I'm at almost exact same bind right now.. lots of the data on the hard drives, and trying to find the best to archive/backup them. adding a second HD might be the simple solution, but the hard drive method lacks the transportability. (when you want to move certain data to another location, you'll need to power down and move the HD). and in my situation the data grows larger daily, so it'll out grow the HD soon. CDR right now is the cheapest solution, but it's tedious.
I'm fairly interested in those devices, but right now the the cost for those boards is not cheap enough for me to get it. at ~$500 a pop, I could put together a cheap system with better specs (not on a board, of course). I know it's targeted for server/commercial applications, but if they are willing to lower the price some, I'm sure there'll be a lot of takers.
my idea setup will be using a CF card with CF-IDE adapter as the boot drive(which eliminate the dependancy of the host OS on powerup and no actual HD required).
The data gathered should be quite rich. you'll learn how the crater is formed and it's characteristics, the physical trajectery change after the impact, but most important IMHO, is how the comet is made of, and from that you can gather how the comet is formed. and after analyzing those you might have some good idea on solar system's history.
The solar system is not belong to us human only, it is part of the universe, how can you claim the solar system to be "owned" by a single life specie that only exist on 3rd rock from the sun? and We human were known to destroy the nature resource quite freely without any other consideration for the rest of the life forms on this little rock anyway.:)
Of course there's more expensive way of doing things, but at this age and time, COST is substantial, if not a deciding matter. I believe the predecessor of Deep Impact is Deep Space 4, which vist the same comet in the same frame of time, is canned because high project cost and high complexities(not sure which is more deciding though).
Yes, You could use your PC100 SDRAM with the current Tbirds. the current Athlon runs on 100Mhz FSB.
but SDR SDRAM and DDR SDRAM have different pinouts. so if you want to use your old SDRAM in the new DDR MB, you'll need to buy the MB that has both SDR and DDR slots... but there might not be a lot of those around.
well.. I've been doing the softlanding on M$ flightsim countless times.. it's just the perspective and ways you flight your plane. I usually come in below the glide scope then the real life on the Cessna 152 or 172. and make my landing successfully. I can even land a Lear on Nimitz (in game of course..), or Golden Gate bridge.. but those in realife will be harder:p
Still no time to work on my IFR though...
actually, Avalon is build much cheaper then the NOAA computer, but I guess they don't go for the real expansive integrater.. And they have different purpose.
I did a lot of online ordering this year, from all of the places. Only 3 of them were not arrived ontime. I have a stolen package(the stupid postman suppose to place all the oversize packages to the managers office, but he is lazy and drop it off my door)
The other one is GT2, which is delayed and back ordered, Buy.com shipped it on 21th, but it hasn't reach me yet.
The last one is simply out of stock, and the online shop's stupid shopping cart can not show the availibilty... so I'm still waiting.
Well, this is the first time Intel is playing catch up. but I really doubt that Intel will want or has the ability to push out the new chip though. plus I don't trust Register that much. sometimes their rumor is right on, but more times it's just vapor.
±×ÂI - means/. in Chinese, but you'll need Big5 (traditional Chinese) capable reader to see it.
I was thinking about a lot of those stupid copy right/patent claiming that's related on the internet. most of them seems silly. Like AOL tried to copy right the phrase 'You've Got Mail', Amazon's 1-click shopping, etc. basically Those people are still thinking along the traditional way of model, instead of the new cyber/internet oriented ways of life.
I have to agree that Penguin's price seems to be bloated a little, I went over there and price an AMD system, which came out to $1963, which I can get around $1400 or so. Probably less then that.
It really depends on people I guess, some people who know how to build computer and knows their ways around, those people who will not want to buy an off the shelf system. On the other hand, a lot of people who don't want the hassle to build the hardware then setup the software are willing to pay money for the service.
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I'm at almost exact same bind right now.. lots of the data on the hard drives, and trying to find the best to archive/backup them. adding a second HD might be the simple solution, but the hard drive method lacks the transportability. (when you want to move certain data to another location, you'll need to power down and move the HD). and in my situation the data grows larger daily, so it'll out grow the HD soon. CDR right now is the cheapest solution, but it's tedious.
I'm fairly interested in those devices, but right now the the cost for those boards is not cheap enough for me to get it. at ~$500 a pop, I could put together a cheap system with better specs (not on a board, of course). I know it's targeted for server/commercial applications, but if they are willing to lower the price some, I'm sure there'll be a lot of takers.
my idea setup will be using a CF card with CF-IDE adapter as the boot drive(which eliminate the dependancy of the host OS on powerup and no actual HD required).
you are not trolling aren't you?
:)
The data gathered should be quite rich. you'll learn how the crater is formed and it's characteristics, the physical trajectery change after the impact, but most important IMHO, is how the comet is made of, and from that you can gather how the comet is formed. and after analyzing those you might have some good idea on solar system's history.
The solar system is not belong to us human only, it is part of the universe, how can you claim the solar system to be "owned" by a single life specie that only exist on 3rd rock from the sun? and We human were known to destroy the nature resource quite freely without any other consideration for the rest of the life forms on this little rock anyway.
Of course there's more expensive way of doing things, but at this age and time, COST is substantial, if not a deciding matter. I believe the predecessor of Deep Impact is Deep Space 4, which vist the same comet in the same frame of time, is canned because high project cost and high complexities(not sure which is more deciding though).
Yes, You could use your PC100 SDRAM with the current Tbirds. the current Athlon runs on 100Mhz FSB.
but SDR SDRAM and DDR SDRAM have different pinouts. so if you want to use your old SDRAM in the new DDR MB, you'll need to buy the MB that has both SDR and DDR slots... but there might not be a lot of those around.
well.. I've been doing the softlanding on M$ flightsim countless times.. it's just the perspective and ways you flight your plane. I usually come in below the glide scope then the real life on the Cessna 152 or 172. and make my landing successfully. I can even land a Lear on Nimitz (in game of course..), or Golden Gate bridge.. but those in realife will be harder:p Still no time to work on my IFR though...
actually, Avalon is build much cheaper then the NOAA computer, but I guess they don't go for the real expansive integrater.. And they have different purpose.
http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/
I did a lot of online ordering this year, from all
of the places. Only 3 of them were not arrived
ontime. I have a stolen package(the stupid postman suppose to place all the oversize packages to the managers office, but he is lazy and drop it off my door)
The other one is GT2, which is delayed and back ordered, Buy.com shipped it on 21th, but it hasn't reach me yet.
The last one is simply out of stock, and the online shop's stupid shopping cart can not show
the availibilty... so I'm still waiting.
Well, this is the first time Intel is playing catch up. but I really doubt that Intel will want or has the ability to push out the new chip though. plus I don't trust Register that much. sometimes their rumor is right on, but more times it's just vapor.
±×ÂI - means /. in Chinese, but you'll need Big5 (traditional Chinese) capable reader to see it.
I was thinking about a lot of those stupid copy right/patent claiming that's related on the internet. most of them seems silly. Like AOL tried to copy right the phrase 'You've Got Mail', Amazon's 1-click shopping, etc. basically Those people are still thinking along the traditional way of model, instead of the new cyber/internet oriented ways of life.
I have to agree that Penguin's price seems to be
bloated a little, I went over there and price
an AMD system, which came out to $1963, which I
can get around $1400 or so. Probably less then that.
It really depends on people I guess, some people who know how to build computer and knows their ways around, those people who will not want to buy an off the shelf system. On the other hand, a lot of people who don't want the hassle to build the hardware then setup the software are willing to pay money for the service.