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Comment Re:A real shame (Score 2) 394

what guys like Lenin did, from the barbaric stuff that people like Stalin did.

That made me laugh. Care to enlighten us what barbaric stuff Stalin did, what Lenin did not
(or to put more correctly: what barbaric stuff was being done in Stalin times and in Lenin times).

a quick note, to take some options from the table: concentration camps existed in both Stalin and Lenin times, and are even older. I don't know who invented this concept, but if I am not mistaken, they were already known as concept and operational in Anglo-Boer War times (~1900ies)

Transportation

Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster 197

MikeChino writes "Porsche has just unveiled its 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a 480 horsepower track vehicle ready to rock the 24-hour Nurburgring race this May. Porsche's latest supercar will use the same 911 production platform available to consumers today, with a few race-ready features including front-wheel hybrid drive and an innovative flywheel system that stores kinetic energy from braking and then uses it to provide a 160 horsepower burst of speed. The setup is sure to offer an advantage when powering out of turns and passing by other racers."

Comment Re:Update (Score 1) 456

WRONG.

Any grizzly bears, wolves and cougars, who are misfortunate enough to find themselves near migratory path of this mass of people would be EATEN.
Such a mass of people in need would strip the land bare.

Such things are not theoretical but do happen - e.g. in the past army campaigns....

Comment Re:Update (Score 1) 456

Ah, you think in the right direction here my friend, however there is one more step you are missing.
Actually those 300m people could get to US (provided that there is enough water along the route) if they resort to cannibalism.
In such setup quite a few people would get through, eating their fellow-travelers.

It's a little bit like a rocket equation - rocket goes up, carrying rocket fuel and spending that rocket fuel along the way.
You just need to plug the right constants into equation.

I would SWAG that some 50m (1 out of 6) would get through to USA.

Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Pro Tools with iSCSI?

Kyle writes: "I'm the student IT guy for my college's on-campus radio station. Over the summer we converted the entire station from PC to Mac, and purchased Digidesign Mboxes for each workstation, so that we have the flexibility to use our recording facilities only for recording, and take our work elsewhere if need be. All of this was planned before my arrival, and I was brought in to help out with the installation as my first task. Since my boss had also ordered an Xserve for use as a simple NAS, I figured we would spare ourselves a lot of future trouble if we did The Right Thing(TM) and actually set up the machines as workstations, complete with network home directories.

Well it turns out Pro Tools doesn't like recording to network drives, for obvious reasons that completely escaped me at the time. We configured each Intel iMac workstation (of which we have five) with external FireWire drives, except for our main production station which got three external drives. All of this works fine, except that the original goal of portability is kind of eliminated by the need to manually move files between machines by using the network home directory as a temporary copy point. Since we have only one production room, which is in constant demand by DJs, our staff, and the radio classes, this means that sessions that are recorded and need to be bounced to MP3 are often delayed. Tying up the production computer for the length of the session file while it bounces often just isn't an option. So now I'm investigating implementing a SAN as a summer project.

All of our machines have Gigabit Ethernet. I'd like to connect them all to an iSCSI target so that sessions are recorded to one central location, eliminating the file juggling. I'd hate to see our external drives go to waste, but then again they may become useful as Time Machine backups in a future Leopard upgrade if they can't be integrated into a SAN solution. Does anyone have any experience in running Pro Tools on a SAN, and could direct me towards some options that would fulfill our needs? I'm specifically looking to avoid costly solutions like EditShare (our TV station has one and it's left a bad taste in my mouth), and running fibre simply isn't an option because a) we have iMacs and b) all of our rooms are double-walled, so running fibre would necessitate literally tearing down the station and rebuilding it. iSCSI seems like my only option (and this free initiator for OS X seems like a good start on the client side), but is it too slow for real-time DAW work for potentially, though not realistically, five workstations simultaneously?"

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