In some cases it makes sense to have a battery bank. As mentioned earlier, if you have a power failure the inverter must disconnect from the grid to protect linemen. Without batteries, this means that you basically don't use any power from your panels.
Now, some grid-tie capable inverters can also work with batteries. In this case you can still run some loads off of battery power during a blackout. Yes, you lose some power as the batteries have some internal resistance, but in normal use this won't be very much as they will stay charged a lot of the time and excess power will "float" over them and into the grid.
Then again, most places have reliable utility power, so in a lot of cases it probably isn't worth it, given the cost and complexity it adds.
I've got an SGI Octane 2 running Irix 6.2.29 that I picked up at a computer place a while back for $5. I love the thing. It still runs pretty well despite being maybe ten years old (something like that; there are files on there from before 2000, don't remember exactly).
Hmm, that's weird, I use a USB keyboard/mouse (wireless) and I had no trouble with them during installation. Do they work when you boot into the LiveCD environment?
If it is something specific to the Studio LiveCD, you could try it with normal Ubuntu and then just add the Ubuntu Studio repositories and get access to the themes and applications you want, as well as the low latency kernel (the -rt ones).
I think you're partly right. I don't think XP is that terrible, but given the choice I'll take Ubuntu (Ubuntu Studio, specifically). It just feels better to me. I am capable of making Windows run "well," along with running other OSs. But, Ubuntu is just a niche that works for me. Windows just feels weird.
There's also the sugar situation. Lift the embargo and there will be pressure to buy cheap sugar from Cuba instead of using expensive corn syrup - so it would upset the sugar and corn lobbies.
I've toyed with the idea of making users write a 500 word essay on a random topic. I would then send this to my high school English teacher, and if it got maybe a B or above I would consider it legit.
I run OpenBSD and PF on a Soekris Net4501 at school. It is pretty reliable. I'd have used an old PC, but I was trying to save a little power and have something more portable.
I love FiOS. It's fast and stable, and I've never had to reboot the router.
However, I have had some issues with it in the past. A while back I was messing around and trying to set up multiple subnets on my internal network. (Basically I just had another machine as a router, and the ActionTec router Verizon gave me had to have routes configured so I could get to other machines.) The static routing setup which worked fine with my Linksys router before (we gave this to my brother after getting FiOS) for some reason would just not work with the ActionTec one.
It wasn't a big issue, and other than this it works beautifully. I'd troubleshoot it more, but I just didn't care about it that much.
I can see how this sort of thing would be illegal, but at the same time it's not as if he's really hurting anyone or causing a huge halt to progress. It just seems like it would be a waste throw him in prison for five years over something like this.
My old workstation was a dual MP 2800 box. That thing by itself would actually heat up a room quite well. I measured the power consumption once with a multimeter, and found that the tower itself drew about 280 watts with both CPUs fully loaded. Interestingly, it was about 220 watts with them at idle. (I should try it again and compensate for power factor.) I ran BOINC on the machine to keep it working most of the time. It had two hard drives and an nVidia MX 440 video card in it, along with two sound cards.
I haven't yet gotten around to testing my new machine, which uses an Intel Core 2 Quad.
I would strongly recommend running SETI@home. You might think protein folding would be more important, but when we find the aliens I'm sure they'll tell us everything we'd ever want to know about it and how to cure cancer and AIDS.
After looking at that fascinating GIF from the summary, I'm not sure it is water. It just kind of disappears. It's probably some sort of highly advanced life form that can change its shape at will and lives beneath the planet's surface most of the time. It then just came up for a little Martian sunshine and, upon noticing our probe went back to tell its buddies that the Earthlings sent more crap to their planet and that they should expect an invasion soon. Unless they can prove to us they don't have any oil.
Well, that's what it looks like to me. Draw your own conclusions.
There are people in New York State who are able to live with solar and wind. There are people in Alaska who do too. We need to draw from a variety of sources; people generally don't live where the sun doesn't shine. There's no reason we couldn't draw upon solar and wind where they are available and use them in conjunction with say nuclear.
Glad to hear your experience was good, and that your son is also having a good experience. My troop was also pretty lenient. In fact, I don't think religion came up at all.
I think the problem comes when you move up the chain of command, into the council and all the older "traditionalists" and the like. They do manage to keep things going, but on the other hand this is generally where some of the issues originate (like being anti-atheistic). But, it really depends on the local troop, and though I have complaints about the organization as a whole I think it's still a great activity for kids overall.
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...or if you're a sadist teach him Perl.
Perl was my first programming language, back when I was in high school. No one forced it upon me. I suppose that makes me a masochist.
Don't forget that led-acid batteries can be recycled.
In some cases it makes sense to have a battery bank. As mentioned earlier, if you have a power failure the inverter must disconnect from the grid to protect linemen. Without batteries, this means that you basically don't use any power from your panels.
Now, some grid-tie capable inverters can also work with batteries. In this case you can still run some loads off of battery power during a blackout. Yes, you lose some power as the batteries have some internal resistance, but in normal use this won't be very much as they will stay charged a lot of the time and excess power will "float" over them and into the grid.
Then again, most places have reliable utility power, so in a lot of cases it probably isn't worth it, given the cost and complexity it adds.
Good old square wave AC...
I think we calculated it back in Physics to be like 0.8 cm.
I've got an SGI Octane 2 running Irix 6.2.29 that I picked up at a computer place a while back for $5. I love the thing. It still runs pretty well despite being maybe ten years old (something like that; there are files on there from before 2000, don't remember exactly).
Maybe he just might as well go with emacs.
fill it with some sort of long-lasting lethal substance
You mean like Cheese Wiz (tm)?
Hmm, that's weird, I use a USB keyboard/mouse (wireless) and I had no trouble with them during installation. Do they work when you boot into the LiveCD environment?
If it is something specific to the Studio LiveCD, you could try it with normal Ubuntu and then just add the Ubuntu Studio repositories and get access to the themes and applications you want, as well as the low latency kernel (the -rt ones).
I think you're partly right. I don't think XP is that terrible, but given the choice I'll take Ubuntu (Ubuntu Studio, specifically). It just feels better to me. I am capable of making Windows run "well," along with running other OSs. But, Ubuntu is just a niche that works for me. Windows just feels weird.
There's also the sugar situation. Lift the embargo and there will be pressure to buy cheap sugar from Cuba instead of using expensive corn syrup - so it would upset the sugar and corn lobbies.
You don't want to mess with Big Corn...
I've toyed with the idea of making users write a 500 word essay on a random topic. I would then send this to my high school English teacher, and if it got maybe a B or above I would consider it legit.
Maybe we could harness this incredible source of energy to fuel vehicles and put an end to the energy crisis!
I run OpenBSD and PF on a Soekris Net4501 at school. It is pretty reliable. I'd have used an old PC, but I was trying to save a little power and have something more portable.
I love FiOS. It's fast and stable, and I've never had to reboot the router.
However, I have had some issues with it in the past. A while back I was messing around and trying to set up multiple subnets on my internal network. (Basically I just had another machine as a router, and the ActionTec router Verizon gave me had to have routes configured so I could get to other machines.) The static routing setup which worked fine with my Linksys router before (we gave this to my brother after getting FiOS) for some reason would just not work with the ActionTec one.
It wasn't a big issue, and other than this it works beautifully. I'd troubleshoot it more, but I just didn't care about it that much.
I can see how this sort of thing would be illegal, but at the same time it's not as if he's really hurting anyone or causing a huge halt to progress. It just seems like it would be a waste throw him in prison for five years over something like this.
My old workstation was a dual MP 2800 box. That thing by itself would actually heat up a room quite well. I measured the power consumption once with a multimeter, and found that the tower itself drew about 280 watts with both CPUs fully loaded. Interestingly, it was about 220 watts with them at idle. (I should try it again and compensate for power factor.) I ran BOINC on the machine to keep it working most of the time. It had two hard drives and an nVidia MX 440 video card in it, along with two sound cards.
I haven't yet gotten around to testing my new machine, which uses an Intel Core 2 Quad.
I would strongly recommend running SETI@home. You might think protein folding would be more important, but when we find the aliens I'm sure they'll tell us everything we'd ever want to know about it and how to cure cancer and AIDS.
Or just turning your computer off when it's not doing anything.
Hey, I don't know about you but I'm find just memorizing IP addresses.
After looking at that fascinating GIF from the summary, I'm not sure it is water. It just kind of disappears. It's probably some sort of highly advanced life form that can change its shape at will and lives beneath the planet's surface most of the time. It then just came up for a little Martian sunshine and, upon noticing our probe went back to tell its buddies that the Earthlings sent more crap to their planet and that they should expect an invasion soon. Unless they can prove to us they don't have any oil.
Well, that's what it looks like to me. Draw your own conclusions.
There are people in New York State who are able to live with solar and wind. There are people in Alaska who do too. We need to draw from a variety of sources; people generally don't live where the sun doesn't shine. There's no reason we couldn't draw upon solar and wind where they are available and use them in conjunction with say nuclear.
We just need to get Mr. Fusion going.
By steeling them, apparently.
Glad to hear your experience was good, and that your son is also having a good experience. My troop was also pretty lenient. In fact, I don't think religion came up at all.
I think the problem comes when you move up the chain of command, into the council and all the older "traditionalists" and the like. They do manage to keep things going, but on the other hand this is generally where some of the issues originate (like being anti-atheistic). But, it really depends on the local troop, and though I have complaints about the organization as a whole I think it's still a great activity for kids overall.