Screaming HDD. My home PC here last week literally howled at me. Anyhow screamed. The problem? Some crucial part of the OS system HD was fragmented causing the heads (I think) to oscillate back and forth. A defrag seemed to resolve the problem.
I could be wrong on the above. And if you have any better theories for my screaming HDD problem cause, let 'em roll!
Yes its Texas. For sometimes good reasons and more often bad ones (as in the Microsoft monopoly case). This time its a good reason. The attorney general says the agreement did not go far enough about verifying ages. I don't know how an any age verification would work. Factual data like emails or birth dates can be easily faked. Perhaps name the continents? No, that would knock out a lot of college students today. Thumbprints? DNA samples anyone? http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080114_mo_myspacetx.21af3d6b.html
I used LCC for my modest library of 500 books. Looked the books up at the Library of Congress then copied and pasted the LCC information into an StarOffice8 spreadsheet. Also looked up on Amazon to get the price. Sorted by LCC and printed out.
Now for oddities. Edward R. Tufte's books were one. I would appreciate any illumination on this. "Visual Explanations" CALL NUMBER P93.5.T84 1990 Subject area: Visual Communication (from full record tab) "Envisioning Information" CALL NUMBER P93.5.T846 1997 Subject area: Visual Communication (from full record tab) "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" CALL NUMBER QA276.3.T83 1983 Statistics Graphic Records (from full record tab) Seems odd to me that one of Tufte's is way over in Statistics Graphics.
Interesting and most likely a good idea to have an armed line crew watching your generators. Its a funny world when the comfortable standard society fades and the edge of society comes to the forefront. Like after the Katrina hurricanes and in Blade Runner.
It might not be a good idea to have armed line crew when and if the union strikes. As you know, telco strikes can be subtly nasty affairs.
Hammy, your mind is in the right place. The current paradigm is for flash and dash on the cheap. Business continuity is an orphan project at companies. We need to roll back to 1960 and plan for outages! For just the reasons you describe.
When I worked for ARCO Oil and Gas in the 1980's, they counted on the power being out. So they spent 13 million 1980 dollars to run a duplicate high power line from another grid to back up their data center. So their data center was served by two separate power grids. Also ARCO had an empty data center in Independence KS and an agreement with IBM to ship big iron if the Plano data center was ever zapped.
EASY PICKINGS? In Texas and the nearby states like OK, KS, NM, etc, there are zillions of cell towers in the middle of nowhere. What an opportunity for thieves if these all had little generators nearby. I hope a better paradigm that what I describe is used.
NEW CASH COW? Its bad enough in Dallas where miles lights were out along the divided highways in the Summer of 2006 because thieves pulled out the connecting. This was bad in the summer of 2006 and its better now since openings have been welded shut. I can see generators being the new cash cow for thieves.
I have a sinus infection the never ending drip drip ooze ooze. So would a cheek swab actually measure the DNA of those germs rather than my own? Same question applies for the zoo of other bacteria in one's mouth.
Was the source code found on Expert's Exchange? There they have thousands of code examples that subscribers can use. Yes in most cases credit should be mentioned in your own source.
Sorry I cannot prove this. But I can testify before a court if needed. In the mid 1970's I managed a pizza place. We had a $2 buffet for all the pizza and drinks you could eat. This on one evening during a slow business period. This event generated largish customer crowds of 60-70 customers at once. Well one stinker of a customer shows up in line wanting half something really picky and the other half something else picky.
I told this customer that he would have to wait maybe 45 minutes for his picky order. Stinker put up a stink. So I said to him then pay your two bucks and eat the buffet.
Anyhow he was embarrassed when everyone in line cheered at my impudent handling of Mr. Stinky Customer.
So Amazon's patent bites the dust. This sort of practice is probably quite common in the food service industry. If you yourself have run Mr. Stinky Customer to the back of the line, let us know.
Rackspace is doing this on the cheap and cheap. Their backup generators SHOULD provide a week's worth of backup.
Then as stated for #2 alternate power sources should be required. Rackspace fails.
GREAT BACKUP EXAMPLE. READ AND BE WISER! Especially you folks at Rackspace who will not hire older more experienced people. This is what you miss. Atlantic Richfield Oil and Gas (ARCO) set up a new data center many years ago in 1980. They located this in Plano TX. They decided that power backup was insufficient so ARCO paid 12 million dollars (1980 dollars) to run another electricity transmission line to their data center. This was a two or three mile line of those tall metal framework transmission towers. This can still be seen today if you travel Plano Parkway East of Coit. Google Earth at 33 00' 20.49"N, 96 44' 12.99"W. An unassuming building today. Also today you would locate on top of the 15 cable run (i.e. huge) dark fiber that goes north and south through Dallas.
Also ARCO had a fully configured but empty data center in Missouri to use if Plano ever suddenly wen. The data center lacked hardware but ARCO had an agreement with IBM to jump to the front of the mainframe production line if this disaster ever happened. Then it was a matter of applying backup tapes.
Rackspace should have considered optioning space at this old ARCO location which now has an insurance company there rather than where they are now.
Could you provide some examples you saw and experienced where people performance on US subs deterioated during your tenure in the Navy? Nothing classified please.
Thanks Alan, I do think I also wrote some code in 1998. I loved Teradata because it let me query two years of everything sold at JCPenney in two and a half hours. IBM DB2, before MQSERIES, could only handle small bits of queries so that took several days to run then piecing the result sets together was a pain.
Good luck with your work post AA.
Then you remembering using Teradata in the 1998 timeframe does demonstrate that the professor is an idea grabber. Again, Teradata had to have been planned long before 1998.
NCR Teradata does data retrieval based off chopping indexes into discrete pieces then storing those indexes in separate nodes. WalMart and others have used this. NCR started selling these around that time 2000 so design had to occur much earlier. Seems to me to be what's covered by the patent. Network could be IP or simply the data bus.
So its likely this professor saw, heard, or smelled the process at some conference. Or from one of his grad students. Then painted proceeded to paint a Matisse abstract patent about it.
Research would be better served by professors like this chewing away on the truly difficult problems. Not rediscovering the wheel. Not tiny incremental baby steps. Go for research. Go for discovery. Go for the satisfaction of discovery. You might not reach your goal but will have had the satisfaction of the journey.
Andy Grove is very correct. Let me know where I can read or listen to his speech.
My perspective is from having rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I have RA for five years now. Its always bubbling up so really impacts me. Got fired from my last job due to this.
In the RA arena researchers don't know the cause. Same thing for cancer and a host of other diseases. In a computer system, if you don't know the cause, its hard to fix. One first level drug, methorexate dials down the whole immune system to target RA. Then more recent biologic drugs work pretty well. I have the feeling that I could eat something different, like amino acids, to impact how my epigenetic code is exercised. Research like Andy Grove suggests is the only way to find out the truth here.
God bless you Andy Grove! And God bless the biologic companies too, they do help. Jim
Certainly your bike with a GPS speedometer will be accurate.
Now if a GPS updates every second a car will probably be inaccurate in a quick braking situation. I think this is what happened with the person in the original article. They say he was going the speed limit "within 100 feet" which is equivalent to a narrow window of time. What was the previous reading? Not enough information. Did he slow down dramatically like some do when they feel guilty?
From the AP article. "Rude encouraged him to fight the ticket after the log he downloaded using software provided by the GPS unit's Colorado-based supplier showed Shaun was going the speed limit within 100 feet of where a Petaluma officer clocked him speeding."
If you read the NYTIMES article on this which has been cited twice prior to this post and on the paper NYTIMES front page above the fold, you will be reassured.
The Open Content Alliance plans to digitize expired copyrights of 1922 and before. Then Boston Library Consortium (34 million expired copyright books) is seeking to digitize later dated in-copyright but out of print books.
Google's approach for in-copyright is close to that of various on-line Journals. A reader can only read a few pages of a copyrighted book (no more information from the article). Then I suppose they are motivated to make an inter library loan for the book.
Then the text, at least from the Gutenberg Project is interesting. Plain courier text for which programs can be written, by myself perhaps, to recreate the original format in PDF files. See the following example. http://www.archive.org/stream/amusementsinmath16713gut/16713-8.txt
I kind of agree in theory with tfip here. I have not seen an eReader but a couple of prototypes.
Several years ago I was lucky enough to meet the MIT team that developed eInk. At that time, I saw their little proof of concept device. It was a thin copper strip about four inches long and half an inch wide. Mounted on the strip were four or five square plastic covered blobs that enclosed the eInk ping pong type balls. The balls were half white and half black. There was soldering here and there around the copper strip. Again, not really a prototype but a test of concept.
Then four years ago, someone made a large eInk sign for JCPenney. A little further up the food chain to the prototype stage. This is probably the granddaddy of eReader. Here the little dots flipped quite nicely.
I am screen resolution driven. 170 DPI is great for a store sign (ignoring expenses) but hmm, for a book? I wonder what eyestrain might be after a couple of evenings spent eReading (posterity watch, first verb form of this? Naah.). Then is it possible to get 1200 dpi. Those are teeny tiny little ping pong balls there.
I think eInk technology is kind of neat. Neat in a kind of Luddite back to simplicity sense. Reflectivity is its strong point. It may occupy the same niche that those old flip digit alarm clocks used. Digit flip alarm clocks worked like a rotary Rolodex file except the outside face had numbers on it. Each number was a little plastic card that pulled up and over to reveal the next digit. Digit flip clocks were on a time-line approximately between Nixie tubes and later LED & neon based displays.
I have the director's cut. I was unaware of the absence of narration. Nor about the two scenes, whichever ones, being switched.
So....I am going to do retrograde move back to the original original Blade Runner.
Its like my mom used to do. When she was really old, she started painting pictures. She would create one that I liked. BUT THEN SHE WOULD TAKE IT OFF THE WALL AND KEEP ON ADDING TO IT. Ok, it was her work so I cannot complain. But we lose something when a film or artwork ventures beyond ornate.
Slashdot Mirror
UPDATE. All is well now.
Removed all Google Updater and Google Earth software. 4.3 would not install without this.
THEN the new updater for 4.3 downloaded and downloaded 4.3
CONCLUSION.
. Nice software.
. Suggest that (obviously) Google Updater not lock out Google's own updates.
Thanks,
Jim
Google coordinates for your neighborhood? Thanks, Jim
The legal system messed up here. Was it the prosecutors going for the wrong crime? Did the judge also have blinders on?
If I cheat and steal something then all derivatives of that something are tainted.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi Hyperspite,
Thanks for the "think positive" suggestion. That's nicely uplifting!
Jim
Hmm medical update. A virus is a virus and typically does not have an easy "pill type" cure. Antibiotics are targeted toward bacterial infections.
Jim
Me too on Latin scant knowledge though its growing. Oxford makes some great Latin dictionaries.
I would like Smitty the One to weigh in on this because he knows and coined the term. It make be even pig Latin.
Thanks
Jim
Please elucidate "VIRINE NON SVMVS DEVO SVMVS". Means what this? Scrambling words like Latin does in a sentence.
Then the motto of your friend in their "love me" shirt is "alter ego est amicus" [a friend is another self]
Thanks,
Jim the Jim who else?
Screaming HDD. My home PC here last week literally howled at me. Anyhow screamed. The problem? Some crucial part of the OS system HD was fragmented causing the heads (I think) to oscillate back and forth. A defrag seemed to resolve the problem.
I could be wrong on the above. And if you have any better theories for my screaming HDD problem cause, let 'em roll!
Thanks,
Jim
Yes its Texas. For sometimes good reasons and more often bad ones (as in the Microsoft monopoly case). This time its a good reason. The attorney general says the agreement did not go far enough about verifying ages. I don't know how an any age verification would work. Factual data like emails or birth dates can be easily faked. Perhaps name the continents? No, that would knock out a lot of college students today. Thumbprints? DNA samples anyone?
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080114_mo_myspacetx.21af3d6b.html
Jim
I used LCC for my modest library of 500 books. Looked the books up at the Library of Congress then copied and pasted the LCC information into an StarOffice8 spreadsheet. Also looked up on Amazon to get the price. Sorted by LCC and printed out.
LCC Search Website
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Now for oddities. Edward R. Tufte's books were one. I would appreciate any illumination on this.
"Visual Explanations" CALL NUMBER P93.5.T84 1990 Subject area: Visual Communication (from full record tab)
"Envisioning Information" CALL NUMBER P93.5.T846 1997 Subject area: Visual Communication (from full record tab)
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" CALL NUMBER QA276.3.T83 1983 Statistics Graphic Records (from full record tab)
Seems odd to me that one of Tufte's is way over in Statistics Graphics.
Foreign Language
LCC is happy to catalog some more modern mainstrame foreign language books. For example: "Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia"
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20071211155612&Search_Arg=Biblia%20Hebraica%20Stuttgartensia&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&PID=11419&SID=1
Thanks for all the comments,
Jim
Hi Doon (and you like Lorna Doone cookies?)
Interesting and most likely a good idea to have an armed line crew watching your generators. Its a funny world when the comfortable standard society fades and the edge of society comes to the forefront. Like after the Katrina hurricanes and in Blade Runner.
It might not be a good idea to have armed line crew when and if the union strikes. As you know, telco strikes can be subtly nasty affairs.
Have a great Christmas,
Jim
Hammy, your mind is in the right place. The current paradigm is for flash and dash on the cheap. Business continuity is an orphan project at companies. We need to roll back to 1960 and plan for outages! For just the reasons you describe.
When I worked for ARCO Oil and Gas in the 1980's, they counted on the power being out. So they spent 13 million 1980 dollars to run a duplicate high power line from another grid to back up their data center. So their data center was served by two separate power grids. Also ARCO had an empty data center in Independence KS and an agreement with IBM to ship big iron if the Plano data center was ever zapped.
Cheers,
Jim
EASY PICKINGS? In Texas and the nearby states like OK, KS, NM, etc, there are zillions of cell towers in the middle of nowhere. What an opportunity for thieves if these all had little generators nearby. I hope a better paradigm that what I describe is used.
NEW CASH COW? Its bad enough in Dallas where miles lights were out along the divided highways in the Summer of 2006 because thieves pulled out the connecting. This was bad in the summer of 2006 and its better now since openings have been welded shut. I can see generators being the new cash cow for thieves.
Thanks
Jim
I have a sinus infection the never ending drip drip ooze ooze. So would a cheek swab actually measure the DNA of those germs rather than my own? Same question applies for the zoo of other bacteria in one's mouth.
Thanks,
Jim
Was the source code found on Expert's Exchange? There they have thousands of code examples that subscribers can use. Yes in most cases credit should be mentioned in your own source.
Thanks,
Jim
Sorry I cannot prove this. But I can testify before a court if needed. In the mid 1970's I managed a pizza place. We had a $2 buffet for all the pizza and drinks you could eat. This on one evening during a slow business period. This event generated largish customer crowds of 60-70 customers at once. Well one stinker of a customer shows up in line wanting half something really picky and the other half something else picky.
I told this customer that he would have to wait maybe 45 minutes for his picky order. Stinker put up a stink. So I said to him then pay your two bucks and eat the buffet.
Anyhow he was embarrassed when everyone in line cheered at my impudent handling of Mr. Stinky Customer.
So Amazon's patent bites the dust. This sort of practice is probably quite common in the food service industry. If you yourself have run Mr. Stinky Customer to the back of the line, let us know.
Hope your Thanksgiving weekend is going well,
Jim
Rackspace is doing this on the cheap and cheap. Their backup generators SHOULD provide a week's worth of backup.
Then as stated for #2 alternate power sources should be required. Rackspace fails.
GREAT BACKUP EXAMPLE. READ AND BE WISER! Especially you folks at Rackspace who will not hire older more experienced people. This is what you miss. Atlantic Richfield Oil and Gas (ARCO) set up a new data center many years ago in 1980. They located this in Plano TX. They decided that power backup was insufficient so ARCO paid 12 million dollars (1980 dollars) to run another electricity transmission line to their data center. This was a two or three mile line of those tall metal framework transmission towers. This can still be seen today if you travel Plano Parkway East of Coit. Google Earth at 33 00' 20.49"N, 96 44' 12.99"W. An unassuming building today. Also today you would locate on top of the 15 cable run (i.e. huge) dark fiber that goes north and south through Dallas.
Also ARCO had a fully configured but empty data center in Missouri to use if Plano ever suddenly wen. The data center lacked hardware but ARCO had an agreement with IBM to jump to the front of the mainframe production line if this disaster ever happened. Then it was a matter of applying backup tapes.
Rackspace should have considered optioning space at this old ARCO location which now has an insurance company there rather than where they are now.
Thanks,
Jim
Wonko the very sane very smart.
Could you provide some examples you saw and experienced where people performance on US subs deterioated during your tenure in the Navy? Nothing classified please.
Also see the Norfolk sub fleet stand down. 01/11/2007
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=117428&ran=182798&tref=po
The USS Greenville and Ehime Maru near Oahu, Hawaii, 02/09/2001
http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2005/MAB0501.htm
Thanks,
Jim
Thanks Alan, I do think I also wrote some code in 1998. I loved Teradata because it let me query two years of everything sold at JCPenney in two and a half hours. IBM DB2, before MQSERIES, could only handle small bits of queries so that took several days to run then piecing the result sets together was a pain.
Good luck with your work post AA.
Then you remembering using Teradata in the 1998 timeframe does demonstrate that the professor is an idea grabber. Again, Teradata had to have been planned long before 1998.
Jim
NCR Teradata does data retrieval based off chopping indexes into discrete pieces then storing those indexes in separate nodes. WalMart and others have used this. NCR started selling these around that time 2000 so design had to occur much earlier. Seems to me to be what's covered by the patent. Network could be IP or simply the data bus.
So its likely this professor saw, heard, or smelled the process at some conference. Or from one of his grad students. Then painted proceeded to paint a Matisse abstract patent about it.
Research would be better served by professors like this chewing away on the truly difficult problems. Not rediscovering the wheel. Not tiny incremental baby steps. Go for research. Go for discovery. Go for the satisfaction of discovery. You might not reach your goal but will have had the satisfaction of the journey.
Thanks,
Jim
Andy Grove is very correct. Let me know where I can read or listen to his speech.
My perspective is from having rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I have RA for five years now. Its always bubbling up so really impacts me. Got fired from my last job due to this.
In the RA arena researchers don't know the cause. Same thing for cancer and a host of other diseases. In a computer system, if you don't know the cause, its hard to fix. One first level drug, methorexate dials down the whole immune system to target RA. Then more recent biologic drugs work pretty well. I have the feeling that I could eat something different, like amino acids, to impact how my epigenetic code is exercised. Research like Andy Grove suggests is the only way to find out the truth here.
God bless you Andy Grove! And God bless the biologic companies too, they do help.
Jim
Certainly your bike with a GPS speedometer will be accurate.
Now if a GPS updates every second a car will probably be inaccurate in a quick braking situation. I think this is what happened with the person in the original article. They say he was going the speed limit "within 100 feet" which is equivalent to a narrow window of time. What was the previous reading? Not enough information. Did he slow down dramatically like some do when they feel guilty?
From the AP article. "Rude encouraged him to fight the ticket after the log he downloaded using software provided by the GPS unit's Colorado-based supplier showed Shaun was going the speed limit within 100 feet of where a Petaluma officer clocked him speeding."
Thanks,
Jim
If you read the NYTIMES article on this which has been cited twice prior to this post and on the paper NYTIMES front page above the fold, you will be reassured.
The Open Content Alliance plans to digitize expired copyrights of 1922 and before. Then Boston Library Consortium (34 million expired copyright books) is seeking to digitize later dated in-copyright but out of print books.
Google's approach for in-copyright is close to that of various on-line Journals. A reader can only read a few pages of a copyrighted book (no more information from the article). Then I suppose they are motivated to make an inter library loan for the book.
Then the text, at least from the Gutenberg Project is interesting. Plain courier text for which programs can be written, by myself perhaps, to recreate the original format in PDF files. See the following example.
http://www.archive.org/stream/amusementsinmath16713gut/16713-8.txt
Thanks,
Jim
I kind of agree in theory with tfip here. I have not seen an eReader but a couple of prototypes.
Several years ago I was lucky enough to meet the MIT team that developed eInk. At that time, I saw their little proof of concept device. It was a thin copper strip about four inches long and half an inch wide. Mounted on the strip were four or five square plastic covered blobs that enclosed the eInk ping pong type balls. The balls were half white and half black. There was soldering here and there around the copper strip. Again, not really a prototype but a test of concept.
Then four years ago, someone made a large eInk sign for JCPenney. A little further up the food chain to the prototype stage. This is probably the granddaddy of eReader. Here the little dots flipped quite nicely.
I am screen resolution driven. 170 DPI is great for a store sign (ignoring expenses) but hmm, for a book? I wonder what eyestrain might be after a couple of evenings spent eReading (posterity watch, first verb form of this? Naah.). Then is it possible to get 1200 dpi. Those are teeny tiny little ping pong balls there.
I think eInk technology is kind of neat. Neat in a kind of Luddite back to simplicity sense. Reflectivity is its strong point. It may occupy the same niche that those old flip digit alarm clocks used. Digit flip alarm clocks worked like a rotary Rolodex file except the outside face had numbers on it. Each number was a little plastic card that pulled up and over to reveal the next digit. Digit flip clocks were on a time-line approximately between Nixie tubes and later LED & neon based displays.
Thanks,
Jim
Thank YOU AC!!!
I have the director's cut. I was unaware of the absence of narration. Nor about the two scenes, whichever ones, being switched.
So....I am going to do retrograde move back to the original original Blade Runner.
Its like my mom used to do. When she was really old, she started painting pictures. She would create one that I liked. BUT THEN SHE WOULD TAKE IT OFF THE WALL AND KEEP ON ADDING TO IT. Ok, it was her work so I cannot complain. But we lose something when a film or artwork ventures beyond ornate.
Thanks again,
Jim