanalyses the completely casual act of sitting down infront of a game for a few hours.
To those of you who actually do spend half your life playing games: Don't blame you, have fun and I hope you get a kick out of hearing imbeciles like our humble parent here try to feel better about themselves.
I'm with you on this call dude. Gnome 2.6 and Gnome 2.8 seemed fine to me (responsive wise). It doesn't take a genius to have a poke at C lacking boundary checking. Last time I checked the kernel was written in C also- what a hack! Furthermore I thought that most Gnome's apps were written in python.
Gotta Love V=IR. Works pretty well, I use it daily, well that and P=VI.
Seems strange noone has mentioned it but you should teach them how to download source code and build it. The ol' tar zxvf, configure, make, make install steps. Teaching them how to administer patches too would definitely be relavant.
Furthermore you should give them some tips on troubleshooting. Ie searching google and IRC for tips and advice. Knowing where to turn to for help is _very_ important. Also make them read he "How to ask questions" guide. This way you won't have them suffer humiliation from some l33t bigot.
Your list of tasks you want them to do indicates that you really need to focus on getting them to grips with the terminal. I reckon your being pretty ambitious if you think you can pull it off in 3 days. Perhaps give them all a little reference pocketbook as part of the course.
Have you shopped around?
:)
Farnell (& RS) have an extensive range of SMD parts, sometimes priced not too far off Altronics and Jaycar prices. Altronics stock SMT passives in 10 packs at reasonable prices. I agree with your point about 78XX regs, however there is no rule that says you can't mix smt with th. Infact i have found that th passives such as electrolytic caps are cheaper than their smt equivalents, a mixed board is often a cost effective solution.
Anyway, happy tinkering
Do you really think a site full of Linux people, run on Linux computers, and owned by a Linux company is the place to advertise Microsoft software effectively?
/. pages quite often. Microsoft no doubt regards slashdot as a great place to advertise, have a look at the stats on browsers used to view slashdot and you may even see why.
Yes.
That's why you see MS banner ads at the top of
Whilst I don't think this article is an ad, MS products have definitely been advertised by slashdot before.
Yeah, I have to say SMT is the way to go. I used to design all my boards using Though Hole Technology but recently I have changed to SMT boards and haven't looked back. Assembly is actually easier provided you stick to not-too-small components. It saves time too as you don't have to do that awful process of thread, pull, solder, cut for each component like you do with through hole components. It's more like solder pad1 , solder pad2, done! Things do get a little trickier when you need to mount ICs with high pin densities, but a little bit of solderpaste and solderwick goes a long way.
Any experienced solderer should easily be able to solder 2-pin passive components down 0603 size provided they have a decent soldering iron and some good tweezers.
Moreover, SMT boards have been shown to generally generate less noise than an equivalent through hole based board. Hence the boards are less likely to fail compliance testing such as FCC or CE.
I generally find manual pages to be horrible unless there are a few example usages at the end. Why examples are not on every man page (where applicable) is a little beyond me. Often I find myself searching google for how to use the tool as the man page has let me down.
Also, is it true that BSD man pages are more likely to have examples of usage in them (i think i heard this yonks ago)?
I found this app yesterday while looking for a ultra simple note taker / todo list that hides in the system tray. It makes remembering who phoned and what I need to do a little easier to remember.
:)
I highly recomend it.
You can get it here:
http://www.wekasoft.com/etodo/index.htm
Better yet it is free
"If there's one thing America needs, it's more lawyers. Can you imagine a world without lawyers?" Lionel Hutz
//iirc it then cuts to a great scene of a world without lawyers.
Once again more Gnome Posts. Once again more people complaining about Gnomes simplicity and how there should be advanced options. I'm actually a little confused what they all mean. Can someone please elaborate for me what advanced features gnome 2.6.x or gnome 2.7.x is missing? I challange you to list a few, cause I've been using Gnome 2.6 for about 2 months now and find it to be quite refined. To me a lot of posts in this thread are offereing very little insight into peoples experiences with gnome 2.6 but rather are just a rant on someones own ideals on what they want these free software makers to build for them.
Ps in my profile you will see my post elaborating on my own experiences with Gnome 2.6.
What a spot on comment. i remember finding those random stashes down at my local park - "Mott Park".