At my church, we meet in a room that looks like the inside of a whale (no, really). To counter this, we installed a computer-based equalization system from Meyer sound labs: the SIM II. Not counting the speakers' cost (about half-a-million), the SIM unit itself ran us (I think) about $35,000 with microphones--and you still do some hand-tuning. Nice to see "mini-SIM" technology at work (especially because it's automagic).
With our Exchange server, we use a Platypus Qik Drive to send our retrieval times through the basement. We put the database on Qik Drives (but mirror it hourly on to HDDs)...it makes our effective Exchange bandwidth limited to the gigabit ethernet port on the server.
In theatrical lighting, the power stage is separated from the signal side by an optocoupler--which basically ensures that if the power stage leaks 240VAC, it won't travel down the DMX wire and fry everything else.
I wonder if they could use these "lighted" carbon nanotubes to put an optocoupler directly on the IGBT of the dimmer...that, as my coworkers would say, would be "freakin' awesome"!
I maintain a Nortel Contivity router as part of my job, and ours (a cheapie 1100 series) has a 300MHz Celeron. It has no problems handling 4.5mbps (i.e., as much as we can throw at it)--it doesn't even flinch.
I think this idea of a "meta-SSL" is a really good one--not only can we encrypt the data stream, but also the headers. Of course, we'd still need to deal with session keys and the problem of "known response" attacks, but assuming we can fix that, this looks really promising.
(And of course, it would be best if we could implment this on the hardware of the routers themselves, rather than rely on the OS...*cough* M$ *cough*).
As a sufferer of IBS, I spend a _lot_ of my free time on the john. So much so that I have a ThinkPad 770 in my restroom with wireless card so I can surf and rdesk from the "unloading zone." Works really well, actually. [And, yes, it's UNC name is \\etoilet (inspired by theonion.com article).]
your laser printer, for example, probably puts out 10x as much
Actually, it probably doesn't. Speaking for HP LaserJets, the originals (2686A, II series and III series) all had replaceable ozone filters.
The newer ones (4 series and newer) use transfer roller technology (invented by Canon) that replaced corona wires. Instead of a corona, charged rollers are used to directly charge the paper on contact--voila! No ozone!
I know that in my fair city of Orlando, FL, FDOT already uses a central management system--each light has a modem and a phoneline that dials in (or is dialed in to) every 30 minutes or so to get updated data. In case of an accident, the center can call the lights and change their programming--all from a central management office. The lights here (most of the time) work just fine; and when they're down, they're not down for long (5 minutes is the longest I've ever seen a frozen light).
Definitely, a nice "NSFW" (Not Safe For Work--especially if you work in a church like I do) warning would've been appreciated. [Although, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when Slashdot starts accepting NSFW links...but that's another story for another day for another time...]
I always was taught that it went like this:
256kbps = "Broadband"
T1 (1.544mbps) = "High Speed Broadband"
T3 (43.323mbps) = "Wow!"
100Base-T = "Baseband"
OC3 (155mbps) = "Damn!"
I'm with you on that 100%! My friends call me "the laser guy" because of my lack of inkjet printers. My primary is a LaserJet 2100TN (with 50k pages on it), my proofing printer is a wide-format LaserJet 4MV (with 500k pages on it), and my color printer is a Color LaserJet 2500 (new!). My friends, of course, all proclaim that I'm nuts, but when I figure that the only thing I've ever replaced on these printers is toner and one fuser, I figure that 3 lasers probably cost me less (per page and in the long run) than one DeskJet!
I hope that EarthLink qualifies what they mean by 5x faster. They're probably talking about "user experience" speeds. Because, if you think about it, when we do backups, we use 2:1 compression as the "ideal," and everyone that's ever loaded Travan or DLT or DDS drives knows that when it says 200GB, it means 200GB compressed at 2:1. Short of some sort of very high-powered (in terms of CPU cycles) compression, 5:1 is almost impossible to achieve--certainly with desktop hardware, and probably not at all.
Isn't this a bit like the blind leading the blind? I mean, come on, security bulletin MS03-009, the 9th security advisory in 2003 was released 5 days ago. That's almost an advisory a week. Last year, they got to MS02-072: last time I checked, there are only 52 weeks in a year!
I'm a shareware author and a lover (and frequent purchaser) of shareware. I can assure you, shareware's far from dead...in fact, if there's a shareware solution to a problem or need, I'll usually buy the shareware rather than buying COTS software.
Slashdot Mirror
It's very funny, but this syllogism is also invalid. Here's why:
In symbolic form, this syllogism reads:
All R are H
All M are H
Therefore all R are M
The middle term ("...human") is not distributed in either the major or the minor term. That makes this a AAA-2 syllogism, which is logically invalid.
[Sorry, I just wanted to demonstrate that those two years of logic I took weren't that useless.]
Isn't a "killer app" just a database of serial killers? In which case, shouldn't it be antisocial software?
At my church, we meet in a room that looks like the inside of a whale (no, really). To counter this, we installed a computer-based equalization system from Meyer sound labs: the SIM II. Not counting the speakers' cost (about half-a-million), the SIM unit itself ran us (I think) about $35,000 with microphones--and you still do some hand-tuning. Nice to see "mini-SIM" technology at work (especially because it's automagic).
Allright, I'm an idiot (thinking about SQL when I wrote the subject, then writing about Exchange)...back to bed for me!
With our Exchange server, we use a Platypus Qik Drive to send our retrieval times through the basement. We put the database on Qik Drives (but mirror it hourly on to HDDs)...it makes our effective Exchange bandwidth limited to the gigabit ethernet port on the server.
In theatrical lighting, the power stage is separated from the signal side by an optocoupler--which basically ensures that if the power stage leaks 240VAC, it won't travel down the DMX wire and fry everything else.
I wonder if they could use these "lighted" carbon nanotubes to put an optocoupler directly on the IGBT of the dimmer...that, as my coworkers would say, would be "freakin' awesome"!
I maintain a Nortel Contivity router as part of my job, and ours (a cheapie 1100 series) has a 300MHz Celeron. It has no problems handling 4.5mbps (i.e., as much as we can throw at it)--it doesn't even flinch.
I think this idea of a "meta-SSL" is a really good one--not only can we encrypt the data stream, but also the headers. Of course, we'd still need to deal with session keys and the problem of "known response" attacks, but assuming we can fix that, this looks really promising.
(And of course, it would be best if we could implment this on the hardware of the routers themselves, rather than rely on the OS...*cough* M$ *cough*).
As a sufferer of IBS, I spend a _lot_ of my free time on the john. So much so that I have a ThinkPad 770 in my restroom with wireless card so I can surf and rdesk from the "unloading zone." Works really well, actually. [And, yes, it's UNC name is \\etoilet (inspired by theonion.com article).]
your laser printer, for example, probably puts out 10x as much Actually, it probably doesn't. Speaking for HP LaserJets, the originals (2686A, II series and III series) all had replaceable ozone filters. The newer ones (4 series and newer) use transfer roller technology (invented by Canon) that replaced corona wires. Instead of a corona, charged rollers are used to directly charge the paper on contact--voila! No ozone!
I know that in my fair city of Orlando, FL, FDOT already uses a central management system--each light has a modem and a phoneline that dials in (or is dialed in to) every 30 minutes or so to get updated data. In case of an accident, the center can call the lights and change their programming--all from a central management office. The lights here (most of the time) work just fine; and when they're down, they're not down for long (5 minutes is the longest I've ever seen a frozen light).
Definitely, a nice "NSFW" (Not Safe For Work--especially if you work in a church like I do) warning would've been appreciated. [Although, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when Slashdot starts accepting NSFW links...but that's another story for another day for another time...]
I always was taught that it went like this: 256kbps = "Broadband" T1 (1.544mbps) = "High Speed Broadband" T3 (43.323mbps) = "Wow!" 100Base-T = "Baseband" OC3 (155mbps) = "Damn!"
Yes... yes I'll take the laser, thank you.
I'm with you on that 100%! My friends call me "the laser guy" because of my lack of inkjet printers. My primary is a LaserJet 2100TN (with 50k pages on it), my proofing printer is a wide-format LaserJet 4MV (with 500k pages on it), and my color printer is a Color LaserJet 2500 (new!). My friends, of course, all proclaim that I'm nuts, but when I figure that the only thing I've ever replaced on these printers is toner and one fuser, I figure that 3 lasers probably cost me less (per page and in the long run) than one DeskJet!
I hope that EarthLink qualifies what they mean by 5x faster. They're probably talking about "user experience" speeds. Because, if you think about it, when we do backups, we use 2:1 compression as the "ideal," and everyone that's ever loaded Travan or DLT or DDS drives knows that when it says 200GB, it means 200GB compressed at 2:1. Short of some sort of very high-powered (in terms of CPU cycles) compression, 5:1 is almost impossible to achieve--certainly with desktop hardware, and probably not at all.
Isn't this a bit like the blind leading the blind? I mean, come on, security bulletin MS03-009, the 9th security advisory in 2003 was released 5 days ago. That's almost an advisory a week. Last year, they got to MS02-072: last time I checked, there are only 52 weeks in a year!
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us" from these terrible Shakespeare puns! [Hamlet, I, iv, 20]
I'm a shareware author and a lover (and frequent purchaser) of shareware. I can assure you, shareware's far from dead...in fact, if there's a shareware solution to a problem or need, I'll usually buy the shareware rather than buying COTS software.