So what brand of video hardware do you use to get decent OpenGL support? I personally use Nvidia, but their products don't meet you criteria, since their Linux driver is proprietary.
"I am keeping the features document, because it has nothing to do with Linux. These products are available on the market and thus all of them should be qualified. If the HCI Version field is filled in this table, then this device should also work perfect with Linux."
That's why open-source P2P apps are superior to closed-source, proprietary ones. Development is decentralized, there's no corporate "head" to place on the chopping block, and once the source is open, anyone can hack it. Power to the people!
I was in a similar situation a few years ago, when I was wooed by a competitor offering a superior position, but only a modest salary increase. I gave my then-current employer the opportunity to match the salary and open up an avenue for advancement (my position at the time was a dead end, and I had risen to the top of the salary matrix), but they declined. So I gave them the customary two weeks' notice.
It was like pushing the "nasty behavior" button. They immediately confiscated my company truck and tools (did they think I would take them with me to the new job?), then asked me to serve out my final two weeks assisting another engineer (stripped of responsibility as punishment... vindictive bastards, they were). I guess they figured I'd quit and forfeit my accrued vacation. Fat chance!
I took the high road, politely explained that I had important support tasks scheduled at other engineers' facilities (I was a roving specialist) and offered to use my personal vehicle and tools. Of course, I submitted vouchers for mileage, which they were required to pay per company policy. At the end of it all, I was paid everything due me, including vacation time, and had the satisfaction of leaving on a high note, with the respect of my peers and associates.
I'd advise you to do the same. Take the high road, be profesional, and stick it out. If they give you any crap over compensation, haul them before your locale's version of the National Labor Relations Board.
Because DC can't be transformed easily, like AC. Distributing DC at low voltages requires higher current to achieve the same power (kW), thus a significantly larger wire size. Distributing DC at higher voltages is also inefficient, each end use device would require a DC/DC converter to convert to the lower voltages. The name DC/DC converter is a misnomer, most of them use high frequency sampling (AC) as an intermediate step.
Data centers with heat problems usually fall into three categories; those with inadequate cooling capacity, those with inadequate cooling distribution, and those with unrealistic equipment densities.
However, I often find people have misconceptions, they think they have a heat problem, but in reality they do not. One must measure the air temperature at the inlet to the servers, not the exhaust. If the inlet air meets the manufacturer's specifications, there is no problem, despite the fact that it's uncomfortably hot in the exhaust aisle.
"Hot spots" can often be corrected by rebalancing, which is the science of redirecting the supply air proportionately to the heat loads in the space. Any good maintenance firm that knows data centers will offer rebalancing services.
If you really do have a heat load problem, e.g. more load than capacity, as evidenced by excessive temperatures throughout the space, consult a mechanical engineer that specialzes in data centers.
Almost every artice I read involving IP law in Europe shows that the legislative and judicial bodies in Europe display far more common sense than the their American counterparts, which appear to be motivated only by "good ol' boy" corporate greed and a misplaced sense of righteousness. It's readily apparent to me that the real innovations in contentent delivery and IP law reforms that are soreley needed will come from Europe, not the US.
"In fact we still pay a Universal service fee, that goes directly to the phone companies so they can put in new lines to new houses, apartments etc."
Not exactly. The Universal Service Fund's purpose is to subsidize the costs of providing service to rural areas, where the cost per subscriber line is much greater than in suburbs or cities.
"Until then, it's a higher paid salary taking care of it."
Don't be so cocksure about that. I'm part of a group of buildings professionals that provide infrastructure support for a major telecommunications carrier, and I can tell you for certain, our pay grade is superior to that of most IT managers and engineers in the company.
With regard to BAS systems, they are far more complex than networking gear. The systems we support typically employ a wide variety and large number of sensors, communicating on different protocols. The code is customized for each facility, since it must interface with and control equipment from multiple vendors. These systems require maintenance and troubleshooting skills atypical of most IT professionals.
I shudder at the thought of IT maintaining our BAS systems. One thing most of the IT professionals I've assisted over the years fail to realize is that electrical and mechanical infrastructure are the underpinnings of the rest of the facility. When you're out of power or cooling, you're out of business, plain and simple.
From the author's web site:
"The kitten feeder is an honest to goodness device attached to a Linux Server in Chris and Camri's apartment. If you click on the fish, you'll be dropping a little stinky fish treat into Cotton and Tulip's Bowl."
>>>"Cotton and Tulip have been fed 3945 times"
Yes, I RTFA. My favorite quote:
"Windows XP was the only operating system that couldn't recognise and open an imported Excel file -- the included office software is very basic so you need to install Microsoft Office or another more advanced program."
Looks like http://www.cinemaonweb.com/ needs heftier hardware and/or more robust code. How do they expect to serve movies to millions of Indians daily if they can't handle the slashdot effect?
VOIP requires ~4kbps per conversation. Wifi has a practical range of ~30m indoors, perhaps 100m outdoors. Unless your access points are in an overcrowded area full of chatty people, all with VOIP, I doubt you'll notice the bandwidth hit. I could do more damage wardriving with bit torrent...
There's no point in upgrading to gigabit unless your boxes are equipped with 64-bit PCI slots. 33mhz/32bit PCI's theoretical limit is 133Mbit/sec. This is how most consumer-grade Wintel motherboards are equipped. Thus, the 32-bit "gigabit" cards sold sold by the consumer networking outfits are a rip-off, they're barely faster tha 100Mbit.
If you're lucky enough to have a board with 66mhz/32bit slots, the data rate doubles, but all devices on the bus must run at 64mhz, since the bus will run at the speed of the slowest device.
To get a tangible benefit from gigabit ethernet, you need at least 66mhz/64bit PCI, which runs at 512Mbit/sec. This will get you half way there. To saturate gigabit, you need 133mhz PCI-X.
Other devices, like disk controllers and the disks themselves, can be bottlenecks. Better plan on upgrading to that dual-channel U320 SCSI RAID setup!
Bottom line? A true implementation of gigabit ethernet requires commercial-grade hardware, which costs plenty. The consumer stuff is little more than fluff. Unless you plan to go "all the way", save your hard-earned dough for something better, like a contribution to the FSF or an OSS project of your choice.
Most everyone, Bush included, is missing the point. The Moon is a big waste of resources. Mars is actually easier to attain. Here's a must-read: "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must," by Robert Zubrin.
Slashdot Mirror
Like many web sites, MySpace makes money through advertising. If the subscribers leave, so do the advertisers.
This is a perfect example of how to fight commercial censorship... vote with your wallet.
What can I say... I was born in a red state, and sometimes it still shows :-)
The plural form of "monkey" is "monkeys", not "monkey's", which is possessive. Perhaps you should try using grammer check yourself.
So what brand of video hardware do you use to get decent OpenGL support? I personally use Nvidia, but their products don't meet you criteria, since their Linux driver is proprietary.
The list is still there. From http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.ht ml:
h tml. Just look for an entry in the "HCI Version" field to verify the device works with Linux.
"I am keeping the features document, because it has nothing to do with Linux. These products are available on the market and thus all of them should be qualified. If the HCI Version field is filled in this table, then this device should also work perfect with Linux."
The "features document" can be accessed at http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/features.
That's why open-source P2P apps are superior to closed-source, proprietary ones. Development is decentralized, there's no corporate "head" to place on the chopping block, and once the source is open, anyone can hack it. Power to the people!
Now maybe the PHBs at my company can find time to do some useful work, instead of forwarding messages from their Blackberrys all day long...
I was in a similar situation a few years ago, when I was wooed by a competitor offering a superior position, but only a modest salary increase. I gave my then-current employer the opportunity to match the salary and open up an avenue for advancement (my position at the time was a dead end, and I had risen to the top of the salary matrix), but they declined. So I gave them the customary two weeks' notice.
It was like pushing the "nasty behavior" button. They immediately confiscated my company truck and tools (did they think I would take them with me to the new job?), then asked me to serve out my final two weeks assisting another engineer (stripped of responsibility as punishment... vindictive bastards, they were). I guess they figured I'd quit and forfeit my accrued vacation. Fat chance!
I took the high road, politely explained that I had important support tasks scheduled at other engineers' facilities (I was a roving specialist) and offered to use my personal vehicle and tools. Of course, I submitted vouchers for mileage, which they were required to pay per company policy. At the end of it all, I was paid everything due me, including vacation time, and had the satisfaction of leaving on a high note, with the respect of my peers and associates.
I'd advise you to do the same. Take the high road, be profesional, and stick it out. If they give you any crap over compensation, haul them before your locale's version of the National Labor Relations Board.
Only the clueless would use Bittorrent for illicit downloads. The user's public IP address is exposed.
Because DC can't be transformed easily, like AC. Distributing DC at low voltages requires higher current to achieve the same power (kW), thus a significantly larger wire size. Distributing DC at higher voltages is also inefficient, each end use device would require a DC/DC converter to convert to the lower voltages. The name DC/DC converter is a misnomer, most of them use high frequency sampling (AC) as an intermediate step.
Data centers with heat problems usually fall into three categories; those with inadequate cooling capacity, those with inadequate cooling distribution, and those with unrealistic equipment densities.
However, I often find people have misconceptions, they think they have a heat problem, but in reality they do not. One must measure the air temperature at the inlet to the servers, not the exhaust. If the inlet air meets the manufacturer's specifications, there is no problem, despite the fact that it's uncomfortably hot in the exhaust aisle.
"Hot spots" can often be corrected by rebalancing, which is the science of redirecting the supply air proportionately to the heat loads in the space. Any good maintenance firm that knows data centers will offer rebalancing services.
If you really do have a heat load problem, e.g. more load than capacity, as evidenced by excessive temperatures throughout the space, consult a mechanical engineer that specialzes in data centers.
What point is there in mirroring only the first page of a six page article?
Almost every artice I read involving IP law in Europe shows that the legislative and judicial bodies in Europe display far more common sense than the their American counterparts, which appear to be motivated only by "good ol' boy" corporate greed and a misplaced sense of righteousness. It's readily apparent to me that the real innovations in contentent delivery and IP law reforms that are soreley needed will come from Europe, not the US.
"In fact we still pay a Universal service fee, that goes directly to the phone companies so they can put in new lines to new houses, apartments etc."
Not exactly. The Universal Service Fund's purpose is to subsidize the costs of providing service to rural areas, where the cost per subscriber line is much greater than in suburbs or cities.
Bull! You CAN do that in Firefox. I can browse Samba shares on my home network, and Windows SMB shares at work. I can also browse my local hard drive.
"Until then, it's a higher paid salary taking care of it."
Don't be so cocksure about that. I'm part of a group of buildings professionals that provide infrastructure support for a major telecommunications carrier, and I can tell you for certain, our pay grade is superior to that of most IT managers and engineers in the company.
With regard to BAS systems, they are far more complex than networking gear. The systems we support typically employ a wide variety and large number of sensors, communicating on different protocols. The code is customized for each facility, since it must interface with and control equipment from multiple vendors. These systems require maintenance and troubleshooting skills atypical of most IT professionals.
I shudder at the thought of IT maintaining our BAS systems. One thing most of the IT professionals I've assisted over the years fail to realize is that electrical and mechanical infrastructure are the underpinnings of the rest of the facility. When you're out of power or cooling, you're out of business, plain and simple.
From the author's web site: "The kitten feeder is an honest to goodness device attached to a Linux Server in Chris and Camri's apartment. If you click on the fish, you'll be dropping a little stinky fish treat into Cotton and Tulip's Bowl." >>>"Cotton and Tulip have been fed 3945 times"
Yes, I RTFA. My favorite quote: "Windows XP was the only operating system that couldn't recognise and open an imported Excel file -- the included office software is very basic so you need to install Microsoft Office or another more advanced program."
Looks like http://www.cinemaonweb.com/ needs heftier hardware and/or more robust code. How do they expect to serve movies to millions of Indians daily if they can't handle the slashdot effect?
VOIP requires ~4kbps per conversation. Wifi has a practical range of ~30m indoors, perhaps 100m outdoors. Unless your access points are in an overcrowded area full of chatty people, all with VOIP, I doubt you'll notice the bandwidth hit. I could do more damage wardriving with bit torrent...
"requiring all Windows-based computers"... sounds like an excellent excuse for a Linux migration!
Now if you only knew spelling, grammar and punctuation....
There's no point in upgrading to gigabit unless your boxes are equipped with 64-bit PCI slots. 33mhz/32bit PCI's theoretical limit is 133Mbit/sec. This is how most consumer-grade Wintel motherboards are equipped. Thus, the 32-bit "gigabit" cards sold sold by the consumer networking outfits are a rip-off, they're barely faster tha 100Mbit.
If you're lucky enough to have a board with 66mhz/32bit slots, the data rate doubles, but all devices on the bus must run at 64mhz, since the bus will run at the speed of the slowest device.
To get a tangible benefit from gigabit ethernet, you need at least 66mhz/64bit PCI, which runs at 512Mbit/sec. This will get you half way there. To saturate gigabit, you need 133mhz PCI-X.
Other devices, like disk controllers and the disks themselves, can be bottlenecks. Better plan on upgrading to that dual-channel U320 SCSI RAID setup!
Bottom line? A true implementation of gigabit ethernet requires commercial-grade hardware, which costs plenty. The consumer stuff is little more than fluff. Unless you plan to go "all the way", save your hard-earned dough for something better, like a contribution to the FSF or an OSS project of your choice.
Most everyone, Bush included, is missing the point. The Moon is a big waste of resources. Mars is actually easier to attain. Here's a must-read: "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must," by Robert Zubrin.