My point is that there's no free lunch. If we wish to use energy, we have to do something to our planet. I like global warming, cause I'm always cold, but I'm sure if it gets too hot the Eskimoes will complain.
The problem is one of cause and effect. What if we just put up large solar panels? Well, then we're denying that sunlight to organisims that the solar panels are blocking!
What's that? Put them in the desert? How will our wind and weather patterns be effected if we don't have a natural heating and cooling cycle of the desert?
Wind power is the answer! But if we take enough energy from the wind, how are we going to get that evaporated water from the oceans to the heartland? OOPS! Nebraska and Iowa just became a desert! But then, maybe we can use them for the solar panels.....
Let's not store that CO2, let's use it to hyper-carbonize plants in special greenhouses. We can then compost those plants to create the methane gas we need to run the darn things.
Of course, we could just wake up from our dream states and realize that there is NO zero-effect way to create energy.
According to an IBM rep who spoke to our LUG 2 years ago, IBM promised to invest 1 Billion in Linux because they had estimated it would take them $10 Billion to get it to where it was then. That was in the 2.4 stage.
Now, with the 2.6 kernel, it should be worth another Billion or so.
Of course, I'm willing to sell copies of the latest kernel to all comers for only $500. That includes a year of my "Platinum Support".
Not quite true. The Messaging component is by far the best part of this solution. We still continue to use iMS 5.x (iPlanet Messaging Server from Sun). By default there is no open relays and it supports RBLS. The iMS 5.2 p2 version also supports SpamAssassin/Brightmail. Much of the code for this platform comes from PMDF http://www.process.com/ and these people "know" mail servers.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear: The NETSCAPE version (not IPlanet) has those problems. Once Sun abandoned the joint venture, they continued to update their version, but Netscape's version lapsed into "unsupported software hell" and didn't have those features.
We looked into the IPlanet version, but the current version only ran on Solaris, and we were running Linux.
This is, IMHO, a good thing.
I tried to get a couple of Netscape Servers up and running last year. The Directory Server was a snap, but the Messaging Server had problems. Since it hasn't been update since Sun abandoned the IPlanet joint venture, we tried to use various plugins and hacks to keep it from being used as an open relay, or getting spam floods, but no luck.
We ended up abandoning the project, but we may be re-doing it in Open Exchange.
That's just the point! India is so overcrowded that they're looking for somewhere to dump all the extra people.
It seems that most of the rest of the world is unwilling to take them, unless they're educated. In that case, they can be our doctors and computer techs!
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Uh, if you look, it's speeding up the process by a factor of 10 or more.
At 10X, that 6 months just became 3 weeks!
My point is that there's no free lunch. If we wish to use energy, we have to do something to our planet. I like global warming, cause I'm always cold, but I'm sure if it gets too hot the Eskimoes will complain.
The problem is one of cause and effect. What if we just put up large solar panels? Well, then we're denying that sunlight to organisims that the solar panels are blocking!
What's that? Put them in the desert? How will our wind and weather patterns be effected if we don't have a natural heating and cooling cycle of the desert?
Wind power is the answer! But if we take enough energy from the wind, how are we going to get that evaporated water from the oceans to the heartland? OOPS! Nebraska and Iowa just became a desert! But then, maybe we can use them for the solar panels.....
Let's not store that CO2, let's use it to hyper-carbonize plants in special greenhouses. We can then compost those plants to create the methane gas we need to run the darn things.
Of course, we could just wake up from our dream states and realize that there is NO zero-effect way to create energy.
You're paying WAY too much for your blank CDs!
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According to an IBM rep who spoke to our LUG 2 years ago, IBM promised to invest 1 Billion in Linux because they had estimated it would take them $10 Billion to get it to where it was then. That was in the 2.4 stage. Now, with the 2.6 kernel, it should be worth another Billion or so. Of course, I'm willing to sell copies of the latest kernel to all comers for only $500. That includes a year of my "Platinum Support".
Gosh! I own the Mona Lisa! I personally went to Paris to see it!
I also own the President! And the Pope!
I may even own you!
Any other stupid remarks you want to make?
Not quite true. The Messaging component is by far the best part of this solution. We still continue to use iMS 5.x (iPlanet Messaging Server from Sun). By default there is no open relays and it supports RBLS. The iMS 5.2 p2 version also supports SpamAssassin/Brightmail. Much of the code for this platform comes from PMDF http://www.process.com/ and these people "know" mail servers.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear: The NETSCAPE version (not IPlanet) has those problems. Once Sun abandoned the joint venture, they continued to update their version, but Netscape's version lapsed into "unsupported software hell" and didn't have those features.
We looked into the IPlanet version, but the current version only ran on Solaris, and we were running Linux.
This is, IMHO, a good thing. I tried to get a couple of Netscape Servers up and running last year. The Directory Server was a snap, but the Messaging Server had problems. Since it hasn't been update since Sun abandoned the IPlanet joint venture, we tried to use various plugins and hacks to keep it from being used as an open relay, or getting spam floods, but no luck. We ended up abandoning the project, but we may be re-doing it in Open Exchange.
Not completely. The last Big Bang I was involved in did create life. That's how my daughter was created! ;->
That's just the point! India is so overcrowded that they're looking for somewhere to dump all the extra people.
It seems that most of the rest of the world is unwilling to take them, unless they're educated. In that case, they can be our doctors and computer techs!