It is not so long ago that you could share a few hundred GB of HDD space among a number of users (home directories, group directories) now it gets economical to share a similar amount or more on SSD. And no need for silly RAID controller cards anymore..
If the workstations run linux or BSD, why not forgo local storage : mount the root partitions from the network (they're mosly read-only, low level of activity anyway) Would be fun if they're on dedupe'd SSD storage, gigabit networking to the clients and 10Gbe "uplink" to the server.
Restaurant grease (filtered) will power a 1980s' diesel at ease but I wouldn't even try it on a modern, high pressure etc. diesel : you're likely to ruin it in bad ways. That's the worst "bio-diesel" - though it's also the best in terms of cheaply reusing something that's already around.
but apparently they have a lot of crack! It's not really my thing, though. I don't want to smoke their crack and find myself wanting it again. If I were Russian I would keep my crumbles, thanks.
Different DPI on monitors is not a trivial problem. It might get solved, but on a future version of Gnome, KDE or Cinnamon running on a future version of Wayland.
Edit by Clem: I’m not 100% sure, but I think that’s not possible with Xorg. The wayland developers talked about implementing this feature but although promising for the future, wayland is still too early to consider.
It is perhaps possible to hack up a partial solution by running a secondary X session or X server just for the second monitor. Would be fun if that works (although the two screens are now "islands" that only share the mouse pointer)
Yes. For one thing show them how a clean Windows 7 32bit looks (Aero Basic or Windows Classic?) and runs on the crappy old desktops, and how to deploy it. Probably with some "magical" network booting set up. "See, the DHCP can be set up to beam an installer or diagnostic tool on the network, if you press F12 on boot up". Have the technicians make "Oooohs" and "Aaaahs" and make feel them empowered ; try to have them do them this task. Tom Sawyer was tasked to paint the wooden fence, and he tricked the other children into wanting to do it.
Give control of DHCPs on network segments that only have desktops and printers then they will like collecting the MACs and entering them etc. and some dumb things like pinging the server or the printer. Wow them with the local DNS : with a cname alias, "printer1" is the same as "HPLSJ5M_ZORGBL" is the same as "192.168.3.81". Or so I imagine.
If it runs XP and 2003 then by definition it's unpatched. If the servers are ten years old and only do file shares, print server etc. I don't think the CPU is used much. Network may be entirely 100 BaseT.
It might be the right kind of boring, and the useless team of co-workers can be hired to play special Warcraft III maps or something.
$23 is meaninglessly small for 1MW capacity, it would mean a million dollar subsidy is to build 43.4 gigawatts of capacity. Not worth even bothering to apply for the subsidy.
I drove a turbodiesel a good time ago and the performance was such that getting more was meaningless. The damn thing would accelerate from 5th gear. Sure, an overpowered gasoline is better for reckless driving and scaring pedestrians at the traffic lights.
It is a breeder, but from reading the page it breeds with slow neutrons. (as do even regular reactors, but less fissile fuel is created than consumed) I did not know that.
Please, breeder reactors are severely overrated. They make stuff more complex and expensive - such as needing an extremely expensive processing plant on site, and there's no shortage of conventional nuclear "fuel".
Thus I would favor a very high temperature reactor that's a non-breeder and runs on uranium, though it has to get proven and to make a real difference you'd have to build 50 or 100 of ta given design, and quickly. For now I don't see how that will get done.
I agree, you can't get the atmospheric CO2 easily. That carbon is useless. On the other hand, you do have 80% N2 floating around, won't run out anytime soon.
Humans do silly thing like monoculture "replanting" forests that don't do that well (source : I read some stuff about that happening in China). Anyway : trees for fuel can sustain a Roman Empire or modern "pre-industrial" type of civilization, barely. So I wonder what would be the plan : wait 30 years for forests to grow, then divide the GDP by 50 and chop the trees slowly enough.
With the 1), where do you get the carbon from?:) Getting CO2 from the air is a challenge. The meaningful proposals use industrial waste CO2 such as in a cement factory. We should probably tap these "resources" and make carbon fuel with them but once done I don't see how the tech can be further scaled up.
Again, don't care. Sunlight is essentially infinite for my purposes.
It's infinite because why, you have a robot slave army that will build by the thousand square kilometers in deserts? And what will you power the robots with?
No, really. Doing some simple electrolysis and then converting the hydrogen for actual storage (chemically or liquefying) have a hideous energy cost. Though I'm interested in what you'd get with a breakthrough in electrolysis, combined with use of a "reverse fuel cell" to make ammonia, if not some form of methane or syngas.
Other would be very small scale and short term hydrogen : to power a flame under a frying pan or wok etc. Cooking can be electric or from other heat sources otherwise but for some of the tasks the good old gas flame is very nice. Making a flame on site from water and electricity would be nice.
There was Terminator 2, though with the artistic license that flesh is stripped to the bone leaving a distressed skeleton while the very weak fence it clings to is intact.
There's even a very good depiction of AI and computers as far as movies go lol.
My linux installation has backdoor software named something like "ssh", I'm extremely concerned that they would let such a glaring hole through. What can I do about it?
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Safe but you have to pay a lot of attention to not make it accidentally unsafe, thus.. sort of safe?
It is not so long ago that you could share a few hundred GB of HDD space among a number of users (home directories, group directories) now it gets economical to share a similar amount or more on SSD.
And no need for silly RAID controller cards anymore..
If the workstations run linux or BSD, why not forgo local storage : mount the root partitions from the network (they're mosly read-only, low level of activity anyway)
Would be fun if they're on dedupe'd SSD storage, gigabit networking to the clients and 10Gbe "uplink" to the server.
Restaurant grease (filtered) will power a 1980s' diesel at ease but I wouldn't even try it on a modern, high pressure etc. diesel : you're likely to ruin it in bad ways. That's the worst "bio-diesel" - though it's also the best in terms of cheaply reusing something that's already around.
but apparently they have a lot of crack!
It's not really my thing, though. I don't want to smoke their crack and find myself wanting it again. If I were Russian I would keep my crumbles, thanks.
Different DPI on monitors is not a trivial problem.
It might get solved, but on a future version of Gnome, KDE or Cinnamon running on a future version of Wayland.
A shameless quote from Clem here :
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2...
Edit by Clem: I’m not 100% sure, but I think that’s not possible with Xorg. The wayland developers talked about implementing this feature but although promising for the future, wayland is still too early to consider.
It is perhaps possible to hack up a partial solution by running a secondary X session or X server just for the second monitor. Would be fun if that works (although the two screens are now "islands" that only share the mouse pointer)
Yes. For one thing show them how a clean Windows 7 32bit looks (Aero Basic or Windows Classic?) and runs on the crappy old desktops, and how to deploy it. Probably with some "magical" network booting set up. "See, the DHCP can be set up to beam an installer or diagnostic tool on the network, if you press F12 on boot up". Have the technicians make "Oooohs" and "Aaaahs" and make feel them empowered ; try to have them do them this task. Tom Sawyer was tasked to paint the wooden fence, and he tricked the other children into wanting to do it.
Give control of DHCPs on network segments that only have desktops and printers then they will like collecting the MACs and entering them etc. and some dumb things like pinging the server or the printer. Wow them with the local DNS : with a cname alias, "printer1" is the same as "HPLSJ5M_ZORGBL" is the same as "192.168.3.81".
Or so I imagine.
If it runs XP and 2003 then by definition it's unpatched.
If the servers are ten years old and only do file shares, print server etc. I don't think the CPU is used much. Network may be entirely 100 BaseT.
It might be the right kind of boring, and the useless team of co-workers can be hired to play special Warcraft III maps or something.
$23 is meaninglessly small for 1MW capacity, it would mean a million dollar subsidy is to build 43.4 gigawatts of capacity. Not worth even bothering to apply for the subsidy.
I drove a turbodiesel a good time ago and the performance was such that getting more was meaningless. The damn thing would accelerate from 5th gear. Sure, an overpowered gasoline is better for reckless driving and scaring pedestrians at the traffic lights.
It is a breeder, but from reading the page it breeds with slow neutrons. (as do even regular reactors, but less fissile fuel is created than consumed)
I did not know that.
Blizzard is known to test its games on Wine, or so it seems. Like unofficial, untold support.
It will not long so long, because the AVG software will flag it and it will delete itself.
If Windows 7 does that, it's probably time to upgrade to Vista.
Run it while you still can.
RAID and NUMA are widespread on the cheap Dell servers.
Well, get a Xeon-D and run a PCIe SSD, no NUMA and no RAID. But that's bleeding edge hardware :)
What about mechanical lawn movers that you push, putting in motion blades that will cut the grass? Sounds fun.
Please, breeder reactors are severely overrated. They make stuff more complex and expensive - such as needing an extremely expensive processing plant on site, and there's no shortage of conventional nuclear "fuel".
Thus I would favor a very high temperature reactor that's a non-breeder and runs on uranium, though it has to get proven and to make a real difference you'd have to build 50 or 100 of ta given design, and quickly. For now I don't see how that will get done.
I agree, you can't get the atmospheric CO2 easily.
That carbon is useless. On the other hand, you do have 80% N2 floating around, won't run out anytime soon.
Humans do silly thing like monoculture "replanting" forests that don't do that well (source : I read some stuff about that happening in China). Anyway : trees for fuel can sustain a Roman Empire or modern "pre-industrial" type of civilization, barely.
So I wonder what would be the plan : wait 30 years for forests to grow, then divide the GDP by 50 and chop the trees slowly enough.
With the 1), where do you get the carbon from? :)
Getting CO2 from the air is a challenge. The meaningful proposals use industrial waste CO2 such as in a cement factory. We should probably tap these "resources" and make carbon fuel with them but once done I don't see how the tech can be further scaled up.
Again, don't care. Sunlight is essentially infinite for my purposes.
It's infinite because why, you have a robot slave army that will build by the thousand square kilometers in deserts? And what will you power the robots with?
No, really. Doing some simple electrolysis and then converting the hydrogen for actual storage (chemically or liquefying) have a hideous energy cost.
Though I'm interested in what you'd get with a breakthrough in electrolysis, combined with use of a "reverse fuel cell" to make ammonia, if not some form of methane or syngas.
Other would be very small scale and short term hydrogen : to power a flame under a frying pan or wok etc. Cooking can be electric or from other heat sources otherwise but for some of the tasks the good old gas flame is very nice. Making a flame on site from water and electricity would be nice.
There was Terminator 2, though with the artistic license that flesh is stripped to the bone leaving a distressed skeleton while the very weak fence it clings to is intact.
There's even a very good depiction of AI and computers as far as movies go lol.
To be more explicit vendors that make graphics card anywhere from 20 watts to 250 watts and more know at least something about cooling.
My linux installation has backdoor software named something like "ssh", I'm extremely concerned that they would let such a glaring hole through. What can I do about it?
What's more, the chip is called Broadwell-K not Broadwell-C. Even though model numbers end in C.