I don't think I've ever gone to the system profiler to check disk sleep before.

Plus? my version of OSX (10.4.11) doesn't have hard disk sleep as a separate selection from system sleep.

Thanks DCJ! I downloaded it, but haven't installed yet, as one has to reboot, and we are at places to start a run through.

I do have the box UNchecked for "put drive(s) asleep when idle". And in system profiler, it lists "0 minutes" for time to put drives to sleep. I'm guessing that 0 is a "never" marker. Alas, the external still spins down.

Maybe it needs some driver from the installer. I hope it works for you.

Heh. Sony still subsidizing US military supercomputer efforts

The PlayStation 3's price drop was a boon for more than just consumers. The US military is now snapping up a few thousand more of the consoles to add to its (Sony-subsidized) supercomputer.

Consumers aren't the only ones enjoying the PlayStation 3's recent price drop. The US military has announced plans to buy 2,200 more of the game consoles, so that they can massively beef up the processing power of an existing, PS3-based supercomputer. A "Justification Review Document," which has oddly been deleted from Google since I found it but is still available at this cache link, explains that, "the new PS3s will be placed in a cluster environment with an existing cluster of 336 PS3s by connecting each of the units' one gigabit Ethernet port to a common 24 port gigabit hub."

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With respect to cell processors, a single 1U server configured with two 3.2GHz cell processors can cost up to $8K while two Sony PS3s cost approximately $600. Though a single 3.2 GHz cell processor can deliver over 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration delivers approximately 150 GFLOPS, the approximately tenfold cost difference per GFLOP makes the Sony PS3 the only viable technology for HPC applications.

Ha! That's pretty amusing.

Does anyone know of an iPhone skin that's simply the words "Don't Panic" in large friendly letters? It seems to me like such a thing ought to exist, and yet Google can't tell me where to find it.

(Relatedly, does the hivemind think I would be violating anyone's copyright if I created my own and uploaded it to Gelaskins?)

(Relatedly, does the hivemind think I would be violating anyone's copyright if I created my own and uploaded it to Gelaskins?)

If you did this, I would buy one before the takedown hit.

If you did this, I would buy one before the takedown hit.

Heh - I was thinking the same thing. Anyone got a font suggestion?

Dumb javascript question.

Say I have an array b. Why is it that when I do this:

b[i] += intTmp;

with intTmp being a Number object that's = 2, b[i] ends up being NaN? Can't you use += on an array?

Oops - doesn't look like custom skins are searchable once the order is placed. Sorry Amych!