We are seriously thinking about building our house using this product in a few years. Its going to either one of these domes or using insultated concrete forms (ICF).
This service seems to be the darling of fortune 50's.. probably because it used to be IBM Global Services.
The problem is its basically IPSec with some propetary crap thrown in just to piss us off.
It works in Windows only (of course), and they refuse to even discuss supporting other users.
FOR GOD SAKES whatever you do make sure it will support more than just Windows users.
What are these companies thinking going with this propetary crap. I mean who is most likely to be the heavy users of the VPN? The IT support staff, who ALSO ARE the ones most likely to NOT use Windows.
Nothing is more frustrating than spending a bunch of time neatly folding your cables to only have then unravelthemselves later.
Just use a iron to put a little bit of perm press into them. It helps if its on HIGH, full-steam, and you spray on a little starch as well. For really peskey cables it helps to let the iron sit on them for a few minutes and let the weight do the job for you.
Their design was to have a car that has a TURBINE engine (only one moving part really), to generate electricity and then use that to drive electric motors on the wheels.
It is a much more efficent use of gasoline, and could double the life of our oil supply.
A turbine engine and electric motors are MUCH more reliable and efficent than the internal combustion engine.
If you ask me that would be a great first step toward tomorrow where the internal combustion engine is a thing of the past, and eliminates the need for all this battery stuff etc.. but gets us all in the process of using electric motors and can start that whole progress of technological improvements that will surely happen with mass adopton.
Sorry to have to burst your bubble of "put downs on Bill", but he's actually a former national correspondent for ABC News and was featured reglarly on the ABC evening news with his reports...thats how he knows LOTS of people in the news business, he was in the business.
You may not like him, but his real credentials are a far cry from the jerry springer you try to make him out to be..
What I found interesting is that this speech was given by one of the most blatent liberal journalists there is, who has a long history of using his power as a "journalist" and his access to the media to further his leftest ideas... Oh well.
I work for a Fortune 50 with a long relationship with IBM from mainframes on down..
Lately IBM has been spending a great deal of effort trying to get people to drink the "linux-on-powerpc" kool-aid.
Personally, I think its stupid to run anything other than Linux-on-x86.
As soon as you leave x86 your in the land of where you cant use what everyone else is using, and getting things to install like say Subversion or something is about as hard as trying to get it to work on HPUX... unless everyone else (or a much larger number than today at least) runs Linux on x86, then running Linux on anything else such as PowerPC, Sparc, or Itanium you will always feel like the red-head bastard child that never gets to go out and play with the other kids, never gets a new bike when they do, and only gets to wear hand-me-down clothes... No Thanks.
The best thing america can do is make this the best place in the world to do business.
That means competitive and attractive tax rates, unobtrusive and easy to understand regulations, along with highly educated and productive employees.
Throw in things like having some of the best capital markets and banking in the world, along with unmatched goods distrubtion no matter sea,air,or land and things look good.
The answer does not lie in government intervention to protect one type of worker.
If the govt had stepped in to save 10,000 typewriter mfg jobs in the 1960's and put taxes or other restrictions to slow down the computer takeover....sure those 10,000 jobs might have been saved but it might have caused hundreds of thousands of new jobs to be lost by some other coutry(japan?) getting a head start on that market.
While govt intervention sounds good to those people affected, more often than not, anytime the govt interfears with the free market there are unseen disasterous results.
I agree with you but not because of some type of bigotry... its for one simple reason.
Until those countries give the same opportunities and have as open policies for american workers to go to their country then we should not do it for them.
I have friends who tried to get jobs at startups in India, and its impossible for someone outside of that country to work there because of their laws.
What's fair is fair I say.
Why should we open our doors to their workers when their doors are locked-shut to our workers...until then, our doors should be as closed as theirs.
I am for global free trade... but a free market is not a "one-way street".
Let me be the first to pledge my allegance to our new highly-radiated mutant astronaut overlords with freakish superpowers and lucritive future comic book deals!
If ADSB really takes off we could see this become pratical.
With ADSB and GPS, many people in avaition are starting to question the need/benifit of positive controled airspace.
If ADSB gets widely deployed pilots will have 10x more information avaiable to them about traffic around them then todays air controllers.
The concept of "Open Skies" is getting lots of talk these days about being the future. Many people envision a world where the pilot does his own navigaion from point a to point b, and only needs air traffic controllers during entry and exit of congested airports... during regular cross-country nagivation, no air traffic control is needed.
There are already so many commerical flights in the air today that the existing way of doing things (eg only traveling over pre-determined routes on nav charts, basically "highways in the sky), is starting to be a problem with not enough highway and too much traffic. Open Skies would make pilots able to take any road they wanted and not be required to stick to the current few paths allowed between locations.
This would also make it much simpler for individuals and the general public to take on aviation modes of transportation.
Systems Admins in UNIX are really "Systems Programmers"... because they are constantly developing their own tools, coding their own solutions to administration problems etc..
The rule is: If you have to do the admin task more than once, then you should automate it... and that automation happens via coding up a utility via Perl, or Pyton, Java or C.
Windows admins are about 1000x more clueless about software development than UNIX admins, because it's just not something they are exposed to.
Many UNIX admins tend to have writing code about 20-40% of their job.
Here is the MOST important quote that anyone should get from this article:
The findings prove that the world experienced a Medieval Warm Period between the ninth and 14th centuries with global temperatures significantly higher even than today.
They also confirm claims that a Little Ice Age set in around 1300, during which the world cooled dramatically. Since 1900, the world has begun to warm up again - but has still to reach the balmy temperatures of the Middle Ages.
The timing of the end of the Little Ice Age is especially significant, as it implies that the records used by climate scientists date from a time when the Earth was relatively cold, thereby exaggerating the significance of today's temperature rise.
Slashdot Mirror
Which if funny since Microsoft announced they are dropping support for Itanium... so thats an expensive propietary Linux server.
Yeah..that will sell to about the 3 people in the world stupid enough to run Linux on something non-x86.
I typed "stargate" into the search, and it took until down on the second page of results to find ANYTHING from the newsgroup alt.tv.stargate-sg1
Actually, there are some people already doing more forward looking home building.
http://www.monolithicdome.com/
We are seriously thinking about building our house using this product in a few years. Its going to either one of these domes or using insultated concrete forms (ICF).
This service seems to be the darling of fortune 50's .. probably because it used to be IBM Global Services.
The problem is its basically IPSec with some propetary crap thrown in just to piss us off.
It works in Windows only (of course), and they refuse to even discuss supporting other users.
FOR GOD SAKES whatever you do make sure it will support more than just Windows users.
What are these companies thinking going with this propetary crap. I mean who is most likely to be the heavy users of the VPN? The IT support staff, who ALSO ARE the ones most likely to NOT use Windows.
Nothing is more frustrating than spending a bunch of time neatly folding your cables to only have then unravelthemselves later.
Just use a iron to put a little bit of perm press into them. It helps if its on HIGH, full-steam, and you spray on a little starch as well. For really peskey cables it helps to let the iron sit on them for a few minutes and let the weight do the job for you.
Whatever happened to the ideas of Rosen motors?
Their design was to have a car that has a TURBINE engine (only one moving part really), to generate electricity and then use that to drive electric motors on the wheels.
It is a much more efficent use of gasoline, and could double the life of our oil supply.
A turbine engine and electric motors are MUCH more reliable and efficent than the internal combustion engine.
If you ask me that would be a great first step toward tomorrow where the internal combustion engine is a thing of the past, and eliminates the need for all this battery stuff etc.. but gets us all in the process of using electric motors and can start that whole progress of technological improvements that will surely happen with mass adopton.
Simple...its a "socialist" democracy...and we know from history that socialism never works.
They also have one of the most corrupt governments and have more regulations and red tape than any other country I have ever heard of.
Sorry to have to burst your bubble of "put downs on Bill", but he's actually a former national correspondent for ABC News and was featured reglarly on the ABC evening news with his reports...thats how he knows LOTS of people in the news business, he was in the business.
You may not like him, but his real credentials are a far cry from the jerry springer you try to make him out to be..
What I found interesting is that this speech was given by one of the most blatent liberal journalists there is, who has a long history of using his power as a "journalist" and his access to the media to further his leftest ideas
I work for a Fortune 50 with a long relationship with IBM from mainframes on down..
Lately IBM has been spending a great deal of effort trying to get people to drink the "linux-on-powerpc" kool-aid.
Personally, I think its stupid to run anything other than Linux-on-x86.
As soon as you leave x86 your in the land of where you cant use what everyone else is using, and getting things to install like say Subversion or something is about as hard as trying to get it to work on HPUX... unless everyone else (or a much larger number than today at least) runs Linux on x86, then running Linux on anything else such as PowerPC, Sparc, or Itanium you will always feel like the red-head bastard child that never gets to go out and play with the other kids, never gets a new bike when they do, and only gets to wear hand-me-down clothes... No Thanks.
You make some good points...and I like your ideas.
The question is, why mod parent as flamebait?
The best thing america can do is make this the best place in the world to do business.
That means competitive and attractive tax rates, unobtrusive and easy to understand regulations, along with highly educated and productive employees.
Throw in things like having some of the best capital markets and banking in the world, along with unmatched goods distrubtion no matter sea,air,or land and things look good.
The answer does not lie in government intervention to protect one type of worker.
If the govt had stepped in to save 10,000 typewriter mfg jobs in the 1960's and put taxes or other restrictions to slow down the computer takeover....sure those 10,000 jobs might have been saved but it might have caused hundreds of thousands of new jobs to be lost by some other coutry(japan?) getting a head start on that market.
While govt intervention sounds good to those people affected, more often than not, anytime the govt interfears with the free market there are unseen disasterous results.
I agree with you but not because of some type of bigotry... its for one simple reason.
Until those countries give the same opportunities and have as open policies for american workers to go to their country then we should not do it for them.
I have friends who tried to get jobs at startups in India, and its impossible for someone outside of that country to work there because of their laws.
What's fair is fair I say.
Why should we open our doors to their workers when their doors are locked-shut to our workers...until then, our doors should be as closed as theirs.
I am for global free trade... but a free market is not a "one-way street".
Wasnt this supposed to have a good chance of creating an unstable black hole and causing the end of our known universe?
Are we still worried about that or have we moved on yet? I forget.
I love you....... SMOOCH!
I'll try one:
the beaver is free
now let the party begin
burn up the mirrors
Hmm, it seems this occasion calls for a colorful haiku to mark the moment.
Anyone wanna try?
Let me be the first to pledge my allegance to our new highly-radiated mutant astronaut overlords with freakish superpowers and lucritive future comic book deals!
If ADSB really takes off we could see this become pratical.
With ADSB and GPS, many people in avaition are starting to question the need/benifit of positive controled airspace.
If ADSB gets widely deployed pilots will have 10x more information avaiable to them about traffic around them then todays air controllers.
The concept of "Open Skies" is getting lots of talk these days about being the future. Many people envision a world where the pilot does his own navigaion from point a to point b, and only needs air traffic controllers during entry and exit of congested airports... during regular cross-country nagivation, no air traffic control is needed.
There are already so many commerical flights in the air today that the existing way of doing things (eg only traveling over pre-determined routes on nav charts, basically "highways in the sky), is starting to be a problem with not enough highway and too much traffic. Open Skies would make pilots able to take any road they wanted and not be required to stick to the current few paths allowed between locations.
This would also make it much simpler for individuals and the general public to take on aviation modes of transportation.
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR SYSADMIN OVERLORDS!!
Let me be the first to tell you who which rouge developers have installing non-standard unapproved downloaded software on their development boxes.
Actually in the UNIX world its true..
Systems Admins in UNIX are really "Systems Programmers"... because they are constantly developing their own tools, coding their own solutions to administration problems etc..
The rule is: If you have to do the admin task more than once, then you should automate it... and that automation happens via coding up a utility via Perl, or Pyton, Java or C.
Windows admins are about 1000x more clueless about software development than UNIX admins, because it's just not something they are exposed to.
Many UNIX admins tend to have writing code about 20-40% of their job.
Hahaha... Notice all the links on the site are to CGI scripts that end in .pl which acutually load the pages.
m oreove r.com
They are using PERL (opensource) as their whole backend.
The backend website runs on APACHE TOO!
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=c.
The msn server is Windows 2003, but its just a very thin front end to the Apache/Perl servers.
Who's using OpenSource now... huh Microsoft?!!
We should make sure this Wired story gets in the hands of every tv,radio,and print newsroom in all of UTAH...
Some of them would run it just for the fun...haha.
"If any of you have questions, concerns or comments, feel free to contact me directly at darl@sco.com or my direct dial office number is 801-932-5820.
Very sincerely yours,
Darl McBride
President and CEO
The SCO Group"
found here
The findings prove that the world experienced a Medieval Warm Period between the ninth and 14th centuries with global temperatures significantly higher even than today.
They also confirm claims that a Little Ice Age set in around 1300, during which the world cooled dramatically. Since 1900, the world has begun to warm up again - but has still to reach the balmy temperatures of the Middle Ages.
The timing of the end of the Little Ice Age is especially significant, as it implies that the records used by climate scientists date from a time when the Earth was relatively cold, thereby exaggerating the significance of today's temperature rise.