don't look at the heat on the roof as an enemy, it's a free energy source. If you can collect it, you can use it with an ammonia evaporative refrigeration unit. You could also use it (possibly) to generate some useful amounts of electricity.
Another way to get free cooling in the summer is to have a lot of plastic pipe buried down in the yard below the surface effect heating. That's a variable that you'll have to determine, the depth, but should be easy to find out. In northern climes, it's roughly equivalent to the mean average frost depth. The pipes (long enough, some hundreds of feet are needed to cool say around a 1500 - 2000 sq ft structure) have a single entrance to them coming out of the ground at the farthest away, lowest, shadiest/coolest spot you have in the yard. They come into the building and have a vent at the lowest most central point, then are open to the room. Depending on how many stories your building is, you have floor vents that may be opened and closed, all the way to the roof, where another vent is located. Heat rises, you are creating a thermo-siphon effect. Air enters at the outside pipe, travels underground through the pipes and gets cooled. The roof vent, being the highest and hottest point, acts as the draw, the pump if you will, drawing the cooler air upwards and out, cooling as it travels. That's why you need a lot of buried pipe, but once constructed, it's relatively maintenance free, just needs take care on adequate screening at both ends to prevent insects and dirt entering, etc, and to keep rainwater out, relatively easy with normal conical vent caps. It's a chimney effect, low tech, no moving parts, but you can get some decent cooling from it. I don't have a link real handy, but I imagine that googling will find you some drawings and real-world examples of this technique in action.
The water based evaporative coolers are in large scale use around the world. Local to me is a rather large commercial poultry operation, all the buildings there have massive evaporative coolers installed, they work fairly well, and save many thousands in electric costs, in fact, I doubt they could operate the farms at a profit without them. Basically they are just huge screens that have water dripping down them, and the exhaust fans in the building draw the air through them.
Large commercial sized greenhouses mostly all have them as well.
Your insulation efforts are bang on. Nothing beats massive insulation as a heat/cold moderator. It's the most productive and efficient way to spend the energy dollar once any sort of artificial heating/cooling is required. In some places, the technique is called "superinsulation", with a usual targeted goal of R-55 to 60 range, as opposed to (in the US anyway) the normal R-18 or so. I've worked on two of those projects, they work pretty well for dropping costs (increasing effieicney really) for both cooling and heating.
a few off the top of the heap here: assume remote as a prefix
remote emergency medical applications
geology/exploration
engineering purposes, perhaps diagnostics and repairs or fabrications/modifications that might eliminate a shop visit
subset engineering: collaborative efforts where the collaborators needs be in different physical locations
meterology in real time accumulating many diverse microclimates into a forecast, a "weatherbug" type app where you with your 5 senses phone add to the database, weather info "sharing"
remote sensing projects dealing with hazardous environments -the phone can go where you cannot
advertising "just smell this new coffee!" etc or "feel this new fabric!" etc
--just the pentagon has lost over two TRILLION dollars, lost, stolen, unaccounted for, gone, poof-a-rama. That's just one government agency. Run any search you want, dod, lost money, etc you'll find tons of links on this subject.
Add it up, the government is the biggest thief in the US. Pack of hypocritical liars. Research the sordid history of the creation of the "federal" reserve and the IRS. Nerd, educate thyself!
That gang of crooks, entrenched year after year, both major "parties" running the government as their private cash cow, millions of workers, almost no accountability--it's beyond disgust.. The sheer scale of government financial malfesance is awesome, and their "crying foul" and data mining to find alleged "cheats" is the pitiful squeaking of insatiable bloated ticks.
Think about it, government's position is all of your labor is their's by default, then they come up with some magic formula over how much you are allowed to keep-this year. And said magic formula is so arcane and convulted that no two "agents" of the infernal revenue service can look at a complicated tax "return" and arrive at the same figures. Every year someplace you will see a similar test, an ex agent perhaps, a CPA, someone from one of the popular tax preparation companies, all given the same hypothetical taxpayer info, and they never come up with the same figures.
It's nuts. Scrap the system, cut government back down to manageable size by attrition, with a freeze on new hires being a good starting point. Scrap entire un needed and unwanted agencies. Get rid of the large standing army. Retire the whole government pension system, make it ten years maximum government "service" then you are out, no pension, top to bottom, especially politicians. Make campaign contributions from any cartel, org, corporation, etc be illegal, because they are bribes, call it what it really is. Reduce personal contributions to a maximum of one hundred dollars.. Use excise taxes as a replacement for "income" taxes, like it was before the 16th. DUMP the fed and send greenspawn and his fellow reserve governor-demons packing (to prison for fraud and racketeering), end the welfare state for billionaires. Take away legal personhood for corporations. End the revolving door of electing lawyers to congress so they can pass more laws that only benefit their leeching guild.
There are several good solutions to "the tax problem" out there, just the people who actually COULD implement them have zero incentive TO implement them, because it would put them out of their parasitical jobs./rant
I got that one fixed already, for non critical mail. And yep, I'm gonna snag one of those google email accounts, that's a lot of storage space that ain't on my machine that could get borked and lost. Po' guys data backup I figger... anyway, ya, you could use a crypto program, but for non critical mail, just open your text editor to full screen, write your friend the email ya want, then do a screen cap, save it, email it as an attachment in your image format of choice. I don't think the spiders can crawl those easily...yet.
I wouldn't mind at all a general fund I could pay into, which would make me eat a single cookie. I could live with that. As I surfed, websites that were part of that system would read that cookie, and serve up the ad-free content. It couldn't be all that much per page view, but it would (help to) make popular websites somewhat profitable, help make obscure websites at least something, and would eliminate the endless subscriptions, passwords, logins, etc that the present system has, Egads, every interest, application, whatever requires a new password and login and wants donations through pay pal and it's nuts! I don't want to be a fully registered member of the many many websites I visit on a regular basis just for that reason, or join someplace fully just to read up on some obscure glitch I am having on an app, for instance, it's just cuckoo, but I wouldn't mind an additional 10 clams a month (whatever) to go into a general fund that was dispersed to the sites I enjoy. Ditto with distro releases. Need a way so that a distro takes in your contribution or subscription, etc, fee, then it's divvied up to all the coders who have contributed to that distro, starting with the kernel maintainers on out to the weirest little simple command line app.. Small amounts add up!
...and I mean this serious, we'd just punch out the boss. Or something like that. It's called REVENGE. Use imagination. I still got one boss (small shop, half a dozen employees) from the early 80's who skipped town one weekend, cleared out the corporate account, and left all us all on a friday night with rubber checks, that no one knew about until monday morning. I'd like to find that hoser. I wouldn't hesitate a second, WHACK, right in the keister, walk away. Heck with it.
We, as a society, have gotten wa-y-y-y too polite and let the lawyers completely ruin us as normal human beings, as planetary life forms, IMO. Every other species on the planet can act in it's own self defense, but nope, "civilization" requires us poor saps to just eat it and keep eating it, and only the "justice system" benefits from that parasitism.
hey, thanks for the tip! Never thought of that, would do exactly what I am looking for, something like web browser on one machine, xmms on another, chat and console jazz on another, etc and etc. I will attempt to implement this, I have a trio of old P1 machines that are identical, and hadn't come up with a use for them so far, this might be the ticket. My "main" machine is a 200PP, it multi tasks, but.... really......
...and other assorted goon forces already do this, using their exisiting telecommunications "flashmob" net, and frequently abuse large numbers of people by bringing to bear overwhelming despotic force onto small numbers of helpless victims. I see the concept (if taken into the political activism arena) to be a sort of leveling of the playing field, perhaps not as many massacres and abuses might occur if enough concerned citizens can be mustered in time to force a stand down of those despotic forces. Even normal political processes might benefit, witness the "flashmob" phenomenon of a few DJ's in nashville being able to get many people to the statehouse in short order to protest passage of a very unpopular tax in tennesse. the concept CAN work for regular old private citizens, even short of violence, just as an adjunct to normal politics.
A point to _always seriously remember_ and I mean ALWAYS- is the vast bulk of the human beings massacred/murderd/abuse in the 20th century were massacred by THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS.
In my nation, the USA, a primitive form of "flashmobs" was used to stand up to the British, and it was ultimately successful, using nothing more than committed couriers and horse transportation.
Reasoning, voting (trying to vote actually), pleas, bargaining had all utterly failed, it had gotten to the point that it was obvious that force was needed against force, and the concept *worked admirably*. Before the colonists (called rebels back then, they would be classed as terrorists now) started acting in a coordinated "flashmob" manner, any number of the King's goons and mercenaries would rip off, murder, torturee, rape and otherwise abuse the colonists, because whomever was being abused was usually overwhelmingly out numbered and out gunned and had no way to even garner notice of their plight until after the fact of the abuse occuring. As soon as a critical mass of concerned colonists designed a system of "flashmob" resistance, it took only roughly 3% of the population to force concessions and a "regime change" as the Brits lost their advantage of being able to bring concentrated force to bear with impunity.
That and the colonists having roughly equal weapons (which was the main intent and purpose of the delineated born-with second amendment right), was the deciding factor. As long as the establishment controlled communications, they stayed in power, as soon as the colonists had near real time (for that era) communications, they were able to prevail.
as the saying goes, cool beans
Yes it can be abused, what else is new? That's like saying people have zero right to self defense because someone else might be offensive in inclination. That doesn't compute, at least for me it doesn't. Looking around the planet, the biggest threat to humanity in general was, is and will continue to be organized "legitimate" governments.
Rogue "terrorists" and the common criminal, although ON the list, are no where near the TOP of the list of legitimate threats against people in general. And the people who would completely verify my assertion, over one hundred million of them planet-wide in the 20th century, are unfortunately all dead, courtesy of their own governments. It dwarfs those killed by invading nations and in random criminal acts, completely dwarfs it in sheer numbers and brutality.
It looks to me like this can be run on older machines in the x86 arch (RH 7 series to be precise). Would this be suitable for a home network if you wanted to use the idea for multitasking apps, in lieu of having a much faster/bigger/ more blinkenlights shinier machine? i.e., can one cob together old boxes you might have kicking around to make a single box that works better for normal surfing,listening to music, simultaneously, etc in replacement of something new and expensive? Poor man's SMP machine?
... my make sense limit. The reason why I was asking this is probably obvious,if not here it is, imitating XP won't be as useful as imitating 98se if I am correct. People running XP have a modern enough OS and powerful enough machine under it that they probably won't even think about switching any time soon. What's needed is a distro and window manager that can run with smallish amounts of RAM and look n feel like 98se, and has a super easy graphical install. Maybe, dunno, but seems logical.
.... out there. Not on any tech website, but on "other" websites where you might get a truer cross section of what people are running. I have a sneaking suspicion it is win 98se, because that was the breakthrough era for a LOT of people getting online,and it's what came on their computer, and they have never switched, just patched, cleaned, re installed, etc, and now it's working more or less well for them. Products like zone alarm, and the spyware removal tools and anti virus whatnots and suchlike have managed to get that OS running "good enough" for most people, and they won't really use any other OS until they purchase a new computer, which might be some years hence, even now. Surfing, listening to tunes, email, etc run well enough on older boxes with small amounts of ram. Even there, I bet a huge number of people are still only online with 32 megs. Which is another point, modern OSs require such a large amount of ram, we've had GUIs that ran on single digit amounts of ram in the past, now it seems you need more ram in megs than hard drive space was on average machines just a few years ago, more or less. I think that has lagged badly, on all platforms and modern OSs, using ram efficiently enough to get the job done. I work on old clunkers, and still amazed that they work as well as they do with oddball small amounts, 8 meg sticks, 32s, etc. That's always my sticking point on trying to upgrade the OS, simply finding the old compatable RAM sticks, usually it's fruitless. And without a serious maxing out of these old machines, modern OS's just ain't happening. I've borked several machines using non compatable. (yes I know that's my fault, ya try what ya can get your hands on).
Anyway, back to my original question, webmasters, what say ye, am I close, is 98se still the dominant OS on the intarweb??
I thought so! I was thinking this was the kick in the gas electric vehicles needed, super efficient wind generators, and on and on. Battery tech is what has slowed adoption of electrics, now, useable range could be almost doubled,power increased, GVW made more useful by dropping motor weight, using off the shelf everything else, just new designed motors. I'm looking around the old adobe here, washing machine, window fans, electric vacuum cleaner, fridge compressor, freezer compressor, well pump outside and 300 feet down--all could be made mucho-mo-bettah. computers quieter, too, the cooling fans. Just in wind gennys alone, this could theoretically drop them to burning coal cost, ie, highly competitive. Imagine a few million model A new generation wind gennys going up all over the place. It's an amazing thing methinks, if true and this isn't any sort of hoax. It *seems* real, the website doesn't look like any sort of scam or parody place.
who knows though, read it around april first, so who knows... hope it gets picked up on the front page, I want some EEs here to look at this for the final say.
well, I asked the question originally, although I had a guess, that's what it was, a guess. I'm not a coder, but I have been a long time computer user and enthusiast, there are by casual glance around the room here 5 desktops, two laptops,and 6 radios-3 of them transceivers- in easy view. 4 of the desktops I built from junker parts, so I can give them away to local (poor blue collar farm) kids on their birthdays. I don't work in IT, I'm a blue collar guy with different skills, but I dig electronic stuff, and I like to know how things work. Slashdot appeals to me BECAUSE it's interactive, there's a boat load of people here who ARE skilled in different venues, and you can get some decent information and decent reference URLs here by asking politely. And the occassional nasty troll or whatever doesn't bother me, I've been using boards and moderating them myself since around 95, heavy since 97. I knew the *term* dynamically linked libraries, I have heard my windows friends over the years use that term, but I wanted to be sure that what static meant was what I thought, and since I didn't know, I just asked, simple as that. I mostly always used mac classic before tip toeing into linux a couple of years ago, but frankly, I'm still a point and click guy. That's reality, and I'm not ashamed of it, it just "is" is all.
And the price is right to be here, and this slashcode, combined with the input of all the readers and the editors, gives me a customised news magazine on demand. And a lof of times it's dang funny!
If I- or anyone-knew all there was about all the subjects covered here, there wouldn't be any need for that person to come here, would there be?
With all that booshwah out of the way, here's how my mind works: OK, now I got the skinny on the differences, so now I am thinking "why them guys do it one way or the other, why not both at the same time?" You see when you are a blue collar guy, and work=sweat and pain, not just exasperation and inconvenience, but real sweat and real pain, you take ineffieciency as more than just a PITA, it's insulting, and with self defense of your bod in mind, you try to figure out the easier/better/more efficient way to do something.
And you don't need any boss with any number of degrees to tell you those cosmic truths, either.....
I know zip squat about coding, but seems to me that a "master library" could be used as a sub program, or substitute of some form, to go get the libraries you need for different apps. Then instead of the apps needing direct-static or dynamically linked or symlinks, all they would need is a pointer to the master library with some sort of tag like "use this version", and THAT goes fetch whatever is needed. Then you only need to update the ONE master library, not one buhzillion other libraries all the time, whether they were included in the app or not.
But, like I said, I know less than zip,maybe it does this already, I have NO idea if what I just said made any sense, probably not.... so I'll let the smart guys who write code do their things...
I was real interested in this discussion, and thought it a nice niche business performing a service that this whois obfuscators were doing. It kinda blows it if you can still get the accurate info. Why aren't they sued for fraud? Being able to at least remove your personal info away from casual goombahs intent on spamming or stalking is a good idea.
Is this true of these other services referenced in the thread? Anyone?
.. really, many fine people have served honorably. However, the military are being abused now, and being put into a no-win situation by this slow moving stealth coup d'etat that has been building ever since the second world war.
If you aren't familiar with him or his organization, I encourage you to check it out. Jack McLamb with his Aid and Abet org. He has an org for active or retired police and military, and has some very interesting viewpoints you might like to hear about. There's so much I just made a google link for it.
He has a newsletter and is on various radio stations. I've spoken to him in person and listened to him being interviewed many times, quite enlightening.
just check your wallet, it has a private banks debt "notes" which has turned into the official money, clearly unconstitutional. Various restrictions on freedom of speech (microbroadcasting and the FCC for example)(Bush goons making protesters stay in a "free speech" corral miles from where he is speaking is another) and of religion (501-c restrictions when it says NO LAW in the first). Taxes which are illegal, which aren't excise taxes. No balance of laws between the states. Confiscation or "arrest" of property without a conviction of any crime. Random "courtesy checkpoints". The government taking private property without compensation (see klamath falls fiasco and others, and the abuse of local governments with eminent domain sezures). Complete and total disregard for the second amendment except in vermont, and then only partially constitutional. Giving personhood with "rights" to corporations. Freedom to be secure in your home and possessions, new orleans court just poofed that. On and on. We have an illusion of born-with rights, which the first ten amendments being merely a listing of them, they were NEVER "government granted", we are supposedly *born* with them, now they are all infested with laws.
The rule of thumb is, if the government says you need "a permit" that means you are applying for "permission". If it's a born-with right, you don't need their permission, it's not theirs to take away or grant. but they DO it anyway, and their enforrces with guns violate their oaths and "follow orders" and make it so, both civil and military.
yes, that sounds like it might have been it. You had to be there, it was totally weird. Georgia appears to be a testing ground for new big brother technologies, first state to have all computerised voting (result, biggest upset since the civil war, results nothing like pre or post polling, hmmm), I think first state with fingerprint drivers license, first state to take illegals "matricular" cards as valid ID -which is a defacto amnesty, yada yada. Nice state, bizarro government.
Hope the url is OK. New japanese electric motor, super efficient. A LOT of implications here. I submitted it right before 4-1, my bad.
http://www.japan.com/technology/index.php
TECHNOLOGY
The Techno Maestro's Amazing Machine Kohei Minato and the Japan Magnetic Fan Company
A maverick inventor's breakthrough electric motor uses permanent magnets to make power -- and has investors salivating
More at the site, it's quite interesting. Note: permanent magnet motors aren't new, his has a different twist to them, and it apparently works. I was thinking for electric vehicles and for wind power generation for starters...
wouldn't it be just as easy to just mount a used decent laptop somehow, with the 12 volt charger? Once you've bought these components, etc, it's (roughly) the same price as for a used laptop or notebook isn't it? Just build a mount for it somehow, or cut the dash out for the screen, or a sliding shelf or something?
No, reading the comments I understand the site is down, so haven't read the article yet, but 12 volt mobo,ram, various drives, LCD screen etc bought separately has got to add up quickly. I understand building neat stuff for fun, but....
could you please explain the difference (static or whatever) for those of us who might not know? thanks in advance! Whichever, I'm all in favor of apps that just work and not needing dependencies.
AC has a right on observation there, those anthrax attacks were just too cute. The timing, the source of the strain, etc. Too cute. Then the "mad sniper attacks". And that journalist in fla who got nailed with it? Seems like he was working on an expose of the shrubs twins, all their partying and stoning (most likely) and so forth.
whut a coinky-dink, uh huh
USA 9-11 plane attacks = Germany Reichstagg fire
The worlds puppet masters and goons have a saying when it comes to intrigue actions "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Create a problem, get the reaction from the target, offer your "solution". Works every time for them, why should they change?
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don't look at the heat on the roof as an enemy, it's a free energy source. If you can collect it, you can use it with an ammonia evaporative refrigeration unit. You could also use it (possibly) to generate some useful amounts of electricity.
Another way to get free cooling in the summer is to have a lot of plastic pipe buried down in the yard below the surface effect heating. That's a variable that you'll have to determine, the depth, but should be easy to find out. In northern climes, it's roughly equivalent to the mean average frost depth. The pipes (long enough, some hundreds of feet are needed to cool say around a 1500 - 2000 sq ft structure) have a single entrance to them coming out of the ground at the farthest away, lowest, shadiest/coolest spot you have in the yard. They come into the building and have a vent at the lowest most central point, then are open to the room. Depending on how many stories your building is, you have floor vents that may be opened and closed, all the way to the roof, where another vent is located. Heat rises, you are creating a thermo-siphon effect. Air enters at the outside pipe, travels underground through the pipes and gets cooled. The roof vent, being the highest and hottest point, acts as the draw, the pump if you will, drawing the cooler air upwards and out, cooling as it travels. That's why you need a lot of buried pipe, but once constructed, it's relatively maintenance free, just needs take care on adequate screening at both ends to prevent insects and dirt entering, etc, and to keep rainwater out, relatively easy with normal conical vent caps. It's a chimney effect, low tech, no moving parts, but you can get some decent cooling from it. I don't have a link real handy, but I imagine that googling will find you some drawings and real-world examples of this technique in action.
The water based evaporative coolers are in large scale use around the world. Local to me is a rather large commercial poultry operation, all the buildings there have massive evaporative coolers installed, they work fairly well, and save many thousands in electric costs, in fact, I doubt they could operate the farms at a profit without them. Basically they are just huge screens that have water dripping down them, and the exhaust fans in the building draw the air through them.
Large commercial sized greenhouses mostly all have them as well.
Your insulation efforts are bang on. Nothing beats massive insulation as a heat/cold moderator. It's the most productive and efficient way to spend the energy dollar once any sort of artificial heating/cooling is required. In some places, the technique is called "superinsulation", with a usual targeted goal of R-55 to 60 range, as opposed to (in the US anyway) the normal R-18 or so. I've worked on two of those projects, they work pretty well for dropping costs (increasing effieicney really) for both cooling and heating.
a few off the top of the heap here: assume remote as a prefix
remote emergency medical applications
geology/exploration
engineering purposes, perhaps diagnostics and repairs or fabrications/modifications that might eliminate a shop visit
subset engineering: collaborative efforts where the collaborators needs be in different physical locations
meterology in real time accumulating many diverse microclimates into a forecast, a "weatherbug" type app where you with your 5 senses phone add to the database, weather info "sharing"
remote sensing projects dealing with hazardous environments -the phone can go where you cannot
advertising "just smell this new coffee!" etc or "feel this new fabric!" etc
there's a lot more probably
--just the pentagon has lost over two TRILLION dollars, lost, stolen, unaccounted for, gone, poof-a-rama. That's just one government agency. Run any search you want, dod, lost money, etc you'll find tons of links on this subject.
/rant
Add it up, the government is the biggest thief in the US. Pack of hypocritical liars. Research the sordid history of the creation of the "federal" reserve and the IRS. Nerd, educate thyself!
That gang of crooks, entrenched year after year, both major "parties" running the government as their private cash cow, millions of workers, almost no accountability--it's beyond disgust.. The sheer scale of government financial malfesance is awesome, and their "crying foul" and data mining to find alleged "cheats" is the pitiful squeaking of insatiable bloated ticks.
Think about it, government's position is all of your labor is their's by default, then they come up with some magic formula over how much you are allowed to keep-this year. And said magic formula is so arcane and convulted that no two "agents" of the infernal revenue service can look at a complicated tax "return" and arrive at the same figures. Every year someplace you will see a similar test, an ex agent perhaps, a CPA, someone from one of the popular tax preparation companies, all given the same hypothetical taxpayer info, and they never come up with the same figures.
It's nuts. Scrap the system, cut government back down to manageable size by attrition, with a freeze on new hires being a good starting point. Scrap entire un needed and unwanted agencies. Get rid of the large standing army. Retire the whole government pension system, make it ten years maximum government "service" then you are out, no pension, top to bottom, especially politicians. Make campaign contributions from any cartel, org, corporation, etc be illegal, because they are bribes, call it what it really is. Reduce personal contributions to a maximum of one hundred dollars.. Use excise taxes as a replacement for "income" taxes, like it was before the 16th. DUMP the fed and send greenspawn and his fellow reserve governor-demons packing (to prison for fraud and racketeering), end the welfare state for billionaires. Take away legal personhood for corporations. End the revolving door of electing lawyers to congress so they can pass more laws that only benefit their leeching guild.
There are several good solutions to "the tax problem" out there, just the people who actually COULD implement them have zero incentive TO implement them, because it would put them out of their parasitical jobs.
I got that one fixed already, for non critical mail. And yep, I'm gonna snag one of those google email accounts, that's a lot of storage space that ain't on my machine that could get borked and lost. Po' guys data backup I figger... anyway, ya, you could use a crypto program, but for non critical mail, just open your text editor to full screen, write your friend the email ya want, then do a screen cap, save it, email it as an attachment in your image format of choice. I don't think the spiders can crawl those easily...yet.
I wouldn't mind at all a general fund I could pay into, which would make me eat a single cookie. I could live with that. As I surfed, websites that were part of that system would read that cookie, and serve up the ad-free content. It couldn't be all that much per page view, but it would (help to) make popular websites somewhat profitable, help make obscure websites at least something, and would eliminate the endless subscriptions, passwords, logins, etc that the present system has, Egads, every interest, application, whatever requires a new password and login and wants donations through pay pal and it's nuts! I don't want to be a fully registered member of the many many websites I visit on a regular basis just for that reason, or join someplace fully just to read up on some obscure glitch I am having on an app, for instance, it's just cuckoo, but I wouldn't mind an additional 10 clams a month (whatever) to go into a general fund that was dispersed to the sites I enjoy. Ditto with distro releases. Need a way so that a distro takes in your contribution or subscription, etc, fee, then it's divvied up to all the coders who have contributed to that distro, starting with the kernel maintainers on out to the weirest little simple command line app.. Small amounts add up!
...and I mean this serious, we'd just punch out the boss. Or something like that. It's called REVENGE. Use imagination. I still got one boss (small shop, half a dozen employees) from the early 80's who skipped town one weekend, cleared out the corporate account, and left all us all on a friday night with rubber checks, that no one knew about until monday morning. I'd like to find that hoser. I wouldn't hesitate a second, WHACK, right in the keister, walk away. Heck with it.
We, as a society, have gotten wa-y-y-y too polite and let the lawyers completely ruin us as normal human beings, as planetary life forms, IMO. Every other species on the planet can act in it's own self defense, but nope, "civilization" requires us poor saps to just eat it and keep eating it, and only the "justice system" benefits from that parasitism.
It doth truly sucketh sometimes.
Bring back deuling, that will sort this crap out.
...OK, I'll use it! Especially when I am discusserizing geopolitics on net forums!
....booze. Lotsa booze.
hey, thanks for the tip! Never thought of that, would do exactly what I am looking for, something like web browser on one machine, xmms on another, chat and console jazz on another, etc and etc. I will attempt to implement this, I have a trio of old P1 machines that are identical, and hadn't come up with a use for them so far, this might be the ticket. My "main" machine is a 200PP, it multi tasks, but.... really......
...and other assorted goon forces already do this, using their exisiting telecommunications "flashmob" net, and frequently abuse large numbers of people by bringing to bear overwhelming despotic force onto small numbers of helpless victims. I see the concept (if taken into the political activism arena) to be a sort of leveling of the playing field, perhaps not as many massacres and abuses might occur if enough concerned citizens can be mustered in time to force a stand down of those despotic forces. Even normal political processes might benefit, witness the "flashmob" phenomenon of a few DJ's in nashville being able to get many people to the statehouse in short order to protest passage of a very unpopular tax in tennesse. the concept CAN work for regular old private citizens, even short of violence, just as an adjunct to normal politics.
A point to _always seriously remember_ and I mean ALWAYS- is the vast bulk of the human beings massacred/murderd/abuse in the 20th century were massacred by THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS.
In my nation, the USA, a primitive form of "flashmobs" was used to stand up to the British, and it was ultimately successful, using nothing more than committed couriers and horse transportation.
Reasoning, voting (trying to vote actually), pleas, bargaining had all utterly failed, it had gotten to the point that it was obvious that force was needed against force, and the concept *worked admirably*. Before the colonists (called rebels back then, they would be classed as terrorists now) started acting in a coordinated "flashmob" manner, any number of the King's goons and mercenaries would rip off, murder, torturee, rape and otherwise abuse the colonists, because whomever was being abused was usually overwhelmingly out numbered and out gunned and had no way to even garner notice of their plight until after the fact of the abuse occuring. As soon as a critical mass of concerned colonists designed a system of "flashmob" resistance, it took only roughly 3% of the population to force concessions and a "regime change" as the Brits lost their advantage of being able to bring concentrated force to bear with impunity.
That and the colonists having roughly equal weapons (which was the main intent and purpose of the delineated born-with second amendment right), was the deciding factor. As long as the establishment controlled communications, they stayed in power, as soon as the colonists had near real time (for that era) communications, they were able to prevail.
as the saying goes, cool beans
Yes it can be abused, what else is new? That's like saying people have zero right to self defense because someone else might be offensive in inclination. That doesn't compute, at least for me it doesn't. Looking around the planet, the biggest threat to humanity in general was, is and will continue to be organized "legitimate" governments.
Rogue "terrorists" and the common criminal, although ON the list, are no where near the TOP of the list of legitimate threats against people in general. And the people who would completely verify my assertion, over one hundred million of them planet-wide in the 20th century, are unfortunately all dead, courtesy of their own governments. It dwarfs those killed by invading nations and in random criminal acts, completely dwarfs it in sheer numbers and brutality.
Now, who's "the mob" again?
It looks to me like this can be run on older machines in the x86 arch (RH 7 series to be precise). Would this be suitable for a home network if you wanted to use the idea for multitasking apps, in lieu of having a much faster/bigger/ more blinkenlights shinier machine? i.e., can one cob together old boxes you might have kicking around to make a single box that works better for normal surfing,listening to music, simultaneously, etc in replacement of something new and expensive? Poor man's SMP machine?
... my make sense limit. The reason why I was asking this is probably obvious,if not here it is, imitating XP won't be as useful as imitating 98se if I am correct. People running XP have a modern enough OS and powerful enough machine under it that they probably won't even think about switching any time soon. What's needed is a distro and window manager that can run with smallish amounts of RAM and look n feel like 98se, and has a super easy graphical install. Maybe, dunno, but seems logical.
.... out there. Not on any tech website, but on "other" websites where you might get a truer cross section of what people are running. I have a sneaking suspicion it is win 98se, because that was the breakthrough era for a LOT of people getting online,and it's what came on their computer, and they have never switched, just patched, cleaned, re installed, etc, and now it's working more or less well for them. Products like zone alarm, and the spyware removal tools and anti virus whatnots and suchlike have managed to get that OS running "good enough" for most people, and they won't really use any other OS until they purchase a new computer, which might be some years hence, even now. Surfing, listening to tunes, email, etc run well enough on older boxes with small amounts of ram. Even there, I bet a huge number of people are still only online with 32 megs. Which is another point, modern OSs require such a large amount of ram, we've had GUIs that ran on single digit amounts of ram in the past, now it seems you need more ram in megs than hard drive space was on average machines just a few years ago, more or less. I think that has lagged badly, on all platforms and modern OSs, using ram efficiently enough to get the job done. I work on old clunkers, and still amazed that they work as well as they do with oddball small amounts, 8 meg sticks, 32s, etc. That's always my sticking point on trying to upgrade the OS, simply finding the old compatable RAM sticks, usually it's fruitless. And without a serious maxing out of these old machines, modern OS's just ain't happening. I've borked several machines using non compatable. (yes I know that's my fault, ya try what ya can get your hands on).
Anyway, back to my original question, webmasters, what say ye, am I close, is 98se still the dominant OS on the intarweb??
seems like I was thinking along the correct lines, there's hope for me yet!
At the command line I am dismal, but slowly getting better as I make **&^%%$ stuff work that ain't.
I thought so! I was thinking this was the kick in the gas electric vehicles needed, super efficient wind generators, and on and on. Battery tech is what has slowed adoption of electrics, now, useable range could be almost doubled,power increased, GVW made more useful by dropping motor weight, using off the shelf everything else, just new designed motors. I'm looking around the old adobe here, washing machine, window fans, electric vacuum cleaner, fridge compressor, freezer compressor, well pump outside and 300 feet down--all could be made mucho-mo-bettah. computers quieter, too, the cooling fans. Just in wind gennys alone, this could theoretically drop them to burning coal cost, ie, highly competitive. Imagine a few million model A new generation wind gennys going up all over the place. It's an amazing thing methinks, if true and this isn't any sort of hoax. It *seems* real, the website doesn't look like any sort of scam or parody place.
who knows though, read it around april first, so who knows... hope it gets picked up on the front page, I want some EEs here to look at this for the final say.
well, I asked the question originally, although I had a guess, that's what it was, a guess. I'm not a coder, but I have been a long time computer user and enthusiast, there are by casual glance around the room here 5 desktops, two laptops,and 6 radios-3 of them transceivers- in easy view. 4 of the desktops I built from junker parts, so I can give them away to local (poor blue collar farm) kids on their birthdays. I don't work in IT, I'm a blue collar guy with different skills, but I dig electronic stuff, and I like to know how things work. Slashdot appeals to me BECAUSE it's interactive, there's a boat load of people here who ARE skilled in different venues, and you can get some decent information and decent reference URLs here by asking politely. And the occassional nasty troll or whatever doesn't bother me, I've been using boards and moderating them myself since around 95, heavy since 97. I knew the *term* dynamically linked libraries, I have heard my windows friends over the years use that term, but I wanted to be sure that what static meant was what I thought, and since I didn't know, I just asked, simple as that. I mostly always used mac classic before tip toeing into linux a couple of years ago, but frankly, I'm still a point and click guy. That's reality, and I'm not ashamed of it, it just "is" is all.
And the price is right to be here, and this slashcode, combined with the input of all the readers and the editors, gives me a customised news magazine on demand. And a lof of times it's dang funny!
If I- or anyone-knew all there was about all the subjects covered here, there wouldn't be any need for that person to come here, would there be?
With all that booshwah out of the way, here's how my mind works: OK, now I got the skinny on the differences, so now I am thinking "why them guys do it one way or the other, why not both at the same time?" You see when you are a blue collar guy, and work=sweat and pain, not just exasperation and inconvenience, but real sweat and real pain, you take ineffieciency as more than just a PITA, it's insulting, and with self defense of your bod in mind, you try to figure out the easier/better/more efficient way to do something.
And you don't need any boss with any number of degrees to tell you those cosmic truths, either.....
I know zip squat about coding, but seems to me that a "master library" could be used as a sub program, or substitute of some form, to go get the libraries you need for different apps. Then instead of the apps needing direct-static or dynamically linked or symlinks, all they would need is a pointer to the master library with some sort of tag like "use this version", and THAT goes fetch whatever is needed. Then you only need to update the ONE master library, not one buhzillion other libraries all the time, whether they were included in the app or not.
But, like I said, I know less than zip,maybe it does this already, I have NO idea if what I just said made any sense, probably not.... so I'll let the smart guys who write code do their things...
I was real interested in this discussion, and thought it a nice niche business performing a service that this whois obfuscators were doing. It kinda blows it if you can still get the accurate info. Why aren't they sued for fraud? Being able to at least remove your personal info away from casual goombahs intent on spamming or stalking is a good idea.
Is this true of these other services referenced in the thread? Anyone?
.. really, many fine people have served honorably. However, the military are being abused now, and being put into a no-win situation by this slow moving stealth coup d'etat that has been building ever since the second world war.
If you aren't familiar with him or his organization, I encourage you to check it out. Jack McLamb with his Aid and Abet org. He has an org for active or retired police and military, and has some very interesting viewpoints you might like to hear about. There's so much I just made a google link for it.
He has a newsletter and is on various radio stations. I've spoken to him in person and listened to him being interviewed many times, quite enlightening.
just check your wallet, it has a private banks debt "notes" which has turned into the official money, clearly unconstitutional. Various restrictions on freedom of speech (microbroadcasting and the FCC for example)(Bush goons making protesters stay in a "free speech" corral miles from where he is speaking is another) and of religion (501-c restrictions when it says NO LAW in the first). Taxes which are illegal, which aren't excise taxes. No balance of laws between the states. Confiscation or "arrest" of property without a conviction of any crime. Random "courtesy checkpoints". The government taking private property without compensation (see klamath falls fiasco and others, and the abuse of local governments with eminent domain sezures). Complete and total disregard for the second amendment except in vermont, and then only partially constitutional. Giving personhood with "rights" to corporations. Freedom to be secure in your home and possessions, new orleans court just poofed that. On and on. We have an illusion of born-with rights, which the first ten amendments being merely a listing of them, they were NEVER "government granted", we are supposedly *born* with them, now they are all infested with laws.
The rule of thumb is, if the government says you need "a permit" that means you are applying for "permission". If it's a born-with right, you don't need their permission, it's not theirs to take away or grant. but they DO it anyway, and their enforrces with guns violate their oaths and "follow orders" and make it so, both civil and military.
On and on and on
yes, that sounds like it might have been it. You had to be there, it was totally weird. Georgia appears to be a testing ground for new big brother technologies, first state to have all computerised voting (result, biggest upset since the civil war, results nothing like pre or post polling, hmmm), I think first state with fingerprint drivers license, first state to take illegals "matricular" cards as valid ID -which is a defacto amnesty, yada yada. Nice state, bizarro government.
easy to understand, now I get it. thank you.
Hope the url is OK. New japanese electric motor, super efficient. A LOT of implications here. I submitted it right before 4-1, my bad.
http://www.japan.com/technology/index.php
TECHNOLOGY
The Techno Maestro's Amazing Machine
Kohei Minato and the Japan Magnetic Fan Company
A maverick inventor's breakthrough electric motor uses permanent magnets to make power -- and has investors salivating
More at the site, it's quite interesting. Note: permanent magnet motors aren't new, his has a different twist to them, and it apparently works. I was thinking for electric vehicles and for wind power generation for starters...
wouldn't it be just as easy to just mount a used decent laptop somehow, with the 12 volt charger? Once you've bought these components, etc, it's (roughly) the same price as for a used laptop or notebook isn't it? Just build a mount for it somehow, or cut the dash out for the screen, or a sliding shelf or something?
No, reading the comments I understand the site is down, so haven't read the article yet, but 12 volt mobo,ram, various drives, LCD screen etc bought separately has got to add up quickly. I understand building neat stuff for fun, but....
could you please explain the difference (static or whatever) for those of us who might not know? thanks in advance! Whichever, I'm all in favor of apps that just work and not needing dependencies.
AC has a right on observation there, those anthrax attacks were just too cute. The timing, the source of the strain, etc. Too cute. Then the "mad sniper attacks". And that journalist in fla who got nailed with it? Seems like he was working on an expose of the shrubs twins, all their partying and stoning (most likely) and so forth.
whut a coinky-dink, uh huh
USA 9-11 plane attacks = Germany Reichstagg fire
The worlds puppet masters and goons have a saying when it comes to intrigue actions "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Create a problem, get the reaction from the target, offer your "solution". Works every time for them, why should they change?