Windows may be part of it tho...I have a dual Celeron 400 running Linux and seti@home...granted, it's a dual box...I haven't run it in uniprocessor mode in a while, but seti@home only uses one proc anyhow...
anyway, my average is something like 16.5 hours for a data unit...I'd figure that yours would be more like 20 hours (cause I got an extra cpu to do stuff on even when seti is running)....I don't know what your box is doing, but just for fun you might try running seti under linux for 2-3 days and getting an average that way
It's nice to see someone in the mainstream press quoting a well-reasoned and balanced article. Barr's comment that most Linux users would purchase a comercial product if it was superior to an open-source product is right on target. Until major retail outlets realize this, however, we're going to be stuck with seeing only Linux distros on the shelves...and the one I've seen so far is always a version or two back (e.g., OfficeMax has Red Hat 5.2 on the shelf). it would be nice to see WP for Linux and Civ CTP for Linux on the shelves as well.
I got an idea:) 1. edit hosts.deny and sendmail cfg files to block email and connections from the hosts that belong to these fools. 2. start an automailer to send them a taste of their own medicine.
I hope THEY don't start advertising.....how would you like to start you vmware session under Linux just so you can play [Starcraft | Warcraft | SimCity | etcetera] and see an add for [Windows | AOL | Yahoo! | etcetera}?
...it isn't a problem...sure the box is slow, but that's cause its a compaq....the entire pci and isa busses are on a daughter card and the hard drive has a 76K cache...but it still runs X just fine (and other stuff like netscape and WordPerfect, before someone makes a snide remark about X taking so many resources that nothing else can run;) )
I love his comments..."this is a good start", "there are some deficiencies"...15 years later people are still patching this in X or that, and for code that was a "start" it's still kicking:)
I agree that that is what the article said, but what is to prevent them from actually inserting that DNA back into a cell? From what I gather from listening to news reports on sheep cloning and such, you can't insert DNA into adult cells but you can insert it into embryonic cells. And, of course, there has been fetal tissue research as well. Would it be possible for someone to introduce the modified DNA strand into fetal tissue and then place that tissue into an adult human?
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hmmmmm....so now we can watermark our leach-neuron claculators with all sorts of info:)
Take two individuals A and B. Pick the earth as a frame of reference. Assume two identical vehicles which are capable of travel a light speed. Person A accellerates to light speed. Person B remains motionless. For each, time is moving forward. Now, when A decides to return from light speed, he has been gone for X years (a short time). B has been stationary for Y years ( a long time). Now, the reference point has also had a passage of time (Y years). Although A has been gone for an absolute number of years fewer than have elapsed at the reference point, (or for B), it still remains that time has moved forward and that A returned to the reference point after Y years relative to the reference point. Thus, it may seem like the shorter period of "time" allows jumping into the past but this is an illusion.
may be slightly unclear...please patch it up if you know how to express it better
OK, this leans slightly toward the "off topic" category but...
I have an epox kp6bs board in a supermicro 750 case. Under Windows, the date / time is reflected fine, even when the machine puts itself to sleep. Under linux, however, it appears that date / time stops when the machine goes to sleep. Therefore, while the machie has been running continuously under linux since May 20th, it thinks that the (current) date is May 21st ('cause it only runs the clock when I'm actually using it).
I don't recall, but I believe that I have power management set to something like 1 hour but suspend completely disabled. If I reboot the machine it picks up the correct date just fine. Anybody got a clue what's doing this to me and how to fix it?:)
As far as I'm aware, Owen is Obi-Wan's brother...not Anikin's. True, Luke refers to Owen and Beru as Uncle and Aunt, but an orphan who is told that that's his relationship isn't going to have reason to think differently (until daddy comes along and says "Join me and together we will end this destructive conflict...":) )
Just for fun my brother & I (who are VERY rabid Star Wars fans) rented THX 1138 to see what it was like. If you like a film with no discernable plot, complete monotone in everything, and no noticeable audio markers, then borrow or rent the movie. It's completely dull. No action, no plot, no NOTHING!!!!! Avoid that movie at ALL costs!!!
the Sith are somewhat ambiguous. Some places it sounds like the Sith are a race. Others it sounds like it's a sort of organization (like the Jedi). My personal belief is that at one time there WAS a race called the Sith and that the Dark Jedi adopted the name to themeselves as a way of distinguishing their particular practices.
The point isn't that nuclear power is a magical source of energy. There's nothing magical about it. Neither is it harmless if handled without care. The point is that it is far less harmless and far more efficient than the alternatives. Lets consider some:
1. Coal--As several other individuals have noted, coal causes respiratory problems, not to mention explosions in coal mines, acid rain from the stuff that goes up the stack, and the enormous amount of ash that has to be hauled away from the plant after the burn. Oh, and the smell. Ever visit a coal plant? They STINK. 2. Gas--Gas has potential since it is the cleanest burning fuel, but is not without its problems. First, it takes a lot of effort to transport it from A to B. Second, it is volatile. When gas plants blow (and they do, from time to time) they level everything around them. I don't know about you, but I'm not to keen on the idea of exploding power plants.... 3. Solar Power--This is another "bright" idea (no pun intended), but has its own problems. First, its remarkably inefficient. To get any kind of decent power (say the 50 megawatt range), you need acres of power cells....not to mention all the piping and cooling towers that go along with those acres of cells. 4. Oil--This has some of the same problems as coal (although not the mining issues). Oil spills happen all the time....and they are arguably worse than nuclear plant meltdowns. Remember Chernobyl? The people there certainly suffered...cancer and other nasty things. Remember the Exxon Valdez? People and wildlife suffered there too. Guess which one is still being cleaned up? Yep...its the Valdez. 5. Hydroelectric Power--Water is definitely clean...no nasty ecological problems at all...until the dam breaks and washes out the entire basin, kills a few thousand people, destroys plant and animal life, and erodes the landscape. Other than that, it's a reasonably good source of power.
I don't know about you, but I think I'd much rather have a nuclear plant living down the road from me than any of the others. Ever visit a nuclear plant? The ones I've seen all have a nice thick treeline surrounding them so you can't see them. The only thing they belch into the air is steam (from the cooling towers). And as for waste disposal, that isn't a problem either. For one thing, most of the waste generated by nuclear plants in the US is still sitting in spent fuel pools on site because "environmentalists" (translate: people with a political agenda to take away property rights under the ulterior guise of "saving the planet") run around yelling that the sky will fall if the waste is put in a nice salt shaft somewhere. Fact: when nuclear waste is prepared for burial, it is diluted and then fused into leaded glass balls or pellets. The glass prevents the escape of any radioactive liquids, the lead blocks the radiation, and the filler material reduces the concentration of the radioactive material so that it doesn't go critical. Fact: even if the material goes critical, the reaction will remain contained. There is a country in Africa (I forget the name off-hand) where a natural nuclear reaction took place underground in a salt cavern. Scientists have determined that the entire reaction remained contained in the cavern.
My point is that Nuclear Power, while not the perfect solution, is better than the alternatives (unless you get lots of eating money from people by running around shouting that it's unsafe).
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Windows may be part of it tho...I have a dual Celeron 400 running Linux and seti@home...granted, it's a dual box...I haven't run it in uniprocessor mode in a while, but seti@home only uses one proc anyhow...
anyway, my average is something like 16.5 hours for a data unit...I'd figure that yours would be more like 20 hours (cause I got an extra cpu to do stuff on even when seti is running)....I don't know what your box is doing, but just for fun you might try running seti under linux for 2-3 days and getting an average that way
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It's nice to see someone in the mainstream press quoting a well-reasoned and balanced article. Barr's comment that most Linux users would purchase a comercial product if it was superior to an open-source product is right on target. Until major retail outlets realize this, however, we're going to be stuck with seeing only Linux distros on the shelves...and the one I've seen so far is always a version or two back (e.g., OfficeMax has Red Hat 5.2 on the shelf). it would be nice to see WP for Linux and Civ CTP for Linux on the shelves as well.
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"End task" just doesn't work!
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it would also let them see just how stable their boxes are under the /. effect.
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I got an idea :)
1. edit hosts.deny and sendmail cfg files to block email and connections from the hosts that belong to these fools.
2. start an automailer to send them a taste of their own medicine.
how do you think they'd respond to that?
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I hope THEY don't start advertising.....how would you like to start you vmware session under Linux just so you can play [Starcraft | Warcraft | SimCity | etcetera] and see an add for [Windows | AOL | Yahoo! | etcetera}?
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...it isn't a problem...sure the box is slow, but that's cause its a compaq....the entire pci and isa busses are on a daughter card and the hard drive has a 76K cache...but it still runs X just fine (and other stuff like netscape and WordPerfect, before someone makes a snide remark about X taking so many resources that nothing else can run ;) )
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Windows can't be a virus 'cause a virus actually does something :)
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I love his comments..."this is a good start", "there are some deficiencies"...15 years later people are still patching this in X or that, and for code that was a "start" it's still kicking :)
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just curious... :)
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I got a plugin message window which I closed, but otherwise no problems in Linux.
However, I have to agree that Dr. Watson under NT has caused me unspeakable pain and agony under Netscape (and ICQ).
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I agree that that is what the article said, but what is to prevent them from actually inserting that DNA back into a cell? From what I gather from listening to news reports on sheep cloning and such, you can't insert DNA into adult cells but you can insert it into embryonic cells. And, of course, there has been fetal tissue research as well. Would it be possible for someone to introduce the modified DNA strand into fetal tissue and then place that tissue into an adult human?
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hmmmmm....so now we can watermark our leach-neuron claculators with all sorts of info :)
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I got dual 400 celerons on an epox board....if quad celerons is possible, contact me too :) (shaldannon@usa.net)
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How about a Palm Pilot? :)
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Take two individuals A and B. Pick the earth as a frame of reference. Assume two identical vehicles which are capable of travel a light speed. Person A accellerates to light speed. Person B remains motionless. For each, time is moving forward. Now, when A decides to return from light speed, he has been gone for X years (a short time). B has been stationary for Y years ( a long time). Now, the reference point has also had a passage of time (Y years). Although A has been gone for an absolute number of years fewer than have elapsed at the reference point, (or for B), it still remains that time has moved forward and that A returned to the reference point after Y years relative to the reference point. Thus, it may seem like the shorter period of "time" allows jumping into the past but this is an illusion.
may be slightly unclear...please patch it up if you know how to express it better
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Could someone summarize the article in laymans' terms, please? :)
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OK, this leans slightly toward the "off topic" category but...
:)
I have an epox kp6bs board in a supermicro 750 case. Under Windows, the date / time is reflected fine, even when the machine puts itself to sleep. Under linux, however, it appears that date / time stops when the machine goes to sleep. Therefore, while the machie has been running continuously under linux since May 20th, it thinks that the (current) date is May 21st ('cause it only runs the clock when I'm actually using it).
I don't recall, but I believe that I have power management set to something like 1 hour but suspend completely disabled. If I reboot the machine it picks up the correct date just fine. Anybody got a clue what's doing this to me and how to fix it?
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
As far as I'm aware, Owen is Obi-Wan's brother...not Anikin's. True, Luke refers to Owen and Beru as Uncle and Aunt, but an orphan who is told that that's his relationship isn't going to have reason to think differently (until daddy comes along and says "Join me and together we will end this destructive conflict..." :) )
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
Just for fun my brother & I (who are VERY rabid Star Wars fans) rented THX 1138 to see what it was like. If you like a film with no discernable plot, complete monotone in everything, and no noticeable audio markers, then borrow or rent the movie. It's completely dull. No action, no plot, no NOTHING!!!!! Avoid that movie at ALL costs!!!
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Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
and he's human as far as I can tell.
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the Sith are somewhat ambiguous. Some places it sounds like the Sith are a race. Others it sounds like it's a sort of organization (like the Jedi). My personal belief is that at one time there WAS a race called the Sith and that the Dark Jedi adopted the name to themeselves as a way of distinguishing their particular practices.
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does 6.0 support voodoo banshee based cards?
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The point isn't that nuclear power is a magical source of energy. There's nothing magical about it. Neither is it harmless if handled without care. The point is that it is far less harmless and far more efficient than the alternatives. Lets consider some:
1. Coal--As several other individuals have noted, coal causes respiratory problems, not to mention explosions in coal mines, acid rain from the stuff that goes up the stack, and the enormous amount of ash that has to be hauled away from the plant after the burn. Oh, and the smell. Ever visit a coal plant? They STINK.
2. Gas--Gas has potential since it is the cleanest burning fuel, but is not without its problems. First, it takes a lot of effort to transport it from A to B. Second, it is volatile. When gas plants blow (and they do, from time to time) they level everything around them. I don't know about you, but I'm not to keen on the idea of exploding power plants....
3. Solar Power--This is another "bright" idea (no pun intended), but has its own problems. First, its remarkably inefficient. To get any kind of decent power (say the 50 megawatt range), you need acres of power cells....not to mention all the piping and cooling towers that go along with those acres of cells.
4. Oil--This has some of the same problems as coal (although not the mining issues). Oil spills happen all the time....and they are arguably worse than nuclear plant meltdowns. Remember Chernobyl? The people there certainly suffered...cancer and other nasty things. Remember the Exxon Valdez? People and wildlife suffered there too. Guess which one is still being cleaned up? Yep...its the Valdez.
5. Hydroelectric Power--Water is definitely clean...no nasty ecological problems at all...until the dam breaks and washes out the entire basin, kills a few thousand people, destroys plant and animal life, and erodes the landscape. Other than that, it's a reasonably good source of power.
I don't know about you, but I think I'd much rather have a nuclear plant living down the road from me than any of the others. Ever visit a nuclear plant? The ones I've seen all have a nice thick treeline surrounding them so you can't see them. The only thing they belch into the air is steam (from the cooling towers). And as for waste disposal, that isn't a problem either. For one thing, most of the waste generated by nuclear plants in the US is still sitting in spent fuel pools on site because "environmentalists" (translate: people with a political agenda to take away property rights under the ulterior guise of "saving the planet") run around yelling that the sky will fall if the waste is put in a nice salt shaft somewhere. Fact: when nuclear waste is prepared for burial, it is diluted and then fused into leaded glass balls or pellets. The glass prevents the escape of any radioactive liquids, the lead blocks the radiation, and the filler material reduces the concentration of the radioactive material so that it doesn't go critical. Fact: even if the material goes critical, the reaction will remain contained. There is a country in Africa (I forget the name off-hand) where a natural nuclear reaction took place underground in a salt cavern. Scientists have determined that the entire reaction remained contained in the cavern.
My point is that Nuclear Power, while not the perfect solution, is better than the alternatives (unless you get lots of eating money from people by running around shouting that it's unsafe).
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