"All three patients showed a statistically significant increase in visual sensitivity at 30 days after treatment localized to retinal areas that had received the vector."
Well, one notable side-affect of the virus was improved vision.
Stick a bunch of tied-down iTouch there. I say this only half jokingly, because my two year old finds them extremely intuitive and interactive. She unlocks it, watches videos, plays her games just by recognising the icons and the buttons with their visible gestures. Because of these features, this is the first phone I've owned that hasn't been thrown, drowned or buried by her.
you are complaining about 250Gb?!? jeez, In Aus I have to pay $120/month (~$100US) for 25gb onpeak, 40gb offpeak ( that's 65gb/month for those of you who suck at math). I WISH I was in a position to bitch about 250gb/month.
Here we go... here come the Australians who inevitably pop into internet usage cap threads with their "In Australia we pay $500 a day for 10 mb up and down transfer... you should be happy with the restrictions your ISP is placing on you."
Dammit Australia, just because you have crap internet, the rest of the world shouldn't have to accept it!
... and in his particular case, he is getting ripped off. Given there is decent ISP competition in Australian capital cities, he should be able to do much better than that. Frankly, I'm paying less in Sydney than I was in Boston.
About a year ago we moved to a new building. The room designated for server room had no air-con so we were open to a number of options to keep it cool during Australian summers (and winters!). The room is fairly small - it will fit around two to three racks maximum. Currently we have one fully populated rack of equipment (mostly 1U servers).
We decided to try exhausting the air first (into the ceiling cavity) as the external air was reasonably cool. This actually worked pretty well. The room average temperature was between 24c-26c, and remained fairly constant. Worst case was 31c. Interestingly the room did not go above 35c when the fans were off for long periods of time, as it appeared that convention drew the heat out the exhaust fans. For the expected life of our equipment this temperature range was reasonable and surprisingly was much better than the previous 2x18Kwh cooling setup (floor was 18c, ceiling was 35c), however one thing we noticed is that there was significant turbulence in the room from the server fans and that it was mixing the hot and cold air around.
It also became clear that to keep the room around 24c with more servers going in was going to be a challenge, and that during winter (when the external air is typically heated), we would see a rise in the external air temperature.
As our winter approached, we decided to install a 8KWh split unit. It works really well, we now maintain the room at a constant 22c and could easily handle cooler temperatures if we desired. The exhaust fans are still in place and running. Interestingly they work well at removing the hot air so that we are not spending extra energy cooling it.
So, exhaust of hot air works for us in keeping the cooling costs down, and had the added bonus of avoiding very high temperatures when air-cons failed.
It is possible to have a fast microkernel if you completely discard the original concept of a microkernel and start over with a fresh design. L4 is quite fast for example, even if the whole Clan thing is a bit weird to me. Most implementations of L4 no longer to the Clan's and Chief's IPC model which I believe you are referring to. In fact, I haven't seen an API with this IPC model for almost 10 years. L4 is being actively developed and researched by many groups -- http://www.ok-labs.com/, http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/, http://l4ka.org/ and, as such, is a good microkernel to take a look at if you're interested to see what a modern microkernel does.
There is also http://www.maporama.com/. It has an impressive list of countries, and large (selectable size) maps.
The accuracy appears to differ depending on the country. However, I've been using it for Australia and find it more accurate than any alternative I know of.
I have a (couple) of multias. The one I use acts as a dialup box, wireless AP, router, firewall, web cache etc. On odd occasions I even play mp3s. The others are spares for when something dies (they cost me nothing).
Out of all the computers I have, I believe it will out-live the others thanks to the functionality it has and the purpose I use it for. For what you can get for $50 or less, it is worth every sence.
I plugged a 80211b pcmcia card into mine and have it act as a router.. For $50, that is cheaper than any other access point solution I know of.
It also has SCSI, IDE, 1xPCI, 2xPCMCIA and the list goes on..
Yes what you say is true. Unfortunately most Australian telco's don't get their international bandwidth at half price (say compared to USA, or do they?).
Telstra ought to have a responsibility to provide Australians with an affordable broadband option, after all they have a monopoly in many areas and the government owns half of them.
Yes, but for a company that is restructuring to be profitable in the eyes of their to-be shareholders that isn't likely to happen. After all most (?) Australians tend to want Telstra privatised. As a company that wants to make money, why should they have to be the one to support people in hard to reach places? Why can't the other Telco's do some of the real work - Optus seems to only care about high-density living areas anyway.
I'm quite happy so far. While I've only been with the service for a few months, the only problems I had were solved by me redialing in. I get peek transfers and much more than the 80% uptime people are claiming...
As for the pricing - it is comparable to what I was paying in the US last year. Half those prices and you get around USD$50-$60.
I don't know why these whirlpool guys love to complain soo much - we have other providers to switch to - if you don't like their pricing then don't choose Telstra. I had only one provider for broadband while living in MA, USA and I'm glad I've moved back here where I do have some choice.
The L4 microkernel was developed and implemented on ix86 platforms by Jochen Liedtke, then at
GMD, Germany. Liedtke continued development of the Intel version of L4 while at IBM TJ Watson
Research Center. He is now at the University of Karlsruhe.
University of New South Wales are working on L4 implementations for several platforms:
L4/MIPS: a stable version for the MIPS R4x00 processor, to our knowledge the world's fastest kernel for that architecture.
L4/Alpha: a development started at the Technical University of Dresden. We (I) are presently working on an SMP version.
An L4/StrongARM is also being here.
Other ports exist also, developed by other parties. Linux runs on top of Intel, MIPS and partly Alpha versions, that I am aware of.
Do you honestly think that will make everyone happy? How many different variants of *nix are there out there that they would have to support? People want to play DVDs on whatever hardware they have, not just Linux/Intel. Open source is really the only way.
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The other problem is that often Linux == Linux/Intel which causes enough problems in itself for owners of non Intel hardware. That is one of the main reasons why an open source (player) is really required - so that it can be compiled and run on any architecture and OS that a user chooses.
I think it is an intelligent idea. It keeps the government plebs happy (probably because they are half brain dead about it), allows those that want to view porn etc to view it, and allows those that want to filter it to filter it. It puts the reponsibility in the hands of the consumer, where it should be and ensures that they have taken the responsibility to block stuff - if they care to. Because only a small percentage of people are actively worried about blocking stuff, they can stop whinging about it and actually 'protect their 19 year old sons'.:)
If I decide to install a filter, it will be an ad filter.
Not necessarily. It doesnt stop them from designing all new hardware, writing the drivers and some cool software to run on them.
The point being that the Amiga will namely be a hardware box, that linux as the primary OS runs on. The added advantage might be that the software they also write may run on non-Amiga hardware..
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"All three patients showed a statistically significant increase in visual sensitivity at 30 days after treatment localized to retinal areas that had received the vector."
Well, one notable side-affect of the virus was improved vision.
Stick a bunch of tied-down iTouch there. I say this only half jokingly, because my two year old finds them extremely intuitive and interactive. She unlocks it, watches videos, plays her games just by recognising the icons and the buttons with their visible gestures. Because of these features, this is the first phone I've owned that hasn't been thrown, drowned or buried by her.
you are complaining about 250Gb?!? jeez, In Aus I have to pay $120/month (~$100US) for 25gb onpeak, 40gb offpeak ( that's 65gb/month for those of you who suck at math). I WISH I was in a position to bitch about 250gb/month.
Here we go... here come the Australians who inevitably pop into internet usage cap threads with their "In Australia we pay $500 a day for 10 mb up and down transfer... you should be happy with the restrictions your ISP is placing on you."
Dammit Australia, just because you have crap internet, the rest of the world shouldn't have to accept it!
... and in his particular case, he is getting ripped off. Given there is decent ISP competition in Australian capital cities, he should be able to do much better than that. Frankly, I'm paying less in Sydney than I was in Boston.
About a year ago we moved to a new building. The room designated for server room had no air-con so we were open to a number of options to keep it cool during Australian summers (and winters!). The room is fairly small - it will fit around two to three racks maximum. Currently we have one fully populated rack of equipment (mostly 1U servers).
We decided to try exhausting the air first (into the ceiling cavity) as the external air was reasonably cool. This actually worked pretty well. The room average temperature was between 24c-26c, and remained fairly constant. Worst case was 31c. Interestingly the room did not go above 35c when the fans were off for long periods of time, as it appeared that convention drew the heat out the exhaust fans. For the expected life of our equipment this temperature range was reasonable and surprisingly was much better than the previous 2x18Kwh cooling setup (floor was 18c, ceiling was 35c), however one thing we noticed is that there was significant turbulence in the room from the server fans and that it was mixing the hot and cold air around.
It also became clear that to keep the room around 24c with more servers going in was going to be a challenge, and that during winter (when the external air is typically heated), we would see a rise in the external air temperature.
As our winter approached, we decided to install a 8KWh split unit. It works really well, we now maintain the room at a constant 22c and could easily handle cooler temperatures if we desired. The exhaust fans are still in place and running. Interestingly they work well at removing the hot air so that we are not spending extra energy cooling it.
So, exhaust of hot air works for us in keeping the cooling costs down, and had the added bonus of avoiding very high temperatures when air-cons failed.
There is also http://www.maporama.com/. It has an impressive list of countries, and large (selectable size) maps.
The accuracy appears to differ depending on the country.
However, I've been using it for Australia and find it more accurate than any alternative I know of.
I've also got one that I've never used but I haven't received any spam on it.
I have a (couple) of multias. The one I use acts as a dialup box, wireless AP, router, firewall, web cache etc. On odd occasions I even play mp3s. The others are spares for when something dies (they cost me nothing).
Out of all the computers I have, I believe it will out-live the others thanks to the functionality it has and the purpose I use it for. For what you can get for $50 or less, it is worth every sence.
I plugged a 80211b pcmcia card into mine and have it act as a router.. For $50, that is cheaper than any other access point solution I know of.
It also has SCSI, IDE, 1xPCI, 2xPCMCIA and the list goes on..
Telstra ought to have a responsibility to provide Australians with an affordable broadband option, after all they have a monopoly in many areas and the government owns half of them.
Yes, but for a company that is restructuring to be profitable in the eyes of their to-be shareholders that isn't likely to happen. After all most (?) Australians tend to want Telstra privatised. As a company that wants to make money, why should they have to be the one to support people in hard to reach places? Why can't the other Telco's do some of the real work - Optus seems to only care about high-density living areas anyway.
I'm quite happy so far. While I've only been with the service for a few months, the only problems I had were solved by me redialing in. I get peek transfers and much more than the 80% uptime people are claiming...
As for the pricing - it is comparable to what I was paying in the US last year. Half those prices and you get around USD$50-$60.
I don't know why these whirlpool guys love to complain soo much - we have other providers to switch to - if you don't like their pricing then don't choose Telstra. I had only one provider for broadband while living in MA, USA and I'm glad I've moved back here where I do have some choice.
russian university? I don't think so!
The L4 microkernel was developed and implemented on ix86 platforms by Jochen Liedtke, then at
GMD, Germany. Liedtke continued development of the Intel version of L4 while at IBM TJ Watson
Research Center. He is now at the University of Karlsruhe.
University of New South Wales are working on L4 implementations for several platforms:
L4/MIPS: a stable version for the MIPS R4x00 processor, to our knowledge the world's fastest kernel for that architecture.
L4/Alpha: a development started at the Technical University of Dresden. We (I) are presently working on an SMP version.
An L4/StrongARM is also being here.
Other ports exist also, developed by other parties. Linux runs on top of Intel, MIPS and partly Alpha versions, that I am aware of.
You seem to miss the point that these are all standard issue Sony robots.
I'm starting to wonder why emacs doesn't play mp3s..
oh wait....
;-)
Sorry, I only *just* saw Austin Powers 2..
Do you honestly think that will make everyone happy? How many different variants of *nix are there out there that they would have to support? People want to play DVDs on whatever hardware they have, not just Linux/Intel. Open source is really the only way.
When Linux is implemented on a micro-kernel :-)
The other problem is that often Linux == Linux/Intel which causes enough problems in itself for owners of non Intel hardware. That is one of the main reasons why an open source (player) is really required - so that it can be compiled and run on any architecture and OS that a user chooses.
It isn't quite four CPUs slammed together, it is much less (5% die size increase?). But yeah, this stuff is sweet.
For those of you that don't know a Multia is just one of the many Digital produced Alphas.
It does run Compaq's C compiler, so I suppose it runs the Fortran one too. Certainly they seem to state this.
I think it is an intelligent idea. It keeps the government plebs happy (probably because they are half brain dead about it), allows those that want to view porn etc to view it, and allows those that want to filter it to filter it. It puts the reponsibility in the hands of the consumer, where it should be and ensures that they have taken the responsibility to block stuff - if they care to. Because only a small percentage of people are actively worried about blocking stuff, they can stop whinging about it and actually 'protect their 19 year old sons'. :)
If I decide to install a filter, it will be an ad filter.
Not necessarily. It doesnt stop them from designing all new hardware, writing the drivers and some cool software to run on them.
The point being that the Amiga will namely be a hardware box, that linux as the primary OS runs on. The added advantage might be that the software they also write may run on non-Amiga hardware..