True, but ATM it is a choice in the US, an in many countries with conscription (even in the draft), if you have religous or personal issues you can get a non-violent assignment (yes it takes effort, but two of my uncles did so in Vietnam). -nB
In all actuality, they are combattants and do not have any rights under the USA legal system. They do have rights under international conventions, but those include that they may be held until combat is over. Since we are still being attacked, they will continue to be held. If our troops either: A) are no longer attacked while in-country, or B) withdrawl, we must then free the captives per geneva convention. Please note, however, that we are the only side following the rules of war. Beheading, and other issues (holding up in a religous structure as regular cover IIRC), not identifying themselves, using fragmentatry and/or hollowpoint bullets (if they are) and serrated knives, are all aginst the rules of war. So the way I see it, if they (or anyone else) are bitching about our treatment of prisioners they can suck me. (sorry more flamebait there) -nB
Note to mods: Please understand that the flamebait is because of my passion for the issue at hand, not for simple gratuity. And it really doesn't matter if I like the war (I do not), this is still the way things are. -nB
That goes counter to your data security. In a RAID all drives are running. Either spin down the whole RAID, or not. Also, While notebook drives look good from a power standpoint, they will fail your capacity requirements. As I stated earlier 4x400GB yeilds 1.2TB on a RAID5 and you really should get a RAID controller with an on-board XOR processor (3Ware for example), as it will be more efficent that using the system processor for the calculation. -nB
Mini ITX, yes. BUT! for the data security and redundancy I suggest a dedicated RAID controller. Overall you will draw less power (the CPU on the controller is optimized for XOR operations, thus faster and more efficent than the VIA CPU).
Also, 4 400 GB disks will provide the highest density of storage/watt and yeild 1.2TB on a raid5.
That said, I think you're screwed because that setup, even when idle and spinning down the disks, is going to draw about 100-150 watts and that is a lot of power for an off-grid house. -nB
I realise that the chance for a flamewar is high, but I personally would endorse a binary layer. While not the ideal solution, if it gets more hardware vendors to directly support linux then that is a GoodThing. Maybe later we can work on getting the vendors to open source their drivers, but hardware support, even if closed, is better than no support at all. -nB
"Apple likes to be the only source..it's more profitable that way."
Not entirly. If Apple can find the sweet sopt on licencing fees, they can reap a fair profit without any cost. The trick is making the licence fees low enough that your "competition" doesn't feel too pinched and thus exit the market, while not charging so little that you find yourself competing with your own technology . . . and loosing.
That's a hard sweet spot to find, for example Betamax failed because the fees were too steep and everyone ran to VHS. I'm honestly supprised that Apple has lasted as long as they have, not embracing the more open PC formats. -nB
you got the name wrong. The offical title is either: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition or the Microsoft Windows XP Family of products.
Windows XP is not a product (legally speaking), since, however, the name is common vernacular for the product's official title I'm sure if you released Bob's Windows XP you would have a tough time of it. -nB
When you are as space constrained as the pico sats, I have a feeling that anything would be a space hit. These sound interesting though, and are likely the only viable solution in this case. -nB
I think that the picosats are cool, but there is not a ton that you can do in such a small package. A small transponder, some radiation experiments, no reasonable optics will fit in that tight a package, and even if they did you would need to accomodate stabilizing gear. That said, they are great for universities, where the resulting knowledge gained is the goal and the useful science is almost gravy.
As to the/.ing, I think the sat would have no problem, due to the rather low speed of the anticipated link (no dish, just a whip antenna, so BW will bw lower). Whether the page will be viewable with a million geeks trying to share a 10kbps link, I dunno. -nB
For anyone who doesn't "get it", Andy Grove was one of the founders of Intel.
In fact it's fairly well known that everyone at intel has a cube, not an office, including the CEO all the way down. AFAIK there is only two exceptions: The VP of HR and the Lead counsil both have private offices, this does kinda make sense to me though.
Hate to reply to myself but: My reply takes that a warrent was issued at face value. A quick set of google searches yeild nothing. . . either further proving the apathy, or that this didn't happen. Not saying either, but if you have some links I'd like to read them:) -nB
that warrent was not valid. never mind that the police didn't care, nor did the media. Had the media staged one of it's "public outrage" bits on this it would have been thrown out. It just goes to prove my point that due to public apathy in the US that stuff like this can happen. -nB
TrueCrypt offers this. Two passwords, one encrypts from the front of the drive to the back, the second (true) password encrypts from the back to the front. In order to really maintain plausible deniability the first (front to back) volume does not know about the second volume and can overrite it, so be careful, but you put your porn and a few MP3s you don't own on the front volume and all your important stuff on the back volume. when asked you give the front volume's key. -nB
About option "A", mineral mining is fine on the moon. Either fission or solar power to run refinaries, etc. So long as the value of the finished and/or intermediate goods you are going to send back to the earth (or mars, or whatever) is greater than the cost of production and transportation, then it is worth it. If it is possible to move near earth asteroids and such to a parking orbit around the moon, where it can be "chunked" and dropped into the gravity well for a landing, you can harvest vast ammounts of mineral resources.
I know the arguments against a lunar base (mostly pertaining to the gravity well), but it has some real benifits as to radiation shielding, and gravity on human phisiology that makes it worth it. -nB
That's the beauty of it: where air is this apparently solid material that can't be ducted at 45's or 30-30-30 to minimize turbulance, water can be put in a hose that bends evenly across it's radius:-) ** -nB
** for those who think 90 deg bends are a non issue, they do, in fact induce turbulance into the airflow, resist movement and may form eddie currents in the corners. If, however, this is an issue you can duct the air in either 2 45 degree or three 30 degree bends. This all but eliminates the offending backpressure, allowing the delivery of more air to where it is needed. Our old test floor used this approach (still does for the air-cooled stuff), rather than cooling the entire floor.
We have a basic rule: all wires and cables are 6" off the floor or higher. Takes care of all the issues. All the equipment has an overheat alarm and shutoff, so no damage. Leaks inside the equipment are very rare (read: not once in the 5 years some of it has been deployed). The internal water handling is way overdesigned, which in this case is the way it should be:)
I work on test equipment, not server racks so YMMV, but we use chilled water rather than raised floors for our gear. Water has a much better heat density than air, is less noisy (alright, the noise is displaced, but the end result is the same), easier to maintain, and we can more easily exhaust our waste heat to the outside (where the chiller is located). As a result of all this our (new) test floor costs only about $12.00 per square foot rather than $30-100 for the raised structure. -nB
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True, but ATM it is a choice in the US, an in many countries with conscription (even in the draft), if you have religous or personal issues you can get a non-violent assignment (yes it takes effort, but two of my uncles did so in Vietnam).
-nB
"hang them"
Works for me. Get a rope.
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In all actuality, they are combattants and do not have any rights under the USA legal system. They do have rights under international conventions, but those include that they may be held until combat is over. Since we are still being attacked, they will continue to be held. If our troops either: A) are no longer attacked while in-country, or B) withdrawl, we must then free the captives per geneva convention. Please note, however, that we are the only side following the rules of war. Beheading, and other issues (holding up in a religous structure as regular cover IIRC), not identifying themselves, using fragmentatry and/or hollowpoint bullets (if they are) and serrated knives, are all aginst the rules of war. So the way I see it, if they (or anyone else) are bitching about our treatment of prisioners they can suck me. (sorry more flamebait there)
-nB
Note to mods: Please understand that the flamebait is because of my passion for the issue at hand, not for simple gratuity. And it really doesn't matter if I like the war (I do not), this is still the way things are.
-nB
"it only excludes people working for antispyware or antivirus companies from downloading it."
Shit, based on that alone I would classify it as MalWare, a Virus, and SpyWare. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
-nB
Associated, yes. Much in the same way the civilians are associated.
Paying taxes is not a choice. Joining the Army is.
-nB
That goes counter to your data security. In a RAID all drives are running. Either spin down the whole RAID, or not.
Also, While notebook drives look good from a power standpoint, they will fail your capacity requirements.
As I stated earlier 4x400GB yeilds 1.2TB on a RAID5 and you really should get a RAID controller with an on-board XOR processor (3Ware for example), as it will be more efficent that using the system processor for the calculation.
-nB
Mini ITX, yes.
BUT! for the data security and redundancy I suggest a dedicated RAID controller. Overall you will draw less power (the CPU on the controller is optimized for XOR operations, thus faster and more efficent than the VIA CPU).
Also, 4 400 GB disks will provide the highest density of storage/watt and yeild 1.2TB on a raid5.
That said, I think you're screwed because that setup, even when idle and spinning down the disks, is going to draw about 100-150 watts and that is a lot of power for an off-grid house.
-nB
I realise that the chance for a flamewar is high, but I personally would endorse a binary layer. While not the ideal solution, if it gets more hardware vendors to directly support linux then that is a GoodThing. Maybe later we can work on getting the vendors to open source their drivers, but hardware support, even if closed, is better than no support at all.
-nB
"Apple likes to be the only source..it's more profitable that way."
Not entirly. If Apple can find the sweet sopt on licencing fees, they can reap a fair profit without any cost. The trick is making the licence fees low enough that your "competition" doesn't feel too pinched and thus exit the market, while not charging so little that you find yourself competing with your own technology . . . and loosing.
That's a hard sweet spot to find, for example Betamax failed because the fees were too steep and everyone ran to VHS.
I'm honestly supprised that Apple has lasted as long as they have, not embracing the more open PC formats.
-nB
you got the name wrong. The offical title is either:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
or
the Microsoft Windows XP Family of products.
Windows XP is not a product (legally speaking), since, however, the name is common vernacular for the product's official title I'm sure if you released Bob's Windows XP you would have a tough time of it.
-nB
When you are as space constrained as the pico sats, I have a feeling that anything would be a space hit. These sound interesting though, and are likely the only viable solution in this case.
-nB
I think that the picosats are cool, but there is not a ton that you can do in such a small package. A small transponder, some radiation experiments, no reasonable optics will fit in that tight a package, and even if they did you would need to accomodate stabilizing gear.
/.ing, I think the sat would have no problem, due to the rather low speed of the anticipated link (no dish, just a whip antenna, so BW will bw lower). Whether the page will be viewable with a million geeks trying to share a 10kbps link, I dunno.
That said, they are great for universities, where the resulting knowledge gained is the goal and the useful science is almost gravy.
As to the
-nB
For anyone who doesn't "get it", Andy Grove was one of the founders of Intel.
In fact it's fairly well known that everyone at intel has a cube, not an office, including the CEO all the way down.
AFAIK there is only two exceptions: The VP of HR and the Lead counsil both have private offices, this does kinda make sense to me though.
-nB
What DRM?
That's friggen FUD (at least for now)
-nB
Excellent point.
I was thinking only of the common thug/smash and grab, gang banger, etc.
-nB
Hate to reply to myself but: :)
My reply takes that a warrent was issued at face value.
A quick set of google searches yeild nothing. . . either further proving the apathy, or that this didn't happen. Not saying either, but if you have some links I'd like to read them
-nB
that warrent was not valid.
never mind that the police didn't care, nor did the media. Had the media staged one of it's "public outrage" bits on this it would have been thrown out. It just goes to prove my point that due to public apathy in the US that stuff like this can happen.
-nB
TrueCrypt offers this. Two passwords, one encrypts from the front of the drive to the back, the second (true) password encrypts from the back to the front. In order to really maintain plausible deniability the first (front to back) volume does not know about the second volume and can overrite it, so be careful, but you put your porn and a few MP3s you don't own on the front volume and all your important stuff on the back volume.
when asked you give the front volume's key.
-nB
There is no "that's sick and sad, but it's true" mod, so funny it is.
-nB
"And in the U.S. we have secret courts that will issue warrants with virtually no burden of proof."
:P
No we don't, they issue warrents right out in the open
(sad but true, due to the lack of public scrutiny, they might as well be secret)
-nB
A new kind of troll, and I'm just feeding you eh?
-nB
About option "A", mineral mining is fine on the moon. Either fission or solar power to run refinaries, etc. So long as the value of the finished and/or intermediate goods you are going to send back to the earth (or mars, or whatever) is greater than the cost of production and transportation, then it is worth it. If it is possible to move near earth asteroids and such to a parking orbit around the moon, where it can be "chunked" and dropped into the gravity well for a landing, you can harvest vast ammounts of mineral resources.
I know the arguments against a lunar base (mostly pertaining to the gravity well), but it has some real benifits as to radiation shielding, and gravity on human phisiology that makes it worth it.
-nB
At the risk of username pollution, why did you create an account for the reply?
-nB
That's the beauty of it: where air is this apparently solid material that can't be ducted at 45's or 30-30-30 to minimize turbulance, water can be put in a hose that bends evenly across it's radius :-) **
-nB
** for those who think 90 deg bends are a non issue, they do, in fact induce turbulance into the airflow, resist movement and may form eddie currents in the corners. If, however, this is an issue you can duct the air in either 2 45 degree or three 30 degree bends. This all but eliminates the offending backpressure, allowing the delivery of more air to where it is needed. Our old test floor used this approach (still does for the air-cooled stuff), rather than cooling the entire floor.
We have a basic rule: all wires and cables are 6" off the floor or higher. Takes care of all the issues. All the equipment has an overheat alarm and shutoff, so no damage. Leaks inside the equipment are very rare (read: not once in the 5 years some of it has been deployed). The internal water handling is way overdesigned, which in this case is the way it should be :)
-nB
I work on test equipment, not server racks so YMMV, but we use chilled water rather than raised floors for our gear. Water has a much better heat density than air, is less noisy (alright, the noise is displaced, but the end result is the same), easier to maintain, and we can more easily exhaust our waste heat to the outside (where the chiller is located).
As a result of all this our (new) test floor costs only about $12.00 per square foot rather than $30-100 for the raised structure.
-nB