This one works fine for me as a tertiary controller. Connected to a 80(76)Gb drive with two partitions, 30Gb as a VMWare raw partition and the rest as ext3. My system is a dual 2.4GHz AMD MP on a Tyan 2466-4M running stock debian/unstable 2.4.22-1-k7-smp.
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Wow, I'm listening to that right now.
I know that with the number of people who have MP3 players running on their PCs, there's a good chance that any song mentioned will have someone listening to it as they read the reference, but I still think it's pretty spooky.
Yes, long distance calls use more power, as they have transmit the signal further.
Talking loudly can mitigate this, as the AGC(automatic gain control) detects the higher volume, and so doesn't need to amplify the radio signal quite as much. Not a big saving, but every bit counts.
You can also (if you have a phone with an external antenna) lean the tip of the antenna against a metal object(street sign, light post, scaffolding, etc) and the signal will be inducted into the object and act like a really big antenna. You can see this on those car antennas which are mounted on rear windows without drilling a hole - they use electromagnetic induction as well.
Finally, if the signal is really boarderline, you can try changing the polarization of the signal from vertical to horizontal by holding the phone parallel to the ground. This is a trick used by people on the edge of TV coverage areas, and especially on campervans and RVs. Some antennas are even motorized so you don't have to get out and fool about with a spanner and the U-bolt.
If nothing else works, try circular polarization. This is tricky, as you have to spin around with the phone's antenna as the center of rotation.
This thing is not "obvious". It's just plain stupid. It's called "killing the golden egg goose". I won't what will happen when they find out there is no gold inside the goose, and that the only way was to wait the goose to lay eggs (which, once dead, it can't to any longer) ?
They don't care. They are not in it to run a good business and generate a return for their shareholders. If they have to sue everyone on the planet and run the company into the ground, they will, and they'll do with a smile as long as they are getting paid. These sort of people usually arrange it such that they are getting paid *shitloads*, and after they leave with pockets bulging, there's nothing left but victimised customers, defrauded shareholders, and (usually) screwed employees.
I seem to remember part of the doco was searching for fragments, and they found some in a peat bog area. Of course, it could have been a ice ball with gravel, or the fragments could have come from any other source in the past several thousand years. At this point, I doubt it's possible to conclusively prove anything.
I'm always amazed by archaeologists and geoligists. They can scratch and probe, and build a scenario from many and diverse(even obtuse) evidence.
Then again, someone can find a grave with an entire family in it dated from near where a civilization faded away, and conclude that that all 1.5 million prople died the same way of ritual murder/suicide.
For the asteroid hypothesis to prevail someone has to show how a really big rock can just go "poof" when we know that littler ones don't ( such as the one that just struck in India).
A Russian scientist did, however, reproduce a blast pattern identical to the one on the ground by building a scale model of the terrain and sliding a small explosive down a wire. Detonating at different heights/speeds/angles made several different patterns, among them the same "butterfly".
Until someone can generate/model the same blast pattern by some other method, the exploding object theory is good enough for me. BTW, the experiment was repeated for the documentary I watched, so I will give it more weight than an untested theory. I don't like the thought of having to set up all those toothpick "trees" in the clay after each blast!
I've also managed to watch Enterprise about 6 hours before it airs- and I can skip the #$@!ing annoying theme song. They should look on the bright side- with the commercials, I'd loose motivation after the first commercial break.
By "They", I assume you mean the people behind the Enterprise series. I hate to break it to you, but they don't want you to watch the series, just the commercials. The revenue generated by the show(merchandise, etc) barely pays for the toilet paper in the restroom.
They'd prefer to run uninterrupted commercials with no content - this is the whole premise behind free-to-air programming. It's a balance of rewards and punishments, where they supply just enough reward(content) to keep you coming back for more punishment(commercials).
Our goverments are so moronic that they think small independent companies can compete on fair grounds with these behemoths.
Come on, don't be naive. People in government are not stupid, they're usually in it for their own betterment - or if they wern't at the start, by the time they've been there long enough, they're looking to pay back favours or toward their own "retirement".
What better opportunity than to legally sell something that wasn't yours to sell, and guarantee your beneficiaries(board members, etc, not usually the shareholders(suckers)) a government-sponsored monopoly?
I have two AccusysACS-7500 mirroring controllers. They work perfectly, appear as a single IDE device to the IDE bus and require no driver/BIOS/control software. It is a double-height 5.25" module which fits in a normal stacked pair of 5.25" bays.
As a test, I failed one 60G drive to force a rebuild, and it took about 8 hours.
Oh, you can migrate drive sizes upward, by failing and replacing one drive at a time. Next time the machine reboots(after doing both disks, of course), the controller appears as the new disk size and the partition/filesystem can be grown.
They even have a newer model (ACS-7630)which has three drive bays in the same double-5.25" form factor which can be configured as either RAID-0 or Raid-5.
Also, if someone gives you a package, tells you not to open it, and tells you to drive it across the border and deliver it to some address, you can't claim that you didn't know there wasn't something illegal in it, because you can't purposely ignore the situation.
Heh, you just described every postal and courier service in existance.
Strange, I have been using ide-scsi on four different debian systems, and it's been extremely stable. For example, we had to do an emergency CD burn for a launch a few months ago, and between the three CD burners I scrounged, I did 180+ with only 3 coasters in 3.5 hours.
Me, too. I grab either a kernel.org or debian source package of 2.4.21 and build it in the exact same way as 2.4.18/19, and I get the same error. The initrd works fine, but when it tries to pivotroot to/dev/hda(x) where the root fs is, it barfs. Happens on four systems, two at home, one at work and a vmware image as well.
Modifications to a vehicle must be within a certain range of the manufacturer's orignial spec and options. This can be measured at the accident investigation - size of tyres, engine, etc. Past these limits, the modifications must be assessed by the state's Transport Department and the vehicle registered with these modifications(if found to be legal).
The police examine vehicles involved in accidents, they are not stupid, and have done all this before.
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gsview and ghostscript provide native win32 PS/PDF viewing. gv is much better, but it's not available outside X11/unix.
This one works fine for me as a tertiary controller. Connected to a 80(76)Gb drive with two partitions, 30Gb as a VMWare raw partition and the rest as ext3. My system is a dual 2.4GHz AMD MP on a Tyan 2466-4M running stock debian/unstable 2.4.22-1-k7-smp.
Wow, I'm listening to that right now.
I know that with the number of people who have MP3 players running on their PCs, there's a good chance that any song mentioned will have someone listening to it as they read the reference, but I still think it's pretty spooky.
sigh I really thought the circular polarization bit was enough of a giveaway, but obviously I was wrong.
BTW, I have this bridge I inherited.....
Yes, long distance calls use more power, as they have transmit the signal further.
Talking loudly can mitigate this, as the AGC(automatic gain control) detects the higher volume, and so doesn't need to amplify the radio signal quite as much. Not a big saving, but every bit counts.
You can also (if you have a phone with an external antenna) lean the tip of the antenna against a metal object(street sign, light post, scaffolding, etc) and the signal will be inducted into the object and act like a really big antenna. You can see this on those car antennas which are mounted on rear windows without drilling a hole - they use electromagnetic induction as well.
Finally, if the signal is really boarderline, you can try changing the polarization of the signal from vertical to horizontal by holding the phone parallel to the ground. This is a trick used by people on the edge of TV coverage areas, and especially on campervans and RVs. Some antennas are even motorized so you don't have to get out and fool about with a spanner and the U-bolt.
If nothing else works, try circular polarization. This is tricky, as you have to spin around with the phone's antenna as the center of rotation.
This thing is not "obvious". It's just plain stupid. It's called "killing the golden egg goose". I won't what will happen when they find out there is no gold inside the goose, and that the only way was to wait the goose to lay eggs (which, once dead, it can't to any longer) ?
They don't care. They are not in it to run a good business and generate a return for their shareholders. If they have to sue everyone on the planet and run the company into the ground, they will, and they'll do with a smile as long as they are getting paid. These sort of people usually arrange it such that they are getting paid *shitloads*, and after they leave with pockets bulging, there's nothing left but victimised customers, defrauded shareholders, and (usually) screwed employees.
Throw in an Accusys ACS-7500 module. Problem solved.
It's not all fun and games with explosives - he also had to set up several thousand toothpics(aka trees) between each test.
The pattern of knocked over "trees" shows the vector and intensity of the blast at each point.
I seem to remember part of the doco was searching for fragments, and they found some in a peat bog area. Of course, it could have been a ice ball with gravel, or the fragments could have come from any other source in the past several thousand years. At this point, I doubt it's possible to conclusively prove anything.
I'm always amazed by archaeologists and geoligists. They can scratch and probe, and build a scenario from many and diverse(even obtuse) evidence.
Then again, someone can find a grave with an entire family in it dated from near where a civilization faded away, and conclude that that all 1.5 million prople died the same way of ritual murder/suicide.
For the asteroid hypothesis to prevail someone has to show how a really big rock can just go "poof" when we know that littler ones don't ( such as the one that just struck in India).
A Russian scientist did, however, reproduce a blast pattern identical to the one on the ground by building a scale model of the terrain and sliding a small explosive down a wire. Detonating at different heights/speeds/angles made several different patterns, among them the same "butterfly".
Until someone can generate/model the same blast pattern by some other method, the exploding object theory is good enough for me. BTW, the experiment was repeated for the documentary I watched, so I will give it more weight than an untested theory. I don't like the thought of having to set up all those toothpick "trees" in the clay after each blast!
Accusys makes two relatively cheap and completely transparent IDE-IDE RAID modules. ACS-7500 for 2-disk RAID-1 and ACS-7630 for 3-disk RAID-[0,5]
http://www.accusys.com.tw/prod.htm
They typified the computers of the age, and all those that followed stayed true to the design.
Big iron with a bug inside.
I've also managed to watch Enterprise about 6 hours before it airs- and I can skip the #$@!ing annoying theme song. They should look on the bright side- with the commercials, I'd loose motivation after the first commercial break.
By "They", I assume you mean the people behind the Enterprise series. I hate to break it to you, but they don't want you to watch the series, just the commercials. The revenue generated by the show(merchandise, etc) barely pays for the toilet paper in the restroom.
They'd prefer to run uninterrupted commercials with no content - this is the whole premise behind free-to-air programming. It's a balance of rewards and punishments, where they supply just enough reward(content) to keep you coming back for more punishment(commercials).
Judging by the light most people hold them in, it's more an abuse of a position of mistrust.
They have to give SCO the finger.....
Our goverments are so moronic that they think small independent companies can compete on fair grounds with these behemoths.
Come on, don't be naive. People in government are not stupid, they're usually in it for their own betterment - or if they wern't at the start, by the time they've been there long enough, they're looking to pay back favours or toward their own "retirement".
What better opportunity than to legally sell something that wasn't yours to sell, and guarantee your beneficiaries(board members, etc, not usually the shareholders(suckers)) a government-sponsored monopoly?
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Accusys ACS-7500
Cheaper then DupliDisk, better features, and hotswap!!
See my post.
I have two Accusys ACS-7500 mirroring controllers. They work perfectly, appear as a single IDE device to the IDE bus and require no driver/BIOS/control software. It is a double-height 5.25" module which fits in a normal stacked pair of 5.25" bays.
As a test, I failed one 60G drive to force a rebuild, and it took about 8 hours.
Oh, you can migrate drive sizes upward, by failing and replacing one drive at a time. Next time the machine reboots(after doing both disks, of course), the controller appears as the new disk size and the partition/filesystem can be grown.
They even have a newer model (ACS-7630)which has three drive bays in the same double-5.25" form factor which can be configured as either RAID-0 or Raid-5.
Also, if someone gives you a package, tells you not to open it, and tells you to drive it across the border and deliver it to some address, you can't claim that you didn't know there wasn't something illegal in it, because you can't purposely ignore the situation.
Heh, you just described every postal and courier service in existance.
Strange, I have been using ide-scsi on four different debian systems, and it's been extremely stable. For example, we had to do an emergency CD burn for a launch a few months ago, and between the three CD burners I scrounged, I did 180+ with only 3 coasters in 3.5 hours.
Me, too. I grab either a kernel.org or debian source package of 2.4.21 and build it in the exact same way as 2.4.18/19, and I get the same error. The initrd works fine, but when it tries to pivotroot to /dev/hda(x) where the root fs is, it barfs. Happens on four systems, two at home, one at work and a vmware image as well.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Modifications to a vehicle must be within a certain range of the manufacturer's orignial spec and options. This can be measured at the accident investigation - size of tyres, engine, etc. Past these limits, the modifications must be assessed by the state's Transport Department and the vehicle registered with these modifications(if found to be legal).
The police examine vehicles involved in accidents, they are not stupid, and have done all this before.
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Right on schedule!
It's about time someone said that!
Does it keep you regular?