Like the poster above said, sometimes its neither. My brothers Gmail was hacked during the big Chinese Google hacking debacle. His WoW account was then compromised. Thankfully he has a G1 phone and saw the change password notification email on his phone and put a quick stop to it. Blizzard restored everything and he now has the little FOB thing with the LCD screen. And he changed all his account passwords (he uses very strong completely random passwords). Hasn't had a problem since.
Sad part is some other scum fuck would take his/her place. It would have to be known that anyone who dares take that position puts their life in immediate danger. Fight tyranny with tyranny. But good luck hoping that will ever happen.
And yea there are many of us who would smile of that happened. But that day will most likely never come.
Asking Slashdot alone for ink advice means he/she is still not sure what to get. I have a bunch of friends with ink. Each of them thought the whole thing through and two have even gone as far as mocking up the art in Photoshop. If you are unsure of what to get you need to give it more thought, PERIOD.
He/she also better hope that they have a competent artist. It never hurts to search out reputable tattoo shops or ask people who you see with great ink work (they should be more than happy to tell you). I know people who have been victim of just going to any old shop and getting crap work done. And avoid the friend of a friend who does his/her work out of their home or apartment. Either they suck, are slow as hell or disappear before they even start to fill it in and have some or all of the money (I know one case of each). Find a reputable shop with a reputable artist. Sometimes you have to wait a long time (weeks/months/years) before you get in the chair. But if its going to stick with you for the rest of your life you better know the quality of the artist.
Its all the high vac stuff that gets expensive and time consuming, its a real pain in the ass. Good backing pumps and high vac pumps (like Diffusion or Turbomoleculer pumps) are tough to come by for cheap unless you are willing to rebuild them. I bought three smaller diffusion pumps off eBay for another experiment and let me tell you its not an easy task finding parts for a $20 nondescript pump you bought off ebay. Then your need vacuum valves to control the pump down process. First you need to rough the chamber and wait for the pressure to drop to about 4E-2 Torr and then keep it there to remove as much vapor as you possibly can. then close the roughing valve and then open the forline valve to pull the back of your high vac pump down and then open the main valve which exposes the high vac pump to the chamber. Those vacuum parts alone can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Also given the fact that high vacuum fittings like Kf or CF elbows, flex pipes, tees etc can cost $50-$100 each! I applaud him for throwing that much money at the problem, he looks like he built a nice fusor with the right parts the first time so he isn't spending hours trying to figure out why he cant pull a vacuum below the -3's (Torr).
Its fun trying to iron out vacuum leaks! Especially without a $20,000+ helium leak detector. But a little vacuum grease on the KF O rings and making sure you tightened your CF flanges properly should help eliminate your problems.
I was trying to build a small electron beam welder for fun. I work on them for a living now so it looked like a nice little project but its not easy or cheap. As of now its a half assembled pile of parts because I cant afford to keep throwing money at it. The 3HP Stokes Microvane (55CFM) alone cost me 550 bucks. And that was a lucky find, don tthink the seller knew what he had. And it needs a rebuild because it cant pull lower than 7E-1 Torr. I also need good vacuum gauges (dial gauges arent much help below a few Torr, and the old Hastings I got from work are not that reliable), Hastings makes real nice ones, have them at work but they cost about a grand for the low-med vac gauges (1E-4 Torr) and I believe 1500+ for the one that goes all the way to ultra high vac (good to 1E-10 Torr).
Anyone who puts this kind of time, money and effort in to their hobby is a real dedicated person. My hats off to you Mr. Suppes.
Otherwise the only reason we would know that he's watching his own video stream would be that the monitor would itself show that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor...
And I like how they are using an oil like mineral oil. Mineral oil is a great insulator, its used in large transformers for cooling and insulating the windings. It is also used in high voltage oil circuit breakers for arc quenching.
I once thought of using it to submerge PC hardware for cooling but the idea of oil all over my components was not very attractive. If I had to swap something out or upgrade/add I would have to move the PC to the bath tub or kitchen to remove the component and clean the oil off. Granted once you get a setup going it shouldn't be much of a problem because you arent going to have to open it all the time. Cleaning however would have to be accomplished with a solvent which does not sound appealing.
I like the idea but for data centers where components fail every so often. it is a bit impractical. That or certain components could be left dry or in separate modules that can be swapped without leaks.
My brother attended Full Sail in Florida and he enrolled in the Game Design and Development degree. Allot of people enrolled thinking they were going to make the next great game only to face a harsh reality. Game Design and Development does not mean you are going to sit there and dictate to a bunch of programmers what kind of game you want. Rather, you are going to learn how to program a game and how its design will influence your programming. MAny failed out or dropped out one they realized thery were in a grueling programming degree.
After their second or third round of failings and drop outs the degree was renamed to to Game Development. That helped curb the starry eyed teens from thinking they are going to attend the course and become the next Sid Meier or Peter Molyneux. And those two were programmers first, they gained popularity as game developers after they worked hard programming a great game.
The company I work at has an environmental chamber they use for laser hermetic sealing. The software to control the XY table is proprietary, the developer wont port it to windows and it cant run in a dos emulator (like dosbox) because it uses ISA cards. So we have to use DOS and floppies are our only reliable way to transfer programs for the XY table. The boss wont let us near the machine to install an ISA ethernet card, a dos tcp/ip stack and an SMB client.
So for us poor bastards floppies are here to stay.
That is why we have whats called "spinning reserve". It does not necessarily mean you have reserve generators spinning all the time, it can also refer to any backup or reserve power source that can be bought on line within ten minutes notice. This is how they compensate for generator down time whether planned or unplanned. It also is used to help absorb very heavy industrial loads, some of which are tens or hundreds of megawatts. Steel mills and Aluminum plants use enormous amounts of energy, some well over a hundred million watts (arc furnaces can themselves consume over 100 megawatts.) I have even heard of an electrical motor used to drive the fan of an extremely large wind tunnel consume 44 megawatts. And you just cant turn them on, you have to call the utility and tell them to are so the can switch on the spinning reserve if necessary. This ensures there is enough power for the plant and for the grid.
And as for why they leave generators spinning is simple. It is a very time consuming process to stop a high pressure steam turbine to bring it off line. To stop one you have to gradually slow it down and then gradually cool it down. Then you have to purge the water from it that condensed otherwise it will destroy the turbine blades on start up. Then to start it you need to slowly heat it up and then speed it up while making sure no water is present. So to make life easy and keep the reserve ready at a moments notice they lust let them run with no load. They are only stopped for repair and maintenance.
I am not saying you cant have spinning reserve with renewable energy.It just not possible to do it with the most popular forms such as wind and solar. No wind or sun light = no spinning reserve. You could use batteries but how economical is that and do we want buildings full of toxic lead, acids or other hazardous metals? That many batteries will need allot of maintenance. And there will need to be a rotation system as battery banks wear out with time so you must be sure your battery banks can be ready to handle a load. Other methods of reserve are stored water reservoirs but how easy are they to build and what about towns or cities that are on and surrounded by relatively flat land?
Most of the power generated in the world comes from high output plants that use a fuel source to boil water. Its going to be a while before we find something that can be able to handle: high base loads, provide "spinning reserve" and that fit into relatively small spaces and are economical to build and maintain. Until then wind and solar are great supplements and will help curb some emissions, but not eliminate them.
As another poster noted, nlite can slipstream drivers, service packs, updates and even 3rd party software into an existing XP cd or ISO. Then it can create a bootable ISO you can burn. I updated my old crusty XP SP1 cd and it was was much more easy to preform an install. No rebooting a dozen times and waiting hours for updates and service packs to install.
Open source can be very beneficial for companies that also provide closed source. For Oracle, Open Solaris benefited Sun by exposing a larger audience to Solaris. If Open Solaris was never released I would have never had a chance to use it at home. And the more exposure an OS has the better chance it has to be improved upon and attract developers to the platform. A completely closed OS that is only sold with vendor hardware creates a very costly investment and steep IT requirements. It also prevents budding IT folk from ever getting a chance to use and learn your equipment. Instead they have to invest in training that costs a bundle that some (or most) might not be able to afford which shrinks the available talent pool. Then companies who are looking to upgrade or expand their IT department are left with the decision to go with a very costly propriety vendor or go with a more open platform to work with.
I think Oracle is stuck in the early 90's when big Unix vendors were raking in tons of cash because PC hardware could not handle enterprise IT demands. Those days are over. The recent buyout of SGI and failing of Sun should have been a big enough sign of the times. Sure HP is still making some specialty stuff but they have a huge presence in the consumer, small, medium, large and enterprise PC market. They keep around the HP-UX, Itanium and PA-RISC stuff because some companies just wont let it go and it still makes them some money. And when the demand for the specialty dries up, they give it the ax and its no big loss for them. Sun on the other hand only catered to large business and that dried up as big IT moved to cheaper Windows or Linux platforms. Even though Windows itself is closed, its still way more open than Solaris is.
So all I have to say to Oracle is good luck, your going to need it. And I hope Open Solaris and Virtual Box (and Virtual Box OSE) are not killed off.
Yup. he is going to adopt the technology and adapt to the closed nature of the device. Imagine growing up thinking its normal to not have full control of any computing device you own and also tolerate content censoring or filtering. Its a corporate wet dream and our worst nightmare.
Actually it was a new game played by GWB because Dan Quail kept being a dick, hitting the player start button during the continue timer and GHWB didn't have a chance to put a quarter in the machine.
"Look, computers can not, and will not molest anyone. Heck, you can't even violate someone using -only- a computer. You can't commit rape over a computer or molest someone over a computer."
Why non turbo? The whole point of a turbo charger is to reduce the physical size of the engine by squeezing more air in the cylinder to burn more fuel. That saves weight and increases efficiency. Not sure about cars but non turbo diesel engines went out of style in the 60's for trucks. Some were offered up to the 80's in medium duty trucks (the boat anchor CAT and Detroit V8's).
There is also no added benefit to running a slow speed engine with higher gear ratios. You want a faster turning engine because as you increase torque you need heavier gears and shafts to take the stress. You want the torque at the wheels and that comes from the gear ratio in the differential, you only need beefy axle shafts. But a slower diesel engine will last much longer than a high speed one. So in terms of longevity slower is better. Heavy truck diesel engines run at peak performance around 1400 RPM and can last a million miles without a major overhaul.
From the Summary: "Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves" "we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster"
I think Wikipedia needs to build some data centers further north.
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An unfortunate waste of Helium though.
Isn't ALL rock hazardous to your health if you breathe it?
Yes. And certain kinds of rock will get you high too!
Maybe add a little hydrogen to help float it.
NAZI!
There I did it. I just Godwin'd the forum.
Like the poster above said, sometimes its neither. My brothers Gmail was hacked during the big Chinese Google hacking debacle. His WoW account was then compromised. Thankfully he has a G1 phone and saw the change password notification email on his phone and put a quick stop to it. Blizzard restored everything and he now has the little FOB thing with the LCD screen. And he changed all his account passwords (he uses very strong completely random passwords). Hasn't had a problem since.
Sad part is some other scum fuck would take his/her place. It would have to be known that anyone who dares take that position puts their life in immediate danger. Fight tyranny with tyranny. But good luck hoping that will ever happen.
And yea there are many of us who would smile of that happened. But that day will most likely never come.
Asking Slashdot alone for ink advice means he/she is still not sure what to get. I have a bunch of friends with ink. Each of them thought the whole thing through and two have even gone as far as mocking up the art in Photoshop. If you are unsure of what to get you need to give it more thought, PERIOD.
He/she also better hope that they have a competent artist. It never hurts to search out reputable tattoo shops or ask people who you see with great ink work (they should be more than happy to tell you). I know people who have been victim of just going to any old shop and getting crap work done. And avoid the friend of a friend who does his/her work out of their home or apartment. Either they suck, are slow as hell or disappear before they even start to fill it in and have some or all of the money (I know one case of each). Find a reputable shop with a reputable artist. Sometimes you have to wait a long time (weeks/months/years) before you get in the chair. But if its going to stick with you for the rest of your life you better know the quality of the artist.
Its all the high vac stuff that gets expensive and time consuming, its a real pain in the ass. Good backing pumps and high vac pumps (like Diffusion or Turbomoleculer pumps) are tough to come by for cheap unless you are willing to rebuild them. I bought three smaller diffusion pumps off eBay for another experiment and let me tell you its not an easy task finding parts for a $20 nondescript pump you bought off ebay. Then your need vacuum valves to control the pump down process. First you need to rough the chamber and wait for the pressure to drop to about 4E-2 Torr and then keep it there to remove as much vapor as you possibly can. then close the roughing valve and then open the forline valve to pull the back of your high vac pump down and then open the main valve which exposes the high vac pump to the chamber. Those vacuum parts alone can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Also given the fact that high vacuum fittings like Kf or CF elbows, flex pipes, tees etc can cost $50-$100 each! I applaud him for throwing that much money at the problem, he looks like he built a nice fusor with the right parts the first time so he isn't spending hours trying to figure out why he cant pull a vacuum below the -3's (Torr).
Its fun trying to iron out vacuum leaks! Especially without a $20,000+ helium leak detector. But a little vacuum grease on the KF O rings and making sure you tightened your CF flanges properly should help eliminate your problems.
I was trying to build a small electron beam welder for fun. I work on them for a living now so it looked like a nice little project but its not easy or cheap. As of now its a half assembled pile of parts because I cant afford to keep throwing money at it. The 3HP Stokes Microvane (55CFM) alone cost me 550 bucks. And that was a lucky find, don tthink the seller knew what he had. And it needs a rebuild because it cant pull lower than 7E-1 Torr. I also need good vacuum gauges (dial gauges arent much help below a few Torr, and the old Hastings I got from work are not that reliable), Hastings makes real nice ones, have them at work but they cost about a grand for the low-med vac gauges (1E-4 Torr) and I believe 1500+ for the one that goes all the way to ultra high vac (good to 1E-10 Torr).
Anyone who puts this kind of time, money and effort in to their hobby is a real dedicated person. My hats off to you Mr. Suppes.
Where is the audio of Edison, the last few seconds? What about Einstein were his recordings ripped too?
Otherwise the only reason we would know that he's watching his own video stream would be that the monitor would itself show that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor ...
That would be possible with Mr. Rental.
Sorry, its already been revoked.
RTFA.
And I like how they are using an oil like mineral oil. Mineral oil is a great insulator, its used in large transformers for cooling and insulating the windings. It is also used in high voltage oil circuit breakers for arc quenching.
I once thought of using it to submerge PC hardware for cooling but the idea of oil all over my components was not very attractive. If I had to swap something out or upgrade/add I would have to move the PC to the bath tub or kitchen to remove the component and clean the oil off. Granted once you get a setup going it shouldn't be much of a problem because you arent going to have to open it all the time. Cleaning however would have to be accomplished with a solvent which does not sound appealing.
I like the idea but for data centers where components fail every so often. it is a bit impractical. That or certain components could be left dry or in separate modules that can be swapped without leaks.
But what if its a double agent?
My brother attended Full Sail in Florida and he enrolled in the Game Design and Development degree. Allot of people enrolled thinking they were going to make the next great game only to face a harsh reality. Game Design and Development does not mean you are going to sit there and dictate to a bunch of programmers what kind of game you want. Rather, you are going to learn how to program a game and how its design will influence your programming. MAny failed out or dropped out one they realized thery were in a grueling programming degree.
After their second or third round of failings and drop outs the degree was renamed to to Game Development. That helped curb the starry eyed teens from thinking they are going to attend the course and become the next Sid Meier or Peter Molyneux. And those two were programmers first, they gained popularity as game developers after they worked hard programming a great game.
The company I work at has an environmental chamber they use for laser hermetic sealing. The software to control the XY table is proprietary, the developer wont port it to windows and it cant run in a dos emulator (like dosbox) because it uses ISA cards. So we have to use DOS and floppies are our only reliable way to transfer programs for the XY table. The boss wont let us near the machine to install an ISA ethernet card, a dos tcp/ip stack and an SMB client.
So for us poor bastards floppies are here to stay.
That is why we have whats called "spinning reserve". It does not necessarily mean you have reserve generators spinning all the time, it can also refer to any backup or reserve power source that can be bought on line within ten minutes notice. This is how they compensate for generator down time whether planned or unplanned. It also is used to help absorb very heavy industrial loads, some of which are tens or hundreds of megawatts. Steel mills and Aluminum plants use enormous amounts of energy, some well over a hundred million watts (arc furnaces can themselves consume over 100 megawatts.) I have even heard of an electrical motor used to drive the fan of an extremely large wind tunnel consume 44 megawatts. And you just cant turn them on, you have to call the utility and tell them to are so the can switch on the spinning reserve if necessary. This ensures there is enough power for the plant and for the grid.
And as for why they leave generators spinning is simple. It is a very time consuming process to stop a high pressure steam turbine to bring it off line. To stop one you have to gradually slow it down and then gradually cool it down. Then you have to purge the water from it that condensed otherwise it will destroy the turbine blades on start up. Then to start it you need to slowly heat it up and then speed it up while making sure no water is present. So to make life easy and keep the reserve ready at a moments notice they lust let them run with no load. They are only stopped for repair and maintenance.
I am not saying you cant have spinning reserve with renewable energy.It just not possible to do it with the most popular forms such as wind and solar. No wind or sun light = no spinning reserve. You could use batteries but how economical is that and do we want buildings full of toxic lead, acids or other hazardous metals? That many batteries will need allot of maintenance. And there will need to be a rotation system as battery banks wear out with time so you must be sure your battery banks can be ready to handle a load. Other methods of reserve are stored water reservoirs but how easy are they to build and what about towns or cities that are on and surrounded by relatively flat land?
Most of the power generated in the world comes from high output plants that use a fuel source to boil water. Its going to be a while before we find something that can be able to handle: high base loads, provide "spinning reserve" and that fit into relatively small spaces and are economical to build and maintain. Until then wind and solar are great supplements and will help curb some emissions, but not eliminate them.
As another poster noted, nlite can slipstream drivers, service packs, updates and even 3rd party software into an existing XP cd or ISO. Then it can create a bootable ISO you can burn. I updated my old crusty XP SP1 cd and it was was much more easy to preform an install. No rebooting a dozen times and waiting hours for updates and service packs to install.
Open source can be very beneficial for companies that also provide closed source. For Oracle, Open Solaris benefited Sun by exposing a larger audience to Solaris. If Open Solaris was never released I would have never had a chance to use it at home. And the more exposure an OS has the better chance it has to be improved upon and attract developers to the platform. A completely closed OS that is only sold with vendor hardware creates a very costly investment and steep IT requirements. It also prevents budding IT folk from ever getting a chance to use and learn your equipment. Instead they have to invest in training that costs a bundle that some (or most) might not be able to afford which shrinks the available talent pool. Then companies who are looking to upgrade or expand their IT department are left with the decision to go with a very costly propriety vendor or go with a more open platform to work with.
I think Oracle is stuck in the early 90's when big Unix vendors were raking in tons of cash because PC hardware could not handle enterprise IT demands. Those days are over. The recent buyout of SGI and failing of Sun should have been a big enough sign of the times. Sure HP is still making some specialty stuff but they have a huge presence in the consumer, small, medium, large and enterprise PC market. They keep around the HP-UX, Itanium and PA-RISC stuff because some companies just wont let it go and it still makes them some money. And when the demand for the specialty dries up, they give it the ax and its no big loss for them. Sun on the other hand only catered to large business and that dried up as big IT moved to cheaper Windows or Linux platforms. Even though Windows itself is closed, its still way more open than Solaris is.
So all I have to say to Oracle is good luck, your going to need it. And I hope Open Solaris and Virtual Box (and Virtual Box OSE) are not killed off.
What is the vee-cee-arr you speak of?
Yup. he is going to adopt the technology and adapt to the closed nature of the device. Imagine growing up thinking its normal to not have full control of any computing device you own and also tolerate content censoring or filtering. Its a corporate wet dream and our worst nightmare.
Actually it was a new game played by GWB because Dan Quail kept being a dick, hitting the player start button during the continue timer and GHWB didn't have a chance to put a quarter in the machine.
"Look, computers can not, and will not molest anyone. Heck, you can't even violate someone using -only- a computer. You can't commit rape over a computer or molest someone over a computer."
You haven't used Vista have you?
Why non turbo? The whole point of a turbo charger is to reduce the physical size of the engine by squeezing more air in the cylinder to burn more fuel. That saves weight and increases efficiency. Not sure about cars but non turbo diesel engines went out of style in the 60's for trucks. Some were offered up to the 80's in medium duty trucks (the boat anchor CAT and Detroit V8's).
There is also no added benefit to running a slow speed engine with higher gear ratios. You want a faster turning engine because as you increase torque you need heavier gears and shafts to take the stress. You want the torque at the wheels and that comes from the gear ratio in the differential, you only need beefy axle shafts. But a slower diesel engine will last much longer than a high speed one. So in terms of longevity slower is better. Heavy truck diesel engines run at peak performance around 1400 RPM and can last a million miles without a major overhaul.
From the Summary:
"Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves"
"we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster"
I think Wikipedia needs to build some data centers further north.
...On second thought lets not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.