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Vaporware and anything having to do with Linus Torvalds' old employer are ever so more important than something that will radically change the computing landscape over the next few years.
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You're new round here, aren't you? Seriously though, thanks for the link. Most interesting.
It sounds to me like the laws are against inflicting one's voluntary prayer on others by speaking it aloud. You can pray silently whenever you want to and I suppose if your god exists, he will hear your prayer. Or don't you remember the lines from that hymn, "while I breathe I pray"?
Disclaimer: IANAC.
Now why would I want to do that? I'm using gentoo:-)
Seriously, if I can persuade my father to try linux on his P2 instead of an increasingly cranky old Windows install I probably will sign him up to the club - Mandrake is good. But I'm not going to do it until I know if he wants to keep the software, therefore I need the ISOs before I join the club. I'm not complaining about their system mind you, I think it's a good idea, just pointing out to the previous poster why having a tree available wasn't as useful as having the ISOs.
I have one; they are good players with a good user interface, but the battery life is really shitty. If you just charge them up and play they're okay, but due to their stupid "suspend-instead-of-power-off" mode they're no use for taking on holiday as they go flat in a few days even in standby. Come on Apple, was a "power off" button really too much to hope for?
That's a very good alternative. Telemarketing is wrong, naturally I'd rather see people out of a job than doing it. In just the same way as I'd rather people didn't sell crack in my neighbourhood even if it was their only way of making money.
Just because it's a way of making money doesn't make it right, regardless of what the Reagan/Thatcherites would have you believe.
It's a pity you didn't take them for $500 anyway. Although they apologised to you I bet they just carried straight on with all the other numbers on their list. The only way to make these people understand is to hurt their wallets.
ALSA sound card detection works fine here, never had a problem over a range of sound cards. Anyway, shouldn't detection be in userspace as far as possible?
Others:
(a) modprobe ehci-hcd (works on 2.4 here)
(c) modprobe supermount (don't think this is in Linus' tree yet but it's readily available as a patch)
Well naturally. But if you want a single-stage network of coolant-filled nanotubes with an external to-air heat exchanger, and want the whole thing to be big enough to remove a kilowatt (assuming 1kWcm^-2 and a die of 1cm^2), that's going to get very expensive. Air is a pretty poor sink. However, you could have a much smaller primary nanotube system exchanging heat to water at external ambient temperature and it would be much cheaper. The heat that water then acquires can be dumped to the atmosphere later, once it's been drained to a large pond or the drain.
I think what you're saying is that said nanotubes aren't some kind of magic solution that can remove unlimited amounts of heat: fair enough, I'd agree with that. What I'm saying (perhaps what I've been thinking but not actually writing down) is that these could provide a mechanism for getting coolant to all parts of the chip, possibly even inside it with future lithographic techniques, and therefore potentially doing a better job than a conventional heatsink which will be some distance from the lower surface of the chip -- but that if you're removing as much heat as the article suggests you're going to want a two-stage circuit to reduce the cost of all those nanotubes (I don't imagine they will come cheap).
It depends whether you think that seeking a solution to a non-existent problem is commendable, I suppose. As other posters have pointed out, the EM emission from a wifi network is tiny compared with other sources of EM; even for cellphones, which have been intensively studied, the only effect some researchers have possibly found is a slight improvement in recall. Until a researcher somewhere comes up with a half-way believable theory of why wifi emissions should be damaging or a pretty believable study to show that they are, this is just a waste of time and money.
Given the far greater amount of EM exposure from other sources there would have to be something pretty special about this frequency to cause such low levels to be harmful. Given it isn't any of the H2O resonant frequencies I suspect there isn't anything special - Occam's razor again.
You miss the point. While you definitely need a very pure coolant for flowing through the on-chip nanotubes there's no reason why that circuit can't exchange heat with a secondary (but entirely separate) circuit. If you think it's environmentally untenable to have a continuous flow of water just have the secondary circuit running from a millpond or tank in the garden (with a decent filter); that wouldn't be too expensive and a pond could provide a sufficient heat sink for any purpose, dependent on the size of the pond. Obviously we're not talking about something you'd want to do when overclocking your P4, but for insane chips where you're trying to dissipate a kilowatt per cm^2 this seems a perfectly valid method. It's very like the (real, in-use, current, present day) two-stage method used to cool nuclear reactors, go read up about it some time.
Well said. Also, even if it is using more CPU load if it's doing so for less time the total processor time for a given write may be about the same - it's just being more efficient by doing its reads quicker, so the same total CPU time is used over a shorter period. IMO that kind of benchmark for a filesystem blows.
I'm happily running gentoo which is not only a dangerously subversive program in that it doesn't implement DRM, but also available for free download over the internet. I guess as well as making me the spawn of Satan incarnate that also lays me open to a lawsuit from Microsoft for avoiding their license fee by the simple technological measure of not putting a Windows installation CD in my machine. What a terrible person I must be!
Not so, you could link the nanotubes to larger "arterial" and "venal" tubes to move the heat off-chip totally, then have another heat exchanger where the primary cooling circuit is cooled by a second water circuit, which because there's more room off-chip could be a flow of tap water in and water passed to a drain on the way out. This should prove pretty effective.
As you would know if you'd read the article properly, the resellers themselves sounded pretty pissed at SCO by and large; "what is making [SCO] profitable is not making [the resellers] profitable". They seem able to see that this lawsuit is join jack all for them.
I read Canada on the screen, my brain intended to type Canada but my fingers were momentarily posessed and I typed "US". Gaah! That's what a day spent removing wallpaper does, it turns a perfectly good brain into gunge.
I guess the US alcohol culture is different to that in Britain, but if that were tried here the thing that immediately strikes me as problematic is when (say, just before a big soccer match) a big crowd of 50 or so people enter the pub. Queues in that kind of situation tend to be bad enough, with people 3 deep at the bar, but if they had to muck about with swipe cards (and there'll always be the odd 10% who haven't been to the bar before and need their photo and details entering onto the system) the queues would be appalling.
Besides which, what happens when the system crashes? Either the pubs lose a lot of business or they make do without the system; and if they can make do without it, why bother in the first place?
A medium-cost Parker fountain pen is the pen of choice for me. (By medium cost I mean about 35, I can't remember exactly how much or what model it was because it was a long time ago I bought it.) It writes very smoothly and the combination of gold (plate), brushed steel and black is just too cool. I like the way their cartridges have an "emergency reserve" thing so that you don't just run out of ink at a crucial moment, too.
Having said that, they're pants for writing on CDRs.
Slashdot Mirror
Or even download it, if you wish :-)
Typos restricted to slashdot, the ebuild is building on my machine as we speak.
I've made an ebuild for the other gentoo users out there. Yownload from the link above.
[sarcasm] Vaporware and anything having to do with Linus Torvalds' old employer are ever so more important than something that will radically change the computing landscape over the next few years. [/sarcasm]
You're new round here, aren't you? Seriously though, thanks for the link. Most interesting.
It sounds to me like the laws are against inflicting one's voluntary prayer on others by speaking it aloud. You can pray silently whenever you want to and I suppose if your god exists, he will hear your prayer. Or don't you remember the lines from that hymn, "while I breathe I pray"? Disclaimer: IANAC.
Now why would I want to do that? I'm using gentoo :-)
Seriously, if I can persuade my father to try linux on his P2 instead of an increasingly cranky old Windows install I probably will sign him up to the club - Mandrake is good. But I'm not going to do it until I know if he wants to keep the software, therefore I need the ISOs before I join the club. I'm not complaining about their system mind you, I think it's a good idea, just pointing out to the previous poster why having a tree available wasn't as useful as having the ISOs.
I have one; they are good players with a good user interface, but the battery life is really shitty. If you just charge them up and play they're okay, but due to their stupid "suspend-instead-of-power-off" mode they're no use for taking on holiday as they go flat in a few days even in standby. Come on Apple, was a "power off" button really too much to hope for?
Yes, but that's a complete PITA if you want to burn a set of ISOs. Even using a recursive wget won't split it up into CD-sized chunks.
That's a very good alternative. Telemarketing is wrong, naturally I'd rather see people out of a job than doing it. In just the same way as I'd rather people didn't sell crack in my neighbourhood even if it was their only way of making money.
Just because it's a way of making money doesn't make it right, regardless of what the Reagan/Thatcherites would have you believe.
It's a pity you didn't take them for $500 anyway. Although they apologised to you I bet they just carried straight on with all the other numbers on their list. The only way to make these people understand is to hurt their wallets.
I still occasionally use a copy of "derive", a DOS computer algebra system. But it runs inside dosemu rather than on old hardware.
And he's still ahead. I submit that hot grits make a far better energy source for Natalie Portman than mere batteries do for these other droids.
Princess Linus: "Help me, IBM Kenobi, you're my only hope!"
...no one mentioned the concentration camps too. How is this any different?
Well, because as far as I know Microsoft haven't gassed several million people. A minor detail I know, but I feel it's an important one.
ALSA sound card detection works fine here, never had a problem over a range of sound cards. Anyway, shouldn't detection be in userspace as far as possible? Others: (a) modprobe ehci-hcd (works on 2.4 here) (c) modprobe supermount (don't think this is in Linus' tree yet but it's readily available as a patch)
Well naturally. But if you want a single-stage network of coolant-filled nanotubes with an external to-air heat exchanger, and want the whole thing to be big enough to remove a kilowatt (assuming 1kWcm^-2 and a die of 1cm^2), that's going to get very expensive. Air is a pretty poor sink. However, you could have a much smaller primary nanotube system exchanging heat to water at external ambient temperature and it would be much cheaper. The heat that water then acquires can be dumped to the atmosphere later, once it's been drained to a large pond or the drain. I think what you're saying is that said nanotubes aren't some kind of magic solution that can remove unlimited amounts of heat: fair enough, I'd agree with that. What I'm saying (perhaps what I've been thinking but not actually writing down) is that these could provide a mechanism for getting coolant to all parts of the chip, possibly even inside it with future lithographic techniques, and therefore potentially doing a better job than a conventional heatsink which will be some distance from the lower surface of the chip -- but that if you're removing as much heat as the article suggests you're going to want a two-stage circuit to reduce the cost of all those nanotubes (I don't imagine they will come cheap).
It depends whether you think that seeking a solution to a non-existent problem is commendable, I suppose. As other posters have pointed out, the EM emission from a wifi network is tiny compared with other sources of EM; even for cellphones, which have been intensively studied, the only effect some researchers have possibly found is a slight improvement in recall. Until a researcher somewhere comes up with a half-way believable theory of why wifi emissions should be damaging or a pretty believable study to show that they are, this is just a waste of time and money.
Given the far greater amount of EM exposure from other sources there would have to be something pretty special about this frequency to cause such low levels to be harmful. Given it isn't any of the H2O resonant frequencies I suspect there isn't anything special - Occam's razor again.
You miss the point. While you definitely need a very pure coolant for flowing through the on-chip nanotubes there's no reason why that circuit can't exchange heat with a secondary (but entirely separate) circuit. If you think it's environmentally untenable to have a continuous flow of water just have the secondary circuit running from a millpond or tank in the garden (with a decent filter); that wouldn't be too expensive and a pond could provide a sufficient heat sink for any purpose, dependent on the size of the pond. Obviously we're not talking about something you'd want to do when overclocking your P4, but for insane chips where you're trying to dissipate a kilowatt per cm^2 this seems a perfectly valid method. It's very like the (real, in-use, current, present day) two-stage method used to cool nuclear reactors, go read up about it some time.
Well said. Also, even if it is using more CPU load if it's doing so for less time the total processor time for a given write may be about the same - it's just being more efficient by doing its reads quicker, so the same total CPU time is used over a shorter period. IMO that kind of benchmark for a filesystem blows.
I'm happily running gentoo which is not only a dangerously subversive program in that it doesn't implement DRM, but also available for free download over the internet. I guess as well as making me the spawn of Satan incarnate that also lays me open to a lawsuit from Microsoft for avoiding their license fee by the simple technological measure of not putting a Windows installation CD in my machine. What a terrible person I must be!
Not so, you could link the nanotubes to larger "arterial" and "venal" tubes to move the heat off-chip totally, then have another heat exchanger where the primary cooling circuit is cooled by a second water circuit, which because there's more room off-chip could be a flow of tap water in and water passed to a drain on the way out. This should prove pretty effective.
As you would know if you'd read the article properly, the resellers themselves sounded pretty pissed at SCO by and large; "what is making [SCO] profitable is not making [the resellers] profitable". They seem able to see that this lawsuit is join jack all for them.
I read Canada on the screen, my brain intended to type Canada but my fingers were momentarily posessed and I typed "US". Gaah! That's what a day spent removing wallpaper does, it turns a perfectly good brain into gunge.
I guess the US alcohol culture is different to that in Britain, but if that were tried here the thing that immediately strikes me as problematic is when (say, just before a big soccer match) a big crowd of 50 or so people enter the pub. Queues in that kind of situation tend to be bad enough, with people 3 deep at the bar, but if they had to muck about with swipe cards (and there'll always be the odd 10% who haven't been to the bar before and need their photo and details entering onto the system) the queues would be appalling. Besides which, what happens when the system crashes? Either the pubs lose a lot of business or they make do without the system; and if they can make do without it, why bother in the first place?
A medium-cost Parker fountain pen is the pen of choice for me. (By medium cost I mean about 35, I can't remember exactly how much or what model it was because it was a long time ago I bought it.) It writes very smoothly and the combination of gold (plate), brushed steel and black is just too cool. I like the way their cartridges have an "emergency reserve" thing so that you don't just run out of ink at a crucial moment, too. Having said that, they're pants for writing on CDRs.
(aside from the awful build quality and (at least in the past, if not still) unhelpful attitude w.r.t. Free printer drivers.