Not everyone is a *nix geek. Yes there is a linux way to do things but not everyone wants to deal with that. There is an OS X and a Windows version.
I bought my sister, brother and myself a version of Orbicle's Undercover which does everything this does and a bit more. It'll take pictures of the thieves (if your Mac has a built in iSight), change contrast, etc.)
I was pondering making my own group of shell scripts do do something similar. curl -O mywebsite/stolen.txt. Leave it at a 0, then make it a 1 when my laptop is stolen. Then have it do weird stuff. isightcapture can record pictures of someone as soon as the lid opens or during invalid login attempts. There are apple scripts to change the monitor contrast, computer volume, say stuff. (All of which Undercover does).
As soon as it detects it is in an Apple Store (by host name) it cranks the volume up and announces "This laptop is stolen. This laptop is stolen."
I thought about how much work that would take and I thought, meh. I'm watching TV and bought Undercover.
Finally, this is open source. Isn't that what the slashdot crowd bitches about most "ZOMG IT'S NOT OPEN SOURCE BURNNN". Someone took the time to build an installer for 3 different systems, make it so it used a DHS so you didn't have to configure FTP settings (You know not everyone has a my.website that they can read logs on daily) and all 1/2 the people here can do is bitch about how stupid it is or easy it could be to do with cron.
Thieves are stupid. Most will boot the machine and use it. Look at Orbiclue's "success stories." One thief loaded WoW then tried to delete all the personal files of the person. This isn't going to stop a corporate hacker but the jackass that breaks into your car, you might have a chance.
GTL is looking to be the next "big thing" bio-fuels. Now I'm not saying that this guy has figured out all the hard stuff that is holding big corporations back, but there's a chance.
Perfectly wrong use for a database. This is real time, time based data. Matlab is the perfect tool for this. I currently play with 1M+ data sets (50 kHz sampling for 20 seconds or more).
Matlab will do all the FFT, filtering and data manipulation you want before you can blink.
The LAST thing you want is to dump this into a MySQL database. "Ok, give me the data for 0.005, ok 0.010".
Excel is ALSO the wrong tool for the job. As you said 65,000 limit. If I need to do a low pass filter there is no easy way in Excel.
and since the spectroscope itself has nothing but windows applications, none of them is capable of displaying the saved samples.
You mean Matlab isn't a windows application? Just because Excel defaults to opening CSV doesn't mean that's what they intended you to open it in. Matlab will read it perfectly fine with csvread.
Again, this is NOT something you use a database for.
And if you spent that much on a Windows based scope whom ever bought it needs to be shot. Yokogawa makes some awesome equipment. We have a DL750 that I use for about everything. Up to 1MS/s (one channel), real time acquisition, numerous input blocks. They even have a hacked together scripting language so I can create a VBA program to give to our test cell operators so I don't have to click "start, record, save" etc. I don't remember what we paid for ours but even with a few cards I know it was less than $30k.
There has to be a company out there that makes spectroscopes for less than that.
Try it yourself: stick two leads from a 9V battery into water in a jar and watch bubbles of oxygen and hydrogen arise from the two leads. Now place a flame over the top of the jar.
No, on second thought, don't do that unless you're in a lab with a flame cabinet and are experienced with lab techniques. But still.
I did this once, in 4th grade. A 9V won't make much of anything. If you didn't time it just right everything you made (At most a bell jar full) it was gone.
And to the other reply, what do you plan on 'burning' with the O2?
... that gasoline is extremely flammable, often explosive, and very dangerous to work with.
If I spilled 1 gallon of H2 vs 1 gallon of gasoline I'd be a whole lot less careful. The H2 would be gone in an outdoor setting (or with an open garage) in a matter of seconds.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Every day I wish more that this is going to be during my lifetime.
Sadly I don't see such a revolution happening again. In the past you got a quite a few guys with weapons and you were about equal. I look around at non violent drug offenders being locked up. Abuse of power by all 3 branches. A minority of public that actually knows what is going on and a majority that wants to know when the next American Idol starts.
If I were to get a few hundred people together and try to split off I'm sure the Police, National Guard, US Army would have something to say. I'd be locked away for life for "Terrorism". If I blew up a few buildings (killing no one), I'd be a terrorist. If I organized a protest I'd be locked in the corner and labeled a nut.
There have been revolutions against insurmountable odds, but I don't think there has been any army in history that is as one sided as what the US currently has.
Which is a perfectly good way to ruin a new diesel engine.
WVO/SVO is great in theory, but once you add modern high pressure common rail or unit injector fuel systems WVO causes nothing but havoc. There are numerous reports of failures on WVO/SVO. Injectors sticking open and burning holes in pistons, etc.
Keep your WVO/SVO for your 80's Benz. The future will be GTL and designer BioD.
It comes from Deep Space Homer, an episode of the simpsons that first aired on February 24, 1994.
Spoiler: When in space Homer flies into the Ant colony, breaking it open sending Ants everywhere. The ants make it onto the camera. Since the ants are so close to the camera, they appear very large. Kent Brockman (the Simpsons news anchor) then says "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords".
A note on the 2nd trick. You have to be of greater than a certain intelligence. I used a Chem book 2-3 editions old for Chem I/II (It's freaking chemistry...). I couldn't use any of the "Turn to page XXXX" instructions. Homework never came from the book (there was no homework).
Worst case was they re arranged the chapters. Chapter 4: Reactions was now Chapter 14: Reactions. You have to be smart enough to know how to use a table of contents. I suggested this to my brother (freshmen last year) and it was lost on him. He broke down and ended up buying a book.
One more: Buy from Half.com EARLY. Most large schools will post their required books before the end of the previous semester. Now is prime time to be shopping. You'll have them for the first day of school and know well ahead of time if they'll work.
Last resort: For all my engineering books the Engineering Library kept 2 copies at all times that you could not check out. If you're waiting on a book or really want to kill time, you can live in the library to do your homework. If nothing else, just copy the problems out of it every few weeks and use your 'useless' copy as reference.
Finally, Engineers, keep your books. I wish I did. I can't name the times I've needed flow equations, thermo, controls, etc. Sure most of it is on wiki, but it's not in the format that you learned it. Unless you go straight into marketing or something, you're probably going to use something at least once.
If the teacher hands out a syllabus with homework: take photos of every single homework problem. I had a good high res camera. Much faster than scanning. When it came time to do homework I just printed out the problem and did it. I got a $5 2 edition old book to actually use as reference.
Learn if the teacher actually hands out problems from the book, if not, get an edition 2-3 old.
Get an 'international' edition. Yes, those poor Chinese/Indians get cheap Microsoft products AND cheap books. Be careful, it won't be hard cover.
When returning books: Find the UPC of the "New" edition, slap it on your old edition and return it. Do it during the highest rush when the checkers in are just trying to get through everyone. I think I would net around $100 a semester buying $5 books and returning them for $30. Screw you book store.
This stuff is cool either way, even if it is just "childish spam." Many of us only dream to work on something that will become this large scale.
Facebook started off (stolen idea or not) as a site with some php and a database. In the early years there were no applications or photos. They've managed to scale PHP beyond what most slashdotters will say PHP can even do. They've even contributed some of their stuff back to the PHP community.
Look at some other similar 'home grown' sites that have had to quickly scale and invent stuff just to stay a float. Archive.org has their pentabox Google has their Google File System and all of their own hard ware design.
Hopefully the site will recover. 540TB of data and 500k images per second while at the same time being able to process photos near instantly in the background to 4-5 different sizes is nothing to ignore. Fortune 500 companies could probably learn a thing or two...
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I noticed that also. Recently the last 3-4 times I've gotten them I've gotten 15.
I use dvorak you insensitive clod.
No really, I do. Any way we can change these or am I going to have to browse the web with 2 hands?
Not everyone is a *nix geek. Yes there is a linux way to do things but not everyone wants to deal with that. There is an OS X and a Windows version.
I bought my sister, brother and myself a version of Orbicle's Undercover which does everything this does and a bit more. It'll take pictures of the thieves (if your Mac has a built in iSight), change contrast, etc.)
I was pondering making my own group of shell scripts do do something similar.
curl -O mywebsite/stolen.txt. Leave it at a 0, then make it a 1 when my laptop is stolen. Then have it do weird stuff. isightcapture can record pictures of someone as soon as the lid opens or during invalid login attempts. There are apple scripts to change the monitor contrast, computer volume, say stuff. (All of which Undercover does).
As soon as it detects it is in an Apple Store (by host name) it cranks the volume up and announces "This laptop is stolen. This laptop is stolen."
I thought about how much work that would take and I thought, meh. I'm watching TV and bought Undercover.
Finally, this is open source. Isn't that what the slashdot crowd bitches about most "ZOMG IT'S NOT OPEN SOURCE BURNNN". Someone took the time to build an installer for 3 different systems, make it so it used a DHS so you didn't have to configure FTP settings (You know not everyone has a my.website that they can read logs on daily) and all 1/2 the people here can do is bitch about how stupid it is or easy it could be to do with cron.
Thieves are stupid. Most will boot the machine and use it. Look at Orbiclue's "success stories." One thief loaded WoW then tried to delete all the personal files of the person. This isn't going to stop a corporate hacker but the jackass that breaks into your car, you might have a chance.
LOUD NOISES.
*Even though they had no petroleum reserves in Germany.
Damn ADHD writing style.
You know this is how the Germans survived WWII? Even though they had no
GTL is looking to be the next "big thing" bio-fuels. Now I'm not saying that this guy has figured out all the hard stuff that is holding big corporations back, but there's a chance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_to_liquids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_to_liquid
If the cost of diesel fuel goes much higher I might look into buying some from racing stores. Shipping is the killer right now.
There are a few people running it on the forums and say it's great. 63 Cetane Number, 20% more BTU vs regular D2, etc, etc.
Same error in Halifax, probably the same software:
I have a sample here.
I just had to laugh and take a picture.
Perfectly wrong use for a database. This is real time, time based data. Matlab is the perfect tool for this. I currently play with 1M+ data sets (50 kHz sampling for 20 seconds or more).
Matlab will do all the FFT, filtering and data manipulation you want before you can blink.
The LAST thing you want is to dump this into a MySQL database. "Ok, give me the data for 0.005, ok 0.010".
Excel is ALSO the wrong tool for the job. As you said 65,000 limit. If I need to do a low pass filter there is no easy way in Excel.
and since the spectroscope itself has nothing but windows applications, none of them is capable of displaying the saved samples.
You mean Matlab isn't a windows application? Just because Excel defaults to opening CSV doesn't mean that's what they intended you to open it in. Matlab will read it perfectly fine with csvread.
Again, this is NOT something you use a database for.
And if you spent that much on a Windows based scope whom ever bought it needs to be shot. Yokogawa makes some awesome equipment. We have a DL750 that I use for about everything. Up to 1MS/s (one channel), real time acquisition, numerous input blocks. They even have a hacked together scripting language so I can create a VBA program to give to our test cell operators so I don't have to click "start, record, save" etc. I don't remember what we paid for ours but even with a few cards I know it was less than $30k.
There has to be a company out there that makes spectroscopes for less than that.
Where would the whales live?
Try it yourself: stick two leads from a 9V battery into water in a jar and watch bubbles of oxygen and hydrogen arise from the two leads. Now place a flame over the top of the jar.
No, on second thought, don't do that unless you're in a lab with a flame cabinet and are experienced with lab techniques. But still.
I did this once, in 4th grade. A 9V won't make much of anything. If you didn't time it just right everything you made (At most a bell jar full) it was gone.
And to the other reply, what do you plan on 'burning' with the O2?
... that gasoline is extremely flammable, often explosive, and very dangerous to work with.
If I spilled 1 gallon of H2 vs 1 gallon of gasoline I'd be a whole lot less careful. The H2 would be gone in an outdoor setting (or with an open garage) in a matter of seconds.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Every day I wish more that this is going to be during my lifetime.
Sadly I don't see such a revolution happening again. In the past you got a quite a few guys with weapons and you were about equal. I look around at non violent drug offenders being locked up. Abuse of power by all 3 branches. A minority of public that actually knows what is going on and a majority that wants to know when the next American Idol starts.
If I were to get a few hundred people together and try to split off I'm sure the Police, National Guard, US Army would have something to say. I'd be locked away for life for "Terrorism". If I blew up a few buildings (killing no one), I'd be a terrorist. If I organized a protest I'd be locked in the corner and labeled a nut.
There have been revolutions against insurmountable odds, but I don't think there has been any army in history that is as one sided as what the US currently has.
Just a minute, someone's knocking at the door...
Except they've been in the Mercedes for the last 10-20 years. Everything that Benz has had since the 80's is now "standard."
If it's still 'radioactive' it still has energy in it. If there's energy in it, someone will find a way to extract it.
Now if only we didn't have stupid laws against breeder reactors.
Which is a perfectly good way to ruin a new diesel engine.
WVO/SVO is great in theory, but once you add modern high pressure common rail or unit injector fuel systems WVO causes nothing but havoc. There are numerous reports of failures on WVO/SVO. Injectors sticking open and burning holes in pistons, etc.
Keep your WVO/SVO for your 80's Benz. The future will be GTL and designer BioD.
Overnight being the last 14 years.
It comes from
Deep Space Homer, an episode of the simpsons that first aired on February 24, 1994.
Spoiler:
When in space Homer flies into the Ant colony, breaking it open sending Ants everywhere. The ants make it onto the camera. Since the ants are so close to the camera, they appear very large. Kent Brockman (the Simpsons news anchor) then says "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords".
The more you know(tm)
I had proof of concept Porn on my TI-89 in 2000.
A note on the 2nd trick. You have to be of greater than a certain intelligence. I used a Chem book 2-3 editions old for Chem I/II (It's freaking chemistry...). I couldn't use any of the "Turn to page XXXX" instructions. Homework never came from the book (there was no homework).
Worst case was they re arranged the chapters. Chapter 4: Reactions was now Chapter 14: Reactions. You have to be smart enough to know how to use a table of contents. I suggested this to my brother (freshmen last year) and it was lost on him. He broke down and ended up buying a book.
One more:
Buy from Half.com EARLY. Most large schools will post their required books before the end of the previous semester. Now is prime time to be shopping. You'll have them for the first day of school and know well ahead of time if they'll work.
Last resort:
For all my engineering books the Engineering Library kept 2 copies at all times that you could not check out. If you're waiting on a book or really want to kill time, you can live in the library to do your homework. If nothing else, just copy the problems out of it every few weeks and use your 'useless' copy as reference.
Finally, Engineers, keep your books. I wish I did. I can't name the times I've needed flow equations, thermo, controls, etc. Sure most of it is on wiki, but it's not in the format that you learned it. Unless you go straight into marketing or something, you're probably going to use something at least once.
Tricks of the Trade:
If the teacher hands out a syllabus with homework: take photos of every single homework problem. I had a good high res camera. Much faster than scanning. When it came time to do homework I just printed out the problem and did it. I got a $5 2 edition old book to actually use as reference.
Learn if the teacher actually hands out problems from the book, if not, get an edition 2-3 old.
Get an 'international' edition. Yes, those poor Chinese/Indians get cheap Microsoft products AND cheap books. Be careful, it won't be hard cover.
When returning books: Find the UPC of the "New" edition, slap it on your old edition and return it. Do it during the highest rush when the checkers in are just trying to get through everyone. I think I would net around $100 a semester buying $5 books and returning them for $30. Screw you book store.
"Google as an organization is not geared - culturally - to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications."
Whew, good thing Microsoft is.
http://xkcd.com/ Spend and afternoon reading the entire back catalog.
*Some people may not have seen it yet...
I have ADHD (known to run in my family), dyslexia, weak ligaments, a predisposition to addictive substances and I'm damn smart.
Would I have been your kid?
The same way someone gets offended by someone whistling an offensive song.
I have Bell's Palsy you insensitive clod!
This stuff is cool either way, even if it is just "childish spam." Many of us only dream to work on something that will become this large scale.
Facebook started off (stolen idea or not) as a site with some php and a database. In the early years there were no applications or photos. They've managed to scale PHP beyond what most slashdotters will say PHP can even do. They've even contributed some of their stuff back to the PHP community.
Look at some other similar 'home grown' sites that have had to quickly scale and invent stuff just to stay a float.
Archive.org has their pentabox
Google has their Google File System and all of their own hard ware design.
Hopefully the site will recover. 540TB of data and 500k images per second while at the same time being able to process photos near instantly in the background to 4-5 different sizes is nothing to ignore. Fortune 500 companies could probably learn a thing or two...