Power was not an issue with Seti Classic.
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I ran seti@home classic 24/7 for seven years on as many as four machines at a time and never fewer than two. I babied these computers, checking for heat problems and power usage and had to periodically replace worn out hardware. I optimized the seti client for each individual machine to get the most work for energy used, shut off monitors when not in use and never ran the seti screen saver on the lone Windows machine. As near as I could tell, energy usage on my little lan was never a serious issue and I was willing to pay for it because I felt I was doing a small part to advance science.
All of that changed when the seti@home project switched over to the BOINC client to handle administrative tasks. The GNU/Linux machines began shutting themselves down because of high processor temperatures, lost two power supplies in a short period and fans were constantly running full bore. I tried many different optimizations of both the BOINC and seti clients but was never able to achieve the calm I had with seti classic. That was enough for me and I quit the project.
I have seen it happen and have no desire to harm innocent animals, not even a Sand Tiger, or cause distress to an angel and I certainly don't want tv people calling me.
'Sand Tiger' does tingle the 'fight or flight' switch in my lizard brain, along with 'Bull Shark' and 'Great White'. As a young beach-rat/surfer in the mid '50's, I never really thought much about shark attacks but that changed along with increasing popularity of the sport and attacks.
No, I was refering to the -1 Troll I received for my original remarks. I had no problem at all with TomHandy's comment and I understand the points he made.
Well, I got hammered for my remarks, as I felt I would, and I'm sure that makes someone feel better. I did read the article before posting and I knew that most of the questions being asked of this guy were answered on the Apple spec page. I'm sure that some folks need to know the clock-speed of the X1600, also answered on the Apple site, but I believe many more buy high-end mac's on reputation alone, I would. It just seemed like this whole thing was a marketing gimmick.
Go ahead and mod me troll or flamebate but all this gush, gush, squirt, squirt over a f**king laptop just seems so bizarre. Perhaps it is because I had way too much French white wine tonight, a rare treat for me, with my wonderful fish dinner and things appear closer than they really are but doesn't this bcavanau character seem a bit contrived? He is able to answer hundreds of questions almost instantaneously and all of a sudden he has his own web site, with ads no less. All due to his new macbookpro, I suppose.
People that don't care about or don't know how to secure their personal data, institutions run by people with shoddy security practices or that just don't give a damn and all levels of government run by people that seem to refuse to use readily available, inexpensive and reliable security techniques and technology.
a last-minute bug that 'took most of the Vista team by surprise' has caused an unexpected delay, said Ethan Allen, a quality assurance lead at a Seattle high-tech company that tests its products for Vista.
I'm not trolling here. I was interested in finding out who the Seattle company is and which of their 'products' brought down Vista. All I could find is that Allen is also connected to netfix.com which, at first glance' is just a 'I love MS' site.
For years his mantra was that all illegal drug users should be in prison. If he did't have friends in high political places, a he would be; one of the perks of spewing their conservative bs, I guess.
Of Michael J. Fox's recent political commercial, Rush said that Michael was, "either off his medication or acting.", regarding Michael's body movements from the effects of Parkinsons. What an asshole.
Seems Daniel Lyons makes his living attacking Linux and GNU/FSF and others in the FOSS community. From the article:
You've probably seen his name mentioned on Slashdot and Groklaw, and if you regularly read Linux-related news, you've probably read some of his articles and shook your head in disbelief. Forbes writer and fiction author Daniel Lyons' articles regularly target Linux, free software, and companies that support Linux.
Moderators, please do not mod this post. I'm not doing it for the points.
That is what I did but it was just a knack I unconsciously developed over time to
make up for a severe hearing loss. I learned to give all my attention to one voice or sound at a time. This does cause problems because people often think you are ignoring them or that you are just a jerk.
Now, a hearing aid in my left ear brings its 95% hearing loss to about 70% and I have a 60% loss in my right ear. I still rely on my selective hearing in bad acoustics or where there is ambient noise, though the chip in my hearing aid has modest noise canceling technology.
We are also working on a method to more precisely define basal cell carcinoma borders.
Well, this is good news as well. I have some pretty gnarly scars on both shoulders from excision, burn and scrape removals of BCC. Not a big deal to most men, probably, but I can see where many women and some men might be upset with the result of EBS. On the other hand, not even I can see the scar from the excision of the basal cell cyst under my right eye.
Being a neighbor, you may have heard of my doctor for the Mohs surgery; Carlos A. Garcia, M.D.(plus long credentials) from the University of Oklahoma, Department of Dermatology. Great guy.
Thank you for the reply and please keep up your great work which so many of us appreciate. Oh, and please don't move to a coast. You would probably receive more fame and I know you would reap much more fortune but we really need you here in the central US.
As a basal cell carcinoma patient I stand a greater risk of developing a melanoma in the future. It is nice to hear that new tests and treatments are being developed which could save lives.
I am paying for a lifetime of fun in the sun. This month I had Mohs surgery for a deep rooted basal cell cancer on my nose, which left a nice crater, and will receive skin grafts in a few weeks to make me handsome again. But this is a cake walk compared to melanoma.
A bit off topic but I wonder how many of you/.ers get port scans from China based computers on a regular basis, as I do. The scans are alway for port 88, presumably looking for kerberos keys, and always from computers behind the same IP servers in Beijing. I've never sent the IP a complaint, even though they list an abuse email address, because I'm sure nothing would be done.
'TOP TIP' is funny but certainly valid. The second, and final top tip would be, "Don't rub your eyes". I would bet that 90% of cold and flu infections are self-inoculations from eye rubbing.
I thought I made it clear that cpio was anything but intuitive:
It has a ton of options and it takes a while to get used to what various option combinations do
but do you feel that cpio isn't a useful tool for some reason? I am always eager to learn from my mistakes and misconceptions from those with different experience and knowledge.
The last time I used cpio I moved over a 100 files and sub-directories, all of different file types, maintaining permissions and structure with one command which, I thought, was pretty cool.
Moving multiple arbitrarily named and ...
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...and arbitrarily chosen files.
A nice little command line program to do this is cpio. It has a ton of options and it takes a while to get used to what various option combinations do but the tutorial, info cpio, provides lots of examples. One example: % find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd new-dir will move any number of arbitrarily named files/sub-directories to a new directory. You can also eliminate files/sub-directories you don't want to pass to the new directory with options but it may be easier to just delete them from the new directory.
The first modern firearm snipers may have been trained in 16th century Japan as a type of ninja or shinobi. They were supposedly trained to cover retreating armies.
For about one fifth that amount you could build a 14 meter sail powered catamaran that will easily do 20+ kts on an average open ocean day and quarter 10 people. However, you would need to be an expert sailor to handle this boat because catamarans turn over very easily. I know because I've done so many times on small (5.5 meter) cats which, by the way, can do about 30 kts with a good wind.
So, I would really have to ask the question, "What's the point", other than we have the technology to build a solar powered boat; and have had for a very long time.
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I ran seti@home classic 24/7 for seven years on as many as four machines at a time and never fewer than two. I babied these computers, checking for heat problems and power usage and had to periodically replace worn out hardware. I optimized the seti client for each individual machine to get the most work for energy used, shut off monitors when not in use and never ran the seti screen saver on the lone Windows machine. As near as I could tell, energy usage on my little lan was never a serious issue and I was willing to pay for it because I felt I was doing a small part to advance science.
All of that changed when the seti@home project switched over to the BOINC client to handle administrative tasks. The GNU/Linux machines began shutting themselves down because of high processor temperatures, lost two power supplies in a short period and fans were constantly running full bore. I tried many different optimizations of both the BOINC and seti clients but was never able to achieve the calm I had with seti classic. That was enough for me and I quit the project.
the increased use of high fructose corn syrup in consumer products around the early to mid 70's.
I have seen it happen and have no desire to harm innocent animals, not even a Sand Tiger, or cause distress to an angel and I certainly don't want tv people calling me.
'Sand Tiger' does tingle the 'fight or flight' switch in my lizard brain, along with 'Bull Shark' and 'Great White'. As a young beach-rat/surfer in the mid '50's, I never really thought much about shark attacks but that changed along with increasing popularity of the sport and attacks.
Hmmm, you are correct Tom. I skimmed the spec page last night and thought I saw something clock-speed related under 'Video and graphics support'.
No, I was refering to the -1 Troll I received for my original remarks. I had no problem at all with TomHandy's comment and I understand the points he made.
Well, I got hammered for my remarks, as I felt I would, and I'm sure that makes someone feel better. I did read the article before posting and I knew that most of the questions being asked of this guy were answered on the Apple spec page. I'm sure that some folks need to know the clock-speed of the X1600, also answered on the Apple site, but I believe many more buy high-end mac's on reputation alone, I would. It just seemed like this whole thing was a marketing gimmick.
Go ahead and mod me troll or flamebate but all this gush, gush, squirt, squirt over a f**king laptop just seems so bizarre. Perhaps it is because I had way too much French white wine tonight, a rare treat for me, with my wonderful fish dinner and things appear closer than they really are but doesn't this bcavanau character seem a bit contrived? He is able to answer hundreds of questions almost instantaneously and all of a sudden he has his own web site, with ads no less. All due to his new macbookpro, I suppose.
People that don't care about or don't know how to secure their personal data, institutions run by people with shoddy security practices or that just don't give a damn and all levels of government run by people that seem to refuse to use readily available, inexpensive and reliable security techniques and technology.
I'm not trolling here. I was interested in finding out who the Seattle company is and which of their 'products' brought down Vista. All I could find is that Allen is also connected to netfix.com which, at first glance' is just a 'I love MS' site.
Anyone know the rest of the story?
For years his mantra was that all illegal drug users should be in prison. If he did't have friends in high political places, a he would be; one of the perks of spewing their conservative bs, I guess.
Of Michael J. Fox's recent political commercial, Rush said that Michael was, "either off his medication or acting.", regarding Michael's body movements from the effects of Parkinsons. What an asshole.
Come on Mods. This post is not off topic. It is right on the money.
Seems Daniel Lyons makes his living attacking Linux and GNU/FSF and others in the FOSS community. From the article:
Moderators, please do not mod this post. I'm not doing it for the points.
That is what I did but it was just a knack I unconsciously developed over time to make up for a severe hearing loss. I learned to give all my attention to one voice or sound at a time. This does cause problems because people often think you are ignoring them or that you are just a jerk.
Now, a hearing aid in my left ear brings its 95% hearing loss to about 70% and I have a 60% loss in my right ear. I still rely on my selective hearing in bad acoustics or where there is ambient noise, though the chip in my hearing aid has modest noise canceling technology.
My god, it just occurred to me that I took my first semester of calculus 40 years ago.
I resemble that remark to insensitive clod.
Well, this is good news as well. I have some pretty gnarly scars on both shoulders from excision, burn and scrape removals of BCC. Not a big deal to most men, probably, but I can see where many women and some men might be upset with the result of EBS. On the other hand, not even I can see the scar from the excision of the basal cell cyst under my right eye.
Being a neighbor, you may have heard of my doctor for the Mohs surgery; Carlos A. Garcia, M.D.(plus long credentials) from the University of Oklahoma, Department of Dermatology. Great guy.
Thank you for the reply and please keep up your great work which so many of us appreciate. Oh, and please don't move to a coast. You would probably receive more fame and I know you would reap much more fortune but we really need you here in the central US.
~robin
As a basal cell carcinoma patient I stand a greater risk of developing a melanoma in the future. It is nice to hear that new tests and treatments are being developed which could save lives.
I am paying for a lifetime of fun in the sun. This month I had Mohs surgery for a deep rooted basal cell cancer on my nose, which left a nice crater, and will receive skin grafts in a few weeks to make me handsome again. But this is a cake walk compared to melanoma.
Protect your skin.
I said IP when I ment ISP. Also, my router ignores these requests but logs the pertinent information, of course.
A bit off topic but I wonder how many of you /.ers get port scans from China based computers on a regular basis, as I do. The scans are alway for port 88, presumably looking for kerberos keys, and always from computers behind the same IP servers in Beijing. I've never sent the IP a complaint, even though they list an abuse email address, because I'm sure nothing would be done.
'TOP TIP' is funny but certainly valid. The second, and final top tip would be, "Don't rub your eyes". I would bet that 90% of cold and flu infections are self-inoculations from eye rubbing.
Laurel: "We're just like two peas in a pot".
Hardy: "Not pot. Poooooooo'D".
Laurel: Looks at the camera with bewildered expression.
I thought I made it clear that cpio was anything but intuitive:
but do you feel that cpio isn't a useful tool for some reason? I am always eager to learn from my mistakes and misconceptions from those with different experience and knowledge.The last time I used cpio I moved over a 100 files and sub-directories, all of different file types, maintaining permissions and structure with one command which, I thought, was pretty cool.
...and arbitrarily chosen files.
A nice little command line program to do this is cpio. It has a ton of options and it takes a while to get used to what various option combinations do but the tutorial, info cpio, provides lots of examples. One example: % find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd new-dir will move any number of arbitrarily named files/sub-directories to a new directory. You can also eliminate files/sub-directories you don't want to pass to the new directory with options but it may be easier to just delete them from the new directory.
I wonder how long before we have to pledge allegiance to the NSA to support their war on terrorism?
Hmmm, someone at the front door at this late hour. Be right bac...%&$...no carrier.....
From Wikipedia:Sniper:
For about one fifth that amount you could build a 14 meter sail powered catamaran that will easily do 20+ kts on an average open ocean day and quarter 10 people. However, you would need to be an expert sailor to handle this boat because catamarans turn over very easily. I know because I've done so many times on small (5.5 meter) cats which, by the way, can do about 30 kts with a good wind.
So, I would really have to ask the question, "What's the point", other than we have the technology to build a solar powered boat; and have had for a very long time.