I'm a little late to the "discussion" as it were, but I'm using an i-opener obtained for $50 on ebay in this capacity. Hella easy; get a replacement bios chip and even the newer 'unhackable' versions are great little terminals. Add usb ethernet, and make a 2.5"->3.5" ide cable so you can load a low-overhead version of linux (midori, m4i, etc) on the 16Mb sandisk and you're in business. I spent $100 and 4 hours total on it. Can't beat the price for a p-200 class machine with no fans, no noise, no heat, a 10" lcd, no box to hide, and can be used for web browsing/email to boot.
.. Don't do it as a profession. Seriously. As an Engineer-by-degree-and-trade, I have at times been tempted to do something more computing-related professionally, but keep coming to the conclusion that having terms dictated to me would take all the fun out of it. If you are really passionate about it, do it in your spare time and learn what you *want* to learn, not what makes your employer the most money.
The Republicans have been in power during the greatest political and military clusterfucks and economic contractions.
Who was in the white house when we got involved in Vietnam and the Korean war? Hint: NOT republicans. Democrats and Republicans like to paint themselves as being very different for campaigning but it's all smoke and mirrors. They're both Plutocrats, which is why Corporations have more and more power today. There are very few actual differences between the parties. Don't look to politicians or political parties to save your country, imho:)
We agree. I didn't say they're bastards or anything, just that this is an inherent risk of any system, that it will fail, and redundancy is only as good as the time before a single fault is fixed.
That's no different than single redundancy going wrong, but twice:) I think what I was trying to say was that people are expecting redundancy to be a sure-fire guarantee against bad things happening and taking you out, which is foolish at best. It's just a means of reducing your chances of a failure where the risk of downtime justifies the much larger cost.
Long story short, I thought the commenter was showing some level of ignorance in implying that "built-in redundancy" isn't supposed to "go wrong".
Just shows how systems with build-in redundancy can still go badly wrong...."
Um, the built in redundancy worked as it should, apart from the maintainers not fixing the first fault. Their maintenance is what went wrong. Nobody will ever be able to afford or build a system like this with so much redundancy that you aren't required to maintain it.
???? So it's better to have less money now, because you might have to give some of it up for whatever reason? Besides the fact that in this case, I'd LOVE for them to come after me for something like this if I did have the proverbially deep pockets, I'd get the opportunity to sue them for improper billing...
my thoughts exactly; if it's REALLY important, someone will still do it, so this is a lot of effort for almost no gain. Except to piss off your paying customers, something that helps us free software folks.. maybe it's got a good side afterall?
Water doesn't contain any energy? Water is hella dense, it contains a LOT of energy, of many different types... People have used it's potential and kinetic energy for millenia to power water wheels, dams, etc... it has electrical potential (H20 is a polar molocule) if you can just make it line up (charge separation, like these folks are doing) or, of course, as Einstein showed us, it has a TON of nuclear energy that is very difficult to liberate.
That said, yes, you ARE putting in more energy than you are taking out, just like every other non-nuclear physical process in our universe. That's the second law of thermo, entropy increases for any process in a closed volume..
However, it would still be very useful sometimes to be able to recharge your dying cell phone battery from muscle power alone, working a hand pump. Of course their efficiency is so low right now that it'll be a long time before it sees the consumer market..
It probably causes more wear and tear to the fridge if you put more food in it instead of keeping it empty
Actually, there's a nice medium point at which it uses the least amount of energy. The mass in the fridge acts like thermal inertia, so when stand there with the door open trying to figure out what to eat, the 'fridge doesn't have to work as hard to restore the temperature setpoint afterwards.
That said, this is why it's a good idea to keep gallon jugs of water in a storage freezer. There's an ititial energy cost to freeze the water, but it lowers your average cost over the long haul.
Top Vulnerabilities to Windows Systems # W1 Internet Information Services (IIS) # W2 Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) # W3 Windows Authentication # W4 Internet Explorer (IE) # W5 Windows Remote Access Services # W6 Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) # W7 Windows Scripting Host (WSH) # W8 Microsoft Outlook Outlook Express # W9 Windows Peer to Peer File Sharing (P2P) # W10 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Top Vulnerabilities to UNIX Systems # U1 BIND Domain Name System # U2 Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) # U3 Apache Web Server # U4 General UNIX Authentication Accounts with No Passwords or Weak Passwords # U5 Clear Text Services # U6 Sendmail # U7 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) # U8 Secure Shell (SSH) # U9 Misconfiguration of Enterprise Services NIS/NFS # U10 Open Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
I know in TIME there was mention of a company that recovered data lost from a hard drive that had been shot with a gun, one that was in an office fire, etc. Have you dealt with a lot of cases like these?
"That company uses our software technology in their labs. I cannot mention names because of our agreement, but I know the article and to whom you are referring.
Wow. I read that article, I thought that was just bad reporting. Sure it's technically possible but it's still impressive..
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Please mod -100, "Fuggin Nasty", "Just Plain Wrong", "goatse.cx for the new millenium"
I'm a little late to the "discussion" as it were, but I'm using an i-opener obtained for $50 on ebay in this capacity. Hella easy; get a replacement bios chip and even the newer 'unhackable' versions are great little terminals. Add usb ethernet, and make a 2.5"->3.5" ide cable so you can load a low-overhead version of linux (midori, m4i, etc) on the 16Mb sandisk and you're in business. I spent $100 and 4 hours total on it. Can't beat the price for a p-200 class machine with no fans, no noise, no heat, a 10" lcd, no box to hide, and can be used for web browsing/email to boot.
The Republicans have been in power during the greatest political and military clusterfucks and economic contractions.
:)
Who was in the white house when we got involved in Vietnam and the Korean war? Hint: NOT republicans. Democrats and Republicans like to paint themselves as being very different for campaigning but it's all smoke and mirrors. They're both Plutocrats, which is why Corporations have more and more power today. There are very few actual differences between the parties. Don't look to politicians or political parties to save your country, imho
Yes, but if you are using a shell with tab completion (i.e., just about any of them) you can quickly scan through all the k apps and the g apps...
Classic..
I had a Telecom Professor who reminded us that statistically, the biggest cause of packet loss is "backhoe fade"...
We agree. I didn't say they're bastards or anything, just that this is an inherent risk of any system, that it will fail, and redundancy is only as good as the time before a single fault is fixed.
That's no different than single redundancy going wrong, but twice :) I think what I was trying to say was that people are expecting redundancy to be a sure-fire guarantee against bad things happening and taking you out, which is foolish at best. It's just a means of reducing your chances of a failure where the risk of downtime justifies the much larger cost.
Long story short, I thought the commenter was showing some level of ignorance in implying that "built-in redundancy" isn't supposed to "go wrong".
Just shows how systems with build-in redundancy can still go badly wrong...."
Um, the built in redundancy worked as it should, apart from the maintainers not fixing the first fault. Their maintenance is what went wrong. Nobody will ever be able to afford or build a system like this with so much redundancy that you aren't required to maintain it.
He gets to swear in these interviews, too.
That ought to add a lot of important detail. How inadequate those curse-free interviews look in comparison.
Soon you won't have to worry about how loud your PC is... just put it on the other side of the house!
:)
Fine for video, but what about keyboard, mouse, if I want to load a cd/dvd in/out, etc?
This could also have been "I live in a house so small that I can still hear the computer on the other side of it, you insensitive clod!".
You rule, dude. Mod this guy up, i'm maxing out a T1 with this torrent.
It doesn't always pay to have deep pockets.
???? So it's better to have less money now, because you might have to give some of it up for whatever reason? Besides the fact that in this case, I'd LOVE for them to come after me for something like this if I did have the proverbially deep pockets, I'd get the opportunity to sue them for improper billing...
my thoughts exactly; if it's REALLY important, someone will still do it, so this is a lot of effort for almost no gain. Except to piss off your paying customers, something that helps us free software folks .. maybe it's got a good side afterall?
Water doesn't contain any energy? Water is hella dense, it contains a LOT of energy, of many different types... People have used it's potential and kinetic energy for millenia to power water wheels, dams, etc... it has electrical potential (H20 is a polar molocule) if you can just make it line up (charge separation, like these folks are doing) or, of course, as Einstein showed us, it has a TON of nuclear energy that is very difficult to liberate.
That said, yes, you ARE putting in more energy than you are taking out, just like every other non-nuclear physical process in our universe. That's the second law of thermo, entropy increases for any process in a closed volume..
However, it would still be very useful sometimes to be able to recharge your dying cell phone battery from muscle power alone, working a hand pump. Of course their efficiency is so low right now that it'll be a long time before it sees the consumer market..
A "water powered" mobile phone would contain a small reservoir pressurised by a hand pump.
So it's hand powered, the pressure from the pump sets up the process they describe, separating charges just like a battery..
I'm sorry, but how does this get modded up for 'Insightful' rather than 'Funny'???
Or did the moderators skip high school physics too?
pudding is as good of a building material as tofu..
It probably causes more wear and tear to the fridge if you put more food in it instead of keeping it empty
Actually, there's a nice medium point at which it uses the least amount of energy. The mass in the fridge acts like thermal inertia, so when stand there with the door open trying to figure out what to eat, the 'fridge doesn't have to work as hard to restore the temperature setpoint afterwards.
That said, this is why it's a good idea to keep gallon jugs of water in a storage freezer. There's an ititial energy cost to freeze the water, but it lowers your average cost over the long haul.
It's already loading slowly so...
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Top Vulnerabilities to Windows Systems
# W1 Internet Information Services (IIS)
# W2 Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
# W3 Windows Authentication
# W4 Internet Explorer (IE)
# W5 Windows Remote Access Services
# W6 Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)
# W7 Windows Scripting Host (WSH)
# W8 Microsoft Outlook Outlook Express
# W9 Windows Peer to Peer File Sharing (P2P)
# W10 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Top Vulnerabilities to UNIX Systems
# U1 BIND Domain Name System
# U2 Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
# U3 Apache Web Server
# U4 General UNIX Authentication Accounts with No Passwords or Weak Passwords
# U5 Clear Text Services
# U6 Sendmail
# U7 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
# U8 Secure Shell (SSH)
# U9 Misconfiguration of Enterprise Services NIS/NFS
# U10 Open Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Forget about the cooling, tell me more about that pump! /me googles electrokinesis ..
apparantly it uses osmotic pressure to drive it, how cool is that?
That was "640k"
I know in TIME there was mention of a company that recovered data lost from a hard drive that had been shot with a gun, one that was in an office fire, etc. Have you dealt with a lot of cases like these?
"That company uses our software technology in their labs. I cannot mention names because of our agreement, but I know the article and to whom you are referring.
Wow. I read that article, I thought that was just bad reporting. Sure it's technically possible but it's still impressive..
If the damage is already done then we have nothing to worry about; at this point anyone examining the facts will see 'linux' as completely blameless.