I did something like this to make an AT form factor fit into an old XT clone case I had. Had to hack out some of the drive bay to fit the memory, used a hack saw and pliers. Also I used rubber cement to hold the old drive face onto the case so it's oh so classy and high tech red LED could continue to flash. Worked AOK with 180MHz Media GX board. Waste sucks, but it really was time to put the still working great XT mobo and drive away.
I can't compete with that dude that mounted his mobo on pegboards or that other fellow who mounted his inside a cardboard box. But mine is not going to burn the house down.
What's really inadequate about AT form factor? The power connectors can take it and they can fit power supplies with the watts you need. Fans can be designed to blow air through them. There can be plenty of room for hard drives. Let's see, power, cooling space, what more does a mobo need?
What has ATX delivered? The connectors are turned 90 degrees. It's got some wake on LAN stuff that I'd rather do without, but that surely can be put into AT. It's got a new power connector, and I'm not sure what it does different. That X in the name is cool.
This is just going to make some more boxes into junk. I'll be happy to walk down to the computer store and buy your used ATX cases later, if people stop making AT mobos. Waste sucks.
If you already own a computer and bought Windows, you have spent money. Some of that money went to Billy G.
If you buy an X box you will have sent more money to Billy G. This is what more money means.
The point is that your original purchase did not satisfy you, and your second purchase is going to be the same way. If you first purchase was worth while you would not need the second. Price of HD $200, Xbox? Epsisode 2 is BSoD.
It's nice to see some departure in accademic circles from the usual and boring liberal dogma established by imigrants to this country between 1890 and 1950 or so. I'm so sick of radical anthopology, marxist influenced political science, history and economy. These objectivist nuts are refreshing. Putting a few of them in English departments here and there might make for a more tollerant, diversified and enjoyable class.
Still, I don't see your point. How connected are these groups really? My web page has links to NASA and AIAA, but they only mildly influence my thoughts. Oh my, non sequetor! That's a serious error for a philosopy student. Perhaps you could use an new proffesor.
I'd love to have more. Stick fibers in the sewers, hang them from the phone lines and let me lay them through my back yard. Let me share. Chicago is setting up six competing services. They are a good start. ATT@home eat your heart out. More is better.
The internet is the future of publishing, and like publishing there is no natural monopoly. The physical reasons for telcom monopoly are fading as fast as analog coper wire. Government control of internet access and publishing is tantamount to a regulated and censored press. No one has to listen, but I have the right to publish. Society is better off when that right is respected.
The article was very clear about where fault lay. Several experts who worked on the ship were quoated directly. One had 25 years worth of experience. The opinion was unanimous, NT was the culprit.
No one is busting my balls. NT at work sucks, and people there know it, but MS is fading fast from my home systems. No mo blue screen of death, thank you, just OS that works. Oh yeah, it's nice to have source code, even nicer when it's free. MS's days are numbered. No one is going to put up with their junk for much longer. They used to be good, now they suck, oh well.
The opinions of several people involved with this project were very clear in the article. None were clueless and all were quoted directly saying that NT was the cause of the crash.
my limited experience concurs. NT fails all by itself if kept running for too long. None of the very crapy apps that I've ever written have been able to bring down a sun. Nor have I been able to crash LINUX with devide by zero errors. MS BS is just unreliable.
None of the failure were acceptable. Redundancy is part of good ship design. Each of those terminals should have been able to control the engines. The apps themselves should not fail until the hardware is pierced or lit on fire. Other manual systems should have been in place to take over if all else were to fail as a result of some kind of EMF pulse. Hell, did NT take out the intercoms? Get on the gaitronics and tell the engine room what you want!
Is someone getting paid to put this "application, not the OS" stuff all over this article, or is there some kind of bot in Redmond doing this?
As other people have pointed out that stupid application should not have taken the OS down, much less a whole pile of other machines and the ship itself out.
Personal experience is in line with this. The unix systems I see never quit. NT is lucky to get a week of uptime before craping out.
Lawyer A: "Let's tell our client that we've got a great case for him! One that we will take loads of billable hourse to loose. Let's also convince him that he wants to loose!"
Lawyer B: "Sweet! we won't even have to try very hard. Ha Ha Ha Ha! I'm going to talk to accounting."
I think I saw one or two women who were not sales reps in those pictures! Wow! Variety is the spice of life.
Oh well, if women wish to subject themselves to both of the curses that God laid on man, so be it. My sister became a corporate lawyer, yuck. One of my bosses is a female Mechanical Engineer. Why they want to persue such arcane and tedious work, I'll never know. They look better than me and my big fat belly, and so I'm happy to have something to look at. Bring in the co-ops, woo hoo! Just don't expect me to be birthing babies.
There are several great things to get out of this source code. The compilers are well optimized, the IDE was great, their tools were nice. I'd love to have some of those nice and familiar tools under Linux.
It would be nice if the liscence is broad enough so that optimizations can be moved into g77. Watcom's compilers produced tight fast code, that was generally faster than g77. Watcom console executables could run faster with under Windoze than g77 compiled programs outside of X on the same machine. I ended up using g77 anyway because it could compile very old fortran without much modification. I want the speed too.
Their IDE was straighforward. It was so easy to use that even I could compile mixed C, Fortran code. It took care of grunt work that will take me a long time to learn how to do with make. Compared to MS IDE, which ditched FORTRAN, it was a joy. I can't tell you how much time their GUI debuger saved me.
Their documentation was informative and well organized. Almost as good as Sun.
They also had a cute little VI for window called VIW that was specifically set up for code editing. Color coding of integers and keywords made reading code easy on the eyes. It put in different spacing for FORTRAN and C code, and did a load of other things that will take me forever to dupicate with VIM. I'm not sure, but I think it could recognize straight VM commands. Did not know enough VI at the time.
Over all, Watcom was much closer to normal standards than, Humpf, microsoft. I spent $200 bucks on one of their compilers and it was worth every penny at the time. They helped me grow, and escape the MS trap. Things I learned there I could use elsewhere.
www.hps.org is the helth physics society, and a good place to start. Searching Google for health physics will aslo pull more university programs and societies than you ever wanted to know about.
I can assure you that ALL sources are regulated. Medical facilites ARE made just as I said and so are accelerators bigger than a crt. Anyone operating a device that exposes the general public will be shut down and jailed. Industrial radiographers are the losest of the bunch, but even they are tightly controled in the US. All nuclear controls are federal.
Doses from all terestrial sources are very well understood, as are the means to sheild the public. It's not rocket science.
X-rays, and other low energy photons are easy to stop. A photon absorbed in a material is stoped. How well they are stoped is strictly regulated. It's easy to meet those regulations for lower energy X rays because they are less penetrating and deliver less dose.
People get busy and forget things. Email the dude.
Also try some independent research. Ask someone else with safety in their title. Check out the local newspaper. Learn more about reporting unsafe conditions in your company. You may not have to go tell some know nothing reporter looking for a scandal so his paper can sell adverts. Take it up the ladder. If you work for a company that does not care, getting fired is not so bad.
Sometimes these policies work. A good company needs your input on these types of things. Who else is going to know better than the person on the spot?
Ordinary materials can stop X-rays. Facilities are designed so that the operator, and bystanders, will recieve less than a specified dose per YEAR if they never move and the equipment is never turned off. Lead is a nice attenuator of X-rays, but other materials, such as cinder blocks, masonite etc, can do the same job if enough material is used.
I prefer Barbarella to China Syndrome! Jane Fonda looked much better than a revolving red light. Dialog is about the same. Compare, "I must decend to the fantom zone", to, "This will kill half of Southern California."
That's quite a rant, but I didn't see any positive ideas. Life is a difficult game of choosing the least hamful of several competing vices.
Most of the places that I've worked, safety has been twarted by employees. Provide good masks, and people complain that they are too hot to work in. Build a machine that's operation requiers both hands, and someone will put a coffee can on one of the switches so that they can loose a finger. When the day is done, people go home to a pack of cigarettes and drunk driving.
Checks will not help prevent this. People cover their asses, until someone looses theirs. Too much oversight grates and makes employees feel as if they are not trusted.
Condition reports and statistics are the only things that I've seen that work. See something wrong? Report it! Someone who knows will evaluate it and do something if needed. If they don't, a clear paper trail exists to win that lawsuit. Condition reports also form a statistical record that's better than you're gut feeling. When too many of them build up that are not easily dismissed, you can be sure you were right. At the end of the year, you really can tell how safe your plant is by the number of accidents that happened. My plant is safer than your plant becasue fewer people were hurt. What better measure is there? Where I work, splinters in people's fingers are logged!
Getting things done can be risky, but it does not have to be foolhardy. Equipment that cuts tough materials will tear off your hand. Equipment that lifts heavy objects can break things, throw things, or drop them on you. Safety equipment goes only so far. Good attitude and alertness from management and employees has to go the rest of the way.
OK, you can't see UV. So what they saw was everything else heated to bright orange, 900 to 1500F. I don't think for a minute that heat from the fabric alone caused the catastophic failure of the aluminum frame, the fusing of silverware, and the death of so many passengers. Cool, UV ionizes as well as heats! Gimmie some skin cancer on top of those terrible burns.
I'll bet a carbon nano tube tank would glow a similar color when buning and heated by the contained hydrogen.
Both sides should want a transcript of the meeting, but it's pointless. The employer would want to prove that such things were discussed, but that does not rule out another company having thought up the idea independently. The employee should want a transcript to protect his future employer from things that were not really discussed. A tape recording would be great to have, if the employer were interested in the truth.
Bringing a tape recorder to that interview will get you tossed out of the office just as quickly as asking questions or mentioning lawyers. "We own this idea, bitch!", is what that piece of paper says. People like that are not about to change their mind set about, say, internet shopping carts.
If you don't feel comfortable in an interview, leave! Never lie to fit in. You will only make yourself miserable when you find yourself surrounded by people you hold in contempt and bossed around by people you don't like. Move on and find a place you like. Holding your nose is just not worth the time it takes from your life.
I haven't found anyone that thought it was strange, and only one person actually read it.
That's just the kind of unquestioning loyalty I expect in an employee. If I want them to have an opinion or a thought, I'll give them one!
About the time I met the fourth interviewer I was greeted by a small group of people from HR and the director of engineering who terminated the interview and escorted me out of the building.
Fourth interview, you've got to be kidding? That organization moves much too slow. I should have been notified about this trouble maker as soon as he acted up! Do not make decisions people! Call me right away so I can rudely terminate the interview, mobilize security, and be rid of the punk.
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I can't compete with that dude that mounted his mobo on pegboards or that other fellow who mounted his inside a cardboard box. But mine is not going to burn the house down.
What's really inadequate about AT form factor? The power connectors can take it and they can fit power supplies with the watts you need. Fans can be designed to blow air through them. There can be plenty of room for hard drives. Let's see, power, cooling space, what more does a mobo need?
What has ATX delivered? The connectors are turned 90 degrees. It's got some wake on LAN stuff that I'd rather do without, but that surely can be put into AT. It's got a new power connector, and I'm not sure what it does different. That X in the name is cool.
This is just going to make some more boxes into junk. I'll be happy to walk down to the computer store and buy your used ATX cases later, if people stop making AT mobos. Waste sucks.
I don't get it.
Don't tell Sky Net.
Really. Isn't there enough space junk?
If you already own a computer and bought Windows, you have spent money. Some of that money went to Billy G.
If you buy an X box you will have sent more money to Billy G. This is what more money means.
The point is that your original purchase did not satisfy you, and your second purchase is going to be the same way. If you first purchase was worth while you would not need the second. Price of HD $200, Xbox? Epsisode 2 is BSoD.
Still, I don't see your point. How connected are these groups really? My web page has links to NASA and AIAA, but they only mildly influence my thoughts. Oh my, non sequetor! That's a serious error for a philosopy student. Perhaps you could use an new proffesor.
EVERYONE'S OUT TO GET YOU MOTHER FUCKER!
If all of them wrote one executable by random key strokes and mouse clicks, how many "I Love You's" would be written.
If 1% of those scripts worked, how many programs would you have?
Would it write a novel?
This is a tragic free speach issue.
Cato rests it's case.
The internet is the future of publishing, and like publishing there is no natural monopoly. The physical reasons for telcom monopoly are fading as fast as analog coper wire. Government control of internet access and publishing is tantamount to a regulated and censored press. No one has to listen, but I have the right to publish. Society is better off when that right is respected.
beep beep!
The article was very clear about where fault lay. Several experts who worked on the ship were quoated directly. One had 25 years worth of experience. The opinion was unanimous, NT was the culprit.
No one is busting my balls. NT at work sucks, and people there know it, but MS is fading fast from my home systems. No mo blue screen of death, thank you, just OS that works. Oh yeah, it's nice to have source code, even nicer when it's free. MS's days are numbered. No one is going to put up with their junk for much longer. They used to be good, now they suck, oh well.
my limited experience concurs. NT fails all by itself if kept running for too long. None of the very crapy apps that I've ever written have been able to bring down a sun. Nor have I been able to crash LINUX with devide by zero errors. MS BS is just unreliable.
None of the failure were acceptable. Redundancy is part of good ship design. Each of those terminals should have been able to control the engines. The apps themselves should not fail until the hardware is pierced or lit on fire. Other manual systems should have been in place to take over if all else were to fail as a result of some kind of EMF pulse. Hell, did NT take out the intercoms? Get on the gaitronics and tell the engine room what you want!
hey! that was not supposed to be anonymous.
As other people have pointed out that stupid application should not have taken the OS down, much less a whole pile of other machines and the ship itself out.
Personal experience is in line with this. The unix systems I see never quit. NT is lucky to get a week of uptime before craping out.
This is rich.
Lawyer A: "Let's tell our client that we've got a great case for him! One that we will take loads of billable hourse to loose. Let's also convince him that he wants to loose!"
Lawyer B: "Sweet! we won't even have to try very hard. Ha Ha Ha Ha! I'm going to talk to accounting."
Oh well, if women wish to subject themselves to both of the curses that God laid on man, so be it. My sister became a corporate lawyer, yuck. One of my bosses is a female Mechanical Engineer. Why they want to persue such arcane and tedious work, I'll never know. They look better than me and my big fat belly, and so I'm happy to have something to look at. Bring in the co-ops, woo hoo! Just don't expect me to be birthing babies.
It would be nice if the liscence is broad enough so that optimizations can be moved into g77. Watcom's compilers produced tight fast code, that was generally faster than g77. Watcom console executables could run faster with under Windoze than g77 compiled programs outside of X on the same machine. I ended up using g77 anyway because it could compile very old fortran without much modification. I want the speed too.
Their IDE was straighforward. It was so easy to use that even I could compile mixed C, Fortran code. It took care of grunt work that will take me a long time to learn how to do with make. Compared to MS IDE, which ditched FORTRAN, it was a joy. I can't tell you how much time their GUI debuger saved me.
Their documentation was informative and well organized. Almost as good as Sun.
They also had a cute little VI for window called VIW that was specifically set up for code editing. Color coding of integers and keywords made reading code easy on the eyes. It put in different spacing for FORTRAN and C code, and did a load of other things that will take me forever to dupicate with VIM. I'm not sure, but I think it could recognize straight VM commands. Did not know enough VI at the time.
Over all, Watcom was much closer to normal standards than, Humpf, microsoft. I spent $200 bucks on one of their compilers and it was worth every penny at the time. They helped me grow, and escape the MS trap. Things I learned there I could use elsewhere.
Great going Sybase!
I can assure you that ALL sources are regulated. Medical facilites ARE made just as I said and so are accelerators bigger than a crt. Anyone operating a device that exposes the general public will be shut down and jailed. Industrial radiographers are the losest of the bunch, but even they are tightly controled in the US. All nuclear controls are federal.
Doses from all terestrial sources are very well understood, as are the means to sheild the public. It's not rocket science.
X-rays, and other low energy photons are easy to stop. A photon absorbed in a material is stoped. How well they are stoped is strictly regulated. It's easy to meet those regulations for lower energy X rays because they are less penetrating and deliver less dose.
Also try some independent research. Ask someone else with safety in their title. Check out the local newspaper. Learn more about reporting unsafe conditions in your company. You may not have to go tell some know nothing reporter looking for a scandal so his paper can sell adverts. Take it up the ladder. If you work for a company that does not care, getting fired is not so bad.
Sometimes these policies work. A good company needs your input on these types of things. Who else is going to know better than the person on the spot?
I prefer Barbarella to China Syndrome! Jane Fonda looked much better than a revolving red light. Dialog is about the same. Compare, "I must decend to the fantom zone", to, "This will kill half of Southern California."
Most of the places that I've worked, safety has been twarted by employees. Provide good masks, and people complain that they are too hot to work in. Build a machine that's operation requiers both hands, and someone will put a coffee can on one of the switches so that they can loose a finger. When the day is done, people go home to a pack of cigarettes and drunk driving.
Checks will not help prevent this. People cover their asses, until someone looses theirs. Too much oversight grates and makes employees feel as if they are not trusted.
Condition reports and statistics are the only things that I've seen that work. See something wrong? Report it! Someone who knows will evaluate it and do something if needed. If they don't, a clear paper trail exists to win that lawsuit. Condition reports also form a statistical record that's better than you're gut feeling. When too many of them build up that are not easily dismissed, you can be sure you were right. At the end of the year, you really can tell how safe your plant is by the number of accidents that happened. My plant is safer than your plant becasue fewer people were hurt. What better measure is there? Where I work, splinters in people's fingers are logged!
Getting things done can be risky, but it does not have to be foolhardy. Equipment that cuts tough materials will tear off your hand. Equipment that lifts heavy objects can break things, throw things, or drop them on you. Safety equipment goes only so far. Good attitude and alertness from management and employees has to go the rest of the way.
Impurities in the Hindenburg case would be, passengers, engines, stuctural components, and the rest of the blimp. Ouch!
I'll bet a carbon nano tube tank would glow a similar color when buning and heated by the contained hydrogen.
I want some hot stuff, baby, tonight.
Bringing a tape recorder to that interview will get you tossed out of the office just as quickly as asking questions or mentioning lawyers. "We own this idea, bitch!", is what that piece of paper says. People like that are not about to change their mind set about, say, internet shopping carts.
If you don't feel comfortable in an interview, leave! Never lie to fit in. You will only make yourself miserable when you find yourself surrounded by people you hold in contempt and bossed around by people you don't like. Move on and find a place you like. Holding your nose is just not worth the time it takes from your life.
That's just the kind of unquestioning loyalty I expect in an employee. If I want them to have an opinion or a thought, I'll give them one!
About the time I met the fourth interviewer I was greeted by a small group of people from HR and the director of engineering who terminated the interview and escorted me out of the building.
Fourth interview, you've got to be kidding? That organization moves much too slow. I should have been notified about this trouble maker as soon as he acted up! Do not make decisions people! Call me right away so I can rudely terminate the interview, mobilize security, and be rid of the punk.
Now get back to work.
WP 5.2 and 8 still work for me.