Why on earth did you use SQL server and VB? That is the worst solution around. PHP/Perl/Python + mySQL + apache and you are set.
This is perfect for a web app job, because you can really easily connect new sites. You can also access it on a range of devices, like PDAs and even cellphones because it is plain HTML.
Well, actually... the Athlon XPs run a lot cooler than you think. Not only that, they can handle a lot higher temps than P4/G5. The G5 just doesn't like heat, and it also puts out a lot of it's own.
I'd prefer a chip that can withstand heat and doesn't put too much out.
1) By the time most users have 10GBit, most servers will have 100Tbit. Therefore, you still need more bots.
2) You'd need more than 'a few bots' because otherwise it's very easy to filter out the DDOS. That is why armies of 10,000 similar cable modems are so hard to filter out because they look exactly like legit requests.
With Standard Definition Movies (in XViD and DiVX formats), the filesizes are remaining at around 700-1.4GB (1-2CDs). Not only that, thanks to more faster CPUs, more compression can be done which means a lower bitrate is needed for the same quality.
Not only that, home connection speeds have went from 512/768 to 2,3 and soon 4 and 5mbit/second.
Some things are the same, but music and movies are just staying the same size (unless HDTV rips start coming, but that's a long way off as we currently have no way to transfer a HDTV rip to a TV without use of large HDDs etc) which is bad, bad news for the music and movie companies.
For games, they have gone from 1-2CD in 2000, to 3-5 CD (or one DVD).
Creating a nominal fee means all sorts of problems: first, credit card processing (plus fee, which if it's a small transaction can cut deeply into it), second chargebacks (where the person reverses a charge, usually a very heavy fee applied), and also you need billing support incase it doesn't work for some reason.
But what happens when they eventually stop working? It's not easy to find Pentium 90s and SIMM's of RAM, even secondhand. It mean's you have to upgrade hardware and find out that it doesn't work on Windows 3.1.
A similar thing happened to me recently, they were running some specailized realtime OS to run a production line of some sort. It only works with one model of a 386. Why? Because it work's out it's timings absolutley from how long it takes a operation to process. Therefore, if you use a 486, it's too fast. If you use a 286, it's too slow. They are now desperately trying to find someone who will sell them an old 386 box, because it is all linked in with expensive milling hardware aswell. It's going to cost them over $2million (to buy new milling machines, production lines and software) if they can't find it, and it's a fairly small business aswell.
The WRT54G is a superb router - it's product's like this which made Cisco by them out because they were starting to verge on their low end devices which cost 10x as much.
Of course, no-one got fired for buying Cisco but I'm sure we will see a hell of a lot more of these sorta devices at remote sites and for 'glue'.
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Please remember to MOD DOWN any people who fail it hard.
There was this system invented to cope with this problem... that is, people only getting on flights they paid for... I believe it's called... TICKETING.
That's right, the airlines keep a record of everyone who boarded the flight, usually with name and address details, so they know if they can fit anymore people on or the plane if full.
But spending billions on huge battery (since that's what they'd effectively be) vaults that wear out every 10 years and causing a huge demand for lead that we couldn't supply, totally mocks the point of a grid power system.
Oh also, you can't store AC current in a battery, so that'd be pretty unworkable, too.
You haven't seen the fluctuations I've seen from home-grid connected solar modules. Dropping to 500W then back up to a few kilowatts in a couple of minutes, because of clouds.
There is no way a grid can handle this unless you join it all togther across North American (so you take advantage of CAs surplus of production when it's morning rush hour in NY) - however this would require such highly efficent (and therefore expensive) transmissions systems that it would be unfeasable).
If the USs power grid is so creaky that a few failing generators can take out tens of millions of peoples power out, how do you think we could cope with sub-minute spikes and troughs in production.
That means they only lose 20% of their business to fusion, maximum, and that is over-estimated because people who use oil for heating and power tend to be very remote and therefore off the gas/power grid and wouldn't be effected by fusion power.
The Oil companies know that their reserves are getting 'slim'. They know that they can't have it 'this good' for much longer. What they know they need to do is adapt to change and provide alternative forms of power.
For example, BP - formally British Petroleum, now Beyond Petroleum, is one of the worlds biggest suppliers of solar panels AND they are a huge producer and refiner of oil.
Because as much as the environmentalists love to peddle the idea it would only take a few square miles to supply the planet, it's just not true in theory.
For one it's extremely expensive to build miles of solar panels. Not only that, the technology is improving all the time - we probably had something like 2.5% efficiency 15 years ago, now we have 10-15% and we'll be up into the low 20's hopefully soon.
To add to all that, the problem of getting the supply anywhere is very hard. You can produce megawatts of the stuff, but it's all coming out as low voltage DC when everyone needs high voltage AC. That means you need huge inverters, which are very inefficient.
Not only that, they only produce when the sun is shining. Maybe in CA this is ok as power demands are exceedingly high with the amount of air con in the daytime.
Another important question is whether the national grid could handle the amount of fluctuations in supply that a solar grid produces - one moment you'll have 1.2MW, next moment you'll have 0.9MW as a cloud passes over - this presents a huge problem for the grid as it's very hard to quickly adjust the major producers (coal, and to some degree fission) to cope with that supply problem.
Exactly. I can see holographic movies in the future which would require this sort of storage.
It is niave to the extreme to think that we couldn't use 100TB for anything - god, a 100TB 'Hard Drive' would be so helpful to archive.org...
But they are not making just for MHz now. They are switching all CPU lines over to a similar system of numbering that AMD uses for Opetron CPUs, that is a 3 number ID code. The Prescott based Celeron is now known as the '320D' for example. The Pentium-M line is moving over soon (if they haven't totally done that yet).
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Why on earth did you use SQL server and VB? That is the worst solution around. PHP/Perl/Python + mySQL + apache and you are set.
This is perfect for a web app job, because you can really easily connect new sites. You can also access it on a range of devices, like PDAs and even cellphones because it is plain HTML.
Well, actually... the Athlon XPs run a lot cooler than you think. Not only that, they can handle a lot higher temps than P4/G5. The G5 just doesn't like heat, and it also puts out a lot of it's own.
I'd prefer a chip that can withstand heat and doesn't put too much out.
You are forgetting two things:
1) By the time most users have 10GBit, most servers will have 100Tbit. Therefore, you still need more bots.
2) You'd need more than 'a few bots' because otherwise it's very easy to filter out the DDOS. That is why armies of 10,000 similar cable modems are so hard to filter out because they look exactly like legit requests.
No, I disagree.
With Standard Definition Movies (in XViD and DiVX formats), the filesizes are remaining at around 700-1.4GB (1-2CDs). Not only that, thanks to more faster CPUs, more compression can be done which means a lower bitrate is needed for the same quality.
Not only that, home connection speeds have went from 512/768 to 2,3 and soon 4 and 5mbit/second.
Some things are the same, but music and movies are just staying the same size (unless HDTV rips start coming, but that's a long way off as we currently have no way to transfer a HDTV rip to a TV without use of large HDDs etc) which is bad, bad news for the music and movie companies.
For games, they have gone from 1-2CD in 2000, to 3-5 CD (or one DVD).
I doubt the nominal fee will be likley.
Creating a nominal fee means all sorts of problems: first, credit card processing (plus fee, which if it's a small transaction can cut deeply into it), second chargebacks (where the person reverses a charge, usually a very heavy fee applied), and also you need billing support incase it doesn't work for some reason.
But what happens when they eventually stop working? It's not easy to find Pentium 90s and SIMM's of RAM, even secondhand. It mean's you have to upgrade hardware and find out that it doesn't work on Windows 3.1.
A similar thing happened to me recently, they were running some specailized realtime OS to run a production line of some sort. It only works with one model of a 386. Why? Because it work's out it's timings absolutley from how long it takes a operation to process. Therefore, if you use a 486, it's too fast. If you use a 286, it's too slow. They are now desperately trying to find someone who will sell them an old 386 box, because it is all linked in with expensive milling hardware aswell. It's going to cost them over $2million (to buy new milling machines, production lines and software) if they can't find it, and it's a fairly small business aswell.
Sadly, you fail it.
Hopefully the 10mil post will be on a story and not on journal!
You could use this to secure an entire network, clamAV, mailscan and firewall.
Does anyone know how much % of the embedded market Linux has? I'm sure it is far, far above Windows now.
The WRT54G is a superb router - it's product's like this which made Cisco by them out because they were starting to verge on their low end devices which cost 10x as much.
Of course, no-one got fired for buying Cisco but I'm sure we will see a hell of a lot more of these sorta devices at remote sites and for 'glue'.
As we are approaching it, please remember this!
To all moderators, please MOD UP the 10,000,000 post. This would be very nice of you. Thankyou. Please remember to MOD DOWN any people who fail it hard.
Does the GNAA win it? NO? Do I win it? Yes, hopefully.
10 MILLIONTH POST. I AM THE WINNER!
lol, if i get this i will be in geekdom for the rest of my life.
10 millionth post? PLZ!!!!
There was this system invented to cope with this problem... that is, people only getting on flights they paid for... I believe it's called... TICKETING.
That's right, the airlines keep a record of everyone who boarded the flight, usually with name and address details, so they know if they can fit anymore people on or the plane if full.
It's not rocket science.
If you mean capacitors, then yes.
But spending billions on huge battery (since that's what they'd effectively be) vaults that wear out every 10 years and causing a huge demand for lead that we couldn't supply, totally mocks the point of a grid power system.
Oh also, you can't store AC current in a battery, so that'd be pretty unworkable, too.
You haven't seen the fluctuations I've seen from home-grid connected solar modules. Dropping to 500W then back up to a few kilowatts in a couple of minutes, because of clouds.
There is no way a grid can handle this unless you join it all togther across North American (so you take advantage of CAs surplus of production when it's morning rush hour in NY) - however this would require such highly efficent (and therefore expensive) transmissions systems that it would be unfeasable).
If the USs power grid is so creaky that a few failing generators can take out tens of millions of peoples power out, how do you think we could cope with sub-minute spikes and troughs in production.
It's under 30milliwatts and is at the same frequency as a microwave oven. AFIAK all of the signal is harmlessly absorbed by the water.
I believe everywhere in the world apart from N. America uses 240AC. This means you'd just have to change the plug on the invertor.
I know. But say you have 1,000 of those spotted around the country.
That's 300MW fluctuating all the time...
That means they only lose 20% of their business to fusion, maximum, and that is over-estimated because people who use oil for heating and power tend to be very remote and therefore off the gas/power grid and wouldn't be effected by fusion power.
The Oil companies know that their reserves are getting 'slim'. They know that they can't have it 'this good' for much longer. What they know they need to do is adapt to change and provide alternative forms of power.
For example, BP - formally British Petroleum, now Beyond Petroleum, is one of the worlds biggest suppliers of solar panels AND they are a huge producer and refiner of oil.
Because as much as the environmentalists love to peddle the idea it would only take a few square miles to supply the planet, it's just not true in theory.
For one it's extremely expensive to build miles of solar panels. Not only that, the technology is improving all the time - we probably had something like 2.5% efficiency 15 years ago, now we have 10-15% and we'll be up into the low 20's hopefully soon.
To add to all that, the problem of getting the supply anywhere is very hard. You can produce megawatts of the stuff, but it's all coming out as low voltage DC when everyone needs high voltage AC. That means you need huge inverters, which are very inefficient.
Not only that, they only produce when the sun is shining. Maybe in CA this is ok as power demands are exceedingly high with the amount of air con in the daytime.
Another important question is whether the national grid could handle the amount of fluctuations in supply that a solar grid produces - one moment you'll have 1.2MW, next moment you'll have 0.9MW as a cloud passes over - this presents a huge problem for the grid as it's very hard to quickly adjust the major producers (coal, and to some degree fission) to cope with that supply problem.
Exactly. I can see holographic movies in the future which would require this sort of storage. It is niave to the extreme to think that we couldn't use 100TB for anything - god, a 100TB 'Hard Drive' would be so helpful to archive.org...
But they are not making just for MHz now. They are switching all CPU lines over to a similar system of numbering that AMD uses for Opetron CPUs, that is a 3 number ID code. The Prescott based Celeron is now known as the '320D' for example. The Pentium-M line is moving over soon (if they haven't totally done that yet).