VA is such a scam in UPS marketing... VA should = Watts, but the output of most UPS's is nowhere near a sine wave, so there's a huge loss in efficiency.
Back in the days of 386's, I told a friend a 200VA UPS would be enough to run his PC & 14" monitor. It was, but the battery died in a few months, for unknown reasons. Triplite gave him a VERY hard time about returning it, claiming it was too small for his PC, and tried to push him into trading it for a larger model.
They really should CLEARLY state the rated output on the box!
BTW, most "Hardware Raid 1 & 0" cards don't do much in hardware; they still rely on the CPU to do a lot of the work. (See CPU utilization graphs in various benchmark articles.)
Nonetheless, they are probably still faster than pure software raid.
Also, Anandtech and Tom's have had some reviews in the past.
Personally, I've had bad experiences with my onboard Promise in Win2k... worked fine with 40GB IBM, but when I got a 60GB IBM, vague errors started appearing in event viewer. Promise & Gigabyte did not answer any of my emails. IBM said they normally like Promise, but had no suggestions. I gave up and plugged back in to the Intel controller, and haven't had a single problem since then (over 2 years now).
I've also seen vague errors on Linux when using Promise controllers, and they still don't have an open source driver.
I'm assuming you're talking about IoMega's "BUZZ".
The drivers were so bad, they would often lock up the computer or crash Premiere after capturing 2 or 3 minutes of video. Total crap; we had to return ours.
Miro's worked fine, so it wasn't a problem with the computer.
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Actually, you don't have to do any programming in LDAP to implement my suggestion; you write everything to one csv or.tab file, and then use the software for the new database (whatever ldap implementation is chosen) to import the file.
If it's running a standard database (mysql, postgresql, oracle, whatever), you could import the data directly using the db's tools.
I looked briefly at the vcard modules for perl, and at the vcard spec; it should only take a few hours to write a program to extract the data from the vcards.
Have you considered reading all the cards in and writing them to a CSV or TAB delimited file? This should be trivial (maybe 5 lines) in perl if you know the format of the cards (spec available at http://www.imc.org/pdi/, assuming MS followed the spec:p ).
Then, you could import the one file into your new ldap database, and use whatever you want to manage it after that.
It's possible to count to 60 on your fingers and thumbs; the Sumerians (IIRC) did it, and that's why we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 360 degrees,...
I've seen it done... it involves using each knuckle on each finger, so each finger has 4 possible states (down, 1/3 up, 2/3 up, up), and each thumb has 3 states.
Additionally Postfix is a smart enough MTA so that during the RBL downtime it didn't reject any mail - the default behavior is to deliver if the RBL can't be contacted.
Nice.
Anyone know how to acheive that in Sendmail 8.12?
(Spamcop's rbl goes down for a few hours at a time occasionally. Sendmail will give a service temporary unavailable in that case, but I'd rather get my mail now rather than later.)
One thing you didn't cover, which I understand can be a problem, is that many of the watercooling kits use both Al and Cu or brass components, which can result in galvanic corrosion, which can lead to leaks or warping/blockage of the waterblock.
I've played "shooters" (CS, GTA:VC (which I do NOT consider a shooter), Quake2, Doom(s), Hitman, 1942...), platforms (Prince of Persia 1 & 2,...), "arcade sims" (NFS, Comanche, Apache, Falcon 2, Aces over the Pacific, Red Baron, subs,...), some RPGs,...
I don't wear camo, cargo pants, or t-shirts, and my reflexes suck (I rarely do especially well at CS, but I still love it).
I haven't (yet) played paintball, although I do shoot & hunt occasionally. Never even seen a Jane's book, although I have heard about them due to the Jane's flight sims.
Sniper was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Thank god I didn't pay for it. I loved Starship Troopers though.
I don't know what a "Survival Horror" is (I've never seen any of the Resident Evil games, etc., but DoomIII looks like it will be fun, if that counts.
Basically, the author couldn't think of anything to write, so he wrote this? And he totally left out sims (no, not The Sims, although he left them out too, along with RTS's).
Good platformer: character runs up to the ledge, teeters, hangs off with his hands. If you wanted to jump, you woulda hit the jump button-- but you're no idiot and that's a giant lake of hot fucking lava.
That's how Prince of Persia 1 & 2 were, as long as you walked and not ran up to the ledge.
It is pure, gleeful schadenfeude for me to think of all the hapless PHBs and MSCSE CIOs who are finally being given a little hint as to just how vulnerable they've left their companies.
I'll be gleeful when someone hijacks some of those 20 computers and replaces the download with a disk formatter that finishes with a message, in every language, that says "Secure your damn systems".
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VA is such a scam in UPS marketing...
VA should = Watts, but the output of most UPS's is nowhere near a sine wave, so there's a huge loss in efficiency.
Back in the days of 386's, I told a friend a 200VA UPS would be enough to run his PC & 14" monitor. It was, but the battery died in a few months, for unknown reasons. Triplite gave him a VERY hard time about returning it, claiming it was too small for his PC, and tried to push him into trading it for a larger model.
They really should CLEARLY state the rated output on the box!
I don't know what it is with the British... I'm an American, and we use pounds, tons, inches, feet, yards, & acres.
I picked up the British version of Maxim, and I could not understand half of what they were saying... stones, rods, hogsheads, ... wtf?
And they claim they use SI!
And people say the US is backwards! :P
BTW, most "Hardware Raid 1 & 0" cards don't do much in hardware; they still rely on the CPU to do a lot of the work. (See CPU utilization graphs in various benchmark articles.)
Nonetheless, they are probably still faster than pure software raid.
Also, Anandtech and Tom's have had some reviews in the past.
Personally, I've had bad experiences with my onboard Promise in Win2k... worked fine with 40GB IBM, but when I got a 60GB IBM, vague errors started appearing in event viewer. Promise & Gigabyte did not answer any of my emails. IBM said they normally like Promise, but had no suggestions. I gave up and plugged back in to the Intel controller, and haven't had a single problem since then (over 2 years now).
I've also seen vague errors on Linux when using Promise controllers, and they still don't have an open source driver.
You'll need to rent this http://imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
Yep; start with Journey to CubeVille :P
I'm assuming you're talking about IoMega's "BUZZ".
The drivers were so bad, they would often lock up the computer or crash Premiere after capturing 2 or 3 minutes of video. Total crap; we had to return ours.
Miro's worked fine, so it wasn't a problem with the computer.
It's a decoder, not an encoder, and the epia cpus are terribly slow at doing encoding.
Actually, you don't have to do any programming in LDAP to implement my suggestion; you write everything to one csv or .tab file, and then use the software for the new database (whatever ldap implementation is chosen) to import the file.
If it's running a standard database (mysql, postgresql, oracle, whatever), you could import the data directly using the db's tools.
I looked briefly at the vcard modules for perl, and at the vcard spec; it should only take a few hours to write a program to extract the data from the vcards.
Yep, and "There is No Patch for Human Stupidity!"
Makes me wonder if they were trying to beat GTA:VC to the punch. Others look like they're set in Europe though, so I could be way off.
I wonder if it'll have freeways...
1. High Speed Freeway Chases!
2. re-enact movie scenes driving the wrong way on the 405!
It sounds like it should be a LOT of fun.
Have you considered reading all the cards in and writing them to a CSV or TAB delimited file? :p ).
This should be trivial (maybe 5 lines) in perl if you know the format of the cards (spec available at http://www.imc.org/pdi/, assuming MS followed the spec
Then, you could import the one file into your new ldap database, and use whatever you want to manage it after that.
It's possible to count to 60 on your fingers and thumbs; the Sumerians (IIRC) did it, and that's why we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 360 degrees, ...
I've seen it done... it involves using each knuckle on each finger, so each finger has 4 possible states (down, 1/3 up, 2/3 up, up), and each thumb has 3 states.
But what about the
null = "I'm waiting for you to read my mind"
state?
I second that... BogoFilter is great, it catches 95% of our spam that gets through spamcops RBL and a few other checks I have sendmail do.
Nice.
Anyone know how to acheive that in Sendmail 8.12?
(Spamcop's rbl goes down for a few hours at a time occasionally. Sendmail will give a service temporary unavailable in that case, but I'd rather get my mail now rather than later.)
thanks
One thing you didn't cover, which I understand can be a problem, is that many of the watercooling kits use both Al and Cu or brass components, which can result in galvanic corrosion, which can lead to leaks or warping/blockage of the waterblock.
Maybe they thought it was a gay-porn game, but got mad to see it was sociopathic. :p
Imho, yes.
I've played "shooters" (CS, GTA:VC (which I do NOT consider a shooter), Quake2, Doom(s), Hitman, 1942...), platforms (Prince of Persia 1 & 2, ...), "arcade sims" (NFS, Comanche, Apache, Falcon 2, Aces over the Pacific, Red Baron, subs, ...), some RPGs, ...
I don't wear camo, cargo pants, or t-shirts, and my reflexes suck (I rarely do especially well at CS, but I still love it).
I haven't (yet) played paintball, although I do shoot & hunt occasionally. Never even seen a Jane's book, although I have heard about them due to the Jane's flight sims.
Sniper was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Thank god I didn't pay for it. I loved Starship Troopers though.
I don't know what a "Survival Horror" is (I've never seen any of the Resident Evil games, etc., but DoomIII looks like it will be fun, if that counts.
Basically, the author couldn't think of anything to write, so he wrote this? And he totally left out sims (no, not The Sims, although he left them out too, along with RTS's).
That's how Prince of Persia 1 & 2 were, as long as you walked and not ran up to the ledge.
FWIW, Lindows 2 no longer runs everything as root, if you setup a user during install (as it recommends).
Of course, Win2000 and XP suggest something like that too, but I don't know if any privledges are removed.
Electronic Darwinism... sweet!
I'll be gleeful when someone hijacks some of those 20 computers and replaces the download with a disk formatter that finishes with a message, in every language, that says "Secure your damn systems".