Into a pump for underground compressed air for later use, into a pump to push water uphill for later use, into a resistive load, i.e. a heating element in a large body of water, into some large flywheels, or in the last resort, "feather the props".
Obviously, options 1-3 above add to cost, and option 4 is somewhat wasteful, but it's not a technical problem.
The USofA can't have other nations doing something serious to reduce consumption. This will give the US govt solid reason to invade and conquer Sweden.
If Assange gets extradited to Sweden.........
On the other hand, it's a reduction in taxes, it'll give the GOP a stroke trying to figure out whether to support this or not.
On the gripping hand, Sweden has a fairly robust welfare structure, and that's SOCIALISM!
Such as: gloriousleader.kp becomes gloriousleader.com and the same for bountifulharvest.kp corruptwesternimperialistpigdogs.kp victoryisnear.kp weshallconquertheocean.kp and so on.
I wouldn't like to be the owner of kp.com. Imagine the requests for sub-domains....
That is an option, but there's too much risk of a label peeling off inside a drive, leading to unhappy customers. I've seen the results of a label coming off the disc.
It's not really a problem for me, the relative high cost of inkjet printing is something I factor into the price of the job. The mid-range Canon inkjets with 5 cartridges produce superb results.
HP "support". Customer wanted Windows SBS2011 on his new HP server, so I checked the compatibility matrix on the HP website. All OK.
Server arrives, drivers disc states "suitable for Windows Server 2008". Hmmmm. I call HP tech support for advice, and they tell me that server model is not supported for SBS2011. Being a suspicious type, I'd saved the URL for the compatibility matrix page, and I read it aloud to the service tech, who proceeded to remain silent for several moments. He then admitted that the situation was beyond him, and escalated to the call. I finally got someone from 2nd-level support tell me to "just try the 2008 drivers". Great, so they hadn't actually tested this machine with this OS.
Don't even ask about installing SBS2011. OK, I'll tell you. I had to pick apart the installation scripts and run some of the commands separately to make it work. When I called the supplier for help, they quoted me AUD$1400-$1800 PER DAY for a Microsoft specialist. When I pointed out this was an installation issue, and they had a responsibility to provide support, they didn't actually laugh, but they didn't help, either. Don't buy HP, and don't trust Microsoft "partners", either.
I haven't yet found a laser printer that will print on CDs/DVDs. And yes, I do a reasonable volume of disc printing - small-scale video production mostly, with some private audio CDs. Just not enough for a commercial run.
I'll have to try that next time I see a paper-wasp nest. I've tried ti-tree oil, eucalyptus oil, lavender oil, all in an attempt to interfere with their own sense of smell, but they didn't work for long. I finally took a can of carb cleaner and a lighter and incinerated the little bastards.
Mud wasps and hornets I'm OK with. They're just not aggressive like the paper wasps. I leave them alone, they leave me alone. Look sideways at a paper wasp, and he calls all his mates to come and attack.
An old axiom tells us to "follow the money". If FB, Google, etc are in favour, look at large corporations whose primary business is NOT internet-dependent, e.g. Exxon, Rio Tinto, Nestle, etc, and ask what they think.
If they answer "No", or "Meh, doesn't really affect us, it'll be business as usual", then it's about FB/Google/etc wanting more control.
If it's "Yes", then it's about ALL of them wanting more control.
I haven't seen any good reasons to cede control. The system isn't perfect, but the alternatives are no better.
Same applies to much of IT - without electricity(food), it stops, without cooling(special care), it slows or stops, without careful nurturing in a special environment (alpha testing in a closed system), it won't mature (grow).
And yet, short of death or severe damage to certain parts, we're self-healing without completely halting basic operations - you can break an arm and still walk, and we have redundancy - you can lose a kidney and still pee, you can lose an eye and still see.
It's scary because it's our *lives* that are under threat, not our access to facebook.
"Your computer crashed? Reboot it. If it keeps happening, call a specialist or replace it."
"Your pacemaker crashed? You're dead."
Also, terrorists. What's to stop IS from doing it once or twice (or as many times as they can), killing someone by faulting their pacemaker, and claiming publicly "We killed him!"
We shouldn't underestimate the public panic that could cause. Look at what's happened to many of your "freedoms" since 9/11.
Disclaimer - I recommended changes to nearly all of this:
This was in the Windows95 days. AUD$97 million budget, data fed to a master excel file from linked files in each department. Of course it was IT's fault when excel crashed and corrupted his master file, despite having told him that excel was not up to the job. He ordered a new laptop with more memory.
There was definitely a sense of schadenfraude some years later when he was "named" in an auditor's report. For those not in Oz, being named in an auditor's report is one step away from prosecution.
True. So will the police officer/s who broke the law to obtain this evidence illegally be prosecuted? Not likely.
So that's two actual failures of justice. Justice in this case case has been done (rejecting evidence obtained illegally), but has twice NOT been "seen to be done". Who/what will be done to redress this failure? Sweet F.A.
Will the girl be able to achieve some form of justice through a civil case? Maybe.
Maybe she should, as another poster suggested, sue the police for fucking up the case?
It was mostly the fault of the senior public servants involved.
My involvement with IBM in Queensland in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 90s taught me a few things:
1. IBM solutions cost a lot more than other peoples' solutions 2. IBM at its best was a thoroughly professional and competent group of people 3. IBM at its worst is still expensive
I'm out of mod points, but that was very informative, thanks. Some of it I knew, e.g. multiple stages, but your last sentence says it all. It doesn't matter how badly you want something, if nature/physics says no, then all you can do is stamp your foot and execute some generals.
They seem to think that getting to the moon just takes a bigger version of what they've already got, i.e. barely functioning missiles.
BTW did anyone see the recent bonhams "space history" auction? It included a shuttle guidance computer! It was stamped "ground only" but what a buzz to own one of those!
It's certainly painting a target on the system/s. Someone, somewhere will try.
OTOH, they seem to take security seriously. Recently introduced two-factor authentication via user ID, password (mine's > 12 characters), plus another code sent via SMS, all to get into my own accounts for taxation, family benefits, etc.
People are upset that they're keeping personal information this time - previously it was discarded. The personal info is supposedly going to be kept on separate systems from the rest of it, so I believe it will be of lesser interest to third parties such as advertisers.
I build generic PCs for customers, maybe 1 or 2 a month. They all come in parts, and I put them together, and I install Windows 7 Pro - yes, it's still available in OEM packaging. It gets me to a usable desktop, then I put in the manufacturer's driver CD, and it installs all the chipset drivers, audio drivers + software, video drivers + software, NIC drivers + software, optional software such as Acrobat (but I decline the McAfee/Norton trial, and install Avira instead). Then I deliver the computer to the customer, and I get paid. I can't recall a time when it didn't just work. I had a PSU that was DOA, but that doesn't count.
On the other hand, I like try out all sorts of GNU/Linux distros, mostly as guests in VirtualBox, to see how well they work, whether I like the look and feel, etc.
Mint - worked, but I don't like Cinnamon Ubuntu Studio on bare metal - at least three of the included Audio packages wouldn't even start (Hydrogen and two others) Debian/KDE - nice, no showstoppers, quite stable Debian minimal (text mode, no X) - fast for processing video using ffmpeg Fedora Design Suite - crashed during install, didn't bother taking it further Gentoo from source - because I was bored. Fun, though, and a good way to learn about some fundamentals TinyCore on a USB stick - excellent for recovering data from drives with corrupted Windows boot sector
In short, I've never had a Win 7 installation that wasn't usable within 1 hour of starting. Sometimes GNU/Linux "just works", and sometimes it doesn't. Don't really care, I'll keep selling Win 7 as long as I can legally get it. Maybe Debian with a Win 7 theme will be a good replacement.
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Into a pump for underground compressed air for later use, into a pump to push water uphill for later use, into a resistive load, i.e. a heating element in a large body of water, into some large flywheels, or in the last resort, "feather the props".
Obviously, options 1-3 above add to cost, and option 4 is somewhat wasteful, but it's not a technical problem.
The USofA can't have other nations doing something serious to reduce consumption. This will give the US govt solid reason to invade and conquer Sweden.
If Assange gets extradited to Sweden.........
On the other hand, it's a reduction in taxes, it'll give the GOP a stroke trying to figure out whether to support this or not.
On the gripping hand, Sweden has a fairly robust welfare structure, and that's SOCIALISM!
Such as:
gloriousleader.kp becomes gloriousleader.com
and the same for
bountifulharvest.kp
corruptwesternimperialistpigdogs.kp
victoryisnear.kp
weshallconquertheocean.kp
and so on.
I wouldn't like to be the owner of kp.com. Imagine the requests for sub-domains....
That is an option, but there's too much risk of a label peeling off inside a drive, leading to unhappy customers. I've seen the results of a label coming off the disc.
It's not really a problem for me, the relative high cost of inkjet printing is something I factor into the price of the job. The mid-range Canon inkjets with 5 cartridges produce superb results.
HP "support". Customer wanted Windows SBS2011 on his new HP server, so I checked the compatibility matrix on the HP website. All OK.
Server arrives, drivers disc states "suitable for Windows Server 2008". Hmmmm. I call HP tech support for advice, and they tell me that server model is not supported for SBS2011. Being a suspicious type, I'd saved the URL for the compatibility matrix page, and I read it aloud to the service tech, who proceeded to remain silent for several moments. He then admitted that the situation was beyond him, and escalated to the call. I finally got someone from 2nd-level support tell me to "just try the 2008 drivers". Great, so they hadn't actually tested this machine with this OS.
Don't even ask about installing SBS2011. OK, I'll tell you. I had to pick apart the installation scripts and run some of the commands separately to make it work. When I called the supplier for help, they quoted me AUD$1400-$1800 PER DAY for a Microsoft specialist. When I pointed out this was an installation issue, and they had a responsibility to provide support, they didn't actually laugh, but they didn't help, either. Don't buy HP, and don't trust Microsoft "partners", either.
I haven't yet found a laser printer that will print on CDs/DVDs. And yes, I do a reasonable volume of disc printing - small-scale video production mostly, with some private audio CDs. Just not enough for a commercial run.
That's "private", not "pirate".
I'll have to try that next time I see a paper-wasp nest. I've tried ti-tree oil, eucalyptus oil, lavender oil, all in an attempt to interfere with their own sense of smell, but they didn't work for long. I finally took a can of carb cleaner and a lighter and incinerated the little bastards.
Mud wasps and hornets I'm OK with. They're just not aggressive like the paper wasps. I leave them alone, they leave me alone. Look sideways at a paper wasp, and he calls all his mates to come and attack.
Ees hamster!
An old axiom tells us to "follow the money". If FB, Google, etc are in favour, look at large corporations whose primary business is NOT internet-dependent, e.g. Exxon, Rio Tinto, Nestle, etc, and ask what they think.
If they answer "No", or "Meh, doesn't really affect us, it'll be business as usual", then it's about FB/Google/etc wanting more control.
If it's "Yes", then it's about ALL of them wanting more control.
I haven't seen any good reasons to cede control. The system isn't perfect, but the alternatives are no better.
Time for peer-based DNS?
Samsung have claimed it's a short circuit, not much a thermal fuse can do about that.
As far as I'm aware, they also offer i or OS400/whatever it's called these days.
Same applies to much of IT - without electricity(food), it stops, without cooling(special care), it slows or stops, without careful nurturing in a special environment (alpha testing in a closed system), it won't mature (grow).
And yet, short of death or severe damage to certain parts, we're self-healing without completely halting basic operations - you can break an arm and still walk, and we have redundancy - you can lose a kidney and still pee, you can lose an eye and still see.
It's scary because it's our *lives* that are under threat, not our access to facebook.
"Your computer crashed? Reboot it. If it keeps happening, call a specialist or replace it."
"Your pacemaker crashed? You're dead."
Also, terrorists. What's to stop IS from doing it once or twice (or as many times as they can), killing someone by faulting their pacemaker, and claiming publicly "We killed him!"
We shouldn't underestimate the public panic that could cause. Look at what's happened to many of your "freedoms" since 9/11.
Tell that to the CFO at my last employer.
Disclaimer - I recommended changes to nearly all of this:
This was in the Windows95 days. AUD$97 million budget, data fed to a master excel file from linked files in each department. Of course it was IT's fault when excel crashed and corrupted his master file, despite having told him that excel was not up to the job. He ordered a new laptop with more memory.
There was definitely a sense of schadenfraude some years later when he was "named" in an auditor's report. For those not in Oz, being named in an auditor's report is one step away from prosecution.
Ba dum - tish!
I've run out of mod points.
Wayland is not why I don't like Fedora. I will however give it another chance, seeing as how they seem to be taking it seriously this time.
True. So will the police officer/s who broke the law to obtain this evidence illegally be prosecuted? Not likely.
So that's two actual failures of justice. Justice in this case case has been done (rejecting evidence obtained illegally), but has twice NOT been "seen to be done". Who/what will be done to redress this failure? Sweet F.A.
Will the girl be able to achieve some form of justice through a civil case? Maybe.
Maybe she should, as another poster suggested, sue the police for fucking up the case?
To be fair to IBM, Qld Health signed off every stage of the project, and:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
It was mostly the fault of the senior public servants involved.
My involvement with IBM in Queensland in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 90s taught me a few things:
1. IBM solutions cost a lot more than other peoples' solutions
2. IBM at its best was a thoroughly professional and competent group of people
3. IBM at its worst is still expensive
I'm waiting for /. to report that it's been served a lawsuit for using the word "Olympic" in an article.
Assuming /. isn't an official supporter, that is.
Hear hear! I can run explorer like this:
"%windir%\explorer.exe " /separate
but it would be better to have a single-click option.
I'm out of mod points, but that was very informative, thanks. Some of it I knew, e.g. multiple stages, but your last sentence says it all. It doesn't matter how badly you want something, if nature/physics says no, then all you can do is stamp your foot and execute some generals.
They seem to think that getting to the moon just takes a bigger version of what they've already got, i.e. barely functioning missiles.
BTW did anyone see the recent bonhams "space history" auction? It included a shuttle guidance computer! It was stamped "ground only" but what a buzz to own one of those!
http://www.bonhams.com/auction...
It's certainly painting a target on the system/s. Someone, somewhere will try.
OTOH, they seem to take security seriously. Recently introduced two-factor authentication via user ID, password (mine's > 12 characters), plus another code sent via SMS, all to get into my own accounts for taxation, family benefits, etc.
People are upset that they're keeping personal information this time - previously it was discarded. The personal info is supposedly going to be kept on separate systems from the rest of it, so I believe it will be of lesser interest to third parties such as advertisers.
I build generic PCs for customers, maybe 1 or 2 a month. They all come in parts, and I put them together, and I install Windows 7 Pro - yes, it's still available in OEM packaging. It gets me to a usable desktop, then I put in the manufacturer's driver CD, and it installs all the chipset drivers, audio drivers + software, video drivers + software, NIC drivers + software, optional software such as Acrobat (but I decline the McAfee/Norton trial, and install Avira instead). Then I deliver the computer to the customer, and I get paid. I can't recall a time when it didn't just work. I had a PSU that was DOA, but that doesn't count.
On the other hand, I like try out all sorts of GNU/Linux distros, mostly as guests in VirtualBox, to see how well they work, whether I like the look and feel, etc.
Mint - worked, but I don't like Cinnamon
Ubuntu Studio on bare metal - at least three of the included Audio packages wouldn't even start (Hydrogen and two others)
Debian/KDE - nice, no showstoppers, quite stable
Debian minimal (text mode, no X) - fast for processing video using ffmpeg
Fedora Design Suite - crashed during install, didn't bother taking it further
Gentoo from source - because I was bored. Fun, though, and a good way to learn about some fundamentals
TinyCore on a USB stick - excellent for recovering data from drives with corrupted Windows boot sector
In short, I've never had a Win 7 installation that wasn't usable within 1 hour of starting. Sometimes GNU/Linux "just works", and sometimes it doesn't. Don't really care, I'll keep selling Win 7 as long as I can legally get it. Maybe Debian with a Win 7 theme will be a good replacement.
Try this to stop it reporting home:
https://www.oo-software.com/en...
3 citations, please
......difficult to believe.
As long as Toshiba wants to supply laptops with 7 Pro pre-installed, I'll keep selling 'em.