AFAIK, methane isn't toxic.
My place was built in 2007, with modern building codes/practices such that there's a passive air vent in each room that leads to underneath the siding. Seems to me that zealous sealing to the point of having to explicitly ventilate is pointless. Apparently enough comes through the vents to keep us alive, but the air inside is depressingly stale. I soooo want to go back a couple of years and not sell my 1986-built place. Despite having double the square footage and three times the air volume, it was cheaper to heat.
I've worked pretty closely* with the HP group responsible for creating their ink jet printer drivers. I haven't noticed any lack of sensibility or honesty
My experience trying to use a D135 and then a PSC 2510 from OSX led me to swear off HP products forever. It's been all downhill since they stopped making the 15-C.
Could they be LESS expensive?
Sure, if they didn't bundle three different colors in the same physical cartridge, forcing the whole to be replaced when just one color runs out. There's no justification for that kind of weaseling. None.
Is it memory usage? There have been memory leaks that have been plugged over the 3.x browser lifetime
Yet the thing still steadily climbs up toward and sometimes past using 2GB of vmem. Two friggen gig. Maybe something's been plugged, but core leaks are still a way of life, and eventually after running for a while it'll become extremely painful to open a new tab, as the whole app wedges and beachballs for at least 5 minutes.
No, they aren't. Like I said, Sun's x64 boxes have working serial consoles to the service processor. Right out of the box. No reason to ever attach a VGA monitor or a keyboard.
Oh yeah, love that HP ILO. Need to plug in a monitor+kbd for initial config, and you're hosed if there's a network issue. Sun's boxes have network interfaces to ILOM, but retain a usable serial console from which one can get a shell or do bare-metal setup.
You think conditions in meat packing plants are all that much better now? The obscene treatment of animals both human and otherwise in such places has repeatedly been exposed, as has the worthlessness of USDA inspections.
Sun's x64 servers are extremely reliable for us, more reliable than their SPARC gear was, even. They're also easier to manage than other x64 servers that I've seen, eg. by virtue of having a real serial console that works out of the box.
As much as I prefer Google on principle, and their search engine interface in the general case, am I the only one who's heard of Bing cashback? Sure it takes some effort, but when buying something that costs more than, say, $100, it can save you some $, maybe even when buying from the same vendor you would have without it. The percentage seems to vary at random, though -- apparently some days it's in excess of 10%, but is usually less.
but am I not the only one into whose mind this image sprung the moment we read the metaphor?
My first thought was that maybe the fuel waste itself would fit into such a volume, but in practical terms it would be encased in rods and other packaging and containment that would have a much greater volume.
I've had the bulging twice in the 3U style, and recently the smell in a big way from a 1.5 year old battery set, which upon opening also showed bulging. I've had it with the thing, dunno if I should replace it with one of the $180 BackUPS units, or go with a different brand.
NASA has been thoroughly Nikon for quite a while. Given the press Nikon gets for this, I suspect that they heavily subsidize anything needed to update NASA's gear. Recent news about the D3s: http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2009/1221_NASA-D3S_01.htm
I'm skeptical that the incremental upgrade from the D2x required millions of NASA dollars.
Um, yeah. Compared to the cost and hassle of having to get a keyboard and monitor for a couple dozen facilities around the world, and trying to talk someone on the other side of the planet through connecting it and installing the OS? In the middle of the night our time, because they're only available local business hours? Not being able to investigate problems or watch a box reboot, because there's no console connection? Yeah, that's pretty valuable -- and I'm not convinced that, say, an x4200m2 is more expensive than whatever HP would call comparable. The Sun box is physically a dream to deal with in comparison. I demo'd an HP DL360 or such -- the lid over the back half of the chassis is attached to PCI risers, so one has to forcibly yank them from the mobo slots / jam them in to add/replace mem/cards. It's insane.
"many IT budgets just couldn't justify paying the extra cash for the few extras Sun brought to the equation."
The x4??? boxes talk to the serial console right out of the box, and it can be used to configured IP on the service processor network and jumpstart the OS -- no need to keep a stupid VGA monitor and keyboard around, no need to try to talk non-English speaking local hands through configuration. I've yet to see x86 boxes from any other vendor for which this is true -- it sure ain't of HP's boxes.
"Underpromise, Overdeliver".
While the longevity of some NASA craft is impressive indeed (Voyagers I & II most notably), others are embarrassing, like the failure of Galileo's HGA due to stupidity. I have to believe that NASA underspecs the official expectations for any mission these days, so that if the hardware does operate longer, they look good.
Oh, and exceeding a 90-day mission by 200% would be 270 days. Maybe you mean 2000%.
iMovie HD was decent enough, but since 08 they've dumbed it way the heck down, probably to encourage sales of FCE. FCE is pretty sophisticated for a $199 tool.
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Sun's ILOM is like this -- have to enter an exception for each one. Grrr.
The builder was pretty clueless in certain ways. Apparently it meets code and supposedly is standard practice for townhouses here.
AFAIK, methane isn't toxic. My place was built in 2007, with modern building codes/practices such that there's a passive air vent in each room that leads to underneath the siding. Seems to me that zealous sealing to the point of having to explicitly ventilate is pointless. Apparently enough comes through the vents to keep us alive, but the air inside is depressingly stale. I soooo want to go back a couple of years and not sell my 1986-built place. Despite having double the square footage and three times the air volume, it was cheaper to heat.
You think this sort of thing is limited to IT? I've got some bad news for you ..
A number of people on the photo forum where I hang out are happy with their A-DATA cards, but for the cost of a meal out I feel safer with Sandisk.
... or if they'll discover the difference between a telco and an ISP.
How do photos look printed on it?
I've worked pretty closely* with the HP group responsible for creating their ink jet printer drivers. I haven't noticed any lack of sensibility or honesty My experience trying to use a D135 and then a PSC 2510 from OSX led me to swear off HP products forever. It's been all downhill since they stopped making the 15-C. Could they be LESS expensive? Sure, if they didn't bundle three different colors in the same physical cartridge, forcing the whole to be replaced when just one color runs out. There's no justification for that kind of weaseling. None.
Yet the thing still steadily climbs up toward and sometimes past using 2GB of vmem. Two friggen gig. Maybe something's been plugged, but core leaks are still a way of life, and eventually after running for a while it'll become extremely painful to open a new tab, as the whole app wedges and beachballs for at least 5 minutes.
No, they aren't. Like I said, Sun's x64 boxes have working serial consoles to the service processor. Right out of the box. No reason to ever attach a VGA monitor or a keyboard.
Oh yeah, love that HP ILO. Need to plug in a monitor+kbd for initial config, and you're hosed if there's a network issue. Sun's boxes have network interfaces to ILOM, but retain a usable serial console from which one can get a shell or do bare-metal setup.
You think conditions in meat packing plants are all that much better now? The obscene treatment of animals both human and otherwise in such places has repeatedly been exposed, as has the worthlessness of USDA inspections.
Sun's x64 servers are extremely reliable for us, more reliable than their SPARC gear was, even. They're also easier to manage than other x64 servers that I've seen, eg. by virtue of having a real serial console that works out of the box.
As much as I prefer Google on principle, and their search engine interface in the general case, am I the only one who's heard of Bing cashback? Sure it takes some effort, but when buying something that costs more than, say, $100, it can save you some $, maybe even when buying from the same vendor you would have without it. The percentage seems to vary at random, though -- apparently some days it's in excess of 10%, but is usually less.
I've had the bulging twice in the 3U style, and recently the smell in a big way from a 1.5 year old battery set, which upon opening also showed bulging. I've had it with the thing, dunno if I should replace it with one of the $180 BackUPS units, or go with a different brand.
I was going to post the very same thought. I'll bet DarkOx is a vi user too ;)
Nobody is effected by it, but some may be affected.
NASA has been thoroughly Nikon for quite a while. Given the press Nikon gets for this, I suspect that they heavily subsidize anything needed to update NASA's gear. Recent news about the D3s: http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2009/1221_NASA-D3S_01.htm I'm skeptical that the incremental upgrade from the D2x required millions of NASA dollars.
Am I the only one who suspects that this is aimed at improving service for Google *employees*?
Um, yeah. Compared to the cost and hassle of having to get a keyboard and monitor for a couple dozen facilities around the world, and trying to talk someone on the other side of the planet through connecting it and installing the OS? In the middle of the night our time, because they're only available local business hours? Not being able to investigate problems or watch a box reboot, because there's no console connection? Yeah, that's pretty valuable -- and I'm not convinced that, say, an x4200m2 is more expensive than whatever HP would call comparable. The Sun box is physically a dream to deal with in comparison. I demo'd an HP DL360 or such -- the lid over the back half of the chassis is attached to PCI risers, so one has to forcibly yank them from the mobo slots / jam them in to add/replace mem/cards. It's insane.
"many IT budgets just couldn't justify paying the extra cash for the few extras Sun brought to the equation." The x4??? boxes talk to the serial console right out of the box, and it can be used to configured IP on the service processor network and jumpstart the OS -- no need to keep a stupid VGA monitor and keyboard around, no need to try to talk non-English speaking local hands through configuration. I've yet to see x86 boxes from any other vendor for which this is true -- it sure ain't of HP's boxes.
Indeed, ignited ants would be much safer.
"Underpromise, Overdeliver". While the longevity of some NASA craft is impressive indeed (Voyagers I & II most notably), others are embarrassing, like the failure of Galileo's HGA due to stupidity. I have to believe that NASA underspecs the official expectations for any mission these days, so that if the hardware does operate longer, they look good. Oh, and exceeding a 90-day mission by 200% would be 270 days. Maybe you mean 2000%.
iMovie HD was decent enough, but since 08 they've dumbed it way the heck down, probably to encourage sales of FCE. FCE is pretty sophisticated for a $199 tool.