Speaking as someone who used to work in Boulder, CO for people who did weather modeling and atmospheric sciences (at NCAR and elsewhere), I can say that a lot of them are a little full of themselves and their models.
We do NOT have nearly enough information to correctly model any type of weather forcasting, even using a 1km grid resolution, not to mention the amount of modern computing power required to do anything meaningful. As the amount of detail has gone up, so has the computing requirement, substantially.
Folks, we can't even predict local weather for a 48 hour period very accurately (temps, precip, wind). No one has the software or the hardware to do any meaningful predictions for the globe, let alone Colorado.
Lastly, the thing that kills me are these enviro-hippies who live in Boulder, work for institutions like NCAR, claim global warming is happening, are tooling around town in their Jeep Cherokees, Subaru Foresters, etc... Way to live by example and save the environment.
I'm posting AC because I do have friends who still work at NCAR/UCAR and other various scientific institutions in that area, and some of their bosses.
Oh, shut the hell up. I manage to support my family (wife and three kids), make my car payments, mortgage, utilities, and afford to run a Linux cluster in my basement on significantly less than 100K a year (closer to half that). My wife stays at home with the kids, and does not bring income into the household. Everything I own I purchased with money I made, on my own. Nothing was handed to me, I don't have rich parents (neither does my wife), and no rich uncles have died recently and left me everything.
Stop whining, and grow up. You want something in this world, you have to work for it.
I used to live in Indiana, and now reside in Illinois. I'd gladly go back to get away from this mess... FIX THE FUCKING SCHOOLS YOU ASSHOLE POLITICIANS!
I haven't had problems with yum in the past on Fedora Core 3 or 4 machines, and I don't install every damned package that comes with the distro either. I HAVE updated the entire system in one shot as well.:-)
If you have a lot of machines on your network, set up a local mirror. Fresh install of Fedora Core 3 or 4 (custom/minimal with maybe HTTP or MySQL, and sometimes development packages like gcc) takes about 10-20 minutes to update to the local mirror. Gentoo's not going to even come close, my friend, not on my Pentium III systems.
Yum isn't broke. Maybe some packages are, I don't know. I've never run into them. I've used Gentoo in the past, and I'm getting ready to install it on my recently aquired AMD64 X2 machine, so I know what's entailed with that distro. I know how long Gentoo takes to compile, yum is faster. Oh, and if you do "yum -y", you don't get prompted for the y/N either.
All that said, I'm willing to do your test to see if there really are problems with yum on a full install of Fedora Core 4.:-)
How exactly is it yum's fault for not being configured to point at multiple repositories for official and third-party packages?
Yum works just fine. So does emerge. Get over yourself, Gentoo's another Linux distro, just like all the rest. And just like all the rest, it's all in the configuration files.
I haven't come across a DVD that I couldn't fast forward at any point with my older Panasonic DVD player. Must only be the newer players that have this "feature".
Ah, 24kbit/s AAC streams, and they don't sound too bad.
internet video is basically useless without broadband
Streamed ABC's video feeds during 9/11 over 56K modem link to a 32" TV in the conference room all day long. Had audio, even. Amazing what compression does these days.
uploading/downloading is horrible on dial-up, even stuff like windows patches or linux kernal updates can take hours
So? Do that stuff while you sleep. Automate it. Yes, I've installed Gentoo over a 56K modem link before.
bittorrent? I don't think so
Works just fine. Let it run while you sleep. Spams the hell out of the connection, but it does run.
gaming? out of the question
Some new games probably do need something better than 56K, but that doesn't mean all games do. I know Age of Empires works fine over a modem, so does Doom and Quake. Battlefield 2 might not.
dial-up is basically only useful for casual browsing and email/IM... You cannot really enjoy the net without it.. I'm glad I have my 10mbit cable connection every second I use it.. then again, I am a power user.
Ever installed Microsoft Office over a mapped drive using a 14.4K link? PPP at 9600 baud because you had to? 2400 baud BBS downloads?
Dial-up is the same connection you have, just slower. You can do the same stuff, it just takes more time. A true "power user" would figure out how to survive on just about any type of 'net connection.
That's completely not true for a lot of people, and I'm one of them.
If cable rates get too high, I'll dump them, and go back to dial-up, or just use my cell phone for occasional internet access (tethered to PC).
I've already dumped all of SBC's services, because they're a bunch of greedy bastards. My local cable company seems to "get it", and offers decent rates for their packages.
At any rate, I could survive just fine on dial-up. Last time I had it, it was a dial on demand setup for about twenty systems in my basement. They'd go out and get updates, email, etc whenever they felt like it, and take as long as they needed.
I send video clips of the kids to my parents, and they don't even have 56K dial-up. The best they get is 33K, sometimes 41K, but it tends to disconnect. The only other option they have for internet is satellite, and there's no way they'll pay for that.
Open up email before going to bed, click on the URLs to save them, and go to sleep. Watch videos in the morning when drinking coffee.
I have cable internet, and while it's nice, I could get along just fine with dial-up for home use. If money gets tight, the cable internet service would be the first thing to go.
Growing up on a farm in the midwest, I think I can safely say the topsoil is still here, and not going away anytime soon (with the exception of areas that get flooded, that's fairly devastating to farmland).
Something today's farmers have that no one else has had is modern soil conservation programs. No-till farming is big, because not only does it do a very good job of protecting the land from erosion (wind or water), you also perform less passes over the same plot of land during planting season, tend to move quicker due to the firm ground (less slippage for tires), so you save a lot of fuel in the process.
To add to all of that, you can now do GPS plots with soil samples, and spread the perfect amount of fertilizer over the ground, which reduces nitrate runoff quite a bit (almost entirely, with proper application).
Farming is a tough business these days. Less than 2% of the population in the USA are farmers, farmland is shrinking faster than ever due to urban development and farmers going under due to costs. If you, as a farmer, do not plan accordingly, use the technology that's available, and conserve as much as possible, you will fail as a farmer.
Modern farmers aren't stupid, and they aren't destroying the earth. Most of the farmers I know are VERY supportive of bio-fuels and recycling, because they know in the end they're not only helping the environment, but they're helping themselves too.
Screw blowing the money for the pop gun and sticky ammo, I'd just "tag" them with the car!
And, yes, I drive an equally disposable vehicle. 1988 Honda Civic LX with over 280,000 miles on the odometer. I've been tempted to "tag" a few people with it in the past...:-)
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Speaking as someone who used to work in Boulder, CO for people who did weather modeling and atmospheric sciences (at NCAR and elsewhere), I can say that a lot of them are a little full of themselves and their models.
We do NOT have nearly enough information to correctly model any type of weather forcasting, even using a 1km grid resolution, not to mention the amount of modern computing power required to do anything meaningful. As the amount of detail has gone up, so has the computing requirement, substantially.
Folks, we can't even predict local weather for a 48 hour period very accurately (temps, precip, wind). No one has the software or the hardware to do any meaningful predictions for the globe, let alone Colorado.
Lastly, the thing that kills me are these enviro-hippies who live in Boulder, work for institutions like NCAR, claim global warming is happening, are tooling around town in their Jeep Cherokees, Subaru Foresters, etc... Way to live by example and save the environment.
I'm posting AC because I do have friends who still work at NCAR/UCAR and other various scientific institutions in that area, and some of their bosses.
Yeah, but can you put the adult, three kids and a bunch of stuff into the Mini at the same time?
The adult plus three kids I can see, but there's not a lot of room for "a bunch of stuff" left in that vehicle.
Yes, I've been in one.
Oh, shut the hell up. I manage to support my family (wife and three kids), make my car payments, mortgage, utilities, and afford to run a Linux cluster in my basement on significantly less than 100K a year (closer to half that). My wife stays at home with the kids, and does not bring income into the household. Everything I own I purchased with money I made, on my own. Nothing was handed to me, I don't have rich parents (neither does my wife), and no rich uncles have died recently and left me everything.
Stop whining, and grow up. You want something in this world, you have to work for it.
People do vote for third parties. The Mayor of Rockford in Illinois ran as an independant, and won the last election.
I live in northern Illinois. I think Northern, Central, and Southern Illinois should get together and kick Chicago out.
Shit, he missed one.
I used to live in Indiana, and now reside in Illinois. I'd gladly go back to get away from this mess... FIX THE FUCKING SCHOOLS YOU ASSHOLE POLITICIANS!
To hell with Blago and all the morons who voted him into office.
Illinois is nothing but corruption in government.
FIX BATTLEFIELD 2!!!
I haven't had problems with yum in the past on Fedora Core 3 or 4 machines, and I don't install every damned package that comes with the distro either. I HAVE updated the entire system in one shot as well. :-)
:-)
If you have a lot of machines on your network, set up a local mirror. Fresh install of Fedora Core 3 or 4 (custom/minimal with maybe HTTP or MySQL, and sometimes development packages like gcc) takes about 10-20 minutes to update to the local mirror. Gentoo's not going to even come close, my friend, not on my Pentium III systems.
Yum isn't broke. Maybe some packages are, I don't know. I've never run into them. I've used Gentoo in the past, and I'm getting ready to install it on my recently aquired AMD64 X2 machine, so I know what's entailed with that distro. I know how long Gentoo takes to compile, yum is faster. Oh, and if you do "yum -y", you don't get prompted for the y/N either.
All that said, I'm willing to do your test to see if there really are problems with yum on a full install of Fedora Core 4.
That's pretty spiffy. You DO deserve a cookie!
Do you have plans for that setup on the web, or just the pictures? I'd be interested in seeing what you used to put that together.
Yum isn't that slow, and your computer isn't that fast. ;-P
How exactly is it yum's fault for not being configured to point at multiple repositories for official and third-party packages?
Yum works just fine. So does emerge. Get over yourself, Gentoo's another Linux distro, just like all the rest. And just like all the rest, it's all in the configuration files.
I haven't come across a DVD that I couldn't fast forward at any point with my older Panasonic DVD player. Must only be the newer players that have this "feature".
The reason Canadians live so much longer is the cold allows them to die slower.
http://www.di.fm/
Ah, 24kbit/s AAC streams, and they don't sound too bad.
Streamed ABC's video feeds during 9/11 over 56K modem link to a 32" TV in the conference room all day long. Had audio, even. Amazing what compression does these days.
So? Do that stuff while you sleep. Automate it. Yes, I've installed Gentoo over a 56K modem link before.
Works just fine. Let it run while you sleep. Spams the hell out of the connection, but it does run.
Some new games probably do need something better than 56K, but that doesn't mean all games do. I know Age of Empires works fine over a modem, so does Doom and Quake. Battlefield 2 might not.
Ever installed Microsoft Office over a mapped drive using a 14.4K link? PPP at 9600 baud because you had to? 2400 baud BBS downloads?
Dial-up is the same connection you have, just slower. You can do the same stuff, it just takes more time. A true "power user" would figure out how to survive on just about any type of 'net connection.
That's completely not true for a lot of people, and I'm one of them.
If cable rates get too high, I'll dump them, and go back to dial-up, or just use my cell phone for occasional internet access (tethered to PC).
I've already dumped all of SBC's services, because they're a bunch of greedy bastards. My local cable company seems to "get it", and offers decent rates for their packages.
At any rate, I could survive just fine on dial-up. Last time I had it, it was a dial on demand setup for about twenty systems in my basement. They'd go out and get updates, email, etc whenever they felt like it, and take as long as they needed.
I send video clips of the kids to my parents, and they don't even have 56K dial-up. The best they get is 33K, sometimes 41K, but it tends to disconnect. The only other option they have for internet is satellite, and there's no way they'll pay for that.
Open up email before going to bed, click on the URLs to save them, and go to sleep. Watch videos in the morning when drinking coffee.
I have cable internet, and while it's nice, I could get along just fine with dial-up for home use. If money gets tight, the cable internet service would be the first thing to go.
Oh, and if you want to read up on elilo, check this out:
http://elilo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blosxom
Difference between lilo and elilo: lilo boots from legacy BIOS machines, elilo boots from EFI machines.
You do know that "lilo" is a boot loader, right?
http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/
It's been around quite a bit longer than Lilo and Stitch...
No shit... er... wait...
The antenna is probably so small you wouldn't bother with an external/"booster" antenna.
Growing up on a farm in the midwest, I think I can safely say the topsoil is still here, and not going away anytime soon (with the exception of areas that get flooded, that's fairly devastating to farmland).
Something today's farmers have that no one else has had is modern soil conservation programs. No-till farming is big, because not only does it do a very good job of protecting the land from erosion (wind or water), you also perform less passes over the same plot of land during planting season, tend to move quicker due to the firm ground (less slippage for tires), so you save a lot of fuel in the process.
To add to all of that, you can now do GPS plots with soil samples, and spread the perfect amount of fertilizer over the ground, which reduces nitrate runoff quite a bit (almost entirely, with proper application).
Farming is a tough business these days. Less than 2% of the population in the USA are farmers, farmland is shrinking faster than ever due to urban development and farmers going under due to costs. If you, as a farmer, do not plan accordingly, use the technology that's available, and conserve as much as possible, you will fail as a farmer.
Modern farmers aren't stupid, and they aren't destroying the earth. Most of the farmers I know are VERY supportive of bio-fuels and recycling, because they know in the end they're not only helping the environment, but they're helping themselves too.
A $500 Sable, eh?
:-)
Screw blowing the money for the pop gun and sticky ammo, I'd just "tag" them with the car!
And, yes, I drive an equally disposable vehicle. 1988 Honda Civic LX with over 280,000 miles on the odometer. I've been tempted to "tag" a few people with it in the past...
If Linux can go to war, it's almost ready for the corporate desktop!