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I have not seen much of this technology at my local hospital yet, but it seems like this would be a great application for antimicrobal plastics. The problem with any kind of sterilization procedure is that serious problems can start with just one transfer and sterilization can only be realistically performed at some deterimined interval during which multiple exchanges are likely to happen. The key is making an environment that is unwelcoming to microbes in the first place.

This company claims to have a working product.

Not sure if it's the same stuff or not, but This page (google cache) also talks about the development of such materials.

I first heard about this stuff right here on /., but wasn't able to find the article.

Reformat? That's pretty dumb

B. Clear your computer of the Blaster worm

1.On the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, click Start, and then click Run. Type in services.msc and click on OK.

2. The Services window will appear. Enlarge it, if small, so you can see things. Click on the Name heading so the list is in alphabetical order. Look down the list for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) which Provides the endpoint mapper, etc. Do not choose Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator, which Manages things. Right click on Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and left click on Properties.

3. Click on the Recovery tab, and change first, second and subsequent failures to Restart the service, not Restart the computer. Click on Apply then OK. Close the Services window.

4. Hold down Ctrl and Alt keys and press the Delete key. The Windows Task Manager window will appear. Click on Processes. Click on Image Name to put the list into alphabetical order. Look down the list for msblast. There it is. Right click on it and click on End Process. Close all windows.

Total time to find this info: less than 30 seconds on Google cache... Interested in SoBigF? Check out my psychotic rants on it.

As for so called security team of whatever, I don't know why they would tell their users to format their machines... Seems a bit irresponsible, and makes me think their too lazy to read something like the DOC I just linked (Google cache link)... Hell they don't have to if you think about it... Print it out and throw it on every damn door. Come on if MIT can hang cars off bridges, place cars on roofs for pranks don't tell me they cant ctrl-p a damn doc...

...and take it into the voting booth in November, 2004.

Agreed. And remember, Congress voted 357-66 in the house, and 98-1 in the senate. Which means, despite the rhetoric of Democratic presidential candidates - at least 69% of Democratic representatives (and 96% of Democratic senators) voted for it as well. So be sure to print off this sheet as well (pre-emptive google cache: here)

Give all these assholes the boot: vote against the incumbent!

There is hope and more hope...

Pure electric would be super if you didn't have to make long trips and always had an electrical outlet to charge when parked.

Um... Approximate U.S. energy consumption by energy source (2000):

Oil and natural gas liquids - 38.50%
Natural gas - 23.70%
Coal - 22.80%
Nuclear - 8.10%
Hydroelectric - 3.10%
Other renewables (biomass, wind, etc.) - 3.80%
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85% of US electricity comes from fossil fuels, with another 8.1% from nuclear reactors. Plugging in an electric car doesn't really help... the electricity still has to come from somewhere.

For the entire world, 18% comes from nuclear reactors, 63% from fossil fuels, 19% from hydroelectric plants, and a whopping 38% from geothermal plants. 1993 was the most current data I could find, so I'm sure the world numbers are a little different now, but I'm also sure not by much.
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I happen to drive a full sized chevy pickup. Strangely, there is no offering on the market for a 50mpg vehicle that will pull a 34' trailer, or a 28' cattle trailer, or as enough space to load all of my bass and p/a gear for a show. Until one shows up, I'll continue to whine about the price of gas, mainly because I live in Houston, have worked for oil companies as a programmer, and fully understand their pricing model.

It cracks me up that people think their wall socket provides magical electricity that keeps them from using fossil fuels like coal, gas or oil. Quit listening to Al Gore! He drives a Suburban!

Direct download link here.

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thebulkclub.com/support.aspp

All google caches.

thebulkclub.com/support.aspp

All google caches.

$ initdb -D db
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "*****".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory db... ok
creating directory db/base... ok
creating directory db/global... ok
creating directory db/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory db/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in db/base/1... IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed: Function not implemented

initdb failed.
Removing db.

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...so here's the Google cache.

It's all fake. My god, Letterman and co started using cameras that selectively soft focus just their faces back in 1996. Madonna's getting younger every day, and then there's Britney "panting like a dog" Spears and her "it's not lip syncing, it's just singing real quiet under a pre-recorded mix".

If it passes through a piece of electronics, it's fake. If you don't see it with your own eyes, and hear it with your own ears, it's fake. That's not a judgement - when I'm watching fake titties bounce, I don't like to be distracted by off key wailing - just an observation.

Breathing a mixture containing 98.3% helium would increase these frequencies, making voices sound abnormally high-pitched. We must yield on this one to the moviemakers. It would be hard to take a movie seriously if the actors all sounded like chipmunks.

You were saying ?

How many of those deals have you done? Excel is not used for the actual calculations, some nasty propriatory thing made by a crazy former LSU person is used to do that. The silly $60,000 program's results are looked at by Excel, but I suspect anything could do that. The actual calculations made are some rather funny money, and only Federal regulations could lead to such a Byzantine calculation. I have been aproached to replicate the thing and I just might.

You would be nuts to try to match those calculations in a general spreadsheet. You are correct about precision in integration. While the numerical methods are well known, a general program would be geared to Engineering accuracy in the results, within 5% because that's what you can measure. When greater accuracy is needed, it's time to turn to a special program or write your own. In either case you will have to prove your specific set up against test cases and known results. Bond calculations and other accounting programs that have to be accurate to the penny are good examples of where you need a special proven program. Other exapmples are nuclear criticality calculations, space craft thermo-dynamic work and radiotherapy dose estimations. A spreadsheed in cases like that is good only for independent verification of a proven system. The system is known good, but it's nice to verify each and every calculation with something completely unrelated and much simpler just to make sure everything is working.

Ah! a little web search shows what a clever troll you are! This letter from way back in 0.7 days promisses arbitrary prcision will come when "Gnumeric is caught up with Excel in other ways". Well crovira, you want it, get cracking and merge BC into Gnumeric so that I can have arbitrary prcision by point and click. -crack- feel my whip and get coding bitch! I'll just keep using the older tried and true method of special programs for special applications.

Oh wait, this fsf thing from year 2000 says use guile. Damn it, I'm going to have to read the article. Nope not there. The world of free software may have given you the bizare and strange thing you want, but I can't find it. Start writing and let us know when you are done =;)

here?

yikes.

We are going to be moving to Super-G with the WG511v3 and maybe some high-end home router. As true maximum throughput is 90 Mbps, we hope to ultimately market it as a 225 Mbps technology (same 40% ratio).

I guess this article was written before the ftp.gnu.org compromise. However, has there been *any* reason given on why ftp.gnu.org was running wu-ftpd ( which has a restrictive license) when there are at least 2 GPL ftp daemons ( proftpd and vsftpd) available? Especially given wu-ftpd's long, sad history of insecurity.

Both use the Intersil Prism GT chipset. Intersil is very open about their design, and supports the development of open source drivers for Linux and other operating systems.

The PrismGT driver is here, written by Intersil and released under the GPL. It still has some issues - the license needs to be clarified on a few files, it doesn't fully support wireless extensions, and some people have reported crashes and throughput problems. But AFAIK, it's the only 802.11g chipset with decent open-source drivers - MadWIFI (for Atheros cards) calls itself a GPL driver, but it requires you to load binary code into your kernel - the Intersil driver requires you to upload a binary firmware image to the card, but NOT into your kernel (I'd be OK with this, as long as you don't have to agree to any license to get the firmware image).

In theory, the Prism Duette chipset is also supported by this driver. The chipset supports 802.11a/b/g, but I haven't seen any a/b/g cards based on it.

Some people have mentioned that new 802.11g chipsets will be available soon, with better open-source support, but I have no idea what makes them think that. Each reference to this has been extremely vague, nobody has even named a chipset when they say this. As a wild guess, it might be Mercury5g - this mailing list message mentions that the Synad Mercury5g chipset will have a HostAP driver, but no evidence of that claim is provided. It also doesn't mention open-source, and no cards using that chipset are available, so I'm not holding my breath.