...replacing the entire datacenter floor where I work because of zinc Whiskers. We had the underfloor area cleaned for the new A/C that blows from the floor up. We promptly lost 11 power supplies and the total count is up over 20 now. We did verify the presents of zinc whiskers in the dead powersupplies thanks to the onsite electron microscope.
You sure they are zinc and not steel? We had similar problems decades ago, where we got intermittant random memory errors. Turns out the blowers on the bottom of the frame were sucking up steel fibers left from the cleaners using steel wool pads on those huge floor buffers. They were being blown through the core memory arrays (yeah, REAL core memory).
This is a topic I touched on in a newsgroup post almost a year ago. I was lamenting the lack of many example APL programs to learn APL from,
and suggested making proprietary programs PD in your will. You spend a lot of effort to create a program, why should that intellectual effort be wasted when you die? Contribute it to society. Not every program you write is worth surviving its author, but there are some out there. Data analysis or scientific programs for example.
Several months later, one of the group members passed away, and data analysis code he wrote to run a small profitable business, was made PD. I don't know if my suggestion had anything to do with it, but I was glad to see it happen.
The mission: Develop cannabis with enhanced happiness and that will thrive around the globe.
SEARCH Happiness scientists scour the cannabis gene bank, consisting of dozens of seed types, in search of varieties with enhanced happiness.
INSERT MARKER Scientists extract DNA from selected varieties and tag the happiness gene - previously identified by researchers - with a chemical dye.
CROSSBREED A network of researchers around the world cross happiness enhanced varieties with local versions. This means merely putting two cannabis varieties in a room.
ANALYZE The offspring are analyzed to detect the presence of the enhanced happiness gene. Those containing the gene are planted in a field.
TEST Mature plants are sampled to confirm enhanced happiness. Those that maintain desired traits from the local variety, are distributed. Unless
REPEAT Sometimes, the process reveals several genes responsible for a trait. In such cases, breeders repeat the crossbreeding until all genes (and scientists) are turned on.
END RESULT A cannabis plant with enhanced happiness that will thrive in local conditions.
I got an M-Audio Firewire 410 soundcard and the blue LED was beyond obnoxious. It was MUCH brighter than the red and green LEDs on the thing, by several times. Since it is the power LED, it was ALWAYS on. Also, if you powered the unit down, but left it connected to Firewire, it would proceed to blink at you, very frequently. I had put a piece of masking tape over it to dampen the light (and I could still see it through that)....
It's not the use of blue LEDs that bothers me, it's how damn bright most of them are.
Well, this is Slashdot. Just hack the damn thing. Increase the value of the series resistor to dim the light. Or replace the blue LED with a green or yellow. (And maybe adjust the resistor value if necessary.)
If you don't know which end of a soldering iron is the handle, ask a real hacker for help!
FBI? na, the corporations themselves will be doing the raiding. You'll be lucky to get a legal, court approved, FBI raid.
Who are you? What are you doing in my house? Are you a cop? Where's your warrent?
You have no warrent!? You're not a cop!? CLICK! That's a 20 gauge shotgun. Keep your hands in the air and don't move, and you might not get hurt.
(Honey, call the cops. Tell them we caught burgulars in the house, and you're frightened they
might try to hurt the children.)
If the broadcast flag fails, these industries just won't introduce content to digital broadcast. Movies will be available strictly by satellite or by digital cable (which already have protection built in). Original broadcast televions shows (which already have something like a 1 in 20 success rate) will just never appear on broadcast digital TV. In fact, broadcast digital TV might fail as a widespread technology (like AM stereo) for lack of content and because of low consumer adoption.
So you think the broadcast industry will just shut down? They will voluntarily give back FREE spectrum they are making money on? Since digital broadcast is mandated by the FCC, rest assured that the networks will provide programming. It may be (more) crap, but there will be content.
One of the big problems with fusion being energy-positive in a practical reactor is so much of the output energy is emitted on really high frequencies and exotic energy forms (x-rays, alpha/beta radiation, etc) because of the energy levels involved. These are difficult to turn back into useful energy to do work and keep the reactor running.
Exotic? Beta radiation (particles) are also called electrons. You know, the stuff that makes your Linux boxen run. Actually there are atomic batteries that harness beta particles to provide electricity.
Sorry, lack of evidence is not evidence of lack.
Michelson and Morely were unable to detect an aether. They did NOT prove aether does not exist. There was some conjecture of frame dragging by the earth, preventing detection.
Hmm. OK, I see I'm in the minority here. I come from the IBM mainframe world, and Amiga OS.
"Why would someone *switch* to my language?" (Rexx)
Because it's better than EXEC and EXEC2! Actually, I've seen Perl and it isn't anything I want to learn. I've read good comments about Python, but it looks like C to me. Again, not something I like. So, maybe the question should be "Why should I switch *from* Rexx?" And, yes, Rexx is the only scripting language I know. Fortunately, Rexx is available for Linux, and I installed Regina. (I'm a Linux newbie, and trying to make sense out of the mess of programming the keyboard PF keys. The HOWTO hasn't been very helpful. Any pointers to code for bash?)
The history of the development of Rexx is interesting. The end users had access via VNET (IBM's internal network predating Internet by years) to Mike Cowlishaw, the author, for instant feedback while the language was being developed.
The result is a consistant language that the users like and that has a "low astonishment factor". (It's intuitive.)
Sorry, but analog watches are not the greatest. I have a beloved Seiko digital watch that needs to be replaced, but I can't find a suitable replacement. Have you even looked for a decent digital watch? I can't find one!
Most watches now are analog dial retro crapola.
I used the watch's digital storage capability to store my many different passwords for mainframe systems and program access.
I don't wear jewelry, contrary to clueless claims of previous posters that that is why men wear watches. And I don't have and don't want a cell phone (so no clock function). (I have an amateur radio license so can use a REAL radio to communicate with no per minute charges.)
And, yes, I can make phone calls (autopatch) with the radio.
I bet you think calculators are the pinnicle of computational excellence (excluding full blown computers). Actually, slide rules are far easier to use when evalulating ratios and proportions.
Quick and easy to read a fraction from the slide rule compared to reading a decimal calculator result.
And for the truely clueless...this is not a troll!
I guarantee you that if they moved to commercial radio, it'd be run into the ground within months.
They are flying pretty close to zero altitude now. Why are there three sets of intro/outro for the show; i.e. every 20 minutes? I like the show, but there is a lot of irrelevant fluff, rather than core program.
It's all about the rich getting richer, nothing more.
Funny, it also looks like it's in part about the poor getting richer.
From the article:
"But it's the talent - coupled with the ridiculously low salaries, of course - that's luring big clients..."
The poor getting richer is what's called an unintended consequence. The main intent is to lower cost of production (salaries), in order to increase the salary of the CEO and executive board. "Look, we've created more profit! We deserve more compensation!"
Small computers are not the only boxes that run an OS. The clueless don't know about the mainframe
OS like MVS and VM. IBM products. They probabily
never heard of IBM. These OS are used by large
corporations like the airline, insurance, oil,
and financial industries.
They were also built with security in mind.
Just so long as they keep it out of the Amateur Radio part of 15 meters. We have passed technical tests to EARN our license. Think you could compete with kilowatts?
The thing standing in the way of that happening
(I've put a lot of thought into this already,
myself) is the lack of a suitable dynamic routing
protocol for these routers... how do you get these
wireless mesh nodes with uplinks to the *real*
internet to properly route and make good use of
those uplinks? Currently no dynamic routing
protocol is designed for such a task.
It's called RSPF (radio shortest path first),
and has been in use for awhile. I was running it
as part of NOS in the early 1990's on ham radio.
Do the research, figure out how to make these things work for us...it's just that health concerns are another part of the research -which is pretty much standard nowadays anyway.
Except that the chemical companies market anything they want, and only after a product is established can the victims attempt to remove a harmful or dangerous product. The victims have to prove a product is harmful (DDT, thalidomide, cigarettes,...) rather than the vendor having to prove a product is safe. Big business versus the public. Guess who wins. How many decades have the tobacco companies killed people with their lies? But hey, don't worry, it's OK, 'cus they're making money; helping the economy.
The standard should be prove it's safe before you can market it, but it's not because, America has the best politicians money can buy...
For a UNIX geek, you sound suspiciously like an overpaid
CEO, CFO, or other such low life. I look forward to when
these jobs are exported as well. Nobody is worth millions
of dollars a year, regardless of what they do.
There are plenty of people in Afganistan; I'm sure many
are qualified to do your job at a mere fraction of what
you're being paid. What, you were laid off?!
Instead of raising the worlds standard of living,
US companies seem to be focused on lowering the US
standard of living.
"Can't afford to live on the mere pittance we're offering?
Then die or move to Somalia!"
Slashdot Mirror
Surely, we can't let these BLATANTLY piracy-inducing machines to make criminals of all our poor innocent children!!
Quick, someone call Jack Valenti!
No need, Jack already has the site slashdotted!
...replacing the entire datacenter floor where I work because of zinc Whiskers. We had the underfloor area cleaned for the new A/C that blows from the floor up. We promptly lost 11 power supplies and the total count is up over 20 now. We did verify the presents of zinc whiskers in the dead powersupplies thanks to the onsite electron microscope.
You sure they are zinc and not steel? We had similar problems decades ago, where we got intermittant random memory errors. Turns out the blowers on the bottom of the frame were sucking up steel fibers left from the cleaners using steel wool pads on those huge floor buffers. They were being blown through the core memory arrays (yeah, REAL core memory).
2. It calls Windows 3.1 "the second OS with a GUI" (after the Mac), as if 3.1 was the first version of windows ever.
Sorry, it's not even the second OS with a windowing GUI. Amiga was on version 1.2 of its OS by January of 1988.
This is a topic I touched on in a newsgroup post almost a year ago. I was lamenting the lack of many example APL programs to learn APL from, and suggested making proprietary programs PD in your will. You spend a lot of effort to create a program, why should that intellectual effort be wasted when you die? Contribute it to society. Not every program you write is worth surviving its author, but there are some out there. Data analysis or scientific programs for example. Several months later, one of the group members passed away, and data analysis code he wrote to run a small profitable business, was made PD. I don't know if my suggestion had anything to do with it, but I was glad to see it happen.
The mission: Develop cannabis with enhanced happiness and that will thrive around the globe.
SEARCH Happiness scientists scour the cannabis gene bank, consisting of dozens of seed types, in search of varieties with enhanced happiness.
INSERT MARKER Scientists extract DNA from selected varieties and tag the happiness gene - previously identified by researchers - with a chemical dye.
CROSSBREED A network of researchers around the world cross happiness enhanced varieties with local versions. This means merely putting two cannabis varieties in a room.
ANALYZE The offspring are analyzed to detect the presence of the enhanced happiness gene. Those containing the gene are planted in a field.
TEST Mature plants are sampled to confirm enhanced happiness. Those that maintain desired traits from the local variety, are distributed. Unless
REPEAT Sometimes, the process reveals several genes responsible for a trait. In such cases, breeders repeat the crossbreeding until all genes (and scientists) are turned on.
END RESULT A cannabis plant with enhanced happiness that will thrive in local conditions.
I got an M-Audio Firewire 410 soundcard and the blue LED was beyond obnoxious. It was MUCH brighter than the red and green LEDs on the thing, by several times. Since it is the power LED, it was ALWAYS on. Also, if you powered the unit down, but left it connected to Firewire, it would proceed to blink at you, very frequently. I had put a piece of masking tape over it to dampen the light (and I could still see it through that). ...
It's not the use of blue LEDs that bothers me, it's how damn bright most of them are.
Well, this is Slashdot. Just hack the damn thing. Increase the value of the series resistor to dim the light. Or replace the blue LED with a green or yellow. (And maybe adjust the resistor value if necessary.)
If you don't know which end of a soldering iron is the handle, ask a real hacker for help!
Ender's game (sic) is already being made into a movie...
Nooo! A wretched book for 10 year olds that Hollywood will make into an even worse movie. Another reason to hate the MPAA.
it'll be safe to say it isn't the segway... :P
But rather a Beowolf cluster of Segways...
May Tom Cruise be run over by a bus. 'Nuf said!
FBI? na, the corporations themselves will be doing the raiding. You'll be lucky to get a legal, court approved, FBI raid.
Who are you? What are you doing in my house? Are you a cop? Where's your warrent?
You have no warrent!? You're not a cop!?
CLICK! That's a 20 gauge shotgun. Keep your hands in the air and don't move, and you might not get hurt.
(Honey, call the cops. Tell them we caught burgulars in the house, and you're frightened they might try to hurt the children.)
If the broadcast flag fails, these industries just won't introduce content to digital broadcast. Movies will be available strictly by satellite or by digital cable (which already have protection built in). Original broadcast televions shows (which already have something like a 1 in 20 success rate) will just never appear on broadcast digital TV. In fact, broadcast digital TV might fail as a widespread technology (like AM stereo) for lack of content and because of low consumer adoption.
So you think the broadcast industry will just shut down? They will voluntarily give back FREE spectrum they are making money on? Since digital broadcast is mandated by the FCC, rest assured that the networks will provide programming. It may be (more) crap, but there will be content.
Unfortunately money is everything when it comes to companies... It's all about shareholder value:(
No. NOW it's all about CEO greed. It wasn't always this way.
Good thing AT&T didn't collect royalties on the transistor patent.
One of the big problems with fusion being energy-positive in a practical reactor is so much of the output energy is emitted on really high frequencies and exotic energy forms (x-rays, alpha/beta radiation, etc) because of the energy levels involved. These are difficult to turn back into useful energy to do work and keep the reactor running.
Exotic? Beta radiation (particles) are also called electrons. You know, the stuff that makes your Linux boxen run. Actually there are atomic batteries that harness beta particles to provide electricity.
Cornell's atomic battery
And this one I find fascinating:
direct conversion of radioactive energy to electricity; Patent 4835433
The referenced site:r ol.html
www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Home-Electrical-Cont
ASCII art diagrams!? Wow, real 1337!
Sorry, lack of evidence is not evidence of lack. Michelson and Morely were unable to detect an aether. They did NOT prove aether does not exist. There was some conjecture of frame dragging by the earth, preventing detection.
Hmm. OK, I see I'm in the minority here. I come from the IBM mainframe world, and Amiga OS.
"Why would someone *switch* to my language?" (Rexx)
Because it's better than EXEC and EXEC2!
Actually, I've seen Perl and it isn't anything I want to learn. I've read good comments about Python, but it looks like C to me. Again, not something I like. So, maybe the question should be "Why should I switch *from* Rexx?" And, yes, Rexx is the only scripting language I know. Fortunately, Rexx is available for Linux, and I installed Regina. (I'm a Linux newbie, and trying to make sense out of the mess of programming the keyboard PF keys. The HOWTO hasn't been very helpful. Any pointers to code for bash?)
The history of the development of Rexx is interesting. The end users had access via VNET (IBM's internal network predating Internet by years) to Mike Cowlishaw, the author, for instant feedback while the language was being developed. The result is a consistant language that the users like and that has a "low astonishment factor". (It's intuitive.)
Sorry, but analog watches are not the greatest. I have a beloved Seiko digital watch that needs to be replaced, but I can't find a suitable replacement. Have you even looked for a decent digital watch? I can't find one! Most watches now are analog dial retro crapola. I used the watch's digital storage capability to store my many different passwords for mainframe systems and program access.
I don't wear jewelry, contrary to clueless claims of previous posters that that is why men wear watches. And I don't have and don't want a cell phone (so no clock function). (I have an amateur radio license so can use a REAL radio to communicate with no per minute charges.) And, yes, I can make phone calls (autopatch) with the radio.
I bet you think calculators are the pinnicle of computational excellence (excluding full blown computers). Actually, slide rules are far easier to use when evalulating ratios and proportions. Quick and easy to read a fraction from the slide rule compared to reading a decimal calculator result.
And for the truely clueless...this is not a troll!
I guarantee you that if they moved to commercial radio, it'd be run into the ground within months.
They are flying pretty close to zero altitude now. Why are there three sets of intro/outro for the show; i.e. every 20 minutes? I like the show, but there is a lot of irrelevant fluff, rather than core program.
It's all about the rich getting richer, nothing more.
Funny, it also looks like it's in part about the poor getting richer.
From the article:
"But it's the talent - coupled with the ridiculously low salaries, of course - that's luring big clients..."
The poor getting richer is what's called an unintended consequence. The main intent is to lower cost of production (salaries), in order to increase the salary of the CEO and executive board.
"Look, we've created more profit! We deserve more compensation!"
Small computers are not the only boxes that run an OS. The clueless don't know about the mainframe OS like MVS and VM. IBM products. They probabily never heard of IBM. These OS are used by large corporations like the airline, insurance, oil, and financial industries. They were also built with security in mind.
Don't you mean engulf and devour?
Just so long as they keep it out of the Amateur Radio part of 15 meters. We have passed technical tests to EARN our license. Think you could compete with kilowatts?
The thing standing in the way of that happening (I've put a lot of thought into this already, myself) is the lack of a suitable dynamic routing protocol for these routers... how do you get these wireless mesh nodes with uplinks to the *real* internet to properly route and make good use of those uplinks? Currently no dynamic routing protocol is designed for such a task.
It's called RSPF (radio shortest path first), and has been in use for awhile. I was running it as part of NOS in the early 1990's on ham radio.
RSPF spec
Do the research, figure out how to make these things work for us...it's just that health concerns are another part of the research -which is pretty much standard nowadays anyway.
...) rather than the vendor having to prove a product is safe. Big business versus the public. Guess who wins.
Except that the chemical companies market anything they want, and only after a product is established can the victims attempt to remove a harmful or dangerous product. The victims have to prove a product is harmful (DDT, thalidomide, cigarettes,
How many decades have the tobacco companies killed people with their lies? But hey, don't worry, it's OK, 'cus they're making money; helping the economy.
The standard should be prove it's safe before you can market it, but it's not because,
America has the best politicians money can buy...
For a UNIX geek, you sound suspiciously like an overpaid CEO, CFO, or other such low life. I look forward to when these jobs are exported as well. Nobody is worth millions of dollars a year, regardless of what they do.
There are plenty of people in Afganistan; I'm sure many are qualified to do your job at a mere fraction of what you're being paid. What, you were laid off?!
Instead of raising the worlds standard of living, US companies seem to be focused on lowering the US standard of living.
"Can't afford to live on the mere pittance we're offering? Then die or move to Somalia!"
Thanks NAFTA and WTO.