I think chunks of fries and burgers (and cell phones and other crap that gets dropped into the oil in restaurants) may cause certain issues with the flow of the heat.
Take it out with some gloves, do the repair, put it back. If done properly you would only need to clean up a little bit. You could also simply replace the whole module and ship it back to manufacturer. Even in servers there is little to repair these days, fans, hard drives, anything mechanical is usually the culprit. RAM, SSD, CPU's don't die (after burn-in testing) for decades.
Diesel is an oil product that isn't flammable... unless you compress it. Even crude oil is quite hard to light and requires addition of quite some energy to get it lighted, gasoline and certain other oils are the very flammable ones but there are quite some oils that would be considered inflammable under the conditions in a computer.
It works well, it won't give you much throughput but if all you need is some text and voice-based systems this should be plenty (it's about 300-9600 baud for IP so a slow serial link).
The issue I see with your approach is that when the vehicles are within range of each other they will also be within range of the same hotspot. So mesh is simply overkill. Mesh is intended for lots and lots of nodes in dense areas to connect to each other to a single (large?) uplink for either anonymizing or places where you cannot place (either due to economic or ecologic reasons) multiple antenna's. This works well for the GSM range because they are intended to cover literally miles (2W) at a frequency that is licensed to cooperate with each other and able to penetrate a lot of structures so two cell phones can technically talk to each other and extend the range of the original tower another mile or so (given the battery usage to do so is acceptable).
The 100 mW you get out of a WiFi router close to the hydrogen resonance frequency is simply not enough to cover a mile of random area which may have other compatible and incompatible broadband sources (microwaves, garage door openers, bluetooth...) that could overpower the signal.
You're better off using the professional systems for this. WiMax base stations can be had for $1500 and a receiver is ~$200 and it will cover about 50km. Otherwise get a free cell phone plan for your volunteer fire department (I mean, some local corporate overlord MUST be benevolent enough) or set up your own transmitter (HAM or otherwise).
Even before SSD drives came into the mainstream (I had a 1MB SSD in my 80286 which had 8ms latency) this technique already existed:
- 5.25" RAM drive with Flash (CF) backup from Acard as well as the DDRDrive which is a plugin card - HyperDrive RAM-based SSD which was a PATA solution - Rack mount systems (NAS, DAS) which were basically RAM and batteries with a few either SSD's or even HDD's as backup solution. TI's RAMSAN for example. - SAN based "accelerators" which sat on FibreChannel - 2.5" and 3.5" SAS and FC RAM disks which had SLC as backup from STEC and a few other manufacturers. Sure they cost $15k/drive but they have been available for about a decade now.
I kid. Seriously, ask them about generic networking and server stuff (hw/sw) see if they can do some minor unix stuff. If you need specific skills (hpc/san) ask about that.
The problem is not necessarily platform for most people, it's understanding of IT concepts
in general.
Also, make sure they can script and do basic stuff on command line
You know that the 'new' printer cartridges in those $20 or $30 printers are practically empty right? HP usually comes with 10% filled cartridge. Everytime I buy a laser printer, I get a full cartridge that doesn't go to waste. $100 and you can literally print well over 5 years in a home environment (20k pages for a cartridge) without the cartridge going empty or drying up and if you need to replace it, the cartridge is $50 for another 5 years. I haven't had an inkjet survive for longer than 6 months.
You're leaving a lot of parts out of the narrative though in order to make the facts fit with your personal (or parental) belief system. Eg. plants are described as being 'created' before light which shows a complete lack of knowledge of the requirements for light in order to have photosynthesis. Plus both creation stories in Genesis are already contradicting between each other.
They're ancient stories at best created by a people that had no understanding of science or how things were supposed to work and contributed it to some deity whoms stories they copied from surrounding groups they conquered or were conquered by.
It's called the Universal Access Fund. It's still on your telco bill.
Why would we need yet another tax on our bill just so we can give more money to people that have demonstrated they have absolutely no intention into expanding their offerings.
It's not like the bandwidth is not available. If you have cable, most likely you are already able to get 100/100 Mbps without much of an investment (maybe replace the modem). The fact that you don't have it is because the cable companies don't have any incentive to give you more than 10Mbps because they're the incumbent, they have been granted monopolies in most places and they will rather spend money fighting any competition than giving you more access for free.
Well, the data is read/write quite intensively and HDD's don't write modified data to new areas as SSD's may do. They are 500GB capacity but the dataset is maybe 20-30GB all together for a week long analysis.
Yes, it's probably dropped and mishandled a lot by the students who do the work as well and the enclosures are pretty crappy. The manufacturer states that the drive will statistically generate an error for every 12TB and they're probably not built for intensive use.
The cheap ones fail just as fast, I ship the same OCZ Onyx drive back and forth to their RMA site it seems like, I've killed a couple of Vertexes also. The more expensive ones (SLC) are much better and the Intel 32GB SLC's have held up but they're so expensive it's really not worth it.
Really, singular hard drives are notoriously bad at keeping data around for long. I would make sure you have a copy of everything. So make a file server with RAIDZ2 or RAID6 and script the copying of these hard drives onto a system that has redundancy and is backed up as well.
How many times I have seen scientist come out with their 500GB portable hard drives and they are unreadable... way too much. If you fill 500GB in 24 hours, there is no way a portable hard drive will survive for longer than about a year. Most of our drives (500GB 2.5" portable drives) last a few months, once they have processed about 6TB of data full-time they are pretty much guaranteed to fail.
As I said in another post. Where the interface uses the GPU, if another program wants exclusive control over the GPU, Windows will come up with a pop-up box and disable those features anyway. Having the GUI switching back and forth is confusing for people and also fairly slow (takes about 3-5 seconds).
Poorly written software comes in all shapes and forms. We're generally using badly written scientific code, written by scientists not programmers and generally also cross platform (Python, Java, MATLAB,...) which Windows natively has absolutely horrendous support for.
Unsigned drivers, again, custom software in the scientific community doesn't generally come with the multi-thousand dollar signing, most of the time we have to compile it ourselves. On the other hand, plenty of anti-copy features of these expensive packages come with their own version of whatever hardware dongle they decide to use which means I have to hack in plenty of stuff.
Yes, there are API's and yes, they are being used correctly. However since Windows 7, the clock continues to tick and is simply not passed to the program in time. It's a well documented fact that since Vista, the HPET comes with a latency (we measured it to the order of 200 ticks) whereas this is not the problem on other platforms on the same hardware.
V-Sync is indeed possible and even though you may not notice this in games, we have about 0.02% of misses on high-end hardware, resulting in severe latency between when the sync happened and the next sync is reported to the OpenGL program that waits for it.
Not hacked together. We use a DVI-D splitter - per the HDCP specification it is not allowed to pass the HDCP signal to both destinations. In XP or Linux not so big of a problem. Mac OS X only a problem when you launch iTunes and play back protected content. Windows just enables the HDCP signal willy-nilly well after boot.
Except that those "function's" use the GPU to render so taking control of the GPU to do other things will either crash the program or (in some cases) Windows will detect it and simply disable those features anyway (there is a pop-up box for it). People don't like that their interface changes at random places..
Well, not everybody in the scientific community knows how to program a RTOS. The things is, Linux and Mac OS X on the same machine do work correctly even though Linux is notoriously bad with it's video card drivers.
It's not uncommon for programs to want access to the high-res timers which are available in all modern hardware and video card retrace (V-sync) is also sometimes used by certain video games.
* Ditch the wireless electronics, trade for cash or a small video camera if possible * Lose the tail using several methods (it's very easy to do) * Talk to a mall cop, security guard or a cop on the street and if necessary ask them to help you out. Even briefly passing by can severely unnerve a follower but on the other hand, the lower levels of law enforcement is usually not involved and they love to have some excitement. You can sometimes verify (if they are being held back by the cop) whether they are lower-level government agents (FBI, Marshals) or not or quietly disappear while they're being held up. * Get in touch with your/a lawyer, most likely you did something wrong, you can't even walk across the street without breaking some laws. * Publish the stuff on your camera online in a high-visibility place from a public system. Libraries work great, you can even set up connections between multiple machines/levels/buildings in order to subvert any tracking. * Always keep your back to a wall, always have an eye on the exits and entrances to places you are * Fuck the bombshells you will randomly encounter on these adventures.
* No major problems adjusting to Win7 after I set the theme to Windows Classic. Running it with all the bells and whistles confuses people. * Running users as standard users is still the same pain in the neck. Running users as administrators and it will still ask you to click through a bunch of crap which pops up EVERYWHERE. However some applications don't request elevated rights but still need it (Java-based programs for instance) and as a result they simply crash with no message whatsoever. * Users are still dumb and will click everything. I simply wipe the system if a malware infection occurs but I don't see a big difference in rate. * Device drivers for Win7 is a pain in the neck with the signing and the x64/32-bit. I have to hack in certain drivers and some manufacturers still haven't released a driver and XP drivers although they use the same model and similar kernel simply can't be used for some reason. * I never had much use of the MS imaging tools * Unless you have bog-standard hardware sleep and hibernate still doesn't work reliably and for some reason laptops keep waking up when closed.
Other issues: * Have an external PCIe card? Won't even hot plug. Needs a full reboot. * The MS high-res timer drivers are crap on Windows 7 and software can't take exclusive control over them * Video card retrace signals are horribly inaccurate and software can't take exclusive control over them * Want to set a system with 120Hz or higher refresh rate? We'll also encrypt that signal for you with HDCP even though no content is playing back and screw up your whole custom DVI-D setup * Very slow SMB copy (20MBps where it should be 120MBps). Teracopy (3rd party software) solves the issue. * Still no native NFS/LDAP/Kerberos support
Certain Ethernet webcams could do that. They can also be multi-purpose if you want (video conferencing) - streaming is easy, I use VLC from the command line with a small script that breaks it in chunks of 30 minutes on one of the servers to stream video (w/o audio but it could include audio) to a network share.
The problem here is with religion, more specifically the Abrahamic ones.
1) If you remove the idiot their faiths have an inherent persecution complex (Christians, Jewish or Muslims) which makes them blame you for removing the idiot and put him in a martyr situation thereby legitimizing his initial complaint.
2) Disproving won't help for the same reason. They still believe in creation regardless of the evidence and the proof for evolution that has piled up in the last 2 centuries.
They believe their 'holy texts' which say that if a woman gets raped and doesn't scream she is supposed to be stoned, if a women gets raped and carries babies she has to keep them, if a women gets raped she is supposed to get married to her rapist and her father is paid however much a slave is worth and if a women gets raped she brings shame upon her family, her husband has a right to a no-fault divorce where he gets to keep all the stuff and is supposed to be forever an outcast in the society as she is no longer a virgin. -- and that's just the Judeo-Christian texts.
It would certainly prevent spam temporarily but a) the spammer would notice rather quickly if their spam doesn't show up in Google b) the spammer could easily defeat the system by simply re-registering with another username c) one mistake on implementing the system (eg. allowing users to read 'sandboxed' comments through a link) could maybe hide it from your users but not from the other bots that crawl your site (again Google and security bots) which would then mark your site as spam.
The problem is that spamming is usually automated so you have to have the end-user jump through hoops in order to defeat them. One of the forums I moderate actually requires a legitimate introduction on the topic of the forum before they are allowed to post in the general forums. Defeats most spammers as it's somewhat of a niche forum and automated spam is immediately recognized and user/ip banned.
Correct, the SMS specification allows for one to set their own header. All you have to do is write your own app to send SMS'es or use any of the random SMS gateways all which allow you to set your from field. Even Google Voice allows you to do it (although they verify your phone number first)
Even though I appreciate the effort that Debian has put forth and I'm a large Debian fan, for some reason their marketing machine (or their ads) requested the location of my device which I refuse for any random website.
The UK courts did not review the case. They reviewed the laws of Sweden and the extradition procedure and found that Assange might have broken them but at the same time they also mentioned that the 'crime' was not a crime under their laws so they would not prosecute him under their laws.
A sleeping person wakes up when you have sex with them unlike what the pornography business might have you believe. Also, if you're in a relationship with someone it's really hard to prove rape as you have consented and if one of the partners wants to get freaky at night, why not? I have done it and have been on the receiving end as well.
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I think chunks of fries and burgers (and cell phones and other crap that gets dropped into the oil in restaurants) may cause certain issues with the flow of the heat.
Take it out with some gloves, do the repair, put it back. If done properly you would only need to clean up a little bit. You could also simply replace the whole module and ship it back to manufacturer. Even in servers there is little to repair these days, fans, hard drives, anything mechanical is usually the culprit. RAM, SSD, CPU's don't die (after burn-in testing) for decades.
Diesel is an oil product that isn't flammable... unless you compress it. Even crude oil is quite hard to light and requires addition of quite some energy to get it lighted, gasoline and certain other oils are the very flammable ones but there are quite some oils that would be considered inflammable under the conditions in a computer.
It works well, it won't give you much throughput but if all you need is some text and voice-based systems this should be plenty (it's about 300-9600 baud for IP so a slow serial link).
The issue I see with your approach is that when the vehicles are within range of each other they will also be within range of the same hotspot. So mesh is simply overkill. Mesh is intended for lots and lots of nodes in dense areas to connect to each other to a single (large?) uplink for either anonymizing or places where you cannot place (either due to economic or ecologic reasons) multiple antenna's. This works well for the GSM range because they are intended to cover literally miles (2W) at a frequency that is licensed to cooperate with each other and able to penetrate a lot of structures so two cell phones can technically talk to each other and extend the range of the original tower another mile or so (given the battery usage to do so is acceptable).
The 100 mW you get out of a WiFi router close to the hydrogen resonance frequency is simply not enough to cover a mile of random area which may have other compatible and incompatible broadband sources (microwaves, garage door openers, bluetooth ...) that could overpower the signal.
You're better off using the professional systems for this. WiMax base stations can be had for $1500 and a receiver is ~$200 and it will cover about 50km. Otherwise get a free cell phone plan for your volunteer fire department (I mean, some local corporate overlord MUST be benevolent enough) or set up your own transmitter (HAM or otherwise).
Even before SSD drives came into the mainstream (I had a 1MB SSD in my 80286 which had 8ms latency) this technique already existed:
- 5.25" RAM drive with Flash (CF) backup from Acard as well as the DDRDrive which is a plugin card
- HyperDrive RAM-based SSD which was a PATA solution
- Rack mount systems (NAS, DAS) which were basically RAM and batteries with a few either SSD's or even HDD's as backup solution. TI's RAMSAN for example.
- SAN based "accelerators" which sat on FibreChannel
- 2.5" and 3.5" SAS and FC RAM disks which had SLC as backup from STEC and a few other manufacturers. Sure they cost $15k/drive but they have been available for about a decade now.
I kid. Seriously, ask them about generic networking and server stuff (hw/sw) see if they can do some minor unix stuff. If you need specific skills (hpc/san) ask about that.
The problem is not necessarily platform for most people, it's understanding of IT concepts
in general.
Also, make sure they can script and do basic stuff on command line
Color laser printers all-in-ones are available for $150-200. What's to complain? The fact that they only do 20,000 pages vs. 200 per cartridge?
You know that the 'new' printer cartridges in those $20 or $30 printers are practically empty right? HP usually comes with 10% filled cartridge. Everytime I buy a laser printer, I get a full cartridge that doesn't go to waste. $100 and you can literally print well over 5 years in a home environment (20k pages for a cartridge) without the cartridge going empty or drying up and if you need to replace it, the cartridge is $50 for another 5 years. I haven't had an inkjet survive for longer than 6 months.
You're leaving a lot of parts out of the narrative though in order to make the facts fit with your personal (or parental) belief system. Eg. plants are described as being 'created' before light which shows a complete lack of knowledge of the requirements for light in order to have photosynthesis. Plus both creation stories in Genesis are already contradicting between each other.
They're ancient stories at best created by a people that had no understanding of science or how things were supposed to work and contributed it to some deity whoms stories they copied from surrounding groups they conquered or were conquered by.
It's called the Universal Access Fund. It's still on your telco bill.
Why would we need yet another tax on our bill just so we can give more money to people that have demonstrated they have absolutely no intention into expanding their offerings.
It's not like the bandwidth is not available. If you have cable, most likely you are already able to get 100/100 Mbps without much of an investment (maybe replace the modem). The fact that you don't have it is because the cable companies don't have any incentive to give you more than 10Mbps because they're the incumbent, they have been granted monopolies in most places and they will rather spend money fighting any competition than giving you more access for free.
Well, the data is read/write quite intensively and HDD's don't write modified data to new areas as SSD's may do. They are 500GB capacity but the dataset is maybe 20-30GB all together for a week long analysis.
Yes, it's probably dropped and mishandled a lot by the students who do the work as well and the enclosures are pretty crappy. The manufacturer states that the drive will statistically generate an error for every 12TB and they're probably not built for intensive use.
The cheap ones fail just as fast, I ship the same OCZ Onyx drive back and forth to their RMA site it seems like, I've killed a couple of Vertexes also. The more expensive ones (SLC) are much better and the Intel 32GB SLC's have held up but they're so expensive it's really not worth it.
Really, singular hard drives are notoriously bad at keeping data around for long. I would make sure you have a copy of everything. So make a file server with RAIDZ2 or RAID6 and script the copying of these hard drives onto a system that has redundancy and is backed up as well.
How many times I have seen scientist come out with their 500GB portable hard drives and they are unreadable... way too much. If you fill 500GB in 24 hours, there is no way a portable hard drive will survive for longer than about a year. Most of our drives (500GB 2.5" portable drives) last a few months, once they have processed about 6TB of data full-time they are pretty much guaranteed to fail.
As I said in another post. Where the interface uses the GPU, if another program wants exclusive control over the GPU, Windows will come up with a pop-up box and disable those features anyway. Having the GUI switching back and forth is confusing for people and also fairly slow (takes about 3-5 seconds).
Poorly written software comes in all shapes and forms. We're generally using badly written scientific code, written by scientists not programmers and generally also cross platform (Python, Java, MATLAB, ...) which Windows natively has absolutely horrendous support for.
Unsigned drivers, again, custom software in the scientific community doesn't generally come with the multi-thousand dollar signing, most of the time we have to compile it ourselves. On the other hand, plenty of anti-copy features of these expensive packages come with their own version of whatever hardware dongle they decide to use which means I have to hack in plenty of stuff.
Yes, there are API's and yes, they are being used correctly. However since Windows 7, the clock continues to tick and is simply not passed to the program in time. It's a well documented fact that since Vista, the HPET comes with a latency (we measured it to the order of 200 ticks) whereas this is not the problem on other platforms on the same hardware.
V-Sync is indeed possible and even though you may not notice this in games, we have about 0.02% of misses on high-end hardware, resulting in severe latency between when the sync happened and the next sync is reported to the OpenGL program that waits for it.
Not hacked together. We use a DVI-D splitter - per the HDCP specification it is not allowed to pass the HDCP signal to both destinations. In XP or Linux not so big of a problem. Mac OS X only a problem when you launch iTunes and play back protected content. Windows just enables the HDCP signal willy-nilly well after boot.
Except that those "function's" use the GPU to render so taking control of the GPU to do other things will either crash the program or (in some cases) Windows will detect it and simply disable those features anyway (there is a pop-up box for it). People don't like that their interface changes at random places..
Well, not everybody in the scientific community knows how to program a RTOS. The things is, Linux and Mac OS X on the same machine do work correctly even though Linux is notoriously bad with it's video card drivers.
It's not uncommon for programs to want access to the high-res timers which are available in all modern hardware and video card retrace (V-sync) is also sometimes used by certain video games.
* Ditch the wireless electronics, trade for cash or a small video camera if possible
* Lose the tail using several methods (it's very easy to do)
* Talk to a mall cop, security guard or a cop on the street and if necessary ask them to help you out. Even briefly passing by can severely unnerve a follower but on the other hand, the lower levels of law enforcement is usually not involved and they love to have some excitement. You can sometimes verify (if they are being held back by the cop) whether they are lower-level government agents (FBI, Marshals) or not or quietly disappear while they're being held up.
* Get in touch with your/a lawyer, most likely you did something wrong, you can't even walk across the street without breaking some laws.
* Publish the stuff on your camera online in a high-visibility place from a public system. Libraries work great, you can even set up connections between multiple machines/levels/buildings in order to subvert any tracking.
* Always keep your back to a wall, always have an eye on the exits and entrances to places you are
* Fuck the bombshells you will randomly encounter on these adventures.
Sysadmin here:
* No major problems adjusting to Win7 after I set the theme to Windows Classic. Running it with all the bells and whistles confuses people.
* Running users as standard users is still the same pain in the neck. Running users as administrators and it will still ask you to click through a bunch of crap which pops up EVERYWHERE. However some applications don't request elevated rights but still need it (Java-based programs for instance) and as a result they simply crash with no message whatsoever.
* Users are still dumb and will click everything. I simply wipe the system if a malware infection occurs but I don't see a big difference in rate.
* Device drivers for Win7 is a pain in the neck with the signing and the x64/32-bit. I have to hack in certain drivers and some manufacturers still haven't released a driver and XP drivers although they use the same model and similar kernel simply can't be used for some reason.
* I never had much use of the MS imaging tools
* Unless you have bog-standard hardware sleep and hibernate still doesn't work reliably and for some reason laptops keep waking up when closed.
Other issues:
* Have an external PCIe card? Won't even hot plug. Needs a full reboot.
* The MS high-res timer drivers are crap on Windows 7 and software can't take exclusive control over them
* Video card retrace signals are horribly inaccurate and software can't take exclusive control over them
* Want to set a system with 120Hz or higher refresh rate? We'll also encrypt that signal for you with HDCP even though no content is playing back and screw up your whole custom DVI-D setup
* Very slow SMB copy (20MBps where it should be 120MBps). Teracopy (3rd party software) solves the issue.
* Still no native NFS/LDAP/Kerberos support
Certain Ethernet webcams could do that. They can also be multi-purpose if you want (video conferencing) - streaming is easy, I use VLC from the command line with a small script that breaks it in chunks of 30 minutes on one of the servers to stream video (w/o audio but it could include audio) to a network share.
The problem here is with religion, more specifically the Abrahamic ones.
1) If you remove the idiot their faiths have an inherent persecution complex (Christians, Jewish or Muslims) which makes them blame you for removing the idiot and put him in a martyr situation thereby legitimizing his initial complaint.
2) Disproving won't help for the same reason. They still believe in creation regardless of the evidence and the proof for evolution that has piled up in the last 2 centuries.
They believe their 'holy texts' which say that if a woman gets raped and doesn't scream she is supposed to be stoned, if a women gets raped and carries babies she has to keep them, if a women gets raped she is supposed to get married to her rapist and her father is paid however much a slave is worth and if a women gets raped she brings shame upon her family, her husband has a right to a no-fault divorce where he gets to keep all the stuff and is supposed to be forever an outcast in the society as she is no longer a virgin. -- and that's just the Judeo-Christian texts.
It would certainly prevent spam temporarily but
a) the spammer would notice rather quickly if their spam doesn't show up in Google
b) the spammer could easily defeat the system by simply re-registering with another username
c) one mistake on implementing the system (eg. allowing users to read 'sandboxed' comments through a link) could maybe hide it from your users but not from the other bots that crawl your site (again Google and security bots) which would then mark your site as spam.
The problem is that spamming is usually automated so you have to have the end-user jump through hoops in order to defeat them. One of the forums I moderate actually requires a legitimate introduction on the topic of the forum before they are allowed to post in the general forums. Defeats most spammers as it's somewhat of a niche forum and automated spam is immediately recognized and user/ip banned.
Why bother? Does your e-mail provider modify your e-mail headers?
Correct, the SMS specification allows for one to set their own header. All you have to do is write your own app to send SMS'es or use any of the random SMS gateways all which allow you to set your from field. Even Google Voice allows you to do it (although they verify your phone number first)
Even though I appreciate the effort that Debian has put forth and I'm a large Debian fan, for some reason their marketing machine (or their ads) requested the location of my device which I refuse for any random website.
The UK courts did not review the case. They reviewed the laws of Sweden and the extradition procedure and found that Assange might have broken them but at the same time they also mentioned that the 'crime' was not a crime under their laws so they would not prosecute him under their laws.
A sleeping person wakes up when you have sex with them unlike what the pornography business might have you believe. Also, if you're in a relationship with someone it's really hard to prove rape as you have consented and if one of the partners wants to get freaky at night, why not? I have done it and have been on the receiving end as well.