However, this is completely irrelevant. Where I used to live five years ago, I was 550 km (around 400 miles?) from the nearest big city as the crow flies. It was a good 15 hours of driving to the nearest city with more than half a million people. Yet I had broadband -- 1.3 Mbit/s down for $25 canadian a month.
Now I'm living in another small city of 41,000 people, a good 600 km north of the US border, and 4 hours driving away from the nearest big city -- and I still have the same broadband speeds. I could get 4.5 Mbit if I wanted. I could get a T3 at home if I wanted (or could afford it).
And those are free market prices -- there are other providers in each town. Yes, Canada does have a few major urban centres, but broadband penetration is very real. It's everywhere.
Yet another lame joke...
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I've held Nirvana in my hand before. The entire discography fit on one cdr, in fact!
Deep cycle batteries are not designed to be completely discharged! Completely discharging any battery causes quite a bit of damage to the plates inside. Deep cycle batteries do, however, survive deeper cycles than regular batteries, but should never be drained to empty.
With the skin peeled off the Apple, and the raw core exposed, it's easy to remove the rotten bits. Getting rid of the rotten bits is good, as it reduce the number of worms.
Well, this would work for freely available music just as well. A subscription service could also easily be implemented for "paid" charts. I think it would fly well, as you wouldn't have to remember the song played on the radio, and it would all happen automatically. I wonder how long it will take Apple to integrate such an idea into iTunes.
Wouldn't it be cool to link such a list to bittorrent for automatic downloading? That way, you'd get fresh music that's supposedly good every day. I'd love it. And it would be user selected music -- not the crap the recording industry feels like feeding us this week.
First, create one G5 exactly the way you like it for every "grouping" of hardware (i.e. identical configurations). Second, boot knoppix ppc. Third, mount an nfs partition where you store the images. Forth, use the dd command to backup the harddrive device, e.g. dd if=/dev/sda of=/nfsmount/image bs=4k . To restore, use the dd command in reverse, e.g. dd if=/nfsmount/image of=/dev/sda bs=4k . Creating a different image for each configuration.
Not the easiest, perhaps, but free and effective, and only limited by the speed of your network. It's linux, so feel free to customise a better solution.:)
Absolutely. There's no way I'd buy a heat monster. That's why I wish chips ran cooler, so I could use nearly silent or passive cooling, yet still have performance. I do want both, after all;)
This funny, but true. Where I used to live, electricity was 7 cents per kilowatt all day long. It was actually more efficient to heat my house with a computer than use the natural gas heat, because recent new pipelines into the States had doubled and tripled the price of natural gas (market pricing and all) in the last decade.
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There are many times a few things would be handy, especially for people new to town:
That's just stuff off the top of my head that I would like to see myself.
You mean telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl doesn't make sense to you? I've never though I'd watch a full feature film over my modem.
Just remember folks -- Don't mix assembly code and java, it makes bad coffee!
However, this is completely irrelevant. Where I used to live five years ago, I was 550 km (around 400 miles?) from the nearest big city as the crow flies. It was a good 15 hours of driving to the nearest city with more than half a million people. Yet I had broadband -- 1.3 Mbit/s down for $25 canadian a month.
Now I'm living in another small city of 41,000 people, a good 600 km north of the US border, and 4 hours driving away from the nearest big city -- and I still have the same broadband speeds. I could get 4.5 Mbit if I wanted. I could get a T3 at home if I wanted (or could afford it).
And those are free market prices -- there are other providers in each town. Yes, Canada does have a few major urban centres, but broadband penetration is very real. It's everywhere.
I've held Nirvana in my hand before. The entire discography fit on one cdr, in fact!
Deep cycle batteries are not designed to be completely discharged! Completely discharging any battery causes quite a bit of damage to the plates inside. Deep cycle batteries do, however, survive deeper cycles than regular batteries, but should never be drained to empty.
With the skin peeled off the Apple, and the raw core exposed, it's easy to remove the rotten bits. Getting rid of the rotten bits is good, as it reduce the number of worms.
I'm glad you got it. I was starting to get concerned there!
Well, this would work for freely available music just as well. A subscription service could also easily be implemented for "paid" charts. I think it would fly well, as you wouldn't have to remember the song played on the radio, and it would all happen automatically. I wonder how long it will take Apple to integrate such an idea into iTunes.
Wouldn't it be cool to link such a list to bittorrent for automatic downloading? That way, you'd get fresh music that's supposedly good every day. I'd love it. And it would be user selected music -- not the crap the recording industry feels like feeding us this week.
So if I'm a creditor, where do I file if I have acclaim against them?
... and people say my inflatable girlfriend doesn't have a magnetic personality! Fah!
She was actually 18 at the time. I should have said his wife of 25 years at the time. Yeah, he robbed the craddle, that's for sure.
Now if only I could figured out why my programs always segfault when I use pointers...
Meant four, sorry. There's info at imdb's bbiography.
Okay now, who forgot to close the italic tag in the article summary?
I should say that Wende was 43 when she gave birth. She's now 47 and James 84.
What will happen to his six year old daughter, Sarah? His wife of 29 years, Wende, 43, gave birth to her on April 11th, 2000.
With any luck, Linux will soon be ported to run on full fledged x86 desktop computers!
First it's GarageBand. And now it comes with Garage Games. What next? Is Apple going to return to building computers in the garage?
Umm, ignore that post above. I promise next time I will RTFAS (read the fine article summary)
First, create one G5 exactly the way you like it for every "grouping" of hardware (i.e. identical configurations). Second, boot knoppix ppc. Third, mount an nfs partition where you store the images. Forth, use the dd command to backup the harddrive device, e.g. dd if=/dev/sda of=/nfsmount/image bs=4k . To restore, use the dd command in reverse, e.g. dd if=/nfsmount/image of=/dev/sda bs=4k . Creating a different image for each configuration.
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Not the easiest, perhaps, but free and effective, and only limited by the speed of your network. It's linux, so feel free to customise a better solution.
Absolutely. There's no way I'd buy a heat monster. That's why I wish chips ran cooler, so I could use nearly silent or passive cooling, yet still have performance. I do want both, after all ;)
Why not learn how to do it yourself? http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=47&a=19
Ahh. So I got confused between the Itanium and the P4. Thanks for correcting me!
All that being said, instructions per watt, the Opteron is still ahead.
This funny, but true. Where I used to live, electricity was 7 cents per kilowatt all day long. It was actually more efficient to heat my house with a computer than use the natural gas heat, because recent new pipelines into the States had doubled and tripled the price of natural gas (market pricing and all) in the last decade.