It's already been done. We know it works, it's just pointless. Why not team with a company like Solazyme and get biofuel that's actually being produced from algae (no plowing fields, I'm not going into how many ways it's green, but it is) and provide some real world numbers. Like this:
The Cummins 12-valve was available as the diesel engine option in the Dodge Ram for a lot of years, with newer versions being used after 98, and even newer versions in use since 2008. One advantage to diesel engines is they have longer service life than gas engines. My BIL has a 92 ram with the 12 valve in it, and he makes his own bio diesel from waste oil, which he doesn't steal, he gets legally. For a rough comparison, he gets about 23 MPG on dino-diesel, and 21 on Bio-diesel. While pulling a horse trailer. For further information, check out the DOE's energy density numbers, which will prove the bio diesel is much more worth while than, say, ethanal.
Additionally, bio diesel exhaust fumes are nearly entirely non-toxic, the amount of material harmful to humans or the environment is..well, probably less per mile than per toy imported from China.
As far as modifications to this engine to run vegi oil, I know guys with 12 valves that run soy bean oil for fuel, and they just have larger fuel filters they change more often. I can't imagine it took much to get to where those kids are. They need some serious direction.
I used to work for a hosting company, and the FBI was interested in plenty of our customers. They would show up with a warrant for information and explain that we could either provide the data they needed, or they could seize the equipment the data was on. I wonder if the host failed to comply with a warrant requesting data?
cellulosic ethanol is not a clean energy source, it's a bad idea. It uses food crops or food crop capable land to grow something that won't be used for food, so it cuts back on food production, causing price increases there. It's also energy negative, which means it uses more energy than you get from using it. Look at the energy density of gasoline vs. ethanol. Your cars will get less milage burning it.
You know what the answer is? Biodiesel. Algae reactors can use waste water and ultimately clean that up (solves a problem) and be set up anywhere they can get sunlight (not using crop land) and biodiesel production is energy positive. Add to that, there is a smaller gap in energy density between petrol diesel and biodiesel than between gas and ethanol, and you're moving in the right direction. Things get downright warm and fuzzy when you remember that compression ignition engines are more efficient than spark ignition engines.
Reliability? Look at Honda vs Ferrari research
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Watch F1 races. How many mecanical failures did the Honda team suffer last season. Countless. If memory serves, Ferrari suffered exactly one mechanical failure. For almost a decade now, Ferrari has had some of the most reliable F1 cars.
I was diagnosed 20 years ago. For about the first 10 years, they had me on Rit. - they kept upping the doses because it wasn't working like they thought it should. Frankly, it got to a point where *I* felt so bad when I took it, that I was worse than without it. So I dropped medication altogether. I think Rit. is evil. I made it through highschool without it, and did well. College was it's own disaster for other reasons. Working with ADHD has not been something I've thought about for a number of years. I think any sort of caffine helps it, and here's the kick right here. You sort of have to watch yourself. When you're working, work, and make yourself focus. When you're tackling a problem (now I do tree work, sometimes it's how to get the top out of that tree without it landing on that house) you can let yourself drift a little. It seems to help the flow of ideas, but the ideas went away completely for me on medications. I also found myself completely unable to play guitar, or any other sort of musical insturment on meds - just no creative drive. Thats something to keep in mind.
Whoever thinks this is the next form of advertising on the web is an absolute moron. Myself and nearly everyone else I know would instantly boycot any site that went to this form of advertising, and probably be so perturbed by it that we'd never even bother to check back and see if they had reformed their ways.
According to Toms Hardware the D3 drivers will be out for linux sometime inside the next week. Looks like they'll have to redo the recent article they compared linux and win98 3d benchmarks in. I wonder what the new drivers will do for CAD performance under linux?
This will never get moderated up, but for those who read down here, the S/390 cpu's that will run ONLY linux, not the ibm mainframe Os microcode, will cost 125,000 USD. These machines will still require at least one REGULAR s/390 CPU, which will run you about 350,000 USD by itself. Never mind the rest of the box. Bottom line, you're still looking at 3/4 of a million to run linux on a Mainframe, so don't get worked up because you have an extra 1/4 million to blow.
Frankly I'm not suprised Intel is doing this. After all, what sense would it make for them actually use any manufacturing capabilities that they might have to make the 1GHz CPU's available in some respectable quantities. I believe that Intel is running scared. AMD has them shaking, because the Athlon outperforms the PIII hands down. Intel continues to promise new technology, but when they actually produce something tangable (RAMBUS) it falls flat on its face. They are scrambling to introduce technology they don't have the bugs worked out of yet. And all because of the little company they've tried to bury under all the mud, FUD, and rigged benchmarks for all these years, AMD. Granted this is the first time AMD has out performed Intel, but it has made the giant nervous. And nervous giants tend to be clumsy. See any resemblence there?
The government has not been taken over by scientologists yet, hence everyone in the country is not being forced to watch the movie as mandatory media. Hence, I'll not have to watch it. Thats good....really it is.
Like the subject says, he's right. There are restrictions that simply don't work for this software to be either "open" or "free". Frankly for everything I've needed Motif like support for, Lesstif has worked just fine. Some people may think that Motif and Lesstif are both ugly, and so this doesn't matter, because they aren't going to use it anyhow. Thats fine. But someone who accepts the liscense just by using the software and happens to include it in something that it shouldn't be included with could get in trouble. "Free" and "Open" software means just that. I say, "Hey, I wrote this, and you can use it, change it, and distribute it, just leave this declaration that I wrote this, here,and include it with anything that might include this source code." Thats open. Thats free. Thats not what the Motif liscense says.
Napster isn't SELLING someone elses copywrited material. Even though its mute at this point because they've reached an agreement, napster never SOLD the music. If the Offspring had been giving away the T-shirts, it would have been different altogether.
This really shouldn't have come as a suprise to anyone. It had to happen sooner or later. I'm suprised that Metallica was the first band to do it. Cliff Burton's early compositions for them made them underground metal gods back in the early and mid eighties, and they sold albums to wierd people like me that couldn't find anything intense enough for their liking on the radio. I don't think back then that they would have realized any loss from something like the "horrible N", they toured, made a little money, and wrote some more songs. They had a good time. I hope they're still having a good time. But clearly they are making more money now. Every other song they release is on the radio. Note that I am not one of those people that sold out. It's this simple: Now Metallica is "childs play" when you have people like Manson and ICP running around. Metallica seems rather tame. However, I remember being sent home from school for wearing the Ride the Lightning shirt with the man in the electric chair. Its the standard today. Add to that, the fact that the early songs were long: 6-8 minutes a piece. Songs that long don't get much radio play. People with classical composition backrounds (like Burton) write songs that long because they know how to, because the can set a mood with it. Metallica may still occasionally pop out a song that long, but most of them are radio length now. So, considering the amount of money they CAN make now, it doesn't suprise they want to make all of it. I hate to say "Even artists have to make a living" but its true. And besides, tell me that if your band was one of the most popular bands in the world, you wouldn't want to run your hands through the money like a mieser. Go on....say it. You know you would.
We all know that devlopers take pride in thier work. Objectiveness can be invaluable though, and the insight of a developer about his "competition" is, IMHO, most valuable. If you couldn't use Gnome on your desktop, what would you use, and why? How would you compare your choice to Gnome?
One thing I have noticed about Linux in general, is that every time I walk into a book store, the section that contains Linux books seems to have grown. More and more, I see books dedicated to one particular distro, or another, and certain Linux tools, or scripting, etc. Even when the Linux books were generic, they all seemed to concentrate on "if you have RedHat" or some other distro, but it seems like they bypassed the raw configuration for the pretty tools in other distrs, meaning that Slackware was slowly left out. Only recently, did I actually see a Slackware book (Slackware Unleashed I think?) and it made me very happy, though I didn't have time that day, nor have I had time since to go back and take a look at it, and perhaps purchase a copy. My question to you, is do you think the amount of documentation for Slackware is on the rise, and that people are now going to start looking for a more configurable distribution that lets you do what you want to do, or will Linux continue to be dumbed down until the only distro left you need documentation for is Slackware?
BTW: I'll always be willing to read the documentation in order to make it work the way *I* want it to work. Thanks for a great Distro.
Beowulf clusters are indeed possible on Intels. However, as any true gearhead will tell you, an Alpha processor will spank the pants right off any intel ever put together (or is it just me?)
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue; if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) { fdisk(); return Linux;
If you're looking for speed, and for a cheaper solution, RAMBUS is not the way to go for memory. There is not *that* great a performance increase using this technology to warrent the extra several thousand dollars it's going to cost to perchase just the memory. I would look very closely at Micron's new (though as of yet unreleased technology) that uses DDR ram. It can produce nearly the same bandwidth at litterally a fraction of the cost per megabite. I also see very little need for a DVD drive. Call me picky, but I pay taxxes in this country, and I know how computers work. For less than half the cost, you can get a good old CD rom drive, or for that matter, you could get a CD-R to back things up on. But I think a DVD drive is out of the question unless part of your post mission data analys is playback of some sort of DVD recorded data, this is a waste of my tax dollars. if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue; if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) { fdisk(); return Linux;
Geneticly engineered children. What happens to the "love children" when this comes about. Obviously, they would be repressed as imperfect for even the slightest defect, even one's that aren't visable that we think nothing of today. Corporations would spurn these people in preference of the ones that were "made" to have higher IQ's. This is trouble if it is used wrong. I have no problem with attempting to eleminate major or cripling defects in children concieved of in some natural form. However, geneticly engineering them is wrong. if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue; if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) { fdisk(); return Linux;
And further more, since everyone uses them now, and most of the people on the net have no clue about BBS's, and very little intrest in technology, or discussing it, they've basicly turned into talkers. Not that anyone would read this (I'm way behind in my reading/posting today) but I have been wanting for quite a while to set up a "talker" if you will, for the discussion of coding, hardware, and other geek related subjects. My only question is, who would be intrested in such a thing? Is anyone willing to rally around such an idea? if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue; if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) { fdisk(); return Linux;
>I still wonder what kind of K6 I have in this system. Its supposed to be a 200, but the old K6's were >very easy to relabel, so it might be a 166. I guess it doesn't much matter. I have run it at 166-233 >without any troubles, but I do wonder.
Hmm, makes me wonder too. I have a K6-233 that was obtaned through a reliable source. However, much to my dismay, if you actually try to clock it at 233, it will last about 15 minutes before overheating and shutting down (and this with the most massive heatsink/fan combo I can find without going to something really pricey). As a consequince, I've clocked the chip back to 200, and have not had a problem out of it.
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue; if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) { fdisk(); return Linux;
I suppose then, if you're like me, and you program alot, and you drink alot of coffee, and you don't want children, that everything will work out just fine. Several pots of coffee a day keeps everything working smoothly. For instance, I know for a fact that one of my most festering bugs in my older tcp socket setups is in line 562 of con_build.c....now, if I could just remember how I was told to properly fix it, I could knock out about 25 lines of error checking code. Of course, then I wouldn't be able to remember what line the bug was on, cause it would change, and then I'd just be lost all over again huh? Oh well, I don't suppose I'll ever pick up any women sitting in front of this computer anyhow, so what does it matter if I can remember thier names or not?
I will be curious to see/hear how they intend to handle the use of slang, or eubonics, which is so commonly (over?) used, particularly in the US, any ideas on this? Maybe Americans will have to learn English now so this will work. Wouldn't that just make things simple?
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It's already been done. We know it works, it's just pointless. Why not team with a company like Solazyme and get biofuel that's actually being produced from algae (no plowing fields, I'm not going into how many ways it's green, but it is) and provide some real world numbers. Like this:
The Cummins 12-valve was available as the diesel engine option in the Dodge Ram for a lot of years, with newer versions being used after 98, and even newer versions in use since 2008. One advantage to diesel engines is they have longer service life than gas engines. My BIL has a 92 ram with the 12 valve in it, and he makes his own bio diesel from waste oil, which he doesn't steal, he gets legally. For a rough comparison, he gets about 23 MPG on dino-diesel, and 21 on Bio-diesel. While pulling a horse trailer. For further information, check out the DOE's energy density numbers, which will prove the bio diesel is much more worth while than, say, ethanal.
Additionally, bio diesel exhaust fumes are nearly entirely non-toxic, the amount of material harmful to humans or the environment is ..well, probably less per mile than per toy imported from China.
As far as modifications to this engine to run vegi oil, I know guys with 12 valves that run soy bean oil for fuel, and they just have larger fuel filters they change more often. I can't imagine it took much to get to where those kids are. They need some serious direction.
I used to work for a hosting company, and the FBI was interested in plenty of our customers. They would show up with a warrant for information and explain that we could either provide the data they needed, or they could seize the equipment the data was on. I wonder if the host failed to comply with a warrant requesting data?
cellulosic ethanol is not a clean energy source, it's a bad idea. It uses food crops or food crop capable land to grow something that won't be used for food, so it cuts back on food production, causing price increases there. It's also energy negative, which means it uses more energy than you get from using it. Look at the energy density of gasoline vs. ethanol. Your cars will get less milage burning it.
You know what the answer is? Biodiesel. Algae reactors can use waste water and ultimately clean that up (solves a problem) and be set up anywhere they can get sunlight (not using crop land) and biodiesel production is energy positive. Add to that, there is a smaller gap in energy density between petrol diesel and biodiesel than between gas and ethanol, and you're moving in the right direction. Things get downright warm and fuzzy when you remember that compression ignition engines are more efficient than spark ignition engines.
Watch F1 races. How many mecanical failures did the Honda team suffer last season. Countless. If memory serves, Ferrari suffered exactly one mechanical failure. For almost a decade now, Ferrari has had some of the most reliable F1 cars.
I was diagnosed 20 years ago. For about the first 10 years, they had me on Rit. - they kept upping the doses because it wasn't working like they thought it should. Frankly, it got to a point where *I* felt so bad when I took it, that I was worse than without it. So I dropped medication altogether. I think Rit. is evil. I made it through highschool without it, and did well. College was it's own disaster for other reasons. Working with ADHD has not been something I've thought about for a number of years. I think any sort of caffine helps it, and here's the kick right here. You sort of have to watch yourself. When you're working, work, and make yourself focus. When you're tackling a problem (now I do tree work, sometimes it's how to get the top out of that tree without it landing on that house) you can let yourself drift a little. It seems to help the flow of ideas, but the ideas went away completely for me on medications. I also found myself completely unable to play guitar, or any other sort of musical insturment on meds - just no creative drive. Thats something to keep in mind.
Whoever thinks this is the next form of advertising on the web is an absolute moron. Myself and nearly everyone else I know would instantly boycot any site that went to this form of advertising, and probably be so perturbed by it that we'd never even bother to check back and see if they had reformed their ways.
According to Toms Hardware the D3 drivers will be out for linux sometime inside the next week. Looks like they'll have to redo the recent article they compared linux and win98 3d benchmarks in. I wonder what the new drivers will do for CAD performance under linux?
This will never get moderated up, but for those who read down here, the S/390 cpu's that will run ONLY linux, not the ibm mainframe Os microcode, will cost 125,000 USD. These machines will still require at least one REGULAR s/390 CPU, which will run you about 350,000 USD by itself. Never mind the rest of the box. Bottom line, you're still looking at 3/4 of a million to run linux on a Mainframe, so don't get worked up because you have an extra 1/4 million to blow.
Frankly I'm not suprised Intel is doing this. After all, what sense would it make for them actually use any manufacturing capabilities that they might have to make the 1GHz CPU's available in some respectable quantities. I believe that Intel is running scared. AMD has them shaking, because the Athlon outperforms the PIII hands down. Intel continues to promise new technology, but when they actually produce something tangable (RAMBUS) it falls flat on its face. They are scrambling to introduce technology they don't have the bugs worked out of yet. And all because of the little company they've tried to bury under all the mud, FUD, and rigged benchmarks for all these years, AMD. Granted this is the first time AMD has out performed Intel, but it has made the giant nervous. And nervous giants tend to be clumsy. See any resemblence there?
The government has not been taken over by scientologists yet, hence everyone in the country is not being forced to watch the movie as mandatory media. Hence, I'll not have to watch it. Thats good....really it is.
Like the subject says, he's right. There are restrictions that simply don't work for this software to be either "open" or "free". Frankly for everything I've needed Motif like support for, Lesstif has worked just fine. Some people may think that Motif and Lesstif are both ugly, and so this doesn't matter, because they aren't going to use it anyhow. Thats fine. But someone who accepts the liscense just by using the software and happens to include it in something that it shouldn't be included with could get in trouble. "Free" and "Open" software means just that. I say, "Hey, I wrote this, and you can use it, change it, and distribute it, just leave this declaration that I wrote this, here,and include it with anything that might include this source code." Thats open. Thats free. Thats not what the Motif liscense says.
Napster isn't SELLING someone elses copywrited material. Even though its mute at this point because they've reached an agreement, napster never SOLD the music. If the Offspring had been giving away the T-shirts, it would have been different altogether.
Correction. The real tallent was killed in a tragic accident while touring europe in 86.
This really shouldn't have come as a suprise to anyone. It had to happen sooner or later. I'm suprised that Metallica was the first band to do it. Cliff Burton's early compositions for them made them underground metal gods back in the early and mid eighties, and they sold albums to wierd people like me that couldn't find anything intense enough for their liking on the radio. I don't think back then that they would have realized any loss from something like the "horrible N", they toured, made a little money, and wrote some more songs. They had a good time. I hope they're still having a good time. But clearly they are making more money now. Every other song they release is on the radio. Note that I am not one of those people that sold out. It's this simple: Now Metallica is "childs play" when you have people like Manson and ICP running around. Metallica seems rather tame. However, I remember being sent home from school for wearing the Ride the Lightning shirt with the man in the electric chair. Its the standard today. Add to that, the fact that the early songs were long: 6-8 minutes a piece. Songs that long don't get much radio play. People with classical composition backrounds (like Burton) write songs that long because they know how to, because the can set a mood with it. Metallica may still occasionally pop out a song that long, but most of them are radio length now. So, considering the amount of money they CAN make now, it doesn't suprise they want to make all of it. I hate to say "Even artists have to make a living" but its true. And besides, tell me that if your band was one of the most popular bands in the world, you wouldn't want to run your hands through the money like a mieser. Go on ....say it. You know you would.
We all know that devlopers take pride in thier work. Objectiveness can be invaluable though, and the insight of a developer about his "competition" is, IMHO, most valuable. If you couldn't use Gnome on your desktop, what would you use, and why? How would you compare your choice to Gnome?
BTW: I'll always be willing to read the documentation in order to make it work the way *I* want it to work. Thanks for a great Distro.
Beowulf clusters are indeed possible on Intels. However, as any true gearhead will tell you, an Alpha processor will spank the pants right off any intel ever put together (or is it just me?)
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
If you're looking for speed, and for a cheaper solution, RAMBUS is not the way to go for memory. There is not *that* great a performance increase using this technology to warrent the extra several thousand dollars it's going to cost to perchase just the memory. I would look very closely at Micron's new (though as of yet unreleased technology) that uses DDR ram. It can produce nearly the same bandwidth at litterally a fraction of the cost per megabite. I also see very little need for a DVD drive. Call me picky, but I pay taxxes in this country, and I know how computers work. For less than half the cost, you can get a good old CD rom drive, or for that matter, you could get a CD-R to back things up on. But I think a DVD drive is out of the question unless part of your post mission data analys is playback of some sort of DVD recorded data, this is a waste of my tax dollars.
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
Geneticly engineered children. What happens to the "love children" when this comes about. Obviously, they would be repressed as imperfect for even the slightest defect, even one's that aren't visable that we think nothing of today. Corporations would spurn these people in preference of the ones that were "made" to have higher IQ's. This is trouble if it is used wrong. I have no problem with attempting to eleminate major or cripling defects in children concieved of in some natural form. However, geneticly engineering them is wrong.
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
And further more, since everyone uses them now, and most of the people on the net have no clue about BBS's, and very little intrest in technology, or discussing it, they've basicly turned into talkers. Not that anyone would read this (I'm way behind in my reading/posting today) but I have been wanting for quite a while to set up a "talker" if you will, for the discussion of coding, hardware, and other geek related subjects. My only question is, who would be intrested in such a thing? Is anyone willing to rally around such an idea?
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
>I still wonder what kind of K6 I have in this system. Its supposed to be a 200, but the old K6's were >very easy to relabel, so it might be a 166. I guess it doesn't much matter. I have run it at 166-233 >without any troubles, but I do wonder.
Hmm, makes me wonder too. I have a K6-233 that was obtaned through a reliable source. However, much to my dismay, if you actually try to clock it at 233, it will last about 15 minutes before overheating and shutting down (and this with the most massive heatsink/fan combo I can find without going to something really pricey). As a consequince, I've clocked the chip back to 200, and have not had a problem out of it.
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
It can't kill me. Please don't let it kill me. If it kills me I'll never get to hear what he has to say!
if (OS==Linux && segfault) {edit_source()} continue;
if (OS==Windows && illegal_operation) {
fdisk();
return Linux;
I suppose then, if you're like me, and you program alot, and you drink alot of coffee, and you don't want children, that everything will work out just fine. Several pots of coffee a day keeps everything working smoothly. For instance, I know for a fact that one of my most festering bugs in my older tcp socket setups is in line 562 of con_build.c ....now, if I could just remember how I was told to properly fix it, I could knock out about 25 lines of error checking code. Of course, then I wouldn't be able to remember what line the bug was on, cause it would change, and then I'd just be lost all over again huh? Oh well, I don't suppose I'll ever pick up any women sitting in front of this computer anyhow, so what does it matter if I can remember thier names or not?
I will be curious to see/hear how they intend to handle the use of slang, or eubonics, which is so commonly (over?) used, particularly in the US, any ideas on this? Maybe Americans will have to learn English now so this will work. Wouldn't that just make things simple?