Bah, in '03 we carved our own pencils from virgin old-growth redwood because there was plenty of trees, and poured our own pencil lead from pure lead--- none of those funny government regulations and wimpy graphite.
(And they he realized they were talking about the other '03-- 2003).
The cost of manufacturing and assembling such a huge mirror would be enormous, and risky.
Instead of creating a workaround solution up there, we'd be better off taking those hundreds of billions of dollars, and creating solutions down here, at less risk.
A few months ago we were driving up I-5 in California.
We were stuck in a traffic jam on the road, a good 20 miles from the nearest town. I pulled out my laptop to scan for wireless signals, and see exactly how 'isolated' this area was.
Surprisingly, I found several Access Points with names like 'JetBlue1203' and 'JetBlue1609'. These signals would start at low-strength, the signal would grow stronger, peak for about 5 minutes, and then drop off in strength--- almost as if they were coming from an Airplane overhead.
I suppose these AP's could have come from some other car on the road; but people generally don't run Access Points in their Car.
Traffic was at a standstill--- if the signal was coming from a nearby house or from a car on our side of the road; I would expect the signal to remain level for a longer period of time.
If the signal was coming from a car on the opposite side of the road, I would expect the signal quality to rise and fall quickly. In fact, I could detect a number of 'Ad-Hoc' wireless signals from some misconfigured Laptops-- those signals would zoom by pretty quickly (other side of the road), or remain stable (My side of the road).
I never investigated these further, but I always assumed these 'JetBlue####' Access Points were from JetBlue Airplanes, and I was lucky enough to be within line-of-sight of these signals. The airplanes were a few miles above us, which seems pretty distant for a Wifi signal... But still these Access Points had names like 'JetBlue'. What the heck were they?
It's not quite a dupe. The previous article is about the "Top 10...". Can't we talk about individual projects in more detail?
Frankly, I'm happy this article was posted. It's right up my alley, and is much more relevant then the Video Game news which keeps creeping up to the Homepage.
I usually pass over any "Top 10..." article as hype; so I'm happy when someone highlights one of those systems. As a Sysadmin who uses Nagios, Cacti, syslog, nmap, etc. I'm really intrigued by Zenoss. It looks like might integrate a bunch of disparate tools into one set of tools.
This is my top complaint regarding Nagios. It's difficult to configure, and I constantly find myself at odds with the Nagios' configuration strategy. For example, I can't add a host definition without defining some services for that host. This makes sense at some level, but as I install a machine, sometimes I want to add the host definition as a 'placeholder', and define the services later., and the Nagios maintainer
I also like how Zenoss wraps the monitors and performance graphs together. Many OSS management products perform Availaity Monitoring, OR Performance monitoring. It's rare to find a project which does both--- why collect the data twice?
And Zenoss has gone one step further--- a monitoring system will often have the most complete system inventory; why not use the monitoring system as the canonical system inventory as well? With auto-discovery.
It beets maintaining some Excel Spreadsheet by hand, and it has more features then the typical Perl + nmap script.
How much difference is there between the two videos? The parody borrows the vast majority of it's content from the original-- the faces, the cadence, the audio (except for Clinton's voice), the facial expressions are all exactly the same.
If I take a song, and change 5% of the song, I really can't go around claiming my new song is original, or call it a mashup, a blend or a cutup.
A good hip-hop, IDM, mashup, cutup, etc. song will usually only sample small pieces of the original, and manipulate that small piece. A good mashup will borrow a bunch of small pieces from a collection of different songs, and combine them in a unique way.
Is it good technically? Sure--- it's clean, the creator kept the images in sync; as the camera pans across the stage, the prole heads pass in front of the television, etc. Sure, good job. But don't call it imaginative.
Chairs? You have a CHAIR? You have SPACE in your server room for a chair? You lucky dog.
Heck, I count myself lucky if I can sit on a stepstool, and twist my body 45-degrees to reach keyboard tray propped on the server 18 inches above my shoulders
I don't want oxygen, but I do want one of your fancy, schmancy chairs. I bet it even has a back!
... but my Linksys router has enough trouble keeping up with the normal jobs it is supposed to be doing.
I had problems with my Linksys WRT54GL router also, with 7-8 "DSL outages" per month-- I thought that my DSL provider was to blame. Howevever, since I installed dd-wrt v23 SP2; I have had only 2-3 outages in the last three month; and two of those were caused by me tweaking the router and missing a step.
Apparently those "DSL Outages" were actually caused by problems with the Linksys Firmware. I have the same router, and the same DSL provider, but now I use a different Firmware.
I also run some extra software on this little box--- SNMP monitors for my Cacti/RRD performance graphs, Syslog, SSH, QoS, etc. It has been very stable.
Some people may need a new antenna. Rabbit ears are technically able to receive the UHF signals, but they may not be able to receive a high-quality signal.
Most of my channels are pretty snowy, but watchable. In the DTV world, a poor signal often means that the broadcast is unwatchable.
On the otherhand, a digital signal contains less information then an analog signal; so maybe rabbit ears will do a good job at receiving the digital signal.
We'll probably get a rooftop antenna before we buy a DTV. I don't want to spend $1000 on a HDTV, bring it home, install it and then find out I can't watch anything. What a letdown.
They can't sell it off until they move the current transmitters off. The receivers don't matter at all.
Well, if enough people don't replace their receivers, some broadcasters may fight too keep the analog transmitters going because they don't want to loose the customer base which still receives OTA analog broadcasts, which is something like 15% of television viewers. Other broadcasters will probably be fine with abandoning their old analog equipment.
Why is it the government's job to make sure people can still watch TV when the television converts to a new standard, but it wasn't the government's job to buy a new CD player for everybody when the CD took over from Vinyl records?
That's not a good analogy. With the DTV switchover, the Government is asking people to spend money in order to receive the same level of service. Sure, it has more pixels, but it's still just television.
* The CD wasn't mandated by the government, Digital Television is.
* I can still buy and play Vinyl records on my existing system without spending any money. After the DTV switchover, OTA TV consumers will need to spend money and buy a converter or a new television. There are few choices for a DTV converter, and most of them are not cheap. Rabbit ears probably aren't powerful enough to pull in a clean DTV signal, so many OTA consumers will also need to buy a better quality antenna.
* CDs can coexist with vinyl records. The Analog TV spectrum can't exist with the dozens of technologies which will eventually use the spectrum.
Heck, last week I found some Documentation discussing manual workarounds for Java 1.1 (Written around 2005, when several nations first passed their DST changes); although I can't find the link now, and I think you need a Sun Support Contract to view the documentation .
Can you spray them with Lysol to erase them in an emergency?
The information is included in the bacteria's DNA. Lysol will kill the bacteria, but leave the DNA intact.
I'm not sure what is in Lysol, but rubbing alcohol will not destroy DNA (at least not initially). Rubbing alcohol is one component in your Kitchen DNA Lab.
0. Diversify your holdings, especially your retirement accounts, to protect against market fluctuations. The stock markets will always go up and down for a thousand different reasons-- computer glitch, bad news, hummingbirds, whatever.
1. Computer switch-over is a bit slow 2. Market starts to waiver 3. Other parts of the market see this tremor so market waivers a lot 4. Panic ensues 5. Indices drop 10%
5a. If your investments are diversified, you will survive when the Indexes drop 10%. This is especially true for long-term investments. 6. Buy low. 7. Wait for a while. 8. Sell high. 9. Profit! 10. Enjoy your retirement.
My thoughts exactly-- If I pay $300 for a device, it should not lock me in to a proprietary interface.
If the iPod was offered as a USB Mass Storage Device, I could use Windows Explorer or the Linux Commandline, I won't be locked into their product line --- heck, Apple's competitors could create a user-friendly interface, so that I could easily download songs from Apple's competitors as well. The Competition will be good for consumers!
But then, will Apple drive everyone to their Tunes Music Store if my iPod interfaces with the Competition as well? Shocking!
Slashdot Mirror
Funny. I bet he thinks the same thing about you. I bet he's telling his rooster friends on Sqwackdot right now!
It seems like they are always misplacing shit.
Sheesh! Just trace the cable!
Hey, I may have a 5-digit Slashdot ID, but I'm not *that* old.
I did in '03, but then I lost my pencil.
Bah, in '03 we carved our own pencils from virgin old-growth redwood because there was plenty of trees, and poured our own pencil lead from pure lead--- none of those funny government regulations and wimpy graphite.
(And they he realized they were talking about the other '03-- 2003).
The cost of manufacturing and assembling such a huge mirror would be enormous, and risky.
Instead of creating a workaround solution up there, we'd be better off taking those hundreds of billions of dollars, and creating solutions down here, at less risk.
And somehow, I can never survive the explosion when I kill the big Boss named '1:init'...
A few months ago we were driving up I-5 in California.
We were stuck in a traffic jam on the road, a good 20 miles from the nearest town. I pulled out my laptop to scan for wireless signals, and see exactly how 'isolated' this area was.
Surprisingly, I found several Access Points with names like 'JetBlue1203' and 'JetBlue1609'. These signals would start at low-strength, the signal would grow stronger, peak for about 5 minutes, and then drop off in strength--- almost as if they were coming from an Airplane overhead.
I suppose these AP's could have come from some other car on the road; but people generally don't run Access Points in their Car.
Traffic was at a standstill--- if the signal was coming from a nearby house or from a car on our side of the road; I would expect the signal to remain level for a longer period of time.
If the signal was coming from a car on the opposite side of the road, I would expect the signal quality to rise and fall quickly. In fact, I could detect a number of 'Ad-Hoc' wireless signals from some misconfigured Laptops-- those signals would zoom by pretty quickly (other side of the road), or remain stable (My side of the road).
I never investigated these further, but I always assumed these 'JetBlue####' Access Points were from JetBlue Airplanes, and I was lucky enough to be within line-of-sight of these signals. The airplanes were a few miles above us, which seems pretty distant for a Wifi signal... But still these Access Points had names like 'JetBlue'. What the heck were they?
It's not quite a dupe. The previous article is about the "Top 10...". Can't we talk about individual projects in more detail?
Frankly, I'm happy this article was posted. It's right up my alley, and is much more relevant then the Video Game news which keeps creeping up to the Homepage.
I usually pass over any "Top 10..." article as hype; so I'm happy when someone highlights one of those systems. As a Sysadmin who uses Nagios, Cacti, syslog, nmap, etc. I'm really intrigued by Zenoss. It looks like might integrate a bunch of disparate tools into one set of tools.
And setup is far less manual.
This is my top complaint regarding Nagios. It's difficult to configure, and I constantly find myself at odds with the Nagios' configuration strategy. For example, I can't add a host definition without defining some services for that host. This makes sense at some level, but as I install a machine, sometimes I want to add the host definition as a 'placeholder', and define the services later., and the Nagios maintainer
I also like how Zenoss wraps the monitors and performance graphs together. Many OSS management products perform Availaity Monitoring, OR Performance monitoring. It's rare to find a project which does both--- why collect the data twice?
And Zenoss has gone one step further--- a monitoring system will often have the most complete system inventory; why not use the monitoring system as the canonical system inventory as well? With auto-discovery.
It beets maintaining some Excel Spreadsheet by hand, and it has more features then the typical Perl + nmap script.
Compare Apple's original 1984 video vs. the Parody video.
Apple Original 1984 video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo
Parody: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo
Would you call this "Where's the Beef" parody imaginative? Probably not---
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Sc0Wdi0Vi4
How much difference is there between the two videos? The parody borrows the vast majority of it's content from the original-- the faces, the cadence, the audio (except for Clinton's voice), the facial expressions are all exactly the same.
If I take a song, and change 5% of the song, I really can't go around claiming my new song is original, or call it a mashup, a blend or a cutup.
A good hip-hop, IDM, mashup, cutup, etc. song will usually only sample small pieces of the original, and manipulate that small piece. A good mashup will borrow a bunch of small pieces from a collection of different songs, and combine them in a unique way.
Is it good technically? Sure--- it's clean, the creator kept the images in sync; as the camera pans across the stage, the prole heads pass in front of the television, etc. Sure, good job. But don't call it imaginative.
Chairs? You have a CHAIR? You have SPACE in your server room for a chair? You lucky dog.
Heck, I count myself lucky if I can sit on a stepstool, and twist my body 45-degrees to reach keyboard tray propped on the server 18 inches above my shoulders
I don't want oxygen, but I do want one of your fancy, schmancy chairs. I bet it even has a back!
... but my Linksys router has enough trouble keeping up with the normal jobs it is supposed to be doing.
I had problems with my Linksys WRT54GL router also, with 7-8 "DSL outages" per month-- I thought that my DSL provider was to blame. Howevever, since I installed dd-wrt v23 SP2; I have had only 2-3 outages in the last three month; and two of those were caused by me tweaking the router and missing a step.
Apparently those "DSL Outages" were actually caused by problems with the Linksys Firmware. I have the same router, and the same DSL provider, but now I use a different Firmware.
I also run some extra software on this little box--- SNMP monitors for my Cacti/RRD performance graphs, Syslog, SSH, QoS, etc. It has been very stable.
Ok, fine.
Sure, it has better $SOMETHING, but it's still just television.
Some people may need a new antenna. Rabbit ears are technically able to receive the UHF signals, but they may not be able to receive a high-quality signal.
Most of my channels are pretty snowy, but watchable. In the DTV world, a poor signal often means that the broadcast is unwatchable.
On the otherhand, a digital signal contains less information then an analog signal; so maybe rabbit ears will do a good job at receiving the digital signal.
We'll probably get a rooftop antenna before we buy a DTV. I don't want to spend $1000 on a HDTV, bring it home, install it and then find out I can't watch anything. What a letdown.
They can't sell it off until they move the current transmitters off. The receivers don't matter at all.
Well, if enough people don't replace their receivers, some broadcasters may fight too keep the analog transmitters going because they don't want to loose the customer base which still receives OTA analog broadcasts, which is something like 15% of television viewers. Other broadcasters will probably be fine with abandoning their old analog equipment.
Why is it the government's job to make sure people can still watch TV when the television converts to a new standard, but it wasn't the government's job to buy a new CD player for everybody when the CD took over from Vinyl records?
That's not a good analogy. With the DTV switchover, the Government is asking people to spend money in order to receive the same level of service. Sure, it has more pixels, but it's still just television.
* The CD wasn't mandated by the government, Digital Television is.
* I can still buy and play Vinyl records on my existing system without spending any money. After the DTV switchover, OTA TV consumers will need to spend money and buy a converter or a new television. There are few choices for a DTV converter, and most of them are not cheap. Rabbit ears probably aren't powerful enough to pull in a clean DTV signal, so many OTA consumers will also need to buy a better quality antenna.
* CDs can coexist with vinyl records. The Analog TV spectrum can't exist with the dozens of technologies which will eventually use the spectrum.
I develop software for a living, but I've never been required to wear any particular costume.
Not true. I bet you're wearing a button-down shirt and slacks right now!
But it is OK, as long as you are not wearing a particularly violent or gruesome costume (Silk tie; sport jacket, etc).
Is there actually a patch from Redhat/Suse/etc for systems that are as old as Win2k available?
Sun offers patches for Solaris 8.
Heck, last week I found some Documentation discussing manual workarounds for Java 1.1 (Written around 2005, when several nations first passed their DST changes); although I can't find the link now, and I think you need a Sun Support Contract to view the documentation .
Same here.
Arg.
"You _will_ be sued..."
Can you spray them with Lysol to erase them in an emergency?
The information is included in the bacteria's DNA. Lysol will kill the bacteria, but leave the DNA intact.
I'm not sure what is in Lysol, but rubbing alcohol will not destroy DNA (at least not initially). Rubbing alcohol is one component in your Kitchen DNA Lab.
You be sued for patent violations when your DNA mutates.
0. Diversify your holdings, especially your retirement accounts, to protect against market fluctuations. The stock markets will always go up and down for a thousand different reasons-- computer glitch, bad news, hummingbirds, whatever.
1. Computer switch-over is a bit slow
2. Market starts to waiver
3. Other parts of the market see this tremor so market waivers a lot
4. Panic ensues
5. Indices drop 10%
5a. If your investments are diversified, you will survive when the Indexes drop 10%. This is especially true for long-term investments.
6. Buy low.
7. Wait for a while.
8. Sell high.
9. Profit!
10. Enjoy your retirement.
You need to install the Win XPBigMem Kernel to take advantage of the full 64-bit addressing space.
Cryptic perl is a myth. It's only cryptic if you don't understand it.
Cryptic 32-character hexadecimal MD5 hashes are a myth. It's only cryptic if you don't understand it.
My thoughts exactly-- If I pay $300 for a device, it should not lock me in to a proprietary interface.
If the iPod was offered as a USB Mass Storage Device, I could use Windows Explorer or the Linux Commandline, I won't be locked into their product line --- heck, Apple's competitors could create a user-friendly interface, so that I could easily download songs from Apple's competitors as well. The Competition will be good for consumers!
But then, will Apple drive everyone to their Tunes Music Store if my iPod interfaces with the Competition as well? Shocking!