that instead of white striping off an entire space, you white stripe the 3 feet of access area needed in front of the hydrant so the hose can be attached to the hydrant (in other words, change the alignment of the adjoining spaces...|...........|X|..........|... instead of...|...........|XXXXXX|...........|...
I would start with asking them for money... and the local GT hams... and the GT alumni at local ham clubs, of which there are many in the Atlanta area.
However, I think that this will prove to be a white elephant, IMO. I would think long and hard before accepting this gift, unless you can ID a buyer. Advertising on QRZ.com at a steep discount off of list price may get some money for the club. Make certain you actually have a plan on how and where to use, and plan on some expenses for the accessories that go with the tower if you actually try to implement it.
73, Dave N4DJS
I think another big part is that many families have smaller amounts of discretionary income now. Last I heard, it was ~$10K to get through ground school and instructor time for the Private Pilot license. That, combined that the only 'affordable' airplanes are 40 year old Cessna that are needing an overhaul, or kitplanes, which require 50+% owner build and a substantial time investment, have killed off GA for most people.
-- I just laugh when I see the 'speed enforced by aircraft', BTW...
Actually, fake US money is easily detected by the naked eye by several methods, the easiest being the color shift inks on the numbers (when you tip the bill along the long axis, it changes color). Try it...
The state of Georgia recent change the law to require that if a traffic light camera, that the yellow light be lengthened by 1 second.
Suddenly, the traffic light camera guys (and the city governments) were crying about how they weren't even breaking even any more.
Very sad..
All of this would be moot if there was a simple addition to traffic lights - a single digit countdown timer to the side of the light
that shows second remaining on the yellow... 5+.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. Red
But what do I know. I just type on slashdot to improve my typing speed.
The real problem here is one that I see often in all ages of support people. There is a bias towards being blind to the possibility that, in fact, they themselves are doing something wrong. "The computer is broken since I can't make it work" - in this specific case, they were pushing new hardware backwards to support Windows XP (which they really do need to get off of now, for a wide number of security reasons), but were assuming that nothing had changed with the new hardware...
how long is it going to be before the state and local governments figure out that commissioning a single book that they own the rights to as a group
starts becoming more cost effective? Would it not make sense that there isn't anything particularly new in geometry or algebra that forces the need for a new rewrite of textbooks every 2-3 years? Or to avoid the $100/book charges being made for dead tree editions of textbooks? Would it not make sense to have one definitive book on the subject, and holding the copyright in common for all to use? As the cost continues to rise at rates exceeding inflation on textbook materials, it becomes more and more attractive to own your own curriculum materials so you don't continue to pay for them over and over again. I feel it is just a matter of time before this happens, particularly give the finanical squeeze occuring in state and local governments.
All hard drive errors boil down to how many failed bits occur on the raw, pre ECC corrected media vs. the calcuated post-ECC return. A hard failure is one that exceeds the span of possible corrections. Most hard block failures should be correctable by sparing of the media block in question. If you get too many non-correctable errors, it is indicative that the electronics or the heads have died... which in practice turns out to be a catalysmic failure where the drive totally fails on a subset of reads (i.e. one surface is no longer accessable).I would think a better way to test a drive would be to perform long reads (data + ECC), programmatically calculating ECC and determining the number of bits in error, and then performing sparing of the problematic tracks (if supported by the command set of the drive - SCSI does this, I don't know if ATA drives allow sparing to occur in call cases.) Of course, a simple 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1024k' may be just as effective in the long run...
BS. The phone company always had the right to perform 'service monitoring' on the network...what they couldn't do was provide access to the government (at least in the pre-Patriot Act days) to your line to be continuously tapped. The telcos never had to have a warrant to listen to calls.
This reminds of the time where I was at a go-kart track in NW Atlanta with my 11 year old son. Tons of signs "not liable for injury, we maintain no insurance"... He smacked the kart into the end of a concrete lane separator at ~20-25 mph, and his mouth hit the steering wheel of the kart, and his upper lip hit his teeth, resulting in a fair amount of blood. People from the track came to help, and they were looking at him and suggested that we take him to the emergency room. I suggested that they had not strapped him in correctly, or it would have been impossible to occur in the first place, and that I expected them to cover the medical bills. We took him on the hospital, and as it turned out his injuries were minor. The interesting things was that the next day, we heard from the track's insurance company that they would in fact take care of any deductibles or out of pocket expenses.
Arbitration mentions in a contract are a lot like the signs at the go-kart track - they are designed to make people think that they have no legal recourse. To paraphrase a previous poster, judges don't take kindly to those who say they don't have a say in a situation that is placed in front of them. These clauses often get thrown out if a lawyer is involved, from what I have seen.
I was staying at the Renaissance in Las Vegas, booked for a week for a HP training class. Checked out after the first night when I realized that Wi-fi was $10/night.
Where did I go? The Choice Hotel 2 blocks down the street.. room was quite nice.
How much did that cost the Renaissance? about $500 for the week....
I haven't stayed at a Mariott in years for the same reason.
Wi-fi is a basic assumption in my hotel choices today. I won't even spend the company's money on this.
read about 'dummynet' (google 'dummynet mac os x' ) - it will allow you to reduce his bandwidth on the network to whatever slow level you want to give him. It is a part of the ipfw package on Mac OS X. Have fun!
and I really enjoy trying to make any complaint about their crappy coverage (for example, downtown Decatur GA).. "We show 3 bars of coverage there"... blah blah blah...
and they can't seem to handle handoff between particular towers either (at least places I know around the Atlanta area always result in a call drop while traveling along the
same path...
Ed Nisley of Circuit Cellar shared an interesting statistic a couple of years ago - that it costs approximately $2 per watt per year. This counts both the supplying
the power to the computer, and the power to the fans and chillers to take it out...Needless to say, I don't put friend's servers in my basement....
Do you like children? If you don't, don't become a manager. A *lot* of the job is getting people to act like adults..
Similarly, do you have control over budgets and people? Who would you answer to? What would be the expectations from your boss over the
next 6 months?
Is your boss competent? If not, trouble.
What a joke! I just tried this on my wife's Vista laptop. Your two options for account creation are 'administrator' or 'standard account', with 'standard' being the first defaulted choice. The only problem with this is that you can't install software at all with the standard account. Good luck with trying to install Microsoft Office from a standard account... There is so much software out there that simply won't install correctly if the user is not an administrator, I don't even try any more...
And of course, this does nothing for the bulk of Windows home users, running Windows XP. These are the principal vectors of most malware...
Linux would never have the same level of bugs as Windows, for one simple reason. The default user configuration on Windows in a home environment is that any user has administrative rights (which is not the case, by and large, in corporate environments). This is primarily due to the vast majority of Windows applications being unable to
install correctly if the user does not have administrator capability.
This leads to all sorts of bogus cruft getting installed on machines by users who are without a clue with computer security, and simply don't know to install tools like NoScript or SiteAdvisor and to pay attention to the warnings they generate.
Linux's in general do not run normal users with superuser capabilities, which stops a lot of garbage from getting installed on machines in the first place.
'set mode binary' prior to moving the file. I bet the file you are moving isn't a text file with CR-LF line terminations as normally found in DOS, or one side is set and the other isn't.
Ritchie's Law - assume you have screwed something up *first*, before blaming the tool...
As the letter was signed by the high school principal as if he was the girl. Nice friendly town, BTW. Identity theft? maybe... copyright infringement? probably...
I think the person that did this is likely to be out a job once it is all said and done....
I am not a lawyer... I am just doing this build my typing speed....
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You must have smarter parking enforcement people in your town.... Atlanta doesn't have traffic engineers writing tickets..
that instead of white striping off an entire space, you white stripe the 3 feet of access area needed in front of the hydrant so the hose can be attached to the hydrant (in other words, change the alignment of the adjoining spaces ...|...........|X|..........|... instead of ...|...........|XXXXXX|...........|...
I would start with asking them for money... and the local GT hams... and the GT alumni at local ham clubs, of which there are many in the Atlanta area.
However, I think that this will prove to be a white elephant, IMO. I would think long and hard before accepting this gift, unless you can ID a buyer.
Advertising on QRZ.com at a steep discount off of list price may get some money for the club.
Make certain you actually have a plan on how and where to use, and plan on some expenses for the accessories that go with the tower if you actually try to implement it.
73, Dave N4DJS
I think another big part is that many families have smaller amounts of discretionary income now. Last I heard, it was ~$10K to get through ground school and instructor time for the Private Pilot license. That, combined that the only 'affordable' airplanes are 40 year old Cessna that are needing an overhaul, or kitplanes, which require 50+% owner build and a substantial time investment, have killed off GA for most people. -- I just laugh when I see the 'speed enforced by aircraft', BTW...
Actually, fake US money is easily detected by the naked eye by several methods, the easiest being the color shift inks on the numbers (when you tip the bill along the long axis, it changes color). Try it...
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/unchartered-waters/interview-with-a-digital-migrant-meet-john-hunter/ -- David
The state of Georgia recent change the law to require that if a traffic light camera, that the yellow light be lengthened by 1 second. Suddenly, the traffic light camera guys (and the city governments) were crying about how they weren't even breaking even any more. Very sad.. All of this would be moot if there was a simple addition to traffic lights - a single digit countdown timer to the side of the light that shows second remaining on the yellow... 5+.. 5 .. 4.. 3 .. 2.. 1.. Red
But what do I know. I just type on slashdot to improve my typing speed.
The real problem here is one that I see often in all ages of support people. There is a bias towards being blind to the possibility that, in fact, they themselves are doing something wrong. "The computer is broken since I can't make it work" - in this specific case, they were pushing new hardware backwards to support Windows XP (which they really do need to get off of now, for a wide number of security reasons), but were assuming that nothing had changed with the new hardware...
and of course, this assumes that there is no underlying graft going on between the textbook companies and the administrators specifying the books...
how long is it going to be before the state and local governments figure out that commissioning a single book that they own the rights to as a group starts becoming more cost effective? Would it not make sense that there isn't anything particularly new in geometry or algebra that forces the need for a new rewrite of textbooks every 2-3 years? Or to avoid the $100/book charges being made for dead tree editions of textbooks? Would it not make sense to have one definitive book on the subject, and holding the copyright in common for all to use? As the cost continues to rise at rates exceeding inflation on textbook materials, it becomes more and more attractive to own your own curriculum materials so you don't continue to pay for them over and over again. I feel it is just a matter of time before this happens, particularly give the finanical squeeze occuring in state and local governments.
All hard drive errors boil down to how many failed bits occur on the raw, pre ECC corrected media vs. the calcuated post-ECC return. A hard failure is one that exceeds the span of possible corrections. Most hard block failures should be correctable by sparing of the media block in question. If you get too many non-correctable errors, it is indicative that the electronics or the heads have died... which in practice turns out to be a catalysmic failure where the drive totally fails on a subset of reads (i.e. one surface is no longer accessable).I would think a better way to test a drive would be to perform long reads (data + ECC), programmatically calculating ECC and determining the number of bits in error, and then performing sparing of the problematic tracks (if supported by the command set of the drive - SCSI does this, I don't know if ATA drives allow sparing to occur in call cases.) Of course, a simple 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1024k' may be just as effective in the long run...
BS. The phone company always had the right to perform 'service monitoring' on the network...what they couldn't do was provide access to the government (at least in the pre-Patriot Act days) to your line to be continuously tapped. The telcos never had to have a warrant to listen to calls.
Arbitration mentions in a contract are a lot like the signs at the go-kart track - they are designed to make people think that they have no legal recourse. To paraphrase a previous poster, judges don't take kindly to those who say they don't have a say in a situation that is placed in front of them. These clauses often get thrown out if a lawyer is involved, from what I have seen.
I was staying at the Renaissance in Las Vegas, booked for a week for a HP training class. Checked out after the first night when I realized that Wi-fi was $10/night. Where did I go? The Choice Hotel 2 blocks down the street.. room was quite nice.
How much did that cost the Renaissance? about $500 for the week....
I haven't stayed at a Mariott in years for the same reason.
Wi-fi is a basic assumption in my hotel choices today. I won't even spend the company's money on this.
read about 'dummynet' (google 'dummynet mac os x' ) - it will allow you to reduce his bandwidth on the network to whatever slow level you want to give him. It is a part of the ipfw package on Mac OS X. Have fun!
and I really enjoy trying to make any complaint about their crappy coverage (for example, downtown Decatur GA).. "We show 3 bars of coverage there"... blah blah blah... and they can't seem to handle handoff between particular towers either (at least places I know around the Atlanta area always result in a call drop while traveling along the same path...
IN THE UK. We in the United States use more traditional methods of getting you to cough up the passwords: http://www.xkcd.com/538
Ed Nisley of Circuit Cellar shared an interesting statistic a couple of years ago - that it costs approximately $2 per watt per year. This counts both the supplying the power to the computer, and the power to the fans and chillers to take it out...Needless to say, I don't put friend's servers in my basement....
In addition, staying technical is in a lot more demand than managerial skills....
Do you like children? If you don't, don't become a manager. A *lot* of the job is getting people to act like adults..
Similarly, do you have control over budgets and people? Who would you answer to? What would be the expectations from your boss over the next 6 months?
Is your boss competent? If not, trouble.
What a joke! I just tried this on my wife's Vista laptop. Your two options for account creation are 'administrator' or 'standard account', with 'standard' being the first defaulted choice. The only problem with this is that you can't install software at all with the standard account. Good luck with trying to install Microsoft Office from a standard account...
There is so much software out there that simply won't install correctly if the user is not an administrator, I don't even try any more...
And of course, this does nothing for the bulk of Windows home users, running Windows XP. These are the principal vectors of most malware...
This leads to all sorts of bogus cruft getting installed on machines by users who are without a clue with computer security, and simply don't know to install tools like NoScript or SiteAdvisor and to pay attention to the warnings they generate.
Linux's in general do not run normal users with superuser capabilities, which stops a lot of garbage from getting installed on machines in the first place.
Ritchie's Law - assume you have screwed something up *first*, before blaming the tool...
As the letter was signed by the high school principal as if he was the girl. Nice friendly town, BTW. Identity theft? maybe... copyright infringement? probably...
I think the person that did this is likely to be out a job once it is all said and done....
I am not a lawyer... I am just doing this build my typing speed....