In fact they often use deep depleted CCD's for those lovely images. Broad spectral response from deep IR *(not heat) through UV. Slice in 5 filters and you cover a lot of ground optically. -nB
I'm looking for a Compact Flash to 2.5" style IDE connector myself for basically the same use. I figure I could deal with an 8 Gig / partition, and would just double face tape the CF card to the drive sled. -nB
Finally, last week, a group published his electric bills for his heated pool and poolhouse, which are bigger than a typical American's mortgage payment. Al's people's response was "oh, he focuses on his overall carbon footprint by buying credits". Awesome! I'm broke and can't afford to consume much. Maybe I can sell him some credits? I can use the cash more than I need the heater in my apartment to run. -nB
It's all about the pre-loaded crap. I've wiped and re-installed systems without the pre-installed crap and they are at least 10% faster than factory builds. -nB
I wish that would work at my company, we are big enough that instead of this working it'd likely backfire into the person doing this causing a hostile work environment and being fired for it... Sounds like it'd be quite effective at getting the point across though. I work in a service position, equipment maintenance specifically. I have a problem with my customers giving me overly vague complaints about a piece of equipment being broken (along the lines of the "something broken, something fixed" AF workorder that makes its rounds in the e-mail list of crap mechanics put in airplane maintenance records) so I have no idea where to look. The users then get offended that their issue is tagged low priority (which is usually a death sentence). I've gone to the lengths of keeping a full Excel spreadsheet and embed the issue complaint in the worksheet along with all the other useful details, thus when the inevitable bitch-fight erupts at a staff meeting I can open my spreadsheet and say: Here's the verbatim complaint, doesn't look that important". So far I have yet to lose one of the pissing contests and it's had the wonderful side effect that the issue reports have slowly been improving in detail.
Sure as shit, my clock failed to read this flag properly... Thus I was an hour behind this morning, as noticing yesterday that it was off I set the clock manually only for it to re-set its self over night:/ -nB
NOR Flash: More reliable Faster reads easy to integrate (looks like an sram) able to execute code directly from NOR Flash (looks like an sram) more expensive
NAND Flash: Faster writes PITA to integrate (requires separate controller chip) Slower reads Inability to directly execute code, must DL to real ram to execute. less reliable higher density cheap
HP has a greater potential to affect the Linux pendulum than even Dell. HP has the hardware and software guys to back it up. They have a lot of hard core systems guys with their different offerings that already help a lot with Linux compatibility and can do a lot more quite easily if the need is there. And they have HP-UX, which (backing you up here) means their software guys are already pros... but they have HP-UX, their own *nix that they may not want to share with a non-license paying linux? (Here's to hoping that won't happen). -nB
Depends on the planned heat load and pressure. For Prescott systems ideal is water under a partial vacuum, I would imagine for a lower heat density app alcohol would be ok, but it has a much lower latent heat of vaporisation, so will not remove as much heat as good 'ol H2O. -nB
Wrong. DI water will eat metals as it looks to get its ions back. Distilled water is vastly superior in electronic cooling applications. We have $500K testers that use distilled water and PG in a 50/50 blend. Use DI water and your warranty is void. -nB
Texas? Here in Quebec, we call that a "region". Call me when you have something that can devastate a province.;-) Quebec? Here in the former Soviet Union we call that a... aw fuckit
Tangential topic but.... "As it were" is more of a colloquialism at this point is it not? I work in a diverse company and one of my (now former sadly) supervisors was from Lebanon. He dropped by my office to see how I was doing and I beat him to the punch and asked: "How goes it?" This, apparently, broke the English parser in his brain as he disassembled the sentence fragment and tried to make sense of it. "how goes it?" "... how it goes?" "!" "man, that just doesn't make any sense!" "What's this means, how goes it?"
At which point my other "plain 'ol white" co-worker couldn't take it anymore and she popped a gasket laughing like mad.
In international business relationships you have to learn to remove all colloquialisms and cultural/sports references (collectively slang) from your working language. Bonus points for studying the "other guys" slang enough to not get lost in a conversation and even the ability to fit in at the pub, thus I have a moderate repertoire of brit/scott slang, Japanese formality (good god the ceremony of handing off a business card is @!%# insane!), and Indian (generic, sorry) mixed signaling (shaking head up and down is no, left-right is yes, of sorts, and it still hurts my head). -nB
Having an compatriot who works at the little "i" I personally feel fairly certain that the company is fairly up and up about their business. I'm not saying individuals wouldn't make shady decisions, just that when push comes to shove, the corp. entity tries its damndest to stay clean. I also am of the general opinion that an e-mail such as you describe would not be snuffed, and at least one individual would have a copy. Human nature is to CYA, thus I as a subordinate, if ordered to do something I don't think is right, will keep in my pearl harbor file a copy of the e-mail discussing the action. This covers my ass in an investigation. I am not a unique human, I've got to think the CYA mentality prevalent at my company is very much the same everywhere else. -nB
No, it's server resource protection. If something is needed for archival, then it can be stored appropriately. The simple truth is the bulk of any large org's e-mail is not essential to anything. Why save all of it? make the users save what they need. Personally I like Intel's thought on the issue. It's not like that can't archive processor designs and such, just why archive spam, inter-office bullsh!t, like love letters, plans for the pub and whatnot (ok, the loveletters may be interesting reading...) -nB
I've used it for deployment but not for intrusion detection before. Really want to boot linux, just to ensure that windows exploit code can't run at all during a scan. Also, while I have a license that covers the PE environment at the office, when moonlighting that license is not available to me, again making linux attractive. -nB
note to self: attempt at funny + mods who hate butt plug humor + mods that like butt plug humor = serious pwnage of karma... -nB...I mean seriously, the GP asked about "secondary effects" and I suggested a way to experience them. I am rather positive that on this whole wide earth there is more than one depraved individual that likely has done it too... o_O... O_o... +_+ ewwww... nevermind:-x
Yeah, I kinda noticed. Seems weird though, at least the site could note that this is an on-line only price. You can't get an in store quote anywhere (have you ever tried calling them?) -nB
No friggen kidding. Here's to hoping that the enforcers of this law are at least marginally sane individuals. 'Cause the people that wrote them sure as hell weren't. -nB
While they don't go to the lengths of deceit as a 2nd website implies, Fry's won't match their on-line price if lower than the store price. I got bit by that, but after you figure in the gas to drive elsewhere after driving home and shopping on-line it was close to a push. I pretty much decided not to shop there if possible anymore. -nB
Really the computers were to be a loss leader. I was planning on using SunFires and charge a buck an hour, one hour incr. and $8/hr for gaming machines. The real goal was to make it a "cool hangout" for the 16-24 crowd and sell them high margin junk food and energy drinks/fountain soda... basically the theater model. -nB
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In fact they often use deep depleted CCD's for those lovely images. Broad spectral response from deep IR *(not heat) through UV. Slice in 5 filters and you cover a lot of ground optically.
-nB
I'm looking for a Compact Flash to 2.5" style IDE connector myself for basically the same use. I figure I could deal with an 8 Gig / partition, and would just double face tape the CF card to the drive sled.
-nB
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It's all about the pre-loaded crap. I've wiped and re-installed systems without the pre-installed crap and they are at least 10% faster than factory builds.
-nB
In the case of Al Gore he's a nit-wit. Everywhere he's spoken about global warming has set record low temperatures on the day of his speech.
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I wish that would work at my company, we are big enough that instead of this working it'd likely backfire into the person doing this causing a hostile work environment and being fired for it... Sounds like it'd be quite effective at getting the point across though.
I work in a service position, equipment maintenance specifically. I have a problem with my customers giving me overly vague complaints about a piece of equipment being broken (along the lines of the "something broken, something fixed" AF workorder that makes its rounds in the e-mail list of crap mechanics put in airplane maintenance records) so I have no idea where to look. The users then get offended that their issue is tagged low priority (which is usually a death sentence). I've gone to the lengths of keeping a full Excel spreadsheet and embed the issue complaint in the worksheet along with all the other useful details, thus when the inevitable bitch-fight erupts at a staff meeting I can open my spreadsheet and say: Here's the verbatim complaint, doesn't look that important". So far I have yet to lose one of the pissing contests and it's had the wonderful side effect that the issue reports have slowly been improving in detail.
Sure as shit, my clock failed to read this flag properly... :/
Thus I was an hour behind this morning, as noticing yesterday that it was off I set the clock manually only for it to re-set its self over night
-nB
NOR Flash:
More reliable
Faster reads
easy to integrate (looks like an sram)
able to execute code directly from NOR Flash (looks like an sram)
more expensive
NAND Flash:
Faster writes
PITA to integrate (requires separate controller chip)
Slower reads
Inability to directly execute code, must DL to real ram to execute.
less reliable
higher density
cheap
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Depends on the planned heat load and pressure.
For Prescott systems ideal is water under a partial vacuum, I would imagine for a lower heat density app alcohol would be ok, but it has a much lower latent heat of vaporisation, so will not remove as much heat as good 'ol H2O.
-nB
Wrong.
DI water will eat metals as it looks to get its ions back.
Distilled water is vastly superior in electronic cooling applications.
We have $500K testers that use distilled water and PG in a 50/50 blend. Use DI water and your warranty is void.
-nB
When several hundred million dollars is on the line, you swallow your slang.
Tangential topic but....
"As it were" is more of a colloquialism at this point is it not?
I work in a diverse company and one of my (now former sadly) supervisors was from Lebanon. He dropped by my office to see how I was doing and I beat him to the punch and asked: "How goes it?"
This, apparently, broke the English parser in his brain as he disassembled the sentence fragment and tried to make sense of it.
"how goes it?"
"... how it goes?"
"!"
"man, that just doesn't make any sense!"
"What's this means, how goes it?"
At which point my other "plain 'ol white" co-worker couldn't take it anymore and she popped a gasket laughing like mad.
In international business relationships you have to learn to remove all colloquialisms and cultural/sports references (collectively slang) from your working language. Bonus points for studying the "other guys" slang enough to not get lost in a conversation and even the ability to fit in at the pub, thus I have a moderate repertoire of brit/scott slang, Japanese formality (good god the ceremony of handing off a business card is @!%# insane!), and Indian (generic, sorry) mixed signaling (shaking head up and down is no, left-right is yes, of sorts, and it still hurts my head).
-nB
Having an compatriot who works at the little "i" I personally feel fairly certain that the company is fairly up and up about their business. I'm not saying individuals wouldn't make shady decisions, just that when push comes to shove, the corp. entity tries its damndest to stay clean. I also am of the general opinion that an e-mail such as you describe would not be snuffed, and at least one individual would have a copy. Human nature is to CYA, thus I as a subordinate, if ordered to do something I don't think is right, will keep in my pearl harbor file a copy of the e-mail discussing the action. This covers my ass in an investigation. I am not a unique human, I've got to think the CYA mentality prevalent at my company is very much the same everywhere else.
-nB
No, it's server resource protection.
If something is needed for archival, then it can be stored appropriately. The simple truth is the bulk of any large org's e-mail is not essential to anything. Why save all of it? make the users save what they need. Personally I like Intel's thought on the issue.
It's not like that can't archive processor designs and such, just why archive spam, inter-office bullsh!t, like love letters, plans for the pub and whatnot (ok, the loveletters may be interesting reading...)
-nB
I've used it for deployment but not for intrusion detection before. Really want to boot linux, just to ensure that windows exploit code can't run at all during a scan.
Also, while I have a license that covers the PE environment at the office, when moonlighting that license is not available to me, again making linux attractive.
-nB
"there isn't really that big a difference between this generation and the last few."
on-line porn?
To that end do you know of any particularly good live CD's for the task (windows box)?
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note to self: ...I mean seriously, the GP asked about "secondary effects" and I suggested a way to experience them. I am rather positive that on this whole wide earth there is more than one depraved individual that likely has done it too... o_O ... O_o ... +_+ ewwww... nevermind :-x
attempt at funny + mods who hate butt plug humor + mods that like butt plug humor = serious pwnage of karma...
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Yeah, I kinda noticed.
Seems weird though, at least the site could note that this is an on-line only price. You can't get an in store quote anywhere (have you ever tried calling them?)
-nB
No friggen kidding. Here's to hoping that the enforcers of this law are at least marginally sane individuals.
'Cause the people that wrote them sure as hell weren't.
-nB
While they don't go to the lengths of deceit as a 2nd website implies, Fry's won't match their on-line price if lower than the store price.
I got bit by that, but after you figure in the gas to drive elsewhere after driving home and shopping on-line it was close to a push.
I pretty much decided not to shop there if possible anymore.
-nB
Butt plug + wasabi = orbit without rocket perhaps? O_o
-nB
for the mods: funny != troll mkay?
Really the computers were to be a loss leader. I was planning on using SunFires and charge a buck an hour, one hour incr. and $8/hr for gaming machines.
The real goal was to make it a "cool hangout" for the 16-24 crowd and sell them high margin junk food and energy drinks/fountain soda... basically the theater model.
-nB