[ale] RHEL-6.1 system with 4 CPU sockets and 1TB of memory

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:16 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > If you're my age you probably wouldn't live long enough to do that
> > > much laundry & dishwashing. You might have to get her a rock along
> > > with all of that, after all diamons are a girl's BF, aren't they?
> > >
>
> > She's a geologist and knows the true value of diamonds (nearly as common
> as
> > sand) so I'm off the hook for that :-)
>
> No joke.  If it wasn't for some crazy monopolies (DeBeers) diamonds
> would be about $5 a caret.
>
> > Emeralds and meteorites, however...
>
> Rubies are great too.  Natural ones have to occur in unnatural
> conditions that include moderately rare chromium while excluding much
> more common iron from the aluminate base mineral.
>

she has a few rubies from a Georgia dig site. We may do a bit of polish on
a few so we can see better inside. some well formed faceted "globs" (I am
NOT a geologist) that would look cool with some back lighting.

>
> Even more rare is Alexandrite where some (but not all) of the chromium
> is replaced by beryllium.  Still fluoresces red under a black light like
> any ruby (it's ruby at heart) but is a somber red under incandescent
> light while green or blue under indirect sunlight and purple under
> direct sunlight (thanks to that fluorescence).  Natural stones are
> insanely expensive.  Some high quality Brazilian stones I was looking at
> were $10,000 USD for 0.9 caret stone - LOOSE!  The center stone in my
> wedding ring was dug out of a lab, not out of the ground and has
> outstanding color change to it.  :-P
>

all of the fluorescent   minerals she _really_ likes require nasty UVB (the
high energy stuff that does bad things to corneas and skin) so a shielded
glass case is a must before that collection begins.

>
> They call that effect trichroic (three color) or dichroic (referring to
> any mineral or mirrors that separate colors).  Tanzanite is another
> dichroic but its color changes from blue to purple with the angle of the
> light hitting it.  That's the other two stones in my wedding ring.
> That's my only puzzle ring with stones.  The other two are just plain
> gold.
>

awesome!

We have a box of raw jade (65+ lbs) that's just begging for me to sit down
with a dremel tool...

>
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
> >
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> > *
> >
>
>
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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