I am a muslim living in Pakistan and I am absolutely horrified at this rioting. My own take on this is that the local opposition party to the government (a religious group opposed to the US-friendly govt) wants to use this as a pretext to destabilize the government.
I saw the riots on the news and you could see the riffraff gleefully breaking down store windows and looting them, torching busses and cars and gleefully laughing. This is not a group that is protesting something - they are just thugs out to cause mayhem and destruction.
The cartoons? I too found the one about running out of virgins quite amusing! Its true too in the sense that Islam prohibits suicide. No rewards for people who blow themselves, least of all in crowded places!
These uneducated masses are fed constant propoganda about how the west is responsible for their poor lot while they go on popping out children that dont have a chance of feeding or looking after.
The oil rich wahabis from saudia come in and ask these people to let them raise their children in religious schools and they children will be fed and clothed. The children thus become brainwashed from a very young age. These brainwashed simpletons served as a very useful foil against the soviets in afghanistan. Now they rampage the streets and their wahabi overlords use them to further their own ends.
Educational reform is needed, and the mullahs need to be removed from all govt posts. Unfortunately with half the world clamouring that Musharaf is a dictator, things become difficult.
He's a dictator but even a dictator such as him is better than a dictatorship of mullahs because the govt they propose isnt quite democratic either. Also, he did hold a referendum as to whether he should stay the head of the army as well as the president. Most of the people I know, myself included, voted for him. The mullahs of course, did not.
Anyway, this is a long rant but I think that a lot of the responsibility lies with Saudi Arabia - home of the particularly hardline wahabi sect (which also calls for the execution of muslims belonging to other minority muslim sects). They are the source of all the funding these hardline "Islamists" thrive on.
Right on... I've been using the "." feature for over a year now.
And I use the username+mailinglistname@gmail.com feature to subscribe to different lists and make it simpler to make filters though not all lists accept email addresses with a + in them.
Question is, if an account named username@gmail.com already exists, can you create an account named user.name@gmail.com ?
Or come up with your own scheme of migrating data to tape... if you've got stuff you cant delete for years, you probably need to back it up. So if you can migrate those files off on to two sets of tapes, you're safe and have a scalable solution.
I thought about a design like this too... a surgeon friend of mine was telling me about these honeycomb spongelike pads they have that have water pumped through them that when placed against a patient's body can help regulate temperature.
I was thinking of designing it for an open jeep... we have HOT summers here and a heated/cooled seat would rock. The only problem is that if you're using this on a humid day and this thing is COLD, you'll get hellish condensation. Sort of like a cold bottle of beer on a hot humid day. You probably dont want to sit in a puddle of water even if its cool. Especially if you're wearing a business suit.
So after giving it some more though, I figured air-con is much better because the air is also dehumidified while being cooled.
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Having seen all the chain mail about the latest virus being able to destroy "sector zero" of hard drives and how willing people are to believe them... well, a chain mail with warnings about DRM in it might work to explain to the average user what DRM could mean for them in the future!
I've had a lot of trouble with Windows crapping out on me but to be honest, I havent had much trouble with digital cameras. Granted, I've only really used my Nikon Coolpix 3700 with XP but I've never had trouble.
Especially if you use Picassa+XP, its a very usable combination. Downloading, emailing, printing pictures is really easy.
Nothing new. In 1631 the emperor Shah Jahan built it in memory of his wife Mumtaz. Anyway, here is something relevant
"An unlikely legend claims that after the completion of the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan had the eyes of architect Ustad Ahmed gouged, ensuring that nothing could be built competing with its magnificence. Other exaggerated stories tell of skilled scupltors and artisans whose hands were lopped off after their work was complete to prevent them from ever making anything as glorious as the Taj again."
So why not just move the launch site to a really dry place? I remember reading about one place in south america thats the driest place on the planet and quite cool to boot. There is a big observatory there too.
Maybe we can just dodge the problem altogether for this generation of shuttles.
There is are skylights in the living room and dining room in my parents' house. The skylights are glass blocks tiled together with a large air pocket inside each. So they aren't transparent but let the light in really nicely. In fact, during the summer we cover a few of the blocks because too much light starts coming in.
The only real problem is that the fucking builder put a god damn ceiling fan right next to each. So during the day when you turn the fan on, you get this strobe sunlight effect thats makes you dizzy... far worse than flouroescent lighting!
If RAID can be done with async IO, should it not be possible to have your/boot partition on a hard disk, and most frequently accessed data on a ramdisk which can then be put in a RAID 1 mirror with another partition on your hard disk. That way, on reboot your system can read the harddisk to rebuild the ramdisk and you can run applications off the much quicker ramdisk. And then when the system is idle or you shutdown (which most of us probably never do) the disks are synced again.
This is probably going to be very messy for scenarios with a lot of writes involved. The ramdisk would be much quicker and the harddisk would be playing catch-up for a while. So how "async" can a RAID 1 array be? Is there a way to have the mirrored disks somewhat out of sync with one lagging (which defeats the purpose of RAID 1 I know but anyway)? Can there be a journal that will commit the changes to the hard disk and allow the ramdisk to be a few thousand transactions ahead? Of course a crash would wreck things.
But then if you're willing to lose data, you might as well use cron to do rsyncs from ramdisk to harddisk every 5 minutes....
I would love to have a drive like this to run my PC off. It'd be great to install whatever you spend the most time on. This could be a great thing even for home use.
Coupled with the Pentium M and this drive we could get a great HTPC. 4GB is not much at all so extra space could come off the LAN. As it is, for my needs at least, I need some stuff at VERY high speed and the rest is just media (music, movies etc) that I need at a much slower steady stream.
But for those who need more space and more speed, get three of these and line them up in a RAID 0 striped set. 450MB/sec and a lot more space using SATA. SATA2 should make it even quicker.
I wouldnt use this for swap - just get more ram instead. Having "enough" ram is probably the best system upgrade you can get. If your system is hitting swap heavily then you usually need more ram.
A few months ago, I got sick of my computer desk and decided to make a new one. Bought a few sheets of 3/4 inch plywood, wood and whole bunch of screws, a hole saw and got to work.
Space was at a premium for me and I just needed a "workstation", not a desk. I only really use this computer for gaming, movies, music and the occasional surfing. So I went with a "console" design.
The monitor sits on the top, the cpu under it and the subwoofer under the CPU (I made a large hole to line up with the Sub's port to let it pump air freely). The keyboard sits on a shelf mounted on two rails and this shelf holds also the mouse to the right. The shelf is on rails so it extends out in front from the monitor and system. On the side of the "console" I have a place to hang headphones, gamepad etc. The router is also mounted on one side of the console reducing clutter further.
This design was prompted by my wife's constant objections to the computer taking too much space and there being too many wires all over the place. I have another small wall mounted shelf beside this that holds my printer and scanner and the wires to the PC run inside a PVC channel so they're hidden from view. This console I built also manages to conceal all the power and data cables resulting in a very neat design.
The real benefit as a I realized after setting it all up was - since the CPU sits in a "duct" of sorts, all the noise from it gets muffled and GREATLY reduced. My system pulls air from the front and pumps it out the back so cooling isnt affected. I figure if it wasnt this quiet already, I could have made it even quieter by putting a baffled door in front and a LARGE (slow) fan at the back of this "console" to draw air over the system while keeping it quiet.
The only major drawback is that taking the system out is a pain though I can still get access to the PCI slots and the internals by sliding it back and accessing it from the back of the console.
Its worked out great!:) Plus I love the position of the monitor - 21" smack in front of me at eye level. It feels more like a cockpit with everything exactly where I need it to be. Plus I can stretch my legs out on either side of the console without hitting anything (i'm 6'2" so thats a big issue with smaller desks).
Actually you're absolutely right about P2P - I use mldonkey under linux. Easily the best P2P app I have ever used.
I live in Pakistan and dont get the Sci-Fi channel here - so this is the only way I can get to watch BSG, SG-1 and Atlantis.
If I could BUY episodes online at a dollar or two a pop I would do it! Amazon or the others dont ship movies here so my only option is P2P. Over the last few months I've downloaded seasons 4 through 8 of SG-1 off EDK.
There is a huge market for online content distribution!
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I couldnt agree with your more tempestdata.
I am a muslim living in Pakistan and I am absolutely horrified at this rioting. My own take on this is that the local opposition party to the government (a religious group opposed to the US-friendly govt) wants to use this as a pretext to destabilize the government.
I saw the riots on the news and you could see the riffraff gleefully breaking down store windows and looting them, torching busses and cars and gleefully laughing. This is not a group that is protesting something - they are just thugs out to cause mayhem and destruction.
The cartoons? I too found the one about running out of virgins quite amusing! Its true too in the sense that Islam prohibits suicide. No rewards for people who blow themselves, least of all in crowded places!
These uneducated masses are fed constant propoganda about how the west is responsible for their poor lot while they go on popping out children that dont have a chance of feeding or looking after.
The oil rich wahabis from saudia come in and ask these people to let them raise their children in religious schools and they children will be fed and clothed. The children thus become brainwashed from a very young age. These brainwashed simpletons served as a very useful foil against the soviets in afghanistan. Now they rampage the streets and their wahabi overlords use them to further their own ends.
Educational reform is needed, and the mullahs need to be removed from all govt posts. Unfortunately with half the world clamouring that Musharaf is a dictator, things become difficult.
He's a dictator but even a dictator such as him is better than a dictatorship of mullahs because the govt they propose isnt quite democratic either. Also, he did hold a referendum as to whether he should stay the head of the army as well as the president. Most of the people I know, myself included, voted for him. The mullahs of course, did not.
Anyway, this is a long rant but I think that a lot of the responsibility lies with Saudi Arabia - home of the particularly hardline wahabi sect (which also calls for the execution of muslims belonging to other minority muslim sects). They are the source of all the funding these hardline "Islamists" thrive on.
Wrong.
If you have username@gmail.com you will get email sent to user.name@gmail.com
I've been using it for quite a long time now.
Right on... I've been using the "." feature for over a year now.
And I use the username+mailinglistname@gmail.com feature to subscribe to different lists and make it simpler to make filters though not all lists accept email addresses with a + in them.
Question is, if an account named username@gmail.com already exists, can you create an account named user.name@gmail.com ?
You might want to take a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/st orage-mgr-space/
Or come up with your own scheme of migrating data to tape... if you've got stuff you cant delete for years, you probably need to back it up. So if you can migrate those files off on to two sets of tapes, you're safe and have a scalable solution.
I thought about a design like this too... a surgeon friend of mine was telling me about these honeycomb spongelike pads they have that have water pumped through them that when placed against a patient's body can help regulate temperature.
I was thinking of designing it for an open jeep... we have HOT summers here and a heated/cooled seat would rock. The only problem is that if you're using this on a humid day and this thing is COLD, you'll get hellish condensation. Sort of like a cold bottle of beer on a hot humid day. You probably dont want to sit in a puddle of water even if its cool. Especially if you're wearing a business suit.
So after giving it some more though, I figured air-con is much better because the air is also dehumidified while being cooled.
There is an alternate ending if you get all 6 life upgrades.
Not alternate as much as an additional segment.
Actually paying your kids to do it, even if they're a bit expensive, is a great idea.
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You can pay them and make a ROTH IRA for them...
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Taxes/Prepara
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He's The Greatest
He's The Greatest Secret Agent In The World!
He's The Ace - He's Amazing...
He's the Strongest... He's The Quickest.... He's The Best!
The LTO5 standard should bring in tapes with an uncompressed capacity of 1TB each. This should not be such a difficult thing to manage for theaters.
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Blue Gene/L: Application Development - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247179.ht
Unfolding the IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246686.ht
I live in Pakistan. The average salary for someone working in IT (not blue collar) with about 5 years of experience is close to 700 dollars a month.
:)
And petrol (we dont call it gas here) costs almost a dollar a liter. Which translates to close to $3.50 a gallon.
And you guys are complaining
Having seen all the chain mail about the latest virus being able to destroy "sector zero" of hard drives and how willing people are to believe them... well, a chain mail with warnings about DRM in it might work to explain to the average user what DRM could mean for them in the future!
Use mldonkey... it has a web interface and a telnet interface and a GUI too. Very stable and quite fast too.
You can find it at www.mldonkey.net
I've had a lot of trouble with Windows crapping out on me but to be honest, I havent had much trouble with digital cameras. Granted, I've only really used my Nikon Coolpix 3700 with XP but I've never had trouble.
Especially if you use Picassa+XP, its a very usable combination. Downloading, emailing, printing pictures is really easy.
Give Picassa a shot.
Check out http://www.google.com/linux
"An unlikely legend claims that after the completion of the Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan had the eyes of architect Ustad Ahmed gouged, ensuring that nothing could be built competing with its magnificence. Other exaggerated stories tell of skilled scupltors and artisans whose hands were lopped off after their work was complete to prevent them from ever making anything as glorious as the Taj again."
http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Taj_Mah
Better not let M$ hear about this, their HR department might get some crazy ideas!
So why not just move the launch site to a really dry place? I remember reading about one place in south america thats the driest place on the planet and quite cool to boot. There is a big observatory there too.
Maybe we can just dodge the problem altogether for this generation of shuttles.
Soon we will "Discover"y how they manage to do that!
(yeah I know that was terrible!)
There is are skylights in the living room and dining room in my parents' house. The skylights are glass blocks tiled together with a large air pocket inside each. So they aren't transparent but let the light in really nicely. In fact, during the summer we cover a few of the blocks because too much light starts coming in.
The only real problem is that the fucking builder put a god damn ceiling fan right next to each. So during the day when you turn the fan on, you get this strobe sunlight effect thats makes you dizzy... far worse than flouroescent lighting!
If RAID can be done with async IO, should it not be possible to have your /boot partition on a hard disk, and most frequently accessed data on a ramdisk which can then be put in a RAID 1 mirror with another partition on your hard disk. That way, on reboot your system can read the harddisk to rebuild the ramdisk and you can run applications off the much quicker ramdisk. And then when the system is idle or you shutdown (which most of us probably never do) the disks are synced again.
This is probably going to be very messy for scenarios with a lot of writes involved. The ramdisk would be much quicker and the harddisk would be playing catch-up for a while. So how "async" can a RAID 1 array be? Is there a way to have the mirrored disks somewhat out of sync with one lagging (which defeats the purpose of RAID 1 I know but anyway)? Can there be a journal that will commit the changes to the hard disk and allow the ramdisk to be a few thousand transactions ahead? Of course a crash would wreck things.
But then if you're willing to lose data, you might as well use cron to do rsyncs from ramdisk to harddisk every 5 minutes....
I would love to have a drive like this to run my PC off. It'd be great to install whatever you spend the most time on. This could be a great thing even for home use.
Coupled with the Pentium M and this drive we could get a great HTPC. 4GB is not much at all so extra space could come off the LAN. As it is, for my needs at least, I need some stuff at VERY high speed and the rest is just media (music, movies etc) that I need at a much slower steady stream.
But for those who need more space and more speed, get three of these and line them up in a RAID 0 striped set. 450MB/sec and a lot more space using SATA. SATA2 should make it even quicker.
I wouldnt use this for swap - just get more ram instead. Having "enough" ram is probably the best system upgrade you can get. If your system is hitting swap heavily then you usually need more ram.
A few months ago, I got sick of my computer desk and decided to make a new one. Bought a few sheets of 3/4 inch plywood, wood and whole bunch of screws, a hole saw and got to work. Space was at a premium for me and I just needed a "workstation", not a desk. I only really use this computer for gaming, movies, music and the occasional surfing. So I went with a "console" design. The monitor sits on the top, the cpu under it and the subwoofer under the CPU (I made a large hole to line up with the Sub's port to let it pump air freely). The keyboard sits on a shelf mounted on two rails and this shelf holds also the mouse to the right. The shelf is on rails so it extends out in front from the monitor and system. On the side of the "console" I have a place to hang headphones, gamepad etc. The router is also mounted on one side of the console reducing clutter further. This design was prompted by my wife's constant objections to the computer taking too much space and there being too many wires all over the place. I have another small wall mounted shelf beside this that holds my printer and scanner and the wires to the PC run inside a PVC channel so they're hidden from view. This console I built also manages to conceal all the power and data cables resulting in a very neat design. The real benefit as a I realized after setting it all up was - since the CPU sits in a "duct" of sorts, all the noise from it gets muffled and GREATLY reduced. My system pulls air from the front and pumps it out the back so cooling isnt affected. I figure if it wasnt this quiet already, I could have made it even quieter by putting a baffled door in front and a LARGE (slow) fan at the back of this "console" to draw air over the system while keeping it quiet. The only major drawback is that taking the system out is a pain though I can still get access to the PCI slots and the internals by sliding it back and accessing it from the back of the console. Its worked out great! :) Plus I love the position of the monitor - 21" smack in front of me at eye level. It feels more like a cockpit with everything exactly where I need it to be. Plus I can stretch my legs out on either side of the console without hitting anything (i'm 6'2" so thats a big issue with smaller desks).
Of course the parts of you that ARE exposed would still get roasted...
Actually you're absolutely right about P2P - I use mldonkey under linux. Easily the best P2P app I have ever used.
I live in Pakistan and dont get the Sci-Fi channel here - so this is the only way I can get to watch BSG, SG-1 and Atlantis.
If I could BUY episodes online at a dollar or two a pop I would do it! Amazon or the others dont ship movies here so my only option is P2P. Over the last few months I've downloaded seasons 4 through 8 of SG-1 off EDK.
There is a huge market for online content distribution!
Install it, set the date in BIOS to sometime in 2007 and see what it throws back at you... easy enough to check if its timebombed.