It wasn't too long ago that Auto Bild magazine drove a Lexus RX400 petrol-electric hybrid against a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz ML320 CDI coast-to-coast across the USA. (http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000417056376/)
The diesel proved to be more efficient than the petrol-hybrid, by more than 3mpg.
And for the record, I work from home, only going into the office on average about 1 day a month. When I do go in, I usually carpool to the park-and-ride, take the bus to catch the ferry and then walk the rest of the way to my office.
Black Books is one of the funniest shows I've seen in a while. I showed one episode to one of my britcom-loving friends (series 2, episode 1) and he laughed all the way through almost non-stop
Another of my current favourites is 'Green Wing', I can't wait to see how the literal cliff-hanger at the end of series 1 resolves itself.
It's a shame that none of the US TV mega-corporations don't have the guts to air shows like this, pandering to advertisers demands rather than airing a decent TV show once in a while (although there are the occasional gem, Scrubs and Newsradio are two of my US favourites).
I believe that the new Doctor Who series has yet to find a US distributer, as the BBC won't let PBS air the new episodes. To get my Doctor Who fix, I either have to grab a torrent of the UK broadcast, or watch it 10 days later on CBC.
If a long-established show like Doctor Who can't get air time, what chance do comedy shows like Green Wing or Black Books have?
Qwest are offering it here in WA, but the prices border on the extortionate.
I priced out the cost of my two phone lines + DSL vs. naked DSL + VoIP (Vonage), and the two costs were about the same.
Even without the telephone numbers, Qwest still wanted to charge me local and state 911 charges (at around 10%), plus the Federal Universal Serv Fund, even though I wouldn't have a phone line with which to call 911 (I'd have had to pay Vonage for 911 access also).
The prices ended up so similar that I stayed with Qwest, the savings I'd be making wouldn't be worth the hassle of switching.
You might find that any problems with the longevity of the clearcoat on your car is caused by environmental issues.
Certainly for those of us who own Mercedes vehicles, the paint on older (pre-1994/5) cars have paint that seems tougher and appears to be longer lasting than the paint on newer cars.
Some opinions point to environmental laws preventing car manufacturers from using solvent-based paints, and using water-based paints instead.
You know that your cat is bringing you gifts that are alive because he/she is giving you the chance to kill it, right?
As was explained to me, cats don't see you as human, they see you as other cats. By bringing you a live gift, they're showing that they care enough about you to give you the privilege of letting you kill it, rather than giving you a dead-for-god-only-knows-how-long gift.
Having said that, being outside for a cat is quite dangerous, if you keep your cats indoors then the'll probably live longer, cost less at the vets and never bring you 'gifts' again.
My firewall was subjected to the now-often seen ssh attacks.. but this one was different, there were thousands of attempts.
When I pasted the originating IP address into Firefox, a web-based interface for sending phishing emails was shown, complete with defalt 'paypal' text filled in.
When I followed the link in the 'paypal' email (another IP address) i discovered that not only did the site contain a 'paypal' site, but also an 'ebay' and 'Wells Fargo' site too.
I took a mirror of the offending pages, and I'm about to do a write-up... but I thought I'd post a quick precis of what I found, considering the relevance of the story.
They could put tickets for the additional two seats up on eBay... Even if they didn't win the $10M X Prize, they'd get a substantial chunk of change insanely rich millionaires wanting to be the first passengers.
Although... They'd have to not touch anything... Can you imagine Mike Melville telling his two passengers to stop touching buttons every few seconds?
The one thing that the article doesn't mention is that one of the ferry runs is an hour (the Bremerton-Bainbridge run). As a commuter from the Kitsap area to Seattle, I can get a lot of work done in the two hours I would be spending on these ferries.
Personally, I've been waiting for over a year for Mobiliisa to install these on all the ferries since they announced the trial for Summer 2003. I even signed up for the trial with the Washington State Ferry system, but never heard anything back from them.
As for costs, Mobiliisa already stated that they will use a monthly subscription-type service (but that was in March 2003).
The WSF currently uses Wi-Fi in it's terminals for employee use, it's WEP encrypted, however and not for public use.
If you're going to do this, do it properly. Get systems with massive amounts of I/O that will cope with all the data you're trying to throw at them. For this kind of work, you need only buy from one vendor: SGI.
Don't bother with Intel/Linux, with dodgy hardware and the frequently-changing Linux code. Pay the money, get decent hardware with a support contract and a steady, stable, tried and trusted OS.
Apple *may* be an appropriate choice, now that Pixar have ported RenderMan to OS X, but I don't like the idea of my arrays running at 7200 rpm's. Get SGI, get fibre channel, and (possibly) get gigabit ethernet.
It'll all pay off - it won't be cheap, but in the long run, the results will be worth the money and the wait.
Do you sue Microsoft every time Word 'loses' your carefully crafted letter? Do you sue mozilla.org whenever you loose a bookmark?
Of course you don't.However, applications that are designed to be used in more critical environments than (say) a secretary's desk, should have better quality control on the coders.
While I understand that it is nigh-on impossible to catch every single bug in the code if a hospital pays good money for computer software, then they should have a reasonable expectation that the software they get works without threatening their patients life.
As has been said elsewhere in this thread, computers are a tool - that they are, not a complete solution. You can't solve problems just by throwing technology at them.
Software? no - humans, yes.
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Software will only kill people through bad programming.
It is humans that make the underlying mistakes
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Exactly the point I was trying to make above.
As much as the slashdot crowd would probably hate to admit that Microsoft got something right, SMB/CIFS is the 'killer app' for sharing files and printers over a LAN.
If there's another application that does the same job as SMB/CIFS and is:
Free
easy to use client
easy to configure server
multiplatform - Windows, OS X, varying strains of Unix, and linux
then bring it on. Until then, we're stuck with CIFS.
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It's all very well saying 'let it die', but just what would you replace it with?
I believe it is an FCC requirement for all phone companies in the US to provide a 911 service on all lines, even those that do not have a pay-for services on them.
Which only makes sense - in an emergency you should be able to grab the nearest phone and dial '911', without having to wonder if the owner paid their last bill or not.
That's why you have a dial tone on a line that you're not paying for, even if it's a "soft" dial tone.
There's stacks of the original Octanes coming off their leases and showing up on eBay in various configurations. You can pick up a low end Octane for between $100 and $200 on a good day and slowly upgrade.
Even the Octane2's show up from time to time, they start at about $3,000 though.
Hell, Octanes are so cheap, buy two - I did! And an Onyx. And five other SGI machines.
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It wasn't too long ago that Auto Bild magazine drove a Lexus RX400 petrol-electric hybrid against a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz ML320 CDI coast-to-coast across the USA. (http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000417056376/)
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The diesel proved to be more efficient than the petrol-hybrid, by more than 3mpg.
Perhaps diesel-electric hybrid cars are the way to go. Plus you could run them on dead cats (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/14/2355
And for the record, I work from home, only going into the office on average about 1 day a month. When I do go in, I usually carpool to the park-and-ride, take the bus to catch the ferry and then walk the rest of the way to my office.
Black Books is one of the funniest shows I've seen in a while. I showed one episode to one of my britcom-loving friends (series 2, episode 1) and he laughed all the way through almost non-stop
Another of my current favourites is 'Green Wing', I can't wait to see how the literal cliff-hanger at the end of series 1 resolves itself.
It's a shame that none of the US TV mega-corporations don't have the guts to air shows like this, pandering to advertisers demands rather than airing a decent TV show once in a while (although there are the occasional gem, Scrubs and Newsradio are two of my US favourites).
I believe that the new Doctor Who series has yet to find a US distributer, as the BBC won't let PBS air the new episodes. To get my Doctor Who fix, I either have to grab a torrent of the UK broadcast, or watch it 10 days later on CBC.
If a long-established show like Doctor Who can't get air time, what chance do comedy shows like Green Wing or Black Books have?
Qwest are offering it here in WA, but the prices border on the extortionate.
I priced out the cost of my two phone lines + DSL vs. naked DSL + VoIP (Vonage), and the two costs were about the same.
Even without the telephone numbers, Qwest still wanted to charge me local and state 911 charges (at around 10%), plus the Federal Universal Serv Fund, even though I wouldn't have a phone line with which to call 911 (I'd have had to pay Vonage for 911 access also). The prices ended up so similar that I stayed with Qwest, the savings I'd be making wouldn't be worth the hassle of switching.
You might find that any problems with the longevity of the clearcoat on your car is caused by environmental issues.
Certainly for those of us who own Mercedes vehicles, the paint on older (pre-1994/5) cars have paint that seems tougher and appears to be longer lasting than the paint on newer cars.
Some opinions point to environmental laws preventing car manufacturers from using solvent-based paints, and using water-based paints instead.
In my experience, if there's one thing you can do, then do this:
Educate.
Educating users is the best and (probably?) cheapest thing you can do to improve the security of any enterprise.
You know that your cat is bringing you gifts that are alive because he/she is giving you the chance to kill it, right?
As was explained to me, cats don't see you as human, they see you as other cats. By bringing you a live gift, they're showing that they care enough about you to give you the privilege of letting you kill it, rather than giving you a dead-for-god-only-knows-how-long gift.
Having said that, being outside for a cat is quite dangerous, if you keep your cats indoors then the'll probably live longer, cost less at the vets and never bring you 'gifts' again.
My firewall was subjected to the now-often seen ssh attacks.. but this one was different, there were thousands of attempts.
When I pasted the originating IP address into Firefox, a web-based interface for sending phishing emails was shown, complete with defalt 'paypal' text filled in.
When I followed the link in the 'paypal' email (another IP address) i discovered that not only did the site contain a 'paypal' site, but also an 'ebay' and 'Wells Fargo' site too.
I took a mirror of the offending pages, and I'm about to do a write-up... but I thought I'd post a quick precis of what I found, considering the relevance of the story.
Why would you want to run Debian when MPlayer works just fine under IRIX?
My 360MHz R12K Octane2 is happy to play back most mpeg/divx/avi movies, and no Linux in sight.
And yes, it's blue, with the obligatory blue LED.
I won't burn up if it stays in orbit with them, it'll just turn into another piece of space junk that the ISS (and other vehicles) have to avoid.
Eventually of course, everything in orbit will re-enter the atmosphere, but the objects in higher or more stable orbits may take years to do so.
They could put tickets for the additional two seats up on eBay... Even if they didn't win the $10M X Prize, they'd get a substantial chunk of change insanely rich millionaires wanting to be the first passengers.
Although... They'd have to not touch anything... Can you imagine Mike Melville telling his two passengers to stop touching buttons every few seconds?
Tsk, that's nothing! I have one of a pair of Origin200's used to create the PowerPuff girls movie.
Ok, so perhaps Wrath of Kahn does have more bragging rights...
The one thing that the article doesn't mention is that one of the ferry runs is an hour (the Bremerton-Bainbridge run). As a commuter from the Kitsap area to Seattle, I can get a lot of work done in the two hours I would be spending on these ferries.
Personally, I've been waiting for over a year for Mobiliisa to install these on all the ferries since they announced the trial for Summer 2003. I even signed up for the trial with the Washington State Ferry system, but never heard anything back from them.
As for costs, Mobiliisa already stated that they will use a monthly subscription-type service (but that was in March 2003).
The WSF currently uses Wi-Fi in it's terminals for employee use, it's WEP encrypted, however and not for public use.
If you're going to do this, do it properly. Get systems with massive amounts of I/O that will cope with all the data you're trying to throw at them. For this kind of work, you need only buy from one vendor: SGI.
Don't bother with Intel/Linux, with dodgy hardware and the frequently-changing Linux code. Pay the money, get decent hardware with a support contract and a steady, stable, tried and trusted OS.
Apple *may* be an appropriate choice, now that Pixar have ported RenderMan to OS X, but I don't like the idea of my arrays running at 7200 rpm's. Get SGI, get fibre channel, and (possibly) get gigabit ethernet.
It'll all pay off - it won't be cheap, but in the long run, the results will be worth the money and the wait.
Do you sue Microsoft every time Word 'loses' your carefully crafted letter? Do you sue mozilla.org whenever you loose a bookmark?
Of course you don't.However, applications that are designed to be used in more critical environments than (say) a secretary's desk, should have better quality control on the coders.
While I understand that it is nigh-on impossible to catch every single bug in the code if a hospital pays good money for computer software, then they should have a reasonable expectation that the software they get works without threatening their patients life.
As has been said elsewhere in this thread, computers are a tool - that they are, not a complete solution. You can't solve problems just by throwing technology at them.
Software will only kill people through bad programming.
It is humans that make the underlying mistakes
Exactly the point I was trying to make above.
As much as the slashdot crowd would probably hate to admit that Microsoft got something right, SMB/CIFS is the 'killer app' for sharing files and printers over a LAN.
If there's another application that does the same job as SMB/CIFS and is:
- Free
- easy to use client
- easy to configure server
- multiplatform - Windows, OS X, varying strains of Unix, and linux
then bring it on. Until then, we're stuck with CIFS.It's all very well saying 'let it die', but just what would you replace it with?
Indeed, while p2p applications may share illegally share content, they are probably not as disruptive as laid out.
Spam is far more disruptive, but is given less coverage in the document.
I would expect more from PhD's, I hope that these were written post-PhD, and not for a doctoral thesis, they seem to be very ill-informed.
Combine the two together to get enlarged breast-shaped penises, or penis-shaped breasts.
I believe it is an FCC requirement for all phone companies in the US to provide a 911 service on all lines, even those that do not have a pay-for services on them.
Which only makes sense - in an emergency you should be able to grab the nearest phone and dial '911', without having to wonder if the owner paid their last bill or not.
That's why you have a dial tone on a line that you're not paying for, even if it's a "soft" dial tone.
You need a *reason* to buy an Octane?
There's stacks of the original Octanes coming off their leases and showing up on eBay in various configurations. You can pick up a low end Octane for between $100 and $200 on a good day and slowly upgrade.
Even the Octane2's show up from time to time, they start at about $3,000 though.
Hell, Octanes are so cheap, buy two - I did! And an Onyx. And five other SGI machines.
Urk... Someone posted my data to slashdot... Luckily load on the webserver is still 0.00 :)
I compiled this data for the full-disclosure mailing list, however these numbers need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Once the URL to the webcounter was made publicly known, people intentionally started hitting it. One IP address hit this URL a reported 700,000 times.
I'm hoping that the admins of the website hosting the counter will release the logs so a proper study of the data can be made.