What you want is a bootable Linux CD such as Knoppix, and to clone the windows on and off the harddisk to the USB, ntfsclone (which is already in Knoppix).
If you have piracy in mind, note that Windows own protections will mess things up when you reboot on the new hardware -- this is a good way to backup windows after you have just spent a day installing software, however.
However, I believe your best bet is to avoid X. You need a very minimal hand-built linux that uses the svgalib and links, and maybe seejpeg, to do all graphical stuff. If you put it together consider posting an image of it somewhere.
Is there a particular USB card I can buy, that will allow me to put it into either "host" or "periphial" (or whatever they are called) modes, so that I could make a USB snooper ?
Speaking of measuring the power consumption of refridgerators -- I have an older refridgerator which draws more power when the compressor is OFF than when it is ON (on is 240 watts, off is 440 watts). The compressor goes off only rarely. The seal on the door is nasty looking but doesn't leak cold, and the interior temp stays fine.
I am paying about $160 a year to run this thing, and a new fridge costing $350 would only cost $40 a year to run.
However, maybe something is simply broken or shorting out and I can replace a part for much less. Why would a refridgerator draw more power when the compressor is off ? Do they have some sort of defrost cycle which does something like that ?
I at first did not believe the reading, especially as I could feel no source of heat anywhere that would account for 400 watts. However I double checked my Kill A Watt with a Watts Up meeter borrowed from a friend, and it checked out exactly.
Sony is such a big comglomerate, that in one of the big industry suits over mp3 players a few years back they actually sued themselves -- sony music division joined an industry suit against a number of producers of mp3 players, including Sony's consumer electronics division.
The mining of water out the atmosphere is not done by providing the coldness to condense the water. (Except for in the common practice of planting a water-loving plant under the drip of a window airconditioner.)
Rather, mining the atmosphere for water is done by capturing water that woudl have condensed anyway, and preventing it from re-evaporating, which is what happens to most dew.
If you keep harvesting the trees, making it into paper, and burying them in anaerobic landfills, you can remove as much CO2 as you want over the long term. And when we run out of coal, we can just mine the landfills.
I purchased 6 of those Nextar enclosures, of the type that are the first two listed at the link you gave.
The enclosure is not much bigger than the drive itself, and it's difficult to jigger the drive into there. They cut the space way too close.
After a few weeks of use, one of them failed; when I handled the failed enclosure, I could hear something rattling around inside. Inspection showed that the back of the plastic molex connector was pushing up against the circuit board, and it had flaked off a small 8 pin surface mount chip.
If you shave down the plastic of the molex connector with a knife prior to installation, it easier to insert in the disk and probably more reliable. I stopped using those enclosures though, and never put a disk in the other ones.
I have had this problem on over a dozen machines and several different distributions.
I will definitely try out your suggestion. Is it possible to try it out by just recompiling a module, so I don't have to build a whole new kernel ? Some of the machines I wish to try this on are very difficult to physically access.
Also, by "fix the bug", does this make the broken USB drives start working, or does it merely make any new drives you attach not fail ? I.e., how can I tell if I have fixed the problem ?
There was this guy who had been to about every bar in town. So one night, he hopped into a taxi cab and told the robot to take him to the best bar in town.
The robot took him to a bar, where he got half-drunk. He hopped into the same cab and said that the bar wasn't good enough. The robot took him to another bar, where the guy had the time of his life.
The next morning, this guy was in yet another bar telling his buddy what a good time he had the night before, but he couldn't remember where he was. All he could remember was a red door and a golden toilet seat. "Man, we gotta find this place," said his buddy.
So the two spent half the day searching for a bar with a red door until they found one. They walked in, and the guy asked the bartender, "Was I here last night and too drunk to tell? All I remember is a red door and a golden toilet seat."
The bartender hollered to the back, "HEY, FRED. HERE'S THAT SON OF A BITCH WHO TOOK A SHIT IN YOUR TUBA LAST NIGHT."
I think it was worth it to me. You have to realize that you won't always get higher pay and more flexibility; sometimes part of becoming your own one-man company is that you have less flexibility because you are the only one to do things. And while the pay may be more per hour often you get fewer hours, or spend huge amounts of time marketing yourself and doing research to setting up contracts.
Still, on the whole it is worth it. You do have more independence.
Traditionally people following this route have had former employers as their main clients. With sites such as scriptlance, rentacoder, guru.com, and etc., you can now get a larger client base, and even start doing it before you quit your old job.
However, I do have to say, that if insecurity makes you nervous, maybe you shouldn't do it, or at least save up money for a while first.
The dusort shell function that I use may pre-date the max depth option to du. I copied my current set of dotfiles and window manager settings from a co-worked in 1997, and I have made only minor modifications since.
There used to be dozens of find/grep aliases to make a recursive grep, untile they wrote rgrep and then added the -r flag to grep.
Speaking of graphviz, does anyone know of an example of how to use it to draw flowcharts in the traditional style ? I would like to automatically generate some flowcharts, but I need to figure out how to make the edges come out of the compass points of the nodes, and how to make "elbow edges" that come out and bend at 90 degrees.
If anyone has a link to an example or a patch or extension to graphviz for this I would appreciate it.
The market for the thing is the people who used to do custom jobs on an offset press, of course.
It's called "vanity publishing", because it is typified by "vanity" books -- some old grandma writes up her family history and puts in photos of old ancestors and grandkids, and pays for 100 copies to be given out at the family reunion. At least that's the typical job. In reality, there is probably more work from printing out corporate reports, manuals to short runs of software, sci-fi authors who are too nuts to work with any editor and decide to sink their life savings into printing it themselves and selling it at cons, various weird people printing "christian books for teenagers," etc.
Another market is short runs of textbooks or custom notes for professors at universities, and the occasional niche-market university press stuff, etc.
Regardless of what is printed, it is considered "vanity press" if the author pays to have it printed. The normal publishing industry works by having the publisher invest in the book and share the profits with the publisher.
I have actually found myself purchasing more books that were probably "vanity press" publications recently. Paul Mahler's book on the Asterisk PBX was the most recent. Programming From the Ground Up will probably be the next one.
I think that self-publishing may offer some people in the Open Source technical world a way to quit their day jobs. You have to be really good though. Devices like this printer, cutting down on the cost per book and enabling you to print "on demand" as you sell a copy, can't do anything but help.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the google applience is not for other people to search your site. It's for YOU to search your non-web, private data, right ?
Say you are a lawyer and have 10 years worth of electronic versions of communications on 50 different computers. You can buy a google appliance, configure it index everyone of those computers (you have to network share the drives in some way), and the "cache" link also works as a sort of backup. You don't want any jackass on the web searching that stuff. If you did, you would just put it on the web and let googlebot index it for free.
St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Pittsburg would not change location if the branch of the delta being used by the river changed. Just New Orleans.
I don't think that place in Libya/Egypt that is below sea level is as big as the Mediterrean. It's more like as big as the Great Salt Lake or the Aral Sea.
I once tried to figure out how far sea water had to fall before you could get enough energy out of it to purify it. Is it possible that a canal to the depression, ending in a high dam, might make enough energy to run the water through a purification station before it goes down ? If so, we could have a man-made Great Lake of fresh water in the middle of the Sahara. That would be cool.
You forgot the Mississippi river on the 4th side. That is often at a higher level than any of the other three (always higher than the sea, which not a direct neighbor yet -- needs a few more storms for that).
As for insurance, the US gov has bailed out every insurance company that hit bad times insuring Florida or Texas or California property, so why not ? It's a win-win situation -- nothing happens, you get the premiums, something happens, the Gov pays for you.
I predict people will move right back in, rebuild with easy gov-backed credit, and repeat all these mistakes again while our national deficit balloons.
Read the article, it discussed "secondary radiation" from the sheilding material extensively. A bit part of the consideration is what different types of secondary radiation are produced by different sheilds, and what different risks they may pose to humans.
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What you want is a bootable Linux CD such as Knoppix, and to clone the windows on and off the harddisk to the USB, ntfsclone (which is already in Knoppix).
h -linux-and-ntfsclone.html
http://alma.ch/blogs/bahut/2005/04/cloning-xp-wit
If you have piracy in mind, note that Windows own protections will mess things up when you reboot on the new hardware -- this is a good way to backup windows after you have just spent a day installing software, however.
You might want to check this out:
. htm
http://www.angelfire.com/linux/floorzat/2diskXwin
However, I believe your best bet is to avoid X. You need a very minimal hand-built linux that uses the svgalib and links, and maybe seejpeg, to do all graphical stuff. If you put it together consider posting an image of it somewhere.
Is there a particular USB card I can buy, that will allow me to put it into either "host" or "periphial" (or whatever they are called) modes, so that I could make a USB snooper ?
Is yahoo actually doing any trade under the mark y.com ?
Speaking of measuring the power consumption of refridgerators -- I have an older refridgerator which draws more power when the compressor is OFF than when it is ON (on is 240 watts, off is 440 watts). The compressor goes off only rarely. The seal on the door is nasty looking but doesn't leak cold, and the interior temp stays fine.
I am paying about $160 a year to run this thing, and a new fridge costing $350 would only cost $40 a year to run.
However, maybe something is simply broken or shorting out and I can replace a part for much less. Why would a refridgerator draw more power when the compressor is off ? Do they have some sort of defrost cycle which does something like that ?
I at first did not believe the reading, especially as I could feel no source of heat anywhere that would account for 400 watts. However I double checked my Kill A Watt with a Watts Up meeter borrowed from a friend, and it checked out exactly.
Or maybe they just wanted to extract the mp3 tags information from the file to catalog and send back to the mother ship.
Or you could just install and run linux on your harddrive.
Sony is such a big comglomerate, that in one of the big industry suits over mp3 players a few years back they actually sued themselves -- sony music division joined an industry suit against a number of producers of mp3 players, including Sony's consumer electronics division.
Rather, mining the atmosphere for water is done by capturing water that woudl have condensed anyway, and preventing it from re-evaporating, which is what happens to most dew.
here are some examples. The "dewponds" of Britian are the most well known.
If you keep harvesting the trees, making it into paper, and burying them in anaerobic landfills, you can remove as much CO2 as you want over the long term. And when we run out of coal, we can just mine the landfills.
Not for designing the parts, but for controlling the machine during the run:
http://www.linuxcnc.org/
I purchased 6 of those Nextar enclosures, of the type that are the first two listed at the link you gave.
The enclosure is not much bigger than the drive itself, and it's difficult to jigger the drive into there. They cut the space way too close.
After a few weeks of use, one of them failed; when I handled the failed enclosure, I could hear something rattling around inside. Inspection showed that the back of the plastic molex connector was pushing up against the circuit board, and it had flaked off a small 8 pin surface mount chip.
If you shave down the plastic of the molex connector with a knife prior to installation, it easier to insert in the disk and probably more reliable. I stopped using those enclosures though, and never put a disk in the other ones.
I have had this problem on over a dozen machines and several different distributions.
I will definitely try out your suggestion. Is it possible to try it out by just recompiling a module, so I don't have to build a whole new kernel ? Some of the machines I wish to try this on are very difficult to physically access.
Also, by "fix the bug", does this make the broken USB drives start working, or does it merely make any new drives you attach not fail ? I.e., how can I tell if I have fixed the problem ?
There was this guy who had been to about every bar in town. So one night, he hopped into a taxi cab and told the robot to take him to the best bar in town.
The robot took him to a bar, where he got half-drunk. He hopped into the same cab and said that the bar wasn't good enough. The robot took him to another bar, where the guy had the time of his life.
The next morning, this guy was in yet another bar telling his buddy what a good time he had the night before, but he couldn't remember where he was. All he could remember was a red door and a golden toilet seat. "Man, we gotta find this place," said his buddy.
So the two spent half the day searching for a bar with a red door until they found one. They walked in, and the guy asked the bartender, "Was I here last night and too drunk to tell? All I remember is a red door and a golden toilet seat."
The bartender hollered to the back, "HEY, FRED. HERE'S THAT SON OF A BITCH WHO TOOK A SHIT IN YOUR TUBA LAST NIGHT."
I think it was worth it to me. You have to realize that you won't always get higher pay and more flexibility; sometimes part of becoming your own one-man company is that you have less flexibility because you are the only one to do things. And while the pay may be more per hour often you get fewer hours, or spend huge amounts of time marketing yourself and doing research to setting up contracts.
Still, on the whole it is worth it. You do have more independence.
Traditionally people following this route have had former employers as their main clients. With sites such as scriptlance, rentacoder, guru.com, and etc., you can now get a larger client base, and even start doing it before you quit your old job.
However, I do have to say, that if insecurity makes you nervous, maybe you shouldn't do it, or at least save up money for a while first.
The dusort shell function that I use may pre-date the max depth option to du. I copied my current set of dotfiles and window manager settings from a co-worked in 1997, and I have made only minor modifications since.
There used to be dozens of find/grep aliases to make a recursive grep, untile they wrote rgrep and then added the -r flag to grep.
in bash:
;
/home/
function dusort ()
{
du -s "$@" | sort -r -n |
awk '{sum+=$1;printf("%9d %9d %s\n",sum,$1,$2)}'
}
in tcsh:
alias dusort 'du -s \!* | sort -r -n | awk '"'"'{sum+=$1;printf("%9d %9d %s\n",sum,$1,$2)}'"'"
The most common way to use those commands would be:
cd
dusort *
It's useful for tracking down what's using up your space, for example finding a sub directory deep in a source tree that isn't cleaned by make clean.
Speaking of graphviz, does anyone know of an example of how to use it to draw flowcharts in the traditional style ? I would like to automatically generate some flowcharts, but I need to figure out how to make the edges come out of the compass points of the nodes, and how to make "elbow edges" that come out and bend at 90 degrees.
If anyone has a link to an example or a patch or extension to graphviz for this I would appreciate it.
It's called "vanity publishing", because it is typified by "vanity" books -- some old grandma writes up her family history and puts in photos of old ancestors and grandkids, and pays for 100 copies to be given out at the family reunion. At least that's the typical job. In reality, there is probably more work from printing out corporate reports, manuals to short runs of software, sci-fi authors who are too nuts to work with any editor and decide to sink their life savings into printing it themselves and selling it at cons, various weird people printing "christian books for teenagers," etc.
Another market is short runs of textbooks or custom notes for professors at universities, and the occasional niche-market university press stuff, etc.
Regardless of what is printed, it is considered "vanity press" if the author pays to have it printed. The normal publishing industry works by having the publisher invest in the book and share the profits with the publisher.
I have actually found myself purchasing more books that were probably "vanity press" publications recently. Paul Mahler's book on the Asterisk PBX was the most recent. Programming From the Ground Up will probably be the next one.
I think that self-publishing may offer some people in the Open Source technical world a way to quit their day jobs. You have to be really good though. Devices like this printer, cutting down on the cost per book and enabling you to print "on demand" as you sell a copy, can't do anything but help.
Actually you are right -- the first civilan nuclear power plant was a dry-docked nuclear sub in Pennsylvania.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the google applience is not for other people to search your site. It's for YOU to search your non-web, private data, right ?
Say you are a lawyer and have 10 years worth of electronic versions of communications on 50 different computers. You can buy a google appliance, configure it index everyone of those computers (you have to network share the drives in some way), and the "cache" link also works as a sort of backup. You don't want any jackass on the web searching that stuff. If you did, you would just put it on the web and let googlebot index it for free.
St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Pittsburg would not change location if the branch of the delta being used by the river changed. Just New Orleans.
I don't think that place in Libya/Egypt that is below sea level is as big as the Mediterrean. It's more like as big as the Great Salt Lake or the Aral Sea.
I once tried to figure out how far sea water had to fall before you could get enough energy out of it to purify it. Is it possible that a canal to the depression, ending in a high dam, might make enough energy to run the water through a purification station before it goes down ? If so, we could have a man-made Great Lake of fresh water in the middle of the Sahara. That would be cool.
You forgot the Mississippi river on the 4th side. That is often at a higher level than any of the other three (always higher than the sea, which not a direct neighbor yet -- needs a few more storms for that).
As for insurance, the US gov has bailed out every insurance company that hit bad times insuring Florida or Texas or California property, so why not ? It's a win-win situation -- nothing happens, you get the premiums, something happens, the Gov pays for you.
I predict people will move right back in, rebuild with easy gov-backed credit, and repeat all these mistakes again while our national deficit balloons.
Read the article, it discussed "secondary radiation" from the sheilding material extensively. A bit part of the consideration is what different types of secondary radiation are produced by different sheilds, and what different risks they may pose to humans.