Local10.com - News - Woman's Dying Wish: Bush Defeated: "A South Florida woman who died this week had an unusual last request. Instead of flower or contributions in her name to a charity, she asked those who loved her to try to make sure President George W. Bush is not re-elected."
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Friday, July 30, 2004
New Scientist | DNA: 50 Year Anniversary
New Scientist | DNA: 50 Year Anniversary: "
By David Cohen
Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new explanation for how life began."
New Scientist | Evolution of the Car
New Scientist | Evolution of the Car: "People driving in silver cars were 50 per cent less likely to suffer serious injury in a crash compared with drivers of white cars, the research in New Zealand found."
New Scientist | Evolution of the Car
New Scientist | Evolution of the Car: "The entire functions of a radar system have been squeezed on to a single silicon chip about one fifteenth the size of a penny for the first time.
The miniature system has been created by researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, US, who managed to fabricate all the sensing and communications components out of silicon. Their chip is capable of transmitting, receiving and directing high frequency microwaves."
Article: Simpler pump boosts failing hearts| New Scientist
Article: Simpler pump boosts failing hearts| New Scientist: "Most LVADs attempt to mimic the way the heart works, but their complicated design makes them prone to failure, and they have a tendency to make blood pool and clot, leading to strokes. That means LVADs are usually only used as a last resort for patients waiting for heart transplants.
What makes the VentrAssist different is that it only has one moving part, a spinning impeller that drives a continuous stream of blood. That means the pulse is replaced by a gentle whirling noise that patients describe as similar to the sound of a washing machine. More importantly, the device prevents blood from stagnating, reducing the risk of clotting."
SLOCCount
SLOCCount: "This is the home page of 'SLOCCount', a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs. This suite of tools was used in my papers More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size and Estimating Linux's Size to measure the SLOC of entire GNU/Linux distributions. Others have measured Debian GNU/Linux using this tool suite. SLOCCount runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X, Windows, and hopefully on other systems too. To run on Windows, you have to install Cygwin first to create a Unix-like environment for SLOCCount (Cygwin users: be sure to use ``Unix'' newlines, not ``DOS'' newlines, when you install Cygwin)."
Terabyte Storage Solutions?
Terabyte Storage Solutions?: "You can buy a beige box 'upgrade' machine in my locality for $150. All you need is hard drives. I would put in a master drive and a cd drive for booting and loading the system. Then, get 5x250GB drives. Make a software RAID out of them. At ~$150/ea., total for for machine is $900.
Now, for extra security, *make the same machine*, and put it on a buddy's/relative's broadband line for nightly rsyncs (do the first rsync on the home LAN, though ;). Give them free techsupport, or backup space on the box, etc. Total cost, $1800. Offsite backup, esp. on different power grid and internet backbone, is a lifesaver."
Terabyte Storage Solutions?
"I just built a 2 terabyte machine,... Here's how to do it for a lot less:
1. Throw out the idea of the 3ware card. I've used them. They're overpriced pieces of crap. Responsiveness under load is horrible. Linux's software RAID works much better. Savings: $770
2. Use 300-gig drives. Fewer of them means a much cheaper casew ($124 in my case). Savings: $200
3. Two 550-watt power supplies? Stop believing the crap in the overclocking forums. The relatively cheap 400-watt power supply that came with the case easily powers eight 300-gig drives and a dual processer motherboard. Savings: $204
Total savings: >$1,000
If you're thinking of using Windows on this, well, maybe you need the hardware RAID controller. Under Linux, the software RAID implementation is second to none - and I can guarantee that your host CPU will crank out parity in amounts that one of 3ware's cards can't even dream of. Combined with Samba, nothing on your network will know that it's not talking to a Windows machine.
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Slashdot | Terabyte Storage Solutions?
Slashdot | Terabyte Storage Solutions?: "My server (with a smaller by far RAID) used to be a dual athlon too. I got tired of paying for the electricity, so I switched it to a Athlon-M 2500 and setup all the powersaving stuff. (It took ages to find a desktop board with a PowerNow capable BIOS and voltage regulator...) Kernel compiles are a little slower, but 90% of the time (even streaming data at 100mbit) the processor stays in it's low power mode. What once took 350watts now takes 70. Highly recommended."
::3ware::
::3ware::: "Supporting up to 3.6TB of storage per controller (dependent on drive capacity, 2TB per array maximum.) , 3ware offers the only 12 and 8 port ATA RAID controllers available on the market today. These controllers fit the bill with applications where high levels of sustained read and writes are required, such as enterprise storage, NAS/SAN, web servers, near-line backup and archival, and streaming video."
Saturday, July 24, 2004
ESA Portal - Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites
ESA Portal - Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites: "Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins."
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