Snatch:
Avi: Should I call you Bullet? Tooth?
Bullet Tooth Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.
Babylon 5:
Susan Ivanova: It was the year everything changed.
Susan Ivanova: I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference.
Useless? Bah, any true nerd would mod that mouse with large capacitor. Large enough capacitor=power to run the mouse 5 minutes after leaving the mouse pad.
And probably wouldn't cause any excess weight either, since most modern mouses have extra metal added in for weight, just remove that to balance the capacitor weight.
In some ways, it makes sense that dna sequencing hasn't been released to the public directly.
To analyze that amount of data and to create the sequence data, it requires insane amounts of cpu cycles and the companies doing the anaylzing, are paying lots of $$$ for the job they're doing without sure revenue.
The risk investment in researching is simply too big, to just hand out the results for free in this case.
if that sigmatek device could use external dvd drive for dvd playback, it would make perfect device for long bus trips
it mentions support for mpeg-2, and if the device has enough power to unpack divx, it should have enough power to run dvds smoothly aswell, and with 40gb drive, you could even play the dvds from the hard drive instead carrying the disks with you
Instead of using plain card authorization, I'm using third party software from inflexpoint, which offers usb key login.
This software allows me to embed user accounts to certain usb mass storage and if the usbkey is removed from the port, the machine automatically logs out current user and refuses to login another unless the correct drive assigned to the account is connected to the machine.
In addition to the token+password login, I'm using the EFS which is built-in to xp, which encrypts all my files with aes-256 on the fly.
Only downside is that currently the software doesn't support domain logins properly, so I have to manually mount all network drives but that's rather small annoyance for the cheap security it provides.
>* Has limited battery life because of it's required small size
It's not very nice to carry around camera, pda, phone, mp3 player, radio and usb memory everywhere you go, pocket space is sometimes limited.
Normally embedded devices with multiple functions are designed to last atleast a day without recharging.
Of course the battery is going to run out if you speak 5 hours straight with the phone or take 100 pictures with the camera, but modern batteries are pretty good and last longer than say, the ones there were 5 years ago.
>* Ends up getting replaced every two years
Who says you have to upgrade it every 2 years?
I usually use my phone 4-5 years before I upgrade it to new model, and that's usually because the battery starts to wear out by then
>* Marginalizes the performance of each feature (i.e. lenses)
You're missing the point of such device entirely if you're trying to use the camera in your phone as your only digital camera or your only mp3 player or browser.
The idea of embedding the devices into one, is to have them available if you need them, not for exclusive use.
Sure, you cannot put exchangeable telescope lenses on cell phone cameras, but then again, why would someone want to do that in first place?
> * Reduces cnosumer choice through bundling features
If I want mp3 player and my cell phone has one already built-in, that won't stop me from buying one.
The one built-in probably never was intended to completely replace portable mp3 devices.
Only couple phone models with harddrive exist, due the size limitations, so you won't be able to squeeze much music into the phone anyways.
Semi-professional digital cameras with exchangeable lenses are just entering the consumer market, those have been available only for professional use with hefty price tag with them.
No all-in-one device will ever replace all different gadgets, no matter how versatile it is.
It'll always have some weakness which would engourage consumer to get better separate device for that purpose.
I have machine running with software raid-5 that uses software with database(mysql) connectivity for roughly 100-300 users simultaneously, load isn't that bad, ~30 queries/second, which gives about 0.05-0.30 average system loads (2gig/512ram)
The raid is made from three SATA disks, and each drive has its own controller.
Biggest problem that I have encountered so far is that when I upgraded from 2.4 series kernel to 2.6, the sata devices changed from hdx to sdx and suddenly the arrays vanished.
But that was easy to fix just by telling the software where to look for the drives.
Recovery seems to work well from past experiences on older system. Had ide drive failing, I didn't have spare available right away so I just mounted the array as degraded readonly meanwhile.
After getting replacement, array took awhile to rebuild, and ~8 hours later it was up and running in readwrite mode again.
Haven't tried if hotplug works with serial ata drives but I'm bit suspicious and I'd rather take the system down for a moment to fix it instead.
The idea of desktop search is good, but I think the google version lacks in few details.
You cannot define which directories to index, and it only indexes single machine. (understandable since it's desktop search, not small network search)
The google search keeps index of the data on the desktop harddrive. If you have lots of files, the index size gets insanely large, some say nearly 2Gb when you have large amount of documents lying around.
It would be relatively easy to build something similar which would work over administrative shares using samba crawlers with defined administrative password for each machine, and you'd have control of which data it would collect.
Maybe nfs crawlers too. Plenty of both freely available.
Tricky part is to create the meta indexing of the containing.doc.ppt etc. formats.
But the more open developement would allow other indexing, such as ID3 tags.
And perhaps you could add your own meta data to indexed files by filetype, and enhance the search for example only images by containing meta description something like: "meta this image has: cat vase window apple". Search for apple and it returns that picture, crude but works atleast partially.
Problem with this kind of version is that you'd need separate server for the searching, you could reuse some old machine for this.(not problem for most of people here since everyone has extra box somewhere in intranet)
Make the search running with mysql+apache and it would be almost platform independent.
> I have bought enough Dell's to have windows XP CDs out the ying-yang
So, why didn't you just slipstream one of your many windows XP CD's instead downloading it from the net?
It would be faster to just copy the original cd than download it, atleast for me.
Who says computer needs hard drive anymore?
Just buy 64 or 128Mb usb memory stick and run linux from it, and you save ~$30
If you need more space, just mount some more over network
Solitare is probably the most low-tech gps you can get.
If you get lost, just start playing and wait for someone to come and give hints on what card goes where over your shoulder.
Then you can ask him for directions.
Generally technology field has been boys club and most women around are usually surnamed.jpg.
Women at workplace usually balance the atmosphere towards more positive. In paper industry, some studies have shown that departments lead by female chiefs, run more efficiently and have less disputes among workers.
you need 10 full standard size racks to hold 1 PB of harddrive space
archive.org has more details here
I guess one could fit such space in the garage or basement, but I seriously doubt that someone with funds to buy that much space would do it, just to share it on some p2p.
how about some adjusting to the system instead
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After several years in school systems I realized that most of the classes taught were pretty useless, and the classes that focused to improve my future work were basically absent.
Instead of forcing each student to read and write about Shakespeare or some other classic, how about just handling the theme at generic knowledge level.
Sure, the material is good for general knowledge, but instead forcefeeding boring facts and details, how about asking the kids what do they want to do when they grow up?
At their age, most of them won't probably have the slightest idea, but they might have the generic feeling of which area they want to work in future.
One solution might be to create "classless" system for schools, kinda like the one used in universities. This could be offered as an alternative to normal lecture pattern.
Those who have some idea what they want to do, when they grow up, could start focusing on fields of their interest at early age and those who don't have the slightest idea, could follow the generic knowledge line like the schools do now.
Instead of forcing kids to cheat because they're forced to study subjects they can't get any grasp on, teach them stuff they find interesting instead.
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> Of course slashdotters don't have kids because that would imply they were getting sex.
we simply clone ourselves, no sex needed to have kids
Snatch:
Avi: Should I call you Bullet? Tooth?
Bullet Tooth Tony: You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.
Babylon 5:
Susan Ivanova: It was the year everything changed.
Susan Ivanova: I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference.
Useless? Bah, any true nerd would mod that mouse with large capacitor.
Large enough capacitor=power to run the mouse 5 minutes after leaving the mouse pad.
And probably wouldn't cause any excess weight either, since most modern mouses have extra metal added in for weight, just remove that to balance the capacitor weight.
In some ways, it makes sense that dna sequencing hasn't been released to the public directly.
To analyze that amount of data and to create the sequence data, it requires insane amounts of cpu cycles and the companies doing the anaylzing, are paying lots of $$$ for the job they're doing without sure revenue.
The risk investment in researching is simply too big, to just hand out the results for free in this case.
ok, everyone share your porn, and we'll have nice nice database for scientific research
if that sigmatek device could use external dvd drive for dvd playback, it would make perfect device for long bus trips
it mentions support for mpeg-2, and if the device has enough power to unpack divx, it should have enough power to run dvds smoothly aswell, and with 40gb drive, you could even play the dvds from the hard drive instead carrying the disks with you
Instead of using plain card authorization, I'm using third party software from inflexpoint, which offers usb key login.
This software allows me to embed user accounts to certain usb mass storage and if the usbkey is removed from the port, the machine automatically logs out current user and refuses to login another unless the correct drive assigned to the account is connected to the machine.
In addition to the token+password login, I'm using the EFS which is built-in to xp, which encrypts all my files with aes-256 on the fly.
Only downside is that currently the software doesn't support domain logins properly, so I have to manually mount all network drives but that's rather small annoyance for the cheap security it provides.
>You must have a different version of locate to me.
That might be the case.
I see the apple business model now..
1. make nice gui for locate
2. (sell upgrades)?
3. profit
>* Has limited battery life because of it's required small size
It's not very nice to carry around camera, pda, phone, mp3 player, radio and usb memory everywhere you go, pocket space is sometimes limited.
Normally embedded devices with multiple functions are designed to last atleast a day without recharging.
Of course the battery is going to run out if you speak 5 hours straight with the phone or take 100 pictures with the camera, but modern batteries are pretty good and last longer than say, the ones there were 5 years ago.
>* Ends up getting replaced every two years
Who says you have to upgrade it every 2 years?
I usually use my phone 4-5 years before I upgrade it to new model, and that's usually because the battery starts to wear out by then
>* Marginalizes the performance of each feature (i.e. lenses)
You're missing the point of such device entirely if you're trying to use the camera in your phone as your only digital camera or your only mp3 player or browser.
The idea of embedding the devices into one, is to have them available if you need them, not for exclusive use.
Sure, you cannot put exchangeable telescope lenses on cell phone cameras, but then again, why would someone want to do that in first place?
> * Reduces cnosumer choice through bundling features
If I want mp3 player and my cell phone has one already built-in, that won't stop me from buying one.
The one built-in probably never was intended to completely replace portable mp3 devices.
Only couple phone models with harddrive exist, due the size limitations, so you won't be able to squeeze much music into the phone anyways.
Semi-professional digital cameras with exchangeable lenses are just entering the consumer market, those have been available only for professional use with hefty price tag with them.
No all-in-one device will ever replace all different gadgets, no matter how versatile it is.
It'll always have some weakness which would engourage consumer to get better separate device for that purpose.
I have machine running with software raid-5 that uses software with database(mysql) connectivity for roughly 100-300 users simultaneously, load isn't that bad, ~30 queries/second, which gives about 0.05-0.30 average system loads (2gig/512ram)
The raid is made from three SATA disks, and each drive has its own controller.
Biggest problem that I have encountered so far is that when I upgraded from 2.4 series kernel to 2.6, the sata devices changed from hdx to sdx and suddenly the arrays vanished.
But that was easy to fix just by telling the software where to look for the drives.
Recovery seems to work well from past experiences on older system. Had ide drive failing, I didn't have spare available right away so I just mounted the array as degraded readonly meanwhile.
After getting replacement, array took awhile to rebuild, and ~8 hours later it was up and running in readwrite mode again.
Haven't tried if hotplug works with serial ata drives but I'm bit suspicious and I'd rather take the system down for a moment to fix it instead.
The idea of desktop search is good, but I think the google version lacks in few details.
.doc .ppt etc. formats.
You cannot define which directories to index, and it only indexes single machine. (understandable since it's desktop search, not small network search)
The google search keeps index of the data on the desktop harddrive. If you have lots of files, the index size gets insanely large, some say nearly 2Gb when you have large amount of documents lying around.
It would be relatively easy to build something similar which would work over administrative shares using samba crawlers with defined administrative password for each machine, and you'd have control of which data it would collect. Maybe nfs crawlers too. Plenty of both freely available.
Tricky part is to create the meta indexing of the containing
But the more open developement would allow other indexing, such as ID3 tags.
And perhaps you could add your own meta data to indexed files by filetype, and enhance the search for example only images by containing meta description something like: "meta this image has: cat vase window apple". Search for apple and it returns that picture, crude but works atleast partially.
Problem with this kind of version is that you'd need separate server for the searching, you could reuse some old machine for this.(not problem for most of people here since everyone has extra box somewhere in intranet)
Make the search running with mysql+apache and it would be almost platform independent.
> I have bought enough Dell's to have windows XP CDs out the ying-yang
So, why didn't you just slipstream one of your many windows XP CD's instead downloading it from the net?
It would be faster to just copy the original cd than download it, atleast for me.
Who says computer needs hard drive anymore?
Just buy 64 or 128Mb usb memory stick and run linux from it, and you save ~$30
If you need more space, just mount some more over network
> one cant be prosecuted twice for the same crime that might work in USA, but don't automatically assume it works worldwide
we need to "liberate" sweden from such govermnent which allows citizens access to a possible weapon of mass destruction terrorism tool
Solitare is probably the most low-tech gps you can get.
If you get lost, just start playing and wait for someone to come and give hints on what card goes where over your shoulder.
Then you can ask him for directions.
more like too much information
so you'll need 2xitanium and 4gigs of ram to run XP after the upgrades..
I'd comment something funny here
unless I was so drunk
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NO! because Zonealarm is saying you're under ATTACK!!!
and someone is pinging your host...
Generally technology field has been boys club and most women around are usually surnamed .jpg.
Women at workplace usually balance the atmosphere towards more positive.
In paper industry, some studies have shown that departments lead by female chiefs, run more efficiently and have less disputes among workers.
supporting the previously stated question by Mr.Torvalds:
"Are they smoking crack?"
That 1 PB is just the public DC hubs.
There are number of private ones aswell, which aren't publically listed.
you need 10 full standard size racks to hold 1 PB of harddrive space
archive.org has more details here
I guess one could fit such space in the garage or basement, but I seriously doubt that someone with funds to buy that much space would do it, just to share it on some p2p.
After several years in school systems I realized that most of the classes taught were pretty useless, and the classes that focused to improve my future work were basically absent.
Instead of forcing each student to read and write about Shakespeare or some other classic, how about just handling the theme at generic knowledge level. Sure, the material is good for general knowledge, but instead forcefeeding boring facts and details, how about asking the kids what do they want to do when they grow up?
At their age, most of them won't probably have the slightest idea, but they might have the generic feeling of which area they want to work in future.
One solution might be to create "classless" system for schools, kinda like the one used in universities. This could be offered as an alternative to normal lecture pattern. Those who have some idea what they want to do, when they grow up, could start focusing on fields of their interest at early age and those who don't have the slightest idea, could follow the generic knowledge line like the schools do now.
Instead of forcing kids to cheat because they're forced to study subjects they can't get any grasp on, teach them stuff they find interesting instead.