If you look further, you will find that there is a spherical structure with radius of approximately about 13 billion light years, and nothing outside of that.

I recently had a bunch of BTRFS failure on disks with heavy traffic. It's terrifying when you have to reboot any of those servers.

The only saving grace was the cluster was able to tolerate multiple block device failures, so I was able to reformat those disks using ZFS and resync the data.

To sum up, I experimented on an experimental file system, got burnt, and then switched back to ZFS. I didn't lose data, just time and frustrations.

Another use of the paper record is when they need to re-input all that into the new systems they upgrade to.

It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Happens all the time. These office systems are so obscure that the new vendors often time don't even bother to migrate the data, forcing manual data entry for all the relevant records. It's very sad.

It's the same when these "office" systems have thousands of connected offices. Each would still have to re-enter its records.

I fail to believe that Cholera is absent from Haiti before hand. It's something that most people (read tourists) carry, and it's presumed to be everywhere.

This allows you to print "unbalanced" objects, e.g. those that would tip over when you print layer-by-layer.

Let's supposed your "final" exit temperature is 90C. Also let's assume the cooling reservoir is around 10C. Let's also assume that the final stage takes steam from 200C down to 90C. That give it a theoretical Carnot limit of 110/363 ~ 30%.

From the article, "The device offers the possibility of a cheap and flexible design suitable for harvesting waste heat in the 100- to 200-degrees Celsius range.". Assume it really work all the way to 10C, that could theoretically be 190/283 ~ 67%. If their efficiency is higher than a turbine, then they can use that to replace the last turbine stage. If not, then there is nothing to see.

I think the news here is that they *might* have come up with a better device than a low temperature turbine.

I actually install mwm (Open Sourced now) on lots of headless machines nowadays. I found it to work very well over VNC. Much better than a lot of the alternatives. And yes, I use VNC, because X over VPN is just painful.

The people on xda-developers have been doing that for ages. That's how they mod the official APKs and change images to match the various themes.

NSA

Most likely because of IP-licensing that does not allow certain portion of their code to be open-sourced.

Aren't we all inside a big simulation already?

FTFY...
Last I look, a Quanta 1GB switch is in the 3K range, and the 10GB switch is in the 11K range.

Here is the list of supported switches: http://cumulusnetworks.com/support/hcl/

I think the reason is in your signature :)

The current high-cost item is the 10GbE switch. Those things are way too expensive (10+K range, and the plus goes way up)

Also, for flexibility, you want SFP+ ports and adapters for each port. None of those are cheap.

They are hilarious. One person wrote about how the game had given him back his (real) life during the time it spend trying to connect to the server.