I have five letters from the Senate Finance chair, Chuck Grassley, from my voting residency state (live and work in Canada -WOOHOO!!!)
In all five of these letters he states that he has not found out yet whether or not bombs containing tonnes and tonnes of depleted Uranium were utilized in the newer bunker busting bombs used in Afghanistan and Iraq. (note - this is seperate from the 500 tonnes in GW1, 300 tonnes in Kosovo, 300 tonnes in Afghanistan, 600 tonnes in Gulf War II, Okinawa, and Vieques Island used in antitank weaponry the last 15 or so years). But he keeps stating that he is asking the Pentagon about that.
That is the Senate Finance chair. I first mailed him about this in March of 2003.
This is a big deal. Canadian GWI troops had depleted uranium in their piss two years after the fact in mass spectroscopy studies - no studies done like that in the US.
Depleted Uranium is pyrophoric and burns so hot that over 90% of it is converted into 1 micorn or smaller particles which exhibit brownian motion. It floats in the air for years and then when ingested - whammo - five six years later big spike in certain leukemias and kidney cancers - especially in children.
How can the Senate even be a part of the debate of whether to expand the broadcast usage of a chemical and radiological poison from anti-tank munitions outside of cities usually to urban environments with the bunker busters if they do not even know if it is occuring?
There can be no democracy if the House and Senate do not receive information or they are given hideously incorrect info.
Wo, letter writing is semi ineffectual at best. For me it is catharsis. Sen. Chuck did help with my pacifist friends in Des Moines who were indicted by a rogue Federal Grand Jury over a "terrorism" investigation, that was quashed. And Sen. Grassley did do a lot to try and aid the sacked FBI translator - although just recently Ashcroft made it illegal to post even previously public information about her 9/11 information.
The point is - some of us do do these things, have been doing it for twenty or so years, and things just keep getting worse. It is going to take a bit more than letter writing.
Peace, Mark
This is an extremeley dark and dismal day, and I do not mean the weather up here in Winnipeg in Canada.
I am a US citizen and I hope and pray to God I never work in the US again. I have found a home here and am doing the paperwork to live here permanently.
I lived and workd with the homeless for six years, and lived with numerous veterans, for three years with 12 to fifteen Korean war vets and two to five Vietnam vets. I have been living and working with the mentally challenged since 1991 as that is much easier.
Look up Martin Niemoller. Look up Bonhoeffer. Look up The White Rose.
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.
I can't speak up anymore, my voice is shot. Kathy Kelly, three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize just got out of Pekin FCI for protesting US torture facilities. Sr. Anne Montgomery is due for jail when she comes back from Iraq probably for her work there with Christian Peacemakers Teams spotlighting US torture. (Her Canadian coworkers don't have to worry about that. My friend John is going into jail for six months soon for antinuclear activities. Sr. Dorothy Henessey got out of jail a while back for protesting US torture training facilities in Georgia awhile back, she was 79. Sr. Gwen Henessey also did six months there awhile back, I would not be surprised if she goes back in again soon.
No, dark days indeed. I wash my hands of the US war crimes and it's slide to facism.
amd dx-4100
green mobo
Looking at pictures and manuals, looking at pictures and manuals. Ended up installing it 180 degrees incorrect
Did it twice. On two different mother boards No smoke. Just nothing happened. Mother boards were junk though.
Took it into a shop. They didn't even charge me
What with the aes padlock - does the chip have a FPU?
Are they going to start bringing the prices down.
The ECS Ubuddy was dirt cheap, but ECS abandoned ITX. I spent 12 weeks in RIA hell, finally got a Ubuddy with a new mobo that I had to put a P-4 in. Oh well.
Is their linux drivers better - was hell getting Mndrake 8.2 and 9.1 up on the 733 mhz mobo? I finally got a machine that rocked, and then the fan was spluttering and ECS eventually said they abandoned that mobo due to the voltage regulator.
Oh well,
Mark
That is the answer. Running DC to the computers. California, Texas, Arizona, etc., etc. If you want the cleanest power - hey - I'm talking sine waves here - brew your own DC on the rooftop, around the office, and put in some batteries. Mobile AL has some of the dirtiest power for being brown (undervoltage) and jagged what with all the lightning strikes. Computers last longer with cleaner power.
So it is just a little bit more expensive. It means that you have more control over your system. If shit happens, your puters are still up.
It should be the wave of the future, but then Reagan gutted aid to solar power in the 1980's.
Well, I was shocked to log into Yahoo and see that I had TWO GB. I upgraded almost two years ago after throwing around a thesis or two for proofreading, and shit, I don't ever expect to fill it up. POP has a glitch, it has that now also, but not yet for me.
The Akamai thing hit hard though, I was throwing another thesis to proof back and forth while that DDOS thng was going down.
Still, I like Yahoo
KDI comes with too much stuff for me. What can I slice off in 3.1 besides games.
And in 3.2 - is everything all bundled together or is that just a incorrect first glimpse at the install of Mand 10 official. (BTW - why should the install of Mand 10 go well on a K2@-350 with 192 mg ram and then crap out on an install of 10 official?)
I suppose it is beginning to make more sense to just go recompile to kernel 2.6 in Mandrake 9.2 to get the better USB etc (really like kernel 2.6) and stay with KD! 3.1 that has less stuff associated with it.
Open office - yeah big wait for the first time, but real quick for opening new ones. I can live with that.
Shalom
There is another side to the coin. Some guy in Mobile AL laughed when a 12 year old held him up. He was a little surprised when he got shot.
Moi, when I got mugged the guy cleared his throat as I had the key in the door. He had an impecable stance with the exception that he was going for a head shot, but then mugging is partly psychological. SHIT YES, I GAVE HIM EVERYTHING. During the process both of us were not sure if I was going to live. Note - the man was raised, he never raised his voice or used any profanity to me, he just said, "I gotta have it all." Drugs do that to people.
Remember, you attacker is probably not in a good frame of mind after who knows how many days caught up in the grip of whatever chemical is their choice, and craving it and has used up every other way of scoring that involves less risk to him/her.
On another note, I had lived six years previous living in, helping to run and even owning for 18 months homeless shelters. I was never hit - I can read people. Some of y'all might not be as gifted in this regard. If you are not friends with people who have been in your attackers cultural milieu, you might make a mistake about how they say things.
Why risk your life. Any doubt at all, give it up.
Of course that is not to, well say you are coming back from church on Sunday. Some woman jumps into your car at a stop sign and is trying real hard to get you to purchase her mouth for 6 minutes and you spend 5 minutes trying to get rid of her and you end up at a place that is semi secure and when you say, "No, Out." and she replies "I've got a gun" - well if you are absolutely and totally positive she does not, well I said, "Bitch, you could get killed saying that to the wrong person." - but you had better be absolutely sure and be able to say it with a trace of smile on your face.
shalom, mark
Canada, very multicultural non profit residential setting.
yeah, got in a whole bunch of P-Pro Seanix with 32 to 64 mb ram, 2.5 gb hdd. Little bit small on hdd for a modern Linux distro. The Kenyans, Chileans, the Germans, the Brits, all but one prefer Win 98 to Mandrake 9.2 on my p-4 2.4 ghz. 5 of 6 houses standardized on Win98. BUT - ha, I did load Open Office on all of them - so they are seeing a little bit of open software. Opera also installed - some are starting to like it better than IE.
one just does ones best - but it is going to be a long haul for BSD/Linux domination in North America.
I got the last of the bargain basement Linux WP, just a bugger to install, did not use. Realllly difficult, conflicts, not worth the hassle. Web site not great for support either. Tried WP8 - no not good enough.
I liked WP2000 in Windows, I would have loved to use it in Linux, but they will just screw it up again.
And why not MacoX?
No, they keep shooting themselves in the foot.
Was posted on previously -/. August 19th.
Me, I know it is a April fools joke.
However, I lived with the homeless for 6 years. Many of the people I lived long term with were either Korean War vets or Vietnam War vets.
I found that easier than doing the family side end of it. You never get it out of your head the eyes of some of the homeless kids. It has been 13 years since I lived with the homeless. Best thing I ever did was sell my homeless shelter (Rufus Jones House) to Catholic Social Services for $5. St. Joseph's house has been full ever since of homeless families.
And so it is an April Fools' joke. It will be no joke if trends in Yank politics continue,
signing off, one US citizen working on landed residency in Canada.
Yeah, why saddle someone with an offensive name. Yes, I know what Frigga means.
There was a high school basketball player in Iowa once named Fonda Dicks. That is one cruel father. And in my high school in the 1970's a guy moved into town and was in my class. His dad the Rev. Frost named his son Jack.
It is rough enough being a kid. Going through life with a joke is beyond the pale.
The original poster needs to get beyond a portion of his persona and start embracing the persona called "DAD". He needs to start embracing another part that is called "partner" and listen to his partner.
If he really wants to be cute - he can change his own name to a more geeklike persona.
Shalom,
Really really glad I got out of the states for a while, maybe longer.
None of my money went to the war crime of dispersing one micron depleted uranium mixed in with transuranics (military waste stream) in the bunker busters used on urban targets. I have 4 friends who saw the childrens oncology wards in Basra in the mid 1990's as the wave of childrens kidney cancers and certain specific leukemias started popping up.
Five six years from now there will be a new wave of childrens cancers in Iraq. (Also Kosovo and Afghanistan.)
Other friends of mine just got back from Iraq via Christian Peacemakers team. Bechtel is building five huge military bases and probably building it halfway decent. However their contract to rebuild and renovate schools can only be characterized as theft.
No money for Hubbell but lots of money for Bechtel and Halliburton.
It was really really nice to send my tax dollars to Canada, where they need bake sales to help finance their military.
FBI is not too busy to indict my pacifist friends in Des Moines Iowa to go in front of a federal grand jury. It took two senators and numerous college presidents (the meeting in question was an open meeting at Drake University) to have the feds drop the subpoena on a Quaker, a Catholic and a Methodist. No, they waste their time on bullshit way too often and do not go after things tht would be quite solvable.
Priorities of police and feds are often skewed by various types of politics.
Both. VIA's support for linux compatibility for sound, video, etc has been poor and slow on the itx boards. Also if there are so many rma returns that new egg and numerous other consumer outlets stop selling itx boards and say that it is doubtful if they will again begs the question if the itx initial kinks have been worked out.
Is the itx ready for Linux or real life yet.
I bought a 733 mhz.
It was a total pain to install many kernels several months back, finally Mandrake 9.1 went well. The power regulation on the board went bad on me. I had to wait 12!! weeks in RMA HELL (and then you get a P-4 because ECS has apparently abandoned itx due to numerous returns).
Then there is all the poorly supported on board video, sound, etc. Also malloc problems and other little problems when./ ing source.
Yes, you can get the sound and video and USB up and running, get the right libraries, but it was quite a bit of tweaking.
So, is the itx form factor ready for prime time yet? I really enjoyed it after I had it up and running, until the fan made a noise and it vanished into RMA hell.
That OpenBSD goes on does impress me. I did put FreeBSD 5.0 up for a bit in desperation, and it hiccuped on me big time, but finally Mandrake 9.1 went on.
Shalom,
if i remember rightly, the woods hole page about this was much more informative and had really readable data rich graphs and tables about this.
google of my memory yields
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/ climatechange_wef.html
was one of the most interesting and thought out pieces I have seen in/. from past.
I remember very well when Erwin Knoll came to Luther College and talked about their struggle to present information gleaned from "open sources" which yielded some important insights about fission-fusion-fission devices. I was impressed.
But Sam Day, now there was a man. He was editor for a while of the Bulletin of the American Atomic Scientists magazine (renamed slightly since) way back when. But his work with the Progessive Foundation and Nukewatch in aiding the mapping of all 1000 ICBM's in the US, tracking Trident warheads on trains and then by semis, groundbreaking work in releasing critical information to the the people. He believed that knowledge wants to be free.
And Sam was a warrior, a Gandhian Kingian warrior who was not afraid to risk time in jail and lost his eyesight in the pen.
Heres to you Sam,
Shalom,
Mark R
I was in RMA hell for 12 weeks with a via-itx.
I would go back to it, but bottom feeding ECS said board had been problems and they gave me a P-4 barebones with my old hard drive back.
VIA - itx still have a few kinks to work out on the itx line and their linux support and drivers still needs help - just look on the via-arena.
A different video than a C-media or whatever problematic video chip they attach to the board that would work seamlessly with XFree86 would be nice and why bundle a winmodem with a distro empty machine.
The USB driver was very rocky from the start, finally installing the driver via Win98 (I dual boot, I have people from all over the planet using my machine here at a L'Arche house) finally fixed that, etc. etc. little niggling things.
Oh not to mention the malloc stuff in compiles, and the pickiness of distros to correctly identify the VIA cyrix chip.
So it is $1395 USD. If it works out of the box and functions 24/7, well, hopefully the price will go down. The ITX is not just a walk down the park. It is sweet, but a pain to get linux (or FreeBSD for that manner, I had problems withthat also) just exactly the way you want it and some of the companies distributing it do not have stellar track records for service.
Shalom, Mark
One of the "downfalls" of generating your own electricity is that you have to convert to a/c via an inverter for most of your houses needs. However in the computing field, it is basically all dc.
With the hoped for drop in cost of photovoltaics, hopefully more smaller shops in sunny climes will set up photovoltaics and a battery system. You can get "pristine" electricity - instead of the dirty brown voltage swings of the grid. You do have a line conditioner don't you?
If you have a lot of puters, eliminating the ac to dc portion to supply them makes more sense in the long run.
So why talk about the "socialist" aspects of regulating electricity when you might be able to do a mild foot in the water of entering syndical anarchy and taking care of yourself.
Shalom,
Mark
You could always go with a fanless computer, some of the VIA itx mobos with the slower processors need no fan.
USB 2.0 is not yet enabled
in 2.4 kernel to best of my knowledge, but can be put is as a module.
But definitely - keep some Firewire options open
shalom,
I used it heavily for years until, well, all things must pass.
And not I left the lab, so did not replace.
So finally I go looking to recapture some of my youthful splendor, and seeing the "enter" on the 30S purchased. Alas, I cannot figure out how to get it to do RPN.
Any comments about what I must do to get the 30 to do RPN or was I taken in by the enter key.
Shalom,
mark
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I have five letters from the Senate Finance chair, Chuck Grassley, from my voting residency state (live and work in Canada -WOOHOO!!!) In all five of these letters he states that he has not found out yet whether or not bombs containing tonnes and tonnes of depleted Uranium were utilized in the newer bunker busting bombs used in Afghanistan and Iraq. (note - this is seperate from the 500 tonnes in GW1, 300 tonnes in Kosovo, 300 tonnes in Afghanistan, 600 tonnes in Gulf War II, Okinawa, and Vieques Island used in antitank weaponry the last 15 or so years). But he keeps stating that he is asking the Pentagon about that. That is the Senate Finance chair. I first mailed him about this in March of 2003. This is a big deal. Canadian GWI troops had depleted uranium in their piss two years after the fact in mass spectroscopy studies - no studies done like that in the US. Depleted Uranium is pyrophoric and burns so hot that over 90% of it is converted into 1 micorn or smaller particles which exhibit brownian motion. It floats in the air for years and then when ingested - whammo - five six years later big spike in certain leukemias and kidney cancers - especially in children. How can the Senate even be a part of the debate of whether to expand the broadcast usage of a chemical and radiological poison from anti-tank munitions outside of cities usually to urban environments with the bunker busters if they do not even know if it is occuring? There can be no democracy if the House and Senate do not receive information or they are given hideously incorrect info. Wo, letter writing is semi ineffectual at best. For me it is catharsis. Sen. Chuck did help with my pacifist friends in Des Moines who were indicted by a rogue Federal Grand Jury over a "terrorism" investigation, that was quashed. And Sen. Grassley did do a lot to try and aid the sacked FBI translator - although just recently Ashcroft made it illegal to post even previously public information about her 9/11 information. The point is - some of us do do these things, have been doing it for twenty or so years, and things just keep getting worse. It is going to take a bit more than letter writing. Peace, Mark
This is an extremeley dark and dismal day, and I do not mean the weather up here in Winnipeg in Canada. I am a US citizen and I hope and pray to God I never work in the US again. I have found a home here and am doing the paperwork to live here permanently. I lived and workd with the homeless for six years, and lived with numerous veterans, for three years with 12 to fifteen Korean war vets and two to five Vietnam vets. I have been living and working with the mentally challenged since 1991 as that is much easier. Look up Martin Niemoller. Look up Bonhoeffer. Look up The White Rose. In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. I can't speak up anymore, my voice is shot. Kathy Kelly, three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize just got out of Pekin FCI for protesting US torture facilities. Sr. Anne Montgomery is due for jail when she comes back from Iraq probably for her work there with Christian Peacemakers Teams spotlighting US torture. (Her Canadian coworkers don't have to worry about that. My friend John is going into jail for six months soon for antinuclear activities. Sr. Dorothy Henessey got out of jail a while back for protesting US torture training facilities in Georgia awhile back, she was 79. Sr. Gwen Henessey also did six months there awhile back, I would not be surprised if she goes back in again soon. No, dark days indeed. I wash my hands of the US war crimes and it's slide to facism.
any nice plugins for opera?
amd dx-4100 green mobo Looking at pictures and manuals, looking at pictures and manuals. Ended up installing it 180 degrees incorrect Did it twice. On two different mother boards No smoke. Just nothing happened. Mother boards were junk though. Took it into a shop. They didn't even charge me
What with the aes padlock - does the chip have a FPU? Are they going to start bringing the prices down. The ECS Ubuddy was dirt cheap, but ECS abandoned ITX. I spent 12 weeks in RIA hell, finally got a Ubuddy with a new mobo that I had to put a P-4 in. Oh well. Is their linux drivers better - was hell getting Mndrake 8.2 and 9.1 up on the 733 mhz mobo? I finally got a machine that rocked, and then the fan was spluttering and ECS eventually said they abandoned that mobo due to the voltage regulator. Oh well, Mark
I just discovered lmp3 today - ncurses, when I noticed how huge xmms was and libraries. Liking it. Is mp3blaster better enough to install that
That is the answer. Running DC to the computers. California, Texas, Arizona, etc., etc. If you want the cleanest power - hey - I'm talking sine waves here - brew your own DC on the rooftop, around the office, and put in some batteries. Mobile AL has some of the dirtiest power for being brown (undervoltage) and jagged what with all the lightning strikes. Computers last longer with cleaner power. So it is just a little bit more expensive. It means that you have more control over your system. If shit happens, your puters are still up. It should be the wave of the future, but then Reagan gutted aid to solar power in the 1980's.
Well, I was shocked to log into Yahoo and see that I had TWO GB. I upgraded almost two years ago after throwing around a thesis or two for proofreading, and shit, I don't ever expect to fill it up. POP has a glitch, it has that now also, but not yet for me. The Akamai thing hit hard though, I was throwing another thesis to proof back and forth while that DDOS thng was going down. Still, I like Yahoo
KDI comes with too much stuff for me. What can I slice off in 3.1 besides games. And in 3.2 - is everything all bundled together or is that just a incorrect first glimpse at the install of Mand 10 official. (BTW - why should the install of Mand 10 go well on a K2@-350 with 192 mg ram and then crap out on an install of 10 official?) I suppose it is beginning to make more sense to just go recompile to kernel 2.6 in Mandrake 9.2 to get the better USB etc (really like kernel 2.6) and stay with KD! 3.1 that has less stuff associated with it. Open office - yeah big wait for the first time, but real quick for opening new ones. I can live with that. Shalom
There is another side to the coin. Some guy in Mobile AL laughed when a 12 year old held him up. He was a little surprised when he got shot. Moi, when I got mugged the guy cleared his throat as I had the key in the door. He had an impecable stance with the exception that he was going for a head shot, but then mugging is partly psychological. SHIT YES, I GAVE HIM EVERYTHING. During the process both of us were not sure if I was going to live. Note - the man was raised, he never raised his voice or used any profanity to me, he just said, "I gotta have it all." Drugs do that to people. Remember, you attacker is probably not in a good frame of mind after who knows how many days caught up in the grip of whatever chemical is their choice, and craving it and has used up every other way of scoring that involves less risk to him/her. On another note, I had lived six years previous living in, helping to run and even owning for 18 months homeless shelters. I was never hit - I can read people. Some of y'all might not be as gifted in this regard. If you are not friends with people who have been in your attackers cultural milieu, you might make a mistake about how they say things. Why risk your life. Any doubt at all, give it up. Of course that is not to, well say you are coming back from church on Sunday. Some woman jumps into your car at a stop sign and is trying real hard to get you to purchase her mouth for 6 minutes and you spend 5 minutes trying to get rid of her and you end up at a place that is semi secure and when you say, "No, Out." and she replies "I've got a gun" - well if you are absolutely and totally positive she does not, well I said, "Bitch, you could get killed saying that to the wrong person." - but you had better be absolutely sure and be able to say it with a trace of smile on your face. shalom, mark
Canada, very multicultural non profit residential setting. yeah, got in a whole bunch of P-Pro Seanix with 32 to 64 mb ram, 2.5 gb hdd. Little bit small on hdd for a modern Linux distro. The Kenyans, Chileans, the Germans, the Brits, all but one prefer Win 98 to Mandrake 9.2 on my p-4 2.4 ghz. 5 of 6 houses standardized on Win98. BUT - ha, I did load Open Office on all of them - so they are seeing a little bit of open software. Opera also installed - some are starting to like it better than IE. one just does ones best - but it is going to be a long haul for BSD/Linux domination in North America.
I got the last of the bargain basement Linux WP, just a bugger to install, did not use. Realllly difficult, conflicts, not worth the hassle. Web site not great for support either. Tried WP8 - no not good enough. I liked WP2000 in Windows, I would have loved to use it in Linux, but they will just screw it up again. And why not MacoX? No, they keep shooting themselves in the foot.
Was posted on previously - /. August 19th.
Me, I know it is a April fools joke.
However, I lived with the homeless for 6 years. Many of the people I lived long term with were either Korean War vets or Vietnam War vets.
I found that easier than doing the family side end of it. You never get it out of your head the eyes of some of the homeless kids. It has been 13 years since I lived with the homeless. Best thing I ever did was sell my homeless shelter (Rufus Jones House) to Catholic Social Services for $5. St. Joseph's house has been full ever since of homeless families.
And so it is an April Fools' joke. It will be no joke if trends in Yank politics continue,
signing off, one US citizen working on landed residency in Canada.
Yeah, why saddle someone with an offensive name. Yes, I know what Frigga means. There was a high school basketball player in Iowa once named Fonda Dicks. That is one cruel father. And in my high school in the 1970's a guy moved into town and was in my class. His dad the Rev. Frost named his son Jack. It is rough enough being a kid. Going through life with a joke is beyond the pale. The original poster needs to get beyond a portion of his persona and start embracing the persona called "DAD". He needs to start embracing another part that is called "partner" and listen to his partner. If he really wants to be cute - he can change his own name to a more geeklike persona. Shalom,
Amen to that.
Really really glad I got out of the states for a while, maybe longer.
None of my money went to the war crime of dispersing one micron depleted uranium mixed in with transuranics (military waste stream) in the bunker busters used on urban targets. I have 4 friends who saw the childrens oncology wards in Basra in the mid 1990's as the wave of childrens kidney cancers and certain specific leukemias started popping up.
Five six years from now there will be a new wave of childrens cancers in Iraq. (Also Kosovo and Afghanistan.)
Other friends of mine just got back from Iraq via Christian Peacemakers team. Bechtel is building five huge military bases and probably building it halfway decent. However their contract to rebuild and renovate schools can only be characterized as theft.
No money for Hubbell but lots of money for Bechtel and Halliburton.
It was really really nice to send my tax dollars to Canada, where they need bake sales to help finance their military.
Shalom,
FBI is not too busy to indict my pacifist friends in Des Moines Iowa to go in front of a federal grand jury. It took two senators and numerous college presidents (the meeting in question was an open meeting at Drake University) to have the feds drop the subpoena on a Quaker, a Catholic and a Methodist. No, they waste their time on bullshit way too often and do not go after things tht would be quite solvable. Priorities of police and feds are often skewed by various types of politics.
Both. VIA's support for linux compatibility for sound, video, etc has been poor and slow on the itx boards. Also if there are so many rma returns that new egg and numerous other consumer outlets stop selling itx boards and say that it is doubtful if they will again begs the question if the itx initial kinks have been worked out.
Is the itx ready for Linux or real life yet. I bought a 733 mhz. It was a total pain to install many kernels several months back, finally Mandrake 9.1 went well. The power regulation on the board went bad on me. I had to wait 12!! weeks in RMA HELL (and then you get a P-4 because ECS has apparently abandoned itx due to numerous returns). Then there is all the poorly supported on board video, sound, etc. Also malloc problems and other little problems when ./ ing source.
Yes, you can get the sound and video and USB up and running, get the right libraries, but it was quite a bit of tweaking.
So, is the itx form factor ready for prime time yet? I really enjoyed it after I had it up and running, until the fan made a noise and it vanished into RMA hell.
That OpenBSD goes on does impress me. I did put FreeBSD 5.0 up for a bit in desperation, and it hiccuped on me big time, but finally Mandrake 9.1 went on.
Shalom,
if i remember rightly, the woods hole page about this was much more informative and had really readable data rich graphs and tables about this. google of my memory yields http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/ climatechange_wef.html
was one of the most interesting and thought out pieces I have seen in /. from past.
I remember very well when Erwin Knoll came to Luther College and talked about their struggle to present information gleaned from "open sources" which yielded some important insights about fission-fusion-fission devices. I was impressed. But Sam Day, now there was a man. He was editor for a while of the Bulletin of the American Atomic Scientists magazine (renamed slightly since) way back when. But his work with the Progessive Foundation and Nukewatch in aiding the mapping of all 1000 ICBM's in the US, tracking Trident warheads on trains and then by semis, groundbreaking work in releasing critical information to the the people. He believed that knowledge wants to be free. And Sam was a warrior, a Gandhian Kingian warrior who was not afraid to risk time in jail and lost his eyesight in the pen. Heres to you Sam, Shalom, Mark R
I was in RMA hell for 12 weeks with a via-itx. I would go back to it, but bottom feeding ECS said board had been problems and they gave me a P-4 barebones with my old hard drive back. VIA - itx still have a few kinks to work out on the itx line and their linux support and drivers still needs help - just look on the via-arena. A different video than a C-media or whatever problematic video chip they attach to the board that would work seamlessly with XFree86 would be nice and why bundle a winmodem with a distro empty machine. The USB driver was very rocky from the start, finally installing the driver via Win98 (I dual boot, I have people from all over the planet using my machine here at a L'Arche house) finally fixed that, etc. etc. little niggling things. Oh not to mention the malloc stuff in compiles, and the pickiness of distros to correctly identify the VIA cyrix chip. So it is $1395 USD. If it works out of the box and functions 24/7, well, hopefully the price will go down. The ITX is not just a walk down the park. It is sweet, but a pain to get linux (or FreeBSD for that manner, I had problems withthat also) just exactly the way you want it and some of the companies distributing it do not have stellar track records for service. Shalom, Mark
One of the "downfalls" of generating your own electricity is that you have to convert to a/c via an inverter for most of your houses needs. However in the computing field, it is basically all dc. With the hoped for drop in cost of photovoltaics, hopefully more smaller shops in sunny climes will set up photovoltaics and a battery system. You can get "pristine" electricity - instead of the dirty brown voltage swings of the grid. You do have a line conditioner don't you? If you have a lot of puters, eliminating the ac to dc portion to supply them makes more sense in the long run. So why talk about the "socialist" aspects of regulating electricity when you might be able to do a mild foot in the water of entering syndical anarchy and taking care of yourself. Shalom, Mark
You could always go with a fanless computer, some of the VIA itx mobos with the slower processors need no fan. USB 2.0 is not yet enabled in 2.4 kernel to best of my knowledge, but can be put is as a module. But definitely - keep some Firewire options open shalom,
They don't get it. Preciated the comment.
I used it heavily for years until, well, all things must pass. And not I left the lab, so did not replace. So finally I go looking to recapture some of my youthful splendor, and seeing the "enter" on the 30S purchased. Alas, I cannot figure out how to get it to do RPN. Any comments about what I must do to get the 30 to do RPN or was I taken in by the enter key. Shalom, mark