Hello,

it is wonderful storming day here, sky is steel grey and rain is hitting horizontally. Such a perfect day for election 8)


Some politics...
We are having local election here today to put local senator to their chairs.

I'm going to give my vote to "red necks", I'm not great admirer of their values what comes to monetary issues, but they want to keep countryside as countryside, and I just happen to love living on countryside.

Here on downtown we have two great province.
Very very wealth Espoo in west (countryside). Espoo does not have area like city centre, because hold area is low density zones. Lot's of field, lakes, low density residential areas, six trillion trees, etc...

Then there is capital, Helsinki (Urban).
Helsinki is ex fortification city of Saint Pietersburg, originally 5000 citizen and roads designed for cossack to make counter attack.
Now a days there is living 500 000 citizen on those very narrow streets and all possible problem materials from this society seems to end there.
On Helsinki they have same amount severe assaults in one weekend, that we have here in west on one quartal. And this is very optimistic value.
On EU level statics bases Helsinki does not seems to be ultraviolent city, but this is because different method of counting.
On another EU countries they count something like car theft as crime against personal integrity, but in Finland it takas severe battery to make mark to statistics.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-eaaR1Ay5P0


Accumulated Points: 14,402,872

Windy....holy cow!
We had winds sustained at 30 to 40 mph. Gusts higher.
What a day! Almost all my leaves are in my neighbors yard.

Fellow fellows 8)

This is not sciense of course, but intresting:

First one is IBM x226 (öbaut five years old) with two 3,2GB Xeon prosessor, last one is new Lenovo S10 StinkStation:

28.10.2008 0:001:11:44:05 1,954 2
27.10.2008 0:004:02:20:50 5,166 9
26.10.2008 0:004:02:59:41 5,159 8
25.10.2008 0:004:04:07:21 5,094 8
24.10.2008 0:002:10:14:39 2,887 5

28.10.2008 0:001:14:07:34 4,999 6
27.10.2008 0:003:17:03:04 11,162 16
26.10.2008 0:004:06:28:34 12,777 18
25.10.2008 0:002:13:37:04 7,796 9
24.10.2008 0:001:19:42:29 5,615 6


Accumulated Points: 14,562,919

Well there is two sides 8)

That x226 might be lower on CPU power, but still it is real _server_, and there is no way to compare those to each others.

On that x226 I got i5 RAID card and 15k HDD:s.
I can deploy image size of DVD in few minutes, it does not slow down practically nothing even if there is dozen different target on as asynchronous.
Still those target computers can install anything from server while downloading as fast as PC HDD can handle, without noticing any lack of performance.
And even if it is 32 -bit I can have as much memory as OS can handle.


That S10 will can handle smoothly one deploy request, if it gets two, then it suffocate. It takes several minutes to react for installing queries with even two users.

Just wondering why on earth there need to be so much CPU power on PC.
What the he** office people do for living



Accumulated Points: 14,636,750

This is the end to a glorious weekend. 70F (21 C) both days. No rain. Nice until Tuesday, then snow and sleet by Thursday. Saw one farmer bailing his latest cutting of alfalfa. I can't remember the last time I saw that in November.

Cheers