The article didn't make it clear... The largest loan was to the spanish company to build a solar plant in AZ, that is in fact thermal solar and it will be the largest trial of hot sodium storage so it can produce after dark until the end of the normal daily peak around here.
Obviously the local press has a bit better coverage of the details:
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/07/03/20100703biz-abengoa0704-ONL.html
As to your main contention, each style of solar has it's place, reducing demand from the grid will be less efficient but won't require expansion of transmission infrastructure, especially if it can be done during the peak demand times.
Knoppix seems to have decided to drop the rescue side of their mission for the demo/toy side. Fair enough. Seems like that's where they get the press/money.
I've switched to Kanotix, one of the live cd's that still seems to be interested in the rescue side.
The other option is to use the bootcd packages in debian/ubuntu and make custom rescue cds that directly match the machine that will be rescued. Bit more of a pain but much more handy when the people nearest that machine don't know enough to set up even the networking on their own.
Considering that Astropower's current market cap is less than the value of the house I'm sitting in to write this and their stock has gone from $25 to less than half a cent, I'm not sure that was such a great idea...
Why couldn't you send the fan in after they told you? Even if I replaced the stock fan with some fancy lit liquid Nitrogen fan, I'd keep it around. After all, they do make nice fans, Intel.
Umm, you might want to wander around in some rural areas, because most of the ones I've lived in are almost always surrounded by defense contractors or military bases big enough to have a civilian workforce. I know when I lived in Flagstaff, AZ there was a W.L. Gore Factory there that did a bunch of things, some of them "top secret". High paying, too.
Similar stories in Utah, Idaho, Missouri, and eastern Washington state. Maybe it's just an "out west thing?" Oh yeah, nuclear power plants (maybe any power plants) are a good bet for high tech in the rural environment too.
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When I was in high school, the computer dept. had a policy *encouraging* us to try and break into the system, with the caveats of #1, don't delete everything if you somehow do break in, and #2, tell the staff about it if you do...
The network there used the 3Com ethershare system (this was '86 or '87), and we attempted to write a "brute force" password cracker in MS:Basic (basically just shelling to dos a bunch of digits starting at 00000000 and working up)... First time we got the program to run we were sitting around patting ourselves on the back in the way only 14 year old boys can, when lo and behold, about 2 minutes into the program running we found a backdoor. Turns out that you could log on as anyone with any password that started with "82". Talk about dumb luck.
We told the staff. They congradulated us. Called 3Com, who confirmed the backdoor and had to send someone out to patch the servers. They shut down the entire department for two days until that happened. No classes for over 200 students.
What a major pain in the ass for a school. Some of the teachers were really pissed about it, but the people in charge treated us like heroes.
I honestly can't imagine how my life would have been if I'd been stuck in a school like this kid. Of course, the open attitude of the school led to alot of the people I went to school with doing much more serious things and Getting busted (no time to find the real link).
Geesh, I just remembered I got an A on a project in 7th grade because we figured out you could load "*",4 when someone else was printing to steal their work on our Commodore pet network.
The biggest test of intelligent design would be the number of other life forms/civilizations in the known universe.
If besides us it's close to none, we're probably just random chance CA's running forever.
If it's exactly none, we're almost definately put here for a reason.
Of course the evidence for either of these two is still inconclusive...
You might think about This CD for windows....
I used Knoppix all the time, but the lack of good NTFS support in linux constantly gets me down. This guy is XP/2003 based, and does pretty much the same thing. You can virus scan too, which windows loves.
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The article didn't make it clear... The largest loan was to the spanish company to build a solar plant in AZ, that is in fact thermal solar and it will be the largest trial of hot sodium storage so it can produce after dark until the end of the normal daily peak around here. Obviously the local press has a bit better coverage of the details: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2010/07/03/20100703biz-abengoa0704-ONL.html As to your main contention, each style of solar has it's place, reducing demand from the grid will be less efficient but won't require expansion of transmission infrastructure, especially if it can be done during the peak demand times.
Knoppix seems to have decided to drop the rescue side of their mission for the demo/toy side. Fair enough. Seems like that's where they get the press/money.
I've switched to Kanotix, one of the live cd's that still seems to be interested in the rescue side.
The other option is to use the bootcd packages in debian/ubuntu and make custom rescue cds that directly match the machine that will be rescued. Bit more of a pain but much more handy when the people nearest that machine don't know enough to set up even the networking on their own.
Considering that Astropower's current market cap is less than the value of the house I'm sitting in to write this and their stock has gone from $25 to less than half a cent, I'm not sure that was such a great idea...
Why couldn't you send the fan in after they told you? Even if I replaced the stock fan with some fancy lit liquid Nitrogen fan, I'd keep it around. After all, they do make nice fans, Intel.
Umm, you might want to wander around in some rural areas, because most of the ones I've lived in are almost always surrounded by defense contractors or military bases big enough to have a civilian workforce.
I know when I lived in Flagstaff, AZ there was a W.L. Gore Factory there that did a bunch of things, some of them "top secret". High paying, too.
Similar stories in Utah, Idaho, Missouri, and eastern Washington state.
Maybe it's just an "out west thing?"
Oh yeah, nuclear power plants (maybe any power plants) are a good bet for high tech in the rural environment too.
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Wireless service (Using this system). Equipment rental of $125/mo. above price listed below
32/32k is $300/mo
64/32k is $500/mo
128/64 is $1000/mo
And it goes up from there. No discount for higher rate levels. $4125/mo if you want 512/256k. The average yearly salary of a family out here is about $5000. You people don't realize how lucky you are.
Pulu All rates are uncapped as far as monthly limits.
When I was in high school, the computer dept. had a policy *encouraging* us to try and break into the system, with the caveats of #1, don't delete everything if you somehow do break in, and #2, tell the staff about it if you do...
The network there used the 3Com ethershare system (this was '86 or '87), and we attempted to write a "brute force" password cracker in MS:Basic (basically just shelling to dos a bunch of digits starting at 00000000 and working up)... First time we got the program to run we were sitting around patting ourselves on the back in the way only 14 year old boys can, when lo and behold, about 2 minutes into the program running we found a backdoor. Turns out that you could log on as anyone with any password that started with "82". Talk about dumb luck.
We told the staff. They congradulated us. Called 3Com, who confirmed the backdoor and had to send someone out to patch the servers. They shut down the entire department for two days until that happened. No classes for over 200 students.
What a major pain in the ass for a school. Some of the teachers were really pissed about it, but the people in charge treated us like heroes.
I honestly can't imagine how my life would have been if I'd been stuck in a school like this kid. Of course, the open attitude of the school led to alot of the people I went to school with doing much more serious things and Getting busted (no time to find the real link).
Geesh, I just remembered I got an A on a project in 7th grade because we figured out you could load "*",4 when someone else was printing to steal their work on our Commodore pet network.
I think that kid needs to get a better school.
The biggest test of intelligent design would be the number of other life forms/civilizations in the known universe. If besides us it's close to none, we're probably just random chance CA's running forever. If it's exactly none, we're almost definately put here for a reason. Of course the evidence for either of these two is still inconclusive...
You might think about This CD for windows.... I used Knoppix all the time, but the lack of good NTFS support in linux constantly gets me down. This guy is XP/2003 based, and does pretty much the same thing. You can virus scan too, which windows loves.