That is the same situation here in NYC. When I first herd of FIOS from Verizon I knew it would never be deployed anywhere near me. Why? Because it's a highly dense city and laying fiber isn't cheap. Plus the higher population density the more disruption construction would cause. Also I remember the first broadband deployed in the area was DSL by then Bell Atlantic. And it always seems to be deployed from north to south. So I was last on the list because I am pretty far south. Cable from Time Warner didn't come about until about a year I think. and again north to south.
Funny thing is I was googling to see if FIOS would be deployed in NY anytime soon and it turns out it is! But first in Westchester then Nassau county. Both border NYC and have lower population densities. So you see living in one of the most popular cities in the world doesn't mean you are on top of the game in terms of broadband, more like at the bottom. Maybe I should move to Texas.
I had a ford van that you could use an old set of ford keys to get the door open. I think the old set was from my grandfathers Bronco II he owned. The funny thing was the vans door key was longer then the bronco key. And it was the ignition key that worked too, all you did was slide it in about 2/3 the way in and jiggle it around and it worked! but it was a no go with the ignition.
Its real easy to get into most cars. I made a long steel 3/8 inch rod that has a 1 inch 90 deg bend on one end. I then get a large flathead screwdriver and pry the door open at the top opposite the hinges until the rod can slip inside. Then use the hook end to lift or manipulate the door lock. I can do this in under a min with the right car. I helped this woman who drove about 20 miles to look at an appartment by me and locked her keys inside her car. She was so greatful that she game me 20 bucks which i refused be she made me take it anyway. Its scary how easy it really is short of smashing a window.
The CT coupler is most likely optically isolated. I experiment with high voltage in Tesla coils and pulse discharge systems and let me tell you high voltage will find its way through most any path it can take.
The logical method would be to create a high side and a low side. The high side can use a highly isolated low voltage power supply and a short and simple fiber link to the low side. This would eliminate and chance of high voltage passing through to the low side.
Wow. You might want to invest in a generator. Seriously if the power is that bad get one. I live in NYC and the power almost never goes out except the big blackout. Well luckly at my shop I have a generator and in an hour I had the fridge, A/C, computer and the TV with game cube back up. They might set you back 5-8 bills for a decent 5kw model but it provides enough power for the essentials.
I once worked for a guy who bought and sold all types of electronic surplus. One neat toy he got one lot was a 20W water cooled laser. It consumed about 23KW I believe and needed a 3 phase 208v supply. I offerd to buy it but the three phase power needed would be too difficult to provide unless I bought a 3 phase generator. So yes the general public can obtain very powerful lasers if they look hard enough.
I must say the partner system that we have at our family business is a wonderful system. Its simple and offers a good amount of functionality and is easy for me to administer. I wouldent mind a system like that at home.
Bullshit. A worker/friend of ours was once a big time dealer running keys up from Florida to NYC. He made millions, spoiled himself for about 10 years until he was busted. He did his time and now has a good job and a family. He never was violent unless he had to defend himself, he was no Tony Montana. And did he force the dope on anyone? The users are mainly to blame for most drug related violence (I mean hard drug users like coke, crack and heroin users.) So don't group everyone in the drug pyramid from the producers to the users into one big "scum" category.
It's not all that tricky. Any large Commercial truck that has air brakes uses a desiccant type air dryer. This helps to prevent water build up in the brake lines which could freeze up leading to a loss of brakes. It goes through a purge cycle after the governor cuts the compressor off and some air from the wet tank is passed over a heater and back through the desiccant where the moist air is then vented to the atmosphere (you hear it once in a while when next to a truck at a red light as a loud whoosh.) Large commercial setups that apply paint with compressed air use a similar setup only with dessicant dryers which are cycled so while one is drying the other is purging (even some trucks have this when they have a high air demand).
"Probably the best is to electrolyze it from water using electricity provided by solar power or another clean means of power"
That method requires allot of power to produce a decent useable amount of hydrogen, plus you have to have a collection system that can bottle the gas under high pressure. That would require an interesting compressor setup. It looks like the sodium borohydride mixture is onboard the scooter and produces the hydrogen on the spot. The only thing is that sodium borohydride is nasty shit; here is what google pulls up on the first hit: http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/s3146.htm
I like the warning: DANGER! CORROSIVE. CAUSES BURNS TO ANY AREA OF CONTACT. HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED, INHALED OR ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN. FLAMMABLE SOLID. DANGEROUS WHEN WET.
Pay $5k for infiniband hardware or $40 for a gig ethernet card?
Where did you get this dollar amount and what exactly is it for, the HCA a switch, cable or all of them? HCA's are about 800-1000 dollars. Switches from Mellanox start at about $8,000 for a 480Gbit backplane 24 port switch. And up to $66,000 for a full 96 port modular switch. Cables though I will admit are costly at 100 bucks for a 4X 2m cable.
Also your statement that it is useless is complete FUD. It certainly will never gain the widespread use of Ethernet, but it serves a niche market for a standard high speed interconnect.
You obviously have no clue as to what Infiniband is or is capable of. First off 4x Infiniband is 10 times faster then Ethernet at 10 gigabits/sec. And second it has lower latency and CPU utilization then common commodity GbE hardware like the $40 GbE adapter you speak of. GigE and TCP are quite inefficient when compared to Infiniband, even if you bought TOE cards like the 7711 from Adaptec you're still paying as much as you would for an Infiniband HCA and have 10 times less bandwidth. Ok so the switches are expensive but still the throughput is incredible with a 24port switch having 480Gbits of bandwidth at about 8000 bucks! More expensive GigE switches commonly used in clusters are almost as costly as the Infiniband switches.
I even read that a 1024 node cluster using GbE was just as fast as a 256 node cluster using IB, mainly because each node in the GbE cluster was mostly dealing with Ethernet and TCP/IP then the actual application.
So before you start talking out of your ass do some research like I did. I might not be 100% correct but I think I am close.
like this: http://www.smartruck3.com/ (click on the international link on the bottom) Or Internationals more heavy duty CXT http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/s evere/cxt.asp. If your like me then a CXT is a dream truck as its perfect for normal driving, can offroad (Which I do on occasion) and pull really heavy trailers. Just give me a jake E-brake, and a pintle hitch with live air then I am all set! But for someone who wants a diesel with truck style and some good pulling power the CUV looks promising.
Forget SUV's even todays smaller cars are almost as heavy as an SUV. Look on the roads today, people can barely drive in 2 dimensions let alone three. You think just simple foward left and right would be easy. Plus factor in the rice burner wanna be racing mentality where the streets and highways are a damn drag strip is enough to make me shudder at the thought of a flying car. FWI (flying while intoxicated) would also be a major offence as you can hit allot more from the air then the ground posing a much greater hazard.
But we all know none of that will ever be a problem because flying cars will never ever make it to the masses due to the high risk of human error. Plus factor in the countrys fear of terrorist attacks makes it even more of a fantasy. Imagine a flying SUV or ryder truck with a massive ANFO bomb packed inside it. it could hit any where at any time with little to prevent it or detect it. What about any system problems that would cause a crash? On the ground if your car stalls you just put your hazards on and call for help but in the air your going to go down and have a good chance of dying from a simple engine failure.
Oops forgot to say that current fiber channel runs at about 200Mbps at 2Gbps. running dual fiber links would yeild 400MBPS but the cost out weighs the benefits for home storage. Plus you would need PCIX 66 at least to satisfy the demand. Maybe a new hance rappids intel board based on the i875 would be nice.
Off site and off the power grid? At the same time? Ok first off if you have unreliable grid power then buy a UPS. Or better yet go solar http://www.outbackpower.com/ or another renewable source. True a brownout or worse a blackout can truly kill a hard disk but fix the power problem and your OK. IF you fear a power supply problem opt for a dual redundant if your data is that valuable. And as for backup off site and off grid means a tape backup in a safe deposit box to me.
Your data is priceless to you (I know because I am a data rat packer and have stuff saved from my days on dos 2.2 on an 8086). If you put a dollar value on your data would it be less then the cost of a dual redundant power supply and a UPS? Maybe even throw in a fancy tape backup drive or the Iomega rev if it lives up to its reliability claims. If not then do it! it will cost less then off site storage in the long run. If you fear fire damage then buy a fire/water proof safe as well and put your backup media in there. You can never have 100% backup but you can come very close.
Just a question but how will sound clips make the pci bus suffer? The normal pci bus has a bandwidth of about 133MBps. a sound file encoded in raw pcm like a wav file will consume 96KBps if encoded in 16bit/48khz. Now even if you had 256 sound files playing at once (nice 8 bit limit) the bandwidth would be about 25MBps or less then a quarter of standard PCI 32bit/33mhz can in theory supply. If you counterd with 24bit/96khz or even 192khz then maybe PCI 32bit/33mhz is a little too slow. But PCIX (NOT to be confused with the new serialized PCI Express!) can run at up to 133mhz and its 64bit. That works out to a little over 1 GIGABYTE per second! More then you might need.
As for your "someone" suggesting fiber channel, forget about it. Fiber channel is excellent when you need to network your storage in a large data center or mass file storage. It is nearly electrically identical to gigabit ethernet in terms of the physical layer. Its top speed would be about 100MBps in ideal conditions which is slightly slower then PCI 32bit/33mhz.
Now as for your wish for PCI Express x16 raid cards, there is no cheap way you could saturate that port using common PC desktop/workstation/server hardware. Its throughput in each direction is about 4.2GBps which is more then any one desktop system would need for mass storage.
Now what would I reccomend? A raidcore controller. Read the review over at toms hardware: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20031114/inde x.html Its cheap compared to adaptec and 3ware and has overall better preformance. PLus you can cascade controllers to add more drived to an array. It will run in a PCIX slot which can run at 66mhz(~533MBps), 100mhz(~800MBps) and 133mhz(~1064MBps). Using a few good WD 7200rpm disks you can create a seriously fast and fat raid array for hundreds or thousands less then a fibre channel setup. Then for backup Maybe an Iomega REV drive (35GB).
But how can you patent a method of doing someting? If you think about it preparing and cooking scrambeld eggs has a method to it, could I patent that? If this patent orgy continues how long before OSS comes to a brick wall because every bloody idea, method, and algorithem etc... has been patented by a company with lots of cash and lawyers? Look at what happed to id software and Creative. The general public does not know what is happening and they will never know unless we educate them. And if we do educate them will they even care? And the patent office employees, do they even have to be certified to handle the patents that are presented to them?
I understand the basic ideas behind patents but when they are taken to the limits like this it really shows just how flawed the system is. And if this madness keeps on going there will definatly be trouble in the future.
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"Despite the displeasure of management, the iPod is the most popular music player on the Microsoft campus."
If they don't like it then make their own goddamn player and sell it to their employees.
Right you are!
Or free as in slurred speach.
That is the same situation here in NYC. When I first herd of FIOS from Verizon I knew it would never be deployed anywhere near me. Why? Because it's a highly dense city and laying fiber isn't cheap. Plus the higher population density the more disruption construction would cause. Also I remember the first broadband deployed in the area was DSL by then Bell Atlantic. And it always seems to be deployed from north to south. So I was last on the list because I am pretty far south. Cable from Time Warner didn't come about until about a year I think. and again north to south.
Funny thing is I was googling to see if FIOS would be deployed in NY anytime soon and it turns out it is! But first in Westchester then Nassau county. Both border NYC and have lower population densities. So you see living in one of the most popular cities in the world doesn't mean you are on top of the game in terms of broadband, more like at the bottom. Maybe I should move to Texas.
I had a ford van that you could use an old set of ford keys to get the door open. I think the old set was from my grandfathers Bronco II he owned. The funny thing was the vans door key was longer then the bronco key. And it was the ignition key that worked too, all you did was slide it in about 2/3 the way in and jiggle it around and it worked! but it was a no go with the ignition.
Its real easy to get into most cars. I made a long steel 3/8 inch rod that has a 1 inch 90 deg bend on one end. I then get a large flathead screwdriver and pry the door open at the top opposite the hinges until the rod can slip inside. Then use the hook end to lift or manipulate the door lock. I can do this in under a min with the right car. I helped this woman who drove about 20 miles to look at an appartment by me and locked her keys inside her car. She was so greatful that she game me 20 bucks which i refused be she made me take it anyway. Its scary how easy it really is short of smashing a window.
The CT coupler is most likely optically isolated. I experiment with high voltage in Tesla coils and pulse discharge systems and let me tell you high voltage will find its way through most any path it can take.
The logical method would be to create a high side and a low side. The high side can use a highly isolated low voltage power supply and a short and simple fiber link to the low side. This would eliminate and chance of high voltage passing through to the low side.
Wow. You might want to invest in a generator. Seriously if the power is that bad get one. I live in NYC and the power almost never goes out except the big blackout. Well luckly at my shop I have a generator and in an hour I had the fridge, A/C, computer and the TV with game cube back up. They might set you back 5-8 bills for a decent 5kw model but it provides enough power for the essentials.
Unless you have a UPS.
Yea a few lines after drinking and smoking a little too much will straiten your ass out nicely.
I once worked for a guy who bought and sold all types of electronic surplus. One neat toy he got one lot was a 20W water cooled laser. It consumed about 23KW I believe and needed a 3 phase 208v supply. I offerd to buy it but the three phase power needed would be too difficult to provide unless I bought a 3 phase generator. So yes the general public can obtain very powerful lasers if they look hard enough.
I must say the partner system that we have at our family business is a wonderful system. Its simple and offers a good amount of functionality and is easy for me to administer. I wouldent mind a system like that at home.
Bullshit. A worker/friend of ours was once a big time dealer running keys up from Florida to NYC. He made millions, spoiled himself for about 10 years until he was busted. He did his time and now has a good job and a family. He never was violent unless he had to defend himself, he was no Tony Montana. And did he force the dope on anyone? The users are mainly to blame for most drug related violence (I mean hard drug users like coke, crack and heroin users.) So don't group everyone in the drug pyramid from the producers to the users into one big "scum" category.
It's not all that tricky. Any large Commercial truck that has air brakes uses a desiccant type air dryer. This helps to prevent water build up in the brake lines which could freeze up leading to a loss of brakes. It goes through a purge cycle after the governor cuts the compressor off and some air from the wet tank is passed over a heater and back through the desiccant where the moist air is then vented to the atmosphere (you hear it once in a while when next to a truck at a red light as a loud whoosh.) Large commercial setups that apply paint with compressed air use a similar setup only with dessicant dryers which are cycled so while one is drying the other is purging (even some trucks have this when they have a high air demand).
This codec could be a great alternative to AC3 audio used in DivX and Xvid. Would make the overall file size smaller.
Halloween would be a bitch too.....
"Probably the best is to electrolyze it from water using electricity provided by solar power or another clean means of power"
That method requires allot of power to produce a decent useable amount of hydrogen, plus you have to have a collection system that can bottle the gas under high pressure. That would require an interesting compressor setup.
It looks like the sodium borohydride mixture is onboard the scooter and produces the hydrogen on the spot. The only thing is that sodium borohydride is nasty shit; here is what google pulls up on the first hit: http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/s3146.htm
I like the warning: DANGER! CORROSIVE. CAUSES BURNS TO ANY AREA OF CONTACT. HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED, INHALED OR ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN. FLAMMABLE SOLID. DANGEROUS WHEN WET.
On a whole it sounds cool though.
Pay $5k for infiniband hardware or $40 for a gig ethernet card?
Where did you get this dollar amount and what exactly is it for, the HCA a switch, cable or all of them? HCA's are about 800-1000 dollars. Switches from Mellanox start at about $8,000 for a 480Gbit backplane 24 port switch. And up to $66,000 for a full 96 port modular switch. Cables though I will admit are costly at 100 bucks for a 4X 2m cable.
Also your statement that it is useless is complete FUD. It certainly will never gain the widespread use of Ethernet, but it serves a niche market for a standard high speed interconnect.
You obviously have no clue as to what Infiniband is or is capable of. First off 4x Infiniband is 10 times faster then Ethernet at 10 gigabits/sec. And second it has lower latency and CPU utilization then common commodity GbE hardware like the $40 GbE adapter you speak of. GigE and TCP are quite inefficient when compared to Infiniband, even if you bought TOE cards like the 7711 from Adaptec you're still paying as much as you would for an Infiniband HCA and have 10 times less bandwidth. Ok so the switches are expensive but still the throughput is incredible with a 24port switch having 480Gbits of bandwidth at about 8000 bucks! More expensive GigE switches commonly used in clusters are almost as costly as the Infiniband switches.
I even read that a 1024 node cluster using GbE was just as fast as a 256 node cluster using IB, mainly because each node in the GbE cluster was mostly dealing with Ethernet and TCP/IP then the actual application.
So before you start talking out of your ass do some research like I did. I might not be 100% correct but I think I am close.
like this: http://www.smartruck3.com/ (click on the international link on the bottom) Or Internationals more heavy duty CXT http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/s evere/cxt.asp. If your like me then a CXT is a dream truck as its perfect for normal driving, can offroad (Which I do on occasion) and pull really heavy trailers. Just give me a jake E-brake, and a pintle hitch with live air then I am all set! But for someone who wants a diesel with truck style and some good pulling power the CUV looks promising.
If you think about it Alice should be the receiver and Bob the giver er sender.
Forget SUV's even todays smaller cars are almost as heavy as an SUV. Look on the roads today, people can barely drive in 2 dimensions let alone three. You think just simple foward left and right would be easy. Plus factor in the rice burner wanna be racing mentality where the streets and highways are a damn drag strip is enough to make me shudder at the thought of a flying car. FWI (flying while intoxicated) would also be a major offence as you can hit allot more from the air then the ground posing a much greater hazard.
But we all know none of that will ever be a problem because flying cars will never ever make it to the masses due to the high risk of human error. Plus factor in the countrys fear of terrorist attacks makes it even more of a fantasy. Imagine a flying SUV or ryder truck with a massive ANFO bomb packed inside it. it could hit any where at any time with little to prevent it or detect it. What about any system problems that would cause a crash? On the ground if your car stalls you just put your hazards on and call for help but in the air your going to go down and have a good chance of dying from a simple engine failure.
Its just a fantasy folks.
Oops forgot to say that current fiber channel runs at about 200Mbps at 2Gbps. running dual fiber links would yeild 400MBPS but the cost out weighs the benefits for home storage. Plus you would need PCIX 66 at least to satisfy the demand. Maybe a new hance rappids intel board based on the i875 would be nice.
Off site and off the power grid? At the same time? Ok first off if you have unreliable grid power then buy a UPS. Or better yet go solar http://www.outbackpower.com/ or another renewable source. True a brownout or worse a blackout can truly kill a hard disk but fix the power problem and your OK. IF you fear a power supply problem opt for a dual redundant if your data is that valuable. And as for backup off site and off grid means a tape backup in a safe deposit box to me.
Your data is priceless to you (I know because I am a data rat packer and have stuff saved from my days on dos 2.2 on an 8086). If you put a dollar value on your data would it be less then the cost of a dual redundant power supply and a UPS? Maybe even throw in a fancy tape backup drive or the Iomega rev if it lives up to its reliability claims. If not then do it! it will cost less then off site storage in the long run. If you fear fire damage then buy a fire/water proof safe as well and put your backup media in there. You can never have 100% backup but you can come very close.
Just a question but how will sound clips make the pci bus suffer? The normal pci bus has a bandwidth of about 133MBps. a sound file encoded in raw pcm like a wav file will consume 96KBps if encoded in 16bit/48khz. Now even if you had 256 sound files playing at once (nice 8 bit limit) the bandwidth would be about 25MBps or less then a quarter of standard PCI 32bit/33mhz can in theory supply. If you counterd with 24bit/96khz or even 192khz then maybe PCI 32bit/33mhz is a little too slow. But PCIX (NOT to be confused with the new serialized PCI Express!) can run at up to 133mhz and its 64bit. That works out to a little over 1 GIGABYTE per second! More then you might need.
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As for your "someone" suggesting fiber channel, forget about it. Fiber channel is excellent when you need to network your storage in a large data center or mass file storage. It is nearly electrically identical to gigabit ethernet in terms of the physical layer. Its top speed would be about 100MBps in ideal conditions which is slightly slower then PCI 32bit/33mhz.
Now as for your wish for PCI Express x16 raid cards, there is no cheap way you could saturate that port using common PC desktop/workstation/server hardware. Its throughput in each direction is about 4.2GBps which is more then any one desktop system would need for mass storage.
Now what would I reccomend? A raidcore controller. Read the review over at toms hardware: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20031114/ind
Its cheap compared to adaptec and 3ware and has overall better preformance. PLus you can cascade controllers to add more drived to an array. It will run in a PCIX slot which can run at 66mhz(~533MBps), 100mhz(~800MBps) and 133mhz(~1064MBps). Using a few good WD 7200rpm disks you can create a seriously fast and fat raid array for hundreds or thousands less then a fibre channel setup. Then for backup Maybe an Iomega REV drive (35GB).
But how can you patent a method of doing someting? If you think about it preparing and cooking scrambeld eggs has a method to it, could I patent that? If this patent orgy continues how long before OSS comes to a brick wall because every bloody idea, method, and algorithem etc... has been patented by a company with lots of cash and lawyers? Look at what happed to id software and Creative. The general public does not know what is happening and they will never know unless we educate them. And if we do educate them will they even care? And the patent office employees, do they even have to be certified to handle the patents that are presented to them?
I understand the basic ideas behind patents but when they are taken to the limits like this it really shows just how flawed the system is. And if this madness keeps on going there will definatly be trouble in the future.