Linux Vserver appears to be almost the same thing as FreeBSD
jails. I have not ran either so I cannot speak with authority on
them.
I have ran Xen and UML, however.
Xen and UML are completely virtualized environments that boot a whole
seperate machine inside of the host. UML is good to run on a
server that has some 'extra' resources to dedicate to a VM as you can
spec total ram on the command line and there are no modifications to
the host machine kernel. Xen's hypervisor takes over the machine
by only occupying the first 64-128M of ram, with the rest of ram
dedicated to VMs, which makes it hard, but not impossible, to slap Xen
onto an existing machine. Xen also requires that a patched kernel
is installed on the host.
ANYTIME you have a project that uses any software that can be bought in a box set, always buy from the project. Your employer, customer or grandma will not scoff at the tens and tens of dollars that you give to these guys to help them out.
Hell, even if you spark up a mailserver in a pinch using downloaded ISOs, always go back and buy the damned box set later on. Make it a line item on your bill, include it in the budget, do whatever you have to do.
I have purchaced a fair amount of packaged CD sets from Slackware, OpenBSD, Redhat, Debian, etc. and have never spent a single dime of my own money.
If Titan has a magnetic field, wouldn't it be probable that it also has a liquid core of some sort, like here on Earth?
If it does have a liquid core, then it would most likely have geological activity which would result in mountains, valleys, etc.
On the other side of the coin, perhaps it is cold. If this is the case it shouldn't have a magnetic field and one would have to ask how it kept an atmosphere and what the hell those lights are.
This is totally from the armchair, I imagine I have missed something. Can someone elaborate?
I second this. I have one and recently went through a few
firmware changes. The stock firmware is actually not bad, and can
has a decent amount of options.
Although Sveasoft stirrs up mixed emotions around here, you can get the
image for free, and it's very good. You just can't see the forums
unless you pay. I personally haven't needed the forums, but your
results may vary.
If you are one of those people that don't agree with Sveasoft's forum
policy there's Wifi-Box on sourceforge. I installed this one too
and its very good also, although I prefer the Sveasoft image.
There are some others floating around, but I did not try them as they
seemed too alpha. Cratering my WAP isn't currently a priority.
There are 3 different models of the WRT54G actually. If you count
the WRT54GS there are 4. I suggest ebay as a source for the early
20 LED (V1.0) model. This model has more flash ram than later
models, and of course looks cooler with its 20 LEDs.
I would think that hand building each one would produce better quality than assembly line work.
A better car analogy would be a Rolls Royce vs. a Cadillac. Granted, a Caddy is a good car, but a Rolls is far and away a better car. Another analogy that might be more familiar to readers here would be comparing a vanilla Dell with a machine custom engineered for a specific purpose. I would put my money on the custom job.
I also submit that the Model T wasn't better than it's ancestors because of an assembly line. That may have had a bit to do with it, but remember that the Model T was built for 19 years without major modifications for a total run of approx 15M cars. I would say that they had a reasonable amount of time to work out the bugs. Also, the pace of auto development was very rapid in those days, much like technology today. Yet another analogy would be to compare the 486 with the 386. Process improvements did have an effect on the improvements in the 486, but the design is what really set it apart. One could argue that process improvements gave the designers room to improve, so that analogy breaks down somewhat.
I wouldn't say you are totally wrong though. If a lot more capsules were built, the quality would go up a bit at the end of the run of a LOT of them. I just wouldn't want to be on one of the first few off the line. The old adage "Don't ever buy a first year GM" is an old adage for a reason:)
I am not trying to minimize your experience with Ivan, so please don't take this comment as such. The story you posted sounds crazy as hell and I wouldn't wish such an episode on anyone except my worst enemies.
I do believe you reacted a little emotionally, which is understandable given your current situation. I think that if you look at the article again, you will find the only reason he mentions hurricanes is because Frances news reports before the fact got him thinking about it.
That being said, I don't think Crigley was trying to insinuate that someone in a situation such as yours should or could worry about data. The point I took away from the article is that a person wouldn't need to worry about data at all under any disaster circumstance if you implement a system such as the one he proposes.
I think that if you look at it like that, you will agree that he is not trying to discount the gravity of your experience.
It's too bad Stanley Kubrick isn't around anymore, as I would say he would be my first choice as opposed to Spielburg. Remember A.I., the part with the machine that knew everything? That kind of cartooney stuff is what you would likely see from Spielburg these days. Sorta like Disney takes the pot and sniffs Scotchguard.
I also think that David Lynch might be a good person to have as a director. Having the Princess turning into 3 different characters for no apparent reason sounds like a good time. Hell, she might even get naked and lez out, I don't have to tell you that would be sweet. You know he would make Yoda one funky motherfucker too. He would probably use that weird midget and his formica table instead of a puppet or a computer, which would rock. And you know he would squeeze that weird ass cowboy in there somewhere. God knows what he would do with Darth Vader when he shows up, probably would use some sort of talking camel or some such oddness.
Or maybe not. Depends on what drugs you are on that day.
Now what we need to do, just to make sure the estimate is correct, is to place one of these moons directly onto Boulder, CO to see if it will in fact cover the entire city.
Now I know NCAR is there, which is cool and all, but NCAR is on the mountain, and should be O.K.
I mean, I just want to make sure they are correct about the size estimate. Not that I want to wipe Boulder off the face of the earth or anything like that. Why would anyone want to do that?
Who's with me? Who is with me? In the name of Science!
This problem would be solved if ebay didn't expire out the links to old auctions after 90 days. I sell a small amount of high dollar things on there and I try to stagger them so I always have something in my feed back that people can look at that is fairly high dollar. This actually makes me lose money as the value of this equpment goes down.
It would be solved if they would just put a brief description of the product the person bought or sold and a dollar amount in the feedback profile for items that expire out.
Taking this one step further, who's to say they won't be the ones responsible for putting their own code into some important project? Don't get me wrong, I don't expect to see MS themselves as contributors to any projects, but they may pull something like their "grassroots" campaign of posting on message boards as seemingly unrelated people, or remember their switch ad bullshit.
I think there SHOULD be a group of people who get their hands on everything that MS releases and in order to monitor the code of certain high profile projects.
I feel I am being trolled, but here are some articles I dug up.
This one talks about delay, and that most humans can start to detect
delay at around 250ms. On the second page, it goes over different
G.7xx codecs and tells you the MOS score for each one.
So, you probably never heard of this stuff because it doesn't matter in
a classic digital or analog network mainly because you are using
dedicated circuits and g.711 all day. When you start using data
networks and codecs like g.723.1, you need to worry about this shit.
BTW, it took me about 5 minutes to find this info using that Google
thing. You should check it out.
1 or 1.5 seconds is not ok for any type of real telecom, maybe for walkee-talkees but not phones.
The telecom industry spent a lot of money to find out what people find is OK. The two main factors are delay and Mean Opinion Score (MOS).
For delay anything past 300ms people will notice, around 500ms you start to hear echo. Most phone service worth it's salt will keep it below 300ms.
MOS is a 1-5 score placed on the quality of the voice through a connection 1 being low, 5 being excellent. More info:
http://www.tech.plymouth.acuk/spmc/people/lfsun/ mo s/
So when the author states that it's not ready for prime time its because a 1 second delay is actually at least 3 times too long. If you can deal with it, more power to you, but the telecom industry would laugh at any company who would try to bring 1 second delays to market.
I thought about this, but most of the people I asked about getting clearance told me you generally need to get a company to sponser you, which is sort of a catch 22. I know this can't be the case, but I have no idea who to contact to apply being an independent contractor.
I have an sph-i300 from Samsung. It's a standard Palm phone with the keypad on the screen. It's not much bigger than a regular palm, but the screen is a bit smaller.
I like it a lot, as I have all my numbers, appointments and little notes on my phone, which is hard to forget at home. And syncing it with my PC is the #1 reason I bought it, as I won't have to worry about syncing my phone and palm together and if I do lose my phone, I still have all the numbers. I just get any new Palm OS phone and sync it and I'm golden.
There are tons of programs for Palm including an SSH client, IRC client, a ping util and a couple of browsers that are good in a pinch (and only in a pinch, really).
I have two compliants about this phone though. This particlular phone is not compatible with Sprint's vision service, so my phone tops out at 14.4k. The i330 is vision capable, so I imagine I will get that next. Also, the screen is hard to see in the sun, which is a minor inconvienence.
I say if you can deal with carrying something of that size all the time, go for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, don't forget about these Linux based methods:
Linux Vserver:
http://www.linux-vserver.org/
Xen
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
User Mode Linux:
http://usermodelinux.org/
Linux Vserver appears to be almost the same thing as FreeBSD jails. I have not ran either so I cannot speak with authority on them.
I have ran Xen and UML, however.
Xen and UML are completely virtualized environments that boot a whole seperate machine inside of the host. UML is good to run on a server that has some 'extra' resources to dedicate to a VM as you can spec total ram on the command line and there are no modifications to the host machine kernel. Xen's hypervisor takes over the machine by only occupying the first 64-128M of ram, with the rest of ram dedicated to VMs, which makes it hard, but not impossible, to slap Xen onto an existing machine. Xen also requires that a patched kernel is installed on the host.
-ft
I would like to talk with you about English schools. I am curious about the lack of "bullshit subjects" you speak of.
Please email me at slashdottemp@r1n.net
Thanks
-Fran
Actually, he lives across the street from The Beast.
664 and 668 live next door.
ft
ANYTIME you have a project that uses any software that can be bought in a box set, always buy from the project. Your employer, customer or grandma will not scoff at the tens and tens of dollars that you give to these guys to help them out.
Hell, even if you spark up a mailserver in a pinch using downloaded ISOs, always go back and buy the damned box set later on. Make it a line item on your bill, include it in the budget, do whatever you have to do.
I have purchaced a fair amount of packaged CD sets from Slackware, OpenBSD, Redhat, Debian, etc. and have never spent a single dime of my own money.
-ft
If Titan has a magnetic field, wouldn't it be probable that it also has a liquid core of some sort, like here on Earth?
If it does have a liquid core, then it would most likely have geological activity which would result in mountains, valleys, etc.
On the other side of the coin, perhaps it is cold. If this is the case it shouldn't have a magnetic field and one would have to ask how it kept an atmosphere and what the hell those lights are.
This is totally from the armchair, I imagine I have missed something. Can someone elaborate?
O.K. ALF
I second this. I have one and recently went through a few firmware changes. The stock firmware is actually not bad, and can has a decent amount of options.
r e_Satori-4.0G.zip
p hp?t=1176
Although Sveasoft stirrs up mixed emotions around here, you can get the image for free, and it's very good. You just can't see the forums unless you pay. I personally haven't needed the forums, but your results may vary.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mcmntl/satori/Firmwa
If you are one of those people that don't agree with Sveasoft's forum policy there's Wifi-Box on sourceforge. I installed this one too and its very good also, although I prefer the Sveasoft image.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/
There are some others floating around, but I did not try them as they seemed too alpha. Cratering my WAP isn't currently a priority.
There are 3 different models of the WRT54G actually. If you count the WRT54GS there are 4. I suggest ebay as a source for the early 20 LED (V1.0) model. This model has more flash ram than later models, and of course looks cooler with its 20 LEDs.
http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/viewtopic.
Of course there are the other WAPs based on the Broadcom chip:
Linksys WAP54G
Linksys WRE54G
Belkin F5D7130
Belkin F5D7230-4
Motorola WR850G
Trendnet TEW-411BRP
Asus wl-300g
Asus wl-500g
Dell Truemobile 2300
Buffalo Airstation WBR-G54
Ravotek W54-RT
Ravotek W54-AP
Microsoft MN700
Apple Airport ExtremG
I don't have experience with these so I can't vouch for their performance.
Have fun!
-ft
I would think that hand building each one would produce better quality than assembly line work.
:)
A better car analogy would be a Rolls Royce vs. a Cadillac. Granted, a Caddy is a good car, but a Rolls is far and away a better car. Another analogy that might be more familiar to readers here would be comparing a vanilla Dell with a machine custom engineered for a specific purpose. I would put my money on the custom job.
I also submit that the Model T wasn't better than it's ancestors because of an assembly line. That may have had a bit to do with it, but remember that the Model T was built for 19 years without major modifications for a total run of approx 15M cars. I would say that they had a reasonable amount of time to work out the bugs. Also, the pace of auto development was very rapid in those days, much like technology today. Yet another analogy would be to compare the 486 with the 386. Process improvements did have an effect on the improvements in the 486, but the design is what really set it apart. One could argue that process improvements gave the designers room to improve, so that analogy breaks down somewhat.
I wouldn't say you are totally wrong though. If a lot more capsules were built, the quality would go up a bit at the end of the run of a LOT of them. I just wouldn't want to be on one of the first few off the line. The old adage "Don't ever buy a first year GM" is an old adage for a reason
ft
What would be better is if they tried to sue fish.
I am not trying to minimize your experience with Ivan, so please don't take this comment as such. The story you posted sounds crazy as hell and I wouldn't wish such an episode on anyone except my worst enemies.
I do believe you reacted a little emotionally, which is understandable given your current situation. I think that if you look at the article again, you will find the only reason he mentions hurricanes is because Frances news reports before the fact got him thinking about it.
That being said, I don't think Crigley was trying to insinuate that someone in a situation such as yours should or could worry about data. The point I took away from the article is that a person wouldn't need to worry about data at all under any disaster circumstance if you implement a system such as the one he proposes.
I think that if you look at it like that, you will agree that he is not trying to discount the gravity of your experience.
-ft
Hook me up please.
Email addr above. Or use this:
slashdottemp@r1n.net
Thank you.
-Fran
Actually I did not know that.
That would have been some shit.
ft
It's too bad Stanley Kubrick isn't around anymore, as I would say he would be my first choice as opposed to Spielburg. Remember A.I., the part with the machine that knew everything? That kind of cartooney stuff is what you would likely see from Spielburg these days. Sorta like Disney takes the pot and sniffs Scotchguard.
I also think that David Lynch might be a good person to have as a director. Having the Princess turning into 3 different characters for no apparent reason sounds like a good time. Hell, she might even get naked and lez out, I don't have to tell you that would be sweet. You know he would make Yoda one funky motherfucker too. He would probably use that weird midget and his formica table instead of a puppet or a computer, which would rock. And you know he would squeeze that weird ass cowboy in there somewhere. God knows what he would do with Darth Vader when he shows up, probably would use some sort of talking camel or some such oddness.
Or maybe not. Depends on what drugs you are on that day.
ft
Now what we need to do, just to make sure the estimate is correct, is to place one of these moons directly onto Boulder, CO to see if it will in fact cover the entire city.
Now I know NCAR is there, which is cool and all, but NCAR is on the mountain, and should be O.K.
I mean, I just want to make sure they are correct about the size estimate. Not that I want to wipe Boulder off the face of the earth or anything like that. Why would anyone want to do that?
Who's with me? Who is with me? In the name of Science!
Yes, but how many of these Bugs can you park in the Library of Congress?
And if you filled the Library of Congress up with these bugs, how much bandwidth would it have? This is the real question.
-ft
This problem would be solved if ebay didn't expire out the links to old auctions after 90 days. I sell a small amount of high dollar things on there and I try to stagger them so I always have something in my feed back that people can look at that is fairly high dollar. This actually makes me lose money as the value of this equpment goes down.
It would be solved if they would just put a brief description of the product the person bought or sold and a dollar amount in the feedback profile for items that expire out.
ft
Taking this one step further, who's to say they won't be the ones responsible for putting their own code into some important project? Don't get me wrong, I don't expect to see MS themselves as contributors to any projects, but they may pull something like their "grassroots" campaign of posting on message boards as seemingly unrelated people, or remember their switch ad bullshit.
I think there SHOULD be a group of people who get their hands on everything that MS releases and in order to monitor the code of certain high profile projects.
I feel I am being trolled, but here are some articles I dug up.
l id=3&func=articles&page=0011t16&year=2000&month=11
o n/
3 6882651/pd.html
e tails.html
This one talks about delay, and that most humans can start to detect delay at around 250ms. On the second page, it goes over different G.7xx codecs and tells you the MOS score for each one.
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1202/1202ws3.html
Here is an article about measuring MOS in a network:
http://www.telecommagazine.com/default.asp?journa
Here is an SLA from MCI that has provisions for MOS:
http://global.mci.com/terms/sla/business_connecti
Fluke wont have a meter for this, but Agilent does:
http://we.home.agilent.com/USeng/nav/-536885778.5
Cisco more or less agrees with me about the delay (scroll down a bit):
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/788/voip/delay-d
So, you probably never heard of this stuff because it doesn't matter in a classic digital or analog network mainly because you are using dedicated circuits and g.711 all day. When you start using data networks and codecs like g.723.1, you need to worry about this shit.
BTW, it took me about 5 minutes to find this info using that Google thing. You should check it out.
ft
1 or 1.5 seconds is not ok for any type of real telecom, maybe for walkee-talkees but not phones.
/ mo s/
The telecom industry spent a lot of money to find out what people find is OK. The two main factors are delay and Mean Opinion Score (MOS).
For delay anything past 300ms people will notice, around 500ms you start to hear echo. Most phone service worth it's salt will keep it below 300ms.
MOS is a 1-5 score placed on the quality of the voice through a connection 1 being low, 5 being excellent. More info:
http://www.tech.plymouth.acuk/spmc/people/lfsun
So when the author states that it's not ready for prime time its because a 1 second delay is actually at least 3 times too long. If you can deal with it, more power to you, but the telecom industry would laugh at any company who would try to bring 1 second delays to market.
ft
I thought about this, but most of the people I asked about getting clearance told me you generally need to get a company to sponser you, which is sort of a catch 22. I know this can't be the case, but I have no idea who to contact to apply being an independent contractor.
Can you point me in the right direction?
-Fran
You can't debug a computer that crashes and reboots with this tool, as Windows never starts.
What tools are there for looking at the logs under dos for a box that won't get far enough to run event viewer?
ft
I have an sph-i300 from Samsung. It's a standard Palm phone with the keypad on the screen. It's not much bigger than a regular palm, but the screen is a bit smaller.
I like it a lot, as I have all my numbers, appointments and little notes on my phone, which is hard to forget at home. And syncing it with my PC is the #1 reason I bought it, as I won't have to worry about syncing my phone and palm together and if I do lose my phone, I still have all the numbers. I just get any new Palm OS phone and sync it and I'm golden.
There are tons of programs for Palm including an SSH client, IRC client, a ping util and a couple of browsers that are good in a pinch (and only in a pinch, really).
I have two compliants about this phone though. This particlular phone is not compatible with Sprint's vision service, so my phone tops out at 14.4k. The i330 is vision capable, so I imagine I will get that next. Also, the screen is hard to see in the sun, which is a minor inconvienence.
I say if you can deal with carrying something of that size all the time, go for it.
ft
Does it have a headphone out? Can it do wireless?
Can it run on AC power?
Thanks,
ft
Here is a chart that shows what you are looking for. It doesn't cover cards made after December 2003, but it is still useful.
c harts-16.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-
ft
Hell, with that kind of heat, why not just do normal (hot) fusion?
Sun would most likely drag them into court over that one though.
ft