What makes me happy is a CentOS 5.2 server running a Promise ST EX8650 RAID-1 and RAID-5 solution (6 HDs on the SATA300 capable controller - oh, it does SAS too and is capable of addressing >200 HDs). You have to use ES.2 Seagate or similar drives otherwise you don't have their vendor support, but they run FAST and with my GiGe (Gigabit Ethernet) it runs at about 26 MBps. Currently my box is running Samba, NFS, and 3 VMWare systems because it has a nice AMD AM2 Dual Proc and a decent amount of RAM.
This allows you to run server apps in the virtual systems without worrying about affecting your priceless data. Just turned up my Azureus virtual system recently and am able to turn off the main system in my room at night (save a little electricity now ^_^). With my setup, I actually added 2 10/100 cards and have them set to be bridged to the actual virtual machines (direct IP to the network).
In my small and humble experience I've had several failures that were right in the Enterprise Linux flavor from the Red Hat world themselves.
A couple years ago I was installing 4 with a license contract for a large state college (the largest employer in the state actually) and Red Hat EL4 couldn't even complete an installation without requiring an update to allow for the rest of the GUI setup which if you can't get to, makes it almost impossible to finish the setup.
So now, modern day, I am working with RH EL5.2 and the SAME THING happens. I try to call since I am on a demo license this time (doing the work at home for a company I am starting up) to let them know about the same problem with their installer and another problem they have with the kernel line in grub for the type of processor (completely wrong placement of 'noapic' when you are setting up their virtualization kernel). They tell me they can't take my advise or suggestion until I pay them money. Right - I have to pay them to help them fix their product. Guess that's what companies do anymore, try to convince their customers not to be customers unless they NEED them and then they are willing to pay exuberant fees anyway.
Normally I don't post on here, but when people are talking about how the power they are gathering can't be stored permanently I am reminded that we (humans as 'we') just achieved a near 100% effiency rating at splitting Hydrogen and Oxygen from water due to the catalysts that have been discovered by MIT. This was covered on Slashdot recently and I found a Science journal about the topic. To quote: "Researchers have made a major advance in inorganic chemistry that could lead to a cheap way to store energy from the sun. In so doing, they have solved one of the key problems in making solar energy a dominant source of electricity."
Let's get that technology out to everyone! The source of the electricity isn't as important as the fact that it will stay in the form of pure hydrogen and pure oxygen for years, centuries, probably longer. That means you have natural batteries because now have methods of taking those sources and making them into usable electricity.
I am interested in the idea of augmenting the human brain with enhancements that would allow the subject to be able to possibly assemble memories and ideas better. It would amazing to use the human mind as a storage bank for memories and such in an organized database that was cataloged much better than our own memory does. We could cross reference certain ideas and memories and furthermore, probably export them to other people saying they stored the ideas or thoughts in the same manner in the beginning.
I have ideas of hooking myself up to a computer wirelessly via BlueTooth or preferably a more secure method of wireless technology not so prone to security or signal interference. If it had to be hard wired or jacked in that would be fine as well. There has been recent research as far as creating an energy source from a slight temperature difference in the body. You would put a device that creates this energy source at that point and it would power the rest of the electronics in the human body just fine. You could easy integrate a cell phone, mp3 player, or a GPS into such a system and put a form of display into the eye as a visual feedback system. If the feedback system was actually implanted as a third eye if you will into the brain, that would be amazing as you could suddenly literally change the feed of the third and the depth of realism as well. You could close your eyes, focus on the fake third eye in your head (only see through the third eye or full 360 degree spherical vision input as it where) and be in a complete 3-D environment that you might be able to feel as well if you decide to program the touch response systems as well. Interactive gaming would be at its best. This would also allow for very interesting security issues such as someone trying to hack into your mind or steal a memory or try to plan a memory, depending on how integrated the main Biocomputer device was.
The wireless transmittal of information in and out of the brain would allow for much fast integration with computers and management of code, ideas, information, as well as communication with other people. I have thought that such a system would inevitably allow you to chat or communicate with more than one person at a time. If the chatting were visual, as it would probably have to be, then you could communicate with probably 20 to 50 people at the same time. If the chatting where vocal, then it would be simply how many different audio streams you can differentiate at the same time. For some people, they are able to pick out a flute and a few other instruments in an orchestra as they are playing in unison. The trick would be of course for the human mind to pick out and understand interactive data in multiple streams at the same time. I have only tried to talk on two different phones with two different people at the same time once or twice, but managed to do it pretty well for a short period of time. It would be interesting to see what is capable as far as an in brain communication system to the amount of understood conversation that would be possible. You wouldn't have to just have conversation either. You could share images and possibly even feelings over such a system. Imaging learning how to fold a paper crane and then teaching everyone that accepted the learning around you how to do it in mere seconds. They would have the building blocks to, they could restructure the folding process and figure out how to fold their own result. If the learning that you sent someone was more than just the moves required, but included the idea behind the moves (such as not just the source, but the source with ALL of the commenting) and could rebuild those moves. Teaching would be revolutionized as just as someone that paints a picture can share the image, and someone's interpretation is up to how they view it, someone sharing how to develop a program with the source and reasoning in the logic in mere seconds with another programmer, could be completely rethought in minutes as he has all of the preprocess beforehand and
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Yes and the MAKE webzine is pretty cool too!
What makes me happy is a CentOS 5.2 server running a Promise ST EX8650 RAID-1 and RAID-5 solution (6 HDs on the SATA300 capable controller - oh, it does SAS too and is capable of addressing >200 HDs). You have to use ES.2 Seagate or similar drives otherwise you don't have their vendor support, but they run FAST and with my GiGe (Gigabit Ethernet) it runs at about 26 MBps. Currently my box is running Samba, NFS, and 3 VMWare systems because it has a nice AMD AM2 Dual Proc and a decent amount of RAM.
This allows you to run server apps in the virtual systems without worrying about affecting your priceless data. Just turned up my Azureus virtual system recently and am able to turn off the main system in my room at night (save a little electricity now ^_^). With my setup, I actually added 2 10/100 cards and have them set to be bridged to the actual virtual machines (direct IP to the network).
Specs
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 2.4 Ghz
EPoX AM2+ Mobo
1.5 GB DDR2 RAM
1.1 TB Logical Drive 1
1.4 TB Logical Drive 2
2 GB Ethernet
2 10/100 Ethernet
Cost me around $800 (HDs and RAID card, the rest I already pretty well had)
In my small and humble experience I've had several failures that were right in the Enterprise Linux flavor from the Red Hat world themselves.
A couple years ago I was installing 4 with a license contract for a large state college (the largest employer in the state actually) and Red Hat EL4 couldn't even complete an installation without requiring an update to allow for the rest of the GUI setup which if you can't get to, makes it almost impossible to finish the setup.
So now, modern day, I am working with RH EL5.2 and the SAME THING happens. I try to call since I am on a demo license this time (doing the work at home for a company I am starting up) to let them know about the same problem with their installer and another problem they have with the kernel line in grub for the type of processor (completely wrong placement of 'noapic' when you are setting up their virtualization kernel). They tell me they can't take my advise or suggestion until I pay them money. Right - I have to pay them to help them fix their product. Guess that's what companies do anymore, try to convince their customers not to be customers unless they NEED them and then they are willing to pay exuberant fees anyway.
Normally I don't post on here, but when people are talking about how the power they are gathering can't be stored permanently I am reminded that we (humans as 'we') just achieved a near 100% effiency rating at splitting Hydrogen and Oxygen from water due to the catalysts that have been discovered by MIT. This was covered on Slashdot recently and I found a Science journal about the topic. To quote: "Researchers have made a major advance in inorganic chemistry that could lead to a cheap way to store energy from the sun. In so doing, they have solved one of the key problems in making solar energy a dominant source of electricity."
1st Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21155/?a=f
2nd Source: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
Let's get that technology out to everyone! The source of the electricity isn't as important as the fact that it will stay in the form of pure hydrogen and pure oxygen for years, centuries, probably longer. That means you have natural batteries because now have methods of taking those sources and making them into usable electricity.
I am interested in the idea of augmenting the human brain with enhancements that would allow the subject to be able to possibly assemble memories and ideas better. It would amazing to use the human mind as a storage bank for memories and such in an organized database that was cataloged much better than our own memory does. We could cross reference certain ideas and memories and furthermore, probably export them to other people saying they stored the ideas or thoughts in the same manner in the beginning.
I have ideas of hooking myself up to a computer wirelessly via BlueTooth or preferably a more secure method of wireless technology not so prone to security or signal interference. If it had to be hard wired or jacked in that would be fine as well. There has been recent research as far as creating an energy source from a slight temperature difference in the body. You would put a device that creates this energy source at that point and it would power the rest of the electronics in the human body just fine. You could easy integrate a cell phone, mp3 player, or a GPS into such a system and put a form of display into the eye as a visual feedback system. If the feedback system was actually implanted as a third eye if you will into the brain, that would be amazing as you could suddenly literally change the feed of the third and the depth of realism as well. You could close your eyes, focus on the fake third eye in your head (only see through the third eye or full 360 degree spherical vision input as it where) and be in a complete 3-D environment that you might be able to feel as well if you decide to program the touch response systems as well. Interactive gaming would be at its best. This would also allow for very interesting security issues such as someone trying to hack into your mind or steal a memory or try to plan a memory, depending on how integrated the main Biocomputer device was.
The wireless transmittal of information in and out of the brain would allow for much fast integration with computers and management of code, ideas, information, as well as communication with other people. I have thought that such a system would inevitably allow you to chat or communicate with more than one person at a time. If the chatting were visual, as it would probably have to be, then you could communicate with probably 20 to 50 people at the same time. If the chatting where vocal, then it would be simply how many different audio streams you can differentiate at the same time. For some people, they are able to pick out a flute and a few other instruments in an orchestra as they are playing in unison. The trick would be of course for the human mind to pick out and understand interactive data in multiple streams at the same time. I have only tried to talk on two different phones with two different people at the same time once or twice, but managed to do it pretty well for a short period of time. It would be interesting to see what is capable as far as an in brain communication system to the amount of understood conversation that would be possible. You wouldn't have to just have conversation either. You could share images and possibly even feelings over such a system. Imaging learning how to fold a paper crane and then teaching everyone that accepted the learning around you how to do it in mere seconds. They would have the building blocks to, they could restructure the folding process and figure out how to fold their own result. If the learning that you sent someone was more than just the moves required, but included the idea behind the moves (such as not just the source, but the source with ALL of the commenting) and could rebuild those moves. Teaching would be revolutionized as just as someone that paints a picture can share the image, and someone's interpretation is up to how they view it, someone sharing how to develop a program with the source and reasoning in the logic in mere seconds with another programmer, could be completely rethought in minutes as he has all of the preprocess beforehand and