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As somebody who dived there in the past 10 years I can attest to the incredible multitude of life that is there now. Every square inch of "land" above sea level is covered by life, and what is under water is literally choked with plants and animals. It is amazing to behold, and it gives you an idea of just how adaptable and tough nature is.
I agree, I never had one of my own, but I consulted at a few places that had them - one bankrupcy trustee office had them everywhere. Anyhow, I found someone who was small like me, with a similar build, and I tried his chair - they feel "odd", but nothing special - at first. Then, I ended up using his chair over a whole weekend while I did a server recovery - the chair is astounding - normally my shoulders get sore after 5 or 6 hours in the chair - not so with the Aeron. Hmmm, maybe I should bid on one myself...
You are now my personal savior - I didn't know about that one at all!
For everyone else: Here is the link to the main google capabilities - I'm sure there is something new for nearly everyone:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
I know how you feel, I did the same a few months ago when I realized that he had completely solved all my Gentoo download woes. You must admit though that it feels good to send him $20, especially seeing as probably only one person in 50000 gives him anything. Bram, if you lived here in Calgary I would buy you a beer or five any day...
Firefox isn't really any different than the old firebird nightlies, but I must say that one of my favorite changes is the favorites menu - they are now much more like Internet Explorers - easier to manipulate. Of course the popup blocking is incredible as well, I bet only one popup attemp in a hundred actually gets through, and that's only when I am visiting really sketchy sites (purely for research purposes, of course).
I do hot swap with the 3Ware cards quite often (stupid cheap IDE drives seem to die all the time, about 3 or 4 per month out of 600 drives).
Under windows you can swap out drives on a 3Ware - we have RAID 0+1 arrays and RAID 5 arrays, and in both cases I can remove drives at will under 2000, 2003, linux (2.6 kernels as well as 2.4).
Newer versions of windows support hot swapping of nearly any device - I even hot swap IDE drives directly onto the motherboard controller (I had to do that to unlock my XBOX hard drive). A simple "scan for new devices" and it shows up.
I have quite a few servers running Debian and Gentoo with 3Ware RAID cards, and not only is the throughput staggering, the cards are rock solid. We did notice that even with small arrays (4 drives instead of our usual 8 or 12), putting the cards into a 64 bit/66MHz slot made a huge throughput difference. It's easy for us to sustain 100MB/second even on a small array, for writes and reads. Booting off of them makes the whole system more responsive. I wonder if the issue is specific to Red Hat kernels, as I haven't ever had an issue with Debian and I've been using the two together now since Debian 2.0. YMMV
Telus out west here (I am in Calgary) has an official limit of 10GB down/5GB up on my business DSL. We generally pull about 250 down and push about 35 up per month. I phoned Telus one day and asked what they thought about this - the general answer : "you pay 5x more than a home user, so we don't really care". This is handy since I am a home user who just happens to pay for the higher speed line (4MB down 640K up). Something to think about if you are a Bittorrent user like myself.
I have Sun machines at client sites that have been running continuously for that long - I don't really know if it is something to be proud of. You have a 15+ year old dinosaur system that has the CPU capacity of a watch calculator. Not cool.
I work for a small software development firm with roughly 75 employees. We make password syncronization software
Systems Administration: 25 Linux Servers, 7 Solaris,2 HP-UX,1 IRIX,1 VMS, 2 True64,1 OS/390,1 Unisys, 1 NCR, 2 SCO (unixware and openserver), 3 AIX, 9 Windows, and 1 OS/2.
Database Administrator: Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL, SQL server, dbase, and about 8 LDAP servers.
Oddball application support: We have about 35 vmware machines running all sorts of different software packages that need support. Everything from OTG Lite to obelix
Network Admin: Mail services, switching, firewalling, making cables, testing cables, cussing at cables.
Desktop Admin: Patching up windose desktops, updating virus signatures, deployment of new desktops and laptops.
Help Desk: wiping noses of new users, fixing problems with the accursed Goldmine contact manager.
Policy and Admin: I create and remove user accounts, restict naughty users, use the wooden spoon on really bad users.
Isn't this like a bear "playing" with a couple of salmon in a river? Somehow I doubt that Goliath (Microsoft) really wants to play fair...at this point I welcome all conspiracy theory experts to bring forward explanations:-)
Boy I would kill for mileage like that. My 64 Impala 409 SS averaged about 8MPG if driven nicely, and was probably closer to 5 the way I drove it. My new SUV doesn't seem a whole lot better, maybe 11-12 MPG. Maybe it's time to trade up to something that doesn't gobble up $40 at every fill...It must be nice to not have to look out for gas stations at every second street corner:-)
Haha,
> Does it run on Itanium3? No, only windows does.
Wait until the I3 actually ships before you claim things like that. I have used it on I2s and it works (and works well).
> Does it run on 8-way Xeon servers? No, only windows does.
Yup. Installed it, played with it, wished I could take it home (Dell 8450 Server)
> Does it run on Xbox? No, only windows does.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/:-)
Does anyone know if you can order these keyboards online? I use an old dvorak at home and I use a microsoft "natural" keyboard at work. I'd love to ditch them both in favor of something closer to a standard layout that may actually help my fingers...
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As somebody who dived there in the past 10 years I can attest to the incredible multitude of life that is there now. Every square inch of "land" above sea level is covered by life, and what is under water is literally choked with plants and animals. It is amazing to behold, and it gives you an idea of just how adaptable and tough nature is.
I agree, I never had one of my own, but I consulted at a few places that had them - one bankrupcy trustee office had them everywhere. Anyhow, I found someone who was small like me, with a similar build, and I tried his chair - they feel "odd", but nothing special - at first. Then, I ended up using his chair over a whole weekend while I did a server recovery - the chair is astounding - normally my shoulders get sore after 5 or 6 hours in the chair - not so with the Aeron. Hmmm, maybe I should bid on one myself...
You are now my personal savior - I didn't know about that one at all! For everyone else: Here is the link to the main google capabilities - I'm sure there is something new for nearly everyone: http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Hey, I resent that! I shower at *least* once a week, or even more often if the flies that follow me around start dying by Wednesday or so...
Also downloaded (at 700K/sec too, wow), I'm letting it seed for one full hour. Come get it people!
I know how you feel, I did the same a few months ago when I realized that he had completely solved all my Gentoo download woes. You must admit though that it feels good to send him $20, especially seeing as probably only one person in 50000 gives him anything. Bram, if you lived here in Calgary I would buy you a beer or five any day...
Anyone else remember piggy backing RAM on their old Amigas until the old slimline case wouldn't fit anymore? I even had IDE on my A500...
Firefox isn't really any different than the old firebird nightlies, but I must say that one of my favorite changes is the favorites menu - they are now much more like Internet Explorers - easier to manipulate. Of course the popup blocking is incredible as well, I bet only one popup attemp in a hundred actually gets through, and that's only when I am visiting really sketchy sites (purely for research purposes, of course).
I do hot swap with the 3Ware cards quite often (stupid cheap IDE drives seem to die all the time, about 3 or 4 per month out of 600 drives).
Under windows you can swap out drives on a 3Ware - we have RAID 0+1 arrays and RAID 5 arrays, and in both cases I can remove drives at will under 2000, 2003, linux (2.6 kernels as well as 2.4).
Newer versions of windows support hot swapping of nearly any device - I even hot swap IDE drives directly onto the motherboard controller (I had to do that to unlock my XBOX hard drive). A simple "scan for new devices" and it shows up.
I have quite a few servers running Debian and Gentoo with 3Ware RAID cards, and not only is the throughput staggering, the cards are rock solid. We did notice that even with small arrays (4 drives instead of our usual 8 or 12), putting the cards into a 64 bit/66MHz slot made a huge throughput difference. It's easy for us to sustain 100MB/second even on a small array, for writes and reads. Booting off of them makes the whole system more responsive. I wonder if the issue is specific to Red Hat kernels, as I haven't ever had an issue with Debian and I've been using the two together now since Debian 2.0. YMMV
Indeed, I have a server here at work (HP 9000) with 128GB of memory, and it can hold a *lot* more than that. Go HP-UX!
Telus out west here (I am in Calgary) has an official limit of 10GB down/5GB up on my business DSL. We generally pull about 250 down and push about 35 up per month. I phoned Telus one day and asked what they thought about this - the general answer : "you pay 5x more than a home user, so we don't really care". This is handy since I am a home user who just happens to pay for the higher speed line (4MB down 640K up). Something to think about if you are a Bittorrent user like myself.
I have Sun machines at client sites that have been running continuously for that long - I don't really know if it is something to be proud of. You have a 15+ year old dinosaur system that has the CPU capacity of a watch calculator. Not cool.
I work for a small software development firm with roughly 75 employees. We make password syncronization software
Systems Administration: 25 Linux Servers, 7 Solaris,2 HP-UX,1 IRIX,1 VMS, 2 True64,1 OS/390,1 Unisys, 1 NCR, 2 SCO (unixware and openserver), 3 AIX, 9 Windows, and 1 OS/2.
Database Administrator: Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL, SQL server, dbase, and about 8 LDAP servers.
Oddball application support: We have about 35 vmware machines running all sorts of different software packages that need support. Everything from OTG Lite to obelix
Network Admin: Mail services, switching, firewalling, making cables, testing cables, cussing at cables.
Desktop Admin: Patching up windose desktops, updating virus signatures, deployment of new desktops and laptops.
Help Desk: wiping noses of new users, fixing problems with the accursed Goldmine contact manager.
Policy and Admin: I create and remove user accounts, restict naughty users, use the wooden spoon on really bad users.
Isn't this like a bear "playing" with a couple of salmon in a river? Somehow I doubt that Goliath (Microsoft) really wants to play fair...at this point I welcome all conspiracy theory experts to bring forward explanations :-)
Boy I would kill for mileage like that. My 64 Impala 409 SS averaged about 8MPG if driven nicely, and was probably closer to 5 the way I drove it. My new SUV doesn't seem a whole lot better, maybe 11-12 MPG. Maybe it's time to trade up to something that doesn't gobble up $40 at every fill...It must be nice to not have to look out for gas stations at every second street corner :-)
Haha, > Does it run on Itanium3? No, only windows does. Wait until the I3 actually ships before you claim things like that. I have used it on I2s and it works (and works well). > Does it run on 8-way Xeon servers? No, only windows does. Yup. Installed it, played with it, wished I could take it home (Dell 8450 Server) > Does it run on Xbox? No, only windows does. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ :-)
Ooh cool. Thanks. Wow! For anyone interested there a lot of great input devices on this site, including things like footpads, keypads and even chairs.
Does anyone know if you can order these keyboards online? I use an old dvorak at home and I use a microsoft "natural" keyboard at work. I'd love to ditch them both in favor of something closer to a standard layout that may actually help my fingers...
Does anyone know of a linux or BSD distro that works on the new Dell Axim 300MHz and 400MHz machines? I'd *love* to get rid of Pocket PC 2003... :-)