And not to mention the fact that everyone I talk to thinks that the oil light means "Oh, I best pull over when I get a chance and check the oil level or something"
I'd love to do this. I have a pretty keen interest and strong grounding in basic electronics (plenty advanced enough for, say, residential). When I landed in Canada a few years ago, I pretty much learnt the electrical code cover to cover, it is easy. I was planning on taking the exam and getting my licence.
Then I saw the requirement of an insane amount of 'apprentice hours' needed to get the licence, not just the exam. It would mean leaving my well paid IT job and living on peanuts for 4-5 years. It's something we, as a family, just cannot afford right now. If I was to try to get the apprentice hours on evenings & weekends, 1. I would have no time with my family and 2. it would take me way too long. I am already 36:(
If only there was a way round it. I would love to do electrical contracting (I think)
So what about having ductwork as another utility that is brought to each individual server? Rather than having thousands of tiny inefficient fans whirring away, you could have a redundant farm of large efficient fans that pull in cool air from outside (cooling only required then in hot climates or summer) and duct it under the floor in individual efficient ducts to each cabinet.Each cabinet would then have integral duct-work that would connect to individual servers. The servers would then have integral duct-work that would route the air to the critical components. There would have to be a similar system of return-air duct-work that would ultimately route back to another redundant farm of large efficient fans that scavenge the heated air and dump it outside.
I realise that this is not something that could be done quickly, it would require co-operation from all major vendors and then only if it would actually end up being more efficient overall. There would be lots of hurdles to overcome too... Efficient ducting (no jagged edges or corners like int domestic HVAC ductwork), no leaks, easy interconnects, space requirements, rerouting away from inactive equipment etc etc etc.You would still need some ac in the room as there is bound to be heat leakage from the duct-work, as well as heat given off from less critical components, but the level of cooling required would be much less if the bulk of the heat was ducted straight outside.
So I know the implementation of something like this would be monumental, requiring redesigning of servers, racks, cabinets and general DC layout. It would probably require standards to be laid out so that any server will work in any cab etc (like current rackmount equipment is fairly universally compatible), but after this conversion, could it be more efficient and pay off in the long run?
Unfortunately "FarmVille" does not work properly on any browser in linux (Well, Ubuntu). Does not work properly in FF under Wine either.
Even more unfortunately, a lot of "average computer users" who use Facebook etc, also use farmville, hell I even heard a bunch of people chatting about their strawberry patches on the fucking train the other day.
It's rediculous, I know, but this is the kind of little irrelevant thing that lots of "average users" see as important. It should fall under the category of "surfing the web" but it fails in this instance.
I keep telling my wife that it's most likely a badly written app and that it's stupid anyway, but she doesn't care about that. What she cares about is that it works on Windows, why can't it work on this stupid Linux thing too? I am getting a LOT of pressure to move back to Windows due to many of these tiny problems.
I don't see any mention of coloured tabs in Calc. I know it's a silly little thing, but some people use coloured tabs in Excel and this means that you can't edit these files on OO.org without losing the colour information.
And does it render the same as Excel/Word yet?
Until these and other niggling incompatibilities are resolved, my wife will still be nagging me to install Office in Wine...
PulseAudio supports all of these devices right now (although I've not had time to try the uPNP stuff on my PS3 specifically so don't quote me on that!)
I'd like to try this out. I did a brief search for PA streaming via UPnP to a PS3 but didn't find anything. Could you point me in the right direction?
Installing drivers may not be an option if you don't have admin rights on the windows machine - say if you want to use the device at a locked down work machine, or at an internet cafe.
I have the same problem as the original poster. For now, I am using ext3 and I got temporary admin access at work to install the ext3 driver. Not ideal but until I find a good solution, it's all I have.
Tom...
Also, I am saving a couple of old TVs for when my 5 month old is old enough to take stuff apart.
If we don't keep the last few TVs of today, our children will never know and understand cathode ray tubes. This bothers me.
Tom...
And then the law enforcement, knowing that this is the premise of this software and assuming that you lawfully gave them the main encryption key, ask you for the dummy encryption key too as a kinda 'gotcha'. What's that? You don't have a dummy key? Then why are you using this software rather than PlainEncryptionTool?
Of course, I guess there could be the functionality for a 3rd encryption key as a 2nd dummy for these situations, or n-keys so that the law enforcement cannot know how many you are likely to have used.
It would get quite tricky keeping track of all these keys in case you got caught. I hope whatever it is you are hiding is worth it!
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Home Office/Mouse Office
And what exactly is a Man In The Mirror attack?
round pins?
And no throttle cables. Welcome to this century!
THIS.
And not to mention the fact that everyone I talk to thinks that the oil light means "Oh, I best pull over when I get a chance and check the oil level or something"
I find it easier to bread things using, err, bread.
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with T.
Just play 'I Spy' and *interact* with your kids.
Tom...
I'd love to do this. I have a pretty keen interest and strong grounding in basic electronics (plenty advanced enough for, say, residential). When I landed in Canada a few years ago, I pretty much learnt the electrical code cover to cover, it is easy. I was planning on taking the exam and getting my licence.
Then I saw the requirement of an insane amount of 'apprentice hours' needed to get the licence, not just the exam. It would mean leaving my well paid IT job and living on peanuts for 4-5 years. It's something we, as a family, just cannot afford right now. If I was to try to get the apprentice hours on evenings & weekends, 1. I would have no time with my family and 2. it would take me way too long. I am already 36 :(
If only there was a way round it. I would love to do electrical contracting (I think)
Tom...
I realise that this is not something that could be done quickly, it would require co-operation from all major vendors and then only if it would actually end up being more efficient overall. There would be lots of hurdles to overcome too... Efficient ducting (no jagged edges or corners like int domestic HVAC ductwork), no leaks, easy interconnects, space requirements, rerouting away from inactive equipment etc etc etc.You would still need some ac in the room as there is bound to be heat leakage from the duct-work, as well as heat given off from less critical components, but the level of cooling required would be much less if the bulk of the heat was ducted straight outside.
So I know the implementation of something like this would be monumental, requiring redesigning of servers, racks, cabinets and general DC layout. It would probably require standards to be laid out so that any server will work in any cab etc (like current rackmount equipment is fairly universally compatible), but after this conversion, could it be more efficient and pay off in the long run?
Just thinking out loud.
Tom...
Don't get me wrong, she'd rather I just install Windows and be done with it.
Even more unfortunately, a lot of "average computer users" who use Facebook etc, also use farmville, hell I even heard a bunch of people chatting about their strawberry patches on the fucking train the other day.
It's rediculous, I know, but this is the kind of little irrelevant thing that lots of "average users" see as important. It should fall under the category of "surfing the web" but it fails in this instance.
I keep telling my wife that it's most likely a badly written app and that it's stupid anyway, but she doesn't care about that. What she cares about is that it works on Windows, why can't it work on this stupid Linux thing too? I am getting a LOT of pressure to move back to Windows due to many of these tiny problems.
It sucks.
Tom...
And does it render the same as Excel/Word yet?
Until these and other niggling incompatibilities are resolved, my wife will still be nagging me to install Office in Wine...
Tom...
Thanks, i'll be trying that tonight.
PulseAudio supports all of these devices right now (although I've not had time to try the uPNP stuff on my PS3 specifically so don't quote me on that!)
I'd like to try this out. I did a brief search for PA streaming via UPnP to a PS3 but didn't find anything. Could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Tom...
You fire a headhunter when he turns up with a decapitated head in a box!
the original Doctor Who and the new Doctor Who
I was planning on living to about 640 thousand years. Should be enough for anyone to do & see everything. Tom...
Mushroom muuushrooom!
Installing drivers may not be an option if you don't have admin rights on the windows machine - say if you want to use the device at a locked down work machine, or at an internet cafe. I have the same problem as the original poster. For now, I am using ext3 and I got temporary admin access at work to install the ext3 driver. Not ideal but until I find a good solution, it's all I have. Tom...
No, *I* was 4 gigabyte on an USB key! And so was my wife.
Also, I am saving a couple of old TVs for when my 5 month old is old enough to take stuff apart. If we don't keep the last few TVs of today, our children will never know and understand cathode ray tubes. This bothers me. Tom...
Yes, quite old now. http://justincaseidie.com/
Or you could just hide it in your finger. They would never think to look there, and it's always with you!
Tom...
And then the law enforcement, knowing that this is the premise of this software and assuming that you lawfully gave them the main encryption key, ask you for the dummy encryption key too as a kinda 'gotcha'. What's that? You don't have a dummy key? Then why are you using this software rather than PlainEncryptionTool?
Of course, I guess there could be the functionality for a 3rd encryption key as a 2nd dummy for these situations, or n-keys so that the law enforcement cannot know how many you are likely to have used.
It would get quite tricky keeping track of all these keys in case you got caught. I hope whatever it is you are hiding is worth it!
Tom...