...
It might, but IBM won't recommend it/install it/support it for you. Which is fine if you want to do it all yourself. Most enterprises, however, are used to paying IBM (/Microsoft) a lot of money and not having to worry about support issues.
I would be very surprised if IBM would not take your money to get Notes working on any other distro. It would take more money but isn't that one of the reasons that IBM is doing this?
Those would be the same gutless slaves who sued their employer in the first place?
C'mon. There's two sides to this story and if you don't consider both, you will continue to blather mindless tripe like this.
If someone is working 45 hours/week, this will net them slightly more, but only if the OT pay is straight. If it is time and a half, then the employee will actually make more. If the employee winds up putting in 50 or 60 hour weeks, they get even more yet.
It was looked at years ago. From "1997-1998 Annual Report - EPRI HVAC&R Center - Thermal Storage Applications Research Center" (University of Wisconsin, Madison" From the report (somewhere at http://www.hvacr.wisc.edu/index.htm)
Electrical Demand Reduction in Refrigerated Warehouses Sponsors: Alliant Energy, University- Industry Relations, and a Wisconsin warehouse Status: Complete Graduate student Joy Altwies, with faculty advisors Reindl and Klein, conducted a scoping study of demand-shifting techniques as applied to refrigerated warehouses. Refrigerated warehouses tradition- ally utilize large built-up industrial systems to cool stored products. The refrigeration systems operate on demand throughout the daytime. Their highest demand usually occurs coincidentally with the electric utilities' peak demand. The investigation explored the potential of utilizing stored product as thermal mass to shift refrigeration loads from on-peak to off-peak periods. The techniques developed were tested on a pilot scale at a low- temperature warehouse. Consider- able energy cost savings were achievable with minimal facility upgrades and no degradation of stored products.
So this is not a particularly new idea. I ran across this while looking for something about the frozen storage in Chicago. A utility facility near the Sears Tower (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sears+tow er&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=41.8762,-87.635536&spn=0.003531 ,0.010182&t=k&om=1 http://tinyurl.com/2tge83) described here: http://www.esdesign.com/projects_centralplant.htm For those who won't follow the links:
Exelon, District Cooling Plant #1, located in Chicago's Central Loop, is a 25,000 ton, chilled water generation plant consisting of three 5,000 ton electric motor driven centrifugal chillers and 5,500,000 pounds (66,000 ton-hour) of ice storage.
The gist of this is that they will use off peak power to make ice and then use the ice to provide cooling during peak times. Apparently a side benefit is the reduction in HVAC plants for the buildings which get their chilled water from the central plant.
20 years ago I worked in the largest steel mill in the US and they regularly scheduled production around peak demand to reduce costs, so demand management is hardly a new idea.
To some extent Linux is fault tolerant. Years ago I was running my firewall on an old Thinkpad 750Cs (Yeah... 25 MHz 486;) This was with a series 2.2 kernel. As I was preparing to leave for vacation it started making loud whining noises. And it does not have a fan.:( I warned my son tha the was likely to lose Internet connectivity and I would deal with it when I returned. Upon my return, I noted that the Thinkpad had gone silent. When I asked when it failed I got "It's still working." I logged in and found that the disk had failed, Linux had remounted it R/W and eventually it had spun down. The firewall kept humming along filtering packets for another several weeks until I got around to putting together another firewall.
During the dist-upgrade step you will probably have to answer some questions about using new config files vs. existing modified ones.
You do need to reboot if you want the new kernel running. (2.6.15)
Afterwards you might have to tweak some things like the wireless drivers or display drivers. I had to download the synaptics driver because the new one has bugs that manifest for 64 bit systems.
The problem with the crocodile is that anyone examining fossilized croc bones already knows what a modern croc looks like and what it does. They can't really speculate about what the fossils mean without considering the modern equivalent. Modern science has no knowledge of this animal so the interpretation of the fossil record is not tainted by that.
Regarding evolution since then... That's not really an issue. They can look at what's similar with the modern animal vs. the fossil and see what it means in terms of the modern animal. Then they compare that to what they thought it meant in the fossil and they can critique their methods for interpreting the fossil. They can ignore any differences that have cropped up in the mean time as there is nothing to directly compare with that. (Of course examining the changes is interesting for other reasons, like investigating evolution.)
-hank
Both the company's free online security service, Windows Live Safety, and its in-beta OneCare Live software, however, will disinfect compromised computers, Microsoft said.
I'm guessing that's free as in beer. I like to bash Microsoft at least as much as the next guy, but I think they've provided a free solution for this one.
... but what can Google do that would make this more special then any other ubuntu release/spin off?
Any other release/spinoff will not keep Bill Gates awake at night. Microsoft is already going off in a zillion different directions and in some of these directions, Google competes. This might just be a red herring to divert Microsoft's resources away from the area that Google is really interested in. Google doesn't actually have to produce the distro. All they have to do is convince Microsoft that they can or might.
1 - Many manufacturers switch chip sets without switching card model names. You can check the compatibility list, buy a supported card and find out when you plug it in that it is not supported.
2 - If you buy a laptop with built in WiFi, you're stuck with the chip that the manufacturer selected. You can hope to get it working with something like ndiswrapper, but that doesn't always work.
I've had mixed results. First cards I bought were Orinoco 802.11b silver cards and they worked pretty much on the first try after I found the wlan drivers. Likewise with the Intel wireless built into my Thinkpad T30. Up until the latest Windows driver download (2 days ago) the wireless on my Thinkpad worked better under Linux than Windows XP.
Then I bought a card that was supposed to have a Prism chip but turned out to have a Realtek chip. They provided support for 2.4.20 and 2.6.? for Redhat. I got the 2.4.20 version working with Debian and became bound to that kernel rev. As linux kernel versions came and went, the vendor never updated their driver. I also found an Atheros based chip that worked just great with the Madwifi drivers.
My most recent laptop is an AMD Turion from HP. I was not able to get the built in Broadcom WiFi until ver 1.5 of ndiswrapper was released.
I have a Nikon CP 5000 that starts out at 28mm (35mm equivalent) and has an adapter that takes it to 19mm. And it's a huge piece of glass, about 3 inches across. That seems to be true of a lot of wide angle lenses. And that's optics. Based on the aparent size of their lens, the sensor must be incredibly small.
Biodiesel emits little of the smog of conventional gasoline or diesel fuel and almost none of the heat-trapping gases that most scientists say are driving up temperatures and could cause more floods, storms and rising sea levels in coming decades.
I call bullshit on at least one claim. The primary greenhouse gas is CO2 and biodiesel is still carbon based so it still produces CO2. If that claim is wrong, what about the others?
It may be true that biodiesel reduces our consumption of fossil fuels, but that depends on how much fossil fuel is consumed to produce biodiesel.
I'm skeptical. In industries where hydrogen is used as a process gasd, they check for leaks by waving a corn broom over the hydrogen pipe lines. If there is a leak, it will ignite from static discharge and the invisible hydrogen flame will cause the broom to burst into visible flames.
Hydrogen is such a light molecule I don't think it emits light in the visible spectrum. You really need triatomic molecules like water vapor or carbin-dioxide to emit significantly. Particles of soot work well too.
In any case, their explanation that they add additional oxygen for a luminous flame is bogus.
...
or "have you ever tried marijuana?" assuming, of course, that everyone has tried these. Therefore, if you say no, they assume that your response is the baseline for lying since obviously anyone who says they haven't is lying.
And what if you say yes? Maybe they conclude you're not capable of lying.;)
If you read the example cited in the article, you will see that they said:
...
Ford had decided to unplug its Oracle procurement system, dubbed Everest, and collapse its purchasing processes around its original
custom-written, mainframe-based applications.
So, where's the case for using COTS? However, I can see a case against outsourcing...
No, I cannot agree. Software is a necessary tool to operate a business.
With any tool, the business has to decide if it makes more business sense to build a custom tool or buy an OTS tool. Just because they are not in the tool building business does not mean that they cannot build a better tool to meet their needs.
There will always be situations where a (non-software) business can gain a competitive advantage by developing their own software. Whether or not they can succesfully deploy probably has less to do with their ability to successfully manage a project than being a software company.
On the other hand there is little sense in developing software that could be purchased for less cost off the shelf and perhaps customized for specific requirements.
We evaluated assembler vs. C for an 8086 hosted system about 15 years ago. We looked at several compilers and wrote some simple functions in C and assembler to compare the code generated. The best compiler (Watcom) produced code that was tighter then the hand coded assembler. The compiler did things with the code like sharing parts of a return block and optimizing register usage in ways that would make maintaining the code extremely difficult. With more complex chips, I doubt that a human developer could track all of the details required to produce tight efficient code.
In theory, a really good assembler programmer could produce more highly optimized code, but not on a consistent basis and within schedule constraints.
I don't argue that assembler isn't useful. I learmed more about how computers work wwhen I took an 8080 assembler class in college. And for certain problem domains like embedded systems, assembler is often necessary. But I don't write any more code in assembler than absolutely necessary.
If you would have read the article carefully you would have seen that they described transreceivers [sic] in your car. It can transmit ID as well as receive information. How else would it be able to replace the system used to collect tolls?
And how do they know how fast I can negotiate the next curve anyway? Do they know what kind of tires I have? Suspension? Driving skills?
You forgot about the GPS receiver in my cell phone (LG VX4400) But they tell me that the towers don't yet have the capability to track me. the phone will not display location. It is only designed to send them to the watchers. I can disable it by wrapping the phone in tin foil, but that hurts reception.
More info here
and make it something dirty.
Their search engine is so weak. Xfree86 and any other term does not redirect to the porn search engine. Is that what they're going to dominate the web with? No wonder they are trying to buy Google. They don't have anyone capable of writing their own.
Slashdot Mirror
There are also knowledgeable traders who really know what they're doing that make a lot of money off day traders and casual traders who think they do.
Some pages on /. have come up 503 earlier today. So while it probably replies to a ping, it might have been slashdotted.
...It might, but IBM won't recommend it/install it/support it for you. Which is fine if you want to do it all yourself. Most enterprises, however, are used to paying IBM (/Microsoft) a lot of money and not having to worry about support issues.
I would be very surprised if IBM would not take your money to get Notes working on any other distro. It would take more money but isn't that one of the reasons that IBM is doing this?
Those would be the same gutless slaves who sued their employer in the first place?
C'mon. There's two sides to this story and if you don't consider both, you will continue to blather mindless tripe like this.
If someone is working 45 hours/week, this will net them slightly more, but only if the OT pay is straight. If it is time and a half, then the employee will actually make more. If the employee winds up putting in 50 or 60 hour weeks, they get even more yet.
Isn't this what they sued for?
Chicago too. Or at last they tried. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/27/chicagos_bean _sculpt.html NY is just so far behind.
It was looked at years ago. From "1997-1998 Annual Report - EPRI HVAC&R Center - Thermal Storage Applications Research Center" (University of Wisconsin, Madison" From the report (somewhere at http://www.hvacr.wisc.edu/index.htm)
w er&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=41.8762,-87.635536&spn=0.003531 ,0.010182&t=k&om=1 http://tinyurl.com/2tge83)
Electrical Demand Reduction in
Refrigerated Warehouses
Sponsors: Alliant Energy, University-
Industry Relations, and a
Wisconsin warehouse
Status:
Complete
Graduate student Joy Altwies, with
faculty advisors Reindl and Klein,
conducted a scoping study of
demand-shifting techniques as
applied to refrigerated warehouses.
Refrigerated warehouses tradition-
ally utilize large built-up industrial
systems to cool stored products.
The refrigeration systems operate
on demand throughout the daytime.
Their highest demand usually
occurs coincidentally with the
electric utilities' peak demand. The
investigation explored the potential
of utilizing stored product as
thermal mass to shift refrigeration
loads from on-peak to off-peak
periods. The techniques developed
were tested on a pilot scale at a low-
temperature warehouse. Consider-
able energy cost savings were
achievable with minimal facility
upgrades and no degradation of
stored products.
So this is not a particularly new idea. I ran across this while looking for something about the frozen storage in Chicago. A utility facility near the Sears Tower (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sears+to
described here: http://www.esdesign.com/projects_centralplant.htm
For those who won't follow the links:
Exelon, District Cooling Plant #1, located in Chicago's Central Loop, is a 25,000 ton, chilled water generation plant consisting of three 5,000 ton electric motor driven centrifugal chillers and 5,500,000 pounds (66,000 ton-hour) of ice storage.
The gist of this is that they will use off peak power to make ice and then use the ice to provide cooling during peak times. Apparently a side benefit is the reduction in HVAC plants for the buildings which get their chilled water from the central plant.
20 years ago I worked in the largest steel mill in the US and they regularly scheduled production around peak demand to reduce costs, so demand management is hardly a new idea.
Maybe they could cover some of the cost of the settlement by selling the signs on ebay. I'd be interested in one, but not at $600!
On the other hand, they probably got way more then $2 million US in publicity doing this.
-hank
They used a D200 (Nikon digital SLR) to take the pictures for the article. ;)
To some extent Linux is fault tolerant. Years ago I was running my firewall on an old Thinkpad 750Cs (Yeah... 25 MHz 486 ;) This was with a series 2.2 kernel. As I was preparing to leave for vacation it started making loud whining noises. And it does not have a fan. :( I warned my son tha the was likely to lose Internet connectivity and I would deal with it when I returned. Upon my return, I noted that the Thinkpad had gone silent. When I asked when it failed I got "It's still working." I logged in and found that the disk had failed, Linux had remounted it R/W and eventually it had spun down. The firewall kept humming along filtering packets for another several weeks until I got around to putting together another firewall.
-hank
During the dist-upgrade step you will probably have to answer some questions about using new config files vs. existing modified ones.
You do need to reboot if you want the new kernel running. (2.6.15)
Afterwards you might have to tweak some things like the wireless drivers or display drivers. I had to download the synaptics driver because the new one has bugs that manifest for 64 bit systems.
But it really is that easy!
-hank
The problem with the crocodile is that anyone examining fossilized croc bones already knows what a modern croc looks like and what it does. They can't really speculate about what the fossils mean without considering the modern equivalent. Modern science has no knowledge of this animal so the interpretation of the fossil record is not tainted by that.
Regarding evolution since then... That's not really an issue. They can look at what's similar with the modern animal vs. the fossil and see what it means in terms of the modern animal. Then they compare that to what they thought it meant in the fossil and they can critique their methods for interpreting the fossil. They can ignore any differences that have cropped up in the mean time as there is nothing to directly compare with that. (Of course examining the changes is interesting for other reasons, like investigating evolution.) -hank
This includes the URLS http://beta.windowsonecare.com/ and http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm
I'm guessing that's free as in beer. I like to bash Microsoft at least as much as the next guy, but I think they've provided a free solution for this one.
-hank
1 - Many manufacturers switch chip sets without switching card model names. You can check the compatibility list, buy a supported card and find out when you plug it in that it is not supported.
2 - If you buy a laptop with built in WiFi, you're stuck with the chip that the manufacturer selected. You can hope to get it working with something like ndiswrapper, but that doesn't always work.
I've had mixed results. First cards I bought were Orinoco 802.11b silver cards and they worked pretty much on the first try after I found the wlan drivers. Likewise with the Intel wireless built into my Thinkpad T30. Up until the latest Windows driver download (2 days ago) the wireless on my Thinkpad worked better under Linux than Windows XP.
Then I bought a card that was supposed to have a Prism chip but turned out to have a Realtek chip. They provided support for 2.4.20 and 2.6.? for Redhat. I got the 2.4.20 version working with Debian and became bound to that kernel rev. As linux kernel versions came and went, the vendor never updated their driver. I also found an Atheros based chip that worked just great with the Madwifi drivers.
My most recent laptop is an AMD Turion from HP. I was not able to get the built in Broadcom WiFi until ver 1.5 of ndiswrapper was released.
I have a Nikon CP 5000 that starts out at 28mm (35mm equivalent) and has an adapter that takes it to 19mm. And it's a huge piece of glass, about 3 inches across. That seems to be true of a lot of wide angle lenses. And that's optics. Based on the aparent size of their lens, the sensor must be incredibly small.
From TFA:
Biodiesel emits little of the smog of conventional gasoline or diesel fuel and almost none of the heat-trapping gases that most scientists say are driving up temperatures and could cause more floods, storms and rising sea levels in coming decades.
I call bullshit on at least one claim. The primary greenhouse gas is CO2 and biodiesel is still carbon based so it still produces CO2. If that claim is wrong, what about the others?
It may be true that biodiesel reduces our consumption of fossil fuels, but that depends on how much fossil fuel is consumed to produce biodiesel.
I'm skeptical. In industries where hydrogen is used as a process gasd, they check for leaks by waving a corn broom over the hydrogen pipe lines. If there is a leak, it will ignite from static discharge and the invisible hydrogen flame will cause the broom to burst into visible flames.
Hydrogen is such a light molecule I don't think it emits light in the visible spectrum. You really need triatomic molecules like water vapor or carbin-dioxide to emit significantly. Particles of soot work well too.
In any case, their explanation that they add additional oxygen for a luminous flame is bogus.
With any tool, the business has to decide if it makes more business sense to build a custom tool or buy an OTS tool. Just because they are not in the tool building business does not mean that they cannot build a better tool to meet their needs.
There will always be situations where a (non-software) business can gain a competitive advantage by developing their own software. Whether or not they can succesfully deploy probably has less to do with their ability to successfully manage a project than being a software company.
On the other hand there is little sense in developing software that could be purchased for less cost off the shelf and perhaps customized for specific requirements.
In theory, a really good assembler programmer could produce more highly optimized code, but not on a consistent basis and within schedule constraints.
I don't argue that assembler isn't useful. I learmed more about how computers work wwhen I took an 8080 assembler class in college. And for certain problem domains like embedded systems, assembler is often necessary. But I don't write any more code in assembler than absolutely necessary.
If you would have read the article carefully you would have seen that they described transreceivers [sic] in your car. It can transmit ID as well as receive information. How else would it be able to replace the system used to collect tolls? And how do they know how fast I can negotiate the next curve anyway? Do they know what kind of tires I have? Suspension? Driving skills?
You forgot about the GPS receiver in my cell phone (LG VX4400) But they tell me that the towers don't yet have the capability to track me. the phone will not display location. It is only designed to send them to the watchers. I can disable it by wrapping the phone in tin foil, but that hurts reception. More info here
and make it something dirty. Their search engine is so weak. Xfree86 and any other term does not redirect to the porn search engine. Is that what they're going to dominate the web with? No wonder they are trying to buy Google. They don't have anyone capable of writing their own.