Apparently the WE standard of 23" (580mm?) just wasn't good enough, they needed that extra 3/4" or so?
Really?
Fortunately, for those of us who can live with good enough, this may make surplus 19" racks dirt cheap. I could put one to use in the garage, now how to cool it during the Phoenix summer. Hmm..
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So your new foster parents are a little uptight about stuff, eh? Too bad about that. You may be no fun to play with soon, but at least the worst trolls will be dismayed. For a while.
The hardware is never 'free'. You pay the subsidy.
The difference here is that whern they get this cheap, and Fry's sells them for $79, and there is no real quality problem (though I can replace this every 18 months and not feel bad except for recycling it - not), then they arre so commoditized that the 'serious' tablet makers are screwed.
The way out is to virtually and literally give them away, and start making money on the service. So if Amazon is NOT getting these, they are failing, and if they are, they are SCREWING us even more.
Someone will offer a subscription service for eBooks based on vanilla Android tablets. Someone will offer a music subscription also, based on ubiquitous tablets everywhere.
Win.
ps - I propose that Android is the reason. When the OS AND the apps are all so cheap to deliver, the hardware follows. And we all really just want our books, music, magazines, blogs, candy web sites, and not so much a powerful machine to do it. Because now, evern impossibly cheap tablets are more than enough.
I'll buy one, the wife wants to try one, and she's just dropped her iPhone, so cheap is very attractive to her. These tablets are cheaper than FIXING her iPhone.
- Plenty of extra batteries for anything that uses them. Sealed in waterproof something. If you carry two spares for your GPS, keep them separated, lest they both get ruined in one event.
- Of course, a handheld VHF radio or two, for backup and covnenience. Spare batteries of course.
- And handheld GPS, similarly waterproofed, preferably using alkaline batteries. Spares for everything, right? Lots of waterproofed pouches for stuff also, of course.
- Sat phone. Spare batteries. Spare charger. When the EPIRB goes off, maybe you remember to grab this also, though grabbing a jacket and popping the survival raft are more important. You will have an apprpriate liferaft on board, right?
- Solar power system of some sort. It will be most handy for charing all those batteries, and trickling the main battery so the engine will start. If you never use the engine, you are my hero. Don't be.
- You won't have that much time to read/write email, so don't worry too much about speed of your data service. Being able to email ahead for spares and such is most important, and quick 'I'm ok' messages to family don't need much. If you're blogging, well, your crew will understand I;m sure.
Now to get to what you asked, that is, how to choose suppliers;
- When you select your electronics, such as radar (which I think is a weather device in this application), GPS,radios, etc, check out their global service capabilities. Fedex doesn't deliver to the Gulf of Tonkin, but it may deliver to Saigon. Whatever you buy, forget the warranty and just be able to get service anywhere. And replacement . Just that much easier than having to change out antennas and cabling if your head unit goes tits up.
- There are certain brands that dominate the fishing market. These are probably your best bet, since fishermen will be everywhere you will be docking for repairs and parts. Your chandlery shoudl be able to advise you of this, and if not, look for some help from a major port, like San Diego or Miami, or Newport. They have plenry of people who go transoceanic, and will know what can get fixed in South Africa, Vietnam, Singapore, etc.
Much more important than all this is survival gear, supplies, the stuff you are already thinking of. Spare compasses, that sextant, being able to take a marginally good fix, prepaid cell phones for all the world's regions you will visit, generic advice. This you already know. Good luck, and figure on your trip taking at least 70% longer than you expect, unless you're already expecting to loaf around the world, in which case I envy you greatly! Good luck around the Horn!
Precisely. This is as stupid as it gets. And beneath/.
1. Any reasonably well sanitized input scheme will refuse to execute the input. I deal with this on a daily basis as we push our dev team into solving input problems where a 'special' character is required. Our users who might try to input executables will be frustrated. Any banking system that is allowing this now has already been pwned.
2. The QR codes need only be limited to 'data'. With no clear need to use characters below ASCII 48 or above ASCII 132, the risk is minimal.
3. Keep it simple, sort of. Hash the nanocode and serial. Numbers. Not so bad. Add in the Federal Reserve Indicator (hell use THAT as nanocode), and we have factors.
This is just not a problem. Banks that can't handle that can't handle anything. Let them die. It won't be a loss.
Why ESDI when you could find VLB adapters? Or just use LANtastic and live it large? Or really push the paradigm and put up a Token-Ring to Arcnet bridge to reach the workstation way back in tge sawmill?
I for one didn't miss the bindery though. And knowing Token-Ring also made me some good money.
And Google relies on multiply redundant servers and data, both for performance and reliability. Not many small businesses are gonna want to put in 5-way clustering.
I never recommended ATA drives for servers. Really old stuff that used MFM and RLL drives was back in the era where the just anything else. I used ATA drives for my home stuff and lab where it wasn't expected to be very reliable, and SCSI was all I used for a very long time. Even today I recommend against SATA though it seems tolerable, but SCSI drives are still my standard.
Mostly I thought SCSI drives were also made better, but Seagate and WD convinced me otherwise.
And yes, MFM drives in a Novell DCB setup were among my first servers. Making NW 2.15c mount a 4 GB volume just so you can say you did it would not be fun today, but back then it was work, and clients paid for it. I'm glad it wasn't a VINES server.
"We need that on Rt. 95 all the way from ME to FL."
Damn right! First raise the limit around Hartford and NYC, then Baltimore through DC. That alone should improve the job market as we kill off stockbrokers and the weak. Pruning politicians is gravy.
Then we can open up the rest of it, and cull the herd.
I-95 is nothing like Texas highways, but hey, speed is good.
Decentralizing lets us run our own 'servers', linking these together into a whole constellation of users. Right?
- Is it safe to assume that some servers will not be configured the same as others? If so, then will I see 'friends' out 'there' with different bits of data available to me? Inconsistency is the hobgoblin of restaurants and web services. This is not good. It sure isn't an improvement. If I want more granularity, I will also suffer from others granularizing themselves into irrelevance. Then I get sleepy.
- Am I expected to trust other adminstrators? Sure. Now I get to decide which of thousands (millions?) of admins I am willing to trust. And this is an improvement how?
- Disapora protects my data from other admins snarfing it and giving it to whoever, right?
- You think it's a good idea to host these servers all over the Web? My ISP has a very different view of this, even if it is for a dozen family members who register a few dozen hits a day. Somehow, I betcha we end up with Disapora hosts that consolidate these servers into hosting sites. For a fee. How much do you think it's worth to me to offer my friends and family this social network? Discount that for the abuse I will take when I refuse to delete some unflattering post. Not really very attractive to me yet.
- These hosting aggregators would probably offer free sevice if I let them mine my data, you know. Back to the future. Mission accomplished.
Of course, you're ignoring the three updates I got OTA. I went to CM after T-Mobile said no more.
And from what I see, the G1 was simple by comparison. My Sensation is going to be a pain to root, but the factory load is becoming too flaky to tolerate willingly.
"those Windows Phone 7 smartphones won't upgrade to Windows Phone 8 software, and nor will they run Windows Phone 8 apps"
My G1 can in fact run a very limited relase of Android Jelly Bean. The CyanogenMod guys keep doing this just because they can.
IOS 6 does run on a 3GS, albeit missing some features. Before that, I think the iPhone 3 is pretty much out of it, but that's what, 4 generations back? My G1 is at least 3 generations back...
But your Windows 7 phone, booting Windows 8? Nope. Not even for fun.
And this goes back past Windows Phone to the old CE releases.
Clearly Microsoft still doesn't get it. Or they want to continue to go forward, leaving the old behind.
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Or redrill and mount then sideways . Turn the rack, presto.
Apparently the WE standard of 23" (580mm?) just wasn't good enough, they needed that extra 3/4" or so?
Really?
Fortunately, for those of us who can live with good enough, this may make surplus 19" racks dirt cheap. I could put one to use in the garage, now how to cool it during the Phoenix summer. Hmm..
Of course not...
...or 26, depending on the lighting.
While we're at it:
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So your new foster parents are a little uptight about stuff, eh? Too bad about that. You may be no fun to play with soon, but at least the worst trolls will be dismayed. For a while.
The hardware is never 'free'. You pay the subsidy.
The difference here is that whern they get this cheap, and Fry's sells them for $79, and there is no real quality problem (though I can replace this every 18 months and not feel bad except for recycling it - not), then they arre so commoditized that the 'serious' tablet makers are screwed.
The way out is to virtually and literally give them away, and start making money on the service. So if Amazon is NOT getting these, they are failing, and if they are, they are SCREWING us even more.
Someone will offer a subscription service for eBooks based on vanilla Android tablets. Someone will offer a music subscription also, based on ubiquitous tablets everywhere.
Win.
ps - I propose that Android is the reason. When the OS AND the apps are all so cheap to deliver, the hardware follows. And we all really just want our books, music, magazines, blogs, candy web sites, and not so much a powerful machine to do it. Because now, evern impossibly cheap tablets are more than enough.
I'll buy one, the wife wants to try one, and she's just dropped her iPhone, so cheap is very attractive to her. These tablets are cheaper than FIXING her iPhone.
Then you're applying the word 'broken' as if they intended to meet your expectations.
Windows 8 is intended to change your expectations. That's Microsoft's plan, not mine.
Windows 8 is not broken. It will work as designed.
I;m not a sailor but I've been on a few boats.
- Plenty of extra batteries for anything that uses them. Sealed in waterproof something. If you carry two spares for your GPS, keep them separated, lest they both get ruined in one event.
- Of course, a handheld VHF radio or two, for backup and covnenience. Spare batteries of course.
- And handheld GPS, similarly waterproofed, preferably using alkaline batteries. Spares for everything, right? Lots of waterproofed pouches for stuff also, of course.
- Sat phone. Spare batteries. Spare charger. When the EPIRB goes off, maybe you remember to grab this also, though grabbing a jacket and popping the survival raft are more important. You will have an apprpriate liferaft on board, right?
- Solar power system of some sort. It will be most handy for charing all those batteries, and trickling the main battery so the engine will start. If you never use the engine, you are my hero. Don't be.
- You won't have that much time to read/write email, so don't worry too much about speed of your data service. Being able to email ahead for spares and such is most important, and quick 'I'm ok' messages to family don't need much. If you're blogging, well, your crew will understand I;m sure.
Now to get to what you asked, that is, how to choose suppliers;
- When you select your electronics, such as radar (which I think is a weather device in this application), GPS,radios, etc, check out their global service capabilities. Fedex doesn't deliver to the Gulf of Tonkin, but it may deliver to Saigon. Whatever you buy, forget the warranty and just be able to get service anywhere. And replacement . Just that much easier than having to change out antennas and cabling if your head unit goes tits up.
- There are certain brands that dominate the fishing market. These are probably your best bet, since fishermen will be everywhere you will be docking for repairs and parts. Your chandlery shoudl be able to advise you of this, and if not, look for some help from a major port, like San Diego or Miami, or Newport. They have plenry of people who go transoceanic, and will know what can get fixed in South Africa, Vietnam, Singapore, etc.
Much more important than all this is survival gear, supplies, the stuff you are already thinking of. Spare compasses, that sextant, being able to take a marginally good fix, prepaid cell phones for all the world's regions you will visit, generic advice. This you already know. Good luck, and figure on your trip taking at least 70% longer than you expect, unless you're already expecting to loaf around the world, in which case I envy you greatly! Good luck around the Horn!
So you never read I, Robot - you just saw the movie.
Pity.
Precisely. This is as stupid as it gets. And beneath /.
1. Any reasonably well sanitized input scheme will refuse to execute the input. I deal with this on a daily basis as we push our dev team into solving input problems where a 'special' character is required. Our users who might try to input executables will be frustrated. Any banking system that is allowing this now has already been pwned.
2. The QR codes need only be limited to 'data'. With no clear need to use characters below ASCII 48 or above ASCII 132, the risk is minimal.
3. Keep it simple, sort of. Hash the nanocode and serial. Numbers. Not so bad. Add in the Federal Reserve Indicator (hell use THAT as nanocode), and we have factors.
This is just not a problem. Banks that can't handle that can't handle anything. Let them die. It won't be a loss.
That depends on which state you work in.
Because they still do it the old-fashioned way. In bags.
Why ESDI when you could find VLB adapters? Or just use LANtastic and live it large? Or really push the paradigm and put up a Token-Ring to Arcnet bridge to reach the workstation way back in tge sawmill?
I for one didn't miss the bindery though. And knowing Token-Ring also made me some good money.
If you take a few moments and look into it, google buys custom servers that are more like commodity boxes than premium servers.
And Google relies on multiply redundant servers and data, both for performance and reliability. Not many small businesses are gonna want to put in 5-way clustering.
Before the speed cameras, 100+ wasn't uncommon at all. Post-camera, less so but they still do, especially before 6am.
Naw, just old.
I never recommended ATA drives for servers. Really old stuff that used MFM and RLL drives was back in the era where the just anything else. I used ATA drives for my home stuff and lab where it wasn't expected to be very reliable, and SCSI was all I used for a very long time. Even today I recommend against SATA though it seems tolerable, but SCSI drives are still my standard.
Mostly I thought SCSI drives were also made better, but Seagate and WD convinced me otherwise.
And yes, MFM drives in a Novell DCB setup were among my first servers. Making NW 2.15c mount a 4 GB volume just so you can say you did it would not be fun today, but back then it was work, and clients paid for it. I'm glad it wasn't a VINES server.
"We need that on Rt. 95 all the way from ME to FL."
Damn right! First raise the limit around Hartford and NYC, then Baltimore through DC. That alone should improve the job market as we kill off stockbrokers and the weak. Pruning politicians is gravy.
Then we can open up the rest of it, and cull the herd.
I-95 is nothing like Texas highways, but hey, speed is good.
"As well as Wyoming, only state where I have been passed while going over 100mph."
You don't drive the Pima Freeway in Scottsdale much, do you?
"It's Darwinism in action, but don't expect them to put that in the school books"
More like Calvinism. Armenianism doesn't really apply.
So long as you're settled up with God, speed is not a problem. At least in Texas.YMMV.
WM9 is on schedule.
Decentralizing lets us run our own 'servers', linking these together into a whole constellation of users. Right?
- Is it safe to assume that some servers will not be configured the same as others? If so, then will I see 'friends' out 'there' with different bits of data available to me? Inconsistency is the hobgoblin of restaurants and web services. This is not good. It sure isn't an improvement. If I want more granularity, I will also suffer from others granularizing themselves into irrelevance. Then I get sleepy.
- Am I expected to trust other adminstrators? Sure. Now I get to decide which of thousands (millions?) of admins I am willing to trust. And this is an improvement how?
- Disapora protects my data from other admins snarfing it and giving it to whoever, right?
- You think it's a good idea to host these servers all over the Web? My ISP has a very different view of this, even if it is for a dozen family members who register a few dozen hits a day. Somehow, I betcha we end up with Disapora hosts that consolidate these servers into hosting sites. For a fee. How much do you think it's worth to me to offer my friends and family this social network? Discount that for the abuse I will take when I refuse to delete some unflattering post. Not really very attractive to me yet.
- These hosting aggregators would probably offer free sevice if I let them mine my data, you know. Back to the future. Mission accomplished.
I just don't get it.
Of course, you're ignoring the three updates I got OTA. I went to CM after T-Mobile said no more.
And from what I see, the G1 was simple by comparison. My Sensation is going to be a pain to root, but the factory load is becoming too flaky to tolerate willingly.
"those Windows Phone 7 smartphones won't upgrade to Windows Phone 8 software, and nor will they run Windows Phone 8 apps"
My G1 can in fact run a very limited relase of Android Jelly Bean. The CyanogenMod guys keep doing this just because they can.
IOS 6 does run on a 3GS, albeit missing some features. Before that, I think the iPhone 3 is pretty much out of it, but that's what, 4 generations back? My G1 is at least 3 generations back...
But your Windows 7 phone, booting Windows 8? Nope. Not even for fun.
And this goes back past Windows Phone to the old CE releases.
Clearly Microsoft still doesn't get it. Or they want to continue to go forward, leaving the old behind.