I have a set of Philip consumer noice cancelling headphones. They are great at low end sound cancelling, but not at the higher frequencies. They work great when mowing the lawn on weekends or getting rid of motor noise but not at high pitched frequencies that a fan or a wood chipper generates. I was once in a room, not a server room, but a compressor room. The door was posted that you had to put on hearing protection before entering. From having experience with the room before, I had to wear both foam earplugs and over-the-ear hearing protectors to make the sound bearable. The bad part about is was that I would come out physically sore all over from the audio banging on the body. I would stick with the foam ones.
Greenhouse gases??? Cow farts??? I think that the only clean reaction that does not create pollutants is Hydrogen and Oxygen producing heat and water with nothing else involved in it. If you use pure air, most of it is Nitrogen -> Nitrogen Oxides. Carbon based fuels -> CO2. I guess Lockyer is looking for an income source like SCO is looking for an income source from FOSS and IBM. Lockyer needs to go after Natural Gas suppliers: Methane + O2 -> CO2. Power plants that burn carbon based fuels -> CO2. Personally, leave California to the fruits and nuts. They will not give up their big rides and traffic jams at all. My 93 Jeep gets sticker mileage still after 160,000 miles and meets smog testing requirements. The new Jeep with the 3 liter diesel is going to get the same fuel mileage as what I get now. This is just a legal money grab.
Off-year primary this week in Milwaukee (very blue city...in more ways than one) had the city reporting 80,000 ballots cast. A three-day recount of ballots shows 46,500 votes tallied. The recount was asked for by officials after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel newpaper raised some pointed questions. Even in 2004, there were big issues here.
I think that whenever a magnifying glass is put on every election from here on out, there will be issues found and the extremists on all sides of the political spectrum will try to milk it for all its worth. This is especially true as voting becomes more complex. Maybe it is time for the voting process to have some form of double-blind setup as scientists use that can't be politicized. As long as there is some way a loophole can be milked or inserted into the process for fodder, this will keep going on. Me, I am just amused.
Ok, so a Thinkpad's battery catches on fire. No where does it say in the article that there were Sony batteries actually in the unit. Nowhere does it say that the battery pack was genuine IBM or not. Nowhere does it say that the battery pack was virgin and not damaged from dropping, being worked on, etc.
So,the emperor does not have any clothes on. Li-Ion batteries are capable of delivering large amounts of short circuit current. They can fail. A Gates Energy Products 2 volt lead-acid starved electrolyte battery the size of a D-cell could deliver 150 amps short circuit current. Unfortunately, the spec sheet for the Sanyo batteries that are in my Thinkpad do not mention what the short circuit current rating is for the battery.
So until there is more info, just move along.
I voted Republican in the last election because this independent could not stand the other choices. This administration and congress has gone way too far over - dare I say "fascist" (not meant to be flamebait but a description of activity). Unfortunately, this country and the elections are dealing with defining and separating people into extremes of political philosophy. I feel that this leaves out the vast majority who have to go to the polls and hold their nose when they vote. We are now all presumed to be guilty first and have to prove our innocence later and this wholesale abuse of The Constitution is guised under the need for "National Security". Our freedoms are slowly withering away and this has to stop. I have a feeling that my next trip to the polls will be with pen and a whole bunch of write-in's will be visiting my ballot (pen mightier than the punch?). I pray that the EFF kicks the gov's collective pratt in this case.
I don't buy much music anymore - at least the "popular - rock" music. If I am going to buy a CD, it is usually in the classical genre. Here is another thought...My dad and I bought an LP of Frank Sinatra at E.J. Korvette in the 60's for $1.57 and now the last time I saw the same recordings, from the same record on CD, was $13.95. The industry is doing it to themselves. People realize the marginal cost of utility of music. The market will pay what is perceived to be reasonable. If the price point is on the wrong side, there are very few or no sales. Apple's operation works well - $0.99/song, IIRC. The price point here really is on track with the cost of a CD full of songs. Apple got it right...the music industry, as a whole, doesn't get it and are reaping what they have sown.
How about putting the M$ Logo for Vista and Windows on the soccer ball for a game against the home team (probably sponsored by $Bill) and the Penguins. Penguins win in a shutout. (I can dream...)
I have to agree with the article writer. The university system has not changed at all. When I was going through the slings and arrows of higher education back in the late 70's, the books were the same. Pages and pages and more pages of reference material. We were never really taught how to use this and where it is appropriate. Even when I asked my instructor's (TA's who had no real world applications knowledge) where something was to be used, I would either get an off-the-cuff remark (caught off-guard or not knowing) or "This is the basics, you will get it in your next semester's class." Well, it never came. I had to figure it out on my own. In retrospect, I had to teach myself how to use the stuff. Now lets move the clock forward, to the present. Engineering jobs are, unfortunately, being treated as a market commodity. People want stability in their professional life but since companies treat engineers as cattle, the outcome does not surprise me in the least. Up-and-coming college students see this and don't want to invest 4-6 years learning a profession where, when the project is done, they are sent to pound the concrete trying to find another job. Companies don't want to hire experienced engineers because they can command top dollar and that is too expensive, in their minds. So the companies whine that there are not enough engineers available so they hit the global pool for cheap, educated labor. Problem is that the global pool isn't that experienced and many issues creep in because the talent and experience isn't there - the degree letters are there though. The fix to this will be long and hard. Companies will have to treat engineers as a valuable resource and hold on to them through the ebb and flow. Once that is realized, then hopefully students will get into the programs again. But will the universities replace the clueless instructors and TA's with seasoned people who know the ropes to help up-and-coming future engineers learn the profession? Probably not. This issue takes partnership, the companies and the universities. As long as the almighty dollar is king (companies - low bottom line employment $, universities - high incoming research $), we will never get out of this. The companies have to retain the talent, the universities have to properly teach the talent.
Go here and partake:
http://boncey.org/2004_12_23_make_your_own_slackwa re_10_bootable_dvd I have used his procedure to burn my own dvd's. My IBM T42 case has a dvd of Slack 10.1 for recovery purposes plus my own software stash to get me going again in no time. I built it mounting the.iso on loopback, adding my own touches and tweaks, then burning the bootable disk. One disk and 25 minutes - viola!
Slackin' since SLS...
"Chances are, if you cannot answer most or all of those questions, it does not matter what operating system you have because ignorance of the core TCO tenets means that your business is not getting the most out of its networks."
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This phrase says a ton. Even though her humorous missives have the M$ tilt, this line stands on its own. I see it as saying that if your IT department can't come up with these numbers, regardless of their software-of-choice, then they are really sleeping on the job. Now my question to add on this is - How may IT departments really are sleeping on the job and can't handle a major emergency? I can submit this example: Server room is on UPS - Switch rooms are not - Outside data modems to rest of company are not - Power failure - whole company shuts down. Yea, the servers are fine but everything else is lost.
The idea of TCO does not affect just whose OS you use, it is the whole system from network to servers to user.
Yes, RIAA, you are right! I buy all those CD and DVD blanks to copy files...Linux Install files, Live CD's, hard drive backup. Heck, I even give away the DVD's that I burn, for free, to people to try out Linux. I think that I will go and burn some more disks tonight - Knoppix live and Slackware installs.
Most LCD monitors that are new, you can see the pixels on the screen so it really doesn't matter. The picture is already pixelated enough. But all it would take is a creative hack to make a dongle to get around the issue. If MAC ID's can be spoofed, so can monitor ID's.
Long live the penguin!!!!
I hope that the future partnerships don't lead to the distro doing tweaks just to fit their hardware partner. I have had a real nasty time adjusting my fav distro to deal with several laptops and their quirky implementations of ACPI and APM. I can see this happening though and, hopefully, those tweaks make it out so all distro's can benefit and become more reliable for all concerned.
I care, I really, really care. So, I need a pin-on ribbon to show that I care. Let's fold floppy disks, better yet, Mag Tape, and wear them as a ribbon showing that we care. I will put it next to my $100 bill ribbon showing that I care about taxes....
So Intel did the selection of boards and processors. We have no way of knowing what was done to assign core processes. Wasn't there a graphics board company that wrote their drivers to boost perfomance under benchmarking because of the specific set of conditions? We learn from history, I wonder if Intel did? Me, I will stick with my Athlon64.
The winds do not blow the same direction as you go higher. Sometimes you get 90 degree shear or 180 deg shear. The poor kites will always be doing a shuffle to work correctly and efficiently between the low-level, mid-level, and high-level winds. I think that this plan is how he plans to get his pies-in-the-sky......
IBM's Thinkpad market has issues. The rest of the manufacturers are doing rings around them. AMD64's, 3 GHz Intel's, etc., while IBM still sits on 1.6 GHz/1.8 GHz. The base IBM laptop hardware may be built like a rock and look and feel like it, but when the purchasing public can buy a machine that has a widescreen display, reasonable sound, AMD64, FireWire, for half the cost of the Thinkpad, I know where the money ends up and it is not in IBM's pocket. Whenever you compare apples to apples, the bushel that costs less for the same quality will usually get purchased. Yes, I like the trackpoint better than a touchpad. I would rather use a mouse than a touchpad. I was thinking about buying an IBM laptop for myself but when I can get a laptop with better features and the latest hardware for half the cost, IBM dropped out of the running. Methinks that IBM rested on it name believing that because it says "IBM" on the lid that the crowd will buy their overpriced, antique hardware but they goofed on this one, big time, and they only have themselves to blame.
I hope you are enjoying this. Back when it was stylish and in vogue to pile on AT&T with the thoughts of AT&T being the "Big, Bad Monopoly" (though highly government regulated), we had one communications structure - well defined and orchestrated for its time. But of course there were the people served by the Great Telephone Experiment (GTE) that never could get it right. Yes, AT&T had their problems but when my phone was out, problems were fixed the first time out. Now, no one knows what to make of this morass called wireline telecommunications. YOU let the genie out of the bottle and now we have to sort through this mess and the "The $ is King" Federal Clueless Commission just rubber stamps proposals without really using their brains to understand what their decisions mean. I will bet a wooden nickle that these decisions by the FCC are being done to featherbed their pockets for when their time is up at the expense of the users. So, now it is time to direct the frustrations toward the Southern Boys Club and it is well deserved!
Yes, nuclear energy (fission/fusion) and a strong, dedicated program to get the systems online would go far to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels for electrical generation. As I see it and experience it, we, in the US, do not have people who have enough of a strong, base education to operate and maintain these technological beasts correctly. You have to have a college-level education to understand these items and the vast majority of workers out there, even though they may have graduated from High School, can't understand anything above the fifth grade level in complexity. The employers do not want to pay for qualified employees because the few that really understand the material can command a high salary, and as we all know, that money is needed to pay the CEO, but I digress. The waste issue is, of course, a NIMBY. So is the waste from a fossil fuel plant a NIMBY (power plant, car, etc.). Until the US decides to do this and come up with a comprehensive, sound timetable to do this and one based on sound engineering principles and not politically motivated deirriere-bussing, this will never happen.
I hope that the Enterprise Package runs far smoother than Suse 9.1 Pro for 64-bit. I put that molasses package on my machine (Athlon64/3000+) and regretted it. A supposedly speedy machine turned into a 486 by an install was out of the box. Went back to the ol' reliable Slackware 10 and it screaming again. I think that Dell would be better off loading Slack than Suse but, as another commenter mentioned, Europe loves Suse so that would be a plus from the sales end of it. Who cares about performance....
We have been using a version of Scantron here for years. Big paper ballot and all you have to do is complete the arrow next to your choice with a black magic marker. Any partial reads and the ballot is cancelled. It has to be all the way across. Simple and easy. But knowing the political process, I am sure that they could come up with a phrase, "a hanging mark". On an aside, did anyone ever come up with a parody on the "hanging chad" determination and which hanger-on counted or not. This would be similar to diagram for which screw goes into which hole gag? Time to pop back a cold 807 and tune into the 2004 edition of "The Voting Follies".
Many people, myself included, participate in processes outside of their normal career function at the "amateur" level but at the "professional" standards level as a release from what they do as a normal profession. There are sometimes more rewards to this function of operation than what money can bring and that is the case for me.
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I have a set of Philip consumer noice cancelling headphones. They are great at low end sound cancelling, but not at the higher frequencies. They work great when mowing the lawn on weekends or getting rid of motor noise but not at high pitched frequencies that a fan or a wood chipper generates. I was once in a room, not a server room, but a compressor room. The door was posted that you had to put on hearing protection before entering. From having experience with the room before, I had to wear both foam earplugs and over-the-ear hearing protectors to make the sound bearable. The bad part about is was that I would come out physically sore all over from the audio banging on the body. I would stick with the foam ones.
Greenhouse gases??? Cow farts??? I think that the only clean reaction that does not create pollutants is Hydrogen and Oxygen producing heat and water with nothing else involved in it. If you use pure air, most of it is Nitrogen -> Nitrogen Oxides. Carbon based fuels -> CO2. I guess Lockyer is looking for an income source like SCO is looking for an income source from FOSS and IBM. Lockyer needs to go after Natural Gas suppliers: Methane + O2 -> CO2. Power plants that burn carbon based fuels -> CO2. Personally, leave California to the fruits and nuts. They will not give up their big rides and traffic jams at all. My 93 Jeep gets sticker mileage still after 160,000 miles and meets smog testing requirements. The new Jeep with the 3 liter diesel is going to get the same fuel mileage as what I get now. This is just a legal money grab.
Off-year primary this week in Milwaukee (very blue city...in more ways than one) had the city reporting 80,000 ballots cast. A three-day recount of ballots shows 46,500 votes tallied. The recount was asked for by officials after the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel newpaper raised some pointed questions. Even in 2004, there were big issues here. I think that whenever a magnifying glass is put on every election from here on out, there will be issues found and the extremists on all sides of the political spectrum will try to milk it for all its worth. This is especially true as voting becomes more complex. Maybe it is time for the voting process to have some form of double-blind setup as scientists use that can't be politicized. As long as there is some way a loophole can be milked or inserted into the process for fodder, this will keep going on. Me, I am just amused.
Ok, so a Thinkpad's battery catches on fire. No where does it say in the article that there were Sony batteries actually in the unit. Nowhere does it say that the battery pack was genuine IBM or not. Nowhere does it say that the battery pack was virgin and not damaged from dropping, being worked on, etc. So,the emperor does not have any clothes on. Li-Ion batteries are capable of delivering large amounts of short circuit current. They can fail. A Gates Energy Products 2 volt lead-acid starved electrolyte battery the size of a D-cell could deliver 150 amps short circuit current. Unfortunately, the spec sheet for the Sanyo batteries that are in my Thinkpad do not mention what the short circuit current rating is for the battery. So until there is more info, just move along.
I voted Republican in the last election because this independent could not stand the other choices. This administration and congress has gone way too far over - dare I say "fascist" (not meant to be flamebait but a description of activity). Unfortunately, this country and the elections are dealing with defining and separating people into extremes of political philosophy. I feel that this leaves out the vast majority who have to go to the polls and hold their nose when they vote. We are now all presumed to be guilty first and have to prove our innocence later and this wholesale abuse of The Constitution is guised under the need for "National Security". Our freedoms are slowly withering away and this has to stop. I have a feeling that my next trip to the polls will be with pen and a whole bunch of write-in's will be visiting my ballot (pen mightier than the punch?). I pray that the EFF kicks the gov's collective pratt in this case.
I don't buy much music anymore - at least the "popular - rock" music. If I am going to buy a CD, it is usually in the classical genre. Here is another thought...My dad and I bought an LP of Frank Sinatra at E.J. Korvette in the 60's for $1.57 and now the last time I saw the same recordings, from the same record on CD, was $13.95. The industry is doing it to themselves. People realize the marginal cost of utility of music. The market will pay what is perceived to be reasonable. If the price point is on the wrong side, there are very few or no sales. Apple's operation works well - $0.99/song, IIRC. The price point here really is on track with the cost of a CD full of songs. Apple got it right...the music industry, as a whole, doesn't get it and are reaping what they have sown.
How about putting the M$ Logo for Vista and Windows on the soccer ball for a game against the home team (probably sponsored by $Bill) and the Penguins. Penguins win in a shutout. (I can dream...)
I have to agree with the article writer. The university system has not changed at all. When I was going through the slings and arrows of higher education back in the late 70's, the books were the same. Pages and pages and more pages of reference material. We were never really taught how to use this and where it is appropriate. Even when I asked my instructor's (TA's who had no real world applications knowledge) where something was to be used, I would either get an off-the-cuff remark (caught off-guard or not knowing) or "This is the basics, you will get it in your next semester's class." Well, it never came. I had to figure it out on my own. In retrospect, I had to teach myself how to use the stuff. Now lets move the clock forward, to the present. Engineering jobs are, unfortunately, being treated as a market commodity. People want stability in their professional life but since companies treat engineers as cattle, the outcome does not surprise me in the least. Up-and-coming college students see this and don't want to invest 4-6 years learning a profession where, when the project is done, they are sent to pound the concrete trying to find another job. Companies don't want to hire experienced engineers because they can command top dollar and that is too expensive, in their minds. So the companies whine that there are not enough engineers available so they hit the global pool for cheap, educated labor. Problem is that the global pool isn't that experienced and many issues creep in because the talent and experience isn't there - the degree letters are there though. The fix to this will be long and hard. Companies will have to treat engineers as a valuable resource and hold on to them through the ebb and flow. Once that is realized, then hopefully students will get into the programs again. But will the universities replace the clueless instructors and TA's with seasoned people who know the ropes to help up-and-coming future engineers learn the profession? Probably not. This issue takes partnership, the companies and the universities. As long as the almighty dollar is king (companies - low bottom line employment $, universities - high incoming research $), we will never get out of this. The companies have to retain the talent, the universities have to properly teach the talent.
Go here and partake: http://boncey.org/2004_12_23_make_your_own_slackwa re_10_bootable_dvd I have used his procedure to burn my own dvd's. My IBM T42 case has a dvd of Slack 10.1 for recovery purposes plus my own software stash to get me going again in no time. I built it mounting the .iso on loopback, adding my own touches and tweaks, then burning the bootable disk. One disk and 25 minutes - viola!
Slackin' since SLS...
"Chances are, if you cannot answer most or all of those questions, it does not matter what operating system you have because ignorance of the core TCO tenets means that your business is not getting the most out of its networks." ------- This phrase says a ton. Even though her humorous missives have the M$ tilt, this line stands on its own. I see it as saying that if your IT department can't come up with these numbers, regardless of their software-of-choice, then they are really sleeping on the job. Now my question to add on this is - How may IT departments really are sleeping on the job and can't handle a major emergency? I can submit this example: Server room is on UPS - Switch rooms are not - Outside data modems to rest of company are not - Power failure - whole company shuts down. Yea, the servers are fine but everything else is lost. The idea of TCO does not affect just whose OS you use, it is the whole system from network to servers to user.
Yes, RIAA, you are right! I buy all those CD and DVD blanks to copy files...Linux Install files, Live CD's, hard drive backup. Heck, I even give away the DVD's that I burn, for free, to people to try out Linux. I think that I will go and burn some more disks tonight - Knoppix live and Slackware installs.
Most LCD monitors that are new, you can see the pixels on the screen so it really doesn't matter. The picture is already pixelated enough. But all it would take is a creative hack to make a dongle to get around the issue. If MAC ID's can be spoofed, so can monitor ID's. Long live the penguin!!!!
I hope that the future partnerships don't lead to the distro doing tweaks just to fit their hardware partner. I have had a real nasty time adjusting my fav distro to deal with several laptops and their quirky implementations of ACPI and APM. I can see this happening though and, hopefully, those tweaks make it out so all distro's can benefit and become more reliable for all concerned.
I care, I really, really care. So, I need a pin-on ribbon to show that I care. Let's fold floppy disks, better yet, Mag Tape, and wear them as a ribbon showing that we care. I will put it next to my $100 bill ribbon showing that I care about taxes....
Since this is a Virtual Server, can you Visualize a Virtual Blue Screen of Death?
From staid, upright lawyers...
So Intel did the selection of boards and processors. We have no way of knowing what was done to assign core processes. Wasn't there a graphics board company that wrote their drivers to boost perfomance under benchmarking because of the specific set of conditions? We learn from history, I wonder if Intel did? Me, I will stick with my Athlon64.
The winds do not blow the same direction as you go higher. Sometimes you get 90 degree shear or 180 deg shear. The poor kites will always be doing a shuffle to work correctly and efficiently between the low-level, mid-level, and high-level winds. I think that this plan is how he plans to get his pies-in-the-sky......
I have a church key that I carry too.
IBM's Thinkpad market has issues. The rest of the manufacturers are doing rings around them. AMD64's, 3 GHz Intel's, etc., while IBM still sits on 1.6 GHz/1.8 GHz. The base IBM laptop hardware may be built like a rock and look and feel like it, but when the purchasing public can buy a machine that has a widescreen display, reasonable sound, AMD64, FireWire, for half the cost of the Thinkpad, I know where the money ends up and it is not in IBM's pocket. Whenever you compare apples to apples, the bushel that costs less for the same quality will usually get purchased. Yes, I like the trackpoint better than a touchpad. I would rather use a mouse than a touchpad. I was thinking about buying an IBM laptop for myself but when I can get a laptop with better features and the latest hardware for half the cost, IBM dropped out of the running. Methinks that IBM rested on it name believing that because it says "IBM" on the lid that the crowd will buy their overpriced, antique hardware but they goofed on this one, big time, and they only have themselves to blame.
I hope you are enjoying this. Back when it was stylish and in vogue to pile on AT&T with the thoughts of AT&T being the "Big, Bad Monopoly" (though highly government regulated), we had one communications structure - well defined and orchestrated for its time. But of course there were the people served by the Great Telephone Experiment (GTE) that never could get it right. Yes, AT&T had their problems but when my phone was out, problems were fixed the first time out. Now, no one knows what to make of this morass called wireline telecommunications. YOU let the genie out of the bottle and now we have to sort through this mess and the "The $ is King" Federal Clueless Commission just rubber stamps proposals without really using their brains to understand what their decisions mean. I will bet a wooden nickle that these decisions by the FCC are being done to featherbed their pockets for when their time is up at the expense of the users. So, now it is time to direct the frustrations toward the Southern Boys Club and it is well deserved!
Yes, nuclear energy (fission/fusion) and a strong, dedicated program to get the systems online would go far to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels for electrical generation. As I see it and experience it, we, in the US, do not have people who have enough of a strong, base education to operate and maintain these technological beasts correctly. You have to have a college-level education to understand these items and the vast majority of workers out there, even though they may have graduated from High School, can't understand anything above the fifth grade level in complexity. The employers do not want to pay for qualified employees because the few that really understand the material can command a high salary, and as we all know, that money is needed to pay the CEO, but I digress. The waste issue is, of course, a NIMBY. So is the waste from a fossil fuel plant a NIMBY (power plant, car, etc.). Until the US decides to do this and come up with a comprehensive, sound timetable to do this and one based on sound engineering principles and not politically motivated deirriere-bussing, this will never happen.
I hope that the Enterprise Package runs far smoother than Suse 9.1 Pro for 64-bit. I put that molasses package on my machine (Athlon64/3000+) and regretted it. A supposedly speedy machine turned into a 486 by an install was out of the box. Went back to the ol' reliable Slackware 10 and it screaming again. I think that Dell would be better off loading Slack than Suse but, as another commenter mentioned, Europe loves Suse so that would be a plus from the sales end of it. Who cares about performance....
We have been using a version of Scantron here for years. Big paper ballot and all you have to do is complete the arrow next to your choice with a black magic marker. Any partial reads and the ballot is cancelled. It has to be all the way across. Simple and easy. But knowing the political process, I am sure that they could come up with a phrase, "a hanging mark". On an aside, did anyone ever come up with a parody on the "hanging chad" determination and which hanger-on counted or not. This would be similar to diagram for which screw goes into which hole gag? Time to pop back a cold 807 and tune into the 2004 edition of "The Voting Follies".
Many people, myself included, participate in processes outside of their normal career function at the "amateur" level but at the "professional" standards level as a release from what they do as a normal profession. There are sometimes more rewards to this function of operation than what money can bring and that is the case for me.