I tried and really didn't like Netvibes, but I have already switch to Awesome New Tab Page, an extension for Chrome. Loads of plugins like a gmail client, weather, RSS readers, all in a grid you can lay out yourself.
Takes a bit of work to copy your setup across computers though - the layout comes across if you're signed in to sync your plugins, but not the RSS feeds themselves.
... Does anyone know his BMI? He's a big lad (not as big as he used to be, but still large), and isn't swine flu meant to be more dangerous if your BMI is over 40?
Moss: Subject: Fire. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal. [deletes text, starts again] Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss. [sigh of relief]
Take a look here. There was a 1.5 inch difference in the diameter of the Section 41 (nose and cockpit) and the Section 43 (forward fuselage, where the forward entry door is). The parts are made in Wichita and Charleston, SC. They have managed to join them now, but the job was "challenging".
Now I am an engineer at an aircraft MRO. Once these things hit more than 15 years old, there are going to be a million problems with this fuselage. Carbon fibre is a very different beast to aluminium, or even fibreglass. For one, the carbon is a conductor of electricity, which can lead to galvanic corrosion (the circumferential frames are still aluminium, there are still metallic fasteners going through the skin to attach them). Also, repairs are going to be an absolute bitch.
Twice in the last month, we have had to fix large holes in the side of aircraft due to trucks driving into the side of them. These incidents happened at outstations (where there were no major repair facilities) and we had to send out a small team to assess and repair the damage. In both instances these were done by a repair engineer, inspector and a couple of sheet metal workers in a couple of days. They took a sheet of metal, an air compressor and a bucket of rivets.
Currently, composites are used on a number of components on almost all aircraft. Invariably they are removable components, like flight control surfaces, or fairings. In order to repair them, they are usually removed from the aircraft and repaired in a composites shop, where temperature and humidity can be controlled - preferably in an autoclave.
Now, how the hell is anyone going to remove a fuselage section to drag it into a shop?
1. Extract Carbon from the Air. 2. Sell extracted carbon as combustible fuel 3. Return to Step 1.... 4. Profit 5. Profit 6. Profit 7. Profit... (ad infinitum)
I for one would like to distance myself from the original poster's comments regarding Derek's current stint in rehab. Wishing him well on a website is tantamount to buying a round of drinks and saying "cheers" to congratulate a recovering alcoholic.
Derek, if you are reading this, step away from the computer you weak-willed fool.
We have about 20+ Oki printers in the B4000 range (and it's predecessor, the 14ex). I usually pay about £131 for a B4250 from Dabs.com in the UK. This unit isn't networkable itself, but they also sell an own-brand print server that plugs straight into the parallel port for another £23. So that's about £155, or $290, for a networked printer with low running costs - the toner cartridges are also cheap, at £21, the only ongoing expense is a drum every 150,000 pages, at about £119.
Some of the best IT guys I have met transistioned from fields requiring mechanical or engineering aptitude
Me, for one;-)
I did my apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic, starting in 1990. I have no formal training in computers, and make use of the troubleshooting and problem-solving skills I gained from my background almost every day. I perhaps should have qualified my comment - "Many of my users are not the brightest". There are many very bright guys who work here - responsible, quick-witted, intelligent people who have no problem with computers, and use them every day while also doing a bang-up job fixing aircraft.
But there are more than a few who are, shall we say, less than genteel. Now don't worry - they are not in any sort of position that requires them to think when it comes to fixing an aircraft. Every step that an aircraft mechanic makes (in the European system) is checked by an inspector, and he carries out work strictly in accordance with approved data, so the aircraft are perfectly well looked after. But... I've seen copiers smashed when they close the lid too hard. They move computers without unplugging them, so we spend half our lives replacing network cables. Or if they do unplug it, there's no way they can plug it back in the same way. They're not allowed to replace printer cartridges any more, since one of them got sent home covered from head to foot in toner. And I also know some of the things that do go on with an aircraft under heavy maintenance - some of which would make your hair stand on end. There's a reason there's a sledgehammer in the building...
Well known Muppet Animal is in demand again for the first time since the Muppet Show ended. His randomized syncopated rhythm makes him a perfect temporary replacement for a lost KnocKey...
I did write my own. I used a LAMP environment, and it took me a day and a half - and I'm not a real programmer. It's one 13k php file and 4 mysql tables.
My users are, to be frank, not the brightest bunch (aircraft mechanics...), so their interface just asks for a name, their location, and a short problem description. click a button, and it sends the three of us in the department an email. There's also a list interface to see what tickets haven't been taken yet.
It's quick and simple, but there's nothing to slow down access, like having to log in before posting a ticket. If you like, I'll clean the code up and email it to you.
The Amstrad CPC 464 was a Z80 based computer with a built-in tape deck and a colour (or green-screen) monitor. It was distantly related to the Spectrum in terms of machine code, so a lot of the games made for it were in crappy Speccy 4-colour, rather than in the glorious 16-colour it was capable of displaying (I think it actually had 32 colours, but it could only display 16 at a time). Eventually I also got the Light Pen and the 3" Disk Drive (Yes, I said 3". No not 3.5".) It was also sold in Germany in a slightly redisigned case as the Schneider, I believe.
God I loved that thing. Because it had it's own monitor, I didn't get in the way of the family's telly viewing, so it was definitely one up on my friends Spectrums and C64s. I played Elite for years on that thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Paintball gun. Non-damaging to the drone, preserves privacy. Simples.
9 day week? not sure if trolling, or just dumb....
Pics or it didn't happen?
I tried and really didn't like Netvibes, but I have already switch to Awesome New Tab Page, an extension for Chrome. Loads of plugins like a gmail client, weather, RSS readers, all in a grid you can lay out yourself.
Takes a bit of work to copy your setup across computers though - the layout comes across if you're signed in to sync your plugins, but not the RSS feeds themselves.
Bada is dead
Did Netcraft confirm it?
Sure hasn't that already been repurposed as a firewall?
... Does anyone know his BMI? He's a big lad (not as big as he used to be, but still large), and isn't swine flu meant to be more dangerous if your BMI is over 40?
Moss: Subject: Fire. Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal.
[deletes text, starts again] Fire - exclamation mark - fire - exclamation mark - help me - exclamation mark. 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
[sigh of relief]
"with one nearly (because the crew got really, really lucky) catastrophic accident"
Actually, Apollo 1 went on fire on the launch pad, killing all three astronauts on board, so that makes one-and-a-half catastrophic accidents
Supercooled water mains!
Wait...
Ack ack ack ack, ack-ack ack ack-ack.
Ack, ack ACK-ack-ack, ack-ack ack-ack ack. Ack ack, ack-ack-ack-ack, ack ack ack.
Ack ack,
Ack-ack Ack-ack-ack-ack.
Take a look here. There was a 1.5 inch difference in the diameter of the Section 41 (nose and cockpit) and the Section 43 (forward fuselage, where the forward entry door is). The parts are made in Wichita and Charleston, SC. They have managed to join them now, but the job was "challenging".
Now I am an engineer at an aircraft MRO. Once these things hit more than 15 years old, there are going to be a million problems with this fuselage. Carbon fibre is a very different beast to aluminium, or even fibreglass. For one, the carbon is a conductor of electricity, which can lead to galvanic corrosion (the circumferential frames are still aluminium, there are still metallic fasteners going through the skin to attach them). Also, repairs are going to be an absolute bitch.
Twice in the last month, we have had to fix large holes in the side of aircraft due to trucks driving into the side of them. These incidents happened at outstations (where there were no major repair facilities) and we had to send out a small team to assess and repair the damage. In both instances these were done by a repair engineer, inspector and a couple of sheet metal workers in a couple of days. They took a sheet of metal, an air compressor and a bucket of rivets.
Currently, composites are used on a number of components on almost all aircraft. Invariably they are removable components, like flight control surfaces, or fairings. In order to repair them, they are usually removed from the aircraft and repaired in a composites shop, where temperature and humidity can be controlled - preferably in an autoclave.
Now, how the hell is anyone going to remove a fuselage section to drag it into a shop?
1. Extract Carbon from the Air. ... ... (ad infinitum)
2. Sell extracted carbon as combustible fuel
3. Return to Step 1.
4. Profit
5. Profit
6. Profit
7. Profit
I for one would like to distance myself from the original poster's comments regarding Derek's current stint in rehab. Wishing him well on a website is tantamount to buying a round of drinks and saying "cheers" to congratulate a recovering alcoholic.
Derek, if you are reading this, step away from the computer you weak-willed fool.
Sick, sick, sick.
Heh. Not just a bios change. They would have to rip some guts out too.
We have about 20+ Oki printers in the B4000 range (and it's predecessor, the 14ex). I usually pay about £131 for a B4250 from Dabs.com in the UK. This unit isn't networkable itself, but they also sell an own-brand print server that plugs straight into the parallel port for another £23. So that's about £155, or $290, for a networked printer with low running costs - the toner cartridges are also cheap, at £21, the only ongoing expense is a drum every 150,000 pages, at about £119.
Actually, 2/11ths of the cast. If you listen to the commentary on the DVD, the tenth member of the crew is Serenity itself.
The eleventh? River's bare feet...
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Father Jack style!
Login: Arse! Drink! Girls! Feck!
Shutdown: Feck off!
I prefer the Dead Milkmen's solution here:
"If you love somebody, better set them on fire..."
Some of the best IT guys I have met transistioned from fields requiring mechanical or engineering aptitude
;-)
Me, for one
I did my apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic, starting in 1990. I have no formal training in computers, and make use of the troubleshooting and problem-solving skills I gained from my background almost every day. I perhaps should have qualified my comment - "Many of my users are not the brightest". There are many very bright guys who work here - responsible, quick-witted, intelligent people who have no problem with computers, and use them every day while also doing a bang-up job fixing aircraft.
But there are more than a few who are, shall we say, less than genteel. Now don't worry - they are not in any sort of position that requires them to think when it comes to fixing an aircraft. Every step that an aircraft mechanic makes (in the European system) is checked by an inspector, and he carries out work strictly in accordance with approved data, so the aircraft are perfectly well looked after. But... I've seen copiers smashed when they close the lid too hard. They move computers without unplugging them, so we spend half our lives replacing network cables. Or if they do unplug it, there's no way they can plug it back in the same way. They're not allowed to replace printer cartridges any more, since one of them got sent home covered from head to foot in toner. And I also know some of the things that do go on with an aircraft under heavy maintenance - some of which would make your hair stand on end. There's a reason there's a sledgehammer in the building...
Well known Muppet Animal is in demand again for the first time since the Muppet Show ended. His randomized syncopated rhythm makes him a perfect temporary replacement for a lost KnocKey...
I did write my own. I used a LAMP environment, and it took me a day and a half - and I'm not a real programmer. It's one 13k php file and 4 mysql tables.
My users are, to be frank, not the brightest bunch (aircraft mechanics...), so their interface just asks for a name, their location, and a short problem description. click a button, and it sends the three of us in the department an email. There's also a list interface to see what tickets haven't been taken yet.
It's quick and simple, but there's nothing to slow down access, like having to log in before posting a ticket. If you like, I'll clean the code up and email it to you.
Here ya go: www.asda.co.uk
The Amstrad CPC 464 was a Z80 based computer with a built-in tape deck and a colour (or green-screen) monitor. It was distantly related to the Spectrum in terms of machine code, so a lot of the games made for it were in crappy Speccy 4-colour, rather than in the glorious 16-colour it was capable of displaying (I think it actually had 32 colours, but it could only display 16 at a time). Eventually I also got the Light Pen and the 3" Disk Drive (Yes, I said 3". No not 3.5".) It was also sold in Germany in a slightly redisigned case as the Schneider, I believe.
God I loved that thing. Because it had it's own monitor, I didn't get in the way of the family's telly viewing, so it was definitely one up on my friends Spectrums and C64s. I played Elite for years on that thing.