This monitor won't be used to control the furnace in any way. There are control systems in place that work as advertised. The issue is that the system is completely closed. Numerous other (and more experienced) entities have attempted to figure out a way to gather the data without success via software. The system itself allows trends with ten minute increments up to 24 hours previous(on screen, no way to get a hard copy besides writing each data point down) This data needs to be collected for the purpose of monitoring our energy usage. With the increase in gas and electricity prices, the bean counters want this data (in addition to its value to us as a metric on furnace efficiency, burner adjustments and the like).
Invasive modifications to the gas or oxygen lines are definitely out of the question. We're talking approximately 40k cubic feet of gasflow per hour. Though we do already have two existing pressure readings, your post makes me think I might be able to replace those with industrial grade electronic meters to do some sort of venturi style measurement.
It isn't even about screen size or resolution. It's about more eye candy in games. The new Windows Display Driver Model and Shader Model 4, as well as the elimination of support for hardware accelerated sound, in favor of placing the processing load onto the cpu instead(anyone know why they did this?).
Those are the major new features of dx10 from what I gather. Minor changes are an emphasis on Xinput rather than DirectInput.
Basically, mostly the same features..... different api. A little extra eye candy and a big cedega headache.
I have a question though. I've read a lot of posts where people claim that dx10 can't be backported to xp because the changes in xp would basically give xp the vista kernel, so progress requires that xp be left behind. The question is this. Why did compatibility need to be broken? What in the features of the new driver model made this worthwhile?
Marketese aside, you're implying that vista is somehow superior in resource management. Though I'm not entirely sure what "fuel the power needed for graphics processing" means, it almost sounds like you mean that vista somehow enhances the pci-e slot that the video card sits in or that it somehow boosts the processing capacity of the GPU. As far as resource management, vista supposedly may be better with managing memory, but it still feels more sluggish than XP. World of Warcraft dropped 20FPS between XP and vista. Sure it could be drivers. But on the whole, the system was slower.
Having tried newer games on newer hardware with an older OS, my experience has been quite different. The games run noticeably faster. And I know for a fact that vista doesn't come with keebler elves that tweak bus speeds.
And if I had mod points, I'd use them to mod up instead of replying.
Great, so some people are already intimately familiar with processes on unix. Not everyone is. I thought this was a technology/nerd/geek site... This seems a much better alternative than other slownewsday articles.... what did Stallman have for breakfast? Dvorak's mad at css again.... etc.
Wow, what are the odds that an antivirus company would be the first to discover and publicize a virus that runs on what might be called the least-adopted platform ever in history?
Odds are pretty good.... that's their job. One would assume they spend all day lurking forums and irc channels, scouring search engines and various security related websites to find as many as they can. Ten to one some kiddie posted his 133t pr0ggie one some BB and it got picked up.
If you're going to make wild, baseless claims then at least try to keep the story realistic. Some tin foil conspiracy theory of how all the antivirus companies are writing/hiring/connected to the people writing viruses is plain silly.
For those looking to try this, neither touch nor vi allows creation of a filename of -i. Though an "echo hi | cat > -i" works fine.
Also note that it only worked for me if I was in the directory with the -i file. so if you were to say be in / and did a rm -rf/etc/*.old ; etc would still get blown away.
Great trick though, thanks for sharing! We should have another linux/unix tricks/shortcuts story. Some of the shortcuts posted on the last one were incredibly helpful
Talk about a sense of entitlement... Agreed, how DARE people assume that a hardware warranty entitles them to some sort of service when their hardware goes out? Greedy bastards.
How does the woman know that she has not messed up some keyboard setting on Ubuntu? I've been going through the Ubuntu forums, but I just don't see anyone else experiencing physically sticky keys due to a typo in xorg.conf.
I'm not familiar with the system over there, but it sounds like it's different from over here in the US. Talk about disillusionment, when one discovers that here in the US, airtime and thus chart position are basically rigged by (illegally) paying stations for airplay. (Someone jump in here if I go off base)
This is why this couldn't work in the US, ClearChannel owns a vast majority of the stations. This gives them the unique position of being gatekeeper and judge of which songs and artists are the best.
Here's a couple links I just grabbed from google. I haven't read through them all, so if they contradict what I just said then I'm probably the one who's wrong.
Royalty Politics Blurb on Airplay
I had to transfer 360+ GB of data from one external hdd to another(mixed file sizes, but definitely many 1,000's of files). The grand total was somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 hours. I started it in the morning on my second day off. I waited for the inevitable readonly and system(thumbs) prompts and then I went away.
I would check on it every now and then to make sure nothing had failed. Figured it was just vistas usb drivers or something.
I disagree. A British punk group named Koopa has made top 40 and is going to release a cd without being signed. Them doing it shows that mass production of CDs isn't the only way of releasing an album. I'd argue that a download/burn at home method is less expensive (and easier on the environment- no fuel spent shipping) anyway.
Most of us here knew this was eventually going to happen. I for one am glad to see that the music industry is looking at change in their business model. Now if they'd just leave ten year old girls with disabled mothers alone...
These sheep are not 15% human, there is no such thing - they're 15% antigenically identical. There is no percentage at which they will become human, because their basic structure is still of a sheep!
So what you're saying is that if I cut one of these babies up and have a bbq.... I'm good?
Ahh yes, you're just a linux troll - go have fun with open office. Ahh, speaking of trolls. Go back and read my post. I run vista, and I don't mind it.
It's great that you've been using google for almost a decade. A little telling that you apparently have trouble with it after that long. Might I suggest a book that might help you?
That said, I agree with you about spam killing the internet and search engines in general being in need of something different.
Do me a favor, and at least watch the trolling. I'm not linux evangelist, but let's face it. These are features that are neither completely new or revolutionary.
Absolutely. FF running with 5-10 tabs, after three or four days gives me a memory usage of 628 megs. No fracking way.... They should concentrate on fixing those memory leaks before pushing out.
a desktop/shell replacement that uses 3 gigs of memory just doesn't look that appealing to me.
Same experience here. I have been unable to run the ubuntu installer in every release since dapper. Pentium D 805 in an Asus mobo, with a pcie vid card... the combination just doesn't agree with ubuntu.
Might just have to give debian a try on this machine and see.
Seriously, MS still envies google in that area. For all the hot air Ballmer spews about googles' "cute" apps, and how their hire rate is "insane".... MS has lost this round of the search match, they're not able to compete. Look at the emphasis they've put on it. Why pay people to use windows live if you don't care? Microsoft is becoming the one thing that Bill Gates hoped he'd never see.... a lumbering behemoth not dissimilar to the old IBM. They are having diffifulty keeping up with the present, just look at vista for connfirmation. (Disclaimer: I don't mind vista).
But vista brings forth features that I've had in linux for years. gkrellm does a great job as a sidebar, without the resource usage. The latter part of... scratch that.... MOST OF XP's cycle was spent chasing holes and vulnerabilities.
I like vista, and see it being fairly well adoped in a few years time. But it's not a forward looking technology, just as Live Search isn't forward looking. They care, but there isn't much they can do about it besides pay people to use it.
Slashdot Mirror
Those two are shaping up to be great solutions. Thank you.
Agreed, but is that not also its achilles heel? Kernel space drivers have the ability of taking down the whole system where userland drivers do not.
I don't think the Kinkos corporation you used as an example is likely to be considered eligible.
1. They're not a student.
2. They do not attend an educational institution.
And all that other stuff too, being a business, profiting off of it, etc.
Your point stands though.
This monitor won't be used to control the furnace in any way. There are control systems in place that work as advertised. The issue is that the system is completely closed. Numerous other (and more experienced) entities have attempted to figure out a way to gather the data without success via software. The system itself allows trends with ten minute increments up to 24 hours previous(on screen, no way to get a hard copy besides writing each data point down) This data needs to be collected for the purpose of monitoring our energy usage. With the increase in gas and electricity prices, the bean counters want this data (in addition to its value to us as a metric on furnace efficiency, burner adjustments and the like).
Invasive modifications to the gas or oxygen lines are definitely out of the question. We're talking approximately 40k cubic feet of gasflow per hour. Though we do already have two existing pressure readings, your post makes me think I might be able to replace those with industrial grade electronic meters to do some sort of venturi style measurement.
It isn't even about screen size or resolution. It's about more eye candy in games. The new Windows Display Driver Model and Shader Model 4, as well as the elimination of support for hardware accelerated sound, in favor of placing the processing load onto the cpu instead(anyone know why they did this?).
Those are the major new features of dx10 from what I gather. Minor changes are an emphasis on Xinput rather than DirectInput.
Basically, mostly the same features..... different api. A little extra eye candy and a big cedega headache.
I have a question though. I've read a lot of posts where people claim that dx10 can't be backported to xp because the changes in xp would basically give xp the vista kernel, so progress requires that xp be left behind. The question is this. Why did compatibility need to be broken? What in the features of the new driver model made this worthwhile?
He's got a point though.
Marketese aside, you're implying that vista is somehow superior in resource management. Though I'm not entirely sure what "fuel the power needed for graphics processing" means, it almost sounds like you mean that vista somehow enhances the pci-e slot that the video card sits in or that it somehow boosts the processing capacity of the GPU. As far as resource management, vista supposedly may be better with managing memory, but it still feels more sluggish than XP. World of Warcraft dropped 20FPS between XP and vista. Sure it could be drivers. But on the whole, the system was slower.
Having tried newer games on newer hardware with an older OS, my experience has been quite different. The games run noticeably faster. And I know for a fact that vista doesn't come with keebler elves that tweak bus speeds.
Ah, you missed the boat. There already is one .
I bought Casino Royale two weeks ago. When I got it home, neither my Toshiba in the living room, or the Pioneer in the bedroom would play it.
So I ripped it and returned it.
So what I've learned from this is that it is all how you build your statement.
The statement "They're nappy headed hoes" = racist.
However the statement "Look at the nappy hair on that hoe." Passes muster
Think I'm getting the hang of this.
And if I had mod points, I'd use them to mod up instead of replying.
Great, so some people are already intimately familiar with processes on unix. Not everyone is. I thought this was a technology/nerd/geek site... This seems a much better alternative than other slownewsday articles.... what did Stallman have for breakfast? Dvorak's mad at css again.... etc.
Did the poster mean helium gas? Or Hellium? Figured it was a typo at first.
Wow, what are the odds that an antivirus company would be the first to discover and publicize a virus that runs on what might be called the least-adopted platform ever in history?
Odds are pretty good.... that's their job. One would assume they spend all day lurking forums and irc channels, scouring search engines and various security related websites to find as many as they can. Ten to one some kiddie posted his 133t pr0ggie one some BB and it got picked up.
If you're going to make wild, baseless claims then at least try to keep the story realistic. Some tin foil conspiracy theory of how all the antivirus companies are writing/hiring/connected to the people writing viruses is plain silly.
For those looking to try this, neither touch nor vi allows creation of a filename of -i. Though an "echo hi | cat > -i" works fine.
/etc /*.old ; etc would still get blown away.
Also note that it only worked for me if I was in the directory with the -i file. so if you were to say be in / and did a rm -rf
Great trick though, thanks for sharing! We should have another linux/unix tricks/shortcuts story. Some of the shortcuts posted on the last one were incredibly helpful
Tried that, girlfriend slapped me and I'm still sleeping on the couch.
Talk about a sense of entitlement...
Agreed, how DARE people assume that a hardware warranty entitles them to some sort of service when their hardware goes out? Greedy bastards.
How does the woman know that she has not messed up some keyboard setting on Ubuntu? I've been going through the Ubuntu forums, but I just don't see anyone else experiencing physically sticky keys due to a typo in xorg.conf.
I'm not familiar with the system over there, but it sounds like it's different from over here in the US. Talk about disillusionment, when one discovers that here in the US, airtime and thus chart position are basically rigged by (illegally) paying stations for airplay. (Someone jump in here if I go off base)
This is why this couldn't work in the US, ClearChannel owns a vast majority of the stations. This gives them the unique position of being gatekeeper and judge of which songs and artists are the best.
Here's a couple links I just grabbed from google. I haven't read through them all, so if they contradict what I just said then I'm probably the one who's wrong.
Royalty Politics
Blurb on Airplay
I had to transfer 360+ GB of data from one external hdd to another(mixed file sizes, but definitely many 1,000's of files). The grand total was somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 hours. I started it in the morning on my second day off. I waited for the inevitable readonly and system(thumbs) prompts and then I went away.
I would check on it every now and then to make sure nothing had failed. Figured it was just vistas usb drivers or something.
My brain is still bleeding from that one.
I disagree. A British punk group named Koopa has made top 40 and is going to release a cd without being signed. Them doing it shows that mass production of CDs isn't the only way of releasing an album. I'd argue that a download/burn at home method is less expensive (and easier on the environment- no fuel spent shipping) anyway.
Most of us here knew this was eventually going to happen. I for one am glad to see that the music industry is looking at change in their business model. Now if they'd just leave ten year old girls with disabled mothers alone...
These sheep are not 15% human, there is no such thing - they're 15% antigenically identical. There is no percentage at which they will become human, because their basic structure is still of a sheep!
So what you're saying is that if I cut one of these babies up and have a bbq.... I'm good?
Ahh yes, you're just a linux troll - go have fun with open office. Ahh, speaking of trolls. Go back and read my post. I run vista, and I don't mind it.
It's great that you've been using google for almost a decade. A little telling that you apparently have trouble with it after that long. Might I suggest a book that might help you?
That said, I agree with you about spam killing the internet and search engines in general being in need of something different.
Do me a favor, and at least watch the trolling. I'm not linux evangelist, but let's face it. These are features that are neither completely new or revolutionary.
Absolutely. FF running with 5-10 tabs, after three or four days gives me a memory usage of 628 megs. No fracking way.... They should concentrate on fixing those memory leaks before pushing out.
a desktop/shell replacement that uses 3 gigs of memory just doesn't look that appealing to me.
Same experience here. I have been unable to run the ubuntu installer in every release since dapper. Pentium D 805 in an Asus mobo, with a pcie vid card... the combination just doesn't agree with ubuntu.
Might just have to give debian a try on this machine and see.
Are you sure about that?
Seriously, MS still envies google in that area. For all the hot air Ballmer spews about googles' "cute" apps, and how their hire rate is "insane".... MS has lost this round of the search match, they're not able to compete. Look at the emphasis they've put on it. Why pay people to use windows live if you don't care? Microsoft is becoming the one thing that Bill Gates hoped he'd never see.... a lumbering behemoth not dissimilar to the old IBM. They are having diffifulty keeping up with the present, just look at vista for connfirmation. (Disclaimer: I don't mind vista).
But vista brings forth features that I've had in linux for years. gkrellm does a great job as a sidebar, without the resource usage. The latter part of... scratch that.... MOST OF XP's cycle was spent chasing holes and vulnerabilities.
I like vista, and see it being fairly well adoped in a few years time. But it's not a forward looking technology, just as Live Search isn't forward looking. They care, but there isn't much they can do about it besides pay people to use it.