tvtorrents isn't dead (thankfully), they have what appears to be the worst DNS system ever created; and unfortunately only one person can change it. They'll be back up as soon as the new DNS propogates.
but there used to be, Matrox used to be the best thing to have ever come down the pipe! I'm still using a G400Max Dual-VGA card. Everything was done in heardware, it was great, but now you can't dream of touching their current cards.
A little bit of poking around revealed that they are shrinking, -15% Revenue reduction, -30% empolyee reduction. And Revenue of just over $89 Million; it is privatley held and owned by the chairmen and president of the company.
Now if IBM had a big enough slush fund, and the founders could be convinced, they could grab them right up, it wouldn't put them at the cutting edge of gaming, but it would be a quick jump.
I would call it an updated theme, I wouldn't really call it new. Certainly a bit more polish to it though. If you were really put off by the "old" theme you will likely not like this one either.
well you show me where it says "enterprise" anywhere in his post for one. google, which most of us would consider "enterprise," they're ability to keep orkut online not withstanding, uses IDE. if you have the ability to hot swap in a drive, the failure of a single one is inconsequential; yes with RAID5 you are going to take a time hit to rebuild the set, but as many people have already pointed out using RAID5 with the number of discs he is proposing is likely not his best move. Also glad to know you found that "Post Anonymously" checkbox.
I've had great luch with Promise's Ultratraks. This is an array of IDE drives that connect to a SCSI interface. Using them in RAID5, and yes it does take some time to rebuild the set when you lose a disk, but if you can handle a little down time. Currently using the 8disk tower, populated with Western Digital 120GB drives. Works great, but when a drive fails, it takes about 6 hours to rebuild the set.
Countless, castles, pyramids, forts, were built with my wooden blocks, often with lego vehicles and figures running around, through them, and often falling vitim to hidden booby traps.... round columns placed on their side perched above some isosolese blocks can wipe out whole hordes of invading legomen when let loose!
it varies it's roll through it's dive, by changing the orientation of one of the two battery packs; thus as you correctly guessed, creating "uneven" lift.
And you can see, in realtime, when it was last heard from at the status page the last seven records are when it was ship board and being brought back into harbor. This isn't exactly an exciting link until it is redployed, most likely early in the new year.
It compares it's dead reckoning position (where it thinks it should be) with where it actually came up (according to the GPS), then adjusts the pitch and roll through the dive to compensate. It's not too smart about stearing across currents yet, but that's coming.
The oil sac basically allows you to change the volume of the glider without changing the mass, by pumping the oil (think hydraulic/vegetable rather than petroleum) into the external bladder you effectively decrease the density of the instrument allowing it to rise. The pitch of the device can be controlled by moving one of the two battery packs for and aft to maintain whatever attitude is needed to create "lift" from the wings.
The solar panel wouldn't work that well, there are kilos of lithium batteries in there. You want to avoid being on the surface as much as possible, for the simple reason is, that's where other "stuff" is. the likelyhood of damage at the surface is FAR greater than at depth, save attack by the squid from 20,000 leagues. It's also hard enough to get a GPS fix because of the roughness of the seas, let alone try stay there long enough to get a recharge.
The pump actually pumps vegetable oil from an internal bladder to an external one; this active pumping is required because we pull a vaccuum on the hull which holds the electonics and internal oil resevoir. The glider is then ballasted for ~1000m, so no energy unput is needed to reach the bootom depth, then after hitting the bottom, the pump turns on, increases the volume of the unit (the mass stays the same) thus decreasing the density, and we begin to float up, ascent is then contolled by draining and expanding the external bladders as neccessary to assure a constant gradual ascent to the surface. At the surface we then rotate one of the battery packs 90 from center to aim the GPS receiver and IRIDIUM antenna which are embedded in the wings at the sky. really a neat design. The pitch of the vehicle is controlled by moving the second battery pack for and aft within the housing, to create the proper atittude.
Slashdot Mirror
My favorite of this ilk is eRSS from the enlightenment project.
tvtorrents isn't dead (thankfully), they have what appears to be the worst DNS system ever created; and unfortunately only one person can change it. They'll be back up as soon as the new DNS propogates.
but there used to be, Matrox used to be the best thing to have ever come down the pipe! I'm still using a G400Max Dual-VGA card. Everything was done in heardware, it was great, but now you can't dream of touching their current cards.
A little bit of poking around revealed that they are shrinking, -15% Revenue reduction, -30% empolyee reduction. And Revenue of just over $89 Million; it is privatley held and owned by the chairmen and president of the company.
Now if IBM had a big enough slush fund, and the founders could be convinced, they could grab them right up, it wouldn't put them at the cutting edge of gaming, but it would be a quick jump.
well the article is 503'ing, and it didn't get coralized, so here is a link to the google cache'd copy.
Not that UCSD was going anywhere, but...
East Coast Mirror @ WHOI
Another project I work on makes /.; go figure. Here are some better links.
The US Global Data Center for the Argo project.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Argo page. This includes links to data profiles and other info.
WHOI's realtime data grapher allows you to see where the floats are, where they have been, find a float in any region WHOI monitors, etc.
Also check out the Argo Information Center and their Global Float Map. (The WHOI one tends to be faster if you are only interested in the Atlantic)
Yes, ironically; drifters remain at the surface for the duration of their mission; while floaters sink to a preprogrammed depth to collect data.
oh wait.
I would call it an updated theme, I wouldn't really call it new. Certainly a bit more polish to it though. If you were really put off by the "old" theme you will likely not like this one either.
if you are running unix certainly check out evolution.
Originally on of Ximians flag ship products, now part of Novell's linux group.
well you show me where it says "enterprise" anywhere in his post for one.
google, which most of us would consider "enterprise," they're ability to keep orkut online not withstanding, uses IDE.
if you have the ability to hot swap in a drive, the failure of a single one is inconsequential; yes with RAID5 you are going to take a time hit to rebuild the set, but as many people have already pointed out using RAID5 with the number of discs he is proposing is likely not his best move.
Also glad to know you found that "Post Anonymously" checkbox.
I've had great luch with Promise's Ultratraks. This is an array of IDE drives that connect to a SCSI interface. Using them in RAID5, and yes it does take some time to rebuild the set when you lose a disk, but if you can handle a little down time. Currently using the 8disk tower, populated with Western Digital 120GB drives. Works great, but when a drive fails, it takes about 6 hours to rebuild the set.
I LOVED my blocks, and they augment rather than replace legos.
A little quick googling got me found me a set that reminds me of my blocks.
Countless, castles, pyramids, forts, were built with my wooden blocks, often with lego vehicles and figures running around, through them, and often falling vitim to hidden booby traps.... round columns placed on their side perched above some isosolese blocks can wipe out whole hordes of invading legomen when let loose!
The Glider actually costs well less than half that.
it varies it's roll through it's dive, by changing the orientation of one of the two battery packs; thus as you correctly guessed, creating "uneven" lift.
And you can see, in realtime, when it was last heard from at the status page the last seven records are when it was ship board and being brought back into harbor. This isn't exactly an exciting link until it is redployed, most likely early in the new year.
actually I meant the big steel squid that attacks your ship at disney world in florida.
here are the actual maps of the course it took:
The Whole Trip notice where it got caught in the gulf stream.
Coming South to Bermuda
The Final approach to Bermuda
The Crazy trip through the Gulf Stream the blue vectors indicate the stream's velocity.
It actually uses IRIDIUM's data service to send an email back to the server at Woods Hole.
You sure that map isn't of current velocity?
The glider Photo Gallery
It compares it's dead reckoning position (where it thinks it should be) with where it actually came up (according to the GPS), then adjusts the pitch and roll through the dive to compensate. It's not too smart about stearing across currents yet, but that's coming.
The oil sac basically allows you to change the volume of the glider without changing the mass, by pumping the oil (think hydraulic/vegetable rather than petroleum) into the external bladder you effectively decrease the density of the instrument allowing it to rise. The pitch of the device can be controlled by moving one of the two battery packs for and aft to maintain whatever attitude is needed to create "lift" from the wings.
The solar panel wouldn't work that well, there are kilos of lithium batteries in there. You want to avoid being on the surface as much as possible, for the simple reason is, that's where other "stuff" is. the likelyhood of damage at the surface is FAR greater than at depth, save attack by the squid from 20,000 leagues. It's also hard enough to get a GPS fix because of the roughness of the seas, let alone try stay there long enough to get a recharge.
There is actually an informative and readable press release about the glider in general and the mission it just finished.
The pump actually pumps vegetable oil from an internal bladder to an external one; this active pumping is required because we pull a vaccuum on the hull which holds the electonics and internal oil resevoir. The glider is then ballasted for ~1000m, so no energy unput is needed to reach the bootom depth, then after hitting the bottom, the pump turns on, increases the volume of the unit (the mass stays the same) thus decreasing the density, and we begin to float up, ascent is then contolled by draining and expanding the external bladders as neccessary to assure a constant gradual ascent to the surface.
At the surface we then rotate one of the battery packs 90 from center to aim the GPS receiver and IRIDIUM antenna which are embedded in the wings at the sky. really a neat design. The pitch of the vehicle is controlled by moving the second battery pack for and aft within the housing, to create the proper atittude.