VA Code:... bicycle... to the right... except... 1... 2... 3... 4... 5...
All of which means that I'm allowed (even encouraged!) to dart in-and-out of traffic, unless I can keep up with the 50mph traffic in the 35mph (2-lane) zone.
Or the 35mph traffic in a 25mph (1-lane) zone.
Or I can stay home and collect welfare.
To his credit, the cop was sympathetic, and agreed that traveling in the middle of the lane is probably safer, but somebody had called in a complaint and he was obligated to respond.
what impedes flow more - one bike taking a third of a lane? or an ambulance, a couple cop cars, a dozen motorists, some police tape, and a pile of goop on the pavement?
At this time I am unwilling to go to jail on that particular point of contention.
I wear a blaze-orange vest and a white helmet with five blinking super-bright red LED's on the back. Doesn't prevent the occasional caddy-driver from locking up their brakes behind me when they suddenly "notice" that the thing in front of their car is suddenly getting closer.
My solution to the passing problem is to be bold and ride in the middle of the lane, especially if there are two lanes.
I used to drive that way, until a cop pulled me over (yes, on a bicycle!) and explained that Virginia State Code forbids bicyclists from riding in the middle of the lane or otherwise impeding traffic flow.
(sigh) I suppose I should have cut-and-pasted, rather than posting a link to the product specifications webpage. The Twiddler 2 is a one-handed chording keyboard manufactured and sold by the HandyKey corporation. With practice, it is said to be nearly as fast as typing with both hands at a conventional keyboard. It has several advantages over the flimsy foldable PDA keyboards like the one you mention:
It has a working life measured in years, rather than weeks.
It doesn't require a flat surface to work.
It only requires one hand.
It has one distinct disadvantage:
It only comes in USB and PS/2 interfaces. (Standards? What's THAT?)
Having a PDA with a Twiddler 2 would enable me to take notes during meetings without being obnoxious or intrusive. Better than a laptop, even!
And when I said "typing", I meant some sort of data entry involving more than two fingers and occuring at speeds in excess of 30wpm. Which does not include the thumb-boards that are built into products like the TREO Smartphone and the Sharp Zaurus.
I don't care about VGA. I don't even care about color. I just want a remote ssh-2 client that I can type confortably on, without carrying around a briefcase or a purse.
By far the coolest-looking solar bike I've seen is the XR2-solar that won the 2001 Australian Solar Challenge. It's just a slight modification of the standard Ground Hugger XR2 plans that are available online.
... However, a basic principle of insurance states that insurance must not pay out for INTENTIONAL losses... there's no skid marks or evidence of braking, that's a common one.
Another reason not to buy an Antilock Braking System.
Runtime is definitely longer. I've gone as long as two days on a power outage, and I suspect that I could go at least three.
Some people here have warned that the UPS won't fully charge a larger-model battery, but I've been using this setup for four years now and it works fine for me.
Only prob I had was I shut it off once, during an outage, and couldn't turn it back on. I suspect something is wrong with the internal electronics, but it was rescued from the trash heap and works in all other respects, so I'm definitely not complaining.
The DC-88 (Deep Cycle, 88 Amp-Hour) battery whose specs I quoted costs about $85 and is available from a nation-wide distributor. Another poster recommended Batteries Plus. They carry Optima batteries, which are considered top-of-the-line, but they cost about twice as much for the same capacity.
Actually, the last time I needed to index a large group of files (for disaster recovery purposes; the files in question were all from the lost+found directory) I used Swish++.
And yes, it works VERY well, orders of magnitude faster than Ht:/Dig, features incremental reindexing, and can be configured to auto-convert various filetypes to text before indexing. I'd say it's exactly what the poster ordered.
You want Valve-Regulated Sealed Lead-Acid, Absorbed Glass Mat (VRLA/AGM) batteries. Personally, I use two of these babies on my BackUPS. I can run my computer for three days on an outage. And during Hurricane season, a three-day outage is not unheard-of.
Well, they may be using marketing hype when they claim to process X number of "messages" when they're actually processing X number of "connections" but the bottom line is that it only took one Barracuda box to effectively spam/virus protect our entire ISP. And yeah, it's handling the load. We keep a close watch on it. When the latency gets too high, we'll probably buy another one, even if we don't reach the "1 million emails per day" figure that's being touted. Personally, I didn't care for the fact that it's using spamassassin, but for the money they're charging I could not build a better custom solution.
Like I said, if you can build a better box cheaper, (or know someone else who does) please tell me. I'll buy it.
Actually, the reason they can filter so fast is that a bunch of crap gets filtered before it ever reaches the filesystem.
Barracuda isn't doing anything that other anti-spam solutions don't do, but it is packaging every known trick together with reasonably easy maintenance. So spam has to pass through static IP-blocks plus dns real-time-blacklists plus rate-limiting plus message/id fingerprinting before it ever touches spamassassin.
On our network, those first (relatively cheap, in terms of CPU and I/O) layers cut over 75% of the crap.
You think you can build a better anti-spam solution and roll it out cheaper, with easier maintenance? Do it. I'll be your first customer.
What Hans won't point out is that Reiser is less forgiving of bad hardware than Ext2/3. This is why you hear conflicting reports of reliability. The negative reports are from people who don't invest in reliable hardware and backups; the postive ones are from people who do.
Reiserfs has a much more complex data format than Ext3, and v4 is more complex than v3. This means that the reiser fsck program has to work a *lot* harder to repair data corruption than the ext2 fsck. Even so, the latest version can handle just about anything except for unreadable/unwritable sectors.
So for cheap hardware, use the cheap (Ext2/3) filesystem, but for quality hardware, use Reiser4.
Java is Cross-Platform - I remember attending a seminar where Sun introduced Java as the Holy Grail of programming: the first truly write-once, run-everywhere language. And it sounds really cool, except that I now work for an ISP and I don't go through a single day without finding yet another "portable" java app that runs everywhere... as long as you've got the right JVM and OS version.
Java, as it is typically used on the client side, is about as cross-platform as Visual Basic.
So the red-shift depends on the velocity vector of the mirror in the direction away from the source of light? That would imply that the faster the mirror moves, the greater the red shift, and presumably, by your theory, the greater the energy transfer into the mirror.
Has this actually been measured in a laboratory? I googled unsuccessfully, but perhaps I used the wrong keywords.
I'll probably get modded down again, but I'm personally waiting for the scientists to conclude that solar sails just don't work, since they violate the law of conservation of energy.
Unless somebody is hypothesizing that photons exhibit a red-shift when they bounce off of a mirror?
How about bpc? Bits per Cycle.
Bits/Sec divided by Cycles/Sec equals Bits/Cycle.
Anyhow. Baud does not equal Bits per Second. Baud equals frequency-changes per second. A 56kbps modem actually transmits at 4700 baud, IIRC.
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The good thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from!
All of which means that I'm allowed (even encouraged!) to dart in-and-out of traffic, unless I can keep up with the 50mph traffic in the 35mph (2-lane) zone.
Or the 35mph traffic in a 25mph (1-lane) zone.
Or I can stay home and collect welfare.
To his credit, the cop was sympathetic, and agreed that traveling in the middle of the lane is probably safer, but somebody had called in a complaint and he was obligated to respond.
At this time I am unwilling to go to jail on that particular point of contention.
I wear a blaze-orange vest and a white helmet with five blinking super-bright red LED's on the back. Doesn't prevent the occasional caddy-driver from locking up their brakes behind me when they suddenly "notice" that the thing in front of their car is suddenly getting closer.
I used to drive that way, until a cop pulled me over (yes, on a bicycle!) and explained that Virginia State Code forbids bicyclists from riding in the middle of the lane or otherwise impeding traffic flow.
- It has a working life measured in years, rather than weeks.
- It doesn't require a flat surface to work.
- It only requires one hand.
It has one distinct disadvantage:- It only comes in USB and PS/2 interfaces. (Standards? What's THAT?)
Having a PDA with a Twiddler 2 would enable me to take notes during meetings without being obnoxious or intrusive. Better than a laptop, even!And when I said "typing", I meant some sort of data entry involving more than two fingers and occuring at speeds in excess of 30wpm. Which does not include the thumb-boards that are built into products like the TREO Smartphone and the Sharp Zaurus.
I don't care about VGA. I don't even care about color. I just want a remote ssh-2 client that I can type confortably on, without carrying around a briefcase or a purse.
By far the coolest-looking solar bike I've seen is the XR2-solar that won the 2001 Australian Solar Challenge. It's just a slight modification of the standard Ground Hugger XR2 plans that are available online.
And that, boys and girls, is why the kingdom is up for grabs to any wooly-headed farm-boy lucky enough to snatch a pig-sticker from a watery tart!
Too bad it took a Lancelot to thaw her out.
Some people here have warned that the UPS won't fully charge a larger-model battery, but I've been using this setup for four years now and it works fine for me.
Only prob I had was I shut it off once, during an outage, and couldn't turn it back on. I suspect something is wrong with the internal electronics, but it was rescued from the trash heap and works in all other respects, so I'm definitely not complaining.
The DC-88 (Deep Cycle, 88 Amp-Hour) battery whose specs I quoted costs about $85 and is available from a nation-wide distributor. Another poster recommended Batteries Plus. They carry Optima batteries, which are considered top-of-the-line, but they cost about twice as much for the same capacity.
And yes, it works VERY well, orders of magnitude faster than Ht:/Dig, features incremental reindexing, and can be configured to auto-convert various filetypes to text before indexing. I'd say it's exactly what the poster ordered.
You want Valve-Regulated Sealed Lead-Acid, Absorbed Glass Mat (VRLA/AGM) batteries. Personally, I use two of these babies on my BackUPS. I can run my computer for three days on an outage. And during Hurricane season, a three-day outage is not unheard-of.
Like I said, if you can build a better box cheaper, (or know someone else who does) please tell me. I'll buy it.
Barracuda isn't doing anything that other anti-spam solutions don't do, but it is packaging every known trick together with reasonably easy maintenance. So spam has to pass through static IP-blocks plus dns real-time-blacklists plus rate-limiting plus message/id fingerprinting before it ever touches spamassassin.
On our network, those first (relatively cheap, in terms of CPU and I/O) layers cut over 75% of the crap.
You think you can build a better anti-spam solution and roll it out cheaper, with easier maintenance? Do it. I'll be your first customer.
Reiserfs has a much more complex data format than Ext3, and v4 is more complex than v3. This means that the reiser fsck program has to work a *lot* harder to repair data corruption than the ext2 fsck. Even so, the latest version can handle just about anything except for unreadable/unwritable sectors.
So for cheap hardware, use the cheap (Ext2/3) filesystem, but for quality hardware, use Reiser4.
Java, as it is typically used on the client side, is about as cross-platform as Visual Basic.
It must be late; I must be tired.
So the red-shift depends on the velocity vector of the mirror in the direction away from the source of light? That would imply that the faster the mirror moves, the greater the red shift, and presumably, by your theory, the greater the energy transfer into the mirror. Has this actually been measured in a laboratory? I googled unsuccessfully, but perhaps I used the wrong keywords.
Unless somebody is hypothesizing that photons exhibit a red-shift when they bounce off of a mirror?
Solitaire. Minesweeper. Tetris.
The question is, did Sun pay Roger Williams for the idea?
How about bpc? Bits per Cycle. Bits/Sec divided by Cycles/Sec equals Bits/Cycle. Anyhow. Baud does not equal Bits per Second. Baud equals frequency-changes per second. A 56kbps modem actually transmits at 4700 baud, IIRC.
How many people besides me initially parsed the acronym as "Pain In The Ass Committee" ??