The gravity wave phenomena as used in meterology have very different length scales than gravity waves in general relativity. It's a different phenomena, same name. And these type of gravity waves also shape the clouds on earth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Well, all of the benchmarks are available. To make it easier for people to run benchmarks on their computers and make more tech sites to GNU/Linux benchmarking, I am currently developing a LiveCD for benchmarking purposes (and of course the benchmark scripts will be usable by everyone as well as the programs for configuration etc.).
http://linbench.sf.net
Passwords come short in one aspect - they do not validate the identity of the person. If we are going to use the computer for even more aspects, such as voting, government contact etc. we will need more personalized ID-validation. Digital signatures are allright for just regular identification in e-mails etc. but they are still not as safe as using real biometric validation devices. Using a fingerprint, analyzing the iris patterns etc. is the only way to make the identification process reliable and safe enough to use the computer for very personal matters, and I think that we'll move towards using biometric validation within the next 10 years, hence rendering passwords useless.
Actually where I live there's a ferry company that has moved to biometric identification through fingerprints - just order a ticket online with a special registered card # and you will be charged as soon as you go on the ferry. However, the technology is still not mature enough for these purposes - it was initially believed that using a biometric system would enable the company to save some money on the people who were checking the tickets. Unfortunately the system is somewhat unstable, and about 1/10th of the people who's using this system can't get their fingerprint to be identified correctly by the system, hence they need to have just as many people working on helping people who have problems with the system. Ah, the irony:)
But right now, passwords are still the only realistic way to go - so here's a tip for creating alphanumeric passwords in GNU/Linux:
NO_CHARACTERS=9 head -c $NO_CHARACTERS/dev/random | uuencode -m -| head -n 2 | tail -n 1
Actually, during a review session with the 3.6GHz LGA775, we experienced so high heat production that we had to use water cooling to ensure that the thermal throttling was not enabled. When using regular air cooling the processor would reach temperatures > 70 degrees during load, and from the results at this load we saw that at some times the processor had to use thermal throttling.
Another disadvantage with this high heat production is that other core components in the computer (such as the mainboard) will be exposed to more heat as well, hence the durability of these components will be lower.
If Intel and AMD continues to approach Itaniums heat production, water-cooling or similiar technologies will become mandatory for high end processors.
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The gravity wave phenomena as used in meterology have very different length scales than gravity waves in general relativity. It's a different phenomena, same name. And these type of gravity waves also shape the clouds on earth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Well, all of the benchmarks are available. To make it easier for people to run benchmarks on their computers and make more tech sites to GNU/Linux benchmarking, I am currently developing a LiveCD for benchmarking purposes (and of course the benchmark scripts will be usable by everyone as well as the programs for configuration etc.). http://linbench.sf.net
Passwords come short in one aspect - they do not validate the identity of the person. If we are going to use the computer for even more aspects, such as voting, government contact etc. we will need more personalized ID-validation.
:)
/dev/random | uuencode -m -| head -n 2 | tail -n 1
Digital signatures are allright for just regular identification in e-mails etc. but they are still not as safe as using real biometric validation devices. Using a fingerprint, analyzing the iris patterns etc. is the only way to make the identification process reliable and safe enough to use the computer for very personal matters, and I think that we'll move towards using biometric validation within the next 10 years, hence rendering passwords useless.
Actually where I live there's a ferry company that has moved to biometric identification through fingerprints - just order a ticket online with a special registered card # and you will be charged as soon as you go on the ferry. However, the technology is still not mature enough for these purposes - it was initially believed that using a biometric system would enable the company to save some money on the people who were checking the tickets. Unfortunately the system is somewhat unstable, and about 1/10th of the people who's using this system can't get their fingerprint to be identified correctly by the system, hence they need to have just as many people working on helping people who have problems with the system. Ah, the irony
But right now, passwords are still the only realistic way to go - so here's a tip for creating alphanumeric passwords in GNU/Linux:
NO_CHARACTERS=9
head -c $NO_CHARACTERS
Actually, during a review session with the 3.6GHz LGA775, we experienced so high heat production that we had to use water cooling to ensure that the thermal throttling was not enabled. When using regular air cooling the processor would reach temperatures > 70 degrees during load, and from the results at this load we saw that at some times the processor had to use thermal throttling.
Another disadvantage with this high heat production is that other core components in the computer (such as the mainboard) will be exposed to more heat as well, hence the durability of these components will be lower.
If Intel and AMD continues to approach Itaniums heat production, water-cooling or similiar technologies will become mandatory for high end processors.