"Informer" | ||||
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Single by Snow featuring MC Shan | ||||
from the album 12 Inches of Snow | ||||
Released | September 30, 1992[1] | |||
Format | CD single, CD maxi, 7" single 12" maxi, Cassette | |||
Genre | Reggae fusion, hip hop | |||
Length | 4:05 | |||
Label | EastWest Records America, Atlantic | |||
Writer(s) | Edmond Leary Darrin O'Brien Shawn Moltke | |||
Producer(s) | M.C. Shan | |||
Snow featuring MC Shan singles chronology | ||||
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"Informer" is a 1992 single by Canadian reggae musician Snow.
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NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon
By Adrianne Jeffries on
NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moonfor valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals.
Initial proposals are due tomorrow for the Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown program (CATALYST). One or more private companies will win a contract to build prospecting robots, the first step toward mining the moon.
The contract will be a "no funds exchanged" Space Agreement Act, which means the government will not be directly funding the effort, but will receive NASA support. Final proposals are due on March 17th, 2014. NASA has not said when it will announce the winner.
NASA works with private companies that service the International Space Station, and those partnerships have gone well. Faced with a skeleton budget, the agency is looking for innovative ways to cooperate with the private sector in order to continue research and exploration, as it did recently with a crowdsourcing campaign to improve its asteroid-finding algorithms. That campaign was launched with another private company, Planetary Resources, the billionaire-backed asteroid mining company.
FACED WITH A SKELETON BUDGET, THE AGENCY IS LOOKING FOR INNOVATIVE WAYS TO COOPERATE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR
According to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty of the United Nations, countries are prohibited from laying claim to the moon. The possibility of lunar mining and the emergence of private space companies has triggered a debate over lunar property rights, however.
"There’s a strong case for developing international law in this area because in 1967 it was not envisaged that anyone other than nation states would be able to explore the moon," Ian Crawford, a planetary science professor, told The Telegraph. "Clearly that is changing now and there is a case for developing the outer space treaty to include private organisations that may wish to explout the moon."
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/9/5395684/nasa-begins-hunt-for-private-companies-to-mine-the-moon-catalyst
Apple previews radically redesigned Mac Pro:
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on @nateog
"..(Apple's long-neglected Mac Pro is finally getting some attention. The desktop has beencompletely redesigned and, like the company's refreshed laptops, the rebooted Mac Pro line makes use of new Intel processors. But it isn't shipping just yet. Apple teased the new Mac Pro at its Worldwide Developers Conference today. The "cheese grater" styling of the old Mac Pro, which made its debut with 2003's Power Mac G5, is out. Instead, Apple is going with a new look that is similar to the classic Braun KF 20 coffee maker.
"Can't innovate anymore, my ass," said Apple exec Phil Schiller when announcing the new workstation, which will be assembled in the US. "This is without a doubt the future of the pro desktop." The new Mac Pro will be one-eighth the size of the old 40-pound Mac Pro. The new desktop, which stands 9.9-inches tall and 6.6-inches wide, will ship this fall. When it does, it'll feature a blacked-out aluminum exterior and be small enough that it can sit on most desks. Inside, it will make use of Intel's next-generation Xeon E5 processors, which can be configured with up to 12 cores, as well as dual AMD GPUs, up to 60GB of RAM, one HDMI 1.4 port, six Thunderbolt 2 ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, four USB 3 ports, full flash storage, and support for 4K displays. In all, Apple said the new Mac Pro will be twice as fast as the previous generation, pushing a total of up to 7 teraflops of computing power. It appears the new machine has no built-in optical drive — though Apple does still sell its USB SuperDrive for those who want to play or burn a DVD or CD.
All of the ports on the new Mac Pro are located on the back, but as a user rotates the computer, it senses that it's being moved and automatically illuminates the I/O panel, making the ports easier to see. The new device will also have Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11ac connectivity. "Video editors, musicians, graphic designers count on Mac Pro to get their work done," Schiller said. "We didn't just want to make another version of the same old desktop idea that everyone had."
Like the old Mac Pro, the new computer will still have a handle built into the top of the machine. Schiller said that the new Mac Pro would ship sometime this fall, as will a new version of Final Cut Pro, though the video editing software not previewed on stage. Apple hasn't disclosed pricing as of yet.)...""
reference:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/10/4412350/apple-new-mac-pro-wwdc-2013
Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller vs Single Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- John G (Yahoo answer)
With 2 ports, you can use a technique called "link aggregation" or "bonding" which makes the 2 ports look just like 1 regular port to the applications you are running. There are pros and cons to this:
Pro:
1. Better fault tolerance - this was the original intent of the technology
2. Allows load balancing between 2 networks (E.g. cable + DSL)
3. Better theoretical speed (though you will be limited by the slowest part of your connection path).
...bonding [combines] both of the computer's interfaces into a single interface.... The OS can alternate which interface it uses to send traffic, or it can gracefully fail over between them in the event of a problem. You can even use it to balance your traffic between multiple wide area network (WAN) connections, such as DSL and cable, or dialup and your next door neighbor's unsecured Wi-Fi.
(ADAM PASH on LIFEHACKER 5/07/08 2:00pm)
Cons:
1. Puts your network adapter in "promiscuous mode", which means it will have to look at all packets sent on the network, not just packets sent to it - this means more load on the CPU
2. Your speed is still limited by the slower part of your connection path. For instance, if your internet serviceprovide is only giving you 40Mb/second, you can't connect to the internet any faster than that by using 2 ports.
If you have 2 computers in the same room, each with 2 gigabit ports, and you connect them all up via a gigabit router, then you should be able to get nearly twice the transfer speed compared to using only 1 gigabit port. In this case, your connection speed to the internet is not a limiting factor.
You did not say what operating system you are running. The instructions will be different for different operating systems.
In most newer versions of Windows, for instance, just use ethernet cables to connect both ports to your router, then go to the control panel and right click on the network adapter and choose "bond".
See the links below for more info.
Pro:
1. Better fault tolerance - this was the original intent of the technology
2. Allows load balancing between 2 networks (E.g. cable + DSL)
3. Better theoretical speed (though you will be limited by the slowest part of your connection path).
...bonding [combines] both of the computer's interfaces into a single interface.... The OS can alternate which interface it uses to send traffic, or it can gracefully fail over between them in the event of a problem. You can even use it to balance your traffic between multiple wide area network (WAN) connections, such as DSL and cable, or dialup and your next door neighbor's unsecured Wi-Fi.
(ADAM PASH on LIFEHACKER 5/07/08 2:00pm)
Cons:
1. Puts your network adapter in "promiscuous mode", which means it will have to look at all packets sent on the network, not just packets sent to it - this means more load on the CPU
2. Your speed is still limited by the slower part of your connection path. For instance, if your internet serviceprovide is only giving you 40Mb/second, you can't connect to the internet any faster than that by using 2 ports.
If you have 2 computers in the same room, each with 2 gigabit ports, and you connect them all up via a gigabit router, then you should be able to get nearly twice the transfer speed compared to using only 1 gigabit port. In this case, your connection speed to the internet is not a limiting factor.
You did not say what operating system you are running. The instructions will be different for different operating systems.
In most newer versions of Windows, for instance, just use ethernet cables to connect both ports to your router, then go to the control panel and right click on the network adapter and choose "bond".
See the links below for more info.
Source:
Wikipedia article on Link Aggregation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggreg...
Bonding 2 ports on Linux:
http://www.linux.com/feature/133849
Discussion of pros and cons and other info on the technique:
http://lifehacker.com/388145/put-your-se...
Wikipedia article on promiscuous mode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous...
Microsoft article on promiscuous mode:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggreg...
Bonding 2 ports on Linux:
http://www.linux.com/feature/133849
Discussion of pros and cons and other info on the technique:
http://lifehacker.com/388145/put-your-se...
Wikipedia article on promiscuous mode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous...
Microsoft article on promiscuous mode:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...
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