LG (Lucky Goldstar, I believe?) has made phones for Verizion for a while now. I had an LG phone with Verizon several years ago (my first digital phone).
I dunno... I have the Motorola T720, and I get a signal everywhere.
I'd really love to know, because I'm planning on signing up for their unlimited data service sometime next year, and dropping my home internet connection.
And, no, I'm not switching from Verizion, because they have been the most reliable carrier I've ever used for the locations I travel, and I've never had a billing problem with them.:-)
http://www.raqc.org/high emitter work group/Feb. 4/svimpactonaq020402.PDF
Quick summary: Gasoline emissions contain smaller particulate matter than diesel emissions, which carries a greater risk of causing cancer (easier to absorb into the lungs).
Gasoline engines produce more toxic emissions than diesel engines.
Diesel engines pollute MUCH less than gasoline engines (some study results in the links above).
Diesel engines not only have much better efficiency than current gasoline engines, but also hold the capacity for even greater efficiency as technology improves (even more than direct injection gasoline engine technology).
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I grew up with diesel engines (farming, heavy machinery), and can't stand the blatantly incorrect assumption people currently hold against diesel engines: That diesel engines pollute more than gasoline engines. It is absolutely wrong, and people need to inform themselves so the spread of disinformation STOPS.
The world runs on diesel. Busses, trains, tractor-trailers, heavy machinery used to grow and harvest the food you eat, the equipment that people use to build cities... The USA does it's heavy lifting with diesel, as does the rest of the industrialized world.
Most electric motors generate a completely flat torque curve (max torque at all times). RPMs are not a limitation, but a design consideration (what RPM would you like your motor to run?).
Electric cars are pretty sweet, but the logistics of keeping them charged just haven't been worked out yet. Hybrid cars are going to have to suffice for now.
And I'd still take the Corvette over that electric car.
Feh... I used to own an '84 K5 Blazer that was just a beast on and off-road. Got ~30mpg on the highway and around 20mpg in town, thanks to the 6.2L diesel engine. Handled steep inclines with no problems, as well as deep water crossings (I had the truck in water up to the top head lights several times, approximately 3-1/2'). All the torque I could have ever needed while crawling around the Rockies in Colorado.
Subarus are nice, though, if you don't need to do any hard-core off-roading. Excellent all-weather vehicles!
RAID setups don't always need cache. ReiserFS actually runs faster on some of my smaller (~100GB) arrays when I disable cache on the drives and the controllers (those that have cache).
Plus, 3Ware seems to have much better software support for Linux.
Oh, I know others in my group really like those 3Ware cards over the Promise cards.
There are other machines in production using the 3Ware cards. 3Ware seems to have pretty good Linux support, and I don't believe any of the machines running 3Ware controllers have had any issues.
I'm willing to give Promise one more chance. I'll probably upgrade the machine to RH 7.3, and compile the driver for the SX6000 myself. That way I won't be tied to one RH kernel revision (or RH at all, if it turns out to be an issue with the OS).
What does it matter to you? The data is in multiple locations, and is also backed up regularly.
And yes, I'm part of the group who will be getting this situation taken care of. There are new drivers for the RAID card, and we also have some 3Ware cards we could try if the new Promise drivers don't do the trick.
ReiserFS has worked pretty good on 1.2TB RAID-5 array I helped build. We're running RedHat 7.2 on a box with a Promise SX6000 RAID controller.
The drivers are crap, and the box dies about every week or so. Haven't lost a single file yet, and we're at 91% filesystem useage (millions of files).
The / filesystem is ext3. It's about 20gigs, and has had to have files restored several times.
I have a lot of confidence in ReiserFS, after seeing the incredible amount of abuse on this one particular machine. I have run ReiserFS for quite a while now (ever since it was part of the kernel) for all of my home systems, and have never had a single issue with those filesystems.
I started a web hosting company several years ago with two 486DX-33s w/32Megs of RAM for DNS servers, and an AMD K6-233 system with 128Megs of RAM for the HTTP/Sendmail server that also ran MySQL.
The system had PHP installed as well, and served several phpBB boards. One of which received over a million hits a month, and dished out several GB of data a month.
I never had any issues with system performance, and my servers took a serious beating every single day of their life.
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Seems OK to me. I charge mine about every three or four days during light use.
LG (Lucky Goldstar, I believe?) has made phones for Verizion for a while now. I had an LG phone with Verizon several years ago (my first digital phone).
I dunno... I have the Motorola T720, and I get a signal everywhere.
*walks out to hotwire neighbor's truck*
I'd really love to know, because I'm planning on signing up for their unlimited data service sometime next year, and dropping my home internet connection.
:-)
And, no, I'm not switching from Verizion, because they have been the most reliable carrier I've ever used for the locations I travel, and I've never had a billing problem with them.
No one noticed that with the generator trailer attached, this thing only gets between 30 and 35 MPG?
Worst hybrid ever.
http://www.osti.gov/fcvt/deer2000/eberharpa.pdf
http://www.raqc.org/high emitter work group/Feb. 4/svimpactonaq020402.PDF
Quick summary: Gasoline emissions contain smaller particulate matter than diesel emissions, which carries a greater risk of causing cancer (easier to absorb into the lungs).
Gasoline engines produce more toxic emissions than diesel engines.
Diesel engines pollute MUCH less than gasoline engines (some study results in the links above).
Diesel engines not only have much better efficiency than current gasoline engines, but also hold the capacity for even greater efficiency as technology improves (even more than direct injection gasoline engine technology).
---
I grew up with diesel engines (farming, heavy machinery), and can't stand the blatantly incorrect assumption people currently hold against diesel engines: That diesel engines pollute more than gasoline engines. It is absolutely wrong, and people need to inform themselves so the spread of disinformation STOPS.
The world runs on diesel. Busses, trains, tractor-trailers, heavy machinery used to grow and harvest the food you eat, the equipment that people use to build cities... The USA does it's heavy lifting with diesel, as does the rest of the industrialized world.
Most electric motors generate a completely flat torque curve (max torque at all times). RPMs are not a limitation, but a design consideration (what RPM would you like your motor to run?).
Electric cars are pretty sweet, but the logistics of keeping them charged just haven't been worked out yet. Hybrid cars are going to have to suffice for now.
And I'd still take the Corvette over that electric car.
Feh... I used to own an '84 K5 Blazer that was just a beast on and off-road. Got ~30mpg on the highway and around 20mpg in town, thanks to the 6.2L diesel engine. Handled steep inclines with no problems, as well as deep water crossings (I had the truck in water up to the top head lights several times, approximately 3-1/2'). All the torque I could have ever needed while crawling around the Rockies in Colorado.
Subarus are nice, though, if you don't need to do any hard-core off-roading. Excellent all-weather vehicles!
I'd have said a woman and sex. But maybe I'm the freak around here...
RAID setups don't always need cache. ReiserFS actually runs faster on some of my smaller (~100GB) arrays when I disable cache on the drives and the controllers (those that have cache).
Plus, 3Ware seems to have much better software support for Linux.
Oh, I know others in my group really like those 3Ware cards over the Promise cards.
There are other machines in production using the 3Ware cards. 3Ware seems to have pretty good Linux support, and I don't believe any of the machines running 3Ware controllers have had any issues.
I'm willing to give Promise one more chance. I'll probably upgrade the machine to RH 7.3, and compile the driver for the SX6000 myself. That way I won't be tied to one RH kernel revision (or RH at all, if it turns out to be an issue with the OS).
What does it matter to you? The data is in multiple locations, and is also backed up regularly.
And yes, I'm part of the group who will be getting this situation taken care of. There are new drivers for the RAID card, and we also have some 3Ware cards we could try if the new Promise drivers don't do the trick.
Thank you. Nice to meet someone on Slashdot who knows how this kind of stuff works! :-)
20gig root partition on 20gig drive that is not part of the array in any way.
It's nice to have your log files mostly intact after a hard reboot, too.
Our machine has taken quite a beating. It is in production, and if there were any issues with data integrity, we would have seen it by now.
The root partition is on a 20gig drive that is not part of the RAID array. It ONLY has the operating system stored on it.
I'll say it another way... We don't boot from the array, and we don't store any operating system information on the array.
Guess I should have mentioned that earlier, although I didn't consider that my decisions on how to lay out the filesystems would come under fire here.
It has to be said.
ReiserFS has worked pretty good on 1.2TB RAID-5 array I helped build. We're running RedHat 7.2 on a box with a Promise SX6000 RAID controller.
The drivers are crap, and the box dies about every week or so. Haven't lost a single file yet, and we're at 91% filesystem useage (millions of files).
The / filesystem is ext3. It's about 20gigs, and has had to have files restored several times.
I have a lot of confidence in ReiserFS, after seeing the incredible amount of abuse on this one particular machine. I have run ReiserFS for quite a while now (ever since it was part of the kernel) for all of my home systems, and have never had a single issue with those filesystems.
Looking forward to what ReiserFS4 will bring.
http://www.airbornelaser.com/
:-)
It's going to take more than tin-foil hats to hide from this thing.
I wonder if NASA could get an order for 10,000 G5 machines filled quickly at this point in time?
How about, "Lets wait for the G5 based machines to actually be available to the public," before we judge.
I wonder how many of us can look back at that and say "Without Slackware 1.0 then, I wouldn't be doing the cool job I do now"?
*raises hand*
Slackware was my first real experience using a Unix-like system. It definately changed my perceptions regarding software and computing.
After Slackware, I worked with Solaris for several years in my first systems administration job.
Without Slackware to get me started, I may have never decided to go the direction I am currently going with my professional career.
I play (use, whatever) with many different versions of Red Hat where I work, and have used Debian in the past.
:-)
I've also played with the SPARC port of Slackware (discontinued, sadly) which was pretty sweet.
Slackware is my distro of choice for my workstation in the office, and almost all of my PCs at home.
Happy Birthday, Slackware! Here's to another TEN YEARS of enjoyable computing!
Go browse for cases at http://www.jinco.com
They've got all kinds of stuff there.
Don't have reviews, but they tend to have enough specs and sometimes all the pictures you could possibly want.
I started a web hosting company several years ago with two 486DX-33s w/32Megs of RAM for DNS servers, and an AMD K6-233 system with 128Megs of RAM for the HTTP/Sendmail server that also ran MySQL.
The system had PHP installed as well, and served several phpBB boards. One of which received over a million hits a month, and dished out several GB of data a month.
I never had any issues with system performance, and my servers took a serious beating every single day of their life.